01x05 - Confession

[bunniefuu]

GERALDINE: Hugo was m*rder*d.

- f*ck.
- [IMITATES expl*si*n]

Piss-up back at our
house for Hugo, yeah?

- CASSIE: Hi.
- I'm Gareth.

- Cassie.
- Nice to meet you.

CASSIE: Something's going
on with Gareth and Leon.

They have way more money

than an unemployed dead sh*t

and a station hand
would normally have.

ANDY: Sergeant Walters
and I are very close now.

I'm sure she'd be interested to
know what you did for my father.

Tomorrow morning, come find me.

[SOFTLY] Why are you
making up stories?

- You don't know sh*t!
- TREVOR: OK.

- ANDY: I know you bugged me!
- What?

[PEOPLE EXCLAIM]

[g*nshots BLAST]

CASSIE: Hugo's k*ller

is still out there.

If we find them, I reckon
we'll find your money.

['NIGHTINGALE OF PARADISE'
BY BAHA'I VICTORY CHORUS]

♪ Nightingale of paradise

♪ You sing of love... ♪

CASSIE: Bidgeegud

the kind of place where
people come to disappear,

to reinvent themselves

and leave their past behind.

♪ With light... ♪

But when one of their
own turns up dead,

the secret that binds
this town of misfits

must hold a vital clue.

Is there a m*rder*r
in their midst?

Andy is certain there is.

Which one of them
knows the truth?

♪ In the dark of night... ♪

The creepy general store owner

who keeps a saltwater
crocodile as a pet?

♪ Nightingale of paradise... ♪

The broken-hearted publican

who keeps her dead son's
race car as a memento?

The pie-loving lovers and their
questionable secret ingredients?

The scary drama queen or her
desperate-to-escape daughter?

[COUGHS]

CASSIE: The eccentric old
artist who's out with Andy

looking for answers right now?

♪ With love... ♪

The unconventional priest?

♪ From above... ♪

Actually, who better to talk to

than the man who knows
everybody's secrets?

[LAPTOP BEEPS]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[BIRDS CALL]

[CASSIE KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Jimmy?

Have the conversation, Val, OK?
You don't have to lecture me.

You know, I'm her mum, not you.

VAL: I know that, Charmaine.

Charmaine! Hey, Val!

VAL: Move it!

Any idea where Jimmy is?

- Try his confession booth.
- Oh, I did. He's not there.

Well, he sometimes goes
out to the old quarry

when wants to be left alone.

- How's Shoshanna?
- She'll live. Why?

Where's her dad?

Wouldn't have a clue.

Anything else you'd
like to know about

that isn't any of your concern?

Or can I go now?

[SIGHS]

ANDY: Cedric, where
are you taking me?

We're in the middle of nowhere.

CEDRIC: You said
you want answers.

This is where we'll find them.

[ENGINE STOPS]

From here, we go on foot.

ANDY: Go where?

[CEDRIC CHUCKLES]
I don't know yet!

- Ah!
- [DOOR SLAMS]

ANDY: That's fantastic.

But I will when we get near.

It's all about listening.

If you pay close attention,

you'll be surprised
at what you find.

That's why Hugo came to me.

I find things.

What are you doing?

[CEDRIC BREATHES HEAVILY]

I noticed the other
day as I was passing by

something that
wasn't here before.

Ahh...

Can you feel it?

ANDY: Feel what?

CEDRIC: Negative energy.
There's strong vibrations here.

Here. Hold this.

Keep it very still. You'll
feel the vibration in the wire.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

He was a complicated
man, your father.

Well, actually, he wasn't
very complicated at all.

He showed us exactly who he was

from the beginning.

It just took us a while
to see it. That's all.

Yeah? How so?

He reminded me a
bit of my own father

charming but self-serving.

Didn't care who he
hurt in the process.

Yeah, well, that
sounds about right.

Uh-huh.

Come. This way.

Jimmy!

Hey!

Wow! Nice spot.

- Very peaceful.
- Mm. It was.

I wanted to talk
to you about Hugo.

JIMMY: What about him?

Did he say anything during
confession that maybe...

