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Heartbeat, what do you miss when my baby kisses me?

Heartbeat, what does a love kiss say in my memory?

Well, don't blame me, Joe.

Did you think it was appropriate to have Carol interfering in a police

investigation?

Have you ever even heard of Box Jellyfish?

Well, that might be the leak of our worries.

There's a stranger asking after Carol.

Rosie was a blonde.

Sarah Wagner was a blonde.

I don't have to remind you the colour of Carol's hair, do I?

Where's she got to?

Carol, you never did tell me.

What are you doing in Marilla Bar?

G'day.

What's your place?

Well, uh, one of me mum's. Got a room booked.

Ernie Burden?

Ma?

Yes? This is Mr. Burden.

The celebrated jockey?

Too right.

I'm Lou.

Pleased to meet you.

I can't help but wondering, Ernie, what's a fine two -year -old like Banana

Bender doing in the Marilla Bar picnic, right?

Ah, look, Lou.

The owner reckons a few wins in piddling small -town meat like yours might

bolster his form when it comes to entering the bender in the Melbourne

Word to the wise.

Put the D's to the pub on this, Nag.

With yours truly in the saddle, I shall say no more.

Kenneth Murray's on her way. You ready?

Does she know why we want to see her?

Her husband might be a friend of mine, Miss Dawson, but I'm still a cop.

I'm as keen as you are to hear what she has to tell us and see how she reacts.

You don't need me for this.

I'm going to wait for Carol.

Whoa!

Bananabender! I've just seen him!

I'm far off about time.

I'm going to get one over you this year, Lou, no matter how short the odds. I'm

going to increase mistake.

I'm flabbergasted, Sergeant Flaherty.

You of all people ought to know that off -track betting is against the law.

If flood, fire, drought, storm, Ross River fever, a boil on the fetlock, or

other act of God or man should prevent that horse from starting, well, it won't

be me that has to worry about the state penal code.

Another 20 to win.

Sergeant.

My lovely Rosie.

Best mechanic I ever had.

She should never have gone off without Ozzie.

Oh, we thought he was a wrong end.

I can't say I disagree with you, Mr Scripps.

You keep that Mick MacDonald under close observation until we're absolutely sure

she's safe and sound.

I'm afraid he's out of the picture.

Sergeant Miller's orders.

We also serve to only stand and wait.

And I, for one, have done enough waiting and standing for one night, so go to

bed, the pair of you!

I don't have a clue where my brother is now.

I don't even know if he's still alive.

I don't know how he's supposed to feel or...

What am I supposed to say if I ever do find him?

All I do know is that Daniel was shipped off to Australia when he was a little

boy, eight years old, and dumped in some hellhole at a farm school.

Did you get to what, folks, too?

entering the picnic races, Miss Janet?

I don't know.

Seems Champion the Wonder Horse is running this year. So I hear.

You didn't get me here for a tip, Bert.

No, that'd be right.

This is Detective Sergeant Dawson.

She's from England.

We want to talk to you about Sarah Wagner.

So you've seen fence and come to have a squint at my piece of prime real estate.

It's just up here a ways. I'm afraid not, Mr. Urquhart. I'm looking for my

friend.

A sergeant? No, another English woman.

A blonde.

There might have been someone answering that description here earlier.

Went away in a Ute.

A utility beard.

Can't say I saw who was driving.

You'll have to wait here, Carol. You're not going to leave me out here in the

middle of nowhere, are you?

It's the middle of somewhere to us.

It's safer here than anywhere else on earth.

I'll get one of my brothers to drop you back in town.

What's this about? Now tell me.

You have a brother and you don't know where he is.

I have a sister and I'm telling nobody where she is.

She's having a baby.

It seems like it's all gone crook on her.

I've said too much already.

Has she got a midwife?

What do you know about how things go around here?

Why should you? I can help. Take me with you.

I can't do that, Carol.

What if something goes wrong?

Our women take care of each other. I'm a district nurse. I'm trained.

Come on, Nev. Who am I going to tell?

I trust her.

Come on, let's go.

Sarah Wagner was not what you'd call a friend, exactly.

We worked a summer job at a resort off the reef.

Travelled down together and she came to stay for a day or so.

I think she took a bus out west, wanted to see the Red Centre.

Just like Rosie.

But she never got back to Perth, did she, Janet? Look, Sarah was a free

That's what they said about Rosie.

So why did your mum make this report to the police?

