Are we entirely convinced it was Reynolds?
She's with the shrink now.
Until we get that psych report back,
Reynolds is off-limits.
Can we build my Christmas present?
Yes, but not right now. I'm on my way out.
'The Bone Gospel'.
- Do you have a copy? - It doesn't exist.
Callum Parrish is here.
Thank you for coming in today, Dr Faine.
We wanted to get a better understanding
of the personnel out there.
How many people know that story to be complete bullshit?
He just needs to take the money.
Or you'll ruin my career.
I'll ruin your entire life.
We've got an active serial killer.
This is someone who was very close to the '87 investigation.
Let me out!
Oh, fuck. No, no, no, no, no. Hey, listen!
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Fuck! Oh, fuck.
Delta 2-6, attending a domestic at 90 Swinson Road, Moorland.
Male party armed and threatening occupants.
Shots fired. I repeat, shots fired.
Request urgent backup and tac team. Over.
Copy that. Remain in position. Do not engage...
- Brendan! - Over.
It's just you and me.
Be good to talk this out, mate. What do you reckon?
She's not taking my fucking kids.
I understand that, Brendan.
I've been there myself. I get it.
I see you're a brickie.
Got your own business.
You're a provider.
Long days, coming home,
bone-tired, but we do it, don't we?
For them.
And then what happens?
The courts tell us we don't count.
We're not the primary caregiver.
But we do care.
Don't we, Brendan?
And because we care, we've got to talk this out, mate, OK?
You and me, we've got the same job here.
To keep everyone safe.
That's what I'm gonna do.
I've put my gun away.
I'm trusting you're gonna to do the same.
Yeah? Can we make that deal?
I'm gonna come in now.
Nice and slow.
Brendan?
Mate?
Brendan, I've gotta know where you are.
I've gotta know everyone's safe.
Come on, mate, talk to me.
Tell me about those kids of yours.
Better yet, I'd like to meet 'em.
Why don't we all just sit down together and we'll figure this out?
Yeah?
Brendan,
I've gotta know that everyone is OK, yeah?
Then we can talk.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
What have you done?
What the fuck have you done?!
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Team's on the way.
I'm done, aren't I?
I told you not to shoot. I said that.
I thought he was gonna kill you.
Farah...
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry I messed up.
Listen.
We'll make sure you're OK after this, yeah?
A proper debrief.
Hey, Mick.
Mick, you there?
Yeah, Charlie, go ahead.
I'll need you tonight, mate.
Got a, uh, bit of a situation here.
Yeah, Charlie, I'm not feeling so hot.
Millie Farah's gone and shot someone in the head,
so, mate, I need you to give her a pep talk.
Copy.
Shit!
I... I don't know what I could have done different.
I made a call. Isn't that what we're meant to do?
It is.
Listen, Farah, if I was short with you before, I'm...
I'm sorry, I...
Farah! Here's Mick.
Mick, do you wanna...
Tell her the...
Yeah, it's, uh...
pretty fucked.
Alright, let's drink.
This is what she was quoting.
Reynolds. This 19th-century novel.
'Llangnall Tower'. And you know what it's about, Charlie?
It's about a group of religious fanatics that build a tower.
- A tower! - How's Frankie?
What? She's fine. I'm not talking about Frankie.
Yeah, I'm talking about Frankie.
How's your daughter?
I mean, Carrick's a prick, but, you know,
what he said about you taking some time, that might not be...
She's fine.
It all happened so fast.
Like that. You know?
Like that.
I... I thought I could talk to you about it because of, you know...
'cause of Moorland.
So... what did you do?
How did you deal with it?
'Cause I just keep playing it like a movie
over and over in my head.
I mean,
what do I do with that?
The thing about that movie is that you made it.
So you can do whatever you want with it.
Make it as good as you can.
- It wasn't good, Mick. - So change it. It's your movie.
I just can't pretend that...
Find a way to tell yourself a story that you can live with.
And then...
just keep telling it.
See you tomorrow.
Back on the horse, yeah?
Yeah.
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Hey.
Possum.
I'm sorry I'm late.
Do you want to make the model? Yeah?
Come on.
Come on, sleepyhead.
Come on.
Do you think planets can talk to each other?
That's a good question.
What do you think?
I think they tell lots of jokes
so they don't get sad in the dark.
Have you got any jokes for me?
