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00:00I don't want to turn bow. You're the best.
00:02Cheers.
00:03The best man.
00:05You're choking.
00:06Oh, brilliant!
00:08I've got to get cracking on a box now.
00:11Nothing run out of air.
00:13Let's get on the floor.
00:15Let's get on the floor.
00:15Let's get down here, okay?
00:20Hello?
00:21Hello?
00:22You should probably take Frankie permanently
00:24so she's not pulled between two people.
00:30Well, I dismember them
00:39with a rusty old circular saw.
00:42I mean, yeah.
00:44When those serrated blade jobbies,
00:45you know, really fire it up,
00:47start with their arms and legs.
00:49Me!
00:52Crime fiction bestseller,
00:54Brendan Trapmore,
00:55starting our festival with a bang.
00:56Um, Bill Pereira,
01:01author of the critically acclaimed
01:03Alex Thorne Mysteries.
01:06What's your perfect murder?
01:08If I had to choose,
01:09it would be something silent,
01:11untraceable.
01:12Boredom to death?
01:14I was going to suggest
01:16the pillow over the face.
01:17Leaves no evidence,
01:18almost foolproof.
01:20Gripping stuff.
01:21Leena,
01:22you had us all gasping for breath
01:25with the latest instalment
01:26of your mermaid-themed
01:28romantic-y series,
01:29The Siren's Conch.
01:32How would you do away
01:34with your victim?
01:35Well, murder isn't something
01:36that I turn my mind to very often.
01:39I think that my readers
01:40prefer drowning in desire.
01:42Brendan,
01:49you've always said
01:51that when you're writing
01:52Johnny Fox,
01:53you had to live his life.
01:55Wasn't it dangerous
01:56immersing yourself
01:57in the criminal underworld?
01:59I mean,
01:59there's no other way
02:00to get inside a story.
02:02That's why
02:03Johnny Fox
02:04feels so real.
02:06What about Leena's work?
02:07Do you expect her
02:08to breathe underwater
02:10or to commune with Poseidon
02:11for her, um...
02:13Sorry,
02:13what's the genre again, Leena?
02:15It's mermaid smut.
02:16Right?
02:18Romanticy.
02:19I think that the true
02:20appeal of my work
02:22is the celebration
02:23of women unashamedly
02:25owning and satisfying
02:27their desires.
02:30Maybe the idea
02:31of a satisfied woman
02:32is foreign to you, Brendan.
02:35Well,
02:36in the words of Johnny Fox,
02:37there's nothing as lethal
02:38as a woman's love.
02:41But hey,
02:43you know,
02:43whatever floats your boat.
02:45I mean,
02:45who cares if the critics
02:46call it thinly disguised
02:47pornography?
02:49Well,
02:49they also called
02:50your novels
02:51Airport Pulp,
02:51as I recall.
02:54Oh,
02:54there you go,
02:55Will.
02:56Here's your latest review.
02:57Aren't you officially
02:58retired?
03:00Writer's block?
03:01Wrong!
03:02Coming soon,
03:03my new novel,
03:04branded
03:06a Johnny Fox
03:08mystery.
03:12A bikey gang
03:13is cutting
03:14a murderous
03:15swathe across
03:15the country,
03:16leaving a slew
03:17of bodies
03:17in their wake,
03:18each victim
03:19branded on their wrist.
03:22Please tell me
03:23you didn't
03:23brand yourself.
03:24I told you,
03:25I've got to live
03:25Johnny Fox's life.
03:27Okay,
03:28but you killed him off
03:29in your last book.
03:30He's dead.
03:31It's going to take
03:32more than death
03:32to stop Johnny Fox.
03:40So,
03:40just,
03:41if you could,
03:41we haven't even
03:42started the Q&A.
03:43Yeah,
03:44make yourself useful.
03:44We have questions.
03:45We have questions.
03:49Okay,
03:50well,
03:50I'm his publisher,
03:52ladies and gentlemen,
03:53and not even I knew
03:54about that one.
04:02And that was
04:13our last question.
04:15Please thank
04:15our panellists,
04:16Lena Shaw,
04:17Will Pereira,
04:18and who knows
04:19where he's gone,
04:20Brendan Trotmore.
04:21Don't miss
04:22our next panel,
04:23Wave of Hormones,
04:24Coastal YA.
04:25We need to talk.
04:29We will.
04:31He slipped me this
04:31before the panel
04:32started.
04:33Summoned.
04:34Whiskey and cigars
04:35with my girls
04:36after the panel.
04:37Good,
04:38because he's got
04:38some explaining to do.
04:44You were brilliant.
04:46I'm going to go
04:47find a quiet place
04:48for this one.
04:49I love you.
04:50I love you too.
04:51I love you.
04:51I love you.
04:51I love you too.
04:52I love you.
04:53I love you.
04:54I love you.
04:54Did you really
05:02not know
05:02about Brendan's
05:03new book?
05:04He wasn't
05:04a guaranteed
05:05bestseller.
05:06I'd kill him.
05:10Brendan,
05:10you owe me
05:11details.
05:16Look.
05:18Brendan.
05:23He's dead.
05:24he ain't 거야.
05:25He's dead.
05:29He ends yak in love.
05:33He ain't gonna die.
05:34Come on,
05:34he done.
05:35He ain't doing crazies.
05:35Not like him to fancy.
05:36He's still.
05:37You know it's a당히
05:38nightmare.
05:38He needs to be
05:39Joseph Anh,
05:39he was already
05:41chilled on.
05:43Turn him down.
05:43He ain't gonna die,
05:43he's already
05:44cool.
05:45He isIGH.
