01x19 - Bill's Death

[bunniefuu]

- You shouldn't be here.

- I needed to know how you've been.

- You have to go.

- We're gonna be introducing you to a man

called Dai Lo.

When you meet him, I want you to treat him with respect.

He's run Chinatown for years.

- I was on an as*ault charge over a customer.

Judge Bergen said he would help.

- In return for?

- For sex.

- I put pressure on Dai Lo.

And suddenly one of his prostitutes

is making accusations.

- What if his story's true.

- If it's true and corroborated,

we charge Judge Bergen with sexual as*ault.

- You need protection and I need a corrupt cop.

Someone on the inside.

- Be very careful who you call corrupt.

- What's he talking about.

- I don't know.

What's the point, neither does he.

Anybody who doesn't do anything by the book,

he calls them corrupt.

- I'm gonna help you with Dai Lo.

- No, Gui, no.

I want you to stay clear.

I'll handle Dai Lo.

- Hey!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

What's in the drum?

(upbeat music)

- Most of the things worth saying, can't be said.

Not in words.

(grunting)

What are you doing up here?

- I wanted to smell the air.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey.

The stars.

They look beautiful, don't they.

- Next time, don't take so long to all me Dad.

- Half of Chinatown wants to k*ll me.

What makes you think there'll be a next time.

- Have you started cross dressing Dad?

- Not all of me is dead yet.

Cheeky bastard.

- [Donna] Sure it's Dai Lo?

- [Eddie] Yeah.

- Solve your problems with Bill Martin.

Check out Guido.

He's got a big one.

- Any idea how it happened, how he d*ed?

- His skull's caved it.

It could be post mortem.

Or it could be the cause of death.

- A whack to the head?

- Hell of a whack.

- Well, Professor Carmody made a big mistake, didn't he?

- [Donna] Yep.

- You warn him that he was dating Goenberg?

- [Donna[ Obviously not.

Guido, are you okay.

- Night before last, I went to see Dad

and he wouldn't let me on board.

He said he was going fishing,

that he was heading out.

And he had one of those barrels on deck,

one of those big things.

- What are you saying?

- I don't know.

- Did you ask him what was in it?

- Well, he was heading out too fast.

- What do you think it was?

- Timing's right.

- [Donna] What else?

- I was on the boat last night.

The barrel was gone.

- Did you ask him about it.

- No, it wasn't the right time.

You know he ran out of morphine.

I had to go to the hospital.

- [Eddie} How is he?

- Well, yeah, you know, he's just having

pretty regular att*cks now that he's

coming out of the blue.

They seem to knock him down,

but next day he's straight back up.

He's like one of those bloody punching bags, you know.

Weight and bop, just boing, just right back up.

- You lot ready?

- If you think Dai Lo's body was in the barrel,

you've gotta talk to him about it.

- I will, I will.

- I don't understand why we're still dancing

to Bergen's tune when he's got a cloud

hanging over him the size of Texas.

- He's got a cloud hanging over him

on the allegations of a prost*tute

who was working for Dai Lo,

one of the main targets of his inquiry.

- That doesn't automatically mean

that she was lying about the sexual as*ault.

- So where the hell is she?

- We don't know, we're looking.

Good thing for Bergen, her being missing.

- The person with the most interest in finding

Joy Yuen is me.

No one would be doing me any favors

if they backed off.

In the meantime, where do we stand with

the death of Dai Lo?

- We're at the start.

The body's being sent off to pathology

and until the results get back it's all leg work.

- Any idea on who stands to gain from his death?

- Half of Chinatown.

If that's what you're looking to do,

we can bring in half of Chinatown,

but it might bog things down.

- I wanna send a very clear message

to the community.

That Dai Lo's businesses are not up for grabs.

I want them very publicly seized.

I want them very publicly closed down,

starting with the brothels.

- Hey.

What are you doing down here?

- I wanted to see how you were, you know.

- Good.

- You sprucing up the boat?

- Yeah.

- That's good.

Did you enjoy your trip out the other night?

- Yeah, it was good.

- Didn't see anyone dumping Dai Lo's body?

- I didn't see anyone, bungled weather.

- So you don't know about his m*rder.

'Cause you didn't shove him in a drum

and dump him overboard for example.

- I don't get you.

I don't get why all this is so bloody important to you.

Why don't you just let things drop.

- I need to know Dad, I'm sick.

- Look, I'm sick of guessing.

I need to know about you.

- Well, sometimes guesses are good son.

Sometimes they're better than the truth.

I'm gonna lie down.

- Do you want to put some clothes on her

before you take her outside?