Why did the cow want to be an astronaut?
Why?
So it could visit the moooon.
Don't wake Poppy.
Frankie,
do you think about your dad very much?
You know, it's OK if you miss him.
I miss him.
Frank?
It might be time for bed, eh?
Poppy's right. It's bedtime.
I think you'll find Poppy's always right.
Easy.
Come here.
Goodnight, possum.
She needs sleep.
Hey...
so do you.
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Oh, that was messed up.
No wonder you threw up in the cop shop the next day.
Don't smoke in the house.
"Don't smoke in the car, don't smoke in the house."
You ready to go? We might have something.
Young guy, missing 32 hours.
What's the connection?
And this podcast with Damien Tovey's called...
'Crime Sluts'?
Why?
Well, it's sort of semi-ironic.
I'm sorry, is this show just about the Parrish case?
They actually do a range of true crime.
Australian, international, and some historical ones.
I have a long commute.
Look, I told her everything.
Is there someone out there looking for him?
Because this is not like Damien.
You were doing a series about the Parrish Station killings
at the time he went missing, is that right?
Yeah, we were.
Holy shit.
You're Millie Farah.
And you...
Are you Georgia Cooke?
Oh, you don't understand.
I've been trying for months
to get someone who's actually involved on tape.
- Everyone else said no. - Who'd you approach?
Well, you, actually.
Your doctor shut that down, which I totally respect.
- Can I record? - No.
Absolutely. Uh, but then I tried you.
But the media department dodged my calls.
And then there was your daughter, but that didn't go...
You contacted my daughter?
She was just a kid when Parrish happened.
Uh, totally. We never spoke.
Are we still allowed to beat people up in here?
Oh, Michael Thorne.
Oh, but that did not go so well.
You've spoken to Michael Thorne? When was that?
Well, Damien did. It was, like, a month ago.
You said it didn't go well. What happened?
With Thorne? I don't know.
D just said, like, he was cross at being contacted.
He yelled at him a whole bunch.
Oh, and he called him a bottom-feeding parasite,
which at first I thought was, like, a slur.
But I think it is just something that people say.
Just, uh, give us a sec.
So we're looking for someone
who was involved in the Parrish investigations in '87.
Now we've got a missing person
that Mick Thorne had a run-in with a month ago.
What, do you think Mick's the killer?
When he left the cops, he went to work for Callum Parrish.
I mean, he was doing some pretty dodgy stuff.
Would anyone even know where to find him?
Callum Parrish might.
Where is he?
- You OK? - Yeah, I'm fine.
Hello, Callum.
Mr Parrish.
Let's deal with the elephant in the room, shall we?
Georgia, I forgive you.
And I'm sorry.
For what exactly?
You don't think we could have acquitted ourselves better back then?
That's probably true.
Maybe we've both mellowed since then.
Yeah.
You've certainly fared far better than I have.
So, to business.
You want to talk about Michael Thorne.
Does, uh... Does he still work for you?
No, no, no. We parted ways years ago.
2018, I think.
He worked for you for 30 years?
He did. And he was mostly happy.
He had a purpose, and purpose is good.
Why did he leave?
Well, it wasn't really his choice.
He drank, which I don't have a problem with, broadly,
but it became excessive. He became unstable.
May I ask why the interest?
We have some questions in relation to...
- Mum? - You have to kill me!
How's your daughter, Georgia?
Georgia, you OK?
Georgia?
Oh, I've got to go.
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Excuse me. I'm looking for Kate Reynolds.
She's in the room down there.
But no-one's meant to be in there.
Morning, Kate. You alright?
Remember me? We spoke the other day.
I wanted to ask you about Ray Tolliver.
He's dead.
How did you know that? Did someone tell you?
Will you sit with me a while?
Sure.
Did Ray Tolliver kill those people?
He wasn't there. He left.
I found this book at Tolliver's house yesterday.
'Llangnall Tower'.
You quoted from it.
I read it.
You know what it's about?
It's about a group of people who put piles of rocks around a tower
to receive a signal from the heavens.
Does that sound familiar?
It wasn't this book.
But there was a book out there, right?
And was it Tolliver's?
What'd he say about it?
He said, um...
He... he said it had happened before.
What had happened before?
It was this book.
'The Bone Gospel'? But that book doesn't exist.
Where was it?
