Cardinal and Delorme struggle to identify the two bodies – until two entrepreneurs are reported M.I.A. from the Sportsman’s Show. The lead brings the detectives to the trashed boat of Roman & Irena Barstow. Roman was a former gun industry exec who bought out Irena’s custom hunting-bow business and then married her – enraging her ex-partner – and husband. When the ex’s alibi checks out, the case turns to locating the Barstow’s missing rental car. The rigors of the investigation distract Cardinal, but he still has one eye on Catherine’s death. Taking the handful of cruel cards he’s received to her psychiatrist Dr. Bell, he gets help profiling the sender and makes a list of ex-cons who might want revenge. Meanwhile Dyson confronts an armed man in a laundromat, and he shoots himself in front of her. With Dyson faltering from trauma and Cardinal distracted, Delorme is frustrated by the lack of leads – until an anonymous tip from Sam gives the case new momentum. Meanwhile, Mama and her ‘family’ descend upon the remote lodge of Lloyd Kreeger. On the run for the murders, they need the lodge as a base for what’s yet to come...
Cardinal was broadcast on SBS ONE at Wednesday 6 March 2019, 13:00.