A few weeks later, I'd already gone back to college.

Mum said you got a call from Sarah's dad.

From what Sarah said, she didn't get along too well with her parents.

I thought, you know, maybe she just followed her dreams.

Sometimes I wish I'd done the same.

Don't we all?

I can't say I lost too much sleep over it at the time.

Should I?

The reserve.

That my life is on the border.

What I've done, I didn't fear.

There's a river running through me.

Matt, why hasn't the sister got any medical assistance?

Well, it goes like this, Carol.

Lily worked as a domestic on a property out west.

When she found out she was expecting, she came back here to her own mom.

It's a white fellow that's her father, you see.

And what's that got to do with it?

Well, if she would have stayed, they'd have taken the baby off her.

That's government policy.

Bad secrets in this beautiful land.

Have you guys seen the sergeant?

Would you tell him there's a weirdo hanging around asking questions?

Did he have a ponytail?

You know the fella.

Which way did he go, Mrs Pike?

It's okay. Don't panic. This happens sometimes.

I'm here with you.

What's going on?

Nothing. It's okay.

The baby just needs a little help. That's all.

Mother and baby are doing well.

Go and say hello to your nephew now.

Yes, I appreciate that, Mr Wagner.

Yeah, of course, I'll let you know.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Not an easy call.

Seems Sarah Wagner never did make it back to Fremantle and her old man blames

the police.

Gave me an earful.

He reckons we never took it seriously enough.

Maybe it's time to reopen the investigation.

Who's your off -sider?

Joe? Yeah.

That's what I'd like to know.

Tears we share with understanding,

don't we stand?

Mongrel?

When are these people going to learn how to treat our land with respect?

There don't seem to be any witnesses who saw Sarah get on the bus.

Maybe she was hitchhiking.

Whatever old Mr Wagner thinks, I'd say my predecessors did a pretty thorough

job. State police, main roads police made inquiries at all the stops along

route she was supposed to have taken between here and the border.

Nobody saw her.

That's the point.

These missing females could be anywhere between here and the Indian Ocean.

It's not as if any bodies were ever found around here.

think of it no one seems to have asked our indigenous population if they know

anything hey i want a word with you young fella carol he hasn't done

was just showing me take care of it sister are you arresting me sergeant i

want to know if you noticed anything strange out at the res mate what am i

mate now am i no sergeant the famed flaming beauty spot as ever

Where the hell have you been?

Joe's been worried sick.

Is he really?

And here's me with a distinct impression you two are pretty keen to get rid of

me. Will you do me a favour, Carol, and go back to the hotel and stay put?

Carol Cassidy.

I saw you notice in the courier.

Oh, yeah, another one.

Hey!

What? Wait! Hey!

Hang on, mate!

I'm Danny.

Danny Cassidy.

Daniel? Do you know what you're doing? This is my brother.

Sorry, I thought... I got it wrong.

Where did you find me?

I don't mind telling your advert.

I've been working as a crop sprower on the fruit farms down south.

I rang the motel. They told me to get in touch with them. They were all about

police. So I borrowed the boss's plane and flew up here.

I can't believe it.

I've got work to do.

I'll leave you two to get acquainted.

Yeah, you do that.

I suppose we'll have to run another check on every one of these names.

Fair dinkum, mate.

Oh, I could. I don't mind.

Be my guest.

I'll clear it for you.

Records office.

Yeah, the records office.

Sergeant Flaherty, Merullabah.

Yeah, mate, we could do with some rain up here. You should see the state of my

lawn. Dry as a pommie's tail.

Yeah, it's pretty parched, if you ask me.

Look, I need authorisation for an English colleague of mine to have

A Detective Sergeant Dawson.

Yeah, righto.

Ah, just a turn of phrase, you know.

Any reflection on your personal hygiene or that of your countrymen?

Surely coincidental.

No, no offence.

And none taken, Sergeant Clarity.

It's Bert.

Right, then.

Bert.

I'm Rachel.

Rachel.

You're saying Bert.

Back with us then, Constable Mason?

I know. I took my eye off the ball. I'm sorry.

Now, would you like to tell me what's been going on, please?

Just easy, you lad.

Do you know what I want to talk to you about? Come on!

Clear up, or I shan't be responsible for now.

I'm bothering you, Mr. Strick. For crying out loud, Blue.

This your vehicle, sir?

You know very well it's not.

Belongs to the bloke I'm working for.

