Rescue Special Ops (2009–2011): Season 1, Episode 6 - Building Site - full transcript
The team are called to a building site after a crane driver causes debris to fall after he crashes into the building. Michelle becomes overzealous on the site and finds that Ed Fraser's interference is not helping. But when she discovers that her lover Ian Johnson has feet of clay she ends up turning to Dean for comfort. Jordan becomes involved with the site's Health & Safety Coordinator Abigail and finds himself drawn into a web of sex, lies and sabotage. Meanwhile, Chase and Heidi's Rescue Truck is stolen and in order to get it back Vince makes a deal which involves Heidi going on a date with Crispy, a fire-fighter. But a leak to the newspapers about the stolen truck puts the unit under intense scrutiny.
(upbeat rock music)
(welding torch whizzing)
(dredger humming)
- Abigail!
That chute is taking too long.
- Harry's shift finished
20 minutes ago, Steve.
I had to clear his overtime
with the union rep.
- Harry is the union rep.
I'm paying you to get the job done,
not sit around and paint your nails.
- How you doing up there, Harry?
- Yeah, nearly done.
- Nice pair.
Are they poisonous?
- Nope, just a lot bigger
than your little snake.
Put your hard hat on.
- Don't you just love it
when the safety officer
talks dirty, fellas?
(men laughing)
- Harry, watch your bucket, mate.
Harry, you're too close to
the chute with the bucket!
(bricks crumbling)
Move!
(sirens whirring)
Okay, no worries.
- [Vince] Scaffold
collapse at building site
with unknown number trapped.
Boom lift damaged with one man trapped
and he's not responding to radio calls.
- [Dean] Steve, Jo, get
these people out of here now.
Dean Gallagher, rescue special operations.
- [Abigail] Abigail.
- How many people under the debris?
- Four workers unaccounted for.
- Who's in charge?
- Steve, he was on his way up
to tie off the scaffolding when he froze.
- A construction site foreman
who's afraid of heights?
- Well, I'll drop a
line down from the top,
pick him up on the way through.
- I'll get some guys
securing the scaffolding
with slings and hildy bolts,
we'll a couple of hand winches
to get it under tension.
- [Male] Yep.
- What's up, what's up?
- Oh, it's Harry.
He's stuck up in the bucket.
We've gotta get him down.
All that scaff's wrecked the hydraulics.
The controls are frozen.
That bucket isn't going anywhere.
- Hey, Jordan, check out
the construction chick.
- [Dean] Lara, what do you think?
- We can get up into that building.
We can slingshot a rope down,
set up a gondola directly over the bucket.
- Okay, do it.
Jordan, I want you to work with Abigail
to clear the site of
non-emergency personnel.
Heidi, we could be in for
debris falls, set up a hot zone.
- What, 25 meters?
- [Dean] Make it 50.
- [Heidi] I need everyone to move back.
- Can you tell us why the
scaffolding collapsed?
- I need you to get back behind the tape.
- [Newslady] When can
you give us a statement?
- When I've spoken to my unit leader.
- [Male] Okay back behind the tape.
- I want air shores to prop up debris
as well as high-pressure airbags.
Small movements only.
The scaff's like a house of cards.
It shifts, the whole thing could collapse.
- We've got one over here.
Can you hear me, sir?
Yeah, I've got a pulse.
I need help over here.
- [Dean] Jo, get in there.
- [Chase] Steve, my name's Chase.
You're gonna be alright, mate.
- No way.
Move out.
- [Chase] It's all right.
I'm just gonna clip you in.
Look, trust me, you're
gonna be a lot safer
once I got my harness.
- [Steve] Leave me alone!
- [Chase] Look, this
scaff's really unstable.
- Chase, get a move on.
I want that guy off the scaff now.
- [Chase] Going as fast as I can.
- [Michelle] What's the sit rep?
- We've got four under the rubble,
got one stuck on the scaffolding,
got one in the bucket.
- A couple of the guys
said they smelled gas.
I got an O2 reading of 19.8, LEL's at 1.6.
- 1.6, we don't have time to
worry about small gas leaks.
Don't worry it.
- All right, stop the ground rescue.
- Michelle, it's a low read.
- I want everybody standing
by with BAs, no hydraulics.
- Your call, your call.
All right, listen up, listen up!
Got a gas leak in there somewhere.
LELs are at 1.6.
All right, everyone
stand by with your BAs.
Set up some ram fence.
Also, get oxygen to the people
under the rubble where you can.
Move!
(lively rock music)
♪ Real dark and dirty ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
♪ Gonna get a little ♪
♪ Dirty ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty ♪
- Six potential casualties.
Yeah, I need another
ambulance on stand-by.
- [Michelle] Vince,
this is Michelle, over.
- Hold on, will you, how hard can it be?
Yeah, Michelle, I'm here.
- We've detected gas on-site.
I need you to activate
hazmat to this location.
I also want to evacuate the
surrounding office buildings.
- Where's the LEL at?
- 1.6.
- A little on the low side.
Maybe you should wait for hazmat
before you evacuate people's offices.
- Vince, I'm on the ground, you're not.
I'm gonna alert the senior
police, then I'll call Ed Frazer.
I want you to let CO Co
know what I've decided.
- Your call, boss.
- Tony, mate!
Tony!
Talk to me, mate.
- Hey, mate!
Oi! Oi!
Buddy, we gotta get you outta here.
- My mates are under there.
- I know they're under there.
There's gas leaking.
We gotta get you out of here.
Buddy, mate. - Oh, my back off!
- Stay there, Waz.
Get off me.
- Hey, hey, hey, calm down.
Hey, fellas, fellas!
Come on, mate, calm down.
We're gonna get your buddies.
- My mates, under there.
- It's okay, we're gonna grab him.
- You need to let go.
- Nah.
- Look at me, look at me.
Look at me. - Nope.
- Steve, I need you to let go.
I've got you.
We're not going anywhere.
Just hold on, all right?
Just hold on tight, okay?
Let go of this one.
- I dunno, it's hard, mate.
Just try to take it easy
and breathe normally.
- [Lara] Dean, this is Lara, over.
- Got this?
- Yeah.
- Go ahead, Lara.
- Yeah, I can see the lift driver.
He's definitely out for the count.
- [Dean] Yeah, copy that.
- I've also got a good idea
how the scaffold came away
from the building so easily.
Looks like some of the anchor
bolts have been removed.
- Did she just say that some of the bolts
have been removed from the scaff?
- Abigail, I need you out
of the hot zone now, please.
Just get that line set up for me, Lara.
(soft rock music)
- Here it comes.
- Who are they?
- Evacuated office workers.
Michelle LeTourneau,
special operations rescue.
I've ordered the evacuation
of the surrounding buildings
as a precaution in case the gas blows.
- All right, if the levels go up
we're gonna need more BAs
if you wanna get more
guys in under the rubble.
- I'll get onto Vince, get more BAs.
- It's 324 Park Street.
I need the gas shut
off at that site, mate.
- [Michelle] We need more
BA units down here, Vince.
- Yeah, Michelle, I'm
trying to turn the gas off.
- [Michelle] Well, keep trying.
We still need more BAs
and another ambulance.
- That next available ambulance
is coming my way, all right?
We got a deal.
Call you back.
Ed, how you doing?
- I was having a yum cha in Chinatown
when Michelle called me with the news.
- We've evacuated three office buildings.
- Mm.
I've just had a call from
the premier's office.
There's a lot of very
pissed-off employers.
At the very least, she
should've waited for hazmat.
- Gas could be coming
from a crimp in the pipe.
It causes a build-up of pressure.
It was a judgment call.
- Did you agree with her?
