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Come on, cowboy.

(SQUEALS, LAUGHS)

Josh called me from a pay phone,

asking to get picked up.

I told him to walk home.

Feeling guilty doesn't make you guilty.

Whitefella man come down here

and gave us some money to sign some papers.

Jack was director of a civil engineering company.

What were they meant to build?

20km stretch of road.

Never got made.

Jack was caught up in something.

(GUNSHOTS) (SCREAMS)

Why are YOU still standing, champ?

(GUNSHOT)

Call Peter.

Morning.

You gotta go before them mob wake up.

You want me to come today?

Go on.

There's a bear in there. (TV PLAYS)

You could brush his hair, and I can brush YOUR hair.

Yeah. I want to comb his hair!

# Mr Bear. #

Brush the back.

It's alright, bub.

He'll be going in a minute.

(CHUCKLES) Mm!

(CHUCKLES) Brush.

Pretty hair.

Coffee on the table there for you.

Thanks, Mum.

He awake yet?

Xavier, you awake?

We're going soon.

The doors were wide open. That was all...

The couches were overturned. So everything was...

All of the artwork's gone, of course.

Oh. Yeah.

Something on that wall.

Yep.

(CONVERSATION CONTINUES FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

(CLOCK CHIMES)

Do you know who did this?

I mean, everyone in town knows I have an extensive art collection,

so...

Anyway, this is a list of all the items that were stolen.

What was here?

Oh, that was, um,

just a set of antique neck-chains that belonged to Dad.

Were they stolen too? Mm-hm.

Chains for hanging around people's necks?

Well, people pay good money for real history, so..

Anyway, uh, we'll make a list of all the stuff that's missing.

I mean, Gerry was very upset.

You know? She's been collecting all this for years.

So you didn't see or hear anything? No.

OK.

Is this the same people who robbed the pub?

Could be.

Are we being targeted?

Have there been any threats?

Uh, I don't think it's gone that far, but...

Could you give us a minute?

Yeah.

What's this?

I was hoping you could tell me.

Ah. Yeah, the launch.

That was a good night.

It was good of your dad to come down and show his support.

How's your family involved?

Um, we act as trustees for the roadworks money.

Make sure it actually goes to legitimate Aboriginal businesses.

Businesses like Jack's?

How do you mean?

I've been going through his paperwork.

Jack's a director of an earthmoving company funded by Abcorp.

And he used that company to defraud SOS Hire of $40,000.

What?

Hired equipment. Did no work. Never paid.

Oh, mate.

I...I had no idea.

Um...

Well, I'll call the foundation

and I'm sure they can cover the debt.

Um...

I'm sorry, Jay. I don't know what to say.

The truth would be good.

Oh, come on.

You knew Jack was involved in Abcorp.

Why didn't you tell me?

Your dad came to me as soon as we announced.

You know? He could see the possibilities.

He asked to be a part of it.

I said, "OK. You don't know anything about earthmoving,

"but we could get people to run it for you.

"You know? You could sit back like a figurehead,

"earn an easy 200,000 grand."

So what happened?

He was drinking, Jay.

And he started to gamble.

And pretty soon, there was no money left for the hire company.

And then he was back at me, asking for more money.

I didn't tell you because... what was the point, you know?

Jack's Jack. He was gonna do what he was gonna do.

And I'm sorry you found out like this, mate, I am.

I was just trying to do the best thing for the both of you.

Love you.

Love you, Mum.

Where were you?

Oh. Oh, sorry, Mum.

I'm tired. I'm gonna go to bed.

Come on, baby.

Come and lay down with Nanny.

How was it?

You knew what today was.

And you didn't give a shit.

That's not fair.

Oh, it's...

(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

Thought you were on afternoons.

Huh, bought a camcorder.

No, I didn't buy it.

What's this, 20 Questions?

It's the Kelly Gang's.

You're kidding.

This one?

How's this fucking work? How'd you get it?

Oh, good old-fashioned police work.

And on it are all the answers.

Are you meant to open it?

I just haven't figured out how to play it yet.

