"(THEME MUSIC)" "SONG: # It's a jungle out there" "# It's a jungle out there" "# It's a jungle out there. #" "You got everything you need?" "I heard you requested a solicitor and a QC." "Know this - every time you put your head up, I'm gonna kick it." "So you can spend as much money as you like." "It's not gonna help you." "It's taken us years and now I've got you." "And all our ducks, they're all lined up in a row." "So if you really wanna help yourself then you make a statement." "Tell me what happened why you did it." "You think I should?" "You reckon it would help me?" "And those ducks of yours... (CLICKS TONGUE)" "('IT'S ALMOST S UMMER' BY BILLY THORPE PLAYS)" "SONG: # It's almost summer" "# And I can almost feel that sweet sunshine" "# Pouring out this heart of mine" "# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh" "# Yes, it's almost summer... #" "Could probably do with a couple more coats." "It's not bad, but." "Time you came back to your old trade." "Huh!" "Why?" "Done so good at me last one. (SCOFFS)" "JACQUI JAMES:" "Terrence Wallace Falconer - a lifelong if relatively small-time crook - was coming to the end of a five-year jail term for amphetamine production and supply." "With parole only a few weeks away, he was on work release and enjoying life." "He'd made a few decisions." "He was getting his act together." "BOY:" "Hey, Dad." "Hey, mate." "How are you?" "Boy, come here." " How're you going, Al?" " Yeah, yeah, good." " You want a chip?" " No." "So, where in that document I signed my life away in does it say anything about you having tea with your family?" "Well, I won't say nothing if you don't." " Go on." "Off you go." " Thanks, mate." "But you 'll be breaking rocks all arvo." "You blokes managed to start that XY yet?" " It's the fuel filter." " It's not the fuel filter." " It's the electrics." " Or maybe the points." " It was going, "Chika-chika"." " It's not the points." " It's not the electrics!" " Alright, alright!" "If you two get that XY started by the time Uncle Barry's Christmas bash comes around," "I'll be very happy." " I'm looking forward to that." " Yeah, no worries." "Al reckons he's got a job for me here so once I'm out, we'll be able to give her a respray." "Well, I'd better get back to it." " So we'll see youse Monday?" " Yep." "Be good." " Look after him." " Yep." "Yeah, OK." "Bit cute." "Takes after his old man?" "Well, I hope that's all they get from me. (CHUCKLES)" "I believe an individual by the name of" "Terrence Wallace Falconer is on work release here." "Yeah." "Terry!" "What, love?" "Detectives Macarthur and Patton, Mr Falconer." "Where do you blokes hail from?" "We have some questions for you." "Fire away." "You 'll need to accompany us to the station." "(HUFFS)" "I'm at work, fellas." "I mean, you know where I'm gonna be tonight - at Her Majesty's hotel." "Why don't youse pop in?" " Hands in front, sunshine." " Oh, come on." "Alright?" "Alright, alright." "Here, here." "(SIGHS) Back in a tick, Karina." "JACQUI JAMES:" "Terry Falconer's criminal career had been pretty varied." "In between panelbeating and amphet' manufacturing he'd tried his hand at car rebirthing, receiving stolen goods and money laundering." "Plus, he'd been associated with the Gypsy Jokers outlaw motorcycle club, so cops wanting a chat wasn't that unusual." "(EXHALES HEAVILY)" "You blokes should have your seatbelts on, you know?" "You 're breaking the law." "Where youse from, anyway?" "Like, Gangs or Drug Squad?" "What?" "MAN:" "Pull over for a moment, Constable." "JACQUI JAMES:" "That car ride kicked off one of the longest police investigations in Australia's history." "How long is this gonna take?" "I mean, some of us have got real jobs. (MUTTERS)" " Get..." " Oh, fuck!" "Oh!" "Oh, hold him!" " Shit!" " Get a hold of him!" " I'm trying!" " Arggh!" "Fuck!" "(GRUNTS AND YELLS)" " (GROANS)" " Shh!" "(PANTS)" "Shh!" "(DARK MUSIC)" "(BREATHES