Bay of Fires (2023) s02e03 Episode Script

My name is Robin Ricketts.
I'm here on behalf of
the Department of Finance.
Who ARE you?
Stella.
JEREMIAH: You were trying
to rescue her, and
- (COLLISION)
- (TYRES SCREECH)
just happened to run her over.
(GROANS)
(SOBS) I killed someone.
We didn't discuss Frankie.
The best way to stop her is
to cut her source of income.
Well, how do how do we do that?
JEREMIAH: If we can find out
when her next drug drop is,
maybe we can stop it.
TARQUIN: I found one of our
floats, Frankie. It's been cut.
Do you want us to keep looking?
Find it!
I think we get ready for trouble.
Drive, Tarquin.
Get the fuck out of here!
(GUNFIRE)
Arggh!
Heroin has lost its cachet.
I can't. I can't do this.
Tarquin used to work closely with her.
- Maybe he can guide you.
- Do we have everything we need?
Frankie wrote it all down on
a piece of paper somewhere.
I need you to find that piece of paper.
It is my destiny now to take a wife.
Oh, please!
I am immortal.
- Oh!
- (GASPING)
FRANKIE: Turns out
I'm the immortal one.
HEATHER: File is in my handbag.
Yellow envelope, side pocket.
It's too late for that.
Well, I was here at 3:30 precisely.
Your tardiness isn't MY responsibility.
You've been compromised.
I can protect you, but you're
going to need to disappear.
Thin air, disappear.
- Well when do we leave?
- (BEEPING)
I'm afraid there is no 'we'.
No. I can't leave
The safest option is to
vanish. We need to go right now.
Well, can I at least say goodbye?
That'll only put her in more danger.
We have eyes on her. She won't be alone.
- HEATHER: What?!
- WOMAN: Let's go.
- Move.
- No! Please!
Please. Like
OLDER HEATHER: I know
it's stupid, but
I wrote a card.
GRAHAM: You do every year.
You never send them.
She'll be 25 today.
It's the same age I was
when I married her dad.
If she knew what you did
and why, she'd understand.
She'd have nothing
but admiration for you.
(INHALES)
Do you know (SIGHS)
of all the people
trapped in this shitty town,
you are the only one who truly
doesn't deserve to be here.
(SIGHS)
Dear Robin.
Hope you like natives.
I know white lilies are more
customary for a death anniversary,
but I couldn't find any.
Sorry.
(SCREAMS)
Oh! Oh, my God!
Oh! Oh! Eugh!
Eugh!
RICK: We've been through this.
Why can't you tell a girl
that you dated in high school,
who's living in another country,
with another man, that we're together?
New Zealand's barely another country.
It's like three tiny towns
and the Royal Adelaide.
Look, don't do that.
Don't change the subject.
I just don't (SIGHS)
..I just don't see why
anything has to change.
Because, Rick, our entire human
existence depends on change.
And if it wasn't for that first fish
to take a leap and
walk out of the water,
we wouldn't be here.
Yeah.
I don't know about the
whole evolution thing.
We should go back to being partners.
- We ARE partners.
- Just partners. Work partners.
- Not whatever this is.
- Fine.
- If that's what you really want.
- It is.
- Good. Wonderful.
- Great.
- Love that.
- Yeah, I love it more.
Could have taken a breath
before you answered.
- What do you want me to do?
- Pretty quick. Pretty quick.
(SIGHS)
Why are you being so stubborn?
- Because I'm a Taurus.
- Oh.
I require a certain level
of security in my relation
- Oh, shit.
- (BOTH PANT)
- What?
- Oh.
I mean, I'm gonna I'm
willing to offer that, but
- It's a fuckin' corpse.
- OK, that's rude.
No! Look, idiot. Behind you. Grab it.
RICK: Oh! Uh, I, uh
Uh
I don't have the right glove.
- Just use your hands, Rick.
- No! No.
- Fuckin' grab it!
- You get in and do it.
(GRUNTS)
Ah!
JASON: That's a 10-4,
Sarge. I'm in pursuit.
The suspect is at my 12.
I'm closing in on the perp.
(MAKES WHOOSHING NOISES)
(IMITATES REVVING ENGINE)
(GASPS)
MAN: (ON RADIO) Attention all
units. Attention all units.
Hi. Yes?
I mean, 0-1-9-3, copy.
MAN: (ON RADIO) Assistance is
required at Silverstein Lake.
