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00:13To be continued...
00:31I'm needed in the council meeting.
00:33An online booking system would be more efficient and less archaic.
00:37You're a much-up fan of Saffron.
00:38You're pushing your luxury.
00:41I really need to get to that meeting.
00:43Alright, also on the agenda for today,
00:46a matter that's really close to my heart.
00:47Not the bloody cats again.
00:49They are vicious predators.
00:51Honestly, who voted her on?
00:53She's bonkers.
00:54Cats are killing our native bird life.
00:56They need to be banned from Moorai Bay
00:58and the entire peninsula.
01:00Ha ha ha ha!
01:04Fill it in during business hours, Monday to Friday.
01:07Nope, I'll fill it in now and book the pool inspection.
01:09Now.
01:09You have to pay a fee,
01:10and I don't have time to fire up the F-Pos machine.
01:13Yes, I do clean a motel, Cherie.
01:15A motel with a pool,
01:17which people can't swim in if the council doesn't inspect it.
01:20And if people can't swim,
01:21they're in their rooms,
01:22making a mess,
01:23which I have to clean.
01:24Most business owners diarise when their pool inspection is due not leave it to the last minute like your bosses
01:29have.
01:29They're new.
01:31They make mistakes.
01:32Whereas you've been behind this desk since that last was in fashion.
01:36The first time round.
01:42You think our native bird life dying is funny?
01:44It's a human right to own a pet.
01:46And it's my right to want to live in a world with trees and bird life.
01:49No one's stopping you.
01:50You decide you want to cut a native tree,
01:51and suddenly the bylaws are changed.
01:53It's rotting.
01:54It's a hazard.
01:55No, it's not.
01:56It's blocking your sea view.
01:57Look, what I do on my property is none of your business.
02:00And the dotterals are my business.
02:02I propose that we ban domestic cats by the year...
02:04I propose that this meeting is over.
02:06It's one o'clock.
02:08Cherie.
02:14Huh?
02:16Oh, thank you.
02:18Pool inspections booked for Tuesday.
02:19Brilliant.
02:20Thank you, Saffron.
02:21Sweet. See you tomorrow.
02:22Oh, hang on, hang on.
02:23You've still got the beachfront units to turn around.
02:25But I went to the council for you.
02:26You volunteered to go.
02:28Yeah, because I didn't want to do the beachfront units.
02:30And I helped you skip the queue.
02:32It was going to be three weeks for an inspection.
02:34Really?
02:35So I roughed up the receptionist.
02:36Nah, she's joking, but...
02:39You're joking, right?
02:41Oh, my God, fine.
02:42I'll do the beachfront units.
02:44Well, she booked a pool inspection.
03:16I've tried calling him several times, but he didn't answer.
03:21Gordon's never late.
03:22Sorry, go and check on him.
03:23Me?
03:24Why me?
03:25Because you're not a counsellor.
03:28Fine.
03:28Let's take a break while we wait for Gordon.
03:32Anyone for a non-binary gingerbread person?
03:46Gordon.
03:47Gordon.
03:47Gordon.
03:48Gordon.
03:48Gordon.
03:50Gordon.
03:52Gordon.
03:53Hello, Gordon.
04:01Gordon?
04:04Gordon!
04:11I just...
04:13I can't get it out of my head.
04:14I just can't unsee it.
04:16It's own cat.
04:17Oh, I don't think that'd be, um...
04:20Sorry, I'll be right back.
04:22Hey.
04:23Hey, um...
04:24This is a big one.
04:26Homicide.
04:27Head of Moir Council.
04:28City homicide on the way?
04:30Yeah.
04:31Um...
04:31I just wanted another check-through.
04:33Better get my initial report right.
04:42Oh.
04:57Well, the cat's innocent.
05:00Unless the floof can hold a knife.
05:02Multiple stab wounds.
05:03Is it a murder weapon?
05:05Uh, the initial sweep didn't turn anything up.
05:07All right, well, let's take a look around.
05:27Hello.
05:28Hey.
05:29Hey, what's going on?
05:30Is that a cop car out the front?
05:34Yeah, uh...
05:36Your friend, good?
05:37Uh, yeah.
05:38Why, what's he done now?
05:40Mate, I'm really sorry.
05:43Sorry.
06:14Jamie?
06:19I'll beg her.
06:20And, um, dust the dishwasher for Prince.
06:23You got it.
06:25When was the last time you saw him?
06:27A couple weeks ago.
06:28Uh, we usually catch up on a Friday night,
06:31but he took a rain check.
06:33He said he was seeing a lady.
06:35Any idea who?
06:36No.
06:37Shit.
06:38A home invasion.
06:39The more I buy, it's just, it's unbelievable.
06:42So you're a local then?
06:43Yeah.
06:43My wife and I are up on the hill above the main road.
06:46So how do you know Gordon?
06:48This used to be my grandpa's place.
06:51Yeah, so he passed away ten years ago,
06:53and Gordon bought it.
