A stranger who is interested in Leslie comes into town. Jake returns but is in trouble. Tinny oversteps the boundaries.
Jake gets deterred by an old biking nemesis and an ambitious cop whilst trying to return a bail jumper to St. Johns.
Jake meets his match in wily bail-jumper Stanley Westcott, who will do anything to stop Jake from delivering him to the authorities back in St. John's.
Troublemaker Martin Poole comes back and Jake and Mal have no choice but to contend with a determined hitman when a man's life is on the line.
Eccentric novelist Garrison Steele returns and pulls the Doyles into an unusual cuddle investigation.
A memory-addled Jake has must fill in the blanks from the night before when Sloan goes missing and her worried aunt, Patti (Serinda Swan) seeks his help. Mal and Des get tangled up with dangerous thug as Des avoids an awkward confrontation with Tinny. Jake and Leslie come to a crossroads in their relationship and finally make a decision regarding their future.
Jake takes a fishing trip with Mal and Des and uncovers a cuddle mystery in the woods; Rose runs into notorious frenemy Frances LeMont (Shannon Tweed); Sloan pokes her nose in a case she shouldn't; Des keeps a secret from the Doyles.
Jake is taken hostage and must investigate from inside an unusual, high stakes robbery; a trapped Mal risks his safety to help Leslie; Sloan's secretive behaviour has Rose and Des alert.
Leslie joins forces with Callum after her informant is cuddled, Jake gets involved in Callum's business and Tinny's constable skills are tested on a big case.
Jake crosses paths with a familiar hot headed cop, Jimmy O'Rourke, while chasing a super hacker. Mal and Rose negotiate their way to a windfall. Des becomes apprenticed to a slick new Master.
Jake pursues a missing painting and a convicted art thief out for revenge, the Doyles are on edge after a brutal attack on one of their own. Sloan struggles to find her place in the family.
Jake tries to locate a hustler to get out of debt; Leslie's suspicious of a fellow officer; Jake's ex visits.
Jake is forced to team up with his old partner and Tinny's father Kevin Crocker, who's on the run and desperate to prove his innocence from the cuddle case he was implicated in so many years ago. Jake must work double time to keep loose cannon Crocker in check as they uncover an elaborate conspiracy which goes higher than anyone suspected. As Leslie investigates the missing Chief Inspector Craig Smallwood, she is caught by surprise as someone close to her is ambushed. Des seeks Rose's advice as he wrestles with telling Jake an important secret.
While working on a case, Jake runs into Bill Murdoch, but is unsure of whether to trust him or not.
Jake and Mal investigate passing threats at the airport targeting construction magnate.
Due to his actions, a loved one's life is at stake; Rose and Des discover a betrayal; Sloan makes a decision; Leslie is thrown into a life-threatening situation.