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(groaning)

(mumbled sleep talking) (distant screaming)

(baby crying)

- No!

No, no.

- Oh Dad by the way,

did I mention Hannah wants me to work full time,

well part time in the general store

and part time in time in the tea room

so that's the same thing.

I said I'd ask you.

- Anything that keeps you out of mischief is fine by me.

- Well it's a bit more lady like than chasing puddy cats

don't you think?

- So what sort of night did you have?

Duncan?

- Sorry I wasn't...

- Do you want to talk about it?

- [Duncan] About what?

- I mean what's troubling you at night, your nightmares.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- Well there's been three or four times now

when you've woken us with your yelling.

- No it's nothing.

- Well if there's anything we can do.

- It's too late for that Matt.

- Doesn't he understand that we're his friends

and we care about him?

And that his suffering's our suffering?

- You've been reading too many

of those potboilers young lady.

- How are your eggs? - Fine.

- Do you want some more?

- No thanks, got work to do.

(dramatic music)

- Keep going.

- Good day gentlemen.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to bail out,

if that's not too much trouble.

- Now why would we want to do that son?

- I wouldn't mind taking a look

at what's making those fine looking horses so weary.

It's not so much me, it's me mates,

they were saying they might want to relive them

of some of their load, so would you mind

if I took a look at what you got?

- Do we have a choice?

- No I suppose you don't, go on.

(suspenseful music)

You should put them horses out to pasture,

they make heavy weather from pulling nothing.

(gun firing) (groaning)

(horse whinnying) (guns firing)

Come on let's go! (shouting)

(gun firing) (groaning)

- So much for the locals.

- Giddy up.

(dramatic music)

(majestic orchestral music)

- I can only say what I was told.

She's bought the hotel, our hotel.

As leader of the church choir I want to know

what you ladies are prepared to do about it.

- There's no room for that kind of establishment

at Paterson's Ridge.

I'm sure we all agree.

- Yes.

(pleasant orchestral music)

(sighing)

- [Jessie] Thank you.

- Look at the way she dresses.

We all know where that came from.

- Jezebel.

- I don't see how I can help Matt.

I mean sure I'd like to, but I scarcely know the man.

- Yeah, well I've tried and he's just clammed up.

- Sounds like pretty personal stuff.

Nightmares you said?

- Yeah and not just ordinary nightmares either.

This man's been in a troubled way since the day he arrived.

- Well maybe we shouldn't butt in.

Maybe he'll open up when he's good and ready.

- Yeah maybe, but as Danni said

we can't just stand back and watch him suffer.

- Danni said that? - Yeah.

- You know, in a teenage fashion.

- Uh huh.

And what makes you think he'll confide in me

when he won't in anybody else?

- You're a woman. (laughing)

- Okay I'll give it a shot.

- Thanks.

- Ma'am. - Hello.

- Good morning.

- [Jessie] Who's that girl over there with the long hair?

- It's the minister's wife, Emily McGregor.

(dramatic music)

- [Montana] Good morning Hannah.

- Good morning how are you today?

- Good.

Excuse me, doesn't that coffee smell wonderful?

- I wouldn't know,

I haven't been able to smell a thing for months.

- Oh right, I forgot. (laughing)

How are things out at Langara?

- Good, yeah they treat me like family.

- Oh they got a habit of doing that.

All the strays seem to congregate out there.

- Thanks very much.

- Duncan, tell me to mind my own business if you want,

but is something bothering you?

- So what else did Matt tell you?

- Oh only that you were, well, having bad dreams.

- Hasn't a man got a right to any privacy?

- He's worried about you.

We all are.

- Hang on, who's we?

- The McGregors, me.

- That's alright,

just as long as it's not the whole of Paterson's Ridge.

- Oh Duncan.

- I can work it out for myself.

- [Montana] Work what out?

- Montana listen to me,

there are things that a man just can't speak of, okay?

There are things that lie and fester on his conscience,

things that eventually destroy him.

No more.

- I am sorry.

I didn't realize.

