Return to Paradise (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

1
I was hoping I could get
my engagement ring back.
- Oh.
- (Reggie) Running away from something
doesn't mean it's over.
That ship has sailed
to calmer, kinder waters.
Look, the rest of the team,
they do their bit.
Whether you like it or not,
so will you.
Ah, what is this?
That's for patrol,
at the football.
Welcome to the team.
- (guests cheering)
- Constable Clarke.
Just wanted to return this.
(Glenn)
Let's see if it still fits.
(Mackenzie gasps)
(announcer) Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome again
to Dolphin Cove Bowls Club
for today's card
of Bushranger matches,
as Dolphin Cove take
on visitors, Red Bluff.
Ladies Pennant Grade 4, your match
will now commence
on the upper greens,
but down on the lower green,
it is tied at 20,
and the match
has come down to the last end.
How're we tracking?
Can't read the scoreboard.
Tied. Twenty. Last two bowls.
It's down to Ted and Artie.
- Come on, Teddy! Come on.
- (Mal) Go, Dad.
- Come on, mate. You got this.
- (man) You got this, Bushrangers.
- (man #2) Come on, Bushrangers!
- (man #3) Let's go, Bushrangers!
- (spectators "ohh")
- Yes!
- (applause)
- (Mal) Good one, Dad.
(man) Did you hear about that?
Oh, I think your husband
just clinched it for us.
- (woman) Let's go, Artie!
- (Philomena) Oh, I can't.
(woman)
Bring it home, Red Bluff!
(Artie blows)
(man) You got it.
Oh, my.
(Mal) Righto, we're gonna need
the measuring tape for those.
Hey, wait a minute!
He slack-lined it.
He's doing me out of the game.
- I beg your pardon?
- Well, just look at it.
You got the string off-centre.
Trying to make it
look like mine's further away.
- Well, that's out of line.
- Typical Bushrangers.
Robbing me blind.
Never in my life.
- How dare you?
- Dad, your heart. Settle down.
How dare you?
We'll be reporting this.
You should be chucked
out of the league.
You always have been a cheat,
Ted Haddon.
(spectators gasp)
- (man) Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Oh, that's enough.
That's enough.
That's enough, Ted.
Should do you for assault,
as well!
- (Philomena) Oh, settle.
- (man) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Show's over.
- (Mal) Dad?
(Rita)
I'm suspending this match.
No result.
Inside for drinks.
We could all stand to cool down.
(man) Yeah, I know.
(indistinct conversations)
- Yeah! Whoo-hoo! There you go, Rita.
- (camera shutter clicks)
Another snap of the real winners
for your wall!
(Ted) There were no winners.
The match was abandoned.
(man) Lighten up, Bushrangers.
Bit livelier than usual today.
I'm so embarrassed
you had to step in.
- Oh.
- I don't know what came over me.
Oh, we all
wanted to give him a clip.
(Helen) Look at them,
acting like they own the place.
All right, everyone, last drinks.
I better get a lager
for my worthy opponent then.
And one for you, young fella?
I don't want anything from you.
Fair enough.
Better get one for yourself then,
sweetheart.
Come on, Teddles.
No hard feelings.
(laughs)
Bottoms up, buddy.
(Rita) Mitts off!
I've said a million times
No one touches Bill's gun.
All right, all right, all right.
Come on, fellas. Let's go.
Don't know how Bushranger Bill
could shoot anyone
with that old piece of junk.
Pow! Pow!
(laughter)
Catch you on the return match,
Bushrangers.
(blows)
- (groans)
- You right?
Oh, yeah.
Just a bit of heartburn.
Look, I can finish up
if you want to head off.
Oh, no, no, it's fine.
(suspenseful music playing)
(engine shuts off)
(loud bang)
- (Rita) What was that?
- Don't know.
Did you hear that?
- (Rita) Where did it come from?
- It was just outside.
Just stay behind me, everyone.
(suspenseful music playing)
- (Mal) What on earth?
- (Helen) We don't know.
- Aah! Oh, my God!
- (Mal) Shh.
- (crying)
- Oh!
(theme music playing)
Mm. You should know
that the boss is here.
- Shocking.
- As a witness.
(Philomena) Scene's secure.
The other witnesses are ready
for their statements.
So still can't quit bowls?
I don't want to quit bowls.
"I hate bowls
and I am quitting forever."
That was
That was you, wasn't it?
I'm competitive, Mackenzie.
Is that a crime?
Is this why you said no
to barefoot bowls
for our Christmas party
last year?
I said no because I don't
enjoy playing with amateurs.
She is competitive.
Moving on.
So, big game?
Yes, the Bushranger match.
That's what we call it when
Dolphin Cove plays Red Bluff.
(Colin) Named after him?
Bushranger Bill.
You're on the site
of the Black Tuesday siege.
(Colin) Oh.
He was He was smaller
in my old school books.