I'm on my way.
I mean, uh, 10-4.
Roger.
- (ENGINE STARTS)
- (SIRENS HOWL)
Oh! Oh.
So to get the full surface area,
you times this side by
this side and you get?
Something a real teacher at
a normal school could tell me.
I like homeschooling you, Otis.
So that's why we turned back, is it?
Not because of the
gun-wielding maniacs?
I didn't like them.
- What did they want?
- Nothing.
- Stop getting your sister worked up.
- I'm not doing anything.
Everything is fine.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
OK?
Bong Cha, Growling Panther. Do you copy?
(BEEP)
Bong Cha, Growling Panther.
- Do you copy?
- (BEEP)
(BEEP)
What do you want, lotus flower?
(BEEP)
- There's something you need to see.
- (BEEP)
- BONG CHA: I'm busy.
- (BEEP)
Trust me, lady. Get here now.
- Then use the code word for emergency.
- (BEEP)
- (BEEP)
- Hello?
That's strange.
Don't often hear a
Clydesdale around these parts.
(HOOVES CLOP)
Strange indeed.
STELLA: This time,
everything really IS fine,
so neither of you need to
worry about an any
(HOOVES CLOP)
anything at all.
(HORSE WHINNIES)
- What the f ?
- (HORSE WHINNIES)
- Frankie, you're, uh
- FRANKIE: Alive?
Worried, were ya?
Bless.
I thought you'd killed her.
We've been through this.
After what happened with Manfred
I didn't kill him either.
I see YOU'VE been busy.
So is anyone gonna ask?
You have been gone for 427 days.
What on earth happened to you?
(SIGHS)
This and that.
Well, whatever went on, you
you should know that things
have changed around here.
It's a lot more
not a lot, but it's
definitely more peaceful.
And that's the way we prefer it.
Don't we?
(LAUGHS)
Take care of this for me, will ya?
(HORSE SNORTS)
(WHIRRING)
(CLUNK)
(METALLIC RINGING)
So what have we got here, then?
Abandoned car. Body found inside.
RICK: Yeah. Decomp's so bad, can't
tell if it's a Jane or a John Doe.
And (SIGHS)
any hits with the rego?
No, plates are long gone.
But the thing's riddled with DNA.
Forensics shouldn't have
too much trouble figuring out
what the hell went on here.
Well done, dickhead.
- RICK: Get off my back!
- SHARON: Give me the keys.
- I'm driving.
- RICK: I'm listening and I'm hearing.
SHARON: No. What happened
to that pademelon last night?
I'm not letting you drive again, Rick.
RICK: I will dri I'll drive.
SHARON: I'm gonna ask
for separate police cars.
(SIGHS)
MAGDA: Well, the blood on
her was obviously not her own.
The spatter pattern suggests a
severing of the carotid
artery at close range.
HEATHER: As in 20cm?
Oh, I'd say more like 15,
with left-to-right trajectory.
Likely causing hypovolaemic
shock, leading to sudden death.
Well, that's fairly obvious,
but yeah, OK. Yeah.
Oh. So this is where you've been hiding.
Um, there's something I
need to talk to you about.
- Yes.
- Privately!
If you get what I mean.
Now's not a good time.
What are we gonna do about Frankie?
What? You've all heard?
How? This is official police business.
What, do you have someone on the inside?
Aren't you meant to be
our guy on the inside?
What? No. No, not officially. I
I I don't see that as my role.
But, yes, I do keep
my ear to the ground.
What are you going on about?
Frankie's car was just
found in Silverstein Lake.
Technically, no-one knows it
was HER car, just that A car
was found, riddled with
bullets, and most of
I'm sorry to be the one to
tell you all this, but, um
Frankie's dead.
Oh, yeah.
That is great work, Detective.
She's back, mate. Alive.
Not well, but breathing.
We all just saw her.
Unless that was a ghost.
A body was found in the car.
I mean, they did say they couldn't
tell if it was a Jane or a John Doe.
That's police talk.
Means male or female.
Yeah. A year decomping
in water will do that.
Yeah, especially with
trout feeding on it.
But they're getting Forensics
in to ID the Jane or Joe.
It's Arthur.
So, what does Frankie want back here?
Vengeance comes to mind.
Maybe she's just homesick?
Whatever the reason, that should
be of secondary concern to everyone.
You know, the car, the body. You
know, it'll be all over the media.
