Original subtitles

What are you doing for dinner tomorrow? I think it'd be fun.

Did it not go well when you...spoke to her about your, er, feelings?

I didn't do it in the end.

She's clearly happy.

"Reggie Rocco. Vote for who you know."

It's perfect.

Your pathology work on this is an absolute mess.

Sounds like your wedding.

Glenn! Stop it! Oh, my! Stop it! Stop it!

What is going on here?!

What was it about?

Something we're both very passionate about.

What has a distinctive snout,

pointy ears and beady eyes?

And, no, it's not my sister. -Huh!

She's unique, she's beautiful,

and, flying with her cape,

she's our very own furry superhero!

This is Sharon, the squirrel glider.

Squirrel glider.

See, she's got this membrane

that goes all the way from her front paw down to her back paw,

which allows her to glide from tree to tree

up to around 50 metres! -Up to around 50 metres.

But...can she climb the tallest trees?

Because I know someone who can.

Oh! It's Kai. -This is Kai the koala.

And Kai can turn the poison in the eucalyptus leaves

into power. - Power!

OK, that's pretty amazing, too.

Mm-hm. -Who's that guy?

Oh, it's Uncle Joe.

Now, Rupert, you've been all over the world lately.

Mm-hm. - Have you seen anything that compares to our native wildlife?

Oh, come on, Gracie, you know I haven't!

Now, I believe we have a very special guest

with us today at the park.

We've heard she's the biggest native-animal fan

in all of Dolphin Cove. -Mm!

Is there a Mackenzie Clarke out there in the crowd?

Yes. - No.

Mackenzie?

Come on up and meet Kai!

KIDS LAUGH

Did you do this? -Yeah.

I think she might need a bit of encouragement, folks!

Oh!

Don't... -Oh...

Oh! -Go on.

Oh... - Here she comes!

Come on. - Mm-hm... I'm going.

Yeah. Uncle Joe?

Why don't you give Mackenzie some of Kai's

favourite snacks?

Oh, ladies and gentlemen,

give a big Wild Ones hand to Mackenzie Clarke!

APPLAUSE

There you go, darl.

All right, Mackenzie, come on in.

Yep, yep. Now hold it out and he'll have a little eat.

OK...

KIDS: Ooh!

There you go, Kai.

A cassowary! He came at me with this.

Rarrrrr! -KIDS SQUEAL AND LAUGH

Remember, it's only the strong survive.

Eh? Do you want to hear another story?

Yes! - I knew a fella got bitten on the head by a crocodile.

How did you do that?

Oh, look, I don't like to talk

too much about my methods, my, er, skills of persuasion.

So you bribed them?

Such an ugly word.

I made a generous donation to native-animal conservation.

Ooh, and did you know, koalas, their fingerprints

are almost identical to humans'?

Lucky they don't commit much crime.

That we know about.

I've got to say, I did not expect you to be a zoo fan.

Wildlife park. Wildlife park.

My sincere apologies.

Well, what's not to love?

Animals, neatly categorised and located on a map.

My dad used to bring me here.

Ah.

Let's have a look around, then.

You want to follow the map, don't you?

It's just, it's the most efficient way we can make sure

we see everything.

I might get some ice creams, then, just to get us round.

What the hell is this?

Looks like eucalyptus.

Oh, it doesn't smell like it, though. Why is that, Joe?

Cos you've been freezing the stuff again.

To make it last.

People won't pay to feed the koalas if the koalas won't eat.

Fresh stock costs money we don't have.

I'm trying to help you. -Well, you're not helping.

We need people coming. We need cash.

You think I don't know that?

Cassie's cage needs mucking out, yeah?

I turn my back for one minute to go to the bathroom...!

Yours has started to melt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, likely story.

OK, if we leave now, we can catch the python feeding.

Hang on.

I have to give you something.

Ow.

Oh, there is no way

your lip is still hurting. -No, I just like the sympathy.

ALARM BLARES

ANIMALS CALL

What's wrong?

We got a radio distress call. -One of our keepers!

Oh! -They might need a doctor.

ANIMALS CALL

Stay behind us.

I've got him.

Careful! It's a cassowary. It's very dangerous.

We're too late.

He's dead.

On three? -Yeah.

One, two...

three.

His radio.

So, what have we got, then?

Penetrating injury to the diaphragm.

Going by the volume of blood, it's punctured the aorta.

How long would he have been conscious?

