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(Harrow) Previously on Harrow...

Do you know why Harrow was suspended?

Maxine doesn't do anything without good reason.

He forged my signature.

(Pavich) No one's digging up anything.

(Chester) You wanted proof that I wasn't dead, right?

- Whose body was it? - It wasn't mine,

despite your drunken friend Laurie Badcoe signing that it was.

- Why are you doing this? - You ruined my life.

(Harrow) Maxine and I found a piece of evidence

that put Chester at every murder he'd committed.

(Pavich) Sometimes we have to trust that the other is doing the right thing.

(Chester) Are you curious how your daughter's doing?

(Fern) Don't go to the Bettie. It's not safe.

I think that could be him.

I'm going to send you a photo of him, okay?

(Nichols) Jesus Christ, Harrow.

What the hell is going on here?

No. No, no, no, no. Th...

This isn't right!

You better explain yourself, Harrow.

I was inside that coffin.

He put me in there.

- Who? - Francis Chester.

He injected me with something here, into my arm.

And when I woke up, I was in that grave.

He buried me alive, Bryan! He wanted me dead!

So Chester dug this hole.

No. No, I did that.

Jesus Christ.

I was right!

Chester's body's not in there because he's not dead!

- Harrow... - Just look inside.

You'll see. Everything I've told you is true!

No! No, no!

No one's to touch that until Scenes of Crime get here.

- (uniform) Yes, sir. - Harrow!

Get the hell out of there! Harrow!

I'm telling you, he's alive!

- (Nichols) Have you lost your mind? - (straining)

(uniform) I'm going to call for back-up.

(theme music playing)

- (Nichols) Okay, lock it down. - I'm on to it.

You're coming with me.

He must have put the body back inside after he dug me up.

Hang on. So now you're saying there was a body in the coffin

before you were put inside?

I don't know.

He injected me before I had a chance to find out.

Look, I need a blood test.

Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in?

- That's what you're worried about? - You're what I'm worried about!

I'm not making this up!

Look, I want to help you, but look at it from my side, Harrow.

It just doesn't make any sense!

Why would Chester go to all the trouble of digging you up after burying you?

Because he didn't kill Fern.

What?

There was a phone with me inside the coffin.

He showed me footage. He tried to kill Fern on the Bettie.

He wanted me to watch her die!

- Well, where's that phone now? - I don't know.

Look, Fern got away.

That's why he dug me back up.

He wants me to suffer.

He said he'd take away everything that I hold dear and he meant it.

Bryan, please. You have to call her.

(cell phone chimes)

Jesus.

Well, I don't need to.

She's already at CIB.

(Callan) Hey, this is Callan.

Leave a message if you're good looking.

Cal, it's me. Can you give me a call as soon as you get this?

Thanks.

He's not answering.

Dad!

Oh!

Thank God. Thank God you're okay.

I'm so sorry this happened.

- I should never have doubted myself. - Fern?

Why are you here?

Because Francis Chester tried to kill me.

Okay. I need to speak to Fern alone.

Sure, but I need that blood test.

Whatever Chester injected me with is already being metabolised.

And we will get it organised.

But right now, I need to speak to your daughter. You wait here.

- Dad? - Just tell him the truth.

Come on.

What the hell?

You smell! What's happened?

- I dug up Chester's grave. - You what?

Excuse me.

And? Was it empty?

Look, I can't stay. I need to get this blood test.

I'll call you.

Don't let her out of your sight.

Dr. Harrow? Detective Nichols asked you to wait here.

Am I being charged with anything?

Then I'm leaving.

Try being married to him.

- (Nichols) Were you injured? - (Fern) No.

Did this man touch you?

No. But he had a syringe in his hand. It was Francis Chester.

So you got a good look at him?

Well, it was... it was dark,

but I'm pretty sure it was the same guy I saw in my dad's laptop files.

But you didn't see those files until after you got out of the Bettie?

Yes, that's right.

It was him!

- It was Francis Chester! - Fern, I really want to believe you.

But I... I don't have any proof.

Well, let's go to my dad's boat then. I'll show you exactly what happened.

But... hang on a tick!

I locked the door behind me and then I got out, out of the top hatch.

