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| “ | I can cope with pretending to be someone else... when it pays off, when we get the bad guys. But... But the bad guys aren't always bad, are they? I mean, sometimes... Sometimes, the good guys, the good people. They get caught in the crossfire... and I can't pretend that doesn't matter! |
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| ~ Angie Piper expressing to Oscar Stone some of her regrets regarding the consequences of her actions as a result of working undercover. |
| “ | Church: Still leaving us? Angie: Nah, someone's gotta protect your arses. |
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| ~ Angie telling Peter Church that she's staying with the Undercover unit. |
Detective Senior Constable Angela Katherine "Angie" Piper (formerly Constable and Senior Constable) is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Peter Church) and the lead female protagonist/anti-heroine of Stingers. Angie is a spunky, tough and effective operative of a deep undercover unit of Victoria Police, who is shown to be quite capable at infiltrating criminal organizations and getting close enough to her targets before later taking them down either by herself or with the help of her unit.
She is portrayed by Kate Kendall, who also portrayed Lauren Turner in Neighbours.
Personality[]
Angie is shown to be a feisty, outgoing and vivacious tomboy, who usually gets along with the rest of her unit, being able to banter around with them outside of operational work or while tailing suspects. Early on in the show, Angie was shown to be sometimes naïve, leading to situations where she inadvertently put herself in danger. However, as the series progresses, Angie proves to be a capable and efficent undercover cop, being able to infiltrate criminal operations at ease and gain the trust of her targets. She is also not above bending the rules or even breaking the law to do what is required, with her most daring act being when she committed grand theft auto in broad daylight by stealing a suspect's car while it was unattended, just to plant a tracking device in the car. She is also known to handle herself in the rare occasions where she gets into fights with suspects. However, she does at times let her emotions get in conflict with her work at times, especially when dealing with targets who are committing criminal acts out of desperation, or family members of targets who are also victims. Angie is also a good singer, which she was briefly able to show during an episode in season two.
Early on, Angie and Oscar Stone often worked together in plenty of undercover operations, and are shown to be very close to one another. Stone later helps Angie when she hits a dark point in her life in season two as she contemplates leaving her job as a cop, with Stone convincing her to stay. Eventually, they have a romantic relationship, but this is short-lived and they both agree to remain friends. However, in season four, Angie becomes concerned about Stone's change in attitude after he returns to work some time after getting shot, and their friendship is strained when Stone reports Angie's sister Sam to the police after nearly dying from a drug overdose. Angie is further angered with Stone when she and the rest of the unit discover that he's been using anabolic steroids, and she confronts him about this. However, their relationship later returns to normal patched up shortly after Stone stops his steroid use. Angie later becomes devastated and grief-stricken when Stone is shot and killed by hitman Kieran Frances Conrad.
Throughout the show, Angie and Peter Church get along very well, both professionally and personally, and have often worked together undercover and saving each other's lives numerous times since the first episode. However, they do occasionally clash at times, most notably in season five when Church uses her informant Marty Engle, whom Angie was secretly dating at the time, in several dangerous stings that put Marty's life at risk, the final time almost resulting in an emotional Angie aiming her gun at Church intending to murder him when it seems he had inadvertantly gotten Marty killed, although she almost immediately stops herself when she realizes that Marty is unharmed. Following Stone's murder and the resignations of Mac and Danni from the unit, Angie and Church become closer to the point that they consider each other as best friends and strongly care about each other. Angie later realizes that she has romantic feelings for Church, which she later admits to him, causing Church to consider his own feelings towards Angie, bringing them even closer, although their relationship remains platonic.
Angie is shown to be a caring and loving mother shortly after she gives birth to her and Luke Harris' son Josh in season seven. She is very protective of Josh's well-being, and is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure no harm comes to him, which is shown is Josh is abducted by child traffickers while in Harris' care early on in season eight, Angie manages to track down Josh's whereabouts and rescue him while also killing one of his kidnappers in self-defence.
Angie had a complicated relationship with her younger sister Samantha, as Sam's often reckless behaviour caused Angie a lot of problems both in her personal life and also while working undercover, including Sam once putting Angie in a situation where they were both put in danger, and Sam is held hostage before being rescued by Angie. Things become more complicated and fractured between them in season four, when Sam develops a heroin addiction and Angie tries to help her overcome her addiction. Angie later discovers in season five that Sam is working as a drug courier for her boyfriend and Angie's target, Troy Thorpe. Instead of letting Sam get arrested for importation, Angie, with the help of her informant Marty Engle, convinces her to escape, giving her some money and a plane ticket to flee to Spain. Angie and Sam's relationship improves in season seven when Sam returns home and turns herself in to prevent Angie from losing her job and going to jail for helping her escape, and when Angie held hostage by Thorpe's boss and killer Daniel Tedesco, Sam risks her life to save her, ultimately getting shot in the shoulder when Angie fights off and struggles with Tedesco for control of his gun. Sam soon recovers and some time later attends Angie's wedding to Luke Harris. When Sam is later brutally stabbed and eventually dies in front of Angie in season eight, Angie is completely devastated and enraged by her murder, and goes to extreme lengths to find Sam's killer all by herself.
Notable storylines[]
Angie finds Kaye Kelso barely alive but mutilated.
Early in season one, Angie goes undercover as bait, with Church and Stone as backup, in order to take down a serial killer who has already killed three women. However, she starts to feel the pressure when none of the suspects turn out to be the actual killer, and she eventually blows her cover when she attacks one of the suspects, Sammy Vincenza, after he sleazily makes a pass at her at a nightclub, prompting Church to suggest to Mac to take Angie off the case and send Kaye Kelso in as her replacement. Angie and Mac then run surveillance for Church and Kaye while they are undercover. However, Angie and Mac hear some trouble from Kaye's wire, prompting Angie to call Church to tell him to find her, but she has completlely vanished, causing Angie and Church to feel some regret for putting her in unnecessary danger. Angie and Stone then search for clues to find Kaye, leading them to a warehouse, where a distraught Angie finds Kaye alive but mutilated. At the same time, it is revealed that one of the uniformed police officers, Constable Jerry Staughton, is the serial killer, and is soon arrested for Kaye's attempted murder, along with the murders of the other three women. Angie and the rest of the unit later find out from Bernie Rocca that Kaye will recover from her injuries, but will not be returning to Undercover.
