(upbeat bagpipe music)
- [Eve] Okay guys, this is it.
Let me do the talking okay.
Better if it comes from a resident.
(upbeat bagpipe music)
- How many times?
Get off the fairway!
- Come on guys, don't make us call the police.
- They're on their way.
So I suggest you idiots get off my course.
- Idiots?
- Need to look it up do you?
- Mark?
- Keith come on.
Let's just let the police deal with this.
- Pressing charges this time.
- Day three huh?
- It's not a native title case.
- We just wanna be able to walk them across the course Mark.
- It is private property.
- Oh you sound like him.
It's council land through here,
I know it, they know it, and so does he.
- Cops are here.
- I want 'em all charged.
Especially her.
(hard rock guitar music) (dog pants)
(glass tinkles)
(hard rock guitar music)
(dog barks)
(dog snarls) (man screams)
- [Mark] Get off me!
(playful music)
(upbeat music)
- Tiger Woods once shot a bogie on this course.
Which I think you'll agree is excellent marksmanship.
- Have you told her yet?
- I will tell her later.
Hi, darlin'.
- [Nicola] I thought you said no one was gonna be home?
- No, no one's home, we got a key.
- Charlie.
- Ah.
I'll take the lead on this one.
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
I learnt from the master.
- Ah!
Who the hell are you?
- Ah, we're the cleaners.
Mrs. Skinner?
Ah yes.
- I'm Nicola.
- Jackie.
- I'm Charles Buchanan, this is Nicola who you've just met
and this is Jess, our niece, who is helping out today.
The police have told us about the situation,
and we're very sorry for your loss.
- You're sorry for my loss.
The police are sorry for my loss, the lawyers,
the bank, everyone's sorry for my loss.
I'm sorry for my loss too.
I shouldn't take it out on you.
- No, no, look it's fine.
It's a particularly empty expression
and I apologize for using it.
- When I think about that thing.
- Would you like us to come back another time? Later?
- No, no, no.
Now's as good a time as there can be.
I'll be a few hours.
Did Detective Vinetti give you our spare key?
- Yes, yes, I have your key.
- Look at this place.
What was that about a thing?
- I think I will do upstairs
and you and Jess can do downstairs.
- This is a stabbing was it?
No one said anything about thing.
Is this a dog attack?
It was a dog attack.
- Hello?
Charlie.
- Peter.
- Jess.
- Peter, was this a dog attack really?
- You told her didn't ya.
I told you she'd be upset.
- I knew she'd be upset.
I didn't tell her, she worked it out for herself.
- Can you tell me what happened? Please, exactly.
Truth.
- Someone let it loose in the house.
It attacked Keith Skinner.
He tried to take refuge in here.
When that didn't work, he ran upstairs to the bedroom
and that was it.
- Oh, the poor man must have been petrified.
- Nick, you don't have to do this.
- No, no, I'm fine, I'm fine.
I just wanna put this place right.
- So it's a phobia or?
- [Charlie] Yeah, cynophobia.
- No it's fear.
- Well it's an abnormal fear, so it's a phobia.
- No, it's a rational fear.
- Where does it come from?
Did a dog attack you.
- Yes, yes, I'm sorry, I don't wanna talk about it.
I don't want that image in my, now that image is in my head.
All right, I was seven.
It was my birthday and we were in the park with my friends,
having a party, and a big Doberman got free
and he got Chrissy by the face.
- Oh my God.
- Well Chrissy's a doll.
- When you're seven you don't think of them as dolls.
She had hair that grew.
- I'm sorry.
- Dog attacks are very rare Nick,
when you consider how many dogs there are in the world.
- Dogs don't have a conscience, right.
You can't reason with them
and you certainly can't trust them.
If you need anymore proof, go upstairs
and take another look at that carpet.
- So what are you doin' back here anyway?
- Oh, the victim was in dispute
with some of the local dog owners
and he'd banned them from walking them on the course.
- So you're testing the dogs in the area for DNA.
- Forensics are running some tests yes.
- Okay well, you're looking for a large, short-haired dog,
dark, Mastiff, Doberman, maybe a Rottweiler.
- You're in there for 10 seconds Charlie.
- Oh, and you should check the council register
for dangerous animals.
- Yeah we're doin' that.
- And you're checking door-to-door? - Actually no, no, we're setting-
- Testing facilities at the vet center.