06:54The place was in good hands.
06:56Gordon might, uh, look like a suit, but...
06:59No.
07:01He was a good guy.
07:03I'll grab you a number in case Constable Hyder has any questions.
07:06Gordon had a date on Friday night.
07:09ID on that date?
07:10Negative.
07:11Mobile phone?
07:11I haven't seen one.
07:13There was a knife in the dishwasher,
07:15so someone had the presence of mine to cover their tracks,
07:17get rid of any prints, DNA...
07:19And not have to take the murder weapon with him.
07:21Premeditation?
07:22Can I help you?
07:24Uh, these are my consultants from Australia.
07:28Pete Coleman, my wife, Vinnie.
07:31The people who run a motel.
07:33And 20 years with the New South Wales Police Force.
07:35A Constable Hyder requested a second look over the scene.
07:38He's bagged a clean kitchen knife,
07:40possibly a match for the victim's stab wounds.
07:42Yeah, thanks for that.
07:42We'd like to keep the scene secure, so...
07:45Of course, absolutely.
07:46We'll, um, we'll leave you to a detective.
07:48Granger.
07:49Annette.
07:49Northern Homicide.
07:56Constable, what are these prints?
07:57The dog?
07:59Uh, Gordon's cat.
08:00We haven't seen it yet.
08:02She was...
08:03Don't say it, Vin.
08:05She was an asshole.
08:06Just an observation.
08:08And if the roles were reversed,
08:09you're investigating a scene in two randoms there?
08:12It's a big case.
08:13Surely all hands on deck is a good thing.
08:16Uh, am I allowed to go?
08:18Uh, you found the body, yeah?
08:20I did.
08:22Cherie Rothery.
08:23Yes, uh, Gordon was late to a council meeting,
08:25so I came to find him.
08:29Well, if Constable Hyder's taken your statement,
08:30you can go home.
08:31He has.
08:32Cherie, if you need support or to talk to anyone,
08:35you just reach out.
08:36I'm fine, thank you.
08:40Well, at least Detective Granger has finally shown up.
08:44Dogs will wait till they're starving,
08:46but cats?
08:47They'll just go for it.
08:49They'll eat their owner right up.
08:50The cat did not eat Gordon,
08:52but it has disappeared.
08:54Just like his mobile phone.
08:55Have you got that number, sir?
08:57Yep.
09:00If the killer has Gordon's phone,
09:01they're not going to answer it.
09:03This is Gordon.
09:04Leave a message.
09:04Well, they didn't turn it off, either.
09:06And what are you two doing about the homicide?
09:08The police have an under-control vaccine.
09:10What is terrifying?
09:11Poor Cherie, man.
09:13First, she gets bullied at work.
09:14And by who?
09:15Yeah, and then she finds her ex-boyfriend dead.
09:18Cherie and Gordon were together.
09:19Grutal breakup, too.
09:21Honey, did you notice Cherie when she was leaving?
09:23Damn bag.
09:24Yeah, I did.
09:29Come on to Morway Bay.
09:31Yep.
09:31Morway Bay here.
09:33Need you on a 2R.
09:34Someone's driven a digger into Morway S3.
09:36Copy.
09:371W?
09:38Um, wait, that's the code for water and water.
09:40Rescue, right?
09:41No, there's no one inside.
09:42It's just a digger.
09:44I'm seeing a guy in a homicide.
09:46I mean, a one...
09:47All good, Constable?
09:49Yeah.
09:50Just the 2R.
09:51Nothing to worry about.
09:52Off you go, then.
09:53But it's just...
09:54It's not urgent.
09:5610-2.
09:57Constable Hyde is on his way.
09:59We got this.
10:00Toodle-oo.
10:03You're sorry about that, mate.
10:05Thanks for meeting with us.
10:06We realise it's been a hard day.
10:09Oh, it just doesn't feel real.
10:11I mean, those cat prints.
10:13I just...
10:14I never trusted that cat.
10:16It wasn't a friendly one.
10:20Shree, how long were you and Gordon together?
10:22Seven months.
10:23He broke it off a few weeks ago.
10:26But we were fine.
10:27In fact, we had a drink here Friday evening.
10:30He was giving me the last of my things.
10:32Why didn't he give you those things at the council meeting on Friday?
10:35Well, he didn't like to mix his work life and personal.
10:38Which is, you know, ultimately why he ended things.
10:41So, you have a drink here, then you go home.
10:43You didn't go back to his place.
10:45He didn't invite me.
10:47Did Gordon have his phone with him while you were here?
10:49Um, well, probably.
10:51I don't know.
10:52Okay, I might tell him.
10:54I've got a beer after all.
10:55I want one.
10:57Yeah.
10:58So, what will happen to the cat?
10:59I'm assuming it'll be put out.
11:02It hasn't turned up yet.
11:03And you know as well as I do that cats didn't kill Gordon.
11:09Two phones?