Geez, the sensitivity of a newt.

Right now would be good.

Yeah, thanks.

What's your gut instinct about Bill?

- Dai Lo.

- Yeah.

- Maybe, you know.

The guy's got cancer, he's got nothing to lose.

- You know, I don't know, I don't buy it.

If Bill k*lled him, Dai Lo would

be lying flat on the front steps of the town hall.

He wouldn't be trying to hide him out at sea.

- Ah, Hung.

I see the death of your boss

has affected you very deeply.

- Going through Ebona.

- These girls are being held on visa checks.

It's up to immigration what they do with them.

- Probably deport them.

- And Mr. Hung?

- We've got nothing to charge him with.

- Hung's version of events is that

he was an innocent bystander

caught on the job with his pants down.

- Why, checking out the real estate?

Number one candidate to take over

the empire, aren't you Mr. Hung?

- You still with prost*tute bar.

They buy your favors.

- There's isn't gonna be an empire anymore, is there?

- Get him out of here.

You're free to go Mr. Hung.

- Donna Parry.

Yeah.

Hang on.

Okay, got that.

Eddie.

I got uniforms to check out there.

Bill's car's in the vicinity of Dai Lo's office.

He's parked down the line way in Dai Lo's spot.

Bill's car came up outside Dai Lo's.

Bergen's not gonna want you anywhere near it.

So maybe we go now

before he hears about it, yeah?

- They have to take the car Bill, I'm sorry.

- Yeah, you got a job to do.

When in doubt, stick to the job.

The job's your lifeline, right Eddie?

Hey.

I k*ll a couple of villains and every time

someone dies in Chinatown, Bergen thinks it's me.

- We have to ask you a few questions Bill, but.

- Ask away.

- You were outside Dai Lo's office two nights ago, yeah.

- I was there.

Picked up a friend and we left.

- Who was the friend?

- I'll show you.

You can ask her yourself.

It's all right, you can come out, it's me, yeah.

We're thrown.

It's okay.

Hey, Joy, this is my boy Guido.

I think you've already met Eddie.

It's all right.

They just wanna know if you were

with me two nights ago.

- I was with Bill.

Can I go back now.

- Actually we need you to come down to the station

and clear up the allegations that you

made about Judge Bergen.

- It's all right.

Anyone hurt you, he's one of the good guys,

aren't you Eddie?

- Be good if we all went Bill.

That way we don't have to come back again, eh?

Do it by the book.

- What time did you arrive at Dai Lo's office.

- :.

- Yeah, what time did you leave?

- :.

- [Eddie] Did you see Dai Lo while you were there?

- Did I see him?

No.

- Then what did you do in the half or so

you were there?

- I was talking to Joy.

You got anyone at the moment, Eddie,

someone you can talk to?

- How about you let me ask the questions Bill.

- Guido said there was a girl,

a Croatian girl, Arina.

Didn't work out?

The job, right?

It's hard to believe, isn't it?

We get presented with a choice.

On the one hand, a beautiful woman

who will love us for life.

On the other hand a sh*t ass job

and what do we choose you and me?

Why the hell do we do that, do you know?

- Do you consent to swabs

so we can test for DNA?

- Sure.

And if your CSC guy's good enough,

then the test will show that I was in Dai Lo's office,

which I've already said I was

and they won't prove a damn thing, but sure,

let's do the dance properly mate.

- Good, I'll get the kit.

- [Cameron] So you withdraw all allegations

of impropriety against Judge Bergen.

- It was all lies.

Dai Lo told me to say it.

- Did he tell you why?

Was it because Judge Bergen's inquiry

was becoming a thr*at?

- Dai Lo did not explain himself.

Not to me, not to anyone.

- [Cameron] You owed him money?

- My family owed him money for me to come here.

I'm meant to be paying off the debt,

but the debt doesn't come down.

Not just for me, for all the girls.

- Joy, Dai Lo's dead, he can't hurt you anymore.

- Dai Lo, Ah Hung, it's all the same.

Dai Lo dies, Ah Hung takes over

my debt, nothing changes.

- [Donna] Okay, Joy, we're gonna need to talk to you

about the night that Dai Lo was k*lled.

Can you tell us where you were?

- He called me to the office.

I went in and talked to him and then I left.

Bill came to get me.

We went to the boat.

Bill's a good man.

He's my friend.

He sends money to my family, lots of money,

to try to cover the money I'm meant to be sending them.

Look, I've answered the questions, can we go now?

- Yeah, for now.

But Bergen might want to play hardball

and push us to charge you with public mischief.

We'll have to see what he wants to do.

- We can go.

- Carmody's here.