Yeah that's a good idea.
That's a good idea.
Good luck.
(soft piano music)
- Hey.
Hey, it was Peter's idea to protect you.
And I should have known better.
- For better or for worse, that's what we agreed.
- We did, I remember.
I remember agreeing that.
- No that's wrong.
- No it's right.
I recall those beautiful words.
- No, 'cause this picture's been moved.
- Okay now hang on, I'm really good at this.
- Is it 'cause of the dust?
- No.
- Faded reds and blues because of the sun?
- No, each picture's in front of its prize-winning trophy.
It should be, there.
- Oh yeah, no that's right.
Yep.
- So Keith ran in here and then up the stairs.
Is that right? - Mm hm.
- Why didn't he run outside?
(soft piano music)
So you're about to get attacked by a dog,
and instead of coming out here
where you've got a chance of getting away, you go upstairs to an effective dead end?
- Yeah, no, I agree with you, it doesn't make any sense.
- Yeah, I think Peter's wrong.
- I think he's more than wrong,
I think he's the Mayor of Wrong Town. - Wrong Town?
- Yeah, sure, sure.
We should pop, you should pop back inside.
(Nicola screams)
It's okay, just pop back in,
pop back in. - Charlie! Charlie!
- Close the door, close the door, close the door.
Darling, get back in the house.
I'll look after it.
I don't think this is the one.
- What's happened?
- Oh just a, just a little dog.
It's just a dog out there.
- Is that?
You okay?
- Yeah, yeah, it's not a big one, it's a little one.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
So why did Keith Skinner not run outside?
You know I think that someone was with the dog.
They had it on a lead.
- Honey.
- And they used it menace Skinner up the stairs,
before they let it go.
- I think we should get to work,
'cause I have a lecture at 3:30.
- Absolutely, absolutely.
You do downstairs and I'll help Nick upstairs.
(playful music)
- Who's he?
- [Mark] Hi!
- [Nicola] Hello.
- Jackie around?
- No, she's gonna be a few hours.
- Oh okay.
I'm Mark Boydell, thanks for the work you're doing.
Really appreciate it.
- It's what we do.
- And be sure to send the bill to me in care of the club.
I don't want Jackie to have to worry about it.
Keith Skinner and I were partners.
Why don't you pop down to the club for drink after you're done.
But it's collared shirts so,
I'll leave some polo shirts at reception for you.
- Thank you.
- Extra large, two mediums, okay.
- Polo shirts, the golf club?
Don't you think he should be handing out plus fours.
- I don't believe he said a medium.
Is this unflattering?
- No, no, you look great.
- You look great.
(golf ball pings)
(playful music)
- [Man] Hey, hey.
- Hello.
- This isn't footpath, okay.
You're not supposed to be here.
- Oh, we're just on our way over to the clubhouse.
- Yeah, Mark Boydell said we could come up.
- Not across he fairway he didn't.
- Oh right, right.
Nice turf though. - Thanks.
- What is it bentgrass? - Yes.
- P and A, or G? - A4.
- Do you play?
- Ah, no.
I mean I play miniature golf.
Often we do it.
No, we're here on a job.
- Yeah, no, we're trauma cleaners.
We've just come over from the Skinner house.
- Wow, right.
How bad was it in there?
- Well, it's pretty bad.
- A man lost his life.
- Yeah, yeah, of course.
- We're just looking for an injured animal,
possum or maybe a rabbit or a fox.
Celeste is from the vets.
Have you seen anything?
- No, no, no, no.
- If you seen anything then.
- Oh absolutely, if we do we'll let you know.
- Sure thing.
- Cheers, and do me favor, don't walk on the fairway.
- Absolutely.
- Just take the path.
- Right. - G'day.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- [Jess] What color would you call this anyway?
- Off salmon? - Nice.
- [Charlie] Nice, yes, very nice.
Very pleasant.
Interesting couple.
- [Nicola] Yeah.
- [Jess] They want $26 for a sandwich.
- Ah it's a Greg Norman special.
You'll probably choke just before the finish.
What about the John Daly chipolata, very nice.
- [Eve] Hi.
- Hello, how are you?
- I'm Eve.
New members?
- Ah no, we're just visiting.
- Well if you are thinking of becoming new members,
you might be interested in joining our action group.
Are you dog lovers?
