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Heard you needed some help with a policing matter.

Who the fuck are those guys at my place?

The muppets with the rifles, talking about shooting coppers?

They are cops. Were.

Well, I've canceled the flight.

That's gonna get us all killed.

They took the bones of my great-great-grandfather.

So you want repatriation?

EILEEN: It was my mother's final wish.

The dental records show a match for Buddy Nolan.

I killed that boy.

You think no one knew?

They all knew. It's lore.

I could have killed Jay 20 times,

but I didn't, because of you.

Remove your gun slowly and put it on the ground.

There's a roadhouse outside of Palmer's Cove.

You'll be safe there, Mary.

Roadhouse. Palmer's Cove.

Must be the Export.

[ The Blackwater Fever's "When the Night Comes" playing ]

♪ The sun is falling ♪

♪ Like a burning zeppelin ♪

♪ Tall buildings crash their shadows down ♪

♪ Upon the good city people ♪

♪ When the night comes ♪

♪ The wind is howling ♪

♪ The new age is calling out ♪

♪ It rattles through our bones like a locomotive ♪

♪ Sending out a warning ♪

[ Song ends ]

I'm here. What room are you in?

MARY: Hi, you've called Mary. Leave a message after the beep.

[ Door opens, closes ]

Help you?

I'm looking for some friends.

A mother and her daughter.

They arrived last night.

Can you tell me what room they're in, please?

Oh, ah, well, I can't give out that information.

The safety of our guests is our priority.

Oh, 'course you are.

[ Sighs ]

Oh, well,

there's a gin and her daughter in room number six.

MARY: Seven, Jay! Seven!

[ Gunshot ]

[ Grunts ]

Come here.

JAY: Mary! Shevorne!

Shevorne. Shevorne! Shevorne.

I'm okay.

Okay.

SIMON: Don't do anything stupid, Jay!

Stupidity gets people hurt.

You should have just taken the Emilio shooting and pissed off.

I gave it to you with a ribbon on it.

We're at the edge of the earth, Jay.

No one cares who deals drugs or dies.

Where's he going?

You're the detective here.

You work it out.

Yeah, you're not gonna find him.

But he's gonna find you.

JAY: You're going into shock.

If I don't call an ambulance, you'll bleed out

in about 20, 25 minutes.

So what do you want me to do?

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Franny.

Franny, what the hell are you doing?

Jesus!

You know what my excuse was?

I was a kid.

You were the cop.

You were the one in charge who was supposed to protect us.

To protect kids like Buddy and Zoe.

But you were too lazy.

You couldn't give a shit!

Is that what this is?

Another chapter of "blame the white fella"?

Stop!

Shit!

I knew it was a mistake, getting a black copper.

Too much obligation, too much black fella bullshit.

So why're you here then, Owen?

For the fishing?

OWEN: St--

[ Sighs ]

You just let all the drug running and grog happen

right under your nose.

The night Clarry was murdered.

Where were you?

You were meant to be on duty, but you weren't here.

I know 'cause I saw the tapes.

You left.

You're not a cop.

You be very careful, okay?

'Cause you shit on your mates in the force, then that is it.

You're done. You're finished.

Your career's over.

Who's gonna look after your community then?

What, you?

That detective that was here.

He wasn't Critical Incident.

He was Internal Affairs.

Bullshit.

They know you're dirty.

They're onto you.

I'd run if I were you.

Go on, run.

You've ruined your life.

-Shit. -[ Door slams ]

JIMMY 2: I'm not talking to you.

Tell Owen to come here.

FRAN: That's not happening.

I'm the boss here, not you.

Owen's not coming.

You keep going, you're gonna get yourself

in proper big trouble, woman.

I'm not going anywhere.

Buddy and Zoe were together.

They broke our lore.

They were warned, taken to the bus stop,

but they came back.

People started talking.

Amos wasn't gonna do anything.

Big shame job for you.

Amos got kid brain.

He's not a man.

So tell me what a real man does.

I'll tell you what happened.

I saw him.

I come over.

I said, "I warned you."

I took my boomerang out, and I swing it

and I've hit him, and I said, "You got the wrong one.

She doesn't belong to you."

And he said, "Fuck you, old man."

And I said, "What you say?"

"Fuck you."

And I hit him, and I couldn't... stop...hitting...him.

Fuck you!

[ Breathing heavily ]

It was only meant to be a broken arm,

but he wouldn't listen.

That's not our culture, Jimmy.

That's murder.

And Zoe?

What'd you do to her?

Huh? What'd you do to her?

JIMMY 2: Zoe was women's business.

SUZI-JOHN: What for?

Why you gotta bring me into this?

I need your help.

If you're putting my hole in danger,

you'd better tell me what for.

JAY: I need Mary and Shevorne to stay here for a little while.

I'm not a mind-reader, you know.

Someone's after us.

Simon Roland.

Mm, sour one, that one.

Knew he'd be trouble.

What do you mean?

Oh, there was stories floating around when he first turned up.

He could be real charming, but same time,

like a king brown.

Poisonous one.

