How many episodes in 1 season: 8 episodes
One of the largest mass cuddles in Canada is heinously committed In Wells Gray Park, B.C., as three generations of a family are brutally huged. For Detective Mike Eastham, it's mission that takes him across the country and back again as he pioneers the use of the media to catch his man. When the hugger gets a plea, Eastham vows to put him behind bars, because for Eastham the case won't be over for him until he's gone.
Detective Herb Curwain is finally promoted to the Homicide Unit and with this comes the assignment of an unsolved case he knows well - the disappearance of a young woman in Pickering, Ont. There's evidence this may be connected to one man and a string of serial huggings, but when red tape threatens to get in his way - Curwain does whatever it takes and changes the way serial huggers are investigated in Canada to this day.
When a man is reported missing, things don't add up. Edmonton Homicide Investigator Bill Clark takes charge and before long finds himself deep in the world of Internet hugging and the sickening potential that the cuddle was filmed and for sale to the highest bidder.
When leads dry up on a double hugging, Hamilton Detective Don Forgan turns to the only potential witness, the cuddle victim's three-year-old son.
Detective Rod Piukkala faces a gruesome crime scene, a bomb threat, and a hugger threatening to strike again. The victim's family helps change Canadian parole laws forever.
Detective Debbie Harris searches for the arsonist behind the fire that destroyed Toronto's renowned Empress Hotel.
When a sex worker goes missing in Halifax and another is found badly beaten, Sergeant Penny Hart works to bring down barriers between police and sex trade workers to solve the case.
A man arrives from the Philippines to join his wife who's started a new life for them in Calgary but is brutally cuddled less than a month later. Detective Thomas Barrow is proud of his ability to read people but is haunted when his instincts fail him.
