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SHE CRIES

SHACKLES RATTLE

GATE BUZZES

SHE SCREAMS

PHONE VIBRATES

Hello.

Yes.

Yeah, I got, I got a news alert about the arrest

but, um, I can't contact her for comment.

I've tried everything.

I know I promised you that.

I can't do it any more.

The podcast is finished.

GUARD OUTSIDE: Wakey, wakey, ladies.

PRISONER: Fuck off.

GUARD OUTSIDE: I won't ask you again, hurry up.

PRISONERS ARGUE

BANGING ON DOOR

ARGUING CONTINUES

DOOR BUZZES

Muster time, stand by the door.

PRISONERS HECKLE

Breakfast time, ladies, move out.

Settle down.

PRISONER YELLS: All right, princess.

Thank you for coming.

The phone from your car has been cleared.

Forensics say your car will be released in a few days.

I've told you everything.

We've charged Meghan with Jack's murder.

Let's go back to what happened

when Meghan took Ben in your car.

Um, Ben was in the car.

And when I turned around, Meg was behind the wheel.

I was running down the street, I had my hands up in the air,

I was yelling, I was yelling for her to stop.

I said, "Stop the car". She wouldn't stop.

And was that a separate incident

from when she threw things at you and your car?

Yeah, it was the night before.

That was - she was irrational.

She was, um, she was angry...

..because Jack had left her and the kids.

I'm hungry, move it, get out.

BLOWS A KISS

What the fuck? I'm fucking starving. Piss off.

TELEVISION: More on that story coming up on the hour.

Journalists and sports fans around the nation are reeling

at the news of the sudden death of Utley award winning

journalist Jack Shaughnessy.

Late last night, TV sports journalist Jack Shaughnessy's

wife was charged with his murder.

I can confirm that Meghan Shaughnessy

has been charged and remanded

pending a bail hearing at Beauwater Women's Detention Centre.

REPORTERS SHOUT

TELEVISION: This is a tragic matter for the family

and I'll be taking no further questions.

It's believed that Mr Shaughnessy left the family home several days

ago, after a colleague was found to

be baby Ben's biological father.

Sources close to the family say there has been a custody dispute

over baby Ben, whose kidnapping

made national news.

In an ironic twist, Meghan Shaughnessy,

will be housed in the same facility...

PRISONERS SHOUTING

All right.

My apple.

Mmm, they're delicious.

SHE WHISTLES

Did you ask the neighbours?

But maybe they saw lights on last

night if they were passing.

Well, David, maybe I am clutching at straws.

Where else is she going to go?

Oh, my God, the police are here.

I'll call you back.

KNOCK AT DOOR

What's happened?

Ma'am, we're here to speak to Lorelei Kelly.

This is her listed address.

She's not here. I'm her mum.

When is your daughter expected home?

We are actually looking for her ourselves.

My husband's driven up to our holiday house but she's not there.

When was the last time you saw her?

Yesterday.

Why? What's she done?

Did Lorelei mention she had plans with a prisoner named

Agatha Fyfle yesterday?

GAS CLICKS

Was Agatha friends with Brother Bowler's daughters?

Not especially,

they were just part of our congregation.

They'd be my half sisters.

They still live up here?

I haven't seen that family since my husband died.

Why am I sensing you don't want to help me, Charlotte?

Oh, no, no, no.

I'm happy you're here to stay and I want to help but...

..some things are best left in the past.

How would you feel if you sat in a courtroom...

..hearing that your father was a paedophile?

It's not in the past for me.

Oh.

TAP RUNS

TURNS TAP OFF

And they were seen arguing.

People do that.

Meghan made direct threats against her husband.

She was very upset, but...

..she just wouldn't hurt Jack,

she's not the violent type.

Hmm. You were taken to the hospital recently, weren't you, Grace?

It was nothing.

Nine stitches, I mean, it's not nothing.

It was an accident.

It was an accident.

You're romantically involved with Simon Beecher?

Yes.

The father of your sister's youngest child, Ben - your nephew?

Is that right?

That must have caused a lot of conflict

between Meghan and you, as well as Meghan and Jack.

I have sisters.

I have two, actually.

I understand your desire to protect her but if you don't answer our

questions honestly, there will be

consequences for you too.

If you have sisters, then...

..you get it when I tell you that you know

in your bones what they're capable of.

Meghan didn't kill Jack.

Meghan did kill Jack -

that's a fact.