I didn't think so.
I want you on the scene.
- Trying to get the gas shut off.
I need to be here to coordinate.
- No, no, look, central
operations can take over.
We need a cool head down there.
- Delivery for Michelle LeTourneau.
(soft rock music)
- All right, guys, ready to launch.
- [Dean] All right, Lara, all right.
Good work, that's it, that's it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's it.
You're right over it, just lower it down.
- [Lara] Harry, can you hear me?
- [Dean] That's the way,
you're right on top.
- [Lara] Gonna pull you back here.
Oh, that's the way.
Down you go, okay.
- Lara, what's the condition
of the lift operator?
- Unconscious with no pulse.
Gonna start CPR.
- Yeah, all right, look,
Chase is almost done.
Want me to send him to help?
- Nope.
It's too crammed up here for three,
I have to manage by myself.
- [Male] Copy that, out.
Dean and Jordan, get a move on.
- You be right under there?
- Yep.
Can you hear me, sir?
Can you tell me where you're hurt?
What about your legs, mate?
Can you feel your legs?
Jordan, I need a medical
kit and a spine board.
Easy does it.
(pipes clanging)
- [Jordan] Heidi, you all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.
- What is she doing?
Abigail, what are you doing?
Stop!
- [Jordan] Heidi's all
right, mate, still unstable.
- Jordan, get her out of there.
- Abigail!
Abigail, stop there!
Abigail, stop!
Stop!
We gotta get off this
scaff, it's too unstable.
Stop, Abigail!
- Jordan, that scaff is unstable.
- [Jordan] Abigail, stop!
- I need to check something.
- Hold on! Gotcha!
Just grab on, just hold onto me.
It's all right, we'll get you up.
One, two, three.
We've got to get out of here, come on.
- Clear the site!
Clear the site!
Clear the site!
- What were you doing up here?
- I was just trying to get
a look at the anchor bolts.
- You all right, Jordan?
- Yeah, yeah, we're okay.
We're okay.
- What the hell was all that about?
- I had to prove something.
- Prove what?
- This wasn't an accident.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- Gonna need a defibrillator
ready on the ground.
Still no resps, no pulse.
I'm gonna have to do CPR on the way down.
- [Male] PVM's increasing.
We need to locate the
meter and shut it down.
- [Male] It's down this way.
(monitors beeping)
(gas pipes squealing)
- [Male] Gas leak is now isolated.
- Thanks, mate.
- Let's go!
- [Female] Copy that, lifting.
- [Male] Gas is sorted.
- [Dean] All right, the gas is clear.
Gas is clear, get the quick gut in there.
Come on, move.
- What was the problem?
- A small leak.
Simple twist of a valve sorted it.
Taken a bit of time to locate it,
perhaps a lot of this
would've been avoided.
- [Female] In position
and starting to lower.
(siren whirring)
- What are you doing here?
- Brought the BAs down myself.
Not that you need them now.
- Okay, all right.
His pulse is thready, he's cyanotic.
- Yep.
- Okay.
All right, get the spine board in.
Come on, guys.
That's the way.
Get him on it.
- And lift.
- Might wanna get these checked out.
I found them in the bucket.
They might be in his system.
Okay?
- This is all your doing.
You could've bloody killed someone.
- My doing?
You're the safety officer.
- Hey, hey, hey, whoa!
- He's trying to get rid of me,
make it look like I can't do my job.
- Yeah, you obviously can't.
Don't try and pin this bloody mess on me!
- Just take it easy, mate.
You okay?
Just calm down.
Might get you looked at, eh?
(chainsaw screeching)
- All right, I'm through!
Hang in there, mate.
Have you out of there in a second.
Heidi, come in.
What are you doing here?
- [Vince] Heard you were
overworked and undermanned.
- Overworked and underpaid, more like it.
Heidi, keep talking to him.
Get some oxygen into him.
- Yep.
- You all right?
- [Heidi] Mate, we're just gonna
get you out of here in a sec, okay?
- The snake thing,
Chinese horoscope, yeah?
Year of the Snake.
What's that mean?
- It means my intuition guides me.
- So that's your intuition saying
that this wasn't an accident?
- Steve's been gunning for me for ages,
removing safety barriers,
damaging protective equipment.
- Why?
- To get me sacked.
I reported him for unsafe
demolition a while back.
WorkCover closed us
down, did a safety audit.
- So you're saying this whole thing's
aimed at getting you?
- I am the safety officer.
It doesn't reflect well on me, does it?
- [Chase] How you doing?
Leave you to it.
- [Male] Mate, take over.
Got him?
- Hey, hey, hey, mate.
Stay away, stay away.
- [Heidi] Get out of here, mate.
- He's my buddy.
- Constable, can you look after him?
- Mark, you know this wasn't my fault.
- [Newslady] Are you gonna
give us a statement now?
- We still have one man under the rubble.
We have completed a
successful high-line rescue
of the boom lift operator.
- [Male Reporter] What
caused the accident?
- That is for WorkCover to determine.
- So it was your decision
to evacuate the buildings?
- Yes, it was.
But the gas leak's been
contained now, hasn't it?
- Yes, it has.
- I was told it was a small leak.
Do you think your level
of response was warranted?
- It was the right course of action.
That's it for today.
(upbeat pop music)
- Jordan's a bit of a
dark horse, ain't he?
- Huh?
- Did you see him with
the construction chick
he pulled off the scaff?
She'd eat him alive.
Speaking of which, I
could murder a lamb kebab.
- You want one?
- Oh, thanks.
- No, no, it's all right.
- Ta.
Hey, Chase!
No onions on mine.
Chase!
Chase, no onions on mine.
- Yeah, cool.
- No onions on the second.
(car breaks squealing)
- Er, Dean, little problem.
- Good luck.
- Thanks.
So am I gonna face the music or are you?
- Nothing to do with me, I was
in the shop buying us kebabs.
- Crap.
- [Answer Machine] You've
called Detective Ian Johnson,
leave a message.
- I just got your special
delivery and they are gorgeous.
Think I will have to show
you my appreciation tonight.
(male clears throat)
Same place, eight o'clock, okay bye.
- Harry Willis, the boom lift operator,
just died in heart surgery.
It looks like amphetamine use
might've contributed to his condition.
Nice flowers.
- Your decision to come to
the site today, was it yours?
Ed Frazer turned up.
He suggested it.
- Why?
- To alleviate the pressure
you were under, I suppose.
- I am the head of a rescue unit.
The job comes with pressure.
- Maybe he thought you overreacted
to the situation slightly.
- How did I overreact?
- Well, you evacuated
three office buildings
over a whiff of gas.
I'll get back to you.
- Vince, I'm sorry.
- Don't say a word, walk down the stairs.
Don't turn around, keep going.
- Vince, I'm really sorry.
- Yeah!
- Chase was in the kebab shop
and I didn't want onions on
mine and he couldn't hear me,
so I just got out of the patrol.
- Just left a fully equipped rescue truck
with the keys in it.
- Yeah, for, like, two minutes.
- Two seconds is too long.
- I know, I'm sorry.
- So you keep saying.
- Who are you calling?
- Davo!
Vince.
Any luck with that stolen patrol yet?
No, no, I don't want
it official, all right?
The keys were left in it, okay?
Yeah, ha-ha.
Well, are you gonna help me out or what?
Come on, mate, how am I gonna
get the fireys to do that?
All right, hold on.
- Vince.
- Crispy!
Marchello.
I need you to give the cops a weekend
down at that beach house you
blokes keep at the coast.
Well, how about I give
you the private lounge
at the Esquire Club?
Yeah?
Plus, what do you mean?
Eh?
