Created by: Allan Hawco, Malcolm MacRury, Perry Chafe
Starring: Graham Abbey, Aaron Abrams, Dalmar Abuzeid, Geoff Adams, Dayo Ade, Olunike Adeliyi, Keon Alexander, Jaime Alexander-Michelin, Brittany Allen, Rachael Ancheril, Hannah Emily Anderson, Jess Anderson, Patricia Andrews, Avery Ash, Lorry Ayers, Steve Bacic, Sean Baek, Darrin Baker, Liane Balaban, Sofia Banzhaf, Milton Barnes, Shannon Barnett, Tom Barnett, Lawrence Barry, Lawrence Bayne, Nancy Beatty, Oliver Becker, Cle Bennett, Shaun Benson, Marthe Bernard, Tamara Bernier, Lisa Berry, Wayne Best, Raoul Bhaneja, James Binkley, Yannick Bisson, Jacob Blair, Peter Blankie, Troy Blundell, Lothaire Bluteau, Matt Bois, Rick Boland, Christopher Bolton, Brad Bonnell, Ed Boone, Kristin Booth, Lindy Booth, Chuck Boyd, Lynda Boyd, Sarain Boylan, Steve Boyle, Bruce Brenton, Dylan Brentwood, Emily Bridger, Krista Bridges, Burke Brokenshire, Murray Brokenshire, Petrina Bromley, Courtney Brown, Erinn Brown, Harold Brown, J. Adam Brown, Natalie Brown, Patrick Brown, Greg Bryk, A.J. Buckley, Michael Buie, Martha Burns, Adam Butcher, Albert Butler, Clint Butler, Neil Michael Butler, Katie Butler Major, Inga Cadranel, Melanie Caines, Benedict Campbell, Nicholas Campbell, Tim Campbell, Sara Canning, Perry Chafe, Julia Chan, Duane Chard, Richard Chevolleau, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Ho Chow, Phil Churchill, Chris Clarke, Richard Clarkin, John Cleland, Karen Cliche, Joshua Close, Michael Coady, Conrad Coates, Joe Cobden, Steve Cochrane, Jim Codrington, Ari Cohen, Enrico Colantoni, Bob Cole, Kate Corbett, Nicola Correia-Damude, Darryl Couch, Chantal Craig, Philip Craig, Michael Cram, Rachael Crawford, Stephen Crewe, Mark Critch, Roark Critchlow, Neil Crone, Russell Crowe, Romina D'Ugo, Michael James Daly, Shane Daly, Noah Dalton Danby, Mal Dassin, Geraint Wyn Davies, Daniel DeSanto, Kenneth Delaney, Joe Delfin, Pat Dempsey, Aidan Devine, Sergio Di Zio, Carlos Diaz, Jane Dingle, Mylene Dinh-Robic, Maria Dinn, Brett Donahue, Richard Donat, Joanna Douglas, Alan Doyle, Jerry Doyle, Michelle Doyle, Shawn Doyle, Stephan Dubeau, Kevin Durand, Karyn Dwyer, Ted Dykstra, Matthew Edison, Janet Edmonds, Craig Edmunds, Paul B. Edwards, Ennis Esmer, Richard James Espie, Paul Essiembre, Chris Eustace, Kelly Ann Evans, Michael Evoy, Patricia Fagan, Lesley Faulkner, Paul Fauteux, David Feehan, David Ferry, Aiden Flynn, Megan Follows, Patrick Foran, Timothy Foss, Colin Furlong, Patrick Galligan, Victor Garber, Patrick Garrow, Matthew Garvin, Cara Gee, James Gilbert, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings, Colin Glazer, Jonathan Goad, Phillip Goodridge, Jeananne Goossen, Matt Gordon, Jason Gray-Stanford, Jessica Greco, Adrian G. Griffiths, Brian Griffin, Scott Grimes, Paul Gross, Kristen Gutoskie, Luis Guzman, Renee Hackett, Emily Hampshire, Kevin Hanchard, Meghan Hancock, Jonny Harris, Allan Hawco, Greg Hawco, James Hawksley, Lauren Hayward, Randy Head, Michael Healey, Charlotte Hegele, Jayne Heitmeyer, Natalia Henelly, Bryan Hennessey, Dana Hennessey, Natasha Henstridge, Chuck Herriott, Kate Hewlett, Janelle Hickey, Brad Hodder, Michael Hogan, Kris Holden-Ried, Ryan Hollyman, Krissy Holmes, Victoria Holmes, Darryl Hopkins, Christine Horne, Jermel Howard, David Huband, Stuart Hughes, Darren Hynes, Joel Thomas