Janet King (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Overtime - full transcript
That beach house
doesn't belong to Alex Moreno.
No.26 is owned by a company
called Blue and White Holdings.
The director of that company
is Steven Blakely.
Steve Blakely knew Moreno?
I've found dozens of photos of naked
children taken in the same house.
The question is, did he know
what Moreno was doing there?
We're going to be great parents.
Isn't that what everybody thinks?
Probably.
Some of us have got to be right,
statistically.
Unfortunate when our private desires
conflict with our public duties.
I'd tread very carefully
if I were you, Miss King.
Thank you for the warning,
Judge Renmark.
Miss King?
Constable Payne.
We met last night.
You OK?
I'm fine.
Sorry. You're meant
to be at Crime Command by 8:30.
Yeah, right.
Can you just...
Yep, we'll be outside.
We've compiled a list of people
who might hold a grudge against you.
Mostly crooks you've prosecuted.
If you could help us narrow it down,
or maybe add anyone we've missed.
I don't need this.
I know who did it - Alex Moreno.
You've secured a conviction
against...
He was acquitted.
What of?
He's a photographer. Grooming kids.
A photographer?
Bombings like this,
our first guess is always going to
be gang-related.
Do you have anything to suggest
gang involvement?
It's early days. Forensics will
come back with the preliminaries.
I have a name now - Moreno.
He was questioned about
his connection
with Steven Blakely,
at my prompting.
Within 48 hours,
this came back at me.
Miss King,
we appreciate your frustration...
No, you don't, otherwise
you wouldn't be patronising me,
you'd be out, now, arresting Moreno.
Janet, we have nothing
to link him to this.
Then find a link.
I want you to do something!
I know it's hard, but you have to
trust us here, OK?
We know how to do our jobs.
I will put Moreno on our list.
What I need you to do is go through
all the potential suspects
and start eliminating people.
Then you leave the rest to us, OK?
All your bank accounts have been
frozen, ATM cards stopped.
If you need cash, just ask us.
Your old mobile phone's been
deactivated.
You can use the pre-pays we supply.
Otherwise, we're going to leave you
alone here at work.
It's a very secure building.
Not much to say at times like this.
Not really.
Bastards.
Yeah.
Look, are you up for a chat?
You're suggesting she go
into hiding, that's your solution?
If you want her
to be completely safe...
I want you to do your job
and protect her.
Which is why we're here
and not in your office.
If you want to be extra-safe,
we can always move her interstate.
..someone tried to kill Janet
with a bomb.
There's no danger
to the rest of your staff.
Jack will provide watertight
security.
Not on my budget, I won't.
Fine! I'll formalise that
with the Police Minister.
Right now, getting Miss King back
to work should be our first priority.
We will not be intimidated!
Assuming Ms King agrees.
Janet?
Yeah, sure, I'll go back to work.
How long before I can be with Ash
and the kids?
We've got to complete
a full risk assessment.
Couple of weeks,
a month at the most.
Something's wrong.
Let it go.
No. Can't.
You ran the Blakely murder
trial.
Someone's making porn
at our beach house?
Yes.
Why should the automatic assumption
be that my father had something to
do with this? It could be anyone.
We believe the photo was taken
with a hidden camera.
The girl is Alex Moreno's daughter.
Her father was the child groomer,
the one Renmark acquitted.
The photographer?
Do you think our father
is a child pornographer?
It might not be your father.
It might be someone
associated with him.
This is what we're trying to
establish.
Renmark's judgements.
Can you look at them for me?
I've got to head out.
How are you?
Look specifically at
sexual offences against minors,
whether Renmark treats them
any differently.
I was going to pop my head in before, but
Tony said we should give you some space.
Richard.
How's Ash? Is she...
I'm just keeping track
of who's in and who's out.
Can you let me know when you'll be
going over to see Justice Renmark?
I wasn't planning
on seeing him at all.
Well, that is
a courageous decision.
Sorry, courageous?
We all know silence can
be interpreted as a sign
that one has something to hide.
I don't have anything to hide
about Janet and Erin.
I respect a man who's
willing to take that chance,
regardless of what his friends
and colleagues may think.
Alright? OK.
Can you stay on your man please,
Jack? Stay on your man.
Beautiful pass there, Connor.
Can you...
Um, I appreciate you seeing me.
Yeah. How are you?
Did you find out who did it?
Not for sure. Look, Maya, I just...
We're both involved in this somehow.
There's some sort of a connection,
so I need your help.
I've told you everything
that I know.
Have you? Because we had a
conversation in my office,
and I saw something in you,
some sort of a shift.
Was that the conversation when you
accused my father of being a
paedophile?
I know it's hard to come to terms
with the idea of your father doing
that sort of thing.
Do you think? I'm just trying to
make sense of this.
How can you be so on our side one
day, and then just so against us?
It's not a matter of being
for or against.
There are people trying to kill me.
And that's my dad's fault?
Oh, no, wait, he's dead,
so that makes it hard.
There's still a connection.
That is bullshit. It's bullshit.
I know I've asked you this before,
but please, if you know anything
at all about Alex Moreno,
you need to tell me.
Both our families are being attacked
by someone,
and I'm sure he has something
to do with it,
I just don't know what
his involvement is.
I can't help you. I can't help you.
Push him left, Jack, please.
OK, stay on your man, Connor.
This is not a good day for you.
I'll leave you to it.
Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
God, it's so good
to hear your voice.
You too.
Are you OK, safe?
Yeah, yeah, fine.
How are the kids?
Good. I mean, they're a bit ratty,
but they miss you.
So, where are you staying?
I'm not supposed to say.
No, me neither. I forgot.
Do they have any ideas yet
about who might have done this?
Not yet.
Do you have any ideas?
I thought I did, but I don't know.
So, what's the plan?
I mean, how long do we have to stay
in these places?
I don't know, Ash. I just...
I don't know.
Have you had dinner?
My minder bought me some Thai.
Nice?
Looks oily.
You should go to them.
They'll keep for a moment.
Ash, I'm so sorry about your job.
Oh God, Janet...
About everything.
About the way this has come out.
It'll be alright.
In the end, it will be alright.
I'd put the kids on, but the last
thing you need right now
is a burst eardrum.
I love you.
Me too.
And you'll see, it won't be long.
Terrific. Now to each other.
Big smiles. Yep.
Just relax for a second.
There's a champagne in the car.
I'll just be a couple of minutes.
The artist at work.
Yes.
So those details I gave you
about the real-estate agent
that handled the rental for the
beach house,
that all check out OK?
As far as I know.
So I rented a house and some creep
photographed my daughter.
We're the victims here, right?
That's the theory, yeah.
So what are you doing here?
You said,
on the night Steve Blakely died,
you drove down to Coogee,
walked your dog all by yourself.
Yeah, that's right.
Toll tags show us that
you do that trip pretty regularly.
When I can.
But on the night Blakely was
murdered, you didn't use the tollway.
I probably went a different way.
Yesterday, between 7 and 9pm,
where were you?
Why?
Just a straightforward question.
I've got an exhibition on at the
North Sydney Gallery of Modern Art.
It was my opening night yesterday.
I was doing a Q and A
in front of about 100 guests.
So can I get back to work now?
You have a think about which way
you drove down to Coogee.
You'd be amazed
what we can do these days
to prove which way a vehicle
travelled... or didn't travel.
I'm sorry about my behaviour
yesterday.
After I went home, I kept thinking
about what you said.
I appreciate that.
There you go.
You think my father was cooperating
with this Moreno person?
In some way, yes.
So if that's right,
there could be more people involved.
It's possible.
Maya?
There are some things that
happened to me when I was little.
There was a couple...
..the Nelsons.
They used to babysit us.
My mum and dad did
the same for their kids
when the Nelsons had something on.
Mr Nelson, Keith...
..did things to me.
How long ago was this?
I remember, the first time it
happened,
I was wearing my fairy-penguin
pyjamas.
They were still really new.
I got them for my seventh birthday,
so...
Mr Nelson, he was a friend of your
father's or...
I went to preschool with Becky,
his daughter.
Mum and Dad, they met them there,
and yeah, we were all really close
for a while.
I even called him Uncle Keith.
And you've never told anybody
about this?
I just wanted to forget it.
I mean, what point is there,
really, in...
..in digging all of these things up?
And then you said that stuff
about my dad...
..and I started wondering
about whether maybe he knew...