- Eve, you're not trying to ensnare our guests
in your little web of intrigue are you?
- This whole thing has gotten out of hand Mark.
The police are gonna DNA all our dogs.
I got a summons.
The only way my Rottie could kill anyone
is by slobbering them to death. (Eve chuckles)
(Charlie chuckles)
- Well saliva is very acidic.
- We did hear that there was trouble with the dog owners
and the- - Oh we're happy
to sort that out, aren't we Mark.
Now that Keith's gone, we're gonna see
some changes changes around here.
- We don't need to bother our friends with that.
- Anyway, just wanted to say welcome.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Enjoy your afternoon.
- Thank you Mark.
- You know the only person that seems to care
that Keith Skinner is dead is Mrs. Skinner.
And killing someone by setting a dog on 'em
it's such a personal, nasty way to do it.
Whoever it was wanted to see the fear.
- You'd have to be insane in the membrane
to do that over a dog-walking issue.
- Insane in the membrane.
- Yeah, I did three semesters of psychology,
I feel qualified to say that.
- Why would you choose off salmon as a color?
- That's another very good question, why would you?
- Who's there, is that Eve Blake?
- Where? - She's got something.
Eve!
(dramatic music)
- [Jess] What's she doing?
- Well, she's being impulsive,
which is one of the reasons I married her.
Come on, let's go.
(dramatic music)
- Nick!
- Get her Charlie.
She's nimble.
- I'm onto it.
Eve.
- Let go.
Oh! Let go.
(playful music)
Oh, Charlie.
(Charlie pants)
- What's this?
(playful music)
- I am such an idiot.
I don't know what I was thinkin'.
- No, no, look I'm sorry.
Although, I think golf would be a lot more interesting
if they introduced tackling.
- These pictures were in Keith Skinner's house.
How did you get them?
- Well I didn't steal them.
I'd never steal from Jackie.
- They were in his house.
- No, not when I found them.
They were out with the rubbish.
In a box by the bin.
(Eve sobs)
- It's so embarrassing,
caught scrounging.
(Eve sobs)
And between the mortgage and the club fees,
I don't have a cent to buy anything nice,
and people throw expensive stuff away.
- So you took these-
- That frame is silver.
So is that one.
The money's nothing to them.
I knew she'd chuck them.
- How'd you know that?
- Ah, because they were his.
Oh everyone knew what he got up to.
Privileged member they used to call him.
(Jess chuckles)
- Did Jackie know?
- Heard her talking to Mark Boydell about it once,
at the club bar.
She was heart broken.
- Do you remember what she said?
- Oh well, they shut up when the realized I could hear them,
but she was in tears.
Mark was consoling her.
So, you gonna turn me in or what?
- Oh well, I've only got half a law degree,
but given the pictures weren't actually in the bin,
I think you're okay.
- I'd like to keep this one if you don't mind.
You can have the frame, just the picture.
- Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
Hey, um listen,
I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell-
- Ah no, we never saw you did we?
- No, no, absolutely.
- Don't know who you're talking about.
(Eve chuckles)
("The Entertainer")
- Why would you move one photo and not the other?
What do you say we do a good cop, bad cop on Jackie Skinner?
- Well I'd love to darling, but I've got this to finish
and then I've gotta autoclave the bio-waste harvest.
- Well come on.
It'll be fun.
- It's been a month, it'll corrode in there.
- It's never the same.
- Bye, bye darling.
- Bye sweetie.
- Grab your coat.
- No I'm not autoclaving or whatever it was.
- Neither am I.
Neither am I.
- Well what are we doing?
- Ah, it's a secret.
- It's not one of those secrets
where I end up dressing like cowgirl
and selling raffle tickets door-to-door is it?
- What are you complaining about? Alan got his new wheelchair didn't he.
Come on Darry.
- Look at you, too gorgeous.
We'll only have her for a minute.
Won't be long.
- Hello, sorry to interrupt, excuse me just one moment.
Oh hello.
- Hi. - Hello again.
You recall that we met yesterday on the golf course kind of?
- Not really.
Did you get a compulsory attendance order?
- No, no, no, no, no.
We didn't, we don't even have a dog.
I mean we are thinking of getting one though, aren't we?
Jess wants a dog and we're looking into it.
But we really wanted to speak to the vet.
- He's very busy.
- Right.
