(TENSE MUSIC)
NARRATOR: Previously on Hunted...
CHILD: Daddy? Daddy? No, Daddy's not here.
..life on the run was taking its toll...
It's my, uh, son's birthday. I'm sorry I'm not there.
..as the fugitives tried every trick in the book...
We've been writing in invisible ink.
..to evade capture.
BYRON: I don't actually know if I want to activate the burner phone.
But with pressure mounting from the hunters...
DAVID: Fire up now. Let's go, go, go.
..a hot lead saw ground hunters circling in on Glenn and Taylah...
I've got their bags. Oh-ho-ho!
Ding, ding. Get the boxing gloves on and we're on.
Stop there!
..as the lengthy game of cat and mouse...
We got you surrounded! TAYLAH: Oh, no.
Taylah, you have been hunted down.
..finally came to an end.
Glenn, stop there! Stop there!
You've been hunted down.
(ALL CHEER)
WHOO!
After Ben and Callum narrowly avoided the hunters...
WOMAN: What was that?
MAN: Oh, my God. We need to move quick.
..they found themselves stranded...
We're stuck in Wandong
and we've no idea where we're staying tonight.
..until a kind stranger...
BOTH: That'd be awesome.
..offered a glimmer of hope.
You're a good friend to have.
We do feel safe, which is good, which is very good.
But everything was not as it seemed.
WOMAN: Hey, stranger, how you going? This is my brother.
You're not by chance looking for a couple of fugitives, are ya?
Hey, stranger, how you going?
Good, mate. Yourself? Good.
NARRATOR: In rural Victoria,
ground hunters Kellie and Michelle
have just received a tip-off from a surprising source.
Sorry. This is my brother. Michelle, Matt.
Hey, Matt. What's happening?
Oh, not much.
Um, you're not by chance looking for a couple of fugitives, are ya?
We're always looking for fugitives, always.
You're never gonna guess what just happened to me.
I went over to the train station, right,
and there's a couple of people, a couple of young fellas,
where they were trying to get a train
and I was just reading the timetable
and one come up to me, I think he said his name was Ben.
Callum? Is the other one Callum? Callum, yes.
Yeah. No way.
Where are they now? Yeah, they're at my house.
(KELLIE LAUGHS)
Are you serious?
We're, like, an hour away.
Yeah, no worries. I'll put 'em to work.
What are the chances of getting them inside?
Give them a cold drink? OK.
Can you make sure your back door is locked or closed?
They can't get out. No worries.
OK, 'bye. See you. 'Bye.
'Bye, 'bye, 'bye.
Shit.
(MACHINERY WHIRRS)
That's a good one.
KELLIE: Hi, boss.
REECE: Delta, what have you got?
So a strange turn of events, boss. OK.
Just received a phone call from somebody...
OK.
..who has told me that they have two fugitives staying at their house...
What?!
..in Wandong.
Ben and Callum.
I've got a hundred questions right now.
OK, you've got my attention.
What type of information is this?
Are you ready, boss? Yep.
You ready, Chief? Yeah.
The informant is my brother.
Brother? (WOMAN SCOFFS) What?
PEOPLE: What?
What?!
Serious.
He's housing two fugitives as we speak.
That is absolutely awesome.
DAVID: This is unbelievable.
I literally have goosebumps right now.
Oh, so do we.
Does he know them or...
No, no.
He lives in a country town and he was at the train station.
He's on a property and he's got them out working.
We're en route there now.
We're one hour from that location.
OK, problem is, is if they're outside,
it's gonna be a chase for you guys, right?
Yes, correct.
DAVID: Whatever you do, let's not compromise this.
This is a golden egg and I don't want to waste it.
We told him to keep the door locked and the boys inside.
Great. Good hunting.
We got it. We've got it.
BEN OWEN: Reece, did you order the pizzas, mate?
Yeah, I know. It should be a good show.
(CHUCKLES)
That's excellent.
Delta's time to shine.
KELLIE: Yeah!
WOMAN: Yeah, so you got what you wanted.
(WOMAN 2 LAUGHS)
Ben and Callum, we've definitely invested the most time and resources,
particularly the cyber team, into them.
They've messed with us and tried to trick us.
So I'm incredibly excited
to hopefully get Ben and Callum in the bag today.
DAVID: OK, so obviously these fugitives
are gonna be extremely surprised,
more surprised than what we are.
What's the most likely action they're gonna take?
So, you know, that this is gonna do,
it's such a shock that it's going to really activate
that fight-or-flight response.
So actually trying to run is gonna be a natural strategy.
That makes me concerned that maybe we need more units there.
We just don't have time. Mmm.
So the element of surprise is gonna be critical.
Yeah, absolutely.
They are possibly gonna try and separate
so that at least one of them can stay.
Yeah, OK. Alright.
They are strategists, so...
Well, this isn't a strategy... They're gonna use whatever they can.
They didn't count on this. Absolutely.
We've been on Ben and Callum from a cyber perspective,
from a technical perspective and also ground hunters as well for days
and we pulled up absolutely nothing.