Now, suppose you do have his permission to take it off his property?

You got me there, piece of younger.

Perhaps we might take a trip down to the police station.

So I can have some... Yeah, why don't we?

Huh? Lock me up. You'll be doing me a favour.

I'm good for nothing else these days.

You're not the only ones worried, right?

It's quite so hard to find out about my mother.

I can't remember anything about her.

I can.

A lovely mum.

What does she look like, Danny?

A bit like you.

Same colour hair.

It's like I'm a recogniser straight off.

How many have you seen a picture of?

When I was first set out here, the only thing I had to remind me of who I was

was a picture of the two of us and our mum.

She was a beauty, right enough.

You've still got it, have you?

It's tied in my shoe.

Until the so -called brother took it off me.

Sorry, Danny.

My whole life, I've had the terrible resentment towards you.

How did you abandon me?

You must have been two when last I saw you.

My last memory of you was seeing you dragged off by a nun bawling your eyes

Next thing you know, I'm picking my guts up on this rusty tub with hundreds of

other scared kids being shipped off to the land of opportunity.

Child migrants, they call it. It's like we have some choice in the matter.

I never left you, Carol. I was kidnapped.

We've got to stop that horse somehow, son.

We, Land Ranger?

You don't seem to appreciate the gravity of the situation, Cole.

If Banana Bender romps past the post, then bang, goes your life of luxury.

Face it, Ma, you win, some you lose, Tom. Oh, not me.

I've always been a believer in the kind of turf accountancy where everybody

loses. Except the blooming bookies.

Seems to me you've only got one choice.

Nobble the nag.

With Barton's minder and Flaherty watching the stable.

But if Ernie couldn't ride Banana Bender,

You beauty.

Maybe you're not such a half -wit as you look.

I think you did inherit some of my brains, after all.

Because you certainly did inherit your father's looks.

Bless him.

Yes.

Danny, what are the monks saying about the farm school?

Slave labour camp, more like it.

Stuck out in the middle of the desert.

Might as well have been on planet Mars.

Working us like beasts in the field, all hours.

Kept wondering what I'd done so wrong to be treated so cruel.

What went on there?

We stole my childhood.

I can't talk about that, Carolyn.

I'm not ready.

Maybe someday.

Haven't you told anybody?

Of course, I'm the only one.

But who'd believe it?

When they tell you the truth, they'll set you free.

But there's nobody who wants to hear.

This land holds some very dark secrets.

Somebody else said that to me.

It's all sweet now.

Because we're together again, sister.

You pick up those bugs?

Good boy.

Now, you go and keep our little friend over there company.

Anything he wants is on the house.

There you go.

You wouldn't do this in Yorkshire, eh?

Just one of the delights of this tropical paradise.

a piece of which could be yours for less than you'd think possible.

Spoil yourself, Ernie. Have a chill one on me, eh?

Not tonight, Cole.

There's plenty of time for celebrating once Banana Bender passes the winning

post. There's a lot of folk expecting me to make them a bob or two tomorrow.

At least let me go and get you a nice juicy teabag.

No meat tonight, Cole.

Lays heavy on the stomach the night before a race.

Think I might turn in.

Not yet, Ernie.

Tell us how you won the Nambour sweep.

Well, you should have been there.

No, I'm going to get an early night.

Look what I've got.

Just for my two favourite fellas.

Look at the size of them Morton Bay bugs, eh?

Can I tip to you, Ernie?

Well, I won't say I'm not partial to a bug, Lou.

Now, don't tell everybody.

They'll all be wanting in on the act.

Let's leave the hoi polloi to their snags, I say. What's the game, Lou?

Keep me a chat from his crustaceans.

Way to go, that little...

That's been

done.

But I set some kind of example.

I'll have to pull myself in for driving under the influence.

I'll see yous all at Sparrowfart.

Enjoy, boys.

Bye.

Joe. Who is it?

Oh, well, what do you know?

What's the matter, Dave?

Oh, Rachel.

I just had a call from my colleagues.

They found a car abandoned off the road about an hour west of here.

It's licensed to a young woman from Charleville who was driving down to the

races today. She's completely disappeared.

Maybe there is a killer on the road, on my patch.

Where was this?

By Jindalong Creek.

I'm going to take a drive out there.

I'll come with you.

Why not?

I'll blitz the records office.

Jindalong Creek.

Rachel and I went to the roadhouse to have a word about Rosie.

Mr... What was it?