05:45He is going to be
05:46down.
05:46He's staying Hi,
05:47he's going to die.
05:48He600 suo não.
05:48He's so he can't
05:50can't get me near.
05:50He's going to die.
05:51But he Birdries is
05:52Blimey, Brendan Trapmore.
06:05I read three of his Johnny Fox books on the plane back from the UK once.
06:08Big mistake.
06:09Oh yeah, they're terrible.
06:10Oh, I couldn't put them down.
06:11Didn't sleep a wink.
06:13Brutality.
06:16Guest access only.
06:22Do we have a list of who was staying here?
06:24The only other ones that checked in were the two panellists and the moderator.
06:27Okay.
06:28Reggie, can you tap off the area and Felix get statements from all the attendees?
06:32Yeah, sure.
06:33I'll do that.
06:38Killer dropped the knife then.
06:40Looks like it.
06:42Oh, Glenn.
06:44Already here.
06:45Morning, Maya.
06:45Stab wound to the upper chest.
06:53Any defence wounds?
06:55Not that I can see, no.
07:01A writer who died with his pen in his hand.
07:04How poetic.
07:05The patch means a death.
07:22A Johnny Fox mystery.
07:25That is absolutely savage.
07:27There's a scene in there with a pillowcase full of broken glass.
07:30Gave me nightmares.
07:33Branded.
07:35The new Johnny Fox?
07:37Get him!
07:51There's a few bits of broken gold chain.
07:54Someone must have ripped the chain from around his neck.
07:57Mm-hmm.
07:58Did you check his pockets?
07:59Was there a wallet?
08:00Nothing in there.
08:00A broken gold chain.
08:03No wallet.
08:04Signs of forced entry here.
08:07Robbery gone wrong.
08:08Brendan came in through the back.
08:10Didn't see them.
08:10They got startled.
08:13He's still holding his pen, so clearly he was at the desk signing when the killer came in.
08:17And the intruder broke the lock on the front door with, with what, with what, with that.
08:29Oh.
08:30I'm not.
08:30I'm not.
08:30Oh.
08:32I'm not.
08:32I'm not.
08:36But it's already unlocked.
08:42It's nibbed to the right, so...
08:44So why smash it?
08:46Unless you...
08:47...wanted it to look like a robbery gone wrong.
08:52A horrible accident with no premeditation.
08:59The killer didn't exit through the front door.
09:01They dropped the knife here as they left.
09:08We're surrounded by cliffs.
09:09There's only one way in.
09:10The guest only gate.
09:12So the killer had to be a salon with access?
09:14Mm-hmm.
09:19How's Frankie?
09:22Yeah, driving me nuts.
09:24Barking at every surfer that walks past.
09:27She misses you.
09:31Take her for a run if you wanted to.
09:34I think a claim breaks easier.
09:40Victims are walk-in pharmacy.
09:41Bathroom is full of prescription drugs.
09:44We'll get them tested.
09:45Hey, don't work too late.
09:47You've got to be at the surf club for seven.
09:49Hard box night.
09:50How old box?
09:52It's going to be debauchery and chaos.
09:54I've, uh...
09:56I booked a magician.
10:03Glenn.
10:05Mackenzie.
10:05So, uh, so, so who found the body?
10:20Miranda East.
10:21I'm Brendan's publisher.
10:23I was, um, hosting the panel for Brendan and my other writers, Will Pereira and Lena here.
10:29The panel was from 10 till 11 a.m.?
10:33Yes, but Brendan, um, walked out early about 10.30.
10:37Not for the first time either.
10:38He hates the Q&A.
10:39We have questions.
10:42Typical Brendan.
10:43Made his big announcement and then waltzed off.
10:45What was this announcement?
10:47His first book in five years, branded.
10:49But the manuscript was in his room.
10:51Oh, so it exists.
10:52Shouldn't his publisher know about his new novel?
10:56Well, you would think.
10:57Um, I had no idea it was even happening.
11:01He, uh, sprung it on us while we were on the panel.
11:04Love to keep me and everyone on their toes.
11:06Nightmare, really.
11:07Hmm.
11:07Sounds like he was quite difficult to work with.
11:09No, no, not at all.
11:12I mean, he could be a bit erratic.
11:16You knew him pretty well?
11:18I used to be his assistant.
11:20Brendan, um, always encouraged me to write.
11:24Even when I didn't know what I was doing, he saw something in me.
11:29So Brendan left the panel, the rest of you stayed for the Q&A.
11:34Why, why go to his villa afterwards?
11:37Oh, he, uh, he slipped me this note.
11:43Whiskey and cigars with my girls after the panel B.
11:48With my girls.
11:50I know.
11:52Only slightly patronising.
11:54What happened when you got there?
11:56Um, so we, we went inside and he was, um,
12:02you know, covered in blood.
12:04Still holding his pen.
12:07And I, um, I tried to call the police,
12:09but I couldn't get any reception at the villa,
12:12so I had to run back up.
12:14In those?
12:15I broke a heel on my stupid drain.
12:21Do you know if Brendan had any enemies at all?
12:24Well, according to him, he had enemies baying for his blood
12:28from Hobart to Cape York.
12:31What about today?
12:31Anyone suspicious in the audience?
12:36Ginny would have noticed.
12:38My wife.
12:39She was filming the panel.
12:40I'll introduce you.
12:53No, no one's us.
12:54Just your usual book festival crowd.
12:57And you were at the panel the whole time?
12:59Yeah.
13:01Did you see anyone following Brendan when he left?
13:04Arlo was grizzling.
13:05I was trying to film it.
13:06Will made the footage.
13:07Yeah.