This amazingly good luck that came our way is a gift.
It's mind-blowingly coincidental.
I haven't met Kel's brother, but I'm gonna buy him a beer.
MAN: Alright, going well, lads.
BEN: Yeah, splitting wood, man.
It's a lot of fun. Gonna whack this one away.
That exploded, bro. That fills me with joy.
Spiky things, though.
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon, I don't think.
Not too worried about the hunters screaming up the driveway,
so that's a nice relief.
(MACHINERY WHIRRS)
(LOG CRUNCHES)
If we can gather around the centre table, please.
ALL: Yes, Chief!
Let's move with some urgency. We need some energy up here.
NARRATOR: With Delta 30 minutes from the target,
the chief rallies the team for a debrief on the remaining fugitives.
Let's not take our foot off the pedal.
So we'll go around each of the fugitive pairs.
Let's just start with Tharren and Jordan.
Karla, what are you thinking?
I mean, my thinking is a reasonable likelihood
that they are quite comfortable in the outdoors
and will spend a lot of their time just camping and chilling out
because that's part of their healthy lifestyle.
And, obviously, they've spent a lot of time together as father and son
so probably the least amount of tension and stress
out of all our fugitive pairs, unfortunately.
THARREN: Let's just put it this way.
We hope that the hunters are as tangled up
with finding people as Jordan's...
JORDAN: Tangled up this fishing line.
..as Jordan's tangled up this fishing line.
We also want to bait them into thinking
we're at lots of different locations and currently we're here.
We're the ones fishing for them.
OK, another blank on our radar is these two,
Bayan and Eesha.
I think the primary likelihood here
is for the Persian community to be helping.
The community is somewhat small,
but in terms of sort of a geographic location,
north of Melbourne is really that heartland the Persian community.
That's what we need, Jay, that stuff right there.
We just need to draw down a little bit more on that.
BAYAN: When you go to a Persian household,
you get Persian tea and we're gonna get Persian food shortly as well.
Yes! Yes! So good!
Hey, Mr Hunter, come in and have some tea.
(LAUGHS) Enjoy a cup of tea with us.
Ed and Jimi. I don't know very much about these two at all right now.
Another one we know very little about
with direction of travel, physical locations.
I want to have a much better picture on their psychology
and what they're up to right now.
I'll be a fugitive and you be a hunter.
OK.
I spotted him! Oh, no!
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
You have to stop now! Stop!
Stop! (LAUGHS)
Stop! Stop!
Where have you gone?
Can you see him? Can you see him on my phone?
(LAUGHS)
Right, we've got red hot intelligence leads
with Ben and Callum.
We've got an action plan. We know what we're gonna do.
Let's not muck around.
Keep the game face on, gloves off.
Let's go. ALL: Yes, Chief.
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(MACHINERY WHIRRS)
Now we've just got to wait for Matt to tell us what to do with the rest.
Ops, this is Delta.
We are five minutes out, five minutes out.
Roger that.
(MATT SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
Phew! Got a bit excited. Come on.
(SIGHS)
Well... Coke, Solo or lemonade?
Oh, Coke, please. Coke?
Can I just jump into your bathroom?
Yeah. Wash my handles?
(DEVICE TRILLS)
REECE: Alright, team, where are we at?
Alright, so I can see the start of the driveway.
Make sure we point our vehicle in a take-off position.
Yep.
Roger that. Let's go.
I hope they're inside.
I hope they're inside too.
BEN: Perfect. Thank you.
We're going to park outside the driveway
and then we're gonna walk up.
MAN: Righto, Delta.
Righto, Delta, let's have this. Let's get this done.
Good luck, Kel. Alright, we're out.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)
(TENSE MUSIC)
MICHELLE: OK, I'm going left.
You're gonna go up that tree line.
I'm going up the tree line.
(DOG BARKS OUTSIDE)
REECE: Let's coordinate this, guys.
Kel, I'm approaching the front steps. Where are you?
So, Michelle, I'm going wide.
BEN OWEN: Nice, nice. Excellent work, excellent work.
I'm just at the side of that shed, Michelle.
Think I only sustained one splinter through all of that,
so I'm pretty happy.
I'm coming up to the front.
MATT:
Well, we do have some two-minute noodles. (CHUCKLES)
You reckon? Yeah.
That'd be amazing.
Nah, man, happy to help.
REECE: Let's go, team. You've got this.
Uh, Ben is out the front.
(CALLUM SIGHS) There you go. Well earned.
Thank you very much.
REECE: Have you got positive ID?
MICHELLE: OK, I've got eyes on.
He's at the front. He's at the front.
Let's get it done, let's get it done.
Well, that doesn't seem good.
Now! Go! Go! Go!
OK, Callum, Ben!
(ALL CHEER AND SHOUT)
Cal, move! CALLUM: Run!
Ben and Callum! KELLIE: No!
Whoo-hoo!
Oh, no! You've been hunted down!
Sorry. Coming through!
Coming through! Hello!
Excuse me, buddy.
Oh, there goes my hat.
