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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's dead.
05:25He's dead.
05:26He's dead.
05:26He's dead.
05:26He's dead.
05:27He's dead.
05:27He's dead.
05:28He's dead.
05:28He's dead.
05:28He's dead.
05:29He's dead.
05:29He's dead.
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05:30He's dead.
05:30He's dead.
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05:31He's dead.
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05:31He's dead.
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05:32He's dead.
05:32He's dead.
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05:32He's dead.
05:33He's dead.
05:33He's dead.
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05:34He's dead.
05:34He's dead.
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05:35He's dead.
05:35He's dead.
05:35He's dead.
05:36He's dead.
05:36He's dead.
05:37Blimey, Brendan Trapmore.
06:05I read three of his Johnny Fox books in 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.
06:12Brutality.
06:15Guest 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.
06:33The killer dropped the knife then.
06:40Looks like it.
06:41Oh, Glenn.
06:44Already here.
06:45Morning, Maya.
06:46The stab went to the upper chest.
06:53Any defense wounds?
06:55Not that I can see, no.
06:57A writer who died with his pen in his hand.
07:03How poetic.
07:05The patch means death.
07:18A Johnny Fox mystery.
07:20That is absolutely savage.
07:22There's a scene in there with a pillowcase full of broken glass.
07:29Gave me nightmares.
07:31Branded.
07:33The new Johnny Fox.
07:36Get him.
07:39It's a few bits of broken gold chain.
07:54Someone must have ripped the chain from around his neck.
07:57Did you check his pockets?
07:58Was there a wallet?
07:59Nothing in there.
08:00A broken gold chain.
08:03No wallet.
08:04Signs of forced entry here.
08:06Robbery gone wrong.
08:07Brendan came in through the back.
08:09Didn't see them.
08:10They got startled.
08:11He's still holding his pen so clearly he was at the desk signing when the killer came in.
08:19The intruder broke the lock on the front door with, with what, with what, with that.
08:30But it's already unlocked.
08:42It's nibbed to the right so, so why smash it?
08:47Unless you wanted it to look like a robbery gone wrong, a 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?
09:22Driving me nuts.
09:24Barking at every surfer that walks past.
09:26She misses you.
09:28You could take her for a run if you wanted to.
09:33I think, er, claim breaks easier.
09:40Victims are walk-in pharmacy.
09:41Bathroom is full of prescription drugs.
09:43We'll get them tested.
09:45Hey, don't work too late.
09:47You've got to be at the surf club for seven.
09:49Our box night.
09:50Our box?
09:52It's going to be debauchery and chaos.
09:54I've, er...
09:55I booked a magician.
10:02Glenn?
10:03Mackenzie?
10:05Uh, 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 11am?
10:31Yes, but Brendan, um, walked out early, about 10.30.
10:36Not for the first time, either.
10:37He hates the Q&A.
10:38We have questions.
10:39We have questions.
10:40Typical Brendan.
10:42Made his big announcement and then waltzed off.
10:44What was this announcement?
10:45His first book in five years, branded.
10:47Well, the manuscript was in his room.
10:51Oh, so it exists.
10:52Hmm.
10:53Shouldn'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, er, sprung it on us while we were on the panel.
11:04Loved to keep me and everyone on their toes.
11:06Nightmare, really.
11:07Hmm.
11:08Sounds like he was quite difficult to work with.
11:10No, no, not at all.
11:12I mean, he could be a bit erratic.
11:16You knew him pretty well?
11:17I used to be his assistant.
11:19Brendan, um, always encouraged me to write.
11:23Even when I didn't know what I was doing, he saw something in me.
11:27So, Brendan left the panel.
11:30The rest of you stayed for the Q&A.
11:32Why, why go to his villa afterwards?
11:36Oh, he, er, he slipped me this note.
11:39Whisky and cigars with my girls after the panel.
11:45Be.
11:46With my girls.
11:47Hmm.
11:48I know.
11:49Only slightly patronising.
11:50What happened when you got there?
11:51Um, so we, we went inside and he was, um, you know, covered in blood, still holding his pen.
12:06And I, um, I tried to call the police, but I couldn't get any reception at the villa, so I had to run back up.
12:14In those?
12:15I broke a hill on my stupid drain.
