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00:00Don't forget the celebrant.
00:02I won't forget the celebrant.
00:03And then no turning back.
00:05I don't want to turn back.
00:06You're the best.
00:07Cheers.
00:08The best man.
00:10You're choking him.
00:11Oh, brilliant!
00:13I've got to get cracking on a box note.
00:17I've not been running out of air.
00:18Let's get on the floor.
00:20Let's get on the floor.
00:21Let's get down here, okay?
00:25Hello?
00:26Hello?
00:27You should probably take Frankie.
00:29Permanently.
00:30So she's not pulled between two people.
00:42Well, I dismember them with a rusty old circular saw.
00:46I mean, yeah.
00:48One of those serrated blade jobbies, you know.
00:51Really fire it up.
00:52Start with their arms and legs.
00:54Me!
00:57Crime fiction bestseller, Brendan Trapmore, starting our festival with a bang.
01:05Um, Bill Pereira, author of the critically acclaimed Alex Thorne Mysteries.
01:10Yeah!
01:11What's your perfect murder?
01:13If I had to choose, it would be something silent, untraceable.
01:17Boredom to death?
01:19I was going to suggest the pillow over the face.
01:22Leave no evidence.
01:23Almost foolproof.
01:24Gripping staff.
01:25Lina.
01:26Yes?
01:27You had us all gasping for breath with the latest installment of your mermaid-themed romantic
01:34series, The Siren's Conch.
01:38How would you do away with your victim?
01:40Well, murder isn't something that I turn my mind to very often.
01:44I think that my readers prefer drowning in desire.
01:54Brendan, you've always said that when you're writing Johnny Fox, you had to live his life.
02:01Wasn't it dangerous, immersing yourself in the criminal underworld?
02:04I mean, there's no other way to get inside a story.
02:07That's why Johnny Fox feels so real.
02:11What about Lina's work?
02:13Do you expect her to breathe underwater or to commune with Poseidon for her, um...
02:18Sorry, what's the genre again, Lina?
02:20It's mermaid smut.
02:23Romanticy.
02:25I think that the true appeal of my work is the celebration of women unashamedly owning
02:31and satisfying their desires.
02:35Maybe the idea of a satisfied woman is foreign to you, Brendan.
02:40Well, in the words of Johnny Fox, there's nothing as lethal as a woman's love.
02:46But hey, you know, whatever floats your boat.
02:50I mean, who cares if the critics call it thinly disguised pornography?
02:54Well, they also called your novels Airport Pulp, as I recall.
02:59Oh, there you go. Well, here's your latest review.
03:02Aren't you officially...
03:03Retired?
03:05Writer's block?
03:06Wrong.
03:08Coming soon, my new novel.
03:11Branded a Johnny Fox mystery.
03:14A bikie gang is cutting a murderous swathe across the country, leaving a slew of bodies in their wake, each victim branded on their wrist.
03:27Please tell me you didn't brand yourself.
03:29I told you, I gotta live Johnny Fox's life.
03:33Okay, but you killed him off in your last book. He's dead.
03:37It's gonna take more than death to stop Johnny Fox.
03:39So, just, if you could, we just, we haven't even started the Q&A.
03:48Yeah, make yourself useful.
03:49We have questions.
03:50We have questions.
03:51We have questions.
03:54Okay, well, I'm his publisher, ladies and gentlemen, and not even I knew about that one.
03:59And that was our last question. Please thank our panelists, Lena Shaw, Will Pereira, and who knows where he's gone, Brendan Trutmore.
04:13Um, don't miss our next panel, Wave of Hormones, Coastal YA.
04:34We need to talk.
04:36He slipped me this before the panel started. Summoned.
04:38Whiskey and cigars with my girls after the panel. Good. Because he's got some explaining to do.
04:50You were brilliant. I'm gonna go find a quiet place for this one.
04:55I love you.
04:56I love you too.
04:57I love you.
05:07Did you really not know about Brendan's new book?
05:09He wasn't a guaranteed bestseller. I'd kill him.
05:15Brendan, you owe me details.
05:22Look!
05:23Brendan?
05:27He's dead!
05:30He's dead!
05:38He's dead!
05:42Blimey, Brendan Trapmore.
06:10I read three of his Johnny Fox books on the plane back from the UK once.
06:13Big mistake.
06:14Oh, yeah, they're terrible.
06:15Oh, I couldn't put them down.
06:16Didn't sleep a wink.
06:18Brutality.
06:21Guest access only.
06:27Do we have a list of who was staying here?
06:29The only other ones that checked in were the two panellists and the moderator.
06:32Okay.
06:33Reggie, can you tap off the area and Felix get statements from all the attendees?
06:37Yeah, sure.
06:38I'll be done.
06:40Killer dropped the knife, then.
06:45Looks like it.
06:47Oh, Glenn.
06:49Already here.
06:50Morning, Maya.
06:56Stab went to the upper chest.
06:58Any defense wounds?
07:00Not that I can see, no.
07:01A writer who died with his pen in his hand.
07:09How poetic.
07:10The patch means death.
07:26A Johnny Fox mystery.
07:29That is absolutely savage.
07:32There's a scene in there with a pillowcase full of broken glass.
07:35Gave me nightmares.
07:37Branded.
07:40The new Johnny Fox?
07:42Get him!
07:43The few bits of broken gold chain.
07:59Someone must have ripped the chain from Randy's neck.