Well, we sort of came to get some information
about attack dogs.
- What about them?
- Well, is there a breeder,
or a training facility in the area?
- Why do you wanna know?
- Well, we wanna know why the- - We're concerned.
- We're concerned a lot.
- Yeah really concerned
'cause dogs are getting this bad name
and we write up reports on the scenes we clean.
- Yeah, we're trauma cleaners
and we do a lotta paperwork.
- Yeah, so we just wanna assure people
that this was a once off you know.
- Yeah, yeah.
An anomaly.
You know we're big fans of the animal kingdom
and dogs are right up there.
We love them.
- Well there is a security company.
They use attack dogs.
The guy Robin, something, he brings his dogs here.
- Good and where is that-
- I can get you the address,
but then you're gonna have to go.
We are slammed.
- No, no that's fine.
Thank you very much indeed.
Well you really picked up the ball and ran with it in there.
If I knew anything about sport I'd compare you with somebody.
- Well thank you very much.
(dog barks)
- Don't worry love.
He's not as mean as he looks.
Sit.
- Oh he's not mean at all, he's a lovely dog.
He's a lovely dog, oh yes, aren't you.
He's a lovely boy.
What is your name?
- Bruno.
- Bruno, hello Bruno.
Bruno shake.
Shake Bruno, what a good dog.
What a brainy dog.
He's very smart isn't he.
Do you know a Rottweiler's brain is 14% larger
than the average dog's.
- Is that right.
I didn't know that.
- So you're here for the DNA test?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, be here this time.
Doesn't matter if you have to work.
Tattoo parlor, right?
- Charlie.
- No, no, no, I didn't mean it pejoratively.
He's got ink on his fingers so I knew.
I'm right though aren't I?
- Clever.
Copper hey.
- No, no, no, it's my curse, I notice things.
That design there for example,
that's from the Sanskrit alphabet,
and that spiders web on your left elbow
means you've been in prison.
- Oh my God Charlie.
- No worries, no worries.
Yeah you're right, awhile ago now. You?
- Me, one night in the Hobart Watch House.
Too much scrumpy.
Hardly a hardened criminal.
- Yes, we have to go.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause I have to make the cheese and onion dip
for book club.
- What are you reading?
- "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes.
- Great book yeah.
I'm a big reader.
- Are you?
That's very interesting.
- Scary man from prison, come to our book club.
Have some cheese and onion dip.
- Good impression.
That was me wasn't it?
- Are you from the papers?
- Yes, yes we are.
- Sorry.
- Yeah we are.
You're the journalist.
Charles Buchanan, I'm in charge of pictorials,
and this is our cub reporter.
- Yes, Jess Winterspoon.
- What paper are you from?
- Sydney Morning Herald. - Herald Sun.
- Oh yeah, I like the Herald.
- Good.
- This is online.
- Eh? Sorry.
- She does the blog.
And this dog attack got you thinking didn't it Winterspoon?
- Mm, absolutely.
So I thought I'd write a piece on attack dogs and stuff.
(dogs bark)
- This is not gonna be one of those ones
where you're friendly to my face
and then end up calling me a breeder of killers?
- Are you a breeder of killers?
- Lemme show you something.
(playful music)
Sit.
Meet King.
- Hello your majesty.
- Now King's a security dog, right.
Raised him from pup, trained him myself.
This dog's obedient and he's safe.
He'll eat off your hand.
- Doesn't look very safe.
- [Robin] He's supposed to scare you, that's the whole point.
- But he could kill couldn't he,
if you gave him the right command?
- You know Chuck, I reckon this could be a feature.
Can you show us what he can do?
(dog barks)
(playful music)
(dog barks)
- So what pressure resistance are we talking about here?
- Mastin!
(dramatic music)
- [Charlie] Nice doggie.
(Charlie screams) (dog snarls)
Nice doggie.
- And you see how he backed off
once you were down, job done.
Once you've stopped resisting, he stopped attacking.
- Yeah, but what if you'd given him the kill command?
- His job is to bring you down.
They're trying to subdue that's all.
Then once I gave him the pickle command he released,
just as he's trained to do.
- So in your opinion, the dog that attacked Mr. Skinner
in his home-
- Mostly likely a fighting dog,
or some poor animal trained by God knows who.
Beaten, starved, it's criminal.
They should lock those owners up and throw away the key.