Well, which one do you mean?
The blonde one, Lara, engaged.
The cute ranga!
Done.
Her name's Heidi.
Yeah.
It'll have to be a restaurant.
That's one with tablecloths,
waiters and shit.
Yeah?
Yeah, pick her up at seven.
Yep, see ya.
Davo, I got you the firey's
beach house for the weekend.
Just get me back that patrol, yeah?
Righto.
- Vince, can you please tell
me you didn't hook me up
on a date with some guy called Crispy?
- You lost the truck, you
suffer the consequences.
- So, the chick with the
tat, was she hot or what?
- Too hot for you, pal.
A woman like that would
eat you for breakfast.
- Oh, and you reckon you could handle her?
If I'm breakfast, you're
a between-meals snack.
- Yeah?
Well, you'd be one of
those low-carb diet drinks.
- You're like a piece of
celery dipped in Philly.
- You'd be a cough lolly.
- You'd be a Tic-Tac.
- Abigail.
- No way.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- You gonna call her?
- She reckons what happened
today wasn't an accident.
- Yeah, the guy in the boom
lift was amped to the eyeballs.
- Nah, not that.
She reckons the accident's aimed at her.
You know, like someone's out to get her.
- So she's nuts.
- Tell me you wouldn't go there.
- Mate, no woman's worth an ice pick
in the middle of the night.
- Ah, the stolen patrol, right?
- Yeah, all because I don't like onions.
I shudder to think what someone
called Crispy looks like.
Who's called Crispy?
- Awfully scared by the sound of it.
- [Heidi] I don't think I can
go through with this, Jordan.
- [Jordan] You'll be right.
(horn honking)
- Here goes my integrity.
Or I could just suck it
up, take one for the team.
Night.
You must be Crispy.
Hi, I'm Heidi.
- Abigail?
- Thank you.
- Jordan Zwitkowski.
Would you like to hang out tonight?
Coming to a building site is
not what I meant by a date.
You know, I was thinking dinner, a movie.
- Look, I went to the
hospital and saw Harry's wife.
They'll do an autopsy, but they reckon
he was high on speed when he collapsed.
- Yeah, I heard.
- It's the curse of the building industry.
Guys pulling double shifts
to get the job done on time
and then using drugs to keep
them going, it's idiots.
(pipes clanging)
Shh!
- What are we looking for?
- Anchor bolts, the ones
deliberately removed.
- You seriously think someone
wanted the scaffolding to fall?
- No, when Steve took them off,
he wasn't expecting the
bucket to smash into it.
He just wanted to sic OH&S onto me.
(heavy metal music)
♪ I took to you ♪
♪ Like a wino to a bottle ♪
- Oh, shit!
- This is Taylor, my flatmate.
You don't mind, do you?
♪ Oh I can't control ♪
♪ You make me feel all right ♪
♪ But you're not good at all ♪
♪ And I wanna see you tonight ♪
(soft instrumental music)
(sirens whirling)
- Nah, you're yanking my chain.
- Swear on a stack of Bibles.
- [Chase] You're not religious.
- Lucky for me, 'cause I don't reckon God
approves some of the things
we got up to last night.
- So what happened?
I mean, how did you?
- Hey, I don't kiss and tell.
- [Chase] You just did!
- All right.
What do you want to know?
- Bloody everything.
- Oi, Vince.
Jordan reckons he had
a threesome last night.
- Mate!
- What?
- I had a threesome once.
- Yeah?
What do you mean?
Like two girls at the same time?
- No girls.
Ed.
You're here to see Michelle?
- Uh, no, I'm here to see you.
- Hey, how was your date with Crispy?
- He was charming, cute
and apart from his collection
of Matchbox firetrucks,
surprisingly mature.
- You saw his firetrucks?
Serious?
- That's not all I saw.
- Bloody everyone's getting some.
(telephone chiming)
- Coffee?
- Er, no, thanks, Vince.
I'm actually trying to
cut down the caffeine,
and the alcohol, to be
honest, and the carbs.
- What else is there?
- Vince, what are your ambitions?
- Eh?
(telephone ringing)
Marchello.
Davo!
You got it?
Great news, yeah.
Uh five minutes away?!
No worries.
Okay, yeah.
Righto, bye.
Ed, I've got some new roping packs
about to arrive.
- No Vince, the roping packs can wait.
I wanna talk to you about Michelle.
She likes to do things
her own way, doesn't she?
- She always gets the best results.
- Not yesterday.
She rubbed some pretty
important people the wrong way.
(telephone ringing)
- Excuse me.
Marchello.
Crispy!
Well, I'm glad it went
well for you, mate, yeah.
- Vince, what is the deal
with this missing patrol?
- Crispy, I'll get back to you.
- We've got a missing patrol?
- No, no, no, no.
It's all taken care of.
- Right, like you took
care of things yesterday.
Evacuating three office blocks
because of a tiny gas leak.
- It was a judgment call, Ed.
Better a few inconvenienced businessmen
than bodies in a morgue.
- You should've consulted me
before you made that decision.
I am receiving all
sorts of political flak.
- Well, I'm afraid I don't play politics.
- That in itself is a political decision.
And a dumb one at that.
(horn honking)
- [Heidi] Hi.
- [Davo] Is Vince about?
- Davo.
- Here she is, mate.
All in once piece.
Next time you lose one of these,
I'm gonna charge you double.
If I knew a date with a
rescue chick was on offer,
I would've driven a harder bargain.
- Here to see safety officer Abigail.
- Okay.
- Thanks.
I got your text, it sounded urgent.
- They're trying to blame this on me.
They reckon the scaffolding
had too much weight on it.
- Did you tell them
about the anchor bolts?
- That's why I texted you.
That girl in your rescue unit
she saw them, didn't she?
- Yeah, Lara, yeah, she made a statement
to the investigators.
- Yeah, well, they're
saying that the workers
must have taken them off to
access parts of the building.
But if I could prove sabotage then.
- She said they'd been
unbolted, that's all.
You confronted Steve yet?
- What's the point?
Hey look, the last few weeks
I've been getting these anonymous emails.
Childish stuff like get
off the site, bitch.
You don't belong here.
I've ignored most of them,
and then this morning.
- Last chance or you're dead.
- I know it's Steve.
- That's a threat, Abigail,
you should report that to the cops.
- What's the point?
I don't have any actual proof.
- You gotta tell someone.
- The construction game's a blokes' world.
If it's my word against their's.
- Abigail, come here a second.
- Hold on.
- Hey.
Hey, Steve.
- What do you want?
- Did you send these to Abigail?
- What are they?
- Threatening emails telling her to quit.
- Sounds like good advice
to me, but no, wasn't me.
- She reckons it was, pal.
You gunning for her?
- What are you?
Her knight in shining armor?
- Nah, mate, just warning you.
- Or you'll do what?
- I dunno, might take you up a
scaffold and leave you there.
- You little prick.
I'll kill ya!
- Whoa, hey, break it up, fellas.
- Get off, get off, get off the site!
I'll get ya!
- Okay, in my office.
Police are considering laying charges.
They're still getting witness statements.
Have a seat.
- Well, he threw the first punch
and I was defending myself.
- Police have a got a witness
who says that you
king-hit him from behind.
- That's a lie.
- You're going out on a
limb for this girl, Jordan.
Is it professional or personal?
- Professional.
I just don't want her to
lose her job, that's all.
- Are you sure?
Because the personal can get a
little bit blurred sometimes.
It's a pretty fragile line.
How sure are you that Abigail is right
that someone is sabotaging her?
- Well, not somebody, her
foreman, Steve Masters.
- Jordan, it doesn't make sense.
