Life and Death in Kandahar begins with an urgent alert. Incoming wounded are on their way. Now, the questions begin: How many are there? What are the injuries? How soon will they arrive? As the medical staff gathers critical information, trauma bays are prepped and ambulances head out to meet the medevac helicopters. This winter, the fifth estate cameras were granted four weeks of unprecedented and exclusive access to the NATO trauma hospital at the main military base in Kandahar Province. The "Role 3" is one of the busiest trauma hospitals in Afghanistan and it has been under Canadian command for two years.

On March 3, 2005 four young Mounties were cut down by dangerous predator, James Roszko, on his farm in rural Alberta. Since then, one question has lingered: how could a lone gunman kill four officers? Despite Alberta Justice's pledge for a full public inquiry there has been only silence.

Benny Hinn may be the most popular personality in the Christian world today. Thousands pack arenas to see him heal the sick and the afflicted. Tens of thousands more watch his television program. Three seasons ago, reporter Bob McKeown investigated Benny Hinn's "miracles" as well as his ministry which collects millions of dollars every year in donations. What's happened since then? An American senator is now investigating Hinn, requesting answers to questions about those donations and who benefits. We'll talk to the senator, as well as to one young girl who attended one of Hinn's shows, looking for a miracle, and find out what has happened to her since then.

You don't have to be a pro wrestling fan to recognize the name Chris Benoit. Last summer, newscasts and front-page headlines were filled with the story of the wrestling champion who murdered his wife and young son and then killed himself. At the time, the focus turned to steroids and the part those drugs play in the pro wrestling world and in the life and death of Benoit and other wrestlers, many of whom died young. But, researchers studying the damage inflicted on the brains of pro footballers who had died by suicide turned to the case of Chris Benoit. Bob McKeown investigates their research and its startling conclusions.

Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value. Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.

Most cases of sexual misconduct in the classroom—between teachers and students—go undisclosed and unreported. Victims are silenced by guilt and shame and school authorities are simply reluctant to believe the worst, especially when it comes to sexual misconduct by female teachers. Experts say the few cases we read about in the newspaper are just the tip of the iceberg. In Teacher's Pet, Hana Gartner and a fifth estate team tell the stories of just two cases.

She was the adventurous daughter of Canadian hockey icon Bob Gainey and when Laura Gainey was swept overboard from the deck of the tall ship, the Picton Castle, last year it was reported as a tragic accident. But, Gillian Findlay and a fifth estate team have investigated and found that there are disturbing questions about the safety conditions on the ship and about two conflicting reports about what happened the night Laura was swept into the Atlantic Ocean.

IIt's a fantasy most of us have indulged in. A lucky break that sets us up financially for life. When one young woman hit the jackpot and won more than $12 million, she got another lucky break. When there were questions about how she got her lucky lotto ticket, the crown corporation looking into it was too disorganized to get the answers. Linden MacIntyre reports.

He was one of the greatest skiers Canada has ever produced. But, of all the Crazy Canucks, Dave Irwin was also known for something else: his spectacular crashes. In 2001, while training on a ski slope in Banff, Irwin crashed again, compounding the concussions of years before. But, this time, when he opened his eyes, there was nothing and no one he recognized or remembered. Bob McKeown has the miraculous story of Dave Irwin.

When a woman leaves her home in Nova Scotia to travel to England, it isn't usually cause for an international criminal investigation. But, the script for Heli Munroe's trip is straight out of Alfred Hitchcock. Heli's husband, Sandy, says she simply vanished one day and that her own brother was her kidnapper. Now, he can't get her back. With a story like that, Sandy reaped a lot of public sympathy. But, what really happened? Hana Gartner investigates.

The launch of Brian Mulroney's volume of memoirs was the publishing event of this year. But, in more than 1,000 comprehensive pages of anecdote and information there is one notable name missing--Karlheinz Schreiber--the German dealmaker at the centre of the darkest chapter of Mr. Mulroney's life. Linden MacIntyre and a fifth estate team report new revelations about the relationship between the two men as well as details about the attempt to cover the trail of the $300,000 cash the former Prime Minister received from Schreiber.

It seemed like and open and shut case for the police and the prosecutors. A carload of dubious characters, a blast from a sawn-off shotgun, a body and then a trial that delivered Erin Michael Walsh to a penetentiary to serve a life sentence. For more than 30 years, the convicted killer proclaimed his innocence. Now, Linden MacIntyre reports, recovered evidence has put vindication within Erin Walsh's grasp, but there is a new urgency to have his name cleared: doctors have given him another kind of life sentence.

The story of two journeys — a .45 calibre handgun from Jonesboro, Georgia and a young boy from Jamaica — and how their fates collide tragically in a home in suburban Toronto, is the subject of the fifth estate's season premiere. The Firestar .45 that killed six-year-old Michael James is just one of the illegal handguns that flood across the U.S. border and end up in Canadian cities where they become weapons of mayhem and murder. Bob McKeown takes us from the gun dealer to the violent streets of American cities, through the halls of power in Washington and into the heart of America's gun industry, a National Rifle Association convention, and illuminates a story that is filling today's headlines.