NARRATOR: Previously on Hunted...
MAN: 20 Fugitives are on the run.
They're travelling in a motor vessel towards the Melbourne area.
..20 ordinary Australians...
Let's go!
The Fugitives are on the run!
They are off! They are off!
..became Fugitives.
They know what we look like, so now let's switch it up.
Chasing them down is an elite team of Hunters -
former police, defence and British intelligence agents.
We've got dogs, drones, cutting-edge technology.
There is nowhere for these Fugitives to hide.
If they can evade capture for 21 days,
they will win a share of $100,000.
(BOTH LAUGH)
After hiding in plain sight in the city,
Glenn and Taylah made a telephone call that was intercepted by HQ...
..leading the Ground Hunters to their location in Bendigo.
That's it. That's it.
The vehicle is travelling back towards Bendigo. It just passed us.
When Cath and Kel were tracked down in Prahran,
HQ scored their first capture...
Go, go, go, go, go! (WOMEN SHRIEK)
(ALL CHEER)
..only to have siblings Byron and Tanase taunt them
with a brazen live Instagram post.
It's us. Catch us if you can.
19 days remain...
Go, boy! Go, go, go!
..18 Fugitives are still on the run.
Oh, my God!
Can they evade capture?
Here we go, here we go, here we go. Come on!
Come on, go! Fire up now! Let's go, go, go!
Taunting them like this, it's like poking an angry rat.
NARRATOR: Disguised Fugitives Byron and Tanase
have given the Hunters the ultimate taunt,
posting themselves live on Instagram.
Yeah, Reece? Reece, that's us one minute out.
Roger that. Tactical battle over to you, guys.
Let's get it done.
With three Ground Hunter teams converging on the Afrobeats Festival
inside a crowded bar.
First on the scene, Team Alpha head inside to flush the Fugitives out.
Yeah, Reece, Reece. Urgent, urgent.
We have people in the suits in the shop.
If you need to roll in hard, roll in hard.
Here we go, here we go, here we go.
We are moving now.
WOMAN: Hey, get out of here.
OK, we're going. Yeah, let's go, go, go.
Alright, let's go, Bravo.
HQ, HQ. We have a runner.
Run him down! Run him down!
You got this! We need this.
Leg it! Leg it! Come on!
We are not going to let them go now.
HQ, I've reached the back of the bar.
I'm just trying to find them and get their masks off.
Take them out.
Can you take your mask off?
Take your mask off for me.
Come on! Come on!
Anyone running? Anyone running?
He's on the run.
Alright, we've got him!
(HUNTERS CHEER)
What have you got for me?
Is it them? Is it them?
We've got one bloke here. Yep.
Ibis also has two blokes with him.
Yeah, roger that. Can you take his mask off?
Do you wanna take your mask off, mate?
This is it. Oh, please be them. Please be them.
(GROANS)
Where are they?
(TANASE WHOOPS)
BYRON: Run!
Hey, team, stay on your current task.
There is a high possibility that Fugitives are in the area.
Roger. Stand by.
It's two-door. Oh, my God, I've gotta go on the other side.
Oh!
Close the door and then I'll get in. OK.
Whee. Whoo!
Yes! Yeah!
They think they can catch us, but they can't.
We're five steps ahead.
That feels good, to, like, do that to them.
I want to see their reactions when they see it.
Oh, my God, she's in black. Oh, my God, that's a Hunter.
Holy shit, holy shit.
This is getting closer and closer.
From Victoria.
Let's turn around.
I think I might cruise up and down Chapel, mate,
in case they are just walking up and down doing stuff.
TANASE: We could just drive for a bit and try and lose them.
Whew!
If Alpha can confirm that they've done the rings
around the premises, swept around it,
that they're not lying doggo there somewhere.
We got nothing. Yeah, OK.
BYRON: So, there's no cars behind us at the moment.
Oh, my God, my heart is racing.
(ALL LAUGH)
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
NARRATOR: With the Hunters nowhere to be seen,
getaway driver Koozie takes them to a safe house
he's arranged for the night
through Melbourne's close-knit Ghanaian community.
Congratulations. BOTH: Thank you.
Hey.
TANASE: For some reason, like, West Africans, Ghanaians,
we're very generous people.
And as soon as you say you're Ghanaian,
then straightaway, "OK, you're family."
Alright, so, remember, if anyone comes,
you never heard from us, we weren't here, nothing like that, OK?
I'm not a snitch. Hey, nice to know, bro.
BYRON: Tanase and I grew up in Adelaide,
in a single-parent household, and we were the only biracial kids.
Look at all this beautiful, like, home-cooked food.
Our father is from Ghana, West Africa.
He wasn't really in our lives.
Hello!
And it's actually quite a big void for me.
MAN: Alright, listen up.
We're going to do Happy Birthday song for Martina.
BYRON: And tonight has been interesting
because we're with a bunch of West Africans
and there's a birthday party on tonight,
and just, like, we grew up without our dad
and I think for maybe both of us, it kind of triggered, like,
stuff that we just missed out on as children and throughout our lives.
Aw.
I think you're right.