Okay, this door's unlocked now.

Yes. He was trying to open it from the other side.

I saw it turning, the lock.

Is that your father's phone?

Yeah, it looks like it.

I thought you said Chester had your father's phone?

Well, yeah, he did. He texted me from it.

(suspenseful music playing)

I'm not making this up.

- I never said you were. - Then do your job.

Dust for fingerprints!

Call the forensics team in! He was right here!

Yes! Yes!

Look, I told you, Chester had a syringe!

- But only one syringe, is that right? - Yes.

Then whose are those?

I don't know.

Chester must have left them there.

They're not dad's.

Fern, I know how much you care for your dad,

but if you're making this up, it won't help him.

Chester was here and he tried to kill me!

Well... Fern!

What happened? What did he say?

He thinks dad's on drugs.

What?

(cell phone ringing)

- Hello? - (man 1) Is this Fern Harrow?

Yeah. Who's this?

This is St Catherine's Hospital.

We've have you listed as the emergency contact for Callan Prowd?

There's been an accident.

- I thought you were suspended? - I am.

That's not his usual look, right?

- I've seen worse. - (knock on door)

I need your help.

Francis Chester?

- I thought he was... - Dead?

No.

He tried to kill Fern too.

Is she okay?

Well, she's a little shaken, but she seemed all right.

She's with the police.

And you?

I'm lucky to be alive.

But digging me back up wasn't part of his plan.

I just hope whatever he injected me with is still in my system.

So, what are we looking for?

Any type of fast-acting sedative, midazolam, ketamine, chloral hydrate.

He knocked me out quickly to get me inside that coffin.

And you've told the police?

Nichols. I don't think he believes me.

That's it. All done.

Thank you.

- Daniel? - I take it Bryan called you?

I needed to check inside that coffin, Max.

- Yes, and you were wrong. But, Daniel... - I was wrong about it being empty.

Daniel... I've had a call from Roma Street.

There's been an accident.

Callan's in hospital. They're not sure if he'll survive.

Go.

You took his bloods?

When the results come back, I want to see them immediately.

(footsteps moving away)

(Fern) He's still in surgery. He smacked his head on the pavement.

They did a scan, they say there's a bleed to the brain.

- Dad, is he going to be okay? - I hope so.

Nichols found drugs on the Bettie.

(Harrow) Tell me what happened.

There was a used syringe and a whole stack of vials.

He thinks you're using.

Those are not my drugs.

- Chester must have put them there. - Yeah, that's what I told him.

But you can't prove it.

You... You can't prove any of it.

I'm trying.

We just need to stay safe until they ID that body.

Then they'll know that everything we've told them is true.

Okay?

(Doug) So where's the body now?

It's still in SITU at the cemetery.

We've cordoned off the area to make sure no one interferes with the corpse.

A little late for that, isn't it?

Yeah.

- Has he been charged? - He claims he didn't touch the body,

so I can't charge him with anything more serious than vandalism

until we establish whether he did.

But either way, Harrow is adamant it's not Chester's body.

Is there any reason to think he may be right?

No. No, no valid reason.

And yet, Dr Harrow forged your signature

and dug up one of the state's most notorious killers

because he thinks we buried the wrong body.

(Pavich) We didn't get it wrong.

We didn't.

Laurie Badcoe checked that body against the prison dental records.

It's him.

Well, it's technically a crime scene.

- How do you want to handle it, Bryan? - Well, I think we should ID the remains.

It'd put this whole thing to rest once and for all.

Fine. Bring it in here, get it done.

But let's keep it quiet.

And if Harrow's right?

And it's not Chester's body in that coffin?

Then we'll all have things to answer for.

(heart monitor beeping)

What happened to you, baby?

You should go back to our hotel and get some sleep.

I hate hotels.

I don't want to leave Fern.

I'll be here.

He's not going to try anything with all these people around.

Go.

Call if you need me.

(beeping)

Max, do you think Harrow could be self-medicating?

I found drugs on his boat.

Injectable ampoules and a used syringe. I've asked Scientific to check it out.

I don't know.

Uh, let's just get this done.

How did he get inside the coffin if there was already a body in there?

I don't know, Lyle.

