1 00:00:22,726 --> 00:00:23,954 Jill... 2 00:00:24,606 --> 00:00:26,962 how much guts have you got? 3 00:01:31,601 --> 00:01:34,992 We've got Mickey Norris coming up. 4 00:01:35,283 --> 00:01:36,398 Mickey? 5 00:01:36,683 --> 00:01:40,233 Put your hands together for Mickey Norris. 6 00:01:58,695 --> 00:02:00,606 Love is a torture. 7 00:02:01,456 --> 00:02:03,413 Love tortures me. 8 00:02:04,218 --> 00:02:06,892 Does love torture you? 9 00:02:07,779 --> 00:02:09,258 If it does, 10 00:02:10,021 --> 00:02:12,172 why are you laughing? 11 00:02:13,302 --> 00:02:16,375 I feel you in the room like a knife. 12 00:02:16,664 --> 00:02:20,978 You cut out my cunt. So why not cut out my heart? 13 00:02:21,266 --> 00:02:24,179 Your prick is a knife that hurts me. 14 00:02:24,468 --> 00:02:27,427 You grunt like a beautiful pig. 15 00:02:29,070 --> 00:02:31,585 I wish my cunt could hurt you. 16 00:02:49,441 --> 00:02:51,831 It was really dreadful! 17 00:02:52,562 --> 00:02:55,794 But your stuff, high energy, high impact. 18 00:02:56,084 --> 00:03:00,398 - You should be in print. - I'll see you guys later, okay? 19 00:03:00,687 --> 00:03:03,600 Yeah, see you later, Mickey. Bye, Mickey. 20 00:03:03,888 --> 00:03:04,877 Bye. 21 00:03:36,865 --> 00:03:39,016 I came for the quiet. 22 00:03:40,787 --> 00:03:42,779 I don't mind the cold. 23 00:03:43,068 --> 00:03:47,586 But thick mists, thick neighbours and involuntary celibacy... 24 00:03:47,871 --> 00:03:53,231 are as inductive to hard drinking as high rent and corrupt cops. 25 00:03:53,514 --> 00:03:57,269 I can't remember what adrenalin tastes like. 26 00:03:57,556 --> 00:03:59,114 I need Sydney. 27 00:03:59,677 --> 00:04:01,429 I need a new job. 28 00:04:02,838 --> 00:04:03,827 Hello. 29 00:04:04,119 --> 00:04:06,918 Yes, this is Jill Fitzpatrick. 30 00:04:07,201 --> 00:04:09,716 Yes, I do missing persons. 31 00:04:22,649 --> 00:04:24,480 My place is my car. 32 00:04:25,730 --> 00:04:26,958 Action. 33 00:04:27,251 --> 00:04:28,286 Business. 34 00:04:28,572 --> 00:04:30,164 And pleasure. 35 00:04:31,053 --> 00:04:32,930 My window my work. 36 00:04:33,214 --> 00:04:37,049 I spy with my little eye the cheating world. 37 00:05:14,115 --> 00:05:16,949 - Milk... sugar? - Both, ta. 38 00:05:21,479 --> 00:05:22,673 Two weeks. 39 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,115 Look. 40 00:05:26,281 --> 00:05:27,270 Photos. 41 00:05:27,562 --> 00:05:29,872 She's pretty. She's sweet. 42 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:32,394 She's too good to be true. 43 00:05:32,685 --> 00:05:35,484 Perhaps she went off with a boyfriend. 44 00:05:35,766 --> 00:05:37,962 Mickey doesn't have a boyfriend. 45 00:05:38,247 --> 00:05:40,716 She has friends, but not a... 46 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:43,923 She doesn't drink. 47 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:46,202 She doesn't even smoke. 48 00:05:46,492 --> 00:05:48,723 She's going to be a journalist. 49 00:05:49,653 --> 00:05:53,933 She's flatting, but she still comes home Sunday nights. 50 00:05:54,536 --> 00:05:56,094 Tea, darling? 51 00:06:07,182 --> 00:06:10,858 Never tell them where the kid is until you get paid. 52 00:06:11,144 --> 00:06:15,742 When the tears have dried, no one wants to part with money. 53 00:06:34,036 --> 00:06:35,185 It's open. 54 00:06:38,638 --> 00:06:41,107 Hi, I'm looking for Mickey. 55 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,277 I'm her old teacher. 56 00:06:48,243 --> 00:06:51,316 Look, her parents are worried sick. 57 00:07:04,972 --> 00:07:06,291 Tianna! 58 00:07:08,174 --> 00:07:09,846 Just a minute. 59 00:07:12,056 --> 00:07:15,527 - Who was that? - Someone looking for Mickey. 60 00:07:15,817 --> 00:07:17,535 - Why? - I don't know. 61 00:07:17,819 --> 00:07:21,051 Probably wants to fuck her like you did. 62 00:08:44,383 --> 00:08:45,657 Poetry. 63 00:08:45,944 --> 00:08:47,662 Tony Brach. 64 00:08:47,945 --> 00:08:49,537 Bill McDonald. 65 00:08:52,227 --> 00:08:56,700 "Jesus loves me" shit with the odd nature poem thrown in. 66 00:08:57,790 --> 00:09:00,021 Another Tony Brach... 67 00:09:00,351 --> 00:09:02,582 autographed lovingly. 68 00:09:02,912 --> 00:09:06,144 To my darling Mickey, all my love. 69 00:09:29,606 --> 00:09:32,121 Was this Mickey's life? 70 00:09:32,848 --> 00:09:36,319 Books, raving, drugs, gorging and anorexia. 71 00:09:38,050 --> 00:09:39,881 It was never mine. 72 00:09:44,254 --> 00:09:48,727 19, I was in the force baby-sitting female juveniles. 73 00:09:49,016 --> 00:09:50,005 No gun. 74 00:09:50,297 --> 00:09:53,973 Now 28, all muscle, street smart, no education. 75 00:09:54,259 --> 00:09:57,218 "Finally the teenage girl's tits, 76 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,617 like newborn kittens, 77 00:09:59,902 --> 00:10:02,178 furl me in animal bliss". 78 00:10:02,463 --> 00:10:05,456 I have to confess a bias for that last poem. 79 00:10:05,745 --> 00:10:07,976 Tony Brach is a friend of mine. 80 00:10:08,266 --> 00:10:12,466 I can't claim Ezra Pound as a friend. He died some time ago. 81 00:10:12,748 --> 00:10:16,139 But listen to the same emotions in his words. 82 00:10:16,430 --> 00:10:17,943 It travels. 83 00:10:18,231 --> 00:10:22,511 It's pure feeling sensual, physical of the language. 84 00:10:24,714 --> 00:10:27,434 Examine each word close up... 85 00:10:27,716 --> 00:10:31,153 as if you're fingering the wrists... 86 00:10:31,438 --> 00:10:33,110 the neck... 87 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:35,071 of your lover. 88 00:10:37,401 --> 00:10:40,792 "In her is the end of breeding. 89 00:10:41,483 --> 00:10:45,272 Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. 90 00:10:45,685 --> 00:10:48,803 She would like someone to speak to her, 91 00:10:49,087 --> 00:10:51,886 and is almost afraid... 92 00:10:52,169 --> 00:10:56,210 that I will commit that indiscretion. " 93 00:11:16,741 --> 00:11:18,254 May I help you? 94 00:11:20,343 --> 00:11:21,981 Mickey Norris. 95 00:11:22,264 --> 00:11:24,699 I mean, I'm Jill Fitzpatrick. 96 00:11:24,985 --> 00:11:28,615 But I'm looking for Mickey, she's missing. 97 00:11:30,348 --> 00:11:32,544 Let me get rid of these. 98 00:11:32,829 --> 00:11:35,742 She's gritty. She's bright. 99 00:11:36,031 --> 00:11:38,102 Oh, Christ help me! 100 00:11:38,392 --> 00:11:41,066 She's a bit of all right! 101 00:11:42,875 --> 00:11:45,390 I can't really talk here. 102 00:11:45,876 --> 00:11:47,548 How about lunch? 103 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:53,278 Sure. 104 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,874 I've transmogrified from a Classicist... 105 00:11:57,162 --> 00:12:00,280 into someone who feeds off popular culture. 