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Our industry is highly regulated. There are strict rules that tell us what we

can and what we can't do.

Some people think that we have police powers and we work outside the law,

we don't.

Can I help you?

Hey, g'day.

Are you George Blake?

That's right.

Right, um, did you just buy this car off a Colin Hendricks?

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, and are you aware that there's still finance owing on the vehicle?

Colin did not mention that as part of our transaction, no.

Right, well, look, he should have.

And unfortunately, as the new owner, you've inherited the debt.

Even though I paid Colin Marker price.

Yeah, I'm afraid so.

I see.

So you're here to... To recover the arrears or recover the vehicle.

So how much time will this buy me?

That's about a week's payment.

Well, I'm sure we'll resolve this well before then.

Whatever your normal rate is.

I'll double it. Find Hendrix for me.

I mean, clearly there's been a misunderstanding.

It's simplest for me to sort it with him directly.

Listen, I'm employed by the finance company, so I can't... That's right, and

making your job a whole lot easier.

Plus you get a bonus.

When you find him, call me. I'll take it from there.

Another no -show at court.

Anyone I'd know?

Wendy James.

Oh, you remember the hairdresser from Hair to Eternity?

And she's not answering her mobile either.

Hey, Wendy, it's Kate Christie here from Sapphire Mercantile. Can you call me

back, please?

Thank you.

Just had a call from our dear old friend Maria Bonetti.

Check in to see if you're heading over there.

Yeah, I will. I just want to speak to Wendy first.

Right. Hey, Jim.

G'day there.

Hey. Hey.

Miss Christy.

Have you got time for a proper lunch today?

I'd love to, but I can't. I'm sorry I'm just too busy.

You sure?

Yep. I'm chatting.

Maybe you first.

Yeah. I just came in to some dough from a debtor -turned -client.

Some idiot sold him a car with finance owing, so he wants me to find him.

What, you sure you've got enough time to deal with the finance company and the

new owner? Yeah, yeah, I should have. Although he does seem like the impatient

type. Isn't everyone these days?

No one wants to wait for anything.

Well, I'm waiting, aren't I?

I'm not talking about you. Who's the guy?

Uh, there you go.

George Blake?

Mm -hmm.

As in the George Blake?

What do you mean, the George Blake?

Mario Maguire's son -in -law?

The Mario Maguire? Yes, the Mario Maguire.

Apparently George makes Mario look like a pussycat.

Do you think it's him?

I don't know.

Well, you better find out.

Pull the plug anyway.

We can't be seen dealing with thugs like that. Okay.

Okay. All right, I'm off to the hairdressers.

Hang on. You haven't got time for lunch, but you can go and get your hair done.

Particularly business, Mr. Sloan.

Whoa.

Hey.

Whoa.

But you got to keep your head up. Oh, and you can let your head down. Hey, you

got to keep your head up. Oh, and you can let your head down.

Hey.

That's the woman that I was telling you about?

Please, I can't deal with this right now, okay?

I really need to speak to you for a moment.

Excuse me.

Why did you turn up at court?

I gave you a heads up. You can't just ignore a summons. I had to.

Laura's walked out.

I can't blame her. She hasn't been paid in over three weeks.

Somebody has to be here to deal with the clients.

I have to talk to you.

It's really important.

Wendy, you've missed your final chance to make a payment arrangement.

The court's issued me with an order to repossess your equipment and move your

outstanding rent. No, no, no. I'll find the money today. I promise. I'll... I'll

ring my ex. He... He owes me.

Can you just... Can you please just give me until after lunch?

You found Hendricks already.

Nice work.

No luck.

I'm afraid he wasn't at his last known address, and no one knows where he's

gone. So, look, thanks for the offer, but I'm not going to waste it. No, it

wasn't an offer.

It was an agreement.

You walked off with my money. That says to me you've taken the job.

I don't want the job, okay?

You're smart.

You know how this works.

Listen, I'm not the one you got the beef with. Yeah, but you will be if you

don't find Hendrix.

He could be anywhere.

Lucky I've got you on the job then, isn't it?

You should be able to find him in what?

24 hours?

Mr Blake, I really... We're getting on so well.

