
Mystery Road
What You Do Now
Season 2 Episode 6 | 50m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Jay checks on Mary at the motel, leading to a tense confrontation with Simon.
Jay checks on Mary at the motel, leading to a tense confrontation with Simon. As Fran searches for closure on Zoe's case, Owen must decide where his loyalties lie.
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Mystery Road
What You Do Now
Season 2 Episode 6 | 50m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Jay checks on Mary at the motel, leading to a tense confrontation with Simon. As Fran searches for closure on Zoe's case, Owen must decide where his loyalties lie.
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- The Muppets with the rifles talking about shooting coppers.
- They are cops.
- Were.
- I canceled the flight.
- That's gonna get us all killed.
- They took the bones of my great-great-grandfather.
- So you want repatriation?
- [Leonie] It's my mother's final wish.
- The dental records show a match for Buddy Nolan.
- I killed that boy.
You think no one knew?
They all knew.
It's law.
- I could've killed Jane 20 times, but I didn't because of you.
- Remove the gun slowly and put it on the ground.
There's a road house outside of Palmer's Cove.
You'll be safe there, Mary.
- Roadhouse, Palmer's Cove, must be the ex-wife.
(tense dramatic music) (mid tempo rock music) ♪ The sun is falling ♪ ♪ Like a burning zeppelin ♪ ♪ Tall buildings crash their shadows down ♪ ♪ Upon the good city people ♪ ♪ When the night comes ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ The wind is howling ♪ ♪ The new age is calling out ♪ ♪ It rattles through our bones like a locomotive ♪ ♪ Sends out a warning ♪ (sprinklers hissing) (car engine roars) (car door slams) - I'm here.
What room are you in?
- [Mary] Hi, you've called Mary.
Leave message after the beep.
(sprinklers hissing) (footsteps crunching) - Help you?
- I'm looking for some friends, a mother and her daughter.
They arrived last night.
Can you tell me what room they're in, please?
- Well, I can't give out that information.
The safety of our guests is a priority.
Oh, of course you are (sighs).
There's a Jeanne and her daughter in room number six.
(sprinklers hissing) (birds chirping) (footsteps clacking) (ominous music) (sprinklers hissing) (footsteps crunching) (car door creaks) (ominous music continues) (car door slams) (footsteps crunching) (ominous music continues) (sprinklers hissing) (sprinklers hissing) (ominous music continues) (sprinklers hissing) (gun clocks) (sprinklers hissing) (sprinklers hissing) - Devin, Jay, Devin!
(gun bangs) (door explodes) (gun banging) (dramatic music) (guns banging) (dramatic music continues) (footsteps clacking) (gun clocks) (gun bangs) (dramatic music) - Come here.
- Mary, Shevorne!
(dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) Shevorne, Shevorne, Shevorne.
- I'm okay.
- Okay.
(dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) - Don't do anything stupid, Jay!
Stupidity gets people hurt.
Should've just taken the Emilio shooting and pissed off.
I gave it to you with a ribbon on it.
(gun bangs) This is the edge of the earth, Jay, no one cares who deals drugs or dies.
(gun bangs) (gun banging) (engine roars) (gun banging) (sprinklers hissing) (sprinklers continue hissing) (fly buzzing) (sprinklers continue hissing) (manager groans) (footsteps crunching) (manager groans) - Where's he going?
- You're the detective here, you work it out.
(groans) Yeah, you're not gonna find him.
He's gonna find you (groaning).
- You're going into shock.
If I don't call an ambulance, you'll bleed out in about 20, 25 minutes.
So, what do you want me to do?
(kids shouting) (car engine roars) (sprinklers hissing) (kids shouting) (car door slams) (footsteps clacking) - Franie, what?
(metal clangs) Franie, what the hell are you doing?
Jesus!
- You know what my excuse was?
I was a kid.
You were the cop.
You were the one in charge who was supposed to protect us, to protect kids like Buddy and Zoe, but you were too lazy.
You couldn't give a (bleep).
- Is that what this is?
Another chapter to blame the White fella?
(metal clangs) Stop!
I knew it was a mistake getting a Black copper, too much obligation.
- So why are you here then, Owen?
For the fishing?
(metal clangs) You just let all the drug running and grog happen right under your nose.
The night Clari was murdered, where were you?