Mm... Depending on the size of the rupture,

minutes.

Oh!

Ah. Cassie didn't do this.

Sorry, who's Cassie? -Cassowary.

Th...There's a cassowary in here?!

It's the most dangerous bird in the world!

Enclosure's clear. Cassie's secured.

Hmm! It's the claw from Joe's belt.

Rarrrrr! -KIDS SQUEAL AND LAUGH

Someone was in here and they stabbed him with this.

This is murder.

This is the only access point to the enclosure?

Yes.

And no-one's come in or out since we've been in here.

Felix, check up the back, make sure no-one's still in here.

What's that?

It's a ring.

An opal ring. - Um, I've never seen that before.

So you can't say if it belonged to Joe?

Could be an engagement ring?

GRACIE SCOFFS

He didn't strike me as the type to settle down.

Mm. He was a wild man.

Guys like that are always trying to pick up.

"Guys like that"? You mean your uncle?

Erm, we're not actually related.

We just...called him Uncle Joe.

For the Wild Ones brand, you know.

But this is a family business.

He was really popular around the park.

Did you know he was drinking on the job?

No, we didn't know.

Do you know of any reason someone might want to harm him?

God, no! - God, no, it's awful!

Right, can you tell us everything that happened after the show?

We did our usual debrief.

I sent Joe out to clean out the cassowary cage.

And then we went back to my office.

We had some new videos for the Flint Force socials to look over.

Oh, that's good!

So we were watching those

and then we heard a break over the radio.

JOE OVER RADIO: - Help! Help me!

What did you do then? -Hit the alarm.

We knew he was with the cassowary.

What time was this? -About ten to two.

Then we took off.

We just wanted to get here as fast as we could.

ALARM BLARES

What's wrong?

We got a radio distress call. -One of our keepers!

But it was too late.

OK, can you talk us through how access to the cages works?

Sure.

Every gate in the park has one.

BEEP -And...only a limited number of staff

have access to the enclosures.

Er, we'll need a list.

We control it really tightly, and any after-hours access

to the park triggers an alert on our phones.

What about CCTV? -Yeah, we've got cameras.

We're downloading that footage as we speak.

We never compromise on safety - for our staff or our animals.

Mum'd haunt us, right?

I'm assuming you've got an activity log for all the passes?

Yeah, course. It's in the office.

OK, we've got one entry into the cassowary cage

at 1:30 this afternoon on Joe's pass.

BEEP

No-one else?

No, not until Rupert Flint's pass was swiped at 1:53.

BEEP

Stay behind us!

Which is when you found him dead.

He's dead.

That's it?

That's it. - Hey.

The park's clear. - Yeah, we grabbed as many of the people heading out as we could.

And no-one was around the cage at that time.

No-one heard or saw anything.

OK, what about the cage itself?

Any openings, gaps, breaks in the wire?

No. I did a walk-around.

The fence is four metres high, completely intact.

Yeah, and it's electrified across the top

with 5,000 volts. No, thank you.

There is no way in and out of that cage

except through the gate. - OK.

So we know Joe swiped in at 1:30pm

and the gate locked behind him.

We know that he was alive at 1:50pm,

when the distress call came in over the radio.

And, with a ruptured aorta,

Leo thinks he would have been dead in minutes.

He must have been killed well after

he went into the cage. -Right.

And the killer must have been in there with him.

Right.

But...escaped a locked cage.

Right.

Impossible.

Wrong.

Is it OK if we remove the body?

Yeah.

This is not exactly what we had planned for today.

Ha!

You OK?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Great.

That makes one of us. - Yeah.

Er, Mackenzie, you're going to want to see this.

CCTV's limited, but check this out.

Right in the...ooh! -Ooh!

That's Joe, our victim. -But who's in the suit?

Huh!

Excuse me?

Er, we'd like a word.

Detective Senior Constable Colin Cartwright.

This is Detective Sergeant Mackenzie Clarke.

And you are? - Willow.

Head off, please.

Willow who? - Lightfoot.

Do you know why we're here? -Yeah, for Joe.

A man that you recently assaulted.

Wow, I really nailed him, didn't I?!

Why? - Erm...

I didn't like him treating me like his own private petting zoo.

He was harassing you?

Yeah, standing too close, walking in on me changing,

touching me while he walked past.

Did you report him? -No! I handled it myself.

OK, look, Joe was annoying but relatively harmless.

I didn't want him dead.