Stop, Callum!
Oh, he's getting away.
Run, Cal.
(TENSE MUSIC)
KELLIE: Stop, Callum!
Ben!
Stop! BEN: Run, Cal.
MAN: Get him! WOMAN: Come on, girls!
Oh, he's getting away.
He is fast.
Your time on the run is over!
You've been hunted down!
CALLUM: Yeah, probably soon,
but we'll keep running for a little bit, OK?
They've run towards the train station.
Let's get monitoring, guys.
Oh, shit.
BEN: Run, Cal. Don't stop running.
How far is the station from there?
MAN: It's 1.4 kays. Oh, my God.
KELLIE: I'll get the car!
(PANTS)
REECE: Come on, Delta. You can do this.
Let's keep on this trail.
They're gonna run out of puff. Just keep eyes on them.
KARLA: Come on, Kellie!
MAN: Yep, she's on the way, she's on the way.
(BOTH PANT)
KELLIE: Michelle, I've got obs on them now.
REECE: Keep going, keep going!
MICHELLE: Go to the corner, go to the corner!
Callum!
What do we do?
That's a problem, Ben.
You've got this, Michelle! You've got this.
You need to give it up, boys. You've got nowhere to run!
(ALL CHEER)
Yeah, you've got nowhere to go. (REECE GUFFAWS)
Yeah, you've got nowhere to go!
Go left. I'll deal with this one.
Stop, Callum. OK?
Arggh!
(HUNTERS SHOUT)
You have got nowhere to go. Come on!
Run, Cal.
(GRUNTS)
Ben, you've been hunted down. Your time on the run is over.
(ALL CHEER)
Whoo!
Oh, I gotta know, how'd you do it?
Have we got one more? Have we got him, though?
I've got Ben. Nice. Well done.
Yeah, well done, well done. You've got Ben.
Now I'm after Callum.
Callum turned around, cut back the other way.
Alright, I'm gonna get back in the car.
Come on, Kel. He's coming up to the intersection.
I've got eyes on him now. I'll corner him.
DAVID: You've got him, Kel. Box him in.
Get him, Kel! CALLUM: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go, Kellie! Oi!
Oh, that's naughty!
Go, Kellie!
(ALL SHOUT)
Kel, go! Here we go.
Good stuff! Go, go, go!
Your time on the run is over, bud!
You have been hunted down.
(ALL CHEER WILDLY)
REECE: Well done, team! Well done! Well done, everyone! Oh, my God!
Big one.
DAVID: That was a lot harder than it had to be.
(ALL CHEER AND APPLAUD)
What's up, man?
Hey, Callum, how you feeling, mate?
Yeah, not too bad.
At the end of the day, you trusted the wrong person.
Look, I actually don't know who you met.
All I know is it's Kellie's brother.
That's my brother. And we didn't even know.
Seriously? Yep.
Are you kidding me? No.
(ALL LAUGH)
That was her brother. Which one's brother?
And you...and you trusted her brother!
Can you believe it?
What are the odds, though? What are the odds?
How do you account for that?
Seriously, you played a very skilled game.
You kept our cyber team absolutely on their toes.
You gave us a good runaround.
At the end of the day, bad luck for you, good luck for us.
Thanks for playing. Good luck, guys.
Thanks, guys. Have fun. See you later.
REECE: Nice work, Kel.
Yes! See you, team. Out.
Whoo! KELLIE: See you. 'Bye, 'bye.
So how do you guys feel about that?
It's quality.
(WOMAN LAUGHS) "It's quality."
You can't write stuff like that.
BEN: It's his bloody sister.
What are the chances?
CALLUM: We tried our hardest,
but honestly it was probably the most fun I've ever had.
Yeah, I think this will forever go down
as one of those activities that, you know...
We did together. Yeah, we did together.
No matter with our lives, we'll kind of have this to remember.
That's it. We had an absolute bloody blast.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: With Ben and Callum captured,
six teams of fugitives
remain on the run.
And with 15 days still to go...
..one team have survived almost a week
without being seen by the hunters.
ELERRINA: Oh, cute!
SONJA: I feel like I look like an '80s singer.
You do, and I am the guitarist.
I'm your male guitarist accomplice. (LAUGHS)
Accompanist.
El and I, we are best friends and we both live in Queensland.
We do look the part. We do.
Not fake at all.
We met probably around
three-ish years ago
and it was because we were going to
a watermelon-eating competition.
Nothing like a watermelon-eating contest
to, you know, meet a new best friend.
Go try it.
NARRATOR: Since day one, Sonja and Elerrina
have been making the most of being off the hunters' radar.
(BOTH LAUGH)
How's your drink?
Delicious.
But now with the help of associate Steve...
Thank you so much for picking us up.
No problem.
..they're ready to have fun with the hunters.
We're just heading over to Voyage Fitness in Warragul.
Try not to, uh, get caught.
(CHUCKLES) We are not going to get caught.
And we are probably gonna put on wigs while we're in your car.
Our strategy to evade the hunters
is really to utilise our networks.
I work in radio.