12:18Do you know if Brendan had any enemies at all?
12:24Well, according to him, he had enemies baying for his blood from Hobart to Cape York.
12:30What about today?
12:31Anyone suspicious in the audience?
12:33Ginny would have noticed.
12:37My wife.
12:39She was filming the panel.
12:41I'll introduce you.
12:52No, no one's us.
12:54Just your usual book festival crowd.
12:57And you were at the panel the whole time?
12:59Yeah.
13:00Did you see anyone following Brendan when he left?
13:03Arlo was grizzling.
13:04I 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.
13:13But my camera's in the room.
13:20Oh.
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 here.
13:32He was coming up the path.
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.
13:59Hello, Detective Sergeant.
14:01Was he really stabbed?
14:04Miranda said something about a knife?
14:06Yeah, but perhaps if I ask the questions.
14:08Of course.
14:11When did you last see Brendan?
14:13When he walked off.
14:14And you didn't leave the panel at all?
14:16No.
14:17What about after the Q&A?
14:19I signed some books and then headed back to my villa.
14:22Where did you bump into Miranda and Lena?
14:24In the garden.
14:25They were very shaken.
14:26I told them not to go back into Brendan's villa.
14:29Why?
14:30Well, they'd already disturbed the crime scene once.
14:32Not great for forensics if they kept going back in.
14:36Expert, are you?
14:38Not Detective.
14:39I've read a lot of crime novels.
14:41I know the basics.
14:42I've read them.
14:43You don't.
14:44Ah, yes.
14:45Now this is interesting.
14:46I wonder who did the cover art?
14:47Now that one, that's boring.
14:49Hang on.
14:50Hmm.
14:51Hmm.
14:52Hmm.
14:53Hmm.
14:54Hmm.
14:55Hmm.
14:56Yeah.
14:57A copy of Will's book has been placed in front of all of Brendan's.
15:00Hmm.
15:01So, nobody's replaced with Brendan's.
15:02Hmm.
15:03Hmm.
15:04Hmm.
15:05Hmm.
15:06Hmm.
15:07Hmm.
15:08Hmm.
15:09Hmm.
15:10Hmm.
15:11Oh.
15:12Yeah.
15:13A copy of Will's book has been placed in front of all of Brendan's.
15:16Hmm.
15:17So, nobody's reported a robbery or anything suspicious.
15:21Staff accounted for.
15:22They were all at a meeting.
15:23Nowhere 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.
15:32One of them must have snuck out.
15:34Doesn't look like it.
15:36I've just skimmed through Ginny's footage.
15:38They're present the whole time.
15:42Brendan surprises everyone with the announcement of a new book.
15:45And then, 35 minutes later, he's dead.
15:50One 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.
16:02It's impossible.
16:03It's impossible.
16:08Yet somehow, it's not.
16:15Lena Shaw, author of mermaid-themed erotica.
16:20What are we calling it?
16:21Romanticy.
16:22Yeah, not my thing.
16:23Romance, absolutely, but elves in theories.
16:26Yeah, no thanks.
16:29Okay.
16:30She 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.
16:47You just, can I, why, what, what?
16:51Oh, it's for the books.
16:54Has that been airbrushed?
16:56No, it has not.
16:57Mackenzie, I've been reviewing the footage from the panel,
17:01and Will is no fan of Brendan, I can tell you that.
17:04But listen to this.
17:06My heroine, Elka, is based on myself.
17:09She's more of a combination.
17:11Is that a baby crying?
17:12Ah, uh, Lena and Ginny's baby.
17:14Uh, fucking Arlo.
17:19Oh, it's getting fainter.
17:21Ginny 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.
18:04So sorry.
18:20Did you leave the panel this morning at any point?
18:22I took Arlo outside to change in.
18:24I was gone, like, five minutes?
18:26Yeah.
18:27Six minutes, actually.
18:28We 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.
18:37Did you have an altercation with Brendan prior to the panel?
18:41A small one.
18:43I'd just gotten Arlo to sleep and Brendan bumped into us.
18:45Woke him up.
18:46You 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.
19:00I 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?
19:31Oh, no.
19:32Lena'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.
19:42But back when she was his assistant, she did everything for him.
19:47His cleaning, his research, signed his books for him, the works.