Do you have a pass for the park and the cages?

I'm lucky if I get access to the bathrooms to change!

Gracie and Rupert keep this place pretty locked down.

Where were you between 1:30 and 1:50pm?

In the cafe, warming my oils.

I'm the Monet of face painting.

Do you recognise this?

Erm, yeah, I do.

Smallest noose the patriarchy could invent.

Mitts off.

Snug fit.

That's a nasty-looking scar you've got there.

Yeah. That's what you get

for reaching into a fire for a marshmallow.

Do you believe her? -About the scarring,

the assault, or her whereabouts during the murder?

The CCTV does show her entering the cafe at 1:45.

We found these left for Joe at the gate.

Already? - Who's it from?

No name, just a message.

"The peace of God passes all understanding."

That's a Bible verse.

Check with the florist, see if you can find the name.

Mm-hm. -Oh!

You know, you never get them from a florist,

but these guys do beautiful lisianthus,

like, lovely bunches of stuff.

Coralie! Great to have your support.

Afternoon, Troy.

Good on you, guys!

How's the campaign going?

Oh! Gosh, Felix. Well, look, I don't want to jinx it,

but I am feeling some real momentum for change, you know?

PHONE CHIMES

Oh! Someone's sent me a post.

Oh! It's Clementine Clovelly's candidate profile about me!

What have we got here? Let's look...

Er, Reggie? - Yep?

Oh, God!

Well, that's just juvenile and disrespectful, isn't it?

Don't they know that I am trying to...

Oi, Rocco! - ..serve our community? -Mate!

Excuse me? What was that?!

What's going on with that and...?

Just hang on a sec, yeah?

Oh...

Oh, no, no, no! No! That is... That is not a profile,

that is a...hatchet job!

Let me see. - No! No.

No, I was not nude in public...

on purpose.

And they were... They were clove cigarettes.

Someone's been bad-mouthing me to the paper,

and I reckon I know who.

No. No, it is not funny, Damo.

I know you were talking to Clementine.

Ah, shush. I can't even look at you right now.

Oh, God, the idiot's torpedoed my whole campaign.

Like, all that work - the conversations,

the volunteers - it's all down the drain because Pinhead

can't keep his mouth shut.

Unless you give Clementine a new story.

I take back the narrative? -Exactly.

Nice one, Felix! -Hey, boss?

Er, the wreath was paid for

by a Judith Coulston.

Who's that?

Oh... - We don't know.

But the card with the Bible verse?

Oh! From Philippians.

It means the divine calm that comes from trusting God.

Mm! - Churchgoing family.

OK, so all we really know so far is that Joe Gratton

was a general duties manager at the park.

He was found murdered inside a locked cage

with a suspected ruptured aorta from a cassowary claw

that he carried round on him as a prop.

Access to the cage was with security passes

that were tightly controlled

by the owners, siblings Gracie and Rupert Flint.

This is Willow Lightfoot.

Bit light on detail.

Erm, no socials or anything, but, er,

we can get working on that. -Yep.

So, she is hired as a children's entertainer at the park,

and we have CCTV footage of her assaulting Joe.

Did she give a reason? - Apparently, he was touching her inappropriately,

and she took matters into her own hands.

Lovely! So our victim is a fine upstanding citizen...

With an extensive record.

11 years ago,

he was the driver in a crash just outside of Perth

with two fatalities.

Two young women.

Was he drinking at the time?

Mm-hm. Blood alcohol content nearly five times

over the legal limit.

He was doing 153 kilometres an hour.

Those poor girls didn't stand a chance! -No.

He got a two-year jail sentence and a lifetime driving ban.

And, according to his phone records, someone's been blowing up his phone.

Calls all day and night from the same number.

Two years seems very light.

What, for killing two innocent girls? Criminal is what it is.

Yes. Quite literally.

Sofia Paymer and Melanie Coulston have every right

to feel short-changed.

Coulston...

Judith Coulston.

You're Melanie's mother.

That's right.

Can I ask why you'd send a wreath for Joe Gratton?

Because I forgave him.

That's why you sent the Philippians quote.

Mm-hm.

It didn't happen overnight.

When I got here from Perth,

I was determined to keep him honest.

By calling him constantly?

No!

LAUGHS INCREDULOUSLY

No, I'd checked up on him, sure, but...the more I saw

how broken he was,

the more I saw how broken I was.

And then he found me.

God?

Reverend Tyler.

