Storyline for Motive

Binge Watch Motive – A feisty Vancouver homicide detective tracks down the most cunning of killers by trying to figure out the often-unexpected motive to the crime.

The Canadian mystery series lets the viewers see the killers and victims as Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and her partner Detective Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira) try to discover who and why the killers did it.

Episodes of Motive

Binge Watch Motive S1.E1 ∙ Creeping Tom
The killer: Tom, a high school student.

The victim: Glen Martin, the popular singing science teacher at Tom’s high school.

Tom is an oft picked upon quiet student who plays the bass drum in the school’s marching band.

He likes to remain invisible as it allows him to be quietly subversive, as displayed by his favorite activity called “creeping”: sneaking into houses and stealing a small memento just for the thrill of it.

He introduces his best friend Willie to the activity, the house chosen this evening being the Martin’s.

As the Homicide Department investigates the murder, which was conducted by blunt force trauma to the head, they follow the usual leads such as his wife, Linda Martin, who was having an affair, but vows that she still loved Glen, and Linda’s lover, a new immigrant named Arman Pozner.

The questions become whether they will piece together the evidence, and or if Tom’s nervousness will give him away.

Meanwhile, Angie tests the boundaries of parenting with her son, Manny.

Binge Watch Motive S1.E2 ∙ Crimes of Passion
The killer: David Jacobs, a former public prosecutor and now the popular candidate for mayor, who has four weeks until election day.

The victim: seventeen year old high school student Tiffany Greenwood, the daughter of David’s long time friends, and David and his wife Grace’s occasional babysitter.

David killed Tiffany in a deliberate hit and run using the stolen car of Tiffany’s boyfriend, the over-privileged Kevin West.

As such, Kevin becomes Homicide’s primary suspect, that belief strengthened when they learn that Tiffany just broke up with him.

David, acting in the unofficial capacity of family friend, insinuates himself into the investigation through the prosecutor’s office.

His overzealousness, especially in wanting to prosecute Kevin without complete evidence against him, may become David’s downfall, as Angie searches for what she believes is Tiffany’s missing bag from the crime scene.

What Angie and Oscar are unaware of is that David killed for what was in Tiffany’s bag, that item which Tiffany discovered one night at the Jacobs’ house while she was babysitting, and which, if made public, would destroy David’s mayoral bid.

Binge Watch Motive – S1.E3 ∙ Pushover
The killer: Ben Crewson, a mild mannered cruise ship terminal customs agent.

The victim: Scott Hayward, a limo driver, who was found dead next to his still running vehicle in Stanley Park. The death was by a single gunshot wound.

The life of Crewson, who most would consider a quiet, average Joe in every respect, changed when he recently met his current girlfriend Leanne, a waitress, at the diner where she works.

Together, they dreamed of a better life for themselves. Hayward was the antithesis of Crewson: brash and cocky and who was considered the alpha male amongst the drivers in the limousine service where he worked.

Angie and Oscar quickly piece together that the death has something to do with Scott’s last fare, his standing regular Tuesday night appointment for lowlife lawyer Randy Sprague, their route always being the same: from the cruise ship terminal to the airport, with the only difference on the evening of the death being that final stop in Stanley Park.

The determination of what Sprague does every Tuesday night is a major piece of the puzzle, however Angie and Oscar may not get the entire picture even though they believe they have their killer.

Meanwhile, Angie lets Brian take part in his first ever interrogation, but it may not end up being quite what he was expecting.