Legends have to grow, my dear.
Wow.
(Philomena clears throat)
- Yeah, ah, where's the body?
- The green.
No, no, no. Stay
and wait to be questioned
with the other witnesses.
Uh uh
(camera shutter clicking)
Victim is Arthur O'Farrell.
Everyone called him Artie.
Sixty-five years old.
Left the club at 3:25 pm.
Gunshot heard
by five witnesses at around 4:10 pm.
Look here.
- Exit wound?
- (Colin) Yeah.
- Bullet?
- Ah, haven't found it yet.
So, if they angled it,
since the exit wound
is three centimetres higher
- than the entry
- Based on the position
of the body roughly here?
(Mackenzie) Mm-hmm.
Bang.
There.
I'll get a ladder.
(Mackenzie) So, is the victim
a regular opponent?
It was a surprise
to see Artie here.
- (Colin) Why's that?
- He was a late fill-in.
Ted saw his name
on the team sheet this morning.
- (Mackenzie) So you knew him?
- Yes, we all did.
I didn't.
(Colin grunts)
Senior Sergeant Strong?
Oh, um
Ah, the first time
I met him was today.
(Rita)
Artie grew up in Dolphin Cove.
He used to play for the club.
Until we threw him out.
- (Colin) And when was that?
- Years ago.
Forty. Or thereabouts.
- Why?
- He's not really Bushranger material.
We're an honourable club.
And he wasn't honourable?
If you'd seen his behaviour
today, you wouldn't need to ask.
(Colin)
What happened today?
(Ted) He accused me of cheating.
(Artie) You've always been a cheat,
Ted Haddon.
- It was a straight-up lie.
- (Ted) Look, I'm
I'm not proud of my behaviour,
but I am not
and never have been a cheat.
(Helen)
Ted's not a volatile man.
He's staid, predictable,
no fire in him at all.
I I just mean he's
not capable of shooting anyone.
Thank you, darling.
Typical Artie O'Farrell.
Trouble, that whole family.
His father was endlessly broke
and forever trying to scheme
people out of their dough.
And Artie was even worse.
There he is, with the rest of us
before he left the club,
looking as smug as ever.
I don't like to speak ill
of the dead
Then don't, Gran.
(Colin) Okay, can you all
talk me through your movements
this afternoon?
Artie and his team,
they leave at 3:25.
Just after the bar closed.
(Artie) Let's go.
Pow! Pow!
Except, he must have come back.
Did any of you see him?
- And then you heard the gunshot?
- Definitely.
- (Colin) Where were you?
- In here.
- Who else was with you?
- No one.
I was just in the kitchen,
cashing up.
- (Colin) Okay.
- I was taking the rubbish out.
(Colin) Ted?
Ah, I was in the men's.
Bit of a funny tummy.
Just a few odd jobs.
(Colin) Oh.
I can get it.
I'm up here now.
Hmm.
So, how did you pull up
after the game?
Oh, you know, the boys tied one on
like you wouldn't believe.
- Did they?
- Should have seen me.
I was an absolute mess.
- I did see you.
- What?
I gave you the ring back.
Do you have forceps?
- When?
- Well, now, if you could.
Oh, yeah.
The ring.
When did you give it back to me?
After the game.
Oh, that checks out, yep.
I woke up fully dressed
and found it in my pocket.
Do you really not remember
me giving it to you?
I don't even remember
you being there.
- (Mackenzie) Really?
- Really.
Like I said,
I'd had quite a few.
Something?
That does not look like a bullet.
It's a lead ball.
From an old gun.
- No one knows where he ended up.
- Oh.
But Bushranger Bill was never seen
in Dolphin Cove again.
(Colin) Oh.
Fascinating.
Excuse me!
This gun's been fired.
That's not possible.
Grandpa welded up the nipples.
Sorry. Um, ah, what do you mean?
It's how you stop it
from working.
This gun doesn't fire anymore.
At least that's what
Grandpa always said.
Well, it was fired today.
(Philomena)
But not while I was here,
because I was standing
just right here
when the shot was fired.
Was the gun still on the wall?
Yes. Yes, because
I'd just straightened up
this photo right here.
This is the lead ball
that killed Artie,
and this is the gun
that fired it.
But it was on the wall
when Artie was killed.
Then how did the killer use
this gun to murder Artie O'Farrell
if it never left the wall?
- So, Artie was shot at four
- 4:10.
- ten.
- And he left at 3:25.
(Colin) Mm-hmm.
We need to establish everyone's
movements up until that time.
Oh, everyone was in and out.
So everyone had
immediate access to the gun.
But no one took the gun off
the wall. I would have noticed.
Okay, according to one witness,
no one took it off the wall.
Well, they didn't.
Sorry.
I think you need to to
What?
- Go home.
- Ooh.
Mackenzie,
I'm the senior sergeant.
Yes, but you're also a witness
in a murder investigation
- and a potential suspect.
