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So, where are you having it? The Royal or the Railway? Railway. Ah, good.

Just round the corner.

Won't be far to carry you home.

Really glad you're here, Blake.

Ah, well, it's the only way I can collect on my bed.

What bed?

I bet your 20 bucks you'll end up marrying Cathy.

School formal, remember?

Hey, look, I really need to talk to you about something. Yeah.

Told you he wouldn't fight you out in his own backside.

Um, Terry, Ron, this is my cousin Blake.

Ah, the best man.

G'day, Blake.

Actually,

we were a bit pissed off. Why?

Well, we thought he might have chosen one of his army mates.

Dave, are we going to get a show on the road or what?

Yeah, just give us a sec, will you?

Dead witless, mate.

It's a bit late in the day to be getting cold feet, isn't it? Let's talk about

that. Listen, I've got something to show you.

I think I'm in big trouble.

What? I don't want Cathy to know, but a couple of weeks back we were on an

exercise up near Winda.

I saw something I shouldn't have.

Now I think they're trying to kill me.

Come on.

We're wasting valuable drinking time.

Okay.

The ring.

Just stick them in your coat pocket so you don't forget them.

Yeah, yeah.

You all right?

Yeah.

Let's go.

I haven't seen each other since I left the service when we were in Sydney.

How come you never told us he was in our gang?

He wasn't.

Oh,

pilot, are you?

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Excuse me. Here we go. Shake hands with the unemployed.

I'll get us another round.

Begin.

You might leave me alone.

It's terribly not.

You're trying to stop me from saying anything.

About what? Hey, what did you say?

I don't know. I can't be sure.

There were these trucks outside.

There he is.

I thought you said you were getting your mates a drink. What happened to that?

It was slush. Come on, Lola. There's still a surprise for you. Just let me

finish up. Come on, you've got to come right now. You have to come with us.

Who is it?

Me, Kathy.

Just a sec.

Long time no see.

Yeah.

Not better than you and Ian by the looks of it.

I couldn't even wake him.

You were supposed to make sure he didn't get too drunk.

Sorry.

He's cummerbund.

You want me to give it to him?

I also want to make sure he's okay.

He has to be sober and presentable by three.

He did come back here last night, didn't he?

Yeah, I put him on the bed myself.

He was pretty out of it.

Because of some stupid prank, Blake? No, no. Well, I had nothing to do with it,

if it is.

Great. Well, he'd better get back sooner or he'll never be ready.

I'll take his parents' place.

Yeah, maybe his army mates know where he is. I'll give them a call.

If he's late getting to the church, I will kill him.

Yeah, Max was doing really well. He got 90 % for a maths exam recently.

That's great.

Jack likes maths.

Won a competition last month.

Yeah, well, Max is doing it. It's a really advanced course, you know. It's

difficult. He's doing well.

Chloe's been doing a great six syllables since she was four.

An English, English.

He got nine out of ten for a poem recently. You know, there's talk of a

publishing deal.

Les Murray thought it was a great little poem. Mayday, mayday. Any air puffs on

this frequency, please copy. We have a seriously injured man six miles due west

of Lake Horwich and urgent evacuation required.

I repeat, mayday. This is Romeo Hotel, Sierra.

Received your mayday call.

ETA, approximately arrival is... 20 minutes.

Yeah. All OK.

Well, can I talk to him?

Why not?

Look, he's meant to be getting married today.

Will you talk to his fiancée?

Hello?

He's not at his parents'. That's because he's back at base.

What?

His CA just told me. Why?

Not authorised to give that information.

Something's not right, Kath.

I don't like it.

Somebody jeeped idea of a joke. I knew it.

Well, it's really pushing it to get all the way back from there before...

Do you think he's changed his mind?

About me?

Of course not.

He loves you.

Maybe not anymore.

Something's going on.

I'm going to go up and find out what.

Me too.

If he doesn't want to marry me, the least you can do is have the guts to

to my face.

That looks like satellite dish.

Where? That thing they're covering up there.

Why would they want a satellite dish out here?

You're a lifesaver, mate. I really appreciate it. No, Groff, what happened?

Mate, it was an accident. I got hit in the thigh. On what?

The bullet.

We were doing a bit of pig shooting. He tripped over and his gun went off. He's

nearly taken his leg off. What are you guys using, bazookas? You can't afford

muck around with wild pigs.

Careful.

Easy.

Big Sky Base. Riding in a Hotel Sierra.

Big Sky Base.

