01x08 - Unmasked

[bunniefuu]

What's it like
to... k*ll someone?

So easy.

It was soft, like butter.

Hey, Jo. You're...

Do you know how to?

You mix some of the
ashes in with the ink.

This
was on the car.

It might be his last words.

What about Dellagua?
Do they have any enemies?

Anybody wanna take 'em down?

Wayne Druff was the ringleader.

Must be kinda tough, your
son dating Park's daughter.

You think I knocked him off.

Got any more of
these stashed away?

Pretty clever.

Did you sell venom to Lars?

Don't
keep her waiting.

He k*lled Lars.

I'm not getting in the
f*cking car! f*ck you!

We taught her a lesson.
We put it in her drink.

Amanda!

Amanda!

Amanda!

Amanda!

Detective Senior
Constable Lou Damford

resuming interview
with Amanda Pharrell.

Time is now 0700.

I don't know how many different
ways you need me to say it.

Well, you've stated Ezra
Cole k*lled Bryce Brierley.

But you've got
nothing to back it up.

Do you know where
he is right now?

No idea.

Alice Springs.

Flight records have him landing
there yesterday morning.

So he doctored 'em.

The guy owns a plane. He knows
his way around that sh*t.

Ezra Cole.

Twist...

..as you call him.

Now, he's the chairman of the
local business association.

He's a major
investor in Dellagua,

in this town's future.

And you...

..you're a convicted m*rder*r.

It's your word against his.

Twist forced Bryce's
hand into the snake tank

and then he walked away
and left him to die.

It was payback for Bryce
k*lling Lars Hansen.

Take a break, Budd.

Go get yourself a coffee.

You love to tell a
story, don't you?

Like that one you told down
at the pub the other night.

About what you did.

About how much you enjoyed it.

Oh, you're a piece of work.

You are sick.

Those words...

..they have consequences.

And the jury is gonna have a
f*cking field day with you.

We both
know how this works.

It's been over eight hours.

You either charge her
or you release her.

You can't hold Amanda.

Your feedback is appreciated.

Hey, her treatment
at that crime scene

was ill*gal and it
was inhumane, alright?

So any statement she makes now

they're just gonna
throw out of court.

I'm not leaving until
you release her.

Alright?

Officially, we're allowed to
extend the time that she's with us.

Your buddy Damford is fitting
her up for a frame job.

You know it.

OK, time's up, pal.

No.

I've got two more hours.

So, you can sit down and
shut up or you can f*ck off.

If she's not out on the street
in two hours, I'll be back.

You can count on it.

CT scan's all clear.

Hey, Doc.

I'm not sure that's
a compliment.

It isn't.

You were a bloody idiot
to check yourself out.

Load of macho rubbish.

That's me.

Let's have a look at you.

That is healing nicely.

Yeah.

Ribs still tender?

Uh...

Only when I'm awake.

You know a nurse
could have done this.

What's this about?

Uh...

Whose is it?

It's Amanda's.

I was hoping you could run this

against the sample you have on file
from the night she was arrested.

I tested her blood myself.

You think I got it wrong?

Look, you've done
favours for me before.

This is more than that.

It's in the past. It's finished.

I don't think it is.

Their statements are
basically identical.

There's nothing to
suggest that she's lying.

You have to release her. She
was there. She's an accessory.

You know as well as I do
that's not gonna stick.

Well, it's your job to
make it stick, Carrie.

I know how much you want this,

which is exactly why
you need to let it go.

You are gonna make
a fool of yourself.

If something solid turns up,
we know where to find her.

I'll take care of it.

Go and see your family.

You finally
wore him down, huh?

What did I tell you about
touching my stuff, Conkaffey?

Guess I could've left it
in the rainforest to rot.

You got another one
of those for me?

You get any sleep?

Oh, yeah. Heaps.

What'd you end up telling them?

Everything I know about Lars.

Congratulations, Amanda.

You solved your first case.

m*rder, not suicide.

You wanna take a couple
of days, shake this off?

And do what?

Twist didn't k*ll Park.

Bryce was personal.

He's like a snake - he only
strikes when he needs to.

What do you know about THIS guy?

Why? What do YOU know?

Why don't we start
with reckless driving?