106 00:12:00,564 --> 00:12:04,353 There is no culture otherwise. Nostalgia isn't culture. 107 00:12:04,646 --> 00:12:08,083 Once we start enshrining customs, they're gone. 108 00:12:19,894 --> 00:12:22,489 When did you last see Mickey? 109 00:12:22,895 --> 00:12:26,127 Her poetry tutorial a fortnight ago. 110 00:12:26,617 --> 00:12:29,257 Did she mention going away? 111 00:12:29,779 --> 00:12:32,931 She was her usual self. 112 00:12:33,380 --> 00:12:35,257 And what's that? 113 00:12:35,702 --> 00:12:39,173 Intense and shy like most poetry maniacs. 114 00:12:40,264 --> 00:12:42,938 That's quite a combination. 115 00:12:47,548 --> 00:12:52,465 Her flatmate told me she's having an affair with a married poet. 116 00:12:52,870 --> 00:12:54,542 Very probably. 117 00:12:58,914 --> 00:13:03,194 Does Tony Brach or Bill McDonald mean anything to you? 118 00:13:03,476 --> 00:13:04,591 Of course. 119 00:13:04,877 --> 00:13:07,551 I like to taste a new job. 120 00:13:07,838 --> 00:13:11,799 I like to follow its flavour. And this one? 121 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,149 Alcohol. 122 00:13:13,441 --> 00:13:14,999 A smooth red. 123 00:13:15,282 --> 00:13:19,755 A taste I'm not used to. A taste going straight to my head. 124 00:13:20,044 --> 00:13:21,397 Is she... 125 00:13:22,486 --> 00:13:23,601 gorgeous? 126 00:13:39,695 --> 00:13:43,585 - My car's that way. - Well, it's nice to meet you. 127 00:13:43,867 --> 00:13:45,064 Yeah. 128 00:14:01,681 --> 00:14:06,530 I need to know if a cheque I wrote two weeks ago has been presented. 129 00:14:06,896 --> 00:14:09,132 Mickey Norris. Norris. 130 00:14:09,745 --> 00:14:11,981 N for Nancy, O for orifice. 131 00:14:12,273 --> 00:14:15,274 No, I don't remember my password. 132 00:14:15,763 --> 00:14:19,562 I'm blind, but that's hard for you to imagine there... 133 00:14:19,855 --> 00:14:23,015 in your cosy little office how it is to li... 134 00:14:24,148 --> 00:14:26,544 No transactions? Thanks. 135 00:14:29,444 --> 00:14:32,844 - Hello. - Tony Brach? Tracked you down. 136 00:14:33,135 --> 00:14:36,181 How's the weather up north? - Who is this? 137 00:14:36,465 --> 00:14:40,435 I'm a friend of Mickey Norris. I think you do know her. 138 00:14:40,718 --> 00:14:43,958 Just send her home. Her parents are worried. 139 00:14:53,757 --> 00:14:55,399 Hair of the dog. 140 00:14:58,773 --> 00:14:59,970 Oh, great. 141 00:15:01,140 --> 00:15:04,186 Dad... you're incorrigible. 142 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:05,508 Yeah. 143 00:15:08,562 --> 00:15:09,884 Oh, great. 144 00:15:11,491 --> 00:15:13,533 Know your problem? 145 00:15:13,818 --> 00:15:18,701 - You've got no feminine compassion. - Yeah, right! Get out of here! 146 00:15:22,002 --> 00:15:23,040 Yeah. 147 00:15:26,295 --> 00:15:28,451 You've got a client. 148 00:15:31,391 --> 00:15:33,866 We keep meeting for coffee. 149 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:36,760 We don't talk about Mickey. 150 00:15:37,048 --> 00:15:39,694 Could it be she fancies me? 151 00:15:48,683 --> 00:15:51,045 Christ, what's the time? 152 00:15:51,973 --> 00:15:55,693 I'm happy all right. Fucking hysterical. 153 00:15:58,392 --> 00:15:59,749 Where is she? 154 00:16:09,907 --> 00:16:11,630 Sorry I'm late. 155 00:16:11,913 --> 00:16:14,309 I just had to nip home. 156 00:16:18,974 --> 00:16:22,454 I haven't nipped anywhere for a long time. 157 00:16:23,387 --> 00:16:25,908 You've changed. It's nice. 158 00:16:29,405 --> 00:16:32,964 How can you stand living so far from the city? 159 00:16:33,257 --> 00:16:37,308 I couldn't hack Sydney any more. I had to get out. 160 00:16:37,670 --> 00:16:39,187 Go it alone. 161 00:16:41,081 --> 00:16:43,922 And anyway my work isn't trendy. 162 00:16:44,210 --> 00:16:47,176 It's mostly in the western suburbs. 163 00:16:47,460 --> 00:16:51,944 I live in the Mountains, Blacktown or Penrith would kill me. 164 00:17:00,138 --> 00:17:03,344 How many women have you slept with? 165 00:17:05,514 --> 00:17:07,876 Am I your freak show? 166 00:17:29,185 --> 00:17:31,831 How many have you slept with? 167 00:17:59,436 --> 00:18:00,998 Concentrate. 168 00:18:01,282 --> 00:18:03,757 Diana Maitland? I know her. 169 00:18:04,050 --> 00:18:05,773 Poetry in crowd, 170 00:18:06,056 --> 00:18:09,821 post-modern parasites all fucking each other. 171 00:18:10,109 --> 00:18:11,592 She's gorgeous, Lou. 172 00:18:11,874 --> 00:18:14,715 Wrinkles round her eyes and great legs. 173 00:18:15,003 --> 00:18:17,684 And she's smart like a steel trap. 174 00:18:17,972 --> 00:18:19,933 Too bad about her husband. 175 00:18:20,219 --> 00:18:24,018 If you ask me, that woman's big bloody trouble. 176 00:18:24,552 --> 00:18:29,687 - I want you trouble on the rocks. - And what about the missing girl? 177 00:18:29,968 --> 00:18:33,527 Your mind should be on your job, not on your cunt. 178 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:37,139 - I'm doing my best. - To get into that bitch's pants. 179 00:18:37,431 --> 00:18:39,712 Lou, go write a dirty poem. 180 00:18:39,999 --> 00:18:43,441 I can get you some leads in the poetry scene. 181 00:18:43,729 --> 00:18:46,697 Even failed New Age dyke poets like me... 182 00:18:46,982 --> 00:18:51,969 rub shoulders with tortured Catholics and faded intellectuals. 183 00:18:53,609 --> 00:18:57,254 Just stop thinking about that fucking woman. 184 00:19:00,831 --> 00:19:03,200 In love I've got no style. 185 00:19:03,490 --> 00:19:07,767 My heart is decked out in bright pink track suit pants. 186 00:19:08,887 --> 00:19:13,604 It weaves its huge bummed way through the tables to Diana. 187 00:19:15,037 --> 00:19:17,892 I think you saw her too. She was all... 188 00:19:19,442 --> 00:19:20,423 Hi. 189 00:19:20,712 --> 00:19:23,363 This is my husband, Nick. Jill. 190 00:19:23,648 --> 00:19:27,248 Most of the Pls I get to meet are big ugly pricks. 191 00:19:27,537 --> 00:19:30,425 Ex-cops too bent even for the force. 192 00:19:31,505 --> 00:19:34,834 - I'm an ex-cop. - Weren't you too short? 193 00:19:35,116 --> 00:19:38,004 How's your nose for tracking down brats? 194 00:19:38,291 --> 00:19:43,448 - A waste of a smart woman's time. - This smart woman needs the money. 195 00:19:43,727 --> 00:19:46,345 I knew you two would hit it off. 196 00:19:46,664 --> 00:19:50,264 You have to excuse me. I've got a hearing. 197 00:19:50,553 --> 00:19:53,836 Aggravated assault. He crushed her face. 198 00:19:54,124 --> 00:19:57,848 Doesn't the thought of the victim get in the way? 199 00:19:58,132 --> 00:20:00,546 The victim isn't paying me. 200 00:20:06,346 --> 00:20:07,654 He does well. 201 00:20:08,092 --> 00:20:10,348 He's good at what he does. 202 00:20:24,004 --> 00:20:26,260 He's younger than you. 203 00:20:26,742 --> 00:20:28,163 Only ten years. 