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Pastor Zik, he cares for us.

And Soda Mvaba?

He cares for Soda the most.

They are like father and son.

Pastor Zik loves the boy.

Who attacked you?

Nandi?

Lucy

There was no Lucy.

I heard her voice.

That was me. I dressed up for him.

I put on the voice.

I'm not bad.

And no net ensnares me.

I'm a free human being with an independent will,

which I now

exert to leave you.

Surprise.

A gift?

Angus, it's beautiful.

We

are going out.

Out?

Out.

Leave it natural.

It's exotic.

I don't want it to look common.

Let me look at you.

You look beautiful.

Oh, take a photograph Portia. Quickly

Come on, let's drink to it.

She's too young.

Oh don't be a party pooper.

Here's

to 1998.

1998!

What's the matter?

She's a little tipsy.

Wait a minute, Reyka.

Don't worry about her. Tonight is about us.

Shall we?

It's Detective Zwane.

Thank you.

Ma?

Yeah?

Can I go on the school trip?

No.

Listen to her.

Where to?

To Marine World.

You don't like fish.

No, ma. I don't like to eat fish.

What's the difference?

Everyone is going.

You know my feelings on this.

I do, but it's three hours

and Nina will be there to chaperone.

Is she allowed?

I asked and they understand.

But ma, I'm going to be the only one with my Au pair.

If you want to go, that's the deal.

Ma, there's something else.

Yep?

I wanted to go and spend some time with daddy.

Mom.

I didn't know.

Have you been speaking to him?

A bit.

Did you call him?

Yes.

We spoke to you about this.

Hector, can I call you back?

I'm on my way.

Your dad has his own life.

Msomi says you killed Soda Mvaba.

Now I need you to remember what happened.

Did he attack you?

Was this self defence?

I'm asking you.

Did you shoot Soda Mvaba in self defence?

He fled, baba.

I shot at his legs.

You shot at his legs and hit him in the chest?

Is that your story?

In the chest? He was running away baba, it was dark.

I was trying to stop him.

See for yourself.

Directories all wrong.

So Soda flees Samuel's car,

and runs into the field over to here?

Even if Soda had a few seconds headstart,

It wouldn't have taken Samuel long to chase him down.

Brigadier!

He could have apprehended him without drawing the weapon.

It was pitch dark. Soda's dangerous.

How does a low shot to the legs,

end up as a chest wound?

He tripped, his body spun round as he got shot.

There's two distinct tracks on the road.

There was another car?

Yes.

But it's impossible to determine how old the tracks are

until further testing.

What do you want to do, boss?

Tanner, lock him up.

But no charges until we get the ballistics report.

Take him to the police station.

Now.

Thank you for calling in the situation with my son.

Zwane, you've got a conflict of interest.

Not if I follow the law.

I'm the real authority in this area.

Of course, Chief.

This is far deeper, than your laws and rules.

The Msomi lineage, stems hundreds and hundreds of years.

It is understood that if any of my people commit crime,

your new constitution will hold them accountable.

But until that happens,

you are going to respect our rites and customs.

Did we fail you?

When your son came, to arrest me in front of my people,

he broke that bond of trust

that's been built between the new world and the old.

He'll be punished for that.

And assassinate him in cold blood.

He was very lucky that I got there before anybody else.

You have always been a fair leader.

But what does your son's behaviour say to my people?

That I can't protect them?

Well Samuel is young, he doesn't understand.

You robbed me of my power.

Left me at the mercy of a crooked police officer.

Crooked?

Nine women dead, Hector.

My son had nothing to do with it.

I know my blood, like you know yours.

Your blood?

What kind of a father are you to that boy?

When that boy looks at you, what does he see?

Your loyalties are so diluted, Hector,

your blood is like water.

Do you actually know who you are?

My niece has been dead for days!

And you have done nothing about it.

I heard, Hector's boy. Has he been charged?

Not yet.

You think he murdered that cane worker?

No motive, it doesn't make sense.

Hector must be furious.

I found it buried, on a farm in Eshowe.

The Speelman's farm?

