(PENSIVE MUSIC)
(FAINT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(GULLS CAW)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(JASPER BREATHES RAGGEDLY)
There's something in me,
it's... a burning hot ember.
It's...
DEV: Jasper, you've taken some mushrooms.
You're in a safe place.
(JASPER PANTS) I've done something terrible.
I...I've gotta put it right.
DEV: Hey...
Just trying... trying to stamp it out.
Hey, it's OK. Let them go, Jasper.
- It's never gonna go. - Jasper, you're in no danger.
- It's OK. - It's never gonna let me go.
You are safe.
Marty!
Marty...
(PANTING)
(UNEASY MUSIC)
I've gotta tell him.
I've gotta tell Marty.
(DARK MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV)
DOUG ON TV: But once again,
we can confirm that seven people...
MARTIN: Jeez, Beth.
...lost their lives in this horrific incident.
Among the deceased, Dev Hannan,
the partner of Jay Jay Hayes, founder of Hummingbird Retreat.
No other names have been confirmed...
- (INTERCOM BEEPS) - WOMAN: Attention.
Code blue - ward 2, room 5.
(ALARM BEEPS)
(FOOTSTEPS CLACK PAST)
(SIGHS)
Hi, Jay Jay.
Hey.
I'm sorry about Dev.
How did this happen?
You did the drinking ceremony, didn't you?
Where everyone shared?
Yeah, but that was only kombucha.
I know Hummingbird was offering magic mushrooms.
Psilocybin. It wouldn't have that kind of effect.
It's... it's therapeutic. It's not poisonous.
And, anyway, there were no mushrooms in the drink.
We're just trying to help people, you know? Fuck!
I can't be there without Dev.
I'm giving up Hummingbird.
Denise can have my share
and she and Tyson can just develop the crap out of it.
OK, Jay Jay, I...
Uh, I'm sorry, but, um,
Ashton's bid to develop Hummingbird,
is Tyson St Clair in on this?
DENISE: Leave my sister alone.
Badgering her after all she's been through?
Denise, something is going on here.
Jasper's murder, Ashton's disappearance and now this...
You want to write another story, ruin Port Silver all over again?
I want to find out who killed Jasper.
(SCOFFS) You're not welcome here, Marty.
You've done enough damage.
(HUFFS)
- Hey. - Hey.
How's Mandy?
Oh, just waiting for whatever it was to wear off.
How are you?
Pfft...
Good story.
Personal.
Yeah, a bit too personal for my liking.
Why were you there?
Denise Speight invited me.
- Right. - (DOOR OPENS)
Good morning, fellow travellers.
Um... how's Mandy?
Oh...
Well, any, uh... any thoughts on Amory Ashton?
- Oh, no, not really. - (PEOPLE JOSTLING OUTSIDE)
DOUG: Hm, Hummingbird update. Here we go!
(DOOR OPENS)
(REPORTERS CLAMOUR)
Who's Amory Ashton?
He's the subject of Doug's cold case yarn.
- And part of this one? - Don't know.
MARTIN: I think Jasper's murder
and what happened last night could be linked.
In fact, I think Hummingbird
could be the connection for all these murders.
SCOTTY: All what murders?
Oh, Amory Ashton for one.
So he was developing a proposal for Hummingbird
right before he disappeared.
And now it is Tyson St Clair, who Jasper worked for,
who is desperate to buy the place.
Then, last night, a whole bunch of murders right on this beach.
So what if that's what...
Conspiracy theories make great copy,
but we don't know what happened to Ashton or last night,
so right now the only murder is Jasper's.
Mate, just go be with Mandy.
(DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
Huh.
(QUIETLY) I did it, Mum. I won.
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)
(KNOCKS)
Oh, little bloke's just fallen asleep.
- Oh, great. - Um, I can wake him if you want.
Vern, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry about your trawler
and, um, sorry for being such a smart-arse
and... and for leaving town like that.
(TEARFULLY) After Mum and Emma, I...
...I was just so angry.
And I blamed this place for everything that happened and...
...I never really appreciated what you did...
...or what I did.
You were a kid.
What's been my excuse the last quarter-century?
(SIGHS) Come here.
(SNIFFLES)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
- All good? - Yeah, all good.
(MARTIN INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
Thank you so much for looking after him.
Oh...
It has really been such a weight off our minds.
Mmm.
And Mandy's been through the bloody ringer.
And if I can't find out who really killed Jasper...
Marty, what...
...what have you been doing for the last 25 years?