You were meant to be on duty, but you weren't here.
I know 'cause I saw the tapes, you left.
You're not a cop.
- You be very careful, okay?
'Cause your mate's in the force and that is it.
You're done, you're finished.
Your career's over.
Who's gonna look after your community then?
What, you?
- That detective that was here, he wasn't Critical Incident.
He was Internal Affairs.
They know you're dirty.
They're onto you.
I'd run if I were you.
Go on, run.
- You ruined your life.
(door slams) (footsteps clacking) - I'm not talking to you.
Tell Owen to come here.
- That's not happening.
- I'm the boss here, not you.
- Owen's not coming.
- You keep going, you're gonna get yourself in proper big trouble, woman.
- I'm not going anywhere.
Buddy and Zoe were together.
They broke our law.
They were warned, taken to the bus stop, but they came back.
People started talking.
Amos wasn't gonna do anything.
Big shame job for you.
- Amos got kid brain.
He's not a man.
- So tell me what a real man does.
- I'll tell you what happened.
I saw him, I come over, I said, "I warned you."
I took my boomerang out and I swing it, and I hit him.
And I said, "You got the wrong one.
She doesn't belong to you."
I said, "What'd you say?"
I hit him and I couldn't stop kicking him.
It was only meant to be a broken arm, but he wouldn't listen.
- That's not our culture, Jimmy, that's murder.
And Zoe, what did you do to her?
(tense music) Huh, what did you do to her?
- [Jimmy] Zoe was women's business.
- [Suzi John] What for?
Why are you gonna bring me into this?
- I need your help.
- If you're putting my hole in danger, you better tell me what for.
- [Jay] I need Mary and Shevorne to stay here for a little while.
- I'm not a mind reader, you know?
- Someone's after us.
- Simon Rowland.
- Sour one that one, knew he'd be troubled.
- What do you mean?
- Oh, there were stories floating around when he first turned up.
He could be real charming, but same time, like a king brown, poisonous one, slippery one.
The one snake you don't want in your hole.
- There's not too many safe places in town.
- She's the one with the gun.
You know what, they can stay.
Happy now?
- Thank you.
Don't go anywhere.
- Where are you going?
Jay?
- Simon won't stop until someone stops him.
- And it's gotta be you.
(beads rattle) (footsteps clack) (car door slams) (upbeat rock music) (car door slams) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (engine roars) (phone vibrating) (patrons chatting) - Simon.
- Get Swan off my back.
- [Owen] How do you suppose I did that?
- You tell him you got word I'm getting on a plane to Bali.
I need him out of town for a few hours.
- Well, he's not gonna believe me.
- Owen, do as you're told.
- But don't you think this is... Why don't you just leave, you know?
No one will find you.
You've got money.
- Don't be an idiot, Owen.
There's no going back to your old life.
Those days are over the time you started letting blokes off traffic tickets for favors.
Not a good idea getting serviced under a CCTV camera at the back of the station.
If it wasn't for me, you'd be in jail.
Call me when it's done.
(upbeat rock music) (banging on door) Out, leave your phone.
Over there.
(car door slams) (car engine roars) (patrons chatting) (car engine roars) (patrons chatting) - Hey.
Ooh, red wine.
- Yeah, you want one?
- No, thanks.
- I just had a chat with the Head of the Board and... Yeah, yeah, he said it really looks promising.
- What'd he say?
- That he said this might be the right time.
Repatriation is happening in institutions around the world.
- Hey, you're a real gammon thing, hey?
Yeah, all right, maybe I'll have a short one then.
(glasses clink) - Yeah, it's not certain, but I told him, "Look, we have a chance to make a change, to stop seeing ourselves as the gods of the past, and start owning the real history."
- So what now?
- Yeah, this is a huge change in mindset for universities.
I mean, the first archeologist used dynamite (indistinct).
- Grave robbers.
- Without those thefts, those artifacts would have been lost, lost for future generations to study and to learn.
- Yeah, you saved my culture.
- I'm just telling you what some people at the university might argue right now and why this is so hard.
My profession has made mistakes and I've made mistakes, and everything I've done, everything we have done was for this country to put this culture at the center of the story of the world, everything, everything.
- Sandra, how long you been at this bar?
- No, I just want you to know that- - What?
