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Come on.

Heat.

Leave me alone, you freak.

>> Go away or I'll call the cops.

>> [screaming]

>> and I made a promise that

[music and singing] I would tear out my

darling sweetheart.

>> Nothing like a 3k run to sort the

hangover. Speak for yourself. I'm

mashed. That's why I gave up Sunday

drinks.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's bloody honey.

[music]

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> Brains team, huh?

>> Mhm. The infamous Brokenwood Cheetahs.

>> Infamous because

>> they're truly dreadful.

Is that why they forced the chi?

>> Jetus is in the animal.

>> Ah,

>> the dead guy is their coach.

>> Mhm. Annie Langstone, 53. Aside from

coaching, he's involved in Rotary,

Business Roundt, Breakfast Club for

Kids, the Fun Run.

>> One of the good guys.

>> Yeah, everyone loved Danny.

>> Perhaps not everyone.

>> Is that coffee?

>> Oh, yeah. You want some? Did you make

it?

>> I made a pot at the station when the

call came through.

>> No, I'm good.

>> Footprints.

>> Really?

>> You never know.

>> Two social rugby teams as well as the

cheaters use this ground.

>> Don't they say that every bootprint

paints a thousand words?

>> No.

Don't worry, honey. We'll get you out of

here very soon and into a more

dignified position.

You knew them, didn't you?

He knew his killer.

>> And you know this how?

>> Cuz he's staring at them. And the retina

of the eye acts like a camera. The the

last image they see is imprinted on the

eye.

Are you serious?

>> No, but I've always thought if that did

happen, it would make our job a hell of

a lot easier.

>> Are you okay?

>> Not my ideal way of mixing business with

pleasure. But hey,

>> bag that.

>> I'll start with interviewing the lads.

>> Hey, uh, best you sit this one out.

>> What?

>> Uh, right now there are 15 suspects.

>> You're joking. Head home, take a shower.

We'll be around later for a witness

statement. You standing me down?

>> No.

>> Come on, don't stand me down. How will

that look?

>> Which is why I'm not standing you down.

>> You have leave owing, right?

>> Yeah.

>> I'm making you take that leave,

>> right?

Brian, did I know you have family? Wife,

kids.

>> Oh, now you want me

separated? Barbara Langston, Conamera

Drive, nine, I think. No kids that I

know of.

Barbara Langston.

>> Yes.

>> Uh DSS Mike Sheper, Brokenwood CIB.

>> Yes.

>> Uh have you got a moment? Uh

>> sorry. No, I'm running late for an

appointment. Uh

>> a quiet word. It's important.

>> Really? Look, if I miss this

appointment, it takes weeks to get

another.

>> Arie Langston is your ex-husband.

>> Yes. I'm afraid he's been found dead at

the rugby grounds.

>> Oh,

>> I'm sorry.

Would you like to sit down inside? Is

there someone I can call for you?

>> No, no, no. It's okay.

>> How did he

>> There'll be a postmortem, but it would

appear he's been the victim of foul

play.

>> God, poor Annie. Uh, is there anything I

need to do?

>> Well, I'd appreciate a chat about Annie,

his background, friends, associates.

>> Perhaps later this appointment. It's in

Riverstone.

>> The sooner the better, if that's okay.

>> Yeah, of course. So, I got to go. Sorry.

Thank you for letting me know.

>> There is bruising about the head and

abdomen. I'd say he was attacked.

Probably punched.

>> Fatal blows.

>> No, they didn't kill him. There also

traces of lipstick about his mouth.

Transferred, I think.

>> So, he was lucky before he got unlucky.

>> Perhaps he lit a cigarette from a

candle.

>> He was a smoker. Not that I can tell.

But in Russia, if you light a cigarette

from a candle, it is very bad luck.

>> He's not Russian.

>> Then for the most part, he was lucky

until this

>> time of death

>> between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.

>> And the cause setting aside candles,

cigarettes, and bad luck,

>> suffocation

>> from having this taped over his face.

>> No, the ball did not make a perfect

seal.

Something Lacy and Black did.

>> Talk about burning [music] off more than

you can chew.

>> There is no sign of chewing. They were

forced down his trachea.

>> I'll come back later.

>> Then I come in.

That looks intriguing.

>> The murder weapon. They were jammed down

Annie's throat.

>> Okay, that's intriguing. And also a

little bit icky.

>> Are they ripped?

>> Yes, as you say. Intriguing.

>> Rugby is a rough game.

>> Beaten and choked.

>> Yeah. And put on display.

>> Anything from the players?

>> Uh, not a lot. only trained us really

hard,

but he was always up for a beer and a

laugh.

Rubbish coach, but nice enough guy.

Worst coach, but the best at the same

time.

>> It was kind of weird talking about one

in the past tense. You're such a now

guy, eh?

>> Would you like a moment?

>> You know how some [music] people sponsor

a child in Africa?

>> Annie had three.

>> You'd want to do that to Annie? That's

what I'm asking. Um, did Annie have any

enemies? Anyone with a grudge?

>> No, got nothing. No.

>> So, fairly unanimous love and undying

loyalty.

>> Why have you written such a loser on

Gaz's statement?

>> Did I?

Cuz I thought it. I didn't actually

realize I've written it down.

Sorry, it's nothing. It's not relevant

to the case.

Oh, look, it's

When I first moved to Broken Wood, I

went on a few dates and Gaza Gareth was

one of them.

>> Romance blossomed. Not

>> so much.

Thank you, sir.

Oh god, what is that smell?

That window doesn't work.

>> First date

>> and last.

>> Hey, uh, why are there only 13 of them?

>> Uh, well, Breen, obviously, and Steve

Fansaw, their number five, and

landscaper.

>> The only player not to show up on the

day that their coach is murdered.

>> Indeed.

Hey, take a look at this.

>> GG.

>> Is that a brand you're aware of?

>> That's not the brand. Their initials,

but uh whoever GG is, they didn't skimp

on quality.

Demi Pre, the Rolls-Royce of women's

lingerie.

>> Interesting.

>> Sorry. After however many ex-wives, did

you never buy a pair of

>> GG? Anyone spring to mind?

>> Governor Gray,

>> New Zealand's first premier. Unlikely.

>> I'll do a name check.

>> Do [clears throat] that because

that [music]

was the last thing on Annie's phone

>> from a prepaid [music]

>> non-traceable.

Okay, I'm thinking no to Governor Gray.

And whoever Gigi is, seems like she's

[music] missing her underwear.

>> Hey,

>> busy, I see.

>> I'd rather be at work.

>> We need his statements.

Uh, are you serious?

>> It's Roxy's. She uses it for fitness.

>> Fitness?

>> She's in the fitness industry.

You're welcome to try it.

>> Nah, I'm good. So, um, what time did you

get the rugby ground?

>> 6:30. We always do an early Monday

session. Gets [music] you warmed up for

the working week.

Annie's car was there when we arrived.

>> It's not like Annie to be late.

>> Those cars out the front. Can't be far

awake.

>> Maybe he slept in. Maybe he got lucky

last night.

>> Why would Davo think that Annie got

lucky?

>> Just locker room banter, I guess.

>> Let's do our 3K while we wait.

Can't

>> hurt.

>> Hasn't helped up till now.

>> 50 straight losses, Bino. Got to be some

kind of world record. Hey, Annie's our

coach.

>> Respect.

>> Yeah, remember what Annie says. Winning

is easy. It's how you lose that makes

you real winners. Yeah, I don't think

that's quite a guess.

>> Fair call sticking up back there.

Still a lousy bloody coach,

boys. [music]

>> When we got back from the run, that's

when we found him.

>> How would you describe him as a coach?

>> Traditional,

>> aggressive.

>> Hell no. He had no time for that. He had

a zero tolerance policy towards agro.

Aggression free rugby novel.

>> And his mantra was violence is no place

on the rugby field.

>> Well, this is finally getting

interesting. She's wrong.

>> Oh, yes, please.

>> This is the real reason I come to the

game, Mrs. M.

>> Come on, you cheers. Annie chose to

field 14 men on Saturday rather than

condone Steve's actions from the week

before.

>> Now, how' the team feel about that?

>> Now, we all knew Annie's rules.

>> So, Steve Fansaw was a hotthehead then.

>> He's got a short fuse, but Annie was

helping him with that

>> by standing him down.

>> Tough love, I guess.

You know, I could be more help to you on

the case.

>> You've been helpful.

>> So, when can I come back to work?

Come on. I don't want to be on leave. We

can't have the public crying coverups

and all that sort of carry on.

>> Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's just the longer

I stick around here, Roxy's going to

find me stuff to do around the house,

>> which would eat into Xbox time.

>> I need to find solace somehow.

>> One last question. Do the initials GG

mean anything?

>> Governor Gray,

that's what I said.

Don't cry.

Hey, mama. Don't cry.

>> You know, it's one thing to kill a man,

but to strip him naked, tape a rugby

ball over his face, and [music] ram some

knickers down his throat, that's more

than just murder.

>> It is indeed a statement.

>> So, is GG the initials of a jilted lover

>> or the wife of a man that caught Annie

with his hand in the cookie jar?

[music]

>> Hey, daddy, don't beep.

>> Hello again. Barbara. Uh, this is

Detective Sims.

>> Hello.

I'm really sorry about your ex-husband.

Thank you. About before I think I was in

shock.

>> I understand. Uh, did you make your

appointment?

>> What?

>> In Riverstone.

>> Uh, yes. Yes, I did. Sorry. I think it's

the news about Annie. I'm still trying

to take it in.

>> Would you like to come inside? Uh,

>> that's okay. We can talk here. Cute

house.

>> So, you and Annie were separated for 3

years. four. Uh,

>> do you mind me asking the reasons for

the split?

>> Just drifted apart.

>> Yeah, that happens.

>> You've been there.

>> I'm something of an expert.

>> Separation was a logical step. No kids

involved. Wasn't that messy?

>> That was a mutual decision.

>> It was. I mean, why live with someone

who wasn't present?

>> Four years, but no divorce.

>> No.

>> You said not present.

>> Where was Annie?

The Annie I married used to be a very

aggressive rugby coach. He'd push his

players to be hard men on the field.

Brutal in pursuit of victory. And about

10 years ago during a game

>> opposing player died right there on the

field. Annie blamed himself, coaching

style,

>> but he didn't give up on the game. I

think you thought redemption could only

come by changing the culture from

within.

>> So Anie changed [music] and that's why

you split.

>> He retreated into himself.

>> Virus shed. Look, I'll show you.

This is where Annie spent a lot of time.

What was his beer like?

>> I don't drink beer.

>> But he must have been proud of his first

brew. Surely. Did he wax lyrical about

its hoppy taste?

>> I don't remember. Like I said, I don't

drink beer.

>> What else did he do in here?

>> I have no idea.

Oh, he made a key ring hanger once by

the back door.

Annie's handiwork. I'd like to say he

was a better rugby coach, but as you

know, his record was dire.

>> He left his tools behind.

>> You mean was there a screaming row or

did I throw him out?

>> Okay. Did he leave in a hurry?

>> Like I said, we just drifted apart.

So, that was 4 years [music] ago. Have

you moved on?

>> Sorry. Are you seeing anyone?

>> I'm okay with being single.

>> And what about Annie? Was he seeing

anyone?

>> Not that I know of.

>> Oh. Um, last question. It's just a

formality really, but um, do you know if

Annie had life insurance?

>> I have no idea.

>> [music]

>> Being single isn't the same as not

seeing someone.

>> Yeah, not seeing someone is all well and

good, but some bloke is keeping their

rugby boots by her front door.

>> Perhaps they're hers.

>> Fair point.

[music] less

a shadow float above her. He smiles

[singing] down

>> beer

>> lipstick.

>> Loved his music.

>> I've never understood the appeal of

classical music.

>> Not enough jammy guitars and lyrics

about losing your dog down a coal mine

for you. Oh, come on. You know you love

it.

>> You know I don't.

>> He's still young.

>> He loved his rugby.

>> He never properly unpacked.

>> Maybe he was hoping he and Barbara would

reconcile.

>> Hey, take a look at this.

>> Two toothbrushes.

>> And he wasn't a bachelor after all.

And whoever she was, she left in a

hurry.

>> Any luck?

>> No one on that side remembers Annie

having a living lover, a flatmate, or a

girlfriend.

>> Likewise. And those two, neither are

home.

>> Maybe she'll come back.

Far away.

Far away. Wanted to stay that way.

[sighs]

>> Missing person report. Dana Clark 19.

Came to Broken Wood from Riverstone on

Sunday night, never came home.

>> I'll take a look at that, shall I?

>> Mhm.

>> See if there's a connection. Oh, hey.

And uh women in the area with the

initials GG.

Jillian Green, 35.

>> She missing a red dress.

>> Unlikely. She's in a coma and has been

in a special care facility for 2 years.

Uh Gemma Gordon, Georgia Gascoinne, and

Grace Godba are 11, 9, and 7 years old,

respectively.

Gwynad Griffith.

>> Winned. Is that even a real name?

>> Welsh, I think.

>> Because

>> Griffith plus she moved back to Wales 3

months ago.

>> Did she take all her underwear?

>> That's a rhetorical question, right?

>> Uh Glenda Gladwell is 93 and in a rest

home.

I have a followup with Steve Fansaw, the

missing cheetah.

>> You okay?

>> Yeah, old friend.

It's far enough for noise control, isn't

I'm here about Annie. Detective Sims, do

you want to sit down somewhere or?

>> No, I'm in a bit of a hurry. Is this

going to take long?

>> Because you weren't working yesterday.

>> I had to go over to Riverstone

yesterday.

>> Is that why you weren't at practice

yesterday morning?

>> Annie stood me down for the game on

Saturday. I wasn't in the mood for

practice.

>> How did you feel about being stood down?

I

>> was a dick. Probably cost us the game.

>> Were you upset [snorts] with Annie?

He's the coach.

>> Even if he was a useless one.

>> You said it, not me.

>> Why don't he never have?

>> Ingest.

>> We used to give Annie a hard time. 50

straight losses isn't exactly a mark of

excellence, is it?

>> That must be frustrating for you.

>> Yeah, could be.

>> You've had problems with violence in the

past, haven't you, Steve?

>> Oh, yeah. That's your angle, is it?

>> Well, didn't you once threaten to kill

any?

>> That was a long time ago.

We were all going through a rough time.

Inani got me enrolled in some anger

management classes

and it helped. I'm different now.

>> About your meltdown on the game last

week.

>> First one in ages

and Annie was right to give me some time

out.

Annie's coaching didn't make for great

rugby, but it made for better players.

>> Any movement Sunday night?

>> I was hanging at home. Then I went to

the frog and cheated for a beer. Then I

went home again. Ray Nielson was serving

your telly. I was there

>> and home is

>> 29 Bushmill Terrace.

I flat with Dave and Gaza from the team.

>> I didn't hurt Annie.

>> Thanks for your help.

>> [music]

>> Yeah. Yeah. Steve was in there.

>> Any others from the team?

>> They all were. We gave them cheap drinks

on game night if they show up in their

jerseys. Of course, they all turn up in

their jerseys. The cheap bastards.

>> Yeah. Jeez. Best and worst thing I ever

did sponsoring that damn team. On the

one hand, I get all the lads in here

spinning up large. On the other hand,

I've got my pub's name on the most shite

local team in the country.

>> Don't they say there's no such thing as

bad publicity?

>> Yeah, but I mean, being associated with

a pack of losers for 5 years, it's not a

good look for this place. You see, the

Frog and Cheetah is an aspirational bar.

People come here to feel good about

themselves. Isn't

>> that right, Lynn?

What?

>> This place where dreams come true.

>> Oh,

yep.

Len's a house painter. You know what

they say, fast hands, slow mind. And not

to speak ill of the dead, but maybe now

that Anie's gone, they might start

winning games again.

>> You think it was down to the coaching

then?

>> What do you think?

>> I'm asking you.

>> He was too soft on them. Like the killer

instinct.

>> Yeah, there was a reason for that.

>> Yeah. Yeah. There's a fine line between

assertion and aggression, but he went

all nambi pami on them when he should

have been kicking their butts.

>> You were here all night. Yep.

>> What about the other players? Do you

know what time they left?

>> Nope.

>> No idea,

>> mate. I run a busy pub. Not like Auntie

holding their hands. They come, they go.

Hey, Len, were you in here on Sunday

night when Steve and the boys were

drinking?

>> Yeah.

>> When did you leave?

>> Same time I always do when you kicked me

out.

>> Talk to L.

Len, is it?

>> DSS Mike Shepard. I'm making inquiries

about Arie Langston.

>> Yeah, I overheard. Bloody sad.

>> Um, can you remember if Steve Faw was in

here on Sunday night?

>> Yeah, him and the others. I'm no

different from any other Sunday. Team

lost, drank, went home.

>> You don't play yourself?

>> No. My brother used to play, but I never

had the speed.

Just a loyal fan then.

>> When we lose, there's always Mrs.

Marlo's cheese rolls. Oh, excuse me.

>> What do you got?

>> We've located Dana Clark's car about 5K

out of town on Riverstone Road.

>> Locked.

>> Yeah, it must have broken down.

Bet you 10 bucks you ran out of gas.

>> Based on

>> the bonnet's not up.

>> Her next [music] wife, they never

checked the fuel gauge. Swear she

thought that the E stood for extra full.

>> This [music] was ex-wife number.

>> So she's headed out of town back to

Riverstone.

She runs out of gas

>> or breaks down,

>> decides to hatch.

Heat. Heat.

[music]

Sims

Gibbs.

Gibs,

Mike.

Maybe she was disorientated.

>> I admire your optimism.

>> She was She was in a hell of a hurry.

Sams. [music]

Gibbs, take up strength.

>> Hey, there's a wallet in that handbag.

Dad's ID's in there. If she had followed

this, you would have made it back to

town

>> eventually.

or not.

[music]

Hey Dana,

we found you.

[music]

Thanks.

>> Dana's wallet still has cash inside it

and her car keys are there.

>> Look at this. She's in bare feet at this

stage, right?

As she slid, she pushed the earth side

this way. [music] Feet are smooth,

right?

>> Yeah.

>> But

the other person

followed a different line. It's like

they've clawed the ground.

>> Oh, [music] they're wearing

>> unusual shoes.

Okay, everyone stand still. Please do

not move until I say so.

>> Mike

got it

>> over here. We [music] need a cast taken.

I can put the time of death between

11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. Sunday night.

>> Same time as Annie Langston.

>> Coincidence? I don't know. Cause of that

is strangulation.

>> Whereas Annie was suffocation?

>> Yes. This girl was strangled by hands.

>> You can see the bruising around here and

here.

>> Big hands. Were you talking male hands?

>> Not necessarily. In Russia, some of the

woman's hands are very big.

>> [snorts]

>> Quite scary actually.

>> You should never apply for a job in

Russian tourism.

>> Why would I do that? I'm a doctor.

>> There are several 4 cm indentations on

her head. She was struck with something

blunt.

>> A rock perhaps.

>> The marks are not severe enough to be

from something that hard.

>> Anything else?

>> Her underwear is on.

>> So, we can assume that the underwear

that killed Annie wasn't his. But also

there is no sign of sexual interference.

[music]

>> How'd you get on with Dana's parents?

>> Does it ever get any easier?

>> No.

>> I did have a thought on the way over.

Something was missing from that handbag.

One thing no woman would go without.

>> Lipstick.

How does she make calls? Take selfies,

update Facebook, check Twitter,

Instagram, her food.

>> You lost me after make calls.

>> Her parents confirmed she has one. So,

where is it? Plus, it gets better. Her

sister said that Dana had been dabbling

with hookup sites. She'd come to

Brokenwood for a good time,

>> which turned out to be a bad time.

>> I'll get the SSG to do a wider search.

>> Definitely.

[sighs]

I've got a serving a DC Breen who's part

of the local rugby team whose coach has

been murdered.

>> When will police officers realize they

aren't supposed to have social lives?

>> Yeah, too late in this case.

>> You've stood him down.

>> Put him on leave.

>> Smart. You need another team?

>> I just need Breen back. We've got a

double feature up here.

>> Should I send Wilmont up to calm the PR

waters for this Breen?

>> A Breen and not Wilmont, please.

>> I'm winding you up. She's on holiday in

Fiji

with her new man.

>> How do you feel about that?

>> Do I have to feel anything?

>> Try.

>> Relieved.

>> I see why she left you.

>> I think I left her.

>> You can't leave someone if you're never

there.

>> Listen, I may have a more efficient way

to ameliate this issue and kick it into

touch,

>> so to speak.

[music]

Tell me you want me back at work.

>> Wanting you back and letting you back

are different things.

>> Come on, Roxy's got me painting the

spare room.

>> Baby blue, is she?

>> No, she's not. Although, she's showing

signs of wanting to go that way.

>> And these signs are

>> Can we Can we just pretend that I'm at

work? I hate painting.

>> I'm working on it.

Would you like a coffee box?

>> How did you make this?

>> With a plunger.

>> It's really good.

>> It's just plunger.

>> What sort of beans are they?

>> Coffee. Just add hot water. Milk. It's

not rocket science.

>> The family of the player who died in the

onfield fight. They have had calls to

come after Annie.

>> I was still in Riverstone.

Why would they blame Annie?

>> He was the coach of the player that

killed their son.

>> They blamed the player. Everyone blamed

the player. He cocked up.

>> I can't find a record of his name

anywhere.

>> He got name suppression. He was a real

contender to go on to be a pro. So, the

lawyers argued to keep his name out of

the papers.

>> Did he end up going pro?

>> No.

>> How come?

>> Topped himself few years later.

>> How?

>> Hung himself. Rumor is from the

goalposts.

The club keeps it on the down low. They

don't want the younger players to know.

>> North end or south?

>> I don't know. It's just a rumor.

>> But do you think it could have been the

same end as where we found Annie? Is

there something in there?

>> Could just be a Macab coincidence.

>> So if no one talks about it, how come

you know about it? Oh,

>> come on. People know stuff. They just

choose not to share it. Though Annie did

open up once after he tied on a few.

>> You never get over something like that.

I mean, I was the one that found him,

>> strung up. [music]

>> You got to leave that in the past,

though, right?

>> He haunts me. You ever been haunted,

Sammy?

>> Can't say that I have.

>> It's always there.

>> Ghosts

on the sideline.

What was the player's name?

>> Brody Carson.

>> Related to Len Carson?

>> Yeah, you got to hand it to that guy. He

um really stuck with the team.

>> That's a certain kind of loyalty.

>> Misguided.

>> Calling us losers.

>> Is there a more accurate term?

>> You can't call us losers just cuz we

haven't won. Oh,

>> you should get a t-shirt with that on.

>> Good day, Lyn.

Okay. You mentioned your brother used to

play rugby.

>> Yeah. What about him?

>> I understand he took his own life after

killing an opposing player.

>> People don't talk about that.

>> Yeah. It must have been a tough time.

>> It was a game that Anie was coaching.

>> I think it was. Yeah.

>> So, someone might blame him.

>> Blame Annie? What for? for your brother

doing what he did.

>> Are you talking about the other player's

family?

>> Well, they blame Brody,

>> not Arie,

>> don't reckon.

>> Did they ever threaten Brody?

>> Not that I know of.

>> There must have been a lot of anger

there.

>> There were a strong Christian family

from up north. Brody was forgiven. I

>> see.

I appreciate you asking. People don't

want to talk about Brody anymore. Yeah,

it must have been a tough time.

>> Which is why I play the drum.

>> They're the games.

>> Oh, got to keep his memory alive

somehow. Keep a spirit present whenever

the cheaters play.

No one wants to talk about suicide. So,

why don't I just uh

play the drum for Brady? Used to annoy

Annie sometimes.

Come on, you cheaters.

>> Just for once. Give it a rest, Lenny.

Please. Chin up, honey. Could be worse.

Could be a Vu Zella.

>> So, you're at every rugby game. Not so

much for the rugby, but for your

brother.

>> I own the cheese rolls.

>> That's dedication.

>> They're really good cheese rolls.

Len,

you hear anything, you'll let me know.

Yeah, can do.

>> I'll leave you to your lunch.

>> Thanks very much. Bye.

Get this. [sighs] Annie's neighbor just

made contact and Mrs. Taylor.

>> And

>> she said she heard a commotion outside

Annie's door the night in question.

Three men were heard yelling loudly

around 10:30 p.m. She's sure they were

local rugby lads

>> because

>> they were wearing cheetah shirts.

>> What were they yelling?

>> Uh something about coming out and facing

the music.

>> Don't we get [music] some straight

answers?

your movement [music] Sunday night.

>> I told you went to the frog and cheetah

post celebration for our 50th straight

loss.

>> Yeah. And then

>> went home.

>> Didn't go to Annie's.

>> Why would I go to Annie's?

>> Well, you tell me.

>> Annie was at the pub. Ask Davos. He's

out the back.

>> Yeah. Just drinking, having a laugh

about losing. What else we going to do?

We're going

>> to go to visit Annie. Annie

>> was at pub.

>> At his house.

It wasn't at his house. It

>> was a pub.

>> Yeah, he was there. I took Danny. Then

he went home.

>> And what did you do?

>> Stay at the frog and cheetah.

>> And then went home.

>> Well, it's not like we were going to

sleep there. [crying]

>> What time is this?

>> 11:30. I don't know.

>> Yeah, about 11:30.

>> Does the phrase come out and face the

music mean anything to you?

>> No. Why?

out and face the music. No, not really.

>> No, but then I'm no musician, eh?

>> Actually, [music]

come to think of it, Steve left a bit

early.

>> Define a bit early.

>> 10

Yes, I was at the FNC.

>> Even though you didn't actually play in

the game,

>> I'm still part of the team. Ray throws

on a tab. Who's going to say no to a

free beer?

>> What time did you leave?

>> 10ish. [snorts] And

>> then when'd you go?

Did you go to Annie Langston?

>> Why would I do that?

>> To get him to face the music.

>> No, I No, I didn't do that.

>> Okay. So, where did you go? Takeaways,

midnight fishing, skateboarding, home.

>> Why does it matter?

>> Because you flat with Babo and Gaza, and

they both said they went home around

11:30. So, I need someone to verify

that.

Can you verify that?

>> No.

>> Because they didn't come home or you

were asleep.

>> I was asleep just not at home.

>> Where?

9 Konamara Drive.

[music]

[music]

Hello, Barbara.

Barbara, it's Detective Sims. It's

broken with CIB. We met the other day.

[music]

>> Barbara.

Barbara, I know you're in there.

>> Please go away.

>> I just have a couple of questions.

>> I don't have to talk to [music] you.

>> It won't take very long.

>> I can't. I just can't.

>> 2 minutes.

>> Listen to me. Just go away, please.

Are you okay? [music]

>> Look, I just I just need to know if

Steve Fansaw stayed here on Sunday

night. God.

>> So, what if he did?

>> What time did Steve come around? [music]

>> I can't really remember.

>> You couldn't get any more out of it.

>> Pulled down the shades. Literally.

>> You worried about self harm?

>> People get bad news, they want to be

left alone.

Maybe her and Steve a kaput.

>> No, I would have gleaned that from

Steve. He wasn't in breakup mode. He was

in blood from a stone mode.

>> So,

she neglected to tell us she was having

a relationship with one of Annie's

players.

>> A player with a history of violence

who'd recently been banned from the

field by her ex-husband

>> whom she had been separated from for 4

years.

>> But not divorced.

>> She's either protecting him or

>> herself.

or both.

But why?

[groaning and screaming]

[music]

[groaning]

What do you want?

[music] Did you do it? Do what?

I didn't lay a hand on Arie.

>> You would say that.

>> What does that mean?

>> Someone bloody well did.

>> Did you take matters into your own

hands, Steve? No. It's not like you

haven't talked about it before.

>> It wasn't me.

>> Why should I believe you? The whole

anger management course thing is a croc

fell. You and I both know that.

>> I didn't touch him.

>> Then who did?

>> Why don't you ask your mates?

>> Davo and Gaza were with me. The question

is where did you go?

You were the one talking about stringing

him up.

>> That was pub talk, nothing more.

>> Didn't seem like it.

>> Have you talked to the cops?

>> That lady cop came by.

What did you say?

>> Nothing.

Then best you keep it that way. You hear

me?

Do you hear me, Steve?

Good.

[music]

Big fish [music] swimming down low.

Down on the bottom where nobody go.

[music]

Never seen them before.

But I heard all about what my grandpa

done. Sore nearly one day.