- Oh! Careful.
Go home, until we clear you.
Don't worry, boss.
I'll keep 'em in line.
By which
I mean I'll follow instructions
and provide a full report
upon your return.
(scoffs)
(Mackenzie) Could anyone else
have come into the club?
The main gate was locked
when Artie left.
Is there another entrance?
(both) Lovers' Lane.
What's Lovers' Lane?
Oh, come on!
Even I know about Lovers' Lane.
- Oi!
- I'm going, I'm going.
Seriously,
what is Lovers' Lane?
How do you know about this?
Everyone our age knows.
It's where kids went to
you know.
(Colin) What? Oh.
Hence the name.
(Colin) Oh.
So you two
(Mackenzie) Ooh.
Oh.
Okay. Here we go then.
(Colin) Whoa!
Is it his?
Yep. Arthur O'Farrell.
And he bought it two weeks ago.
So this is
where he came back in then?
Still wet.
Get Reggie and Felix to look
for blue paint on their search.
(Colin) Yep.
Okay, so he leaves
after an argument on the green,
but goes back,
only to be murdered.
And somewhere in between,
someone chucks paint on his car.
I'll get my kit.
Colin, hang on a tick.
You were out with Glenn
after the football, weren't you?
(Colin) Celebrating my best mate's
300th game?
Absolutely.
Sweet Lord above, I cannot keep up
with those lads.
I mean, I've put
a fair few away in me time
but they're animals.
So, he was? He was a bit tipsy?
You mean completely leathered?
He told me he passed out
on Frankie's dog bed
when he got home.
Reckons he might have fleas.
(cellphone ringing)
Absolute shambles.
Felix, I need you and Reggie
to look for blue paint
on your search.
(Felix) This one's Mal's.
(Reggie) Hmm. Anything?
Half an empty can
of energy drink.
- Blood donor card.
- Ah, good for him.
Not the energy drink.
That stuff is poison.
(lock disengages)
- And no paint.
- No, Rita's either.
Just a couple
of old Bushranger Bill badges.
Oh, can this place
just get over Bushranger Bill?
No, he's great.
He's Dolphin Cove's
very own Robin Hood.
He stole from the rich,
gave to the poor.
I mean, is that
really so criminal, Felix?
- Technically, yes.
- Oh, come on.
This is where Bill held off
12 coppers on his own,
then disappeared,
but not before he
Delivering £10
to every household.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Not every household,
is all I'm saying.
What do you mean?
Bushranger Bill shafted your family?
(Felix) Not just mine.
You know all the whitefellas all
collected £10 back in the day?
- (Reggie) Yeah.
- And all of us missed out.
Well, I'm sorry, Felix.
You know his partner was
a blackfella?
Ah. Really?
Yeah, that's what
my nan reckons.
But Bill gets all
the flashy hero paintings
with his poxy gun,
and I reckon they touched up
his beard, as well.
Oh, it is suspiciously luscious.
Like "ooh!"
(laughs)
- Yeah.
- See that?
(Reggie) Hmm?
Blue paint! Good find.
Yes!
(generator whirring)
(Mackenzie) Turn that off, please.
(generator powering down)
- (Mal) It's a bit loud. Sorry.
- (Colin) Mm.
Missing these?
(Mackenzie) Looks about your size
and that matches the colour
of the paint
we found
tipped all over Artie's car.
What are you talking about?
I didn't mess with his car.
And it matches the paint
on your cuff just there.
(Mal) Okay, I threw the paint.
But that's it.
I didn't kill him.
So Artie insults your dad,
you get angry, you want payback.
But it wasn't just
the insulting.
Dad's got heart troubles.
He had a bit of a turn at my
birthday a couple of weeks ago
and spent a night in hospital.
They gave him the works.
He's not supposed
to get revved up.
(Mackenzie) So you confronted Artie?
(Mal) He caught me throwing
the paint in the car park,
but that was it.
Then he got in his car
and drove off.
He didn't say anything
about you putting paint
on his brand-new car?
(Mal) Not a word.
That was the end of it.
- Yeah, what, you left it at that?
- (Mal) Yeah.
I went straight back
to the club.
To take the gun off the wall
and go and find him?
No!
I messed with his car,
but that's it.
(stammers)
I came back to the club,
and the next time I saw Artie
was when we found him on the green.
Dead.
(suspenseful music playing)
(Mackenzie) Here's what we know.
Artie O'Farrell and Ted Haddon
had a stand-up argument
over allegations
of cheating.
Artie then left the club at 3:25 pm.
and Mal Haddon
poured paint all over his car.
Artie then returned to the club,
using the disused
rear entrance of
- Lovers' Lane.
- (Mackenzie) Yes, thank you.
- Thank you.
- (Reggie) Oh. Mm.
He came back in and was shot dead
on the green at 4:10 pm.