HEAVILY)" "(MUSIC BUILDS)" "You think he's gonna be OK in there?" "He'll be fine." "It's a pretty warm day." "Don't fucking worry about it!" "Remember to bend your knees." "Prevents lower back injuries." "Ready?" "OK, phase three - get changed, swap the tyres and the plates back, drop that back to mine." "I'll see you in a couple of days." "Take this in." "Remember - bend your knees." "MAN:" "Open it." "(GASPS AND PANTS)" "Ohh, let me out." "Get me out, mate." "Where... where am I?" "Ohh!" "(GROANS)" "Check him." "Ohh!" "Is that a Gypsy Joker tatt?" "It's a skull." "I think that's a joker." "No, I'm not a Joker!" "You 're the dog who murdered my grandparents." "No, I didn't." "I..." "Oh!" "So, um, do you want me to drop him back now?" "Are you fucking for real?" "Sure." "Take the prick home." "No worries." "Put him in the ute." "You and Muzz are driving him up." "Up where?" "Don't ask so many fucking questions!" "So, um, Rooster, just..." "This is gonna knock off that hundred grand I owe, isn't it?" "(DOOR SLAMS)" "JACQUI JAMES:" "Anthony John Michael Perish, known as Rooster, grew up with his large family on a poultry farm in the city's semi-rural outskirts." "In June 1993, when Anthony was 24 and on the run for a minor drug charge, his grandmother and grandfather were brutally murdered." "In the long years since, no charges had been brought against anyone." "I need to talk to you." " Yeah, what about?" " Didi and Baba." "What about them?" "I know who killed them." "I..." "I know for sure this time, OK?" "Yeah, who?" "Some fucker called Terry Falconer." "Never heard of him." "OK, just..." "just listen, alright?" "Swamp Rat was down at this pub in Macquarie Fields and he met this sheila and this sheila says she knows for a fact that Terry Falconer was the shooter." "The other thing is that she says he knew all this stuff about how Didi and Baba were killed." "What stuff?" "Stuff that the cops didn't even release, stuff like how they were found in the wrong beds." "ANTHONY:" "You know you always tell stories wrong." "You can't tell a joke without getting it arse-about." "That's what's happened here." "Come here." "G'day, Rooster." "He didn't want to come with me." "I knew you wouldn't believe me." "This sheila, was she, uh, pissed?" "High?" "And Terry Falconer, that was the name?" "Yeah, yeah." "Terry Falconer." "That's what she said." "She got a letter from the cops, didn't she, saying how the prick's a dog." "I saw it with me own eyes!" "ANDREW:" "He did it, alright?" "Falconer was the shooter." "Now we gotta do something about it." "Alright, why would some Gypsy Joker lag kill them?" "I mean, what's in it for him?" "Maybe it was that meth lab you set up in the back of Didi and Baba's backyard..." "How many times do I have to tell you?" "No-one knew about it!" "Maybe he was put up to it by..." "by someone you pissed off." "If we don't do something about it, we look weak as piss." "Oh, grow up!" "Grow up!" "What?" "Me grow up?" "You 're the big tough guy!" "All these years Didi and Baba have been rotting in the ground what have you been doing about it, Anthony?" "Sweet fucking nothing!" "If you don't listen to me about this, then I'm gonna take care of it, alright?" "I'll fix it, I'll fucking..." "Always trying to stick it in before it's stiff, hey?" "Fuck, Undies!" "Look, I'm not doing anything that points the cops to me, you, any of us, alright?" "So, what have we gotta do, then?" "I'm gonna do it right." "SONG: # I am nothing without pretend" "# I know my thoughts" "# Can't live with them" "# I am nothing without a man" "# I know my faults" "# But I can hide them... #" "(THUNDER RUMBLES AND CRACKS)" "# I still keep my baby teeth" "# In the bedside table" "# With my jewellery" "# You still sleep in the bed with me" "# My jewellery" "# And my baby teeth... #" "Beers for the boys, hey?" "I'll have one." "Any problems?" "Good." "Let's do this, hey?" "Is he alive?" "(DARK