Hynes, Vicky Hynes, Patricia Isaac, Tammy Isbell, Marvin Ishmael, Darren Ivany, Joris Jarsky, Noam Jenkins, Helen Johns, Geordie Johnson, Andy Jones, Cathy Jones, Tattiawna Jones, Helene Joy, Robert Joy, Ruby Joy, Theresa Joy, Kevin Jubinville, Lou Jurgens, John Kapelos, Athena Karkanis, Erin Karpluk, David Keeley, Peter Keleghan, Allison Moira Kelly, Joanne Kelly, Jonathan Keltz, Megan Elizabeth Kendall, Jessica Kennedy, Julia Kennedy, Megan Kennedy, Susan Kent, Luke Kirby, Kelly Kruger, Tyler Kyte, Rory Lambert, Pascal Langdale, Ron Lea, Cory Lee, Morgan T. Lee, Kaitlyn Leeb, Melanie Leishman, Ross Leslie, Gaston Letourneau, Kevin Lewis, Bruce Lilly, Emily Locke, Crystal Lowe, Jamie Mac, Adam MacDonald, Bill MacDonald, Shauna MacDonald, William MacDonald, Angus Macfadyen, Jenina MacGillivray, Daniel MacIvor, Billy MacLellan, Jane Maggs, Luke Major, Anita Majumdar, Shaun Majumder, Jonathan Malen, Greg Malone, Sarah Manninen, Amelia Manuel, Stuart Margolin, Thom Marriott, Brian Marter, Max Martini, Marsha Mason, Matthew D. Matteo, Martin McCann, Kandyse McClure, Scott McCord, Brandon McGibbon, Sean McGinley, James McGowan, Stephen McHattie, Yanna McIntosh, Don McKellar, Laura Mennell, Evan Mercer, Gordon S. Miller, Laura Miyata, Amanda Molloy, Jonathan Monro, Peter Mooney, Ross Moore, Mishael Morgan, Paula Morgan, Rhiannon Morgan, Seamus Morrison, Max Morrow, John Moyes, Kathleen Munroe, Connor Murphy, Daniel Murphy, Dwain Murphy, Tony Nappo, Carrie-Lynn Neales, Mayko Nguyen, Grant Nickalls, Kevin Noble, Stephen Nolan, Michelle Nolden, Jonathan Norris, Simon Northwood, Paulino Nunes, Justin Nurse, Mark O'Brien, Melanie O'Brien, Steve O'Connell, Dennis O'Connor, Jason O'Mara, Seamus O'Regan, Craig Olejnik, Liam Owens, Chris Panting, Sean Panting, Aleks Paunovic, Alex Paxton-Beesley, Krystin Pellerin, Ray Penton Jr, Yadier Perez Leon, Todd Perrin, Justine Perry, Eric Peterson, Dan Petronijevic, Jessica Phillips, Arnold Pinnock, Gordon Pinsent, Leah Pinsent, Conrad Pla, Jennifer Podemski, Toby Pollett, Aaron Poole, Irene Poole, Carly Pope, Jacqueline Potoczny, Mark Power, Rachel May Power, Sarah Power, Cynthia Preston, Amy Price-Francis, Dana Puddicombe, Jeff Pustil, Johnny Quinn, Lorin Raine, Christopher Ralph, Gord Rand, Claire Rankin, John Wentworth Rao, Dax Ravina, Glenn Redmond, Sheila Redmond, Georgina Reilly, Liisa Repo-Martell, Philip Riccio, Jody Richardson, Julian Richings, Bob Rideout, Christopher Ringrose, Ryan Robbins, Rick Roberts, Sebastien Roberts, George Robertson, John Robinson, Lina Roessler, Cristina Rosato, Nicole Rousseau, Paul Rowe, Ronnie Rowe, Mike Ryan, Sonya Salomaa, Ray Saunders, Stephanie Schwartz, Chuck Shamata, Michael Sheckler, John Sheehan, Graham Shiels, Anna Silk, Sophie Simmons, Jeff Simms, Randy Simms, Rachel Skarsten, Amy Sloan, Dylan Smith, Kyle Smith, Laura-Marie Smith, Victoria Snow, Jill Snowden, Pete Soucy, Sebastian Spence, Jamie Spilchuk, Jessica Steen, Rob Stewart, Carolyn Stokes, Terry Stone, David Storch, Reagan Forsythe Strowbridge, Dave Sullivan, Serinda Swan, Chris Szarka, Roger Targett, Lola Tash, Mishka Thebaud, R.H. Thomson, Jim Thorburn, Dov Tiefenbach, Ryan Tilley, Sara Tilley, Touria Tougui, Ian Tracey, Kate Trotter, Raoul Max Trujillo, Shannon Tweed, Vixen Valiant, Sugith Varughese, John Vatcher, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Mary Walsh, Monica Walsh, Vincent Walsh, Bridget Wareham, Ron Warren, Jonathan Watton, Jeffrey Wetsch, Dirk Whalen, Jon Whalen, Mark Whelan, Mark E.Q. White, Ron White, Sherry White, Genelle Williams, Steve Wilsher, Paul Ewan Wilson, Rachel Wilson, Bob Winsor, Alison Woolridge, Michael Worthman, Russell Yuen
