- Look, I think it's really good that you're having a nice time with your dad right now, but when this job is over, you're gonna be left behind again, bub.

- Where is this?

- [Muller] I think it's Two Mile.

(singer humming) - [Emma] Ice.

Or what's left of it.

- I went out after they went missing and the drugs were gone too.

- Who else knew they were there?

- Eric.

He's got a gun!

Stop!

(engine revving) - No.

- Get out of the car!

- No, Jay!

She's not part of it.

- [Jay] Why was she with them anyway?

- If you come down on her like a ton of bricks, you might not get very far.

- When can I see Eric?

- You'll just have to give us a bit of information first.

- [Jay] Who's your drop-off here?

- Tyson Zein.

- How did Reese and Marley become involved?

- Reese?

He come to me with a proposition, sell to him instead of Tyson.

- Tyson wanted his drugs back.

You know this means they're probably dead.

What have you done with the boys?

- Don't answer that.

- Did you get him into this?

- No!

- I'm trying to find the good in you, Shevorne, but I'm flat out finding anything!

- I think I know where Marley could be.

(car engines revving) (wood creaking) (frog croaking) (bright rhythmic music) ♪ Ain't got no soul to sell ♪ ♪ Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪ ♪ Cold black like the bottom of a well ♪ ♪ Mm-mm-mm-mm-Mm ♪ (wood creaking) ♪ I'm a dead man walking ♪ ♪ And I can hear him knocking ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ I can feel my judgment coming ♪ ♪ Ain't no use in running ♪ ♪ I can feel that gavel falling ♪ ♪ Flesh and bone ♪ ♪ I'm just flesh and bone ♪ (birds chirping and hooting) (soft tense music) (tense suspenseful music) (box rattles) (Emma grunting) (tank clunks) (water laps) (tense music continues) (car door clicks) (bright contemplative music) (car door thuds) (bright contemplative music continues) (text scribbling) - Good.

Thanks.

Shall we move it back?

- Yeah.

- That's about right.

(chair thuds) (soft tense music) (soft tense music continues) (car engine revving) (suspenseful music) (car engine continues revving) (footsteps approach) - Hey.

- Hey.

- Come on, it's time to go to the police station.

- [Marley] But I don't wanna go.

- You're late for work.

You want me to give you a lift?

- No, I'm gonna take more time off until things settle down.

- Mum, you don't have to take time off for me.

- Well, thank you.

And I'll do what I want.

Keys.

(keys jangling) Marley.

(people chattering) - (knocks) Dad, are you in there?

(door clicks, squeaks) - Oh, you shouldn't have.

- I didn't.

It's for Mum.

(chuckles) You're not gonna mention to her what happened yesterday, are you?

- No.

But we can't keep having secrets, Crystal.

You going out, staying out, and doing stuff you shouldn't be doing, that's got to stop.

You want respect?

You've got to grow up.

- Okay.

So we're good?

(phone chimes) - Yeah, we're good.

- Cool.

See you later.

- See ya.

(door thuds) - [Mary] Oh, thanks, bub.

- What are you doing?

- I'm helping you pack.

(car door thuds) (car engine revving) - Mum, I'm not going.

- Crystal, I don't wanna sound like a broken record, but the rodeo's over and it's time to go home.

- Well, Shevorne's got me a job at the pub now.

- That is very nice of her, but we're gonna go home.

- And Dad said I can make my own decisions.

- Where is he?

- I just spoke to him outside.

He's gone to work.

- (scoffs) He didn't even... (Mary inhales) So what?

You two got it all figured out, have you?

And what happens when the job's over and he just leaves town, what then?

- I don't know.

Maybe I'll stay on here.

- You can't just stay here, Crystal.

You've got no family here, there's no support here- - Well, it's a nice town, Shevorne's nice, and I've got a job.

- Crystal, pick up your stuff, we're gonna go.

- Mum, I'm not going.

- Crystal!

- Mum!

If you wanna go, then go.

But I'm staying here with Dad.

- (scoffs) After all them times he just left us.

Now you're gonna pick him over me.

(Crystal exhales) - It's my first day.

I don't wanna be late.

(door clicks) (Mary exhales) (door clicks) - Take a seat, mate.

(door thuds) - Nope, that's my chair.

Over here, Marley.

(sighs) - For the purpose of this recording, Marley, you have declined to have a support person present, is that correct?

- Yeah.

Wait, uh... Are we recording this?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's just normal procedure.

Alright, let's start.

(soft music) - Hey, Shevorne.

It's great news, eh?

About Marley.

- Yeah.

- Have you seen him yet?

(tray thuds) - Nope.