08:02Mm-hmm.
08:03Did you check his pockets?
08:04Was there a wallet?
08:05Nothing in there.
08:05A broken gold chain.
08:08No wallet.
08:09Signs of forced entry here.
08:12Robbery gone wrong.
08:13Brendan came in through the back.
08:14Didn't see them.
08:15They got startled.
08:16He's still holding his pen, so clearly he was at the desk signing when the killer came
08:22in.
08:24The intruder broke the lock on the front door with...
08:30With what?
08:31With what?
08:32With...
08:33That.
08:35Huh.
08:40Huh.
08:40But it's already unlocked.
08:47It's nibbed to the right, so...
08:49So why smash it?
08:51Unless you...
08:53Wanted it to look like a robbery gone wrong.
08:57A horrible accident with no premeditation.
09:03Huh.
09:04The killer didn't exit through the front door.
09:06They dropped the knife here as they left.
09:10We're surrounded by cliffs.
09:14There's only one way in.
09:15The guest only gate.
09:17So the killer had to be a salon with access.
09:19Mm-hmm.
09:24How's Frankie?
09:27Yeah, driving me nuts.
09:29Barking at every surfer that walks past.
09:32She misses you.
09:36Take her for a run if you wanted to.
09:37I think a claim breaks easier.
09:45Victims are walking pharmacy.
09:47Bathroom is full of prescription drugs.
09:49We'll get them tested.
09:50Hey.
09:51Don't work too late.
09:52You've got to be at the surf club for seven.
09:55Our box night.
09:56Our box.
09:57It's going to be debauchery and chaos.
09:59Yes, I've, uh, I booked a magician.
10:07This is Glenn.
10:09Mackenzie.
10:10So, uh, so, so who found the body?
10:25Miranda East.
10:26I'm Brendan's publisher.
10:28I was, um, hosting the panel for Brendan and my other writers, Will Pereira and Lena here.
10:35The panel was from 10 till 11am?
10:38Yes, but Brendan, um, walked out early, about 10.30.
10:42Not for the first time either.
10:43He hates the Q&A.
10:44We have questions.
10:45We have questions.
10:47Typical Brendan.
10:48Made his big announcement and then waltzed off.
10:51What was this announcement?
10:52His first book in five years, branded.
10:55But the manuscript was in his room.
10:56Oh, so it exists.
10:58Hmm.
10:59Shouldn't his publisher know about his new novel?
11:02Well, you would think.
11:03Um, I had no idea it was even happening.
11:06He, uh, sprung it on us while we were on the panel.
11:09Loved to keep me and everyone on their toes.
11:11Nightmare, really.
11:12Hmm.
11:12Sounds like he was quite difficult to work with.
11:15No, no, not at all.
11:17I mean, he could be a bit erratic.
11:21You knew him pretty well?
11:23I used to be his assistant.
11:24But Brendan, um, always encouraged me to write.
11:29Even when I didn't know what I was doing, he saw something in me.
11:34So Brendan left the panel.
11:36The rest of you stayed for the Q&A.
11:39Why, why go to his villa afterwards?
11:42Oh, he, uh, he slipped me this note.
11:48Whiskey and cigars with my girls after the panel B.
11:52With my girls.
11:55Hmm.
11:56I know.
11:57Only slightly patronising.
11:59What happened when you got there?
12:01Um, so we, we went inside and he was, um,
12:05you know, covered in blood, still holding his pen.
12:11And I, um, I tried to call the police, but I couldn't get any reception at the villa,
12:17so I had to run back out.
12:19In those?
12:21I broke a hill on the stupid drain.
12:26Do you know if Brendan had any enemies at all?
12:29Well, according to him, he had enemies baying for his blood from Hobart to Cape York.
12:35What about today?
12:37Anyone suspicious in the audience?
12:40Ginny would have noticed.
12:43My wife.
12:44She was filming the panel.
12:47I'll introduce you.
12:48No, no one's us.
12:59Just your usual book festival crowd.
13:02And you were at the panel the whole time?
13:04Yeah.
13:06Did you see anyone following Brendan when he left?
13:09Arlo was grizzling.
13:10I was trying to film it.
13:11We'll meet the footage.
13:13Yeah.
13:13I'll send it when I get a chance.
13:14Now.
13:15Please.
13:17Fine.
13:17But my camera's in the room.
13:25Oh.
13:28When Miranda left, what did you do?
13:31Well, I was right behind her.
13:32That's when we ran into Will.
13:35Brendan's dead.
13:37He was coming up the path.
13:47Will Perera.
13:57Sorry, I'm not signing anything right now.
13:59Oh, I was so hoping you could make one out to Detective Sergeant Mackenzie Clark.
14:05Hello.
14:06Detective Sergeant.
14:06Was he really stabbed?
14:10Miranda said something about a knife.
14:11Yeah, but perhaps if I ask the questions.
14:14Of course.
14:14When did you last see Brendan?
14:18When he walked off.
14:20And you didn't leave the panel at all?
14:22No.
14:23What about after the Q&A?
14:25I signed some books and then headed back to my villa.
14:28Where did you bump into Miranda and Lena?
14:30In the garden.
14:30They were very shaken.
14:32I told them not to go back into Brendan's villa.
14:35Why?
14:35Well, they'd already disturbed the crime scene once.
14:38Not great for forensics if they kept going back in.
