Secret City: episode guide
A Donation To The Struggle
Episode 1
Sunday, June 05, 2016 (Showcase)
Written by Matt Cameron
Directed by Emma Freeman
When political journalist Harriet Dunkley sees the gutted body of a young man washed up on the lakeshore she suspects a conspiracy. Her newspaper thinks she's tilting at another windmill, the police stonewall, her Government sources are silent, and a senior contact within Australian intelligence firmly warns her off. But Harriet discovers a link between Sabine Hobbs, a young Australian who has disappeared after staging a dramatic protest in China, and the dead boy and determines that, whatever the personal or professional cost, she must pursue a story that could overturn everything Australians believe about our Government and their place in the world.
Cast:
- Anna Torv as Harriet
- Dan Wyllie as Paxton
- Jacki Weaver as Bailey
- Damon Herriman as Kim
- Alan Dale as Prime Minister Toohey
- Alex Dimitriades as Dancer
- Eugenia Yuan as Weng
- Mekhi Phifer as US Ambassador Moreton
- Matthew Zeremes as Brimmer
- Huw Higginson as Reardon
- Marcus Graham as Griff
- Miranda Tapsell as Sasha
- Benedict Samuel as Felix
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- Sacha Horler as Ludie
- Kate Mulvaney as Ronnie
- Alan Dukes as Bennett
- Justin Smith as Vaughn
- Aleks Mikic as Thomas
- Paul Gleeson as Warwick
- David Roberts as General McAuliffe
- Anni FInsterer as Rear Admiral Hartzig
- Sean Taylor as Wheeler
- Russell Kiefel as Olmstead
- Chris Haywood as Rankin
- Gary Young as Zheng
- Ferdinand Hoang as Ambassador Dhao
- Alice Chaston as Sabine Hobbs
- Jeanette Cronin as Mrs Hobbs
- Brenna Harding as Cassie
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- Max Brown as Kevin
- Tim Parsons as Max Dalgetty
- Jenny Wu as Mae Lin
- Sam Fraser as Dylan
- Laura Jayes as Sky News Anchor
- Graham Gall as Arriving Politician
- Andrew Benson as Short Bald Man
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- Kathryn Longstaff as Harriet Rowing Double
- Maddie Mackie as Harriet Rowing Double
- Marlee Barber as Stunt Performer
- Darvin De La Cruz as Stunt Performer
- Glenn Chow as Stunt Performer
- Andrea Berchtold as Stunt Performer
- Wilson Lo as Stunt Action Personnel
- Hsieh Wai Lim as Stunt Action Personnel
- Aaron Zee as Stunt Action Personnel
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