11:11No.
11:13I mean, yeah.
11:14Oh, well, feel free to answer the other one.
11:16Oh, no, it's fine.
11:16They can wait.
11:17No, no.
11:17I insist.
11:22Hello, Shree speaking.
11:24Good night, Shree.
11:29Do you want to tell us why you have your dead ex-boyfriend's phone?
11:37I'm so sorry.
11:39No, no, no, no.
11:39It's okay.
11:40Just take your time.
11:46It was on the kitchen counter, and I panicked, and I grabbed it, and I ran.
11:51So Gordon's lying there, and the first thing you do is look for his phone.
11:53I needed to get out of there.
11:54I mean, what if she was still in the house?
11:57She?
11:58Rachel, the cat.
11:59And when I got outside, I called 111.
12:02From Gordon's phone?
12:03Well, from my own.
12:08Okay.
12:10The truth.
12:11Yes, please.
12:13Late Friday night, I text him a few times, and phoned him, and left some impolite messages.
12:23It was after a bottle of Chardonnay at home.
12:25The thing is, Shree, taking the victim's phone from the crime scene makes you look really guilty.
12:31Well, I thought I'd look bad if anyone ever saw or read the messages.
12:34Depending on the timeline and GPS pinging, those messages might actually clear you.
12:39Really?
12:43The problem is, I couldn't get into it.
12:45She said she tried Gordon's birthday, her birthday.
12:47What else can we try?
12:49Hey, why are you still here?
12:51I fell asleep in noon at nine.
12:54Well, don't worry.
12:54I won't charge you for the extra three hours I was here.
12:58This is Gordon's phone.
13:00Are you trying to break into it?
13:01We'd like to.
13:02You know I love me a code-cracking challenge.
13:04We should give it to Jamie and the homicide detective.
13:08Well, it can't hurt.
13:09Just a little sneaky peek.
13:12All right, well, if Saffron can get into it.
13:14If?
13:15Give me a star sign in a favourite band.
13:17I'm not going into anybody's business.
13:30Enjoy your stay.
13:32Hey, Cole.
13:34What do you make of this?
13:36Read Ryder Marshall.
13:37Send them through to me.
13:38I'll check them out.
13:40Hey, guys, someone from the council's arrived to see you.
13:43About Paul Gordon, maybe?
13:46Paul inspection.
13:53We triple-checked the measurements.
13:58What was your name?
14:00Poppy McMahon.
14:01Tragedy about Gordon.
14:03What do you think happened?
14:03Then should we let her focus on the inspection first?
14:07Was he well liked?
14:10We're all grieving and shaken up when Gordon was a fellow councillor.
14:14Just hope the rest of us is safe.
14:16Safe?
14:17Council business is in all sunshine and rainbows.
14:19You have to make unpopular decisions.
14:21Just like this one.
14:22This is a fail.
14:23Why?
14:24Angels are too slow to self-close.
14:26Get your hands sorted and go for another inspection.
14:28Shit, I mean, does that mean we have to pay for another inspection as well?
14:31Bloody crooks.
14:32Paul gate was slow to close, so we failed.
14:34Well, I didn't fail.
14:36Gordon was vain.
14:38And the birthday he gave Shree wasn't real, so I snooped on his socials.
14:43Found out that two years ago he went to a bunch of 50th birthday parties.
14:46So I swapped the 75 to a 73 and hello.
14:51It's true.
14:53You have a talent.
14:54Should we take a browse?
14:55Or we could just give it to Jamie.
14:57Honey, why are you being such a goody two-shoes all of a sudden?
15:00Why not both?
15:01I can transfer the files to your PC.
15:04We can.
15:05My ex was not to be trusted, so I taught myself how to do it so I could catch her
15:09out at my own leisure.
15:10And she was the untrustworthy one.
15:13Well, let's just say she wasn't at Toastmasters every Tuesday night, Cole.
15:20My work here is done.
15:22And your work in Units 3 and 4 is just beginning.
15:32Well, there's Gordon.
15:33On the phone?
15:34Here are Shree's voice messages.
15:37I hope it falls off.
15:38And you are a 5 and a half at best.
15:41All I need to know is why, Gordon.
15:44Why you couldn't say, I love you.
15:47Why don't you love me?
15:49But I'm...
15:50Just the Chardonnay talking, do we think?
15:52Did Gordon have any other plans for it?
15:56Um...
15:56Selecting Swig, regular thing, 8pm every Friday.
16:00Something to do with beer and beer tasting.
16:02Oh, look at this art.
16:03Rachel GPS.
16:04Oh, just cat.
16:06There's a GPS tracker.
16:08I mean, if we can locate the cat.
16:12I guess it was weird how those bloody paw prints just disappeared.
16:18All right, see what else you can find?
16:20I'm going to take this phone to the police.
16:25Jamie.
16:28Victim's phone.
16:29Shree Rothery removed her from the scene when she found the body.