Some time later, Angie is assigned by Mac to become the bodyguard of Nicci Lomas and her daughter Serena, who is under the unit's protection following the attempted kidnapping of Serena by a mercenary named Cameron Fraser, supposedly on the orders of Serena's father, Antonio Carlos Lomas, whom Nicci is in a bitter divorce battle with regarding custody of Serena. Angie begins to bond with Serena, who despite being happy with her mother, she misses her father deeply, prompting Angie to feel sympathetic for Serena being put in an unhappy situation. However, Angie later discovers that Serena be in danger from Fraser again after finding out that Serena talked to her father on the phone and may have given the location of the safehouse, prompting Angie to call Rocca to inform him of the situation, and he tells Angie that Church is on the way to the safehouse to provide backup. However, when Angie returns to Serena's room, she is stopped at gunpoint by Fraser, who is holding Serena hostage. Angie follows Fraser outside as she pleads with him to let Serena go, distracting Fraser enough to allow Church to ambush Fraser, giving Angie the opportunity to rescue Serena and taking her back to safety, before rushing back to help Church by picking up Fraser's gun, which was dropped onto the ground after Church's attack on Fraser, and Angie tells Fraser to freeze. However, he ignores her as he beats down Church, before walking towards Angie demanding for her to give him the gun. Angie tells Fraser to stop moving otherwise she will shoot him, but he refuses to listen, prompting Angie to shoot Fraser in the throat, killing him instantly. Angie later talks to Nicci, warning her if she and her husband continue fighting each other in their divorce, then regardless of who wins, the loser is ultimately going to be Serena, before suggesting to Nicci that she and her husband try and reach a truce for Serena's sake. Nicci then lets Angie talk to Serena, who is upset that she may never see her father again, but Angie comforts Serena by telling her that both her parents love her very much, and that she herself would like to be her friend. Angie then gives Serena a hug before preparing to leave, but Serena asks Angie if she'll visit her someday, which Angie replies that she'd love to. Nicci then thanks Angie for her help, as well as her earlier advice, before Angie leaves.
Halfway through season two, Angie becomes severely affected when one of her targets during a drug sting commits suicide, which leaves her contemplating her future as a cop while undercover investigating a rock star named Jimi Mercer for possible drug importation, especially as during the investigation she becomes enamoured with Mercer and his lifestyle, in contrast to both her professional and personal lives, which spirals out of control as Angie’s boyfriend Rob Rosen breaks up with her for always being away, and Mac takes her off the case due to concerns over Angie’s attitude. Angie soon discovers that although Mercer in not importing drugs, he is instead importing pirated CDs, and after having a heart-to-heart with Stone over her previous target's suicide, and if she still wants to be a cop or not, she arrests Mercer. However, her future in Undercover is still at risk when she accidently ruins a sting operation of Stone’s against the Robardi family, after she is discovered the eldest son, standover man and cold-blooded murderer Billy Robardi, which leads to Robardi escaping while also stabbing one of the officers who were providing backup, while his mother and younger brother are arrested in the process. Robardi's escape leads to Stone being placed on-leave to lay low for the time being, and despite Mac's reassurance that it wasn't Angie's fault, she still decides to once again place her on-leave, this time to allow Angie consider what she wants to do with her life to regain her happiness. Angie is soon convinced by Stone to stay with him and his family in the countryside, again as Stone's girlfriend Michelle, while they both lay low from Robardi's grasp. Angie soon finds herself enjoying the company of Stone's family, while also learning new skills from Stone as well, such as archery. Despite this, Angie is still struggling to cope with some of her actions, and she later has another heart-to-heart with Stone, telling him that she is continuing to have lingering doubts about remaining in the Undercover unit, and that she's scared that she doesn't know who she is anymore, but Angie is given some words of encouragement by Stone, before soon becoming flattered when Stone admits to her that only he gets to be himself whenever he's with her.
Angie aims her bow as she prepares to shoot Billy Robardi to rescue Oscar Stone.
Eventually, Robardi is able to track down Stone’s location, and later holds him and his family hostage, with the intent to murder them, but Angie, who manages to evade Robardi's grasp, finds the archery equipment in the barn, and before Robardi can kill Stone, Angie shoots him in the chest with an arrow, which eventually kills him. Angie's successful rescue of Stone and his family reignites her confidence and motivation, and she later reveals to Church that she plans to remain in Undercover, telling him that somebody's gotta save their arses. Some time later, Angie and Stone go undercover to take down SWARM, a far-right Aryan terrorist group, who were responsible for the car-bombing murder of the husband of Aboriginal activist Meagan Quinn. During the investigation, Angie realizes that she's starting to develop feelings for Stone, and becomes worried about his safety when they lose contact. Nevertheless, Angie manages to earn the trust of SWARM's leader, Phillip Baker, getting close enough to him to the point that she single-handedly takes him down, just as police backup arrives to arrest Baker, while Stone finds another bomb in the middle of the CBD and throws it away from the proximity of any civillians before it blows up, preventing any casualties. Following the successful takedown of SWARM, Angie and Stone later catch up at the unit headquarters, relieved that they're both okay, when Angie passionately kisses Stone. Angie and the rest of the unit are later shocked and devastated when Rocca is shot and almost killed by an unknown assailant, when her ex-boyfriend Rob Rosen returns to her life, asking Angie to marry him, Angie is unsure if she wants to or not, as she've never been asked to marry someone before. However, Angie later turns him down at Stone's suggestion, after he tells Angie that she's too good for Rob. Angie is later relieved when Stone tells her that Rocca is recovering from his injuries, at the same time that Church takes down Rocca's shooter Anthony Trent Howarth.