Don't spoil it.

Was it him?

Was it? Who?

Your would -be client. Was it thee, George Blake? Oh, no, no, no.

Unlikely. Hmm.

Lucky. Hmm.

So what would you have done if it was him, Sloane?

Rusted him to the ground.

Knocked him out, obviously.

Yeah, right.

Yeah. So you turned the job down?

What do you think?

Smart move.

We don't want to get up the finance company's nose.

Nope. I'll catch you later.

See you.

Hi, darling.

Jim. Jim.

Hey, um... What does the name Colin Hendricks mean to you?

Follow me.

Whoa.

He is a serial offender. What's he done now?

Uh, finance. How are you on a vehicle?

Well, you want to get that back, he's got a chronic... Poker machine

Right, so he could owe money to all sorts of people. If you want to find

just listen out for the ding of hard -earned money going down the drain.

Marcus?

Marcus?

Lily.

Hi. How could you do this to me?

My applied ecology essay.

I'm sorry.

You knew I needed at least a credit to be in the running for the Brinley

Scholarship. Yeah, I did, and I read your essay, and I re -read it several

times. I wanted to find something in there that warranted a credit, but the

truth is, it just wasn't there.

Since when? I always get distinctions or high distinctions. Well, not this time,

I'm afraid.

You know how much I wanted this scholarship?

I'm genuinely sorry.

Hey, hey, Lily.

You all right?

Marcus gave me a ridiculously low mark on my essay. I mean, I just can't

that he would do this to me.

That is so low.

I was counting on this mark to get this scholarship that I spent two years of my

life working toward.

Get someone else to mark your essay. Surely you know somebody.

Get a thicket opinion.

I could ask my tutor, Sarah.

So? Ask her.

Now.

Okay, I will, actually. That's a really good idea. Thank you.

It's okay.

Here we go, darling. Come and wrap your luscious lips around this.

Thank you.

Pleasure.

You know, you didn't need to come home for lunch.

Oh, I wanted to. I miss me missus.

Well, I'm glad you did because I've got something I need to discuss with you.

The Throsbys have invited me to go sailing with them to Lord Howe. Oh,

nice. The Throsbys.

Don't hurt yourself.

Oh, no, both of us, but I knew you were busy at work.

Yeah. So when's this?

Oh, not exactly sure. Maybe a month or two.

Okay. And how long are you going for?

Three weeks.

Three weeks?

Yeah. What about the Red Devils?

What about the Red Devils? Is that all you care about?

No.

But, you know, you're part of the physiotherapy team. You can't leave them

lurch. Well, I won't. And it's not going to look too good. I mean, I pulled in a

few favours to get you the job. Now you're sailing off to...

Wherever.

You called in favours.

Well, hello, darling.

Hey. Hello, love.

G'day, Alex.

Mr and Mrs Christie.

Hello. There's the makings of a sandwich on the bench if you're hungry. I just

feel like chocolate.

Do you want anything?

No, I'm good, thanks.

You all right?

Fine.

So you got me the job?

No.

Well, technically, yes, I alerted them to your qualifications and your skills

did the rest.

Wow. Thank you for your charity, darling.

Sweetheart, no need to be like that.

You don't get it.

This means that my job is all about you too.

I'd like some of that chocolate, please.

Is that the time?

I'm just running a bit behind. Could you come back later?

Wendy, I've already come half an hour later than I said I would.

Did you find the money?

Excuse me.

Do you have any idea the last time I sat down today?

Seven o 'clock this morning.

I have rung my ex five times, but he hasn't rung me back, so no. I haven't

managed to find $6 ,000. I'm sorry, but we had an agreement.

These items will be repossessed in lieu of outstanding rent at 8am tomorrow

morning.

I'm open six days a week. I see 15 clients a day.

All I'm trying to do is support my kids, so you tell me what I'm supposed to do.

Your landlord has a right to be Coobee's rent. You're several months behind.

You touch any more of my equipment and I will kill you.

Off to wrestle someone on the ground, are we?

Yeah.

That's what you should do to your hairdresser.

You can't have her threatening to kill you. Maybe I should come on that repo

with you tomorrow.

Yeah, as your wrestling backup.