..because later, in my teens, Dad,
he looked after me a lot
and he taught me to be
really strong.
And now I just don't know...
..if that was 'cause he knew...
..or if it's just that he sensed
that I was really struggling.
I don't know.
Moreno rents Steven Blakely's
holiday house.
Moreno's daughter gets photographed
there by hidden cameras
probably installed by Blakely.
Now it turns out that Blakely's
daughter has been sexually assaulted
for years
by one of his best mates,
who is now a senior executive
in the public service.
It could be a coincidence.
Bullshit. We've got a
child-pornography ring
involving a prominent group
of people, with Steven Blakely
in the centre.
Things go wrong with his dying wife.
Suddenly he's facing jail.
His associates get nervous
that he might talk.
They try and shut him up. Possible?
It's possible.
I start wondering where Moreno was
on the night Blakely was killed,
and our car gets bombed.
There's your conspiracy.
Moreno has an alibi for that night.
And Moreno, Nelson -
no histories of violence.
God knows where
they'd get explosives.
They hired someone.
It's bloody hard to see how.
There's nothing in Moreno's phone
records or bank records
to back that up.
Nelson arranged it.
Janet, if I go to Terry Renner
with this, without any evidence,
he is going to call me crazy
and laugh in my face.
Then go over Renner's head.
Where I'll get the exact same
reaction, only without the laughter.
Keith Nelson is a highly respected
public servant.
Who's got a lot to lose.
Once he's charged, comes under
pressure, he'll want to make a deal.
He will have to name names.
But Janet's conspiracy theory does
sound far-fetched,
and Nelson does have friends
and contacts in the media.
Until we have some concrete
evidence, I suggest
it's just a sex crime
and we keep this discussion
to ourselves.
What?
How dare you.
Mr Nelson...
You're accusing me of things
that supposedly happened
15 years ago, without any evidence,
and you expect me
to take them seriously?
They're serious allegations.
15 years.
Maya Blakely was a child
at the time, a small child.
I understand.
It's a bloody witch-hunt.
The Blakelys are both dead.
You expect me to what?
Mr Nelson!
You leave me hanging.
Mr Nelson, are you refusing to
cooperate with this investigation?
I'm going to put the question
to you again.
Did you engage in sexual activity
with Maya Blakely when she was a
minor?
Never! Anybody who says I did
is a fucking liar.
Forensics are still
trawling through his computers,
but it's not looking promising.
However, we did find this
in his desk in a locked drawer -
a 32-GB USB stick.
Full of child porn?
Completely empty.
When I say empty,
I mean really empty.
Forensics can usually retrieve
images even when they've been
deleted,
but this has been scrubbed
using very sophisticated software.
So it's Nelson's word against Maya's.
Not quite.
In her statement, Maya described
an identifying mark on Nelson's
penis,
a birthmark
shaped like a map of England.
'I know it sounds strange,
but I remember thinking of the map
on the wall at school.'
That's your case. If Maya's right,
and he has a mark like that...
How do I find that out,
pants him in front of the jury?
Maybe you should get a search
warrant.
Can you get a warrant
for a man's undies?
It's got to be a court order,
I suppose.
Still 15 years old.
It makes it extremely difficult.
It's winnable.
If you're so passionate about it,
why aren't you running it?
Janet was the first one
to hear Maya's story.
Oh, so you're a witness.
I told her we'd put our second-best
person on it.
I'm flattered.
I hope you can stick around so I can
pick your brain as this evolves.
Now I'm flattered.
I might be just looking for someone
to share the blame
if it doesn't get up.
Now we just sit back and allow
things to take their course. Agreed?
Agreed.
Things only get to my desk
when the damage is done.
I can't make any difference at all.
I'm completely impotent.
Get away from her.
Get the fuck away from her!
That's what you did in Adelaide,
isn't it?
You're a filthy fucking rapist!
Here.
My letter of resignation.
I thought
I should make it easy for you.
Well, a perfectly honourable
course of action.
I thought so too.
I've made us all look terrible.
Well, you're barely an apprentice
at that pastime.
Janet's had a crack, Tracey's month
in court was a standout
and my performance
in the Vasilich appeal
was definitely a podium finish.
You made a mistake. We all do.
Learn from it.
I don't trust myself anymore.
Well, I trust you,
and I outrank you.
Consequently,
I decline to accept this.
In fact, a brief's just come in -
sexual assault, minor, 15 years old.
Please, Tony, if I'm staying,
at least transfer me out
of Sex Crimes.
To what, Homicide? First grisly
murder that comes in,
you'll be begging
to get out of that, too.
Next thing, you're a wasted talent
doing drink-driving
and contested speed fines.
What you did,
you did out of passion.
We need more of that around here,
not less.
You'll hear from Tracey
about that brief.
You make sure it goes to trial.
Ah, Richard.
You going in?
Yeah.
What did you, um...
Oh, nothing.
One hug, that's all I saw.
Completely innocent.
Be careful, though,
he's a tricky bastard.
So, Mr Stirling.
You've worked with Miss King
and Miss O'Shaughnessy
a number of times, is that correct?
I suppose so.
Is it a matter of supposition?
No, it's a fact.
And how would you describe
their relationship?
Professional, very professional.
Others I've spoken to have said
they're extremely close.
Well yes, extremely close
in a professional sort of way.
I mean, friendly, you know?
Just friendly?
No, I guess...
Erin virtually delivered
Janet's babies,
so maybe more than just friendly.
Delivering someone's babies,
I'd call that intimate.
I suppose so.
Obviously, at one level,
it's extremely intimate.
It's an intimate experience,
birthing babies.
If you do that with someone,
it inevitably gives rise to
a kind of intimacy, obviously.
So initially you described their
relationship as professional,
but now you'd like to revise that
to 'extremely intimate.'
You went and talked to Renmark
So what?
As long as you told him the truth,
there's no need to apologise.
Is there?
Of course I told the truth,
but it's all about emphasis,
and my emphasis was less than ideal.
You worry too much. Anyway, on the
subject of Renmark...
Yes. I went through all
his old judgements,
everything since he went to the
bench. My office? OK.
I didn't find anything unusual
in the sexual assaults,
in that they conform
to the overall trends.
But it's the trends themselves
that are bizarre.
I've graphed it all by year.
In his first few years at the bench,
there's no strong trend.
Acquittal-to-conviction ratio
is about average.
But then, the Criminal Procedure Act
is amended,
massively increasing the number
of judge-only trials,
and suddenly, he's acquitting just
about everyone.
I thought he was pro-prosecution.
That came later. In the first few
years after the Act was amended,
- he was the exact opposite.
- Your interpretation?
For a lazy judge hearing a case
without a jury,
the easiest option is to acquit.
There's no appeal, so the decision's
less likely to come under scrutiny.
You don't spend hours
drafting a judgement.
You're home for an early dinner.
Exactly.
What's interesting is that then,
his record changes again.
Suddenly he's convicting everyone
that comes before him.
So there's nearly a 100%
conviction rate
for the last 18 months
until Moreno.
It could be explained away as
a statistical variation.
It's more than that. It has to be.
What do you mean by weird?
How can we know it's weird unless
we compare judgements with evidence?
You want me to trawl through the
trial transcripts in detail,
look for any specific
irregularities?
I know it's a huge and tedious job.
Tedious? I already made a start,
just out of personal interest.
At the very least, it suggests a
judge who's pursuing a personal
agenda.
That's not an agenda, that's
corruption.
How'd you get onto this, Janet?
Danny Novak made a comment
about Renmark's decision in Moreno.
What is it that Mr Novak had to say?
It was extremely vague, but he implie
the result in the case was dodgy.
Why tell you?
He knew you had him in the frame
for Steven Blakely's murder.
He said he had nothing to do with it,
and suggested I find out
how Moreno was acquitted.
And you just believed him?
I wasn't sure at first,
then I asked you guys
to look into Moreno,
next thing I know, my car blows up
outside my fucking house
and nearly kills my entire family.
So yes, funnily enough,
I am inclined to believe him.
Let's just assume for a moment
that Renmark's decisions weren't
based on the evidence in front of him
but to please someone else.
Was someone paying him
or blackmailing him?
A senior New South Wales
public official corrupted?
Not entirely without precedent.
Who gains by having all these idiots
convicted?
I'm sure the police are
on top of the list.
Or a policeman.