One

>> Sims

had a life policy. I'm down alone.

[music]

>> Didn't ask your phone.

>> It's not working.

Riverstone call.

Yep.

All bad luck.

Two strokes and you're out.

>> Well, we'll just pay for it.

>> How?

How? Steve.

>> Himmy's freaking out.

>> So, we damn well should.

>> Look, you got to tell the cops that I

was with you. I did

>> properly tell them.

>> Why didn't you tell them everything?

>> Thanks for coming in. [music]

>> I'm here for Bob. If I talk, I want you

guys to back off the pressure.

>> Is she unwell?

>> Well, she's got a lot going on. What

with Annie's death and all that?

>> Okay. Well, let's talk and take it from

there.

>> I would never hurt Annie.

That's why Barb and I kept our thing on

the down low.

>> No one in the team had hurt Annie.

At least not on purpose anyway.

>> Meaning

>> meaning maybe what happened was an

accident.

>> What makes you say that?

>> It's just something that I overheard.

>> Where?

>> Well, we were drinking at the pub. Whole

team. It was game night for Ray.

>> I'll give you a ride home for a couple

of your famous cheese rolls.

>> Oh, you're a Haven't got a car. Mrs.

the bicycle. [laughter]

>> You parking coach.

>> A things to do, boys. Take it easy.

>> See you.

>> There's the 50 straight losses. There

must be some world record. A New Zealand

world record.

Morani said after we lost the 25th game.

>> It's not losing 25 games. That's

important. It's not losing another 25.

If we lose 50 straight games, I'll eat

this bloody ball.

>> And I say that because

>> you're really hungry.

>> Nice one. Thanks, G.

>> No, because it's not going to happen.

>> Pledge is a pledge.

>> Time for him to eat his own words.

>> Serious.

>> He should wear it over his head.

>> No, he should wear nothing at all.

[laughter]

>> Just naked with the football on his

head.

Tied up to a toilet.

>> Yeah.

>> To the goalpost.

>> To the goalpost. [laughter]

>> Take some pictures.

>> For the wall of shame.

>> Time for someone to face the music.

>> Face the music. Face the music. Face the

music. Face the music. Face the music.

Face the music.

>> You in, bro?

>> No.

Look, I'm sure it was just supposed to

be a laugh and that's all.

>> A laugh that ended up with a man dead.

>> Are you sure that's what they said? Face

the music.

>> You're suggesting this is just a prank

gone wrong.

>> Yeah, we were going to string Annie up

as a laugh, but we weren't ever going to

hurt him. It was just payback. He had to

face the music, right?

So, you took him to the rugby field?

>> No, he wouldn't come out.

>> COME ON, HONEY. FACE THE MUSIC, BRO.

FACE THE MUSIC.

>> YEAH, HONEY.

>> It's got a chick in there. [laughter]

>> He's getting some things to bloody do.

E,

>> you saw a woman in his house.

>> Yeah, I figured he was busy. I didn't

want to ruin his night.

>> What did this woman look like? Old,

young, hair color?

>> It was dark. I couldn't see much.

>> Is this her?

>> I don't know. Maybe.

>> Oh, which is it? Yes or no?

>> It was dark and we were pissed.

>> So, you saw her and then you went back

to the frog and cheetah.

>> You rolled back in about 20 minutes

later. Ray will back us up.

>> Oh, that all makes perfect sense,

doesn't it?

>> Yeah. Mhm.

>> Yeah. All except for the bit where Annie

shows up dead, killed in a way that you

and your mates outlined earlier.

>> Maybe someone did him in to make it look

like we'd done it.

>> Someone like

>> someone like the guy that knocked on us.

>> Steve,

>> all I'm saying is he was there. He was

part of our conversation and he was

banging Anie's ex Mrs.

>> You knew about that?

>> Everyone knew about that. All except

Annie. Guess

>> it was a busy night. I can't remember

everyone's comingings and goings.

>> They said they left around 10:15 and

returned 20 minutes later. That's three

of the team leaving and three returning.

You don't remember that?

>> They probably shut out for a feed.

>> Well, why would they do that when they

could eat here?

>> Cuz they would have had to pay for it.

The cheap bastards.

Hey, you'd be in for a bit of this,

wouldn't you? What do you think?

>> Very aspirational.

>> [music]

>> We're going to need your CCTV footage.

We have a prank that supposedly didn't

happen, but then it did.

>> And a suspect whose alibi is he was

spending the night with [music] the

victim's ex-wife.

>> Oh, and a mystery woman in Annie's

window.

>> GG, you reckon?

>> Most likely.

Could it be that GG is Dana Clark?

>> She was 19 and he was 53.

>> Perhaps she shared an interest in

classical music. You stood up tall. You

stood up.

You worked your own way through.

>> The records from the hookup site will

confirm who Dana [music] was in

Brokenwood to see.

>> God, I kind of hope it wasn't Annie.

>> Which would lead us back to square one

on who the hell GG is.

>> Any news on the life policy? Oh,

>> still waiting on the insurance company

to cough up the details.

>> [music]

>> driving. [singing]

>> Do we have a visit from royalty?

>> Where is he?

>> That's an impressive replica of the

Titanic on your route.

>> On my way to a subregator. 25k paddle

down the coast from Tahuna Point to

Riverstone.

>> I thought police officers weren't meant

to have a social life.

>> Oh, this isn't social. It's competitive.

>> Full scale combat. Now, where's this

green?

>> It's green.

>> You been to a fancy dress?

>> Hey,

>> the blue paint. You go as a smurf.

>> Oh, no. Sorry. Sorry. Superintendent

Hughes present with DC Samuel Breen.

So let's start at the beginning. Did you

kill Honey Langston?

>> Hey,

no.

>> Convince me.

>> It's like having a visit from the

headmaster.

>> Yeah, I'm sure that's [music] how

brain's feeling right now.

>> Coffee?

>> Uh, no. I'm good. I'm just heading out.

>> Oh, okay. [music] Um, I'll get back to

the CCTV footage.

>> Thanks.

[music]

>> You shouldn't have.

>> No, I shouldn't. It's for the end of

your fifth row. You lost one to Elsino

Ampolina.

>> Who? Black spot. The roses pick it up

before the vines. That's why the roses

are there, not just to look pretty.

>> Yeah, the rose took one for the team and

we could nip it in the bud, so to speak.

>> Like a canary and a coal mine.

>> Yeah, I don't think they do that with

canaries anymore, Mike. At first, I

thought it was for Mopsis Vicola or

maybe Bo triospheria dieback, but it was

definitely Alcino and Pelina.

>> Good. Well done. Hey, how's the thing?

>> I'd like to say it's early days, but s

one of the good guys. So everyone says

>> he kept himself to himself but the rest

of the time he was out here giving back

to the community.

>> Hi Jared. Oh Gizllin de Felenond.

>> Close. It's Rosa Kpus.

>> Beautiful.

>> It is.

You have a great day Mrs. G. Mrs. G.

Mrs. Ginsburg. She's the new librarian

here. Gloria sorted me out this choice

book on quantum physics in relation to

companion planting. Gloria.

Oh, has the dog seen the rabbit?

>> Gloria Ginsburg.

>> Yeah, Gloria.

>> Oh, you were just with Jared

>> Gloria, isn't it?

>> Yes.

>> Uh, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike

Sheper broken with COB.

>> Can I help you?

>> I was wondering if you knew an Annie

Langston.

>> Annie? Yes. He came in here every now

and then. I'm so sorry to hear he passed

away.

>> He was a regular.

>> One of our rare few without an internet

connection. He preferred to get his

information the oldfashioned way.

>> What did he usually check out?

>> Books about rugby and classical music.

He was very into classical. Could be an

absolute bore on the subject.

>> You're not big on the classics.

>> Give me a glass of Chardonnay and the

latest Holly Collins any day.

Did you know that Holly has a new album

out soon?

>> I did. You're a country fan.

>> What's not to like about Three Chords in

the Truth?

>> Breakups and breakdowns, love, loss, and

losing. Country music covers a lot of

territory, doesn't it?

>> So, your relationship with Annie, it was

just

>> he had a library card and I lent him

books.

>> Would you have ever had reason to text

an

>> Oh, that would be a bit difficult. Why

is that?

>> I don't own a cell phone. I'm a little

oldfashioned, too.

[music and singing] I've been waiting to

discover if I get the

other.

>> I filed a report. In my independent

view, Breen here is no longer suffering

any stress associated with the discovery

of his murdered rugby coach and revoking

his leave.

>> Nothing to stop him from getting back on

the investigation [music] team.

>> Sorry. Uh God, I'm just really relieved.

Time, gentlemen.

[music]

you

my heart

in you and I won't let go and I won't

let go and I won't let go.

>> Thanks for that.

So, is the third going to turn up?

>> Third body. Two in a week. What are they

putting in the water up here? We're

getting close. I know that. Look, you

know we're near.

I'll be thinking of you out in the high

seas.

>> Gloria Ginsburg,

>> the Brokenwood librarian. How did we

miss that?

>> She must be new. And

>> who reads books these days?

>> Apparently Annie did. Is there a reason

I got you back?

>> Sorry.

Finally, two things on this board that

can actually be connected.

>> The underwear belongs to her.

>> I'm not saying that, but she knew Annie.

>> And if the underwear did belong to her,

we need to find out the reason it ended

up down Annie's throat.

>> So, we think that she sent the text

message luring Annie out there.

>> She doesn't text.

>> She told you that

>> she doesn't own a cell phone.

>> Um,

sorry. What sort of a woman doesn't own

a cell phone? The message was from a

disposable. So maybe she had one,

disposed of it right after luring an Eve

to his death.

>> Easy to say you don't own a cell phone

if you throw it away. Do me a

background.

>> Hey, I meant to ask uh what does quantum

physics have to do with gardening? Well,

everything.

Quantum physics is the theory that

logically leads to the conclusion that

everything is interrelated and that what

we see with our eye is only a shallow

outer form of a much deeper reality. Or

what we see is what we see is what we

think we see. But what's really there is

most likely something we haven't ever

seen yet.

>> Well, that's as clear as this

beautifully opaque m.

Hey, what can you tell me about Gloria

Ginsburg?

>> You sly dog. I knew it. I knew it. Now

she's a suspect in Annie's murder.

>> Ah,

not much. She moved here about a year

ago. I was talking to her once about

going to my uncle's tongue and wipe it

all. She seemed to know the area really

well.

Maybe she's from down west.

>> Better be good.

>> Better than good. We have Dana Clark's

cell phone. The tech lab has the phone.

They're seeing what they can retrieve

from it. Numbers, messages, photographs.

>> Great. But we already know

>> what

>> it caused the marks on Dana's head. It

was broken by way of her skull. And we

got the details back from the hookup

site. The person Dana was here to see

was a 13-year-old girl.

>> What? It's not what you think.

>> Dana was catfished.

>> Catfished.

>> Catfishing is when someone goes online

and pretends to be someone they're not,

usually to mess with lonely hearts. In

this case, a 13-year-old girl called

Carrie Moss was pretending to be a

25-year-old man named Eddie Ross.

>> Why?

>> Because teenagers do dumb things. Her

parents confirmed she's done it once

before. Dana came all the way out here

for a booty call only to discover that

Eddie and his address didn't exist.

>> And then she turns around and heads back

to Riverstone.

>> Except she didn't go back straight away.

She went to the frog and cheetah.

She moves around the bar for about half

an hour, but clearly doesn't know

anyone, and then leaves.

>> What time?

>> 9:58 p.m.

>> After Annie.

>> Yep. He left at 9:45.

>> What about the three musketeers? Did

they come and go as mentioned?

>> Yeah. Steve Fanshaw leaves at 10:05 and

then those three leave at 10:17.

They

come back at 10:49.

Not long enough to get out to the rugby

grounds and back.

>> Well, we still only have Barbara's word

that Steve went to hers.

>> Yeah, chase that up again. I did a name

search on librarians. Sexy stuff. No

matches for Gloria Ginsburg, apart from

the one here. It's as if she came out of

nowhere. Found a Gloria Palmer, though.

Worked in Webersville for years. She

resigned last year,

>> which is in Wador.

>> Detective Sims. Barbara. Hi.

And why does anyone change their name

[singing]

>> Oh, hello again. Is this business or

pleasure?

>> Well, it could be a bit of both, I

suppose.

>> Oh, like that Holly Collins song, When

You Handcuff Me, I felt like such a good

girl gone so bad.

>> Uh, no, I wasn't. Um,

>> I'm [clears throat] sorry. That was so

inappropriate.

>> Look, there's uh something I need to

discuss. I was wondering if you could

pop by the station at [music] your

earliest convenience. It's a delicate

matter, really.

>> Of course. You [music] stop my feet.

>> Annie and I tried having kids. Never

happened. We had each other to get

through that. Then he found Brody in the

tunnel. You know, as I said, things were

never the same. Thanks. Then Annie left

and suddenly there was this vacuum, this

empty life, and I was left thinking, you

know, is that it?

I woke up on my 43rd birthday and

decided to do something about it.

The other day I got the news that my

second IVF failed and had a complete

meltdown. Sorry about that. Now I have

to start paying 10 grand a time.

I see

>> really.

How old are you? Mid20s.

Call me when you're 46. And on the very

last roll of the dice.

Then this came yesterday.

We thought it better that we show you

rather than you you find out.

>> It's not a lot, but it all comes to me.

>> Annie never changed his will.

>> No points for guessing how you might

spend it.

>> So, this is where it all happens.

>> What's that?

>> What you do? It happens here at the

coldface.

>> Well, I like to think it's not really a

desk job. The um coldface tends to be

out there.

I'm going to cut to the chase.

>> Okay.

>> Do these belong to you?

>> No. No, they don't.

>> You can see why I asked, though.

>> I'm sorry. I I don't follow.

>> They've got your initials on them.

>> That doesn't mean they're mine.

>> I'm sorry. I had to ask. uh connected

with Annie's case and well you knew him

so.

>> Oh well I can see how you'd think

they're mine but I can assure you

they're not.

>> Okay. I'm extremely sorry but you know

we've got to cover all bases here at the

Cold Face.

>> Hey, did you know that Holly Collins is

coming to town on her next tour?

>> I do and I can't wait.

>> I might see you there.

>> Oh yeah. I hope so. That would be um

that would be really nice.

>> Well, I might see her in Webersville. I

I hear their town hall is a better

venue.

>> Oh no, no, no. see you here. The

acoustics in that hall are terrible.

>> You know a [clears throat] bit about

Weberville then.

>> Um, not really.

>> No, but that's where you're from, isn't

it?

>> As a matter of interest, what brought

you to Brainwood? Is it the same reason

you changed your name?

>> Is it possible that I could speak with a

woman detective about this?

>> So, the life policy was for 100,000.

>> Yeah. Not an insignificant sum. Yeah,

but enough to kill for.

>> Well, she had reason to need that money.

On the other hand, she was upfront about

it

>> eventually.

Maybe she got when we're on to it.

>> Be gentle. [music]

>> He's very clever, isn't he? Pretending

to be into country music like that.

>> Uh, no. Actually, he's a big fan.

>> Really?

I still feel tripped.

My favorite part of country music is

when I can change the station. So,

>> what is it you can't talk to Mike about?

>> It's embarrassing. You see what is?

[sighs] Yes, I changed my name. The

truth is I've had a few last names. I

was Gloria Howard until my first husband

left me for my best friend.

She's still my best friend actually,

which I know is weird. But [gasps]

[clears throat] then not long after

that, he was killed in a work accident.

Nothing to do with me, but people

talked.

Then I was Gloria Palmer until my second

husband died in my arms, literally.

Another work related incident.

>> He died while we were making love.

Cardiac arrest. Ironically, he was a

doctor.

And in a small town, nothing spreads

faster than bad news, except maybe

salacious bad news. I heard what they

were saying about me. Black widow, the

Joker, Dr. Killer. So, I had to leave

and make a new start. I really

don't want my path to follow me here.

Uh, Gloria, the underwear Mike showed

you. You're sure that it belonged to

you? Yes. And there was also a text on

Annie's phone. Meet me at the club

rooms. GG. And it was signed with

kisses. I explained to Mr. Shepherd that

I don't own a cell phone and I've never

been to the club rooms. Oh, what?

Oh, no. I did go to a game once. Annie

invited me.

and give it a rest on the drum.

[groaning]

>> Not again.

>> Would you like a cheese roll?

>> Thank you.

>> Why did Annie invite you to the game?

>> He liked me, but I didn't want another

husband. Not with my track record. And

I'm just not really into rugby.

>> You don't have to tell Mr. Shepherd

about my past, do you?

>> Two dead husbands. Can see why she

needed a new name. New town, new start.

>> And Annie was seeking her affections.

>> And Annie ended up dead.

>> H I've been thinking I should revisit

all the team members. Someone must know

something more.

>> No, I've got something more important

for you. Go down to the library.

>> Stake out Gloria Ginsburg. Sure.

>> No. Get a book out on embroidery.

>> Good one.

>> Right. You're actually serious. Good.

>> Don't worry, there'll be lots of

pictures.

>> Speaking of pictures, the boppins have

extracted the pics from Dana's phone.

>> Oh, yeah. Anything useful?

>> Well, seen better photos of Bigfoot.

Yeah, no amount of enhancing helped

that. Taken at 11:50, the last thing on

her phone.

Whoever is out in that darkness is not

her friend.

We can assume that Dana's killer saw her

take this photo

>> and they didn't want that.

>> And

with the rugby ground here

and Dana's car there and the killer

heading this way, we can assume that

they were coming back from killing

Annie, right? They they saw her freaked

out

>> and she was just in the wrong place at

the wrong time.

>> And it also means that they were heading

into Broken Wood, not away. Probably

local

>> cast of the footprint from Dana's crime

scene

>> Cinderella time detective.

>> Do you want to play Prince Charming or

shall I

>> have fun?

library.

>> You okay?

We have a deflated rugby ball, pair of

woman's [music] underwear, a woman in a

red dress in Annie's window, but also a

dead woman in a red dress lying in a

stream. We [music] have a text message

from GG, but the only GG we know doesn't

own a cell phone. Nothing is connecting.

I almost forgot.

Dana's car did run out of gas.

Beginner's guide to embroidery.

stitched up. So excited. But it says

they haven't been issued.

>> Well, I've checked the shelves. They're

not there.

>> Perhaps they've been misfiled.

>> I've had a really good look.

>> Well, they can't just disappear.

>> There weren't any. Of course, there's

always the possibility she's lying. Like

she could be lying about not having a

cell phone

>> or about fresh starts. [sighs]

>> No match. Not even close. Although,

interestingly, Steve Fangels aren't

here.

>> We know where to find them.

>> You want me to talk to Steve?

>> No. I want you to pay a visit to the

Brokenwood Sewing Circle.

>> Okay, this time you're

No. Again, you're actually serious.

>> Such a terrible [music] business with

Annie, wasn't it? Oh, I'll be making an

extra batch [music] of cheese rolls for

the wake.

>> Nice. [snorts]

>> Difficult for you too, Samuel, losing

your coach like that and in such sorted

circumstances.

>> Well, in my line of work, you learn not

to be surprised by anything.

>> Oh, it's true then.

>> What?

>> The nature of his demise. He was bound

and naked. He was a homosexualist then.

>> Uh, no. Um, Annie wasn't that. This

investigation is ongoing.

>> Oh, of course.

>> Um, there is actually something that I

need your help with.

>> It's a bit um awkward, actually.

I'm wondering what you can tell me about

the embroidery on these.

>> Oh, torn down the side. Crime of

passion.

>> Yeah, it's the embroidery that we're

interested in.

>> May I

Uh.

>> Oh, it's a fine piece of work. You have

to admire the technique. Oh, one or two

irregularities there and there.

Self-taught beginner, I'd say. Not one

I've seen before. They've got natural

talent, though.

See, all embroiderers have an individual

style, a signature or inconsistency that

can reveal their identity.

Like a fingerprint, detective,

>> it was easily one of the most

embarrassing moments of my entire

career. It could only have been worse if

I had actually been wearing them.

>> In your dreams.

Brilliant.

>> Where's he going?

>> Ah, here are all the titles Annie has

taken out [music] since he joined.

>> Okay, so rugby, rugby, rugby, racing,

home brewing, a lot of books on

classical music.

>> He had a thing for Vagnner, didn't he?

Then Moes are then rack manov.

>> Can I use one of those?

>> Sure.

[music]

Whatever [singing] kind of me,

I'll still be laughing. Baby, [music]

sink or swim.

There's only [singing] one thing making

me brand new. There's only one thing and

that thing is you.

Pick up the pieces where

[singing and music] the puzzle falls.

Rehearse your lines until the curtain

calls.

Many [singing] of but I don't want

things true. [music]

There's only one thing and that thing is

you. It's okay. [singing and music]

It's all right.

Don't you worry about a thing tonight.

>> Satisfied.

>> Thanks for coming in.

>> So Steve isn't Cinderella then?

>> As I said, detective, he was with me all

that night.

>> Seems that way.

>> These are old school boots. Metal studs

worn down and bird as if someone's been

walking on concrete. Annie would never

have allowed these on the field.

>> I'll see you out.

>> Goodbye, detective.

>> Goodbye. Thanks.

I'm in trouble again, aren't I?

>> Not if you're honest with me.

>> When I showed you that underwear and you

said it wasn't yours, you were telling

the truth, weren't you?

>> Yes.

>> But that wasn't the first time you'd

seen them, was it?

>> No.

>> No, it wasn't.

>> [music]

>> rose lace.

>> Highest quality silk.

I had them embroidered especially.

>> I like you. I mean, you're

>> you're very nice, but

No,

>> I'm sorry.

someone else's [music and singing]

fault.

>> What is it with men and first dates in

this town?

>> But it wasn't her first date with Arley.

>> Usually a lot better than us.

>> Gloria lied about the underwear to keep

a low profile. So what

>> are you saying? That if she lied about

that, she could have lied about the

phone, too.

>> It's not what Gloria did. It's what

Annie did.

>> Not following.

>> There was more to Annie than just rugby.

Annie had a secret passion he couldn't

tell anyone about.

That's one of the missing library books.

He embroidered the underwear he offered

to Gloria. He couldn't tell it

particularly when she bought. His

reputation would have been in tatters.

But that was just on the surface.

The mystery woman in the window. It

wasn't Dana or Gloria or even Barbara.

She never existed. He's got chicken in

there. [laughter]

>> He's getting some things to bloody do.

Hey,

>> the boys assumed they saw a woman

because we believe what we think we see.

>> Annie was a crossdresser.

>> Something he couldn't tell anyone about.

He enjoyed wearing women's

undergarments, satins, [music] silks, as

did his hero Vagna. He too was a

crossdresser.

>> Don't crossdressers tend to like to

express [music] themselves in public. D

M Ed Midna Eddie Aage

>> but in Brokenwood as coach of the local

rugby team and community leader on the

face of it Anie was a rugby racing and

beer kind of guy he couldn't come out

but what was the one feminine thing he

could wear all the time

>> so

are you saying

Annie wore women's underwear [music] it

was his own special private thing

okay fact Annie's house contain women's

clothing, but no sign of feminine

hygiene products. Men's shampoo, no

conditioner. Name me a woman that

doesn't use conditioner.

>> But what about the second toothbrush?

>> One well wororn, one new. Same brand,

same color. Annie simply hadn't thrown

the old one away.

>> Are you saying that my rugby coach was a

pantywearing dude who taught himself to

embroider?

>> Why are there no books on embroidery in

the library? Too scared to check them

out. be simply appropriate.

What else was he doing in there if not

making key hangers? He wasn't making

beer. That kit had never been used.

>> Okay, but wearing women's knickers isn't

the same as choking on them.

>> What would make Annie [music] get up and

go to the club rooms at 11:00 p.m.?

A message from Gloria.

What was he expecting? Romance,

forgiveness, blackmail? Who knows? But

he went and his killer was waiting for

him.

The underwear is ripped. Torn off.

Passion

or anger?

Your crap coach and killed my brother.

Please get hard, Rudy. It's not bloody

ballet. Your open side is [ __ ] you.

What are you doing? He's thirsting the

breakdown every bloody time. Now get in

there. If you have to pay the man, you

bloody will do it.

>> Harder,

>> Len, but the CCTV footage places him at

the bar.

>> No, it doesn't. What? [music]

>> Bring it up.

>> Len was always in the pub [music]

sitting in the same place everyone

always said.

>> There he is. 10:15.

>> Fast forward to now.

>> He's there.

>> Look at the number on his back. Lynn

always wore the number seven. He'd

already gone. Rewind it.

There he is seeing Dana Clark.

Scroll through

there.

We were too busy looking at the boys to

notice. [music] Len left at 10:23 and

someone else took his place.

>> Oh my gosh. Len got himself an alibi

without even trying.

>> Has he left to deal with Annie?

>> We believe what we think we see.

And

and you sick bloody pervert.

Don't tell anyone.

I pick you.

Honey,

your secret safe with me.

Get [screaming]

out.

[music]

>> [music]

>> So, it was revenge for his brother

committing suicide.

>> It was 10 years ago, but Len never let

it go, making his drum.

>> It's a long-term plan.

>> Or it's opportunistic.

>> Things to bloody do, eh?

>> He followed the boys, hoping to see Anie

disgraced.

>> And when [music] it didn't happen, he

took matters into his own hands. Len

catfished Annie into thinking he was

Gloria

>> because he knew that Annie was keen on

Gloria. And when Len saw Dana on the

other side of the road, he knew that she

could identify him.

Len

Carson

Mike Shepard.

Hello

then.

>> I bet they match your plaster cast.

>> Come on, you cheaters. [music]

>> Oh my god.

It's like a shrine to his brother.

They weren't just brothers.

>> They [music] were twins.

>> So when Annie said there was a ghost on

the sidelines, he wasn't just using a

colorful metaphor.

>> [music]

>> Oh, Christ. Look what he's done to her.

>> He's getting away, Mike.

>> Yeah. Yeah, I know where he's headed.

Call Breen. Tell him to meet us there.

>> Where? Gold posts.

Oh god, what a bloody mess.

>> Come on,

brain. Where are you?

>> What's this about? What's that about?

>> Don't go there. Lynn's following in his

brother's footsteps.

or not.

>> Bucker,

>> the tunnel.

>> What?

>> Barbara, she said everything changed

when Anie found Brody in the tunnel.

>> He didn't do it from the goalposts.

>> I'll go this way. Len.

Len Carson.

Len, stop. You don't have to do this.

Listen to me. I'm sorry about the girl.

>> Come down. Come down.

>> L Carson, I'm arresting you for the

murder of Annie Langstone and Dana

Clark.

You move that fast in the game, you

might start winning.

>> Thanks, com. We're bringing him in.

I've got a spare roller if you want to

finish the job.

>> So, you reckon you'll come and watch

[music] Breen's team play now they're a

fan down?

>> Maybe. If only you try these cheese

rolls everyone [music] keeps talking

about.

Standing in a stranger's room.

>> Looks like you've had a smurf.

>> Turning the pages one by one.

I'm staring out the window.

Till the heavens shall brew it again.

Respeaking earthly thunder. Come away.

>> Oh, that this to two sully flesh would

melt.

>> Thanks for coming to see Jared.

>> He's very good to you.

>> He is. Although Shakespeare's never been

my thing,

>> though. That the everlasting.

>> I'm never quite sure what's going on.

>> Wise men know well enough what monsters

you make of

>> This is the good bit.

>> To an honory. Go.

>> Jared's always had away with the ladies.

>> Farewell.

>> Oh, yeah. Being sent to an [music]

honorary gets us every time.

>> Oh, heavenly powers restore him.

>> Help. ANGELS, [screaming]

MAKE A SAY WITH STRINGS of steel.

>> A hit. A very palpable hit.

>> The drink. The drink. I am poisoned.

>> It is here, Hamlet.

Hamlet, thou art slain. And flights of

angels sing thee to thy rest. [applause]

[music]

[applause]

>> I think that's what you call milking us.

>> Hope she's got a bad review.

>> [music]

>> Is there a doctor in the house? Ben.

Ben, what is it? Get ready. Get there.

Get there.

>> Get him his thing, Ruth.

>> Okay.

>> An ambulance. WE NEED AN AMBULANCE,

PLEASE.

>> Excuse me.

>> Oh, goodness.

>> Oh, Christ. He's dead.

>> [music]

>> So much for breaking a leg, fella.

Looks like you went a little too far.

What do you know about this?

>> It isn't real.

