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IED in the living room, stuff everywhere, it'd be a punish for a bot.

State cops snapped this before they worked out it's Commonwealth land and called us.

Looks self-contained.

Go in your cube.

Let's have some fun.

Maybe I'll move my mother-in-law in here.

With or without the IED.

Either way.

Alright, get it done, guys.

In and out.

Jackpot.

Built the debt.

Boss, we right to clear this?

You sure that's it?

Yeah, there's nothing else that can hurt us.

Clear it.

What's happening?

Just a fried circuit.

Damn, almost soiled the suit.

Again.

We're good.

Copy that, sending in the closes.

Get the debrief done, then that's lunch with me.

Get a wriggle on.

Might still make the macca's breakfast menu.

Missed out on all the fun, as usual.

Someone kill that thing, would ya?

What the hell's that?

Just an old fire alarm skip.

We're good.

What's the nice one, Paul?

Made it worse.

Goes okay.

They did so.

Ta-da.

How about we uh up the stakes?

Seriously, mate?

Three-card Monty?

You know he's hustling you, right?

Please, do y'all know who you're dealing with?

A sap?

Schmuck?

A sucker?

A man that sees what others don't.

That's what makes me.

A good cop.

It makes you delusional.

Oh yeah?

Well, how about you open your eyes, Evie Wonder?

Check out the card on the right.

Notice anything unique about it?

Corners bent.

It's the ace.

Now light him up, T-Dog.

Show Papa D that ace.

Oh!

Look, Dave, it's your spirit animal.

But the corner is deliberately bent.

Tricks you into thinking you've out-hustled the hustler.

Specifically designed for people who think they're the smartest in the room.

Oh, snap!

Ouch!

Double or nothing.

Oh, I meant to ask, how'd the post-break-in order go?

The flyaway team from Singapore concluded that nothing had been stolen and our systems don't seem to be compromised.

Although Blue is being blue.

All right, do you want me to put out a bolo for two sad-looking blokes in Balacloves?

I mean after all that they're left empty-handed, right?

About that.

What the hell happened?

I said it was Clee.

They're all gone.

What do you mean?

Send me the address.

What's going on?

It's your old team, mate.

How many dead?

Over.

I'll get my kid.

As far as we know at this stage, we'll go through the infrastructure.

Where we at?

The structure's clear, the DVI team's located all the bodies.

Rory, sorry to meet you under these circumstances.

Michelle Mackey, NCIS.

Here to help any way we can.

What do we know?

Earlier this morning, local cops received an anonymous tip about a bomb on the property.

We rolled in, disarmed it, and uh

Team went in for debrief.

You sent the team in before it was clear.

What was the second evase?

We don't know yet, but moments before it blew, the dogs reacted to something.

Reacted to what?

There's a high-pitched sound, seconds before detonation.

Mind if I take a look?

We're at your disposal, mate.

Anything you need.

I bet a one-way trip to Uluwatu.

About time.

I asked for an assistant an hour ago.

Oh, I think you've got me mixed up with someone else.

Why?

Who are you?

I am NCIS forensic pathologist Dr.

Royce Penrose.

Oh, and I'm sure your mother's very proud.

You search for limbs, I'll deal with the intact bodies.

Just try not to stomp all over them.

Yeah?

Marco was my number two before I was benched.

Just had a second kid.

Need a moment?

Might bring him back.

How is any of this still standing?

The blast was mostly shrapnel.

Take a look at the bolts and screws in the wall.

The bomber didn't want to destroy property, he wanted to take lives.

So why target an abandoned building?

Are you gonna kill vagrants and vandals?

Sure, until someone makes an anonymous call.

And then you get a room full of barn techs.

So, first advice lures them in.

Second takes them out.

Yeah, with five-inch bolts travelling 3,000 feet per second.

The bomber glued them to the back of the ply and then sealed the fireplace with it.

That was the second device?

The blast seep, yeah.

The bomber rigged it as a shape charge.

Enhance the explosion.

Concentrate the blast towards its victims.

Farmer knew what he was doing.

Who's that a QR code?

This is just the start.

Strikeforce name is Lone Wolf.

You'll be operating with full counter-terrorism powers.

Now, won't you take a look at something?

That is the bomber trying to get inside our heads.

With every tick of that clock, he's trying to rattle us and make us slip up.

But that is not going to happen.

And you know why?

Because we are going to put all our focus here.

