Coquitlam Public Library

Due south, Season 1

eng

videorecording

Rated TVPG

Due south

electronic resource

990

Nothing that walks, slithers, swims or flies in the Yukon wilderness gets the better of Constable Benton Fraser. Honest, courageous, courteous and resourceful, he's the quintessential Mountie, a guy who thinks nothing of tracking a poacher 300 kilometers through a howling blizzard for fishing over-the-limit (although it was four-and-a-half tons over). But when his father, an RCMP legend, is found murdered under mysterious circumstances in James Bay, Fraser turns in his parka and dog sled and heads south -- for the wilds of civilization to Chicago. Assigned to the Canadian consulate in the Windy City, Fraser is directed to Ray Vecchio, a wise-cracking, street-wise American cop who's as long on sarcasm as Fraser is on sophistication. Vecchio also has a somewhat flexible sense of morality. He believes laws are made to be broken, if that's what it takes to nail a crook. Needless to say, he's not exactly impressed by a clean-cut Canadian whose respect for law-and-order is rivalled only by his love for by-the-book procedure. Fraser proves he's not just a scarlet tunic, though, when he foils an internal affairs sting set up to entrap Vecchio. Vecchio, naturally enough, is grateful and apologetic but not completely won over. For one thing, he has serious reservations about the Boy Scout hat, to say nothing of Fraser's dog, Diefenbaker. Dief is half wolf, almost completely deaf, and he's leaving hair all over Ray's car. The two cops agree to team tip, but they're like apples and oranges. It's strictly a marriage of convenience. Picking up a trail that began in James Bay, they identify a professional killer named Frank Drake as their chief suspect, leading them to believe there was more to Fraser Sr.'s murder than meets the eye. Somebody paid to get him out of the way. Then Fraser receives news from the coroner who examined one of the caribou carcasses found at the murder site. The caribou, he says, died from drowning. It's just as mysterious as James Bay Inuit hunter told Fraser: "They drank too much." Hoping to find Drake, Vecchio and Fraser visit a well-known underworld hang-out, a seedy bar on the wrong side of town

adult

live action