Cardinal - TV series

Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series. The series adapts the novels of crime writer Giles Blunt, focusing on police detective John Cardinal and his partner Lise Delorme, who investigate crimes in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay.

Season 1: Forty Words for Sorrow - John Cardinal is a troubled and brooding police officer in Algonquin Bay, who was removed from the homicide squad as a result of chief Noelle Dyson's belief that he had become obsessed with his investigation of a missing Native Canadian girl. When the girl's body finally turns up, he is reassigned to the case with new partner Lise Delorme; what he does not know is that Delorme is being assigned to investigate him, as part of a federal police corruption probe which has identified Cardinal as possibly collaborating with a local drug dealer who has repeatedly managed to elude arrest. However, the investigation soon widens, when a new missing persons case with some similar patterns leads Cardinal to believe that a serial killer may be active in the area.

 Season 2: Blackfly Season - A young woman, suffering from amnesia after having been shot in the head, appears in Algonquin Bay. Soon mutilated bodies, in accordance to some occult religious rituals, are discovered. The bodies are members of a local group of bikers known for trafficking drugs. John Cardinal and the team suspect that someone is trying to replace the gang in the drug trade. Meanwhile the mental health of his wife still worries Cardinal and Musgrave thinks he has finally found the evidence he is looking for against Cardinal.

 Season 3: By the Time You Read This - The suspicious death of Cardinal's wife Catherine coincides with a double murder, and Delorme is ordered to take the lead in the latter investigation. Reluctant to believe that Catherine committed suicide, Cardinal begins investigating other possibilities, whilst dealing with a succession of anonymous letters blaming him for the event. Meanwhile, Noelle Dyson, recovering from the death of her sister, tries to reason with another prospective suicide and is devastated when she fails to prevent him killing himself.

 Season 4: Until the Night - After a prominent politician's husband is abducted and then left to die from exposure, Cardinal and Delorme begin to suspect that a hired killer is targeting those close to four people, out of revenge for a cover-up in their past. As Cardinal and Delorme grow closer, though, this case will be their last together, with Delorme taking a new job in Toronto.