Last year, I moved to regional Victoria for a radio job.
I was here for eight months.
I had enough time to build up a solid group of friends here.
We're about to meet up with Rachel, who owns the gym,
and we are going to be doing a spin class.
I think as a duo, we stand out a little bit
so disguises are pretty key to our strategy as well.
Do you think you can put it on while I hold?
This is awesome.
Wigs definitely play a major part in this.
Beautiful! Crazy hair.
Honestly, we're so strategically planned
that we don't even need to run
'cause they're not gonna know where we are to chase us.
We've got this.
What a legend. We appreciate you so much. Thank you.
'Bye. 'Bye!
The duo plan to film a social media taunt
that they'll use a decoy and then flee the area.
Hi. How are you?
You ready for RPM?
Oh, so ready. Let's go.
Wonderful.
(INSTRUCTOR SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
NARRATOR: Hidden from CCTV,
the fugitives remove their wigs for the video,
which a friend will post to the gym's social media page,
tagging the hunters.
INSTRUCTOR: Can we go faster?
Let's go! Quicker!
I wanna go have a shower.
Donning their disguises again...
We're ready!
..the fugitives make a hasty exit
with a plan to head 110km east to the city of Sale.
Hopefully, they take a while to click on that we've been here.
It's not like the hunters would very firstly go,
"I think Elerrina's gonna go to a spin cycle class
"or any sort of fitness class."
I honestly don't think... No, it's not your favourite place.
No, that's not the first place they're gonna look.
Mmm... That's cold. Eugh!
Hey, Ben?
There's been a post on social media
by Voyage Fitness in Warragul with Sonja and Elerrina.
So this is the pair here, yeah? Yeah.
Elerrina and Sonja.
She does not look like she's enjoying that.
I wonder if they're still around that Warragul area.
The key thing would be when that was. Yeah.
It could be giving us misinformation to slow us down for a bit,
but we're gonna capitalise on that information.
Elerrina and Sonja have been well and truly off the radar
and that's putting it lightly.
This is the first bit of intelligence we've got on both of them.
When fugitives think they're giving us a wild-goose chase,
it's actually incredibly helpful
'cause they're leaving us little crumbs of intelligence.
We are right back on the trail
and I think we will be catching them very, very soon.
NARRATOR: Across Victoria,
a dozen fugitives are spread out
in various directions
from Melbourne's CBD
except for Byron and Tanase
who are just around the corner from Hunter HQ in a friend's apartment.
(MICROWAVE BEEPS) BYRON: Your meal's up.
TANASE: Medaase, medaase.
Do you know what that means, Byron?
You're saying thank you.
In what? What? Twi.
Mmm. Alright.
"Twee." That's very Aussie of you. Oh, OK.
(LAUGHS)
You love it. What?
You're so African.
Since going on the run,
Byron and Tanase have played a risky game...
We're waiting, we're dancing.
We got our friends. Guess who we are.
Yeah, come and guess who we are!
..utilising their West African network
to pull off a live taunt.
Run!
WOMAN: Where are they?
Whoo! Yes! Yeah!
But after being caught on CCTV topping up their burner phone...
Connecting to the wi-fi now.
WOMAN: Ah, we've had a banking hit.
..the hunters now have it on full intercept.
DAVID: If that phone's turned on, we should pick it up
so that will then give us a location
and it should be just - bang! - that quick.
However, they've been careful not to use their burner phone
until they're ready to escape the city.
TANASE: I don't want to stay.
I feel like the city's too hot.
We stick to the plan of, like, going out of the city.
Mmm, I don't want to stay here.
Totally agree, sis.
(CHUCKLES) Pump it! Let's get out!
Get out of here!
Alright, you want to make some calls?
Mmm.
We should download WhatsApp on here
'cause the hunters can't hack into WhatsApp
'cause it's an encrypted app.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
And we just, like...
Obviously, we'll turn it off when we're not using it 'cause of GPS.
Yeah, with the GPS stuff. Yeah. Or even just, like, the phone.
(LINE RINGS)
Hello, Ryan? MAN ON PHONE: Yeah.
It's Tanase. How are you? I'm good. Yourself?
Chief, we have an outgoing call
on that burner phone that Byron acquired.
The hit we've had is on WhatsApp.
We should be able to get the recipient of the call.
Yes.
But not necessarily the data or content.
NARRATOR: By using an encrypted app,
even with the phone on intercept,
HQ can't listen in to Byron and Tanase's phone call,
but they can still access who they've contacted.
Ryan, we're wondering if you have any capacity
to take us to an alpaca farm?
BYRON: Yay.
Simpf, with the Adu pair,
they've just used their burner phone.
We need to know who they called immediately.
GRAEME: Stand by.
WOMAN: Simpf, I'm sending that to your email now.
Thank you.
Um, we're gonna get the update from Byron and Tanase.
Yep. Their phone is now turned on.
Alright, I'm onto that. I'll work on that.
BYRON: Calling Elvis now.
(LINE RINGS)
WOMAN: Leigha and Simpf? Yep.