204 00:20:28,449 --> 00:20:30,548 I put him through Uni. 205 00:20:30,830 --> 00:20:34,193 He wanted to conquer my middle class breeding. 206 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,922 - And did he? - You'd have to kill me to do that. 207 00:20:40,591 --> 00:20:42,881 I was married once. Chris. 208 00:20:43,925 --> 00:20:46,154 - Was he a policeman? - She. 209 00:20:46,444 --> 00:20:48,718 She was younger than me. 210 00:20:49,004 --> 00:20:51,597 She was a young offender. 211 00:20:51,884 --> 00:20:54,078 Not much younger than me but... 212 00:20:54,364 --> 00:20:56,877 I baby sat her at the station. 213 00:20:57,363 --> 00:20:59,273 What did she do? 214 00:21:00,443 --> 00:21:02,751 You don't have to tell me. 215 00:21:04,603 --> 00:21:06,433 It's Mickey's. 216 00:21:07,282 --> 00:21:11,240 Mickey, like all the girl poets, is trying to be Sylvia Plath. 217 00:21:11,522 --> 00:21:14,274 - But without the loony bin. - Who? 218 00:21:16,122 --> 00:21:19,079 Let's just say she leads a double life. 219 00:21:19,361 --> 00:21:22,670 Sweet exterior, boiling passion inside. 220 00:21:51,478 --> 00:21:53,433 Here I feel it, here. 221 00:21:53,718 --> 00:21:56,470 Flutter, groan, grind in the belly. 222 00:21:56,758 --> 00:22:00,272 What jellies my legs? What flash floods my cunt? 223 00:22:00,557 --> 00:22:03,707 Didn't they teach you this in Brownies? 224 00:23:22,150 --> 00:23:25,585 So that's what they taught you in Brownies. 225 00:23:32,389 --> 00:23:35,027 Why did you and Chris split up? 226 00:23:39,188 --> 00:23:42,623 I'll tell you a dyke cautionary tale. 227 00:23:45,108 --> 00:23:46,620 Chris and me... 228 00:23:48,748 --> 00:23:51,056 were snug as two guinea pigs. 229 00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:55,385 We had a lovely life, until hand feeding and bedtime stories... 230 00:23:55,667 --> 00:23:57,384 made us fat and dozy... 231 00:23:57,667 --> 00:24:00,703 and a big bad fox called boredom got in. 232 00:24:02,306 --> 00:24:03,499 Dear. 233 00:24:05,666 --> 00:24:07,018 I promise... 234 00:24:09,306 --> 00:24:12,820 it won't be like Beatrix Potter with me. 235 00:24:14,385 --> 00:24:18,263 You get old and blunt. You forget what it's like. 236 00:24:18,545 --> 00:24:21,695 Her taste on my mouth. The smell on my hands. 237 00:24:21,985 --> 00:24:26,262 The cops should pick me up. I can't walk in a straight line. 238 00:24:26,544 --> 00:24:28,022 Hello, Jill. 239 00:24:28,304 --> 00:24:30,294 This is Jean Norris. 240 00:24:30,584 --> 00:24:32,574 We've found Mickey. 241 00:24:32,864 --> 00:24:36,572 The little bugger was with her poet boyfriend. 242 00:24:36,863 --> 00:24:38,739 She's back for her pocket money. 243 00:24:39,023 --> 00:24:42,731 They say she must have been involved in some... 244 00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:46,378 I did fuck all apart from fuck her teacher. 245 00:24:52,782 --> 00:24:55,739 I can't believe Mickey's dead. 246 00:25:04,141 --> 00:25:06,415 Death for asphyxiation. 247 00:25:13,020 --> 00:25:16,011 You're not taking this on, are you love? 248 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:17,971 Fuck off, Wesley. 249 00:25:18,259 --> 00:25:21,295 Don't tempt me, you lezzo. 250 00:25:39,857 --> 00:25:41,369 Found here. 251 00:25:44,017 --> 00:25:47,053 Here at the bottom of our home. 252 00:25:48,697 --> 00:25:50,732 Terrible things... 253 00:25:52,976 --> 00:25:54,533 done to her. 254 00:25:58,936 --> 00:26:02,564 We recognised her by her clothes. 255 00:26:05,655 --> 00:26:08,726 If there's anything I can do, please. 256 00:26:09,295 --> 00:26:11,046 You've been kind. 257 00:26:13,134 --> 00:26:15,931 But we don't need you any more. 258 00:26:17,134 --> 00:26:20,250 It's in the hands of the police. 259 00:26:32,693 --> 00:26:34,762 Hands of the police! 260 00:26:35,612 --> 00:26:40,127 It'd make you puke to see anything in Wesley's thick fingers. 261 00:26:40,412 --> 00:26:44,484 Let your lezzo friend shout you a demo for Christmas. 262 00:26:44,771 --> 00:26:46,647 I know his hands well. 263 00:26:46,931 --> 00:26:49,683 In my last case he showed me his cell, 264 00:26:49,971 --> 00:26:52,120 and the flat of his hand. 265 00:27:22,248 --> 00:27:25,125 They're a very wicked couple. 266 00:27:35,967 --> 00:27:39,402 Mickey was murdered. Strangled. 267 00:27:55,245 --> 00:27:59,522 The dogs that dug her up took chunks out of her arms. 268 00:28:00,644 --> 00:28:03,760 Poor thing. How are her parents coping? 269 00:28:06,044 --> 00:28:08,159 Congratulations. 270 00:28:09,004 --> 00:28:11,563 If anyone deserves it, you do. 271 00:28:11,843 --> 00:28:14,834 My colleagues are helping me celebrate. 272 00:28:15,203 --> 00:28:19,434 - I got a research grant from UCLA. - Congratulations. 273 00:28:20,443 --> 00:28:24,674 - Would you like a drink? - No. Thanks, anyway. 274 00:28:26,122 --> 00:28:27,998 There's no drink... 275 00:28:28,282 --> 00:28:31,990 to take away the taste of a fresh face rotting. 276 00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:02,634 - Jill Fitzpatrick. - Jill, Jean Norris. 277 00:29:02,919 --> 00:29:05,432 The police have been no help. 278 00:29:05,719 --> 00:29:09,552 When you know who killed her, don't tell the police. Tell me. 279 00:29:09,838 --> 00:29:13,113 I'm not going to wait for his light sentence. 280 00:29:13,398 --> 00:29:17,151 Let the social workers wail about his childhood, 281 00:29:17,437 --> 00:29:19,666 after I've finished with him. 282 00:29:20,557 --> 00:29:21,875 Mr. Norris? 283 00:29:23,677 --> 00:29:25,712 - Jill? - Yes, Mrs. Norris. 284 00:29:25,997 --> 00:29:28,464 I'm sorry about Neville. 285 00:29:28,756 --> 00:29:29,870 It's just... 286 00:29:30,156 --> 00:29:31,952 We'd like you back. 287 00:29:35,836 --> 00:29:37,029 Today... 288 00:29:37,316 --> 00:29:39,033 I should be working. 289 00:29:39,315 --> 00:29:44,342 I should be going through the Coroner's report asking questions. 290 00:30:00,514 --> 00:30:02,868 Today I'm not working. 291 00:30:03,353 --> 00:30:05,183 I'm seeing Diana. 292 00:30:18,552 --> 00:30:21,702 You're going grey over your ears. 293 00:30:23,391 --> 00:30:25,585 I'm just an old bag. 294 00:30:28,111 --> 00:30:30,988 Is that what Nick calls you? 295 00:30:33,151 --> 00:30:36,620 Nick doesn't notice the grey over my ears. 296 00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:41,587 Nick doesn't notice anything. 297 00:30:50,989 --> 00:30:52,262 G'day. 298 00:30:55,668 --> 00:30:57,623 Have a good night? 299 00:31:00,908 --> 00:31:02,135 Yeah. 300 00:31:02,428 --> 00:31:04,179 You? 301 00:31:05,108 --> 00:31:08,224 - Just got home. - How do you do it? 302 00:31:08,787 --> 00:31:11,858 I've got youth on my side and desire. 