S1, E1: New Year in Cape Town. Police Captain Mat Joubert is still devastated by the murder of his wife Lara - a member of the elite police unit HAWKS who was killed 13 months ago during an undercover action. She and her target person Carsten Petterson, with whom she had to start an affair in order to convict him, were killed during the operation. Mat is on the point of taking is own life...