Rake is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the ABC TV in 2010.

It stars Richard Roxburgh as the rakish Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister,[1][2][3] defending a usually guilty client.

He's under pressure to meet the emotional and physical needs of his sugar mummy, Kirsty (Robyn Malcolm), and he's being cleverly outplayed in his defamation case.

Assisted by a mysterious smoking man, he follows the trail to ASIO, the CIA, and information that may bring down the international banking system and several governments.

Hurt and confused, Scarlet allows an innocent lunch with Harry to progress down a primrose path that, with some help from Cal McGregor, will lead to perdition.

When a piercing scream splits the dawn silence of a leafy, suburban arcadia Cleaver and Barney are soon defending an IT lecturer accused of severing his neighbour's penis with garden shears.