303 00:31:12,427 --> 00:31:15,020 - I mean your job. - I love it. 304 00:31:15,307 --> 00:31:19,504 I love demolishing brain-dead cops in the witness box. 305 00:31:19,866 --> 00:31:22,333 Does she talk in her sleep? 306 00:31:22,626 --> 00:31:24,104 Not about you. 307 00:31:24,386 --> 00:31:26,979 You're a brazen little tart. 308 00:31:29,825 --> 00:31:32,782 Do you want a cup? There's no rush. 309 00:31:33,065 --> 00:31:37,376 Diana'll be doing her face and Rome wasn't built in a day. 310 00:31:41,424 --> 00:31:44,654 Looking for a photo of yourself in there? 311 00:31:46,264 --> 00:31:49,175 How's the North Shore princess job? 312 00:31:49,464 --> 00:31:51,294 I've got a few leads. 313 00:31:51,583 --> 00:31:55,939 She left a trail of lovers like Hansel and Gretel left bread. 314 00:31:56,223 --> 00:32:00,010 Didn't the bread get eaten by scavenging birds? 315 00:32:00,463 --> 00:32:03,579 Save your rhetoric for the court room. 316 00:32:04,302 --> 00:32:06,178 My two crusaders. 317 00:32:09,062 --> 00:32:12,133 - He knows about us! - Why do you mind? 318 00:32:12,421 --> 00:32:14,217 Because he's a perv. 319 00:32:14,501 --> 00:32:17,936 - Because it's our business. - He likes you. 320 00:32:18,221 --> 00:32:20,688 He likes talking about you... 321 00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:23,494 almost as much as I do. 322 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:30,696 I can think of no finer example... 323 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:36,454 of our post colonial literature than the book in hand. 324 00:32:36,739 --> 00:32:41,858 Possum Press shows its commitment to the voice of Australia. 325 00:32:43,139 --> 00:32:47,450 This book is to be enjoyed for its narrative scepticism, 326 00:32:47,738 --> 00:32:51,571 its daring form, its sheer writerly invention. 327 00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:57,330 I hope you'll support the oeuvre of our nation, 328 00:32:58,537 --> 00:33:01,289 the author and, of course, Possum Press. 329 00:33:01,577 --> 00:33:04,090 - Where have you been? - At the counter. 330 00:33:04,377 --> 00:33:08,528 There's Bill McDonald. He hates dykes. 331 00:33:08,816 --> 00:33:12,808 That's Barbara, Tony Brach's wife. She's a publisher. 332 00:33:13,096 --> 00:33:17,646 You can't fart in the poetry scene without Barbara's permission. 333 00:33:17,935 --> 00:33:21,006 An editor, a script writer, a meter reader... 334 00:33:23,895 --> 00:33:27,569 Brian will read from "Confiscated Computer". 335 00:33:37,774 --> 00:33:39,206 Sometimes... 336 00:33:41,253 --> 00:33:42,605 Sheen. 337 00:33:44,373 --> 00:33:45,964 Soothing. 338 00:33:47,173 --> 00:33:48,366 Jesus! 339 00:33:48,653 --> 00:33:51,450 Tony's been banished to Brisbane. 340 00:33:51,732 --> 00:33:56,168 Down here he runs a casting couch for young female poets. 341 00:33:56,452 --> 00:34:00,000 - Mickey had an affair with him? - Of course! 342 00:34:00,292 --> 00:34:03,920 Barb lets him get away with murder for the empire. 343 00:34:04,211 --> 00:34:06,565 But this time she went ape. 344 00:34:09,891 --> 00:34:11,482 Grief. 345 00:34:16,930 --> 00:34:21,719 The way you conceive it is one thing. The way you sell it is another. 346 00:34:22,010 --> 00:34:25,399 Your friend's cover wouldn't have sold. 347 00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:29,317 Jill Fitzpatrick, private investigator. 348 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:34,602 - I'm on the Mickey Norris case. - Wondered where you fitted in. 349 00:34:34,888 --> 00:34:39,836 Could we have a private word? It is an urgent matter, as you know. 350 00:34:40,128 --> 00:34:44,200 - No idea what you're talking about. - The dead girl. 351 00:34:48,367 --> 00:34:51,244 Why your husband went to Brisbane? 352 00:34:51,527 --> 00:34:53,437 I could get the cops to find out. 353 00:34:53,727 --> 00:34:56,604 They're not known for their kid gloves. 354 00:34:56,926 --> 00:35:00,634 Mickey was a little slut with a father-complex. 355 00:35:00,926 --> 00:35:06,318 She didn't deserve the death penalty for liking fucked-up older men. 356 00:35:06,605 --> 00:35:09,323 My husband went to Brisbane to write. 357 00:35:09,605 --> 00:35:12,164 He shouldn't be disturbed. 358 00:35:12,445 --> 00:35:13,877 You won't find any dirt... 359 00:35:14,165 --> 00:35:17,634 apart from what came from that little tart's pen. 360 00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:26,240 "Every thought, every breath. 361 00:35:28,004 --> 00:35:31,200 The joy of you begins each day. 362 00:35:31,483 --> 00:35:35,316 The feel of you within me fills my nights. 363 00:35:35,643 --> 00:35:38,634 I have awakened from a lonely sleep... 364 00:35:38,923 --> 00:35:40,514 to find you there... 365 00:35:40,802 --> 00:35:42,757 surrounding me in light. 366 00:35:43,042 --> 00:35:46,078 Shed by the candles of the universe. " 367 00:35:46,362 --> 00:35:49,592 Does he vacuum up every reading into that thing? 368 00:35:49,881 --> 00:35:51,438 Don't know. 369 00:35:51,761 --> 00:35:53,751 Did he video Mickey? 370 00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:55,439 Maybe not. 371 00:35:55,841 --> 00:35:59,628 "You remember as if through crystal, a moment. 372 00:35:59,921 --> 00:36:02,593 Your grandfather coming in the door. 373 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,916 His silhouette in the dusky light. 374 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,236 His hat like Sugarloaf Hill. 375 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,908 And you climb it and look down... 376 00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:14,393 as if you were him... 377 00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:17,238 and you are him. 378 00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:20,749 And my grandfather's hat stalked... 379 00:36:21,039 --> 00:36:23,871 of its own accord into my dreams. 380 00:36:24,158 --> 00:36:26,717 I'm starting to hallucinate. 381 00:36:26,998 --> 00:36:29,431 He's got a thing about his grandfather's hat. 382 00:36:29,718 --> 00:36:32,675 The lucky old bastard must be dead. 383 00:36:32,958 --> 00:36:35,187 "Coming up like the sun. " 384 00:36:35,477 --> 00:36:38,513 That's it, mate. Last fucking poem. 385 00:36:38,797 --> 00:36:40,195 Thank you. 386 00:36:43,797 --> 00:36:46,026 How do you talk to poets? 387 00:36:46,316 --> 00:36:50,831 I'm not known for my love of fluffy clouds or fields of daffodils. 388 00:36:51,116 --> 00:36:52,867 Give me a good bottle of wine, 389 00:36:53,156 --> 00:36:57,194 a woman with spit and spark, and the trifecta at Randwick. 390 00:36:59,395 --> 00:37:04,514 You're a sensitive man. I'd like to discuss a sensitive matter. 