01x04 - Restoring the Balance

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Bali 2002". Aired: 25 September 2022.*
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01x04 - Restoring the Balance

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[TENSE MUSIC]

[MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY]

Absolutely everybody

Everybody, everybody

Absolutely everybody

in the whole ♪

[MUSIC DARKENS]

[ALL LAUGH]

Absolutely everybody

Everybody

in the whole wide world ♪

[GROUP SHOUTS] Bali!

[GUESTS LAUGH]

- [SIZZLING]

- [GUESTS CONTINUE LAUGHING]

[MUSIC FADES]

Oh, Mum.

Where am I?

Where's Dan?

Mum?

Mum, did they find Dan?

Tell me.

His father identified him.

Dan d*ed in the fire.

And the others?

Annika?

MUM: You're the only one

who survived.

Of all 10?

Everyone else?

Oh, darling.

[SOBS]

MUM: Oh.

[THEME MUSIC]

So, um, every road

to the courthouse blocked?

Only police vehicles

allowed through.

We have 200 soldiers

guarding the perimeter.

Jeez. They're gonna have to

be there for months.

This trial's not gonna be fast.

PASTIKA: They will be.

He won't get through.

Azahari's not gonna

come himself.

He'll send kids,

like he did last time.

JOURNALIST: Early this morning

outside Denpasar

Police Headquarters,

officers were told security was

to be increased to levels

- Here.

- ..never seen before.

Authorities are now

so concerned about safety

that, from today,

a newly formed strike force

will patrol the streets,

hotels and airport.

TRANSLATOR: This operation,

the main purpose

I'm pretty freaked out

about you going back there.

When's your flight?

JOURNALIST:

..chief suspect Amrozi

was waiting for his team

of pro-Islamic

Where are you staying?

Not in Kuta?

..seems compelling.

Today, we were shown

the taped confession.

Nic?

..Amrozi describes in detail

how he planned the att*ck

and helped build the b*mb.

- He even drew pictures

- I'm not going.

..placed on October 12.

Amrozi's lawyer

is reported to have said

I can't face it.

- What do you say?

- Good.

I'd be worried sick.

TRANSLATOR:

..that his clients are innocent.

[CROWD JEERS]

- [HUSHED WHISPERING]

- [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]

[PEOPLE SHOUT]

[NI LUH SOBS]

Are you alright?

I've been so angry

and now this?

But my husband

he'll never come back.

Have you had

the cremation yet?

No.

I can give you the money.

I know Balinese cremations

cost a lot.

Oh, no, thank you.

We'll be fine.

I need to speak with my husband.

I will go to Balian.

What's that?

She can call my husband's spirit

into her body.

So then I can speak with him.

[BELL DINGS AND ECHOES]

BALIAN: Hello.

[SOBS]

Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.

[PRAYS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]

[BAMBANG BREATHES SHAKILY]

[SOMBRE MUSIC]

MAN: Pol.

Oh. [CHUCKLES]

Hi. Hello.

Hey.

Wow. What's all this?

MAN: Cards. Letters.

Thousands of them.

I thought [CLEARS THROAT]

I thought you might

want to look through them

before you started back in.

You look great, Pol.

- [HALF-LAUGHS]

- You're doing so well.

We're all really proud of you.

Anyway, you can work as little

or as much as you want.

- No pressure at all.

- Thank you.

Have you, uh

- Have you been following this?

- POLLY: No.

I'm over what those men did. I

refuse to even think about them.

KBO, I say. Keep buggering on.

[SOLEMN MUSIC]

POLLY: Dear Dan,

I can't sleep now.

I can't even get out of bed

some days.

Nothing works.

We used to talk about

everything, remember?

I just

I don't think I can

keep going without you.

[ALARM CLOCK BEEPS REPEATEDLY]

What are you doing?

What does it look like

I'm doing, Nat?

I'm trying to make a

Like, you know

A sandwich? OK.

Yes, a sandwich.

Basic f*cking words!

I keep forgetting them.

Hey, the doctor said

that'd happen.

Yeah, I know.

Why are you doing this? You

forget you only have one arm?

- [BOTH CHUCKLE]

- No.

I remember.

Thanks for reminding me.

I want my old life back.

NICOLE: He's here again.

Do you want me to talk to him?

No. I will.

NICOLE: What are you doing here?

- I don't know, just sitting.

- Well, you can stop.

Just go and live your life.

LUKE: I can't.

You can.

I don't want you here

out of guilt.

Nic, that's not why I'm here.

Look, you're a really great guy,

but I've got so much sh*t

going on in my life

- I know that.

- Get back in the car.

- I'm not going anywhere.

- Luke, just get back in the car.