Also have another outgoing call for Byron and Tanase.
Elvis. Sending you details now.
LEIGHA: Thank you.
(LINE RINGS)
BYRON: Hey, bello, it's me.
Byron and Tanase picked up a phone a few days ago.
It was off, but now they've made three phone calls
to some of their associates.
We're just gonna map all of the people that they've called
and work out those networks.
So, yeah, we are gonna catch up pretty quickly.
OK, Leigha, if you're able to take us through that chart, please.
Yeah, sure. Right.
So Byron and Tanase went down to Frankston
and they made a purchase to update that phone with data
and then we have our three calls that they made after that -
Ryan, Elvis and Lia.
So we've got addresses
and we've also got some vehicles associated.
We're going to be keeping an eye on all of the vehicles
and phones that they may use.
We have no further phone calls.
Look, our concept with these people is that we're monitoring.
I don't want to scare them at the moment.
I don't want to frighten these rabbits.
I want them to just go around their grazing activities.
As soon as they use their phones
or the cars are picked up somewhere unusual,
there will be an alert to us
and we'll vector one of our units in and put them in the bag.
NARRATOR: Heading 110km north-east of Melbourne,
Byron and Tanase are with Ryan.
You got to direct me, though.
TANASE: Yea! BYRON: Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah!
It feels good to get out of the city.
It's the first time we've been out of the city since the game started.
There's a certain level of, like, comfort,
but also there's no quick escape.
Yeah, that's the thing once we're dropped off.
Oh, he just flashed you.
It must mean that there's a speed camera up here.
Ahh.
Hey, Ben, we've had a hit on Ryan's car
associated with Byron and Tanase.
It was at 12:56, heading northbound on the Melba Highway.
So this was the black Holden Cruze? Correct.
ANPR? Monitoring, yes.
ANPR, or automatic numberplate readers,
are scattered across the state of Victoria.
Police use them tactically.
It logs every single registration plate that goes through it
and exactly what time, exactly what location.
I'm throwing it up on the big screen, Ben.
So we've got an individual called Ryan.
He was actually someone that Byron just called
using a burner phone.
Not long after, we've got an ANPR on his vehicle
heading out of Melbourne where he lives.
So that is unusual activity for us.
We think Ryan could be transporting Byron and Tanase somewhere rural.
Looks like it's between Glenburn and Yea.
Glen... OK, yep.
BYRON: That looks like alpacas. Maybe it's here.
It might be coming up here.
Aww. Oh, my God. Look at them!
Delta, Delta, HQ.
Yeah, Delta, go.
New intelligence on Ryan.
We just got a hit on ANPR between Glenburn and Yea.
Can you start tracking in that direction?
And we're just gonna scour the area.
Yeah, we'll head off now.
BYRON: Hi! Michelle? WOMAN: How you going?
Good. How are you? I'm Byron.
We're here. We arrived. (CHUCKLES)
(LAUGHS) No.
This ANPR is absolute gold dust to us.
We can understand exactly
where he's dropped Byron and Tanase off.
We're right back on top of them.
TANASE: See you, Ryan!
NARRATOR: In the rural town of Woodend,
fugitive couple Holly and Josh
have been enjoying the hospitality
of fellow paramedic Joel and his wife, Charlie.
God, you make good coffees.
Oh, my gosh. The froth is so good.
Frothing the froth.
But after being in the area for several days...
Hi there!
..the fugitives are keen to move on...
Hello, Stormy!
..to keep ahead of the hunters.
So what do you think we should do today?
Well, we're bringing Stormy with us.
Obviously, Stormy comes with us.
We ride her to Castlemaine. We ride till dawn.
Do you think there's campgrounds in Castlemaine?
Yes, there are, in Harcourt.
Would you be OK with doing that trip?
Yeah. Road trip!
A large part of our strategy
will definitely be a bit of camping
and trying to stay off the grid...
(GRUNTS)
..utilising a lot of paramedic colleagues.
This is cool. This is so country.
This guys will go, like, to the moon and back for us.
Yeah, they will.
Aww! I'm into that. Oh, bring it in there.
Group hug. Group hug.
Paramedics are perfect contacts
because we have such a big network in Victoria.
See ya! Love you!
It is really, really nice to be out of Woodend
and away from a semi-close contact.
So to be here at... (JABBERS)
Wherever we are. See, I don't even know where we are.
If I don't know where we are,
how are the hunters gonna know where we are?
In HQ, the cyber team have been trawling Holly and Josh's devices
for all text message, email and WhatsApp exchanges
to see if they can find any useful connections
within their social media networks.
Sorry if I'm just being too much. I'm just super excited.
Vikki has just recovered messages
that Josh failed to completely wipe from his phone
before going on the run.
Hot lead. Hot, hot stuff. What have you got?
There's conversations between someone called Joel and Josh
saying, "Is anyone in Woodend keen to help?"
And Joel shares his mobile number.
They are friends on Facebook.
He's a paramedic. He lives in Woodend.
BEN: Oh, he's a paramedic? That's even better.