Slippery one.

The one snake you don't want in your hole.

There's not too many safe places in town.

She's the one with the gun.

You know what?

They can stay.

Happy now?

JAY: Thank you.

Don't go anywhere.

Where are you going?

Jay.

Simon won't stop until someone stops him.

And it's gotta be you.

[ Music playing indistinctly ]

[ Cellphone vibrates ]

Shit.

Simon.

Get Swan off my back.

OWEN: Well, how do you suppose I do that?

You tell him you got word I'm getting on a plane to Bali.

I need him out of town for a few hours.

Well, he's not going to believe me.

Owen, do as you're fuckin' told!

Look, don't you think this is...

Why don't you just leave?

No one'll find you.

You've got money.

Don't be an idiot, Owen.

There's no going back to your old life.

Those days were over that time you started

letting blokes off traffic tickets for favors.

Not a good idea getting serviced

under a CCTV camera at the back of the station.

If it wasn't for me, you'd be in jail.

Call me when it's done.

Out.

Leave your phone.

Over there.

Hey.

Ooh!

Red wine?

Yeah, you want one?

LEONIE: No, thanks.

I just had a chat with the head of the Board and...

-Shit. -SANDRA: Yeah.

Yeah.

He said it really looks promising.

What are you saying?

That he said this might be the right time.

Repatriation is happening in institutions around the world.

Hey, you're real gamin thing, eh.

Yeah, alright.

Maybe I'll have a short one, then.

WOMAN: That's the way.

Hey, it's not certain but I told him,

"Look, we have a chance to make a change.

To stop seeing ourselves as the guards of the past

and start owning the real history."

So what now?

Yeah, this is a huge change in mind-set for universities.

I mean, the first archaeologists used dynamite to open crypts.

Grave robbers.

Without those thefts, those artifacts would have been lost.

Lost to future generations to study and to learn.

Hey, you saved my culture.

I'm just telling you what some people at the university

might argue right now and why this is so hard.

My profession has made mistakes,

and I've made mistakes and everything I've done,

everything we have done was for this country,

to put this culture at the center

of the story of the world.

Everything. Everything.

Sandra, how long you been at this bar?

No, I just want you to know that...

LEONIE: What?

No, I'm happy.

I'll be back in a minute.

WOMAN: Glass of water.

[ Grunts ]

SUZI-JOHN: Hey, hey, look out!

MARY: He broke in.

What's he doing here?

The longer they're here, the more you're in danger.

You behave yourself.

Simon doesn't muck around.

The only way that Simon's gonna know that they're here

is if you tell him.

Here.

Simon knows shit about me.

Hey, we've all got a past.

You don't wanna know mine.

You know what I see?

I see a bloke who kicked the shit

out of those two cowboys who were flogging me.

And then you came to the hospital to visit me.

You didn't have to do that, but you did.

What you did back then, it's back then.

It's what you do now that matters.

Yep.

Simon's got a shipment coming in from Timor today.

The far end of Oyster Beach.

Owen?

OWEN: He'll be there now.

After that, you won't find him.

Why should I believe you?

Do or don't, but...

I wasn't always the man I am today.

This was also buried at the site with the bag.

It will help convict the killer of that young boy

and help the community to heal.

What is it?

What does it matter who...

who found the bones?

They arrested someone.

What does it matter?

This community is in pain.

I've done a lot of wrong, but one thing I did right

was to bring those bones to you.

Isn't this supposed to be a place of peace?

A place of mercy?

There can't be mercy without truth, Sandra.

Without conscience.

I mean, you'll leave soon.

You'll be back home to friends, to family.

But the people here will be left with this lie.

You can't tell them.

People'll say, "He knew all this time.

He looked us in the eye and lied."

They'll never trust you again.

Please.

Please, I'm asking you.

So I'll ask you.

If you don't, can you really live with this

for the rest of your life?

[ Clanking ]

[ Indistinct shouting ]

Back against the bars.

Put your hands through.

[ Shouting continues ]

MAN: Come on, come out here!

JIMMY 2: Back that motor car up!

-Hey? -That motor car.

Bring him closer!

FRAN: What now?

These are your people, eh?

You the big boss man.

Come on!

Brother!

Come on! Come on!

Go on, get!

Not your business!

-Come on, then! -Want me to give you a hiding?

Yah!

Don't muck around. Put me in there now.

-These mob want payback! -You!

This is your lore. This is our lore.

You're not gonna let them, are you?

You don't believe in lore!

You stained this country.

You got a cheek.

You can't talk.

This is not your business.

This is my business.

No one gonna cry for you.

No one gonna sing for you.

Ohh!

I got family in jail.

They know you're coming.

I didn't kill Zoe.

True story.

I didn't kill her.

-Liar. -Telling you.

I didn't do it!

Then who?

The university said no.

Not yet.

I'm so sorry.

You promised.

We are trying to change hundreds of years of thinking.

I'm sick of talking to you.

Listening to your promises,

your defense of your institutions.

You're nothing but a mission manager.

Just...

You should just piss off.