That's sure to raise suspicion.
Yeah. Suspicion that'll
bring focus to this town.
Jason, keep across it. Sammi, help him.
Hack their systems or
whatever it is you do.
Look for any sign that
points them directly here.
And the rest of us,
we need to keep as far away
from Frankie as possible
until I figure out what
I'm gonna do with her.
NOW you're gonna kill her?
I'm not killing anyone.
Let's not forget,
Frankie is dangerous.
There's no knowing what
she's capable of now.
(CHILD BABBLES AND LAUGHS)
JACKIE: Oh!
Now, that's what I like
to see, my Jackie boy.
- Mum?
- JACKIE: All smiling and happy.
Hello!
- What?
- No, no, no, no, no.
Enough of all that.
- All that matters
- But
is that I'm home now. Come on.
Give your mum a hug.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my boy!
- Oh!
- (CHILD CRIES)
(TOY RATTLES)
Frankie returns from the dead
and your plan is to just watch
and then MAYBE act?
Well, what else do you suggest I
do? We've already tried escaping.
And I've got several other psychos
I've got to deal with right now.
Maybe you and the kids
should stay at my place.
Tonight? It's Wednesday.
Or more permanently.
Are you asking me to move in with you?
I'm saying it's safer in
numbers and having a man
Oh, please. I'm perfectly capable
of taking care of me and my family.
- But thank you very much.
- (SIGHS)
And it's not like we're
at THAT stage, are we?
Oh, I di I didn't
I mean, it's only been a
year or so of Thursdays.
At least let me stay a couple
of nights, just in case
Frankie tries to murder me?
It's not that left-field a proposition.
Look, I I have to go, but
..thank you.
- (CAR DOOR CLOSES)
- (PERSON SIGHS)
Bron?
Hey, buddy. You're here.
But my day with Buzz
isn't until tomorrow.
- OK. I'll I'll go, then.
- No, no, no, no, no, no. Stay. Stay.
Um I can make you a toasted
Oh, you got one.
- Uh, we've also
- (CHILD BABBLES)
JASON: I mean (LAUGHS)
I've got baked beans.
Mmm.
Frankie's back.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
I can't keep living there, so
Buzz and I need somewhere to stay.
Well, I can paint up the caravan.
Or, actually, I was
thinking of buying an annexe.
Jason, I'd settle for real butter.
Oh, sorry.
I'm trying to lower my cholesterol.
But that nut oil stuff, it's
it's not too bad once you
use toothpaste afterwards.
It's disgusting.
Yeah.
I'll go pick up some butter.
While you're at it, grab Buzz's
stuff from the car, will ya?
Please.
(CHILD BABBLES)
(DOOR OPENS)
(SIGHS)
- (INSECTS CHIRP)
- (BIRD CALLS)
(IRIS SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(SIGHS)
(INSECT BUZZES)
(IRIS SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
MAN: You may have heard
people saying "Words fail me"
when they can't think of the right word,
but words can never fail us, only
we can fail words, believe me.
My favourite tongue twister was always
"She stood on the balustraded balcony,
inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping
and amicably welcoming him in".
IRIS: How do you remember that?
(FLOOR CREAKS)
I hope you don't mind
me dropping around.
He's helping me with
my English homework.
- Is he?
- IRIS: Yes.
So, I have to learn a new word
and then use it in a sentence.
'Contu
- 'con '
- 'Contumacious'.
- 'Contumacious'.
- Whoa. That's a big word. (LAUGHS)
It means "stubborn or wilfully
disobedient to authority".
And the sentence we practised?
"The woman was being contumacious
when she tried to flee
her work commitments."
Very good. Bravissima.
I think you've earned yourself a break.
Um why don't you go work on
the papier-mache we've been doing?
Just stay where I can see
you. Alright, sweetheart?
(DOOR CLICKS)
Cute kid. Smart too.
Yeah. I know she is.
Oh.
I take it you haven't heard, then.
About Frankie? Of course I have.
Thaddeus.
May he rest in peace.
Sorry?
Proud man.
Too proud, perhaps.
Oh, bloody scene too.
(IMITATES BLOOD GUSHING)
(FLOOR CREAKS)
They were never a happy family.
Now, I fear that I've
been too cordial with you.
My wife tells me that I can be a
bit of a pushover sometimes. (LAUGHS)
She knows what you do, does she?
A secret to a healthy
marriage is no secrets.