I started helping out in the church, and then...

one day I realised I... I felt like myself again.

And you stopped watching him.

God will heal you if you let him.

I just wish he'd heal this grevillea.

If you'd stopped watching him,

how did you know that Joe had died?

God moves in mysterious ways.

And Reverend Tyler got a call

in case anyone needed counselling.

Do you recognise this?

I can't say that I do, no.

It's lovely, though.

Where were you between 1pm and 2:30pm?

Er, on my volunteer rounds,

delivering meals for Divine Harvest.

Can anyone verify that?

Anyone who enjoyed the chicken and corn soup.

We'll be in touch if we need any more.

Mm-hm.

CHUCKLES

You know the way to a man's heart.

Mm-hm.

Just to point out, I don't think she's ever brought me food.

I brought her a coffee once, and she threw it in the bin.

Monstrous.

Significant rupture to the aorta.

Yeah. Blood loss was fatal in minutes.

Mm-hm.

And with that claw!

Would have been a blow of unusual force.

So the killer was definitely in there with him

and no way of escaping.

Hundreds of people through that park every day.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Could've come from anywhere.

Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt.

I know you're working. -What do you need?

I want to talk to you. Both of you,

if that's all right.

I'll just, erm... - No, it's fine.

I, er...

I was out of line the other night.

It was unacceptable and embarrassing...

..and that's...that's not who I am.

I'm a scientist. We both are.

Just, erm...

It's on me, is what I'm saying.

I'm sorry.

Don't mention it.

Well, I should get going.

Erm, can... Would you excuse me for one second?

Yeah. Sure.

Glenn? Glenn!

I'm in a bit of a rush. Sorry.

What?

Do you have a problem...with Leo?

I was just in there apologising.

In general.

Who cares what I think? -I do.

I don't have a problem with him.

Really?

What did I just say? He... He's a good pathologist.

He...seems like a decent bloke.

What else do you want to hear?

Your opinion. It is important to me.

Well, it shouldn't be, Mack. Not about this. It...

It doesn't matter what I think about him

or what anyone else thinks.

Does he make you happy?

Yes, he does.

Then that's all that matters.

I'll see you.

ENGINE STARTS

We're not finished in there.

You'll want to see what else Leo found on the victim's leg.

Is that a dog bite?

Of sorts.

Joe was bitten by a dingo.

Our pathologist has established tissue damage and wound depth

consistent with a bite force

much stronger than that of an average dog.

OK, look, Joe had an incident

with the dingo outside its enclosure.

You mean it escaped?

Yeah, one night, a few weeks back.

But security is "tightly controlled"

and you "never compromise on safety".

He brought it on himself. -Rupert...

No, no, he was drunk.

He let the damn thing out. I had to tranq it.

ALARMS BLARE

JOE GROANS

Oh, yeah, he swore up and down it wasn't him.

He was raving about some ninja running amok in the park.

Yeah, but it was his pass on the log.

Right, so let me get this straight.

We asked you about his drinking. You said nothing.

You said nothing about his criminal past.

And now we find he's breached security.

How on earth did the man still have a job?

Because we believe in second chances.

That's how our mum raised us.

We're not irresponsible.

He was just so dynamic, and we were trying to help

manage his problems.

We made sure we took his keys off him at the start of every day,

and he never got them back unless he passed a breath test.

Hang on. He had a car?!

COUGHS

INSECTS BUZZ

Is it possible to see a smell?

Huh! This tyre's been slashed deliberately.

Mack?

Did Joe have a baby?

SIREN WAILS

This way.

KNOCKS ON DOOR

I've notified the ambos and DCJ

to be on standby. - Mm-hm.

Police! Open up. Hello?

Er, I'll go round the back.

Felix, you, erm...

You...open the door any way you see fit.

OK, check upstairs, check out the back.

Reggie?

IN BABY TALK

Oh, dabadoo, dabadoo.

Drink up!

Cos there's plenty more where that came from, darling.

Yes. Awww!

Fancy leaving a little squirrel glider to his own devices!

Yeah, to be fair, I don't think Joe planned it that way.

No. Shonks never do, do they?

SINGSONGY -They go about their merry way,

selling out the only person who ever loved them

to hack journos!

Yeah, but you wouldn't do that, would you, darling? No. No!

There's two more cages upstairs and a bunch of these.

What on earth was he up to?

Might have something to do with this.

$10,000? - Mm.

And...this bloke.