Angie with her younger sister Samantha.
Early in season three, Angie is undercover planning to take down Rae Croft, the girlfriend of a criminal that Church had previously arrested, Nick Marek, as Rae is planning a scheme to break Marek out of prison. Angie, posing as a corrupt former guard from the prison where Marek is being held, is recruited by Rae to help her break Marek out of prison, as Rae needs specific information regarding the prison blueprints and inmate cycles, which Angie offers to provide her. However, later that night, Angie returns home to find that her troubled younger sister Samantha had broken into the house as she's just left her husband, and asks Angie if she could stay with her for the time being, accidently ruining a date night for Angie and Stone in the process. Angie is later horrified and angered to discover that Sam knows that she's an undercover cop thanks to their mother telling Sam, despite Angie previously telling her mother to keep it a secret. The next day, Angie meets with Rae at the pub once again, where she also meets Tony, one of Rae's henchmen, whom Angie insults after he makes a sexist remark towards her, before providing Rae with some documents and layouts of the prison. However, Angie is shocked to find Sam at the pub as well, and briefly leaves Rae and Tony to quietly but angrily tell Sam to leave at once. Angie then later returns to Rae, and notices that Tony had left, with Rae telling her that she's sent him to do another errand. Unbeknownst to Angie, Rae sent Tony to follow Sam, and gets her licence plate details. Meanwhile, Angie finds out from Rae that she's planning to break Marek out of the prison via helicopter, and that Angie will be going with them on the day of the planned prison break, which Angie feigns reluctance until Rae offers to pay her more to help, provided that she gives Rae the actual prison dimensions layout beforehand, before Angie then leaves, unaware that Tony had returned to let Rae know that they can now track down Sam. Angie soon confronts Sam at home later that night, enraged that Sam had put both her and the sting operation against Rae at risk, and tells Sam to stay away from her when she is working. The next day, Angie recieves a call from Rae to tell her that the prison break is set to take place later that day, which Angie confirms to Rae that she is ready. However, as Angie begins preparations to meet with Rae in order to take her down. She discovers her recording device is missing, and realizes that Sam had stolen it from her. Angie then heads to the unit headquarters as she and the unit prepare the sting operation to take down Rae, with Angie burrowing Church's recording device to use to incriminate Rae. Angie then meets with Rae outside the pub and is soon driven by her to an abandoned warehouse in Footscray, where Angie meets another one of Rae's henchman Mal. The three of them are looking at the prison layout when Tony soon arrives, and Angie is shocked to discover that he had brought Sam along as well, accusing Sam of being an undercover cop, providing Angie's stolen recording device as proof, prompting Rae to accuse Angie of working with Sam to take her down. However, Angie, wanting to protect her sister, tells Rae the truth by revealing that she is in fact the undercover, and that Sam is her sister. In the chaos of the situation, Rae pulls out a gun out from her bag and aims it at Angie, who tries to convince Rae to let Sam go and they can help break Marek out of prison together, but Rae decides to take Sam hostage, and forces Angie to go with Tony to break Marek out of prison as planned, otherwise Rae will kill Sam. Seeing no other option, Angie is forced to accept this, and she then leaves with Tony and Mal in the helicopter while Rae stays behind with Sam. Some time later, Angie later returns to Rae with Marek, but Rae notices that Tony is missing as asks Angie where he is, but Angie refuses to answer and tells Rae to let Sam go, with Rae unaware that Angie has a gun held behind Marek's back, implying that Angie had taken down Tony before forcing Marek to go with her to help her rescue Sam and take down Rae. Angie briefly becomes worried when Rae pulls out her gun and aims it towards Sam, but Marek reassures her that everything is fine, before Angie and Rae agree to a hostage exchange, with Angie getting her sister back, while she lets Marek walk towards Rae. As soon as Sam is back in safety, Angie gives Mac the signal to launch the ambush, allowing Angie, along with Church and Danni, who were hiding in the helicopter, the opportunity to trap Rae, who realizes that Marek helped set her up. As soon as Rae is disarmed by Marek following a struggle over her gun, Angie rushes to Sam and comforts her. Shortly after Rae and Marek's arrest, Angie prepares to admonish Sam for her reckless actions, but they quickly reconcile after Sam tells her that she tried to help her for once. Angie is later admonished herself by Mac when back at the unit headquarters for not telling her about Sam's involvement in the sting, reminding Angie not to keep secrets from the unit. But after some small banter about how they're always the last ones to leave the unit headquarters, Angie and Mac decide to go out for after-work drinks together.
In the season three finale, Angie is forced by Mac, under stress due to Stone's recent near-death experience, to pressure her informant Tran Nhieu for more information regarding a triad organization, to no avail. However, just when Angie leaves Tran's apartment and gets to her car, she hears a gunshot, prompting her to rush back to Tran's apartment, only to find him dead, seemingly shooting himself in the back of the head. Angie blames both herself and Mac for Tran's apparent suicide, while Mac only blames herself as she made a bad judgment call while Angie was simply following orders. However, the situation becomes worse when Andrew Bligh from Internal Affairs decides to investigate both Angie and Mac over Tran's death. Angie later suspects that Tran was in fact murdered when she reads the autopsy report and finds that the bullet was shot from the back of the head near his right ear, when he in fact was left-handed. She later finds out that Tran's friend Lee Van-Chu may have been the culprit as he may have sold him out to the triads, so she gives him false information implying that Tran's death is being treated as a homicide, prompting Lee to relay this information to his triad boss, incriminating them both on wiretap. Lee is ultimately arrested, while his boss is killed, effectively clearing Angie and Mac of any wrongdoing in relation to Tran's death.
Angie with her informant and lover Marty Engle.