MUSIC)" "(MOTOR WHIRRS)" "(ELECTRIC S AW WHIRRS)" "(EERIE DISCORDANT MUSIC)" "(DARK MUSIC)" "(INSECTS CHIRP)" "(FUNKY MUSIC)" "SONG: # Everybody wants to touch me" "# Everybody wants to feel" "# Everybody wants a piece of" "# Something that's real" "# Everybody wants to touch me" "# They all love my skin" "# They all wanna take me home" "# They don't even care where I've been" "# Everybody wants to touch me" "# Everybody wants a little pat... #" "JACQUI JAMES:" "Terry Falconer was listed as an escapee when he failed to return to Silverwater Jail by 6pm." "You sure they weren't real cops?" "They seemed legit to me." "I saw their badges, their guns, everything." "MAN:" "No, no, we checked it out." "Nobody sent any officers to question Mr Falconer." "Well, their car looked like a real cop car." "It even had one of them little aerials." "What did these guys look like?" "Like you guys, like cops." "Of course he went with them." "I know what you blokes are thinking " ""He's done a runner."" "But why would he?" "He'll get paroled in a month." "I mean, Terry's made a fair few wrong turns in his life, but he's not an idiot." "He's a good bloke and he was getting it together." "JACQUI JAMES:" "The investigation was sky wide." "Terry could have faked his own disappearance, could have been kidnapped by corrupt cops, could have even been snatched by enemies posing as cops." "Without a body, it was going to be impossible to prove any theory." "(WHIRRING)" "What the bloody hell's that?" "Oh, Jesus." " Oh, ohh!" " Ohh!" "Christ!" "(COUGHS) Oh!" "There's another one over there." "Look." "LAURIE OAKES:" "The bloke Australians did vote for," "Prime Minister John Howard, was celebrating with champagne at Government House in Canberra after the swearing-in of his new ministry." "Are we done?" "All done!" "OAKES:" "In the hope that he'll eventually get to sample the Governor-General's bubbly too," "Mr Crean is embarking on a 'listen and learn' strategy, trying to find out what voters want from the Labor Party." "(WOMAN ON TV CHATTERS INDISTINCTLY)" "Police have identified the body parts of a man found in six bags in the Hastings River at Wauchope as those of missing prisoner Terry Falconer." "Two weeks ago, the 52-year-old who was on work release was abducted by three men claiming to be police officers." "Falconer had just six weeks left to serve of a five-year jail term for drug offences." "So this is you putting it right, is it?" "You dump him in a tidal river?" "Did you think the fucking tide might go out?" "It doesn't matter." "Doesn't matter?" "The whole idea was the body was never meant to be found!" "So what did he... what did he..." "Did he say..." "What did he say?" "About what?" "About why he killed Didi and Baba." "I didn't ask him." "You didn't ask him?" "What the fuck are you on?" "I was supposed to be there, Anthony." "I was supposed to be there when we took him out." "But you went ahead." "You would've stuffed it up like always." "Me stuff it up?" "They found his body!" "They found his fucking body!" "He would've been over the continental shelf if your mate had come through." "Fuck you, Anthony!" "Fuck you, dickhead!" "Ooh!" "Falconer killed Didi and Baba." "You said so, everyone said so." "We agreed he had to go." "But what if..." "what if he didn't?" "Are you deaf?" "I did what I did and I kept you out of it." "It's gonna be alright, Unds." "Come on, mate." "Come on, come on." "Alright, I'm gonna take care of you." " It's alright." " (MOBILE PHONE RINGS)" "It'll be alright." "Yeah." "Where are you?" "This isn't gonna be a problem, is it?" "They're going on about how he was abducted by pretend cops." "They got photofits of us." "Your own mother wouldn't recognise you." "Mate, Falconer was a shitbag drug dealer from Macquarie Fields." "Any investigation's gonna be a joke." "Keep your people under control." "There'll be no problem." "(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)" "Look, I