It's a stage room. A blood balloon

containing fake blood. See? It's very

realistic.

>> Yeah, the props sky is really good.

>> Can someone please tell us what has

happened?

>> And you uh

>> Sorry, senior. This is Ralph.

>> Rafe

says here Ralph. Ralph St. John.

Rafe is the director of the play. Such a

lovely boy.

>> Rafe.

Darling man.

[snorts]

Jerry

>> Brave

>> Paula Paula Worthington

>> DSS Mike Shepard.

>> Is there anything I can do to help?

>> Uh, no. I think we've got everything

under control. Thank you.

>> Amy, I loved him like a son.

>> Sorry. You don't mind?

>> Apologies. I'm all over the place.

Any idea how

>> there'll be a postmortem?

>> Of course.

>> Wasn't he a wonderful Hamlet?

>> Uh, yes he was. If it's not too much

trouble, I wonder if I can be

interviewed as quickly as possible. I

need to get home to my twins. Violent

Sebastian,

>> your children are home alone.

>> They'll be wondering where I am.

>> Shouldn't be too much longer. Um, Breen,

could you take Mrs. Worthington's

details?

>> M.

>> Ms. Worththington's.

>> Thank you.

>> Come with me.

>> What's going on up there?

>> One of the casts got a bit hysterical.

needed to be sedated.

>> Doctor says it has all the hallmarks of

an asthma [music] attack. Ben was known

to be asthmetic.

>> Can you smell that?

>> What?

>> You can't smell anything?

>> No. What? Oh,

>> is this where you tell me it smells like

bitter almonds?

>> Damn. That is so unfair.

>> It's no big deal.

>> Not everyone can detect that smell. I

know.

>> It's a genetic thing.

>> I know.

>> It was my big fail at police college.

>> Well, it's the only fail, I'm sure.

>> Yeah, there is that.

>> Well, it's definitely there.

>> Oh,

something is rotten in the state of

Brokenwood.

>> Were you awake for any of the show?

>> Let's um give him to the morttery

arranger postmortm. Probably more fun

than Shakespeare.

>> [music]

>> We are dealing with something very

unusual

>> as well as Pentaloon's tights and fake

blood.

>> What's this?

>> Chafing from the rough he had around his

neck.

>> But it's different from this.

>> That's where it gets interesting.

What was the performance?

>> Hamlet.

>> The Russian play.

>> Hamlet was from Russia.

>> No, but he's very Russian. He worries

too much, complains about everything,

takes too long to make up his mind, and

when he finally does, it all ends badly

anyway. Such is life.

>> Are we talking asthma?

>> Sudden respiratory failure? Yes. But

this pinkish discoloration around the

mouth tells me it wasn't asthma. With

asthma, typically, it is very pale, even

bluish. Gina,

>> do you smell bitter almonds?

>> No, I smell musty old Snickers.

>> Huh?

>> Don't worry, Mike. In Russia, the

quality of almonds means they smell very

similar to Snickers,

>> right?

>> Toxicology will confirm.

>> How do you think it was administered?

>> That's the thing. Here in this little

blood bag, there is a sharp device. When

the bag was crushed, the device could

have broken the skin, causing the real

blood to mix with the fake blood.

Are you saying the fake blood contained

the poison?

>> I think so. Yes. But there is no actual

wound on the deceased arm.

>> So, how did he receive the lethal dose?

>> Well, that would depend on what it was.

So, the type of poison was

>> Why do you ask me this, Mike?

>> Because it's your job to tell me.

>> But I can see you already know. Hm.

>> One minute the guy's taking a bow, next

he's lying on the ground flapping around

like a dying fish. Shakespeare will do

that to you.

>> Cyanide will do that to you.

>> Cyanide.

>> Potassium cyanide. Most likely KCN test

will confirm.

>> Wow. Cool.

I mean, not cool for the guy, obviously.

The cyanide. That's pretty

unusual is all I'm saying.

>> Do we know how?

>> Uh, no. The uh blood bag was set to

break the skin, but it didn't. Perhaps

he inhaled the fumes, but would that be

enough to kill him?

>> What do we know about this kid?

>> Ben Falner, 21 years old. He was an

orphan. He lost his mother to cancer at

age seven and his father to a car

accident 10 years ago. No siblings. Ever

since then, the Brokenwood Theater

Society, of which his parents were

members, have acted like a surrogate

family. Most notably, Paula Worthington.

He spent a lot of time with her

>> and presumably her kids.

>> She has kids. I don't remember that from

her details.

>> She was very keen to get back to them

last night. Twins, Vio and Sebastian.

>> Right. 12th Night.

>> What? [snorts]

>> Viola and Sebastian were the twins in

12th Night.

>> Another Shakespeare play. Never mind.

Uh, up until several weeks ago, Ben was

dating Juliet Phelps, who played Oilia.

>> The one who goes crazy. Oh,

>> you were awake for some of it.

>> Do we have her witness statement?

>> No, she's in hospital, heavily sedated.

She's had something of a breakdown.

>> That's called irony.

>> Or convenient. Jilted lover takes

revenge, then removes herself from

suspicion by hiding behind an emotional

collapse.

>> I like it. I suggest we start with Ruth

Phelps, her mother and also the stage

manager for the show.

>> Breen, head down to the hospital. I'm

returning to the scene. Kristen, we need

to know all the cyanide suppliers and

license holders.

>> Um, could I take the cyanide?

>> What I mean, if it made no difference,

could I follow up on the cyanide? Let's

get this Ruth Phelps talking while her

daughter's disposed.

>> Yeah. See, Mrs. Phelps was my English

teacher [music] at Riverstone High

School. So,

>> it's just Shakespeare was her specialty

and it definitely wasn't mine. She was

intense about it and I'm pretty sure I

never handed in my last assignment,

which was ironically on Hamlet.

She may still be expecting it.

>> You'd [music] rather work with cyanide.

>> It's nowhere near as lethal as Mrs.

Phelps.

>> Never picked you as a Shakespeare, huh?

>> Oh, me neither. I always really like the

words, you know, a bit like hip-hop

without the fat beats. But one day I was

just grabbing a coffee.

>> Rafe Singen, have you ever done any

Shakespeare?

>> So to be or not to be Hamlet, there

became the question. You were [music]

discovered as they say. Here I guess

these are all a prompt. Yep.

H

the blood bag. How did that work?

See your larity.

Okay. Thrust at me.

I grab my arm.

The little balloon breaks. Blood comes

out. And I hold it out to the audience.

Very good. For a moment, I thought I'd

hit you there.

>> Ah, the magic of theater. And the blood

bag sits here. Yeah, we put them on at

the beginning of act five.

>> And there's a space for yours and one

for Ben's.

>> Mhm.

>> Who has access to this area during the

show? Oh,

>> everybody moves around back here

exiting, entering, grabbing props.

>> Did you and Ben ever mix up your blood

bags?

>> It wouldn't matter if we did. Why? You

said the props guy is really good. Is

that Rafe?

>> Nah. Craig Jenkins. He runs the Broken

Wood High costume place.

I didn't realize the Elizabethans were

so advanced.

>> Ben always gets a bit wheezy, mostly

after act five. Used to take a puff

before the curtain call.

>> I heard people crying. Like actually

crying.

>> I think we knocked him dead, bro.

>> Yeah. No, it felt pretty good. All

right,

>> we killed it. We killed it.

>> Ty home.

Is that what happened then?

>> What's that?

>> An asthma attack? My guess is there's

more to it than that.

I'm a suspect, aren't I?

Let's just say you're uh helping us with

our inquiries.

>> I had a cousin that did that once.

Problem was, he was so good at helping

with the inquiries, he ended up in jail.

>> Was he guilty?

>> Well, technically, yeah.

>> We're in a process that needs to be gone

through, that's all.

>> So, I'm free to go. My vines won't prune

themselves. Although, it might be wise

not to associate with the other cast

members until all the other witness

statements are in order.

>> Yeah.

>> Juliet, this is Detective Sims. She has

a couple of questions for you.

>> Okay.

>> Hello, Juliet.

[snorts] Last night, did you notice

anything odd about Ben backstage during

the play?

>> Ben? Yes, I remember him.

>> Well, I know that you knew him. I'm

sorry for your loss. I understand he was

your boyfriend.

>> We must be patient, but I cannot choose.

but weak to think they lay him as a cold

ground.

>> Damn medication that's either too much

or not enough. Those doctors, they don't

know their backsides from their belly

buttons. Could we have some help in

here, please?

>> Where is the beautious majesty of

Denmark?

>> Felia's lines. How now? Ailia.

How am I your true love? No. From

another one by his cockal hat and staff

and ocean. Alas, sweet lady, what

imports this song? You know, I might

come back later.

>> Yes, I think that would be a good idea.

I I I think she may be slipping into a

coma.

>> No, no, I want an actual doctor. An

actual doctor. If you don't mind,

[music] detective.

Of course. Fear.

I will send it to the ESR for more

tests, but the canister is factory

sealed. I can't see any way the poison

could be contained.

>> You could take a puff with no fear.

>> Oh, pass.

>> Chicken. What? No.

>> If you were a Russian man, you might do

it to prove your manliness.

>> But I'm not asicatic.

>> That's why I respect you, Mike.

>> Because I'm not asmetic.

>> Because you know, manliness doesn't come

with wrestling chickens.

[music]

Detective Sims, back again so soon.

Actually, I have a couple of questions

for you if that's okay. Well, we're not

out of the woods yet. They've told me I

have to wait here in the corridor. Why?

So that I wouldn't bear witness to their

incompetence. I'm a mother for God's

sake.

>> Well, perhaps then you could spare me a

couple of minutes.

The diagnosis was that Juliet was

overcome with hysteria at Ben's sudden

death.

>> You don't agree?

>> She's a sensitive girl. She's suffering

from a much deeper ailment.

>> A broken heart.

>> Very good. Perhaps you should become a

doctor. I'm sure you'd be better than

those apes.

Breaking a young woman's heart is not

something to be underestimated.

The damage can be very serious indeed.

And I did insist on calling her Juliet,

>> the Starcross lover.

>> So Ben was her Romeo in so much as he

ended up dead. At least there's one of

your team who knows a thing or two about

Shakespeare. Unlike Samuel Breen, I saw

him last night pretending to be a

detective. He avoided me, of course.

>> I can assure you he's very good at his

job.

>> Oh, really? Well, perhaps

>> he'd like to solve the mystery of the

missing year 12 assignment. It remains

outstanding.

>> Uh, do you have any idea why Ben would

want to break things off with Juliet?

He was young, foolish, insensitive, and

confused.

>> Bye.

>> Perhaps you should ask Paula

Worththington about that. She fussed

over him like the mother she never was.

>> She doesn't have her own children.

>> God, no. Huh. Which is just as well. Who

knows what kind of mother she would

make. Her um

her intentions towards Ben were far more

than maternal.

>> What exactly are you suggesting?

>> I'm sure you can draw your own

conclusions, detective.

[music]

Kristen.

>> Hey. According to Ruth Phelps, Waller

Worththington doesn't have any children.

>> Okay. Thanks.

>> Good morning, Michael.

>> Morning.

>> Vioer and Sebastian. I present. My

twins, Viola and Sebastian

>> from 12th Night.

>> Oh, well done. You like your

Shakespeare, Michael?

>> It's uh limited. More a country music

fan. But from what I can work out, um

all the same themes as Shakespeare, but

done in 3 minutes rather than 3 hours.

No offense. I uh thought they were your

children.

>> In many ways, they are

>> not identical twins then,

>> but born on the same day. They didn't

suffer too much with your late arrival

home.

>> You might not think so, but they're

carrying a very sad disposition. They

sense that Benny is dead. He was very

close to them.

>> Is there any confirmation on what caused

Ben's death?

>> Not yet.

>> There's a rumor it was asthma.

>> It would seem like the most likely

scenario.

>> Oh, my poor Benny. And I suppose the

rest of the season will be cancelled.

Oh,

>> with an actor dead and another one in

the hospital, I would presume so.

>> What a shame.

But appropriate, I would think.

>> Well, yes and no. The the proceeds were

to go to a charity, you see. Awesome

Orphans.

>> I see.

>> It gives grants to orphans who show

exceptional promise in a certain area

like Ben.

>> Yeah. Perhaps when this is over.

>> Excuse me.

>> Good mate. Um DS Mike Sh. Hey. Um have

you collected all the rubbish around

here?

>> Right. What do we got? Well, Ruth Phelps

doesn't suffer fools. Paula

Worththington

>> just bumped into her. Someone who

treasured Ben like a mother. She's very

um businesslike.

>> A mother or maybe more.

>> What?

>> Well, according to Ruth Phelps, Paula

Worthington possibly had more than a

maternal interest in Ben.

>> Okay.

>> Uh Juliet Phelps is still flaking out on

sedatives. Rafe engine.

>> Ralph St. John is coming in tomorrow to

complete his witness statement. Hard to

pin down.

>> Nigel Medlock. Timothy Ward and Billy

Franks have all completed statements as

has Neil Bloom.

>> I remember him from the golf club case.

The chemist

>> pharmacist.

>> Okay, so I know.

>> Are we missing someone?

>> Who? Jared Mahue. Shouldn't he be up

there? Just saying.

>> Put his name up. I checked out all local

controlled substance license holders. No

one reports anything out of the

ordinary. No breakins. And to be fair,

they were all so uninterested in the

idea of a Shakespeare play, it was hard

to sniff out any connection or possible

motive from their end.

>> No cyanide thefts in the entire

district.

>> Nope. Although I'm yet to head up and

see Smelly Nelly Jenkins.

>> Yeah, good luck with that.

>> Smelly Nelly

>> Jenkins. Old school possum trapper.

>> Lives in the foothills of the Ripstone

Rangers.

>> Completely feral. always trying to tempt

you with a pawsome pie while flogging

off possum skins and other byproducts as

the panacea to the ills of modern day

life.

>> Should we gray Jenkins?

>> Don't know.

>> Pass.

>> Jared mentioned him as the props maker.

Another person of interest. So when you

[clears throat] get up to this Nelly

Jenkins

>> squad cars in the shop.

>> What? 6 month service and all the icars

are out.

>> Did you mention you're investigating a

murder?

>> Can't fight the system, senior. Then

take mine.

>> Your car?

>> What's wrong with it?

>> Oh, nothing. It's just It's your car.

>> Yeah. Don't disrespect it.

>> No, boss.

>> Right.

So, apart from not having a who or a why

or even a how, which gives us no when,

we're doing really well.

Why, when, how, who, why, when, [music]

how, who. Don't mess up with the car.

[music]

>> I'll text up Neil Bloom.

>> Mhm.

[music]

>> Hello.

Hello.

Anybody around?

Hello?

This is Mike Shippet.

>> Hello.

Hello.

>> Chris and Sams,

>> she can talk now, but keep it brief.

>> I'm so sorry. I was fixing a hinge on

the breast plate and trying it on and it

got stuck. Yeah. No harm done.

Gray Jenkins, is it? [laughter]

>> No, I'm Billy, his assistant.

>> Is Gray about?

>> No. Uh, he didn't come in today. He's

very upset over Ben's death. Uh, do you

mind?

>> Oh,

you were on the play. Um, Oswald

>> Ozre and Marcellis and Rosen Crants in

the battlement scene. A small but very

important part, right? Although, as Rafe

say, there are no small parts, only

small actors.

>> But you're okay.

>> Okay. Well, thanks, I guess.

>> Oh, no. I mean, you're okay to come into

work.

>> Oh, it's just we're so busy. I mean,

Flintstones the musical opens in

Riverstone next week and we still have

to finish all the fur detailing. And

then after Hamlet, there's Spam a lot.

Hence, I was fixing the suit of armor

when

so stupid. I'm sorry.

>> Any idea why Ben and Juliet broke up?

>> No. He just dumped her and that was that

and

>> and

>> and she deserved to be treated better

than that. I'm sure.

>> Do you have uh Gray Jenkins address?

>> Yeah.

>> What do you got?

>> Taste results confirm what I knew. The

fake blood contains cyanide.

>> Okay, thanks.

>> The fake blood. Did you sell much of it?

>> Halloween, kids birthdays. Graeme makes

it himself. It's very good. Appreciate

it.

>> Sweetheart, you remember Detective Sims?

>> Yes. She just wants to ask you a few

more questions about Ben.

>> Uh, actually, would you mind if

>> Oh, um, I'll be just over there,

darling, if you need anything or you

feel upset.

>> Okay. She'll be fine. You don't know

that.

>> Uh, right. Um,

what I'm trying to get a handle on is

why you and Ben split up.

>> Was it amicable?

>> When is getting dumped out of the blue

on a cold winter's night ever amicable?

[music]

>> Now, what about the show?

>> As Pelonius says to thine own self, be

true.

>> Screw Pelonius, Ben. This is real.

>> It hurt really bad.

>> I'm sure.

But not so much that I would do anything

bad. You're not thinking that?

>> Just trying to put a picture together.

>> Does your picture include Ben being hit

on by Gray Jenkins?

>> In what way?

>> Gray was always teasing Ben about his

sexuality,

testing, flirting.

>> And was Ben

>> Ben wasn't interested.

He was interested in me.

And then he wasn't. But it doesn't

matter now. I have someone new.

You have a new boyfriend.

>> Let's just say if Ben were alive, he'd

be feeling pretty jealous.

Are those flowers from him?

They're from my hamlet.

Feeling very tired now.

Okay. Thanks,

Uh, Ruth, the roses, were they from

Jared Morahoo?

>> Apparently, I wasn't here at the time.

Right. Utterance. I don't believe for a

second they're from a new boyfriend if

that's what she's saying.

>> Well, she does seem smitten. Many of the

effects of the medication. Either too

much or too little.

>> Oh,

>> Ruthie.

>> Hi.

>> How's our girl?

>> Oh, she's mending. You know Detective

Sims?

>> Yes. Any news about things?

>> We're working on it.

>> Asthma, it's a dreadful business.

>> It would help if we had all the

completed witness statements.

>> Yes, I apologize. It's been a ghastly

day. I'll pop in tomorrow,

>> please.

[snorts]

>> How fair is my Juliet that I ask again?

For nothing can be ill if she be well.

>> Teddy, another bouquet.

>> Popular girl. They're from your cast of

Hamlet. They want their back. Didn't you

know detective?

>> A union over the bard led to a permanent

connection but we choose to maintain

separate lives.

Who are you?

>> DC Sam Breen

broken with CIB.

>> Not a cop car.

>> Actually it is. belongs to [music] my

senior.

>> What? You don't trip?

>> What do you want?

>> A routine check on your cyanide

supplies.

>> I've got a license.

>> I know. And with that license comes

security requirements that are subject

to random checks.

>> Well, get in here, then.

Keep it all in there locked.

>> Okay, good. Can you unlock it?

>> Wait, are you serious?

>> Well, I don't want to lose it.

Here you go.

>> I'm guessing you don't keep an updated

register. Oh,

>> I know it's what

still good.

Plenty in that one.

Oh,

>> that one's expired.

>> Uh, no thanks. That's cyanide.

>> Relax. Not kill you.

>> Unless you're an idiot. Are you an

idiot?

>> No.

>> Then chuck it in the bin.

>> You can't just chuck the stuff in the

bin. It's cyanide. And you can't have

the key out in plain sight.

>> Hardly no one comes up here, so it's not

a problem.

How old are you?

>> 25.

>> Lot of lines around your eyes for 25.

>> What?

>> Stress?

>> No.

>> You should try some of this. Smear it

under your eyes. Makes lines disappear.

>> What is it?

>> Pot fat. I use it all the time.

>> Ah, I'm good. Thanks.

>> Anyone else?

>> Do you know what Ben Falner?

>> No.

>> 21. Used to perform with the broken

theater society. used to grip with me.

>> Dead actually cyanide poisoning.

>> Oh, I don't go to the theater.

>> Are you related to Gray Jenkins?

>> Is that what this is about?

>> What

>> is Gray been up to no good with that

young Ben boy?

>> Meaning

>> gay? That's Gray's preference now,

>> right? But you're not related.

>> Oh, I didn't say that.

>> So, you are related?

>> No.

>> What then?

>> Oh, don't get silly with me, boy. We're

only related in so much as he was once

my husband a long time ago. But that's

all. I've got nothing to say to him.

That it. You're done.

>> No reception.

>> Who cares? I wouldn't touch one of those

things with a barge pole. They'll give

you cancer. Sure as a bull or hump a

>> right. Thanks for your time.

>> Hey, you sure you don't want some?

>> I'm good.

Flat battery. [music]

>> I don't believe it.

>> Might have to stay the night.

Hey, have you heard from Breen? [snorts]

>> Uh, negative. Where are you? Uh,

>> tracking down great Jenkins.

>> Are you all right?

>> Yeah. Yep. All good. Hey, uh, could you

pick me up in a bit? Uh, 56 Middleton

[music] Road.

>> Are you on foot?

>> Yeah, doing my bit to uh, save the

planet.

>> I'll be there.

>> [sighs and gasps]

[clears throat]

>> Neil Bloom, isn't it?

>> Detective Shepherd.

>> I was looking for Gay Jenkins.

>> You're in the right place,

>> right?

So,

>> he's sleeping.

He barely got a wink last night. The

news about Ben destroyed him.

>> I see.

>> Gray is my partner.

You don't live so far out of town

anymore.

>> Well, separate dwellings, but I uh

stayed over last night consoling Gray.

>> He can call you when he wakes.

>> Thanks.

>> Do you need a glass of water?

>> Yeah, I'd appreciate that.

>> Just uh wait here.

You were very good in the play, by the

way.

>> Oh, great be it. I like the line about

how you got to be honest with yourself.

>> To thine own self be true.

>> That's the one.

>> Thanks.

>> That's a nice part. Probably my favorite

line.

Being a gay man in a small place like

Broken Wood, it has an extra resonance.

Maybe Rafe hasn't [music] been

>> right. Sinju

>> the posty amateur theater doesn't pay

the bills, detective. I was to be

Claudius. [music]

Actually, I'd even learned the lines,

but uh was not to be. Why is that?

>> There was a last minute reshuffle

>> because

Rafe was to play Hamlet, but he was of

course too old. The society voted for

Ben, but in the end, he wasn't [snorts]

up for the task.

>> Seems a good actor to me. Ben was a nice

kid, but not as talented as some might

have thought. So Ray found Jared by

chance, and the rest was a happy

accident, as they say.

>> I'm not sure Ben would say it that way.

Huh. Am I right?

Thanks for that.

Actually, uh, one other thing. As a

chemist, do you stock cyanide?

>> Detective. As a pharmacist, I dispense

drugs to heal people, not kill them.

>> I'll take that as a no. You do that.

>> So that was the detective.

>> Mike Shepard is very thorough. We need

to be very careful.

>> [music]

>> Rafe Singen is Juliet's father.

Oh,

>> does that change anything?

>> I don't know yet, but Ruth Phelps has

got serious attitude about life, love,

and doctors. And Juliet, who after being

dumped by her boyfriend, then seeing him

die in front of her eyes all within the

space of two weeks, thinks she has a new

boyfriend.

>> Who?

>> Jared Moro.

Mike Sheepard,

I'd appreciate that. See you soon.

Gray Jenkins is suddenly up and about.

Wants to meet the costume company. Can

you double back? You could drive

yourself

>> or not.

>> Well, it's not as bad as it looks. Okay.

It just needs a new alternator.

>> I had to walk for an age to call for a

tow truck.

>> I mean, well, what did you find out? Oh.

Um, Nelly Jenkins has a lot of cyanide

under lock and key in the loosest sense

of the term. And she used to be married

to Gay Jenkins.

>> How long ago?

>> 20 years. He came out, it was all over.

>> That alternator was original, by the

way.

>> Probably why it needs replacing.

>> What's under your eyes?

>> I I don't want to talk about it. I'm

taking a shower.

>> No point.

>> Why not?

>> No. Well, there's work to be done and

showering might be pointless. What

you're looking for is small silver

plastic. And if you find it, handle with

extreme care.

This is about the car, isn't it? No,

it's about uh finding the metal weapon.

>> Working late, Mr. Jenkins.

It's making up for lost time. Inspector,

>> rough night, are you here?

>> We all lost a dear friend.

Makes you wonder what the point of it

all is sometimes, doesn't it?

>> Doesn't Hamlet say something like that?

>> Over and over and over.

And was a talented boy. Was such a

waste.

>> Was your relationship anything more than

professional?

>> Can we deal with a couple of facts?

>> Facts are what I'm here for. Firstly,

the Broken Wood Theater Society is

amateur, not professional. A mistake

Rafe often makes. There's a big

difference. And secondly, Ben was

straight. Had a lot of time for him, but

that was all.

>> You make the props for the play, I

understand.

>> And costumes. It's my contribution to

the society.

>> But you were an actor.

>> I'm more comfortable behind the scenes

now.

>> Could you show me how these blood bag

devices work? Oh.

an elastic bandage, drawing pin, small

water balloon filled with fake blood

>> that you make yourself.

>> Yes. And that is covered with an

adhesive paperbased plaster that you get

from a chemist

>> pharmacy stock them. Yes. And that is

strapped

round under the costume

and the actor clasp it like so.

You have blood on your hands?

>> Fake blood. Cotchal, maple syrup,

coffee, water.

>> Nothing else.

>> No.

>> So, not rocket science then.

>> Anybody could do it.

>> Well, anyone with access to all these

bits and pieces?

>> Well, they're all commonly available in

amateur theater. We have to make a

little go a long way.

>> Do you have any access to cyanide?

>> What?

>> Cyanide? Do you have any use for it?

>> That's a strange question. Not if you're

someone who uses cyanide.

>> Is that what pen?

>> Not necessarily.

>> Oh, it is.

>> As I said, not necessarily.

But you have no access to it.

>> No, never, detective.

I had nothing to do with Ben's death. I

wasn't even at the performance.

>> But you sit up the props table.

>> Well, yes, I do that each night. the

blood capsules and the blood sleeves,

parchments, etc. But then I leave. Ruth

Phelps is the stage manager. She looks

after everything.

>> Not a Shakespeare fan.

>> I love Shakespeare.

I [music] hate Hamlet.

Now, if you have no further questions, I

really must finish the Fluke St.

[music]

>> [singing]

>> You won me over.

You took

>> I have Rafe Singen in for his witness

statement.

>> Oh, good.

>> Not good.

[snorts]

>> Did you see anyone that didn't belong

there?

>> No. Mind you, it's frightfully busy back

there, but uh if there was anyone, Ruth

would have shued them away,

>> right? You and Ruth were married.

>> No, we share a beautiful friendship

through a wonderful daughter.

>> Juliet, who's a very good actress.

>> Very.

>> I thought Jared Moo was very good, too.

For the record.

>> Yes. In a raw primal way, he has that

quality of a savage glistening in the

sun, bathed in sweat, speaking the

language of the gods

>> while wearing tablets.

>> You may poo poo, detective, but by

honoring Shakespeare's period, we are

feeling the language through the filter

of the clothing. Hessen, silk,

pantaloons, authenticity.

>> I thank the stars. I am happy. I will be

strange, stout in yellow stockings and

crossguarted.

>> Ah, Malvolio, you know the bar.

>> I've studied him in university.

>> Yes. Yes. Study, study. But have you

ever let him actually flow through you?

Stood on a stage and allowed yourself to

be a vessel.

>> You mean have I ever been in a

Shakespeare play?

>> Yes.

>> No.

>> Well, perhaps you should try it. I offer

classes, you know, in acting and vocal

technique.

I can see you as a marvelous Levvenia in

Titus Andronicus.

>> That's a kind of Would you excuse us?

>> Would you think any less of me if I

vomited on your shoes?

>> I can get a bucket.

>> That man is the kind that gives

Shakespeare such a bad name.

>> I couldn't possibly comment.

>> For the record, Levvenia gets her hands

chopped off and her tongue cut out.

>> Shakespeare, eh? Yeah, but you don't get

that with Paty Klein.

>> Sorry. If we're done, detective, could I

have a private word?

>> Sure.

Please take a seat. No, I won't keep you

long.

This is a most awkward thing to ask. I'm

in a pickle. You see, Paula Worthington

has asked me whether it's possible to

continue the season of Hamlet.

>> Yes. Yes. I said, Paula, darling, no.

No, we can't. An actor has passed away.

It's insensitive. I would have thought

so.

>> But it's for her charity, you see.

>> Awesome Orphans is her charity.

>> Yes. Yes. And Paula thinks it would be

the perfect way to honor Ben's memory.