- The welts here correspond

with the reinforcing bars of some sort of barrel.

- So we're talking about a barrel thrown

from a boat.

- [Justin] Yes.

- So how does a body in a barrel

end up in a fishing net?

- [Justin] The barrel sinks, and the water pressure

causes the lid to pop.

- Thanks Justin.

- Bill would not have walked into Dai Lo's office

and bashed his skull in.

That's an unplanned thing.

It's angry and it's unplanned and it's

grabbing the nearest thing you can find

and it's not Bill.

- No, you're right.

Dad would have done it nice and neat.

But he does have cancer and who knows,

it might have gone to his head,

you know affect his judgment, like your message.

- Investigate this like any other case.

Get a search warrant and a crime scene team

and go over Bill Martin's boat.

And somebody had better let Bergen know

that Joy Yuen's withdrawn her accusation.

- Yeah, I'll go

So technically speaking, there is room

for a public mischief charge, but

we wouldn't really want to pursue it.

Unless you were definitely.

- A vindictive prick?

She wouldn't have made the allegation

unless she was forced to.

There'll be no further action.

- You should be a judge.

- These might be fortune cookies.

Sweeten you up.

- Did that come in the mail.

- No, someone left it at the front door.

- Madeline.

Just put the package down on the table

very, very carefully.

- Why, what's the problem?

- No problem, just put the package down

on the table and move away to the door

just very calmly.

So Your Honor, if you could just step

this way, gentlemen if you wouldn't mind

just standing up and making your way

to the door as calmly as possible, that'd be great.

Is there anyone else in here?

(phone ringing)

Don't answer the phone, mate don't answer the phone.

Just put the phone down on the table, please.

If this is a b*mb, then the f*ring transmission

will set it off.

If we could just get outside, you could leave the phone.

Just make our way out.

- So what do they think.

- Very crude, but potentially very

effective expl*sive device.

Reckon it could have taken out a whole floor.

Someone's after you.

And they're willing to k*ll people to get to you.

- [Madeline] You all right Paul?

- Dai Lo's death has created a vacuum Bill.

There's gonna be a w*r in Chinatown.

And a lot of people are gonna get hurt.

You can help me stop it.

You've been a policeman for a long time Bill.

If his body was in the boot of your car

or on that boat,

they'll find traces of something.

Blood, a hair.

If you didn't k*ll him,

he was going to k*ll you.

You can quote me on that.

Plead self defense.

I guarantee you'll get bail.

With a gen it could take how long

before it went to trial.

Six months?

A year?

- It's academic.

- Exactly.

So.

You'll plead guilty to Dai Lo, cooperate

with the inquiry?

- No.

- No to which?

- No to both.

- I'm giving you chance Bill.

The chance to leave something behind.

Something that'll make the world a better place

for having you in it.

- Oh, I am.

I'm leaving that boy.

(engine revving)

- I'm sensible.

Just very, very slow.

- I can do that.

- We can.

We can.

Oh, like we're grown people.

Do you believe in destiny?

- Yeah.

I do.

- You do.

(phone ringing)

- It never changes.

- Yep.

- ,.

- What's that.

- The number of times I've shaved.

(water splashing)

- If you're gonna let yourself go, out with a beard.

- Right.

- Yep.

- [Bill] Who's that?

- They're here.

- They're on time.

I'll see you soon.

- Sorry about this Bill.

- Let's just get it done.

(gentle music)

- I told you I'd be back.

They won't do anything Joy.

They can't.

What's the point, hmm?

- Joy.

Thanks for.

Thank you, you know for just being with him.

Just thank you.

- Coming?

- Yep.

(g*n f*ring)

- Jesus Christ, Joy.

- sh*t.

- Call an ambulance.

Breathe.

Breathe easy.

Oh, my God.

Take it easy, okay.

Breathe easy, breathe easy.

Oh, my God.

Jesus.

(reporters yelling)

It's me they were after.

They wanted me.

- She's gonna be okay.

She'll be fine.

We found the shell casing in the warehouse opposite.

The guy's a real pro, marksman.

- She never regained consciousness Bill, I'm sorry.

(sobbing)

- We will get Ah Hung, somehow.

If not for Joy then for something else,

but we will get him.

- When did they start making women like you.

Didn't exist in my day.

- Yes, they did, you just didn't see them.

- Male chauvinist, right?

- Of the worst kind.

- Patronizing.

- That's right.

- Do you see your dad?

- He lives in Europe since I was little.

- Do you keep in touch?

- [Cameron] No.

- You're a good girl Cameron.

You make me want to live my whole life over.

Will you take care of my boy?