19:52Sorry.
19:53He's a bit of a spewer.
19:59The Brendan Trapmore brand and manuscript?
20:02Oh, gosh.
20:04Inconsistent tenses.
20:05Spelling all over the shop.
20:07And the women, the 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.
20:17That is uncanny that you should say that, Felix.
20:24The Rocco files sophisticated crime fiction from a mature female perspective.
20:30Now, this little baby, she's ready for her first review.
20:33So, either of you keen to give it a go?
20:37Yeah?
20:39Yeah.
20:41Felix!
20:42Good.
20:43Thank you so much.
20:45I cannot wait to hear your thoughts.
20:48Bickies?
20:49Good on you, Felix.
20:57Whoa!
20:59Watch him.
21:01Oh, come on.
21:03All this space and they parked this close.
21:04This close.
21:07I think that's Miranda's car.
21:09This old bomb.
21:10Did you not see her high heels?
21:11That's a week's wages right there.
21:12And that broken heel.
21:13What a waste.
21:15Why do you think it's hers?
21:17Loafers.
21:18Under the steering wheel.
21:20You shouldn't drive a car in stilettos.
21:27Felix.
21:30A fight.
21:32Who?
21:34This is you and Brendan.
21:36Now, what else can I support?
21:37Shut up!
21:38I swear to God, Brendan.
21:39Oh, what big fella.
21:40No jokes.
21:42Anyway, Alex Thorne, he comes...
21:43Last year's festival.
21:49Looks like he took a real swing at Brendan there.
21:53Almost took out Lena as well.
21:55Not my finest hour.
21:57What was the fight about?
21:59Brendan harangued Miranda for an advance copy of my book
22:03and 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.
22:25Especially to people he wanted to sleep with.
22:28Your image is very different though, isn't it?
22:31I mean, 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.
22:47The serviette.
22:49I 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.
23:04Well, 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?
23:18No idea what you're talking about.
23:24Hmm.
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.
23:34A Johnny Fox mystery.
23:36You're suggesting I killed Brendan over a book.
23:39Not just absurd.
23:41Impossible.
23:43I was on the panel, on camera, while he was being murdered.
23:49Well, Brendan took his research seriously.
23:53Miranda's financials?
23:55Absolute shambles.
23:57She's deep in the red with debts.
23:59Everywhere.
24:00Brendan announcing a new Johnny Fox novel must have been very good news for her.
24:05That's a shame he didn't put the same effort into his prose as he did his handwriting.
24:09Funnel webs.
24:11Who are they?
24:12A local bikey gang.
24:13He must have been talking to them about his book.
24:16Hang on.
24:19Huh.
24:21Brendan used biro in all of these.
24:25Until his most recent one.
24:28He switched pens?
24:29Yes.
24:30Huh.
24:32To 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. Stationery is my thing, so.
24:44Oh.
24:45How did you go with the branded manuscript?
24:47Oh, where do I start?
24:48You know what?
24:49I'll just read it myself.
24:51I won't read it myself tonight.
24:52Frankie!
24:53It's not him!
24:54I'm sorry.
24:55Frankie!
24:56It's not him!
24:57I'm sorry.
24:58How's Brandon?
24:59Do we know how Johnny survives being chopped up into a thousand pieces by that propeller?
25:01in the last book?
25:02No.
25:03No.
25:04All he's said about it is that...
25:05no helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous woman.
25:06No.
25:07No.
25:08No.
25:09No.
25:10No.
25:11No.
25:12It's not wrong.
25:13No.
25:14No.
25:15No.
25:16No.
25:17No helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous woman.
25:20He's not wrong.
25:21No.
25:22No.
25:23No.
25:24No helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous woman.
25:27by that propeller in the last book?
25:29No.
25:30All he said about it is that
25:32no helicopter blade is as lethal as the love of a treacherous woman.
25:36He's not wrong.
25:41Frankie?
25:47Snake.
25:48Uh, did it get her? Was she bitten?
25:51Um...
25:53Well, Colin, I've got to get her to the vet.
25:55Shall I call Glen?
25:57No, no, no. Just let him enjoy his night.
26:09That's actually my body.
26:11I believe that.
26:13All right, team.