>> What do you think?

>> How could we go on? Imagine performing

that monumental play each night knowing

that one of us isn't there anymore. Then

say no. Paul is a very forceful type. I

was wondering if perhaps there was a

legal reason we couldn't continue.

>> Well, the stage and backstage area or a

crime scene. Until our investigation is

complete, you wouldn't be able to use

it.

>> Brilliant. I shall tell her forth with

that. Comes as something of relief.

He worked with Sir Ian Mckllen, you

know,

>> right?

>> You don't know who he is, do you?

>> Sir Ian Mckllen. We worked together on

Rings. Fabulous actor.

>> He played Gandalf in the Lord of the

Rings, The Hobbit.

>> Of course.

>> You never saw The Lord of the Rings?

>> I've got this thing about hairy feet.

Is this where you tell me a story about

one of your ex-wives?

>> Sorry, I didn't mean

>> I don't believe any of them had hairy

feet.

>> Well, good.

>> I mean, not that it would matter.

>> Well, it would to me,

>> obviously.

>> Do you want to change the subject?

>> Uh, yes, please.

>> Yeah.

>> Paula Worthington wants the show to go

on.

>> What's that about?

>> In the name of charity.

You've uh crossed out this guy. Timothy

is the most sensitive forklift driver

I've ever met.

I'm just so

[laughter]

I'm just so

>> so so sad.

>> I doubt he has the emotional

constitution for murder. I did learn

something interesting though when I

asked our witnesses why Ruth Phelps

wasn't [music] in the play.

>> She's kind of bad.

>> Ruth's a really good stage manager for

sure. Actually, her acting is a bit like

fingernails [music] on a blackboard.

>> She's not very good.

>> Ruth is an academic. She acts with her

head rather than her her loins. Plus,

she has some strange ideas. And all

those in favor of [music] Ruth's idea

that Hamlet should be played as a woman

by her, raise your hand. Oh, Ruthie,

not [snorts] this year again.

>> Hamlet as a woman.

>> Very avantguard. The point is Ruth

Phelps had a serious axe to grind with

the rest of the Broken Wood theater folk

>> for being snubbed.

>> Possible.

>> But why pick on Ben? Why not Paula?

>> Well, the only thing she loves more than

Shakespeare is her daughter. Ben hurt

her daughter. Motive.

>> But until we know how the cyanide was

administered, it's difficult to know who

had the opportunity.

>> Why, when, how, who, what.

>> See you now.

Yes. Back on the road.

>> Joy, right?

>> Oh, it's always joyous.

To be or not to be, that is the

question. Whether it is nobler in the

mind to suffer [music] the slings and

arrows of outrageous fortune or to take

arms against a sea of troubles and by

opposing end them to die to sleep.

>> Oh, Billy, there is so much to do.

>> But it's my lunch hour. But as long as

an hour is an hour,

Billy,

I I was just leaving.

He thinks he's in love.

>> Is that a bad thing?

>> Oh, to be young again.

>> Swings and roundabouts.

>> Billy's an asmmetic. Isn't half the

population these days? Something's

bothering me. Wondering maybe you could

help me out.

>> Promise you don't mind me keeping on

working.

>> Not at all.

Your aversion to Hamlet. What's that

about? How's that important? Humor me.

I played Hamlet myself back in the 70s

when I was a professional actor. It was

quite a famous production. Good for you.

>> Not really. I played the whole thing

with a paper bag on my head.

>> Okay. It was the 70s. That sort of thing

was very dirty girl. Some said it was

cutting edge. Some said it was

incredibly moving.

Most said it was really hard to hear

what I was saying.

>> Probably quite hard to see as well. The

director was trying to put across the

metaphor that Hamlet was blinded by his

indecision. Stumbling about just added

to that effect. After that, I was done

with the damn play.

>> At least Rafe Singen doesn't have any

crazy ideas like that.

>> He doesn't have many ideas at all.

>> Has worked with Ian Mckllen, though.

>> Oh, please. He was a dead orc. Third

corpse from the left in the battle of

Helm's Deep. Rafe tends to exaggerate

his resume and talent. Why didn't you

mention your connection to Nelly

Jenkins?

When I asked about cyanide, she's

licensed to obtain and possess cyanide.

>> There's no connection.

>> Apart from you being your ex-husband, I

have nothing to do with that woman.

She's a bigot. A tedious, odious, not to

mention odorous woman.

>> She's also a supplier of possum skins,

which if I'm not very much mistaken on

what these are.

>> I haven't seen her for years.

>> So these furs are not from her then.

Anything I have to do with my mad

ex-wife is purely business.

>> So, they are from her.

>> Have you been up to her place recently?

>> No, I have not.

>> Has she paid you a visit?

>> I have already said I haven't seen her

for years.

>> Okay,

that's all. Thanks.

We need to talk now.

Excuse me,

>> Ruth. Hi.

>> Take those. She's just in there. Don't

stay too long. She tires easily. Go on.

Off you go. Just in there.

How are you feeling?

>> Hello, Billy.

>> I brought some flowers. [music] Um, your

mom's just getting a vase.

I see you already have some.

>> Aren't they amazing?

>> Hey, are you okay to talk? I mean, I I

don't want to impose.

>> No, it's fine. and it's really good to

see you.

>> Uh your dad called. Um

there's talk that the play's going to

resume. Isn't that great

>> so soon?

>> Yeah, I'll finally get my chance to play

less.

>> Good for you.

>> Do you think that you'll be up to it?

>> I'm not sure.

>> Cuz like I I was thinking that you could

focus your confused feelings in the

part. I mean, we could run lines.

>> Slow down.

>> Yeah.

Sorry. It's just leertes. I mean, wow.

>> Are you going tomorrow?

>> Yeah, of course.

>> And Jared,

>> I guess so. I mean, everybody will be.

Why?

>> I think that's enough. Thanks for the

flowers.

>> Yeah, I should go.

>> Bye-bye. I'll see you tomorrow.

>> Sure.

>> Bye.

>> [snorts]

>> Hallelujah.

>> I'll get this over to Gina.

>> So, what do I missed?

>> Not much. If that's the smoking gun, at

least we can focus on opportunity. But

motive,

>> Hamlet, what happens? Well, a prince

suspects his uncle of killing his

father. He can't decide what to do.

Everyone dies.

>> Perhaps you should write that down and

give it to Mrs. Phelps.

>> Then you'd be investigating two murders.

>> Well, not if you said Hamlet was a

woman.

>> What? Really? Hamlet is a woman?

>> Brain?

>> Yeah.

>> Shower,

>> right?

>> Hamlet is a woman.

>> So,

>> I look at all these people and what do

they have in common?

>> A love of theater.

>> Specifically, a love of Hamlet. What if

the answer is in the play?

>> Good luck with that.

>> Academics have argued over centuries

over its deeper meaning. But for me, one

thing is clear. Hamlet had major mother

issues, which is why he treats Oilia so

badly and says some ambiguous things

about what he'd like to do to Gertrude.

Hamlet is both a mother lover and a

mother hater.

>> What has this got to do with Ben?

>> No, I'm thinking about the mother,

>> Paula. I just spoke to her again.

>> I loved Ben, but he was no saint.

>> Meaning,

>> as if it wasn't bad enough breaking

Juliet's heart, he then had the gaul to

up and die on stage in front of her.

>> Not that it was deliberate.

>> He was a troubled boy. I wouldn't put it

past him to stage something grand and

ridiculous.

>> Are you saying he could have been

suicidal?

>> I'm saying he was troubled.

>> In what way?

>> Ben was a boy gifted with too much

attention. When he lost his parents,

many in the theater society took it upon

themselves to tend to his every need.

Ruth Phelps in particular, turning him

into a Shakespeare prodigy. He was

smothered, if you know what I mean.

Well,

>> no, I'm not exactly sure.

>> Oh, Miss Sims, take the s of smothered.

And what do you get?

>> The real mother in the fray. Ruth

Phelps. The only one in this whole

scenario with an ounce of motive. Ben

hurt her daughter. She wanted him to

suffer. Well, then the same would apply

to Rafe. Juliet's his daughter, too.

>> Yeah, but does he really care about

Juliet as much as his play? He is so

self-absorbed. I think not.

>> What if Ruth didn't mean to kill Ben,

but was just trying to send a message?

>> Side. It's some message.

Let's see if we've got the smoking gun

first.

>> How's it

tough day at the office, eh? Hey. Um,

have you been following my advice?

>> Yeah, always.

What advice exactly about not

associating with the other cast members?

>> Oh, yeah. I've just been here. You sure?

>> Did these vines prune themselves?

>> Did you like Ben Forkman?

>> Uh, yeah. He was okay. What do you think

about Juliet?

She's a bit young for you, Mike. What?

I'm not talking about

>> What about Ruth Phelps?

>> Oh, I definitely wouldn't go there if I

was you.

>> I'm not talking about going there with

any of these people.

>> Yeah, cuz you know the female praying

mantis bites the head off the male prey

mantis after they've mated. Well, that's

Ruth. Just ruthless.

>> Thanks for the insight.

>> I'll have these players place something

like the murder of my father before mine

uncle. I'll observe his looks. I'll tent

him to [singing] the quick. And if he do

blench, I'll know my cause.

Uh, senior.

Ah, um,

we were hoping for a word.

We, uh, we have something of a

confession to make.

Well, Gray does. I'm moral support.

>> All right.

>> We realize we need to front foot this

before any rumors and uh false

allegations arise.

>> I'm all he is.

>> We talked about this. Honesty is the

best policy.

I

admit to having been somewhat infatuated

with Ben.

It was a foolish thing.

>> Destined never to go anywhere because

>> Ben was not gay or interested.

Gray made a couple of clumsy overtures

after a few too many wines.

>> How about this one?

>> No. Marvelous.

>> Great. I need a bigger rapier. Talented

and beautiful.

>> What's your secret?

>> I think we're done here.

>> You old fool.

>> Great. I need a longer rapia.

>> For Christ's sake, find it yourself.

>> It wasn't a secret.

>> It was a clumsy secret.

As embarrassing as it is, I

we felt it was important to come clean.

>> Was it just the ones? There were several

public displays.

>> Granted, I humiliated myself, but

>> but he was not driven to any kind of

homicidal rage in case anyone should

cast such dispersions.

>> Now, [clears throat] um,

we have a funeral to attend.

>> Thank you for your cander. It's been a

very uh emotional time,

>> I'm sure.

>> Tell me, Neil, by any chance, did you

fill Ben's prescription for his vaporize

inhaler? Uh, as a matter of fact, I did.

Why

>> is it a common brand?

>> The most common these days.

>> Billy Franks uses one, too.

>> Yes.

>> Anyone else in the cast?

>> Not that I'm aware of.

>> Okay. Thank you. Uh, Neil, uh, one more

thing. When did you last fill Ben's

prescription?

>> Oh, uh, three, no, four weeks ago. I

remember he uh he'd lost his

>> to be or not TO BE. BEN, PLEASE.

>> SORRY. I JUST I I need mine inhaler.

Where's mine inhaler?

>> Here, use mine.

[snorts]

[clears throat]

>> It's a sure way to spread illness

amongst the castle. [cough]

>> That was the beginning of the end for

being as Hamlet.

>> Hamlet can't be an asmetic.

It's it's lovely and he he's trying

>> to be or not to be really. It's amateur.

>> We are amateurs. Rafe

>> only in so much as we don't get paid.

But there is no reason to set anything

other than professional standards.

I suppose I may have to do it.

>> A 100red years ago. Hamlet is a young

prince for heaven's sake.

>> Quite.

>> Well, best you find someone ASAP.

>> I can but try.

>> Is that how Jared came to be involved? A

happy accident, as they say.

>> How all occasions do inform against me

and spare my dull revenge.

>> Oh my goodness, Rafe. What a find.

>> How did you feel about Gray's attitude

to Ben?

The course of true love never did run

[music] smooth.

only tears [singing]

that all I can do.

>> And as we say farewell to Benuch,

>> we [music] remember his vitality,

>> his love of life

and that though taken far too young, he

was loved by those around him.

And

>> so

>> earth to earth,

>> ashes to ashes,

dust to dust.

>> Now pile your dust upon the quick and

dead. Till of this flat a mountain you

have made to over top of pylon.

>> Pion

and the skyish head of blue Olympus.

>> Marvelous.

>> You're right, mate. Come on. Come on.

>> Jerry.

>> Oh, now she's right.

>> I'm sorry. This feeling just came over

me.

>> Not at all. It was very act.

>> Well done, Billy.

>> You are a star just waiting to shine.

And

as we know,

Ben was a supernova

in a night sky filled with baby stars.

We miss you, Ben.

Paula, [applause]

>> thank you. Thank you, Rafe. And thank

you, Ben. Rafe and I have been talking

and in Ben's name we feel that it is

appropriate

that we carry on. Billy, you have

thoroughly proven with your fitting

tribute to Ben that you're more than

capable of taking leotes and the rest of

us will just cover. Uh that is assuming

that our affilia Juliet is fed and well

>> ready and willing.

>> Those in favor raise your hand.

Bravo. [screaming]

>> BRAVO. [applause]

>> After what we discussed, aren't you

jumping the gun? But Paula was very

insistent. The venue was still a cord

area. Yes, it was then that she pointed

out that we simply move to a park,

perhaps in true traveling player style.

>> Rafe, while I admire your enthusiasm, it

wasn't the venue that killed Ben. It was

someone quite possibly in your cast that

did.

>> But it was an asthma attack.

>> Asthma can be triggered in different

ways.

>> Someone in this room.

>> Possibly.

I find that hard to believe.

>> Well done, you gorgeous man. [laughter]

>> Such fortitude. Don't you think,

Michael?

>> Thank you for the flowers.

>> Flowers?

>> Plain koi. The beautiful bouquet that

you sent with my dad. Remember,

they're from your hamlet.

He wants his Ailia back. He loves you

very much.

>> Yeah. No, I'm not really a flowers guy.

>> Then I feel all the more special.

>> No, I mean, I didn't actually.

>> Sending my father as an emissary. I

mean, kind of old-fashioned, but very

romantic.

You know, it's really sad what happened

to Ben,

>> but there's always a silver lining. And

we have to carry on, don't we?

>> I see. I didn't see the me.

>> How could you say that?

>> Don't say that.

>> I got to tell it like it is. E,

>> have you no heart?

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH?

>> I have to rest.

>> What have you said? What have you done

this time? Really? Nate, speak.

>> What's with the flowers?

>> Sorry. Juliet said you delivered flowers

from me, but I didn't send any.

>> Yes, I delivered flowers, but not from

you.

They're from your cast of Hamlet.

They want their Ailia back.

>> They love you very much. It's the

medication. I would think she's young

and confused. But really, Jared, you

need to be more sensitive.

>> Maybe you need to find another Hamlet.

I just

>> And lo, another diva was born.

Really? Ben's wait too.

>> Gina,

>> you have the mind of an assassin.

>> The inside of the inhaler's mouthpiece

was laced with cyanide paste. When the

victim took off the cap and depressed

the canister, it would have dispensed a

little amount straight into his lungs.

>> He would have inhaled deeply, thinking

it would his asthma.

It would have acted with fury.

Let's go through it again.

>> Okay. Someone wanted Ben Forner dead.

The reason he to be determined.

>> They switch his inhaler. He essentially

executes himself. Then the perpetrator

later dumps the inhaler in the rubbish

bin.

>> Inhaler. Sophisticated. Rubbish bin.

Clumsy.

>> Suspects.

>> Billy Franks who wanted to play lees and

now may get his chance.

>> Is that reason to kill?

>> Out.

And

>> Neil Bloom

>> could have been trying to eliminate Ben.

Jealous over Gray's affections.

>> Jealousy beats amateur theater

aspirations in my book. And are these

images off Ben's phone?

>> Yeah.

>> King of the selfie.

>> On the other hand, Gray is the only one

with an obvious connection to the

poison.

>> He swears he hasn't seen Nelly in years.

But he made the props.

>> In the end, it wasn't a prop that killed

Ben.

>> Let her out. Leave him in. Ruth Phelps

>> wanted to hurt Ben for hurting her

daughter. Wanted to hurt Rafe for not

letting her perform.

>> And Rafe Singen,

>> tosser of the year, put ahead of

everything else.

>> Why would he murder someone who was

making him look good? Ben was good,

wasn't he?

>> Depends on who you talk to. In

>> Juliet Phelps in Paula Worththington.

>> Yeah. Who coveted Ben. But one would

have to say seems very keen to move on

in the interest of her charity. Why do

people insist on making things plural

with a zed?

>> Is the charity legit?

>> Ben is the sole beneficiary and Paula is

one of two trustees. I'm still tracking

the other one down

>> in

4 days in and we've managed to put

everyone back up on the board and we

haven't proved that any of these people

have actual access to cyanide.

Well, maybe we have

seen you.

>> Yeah, that's Ben with Billy Franks.

>> Yeah, that building. It's Smelly Nelly

Jenkins place.

>> So, Billy was up there with Ben,

>> which means Billy had opportunity

>> and someone else. Whoever took that

photo.

>> Oh, yeah. It's not a selfie.

>> No, they're doing that dumb gangster

stuff with both hands.

>> So, presumably it was Nelly.

>> She wouldn't touch a mobile. Reckons

they give you cancer.

Someone else took that photo.

>> Dear SS Mike Shepard, [music]

Ms. Jenkins, do you recognize these

boys?

>> Maybe.

>> Yes or no?

>> That's Gray's little man, [music]

Friday.

>> Gray told me that the two of you have

had nothing to do with each other for

the last 20 years.

>> He's right about [music] that.

>> Then how do you know that Billy is his

man Friday?

>> Came up here to buy skins.

You sure you don't want some?

>> Uh, no. Thanks.

>> And Ben Faulner was with him.

>> No, that was another time.

>> Billy's visited twice.

>> Why was it to you?

>> Did you take this photo?

>> No. Who?

>> Then who did?

>> Might have been the uh the brown boy.

>> Brown boy. Murray fella. Jared Ming

about there was a bunch of them.

>> You told DC Brain that no one comes up

here.

>> I said hardly no one comes up here.

Check your facts.

See you.

>> Did you take this picture? Not me. Then

who? Nelly. No.

Ra. No. Probably gone by then. Rafe

Singen. How many reefs do you know?

>> What were you doing up there?

>> Rehearsing.

>> The beauty of the world.

>> He reckons the place is a NATURAL

AMPHITHEATER.

>> THE PARAGON OF ANIMALS.

>> Good to practice our vocal technique.

Mainly because Ben and Billy

[clears throat] were asmmetics and

needed to develop their breath control.

>> Oh, treble wo

10 times treble on that cursed head.

[clears throat]

Oh,

>> Pugo Jared. Oh, now I'm all good.

>> I felt like an egg.

>> Why was Ruth there? Stage manager pumped

in lines.

>> Why'd [music] you go to Nellies?

>> Oh, she rumbled us.

>> What the hell are you fellas doing in my

gully?

>> Next thing you know, we're back at the

hut.

>> Got pies.

>> We're fine.

Nourished by the language of the bard.

>> Hey, have I just helped too much with

your inquiries?

>> [laughter]

>> Well, here he comes. [music]

>> Good morning.

>> Bang on time this morning, Bill.

>> Thank you, Jean.

>> You know, Detective Shepherd.

>> Yes.

>> Oh, let me get you a cup, too. What'd

you take?

>> Uh, gum boot with milk.

>> With a view like this, who would want an

office job?

>> I suppose so. up here. I imagine you

could almost get the same resonance as

Echo Gully.

>> If that was the case, I wouldn't go all

the way up there.

>> Echo Gully has a remarkably unique

quality.

>> Yes. As does Nelly Jenkins tea. I

understand.

>> I wouldn't know really. Some of us went

up to Echo Gully for a sgeon. Nelly

invited us in and served some extremely

odd tea. Yes. But I didn't drink it.

Echo Gully is where we go to practice

vocal technique. Rafe, why did Mrs.

Marlo call you Bill?

>> What I do here is merely another role

that I play.

>> Bill the posting.

>> Something like that. Bringing the news.

Important news.

>> Bill. Bill.

>> I strongly advise you not to go here

with the play.

>> I couldn't agree more. But I fear that

train has left the station. Paula has

contacted the press. It's a sellout like

you. I feel very conflicted.

You know, there's a rehearsal tonight

for Billy. Perhaps you could come along

and make sure everything went well.

>> I might just do that. But now, if you

don't mind,

I really must go.

See you tonight. Bye, Jean. Bye. There

you are then. Off he goes.

>> Thanks. Tell me why Bill and not Rafe.

>> Bill as in Buffalo Bill of the Pony

Express, the bringer of news.

>> The mail must go through.

>> Yes. [laughter]

Bill always says, "Without me, people

would be cut off, stranded in suburbia

with only the tiresome internet." His

mail is the last bastion of true human

connection. and Shakespeare.

>> Oh, of course.

>> Wasn't Jared a wonderful Hamlet?

>> So, it's true then.

>> What is that?

>> Young Ben Forner was practicing

homosexualism with Gray Jenkins.

>> Uh, no.

>> It's an ongoing investigation.

>> Oh, of course. [clears throat]

>> If you hurt her again in any way, I will

deal to you. You understand?

>> You need to calm down, Billy. You need

to stop acting like Kasanova and start

considering people's feelings.

>> Billy, what is going on here?

>> Why don't you ask Hamlet Pants? He sends

her flowers, romances her, and then

denies it. Makes her even more confused.

>> Hey, threatening people was a serious

offense.

>> Oh, yeah. Up there with heartbreak.

>> I understand you've been up to Nelly

Jenkins place.

>> So what?

>> Were you ever there on your own?

>> No. What about when you went to pick up

the skins for Gray?

>> I don't know. Maybe.

>> Was Nelly with you there the whole time?

>> Yes.

>> Are you sure?

>> The place stinks. Nothing could make me

stay there a moment longer than

necessary.

>> Not even the chance to play leotes.

>> I don't know what that means. I have to

go.

So, have you been getting along with

Juliet Phelps?

>> No.

Seriously, she's not even my type. I got

to go to rehearsal. I thought you might

be chucking it in. Yeah, well, the show

must go on and all of that. E.

>> Ow. Okay, chill out, dude. I will DICK

YOU.

>> STOP. STOP. THAT IS NOT THE LINE.

>> FOCUS, PLEASE. [snorts]

>> And where is Juliet?

>> She's unwell, Rafe.

>> But we must rehearse.

>> A hit. A HIT. A PALPABLE HIT.

>> NO, it's not.

>> You're looking for a part.

>> Oh, I'm looking for someone. [snorts]

So,

>> you're not meant to be already dead.

>> I leave, but I have to wait for notes.

flies. It's the rhythm, you see. It

mimics the heart, the beat of life.

Boom. Everyone, please.

>> What do you make of all Jared?

>> I'm a Shakespeare lite.

>> Not the Shakespeare of this uh group.

>> Gray wanting Ben.

>> Ben not loving Juliet, but Billy does.

Yet Juliet has thoughts for Jared who's

decidedly uninterested.

>> Ruth is estranged from Rafewell. He's

completely asexual.

>> Gets his kicks from being both mother

hen and stern father to them all. That

is the thing about amateur theater.

>> Everyone is trying to sleep with

everyone else.

>> Stop. Stop.

Everyone please.

>> Really? Must you?

Your talking is very distracting.

>> Apologies, Rafe.

>> When I suggested you come, it wasn't to

be disruptive.

>> That was not my intention. I appreciate

you being here. I really do. But please,

as a courtesy, be as quiet as you can.

>> Picking it up from where we left off.

Please.

>> How does the queen? She swoons to see

them bleed. No, no. The drink. Oh, my

dear Hamlet. The drink. The drink. I am

poisoned.

>> LET THE DOOR BE LOCKED. TREACHERY. SEEK

IT OUT.

>> The king is to blame.

INVENTOR DO THY WORK.

>> TREASON. TREASON.

>> OH, DEFEND ME, FRIENDS. I AM BUT HURT.

>> Here now, thou incestuous, murderous

damn day. Drink this poison. IS THY

UNION HERE?

GOD DAMN IT. Jesus Christ. Come.

>> Okay, that's not the line.

>> Dude, are you all right?

>> Oh, he's not acting, is he?

>> Red Ruth. Ruth,

>> an ambulance

again.

>> An ambulance, please.

The Broken Wood Courier. I can see the

headline now. Death divine performance.

>> Oh, so kind of you to come.

>> We're pleased we're still only

investigating one death, not two.

>> Believe me, so am I. Rafe, you crushed

the blood capsule in your teeth.

>> Yes, after Hamlet wounds me. There's

nothing unusual in there

>> except that it contains cyanide.

>> Yes. Well, if I'd known that,

[sighs and gasps]

the doctors said it's a miracle I'm not

dead. It is.

>> It seems whoever laced that capsule

didn't use enough.

>> Who would do such a thing?

>> Whoever it is targeted Ben and now you.

Do you have any idea why?

>> No.

Is the blood capsule something you carry

or is it given to you?

>> Ruthie

hands it to me just before I go on.

>> But that was just a rehearsal.

>> A technical rehearsal so Billy would

know exactly what was going on. [snorts]

>> And Ruth gets them from Gray Jenkins.

>> Please, Ruthie wouldn't.

>> No,

>> but we have to consider all the options.

>> You should get some rest.

>> It was a sellout, you know.

the performance.

>> Critics from the city were coming. It

would have been lovely for the cast.

>> Better that you're alive.

I owe you an apology.

Seems you were right all along.

>> One of these people wanted Ben and Rafe

dead. It's got to be Gray Jenkins.

>> Motive.

>> He doesn't like Rafe.

>> Oh, he doesn't respect him. I'm not sure

he hates him.

>> He wanted to sabotage the play.

>> Why? His button Neil's in it.

>> How much does he care about Neil? He

admitted he hated the play and he killed

Ben because of some jealous response to

being spurned.

>> Very Shakespeare.

>> Or Country and Western. Just saying.

>> Sabotage, you reckon?

>> Really?

>> I say we search his premises, bring him

in for a formal interview. We might be

able to hold him on the basis of what

comes to light.

>> Gray. No, I don't believe it. He's yet

to be charged, but I thought you should

know.

>> But why?

>> Well, hopefully the reasons will come to

light after a full interview.

>> I admit to being none the wiser over

this thing. He means many things to many

people. It's the bar's magic.

>> Oh, the uh the cordon's been lifted on

your stage. You could proceed with the

charity performance now. Up to you.

>> If only I had the strength.

These are from your costume company, if

you say so. There's a capsule identical

to these that contains cyanides that

Ralph St. John put in his mouth.

>> Well, he's an idiot, isn't he?

>> He nearly died. [music]

>> For God's sake, the capsules they pull

apart, anyone could have put anything

inside them.

>> Did you?

>> No.

>> Did you poison Ben Forner?

>> I most certainly did not.

>> Your partner's a pharmacist. He'd be

pretty [music] handy with capsules like

these. He doesn't deal in fake blood.

>> What about cyanide? Oh, no. That's your

ex-wife, isn't it?

>> I have never handled cyanide.

>> I guarantee that these [music] capsules

do not contain any trace of cyanide. In

fact, I'll show you. Hey. Oh, Christ.

That's evidence.

>> You see? You see?

>> There's no cyanide here. You see?

>> Okay. That's just really messy. Let's

get you cleaned up.

>> Get me cleaned up. Give me a bloody

lawyer.

>> That went well.

>> Crazy bastard.

>> Still think he's the one?

You better hope the SSG comes up with

something.

>> The perpetrator didn't expect us to find

the inhaler. They wanted us to think

that the blood bag on Ben's sleeve

killed him. They wanted us to think that

Gray did it or he's playing a double

bluff

>> or

some research on Montousen syndrome by

proxy where mothers hurt their own

children to seek attention. We should

reconsider Ruth Phelps.

>> Is this about how Hamlet is all to do

with mother issues?

>> What if she's been deliberately harming

Juliet both physically and

psychologically?

>> She kills Ben to get at Juliet.

>> It's a way of hurting her.

>> But Ben had already dumped Juliet. Yeah,

but you saw the way his death affected

her. She had a complete breakdown. And

then mommy steps in to care for her with

all the attention of the medical world

at a beck and call. I mean, it's

textbook stuff.

>> Then why hit Ralph?

>> Well, just as Juliet is bouncing back,

she hurts her again. This time by

hurting her father.

>> The same father that wouldn't let Ruth

act in the beloved play.