13:08I'll send it when I get a chance.
13:09Now.
13:10Please.
13:12Fine.
13:12But my camera's in the room.
13:21Oh.
13:23When Miranda left, what did you do?
13:25Well, I was right behind her.
13:27That's when we ran into Will.
13:30Brendan's dead.
13:32He was coming up the path.
13:42Well, I don't think I'd like to call this.
13:48Someone who perceives themselves as much better.
13:51Will Pereira.
13:52Sorry, I'm not signing anything right now.
13:54Oh, I was so hoping you could make one out to Detective Sergeant Mackenzie Clark.
14:00Hello, Detective Sergeant.
14:04Was he really stabbed?
14:05Miranda said something about a knife.
14:06Yeah, but perhaps if I ask the questions.
14:09Of course.
14:09When did you last see Brendan?
14:14When he walked off.
14:15And you didn't leave the panel at all?
14:17No.
14:18What about after the Q&A?
14:19I signed some books and then headed back to my villa.
14:23Where did you bump into Miranda and Lena?
14:25In the garden.
14:25They were very shaken.
14:27I told them not to go back into Brendan's villa.
14:30Why?
14:31They'd already disturbed the crime scene once.
14:33Not great for forensics if they kept going back in.
14:37Expert, are you?
14:38Detective, I've written a lot of crime novels.
14:41I know the basics.
14:43I've read them.
14:44You don't?
14:54Ah, yes.
14:55Now this is interesting.
14:57I wonder who did the cover art?
14:59Now that one, that's boring.
15:04Hang on.
15:11Yeah.
15:13A copy of Will's book has been placed in front of all of Brendan's.
15:17So nobody's reported a robbery or anything suspicious.
15:21Staff accounted for.
15:22They were all at a meeting, nowhere near the villas.
15:24I've just got to chase up a couple, but they'll get back to me soon.
15:27Who else had access?
15:28Ah, just the four people on the panel.
15:30Ah, and Ginny, who was filming.
15:33One of them must have snuck out.
15:35Doesn't look like it.
15:36I've just skimmed through Ginny's footage.
15:38They're present the whole time.
15:39Brendan surprises everyone with the announcement of a new book.
15:46And then 35 minutes later, he's dead.
15:51One of the enemies that Miranda and Lena mentioned?
15:53They couldn't have got in.
15:56The only people who could have killed Brendan had guest access,
15:59and they were all on that panel.
16:01I saw them on the footage.
16:03It's impossible.
16:04Yet somehow, it's not.
16:15Lena Shaw, author of mermaid-themed erotica, what are we calling it?
16:21Uh, romantic-y.
16:23Yeah, not my thing.
16:24Romance, absolutely, but elves in theories.
16:26Yeah, no thanks.
16:29Okay.
16:29She is the former assistant to Brendan.
16:32Miranda East, his publisher.
16:34And Will Pereira, who's, yes, another crime fiction author.
16:41Yes, that is the panel.
16:43And then Ginny Shaw, Lena's wife, she was filming the whole thing.
16:47Mm-hmm.
16:47You just, um, can I, why, what, what?
16:51Oh, it's for the books.
16:55Has that been airbrushed?
16:56No, it has not.
16:57Mackenzie, I've been reviewing the footage from the panel, and Will is no fan of Brendan,
17:03I can tell you that.
17:04But listen to this.
17:06My heroine, Elka, is based on myself.
17:09She's more of a combination of...
17:11Is that a baby crying?
17:12Ah, uh, Lena and Ginny's baby, uh...
17:14Fucking Arlo.
17:19Oh, it's getting fainter.
17:20Ginny said she was at the panel the whole time,
17:23but it sounds like she left with the baby.
17:26Wait, I also just got an email from one of the staff that left early.
17:30He said he saw Brendan arguing with a woman holding a baby before the panel.
17:34She said, you have no idea who you're dealing with.
17:37Hmm.
17:38Well, we need to speak to Ginny again.
17:41Colin, I want that out of here.
17:46Oh.
17:53So sorry.
18:12Did you leave the panel this morning at any point?
18:23I took Arlo outside to change in.
18:25I was gone, like, five minutes?
18:27Yeah.
18:28Six minutes, actually.
18:29We can hear your return on the footage.
18:32I wasn't trying to hide it.
18:33I just forgot.
18:34I'm so sleep deprived, I nearly brushed my teeth with nappy cream this morning.
18:38Did you have an altercation with Brendan prior to the panel?
18:40A small one.
18:43I'd just gotten Arlo to sleep and Brendan bumped into us, woke him up.
18:48You have no idea who you're dealing with.
18:51That sounds like a threat.
18:54Did I say that?
18:56I didn't mean to threaten him.
18:58I'm just on a very short fuse at the moment.
19:01I haven't slept more than a few hours in the three months since we had him.
19:04And we went to so much trouble to have him.
19:07Wasn't smooth sailing.
19:09Putting it lightly.
19:11But he was worth it.
19:13Actually, do you mind?
19:15No.
19:17Oh, hello.
19:20You're okay.
19:22Yeah.
19:27Must be tough, travelling with a baby.
19:29Wouldn't you rather stay at home?
19:30Oh, no.
19:31Lena's worked so hard to get away from Brendan to focus on her career.
19:35I just want to be as supportive as I can.
19:38Get away from him.
19:39I thought he encouraged her.
19:41She'd say that, but back when she was his assistant, she did everything for him.
19:47His cleaning, his research, signed his books for him, the works.
19:53Sorry, he's a bit of a spewer.
19:54The Brendan Trapmore brand and manuscript.
20:02Oh, gosh.
20:03Inconsistent tenses.