NARRATOR: The Fugitives have been on the run for more than 48 hours.
The nine remaining teams are scattered across Victoria.
And with the trail on Byron and Tanase going cold,
the Chief assembles his team of professional Hunters
to search for new leads.
Right, ladies and gentlemen, please gather around the centre console.
Yes, Chief.
I want to consolidate what intelligence we've got
and prioritise our resources.
OK, we'll go through the Fugitives.
I want to start off with Glenn and Taylah.
I know we've got a lot on them.
Obviously, we know Glenn and Taylah from out of state, in Queensland.
Glenn being the boxing coach of Taylah.
I think the key point here is yesterday morning in Bendigo,
they woke up, they were alerted, by whoever, to go.
These have slipped the net with no further details.
Two.
Roll over. Nice. No, it was crap.
No, that was alright. It landed good.
Cyber, any updates from Ben and Callum?
MAN: We've been focusing on Ben and Callum for quite a while now.
Ben is particularly security savvy.
He has encrypted his laptop, he's booby-trapped his devices.
He is toying with us.
I got into Callum's email, and they'd left a malware link there
for us to click on, but we're not that stupid.
A cyber-off. But Ben's the brains behind that?
We would say so. Yeah, yeah, seems to be.
So, Jeff, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you this card
which has 50 bucks on it.
So, if you're happy to spend that at some point,
that will draw the Hunters to you instead of us
because they're expecting, you know, that card to be pinged.
OK, next on the list is Sonja and Elerrina.
So, I've spent some time developing these guys over the past few days.
They're both extremely extroverted people.
They have talked, for example, about
trying to stay at some guy's house
that they might meet at a bar or something like that.
They didn't pack boots and they didn't pack towels
because they wanted to have two hair straighteners,
a blow-dryer and hair curlers.
Son, are you winning at this pace?
Are you outrunning the Hunters? I don't think so.
Move! Move! Move!
There are different kinds of smarts, and we've got our own.
We are just trying to play this game our way.
We are manifesting it, putting it in the universe. We've got this.
How's your drink?
Delicious. Delicious.
OK, Holly and Joshua. What have we got on them?
Victoria-based pair. Do these guys live together?
Yes. Interestingly, she works as an entertainer.
She also is a dance teacher.
Joshua's a paramedic.
So, potential substantial network open to both of them.
It's in the mistakes of the networks,
that's where we'll find the capture of these two.
HOLLY: Alright, let's do this. JOSHUA: Alright, let's go.
Let's go! We're moving!
NARRATOR: So far, Holly and Josh have relied on their inner-city contacts
to evade the Hunters.
Yay!
But they have formulated a plan to head off grid.
So, we're going to Kester's in three days' time.
Three days? Yeah.
Equipped with a burner phone,
they borrow bikes and backpacks for a full day's trek.
It's actually not too bad once you're moving.
It's the actual mounting that sucks.
We have a massive network of friends all over Victoria
that are more than happy to help us.
Friends of friends. Paramedic friends.
We've got friends from high school. Dance friends.
The Hunters won't know where to start.
Imagine how much our legs are going to burn tomorrow.
We've been together for four years now.
When we're together, I feel like we're our brighter selves.
Not to sound cheesy, but, yeah,
I just feel like we uplift each other in the best ways.
I love myself a resourceful man.
And I'm a bit of a passenger princess.
One that sits along, there for the ride.
A large part of our strategy will definitely be a bit of camping
and trying to stay off the grid as much as we can.
Yep, we want to go as rural as we can.
We want to get out of there.
Ryan, how are you? A bit frustrated.
Me too.
Who's the best to talk to about Holly and Josh?
Vikki. Vikster.
Yes. I am, certainly. What's up? She's your one.
I'm interested in Joshua.
His paramedic network. Already done. Already checked.
Already in? Yeah.
Do you know what I mean? Cyber - brains department.
Holly and Josh live together. We know they're partners.
They would have been planning this for absolutely months, intricately.
The fact he's a paramedic, we are going to piece together
the entire network to find any clues,
because at the moment, we are completely unsighted
to their movements.
Help! Help me!
NARRATOR: Having ditched the bikes,
Fugitives Holly and Josh are on the final stretch
to a remote camp site in Trentham.
Uh-oh.
(LAUGHS) Sonofagun. Oh, no.
Hmm. Wow.
Really? Well, this is awkward.
So, we've just walked seven kilometres,
and the camp site we were intending on staying at is closed off.
Now what do you want to do?
What I want to do is get a lift by some stranger.
OK, let's do that.
(LAUGHS) I love the sarcasm in your voice.
You really want to call Kester, don't you?
Yeah.
The only thing is, like, if we call Kes now,
it's going to compromise him as a contact.
Yeah, thought so.
What? We're doing what you want to do.
(RINGING TONE)
Hello. What's doing?
Um...we're thinking that we might need you to pick us up.
That would be amazing.
Alright, I'll see you soon, OK? Alright.
(LAUGHS) Oh, yes.
Kester.
Howdy. Perchance I can put in a check for a Kester?
There's talk on their Messenger chat about, like, renting a car,
what to do around, like, you know, rural areas.