>> Told you she was a psycho.

>> She was the stage manager, Mike, in

charge of the props table. She had all

the time in the world backstage to

switch those inhalers. And we can place

her in Nellie's heart.

>> Well,

>> it doesn't explain one thing.

How did Rafe manage to have a cyanide

pill crushed in his teeth and survive?

Whoever it was that planted that capsule

was either trying a copycat killing and

they didn't know what they were doing or

>> or they were trying to send a message

and knew exactly what they were doing.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Kristen,

>> the SSG have come back negative on

cyanide at the costume company and Grey

Jenkins home.

>> Right.

Should I let him go?

[music]

>> No. I have a question for him.

I'll have grounds more relative [music]

than this. The play's the thing wherein

I'll catch the conscience of a king.

Hey,

hot off the press.

Mr. Rafe Singen, a personal friend of

Sir Ian Mckllen, is delighted to

announce that the show will go on

despite losing an actor to a fatal

asthma attack and himself suffering a

recent hospitalization. Mr. Singen says

the Brokenwood community deserves

theater of a professional standard. With

all proceeds going to Awesome Orphans,

tonight's show is a sellout.

>> That says a lot.

>> Yeah, about Rafe Sing's massive ego.

>> I think you're right about the bonchous

thing.

>> Seriously, can I get Ruth Phelps in

here?

>> Let me talk to Gray Jenkins first.

>> Where's my lawyer?

>> My question isn't about you. It's about

putting on a play.

>> Well, if I don't like what you ask, I

won't answer.

>> Fair enough. Billy Franks was the

understudy for Leotes.

>> Yes.

>> So, who was the understudy for Hamlet?

>> No one. The role was too big. No Hamlet,

no show.

>> Oh, you could do it. You've done before.

>> Oh, 40 years ago. Yes. What about Rafe?

You must know it. Detect. There are

30,000 words that Hamlet speaks. Plus,

he's too old.

Every male actor thinks they have the

definitive Hamlet inside them. In the

end, most of them get too scared to try

or are never asked.

The rest are often terrible. Most of

them get too old and a chance passes

them by. At least I had my chance. Paper

bag or no paper bag. And Rafe never did

>> and never will. Which is why he resents

me so much.

>> You should get yourself cleaned up.

>> Oh, hey. I've just realized if Ruth

Phelps wanted to hurt her daughter, who

would her next target be? [music] Who is

she in love with?

>> Jared. Best we get to the theater.

>> I can't go on knowing Jared thought I

was a joke.

>> Oh, nonsense. You'd be magnificent.

And men like that, they get what they

deserve.

>> That boy does not deserve you.

>> All right, places everybody. It's

beginners, standby. [singing and music]

Hey,

you can do this.

We can do this.

Please

for me

and especially

for your father.

>> Am I late?

>> Am I late?

>> We had an earlier call.

Yeah, I didn't get the message. And why

are you wearing my costume?

>> Jared,

we've talked amongst ourselves and

decided that [music] you will be stood

down as Hamlet.

>> What?

>> All this nonsense playing with a young

girl's emotions.

>> Jared, it's bollocks, mate. Really crap,

actually. We can't have her falling

apart on stage, mate.

>> And we weren't sure [music] quite how

far you would go.

>> What's going on? As Rafe [music] is the

only one with a working knowledge of the

part, he will play the title role.

[applause]

>> Yeah, good luck with that.

>> Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the role of

Hamlet tonight will be performed by Rafe

Singen. Thank you.

>> Hey. Hey, you're okay.

>> Uh, bit of hurt pride, but yeah. Why?

>> Taking cyanide. That's a hell of way to

move the spotlight off yourself.

>> Excuse me.

>> That must have taken some guts. But then

you did have the amal nitrite.

>> Throws [music] out all the aging toxins

in your skin.

Come here. I can't.

>> What are you talking about?

>> The casing of the ample I found in the

theater society toilets.

>> Still, if you're going to mess around

with cyanide, pays to have the [music]

antidote handy, too.

An ambulance plastic wouldn't disappear

like the inhaler in the bin.

Are you aware there are over 150 people

out there waiting for the show to begin?

>> Yes.

I don't have time to read the paper.

>> Oh, but it's all about you. It's the

interview you gave before we spoke to

you at the hospital. I gave many

interviews.

>> Meaning you had already decided that the

show would go on.

>> There are some very influential people

in that audience who will not appreciate

being kept waiting.

>> You knew there was no danger because the

danger could only come from you.

>> Critics from the city. And why is that,

Ray? They're all here to see what the

commotion is about. This play has

garnered incredible attention for all

the wrong reasons.

>> It's a marvelous production. See, that's

the bit I couldn't quite work out until

my esteemed colleague, Detective Sims,

posited the notion of Munchousins by

proxy.

>> What is this nonsense,

>> detective?

>> Uh, where a parent deliberately hurts

their own child in order to seek

attention.

In 78% of reported cases, it's a

maternal perpetrator. But

>> in rarer cases, it's the father.

>> Ben was expendable. [music] You knew you

had Billy waiting to step up.

>> This is nonsense.

Nonsensical nonsense.

>> Killing Ben was hitting the thing you

love the most, your precious play, to

get the eyes of the world on you. Having

first doctor the blood bag to point the

finger at Gray, you then engineered to

play the title role yourself by casting

Jared as the bad guy, ensuring that your

Hamlet would be seen by all the most

important people and that long overdue

recognition would be rightfully yours.

Isn't that right, Rafe or Belle or

whoever it is you think you are?

This needs to wait till after the show.

What? Arrest you later so that you can

fulfill your dream. So many people you

see

[music]

to be

[panting]

>> or not to be.

Rape [music] Singen, I'm arresting you

for the murder of Ben Forner

>> using your own flesh and blood.

>> You sad, pathetic man.

>> Jared,

where's Jared?

Jared, you're on.

>> Should we get the show on the road?

[laughter]

He's going to break a leg, bully.

>> Uh, ladies and gentlemen, excuse me,

ladies and gentlemen, another change to

this evening's [music] show. The uh

title role will again be played by uh

Jared Morahu. Thank you.

>> Sorry about before.

>> Love your work. Really, Jerry?

>> We can do this.

>> Okay, [music] here's the thing. I would

have handed in that assignment, but I

thought my thesis was too radical. I

always thought to gain a better insight

[music] into Hamlet's psyche,

he should have been played as a a woman.

[music]

>> Really?

>> Crazy. I know.

>> Well, that's a shame.

You would have received an excellence

for it.

>> We got thrown together

by some good fortune

down in the wild. [music]

>> Who's there?

>> Hey to me.

>> Stand and unfold yourself.

What is it?

>> [music]

[music]

>> What is it? What's the matter?

[music]

What happened?

Someone must be missing you, mate.

>> We could round up the local cray

fisherman. See who sticks their hand up.

>> Yeah. Or not, as the case may be.

>> Check out the local doctors. An accident

and emergency. If it is a diving

accident, the owner should have

presented for treatment somewhere.

>> If they're still alive.

>> Looks like the rope's been cut.

>> Yeah, it must be a key pot

>> because,

>> well, no one else around here has that

many pots.

The Keley family have been cray catchers

for generations.

>> Yeah. Then their dad died 5 years back

in a boating accident.

>> Fuel leak. Boat blew up. He got toasted.

>> Dear the devil.

It's what everyone called him. Old Mand.

De's the devil. Scary guy.

>> Somewhere to start.

>> Plus that number. It's the devil's

number.

>> Ah, coincidence, I'm sure.

>> Is it? Marqueely and the two sons Tommy

and Liam and daughter Liza gradually

hoovered up all the local quota.

>> What does that have to do with the

devil?

>> Oh, they're very protective of their

patch.

>> So is the devil.

>> Okay.

>> Very.

>> Okay, got it.

>> Just so you know.

>> Yeah, thanks.

>> Plus, when I found that hand, he pointed

at me like old de pointed at me.

>> Yeah, if he died 5 years ago, that won't

be his hand.

>> It could be a sign, though.

I thought I should hand it over.

So, how was it served? Cut, sewn, or

chopped? What? Wait, what made the

puncture in the palm? How long has it

been in the water?

>> Well, that'll be good.

>> Sorry, I get it now. You said hand it

over. This is English humor.

>> Yeah, sorry.

I need to know whether the man or woman

it was removed from was alive or dead at

the time.

>> Men hair on the back of the fingers. The

size also. Ah,

>> but what about your theory around

Russian woman's hands being big and

hairy?

>> I say they could be big. I never said

hairy.

>> Fair point.

Do I have hairy hands?

>> No.

>> You shouldn't make assumptions, Mike.

>> Well, it was part of the job.

>> Next, you'll be assuming that I'm

Russian.

>> You're not Russian.

>> Why do you ask this?

Perhaps it was Russian humor.

>> Hey, no record of anyone reporting that

kind of injury over the last 3 weeks. If

it was a diver, maybe he shot himself

with his own spear gun, pinned himself,

and had to cut off his own hand like

that guy in the desert.

>> Missed that movie.

>> True story. A bleeding diver, shark bait

might be lucky to find anything.

>> Well, either way, someone's missing a

hand or someone's missing a father, son,

husband, diving companion.

>> Yeah, but if so, why no missing person

report?

>> I guess we should start with the owner

of that crepo.

[sighs]

You all right with that?

>> Yeah, I'm good.

>> Senior

complaint hit and run.

>> All yours.

>> Can I help you?

>> [music]

>> Does uh Ma have a name?

>> What the hell do you want?

>> Mrs. Keley might be best.

>> Mrs. Keley.

>> This is DS Sheffford. I'm Detective

Sims.

>> Here to ID one of your cray pots.

Takes two D's to show me a cray pot.

>> You're right, Mrs. Keilly. That's just

part of it.

>> Well, it's a Keely pot. What's it to

you?

>> Uh, but we were hoping that we could ask

you some questions.

>> Returning crayots is about all you're

good for. Where were you when my dear

got done?

>> You're referring to your husband's

boating accident.

>> Accident? Christ. Is that what you lost

still think?

>> I wasn't in Brokenwood at the time.

>> No. No, I don't remember you.

>> Oh, you was that useless Gary Mloud.

>> Well, we understand that the coroner's

report found it to be an

>> Was he there? Did he actually see it?

>> No, but the coroner's job is to

>> Where did you find the pot?

>> Brokenwood Beach.

>> What was it doing there?

>> We were hoping that you could tell us.

>> If you've got questions, talk to Tommy

and Liza. In the meantime, you can give

me back my pot and bugger off. [snorts]

>> McMillan and I were just standing there.

>> McMillan? Yes, that's my dog.

We were just standing there and uh

suddenly it was upon us. Whoosh. Never

heard a thing. One of those hybrid

electrical things, you think?

>> No engine noise at all. I

>> I'm sorry.

>> What sort of car?

>> Ah. Uh, Japanese

or German?

And it could have been Korean. Foreign

anyway.

>> Right. Driver.

>> Oh, definitely.

>> Definitely. What?

>> Cars don't drive themselves, do they?

>> Did you see the driver?

>> Uh, no.

>> Color. I told you I didn't see him.

>> The car? What color was the car?

>> I don't need to raise your voice.

Sand Hills.

>> What?

>> When you ask where the car was, I'm

telling you. Sand Hills. I mean, if it

had been on Tar Sea, I

>> Wait. You You were out at the beach.

>> Yes, that's what I've been telling you.

Are you listening to me?

>> What time was this?

>> I told you earlier this morning.

>> And what color was the car?

>> See, you know, it wasn't black,

>> right?

>> Or white? Oh, no. I can assure you of

that.

>> So, red, blue, green, pink.

>> Oh, that's um that's where it gets a

little difficult, you see.

Oh, I'm down on top of me. Yes, I am.

Oh, yes I am.

>> Tommy Keely

>> Keely over there,

>> popular

Tommy.

Liam, you are my brother.

Tommy,

>> my brother trying to put our weights up

again. Could we have a word outside?

>> That's Dominic Nickel,

>> the wine maker, right?

>> Not anymore. Winter the wall.

>> Works on the muscle farm now.

>> Left in a hurry when he saw you. What's

he done? Nothing that we're aware of.

So, you found our cray pot?

>> Yes. Number 66.

>> We need you to tell us where it was

located.

>> Yeah, I could take you out there

tomorrow. Crack down at the jetty. Okay.

Detective Sims will be there.

>> Wow. See you then then. You're around,

sis.

>> And you will be

>> pursuing other inquiries.

You'll get more out of them. Plus, boats

and me don't really get along. Oh,

>> take a pill. [music] Oh,

>> it's nothing to do with seasickness.

It's the whole idea of it I don't like.

>> Had a wife who was into boats.

>> Which is why she's an ex-wife. Yada yada

yada. I get it.

>> She drowned.

>> Oh my god.

I'm so sorry.

>> It's okay.

change until I get to

[music and singing] gra.

[music]

>> What are you doing here, Missy?

>> Tommy didn't tell you.

>> No, he doesn't tell me a lot.

>> We're going out to reset that pot.

>> You know how to look after yourself on

the water?

I'd like to think so.

>> It's good then.

>> Morning. Morning. Are you coming too?

>> What are you doing?

>> You should take Liza with you.

>> Is that an order? Is it?

>> No, of course not.

I just thought that I

>> don't think

you get your beauty sleep, girl. You

need it.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Reckon you can hold her steady or shall

I drop the anchor?

>> Um, sweet. It's coming off.

>> Sweet. I'll be the judge of that.

So, you found it down at Broken Wood

Beach.

>> Yeah.

>> Why don't you call me to pick it up? Why

the special treatment?

>> Someone handed it in.

>> That's a good one.

>> What is

>> handed it in?

Like lost property.

Well, Brokenwood Beach would seem to be

quite lost from here.

>> What about what was in it?

>> What was in it?

>> The crayfish. The boys down at the

station hoovered them up first.

>> There were no crayfish.

>> Guess I'll have to take your word for

it.

How often do you have to dive for

[music] a pot cuz you've lost a boy?

>> Every now and then. Why

>> you like diving?

>> I'm a fisherman. It's like asking a

[music] priest if he likes going to

church.

The le boy managed to lift a

fingerprint. They will send it across.

>> Good.

>> The hand was cut or sewn with a knife.

>> How difficult would that be? I mean,

it's straight through the wristbone,

right?

>> It was severed above the carcass where

it articulates with the alna and the

radius.

>> Well, what I said.

>> So, you need a big knife.

>> Like a divers's Bowie knife

>> perhaps.

>> Whoever did it, would they have had to

hold the victim down?

>> You mean was he alive when the hand was

s off?

>> Yes.

>> I don't think so, but I need to see its

owner to be sure. We live in hope.

>> What about the hole in the hand?

>> The hole in the hand.

Is that another use of English humor?

>> No, it's a question.

>> Oh,

the piercing indicates it penetrated

through the palm.

He [snorts] might have been defending

himself from whoever killed him.

>> Maybe he's dead.

>> Each number is a crayot.

>> Mhm.

Can I get a copy of this?

>> This chart is a key family livelihood.

Two generations of good oil on the

coastline.

>> Okay, but we need to figure out how Pop

66 got from here all the way down to

Broken Beach.

>> Albatross, dolphin, octopus, not my

problem.

No outsiders. That's been the rules. My

prick of a brother's the exception.

>> Does the location of plot 66 have any

significance that you can see? Not the

location.

>> What then?

>> Well, 66.

>> It's a devil's number, isn't it?

>> So, I've heard.

>> Okay. Well, um, time to get back. Thanks

for the, uh, insight.

What are you doing?

>> Text from mom. Just checking I'll be

home for roast this Sunday.

>> Fingerprint section. Have managed to

lift one. It'll be emailed through.

>> I'll chase them up for a match.

Hold on. Let's hit and run.

>> Which wasn't actually.

>> But he was there the same time as Jared.

The vehicle might be connected.

>> Yeah. No engine noise. Electric

>> or not?

>> Of a color that is not black or white.

>> A chromatopsia.

A rare condition, but our witness has

it. He can only see in grayscale and

diff.

>> Uh-huh. Has Kristen checked in?

>> No.

>> My family's had to fight like hell to

preserve its quota. Doesn't help when

one of your own turns against you.

>> Your brother Liam,

>> lazy [ __ ] Instead of working his

share of the quota, he leases it out to

those bastards he was drinking with.

>> Dominic Nickel.

>> Nickel's boss. Wes Pullman. Pullman by

name. Pullman by nature. You like that?

He pulls nickel strings, owns all the

muscle farms out over there. Wants to

own everything else, including our share

of the cray quite.

>> But you won't sell.

>> Hell no. Doesn't help when your own

flesh and blood is giving the bastard a

sniff, though.

Apple of the old man's eye. Rotten

apple, more like it.

>> Great day to be out on the water.

Great to have some new blood in town.

Hey boss. Boss. Hey,

stand it up. Set it up.

Bryce Fay, local fisheries officer. You

sure? Hard to tell with a more wood log

like that. But yeah,

as much a pain in the ass and death as

he was in life.

Friend of yours, was he?

Don't look at me.

Your problem with this idiot isn't

finding people who wanted to throttle

him. It's finding someone who didn't.

Talk to the boss.

>> His boss is Wes Pullman, who owns a

muscle farm. And according to Tommy

Keley wants to get his hands on the key

quotota. Not that I'd trust Tommy's word

or his hands for that matter.

>> Presumably we have a match for the hand.

The looks of where it was severed.

>> That's your professional opinion.

>> You reckon he lost it before or after

death?

>> If you let me do my job, I might be able

to get you that opinion.

>> Right. You are,

>> Mike.

>> Yes. the victim. He was very handsome.

>> Well, if you say so.

>> No, it was an English language joke.

Hand some. A man with only some of his

hands.

>> Right. That's very good.

>> One hog job.

>> Got it.

Breen says Bryce Fehee is married and

lives locally, but he can't raise his

wife Jules.

>> Where?

>> Locks Road.

>> Why, if George Fe is still alive, has

she not missed her husband?

>> That's a good question.

>> Hey, um, yesterday about your wife

Don't worry about it, Sims. You won't

know.

>> True, but I'm sorry if I

>> It's just one of those things.

>> Do you know why Johnny Cash always wore

black?

>> Do I want to know?

>> I think your inner country music fan is

dying to know.

>> [music]

>> Mrs. Fehee

going home.

>> Who's the boat?

Maybe she was on it with him, which

would explain why no missing person

report was lodged.

Are we looking for another body?

>> Bryce goes out on the boat, perhaps with

his wife. There should be a vehicle with

an empty boat trailer at one of the

local boat ramps.

>> Find me one of Bryce Fee's friends. We

need to make a formal ID.

>> Don't know about a friend. Have you had

the Bush Telegraph on this guy? What

about his employer?

>> Fisheries department says there's a

volunteer officer who worked alongside

Bryce when needed on it.

[music]

>> Welcome friend.

>> Mr. Cland DC Brain. I understand you're

a colleague of Bryce Fee.

Amen.

I take it that's Bryce Fee.

>> It is. Bless him. Killed in the line of

duty. One of our finest.

>> Thanks, Mr. Cleland.

>> Preliminary results indicate that he was

dead before the hand was Son off. Also,

the level of bloating suggests he's been

in the water at least 48 hours up to 72.

The hand similarly while the hand was

found yesterday, Wednesday morning.

>> So, the deed was done Mondayish

>> or even on Sunday.

>> Thanks.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

>> No. Clen didn't ask why Bryce Fee's hand

was missing.

>> Yeah.

You know how Elton John's real name is

Reginald [music] Dwight and Cliff

Richard was born Harry Webb?

>> Who's Cliff Richard?

>> So Johnny Cash's real name can't be

Johnny Cash, can it?

>> Oh, actually it is real. You [music]

see, authentic country,

>> right?

So Tammy Winnette's real name isn't

Virginia [music] Pew.

>> I take it you've been notified.

>> Yeah, that bloody corpse. We've had to

delay the harvest. So there's an export

order of two tons of green lit muscles

that won't be on a plane to the States

tomorrow.

>> Well, I'm sure Bryce Fehe here would

share frustration, Mr. Pullman. Were he

still alive?

>> He was a pain in the ass alive.

>> Even more so on death.

>> You said it, not me.

>> So you and Bryce weren't friends.

>> We had nothing in common.

>> Except the fishing industry.

>> Bryce was regarded by some as a bully.

And there wouldn't be a commercial or

recreational fisherman in this district

with a kind word for him. So if you

think this was an accident, you're

kidding.

>> So you've got your suspicions, Mr.

Pullman. Well,

>> you could start with the seaside

appellations.

You're referring to the Keles.

>> You can hear the banjos a mile off.

>> Funnily enough, they're pointing the

finger at you.

>> Those river rats can say what they like.

They've had it their own way for

generations. Think they own anything and

everything with a bit of water around

it.

>> Whereas in reality, you own it.

>> Do you own a spare gun, Mr. Pullman?

>> No. No, I don't.

>> But the boys on your boats do.

>> Well, case of sharks when they're

servicing the droppers. Yes. Have you

ever used one?

>> Years ago. I don't dive much these days.

>> See, you do have something in common

with Bryce.

[singing]

>> It's possible [music] we've uncovered a

turf war

>> or perhaps a surf war.

>> Key's versus Pullman.

Livelihoods and businesses.

>> It's high stakes. Do you remember?

>> Yeah.

>> Jules Fehee, Bryce's wife, has just

walked in with a surprise guest,

>> Dennis Buchanan.

>> On our way.

>> Jules Fehee is waiting for us, complete

with a lawyer.

>> That's front footing it.

>> How did it happen?

>> A diving accident, possibly.

>> Really? Possibly. What sort of accident?

>> He may have impaled himself on his spear

gun.

>> Not possible. Bryce was a Navy diver for

20 years.

>> With all due respect, even those with

experience.

>> Bryce always told me if he had a diving

mishap, not to believe it was an

accident. Those bastards.

>> Who?

>> All lives from this bloody town.

>> Who had a problem with Bryce?

>> Try anyone with a boat and a fishing

rod.

>> Can you be any more specific?

When Bryce was decommissioned from the

Navy, I wanted to stay in the city, but

no, he wanted to be close to the bloody

sea.

[laughter]

>> It's okay. Take your time.

>> How long since you've seen your husband,

Mrs. Fehee?

>> Four days. Five.

You didn't notice his absence. Feel the

need to contact anyone?

>> I wasn't home, detective.

>> Where were you?

>> You're not obliged to answer that.

>> True, but if you don't, we'll draw our

own conclusions.

>> Which would be what?

>> We're not obliged to say. Let's try

again, shall we? Did you phone home from

wherever you were?

>> No, because I knew Bryce wasn't at home.

>> You knew he was out on the boat?

>> Yes.

>> Did you try and communicate with him?

Phone his mobile?

No,

>> not once in four or 5 days.

>> Let's just say she was out of network

coverage,

>> right?

>> Not easy these days. Where exactly were

you? It's probably easiest if I show

you.

>> What size would you say that was?

>> 40footer, more or less.

>> More. So, you're saying you're far

enough out to be beyond cell phone

coverage?

>> Yes.

>> What about VHF radio? This festival

doesn't have one.

>> You go out to sea without VHF.

>> Jules likes it old school.

>> But you've got cell phones.

>> Who doesn't?

>> But you were out of range.

>> Yeah. Not unusual.

>> How do you operate one of these by

yourself?

>> I've been sailing competitively since I

was nine.

>> Well, still, that's a big boat. What

about docking?

She wasn't alone.

And you can vouch for this house.

>> I was with her.

This is mine.

Excuse me.

Breen.

>> I located Bryce's trailer and we might

have a lead on his boat.

A container ship has reported a boat

matching Bryce's drifting apparently

unmanned near the sea lane.

>> Good work.

>> Far away. So far away.

Far away. Wanted to stay that way. Far

far away. You're on my mind. Far far

away. I thought I'd left you behind.

Music makes me feel like I'm alive.

Can

it make me

make yourself comfortable? Not you.

>> Come on, detective. You can't separate a

client from their lawyer.

>> I can for witness statements, which is

all this is at this stage.

Unless you know something I don't.

back soon

after you.

>> I should warn you that any information I

have about my client is privileged. And

I should remind you that any information

you have as a solicitor in respect of

your client is the client's privilege,

not yours. Maybe you're confusing that

rule with your right not to incriminate

yourself.

Please take a seat.

You need to instruct a lawyer that is

not implicated in this to give you

independent advice.

>> Dennis and I are involved

>> more than his lawyer and client, I take

it.

>> Yes.

>> You're having an affair with Dennis

Buchanan.

>> An affair?

Oh, dear me. Our bourgeois detective.

That wouldn't be much of a scandal even

in Brokenwood.

>> Or what would you call it?

>> Mora Minajata.

You're saying Bryce knew about you and

Dennis?

>> That's not what it means.

He didn't just know. He was an active

participant.

>> Right.

>> As I said, Bryce was ex-Navy.

They're very broad-minded sailors.

H

So, the three of you would go out on

Dennis's Gin Palace together

>> regularly.

>> Occasionally. There's

>> no law against it, Dennis. We're

consenting adults.

>> And I object to the term gin palace.

It's a cruiser.

But on this trip, it was just the two of

you.

>> Yes.

>> Why? Where was Bryce?

>> He said he had something to take care

of. That couldn't wait.

>> And what was that?

>> We tried not to discuss his work. I

wanted to be able to walk around town

and not know who hated us.

>> If anything further comes to mind,

please let me know. And you detective

>> a threesome.

>> Technically speaking, it's manager.

>> Oh, right. French. So that makes it

classy.

>> It's their business.

>> Yeah, but at their age,

>> believe it or not, Brian, but some

things get better with age.

>> Cheese.

[snorts]

Coffee for free.

>> I'm good.

>> Uh, not for me.

>> Well, it could be a long night.

>> It's one way to make it even longer.

>> H,

you shouldn't have really.

Okay, overview. Jared finds the quot

with Bryce's hand here,

>> which according to Tommy Keley came from

exactly here.

>> Charmed it out of them, did you? I may

have accidentally slipped and taken a

photograph.

>> Clumsy.

>> Uh, Pullman's muscle farm here where the

rest of Bryce's body was found.

>> And Bryce's boat found here with the

anchor rope cut.

>> So, we have to work out from wind, tide,

and current over the last four or five

days where it was last when Bryce was on

it.

>> Well, it might be easier than that. The

boat had all the latest navigational and

communication gear. The IT guys must be

able to put together a digital trail.

>> Could Tide and Current take the hand

from here all the way to here,

Brokenwood Beach

>> in time? Maybe.

>> Jules says she last saw Bryce alive on

Saturday before she and Buchanan set out

on his cruiser. And Gina reckons that

Bryce was killed on Sunday or the Monday

>> and that the hand was severed after he

was dead.

So that gives the crayot a maximum of

three or 4 days to travel that distance.

How likely is that?

>> Someone placed the hand on the beach.

>> So whoever killed Bryce cut off his

hand, then nicked a [music] key crate

pot, put it in the pot, and placed it on

the beach knowing that it would be

found.

>> Maybe Jared was right. Maybe cutting off

the hand is some sort of sign. [music]

>> Then who's it for?

[singing and music]

>> What about this spear gun?

>> No, it's clean.

>> And nothing to indicate [music] that his

body was dragged back on board after he

was shot.

>> Boat's clean.

The songs we sang, the times we cried,

the miles we walked, we'll never die.

Packs we made, [music] intentions good

ventures planned, the times we stood and

the rain [singing] pours down.

>> Go with God, Bryce. God forgives you.

>> God loves you.

>> You cut that out. Price wasn't

religious.

>> Doesn't stop you from using the church

when it's convenient.

>> Please, Mr. Go in peace, Bryce.

>> Your passing will not be in vain. Our

cause needs to see your husband for

God's sake.

>> You take the key.

>> I will not have this. Do you understand?

>> Dear Shepherd,

>> a word, Mr. Clown.

>> Acting fisheries officer Clant.

>> Apologies, Officer Clant.

>> That's uh quite a job to take on as a

volunteer.

>> Well, I'm not afraid of hard work. God

built the earth in six days. Who am I to

complain? You're not worried that

whoever killed Bryce may now target his

successor.

>> Those who fight the good fight on earth

shall find the rewards in heaven.

>> When you were talking about your cause

needing a martr, is that what you're

referring to?

>> Yes.

>> If you'll excuse me, I'd like to be

there for the internment.

>> I didn't realize you were friends of

Bryce.