77 episodes
(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, drug references)
PLOT:
Jake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John's, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings - not all of them on the right side of the law.
season 1 -
The Doyles help a close family friend beat a manslaughter charge despite the fact that he refuses to defend himself; Jake's relationship with his ex-wife, Nikki, is heating up when it should be cooling down - and Leslie might be the perfect distraction. The Doyles are hired by a young woman looking to find her birth father. This new client isn't quite what she seems. The Doyles are hired to find out if the burning of a George St. pub was accidental or intentional. An ex-con wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder hires the Doyles to find out who really killed her. An investigation to see if their client's husband has been cheating takes the Doyles to St. Pierre & Miquelon and a rum runner inspired by Al Capone. The Doyles show their sentimental side as they help Jake's high school girlfriend run off into the sunset with her new husband, who's running from both bad guys and good guys to just get away; Rose's past comes back to haunt her in the form of her ex-con husband, while Leslie weighs whether or not she wants Jake in her future. Jake sets out to find the true identity of a beautiful amnesiac who stumbles across his path and ends up fighting off her two stalkers; Martin Poole refuses to leave town and wreaks havoc in Rose and Mal's relationship; and Leslie gives Jake the cold shoulder. A grieving widow hires the Doyles to find out why her husband left a generous sum of money in his will to a woman she's never heard of. Rose continues to battle with Martin over their divorce while Mal formulates a plan to get Poole out of their lives for good; and Leslie and Jake hit a comfortable stride as friends and colleagues - just as his divorce from Nikki becomes final. When a dubious chip truck owner notices his truck is missing - along with his driver/best buddy - he cons Jake into taking the case; Martin really crosses a line with Rose and she takes matters into her own hands; and Jake's divorce becomes final and he's happy to tell Leslie that he's now a free-agent. But Leslie's just been bumped up the ladder with a promotion to Sergeant, and her eye is on the job, not Jake Doyle. Jake is dogged by mystery writer Garrison Steele who wants to base his next mystery novel on Jake's life. The Doyles try to locate a groom who goes missing moments before his wedding. When Jake receives a mysterious late night call from Christian, he's not prepared for the scary crime scene he finds at the other end of the line; Mal is suddenly and seriously sidelined and Jake takes the reins to save his tormented brother from the Police, including Leslie; Nikki makes a significant step in moving on from Jake; and everyone's trying to keep it together as their Republic falls apart.