14:40Expert, are you?
14:43Detective, I've written a lot of crime novels.
14:46I know the basics.
14:48I've read them.
14:49You don't?
14:59Ah, yes.
15:01Now, this is interesting.
15:02I wonder who did the cover art?
15:05Now, that one is boring.
15:09Hang on.
15:11Hmm?
15:12Hmm.
15:14Hmm.
15:15Ah.
15:16Yeah.
15:18A copy of Will's book has been placed in front of all of Brendan's.
15:21Hmm.
15:22So, nobody's reported a robbery or anything suspicious.
15:26Staff accounted for.
15:27They were all at a meeting.
15:28Nowhere near the villas.
15:29I just got to chase up a couple, but they'll get back to me soon.
15:32Who else had access?
15:34Ah, just the four people on the panel.
15:35Ah, and Ginny, who was filming.
15:38One of them must have snuck out.
15:39It doesn't look like it.
15:41I've just skimmed through Ginny's footage.
15:43They're present the whole time.
15:47Brendan surprises everyone with the announcement of a new book.
15:51And then, 35 minutes later, he's dead.
15:53One of the enemies that Miranda and Lena mentioned?
15:58They couldn't have got in.
16:01The only people who could have killed Brendan had guest access, and they were all on that panel.
16:06I saw them in the footage.
16:08It's impossible.
16:14Yet somehow, it's not.
16:16Lena Shaw, author of mermaid-themed erotica.
16:26What are we calling it?
16:26Er, romanticy.
16:28Yeah, not my thing.
16:29Romance, absolutely bedelves in theories.
16:31No, thanks.
16:32Okay.
16:34She is the former assistant to Brendan, Miranda East, his publisher, and Will Pereira, who's
16:42a, yes, another crime fiction author.
16:46Yes, that is the panel.
16:48And then Ginny Shaw, Lena's wife, she was filming the whole thing.
16:52Mm-hmm.
16:52You just, um, can I, why, what, what?
16:56Oh, it's for the books.
17:00Has that been any brushed?
17:01No, it has not.
17:03Mackenzie, I've been reviewing the footage from the panel, and Will is no fan of Brendan, I
17:09can tell you that.
17:09But listen to this.
17:12My heroine, Elke, is based on myself.
17:14She's more of a combination.
17:16Is that a baby boy?
17:17Ah, Lena and Ginny's baby.
17:20Arlo.
17:22Oh, it's getting fainter.
17:26Ginny said she was at the panel the whole time, but it sounds like she left with the
17:29baby.
17:31Wait, I also just got an email from one of the staff that left early.
17:35He said he saw Brendan arguing with a woman holding a baby before the panel.
17:39She said, you have no idea who you're dealing with.
17:42Hmm.
17:43Well, we need to speak to Ginny again.
17:46Colin, I want that out of here.
17:51Oh.
17:52So sorry.
18:17Did you leave the panel this morning at any point?
18:28I took Arlo outside to change in.
18:30I was gone, like, five minutes?
18:32Yeah.
18:33Six minutes, actually.
18:34We can hear your return on the footage.
18:37I wasn't trying to hide it.
18:38I just forgot.
18:40I'm so sleep deprived, I nearly brushed my teeth with nappy cream this morning.
18:42Did you have an altercation with Brendan prior to the panel?
18:46A small one.
18:48I'd just gotten Arlo to sleep and Brendan bumped into us, woke him up.
18:51You have no idea who you're dealing with.
18:56That sounds like a threat.
18:59Did I say that?
19:00Mm-hmm.
19:01I didn't mean to threaten him.
19:03I'm just on a very short fuse at the moment.
19:06I haven't slept more than a few hours in the three months since we had him.
19:09And we went to so much trouble to have him.
19:12Wasn't smooth sailing.
19:14Putting it lightly.
19:15But he was worth it.
19:18Actually, do you mind?
19:20No.
19:22Oh, hello.
19:24Oh, you're okay.
19:27Yeah.
19:31Must be tough, travelling with a baby.
19:34Wouldn't you rather stay at home?
19:36Oh, no.
19:37Lena's worked so hard to get away from Brendan to focus on her career.
19:40I just want to be as supportive as I can.
19:42Um, get away from him.
19:44I thought he encouraged her.
19:46She'd say that, but back when she was his assistant, she did everything for him.
19:52His cleaning, his research, signed his books for him, the works.
19:58Sorry, he's a bit of a spewer.
20:04The Brendan Trapmore brand and manuscript?
20:07Oh, gosh.
20:09Inconsistent tenses.
20:10Spelling all over the shop.
20:12And the women?
20:13The characters aren't well-rounded at all.
20:15I mean, they're well-rounded, if you know what I mean.
20:18But their personalities are...
20:19Like you could do better.
20:21That is uncanny that you should say that, Felix.
20:23Thanks.
20:29The Rocco files sophisticated crime fiction from a mature female perspective.
20:35Now, this little baby, she's ready for her first review.
20:39So, either of you keen to give it a go?
20:43Yeah?
20:45Yeah.
20:47Felix!
20:47Good.
20:48Thank you so much.
20:49I cannot wait to hear your thoughts.
20:52Beekies!
20:53Beekies!
20:54Good on you, Felix.
21:02Whoa!
21:04Watch him!
21:04Oh, come on.
21:08All this space, and they parked this close.
21:12I think that's Miranda's car.
21:14This old bomb?