Perfect. Thank you. Cool.
Looking into Holly and Josh, I found one of Josh's friends, Kester.
He's a paramedic friend.
It seems highly likely he's going to lean on him
in the run, based on Messenger conversations.
There's also a matter of urgency.
So, Kester, considering he is leaving back,
to go home to New Zealand soon,
I think if he's going to be used, he's going to be used now.
Would you approve a soft knock of his house?
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Yeah, because there's a limited time frame.
This was discovered by a Facebook Messenger conversation
with himself and Josh.
Once again, Kester deleted from his side, Josh did not.
(BOTH LAUGH)
He's a bit of a weak link in the chain.
Now we have an address to send the Ground Hunters to have a talk.
Where is he, Vikki? It's pretty far away.
It's in Woodend.
Where is that, in the grand scheme of Victoria?
Very far away.
NARRATOR: 70km north-west of Melbourne,
Holly and Josh have arrived at Kester's
to strategically rethink their next move and stock up on supplies.
Your drawer of goodies.
Whoo-hoo!
Fugitive teams may accept up to $100 from helpers, on the run.
(RADIO BEEPS)
Bravo, could you start tracking towards
the following address in Woodend?
Kester is an associate of Joshua and is a fellow paramedic.
We do think he is going to play a part, if he hasn't done so already.
Yeah, Bravo, good copy.
ETA one hour to that address.
This is great. Can't wait to get stuck into all the food and coffee.
KESTER: Food of champions. Mm-hm.
This is the first decent, tangible lead we've had on Holly and Josh.
We need to capitalise on this.
We need to put the right resources and the right focus on this
just in case they are actually going to meet Kester today.
I am very, very excited for a shower.
Because if they do, we could be catching two other Fugitives today.
NARRATOR: In the rural Victorian town of Woodend,
Holly and Josh are working on their next steps
at paramedic friend Kester's house.
Meanwhile, Team Bravo are closing in on Kester
after discovering messages between him and Josh.
We know that Kester is in ambo
and he's gonna be heading back to New Zealand this week.
Let's go knock on his house,
see if we can't stir up the hornet's nest.
MARCO: One minute out.
So, Blue, just confirm, I'm gonna hit the end of the street.
You're gonna get out and hit the right-hand side of the property.
Correct.
Righto, stand by. Moving in now.
Oh, look, there's a gap in the fence.
Gonna go round the back, yeah?
Blinds down. It's quiet as a mouse.
Just cover up the camera for me.
Ben, Bravo.
So, I've got two CCTV cameras.
Do you want me to do that CCTV?
Please, mate.
We've got someone at the door here.
Stand by. Wait. We've got someone at the door.
Kester, is that you, mate?
Yeah, just seeing if you're home for a chat, Kester.
Got Blue talking to Kester now through the door camera.
Yeah. Receive him.
Are you there, Kester?
OK, mate. Well, look, we'll wait out the front.
We're just seeing if we can have a little chat with you.
He's come up on the intercom from his phone
saying he was in the shower and he's not going to be ready for 20 minutes.
Only takes me two minutes to have a shower.
Yeah. Is he here now?
Bit nervous, are ya?
Why are you shaking?
You got something to hide? No?
So where's Josh?
Haven't seen him?
Come on, Kester.
Yeah.
You just keep him busy, mate. I'm just gonna give the boss a call.
Alright, Ben, I'm with Kester now.
He's not letting me look through his house.
Kester, the cheeky little git. I don't know what to do with him.
He's just wasting time.
I think he's been involved today, mate. I really do.
Just have a look, mate. He's at the back of the car now.
He's just taking some photos.
Um, he's taking photos of our car.
Just...just being a real twat.
He might want to buy one. They're pretty flash.
He's even more significant than perhaps we first thought.
Where are you off to now?
Hey, Ben, we've got CCTV of Holly and Josh at Kester's house.
I'll pop it on the big screen. Thank you.
There they are. That's Josh, that's Holly.
So this is entering at 13:13. Yeah.
Is that them leaving?
We must have driven straight past them on our way in.
She's carrying a big backpack.
She's not gonna walk far with that.
NARRATOR: Unbeknownst to the Hunters,
Holly and Josh had made a split-second decision
to stick to plan and go back off grid.
HOLLY: I have a feeling they're in the area.
So they went in at 13:11 and exited at 14:05.
So they were in there a very short period.
The packs are fully laden, dressed in black.
The fact that Kester was erratic, slowing us down, wasting our time
is because actually Holly and Joshua left his house with the backpacks
and he's facilitated that movement.
That's why he's trying to delay us.
Is that your sort of gut feeling of what happened?
What we realised later was that he'd put a homemade tracking device...
He's a bit of a wannabe Inspector Gadget
so he's placed that under our car.
It's one of those days.
MARCO: Mate, if they were here and hit that bushland,
it's gonna be like a needle in a haystack.
NARRATOR: With Bravo combing Woodend for Holly and Josh,
the Chief turns his attention to aunty and niece Megan and Gracie,
who haven't been sighted since the blast.
Karla, how's your crystal ball?
(CHUCKLES) Uh, intact.
