The new season of the acclaimed drama series Mystery Road: Origin premieres on Sunday 21st September on ABC & ABC iview.
It’s Easter 2000, six months from when we last saw young Detective Jay Swan, played by AACTA Award-winning Lead Actor and proud Nyikina man Mark Coles Smith (We Bury The Dead, Beasts of War) and his partner Mary, played by AACTA Award-winning Lead Actress Tuuli Narkle (NCIS: Sydney, Territory). We find them attempting to forge a new life together on her mother’s Country, in the fading timber town of Loch Iris. It doesn’t take long though for the majesty of the tall trees in the brooding surrounding forests and the deep lake that shimmers at the edge of town to take on gothic dimensions.
As Jay begins to investigate an unfolding case, Loch Iris closes ranks around him. 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.
Production credit: Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mystery Road: Origin is Bunya Productions production for the ABC. Major production investment from the ABC and Screen Australia’s First Nations Department in association with Screenwest and Lotterywest and the Western Australian Regional Screen Fund. Financed with support from Screen NSW.Local distribution by ABC. International sales by All3Media. Produced by Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey. Written by Steven McGregor, Jada Alberts, Erica Glynn, Samuel Paynter and Gary Hamaguchi. Script Producer Deb Cox. Directed by Wayne Blair and Jub Clerc. ABC Executive Producers Rachel Okine and Brett Sleigh.