Alright, here we go.

Right?

Come on, we want to see the faces.

Hear the voices. Come on.

Is that your car? Yes.

(ON VIDEO) Go, go, go!

MAN: Oi! Oi!

Someone's stealing my truck, mate!

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hang on, they're inside here?

The smell.

Oh!

(ON VIDEO) How dare you speak to me like that?

Out you get, you little shit!

Piss off.

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

Cindy, go with him.

Alright. What do you want?

You want my car?

You.

Explain.

(ON VIDEO) You want my gun?

You want my gun?

Hey.

Can you give us a moment?

I was thinking if we can find Phoenix Lovell...

Anousha.

Yeah? Stop.

This is going around in circles.

Come on.

You know, what about Ziggy?

If...if she's innocent of Josh, it could be someone else.

You know, it was Josh's birthday today.

He would have been 24.

That door was unlocked.

I swear I locked it.

Have you moved anything?

No.

What is it?

Josh Allen's file.

It's gone.

('DOWN UNDER' BY MEN AT WORK PLAYS)

Hey, Sissy. We're just taking a look around.

# And gave me a Vegemite sandwich

# And he said, "I come from a land down under"

# Oh, yeah

WOMAN: You hungry, bub? Come on, we'll go get a burger, eh?

# Can you hear, can you hear the thunder?

Hey, what are you doing? Jay.

# A land down under

# Women glow and men plunder

# Yeah

# You better run, you better take cover

# Living in a land down under

# Women glow and men plunder... #

JAY: This gang have been telling us who they are the entire time.

CINDY: We've been thinking Ned Kelly's a message.

But it's just a mask.

This was never about the robberies.

88 isn't 1988, it's 1788.

Boundary Road was the line blackfellas had to stay one side of.

Massacre Creek.

Even the neck chains from the Southwells.

That tree near the roadhouse would have a story too.

They didn't care about the robberies.

This was about reminding this town of its past.

So they're Aboriginal?

Except for the white guy.

Got time for a chat?

What have you been up to?

Oh, just working on the car, you know?

Keeping your nose clean?

Yeah.

(MUNCHES) So the Kelly Gang is Aboriginal.

Do you know anything about that?

Hmm?

That's what I told the sergeant.

(MUNCHES)

Got a woman.

Good dad.

There's no way Xavier would risk that.

He's one of the good ones.

I need a few wins in my corner.

You understand?

Nah.

Well...

..if you see anything, you hear anything, you let me know.

(MEN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY)

He got me, he got me!

He got me.

What am I arresting you for?

Blackfella being drunk.

Country, you know anything about any young mob running around?

Running around how?

Running around with guns.

Stealing from people.

Who asking, nephew or policeman?

I'm asking.

Whitefella, American name.

Come down to our salt bush mob.

Talk about being a big hero over there.

And he gonna fight for us.

He's gonna fight for you?

Yeah, he's gonna fight for us.

You get his real name?

Nah. American man. American name.

Hey, anything?

Anything? What?

20 dollar.

I'm not going to pay you every time I talk to you.

You're my nephew. You're good boy.

Fella, hey! My favourite boy!

Here, come.

Hey, what beer now? Good one.

Morning, bub.

What did you call me?

Here.

(COUGHS) You trying to kill me or what?

We've gotta go soon.

You right?

So he was an American!

Just a name.

What's that mean?

That's all he said.

"American name."

No-one I know in this town.

There's been a lot of new workers at the mine.

Yeah. Right.

Yeah, I'll put Max on it. No, I can handle it.

No, no, you won't have time today.

Geraldine Southwell has got a group of foreign investors,

doing a mine tour,

and she wants you there as police back-up.

Why?

Oh, Cindy.

You're with Jay today. Where?

Welcome some investors.

Chinese ones.

Walk of shame.

(SCOFFS)

Has she had breakfast?

What, you don't think I can look after her?

You right, baby?

Where teddy?

(TV PLAYS IN BACKGROUND)

(HORN BEEPS)

Wait here. I'm not waiting in the car.