>> We weren't really. Just knew him.

>> We ke have lived and died at sea for

generations.

>> Yeah. It was a boating tragedy that

wrecked our family.

>> We're god-fearing people, detective,

despite what you might have heard. And I

make a point of honoring others who have

lost their lives that way.

>> Mr. Fay, he wasn't a bad man, just

mistaken.

Would your son Tommy share those

sentiments?

>> Tommy finds it hard to forgive.

Liam, too. Particularly each other.

Sorry, I didn't mean to upset her.

>> We can't move on.

>> She's stuck cuz she doesn't know.

>> Know what?

>> Who killed my father?

>> It was 5 years ago, wasn't it?

I could take a look into it and see if

this

>> It won't be.

>> Thanks.

My condolences.

>> Tell me you're not here on business,

detective.

>> I spoke to Bryce's employer earlier.

They've consented for us to take a look

at Bryce's files before they pick them

up.

>> For what purpose?

>> I'm investigating a murder, Mr.

Buchanan. Purpose enough.

Jared. Shh.

>> You got a minute?

Take a seat.

>> Okay.

Matthew 5:30. And if thy right hand

offend thee, cut it off, and cast it

from thee. For it is profitable for thee

that one of thy members should perish,

and not that thy whole body should be

cast into hell.

>> No, Clen is a fundamentalist nutter.

>> Yeah, our cause needs matters.

>> Yeah, Nutter is right.

>> You know Clen?

>> He came into my nan's church once,

yelled some hocus pocus in the font

called fire. Turned out it was

methylated spirits.

>> Wow. Does he do kids parties?

>> So, was Bryce Null's right-hand man who

needed to be cut off?

>> Maybe. But why? Well, then these

Revelations 13:18, "Here is wisdom. Let

him that hath understanding count the

number of the beast. For it is the

number of a man, and his number is 600,

three score, and six."

Sometimes apparently shortened to 66.

>> Tommy Keely did say that the

significance of the crayot might be that

it's the devil's number.

>> That's what I said at the beach.

>> Well, yeah, but

>> so you listen to him, but not me.

>> Well, I just thought you might be a bit

freaked out.

>> I was freaked out. Hey, kids.

It does seem that Rice was killed on the

Sabbath.

>> No way. And with stigmata

>> with what?

>> Oh, there was a hole in his hand, right?

Like Jesus on the cross when the nails

went in.

>> Jesus.

>> Exactly.

>> So round up the Christians. Any lions

handy? What if whoever killed Bryce

Fehee knew who killed Dez Keely and the

energy transferred into the hand and

pointed at me like old devil dez

returning from the deep to remind me.

>> Reminding you of what?

>> I accused me of poaching once.

>> And were you?

>> No, but it was a heavy scene. If I'd

actually had crazy my reckon I might

have ended up like Bryce.

>> Are you suggesting Bryce was poaching

and dear the devil returned from the

dead to kill him?

No, because that would be implausible.

>> I'm just saying like I said before, felt

like a sign.

>> Okay. Uh, thanks Jared. It's been

enlightening. Anytime. I'll see myself

out.

>> Look, it does seem like there was some

kind of bad blood between the Keley

brothers. And it does relate back to the

cold case murder of their father.

>> Boden accident, not cold case. Well,

both Ma and Liza don't believe it was an

accident.

>> How does this relate back to Bryce Ve?

>> I don't know, but Ma more or less warned

me that Tommy is a worry, and I agree.

He's either mad or bad.

I think Ma and Liza might be ready to

say more.

>> Go for it. I'll check out Bryce's

office. And you're on Cland. Check out

his movements Sunday, Monday.

>> Excellent.

The religious nut bar. All the best

jobs.

[music]

>> I read through those case notes. They're

fairly cryptic.

I was hoping maybe you and your mom

could give me the full story.

>> Don't talk to mom.

She looks real wound up about it.

>> Okay,

then. Um,

what can you tell me about it?

>> There were poachers cleaning out our

pots most nights. Dad got real paranoid.

So, [music] when he got a tip off one

night, someone was out there. He went

totally nuts.

>> Where are you, girl?

>> Dad, don't just leave it.

Absolute guts full of these bastards.

[music]

>> Thought if I went with him, I could try

and get him to calm down.

>> Dad,

dad had no chance.

>> I'm sorry. That must have been horrific.

And your mom's there, too.

If it wasn't for her, I might have

drowned.

Someone.

>> Why do you think it wasn't an accident?

>> Cuz it wasn't.

>> Well, the maritime investigation deemed

it was a fuel leak.

>> But how did it come to have one?

>> A deliberate fuel leak. Dad was a

ticketed marine engineer and that boat

was his pride and joy restored it from

scratch.

Whoever it was who tipped him off about

the cray poaches knew dad was wound up

about that and you would make for the

boat and sabotaged it.

>> Makes it murder, doesn't it?

>> Where were your brothers that night?

>> Tommy and Lemur at the fishing club

>> together. They sort of got along back

then.

>> And they fell out over what happened to

your father.

[music]

>> Why, Eliza?

>> You should ask them.

>> I'm asking you.

>> I can't say.

I can't.

Had no idea how much I'd miss Bryce.

>> Sounds like missing him was something

you'd contemplated.

I didn't mean it like that.

Come through.

>> Bryce found the administrative side bit

of a challenge.

>> H

>> He liked putting things down on paper,

making lists.

He didn't use that much. He said his

fingers were too big.

>> Okay.

Should I make you a coffee?

>> Oh, that'd be great.

>> Short black or flat white?

>> Long, short, black.

>> You do remind me of Bryce.

>> Is that how he had it?

>> No.

Big fingers.

You must need a break, detective.

Another coffee, some other refreshment.

>> Any sign of breaking and entering while

you're [music] away?

>> No.

>> Has Dennis Buchanan been in the house

since she got back?

>> Well, yes.

>> Was he in here?

I don't think so, but I couldn't swear

on the Bible.

>> No. Clear tried to get in here.

>> When was this? [music]

>> He turned up late yesterday in his

ridiculous uniform.

>> I'm here in an official capacity only

[music] to sequester Bryce's files.

>> Sequestering?

What did you [music] say to him?

>> Bugger off, you vicious prick.

I could do a red wine. You did ask.

[music]

>> You're a hard man to track down, Mr.

Cleland.

>> Acting fisheries officer Cleland.

Who's the Shepherd fellow

>> on another line of inquiry? Good name

that shepherd.

>> The Lord is our shepherd, you know.

>> Do you need a [music] hand?

>> Have you not cleared the fisheries boat

yet? I can't be expected to properly

discharge my duties in that.

>> That's been sorted. Where have you been?

>> Doing God's work.

>> Like what?

>> Apprehending miscreants and sinners of

the sea.

Right.

Should we sit somewhere more comfy?

>> Sure.

>> 29 days [music] until September comes.

29 [music] till I'll be in your arms

>> and I know at least 27 out of the 29

[music]

receive

>> I'm with Liza

dad was murdered

>> based on what

>> we made that call knew dad was paranoid

about poaches knew he'd take the old

boat out wired it to blow

>> so you believe it was an inside job.

>> Can you get more inside than family?

>> It's a serious allegation.

>> Murder is a serious business. Wouldn't

you say, detective?

>> My brother Tommy made that call.

>> Do you have proof?

>> Jesus. It's on the police file, isn't

it? From the phone box outside in the

car park.

>> Here is record on file of a call being

made.

>> Yeah. And being received by my dad on

the landline in my family's house. It

was a call that sealed his fate.

>> But no one in the club that night saw

anyone use that phone.

>> You're right. How likely is that?

>> Anyone coming into or going out of the

car park having a smoke selling pot or a

drunken quickie up against the wall

would have seen Tommy in there making

that call.

>> You're convinced it was Tommy? Dad

wouldn't have gone hooning out after

poaches that time of night, unless he

thought he had the real oil.

>> Tommy was the only one here, apart from

me, whose weird dad would trust.

>> So Tommy intimidated the witnesses.

>> Tommy doesn't need to say or do

anything. Everyone knows he's an evil

prick.

>> Yeah, well, it'd have to be to murder

his own father, wouldn't he?

>> You don't believe me?

>> Well, what was his motive?

>> Control.

>> But your father's will would have

provided for shares. Surely

>> meaningless. Tommy knew he could bully

mom and Liza, effectively control their

issues.

>> Tommy says you're leasing your Cray

quoted to Pullman.

>> So what? Take the fee, let others do the

work.

>> It's a legitimate business arrangement

>> for which Pullman is paying better than

market rates.

What's eating Tommy is that he's not

controlling it or me.

Liam Keley is adamant that Tommy Keley

killed their father.

>> Do you see a connection to Bryce Fe?

>> If Tommy killed once, he can kill again.

>> Okay, let's push Tommy's button and see

if anything breaks.

But we need an excuse.

>> Sure hope God broke the mold when he

made Cland. He's [sighs]

nuts.

Nuts or obstructive?

>> Both. You can't really account for his

whereabouts Sunday afternoon or evening.

Says he was in solitary prayer retreat.

>> Where? Upstairs in his bedroom.

>> M solitary prayer retreat.

>> Keep on him.

Empty. Clearly it was full at some

stage.

Dennis Buchanan had access

according to Jules and [music] Null.

Klen turned up to sequester. What was he

looking for?

>> Witnesses say your vehicle is at the

boat ramp Sunday afternoon when you say

you're on a solitary prayer retreat in

your bedroom.

>> Solitary prayer retreat is code for mind

your own business.

Right now, your business is our

business.

>> I suppose I could resent being given a

third degree by a fellow officer, but I

understand you're just doing your duty,

just as I was doing mine on Sunday

afternoon.

>> I decided to check out the Pullman

Muscle Farm.

>> Why?

>> Because they were constantly in breach

and Bryce was going soft on them.

>> What do you mean by that?

We have collected chapter and verse and

multitudinous transgressions and yet

somehow it all seem to come to nothing.

If you excuse me,

clown's changes story. He now puts

himself at the muscle farm on Sunday

afternoon.

Got to go

>> get to the muscle farm. See who else was

out there on Sunday afternoon and

whether they saw Cland.

>> You want me to drive your car?

>> Yeah, it's a good car.

>> Okay, sure. Automatic, right?

>> No, manual.

>> Just kidding.

>> [music]

>> The registered office for Pullman

Aquaculture is here even though their

actual office is across the corridor.

Well, it's just a service address for

the registar of companies. We do that

for a number of our clients.

>> Pullman Aquaculture is a client.

>> It's a small town, detective.

>> It is indeed. When you were visiting

Jules Fehee to offer your uh

condolences,

did you go into Bryce's home office?

>> I didn't see any need.

>> Even though he has a big fat file on

your client, Pullman Aquaculture.

>> Did he?

>> Well, he did. Seems to be empty now. Did

you see it?

>> No.

Uh, were you aware of its existence?

>> This better be good. Clown says he and

Bryce had Pullman nailed on any number

of serious breaches, but nothing seemed

to come of them. So, we went to Bryce's

house, hoping to take over the file.

When I queried him on that, Clarence

said something quite weird.

>> Bryce's death might have been a mercy.

For who?

>> His greedy self.

>> His inference was that Bryce is on the

take from Pullman.

>> Good work.

>> There's one other thing.

>> Clown's a diver and owns a spear gun.

>> Get forensics to go over Klen's

inflatable and gear.

>> You regard that as an act of war.

>> Get a warrant. Make it official.

>> He likes that.

I'm not keeping you, am I?

>> I want access to Bryce's bank accounts.

>> Absolutely.

Soon as I cite a court order directing

me to do Okay.

Heat.

[music]

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> Did you know that N Cland was out here

on Sunday afternoon?

>> I did. Yeah. Were

>> you out here, too?

I was at home.

>> Who else was out here?

>> No one that I know of.

>> So, what was he doing?

>> Snooping. Vicious bastard.

He wrangled a list of non-compliance

issues as soon as he got to shore on a

Sunday. Come back, Bryce Fay. All is

forgiven. Clen's on a holy crusade.

Now, Bryce was hard-nosed, but it's just

business in the end.

>> New boss says that Bryce was a bully.

The son maybe

>> to you

>> hassle.

But Cleland,

he's a nightmare.

>> Did Clen say that Bryce was out here

with him on Sunday afternoon?

>> Dead or alive?

>> You tell me.

>> No. No, he didn't. And funnily enough,

he didn't mention finding Bryce's body

when he was checking the droppers.

>> Were you aware that they were both

preparing a big case against Pullman?

>> We knew something was going on. That

would have threatened your livelihood

out here.

>> Maybe.

>> What with losing your vineyard and going

bankrupt? That would have been hard to

take.

>> If the fisheries department closes down

the muscle farm, then I'm out on the

street again.

>> So, your job was worth a lot. Worth

taking the rat for Pullman perhaps?

>> Come on. No way.

>> Where were you on Sunday evening?

>> I was at home with my wife.

>> Do you own a spear gun?

>> Yeah, of course. But

>> can I take a look at it? What's at home?

It's not here.

>> Okay, I won't hold you up any longer.

>> Thanks.

>> Let's go.

Hey, Mike. It's possible that both

Saland and Nickel were at or near the

muscle farm around the time that Bryce

Vehey was taken there. Knuckle reckons

he's got himself an alibi. I'll check it

out.

>> Got it.

>> Amy, tell Whiz I'll wait in the car.

>> Mhm.

>> Liam, get on.

>> Uh, where's Paul, please?

>> Sorry, he's not available right now.

>> Um, excuse me.

>> Detective Shepherd off somewhere with uh

Liam Keley. business lunch.

>> Then you're going to be late. Sorry.

>> My time is money, Shepherd.

>> Mine isn't. Just precious. Take a seat.

Please.

I've just had an interesting

conversation with your solicitor across

the hallway.

>> How nice.

>> Not really. He was obstructive, which is

why we're going to get a court order to

access his client Bryce Fee's bank

accounts.

>> Keeping yourself busy, I see. And while

we're at it, we'll get an order to

access yours. Would you like to

speculate whether we'll find any

payments from your company to Bryce

Fehee?

>> You'd have to be blind to miss them, but

we use Bryce Fehee as a consultant from

time to time, and we paid him a fee for

his time and expertise.

>> You're confirming that a fisheries

officer was moonlighting as a consultant

for a company he was charged with

overseeing. Well,

>> I assume Bryce was taking care of that

side of it with his employer. Not my

concern.

>> Show me the contract.

>> Oral

>> invoices detailing Bryce's work,

payments made.

>> Might have been a bit dily there. Have

to get that sorted

>> and the GST.

>> Tell inland revenue

>> and fraud squad.

>> What do you think you're doing?

I'll have you for vacation's oppression.

>> Haven't seen that particular charge in

the Crimes Act. Maybe it's under F for

fisheries

or B for bollocks.

>> Does your car always get stuck in first

gear?

>> You drove it back in first gear.

Got you again.

>> Some things can't be joked about Sims.

>> Put boys in their cars. I think they

can.

>> What about the fact that Bryce Fehee was

on the take from Pullman?

>> Okay, that is not funny.

>> Chances are Bryce shredded the contents

himself.

Where's Pullman was employing Fee as a

consultant. He's completely open about

it. Brazen. Well, that's bribery and

corruption in anyone's book.

>> Absolutely.

>> What are you doing? You just proved the

guy's dodgy as heck.

>> Well, whatever else he is, Pullman's no

mug. In confessing to bribing Fehee,

he's eliminating himself from the murder

inquiry.

>> No motive. He had Bryce Fehee right

where he wanted him, in his back pocket.

Why would he want to kill him?

>> Do you think Dominic Nickel had any idea

that his boss did a deal with Bryce?

>> Unlikely. Those kind of arrangements

tend to work on a need to- know basis.

which means he genuinely thought his job

was under threat from Bryce's

investigations,

>> which means he has motive

stopping a potential threat to his job.

Man under pressure

>> and he has a spear gun.

>> Any more on Clen?

>> Forensics have taken away a lot of

bloody swabs from Clen's inflatable, but

say they could possibly be from fish.

He's a fruitc cake and he strongly

suspected Bryce had been gotten to by

Pullman. Saw it as a betrayal of the

cause. Was he capable of murdering Bryce

to prevent a blight on God's work?

>> He does have that Old Testament fire and

brimstone about him.

>> And the old bastard threatened to

prosecute me.

>> Really? What for?

>> Vixacious oppression.

>> Oh, fuel. Is that all? I thought it

might have been for undersized muscles.

>> Okay. Whoa. That's workplace bullying.

I'll get you counseling.

>> Oh, yeah. I would throw those back.

Mike Shepard.

>> Detective Jules Fehey. I know it's late,

but there's something I need to tell

you.

>> Certainly. I'm listening.

>> Uh, it would certainly better if you

could come to mine.

>> Okay, sure.

Thank goodness you've come, detective.

You'll have one detective. Mike,

>> perhaps you better tell me what I'm here

for.

>> I like a man [music] who's up front.

So,

>> you won't stay with me unless I provide

you with some information.

>> If you need some company, someone to

talk to, detect,

>> I don't want you to think I'm trying to

protect Demon. I'm simply not the sort

of woman who blindly commits to one man.

I've always found one's never enough.

>> Well, take your word for it.

>> And there's something I need from you,

actually. an assurance.

>> Yes.

>> That all those papers you removed from

Bryce's office will be returned.

>> Of course.

>> And the book sentimental value. Bryce

picked it up at a flea market. One of

the last things we did together. You

understand?

>> I should go.

Sims, I need you back at the office.

>> [snorts]

>> You're practicing for a magic trick.

>> Magic would be good right now.

Jules had me around to her place.

>> Had to you

>> to tell me something. I think she was

putting the bite on me.

>> You think?

>> She says she's not a one-man woman.

>> Oh, poor old Dennis Buchanan. and out

with a lawyer and in with a cop.

>> It takes two to tango

>> or three in her case.

>> I need you to take notes on everything

that was said.

>> Okay.

[snorts]

>> Can't wait.

>> There's something she's not telling us.

Something to do with us.

She asked for it back.

>> Drop it.

>> Where?

>> Just drop it.

No.

>> Why are we doing this again?

>> I found this in that book. I closed it

before I noted the page.

>> This is quite a big book.

>> H again.

Morning.

>> Hi Mike.

>> Early start or late finish?

>> You casting aspirations on my morality?

>> Never. Just being nyly. Hey. Uh, usual

things.

>> Coming up?

>> No, I just finished taichi class. It's

good for the bio rhythms. Yeah, you

should come along. Ah, maybe when I'm

not so busy.

>> Yeah, right.

Any luck with the freaky hand?

>> Not yet.

>> About that. Morning. You found the hand.

Did you see anyone else at the beach?

Any vehicles in the sand hills?

>> Nah, but if you didn't want to be seen,

it'd be easy enough. You said they were

protective of their pots, the Keles.

Very protective, you said.

>> Yeah, like I said, I crossed them once

snorkeling fork and power. This was

years ago when the old man Devil D was

still alive. Will I come up with a full

kit to find myself staring down the

shaft of a spear gun?

Whoa.

>> Punching out crazy, eh? You little

bastard.

>> I just p you show me.

>> I never forget a face or a name or who.

I'll never forget the way he was leaning

on the stern and pointing his finger.

>> It's [music] freaky.

>> Had you taken his craze?

>> Nah, but Keing holding the gun and

threatening to use it. I believed him.

All right. I could see it in his mad

bagy eyes that he'll pull the trigger.

Brian, someone here for you.

>> Mr. Alderson.

>> Ah, Mr. Green. I've remembered the color

of that car.

When I was walking McMillan on Saturday

afternoon down by the boat ramp, I saw

these two men arguing.

>> Saturday is my roster day, Bryce. I

mean, how can I conduct my duties

without the proper craft?

>> He called him Bryce.

>> Yes, he did.

>> And what did Bryce say?

>> Well, I I couldn't quite hear because he

was facing away from me. I think there's

something about it being personal.

>> Personal use. All the more reason why

this is completely unacceptable.

>> Which car?

>> What?

>> You're describing two cars. Which one is

the same as the one that knocked you

down? Ah, well well now the the one that

was hooked up to the trailer was was

very light, so it wasn't that one.

Obviously.

>> Obviously.

>> No, obviously. Um, but the there was

another one parked nearby that was very

similar. And I'll tell you this, those

two men were very angry. And the car

that ran me down was driven in anger.

>> No.

>> And in your mind, [music]

it was silver. Oh yes,

or metallic blue. I often get those uh

those two confused. But in this case, I

am absolutely sure.

>> Of what?

>> That it was one of those colors.

>> Edward Alderson recalls seeing null

clown and Bryce Fehee in an argument at

the boat ramp Saturday afternoon.

>> What about his hearing impaired version

of events suggests Bryce's trip was

personal, not fisheries related, and

that's about it. Okay. Interesting.

With that in mind,

>> the GPS data from Bryce's boat is back

with a digital track of Bryce's boat's

movements last weekend. So, Bryce's boat

anchored here on Saturday night. Stayed

there all night. Then, just before dawn

on Sunday, he received a call on his VHF

radio and moved here. He stayed there

for an hour and then returned to his

original anchorage for the rest of the

day. Then at 6:35 in the evening on

Sunday, he started drifting in this arc,

which basically corresponds to wind and

current where it was spotted by a

container ship on Thursday. His radio

was able to send a ship to shore

distress signal, but it never did. So,

it all happened underwater and Bryce

never made it back on board his boat.

Bryce's boat was clean. So, whoever

killed Bryce took his body back on board

their craft, then moved the body to

Pullman's Muscle Farm, then moved the

Crayot with the hand to Brokenwood

Beach.

>> What the hell was Bryce doing way out

there?

>> Yeah, what was the attraction?

>> Who did he run over with on Sunday

morning?

>> If it was personal, Dennis and Jules

were out there.

>> That's a long way to go for a threesome.

>> What if he didn't know about the

arrangement? Ah, what's more personal

than your wife having a manager that you

don't know about?

>> Look at these distances. What this

digital track shows us is that whoever

was involved in Bryce Fehee's demise had

serious oceangoing horsepower.

Which leaves two with oceangoing craft

capable of traveling those distances in

that time frame? Could Tommy Keley have

been out there?

>> What's the French word for forsome?

>> I mean, is it worth talking to Buchanan

again? We need leverage,

>> Jules.

>> Ditto. We need something else.

>> Maybe the key is the boat.

Maybe. Maybe the boats can tell us

something that their owners can't.

>> I don't mind rattling Tommy's cage

again, provided I have some backup

muscles.

>> Go for it.

That's more like it.

>> [music]

>> [ __ ]

[music]

Just don't give him any hint that his

sister's been talking about their

father's death.

>> You brought reinforcements. Who's the

pencil neck?

>> Detective Constable Brain.

>> This is Tommy Keley.

Takes two of you to tell me who stole my

crayots. Same bastards knocked over

Bryce Fehee, right?

>> We need to know your movements last

Sunday, Tommy.

>> Why would I put a chopped hand in my own

crayot?

>> Where were you?

>> Here. Mar and Liz will back me up.

>> I'm sure they will, but we'll need to

download the data from your GPS system

to confirm where your vessel was.

>> So, the word of my mother and my sister

isn't good enough.

>> Under the circumstances, no.

Under what circumstances?

>> Man and Liz are a family. Of course

they'll back you.

Cuz they're family.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions,

detectives. Isn't that what they say?

Why don't you ask me who my enemies are?

Who's pointing the evil finger at me?

Eh,

>> who is your enemy, Tommy? You never told

me your feelings about Bryce Fehey.

>> Wouldn't waste feelings on that loser,

especially now that he's cocked it. I

told you Pullman's pulling the strings.

He's got everyone in his pocket.

>> Who's in his pocket? Tommy,

>> you know the story of Kane and Abel. Why

don't you ask my brother who speaks no

evil how he can live off quarter of a

share of our cray quite and we can

scarcely make a living off the other

three quarters? Eh,

>> so who's Kane and who's able?

>> Why don't you bug her off? Arrest me or

get off my property?

Well, that was enlightening.

Something happened there.

Oh, Christ. Call back up.

>> Okay.

>> Now, BDC2, we need backup to the Keley

compound. Ren Road.

>> Who are you calling?

>> I have a wrong.

>> You bloody fool out. YOU CINEMA.

>> GET OFF.

>> YOU STUPID [ __ ]

>> LIZA,

>> he's got a knife. Liza, where in the

house are you?

>> I can't just stop if you've got to or

it'll kill her, too.

>> WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND WHO RUNS this

family?

>> What did you think would happen? Hey,

>> you really asking for this?

>> Please stop.

>> You stupid [ __ ]

I wouldn't picked you for a bloody

naris. [music]

>> Drop the knife.

>> How about you drop the gun?

>> JESUS. TOMMY. [laughter]

>> SHUT UP. [screaming]

>> DROP THE KNIFE. TOMMY,

>> DON'T THINK I WON'T.

[music]

>> TOMMY, put the knife down. I don't think

so. Peaceful, Nick.

>> I do. [music] Drop the knife, Tommy.

>> On the ground.

[music]

Hands behind your head.

I'm so sorry, Mrs. Key.

>> You make sure my girl's okay. You owe us

that much.

>> Two sugars.

Tommy knew from something you said that

mommy had been talking to you.

>> Liza, I am sorry, but I can guarantee

Tommy will be charged with assault and

won't get police bail.

>> And you guys always get it wrong.

>> You could put him away for a lot longer

if you want to.

>> What do you What do you mean?

>> What you said on the phone?

>> You got to stop. You've got to or I'll

kill her, too.

>> Who did Tommy kill, Liza?

Hey, he will go away for a long time and

we will make you and your mom safe.

>> Did Tommy kill Bryce Fehee?

>> No.

No, not him.

>> Liam told me that it was Tommy who

called your father from the phone box in

the club car park.

Do you believe that, too?

Hello.

Dead. Dead. Tommy said he's got rid of

at the club. There's poachers out.

>> [screaming and groaning]

>> It was Tommy.

>> I wanted to tell you.

>> For God's sake, shut up.

>> Did you have a falling out?

>> Who?

>> You and Bryce over the gold?

>> Don't be ridiculous.

>> Well, isn't that what thieves do? A

falling out of thieves?

>> It's not what you think.

>> So, it wasn't that easy. That grubby.

You didn't murder a husband for his

share of the gold that he had recovered?

>> No, we wouldn't do that. Bryce had been

looking for that FOR A LONG TIME.

>> JULES, just on the 23rd of December,

1940, a German raider, the Orion, um,

sank the 13,000 ton freighter, the

Doncaster Star somewhere off the

northeastern coast of New Zealand, the

ship took down with her the crew, the

ship's cat, and 590

gold bars,

including

This

on Sunday morning, you radioed your

location here.

Bryce left the side of the wreck

and brought this to you, right?

>> He didn't want it on the fisheries boat.

There's all sorts coming and going down

at that boat ramp.

>> We were about to alert the police that

we'd found the wreck. So, consider

yourself notified.

>> You had every opportunity to report the

wreck and didn't. Salvage law in this

country is a vague and uncertain mess

these days.

>> I don't care about the Doncaster Star. I

want to know why you went to the side of

the wreck and murdered Bryce Fe.

>> Oh my god. No, we did it. Dennis,

>> we couldn't do that even if we wanted

to.

>> Bryce wouldn't tell us the coordinates.

We still don't know where the wreck is.

>> He was paranoid about it. He said

someone else knew about it. Then we had

to be careful.

>> Did he say who it was?

>> No.

>> How worried?

>> Afraid of.

I suggest you find that man. You found

your murderer.

>> Why didn't you report or notice Bryce's

absence?

>> Look,

the arrangement was that we were to stay

where we were and Bryce would fy the

gold to us each day.

>> You were expecting him Monday.

>> He [clears throat] didn't show. He

didn't answer his VHF.

>> And you thought what?

Silly Bryce had been having some

jealousy issues actually,

>> right?

>> We thought he'd gone home in a huff, so

we came in on the Wednesday.

>> Come this way, Liza.

>> Is that you, sis?

Hey.

Hey, it's okay.

>> Constable, can you show these two up?

>> Mike, Liza Keley is making a full

statement regarding her father's murder.

And Tommy Keley is in the cells.

>> Could you grab the maritime chart out of

room, too?

>> Sure.

>> And Sims

Good work.

>> So, we've reopened and closed the Keley

case, but we're still no closer to

finding Bryce's murderer.

>> Dennis Buchanan and Jules Fehee say that

someone else knew about the side of the

wreck. Someone who Bryce was afraid of.