What I'm trying to establish now is why.

We can't just let them bully us

into saying what they want to hear.

Surely, you just tell the truth.

No, Mum, they've already made their minds up.

So now they're just making Meghan seem like she's insane.

They won't be able to do that in court, the case has to stand up.

They've tried to get me to say that

she pushed me down the stairs on purpose.

You did say that.

You told me Meghan pushed you.

She never meant to hurt me.

Of course she didn't.

What happened to Jack was just an accident, too,

I mean, Simon was there.

I mean, he's an eyewitness.

Once it all comes out, they'll drop the charges, won't they?

We should probably stop talking about it.

They did say not to discuss the case.

So what do I do with the kids?

Do I send them to school tomorrow or do I...?

Oh, I was thinking maybe I could take

Ben to my place, just until Meghan gets bail, just to spend some...

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. ..time.

No, look, you know, they've just lost their dad,

they need to be together, and they need to be stable.

Well, in that case...

..surely they're better off at home.

Maybe Simon and I should look after them there.

Keep them together.

The news just said Mummy killed Daddy.

Why would she do that?

OK, Come on, darling, come on.

Come with me.

Um, she thought we were having sex.

And what made her think that?

Well, I'd organise the place he was living in for him.

And plus he'd, he'd given me money recently.

Money?

Well, my business had been tough since we...

..since the...

Since the affair?

The kidnapping.

My name was released to the media, and it ruined me.

Jack felt bad my business had suffered and...

You see, we found a recording Jack

made on his phone of your conversation about money.

So you can choose to tell us everything

or you can be charged with blackmail.

Jack was afraid of Meghan finding out anything

and that she was totally out of control,

which is why I called him,

to warn him.

CRYING

Meghan.

Can you hear me?

Whatever happened, I don't believe

you did it on purpose.

I saw how much you love Jack.

You would never do that to him.

Do you hear me, Meghan?

I'm on your side.

Fyfle!

People are trying to sleep here, bitch!

GUARD: Enough!

DOOR BUZZES

What?

Oh, I was just checking on you.

I made you breakfast but you didn't come out.

Are you going somewhere?

I've got a visit booked with Agatha.

I'll tell her you said hello.

No, don't.

Don't tell her I'm here.

Don't tell anyone.

Well, I'll, I'll bring us something home for our tea.

Charlotte. Mm.

Where did he do it?

Do what?

Where did it happen?

Kingdom Hall.

He was meant to be giving her lessons.

That's what he said.

Saving her soul.

DOOR SHUTS

Jack had given Rhea Bowden

money he didn't tell you about.

He left you and the children,

you made threats.

We're confident we're going to get a conviction

whether you give us a statement or not but...

..personally, I would like to hear your version of events.

I've lodged a bail application for my client.

If she gives you a statement today,

will you agree not to oppose bail?

The bail hearing's next Friday.

If we get a full signed statement by then, we won't oppose.

Can I go to my husband's funeral?

If we're satisfied.

OK.

Here you go, Lillian. Yeah, ta.

AGATHA HUMS

AGATHA HUMS

Shut it, sis.

You're raising my bloody sugar levels, eh.

I was upset and I wanted him to come home.

I didn't blame Jack for leaving me.

You didn't blame him?

Do you want to stop, Meghan?

No.

So up until the night in question,

you were trying to convince Jack to come home

but then you discovered that he was still having an affair

with Rhea Bowden and then you did get angry?

No, he wasn't having an affair with her,

she was blackmailing him.

What makes you think that?

Because I spoke to him after I saw her.

You have the phone records, you know there was a conversation.

An argument which led to him being

run down by you less than half an hour later. Isn't that true?

No, no. Don't put words into my client's mouth.

OK, Meghan, I want you to tell me

about that conversation.

Be precise.

How long have you been fucking her?

What are you talking about?

Don't.

Don't treat me like an idiot, Jack.

Rhea Bowden.

It's not like that, OK?

You gave her money?

After I left and um...

..all the shit with Simon,

I didn't have anywhere else to turn. OK? I...

That doesn't explain the money.

Jack.

She had a video of us from, um, from before.

And it showed me, um...

What? What, you, you screwing her, Jack?

I was doing coke.

With the Utley story being so big and

me hounding Scicluna about the cocaine,

I was cornered.

OK?

I needed it to go away. So what?

Was she blackmailing you?

I gave her some of the speaker fees.

