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Hello, it's DI Clark.

Mackenzie Clark?

I can't believe you came back.

I mean, it's been six years and still no one here likes me. I'm going to get on

to HQ, tell them to send down a detective.

We don't need another detective.

Mackenzie Clark, Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police.

This is your house.

Did you see it from a search?

You grew up here and you chose to move to London.

Apparently you're under suspension.

Please, don't call me again. No, don't go.

Bye. Is there anything going on between D .I. Clarke and Glenn Strong?

I mean, unless you count her leaving him at the altar six years ago, flying to

London and never speaking to him again.

Yeah, well, running away from something doesn't mean it's over.

That ship has sailed to calmer, kinder waters.

Will you marry me?

Yes.

I heard from D .I. Mooney that your inquiry is finished.

I am free to go back to London.

I know, Frankie.

I know.

I think I still love her, though.

Sorry, Mad Rush.

Just hold your line there.

I'm standing at arrival.

Been waiting half an hour.

Well, that's clearly a lie.

You're puffing.

It's not a lie.

You do know I am a detective.

I'm just breathless with anticipation.

You might have to wait a little longer.

Didn't quite make it to the airport.

You think you could have told me this before I nearly blew up my heart

Ah, so it was a lie.

What happened?

Uh, I stopped to think about something, and I guess that was yesterday.

Think about what?

I thought you solved your case.

No, not my case. It was a... personal matter.

As I recall, you don't have those.

It's just that the last time I did, I...

I ran away and I think maybe I should try not to do that anymore.

Oh, we're talking about your failed wedding, are we? Well, I was trying to

oblique. You do know I'm a detective.

If I didn't know any better, Mackenzie, I'd say you were having feelings.

I'm not having feelings.

Sort them out. Give me a call when you're done.

No, I'm just going to get on the next plane.

Sorry, breaking up here.

Don't you dare.

Bad line.

You get those samples in the fridge? And quickly this time?

Of course, but you're late. They're waiting.

We're in the business of stopping human aging.

And our groundbreaking shark research is at the very center of that vision.

I am extremely proud to announce that Shark Tech, formerly a part of South

University, has begun to attract the attention of the very serious.

No one's safe in the pitch.

It was a monumental moment for us.

Clementine Clavelli, Dolphin Cove Echo.

Can you explain how shark research will actually help us stop ageing? For that,

I would now like to hand over to one of the world's leading shark experts,

Associate Professor Brian Chandler.

Thank you, Asha.

We've been carrying out genetic research into how white sharks stabilise and

adapt their DNA.

We've also been tracking them too. Why don't you just leave them alone?

I'm sorry, you're from... You know who I am.

Can you explain how trapping sharks on drumlines is impacting on fish

populations? It's not.

Well, that's not what the fishermen are saying. Thank you.

If we could please bring it back to Shark Tech's research.

Clementine, a follow -up?

You're charging a double on the way back.

Of course you are.

Good morning.

Not again.

Why didn't you ask him to

leave? I'm operations mate, not your personal security guard. He made us look

like idiots.

Brian, forget about it.

It went well.

And tomorrow morning there's going to be articles everywhere about the amazing

work going on at Shark Tech.

Yeah? I'll work.

Which continues.

Are you going out on the boat?

Yeah, I've got to check the drum odds.

I'll drop you down there.

OK. I've got an idea I want to pick your brain about.

All right.

Brian's out and away.

Oh, thank you both so much for this morning.

Shame about Watts, his name interrupting.

All right.

Ten minutes to catch up on the rest of the day?

Mm -hmm.

It's illegal without a licence, you know.

She's a pet.

What's her name?

Caroline. How old?

14 months. Date of birth?

31st July 2024.

Cancer? Leo.

We'll make sure she's on a lead.

Will do.

Surprise for Daisy's mum's birthday.

She loves them.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but aren't you meant to be in London?

Yes.

So why aren't you?

Well, it... Stop. No,

let me say it. No, back.

Stop, hey!

He looks too far gone.

Here.

Just watch out for the owl.

What do you think? Are they out fishing?

No. No rods, no lines.

Ryan Chandler works for Shark Tech.

Looks like a heart attack or stroke.

There's not much we can do for him.

The morgue, they can come and, uh... He's wearing a silver chain.

I don't think crime against fashion.

No, it's discoloured.

Rotten egg.

No way.