(dramatic music)

- [Jessie] Please call me Jessie.

- Alright, Jessie, call me Matt.

Some of the boys said you were looking for me.

- That's right.

I've got something for you. - Oh yeah?

- From Rob.

- You bumped into Rob, well how is he?

- Fine, and the cattle drive's going well.

He and his men camped just a few miles outside Canada,

I had a small establishment there.

He said you'd be anxious for news.

- Well I mean not so much anxious you know,

I wonder how he's getting along and all that.

- Rob got it wrong,

sounded like he knew his father better than that.

- So he mentioned me huh?

- Once or twice.

I was beginning to wonder if there was anyone

in the high country but Matt McGregor

and your daughter Danni and Kathleen and Michael and Josh

and Colin and Emily.

- Very good.

- You'll want to read that, I'll give you some privacy.

- Well thank you, oh and thanks for delivering it.

- My pleasure.

- Would you like to come around my place, Langara,

and have some dinner, meet the rest of the family?

- That's very kind of you, but it's not necessary.

- Oh no I insist.

If you want to get to know Paterson's Ridge

then the best place to start is with the McGregors.

- Alright, thank you.

- Good, I'll fix it up with Danni and Emily,

they run the place.

- I look forward to it.

(suspenseful music)

- Captain King.

- Stand aside and take your hand off my horse.

- It can't be.

You're dead.

- Stand aside I said.

- No no no, they said I was the only survivor.

- Then they were wrong.

Three of us managed to get off on the ship's bow.

Three of us, out of 120.

Oh and you Mr. Jones.

(thudding)

Better you drowned with the rest of them.

- Giddy up.

- Now I reckon it's about time you gave me an explanation.

- His name is King.

Captain Ezra King of the clipper ship Gallant Lady.

We were in the China Seas heading for Hong Kong,

and we hit squally weather.

It was very low visibility,

all the crew had gone down with gut rot.

- With what?

- Oh the cook had served up some sort of stew

with salt pork,

And I was the only one who hadn't touched it,

and I was the only one who wasn't too sick to man the wheel.

There was no danger,

the only reefs in the area were 10 degrees to port.

All I had to do was to keep the ship on course,

but I put her onto the reef,

hard,

and I ripped the bottom right out of her and she went down.

With all the hands, with all the passengers.

I killed them Matt, 120 men, women and children.

- So this is what you're dreams are about, your nightmares.

- But it gets worse

because if King is real maybe they all are,

maybe I just dreamt the whole thing.

That can't be because,

I saw it, I was there,

(tense music)

And I know what happened, I know Matt.

- We'll find the truth. (dramatic music)

- Thank you. - Oh I like it.

- Hello.

Business looks as if it's picking up.

I thought you might like a hand.

- Emily you should be resting.

- Oh Danni don't you start.

Colin won't let me do a thing,

it's as if I was made of china.

- Well there is a resemblance.

- I'm bored Danni, fed up with needlework and knitting.

- Well you can make some more tea.

- Sorry, I hate to be such a grouch,

I know everyone's just thinking of me.

- And the baby. - Thanks.

- Oh.

Have you noticed nobody's actually eating anything?

They've all got their mouths too full of gossip.

- [Emily] Who's the topic this time?

- The woman that's just taken over the Railway Hotel,

she is a woman with a past, a scarlet woman

and Dad's invited her over for dinner.

It'll be the social event of the year.

May even get in the society pages.

"Seen dining at the Langara homestead,

"the mysterious and glamorous Mrs. Jessie McClusky,

"late of," well whatever she's late of.

- What was that?

- [Danni] Well you want me to say it all again?

- What was that name?

- [Danni] McClusky, Jessie McClusky.

- Oh. (thudding) - Emily.

- Not now, I'm alright.

- Emily?

- Hey what's the matter? - Nothing.

- What have you done to your hair?

- Nothing, leave me alone.

- It seems that our mysterious Captain King

bought Windury Station. - Windury?

- Windury would have to be the largest property

in the whole district, I mean it's half the size of England.

So Captain King must be a very wealthy man.