You gonna take any pictures?
- No, no, no, no, that's all up here.
Well we should skedaddle.
- Yes, absolutely.
Well thank you, I think we have everything.
Anyway, you wanna know anything else.
- Thank you.
Robin Boydell, you're no relation to Mark Boydell
who runs the golf course are you?
- Yeah, he's my cousin.
- Is he.
(phone rings)
- Hey Fizzy, breaking news.
Golf club president Mark Boydell
has a cousin who runs a security firm, which,
are you sitting down?
- Mm hm, I am.
- [Charlie] Specializes in attack dogs.
- Well, funny you should mention Mark,
because he's just snuck into Jackie Skinner's house.
- Really. - Mm, looking very furtive.
I think something's going on.
- Could go to motive.
Think he might be having an affair with her?
(dramatic music)
- I don't think, I know.
- Do you want anything from the shops?
- Dip.
(romantic music)
- Wow! Really?
- Exactly like that.
Jackie Skinner and Mark Boydell.
- How could you be sure about the tongue.
- Well you know, may have been improvising.
- So, Mark and Jackie are having an affair.
Maybe they plot together to get rid of the husband.
- Love affair births conspiracy to murder.
It's a bestseller.
- And was Mark's deaf cousin involved?
What's his name? - Robin.
- Robin. Did Robin agree to use one of his attack dogs
to kill Keith Skinner?
- Yeah, yeah.
That dog-walking business that's just irrelevant.
Just throws everybody off the scent.
- And Jackie would inherit half the golf club
as part of her husband's estate.
- Yeah, she would wouldn't she.
She would indeed.
- Charlie what's going on?
Why are you helping me get ready for book club?
You hate book club.
- No, no, no, I don't hate book club at all.
- Come on, you're usually in the shed by now.
Welding or yodeling.
- Oh no, I thought I'd join in tonight,
'cause you know, 'cause I skimmed
"The End of a Sensing" by Julian Barnes
and I enjoyed it, very much.
(door bell rings)
I did.
(Nicola screams)
- Nick! - Charlie! Charlie!
Charlie.
- Nick. - He's really friendly.
(dog whines)
- Hi, Dwayne.
That was Nicola.
- Should I go.
- No, no, no, no, just, no just one minute.
Nick.
(knocks loudly)
Sorry darling. (Nicola pants)
Look I'm sorry, I met him at the vets
and I thought he'd be interesting
to have as a guest at book club.
It was a surprise.
I didn't know he'd bring his dog.
- But he did bring his dog Charlie and now,
if you met him at the vet, that means the dog's a suspect
and he's a suspect.
And now they're in our house.
- Outside the house.
I mean I take your point unreservedly, absolutely.
(loud knocks)
- Okay, so the dog's chained up outside
and can't get in.
- You see.
- Everyone's here, so I think
that Dwayne guy needs rescuing.
- Okay.
Whenever you're ready, okay.
(soft piano music)
Sorry darling.
(Nicola breathes deeply)
Ah, sarsaparilla.
- What did you think about the prose?
Wasn't it like silk?
- Oh yeah, it's a good read.
Yeah, I like what Adrian said in the letter.
"It's the thinking person's philosophical duty
to examine the nature of his life
and then may choose to renounce it."
- So tragic, there's a romanticism about whole thing,
don't you think?
- Janine, would you like some dip?
- I'm on a diet Charlie, you know that.
- Absolutely. Do I?
- [Dwayne] No thanks.
- I'll have some.
- All right Alan there you go, go for you life.
- Is Bruno okay,
chained up outside?
- Should be yeah.
As long as he knows where I am,
he doesn't mind bein' outside.
- Oh isn't that gorgeous, he's faithful to you.
- And he's a good guard dog, is he?
- Yeah great.
- Now, Barnes's themes, infidelity and revenge, discuss.
- Oh, well, very popular themes at the moment.
- Yes, yes, so true.
There's that couple at the golf club, isn't there.
- Adulterer was he, the victim?
- Well apparently the wife too.
It's Jenny?
- Jackie. - Jackie.
- Skinner.
- Jackie Skinner.
Apparently she's on with the husband's business partner.
- I wouldn't know, I don't live there.
Just walk Bruno across the course.
Got no reason to listen to gossip.
- Using a dog to kill a man is very dramatic.
I love it.
Maybe an ex-military dog sent in by the lover.