The man gets a bonus if he
brings the project in on time.
Why would he risk having
the site shut down?
- Okay.
- Thanks, mate.
- Sweet, thanks a lot
guys, see you tomorrow.
You waiting for Abby?
- You're Mark, right?
You saw what happened today.
- I've already made my
statement to the cops.
- Steve threw the first punch.
- You provoked him.
- I was standing up for Abigail.
- You're wasting your time there, mate.
Abby's a user.
She's gonna chew you up
and spit you out like she does every guy
she takes half a fancy to.
- Jordan!
Hey, baby. - Hey.
Hey, I need to ask you something.
- Okay,
- Steve gets a big bonus
if he gets the job in on time, yeah?
- Yeah, so?
- So it doesn't make
a lot of sense for him
to do stuff that's gonna
get the site shut down now, does it?
- Well, I suppose getting rid
of me's more important to him.
- More important than 20, 30, 50 grand?
- So you don't believe me either?
- No, I...
- You think I'm just some paranoid bitch
who's incompetent at her job
and has no place on a building site?
- No, that's not what I...
- Screw you, Jordan.
- Abigail.
- I thought you had a big date tonight.
- She canceled on me.
So as you can see, I've
taken the opportunity
to do the inventory on the stolen patrol.
- Right.
Well, have a good one.
- See you.
- Hey, Hamish.
- Hey.
Is Lara around?
- Yeah, she's getting changed.
- Listen, thanks by the way,
for not telling Lara about
the drink-driving charge.
- [Dean] Hey, come on, you
want to kill some time?
- Yep.
- Six pack of beer.
Imports none of that local nonsense.
- You're on.
- All right.
- Crap shot, that was crap.
- Yep.
Yes!
- Come on, best out of three.
- Um, hey.
Maybe another day.
- [Lara] Hi, beautiful.
- Ready to go?
Yep, your night to cook, I remember.
- Mm-hm.
- Mm-hm.
Night, Dean.
- See you.
- [Hamish] See you, mate, keep practicing.
- You want to drive?
- No, you can drive.
- Oh, I see how this works.
Chauffeur Lara to the rescue.
- Hey.
- Hey.
What are you still doing here?
- Oh, trying to motivate myself
to go through the stolen patrol,
see if anything's missing.
What are you doing here?
- Oh, you know, job never ends.
- Don't you think you're
working too hard, Michelle?
Why don't you take the night off?
Why don't you, I don't know,
go see a movie, anything.
There's more to life than the job.
(soft guitar music)
- [Answer Machine] You've
called Detective Ian Johnson,
leave a message.
- Oh, hey, hi.
I know I said I was working late tonight,
but I have changed my mind
and I'm heading to our usual
and I hope to see you there.
♪ And breathe the life
that shatters into one ♪
♪ The colors that you
see are in your mind ♪
♪ She doesn't make the
time don't miss the sign ♪
♪ And it starts to fly and getting high ♪
♪ Go with us around this life ♪
♪ Don't reach out ♪
♪ You will see ♪
♪ And show the world that we ♪
♪ Can live free ♪
♪ Sit out there in my jealousy ♪
- Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Take it easy, take it easy.
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
♪ It seems to me that
we're always losing ♪
♪ And then it starts
to fly, getting high ♪
♪ Go with us around this life ♪
♪ Don't reach out, you will see ♪
♪ Show the world that we ♪
♪ Can be free ♪
(soft pop music)
- Oh, shit!
You've seen it?
- In Rescue's endeavor to
cover up the stolen patrol,
they offer their affiliated services
accommodation at a luxury beach resort
as well as sexual favors.
- Why spoil a good story
with the truth, eh?
- Problem is, it is the truth.
I just have to ask,
Vince did you feed the
journalist any information?
- You really think I'd do
something like that to you?
- No.
But the alternative is a lot worse.
- Ed Frazer.
- He wants a yes-man he can
control and that's not me.
- So what?
He can't sack you.
You didn't murder anyone.
You haven't stolen any drugs,
didn't lap-dance in uniform,
not that I wouldn't mind
seeing that, but anyway.
The union wouldn't allow it.
- Which is why he fed the press that.
Trying to pressure me into resigning.
(telephone ringing)
- Rescue, Marchello.
Okay, we're onto it.
There's a code 21 at the
Park Street building site.
- What?!
(Mark groaning)
- All right, Mark, I
know this will be hard,
but I need you to stay
as still as possible.
- It bloody hurts!
- I'm gonna you some morphine right now.
This will help take away
some of the pain, all right?
- Can't you just lift me off this thing?
- We do that and you could bleed out.
It's best we leave these in
until we get you to hospital.
How are his obs?
- He's tachycardic, but relatively stable.
Maintaining BP.
(Mark groaning)
Hey, what are you doing here?
- I heard on the radio.
What happened?
- He fell from up there.
Got impaled on the rebar.
- [Dean] All right Lara, get around here
and grab a hold of this rebar.
- What the hell was he doing up there?
- I'll tell you what he was doing.
He was removing anchor bolts
from that new scaffold.
I was wrong about Steve
sabotaging stuff to get me sacked
it's been Mark all the time.
- Why would he do that?
- So the OH&S investigators would find it.
- Jordan, make yourself
useful, get over here.
Oh look, he's right up against the slab.
I can't get the cutters underneath
without lifting him slightly.
- You talking major organs?
- I don't think so.
His BP's pretty steady.
He's been lucky.
- Lucky, you call this lucky?
- All right, I need you guys
to lift him a couple of inches.
Just enough for me to get
the cutters underneath.
Brace yourself.
All right, on three.
One, two, three, go.
(Mark groaning)
All right, that's enough.
That's it, that's it.
- I have to say, pal, you
brought this on yourself.
- [Lara] Jordan!
- Another week, maybe two,
she'll split up with you.
Treat you like shit!
- Abigail dumped you is that
why you want her sacked?
- She didn't just dump me,
she rubbed my nose in it.
She enjoyed it!
- All right, I'm on, I'm on!
All right Lara, I need
to swap places with you.
- Can you take his weight?
- Yeah, yeah, I got him.
- Jordan, you take his weight?
- I said I got him.
- [Dean] Okay, we're through.
All right, let's pack him up.
Get the frame in.
- Is he going to be okay?
- Yeah, I think so.
- So he's a 25-year-old male
who's got two lengths of
steel rebar in his abdomen,
one in his left lower quadrant,
one in his right upper quadrant.
Doesn't seem to have hit anything vital.
His BP's 140.
He's had 15 milligrams of morphine.
- [Ambulance Attendant] Okay.
- What's going on?
I got a call there was an emergency.
This is what happens when
you let a woman loose
on a building site!
- Bastard.
- Glad I don't work here.
Drama, drama, drama!
- I tried to protect you, Michelle.
I went out on a limb defending you
to people that matter
and now this happens.
- Cut the crap, Ed.
- I beg your pardon?
- You fed the journalist this story.
- Why would I undermine the
very service I represent?
- Because undermining me
was more important to you.
- Do you realize how paranoid that sounds?
- You don't want me in this job.
You want someone you can control,
so you can make changes
to Rescue without a fight.
Admit it!
You want my head on a plate!
- Well, I'm gonna have
to have someone's head
to make this go away.
- You want me out of this job?
Fire me.
- The public will accept nothing less
than a full audit of this unit.
Every bit of rope, every
bandage, every paperclip
will have to be accounted for.
All your work practices from
Vince's shonky maneuverings
to pre-shift checks to
interpersonal relationships
within the unit, all of this
will be under the spotlight.
Are you really prepared
for that, Michelle?
- We have nothing to hide.