We're going to think about them, about their families, their loved ones.

The kids and what kind of hell they're going through right now.

And then we are gonna go out and nail this bastard to the wall.

Now go!

Well we can for entering them.

Sign-off came through from Canberra.

NCIS will augment the AFP strike force.

What do you need?

Start with a list of potential targets, focus on public events within our four-hour window.

That's not what he's after.

You want mass casualties.

You don't leave a bomb in an abandoned house.

You don't leave a countdown.

What is he after then?

Take a look.

It's all a big game to him.

We're playing right into his hands.

I'll be sure to pass that on to the replacement team en route from Melbourne.

Let me brief them.

Trigger.

I've been there.

I've done it before.

I can work with them.

They're a standalone unit.

They'll be fine on their own.

He's a bomb tech.

One of the best.

Your words are not mine.

Yeah, that's why I need him here.

Sift through bomb component room, find this guy's signature, get me an ID.

Got it.

You sent Trigger my way, mate.

Said he needed help.

That was enough for me.

I didn't ask any questions, but I'm asking now.

You know, I brought Trigger with me from the State Coles.

Yeah, pulled him into the bomb squad.

So what's the issue?

There was an incident.

The kind that gets you sent to the sixth floor for a psychoval.

What happened?

There were concerns that he may have a suboptimal self-preservation reflex.

The hell does that mean?

It's shrink speak for death wish.

You don't put people like that around things that go burn.

Yes, Commissioner.

So AFP have provided us with a live beat of the strike for.

Which grants us access to all AFP leads in real time, including this: analysis of the explosive residue.

Ammonium, nitrate, and diesel.

Info.

Correct.

Trouble is diesel isn't traceable and the ammonium nitrate doesn't match to any commercially available product which means it's homemade.

Our bomber has a chemistry degree.

But you've still got to get your hands on it.

It's easier to get tickets to the MCG on Grand Final Day than a pallet of ammonium nitrate.

So, where'd he get it?

There was a theft from Sydney Chemical Company two weeks ago.

How much was taken?

150 kilograms.

Trigger reckons the amount used in the house explosion was about five to ten kilos max.

So there's 140 kilos still out there?

Enough to create the Sydney Opera House.

It says here: the burglar used two small charges to break into the warehouse.

The first knocked out power, including CCTV.

And the second was used to gain access to the storage area.

No, that can't be right.

Bombing the security panel would only disable the system.

It wouldn't open the door.

Blue, liaise with AFP.

See if you can get access to the warehouse security server.

And find out how they really got in on it.

Hey.

What you looking for?

Dead cords, componentry, some ball makers.

Leave a signature.

Can we help?

Sure.

Go study bomb-making for a couple of years and then report back.

Trigger.

Give us another job.

Only way getting rid of us.

Yeah, I'm starting to say that.

Forensics pulled this from the wall.

A camera?

You think our bomber was watching?

Probably how he knew when to detonate.

That, and he gets to say his handiwork in action was me.

Was running a feed.

Well, maybe we can find out where it was transmitting to.

Track the feed, find the bomber.

Guess you've had something to do then.

It makes me sad and blue Was on a rainy night like this

Why?

You think you're the only Marty Robbins fan around here?

It's not your fandom I'm objecting to.

It's the backing vocals.

What?

You don't like my singing?

Is that what it was?

A real charmer, you are.

Thought a cat was being tortured.

Funny, because you seem more the animal-harming type.

I'm great with animals.

Evidently better than people.

My heart is filled with fear The only sound within the room is the falling

I've eaten you.

Oh, come on, really?

Marty is a solo actor.

Fine.

Fine No berry flow tomorrow, but

They're hanging me tonight They're hanging me tonight Night cannot come soon enough

Oh, good taste finally prevailed, did it?

Hello, mate.

I'm collecting any foreign bodies removed from the victims.

Here we go.

Nuts and bolts mostly, but have found some circuitry and wiring.

I remember this.

Car bombing on Mitchell Street, right?

Yeah.

Two years ago, detonator relied on a subauditory frequency triggered by that.

And now, TOC found this.

Same mode of detonation.

Are you saying the bombings are linked?

I'm saying it's the same bomber.

We need to tell the others.

What?

How come you already had this file?

Um, I was a part of the original investigation.

In what capacity?

One of the victims was my fiancée.

I just got to the bus stop now.

I slipped through my alarm.