20:05Spelling all over the shop.
20:07And the women.
20:08The characters aren't well-rounded at all.
20:10I mean, they're well-rounded, if you know what I mean.
20:13But their personalities are...
20:15Like you could do better.
20:16That is uncanny that you should say that, Felix.
20:24The Rocco files sophisticated crime fiction from a mature female perspective.
20:31Now, this little baby, she's ready for her first review.
20:34So, either of you keen to give it a go?
20:38Yeah?
20:40Yeah.
20:40Felix.
20:42Good.
20:43Thank you so much.
20:45I cannot wait to hear your thoughts.
20:48Vickies.
20:49Good on you, Felix.
20:57Whoa.
20:59Watch him.
21:01Oh, come on.
21:03All this space and they parked this close.
21:07I think that's Miranda's car.
21:08This old bomb.
21:10Did you not see her high heels?
21:11That's a week's wages right there.
21:13And that broken heel.
21:14What a waste.
21:15Why do you think it's hers?
21:17Loafers.
21:18Under the steering wheel.
21:21You shouldn't drive a car in stilettos.
21:27Felix.
21:30A fight.
21:32Who?
21:34This is you and Brendan.
21:35Now, what else can I support?
21:37Shut up.
21:38Shut up.
21:38I swear to God, Brendan.
21:39Oh, what do you feel like?
21:40No jokes.
21:41He's driving back.
21:41Hang on.
21:42Alex Thorne.
21:43He comes out.
21:48Last year's festival.
21:51Looks like he took a real swing at Brendan there.
21:54Almost took out Lena as well.
21:55Not my finest hour.
21:57What was the fight about?
21:58Brendan harangued Miranda for an advanced copy of my book and decided to use this very public forum to spoil the ending.
22:07But no one was hurt.
22:09I wasn't.
22:10And nothing stopped Brendan when he was in the mood.
22:12He took a fan back to his villa that night.
22:15Probably some poor moon eyed, aspiring writer who thought he was the real deal.
22:20You're saying he wasn't?
22:22He was very good at selling a certain image.
22:24Especially to people he wanted to sleep with.
22:28Your image is very different though, isn't it?
22:33I mean, you know, I've read the Alex Thorne novels.
22:37So you said.
22:39What did you think?
22:41Yeah.
22:42I guess the killer in the first one.
22:44When?
22:45Page 20.
22:4615.
22:48The serviette.
22:50I mean, where else is the powder going to come from?
22:53Of course.
22:55Well, you should read the new one.
22:56It's out now and there's a red herring in it that I'm very proud of.
22:59Pointing the reader one way so they don't look the other.
23:02I've improved, detective.
23:03Well, your sales have at least.
23:07A huge jump in the last five years since Brendan stopped writing.
23:11Almost as well as Brendan in his prime.
23:13It's not a competition.
23:15So why did you put your book in front of his on the display table this morning?
23:22No idea what you're talking about.
23:26I think you were livid that he was back with a new novel because you knew it would eat into your sales.
23:32Brandon, a Johnny Fox mystery.
23:36You're suggesting I killed Brendan over a book.
23:39Not just absurd, impossible.
23:41I was on the panel, on camera, while he was being murdered.
23:50Well, Brendan took his research seriously.
23:53Miranda's financials, absolute shambles.
23:57She's deep in the red with debts everywhere.
24:00Brendan announcing a new Johnny Fox novel must have been very good news for her.
24:04That's a shame he didn't put the same effort into his prose as he did his handwriting.
24:08Funnel webs.
24:10Who are they?
24:11A local bikey gang.
24:12He must have been talking to them about his book.
24:15Hang on.
24:16Ah, Brendan used biro in all of these.
24:25Until his most recent one.
24:28He switched pens?
24:29Yes.
24:30Ah.
24:33To this rather expensive looking fountain pen.
24:36Going by his journals, he'd never used it before.
24:39A gift, maybe?
24:41I'll chase it up.
24:42Stationery is my thing, so.
24:44Oh.
24:45How did you go with the branded manuscript?
24:46Oh my god, where do I start?
24:48You know what?
24:49I'm just, I'll just read it myself.
24:50I'll read myself tonight.
25:05Frankie, it's not him.
25:08I'm sorry.
25:10How's branded?
25:25Do we know how Johnny survives being chopped up into a thousand pieces by that propeller in the last book?
25:29No.
25:30All he's said about it is that no helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous woman.
25:37He's not wrong.
25:37Frankie?
25:47Snake?
25:48Uh, did it get her?
25:49Was she bitten?
25:51Um.
25:54Well, Colin, I've got to get her to the vet.
25:56Um, shall I, uh, shall I, shall I call Glenn?
25:58No, no, no.
25:58Just, uh, let him enjoy his night.
26:00Oh, look.
26:01That's actually my body.
26:10I believe that.
26:13I believe that.
26:13All right, team.
26:15The fun bus is arriving out front, so finish your drinks and let's go.
26:21So, which of the two bars are going to your sticky floor or the other one?
26:24Oh, yeah, little faith.
26:25I know you're better than that.
26:26You're a legend, Cole.
26:28You are the best man.
26:32The night's not started yet.
26:34Let's go, people!
26:38I'll meet her, mate.
26:39You've had some knocks lately, but you always come through.
26:41Come on, guys.
26:44All right, let's do it.
26:59How is she?
27:03Yeah, they, um, they gave her the antivellum and, um, they've put on an IV drip.
27:07Hi, Sarah.
27:08Hi, Glenn.
27:12Um, uh, they said that we should prepare ourselves.
27:25No change.
27:43Colin told you.
27:45I'm glad he did.