26:15The fun bus is arriving out front,
26:17so finish your drinks and let's go!
26:21So, which of the two bars are going to your sticky floor
26:23or the other one?
26:24Oh, you little faith. I 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'm here, mate.
26:39You've had some knocks lately, but you always come through.
26:43Come on, mate.
26:44All right, let's do it.
26:45How is she?
26:59Uh...
27:01Uh...
27:02Yeah, they, um...
27:03They gave her the antebellum and, um...
27:05They've put her on an IV trip.
27:07Hi, Vedric.
27:08Hi, Sarah.
27:09Mm-hmm.
27:11Hi, Glen.
27:13Um...
27:14Uh, they said that we should prepare ourselves.
27:16No change.
27:39Mm.
27:43Colin told you.
27:45Yeah, I'm glad he did.
27:47I yelled at her earlier.
27:49She was barking and barking.
27:51She was barking at the snake.
27:55She was trying to warn you, Mac, or...
27:58Why would you let her go off like that?
28:00No, that's not fair.
28:03No, ever since she was a puppy, she's been running around at Mum's place.
28:06And at your place.
28:07This was an accident.
28:08This is not my fault.
28:09I'm not saying it's your fault.
28:11I'm saying that since you've come back,
28:15these 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.
28:29Yeah, I guess it would be.
28:33Uh-huh.
28:37I'm gonna go.
28:42Why don't you let me know if there's a change?
28:47I'm gonna go.
28:48I can't do it.
28:49I can't do it.
28:50Or maybe not.
28:51I can't do it.
28:52I can't do it.
28:53Whatever.
28:56I can't do it.
28:57I can't do it.
29:29How's Frankie?
29:33Um, it could go either way.
29:37Or think.
29:39Um, how are you?
29:42Colin, can we...
29:44Can we just...
29:47Work?
29:52How's Johnny Fox?
29:53Well, he's heartbroken because he found out his lover, Calypso,
29:58has 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?
30:10Would 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 and a person.
30:42You were tempted back to him, though, weren't you?
30:44You 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?
31:00This poor, moon-eyed, aspiring writer who thought he was the real deal.
31:04Once, a moment of weakness.
31:12Ginny and I had been going through hell with IVF,
31:14and Brendan could be very charismatic.
31:20Ginny doesn't know.
31:24She always said a thing about Brendan.
31:26She thought that he mistreated me when I was his assistant.
31:29Did he?
31:30Maybe.
31:30Maybe.
31:31He was a terrible boss.
31:32But 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.
32:11Hmm.
32:11Mackenzie,
32:12a little word with you.
32:15Hmm?
32:15Is there any news on Frankie?
32:28Oh, uh, no.
32:31Well, if you need some time off,
32:32you need to go to the vet.
32:33Um,
32:35they'll update me if anything changes.
32:37Or,
32:37or Glenn.
32:39Glenn, though.
32:40Oh,
32:41Glenn.
32:43He's very upset about this.
32:49Yeah, he was quiet.
32:54Is everything okay there?
32:57Professionally?
32:59Yeah, of course.
33:01It's fine.
33:02Yeah, of course.
33:07Oh, well then.
33:08Off you go.
33:08Are you glad I came back?
33:18Am I glad?
33:20Hmm.
33:22Is me being here something that's
33:24made your life easier?
33:29You mean professionally?
33:31Yes, I do, of course.
33:32Absolutely.
33:33What about on
33:40any other level?
33:49Don't you have something
33:51that you have to be doing?
33:52Yeah, I do.
33:52Yep.
33:53Mm-hmm.
33:55Mm-hmm.
33:56Mm-hmm.
33:56Mm-hmm.
33:57Mm-hmm.
33:58Mm-hmm.
33:59Mm-hmm.
34:00Mm-hmm.
34:01Mm-hmm.
34:02Mm-hmm.
34:02Mm-hmm.
34:03What are you all to there?
34:04Nothing.
34:05No.
34:05No.
34:06It's Reggie's book.
34:11I told her I'd give it a read
34:13and give her my thoughts.
34:14Is it good?
34:16Good.
34:17Uh, look, not my thing.
34:20Generally, I prefer something a little less...
34:23adult.
34:25Mm-hmm.