Throughout season five, Angie becomes acquainted with a small-time criminal named Marty Engle, who becomes her informant during several investigations, as time goes on, Angie and Marty fall in love with one another, which causes problems as she tries to keep her relationship with Marty a secret from the rest of the unit, although they later find out. Things come to a head as Angie and Marty prepare to get married, when Church forces Marty to help him take down a dangerous criminal named Nigel Finster, despite Angie's objections. However, Angie is later kidnapped by Finster, prompting Church to bring Marty to Finster in exchange for Angie. Finster then shoots the bonnet of the car where Marty was held, seemingly killing him, before he is arrested. Angie, in an act of grief-stricken rage, aims her gun at Church, blaming him for Marty's death, and intends to shoot him, but she stops herself from pulling the trigger when Marty suddenly gets out of the car unharmed. Marty is then forced to go into witness protection as he's required to testify against Finster, but Church manages to pull some strings to allow Angie to meet up with Marty one more time to say goodbye. Despite this, Angie is still angry towards Church, as Marty going into witness protection has spooked every criminal in Melbourne, to the point that a $500,000 bounty is placed on Marty's head. However, when Angie hears that Church had been implicated in the murder of Denny Kaplan, who was stalking Church and Danni for a while, she tells Church that prior to entering witness protection, Marty told her to let Church know to get in contact with him if he got in trouble, but she doesn't know why. She is shocked when she finds out from Church that he asked Marty to find someone to scare off Kaplan, only for Marty to refuse his request. Angie then points out to Church that Marty seems to know something about Kaplan's death if he wants Church to contact him, prompting her and Church to bug the car of one of the witness protection guards, Russell "Ointment" Fuller, whom Church has some history with, and they follow him to the safehouse where Marty is staying. When Angie and Church arrive at the safehouse, they wait for several hours to find a way to communicate with Marty. However, later that night, they notice Marty being taken into an ambulance, so they decide to follow him to the hospital. Angie then enters the hospital alone to find where Marty is located, while Church remains in the car. Angie manages to find Marty being observed for food poisoning by the medical staff, and is noticed by Marty, but Angie signals to him to pretend that she's not there.
Angie and Church speaking to Marty in hospital.
Angie, Mac and Danni Mayo at Stone's funeral.
Angie then returns to the car to tell Church the situation with Marty, and is surprised to see Stone in the car as well, as he tracked them both down by following the tracking device Angie and Church used to locate Marty's safehouse earlier. Angie and the boys soon notice Marty's bodyguards leaving the hospital, causing her to realize that Marty's in danger, and she decides to re-enter the hospital, now with Church and Stone along with her, to look for Marty in his hospital room. Once they find him, they realize that Marty is likely about to have an attempt on his life, prompting Angie to pick up the hospital phone to call Mac to let her know that they need backup, before asking Marty about if he knew anything about how Kaplan died, which Marty confesses to Angie that he had Kaplan under surveillance at the time when Church seemingly killed him in self-defence, and decided to clean up the crime scene and bury the body as a favour to Church, he then explains to Angie that they can't be together before apologizing to her. They are then interrupted by Stone, who notices a suspicious orderly in the hospital ward, Angie hides Marty in another room while Church and Stone observe the orderly. However, he is revealed to be a hitman named Kieran Frances Conrad, who shoots Stone several times while protecting Church, before getting arrested by Danni and Mac. Stone later dies from his injuries, leaving the entire unit devastated, more particularly Angie and Church. Angie and the rest of the unit later show up to Stone's funeral, where she listens to Church's eulogy towards Stone, before they each lay flowers on his grave while his coffin is being lowered.
In season six, Angie, Church, and Danni adjust to the new changes of the Undercover unit, now permutated into Special Investigations following Mac’s resignation and the arrival of their new boss Luke Harris, before later being joined by new operative Christina Dichiera, who later mistakenly arrests Angie and Church during a sting operation. When Conrad escapes from police custody, Angie and Church both pledge to find him and take him down in Stone’s memory. However, their progress to find him is impeded several times by Harris, who prior to Conrad’s escape tried to offer him a deal, and is later responsible for Danni leaving the unit. Angie and Church later become suspicious towards Harris once they discover that he is connected to shady businessman Stig Enquist, who they discover had ordered the hit on Marty Engle that led to Stone’s death. However, Angie and Church later find out that Harris is in fact trying to arrest Enquist, and they agree to work together to take down both Enquist and Conrad. However, when Church goes undercover and infiltrates Enquist’s organization, Angie becomes concerned for him over his obsession towards catching Conrad, and his relationship with Enquist’s lawyer Ingrid Burton, who Angie doesn’t trust at all. Angie and Church foil an assassination attempt on Enquist by Conrad, but Angie is held at gunpoint by Conrad before escaping. Church blames himself for putting Angie at risk, and contemplates forgoing his vendetta towards Conrad, but Angie finally convinces him not to give up on persuing Conrad, saying that they're too commited to not see it through. Shortly after Ingrid is kidnapped by Conrad, Angie goes to visit Church at his place, only to be knocked out by one of Enquist’s men, she later wakes up to discover that Church’s place has been thrashed with the investigation details towards Conrad and Enquist in plain view. Realizing that Church is in grave danger from Enquist, Angie rushes to Enquist’s mansion with Harris and Chris, where they rescue Church and arrest Enquist shortly after he kills Conrad. Several days later, Angie helps Church locate and rescue Ingrid.
Angie with Luke Harris.
Angie and Harris get married.