Bring it on, Ed.
(soothing instrumental music)
- [Male] So are you going to
see that Abigail chick again?
- Nah, mate, too much work.
I've decided to keep my personal
and professional life miles apart.
- Good idea, you don't
want those lines to blur.
So what's happening
with the assault charge?
- Oh, cops dropped the investigation.
- What?
Vince pull some strings?
- No, buddy, haven't you heard?
They're going out on a date.
Senior Sergeant Barry, special crime.
- Hey!
- See you tomorrow, boys.
(men whistling)
Crispy.
- Scrubs up all right.
- Night, Michelle.
- [Michelle] Goodnight, Lara.
- Ed didn't look too happy when he left.
You must have given him what for.
- Oh, I gave him
something, that's for sure.
I suspect more ammunition
to target Rescue with.
- Michelle, I've been in
this job more than 20 years.
Just don't let Frazer get to you.
It's not personal.
You look after yourself.
- It's always personal.
Hey.
- Leaving at a respectable
hour for a change?
- Well, there's more to
life than the job, Dean.
- Listen, about what happened last night.
- Last night.
- I said I've seen a lot
of workplace romances
and well, they can get pretty messy.
- Well then, I guess you're lucky
that's it's not gonna be a problem for us.
- Okay, good.
- Oh, and by the way,
if we ever get audited
- Audited?
- And anybody ever asks,
last night didn't happen.
- Sure.
- See you
(soft instrumental music)
(lively rock music)
♪ See them crawling, their
faces on the ground ♪
♪ My heart keeps jumping
I wanna stay around ♪
♪ Now they can't hear me
I ain't too young to die ♪
♪ But before I let you take me
you gotta look me in the eyes ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
(guitar music)
(heralding music)
(welding torch whizzing)
(dredger humming)
- Abigail!
That chute is taking too long.
- Harry's shift finished
20 minutes ago, Steve.
I had to clear his overtime
with the union rep.
- Harry is the union rep.
I'm paying you to get the job done,
not sit around and paint your nails.
- How you doing up there, Harry?
- Yeah, nearly done.
- Nice pair.
Are they poisonous?
- Nope, just a lot bigger
than your little snake.
Put your hard hat on.
- Don't you just love it
when the safety officer
talks dirty, fellas?
(men laughing)
- Harry, watch your bucket, mate.
Harry, you're too close to
the chute with the bucket!
(bricks crumbling)
Move!
(sirens whirring)
Okay, no worries.
- [Vince] Scaffold
collapse at building site
with unknown number trapped.
Boom lift damaged with one man trapped
and he's not responding to radio calls.
- [Dean] Steve, Jo, get
these people out of here now.
Dean Gallagher, rescue special operations.
- [Abigail] Abigail.
- How many people under the debris?
- Four workers unaccounted for.
- Who's in charge?
- Steve, he was on his way up
to tie off the scaffolding when he froze.
- A construction site foreman
who's afraid of heights?
- Well, I'll drop a
line down from the top,
pick him up on the way through.
- I'll get some guys
securing the scaffolding
with slings and hildy bolts,
we'll a couple of hand winches
to get it under tension.
- [Male] Yep.
- What's up, what's up?
- Oh, it's Harry.
He's stuck up in the bucket.
We've gotta get him down.
All that scaff's wrecked the hydraulics.
The controls are frozen.
That bucket isn't going anywhere.
- Hey, Jordan, check out
the construction chick.
- [Dean] Lara, what do you think?
- We can get up into that building.
We can slingshot a rope down,
set up a gondola directly over the bucket.
- Okay, do it.
Jordan, I want you to work with Abigail
to clear the site of
non-emergency personnel.
Heidi, we could be in for
debris falls, set up a hot zone.
- What, 25 meters?
- [Dean] Make it 50.
- [Heidi] I need everyone to move back.
- Can you tell us why the
scaffolding collapsed?
- I need you to get back behind the tape.
- [Newslady] When can
you give us a statement?
- When I've spoken to my unit leader.
- [Male] Okay back behind the tape.
- I want air shores to prop up debris
as well as high-pressure airbags.
Small movements only.
The scaff's like a house of cards.
It shifts, the whole thing could collapse.
- We've got one over here.
Can you hear me, sir?
Yeah, I've got a pulse.
I need help over here.
- [Dean] Jo, get in there.
- [Chase] Steve, my name's Chase.
You're gonna be alright, mate.
- No way.
Move out.
- [Chase] It's all right.
I'm just gonna clip you in.
Look, trust me, you're
gonna be a lot safer
once I got my harness.
- [Steve] Leave me alone!
- [Chase] Look, this
scaff's really unstable.
- Chase, get a move on.
I want that guy off the scaff now.
- [Chase] Going as fast as I can.
- [Michelle] What's the sit rep?
- We've got four under the rubble,
got one stuck on the scaffolding,
got one in the bucket.
- A couple of the guys
said they smelled gas.
I got an O2 reading of 19.8, LEL's at 1.6.
- 1.6, we don't have time to
worry about small gas leaks.
Don't worry it.
- All right, stop the ground rescue.
- Michelle, it's a low read.
- I want everybody standing
by with BAs, no hydraulics.
- Your call, your call.
All right, listen up, listen up!
Got a gas leak in there somewhere.
LELs are at 1.6.
All right, everyone
stand by with your BAs.
Set up some ram fence.
Also, get oxygen to the people
under the rubble where you can.
Move!
(lively rock music)
♪ Real dark and dirty ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
♪ Gonna get a little ♪
♪ Dirty ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty ♪
- Six potential casualties.
Yeah, I need another
ambulance on stand-by.
- [Michelle] Vince,
this is Michelle, over.
- Hold on, will you, how hard can it be?
Yeah, Michelle, I'm here.
- We've detected gas on-site.
I need you to activate
hazmat to this location.
I also want to evacuate the
surrounding office buildings.
- Where's the LEL at?
- 1.6.
- A little on the low side.
Maybe you should wait for hazmat
before you evacuate people's offices.
- Vince, I'm on the ground, you're not.
I'm gonna alert the senior
police, then I'll call Ed Frazer.
I want you to let CO Co
know what I've decided.
- Your call, boss.
- Tony, mate!
Tony!
Talk to me, mate.
- Hey, mate!
Oi! Oi!
Buddy, we gotta get you outta here.
- My mates are under there.
- I know they're under there.
There's gas leaking.
We gotta get you out of here.
Buddy, mate. - Oh, my back off!
- Stay there, Waz.
Get off me.
- Hey, hey, hey, calm down.
Hey, fellas, fellas!
Come on, mate, calm down.
We're gonna get your buddies.
- My mates, under there.
- It's okay, we're gonna grab him.
- You need to let go.
- Nah.
- Look at me, look at me.
Look at me. - Nope.
- Steve, I need you to let go.
I've got you.
We're not going anywhere.
Just hold on, all right?
Just hold on tight, okay?
Let go of this one.
- I dunno, it's hard, mate.
Just try to take it easy
and breathe normally.
- [Lara] Dean, this is Lara, over.
- Got this?
- Yeah.
- Go ahead, Lara.
- Yeah, I can see the lift driver.
He's definitely out for the count.
- [Dean] Yeah, copy that.
- I've also got a good idea
how the scaffold came away
from the building so easily.
Looks like some of the anchor
bolts have been removed.
- Did she just say that some of the bolts
have been removed from the scaff?
- Abigail, I need you out
of the hot zone now, please.
Just get that line set up for me, Lara.
(soft rock music)
- Here it comes.
- Who are they?
- Evacuated office workers.
Michelle LeTourneau,
special operations rescue.