34:26Mm-hmm.
34:27Mm-hmm.
34:28Mm-hmm.
34:29Mm-hmm.
34:30Mm-hmm.
34:31Mm-hmm.
34:32Oh, my days.
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...
34:42Mm-hmm.
34:44Good luck with that.
34:45Mamma Mia.
34:46Ha, ha, ha, ha.
34:48Ha, ha, ha.
34:49Enzo, potrei essere tua madre.
34:52Ha, ha, ha.
34:54Allora, se ma dovessi venire in Australia, chiamami.
34:58Ha, ha, ha.
34:59Ha, ha, ha.
35:01Ciao, ciao.
35:02Ha, ha, ha.
35:03Ha, ha, ha.
35:04Ha, ha, ha.
35:05What a lovely bloke.
35:08What?
35:09Oh, oh, I've been learning Italian on my phone for the last few months.
35:14I'm on a 200-day streak.
35:16Anyway, 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.
35:27Expensive?
35:28Oh, yeah.
35:30So, why would a killer wanting to sell us a robbery gone wrong leave it behind?
35:34Maybe they didn't know it was expensive.
35:37Uh, did, um...
35:39Enzo...
35:40Enzo.
35:41Enzo.
35:42Yep.
35:43Did they tell us who bought it?
35:45See?
35:46A company called 43 Global.
35:48And, uh, what do they do?
35:51They're Brennan's new publisher.
35:55Signed contract from 43 Global.
35:58A massive media company with exclusive rights to the new Johnny Fox series.
36:02Starting with, uh, Brennan.
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 bestselling 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.
36:40A writer of brutal crime novels gets brutally murdered.
36:44That's a story that guarantees his old bestsellers keep selling for you.
36:49Oh, yeah.
36:50I'd kill him alright.
36:51But he was already dead when I found him.
36:53Ah, Glenn.
36:54Autopsy results are in.
36:55I haven't heard anything.
36:56Have you?
36:57No.
36:58No.
36:59I'm gonna go there after this.
37:00Uh, autopsy then.
37:01Fatal wound to the right lung and the knife and the blood is a match.
37:05Any prints?
37:06No.
37:07No.
37:08No sign of struggle either.
37:09Which I think I can explain.
37:10Stab wound was what killed him.
37:11But I've done a basic tox and, well.
37:12There were a lot of drugs in his room.
37:13No.
37:14No sign of struggle either.
37:15Which I think I can explain.
37:16Stab wound was what killed him.
37:17But I've done a basic tox and, well.
37:20There were a lot of drugs in his room.
37:21And he took all of them.
37:22He would have been, let's just say, slow.
37:23Yep.
37:24That explains why he was stabbed in the chest.
37:25But there was no sign of a struggle.
37:26Um, his inner...
37:27What?
37:28What?
37:29What?
37:30What?
37:31What?
37:32What?
37:33What?
37:34What?
37:35What?
37:36What?
37:37What?
37:38What?
37:39What?
37:40What?
37:41What?
37:42What?
37:43What?
37:44What?
37:45What?
37:46What?
37:47What?
37:48His inner...
37:49His inner left wrist, was there any branding or scarification?
37:54No.
37:55No tattoos, no scars.
37:56But I suppose a tough guy, he didn't have much to show for it.
37:59Right.
38:00He had nothing to do with the funnel webs.
38:02He wasn't living Johnny Fox's life.
38:05Doesn't look like it.
38:07But someone was.
38:18What do you want now?
38:21Lena told me about Brendan, if that's why you're here.
38:24It was a dumb mistake that meant nothing.
38:26Actually, we hear about your tattoo.
38:29You've covered it in vine leaves, but it's a funnel web spider, isn't it?
38:34So?
38:35The symbol of the funnel webs bikey gang, right?
38:38Can we please see your wrist?
38:42They call it the exit fee.
38:45Punishment for leaving.
38:47You hold out your arm, cut your teeth, and once it's done, you're free.
38:55When I was working for Brendan, I told him Ginny's story.
38:59Showing off, I suppose.
39:01Wanted 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, trying 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.
39:25Yeah.
39:27It was.
39:29And 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.
39:41The connection to me is so obvious.
39:45The funnel webs would think you've spoken to Brendan.
