(CREAKING, WIND HOWLING)
(RESPIRATOR HISSES)
(MEDICAL EQUIPMENT BEEPS)
GIRL: Freddie... (ECHOES)
(GRUNTS)
(BREATHES SHALLOWLY)
Freddie?
(GROANS)
(EERIE WHISPERING)
Freddie... (ECHOES)
(DISTORTED CREAKING)
(GRUNTS) Daisy...
(WEAKLY) Daisy...
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)
(FREDDIE GASPS)
(SHUDDERS)
(GRUNTS)
(RAPID BEEPING)
(GASPS)
(FREDDIE CRIES OUT)
Aaagh! Aah!
Freddie?
- Aaaaaagh! - Freddie, what is it?
Aaaaagh!
POLICE OFFICER: Nurse? Someone, quick!
Nurse, hurry!
He was having some kind of fit.
(STEADY BEEPING)
His vitals are fine.
It's freezing in here.
♪ My screams got lost in a paper cup
♪ Do you think there's a heaven where some screams have gone?
♪ Yeah, I can hear that
♪ I don't care
♪ 'Cause sometimes I sit
♪ Sometimes I hear my voice
♪ And it's been
♪ Here
♪ Silent all these years. ♪
(MUFFLED KNOCKING)
(KNOCKING GROWS LOUDER)
Have you heard the news?
- What time is it? - 6:30.
Ah, I need coffee.
Jacinta Clunes was killed last night.
In a car accident. Happened out near Chimney Pot Bay Road intersection.
Would have been just hours after I met with her.
Oh, my God.
(SIGHS)
She seemed completely rattled by my visit.
I thought maybe I'd... overstepped the line.
Look, it's got nothing to do with you, Freya, OK?
It was an accident. These things happen.
You haven't told anyone about your visit, have you?
- No. - Good, good.
Best to keep it that way.
Do you think Jacinta Clunes is somehow connected to the Dorothy Moxley case?
Why do you say that?
I did a background check on all the companies that were funding Jacinta's campaign.
And...?
They're all tied to the Star of the Forest Church.
(KETTLE WHISTLES)
(SIREN WAILS)
Did they say when those blood samples would be processed?
A couple of days. I'll double-check.
- MOLLY: Detective. - Hi, Molly.
Hi, George.
I hear you've got someone in the frame for that Dorothy Moxley murder.
- Maybe - Local?
This a single-car accident?
Councillor Clunes swerved to miss something. Probably a kangaroo.
Hit a tree head-on.
Any brake marks?
You know something that I don't?
Just curious.
A witness saw her driving around 6:30pm, noticed she swerved abruptly.
She must have been going at speed.
Who called it in?
Some guy driving behind her.
Haven't read the report yet.
She'd been to a nearby restaurant earlier.
The Peppermint Bay.
We're gonna do bloods on her to make sure she wasn't over.
Council wouldn't be happy if she is.
Do you know who she was with?
- No passengers. - No, at the restaurant.
You gonna let me in on this or what?
If it leads to something, you'll be the first to know,
and if you find anything unusual about any of this, call me.
- Unusual? - You know what I mean.
MOLLY: Thanks for picking me up.
- Where's your car? - The mechanic's.
What are you doing here?
Hey, remember the other day, when we saw Gareth McAvaney at the petrol station?
Yeah.
That was Jacinta Clunes in the car. She's a councillor at Eyrie Council.
- She died in a car accident last night. - What's your point?
I think she might have been colluding with him on a land development down at Minor Ferry.
OK, but, I mean, even if that was true, what's it got to do with our case?
Can we swing past the Peppermint Bay restaurant?
- What for? - I want to know who she was with last night.
And what will that prove?
Just a hunch.
ALEX: How's Lily?
She's back at school.
She's pretty tough.
Well, that's good.
Why have you got this?
Take a look at the newspaper clipping inside.
"Ricky... Jones."
- Look at the date. - 2005.
That's a bit more recent than convict times.
I'm wondering if this might belong to Dorothy Moxley after all,
and this Ricky Jones might be her son.
We know she gave birth at some stage.
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
Go left here.
(GULLS SCREECH)
What do you expect to find here?
Maybe something. Maybe nothing.
(MUFFLED INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
WOMAN: Can I help you?
Yeah.
Uh, I was just directed up here by the woman downstairs.
Jacinta C...
Alderman Clunes is currently not available.
Yeah, no, I heard the news. It...
It must be a shock... for you all.