A car just like that one ran Olivia
off the road the other night.

We know Park wanted his
daughter home that night, right?

He left the house. We know
he didn't go to the office.

We know Ah Rah was here.

Maybe Park came looking for her.

Wayne saw a chance and took it.

And, what, risk driving
a body and Park's car

through the centre of town?

How many back roads between here
and where Park's car was dumped?

There's two that I know of.

But one's a flood risk.

There was a lot of rain around that
time, so it was probably underwater.

Any CCTV cameras
along the other one?

Yeah. I know a place.

Hey, pal! Excuse me!

You got a second?

I'm looking at your, uh... camera
there. I was just wondering...

..you guys save any footage on your
system, say, from March the 6th?

Why do you want that?

Uh... It's just a
private investigation.

Nothing to do with
you or your business.

We're just hoping you
could help us out.

What are YOU doing here, psycho?

Excuse me.

We're having a conversation
here. You need something?

Nah. We're good.
What's SHE want, Neil?

Security footage.

You like to watch people?

That how you pick your victims?

How much do they
pay you here, Neil?

Ask him again.

How about that footage?

The 6th?

That's right.

I DO like to watch people.

Right now I'm gonna watch
you two walk the f*ck away.

Try from 8:30PM,
when Park left home.

There's not much traffic.

I'll scrub through.

There you go. Take it back.

That's Park's car.

It's heading away from Druff's.

Keep going.

And there's Druff's ute.

I'll see if he comes back.

What's he doing?

That car's been cleaned.

That's not Wayne.

So, Charlie drops Ah Rah home

and gets a sudden urge to wash his
car in the middle of the night.

sh*t, Ted.

Do you recognise this? Looks
like a piece of a watch band.

I bought one for Jong Min
like this for our anniversary,

before we left Seoul.

It could be someone else's.

Not a lot of people around
here wear watches like that.

We need to talk about Charlie.

Charlie had this?

We think so.

Why would he...

Did he and Jong Min ever meet?

Yes. They met here.

That's not what he told Ted.

Did that happen often or
was it a special occasion?

Not often, just a
few words in passing.

And were those words friendly?

Jong Min didn't approve.

He wanted Ah Rah to
focus on her schooling.

But it was civil.

Is your daughter around?

We'd love to talk to her,

ask her a couple of questions.

Yes. She's in her room.

Would you mind asking
her to join us?

She's not there.

I was hoping I'd seen the
back of you. What now?

Charlie around? No.

Look, uh... you know
where I might find him?

What's your interest in my
boy? Just wanna talk to him.

I don't know where he is.

Listen, you think maybe you could
call him, ask him to come back here?

He's got the shits with
me. He won't answer.

Could you try him again?

I think your son might
be in some trouble.

What are you on about?

Oh, I get it.

First I'm a suspect, that doesn't
pan out so you go after my kid?

Look, I don't want to be
here, alright? Believe me.

It's not the way I
want this to turn out.

Get off my property.

You come back and
I'll knock you out.

And stay away from my son!

I got it.

Yeah. They're not here.
Don't bother coming out.

I know. I tried to call you.
She's heading out of town.

How the hell do you know that?

Because I put a tracker
on Yoon Sun's car.

What?

When?

Right before you got whacked on
the head. I forgot to mention it.

Where is she?

There's a sugar mill on the
outskirts of town, heading south.

She's been there for about
10 minutes. She hasn't moved.

I'm not far.

Alright, I'll meet you there.

I let you down.

You were trying to tell me what was
going on, whether you knew it or not.

The tattoo - "I'm sorry"?

They weren't your father's
words, they were yours.

It was a confession.

You want to tell
us what happened?

We were...
We were on the boat.

I like your hands.

Really? Mm.

Even if they do this?

Stop it! Don't!
Stop it!

He came looking for me.

He said I wasn't going
to see Charlie again.

That we were going back to Seoul
because it was best for the family.

I told him he was a hypocrite, that
I knew about the woman at work.

You can't make her if
she doesn't want to go.

Let go of me! Charlie,
he stood up for me.

And then, my dad, he snapped.

It was so fast.

Boy, get your hands off me!

I was so scared for Charlie.

I couldn't make him stop.

I just wanted him to stop.