What?! Oh, he's not to be handled by non-professionals.

Yeah, we'll look after him, don't you worry.

Would you care to shed any light on what Joe was doing?

Look, I don't...

Let me get Rupert and we'll... -We're asking you.

Whatever it was,

I can't believe he'd expose an animal to that kind of risk.

Are you saying

that he stole animals from the park without your knowledge?

No. No way.

Everyone's watching us.

National Parks and Wildlife, the department.

Our numbers are strictly monitored.

How do you explain the money?

I can't.

Erm, but, you know,

with all the disruptions yesterday,

we're a bit flat out trying to catch up, so if that's all...

Of course. Yeah, we've got to be on our way, anyway.

So, erm, don't let us keep you.

And you're sure about this? -Trust me.

I'm not to be disturbed for another half-hour.

False bottom.

I told you I... -Stop right there!

We got you. - Not me.

Let's talk about your travel schedule.

Rupert, you've been all over the world lately.

Borneo, Los Angeles, Dubai, London,

Miami. I mean, you get around!

Yes, I do. See, over the last few years, I've, erm...

I've transformed Wild Ones from a provincial wildlife park

to a global brand.

I don't think I need to apologise for that.

Right? These places,

they're all key pillars in our global strategy.

But Dubai is also a global travel and freight hub,

and Florida has an exotic-animal permit system

ripe for exploitation.

Yes. Yeah. It's appalling.

I mean, I think I brought this up with the Americans

last time I was doing a wildlife show for them at the embassy, but...

Our friends at the AFP tell us

that an illegally traded squirrel glider

is worth thousands of US dollars.

Yeah, well, that could be right.

They're such beautiful creatures.

Which you've been breeding illegally

and selling on the black market.

Oh! That is an appalling accusation!

And Joe was working with you.

You were running the operation from his house.

OK, yeah, if I'm not under arrest,

I don't think I need to sit here and listen to this.

Nah!

No.

It's a false-bottom cage for smuggling animals.

Where did you get that?

I can explain.

We found the $10,000. We know you were paying Joe.

What? No, I didn't pay him.

Oh, right. So he was doing it for free, was he?

No. No, no. I meant

I hadn't paid him yet. I...

We'd only just started.

Why would you get into business with such a loose cannon like Joe?

Because the park is broke

and I have a legacy to continue.

Then Joe released the dingo and you realised

you'd tied yourself to a hand grenade.

What if he got sloppy and the smuggling came out?

The Wild Ones brand would be ruined and you'd never recover.

No, I needed Joe!

The park needed him.

Or had he become more trouble than he was worth?

Let's say that Rupert's telling the truth about this, at least.

Then, where did the ten grand come from?

Ah. We need to go back to the accounts,

see where the money leads.

So Rupert has access. Motive, even.

But how does it connect to that ring?

Hmm. Yeah.

Then it's just a simple question of figuring out

how the killer escaped through a secure enclosure.

Full autopsy, express delivery.

As discussed, among the other features of note

were cirrhosis of the liver

and cerebral atrophy from prolonged alcohol abuse.

Ooh! Soft drinks all round?

Is this a good time to show you...?

The Australian Symposium of Forensic Science & Research.

Mm. It's three weeks away, in Melbourne.

Thought you might want to come.

To a pathology conference?

Symposium. -What's the difference?

No-one knows.

The thing is, as long as

we're in Dolphin Cove, there are always going to be...

distractions. And, erm, I kind of

want to see what we are without any distractions.

"Advances in blunt force trauma analysis."

Yeah, I circled that one for you. It's going to be a ripper.

Yeah, it's going to be popular. You'd better book it in.

Don't. All right?

She's moved on. I get it.

So...no more friendly advice?

No. -No more hand-picked crayfish?

No.

No more dropping everything to help her?

No, nothing, mate.

She has her life, I have mine, and that's it.

Proud of you, mate.

WHINES

WHINES

Stop it.

I'm working!

Ohhh! Fine.

Fine. Fine.

Ohhh! I work my fingers to the bone

to put food on the table.

When I come home, all I would like

is a little peace and quiet.

Too much to ask? Yes, apparently it is.

Come here.

It's like I starve you.

I did feed you this morning.

And that feed is not cheap. You are an expensive woman.

Feed isn't cheap...

RINGING TONE

Colin? What are you doing?

Over here, at the table. -OK.

Er... This couldn't have waited till the morning?

Ow!

What's up with him?