I wasn't sleeping with her.

Jack, I have Ben.

I took him.

Yeah, I know.

No, Simon called me straight after you left.

Listen...

..it's going to be OK, Meg. OK?

We all just need to calm the fuck down.

No, he's going to be at the house waiting for me.

No, he won't be.

I told him we'd handle this...

..and I'd sort it out. All right?

Just give me an hour.

Jack, are we going to be OK?

You know, after everything...

..I was, um...

..I was pretty hurt and angry,

I'm still am.

That's my shit to deal with.

And I don't want Ben getting torn apart.

He's my son.

He's still my son.

It's going to be OK, all right?

I love you.

I love you, too.

Well, that's convenient, that you

made up just before killing him.

Why didn't you explain it right away, Meghan?

I don't know, I was...

I was in shock because my husband just died.

You have her statement of events.

Is there anything else or can my client go?

According to an eyewitness,

you looked in the rear vision mirror

before you reversed.

You must have seen your husband behind the car.

There were, um...

..there were headlights in my eyes.

DRUM BEATS

DOOR OPENS

Marcus!

If there was a tracker in a car,

would you be able to find the car's location on the computer?

Uh, if it's connected to the tracker's

SIM or whatever.

Do you know your sister's passwords?

Yeah. Well, come, come, come, come on.

WOMAN: Piss off. Don't touch me.

Try and stop me.

Hands off!

Think you're tough, huh? Bitch!

We've got something in common, you and me...

..Agatha Fyfle.

She set me up and dogged on me, she got me extra time.

I'm sorry.

Now, I can't get anywhere near her because the guards are watching me.

But you're on level one with her, right?

Don't fucking look, just take it.

I... No-one's going to blame you

if you take out Fyfle, she deserves it.

I can't do that.

If you don't, somebody else will.

I don't want to hurt anyone.

Except your husband.

Right. Check the visitors list!

Line up at gate V1, ten minutes.

Shaughnessy...

..you've got a visitor.

House, screen my delegate where to go.

Are the kids OK?

Grace is looking after them.

And Simon?

Meghan, I can't stop him.

I mean, he's Ben's father.

It's only until you get out.

Yeah, Mum, I can't get a bail hearing until next Friday.

SHE SIGHS

And he should be wearing his blue suit

and the shirt that he wore to the Utleys.

But I think it's at the dry cleaners, the one at the mall.

OK, OK, I'll look after the shirt, I'll get the shirt.

I've requested permission to be at the funeral.

Oh.

Well, I didn't...

I didn't think that you'd be allowed.

I haven't been convicted, Mum.

I know that.

DOOR BUZZES AND OPENS

Oh, my God.

You said you were in the clinic.

Only for a few more days.

Are you all right?

As long as I'm in here I'll never be all right.

They'll find a way to get to me eventually.

Zoe said you still haven't signed

the forms to say you won't take care of the baby.

You haven't been approved for the

mother and child programme yet, I...

I mean, if you don't get approved, then

the baby will go into foster care with strangers.

If you don't sign the paperwork, I won't get approved.

You promised.

Think of the child, Aggie.

I could give her a much healthier life. Stop this.

You can't take another baby away from me.

SHE SOBS

You're on the mend.

I still feel breathless, finding it hard to move around.

Well, that's the pregnancy.

Doctor said once your obs are normal for 72 hours,

no need to stay in the clinic any more. Oh.

Oh, my goodness.

Danny, how did you even get in here, baby?

My baby.

Come on, outside, sweetie.

CAT MEOWS

DOOR BUZZES AND SHUTS

Agatha.

They asked me to hurt you.

You're not worth it.

REPORTERS SHOUTING

I've emailed, I've called,

this is a pressing matter.

Minister, Agathe Fyfle,

you haven't replied to my recent correspondence.

I read your petition, I read your emails.

But since your client tried to escape, minimum security

is now out of the question.

That was a misunderstanding.

Regardless, the decision is no

longer a priority for this office.

Your mother signed the papers.

No, you have to get me out of here.

I'm trying.

Jalala's governor is sympathetic but

the minister is likely to keep you in maximum.

Where they're plotting to kill me.

I won't be spending my days in the clinic much longer.

Well, then we'll get you moved to protection.

That'll be a reasonable level of security.

The prisoners in protection here will hate that I'm pregnant too.

I'm not safe.

My baby's not safe.