Close by.

Is it yours?

I don't remember.

I do know it's important because Angus wanted me to find it.

Why?

Because he wanted me to know

that I don't remember everything.

He wants me to retract my statement at tomorrow's hearing

so that he's released.

No.

Reyka,

what about other girls? What about Thuli?

He won't get near Thuli.

He won't change! You told me that!

I can't keep him locked up based on a lie.

Portia dressed up for Angus and put on a voice.

It was an act, ma.

Portia was Lucy.

But you saw Lucy at the window in that out house.

Did I? Maybe I imagined it.

Reyka!

What if Lucy is a lie?

Lucy was real to you at the time.

She helped you survive three and a half years in that house.

Hello?

Portia.

Angus.

It's good to hear your voice. You're in Durban?

Yes.

Where?

I live by myself now.

It's a simple life, but it's a good one.

Bravo. You deserve that.

I'm proud of you, Portia.

I heard you had a special visitor.

Yes.

Our girl, all grown up.

She's very beautiful.

Did she tell you about her daughter, Thulisile?

We're grandparents.

Let Reyka be, Angus.

Portia?

Yes?

They're letting me out soon.

You've served your time.

I'm going home.

You must come and stay, like the old days.

I don't think so.

Oh come on, it'll be fun.

No, Angus.

Don't be like that, Portia.

You can't choose your family.

Hey,

I forgive you.

Mama?

Mama!

Mama!

Ssh, ssh, brave girl.

Again?

Same dream?

Those people in the cane fields?

What happened this time?

Beth, you need to go to the police.

She's already been through so much hell.

And her father's in jail.

She needs to talk about it.

It could be nothing.

We'll let Hector decide.

Do you have a photo of your granddaughter?

Oh yes, yes.

Thank you.

What was her last whereabouts?

Taxi rank.

Was she leaving town?

No, she went with an, what we call in English,

employment agent.

She said he got her a job from the sugar field.

What did he look like?

I couldn't see, because he was far.

Excuse me. Can we get some assistance please?

I've been here for over an hour.

Excuse me?

I'd like to speak to Brigadier Zwane please.

What's it about?

My daughter.

She witnessed an assault.

Okay, just have a seat Mrs. Tyrone,

we'll be with you just now.

Soda Mvaba is dead.

Ezekiel.

Murdered!

We're still waiting for forensics to confirm...

Is killing innocent men

part of your son's job description, Zwane?

I'm not one of your congregants.

Soda Mvaba is the prime suspect in a serial murder case.

The prosecutor is waiting for ballistics report.

Are you serious?

You expect us to trust the rule of law.

Should I remind you that you were the one who was trying to

cover up Soda Mvaba's assault

whilst he was in police custody.

We demand an independent investigation.

We don't work on assumptions or conspiracy theories.

We work with evidence!

In your church I'm sure you can decree

that something is so simply because you can say it is so.

But that's not how police work happens.

Rest assured, Pastor Zik, if my son murdered Soda,

I will not shield him from the consequences.

How can I trust that?

Coming from a father who's already lost one child?

In which case we can make arrangements

for Mr. Speelman's earliest release.

Dr. Gama,

I understand you've chosen to retract your statement on

Angus Speelman's parole.

Yes, Sir.

Why?

I accept that Lucy was a figment of my imagination.

What made you change your statement?

I accept that Lucy was a figment of my imagination.

I was convinced that Lucy was on the farm with me.

I realise now that I never saw her in person

and the voice I heard was a delusion I created in my mind

to cope with the trauma that I was experiencing.

Do you accept therefore that during the period,

April 27th, 1994 and January 1st, 1998,

there were only ever three occupants of the farmhouse?

Yes I do.

For the record, who were those occupants?

Angus Speelman, Portia Masako,

and me.

In that case, this parole board will now adjourn

to consider the matter and issue a ruling in due course.

I have one request.

To visit Speelman once more, before he's released.

Mr. Bloom?

Agreed.

After that, I expect the parole board

to impose a protection order on the prisoner.

For you?

No, Sir, for my daughter.