Oh, good, good, good.
Megan and Gracie. Oh, yep.
They're just off the radar now.
So I think I've got a little bit more that came from cyber, actually,
but from a psychological angle, I've got, like, very surface level.
The way that they present, I think that they...
..you know, obviously value the way that they look and well-groomed
and it's sort of part of the industry for, um, Gracie especially
because, you know, she's in the beauty industry,
she has to look good, she invests in that.
Yeah, I'll see what else I can glean but...
Just a definite yes or no where they're going would be great.
(LAUGHS) Oh, yeah, of course.
In the Melbourne inner suburb of Eaglemont,
Megan and Gracie are preparing to escape the city.
After spending the night with friends of friends,
they must now get to their next well-resourced contact -
Isaac in Essendon.
When we get to Isaac's, if we can just not drive to his house.
We can drive, um... Behind.
There's like a laneway.
Just so that we're not... A street or two behind.
Alright, so five minutes? ALL: Yep.
Wanna get disguised, Megs? Yep. Let's go.
I'm Megan. I'm here with my aunt... (SPURTS)
You wish! (LAUGHS)
I'm Megan. I'm with my niece Gracie.
We wanna show people two strong, powerful women can actually do this.
OK.
My relationship with Gracie is more than just aunty/niece.
I think we have a really deep connection.
We are two peas in a pod, basically.
She's been my mentor.
She pushes me out of my comfort zone and I'm always better for it.
Ready, Megs? Yep.
We obviously are gonna be stereotyped to be blonde bimbos.
(THUMP!) Oh!
(SNORTS)
There's a lot more grit behind the blonde and ditziness
that people may see.
(LAUGHS) I love you.
I can tell.
We've been able to build a bit of a support network of people
that we can rely on when we're on the run.
(BLOWS KISSES)
They are friends of family members...
Hi! ISAAC: Hey. (LAUGHS)
..and people sort of in the know with connections.
We wanna get a fair... Like, fairly far away.
Would you happen to know anyone with a vehicle that they might lend us
or a...? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Even if, like, a mate can drive us out of here.
Yep, that would be really good. Yep
NARRATOR: Using his influential work connections,
Isaac has found Megan and Gracie the ultimate getaway.
No! What?!
The plane is leaving for the Mornington Peninsula
in an hour's time
where Isaac has arranged a friend to collect them.
Oh!
Thank you so much, Isaac. That's awesome.
Having a plane to get us to Mornington Peninsula
where even if the Hunters were chasing us,
they would be 1.5 hours behind us.
Seriously, what other Fugitive would be able to pull off a plane?
Like, that is insane.
So, Isaac, do we have, like, Top Gun overalls to change into?
(ALL LAUGH)
(MEGAN AND GRACIE LAUGH EXCITEDLY)
We're so excited.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
That's it. Great.
And we're going to have an awesome flight.
OK.
This is crazy.
I can't believe we're doing this. Oh, my God.
Our strategy is just, you know,
be one step ahead of the Hunters at all times and just keep moving.
Bye, Hunters.
This is cool.
Oh, my God.
(RADIO CHATTER)
We're going on the run to silence the doubters
who think that we can't.
We can absolutely win this.
(LAUGHS) Feel like I'm on a roller-coaster.
That is so fun.
We've got a message for the Hunters. We really hope you're wearing socks.
'Cause we're gonna knock them off. (SNIGGERS)
MAN: (OVER RADIO) Have we cleared the runway?
Flaps are identified. Retracted.
Yes! There's a lady.
NARRATOR: Thanks to their well-connected associate,
Megan and Gracie have left Melbourne,
flying 53km to the Mornington Peninsula.
We feel like we're at least... BOTH: A few hours ahead of them.
But they're keen to get even further away from the Hunters.
They want to travel to Geelong
to stay the night with Megan's former work colleague, an artist named Kim.
Like, our kind of plan is to go over to Geelong via the ferry.
Just gotta get to my friend Kim.
We've got big disguises for the ferry.
Sounds like you've got some good strategies.
I'll be elderly and she'll be a tradie.
It would take them a fair bit of homework to figure it out. Yeah.
We both love beauty. We both love disguises.
We will definitely use those skills to hide in plain sight.
We are so competitive. There is nothing that is out of the picture.
Anything that can be done, we will do it.
After arranging for their contact, Ben, to collect them from the ferry,
Megan and Gracie prepare to put their disguises to the test.
Back at HQ,
the Hunters' cyber experts are zeroing in
on Megan and Gracie's devices and online profiles.
Is that...? Gracie and Megan.
Is it? Yeah, yeah.
Oh, dear. They look really different.
Our cyber team brings specialist research, open-source intelligence,
ethical hacking, and digital forensics to the hunt.
We've got some new tools and new tactics,
so we're going to have a lot of fun with this.
Oh, boy.
This time, it's personal.
Can I do Megan's phone now?
There's messages in there about getting help from someone.
You can see that Megan's reaching out to a friend of hers, Kimmy,
and there's some talk of them catching up.
Hot leads. Hot leads.
This is by far the best lead we've had on Megan and Gracie.