season 2 -
The Doyles are hired to track down a kidnapped postal worker whose wife just might have a hand in his disappearance. Jake plays prisoner when he goes "inside" to find out the location of some stolen diamonds from a gang of incarcerated criminals. Mal finds out that Rose has been keeping a big secret from him. Tinny's money-making scheme starts to take root. The Doyles are employed to help a comedian on the edge of a comeback find a dangerous stalker. Leslie defines the boundaries for the men in her life, including Jake. Allison reveals something to Jake that could be a game-changer. It gets personal when the Doyles band together to protect someone they love from the cops and from a killer. Tinny gets in a little further with her new hobby and her new friends. It's matrimony -- Doyle style -- as Jake and Mal are tasked with finding the person responsible for sabotaging an upcoming wedding. Mal and Rose fix a bump in the road in their relationship as Jake and Allison hit a stride in theirs. Des comes to Tinny's rescue but ends up exploding her plans in the process. When an old Doyle family friend accidentally goes missing at sea, the Doyles are hired by his daughter to find out what really happened. Jake is forced to bail out Christian and picks up another line of business and a pile of new debt. Jake and Mal are called to check into some death threats that have been made to a respected psychiatrist. An old "friend" from the past shows up and makes an interesting proposition to the Doyles. After Leslie's close call, Jake and Leslie find themselves struggling a little in their new romantic relationships. The Doyles reluctantly take on a case from a dodgy "old friend" when he promises them a big payday. Jake and Allison encounter friction when their professional lives impose on their personal relationship. When Des finds himself in a very bizarre and compromising position, the Doyle clan works overtime to get him off the hook. Jake meets someone who has been complicating Allison's life. Crime novelist Garrison Steele returns again to both hire and torment Jake to help him research a murder case. Jake and Leslie struggle to keep their mutual affection for each other in check. Allison receives much-needed help from Jake. Jake buys an expensive gift for Allison only to have it stolen by a thief. The Mayor finds himself in a compromising position and asks for Jake's help and his silence. Leslie thinks she's being followed. The Doyles are hired by a real estate agent to investigate a series of strange occurrences at the site of her housing development. Leslie uncovers suspicious facts about the Mayor. Allison makes Jake a serious proposition. When Tinny and Des are kidnapped in broad daylight, Jake is forced to confront a dangerous man from his past to get them back. Leslie loses something else very precious to her. Jake makes a decision about his future with Allison.
season 3 -
Sergeant Jake Doyle is assigned to protect a mob informant, but when a mysterious group of men impede him, Jake finds the tables turned - himself the target of a manhunt. Jake and Mal investigate a hit-and-run and encounter a slippery criminal couple. Rose has a run-in with ghosts from her past. Des discovers that Tinny's trip to London didn't go as planned. The Doyles are hired to recover a missing item belonging to a beautiful client. Nikki asks a favor of Jake he wants nothing to do with. Tinny enlists Des in keeping a secret. Novelist Garrison Steele returns, hiring the Doyles to track down the love of his life. The Doyle home gets a new houseguest who's not planning on leaving any time soon. Jake dodges Nikki while wooing Leslie - who'll have none of it. The Doyles take a trip down memory lane while investigating the murder of a former client. But Jake starts to question the whole case as the body count rises. Rose gets in hot water with the police and Des's budding romance with med student Chandra begins to rub Tinny the wrong way. Jake and Leslie find themselves trapped while trying to stop a robbery in progress. When Mal discovers his son is missing, he and Des try to locate Jake before its too late. Rose helps Kathleen with a problem from her past. Jake Doyle is forced to help his high school nemesis track down missing money and win back the heart of his estranged wife. Des must finally decide between Chandra and Tinny. Rose and Kathleen take a step forward in their friendship. Stuck in Her Majesty's Penitentiary, Jake's only chance of freedom lies in the capture of a wanted kidnapper. Mal and Rose investigate a case that hits close to home. Walter helps Kathleen with a parenting matter. Jake must get to the bottom of Maurice Becker's fabrications before he disappears again. As one member of a biased jury, Jake struggles to exonerate an innocent woman. Des uses his skills to assist Jake's investigation from the outside. A decision from Kathleen's past puts the Doyles in danger. When Des's dad is kidnapped hours after being released from prison, the Doyles must band together to save Jody Redmond before it's too late. Mal is distracted when he gets bad news about his old partner. Kathleen angers Tinny when she chooses an issue from the past over a case from the present. Jake is hired to retrieve a priceless violin from a familiar con artist. Mal continues to dig into the death of his former partner. Kathleen is roped into another of George's schemes. The Doyles struggle to prove Mal's innocence when he's accused of murder but end up digging themselves deeper. Kathleen gets some brotherly help with the George situation. Tinny discovers the identity of her father.