Luke, get back in the car.

Get back in the car!

[SHOUTS] Get back in the car!

Please do it.

Just get back in the car.

Please, just get back

in the car.

[HEARTFELT MUSIC]

[SOBS]

[CRIES]

We think Azahari is in this

region somewhere. West Java.

Have you got

intelligence on that?

We believe he was stopped

by traffic police.

But they didn't recognise him.

Well, how can that be?

His photo's everywhere.

- He's changing his appearance.

- Right.

And he has friends.

Yes. In Jemaah Islamiyah.

But Mere is getting closer.

NEWSREADER: Two bombs

exploded in Jakarta,

the country's capital,

just before 8am local time.

The blast targeted

two American hotels,

the Ritz-Carlton

and the JW Marriott.

So far, 9 people are reported

dead and 42 injured.

So joining us by phone now

is Bumba Arijit Das.

He's on the ground in Jakarta.

And, Arijit, if you could

bring us up to date

on the latest there?

ARIJIT: That's right, Scarlet,

so, basically,

there's nine people k*lled,

and we just had

a press conference

by the police spokesman.

So they are saying

that possibly

[ARIJIT CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

[PHONE RINGS]

Yeah?

-[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[PEOPLE SHOUT]

- [AZAHARI SHOUTS]

- [WOMAN SCREAMS]

[SHOUTING]

[MUSIC SLOWLY QUIETENS]

And the Marriott b*mb, that

was Azahari. His signature?

ASHTON: Yeah.

- Same expl*sives as Bali.

- Yeah, I know.

They're trying

to influence the trial.

Yeah, look, I don't know.

Possibly.

The verdict is in tomorrow.

They're gonna get

the death penalty.

What's being done?

Well, a detachment of 400 elite

soldiers is being deployed.

They have some idea

where Azahari is.

"Some idea"?

What does that mean?

[SIGHS] Look, they tracked him

to a boarding house

in Bandung, Java,

and they couldn't get him.

Why not?

He was in a crowded marketplace

with a b*mb on his back and

there were kids everywhere.

They let him go?

Yes, they let him go.

They had no choice.

200 people have

already d*ed in Bali,

11 more in Jakarta.

How many more people

are gonna die now?

Mate, if they had

any other choice,

they would have taken it,

alright?

They had no other choice.

How do you know

that cr*ck team of soldiers

isn't full of his mates?

Because they're

very good operatives.

Well, not good enough.

Obviously.

[ROOSTER CROWS]

[SEWING MACHINE WHIRRS]

[THUNDER CRACKS]

[SIGHS]

TREVOR McDONALD:

One of the concerns

surrounding

the coming w*r with Iraq

is that while

almost everyone agrees

that S*ddam Hussein

is a brutal dictator,

many people doubt that he poses

an immediate thr*at to Britain,

or that he's linked to

the people who att*cked America

on September 11, 2001.

Let's hear from Hanabeth Luke,

who has some experience

of terrorism,

because her boyfriend

was k*lled in Indonesia.

Mr Blair,

I have come from Australia

to show you this photograph

of Marc Gajardo and myself.

We were both in

the Sari Club on October 12.

Marc was k*lled

and I made it out.

But I saw the carnage.

I saw the devastation.

I've seen the suffering

that results with families

in Australia and England.

I heard the thud

of Marc's father's knees

as he fell to the floor

when I told him over the phone

that his son was dead.

Do you really want to go

into a w*r with Iraq

and subject so many innocent

Iraqi families to the same?

Because they will be hurt.

They will be,

and they will go through

the same pain that I've seen.

And they will resort

to more terrorism.

More innocent young men

like Marc

will be targeted

and they will be k*lled.

There's nothing - sorry -

I can say to take away the pain

that you feel in this situation.

HANABETH: I'm not asking you

to take away my pain.

BLAIR: But I'm just saying that,

right at the outset.

But the reason why I'm taking

this action is that my worry is,

if the t*rrorists are able

to get hold of

even worse material

than they used

in the b*mb in Bali,

you could be talking not about

several hundred people dying,

but several thousand people

dying,

perhaps even more than that,

and that's why I'm doing it.

Look, who would want to be in

the position of going to w*r?

But if I actually believe

and genuinely believe

that there is a real risk,

because we know

these t*rrorists groups,

the sort that perpetrated

that, um, atrocity in Bali,

are trying to get hold

of these weapons.

If we don't take action

against this thr*at now,

the risk is not that

..not that innocent people

die, simply,

but that they die

on a huge scale,

and that's what worries me.

Now, there are no easy choices

in this situation

and there is no, you know,

moral high ground

that one side owns

and the other side doesn't.

But that's what I see

every single day across my desk.