Since we're playing hypotheticals,
sure.
Back in the '80s, we would have
been the number-one suspects,
but if anyone in Crime Command
had a judge in their pockets
these days,
even Steve Blakely,
I would have heard a whisper about
it somewhere down the line.
Fair point.
So forget us.
Let's ask the important question -
who are the really good corrupters?
Organised crime. But wouldn't they
want their mates acquitted?
Mates? They dog each other
all the time.
The Danny Novaks of this world
want to eliminate enemies,
get rid of competition.
Well, politically sensitive
business, going after a judge.
Sure is, which is why I'm gonna need
something very concrete
before I launch into
a formal investigation.
When I get it, I'll be back.
Janet,
thanks for coming to me with this.
See? You're walking into court, just
like you've done a million times.
No-one's giving you a second glance.
You'll be fine.
I feel like a kid going back to clas
after detention.
You can handle it.
When it gets down to the
nitty-gritty, just stay detached.
Just deal with the facts of the
case, that's all.
If you think your job's bad,
remember,
when you win this court order,
I've got to watch a guy
get his dick photographed.
I think we know who's got second
prize in this one today.
Given Miss Blakely's clear
recollection
of such an identifying mark,
we make application to the court
to grant an order
under the Forensic Procedures Act,
requiring Mr Nelson
to undergo an intimate bodily
examination, specifically
of his penis.
Your Honour, Mr Nelson is an
upstanding citizen and family man
whose reputation has already been
severely damaged
by these allegations.
Now he's expected to submit
to an unnecessary and humiliating
bodily exam
without any reasonable basis.
It'll be carried out by a qualified
forensic medical officer,
no more humiliating than
an ordinary trip to the doctor.
I'm not sure what relationship my
learned friend has with his doctor,
but mine does not take photographs
of my genitalia.
The complaints Miss Blakely made
relate to events which took place a
long time ago.
It is simply impossible to assess
the veracity of her account
without the examination we request,
something which Mr Nelson should
also welcome
if he is indeed innocent of the
charges.
Yes, point taken, Mr Crown.
These allegations are serious.
And consequently, I grant the order,
as specified in the Act.
Hey. Can I sit?
Does your mate want to join us?
No, he likes standing.
Hey, well done. They wheeled out
the big guns and you didn't flinch.
Come on. Sinclair or no Sinclair,
if I couldn't handle
a warrant application,
we'd really be in the shit,
wouldn't we?
Andy.
Yes, mate?
Fresh off the press -
medical officer's report on Nelson.
Yeah. Um...
'The left side of the penis
presents with a 28- by 13-...'
'28- by 13-millimetre...
..laterally oriented
capillary vascular malformation,
commonly called a strawberry
birthmark.'
What about the rest?
What about the shape?
If I hung this next to my desk,
people would think I was
planning a trip to the old country.
We're on.
Yeah. No, great. Thanks, mate.
Yep.
Hey, can we get a copy of this
sent straight over to the DPP?
Mark it, 'Attention
of Owen Mitchell.'
Ando. Got your mate
Alex Morino here.
Moreno.
Says he wants to make a statement
about Steven Blakely's murder.
Alright.
That night, I didn't go to Coogee.
So you are retracting
your previous statement?
Yeah.
But if I tell you the truth,
and I can back it up,
no-one needs to know, do they?
Where were you, Alex?
A brothel? Bullshit. At exactly the
time Blakely was killed.
So he was previously too coy
to bring this up,
preferred to be a suspect
in a murder investigation?
The place is called Barely Legal.
It specialises in Asian girls
that look under-age.
Not a venue one attends with pride.
His story checks out
a hundred per cent?
The girl he was with remembers him,
and there's credit-card records,
a secret card he uses
for special occasions.
So where does this leave us?
I think the expression is, buggered.
His story on the rental
of Blakely's house is solid.
It's rubbish.
But it's solid rubbish
now that he's got an alibi
for the murder.
He could have hired someone,
a co-conspirator may have done it.
We have been all over this guy,
and there is no evidence of that.
On the attempted murder of my family,
no evidence there either?
Terry Renner is looking into the
organised-crime angle.
This has nothing to do with a drug
dealer I put away five years ago!
I started scratching at Moreno,
and they came straight back at me.
There is not one scrap of proof,
Janet, that there is any they.
It's because your people are too
incompetent to find it.
Janet, none of these theories
are any use unless we have proof,
and the best way to do that
is still with
getting Keith Nelson committed
to trial and getting him to talk.
Now, step back and allow that trial
to take its course.
Miss King,
could I bend your ear for a sec?
I was wondering, my brother's got a
small legal problem
with a job contract at the moment.
I thought, if you wanted a bit of a
break from the big stuff,
and you didn't mind helping,
of course...
Can't, sorry. I don't know that much
about commercial law.
No problem.
Sorry.
I don't get why you want to do this.
Thanks for your support.
I'm saying this for your sake.
I don't think
you want me to get over all this.
If you want to get over it,
go to a psychiatrist, don't go to
court.
Lawyers always bully you
into going to court, and then what?
They're going to call you a liar,
they'll pick apart every mistake
that you make,
go through everything that happened,
whatever did happen.
Well, it happened!
OK, you know what? It happened.
You don't think it happened?
I don't know. I didn't see it!
It happened! Don't touch me!
Going to court isn't going to help
you get over it.
Hey, are we OK here?
Yeah, we're fine.
Are you alright?
He thinks that you're making me
do this
so that you can have a big win.
What do you think?
Come on.
Miss Blakely,
have you read your statement?
I have.
Is it true and correct?
Yes.
I tender the statement of Miss
Blakely in evidence.
No further questions, Your Honour.
The statement of Miss Maya Blakely
will be Exhibit A.
Miss Blakely, the events
you describe in your statement
allegedly took place
between 1998 and 2001.
That's right.
At that time, how would you describe
the relationship
between Mr Keith Nelson
and your family?
He was a family friend.
Your parents trusted him,
didn't they?
Objection. Your Honour, Miss
Blakely's parents are deceased.
She can't be expected to say what
their precise attitude
towards Mr Nelson was,
given she was only seven years old
at the time.
I'll restate the question.
Your parents regularly
relied upon Mr and Mrs Nelson
to babysit yourself and
your brother, didn't they?
That's right.
And they wouldn't have kept doing
that
if they had the slightest reason
to think
that there was anything untoward
going on, would they?
No, no.
They wouldn't have done it
if you or your brother
had ever expressed any qualms
whatsoever
about the Nelsons, would they?
Probably not.
Yet the arrangement lasted
for three years,
only ending when the Nelsons moved
interstate for a time,
isn't that right?
Yes.
You know the reason why,
don't you?
Because I never said anything.
And you are now 23.
Yet even as an adult,
an educated, professional woman,
you never said anything,
not for 15 years,
because nothing ever happened,
did it?
When I was a child,
I was really scared.
You were scared, of Mr Nelson?
Yes.
Marion Nelson, Mr Nelson's wife,
also submitted a statement
regarding her recollections,
and she says she thought
you were very fond of her husband.
She says, in fact,
and I will quote her. She says -
'I rather thought Maya
had a crush on Keith.'
Is that the way
you usually show fear?
I was nice to him because I thought
that I had done something wrong.
And I thought that that was his way
of punishing me.
OK?
I'm told you did
a wonderful job in there.
He was staring at me the whole
time, just like he used to.
Now he's been committed to trial,
thanks to you.
I think Drew might have been right,
because I feel a lot worse now.
I was happy. I'd packed all this
away and I'd gotten on with my life.
Everything they say that you're
supposed to do, I had done it.
Had you?
It will help, Maya,
when he's convicted.
I can't do that again.
Yes, you can.
You haven't stopped him yet.
There's still the trial.
I can't do that again.
Please, you can't back out now,
for your sake.
I can't.
Don't let him beat you again.
What else can I do?
I'm going to have to nolle it.
No.
Our case is built on Maya's account.
Without her, I'm dead in the water.
We can't let Nelson
just walk out of remand.
Let's load him up, then.
I'll make a call, get a kilo of dope
found in his pocket.
That should fix the prick.
We think he's got
some other information,
about me and the car bomb.
That explains a bit.
You spoke to Maya. Do you think
she's going to change her mind?
No, but Nelson's been committed for
trial.
We can buy some time,
police can put pressure on him.
Maybe he'll give something up.
How are we going to buy some time?
