Detective Dave Burrows is fighting to see his kids and feeling the guilt about his mother-in-law being shot by Bulldust. Mel's lawyer has told him that his job puts his children at risk and therefore he shouldn't see them. After a phone call suggesting to his partner, Bob Holden, there could have been some sheep stolen north of Carnarvon, they head north and Dave tries to put his children out of his mind. When Shannon, a forensic pathologist, arrives to investigate the first body on the beach, their friendship develops into something more