- Well, don't you wanna ask him about Reese?

(glasses clatter) (glasses clattering) You okay?

- Yeah.

I just wish Reese was back.

(Shevorne sighs) They need washing.

Just out the back.

- Okay.

(car engine revving) - I told you all of this!

We had a fight and he left me, and that's it.

- This fight?

(no audio) - Yeah.

- What was the fight about?

- I didn't like what he was doing.

- What was he doing?

- Selling ice.

- 'Cause we heard it was both of you.

- Not me.

No way.

- [Emma] Where did Reese get his drugs?

- [Marley] I don't know.

- Marley, we know that you and Reese were undercutting Tyson Zein's drug trade.

You bought half a kilo of ice from Tyson's supplier to sell at the rodeo.

One big score, then leave town, does that sound familiar?

- No.

- What really happened that night, Marley?

Did Tyson turn up?

- What?

No.

- We think that Tyson followed you out to talk to you about undercutting his drug trade, things got out of hand, and Tyson dealt with it.

Answer for the recording, please.

- None of that's true.

- You sure about that?

Because if Tyson wasn't there, that just leaves you.

(soft tense music) - That's not what happened.

- Well, then, tell us what happened.

- I already told you what happened!

We had a fight, Reese left, he took the ute, I went to the shed.

What do you want from me?

- I wanna know where Reese is!

- I don't know where Reese is.

That's the truth.

- Well, I think we're pretty much done here.

We just wanna have a walk through where we found you, then that's it.

- No, my mum is waiting.

- That's Okay.

She can come too.

(door clicks) - This way, mate.

(tense music continues) (door clicks) (dog barking) (car engine revving) (people chattering and laughing) - I'll have a beer, thanks.

Yep.

(people continue chattering) (car engines revving) (car doors clicking) (car doors thudding) (birds cawing) (crickets chirping) - Well, we're here now.

What do you need to know, Detective?

- Oh, Marley can show us around.

So, where did you sleep?

- I camped here.

- Oh, in there?

Well, show us.

(Jay exhales) So, where did you actually sleep?

- I slept over there.

- What did you eat?

- Bush tucker.

- [Jay] Well, you must be pretty good in the bush, then, eh?

- Keith took them out to bush camps, all the kids.

- That's right.

- So how did you get here?

From the ute?

- I walked.

- So, this is all still part of the Ballantyne property, isn't it?

So how come nobody from the search party found you?

(soft tense music) (birds cawing) (tense music continues) So you didn't see any utes?

Nobody on quad bikes?

What, you didn't see the chopper that was looking for you?

Gee, that's unlucky, eh?

- [Marley] Yeah, I guess.

- Where did you (censored)?

- Who asks those questions?

- Well, all the bush tucker he ate, I mean, he's got to go somewhere.

- Out there somewhere.

- Well, as long as you had enough water, I mean, you'd be able to survive out here.

So, where did you get your water from?

- Um... There, the water tank.

(tense music continues) (tank clunking) (water laps) (Jay grunts) (Kerry grunting softly) (tap squeaks) (water sloshing) (tap squeaking) - Happy now, Detective?

- Yeah, I guess so.

- Um, Marley, (clears throat) what was Reese Dale's real name?

- What are you talking about?

(scoffs) - Your mate, Reese Dale, it's not his real name.

- [Marley] Yes, it was.

- No, it wasn't.

Best friends, dealing drugs, you don't know his real name?

- He was Reese.

He was always Reese.

That's what he called himself.

- "Was"?

"He was Reese", "called himself," every time you talk about him, it's in the past tense.

- What's that?

- As if he's dead.

Where is Reese, Marley?

What really happened to him?

- Okay, enough.

Back off.

Leave it alone.

- You don't think Reese's mother deserves to know what happened to her son?

- He doesn't know!

He told you that a hundred times.

You mob don't know how to let it go, do you?

(car doors click) (card doors thud) (seatbelt clicks) (tense music continues) Call your uncle Keith.

(car engine revving) - So, where did he stay for a week?

- Well, not Shevorne's.

She'd never have called me the night Georgia broke in if she was hiding Marley there.

- Yeah, well, maybe she stashed him somewhere, until they cooked up a story.

- Well, if she knew where Marley was, there's a chance she knows where Reese is as well.

- It was Larry's idea to go to Two Mile.

- What are you thinking, that she took him out to Two Mile with Larry?

No.

Shevorne wouldn't have anything to do with Larry.

- Yeah, but remember she's protecting Marley, who secretly visited Larry.

(whistle music) - I'll talk to him.

(car door clicks) (pensive music) (people chattering) - Shevorne.