I've got a few nifty moves of my own.

Yeah? I want some photographic proof of that.

You'll never get it.

I might.

I doubt it.

Bit

of

a blast from the past, eh?

Wow. That's exactly how I remembered it, except smaller.

Isn't it bizarre that things seem so much bigger when you're a six -year

An itty -bitty, Kate.

Come on. Come eat, Maria.

Maria?

Kate! Hi! Good to see you. Give me a hug.

This is Rick. Hi, Rick.

I used to know Kate when she was half the size of my counter.

Yeah, but it didn't stop me from grabbing the Chupa Chups, remember?

Strawberry and cream. That was your favourite flavour.

Come here.

Do you remember?

See, this is why Maria's in so much trouble, because she's way too nice to

customers. Kate thinks I shouldn't be giving credit to my people.

Times are tough now.

They're all struggling. Yeah, and now so are you, so I want you to put this sign

in front of your register.

Can't we see if they pay up first?

Did they answer your letters?

No, they were all ignored.

Rick's going to help me knock on doors, see if we can persuade your customers to

pay their bills.

OK? Then he's going to take over the case.

He's a terrific agent.

He's so handsome too.

Are you married, Dweck?

No.

We're just business partners.

Oi.

Owen Hendricks?

Who's asking?

Matt Sloan, Sapphire Mercantile.

George Blake knows you've ripped him off.

18 hours he's going to be here.

Oh, I'm a dead man.

Yep. So now's not the time to be sitting around, yeah?

There's no point doing anything else if George is after me.

Yeah, there is.

You'll have a good head start, mate.

You must have friends that can help you disappear or something.

Mate, if you knew what George is like, why'd you rip him off in the first

I didn't mean to rip him off. He just saw the wheels and fell in love with

Told me I had to sell it to him. I tried to explain him about the finance, but

he just threw a lot of cash in my face and demanded the keys. Yeah, right.

All right.

Listen, I've got no choice.

18 hours, I have to give him this address, okay? So get out of town. Yeah.

Better get on with it.

Hey, how'd you go with dear old Maria?

Well, I'm not sure we can help her. No one wants to pay their bills.

She might end up being forced to close.

Typical. People don't appreciate what they've got until it's gone.

Don't I know it.

No, I wasn't having a go at you, you know, you and Kate.

Look, while we're on the subject of my major stuff -up, I got another letter

from the Corruption Commission about the fast phone.

Do they want to talk to you again?

No, they don't, which feels even worse.

You know, it's a pity you can't just offload the land and, you know, get back

what you can.

Well, the investor group's totally falling apart because of all this

Getting them to agree to anything would be about impossible.

There's got to be somebody who stood to gain out of this. Well, it wasn't Trevor

Ogilvie. He did not own that land.

Well, if it wasn't him, who was it?

Well, the thing is, it wasn't one person. Five different companies owned

land. Five? People listed their names in case of any revelations.

They're holding companies with trading addresses. I looked at the boards of

directors and can't find a link between them.

Could they be part of one bigger company?

I've looked into that. It's a dead end.

Okay. Maybe you're too close. I'll say I have a crack.

You look gorgeous, darling.

Really? What am I wearing?

Close.

Well, that's called hedging your bits.

Yeah.

No, you do. You look nice. It's a colour suit. Is that new?

I've had this for nearly three years, Jim.

Oh. Why don't you just take your nose out of your work for a minute and take

some notice?

Sweetheart, I'm working to get our money back so we can go on our postponed

adventure and forget that Sapphire ever existed.

Oh, that'll be the day.

Well, look, I love my work, yes.

I see that as a good thing, but I do love you and the girls much, much more,

believe me. Well, I'd just like you to take a bit more notice of us.

Sure. I mean, did you pick up on anything about Lily today?

I get the feeling there is a wrong answer.

Something's upset her because she was hoovering down the chocolates.

Oh, I didn't realise. Is that a... Is that a sign I didn't... Notice.

Yeah.

OK.

I'll tell you what, I will pay more attention.

I promise you.

Not fun.

So, what's this about a threat to the community?

There isn't one. It's a bluff.