We discovered Megan making plans with a friend named Kim,
who's an artist in Geelong.
Megan didn't delete the contact name.
That gives us a location and a phone number to track.
Did it seem legit or did it seem like a decoy?
It seemed legit.
Like, she tried to use, like, a...
She downloaded an app that she thought
would, like, clean, scrub her phone, and it didn't.
So, one of the most common mistakes we see with Fugitives
when we examine their devices
is not considering where they back up their material to.
Now, by restoring it from WhatsApp, we have all that data back.
# Bup-bup-bup-bup-ba-ba-ba! #
MEGAN: Excuse me - do you have the time?
Yep.
Nervous about being caught on CCTV together,
Megan and Gracie have split up to avoid suspicion.
We're taking another big risk by catching public transport.
I'm feeling a little bit nervous.
But it's another day, another risk,
another opportunity to prove the Hunters wrong
and that we do know what we're doing,
and we're going to keep going.
(SIGHS) Wow. So far, so good.
I'm going to make my way in.
Gracie.
Are you sick?
We're just a bit on edge
about this transition onto the ferry and getting off.
Shit. Things are about to get serious. I can feel it.
Like, I really can feel that their energy
is going to be put onto us, for sure, yep.
Yeah, Chief, I am keen to hop back on Byron and Tanase.
DAVID: Long and short of it is,
they know that they taunted us and they got away with it.
I'm sort of thinking that we wait for them to trip up.
Thanks to their West African contacts,
Byron and Tanase have been given a car for the day and a burner phone.
BYRON: We should probably start making some calls soon. Yeah.
I was just thinking, I don't actually know
if I want to activate the burner phone here
because I have to use one of our debit cards,
which could then alert them that we're here.
They're gonna know we're here. Yeah.
So I'm just thinking that we go to another part of Melbourne...
Activate the card. Yeah.
Like, use the wi-fi at some cafe or something like that.
OK, we'll see you later.
I was just thinking we should set the phone up in Frankston -
or even earlier, depending -
but then drive a little bit further to do calls and stuff,
so it looks like we're actually travelling...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. ..a direction, you know what I mean?
Yep.
What do you want to drink?
I might just see what they have.
Can I please get a soy chai latte?
(SERVER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) Yeah.
And take it outside? Yeah, cool.
I, um...
I've connected to the wi...
Well, I'm connectING to the wi-fi now.
Uh-huh. (PHONE BUTTONS BEEP)
So, we'll be able to connect to the wi-fi, then we can do the...
Activate the phone? Yeah.
(PHONE BUTTONS BEEP)
Is it working?
God, stop staring.
I feel like you're a Hunter.
I'll wait for the debit card to process.
I don't want to hang around once we're done.
I'd prefer to just get out of here.
We're gonna... Just keep looking out while I do this.
OK.
Month, month, year, year.
Ah! Hang on. Hang on.
We've had a banking hit on Byron's ATM card.
An online purchase.
I'll send you through the details.
Could we please get CCTV of that?
This is exciting. This is good.
This is good.
There was an online purchase. They've logged on to a device.
They've made a $30 purchase online for phone credit.
The location they were at whilst logged on was in Frankston.
Charlie, this is Ops. Over.
Charlie, good copy.
At this stage, I'm gonna get you guys to deploy to Frankston.
Roger that, boss.
They said they're like 20 minutes. 20 minutes. They're gonna...
Oh, actually, 15 minutes.
Lovely old job, mate.
That suggests they've got a phone.
Yeah. It does, doesn't it? Because they've topped it up $30.
With a fresh new lead,
the cyber experts go into action
to mine as much data out of the transaction as they can.
So, we'll be able to put a request in, Desi,
to find out which telephone number was recharged.
So, the whole thing is, once we've got the mobile number,
we want to be putting that on full intercept,
because he intends to use it - he's not charging it just for fun.
I will do that right now.
Welcome to the hunt. (CHUCKLES)
Well, you have to fill out that, 'cause that's all your details.
Oh, OK.
Did it work?
Headquarters, Charlie.
That's us five minutes out. Five minutes.
I reckon we just pull up right at the front door. OK.
If you just go straight in and just search straightaway,
I'll cut around to that north side and around the back
and just make sure they're not doing a runner out the back.
TANASE: Would it be alright if I go to the bathroom?
Yeah, Reece, that's us here now, mate.
Kim's gonna go in and do a quick search.
I'm gonna go around the back and cut off any egress routes.
Roger that.
No good? There was absolutely no-one there.
Really? It's absolutely empty. Yeah.
That just makes us souped up to get someone else.
Ah! Simp!
I have CCTV footage from outside the exterior of The Cheeky Squire.
Ben, this is the footage in relation to Byron and Tanase.
First of all, I wanna make sure it's actually them.
Yep. I think it is.
Definitely Tanase.
WOMAN: That number's on full phone intercept.
Thank you very much.
Byron and Tanase, we've got their phone on full intercept.
The phone that they topped up. It's not currently turned on.
If that transmission is turned on, we should pick it up.
So, that will then give us a location
and it should be just, bang! Exactly.