Papa? Papa?

Papa! Papa! Papa!

It's like he was...

..just angry all the
time, for months. Just...

Uh... Your dad was trying
to do something very big.

He knew it was going to
blow up all your lives...

..and he was scared.

That's why he was angry.

Your dad wanted to take you and
your mom to Seoul just to...

..protect you.

I told Charlie not
to call the police.

I didn't want my mum
to be alone, and my...

..my grandparents wouldn't
have taken care of her.

I told Ah Rah to dump the car.

Charlie, don't... No.

She didn't tell me
where she left it.

I didn't tell her what I was
going to do with the body.

I just thought
it'd be like Lars -

eventually something
would wash up

and then people would
just stop looking.

Yeah.

I have to see my mum.

I have to tell her, please.

Just let me tell her.

Val?

You were right.

What'd you find?

The sample we had on
file wasn't her blood.

Wasn't even a woman's blood.

I didn't test for
gender, blood type,

anything but what
they asked for.

I was looking for illicit
substances. That's the procedure.

Yeah.

I was given the wrong sample.

That's the only explanation
I can come up with.

Meaning there's no proof

that Amanda was sober the
night she k*lled Lauren.

And no proof she wasn't.

The correct sample would
have been destroyed long ago.

What's your gut tell you?

We made a mistake.

The girl was robbed of
a decade of her life.

Who brought you the sample, Val?

Lou Damford.

It wasn't a mistake.

I've gotta go.

Isn't this where you give
me the pep talk about...

..how solving something doesn't
always bring satisfaction?

Sounds like you got that
part already figured out.

It's different when
kids are involved.

I just wish we
could un-know it...

..just walk it back,
leave it alone.

Yeah.

What's it say on the T-shirt...

.. "The truth will
set you free"?

They're not free, Ted.

I know.

I was their age
when I... I know.

Lou Damford stitched you up.

He swapped out your blood sample
so it would come back clean.

What?

He made damned
sure you went down

for a harsher sentence
than you deserved.

What are you doing?

My blood was clean.
It was clean.

It's not possible.

I talked to Brooke.

You did what?

Hear me out, alright?

Brooke and Lauren,

they slipped something
in your drink that night.

Some kind of payback for
crashing their party.

It was a prank.

But I had Val look into it,

and that was not your
blood that they tested.

If it was, it would
have come back positive

and you'd have gone
down for manslaughter.

Damford...

Damford told
Brooke to lie about it,

left it out of her statement

to cover her own a*s and...

..protect Lauren's name.

Don't.

Hey...

..this.

Do you remember this? This
is what you remember, right?

This is what you told
them that you saw.

They're hallucinations.

There's nothing wrong with
your brain. You were on drugs.

You were drugged and
you were lied to.

Look at me.

You're not a m*rder*r.

You're not responsible
for what happened.

Thank you for coming.

Please...

..finish what you started.

Thank you.

What are you
drinking? I'm buying.

Me?

We need to talk.

In that case, top-shelf bourbon.

Set it up.

I could k*ll them.

Yeah.

I still might.

She said the same
thing happened to you -

you got pinned for
something you didn't do?

Yeah, the difference is
I knew I didn't do it.

Amanda...

..she's spent half her
life thinking that she did,

that she's got some kind of
monster living in her head.

What are you going
to do about it?

That's up to her.

That other
thing? LAUREN: Yeah.

The thing? Yeah!

Point to it. Mm?

Just there? I don't
know. It's off!

That's better. Is that better?

Yeah. This...

This is
ridiculous, Lauren.

No!

Lauren, Lauren.

See? Like that.

What is... What
is this? What's...

That is your mask.

See? Lauren...

Now you can come to
the party.

No. I can't
come. What? No!

We've talked about this.

Nobody'll know it's you.

I don't think it's a good idea.

Hey... half an hour.

Say yes.

You're very annoying, you know?
Yes, I know that.

Hello?! Just me.

Sorry, boss, forgot me phone.

Milbee! Uh... It's a good
thing you're here, mate.

I've just gotta... I've just
gotta get out for a minute.

Just want you to
man the station.

I've been on lates all
week! One more won't hurt.

Damford was screwing Lauren.

He was at the f*cking
party and he knows I know.