Asking people about stuff they don't want to talk about.
Yeah, fuckin' ironic, I know.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
And, um...
...uncovering the truth.
(MARTIN SCOFFS)
Get on with it, then.
You can't do anything to help her here, can ya?
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(INTERCOM BELL RINGS)
TYSON: Yeah?
It's Martin Scarsden again, Mr St Clair.
I'm still hoping to talk to you about Jasper Speight.
Well, I'm still not interested, mate.
Alright, well, if you prefer,
we could discuss your involvement in visa fraud.
(SINISTER MUSIC)
(GATE CLICKS AND WHIRRS)
TYSON: Port Silver's Deep Throat,
still chucking mud, huh?
MARTIN: Were you a part of this?
No, I wasn't in on poor old Amory's
creative vision for Hummingbird.
That was him and Denise Speight.
MARTIN: Denise? Right.
But when Amory conveniently vanished,
you came on board.
I thought you were here about Jasper.
MARTIN: I am.
But Jay Jay never wanted to sell her share of Hummingbird.
Did you and Denise send Jasper down there
to soften his auntie up?
As far as I know, Jasper went to Hummingbird
to meditate on how to grow a pair after his wife left him.
(DOOR OPENS)
You want to see what real creative vision looks like?
Hummingbird Waters. It's the jewel in the crown.
It's a game-changer for Port Silver.
Tourism, high-value retirees, employment...
Did Jasper work on this for you?
International development finance
was a bit out of Jasper's league, Martin.
Well, you can send in the excavators.
Heard Jay Jay's given up, selling Denise her 50%.
Yeah, Denise told me she met the deadline.
It's ironic.
The French investors were pressuring
to get the land sale finalised.
Half a dozen corpses littering the pristine shoreline
proved too rich for their delicate PR stomachs.
What? So they're pulling out of the development?
The cowards announced on the ASX website an hour ago.
Stand to lose much?
I'll live.
What about Amory and Denise's bid on Hummingbird?
Did Jasper work on that?
Jasper did whatever his mum told him to.
(DOOR OPENS)
(PHONE RINGS)
Nick.
Just got a call from a mate of mine
and they know what the Hummingbird drug was.
Ketamine.
Ketamine doesn't usually kill people.
But it does if it's cut with enough fentanyl
to knock out a herd of elephants.
Fentanyl? Shit.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah, mate.
A hundred times stronger than morphine,
50 times stronger than heroin.
It's lucky more people didn't cark it.
- How's Mandy? - Oh, she's still asleep.
I'll come see her. That alright?
Yeah, yeah, do that.
There's something I need to check out.
(PHONE CLICKS)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
- Hey, is Harry inside? - WOMAN: Haven't seen him today.
(MARTIN SIGHS)
(KNOCKS) Harry?
(DOOR KNOB CLICKS)
(SIGHS)
(BROODY MUSIC)
MARTIN: Hey.
NICK: Any leads?
Well, local drug dealer Harry Drake just skipped town
with what I suspect is a guilty conscience.
Not that that proves much. (SIGHS)
25 years ago, I skipped town too.
You came back.
Oh, only 'cause Mandy wanted to go to Hummingbird...
- (MANDY MURMURS) - ...make a fresh start.
(MANDY GRUNTS SOFTLY)
I'll go find the doctor.
Hey.
It feels like I've moved to the Bermuda Triangle.
(MARTIN CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Jasper's memorial...
Look, I'm sorry I didn't come.
Well, to be honest,
I didn't want to go either,
but Denise made it impossible to say no.
Yeah, she just wanted to celebrate Jasper,
but instead she ended up getting poisoned. (SCOFFS)
That's so weird 'cause...
...I saw her with the sharing bowl
and when it was her turn, she barely sipped.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Your journo mate's up front.
He says it's important.
(SIGHS) OK.
MARTIN: Scotty, so this Hummingbird thing...
SCOTTY: Jesus Christ.
Denise always wanted to develop the place, right?
But Jay Jay always refused to sell.
So last night at Jasper's memorial,
a bunch of people share a drink
laced with ketamine and fentanyl...
Hang on. How do you know what the drugs were?
A source.
Nick bloody Poulos!
I bet she got the drugs from Harry Drake.
He's her godson and he's done a runner.
Scotty, Denise knew the bowl was spiked.
Denise was taken to Longton Hospital in an ambulance.
Yeah, she was pretending to be affected.
Check her blood test, see if she had fentanyl in her system.
SCOTTY: Look, I know you think
you're cleverer than the rest of us...
