About this season
Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
Episodes (13)
1. Episode 1
10.0Aired 27 May 2025
Adri Joubert is the darling newsreader, but both the news and her role as main presenter are in jeopardy. But then a personal tragedy strikes and all her fears fade.
2. Episode 2
10.0Aired 3 June 2025
Sports presenter Tersia takes Adri's place as she mourns her husband. Adri and Daniel struggle to believe that Dawid's death was simply an accidental hijacking.
3. Episode 3
10.0Aired 10 June 2025
Adri returns as a news presenter. Suspicion grows about the man she and Dawid had an argument with just before Dawid's death.
4. Episode 4
10.0Aired 17 June 2025
Luke le Roux's damaging video about Adri's marriage has the public buzzing. Adri's emotional state begins to affect her broadcasts. She calls in Nhlanhla to help her investigate.
5. Episode 5
10.0Aired 24 June 2025
Footage confirms that Dawid was not alone in the car. Adri wonders if she has been living with her eyes closed for too long? Was there something in Dawid's life that she was also blind to?
6. Episode 6
10.0Aired 1 July 2025
Adri's little cousin Zené joins the news office, and Adri's personal investigation continues. Adri also begins therapy, but Daniël struggles to accept his mother's choices.
7. Episode 7
10.0Aired 8 July 2025
Adri and Daniël find out who the woman in the car was and try to determine her relationship with Dawid. Melanie tries to enforce her position at Almal Afrikaans.
8. Episode 8
10.0Aired 15 July 2025
Sonia and her children hide, and Adri tries her best to get Sonia to talk.
9. Episode 9
10.0Aired 22 July 2025
A flashback to Dawid's retirement party shows how the notebook ended up in his possession. The whistleblower story makes headlines, and Adri wonders if it might be above her hearth.
10. Episode 10
10.0Aired 29 July 2025
Adri and Sonia meet, and Sonia insists that what happened the night of Dawid's death was just an accident. Adri puts together a task force to thoroughly investigate the whistleblower story.
11. Episode 11
10.0Aired 5 August 2025
12. Episode 12
10.0Aired 12 August 2025
Johan stuns the team when he unexpectedly and summarily resigns, but Adri steps in to lead the team. They prepare to detonate the first whistleblower bomb.
13. Episode 13
Aired 19 August 2025
With the final bits of the story ready to air, Adri faces a big decision. Meanwhile, Daniël has his own plan about who should hear the full truth.