(LAUGHS)
I must apologise if I haven't
made myself crystal-clear.
As you said, in your
many speeches (LAUGHS)
successful management
is good communication,
and it's on me if I
haven't provided that, so
I just wanted to ensure
that you fully grasp the situation
you find yourself in.
But
I'm sure you'll deliver and all
grievances will be put aside.
I've only just started.
What wonders can be achieved
when we fully devote ourselves
to the task at hand.
And when I do, we're finished. Right?
I like Iris.
She has an effervescence
that's quite contagious.
(DOOR CLICKS)
(INSECT BUZZES)
We need to start cooking asap.
How you going with
the whole recipe thing?
What recipe?
The one that tells me how to make it.
I missed heroin class in home economics.
I don't know. Ask Frankie.
She IS back now.
We'll figure it out.
I do have an MBA from Harvard after all.
Try Connor's workshop.
Uh see if there's any rubber tubing.
You know, I saw a big metal ladle.
- That might come in handy.
- Can I go to Connor's workshop too?
Uh, no, sweetheart.
- But I love cooking.
- I know, but what we're making is, um
it's for
grown-ups, and you wouldn't like it.
- Sounds healthy.
- Yeah. Alright.
I will see you
at the, um the warehouse.
Yep. (SIGHS)
What was that about?
Nothing. Have you looked
at your calculus yet?
(SIGHS) This early?
And why does anyone need to
know anything about this stuff
if the internet knows
everything anyways?
- It doesn't even make sense!
- Of course it does!
Give it to me.
Alright. Uh, if we've
OK. I do actually have
quite a lot of work today.
- And
- You don't work.
I will have you know,
the toughest job is motherhood.
Alright, I will will, uh
Mmm
be back later, but I want
you to both promise me
that you'll lock all of
the doors while I'm away.
We get way too many surprise
visitors around here.
- Like those men?
- Exactly like those men.
Yeah, yeah. Doors locked.
Got it, working mum.
Are you at this house on purpose?
Oh, good. You're here.
How may we help you, Stella?
I was hoping to ask for a favour.
Any chance that you could
take these two for the day?
- (LAUGHS)
- MAGDA: You want us to babysit?
- No.
- Yes.
We would very much enjoy
spending the day with them.
- Great. In you go.
- We would?!
What happened to reading the Bayard
Taylor translation of the Goethe
and comparing it to the original?
You carry on, and I'll
spend the day with these two.
- Yeah, but
- What are you learning at school?
- I'm trying to teach Otis calculus.
- Oh!
Such fun. I love calculus.
You do? Thank you.
Lifesavers.
Saver. Singular.
Be sure to do everything that
Magda and Heather ask you, OK?
- Just Heather.
- (BAG UNZIPS)
Do you think you could help me
with my technologies homework?
Oh.
God. This is what they're
teaching children these days?
I mean, look at this.
Papier-mache.
Why don't they learn
something useful, like
smithing or the art of the bleed?
Huh?
"I beg your pardon?"
We say "I beg your pardon?" when
we do not understand something.
Actually, why don't you
both help me with my harvest
and then maybe we can do some painting?
I mean, look at this. There's
a chapter on combustion engines.
That'll solve the climate crisis.
(SCOFFS)
(PIG GRUNTS)
HEATHER: OK. So, there's two concepts
of calculus you need to understand.
There's integrals and
there's derivatives.
But
Don't worry. It's much
easier than it sounds.
(PIG GRUNTS)
This way.
Come on.
IRIS: Where are we?
It's just my farm.
Oh! I wouldn't do that if I were you.
One spore and you'll lose your eyesight
and two, you'll never walk again.
Really?
No. It was a joke.
Oh. (LAUGHS)
Well, there's no mushroom that
can kill you by just touching it.
At least none that
they've discovered yet.
The Podostroma cornu-damae
can cause skin irritation,
but (SIGHS) this
this is the Mycena
interrupta, or pixie's parasol.
Harmless. It's just pretty.
Really pretty.
- Can I pick one?
- Yeah, sure.
Just make sure that you pluck
it right down to the stem.
And that way, the organism knows
to put its energy into
making other mushrooms.
OTIS: So
you know a lot about mushrooms?
Mmm. I dabble.
I'm currently working
on breeding a fungus
that could be used to break
down non-recyclable plastics.
- Cool.
- Cool.
Is it?
Oh. Yeah. I suppose it is.
