A surprise guest interrupts the picnic that Kristin, Breen and Gina throw for Mike’s birthday. The celebrations come to a halt when they realize that the visitor is Kristin’s ex-boyfriend.

A death at Brokenwood’s Historic Village brings Mike and his team into contact with New Zealand’s colonial past. It appears that Brokenwood might have to come to terms with having its first serial killer.

The team must investigate family, friends and rival neighbors following a chilling discovery among a local farmer’s crop.

A resident from Sunset Manor, a rest home in Brokenwood, goes missing. It quickly becomes apparent that his whereabouts are vital to solving the case.

When the body of a local farmer is fished out of the river, Shepherd wonders if it was suicide, accidental death, or something more sinister. The man was a well-known drunk with a reputation for violence, and many in town might have a motive to do him harm. However, the inspector starts to believe the answer to the case may lie in an unsolved 10-year-old murder.