Hector.

The minister wants to know

if we have lost control of this case.

We haven't.

Do I need to replace you, Brigadier?

That's not necessary.

Your subjectivity is an issue.

I respectfully disagree.

Hector, we have got police killing suspects,

and young women popping up all over the cane fields.

It's true, we have our hands full.

Our team is currently investigating

the serial murder of nine women.

Dr. Gama, the last time that you were in this room,

I asked you if this was a serial murderer

and you assured me it was not.

New evidence has...

I think that you've known from the very beginning

that we're looking for a serial murderer,

but you deceived me.

Maxine, the is case testing the resources

of our police station to the absolute maximum.

We have many lines of inquiry and many suspects.

If our methods seem unconventional,

then it's because of strict instructions

to deliver a quick conviction

so that the Tyrone land deal can go through.

Don't you dare

threaten me.

Everyone has a finger in this pie,

the Tyrone's, the Msomi local government and the police,

everyone, except for Detective Zwane,

he's got nothing to gain.

That's why I know he did not murder that boy.

I want a full investigation into Detective Zwane.

Not only for the murder of Soda Mvaba,

but for all nine women.

There is no evidence that links Detective Zwane

to the nine women.

Then find the evidence.

Do your job Brigadier,

or otherwise I will find somebody else

to do it for you.

Detective Zwane claims he shot at the deceased's legs.

It was dark and he accidentally struck

the suspect in the chest.

The bullet trajectory is inconsistent Zwane's account.

What?

Brigadier, this wasn't an accident.

It was intentional.

Mvaba was shot execution-style from close range.

Sir, the latest cane field victim found this morning.

Yes?

The attackers DNA is all over the body.

It's a match with Detective Zwane.

I'm sorry, sir.

Hector, DNA can be planted.

He knows someone was booted out of Inanda.

Unlawful arrest and assault off a suspect.

Charges were dropped.

I pulled strings, got him off.

That's what fathers do.

It fits the profile.

He's educated.

He's a man of state, has an authority, a charmer boy.

He's persuasive.

He could lure young woman into the fields with him.

Especially as a policeman, they'll do just as he asked.

He arrived at the station the same time

Mbali Msomi's arm was found.

He's very close to this case.

He knows every move we've made.

How do you explain the Indian Naval fishing knots?

He could have added -it to his M. - O,

as soon as soon as Suresh Pillay became a suspect.

To pin it on Pillay.

Sam is a good detective.

All he wants to do is make you proud.

He does not fit the psychological profile

of a serial killer.

You say that, but how well do you know him?

That boy is tormented by ghosts.

No one knows what he's capable of.

My daughter Rosie drowned.

She was just there on the beach.

The next minute she was gone.

Swept out to sea on election day, April, 1994.

You were abducted.

Your case gave me meaning and purpose,

but I lost my wife and my son.

The day,

the day Rosie died,

I was supposed to be with her and Samuel.

I think it was my visiting day with the kids,

but I wasn't.

I was with your mother at the hotel.

We will clear him, Hector.

Even if the DNA was planted,

if Samuel executed Soda, as a revenge for Nandi,

we won't be able to clear him.

He will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Detective Samuel Zwane.

Brigadier.

You've been charged on suspicion

of one count of culpable homicide,

and nine counts of murder.

You will appear in front of a Magistrates court.

I'm being framed, Brigadier.

Soda is the killer, not me.

Nandi even pointed him out.

Your DNA was all over the crime scene.

He could have planted it!

Zwane.

Zwane!

It's about Rosie.

Not everything is about her.

For Samuel it is.

We have DNA and a ballistics report.

Samuel's not a killer.

Zwane was present when the original six bodies

were found the cane fields.

He was present when Nandi was attacked

at the worker compound

and he was present when Soda was murdered.

Okay, motive?

Samuel was nine years old when his sister, Rosie, drowned.

What if,

he targets women who are the same age as Rosie would be now?

Why?

Samuel was helpless to save Rosie's life as a girl.

So he finds women who remind him of her.

And he takes control of their lives by ending them.