I just, uh, need to get something that I left here the other day.
It's a blue file.
McAvaney Constructions on the front.
I think I left it on her desk.
I was told not to touch anything.
Oh, no, I understand. I'm... I just...
Just that I have a major presentation today, so...
I'm sorry.
I can't help you.
You're gonna have to come back another day.
Alright, I could get you fired with one phone call!
You understand that?
I'm... sorry.
(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) Listen, I am just...
Well, I just need the file.
(WHISPERS) Please...
I'm sorry, I can't...
I'm sorry.
I warned you.
Can I help you?
Uh, I hope so.
I'm looking for some information on a patron who was here last night.
- Were you here? - Yeah, till about 10:00.
Do you know who Councillor Jacinta Clunes is?
Yeah, she... she was here last night.
- Was she alone or... or with someone? - She was with a guy.
I mean... I don't know if they were 'together' together
- or if they were work colleagues. - Right.
Can you tell me anything about him?
Not really. Wore a suit.
Drove a red sports car.
Anything else?
OK, I have to set up for a function. Can we do this inside?
Sure.
I don't want to get into trouble.
We respect our customers' privacy.
A crime may have been committed.
They were arguing.
Arguing?
Yeah, she was upset about something and he was being pretty aggressive.
What do you mean "aggressive"?
She was trying to get into the car and he was trying to stop her.
- And you witnessed this? - It happens a bit.
People drink, you know?
Did they leave together?
I don't know.
She got into her car as I went inside and when I came back it was gone too.
(SIGHS)
Right.
I'll be back.
But call me if you remember anything.
Lewis called.
Wanted to know where we were.
Jacinta Clunes met Gareth McAvaney here last night.
So?
They had an argument.
She knew we were onto her and tried to terminate their agreement.
She knew WHO was onto her?
Look, someone called this accident in.
I'm gonna guess it was Gareth McAvaney.
He was with her.
He knew he'd been seen with her.
He's trying to look like the concerned citizen.
(SHOUTS ANGRILY)
(HURRIED FOOTSTEPS)
Hey, buddy.
Where have you been? I've been trying to call you.
Just out at a building site.
Did you hear about Jacinta Clunes?
I did.
ERIC: She's dead, man.
I know, it's...
..it's tragic.
So, what about the proposal?
- Don't worry. It'll still go through, mate. - Are you sure?
Yeah...
(SHOUTS) I'm sure! Just get off my back!
(POURS DRINK)
We have sunk a lot of money into that land.
You might have backers to get you out of trouble but I don't.
Listen...
It's gonna be fine.
You know, it's been a shock.
I considered her a friend.
I just need a little time.
I just hope you know what you're doing, mate.
If this proposal doesn't go through,
we're screwed.
Close the door, will you?
(SIGHS)
Julia?
I think I might need some legal counsel.
(LOUD SIZZLING)
(BELL RINGS)
Won't be a moment.
(DOOR SLAMS, BELL JANGLES)
Take your time.
Chicken salt or normal, love?
Chicken, thanks.
Chicken's more popular than regular these days.
Thank you.
Can I help you?
- (BELL JANGLES) - Um...
Two potato cakes, thank you.
- Is that all? - Yes.
I'm watching my weight.
- Oh. - (GRACE CHUCKLES)
What are you doing?
You're Freddie's mum, aren't you?
Yes.
Why?
I'm a friend of Daisy's.
Well, I used to take care of her.
I took her off the streets.
It's very sad, what happened to Daisy.
She was a fragile girl.
- Vulnerable, like. - It wasn't Freddie's fault, what she did.
Oh, hush, now.
I'm not saying it is.
Daisy was at that tunnel
the night that woman was... murdered.
- I don't see... - Ah!
The police seem to think that's why she took her own life.
The shock of it all - the... the guilt.
I know they think Freddie killed that woman, but he wouldn't.
He... he couldn't.
It's alright.
I'm not here to judge.
I just want to know who that woman was and why Freddie killed her.
- I... - DO... not...
..argue with what we both know.
Honestly, I don't... know.
He must have known her.
I've never heard of her before.
And I've never heard Freddie talk about her!
Are you going to cook my potato cakes?
(CLATTERING AND SIZZLING)
(GRACE HUMS TUNE)
(SIGHS)
(GRACE SINGS SOFTLY)
Chicken salt or normal?
Oh.
(CHUCKLES) I'll have a little bit of both, if I may.
How much do I owe you?
$3.