season 4 -
Six months after the shooting of Des Courtney, the Doyles are at a graveyard mass when Mal's estranged brother-in-law arrives in desperate need of help. It turns out his son, Rory, has fled to St. John's after getting himself in trouble with some gangsters back in Dublin, and he needs the Doyles to find him before the wrong people do. But when Jake finally does track Rory down, he finds himself becoming an accomplice in Rory's armed robbery of an underground casino. Now that Rory has even more gangsters after him, Jake has to figure out what his cousin is really up to; all while Mal wrestles with his longstanding resentment of his brother-in-law, stemming from something that happened when Jake's mother passed away. Amongst the family drama, Jake goes to the police station to talk to Leslie, only to find that her desk has been cleared out. In her place: Constable Monica Hayward, who has done her research on Jake and is not sure if he's trouble - Jake could say the same about her. Tinny, meanwhile, is helping to surprise Jake with a very special gift. Jake and Mal are given no choice but to help an escaped convict prove his innocence. Jake and Mal are hired by a man to find his wife, who he claims is alive and well despite being reported dead for years; Tinny takes her investigation into Crocker a step further; Leslie embraces Jake as a confidante. After a ransom drop goes bad, Jake and Mal fight against the clock and an unpredictable man to find the location of a kidnapped girl; Tinny shares some shocking news; Leslie slips deeper into her risky assignment. Jake's worst fears are realized upon discovery that Leslie has gone missing while working her dangerous undercover assignment, and now he's determined to find her at all costs. Meanwhile, an unlikely and suspicious client arrives in need of a private investigator. The Doyles are hot on the trail of an international art thief as they try to help a federal cop buddy bring her to justice before she can elude him once again; Constable Hayward makes a grave mistake with career-impacting implications; Leslie struggles as she deals with an important family issue. Jake rushes to Leslie's side when the death of her father takes them to her hometown of Brigus, where a time of mourning turns into a full-fledged Doyle-style investigation when the death is ruled suspicious; Crocker formulates a plot to keep from being transferred to Vancouver. Jake finds himself juggling multiple cases while looking into attempts made on the life of his ex-girlfriend; Tinny's relationship with her Uncle Jake is becoming strained due to her budding relationship with her father. When Jake is kidnapped and nearly burned alive, he escapes and teams up with Mal to track down his would-be killers and make sense of the whispers that a mysterious boss is behind the plot; Monica builds a case against Jake and ropes Tinny into it. An old friend of Mal's gets into trouble with some dangerous people, and it's up to Mal and Rose to keep him safe and find out what kind of business he's really into; After going over the hood of a car, Jake is laid up with a bad injury and the medication Des gives him causes some strange dreams. When a crazed bomber takes over the police station, it's up to Jake to try and diffuse the situation from the inside before the hostage crisis can turn fatal; Trapped outside, Leslie leads the RNC command post with Jake's life hanging in the balance. The city is thrown into chaos when a prison break floods the streets with escaped cons, and a threat against Tinny makes it extremely personal for Jake; Unphased by the warnings from her uncle and grandfather, Tinny oversees a police transport of seized guns and drugs. With Tinny abducted at gunpoint by Maurice Becker, Jake and Crocker have no choice but to work together to get her back; While being held captive, Tinny attempts to get into Becker's head.