39:48Yeah.
39:49And the one thing they don't like is publicity.
39:53You think they'd come after you in retribution?
39:55I know they would.
39:58It's a pretty good reason to want to take Brendan out of the picture.
40:03Exposing you to danger like that.
40:06I 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.
40:14Not even to protect your family?
40:16I'd do anything to protect my family.
40:19But I told him he couldn't use my story and assumed that was it.
40:23You're the only one that had opportunity.
40:28I had a baby strapped to me all day.
40:31I couldn't have killed anyone.
40:33Ginny had good reason to hate Brendan, putting her family in danger like that.
40:39And having a thing with Lena.
40:41Lena said Ginny didn't know beforehand, but maybe she did.
40:44But she only had a six minute window during that Q&A.
40:47Not a lot of time.
40:48And hard to imagine her doing a thing with Arlo there.
40:50Where are we going?
40:52Fruit shop.
40:55Baby Arlo.
40:56Straps.
40:57Wow, impressive skills, Felix.
40:59Yeah, I don't have a world best uncle mug for nothing.
41:02Okay, right.
41:03So Ginny left the panel at 10.46, back at 10.52.
41:06Mm-hmm.
41:07Ready?
41:08Wow, wow.
41:09Baby crying.
41:10Go.
41:19Oh, no, leave it.
41:21Oh, oh, no, leave him.
41:23Don't take him up.
41:29I'm Brendan, writing in my notebook with my expensive, beautiful pen.
41:33And stab it.
41:35Okay, yep, stop.
41:36And you're back at the panel.
41:41Even if you legged it, you wouldn't have made it.
41:43Then how did it happen?
41:48You...
41:52You dropped your pen.
41:56Which makes sense, doesn't it?
41:59Does it?
42:01If someone attacked you with a knife, you would drop your pen, wouldn't you?
42:05But Brendan didn't.
42:07Maybe he didn't see them.
42:08The killer surprised him.
42:10How could they surprise him when he was stabbed in the chest?
42:12There were no defensive wounds on his body.
42:14It's like he didn't fight back at all.
42:16Why not?
42:18Um...
42:19Freeze response?
42:20It happens.
42:22Well, he didn't freeze when Will hit him at last year's writers festival.
42:26It's almost like he didn't see his killer coming at all, but...
42:29He didn't see them.
42:30Because it hadn't happened yet.
42:31Oh, okay.
42:32Oh, okay.
42:33There we go.
42:34What are you doing?
42:35The knife had to go... somewhere.
42:36Uh, yeah.
42:37In an evidence bag.
42:38Yeah.
42:39In an evidence bag.
42:40Yeah.
42:41No.
42:42No.
42:43No.
42:44No.
42:45No.
42:46No.
42:47No.
42:48No.
42:49No.
42:50No.
42:51No.
42:52No.
42:53No.
42:55No.
42:56No.
42:57No.
42:58No.
42:59No.
43:00No.
43:01No.
43:02No.
43:03No.
43:05Oh, and this one?
43:15Brendan Trapmore.
43:17Best-selling crime writer, murdered in his villa, but, much like his infamous rogue detective,
43:25Johnny Fox, the story of his murder wasn't what it seemed.
43:30Act one.
43:32Brendan returns to his villa, act two.
43:35Lena and Miranda find his body, but the twist.
43:38Brendan wasn't actually murdered until act three.
43:44Our killer crafted the story of 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.
43:59Including that expensive pen.
44:02Not just a gift from Brendan's new publisher, no.
44:07This pen was the unexpected complication in our killer's plot.
44:11Why would a killer who wanted to sell us a robbery not take it?
44:16I mean, it was such a dead giveaway.
44:22Because you had to leave the scene exactly as it looked
44:25when you discovered Brendan's body.
44:27Isn't that right, Lena?
44:33What?
44:34The lock on the front door, that was easy enough to fudge.
44:37You'd just lead Miranda around the back to see the knife
44:39that you'd planted there earlier.
44:41Look!
44:44And you pointed it out to her, setting your scene.
44:47A knife covered in fake blood, just like your hands,
44:52when you discovered Brendan's body.
44:56It really is just such a lovely shade of red, that lip gloss.
45:00Why would I put a knife there?