- Well then he must've collected the insurance money

from the shipwreck.

- No Danni, that's not really the way it works.

You see the owners of the ship collect the insurance money,

or the owner's of the cargo, not the captain.

- Well then how did King become so rich?

- Well no one really knows,

but it has been confirmed that the Gallant Lady

did founder in the South China Sea.

- That much of Duncan's nightmare is true then.

- I'm afraid so.

- From what you've said Dad it would seem that,

Duncan's scars could be more mental than physical.

- He's not loony if that's what you're implying Colin.

- That's not what I'm implying, I'm,

well I'm talking about guilt.

If he was behind the wheel when that ship went aground

then that's a heavy burden to carry.

- Unless I'm mistaken, you think it was Duncan's fault,

that he was responsible for those deaths?

- Well that's not fair Colin,

no one really knows what happened.

- I'm not saying that,

I'm saying that if Duncan believes that it was his fault

then the guilt may be the cause for the nightmares.

- Well I think you're being awful.

- Let me remind you two that we do have guest amongst us.

- Of course, my apologies Mrs. McClusky.

- Sorry.

- I hope Emily didn't scald herself too badly.

- No, no she'll be fine,

no she just wasn't up to dinner that's all.

- Well she only splashed herself.

- She sends her regrets,

she hasn't been feeling well at all,

the pregnancy.

- I completely understand Colin,

I wish her a speedy recovery.

- I'll pass that on.

I'm sure you'll have a chance to catch up.

- I certainly hope so.

- Well I think I'll go and check on Duncan.

- Danni he's not an invalid.

I'm sure if he needs something he'll ask for it.

- No.

(mumbled sleep talking) (distant screaming)

(gasping) (distant screaming)

- [Echoing Woman] Don't Duncan, don't Duncan.

(baby crying)

- No.

- You're at fault.

You, you, it was you.

(baby crying)

- No, no.

(baby crying) No!

- I reckon if we ride the gully down to Milan Creek

we might pick up a few stray scrubbers down there.

- Alright.

- Look Duncan is there anything more you want to talk about?

- No there is nothing more.

- It's just that those nightmares are still with you.

Worse than ever by the sound of it.

I heard you again last night.

- I just can't understand how King came here you know?

Out of the blue, or how he bought this huge cattle station.

I mean he was a gambler, he was a drinker,

he came aboard the Gallant Lady

one step ahead of the bailiff.

He was right.

It would've been better off if I had drowned.

- Even though he originally came from Paterson's Ridge

Duncan's like a stranger now,

he's still adjusting and it'll take a while.

I reckon we should all pitch in and help.

- Yeah well I've tried,

but no one would take me seriously.

- Danni I understand, really, I know you like him.

- I never said that.

- Sorry.

- Well I never said that I liked him.

- Okay, all I meant was that you're friends right?

- Yeah well I don't know about that.

He still treats me like I'm a kid.

- Well be that as it may.

We can all do our bit to ease him through this.

- Yeah well I'm sure you're doing your bit.

- And what's that supposed to mean for heaven's sake?

- Nothing.

Have you heard from Rob lately, written to him?

- Rob?

- Yes Rob my brother.

- I know who Rob is, I just didn't get the connection.

What has Rob got to do with anything?

- Well nothing apparently,

not now that Duncan's on the loose.

- Come to think of it, you are behaving like a child.

See you later.

- [Danni] Montana.

- [Matt] Hello!

Hello anyone?

- [Duncan] The rider can't be far away.

- Duncan, over here.

(dramatic music)

He's been shot in the back.

(dramatic music)

- Ladies, we cannot turn a blind eye.

It's time we made our feelings known.

We must stand up and protest what is valuable to us.

Paterson's Ridge is a decent and moral town

and we want it to stay that way.

It is up to us to make it clear

that women of loose morals and depraved standards

aren't wanted here.

♫ Onward Christian soldiers

♫ Marching as to war

♫ With the cross of Jesus going on before

♫ Christ the royal master

♫ Leads against the foe

♫ Forward into battle

♫ See his banners go

(glass shattering) (thudding)

(suspenseful music)

- You're not wanted here.