But why was Zwane so intent on targeting Soda?

Did Soda have something on him?

Something so bad he needed to shut him up?

Phone up Msomi.

He was the first person on the scene last night.

PJX 5-6-2-1-9-9-8.

Oh.

You found it, my love.

Who buried it?

I did.

Why?

You don't remember?

I'm trying, Angus.

It was a gift,

from me to you.

The day of the farmer's banquet?

New Year's Eve.

You gave it to me in my bedroom, before we left.

And I wore the blue dress.

I've never been prouder of you.

And we walked outside to the truck.

And I saw Lucy's face in the window.

Portia said you were too young for alcohol.

Angus, why didn't Portia come into the hall with us?

I sent her on an errand.

On New Year's Eve?

Yeah, Portia didn't like parties.

What happened at the banquet?

You saw someone.

The photograph on the wall.

Reyka, my love.

Let it go.

Angus, please, just tell me.

Who did I see?

You need to leave this alone.

For both our sakes.

No more.

Okay?

Speelman? It's time.

Angus,

please.

Tell me .

It's finished,

my love.

Please explain to me.

How did you know Detective Zwane was in the cane fields?

I heard gunshots.

Gun... shot?

Two gunshots.

Wait, wait.

Okay. So you're saying you heard two gunshots?

Close together, like an echo.

Tell me about your sister, Rosie.

She drowned.

She was six?

You're not going to find the keys to this case

in my childhood.

Did you love her?

She was my sister.

So?

I loved her most of the time.

And the rest of the time?

Rosie was the favourite.

You were jealous?

I was nine years old.

They loved her more than you?

She needed extra attention.

Why?

Epilepsy.

Rosie had seizures?

Yeah.

And that made you angry?

Sometimes.

You tried to save her but you didn't.

I didn't know how to swim.

That's not your fault.

They wanted me to learn.

I refused.

The pool was far away and

it was only for white people.

So you couldn't learn, even if you wanted to?

I didn't push back.

Didn't say no.

I just took things the way they were.

You were just a child, Sam.

You had all these mixed up feelings.

I should have learned to swim.

I would have saved her. I would have saved my sister.

I want to tell you a story.

About a young woman that comes to Durban

to seek her fortune.

She gets out of a taxi, lonely and scared,

and she sees a policeman,

a man of status and authority.

Just a handsome charmer.

He makes her feel safe.

He leads her down a footpath, into the cane field.

Samuel.

Do you know this man?

I would never hurt a woman, Reyka.

Never.

Sir?

Not now.

The bullet taken from Soda's chest,

it doesn't match Detective Zwane's gun.

Msomi confirmed there were two shots.

Fresh tracks on the road,

they don't match your police vehicle.

There was a second person in the cane that night.

Why did Bongi agree to meet with this man?

Because she was desperate for work.

So he offered her a job?

That's what she said.

No one has money. Jobs are hard to get.

My Bongi thought that this was her best chance.

And why did you decide to go with her?

Because I was worried. He's a stranger.

Okay.

I want to show you something.

Can you identify the man Bongi met at the taxi rank?

No.

I didn't see his face.

Are you sure?

Yeah, I couldn't see because he was far.

Just take your time.

Take a closer look. Was this man perhaps?

No.

Um,

ma'am,

do you want us to catch the man who took your granddaughter?

-Eyewitness I. - D'd this man

as the employment agent at the rank.

We've interviewed this guy already.

Yeah, Andile Hlongwane,

the taxi driver went past through all the handbags,

claimed they were lost property or something...

What's going on?

Positive I.D.

The hustler gave them to him?

Look, Andile said the hustler

has an obsession with bags.

Now, handbags are an essential part of this case.

What if there is no hustler?

And Andile is the one who's obsessed?

There's just one detail that doesn't make sense.

Eyewitness claimed that the suspect rode a bicycle?

Andile's a taxi driver, why would he need a bicycle?

Maybe it's part of his disguise.

Tanner, eyes on him.

Commander, this is Tanner. I'm at Godon Ngezu taxi rank.

I have eyes on the suspect. I need backup, now.