Come on, Scotty. For me.
OK, fair enough. For Jasper, then.
I'm sure he'd appreciate you
accusing his mum of mass murder.
Jenny, can I have the victim report from the hospital?
Already ahead of ya.
Thank you. Hmm?
(SIGHS)
She didn't have a blood test.
Refused one.
SCOTTY: So...
...what does Denise Speight gain
from poisoning people at Hummingbird Beach?
Well, it caused a stink for Jay Jay,
got her to give up the land Denise has wanted for years.
Denise had motive, means and opportunity
to get the drugs into Dev's jug.
It makes sense she's connected somehow
and maybe Tyson is too.
But killing seven people is pretty psycho stuff.
Have you put out an alert for Harry?
More useful advice.
- Yes, I've put out an alert. - Alright, good.
Oh, thanks very much.
What about Jasper? How does he get caught up in all of this?
Look, I don't know.
But that call he made, right, just before he was killed?
There was something he wanted to tell me.
And, look, I know I haven't
spoken to the guy in 25 years, but...
...he didn't sound like himself.
He sounded ashamed or guilty.
And then five minutes later, someone stabs him.
- And Mandy was at the house. - Huh...
Did he say anything else over the phone, anything at all?
(SIGHS) He said he wanted to see my ugly mug,
get together and "shack it out". (CHUCKLES)
"Get together and shack it out"?
Yeah, you know, like the old times.
And I thought you were the brainy one.
(SCOTTY CHUCKLES)
(GULLS CAW)
SCOTTY: Huh, Jasper's brew kettle has migrated outside.
MARTIN: I was here the other day.
I didn't see anything.
(SCOTTY CHUCKLES)
Why did you become a cop?
You know what it was like growing up here poor.
Try adding black to the mix.
I wanted to even out the playing field
and I didn't want to turn my back.
And Jasper...
...the brewer who hated maths, became an accountant.
Ah, speaking of naughty,
remember how excited he was
when he found this mull buoy for you, huh?
(KEYS JANGLE)
Hey, hey.
Did Amory Ashton drive a Merc?
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
SCOTT: Fake accounts.
Shelf companies.
Obscuring Denise Speight's dodgy financial transactions.
Most of what came in went out again, to God knows where.
But a lot of it went to one particular account.
Amory Ashton.
OK.
Amory, who five years ago, got the cash together
to make a bid on Hummingbird with Denise...
...and loses the lot and just vanishes.
You don't think Jasper,
gentle, daggy Jasper, murdered Amory Ashton
over Hummingbird, over money?
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
It is a long way to come to brew beer.
Where was Amory's car found?
A few bays over.
That brew kettle...
...did that look kind of like a gravestone to you?
What?
Who the hell would hide a body and then mark the spot?
Someone who wants it found.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC RISES)
(BOTH GRUNT)
(CRUNCH)
Scotty.
SCOTTY: Jen.
I'm gonna need you to get a forensic team.
The old fishing shack at Whalers Bay.
(ENGINE STOPS)
MARTIN: Hey, Scotty?
I don't know if Jasper killed Ashton
or if Denise did
or if they got someone else to do it.
But Jasper knew.
He was just about to tell me right before he was killed.
By who?
Harry Drake, Denise...
Denise?
Marty...
...this is evidence
that Denise may be guilty of tax evasion with Amory Ashton...
...but not of his murder and certainly not Jasper's.
Well, what about her involvement in the Hummingbird poisonings?
- Circumstantial at best. - (SCOFFS) Hang on.
Circumstance is all you had against Mandy
when you brought her in!
Wait. You still don't think she did it?
No. No, I don't.
Good.
(SIGHS)
You're ready.
"Once more unto the breach."
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
DOUG: And we are waiting outside the hospital
to see if we can have a word to Mandalay Bond,
who once again finds herself
in the middle of a murder investigation.
(REPORTERS JOSTLE)
DOUG: Not even a word.
Mandalay, have you got anything to say
to Mr Speight's family?
(SHOUTING AND JOSTLING CONTINUES)
Back, please. Stay back. Give us room.
Let them pass, please. Stay back.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(MARTIN EXHALES)
So you really think Denise is behind the Hummingbird deaths?
Yeah, it makes sense to me,
and then maybe she killed Jasper too.
You agree?
Except for the bit where she stabbed her own son.
No mother could do that.
Scotty's building a case.
He's got Jasper's USB with the money records
and Ashton's car keys.
Tell you what, if she did do it,
I'd like to shove those keys down her throat.