Meredith.

Not the most welcoming of hosts.

Have you ever eaten a cold meat pie, Bert?

Good morning, brother.

You don't know what it means to me to hear you say that word, sister.

Are you all right sleeping out here?

That was the best night I'd spent in years under the Southern Cross.

I've got to keep an eye on the boss's plane.

Pretty decent of him to give us the land, I'd say.

Didn't want to return us crop duster and anything but good working order.

You know what, kiddo?

I know this has been said many times before, but today's the first day of the

rest of our lives.

It doesn't mean it's not true.

Will you let me buy you breakfast, Danny Cassidy?

The Honoured Carol Cassidy.

Mr. Meredith.

What's this about?

The thing is, there's been a complaint against you.

Oh, yeah?

One of the local Aboriginal population, I suppose.

And this gentleman, as it happens, visited from England.

Scotland.

Yeah, I never clapped my eyes at him in my natural.

Not what you're telling me, sir.

I was here.

That's the man.

I actually prefer if we dealt with this somewhere more kindly.

Now,

it

seems when a burger was politely requested, you told him there was none

available.

And yet your sign was on, was it not?

Promising then as now burgers.

And your point is?

Well, some would say that constitutes false advertising.

Oh, for crying out loud. Haven't you wallopers got nothing better to do? Just

doing my job, mate.

Hey, Mr Meredith, just calm down. We can sort this out without further legal

proceedings.

Why, I see it, mate. It's his word against yours.

Was there anyone else working here that day who might have witnessed this

altercation?

There was a young man at the pubs.

Ah, well, that'd be Des, my son.

Can I have a word?

He's not here at the moment. He's gone down south.

What would that be exactly?

Oh, the same day this pump came in here.

Oh, you do remember this dissatisfied customer?

Oh, I guess so.

Any forwarding address for this, uh, dead, is it? No, mate.

Well, sir, personally, I don't think you've got a legal leg to stand on.

too right.

Is that it?

Thank you.

You blokes know anything about this combi van that was found down the creek?

Well, it looks as if another young woman has gone missing round these parts.

Have you finished here, Sergeant?

Yeah. Oh, look, while I'm out here, I thought I might sample one of your

burgers. I haven't got any blessed burgers!

Then I suggest you turn your blessed sign off.

Have a lack to what?

Do you think he knows anything?

Somebody knows.

Somebody always knows.

A wife, a mother, a sister.

Somebody got to Rosie.

Somewhere near here.

Well, whoever it is, we'll get him, Joe.

Sergeant Flaherty, come in.

Yep, Flaherty.

Where are you, Bert?

I'm just heading back to town.

You might want to go back and pay a visit to Jindalong Roadhouse.

We just left there.

I knew it.

Have you got something on Meredith?

Jack Meredith?

No, not Jack.

Someone else from the same address.

Desmond Meredith.

His son?

That's right. He's got a record for breaking and entering with aggravated

assault. Good on you, Rachel.

There was a tall truck there.

You think they were in it together, father and son?

What's over there?

Nothing much, except the reserve.

I can't take this piece of tin off the road, mate. Come on, we've got to go

to the station, get the Land Rover.

Wacko. Al Desmond spent the last five years in Bogger Road Jail.

Broke into a flat of a young woman in Brisbane.

And the dates match.

Sarah Wagner's disappearance was before he was imprisoned and Rosie went missing

shortly after he was released.

Desmond Meredith.

Petra attended.

Do you remember, Joe?

He was fixing a Nissan with blacked -out windows.

All points, all stations, Marillabar District.

And all points on...

Being that you're so concerned about my every move, I thought I'd better tell

you. I'm going for a flight with my big brother.

Not now, Carol. We're on to something here. I need to be driving a Nissan with

blacked -out windows, licence plates... Joe! Carol, please! This is important.

Leave us.

Rachel, hear me out.

That sounds like the Nissan that ran us off the track when I was driving it back

from his home.

You're averagely reserved. What are you doing out there, miss?

What does it matter?

I'm telling you, I've seen the vehicle you're looking for.

Where was this exactly?

I don't know. But Neville... My Eloisa

I'd love to please her

I'd love to care

I'm going to drive out the res and have a word with young Neville.

Who's that?

My friend.

Bunny, you could pick him up in your plane.

Yeah, sure could.

Fine.

Tell him we'll meet you at the Blue Gum Billabong where the road turns off for

the reserve. Thank you, missy. Good on you.