But if Harrow touched this corpse, I want to know about it.

Right. I'm sure you're all aware of the sensitive nature of this

regarding Dr Harrow and the illegal exhumation of the deceased.

Bearing that in mind,

I'd like this taken care of as quickly and quietly as possible.

The sooner we can confirm that this is in fact Francis Chester,

the sooner we can put it all behind us.

Unless Harrow is right.

♪ When it rained five days ♪

♪ And the sky turned dark as night ♪

(distant siren)

♪ Them troubles takin' place ♪

♪ In the lowlands at night ♪

♪ I woke up this mornin' ♪

♪ Can't even get out of my door ♪

♪ I woke up this mornin' ♪

♪ Can't even get out of my door ♪

(heart monitor beeping)

(sighs)

(mobile phone beeps)

(Edwina) A multiple murderer?

Yes.

You know, I remember the case well.

Francis Chester was an anaesthetist who'd immobilise his victims,

then strangle the females while their boyfriends watched.

(scoffs) Doctors.

And Harrow found the evidence to convict him?

Harrow and Pavich.

- Maxine was on the case? - Oh, yes.

She was just as determined to put Chester behind bars as Harrow.

Quite right too.

This man was a monster.

- But it almost didn't happen. - (Grace) Why's that?

Well, the key piece of evidence in the prosecution's case

were the tiny traces of succinic acid

that Harrow found in Chester's male victims.

He claimed that it proved that Chester injected them with succinylcholine.

But the defence argued that succinic acid naturally occurs in the body

and so the evidence was dismissed.

So Chester almost got off?

Almost. Until Harrow burned the midnight oil, conducted new tests,

and found tiny traces of propofol in the female victims.

Propofol. That's a sedative, isn't it?

Mm. Fast acting, very powerful.

But unlike succinic acid, it is not naturally occurring.

Where did Harrow find it?

In the liver tissue of the female victims.

It was the final day of the trial.

Everyone thought that Chester was going to walk.

The propofol Harrow found is what convicted him.

It was really a very clever find on Harrow's part.

Quite brilliant really.

Makes you wonder how things came to this.

You okay, sweetheart?

No.

How... How badly did the shooting affect him, do you think?

Well, some blokes get shot and they're back at work in a fortnight.

Some get shot and they're ruined for life.

That's what I'm afraid of.

(Grace) That's our scan.

And this is the one Laurie Badcoe did

immediately after the prison fire six months ago.

- What are we looking for exactly? - Anything to indicate it's the same body.

Height's a match.

Rib count?

12 in both.

It says here that the deceased fractured his collarbone

in a skateboarding accident when he was eight years old.

Check the right clavicle.

(Edwina) There. I see it.

(Fairley) That's it. It's present in both scans.

The CT's match.

You know, a lot of kids fracture their collarbones.

Let's cross-check with the prison dental records as well.

(Grace) One six, removed.

Check.

One five, restored, two amalgam fillings, occlusal and buccal.

Check.

One four, ceramic crown.

(Fairley) Check.

Grace?

Is that all of them?

Yes.

Dental is a match as well.

Then it's conclusive.

This is the body of Francis Chester.

So Dr Harrow got it wrong?

So it seems.

So is it confirmed?

The body Harrow dug up's Francis Chester?

It matched Badcoe's PM and the prison dental records.

(sighs)

What will happen to Daniel?

I really don't think there's any coming back from this.

I don't get it, Maxine.

Harrow loves his job.

Why would he lie to you, lie to the Deputy Coroner,

risk criminal charges and his career to dig this guy up?

Could we be looking at the wrong body? Could there have been a mistake?

You really think that Laurie Badcoe got it wrong?

That the prison got it wrong?

No.

Harrow's mistake was forging my signature

and digging up a man no one wants to remember.

But he seemed so convinced.

Grace, Bryan thinks that Harrow is suffering from PTSD.

Okay, so you said he hasn't been the same since he was shot.

Seeing Harrow throw away his career like this, that is not easy for any of us.

Listen, I suggest that we just learn from this and do our jobs.

(beep)

(door clicks)

(beeping)

(microwave buzzing)

(softly humming)

(bag unzipping)

(gasps)

(footsteps)

(knocking)

- (Grace) Daniel? - (exhales)

Are you in there?