21:15Did you not see her high heels?
21:16That's a week's wages right there.
21:18And that broken heel.
21:19What a waste.
21:20Why do you think it's hers?
21:23Loafers.
21:23Under the steering wheel.
21:24Well, you shouldn't drive a car in stilettos.
21:32Felix.
21:35A fight.
21:37Who?
21:38This is you and Brendan.
21:40Now, what else can I ask for?
21:42Shut up!
21:43I swear to God, Brendan.
21:44Oh, what big fella?
21:45Don't jealous.
21:46Hey, turn it back.
21:47Hey, look.
21:47Alex Thorne, he comes...
21:49Ow!
21:53Last year's festival.
21:54Looks like he took a real swing at Brendan there.
21:59Almost took out Lena as well.
22:01Not my finest hour.
22:02What was the fight about?
22:04Brendan harangued Miranda for an advance copy of my book,
22:08and decided to use this very public forum to spoil the ending.
22:12But no one was hurt.
22:14I wasn't.
22:15And nothing stopped Brendan when he was in the mood.
22:17He took a fan back to his villa that night.
22:20Probably some poor moon-eyed, aspiring writer who thought he was the real deal.
22:25You're saying he wasn't?
22:27He was very good at selling a certain image.
22:29Especially to people he wanted to sleep with.
22:33Your image is very different though, isn't it?
22:37I mean, you know, I've read the Alex Thorne novels.
22:42So you said.
22:44What did you think?
22:46Yeah.
22:47I guess the killer in the first one.
22:49When?
22:50Page 20.
22:51Oh, 15.
22:53The serviette.
22:54I mean, where else is the powder going to come from?
22:58Of course.
23:00Well, you should read the new one.
23:01It's out now, and there's a red herring in it that I'm very proud of.
23:04Winning the reader one way so they don't look the other.
23:07I've improved, Detective.
23:09Well, your sales have at least.
23:12A huge jump in the last five years since Brendan stopped writing.
23:16Almost as well as Brendan in his prime.
23:18It's not a competition.
23:20So why did you put your book in front of his on the display table this morning?
23:27No idea what you're talking about.
23:29Hmm.
23:31I think you were livid that he was back with a new novel because you knew it would eat into your sales.
23:37Brandon.
23:39The Johnny Fox mystery.
23:41You're suggesting I killed Brendan over a book.
23:44Not just absurd.
23:46Impossible.
23:46I was on the panel, on camera, while he was being murdered.
23:55Well, Brendan took his research seriously.
23:58Miranda's financials?
24:00Absolute shambles.
24:02She's deep in the red with debts.
24:04Everywhere.
24:05Brendan announcing a new Johnny Fox novel must have been very good news for her.
24:09That's a shame he didn't put the same effort into his prose as he did his handwriting.
24:14Funnel webs.
24:15Who are they?
24:16A local bikey gang.
24:18He must have been talking to them about his book.
24:21Hang on.
24:25Huh.
24:27Brendan used biro in all of these.
24:30Until his most recent one.
24:33He switched pens?
24:34Yes.
24:35To this rather expensive looking fountain pen.
24:41Going by his journals, he'd never used it before.
24:44A gift, maybe?
24:45I'll chase it up.
24:47Stationery is my thing.
24:48So.
24:49Oh.
24:50How did you go with the branded manuscript?
24:52Oh, my God.
24:52Where do I start?
24:53You know what?
24:54I'll just read it myself.
24:56All right.
24:56I'll just read it myself tonight.
24:57I'll just read it myself tonight.
25:02Frankie, it's not him.
25:13I'm sorry.
25:28How's branded?
25:29Do we know how Johnny survives being chopped up into a thousand pieces by that propeller
25:33in the last book?
25:34No.
25:35All he said about it is that no helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous
25:40woman.
25:41He's not wrong.
25:43Frankie?
25:47Snake.
25:48Uh, did he get it?
25:53Was she bitten?
25:56Oh, Colin, I've got to get him with a vet.
26:00Um, shall I, uh, shall I, shall I call Glen?
26:02No, no, no.
26:03Just, uh, let him enjoy his night.
26:05Oh, that's actually my body first dropped onto his head.
26:16I believe that.
26:17I believe that.
26:18I believe that.
26:19All right, team, the fun bus is arriving out front, so finish your drinks and let's
26:23go.
26:24go.
26:25So, which of the two bars are going, is it your sticky floor or the other one?
26:29Oh, yeah, you little face.
26:30I know you're better than that.
26:31You're a legend, Cole.
26:33You are the best man.
26:35The night's not started yet.
26:39Let's go, people!
26:41Come on, guys, let's do it.
27:03How is she?
27:05Uh, um, yeah, they, um, they gave her the antiviral and, um, they've put on an IV trip.
27:13Hi, Sarah.
27:14Mm-hmm.
27:15Oh, Glen, um, uh, they said that we should prepare ourselves.
27:21No change.
27:43Mm.
27:48Colin told you.
27:50Yeah, I'm glad he did.
27:52I yelled at her earlier.
27:54She was barking and barking.
27:56She was barking at the snake.
28:00She was trying to warn you, Mack.
28:02Why would you let her go off like that?
28:05No, that's not fair.
28:07No, ever since she was a puppy, she's been running around at Mum's place and at your place.
28:12This was an accident.
28:13This is not my fault.