know..." "I know it didn't work out the way we planned it, but he had to go." "Besides, none of us have got any connections with him." "We are in the clear." "Eh." "Are you cool, Vito?" "Listen, the prick was mouthing off, being smart, not giving a straight answer." "When he started saying he was gonna rat on us that's when I went up to him and chopped his head off." "(HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES)" "(CLEARS THROAT) Jubelin, you 're upside down." "It relieves stress." "You should give it a go." "I'll stick to Ella Fitzgerald and sauv blanc." "Have you seen this?" "Pretty brazen, impersonating cops." "Yeah, well, he was kidnapped, dismembered and then dumped." "They're putting a strike force on it." "I'm gonna put my hand up." "Righto, you go for gold, Gary." "Hey." "If I get OIC in this, you wanna join me?" "No, because I'm OIC of Strike Force Snowdon." "Have fun." "JACQUI JAMES:" "Gary Kevin Jubelin was an Aries, a practising Buddhist and drank green tea instead of coffee." "His workmates called him Crazy Fuck - behind his back, of course." "Strike Force Tuno will investigate the murder of Terry Falconer." "REPORTER:" "Have you got any suspects?" "We have a number of lines of inquiry we're investigating." "REPORTER 2:" "The victim was a bikie." "Is this a turf war?" "At the moment, it's too early to speculate on what the motives were behind Mr Falconer's death." "REPORTER 3:" "If his murder was part of organised crime" "Tuno could run for months, couldn't it?" "MAN:" "We don't put a time limit on clearing up murder." "That said," "I have every confidence Detective Sergeant Jubelin..." "It'll take as long as it takes." "Yeah, I'll call you back." "Mr Falconer's murder was a particularly violent and vicious crime." "It needs to be solved and I'm committed to doing that." "WOMAN:" "What are you watching?" "You." "Show us your tits." "Mmm... (SOLEMN MUSIC)" "JACQUI JAMES:" "Every murder investigation is different." "Nobody knew how long it would take to catch Terry Falconer's killer, not even Gary Jubelin." "He couldn't guess it would take almost a decade or that Terry's murder would expose a hidden web of vice, violence and death." "Our condolences, Mr Falconer." ""Mr Falconer." That was always my Dad." "How's the investigation?" "Well, it's early days yet, mate." "So, detectives, caught Uncle Terry's killer yet?" "The investigation is proceeding, Miss Erlich." "Those blokes who kidnapped him, they had police gear on, didn't they?" "One of them wore a police uniform." "If someone, like, knew something about something and they told youse, would they, like, get a reward?" "No reward for information's been offered at this stage." "But if you had information on your uncle's murder" "I'd imagine you 'd want to pass it on, wouldn't you?" "Paulina?" "Not here." "Meet me tonight." "But I'll only talk to you, Detective Browne." "(PEOPLE CHATTER)" "(POKIES WHIRR AND TRILL)" "You said you had something to tell me about your uncle's death." "Shit." "Lend us 10 bucks." "I had this shirt." "It was a police shirt, you know, with them blue epaulet thingies." "Not dress-up or nothing." "The real deal." "How'd you come by it?" "Boyfriend gave it to me." "A couple of weeks ago, some guy asked me if he could borrow it." " You got a name?" " I can't remember." " Where'd you meet him?" " Some pub." "How did he know you had a police shirt?" "I'd had a few." "Is there anything you can remember?" "(SIPS NOISILY)" "He wore colours." "Which club?" "Living Dead." "(COINS CLATTER)" "(ROCK MUSIC)" "A bit more on the boozies, love." "MAN:" "Don't bother." "Mr Pengilly." "I'm Detective Jubelin." "This is Detective Evers." "We're part of Strike Force Tuno, investigating the body that was dumped in the Hastings River by men impersonating police." "Know anything about that?" "Mate, I don't talk to coppers." "Now, do you mind?" "I'm shooting a movie