The Final episode of the year for the Melbourne-based cop drama finds undercover operative Church caltivating a new informant. And this man's information is amazingly good. While the future of the undercover operation is under threat, Chruch has serveral meetings with his informant, Dingo. Finally, he extracts details with will enable the Singers group to bust a big-time drug ring. But there's a twist in the tale which makes this one of the most satisfying episodes of the series this year.
A geeky inventor is suspected of being involved in credit-card doctoring, internet fraud, and making bombs. When Church is undercover at his house, a raid is carried out by gunnmen he believes are cops. And the cops-against-cops scenario is complicated when it appears the fraud suspect was involved with the death of Bill Hollister, who died in a bomb blast. Meanwhile, Stone finds himself recruited to undertake the most daunting of tasks when he is hired as a sniper by a bent cop.
Following a spate of violent robberies, Church and the others are placed undercover as taxi drivers, in hope of catching the offender in the act. Unlike the others, Church actually likes the job, and the stories people have to tell, and when he takes a fare from a highly agitated young man, he hears a story to beat all stories.
Undercover teams up with Armed Robbery to bust a violent robbery ring. Church infiltrates the group but is forced to bow out when he is given a shotgun and told to rob a convenience store. It looks like Undercover has blown it—until Angie uses her real-life romance with informant Marty Engle to gain access to the ring, a situation that places them both in dangerous territory.
A middle-aged woman, Helen, brings a cardboard box into police headquarters claiming it contains a bomb. In fact, it contains something even more bizarre, that is determined to belong to her husband, Miles. A series of mishaps prevents Angie from returning the box to Miles, and Ingrid Burton soon complicates matters when she reveals that she will represent Miles in his attempt to sue the police and Angie. Meanwhile, when Harris is forced to submit to a random drug test, another mystery comes to light.
Church and Angie continue piecing together links between Conrad, suspected drug kingpin Stig Endquist and known union basher Rick Tyson. Church suspects Harris of protecting these men. Harris, for his part, suspects Church of corruption, and assigns Chris to spy on him, in an attempt to bring Church down. But the tables are turned when it is revealed that Chris has her own secret - and Church is the only one who knows the truth.
Harris is clearly losing it and is convinced that his officers are out to get him. In his paranoid state, he decides it's time to do something about Church - kill him. Meanwhile, Angie is having a hard time dealing with the intimacy between Church and Ingrid - the lawyer who got Stone's killer off the hook.
When drug boss Stig Endquist survives an attempt on his life, Church convinces him that the assailant was Stone's killer, Conrad. Endquist agrees to put out a bounty on Conrad in retaliation, and when Ingrid gets an inkling of what Church is up to, she threatens to expose him. Soon after, though, she is kidnapped by Conrad. The race is on, as Church faces a battle against the clock to find Conrad and discover Ingrid's whereabouts.
Angie is undercover in an Art Gallery looking for an insider connection to a spate of robberies when a balaclava clad bandit bursts in. The gallery manager is held at gunpoint while the rest of the staff are forced into the storeroom. After being released, the prized Loxton painting is missing and an investigation ensues. Meanwhile, Harris has a copy of the Church/Ingrid sex tape in which Ingrid professionally compromises herself.
Church goes undercover in a dodgy furniture removal company suspected of being a front for a drug courier business. But his affair with Ava, the former girlfriend of the owner of the company, gets the seasoned operative into a spot of trouble. Meanwhile, Constable Leo Flynn tries to make amends with Constable Chris Dichiera, whom he let down on a previous case.
Eight months have passed since we last caught up with the Undercover Unit. Chris has pulled through and almost completed her rehabilitation. She has moved in with Leo, who has helped greatly in getting her back on her feet. She's almost ready to go back to work - until she has a startling revelation of what really happened to her on the night she was shot. Angie gives birth to a healthy baby boy. And Harris makes sure he's present at the birth.
Working undercover with armed robber Damien Broadbent, a masked Leo Flynn is forced to steal the proceeds of an illegal poker game at gunpoint – and the main players happen to be none other than Peter Church and Bryan Gray. Back at PHQ, Flynn comes clean to Church and hands back part of the haul (an expensive engagement ring) on one proviso – the cops can't pressure Broadbent for their booty as it could blow his cover and put his life at risk. Church agrees, but when Anna Trukan finds the ring, she believes Church is offering his hand in marriage. Without the heart to tell her otherwise, and with Broadbent demanding that Flynn gets the ring back, Church is pulled from all sides.
Three homeless men have been murdered, and Church goes undercover into the homeless community to track down the killer. Without the back-up of weapons or communication, Church submerges himself in this shadow world. But he quickly learns that murder might not be the only thing going on, someone is making what look like snuff movies, featuring the murdered homeless men.
An investigation of a liquor store robbery takes an unexpected turn when one of the gang members claim they are being protected by ""The Walrus"", a corrupt cop. Harris suspects that the Walrus is the Head of Armed Robbery, Geoff Skinner. When Megan Walsh reveals that Skinner is her old friend and mentor, Harris begins to suspect that she may tip Skinner off, and his suspicions are heightened when Megan starts asking him questions about the case after seducing him. Meanwhile Katherine suffers an extreme bipolar episode and Harris is forced to confront the fact that their relationship is at breaking point. Katherine leaves for a posting in WA, leaving Harris shattered.