I think this will go better without uniforms.

(MAN SPEAKING CHINESE IN BACKGROUND)

Find out what they want and move them on.

(MAN SINGS IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE, STICKS CLAP)

(CONTINUES SINGING)

You gotta move, Country.

Let these mob through.

Don't talk. (CONTINUES SINGING)

This our land.

Our Dreaming. Our story.

(CONTINUES SINGING) (SPEAKS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE)

You go along.

Tell them.

(CONTINUES SINGING)

The heritage report has been approved

with full community consultation,

so I don't know what they're singing about.

I can't move them, Geraldine.

I don't have the authority.

You're the police, Jay. You are the authority.

What happening here, Ms Southwell?

It's, uh...

It's just some local troublemakers.

They don't speak for the community.

This is Cindy.

We have a gathering at the entrance of the Southwell mine.

Might need some assistance.

How long we got to wait this?

GERALDINE: I just want to reassure you...

Alright, come on.

You can do your little singsong somewhere else.

How you doing?

Come on. Up you get.

Fuck me, Jay.

You were supposed to take care of this.

(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) Yes.

I'll be forced to take further actions if you do not move.

Come on, up you get. (MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

Come on. You need to move.

Max, get out of it.

Country.

So you've made your point, right?

Now you've gotta go.

Alright, mate? OK.

Come on, mate.

Right.

Got that.

We'll talk about this later.

This was so generous of you to let me in here.

When's your editor back?

The pub bistro closes at 1:30.

What exactly are you looking for?

Not sure.

How long you worked here? Second year.

Enjoying it? Not really.

So, here she is. Alice.

Alice? Mm-hm.

Named after my grandmother, Alice Jardine.

And now she's been rehabilitated,

so we're ready to resume low-cost, high-grade gold production.

Texas!

With processes that we have now, we can extract gold from...

Thanks. ..ore that was previously unviable.

Here you go, champ.

The prices are at an historic low, and a new millennium is approaching.

Texas. The only way is up!

Detective Jay Swan.

Good to meet you.

Champ.

Alice was my... (CONTINUES SPEAKING IN BACKGROUND)

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

(STARTS ENGINE)

REX: Well, we have a witness

who says Josh told her you were on your way to get him.

MARY: She's lying.

I never did.

Mary, what happened to Josh?

Hey.

Wine?

Sure.

Nothing.

No-one's been in there for a while now.

So what'd you find out about him?

Uh, his name's Texas Hoffman.

He's a junior metallurgist at Southwell.

He's only been in town a couple of months.

So why is he robbing trucks?

Hey, you shouldn't leave me like that.

I was following my instincts.

Yeah, well, I'm a police officer too,

so why don't we start talking about our instincts?

OK.

So which way do you think he went?

Might have jumped the fence into the back alley.

Then what?

(TAPS FOOT)

Where are you going?

Jay.

Jay.

Fuck.

Hey, do you want ice with this?

I'm fine.

Didn't know Rex the cabbie was your dad.

(CHUCKLES) I told you, you spend a month here, you'll know everything.

He was a cop too.

Yeah.

He'll live longer as a cabbie.

Dad told me being police in the '70s was all ham, cheese and tomato.

Assault police, resist arrest, offensive language.

No sensitivity training back then?

Oh, God, no, no.

He must be proud of you. What you've achieved.

Are we really talking about my dad?

Rex ran the investigation into Josh Allen.

And you were the first officer at the crime scene.

Why didn't you tell me?

I knew you'd put two and two together.

Josh had bruises on his wrists.

These were written up as defensive wounds from his fight with Ziggy.

But they can also be caused by handcuffs.

There's no record of police picking Josh up that night.

Mm.

Here's something you don't know.

Catherine Allen found her daughter, Mary,

blacked out drunk in the front seat of her car

the morning after Josh died.

So?

Those injuries, the defensive wounds?

GP told us they could have been caused by falling backwards

after colliding with a motor vehicle.

Are you saying Mary ran him over?

Mm.

She covered it up.

I don't believe it.