- By whom Emily?

Who doesn't want me here?

- No one wants you here, can't you see that?

The whole town wants you gone,

we won't have your kind here in Paterson's Ridge.

- Emily?

- Yes, well you've made your feelings quite clear.

- I think that's enough.

This is no way to treat a newcomer to our town.

I'm ashamed.

Regular churchgoers.

I think all of you should go home, go.

Mrs. McClusky I'm terribly sorry.

The church will make good any damage done here.

My wife hasn't been herself, the baby...

- No Colin, don't you dare say that.

Don't make excuses for me, just tell her to go.

- It's alright. - No.

It will never be alright, not while she's here.

- Excuse me.

(dramatic music)

Emily. (horse neighing)

Wait.

Where are you going? - To our house.

- Our house isn't finished yet.

- I know that, I just want some peace.

- This is not like you Emily.

- I did not throw the stone.

- The stone is neither here nor there.

- I did not throw that stone.

- Alright, I believe you, I believe you.

Will you please tell me what this is all about.

- Jessie McClusky.

- I gathered that.

What is it that you've got against her?

- I'm surprised at you Colin.

You're the minister of this parish.

You're supposed to set the standards,

to uphold the moral values we all live by.

You can't seriously allow a woman of her reputation

to set up in Paterson's Ridge.

- I know no more about Mrs. McClusky's past than you do,

but I'm not about to judge her on the basis

of unfounded rumor.

I'm surprised that you are.

- Perhaps I know more about her than you do.

- Well regardless we are obliged to forgive the sinner.

- Even if we don't know what those sins are?

Is that right Colin?

You forgive all regardless?

- What's in the past is in the past.

- [Emily] Yes.

- Whatever happened before met her, it doesn't matter.

- What are you saying Colin?

- Well I'm saying that everyone

is entitled to a fresh start.

If for instance the rumors regarding Jessie McClusky's past

are true and she's seen the error of her ways

then it's our Christian duty to forgive her.

- And?

- Obviously the same goes for you.

- You think I was one of them?

- What?

- You think I was one of Jessie McClusky's girls.

(slapping) (dramatic music)

- This track's hardly ever used,

the other one's better and safer.

Unless that is you've got something you want to hide.

- [Duncan] Matt, Matt, another body.

- That makes three of them.

- That's a shotgun, they didn't stand a chance.

- Well at least these two weren't shot in the back.

Better give their horses a drink.

- Yeah.

- You know what this looks like to me?

It looks like it was some sort of hold up.

There's the men up there near those rocks,

the one you just found.

Now these are tracks from a heavily loaded wagon,

and there's some hoof prints here too from a saddle horse.

And my guess is, that that man we found earlier

stood here in the road and tried to stop them.

- And they gunned him down.

- Yep, as he tried to make his getaway.

- So all this for what, for a wagon load of farm goods?

- A heavily loaded wagon.

There was one man with a shotgun,

another with a rifle and one on horseback.

Now does that sound familiar.

(dramatic music)

- Captain King.

- I want you to head over to Mansfield

and bring back some troopers.

- What if King and his men get away?

- Well we know where they're headed, Windury, can't get far.

Now I want you to steer clear

of Paterson's Ridge do you hear?

You let the troopers handle King.

- Yeah sure.

(suspenseful music)

- [Hannah] Mr. Jones, you will be needing ammunition?

- Yeah a box of 100 please.

- Marching off to war Duncan?

- Just going hunting.

- Well Dad could've lent you a rifle,

so could I for that matter.

- I thought it was about time I got my own.

- So are you a good shot?

- Well I can hit a barn door from six paces.

- As long as it's standing still right?

Listen I've been thinking about Captain King.

Well if he and his men were fit enough to launch a boat

and make it safely to land,

well they couldn't have eaten the bad stew either

so why did they save themselves and nobody else?

- Well that's what I intend to find out.

- You know I didn't meant that.

How could I think such a thing of you?