28:14I'm not saying it's your fault.
28:16I'm saying that since you've come back, these things just keep happening.
28:21What are you talking about?
28:23Come on, Mack.
28:25You know exactly what I'm talking about.
28:27And since you've come home, everything is harder.
28:29Oh, your life, it would just be so much easier if I'd never come back.
28:33Yeah, I guess it would be.
28:37I'm going to go.
28:43I'm going to go.
28:47Mary, you let me know if there's a change.
28:51I'm going to go.
29:05I'm going to go.
29:09How's Frankie?
29:37Um, it could go either way.
29:42Or think.
29:44Um, how are you?
29:47Harlan, can we...
29:49Can we just...
29:52Work?
29:56How's Johnny Fox?
29:58Well, he's heartbroken because he found out his lover, Calypso, has found love with someone else because, well, she thought he was dead.
30:05What, fair play to him?
30:06Found love...
30:08With a woman.
30:10Go on.
30:12Do you know who Calypso is in Greek mythology?
30:14Uh, would it surprise you if I told you I didn't?
30:17The one who conceals.
30:19And...
30:21She's a mermaid.
30:23A mermaid?
30:25I was in love with him.
30:31I mean, it felt like love, but then everything does when you're 25.
30:35Eventually, I realised that what I really wanted was his approval.
30:39Which is part of why I had to stop working for him.
30:42To make my own way, as a writer.
30:44And a person.
30:46You were tempted back to him though, weren't you?
30:52You, you talk...
30:54Quite a lot about...
30:56Giving in to your desires.
30:59Is that what happened last year?
31:01When he took a fan back to his room.
31:04It was a poor moon-eyed, aspiring writer who thought he was the real deal.
31:09Once.
31:13A moment of weakness.
31:16Ginny and I had been going through hell with IVF.
31:19And Brendan could be very...
31:22Charismatic.
31:25Ginny doesn't know.
31:29She always had a thing about Brendan.
31:31She thought that he mistreated me when I was his assistant.
31:34Did he?
31:35Maybe.
31:36He was a terrible boss.
31:38But...
31:39He was an amazing writing teacher.
31:41And now he's dead.
31:43The man who holds a secret that could ruin your relationship.
31:48You're wrong.
31:50Ginny and I went through the ringer to have Arlo.
31:53Years of IVF.
31:54If we can survive that,
31:56then me having a one-nighter with Brendan isn't going to make a dent.
32:05You look up to someone for years.
32:07They take advantage of you.
32:08Then sell you out in their book.
32:10Yeah.
32:11But would you kill for it?
32:13She's right.
32:14Her and Ginny have been through a lot.
32:15Hmm.
32:16Mackenzie.
32:17A little word with you.
32:18Hmm?
32:31Is there any news on Frankie?
32:32Oh, uh, no.
32:33Well, if you need some time off, you need to go to the vet.
32:37Um...
32:39They'll update me if anything changes.
32:42Or...
32:43Or Glenn.
32:44Glenn, though.
32:47Glenn.
32:51He's very upset about this.
32:52You know, he was quiet.
32:53Is everything okay there?
32:54Professionally?
32:55Yeah, of course.
32:56It's fine.
32:57Yeah.
32:58Of course.
32:59I love him.
33:00Off you go.
33:01Mm-hmm.
33:02Uh, are you glad I came back?
33:03Am I glad?
33:04Hmm.
33:05Is me being here something that's...
33:08made your life easier?
33:09You mean professionally?
33:10Yes, I do, of course.
33:11Absolutely.
33:12I love him.
33:13And like that, you do that.
33:15Yeah, I love him.
33:17I love him.
33:18It's fine.
33:19It's fine.
33:20You're fine.
33:23I love him.
33:24I love him.
33:25Off you go.
33:27Mm-hm.
33:28Uh, are you glad I came back?
33:30Am I glad?
33:32Hmm.
33:33Is me being here something that's...
33:36made your life easier?
33:37Absolutely.
33:43What about on any other level?
33:54Don't you have something you hope you're doing?
33:56Yeah, I do. Yeah.
34:07Why are you two there? Nothing.
34:10No, no.
34:15It's Reggie's book.
34:17I told her I'd give it a read and give her my thoughts.
34:20Is it good?
34:21Good.
34:22Look, not my thing.
34:25Generally I prefer something a little less...
34:29...adult.
34:38Oh, my days.
34:40I mean, people can read and write whatever they want.
34:43Who am I to judge?
34:44But she was my teacher.
34:46Yeah, well, um...
34:48Good luck with that.
34:50Mamma mia!
34:52Enzo!
34:54Potrei essere tua madre!
34:57Si!
34:58Allora, se mai dovessi venire in Australia, chiamami.
35:03Si.
35:05Ciao, ciao!
35:07What a lovely bloke.
35:13What?
35:15Oh, oh, I've been learning Italian on my phone for the last few months.
35:19I'm on a 200-day streak.
35:22Anyway, that was the charming Enzo from the Greste Company in Milano.
35:28That's Milan.
35:29That is where Brennan's pen comes from.
35:32Expensive?
35:33Oh, yeah.
35:35So, why would a killer wanting to sell us a robbery gone wrong leave it behind?
35:39Maybe they didn't always explain it.
35:41Uh, did, um, Enzo...
35:45Enzo.
35:47Enzo.
35:48Yep.
35:49Did they tell us who bought it?
35:50Si.
