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They were going to throw me off the cliff.

Hamlet's girlfriend was shouting, kill the fag.

It was a sport back then.

The Pointers took to the sport with a vengeance, led by Kyle Hampton.

Greg Mills, Dr Peter Levy, Ned Davies. You know, I knew a couple of the local

coppers. They weren't interested in Ned, they reckoned he was asking for it.

Nick, the numbers are growing.

26 years later.

These men would kill my courage.

It's a frenzy to solve.

Yeah, it's like this one was personal.

The DNA test results you requested?

Blood on the left side?

You're related.

Shane was not gay.

You bash innocent men and you throw them to their death.

Is that right?

I don't want anything to do with the cops. I don't want anything to do with

Hammers. There's someone luring people with that app and then killing them. You

shouldn't be on it yourself.

Your thruster guy.

He's online.

What? Tori, come on.

Oscar!

Having a smoke.

And I saw this fellow waiting for someone and this other fellow arrived.

Then I heard a sudden groan and I called out, everything all right?

Can you move?

Now, move. Then I walk around and see him lying there.

I saw a boy killed here.

That same spot, back in the struggle days.

He died in my arm.

You cops.

Didn't give a damn.

Could

have

been him.

Well, we need you to be certain.

It was dark.

What about weapons?

He had something in his fist, not a gun or a knife, but... No.

It was him.

He's a thug, sir.

He was a thug when he was a kid and he's a thug now.

You can't turn a blind eye forever.

I beg your pardon?

I've come across old paperwork that's left me with some questions.

Old charge sheets, charges dropped on your authority.

You call me here in the middle of the night to tell me that?

Who the bloody hell do you think you are?

Is he an informant? That's classified.

Hammers is a businessman.

He's got a local bar and intel suggests that he's involved in the O'Donoghue's

drug network, but nothing's proven.

Look, Boff, everybody knows you've got an impeccable record for drug busts.

Now... Maybe Hammers helped you get those.

And you can't say, well, we all understand that.

But Hammers is in deep shit.

And sometimes you've just got to cut your informants loose.

I'll tell you tomorrow.

We need to go tonight.

What do you have to find?

A club with Oscar's blood on it would be pretty useful, sir.

There's no way.

I'm going to ring a magistrate in the middle of the bloody night on such

flimsy hope.

Hammers. He's a manipulative piece of work.

But a thick fuck we're after.

Something else altogether.

Coming. Where were you last night?

At work.

Don't worry about leaving your race.

You should catch yourself a nice girl.

Where are you going?

Thanks.

At the hospital?

Yeah, brain scan's normal. They'll discharge Oscar today.

Good. It's a warrant for hammers.

You control your emotions and you don't get cocky. Either of you fuck me around,

I'll dropkick your arses right out of here.

Where was your husband last night?

At the green room, then home with me.

Where is he now?

No idea. We leave independent lives.

What time did he get in last night?

Don't know. I was asleep.

Oh, you smoker, Cheryl.

I'm the fitness trainer there, Kyle.

What's this?

Sex toys?

Fancy dress night at the club. Yeah, I heard fancy dress doesn't stay on long.

These are illegal.

Nick, do you or your husband have any fur garments in the house?

I belong to an organisation that's against cruelty to animals.

I'm going to continue the search.

Please go.

When Carl turns up, I'll tell him to call you.

Oh, you thought we just wanted to talk to Carl.

No, no, no.

Where were you Christmas Eve 1989?

A man was killed. I know you were there. I have a witness.

You can't rely on the words of a mad woman. She's insane.

You have no idea who my witness is.

The past is the past. We've all done things we regret. Maybe you'd like to

talk about it. This morning we were born again a new person. I'm not the person I

used to be. No, no, no. You don't get to get off the hook by mouthing some half

-baked philosophy.

You really want to pay for hammers?

You need to talk to me, Cheryl.

I'm racking my brain. Nothing's coming to me.

Watching a murder and doing nothing to prevent it leaves you equally culpable.

A young man was bashed and you were heard screaming, kill the faggot.

What kind of a person does that?

Let me go.

Why does your husband have a gun beside the bed?

In case he meets you on the beach.

One firearm, that's all you found.

Can you at least tell me it was unlicensed?

We're not sure what the weapon used on Oscar Taylor was, boss.

Any blood?

Not to the naked eye. It could have been wiped clean. But the thrust, the killer,

he definitely met one or more victims at the green room.

Hammers is connected, but we're just not sure how yet.

Well, pull your fingers out, will you? The public.

I want the head of the prick who talked to her. They don't want false trails.

Yes, boss.

Victoria.

Look at those.