That's between him
and God, isn't it?

You're not wearing your...
your priest's collar today.

You off-duty or something?

Interesting sermon
you gave yesterday.

Wanna know my
favourite Bible verse?

- Nuh.
- Matthew 6:21.

"The greatest thing
you'll ever learn."

"To love and to be
loved in return."

- You know that one, right?
- [SCOFFS] Of course I do.

Hah! That's from 'Moulin Rouge'.

How did you even find me?

I wanted to talk to you

last night at the
party, but you left.

I wasn't in the
mood for a party.

Is that why you pushed Trevor?
Just weren't in the mood?

Pretty aggressive for
a priest, isn't it?

- Well, I guess I'm not perfect.
- Or a priest, even.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

We're not so
different, you and I.

I lost my father tragically too.

Oh, yeah? Was he m*rder*d?

Yes.

Oh, sh*t. I'm... I'm sorry.

That's OK.

It was a long time ago.

[CEDRIC CHUCKLES]

When I was six, my
father would test me,

take me to the forest
outside our town

and leave me to
find my way home.

Feels like maybe Child Services
is more of an American thing.

[LAUGHS]

He would always
try to trip me up,

but I always found my way home.

I would always win

and he would always
get... so mad.

[CEDRIC CHUCKLES]

Ah! Here. Come.

Komm schon!

Uh...

CASSIE: I called the Church
and they've never heard of you.

What parish are you from, then?

JIMMY: None. I'm a
travelling priest.

- CASSIE: Is that even a thing?
- JIMMY: Yes!

Like a flying
doctor, but priests.

Priests without borders.

CASSIE: OK, even if I believe
you, why settle in Bidgeegud?

JIMMY: I go wherever
the Lord needs me.

Well, what about your
family, your country?

What about... Where's
your mob from?

[SIGHS] You know,
you ask questions

like you think you
deserve the answers,

but you don't.

What about that bet
that Trevor mentioned?

There, you see? Stickybeak!

I just wanna know the truth.

You didn't even know Hugo,

yet you wanna solve his m*rder.

Why?

What's wrong with helping
a friend figure out

what happened to his dad?

I've spent a lot of time
listening to people.

I know when someone's
talking sh*t.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

ANDY: What exactly are
we looking for here?

Death.

Shh, shh!

[UNSETTLING MUSIC]

[CEDRIC SIGHS]

The spirit of death

is here.

Ah! No! [GROANS]

- You OK?
- [GRUNTS] Ah! Hah!

[GROANS]

- Aah! Out of the way!
- OK. Alright.

Out of the way. You're
disturbing the energies.

[GROANS] Ah! Ah. Ah. Ah. Oh!

[GRUNTS]

Hah!

ANDY: No, no, no, no, no.

Is there, like, an emergency
contact I should call or...

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

What's happening?!

[LAUGHS TRIUMPHANTLY]

See? See?

Is that... That's it?

We traipsed all the way out
here for a cigarette butt?!

But something happened here.
Trauma. This could be evidence.

Of what?! Teenagers?
Make-up sex?

You said you had the answers.
How is this answer to anything?!

- Give me this stupid...
- No, no! My aerial!

Oh! [GROANS]

My car.

This is where I got hit.

You were right.

Hey, Cedric, do you think you
could help me get my car out?

[PHONE BLEEPS]

You know you remind me
of one of my relatives?

My uncle, skin way.

He was good with people,

but he was hiding a deep pain.

We all knew it was eating him up

and he just never
talked about it.

Till one day, he left.

- Shame's a funny thing.
- [JIMMY SOBS QUIETLY]

It makes people feel
like they don't belong.

[JIMMY SOBS]

Jimmy...

I didn't mean to...

I was only pushing you
'cause you were pushing me.

But you're right.

There is more to why I'm here.

[SOBS]

I'm helping Andy because
it's the right thing to do.

And if we get to
the bottom of it,

it could be my ticket
back into my career.

JIMMY: Career?

I'm a journalist. Was.

I got fired, but I'm sort
of freelance at the moment

and, you know...

So, you're here for the story.