27:47I yelled at her earlier.
27:50She was barking and barking.
27:52She was barking at the snake.
27:55She was trying to warn you, Mac.
27:58Why would you let it go off like that?
28:01No, that's not fair.
28:03No, ever since she was a puppy, she's been running around at Mum's place and at your place.
28:07This was an accident.
28:08This is not my fault.
28:10I'm not saying it's your fault.
28:11I'm saying that since you've come back, these things just keep happening.
28:17What are you talking about?
28:18Come on, Mac.
28:20You know exactly what I'm talking about.
28:23And since you've come home, everything is harder.
28:25Oh, your life.
28:26It would just be so much easier if I'd never come back.
28:30Yeah, I guess it would be.
28:31I'm going to go.
28:42Why don't you let me know if there's a change?
29:12How's Frankie?
29:33Um, it could go either way.
29:37Or thing.
29:39Um, how are you?
29:42Carlin, can we, can we just work?
29:52How's Johnny Fox?
29:53Well, he's heartbroken because he found out his lover, Calypso, has found love with someone else because, well, she thought he was dead.
30:00What, fair play to him?
30:01Found love with a woman.
30:06Go on.
30:07Do you know who Calypso is in Greek mythology?
30:09Uh, would it surprise you if I told you I didn't?
30:13The one who conceals.
30:15And she's a mermaid.
30:19A mermaid?
30:20I was in love with him.
30:26I mean, it felt like love.
30:28But then everything does when you're 25.
30:30Eventually, I realised that what I really wanted was his approval.
30:34Which is part of why I had to stop working for him.
30:37To make my own way as a writer.
30:40And a person.
30:41You were tempted back to him, though, weren't you?
30:47You, you talk quite a lot about giving in to your desires.
30:54Is that what happened last year?
30:57When he took a fan back to his room?
30:59With some poor, moon-eyed, aspiring writer who thought he was the real deal.
31:07Once.
31:09A moment of weakness.
31:12Ginny and I had been going through hell with IVF.
31:14And Brendan could be very...
31:17charismatic.
31:20Ginny doesn't know.
31:21She always said a thing about Brendan.
31:26She thought that he mistreated me when I was his assistant.
31:29Did he?
31:30Maybe.
31:31He was a terrible boss.
31:33But he was an amazing writing teacher.
31:36And now he's dead.
31:38The man who holds a secret that could ruin your relationship.
31:43You're wrong.
31:45Ginny and I went through the ringer to have Arlo.
31:48Years of IVF.
31:50If we can survive that,
31:52then me having a one-nighter with Brendan isn't going to make a dent.
32:00You look up to someone for years,
32:02they take advantage of you,
32:04then sell you out in their book.
32:06Yeah, but would you kill for it?
32:08She's right.
32:09Her and Ginny have been through a lot.
32:11Mackenzie, a little word with you.
32:15Hmm?
32:20Is there any news on Frankie?
32:28Oh, uh, no.
32:31Well, if you need some time off, you need to go to the vet.
32:33Um,
32:35they'll update me if anything changes.
32:36Or Glenn.
32:38Glenn.
32:39Glenn.
32:39He's very upset about this.
32:47Yeah, he was quiet.
32:54Is everything okay there?
32:57Professionally?
32:58Yeah, of course.
33:01It's fine.
33:02Yeah, of course.
33:07Oh, well then.
33:08Off you go.
33:09Mm-hmm.
33:12Are you glad I came back?
33:18Am I glad?
33:19Hmm.
33:20Is me being here something that's made your life easier?
33:29You mean professionally?
33:31Yes, I do, of course.
33:33Absolutely.
33:37What about on any other level?
33:42Don't you have something that you have to be doing?
33:52Yeah, I do.
33:52Yeah.
33:54Mm-hmm.
33:55Mm-hmm.
34:03What are you all to there?
34:04Nothing.
34:05No, no.
34:10It's Reggie's book.
34:12I told her I'd give it a read and give her my thoughts.
34:15Is it good?
34:16Good.
34:17Uh, look.
34:19Not my thing.
34:21Generally, I prefer something a little less...
34:24adult.
34:34Oh, my days.
34:35I mean, people can read and write whatever they want.
34:38Who am I to judge?
34:39But she was my teacher.
34:41Yeah, well, um...
34:42Good luck with that.
34:45Mamma mia!
34:48Enzo!
34:49Potrei essere tua madre?
34:52Si!
34:54Allora, se mai dovessi venire in Australia,
34:57chiamami.
34:59Si.
35:00Ciao, ciao!
35:02What a lovely bloke.
35:08What?
35:11Oh, oh, I've been learning Italian on my phone for the last few months.
35:14I'm on a 200-day streak.
35:17Anyway, that was the charming Enzo from the Greste Company in Milano.
35:23That's my land.
35:24That is where Brennan's pen comes from.
35:28Expensive?
35:29Oh, yeah.
35:31So, why would a killer wanting to sell us a robbery gone wrong leave it behind?
35:35Maybe they didn't know it was expensive.
35:36Did, um, Enzo...
35:40Enzo.
35:43Enzo.
35:43Yep.
35:44Did they tell us who bought it?
35:45Si.
35:46A company called 43 Global.
35:49And, uh, what do they do?
35:52They're Brennan's new publisher.
35:55Signed contract from 43 Global.
35:57A massive media company with exclusive rights to the new Johnny Fox series.
36:02Starting with, uh, Branded.
36:04Not just the book.
36:06Film adaptations, television rights, graphic novels, the works.
36:1243 such sharks they would have promised him the world.
36:16You knew.
36:18Uh, I had an idea.
