Heard you need some help with a policing matter.
Who are the fuck are those guys at my place?
The muppets with the rifles, talking about shooting coppers.
They ARE cops. Were.
I cancelled the flight. That's gonna get us all killed.
They took the bones of my great-great-grandfather.
So you... want repatriation?
LEONIE: 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 law.
I could have killed Jay 20 times, but I didn't because of you.
Remove the gun slowly and put it on the ground.
JAY: There's a roadhouse outside of Palmer's Cove.
You'll be safe there, Mary. Roadhouse.
Palmer's Cove. Must be the Export.
(WHEN THE NIGHT COMES BY THE BLACKWATER FEVER PLAYS)
♪ The sun is falling
♪ Like a burning zeppelin
♪ Tall buildings crash their shadows down
♪ Upon the good city people
♪ When the night comes
♪ Whoa-oh-oh
♪ The wind is howling
♪ New age is calling out
♪ It rattles through our bones
♪ Like a locomotive
♪ Sends out a warning... ♪
(SPRINKLERS SPRAY)
I'm here.
What room are you in?
RECORDING: Hi. You've called Mary. Leave a message after the beep.
(DOOR OPENS)
Help you?
I'm looking for some friends, mother and her daughter.
They arrived last night.
Can you tell me what room they're in, please?
Oh...
..uh, well...
I can't give out that information.
The safety of our guests is a priority.
Oh, course you are.
(SIGHS) Oh, well...
There's a gin and her daughter in room number six.
(COCKS RIFLE)
(SPRINKLER SPRAYS RAPIDLY) MARY: Seven, Jay! Seven!
(GUNSHOT)
(COCKS RIFLE)
(GUNFIRE)
(COCKS GUN AND FIRES)
(FIRES) (GROANS)
(GUNSHOT) Oh!
(GUNFIRE)
(GROANS)
Ugh! Come here.
Mary! Shevorne!
(GROANS)
(COCKS RIFLE)
(GLASS CRUNCHES)
Shevorne. Shevorne.
Shevorne.
I'm OK.
OK.
SIMON: Don't do anything stupid, Jay!
Stupidity gets people hurt.
You should have just taken the Emilio shooting and pissed off!
Gave it to you with a ribbon on it!
At the edge of the earth, Jay.
No-one cares who deals drugs or dies!
(GROANS)
(FIRES)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
(PANTS)
(MAN COUGHS)
(MAN SIGHS)
(GROANS)
Where's he going?
You're the detective here.
You work it out.
(GROANS)
(SPITS)
Yeah, you're not gonna find him.
You're not gonna find him.
He's gonna find you. (LAUGHS)
(GROANS)
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?
(CHATTER)
(DOG BARKS)
Franny. What...
Franny, what the hell are you doing?!
Jesus Christ!
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 whitefella?
Stop! Shit!
Shit!
(PANTS)
I knew it was a mistake getting a black copper.
Too much obligation, too much blackfella bullshit!
So why are you here, then, Owen?
For the fishing?
St...
(SIGHS)
You just let all the drug running and grog happen right under your nose.
The night Clarrie 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, OK?
'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.
(CROWBAR CLATTERS) You ruined your life.
(SIGHS)
Shit. (DOOR SLAMS)
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 law.
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 hit him!
And I said, "You got the wrong one!
"She doesn't belong to you!"
And he said, "Fuck you, old man."
I said, "What you say?" "Fuck you!"
And I hit him, and I couldn't stop hitting him!
"Fuck you! Fuck you!"
(PANTS)
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 did you do to her?
Huh? What did you do to her?
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 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 Rowland.
Mmm. Sour one, that one. Knew he'd be trouble.
What do you mean?
Oh, there were stories floating around when he first turned up.
SUZI-JOHN: 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.
SUZI-JOHN: 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.
(PHONE BUZZES)
Shit.
Simon.
Get Swan off my back.
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 gonna believe me. Owen, do as you're fuckin' told.
Look, don't you think this is...
Well, why don't you just leave? You know? 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 are over that time you started
letting blokes off traffic tickets for favours.
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.
(TAPS DOOR) Out.
Leave your phone.
Over there.
(STARTS ENGINE)
(ENGINE REVS)
(CHATTER)
(ENGINE REVS)
Hey.
Mwah! Ooh.
Red wine?
Yeah. You want one? No, thanks.
I just...
..had a chat with the head of the board and...
(SIGHS) Shit.
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 a real gammon thing, hey?
Yeah, alright. Maybe I'll have a short one, then.
(GLASSES CLINK)
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...
"and start owning the real history."
So, what now?
Yeah.
This is a huge change in mindset for universities.
I mean, the first archaeologists used dynamite to open crypts.
Graverobbers.
Without those thefts,
those artefacts would have been lost,
lost for future generations to study and to learn.
Ah, 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 centre of the story of the world.
Everything. Everything.
Sandra, how long you been at this bar?
No, I just want you to know that.
What?
No.
I'm happy.
I'll be back in a minute.
WOMAN: Glass of water.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
(PANTS)
(GROANS)
Shit! Ugh!