Cancel that, Commander, false alarm.

Cancel the backup. Sorry.

Mrs. Tyrone, I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

The Brigadier is not available, but I can help you.

Jessica?

Hi.

Why has it taken you this long to report it?

There are always people in our fields

and my daughter didn't know if

what she was seeing was innocent.

But when the cops said there were dead bodies

in the cane fields?

I know, I'm sorry.

We should have come forward sooner.

Johanna.

I was so worried, but I couldn't jump in

because I couldn't swim.

Do you want some more tea?

No thank you.

Okay.

Suresh?

Asha, take Keshav! Take Keshav!

Come come come!

Stop, stop, stop!

Suresh, what's going on?

Please, please, where are you taking him?

It's going to be okay, Asha.

Dad, dad!

Suresh!

Where are you going, dad?

It's going to be okay.

Andile Hlongwane, finds women at the rank,

lures them to the fields.

We need to catch him in the act.

Keep up the surveillance.

We need a honey trap.

No, no, no.

Not after Nandi.

We can do this, sir.

Who is the bait?

Me?

I'm not losing another officer in an undercover op.

Sir, it's the only way.

We can get undercover ops from...

It has to be me!

No, Reyka!

I know what to look for.

I know his MO. Send me out there, Hector.

Yeah, I miss you too.

Okay, wrap it up Thuli.

Okay, I've got to go. I love you too, daddy.

Get ready for bed.

Reyka.

After 22 Years in Westport prison,

Angus Speelman is going home.

It was on this remote banana farm, outside Eshowe,

that Angus Speelman hid his child victim from the world.

On April 27th, 1994,

the day South Africa voted for freedom,

Reyka Gama, a 12 year old, from Musgrave, Durban

was abducted and held in this house

for three and a half traumatic years.

Bravo One? This is Command.

I have eyes on you, over.

Copy that, Command.

All units, Bravo One is on the move, over.

Bravo Two is in position. We've got eyes on Bravo One.

Confirm Bravo Two. Bravo One is in position, over.

Hey.

Bravo One, confirm.

The man you are speaking to, Andile Hlongwane, over.

You look like someone I know.

Are you sure you haven't been here before?

Bravo One, confirm, Andile Hlongwane.

No bicycle, not Andile. I repeat, not Andile.

Get away from that man, over.

Negative, Command, continue with mission, over.

Have you solved your problem?

I can help if you're looking for work.

You see that cane field over there.

There's a sugar factory on the other side.

I can take you there. Come.

No, no, no, wait, wait wait!

Hey, hey.

What are you doing?

Hey, beautiful lady, it's me, Zakes.

Hector's boy.

Zakes.

My queen, what are you doing here?

I am working. Leave me, please!

Ah, come on.

Let me help you.

You see? This?

This is my house.

Zakes, a man comes here to meet women.

While dressed smart, charmer.

Offers them jobs.

Talking about that Pillay.

I know him.

Come on, really?

Yeah.

He rides a bicycle.

In fact, he was here.

When?

Earlier on.

Where?

Cane fields.

Show me.

Bravo Five, who is Bravo One speaking to?

She's not with the vendor?

Negative, sir.

Send a picture, Bravo Five, thank you.

Come, let me show you.

I'm not taking your hand.

I'm trying to protect you.

Okay, we've got trouble coming.

What are you doing?

Get back!

Jeez, we're not gonna bust your electricity, relax.

I thought you were taking me across the field?

Oh, this is the shortcut.

They're bending the sugar canes outside.

Okay. Just checking.

Zakes!

Come, this way.

Okay.

Your call has been forwarded to the...

Come on!

Get back, guys! Get back!

We're not turning your electricity off...

Bravo One, Reyka?

Get back.

Hey! Drop the rocks! Get back!

Hector, Reyka's...

Tanner, we've got the wrong guy. We've got the wrong guy!

Bravo Three, Four, Five, check the rank, check the rank!

Hey, hey, hey! Go right, go right, go right!

Go, go, go!

Brigadier!

I'm taking the middle, okay?