Er... I, just...

Let's not focus on... on him.

Let's focus on these animals

that you aren't feeding properly.

That's ridiculous. We're feeding our animals.

That is not what these accounts indicate.

These numbers, they don't add up.

Are you going to talk him through it, or am I?

What are they talking about?

Oh, my God. That's why Joe was using

the frozen eucalyptus for the shows.

So you're starving the animals on top?

Oh, shut up, Rupert. I'm not starving the animals.

I wouldn't do that.

It just looks like it.

I've been sourcing low-cost feed but claiming

premium-brand deductions. -Oh!

Tax fraud.

Well, minor tax fraud.

Joe found out

and threatened to expose us unless... - Paid him off.

Ten grand.

I had to. It would have bankrupt us. The park is broke.

Yes, we know.

You should have talked to me about it.

Ohhh!

You want to talk about who should have told who what?

We'll be lucky to keep our licence because of you.

I'm trying to keep the gates open, make Mum proud.

Oh, yeah? What do you think I'm doing?

We... We know the park is

important to you, so it'd be understandable

if Joe's threats got the better of you.

I paid him off.

Why would I kill him?

We were both in the office at the time.

JOE OVER RADIO: Help! Help me!

Yes, you were -

the woman the victim was extorting

and the victim's partner in the illegal animal trade

alibiing each other.

PHONE BUZZES

Security alert.

Someone's in the park!

It's Joe.

ANIMALS CALL

GATE BEEPS

Stop! Stay where you are.

Do not move.

You've been very busy, haven't you, Willow?

Oh, er, Caroline Benson, actually.

Let's have a little chat

about your very long history of criminal activity, Caroline.

You mean activism.

Er, uncaging monkeys at the local labs,

releasing two red pandas from Aubrey Safari Park,

or, my personal fave,

glueing your hand to the stalls at the races.

So much for marshmallows.

I mean, the stewards didn't even

wait for the glue to dissolve. They just ripped it away.

It's no surprise you changed your name.

One more serious conviction, and you're looking at prison.

That was the plan, wasn't it?

Release as many animals as you could.

Yeah! Better than keeping them in here with Gracie and Rupert.

What about Joe?

He discovered you'd cloned his pass

when the dingo got out, right?

GATE BEEPS

You're the ninja.

GASPS

Do you feel any responsibility at all

to the people you put at risk by doing these little stunts?

Protest actions. And no.

No, we're all about subjugating other species.

I'm just...evening the scales,

giving those animals a fighting chance.

Joe was going to report you, wasn't he?

It's a mystery.

We will be charging you. -Mm. Good for you!

Get Felix to come down and get her.

Yeah.

Honestly, I've got no idea.

Oh, I was at the monthly meeting of the Dolphin Cove Diners.

I don't know what that is.

Oh, it's a regular gathering

of sophisticated ladies and gentlemen

in a formal setting who enjoy good food

and rich conversation.

For that, you're doing her paperwork.

Amen. Thank you.

That was Reverend Tyler. He did get a call about Joe.

Judith Coulston was telling the truth.

Hey. Hey. You were right,

by the way, about taking back the narrative.

Mack and Cole putting me undercover

was just the good news story my campaign needs.

Look at this.

I'm sending it straight through to the Echo.

Oh, no, you're not.

Official police operations,

they are not for public consumption.

But it's the perfect antidote to the poison

that the Echo are peddling! -Reggie!

Your political career is not our concern.

I do not want to see this in the local paper

attributed to an anonymous police source.

Do you understand me? - Yes.

What?!

Not even a smoking jacket?!

LAUGHTER

Oh, right. You can laugh all you like,

but the Dolphin Cove Diners

are a lovely, lively, curious bunch,

and we regularly welcome

interesting guest speakers to share their insights,

their experience.

In fact...

Absolutely not.

I'd rather die.

I'd be happy to. -Oh, she'd be great. - Yeah.

Oh! Yeah, look, erm, I'll put you on the list, shall I?

All right, let's get started.

Hey, Mackenzie? - Mm?

I keep coming back to that ring.

Feels like there's a...

there's a personal dimension to this that I just...

I cannot see.

Well, it's funny you should mention the ring,

actually, cos I showed a picture of it

to the diners last night.

And as it happens, we have quite a few

jewellery experts in our number,

including Alexander.

Fantastic chap. He runs the, er...

the little stationer's,

and he has a really keen interest in

turn-of-the-century pieces. -Colin!