here." "Oh, is that for Tropfest, mate?" "Because you do know it is illegal to shoot porn in New South Wales." "JUBELIN:" "Oh, you 're right, Detective Evers." "Why don't you get on the phone, call Vice?" "Yeah, we could get them down and they could take..." "Alright, give it a rest." "The way I hear, Falconer got what he deserved." "And how's that?" "He was a dog." "Tell them, Kenny." "I saw this letter, an official police letter." "It had a coat of arms." "It said Falconer will talk to anybody." " Where'd you see this document?" " Some sheila." "She showed it to me." "She said she knew Falconer." "Is, uh... is this her?" "Nah, she was older, black hair." "What exactly did she say?" "That Falconer, he was a fucking dog." "JACQUI JAMES:" "It wasn't only from bikies that Tuno officers heard stories of an older dark-haired woman who had an official document apparently showing Terry Falconer was a police informant." "And it didn't take them long to fit that description to Terry's former sister-in-law," "Dianne Louise Erlich." "Well, it wasn't me." "A letter like that'd get Terry into all sorts of trouble." "Why didn't you and Terry get on?" "He never liked that I had friends in motorcycle clubs, clubs that rival his Gypsy Jokers." "And you never spoke to anyone about his dealings with police?" "Now, why would I do that?" "I mean, I'm not a dog, am I?" "Mate, she knew she was putting a burn notice on Terry." "Never trust someone with that many cocker spaniels, mate." "Jack Russells, yes." "But cockers?" "Dodgy." "My Dad never wore Joker colours." "He never was a member of any club." "I just want youse to know that." "It's Jase, isn't it?" "You want to tell us anything else about your Dad, Jase?" "Anything to do with his death?" "Terry was married twice and son James is to his first wife?" "Yeah, and Jase is from his second." "And where does Dianne Erlich fit in?" "She is Terry's second ex-wife's sister, mother to the delightful Paulina and she is his biggest fan... not." "We've had a dozen reports of her flashing round that document, badmouthing Terry." "JUBELIN:" "At the moment, that's the best lead we've got, right?" "But she's not gonna be likely to be directly involved in the kidnapping." "Task Force Tuno." "Well, Dianne's admitted associations with bikies." "If she knew her daughter had a police shirt she could be the link between it and the Living Dead." "Paulina Erlich is downstairs with a lawyer but she'll only talk to Gary this time." "I understand one of your detectives took a statement from my client, a Senior Constable Browne." "That's right." "Miss Erlich has made a new statement on this matter." "She said Browney made her say she had the police shirt and she only agreed because you and she are having an affair." " (MEN LAUGH)" " BROWNE:" "An affair?" "That'll go down well with the Police Integrity Commission." "It's your savage sexuality, Browney." "It must have driven her insane, mate." "Does that mean she was lying about the shirt too?" " Maybe, maybe not." " (PHONE RINGS)" "Strike Force Tuno." "Right." "Uh, Jase Falconer's just attacked his aunty with an antique iron." "She showed every single biker in town that letter." "Every single one." "She got Dad killed." "He nearly killed me, the bloody little animal." "Well, what did you expect when you were going around, sledging his dad?" "Oh, God, I didn't do that." "Don't talk shit to me, Dianne, alright?" "You sold Terry down the river." "You called him a dog." "I never thought he'd get..." "I never thought anything bad would happen to him." "Tell you what I wanna know - why did you do it?" "You want him out of the way to get a piece of his drug business?" " Is that the deal?" " No, no." "I just..." "The clubs got paranoid, you know?" "They started thinking I was a dog." "And I'm not." "I'm not!" "I just..." "I just wanted to point them away so I could feel safe." "But I never meant for him to be hurt." "You 're