Thanks, Carl.

Sarge, you've got to do something.

I reckon I've been ducked. Yeah, not now, mate. Not now.

Then he turned up there, north, northwest.

Anything out there?

No, not much.

Just an old shack or two from the old squatter days.

You know, when your people stole my people's land.

I fear there's a history lesson made.

Over and out.

You've got to turn up this way.

Well, I've ignored this one.

Give us the gun, mate. Yeah, you try and take it.

It's all my fault.

It's bad blood.

No, it's a bad accident, mate, the way I saw it.

You're driving like a maniac.

It's me who's got to pay.

Oh, come on, don't be a bloody fool, Jack.

What am I going to charge you with?

Well, it's just damage of a tyre.

Come on, look, mate.

That's it, that's it. All over, Jack.

All over, mate.

Get in the cracker.

Get in there.

It's alright.

It's over.

You've done it.

Yeah, I need backup.

Yeah, full support.

All you got, mate.

Did Carol know Razzy Cat right well?

Pretty well.

Everybody loved Rosie.

Maybe you don't want to tell her, okay, Jack?

No, I don't think so.

This is the sort of thing that I'm trained to do.

This is a brother's job.

You only met her yesterday.

I don't know the day she was born, mate.

Okay, Danny.

Just break it to her gently, okay?

Yeah.

You've got to run her in, Sergeant.

The little fella's right.

She must have doctored the bugs.

What have you got to say for yourself, Lou?

Now, would I deliberately make one of my best customers a my own dear boy crook?

What kind of mother do you think I am? I shan't answer that, Lou, but I'll tell

you something.

You're as cunning as a dunny rat.

I'll never be able to mount the bender in this condition.

Suppose the favourite will have to be scratched if there's no -one to ride

Then I suppose you'll have to give back everybody's stakes.

Oh, come off it, Sarge. A bet's a bet.

Ned, you're a stockman.

You can ride the bender.

You think you can fit into Ernie Bird and Silks, mate?

You beauty!

It will take more than if he bums to stop the races at Merullaba.

I've been to do all the work. Maybe it's time for the final furlong.

The horses are lining up for the first race, so get your bets on.

Young man, I owe you an apology.

I thought you were up to no good.

You're not the first.

But listen, can you do me a big favour?

Get rid of that barbed wire display.

That's the devil's road.

Would it be possible to borrow the keys to the post office, Mrs Pike?

I need to make an urgent international phone call.

It's the middle of the night back home, Jo.

Horses are now ready for the first race. They're off!

Sergeant Miller, it's Mason.

Look, I'm sorry to call you at home.

Yes, I know it's four in the morning.

Come on, Joe.

Shout you a cold one.

I'd better go and break the bad news.

No.

Sergeant.

Be like me, please.

Very well, lad.

Rosie. I've been waiting some time for this, madam.

My winnings, Louise.

Mr. MacDonald.

I've news from Australia.

I trust we've got to know each other a bit.

You're not going to job me into the State Gaming Commission, are you?

Don't worry, Bert.

I'm a little flutter myself.

You alright, young man?

It's all my fault.

If she hadn't have met me, if she hadn't have left here, if I'd taken care of

her, what can I do?

Nothing I can do.

and come with me to tell her family.

Must be getting the crop duster back to the boss.

I don't know how I'm supposed to feel, Daniel, with Rosie and everything.

But at least I know a bit more about who I am now.

I like that feeling.

I'll be over to see you before you know it.

Don't have a loose touch again, Carol.

I'm sorry about your friend.

Have a safe trip. Take care of my little sister now, Joe.

Thanks, now. Miss Cassidy?

You know this man?

That's Dr Cunningham. That's what he's calling himself nowadays.

Brisbane police know him better as Crafty Campbell.

He might make a detour to Redhill Watch House and pick up your traveller's

checks. Thanks, Sergeant.

See you, Joe.

Next time, you bring your fishing gear. You should pop over to Yorkshire

sometime. I suppose with a clear -up rate.

I'll see you, right?

I hope so, Bert.

Not too late to have a look at my block.

You kick yourselves if you don't.

If

you

think I'm gonna be...

Done -up lock -eye keeper.

You've another think coming.

Jim's the sergeant in the TA. A dab hand when it comes to managing young men.

Discipline is essential.

Ernie Dunn, found dead.

Stop this! I want to go home now!

I'm not listening.

Let go!