I've ordered the evacuation
of the surrounding buildings
as a precaution in case the gas blows.
- All right, if the levels go up
we're gonna need more BAs
if you wanna get more
guys in under the rubble.
- I'll get onto Vince, get more BAs.
- It's 324 Park Street.
I need the gas shut
off at that site, mate.
- [Michelle] We need more
BA units down here, Vince.
- Yeah, Michelle, I'm
trying to turn the gas off.
- [Michelle] Well, keep trying.
We still need more BAs
and another ambulance.
- That next available ambulance
is coming my way, all right?
We got a deal.
Call you back.
Ed, how you doing?
- I was having a yum cha in Chinatown
when Michelle called me with the news.
- We've evacuated three office buildings.
- Mm.
I've just had a call from
the premier's office.
There's a lot of very
pissed-off employers.
At the very least, she
should've waited for hazmat.
- Gas could be coming
from a crimp in the pipe.
It causes a build-up of pressure.
It was a judgment call.
- Did you agree with her?
I didn't think so.
I want you on the scene.
- Trying to get the gas shut off.
I need to be here to coordinate.
- No, no, look, central
operations can take over.
We need a cool head down there.
- Delivery for Michelle LeTourneau.
(soft rock music)
- All right, guys, ready to launch.
- [Dean] All right, Lara, all right.
Good work, that's it, that's it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's it.
You're right over it, just lower it down.
- [Lara] Harry, can you hear me?
- [Dean] That's the way,
you're right on top.
- [Lara] Gonna pull you back here.
Oh, that's the way.
Down you go, okay.
- Lara, what's the condition
of the lift operator?
- Unconscious with no pulse.
Gonna start CPR.
- Yeah, all right, look,
Chase is almost done.
Want me to send him to help?
- Nope.
It's too crammed up here for three,
I have to manage by myself.
- [Male] Copy that, out.
Dean and Jordan, get a move on.
- You be right under there?
- Yep.
Can you hear me, sir?
Can you tell me where you're hurt?
What about your legs, mate?
Can you feel your legs?
Jordan, I need a medical
kit and a spine board.
Easy does it.
(pipes clanging)
- [Jordan] Heidi, you all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.
- What is she doing?
Abigail, what are you doing?
Stop!
- [Jordan] Heidi's all
right, mate, still unstable.
- Jordan, get her out of there.
- Abigail!
Abigail, stop there!
Abigail, stop!
Stop!
We gotta get off this
scaff, it's too unstable.
Stop, Abigail!
- Jordan, that scaff is unstable.
- [Jordan] Abigail, stop!
- I need to check something.
- Hold on! Gotcha!
Just grab on, just hold onto me.
It's all right, we'll get you up.
One, two, three.
We've got to get out of here, come on.
- Clear the site!
Clear the site!
Clear the site!
- What were you doing up here?
- I was just trying to get
a look at the anchor bolts.
- You all right, Jordan?
- Yeah, yeah, we're okay.
We're okay.
- What the hell was all that about?
- I had to prove something.
- Prove what?
- This wasn't an accident.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- Gonna need a defibrillator
ready on the ground.
Still no resps, no pulse.
I'm gonna have to do CPR on the way down.
- [Male] PVM's increasing.
We need to locate the
meter and shut it down.
- [Male] It's down this way.
(monitors beeping)
(gas pipes squealing)
- [Male] Gas leak is now isolated.
- Thanks, mate.
- Let's go!
- [Female] Copy that, lifting.
- [Male] Gas is sorted.
- [Dean] All right, the gas is clear.
Gas is clear, get the quick gut in there.
Come on, move.
- What was the problem?
- A small leak.
Simple twist of a valve sorted it.
Taken a bit of time to locate it,
perhaps a lot of this
would've been avoided.
- [Female] In position
and starting to lower.
(siren whirring)
- What are you doing here?
- Brought the BAs down myself.
Not that you need them now.
- Okay, all right.
His pulse is thready, he's cyanotic.
- Yep.
- Okay.
All right, get the spine board in.
Come on, guys.
That's the way.
Get him on it.
- And lift.
- Might wanna get these checked out.
I found them in the bucket.
They might be in his system.
Okay?
- This is all your doing.
You could've bloody killed someone.
- My doing?
You're the safety officer.
- Hey, hey, hey, whoa!
- He's trying to get rid of me,
make it look like I can't do my job.
- Yeah, you obviously can't.
Don't try and pin this bloody mess on me!
- Just take it easy, mate.
You okay?
Just calm down.
Might get you looked at, eh?
(chainsaw screeching)
- All right, I'm through!
Hang in there, mate.
Have you out of there in a second.
Heidi, come in.
What are you doing here?
- [Vince] Heard you were
overworked and undermanned.
- Overworked and underpaid, more like it.
Heidi, keep talking to him.
Get some oxygen into him.
- Yep.
- You all right?
- [Heidi] Mate, we're just gonna
get you out of here in a sec, okay?
- The snake thing,
Chinese horoscope, yeah?
Year of the Snake.
What's that mean?
- It means my intuition guides me.
- So that's your intuition saying
that this wasn't an accident?
- Steve's been gunning for me for ages,
removing safety barriers,
damaging protective equipment.
- Why?
- To get me sacked.
I reported him for unsafe
demolition a while back.
WorkCover closed us
down, did a safety audit.
- So you're saying this whole thing's
aimed at getting you?
- I am the safety officer.
It doesn't reflect well on me, does it?
- [Chase] How you doing?
Leave you to it.
- [Male] Mate, take over.
Got him?
- Hey, hey, hey, mate.
Stay away, stay away.
- [Heidi] Get out of here, mate.
- He's my buddy.
- Constable, can you look after him?
- Mark, you know this wasn't my fault.
- [Newslady] Are you gonna
give us a statement now?
- We still have one man under the rubble.
We have completed a
successful high-line rescue
of the boom lift operator.
- [Male Reporter] What
caused the accident?
- That is for WorkCover to determine.
- So it was your decision
to evacuate the buildings?
- Yes, it was.
But the gas leak's been
contained now, hasn't it?
- Yes, it has.
- I was told it was a small leak.
Do you think your level
of response was warranted?
- It was the right course of action.
That's it for today.
(upbeat pop music)
- Jordan's a bit of a
dark horse, ain't he?
- Huh?
- Did you see him with
the construction chick
he pulled off the scaff?
She'd eat him alive.
Speaking of which, I
could murder a lamb kebab.
- You want one?
- Oh, thanks.
- No, no, it's all right.
- Ta.
Hey, Chase!
No onions on mine.
Chase!
Chase, no onions on mine.
- Yeah, cool.
- No onions on the second.
(car breaks squealing)
- Er, Dean, little problem.
- Good luck.
- Thanks.
So am I gonna face the music or are you?
- Nothing to do with me, I was
in the shop buying us kebabs.
- Crap.
- [Answer Machine] You've
called Detective Ian Johnson,
leave a message.
- I just got your special
delivery and they are gorgeous.
Think I will have to show
you my appreciation tonight.
(male clears throat)
Same place, eight o'clock, okay bye.
- Harry Willis, the boom lift operator,
just died in heart surgery.
It looks like amphetamine use
might've contributed to his condition.
Nice flowers.
- Your decision to come to
the site today, was it yours?
Ed Frazer turned up.
He suggested it.
- Why?
- To alleviate the pressure
you were under, I suppose.
- I am the head of a rescue unit.
The job comes with pressure.
- Maybe he thought you overreacted
to the situation slightly.
- How did I overreact?
- Well, you evacuated
three office buildings
over a whiff of gas.
I'll get back to you.
- Vince, I'm sorry.