Yes way.

Tarnished metal, rotten egg.

Hydrogen sulfide gas.

But how could he be gassed? We're outside in a boat.

There's faint skin irritation around the nose and mouth.

What if it was held to his face?

That'd make sure he inhaled enough of it to kill him.

This is murder.

It might be murder. I'll know more when I autopsy you.

No, it's murder.

See what else you can find on the body.

Colin, get dressed.

He was my right hand man.

He's been researching sharks his entire career, even before we met.

This is awful.

You go home.

Thanks. Okay.

My husband.

Craig Park, operations.

Did you see Brian this morning? He spoke at the press conference.

We're on the brink of some significant breakthroughs, so we've spun off from

university.

No more chance of selling out to cosmetic companies who are desperate to

anti -aging.

Good pitch.

Yeah, well, the science is bigger than just a pitch, Detective.

What happened after the press conference?

I've got it all here.

And you are?

Susie Hewan.

She's one of our team.

A PhD in marine biology and a wonderful find.

The press conference was at 9 a .m. out the front of the lab.

Then Asher dropped Brian at the boat. He had to check the drum lines.

When was this?

I don't know exactly.

From here to the dock, about 10 .30.

Then what?

Well, we came back here and we got on with our day. What time was that?

11.

And who knew that Brian was going out on the boat?

Just us.

Is there CCTV at the dock?

Yeah, I can help you with that.

Out the shed.

Well, what do you know about hydrogen sulfide?

Why?

You think it may have been a factor in Brian's death?

Well, we're scientists.

Even first -year chemistry students know everything there is to know about H2S.

I wouldn't know anything about gas.

I left school when I was 16, so... You're a boatman, aren't you?

Don't all boatmen know about hydrogen sulfide in confined spaces?

Say, when you're cleaning the head, for example?

I suppose so, yeah.

Probably got what you need to make it in this room.

Brian's loss doesn't seem to have affected you too much.

Yeah, well, I hardly knew the guy, so... You worked with him?

Yeah, but Brian was too big -brained to talk to me.

Okay, so that is the last 24 hours. That's all we've got.

I'll lead you to it then.

Okay, okay.

Here we go.

10 .38.

Which fits with Asher driving him down there at around 10 .30.

She's on her way back to the lab now to meet the others.

Brian gets on the boat.

And now, we're just waiting for our killer.

What?

It's only him on it. No, that's not possible. Where's our killer?

Um, maybe they're already on there?

No, as far as we can tell, the only people that knew he was going to be on

boat were the Shark Tech crew, and they're all back at the lab by 11.

There's not enough time to get down there and murder him and get back.

How could any of them murder Brian when he was on a boat in the middle of the

water?

Oh, hey, hey, hey.

Dead bloke, alone on a boat. Is that right?

Um, that's about it.

That's a new one.

And mind you, I nearly choked on an oyster on Mick Michael's tinny New

99, the Y2K.

Admittedly, I had had a few shardies, so I was not at my best, but still there,

but for the grace of God, like... They've censored the footage of the

conference. I've been scanning through it a bit, and I also got the photos of

the victim and the lab team right here.

How do you want to run it?

You want the board? Yeah, I cleaned it up, got it ready for you. I don't mind.

Mate, mate, mate.

Don't be shy.

You're the boss. I may not have been completely forthcoming on the phone.

About what?

Ryan Chandler, murdered in the middle of the ocean.

About this situation.

Senior scientist at Shark Tech found dead alone on board Hikari, the research

vessel for Shark Tech.

He got on board alive at 10 .38am, according to the CCTV.

He sailed out to sea while the only people who knew where he was, the Shark

crew, were all back at the lab.

Somewhere out there, he was gassed with hydrogen sulphide, we think held to his

face on a cloth.

And he comes ashore, dead, to me and Glenn, at 11 .30.

Any questions so far?

Just the one, love.

What the heck are you doing back here?

Yes, Mackenzie, what the heck are you doing back here?

Mm -hmm. It is a good question. It is a fair question.

But a man is dead, and we have work to do.

Detective Sergeant Clark.

We're going to have to have a conversation about this, you understand?

Yes, boss.

All right, off you go.

Shark Tech.

Shark Tech, led by Professor Asha Spencer.

Bit of a shark herself.

She owns the lab, thanks to some seed money, she's looking for investment.