(CREAKING)
Good thing I'm back.
Couple more days of this and, well
(GROANS)
you'd all have scurvy.
- No wonder Brony and Buzz left.
- (CLOSES FRIDGE)
Why don't I whip something
up for morning tea, eh?
Celebrate my homecoming.
Funny thing about (SIGHS)
waiting to die is that
well, you realise you have a choice.
You can either just let it happen.
(SIGHS)
Or you can (SIGHS)
find a reason to fight on.
I promise you, Jackie,
this time, I'm gonna
be a proper mum to ya.
(DOORBELL RINGS)
(LAUGHS)
You'd think they'd let me have
a day to settle in at least!
(LAUGHS)
Coming!
Whatever you've got planned, just
just get it over and done with.
Oh. Pumpkin.
No. Come on. Get up.
Why would I harm you, after
everything you've done for me?
- What I did!
- Oh, no, no, no.
It's all in the past.
Water under the bridge.
I've turned over a new leaf.
Everything is forgiven.
Hm?
You're not gonna kill me?
Please. No, pet. No.
I should thank you.
Because of you,
I know what it means to be alive.
Oh!
If you feel that badly about it,
I'm sure we can find a way
for you to make it up to me.
To make Arthur's death mean something.
Why don't we grab a cuppa
and you can tell me everything
the poodle's been up to, eh?
Hm? Come on.
STELLA: You're late.
Where have you been?
(SIGHS) I remembered
some of Frankie's steps.
I, um (SIGHS)
wrote 'em down.
Looks like you remembered most of them.
Yeah, yeah. All 42 steps just
came to me all of a sudden.
Are they right?
Mm-hm.
You know, it's just
how my brain works.
Well, great.
Let's get on with it.
(SIGHS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
Why on earth did you agree to babysit?
Oh, because I believed it would
be an enjoyable experience.
And I was right.
- We had plans.
- Oh!
You mean
Goethe, followed by an analysis
of international affairs,
followed by garden maintenance,
followed by a calorie-balanced
snack and then on to learning Farsi?
Farsi is an important language
dating from the Achaemenid dynasty.
I know.
From 522 to 486 BC.
Uh important years.
Not to me.
So
I thought we could diversify our day.
Well
this is quite a turn-up for the books.
You find the bathroom alright?
Yeah.
Where's Otis?
I thought he came inside.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
- Oh!
- (COUGHS)
Now I know what cow shit tastes like.
You sure these aren't
just gonna put us to sleep?
Nah.
They're meant to mess with your head.
I figured you could use
a trip after, you know,
your mum came back from the dead.
- You know what I mean?
- Right.
- (LAUGHS)
- And that's not trippy enough.
Oh!
OTIS: Another one?
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(BOTH LAUGH)
STELLA: Alright.
So after we've done this bit,
we just have water and chloroform.
Ah! Which we have plenty of.
You see?
When you work hard,
commit yourself, persevere,
you find success.
(FIRE WHOOSHES)
Uh Stella.
Oh! Shit.
Oh. Um, right.
Just, uh
how much, uh, acetic
anhydride have we got left?
- Yeah, not much.
- Alright.
We need to go outside, get some air.
- (SIGHS)
- (COUGHS)
(FIRE WHOOSHES)
(BUBBLING)
- Whoa!
- (SCREAMS)
Whoa!
- (PANTS)
- (PANTS)
- (SIGHS)
- (SIGHS)
(STAIRS CREAK)
(MAN SIGHS)
- IRIS: How was work, Mum?
- Oh, it was a great day.
You go brush your teeth.
(SIGHS)
Whoa!
What?
(SIGHS)
(SNIFFS) Oh, God. I
smell like Pablo Escobar.
He was cocaine, wasn't he, not heroin?
Apologies for getting
my drug lords mixed up.
(SIGHS)
Slow-braised garlic chicken
with sauteed shallots.
My mother's recipe. Her
mother's before that.
(SIGHS)
(SNIFFS)
(SIGHS)
You feel it needed that, do you?
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Otis!
Where have YOU been?
Why are you so shiny?
Wait are you
are you are you on something?
(OTIS LAUGHS)
Do you know space is, like
really big?
There it is.
What have I told you about drugs?
(SNIFFS)
- Why do you smell so bad?
- (SIGHS) I've been, um, cooking.
It's
- Cooking what?
- Anyway, it's not about me.