I like it. I like it a lot.
If Byron and Tanase have that phone and it is on...
..we will be catching them very, very soon.
TANASE: Is the phone on?
BYRON: I haven't turned it on yet.
With Byron and Tanase's trail going cold,
the Chief refocuses the Hunters onto Megan and Gracie
and their associate, Kim.
Gracie and Megan.
It's not a real wide lot of intelligence,
but it's very focused right now, which is really interesting.
It's getting quite exciting.
Do we have Kim's phone on intercept?
'Cause in messages she was saying that she would actually help them.
Yep. I'll follow that up. Yeah, that's great, Steph.
That's closing a real gap there for us.
Yeah, good opportunity there, Chief.
If we do shake the tree that Kim's in, she might go straight to them.
Yes.
So Kim's our number one priority as an ancillary to Gracie and Megan.
Unaware the Hunters are closing in on their network,
Megan and Gracie disembark the ferry
where their contact, Ben, is waiting for them.
Yeah.
They take it very seriously. Yeah.
Already today, Queenslanders Megan and Gracie
have flown from Essendon to the Mornington Peninsula
and caught a ferry to Queenscliff -
a complex trip to keep the Hunters off their trail.
Now, after a quick change,
they are finally driving to Kim's work address in Geelong.
We're going to hide out in a really industrial area
and I think it's going to be quite a relax...
..I'm hoping, quite a relaxed day in an art studio.
Um, is this it, Megs?
That's her studio there.
Little do they know,
their attempts to keep Kim off the Hunters' radar have failed
thanks to messages discovered on Megan's phone.
Hi, Kimmy. It's Megan and Gracie. We've...
We've arrived at your shed.
Yes! Awesome. OK. Thank you.
Bye!
Wow.
Look - at least we can see them coming for days.
That's good. That's so good.
Like, we have to be safe here, right?
Yeah. It's bizarre.
Just get out our mattresses?
(PHONE RINGS)
Hey, Bravo. How are we, boys?
We're gonna go after Fugitives Megan and Gracie.
At this stage,
the person of interest we're having a look at is Kim.
If you guys can start moving that way,
we'll get hot on the trail.
MARCO: Nah, good to go. Thanks, Reece.
Keep up the good work. Keep hunting.
Leopold.
I know that area well.
So, Kim - her phone is now in full intercept
and we've also just asked for a current location ping on Kim's phone
so we can location stamp it. Nice.
When we reference the phrase phone 'ping',
it means we've located the location of a specific number
and, hopefully, the Fugitives and/or their associates
are at the end of that ping.
Let's drive over the top.
It's one of these ones here, so it's...
That's it there. Yeah.
Yep.
Righto. So, we've got a grey Nissan X-Trail.
Roger.
Megan and Grace.
Happy with that? Yep. Alright.
Ready? Yep.
Go.
Hi. How are you going?
No, that's alright. Kim, is it?
Yeah. Hi, Kim. My name's Marco.
I'm just looking for a couple of Fugitives on the run.
Yep. Yep. Megan and Grace.
Are they here right now?
No. Am I able to come through and make sure they're not here?
OK. Thank you. Righto.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
Yep. No, that's alright.
I'm just with Kim now inside the house.
Stand by. Copy.
So, can you tell me about Megan and Grace, Kim?
KIM: I know Megan. We worked together.
I haven't seen her in, um...
..yeah, probably over 10 years, maybe.
OK. Yeah.
Has she contacted you recently? No.
If I was to ask you to help me out
and if you did get a call from her,
is there any chance you'd let us know?
Probably not, no.
Probably not? No.
There's no harm in trying, is there, Blue?
No.
Sorry, guys. So, yeah, Kim was quite shady.
Yeah, look, she wasn't overly helpful,
but I think, if we monitor her phone, you know,
she's definitely going to say that the Hunters have been here.
Ben, I do have intel on Kim.
I have TWO known addresses registered.
I have a primary residential address,
and then there is an additional address,
which is her business in Breakwater.
OK, Bree, can we please request CCTV for the last hour?
Copy.
Team Alpha, can you start tracking to Geelong, please?
Roger that. On our way.
If Kim was harbouring Gracie and Megan,
they will 100% know about it now.
They'll be, hopefully, at this address
wondering how to get out of it.
Did you have any vehicles for Kim that you saw?
Yeah, we did, Ben. We'll send that through.
We got a video of it.
'Cause I'm wondering how long the journey is
from Kim's house down to that unit
and whether we would beat her.
So, give me a second.
It'd be no more than about 12, 15 minutes, I reckon.
Right. Yeah. 13 minutes.
So, I'm not being funny - you'll be there about the same sort of time.
So, if Kim has left her home address,
they'll be there at the same time,
hopefully, picking them up to get them out.
and you'll see either the vehicle first
or the Fugitives frantically getting in the vehicle.
The problem we've got is, if they've got straight on the phone to them
and said, "They've just been here - get out"...
KARLA: But they have to have a way out.
Exactly. So I'm hoping they don't.
And, you know, if they were expecting to be able to stay there,
they may not have a way out immediately.
Exactly, yeah.