(OWEN GROANS)
Hey, hey, look out! Hey! MARY: He broke in!
(OWEN GROANS) 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.
(PANTS)
Simon knows shit about me.
Hey. We've all got a past.
You don't want to 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.
(PHONE BUZZES)
Yep.
Simon's got a shipment coming in from Timor today.
Far end of Oyster Beach.
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.
(SIGHS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
(SANDRA SIGHS)
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 will say, "He knew all this time.
"He looked us in the eye and lied."
They'll never trust you again.
(SCOFFS)
(SIGHS)
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?
(OBJECT THUDS)
(OBJECTS THUD)
(PEOPLE SHOUT) (OBJECTS THUD)
(HANDCUFFS CLICK) Back against the bars.
Put your hands through.
(OBJECTS THUD) (PEOPLE SHOUT)
(HANDCUFFS CLICK)
(OBJECTS THUD)
(UNLOCKS CELL)
(PEOPLE SHOUT)
MAN: Come on! Come out here!
(INAUDIBLE)
Back that motor car up.
Hey? That motor car!
Bring him closer!
(PEOPLE SHOUT)
(INAUDIBLE)
What now? These are your people, eh?
You the big boss man!
Come on! Brother!
Come on!
Come on! You!
Go on, get! MAN: Come on!
Not your business!
Come on, then! Want me to give you a good hiding?
Ah!
Don't muck around. Put me in there now.
These mob want payback. You!
FRAN: This is your law.
This is our law. You're not gonna let them, are you?
You don't believe in law!
You've stained this country! You got a cheek!
You can't talk.
This is not your business. This is my business!
PANSY: No-one gonna cry for you.
No-one gonna sing for you.
(GROWLS) (CROWD GASPS AND QUIETENS)
I got family in jail.
They know you're coming.
I didn't kill Zoe!
True story. I didn't kill her!
Liar. JIMMY 2: Telling you.
I didn't do it!
Then who?
The, uh, 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 defence 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.
LEONIE: Got what you want.
Now get.
SANDRA: It's not the end.
There is, um...
(CLEARS THROAT)
..something I...
..well, you might hear about me, something I did. (SIGHS)
The bag.
The boy's bones.
I found it.
I was excavating and I...
..I didn't know what to do.
I... I panicked.
You left him at the church?
Yeah. I...
If the police found out I had moved the bones, I would have been charged.
My entire career, everything I worked for, over.
He's somebody's boy.
Not rubbish to chuck away.
SANDRA: I didn't chuck him away!
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.
All I did was kept my mouth shut for a few weeks.
The world found out of 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 gammon little boots on,
gammon little white gloves.
You never touch it,
feel it,
listen to its story.
You know nothing.
That's your story.
Nothing.
(SNIFFS)
(PANTS)
(PLANE DRONES)
(PANTS)
Oh, fuck.
That's it. That's it, mate.
Right. See ya.
(PLANE DRONES)
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) (FIRES)
(PANTS)
(FIRES)
(COCKS RIFLE)
(VEHICLE DOOR CLOSES) Simon.
Oh, fuck!
Get that motor running.
What? I'm 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, OK. Yeah, I am, OK? I am.
But... I can make this better.
I can, OK?
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!
(SIMON SIGHS)
You gonna shoot me, Mary?
Could have been really good together, you and I.
Yeah?
If you weren't so full of shit.
(GUNFIRE)
(GROANS) (PANTS)
(GUNFIRE)
(OWEN GROANS AND PANTS)
(SUZI-JOHN SOBS)
(VEHICLE PULLS UP)
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 SOBS)
(COCKS RIFLE)
(SILENCE)
(GUNSHOT)
(BULLET THUDS) (SILENCE)
(COCKS RIFLE)
(CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS)
♪ 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.
(BLUES MUSIC PLAYS)
♪ Driving wheel
♪ How will I be healed?
♪ Always digging up the past... ♪
(WEIGHTS CLATTER)
♪ Driving
♪ Justice home to you
♪ In two minds
♪ One is shooting through... ♪
(SIGHS)
♪ Just to lighten
♪ Up my heavy load
♪ Salty blue to stay
♪ Dusky red to go
♪ I gonna begin
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ At the driving wheel How will I be healed?
♪ I'm always digging up the past
♪ Driving justice home to you
♪ In two minds
♪ One is shooting through... ♪
(MUG CLATTERS)
♪ Just to lighten... ♪
Come on, Dad. ♪ Up my heavy load... ♪
Too many mosquitoes. Let's go inside.
♪ Hang in the shadow
♪ Of the wandering crow
♪ Salty blue to stay
♪ Dusty red to go
♪ I gotta begin
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ I'm gonna 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 OK?
We got some healing to do.
One man brought a lot of shame to this community,
but we're not gonna 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 foot-flat
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ I gonna full-rip
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ I gotta begin
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ I'm gonna barrel
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ Yeah, the mystery road
♪ Down the mystery road
♪ Yeah, oh, oh
♪ On the mystery road. ♪