Synopsis

Mystery Road: Origin Season 2 is set six months after Season 1. Detective Jay Swan heads to partner Mary’s hometown in the tall trees of the southern forests. There is murder, abduction and epic love, but it is the past, the ghosts of the Stolen Generations, who haunt this story.

As Jay begins to investigate an unfolding case, the town of Loch Iris closes ranks around him, and the more he pieces together the crime, the more he realises the entire town has been hiding a shadowy past. It’s a past that is still rippling through to the present. And with it, a secret that threatens to tear Jay and Mary apart.

Easter 2000. As a quarter of a million people prepare to march around the country in an unprecedented show of support for Reconciliation, Jay Swan and Mary Allen attempt to forge a new life together in a fading timber town still mired in racism and denial.

With the trial of his father’s murderer now concluded, Jay has promised to put his pain behind him and join Mary on her mother’s Country as they care for Mary’s niece, Anya, and await the birth of their first child.

It doesn’t take long, though, for the majesty of the surrounding forests and the deep lake that shimmers at the heart of the town, to take on gothic dimensions…