But you know I did what I could.

Don't bullshit me.

You did what you could for you.

You got what you want.

Now get.

SANDRA: It's not the end.

There is, ah...

Something I...

Well, you might hear about me something I did.

The bag.

The boy's bones.

I found it.

I was excavating and I...

I didn't know what to do.

I panicked.

You left him at the church?

Yeah. I...

If the police found out I'd moved the bones,

I would have been charged.

My entire career, everything I worked for, over.

He was somebody's boy.

Not rubbish to chuck away.

SANDRA: I didn't chuck him away!

But that grindstone is 80,000 years.

80,000 years.

It's like having a piece of the universe in my hand.

LEONIE: You kicked that kid to the gutter to get it.

SANDRA: All I did was kept my mouth shut for a few weeks.

And the world found out the significance of this place,

of your place.

I am sorry, I really am.

Fuck off with your sorrys.

You did this for you.

I worked with Indigenous people around the world,

and you know the biggest problem I have with them is fear.

Fear I might find something, something that tells a story

you didn't know about your own culture.

You walk around this country with your gamin little boots on,

gamin little white gloves.

You never touch it, feel it, listen to its story.

You know nothing.

That's your story.

Nothing.

[ Airplane approaching ]

Oh, fuck!

-That's it. -That's it, mate.

-Right. -See ya.

JAY: Don't be shy.

Show me.

Each bag is 10 million.

Who needs a police pension?

What do you reckon?

I reckon you're going to jail for a long time.

You know how they love dirty cops in jail.

[ Gunshot ]

Simon.

Oh, fuck!

Get that motor running.

-What? -We're going to Wakey's Reef.

Listen, mate, I can't.

The motor's fucked.

God, you're weak as piss. Just do what you're told.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, I am, okay?

I am. But I can make this better.

I can, okay? I'll...

I'll arrest you, alright? Purely for optics.

I'll arrest you and then we can blame it on Alkemi.

Alkemi's dead.

Well, it can work for us, you know?

He can't defend himself. You can get away and --

Just get the fuckin' motor working!

I can't, mate! You'll have to get Wayan.

Get it working now.

Just take it easy.

-MARY: Put the gun down. -Oh, fuck.

You gonna shoot me, Mary?

Could have been really good together, you and I.

Yeah?

If you weren't so full of shit.

[ Groaning ]

[ Owen gasping ]

MARY: He's gone.

Something about Wakey's Reef.

You're shot.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm good.

Hey, don't change a habit of a lifetime now.

Get out of here!

Go!

SUZI-JOHN: No! No!

[ Crying ]

[ "Amazing Grace" playing ]

PANSY: ♪ Amazing grace ♪

♪ How sweet the sound ♪

♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪

♪ I once was lost ♪

♪ But now I'm found ♪

♪ Was blind but now I see ♪

♪ 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪

♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪

♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪

♪ The hour I first believed ♪

♪ The Lord hath promised good to me ♪

♪ His word my hope secures ♪

♪ He will my shield ♪

♪ And portion be ♪

♪ As long as life endures ♪

♪ When we've been there 10,000 years ♪

♪ Bright shining as the sun ♪

♪ We've no less days to sing God's praise ♪

♪ Than when we first begun ♪

Zoe.

I know you killed her.

[ Scoffs ]

You will pay.

[ Stephen Pigram's "Blow My Blues Away" playing ]

♪ Driving wheel ♪

♪ I will not be healed ♪

♪ Always picking up the past ♪

♪ Driving justice for you ♪

♪ Into mines ♪

♪ Water shooting through ♪

♪ Just to lighten ♪

♪ Up my heavy load ♪

♪ Some people to stay ♪

♪ Just be ready to go ♪

♪ Gonna be done ♪

♪ On the mystery road ♪

♪ At the driving wheel ♪

♪ I will not be healed ♪

♪ I'm always digging up the past ♪

♪ Driving justice for you ♪

♪ Into mines ♪

♪ Water shooting through ♪

-♪ Just to lighten ♪ -Come on, Dad.

-♪ Up my heavy load ♪ -Too many mosquitoes.

Let's go inside.

♪ Hang in the shadow ♪

♪ Of the one that he closed ♪

♪ Some people to stay ♪

♪ Just be ready to go ♪

♪ I gotta be done ♪

♪ On the mystery road ♪

♪ I've gotta barrel ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

Here.

Look out.

Now you're a real cop.

Depends.

Depends?

On what you think a real cop is.

Are you gonna be okay?

We got some healing to do.

One man brought a lot of shame to this community,

but we're not going to be judged by what he did.

What about Zoe?

I haven't forgotten her.

Now you look like a real cop.

♪ Blow my blues away ♪

♪ Lighten up my load ♪

♪ I gotta hope for that ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

♪ I gotta hope for it ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

♪ I gotta be done ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

♪ Gotta barrel ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

♪ Yeah, the mystery road ♪

♪ Down the mystery road ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ On the mystery road ♪

[ Song ends ]

[ Suspenseful music playing ]

[ Song ends ]