The case against him has fallen
down.
The minute Nelson finds out...
What if he doesn't?
You mean what if we don't
notify the court
that Maya's withdrawn from the case?
We have to, don't we? So far, we're
the only ones who know about it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just
a hiccup, witness with cold feet.
Nothing to bother the court with.
Oh, God, Janet.
If Maya doesn't change her mind,
fine, we'll let them know...
..a few days before the trial date.
You weren't here, right?
You didn't hear a thing.
Going now.
I'm just asking for a bit
more time - a week, maybe two.
Yep, you got it.
You're leaving early?
I'm off to get
my fertility results.
Oh. They wouldn't tell you on the
phone?
They said I had to come in.
What's the worst it can be?
Even if I can't have kids,
I'll always have my job, hey?
Has Andy done his?
Mm-hm. 48 million sperm per
millilitre,
with 90% classed as Grade-A, showing
highly progressive motility.
I bet he's learned that off
by heart.
Plans on getting a tattoo of it
next week.
Listen, Tracey spoke to me today.
Considering you helped me out
with Collard,
she asked if I wanted to take Clarke
off you.
Oh.
Is that OK?
I guess someone's got to finish it.
Looks like that someone's me.
It's completely revolting.
I'll bet.
Don't look at the photos.
You don't have to.
The whole thing's pretty much
wound up anyway.
Just got to wait for Mrs Moreno
to get back from overseas,
get her into court
to prove that Ruby's under-age.
Tracey's exact words were,
'I'm only giving you matters
that will be quickly resolved,
because I doubt you'll be around
long'.
She's the absolute master
of genteel malice.
Years of practice. I've got to go.
You'll be fine. Ring me.
The good news is,
there's no sign of any
physiological fertility issue.
Thanks. You hear about this
sort of thing dragging on for years.
I can't rule that out, I'm afraid.
Sorry?
Given that you've been trying for
so long and the efforts you've gone
to,
we would class you as
having a fertility problem.
But you just said...
I said we'd found
no physiological symptoms.
My diagnosis for you is
idiopathic infertility.
It's infertility with no obvious
physical cause.
So, what can you do for that?
Unfortunately, very little.
Even so, I would encourage you to
keep trying.
Hi.
We haven't really talked, since...
No.
So, how's it going?
I mean, Ash and the kids,
are they...
As well as can be expected.
And you?
I stopped watching the news.
That helped.
As long as I don't google 'DPP sex
scandal',
life is almost back to normal.
I don't suppose you've heard
anything
about when Renmark's going
to decide it?
No. I've had other things
on my mind.
Of course.
My minder has to knock off
in an hour
and I have to be safely
locked away.
You bet. I should go home too.
OK.
Ready to roll?
I can't go back to that place
tonight.
Not a lot of choice, I'm afraid.
I just want to see my kids and Ash.
I don't even know where
you've got them.
Somewhere safe,
and if you want to keep them safe,
we need to follow the rules.
I haven't seen them
since it happened.
Maybe I can arrange for a visit
tomorrow night after work, OK?
If you feel like company,
you can have a friend over,
as long as they check out with
security. Tonight.
Thanks.
There's only one thing worse than
being talked about,
and that's not being talked about.
Didn't do Oscar Wilde much good,
did it?
You know, this place isn't as bad
as you said.
OK, it's worse.
Still, it's safe, I guess.
Hence the name, safe house.
It's a prison.
Every minute of the day, I have
this escort that ferries me around
from here to work and back again.
Ash asked me
when I thought it might end,
as if there was some
obvious end point, but...
There is. They'll catch the guy
who did this.
Will they?
What if they don't?
How does it end then?
I mean, we have small children.
When do we decide that
it's 100 per cent safe for them?
A month?
A year?
Ten years?
When I was seven, my family
moved to Sydney from Perth.
My dad gave us this lecture
about how we had to treat it
as an adventure,
and how he knew us kids would
make the most of the opportunities.
My sister did fine,
but I don't know.
I just got off on the wrong foot
at school.
I didn't make any friends.
Every lunchtime,
I would wander around the playground
by myself.
But all I could think about was
how I had let my parents down...
..and wasted the opportunity
they'd given me.
Loneliness and shame.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
No?
I have been blessed
with this perfect family,
and I put them all in danger.
Janet, that's not your fault.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is.
They nearly died because of me.
That's all that matters.
You don't have to feel alone.
I'm here.
You're not alone.
Erin.
Sorry. I...
I think it'd be better if you go.
I'll call you a taxi, yeah?
No, no, no.
I'm fine.
I'll see you later.
Excuse me, Owen?
You prosecuted
Crown against Gianopolous, 2011.
Yeah, murder case.
Small-time drug dealer fired
into a car,
claimed he didn't know anyone
was in it.
In Judge Renmark's judgement,
he cites Crown against Sharp,
implies the defence relied
on the case.
No. The rule in Sharp
didn't apply to the facts.
No, it doesn't.
Hey, Richard?
I'm going for silk right now.
I certainly hope
no-one's appealing the decision.
No, no, it's not that.
Something about Renmark?
Yes, I'm just doing some research
for Janet. Thanks for your help.
I can't wait to see you, Ash.
I'm leaving right now.
OK, bye.
Sorry, Janet,
I need to speak to you.
OK. Deep breaths, deep breaths.
He's clever. He chooses his
opportunities carefully,
twists things
just as much as he needs to.
Renmark?
Unless you're really looking,
you wouldn't bat an eyelid.
That's the clever part.
He's cooking his judgements?
Like a judicial souffle.
Can you prove this?
It's all here, the concrete stuff -
quoting obiter dicta that don't
exist,
distorting facts in old cases that
no-one's read.
Except you.
You could put it down to sloppiness,
but there's this case
Owen appeared in
where Renmark has completely
misrepresented
the defence's argument.
There's only one way to interpret
it,
and that's as an attempt
to subvert justice.
Thank you.
One way or another, they're all
connected - Blakely, Nelson, Moreno.
And Renmark?
Especially Renmark.
Now you've got the evidence.
Yes.
All those dodgy statements,
they relate to sexual assault?
No, they're all sorts of things.
Look, I don't claim to know exactly
what's going on,
but you needed something concrete
before you could start
a formal investigation,
and here it is.
Thanks.
Who else knows about this?
Andy and one of our solicitors,
Richard Stirling.
You trust him?
Absolutely.
That's it, no-one else?
No-one.
And the file?
Two copies. This one,
and there's one back in my office.
OK. I want you to go back to your
office and I want you to lock it up.
I'll talk to Andy. I want you to
talk to this Stirling, tell him to
shut up.
If we're going to go after
a district-court judge,
no-one else can know anything,
otherwise we won't get anywhere.
OK.
You realise this could sink us both?
I can't go much deeper. Sorry if I'm
dragging you down with me.
Thanks, Jack.
I need to go back to the DPP
for a moment.
We're already 30 minutes late.
I'll be quick.
Miss King?
What dedication, working so late.
And you, I presume.
I was just congratulating Tony
on how cooperative everyone's been.
I've finished taking evidence.
Now I just have to write my
recommendation.
Well, I look forward to reading it.
I heard you've been reviewing
some of my judgements.
Did you?
I finished my career with an
impeccable reputation,
and I stand by my record.
I wonder if you'll be able
to say the same.
Is that supposed to intimidate me?
It's supposed to put you
on notice.
Of what?
My findings could be very damning,
but I'm offering you
one last chance.
Resign now
and go back to private practice,
and I will tone down my report,
and you might be able
to salvage something of your career.
I'm not going anywhere.
Then we should await the decision
of the Bar Association.
Goodnight, Miss King.
Pleasant dreams.
Hey.
On the right. Up top.
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
I don't even know your first name.
Robert.
Friends call me Bob.
Thank you, Bob.
Where was it? Taped up,
underneath the desk.
We found this.
Over 84,000 photos.
Fucking hell.
You are days away from facing a
criminal record
and you have the gall to stand there
and tell me what's appropriate?
Can't you make it lunchtime?
That won't be nearly so obvious.
Alright, yep, 9am.
No, not on the phone.
Can you talk to him? You used to
work with him, please. Please!
Please just give him a day or two
I know it'll work out better!
I'm not running this prosecution to
find out who bombed your car!
What if it was blackmail?
That would mean that Owen was the one
controlling everything.
Exactly.
What have we got?