Please stop talking about the Dolphin Cove Diners.

Er, the opal in that ring is very distinctive.

Um, it's a fire opal,

apparently. Quite rare. -OK. Follow up on that.

Er, Mack? Phone company's come back

with a name for the number that's been hassling Joe -

a Mabel Schmidt.

Anyone know who that is? -No.

No, but she's in Dolphin Cove.

You registered a second phone...

..found at the house of Mabel Schmidt.

She's a very grateful recipient of Divine Harvest meals.

You got a second phone in Mabel's name

without her knowing so you could torment Joe Gratton.

And none of the clients on your round remember seeing you

or the chicken and corn soup.

You haven't forgiven him, have you?

I had.

I worked hard to get there.

He worked hard, too. All very New Testament.

But then he started drinking again.

I could have lived with that.

Everyone falls down.

It was the drinking and driving that did me in.

He should still be in jail.

You think his sentence was lenient?

Lenient?!

It was a travesty!

Two years and a driving ban - which he ignored -

because the lab messed up his blood results

and the DPP wasn't confident of a conviction.

So they did a deal. -It was a gift.

And what did he do with it?

Threw it back in my face.

That's why you slashed his tyres.

But you didn't stop there. You called him at all hours.

Why should he get any rest?

I haven't slept a full night since Melanie died.

She was 23.

23, with her whole life ahead of her,

and he just... stole it all away.

You should have come to us.

For another slap on the wrist?

No!

The peace of God passes all understanding.

So does his vengeance.

I just wish I'd been there to see it.

She's not on any CCTV at the park.

Yeah, even if she was, she still couldn't get out of the cage.

Mm. That's what I thought about koala girl, too.

Yeah, she and the Flints had security passes.

But they'd still have to trick the digital log.

We know that there's a personal element to this.

Joe left a trail of broken and bitter people behind him.

On two coasts.

Oh, er, speaking of which, erm, I did a bit more research on the ring,

and fire opals are found

mainly in the "pil-bah-ra".

ALL: Pilbara.

So the accident was in Western Australia

and the ring came from Western Australia.

But we still don't know what that ring was doing

in the cage.

PHONE CHIMES

Oh, my gosh! -What is it?

"Local hero fights for the little guy"!

I'm in the paper! My...

My undercover story made it into the paper.

Where'd they get that photo?

"Anonymous police source."

Felix? You didn't? -I didn't.

"I didn't." - I didn't!

You didn't? - I didn't.

Well, it wasn't me. -Well, it wasn't me.

Well, who else knew about the photo?

I tell you something about people.

No matter how well you think you know them,

they can always surprise you.

Right. Well, she's ready to go back to Wild Ones,

which is a shame, though,

because you would be surprised what it can do.

You can go anywhere you like -

kids are happy to see you and no-one recognises you.

Gracie didn't recognise you?

No.

Even though she knew Willow,

she knew how she moved and...

well, she saw her in that suit every day.

Well, just my spy-craft,

I guess.

If she didn't recognise, then...

..that means...

And the ring.

Two years.

Colin? Um...

I-I-I need the full coroner's report on that accident.

Er, I need autopsies, police files,

the works. And photographs.

Yeah, photographs. Especially photographs.

I need photographs

of, er...everything. And, erm...

..call Leo, tell him to meet me at the wildlife park.

Where are you going?

To get answers.

Glenn!

Erm, I need your help.

I can't give you many of the details.

I can't give you almost any of the details, and...

it might be a bit illegal.

It's a lot illegal. Erm...

But I need someone I trust.

What do you need me to do?

Hi.

Thanks for coming.

Pathology conference all booked. You and me.

Blunt force trauma.

Great.

What do you need?

I've been trying to figure out

what would drive someone to kill Joe.

They all had motives, but, um,

I think only one person actually hated him enough.

Do you think it's the mum? What's her name?

Judith. - Right.

Her daughter's life was cut short.

Yeah, it makes sense. Mm.

But how? You know, she wasn't even here.

Even if she was,

she still had to effect her way out of a cage that was sealed

by electronic locks that are digitally logged.

ALARM BLARES GATE BEEPS

Well, I can't help with that, sorry.

Yeah.

Except the killer wasn't in the cage. Not really.

Not until after the murder.

Were you?

I mean...

I was in the cage doing my job.

Doing your job and...covering your tracks.

Mack, what are you talking about?