When Freddie wakes up,
you tell him not to talk to the police.
Do you understand?
Why?
Do you want your son to go to jail for the rest of his life?
No, no, of course not.
Then tell him to say nothing.
Otherwise, if the cops don't get him, oh...
..the Devil surely will.
Ah... Thank you for the potato cakes.
(DOOR OPENS, BELL JANGLES)
- (DOOR CLOSES) - (SIGHS)
(WOMAN ON RECORDING CHOKES)
(GASPS)
MOLLY: I need to get into his house.
ALEX: What for?
He has paperwork in there that would prove they're in cahoots.
Wait a minute... How... how do you know that there's paperwork in his house?
'Cause I've seen it.
There are plans in there for the construction of a housing estate
four weeks before the council bought the land.
You broke into his house?
Yeah, I did.
- Molly, you're a cop! - Oh, come on, Alex!
It's not like you've never broken the law.
What?
Those anxiety meds in your glove box...
Uh, wha... what were you doing in my glove box?
Carrying a gun?
God...
One drug test and you'd be done for.
No, no, it's not important!
We need to get back.
Alex?
(ENGINE STARTS)
(BIRD CAWS)
Grace.
Eileen.
Hmm! What a pleasant surprise.
Where's my daughter? I know she's here.
GRACE: How long has it been? It must have been at least two years.
Can you just tell her to come out?
(SCOFFS) I can't tell Stephanie what she can or can't do.
She's a grown woman.
With a beautiful little baby girl.
- (HORSE NEIGHS NEARBY) - (GRACE CHUCKLES)
Bloodline is everything.
I won't let you ruin her.
Then, by all means...
..go and get her.
Well, you know I can't.
We're a part of a chain, Eileen.
You and I.
A long, great and suffering chain.
That's a chain I want broken!
Oh, it holds us together.
One link to the next.
Our strength is that we remember...
..the old days...
..and the old ways.
You have to let her go.
(SCOFFS) You make it sound like she's tied to a table!
Yeah, I know you too well.
We're in danger.
She comes with warnings,
and there's been plenty.
You, of all people, should know what it’s like to lose a child, Grace.
I'll be back!
MOLLY: I think this could give us a way into the Dorothy Moxley case.
How do you figure that?
Jacinta Clunes is backed by the Star of the Forest Church.
Dorothy Moxley is connected to the church
and most likely laundering money for them through Millstock...
How do you know Jacinta Clunes is backed by the church?
Done my homework.
And this isn't just an elaborate way of getting back at Gareth McAvaney?
He's a part of the church.
And I will bet you the shirt off my back
that McAvaney Constructions is funded by them.
We just need to prove it.
By breaking into his house again?
- Where does Freddie Hopkins fit into all of this? - That I don't know yet.
And how would you explain how you got the evidence? It'd be thrown out of court.
He'd have to prove I got it from his house.
I mean, I could have found it in a cafe.
Look, once I see the proo...
Molly...
What is it?
It's Gareth McAvaney's car.
Lewis.
What's going on?
Let's talk in my office.
Get on with your paperwork. This way, please.
Just up the stairs.
Molly, does Lewis know I spoke to Councillor Clunes?
Am I gonna get in trouble?
No.
No, it's... it's fine. Don't worry about it.
Valerie Gowdie.
(PHONE RINGS)
Yes?
Yeah, I'll come out.
Eileen.
Yeah. Hey.
- Is everything alright? - Yeah. Yeah.
I have to ask you a favour.
But only you.
OK.
You can't ask me any questions.
I need you to trust me.
- Can you? - What is it?
You said you'd wished you'd done more to help Jenny.
You can help now.
You alright?
Yeah. You?
Hey, look at this.
What did Eileen McGinty want?
Uh, she just wanted to ask me a favour.
Look at this.
That newspaper clipping I showed you...
Valerie Gowdie.
Ricky Jones was convicted of her murder in 1995.
So?
So, why does Dorothy Moxley have Ricky Jones' obituary?
What happened to your hand, Gareth?
Molly... in my office, now.
Do you care to explain this?
What were you doing in Gareth McAvaney's house, apart from stealing chess pieces?
(MUFFLED) Do you know what you've done?
You've embarrassed this unit
and you've embarrassed yourself!
Gareth?
I'll see you back at the office.
Hey.
Listen, I know... that there's been some trouble between you and Molly.
I mean, she's been under a lot of pressure. This investigation...
I appreciate your concern for her, Alex.
I... I do. I know that you guys were close.