16:31Oh, wow.
16:32Yeah, Vin's revering the contents, but if Shree's telling the truth, message history should clear her.
16:37It's just, I'm not meant to be on this case.
16:40What?
16:40She's taken over my desk.
16:43And I have to track down the owner of an abandoned digger.
16:45Wait, a digger?
16:46Where?
16:47Dragged that out of more waste, Shree.
16:48Like a glorified tow truck driver.
16:50Driving distance from Gordon's?
16:52Sure.
16:53Does that look like a digger tow truck to you?
16:58I mean, I can line it up with a real thing.
17:01Could be a connection.
17:02Worth checking out or passing on.
17:05Or I can.
17:10Hi there.
17:11Did you contact ESR?
17:12Uh.
17:14Ah, Mr Motel.
17:16Morning, Detective.
17:18ESR, do you mean PHF?
17:21Yes, they have changed it to PHF Science, formerly ESR.
17:25Show him a vintage.
17:27Environmental Science and Research.
17:29You outsource your CSI work?
17:31We don't have the FETC like your lot over the ditch.
17:34Forensic Evidence and Technical Services Command.
17:36There's around 900 police and civilians.
17:38And the population of Sydney is the same as all of New Zealand.
17:42Cole and Vinnie, uh, found the victims missing fire.
17:45I also noted some unusual tire tracks at the scene now.
17:47Call me crazy, but I'm wondering if there's a connection between this dump to digger.
17:50You're crazy if you think that I'm going to let a couple of retired officers from another country muddy this
17:55investigation.
17:57Right, well, we have been, uh, consulting.
17:59Yeah, no, I'm here now.
18:02I appreciate your interest, but we have our way of doing things.
18:05And our way works.
18:07Message understood, detective.
18:10I appreciate your interest, arsehole.
18:13She's just a little territorial.
18:16Did she at least thank you for recovering the victim's phone?
18:20What did Jamie think?
18:22Well, she'd better be treating him nicely.
18:25Just remembering how Burns used to treat you.
18:27Well, I was a better detective for it.
18:30Honey, he was a prick.
18:32You're rewriting history.
18:33And then he kicked you in the guts.
18:35He kicked both of us.
18:35Honey, stop.
18:38Why are you bringing all this up again?
18:40I just feel...
18:43I don't know, we're here helping Jamie where we can, and I wasn't ready for the scrap heap.
18:49You're not on the scrap heap.
18:51I just, you know, I see her and it used to be me.
18:57No.
18:59Ben, no, not even close.
19:00You are a much better detective than a neck ranger will ever be.
19:10Better?
19:11Yeah, it's a pass, I'd say.
19:13So, um, are we backing off?
19:16Well, we found the victim's phone.
19:19Guess if we could, uh, find the victim's cat.
19:35According to the app, Floof should have wandered right about here.
19:38Yeah.
19:39Puss, puss, puss, puss, puss, puss.
19:42Try up and knock, dip it.
19:43Puss, puss, puss, puss.
19:45Puss, puss, puss.
19:47Puss.
19:48Okay.
19:49Puss, puss, puss, puss, puss.
19:52Come on.
19:54Puss, puss, puss, puss, puss, puss, puss.
19:55Oh, wow.
19:57Yep, actually works.
19:59Floof managed to get that off.
20:01Yeah, and that attaches securely to a collar.
20:02Why do you keep saying floof?
20:04So, someone with opposable thumbs clearly took this off and tossed it, and because it's cute.
20:09Well, we need to find out why, and if it's connected.
20:12Why are you giving me the eyebrow?
20:14You're cute.
20:16Come on.
20:17Poor prince proved that the cat was with the body for a bit.
20:21Witness the whole thing, you reckon?
20:22Well, if it did, it could have been riddled with DNA.
20:25The killer just disposed of it.
20:30Coincidence?
20:32The more I bay.
20:33I think not.
20:35Hmm.
20:36There's a definite increase in missing cat posts.
20:40Don't they just roam?
20:42No, a cat mum is not the difference between their fur bubbers roaming and their fur bubbers that go missing.
20:47Poor Andrew, she's beside herself.
20:49Your TikTok cat's gone missing.
20:51TikTok cat?
20:52Yeah, sure.
20:53Hmm?
20:53She's got thousands of TikTok followers.
20:55She wears a little GoPro, and we get to follow her on her little bitty adventures, but the poor little
21:01fur bubber disappears.
21:03Okay, I'm not sticking around with that.
21:04Oh, you've got a little bit of problem, honey.
21:06I'm out.
21:12Thanks for meeting me.
21:13No worries.
21:13Happy to help.
21:14I just, uh, you know, a head's still spinning, to be honest.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Can you think of anyone who added in for Gort?
21:23Cherie is the obvious person who springs to mind.
21:26Yeah, right.
21:26Bad breakup.
21:27Hmm.
21:28Someone mentioned this council business might have made him a few enemies.