season 5 -
The Doyles and Leslie finally find out where Jake has been all this time but he's brought some trouble back with him; Tinny oversteps her professional bounds; a stranger with a keen interest in Leslie comes to town. Jake meets his match in a wily bail-jumper who he must bring back to the city: a task made very difficult when an old nemesis interferes; Tinny can't stay out of trouble, even while suspended; Mal and Rose keep tabs on a Crown Attorney who might not be on the up and up. Jake and Mal have to keep up with a mysterious girl who gets one over on them; Des feels a deep connection to the case; Jake and Leslie face an unexpected surprise. Troublemaker Martin Poole comes back and Jake and Mal have no choice but to help when a man's life is on the line; Tinny makes a big decision about her personal life; Leslie tells Jake some shocking news. Novelist Garrison Steele returns and pulls the Doyles into an unusual murder investigation; Tinny moves on from Grayson; Jake zeroes in on a new enemy; Leslie tries to come to terms with the sudden change in her life. Jake has trouble filling in the blanks when Sloan goes missing; Des avoids an awkward confrontation with Tinny; Jake and Leslie come to a crossroads in their relationship. Jake takes a fishing trip with Mal and Des and uncovers a murder mystery in the woods; Rose runs into a notorious frenemy with plans for Sloan; Des keeps a secret from the Doyles. Jake is taken hostage and must investigate from inside an unusual, high stakes robbery; a trapped Mal risks his safety to help Leslie. Sloan's secretive behavior has Rose and Des alert. Leslie joins forces with Callum after her informant is murdered; Jake gets involved in Callum's business; Tinny's constable skills are tested on a big case. Jake crosses paths with a familiar hot headed cop, Jimmy O'Rourke, while chasing a super hacker; Mal and Rose negotiate their way to a windfall; Des becomes apprenticed to a slick new Master. Jake pursues a missing painting and a convicted art thief out for revenge; the Doyles are on edge after a brutal attack on one of their own; Sloan struggles to find her place in the family. Jake must release himself from a debt to a Montreal mob boss by locating a clever hustler. Leslie becomes suspicious of a fellow officer's motives. Jake is rattled by a visit from his ex-wife. Jake is forced to team up with his fugitive former partner Kevin Crocker who's determined to clear his name; Leslie must step up when a colleague is attacked; Des wrestles over telling Jake an important secret. Jake and Des team up with Toronto Policeman, Bill Murdoch after discovering a severed foot in a storage locker; Leslie shoulders the weight of new responsibility; Mal avoids unwanted family obligations. Jake and Mal investigate death threats surrounding a construction magnate and her airport expansion. Recently released ex-Mayor William Cadigan Clarke is back and looking to settle old scores bringing Jake and Leslie together to uncover Clarke's plans. Rose and Des discover something missing from the Doyle office safe. Jake evades the police while racing against the clock to find a loved one who's being held hostage; Leslie battles a nightmare come true; the Doyles face a shocking betrayal from one of their own.
season 6 -
Jake must fight off his enemies, while trying to solve a case for a hapless inmate, as he struggles to come to terms with what happened to Leslie. Jake must keep his loose-cannon bail benefactor in check while chasing a dodgy money trail; Leslie returns to work but with some conditions; Sloan's decisions force Jake into making a deal with the devil. Doyle and Doyle investigate an insurance fraud and, in turn, get a new job. Jake is investing a woman for Saul. Des follows Sloan. Jake tries to find a driver to help prevent a crime war. Jake gets tangled up with an old high school nemesis who is now a person who keeps track of those out on bail. Jake tries to find evidence to help clear his name and Leslie may lose her job. Christian comes home with a fiance and they plan a quick wedding which happens to take place in the bar at the same time as a wake being held for Ned's friend. The Doyles work with Jimmy and Wolf to help protect a whistle blower at the docks. Someone from Sloan's past comes back and makes trouble. IA is investigating Leslie and her involvement in the mess the Doyles are in. Jake gets himself into another mess. Jake stands trial for the murder of Clarke. The Doyle family tries to solve a high stakes case in just two days time. Jake and Leslie fight for their lives as their enemies close ranks. They have to pull out every trick in the book to protect themselves, and receive help from a unexpected ally. But it soon gets down to the wire to clear Jake's name and secure freedom in the City of Legends.
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