She drives Brian to the dock before he sails out to his death and then she

returns to the lab immediately afterwards.

Craig Park, Asha's husband.

Operations at Shark Tech.

And Susie Hewan, research scientist.

As far as we know... These are the only people that knew that Brian was going to

be on that boat. Nothing in his phone suggested he told anyone outside the

Could it be someone random?

It's murder.

It's never random.

What about the cloth? Probably at the bottom of the ocean by now.

Oh, I did. I found... I found this. Look, look, look.

What is it?

That's a bit of red thread.

It was on the gate to the dock. So somebody could have jumped the fence.

Well, I think I might have a lead on that.

There was a guy at the press conference.

He didn't look like a journo, but he was asking some provocative questions.

Why don't you just leave them alone? There, there, there, there.

Zoom in, zoom in.

Red shirt.

Oh, we need to find out who that is.

I know who that is. Yeah, that's my ex -husband.

Hmm.

G'day, lads. Hello, gorgeous.

G'day, J -Mo.

Oh, look here.

Well, it didn't take long for you to become a tool of the establishment, did

Red? What happened to defund the police, to social care instead of

institutionalised power? Oh, pull your head in, would you?

They just want to chat.

I think I'm entitled to have a legal representative present, aren't I?

We know you interrupted the Shark Tank press conference. I pose legitimate

questions that I have a right to ask. All of my reporting is properly sourced

and published on my website.

Yeah.

Love your shirt.

Jumped any fences recently?

Yesterday. To take some photos.

To bear witness to the damage that they're doing to our marine population

local waters.

It's not a crime. Well, it is.

You know Brian Chandler? Brian Chandler, you better know him. He is one of the

worst. He's out there doing God knows what on the water. You just keep him

from me, that's all I'm saying.

Oh, that will not be a problem.

Is he dead?

Oh, well, he wasn't that bad. I was overcooking that one a little bit.

Where were you after the press conference?

I was everywhere on my bike. Anyone see you?

I speak to everybody on my route. That's what the local community is all about.

We may need to talk to you again.

If I make myself available.

Hey, Reg.

Don't start.

You look really good.

You know, I'd be more than happy to try and find you alternative accommodation.

It's really no bother.

You know, you hate the beach and the view and, well, everything about that

house, as far as I can tell.

Whereas I am one of life's great enthusiasts.

A lover of the sand, the sea, and especially of outdoor baths.

Are you sure you're staying?

Sorry?

Would you consider and hear me out?

An extremely discreet and very quiet lodger. Absolutely not.

Mackenzie, time for that conversation.

Off she goes.

Off to London.

Dreary old dolphin cove receding in the rear view mirror.

And then, I don't know, 24 hours later I get a call from D .I. Mooney explaining

that for scheduling reasons.

Your job's just not as urgent anymore, and you're available to me again.

Temporarily? Yeah, temporarily. No, no, of course, yes.

One minute there's a job, and the next... That's unusual.

Don't you think?

Yeah,

yeah, maybe a little.

Temporary for how long?

I don't know.

There's a few things that I need to sort out.

There's not something going on, is there? Something I should be concerned

as your senior sergeant?

No.

What about then, you know, say, for example,

as a mother who's very concerned about her son's happiness?

Also, no.

All right, then.

Well... Welcome back to Sunny Dolphin Cove.

Oh, isn't it beautiful today?

Insurance claim from a few months ago. Hard to piece it together from the

paperwork, but it looked like Brian was accused of some fairly loose behaviour

which led to the injury of an employee.

Who?

Brian was putting a tracker into a shark.

It landed on my arm.

The tracker?

The shark.

And your shoulder was injured?

It's not that bad.

But you can't get it above your head, can you?

There's nothing on the top shelf.

Unless, do you want to... Why don't you pop that up there?

Go on, prove me wrong.

With your left hand.

A PhD in marine biology and they won't ensure you to be on the water.

Why didn't you quit?

I've been working with Asha since undergrad.

I'm not going to throw away my career with her because of a setback.

But all your grand ambitions just ripped from you because of Brian.

Angry about it?

Not at all.

Sharks are powerful animals and can be unpredictable.

Sometimes when dealing with them in the field, accidents can occur despite the

best efforts of everyone involved.

Hmm. That's it for today.

Thanks for taking the time.

What do Shark Tech do with sharks?

Research them.

Track them.

Acoustic tag we found on the boat.