What's going on?

Kerry tells me that Marley's telling some crazy story that's got more holes than Swiss cheese.

- If Marley tells the truth, he goes to jail.

- Look, I don't know what happened out there, and I don't wanna know, but if you'd have come to me in the first place, I could have done something.

Now the cops are all over him, and your story ain't gonna hold.

- Can't you do something?

- Like what?

Okay.

I'll see what I can do.

Shevorne.

Does Marley know where Reese is?

Are you sure?

Hello, love.

- Hi.

- If a body turns up, I can't help him.

Or you.

Hmm?

(pensive music continues) (people chattering) - Can I have another one, thanks?

♪ Your momma's gone ♪ - What are you looking at?

♪ On the morning train ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ She ain't coming back ♪ ♪ To recover you ♪ (car engine revving) (car door thuds) - Hey.

(Larry spiting) What's going on, Larry?

- Nothing.

Just breathing the air.

Smells different.

- To what?

- Jail.

(Larry chuckles) (bird cawing) (Emma sighs) - You say you care about your nephew.

You want him smelling that air?

'Cause that's where he's headed.

If Reese is dead, and Marley's involved with that, then he's looking at a 15-year sentence.

You think he can survive that?

You want your nephew to become another statistic?

- What do you think?

- Well, then, tell me what you know.

(fire crackling) Have you seen him since you got out?

- No.

- I don't mean since yesterday, I mean the week he was supposed to be out in the bush.

You know the country, Larry.

- Hmm.

- Yeah.

You been hiding him?

Here?

Out there?

- What story are you trying to spin now?

- I'm just looking out for him.

- Oh, like you looked out for me.

"Just tell them what you know, Larry.

"If you didn't do anything wrong, then you won't get in trouble."

Well, I did nothing wrong and I got 10 years anyway.

- Yeah, you're the real victim, aren't you?

You rape a 13-year-old girl, you leave her dying on the side of the road, but you're the victim.

- It wasn't me.

- She named you in court.

- I didn't do it!

(tense music) Just like the old days, eh?

You're gonna shoot the blackfella?

- I wouldn't be shooting you 'cause you're a blackfella, I'd be shooting you 'cause you're a rapist.

(tense music continues) (car door clicks, then thuds) (car engine revving) (tense music continues) (bright dramatic music) (cattle mooing) - Thanks for calling.

- No worries, mate.

(cattle continue mooing) Yeah, that's him.

- Where did you pick him up?

- [Driver] About 50 kays outside town.

- [Jay] Was he with him?

- [Driver] Nah, mate.

It was just the black kid.

- What did he say?

- Nothing.

He just wanted me to drop him off on the north side of town.

Didn't really think anything of it till I come back through here and seen your posters.

- And when was this?

- Tuesday arvo.

- Right.

Thanks.

Have a good day.

(bright dramatic music) (birds chirping) (car engine revving) (gentle contemplative music) (group shouting indistinctly) (contemplative music continues) (car door clicks) (car door thuds) (tense music) - So, how did you know Marley was out at the shed?

- It was a hide-out we used to go to when we were kids.

Thought he might have tried to get to it.

Look, I've got to get to my shift at the pub, so... - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

I know.

(shoes clacking softly) (people chattering outside) So, Marley, he hitched into town on Tuesday night.

I spoke to the truck driver that dropped him off, two blocks from here.

He came round here, didn't he?

So you two, what, did you spend a few days deciding what you're gonna say, and then you drove him out to the shed and told him to pretend that he'd been out there for a week?

You know, my uncle used to carve these on the mission when I was a kid.

So where did you get this one?

- I don't know, I just found it.

- Beautiful work.

Larry's a good carver, isn't he?

(tense pensive music) Now, you listen here, Shevorne.

I know you're hiding something, so you'd better tell me what you know.

Otherwise, I'll charge you as an accessory.

I'll put you in jail.

You won't ever get your daughter back.

- Don't you threaten my daughter!

Get out of my house.

Now!

Get out of my house!

(pensive music continues) (pensive music continues) (plane fan whirring) (plane engine shutting down) (plane door clicks) - There you go.

(Mrs Rutherford sighs) - Mrs Rutherford?

Senior Sergeant Emma James.

Come this way.

- Reese?

Reese Dale?

- Yeah.

- [Mrs Rutherford] He went to boarding school with a Reese Dale.

- From Dubbo?

- Yes, I believe so.

- We couldn't make the link.

(Emma sighs) Why would he change his name?

- I don't know.

He was having a gap year.

Who knows why kids make the choices they do?

- You didn't know he was up here?