Not sure.
Shit.
doesn't belong to Alex Moreno.
No.26 is owned by a company
called Blue and White Holdings.
The director of that company
is Steven Blakely.
Steve Blakely knew Moreno?
I've found dozens of photos of naked
children taken in the same house.
The question is, did he know
what Moreno was doing there?
We're going to be great parents.
Isn't that what everybody thinks?
Probably.
Some of us have got to be right,
statistically.
Unfortunate when our private desires
conflict with our public duties.
I'd tread very carefully
if I were you, Miss King.
Thank you for the warning,
Judge Renmark.
Miss King?
Constable Payne.
We met last night.
You OK?
I'm fine.
Sorry. You're meant
to be at Crime Command by 8:30.
Yeah, right.
Can you just...
Yep, we'll be outside.
We've compiled a list of people
who might hold a grudge against you.
Mostly crooks you've prosecuted.
If you could help us narrow it down,
or maybe add anyone we've missed.
I don't need this.
I know who did it - Alex Moreno.
You've secured a conviction
against...
He was acquitted.
What of?
He's a photographer. Grooming kids.
A photographer?
Bombings like this,
our first guess is always going to
be gang-related.
Do you have anything to suggest
gang involvement?
It's early days. Forensics will
come back with the preliminaries.
I have a name now - Moreno.
He was questioned about
his connection
with Steven Blakely,
at my prompting.
Within 48 hours,
this came back at me.
Miss King,
we appreciate your frustration...
No, you don't, otherwise
you wouldn't be patronising me,
you'd be out, now, arresting Moreno.
Janet, we have nothing
to link him to this.
Then find a link.
I want you to do something!
I know it's hard, but you have to
trust us here, OK?
We know how to do our jobs.
I will put Moreno on our list.
What I need you to do is go through
all the potential suspects
and start eliminating people.
Then you leave the rest to us, OK?
All your bank accounts have been
frozen, ATM cards stopped.
If you need cash, just ask us.
Your old mobile phone's been
deactivated.
You can use the pre-pays we supply.
Otherwise, we're going to leave you
alone here at work.
It's a very secure building.
Not much to say at times like this.
Not really.
Bastards.
Yeah.
Look, are you up for a chat?
You're suggesting she go
into hiding, that's your solution?
If you want her
to be completely safe...
I want you to do your job
and protect her.
Which is why we're here
and not in your office.
If you want to be extra-safe,
we can always move her interstate.
..someone tried to kill Janet
with a bomb.
There's no danger
to the rest of your staff.
Jack will provide watertight
security.
Not on my budget, I won't.
Fine! I'll formalise that
with the Police Minister.
Right now, getting Miss King back
to work should be our first priority.
We will not be intimidated!
Assuming Ms King agrees.
Janet?
Yeah, sure, I'll go back to work.
How long before I can be with Ash
and the kids?
We've got to complete
a full risk assessment.
Couple of weeks,
a month at the most.
Something's wrong.
Let it go.
No. Can't.
You ran the Blakely murder
trial.
Someone's making porn
at our beach house?
Yes.
Why should the automatic assumption
be that my father had something to
do with this? It could be anyone.
We believe the photo was taken
with a hidden camera.
The girl is Alex Moreno's daughter.
Her father was the child groomer,
the one Renmark acquitted.
The photographer?
Do you think our father
is a child pornographer?
It might not be your father.
It might be someone
associated with him.
This is what we're trying to
establish.
Renmark's judgements.
Can you look at them for me?
I've got to head out.
How are you?
Look specifically at
sexual offences against minors,
whether Renmark treats them
any differently.
I was going to pop my head in before, but
Tony said we should give you some space.
Richard.
How's Ash? Is she...
I'm just keeping track
of who's in and who's out.
Can you let me know when you'll be
going over to see Justice Renmark?
I wasn't planning
on seeing him at all.
Well, that is
a courageous decision.
Sorry, courageous?
We all know silence can
be interpreted as a sign
that one has something to hide.
I don't have anything to hide
about Janet and Erin.
I respect a man who's
willing to take that chance,
regardless of what his friends
and colleagues may think.
Alright? OK.
Can you stay on your man please,
Jack? Stay on your man.
Beautiful pass there, Connor.
Can you...
Um, I appreciate you seeing me.
Yeah. How are you?
Did you find out who did it?
Not for sure. Look, Maya, I just...
We're both involved in this somehow.
There's some sort of a connection,
so I need your help.
I've told you everything
that I know.
Have you? Because we had a
conversation in my office,
and I saw something in you,
some sort of a shift.
Was that the conversation when you
accused my father of being a
paedophile?
I know it's hard to come to terms
with the idea of your father doing
that sort of thing.
Do you think? I'm just trying to
make sense of this.
How can you be so on our side one
day, and then just so against us?
It's not a matter of being
for or against.
There are people trying to kill me.
And that's my dad's fault?
Oh, no, wait, he's dead,
so that makes it hard.
There's still a connection.
That is bullshit. It's bullshit.
I know I've asked you this before,
but please, if you know anything
at all about Alex Moreno,
you need to tell me.
Both our families are being attacked
by someone,
and I'm sure he has something
to do with it,
I just don't know what
his involvement is.
I can't help you. I can't help you.
Push him left, Jack, please.
OK, stay on your man, Connor.
This is not a good day for you.
I'll leave you to it.
Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
God, it's so good
to hear your voice.
You too.
Are you OK, safe?
Yeah, yeah, fine.
How are the kids?
Good. I mean, they're a bit ratty,
but they miss you.
So, where are you staying?
I'm not supposed to say.
No, me neither. I forgot.
Do they have any ideas yet
about who might have done this?
Not yet.
Do you have any ideas?
I thought I did, but I don't know.
So, what's the plan?
I mean, how long do we have to stay
in these places?
I don't know, Ash. I just...
I don't know.
Have you had dinner?
My minder bought me some Thai.
Nice?
Looks oily.
You should go to them.
They'll keep for a moment.
Ash, I'm so sorry about your job.
Oh God, Janet...
About everything.
About the way this has come out.
It'll be alright.
In the end, it will be alright.
I'd put the kids on, but the last
thing you need right now
is a burst eardrum.
I love you.
Me too.
And you'll see, it won't be long.
Terrific. Now to each other.
Big smiles. Yep.
Just relax for a second.
There's a champagne in the car.
I'll just be a couple of minutes.
The artist at work.
Yes.
So those details I gave you
about the real-estate agent
that handled the rental for the
beach house,
that all check out OK?
As far as I know.
So I rented a house and some creep
photographed my daughter.
We're the victims here, right?
That's the theory, yeah.
So what are you doing here?
You said,
on the night Steve Blakely died,
you drove down to Coogee,
walked your dog all by yourself.
Yeah, that's right.
Toll tags show us that
you do that trip pretty regularly.
When I can.
But on the night Blakely was
murdered, you didn't use the tollway.
I probably went a different way.
Yesterday, between 7 and 9pm,
where were you?
Why?
Just a straightforward question.
I've got an exhibition on at the
North Sydney Gallery of Modern Art.
It was my opening night yesterday.
I was doing a Q and A
in front of about 100 guests.
So can I get back to work now?
You have a think about which way
you drove down to Coogee.
You'd be amazed
what we can do these days
to prove which way a vehicle
travelled... or didn't travel.
I'm sorry about my behaviour
yesterday.
After I went home, I kept thinking
about what you said.
I appreciate that.
There you go.
You think my father was cooperating
with this Moreno person?
In some way, yes.
So if that's right,
there could be more people involved.
It's possible.
Maya?
There are some things that
happened to me when I was little.
There was a couple...
..the Nelsons.
They used to babysit us.
My mum and dad did
the same for their kids
when the Nelsons had something on.
Mr Nelson, Keith...
..did things to me.
How long ago was this?
I remember, the first time it
happened,
I was wearing my fairy-penguin
pyjamas.
They were still really new.
I got them for my seventh birthday,
so...
Mr Nelson, he was a friend of your
father's or...
I went to preschool with Becky,
his daughter.
Mum and Dad, they met them there,
and yeah, we were all really close
for a while.
I even called him Uncle Keith.
And you've never told anybody
about this?
I just wanted to forget it.
I mean, what point is there,
really, in...
..in digging all of these things up?
And then you said that stuff
about my dad...
..and I started wondering
about whether maybe he knew...