never gonna catch who killed him, are you?" "We're just westie low-lifes with a shitty crook for a Dad." "Who cares if someone like him gets chopped to pieces?" "JUBELIN:" "How do I do the job when you 've cut half the staff before we get to square one?" "MAN:" "You can't argue with the budget." " I can't do what you 've asked." " I'm talking to a brick wall." "I want my strongest objection registered." "Go home, Gary." "Just go home and take a cold shower." "With the money you save buy yourself a pair of fucking glasses, you..." " Tuno going well?" " Oh, it's going great." "I've just been told half my staff have been returned to their squads." "I can take over if you like." "Would you like to have dinner with me, Pam?" "(CHUCKLES) I can't imagine what we'd talk about." "Well, we're Homicide, detective sergeants." "Probably got a lot in common." "Yeah, and I can hear the office gossip from here." "So is that a yes?" "There's gotta be someone big behind this." "An ordinary crook doesn't pull off a hit so elaborate." "Um, the barramundi, please." "I'll just get the snapper, mate." "What sort of films do you like, Gary?" "I really like the latest Woody Allen..." "They're not gonna put me off." "I'm gonna get this fella." "'Curse of the Jade Scorpion'." "It's very funny." "They're not gonna shut down Tuno on my watch." "It's not gonna happen." "(SCOFFS)" "Gary, since when do you even have the power to decide which cases run?" "This is bad crime." "There's bad crime everywhere." "It happens all the time." "There's not enough resources." "So if you don't have a result soon, Tuno will close." "Of course, there's your reputation." "And what does that mean, my reputation?" "You 're the patron saint of lost causes." "(CHUCKLES)" "Is that right, is it?" "Mm-hm." "(ELEVATOR DINGS)" "(LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS)" "(TENSE MUSIC)" "JACQUI JAMES:" "Anthony Perish called his business 'the company'." "Although its profits were in the millions, it had no head office, no business plan, no corporate structure." "Anthony was CEO, sole shareholder, and there was only one company rule - if you crossed him you 'd pay." "So while some in the underworld knew or suspected he was behind Terry Falconer's murder, none was game to speak out against a man who could string up a human being on a meat hook and butcher him like a beast." "But Anthony Perish had one piece of bad luck " "Gary Jubelin was a man who never gave up." "BROWNE:" "Frank O'Rourke?" "Detectives Browne and Rankin from Strike Force Tuno." "We've got some questions about the murder of Terry Falconer." "I know why you 're here." "I know who killed Terry Falconer." "Mr O'Rourke, do you think we could come inside?" "I'm not saying anything here." "I'm as good as dead just talking to you." "Meet me at the parkland off Cowpasture Road, 9pm." " Mr O'Rourke..." " Just you two." "Anyone else, I piss off." "Go." "Fuck off." "How did we get this guy's name?" "RANKIN:" "He's another bikie, Iron Blood." "He's not long out of jail, fellas." "Have a look at this." "Eight years for manslaughter, he's got form for assault, assault police officer, possession of firearms..." "He's gonna be there in 40 minutes." "He also did some of his time in the same jail as Falconer." "Jase, you ring Browney every 20 minutes." "(ENGINE START)" "(TYRES SQUEAL)" "(THUNDER RUMBLES)" "Youse are alone?" "You know stuff about Falconer's murder?" "(CHUCKLES) Yeah, I know 'stuff'." "I know it all." "You know who killed him?" "Who killed him?" "Mr O'Rourke, are we wasting our time?" "Anthony Perish." "Anthony Perish killed Terry Falconer." "Who's Anthony Perish?" "JACQUI JAMES:" "After three long months," "Strike Force Tuno finally had a name for their murderer." "There was only one small problem." "It was a name they'd never heard of." "(THEME MUSIC)" "SONG: # It's a jungle out there" "# It's a jungle out there" "# It's a jungle out there. #"