They don't use GPS?

GPS doesn't work from inside a shark, which is where they put these. So, after

the press conference, Asher drives Brian down to the dock.

He gets on the boat alone, sails away.

At 10 .38.

10 .57, the tracker records a ping from the listening station on this.

Boy.

11 .14.

And then it comes ashore to Glenn and me at 11 .30. So, according to those four

data points, dock where he left, boy one ping, boy two

ping, and then to the beach, Glenn and me. That is a rough approximation of the

boat's path.

Well, it couldn't have gone somewhere else.

If it went along the coast, someone could have got on board to kill Brian.

Because that boat has a top speed of about 20 knots.

For the boat to travel that distance in that time, it had to sail straight out

to sea.

And at that speed, to get a boat to it, tie it up while moving, I mean, it's the

same for a jet ski, it's the same for a kayak.

No one could get on board.

And even if they could, the only people that know that he's there, well, they're

all back at the lab by the time he's at the first boy.

How did someone manage... It's impossible.

Brian's office. Did you find anything?

Not really.

Gym bag, top, towels, shoes, wristband thingy.

Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.

What about his shorts?

What?

In his bag.

Top, towel, shoes, wristband thingy.

No shorts?

No.

Who goes to the gym without shorts?

Come here.

Hey, gorgeous.

Where's Glen, hey?

I've got Brian Chandler first up tomorrow.

I'll give you a call when I'm done.

Shorts.

What?

You're wearing shorts, which you would normally do if you were going to

exercise. Uh, normally, yeah.

I'm back.

Sure. Aren't you meant to be in London?

I am, yeah.

But you're not?

No.

I was just actually explaining that to Glenn's work

stuff and the fast -paced environment of modern policing.

That's it? That's it.

Well, Glenn didn't say anything.

Oh, it only happened a couple of hours ago.

Oh.

All righty. Well, um, welcome back.

Are we off?

Yeah, let's do it.

Frankie. All right.

What are we doing?

Come in.

Okay.

Well,

I made it to Jean.

Way too much, of course, but I thought you could make use of it because you

probably got nothing in the house.

Thank you.

All unpacked?

Nope.

What happened?

Operational stuff, you know.

Scheduling.

Scheduling.

It's a nightmare.

Well, it's lovely to have you back, honey, even if it's just for a little

So toodaloo.

Reggie. Hmm?

How did you know with Damo when it was done?

I made a decision and that was it.

Never again.

That simple?

It wasn't simple at all.

But all you can do is follow your heart away from someone like me

or towards them.

What if you can't go towards them?

When do the symptoms go away?

You mean feelings?

They don't.

But I've always thought if you do something for the right reason, the

comes up to meet you.

Asphyxiated. And I found a few fibres in his mouth and nose.

So we can conclude hydrogen sulphide gas.

Applied direct to the face on a cloth or something similar.

How quickly?

Seconds, a few breaths.

He was also on anticoagulants.

He had about half.

At risk of clots, it looks like.

He went to the gym.

Wouldn't have been my advice.

Reckon any doctor would agree he should not have been working out.

Would have killed him?

Pretty high risk of some sort of episode.

Right, so whoever killed him wanted it to look like a heart attack.

Or a stroke. And it did, until you came along.

Here's something else, though.

He had bruising on his neck.

Was it from the struggle?

With H2S, there's barely any struggle.

This is older, I'd say, from being choked.

OK, great.

More to go on.

Is that it?

That's it.

We'll see you later.

I'm still doing the report. I'll send it over.

I heard you.

Yeah, I'm standing right here.

At your engagement party.

After I left.

What are you talking about?

I came back.

Frankie, she got in the cab and then I brought her back and then she ran to you

and...

I heard what you said about your feelings towards me.

I wanted to know, is that real?

Mac?

Bridgie, on the phone.

I couldn't quite make out exactly what she was saying.

Ah, needs us back apparently.

Oh, here it is. So have a look at this. This is the Marine Impact Plan, which

mysteriously got signed off by Council incomplete.

What's this?

Evidence. The fruits of my citizen journalism and some Turkish delight.

If you'd like some. It's Reggie's favourite. Oh, God, it's beautiful.

No.

Yeah? No. No?

No. We will leave you to the Turkish delight for now.

I'm downloading all the historical data from that tracker you found on the boat.

That's a lot of shark tracking data. I don't mind.