If we get as an urgent one an historic on Joel's phone,
his vehicle details, historic ANPR and all that,
Vik, can I leave that with you?
Yeah, it's in progress. Amazing. Thanks, Vik.
I think we're ahead of Josh and Holly right now...
(CHUCKLES) ..until I get proven wrong in about six hours,
but at the moment, I feel so.
HOLLY: Strategy.
Put this girl over here.
How good's that for a decoy?
(BOTH LAUGH)
It's a good one.
NARRATOR: After almost a week with no sighting
of fugitives Sonja and Elerrina...
MAN: I wonder if they're still around that Warragul area.
..a taunt filmed at a gym in West Gippsland
has given the cyber team reason to comb through their devices
and target any associates in the area.
JAY: This...this is promising.
So looking at Elerrina's social media presence,
she was a radio host, it seems, in Warragul, the Gippsland area.
She was mentioning on her phone that, like,
"It's God's plan that I took this job in Warragul before Hunted
"because I've got all my friends in the Gippsland area."
Elerrina made friends
with all the beauticians and salon owners down there,
so I'm going to look a little bit deeper
into that beautician community.
I think that's the hottest lead operationally.
MAN: We need to shake her out of Warragul.
Yes, we do.
Even if she's not there, she'll hear about it at some point.
She's gonna make a mistake pretty quickly.
ELERRINA: Let's go, let's go, let's go. (LAUGHS)
Having travelled east from Warragul to the city of Sale...
That was a big hill.
..Sonja and Elerrina can let their hair down.
I don't know if I can keep wearing it.
Oh, it's pulling, like, all up here.
The only reason I like it is because it goes like this.
I want a face lift with my wig. (LAUGHS)
Jay, Echo's been allocated Sonja and Elerrina to have a look at like you.
JAY: Yeah, no worries. I'll call Zack. Yeah.
(LINE RINGS)
Hello, Jay. Hey, Zack.
At this point, I'm looking quite heavily to Elerrina.
Yeah.
She seems to have done some work at a radio station.
She's also got a friend called Jess
who she seems to have use to worked with.
Uh, Jess now owns a beauty salon in Warragul.
Could you just head down there and see if you can find Jess
and see if you can get any useful information from her?
Yeah, awesome, man.
Moving to that address, the location, the vicinity of now.
Alright, thank you. Ciao, mate. 'Bye.
Elerrina, I'm coming for ya.
(MAN CHUCKLES)
I'd be afraid of us if I were them.
How you doing? Jess? G'day, Jess. Zack and Sean.
Hi. How are you? Can we have a chat for a minute?
Yeah? How do you know Elerrina?
Oh, there you go. Yep, yep, there you go.
Yeah, right. Yeah, OK.
When she's living the dream and famous,
you'll...you'll be right there beside her.
Have you chatted to her in the last couple of days?
No. No?
Last seven days? No.
No? You sure? Yep.
OK.
OK. Hmm.
Mm, yeah. Yep, obviously that's why we're here. Yeah.
Cool. Thanks very much, team. Appreciate your time.
Thanks, brother.
(LINE RINGS)
Hey, Ben.
I'm just calling for a debrief on Jess.
Um, limited information there.
She definitely had worked with her through radio.
We think in some way that she's involved.
She was very smiley, very smirky.
She told us El was a very smart girl
and why would she come to the most obvious place?
Right, talking crap, basically, and just really not letting up?
Yes.
Alright, well, I certainly think until we get a bit more information,
continue to rattle the network and see what falls from it.
Yep, roger that. Alright, thanks, gents.
NARRATOR: In Sale, Sonja and Elerrina
are planning their next night of accommodation
as they move through the Gippsland region.
(LINE RINGS) JESS: Hello.
ELERRINA: Hello, my dear friend. How are you?
Hello! (CHUCKLES)
We are planning on coming your way tomorrow. Is that still OK?
The trail might be a little hot. Why?
OK, so two men...
..came to the Hub today.
Did they?! SONJA: Came to where?
The Makeup Hub.
Yeah, they were quite good-looking
and I was like, "Oh, my God. You got the wrong weekend!
"The hens' party's not till next weekend!"
Yes! (BOTH LAUGH)
OK, love you. 'Bye!
SONJA: Now that we know the hunters are actually on our trail,
I'm feeling scared shitless.
Now more than anything, I feel like...
..we are on the run.
Oh, my God. I am shaking.
I don't...I don't know.
I kind of just want to leave,
but I know that's because I know they're around.
I know. It's messing with my head slightly right now.
It is. Same. Yep.
It does make me nervous staying in Gippsland.
We need to get the heck out.
We're changing plans.
NARRATOR: Watch every adrenaline-pumping moment
of the thrilling second series
of Hunted Australia with full episodes on 10 play.
(PHONE RINGS)
At HQ, the hunters are hot on the trail
of fugitives Byron and Tanase,
after their contact Ryan's car
was caught on ANPR heading north on the Melba Highway.
How did we go with our inquiries with Byron and Tanase?
BEN OWEN: Yeah, we had an ANPR hit in between Glenburn and Yea.