36:20People talk.
36:21Losing your best-selling author.
36:23Tough break for a, uh, struggling publisher.
36:26Money and fame were all that mattered to him.
36:29Not loyalty and sure as hell, not friendship.
36:32Do you know, his first book was rejected nine times before I took it on?
36:37I mean, I built him up from nothing and this is how he repays me.
36:41Writer of brutal crime novels gets brutally murdered.
36:45That's a story that guarantees his old bestsellers keep selling for you.
36:49Oh, yeah.
36:50I'd kill him, all right.
36:52But he was already dead when I found him.
36:54Uh, Glenn.
37:01Autopsy results are in.
37:07I haven't heard anything.
37:08Have you?
37:10No.
37:12I'm gonna go there after this.
37:15Uh, autopsy then.
37:19Fatal wound to the right lung
37:20and the knife and the blood is a match.
37:23Any prints?
37:24No.
37:25No sign of struggle either.
37:26Which I think I can explain.
37:28Stab wound was what killed him.
37:30But I've done a basic tox and...
37:32Well.
37:34There were a lot of drugs in his room.
37:35And he took all of them.
37:37He would have been, let's just say, slow.
37:39Yep.
37:40That explains why he was stabbed in the chest.
37:42But there was no sign of a struggle.
37:47Um, his inner...
37:49His inner left wrist,
37:51was there any branding or scarification?
37:54No.
37:55No tattoos, no scars.
37:57But I suppose a tough guy,
37:58he didn't have much to show for it.
37:59Right.
38:00He had nothing to do with the funnel webs.
38:03He wasn't living Johnny Fox's life.
38:06Doesn't look like it.
38:07But someone was.
38:21What do you want now?
38:23Lena told me about Brendan,
38:24if that's why you're here.
38:25It was a dumb mistake that meant nothing.
38:27Actually, we hear about your tattoo.
38:31You've covered it in vine leaves,
38:33but it's a funnel web spider, isn't it?
38:35So?
38:36The symbol of the funnel webs bikey gang, right?
38:40Can we please see your wrist?
38:43They call it the exit fee.
38:46Punishment for leaving.
38:48You hold out your arm,
38:50cut your teeth,
38:51and once it's done,
38:52you're free.
38:55When I was working for Brendan,
38:57I told him Ginny's story.
38:59Showing off, I suppose.
39:02Wanted him to think that I was cool and dangerous.
39:04I never thought that he'd use it.
39:08So, you knew about Brendan before the announcement?
39:12Well, sort of.
39:14I mean, he rang me,
39:16trying to get my permission to use Ginny's story.
39:19I said no.
39:20You have no idea who you're dealing with.
39:23It was a threat.
39:24Yeah, it was.
39:28And I assumed that was the end of it.
39:32But then he announced it on the panel.
39:35Brandon.
39:36Johnny Fox mystery.
39:39He didn't even change the name of the gang.
39:42The connection to me is so obvious.
39:44The Funnelwebs would think you've spoken to Brendan.
39:49Yeah.
39:50And the one thing they don't like
39:51is publicity.
39:53You think they'd come after you in retribution?
39:56I know they would.
39:59It's a pretty good reason
40:01to want to take Brendan out of the picture,
40:03exposing you to danger like that.
40:05I have a dodgy past.
40:08I was born into it.
40:10My dad was in it.
40:11My brothers.
40:12But it was never by choice.
40:13I'm not a killer.
40:15Not even to protect your family?
40:16I'd do anything to protect my family.
40:20But I told him he couldn't use my story
40:22and assumed that was it.
40:26You're the only one that had opportunity.
40:29I had a baby strapped to me all day.
40:32I couldn't have killed anyone.
40:36Ginny had good reason to hate Brendan,
40:38putting her family in danger like that.
40:40And having a thing with Lena.
40:41Lena said Ginny didn't know beforehand,
40:43but maybe she did.
40:45But she only had a six-minute window
40:46during that Q&A.
40:47Not a lot of time.
40:48And hard to imagine her doing a thing with Arlo there.
40:51Where are we going?
40:52Fruit shop.
40:55Baby Arlo.
40:57Straps.
40:58Wow, impressive skills, Felix.
41:00Yeah, I don't have a world's best uncle.
41:02Mug for nothing.
41:03Okay, right.
41:03So, Ginny left the panel at 10.46,
41:06back at 10.52.
41:07Mm-hmm.
41:07Ready?
41:08Wow, wow.
41:09Baby crying.
41:10Go.
41:19Oh, no, leave it.
41:21Oh, oh.
41:22No, leave it.
41:23Don't pick him up.
41:24Don't pick him up.
41:26I'm Brendan, writing in my notebook
41:31with my expensive, beautiful pen.
41:33And stabbed.
41:35Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
41:38Okay, yep, stop.
41:39And you're back at the panel.
41:42Even if you legged it, you wouldn't have made it.
41:43Then how did it happen?
41:44You dropped your pen.
41:48You dropped your pen.
41:56Which makes sense, doesn't it?
42:00Does it?
42:00If someone attacked you with a knife,
42:05you would drop your pen, wouldn't you?
42:06But Brendan didn't.
42:07Maybe he didn't see them.
42:09The killer surprised him.
42:10How could they surprise him when he was stabbed in the chest?
42:13There were no defensive wounds on his body.
42:14It's like he didn't fight back at all.
42:17Why not?
42:17Um, freeze response?
42:21It happens.
42:23Well, he didn't freeze when Will hit him
42:24at last year's Writers Festival.
42:26It's almost like he didn't see his killer coming at all, but...
42:35He didn't see them
42:38because it hadn't happened yet.