21:32Maybe.
21:33I find that stuff pretty dull, to be honest.
21:35Hmm.
21:37And then there's this young woman who came to our pool inspection.
21:39Apparently, she's now worried for her own safety.
21:42Not Poppy McMahon.
21:43Yes.
21:43Yeah.
21:44Poppy?
21:45Short for unpopular.
21:47Well, yeah.
21:48She did fail us for our pool gate, taking half a second too long to close.
21:50Of course she did.
21:51She voted down my sharknet campaign.
21:53The wife and I, we've been fighting to get sharknets in the bay for years.
21:57Poppy comes along, she kicks up a fuss.
21:59Sharks?
21:59There's a problem here.
22:00Uh, so it's my best mate.
22:02He was killed in a shark attack here in the bay in 2001.
22:06Oh, mate, I'm so sorry.
22:07My wife, uh, Jodie, she was his girlfriend at the time, and, um, grief.
22:13Yeah, it kind of brought us together.
22:16Anyway, Poppy, she's a rabid greenie, and it just, it became a battle that we couldn't win.
22:20Well, I guess those sharknets aren't great for other marine life, though, too, right?
22:24Well, you know what's not great, Cole?
22:25Years of bloody therapy I had to go through after seeing my friend, and not hearing him.
22:32Shh, yeah, you were there.
22:34We were, uh, young and dumb, and we thought a midnight surf was a good idea.
22:40But, uh, anyway, Poppy and Gordon, no love lost there, for sure.
22:45I mean, different generation, but, you know, she's a bit of a radical.
22:50Oh, it's the darling wife.
22:54Hey, I'd better go.
22:55Righto.
22:57See ya.
23:05What did Lincoln want?
23:06Just answering a few questions.
23:08How long have you been here?
23:10I'm on a date.
23:11Hey, we don't look like siblings, do we?
23:13I don't want to be a doppelbanger.
23:15No, you're, uh, golden.
23:18Hey, how do you know Lincoln?
23:20Well, everyone knows of Lincoln and Jodie, because of the shark thing.
23:23He came to Gordon's yesterday morning bringing him coffees.
23:27If I had murdered someone, I would bring them a coffee the next day.
23:30So then, if someone says you killed him, I could say, why would I bring him coffee if I knew
23:36he was dead?
23:37Yeah, that's not the genius move you think it is.
23:39Hmm.
23:40Well, do you reckon Lincoln and Jodie have something to do with it?
23:42I'm just trying to find anything that doesn't involve a cat at this point.
23:45And, uh, no, Vinnie, I did not look into that.
23:51Because it's a cat.
23:52I know, Jamie, but Andrea's beside herself with Jules' disappearance.
23:57Yeah, I know.
23:58She's calling her today.
24:00Look, what is this actually about?
24:02I'm just working through all the threads, and it doesn't seem like a burglary gone wrong or a random act
24:09of violence.
24:10Yeah, we don't have random acts of violence.
24:12No, what we do have is a whole lot of missing cats.
24:14And one of them is a witness to a murder.
24:19Uh, copy that.
24:20I will look into it.
24:24Hey, um, Vinnie and Cole found a GPS stack for the victim's missing cat.
24:28And apparently there are more cats that have disappeared.
24:30Right, wow, good.
24:33Let Mr and Mrs Motel look for missing cats.
24:36Yeah, it's just, what I've learned from them, is that sometimes the small random things can be the key.
24:41Hiro, listen, there's usually a reason why cops retire early.
24:45Like, they can't hack it.
24:48Vinnie and Cole aren't really, they can't hack it.
24:50Stress, bad health, medical condition that you don't know about, I don't know.
24:55Or maybe they just wanted to move somewhere sunny and enjoy their lives.
24:58So let them, they can investigate missing pets.
25:01You and I, let's get on with the real work.
25:10I can't eat.
25:12I can't sleep.
25:15And I'm stress drinking.
25:18You know, there are people who have pets and there are people who have fur bubbles.
25:25Oh, thanks for taking this seriously.
25:28Oh.
25:30I might just have a look at the last GoPro footage.
25:48And then the battery died.
25:50So I don't know what happened.
25:53Well, when they took her, darling, clear as day.
25:57I might just go back a bit.
26:01I've been waiting for a ransom note, but so far nothing.
26:06I've heard that jangle before.
26:08Poppy isn't here.
26:09She only comes in for meetings.
26:11Can I get an address, phone number?
26:13Is it about the poll inspection?
26:15No.
26:15But actually, we do need to get her back out for that, yes.
26:19Is this about Gordon?
26:22Oh my goodness.
26:23Yes, of course.
26:25Why do you say that?
26:27Standby caller.
26:30These are the last few council meeting minutes.
26:35Gordon and Poppy argued almost every meeting.
26:38She's a greenie and Gordon cares more about tax cuts and cuts.
26:42That way of thinking is killing our world.
26:45So dramatic.
26:46Chill.