We've been doing sweeps east and west, working our way north.
Yep.
We are confident, given the lack of pos ID on the cameras in Yea,
that the vehicle drop-off happened in the middle.
Then that's not gonna pick them up if they've hitchhiked from there.
They've been dropped off with a vehicle, they hitchhike in.
I think we should just hit Yea with wanted posters,
offering a reward.
What's the downside?
(LINE RINGS)
Hey, guys. We know Byron and Tanase are headed north.
The biggest population within that area is Yea.
All the locals will go through there.
I'm getting posters made.
If someone just sees one poster and saw them 30km away,
that'll ring a bell.
It'll really stand out, you know.
Never know. Yeah.
Yep. Perfect. Yep. Thanks, guys. Thank you.
I think we should have eyeballs on them very shortly.
Let's get 'em in the bag,
NARRATOR: After being dropped off at an alpaca farm,
Byron and Tanase are getting accustomed to country life.
Stop mucking around, fellas. Come on.
Time to get to work. Straight up in there.
Off you go! Be free.
This is what...a life as a fugitive.
You just never know where you're gonna end up.
I don't even know if I've ever touched an alpaca before.
And here we are, herding them. Here we are, herding them.
And I'm holding one. Yeah.
May as well walk the whole strip.
NARRATOR: As Delta begin the wanted-poster campaign in Yea...
..115km away in Woodend,
Team Bravo are visiting the home of local paramedic Joel,
who they suspect is helping fugitives Holly and Josh.
(DOOR OPENS)
G'day. How you going? G'day. How are ya?
Good. How are you? Is Joel here?
No, he's not. He's at work, sorry. Oh, he's at work?
Yeah. What time would he be home?
Um, today, about 6:00, I think.
Yep. What was your name? Charlie.
And what's your relationship with Joel?
Yep, he's my husband. Oh, OK. Cool.
Have you had anyone stay here recently?
No, sorry. I... Yeah, don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, just a question if you've had anyone stay here?
Nah.
I mean, you could sweeten the deal for me a bit
and I could give you some information.
What...what are you looking for?
Some money. Some money?
Yeah. Yeah.
How much money? Um, how much you got?
Let's just cut to the chase.
It sounds like you've had a bit of time to plan this.
So, uh, where are they?
Um, not gonna tell you that.
OK.
I like your black clothes. Very intimidating.
Thank you.
(LINE RINGS)
Yeah, this is Bravo.
Uh, Joel is not present but his wife is.
She's saying he's at work.
He's got two more shifts left.
But he's been working the last two days. Is that correct?
That's correct.
She's definitely part of it somehow. She was being really cagey.
As soon as we went in there, she said,
"Yeah, if you give me money, I'll give you information that you want."
They're just cocking us about. Do you agree, guys? Cocking us around.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Good effort, guys. Keep going. Keep plugging away. We'll get there.
Righto. Cheers, Ben.
Something's going on, isn't it? That's great.
Yeah, it's great. We're catching up. Yeah, it's like...we're speeding up.
We wanna do some phone checks, yeah.
Yeah.
Joel's partner Charlie said that he'd been working.
So if his phone leaves Woodend, she's telling porky pies.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah.
Need to call the fire brigade 'cause her pants are on fire.
(CHUCKLES)
We will see.
NARRATOR: With Charlie's behaviour raising alarm bells,
HQ's lead investigator searches Joel's phone records
for location data that contradicts Charlie's story.
As you move along the highway,
your phone is gonna bounce off different towers
and that's gonna give us different locations.
They've gone to a camping area in Harcourt.
Did you see that, Ben?
Looks interesting.
So in this case, his phone is bouncing off towers
going to the north and that's led us to this particular camping area.
So this is when Charlie says he's at work.
So it is there in the middle of the day, Joel's phone?
Joel's phone. Yeah?
And it's only for 15 minutes.
And then he goes back so he's done a drop-off.
I think we are very warm.
NARRATOR: Using mobile phone tower data,
the hunters have mapped Joel's movements.
Yesterday, Joel's phone left Woodend,
where he lives and works,
and travelled north to a camp site east of Harcourt,
pinging cell towers along the way.
His phone remained at the camp site for 15 minutes,
before returning south to Woodend.
There's a reason he's gone there.
You don't go that far off the beaten track to take a leak.
Yeah, you're right. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, no, I do.
(LINE RINGS)
Hi, guys.
OK, so we have an update of technical hits on Joel's phone.
The phone spent around 15-20 minutes at the camping area in Harcourt.
So, yeah, let's head that way.
It's the last location we have where we believe they were dropped off.
Thanks, Ben.
Oh, the other one. I just need to put the tent in my bag.
Oh, yep.
NARRATOR: After camping overnight...
Please, make it further away.
..Josh and Holly are changing locations
and waiting for their next contact to arrive.
We're looking for a white RAV4.
My paramedic friend Austin is gonna be picking us up.
If we see and suspect a suspicious vehicle,
we do have a little head start on them.