391 00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:06,512 How can I help you? 392 00:37:06,794 --> 00:37:10,502 I'm investigating the murder of Mickey Norris. 393 00:37:10,794 --> 00:37:13,466 - Are you a police officer? - No. 394 00:37:13,754 --> 00:37:17,712 - I'm working for Mickey's parents. - Yeah, poor girl. 395 00:37:18,033 --> 00:37:19,943 Shocking thing. 396 00:37:20,313 --> 00:37:23,429 She wrote to me. Sent me her poems. 397 00:37:23,713 --> 00:37:26,624 - Occupational hazard. - The price of fame. 398 00:37:26,913 --> 00:37:30,427 You won't get much fan mail in your line of work. 399 00:37:33,032 --> 00:37:35,625 Did you ever meet Mickey? 400 00:37:36,752 --> 00:37:39,504 No. Just a correspondence. 401 00:38:20,108 --> 00:38:21,506 Relief. 402 00:38:21,788 --> 00:38:23,743 Good grief. 403 00:38:25,307 --> 00:38:28,457 Seeing, being, peeing. 404 00:38:30,947 --> 00:38:34,621 Hands, feet, cunt. 405 00:38:35,906 --> 00:38:38,624 Fucking, coming, going... 406 00:38:38,906 --> 00:38:40,463 or something. 407 00:38:47,185 --> 00:38:51,097 It's just the roof cooling off after the heat of the day. 408 00:38:51,825 --> 00:38:55,294 He's in Melbourne. We've got all night. 409 00:38:56,624 --> 00:38:58,341 He gets about. 410 00:39:01,304 --> 00:39:04,136 Have you ever tried a threesome? 411 00:39:04,784 --> 00:39:06,136 No. 412 00:39:06,703 --> 00:39:08,579 Not another woman. 413 00:39:08,863 --> 00:39:10,341 A man. 414 00:39:11,943 --> 00:39:15,218 I'm not into that stuff. I'm straight. 415 00:39:31,221 --> 00:39:32,539 I got to go. 416 00:40:17,097 --> 00:40:19,894 Fitzpatrick, you stupid cunt, 417 00:40:20,177 --> 00:40:24,567 you're playing with your life, so don't take a punt. 418 00:40:24,856 --> 00:40:27,085 I know where to find you. 419 00:40:27,376 --> 00:40:31,527 I'm just taking my time before I do what I do. 420 00:40:32,536 --> 00:40:36,926 You don't know me but I know you. 421 00:40:37,375 --> 00:40:40,252 Just wait and fucking see. 422 00:41:49,169 --> 00:41:51,284 God, you're beautiful. 423 00:41:56,088 --> 00:41:57,486 Found these. 424 00:42:13,766 --> 00:42:15,517 "I'm just a cunt. 425 00:42:16,686 --> 00:42:19,119 Your cock has all the words. 426 00:42:19,406 --> 00:42:23,080 You pump them into me till I can't stand up. " 427 00:42:23,525 --> 00:42:27,437 What were you setting these kids for homework? 428 00:42:27,725 --> 00:42:31,000 It's victim poetry. My female students love it. 429 00:42:31,525 --> 00:42:33,754 Who kicked her around? 430 00:42:36,524 --> 00:42:38,991 "Beautiful lover, beautiful man, 431 00:42:39,284 --> 00:42:41,319 let my poem do the talking, 432 00:42:41,604 --> 00:42:44,993 let it stand up and whisper in your heart. " 433 00:42:45,283 --> 00:42:47,034 Poor little petal. 434 00:42:50,483 --> 00:42:51,995 "I love you. 435 00:42:52,283 --> 00:42:53,761 I love you. 436 00:42:54,043 --> 00:42:56,317 I'll love you till I die. 437 00:42:56,602 --> 00:42:59,718 Even if your angry cock kills me. " 438 00:43:03,682 --> 00:43:06,832 Forget who I am. Forget I'm pretty. 439 00:43:07,121 --> 00:43:08,917 You make me black. 440 00:43:09,201 --> 00:43:11,589 You make me very blue. 441 00:43:11,881 --> 00:43:14,917 Even your cum smells like flowers. 442 00:43:15,201 --> 00:43:17,156 Your eyes, your eyes. 443 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,714 Bullets and knives. 444 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,833 - Am I missing the point? - What point? 445 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,349 They must mean something. 446 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,675 She was a little fool with a big heart. 447 00:43:31,959 --> 00:43:34,028 I need you to translate. 448 00:43:34,359 --> 00:43:36,826 "Do you want it on a fax? 449 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:39,757 On your mobile phone? 450 00:43:40,038 --> 00:43:42,631 I'm here for you. " 451 00:43:44,158 --> 00:43:49,072 - Definitely to a suffering boy poet. - Bill McDonald or Tony Brach? 452 00:43:49,358 --> 00:43:51,473 Bill McDonald. He'd lap it up. 453 00:43:51,757 --> 00:43:55,226 But he's a man of God and so repulsive. 454 00:43:55,637 --> 00:43:58,104 Sure, to a godless dyke. 455 00:43:59,157 --> 00:44:02,068 Not to the sensitive eye... 456 00:44:02,356 --> 00:44:05,711 of a budding and ambitious poetess. 457 00:44:08,236 --> 00:44:10,590 Would Bill have a mobile? 458 00:44:10,876 --> 00:44:13,514 It's called poetic licence. 459 00:44:20,595 --> 00:44:24,030 "All your beautiful words run in the water... 460 00:44:24,314 --> 00:44:27,350 like beautiful fish kissing my mouth. 461 00:44:27,634 --> 00:44:30,431 I've seen your holy beautiful face. 462 00:44:30,714 --> 00:44:34,228 You're my beautiful secret that I carry. " 463 00:44:35,233 --> 00:44:37,302 I quite like that one. 464 00:44:37,593 --> 00:44:40,026 You must be premenstrual. 465 00:44:41,233 --> 00:44:42,984 She was a nympho. 466 00:44:43,273 --> 00:44:48,505 For sheer sexual rapacity, even you couldn't keep up with that kid. 467 00:44:49,072 --> 00:44:53,826 She must have screwed every poet in Sydney, excluding the girls. 468 00:44:57,031 --> 00:44:59,669 She was looking for something. 469 00:44:59,951 --> 00:45:03,499 Maybe something for her poetry in those arseholes. 470 00:45:03,791 --> 00:45:06,668 You ex-Catholics are so sentimental. 471 00:45:08,150 --> 00:45:10,299 Where did you get this? 472 00:45:11,350 --> 00:45:13,465 Do you know what it is? 473 00:45:13,990 --> 00:45:16,583 It's a Mexican worry doll. 474 00:45:16,870 --> 00:45:19,224 You tell it your worries, 475 00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:21,578 put it under your pillow... 476 00:45:21,869 --> 00:45:23,779 and in the morning... 477 00:45:24,069 --> 00:45:25,740 they're gone. 478 00:46:01,545 --> 00:46:03,455 Jill Fitzpatrick. 479 00:46:25,583 --> 00:46:26,776 Hello? 480 00:46:35,302 --> 00:46:38,418 You've got the wrong number, fucker! 481 00:47:12,099 --> 00:47:13,292 Hello. 482 00:47:15,859 --> 00:47:18,497 I found it behind the TV. 483 00:47:21,018 --> 00:47:22,769 Love is a torture. 484 00:47:23,298 --> 00:47:25,174 Love tortures me. 485 00:47:26,458 --> 00:47:28,766 Does love torture you? 486 00:47:31,177 --> 00:47:32,529 If it does, 487 00:47:33,657 --> 00:47:35,772 why are you laughing? 488 00:47:45,536 --> 00:47:49,972 She could be a bitch, but she was my best friend. 489 00:47:51,375 --> 00:47:52,853 Then help her. 490 00:47:53,375 --> 00:47:56,093 Help me find who killed her. 491 00:47:57,455 --> 00:47:58,569 Come on! 492 00:47:58,855 --> 00:48:01,368 You must know something. 493 00:48:06,214 --> 00:48:08,647 She just wanted to be loved. 494 00:48:09,534 --> 00:48:12,684 I can't talk to you my beautiful lover. 