..because later, in my teens, Dad,
he looked after me a lot
and he taught me to be
really strong.
And now I just don't know...
..if that was 'cause he knew...
..or if it's just that he sensed
that I was really struggling.
I don't know.
Moreno rents Steven Blakely's
holiday house.
Moreno's daughter gets photographed
there by hidden cameras
probably installed by Blakely.
Now it turns out that Blakely's
daughter has been sexually assaulted
for years
by one of his best mates,
who is now a senior executive
in the public service.
It could be a coincidence.
Bullshit. We've got a
child-pornography ring
involving a prominent group
of people, with Steven Blakely
in the centre.
Things go wrong with his dying wife.
Suddenly he's facing jail.
His associates get nervous
that he might talk.
They try and shut him up. Possible?
It's possible.
I start wondering where Moreno was
on the night Blakely was killed,
and our car gets bombed.
There's your conspiracy.
Moreno has an alibi for that night.
And Moreno, Nelson -
no histories of violence.
God knows where
they'd get explosives.
They hired someone.
It's bloody hard to see how.
There's nothing in Moreno's phone
records or bank records
to back that up.
Nelson arranged it.
Janet, if I go to Terry Renner
with this, without any evidence,
he is going to call me crazy
and laugh in my face.
Then go over Renner's head.
Where I'll get the exact same
reaction, only without the laughter.
Keith Nelson is a highly respected
public servant.
Who's got a lot to lose.
Once he's charged, comes under
pressure, he'll want to make a deal.
He will have to name names.
But Janet's conspiracy theory does
sound far-fetched,
and Nelson does have friends
and contacts in the media.
Until we have some concrete
evidence, I suggest
it's just a sex crime
and we keep this discussion
to ourselves.
What?
How dare you.
Mr Nelson...
You're accusing me of things
that supposedly happened
15 years ago, without any evidence,
and you expect me
to take them seriously?
They're serious allegations.
15 years.
Maya Blakely was a child
at the time, a small child.
I understand.
It's a bloody witch-hunt.
The Blakelys are both dead.
You expect me to what?
Mr Nelson!
You leave me hanging.
Mr Nelson, are you refusing to
cooperate with this investigation?
I'm going to put the question
to you again.
Did you engage in sexual activity
with Maya Blakely when she was a
minor?
Never! Anybody who says I did
is a fucking liar.
Forensics are still
trawling through his computers,
but it's not looking promising.
However, we did find this
in his desk in a locked drawer -
a 32-GB USB stick.
Full of child porn?
Completely empty.
When I say empty,
I mean really empty.
Forensics can usually retrieve
images even when they've been
deleted,
but this has been scrubbed
using very sophisticated software.
So it's Nelson's word against Maya's.
Not quite.
In her statement, Maya described
an identifying mark on Nelson's
penis,
a birthmark
shaped like a map of England.
'I know it sounds strange,
but I remember thinking of the map
on the wall at school.'
That's your case. If Maya's right,
and he has a mark like that...
How do I find that out,
pants him in front of the jury?
Maybe you should get a search
warrant.
Can you get a warrant
for a man's undies?
It's got to be a court order,
I suppose.
Still 15 years old.
It makes it extremely difficult.
It's winnable.
If you're so passionate about it,
why aren't you running it?
Janet was the first one
to hear Maya's story.
Oh, so you're a witness.
I told her we'd put our second-best
person on it.
I'm flattered.
I hope you can stick around so I can
pick your brain as this evolves.
Now I'm flattered.
I might be just looking for someone
to share the blame
if it doesn't get up.
Now we just sit back and allow
things to take their course. Agreed?
Agreed.
Things only get to my desk
when the damage is done.
I can't make any difference at all.
I'm completely impotent.
Get away from her.
Get the fuck away from her!
That's what you did in Adelaide,
isn't it?
You're a filthy fucking rapist!
Here.
My letter of resignation.
I thought
I should make it easy for you.
Well, a perfectly honourable
course of action.
I thought so too.
I've made us all look terrible.
Well, you're barely an apprentice
at that pastime.
Janet's had a crack, Tracey's month
in court was a standout
and my performance
in the Vasilich appeal
was definitely a podium finish.
You made a mistake. We all do.
Learn from it.
I don't trust myself anymore.
Well, I trust you,
and I outrank you.
Consequently,
I decline to accept this.
In fact, a brief's just come in -
sexual assault, minor, 15 years old.
Please, Tony, if I'm staying,
at least transfer me out
of Sex Crimes.
To what, Homicide? First grisly
murder that comes in,
you'll be begging
to get out of that, too.
Next thing, you're a wasted talent
doing drink-driving
and contested speed fines.
What you did,
you did out of passion.
We need more of that around here,
not less.
You'll hear from Tracey
about that brief.
You make sure it goes to trial.
Ah, Richard.
You going in?
Yeah.
What did you, um...
Oh, nothing.
One hug, that's all I saw.
Completely innocent.
Be careful, though,
he's a tricky bastard.
So, Mr Stirling.
You've worked with Miss King
and Miss O'Shaughnessy
a number of times, is that correct?
I suppose so.
Is it a matter of supposition?
No, it's a fact.
And how would you describe
their relationship?
Professional, very professional.
Others I've spoken to have said
they're extremely close.
Well yes, extremely close
in a professional sort of way.
I mean, friendly, you know?
Just friendly?
No, I guess...
Erin virtually delivered
Janet's babies,
so maybe more than just friendly.
Delivering someone's babies,
I'd call that intimate.
I suppose so.
Obviously, at one level,
it's extremely intimate.
It's an intimate experience,
birthing babies.
If you do that with someone,
it inevitably gives rise to
a kind of intimacy, obviously.
So initially you described their
relationship as professional,
but now you'd like to revise that
to 'extremely intimate.'
You went and talked to Renmark
So what?
As long as you told him the truth,
there's no need to apologise.
Is there?
Of course I told the truth,
but it's all about emphasis,
and my emphasis was less than ideal.
You worry too much. Anyway, on the
subject of Renmark...
Yes. I went through all
his old judgements,
everything since he went to the
bench. My office? OK.
I didn't find anything unusual
in the sexual assaults,
in that they conform
to the overall trends.
But it's the trends themselves
that are bizarre.
I've graphed it all by year.
In his first few years at the bench,
there's no strong trend.
Acquittal-to-conviction ratio
is about average.
But then, the Criminal Procedure Act
is amended,
massively increasing the number
of judge-only trials,
and suddenly, he's acquitting just
about everyone.
I thought he was pro-prosecution.
That came later. In the first few
years after the Act was amended,
- he was the exact opposite.
- Your interpretation?
For a lazy judge hearing a case
without a jury,
the easiest option is to acquit.
There's no appeal, so the decision's
less likely to come under scrutiny.
You don't spend hours
drafting a judgement.
You're home for an early dinner.
Exactly.
What's interesting is that then,
his record changes again.
Suddenly he's convicting everyone
that comes before him.
So there's nearly a 100%
conviction rate
for the last 18 months
until Moreno.
It could be explained away as
a statistical variation.
It's more than that. It has to be.
What do you mean by weird?
How can we know it's weird unless
we compare judgements with evidence?
You want me to trawl through the
trial transcripts in detail,
look for any specific
irregularities?
I know it's a huge and tedious job.
Tedious? I already made a start,
just out of personal interest.
At the very least, it suggests a
judge who's pursuing a personal
agenda.
That's not an agenda, that's
corruption.
How'd you get onto this, Janet?
Danny Novak made a comment
about Renmark's decision in Moreno.
What is it that Mr Novak had to say?
It was extremely vague, but he implie
the result in the case was dodgy.
Why tell you?
He knew you had him in the frame
for Steven Blakely's murder.
He said he had nothing to do with it,
and suggested I find out
how Moreno was acquitted.
And you just believed him?
I wasn't sure at first,
then I asked you guys
to look into Moreno,
next thing I know, my car blows up
outside my fucking house
and nearly kills my entire family.
So yes, funnily enough,
I am inclined to believe him.
Let's just assume for a moment
that Renmark's decisions weren't
based on the evidence in front of him
but to please someone else.
Was someone paying him
or blackmailing him?
A senior New South Wales
public official corrupted?
Not entirely without precedent.
Who gains by having all these idiots
convicted?
I'm sure the police are
on top of the list.
Or a policeman.
Since we're playing hypotheticals,
sure.