Using the idea of a public meeting to draw Maria the debtors out from behind

closed doors.

Cool. I'm two. You have to do your homework, Em.

Don't worry, she's Baltimore.

But I'm getting Alex to give me a hand. Okay, cool.

Now make sure to tell your dad to be there tomorrow, okay? It's very

Hi.

Well, this is the last one. Do you think they'll all turn up? It's hard to know.

Somebody better.

It's my tutor.

Here he goes.

Hey, Sarah.

Thanks for reading... Oh, you have?

And what did you... Right.

Okay.

No, no, no. Yeah, that's cool.

Thanks for reading it so quickly.

Okay.

Bye.

Well?

She said my work was poor and Marcus had been kind and if she had marked it, she

would have given me a fail.

Lily, that sucks.

I suck.

Stop this for a joke. Let's go and get a drink.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Okay.

A blue one, yes.

You rock, piano man. Thank you. And a colour we haven't had yet.

Wow.

You know, actually, blue is my favourite colour.

I know.

You do?

How do you know?

Because I notice things about you.

That's nice.

Marcus doesn't.

Not really.

Unless we're hooking up and he's very nudity.

Well, that's because Marcus is a massive gronk.

And I think you deserve someone much, much better.

You're so right.

You know what? I blame Kate.

I blame Marcus because I think he's the sole attack of... What's Kate got to do

with it anyway?

She's a terrible role model when it comes to giving relationship advice.

I mean, she has this adoring guy sitting right in front of her.

She can't see it. She doesn't act on it. And even if she does realize.

Yeah.

Ah.

Closing time.

What?

I'm so not ready for this night to be over. Me either.

You know what we're going to do?

What? We are going to get some roadies and we're going to go drink them

somewhere. Yes.

Sorry.

Thank you for being so chivalrous.

What? Chivalrous.

Come on, Wendy, let's get this over with.

I am begging you, please don't do this to me. We've been over this, Wendy.

Those are mine. I've had them since I was an apprentice. Look, I don't want to

do this, okay? I've got no choice. It's a legal process.

Well, how does that sit with your legal process, then? You're not doing yourself

any favours, all right? I've got a truck arriving any minute with two

removables. They're not going to put up with this nonsense.

Nonsense?

Is that what you call it? I'm trying to save my business. You tell me, Wendy.

What would your kids think if they saw you acting like this?

You... Wendy, just... Dare you!

Morning,

Miss Christie.

Dad?

Ah, sweetheart.

G'day. G'day, Alex.

How are you this morning, Mr Christie?

I'm good.

Yeah, never been better.

How about you?

Yeah, good.

I'm really good, thanks.

No, that's good.

Yeah.

Get on in.

Well, that was fun.

See ya.

That uni bloke just came out of Lily's bedroom.

Uni bloke? Yeah, you know, the piano teacher, Alex.

Oh, Alex.

Hey.

Alex? Yeah, Alex.

Lily must be more upset than I thought.

Yeah, I noticed that.

You know you can tell your old man anything.

Yes, but would I? That is the question.

I'm kidding, Dad.

To what do I owe this visit?

Well, I've noticed that you've been upset.

You've noticed?

How could you tell?

Well, I could see that you've been, you know,

to chocolate.

Uh -huh.

Chocolate's cheaper than therapy.

Yeah.

So, what's wrong, darling?

Okay.

So, you know how I wanted to apply for a scholarship?

Mm -hmm.

Well, I got a pass for my applied ecology essay, so now I don't qualify.

Oh, no.

You had your heart set on it, too.

Look, it's okay, Dad. I just... I lost focus for a while, but...

I've learned my lesson.

And I love that you notice how I've been feeling.

Oh, darling.

Thank you.

Of course I noticed.

Hendrix.

What the hell? Yeah, I know, I know. I'm nearly done. Well, you've got to do a

bit of gardening before you run for your life. It's not that simple. I've got

stuff stashed here. I don't want George or the cops to find it. Yeah, but now is

not the time, mate. Yeah, well, I'm going as fast as I can. I've done the

I've done the shop. No, no, no. Listen, listen.

You and your ute want to live happily ever after. You've got to be gone by 12.

Yeah, I know.

12.