- No, I'm happy.
- I'll be back in a minute.
(patrons chatting and laughing) (fan whirring) (Owen grunts) - You.
- Hey, hey, look out!
- He broke in.
What's he doing here?
- The longer they're here, the more you're in danger.
- You behave yourself.
- Simon doesn't muck around.
- The only way that Simon's gonna know that they're here is if you tell him.
Here.
- Simon knows about me.
- Hey, we've all got a past.
You don't wanna know mine.
You know what I see?
I see a bloke who kicked the (bleep) out of those two cowboys who were flogging me, and then you came to the hospital to visit me.
You didn't have to do that, but you did.
- What you did back then, it's back then.
It's what you do now that matters.
(car whooshes) (phone vibrating) - Yep.
- Simon's got a shipment coming in from Timor today, far end of Oyster Beach.
- Owen.
- [Owen] He'll be there now.
After that, you won't find him.
- Why should I believe you?
- Do or don't, but I wasn't always the man I am today.
(car whooshes) (car engine roars) (tires screech) - This was also buried at the site with the bag.
It will help convict the killer of that young boy and help the community to heal.
- What is it?
- What does it matter who found the bones?
They arrested someone.
- What does it matter?
This community is in pain.
- Yeah, I've done a lot of wrong, but one thing I did right was to bring those bones to you.
Isn't this supposed to be a place of peace, a place of mercy?
- There can't be mercy without truth, Sandra, without conscience.
I mean, you leave soon.
You'll be back home to friends, to family.
But the people here will be left with this lie.
- You can't tell them.
People will say, "He knew all this time, he looked us in the eye and lied."
They'll never trust you again.
Please, please, I'm asking you.
- So I'll ask you, if you don't, can you really live with this for the rest of your life?
(ominous music) (ominous music continues) (ominous music continues) (banging on fence) (ominous music continues) (ominous music continues) - Back against the bars, put your hands through.
(dramatic music) (mob shouting) (banging on fence) (gate creaks) (mob shouting) (banging on fence) (tense music) (mob shouting) (tense music continues) (tense music continues) (mob shouting) (banging on fence) - Back that motor car up.
- Hey?
- That motor car, bring it closer.
(mob shouting) (tense music continues) - What now?
These are your people, hey?
You the big boss man.
- Come on!
(mob shouting) - Come on.
- Go on, get!
Not your business!
- Come on then!
- Wanna give you a good hiding?
(mob shouting) Don't muck around, put me in there now!
- These mob want payback.
This is your law.
This is our law.
- You're not gonna let them, are you?
You don't believe in law.
- You stained this country.
- You got a cheek.
You can't talk.
- This is not your business.
- This is my business.
No one gonna cry for you.
No one gonna sing for you.
(tense music continues) (mob shouting) (tense music continues) (mob gasps) - I got family in jail.
They know you're coming.
- I didn't kill Zoe, true story.
I didn't kill her.
- Liar.
- I'm telling you, I didn't do it!
(tense music) - Then who?
(tense music continues) (melancholy music) (melancholy music continues) (melancholy music continues) (melancholy music continues) (melancholy music continues) (melancholy music continues) (birds chirping) - The university said no, not yet.
I'm so sorry.
We promise, we are trying to change hundreds of years of thinking.
- I'm sick of talking to you, listening to your promises, your defense, your institutions.
You're nothing but a mission manager.
You should just piss off.
- But you know I did what I could.
- You did what you could for you.
You got what you want, now get.
- It's not the end.
There is something I... Well, you might hear about me, something I did.
The bag, the boy's bones, I found it.
I was excavating, and I didn't know what to do, I panicked.
- You left him at the church.
- Yeah, if the police found out I moved the bones, I would have been charged, my entire career, everything I worked for, over.
- That's somebody's boy, not rubbish to chuck away.
- [Sandra] I didn't chuck him away.
That grindstone is 80,000 years, 80,000 years.
It's like having a piece of the universe in my hand.
- [Leonie] You kicked that kid to the gutter to get it.
- All I did was kept my mouth shut for a few weeks.
The world found out of the significance of this place, of your place.
I am sorry, I really am.
- You did this for you.
(melancholy music) - I worked with indigenous people around the world and you know, the biggest problem I have with them is fear, fear I might find something, something that tells a story you didn't know about your own culture.