Shay, we're going to need an ambulance on standby when we arrive back. We've

a seriously injured man in the back here. His name's Mark Cooley.

All right.

How did you know he's not?

I helped put him in jail for selling high -grade weapons from the Army.

Now, Shay, call Lightfoot. All righty.

Lightfoot's going to be very interested now and patient.

Riding in a Hotel Sierra.

Big Sky Base.

Those Air Force blokes we were investigating a few months ago, the ones

were involved with elephants stealing weapons from the army.

Yeah, what about it?

Well, how many years would they have got for their part of the racket?

Not much change out of five years.

Then why was I airlifting one of them seriously injured out of the scrub

Which one?

Cooley.

He was there with some of his heavily armed huss -looking mates.

They claimed they were shooting pigs.

You don't need M16s to shoot pigs, do you?

M16s. They also had some very sophisticated radio equipment, a

And the clothing and everything, it all looked military -issue.

If you get back out there, take some photographs. You know the drill.

I'll go and find Cooley.

Has Ian said anything to you about... I don't know, has anything been worrying

him lately?

Why?

He said he thought he was in trouble, but he didn't get a chance to tell me

exactly why.

He has been a bit uptight, yeah.

He's probably trying to work out how to tell me it was over. Hey, hey, hey.

Enough of that.

I know how Ian feels about you.

There's got to be some other explanation.

It's taking so long. Why can't we just see him?

I don't know.

Lake Wallace?

Major Rowland. We spoke earlier.

I'm Ian's fiancée, Kathy.

I'd like to see him.

Perhaps you'd like to step into my office first.

Please, take a seat.

Hold black that Ian had come back here.

What's going on?

Yes.

To be more precise, he was brought back here.

I wasn't entirely frank with you before, Mr. Wallace, because of the sensitivity

of this matter.

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but Ian's a very sick man.

Sick?

What do you mean? Well, he was okay last night.

Well, it may well have seemed that way, but apparently he was on the verge of a

nervous breakdown. It seems he...

Collapsed early this morning and a couple of his friends brought him here.

Terry and Ron, right?

They were members of his regiment, yes.

Can you treat nervous breakdowns here?

Who said he's had one anyway?

I want to speak to the doctor treating him. Oh, yes, of course. We're all in

good time. No.

I want to speak to a doctor and I want to see my fiancé.

Now.

He's been heavily sedated. I still want to see him. We are members of his

immediate family.

down the floor. What are you doing to him? For his own safety, in case he

hurt himself. I wouldn't.

He's not staying here.

I want him back home with me.

There's a good hospital there, his own doctor, his family. Ian is receiving the

best possible care, believe you me.

I want him diagnosed by a doctor I know.

I want him seen by a specialist.

I understand your concern.

As long as Ian is an enlisted man, he's the army's responsibility and will be

cared for by our own medical personnel.

Now, we only have, uh... Short visit's here, so I have to ask you to leave now.

I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not leaving him here like this.

I would prefer not to be forced into escorting you off the base.

The army can't do this.

I reckon they'll do whatever they want to. He's sick, Blake.

No.

No, I think he's in trouble.

You asked me how he's been acting lately.

Well, he's been strange.

Moody, irritable, paranoid.

He's had a nervous breakdown and I want him to have the best care there is.

Look, I want to have you look in his barracks. You go back to the plane, I'll

see you soon.

So, what are we looking for?

Well, it's a fishing expedition, really.

Anything that gives us a better idea of what those guys are up to out here.

Yeah, well, I hope none of them have got M6 fans to point at us.

That's why you've got to be quick.

I don't want to do too many overhead classes, flight and horse.

Okay, I've got my trigger finger ready. Let's do it.

See anything?

Nope. Maybe they've packed up and gone home.

What was that?

I hope it wasn't something pointed at us.

Well, we're not going to hang around to find out.

Did you get any pictures?

Oh, yeah, I got plenty of pictures, but there wasn't much to look at.

What was that?

A lot of land excavation, mining.

Oh, yeah? I'm trying to keep an open mind, Chris. You know, I don't want to

to any conclusion.

Hey, who are you?

I'm Blake Wallace, Ian's cousin. I'm just here to collect his things.

Well, you're a bit late, mate. They went with him.

To sickbay? No, he's been transferred.

To Sydney.

No, I just saw him here in sickbay.

No, you can't have.

He was being transferred straight after he got married.

Are you sure?

Well, that's what the CO told me.

You were told to leave this base for a reason. I could have you charged.