If there's another genuine attempt on your life,

something we can prove, then I may

have enough ammunition to get you

transferred for the baby's sake.

But they're investigating your escape attempt.

Unless we convince the minister you weren't in on the plan,

it'll be a sticking point.

I came back on my own.

That should be proof I wasn't trying to escape.

They want a statement.

You'll need to give them Lorelei,

then I have something to bargain with.

It was all her idea.

But you went along with it? No.

I was taken by surprise when I was in that lift.

She was waiting for me.

She knew they would take me for a scan,

she knew they were using the service lift for me.

She didn't inform you of her plan?

If she had done, I would have said no.

If you deny your involvement, you do understand that your daughter

will face a much more serious charge than aiding and abetting.

I had nothing to do with it.

Lights on.

High beam.

Anything?

No.

Not at the angle the car is at now.

That's exactly where it was.

Yeah.

They canvassed the whole street that night,

it's a cul-de-sac.

No-one had any visitors.

I just... I can't see how there were

headlights in her eyes.

Yeah.

I'm leaving in the morning.

Are you going home?

KNOCK AT DOOR

Who did you call?

I haven't called anyone.

Hello? Lorelei.

I'm her mother, Lorelei.

Why are you here?

You're in serious trouble with the police,

you need to come with me.

Excuse me, this is my house.

Is Agatha Fyfle your daughter?

Shut up! You don't have to talk to her.

Lorelei tried to help her escape.

Listen, listen, listen to me...

..the police have told Dr Hocking that if she admits you to the clinic

that they won't arrest and charge

you because you're in care.

Clinic? They think I'm crazy.

I'm not going anywhere with you.

Yes, you are. No, I'm not!

POCKET RATTLES

What's in your pocket?

Nothing.

Show me.

No! Show me.

I hate you.

If you don't come with me right now...

..I'm calling the police myself.

I'm sorry.

Sounds like paranoia to me.

I think she's on her medication

but she said she was told her meal

was poisoned and she won't eat again

unless she's moved to Jalala.

All right. Well, the last thing we

need is Fyfle on a hunger strike, so get the food tested.

She also said that another prisoner has been asked to kill her.

Who?

Come here.

Come here, puss. Come on, darling. CAT MEOWS

Yes.

Look what we've we got here.

Look what we got here.

Oh, yes, oh.

Yeah, darling.

Agatha Fyfle claims that you told

her there was a plan to have her killed.

Is there any truth to it?

I was given a weapon...

..and told that I had nothing to lose by hurting Agatha.

I didn't, though, I warned her.

What kind of weapon?

Who gave you this?

I need a name.

I don't know her name.

But you could identify her?

I don't think that I should do that.

If you don't tell me how this came to be in your position,

then I'm just going to have to assume

that it was yours all along.

Why would I give it to you if it was mine?

Well, then, I'm sorry.

You're sorry for what?

Incident reports have to be filled out.

All right? There are repercussions.

This...

..is a serious breach.

Hey, Guv.

Day release for your husband's funeral

tomorrow is not going to be possible.

Someone's messed with Fyfle's breakfast.

Yeah.

The milk wasn't opened so we didn't send it for testing.

Was it...? I don't know.

But we've called the vet, she's about to be taken there now.

CAT MEOWS Come here, baby.

Come on.

Come on, puss-puss.

Oh, you're going to be OK, sweetie.

Oh, darling.

Come on, sweetie.

You understand that you have to remain here?

Dr Hockey's here to look after you. All right?

BELL CHIMES

See you soon. Bye.

Wait.

Um...

..this was dropped off for you.

It's from your, your mother.

OK.

What if someone in the family wants to go for custody?

Yeah, look, I'm just trying to assess all my options, I'm...

Help me go through the worst case scenario.

So if she's convicted, he'll come to me no matter what.

Thank you.

You can't deny me custody!

She reversed.

Yeah.

She must have heard me yelling Jacks name because she looked

in the rear vision mirror and...

..she reversed.

Cash.

Shaughnessy's statement might be grounds for reasonable doubt.

Are we squared away?

We did the reconstruction, her story doesn't tally.

Night. Night.

PHONE RINGS

Hello.

Yep. Detective Senior Sergeant Rachel Cash.

Yes, our perpetrator took an AVO

but that was against a party who wasn't involved.

A tracking device?

What was her name?

OK.

And who's her doctor?

Hmm.

Thanks, Sergeant.

SHE RETCHES