We don't know who had
a motive to kill him,
and we don't know
how the killer managed
to shoot him when
the murder weapon was on the wall
- of the clubhouse at the time.
- (Colin) Mm.
Okay, first principles
background check on Artie.
All right. He ran a fishing business
over the years in Red Bluff.
Didn't do too well.
He filed for bankruptcy last year.
Yet he bought
an expensive car two weeks ago.
- (Reggie) Mm.
- Record?
Ah, effective rate
of 80% in B grade.
He's known as the southpaw
of the Bluff.
And that's why they say "never
trust a lefty on the green."
- Police record.
- Oh. Sorry.
Other than the bankruptcy,
he's clean.
I've got the club financials
for you to go through, Felix.
And Rita sent me this photo
from today.
- There's Artie
- (Mackenzie) Mm-hmm.
with the gun behind him.
The gun that no one saw move,
but somehow was fired.
- It doesn't make sense.
- There is, um (clears throat)
There is someone else
who was in the clubhouse
who had access to the weapon.
(Felix)
She is a potential suspect.
Until we find a way
to clear her.
- Leave it with me.
- (Reggie) Can I come, too?
I'd buy tickets
to see that show.
Mack, hey.
What are you doing here?
Thought your mum might be here.
Family dinner night?
Unless that's changed.
Mum hasn't changed her routine
since 1992.
(Mackenzie laughs)
I gotta warn you, though
I would not say she's
enjoying being on the bench.
Oh. What else is new?
Right. I'll go get her.
Come on in.
Hey, Mum?
Mum, you in here?
Oh. Hey, Mack.
Um, make yourself useful
and grab me a strainer?
Oh, no, no.
Other Other drawer.
Sorry.
Yep, yep, yep.
(Daisy)
The other one next to that.
Okay. Yep.
Yep. Amazing. Thanks.
Are you here for dinner?
I'm doing carbonara
and we have wine.
No, just here to clear Phil.
Oh, I thought you were here
to take my badge, as well.
You know, I can't place you
in the clubhouse.
- You were on your own.
- Mm, stacking chairs.
- Yep. Okay, how do I prove it?
- CCTV?
Doesn't cover all the entrances.
And a mobile phone trace,
it wouldn't be targeted enough.
You called triple zero?
Yes, but that was
after we found Artie.
(watch chimes)
Mm, you've done your steps.
Well done.
Since Since when
do you wear a smartwatch?
Well, I got it for her birthday.
Yeah, it's actually very good.
- (Daisy) Yeah, I told you.
- Yeah, but does it have GPS?
Yeah, GPS, ah, steps,
heart rate monitor.
- Even does her swimming for her.
- So you can track her movements.
Prove that she never left
the clubhouse.
(Daisy) Yeah, easy. It's on the app.
Yeah.
You know,
unless you took it off and then
you'd be able to move around
wherever you liked.
But it wouldn't register
her heart rate if she did.
But I want it back.
I need it for my laps
in the morning.
Yeah, will do.
(Philomena) Fancy that.
I'm not a murderer.
Look at that. Best present ever.
Oh!
(Glenn speaking indistinctly)
Sorry Daisy held you
hostage for dinner.
Yeah. I expect the ballistics report
tomorrow as compensation.
- Can do.
- (Mackenzie) Mm-hmm.
You should, ah You should go
easy on the wines tonight.
You don't want to end up
in the dog bed again.
I told him that in confidence.
- Do you have fleas?
- I don't have fleas.
- Mm
- I have a minor skin irritation
- from the fur. Okay?
- Gross.
Not my tidiest performance
overall.
No. No, it
it definitely wasn't that.
Oh! I can't believe
I embarrassed myself
in front of Constable Clarke.
I'm on the waters from now on.
"Constable"?
What?
You called me "Constable."
After the football, you
I was wearing Felix's stripes.
So what?
So you remember calling me
"Constable,"
but you don't remember
putting a ring on my finger
15 seconds later?
Had you going, didn't I?
Of course I remember, Mack.
You do?
It wouldn't be
the first dumb thing
I've done after a few beers,
would it?
- No.
- (Glenn) I'm sorry.
I was embarrassed.
Let's just pretend
it never happened.
It never happened.
See you tomorrow.
(door closes)
(gentle music playing)
How come no one knows about
Bushranger Bill's mate?
- Midnight Moe?
- Was that his name?
No, no one really knew his name.
They didn't even bother
to learn it.
- That's what I called him.
- Midnight Moe.
Yeah. Nan said that
they fell out over the split
- and went their separate ways.
- (Reggie) Yeah.
But Bill wanted
Midnight Moe's gun back.
You know, reckoned he bought it,
he should keep it.
Midnight Moe rode off
into the sunset.
You know,
they never saw each other again.
Really? Wow.
Oh!
(Felix) Mm.
Thank you.
Finding those shoes, that was
yeah, that was great work.
Oh, it was no big deal.