26:47Calling a woman dramatic is gaslighting.
26:50And a patriarchal tool used to dismiss our concerns.
26:53Now, we all seem to buy into that weakness.
26:55You are a sexist bully, Gordon.
26:58He wasn't sexist.
26:59And a bully.
27:00But I loved him.
27:02And Poppy could fixate on things.
27:05Like cats?
27:06She thinks they should be banned.
27:07Gordon mocked her relentlessly.
27:11Someone needs to tell my husband.
27:13Tell him what?
27:15That I'm always right.
27:18Say it.
27:20The cats are relevant and you are always right, my amazing wife.
27:26Come on.
27:27It's never hard for me to say that.
27:31No, no, no.
27:32Yes, yes, yes, yes.
27:32Later, later, later.
27:34I need to look at Poppy.
27:36Poppy?
27:38Later.
27:39I'm holding you to that.
27:41Never hard for you to do that either.
27:54Nice place.
27:55Just a quick visit, right?
27:56Or do you want to get back to later?
28:00We will get back to later, I promise.
28:03So Poppy is a part-time chef at a vegan cafe.
28:08Youngest member of the Morwai Bay Council.
28:11Ah, look at that.
28:13She gatecrashed a fashion show and threw fake blood on someone wearing a fur coat.
28:18Kills cats to save birds.
28:21Kills a man to kill his cat to save the birds.
28:38Kills a man to kill his cat to save the birds.
28:42Oh.
28:43Backpack.
28:46What is that?
28:49Nervous?
28:52Oh, tell me it's not a cat about to go for a swim.
28:54Hey!
28:56Poppy!
28:58Poppy, stop!
29:01What's in the bag, Poppy?
29:03Just wine, snacks.
29:04You know, go for a paddle and a picnic.
29:09Wine that meows.
29:11Okay, I have to say it.
29:12Let the cat out of the bag, Poppy.
29:22I don't hurt any of them.
29:24So, how many cats have you taken?
29:26Just six.
29:27And put them on Barron Island.
29:29I'm protecting our Morwai Bay birds.
29:31There's nothing on Barron Island.
29:33There's nothing for them to eat.
29:34I recognize that.
29:36I tried to cull the cats,
29:38but I just, I couldn't bring myself to.
29:42So I kayak over every night to feed them.
29:45They're all fine.
29:46They're...
29:46I've become a cat family.
29:49Okay, so on Friday night,
29:51you went to Gordon's with the intention
29:52of just taking his cat.
29:54And you didn't see anything or anyone?
29:56You didn't notice the blood on the cat's paws?
29:59No, it was that dark.
30:00I didn't notice.
30:02I just put him in there.
30:06Look, I see how this appears,
30:08but I didn't kill Gordon.
30:09He was a horrible human being,
30:12but I save creatures.
30:13I don't kill them.
30:14Yeah, I'm going to have to get you
30:15to stick around, Poppy.
30:17I'll call Detective Granger.
30:19Get her to come back and take a statement.
30:21Oh.
30:22Okay, you didn't want us to...
30:23Yeah, that's great.
30:25Thanks, Jamie.
30:25We'll see you.
30:26Thanks.
30:27Oh, uh...
30:29One favour, though.
30:30Yeah, what do you need?
30:34No more saying yes to favours
30:35until we know what they are.
30:37What?
30:38It wants to sleep with us.
30:40What, there's only room for two
30:41in this bed.
30:44Come on, sweetie.
30:52I'll get Gordon's mate Lincoln
30:54to pick her up tomorrow.
30:55Okay.
30:56Good girl.
31:02Okay.
31:04Okay.
31:06Why?
31:16Is it lighter?
31:18I'm not.
31:21Isn't you touching my liquor?
31:23No.
31:25No.
31:29Oh, honey.
31:31Oh, fuck.
31:33Oh, fuck.
31:39I'll take up the Gordon sister
31:40in Auckland.
31:41Wish I could keep the poor thing,
31:43but wife's allergic.
31:44Hi.
31:45Hey.
31:45Yeah, I wish we could keep it too,
31:47but, um...
31:48I don't want to.
31:51So, Poppy McMahon, eh?
31:53Thinks cats are vicious killers,
31:55but we must protect the grey whites
31:56at all costs.
31:57Right.
31:58Well, thanks again.
31:59It's really good of you.
32:00No, happy to go up to the big smoke.
32:03T20's on at Eden Park.
32:04Yeah.
32:05Cricket.
32:05Yeah, the wife and I are more, uh...
32:07more AFL.
32:08They say there's no such thing
32:09as a perfect woman,
32:10but first day I met Jodie,
32:12she's wearing the, uh...
32:13the classic brown and beige shirt.
32:14It's the old school uniform
32:15for the Kiwi cricket team.
32:17I knew right then and there,
32:18she's the one.
32:20Nothing like love at first sight, eh?
32:22Do you want to cricket?
32:23See ya.