- You have to keep a dog's military training up
or they lose their skills in around 30 days.
I've heard.
- I thought that in the book,
infidelity was part of the plot, that the theme was regret.
- That is so insightful.
- Well thanks very much.
Oh, Nicola wants to say bye bye.
(Bruno pants)
(Bruno whines)
Yeah thanks for coming.
- Thanks for the invite.
Sorry about Bruno.
- No, no, no, no, it's my fault entirely.
My fault entirely.
- Good night Bruno.
- Good night Bruno, no hard feelings.
Shake, shake.
Good boy. He's a good boy.
Okay, cheers Bruno.
Thanks Dwayne. - See ya.
- [Dwayne] Later.
(Bruno barks)
- You coming in?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, right behind you Jess.
Hey, Alan liked that dip didn't he?
- [Jess] Mm.
(soft piano music)
- G'day Charlie.
- Dwayne how are ya?
Is now not a good time, 'cause I can pop in later on.
- No, you all right mate?
- [Charlie] Yeah, yeah, great.
- You want a green tea or something?
- Ah, yeah, yeah, that'd be lovely, thank you.
(soft piano music)
- Oh hi.
- Okay, there's something I'm not supposed to tell you.
- What's that?
- I think Charlie's doing something stupid.
- What kinda stupid?
- Well, he said he'd be home at lunch time.
- It's about dogs isn't it?
Well, it's a particular dog, yeah?
- What, a dog that's been here, Bruno?
He's gone to see Dwayne.
Where's the address?
- How's she do that?
- You can play mom.
- Oh, thank you.
- I know about Bruno.
- Or should I say the Brunos.
- You're losin' me.
- Am I?
Okay, you're left handed, I'm right handed.
Same thing with dogs.
When I shook with Bruno at the vets
he offered me his left paw,
When we shook outside my place last night,
he gave me his right.
Two different dogs Dwayne.
The dog you took to the vet, that wasn't Bruno, was it?
And I suspect the reason for that
is because Bruno killed Keith Skinner.
- So what happens if you're right?
- Well that depends on whether you knew,
or whether you found out later.
- I really wish you hadn't figured that out Charlie.
(dramatic music)
(soft piano music)
- [Charlie] Hello, I'm not here at the moment, or am I?
Leave a message anyway.
- Well, that was Eve Black's dog
you took to the vet for DNA tests wasn't it?
- I told her that Bruno'd be in the cop's sights,
given his history.
And she agreed to help,
no questions asked.
- How did he get out?
- I don't know.
Can't stand strangers when I'm not around.
When I came home, he was soaking wet.
Lots of blood.
His head was covered in blood.
I heard about Keith Skinner the next day.
- Has Bruno ever done anything like this,
has he ever attacked
anybody before? - No, never.
Not since he's been with me.
When I found him,
he was suffering from malnutrition,
and he'd been badly treated,
and if you looked sideways at him he'd just tear into you.
It reminded me of someone.
- Okay, so not since you've owned him.
- Never so much as a growl.
And he's never got out neither.
You know maybe, Skinner did somethin'.
- Maybe.
Dwayne, you have to tell the police.
- Charlie,
he's my best mate.
I can't turn him in.
(soft piano music)
They'll put him down.
(loud knocks)
- [Nicola] Charlie?
Charlie, are you in there?
The police are on their way.
(soft piano music)
- They'll hold the dog at the vet's surgery
until the paperwork is done, but it will be destroyed.
You okay? - Mm hm.
- I am so sorry I didn't tell you.
I didn't want you to worry.
- What if he'd set the dog on you Charlie?
- Well he didn't did he.
- Well at least it can't kill anyone else now.
- Yeah, there's no justice in putting that dog down.
Bruno's a weapon and somebody pulled the trigger.
- So who pulled the trigger?
- Well it wasn't Dwayne, 'cause whoever took him
to the golf course that night,
ultimately lost control of him.
How would you like to be my caddy?
Golf course, sorry it's not to scale,
Skinner's place, water hazard, humpback whale is Bruno.
This is the most direct route from Skinner's place
to Dwayne's place.
- Mm, nice sand trap sweetie.
- Thanks darling.
Now Dwayne said that when Bruno got home he was wet.
- Ah, Bruno swam across the water hazard.
- That's what I'm thinking.