You're too good to be
in one stripe for much longer.
- Okay.
- Make sure you're not.
I will. Thank you.
- Yes!
- Oh, there she is.
Oh! Yay!
Whoo-hoo-hoo! Whoo!
Right,
that's enough of that rubbish.
- Okay, so where are we at?
- (Colin) CCTV.
Only covers the front
of the clubhouse.
Everyone in and out,
just as the boss said.
(Mackenzie) Hang on.
Didn't Helen say she
was taking the rubbish out?
- Ah, yep.
- I was taking the rubbish out.
Well, she hasn't got
any rubbish with her.
When does she come back in?
(keyboard clacking)
(Colin) Here.
And then she goes back
into the clubhouse.
And she throws something
in the bin.
(Colin) One sec.
There you go.
(Reggie) So what is that?
Is it, like, a ticket
or something?
Did we go through the bins?
I bagged them.
Just need sorting.
Well, let's get into it.
(Felix groans)
I'm not criticising, Mackenzie,
but before you came back,
we never had to dig
through rubbish.
- Is this an old tyre?
- Yeah, looks like it.
- I got it.
- Really?
- (Felix) It's a note.
- What does it say?
"Our spot, 4:00 pm."
Does it say who it's from?
Artie. That's his handwriting.
(Colin) "Our spot"?
Artie and Helen
were having a relationship?!
(Reggie) Wow.
Once upon a time, yeah.
(Mackenzie) Why didn't you tell us?
Tell you what? That
we went out 40 years ago?
It was nothing.
He and your husband come
to blows over a bowls match.
That was so silly, as if there's
some great rivalry between them.
But Artie and I were over long
before Ted was on the scene.
Yet 40 years later, he writes
you a note and you come running.
Was it really nothing?
No. It wasn't nothing.
(Mackenzie) What happened?
We were in love.
Well, at least I was.
I wanted to marry Artie
and spend the rest of my life
with him.
Why didn't that happen?
One night, he just left.
No explanation.
He just disappeared.
That must have been awful.
Oh, it was probably
for the best.
Mum was happy, at least.
She was never a fan.
And all this time,
you never contacted him,
never asked him what happened?
Well, he didn't want me.
What else was there to say?
I met Ted, we got married,
and then there was the baby
to think of.
Sorry.
Can you say that again?
I met Ted, we got married.
"There was a baby to think of."
Artie leaves 40 years ago.
Ted has his turn at Mal's 40th
recently.
"Southpaw of the Bluff."
They're both lefties.
Artie's Mal's father, isn't he?
Yeah.
And he never contacted you?
He didn't know. No one did.
You never told Mal or Ted?
No, this is my secret to hold.
Ted's given his life to me
and to Mal.
He's a good man. I was
I'm lucky to have him, even
if he's not what I imagined.
When did you find the note?
(Helen) After the game.
He left it for me
by the register.
You must have wanted answers.
Yeah, well, of course I did.
He shows up,
makes trouble with Ted.
He's playing games, you're angry,
so you go to your spot.
I could never kill him.
I loved him.
I think I always loved him.
So yeah, I waited for him
by the Moreton Bay fig.
I shouldn't have gone out there,
but I needed to know what
my life would have been like
if it was different.
How do you forgive someone
for leaving like that?
I didn't forgive him.
I just wanted closure.
The Moreton Bay fig.
That was your spot.
But he didn't show.
Again.
(voice breaking)
And now I'll never have answers.
Shut the front door.
So Mal is Artie's son.
Surely that changes everything.
(Colin) Artie being back
is a threat to Helen's marriage,
relationship with her son.
- Strong motive.
- (Mackenzie) Mm.
Only if she's being honest
about nobody else knowing
that Artie was Mal's father.
(Colin) You think she's protecting
her family?
(Mackenzie) Possibly.
And why didn't he show up
to meet her?
(Philomena) And if the meeting place
is here at the Moreton Bay fig,
what's he doing on the green?
Probably watching
the poor woman cry.
- Yeah, I'd shoot him, too.
- Oh, Reggie.
No, I call it as I see it, Phil.
Still, it comes back to the gun.
Even if Helen did shoot Artie,
the gun was on the wall
the whole time
that she was waiting for him.
- (Felix) Mackenzie?
- (Mackenzie) Hmm?
I think you're gonna like this.
So I'm going through
the club accounts,
and, look, two weeks ago,
$25,000
transferred to AO Boating.
- (Mackenzie) AO?
- Adults Only?
- No. No.
- Arthur O'Farrell.
Oh.
Any sign of that money
in his account?
No, but we didn't know he kept
his business account open.
(Colin) So he got paid off
by someone at the Bowls Club?
And then he bought a new car.
Who's the club treasurer?
(laughs)
Pull the other one.
Why would I ever pay Artie a cent?
To get rid of him.
But I hadn't had any contact
with Artie for decades.