You
go to bed.
Mm-hm?
Oh. (LAUGHS)
- My eyes are like fireworks.
- Please! Now.
- Hey, man.
- G'day, mate.
- How are you?
- I'm good.
Oh. (LAUGHS)
You still think he
doesn't need discipline?
(SIGHS)
JASON: If you don't want 'em
- Hey, look. I'm gonna have 'em.
- (POUNDING ON DOOR)
Mmm. Num-num.
Are you sure? Are you sure?
Hello, sweetness.
- What do you want?
- Uh, this is a police station, isn't it?
Oh. Look at this place. (SIGHS)
I'd say call the cops, but here you are.
This is no place to bring up a littlie.
What do you want?
Oh! This is silly.
(SIGHS)
Why don't you and Buzz come home?
You didn't have to leave.
Give the kid some space to run around.
And you're welcome too, son.
Nice happy family and a
nice big house.
I'm here to speak to Jason.
Me?
Uh
What do you want with me?
Arthur's body.
They tell me you saw him.
Yeah. I suppose I did.
Not up close or anything,
just as they were
taking him away to
the Queenstown morgue.
And?
Well, that's where he is.
Hmm. What next?
Well, Forensics from Hobart
will come across, but it's TBC.
- That means "to "
- I know what it means.
When?
Early next week.
Apparently there's a pile-up in Hobart.
In three days, eh?
Did you want me to keep you posted?
Update you on any developments?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Oh! Look at these
paintings little Iris did.
Aren't they gorgeous?
They are not here again?
Well (SIGHS)
I'm their teacher now.
Stella offered, and I accepted,
so they'll be here every day.
I told you how much I
enjoyed it yesterday.
And I how much I didn't.
I thought that we both enjoyed our life
just the way it is.
Sometimes
I miss the sound of children.
Most towns have
kids running about and
yelling and playing games.
And I miss that.
The cacophony of child noise?
That that that's what you miss?
It's the only feature of this
town that's actually worthwhile.
Or at least it was until Stella
carted her offspring into the place.
And what do you expect a mother to do?
I beg your pardon?
Your disdain for children
(SIGHS) it's
Yes?
It's unnatural.
Mmm.
Unnatural.
And and why would that
be? Because I'm a woman?
I resent the implication
that womanhood and motherhood
are somehow inextricably linked.
And I resent being made to feel silly
for enjoying the company of children.
(DOOR OPENS)
Uh
- IRIS: Add a little more shadow.
- HEATHER: Alright.
What are we up to?
(SIGHS)
Did you purposely give
Tarquin the wrong instructions?
We had an explosion.
It nearly killed us.
Oh, shame.
What a terrible loss
that would have been.
You really can't stop yourself
sticking your nose into other
people's business, can you?
More like other people's
business keeps sticking it to me.
Dog-eat-dog world out there. (SIGHS)
I'm so glad I'm out of it.
How's it working out with
your new boss, what's-his-name?
I hear you've got a
delivery due soon. (SIGHS)
I've heard some things too,
about you killing Thaddeus.
Every family has its issues.
Can we talk about a
business arrangement?
What could you possibly
want from little old me?
Heroin.
Enough to pay off the debt.
You've got the know-how,
years of experience.
- And what would YOU bring to the table?
- Nothing.
It's your debt I'm
being forced to repay.
- MY debt?
- Yeah.
He's holding it over me AND the town.
How's that fair?
Fair? (SIGHS)
Oh. What's fair about me losing
my entire shipment, just
having it vanish into thin air?
Who could have possibly
cut it loose, do you think?
Oh, come on!
I knew it was you and
your idiot boyfriend.
Hm?
From where I'm standing, this
little mess you've got yourself into
is entirely your fault, and
therefore, entirely yours to fix.
I watched that man kill Behrouz.
He'll do the same to me and
my kids if I don't deliver him
$2 million worth of drugs.
(LAUGHS)
Look, I need your help.
You're a mother. You get it.
(LAUGHS)
Is that how you do
business in the big smoke?
"Do this merger
or my kids will die."
(LAUGHS)
Here's me thinking you
were a doyen of business.
(LAUGHS) Silly me.
What do you want?
I want my little brother back.
Arthur.
I can't I can't do that. He's dead.
(LAUGHS) I know that. I was there.
Clutching onto him as
the last remnants of life
dribbled from his poor wee body.