Uh not really, I haven't thought that far ahead.

Okay, sure.

I didn't know that you could cook that.

Actually, I didn't know that you could cook at all.

I'm joking, I am joking, of course.

Coffee counts.

If you've made it trial, then I'm gonna love it.

Or I'm gonna order takeaway.

I gotta go, babe.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, I love you.

We'll go over our bows tonight.

Okay, okay, I love you.

I love you.

Bye.

Hey little guy, what's got you all riled up?

Two years ago next month, four wounded and three dead.

The bomber used the same ampho mix as today and devices used in both bombings were detonated via a sub-audible frequency.

It's picked up by a receiver which then detonates the explosives.

Why the extra degree of difficulty?

This is calling Corin.

He wants us to know it's him.

Who was the original target?

There was an Islamic school nearby.

It was damaged, but no one claimed it.

How does that connect to an attack on five bomb techs?

It doesn't.

Trigger.

Got a minute?

Is this where you tell me that I'm too close to the case?

It's not really how I roll.

But I am asking if you're okay.

No, I'm not.

Good.

Good.

I'd be worried if you were.

So, now the welfare check's out of the way, what's our next move, soldier?

Well, there's a guy, Kyle Haddon.

He lived across the street from the bus stop.

Shrapnel from the blast severed his spinal cord.

He spent months in a coma.

So he saw the bomb?

Fleetingly.

His recollection was scrappled by the bomb.

He gets images, but they're fuzzy.

Are you still in contact?

Yeah, I swing by from time to time, make sure he's okay.

Swing by today.

Far as we know, he's the only person who's ever seen the bomber, which makes him our best lead.

Take Evie with you.

Got you something?

It's war.

I read somewhere you supposed to offer food when someone needs consoling.

So you got me a danger bar.

Mr.

Sean's.

He went with it.

Not looking too dangerous.

Is is that where we're good.

It's good to see you, bro.

Yeah, you're looking good, mate.

How's Rehab?

Oh, you know.

Took some steps the other day without using the rail.

There you go.

Killing it.

Still, I guess you're not here to discuss rehab?

Is this Evie?

She's a fan of

I'm a constable with the AFP.

Evie Cooper.

Um, there was another bombing, Kyle.

I saw it on the news.

You think it's the same guy?

It could be.

Last time I dropped by, you said you were getting bits of memory back.

Just flashes.

Like what?

I don't know.

Like the bodies the smell.

Look I know it's tough mate, but I'm gonna need you to dig deep here, okay?

Is there anything else you can remember?

Even the smallest detail

Travis mentioned that you saw the bomber.

Not really.

I was riding home on my bike.

About to head inside and I see this dude parked in the bus zone.

Parking the car up the walk.

Remember thinking he was gonna get a ticket.

The parking cops are out and he was gonna get done.

You saw his face.

Barely.

A few seconds later, everything went white.

I woke up in a hospital bed.

Take us back to those few seconds beforehand.

Maybe close your eyes.

How tall is he?

Is he similar to you?

Yeah, I guess.

How about his build?

Short, medium, stocky?

Kinda normal.

What about his hair?

Carl, think.

I'm trying.

You said that you could see him.

The changes.

I don't know if it's my mind playing tricks or.

I'm sorry, Trev.

Honestly, man, I'm so sorry.

I can just.

Loki wants to help.

He can't think clearly with you here.

So in the nicest possible way, take a hike, button.

Uh, workmate, I'm sorry, it's just uh Charlotte, I get it.

Well, I'm going to head out, but Avie's going to stay and ask a few more questions.

My man reckons you should never have a hard conversation without a cup of tea.

Then we can work through this together

I don't know if I'm gonna be much help.

Yeah, that's okay.

But we do this in your own time.

There's no rush.

Told you it was too gloomy in here for a wedding.

One barefoot on the beach would have been better.

No, you're right.

Why settle for sun and sand when you can have.

Bad lighting and religious guilt.

You said yes, remember?

Because you've asked.

Yeah, it didn't help, and I wanted that Harley.

Because I prefer you with all of your limbs intact?

It meant so much to you to get married, all of your cop buddies did.

I would have been married by Olis in a casino if it meant I could spend the rest of my life with you.

I hate to break to you, Trav, but Olis has left the building.

Hey, what's with the one-way trip to Uluwatu?

Is it some kind of bro code?

It started maybe 20 years ago on a surf trip to Indo.