Until he suddenly
turned up yesterday
and started calling me a cheat.
Didn't he used to go out
with Helen?
Oh, years ago.
And he did a runner. Pathetic.
She hasn't even
thought about him since.
Did you know that he was
Mal's biological father?
What? Says who?
Says Helen.
(dramatic music playing)
(Ted breathes deeply)
(laughs)
You all right?
Artie's.
Of course he is.
She really never told you?
No, Detective.
She never told me.
It's a lot to process,
but we need to know
what you sent Artie money for.
(sighs) I told you
I didn't send it.
You're the treasurer.
You have access to the money.
Oh, that's not how things work.
Those titles don't
mean anything.
We all pitch in.
We all have access to the account.
- Does Mal know?
- I don't think so.
Please don't tell him.
Just give me some time.
I don't feel good about that.
I had to ask.
A piece of information
that could just destroy a family
and we just tell him.
It feels so mean.
It's murder. It's always mean.
(suspenseful music playing)
(door closes)
- Ballistics.
- And?
I can confirm without a doubt,
Bushranger Bill's gun
is the murder weapon.
How is that even possible?
That's one
for you guys to answer.
Gunshot residue tests came back.
They're all clear.
Oh, okay.
Well, this visit was helpful.
Hang on. Ah, there's a set of prints
on the weapon.
- Whose?
- Rita di Stefano.
- Here we go then.
- (Mackenzie) Ah.
(Glenn) I'll ring you
with anything else.
- (Mackenzie) Great.
- Great.
- Great.
- Great.
Yep. Well, I'll go then.
Cheers.
Oh. Hello, detectives.
You've missed bridge club,
I'm afraid.
Your prints are
on the Bushranger Bill gun.
Of course.
I'm there every day,
cleaning, organising.
I even mowed the lawns
till Mal took over.
My fingerprints would be
everywhere.
Okay. So why did we only find
your prints
and not the Red Bluff players'?
Because I wiped the gun down
when we were packing away.
Those Red Bluff reprobates
had their grubby fingers
all over it.
You didn't mention that
when we questioned you.
You want me list every tiny thing
I do around there?
When it comes
to a murder weapon, yes.
Well, I didn't know it was the
murder weapon when you asked me.
You paid Artie $25,000
- last week, didn't you?
- Oh!
Where would I get $25,000 from?
(Colin)
From the club accounts.
You said it yourself Your
fingerprints are all over the club.
Does that include the books?
What reason would I have
to send money to that man?
Did you know
he was Mal's father?
- Not until an hour ago
- (cellphone chimes)
when I heard
from a devastated Ted.
Poor Mal.
What's he going to think?
Ah, the phone records.
Artie's mobile.
(Mackenzie) Hmm.
So Artie called the club
two weeks ago.
- Do you know why?
- No idea.
Well, he spoke to someone
for over four minutes.
- Any idea who?
- (Rita) No.
Bloody Artie O'Farrell.
Still causing trouble
from beyond the grave.
(Felix) There's no way
to tell you who he spoke to,
but I dug around those dates
and I found this.
The day before Artie called
the Bowls Club,
there was a transaction
from Mal's credit card
at Gary's Coffee Shop
in Red Bluff,
which is about 50 metres
from Artie's house.
He went and saw Artie?
- Why?
- Mal's 40th.
Ted had a turn.
Dad's got heart troubles.
So he's not supposed
to get revved up.
- So
- (Mackenzie) Spent the night
in hospital, had bloods, the works.
That's what Mal said.
Felix, can you fetch the contents
of Mal's locker for me?
Yep.
You people are unbelievable.
I've just found out
my whole life is a lie,
and now you think one of us
is a murderer.
Just found out?
Yeah.
You didn't go to see Artie
two weeks ago?
You got a coffee
from Gary's in Red Bluff.
It's a long way
to go for a coffee,
and a pretty average one
at that.
Is it because of this?
This is a blood donor card
dated from two weeks ago.
We found it in your locker.
My guess?
You decided to give blood
after your dad's heart scare.
Do the right thing.
Then the blood types came back
and you realised
you couldn't be his son.
Am I getting closer?
He's O type. I'm AB.
What led you to Artie?
The picture on the wall.
(Mackenzie) That was it?
A blood test and a picture?
Well, it's not just any picture.
Sometimes I'd go in
and I'd see Mum looking at it
when she thought she was
on her own.
I knew it meant something
to her.
So that was the first place
I started.
But Artie turned me away.
Didn't want anything to do with me,
and that was the end of it.
At least now I know why I've
always been such a screw-up.
- You're not who your father is.
- He's not my father.
I don't care about
blood groups or biology.
Ted raised me. He's my father.
And I couldn't have asked
for a better one.
Your biological father
completely denies you.
That is a pretty strong motive.
They all have motives.
- What we need is one simple answer.
- (cellphone buzzing)
How did the killer move
that gun without being seen?