495 00:48:12,973 --> 00:48:16,009 I can't talk to you my beautiful man. 496 00:48:17,293 --> 00:48:19,283 I can't talk to you. 497 00:48:20,093 --> 00:48:23,209 You listen with your cock in my mouth. 498 00:48:23,492 --> 00:48:25,959 With your knee on my throat. 499 00:48:26,252 --> 00:48:29,607 With your big voice scratching me out. 500 00:48:30,812 --> 00:48:35,202 You tell me I've got nothing to say I'm just a cunt. 501 00:48:35,971 --> 00:48:38,404 Your cock has all the words. 502 00:48:38,691 --> 00:48:42,399 You pump them into me until I can't stand up. 503 00:48:42,691 --> 00:48:46,046 Till I'm just dripping you everywhere. 504 00:48:46,770 --> 00:48:48,248 Everywhere. 505 00:48:51,090 --> 00:48:53,045 Beautiful lover. 506 00:48:53,970 --> 00:48:57,245 Beautiful man, let my poem do my talking. 507 00:48:57,529 --> 00:49:01,157 Let it stand up and whisper in your heart. 508 00:49:02,009 --> 00:49:03,361 I love you. 509 00:49:04,769 --> 00:49:06,121 I love you. 510 00:49:32,526 --> 00:49:34,083 Your throat... 511 00:49:34,646 --> 00:49:36,078 is gorgeous. 512 00:49:40,845 --> 00:49:42,277 Your throat. 513 00:49:43,685 --> 00:49:45,754 It's state of the art. 514 00:49:46,045 --> 00:49:48,638 It's no good when I'm in this mood. 515 00:49:48,925 --> 00:49:54,521 Abused children crawling through my hair. Mickey's skull whistles. 516 00:49:54,804 --> 00:49:56,395 I can't come. 517 00:49:56,684 --> 00:49:58,753 Let's talk instead. 518 00:50:00,204 --> 00:50:03,001 Oh, Christ, love me a little. 519 00:50:04,763 --> 00:50:07,720 Do you want to see what it was like? 520 00:50:52,319 --> 00:50:54,468 Stop checking your change. 521 00:50:54,959 --> 00:50:56,949 No one's ripped you off. 522 00:50:58,318 --> 00:50:59,716 Just love her. 523 00:50:59,998 --> 00:51:02,272 Love her for what she is. 524 00:51:04,638 --> 00:51:05,752 Did you like it? 525 00:51:11,677 --> 00:51:13,394 I can't remember. 526 00:51:22,436 --> 00:51:23,948 Word for today... 527 00:51:24,316 --> 00:51:25,634 is love. 528 00:51:26,836 --> 00:51:30,464 Love has the same number of syllables as... 529 00:51:30,755 --> 00:51:32,187 dead. 530 00:51:33,795 --> 00:51:36,228 Our word for tomorrow. 531 00:51:38,795 --> 00:51:40,944 Love isn't just talking. 532 00:51:41,234 --> 00:51:43,747 My love isn't just words. 533 00:51:44,674 --> 00:51:48,029 Do you want it in a fax? On your mobile phone? 534 00:51:49,154 --> 00:51:50,825 I'm here for you. 535 00:51:51,113 --> 00:51:53,546 I'm not just a hole for your prick. 536 00:51:54,313 --> 00:51:57,463 Is that what they call poetry these days? 537 00:51:57,753 --> 00:52:00,505 Is that what they were teaching her? 538 00:52:00,793 --> 00:52:05,229 No. Her poetry tutor thinks it's not really up to scratch. 539 00:52:08,472 --> 00:52:12,783 She didn't use that kind of language at home. 540 00:52:13,551 --> 00:52:15,268 They're love poems. 541 00:52:16,111 --> 00:52:18,863 Then she must have been a monster. 542 00:52:21,431 --> 00:52:22,579 No. 543 00:52:23,710 --> 00:52:25,665 Just a teenager. 544 00:52:42,229 --> 00:52:43,820 You were there! 545 00:52:47,468 --> 00:52:49,537 You were there! 546 00:52:51,628 --> 00:52:54,016 Jean, no. 547 00:52:55,148 --> 00:52:58,105 She was my baby! 548 00:53:11,546 --> 00:53:13,422 I couldn't talk. 549 00:53:17,186 --> 00:53:20,018 My wife is stronger than I am. 550 00:53:24,225 --> 00:53:26,818 I just wanted to see her. 551 00:53:29,904 --> 00:53:32,258 To see what she'd become. 552 00:53:34,624 --> 00:53:36,978 She used to be my girl. 553 00:53:40,583 --> 00:53:43,221 I walked away and left her... 554 00:53:45,703 --> 00:53:47,260 in hell. 555 00:54:11,981 --> 00:54:14,210 I knew it. You're a prude. 556 00:54:14,860 --> 00:54:17,817 I just want to go back to your place. 557 00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:22,377 - Spectator sport bores me. - They're just warming up. 558 00:54:22,660 --> 00:54:24,809 Wait, you won't be bored. 559 00:54:29,739 --> 00:54:32,093 Why do you stay with Nick? 560 00:54:32,699 --> 00:54:35,451 Because he shares his secrets. 561 00:54:35,738 --> 00:54:38,126 Because he lets me in. 562 00:54:49,417 --> 00:54:51,407 You're a great fuck, 563 00:54:51,697 --> 00:54:54,654 but you're a very ordinary detective. 564 00:54:55,697 --> 00:54:58,164 No wonder you're broke, Jill. 565 00:55:28,214 --> 00:55:30,408 Going to chase it, eh? 566 00:55:32,093 --> 00:55:34,401 Come here often, Bill? 567 00:55:36,853 --> 00:55:41,130 - What do you want? - Just to chat about some poems. 568 00:55:41,972 --> 00:55:43,927 - My poems? - No, mate. 569 00:55:45,572 --> 00:55:48,324 - Mickey's poems. - I'm going. 570 00:55:48,612 --> 00:55:50,681 I have a pal at the Herald. 571 00:55:50,971 --> 00:55:53,484 These poems deserve a big audience. 572 00:55:53,771 --> 00:55:56,443 "I've seen your holy beautiful face. 573 00:55:56,731 --> 00:55:59,802 I've kissed your beautiful feet like Mary. 574 00:56:00,091 --> 00:56:02,558 You're a man with a spirit like pure gold. 575 00:56:02,850 --> 00:56:05,363 You're my beautiful secret that I carry. " 576 00:56:05,650 --> 00:56:08,641 The devil quotes Scripture, you lesbian filth! 577 00:56:08,930 --> 00:56:12,842 - What about love your enemy? - He cut up vermin like you. 578 00:56:14,889 --> 00:56:19,200 Can you imagine the state she was in when they found her? 579 00:56:19,649 --> 00:56:23,004 Whose big hot hands did this, Bill? 580 00:56:24,168 --> 00:56:27,762 Come on, Bill! Tell Uncle Jesus about Mickey! 581 00:56:28,048 --> 00:56:31,119 Tell your Christ what you did to Mickey! 582 00:56:31,408 --> 00:56:34,638 - Show Mr. God your dirty dick! - Stop it! 583 00:56:34,927 --> 00:56:36,882 You're a monster! 584 00:56:38,247 --> 00:56:41,636 She was my beautiful girl but she broke me. 585 00:56:42,367 --> 00:56:45,563 Broke me first and made me write filth. 586 00:56:46,726 --> 00:56:49,239 Christ, not more bloody poems! 587 00:56:53,646 --> 00:56:56,318 I'm on to it. Bill's cracked. 588 00:56:56,605 --> 00:57:00,722 I have to get these essays marked before I leave. 589 00:57:02,365 --> 00:57:04,514 He's coming to my place. 590 00:57:04,965 --> 00:57:06,556 He's got evidence. 591 00:57:06,964 --> 00:57:09,079 Written evidence. 592 00:57:11,644 --> 00:57:13,395 Why the big drive? 593 00:57:14,204 --> 00:57:16,194 Mountain air, baby. 594 00:57:17,044 --> 00:57:19,318 It's good for the soul. 595 00:57:21,483 --> 00:57:24,155 Good for spilling the beans. 596 00:58:17,958 --> 00:58:19,948 Is anything wrong? 597 00:58:20,558 --> 00:58:21,626 No. 598 00:58:29,397 --> 00:58:32,991 - I'll miss you when you go. - Go where? 599 00:58:33,757 --> 00:58:35,030 L.A. 600 00:58:40,276 --> 00:58:43,984 - Bill told me something strange. - What did he say? 601 00:58:45,955 --> 00:58:48,229 Come on, baby, spit it out. 602 00:58:48,515 --> 00:58:51,312 What was on Jesus-Loves-Me's mind? 603 00:58:51,915 --> 00:58:54,508 He was going to show me some poems. 