"NEWSREADER:" "A four-year-old boy has been found dead in bushland not far from the Brisbane River." "You found it, didn't you?" "It's not a matter of the facts." "It's how it looks." "It'll put you away for life." "I got Paul Murnane taken in by the cops." "You and Jess." "He trusted you and you killed him!" " No, you're wrong!" "He was my son!" "Six people verified Dr Turner was on shift in the hospital the night your son was killed." "She's furious!" "She said you attacked Cooper." ""Argh!" "'Dad!" " Get out!" "Chris..." "What's going on with everybody?" "Why can't things just be normal again?" "What do I tell people if you end up in jail?" "DAVE:" "If you've got it you've got to get rid of it." "(CHEERFUL MUSIC)" "J' Twinkle, little Christmas lights" "J' Shining on the tree..." "J'" "Hey." "Hey." " Under control!" "What are you doing now'?" "Welcome to your first Christmas on thrilling Blackwood Crescent." " I like it!" "(CORK POPS)" " So where's, um..." "Paul?" "Yeah." "I thought he was back, no?" "He was supposed to be." "I don't know, some stupid hold-up in Kandahar." "What about Christy and the girls?" "Uh, Sunny Coast." "School holidays." "I'm going up tomorrow." "MAN:" "Oh, shit!" " Language." "Sorry!" "Shavings." "WOMAN:" "Told you to check the gas bottle." "I've got a bottle." "I'll go get it." "They said to get an extension cord too." "(GENTLY SOMBRE MUSIC)" "(TWIG SNAPS)" "(RUSTLING)" "(SIGHS)" "(MAN CRIES OUT)" "Hello?" "(CAT MIAOWS)" "(DULL THUD)" "Anyone there?" "Hello?" "(FLOORBOARD CREAKS)" "(CREAKING)" "Yarggh!" "Hey, stop!" "Hey, stop!" "MAN:" "Arggh!" "(MAN CONTINUES YELLING)" " And do you know the owner?" "Well, it's a deceased estate." "Bailey was her name." "Mrs Bailey." "She's been gone for years." "I think her son listed it." "And you've seen no-one at the premises?" "No, we all thought it was vacant." "(MAN YELLS)" "Who is he?" "Did you get the jacket?" " Pardon?" "The blue jacket." "In the laundry." "Sir, it's time to go." "Sir!" "Sir." "I think they've got him, Chris." "I think they got the guy." "(TENSE MUSIC)" "How long do you think he's been hiding there for'?" " I don't know." "Merry Christmas." "Hey, we should wait till your mother's ready." "Thanks!" "Are there any more headache tablets?" "Don't look at me." "It's face cleaner." "You'll get zits soon." "Cool!" "Watch these." "Hey, wait until your mother's here!" "What happened up at Mrs Bailey's house?" "Who was that fat guy'?" "I'm sure the police will find out." "Do you think he could have killed Thom?" "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas!" "Did you burn them?" "No." "Tasha, Eva, go and pack a bag each." " What'?" "Go and pack a bag." "We're going to Uncle Malcolm's." " Christy." "What are you talking about?" "NOW!" " Chris." "We're going." "What, now'?" "Come on, they just arrested a guy!" " I'm not blind." "You can't do this, OK'?" "It's Christmas!" "What do I have to do?" "Tell me what was in the bag that you threw in the river." "And don't lie to me." "If you want any relationship with me, with the girls, do not lie to me." "(HORN TOOTS)" "We're going!" "CHRISTY:" "You have to go." "I said we're going." " I don't want..." "Eva, come on!" "I want to stay with Dad!" "This isn't right!" " Come on, Eva!" "This isn't right!" " Get off me!" "Get in the car." "(SCREAMS) Dad!" "Dad!" "Maybe I should come back later." " No, we're going." "OK, come on, sweetheart." "(CRIES)" "Hey, I'll fix it, OK?" "I'll try and sort this all out." "But just..." "Just go, just for a little while, OK'?" "OK?" "It's OK." "I don't wanna go." "No!" "Come on, Eva." "Come on." "I love you." "I love you." "(TENSE MUSIC)" "Fuck!" "What colour was