When Harris and Masters locate a massive quantity of cocaine in the boot on an imported U.S. Mustang, it looks like they're on the verge of a huge arrest. But things go haywire when the importer of the vehicle, property developer David Cale, refuses to take possession of the vehicle due to a small rust problem. Suddenly Harris and Masters are left holding a whole lot of coke with no-one to bust. Masters soon pulls the pin on the operation leaving Church undercover in the importer's garage without any back up. When the bad guys come calling looking for their cocaine, Church finds himself in a very sticky situation with no way out.
Church has established himself as the muscle in a close-knit Italian crime family, prolific producers of methamphetamines. When the head of the family discovers that his son has been seen in the company of a cop, he takes the cop hostage and orders Church to kill him. Church is horrified to discover that the cop is Harris, and that Harris has been buying opium off the son. Church manages to fake the shooting, but the son soon tracks Harris down. As the Undercovers move in to bust the family, Harris is finally forced to make a choice between his addiction on one hand, and his career and family on the other.
Chris convinces a young prostitute to give her information about a blackmail scam at a brothel. The client she names refuses to talk, and then the prostitute is found with her tongue cut out. Angie goes undercover in the brothel as a cleaner, and is surprised to discover that Reg Masters sees a dominatrix who works there. A mortified Masters agrees to go in wired and use his relationship to set up a cocaine buy with the owner, who is none other than Steve Wylie. Wylie is brought down, which leads Harris to consider the recent events surrounding the death of Wylie's brother, who undercover believed to be a major player in the criminal world. Harris enlists Angie's help to investigate his theory that Megan Walsh is corrupt. Church refuses to consider the possibility, and it soon becomes clear why – he and Megan are lovers. Harris is forced to offer proof of Megan's treachery – she slept with him for information.
While on a deep cover operation, Church is intercepted by a couple of thugs and thrown off a building. Waking in hospital with minor fractures and head trauma, Church discovers his memory has been completely wiped. He can't remember his name, how he came to fall from the roof, or anything of his past. The only clue is his driver's license, which names him as Josh Brisbane. Church soon learns Josh Brisbane is a gun for hire, contracted to take out underworld crime figure Nick Tascone. While his instincts tell him to cut and run, a confrontation with his target becomes inevitable as Tascone moves to finish the job of terminating his would-be assassin.
When Church misbehaves on a drug bust and is accused of corruption by an unnamed informant, he is investigated by Internal Affairs. The Undercover team unearth evidence that an IA cop is framing Church, but Harris orders them to draw a line under the investigation. Instead, he sends Megan to search Church's house, where she finds stolen goods - damning evidence that Church is corrupt. Church admits his corruption to her and in turn she admits her own. Together, they devise a plan to rip off the drug bust cocaine and escape. When Church is arrested for possession of stolen goods he and Megan are forced to bring the coke deal forward. It is only when Harris arrives at the scene of the deal that Megan realises it's a sting, and that Church is wearing a wire. She stares at Church in disbelief as she is arrested and taken away.
Angie goes undercover as the long lost daughter of contract killer William Franks. A notorious assassin, Franks hasn't seen his daughter since she was a three year old and he was imprisoned for the murder of his wife. Though Angie initially has no qualms about such a deception, as she comes to know Franks she comes to believe that he's not the monster she first thought. When evidence comes to light suggesting Undercover has been wrongly targeting Franks for an intended hit on anti-Islamic pop philosopher, it appears that Angie's suspicions of Franks' innocence may be true. It's only at the eleventh hour, in a hostage situation, that Angie discovers Franks' true, heartfelt purpose.
When Chris is involved in a car accident after a night on the town she is horrified to discover a nine year-old boy was seriously injured. Chris questions her own culpability given that she hadn't slept and her reaction times were down. Her problems escalate when the boy's mother claims Chris was in the wrong and she intends to sue. Chris doggedly pursues every lead to prove her innocence, and in the process discovers evidence that the boy's doctor may be faking medical records in order to fraudulently claim accident compensation. When Harris shuts down the investigation Sophie takes matters into her own hands and goes undercover as a patient. Fortunately her audacious move pays off and the doctor is brought to justice. Meanwhile, Harris starts to feel threatened as Angie and Sean Hunter take their relationship to the next level.
Angie frantically tries to clear her lover's name while Harris works equally hard to convict him as the serial killer. Convinced Sean Hunter is innocent of the attack on Sophie, Angie sets out to exonerate the man she loves and catch the real serial killer. She suspects Richard Kline, who blames Hunter for the suicide of his wife, a former patient of Hunter's. Chris goes undercover on Kline, which leads to the discovery of trophies from the previous killings on Kline's premises. Hunter is freed and an already off-centre Harris, realising he has lost the battle, slips into bipolar meltdown and is forcefully taken into emergency psychiatric care. As the current is administered to his temples we go out on Angie and Hunter happily making their wedding plans. As they tenderly embrace, the cold disregard on Hunter's face tells us that Angie has become victim of a very lethal deception.