604 00:58:55,035 --> 00:58:57,423 - Evil poems. - Let me guess. 605 00:58:57,714 --> 00:59:00,944 Constipated verses to poor little Mickey... 606 00:59:01,234 --> 00:59:04,430 about their secret, sordid sex life. 607 00:59:04,714 --> 00:59:06,351 Probably. 608 00:59:07,153 --> 00:59:10,303 But someone else got a hold of them first. 609 00:59:10,593 --> 00:59:11,911 Satan. 610 00:59:15,913 --> 00:59:18,426 We must track them down, sweetie. 611 00:59:19,152 --> 00:59:20,470 We? 612 00:59:27,232 --> 00:59:30,462 Someone was having a lot of fun with Bill. 613 00:59:31,791 --> 00:59:33,701 Who killed Mickey? 614 00:59:33,991 --> 00:59:36,345 Who fiddled with Bill's car? 615 00:59:36,631 --> 00:59:37,949 No evidence? 616 00:59:38,231 --> 00:59:41,302 Just the smell of sex and violence... 617 00:59:41,590 --> 00:59:43,898 and pages of Mickey's words. 618 00:59:44,190 --> 00:59:48,819 Diana tells me that words are erotic, yet really mean bugger all. 619 00:59:49,110 --> 00:59:52,306 You walk in and the room hushes like you. 620 00:59:52,589 --> 00:59:54,863 You were a mysterious goddess. 621 00:59:55,789 --> 00:59:58,256 And while you talk I tremble. 622 00:59:59,229 --> 01:00:01,298 Mysterious goddess? 623 01:00:02,828 --> 01:00:05,022 Mickey was meaning someone. 624 01:00:25,266 --> 01:00:28,496 Are your students besotted with you? 625 01:00:28,786 --> 01:00:32,175 To most of them I'm just a boring old bag. 626 01:00:33,386 --> 01:00:36,502 Do any of them ever write poetry to you? 627 01:00:36,785 --> 01:00:40,094 There's always a romantic cretin or crawler. 628 01:00:40,385 --> 01:00:44,616 - Did Mickey write you a poem? - Lf she did, she kept it to herself. 629 01:00:44,905 --> 01:00:47,782 She liked boys. Boy poets. 630 01:00:48,464 --> 01:00:51,773 For Mickey, other women were competition. 631 01:00:52,344 --> 01:00:56,052 - Not inspiration. - Why are you helping me? 632 01:00:58,903 --> 01:01:01,211 I can't afford to have... 633 01:01:01,503 --> 01:01:04,972 any more of my poetry class bumped off. 634 01:01:07,182 --> 01:01:11,538 He's coming in for lunch at two and I've got a class. 635 01:01:14,062 --> 01:01:16,097 You're all shaky. 636 01:01:16,382 --> 01:01:19,930 Those poems are so violent. So desperate. 637 01:01:20,221 --> 01:01:23,895 It's hard to believe that that kid's dead. 638 01:01:25,021 --> 01:01:26,578 Jilly... 639 01:01:27,581 --> 01:01:29,650 You are so sweet. 640 01:01:32,980 --> 01:01:37,416 Have you ever seen a corpse before the funeral parlour tarts it up? 641 01:01:37,780 --> 01:01:41,294 There's a smell. Disinfectant and old piss. 642 01:01:41,579 --> 01:01:44,809 Something else crawls into your stomach. 643 01:01:45,139 --> 01:01:48,767 The death smell. And that stays on you for days. 644 01:01:51,978 --> 01:01:54,969 You don't give a flying fuck, do you? 645 01:01:58,378 --> 01:02:00,891 Live with your fashionable man... 646 01:02:01,178 --> 01:02:03,896 and your state of the fucking art fridge! 647 01:02:09,297 --> 01:02:11,093 Lover's quarrel. 648 01:02:17,536 --> 01:02:19,685 You'll get over it. 649 01:03:36,969 --> 01:03:39,038 Her poetry was awful, 650 01:03:39,329 --> 01:03:41,967 but she was a nice kid. 651 01:03:42,248 --> 01:03:44,841 So you had an affair with her? 652 01:03:45,688 --> 01:03:48,759 You could call it an affair of the heart. 653 01:03:49,048 --> 01:03:53,359 - You mean you fucked her, Tony? - You don't give up, do you? 654 01:04:03,806 --> 01:04:05,124 This is nice. 655 01:04:07,006 --> 01:04:10,759 - I thought all poets were broke. - I'm a kept man. 656 01:04:13,365 --> 01:04:17,915 I've seen more poets over the last month than in a lifetime. 657 01:04:23,684 --> 01:04:27,562 Poetry was about opening your legs one minute, 658 01:04:27,844 --> 01:04:30,437 opening your grave the next. 659 01:04:32,164 --> 01:04:36,281 I never knew that poetry could be as sticky as sex. 660 01:04:50,042 --> 01:04:53,511 I wouldn't have thought you had any worries. 661 01:04:53,922 --> 01:04:55,957 You'd be surprised. 662 01:04:56,242 --> 01:04:58,914 Thank Christ I'm out of it. 663 01:04:59,281 --> 01:05:00,713 A toast. 664 01:05:02,121 --> 01:05:03,712 To Brisbane. 665 01:05:04,961 --> 01:05:07,633 City of snooze. 666 01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:09,716 To Sydney... 667 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,990 my glittering tart. 668 01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,112 To Mickey. 669 01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:17,671 Once upon a time, 670 01:05:19,479 --> 01:05:21,309 Mickey the Monkey, 671 01:05:21,639 --> 01:05:25,187 all knowing and cunning little hands... 672 01:05:25,759 --> 01:05:29,546 She knew where the nuts were hidden and, Jesus... 673 01:05:30,038 --> 01:05:32,710 she knew how to squeeze. 674 01:05:39,798 --> 01:05:41,992 A solemn libation... 675 01:05:42,277 --> 01:05:44,426 to Mickey the Martyr. 676 01:05:45,477 --> 01:05:49,105 Mickey had to write every fucking thing down. 677 01:05:49,517 --> 01:05:52,553 Filled her books with fucking poems. 678 01:05:54,316 --> 01:05:56,704 Fucking poems, all right. 679 01:05:57,356 --> 01:06:01,746 She did not give a shit about truth and beauty... 680 01:06:02,035 --> 01:06:03,626 just fucking. 681 01:06:04,315 --> 01:06:06,874 She even kept a bloody diary. 682 01:06:07,595 --> 01:06:10,347 Like all budding poetesses... 683 01:06:11,635 --> 01:06:14,990 she could not leave her love life alone. 684 01:06:16,314 --> 01:06:18,668 Where's the diary now? 685 01:06:20,834 --> 01:06:22,630 Not with me, baby. 686 01:06:24,593 --> 01:06:26,105 You ask Diana. 687 01:06:26,793 --> 01:06:28,305 Diana? 688 01:06:29,673 --> 01:06:33,711 Mickey handed it in with her poetry assignment. 689 01:06:34,433 --> 01:06:35,865 Poetry! 690 01:06:36,392 --> 01:06:38,541 It gave Di a good laugh. 691 01:06:38,832 --> 01:06:41,550 An embarrassment of riches. 692 01:06:44,912 --> 01:06:47,027 I know Diana's a liar... 693 01:06:47,471 --> 01:06:49,586 and I know I'm a fool. 694 01:06:50,111 --> 01:06:52,783 Mickey's diary will name names. 695 01:06:53,071 --> 01:06:56,380 Mickey's diary will point the finger at me... 696 01:06:56,670 --> 01:06:58,944 for ignoring the evidence. 697 01:07:06,510 --> 01:07:08,625 I can't really talk here. 698 01:07:08,909 --> 01:07:10,466 How about lunch? 699 01:07:17,389 --> 01:07:19,538 Mickey, it's gone. 700 01:07:38,187 --> 01:07:41,622 - How's Tony? - Who's asking? 701 01:07:42,786 --> 01:07:45,015 - His wife. - Barbara? 702 01:07:45,306 --> 01:07:48,138 How many wives do you think he has? 703 01:07:48,426 --> 01:07:50,939 He's not a fucking Mormon. 