The naked body of Trent Latham, coach of a local rugby club, is found on Deadloch Beach in Tasmania. Senior Sergeant Dulcie Collins is forced to take the case until Detective Eddie Redcliffe arrives from Darwin to investigate. Collins wants to hand over the case but when she sees the sort of job Redcliffe is doing she talks to her boss and gets her temporary assignment to the case made permanent.
It takes some work but by the end of the episode Eddie finally seems to understand that the case isn't as simple as she wants to believe it is, The pieces finally fall into place for Eddie when she and Dulcie find the body of Gavin Latham, Trent's brother and the one she wanted to arrest for Trent's murder, dead on the beach and without a tongue, just like Trent.