I want him returned to me so I can
give him the send-off he deserves.
The police have him.
It's an active murder investigation.
What exactly do you think I can do?
You're a resourceful lady.
You'll think of something.
They don't examine the
body for three days.
Gives you plenty of time to plan.
Now
if you can manage that,
then maybe we can talk
about going into business.
JEREMIAH: You can't steal a
body from a police station.
Because it's unethical?
No, because it's too bloody hard!
You'll have every cop in
the country chasing us, yeah.
(SIGHS)
Not if I
replace it with another body.
What the hell are you talking
about? What other body?
Robin, the the woman
I killed, accidentally.
I
Have you been into Otis's stash?
For starters, she's female.
Arthur was
many things.
Female was not one of 'em.
Jason has said that they can't
identify the body at this stage,
- not even the sex.
- You can't do this!
Not for Frankie. No way!
I am not doing it for Frankie.
Robin was an innocent woman,
whose family and friends have
no idea what happened to her.
It must be torment for them.
I mean, she deserves to be found.
She deserves to have a proper funeral,
surrounded by those that loved her.
Yeah, sure, but then what?
The police will investigate her death.
I want them to.
Even if it leads to you?
I'll do it this time.
Alright.
Someone else you killed?
- Yes.
- No.
Sort of.
So you say this is good?
That's a 2011 Lubiana Ruscello.
Can I cook with it?
It's a $100 bottle of wine, so no.
And you'll drop the TV
off at mine later tonight?
Thank you again for agreeing to help us.
So
what's the plan?
SHARON: Mm-hm.
Yep.
(ALERT CHIMES)
- Yes, please.
- RICK: (SIGHS) Not Joey. Come on!
He's a gronk.
As my ex-boyfriend, you don't get a say
in who I can or can't date, Rick.
Fine. Just know that he
wet the bed until he was 12.
SHARON: Childhood trauma.
Now we can talk about
that on our date instead of
why he can't betray the
memory of his ex-girlfriend.
(BOTH CLEAR THROAT)
Hi.
Uh, I'm Mel Rogan. This
is, uh, Bryce Kennedy.
Well, we weren't expecting
you till next week.
We're with Special Ops.
It's, uh, part of a separate inquiry
before Forensic conduct
a full examination.
We just need
a few minutes alone to eyeball the body.
You should have been contacted
by HQ. Bloody pencil-pushers.
Uh, it's not here.
What do you mean, it's not here?
Well, some ineffectual
preoccupied dickhead
broke the aircon in the
morgue over the summer.
There was a heat wave.
- Yeah.
- I didn't break it. It broke.
I mean, if it doesn't work, why have it?
OK. But it was 30 degrees.
- So it wasn't exactly a heatwave.
- I was hot.
- You were sweating. I was sweating.
- Rick.
There was actually a big sign on it
that said "Don't touch this aircon".
So where exactly, uh,
is this body?
(LOUDLY) So you're taking
us, uh, where the body is now?
Yeah, that's what I just said.
You'll have to excuse her volume.
I took a bit of shrapnel
in the line of duty,
so my hearing's (SNAPS FINGERS)
All good. All good, mate.
I, uh I can relate.
- I recently got a war wound myself.
- SHARON: Oh.
RICK: Yeah. Apparently, I was told
I can't listen well or hear well.
- SHARON: OK.
- That's not exactly what happened.
- I don't remember. I couldn't hear.
- He does this.
- Couldn't listen either, apparently.
- What was that, Rick?
Hi, Sharon. Hi, Rick.
- You two made up yet?
- No.
But I've got a hot date tonight,
so I'll be needing two of
your finest eye fillets.
Hey, Mary. Just here on business.
SHARON: OK. Here we go.
(DOOR OPENS)
Oh. Thanks. Um
we'll we'll take it from here.
- Uh, no, no. Nonsense.
- We're here to help.
Actually, um
a bit, uh, floated away.
Uh, what bit?
May maybe an arm.
Um
we're not gonna get
in any trouble, are we?
Uh, well (SIGHS)
is it in your report?
- Oh, yeah. Sure is. Yeah, yeah.
- Well then I guess you're covered.
Uh, look, sorry to pull rank,
but this is above your pay grade.
(WHISPERS) Top clearance only.
Uh, officers.
Good work.
Mmm.
(HANDBRAKE CLICKS)
(SIGHS AND BREATHES SHAKILY)
It's the left arm.