45:02To sell the fiction that Brendan had already been stabbed
45:05and the fleeing killer had dropped the knife.
45:07A knife Brendan didn't see
45:09because he came in through the front door.
45:11So, what other conclusion could there be
45:13other than Brendan was dead?
45:15But he was dead.
45:16No, Miranda, he just looked it.
45:19He had fallen down there after struggling to sign his books
45:22because he had been drugged by a former assistant
45:24who knew his habits.
45:29All you had to do was slip a mix of the barbiturates
45:32and sedatives that he had on him into his whiskey
45:34before the panel.
45:38You knew that he never went to the Q&A,
45:40but he would go back for his usual smoke and drink.
45:49When the drugs took effect,
45:50Brendan tried to stand to get help or to get to his bed.
45:55I don't know, but they didn't.
45:56The important thing is he was holding that pen
46:00when he slid to the floor and fell unconscious.
46:05Which brings me to the note.
46:07Ginny said, as his assistant, you did everything for Brendan.
46:11She signed his books for him, the works.
46:13It's a pretty good copy of Brendan's handwriting.
46:16Can you slip me this note?
46:22Why would I do that?
46:23Invite myself and Miranda there
46:25to make sure you had a witness.
46:28Someone to say Brendan was dead when you found him.
46:31And then when Miranda left to call the police,
46:34that's when you took your chance.
46:43And then you quickly staged the scene to look like a robbery.
46:47Smashing the lock,
46:49gripping the chain, lifting his wallet,
46:52but you couldn't take that pen.
46:53Miranda had already seen it.
46:55Robbery scene set.
46:56You swapped the real murder weapon
46:57for the knife covered in your lip gloss
46:58that you had planted there earlier.
46:59Then there was only one thing left to do.
47:00Drop the decoy knife down the drain.
47:01The same drain that Miranda broke her designer heel on.
47:03Your prints were all over it, Lena.
47:04Brendan Trappmore put your family at risk from the funnel webs.
47:05But as it so happens,
47:06he put your family at risk from the funnel webs.
47:10He put your family at risk in more ways than one.
47:11As we all know,
47:13we're all going to do.
47:14We're all going to do.
47:15Drop the decoy knife down the drain.
47:16The same drain that Miranda broke her designer heel on.
47:17Your prints were all over it, Lena.
47:19Brendan Trappmore put your family at risk from the funnel webs.
47:30But as it so happens,
47:32he put your family at risk in more ways than one.
47:37As we all know,
47:39in Greek mythology,
47:41Calypso...
47:42A mermaid whose name translates as
47:44she who conceals.
47:47I had a one night stand.
47:49So what?
47:50With Brendan at this venue at last year's festival,
47:53that's what.
47:54That is how you knew there was no phone reception
47:56in Brendan's villa
47:57and Miranda would need to leave to call the police.
48:00giving you your chance to shut him up for good.
48:05Why would she do that?
48:15And in your room we found...
48:18Lactation medication.
48:20To help Ginny breastfeed.
48:23Because you're Arlo's birth mother.
48:26Aren't you Lena, not Ginny?
48:30Fine.
48:31I did the IVF.
48:33I carried Arlo.
48:34Ginny breastfeeds.
48:35That doesn't prove anything.
48:40Are you gonna tell her?
48:42Or am I?
48:50Arlo is Brendan's son.
48:52Oh.
48:56No.
48:57No, that's not possible.
48:59Mm-mm.
49:00Conceived a year ago at last year's writers' festival.
49:03He's three months old, isn't he?
49:06You 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.
49:17You knew he would hold that over you forever.
49:20You knew that even though you and Ginny have survived so much,
49:25that was the one threat that could break your family apart.
49:28Mm-mm.
49:31After everything we've been through...
49:34I couldn't risk losing our family.
49:37I couldn't.
49:38Please.
49:40And now you have?
49:41Yes.
49:48Lena Shaw.
49:49You're under arrest for murder.
49:50Brendan Cameron.
49:51Please.
49:52Please.
49:56You don't have to say or do anything,
49:57but anything you do say or do,
49:59maybe use it.
50:00Thanks.
50:08Oh, no.
50:16No.
50:17Stealing someone else's story.
50:18I am all for artistic inspiration,
50:20but my writing comes from my own life.
