Due South (1994)
Benton Fraser comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder, he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. He has made friends with a local detective, Ray Vecchio, whose sister, Francesca, has a major crush on him. Although Vecchio is often confused by Benton's strange way of doing things and Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border, the two get along famously.
Callum Keith Rennie | Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski | |
Beau Starr | Lt. Harding Welsh | |
Gordon Pinsent | Fraser Sr. | |
Paul Gross | Constable Benton Fraser | |
Tom Melissis | Thomas E. Dewey | |
Tony Craig | Jack Huey | |
Camilla Scott | Margaret Thatcher | |
Draco | Diefenbaker | |
Ramona Milano | Francesca Vecchio | |
Dean McDermott | Constable Turnbull | |
Anne Marie Loder | Stella Kowalski | |
Jan Rubes | Dr. Mort Gustafson | |
Catherine Bruhier | Elaine Besbriss | |
Joe Pingue | Sandor | |
Brent Stait | Vic Hester | |
August Schellenberg | Gilbert Wallace | |
Lynne Deragon | Desk Sergeant | |
Geoffrey Bowes | Larry | |
Douglas Campbell | Capt. Ed Smithers | |
Fulton Derek | Biker | |
Alan C. Peterson | A.D.A. Brandauer | |
Kevin Rushton | Litterbug | |
Aron Tager | Tom | |
Jackie Burroughs | Gladys Caunce | |
Billy Parrott | Junior Mountie |
Director | George Bloomfield | |
Steve Dimarco | ||
Richard J. Lewis | ||
Jim Kaufman | ||
Francis Damberger | ||
Paul Lynch | ||
Writer | Paul Haggis, Bob Carney, Paul Gross, John Krizanc, Dave Cole, Paul Quarrington, Julie Lacey, Jeff King, Michael Teversham, George F. Walker | |
Producer | George Bloomfield, Peter Bray, Bob Carney, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa | |
Musician | Jack Lenz, Jay Semko | |
Photography | Malcolm Cross, Milan Podsedly |
Fraser returns from his vacation back in Canada to find Ray there but not there, and a copycat arsonist of a man he and Ray put away once.
When Internal Affairs thinks there are dirty cops in the department and want to grill Ray, Welsh worries about Ray's cover being blown and not being able to find him. Meanwhile Fraser, sent on the hunt for Ray, joins Ray in wait for a criminal who made Ray the man he became.
Ray and Fraser blow the cover of a relocated witness set to testify in court, upsetting his brother who works for the government and looks out for him. But things may not be what they seem.
Someone attempts to kill Stanley's ex-wife Stella and her date, with Fraser and Stanley saving their lives. She's dating Frank Orsini, an alderman involved in a controversial housing project, with Fraser trying to solve the case while serving as Orsini's bodyguard.
After a man is murdered in their sight at a mall, Ray, Thatcher and Welsh argue over who did it and how, utilizing Fraser to help uncover the truth.
A female bounty hunter tracks down her bounty, her husband, while other bounty hunters pursue. The department, suffering from the "blue flu", leaves only Ray and Fraser to help.
When the boxing opponent of a young man Ray is training is sent to the hospital possibly dead, a man turns up dead and the evidence suggests Ray's wannabe boxer may have done it.
Ray and Fraser protect an elderly ex British spy from Russian spies who are after something the old man has.
Framed for murder, Ray must stay under arrest at the Canadian consulate while Fraser goes out to hopefully solve the crime before Ray is extradited from there with an aggressive man running for the State's Attorny Office looking to put him away.
One of Kowalski's informants is stabbed to death while a few days earlier a flight attendant in Canada is murdered. Fraser finds the primary suspects have airtight alibis and no obvious ties. Yet Fraser plays a hunch that there is a connection.
While Kowalski is questioning minor criminal Stanley Smith, Fraser discovers a body encased in the wall. It's Guy Rankin, who had a bad history with Francesca and she asks Fraser to find the killer but quietly. The presence of psychotic killer Kuzma and the FBI complicate matters.
Ready to split up and go their separate ways on re-assignments after a bad squabble, Ray and Fraser are drawn into one more case after a man lands on the front of Ray's car dead with a knife in his back and a map carved into his chest, leading the two into a mystery involving gold, pirates, and a ghost ship
Ray, Fraser, Welsh, Thatcher and a Canadian ship full of RCMP's take on criminals at sea.