Early in season seven, Angie and Harris become close after surviving a siege in police HQ that nearly killed them, and later begin a romantic relationship, despite several setbacks, including Angie nearly getting arrested for helping her sister Samantha escape a few years back, and later finding out and seemingly coming to terms with Harris’ bipolar disorder. They both later decide to get married. However, Harris gets blackmailed over his illness by Brett Linton, a serial rapist who Harris had jailed several years prior. Some time later, Angie is attacked and nearly sexually assaulted by Linton, although she manages to fight him off. When Harris discovers this, he tracks down Linton and attacks him. Angie and Harris soon get married, but on the night of the wedding, Angie wakes up to find Harris on the bathroom floor suffering a breakdown due to him not taking his medication and repeatingly saying that he killed Linton, much to Angie's horror. Angie later recieves a call from Church to tell her that Harris is at Police HQ in a bad way, and she later meets up with Church at the clinic of Harris' doctor, Dr Dan Fraser, who tells both Angie and Church that Harris is suffering from an actute depressive phase, and that he'll need to undergo shock treatment therapy, stunning Angie as she realizes the real extent of Harris' illness. She is stunned even further when Church admits that he's known about Harris' bipolar disorder before her. Angie and Church then decide to find out if Harris had killed Linton or not by going to Linton's house to look for him, only for to find Brian Gray there with his unit, who tells Angie and Church that Linton has disappeared. Angie also finds out from Gray that Linton's attack on her may have been payback by Linton due to Harris sending him to prison a few years back. Church then reveals to Angie that he had a confrontation with a journalist who had a copy of Harris' psych records a while back, and suspects Harris was being blackmailed by Linton. These revelations cause Angie to wonder if she made the right choice marrying Harris. Angie and Church then track down and find the hotel room where Linton was hiding out following the attack on her, and they find traces of blood on the bed. Angie later finds out from Church that the blood matches both Linton and Harris' DNA. However, Linton is revealed to be alive, and he later kidnaps Angie, taking her to the location of his first rape victim, in an abandoned factory in Oak Park, with the intent of drowning her. Angie manages to break free and briefly fights Linton until he gets the advantage and prepares to strangle her. However, she is rescued by Harris, Church, and Leo Flynn, with Harris shooting Linton dead. However, Angie and Harris' relationship becomes strained, and shortly after transferring to the Homicide unit, she decides to break up with Harris due to him not taking his medication and failing to mention that Linton was a serial rapist even after the attack on her. And despite Harris' attempts to win her back, she makes it clear that she doesn't see a future between them both. However, some time later, Angie discovers that she is pregnant with Harris' baby, later giving birth to a son named Josh. Angie and Harris both agree to co-parent Josh together, while remaining friends. Angie later finds out from Eric Chatterly that the Homicide unit is about a to undego a personel reshuffle and offers her a permanent position in the unit, but Angie politely declines and instead decides to tell Harris that she wants to rejoin the Undercover unit, saying that working undercover is in her blood. She officially rejoins the unit some time later with the approval of Harris and Chief Commissioner Steadman, who signs a waiver to allow Angie to rejoin the unit, despite her marriage to Harris.
In the season eight episode "Mea Culpa", Angie arrives to her home late at night after spending some time with her son Josh, only to discover her sister Sam mortally wounded in her living room. Angie rushes to Sam's side, where Sam tries to tell Angie something, but she dies before she can say anything coherent, leaving Angie devastated as breaks down in tears while cradling Sam's dead body. The following day, Angie finds out from her stepdaughter Katherine Marks that Sam died from a single stab wound across the abdomen, which shocks Angie as she realizes that Sam was disemboweled. Katherine then asks Angie about Sam's prior history as a drug addict and courier, which Angie points out that Sam had been clean for over two years and she saw nothing to suggest otherwise. Angie is later in an emotional state when she is comforted by Church, who had just found out about Sam's death, and Angie tells him that she is going to hunt down Sam's murderers and kill them. Later that day, Angie finds her house ransacked, prompting her to return to Police HQ, where she becomes silently enraged with Church when she overhears him pre-emptively assuming that Sam could have relapsed. She soon asks Harris to look after Josh for her, telling him that she needs some time to clear her head, but in actuality, she vengefully decides to look for Sam's killers. Angie starts off by tracking down where Sam was staying by logging into Sam's online bank account, where she discovers that Sam was staying in a motel in Hawthorn. Angie then calls the motel pretending to be Sam, and finds out that a someone called for Sam at the motel shortly before her murder, but didn't leave any details. Angie is then met by Church's informant Iggy, who sells her a gun, as well as ammunition, before she heads to the motel. When Angie arrives to Sam's motel room, she begins to search for clues, before a man knocks on the door, prompting Angie to prepare herself when the man breaks into the room. Angie tries to shoot the man in the foot, but the gun jams, allowing the man to punch Angie is the face before she is choked unconcious.
Angie later wakes up in a factory tied to a chair, while the man, Dirk, keeps her captive. Angie is then met by Dirk's boss, Kepler Vanderbijl, who quickly tells Angie that he's the one responsible for Sam's death, when he cuts open her blouse. Angie listens as Vanderbijl mentions that Sam was stabbed far away from Angie's house, and that there has to be a reason for her to travel a great distance in unimaginable pain only to die in Angie's living room, before demanding to know from Angie where "they" are, which a confused Angie tells him the truth that she doesn't know what he's talking about. This prompts Vanderbijl to threaten to cut off Angie's arms, before she reveals to Vanderbijl and Dirk that she is a police officer. Angie then panics as she sees a syringe with an unknown substance being brought out by Dirk, who hands it to Vanderbijl as Angie pleads with him not to hurt her. Angie soon loses conciousness once again after being injected with the syringe. However, she soon wakes up in the back of a station wagon, where she sees a stranger driving, who tells Angie that she's safe. Angie tells him to stop the car, before she grabs him gun demanding to know who he is, which she finds out he is an AFP agent named James Honey, who explains that he's investigating Vanderbijl for smuggling in black market diamonds to the country and used Sam as a courier. Angie then lashes out when Honey suggests that Sam stole the diamonds, before they are interrupted by Dirk, whom Honey seemingly shoots him dead as he and Angie escape. Angie then tells Honey that they can hide out at her family's beach house for the night. Once there, Angie tells Honey that she is a cop as well, before asking him about the diamonds. Angie finds out from Honey that the diamonds are from a mine in north Angola, and that Sam was supposed to bring them into Australia for Vanderbijl, until she saw the atrocities commited in the mines by the UNITA soldiers. Angie then finds out that Honey convinced her to still bring the diamonds into the country so that they can take down Vanderbijl, since it served Honey's purpose. Angie then tells Honey that she wants to personally take down Vanderbijl, otherwise she will tell her unit everything.