I get reports

of these t*rror1st groups,

the sorts that are in Europe

at the moment,

the sorts that did that in Bali,

though Bali had nothing to do

with the w*r against terror.

But until we start asking these

people why they hate us so much,

we're not going to find out

the cause for this.

These people are not using

weapons of mass destruction.

These people are using weapons

that are on hand, easily.

They used planes

at the World Trade Center,

they used fertiliser in Bali.

These people are

using their minds,

not weapons of mass destruction.

- BLAIR: But if they could

- [AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

BLAIR: Yeah, but surely,

you know,

let's at least agree

on one thing.

If they could use a w*apon of

mass destruction, they would.

[WHEELS SQUEAL ON TRACKS]

Yes? Yeah.

No, no, no, that works.

No, that [SIGHS]

Yeah, that's fine.

That can work on our end.

So, uh, 40,000 at, um, 8 and

Eight and [STAMMERS]

[EERIE MUSIC]

And

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES AND DIES]

[OFFICE PHONES RING]

Did I say eight-and-a-half or

I can't Did I say

Did I say eight-and-a-half?

Did I say eight-and-a-half?

Of course. No, I'm not

I'm not trying to raise you.

Oh, my God!

Um

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES AND DIES]

[SILENCE]

Um

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[DISCORDANT MUSIC]

[WHISPERS] Sorry.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES AND FADES]

- You imagined it, darling.

- Yeah, I know that.

Doesn't make it better.

Remember that

you survived for a reason.

- God let you survive for

- No.

..a reason.

I survived because

I wasn't knocked unconscious

like the others.

That's why I survived.

That's the only reason.

Dumb luck.

They're gone and I'm not,

and I don't know why.

MUM: Oh, Pol.

NEWSREADER: A one-tonne car b*mb

exploded outside the Australian

Embassy in South Jakarta

at about 10:30am today,

k*lling nine people,

including the su1c1de bomber,

and wounding

more than 150 others.

The expl*si*n

gutted the Greek Embassy

on the 12th floor

of the adjacent building,

where three diplomats

were wounded,

damaged the nearby

Chinese Embassy

[NEWSREADER'S VOICE FADES]

[UNEASY MUSIC]

[ASHTON READS] "We decided

to call Australia to account,

"which we consider one of the

worst enemies of God and Islam.

"A mujahid has carried out

a martyrdom operation

"against

the Australian Embassy."

Propaganda.

Azahari didn't succeed.

The only people k*lled

were Muslim Indonesians.

He's k*lling his own.

That will make our job easier.

My government also wants,

um, an AFP presence

front and centre

in the hunt for Azahari.

Mere is very capable.

I'm not saying he isn't.

I'm sure Australian police

would make very useful pictures

on Australian television.

But that would cause

a political problem here.

I just want him caught,

you know.

I'm, um I'm going home soon.

I've been offered a new job,

running the Office

of Police Integrity.

PASTIKA: A good job for you,

my friend.

You will do it well.

I would have liked

to have been able

to finish the job here first.

Trust me, Graham.

Mere will catch Azahari.

Thanks, Pak.

- Terima kasih, Graham.

- Terima kasih.

Well, Made, I'm still alive.

Great job.

So the, uh, doctor wants to

put breast implants in your leg?

- Mm.

- I hear that right?

Yeah.

Boobs in my legs,

to stretch the skin.

- It's weird, right? Yeah.

- Nice.

Yeah, um, did you see

the news today?

There's, um

There's been another bombing.

This time the Australian Embassy

in Jakarta.

I don't think I can ever

go back to Indonesia.

That's cool. Stay here with me.

We could, uh, get married.

Did you just propose to me?

- Nuh.

- Nuh. OK.

Yeah, I was, um,

mistaken, clearly.

Yeah. No, I think I did.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

OK.

[NIC CHUCKLES]

- Can we just walk?

- Mm-hm.

[LAUGHS] Thanks for the tree.

That's OK.

WOMAN:

- [LOUD expl*si*n]

- [SCREAMING]

NEWSREADER: Amateur pictures

from the Indonesian island

of Bali

show the immediate aftermath

of a b*mb att*ck

which has k*lled at least 25.

Three bombs

ripped through restaurants

during the busy evening period,

two on Jimbaran Beach,

the third on Kuta Beach.

The explosions came

almost exactly three years

after 202 people were k*lled

in an att*ck on two nightclubs

on the island.

They've done it again.

Many people were injured

by flying glass

It's It's like

they're hunting me.

- Pol, that's not

- No, I know

I know that it makes no sense,

but just when I thought

I could finally go back

and say goodbye properly,

I buy a f*cking ticket

and they do this!