You were faking that?

- Does Andy know?
- I told you that in confidence.

But now that I've
confessed, it's your turn.

That's not how confession works.

Just tell me about the bet.

The bet was about a bunker.

Now leave me alone.

Is that why Hugo died?

Because of a bet about a bunker?

Jimmy, priest or not,

you owe it to your
friend to tell the truth!

[BIRD SCREECHES, CALLS]

[ELECTRONIC
ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC]

♪ Hold on another minute... ♪

[SIGHS HEAVILY]

♪ Send a letter
to the priest... ♪

[CLICKS TONGUE]

♪ Hold on another minute

♪ Control and release

♪ Hold on another minute

♪ Send a letter
to the priest... ♪

Andy!

Jesus, Cassie!

Will you stop scaring the
f*ck out of me like that?

You're the one that keeps
popping up everywhere!

[ANDY SIGHS]

You do know this is an
active crime scene, right?

Didn't stop you.

Just had the most
frustrating wild-goose chase

with Cedric just now,

but he did help me find my car.

Look at this.

Jimmy mentioned
something about a bunker.

I reckon Hugo had one.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

Of course he had a bunker!

I'm such an idiot!

When I was a kid, it was
under the house. [SIGHS]

He kept everything that meant
anything to him in that bunker,

including money

not that he had a lot,

but what he did have...

Andy...

If we find the bunker,

we find the money.

It's gotta be there.

Uh, there's gotta
be a key somewhere.

[GASPS]

No key, but maybe we
could pick the lock?

I got a better idea.

- [GRUNTS]
- Oh, my God!

[ANDY GRUNTS]

[PANTS]

f*ck!

CASSIE: OK, so
there's nothing there.

The UFO site. It
makes sense, right?

Away from town and prying eyes?

That's gotta be where it is.

- Get your stuff.
- You need to calm down.

I'm running out of time!

Yeah, well, it's
almost dark outside

and I'm not leaving until
you tell me the truth

about what's really going on

the money, all of it!

[REFLECTIVE MUSIC]

JIMMY: You don't deserve this.

It all started when Dom and I
went for a drink after work.

We were meeting up with an
old college buddy of his

who was apparently, like,

this big hotshot
Wall Street guy now.

[JAZZY ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

[MEN SPEAK INAUDIBLY]

[CLINKS ECHO]

He turned out to be a
really good guy, you know?

We... we had a fun time. We
stayed out late, got drunk.

We were sharing w*r stories.

And then, this guy leans in
and gives us a stock tip.

[MAN SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]

Dom and I knew that
wasn't exactly legal,

but it was only $5,000 each.

You know, it wasn't exactly
the crime of the century.

So, we came up with the money
and, boom, doubled it overnight.

Yes! [ECHOES]

[CHUCKLES]

For the first time, I
felt free, you know?

I-I felt like I had
finally gamed the system

that had been gaming
me my entire life,

so, yeah, I wanted to
feel that again, you know.

A week went by and I
still had that itch,

so I called Dom and I asked
him to get us another tip.

[DOM SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]

ANDY: He was... he was
reluctant at first,

but eventually, you
know, he came around,

only this time,

the minimum his buddy was asking

was $100,000 each

and we just didn't have
that kind of money.

But something about
the way Dom said,

"It's not for guys like us"

that set me off.

So, I called the guy myself

and I asked him to
loan us the money.

If he's so sure about
this tip, I said,

and I'd be able to
pay him the money back

and make another trade.

And when he said yes, I
thought, "This is it," you know?

"This is... this is my
way out of... of debt,"

"of work, my past."

So, what happened?

The, uh, stock
went the other way.

[GASPS]

We lost everything and
now we owed $100,000 each

plus interest.

Dom was livid.

[CHUCKLES]

Anyway, a few days later,

this guy comes in
asking for me and Dom.

At first, we thought,

"Huh, maybe he's HR or
something like that."

We were a little nervous,

but then he told us that
his boss had us on tape

talking to each other about
the tip-off, insider trading.

The whole thing was a set-up.

CASSIE: Oh, my God! So,
where was Dom's mate?