Oh. Sorry.

- Are you okay? - Yeah. Yeah, come on in.

(latch clicks)

Are my results back? From my blood test?

Uh, not yet.

We've ID'd the corpse you dug up.

We compared the prison dental records with Badcoe's post-mortem CT.

It's a match.

It's a match with a body that's not Francis Chester's.

Those records have been altered!

That's impossible.

And yet, a dead man buried me alive and tried to kill my daughter.

Sorry.

Do you know how I felt...

when I was locked inside that coffin?

In the moments before I blacked out?

I thought I'd be scared.

But I wasn't.

At least, not for myself. But I was terrified for Fern.

What he was going to do to her.

And in that moment...

all I wanted to do...

was put my hands around his throat and do to him what he wanted to do to Fern...

what he did to all those innocent people he murdered.

To Simon.

I wanted to squeeze the last breath from his body...

and watch him die.

Chester's alive.

And I will end this.

But you're still not sure.

No, I'm not doubting that something happened to you.

- I... - But you are!

It's really quite simple.

Either I've lost my mind and put everything I care about in jeopardy

because of some insane delusion.

Or I'm right.

(engine starts)

(line ringing)

(Laurie) Badcoe.

It's Harrow.

You need to get yourself down here.

Now.

- Sarge? - (knocks)

Forensics have taken a look at Harrow's phone.

Only one set of prints was found.

Harrow's?

What about those ampoules I found on his boat?

- Do we know what's inside them? - Hopefully tomorrow.

Same with the syringe.

Okay. Thanks, Jo.

(soft groan)

(phone ringing)

- Nichols. - (Grace) Bryan. It's Grace.

Have you identified the body?

Apparently.

(Nichols) And?

And the records all matched. They say it's Francis Chester.

What do you think?

I still have questions.

(Nichols) Is there, uh...

anything else you can do...

to prove that it might not be Chester?

Maybe. But it's a long shot.

We can compare the DNA with Chester's original arrest swab

from 15 years ago, but it'll take time.

Do it.

Is anyone here?

(door opens)

(footsteps)

Who are you?

Uh, I'm Fern Harrow. Callan's girlfriend.

I'm Callan's boss.

How's he doing? We haven't heard anything.

That's actually why I'm here.

I was wondering if there's anyone I could talk to about the accident.

- Right. - Anyone who saw him get hit?

Well, I wasn't here last night.

- Okay. Well, who was? - Our other kitchen hand. Frank.

Great. Can I get Frank's number?

We don't give out employee numbers.

Please. I... I just want to know what Callan was doing out there.

Was he going somewhere? Did Frank see him leave?

We really like Callan. We do.

But what happened to him, it's not our fault.

- I didn't say it was. - Now I think you should just leave.

Okay. Well, I'll give him your regards.

Arsehole.

A body came into the morgue six months ago. John Doe.

It was...

a homeless guy who died in a fire.

As far as I knew, that body was sent to the crematorium,

but after you called...

I found a document, signed by me,

saying that the transfer had been cancelled.

I don't remember signing that document,

but on that very same day, there was a prison fire.

The fire that killed Chester.

So who was transporting the bodies?

Rhonda did most of the runs.

So she somehow brought that body into the prison

and left with Chester in the van?

You have to tell the police.

- They can talk with Rhonda! - Rhonda's gone, Dan.

Packed up, shot through. I don't know where she's gone.

There must be some other evidence.

- Paper trail, something? - She knew about my drinking.

I relied on her.

I signed everything she put in front of me.

She had my log-in ID. She had access to the archives.

There's nothing to prove any of this.

Then you have to tell the police what you know.

They'll have no choice, but to look into it.

And if I admit this, every single one of my cases will be questioned.

Evidence will be re-examined, convictions will be overturned,

and the victims' families will have to go through that pain again.

And your career will be ruined,

and you'd lose your reputation, your job, your pension.

My daughter was attacked.

Chester wants to hurt my family and all you want to do is protect yourself?

You're a coward.

Hm.

Even if I did tell the cops, all they'd have is the word of a drunk.