>> Well, it can't have been Tommy, as evil

as he is. He was with Liza that Sunday.

Unless she's lying. But why?

>> If we add degrees and minutes to these

numbers, they turn out to be

coordinates. They're all eliminated,

crossed out, except the last one,

which marks the position

of the wreck of the Doncast, the star.

It's also exactly where Bryce was

anchored on Sunday night when he was

murdered

>> by someone that knew the position of the

wreck and wanted the bullying for

themselves.

>> Someone who would have been

very protective of their patch. Oh, Mark

Elely.

No,

>> Mike.

>> When Dez busted you for poaching,

>> it was only powers and muscles, Mike.

God's honor.

>> You said he was leaning on the stern and

pointing at you.

>> Yeah, I told you the finger of death.

>> So, he wasn't holding the spear gun.

>> Nah.

>> Who was holding it?

>> I told you. I looked in his eyes and I

knew he could use it.

>> Tommy.

>> Nah.

What?

>> Come on.

Heat. Heat.

How can you not love this?

>> No set player

and the shocks are stuffed.

So Bryce Fehee was murdered because he

discovered the wreck and was taking the

gold.

Liam Keley killed Bryce, then tried to

cover his tracks with a plan to

implicate the biggest maritime

businesses in town, both of whom he knew

were pissed off at Bryce. by planting

the body at the muscle farm and the

seven hand in the cray pot. He pointed

the finger, so to speak, at both W's

Pullman and Tommy Keley,

>> his own brother.

>> Yeah.

Nice day for her.

>> What do you want?

>> Bit of a chat.

About Bryce Fehey

here.

You can bug her off.

Now, now

>> back off. Put your hands above your

heads.

>> You've only got one shot with that

thing.

>> I'll take whoever moves first.

Come on. He fancies your chances.

>> Not me.

You?

>> Nope.

Uh,

>> no heroes here, Liam.

You going somewhere?

>> What do you think?

>> Forget something else. You

>> bastards.

>> No, I hate boats. I really do. And I've

heard about the fellowship of the high

seas.

>> You bastard.

>> I'd just assume a bugger off back to dry

land and leave you stuck out here in the

sea lane with no propulsion [music] and

a storm brewing overnight. But these old

sea dogs say that's not kosher.

So, can we help you with anything? I

left home a [music]

>> warm cuper,

chat about things, murder, that sort of

thing.

That's the ticket man.

Now

raise your hands above your head.

Good man.

You can drop them.

Just checking to [music] see you've

still got both of them.

Yeah, I'm just saying country music

isn't really my thing, eh? That's what

everyone says until I take that first

step towards depressing songs about

divorce and pain. Woo! The more painful

the divorce, the better the song. And

this Holly Collins is the best. Do you

reckon?

>> Best of the best.

>> Oh, she must qualify.

>> Killing Me with Too Much Kindness is the

biggest country hit in 15 years. Does

that mean she's [music] been divorced

more times than you?

>> Think of her as the Bob Marley of

country music.

>> Yeah, I can do that. Apart from the fact

that she's not black, male, dead, or a

reggae singer.

>> In all other respects, she's incredibly

[music] similar.

>> Yeah, sure.

You'll be uh wanting one of these after

the show.

>> Can you do me one in red, yellow, and

green?

>> Sure, why not? All converts are welcome

to the church of Holly Collins. I can

get her to sign it, too. I look great on

your hunting trip.

>> Yeah. No, I'm good with my bey. Thanks.

I'll take one.

>> Pick it up after the show.

>> Jared, Mike,

>> Gloria, I might see you here.

>> Oh, wild horses couldn't drag me away.

So, what do you think?

>> Hot off the press, Kane.

>> Yeah, not sure about the pink. Come on.

Is Holly's favorite color your true fan

or not?

>> Oh, he's her number one fan.

>> Uh, I don't think that is true cuz I am

her number one fan.

>> I'm number two. Join the queue, folks.

>> Oh my god. Oh, I love it. Richie, what

the hell?

>> Hey, Rich. Why weren't we the first?

>> I'll put two aside.

>> And damn well sign.

>> Of course. Senior.

>> I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm Celia

Lzende.

>> Mike.

>> I'm her bestie, Bradley Hog.

>> I'm Gloria. Jared.

So excited.

>> So [laughter] excited. Seals, we never

miss a show. Ain't that the truth,

Richie?

>> Never.

>> Got to go. Come on, Rails. See you.

>> So, that's two shirts for you, man.

>> Uh, just the hat things.

>> Shall we?

>> So excited.

>> Take that little [music and singing]

ring off my finger. Me back up the

aisle. Do you want to be a little lady

or your cly baby? All you ever do is

[singing and music] lie lie lie.

[applause]

Thank you so much. You've been so kind.

And speaking of kindness, we're going to

finish up with my current single,

Killing Me with Too Much Kindness.

[cheering]

One, two, three. Oh, wait. [applause]

There's one more thing to say

and it's kind of big.

Uh, with certain things going on in my

private life,

changes in the wind, time to spread my

wings on a more permanent basis.

So, tonight is the last time the Hole in

the Wall gang will play together.

>> Broken Wood, you have given me the

pleasure of being a great audience for

the last time. And uh it's been a great

ride,

>> but it's time for me to move to

Nashville.

[cheering]

>> All right. [applause]

>> Yeah. I'm pretty sure, Bob. No, you

never went to Nashville. [cheering]

>> All right, then. Let's [applause] go.

>> One, two, three, four.

>> There's a rose [singing]

beside the nose

on my pillow.

Sleep well, fellas.

>> Do you think they get it?

>> You're breaking up the band. End of

story.

>> With no warning.

>> Yeah. Love you.

>> Evan, Lucy,

>> I'll handle her. She's not your problem.

>> But I'm her problem. Ever since you woke

up in my bed, I became a very big

problem to Lucy too.

>> Yeah. Well, that ends tonight.

>> Drink.

>> Numbs the pain. Baby

murder a sigy.

[sighs and gasps]

>> Do what it's told.

despite how hard I try. [singing]

>> Room service.

[singing]

>> Hello,

cleaner. [music]

[singing]

You can't let

me

[screaming]

Mike, I'm sorry for your loss.

>> I didn't actually know, Gina,

>> but her music spoke to you.

>> Mike, I'm all good to handle this one if

you'd rather.

>> I'm fine.

The current from the amp was still

arcing when she was found.

Goodbye, Holly C. As far as suicide

notes go, it's on the shorter side.

Same shape,

>> maybe.

Close

>> darker.

>> Pink panther.

>> Oh god. Tried that once. Clash with

everything.

>> You don't want your usual chat with

>> whatever it was Holly had to say was

probably best through her songs.

The cleaner came in at 7:30 after

complaints that a song had been heard

playing over and over again on the

stereo.

>> What song?

>> Uh,

Killing Me with Too Much Kindness.

>> H,

>> that is not pizza sauce, is it? H.

Someone's bleeding.

>> Over to you, Gina.

>> Suspicious.

>> Oh god. Reckon we curry. 11:00.

>> Would you like me to shoot some?

>> We have our own photographer,

>> right? But it is Holly Collins in there,

isn't it?

>> Kushla. There's been no formal

identification, but as soon as there

has, you'll be the first to know.

>> Okay.

>> Okay. This is feeling a little weird,

but there's no sign of Jessica James,

the drummer, or the bass player, whose

name, believe it or not, is Slim

Fingers. Also, there's no sign of Lucy

Chew, fiddle player. And there's no sign

of Whan Strings. That can't be his real

name. Nor the two roadies, Dan and Kev,

or their tour manager, Richie Matthysse.

>> Yeah, I met him last night. I tried his

room number 203. No answer. But the tour

truck and Roy's van are still here. So,

we have a dead country music star and

every member of her band is AWOL.

>> Had she broke up the band last night?

It's true.

>> Or did she wipe them off the face of the

earth?

>> Start rounding them up. They kind of got

far.

[music]

>> Jessica James.

>> GC.

What's [music] going on? Uh,

>> D is Mike Chipper.

>> What is it?

Holly Collins has been found dead.

>> No way.

>> Did you stay here last night?

>> Yeah, I went to get breakfast.

>> Hangover. Did she top herself?

>> Why would you say that?

>> Why else would she be dead?

>> Have you seen the other band members

this morning?

>> No.

>> What time did you leave?

7:30. I don't know. Couldn't sleep.

>> It's a long time to get twisties.

>> I had to walk cuz Richie's god knows

where with the keys to the van.

>> How's Whan taking it?

>> I haven't seen Whan yet.

>> Must have gone for a drive.

His car's not there.

>> Was it there this morning when you left?

>> I don't know. Could barely open my eyes.

Can I go back to my room now? I need a

drink.

hearing the dog and all that. We'll uh

need to talk further.

>> Sure.

>> Whan may best be tracked down via his

distinctive car, a silver blue

Mercedes-Benz 983 sedan. Jesse James

reckons he's probably out driving. He

may not even know about Holly's demise,

>> depending on when he left. before Holly

electrocuted herself

>> or after he'd done the deed.

Then again, could have been an accident.

She's in the bath, gets an idea for a

song, grabs the guitar, and

you finished?

>> Yep. The country music world lost the

shining star today. A little bit of

empathy might not go miss.

>> Sorry. I'm just saying that it's very

common for mos to, you know, get struck

by inspiration and

>> electrocute themselves in the bath.

>> Okay. Not all of them obviously, but

they get carried away. There was a

bottle of bourbon. There'd been a party.

>> Maybe it was just a drunken mistake.

>> What about the message?

>> Could have been for the cleaners.

>> Well, lipstick on a mirror is not going

to make a cleaner very happy.

>> Let's just say the message is ambiguous

at best. Put out a 10 one on the

Mercedes.

>> Roger.

>> Talk some more to Jesse James

>> right after you finish questioning Billy

the Kid.

>> Breen.

>> Sorry.

Find out more about where Whan and Holly

were at as a couple.

>> So, we're discounting suicide.

>> I'm not feeling it. So, we got a time of

death.

>> Accident, murder, suicide.

>> It's all up for grabs.

>> The recall mortise is accentuated by the

muscle spasm. The electrical current

caused the muscles to contract. Normally

because the current run through her for

perhaps many hours, she would have

become burnt like toast. But the

presence of the bath water has meant

she's only lightly poached.

>> Time of death.

>> Uh given the damage to her internal

organs through the cooking process, it

is hard to be specific.

between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.

>> Do you think that this matches that?

>> The discoloration makes it hard to say.

Pink panther.

Every cheap hooker from Moscow to Kutsk

was wearing this 5 years ago. It clashes

with everything.

>> Thank you, Gina.

>> When will we be able to open again? And

I'm paying cleaners to stand around.

>> Uh, as soon as forensics are done, I'll

let you know.

>> Bloody muses.

>> Putting it all on the line. I [music]

try not to blame [singing] you, but it

keeps coming back to

find what you're looking for in my room.

We thought you weren't near.

>> Well, now I am.

>> Were you at the party last night?

>> Yeah. What

>> time did you leave?

>> Same time as Richie.

>> That was

>> 12:30 maybe.

I'm just a drummer.

>> Any idea where Richie is?

>> Guess he's with Slim.

>> And where might that be?

>> I'm just the drummer.

So, you didn't notice anything unusual

in Holly's demeanor last night?

>> She broke up the band without any notice

on stage in front of 500 people. Apart

from that, no, nothing unusual.

>> So, Holly breaks up the band and yet you

all come back here and party like one

big happy family.

>> Well, I wouldn't say that.

>> Just like that. After 3 years, you

decide to bug her off to Nashville

without a word.

>> I'm sorry, Rich.

>> Like hell you are,

>> Richie. be cool.

>> You You put her up to it.

>> You're bummed, dude. Drink more. It's

over.

>> I'll whip my butt off for you and you're

just going to cut and run.

>> You got to change to grow.

>> What are you, a cryalis?

>> Okay.

>> You're heading for a smack in the head.

>> Come on, Richie.

>> You're going to crash and burn, baby.

>> So, this was around 12:30 a.m. Give or

take.

Lucy Chew. She wasn't there.

>> Already left.

>> And Slim Fingers.

>> Unconscious.

Slim likes to mix and match his party

consumables.

>> Slim.

>> Time to rock and roll. Let's go.

>> After you left, what happened?

>> I went to bed with Richie Matthysse.

>> Yeah.

>> How long have you two been an item?

>> Whenever we're on the road. Okay.

Thanks, Jessica.

Jessica.

>> Slim Fingers was passed out in Holly's

room at 12:30 a.m.

>> No one saw him late.

>> No one of the one band member we've

managed to locate. And still no sign of

him

>> or Richie. Yet Jesse's still here.

>> No Lucy tune.

>> Strange.

>> Well, it's the world of country music.

Mike, need to say more.

[music]

>> Hey brother, with the bleeding heart,

you know I won't buy hard. You said I

won't buy hard enough. [music] You

remind me of a horrible dream with a

recurring feel. It just occurred to me.

[singing] Oh, you're out walking by

[music] the railroad track.

[music]

Oh, hello.

>> Celia, wasn't it?

>> And Railene, can we put this here? We

need to do something before we leave

town.

>> Perhaps to the site.

>> We've attended every concert in the last

5 years. Everyone

now nothing.

A god damn it. Oh,

>> it's okay, Seals. It's okay. Oh, God.

I'm I'm sorry. I'm just blubbering away.

And you are obviously a fan. I'm making

it all about me.

>> Ollie was something special.

>> Yeah. Suicide. Really?

>> Whatever way you look at it, it's a

tragedy.

>> Just doesn't make any sense. I mean, she

was going on to greater things. So why

would she just

>> You've obviously followed Holly's life

closely.

>> Probably knew her better than she knew

herself. That first album, no seals.

>> Hung, Drawn, and Divorced was the

soundtrack of my life. Losing my

husband, Alvin.

>> I'm sorry to hear that.

>> No, not at all.

Holly got me through.

>> She mentioned last night on stage

personal issues contributing to her move

to Nashville. What do you think she was

referring to?

>> Perhaps she should ask Lucy Chu.

>> Why is that?

>> Holly's biggest personal issue was that

when she got involved with Whan,

>> Lucy was none too happy.

>> No, Siri. Well, not that Wayan's a

saint. Meaning

>> Lucy was not the only one.

>> Jesse James, too. Then Holly,

>> a busy man.

>> Moving to Nashville would have been a

way to shake Lucy Chew off and then just

get on with doing what she did best.

>> But now it's it's not to be.

>> I appreciate your insight.

>> Tell me, you went to the party last

night, were you? I don't know. I love

the inner sanctum.

We're fans. Not groupies.

>> So, we have a dead body, two missing

roadies,

>> a missing bass player,

>> missing guitar player, a missing tour

manager, missing fiddle player. [music]

>> Hey, but at least we have a drummer.

Although, according to her, drummers

aren't meant to know much, and she seems

intent on maintaining that standard. and

she has no idea where he is

>> or Slim and the room that she shares

with Richie was a mess. Like they had a

fight or

>> or they're into trashing motel rooms.

>> Don't you think it's rather convenient

that the lead singer of a band is found

dead and yet only one of the others can

be found?

>> Well, according to the fans, Lucy Chew

has an axe to grind with Whan. Jilted

lover stuff. Holly was taking him

offshore. Eliminate the problem. If it's

not an accident or suicide, it's not

either

>> based on

>> a hunch.

>> Brain.

>> Hi.

>> Hello. Uh, my name is Lucy Chu. You left

your card under my door.

>> We've been trying to find you.

>> Sorry. Heavy sleeper.

>> Right.

>> I heard the news about Holly.

>> Hence the card. Have you talked to

Wellan yet? Uh,

>> he's on our list.

>> Oh,

I texted Wellan, [music]

where are you? He replies, beach.

>> What time was this?

>> Uh, about an hour ago. Then I said I

wanted him to bring back Choosy. And he

said,

>> "Sorry, Chooy."

>> My daughter. Our daughter.

>> Your daughter's name is Chooy.

>> Choosy. Choo. Yeah, I know. was Wayan's

idea, about the only contribution he's

ever made. Anyway, uh he says that

they're having fun, so then I call him

to tell him why he needs to come back

and then he doesn't answer.

>> Ma'am,

maybe his phone's gone down.

>> No, it rings. He doesn't answer.

>> Could be on silent.

>> So Chie stayed with Whan last night.

>> No, she was with me. She woke early as

usual.

>> Mommy, wake up.

>> No.

>> I want to give daddy a cuddle.

>> No.

>> Oh, go then. Jesus.

You know his [music] room. 102.

It's one, an O, and a two. Okay. [music]

Go straight there and jump on his head.

I I wanted to sleep in.

Plus the thought of Choosy waking her

hung over father at some ungodly hour.

Well, who am I to stand in the way of

quality fatherdaughter daughter time?

>> Maybe he'll answer a different number.

>> Hey, Whan here. You know what to do.

>> You think they're at the beach?

>> That's what he said.

>> With no idea about what's happened.

He has my daughter with him.

>> You're a heavy sleeper, huh?

>> Why?

>> Well, it's 12:30. Only just woken up.

Suppose it's a musician thing.

>> I take pills.

Touring. It messes with your sleep

patterns. Plus having a young kid, it's

not easy,

>> especially touring with a kid.

>> She wouldn't see her father otherwise.

>> How did you feel about Holly moving to

Nashville?

>> Girls got to do what a girl's got to do.

>> Shepherd,

>> famous country singer found dead on your

patch.

>> Sorry for your loss. I didn't actually

know her.

>> And I felt the same way about Whitney

Houston. She spoke to me in song.

>> Do you need Wilmont out there to manage

the impending media storm?

>> No.

>> Oh, go on.

>> You know you want to. I really don't.

>> We've got everything under control.

>> So far,

I hear you've grown a beard.

>> I'm doing the goat trail, an Iron Man

thing

>> over the Riverstone range. My mountain

man look. Grumpy here says I look like a

hipster.

>> Can you be a hipster at your age? You're

only as old as you feel, mate.

>> Well, when you change your mind about

Wilmont, you let me know.

>> Actually, could you do me a background

on a Whan strings?

That vlog's been here since dawn.

>> Doesn't remember seeing anyone that

matches whale and chooses description.

>> Was there another beach?

>> Riverstone Heads Tahuna Point, but I

reckon I'll get you back to the motel.

Chances are he'll show up there.

>> No, the other beach is first.

Miss Marlo, ladies.

>> Detective, that was Kushler from the

Broken Wood Coua.

>> Yes.

>> We had our photos taken for the paper.

We're not in the way, are we?

>> Uh, not at the moment.

>> Such a tragedy and so young.

>> You were fans.

>> Oh, well, we'd been known to sing along

with Holly on the radio at Sewing

Circle. Of course, she was 27, so I'm

thinking hard drugs. Choked on her own

vomit, did she?

>> This is an ongoing

>> investigation, of course.

This is lovely, though.

>> Well, uh,

>> so thoughtful.

How far fans will go to show their love.

I was saying to Kushla, it reminds me of

the time my husband and I went to the P

Lasher cemetery in Paris. Is that where

people keep

>> Jim Morrison's grave for one?

>> Oh, we spent a lovely summer there in

75. My husband and I, there was such a

nice group of young people.

>> Mrs. Marlo, ladies.

>> Oh, Detective Sims.

>> Uh, Jean was just telling me about Paris

in the 70s.

>> Oh, that sounds nice.

>> It was cheese roll.

>> Not for me. Thank you.

>> Yeah, [clears throat] probably should

get on.

Holly decides to end it. For whatever

reason, her personal issues have got the

better of her. So, she grabs a lipstick

and writes a farewell. Goodbye. Full

stop. Holly C. But is that a dot or a

dash?

>> A dot. Full stop. Period.

>> Sure. If it's deliberate, then yes, it's

a sign off. Goodbye. But

what if that's a lazy dash off the end

of the air? Then it becomes a different

statement altogether. Goodbye, Holly C.

>> And where is the lipstick that was used?

None of the ones that we found in here

are a match. Whatever the shade was on

her lips and the mirror, it's not here.

So if she did write the message,

what' she do with the lipstick?

And then there's the matter of the

guitar.

So, she wants to make a statement. Go

out playing her song. Except [music]

>> she plays left-handed guitar, not right.

Even as a drunken mistake, this position

makes no sense.

>> It wasn't a suicide

>> or an accident. She wasn't playing

guitar. She was shielding herself from

whoever it was that wanted her dead.

Sims,

roger that.

Whereabouts? Yeah, on my way. You look

like you're in a very bad music video.

>> We should head back to the motel.

>> You said there was another beach.

>> Thing is, with New Zealand being three

large islands, when someone says at the

beach, the options are quite

comprehensive.

Okay, look. When my dad would take me

out on the holidays, it was about making

up for lost time, right? We would go to

the movies, the beach, play golf.

>> Golf? She's five.

>> Mini golf.

>> Whan hates golf.

>> The point is, maybe they've moved on to

other stuff.

>> Why isn't he answering his phone then?

>> Try calling him again.

There's no coverage.

>> [music]

>> You'd be slim [music] fingers then.

>> Is this really necessary? I was just

after a prescription.

>> Yeah, hold that thought.

>> He would have been given takeaways.

>> Takeaways.

When a methodone addict leaves town,

they're given their exact dose to get

them through their daily requirements.

These are termed takeaways, but the

rules are strict. Otherwise, you'd get

people hopping from pharmacy to pharmacy

with their sob stories.

>> Like Slim,

>> he's obviously abused his supply. Sold

it perhaps.

>> If he doesn't get any, what would the

prognosis be?

>> He'll feel like an elephant gave birth

in his head.

>> Right.

Oh, Slim Fingers has been found. I'm

talking to him now.

>> Good. Forensics have found traces of

blood on the guitar that was on the

floor.

Okay, that tastes weird.

>> Well, you did ask for five sugars.

>> Yeah, but the coffee isn't burnt.

>> I don't think so.

>> Maybe the milk's off.

>> Nope.

>> You don't have a red ball.

Never something stronger.

>> Slam. Are you high?

>> Hey,

no way. Now, if anything, I'm feeling

pretty low. Bad news and all that.

It's just a good girl that Holly

really got a cigarette.

>> Yeah, well, there's no smoking in here.

Sorry.

>> Sure.

>> Okay. Firstly, I'm going to need you to

consent to a blood test.

>> Hey, why?

>> There is blood residue in Holly's unit

on a guitar.

>> Terrorists nick their fingers all the

time. It's no big deal.

>> You have a wound on your face. If it's

your blood, that might explain something

at least. Plus, you have blood on your

cuff.

>> So, can you hand the shirt over?

>> Or I could get a court order.

[music]

>> She's really dead, Holly.

>> Yeah. Sorry.

>> Way longer to be guarded.

>> Yeah, we don't know where he is. to you.

[music]

He wasn't with you last night.

>> If I don't have that cigarette, I think

I'm going to throw up.

>> The adjoining bedroom has no duvet.

Should it match this one?

>> They get nicked all the time.

>> Your people wouldn't have moved. Huh?

>> Soon as you jokers turned up, we were

told to down tools

>> and bathtails. Um Holly's room's got

three unused.

>> It's a double unit. Should have been

four.

Thanks.

>> Tell you last time we have news for a

year.

Hello

Hello.

I think [music] he might have the wrong

room.

That's better.

Little what you like, eh?

No harm done.

>> Did you say so?

>> No, I've been clean for a lot of years

now.

Ask you the band. Totally clean.

>> Clean as in only using methadone.

>> Okay, now I'm feeling judged. Just

trying to get some straight answers

>> about last night

>> about your movements in the last 12

hours. Witnesses say you were crashed

out in Holly Spare Room.

>> Yeah, that'll be right. But I left.

>> What time?

>> Can't remember.

>> 1:00 a.m. 2:00 a.m. 3:00 a.m.

>> I woke up when my phone rang.

[snorts]

Yeah. One of the roadies invited me to

some pub. It's an awesome night.

>> Which pub? Brokenwood Arms?

>> Yeah. Yeah, I reckon.

>> So, this was after midnight.

>> 2:00 a.m.

>> There are no pubs in Brokenwood license

beyond 1:00 a.m.

>> You calling me a liar?

>> I'm just trying to get your story to

make sense.

>> So, if the Roies rang you from this

so-called pub, then they had obviously

already left the motel. Yeah,

definitely.

I just don't remember when.

>> Oh, you received a call. Why not check

your phone?

>> Oh, yeah. Brilliant.

Nice one.

>> You know, if we were to go back to the

chemist and you were to help me with the

uh you know, then things would be a

whole lot sweeter and I could help you a

whole lot better.

>> Why don't you just check your phone?

>> Right.

Flat

bum.

Why don't you sleep things off while I

go find a charger for your phone?

>> Yeah, I can work with that.

>> Okay, I know just the place.

>> I was looking for some memorabilia to

add to the shrine.

>> You were hiding in the wardrobe.

>> Holly had borrowed a dress of mine.

>> It's a crime scene. Added to that,

climbing through the back window is

breaking and entering.

>> I was looking for money.

>> Hard to repay a loan when the person you

borrow is dead.

>> I've been ripped off enough by Holly

Collins. Ripped off. How

>> did you take anything?

>> I was only in there 2 minutes before you

turned up.

>> That isn't a no.

>> It wasn't there.

>> What?

>> What? You wouldn't understand.

>> GC, I recommend you consult with a

lawyer. In the meantime, I have

somewhere you can wait.

>> Are you arresting me?

>> For breaking and entering a crime scene,

no less.

>> A suicide isn't a crime. No, but murder

is.

>> I thought it was a suicide.

>> Do you have a lawyer back in the city?

>> I'll get you a list of duty solisters.

>> They're not here.

>> We put out an alert on Whan's cart

units. We'll follow up with another for

Whan and Chuzzy if they're not back by

six.

Is this someone?

>> I'm okay.

>> I'll just wait.

>> Yeah.

Yeah. Thanks.

I've just put Jesse James from the Hole

in the [music] Wall gang themselves.

>> Right next to Slim Fingers. Like I've

been teleported to the Wild West.

Okay,

Slim,

I need your passcode.

You need a

>> trip to the chemist in order first.

>> I don't think so. Passcode. You don't

have to say anything, Slim. Slim can

speak for himself.

>> I'm all good. Thanks, Jesse.

>> You can't hold him without a lawyer.

>> I don't need a lawyer cuz I haven't done

anything wrong. What I need is my

medication.

>> Yeah, well, what I need is the truth.

[clears throat]

>> Told you everything I know. The

Brokenwood Arms don't remember a country

musician helping them contravene

licensing laws last night. Oh,

>> might have been the Riverside Bar and

Grill.

>> No such place.

>> Yeah, it was more of a private club.

>> Were you even at a club?

>> Yeah, it was a big night.

>> Your passcode? You remember that much?

Surely.

>> Oh, that's the thing. I'm damned if I

can remember numbers when I'm not

feeling top of my game.

The paperwork is going to be horrendous.

>> I'll supply whatever is required to ease

the bureaucratic pain.

Uh password first.

1 2 3 4

>> I'll forget it otherwise.

Kev.

>> Let's see. Yeah, it was Kev.

>> 1:37 a.m.

>> The Lion Toad.

>> What?

>> I reckon that's what the bar was called.

>> Mike, slim fingers. most likely left

Holly's unit by 1:45 a.m.

>> Got it. T.

>> Yeah, nice one. M.

>> Detective, what can I do you for?

>> A musician by the name of Slim Fingers

was drinking here late last night.

>> Did he say what time?

>> After 2:00 a.m.

>> Okay. This was an after hours event. In

no way was I contravening my license.

>> Yeah, I'm not interested in that.

>> All right. Well, we did have a bit of a

private party after closing. Great

night, actually.

>> So, Slim was here.

>> Yeah. And a couple of fellas by the

names of

>> Dan and Keies. My god, they can handle

their grog. I've had the likes of Pink

Floyd and the Beatles through here. But

those country fellas, they redefined the

laws of physics when it comes to

drinking.

>> Pink Floyd.

>> All right, tribute bands. But they were

dead ringingers. A lot of them.

>> So, what time did Dan and Kev leave?

>> As a matter of fact, they didn't. Truth

be told, it feels like the four horsemen

of the apocalypse had ridden through my

head. There's always a price to pay for

golden memories. We didn't wind up till

about 5 a.m. So, the fellas dossed here.

The other bloke left.

>> Slim?

>> Yeah, was slim. Rick, I think his name

was

>> Richie.

