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Top of the Lake

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Detective Robin Griffin investigates unsettling cases in Jane Campion's mystery drama.

A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases in Jane Campion's mystery drama.

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Elisabeth Moss

David Wenham

Peter Mullan

Thomas M Wright

Holly Hunter

Jay Ryan

Kip Chapman

Jacqueline Joe

Robyn Malcolm

Genevieve Lemon

Darren Gilshenan

Skye Wansey

Stephen Lovatt

Robyn Nevin

Calvin Tuteao

Madeleine Sami

Gavin Rutherford

Dra McKay

Philippa Archibald

Sara Allen

Michelle Ang

Luke Buchanan

Benjamin Farry

Edward Campbell

Jacek Koman

Jane Campion

Philippa Campbell

Emile Sherman

Iain Canning

Gerard Lee

Top of the Lake: Series 1: Episode 1: Paradise Sold

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Paradise Sold

Episode 1

Episode 1: Paradise Sold

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BBC Two - Top of the Lake, Series 1, Paradise Sold

Detective Robin Griffin searches for the truth about Tui, a 12-year-old pregnant girl.

Drama series. While visiting her dying mother, Detective Robin Griffin takes on the case of Tui Mitcham, a 12-year-old pregnant girl rescued from a freezing lake.

On the South Island of New Zealand, 12-year-old Tui Mitcham is rescued from the freezing waters of a remote mountaintop lake, which she had walked into in an apparent attempt to take her own life. Her teacher notices that she is pregnant and with the small local police force ill-equipped to question her, social services enlist the help of child protection expert Detective Robin Griffin to talk to the girl and uncover the truth. Robin has only just returned to Queenstown from Sydney, Australia, to visit her dying mother but agrees to help. Slowly, she forges a connection with Tui and learns more about her and her family, but the young girl refuses to reveal the father of her unborn child.

Meanwhile, Tui's father Matt is bemused to find a small ad hoc village is created out of container crates on a plot of land known locally as Paradise, land which he believes he owns but has seemingly been sold by local estate agent Bob Platt. Populated by women of a certain age, veterans of love and rejection, the project is financed by rich divorcee Bunny but they are led by GJ, a silver-haired Svengali who administers a bracing form of kindness. Furious and seeking revenge, Matt sends his sons to question Platt, who has betrayed him with the sale.

As Robin continues to investigate Tui's case and learns more about the small town of Laketop, her world starts to unravel, uncovering difficult secrets from her past.

Top of the Lake: Series 1

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On a visit to New Zealand, Det. Griffin is drawn into a missing persons investigation.

While visiting her dying mother in New Zealand, Detective Robin Griffin begins investigating the disappearance of Tui Mitcham, a twelve-year-old pregnant girl from the small town of Laketop.

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