42:41What are you doing?
42:56The knife had to go somewhere.
43:01Uh, yeah.
43:02In an evidence bag.
43:05Ooh.
43:07And this one?
43:11Brendan Trapmore.
43:17Best-selling crime writer.
43:19Murdered in his villa.
43:22But much like his infamous rogue detective, Johnny Fox,
43:26the story of his murder wasn't what it seemed.
43:31Act 1.
43:32Brendan returns to his villa.
43:34Act 2.
43:35Lena and Miranda find his body.
43:37But the twist.
43:38Brendan wasn't actually murdered
43:39until Act 3.
43:44Our killer crafted the story
43:45of a robbery gone wrong,
43:47the smashed lock on the front door,
43:50the gold chain ripped from his neck,
43:51the bloodied knife on the deck.
43:53But I found some plot holes.
43:56I did.
43:57Mm.
43:59Including
43:59that expensive pen.
44:01Not just a gift from Brendan's new publisher, no.
44:07This pen
44:08was the unexpected complication
44:10in our killer's plot.
44:12Why
44:12would a killer
44:13who wanted to sell us a robbery
44:15not take it?
44:17I mean,
44:17it was such a
44:18dead giveaway.
44:22Because
44:22you had to leave the scene
44:25exactly as it looked
44:26when you discovered Brendan's body.
44:28Isn't that right,
44:29Lena?
44:29What?
44:34The lock on the front door,
44:36that was easy enough to fudge.
44:37You'd just lead Miranda around the back
44:39to see the knife
44:39that you'd planted there earlier.
44:42Look!
44:44And you pointed it out to her,
44:45setting your scene.
44:47A knife
44:48covered in
44:49fake blood,
44:50just like your hands
44:52when you discovered
44:53Brendan's body.
44:54It really is
44:57just such a lovely shade of red,
44:59that lip gloss.
45:00Why would I put a knife there?
45:02To sell the fiction
45:03that Brendan had already been stabbed
45:05and the fleeing killer
45:06had dropped the knife.
45:08A knife
45:08Brendan didn't see
45:09because he came in
45:10through the front door.
45:11So,
45:12what other conclusion
45:13could there be
45:14other than Brendan was dead?
45:16But he was dead.
45:17No, Miranda,
45:17he just
45:18looked it.
45:20He had fallen down there
45:21after struggling
45:21to sign his books
45:22because he had been drugged
45:23by a former assistant
45:24who knew his habits.
45:29All you had to do
45:30was slip a mix
45:31of the barbiturates
45:32and sedatives
45:33that he had on him
45:34into his whiskey
45:35before the panel.
45:38You knew that
45:39he never went to the Q&A
45:40but he would go back
45:42for his usual
45:42smoke and drink.
45:49When the drugs
45:50took effect,
45:51Brendan tried to stand
45:52to get help
45:54or to get to his bed.
45:55I don't know,
45:56but the important thing is
45:58he was holding that pen
46:00when he slid
46:01to the floor
46:02and fell unconscious.
46:05Which brings me
46:06to the note.
46:09Ginny said,
46:10as his assistant,
46:11you did everything
46:11for Brendan.
46:12She signed his books
46:13for him, the works.
46:14It's a pretty good copy
46:15of Brendan's handwriting.
46:17He slipped me this note.
46:22Why would I do that?
46:23Invite myself
46:24and Miranda there
46:25to make sure
46:26you had a witness.
46:28Someone to say
46:29Brendan was dead
46:30when you found him
46:31and then when Miranda
46:33left to call the police,
46:35that's when you
46:36took your chance.
46:43And then you
46:44quickly staged the scene
46:46to look like a robbery.
46:48Smashing the lock,
46:49gripping the chain,
46:51lifting his wallet,
46:52but you couldn't
46:53take that pen.
46:55Miranda had already
46:55seen it.
46:59Robbery scene set.
47:01You swapped the real
47:01murder weapon
47:02for the knife
47:04covered in your lip gloss
47:05that you had planted
47:06there earlier.
47:08Then there was only
47:09one thing left to do,
47:10drop the decoy knife
47:12down the drain,
47:12the same drain
47:13that Miranda broke
47:14her designer heel on.
47:17Your prints were all
47:18over it, Lena.
47:19Brendan Trappmore
47:24put your family
47:26at risk
47:27from the funnel webs.
47:30But as it so happens,
47:33he put your family
47:34at risk
47:34in more ways
47:35than one.
47:37As we all know
47:39in Greek mythology,
47:41Calypso...
47:42A mermaid
47:43whose name translates
47:44as
47:45She Who Conceals.
47:47I had a one-night stand.
47:49So what?
47:50With Brendan
47:51at this venue
47:52at last year's festival,
47:53that's what.
47:54That is how you knew
47:55there was no phone reception
47:56in Brendan's villa
47:57and Miranda would need
47:58to leave to call the police.
48:00Giving you your chance
48:02to shut him up for good.
48:05Why would she do that?
48:14And in your room
48:16we found
48:17lactation medication
48:20to help Ginny breastfeed
48:22because you're
48:24Arlo's birth mother.
48:26Aren't you, Lena?
48:27Not Ginny.
48:30Fine.
48:32I did the IVF.
48:33I carried Arlo.
48:34Ginny breastfeeds.
48:36That doesn't prove anything.
48:40Are you going to tell her?
48:42Or am I?
48:43Arlo is Brendan's son.
48:56No.
48:57No, that's not possible.
48:59Conceived a year ago
49:01at last year's
49:01writers' festival.
49:03It's three months old, isn't he?
49:05You can't prove that.
49:07I already have.
49:09Sorry.