50:24The real storytelling is about going deep
50:28into your own experiences.
50:30So your imagination and maybe your fantasies, yeah?
50:34And then spinning a yarn out of that.
50:35You know what I mean, Felix?
50:36Yeah.
50:38How did you go with the Rocco files there?
50:40Yeah, Felix.
50:41How did you go with the Rocco files?
50:43Uh...
50:45Very, uh, interesting.
50:48Love?
50:49Very interesting.
50:50We'd only get you a four out of ten
50:51for a book report in my class.
50:54You can do better than that.
50:58Look, I just...
50:59I don't think it was quite for me.
51:02Ah.
51:03So you don't like well-plotted,
51:06with complex characters
51:08and he gently touches her...
51:12Oh, no.
51:13Oh!
51:14Oh!
51:17Oh!
51:18I gave you the wrong one!
51:20I didn't mean to give you...
51:23This is not crime fiction at all.
51:26No, it's not.
51:28Well, it's like a personal story.
51:29A, uh...
51:31An exploration of...
51:33Yeah, I got that part.
51:35You actually read it?
51:36Well, most of it.
51:37I had to stop myself at the hot tub bit.
51:39You should have kept going.
51:40That's where the narrative really reaches its climax.
51:44Wow.
51:45Power of literature.
51:46Oh.
51:47Speaking of power.
51:49Yeah.
51:51I still have the real Rocco files here.
51:53If anybody's keen, Cole.
51:56I've got, uh...
51:58Jiu Jitsu.
51:59Uh, same.
52:00I mean, I have, uh...
52:02Washing.
52:03Washing.
52:05Overdue for the eye check.
52:06And everything's a little bit, uh...
52:08Blurry.
52:09Blurry.
52:10Always an excellent student, that one.
52:17Oh!
52:18Frankie!
52:19Hello!
52:20Oh!
52:25She's not supposed to run.
52:27You're not supposed to run.
52:29You're such a naughty girl.
52:31Thought you wanted to see her the moment she got out.
52:36Uh...
52:37So, um...
52:40Thought she's gonna be okay?
52:41Yeah.
52:42Keep an eye on her.
52:43Keep her fluids up.
52:44And...
52:45She should be fine.
52:46Oh!
52:47Oh, you're so clever.
52:48And make sure you keep her out of...
52:49Yeah, keep her out of the garden?
52:50Yeah.
52:51Ooh, I know.
52:54Look.
52:55At the vet last night...
52:58It was a really stressful situation.
53:01Yeah.
53:04I might have said some things...
53:05About it being easier if you weren't here.
53:08She's okay.
53:10Yeah, she's...
53:11Okay.
53:12So, uh...
53:14We're good to do the box.
53:15Like, properly this time.
53:17We must.
53:19Sorry, I interrupted.
53:21You finish what you're saying and, uh, we'll go.
53:24Uh, nothing important.
53:25Just to say...
53:28It's not true.
53:31What's not true?
53:32Uh...
53:35Um, that...
53:37Once a dog is bitten by a snake, it's immune.
53:41Right.
53:43It's not true.
53:45And, uh, it's a myth.
53:46And it is a dangerous one.
53:49Lesson learnt.
53:51We're good to go?
53:52Gotta get this box in the road.
53:53Wedding's only around the corner.
53:55Oh!
53:57Alright, let's do it.
53:59See you, Mac.
54:10Professional?
54:12Always.
54:13Welcome to, uh, Daisy and Glenn's wedding.
54:27Awkward.
54:28No, you...
54:29Look.
54:30Don't panic, everyone!
54:31Contact poison.
54:32The chances are the killer is still here.
54:34Stop! Police!
54:35You're in a criminal conspiracy with her.
54:37Not a crime.
54:38Yes, it... yes, it is.
54:39I think everyone's having a really good time.
54:41You know the foot I found on the beach?
54:43She is a bit annoying, though.
54:44Glenn and Daisy are more than a couple to me.
54:47They're the family that found me and make me feel at home.
54:51If there are no objections, I will proceed.
54:54You know the way to get to the beach.
54:55We'll get to the beach.
54:56We'll get to the beach.
54:57We'll get to the beach.
54:58Let's proceed.
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