Back in the '80s, we would have
been the number-one suspects,
but if anyone in Crime Command
had a judge in their pockets
these days,
even Steve Blakely,
I would have heard a whisper about
it somewhere down the line.
Fair point.
So forget us.
Let's ask the important question -
who are the really good corrupters?
Organised crime. But wouldn't they
want their mates acquitted?
Mates? They dog each other
all the time.
The Danny Novaks of this world
want to eliminate enemies,
get rid of competition.
Well, politically sensitive
business, going after a judge.
Sure is, which is why I'm gonna need
something very concrete
before I launch into
a formal investigation.
When I get it, I'll be back.
Janet,
thanks for coming to me with this.
See? You're walking into court, just
like you've done a million times.
No-one's giving you a second glance.
You'll be fine.
I feel like a kid going back to clas
after detention.
You can handle it.
When it gets down to the
nitty-gritty, just stay detached.
Just deal with the facts of the
case, that's all.
If you think your job's bad,
remember,
when you win this court order,
I've got to watch a guy
get his dick photographed.
I think we know who's got second
prize in this one today.
Given Miss Blakely's clear
recollection
of such an identifying mark,
we make application to the court
to grant an order
under the Forensic Procedures Act,
requiring Mr Nelson
to undergo an intimate bodily
examination, specifically
of his penis.
Your Honour, Mr Nelson is an
upstanding citizen and family man
whose reputation has already been
severely damaged
by these allegations.
Now he's expected to submit
to an unnecessary and humiliating
bodily exam
without any reasonable basis.
It'll be carried out by a qualified
forensic medical officer,
no more humiliating than
an ordinary trip to the doctor.
I'm not sure what relationship my
learned friend has with his doctor,
but mine does not take photographs
of my genitalia.
The complaints Miss Blakely made
relate to events which took place a
long time ago.
It is simply impossible to assess
the veracity of her account
without the examination we request,
something which Mr Nelson should
also welcome
if he is indeed innocent of the
charges.
Yes, point taken, Mr Crown.
These allegations are serious.
And consequently, I grant the order,
as specified in the Act.
Hey. Can I sit?
Does your mate want to join us?
No, he likes standing.
Hey, well done. They wheeled out
the big guns and you didn't flinch.
Come on. Sinclair or no Sinclair,
if I couldn't handle
a warrant application,
we'd really be in the shit,
wouldn't we?
Andy.
Yes, mate?
Fresh off the press -
medical officer's report on Nelson.
Yeah. Um...
'The left side of the penis
presents with a 28- by 13-...'
'28- by 13-millimetre...
..laterally oriented
capillary vascular malformation,
commonly called a strawberry
birthmark.'
What about the rest?
What about the shape?
If I hung this next to my desk,
people would think I was
planning a trip to the old country.
We're on.
Yeah. No, great. Thanks, mate.
Yep.
Hey, can we get a copy of this
sent straight over to the DPP?
Mark it, 'Attention
of Owen Mitchell.'
Ando. Got your mate
Alex Morino here.
Moreno.
Says he wants to make a statement
about Steven Blakely's murder.
Alright.
That night, I didn't go to Coogee.
So you are retracting
your previous statement?
Yeah.
But if I tell you the truth,
and I can back it up,
no-one needs to know, do they?
Where were you, Alex?
A brothel? Bullshit. At exactly the
time Blakely was killed.
So he was previously too coy
to bring this up,
preferred to be a suspect
in a murder investigation?
The place is called Barely Legal.
It specialises in Asian girls
that look under-age.
Not a venue one attends with pride.
His story checks out
a hundred per cent?
The girl he was with remembers him,
and there's credit-card records,
a secret card he uses
for special occasions.
So where does this leave us?
I think the expression is, buggered.
His story on the rental
of Blakely's house is solid.
It's rubbish.
But it's solid rubbish
now that he's got an alibi
for the murder.
He could have hired someone,
a co-conspirator may have done it.
We have been all over this guy,
and there is no evidence of that.
On the attempted murder of my family,
no evidence there either?
Terry Renner is looking into the
organised-crime angle.
This has nothing to do with a drug
dealer I put away five years ago!
I started scratching at Moreno,
and they came straight back at me.
There is not one scrap of proof,
Janet, that there is any they.
It's because your people are too
incompetent to find it.
Janet, none of these theories
are any use unless we have proof,
and the best way to do that
is still with
getting Keith Nelson committed
to trial and getting him to talk.
Now, step back and allow that trial
to take its course.
Miss King,
could I bend your ear for a sec?
I was wondering, my brother's got a
small legal problem
with a job contract at the moment.
I thought, if you wanted a bit of a
break from the big stuff,
and you didn't mind helping,
of course...
Can't, sorry. I don't know that much
about commercial law.
No problem.
Sorry.
I don't get why you want to do this.
Thanks for your support.
I'm saying this for your sake.
I don't think
you want me to get over all this.
If you want to get over it,
go to a psychiatrist, don't go to
court.
Lawyers always bully you
into going to court, and then what?
They're going to call you a liar,
they'll pick apart every mistake
that you make,
go through everything that happened,
whatever did happen.
Well, it happened!
OK, you know what? It happened.
You don't think it happened?
I don't know. I didn't see it!
It happened! Don't touch me!
Going to court isn't going to help
you get over it.
Hey, are we OK here?
Yeah, we're fine.
Are you alright?
He thinks that you're making me
do this
so that you can have a big win.
What do you think?
Come on.
Miss Blakely,
have you read your statement?
I have.
Is it true and correct?
Yes.
I tender the statement of Miss
Blakely in evidence.
No further questions, Your Honour.
The statement of Miss Maya Blakely
will be Exhibit A.
Miss Blakely, the events
you describe in your statement
allegedly took place
between 1998 and 2001.
That's right.
At that time, how would you describe
the relationship
between Mr Keith Nelson
and your family?
He was a family friend.
Your parents trusted him,
didn't they?
Objection. Your Honour, Miss
Blakely's parents are deceased.
She can't be expected to say what
their precise attitude
towards Mr Nelson was,
given she was only seven years old
at the time.
I'll restate the question.
Your parents regularly
relied upon Mr and Mrs Nelson
to babysit yourself and
your brother, didn't they?
That's right.
And they wouldn't have kept doing
that
if they had the slightest reason
to think
that there was anything untoward
going on, would they?
No, no.
They wouldn't have done it
if you or your brother
had ever expressed any qualms
whatsoever
about the Nelsons, would they?
Probably not.
Yet the arrangement lasted
for three years,
only ending when the Nelsons moved
interstate for a time,
isn't that right?
Yes.
You know the reason why,
don't you?
Because I never said anything.
And you are now 23.
Yet even as an adult,
an educated, professional woman,
you never said anything,
not for 15 years,
because nothing ever happened,
did it?
When I was a child,
I was really scared.
You were scared, of Mr Nelson?
Yes.
Marion Nelson, Mr Nelson's wife,
also submitted a statement
regarding her recollections,
and she says she thought
you were very fond of her husband.
She says, in fact,
and I will quote her. She says -
'I rather thought Maya
had a crush on Keith.'
Is that the way
you usually show fear?
I was nice to him because I thought
that I had done something wrong.
And I thought that that was his way
of punishing me.
OK?
I'm told you did
a wonderful job in there.
He was staring at me the whole
time, just like he used to.
Now he's been committed to trial,
thanks to you.
I think Drew might have been right,
because I feel a lot worse now.
I was happy. I'd packed all this
away and I'd gotten on with my life.
Everything they say that you're
supposed to do, I had done it.
Had you?
It will help, Maya,
when he's convicted.
I can't do that again.
Yes, you can.
You haven't stopped him yet.
There's still the trial.
I can't do that again.
Please, you can't back out now,
for your sake.
I can't.
Don't let him beat you again.
What else can I do?
I'm going to have to nolle it.
No.
Our case is built on Maya's account.
Without her, I'm dead in the water.
We can't let Nelson
just walk out of remand.
Let's load him up, then.
I'll make a call, get a kilo of dope
found in his pocket.
That should fix the prick.
We think he's got
some other information,
about me and the car bomb.
That explains a bit.
You spoke to Maya. Do you think
she's going to change her mind?
No, but Nelson's been committed for
trial.
We can buy some time,
police can put pressure on him.
Maybe he'll give something up.
How are we going to buy some time?
The case against him has fallen
down.