Later that night, while Angie is asleep, she has a nightmare about Sam's death, which leaves a clue to where the diamonds are. Angie then wakes up from her nightmare, and searches for a doll that belonged to Sam, Angie finds the doll and cuts it open, finding the diamonds in the process, which she lets Honey know. However, they soon hear someone outside the beach house, and prepare themselves for someone to break in. Angie is surprised when Dirk shows up alive, before she finds out that the man claiming to be James Honey is in fact one of Vanderbijl's henchman named Andy (unbeknownst to Angie, the real James Honey was murdered by Vanderbijl at the same time that he stabbed Sam, and that the unit had found his headless torso across the river bank near the yarra), Angie is held at gunpoint by Andy when Dirk suddenly betrays him by pointing his gun at him, while Angie watches in confusion. Dirk tries to shoot Andy with his own gun, but it is empty, as Angie had removed the bullets from the gun before finding the diamonds, Angie then picks up Andy's gun and reload it as Andy fights with Dirk and shoots him dead with his own gun. Angie then points her gun at Andy, demanding to know Vanderbijl's whereabouts, but he tries to stonewall her, enraging her enough to shoot Andy in the knee, finally forcing him to reveal to her Vanderbijl's whereabouts.
Angie confronts her sister's murderer Kepler Vanderbijl.
Angie then tracks down Vanderbijl’s location and arrives to the same factory where Vanderbijl held her captive, and confronts him at gunpoint, telling him to put his hands up, before making him turn around so that she can check if he is armed, finding his gun and tossing it away. She then angrily confronts Vanderbijl with the bag of diamonds that he murdered Sam for, dropping them from the bag onto the ground. Angie then forces Vanderbijl at gunpoint to get on his knees and pick up the diamonds, but Vanderbijl starts taunting her until she is convinced not to kill him by pointing out that she is not a murderer, before he takes her gun and aims it at her. Angie then breaks down into tears as she convinces him to tell her why he killed her sister, before she suddenly stops crying as she reveals a recording device from the pocket of her jacket, telling Vanderbijl that she recorded his confession, and had manipulated him into holding her at gunpoint so that his confession can be admissable in court. Vanderbijl, in a fit of rage, tries to shoot Angie, but it is empty, prompting Angie to laugh as she has masterfully outsmarted him, just in time for Church, Harris and the rest of the unit to arrive to arrest Vanderbijl for Sam's murder. Angie then leaves after handing the recording device to Harris, ultimately avenging Sam's death without having to kill anyone, like she originally intended to do.
In the following episode “Past Lives”, Angie returns to work earlier than planned after taking some time off, but is still stuggling to come to terms with Sam’s death, as she's still been suffering from nightmares, and admits to Harris that she has had to resort to drinking to pass out for a couple of hours in order to get any sleep. Harris later suggests Angie that she see a psychiatrist named Sean Hunter, whom Harris recommends to her after she loses her temper and nearly attacks a suspected child abuser during an interrogation. Despite some reluctance initially, Angie agrees to receive counselling from Hunter, which she later finds to be immediately effective.
In the final episodes, Angie begins dating her now ex-psychiatrist Sean Hunter, causing bitter tensions to build between her and Harris, especially when he suspects Hunter to be involved in the deaths of three of his former patients. Things become out of control when the unit’s receptionist Sophie Novak is attacked and left in a coma, with Harris immediately suspecting Hunter to be involved with the attack. Angie decides that she finally wants a divorce from Harris, but becomes infuriated when she discovers that Harris planted traces of Sophie’s hair at her place when he showed up to finalize the divorce papers, leading to Hunter’s arrest, and with the help of Church, who takes over the unit following Harris' suspension for assaulting Hunter, is determined to prove Hunter’s innocence. Angie discovers that Hunter had regularly received hate mail from Richard Kline, the widow of one of Hunter’s patients, prompting Angie to send Chris undercover to investigate him. However, Kline is tipped off by Harris, and is killed in a stand-off by Church. Despite this, Angie and Church are able to find key evidence that confirms that Kline was responsible for the deaths of Hunter’s patients, and Hunter is released from custody. But Harris refuses to accept this, and in a manic state, tries to take Josh away from Angie, but she and Church stop him in the process, and he is forcefully taken into emergency psychiatric care. Angie and Hunter then decide to go on a holiday to Tahiti with Josh, but while at the airport, Church shows up and arrests Hunter, revealing to Angie that Sophie had woken up from her coma and identified Hunter as her attacker, leaving Angie distraught as she realizes that Harris was right about Hunter all along. Angie later visits Harris at the psychiatric hospital with Josh, where she and Harris both apologize to each other and make amends, before Angie and Church leave together with Josh, marking the end of the series.