I won't stop until I've found out where he is.

He's been transferred to Sydney.

He's being held at the Armed Forces Corrective Centre at Greenhills, pending

investigation into very serious charges of espionage and treason which have been

brought against him. What? We didn't want this situation getting out before

whole matter had been investigated fully.

Hence the cover story of an illness. You're wrong.

No way.

What are you supposed to have done? I'm afraid that's classified information.

But that's all I can say at this time.

I would suggest that you take no more interest in this affair.

It has nothing to do with you.

Mr. Wallace is ready to leave the base now.

This is Paula and Rosie.

Have fun. Thanks.

Morning. Hi, I'm Brad. This is Colin. Hi.

So your suit's all packed and ready to go?

Yeah, and I can't wait.

So you've obviously done this before?

Yeah, it's tradition.

Every vacation, our way of seeing the sights.

You get to know a place real fast when you hurl yourself at it from 10 ,000

feet. Yeah, good to do.

So what part of the state are you from? San Francisco.

Really? I stayed there with a friend for a couple of months. What part?

I'm just near Alamo Square.

Oh, you're kidding.

Small world, isn't it?

Now all the crockery started rattling and, like, the walls were shaking and

floor buckled. And everyone died for cover, but, you know, I've never been in

earthquake before, so I didn't know what was going on. I was in Frisco for the

last big one.

Oh, were you? I saw this road just split in two right in front of me. Oh, wow.

What did you do?

Turned around fast and got the hell out of there.

We're approaching the drop zone, guys.

See you down there.

See you down there.

All stations to Mora. Charlie Tango Delta is overhead to Mora at 10 ,000 for

parish and operations.

Canopy released in 20 seconds.

Sorry, it's a bit bumpy, guys. I'll try and keep it steady for you. No problem.

Woo! Woo!

Hey, it's ready.

Okay, let's go.

It's impossible.

Ian loves being in the army.

He'd never do anything to risk being thrown out.

Should we get him a lawyer?

No, look, as soon as I've taken you home, I'll go back to Sydney and see if

can find out.

You know, he said he's been acting strange lately.

When did it start?

It was when he got back after an exercise I did outside Winda a few

now. That's when he'd seen something.

What? I don't know. He didn't get a chance to say.

You think that's what he's in trouble for now?

It's possible.

The only way to really find out now is to talk to him.

Today was meant to be our wedding day.

It was going to be so special.

I love Ian.

I just want this to be over. I want him back.

Get him back, Pat.

Really bruised. I can't ring a doctor for you. It's really no problem.

A bit of ice, a couple of aspirin, I'll be fine. What are we going to do about

the others?

We were meant to meet up for a surface afternoon, remember?

Well, you'll just have to go without me. But you're my main man.

I'm not going to wreck your vacation, Colin.

Just go. I'll be okay.

If you're sure.

I'll see you back at the hotel.

Okay.

Look after yourself.

I will.

Thanks, Paula.

See you, Colin. See you.

Well, if you won't let me call the doctor for you, at least let me give you

lift back to the hotel.

You don't have to do that, really.

No, I want to.

Okay, if you insist.

Thanks very much.

Okay, you've got your remote control.

Great. Magazines. Thank you.

So, is there anything else that I can get you?

Well, if you wouldn't mind, I'm really hungry.

All right, then I'll just ring up room service for you.

You're lazy.

This place isn't ritzy enough for room service.

Okay, well, why don't I just go out and get you some takeaway?

Oh, no, I was just going to ask you if you could tell me somewhere good that

delivers, and I'll just call. Yeah, but then you've got to get up and get to the

door, so I'll just go and get you something.

What do you feel like?

Pizza?

That'd be great, and if you could pick up a couple of beers as well? Yeah,

Oh, with the bride gorgeous?

No luck?

No, usual run around. Can't give you that sort of information.

I'll need to go to Green Hills in person tomorrow.

Something to show me. Something to do with whatever it was he saw that he

shouldn't have.

Like what?

You mentioned trucks.

What do you mean?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Sorry.

That's okay.

You know, Blake, maybe you should speak to Lightfoot.

Maybe he could pull a few strings for you.

Yeah, maybe.

It's going to be all right.

I

know

they're not much to look at, but we didn't want to hang around given the

circumstances. Understandable.

Not much to go on, really.

We're going to have to go in by road so you can see from the ground.

What do you mean we? We're dealing with some seriously armed men here. Shouldn't

we be bringing in your federal police mates?