Now whoever took Bruno to Skinner's place,
lost control of him.
And when he was free,
- He made a beeline for home.
- He was confused, he knew he'd done wrong,
he just wanted to get home.
- Poor humpback whale.
- Well, they're almost extinct.
- This model's terrific Charlie,
but let's test this theory out in the field.
- That's not sugar.
- [Jess] I don't know what I'm looking for.
- [Charlie] Well you're in good company because we don't either.
- Anything that doesn't fit here,
might complete the picture somewhere else.
- You know, Bruno was running across here
to get back home.
I wonder if somebody was running after him to bring him back?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Look, this thread of the green's outta whack
with the rest of the turf, isn't it?
- [Charlie] Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, you're right.
- Hey!
Turf lovers or not, get off the course
or I'll call security.
- Ah, you guys move around the holes don't ya,
to keep the golfers on their toes.
- Yeah, now if you wouldn't mind just get-
- Yeah this is fresh.
When did you move it?
- Wednesday late I started and finished it Thursday morning.
- Well Skinner died Wednesday night.
- Yeah wait a minute-
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
So that means there were two holes here on this green
the night that Skinner died.
- That's got nothin' to do with me.
- No, no, no, no, no, of course not.
Then you won't mind digging it up for us.
- Well, but no, 'cause you see we've got
a tournament this weekend, I've gotta let the turf settle.
- I suppose we could always call the police.
- We could, yeah, yeah.
What's their number again?
- Oh double O something,
(playful music)
- Thank you.
There we go.
- It's like digging for treasure,
you don't know what it's gonna be, but you know it's gonna be great.
(playful music)
(Charlie chuckles)
- There we go.
- Shouldn't you wash that under a tap?
- No.
(whistle toots)
(playful music)
- Oh God.
I know where we're going.
- No you don't have to go.
- Oh I do.
I totally have to know.
(playful music)
- Shivering, night sweats, it manifests itself in hives.
And anyway, we thought the best way to deal with
Nicola's phobia would be to-
- It's more a fear.
It's rational fear.
- We thought the best way to deal with
Nicola's rational fear would be exposure therapy
to desensitize her.
A process which, in the right hands, can work wonders.
- Are you a psychologist?
- Three semesters.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Come on through.
- Come on darling.
Yes this way, it's okay.
(dog barks)
It doesn't have to be a big dog, but that may help.
(dogs bark)
This one here? - Yeah.
- Ah, don't know.
What about this one over here?
- Ah I don't think that's a good idea.
He's a bit vicious.
- Right, you ready?
Here we go. (whistle toots)
(Bruno snarls) (Nicola screams)
- That's enough, I'm gonna ask you to get out of here.
(Bruno barks) (Nicola screams)
- Darling it's fine.
He's in the cage.
(Nicola screams)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going.
(Bruno barks) (Nicola screams)
Thank you, thank you very much.
- Okay so, whoever stole Bruno
and took him to Keith Skinner's house
dropped the whistle in the hole in the golf green
knowing it was gonna be buried.
- Okay, well who would know about the hole?
- Mark, co-owned of the golf course.
Roy, dug the hole.
Jackie, lives across the fairway.
- Okay, well how would whoever it was,
know that a whistle would drive Bruno bananas?
- Dwayne's the only one with a history with Bruno.
- No, it's not Dwayne.
- Yeah I know, no motive, you've talked me around.
Okay, let's mind meld.
Keith Skinner is first confronted at the door by Bruno.
He's bitten.
- He goes into the piano room.
- He's forced into the piano room.
- Forced into the piano room.
- I think this picture's the motive.
Whoever it was, it was important to them
they go into that piano room.
- Because of the photo?
- Yeah, he was being toyed with.
You know this is happening to you Keith Skinner
because,
- Because,
- Oh Charlie, the photographer's number.
- Worth a call.
So do you remember this photo?
- [Mark] Yes, of course I remember it.
- We rang the photographer
and he said that both you and Keith requested copies.
- It was Keith's first major win.
- Would you remember anything about that day,
about the tournament?
Anything at all?
- Opened a bottle or two and that's about it.
- There's gotta be something about this photo.
- [Charlie] Composition's a bit unbalanced.
- Maybe it's been cropped to fit a frame.
- Yeah, the original's in the corridor over there.
Keith really hated this photo, too much focus on the crowd.