it?" " Blue." "Men's?" "Women's?" "I don't know." " And the stains on it?" "Blood stains." " Excuse me." "OK." "How are those headaches of yours?" "And that eye?" "Getting blurry vision?" " Do you know who the guy is?" "You've never seen him before'?" "No." "Would you like to continue to search upstairs?" " Was the door locked'?" "No." " So you didn't break in'?" "No, I didn't." "Where's your family this morning'?" "It's Christmas." "They're out." "Ah, yes." "At your brother-in-law's." "And why aren't you with your family, Cornielle, hm?" "Aren't they missing you?" "You've looked here, haven't you?" "Not personally." "Finished?" "You don't think there was a jacket." "You're trying very hard to do something, Mr Gundelach." "Keep going into places you're not invited." "Finding things, losing things." "Have you found your lost torch yet'?" "There was a jacket." "It had blood on it." "(URGENT MUSIC)" "Ben!" "Ben, what are you doing?" "Kevin!" "L-ll-I'll call the police." "Ben!" "No, you wouldn't have done it." "But I bet you hated that boy." "Thom was fine." "But I'll be glad when that slut of a mother of his is gone." "This used to be such a nice street." "The sooner you're behind bars, the better." "Hi, it's Christy Gundelach." "Sony I can't take your call." "Leave a brief message and I'll get back to you." "Call me." "Please." "(MOBILE PHONE RINGS)" "Hello'?" " Stuart, Ben Gundelach." "Ben." "I didn't expect to get you today." "I thought I'd get your voice mail." "No, no, no, that's OK." "What can I do for you, Ben?" "I don't know if you know, but the cops arrested a guy up the road from us." "Yes, yeah, I heard." "But nothing else." "Listen, um, Christy's moved out." "With the girls." "And, uh, I think I need..." " Stuart, do you want a top-up?" "Uh..." "Sorry." "Ben..." "She's engaging you for the divorce, isn't she?" "Oh, come on, Ben." "Let me explain." "You're a rat, Stuart!" "I don't really think I can represent you in this other matter, Ben." "Oh, you mean the murder charges coming up at me?" "I know this good crim defense lawyer." "He's reasonable." "Why don't you have a chat with Christy about selling the house?" "Then I can figure out how I can pay for a barrister." "Ben..." "(PHONE RINGS)" " What'?" "Hi." "It's..." "It's me, Jess." "I heard the others leave." "Eva." "Yeah." "Are you OK'?" "No." "Are you?" "I've been watching the news since I saw the cop cars this morning." "Was it him?" "I don't know." "Jess, I found a jacket there." "With blood on it." "That...that might prove that he did it'?" "It went missing." "I don't know how." "I mean, maybe the guy doubled back for it, but I can't see how he could have." "I mean, maybe." "When I got back, and after they took him away, it was gone." "L-I don't understand." "Jess, I think someone's trying to set me up." "What?" "Well, you know that torch that was in the paper?" "I had one like it, and it went missing too, out of my ute." "Why you?" "I guess..." "I found Thom." "No." "That can't happen." "It can't work out like that." "It can't." "They've got him." "Yeah." "Wait here." "Uh, here." "He didn't make presents for everyone." "Just a few." "L-I'd better go." "(POIGNANT MUSIC)" "(SOBS)" "(DOOR BEEPS)" " Who is he?" "Who's who?" "The guy you arrested in my street." "Oh, we didn't arrest him." "Thank you, Edris." "Take a seat, Mr Gundelach." "This is Mr Felix Lenigas." "He's a former resident of Gowanbrae, a mental health facility that closed last month." "Assessors determined he could look after himself." "His parents are deceased, and when he went to visit the home of his aunt, Maureen Bailey, he found it for sale, and with nowhere else to go, he broke in." "This is where Mr Lenigas was