35:51A company called 43 Global.
35:53Oh.
35:54And, uh, what...
35:55What do they do?
35:56They're Brennan's new publisher.
36:00Signed contract from 43 Global, a massive media company with exclusive rights to the new Johnny Fox series, starting with, uh, Branded.
36:09Not just the book.
36:11Film adaptations, television rights, graphic novels, the works.
36:1743 such sharks, they would have promised him the world.
36:21You knew.
36:23Uh, I had an idea. People talk.
36:26Losing your bestselling author.
36:28Tough break for a, uh, struggling publisher.
36:31Money and fame were all that mattered to him, not loyalty and sure as hell, not friendship.
36:37Do you know, his first book was rejected nine times before I took it on?
36:42I mean, I built him up from nothing, and this is how he repays me.
36:45A writer of brutal crime novels gets brutally murdered.
36:49That's a story that guarantees his old bestsellers keep selling for you.
36:54Oh, yeah.
36:55I'd kill him alright.
36:57But he was already dead when I found him.
37:04Ah, Glenn.
37:05Autopsy results are in.
37:12I haven't heard anything.
37:13Have you?
37:15No.
37:17I'm gonna go there after this.
37:20Uh, autopsy then.
37:24Fatal wound to the right lung, and the knife and the blood is a match.
37:28Any prints?
37:29No. No sign of struggle either.
37:31Which I think I can explain.
37:33Stab wound was what killed him.
37:35But I've done a basic tox and...
37:37Well.
37:39There were a lot of drugs in his room.
37:40And he took all of them.
37:42He would have been, let's just say, slow.
37:43Yep.
37:44That explains why he was stabbed in the chest.
37:46But there was no sign of a struggle.
37:52Um, his inner, his inner left wrist, was there any branding or scarification?
37:58No.
37:59No.
38:00No tattoos, no scars.
38:01But I suppose a tough guy, he didn't have much to show for it.
38:04Right.
38:05He had nothing to do with the funnel webs.
38:08He wasn't living Johnny Fox's life.
38:10Yeah.
38:11Doesn't look like it.
38:14But someone was.
38:15What do you want now?
38:16Lena told me about Brendan if that's why you're here.
38:17It was a dumb mistake that meant nothing.
38:18Actually, we're here about your tattoo.
38:20You've covered it in vine leaves, but it's a funnel web spider, isn't it?
38:21So?
38:22The symbol of the funnel webs bikey gang, right?
38:23Can we please see your wrist?
38:24They call it the exit fee.
38:25Punishment for leaving.
38:26You heard it.
38:27No.
38:28No.
38:29No.
38:30No.
38:31No.
38:32No.
38:33No.
38:34No.
38:35No.
38:36No.
38:37No.
38:38No.
38:39No.
38:40No.
38:41No.
38:42No.
38:43No.
38:44No.
38:45No.
38:46No.
38:48No.
38:49No.
38:50No.
38:51No.
38:52No.
38:53No.
38:54When you're frente to...
38:55Wipe your arm, cut your teeth, and once it's done, you're free.
38:59When I was working for Brendan I told him Ginny's story.
39:04Showing off, I suppose.
39:06I wanted him to think that I was cool and dangerous.
39:10I never thought that he'd use it.
39:12So you knew about Brendan before the announcement?
39:17Well, sort of.
39:19I mean, he rang me trying to get my permission to use Ginny's story.
39:24I said no.
39:25You have no idea who you're dealing with.
39:28It was a threat.
39:31Yeah, it was.
39:34And I assumed that was the end of it.
39:37But then he announced it on the panel.
39:40Branded.
39:41Johnny Fox Mystery.
39:44He didn't even change the name of the gang.
39:46The connection to me is so obvious.
39:51The funnel webs would think you've spoken to Brendan.
39:54Yeah.
39:55And the one thing they don't like is publicity.
39:58You think they'd come after you in retribution?
40:01I know they would.
40:04It's a pretty good reason to want to take Brendan out of the picture.
40:08Exposing you to danger like that.
40:11I have a dodgy past.
40:13I was born into it.
40:14My dad was in it.
40:16My brothers.
40:17But it was never by choice.
40:18I'm not a killer.
40:20Not even to protect your family?
40:21I'd do anything to protect my family.
40:25But I told him he couldn't use my story and assumed that was it.
40:31You're the only one that had opportunity.
40:33I had a baby strapped to me all day.
40:37I couldn't have killed anyone.
40:41Ginny had good reason to hate Brendan, putting her family in danger like that.
40:45And having a thing with Lena.
40:46Lena said Ginny didn't know beforehand, but maybe she did.
40:50But she only had a six-minute window during that Q&A.
40:52Not a lot of time.
40:53And hard to imagine her doing a thing with Arlo there.
40:55Where are we going?
40:57Fruit shop.
41:00Baby Arlo.
41:02Straps.
41:03Wow, impressive skills, Felix.
41:05Yeah, I don't have a world's best uncle mug for nothing.
41:08Okay, right.
41:09So, Ginny left the panel at 10.46, back at 10.52.
41:12Mm-hmm.
41:12Ready?
41:13Wow, wow.
41:14Baby crying.
41:15Go.
41:15Go.
41:15Oh, no, I'm leaving.
41:26Oh, oh, no, I'm leaving.
41:28Don't pick him up.
41:34I'm Brendan, writing in my notebook with my expensive, beautiful pen.