32:30You're going to get a medal for this.
32:31Medal?
32:33Constable Hyder is going to Barren Island
32:35to rescue Joel.
32:36And the other five cats.
32:41Oh, no, it's an important job, Jamie.
32:43Yeah, nah.
32:45Annette's doing all the important jobs.
32:48Yes, she.
32:49Hey.
32:50The Thai track?
32:51That Cole took a photo of the Gordons?
32:52Hmm.
32:56That's the digger I dragged out of Beerstroon.
32:59Well, it's a match.
33:00Well done, my husband.
33:03So, Annette is searching Gordons' computer,
33:05looking for a rental agreement.
33:07Or,
33:08did they drive their inner
33:10and then drive it away?
33:12More like a
33:13getaway digger.
33:14Or maybe
33:15Gordon's planning some work.
33:18Well,
33:20nowhere to find out now.
33:22Well, there is.
33:27Poppy murdered Gordon.
33:29That is
33:30horrifying.
33:31But not surprising.
33:33She's helping police
33:34with inquiries.
33:36Gotcha.
33:37Shree, was Gordon planning
33:38any kind of
33:39building
33:40at his property?
33:41No, he loved that old house.
33:42Nothing he'd need
33:43an excavator for?
33:44Not that I know of.
33:45So,
33:46was it about the kids?
33:47So,
33:48he hadn't recently
33:49got a council permit
33:50for anything?
33:51Building consents
33:52are the wider council,
33:53not us.
33:54Right.
33:55Oh, hang on.
33:56You mean the tree?
33:57Tree?
33:58The big old
33:58putukawa.
33:59The council gave Gordon
34:00permission to pull it out.
34:01Poppy was not happy
34:02about that.
34:03To pull this tree up,
34:05that's something
34:06you'd need a digger for?
34:07It's a very big one.
34:08over 20 years old.
34:09Once a native gets
34:10to a certain height,
34:11you need a permit.
34:13Look,
34:13Gordon perhaps
34:14shouldn't have been
34:15allowed to give himself
34:16a permit,
34:17but is a tree
34:18worth stabbing someone for?
34:20That is a very good
34:21question, Shree.
34:23Oh.
34:24You want to be forever.
34:29You want to get together.
34:34You want to get together.
34:46Hey, so, Gordon was going
34:51to remove a tree.
34:52That's why he had an excavator.
34:55Do you remember the first
34:56time we met?
34:57Love at first sight.
35:00Hardly.
35:01You were going out
35:02with what's-a-face
35:03and I was saying...
35:04See you with that dick
35:05with the 90s, Goatee.
35:06Because it was
35:07the 90s goal.
35:08Yeah, but still,
35:08I knew.
35:10From the second
35:11I saw you,
35:12I knew.
35:14Hey,
35:15what's going on?
35:16I knew.
35:17We don't have time.
35:18I knew that Goatee-face
35:19guy would not lie.
35:20You're right,
35:21he didn't.
35:23I worked out
35:24what the names
35:24you found mean.
35:26Reid,
35:27Ryder,
35:28Tews,
35:29Marshall,
35:29first names.
35:31John,
35:31Jesse,
35:32Roger,
35:32Hamish.
35:33They're cricketers.
35:34Some of them
35:35were kind of obscured,
35:36but they all represented
35:36New Zealand at some point.
35:38Select and Swig
35:39every Friday night.
35:40Exactly.
35:41Oh, honey,
35:42you were a genius.
35:44Exactly.
35:45Well,
35:46I did have to
35:46bugle it.
35:47Still,
35:48it wasn't about the cats.
35:52Hey,
35:53I got you a text.
35:55Lincoln,
35:55thanks for coming.
35:56It's my wife,
35:57Benny.
35:57Good to meet you,
35:58Lincoln.
35:58Likewise.
35:59Has something come up?
36:00Yeah,
36:01yeah,
36:01I just,
36:01um,
36:02what do you ask?
36:03Why did you come here
36:03on Monday morning?
36:04I just,
36:05uh,
36:05bought him a coffee,
36:06like I sometimes did,
36:07because,
36:08didn't know that he was.
36:09You didn't,
36:09yeah,
36:10you didn't know he was
36:11dead.
36:11Mm-hmm.
36:12Yep.
36:12Yeah.
36:13Yeah,
36:13that's not quite
36:14the genius move
36:15you think it is.
36:16I'm confused.
36:17Gordon was my mate.
36:18A bit dangerous
36:18being your mate.
36:20She needs to watch
36:21what she's saying,
36:22your missus.
36:23Really?
36:23Well,
36:24my missus is right.
36:26You lost your best friend
36:27to a shark attack
36:2820 years ago
36:29where you were
36:29the only witness.
36:30What's that got to do with?
36:31And then last week,
36:32another friend,
36:33another violent death.
36:34Two dead pals,
36:36one common factor.
36:37It's actually pretty cruel,
36:38what you're saying.