I just finished my first year of teaching and Rory was a wet behind the years probationary constable.

The tour boat dropped us at a reef break off Uluwatu.

It's just me and Rory and the most incredible right-hander you've ever seen in your life.

And we just surfed that all morning.

By the early hour boat, we were cooked.

So we just waited for the boat to return, but it never did.

So what did you do?

We just hang on our boards and hope the boat returns or try and paddle back.

Yeah, we're just dumb kids, you know.

Yo, take a look.

So, I had Blue Runner trace on the keyhole cam that we found at the blast site, linked to an IP address and a phone from a car parked a block away from the crime scene.

Can we trace the phone?

No.

It's only on for a total of 15 minutes, but we can't trace this.

Great Commodore, license plate JYS92XAD.

Registered to an Alan O'Connell address?

Registration links it to a public housing block in Waterloo.

You good?

Yeah, yeah, just a little deja vu.

Bring the BK.

Take a photo, it lasts longer.

Do you own a gray Commodore?

I wish.

Five litre V eight, mind you, not your Gutler Six.

What type of car do you own?

I don't.

I lost my licence years ago.

No one told me.

Codeine and whiskey don't mix.

Something tells me she's not our guide.

You think?

But the bomber sent us here.

Why?

Anyway, I was wondering when you blokes would turn up.

What are you talking about?

Package delivered early today, no return address.

Oh, there was a note.

What notes?

Yeah.

We're negative for metal and chemical traces.

No way this little guy's going to blow.

As we expected, Car Regio was faked.

The bomber must have hacked his way into the transport authority.

To send us here.

Big ears must be some kind of message.

So what's the message?

Your guess is as good as mine.

This apartment must mean something to the bomber, or he wouldn't have gone to all this trouble.

Must have meant something to you too, mate.

What was that deja vu all about?

What are they ever about?

Yes, ma'am.

Uh yeah, it is the bombers messing with us.

It's alright.

Want to talk about the elephant in the room?

Which one?

The one Rory's riding while he holds out on us.

Hey, Serge.

D, I need a deep dive in all past tenants at our current address.

You got it.

But I don't want you to worry about the bomber, yeah?

I just want to talk about the day itself.

Like what was the weather that day?

I don't know.

I can't remember.

Okay.

Is there anything you do remember?

Seagulls.

They were fighting over a piece of silky bread.

It's gone crazy.

Forgotten that till this moment.

It's funny what comes back when you don't push it.

I can see why Travis likes you.

What makes you say that?

Know how hard he took the loss of his fiancé, Charlotte.

Glad he's finally moving on.

Right with me?

Well, that car bomber really messed you up, didn't it?

Sorry I do that.

I I didn't mean to offend you.

No.

I just had one of my flashes.

Of the bomber?

I can see his face.

Evie?

Hello.

I'm with Kyle.

I need you to run an E-Fit.

Okay.

Um.

I can stream it to your tablet.

I'm gonna give you this.

Hello?

Hello, it's Kyle, isn't it?

My name's Blue.

I'm going to try and help you by getting a sketch of the guy that you saw.

Okay, Kyle.

Shoot me.

Yeah, that's right.

1224 Hill Street, Waterloo.

Sure, I'll hold.

What are you doing?

Farmer sent the team to a random apartment.

JD wants me to chase up the past tenants.

The man you want is Jason Wright.

How do you know?

Is that the apartment where I shot him?

Before AFP, I was with the state cops as part of tactical response.

My first warrant drop was 10 years ago.

An arm dropper named Jason Wright.

Wright was wanted for shooting and killing a cop during a bank job.

Intel said he was armed.

That's the same apartment the bomber sent us to.

Wright was on the couch.

He reached for a gun.

I fired two shots and he died instantly.

Rory was your team leader, right?

Yeah.

Why keep that to himself?

I don't know, ask him.

We did everything by the book.

The bomber left a toy elephant at the site of the shooting, with a note, said we were getting warmer.

Does that mean anything to you?

Wright had a son.

He was there in the apartment when his dad got shot.

The poor kid had to walk past the dead body on his way out.

Timothy James Wright, Mother Lucy Wright died when he was eight years old.

Drug overdose.

After his dad's death, it said Tim became awarded to state.

Where is he now?

Nothing on file.

Looks like he slipped off the radar.

That's because he's our bummer.

His face was kind of less round.

Sort of more narrow.

More narrow.

Okey-dokey.