She's a liar.

What did you do to Josh Allen?

Should I tell your father?

(PHONE RINGS)

(SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS IN DISTANCE)

(SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS)

(FAINTLY) This isn't good, mate.

He knows who I am.

Yeah, I'll, uh, be there.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Bye.

(THUMP!)

CINDY: Sissy.

You're not in trouble.

Sounds like I'm in trouble.

You know Texas, who drinks in here?

Uh-huh.

The one always trying to chat you up?

You jealous?

Have you seen him?

We think he might be involved in the robberies.

If you see him, you'll tell me, yeah?

Sorry.

Tex!

Get off!

Over there!

Hey!

Fuck.

Fuck.

That was Texas Hoffman.

Was that Sissy with him?

Yeah.

Where were you?

What the fuck?

No, Siss, this is good.

How is this good?

Because it's...it's happening.

It's about time people woke the fuck up.

You've taken it too far.

What are you talking about?

It's payback for this racist town.

You're so full of shit. Payback?

You never even grew up here.

Oh, so you're the real blackfella, are ya?

Domesticated, submissive, silent?

Someone has to stand up and talk for our mob.

Look around. Xavier. Me.

We're this town, not you.

Your country is up there on that hill.

The Southwell house.

Southwell money.

How fuckin' dare you.

Don't you ever tell me that I'm not a blackfella!

You'll be right, Teesh.

You'll do a bit of time.

Southwells will come in with their rescue squad of lawyers.

And the real injustice is anything we've done won't change shit!

I'll still be who I am and you'll still be who you are.

(CAR DOOR SLAMS, ENGINE STARTS)

You know you can park in the driveway.

Did you know?

What your brother and sister-in-law have been a part of all this time?

Don't lie to me, Mary.

I found little girl's bear at a crime scene.

Police will be here soon, and when they get here, I can't help you.

We don't need your help, Jay.

Oh, don't be stupid, Mary.

Let me talk to them.

You know, since you came here, you brought nothing but trouble.

I reckon it's time you leave.

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

Xavier, we've gotta go.

Come on, bub.

Go where?

Ah, sick of this hole. We need a holiday.

Have you seen the baby bag?

Oh! Mary!

You gonna tell Mum what you do?!

Who you rob?

You gonna tell her how you keep a gun in a baby's bag?!

What gun?

Look at all the shit we've gotta deal with.

Hey?

Coppers flog us.

Our mob in this town, drinking, fighting.

And whitefellas getting rich raping our country.

Doesn't it make you angry?

You don't think I'm angry?

Yeah, so why you dating a coconut?

Huh, yeah, you've picked your side.

You're a fuckin' idiot.

That girl's gotten into your head. This isn't you.

Fuck you, Mary. Knock it off, you mob!

You call yourself a mother.

What are you saying?

Anya's not going with you.

You tell me the truth.

Where you're going, what you're doing.

You think that's safe for her?

Come here, baby.

Come here.

Son...

(SOBS QUIETLY)

(DOOR SLAMS)

She said she didn't know anything, and I believe her.

Of course she knew.

My question is, why didn't YOU?

Bullshit. You don't know what you're talking about.

The gang we've been chasing for weeks

ends up being right across the road.

Family of the woman you've been fucking.

Oh, but you didn't know a thing.

That's some bullshit right there, Jay.

Careful. Yeah.

And up at the mine, with the salt bush mob?

This is why blackfellas don't make good police.

There's too much family.

There's too much obligation.

Yeah, you're right, Peter.

Here.

Keep the fuckin' thing. Oh, that's weak as piss, you know.

And good luck.

The gang's not done yet.

(RADIO PLAYS FAINTLY)

Dad.

I tried to call you.

Where's Anousha? I can't get hold of her.

I thought YOU might know where she'd gone.

You only sign up bush mob to build a road

that you actually don't wanna build.

Who signed you up?

I'm not gonna ask you again.

I'm just trying to find out what happened to my brother that night.

Please. Right now all we've got is pain.

You're on the wrong side of this fight!

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