Has been for some time.

When was the last time you spoke to him?

- His birthday.

- What did you talk about?

- Well, we didn't.

I left a message and he never called back.

- Is there a father?

Is Jonathan involved with drugs?

- How do you mean "involved"?

- Look.

I'm not interested in charging Jonathan.

I'm trying to find him.

If there's something you know- - I don't.

- Is your son involved in drugs?

(soft pensive music) - I work very hard, I'm away a lot- - I'm not interested in your life history.

- Yes, alright.

He was involved.

He took drugs.

And, yes, it was probably my fault because I was away, working.

But when Jonathan's father walked out on us, someone had to keep us afloat.

I told him to go away.

I gave him money.

I told him, "Don't come back until you're clean or don't come back at all."

- And have you heard from him since then?

Do you know his blood type?

(people chattering) - Detective.

- You wanna help your golden boy?

Well, you get him to start telling the truth.

And if you know something and you're holding it back just to protect him, that's perverting the course of justice.

That's jail time.

- Easy, Detective.

Easy.

- Well, give me something.

(people chattering) (birds chirping) Hey, Tony.

- G'day.

- What are you doing here?

- I'm helping Keith organize a fundraiser for Marley, try to get him back to football.

I'm one of the main sponsors for the junior league.

And he did go missing on my watch.

No word on Reese?

- What, you haven't spoken to your sister?

Emma didn't tell you where Marley was found?

An old shed on the outskirts of your station.

- Right.

- Looks like there used to be some good water there.

Pretty dry now.

- It is.

- Is that all on the same aquifer as the rest of the station?

- Yeah.

- So where did the water go?

- It's not an exact science.

Water table builds up one place, drops down someplace else.

- So the water's... gone?

- It's not gone, it's just that it fluctuates.

- Fluctuates?

That's a good word for it.

- Detective, I answer your questions 'cause I have to and because I'm in a world of (censored) about those two boys, but the sale of Ballantyne property has got nothing to do with your investigation, so... I don't see it's any of your business.

(phone rings) - Muller.

(people chattering) - I'll have another one, thanks.

Oh, look out!

Here he is!

Legendary Detective Jay Swan, everybody.

(Mary claps hands) What?

- Come on, Mary.

- Hey, you know?

I remember when you used to call me bub.

Now it's just, it's always Mary.

It's very official.

Come on, let's just leave.

- Nuh, nuh, nuh.

Nuh.

I'm not going anywhere.

Alright?

You two, you wanna arrest someone, you arrest that bird-faced bitch right there.

Now, I had five bucks underneath this glass, I went to the loo, came back and it's gone.

And I seen her looking at it.

- Listen, Mary, I don't have time for this, please.

- Oh, yeah, no, right.

No, Jay Swan, no, you don't have time for this.

No, you never have time for family.

- We haven't been family for some time now.

- Because you gave up on us.

'Cause we got too hard for you.

You gave up on your own daughter.

Have you even asked her why she's here?

Have you?

(man chuckles) Yeah, nah.

(scoffs) I know you don't want us around here, you want us to go home.

Go home where?

You know the (censored) that you leave behind?

We're stuck in it.

And we've got nowhere else to go.

But you, you know, no, you're the big man.

You're the big hero.

You save the day.

We're left with six dead fellas and their six angry families all looking at us.

And you get a pat on the back, don't ya?

Crystal, she gets a punch in the head!

Have you thought about that, Jay?!

I mean, you talk about responsibility in front of you boss.

What about responsibility to us?

To your own family?

I know you don't care about us.

Nah, you only care about Jay Swan.

(somber music) Oh, yeah, that's it.

That's it.

Go on, walk away.

It's all you ever do.

- Muller, can you escort her off the premises, please?

- Walk away, Jay Swan!

That's all you can ever do!

(People murmuring) (car door clicks) (car door thuds) (Jay exhales) (door clicks) (door thuds) (door clicks) (door thuds) - Where's Keith?

- What do you mean?

- He promised to bring Marley in at 3:30.

- I don't know.

I haven't seen him.

(door clicks) (knock on door) (knock on door) (door clicks) - Where is he?

- Where's who?

- Marley!

- Hey, what are you doing?

Got a warrant?

He's not here.

- Marley!

Where is he?

- Get out of my house.

- Kerry... - Come into my home, torment my family, who do you think you are?

- Where is he, Kerry?

- Safe.

- Safe where?

- You can't touch him now.

- Oh.

(door clicks, rattles) (door thuds) (tense music) (bus engine revving) (car engine revving) (bright contemplative music) (bright contemplative music continues) (tense suspenseful music) (bus engine revving) (bus brake hisses) (bus door hisses) (people murmuring) Marley!

