Hiding

Troy Quigg (James Stewart) has always tried to the best for his family even doing odd jobs for crime boss Nils Vanderberg Marus Graham) and after a botched drug deal gone wrong and Troy ending up in prison and getting stabbed, Troy decides what is best for his family and moves into the witness protection program and move to Sydney away from the Gold Coast. Now they are the Swift family, teenagers (Lincoln Younes)Mitchell and (Olivia DeJonge)Shaneen are enrolled at the Performing Arts High School as Mitch and Tara, wife (Kate Jenkinson)Maree is struggling as a stay at home mother as Rebecca and Troy is slowing finding his feet as a post- doctorate in the criminal psychology at the University. With no one to turn to but each other, they must stick together and Troy must help Federal agent John Pinder (Stephen Curry) who relocated them to a new city build a case for Nils and behind bars so they can get back to their lives at the Gold Coast.

The idea of examining the effects of witness protection from the witnesses point of view is fairly original. Usually those on protection are peripheral to the main plot of the cop v criminals. Generally the story works but the idea of an ex criminal pretending to be a tutor/lecturer in a university was just plain silly and very unconvincing. Expunge that aspect from the series and things would have been much more satisfying.

I really enjoyed watching this. Another season to round up and finish the story would still be great.