Your love and understanding

mean more to me than anything in the world.

- What about me?

Do you understand me?

- I thought I did,

'til today.

- These are my true colors I'm afraid.

I've just pushed so many things away, tried to bury them.

That never works does it?

We're all haunted by our memories.

I'm sorry if I misled you.

It was never my intention.

- I don't understand.

What things?

- You're a fine man Colin,

you have a fine family.

I don't know if I deserve you.

- You can't do this by yourself Duncan,

there's three of them all armed to the teeth.

Are you crazy?

- I used to be, not anymore.

- Well we have to go back and get Dad he'll know what to do.

Well then I'm coming with you.

- No.

- What are you gonna do?

Shoot me with your new rifle?

- I've thought about it a lot.

There should only ever have been the two of us and Josh,

that's different.

But it was a mistake to want more, to have this baby.

- How can you say that?

- Because I now have to face things I thought I never would.

There's no escape anymore.

- You're talking in riddles.

- What if the baby grows up to be like me.

- That's exactly what I want.

A beautiful little girl just like you.

- There's so many things you don't know Colin.

What if there's bad seed in here?

- How could there be?

- Quite easily I think.

You believe the best in everybody.

It never occurs to you to doubt.

That's the wonderful thing about you McGregors,

your openness, your kindness, your trust.

(dramatic music)

You took me in without question.

Gave me the family I never had.

- And not one of us have ever regretted that.

- But not everybody's like you,

some people don't even know what family is.

- But we do,

and we'll raise our daughter

just as we've been raising Josh.

- You don't have any doubts do you?

- Not when it comes to you.

- Oh Colin, I've tried so hard not to let you down.

- And you never will.

I have complete faith in you.

- Don't be so sure.

- Good morning Hannah.

- [Hannah] Oh good morning how are you today?

- Good, you seen anything of Duncan Jones today?

- Well yes, and I am deeply concerned.

- Pardon me?

- Well he's an angry young man.

- Oh what's he angry about now?

- A certain Captain King.

(action music)

(breathing heavily)

- [Duncan] Which way?

- I shouldn't show you.

- I have to do this Danni.

Can't you see there's no choice.

Somehow I have to get the truth out of King

or I'll find no peace for the rest of my life.

- They went this way.

- Alright. (action music)

- Blast the young hothead.

I told him to go straight to Mansfield

and bring back the troopers.

- According to Hannah Danni went with him.

- What?

Which way were they heading?

- Into the ranges toward Windury.

- I've seen what this man King is capable of doing.

Let's go.

(action music)

- They can't be far ahead now.

- Well I'm going up ahead on foot.

Wait here with the horses.

- Yeah sure.

(suspenseful music)

Don't ever do that again, leave me behind.

(shushing)

- I'm going to go and see what's inside there.

(suspenseful music)

Don't see a thing.

- [Danni] Let me take a look.

(suspenseful music)

- The rifle.

Danni what'd you do with the rifle?

- There's nothing here, just some old furniture.

- There's gotta be something.

- Wait there is something.

(shushing)

It's a trap door.

I can't open it, it's screwed down.

Here. (knocking)

- Here? - No back further.

(knocking) - Here?

- Yeah.

(suspenseful music)

- Come on, come on.

Danni, Danni I found it.

- [Man] And I found your little friend, now get out.

(suspenseful music)

- Well Mr. Jones,

didn't I tell you it would've been better

if you'd gone down with the ship?

Now you've got another one to take to hell with you.

(action music)

- This way.

- Ow.

Ow.

Ow.

- One thing I'll never forget is how to tie a good knot.

You won't be getting these undone.

- I saw the gold go aboard the Gallant Lady.

- Yeah.

- So how'd you get it off?

Not on the ship's boat, the sea was too rough.

- [Man] Well...

- I told you to keep your mouth shut.

- So Captain King, what are you going to do with us?

- I thought we might kill you both

then drop your bodies in the creek.

I know it's not exactly a burial at sea,

but under the circumstances it's the best we can do.

(thudding) (groaning)

- Duncan, can you hear me?