Normally, yes.

But someone got Cooley out of jail.

We make this investigation official now, we could tip that someone off.

So we sneak in, take a peek and hope nobody sees us?

You're my only option at this point.

I'll arrange a digital camera so you can relay back what you see to me.

You won't be joining us?

I'll find out who owns that land, who's leasing it and what they want it for.

Oh, well, if we're going to get our heads blown off, I can't think of anyone

else I'd rather do it with.

You didn't know what you liked, so I just got you one with a lot.

Fantastic.

Help yourself.

Oh, no, I won't stay.

Oh, you've got to have some of this.

I'll never finish that.

You sure?

Yeah, why don't you get yourself a beer?

Oh, OK.

So, what do you do when you're not jumping out of my plane on your

holiday?

I'm in the marine.

Oh, so you're a sailor.

Does that matter?

No.

We don't all have a girl in every port, you know? Oh, look, even if you do,

it's, you know, who am I to judge?

I'm just saying you haven't walked into a cliché, if that's what you think.

Ask these two French motorcycle police, and I don't speak French, right? And I

had no idea what was going on in the middle of this conversation.

My dad comes around the corner, we go to skateboards, right? And he'd be, hold

on, and we'd be just riding like crazy.

Oh,

God.

What? It's 5 .30. I'm really sorry. I don't usually stay and babble onto

like this. Well, look, to be honest with you, it's really the best night I've

had in ages.

Yeah, me too.

Well, well Maybe we could try again sometime.

Yeah How about tonight?

Yeah Say around 8 o 'clock

I'm here to see my cousin, Corporal Ian Wallace. I understand that he's here.

I'm sorry, Corporal Wallace has not permitted any unauthorised visitors.

So how do I get in to see him? Well, you could put a request in with the

commanding officer in writing.

I want to see him now.

I'd be happy to pass it on for you, sir.

Just let me in. I just need to see him.

I don't think that's a very good idea, sir.

I'm sorry.

You just point the little camera here, press the button, go through the laptop,

through the mobile phone, via satellite, and straight to Lightfoot.

I love it, guys. We've got the best gadgets and the riskiest jobs.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, actually.

Do you think we should maybe, like, have a, I don't know, like, a cover story,

just in case we bump into some, you know, heavily armed clowns who ask us

we're doing?

Is there anything you can think of that they would actually believe?

All right, players.

Geologists?

I think it's better we just don't run into anyone.

Metalers. They'd be wanting to take photos of, you know, like, iron ore

and rich themes of copper.

Huh?

You're sure the nervous breakdown was just a

ruse that your cousin wasn't really ill?

Am I, though, holding him at Green Hills, a military prison?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with my cousin.

If he said he saw something, then he did, and now he's in trouble for it.

All right.

I'll see what I can do.

Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

Chris and Jimbo just called. They're on the way to the site now.

Good.

You won't forget about Ian.

Yeah, it's all right, Blake.

See? I told you he could help you out.

I have another problem with the army. One of the pilots, a big guy, a cousin,

enlisted. He's got himself into some serious trouble and they can't find out

full story.

Do you want me to get on to the minister, see what's going on?

Oh, Blake's a good fellow. I'd like to help him if I can.

I'm sure a few discreet, unofficial inquiries can't hurt.

Wallace, Corporal Ian Wallace.

Told you all this before, sir.

And I want to hear it one more time, Corcoran.

Exactly what did you see and where?

During the joint training exercise out near Windah, I was out doing

reconnaissance.

Alone? Yes, alone. That was the order. I was one of the scouts that went ahead.

We came across a building like a bunker.

Out in the middle of nowhere.

And exactly where were you at this point?

I don't know exactly. I sort of lost my bearings. I was wondering where I was

when I came across it. What was this building?

Don't know.

Didn't have a name on it or anything.

Thought it probably belonged to a mining company.

But then I saw a US Army vehicle driving into it. They were unloading something.

What?

Couldn't see exactly what, but it was obviously fragile. They were taking

care with it.

And this is what you took photographs of? Yeah.

I thought it was probably part of the exercise.

I didn't want to stuff it up. I thought maybe this was what I was meant to be

scouting.

So what did you do with the photos?

I gave them to the officer in charge, in case that's what I was meant to do.

So that's it.

Next day another officer came to see me, told me to forget I'd seen anything,

shut up about the whole thing.

So what happened to the negatives?

I threw them away.

I thought the photos were part of the exercise.