Not enough focus on him and his trophy.
- There's a smiling face I recognize.
That's the vet nurse Celeste isn't it?
- How long ago was this photo taken?
- [Mark] Ah, 15 years ago.
- [Nicola] Can't be her.
- [Charlie] Ah, she's dead ringer.
- I remember her, she caused quite a scene that day,
Had to call the police and everything.
- What kinda scene are we talking about?
- She said that she and Keith had been involved.
- Really?
- Yeah, everyone thought she was a nutter.
But, she had some real problems.
- He had a reputation though didn't he?
- Well I don't wanna speak ill of the dead.
- Might help us work out who wanted him dead.
- The woman in the photo, she took her own life,
not long after that was taken.
- [Nicola] Leaving behind a little girl
to fend for herself.
It's her mother.
(dramatic music)
- [Charlie] So I guess the day
that Celeste was looking for that injured animal
on the golf course, she was really checking
whether the whistle was still buried.
(dramatic music)
- There's our friend Dwayne.
- Oh, I betcha he's here to break Bruno out.
- No, no, no, Charlie.
I can't go in there.
- No, no, no, you don't have to.
You stay here.
- No, I don't want you going in there either.
- I'm just gonna see if he's doing anything stupid.
- But Celeste might be in there.
They might be in on this together.
- Look five minutes, right.
Peter will be here soon.
I'll be in, I'll be out.
- No wait.
Wait, wait for Peter.
- You complete me.
- What?
(bell dings)
Charlie!
(dramatic music)
Don't do a kiss and runaway thing.
I don't want that to be a thing that we do.
- I'm okay, you're okay, they're all okay, just.
- Mm.
(dramatic music)
(dogs bark) (dramatic music)
- [Dwayne] Hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
Come here.
- Dwayne trust me, that's not a good idea.
- Charlie, what are you doin' here?
- Celeste is the one that wanted Keith Skinner dead.
- What?
- Celeste is the one that took Bruno.
- What are you talking about?
- No, no, no mate, you got the wrong end of the stick.
Celeste is helpin' me get Bruno back.
Aren't ya? - Of course.
I'm not gonna do anything to hurt an animal.
- We know all about your mother Celeste.
And it must have been awful
being left on your own like that.
- This has got nothing to do with my mother.
I mean, I didn't even know Skinner.
- Yeah, but you know Bruno.
You know he was a guard dog.
You know he'd been mistreated.
Dwayne told you.
You told her didn't you?
- You used him.
- The police are on their way.
- You should be ashamed of yourself.
- You don't understand.
He was scum, ask anyone.
And he didn't even care what he'd done.
He didn't care what I'd been through.
- We understand,
don't we Charlie? - We do, we do.
- No you don't.
No one does. - No, no, no.
(whistle tweets) - Don't! Stop!
(Nicola screams) (Bruno barks)
- Bruno, Bruno, calm down Bruno!
Bruno, calm down Bruno! (Nicola screams)
- Bruno, Bruno, away.
(Nicola screams) Bruno, Bruno, wait.
Aus! Heel!
(Nicola screams)
- No!
- Bruno!
It's okay, it's okay.
You're a good boy.
You're a good boy, yeah.
Hey, that's okay.
It's not your fault is it eh.
It's not your fault.
You're a good boy, you calm down now.
- She didn't have time to get far.
Amazing Nick, going in there, figuring all this out.
- No, no, it's Charlie you should be thanking.
- Are you kidding, you were fantastic
the way you went in there.
- You were fantastic.
- No you were fantastic.
- No you were. - You were fantastic.
All right, I was fantastic.
So Peter, Bruno, is that fair?
- Ah, there's nothing we can do.
He's a killer, I'll have to have him put down.
Where is he?
Did you?
- No he's out with Liam, isn't he?
(playful music)
- I found this one too bloody thirsty Nicola.
I mean who wants to know what motivates criminals?
- What did happen to your friend Charlie?
The one with the dog and the spiderweb tattoo?
- Yes, is he coming back to book club.
He was very stimulating.
- What did happen to him Charlie?
- Don't know, don't know the answer to that one.
- Hm, I'll get some more tea.
- [Charlie] Thanks darling.
- Do you have an address?
- Hm?
Well, I was told that he opened a B&B in Gilby.
(relaxing music)
(soft piano music)
(upbeat guitar music)