when Thom was murdered." "The store clerk verified that he sat outside until 7 am, three hours after Thom's death." "Mr Lenigas was very frightened." "Did you touch him?" " Did you threaten him verbally?" "No." "Did you threaten him physically?" "OK, I went in." "I knocked, I called out and I went in." "He was hiding in the wardrobe." "He ran." "I didn't make him run." "And what about the jacket?" "Where did he get the jacket?" "Mr Lenigas doesn't remember a jacket." "Well, then, he's lying." "I'm sorry, he must have hid it." "He has the mental capability of a child." "You can stay, Mr Gundelach." "We can talk some more." "No." "(UNSETTLING MUSIC)" "Does Jess know you're here?" " This has to happen." "She can do it in her own time." "She'd never do it." "She'd wallow in it for months, years." " Then let her." "Are you serious?" "You have no idea, do you?" "I know how to look after her." "Yeah, you know how to look after her husband." "You have no idea about that either." "What, how hard it is to be a soldier?" "How hard it is to be with Jess." "ls she on her meds'?" "What do you mean?" "You've got it all ahead of you." " What'?" "You'll figure it out." " Where is she?" "She's inside." "Tash?" "Whoa!" "What's going on?" "Shit." "Thought you weren't home." "What are you guys doing?" "She wanted to get some clothes so I made her bring me." "Does your mother know'?" "You should talk her into coming with us tonight." "She's got to come." "We go every year, right?" " Come on." "I'm staying." "You should stay too." "It's Boxing Day." "I knew bringing you would be a disaster." "Tash..." " Mum's gonna kill you." "I'll deal with your mother." "Yeah, 'cause that's a great idea." "Like bringing Eva here in the first place." " Don't you want me here?" "Of course I do." "I want you both here, but Mum and I have stuff to sort out." "Eva, you should come back with us." "This is over." " Don't say that!" "Dad!" "Tash..." "You'd better phone Mum." "She doesn't trust you any more." "(PHONE RINGS)" "(SIGHS)" " Hello'?" "BEN:" "Eva's here." "What?" "How did she get there?" "Can you put her on, please?" " What'?" "Are you OK'?" " Yes." "We'll talk when you get home." "I'll come and get you as soon as Malcolm's back." "Dad's taking me to Kangaroo Point." "No, he's not." "He's taking me to see the fireworks like we do every year or I won't come back at all!" "Can you put your dad back on, please?" "Yeah?" " Christy'?" "Fine, take her." "Have her home by 8:00." "8:01, I call the police." "I don't like it at Uncle Malcolm's." "I know." "Hey, come on!" "He said that you wanted to be with Jess more than Mum." "No!" "And Thom was my brother." "You had sex with her." "Oh, chook, the..." "The sex was a mistake." "Thom was not." "Jess loved him." "We all loved him." "And I love your mother still." "And I want us to be together more than anything." " But..." "She has a boyfriend." "I know." "Mum and I, we did a lot of things wrong." "But we did two things perfectly right." "Hey." " Merry Christmas, chook." "(LAUGHS)" "Oh!" "(SQUEALS)" "(SQUEALS)" "Hey'?" "Thank you!" "Will Dave still be playing tonight?" "I'd say so." "He's there every year." " Can we say hello?" "Well, we'll see, yeah?" "(ENGINE TURNS BUT DOESN'T START)" "Oh, come on." "(ENGINE TURNS BUT DOESN'T START)" "(ENGINE TURNS BUT DOESN'T START)" "Shit." "I heard you trying to start it." "(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS)" " Ohhh!" "Ohhh!" "Whoo!" "Eva!" " Your kid?" "Eva!" "What?" "I should have just dropped you off." " No, she'll be OK." "No, no, I get it now." "This is supposed to be a family thing, and instead she's got half her family and me." "She's having a hard time." "But I'm glad