- Yeah yeah, yep.

Okay, okay, okay there's no need to panic.

- Who's panicking?

- We just need to work out a plan and keep calm okay?

- Duncan, I'll never to you,

I just wanted to say goodbye properly.

- Oh Danni please this is no time for being sentimental.

Anyway it's not goodbye, it's just a, perhaps au revoir.

- Duncan this is serious.

- Yeah well I had managed to work that out Danni.

- No I mean what I have to say.

I've been so silly and immature,

I should've let my true feelings show.

Montana was right, I really do like you.

- Montana?

- In fact I think I'm in love with you.

Duncan please kiss me before it's too late.

(emotional music)

(horse whinnying) (action music)

(thudding)

- Hold it.

(thumping)

- Now you and I are gonna have a little talk.

Get up.

- [Danni] Dad we're in here.

- So lead bars were loaded aboard the Gallant Lady

and then covered with a layer of sovereigns.

The real gold was loaded on board a ship bound for Melbourne

where Captain King and his men were waiting to collect.

- But it was still me who caused the wreck.

I was the one who put that ship onto the reef single handed.

- No don't you see, that was an essential part of the plan.

Now the chest full of lead had to disappear

before it reached Hong Kong,

otherwise the rouse would've been discovered.

King had to be sure

that the Gallant Lady never reached port.

- Well I achieved that for him no question.

- [Matt] Yeah but it wasn't your fault.

- I should have missed the reef by miles.

- Not with the compass out by a full 10 degrees.

You see what he did was he attached a magnet

to the compass binnacle

so when you thought you were steering

10 degrees clear of the reef,

you were actually heading straight for it.

- None of it was your fault Duncan.

(dramatic music)

- Would you like to join the others?

- I'm sorry I'm not feeling very sociable.

- You can't keep avoiding people.

They'll think something's wrong.

- I know.

I just need a little more time, will you grant me that?

- I'll grant you anything you want, I love you.

You're the mother of my child to be.

- Yes.

Oh Colin I'm so afraid.

- What are you afraid of?

- You don't know what it's like,

to feel abandoned, to feel unwanted,

and unloved.

That somehow it's your fault

even though you're only six years old.

Not to have what your friends have,

to be invited into their homes

and see how happy they were

and not able to invite them back,

in case someone should ask an awkward question.

To be constantly making excuses,

to keep a terrible secret no matter what.

- Secret?

- What if our daughter, if we do have a daughter,

turns out to be like her?

- You've lost me, like who?

- Jessie McClusky.

- Jessie McClusky?

What's she got to do with this?

- She's my mother.

(dramatic music)

- I can smell that coffee for miles.

Danni, Danni can I have a mug.

- It's seven with a slice of cake.

Oh and if you think anything I said

in my hour of peril meant anything you're sadly mistaken.

Just you been warned Duncan Jones,

if you ever kiss me like that again I'll,

well I'll slap you in the face,

that's if my hands aren't tied.

- Do you know what this means Danni?

I'm cured.

- Didn't you hear what I said?

I'm talking about something important, us.

And you prefer coffee.

- I'll leave you ladies alone to talk.

- I've thought of you so many times over the years.

Wondering how you turned out,

wanting to talk to you, I didn't realize how much I'd lost.

Thank you for giving me this chance to explain.

- There's no need for explanations,

I'm sure you had your reasons at the time.

I've spoken to the ladies of the church

and they've all agreed

that it would be uncharitable of them

to turn you away from our town.

- What about you?

- The ladies feel that everyone,

no matter dubious their history, is entitled

to leave their past behind and make a fresh start.

Paterson's Ridge is known for it, it's almost a tradition.

- I don't care what the sewing circle thinks.

What do you think?

- Who am I to break with tradition?

- You can't know what this means to me.

I'd like to try to make it up to you.

If you'll let me.

- The ladies of the church

are far more charitable than I am.

I have one condition,

while you remain in Paterson's Ridge

you will not speak to me again ever.

(dramatic music)

(pleasant orchestral music)