Was it in the tower?
Kate, where was the book?
- What are you doing? - One second.
Kate, was it in the bedrooms?
You're not allowed in here. Out.
She has these holes on her skin.
Hey, how many of those you had?
What are you, the spring roll police?
I'm the regular police.
I'd like you to stop hogging the spring rolls.
Book's not in the control room.
Reynolds said it would be there. Check the bedrooms.
You OK, Farah? You don't look so good.
I'm good.
What about the uranium mine angle?
Heavy metal poisoning?
Wouldn't that explain it?
I mean, people get disoriented, violent.
You're reaching.
Oh, this book has pictures.
I like pictures.
You're getting sauce on it. It's evidence.
Evidence of what?
Come on. You don't think it's weird?
Reynolds quotes this book and then we find it at Tolliver's.
So they read the same book. People read books.
I mean, not me, but I assume people do.
Wait.
'The Bone Gospel'.
This book exists.
We need to get back out to the station.
- Charlie, we... - We need to have a chat.
- We missed something at Parrish... - Shut the door.
I spoke to the hospital.
I was clear Reynolds was off-limits
until we got the psych report back. I was clear.
And now you've jeopardised our entire case.
Any defence in the world's gonna eat up what you've given them.
We've got nothing on her.
We've got her fingerprints
on the hammer that killed Edgars.
She left them there in his blood,
which you would have known
if you hadn't spent the morning fucking with our prime suspect.
Have you seen her skin?
She's got these holes, like Tolliver.
No, the tox screens show nothing in the blood of any of the corpses.
The uranium mining bullshit has nothing to do with what she did, OK?
What about her psych report?
Oh, there's, uh, gonna be a delay on the psych report.
There was a traffic accident last night.
The shrink is dead.
George...
this is noise.
If you focus on the noise, that's all you'll hear.
Focus on Reynolds. Follow Mick's lead.
Start shoring up a charge on Reynolds.
She's dangerous.
All good?
Farah, I need your help.
Reynolds said this had happened before.
- What's 'this'? - OK, check the archives.
Look for mass killings, mutilations on bodies, remote locations.
- OK, is this a Charlie request, or a... - Are we good?
Cooke.
Tell her to get out.
Yeah, I've got a bit going on.
I'm sorry, love, but she won't talk to me.
She says she'll only talk to you.
- About what? - I don't know. She won't tell me.
Frankie? It's Mum.
Come on, open up.
Now, please.
I told you.
Told me what?
Not to talk to that lady.
It's my job to talk to her, Frank.
Because she's scared and she needed my help, remember?
Listen, I don't have to talk to her anymore.
Come out of there and you and I can have a little talk.
You saw her this morning.
- How did you know that? - Hey, come on, chicken.
We'll go down to the park and have a play.
Frankie!
Just snap out of it.
- Hey, Georgie, come on. - Hey.
You're the one that couldn't coax a kid out of a bathroom.
Don't go out there!
Go where?
Back out to the desert. Don't go!
Frankie, if you don't get out of there in the next three seconds,
I will break this door down. I mean it.
Three, two, one.
There you are. Are you OK?
Please don't go out there.
It's my job, sweetie.
Don't hate me, baby.
Mick, Owen Faine is here. The guy from the university.
He wants to make a statement. I can do it.
No, no, I got him. Where is he?
Interview room.
Owen, what's up?
Uh... uh, no.
- You're not gonna turn that on? - You wanted to tell me something?
Do you know what Ray Tolliver
- was doing out there... - Ray Tolliver is dead.
I... I... I know. I... I heard.
But...
I'm just sort of confused, Owen.
We got papers today
showing that he wasn't out there at the time of the killings.
Yeah, I know. And... and he wasn't.
So why the fuck are we having this conversation?
I understand there's been some kind of dispute
between you and Callum Parrish.
Something over money.
No. This... this isn't about...
He offered you some money for a research grant.
So, now...
what is this?
- You want more? - What he offered me
was a bribe.
I don't know about that.
Don't complicate this.
How do you think this ends?
For you?
I think you take the money...
and you stop wasting police time.
I need to hear you say it, Owen.
I need to hear you say that you'll stop wasting police time.
I'll stop wasting police time.
I'm thrilled to hear that.
Do you feel that?
That presence?
Michael, what's news?
Faine came to see me today.
It's done. It's sorted.