Oh, and then we're going to go to the gym.

Kept me up all last night trying to figure out why wouldn't he bring shorts?

What's that?

That's all their research.

They have to make it accessible, or at least they did until they took the whole

thing private.

Strict marine curfews, but there they are on the boat, clandestine meeting.

Um, that's all the accounts.

How'd you get their accounts?

I am not allowed to reveal my sources.

Wait. Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Wait, what? What?

What? What was that about clandestine meetings?

Finally, someone wants to do their job.

Damo was there a few weeks ago taking photographs.

Look who he saw down at the dock.

Ash and Brian.

Mmm.

And it looks like they were more than just colleagues.

You know, he wants to be a detective one day.

Felix? If you're looking for a protégé.

If you're staying, I mean.

Colin, stop asking me if I'm staying.

Are you okay?

Stop asking me if I'm okay.

Literally the first time I've asked you. I don't know if I'm staying. Yes, I'm

okay. And Felix, well, if you're serious, you'll come to me.

You take the uniform.

Okay,

thanks. Thanks for assisting us. And we will be in touch.

Dismissed.

Busy morning?

Yep.

We were without a boat, weren't we?

Lots of catch -up to do.

Thanks, hon.

Doesn't that let the water in?

Sure does.

A few years ago, White Shark, she politely asked me to leave her

You're attacked?

Bitten.

Why not buy a new wetsuit?

Because wearing this one is a constant reminder that the ocean belongs to its

creatures and not us.

Can you, uh... Can you explain this?

Can't quite make it out. Oh.

Well, that's you.

And that's Brian on board the Hikari.

Looks pretty intimate.

Were you having an affair?

I wouldn't call it an affair.

Okay. What would you call it? A very human mistake.

Brian was having a tough time. He was going through a traumatic divorce. He

to me for comfort.

Comfort. We've worked together for over 20 years.

Most weeks I'd spend more time with him than my own husband.

I'm not proud of it. It happened, so I ended it.

How did Brian take it?

He put his head down and he continued to work, and that's all I care about.

Did your husband know?

Of course I knew. I'm not an idiot.

She was taking off in her gym gear and coming back fresh as a daisy.

So what if his missus left him and took him to the cleaners? Find another woman

to dry your eyes.

What did you do?

I had a conversation with him.

Told him you don't touch another man's wallet or his wife.

Think you got the message?

Did you have your hands around his throat during this conversation?

Maybe.

Can't remember exactly.

You see, the thing is, Craig...

You choke him and then the next thing he turns up dead on your boat.

Yeah, but like I already said, I was nowhere near it. If you want to arrest

lady, do it.

Otherwise, I'm a little bit busy trying to catch up on the day you guys stole

from us.

You know, when you ransacked the boat.

We will be back.

I don't know what came over me.

Three years.

I've hardly seen him. I've barely thought about him. He was a terrible

But there's always been like this energy between us.

Energy? Oh, it's pulsating.

And it's undeniable.

And for all his faults, and there were plenty, there was always one place that

we never had any problems.

I mean, never again. That is a promise.

All right.

Here we go.

What's in there?

Nothing. Yeah, look at this. Look at this.

Hi, this is Damo's blog.

Shining a light on the truth.

So, I found a post on Damo's blog. It's a short one.

RIP Nigel funeral at Marigold Funeral Home, date and time. There's Nigel.

Oh, just an old mate of his. I didn't realise they were back in touch.

So, I called Maeve at Marigold. She's in my swimming crib.

Oh, my gosh, you would not believe how quick she moves through the water. She's

just had a hip replacement and she's... OK.

She recorded the funeral and Damo spoke.

Nigel fished these waters since he was a boy and their research took it away.

And when it was gone, he had nothing left to live for.

Night, I'm going to miss you.

You got me through some of the toughest times of my life.

The doctor said heart attack.

But we all know who really killed you.

Here's what we know, Damo. You blame Shark Tank for the death of your friend.

You bet I blame them. It's their fault.

Drumlines everywhere.

Huge increase in sharks in the fisheries. Half the catch gone.

So you've got a motive.

You admitted to sneaking into the dock?

Well, public land.

Should be.

Was that a dry run? Were you going to figure out how you were going to do it?

Just answer them.

Nothing happened.

I snuck in a couple of days ago. I went to the announcement yesterday. I asked

my questions and then I went to work.