Maybe that's not a bad idea.
- SCOTTY: No, it won't work. - MARTIN: Yes, it will.
I've deliberately kept finding Ashton's body quiet.
Yeah, but we need an alternate narrative to draw her out.
She's the only one connected to Hummingbird, Amory and Jasper.
Come on, mate!
We used to take big fuckin' risks all the time.
But it's not really me and you taking it, is it?
(TENSE MUSIC)
(LINE RINGS)
- (LINE CLICKS) - DENISE: Hello.
Hello, Denise. It's Mandy.
Mandy! Uh, what can I do for you?
So when the police finally returned my bag,
the one I'd had with me at Jasper's,
I found something in there -
a set of car keys with a double 'A' fob.
I found something else in there too -
a USB with a bunch of files linking you and Amory Ashton
to hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax evasion.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Bullshit.
Look, I don't give a fuck about you or Ashton.
This whole thing's destroyed my relationship.
I just want to get away from here and Martin
and make a new start.
So we have something to offer each other.
(DENISE HUFFS) Money.
50,000.
I'll ditch the keys, you get the USB
and I leave Silver with my son.
So the Cape Lighthouse at 6 o'clock.
Please be there or I'll have to give this to Scotty Waalitj.
(LINE BEEPS)
(SCOTTY CLEARS THROAT)
MARTIN: No admission.
No, so we'll have to catch her in a lie or a guilty act.
She has to actually take the USB?
Mm-hm.
Will that be enough to convict her?
It's not as good as a confession,
but it'll help strengthen the case.
Right, let's get you wired up, hm?
MARTIN: OK.
(LOW DARK MUSIC)
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello.
DENISE: Where are you, Harry, love?
(WEEPS)
You said that you just wanted to make people sick...
...make them pass out.
That is all I wanted.
I didn't know your ket was full of fentanyl.
Neither did I.
I need you to come back, Harry.
Look, I...I know you're upset, but I've...
(TEARFULLY) ...I've lost Hummingbird
and I've lost Jasper.
And you're the closest thing I've got to a son.
And now Mandalay Bond is...
(LINE BEEPS)
Hello?
(SIGHS)
(PHONE CLICKS)
- MARTIN: Have you got the USB? - Yes.
OK, just remember, you just have to get her to take it, alright?
I know.
I'll be alright.
- I love you. - I love you.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
- Go. Alright. - OK.
(MARTIN EXHALES SHARPLY)
(DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(PHONE CLICKS)
(LOW DARK MUSIC CONTINUES)
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello, Denise.
Change of plan!
Get to your cars! Let's get moving!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINES START)
(TYRES CHIRP)
(TYRES SQUEAL)
(PHONE RINGS)
Oh, Mandy.
MANDY: She's moved the meeting to Ashton's factory.
What? Why?
Doesn't want to be seen with me.
Reckons the lighthouse is too public.
I'm heading to the factory now.
No, no. Mandy, Mandy, you can't do that.
Scotty will have heard. He'll be on his way.
But you're closer. I'll get her talking.
No, no, no! The plan was if anything changed, you pull out.
Mandy, you've got no backup.
I need to find out if she killed Jasper.
I can't have this hanging over me.
I've got enough fucking baggage to pass on to Liam as it is.
Just hurry, OK?
No, no, no! Wait, wait!
- Wait! Shit! - (LINE BEEPS)
(SINISTER MUSIC)
(HANDBRAKE CLICKS)
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
MANDY: Certainly a lot less public.
Have you got it?
So you're selling your soul for 50,000 pieces of silver.
I had you picked as holier-than-thou,
just like your boyfriend.
Ex-boyfriend.
And you're in no position to judge me.
You killed him, didn't you?
And all those people at Hummingbird.
How could you kill your own child?
I thought you were just interested in the money.
Huh! You framed me for his murder, Denise.
Fuck this.
I did everything for him
and he still turned on me!
(DOOR SHUTS)
Hey, Marty, I just
really need to see you, OK?
If we could just get together
and shack it out, like old times, OK?
DENISE: Who are you texting?
Um, just Sue.
Oh, what did she want?
JASPER: Oh, you know, just...
...just, you know, kids, arrangements.
Still walking all over you!
But, you know, you make your choice,
this is what you get.
I can't. I can't do this anymore, Mum.
Can't do what? (CONTINUES PEELING APPLE)
Have nightmares.
I keep seeing his face.
Jasper, for heaven's sake.
I can't stop thinking about it.