No later. Let me get on with it.

Food, darling. You are a champion.

Yes, but not for now.

I'm just going to store them here while I get some liniment.

Lil, come and give me a hand, please.

Seriously?

French stuffing?

Yes.

You know Alex has a crush on you, don't you?

What? No, he doesn't.

Yes, he does.

Trust me.

Can we not do that mother -daughter thing in the office, please?

There's just one thing. There's always just one thing, isn't there?

He's a lovely boy.

And if this episode is like a rebound thing, you should think seriously about

this. Don't break his heart.

Can I start with you?

Yeah, look, there's nothing behind the corporate veil of these companies.

Thanks for looking, eh? No, I haven't quite given up yet. I'm thinking

laterally. And?

Well, these names.

Robinson, Garcia, Lee, Miller, Reed.

I know them.

Yeah, well, who wouldn't? I mean, they're all pretty common apart from

Well, in my mind, they're connected in some way. Maybe, you know, the footy

club, the surf club. There's some link, some common denominator.

Are there any club records in my show, Sonny?

That's a good idea.

Why don't you check it out?

Alex.

Hey.

I thought you didn't have any lectures today.

I don't. I wanted to see you.

Sounds good so far.

I wanted to talk to you about last night.

It was awesome.

Yeah? I'm just...

You know, I'm not really looking for anything serious right now, and I just

thought it might complicate stuff with Emma at home.

That stuff?

Yeah, no, that's... Yeah, cos I was thinking the same thing anyway.

Really? Yeah.

OK, good.

Who told you I was getting serious anyway?

Oh, my mum.

Never mind.

So, we're cool?

Yeah, yeah, we're cool.

I've got to get to a lecture, so I should probably... Okay.

Well, I'll catch you later, then.

Kate, where are you? Call me.

Hey. Hey, little, listen, have you spoken to Kate today?

Nope. Must be still at the hairdresser.

Can you get me the number of the salon, please?

From hair to eternity, right?

Yep.

Hi, Gaz, listen, this is Rick Taylor here from Sapphire.

How's that repo going at the hairdressers? It must be a big load.

Kate didn't show up.

I don't like her. Listen, mate, sorry about that.

Cheers.

Is there a problem?

The file doesn't seem to have a home address for Wendy James. I can check on

Kate's computer.

All right, quick as you can, Lily. I'm in a bit of a hurry.

Damn you, Kate, and your anal retentiveness.

You wouldn't happen to know what Kate's password is this month, would you?

Try chopper chop.

Okay, I wouldn't have thought of that.

Bingo, that's it. We're in.

Wendy James.

Wendy!

Wendy, where's Kate?

Wendy, this is important. Where is Kate?

Hello, I need an ambulance immediately.

Mate, are you actually soft in the head? Just a couple more bags and I'm out of

here. No, Blake's on his way. I've just spoken to him.

No, no, that's not it.

Get out of here, now. Just help us out with a couple of things. No, listen to

me, listen to me. If he finds us both here, my head's on the block too. Now

out of here!

Hey.

What are you doing here?

Ah, just came to see if Hendrix was here for you.

Looks like he's done a runner, though.

It's like he left in a real hurry.

Almost like he knew I was coming.

Well, I'm left out of pocket.

And you're the one left standing in front of me.

Right.

Seems to me he left a present for you.

That's not bad.

That's a beauty.

So I'll leave you to it then.

What if it's hot?

What?

Or has finance going?

I'll do some research for you. Yeah, very kind. You can do all that on your

phone though, can't you?

Mate, it's a lot easier if I go back to the office. No, but you stay here and do

it.

And I'll check out this engine.

We wouldn't want to get the all clear and then find out it's a lemon, would I?

No.

Wendy, can you tell me where Kate is, please?

Hello.

No, she's not, all right? I've already been there.

Need to give her some space.

Look, there's someone else's life at risk, all right?

Wendy, please.

You can touch me now, leave me with the ones you can

Hey! What are you doing?

Winnie James lost her.

She locked me in the store.

I'm really worried about her. Look, I've cleaned her. She's fine. I really don't

think this is a good idea.

Let me grab a ladder or something.

Rick, it's fine.