Quotes[]
Season 1-6[]
| “ | I, um... haven't had the chance to thank you. | „ |
| ~ Angie tearfully thanking Peter Church for rescuing her from Garry Gallagher. |
| “ | It's not a game Kaye! One mistake, and you can get really hurt... or worse. |
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| ~ Angie warning Kaye Kelso not to take working in Undercover too lightly. |
| “ | Angie: SHUT UP!! Mr. Adjemis, it is my great pleasure to inform you that you are to be charged with the Levinson robbery. Adjemis: What? Angie: Think ten years, arsehole! Adjemis: What are you talking about? Angie: (to the S.O.G. officers) HE MOVES A MUSCLE, shoot him! |
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| ~ Angie arrests Thaao Adjemis for his involvement with the Levinson robbery. |
| “ | YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME SICK?! Peter Church breaks every regulation in the book, and you and Bernie just go "Oh well, that's just our Church". And he just goes out there and does it all again and it's just forgotten. But good old reliable Angie makes a few independent decisions on the jobs, and takes a few calculated risks, and suddenly "she's got an attitude" and "she needs a holiday". | „ |
| ~ Angie to Ellen "Mac" MacKenzie. after getting told by Mac she's being put on leave. |
| “ | Church: Big Billy Robardi, eh? Good riddance! How's it feel to take out that mongrel? Angie: I'm just glad it was him and not these guys. Stone: Could've been a lot different. Angie: Yeah, we were lucky. Stone: Nah, luck didn't have much to do with it. Angie: Ah, I suppose it was your great archery tuition. Stone: Yeah, there's that... and we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you, Ange. |
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| ~ Angie's conversation with Church and Stone after she kills Billy Robardi to rescue Stone and his family. |
| “ | Angie: Sam, piss off! I'm working. Sam: So am I. So, they're the bad guys? Angie: Sam, this isn't a game. Now, you leave right now! |
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| ~ Angie to her sister Sam, when she nearly blows Angie's cover. |
| “ | Time to live dangerously! | „ |
| ~ Angie to Stone before she decides to steal Brett McLaren's car. |
| “ | Angie: I have known what I have was dealing with from day one. Marty: Then let it go. Angie: This is my sister we're talking about, I will not LET IT GO until I know she's safe! |
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| ~ Angie to Marty Engle, when she decides to ensure her sister's safety despite being warned about Troy Thorpe and Daniel Tesesco. |
| “ | Angie: Sam, you have to go away, OK? Because if you don't... you're gonna go to jail. Sam: No. Angie: That's your only other choice, and I'm not gonna let that happen to you. You understand? So you're gonna get in that taxi, and you're gonna get on that plane. Sam: I don't... Angie: You have to. |
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| ~ Angie telling Sam to escape to avoid getting arrested. |
| “ | Angie: Do not speak about Marty like that! Do you understand me?! Church: Hey! Lighten up, will ya? I’m just looking out for you. Angie: Yeah, well don’t bother. Church: Jeez… Anyone would think you’re in love with this guy. Angie: Maybe I am. Church: Bullshit! Angie:We’re getting married, you dickhead! |
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| ~ Angie scolds Church for his insults towards Marty, before telling him that she’s marrying Marty. |
| “ | Angie: He's sold him out, hasn't he? This has all been to get him in the open, so he can hit him. Church: I'll yell ya what's happened. I reckon Ointment's poisoned his food. Angie: Well if he's gonna get hit, we've gotta get him outta here. |
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| ~ Angie, realizing that Marty's about to be assassinated, tells Church and Stone they've got to him to safety. |
| “ | We... we need some help. We've got an officer down! | „ |
| ~ Angie calling for help after Stone is shot by Conrad. |
| “ | I can't stop thinking about Stoney. Y'know, I keep... feeling like he's gonna walk through that door any minute. | „ |
| ~ Angie still grieving for Stone shortly after his death. |
| “ | Angie: So, you think what happened in court today. Was that fair? Harris: Do you think that it was fair that Peter Church concealed his knowledge of the NFR? Angie: I don't know. Have you ever seen one of your mates shot dead? Harris: I appreciate your loyalty, Constable. You're defending your colleagues. Angie: No, I'm talking about a friend who was shot down doing his job. That's pretty hard for all of us to take. It's no wonder Mac resigned. |
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| ~ Angie to Luke Harris, lambasting the way Church was treated during Conrad's trial. |
| “ | Angie: I don't like psychological games, Inspector. Harris: Oh, really? I thought that's what Undercover was all about. Angie: No. No, it's about catching crooks. |
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| ~ Angie politely criticizing Harris' attempts to psychologically figure out her mindset. |
| “ | Conrad won't just fall off the face of the earth. We'll get him! |
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| ~ Angie vowing to Church that they'll take down Kieran Frances Conrad after he escapes from their grasp. |
| “ | Angie: Hang on, you want Pete to get an alcoholic drunk? Gray: Well... maybe not drunk, you know. A little tipsy, maybe. Angie: Brian, that is appalling! |
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| ~ Angie being disgusted at Brian Gray over his suggestion for Church to get a recovering alcoholic drunk to find information regarding stolen money. |
| “ | Angie: Conrad and Enquist are responsible for killing Oscar Stone. Chris: Yes, I know all that! Angie: But you didn't know Oscar, and you weren't there when he died! If you did... If you were, then maybe you'd understand. |
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| ~ Angie explaning to Christina Dichiera her motives in taking down both Conrad and Stig Enquist. |
| “ | Pete, we're committed now. OK? We've got to see this through to the end. | „ |
| ~ Angie convincing Church to still go after Conrad, despite Angie earlier being put at risk of Conrad thanks to Church's vendetta. |
Season 7[]
| “ | Harris: Didn't know you were a Blues fan, Ange. Angie: Born and bred. Harris: Ha! Well, of course. Who would choose to barrack for Carlton? Angie: Well, I don't know. Sixteen flags is a pretty good reason. How many have the 'Pies won? |
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| ~ Angie telling Harris why she supports the Carlton Football Club, before throwing a little jibe at Harris' team Collingwood. |
| “ | Angie: You and me at a wedding, hey? Did you ever think that one day it might be ours? Church: What? Angie: I did. Church: You feeling OK? Angie: No. I felt like crying most of the week, and... when I haven't felt like crying, I felt like hitting someone. Church: What do you feel like doing now? Angie: Being honest. I think I almost fell in love with you, just recently. |
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| ~ Angie confessing to Church about her unresolved romantic feelings towards him. |