Hairline was further back.

I'm sorry, I don't know if I'm being much help.

No, you're doing great.

So, what happens now?

So, I'll run generative AI and that will take what you've given me and give us a more lifelike concept.

I need a minute?

Yeah, of course.

Blue, how long?

Two shakes of a ram's quail.

Okay, here we go.

That is Alboma.

It's uncanny, isn't it?

Evie?

Evie?

Evie can't come to the phone right now.

Evie!

Evie!

Evie!

Clear!

Clear!

Clear!

Civies, where would Carl be taking her?

Why take her at all?

I don't get it.

Is Carl faking it this whole time?

No, I was there at the aftermath of the car bomb.

I saw his wounds.

So he was injured by his own bomb?

Yeah, because he likes to watch.

Though maybe he got too close.

He hid his recovery from me.

Take shot, Phil, are you kidding me?

What are you doing?

Write his son!

Huh?

I thought it was a coincidence.

Oh, coincidence, my ass, mate.

You've been withholding this whole time.

We could have had Kyle hours ago.

Now he has Evie, and that's on you!

Go for trigger.

Hello, Travis.

Evie says hi.

I swear to God, you lay your hand on her.

I know.

I know.

You won't rest until you've run me down.

Right now, Evie's welfare depends entirely on what you do next.

So, listen carefully.

Right, Kyle Haddon first comes on the grid with a driver's licence four years ago.

Before that, nothing.

Okay, so change his name.

Tim Wright becomes Carl Haddon.

So what?

Yeah, we still don't know what his game is.

If he's got a plan or if it's all just random.

I don't think it is.

I ran titled these on the abandoned house that blew.

It's Carl's first foster home.

So it's all personal.

Triggers all crew, the bus stopped bombing.

Charlotte wasn't just a random victim, she was the target.

This has all been about revenge on the person that killed his dad.

Where is Trigger?

I see you've made a full recovery.

What can I say?

It's a miracle.

Came alone like you asked.

Where is she?

That colour was meant for you, Travis.

Looks just as good on her.

Don't you think?

Trigger's phone's off.

Car's gone too.

Send your constable Travis riggs.

I need a location.

Every camera in the city.

Kyle takes Evie to flesh out Trigger.

It makes sense.

Okay, so we find Trigger, rescue Evie.

As long as we're doing it in 12 minutes or less.

Talk to you, Blue.

Kyle is telling us a story.

An innocent boy, Tim Wright, loses his dad and enters the system, where he's transformed into Kyle Haddon.

Our bomber with a grudge.

He fled his past, and now he's literally blowing it up.

Okay, so Kyle led us to the apartment where his dad died and his first foster home before that.

Which are both Tim Wright locations.

So, if this is a story of reinvention, when did Tim Wright become Kyle Han?

At the boy's home that he ran away from.

I'm sending the address to your phones.

Then he'd be back here right after the foster homes didn't work out.

That was my bed right over there.

You know what they gave us when we arrived?

A toothbrush and a stuffed toy, and they turn out the lights.

You're okay?

It's not the worst fashion choice I've ever made.

But it's up there.

It takes a special woman to laugh in the face of death, Travis.

I'm impressed.

I mean, she's no Charlotte, but Vegas can't be choosers, can they?

You got me here.

Now let her go.

But I don't want just you, Travis.

I want to take from you what you took from me.

I want to destroy everything that you care about.

Your dad killed a cop.

I was just doing my job.

I didn't think anything could be worse than that day, but I was wrong.

Every day it got worse and all of that is on you.

Your dad was gonna shoot us.

With what?

At 38 they found on him.

My dad only ever carried a pistol.

A revolver wasn't his.

So I'm going to try this one more time.

What was my dad reaching for?

He's a gun, you know that.

Babao again.

What was my dad reaching for?

His gun.

What was he reaching for, Travis?

His gun, you psycho son of a bitch.

Becca.

What the hell?

He's stealing time.

One nice try.

What do you say?

What do you want me to say?

Your dad was reaching for a gun.

Did you see it?

The gun he was reaching for.

Did you see it, Travers?

Police!

Police!

Oh, yeah, that's right.

You shot an unarmed man that day.

Hands in the air!

Go!

Yes, you did.

You created an orphan that day, too.

Now that orphan's gonna return the favour.

You better get to work, Travis.

Otherwise.

You're pulling her pretty little head out of the ceiling.