How did they get it back
on the wall again?
If we can understand the how,
we can understand the who
- and understand the why.
- (Philomena) It's Daisy.
You might want to get down
to the Surf Club.
Okay.
- (Daisy) Hmm
- (Felix) Hey, Daisy.
Hey. Thank you.
I think he's getting a bit loose.
I don't think
you're his favourite person.
You know, I tried
to convince him to leave,
but he's refusing and I've got
a special event tonight.
Well, Gran was right.
I'm an O'Farrell after all.
Trouble.
Look at Artie. He never changed.
You'd think Mum
would have learned her lesson
the first time
he skipped out on her.
- So you spoke to her about it?
- (scoffs)
She won't admit,
after all those years,
that she was ready to turn
her back on Dad for Artie.
And he still stood her up.
Probably serves her right.
(horn honking)
(Daisy) Ah, cab
Cab's here.
I got it. Come on, bud.
I can manage on my own.
Just trying to have a drink.
Oop.
Poor bloke.
What if it wasn't their spot?
The Moreton Bay fig.
I mean, why wouldn't he show up
if he left Helen that note?
You think she got
the wrong location?
Or what
if the note wasn't left for her?
Well, who was it for?
How did Artie afford
to start his fishing company
when he left Dolphin Cove?
Maybe Bushranger Bill
left him a tenner.
Pbht! It's all yarns.
Eh?
You don't believe it?
There were two bushrangers.
Wait.
What? Two bushrangers?
Bill and his blackfella partner.
- (balloon pops)
- Oh, my God!
- (Mackenzie) Oh!
- (Daisy) Sorry.
Sorry, everyone. Sorry.
(Felix) Two bushrangers.
There's history, there's myth
and then there's what happened.
It's all in the yarn.
Reggie, do you still have access
to the school library?
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
- (Colin) Look out.
- (Felix) Thanks, Daisy.
(suspenseful music playing)
How do you turn a fact
into a myth
and then a myth into a legend?
I mean,
the answer's pretty simple.
It's just time
and a good storyteller.
Everything about this crime
is the difference
between fact and myth.
This was a murder
100 years in the making.
Like the story
of Bushranger Bill,
who fought a gun battle
with the governor
on the siege of Black Tuesday
and left everyone £10.
That was a myth.
And then there's
Artie O'Farrell
who also disappeared
into the night
breaking Helen's heart,
and then turned up 40 years later
at a bowls match.
Coincidence?
Myth.
And then there's
the gunshot ringing out
with the murder weapon
fixed to the wall. Ooh!
That was the biggest myth
of them all.
And behind each of those myths
was a great storyteller.
And like all great stories,
it started by chance.
Just a blood test,
two weeks ago.
And a son who followed
the trail as best
he could, only to be turned away
by his biological father.
But it doesn't end there.
Oof, no.
For a hustler
like Artie O'Farrell,
it was an opportunity.
So he called you
on the Bowls Club phone, Rita.
Bushranger Bowlo!
(Mackenzie) Give him $25,000
and he'd keep quiet.
Quiet about what?
- Mum?
- (Rita) Oh!
Quiet about what?
Are you going to tell her?
Or am I?
You paid Artie
to leave all those years ago.
Mum?
You never approved of him
and you would have done anything
to stop him marrying
your daughter,
even when you found out
she was pregnant.
That never happened.
(Mackenzie) Hmm.
Artie, perennially broke,
family with nothing,
he leaves town, no explanation,
and, next week, buys a boat.
Is that all just a coincidence?
But all's well that ends well
with you, Rita.
I mean, sure,
Helen's heartbroken,
pregnant to a man she loves.
But soon enough, she marries Ted.
The baby's born.
Life goes on.
Once Artie knew the paternity,
he knew that you would pay him again,
even 40 years later.
And you did.
(Felix) $25,000
transferred to AO Boating.
Job done, secret safe.
Until you saw his name
on the team list.
And you knew,
oh, it wasn't going to end.
He'd spent your money
on a fancy car
and he was coming back for more.
The note he left you
confirmed it.
Helen thought the note was
for her.
But you knew it was meant
for you.
What was your spot?
Okay, my guess is
the front green.
Your father had
this painting commissioned?
Hmm?
See, I just I remembered him
as, you know, smaller.
This was taken
when Bushranger Bill was alive.
Do you notice anything?
I mean, he is definitely smaller,
but, also, he has a partner.
Two bushrangers.
One white, one Indigenous.
Bushranger Bill
and Midnight Moe.
(drawer opens, closes)
Each with an identical gun.
(woman gasps)
Your father bought
these guns at auction
and he hid the second gun,
making sure
no one ever knew about
Bushranger Bill's offsider.
- Oh.
- (Mackenzie) And then he spun
his great yarn.
Apart from you, no one knew
that the second gun existed,
or that it worked.