Say it.

- I will.

- And don't you worry about Ah Hung.

- Bill.

He's going to k*ll Ah Hung.

- I doubt he'd have the strength.

- That man would have the strength to do anything.

(sobbing)

Hey, hey.

Spend the night with me.

Just one night, please.

- Yeah, she's right.

Now's the time Gui.

Last chance.

You wanna ask me

what you've been wanting to ask me.

- It's okay.

Just don't wanna put you on the spot, like, you know,

I mean not now.

- All right.

All right, I'll tell you anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I was corrupt.

First it was bending the law.

For the right reasons.

Then it was just bending the law.

- That's not what I was gonna ask.

I was gonna ask if you were ever proud of me.

- I had to interview Bill Martin yesterday.

He reckons we're alike.

Even me.

He's a k*ller.

I'm nothing like him.

- I didn't k*ll Dai Lo.

- What was in the barrel then?

- Aw, he was in the barrel all right.

Joy k*lled him.

Dai Lo forced her to make the accusations against Bergen.

He was gonna give her Australian citizenship.

When the time came for him to come good,

he just laughed at her.

So she brained him

with the Buddhist statue he kept on his desk.

She panicked.

Called me.

I got rid of the body.

Well.

Tried to.

- What don't you tell Bergen, whatever else

might help with his inquiry.

- The man irritates me.

- Might do some good.

You know, pay for some of the other stuff.

- I guess I'll be paying for the other stuff

in the hereafter.

If there is a hereafter.

- Are you scared Dad?

- No, not of that really.

It will be nice not to be alone.

- You won't be.

- Ring Bergen.

Tell him I'll see him.

- I'm not like Bill Martin.

I don't wanna be like him.

- Dawn's coming.

- Dad there's some stuff I want to tell you.

- Say it over the coffin.

You do it now, I'll lose it.

- But Ian'll be the one to.

- I've spoken to Ian.

I want you to do it.

And in answer to your question.

I've been proud of you every day.

- I thought the conference room

might be more comfortable.

Tape's set up.

Himan's ready to go.

- Good, yes.

- Is there anything you need?

Anything we can get you?

- I just want to get it over with.

(horns blowing)

- Did he get a break?

- Said he didn't want one.

- Well, he's been there for hours.

- Maybe it's just easier for him that way.

- It's crazy, he's dying.

These are his last couple of days.

As far as it is, nothing else, right?

Where's Dad?

- He's in the conference room.

I gave him some coffee.

- Dad.

Dad.

Dad!

Aw, sh*t.

Dad!

He's gonna k*ll Ah Hung.

- I'll ring around, see if I can trace down Hung.

- I should have known the moment

he wanted to call Bergen.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's Bergen.

sh*t, he saw him at the cafe, let's go.

Police everybody stay right where you are, don't move.

- Where is he?

- Everybody stay right where you are.

- Police!

Get down.

I'll take upstairs.

Check this way.

- Please get down, sir.

Don't move.

(g*n f*ring)

- Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad.

Get an ambulance.

- [Donna] Officer down, we need an ambulance.

Sun On Cafe, Golden Street.

(gentle music)

(knocking)

- I figured there'd be a pretty boozy wake

after the funeral so I designated

myself designated driver.

But for now, let's start with your wardrobe.

- My father, he was hard man to know.

Like he wasn't a perfect man.

But he was a good one.

He proved that times over in the last week

of his life.

Dad was a -pound migrant

and he came here when he was eight years old.

He always had that funny accent,

you know half English, half Australian.

Like there was a lot of dad that was half and half.

He's half good father, half bad.

He was half good cop.

Half bad.

I wish I'd know him better.

I wish we had more time together.

Because at the core,

at the core of him.

Like when he let you see it,

he was a man with an immense heart.

(church bell ringing)

Thanks.

- It's good of you to come.

- The sort of thing you'd say to a stranger.

- So you work for Bergen now, eh?

- Yeah, well, Bill left us enough to keep

us busy for a few years, so.

He was a bit of a enigma, wasn't he?

A bit like all of you.

Bye Eddie.

- Ma'am, I'm just, I'll be back.

I wish you had known him.

He was special.

- So are you.

- Nah, nah after him they broke the mold.

- It's Ian, your brother.

- If you need to, call me.

- Nice speech.

- Thanks.

- Wanna get a beer.

- No, I don't think I will.

I'll catch up before you go.

Yeah, we'll do that.

You got seconds or I'm gone.

- Here.

(laughing)

- Ladies.

- Hey, you know how to drive this thing mate or what?

- No.

Figured today is a good time to learn.

(upbeat music)