And every... every time I see his car keys...
You kept them? Why on earth?
I don't know!
A reminder maybe of... of what I did.
I think about it every single day.
I think about him, I think about his family and...
...that maybe if we just go to the police and we can explain...
What? That you murdered Amory Ashton?
- It was self-defence. - I should hope so.
I sent you there to scare him, not kill him.
But, of course, as usual, you stuffed that up too!
I can't go on living like this
and neither can you.
Don't tell me what I can or can't do!
I am trying to help you.
I am trying to help us!
For God's sake, you couldn't help
an old lady across the street!
Ashton, the tax evasion,
all of it...
Marty's on his way here now.
I'm gonna tell him everything.
Martin Scarsden?
It's time for the truth, Mum.
Jasper, don't be ridiculous!
Fuck this. I'm gonna tell him right now.
Don't you dare!
(STABS)
(GASPS)
Huh?
DENISE: Jasper!
(GASPING)
(JASPER GURGLES)
(JASPER GRUNTS AND GASPS)
It was all for him.
Hummingbird, all of it.
It was for Jasper!
And then he spat it back at me
because Marty Scarsden decided he wanted a holiday in Silver.
Do you know, that guy is a bottom feeder.
I have never understood why Jasper admired him so much.
You are so much better off without him.
Shall we?
Of course.
(BOOT CLICKS)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
(TYRES SQUEAL)
(ENGINE REVS)
DENISE: Oh, you lying bitch.
- (THUMP!) - Ugh!
(TYRES SQUEAL)
(SEATBELT UNCLICKS)
MARTIN: Mandy?
Mandy?
(FOOTSTEPS THUD)
Mandy?!
Mandy?
(UNEASY MUSIC)
Mandy!
(THUD IN DISTANCE)
(MARTIN IN DISTANCE) Mandy?!
Mandy?
(UNEASY MUSIC BUILDS)
Arggh!
- MARTIN: Oh, my God. Mandy? - (MANDY PANTS)
(KNIFE CLINKS)
OK, Denise...
Denise, Denise, put it down.
MANDY: Denise, the police heard everything.
They know you killed Jasper.
It's over. It's over, OK?
(SIRENS WAIL IN DISTANCE)
(SIRENS WAIL)
MARTIN: It's over.
Denise, it's over.
OK?
Denise...
DENISE: I did love my son.
Denise, don't! No!
Oh, my God!
(GURGLES)
MANDY: No, no, no, no!
Oh! Oh, my God!
(BOTH TREMBLING)
(AUDIO FADES)
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
SCOTTY: They caught Harry at the airport.
He's been charged with dealing class A narcotics
and manslaughter.
MARTIN: And Tyson?
SCOTTY: Immigration's investigating the visa fraud,
but St Clair's got some pretty fancy lawyers.
Oh, surely not fancier than Nick.
- Just a bit. (CHUCKLES) - (MARTIN CHUCKLES)
(CANS CRACK OPEN)
Well, he tried to do the right thing.
In the end.
Yeah.
- To Jasper. - To Jasper.
- Oh, he did love a brew. - He did.
Although I preferred...
(LAUGHS) Shit!
You really have loosened up.
Yeah, it's having you around. Brings out the worst in me.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(SMACKS LIPS)
So what?
You staying?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I've got some family shit to sort out.
('DON'T FIGHT IT' BY THE PANICS)
♪ I have no other way
♪ There is a price to pay
♪ For what the man will say
♪ But I was a million miles away
♪ In a promise full of steam
♪ It could take no vacant dream
♪ To persuade me to believe
♪ I think, "Just don't fight it
♪ "Don't fight it, don't fight it
♪ "If you don't know what it is
♪ "If you don't know what it is"
♪ I left my heart in places
♪ Forgot every one of their faces
♪ And tried to navigate a broken path
♪ Of which I may have helped create
♪ In any incident, this is never no accident... ♪
(COCKATOOS SQUAWK)
♪ To stand alone
♪ And let the silence make itself at home
♪ Oh, give it up
♪ Those dirty tricks
♪ No quick fix
♪ Can undo it
♪ Oh, give it up
♪ I won't resist
♪ My answer's always this
♪ I said, "Don't fight it
♪ "Don't fight it, don't fight it
♪ "If you don't know what it is
♪ "Don't, don't fight it
♪ "Don't know what it is
♪ "No, don't fight it
♪ "Don't know what it is
♪ "No, don't fight it
♪ "Don't know what it is
♪ "Don't know what it is." ♪