- No, it's not that. She's a good cop. - No, she's an unhinged cop.
Look, I... I know that she can be persistent.
Persistent? She broke the law, Alex.
You get the irony of that?
She's a single mother.
She can't lose her job.
Let's get that drink soon.
Have a proper catch-up.
How did you hurt your hand? Looks bad.
Oh, I just... cut it on a door frame.
Clumsy me.
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
There's a much bigger picture going on here, Lewis! Can't you see it?!
You need to stop this personal grudge, Molly?
I know Elizabeth was a dear friend of yours
but her death was ruled an accident - let it go!
I have evidence to prove that Jacinta Clunes and Gareth McAvaney were colluding.
They're both a part of the Star of the Forest Church.
Well, where is your evidence?
Molly, you're not getting it.
All this makes anything that you have on this case invalid.
You have single-handedly compromised this investigation,
which means if Gareth McAvaney has anything to do with it,
then you've ruined any chance of convicting him!
(SCOFFS)
You'd better get legal representation, Molly.
What?
I should send you home right now.
Once a formal complaint comes in writing, I have no choice.
I'd get the best lawyer you can.
(DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS)
Hey, what's going on?
- I don't know. - ALEX: You OK?
Yeah, I gotta go.
Well, do you want to get a coffee?
I can't. I've gotta get my car.
It's Daisy's funeral.
I'll drive you.
Alright.
(MOLLY SIGHS)
He's got CCTV footage of me.
And what does it prove?
I had something from his house.
(SIGHS) Jesus, Molly, this isn't like you.
How would YOU know what is and isn't like me?!
(SCOFFS)
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDE)
We spent four years together.
Yeah, 20 years ago.
I need to speak to Bennett.
How sure are you that Gareth McAvaney was colluding with Jacinta Clunes?
I am positive.
(SIGHS)
OK. We need to find proof.
Legitimate proof.
I'm gonna lose my job, Alex.
No, you're not.
We'll find a way out of this.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(REVERSING ALARM BEEPS)
(TOOL WHIRRS)
Darryl, come and have a look at this.
How the hell did blood get on there?
Mm.
It's on the back of the seat as well.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
WOMAN: Death can leave a grief that hangs so heavy
that it turns to despair and hopelessness.
But it's in these times that we must turn to our faith,
as Daisy did.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(CROW CAWS)
Light and darkness, prosperity and disaster
are all Her creation,
and worship, suffering and sacrifice
are the only way.
Children are a portal...
(THUNDER CRASHES)
..to a better understanding of our spirit
that resides beyond the veil.
O, Lord, You bind the world with Your commandment
and we follow You now.
We leave the dead to bury the dead.
(BIRDS SCREECH)
"Bind the earth by the word of Your commandment and...
"seal it by the terror of Her hand."
It's unorthodox, to say the least.
Mm. You mean that it's matriarchal?
- Indeed. - Yeah.
But it sounds like Old Testament.
Yes, but...
..writings left out of the official Bible.
And as you say, the reference to "Her hand" is...
..it's interesting.
Where'd you get this?
It was, uh... it was found under the floorboards of an old convict house.
It's part of an investigation.
And the books and chapters aren't quite in the right order.
It could be a Crofter Bible.
Crofter?
It's appropriated from an older term.
The real origin is more like 17th-century Scotland.
Christianity fused with...
..folklore, pagan traditions,
a superstitious belief in black magic.
The closest analogy is...
..something like voodoo.
So, witchcraft?
Yeah, but not the pointy hat and broomstick variety.
Much... darker, disparate ideas than that.
What do you mean?
Way back in the day,
the Crofters were persecuted and displaced.
Marginalised by poverty and oppression.
They saw the paradox of evil in this world
and came to an unorthodox conclusion about God.
That evil exists because God wants it to.
That God was evil.
Basically, yes.
They didn't believe in the separation between life and death.
They thought it was all one and the same.
The living and the dead are never parted.
Here.
Probably dragged out here in the hull of an old convict ship.
From the old world to the new.
Ultimately...
..there was no... room for it here and it was forgotten.
And if there was?
Are you asking me if I...
..believe Crofters still exist?
I doubt it.
It's just old Scottish folklore.
Thank you.
If they were to exist,
these Crofters...
..how would we know?
Look for flocks of starlings.
They're meant to perform the dance of the witch.
(PIGEON COOS)
Thanks for your time, Padre.