I appropriated them sub-legally. They weren't in the warrant.

Hmm. The Donaghy brothers.

The Pointers.

Hmm.

Do you want me to know who this is?

Don't know.

Hey. Any wolves at Hammers?

Oh, I'm tempted to say yes.

No, why?

The lab just came back with results on that fur.

All right.

Arctic wolf.

Found in Canada.

Beautiful animal.

Predator. Brenda, you're a legend.

I know.

Arctic wolf hunts loner and pack that may look like a loner, but the wolf may

be out seeking prey for the pack or looking to make its own pack.

Only the alpha male can mate.

Please don't ask me about the past.

Sally, you can't stay quiet forever.

If you covered up a crime, you're part of it.

No matter how long ago it was.

How do you want to appear in court, as a witness or as an accessory to murder?

Because that one can carry a life sentence.

Just give me something so I can say you're cooperative, all right?

Can you tell me who these people are?

That's Cheryl.

Me, Hammers, Brett, Terry, Adamski.

Tom Katz.

That's Thomas Katz? Yeah.

And who's this young boy here?

Um... It wasn't like there was a regular gang, you know.

Hammers would pick up random kids, feed them fish and chips, make them feel

special.

The kid was such a weed. What was his name?

Um... Pea Sticks.

Pea Sticks.

Do you remember his proper name?

Mm... No, he was just a skinny kid who did Hammers errands.

I think it was a...

Relative of Hammond.

Do you think you would have witnessed any of the murders?

Sally, these secrets, they must be driving you crazy.

Imagine what it's doing to the families of the victims.

Imagine if it was your son.

Mom?

What's going on?

Nothing.

Um, detective's just asking me about a missing person.

They've come to the house.

They've taken Jason.

They've taken my son.

Whatever you think of me, my son's innocent.

You've got to get him back.

Okay, Sally, I need you to focus on what you heard and what you saw.

Brett O'Donoghue called, said, I made a mistake talking to the cops.

Said, Hammers warned him that cops were digging around, that the point is we're

going to be set up for the murder of Tui and some Arab payback.

Payback? Payback for what? For an act in the past?

I said it didn't matter what I told you. You already knew the truth.

He called me a fucking bitch and hung up.

He's a good boy.

I don't want them getting to him.

Sally, they are afraid.

They're afraid you can put them in prison. And that is one way we can deal

with them, all right?

Get my son back.

Please.

Can you do that?

I'm going to have a piss.

Get us a coffee.

Oh, fuck off.

Two sugars.

Do it yourself.

Brad! Come on!

Hands on your head! Hands on your head!

Brad! Drop the weapon, Terry.

Drop the gun now, Terry.

Where's the kid?

Where is Jason?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Where is he?

I'm not saying nothing until we get our lawyer.

Right, Brett, nothing.

There's enough drugs here to keep them out of Bondi until they're pensioners.

Yeah, get a shot of the police car.

With the lights? Yeah.

Terry's full of himself, so I'll take him back to the office. Just let him

stew a bit. You must.

You try and open up bread a bit, eh?

I think our guest, well, he deserves a scenic read. Let him enjoy the outside

view.

This is going to be his last.

It's never happened, okay?

Let's go get the kid.

Sally, we've got Hammond for abduction, assault, deprivation of liberty, and

when we get the DNA results, murder.

He's going away for a very long time. He won't hurt you or Jason ever again.

Now will you talk?

Did you kill Harris Rexhaj?

No.

Did you kill Christopher Toohey?

No way.

Toohey was a mate.

Did you kill Greg Mills?

I did my time for that.

Well, your lawyer, she's on her way.

But in the meantime, it'd be useful if we could go over the Greg Mills murder

in 1990.

We were just kids, out for a good time.

This night was different.

There was this, um...

electricity in the air like there was going to be a storm.

The boys were preparing like for a hunt.

Saturday night, you know, what are you going to do?

We go down to the park and bash fags.

Get money out of it? Well, we have a piss-up or something.

I'm not proud of it, but we weren't the only ones doing it. It was up and down

the coast.

Bag-bashing.

I'm just telling you like it is.

They'd done it before.

You could tell.

It was all mapped out.

Every move.

He jumped up, lost his glasses, stumbling.

Damn it.

Gdansky started hitting him.

Greg Mills didn't wear glasses.

That was a man called Ned Davies.

Turned the tape off.

Not enough until my lawyer gets here.

He was bleeding pretty bad.

Hammers was freaking out.

Got to chuck him over.

I called out, don't, please don't.

And they flung him over the cliff and

let go.

And there was a thud.

Sally, you're doing really well.

