Underbelly

The Melbourne gangland wars start the night the gangster Alphonse Gangitano murders a low-life crim at a St Kilda party for the sheer hell of it.

Alphonse Gangitano might have got away with murder but police officer Steve Owen is determined he'll pay for starting a riot in a nightclub where many innocent people are hurt.

Topless waitress Tracey Seymour's turbulent love life with gangsters leaves her bruised and confused. She decides to get out of the underworld, turn over a new leaf and start afresh, But her past comes back to haunt her.

The Melbourne drug world is in uproar - the city is awash with cheap eckies and none of the established dealers knows who's undercutting them. Tempers flare, accusations fly and the blood flows.

With Jason in goal for the nightclub riot, Mark Moran takes control of the family drug business and attempts to maneuver drug baron Tony Mokbel out of the game.

The question on everyone lips is who killed Mark Moran? Theories in the underworld are rife.

When Carl Williams is sent to jail on drug charges, his wife Roberta takes over the family business, learning to fend off rival drug dealers and stand up for herself.

Out of prison again, Carl Williams gets straight back to work dealing drugs and building up his empire.

With Jason Moran back in town after a self-imposed exile, Carl Williams steps up his war against the Moran clan.

King Carl is confident he can get away with anything, so when a mate of Tony Mokbel's is murdered, he offers to avenge him by murdering the man Mokbel believes responsible, small time dealer Michael Marshall.

When Carlton Crew elder statesman Graham the Munster Kinniburgh is gunned down, his comrades Mick Gatto, Mario Condello and Lewis Moran know the upstart Carl Williams has to be put in his place before they too are targeted.

Determined to remove Mario Condello and Lewis Moran, the last two Carlton Crew members free and alive, Carl Williams engages yet another freelance hit man to do the job.

While Carl Williams plots to murder Mario Condello, the last man standing, Mario is busy conspiring to kill Carl - unaware that his chosen gunman is a Purana plant. Meanwhile Purana detectives are working hard to convince Carl's former hit team, Mr T and Mr L, now locked up in maximum security, to roll over and testify against him. At the eleventh hour Purana officers led by Steve Owen swoop on Carl's latest crop of hired guns, then Mario, and finally Carl himself. Two murders have been prevented, the conspirators arrested and Carl taken off the street. After nine years the gangland war is over.