(PIGEON COOS)
(CROWS CAW)
(BIRDS SCREECH)
(SPRAY HISSES)
(GLASS TINKLES AND JANGLES)
- (SIGHS) - (HORSE NEIGHS NEARBY)
(CROW CAWS)
Hi. Stephanie, I'm Alex.
- We met... - I've been waiting for you.
(CROW CAWS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Is Grace here?
No. She's gone out.
Your, um...
..your mother... asked me to come and check up on you.
My mother doesn't care about me.
Well, why do you say that?
Did you kill my sister?
What?
There are people who think you did.
I know, but it's not true.
So, a masked gunman comes out of nowhere,
killed Jenny but spared you?
Yeah.
And it keeps me awake every night.
That he killed Jenny... or spared you?
Both.
Why were you going up to the lakes that day?
Jenny wasn't your girlfriend.
She wanted me...
..to go with her while she was looking into your family history.
What was she looking for?
I don't really know.
I think she wanted to show me something.
My mother is obsessed with Jenny
and what happened.
It's like I never existed.
She never talks about our family history.
That's why I came here.
What's this? Do you know?
It's an old trinket.
Just decoration?
Superstition.
Like the bottles. They catch evil spirits.
Spirits of the dead don't like water.
They won't cross it.
The blue paint fools them,
keeps them at bay.
Paganism?
Folklore. From the 'old country', as my mother calls it.
Your mother has one?
Aunty Grace keeps up old traditions.
More than my mother.
Aunty Grace?
Yes. She and my mother are sisters.
(SUBDUED CONVERSATIONS)
Thanks for coming, Detective.
Daisy would have appreciated it.
Not at all.
Would you mind if I had a... a look in Daisy's room?
- Are you working? - No! No.
No, I just wanted to get a sense of how Daisy lived.
She loved having a home, and a room of her own.
We did our best.
I'll show you.
You foster kids often?
When we can.
We couldn't have children of our own.
And it was always God's will that we help.
I'm sure of that.
I guess you feel like that about your job.
Yeah.
Only I don't believe in God.
This was her room.
Won't be long.
Thank you.
(SIGHS)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
MRS BOWEN: Detective?
We're about to pray for Daisy.
Oh, OK.
Detective McGee,
come and join us.
Let us pray.
Light and darkness...
ALL: Light and darkness...
..prosperity, disaster.
ALL: prosperity and disaster.
Bound earth and sealed terror.
ALL: Bound earth and sealed terror.
Rejoice in our suffering.
ALL: Rejoice in our suffering.
Amen.
ALL: Amen.
(HORSE NEIGHS NEARBY)
(NEIGHING CONTINUES)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(BOTTLES JANGLE)
(STARTS ENGINE)
Goodnight, sir.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC BUILDS)
CHILD: (SINGS FAINTLY) ♪ Bheir mí óró, bhean ó
(CHILD'S LAUGHTER ECHOES)
♪ Bheir mí óró, ó bhean í
♪ Bheir mí óró ó hó
♪ Sad am I without thee
♪ Bheir mí óró, bhean ó
GRIMSHAW: Hello?
♪ Bheir mí óró, ó bhean í
♪ Bheir mí óró ó hó
♪ Sad am I without thee
(CHILD HUMS 'ERISKAY LOVE LILT' MELODY)
(CHILD'S LAUGHTER ECHOES)
Who's there?
(CHILD CONTINUES HUMMING 'ERISKAY LOVE LILT')
(DISTORTED LAUGHTER)
(SIGHS)
(OWL HOOTS NEARBY)
CHILD: (WHISPERS) Mama...
- (GROANS SLEEPILY) - Mama...
Huh...
Oh...
GRACE: Valerie?
Mama...
(BABY GRIZZLES)
Mama?
Oh...
(BABY BABBLES)
Oh, Valerie.
Bubby.
Ohh, Valerie.
Oh!
Yes!
Valerie... you've come back to me.
- (BABY GRIZZLES) - (GRACE HUMS TUNE)
That's not Valerie, Aunty Grace.
That's Emily.
(EMILY BABBLES)
DOCTOR: Can you sit up, Freddie?
(STEADY BEEPING)
Welcome back to the land of the living, Freddie.
We thought we'd lost you.
Ah, Nurse Isabelle is going to look after you. You must be hungry.
"Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth...
"and power was given unto them."
Hello, Freddie.
I've got some nice, hot soup for you.
FREDDIE: (WHISPERS) "Out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth...
"and power was given unto them."
(CRACKLING AND RUSTLING)