The waves were crashing over the rocks.

I thought... I hoped... maybe

it was a dream.

A bad dream.

I recognise neither of you.

It was one of them.

Him, Sally.

The victim was a person.

It's him.

He wasn't the first.

I recognise him.

His beautiful black hair.

Jason is the son of an old mate of mine. I was taking him fishing.

Did you have his mother's permission?

Kid's old enough to go fishing without a note from his mummy.

He was dragged out of bed by the O'Donoghues at 2am. You see, that's when

the fish are biting.

Do you recognise these leather bindings?

I've never seen that before.

What about this?

What is that?

Not mine.

Maybe it belongs to your cousin.

Pee sticks.

Pee sticks.

I haven't got a gun.

Do you recognise this boy?

No.

He could have been hanging around like a bad smell back in the day, but no.

When you say hanging around, he was part of your gang?

The gang that hunted gay men?

Hunted?

Woo-woo-woo-woo! Hunted?

Jesus Christ, Sally tell you that, did she? Hmm?

Head case?

It'll be her word against mine, and she's a nobody.

So is that fuckknuckle, who I do not know. And where did you get that?

DNA's a match.

Do you recognise these men?

No.

This is Dr Peter Levy.

October 1989, his body was found at the base of the cliffs at Cardinal Park. Did

you push him off the ledge?

No.

This is Ned Davies. December 1989, he went for a walk and he didn't return and

I've been hearing stories that he met with his death at your hands.

No.

Another young man was killed December 1989.

It was Christmas Eve.

The same night that detectives Chalmers and Peel pulled an improvised weapon off

you.

That weapon had his blood on it.

And that weapon has your DNA on it.

Your arrogance might almost be impressive if it didn't make me sick.

You thought you'd get away with all those years of violence and murder.

It wouldn't matter.

But no one would come for you.

Your brother got what was coming to him.

Tori, outside.

Now.

You picked up hammers. You had evidence. You did nothing. We had nothing.

There was no body. There was no complaint.

Come on, it was Christmas Eve. I thought the boys got in a bit of a scrap.

Bit of a scrap?

My father trusted you.

Did you even read Shane's autopsy report?

You did.

You thought it was a suicide.

You can't go back in there.

I can't have you dealing with him or the O'Donoghues or Oscar Taylor's assault.

You go back in there, your participation jeopardises any charges we want to make

against Hammers.

Murder.

David, Levy and Shane.

We got him, Dad.

We got the guy that killed Shane.

He didn't drown.

He was murdered because he was gay.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You okay?

One hell of a headache.

So what were you doing? You're out there hunting the thruster killer all by

yourself, huh?

We got Hammett.

That's a result for Shane. It's a result for the others.

That's just it.

We're still dying to.

And that piece of shit is responsible.

You need to promise me you're not going to do anything stupid.

You have to leave this to us.

I thought you were off the case.

I can't stop thinking about P6.

Sally said he was related to Hammers. Hammers denies it. I'm wondering if

somehow he could be a relative of the O'Donoghues?

The only O'Donoghues coming up are Terry and Brett.

And their father, Bert, who died inside Long Bay after the stabbing of a brothel

owner.

What about on the mother's side?

Mother's maiden name was Bernie. She was sentenced for handling stolen goods.

I have seen that name before.

In here.

Chalmers case files.

You going?

Dory. Rhys Callaghan.

Committed murder, 16, Newcastle.

Mother, Belinda Burney, Deborah's sister.

Victim was a social worker in Newcastle who was known for working with troubled

youth. He was discovered by a neighbour. In a blood-splattered room, his head had

been caved in before being stabbed to death.

Graduated from the School of Hammers.

He was released on parole three months ago.

Guess he gave away the surf look.

We have painkillers.

Rhys was assigned to me as a juvenile.

His mother was a prostitute and his father abusive.

He punished Rhys for being a sissy boy and in fact was charged for sexual

misconduct with a minor but the case never made it to court and Rhys insists

his father never touched him.

Did you believe him?

He had all the hallmarks of a severely abused boy.

Rhys can be very charming, charismatic, plausible.

He lives calmly in a controlled environment like a prison, but he is

manipulative, psychopathic.

He was 16 when he committed the murder. Did he offer up any excuse?

The man hit on him and he panicked.

This signature, it doesn't fit with impulsive lashing out.

He'd taken his time.

I think he'd fantasised about it.

When Rhys was 11 years old, he hung around with a youth named Hammett who

held sway over a group of boys who hunted and bashed gay men.

He'd certainly witnessed murder.

Are we talking about a Kyle Hampton?