I mean, sure, I want to stop Shark Tank, but he's dead and they're still full

steam ahead.

I couldn't have done it anyway. I've never even been on that boat.

And he's right.

We know he didn't get on the boat the day of the murder. We've seen the CCTV.

We know that nobody got on the boat other than Brian, and he was alive when

did, and the other three Sharp Tech suspects, well, they're all on dry land

while he was murdered out at sea.

Why are you all staring at me?

Just normally when you go quiet, it's because you're about to solve it.

How'd you go at the gym?

Nothing. Empty locker.

No short?

No, nothing. The staff at the front desk confirmed he's there a bit, but never

uses the actual gym.

You know who else is a member, though?

Asha Svensson.

And she comes back from the gym fresh as a daisy, according to Craig.

So...

Why are they both going to a gym that they don't use?

Do you have the Shark Tech accounts?

Yep.

I haven't been through them properly.

I've been deep in data from that tracker we found on the boat.

It's all a bit weird. It's not making sense.

Try checking them against the published Shark Tech figures.

I'll work it out.

P &T Marine Maintenance.

Glenn got a little slap in the face from a...

torn fabric on the awning. So?

So, so, they are apparently spending thousands of dollars on boat

but they didn't fix that torn fabric?

So where's the money going?

Blackmail?

Exactly.

We're here to see Asha.

Again? Just go and get her.

Oh, hang on, before you do.

Why didn't you fix the fabric on the awning of the Hakkari?

On our budget?

You're kidding me.

But Brian was blackmailing her.

There's no other explanation.

Money for P &T boat maintenance not being spent on fixing the boat, but

being taken out in cash by Asher.

She couldn't just be embezzling it?

Mm -mm.

She was going to the gym. She was coming back fresh in the daisy. I think.

She's going to the gym, putting that money in Brian's locker.

Brian, who never went to the gym because of his heart condition, is picking it

up.

I mean, the man doesn't even have shorts.

I mean, it doesn't change the facts.

He was murdered in the middle of the ocean whilst Ash is back at the lab with

Susie and Craig. I mean, how could she?

It's discoloured.

Glenn got slapped.

The fabric's like Glenn. Yes, you've mentioned that. But then when Brian got

on... Do you have the CCTV?

Yes.

There. It's not torn.

What's not?

Fabric. The fabric on the awning.

But... If it's not torn, and that's Asher's tank,

then... No, the only way that's possible is...

What are you talking about?

Oh, that's bold.

What's bold?

Come on, Colin!

Where are you going?

The timeline is so tight.

They couldn't be too far from the lab, or they'd never make it back in time.

What couldn't be too far?

That.

Great Lord above.

That is bold.

A quiet morning at the beach.

That's what the good people of Dolphin Cove were enjoying.

Until the Hakari came chugging ashore with the body of Brian Chandler on

Looking for all the world like a tragic but unsurprising death of a man with a

heart condition. But Brian Chandler was murdered.

Gassed.

With hydrogen sulfide held to his face on a cloth, somehow he sailed that boat

out to sea alive and came ashore dead, alone the whole time. How is that

possible?

I will get to that, because to understand the how, we have to

why. Craig, you attacked Brian for an affair he was having with your wife,

At least that's what you assumed it was. Why wouldn't you?

That's what it looked like to us too, in Damo's photograph.

And it is what you told us, Asher.

Damo's aim was to capture some evidence that could sink Shark Tech.

Turns out he did.

But it wasn't an affair.

What those photographs captured was a threat.

Brian was blackmailing you.

You couldn't pay him out of your own pocket.

The money had to come through Shark Tank, but there's not really a budget

for blackmail, but there is for thousands of dollars of boat

is weird when you couldn't afford to fix a bit of torn fabric on the awning of

the Hakari.

But why?

Why was Brian blackmailing you? The answer, Felix.

Tracking beacon 427.

According to your published data, that track has been in a white shark for the

last two years. When Constable Wilkinson downloaded the actual raw data, trying

to correlate it with what you'd published, well, where had it been,

On the boat the whole time.

You were faking your data.

And Brian figured it out, and with a brutal divorce to pay for, he was

you.

I didn't kill him.

I will get to that.

Because the question we couldn't answer...

How could Brian be murdered when he was on a boat alone in the middle of the

ocean? When we looked at the CCTV, we assumed it was Brian on the boat. But it

wasn't, was it, Asha?