Where are you?
I'm at your place.

No!

Just wait!

Do you know that girl?

Not really.

Told you this'd be fun.

Yeah, you're a
pretty smart cookie.

What's wrong? I
think I screwed up.

What do you mean?

We gave her something.

Me and Brooke.

Put a tab in her drink.

Jesus, Lauren...

What? She'll be fine as
soon as it wears off.

It'll take hours,
OK? OK, but...

Babe.

It'll wear off.

Don't worry.

Damford
was screwing Lauren.

He was at the f*cking
party and he knows I know.

Where are you?
I'm at your place.

I just wanna talk to you.

You chased me all the way
down here just to talk?

I chased you 'cause you ran.

You were f*cking Lauren.

We were in a relationship.

She was 17. It
wasn't like that.

So why keep it quiet?

I don't have to justify a
single f*ck' thing to you.

Did her mother know?

Oh, you never told her.

Nobody knew.

You were at the party.

Kept that quiet too, eh?

I know what you...

f*ck you! I know what you did
to get me all those years!

What you did with my blood!

You stabbed her 12 times

with a piece of scrap metal.

That takes effort.
That's intent.

Whether you were on drugs or not
doesn't make a f*ck' difference.

People take drugs all the
time and they don't m*rder.

I wasn't gonna let you
use that as an excuse.

Manslaughter is not enough.

Not for Lauren.

Not for her mother. Not for me.

Did you love her?

What do you want me to tell you?

I want the truth.

You f*cking tore my heart out.

You f*cking
tore my heart out!

What you did to her was
f*ck' evil. It was evil.

And that was in you long
before you took that drink.

I... I didn't know what I was
looking at. I didn't know it was her.

Bullshit! It...
It wasn't human!

It was this thing that
was coming to hurt me.

She was coming to
f*ck' help you!

She was coming to help you

because I sent her!

You
have to go and check on her.

No. Yeah, you do.

No. Please.

I wanna stay with you.

I'll be right here, OK?

Go.

Don't go anywhere. I won't.

Better not.

Go, go, go.

I'll wait here for you.

Well, I'm taking the mask.

Amanda!

Amanda?

Amanda!

Amanda?!

Oh, Jesus!

What were
you even doing there?!

Oh, sh*t!

You are a cop!

Just stop!

Stop!

Why?! Why would I stop?!

Tell me why?! Come on!

f*cking tell me!

Jesus.

sh*t!

You set me up

and then you go get yourself a
family and started a whole new life,

pretended like you
were never there.

Do they know?

You don't talk about my family.

They don't know
who you really are.

What would your daughter say?

Shut the f*ck up.

Shut the f*ck up.

Shut...

You sent Lauren to help me.
Why didn't you come with her?

Just shut up.

Why didn't you come looking?
You could have stopped it.

Because it was too late!

You weren't just at the party.

You were at the car.

Yeah, I was at the car.

I was there.

And I left her there

with you.

I left her with you.

And I think about that
every f*ck' day.

She
called out for help

and I thought she
was asking for me.

But she saw you... She
was dead when I got there.

She wasn't.

Help. Help.

Help me.

She called out for
you... Help!

..and the last thing she ever saw was
you walking away to save yourself.

You could have held her.

You're a f*cking coward.

Shut up.

Argh...

Whatever you're thinking, don't.

Damford!

Drop it!

Toss that g*n!

Ted, he's not gonna sh**t me.

Show me your hands.
Don't sh**t him.

Don't sh**t him, please.

Come on, man.

He's not gonna sh**t me.

Don't you f*cking
do it!

No! f*ck!

Stop bleeding!

Leave it.

Just leave it. f*ck you!

Grab his legs. Get off me.

Come on, grab his legs!

Agh!

I am gonna drag you out of
here by your jaw if I have to.

Not that you deserve it.

Hey. Hey, look at me! You don't
get to do that, you hear me?

You don't get to die, OK?

I am a f*ck' coward.

I'm... I'm a coward.

Listen to me, if you die now,

that's all you're
ever gonna be, OK?

So don't f*cking die.

Don't die. Don't die.

Somebody help
us! Help! Assistance here!

You OK?

No!

You will be.

Yeah.

I'd take that bet.