But that is the gun that
you shot Artie O'Farrell with.
(gunshot)
But, still
why didn't Senior Sergeant Strong
and the others
see you on the green
after the shot?
I mean, you can't move
fast enough to get away.
How is that possible?
And this,
it's the best yarn yet.
Actually, it's my favourite bit.
There was never a gunshot.
No, I I heard a gunshot.
We all did.
Yeah.
(Rita and Mackenzie grunting)
Give it!
The only way to get away with it
was to muffle the shot
that killed Artie.
And to create a fake shot
by blowing out the tyre
on the lawnmower
using the air compressor.
Constable Wilkinson found
the burst tyre in the rubbish.
You know that lawnmower.
You used to mow the lawns.
You knew it would take time
for the tyre to blow.
Enough time for you to wash
the residue off your hands
and be seen in the clubhouse
moments after the bang.
- Uh!
- (loud bang)
But that gunshot was
just one more myth.
What was that?
(Mackenzie) The best you could do
in the moments
after the gunshot rang out
was switch the murder weapon
with the inoperable gun,
while everyone went
to investigate the noise.
Putting it in plain sight,
making sure we didn't look
anywhere else for it,
and making sure
we never linked it to you.
But we did.
Constable Wilkinson found
the inoperable gun in your garage.
It was an impeccable yarn
told by a master storyteller
from a long line
of storytellers.
Or, alternatively,
it's just an alibi
that completely fell apart.
I was looking out for my family.
And I was right, wasn't I?
He was no good.
He never was.
- I was right.
- (Mackenzie) Hmm.
It must feel very satisfying.
Rita di Stefano,
you are under arrest for
the murder of Arthur O'Farrell.
Anything you say or do may be
taken down and used as evidence.
Please stand.
(dramatic music playing)
(Mackenzie) Maybe it's better
that they know.
Just have the truth out there.
Oh. I don't know.
In my family, we take
our secrets to the grave.
Are you saying the truth's
overrated?
No, just complicated and
very, very awkward to talk about.
You'll say no, but we're gonna go
for dinner at the Surf Club.
- Taco night?
- Twelve-dollar steaks.
- (Mackenzie) Mm.
- I mean, I'd be lying
if I said they weren't on
the tougher side, but for 12 bucks
- Yes.
- Understood. Maybe next
Uh, hang on. Yes?
- You having me on?
- No, I'm
I'll meet you there.
(Philomena) Well done, everyone,
and thank you.
- Bowls this weekend, boss?
- Oh, yeah.
We've got a replay of the
abandoned match with Red Bluff.
- Aren't they a man down?
- Advantage us, then.
(sighs) Savage.
I wonder if the real Bushranger Bill
and Midnight Moe story
will ever come out.
Maybe if we start talking
about it now,
in a hundred years,
everybody will catch on.
Maybe 200 years
for Dolphin Cove,
'cause everything moves slow
around here.
But I'll be sure
to let everyone
know.
Cheers.
Thanks for saying "goodbye."
(mid-tempo music playing)
(engine shuts off)
- (Frankie barks)
- Oh!
Hello, beautiful. Hello.
What are you doing here
all by yourself, huh?
Oh.
(gasps)
Oh! Oh, no.
Oh, God. Oh, awkward.
Oh, awkward.
No, no, no, no, no.
(horn honks)
Okay, he's gonna do it.
Okay. No, Frankie.
Stay. Okay. Okay.
Oh.
Oh, I, um
Look, I wasn't spying.
- What?
- (Mackenzie) I just I
You know, I'm coming here
for a drink with my fr
colleagues and I definitely
wasn't spying on anyone
on the beach
who was proposing.
Or not proposing, as it were.
- No, none of my business.
- What are you talking about?
(Mackenzie) Um
You had the ring out,
and then you
Why didn't you?
(sighs)
Mack, I
(romantic music playing)
(woman) What's going on?
(Daisy) Okay.
(man vocalising)
What's this?
Oh. Oh. Oh.
(Daisy clears throat)
# Well, I've always known. #
Glenn Albert Strong
you gorgeous, massive nerd.
You're my
You're my absolute favourite.
You make me feel safe
and beautiful and
and loved.
And I think that's about as good
as it gets.
So
# Someone to help you through. #
(Daisy) Here, where it all began,
I wanted to ask
# So just let me carry you. #
will you marry me?
# Carry you, carry you.
# Oh, baby. #
- Yes.
- (patrons cheering)
Brilliant!
# Carry you, carry you. #
(man vocalising)
It was Charles Ogden,
my ancestor,
who slit his own throat
with this very knife.
(Priya) I think he's bolted it!
The only way out
was bolted from the inside.
Unless it's a ghost,
there has to be an answer.
I'm going back to London.
It's all I've wanted since
the day I got here, is to go back.
Will you? Go back?
(Mackenzie) You know
that if you don't have love,
you don't have anything.