I'm perfectly capable.

I've got you.

What happened to your head?

I had a fight with a blow dryer.

You should see the blow dryer.

Are you sure you're all right?

Yeah.

Yeah, of course.

Thank you for being here.

Hi.

G'day, folks.

Thanks for coming out.

Today. My name's Jim Christie. This is my wife, Claire.

They're not going to take away our church hall, are they?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Shush. Bit of shush. Now, look, it is a community

but it's also a very personal one. Now, we've tried to tell you about this

matter privately, but none of you wanted to know, so we've had to go public.

All of you are here today because you all owe Maria Venetti money.

and you are all refusing to pay it.

For taking advantage of Maria's kindness, she is only days away from

close. Forever. No.

That's right.

But Maria can't close.

What can we do? Maria's store is... The heart of your neighbourhood. We know. We

used to live here too.

Maria was always so kind to us. She always greeted us by name. She made

orders just for us. Yeah, exactly.

Now, when a corner store closes, as you know, it never returns.

It won't come back.

So not only is Maria losing her business, you're losing the convenience,

history, the friendship.

Maria has been here for all of us for decades, right?

Isn't it time that we give back?

Yep.

Okay. Yeah, that's great.

Thanks for getting back to me.

Okay, it's all good.

There is definitely no finance on your vehicle.

You trust your police friend?

If he says it's not stolen, it's not stolen.

Well, I do have my reputation to consider.

Of course.

A pleasure doing business with you, Matt.

Pleasure. Pleasure was all mine, George.

All mine.

Hi, Mum.

Hey. Can I please go to Hannah's for a sleepover?

Don't you have piano tonight?

Alex cancelled it at the last minute.

He sounded really weird. He said he was sick. He didn't sound sick. What

happened?

Oh, I bumped my head on an air conditioning vent.

It's fine. Doc says I'm fine.

Your mum won't like to admit to this, but when she's tired, she gets very

and bumps into things. Yeah. OK, I'll give you a lift to Hannah.

Oh, OK.

Bye -bye, darling.

You haven't even given me a cuddle today.

That's all right.

How'd she get all the club records looking for those names?

I made a loose connection.

There were some boys with those surnames that played with the club decades ago.

I suppose that's something.

What about committees? Is there anything there?

Jim, I don't want to hear the word committee come out of your mouth. You

already busy doing enough.

Sweetheart, have a look at this.

Do these names mean anything to you?

Susan Robinson, Audrey Garcia, normally Elizabeth Miller and Rose Reid.

These are the Sanger sisters.

Oh, of course, the Sanger sisters.

It was a footy club. They were wives and mothers of the players. They were the

canteen committee.

Yeah, the first letter of the first name made up the acronym Sanger. Yeah, but

there were six of them, wasn't there? There's only five on that list.

Gladys Adams. She was the git in Sanger. So who's Gladys Adams?

I think he's mum, you know.

You know who he is, Rick.

Hugh Goodman.

Gladys Adams is Hugh Goodman's mother?

Yes, she was married to Henry Adams.

Hugh Goodman owns every one of these companies.

He's behind this whole thing.

I thought you should have let me come on that repo.

Those were anything but nifty.

That's a good job Rick turned up when he did.

I wish you'd told me what was going on.

Looks like you had a few problems of your own.

Nothing like your little war story.

That's got a scar.

Great. That's good.

It'll be sexy.

You'll be okay.

I can't help thinking maybe I should have known better. Hang on, hang on.

You weren't to know that she was so close to the edge.

She threatened to kill me.

Well, how many times have you heard that?

Look, people react differently under pressure. You know that. Yeah, but it's

fair that someone can work so hard and never get ahead, never be able to

for themselves or their family. Agreed, but that's not your fault. Maybe I

should have noticed.

Well... Because I didn't... I listened, but I don't know if I actually heard.

Pardon?

I'm joking.

I hear you.

All right?

Don't you ever ask yourself, could I have handled things differently?

Yeah, closely followed by, how am I going to handle things differently next

time? When's the last time you asked yourself that question?

Most days.

You ever heard the expression, when a man is in

love or debt?

Someone else has the advantage?

You got time for another drink?