Get off my boat.

(bag unzipping)

I thought you weren't rostered on today?

I'm not.

(bag unzipping)

But I could use a hand.

(bag unzipping)

(Chester) Now I have the chance to do more than kill you once.

Now I will take away everything that you hold dear.

Everything you love.

Everything that makes your life worth living.

(Fairley) Dr Molyneux, what are you doing?

I'm collecting another tissue sample.

What for?

To run a check against the national DNA database.

- No one's done that yet. - Because no one needed to.

The prison dental records matched.

- Badcoe's CT scan matched. - What if Badcoe got it wrong?

I can't see how that's possible.

No DNA sample was taken from Chester's body after the prison fire.

The only DNA sample there is on file is the one taken from Chester

when he was arrested, 15 years ago.

So I want to compare this new sample to that arrest swab on the national database.

I need to be sure.

About Harrow?

All right, Dr Molyneux.

Let's give it a shot. I'll scrub up.

Harrow's blood test results?

They found high levels of propofol in his system.

Maxine...

it's a sedative, the same one Francis Chester used.

Yes, I know what propofol is.

Thank you, Dr Molyneux.

(heart monitor beeping)

(Pavich) Your bloods came back.

- What did Grace find? - Are you self-medicating?

- No. - You know propofol's highly addictive.

Yes, but I'm not using.

Bryan found drugs on your boat. Syringes, ampoules.

They're not mine. Chester put them there.

Chester's dead. Grace positively ID'd his remains.

He's alive.

What?

This is my fault.

I let you go back to work too early after the shootings. I...

I thought getting back on the job would help.

Maxine, I don't have anxiety or psychosis, and I'm not abusing drugs!

- Then why won't you let this go? - Because it's the truth!

And once upon a time, Daniel, I would've believed you.

But not this time! You have gone too far!

I'm scared.

You know, I'm scared. I'm scared for Fern, for you, for all of us.

You are too good a pathologist to throw away a career like this.

You're too good a friend to lose.

You're breaking my heart.

Listen, I... I can get you whatever help you need.

Okay? But please, please tell me the truth.

I am.

The, um...

The Deputy Coroner is holding an emergency tribunal tomorrow to decide your future.

He's expecting you to be there.

As your boss, I advise you to turn up and tell them the truth.

Or the career that you love will be over.

Everything I hold dear.

- Listen, you really shouldn't be here. - Okay, I've just got to ask you something.

Whatever it is, you need to go through a solicitor.

Just one thing!

Do you recognise the guy in this photo?

Do you?

That's Frank. Our kitchen hand.

- Shit. - You've reached Daniel Harrow.

Leave a message and I'll return your call.

Some night.

Dad, it's me.

I'm on the way to the hospital. I need to talk to you.

Can you give me a call the second you get this?

(engine starts)

(coffin creaking)

(thud)

(soil flowing)

(alarm sounds)

(female automated voice) There has been an emergency reported in the building.

Leave the building immediately using marked stairways and exits.

Do not use elevators.

- (alarm sounds) - (people conversing)

There has been an emergency reported in the building.

Leave the building immediately using marked stairways and exits.

Do not use elevators.

(sounds of a struggle)

(groaning)

- What have you given him? - Succinylcholine.

Damn shame. He would have made a great chef.

Bye, Daniel.

Ooh!

I'm not letting you leave.

Well, you have a choice to make.

You can either try and stop me or you can try and save the boy.

(heart monitor alarm sounding)

Did I mention it was a very strong dose?

(groans)

(Harrow) Come on, Callan! Come on!

- (pounding chest) - (grunting)

(Fire-fighter) We'll both head up into the lobby.

We'll break out the hoses, get around the back. We'll get it all set.

You check the boards in the lobby.

(automated voice) Leave the building immediately

using marked stairways and exits.

Do not use elevators.

(heart monitor alarm sounding)

(beeps)

(defibrillator whining as it charges)

(thump)

(alarm beeping)

(defibrillator charging)

- (thump) - (alarm beeping)

- (defibrillator charging) - Please, don't let him do this!

(thump)

- (breathing) - (beeping)

(laughing)

(sirens)

It's good to see you again.

(theme music playing)