| “ | Don't even breathe, shit-for-brains. Or I'll blow your head off. | „ |
| ~ Angie warning a suspect at gunpoint. |
| “ | Angie: How did we get here? Church: I don't know. Angie: You know, I'm... I'm not like this. I am normal, I'm... I'm a normal person. Church: It's just one possibility. Angie: No, I never wanted a whole lot of weird stuff, Pete. Just... just normal, everyday stuff like a job, and a car, and... somebody OK to hang out with. Not all this, not all... not all this weird stuff!! (sobbing) Church: Ange... Angie: Y'know, every time I think it's all cool, I think it's all fine, I suddenly find out... No! Y'know, it's the opposite. It's really, really not cool, and I seem to be... the only one who didn't know that. Church: We'll sort it out. Angie: Yeah, we'll sort it out. What about, um... I go hide, and you tell me when it's all fixed? Church: Fine, we can do that. But I'm not gonna leave you here on your own, all right? I'll go and get some things, and I'll stay here tonight. Angie: Oh, thanks Pete. But... I think I just really need to be alone. |
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| ~ Angie emotionally breaks down in tears in front of Church when it seems that Harris killed Brett Linton. |
| “ | Angie: This is getting really out of control, Linton. Linton: Oh, don't blame me, Ange. Eh? Luke's put you in this position. Angie: He's not the one tying me up, though, is he? Linton: But he did put his job before your safety. I mean, aren't you humilliated? Angie: This what all this is about, is it? The fact that he humilliated you? Linton: Well, he didn't need to be so aggressive with his procecution, no. Angie: But you're going to find yourself in that situation again, Linton. He's gonna charge you, he'll arrest you, he'll lock you up... Linton: Listen! If he'd have given me the money when I first asked for it, I wouldn't have gone this far. Ah, he doesn't tell you all of the important things, does he? (laughs) You see, Ange, it never really would've worked out between you and Luke. I mean, how can you marry a man who keeps secrets from you. Angie: I'm getting marriage advice from a psychopath now, am I?! Linton: No, no, no, no, no. Harris is a psychopath, and he keeps you totally in the dark, because you're his little wifey. Angie: The fact that your WHOLE LIFE IS ABOUT LUKE HARRIS MEANS THAT HE WINS, YOU IDIOT!! NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO ME!! |
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| ~ Angie berating Linton after she is kidnapped by him. |
| “ | Angie: If I can't trust you, Luke. How can I love you? Harris: What? Angie: You went off your medication, you knew Linton was a serial rapist, and even after he attacked me, you still didn't tell me any of this. Harris: I was trying to protect you. Angie: Yeah, you call it protection, I call it deception. |
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| ~ Angie telling Harris that she can't trust him following their trouble with Linton. |
| “ | Angie: I've been considering my options... Harris: And? Angie: I want to come back to Undercover. Harris: Things not working out at Homicide? Angie: No, Homicide's been good, but... my position there was only temporary. Chatterly's encouraged me to apply for a permanant position, but... Undercover's in my blood, I miss it. |
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| ~ Angie telling Harris that she wants to return to the Undercover unit following her stint working in Homicide. |
Season 8[]
| “ | Angie: Maybe there's a self-help group we could join. Church: We? Angie: Losers in Love. (Angie and Church both chuckle.) |
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| ~ Angie joking to Church about their failed love lives, in an attempt to cheer him up after she finds out that Anna Trukan ditched him. |
| “ | Don't tempt me you prick! Step away, and lower your weapon. | „ |
| ~ Angie to her son's kidnapper during a stand-off. |
| “ | What the fuck?! What are you saying? You saying that she was disemboweled? Oh my god! |
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| ~ Angie finding out the extent of her sister's cause of death. |
| “ | The love of christ? WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LOVE OF CHRIST?! YOU EVIL PIECE OF SHIT!! | „ |
| ~ Angie losing her temper at a suspect. |
| “ | Angie: I expect that sort of shit from Luke, but not from you, Pete! We're mates. After everything we've been through, YOU DO NOT TREAT MATES LIKE THAT!! Church: I'm sorry Ange, I know you're angry. Angie: ANGRY?! NO I'M BLOODY FURIOUS! I'D HAVE TO CALM DOWN A HELL OF A LOT TO BE ANGRY!! YOU GUYS WIND A STING ON MEGAN WALSH, I HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED!! I RAN AROUND LIKE A BLOODY IDIOT FOR YOU!! I BROKE ALL THE RULES AND FOR WHAT?! TO SAVE YOUR MISERABLE ARSE!!! |
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| ~ Angie furious at Church for keeping her out of the loop in taking down Megan Walsh, despite Angie's attempts to protect him from Walsh's manipulations and scheming. |
| “ | Angie: You were right all along. Harris: Yes, I know. I'm sorry, Angie. I'm... I'm truly sorry. Angie: I'm sorry too. |
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| ~ Angie and Harris making amends following Sean Hunter's arrest for Sophie Novak's attempted murder. |
| “ | Church: Okay? Angie: Yeah... yeah, I'm fine. Church: Let me take you home. |
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| ~ Angie and Church, moments before they leave together with her son Josh, marking the end of Stingers. |
Trivia[]
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Angie sitting at her desk with her Carlton Football Club fanzine.
- Angie and Peter Church are the only two characters on Stingers to appear in all 192 episodes of the series from 1998 to 2004.
- Angie is the second cop in Stingers to move up the ranks (from Constable, to Senior Constable, to Detective Senior Constable) after Ellen MacKenzie, and before Christina Dichiera.
- Angie is the only main character of Stingers to use the word "fuck" more than once, as she says it twice in the season eight episode "Mea Culpa". She is also the third and last main character in the series (after Luke Harris and Peter Church) to say "fuck".
- Despite being more kind-hearted and honorable than Peter Church, Angie has herself displayed coldblooded, unhinged and violent tendencies on more than one occasion, with her most brutal and heinous act taking place after her sister Sam's murder at the hands of Kepler Vanderbijl, when Angie coldly kneecapped one of Vanderbijl's henchmen Andy by shooting him in the leg, in order to force him to reveal Vanderbijl's location to her.
- Angie is a lifelong fan of the Aussie Rules/AFL football team, the Carlton Football Club, as revealed in the season seven episode "Don't Look Back". This is likely a reference to her actress Kate Kendall also being a lifelong fan of the team in real life.
- Kate Kendall's performance as Angie earned her a Silver Logie nomination for Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the 2004 TV Week Logie Awards.
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