[GRIM MUSIC]

[WHISPERS] Dan.

I'm sorry.

I didn't

I couldn't save you.

I didn't even go

to Annika's funeral.

I couldn't.

I'm sorry.

[MOURNFUL MUSIC]

I wrote you letters.

So many.

We used to speak every day.

There was nothing

I could have done.

I couldn't stop it.

[MUSIC LIFTS GENTLY]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MUSIC FADES]

ASHTON: And away!

- [PHONE RINGS]

- Good boy.

- Hello?

- MERE: Mr Ashton, we found him.

- Mere?

- MERE: We got his number.

Traced it to him.

He won't get away this time.

Well, I hope you can

bring him in alive.

- [PHONE BEEPS]

- [STIRRING MARTIAL MUSIC]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[READS] "You see, there are

three kinds of scared.

"The first is the scared you get

when you bump into something.

"The second kind of scared

is when you're way up high"

[PHONE RINGS]

[PHONE BEEPS]

Ashton.

MERE: We got him.

Is he alive?

MERE: No.

Well, thanks for letting me

know. I appreciate it.

[PHONE BEEPS]

Graham. Congratulations.

Order of Australia.

Well deserved.

ASHTON: Thank you.

You got Azahari. Sensational.

Yeah, well, I didn't get him.

The Indonesians got him.

Whatever. Great result.

We can move on.

Who's we?

It's not over.

Jemaah Islamiyah

still has operatives out there.

Bin Laden's still out there.

Bashir's still active.

We sent them a message, Graham.

They hit us, we can hit them

twice as hard.

If they want to play

a zero-sum game,

we can give that to them.

You lied to me.

Sorry?

The government had intel

that Bali was gonna happen.

That's why the US

closed its embassy.

And then they opened

the embassy back up again.

Don't believe everything

you read, mate.

The Office of National

Assessments and ASIO

briefed the government

that Bali was a target.

We didn't have specific intel

They were so concerned,

they briefed them three times.

We get hundreds of intel reports

every day.

You could have issued a travel

advisory. The Americans did.

We don't change travel advice

based on speculation.

It wasn't speculation, mate.

It wasn't speculation.

Everywhere is

a possible target these days.

This is the world we live in.

You could have saved people.

YOU could have saved

hundreds of people.

You did a great job, Graham.

Why can't you just be happy

with that and move on?

Thank you for your service.

[GENTLE, WISTFUL MUSIC]

[MUSIC LIFTS GENTLY]

I'm very sorry.

What did we do wrong

to make the gods angry?

But what I believe is this.

There is no good without evil.

And we are here now

..to restore the balance.

We must not hold on to hate.

There is no future in that.

RICHARD ROXBURGH:

Following the bombings,

Graham Ashton was appointed

head of counterterrorism

for the Australian

Federal Police

and later became chief

commissioner of Victoria Police.

Amrozi, Mukhlas and Samudra

were ex*cuted

by f*ring squad in 2008.

Ali Imron showed remorse

for his actions

and was imprisoned for life.

SRISACD SACDPRASEUTH:

Made Pastika

was awarded an honorary

Order of Australia

for his work on

the Bali investigation.

He became a popular

governor of Bali in 2013.

MURTALA: Bambang Priyanto

was invited to speak

at the UN in 2008 about

supporting victims of terrorism.

He is the head

of disaster relief

for the Red Cross in Bali.

CLAUDIA JESSIE: Polly Brooks

retired from her job

and, along with her family,

runs Dan's Fund for Burns,

a charity set up in his honour.

It has raised

more than £2 million.

She remarried

and has two children.

ELIZABETH CULLEN: Nicole McLean

is a patron of the charity

Limbs 4 Life.

She married Luke in 2011

and they have two children.

SOPHIA FORREST: Natalie Goold

was awarded the Star of Courage

for her bravery on the night

of the Bali bombings.

She and Nicole

are still best friends.

SEAN KEENAN:

Jason McCartney married Nerissa

and they have two children.

He's the general manager

of football

for the GWS Giants AFL club.

SASKIA ARCHER: Hanabeth Luke

is a university professor

in science and agriculture.

She found love again and

is married with two children.

RACHEL GRIFFITHS: Fiona Wood

was awarded

Australian of the Year in 2005.

Spray-on skin, which she

invented with Marie Stoner,

is today being used to treat

burns around the world.

She remains committed to

researching new therapies

to improve the lives and

outcomes for burn patients.

SRI AYU JATI KARTIKA:

Ni Luh Erniati

works with schools

to prevent the growth

of extremism in Indonesia.

She now lives with her sons

in Denpasar.

The Adopta sewing collective

that she started

continues to this day.

[HEARTFELT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
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