49:10He's a bit of a skewer.
49:13The DNA's a match.
49:15Brendan was Arlo's father.
49:18You knew he would hold
49:19that over you forever.
49:21You knew that
49:22even though you and
49:23Ginny have survived so much,
49:25that was the one threat
49:26that could break
49:27your family apart.
49:31After everything
49:32we've been through...
49:33I couldn't risk
49:35losing our family.
49:37And now you have.
49:41Yes.
49:48Lena Shaw,
49:49you're under arrest
49:50for murder.
49:50Brendan Cameron.
49:51Please.
49:52Please.
49:56You don't have to say
49:57or do anything,
49:58but anything you do say
49:58or do,
50:00maybe use it.
50:01Thanks.
50:01Oh, no.
50:16No.
50:17Stealing someone else's story.
50:18I am all for
50:19artistic inspiration,
50:21but my writing
50:21comes from
50:23my own life.
50:24The real storytelling
50:26is about going
50:27deep
50:27into your own
50:29experiences.
50:30So your imagination
50:31and maybe
50:32your fantasies,
50:34yeah?
50:34And then spinning
50:35a yarn out of that.
50:36You know what I mean,
50:36Felix?
50:37Yeah.
50:38How did you go
50:39with the Rocco files there?
50:41Yeah, Felix.
50:42How did you go
50:42with the Rocco files?
50:43Uh,
50:44very, uh,
50:47interesting.
50:48Love?
50:49Very interesting.
50:50We'd only get you
50:51a four out of ten
50:51for a book report
50:52in my class.
50:54You can do better
50:55than that.
50:58Look,
50:59I just
50:59I don't think
51:00it was
51:00quite for me.
51:02Ah,
51:03so you don't like
51:04well-plotted
51:06with complex characters
51:08and he gently
51:10touches her
51:11on the...
51:13Oh!
51:14Oh!
51:14Oh!
51:17Oh!
51:18I gave you
51:19the wrong one!
51:20I didn't mean
51:21to give you...
51:22This is
51:24not
51:25crime fiction
51:26at all.
51:26No, it's not.
51:27Well, it's like
51:29a personal story,
51:30a, uh,
51:30an exploration.
51:34Yeah,
51:34I got that part.
51:35You actually read it?
51:37Well, most of it.
51:38I had to stop myself
51:39at the hot tub bit.
51:40You should have
51:40kept going.
51:41That's where the narrative
51:42really reaches
51:43its climax.
51:44Wow.
51:45Power of literature.
51:47Oh,
51:48speaking of power,
51:49huh?
51:50I still
51:51have
51:52the real
51:52Rocco files
51:53here.
51:54If anybody's keen,
51:55Cole.
51:56I've, I've got, uh,
51:58uh,
51:58chiu-jitsu.
51:59Uh, same.
52:00I mean,
52:01I have, uh,
52:02washing.
52:03Washing?
52:04Overdue for the eye check.
52:06And everything's a little bit, uh,
52:08blurry.
52:08Blurry.
52:09Blurry.
52:09Mm.
52:14Always an excellent student,
52:16that one.
52:16She's not supposed to run.
52:27You're not supposed to run.
52:29You're such a naughty girl.
52:31Thought you'd want to see her
52:32the moment she got out.
52:36Oh.
52:39So, um,
52:40well, she's going to be okay?
52:42Yeah.
52:43Keep an eye on her,
52:43keep her fluids up,
52:44and she should be fine.
52:46Oh.
52:47Oh, you're so clever.
52:48And make sure you keep her out of it.
52:49Yeah, keep her out of the garden?
52:51Yeah.
52:51Ooh, I know.
52:54Look,
52:55at the vet last night,
52:57it was a really stressful situation.
53:01Yeah.
53:04I might have said some things
53:05about it being easier
53:07if you weren't here.
53:09She's okay.
53:10Yeah, she's okay.
53:12So, uh,
53:14we're good to do the box,
53:16like, properly this time.
53:17We must.
53:19I'm sorry,
53:20I interrupted.
53:21You finish what you're saying
53:22and, uh, we'll go.
53:24Uh, nothing important,
53:25just to say
53:26it's not true.
53:31What's not true?
53:32Uh, um,
53:35that
53:36once a dog
53:38is bitten by a snake,
53:40it's immune.
53:41Right.
53:43It's not true.
53:45And, uh,
53:45it's a myth,
53:46and it is a dangerous one.
53:49Lesson learned.
53:50Yeah.
53:51We're good to go?
53:52Got to get this box in the road.
53:53Wedding's only around the corner.
53:54All right, let's do it.
54:00See you back.
54:10Professional?
54:12Always.
54:12Welcome to, uh,
54:26Daisy and Glenn's wedding.
54:27Awkward.
54:28No, you, look.
54:29Don't panic, everyone!
54:31Contact poison.
54:32The chances are
54:32the killer is still here.
54:34Stop!
54:35Police!
54:35You're in a criminal
54:36conspiracy with her.
54:37Not a crime.
54:39Yes, it, yes, it is.
54:39I think everyone's
54:40having a really good time.
54:41You know the foot
54:42I found on the beach?
54:43She is a bit annoying, though.
54:44Glenn and Daisy
54:45are more than a couple to me.
54:47They're the family
54:48that found me
54:48and make me feel at home.
54:52If there are no objections,
54:53I will proceed.
55:11Well, all right, let's get it.
55:25I don't know what it is.
55:26But when I know how I feel,
55:27I'm free.
55:28We will have a little break.
55:28We will have a little break.
55:29Good girl,anto it's quiet.
55:30Wait a minute.
55:30Let's witness this.
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