The minute Nelson finds out...
What if he doesn't?
You mean what if we don't
notify the court
that Maya's withdrawn from the case?
We have to, don't we? So far, we're
the only ones who know about it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just
a hiccup, witness with cold feet.
Nothing to bother the court with.
Oh, God, Janet.
If Maya doesn't change her mind,
fine, we'll let them know...
..a few days before the trial date.
You weren't here, right?
You didn't hear a thing.
Going now.
I'm just asking for a bit
more time - a week, maybe two.
Yep, you got it.
You're leaving early?
I'm off to get
my fertility results.
Oh. They wouldn't tell you on the
phone?
They said I had to come in.
What's the worst it can be?
Even if I can't have kids,
I'll always have my job, hey?
Has Andy done his?
Mm-hm. 48 million sperm per
millilitre,
with 90% classed as Grade-A, showing
highly progressive motility.
I bet he's learned that off
by heart.
Plans on getting a tattoo of it
next week.
Listen, Tracey spoke to me today.
Considering you helped me out
with Collard,
she asked if I wanted to take Clarke
off you.
Oh.
Is that OK?
I guess someone's got to finish it.
Looks like that someone's me.
It's completely revolting.
I'll bet.
Don't look at the photos.
You don't have to.
The whole thing's pretty much
wound up anyway.
Just got to wait for Mrs Moreno
to get back from overseas,
get her into court
to prove that Ruby's under-age.
Tracey's exact words were,
'I'm only giving you matters
that will be quickly resolved,
because I doubt you'll be around
long'.
She's the absolute master
of genteel malice.
Years of practice. I've got to go.
You'll be fine. Ring me.
The good news is,
there's no sign of any
physiological fertility issue.
Thanks. You hear about this
sort of thing dragging on for years.
I can't rule that out, I'm afraid.
Sorry?
Given that you've been trying for
so long and the efforts you've gone
to,
we would class you as
having a fertility problem.
But you just said...
I said we'd found
no physiological symptoms.
My diagnosis for you is
idiopathic infertility.
It's infertility with no obvious
physical cause.
So, what can you do for that?
Unfortunately, very little.
Even so, I would encourage you to
keep trying.
Hi.
We haven't really talked, since...
No.
So, how's it going?
I mean, Ash and the kids,
are they...
As well as can be expected.
And you?
I stopped watching the news.
That helped.
As long as I don't google 'DPP sex
scandal',
life is almost back to normal.
I don't suppose you've heard
anything
about when Renmark's going
to decide it?
No. I've had other things
on my mind.
Of course.
My minder has to knock off
in an hour
and I have to be safely
locked away.
You bet. I should go home too.
OK.
Ready to roll?
I can't go back to that place
tonight.
Not a lot of choice, I'm afraid.
I just want to see my kids and Ash.
I don't even know where
you've got them.
Somewhere safe,
and if you want to keep them safe,
we need to follow the rules.
I haven't seen them
since it happened.
Maybe I can arrange for a visit
tomorrow night after work, OK?
If you feel like company,
you can have a friend over,
as long as they check out with
security. Tonight.
Thanks.
There's only one thing worse than
being talked about,
and that's not being talked about.
Didn't do Oscar Wilde much good,
did it?
You know, this place isn't as bad
as you said.
OK, it's worse.
Still, it's safe, I guess.
Hence the name, safe house.
It's a prison.
Every minute of the day, I have
this escort that ferries me around
from here to work and back again.
Ash asked me
when I thought it might end,
as if there was some
obvious end point, but...
There is. They'll catch the guy
who did this.
Will they?
What if they don't?
How does it end then?
I mean, we have small children.
When do we decide that
it's 100 per cent safe for them?
A month?
A year?
Ten years?
When I was seven, my family
moved to Sydney from Perth.
My dad gave us this lecture
about how we had to treat it
as an adventure,
and how he knew us kids would
make the most of the opportunities.
My sister did fine,
but I don't know.
I just got off on the wrong foot
at school.
I didn't make any friends.
Every lunchtime,
I would wander around the playground
by myself.
But all I could think about was
how I had let my parents down...
..and wasted the opportunity
they'd given me.
Loneliness and shame.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
No?
I have been blessed
with this perfect family,
and I put them all in danger.
Janet, that's not your fault.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is.
They nearly died because of me.
That's all that matters.
You don't have to feel alone.
I'm here.
You're not alone.
Erin.
Sorry. I...
I think it'd be better if you go.
I'll call you a taxi, yeah?
No, no, no.
I'm fine.
I'll see you later.
Excuse me, Owen?
You prosecuted
Crown against Gianopolous, 2011.
Yeah, murder case.
Small-time drug dealer fired
into a car,
claimed he didn't know anyone
was in it.
In Judge Renmark's judgement,
he cites Crown against Sharp,
implies the defence relied
on the case.
No. The rule in Sharp
didn't apply to the facts.
No, it doesn't.
Hey, Richard?
I'm going for silk right now.
I certainly hope
no-one's appealing the decision.
No, no, it's not that.
Something about Renmark?
Yes, I'm just doing some research
for Janet. Thanks for your help.
I can't wait to see you, Ash.
I'm leaving right now.
OK, bye.
Sorry, Janet,
I need to speak to you.
OK. Deep breaths, deep breaths.
He's clever. He chooses his
opportunities carefully,
twists things
just as much as he needs to.
Renmark?
Unless you're really looking,
you wouldn't bat an eyelid.
That's the clever part.
He's cooking his judgements?
Like a judicial souffle.
Can you prove this?
It's all here, the concrete stuff -
quoting obiter dicta that don't
exist,
distorting facts in old cases that
no-one's read.
Except you.
You could put it down to sloppiness,
but there's this case
Owen appeared in
where Renmark has completely
misrepresented
the defence's argument.
There's only one way to interpret
it,
and that's as an attempt
to subvert justice.
Thank you.
One way or another, they're all
connected - Blakely, Nelson, Moreno.
And Renmark?
Especially Renmark.
Now you've got the evidence.
Yes.
All those dodgy statements,
they relate to sexual assault?
No, they're all sorts of things.
Look, I don't claim to know exactly
what's going on,
but you needed something concrete
before you could start
a formal investigation,
and here it is.
Thanks.
Who else knows about this?
Andy and one of our solicitors,
Richard Stirling.
You trust him?
Absolutely.
That's it, no-one else?
No-one.
And the file?
Two copies. This one,
and there's one back in my office.
OK. I want you to go back to your
office and I want you to lock it up.
I'll talk to Andy. I want you to
talk to this Stirling, tell him to
shut up.
If we're going to go after
a district-court judge,
no-one else can know anything,
otherwise we won't get anywhere.
OK.
You realise this could sink us both?
I can't go much deeper. Sorry if I'm
dragging you down with me.
Thanks, Jack.
I need to go back to the DPP
for a moment.
We're already 30 minutes late.
I'll be quick.
Miss King?
What dedication, working so late.
And you, I presume.
I was just congratulating Tony
on how cooperative everyone's been.
I've finished taking evidence.
Now I just have to write my
recommendation.
Well, I look forward to reading it.
I heard you've been reviewing
some of my judgements.
Did you?
I finished my career with an
impeccable reputation,
and I stand by my record.
I wonder if you'll be able
to say the same.
Is that supposed to intimidate me?
It's supposed to put you
on notice.
Of what?
My findings could be very damning,
but I'm offering you
one last chance.
Resign now
and go back to private practice,
and I will tone down my report,
and you might be able
to salvage something of your career.
I'm not going anywhere.
Then we should await the decision
of the Bar Association.
Goodnight, Miss King.
Pleasant dreams.
Hey.
On the right. Up top.
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
I don't even know your first name.
Robert.
Friends call me Bob.
Thank you, Bob.
Where was it? Taped up,
underneath the desk.
We found this.
Over 84,000 photos.
Fucking hell.
You are days away from facing a
criminal record
and you have the gall to stand there
and tell me what's appropriate?
Can't you make it lunchtime?
That won't be nearly so obvious.
Alright, yep, 9am.
No, not on the phone.
Can you talk to him? You used to
work with him, please. Please!
Please just give him a day or two
I know it'll work out better!
I'm not running this prosecution to
find out who bombed your car!
What if it was blackmail?
That would mean that Owen was the one
controlling everything.
Exactly.
What have we got?
Not sure.
Shit.