- Don't say a word, walk down the stairs.
Don't turn around, keep going.
- Vince, I'm really sorry.
- Yeah!
- Chase was in the kebab shop
and I didn't want onions on
mine and he couldn't hear me,
so I just got out of the patrol.
- Just left a fully equipped rescue truck
with the keys in it.
- Yeah, for, like, two minutes.
- Two seconds is too long.
- I know, I'm sorry.
- So you keep saying.
- Who are you calling?
- Davo!
Vince.
Any luck with that stolen patrol yet?
No, no, I don't want
it official, all right?
The keys were left in it, okay?
Yeah, ha-ha.
Well, are you gonna help me out or what?
Come on, mate, how am I gonna
get the fireys to do that?
All right, hold on.
- Vince.
- Crispy!
Marchello.
I need you to give the cops a weekend
down at that beach house you
blokes keep at the coast.
Well, how about I give
you the private lounge
at the Esquire Club?
Yeah?
Plus, what do you mean?
Eh?
Well, which one do you mean?
The blonde one, Lara, engaged.
The cute ranga!
Done.
Her name's Heidi.
Yeah.
It'll have to be a restaurant.
That's one with tablecloths,
waiters and shit.
Yeah?
Yeah, pick her up at seven.
Yep, see ya.
Davo, I got you the firey's
beach house for the weekend.
Just get me back that patrol, yeah?
Righto.
- Vince, can you please tell
me you didn't hook me up
on a date with some guy called Crispy?
- You lost the truck, you
suffer the consequences.
- So, the chick with the
tat, was she hot or what?
- Too hot for you, pal.
A woman like that would
eat you for breakfast.
- Oh, and you reckon you could handle her?
If I'm breakfast, you're
a between-meals snack.
- Yeah?
Well, you'd be one of
those low-carb diet drinks.
- You're like a piece of
celery dipped in Philly.
- You'd be a cough lolly.
- You'd be a Tic-Tac.
- Abigail.
- No way.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- You gonna call her?
- She reckons what happened
today wasn't an accident.
- Yeah, the guy in the boom
lift was amped to the eyeballs.
- Nah, not that.
She reckons the accident's aimed at her.
You know, like someone's out to get her.
- So she's nuts.
- Tell me you wouldn't go there.
- Mate, no woman's worth an ice pick
in the middle of the night.
- Ah, the stolen patrol, right?
- Yeah, all because I don't like onions.
I shudder to think what someone
called Crispy looks like.
Who's called Crispy?
- Awfully scared by the sound of it.
- [Heidi] I don't think I can
go through with this, Jordan.
- [Jordan] You'll be right.
(horn honking)
- Here goes my integrity.
Or I could just suck it
up, take one for the team.
Night.
You must be Crispy.
Hi, I'm Heidi.
- Abigail?
- Thank you.
- Jordan Zwitkowski.
Would you like to hang out tonight?
Coming to a building site is
not what I meant by a date.
You know, I was thinking dinner, a movie.
- Look, I went to the
hospital and saw Harry's wife.
They'll do an autopsy, but they reckon
he was high on speed when he collapsed.
- Yeah, I heard.
- It's the curse of the building industry.
Guys pulling double shifts
to get the job done on time
and then using drugs to keep
them going, it's idiots.
(pipes clanging)
Shh!
- What are we looking for?
- Anchor bolts, the ones
deliberately removed.
- You seriously think someone
wanted the scaffolding to fall?
- No, when Steve took them off,
he wasn't expecting the
bucket to smash into it.
He just wanted to sic OH&S onto me.
(heavy metal music)
♪ I took to you ♪
♪ Like a wino to a bottle ♪
- Oh, shit!
- This is Taylor, my flatmate.
You don't mind, do you?
♪ Oh I can't control ♪
♪ You make me feel all right ♪
♪ But you're not good at all ♪
♪ And I wanna see you tonight ♪
(soft instrumental music)
(sirens whirling)
- Nah, you're yanking my chain.
- Swear on a stack of Bibles.
- [Chase] You're not religious.
- Lucky for me, 'cause I don't reckon God
approves some of the things
we got up to last night.
- So what happened?
I mean, how did you?
- Hey, I don't kiss and tell.
- [Chase] You just did!
- All right.
What do you want to know?
- Bloody everything.
- Oi, Vince.
Jordan reckons he had
a threesome last night.
- Mate!
- What?
- I had a threesome once.
- Yeah?
What do you mean?
Like two girls at the same time?
- No girls.
Ed.
You're here to see Michelle?
- Uh, no, I'm here to see you.
- Hey, how was your date with Crispy?
- He was charming, cute
and apart from his collection
of Matchbox firetrucks,
surprisingly mature.
- You saw his firetrucks?
Serious?
- That's not all I saw.
- Bloody everyone's getting some.
(telephone chiming)
- Coffee?
- Er, no, thanks, Vince.
I'm actually trying to
cut down the caffeine,
and the alcohol, to be
honest, and the carbs.
- What else is there?
- Vince, what are your ambitions?
- Eh?
(telephone ringing)
Marchello.
Davo!
You got it?
Great news, yeah.
Uh five minutes away?!
No worries.
Okay, yeah.
Righto, bye.
Ed, I've got some new roping packs
about to arrive.
- No Vince, the roping packs can wait.
I wanna talk to you about Michelle.
She likes to do things
her own way, doesn't she?
- She always gets the best results.
- Not yesterday.
She rubbed some pretty
important people the wrong way.
(telephone ringing)
- Excuse me.
Marchello.
Crispy!
Well, I'm glad it went
well for you, mate, yeah.
- Vince, what is the deal
with this missing patrol?
- Crispy, I'll get back to you.
- We've got a missing patrol?
- No, no, no, no.
It's all taken care of.
- Right, like you took
care of things yesterday.
Evacuating three office blocks
because of a tiny gas leak.
- It was a judgment call, Ed.
Better a few inconvenienced businessmen
than bodies in a morgue.
- You should've consulted me
before you made that decision.
I am receiving all
sorts of political flak.
- Well, I'm afraid I don't play politics.
- That in itself is a political decision.
And a dumb one at that.
(horn honking)
- [Heidi] Hi.
- [Davo] Is Vince about?
- Davo.
- Here she is, mate.
All in once piece.
Next time you lose one of these,
I'm gonna charge you double.
If I knew a date with a
rescue chick was on offer,
I would've driven a harder bargain.
- Here to see safety officer Abigail.
- Okay.
- Thanks.
I got your text, it sounded urgent.
- They're trying to blame this on me.
They reckon the scaffolding
had too much weight on it.
- Did you tell them
about the anchor bolts?
- That's why I texted you.
That girl in your rescue unit
she saw them, didn't she?
- Yeah, Lara, yeah, she made a statement
to the investigators.
- Yeah, well, they're
saying that the workers
must have taken them off to
access parts of the building.
But if I could prove sabotage then.
- She said they'd been
unbolted, that's all.
You confronted Steve yet?
- What's the point?
Hey look, the last few weeks
I've been getting these anonymous emails.
Childish stuff like get
off the site, bitch.
You don't belong here.
I've ignored most of them,
and then this morning.
- Last chance or you're dead.
- I know it's Steve.
- That's a threat, Abigail,
you should report that to the cops.
- What's the point?
I don't have any actual proof.
- You gotta tell someone.
- The construction game's a blokes' world.
If it's my word against their's.
- Abigail, come here a second.
- Hold on.
- Hey.
Hey, Steve.
- What do you want?
- Did you send these to Abigail?
- What are they?
- Threatening emails telling her to quit.
- Sounds like good advice
to me, but no, wasn't me.
- She reckons it was, pal.