Rhys hated him. In fact, the day before the murder, he'd gone to visit Kyle

Hampton and been told to piss off.

So he went out to prove himself worthy.

That's why he meets his victims at the Green Room.

fell off a cliff just five days after Rhys was released.

Death by misadventure. Yeah, sounds more like revenge.

Any address on the parole card?

His dad's address was in Gateshead.

What about the mother?

There's a Bernie in Ramsgate Ave.

Bondi.

Hello, is anyone home?

Reece?

Police.

No need to be afraid.

Just want to speak to your son, Reece.

Has Rhys seemed distressed, disturbed at the moment?

Rhys would never have done what he did if the old man hadn't pushed him.

What has Rhys done?

Where is he? Where can we find him?

Where is he?

We should find him himself.

Do you know Christopher Toohey?

Never met the guy.

See, Rhys, the problem is when you tell a small lie, it becomes a big lie, and

then all of a sudden you're in a big pile of shit.

Now, see, I thought you and Toohey were both members of the Bondi Pointers gang

back in 89.

You remember that far back.

Can you identify this person and that one?

Well, that's me.

We just went to Bondi on holidays.

In 89, I was 11.

That one was Tui.

You can see he's quite a bit older than me.

Well, Tui's been murdered.

And since you knew Tui, I thought you might know why.

Well, Tui wasn't who he pretended to be, so... What was that?

Strong. Someone you can look up to. A real man.

Did you kill Christopher Toohey?

No. Did you kill Harris Rexhage?

No.

Adrian Cohen?

Who?

No.

But you did kill a man in Newcastle, right?

Well, he was a piece of filth who got what was coming.

How about your father? How did he die?

He fell off a cliff.

Did he have it coming?

Some might say so.

Well, we've been talking to your cousins, and I guess you know that Brett

was convicted of murdering a gay man in Cardinal Park back in 1990.

Well, the names of the men that I've asked you about, they were gay men, and

they were murdered.

What's this got to do with me?

Well, there are other murders back in 89, 1990, and we have reason to believe

that you're a witness to them.

Now, look, Ruth, we know you're a kid.

You're easily led.

See, the problem is you've got this conviction in Newcastle, so it's very

easy to say it's all his fault, you know, point the finger at you.

Nobody cared back then.

Why now?

Have you got Thruster on your phone, Reef?

Why would I use an app for fags?

Where were you at midnight on January 25th?

Um... Let me see. I was looking

after my mum.

I do that most nights.

DNA profiling of the suspect is going to take at least a week.

His computer is pretty thick.

Full of neo-Nazi stuff, violent porn.

He's tracking the investigation, but there's nothing to actually link him to

the killing.

We're going to have to let this prick go.

That's my show time.

It's nothing on his hard drive to indicate he's got any other properties,

residences. Build?

Banking?

Nothing. Real estate lease?

Right, our uniforms are all over this. All points have gone out. There's over

200 cops with that prick's photo patrolling Mardi Gras.

Tori.

Get your asses down there.

Let's do it.

Text me a good luck.

Need an urgent tray?

You hear about that nut job running around killing guys?

Right? It's not in the papers.

Okay.

Try the mobile power in Surrey Hills.

Surrey Hills.

Okay, they've got it.

Travelling down Nob.

Left into birth.

So where is your place?

It's not far.

Signals here.

AIM goes away.

Bones found the drain.

Mick, do we know what brothel Belinda Burney used to work at?

You're marked now.

Everyone will know what you are.

Oscar, I'm here.

Shoot the prick.

Let him go.

Let him go or I will shoot.

You know, I know who you are.

And your brother, Shane.

He was my first.

Hey. Well, well done. Well done, you.

You and Nick, good work.

I think I know how you feel.

You don't know how I feel. You don't know how any of the families of the

victims feel.

Well, I know I'm a father myself.

Do you know how many files I have on my desk right now?

Unexplained gay death.

and assaults in Sydney over those years?

How does that happen?

Oh, Tori, Tori.

Sometimes things, they just fall through the cracks.

Oh, fall through the cracks, right, right.

Or there was indifference on a grand scale.

Hammers was your informant. You look the other way, you keep your stats up, he

gets rid of all his enemies.

If I'd known, he'd hurt your brother. My brother, anybody, anybody.

Hammers got away with murdering my brother.

And other men.

Good men.

Listen.

There were two kids in trouble. They had a chance of a good future if I stepped

in and helped. I chose to do that.

One turned out to be a hero, the other didn't.

I... What would you have done?

My job.

I would have done my job.

Shine.

For the 19 precious years we had you.

Who you were.

Who you would have become.

Son, I'm proud of you.