With Team Bravo only a few minutes behind and Alpha on its way,
Kim uses her well-worn knowledge of local roads
in an attempt to reach Megan and Gracie first.
Ben. Sorry to interrupt. Stand by.
We just had a location ping for Kim's phone.
Yep. I'm sending you the details now.
Right. She's at... she's at the work address.
She's at the work address where you're headed to now.
How many minutes have you got till you're there, guys?
Yeah, one minute. We could be on.
If Kim has gone there to pick Gracie and Megan up,
we are literally on top of them now.
What have we got, mate?
Down here on the left is the property address.
Let's do a drive-by. Stand by.
That's it. That's the vehicle, right there.
Right, keep eyes on that, guys.
Let's try and cover it as best we can.
We've got a pool of water underneath this X-Trail.
Looks like the aircon's been on. Yeah, the car's been running.
It's just been... So that's just parked up.
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NARRATOR: After tracking Kim's phone to Megan and Gracie's hideaway,
Team Bravo are gaining as much intel on the area as they can.
Right. So, at the moment, we've got good obs on their vehicle
and both exits are covered.
I'm confident the Fugitives, Gracie and Megan,
are in there with Kim as we speak.
The fact that there's a car there that's been running
and it's all still closed... it's all closed up,
there's got to be someone in there.
Alright, Ben, stand by.
I'm going in now. BLUE: Yep. Covering.
Let's just... Let's just hold our nerve at the moment.
Just keep eyes down on them doors, please, guys.
Ben, just so you know. So, this is a large complex of new warehouses.
Probably only a couple of years old. Yep.
It's got a high fence about eight foot high all the way around.
Security fence. Just what I want to hear.
There's only one way in and out.
The entrance to the property gate is locked.
And to exit, they would have to wait for a sliding door.
So, I'm pretty confident we've got them locked down.
Great news. Thank you very much.
Ben. Oh, yeah?
We've got CCTV footage of a van.
Yeah. I'll shoot it through now.
Thank you, mate.
Just checking that footage now, Ben. Roger that.
Yeah, it's leaving. Yeah.
Desi, that's the VW transporter on the footage is seen leaving.
(SIGHS) Right. Stand by, guys.
We've got the VW transporter on CCTV leaving the area.
Right.
I'm guessing that Gracie and Megan were on that vehicle.
Stand by for a retask. Stand by.
Stand by. We must have just...
..just missed them.
My heart is racing so fast.
Oh, I'm sorry to put you through this, Kimmy. No.
Oh, I can't believe they actually turned up.
NARRATOR: Megan and Gracie have just slipped the Hunters' grasp
and have to quickly activate one of their backup plans
with previous helper Ben.
Hi, Ben.
It's a few of your guests,
and we're...the heat's on at the moment,
and we're just wondering if we could get picked up...
ASAP. 10 minutes.
The heat's on a lot. Like...
Yeah. If that's possible.
We might just use your entrance as a thoroughfare
to just get over that hurdle, if that's alright,
and wait for the next transition.
Even if they go to his place, we're jumping over the fence
and we're in the neighbour's house anyway. We've got like...
And then we're getting picked up from the neighbour's house.
OK.
Mate, these two are appearing a lot more organised
than I initially thought.
Maybe they've put some thought into who moves them around and when
because they've been pretty sharp.
We know that they don't stay... they don't hang around for long.
Thank you so much, Kimmy. Good luck.
BOTH: Thank you.
Thank you. I hope we survive another day.
Thank you. I owe you big-time.
Hey, it's us! Just go.
We're just running down the back!
Bree, Kim's phone.
We want to know where it's been in the last half an hour.
Yeah, copy that.
Guys, stand by for an update. Just getting that through imminently.
We've just received the location ping for Kim's phone.
Sending right now. Thank you very much.
OK. That stopped in the area of number 50 - five zero.
And the move was from the work address where you were
directly north-west to that drop-off point.
We just need to slip them up, get ahead of their game.
We're doing some map analysis to see what is around that area.
But the guess is it could be a drop-off on foot.
As Team Bravo track Kim's phone to its last destination,
the drop-off point outside Ben's house...
That address should be coming into view now.
Right. I'm out the front now.
I can see through the house, Ben.
All the windows are open.
..Megan and Gracie are escaping through the backyard
to the neighbour's house where Ben can pick them up on a side street.
Yep, yep, yep. Chuck it.
Oh, my God. (BLEEP).
Oh, my God.
You guys haven't seen two females? Blonde hair.
Stand by, guys.
Oh, you know him, do you?
Oh, whose home is it, sir?
We could have a free shot at this. Ben.
Do you have a phone number for him, by any chance?
I've got a phone number.
Jaz, can I give you a phone number? Yep. Go for it.
Could we first get a ping on it as soon as possible?
Copy that. I'm doing that now.
Megs.
Megs, that's them... What?
This is it. Oh, my gosh.
We're just looking for a couple of girls that are on the run
that might have used one of these addresses.
So, we're just contacting the property owners
to see if they've seen anyone.
Just wait. Just wait for her to come back.
Don't go out.
Get everything? I've got your bag.