- And did you... - I'm telling you, it's sorted.
OK.
Good.
They'll charge Reynolds and it'll be over.
I don't know if it'll stick. She's clearly insane.
What kind of insane?
Just garden variety.
And she's got fucking holes in her skin or some shit.
I'd like to see her.
Well, you can't.
She's not taking visitors presently.
Well, that shouldn't be a problem for you.
Mate, are you listening? We're done.
Look, I don't know what you think this is...
I think it's what I say it is.
- You OK? - Yeah.
What happened back there at Callum's?
Oh, I just panicked. I'm fine.
I'll... I'll take you back to Havenbrook, OK?
- Yep. - If that's what you want.
Yep, that's what I want.
And I want to see Frankie before I go back.
Georgia, do you really think that's a good idea?
Yeah, well, this time it'll be different. Yeah.
Millie, it's Elle. You copy?
I'm here. What's up?
We've got another body.
It's the missing podcaster.
Lamb Street, Aston Park.
Any details?
He's our autopsy man.
I'm on my way.
Just drop me at the church.
I'll get a cab back to your place from there.
Hey, mate.
Take a break.
Stretch your legs, grab yourself a coffee.
Go on, I've got it.
You've got five minutes.
Do you know who I am?
I'm dying.
No, no.
You're nurturing.
What am I nurturing?
- You've seen this before? - Yeah.
It's very precious.
And now you're precious.
What is happening to me?
It's a test.
A trial.
You need to be strong.
Tolliver...
he wasn't worthy.
You are worthy.
I...
I can show you.
Do you want... want to see?
No, no, no, no. I don't need to see.
OK.
OK. OK.
Can... can you fix me?
When you get better, and you will,
you can come see me,
and I'll take it all away.
Can you take me away from here?
That would be too big a risk.
But you can find your way to me.
Uh... how?
You're a smart girl, Kate.
And you want to live.
Yes.
Well...
you'll figure something out.
Can we try this again?
Margaret, would you mind?
Francesca.
I won't leg it this time, I promise.
I'm not well.
And I know you know that,
but that's not something I've been willing to actually...
- Mum, it doesn't... - No, no, please don't talk.
Because if you talk, I won't be able to, and I need to.
Do you understand?
Well, you can say yes, but that's it.
Yes.
I know I'm not well.
And I'm not sure if that was something
you needed to hear me say.
So there it is.
I'm going back to Havenbrook...
but before I go back, I just wanted to tell you
how proud I am of you and of who you've become.
I've spent a lot of time worrying,
worrying about how you'd turn out,
and I just wanted to be sure
- that you understood... - Mum!
Would you like a cup of tea?
I'd really like that.
Your granddad would shit a brick if he saw you like this.
You know, the Church and the robes and...
In a good way. He'd shit a brick in a good way.
Hey, mate, do us a favour.
You tell these idiots to go home.
Leeches.
They're just curious.
Fucked in the head is what they are.
Oh, Jesus.
Well, one more to go.
What was it?
What was what?
What was it that you were helping Millie with?
Oh, done with that. Bad idea.
Oh, that look.
That fucking look.
There have been some killings
that look similar to the Parrish case.
Similar how?
I don't know, Frank.
It'll be in the papers after tonight, though.
Can I top either of you up?
Look, I'd better take off.
Thank you, Frankie.
- I'll get a cab back to Millie's. - I can drop you.
Oh, no, no. You don't have to do that.
Of course I will.
That's that.
If you ever feel like a visit, the coffee's not bad.
Well, actually, it's terrible, but...
I'd really like to see you.
Crime scene tape's been disturbed.
Hello?
Kate?
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It's curious, isn't it,
that you never had Francesca baptised.
She arranged it herself, of course, as I'm sure you know,
but as a mother, I must say I was surprised.
- Oh, you have children, Margaret? - No.
I'm sorry, I thought you said as a mother...
I meant for you,
as her mother, to make that choice.
Well, I've never been very religious.
Yes, I know. I'm aware her childhood was difficult.
Have you got something to say, Margaret?
No.
Thanks for the lift.
You should consider
whether it's in Francesca's best interests
to start seeing you again.
I'll consider that, thank you.
In the meantime, you might want to consider whether it's wise
to come between a medically insane woman
and her daughter.
Have a good night.
Mick?
Get in the car.
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