41:38And stabbed.
41:43Okay, yep, stop.
41:44And you're back at the panel.
41:47Even if you legged it, you wouldn't have made it.
41:48Then how did it happen?
41:53You dropped your pen.
42:01Which makes sense, doesn't it?
42:05Does it?
42:08If someone attacked you with a knife, you would drop your pen, wouldn't you?
42:11But Brendan didn't.
42:12Maybe he didn't see them.
42:14The killer surprised him.
42:15How could they surprise him when he was stabbed in the chest?
42:18There were no defensive wounds on his body.
42:19It's like he didn't fight back at all.
42:22Why not?
42:23Um, freeze response?
42:26It happens.
42:27Well, he didn't freeze when Will hit him at last year's writers' festival.
42:31And it's almost like he didn't see his killer coming at all, but...
42:35He didn't see them.
42:44Because it hadn't happened yet.
42:45What are you doing?
43:01The knife had to go somewhere.
43:04Uh, yeah.
43:07In an evidence bag.
43:10Oh!
43:11Ooh.
43:12And this one?
43:12Brendan Trapmore, best-selling crime writer, murdered in his villa.
43:27But much like his infamous rogue detective, Johnny Fox, the story of his murder wasn't what it seemed.
43:35Act one.
43:37Brendan returns to his villa.
43:39Act two.
43:40Lena and Miranda find his body.
43:42But the twist.
43:43Brendan wasn't actually murdered until act three.
43:48Our killer crafted the story of a robbery gone wrong.
43:52The smashed lock on the front door.
43:55The gold chain ripped from his neck.
43:56The bloodied knife on the deck.
43:58But I found some plot holes.
44:01I did.
44:04Including that expensive pen.
44:09Not just a gift from Brendan's new publisher.
44:12No.
44:12This pen was the unexpected complication in our killer's plot.
44:17Why would a killer who wanted to sell us a robbery not take it?
44:22I mean, it was such a dead giveaway.
44:24Why?
44:27Because you had to leave the scene exactly as it looked when you discovered Brendan's body.
44:33Isn't that right, Lena?
44:39What?
44:39The lock on the front door, that was easy enough to fudge.
44:42You'd just lead Miranda around the back to see the knife that you'd planted there earlier.
44:47Look!
44:49And you pointed it out to her, setting your scene.
44:52A knife covered in fake blood, just like your hands when you discovered Brendan's body.
45:01It really is just such a lovely shade of red, that lip gloss.
45:05Why would I put a knife there?
45:07To sell the fiction that Brendan had already been stabbed and the fleeing killer had dropped the knife.
45:13A knife Brendan didn't see because he came in through the front door.
45:17So, what other conclusion could there be other than Brendan was dead?
45:20But he was dead.
45:22No, Miranda, he just looked it.
45:25He had fallen down there after struggling to sign his books because he had been drugged by a former assistant who knew his habits.
45:30All you had to do was slip a mix of the barbiturates and sedatives that he had on him into his whiskey before the panel.
45:43You knew that he never went to the Q&A, but he would go back for his usual smoke and drink.
45:49When the drugs took effect, Brendan tried to stand to get help or to get to his bed.
46:00I don't know, but the important thing is he was holding that pen when he slid to the floor and fell unconscious.
46:08Which brings me to the note.
46:14Ginny said, as his assistant, you did everything for Brendan.
46:17She signed his books for him, the works.
46:19It's a pretty good copy of Brendan's handwriting.
46:22You slip me this note.
46:23Why would I do that?
46:28Invite myself and Miranda there to make sure you had a witness.
46:33Someone to say Brendan was dead when you found him.
46:37And then when Miranda left to call the police, that's when you took your chance.
46:42And then you quickly staged the scene to look like a robbery.
46:53Smashing the lock.
46:55Ripping the chain.
46:56Lifting his wallet.
46:57But you couldn't take that pen.
47:00Miranda had already seen it.
47:04Robbery scene set.
47:05You swapped the real murder weapon for the knife covered in your lip gloss that you had planted there earlier.
47:13Then there was only one thing left to do.
47:15Drop the decoy knife down the drain.
47:17The same drain that Miranda broke her designer heel on.
47:22Your prints were all over it, Lena.
47:28Brendan Trappmore put your family at risk from the funnel webs.
47:35But as it so happens, he put your family at risk in more ways than one.
47:42As we all know, in Greek mythology, Calypso...
47:47A mermaid whose name translates as she who conceals.
47:52I had a one-night stand.
47:54So what?
47:55With Brendan at this venue at last year's festival, that's what.
47:59That is how you knew there was no phone reception in Brendan's villa and Miranda would need to leave to call the police.
48:04giving you your chance to shut him up for good.
48:10Why would she do that?
48:12And in your room we found...
48:22Lactation medication.
48:25To help Ginny breastfeed.
48:27Because you're Arlo's birth mother.
48:31Aren't you, Lena? Not Ginny.
48:35Fine.
48:37I did the IVF.
48:38I carried Arlo.
48:39Ginny breastfeeds.
48:41That doesn't prove anything.
48:45Are you going to tell her?
48:47Or am I?
48:48Arlo is Brendan's son.
49:01No.
49:02No, that's not possible.
49:04Conceived a year ago at last year's writers' festival.
49:08He's three months old, isn't he?
49:10You can't prove that.
49:12I already have.