So, yeah, hopefully we can hide out, run away from them.
I'm not too worried right now.
We haven't seen the hunters.
And if they knew where we were,
then we would have seen them by now I think.
HQ, this is Bravo.
We've got an ETA of 17 minutes from the camping area. Over.
Roger that. (RADIO TRILLS)
Ops, Echo moving up on the campground now.
Thanks, team. Out. (RADIO TRILLS)
Ben, just for your situational awareness,
That's where the guys are at the moment.
So they're at, you know, this camping area here.
You've got another six kays to... Yeah.
..to travel.
And there's two ways in, two ways out.
So many possibilities, mate.
They'd be bloody nervous if they're hearing cars coming up this road.
Mm.
What's that? Did you see that car?
Holly and Josh.
Gee, they'd be bloody nervous
if they're hearing cars coming up this road.
Mm.
What's that? Did you see that car?
NARRATOR: At a remote camp site,
fugitives Holly and Josh
are waiting for a lift from paramedic contact Austin...
I reckon we hide out for that one.
Let's do it. Let's go.
..unaware two ground hunter teams are closing in on their location.
I wonder how many entrances there are.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna clear that, mate. Yep.
I'm gonna go on foot up the road here.
Officer Zerko canvasing the east, west of the campground. Over.
Roger that. Let's go.
Right now we're hot on the trail of Holly and Joshua.
Phone location intelligence has led us to a camp site.
Bravo and Echo are actually in the location right now.
One with vehicle, one foot.
They will fan out in the area.
You know what, my piss-off factor's getting high again.
But the camp site is about 300m wide by 6km long.
We might get that drone up and moving.
So we're gonna deploy the drone so we can cover a greater area.
OK, gather round. This is gonna be a ride.
JOSH: We just have to listen.
HOLLY: I wanna get out of here.
GROUND HUNTER: That is lift-off. The drone has lift-off. Over.
HUNTER: Come on, please be there.
HOLLY: Oi, what's this?
A white car.
GROUND HUNTER: OK, I got the road.
Oh, wait a second.
They're coming in.
Yes. That's Austin's car.
GROUND HUNTER: Ooh, what's that? I heard a vehicle.
Ooh, ooh, here we go.
Come on. Come on.
HOLLY: Go, Josh. JOSH: Let's go.
Let's get outta here.
Leg it!
Let's take some people out.
HOLLY: Go, go, go, go! Just wanna get out of here.
BEN OWEN: What's up there?
(DRONE BUZZES)
HUNTER: Caravan.
Clear to the right.
You're such a nice safe driver.
I would trust you driving a paramedic vehicle.
AUSTIN: Thank you.
GROUND HUNTER: We're looking for a couple of people
who are on the run.
It's a male and a female.
Have you got some good news for me?
Negative.
We've spoken to a couple of elderly people staying in a caravan here
who said that they saw potentially the fugitives leaving the area.
(HUNTERS SIGH) WOMAN: Oh, my God.
Yeah, roger that, team.
Oh, I feel like we got all dressed up.
We got the chocolates, we got the roses and we got stood up.
(MAN LAUGHS)
Have you caught anyone yet, mate?
REECE: Mate, we've run flat.
We had a heartbeat and now it's gone dead again.
Had a heartbeat and it's... (GROANS)
Beeeeeep!
We've exhausted all resources. Yep.
Come up with nothing and we are looking for new targets.
Roger that.
NARRATOR: In Yea...
Have you seen these people at all?
No, I haven't.
..ground hunter team Delta
are canvasing locals for any sign of fugitives Byron and Tanase...
Haven't seen them? Nup.
..who are just 8km out of town on an alpaca farm.
BYRON: Got some milk for ya.
We've put a poster up there,
so if you do see 'em and you wanna call, that would be fantastic.
MAN: Alright. Alright. Thank you.
(COCKATOOS SQUAWK)
As Byron and Tanase take a break from farm work...
BYRON: It's weird to just sit around, chill.
TANASE: I feel pretty good, yeah.
(PHONE RINGS)
Their host, Michelle, receives a phone call from her husband, Marty.
Marty thinks he's seen the hunters in Yea.
What? Doing what?
He said he went past 'em.
He thinks. He said he thinks.
He reck... He's gone looking for them.
Did he see any of the hunters?
Did you see any of the people that look like the hunters?
A woman with a black cap.
Yep.
Sounds like it's them.
NARRATOR: Fear...
FUGITIVE: I gotta pay cash and keep moving.
..paranoia...
FUGITIVE: Put a bit of extra distance, Eesha.
Getting a bit close there.
..desperation...
JOSH: I just wanna get off the grid. What have we gotten ourselves into?
We've not deployed this tactic before.
So they won't be expecting it. (DOG BARKS)
..push the fugitives...
WOMAN: I do feel a little bit trapped at the moment.
..to breaking point.
(SOBS)
Will the hunters... Are there any fugitives here?
Shh, shh, shh! ..zero in...
WOMAN: Go, Charlie! MAN: Go, go!
..on their prey?
Um... You have been hunted down!
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