I think I'm gonna be sick.
Oh, can it wait? Fuckin' freezing.
(PANTS)
So how's your plan going?
Oh, I don't know what to do.
They're standing out the front!
So we go out the back. Do we
even know if there is a back?
(SIGHS)
And Bong Cha, how do we get
her up to speed with that plan?
(GRUNTS)
SHARON: Just call someone. Call
Ga have you got Gary's number?
RICK: Yes, I do have Gary's number,
on my phone, which is in the car.
- (SHARON SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- RICK: OK.
She said something about
jack jumper ants and
then just collapsed.
Hey, uh, well, what what do we do?
Well, she's having an anaphylactic
fit. Does anyone have an EpiPen?
RICK: Uh, no, it's too late for that.
We'll just hang on till
the ambulance gets here.
- SHARON: We haven't called
- RICK: OK.
Uh, uh, I think I've lost the pulse
again. I don't know where it is.
I didn't do the training.
Did you do the training?
SHARON: You know that I had
my mum's birthday and I
RICK: OK, OK. Uh
- Mary, have you got the the frib
- The
- the fribbie
- debfibri uh
- the the fuckin'
- heart paddle things.
what is it called, Rick?
RICK: The heart paddle things.
SHARON: You've watched Grey's Anatomy.
RICK: It looks like she's got
some kind of foam around her mouth.
- What is that?
- SHARON: It's not pavlova.
RICK: No, it's a bit yuck.
Oh, my God. We did it!
Fuck!
Alright. Here we go.
- (BODY THUDS)
- (GRUNTS)
(MUTTERS)
(PANTS)
The arm.
The Fuck!
(SIGHS)
How how do we
- (SIGHS)
- How?
(SIGHS)
(CLEAVER SCRAPES)
No.
Well if you have any other ideas,
now would be a really good time.
Oh.
(SIGHS)
- (GAGS)
- (GAGS)
Alright. (PANTS)
Before we desecrate her
body, we should say something.
This is the line, is it?
Well, I once heard someone say
that home is what you take with you,
not what you leave behind, and that
that seems quite apt right now.
So I'm sorry about what we're
about to do to you, Robin, um
but hopefully, this sends you home.
Are you sure you don't want me to do it?
OK.
- (CLEAVER STRIKES)
- STELLA: Eugh! Oh, my God.
- (PANTS)
- (JEREMIAH GAGS)
She hasn't taken a breath
in over three minutes.
- When's this ambulance coming?
- JEREMIAH: No time for an ambulance.
Stand back. We'll get this woman
to the hospital straightaway.
But but Look out,
mate. Look out. Let go.
It's, uh, for the dog.
I hope you don't mind.
MARY: It's on the house.
Just get her to hospital.
- Yep. Come on.
- Quickly. Thank you.
Thank you.
(MECHANISM CREAKS)
SHARON: That was intense.
Something to talk about
on my date tonight.
- You gonna wish me luck?
- No.
Whatever.
We nearly saw someone die today.
If it wasn't for those brave
cops back there taking charge,
we would have lost her.
I was paralysed.
So was I.
And (SIGHS) I just kept
thinking
(SIGHS)
I don't want him
eating your meat, Sharon.
I don't want to cook it for him.
(SIGHS)
That was actually pretty
crazy, what happened.
That was nuts, wasn't it?
- They were amazing.
- They were
(PAGE TURNS)
Uh
- Apologies
- uh, apologies
- for earlier.
- for earlier.
I have made us salmon coulibiac.
Sounds delicious.
(INHALES)
(SIGHS)
(STELLA GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
You should get more sunshine here.
(LAUGHS)
(SIGHS)
(GASPS) Eugh!
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
OK.
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
I'm so sorry, Arthur,
that nothing ever worked out for you.
That I wasn't a better sister.
That I couldn't protect you.
(LAUGHS)
You deserved a happy little life.
And I couldn't give it to ya.
(LAUGHS)
Don't you worry.
Because, oh, how they shall pay.
Let's get started.
- Who is this?
- What?
This is a pleasant surprise.
When did we start
fraternising with outsiders?
They feel a hell of a lot
safer than the insiders.
FRANKIE: This is my big day.
Nobody's gonna piss on my parade.
I just want you all to know,
whatever happened in the past,
it's the past.
STELLA: This is not what we do.
NEIL: We all make compromises.
When does this stop?
We can't escape ourselves, Anika.