Oh, my gosh.
Alpha, Bravo, I have a vehicle to pass you - a silver Volvo X60.
Let's go. 2021 plate.
I'm sorry to ring you.
So sorry.
We feel like we just need to get off the grid
because they're just making too many connections at the moment.
So, don't know.
You know a good place to camp?
NARRATOR: Unaware the Hunters are tracking his phone,
Ben takes Megan and Gracie half an hour west
to an unassuming caravan park.
Thinking on the grass here at the front?
Yeah. We're on this.
Where do you want it to face?
Yes, I think Ben's switched-on enough to delete all of his stuff.
The only thing I think that's going to get us is his car.
But I'm actually feeling OK
that we got out of where we were because we were in serious...
I've got to find my sleeping bag amongst all of the wigs.
I'm just seeing our escape route.
Looks like we're definitely gonna have to jump it.
Ben. Yeah.
We've just got a location ping for Ben's number.
Last location...Winchelsea.
I've sent you an email and printing out the coordinates for you now.
Lovely. Caravan park, yeah?
Let's go, man. Let's go.
Bravo ready.
Bravo, send.
We have a caravan park. Caravan park on the river.
Ben's phone was cell sited at caravan park.
Yeah, mate. I know the one.
That is good. But we need to get there quick.
Stand by.
NARRATOR: Hot on the heels of Megan and Gracie,
HQ have received a location ping on associate Ben's phone,
telling them where the Fugitives are hiding.
This is for Alpha, Bravo. HQ.
We have a caravan park.
Ben's phone was cell sited at a caravan park.
Yeah, mate, we're on.
Red-blooded north Queenslanders. Let's get them in the bag.
Bravo, two-one minutes out.
Ben, I'm throwing it on the big screen for you now so you can see.
It looks like from the north side, that highway,
there's an entry point. Roger that, mate.
So, if you can come straight down
and go straight in through the front entrance.
Yeah, that's correct, mate.
And we should have a good long shot of that before we turn into...
They're likely to be very flighty. So they're going to run.
So, just keep your running shoes warmed up because these two women
are going to bolt as soon as they realise we're onto them.
So, it's just a wheelie gate. How do you wheel it?
Just unlatch it and go.
Pull it up. But it looks like it doesn't work.
Alright, mate. Keep your eyes peeled.
Stand by, Bluey. One minute out.
Yep. 1.2 k's. Yep.
One kilometre off. One k, received and confirmed.
Bravo, you're going to go into the entrance-exit.
So, we're gonna have to take turns sleeping with one eye open tonight.
Bravo's one out. Bravo's one out.
We're a minute out. Get this one in the bag.
We'll move on. Righto, guys. We're ready for this.
That's Alpha right in front of us.
And that's us coming up on the caravan park entry now. Stand by.
This is it. Yep. Yep.
BEN: Received.
That's the park there. Perfect. They're going in.
We're going straight in here. Yeah, mate. We're in. We're directly in front.
We're going to head straight to the back.
I've got them. I've got them. Eyes on. Eyes on. Eyes on.
Eyes on, eyes on. Let's go round the back.
(SHOUTING)
Jump, jump, jump.
Guys, we've ID'ed. Proceed.
NICKY: The front!
Come on, Nicky. Let's go, Nicky.
We got 'em. Got em. Got 'em, got 'em. Black cap, black hair.
(ALL CHEER)
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Stay. Stay in the car. Stay in the car. Wait. We got eyes on.
Wait, wait. Let her run. Let her run. Let her run.
Yeah, she's gone left. Gone left into Austin Street.
Keep the pressure on!
Wait. Let her tire.
May as well give it up.
Wait, wait. She's getting tired.
Keep going, Blue.
Right. I'm going to cut her off in the front.
Yep, yep, yep.
Rabs, drop me here. Drop me here.
Go, go, go.
Stop there. Stop there.
(CHEERING)
BEN: Got one more. One more. One more. One more.
Where's Megan? Where's the other one?
Where is she? Where is she?
Did you get the other one? Nicky? Have we got ID on Megan?
Blue, I'm in with you, mate.
Jump in. Jump in.
We've only got Gracie. We only have Gracie.
We still need Megan. Over.
OK. Where's Megan? Jump in. Jump in.
Where is she, mate?
I wouldn't know. Where's Megan?
Alpha, Bravo, we still need Megan.
Yeah, Roger. She went over the fence to the Princes.
Let's cordon and contain, guys. Let's cordon and contain.
Yeah. Nicky, stay on foot.
We don't have eyes on yet. OK. Roger that.
If she carries south, there's not much going on down there.
Four Ground Hunters. One Fugitive.
Yeah.
Good odds.
NARRATOR: The Hunters up the ante.
Oh, my gosh. I'm so stressed.
It's absolutely become personal.
I'd like to see inside their house
because we can hack into their systems.
HQ goes on an undercover op.
Yeah. Coming in.
She's coming in.
And one mistake...
We've got the location. Go, go, go.
..puts the Fugitives within arm's reach.
403. Let's go, Bravo.
Let's get it done.
Hello?
Let's go. Let's go. Go, go, go.
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