36:39Well,
36:39if I'm wrong,
36:40I'm going to be sorry,
36:41but I don't think I'm wrong.
36:42Because you were here
36:43on Friday night,
36:44even though you said
36:44Gordon rain-checked.
36:46We're going to start
36:46with what we had last week,
36:47so we've got Rutherford.
36:48Your weekly select
36:49and sweet thing did happen.
36:51Reid,
36:52Ryder,
36:52Tews and Marshall,
36:53right?
36:53That was some of the
36:54what-if team
36:55you wrote down that night?
36:56So that's why
36:57you're falsely accusing me?
36:59Because of a list
36:59of cricket players?
37:00Nope.
37:01Because of the tree.
37:03And a shark,
37:04who you falsely accused.
37:06Your friend didn't run
37:07into a great white
37:08that night in 2001.
37:10He ran into something
37:11far more dangerous.
37:13A so-called mate
37:15in love with his girl
37:16and willing to do
37:16anything to get her.
37:19You killed Curtis.
37:21Why don't you
37:21buried him here
37:22at your grandparents'
37:23batch,
37:23put a tree on top of him?
37:24A tree that is now
37:2620 years big
37:28and blocking
37:28Gordon Seaview.
37:30If he dug up
37:30that Pahuta carway,
37:31he would have found
37:31a secret, mate.
37:32But he wouldn't be
37:33deterred.
37:33Come on, mate.
37:35It's a native.
37:35It's a weed.
37:36I'm begging you
37:37to leave it.
37:38I planted that thing
37:38as a tiny shrub.
37:39And I've got you to blame.
37:41I was blocking my view.
37:42Roots everywhere.
37:43I don't get it.
37:45Things could go
37:46really bad for me.
37:48I could lose everything.
37:50Including Jodie.
37:51What, you got a body
37:52buried under there
37:52or something?
37:56Go and get us
37:57another beer.
37:58Maybe you felt like
38:00there was nothing
38:00else you could do.
38:07Maybe it was easy.
38:08You'd already killed once.
38:10This is all bullshit
38:12speculation grabbing
38:13at straws.
38:14Prove it.
38:16It'd be good
38:17if he wasn't alive.
38:17He's usually quite
38:18punctual, mate.
38:20Wait.
38:22What's happening?
38:23We are proving it.
38:27Get up!
38:28Unconstable!
38:29These two are on something.
38:31They're rubbish,
38:31they're talking.
38:32They think there's a body
38:33under that tree.
38:34Do you have a look?
38:36You can't be serious.
38:37I'm at first sight.
38:38You know,
38:38when you said that
38:39about your wife,
38:40it got me thinking.
38:41It's a special thing
38:42when you find your soulmate.
38:44Yours is with someone else.
38:47Your best mate, Curtis.
38:48Crack into it, Constable.
38:51No!
38:51No!
38:54Please.
38:56I'll lose her.
38:58I can't...
38:59I can't break her heart.
39:01What would you do
39:02with a woman you love?
39:03You tell me.
39:04Well, I'd, um...
39:06I'd wait till she realised
39:07the guy she was with
39:08was a...
39:09goatey-faced dick
39:10and then I'd make my move
39:11at a friend's divorce barbecue.
39:17Lincoln Fensby!
39:19Wouldn't be going anywhere
39:20just yet.
39:21Just a tip-off
39:22you want to look into.
39:29You know, uh...
39:30I was only 90...
39:3290% sure
39:32there was a body
39:33under that tree.
39:35Well, you're right
39:35most of the time.
39:37Most?
39:39Bonesy's divorce party.
39:41It was me
39:42who made the first move,
39:43not you.
39:50Thanks for your assistance
39:51on this one, Constable.
39:52Not a bad job.
39:53Well, you know.
39:54Better help from the consultants.
39:57I have been really lucky
39:59having them here.
40:00I've learned a lot.
40:01It's a bit odd though, isn't it?
40:03A couple of small town
40:04motel owners.
40:05Who used to be
40:06police detectives.
40:07Do you ever ask
40:08for any kind of ID?
40:10No.
40:11Any evidence at all
40:12that they're actually police?
40:13Well, I've had no reason to.
40:15Look,
40:17Vinnie and Colm
40:17know what they're doing.
40:19The thing is,
40:21I've been in touch
40:22with New South Wales
40:23Homicide.
40:34Your mates,
40:35the two detectives,
40:36Coleman,
40:37no one's ever heard of them.
40:40I'm just sorry.
40:41If those two people
40:43were ever in the force,
40:44Watson and Sydney,
40:46or anywhere else
40:47in Australia,
40:49they're not who
40:49they're saving up.
40:51You've been taken
40:52for a ride, mate.
40:53The warmest breeze
40:56against my ear
41:00The sea and skies
41:03so blue
41:04A paradise
41:08inside my mind
41:12I dreamed
41:13a dream of you
41:16You've been in the
41:16You've been in the
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