ANDY: Pfft! Long gone.

His phone number was dead.

The company he worked for,

turns out he never worked
for them in the first place.

And I was... furious with Dom.

But it wasn't all him.

I mean, we were both idiots. I
can believe how stupid I was.

So, we did what they asked.

They made us open
fraudulent accounts

and move money offshore for
them via this Australian account

that we set up in Hugo's name.

- So, Hugo knew about it?
- No! No, God, no!

Hugo had no idea.

No, I just used
his ID information

to set up a hidden account.

So, you became money launderers?

No! I mean...

Look, we had no idea where
the money was coming from,

so, for all we knew,

this was a perfectly
legitimate operation.

OK.

ANDY: Anyway, with
every transaction,

we'd pay 5% off the debt.

Slowly, we would chip
away what we owed.

Until, halfway through,

about a week or so before

we were supposed to make
a transfer to the UAE

$250,000 in Hugo's account
just... disappeared.

sh*t!

Yeah, I figured Hugo must have

stumbled across the
account or something.

Maybe the bank contacted
him. I don't know.

I can't believe you fell
into a trap like that.

I get it.

It sounds so stupid
right now, I know,

but I swear to God, it made
so much sense at the time.

Why?

I...

All my life, I
played by the rules,

and Hugo had left
us with so much debt

that my mom spent every waking
moment trying to pay it off.

And then she got
sick and that's...

I mean, medical costs,
that's a whole other...

[ANDY SIGHS]

I actually found myself

fantasising about her dying

because I thought,
"Hey, you know",

"at least it'd be cheaper,"

"and she'd be free."

But then she did, and
that cost money too.

She was never able to outrun it

and I knew that I was...

I wasn't gonna outrun it either.

So, you used your
dad as revenge?

I never meant for Hugo to die.

That was just...

And now I'm never gonna
get a chance to ask him.

CASSIE: Ask him what?

ANDY: Why.

Just curious. You don't have to
tell me if you don't want to.

What? No.

That's what I was gonna ask
him. Why... why he left.

Oh!

Sorry. Yeah.

And, hey, look, if we're
being honest with each other,

there is something that
I need to tell you.

You smell that?
Someone's smoking?

[FAST FOOTFALLS IN DISTANCE]

- CASSIE: sh*t.
- ANDY: Hey!

[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]

[CIGARETTE BUTT SIZZLES]

[INTRIGUING JAZZY MUSIC]

[DOM MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]

Dom!

- [PHONE RINGS NEARBY]
- [WORKERS SPEAK INDISTINCTLY]

[DOM EXHALES HEAVILY]

I'm worried we might have been
exposed to some kind of fraud.

Fraud? Here?

- Take a look at this.
- Hmm?

Jane Alloway. What about it?

She's dead.

She had an account with us,

but it was closed last year

when she died.

DOM: Mm-hm.

But now it's open again,

just like the one
I found before.

Well, you sure it's
the same person?

What? No. It's... No,
it's not the same person.

It... it can't be
because she's dead.

No, no, what I meant was,

I mean, you can have two
clients with the same name,

and through some
glitch or human error,

dead Jane's documents got
attached to this Jane's file.

- That happens?
- More often than you think.

[SIGHS]

With all these meetings about
fraud we've been having,

I've started to
see it everywhere.

You know, uh, I could take
a look into that account.

Thanks, Dom.

You bet.

[INTRIGUING JAZZY MUSIC]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[CICADAS DRONE]

[INTRIGUING JAZZY
MUSIC CONTINUES]

[LINE RINGS]

GERALDINE OVER PHONE: Sergeant
Geraldine Walters speaking.

I have a confession to make.

Who is this?

[SIGHS]

Hello?

I know who m*rder*d Hugo Drivas.

SONG: ♪ I might
be under hypnosis

♪ You notice me

♪ I might be under hypnosis

♪ I close my eyes, you notice me

♪ I might be under hypnosis

♪ You notice me

♪ I might be under hypnosis

♪ I close my eyes, you notice me

♪ I might be under hypnosis

♪ I might be under hypnosis... ♪