Cap on, same jacket, trolley as a cover.

Knowing the cameras were far away, you assumed that no one would be able to

that it was a different person or, and this is the really bold part, that it

a different boat.

There were two boats used in this murder.

The Hakari that Brian sailed away and came ashore on and a second boat, the

on the CCTV, the boat that you, Asher, sailed away from the dock at 10 .38.

disguised as bright.

The boats were made up to look almost identical, but with one small

The fabric on the awning of the Hakkari is torn, and on the decoy boat,

Christine.

Brian sailed away on the real boat, the Hakkari, which you drove him to, that

was tied up at another dock, but waiting on board, hiding with your accomplice.

protecting themselves from the deadly hydrogen sulfide in goober gear. Then it

was easy enough for the killer to escape over the side, leaving Brian dead on

board and the Hikari sailing out the sea. Meanwhile, after driving that boat

back to where we found it, picking up the killer from the water along the way,

that is an audacious plan that made it look like Brian was killed out on the

water while the killers were on dry land. It was a...

Watertight alibi. Does that sound about right, Susie?

What?

You knew about the blackmail. I mean, you're across everything in that lab.

know where the money's going.

You hated Brian.

You took your dream of being on the water away from you.

But most importantly, you idolize Asher.

Your career is tethered to her research.

She goes down, so do you. And I think that you would do anything to stop that

happening.

I was here the whole time.

You left the press conference early. We saw you on the footage online.

To go to the lab. To wait for Brian on the boat.

Wearing Asher's scuba gear since you don't have any because they won't insure

you to be on the water and it's Asher's tank that's discoloured from the gas.

Sorry, this is the most ridiculous story I've ever heard.

Yeah.

Yeah, it probably is, isn't it?

Oh, it did sound convincing, though, just for a moment.

Although, and just humor me here for a minute, we know whoever killed Brian was

wearing Ash's wetsuit, and whoever was wearing Ash's wetsuit is going to have

irritated skin from the one place that the gas could get to, which is the holes

in the arms from where she was bitten by a shark.

And she doesn't have them.

He doesn't have them. He doesn't have them either. So, would you mind rolling

your sleeve?

Okay.

Constable Wilkinson?

Excuse the fingers.

Excuse me, human.

Asher Svensson.

Everything I've worked for, gone.

I never should have trusted you with anything.

You're under arrest for the murder of Brian Chandler. You didn't have to say

anything, but anything you say, I'll do.

Two boats.

Bold.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very bold.

What I said at the engagement party, it was an emotional

moment. You were leaving and... Yes, I said it.

I felt it even.

But it's not.

We had our chance, is what I'm saying.

Yeah, we did.

Getting married.

I know.

It's fantastic.

I mean, it's not why you came back, is it?

No. That is scheduling.

It's complicated, but it's nothing to do with this.

Which isn't a thing, anyway.

No.

I guess that is all there is to say about that, then.

Enjoy yourself.

Hey. I knew they were no good.

I'm sorry about Nigel.

Yeah, he was a good bloke. Yeah.

He was there for me after you left when I didn't have anybody.

I'm not a tool of the establishment, by the way, for the police.

I do important work. Yeah, yeah. Of course, yeah, yeah. Help little old

with their parking tickets.

Sure.

Wow. What?

Never again, Damo.

Never again.

What?

Reg?

What did I say?

Mackenzie. It's done.

I can come back.

What do you mean it's done? Whatever feelings there were.

It's not a thing.

Can you book me on a flight?

I'm afraid it's not quite that simple, D .I. Clark.

So many moving parts here.

Cases in varying states of flux.

I'll be needing that file by the end of the day. I know you're at the pub.

Nonsense. I can hear the fire crackling and the rain on the windows.

And I'd say you're about a third to halfway through a pint.

You're second.

You're good.

I always said it.

Regardless, it's going to be a while before we can slot you back in.

But yesterday you were running to meet me at the airport.

Well, this is the fastest environment in modern policing.

You're at the pub.

On my day off. So what? I can't come back.

I'm saying.

Now, whatever stopped you getting on that plane isn't something you just deal

with overnight.

Yes, it is. I just told you that.

There's something in that town that you have to make your peace with.

At the very least, there's no job for you here.

What, so you're saying I'm stuck here?

Again?

I'm afraid so.

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