Get your gear!

Now!

- What are you doing?!

Just leave him alone!

He hasn't done anything wrong!

(car door clicks) (car door thuds) Marley!

Marley, they can't do this!

Marley, open the door!

(engine starts) Open the door!

Open the door!

(engine revving) You can't leave me here!

(bus door hisses) (bus engine revving) - Okay.

Well, thanks for calling.

That was Marley's girlfriend.

Sounds like Jay's gone rogue.

Gonna go tell the boss.

(car engine revving) (suspenseful music continues) (birds chirping) - [Man On TV] 10-year guarantee... - Hey!

There she is!

I've been waiting for you, bub.

What?

A woman can't have a quiet drink in her own room?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Bub, now, I've been thinking.

What about you and me, we go get ourselves a nice roast at that club, eh?

Just a mother and daughter.

I'll shout.

Come on!

- What are you doing?

- What?

- What you always do, Mum.

Get drunk, shout the bar, wake up tomorrow and the money's all gone.

Then what?

You really think this is gonna get Dad back?

- I don't want him back.

- Then why are you here?

(sighs) I'm gonna watch TV in Dad's room.

(door clicks) (door thuds) (car engine revving) (tense suspenseful music) (car door clicks) - Get out of the car.

(car door thuds) Turn around.

Put your hands on your head.

- What are you doing?

- Does this place look familiar?

- I don't know.

- You sure?

Doesn't bring back many memories?

- I don't know.

- Whose blood is that, eh?

Is this Reese's blood?

- I don't know.

- Take a closer look.

Is that Reese's blood?!

- I don't know!

- Is it?!

Something happened here!

Somebody got hit by something!

(road train horn blowing) Like that road train!

- No!

- Do you see it?!

- No.

- Where's Reese?!

- I didn't do anything!

- Tell me where Reese is!

- I don't know where he is!

- Where is he?

- I don't know where he is!

- Where's Reese?

(road train horn blaring) - I don't know where he is!

Please!

Please, I don't know where he is!

Jesus Christ!

(bright contemplative music) If I knew where he was, I would tell you!

(car engine revving) (brakes squeak) (car door clicks) (car door thuds) - Get him on his feet.

Get him on his feet!

(Jay grunts) - Marley, go over to my car.

You're a (censored) lunatic!

(car door thuds) (car door clicks) (car door thuds) (car engine revving) (bright contemplative music continues) (birds chirping) (flies buzzing) (insects chirping) (car door clicks) (tense music) (car door thuds) (engine revving) (birds chirping) (slow pensive music) (water splashes) (leaves rustling) (suspenseful music) (twigs snapping) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (rocks clattering) (Jay speaks in foreign language) (slow pensive music) (water splashing) (water splashes) (Jay breathing heavily) (Jay breathing heavily) (pensive music continues) (Jay grunting) (Jay panting) (pensive music continues) (Jay panting) (Jay grunts) (Jay panting) (helicopter blades whirring) (bright tense music) ♪ Let me put the water in the bowl for your wounds, babe ♪ ♪ Let me fill you up with the fingers of love ♪ ♪ You can't lose, babe ♪ ♪ When you watch me play, does it feel bad, darling ♪ ♪ When they choose me ♪ ♪ Say again, this place ♪ ♪ Say again, this place ♪ ♪ I broke my neck dancing to the edge of the world, babe ♪ ♪ My mouth is wet, don't you forget it ♪ ♪ Don't you lose me ♪ ♪ Here is your princess ♪ ♪ And here is the horizon ♪ ♪ Here is your princess ♪ ♪ And here is the horizon ♪ ♪ Say it again, this place ♪ (handcuffs clatter) ♪ Say again, this place ♪ ♪ Here is your princess ♪ ♪ And here is the horizon ♪ ♪ Here is your princess ♪ ♪ And here is the horizon ♪ ♪ Here is your princess ♪ ♪ Here is the horizon ♪ (gentle music continues) (rhythmic music) - [Mrs Rutherford] I wanna put up a memorial to my son out at that waterhole.

- They can't have a memorial out at Black Springs.

- Dot, what's this about?

- We've done nothing wrong.

- It was a crime.

It has to be answered.

- Marley didn't kill Reese.

- If you think Tyson's involved, please prove it.

- Marley did it.

So why are you trying to pin this on me?

- If you tell them what actually happened out there, then we will both go to jail and I will lose Ava.

You already took Reese from me.

Don't talk.

- Get down!

(gun fires) (no audio) (no audio) (no audio)