I didn't know how to keep them. So you're absolutely sure you destroyed the

negatives?

Yes. Why do you keep asking me that? I've told you, I haven't got them.

Excuse me, Major, there's a phone call for you.

Okay, the order's not to be interrupted.

It's the Major General.

He says it's urgent.

that you didn't dispose of them.

I suggest that it's in your best interest to tell me where they are as

possible.

I don't understand how the matter became known to you.

The family have been asking a few questions, but that's all. It couldn't

gone that far.

The minister?

Well, of course the situation has to be rectified.

Surely there must be another way, sir.

Yes, sir.

I understand.

It will be.

Take Corporal Wallace back to his cell.

Chris, that explosion we saw the other day... Yeah, what about it?

You don't think that was set off by unwanted visitors walking where they

shouldn't, if you know what I mean?

Well, we'll just have to be careful where we put our feet, won't we?

Yeah.

Look how many of them there are. There must be, what, 30 more.

Well, what do you know? Another old friend.

That's cool, this boss Briggs.

He ran the stolen guns deal from the Air Force present.

What, did they all get out of jail pre -cards?

Get a shot of that guy there.

What, another one?

Well, another one of Cooley's mates. That's spud.

They stick together, don't they?

Extraordinary.

That's all three of the Air Force officers charged in that gun smuggling

operation with Ellison.

What the hell are they doing out there?

And why?

There's enough men there to form a small platoon.

The plot's taken.

Foreign money's running the show.

Mercenaries. So some conflict over here?

It's possible.

Well, let's hope so.

What if their eventual mission is a local one?

I reckon I can get a better shot of them from that ridge up there.

No, we've got enough to show Lightfoot.

Let's just get in the car and get out of here.

It's time.

It's got Wallace and Silky.

Do you know what has happened?

Yes, sir.

Get on the train, Commander.

We're all high.

Gunnery.

You're free to go.

Oh, come on.

You mean it? I can just go?

I'm ordering you to.

The charges, they're going to be dropped.

You're to be dishonourably discharged.

On what grounds?

You'll be formally notified in due course.

I don't understand.

Is that the

idea?

Is it a trap?

Well, if it is, maybe now's the time to tell them we're metallurgists.

Hope you know where we're going. I was following you.

Hey, there it is.

Hold on, we're all going.

There they are. Open fire!

Maybe we should say we're environmental activists.

No, that's the only way we can do it.

Try the geological line? No, just keep running.

What are these guys? He's for breakfast.

Go, go, go.

I'm sorry, but there must be some kind of mistake. Can you just check again?

It's room 26.

There's got to be a message for me.

I'm sorry.

He checked out this afternoon.

Oh, um... So he didn't leave a forwarding address or a message?

I'm sorry.

He was a visiting serviceman, wasn't he?

You sure?

Okay.

Thanks.

It's the Pentagon.

What?

That's who's bankrolling this private army.

And nobody in our government knows anything about it.

That's the way it looks.

Well, we would have known this information much sooner.

Why are the Americans playing soldiers on our soil?

Well, let's get the federal police to get out there and find out.

No, that's too sensitive.

If we put a foot wrong, the consequences could be politically catastrophic.

No, we tread quietly.

I'll go out there myself.

Hang on a sec.

Ian! What are you doing here? Let me out. I don't know why. You've got to be

following me. Have you still got the rings?

Yeah, of course.

Give them to me. I've got to hide them.

Well, where are you going?

I don't know. Somewhere safe.

They'll be coming after me, I know it. This has got to be where they let me go.

They know I've got these.

God, what? I mean, where are you going to go? I haven't worked it out yet. I'll

call you.

He's dead.

They let him out.

They killed him.

They ran over him.

It looked like an accident.

He did see something.

He wasn't making it up.

That's what the army didn't want him to see.

You see?

He wasn't mad. He wasn't imagining it.

The army had him killed for this.

I'm not going to let him get away with it.

What are they unloading?

Where were these taken?

He said it was on a joint exercise just outside a window.

A joint exercise with who?

The Americans.

being paid by our friends in the bush.

A coincidence.

Maybe they knew somebody was one of them.

Black, Lightfoot, I want police out here.

Need the whole area combed for any clue, any indication of where these men are

gone. Right.

Damn it. Damn it.

You all right?

Best time of my life.

I don't know what's going on.

We've got fully armed mercenaries out there, and I don't know where they're

going to turn up or what they're going to do.

Assassinate somebody.

Break strikes, take hostages.

I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do about it.