- You walk around this country with your gammon little boots on, gammon little white gloves.
You never touch it, feel it, listen to its story.
You know nothing.
That's your story, nothing.
(melancholy music continues) (melancholy music continues) (Leonie sniffles) (melancholy music continues) (car engine roars) (car door slams) (birds chirping) (footsteps crunching) (Jay pants) (dramatic music) (airplane engine roars) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (footsteps crunching) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) - That's it?
- That's it, mate, see ya.
(car door creaks) (airplane engine roars) (plastic rustles) - Don't be shy, show me.
- Each bag is 10 million.
Who needs a police pension?
What do you reckon?
- I reckon you're going to jail for a long time.
You know how they love dirty cops in jail.
(gun bangs) (glass shatters) (gun bangs) (dramatic music) (car engine roars) (dramatic music continues) (gun bangs) (guns bang) (gun clocks) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (car engine roars) (car door slams) - Simon.
- Get that motor running.
- What?
- We're going Wakey's Reef.
- Listen, mate, I can't.
- God, you're weak as piss!
Just do what you're told.
- Yeah, okay, yeah, I am, okay?
I am, but I can make this better.
I can, okay?
I'll arrest you, all right?
Purely for optics, I'll arrest you, and then we can blame it on Alchemy.
- Alchemy's dead.
- Well, it can work for us, you know?
He can't defend himself.
You can get away.
- Just get the motor working.
- I can't, mate.
You'll have to get wired.
- Get it working now.
- Just take it easy.
- [Mary] Put the gun down.
- You gonna shoot me, Mary?
Could've been really good together, you and I, yeah.
(guns bang) (car engine roars) (dramatic music) (car engine roars) (car engine roars) - He's gone, something about Wakey's Reef.
- You're shot.
- No, no, no, no, I'm good.
Hey, don't change your habit of a lifetime now, get out of here, go.
(car door slams) (car engine roars) (Suzi John crying) (dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (gun clocks) (gun bangs) (wind howling) (wind continues howling) (gun clocks) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) ♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ ♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪ ♪ I once was lost ♪ ♪ But now am found ♪ ♪ Was blind but now I see ♪ ♪ 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪ ♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪ ♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪ ♪ The hour I first believed ♪ ♪ The Lord hath promised good to me ♪ ♪ His word my hope secures ♪ ♪ He will my shield and portion be ♪ ♪ As long as life endures ♪ ♪ When we've been there 10,000 years ♪ ♪ Bright shining as the sun ♪ ♪ We've no less days to sing God's praise ♪ ♪ Than when we first begun ♪ - Zoe, I know you killed her.
(Pansy scoffs) You will pay.
(mid tempo rock music) (mid tempo rock music continues) (door whooshes) (mid tempo rock music continues) (door whooshes) ♪ Driving will I be healed ♪ ♪ Always digging up the past ♪ ♪ Driving justice onto you ♪ ♪ Into minds who wanna shoot me through ♪ ♪ Just lighten up my heavy load ♪ ♪ Something blue to stay ♪ ♪ Dusty red to go ♪ ♪ And gonna be gone ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ (mid tempo rock music continues) (mid tempo rock music continues) ♪ And will I ever be healed ♪ ♪ I'm always digging up the past ♪ ♪ Driving justice onto you ♪ ♪ Into minds who wanna shoot me too ♪ (cup clatters) ♪ Just to lighten ♪ - Come on dad, too many mosquitoes, let's go inside.
♪ Hang in the shadow of the one that he called ♪ ♪ Something blue to stay ♪ ♪ Dusty red to go ♪ (car engine roars) ♪ I gotta be gone ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ I've got a barrel ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ - Here.
- Look out.
- Now you're a real cop.
- It depends.
- Depends?
- On what you think a real cop is.
- Are you gonna be okay?
- We got some healing to do.
One man bought a lot of shame to this community, but we're not gonna be judged by what he did.
- What about Zoe?
- I haven't forgotten that.
- Now you look like a real cop.
♪ Blow my blues away ♪ ♪ Lighten up my load ♪ ♪ I've got a full flat ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ I've got a (indistinct) ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ I've gotta be gone ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ I've got a barrel ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ Down the mystery road ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ On the mystery road ♪ (no audio) (dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (no audio)
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