704 01:08:00,225 --> 01:08:02,135 What do you want? 705 01:08:02,864 --> 01:08:05,821 Your lover might fix your car one day... 706 01:08:06,104 --> 01:08:07,980 like she fixed Bill's. 707 01:08:08,504 --> 01:08:11,893 She couldn't do a worse job than my mechanic. 708 01:08:12,184 --> 01:08:16,574 - Does she throw in an oil and grease? - You're not funny. 709 01:08:16,863 --> 01:08:20,377 You're just way out of your fucking depth. 710 01:08:21,103 --> 01:08:23,821 Diana told Tony everything. 711 01:08:24,102 --> 01:08:28,492 She said you made a pass... a big pass, at her. 712 01:08:30,262 --> 01:08:32,821 That's not the whole story. 713 01:08:33,182 --> 01:08:34,933 It sure isn't. 714 01:08:38,701 --> 01:08:40,850 Don't waste your time. 715 01:08:41,141 --> 01:08:44,928 Diana's been seeing Tony off and on for months. 716 01:08:45,221 --> 01:08:47,450 She's nuts about him. 717 01:09:04,379 --> 01:09:07,495 Jill, what's happened? You look terrible. 718 01:09:07,898 --> 01:09:11,412 - Diana's fucking Tony. - Is that all? 719 01:09:11,698 --> 01:09:15,167 I thought someone else had got bumped off. 720 01:09:16,698 --> 01:09:20,690 Why are you so amazed your goddess sleeps around? 721 01:09:20,977 --> 01:09:23,444 I was hoping she had better taste. 722 01:09:23,737 --> 01:09:26,409 She has. She married golden boy. 723 01:09:26,697 --> 01:09:30,848 But she likes to play. She likes to take a holiday. 724 01:09:36,336 --> 01:09:37,768 Jill. 725 01:09:50,935 --> 01:09:52,526 Louie... 726 01:09:54,254 --> 01:09:56,562 you're my best friend. 727 01:12:38,599 --> 01:12:39,997 Great job. 728 01:13:10,036 --> 01:13:12,868 - Hi. - Are you picking me up? 729 01:13:24,235 --> 01:13:25,713 After you. 730 01:13:29,834 --> 01:13:33,826 - I heard you lost that case. - We didn't get the guy off. 731 01:13:34,114 --> 01:13:37,662 - You win some, you lose some. - You like to win. 732 01:13:38,634 --> 01:13:41,022 You should grow your hair. 733 01:13:43,953 --> 01:13:45,465 Do you love her? 734 01:13:45,753 --> 01:13:49,267 - Your trophy wife? - I do, as a matter of fact. 735 01:13:49,553 --> 01:13:52,589 You love the bitch, you cover her shit. 736 01:13:56,992 --> 01:13:59,459 You love her too, don't you? 737 01:14:02,951 --> 01:14:05,862 You've done wonders for my wife. 738 01:14:06,151 --> 01:14:07,947 Her eyes shine... 739 01:14:08,231 --> 01:14:10,698 after she's fucked you. 740 01:14:21,430 --> 01:14:22,908 Are you cold? 741 01:14:23,190 --> 01:14:24,338 No. 742 01:14:27,029 --> 01:14:29,747 I came here with Diana once. 743 01:14:30,309 --> 01:14:31,741 So did I. 744 01:14:55,587 --> 01:14:56,701 You know, 745 01:14:57,066 --> 01:15:00,137 you're beautiful in your own way. 746 01:15:00,426 --> 01:15:02,893 - Thanks a bunch. - No, really. 747 01:15:03,186 --> 01:15:05,983 There's something about you. 748 01:15:06,706 --> 01:15:09,173 I can see what she saw in you. 749 01:15:11,065 --> 01:15:14,215 You are cold. Look, you're shivering. 750 01:15:27,704 --> 01:15:30,297 It's over now, me and Diana. 751 01:15:32,223 --> 01:15:33,177 I know. 752 01:15:33,463 --> 01:15:36,613 Do you know why? You'd be one up on me. 753 01:15:36,903 --> 01:15:41,180 Don't take it personally. She's an incurable flirt. 754 01:15:41,462 --> 01:15:43,736 A female Don Giovanni. 755 01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:47,175 Pot calling the kettle black. 756 01:15:56,861 --> 01:15:59,579 - You've got a cheek. - So have you. 757 01:15:59,861 --> 01:16:02,613 You had an affair with my wife. 758 01:16:05,900 --> 01:16:08,572 Have you ever been with a man? 759 01:16:12,380 --> 01:16:15,610 Once or twice. When you don't care. 760 01:16:15,899 --> 01:16:18,571 When you could fuck a goat. 761 01:16:20,899 --> 01:16:22,934 I'll be your goat. 762 01:16:26,978 --> 01:16:28,615 Touch me. 763 01:16:31,658 --> 01:16:33,852 Make my eyes shine too. 764 01:16:38,417 --> 01:16:39,371 Fuck! 765 01:16:54,616 --> 01:16:57,288 - You killed Mickey. - Yeah. 766 01:16:57,575 --> 01:17:00,532 And my wife came as she watched. 767 01:17:05,895 --> 01:17:07,043 It's okay. 768 01:17:07,654 --> 01:17:09,769 She's not watching now. 769 01:18:11,169 --> 01:18:14,638 Rehearsing my wrap up to Mickey's parents. 770 01:18:14,928 --> 01:18:18,363 She wasn't murdered. It was an accident. 771 01:18:18,808 --> 01:18:22,243 Then what? Freud? Masters and Johnson? 772 01:18:22,528 --> 01:18:25,678 Get the experts to explain the mess? 773 01:18:25,967 --> 01:18:28,605 It was sex play that went wrong. 774 01:18:28,887 --> 01:18:31,958 Mrs Norris's missionary position face... 775 01:18:32,247 --> 01:18:34,760 gagging on the broken hyoid bone... 776 01:18:35,046 --> 01:18:38,196 of her daughter's sex life, while I tell her... 777 01:18:38,486 --> 01:18:42,558 strangulation orgasm is a lot safer between girls. 778 01:19:20,402 --> 01:19:22,596 What can we do for you? 779 01:19:26,402 --> 01:19:27,880 For Wesley. 780 01:20:21,557 --> 01:20:24,548 - What are you going to do? - What are you going to do? 781 01:20:24,836 --> 01:20:28,225 - Protect my interests. - Don't protect Nick. 782 01:20:28,516 --> 01:20:30,983 You can't make the mud stick. 783 01:20:31,276 --> 01:20:34,870 - You open your mouth, we'll sue. - Is it his youth? 784 01:20:35,155 --> 01:20:39,784 - You've sold yourself fucking cheap! - You forget I bought him. 785 01:20:42,915 --> 01:20:44,950 Don't look so shocked. 786 01:20:49,994 --> 01:20:51,904 He doesn't mind. 787 01:20:55,714 --> 01:20:59,626 Mickey's parents are mind-bogglingly boring people. 788 01:20:59,913 --> 01:21:05,384 - Nick has really jazzed up their lives. - Jealousy's making you hallucinate. 789 01:21:05,673 --> 01:21:06,900 Without Nick... 790 01:21:07,193 --> 01:21:10,946 they may never have known the smell of the morgue. 791 01:21:11,232 --> 01:21:15,224 Nor the smell of their daughter's decomposing face. 792 01:21:31,070 --> 01:21:33,902 I know the world as it really is. 793 01:21:34,510 --> 01:21:38,138 Endless war, my heart in flames. 794 01:21:41,909 --> 01:21:45,139 But I can smell the sweetest water. 795 01:21:46,269 --> 01:21:48,543 When I swim in that water, 796 01:21:48,909 --> 01:21:50,626 I am an angel. 797 01:21:51,548 --> 01:21:53,139 I am an angel. 798 01:22:21,026 --> 01:22:22,856 I'll be your goat. 799 01:22:24,106 --> 01:22:25,584 Touch me. 800 01:22:27,265 --> 01:22:31,052 - Make my eyes shine too. - You killed Mickey. 801 01:22:31,345 --> 01:22:32,299 Yeah. 802 01:22:33,505 --> 01:22:36,223 And my wife came as she watched. 803 01:22:38,704 --> 01:22:39,897 It's okay. 804 01:22:40,384 --> 01:22:42,692 She's not watching now. 805 01:23:03,102 --> 01:23:05,296 Forget the bitch. 806 01:23:05,782 --> 01:23:07,737 Case closed.