Season 1
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In vibrant Lagos, two detectives confront their haunted pasts while navigating a city where crime wears many faces.
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Austin Oredo is found dead in a hotel room with a knife in his chest, ring finger and genitals amputated. Initial suspicions fall on his mistress Veno, Austin's wife Mayenne and ex-wife, Kemi. The investigation narrows on Mayenne, who they discover had been in the hotel room that morning. Mayenne confesses to receiving a tip-off on her husband's philandering. She'd rushed in a blind rage to the hotel. Too late - he was dead. She panics and flees. Ex-wife Kemi provides a lead - Austin's membership of Prime Cult, their old university confraternity. Investigations reveal the cult is still active with shadowy members now in government and business. KC and Danny's spotlight quickly falls on Tony Akpata, business partner and close 'friend' of Austin and a full member of the Prime Cult. Suddenly, Veno turns up dead and her boyfriend Tami is on the run. Tami is a 'white bead' - an aspiring full member of Prime Cult. Veno was set up to drug Austin by Tami on Tony's instructions. Tony is arrested, tried and found guilty of murdering Austin. Motive? Tony is in a secret affair with Austin's wife Mayenne. Tami, in police protection, is found and killed - by the cult.
Two brothers stop to buy sweets on their way to school, leaving their six-year-old sister Esohe in a local taxi. Suddenly, the driver zooms off with Esohe inside - kidnapped. The SSCU is called in to investigate. They trace the driver to a local bar but as he runs off he is hit and killed by a truck. Soon after Esohe's family receives a ransom note. Kelechi and Danny raise the money and the drop-off is arranged. It all goes disastrously wrong. Papa Esohe is left stranded as the kidnappers make a clean getaway with the money. Esohe is still nowhere to be found. Soon after, Esohe's body is discovered in a refuse dump. An autopsy reveals she had been genitally mutilated. Kelechi and Danny generate a list of local 'slicers'. One name pops up - Esohe's aunty, Grace. They raid Grace's house and find her all packed, about to leave town. In court, it emerges that Grace, her sister Clara and Esohe's grandmother are behind it all. Esohe had unexpectedly bled to death and the fake kidnap story was to cover their tracks. Riddled with guilt, Clara ensured they were caught by dumping the body in a public refuse dump.
Two young women alight from a taxi one dark evening a little drunk. Too late, they have landed bang in the middle of the dreaded 'Oro' procession. The women are struck dead and their bodies spirited away. Unknown to the Oro, the crime is witnessed by another young lady, Shalewa, hiding nearby. She inadvertently attracts the attention of the lead masquerade who quickly discovers where she is hiding, raises his staff to strike her dead but inexplicably turns away. Next morning the SSCU's Kelechi and Danny are on the scene. The Oro is widely feared and witnesses are reluctant to come forward. Kelechi finds Shalewa, but her father Kamoru refuses to allow her to testify, afraid of an Oro backlash. After difficult negotiations with the local chiefs, an agreement is reached for the Oro and its lead masquerade to come in for questioning - and eventually court - in ceremonial masks. Their lawyer argues that the masquerades are spirits and cannot be tried as mere mortals. Kelechi however is convinced she knows the masquerade's true identity. The judge pronounces them innocent, and as they triumphantly proceed out of the courtroom, Kelechi defiantly calls out his name. He is Kamoru, Shalewa's father.
Shindara, 21, is out clubbing with her boyfriend and friends. On their way home, they are stopped at a police checkpoint. Someone has told the officers they are armed robbers. It all ends in tragedy - and the SSCU is called into action.
12 year old Isaac disappears from home then returns with a nasty scar on his back, money in his pockets and one of his kidneys missing. The SSCU is called in and suspects an international syndicate specializing in organ harvesting.
When the SSCU (Serious & Special Crimes Unit) was set up by the Nigeria Police Force, it was in response to the peculiar challenges posed by the biggest, most densely populated and most diverse city in Africa - Lagos.
Headed and nurtured by its charismatic boss, the calm, reassuring DCP Femi Biboye, the unit is made up of an elite team of top detectives, handpicked from the very best across the country. The two lead detectives, SP Kelechi Farasin and SP Danladi Dikko are exemplary in their pursuit of justice.
From backgrounds that couldn't be more different, they are nonetheless two of a kind. SP Farasin aka 'KC' is on a personal journey to prove something both to herself and to her controlling father, while SP 'Danny' Dikko is struggling to shed the baggage of a childhood spent living on the wrong side of Kano as a street beggar.
Together they form a 'dynamic duo', challenging crime head-on and earning each other's trust, respect and above all, affection. They quickly realise that life can get very complicated policing the huge city of Lagos and they are routinely dealing what with they don't exactly teach you in Police College.
In Lagos, nothing is quite as it seems. From the grimy ghetto to the glitzy champagne rooms, crime is always at home. The terrain is edgy, fast-paced and unpredictable. The criminals are colourful, unconventional and often quite bizarre.
Sometimes, you find things are just....different. That's Lagos. That's Nigeria.
You just have to deal with it....