There was always part of this case that felt personal.

Erm, something to do with...this.

This picture is from the original coroner's report

into the death of two young women in a car accident

caused by Joe Gratton 11 years ago.

It's one of the victims' engagement ring.

It's the same ring.

Judith's daughter was killed in that accident,

so we focused on her, a grieving mother.

But I think we should have looked more closely

into the second victim,

Sofia Paymer,

a trainee doctor engaged to a fellow student doctor,

Leo Drake.

She was your fiancee.

Yes. But...

Were you wearing...this ring,

the engagement ring that you gave to Sofia,

on a chain around your neck?

I retested the ring.

What's he doing here?

It had his DNA on it.

Even great pathologists contaminate evidence

from time to time. -And the cassowary claw?

Also traces of his DNA.

Mack, this is a terrible coincidence.

Oh, I agree. Seeing the man who killed the woman you loved

at this wildlife park,

yeah, who's just living his life, carefree.

Oh, it's Uncle Joe.

I was with you when the alarm went off,

when he was killed. We were having ice cream.

OK, let's talk about the ice creams.

The path to the kiosk,

it goes past the cassowary enclosure, doesn't it?

Yeah, you remember.

And Joe was there to muck out the cages,

and that's when you saw him again.

We know he'd been drinking, so,

what, did you say something to him?

Huh! Oh, you did.

I don't blame you for that.

But Joe said something to you.

Only the strong survive.

And then he opened the cage to get away from you.

But I think you were beyond reason.

JOE CRIES OUT

One savage blow.

But then what?

Then you had to work with what you had - an open cage

and Joe's radio.

So, what, I'm so gifted, I can kill a man

while holding two ice creams?

Your credit card shows that you did purchase two ice creams.

And...another two more...

..ten minutes later.

You gave me the replacement ice creams,

and then you took yourself off to the bathroom

to fake the distress call from Joe's radio.

HOARSELY: - Help!

Help me!

Three words that he could not have spoken.

The autopsy records that the aorta was ruptured.

What it doesn't note,

and what I observed when examining the body,

is that the inferior vena cava was also severed.

Which you didn't record,

because with blood loss at that volume,

he would have been dead in seconds and not minutes,

completely unable to call for help.

It was your voice on the radio, not his.

A few short words...

..and enough time to give you an alibi.

And then you came back to me.

Yours has started to melt.

And you needed to waylay me

so you could be in the right place at the right time

when the alarm was raised.

ALARM BLARES

What's wrong?

So you could be there insisting you help,

because it all would have...come undone

if you didn't get back in that cage

and put the radio back on the body.

Careful! It's a cassowary. It's very dangerous.

The killer was right in front of me.

And I didn't see it. I didn't see it because I...

trusted...

..er, the one person that could steer me in the wrong direction

by omitting details from the autopsy

and by hiding the physical evidence

on the murder weapon, and on this.

You know, I'm curious - when did you realise it was gone?

Was it when the gate closed after you'd killed him?

She was going to change the world

one patient at a time.

But he...

..snuffed her out.

Both of them gone in the blink of an eye.

Then the lab screwed up.

He walks away after two years.

Two years for two lives, and we're just supposed to...

move on?

So I did. I...

I became a pathologist to make sure

that no mistake in a lab

let someone like Joe Gratton off again.

I fought to make it all mean something.

And then, there he is,

using Sofia like a punch line.

"Only the strong survive."

He lost his eye in the crash.

We lost everything.

I'm sorry.

Something got a hold of me, and I couldn't control it.

I couldn't help myself.

I couldn't stop myself.

I didn't want to stop myself. I wanted to kill him.

And I did.

Leo Drake, you are under arrest for the murder of Joe Gratton.

You do not have to say or do anything,

but anything you do say or do

may be taken in evidence against you.

HANDCUFFS CLICK

Wait.

I wasn't waylaying you.

It was real, what we had.

STIFLED SOB

ANIMALS CALL

But in Australia, we turn election day

into this festival of democracy.

I'm in the race with such wonderful candidates,

like Reggie Rocco over here.

You want to get onboard or get rolled over.

There's been an incident.

The cake, poisoned. -Right. Yes.

You just don't seem quite yourself.

Plenty of leads, but what are the connections?

I think that's about all we're going to get for today.

She's off her game.

She needs someone who...knows her.

Solving things. It's the one thing I'm good at.

So if I can't do that any more, what is the point of me?

Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0