49:14Sorry.
49:15He's a bit of a skewer.
49:18The DNA's a match.
49:20Brendan was Arlo's father.
49:23You knew he would hold that over you forever.
49:26You knew that even though you and Ginny have survived so much,
49:30that was the one threat that could break your family apart.
49:36After everything we've been through...
49:39I couldn't risk losing our family.
49:42I couldn't.
49:45And now you have.
49:46Yes.
49:48Linda Shaw, you're under arrest for murder.
49:55Brendan Catterman.
49:56Please.
49:57Please.
50:01You don't have to say or do anything,
50:02but anything you do say or do,
50:05maybe you used to be happy.
50:06Oh, no.
50:21No.
50:21No.
50:22Stealing someone else's story.
50:23I am all for artistic inspiration,
50:26but my writing comes from my own life.
50:29The real storytelling is about going deep into your own experiences.
50:35So your imagination and maybe your fantasies, yeah?
50:39And then spinning a yarn out of that.
50:41You know what I mean, Felix?
50:42Yeah.
50:43How did you go with the Rocco files there?
50:46Yeah, Felix.
50:46How did you go with the Rocco files?
50:48Uh, very, uh, interesting.
50:53Love, very interesting.
50:55Would only get you a four out of ten for a book report in my class.
50:59You can do better than that.
51:00Look, I just don't think it was quite for me.
51:07Ah.
51:08So you don't like well-plotted with complex characters
51:13and he gently touches her...
51:16Oh, no.
51:18Oh.
51:19Oh.
51:22Oh.
51:23I gave you the wrong one.
51:25I didn't mean to give you...
51:27This is not crime fiction at all.
51:31No, it's not.
51:33It's like a personal story, a, uh...
51:35an exploration.
51:38Yeah, I got that part.
51:40You actually read it?
51:41Well, most of it.
51:43I had to stop myself at the hot tub bit.
51:45You should have kept going.
51:46That's where the narrative really reaches its climax.
51:49Wow.
51:50Power of literature.
51:52Oh.
51:53Speaking of power...
51:54Huh?
51:55I still have the real Rocco files here.
51:59If anybody's keen, Cole.
52:01I've got, uh, uh, jiu-jitsu.
52:04Ah, same.
52:05I mean, I have, uh...
52:07Washing.
52:08Washing?
52:09Overdue for the eye check.
52:11Everything's a little bit, uh, blurry.
52:13Blurry.
52:14Blurry.
52:19Always an excellent student, that one.
52:22Oh, Frankie!
52:24She's not supposed to run.
52:32You're not supposed to run.
52:34You're such a naughty girl.
52:36What do you want to see her the moment she got out?
52:41Oh.
52:44So, um...
52:45What, she's gonna be okay?
52:47Yeah.
52:48Keep an eye on her, keep her fluids up,
52:49and she should be fine.
52:51Oh.
52:52Oh, you're so clever.
52:53And make sure you keep her out of the...
52:54And keep her out of the garden?
52:56Yeah.
52:56Ooh, I know.
52:59Look.
53:00At the vet last night,
53:03it was a really stressful situation.
53:06Yeah.
53:06I might have said some things
53:10about it being easier if you weren't here.
53:14She's okay.
53:15Yeah, she's okay.
53:17So, uh...
53:19We're good to do the box?
53:21Like, properly this time?
53:22We must.
53:23Sorry, I interrupted.
53:26You finish what you're saying,
53:27and, uh, we'll go.
53:29Uh, nothing important.
53:30Just to say...
53:32It's not true.
53:36What's not true?
53:39Uh, that...
53:41Uh, once a dog is bitten by a snake,
53:45it's immune.
53:46Right.
53:48It's not true.
53:50And, uh, it's a myth.
53:51And it is a dangerous one.
53:54Lesson learned.
53:56We're good to go?
53:57Got to get this box in the road.
53:58Wedding's only around the corner.
54:02Right, let's do it.
54:05See you, Mac.
54:16Professional?
54:17Always.
54:21Welcome to, uh, Daisy and Glenn's wedding.
54:38Awkward.
54:39No, you...
54:39Look.
54:40Don't panic, everyone!
54:42Contact poison.
54:43The chances are the killer is still here.
54:45Stop!
54:45Police!
54:46You're in a criminal conspiracy with her.
54:48Not a crime.
54:49Yes, it...
54:50Yes, it is.
54:50I think everyone's having a really good time.
54:52You know the fraud I found on the beach?
54:54She's a bit annoying, though.
54:55Glenn and Daisy are more than a couple to me.
54:58They're the family that found me and make me feel at home.
55:03If there are no objections, I will proceed.
55:05I'll come to you tomorrow.
55:06The room.
55:06That's it.
55:06If it's the Jets호 fans, you can move on.
55:09Forget about it.
55:11Well, thank you.
55:12Bye.
55:13Thanks, everyone.
55:21Have aí…Œravity.
55:22Thanks, Mark.
55:23Let's do this.
55:23I'll see you next time.
55:24You guys back in the back.
55:25I'm gonna have to enter the picture.
55:25I'm sorry.
55:26I told you.
55:27I'm sorry.
55:28I'm gonna have you on the attack.
55:28margin and then.
55:30I'll see you next time.
55:30более color
55:31And I've got an interesting material.
55:31스타 video has a race.
55:32She habitats.
55:33I've got an angry podcast.
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