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1. Motive (2013–2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A feisty Vancouver homicide detective tracks down the most cunning of killers by trying to figure out the often-unexpected motive to the crime.

Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 5,910

2. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Creeping Tom (2013)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Tom, a high school student. The victim: Glen Martin, the popular singing science teacher at Tom's high school. Tom is an oft picked upon quiet student who plays the bass drum in... See full summary »

Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 223

3. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Crimes of Passion (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: David Jacobs, a former public prosecutor and now the popular candidate for mayor, who has four weeks until election day. The victim: seventeen year old high school student ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 183

4. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Pushover (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Ben Crewson, a mild mannered cruise ship terminal customs agent. The victim: Scott Hayward, a limo driver, who was found dead next to his still running vehicle in Stanley Park. ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 156

5. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Against All Odds (2013)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Sarah Muller, a grocery store clerk who is going through a messy divorce and custody battle. The victim: Shawn Mitchell, a high powered lawyer, who was killed by a single stab ... See full summary »

Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 132

6. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Public Enemy (2013)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Chloe Mighten, a clothing store clerk. The victim: Jack Bergin, a raw food advocate, who was trying to build a business empire off of his food advocacy. He is treated like a ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 135

7. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Detour (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Torontonian Barry Ketchum, who recently celebrated his one year sobriety at his AA meeting. The victim: Eric Chase, a mortgage broker, who was killed one evening outside his ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 124

8. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Out of the Past (2013)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Dr. Monika Harper, a pediatric surgeon, who emigrated to Canada from the Czech Republic in 1995. The victim: Hank Cousineau, a news shop owner who was once in the military, with... See full summary »

Director: Kelly Makin | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 126

9. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Undertow (2013)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Charles Stanwyck, a building contractor. The victim: Taylor Hollis, a post-graduate student who dealt drugs on the side. Taylor, whose dead body was found in a remote area which... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 125

10. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Framed (2013)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Marion Reader, an aging woman with a bad back, whose twenty-eight year old mama's boy of a son, Owen Reader, came back to live with her to take care of her. With her telephone ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 118

11. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Fallen Angel (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Felix Hausman, a young man who has had trouble finding his place in life. Having just been fired from his latest job, Felix has tried to make a living through high stakes ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 109

12. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Brute Force (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: former Olympic boxing gold medalist Mark "Machine" Mason, the co-owner of and chief trainer at Machine's, a fledgling boxing gym which doesn't look like it will survive unless ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 110

13. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Ruthless (2013)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Sonia Brauer, a newly married travel agent recently moved to Vancouver. The victim: Brendan Kendall, executive assistant to Jimmy Ramsay, the head of Cybrex Plastics. Brendan's ... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 114

14. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The One That Got Away (2013)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: seventeen year old Nathan Conroy. The killer: twenty-something Cam Radcliffe, who lives with his Uncle Dave and works at Dave's wrecking yard. Nathan's dead body is discovered ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 127

15. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Raw Deal (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Ian, a photographer, who just got engaged to his girlfriend, who he had been dating for three years, their relationship which began following the suicide death of her former ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 139

16. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: They Made Me a Criminal (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Sophia Balfour, a dance studio owner/instructor. The victim: Dustin McEvers, a low level blue collar criminal, who according to Chris Renway, his professional and personal ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 135

17. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Overboard (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Damian Cutter. The victim: Alicia Barclay. Her dead body is found washed up on the beach one morning. Although Betty is able to determine that Alicia did die from drowning, ... See full summary »

Director: Mairzee Almas | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 136

18. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Deception (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Diane Torrance, a construction site flagger. The victim: Dr. Stan Matthews, a senior coroner, and Betty's mentor. As such, news of his death hits her particularly hard. His dead... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 128

19. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Dead End (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: eighteen year old high school senior Emily Williams, who was a boarder at Queen's Cross Academy, the private school she attended at Lions Bay. The killer: fellow Queen's Cross ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 130

20. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Bad Blonde (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Heather Williamson, who, with Gordon White, are the founders and principles of Offensive, an up and coming web communications company. Gordon dotes on Heather, which does not ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 129

21. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Pitfall (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Stuart Fletcher, a paramedic. The victim: Graeme Jenkins, who died in a skydiving accident when his parachute did not open as the cords were cut on both chutes. After the ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 130

22. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Angels with Dirty Faces (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: James Dent. The killer: Peter Ward, the home care nurse for Olivia Dent, James' seriously ill mother who has an auto-immune kidney disease. James was found nearly dead after he ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 120

23. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Abandoned (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Barb Birk, the owner of her own diner. The killer: Sasha King, a resident and worker at a women's shelter, and one of Barb's many disgruntled ex-employees. Who is eventually ... See full summary »

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 117

24. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Nobody Lives Forever (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: John Rivera, the well liked and respected chair of the Green Point Equestrian Centre, and the primary shareholder's son-in-law. The killer: Isabelle Flores, the Salvadoran nanny... See full summary »

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 110

25. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: A Bullet for Joey (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Bryce Kovack, who, along with his brothers Brent Kovack and Donnie Kovack, own and operate their own garage. Theirs is an extremely tight-knit family, they who still live ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 118

26. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Kiss of Death (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: successful crime novelist Lori Oliver, who dies after collapsing while making a presentation at a writers' conference. The killer: Dustin Hess, a creative writing professor at ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 130

27. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: For You I Die (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: undercover police officer Doug Slater. The victim: Samantha Turner, Sergeant Cross' current girlfriend and the prosecuting attorney in the upcoming League of Nations trial in ... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 147

28. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: 6 Months Later (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Derek Caster. The victim: London Montgomery, the grown daughter of wealthy industrialist, Neville Montgomery. Six months out of drug rehab and seemingly clean during that time, ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 135

29. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Calling the Shots (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Sienna, a prostitute who used her life coaching company as a front. The killer: Stephanie Carson, a jealous wife and controlling mother who works as an investment advisor ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 117

30. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Oblivion (2015)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Geoff Armstrong, a civic urban planner and a part-time scuba diving instructor. The killer: Robin Gould, an architect, who works for the high powered firm run by Isaac Griffin, ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 117

31. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Glass House (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Peter Glass, an employee for Fibersec, a digital security consulting firm. He is survived by a wife, full-time homemaker Olivia Glass, and a sixteen year old daughter, Sophie ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross

Votes: 121

32. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Suicide Tree (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: florist Ella Rollins. The victim: Lee Ward. Lee's dead body is one of two at an attempted robbery of an armored security truck, the primary players being two robbers and two ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 110

33. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Fallen (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: street artist Perry Doyle. The killer: fourteen year old Wesley Hillridge, an aspiring street artist himself. To do his art, Wes sneaks out of the house at night. His newly ... See full summary »

Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 102

34. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Pilot Error (2015)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: pastry chef Chelsea Richmond. The killer: pilot Brad Calgrove, a first officer for his airline. He is engaged to wealthy art gallery owner Nicole Gaynor who was recently mugged.... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 109

35. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Reversal of Fortune (2015)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: brew-master Joe Hillis, who is just about to open a craft brewery. The victim: tarot card reader Ginelle Mercier. Her mummified body is found in the wall of a for sale warehouse... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 118

36. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Best Enemies (2015)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Nika Reid, an assistant to renowned but sleazy photographer Eric Sharpe, who likes to party hard with his young female models and staff, most who will do whatever he says to ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 101

37. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Purgatory (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Ashley Kirkwell, the former owner/operator of Purgatory, a strip club which has now been renamed the Blu Lounge. The victim: Dr. Garrison Osgood, a plastic surgeon with his own ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 95

38. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Amateurs (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: social worker Charlie Monahan. The victim: Ken Leung, the deputy leader of the ruthless Golden Tiger Triad, the largest criminal organization in the city. The triad makes money ... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 93

39. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Frampton Comes Alive (2015)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Rick Wyatt, an insurance adjuster. The killer: Lawrence Frampton, a collections agent who is mourning the recent death of his wife, Helen Frampton, from complications from COPD.... See full summary »

Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 109

40. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: A Problem Like Maria (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Maria Snow. The killer: Neville Montgomery. Two eyewitnesses saw Maria's body crashing atop a car parked on the street, she apparently falling from the seventh floor of the ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Warren Christie

Votes: 102

41. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Vanishing Policeman (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Police Constable Greg Schultz. The killer: stand-up comic and Greg's older brother Murray Schultz. Greg's death is the first case for Oscar following his recovery and promotion ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 119

42. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Dead Name (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Avery Bowman, the wife of Russell Bowman, the famed starting quarterback for the BC Furies, and head of Russell's charitable organization. The killer: Courtney Meisenger, the ... See full summary »

Director: Kristin Lehman | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 112

43. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Index Case (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Chris Mancuso, an environmental consultant. The killer: Logan Tenwick, a research scientist for Turner, a biomedical firm for which Chris had been hired to do an environmental ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 106

44. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Score (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Hank Novak, the owner/manager of the Chieftain, a financially troubled live music venue/bar in Squamish. The victim: Vince Hutton, an ex-con just released from twenty years ... See full summary »

Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 105

45. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Scorpion and the Frog (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Dawn Richards, a member of the Frenemies in the women's professional roller derby league. The killer: psychiatrist Dr. Henry Price. This case starts off unusually when Dr. Price... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 104

46. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Interference (2016)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The killer: Cindy Vernon, a popular music teacher at a prestigious music conservatory, and the girlfriend of the conservatory's head, Dean Teller. The victim: Tracy Blaine, the wife of ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 98

47. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: The Dead Hand (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Angie is held hostage by a suicide bomber whose son confessed to murdering his sister. The victim was a nosy reporter for her high school paper who had been digging up scandal involving a teacher selling grades. Angie reopens the case.

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 112

48. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Foreign Relations (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Julian, college frat boy, is murdered by a clothing designer whose younger sister is a freshman computer geek. An Interpol agent is called to work as a liaison with Angie.

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 102

49. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Remains to Be Seen (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Dave Briggs, Jr., a brilliant but temperamental and poor video game designer, whose control over the crowd-source funded current video game project on which he is working, that ... See full summary »

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 95

50. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: In Plain Sight (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Chloe Wilson. The killer: Jessica Wilson, her older sister. Chloe's "Jane Doe" dead body is found in a house under construction, she killed by several shots by a nail gun. She ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 94

51. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Natural Selection (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Liz Kerr, a member of a medieval LARP group, is murdered. Growing up in foster care, she lives as a free spirit and is dating several men. Who would have a motive for murder? Expect the unexpected.

Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 94

52. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: Chronology of Pain (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A judge, who was once Angie's professor, is murdered by her clerk. Flynn a Lucas unearth a for-profit prison kickback scandal. Meanwhile, in the wake of Vega's retirement, both Detectives plan career changes.

Director: Rachel Leiterman | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 90

53. Motive (2013–2016)
Episode: We'll Always Have Homicide (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The victim: Trent McAllister, the owner of International Bailiff Services, a company that specializes in high end repossessions. His mangled dead body is found next to a helicopter he was ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly

Votes: 104



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