Top of the Lake (S01E01): Season 1, Episode 1 Summary

Season 1, Episode 1 Summary

A crime drama about the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old New Zealander begins with a detective, who's visiting her ailing mother, being brought into the case and encountering roadblocks in the form of the girl's tight-knit and tight-lipped family, a felonious crew who live in a mountain compound.

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Season 1 Episode 1 of Top of the Lake resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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Top of the Lake Show Summary

Bringing to screen a unique landscape - remote, mountainous New Zealand - "Top of the Lake" is a powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness in a paradise where honest work is hard to find. A twelve-year-old girl stands chest deep in a frozen lake. She is five months pregnant, and she won't say who the father is, insisting it was 'no one'. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin, the investigating detective, will find this the case that tests her to her limits. In the search for Tui she will first have to find herself.