>> That'll be it.

>> Afternoon, fellas.

>> Dan and Kev.

There's something you should know.

Hey, well in here you know what to do.

>> Hey, long planned hunting trip.

>> Yeah, I want to make it to Redmond's hut

before dark. Hey, sorry to hear about

Holly Collins.

Yeah, I felt the same when Bob Marley

died.

>> Were you even born when Marley died?

>> Nah, but I felt it in a cosmic sense.

>> Be careful out there.

>> Yeah, you too.

>> You sure you're okay? You kind of just

stepped out there.

>> Don't worry about it. It's my fault. My

mind was on other things.

>> Your mind was nearly all over the road

with your coffee.

>> Thought you were leaving town.

>> Oh, we were, but Winnie got a

temperature.

>> Winnie is your

>> a motor home. Well, seriously, she

overheats sometimes. Cracked toast pipe.

Just picked up a new one. [snorts] Must

get back and stick it in before dark.

>> Bon voyage.

>> Actually, Railene, tell me since you're

here, um, there seems to have been

tension between Jesse James and Holly

Collins. Do you know what that was

about?

>> The song killing me with too much

kindness.

>> Yeah, got to be my favorite.

>> Jesse reckon stole it off her?

>> That she came up with a song.

>> Sour grapes if you ask me. She's just

the drummer.

>> Oh, very good one.

>> Go dead. Well, she can say anything she

likes, can't she?

>> Can I buy you a coffee?

>> Why I make you one since yours is icing

the tar seal?

>> Our campsite's just out of town. Sely is

the true expert. Anything you want to

know? asks seals.

>> I'll follow you.

>> Okay.

[music]

>> Ah, here's Holly when she won the Silver

Scroll Award.

>> And this is us waiting to see her at the

Gold Guitar Awards. We waited in line

for an hour, but she gave me in rails a

lovely selfie.

>> You really did follow her everywhere.

[music]

>> 5 years this spring cost me my marriage.

toing and throwing from San Fran every

time Holly was touring. But I just

couldn't not come. I when Holly sang it

was like being spoken to by an angel

and just quietly. The alimony from Alvin

in the States funds my travels. So Holly

said in divorced heart, "There's pain in

love and no love without pain. You broke

my heart, but hope and there's hope

there'll be love again."

>> Very good.

You think there's hope for you and

Elvin?

>> No. Well, [laughter]

he likes brass bands. You say jazz, I

say country. Let's call the whole thing

off.

>> Sorry. I'm just babbling, aren't I?

>> No, not at all.

>> Tell me that shade of lipstick in that

photo of Holly.

>> Blood pink.

>> Well, you're good.

>> I read about it in the latest issue of

Country Singer. Here we go. Yeah. She

did this interview and um yeah, right

there. Blood pink. Very hard to get.

Made by some exclusive boutique outfit

in New York. Um fervent. That's it.

Oh god, what a waste.

>> Is that your phone rails?

>> Oh, bloody mom.

>> Did you change your ringtone?

>> What? Oh, yeah. Changed it so I'd know

it was her and not have to answer it.

Mothers can't live with them. Can't be

born without them.

>> Oops. Milk. Hang on.

>> Rileen's mom is a bit high maintenance.

Total burden, actually. When we go on

the road, she has to go into care.

>> So, [sighs] where were we? Did you show

them my ticket sub collection?

>> Yes. Very impressive.

>> And Seals has got an autograph from

every gig. Richie usually organizes that

for us.

How well do you know Richie?

>> Well enough to get what we want.

[laughter]

>> More coffee.

>> Actually, I need to go. You'll be off

tomorrow then.

>> Yep. Fix the hose pipe. Hit the road.

Got to get back to mom. She's a bit

needy. I'm going to give you my phone

number just in case you have any more

questions.

Here you go.

>> Thank you. It was a pleasure meeting you

[music] both. A

>> country fan in need. is a country friend

indeed. [laughter]

>> Jesse James is speaking with her lawyer.

>> Is it Laam?

>> Oh god, no she didn't.

>> The legal oil slick that is Dennis

Buchanan.

>> Fun times ahead.

Richie Matthysse was drinking at the

Frog and Cheetah until 5:00 a.m. It

seems that Jesse James' comment about

them going to bed at 12:30 was

misinformed. I

>> think the word you're looking for is

misleading.

>> Jesse, there's something you're not

telling us.

>> And my client's disclosed her reasons.

>> For entering a crime scene? No, she

hasn't.

>> You don't have to answer that.

>> Dennis, I haven't asked her a question.

>> You're going to?

>> It's an interview room. You're not

obliged to answer any question not

relating to the charge.

Can we start with why you were in the

room?

>> You don't have to answer that.

>> Jesus, Dennis, it was the crime scene.

>> You didn't make that clear.

>> I might have been looking for something.

I misplaced.

>> What was that?

>> My client may have simply been

disorientated and thought she was

looking for something in her own room.

>> Dennis, do you actually listen to what

comes out of your mouth?

>> Sound professional advice, Detective

Shepher? That's what I hear.

Does it have anything to do with the

fact that you believe Holly stole your

song?

>> No.

>> No.

>> Can my client have a few moments,

please?

Where did you hear about that?

>> That odd couple of country music fans.

They're a mine of gossip and innuendo.

>> So, what would she have been looking

for?

>> Proof, I'm guessing. I don't know, but

it makes sense. She's got this issue

with Holly. Then she finds out Holly

plans to skip the country. She's angry,

frustrated,

>> and decides to knock her off. How does

that help her cause?

>> Well, if Holly's dead, she can't defend

herself. Jesse stakes her claim on what

she believes is rightfully hers, but

only with proof.

>> So, you believe it?

>> We're about to find out.

>> There's a demo I made of the song. I

played it for Holly. She dismissed it.

Said it was unformed.

>> Was it unformed?

>> It was a demo. A work in progress,

right? That's how these things work.

>> But it was an actual song.

Next thing, she's recorded Killing Me

with Too Much Kindness. It's a hit. And

I'm thinking that's not fair. That's my

song.

>> Is that what your song was called?

>> Filling me with Love's Blindness.

It's not exactly catchy, is it?

>> The title is irrelevant. It's about the

music. Without the demo, I can't prove

the song's mine. No one will believe me.

I figured Holly had taken it. I wanted

it back.

>> But you didn't find it.

>> Jesse, do you know where Richie

Matthysse is?

>> No.

>> You told me that you and Richie left the

party around 12:30 a.m. and then went

back to your room.

>> Yeah.

>> Yet witnesses have Richie drinking at

the Frog and Cheetah until 5:00 a.m.

>> Okay.

>> So, my client's concerned to where

Richie Matthysse chooses to drink.

>> Actually, Dennis, it is. Which means he

wasn't in your room all night.

>> He was stumbling around and then he left

to go where?

>> He didn't say.

>> My clients answered the question.

>> But he wasn't with you.

>> So he wasn't there. So what?

>> It means no one can verify where you

were all night.

Okay.

Okay.

He came back drunk. I mean, really

hammered.

>> Hey, Jesse, get off.

>> No. No. Wake up. You're free.

>> I figured it out.

>> Figured out what? [music]

>> I don't know.

>> What was he looking for?

>> The cash takings. I guess they're gone.

>> Then what happened?

>> I kicked him out.

>> Sleep it off. I love you, Jesse. I'm

going to teach him a big fat lesson.

>> Them being

>> He didn't say. [music]

Why didn't you mention this before? He

was drunk. It didn't mean anything.

>> Okay, I think it's enough.

>> Richie is a good guy. Truly, he was

upset. We were all upset

>> to a degree. It's all about context.

>> No, we weren't totally gutted. Holly

Collins stuck a knife through the heart

of the band. People were upset. Christ,

it's only human, isn't it?

>> I think my clients helped you more than

enough. So unless you want to press

further charges, she'll be leaving now

with me. M James, I strongly

[clears throat] advise you to leave now.

>> Don't go too far.

>> He's still not answering his phone.

>> [music]

>> Hey, it's Richie Matthysse from the Hole

in the Wall Gang. Leave it.

[music]

[screaming]

We'll be in touch.

>> I hate it when that happens.

>> There you are. [music] The missing

towel.

Finding your daughter is our top

priority.

>> Now, do you get it? Do you?

>> This is heavy stuff, fella. You cop

something. What's going on?

>> Kylie.

Lucy, this is Kylie from victim support.

I need you to go with her and I'll be

there as soon as I [music] can with an

update.

>> Let's go somewhere warm.

>> No car, no cell phone,

>> no daughter.

>> Just a pack of cigarettes, three guitar

picks, and a bank card.

>> Wayan was never at the beach. Her daddy

was ever with Choosy at all, which means

she's been missing for over 12 hours.

Whoever knows about Whan's demise has a

cell phone

>> and sent misleading texts. They're still

out there and they still might be

running interference. Anything from

Richie Matthysse?

>> Gina, time of death estimate.

>> Mike,

>> off the record.

>> I can tell that he has been dead maybe

12 hours. Maybe.

>> Maybe more.

>> Mike, you have to wait.

>> Go with Gina. Phone through the rest.

Round up everyone we've got.

cause of death. It's not rocket science,

is it?

>> What about this?

>> Maybe he was very bad at shaving.

>> How quickly can you zero in on the time

of death?

>> This is not a fast food joint. It takes

time.

>> Gina, we have a missing child.

>> I'm aware of that. But in Russia, there

is a saying, a meal cooked in haste will

never have the taste. Have you ever

tried undercooked borched?

What is borched?

>> Beetroot and cabbage stewed in sour

milk.

>> No.

>> Made in a hurry. It is not nice.

>> Sorry. Are we really discussing

gastronomy right now?

[sighs]

>> When Mike attends this, he doesn't talk

so much.

>> You're seeking this 5-year-old girl. Her

name is Chooi Chu. She was last seen

leaving room 206 at 5:30 a.m. this

morning. She's wearing a brown onesie

similar to this, possibly carrying a

teddy bear that she calls Freddy. And

also any sightings of a 1983 silver blue

Mercedes.

And

this man,

Richie Matthysse, 38, [music]

last seen around a similar time.

>> Let's go.

Kristen.

>> Yeah, Jenna reckons possibly even 18

hours. So, he could have been killed

between 1 and 6:00 a.m.

>> Okay, thanks.

[music]

>> [music]

>> If Whan was dead before 6:00 a.m., then

when Choosy came down to the unit, who

let her in? Holly was dead in the bath

and Whan was wrapped in a duvet in the

laundry.

>> Okay. Whan's blood has been matched to

that on Slim's clothing. [music]

>> Bring him back in.

Oh, come on. Why am I here? It must be

nearly midnight.

>> The blood on the electric guitar, it

matches Whan's.

>> So, it's his guitar. He has like eight.

>> And there was blood on the bench in

Holly's unit. It matches Whan's.

>> Okay.

>> And the blood on your cuff matches

Whan's. How do you explain that?

>> No, I can't. I have no idea. How'd you

get the grays on your forehead?

It must have been the head.

>> Any idea how?

>> Well, no wonder I can't remember

anything. I've probably got a

concussion. I should probably head to

the chemist.

>> So, you can get something for it. I

don't think so, Slim.

>> Were you in a fight?

>> Look,

I've just lost a really good buddy and a

lead singer, and I'm not feeling that

good about you in a fight.

>> I should be with Lucy. She needs me.

>> Lucy is with victim support. She's being

looked after. Were you in a fight with

Whan?

>> No.

Only his car.

>> His car?

>> Yeah. After I got the call from Kev.

She's trying to stop me.

>> I remember think it was bloody funny.

actually.

>> Oh, next time you WON'T BE SO LUCKY.

WOOHOO.

>> YEAH, that's what happened. So, what

time's that chemist open?

>> Talk to me.

>> 24-hour service station guy recalls

seeing a car match in Whan's here last

night. I've got CCTV.

No sign of a child in there.

>> And according to Lucy, Choosy was in her

room till 5:30 a.m.

>> We still only have Lucy's word on that.

>> Well's demeanor suggest a man buying

cigarettes.

>> The night shift guy didn't remember any

cuts on his cheek.

>> He doesn't look spooked.

>> Hardly like a guy that's just killed his

girlfriend.

>> What does a man who buys cigarettes at

1:00 a.m. in the morning most want?

>> To smoke them. H Sims, the cigarettes in

the jacket, how many were smoked?

>> Only one.

>> And it's what, a 3-minute drive back to

the motel? Just long enough for that one

smoke?

>> Yeah. And we know he went back there

because Slim tripped over the Mercedes

having just received a call at 1:37,

>> but he never smoked another one. Can we

then assume that he went back to the

unit and he was killed between 1:00 a.m.

and 1:37

>> by the same person who killed Holly?

>> All while Slim was asleep. If Slim is

telling the truth.

>> And where is Richie Matthysse in all

this?

>> Well, he's already at the Frog and

Cheetah.

>> Well, according to Jesse James

>> and Ray Nelson.

>> Nothing on Jessie.

>> The ICARS are maintaining search

patrols, but Gibb called off the door to

door at midnight. Back into it at first

light.

>> [music]

>> Good luck. Morning,

Slim.

Do we really have to go through this

again?

>> Let's go through it again.

>> You say you were asleep between 1 and

5:30 a.m., at which point Richie

returned and woke you up.

>> Yes. So, what time did Richie leave

again? I've told you about4 to 1, I saw

him get in a taxi.

>> We've been through this.

>> Really, detective? The taxi records show

me what what's your point?

>> I want to know what Jesse was doing

between 1 and 1:45 a.m.

>> I passed out. It happens when you when

you take drugs.

[sighs]

>> I was passed out on a cocktail of

methadone, alcohol, and cannabis and

don't remember anything. Your honor,

it's not the best alibi, Slim.

>> I don't need an alibi.

>> You had a relationship with Whan

Strings.

>> That's no secret.

>> How did you feel when it ended? Not

great. Who does?

>> But you stayed in the band. Ever heard

of Fleetwood Mac?

I'm a musician. I play in a band. Or did

then he moved on to Holly?

That must have grated.

>> Detective, this is bordering on a

personal attack. My client is dealing

with very distressing news. Two of her

band members have just been found dead.

>> Both of whom your client was unhappy

with. What about Lucy? What about her?

>> She used to go out with Wayan. I am

aware of that. Are you aware of how mad

she was with him? Were you actually

planning on telling me?

>> I told you.

>> On stage in front of 500 people.

>> So now you know.

>> And what about Choosy? Huh? Is she part

of your new plan?

>> She can come, too.

>> And how does Holly feel about that?

>> H I didn't think so.

>> Look, we've always made things work.

>> I've made things work. Christ, Whan, she

starts school next week.

>> Holidays. She can fly over

>> to Nashville. It might as well be the

move. Chie saw all this.

>> What do you expect, Loose? Holly's on

the verge of cracking big time, and I'm

a part of that. She needs me

>> and me.

>> Where do I fit in?

>> I thought so.

It's always been about her or whoever it

is you're waking up to in the morning.

Well, I'm done with you, W.

You want another coat?

Brian,

we've got something.

And it might not be good.

I'm going to show [music] you something

and take your time to be sure.

But

is this familiar?

It's not Freddy.

That's not Trzy's bear.

>> It's similar, but no.

>> Where did you find it?

>> Storm water drain.

>> That's good news then. I suppose

>> I'll have Kylie take you back to the

motel.

>> Screw that. You think I'm going to sit

around waiting? I want to be looking. We

have 40 personnel on the ground and

another 30 on their way from other

districts.

>> We will find Choosy.

>> Is that a promise?

>> We will find her.

>> You can't promise me, can you?

>> We're doing everything we can.

>> I'm heading out to check progress on

station line.

Come with me.

Lucy,

is there any reason Richie Matthysse

would hold a grudge against you?

>> No. Why

>> did he kill Whan and Holly?

>> There's nothing to suggest he did. In

fact, as far as we can make out, he

wasn't even at the motel when the deaths

occurred, but he was angry at both of

them.

>> You think he took Jooie?

>> I can't discount it, but I can't think

why.

Neither can I.

>> He wasn't the only one angry with him,

though, was he.

>> No, we all were. [music]

>> Let's go.

>> Where were you going with that?

>> Jesse James told me about an argument

between Whan and Lucy.

>> I'm done with you, Whan. No more.

>> Choosy, watch this. Yeah. And she's only

5 years old. God knows what's going

through her head after hearing that.

You asked me a question before. When

Choosy arrived at the unit, who answered

the door?

What if it was no one?

That you, babe?

You're suggesting Choosy put the guitar

in the bath.

>> Well, in her mind, Holly's a person

taking her father away from her.

>> She's five. Would she even know about

the lethal danger of doing that?

>> She grew up around musicians.

>> Could she lift it? Let alone heft it

into the bath.

And if it's 5:30 a.m., Holly is already

dead. Well, Gina said between 1:00 a.m.

and 6:00 a.m.

>> Why would she take a bath at 5:30 in the

morning?

>> Well, she's a country singer. They do

weird things.

>> Or it's as you suggest. She enters.

She sees something frighten. Then she's

either running from something she did or

running from something she saw. The

point is, are we looking for a lost

child or a child in hiding?

>> Which [sighs] leaves us with who killed

Holly?

>> Who killed Whan?

>> And where is Whan's car?

>> And where is Richie Matthysse?

>> Hello. Now, two dead mus and a missing

child.

>> She moved back to the big smoke. It's a

dodle down here.

>> I'll pass things. Of

>> course, too many ex-wives to contend

with.

>> Probably safer and broken with,

>> right?

>> Who did that background on Whan Strings?

>> Real name Warren Sanders.

>> No bad debts, drug charges, addictions,

or convictions. Not very rock and rolls

at all.

>> Country.

>> And Richie Matters.

>> Yes.

>> The guy is clean. No flags of any kind.

particularly no issues with kids.

Plus, the team have run those checks for

you on the 12 road cameras and traffic

cams. That Mercedes hasn't come this

way.

>> He may not have left town at all. Have

you thought about that?

>> Thanks.

>> Where the hell is Richie Memphis?

>> Coffee.

Okay, one more time.

>> Okay, the Mercedes was there at 1:37

a.m. Richie returned to Jesse's unit

sometime after 5.

>> Wake up.

>> Therefore, Richie probably took the

Mercedes

>> after he killed Whan and Holly.

>> But he was at the Frog and Cheetah

between the hours of time of death.

>> Well, not all of them. And there's a

window on both bodies between 5 and 6:00

a.m.

>> And our timeline has him mooching about

the motel around 5:45 after Jesse kicked

him out.

>> Yeah. And we know that Choosy left

Lucy's unit after 5:30 a.m. Which means

that Richie could have taken her.

>> But why?

>> Well, he said he wanted to teach them a

lesson.

>> Really? Kidnapping? It's a hell of a

lesson.

>> Yeah. And why would you kidnap a child

after you'd killed the parent? Was there

something else going on in the hole on

the wall gang that we didn't know about?

[bell]

>> Hello,

>> Senior.

>> Uh, Detective Shepherd. Um, look, I know

you're probably down the line.

>> As a matter of fact, we haven't left

yet. Hose pipe was the wrong size, so

fitting the new one.

>> Do you mind if I pick your brains about

something else?

>> Yeah, sure. You want me to come in?

>> Uh, no. Oh, I can pop up there.

>> Great. I'll put the coffee on.

[music]

Hey. Hey. I need these days all silver

and blue.

Yeah. I need [music] always

just to see it all through.

Stand in the light of the sun. [music]

Travel by the way stars.

Meet me down at the [music] end of the

road. I see you down at the end.

[music]

[music]

O boys, that bike is a menace. Hey,

what's the story here?

>> It's not our fault. What's this here?

>> Hey, mister. Money really does grow in

trees.

Richie.

>> Richie Matthysse.

>> Hey, there's a Stson. [music]

>> No. Richie. No.

Stay with me, fella.

Don't go to sleep. Choosy. Was Chooy

with you?

>> What

>> did you take Choosy? Talk to me, Richie.

>> Don't know what you're talking about.

>> Ambulance.

2.

>> Under no circumstances is he to talk to

anyone until I do.

Brian, get ready to go. Bosch,

>> please take a seat.

How you bearing up?

Sorry, dumb question.

I found this at the scene.

Do you think it could be from Choosy's

bear?

>> I don't know.

>> Well, if it is, it means Choosy was in

the car, so you can see how it's

important.

>> But what does Richie say?

>> He says she wasn't.

>> And do you believe him?

>> Richie's in a bad way until we talk to

him more thoroughly.

I'm tempted to believe this.

You're asking me to remember the eye

color of my daughter's teddy bear?

>> Yes.

>> I want to say yes, but if I say yes, you

might keep looking in the wrong place

and then

[sighs] it's been over 24 hours.

When was the last time that Choosy would

have ridden in Whan's car?

>> A few days ago, maybe.

She liked that stupid car.

>> And what about the last time you saw

Choosy? Did Freddy have two eyes?

[sighs]

>> If I hadn't let her go

on her own.

5 minutes only, please.

>> Richie, this is Detective Simps.

>> Hi, Richie. Looks like I screwed up.

>> Richie, I need to ask you again. And I

can't stress enough how important this

is.

But did you have Chie in the car with

you?

>> No. I told you no. Why?

>> Why did you take Whan's car?

>> I was drunk. I I can't remember much.

Can I see Jesse?

>> Not right now. Few more questions. I

found this in your jacket. Does it jog

your memory?

>> They killed the band

>> and you wanted to kill their careers.

>> Something like that.

>> Is that what you meant when [music] you

told Jesse I'm going to teach them a

lesson?

>> Holly rip that song off, Jesse.

I know some breakfast DJs in the city.

I was on my way to give them a scoop,

but I didn't make it.

>> Why didn't you take the tour then?

>> What better way than Whan's precious

bloody cat?

It's going to kill me.

>> Who?

>> Whan, of course.

And Holly, I swear I'll pay the money

back. When you went down to Holly's room

to get Whan's car, did you see Choosy?

>> No,

I swear I didn't see her.

She missing.

[cough]

>> Detectives, please.

[cough]

>> You reckon he was telling the truth?

>> Unfortunately, I do.

Well,

>> if that's the case, when otherwise

Oh, Rails,

it really hurts. It hurts. Hang on. Oh,

can I have some help, please?

>> Oh, God, I'm such an idiot. Sorry,

>> detective. Sorry. You can't stop.

>> What happened?

>> LOOKING OUT THE TOYOTA.

OH, [screaming] RAILS.

>> Reckon it's clean. Broken.

>> I hope she's okay.

>> You didn't make it for coffee. Can I

help?

>> No, no. Go to see her.

That's your odd couple of country music

fans, I take it.

>> There's nothing those fans don't know.

>> Richie [music] entered the unit at 5:45

a.m. and took the keys.

Holly was already dead, but [music] he

was too drunk to notice. The sound of

the CD playing would have covered the

noise of the electricity arcing. So Whan

was already in the laundry,

>> which means [music] Richie didn't kill

Holly or Whan

>> and he didn't see Choosy.

>> But if Richie story is to be believed,

the door to the unit was unlocked. So

are we back to the theory that Choosy

entered, saw Holly, freaked out, and ran

away.

>> Why didn't she just go back to her mom

and get help?

>> Why?

>> Same reason as Richie.

She wants Holly alive to suffer the

humiliation of being unmasked as a

plagiarist.

But Slim,

who says the phone woke him up? There's

a window there where he could have dealt

to both Holly and Whan

>> before he went on a bender

or Lucy Chu. It's only her word of where

she was and what Choosy was up to.

>> Sia, thanks.

Uh, any word from Brain?

>> No.

The ESR have come up with a match on the

lipstick that was on Holly in the

mirror. Blood pink. Like I thought.

>> Oh, so you're a lippy shade expert now.

>> Like I said, there's nothing those Holly

Collins fans don't know.

Very hard to come by, apparently.

Hey.

Oh my god.

>> [sighs]

[music]

>> I found her at Redmond's Hollow. She

won't tell me your name.

It's choosy, isn't it?

Boy, are we glad to see you.

This must be Freddy.

You know what? I reckon I know where his

eye is.

[music]

>> [music]

>> You're the [singing] rock when I just

can't find the rock and roll.

You're the [singing and music]

rock.

>> Now, I wish I could say that I sewed it

back on, but if I did, it would probably

fall off again.

>> We wouldn't want that, would we?

>> No.

How's she doing?

>> She's warmed up and smiling again.

>> So are you.

[gasps]

>> Thank you for everything.

>> We're very happy to have your little

girl back. Do you think she's up to a

couple of questions?

>> Yeah. Um, Chooy, this is Mr. Shepherd.

>> Hello, Choosy. My name's Mike and like

Sam here, I'm a detective. Do you know

what that is? Someone who catches

baddies.

>> Well, yes, that's part of my job.

But I also have to figure out mysterious

things sometimes.

And something that is a bit of a mystery

to me is how you ended up lost in the

bush.

>> I fell out of my dad's car.

>> Is that how you got the bump on your

head?

>> Do you know who was driving the car?

>> I thought it was dad,

>> but it wasn't.

>> It was Richie.

Did he speak to you?

>> So, how did you end up in the car?

[music]

>> I wanted him to take me to Nashville

>> and you thought he might leave without

you.

So, you were [music] hiding.

>> Am I in trouble?

>> No, not at all. Your mom is just happy

to have you home.

One more thing, Choosy.

Can you lift this guitar from that bed

to that bed for me?

It's okay. You can stop now. Choosy,

do you know what you've just done?

You've helped me solve part of a

mystery.

[laughter]

>> It's finally kicking in.

>> Excuse me.

>> You are finally off.

>> This time hopefully back to the big

smoke. You know what they say, bad luck

comes in threes.

>> Don't say that seal's gone. Nice flowers

>> from Rails. Although I probably should

have gotten her some. Saved my butt

yesterday.

>> You've bounced back. The the lipstick

Pink Panther.

>> Very good, detective.

>> Safe for travels.

>> It's been a real pleasure meeting you.

>> Pink Panther.

Wasn't that Holly's favorite lipstick as

well?

>> That's why I gave it to Seals. Make her

feel a bit spe

>> time to get her home. Time to rebuild

our lives after all the excitement.

>> Back to your mom.

>> Always.

>> Come on, Rails. Enough gossip.

>> Goodbye, detective.

>> Where'd you park the car? Rails.

>> I haven't told her about Whan yet.

I don't envy that.

It's

>> so ironic.

She loved him to pieces, but he never

really cared about her that much. One

sniff of success and he was ready to

jump on a plane and forget [music] about

her forever.

>> So thoughtful. How far fans will go to

show their love.

>> Is that your phone rails?

>> Oh, bloody mom.

>> Why don't [music] you change your

rington? Mothers can't live with them.

Can't be born without them.

>> Was it something I said?

>> You get used to it. Excuse me.

>> It's all yours.

>> What you choose to do with it is up to

you.

>> Stop.

>> Stop.

What the hell?

>> Christ in a side car. Raine.

>> You all right, boss?

Let's go.

>> Railen, I don't know what the hell's

going on in your head, but I want you to

let me out. Raine

>> calls from BDC1 in pursuit of blue

Toyota heading south on State Highway

17.

>> Mike, we'll cover off Mickey's Pass.

Roger that.

Have the Riverstone team organize a

reception party [music] at Gren

Junction. Copy that one.

[music]

>> I want you to stop. You hear me?

Oh my god.

[music]

Oh my god.

Get that man woman away from me.

>> Railene, enough.

>> How did you know? An obsessive fan like

you would know that their idol's

favorite lipstick was blood pink,

>> not Pink Panther.

>> I love it.

>> We all loved Holly, but we didn't want

to kill her.

>> See you

more than anything.

And Holly said she was leaving New

Zealand. I knew Seals didn't follow.

>> It's time for me to move to Nashville.

[applause]

Holly

>> couldn't have that.

Can't leave mom. See,

couldn't let Holly take my seals away.

Huh?

Oh, what a still hot, babe.

>> [music]

>> What the hell?

No.

[music]

Do you want to hand it over?

Anything

else?

We're calling Whan.

Why

>> kill

me? [singing]

You're killing

me.

Hey,

[music]

[singing]

you're killing

me. [singing]

You're killing

[screaming]

>> with kindness.

Oh my god.

We were friends.

That's all.

[music]

So she did it for love.

>> Killed everything.

Too much misguided kindness.

>> Well, once again, I blame [music]

country music.

[snorts]

>> [music]

>> No umbrella. [singing]

>> [music]