"Who's running this city?" a reporter asks Garry Butterworth, head of Melbourne's homicide squad. With the body count mounting, it doesn't look like it's him. But crime makes careers on both sides of the law. And what's going to make it for the young detectives on his team, handsome Steve Owen and experienced Jacqui James, it's not about finding out whodunnit - everyone knows that - but putting the bad guys away.