you came." "DAVE:" "J' Yeah!" "J' That's right!" "J' Yeah!" "J"Yeah!" "Yeahhhh!" "J' You've gone and had your fun, baby..." "J'" "Want to get a slushie?" "Well, why don't you get one, and we'll go find a table, yeah?" "J' Whoa!" "Whoa, yeah!" "J' Yeah, baby, go on and have your fun" "J' Do anything you want to do" "J' Oh, yeah" "J' 'Cause it's my last night to cry, baby" "J' I'm really through" "J' With you." "J'" "Leave my spare key on the table, and my favourite CDs and my T-shirt." "Just get out!" "(APPLAUSE)" "Thank you!" "I'll be back in five." "Thank you." " Maybe I'll go get us a table." "Thanks." " Hey." " Hey." " Sounding good." "Really'?" "I've been here since five." "Bastard manager won't spring for a beer." "I'm thinking of doing a Nora Jones number out of spite." "I know why you're here, mate, and it's all cool." " I didn't tell them anything." "What are you talking about?" "They put me through the wringer, but I was a rock, bro." "But you're right, Cornielle's a tough prick." "What did he want?" "Don't worry, I didn't say anything about the torch." "Dave..." "He just wanted to know about the night before." "Before you found Thom." "When we went out." "Where we went, what you had to drink." "OK, I should go." " No, stay." "No, no, no, no, no, no!" " Have anothery." "Oh, mate!" "Addison, he wants anothery." "Cornielle knows I had a few." "I mean, I told him." "So what else did he want to know'?" "How you got home." "It was in a cab, with you and what's-her-name, right?" "Yeah, we didn't go with you, mate." "I put you in a cab." "Keep the change." " Hi, Jess." "Hi, Dave." "Are you taking requests?" "If you request Coldplay, Chisel or Zep, I will electrocute you." "(GIRL SCREAMS)" "Hey, hey, hey!" "What's going on?" "(EVA owes)" "She dropped her camera!" "What's your problem?" "Sorry." "Hey, hey, Eva'?" " I want to go home!" "it's OK." "What happened?" "I want to go home!" " I want to go home!" "OK, OK, we'll go." "We'll go." "Tell Mum you want to be with me." "I do." "But I can't do that." "Hey." "I'm sorry, angel." "Just give me one sec." " Sweetie." "Do you love her?" "I can get in by myself." "Mum doesn't want to see you." "Shit, Cornielle." "I'd better go." "Mr Gundelach." "I hope this is about that jacket." "It is." "Are you lying" "Did you find one or didn't you?" "I found a jacket, and it had blood on it and it went missing." "It's no small thing having people think you killed someone, is it?" "No." "I've seen a lot of men, and women, get accused with murder." "Almost all of them insisted they were innocent." "Now, most of them saw the writing on the wall and pretty quickly changed their plea." "Some persisted, put up a token defense." "A few of them actually tried quite hard to prove they didn't do it." "But none of them I remember ever went as far as you." "Dr and Mrs Turner, they've gone to ground." "Their past in the UK that you dug up will probably ruin his practice." "Felix Lenigas, who knows where he'll end up now." "Paul Murnane, you go over there, you get into a physical fight with the man and you accuse him of murder." "He's free, but he's gone." "And you." "Your own family, gone." "You are running out of track, Ben." "It's the finish line." "When are you going to stop'?" "When you find the guy that killed Thom." "What do you think, Cornielle?" "Do you think I killed my son?" "I think you'd better forget about that jacket." "And hope I don't find that torch." "(SIGHS)" "(UNSETTLING MUSIC)" "(KNOCKING)" "Hey." "That's when we made him." "Yeah." "We could have another." "What?" "What?" "Nothing." "Nothing, nothing." "Nothing." "Nothing." "Just..." "I'm just being stupid." "(SHOWER RUNS)" "(UNSETTLING MUSIC)"