East West 101

Muslim detective, Zane Malik, is fighting crime in a post 9/11 world. A police officer s killed, apparently by two armed robbers 'of middle Eastern appearance.' Zane Malik uses his connections in the Arab community to track down the two youths involved. Malik's search for the truth brings him into a head on clash with Senior Detective, Ray Crowley. Rowley accuses him of putting his community before his job. Malik is angry. He wants justice for the police officer too, but he knows what it is to be an Australian Arab, and feel unsupported by the law. When he was a boy his father was shot by an armed robber; the shooter was never brought to justice. But will Malik be able to find out the truth behind the officer's death before war erupts on the streets of Lakemba?

Bad drugs are being sold on the streets of Redfern. Addicts are dying. Local Aboriginal leader and anti drug crusader, Adam King, is trying to get the drugs off the street when he is shot. Some say he has been assassinated. Malik and his partner, Pacific Islander, Detective Sonny Koa, try and get to the truth. Why are King's colleagues so unhelpful? And his family downright hostile? Is it just a distrust of police… or is it something more sinister? The conflict worsens between Malik and Crowley as Malik asks for his help with sources and informers and is rejected. Crowley's rage is more personal. Although the rest of the Squad are not aware of it, Crowley's son was one of the drug statistics.

Two Lebanese youths and a schoolgirl are killed in a drive by shooting. Inspector Wright, appoints Malik to run the investigation. Crowley doesn't like his junior colleague supervising the case but he has bigger problems. Internal Affairs are investigating Crowley's actions in relation to the death of the drug dealer, Basha. Who called I.A. in? Crowley wonders if it is Malik's doing. Is his enemy seizing the opportunity to destroy him? But Malik is facing his own professional challenges. The triple murder case is complex. His partner, Detective Koa, helps break the case by his knowledge of the Pacific Island Community.

A suburban printer is killed in a car bomb attack. Is this the work of Muslim extremists? Or is it a criminal act? As Detective Zane Malik of Major Crime links up with National Security to search for the truth, the news of the bomb hits the media, and there is fallout in the community.

The Major Crime and NSO investigation into the car bomb deaths results in Malik going undercover to track a possible suspect. While he is undercover a Chinese student is discovered murdered. Detectives Lim and Callas get to the bottom of an extortion ring.

Detective Zane Malik is deep undercover, and in danger. Can he can link arms dealer, Akmal, with the car bomb murder of an NSO agent? Agent Skerritt thinks he can. When Akmal’s girlfriend, a Russian prostitute, is killed, Akmal orders a hit on the man who killed her, a sleazy sex trafficker. And he wants Malik to do it.

Detective Zane Malik of the Major Crime Squad, faces the toughest challenge of his life when a very public crime has very personal ramifications. The sophisticated hold up of an armoured vehicle, leaves four dead. One of them is an armed robber, with an enigmatic identity, leaving Major Crime to ponder the possibilities. Is this an ordinary bunch of thieves looking to get rich quick, or is there a more sinister motivation behind the robbery? Malik clashes with new cop, Travis, in his impassioned pursuit of those who have hurt him and his family. When a man is left dead, in a police shoot out, Malik wonders just what kind of cowboy he’s working with.

A Somali teenager is found viciously bashed to death in a lonely railway tunnel. The investigation leads Koa and Malik to a Somali man, Asad, who is rumoured to be recruiting Somalis to return to Africa to fight for Al-Shabaab. The dead boy opposed Asad’s teachings and his guardian, Samiira, is suspicious of this charismatic man. Worse, he holds great sway over her younger brother, Yusef. Despite Malik’s efforts, it seems the violence Samiira fled in Africa has followed her, with tragic consequences. But has the war in Somalia had repercussions here in Australia, or is the killing a result of racial conflicts? Meanwhile, Internal Affairs investigate the shooting of Mahmoud, an accessory in the armed robbery, which causes conflict between Malik and Travis. Malik fears a vital link to the identity of the gang was extinguished with Mahmoud. He blames Travis. But is Malik’s vision clouded by grief? Khalid, the dead bank robber, is found to have a wife, Sally Wilson, on active duty in Afghanistan. What has Afghanistan got to do with an armed robbery in Sydney? But the detectives’ new leads end up in the morgue. The investigation is constantly thwarted by the strategies of a clever, ruthless gang. But who are they? Who is running the show?

The mysterious double murder of a Jewish couple leaves few leads. According to the woman’s son, David, a large amount of cash is missing, along with the student who was living with them, a Palestinian. Detective Travis is surprised. What’s a Palestinian doing in a Jewish household? Malik locates the missing Palestinian student, who is hiding something. Guilt, or is he just defensive, born out of experiences back home? But the Palestinian is not the only one hiding things. The woman’s son is lying about critical evidence. The conflict between the two detectives, Travis and Malik, spreads from the Middle East to the unsolved crimes of multiple murder and armed robbery. Two drug importers, Yasser and Rizk, are in the morgue. Shot at close quarters, next to the container of heroin they had imported from Afghanistan. Who killed them and why? Is the importation of heroin linked to the armed robbery, or something completely separate? Evidence leads the cops to ex navy diver, Ryan Hunter. But why would a diving instructor knock a couple of Arab drug importers? What they discover changes the direction of the investigation into the armed robbery and subsequent murders.