You gunning for her?
- What are you?
Her knight in shining armor?
- Nah, mate, just warning you.
- Or you'll do what?
- I dunno, might take you up a
scaffold and leave you there.
- You little prick.
I'll kill ya!
- Whoa, hey, break it up, fellas.
- Get off, get off, get off the site!
I'll get ya!
- Okay, in my office.
Police are considering laying charges.
They're still getting witness statements.
Have a seat.
- Well, he threw the first punch
and I was defending myself.
- Police have a got a witness
who says that you
king-hit him from behind.
- That's a lie.
- You're going out on a
limb for this girl, Jordan.
Is it professional or personal?
- Professional.
I just don't want her to
lose her job, that's all.
- Are you sure?
Because the personal can get a
little bit blurred sometimes.
It's a pretty fragile line.
How sure are you that Abigail is right
that someone is sabotaging her?
- Well, not somebody, her
foreman, Steve Masters.
- Jordan, it doesn't make sense.
The man gets a bonus if he
brings the project in on time.
Why would he risk having
the site shut down?
- Okay.
- Thanks, mate.
- Sweet, thanks a lot
guys, see you tomorrow.
You waiting for Abby?
- You're Mark, right?
You saw what happened today.
- I've already made my
statement to the cops.
- Steve threw the first punch.
- You provoked him.
- I was standing up for Abigail.
- You're wasting your time there, mate.
Abby's a user.
She's gonna chew you up
and spit you out like she does every guy
she takes half a fancy to.
- Jordan!
Hey, baby. - Hey.
Hey, I need to ask you something.
- Okay,
- Steve gets a big bonus
if he gets the job in on time, yeah?
- Yeah, so?
- So it doesn't make
a lot of sense for him
to do stuff that's gonna
get the site shut down now, does it?
- Well, I suppose getting rid
of me's more important to him.
- More important than 20, 30, 50 grand?
- So you don't believe me either?
- No, I...
- You think I'm just some paranoid bitch
who's incompetent at her job
and has no place on a building site?
- No, that's not what I...
- Screw you, Jordan.
- Abigail.
- I thought you had a big date tonight.
- She canceled on me.
So as you can see, I've
taken the opportunity
to do the inventory on the stolen patrol.
- Right.
Well, have a good one.
- See you.
- Hey, Hamish.
- Hey.
Is Lara around?
- Yeah, she's getting changed.
- Listen, thanks by the way,
for not telling Lara about
the drink-driving charge.
- [Dean] Hey, come on, you
want to kill some time?
- Yep.
- Six pack of beer.
Imports none of that local nonsense.
- You're on.
- All right.
- Crap shot, that was crap.
- Yep.
Yes!
- Come on, best out of three.
- Um, hey.
Maybe another day.
- [Lara] Hi, beautiful.
- Ready to go?
Yep, your night to cook, I remember.
- Mm-hm.
- Mm-hm.
Night, Dean.
- See you.
- [Hamish] See you, mate, keep practicing.
- You want to drive?
- No, you can drive.
- Oh, I see how this works.
Chauffeur Lara to the rescue.
- Hey.
- Hey.
What are you still doing here?
- Oh, trying to motivate myself
to go through the stolen patrol,
see if anything's missing.
What are you doing here?
- Oh, you know, job never ends.
- Don't you think you're
working too hard, Michelle?
Why don't you take the night off?
Why don't you, I don't know,
go see a movie, anything.
There's more to life than the job.
(soft guitar music)
- [Answer Machine] You've
called Detective Ian Johnson,
leave a message.
- Oh, hey, hi.
I know I said I was working late tonight,
but I have changed my mind
and I'm heading to our usual
and I hope to see you there.
♪ And breathe the life
that shatters into one ♪
♪ The colors that you
see are in your mind ♪
♪ She doesn't make the
time don't miss the sign ♪
♪ And it starts to fly and getting high ♪
♪ Go with us around this life ♪
♪ Don't reach out ♪
♪ You will see ♪
♪ And show the world that we ♪
♪ Can live free ♪
♪ Sit out there in my jealousy ♪
- Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Take it easy, take it easy.
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
♪ It seems to me that
we're always losing ♪
♪ And then it starts
to fly, getting high ♪
♪ Go with us around this life ♪
♪ Don't reach out, you will see ♪
♪ Show the world that we ♪
♪ Can be free ♪
(soft pop music)
- Oh, shit!
You've seen it?
- In Rescue's endeavor to
cover up the stolen patrol,
they offer their affiliated services
accommodation at a luxury beach resort
as well as sexual favors.
- Why spoil a good story
with the truth, eh?
- Problem is, it is the truth.
I just have to ask,
Vince did you feed the
journalist any information?
- You really think I'd do
something like that to you?
- No.
But the alternative is a lot worse.
- Ed Frazer.
- He wants a yes-man he can
control and that's not me.
- So what?
He can't sack you.
You didn't murder anyone.
You haven't stolen any drugs,
didn't lap-dance in uniform,
not that I wouldn't mind
seeing that, but anyway.
The union wouldn't allow it.
- Which is why he fed the press that.
Trying to pressure me into resigning.
(telephone ringing)
- Rescue, Marchello.
Okay, we're onto it.
There's a code 21 at the
Park Street building site.
- What?!
(Mark groaning)
- All right, Mark, I
know this will be hard,
but I need you to stay
as still as possible.
- It bloody hurts!
- I'm gonna you some morphine right now.
This will help take away
some of the pain, all right?
- Can't you just lift me off this thing?
- We do that and you could bleed out.
It's best we leave these in
until we get you to hospital.
How are his obs?
- He's tachycardic, but relatively stable.
Maintaining BP.
(Mark groaning)
Hey, what are you doing here?
- I heard on the radio.
What happened?
- He fell from up there.
Got impaled on the rebar.
- [Dean] All right Lara, get around here
and grab a hold of this rebar.
- What the hell was he doing up there?
- I'll tell you what he was doing.
He was removing anchor bolts
from that new scaffold.
I was wrong about Steve
sabotaging stuff to get me sacked
it's been Mark all the time.
- Why would he do that?
- So the OH&S investigators would find it.
- Jordan, make yourself
useful, get over here.
Oh look, he's right up against the slab.
I can't get the cutters underneath
without lifting him slightly.
- You talking major organs?
- I don't think so.
His BP's pretty steady.
He's been lucky.
- Lucky, you call this lucky?
- All right, I need you guys
to lift him a couple of inches.
Just enough for me to get
the cutters underneath.
Brace yourself.
All right, on three.
One, two, three, go.
(Mark groaning)
All right, that's enough.
That's it, that's it.
- I have to say, pal, you
brought this on yourself.
- [Lara] Jordan!
- Another week, maybe two,
she'll split up with you.
Treat you like shit!
- Abigail dumped you is that
why you want her sacked?
- She didn't just dump me,
she rubbed my nose in it.
She enjoyed it!
- All right, I'm on, I'm on!
All right Lara, I need
to swap places with you.
- Can you take his weight?
- Yeah, yeah, I got him.
- Jordan, you take his weight?
- I said I got him.
- [Dean] Okay, we're through.
All right, let's pack him up.
Get the frame in.
- Is he going to be okay?
- Yeah, I think so.
- So he's a 25-year-old male
who's got two lengths of
steel rebar in his abdomen,
one in his left lower quadrant,
one in his right upper quadrant.
Doesn't seem to have hit anything vital.
His BP's 140.
He's had 15 milligrams of morphine.
- [Ambulance Attendant] Okay.
- What's going on?
I got a call there was an emergency.
This is what happens when
you let a woman loose
on a building site!
- Bastard.
- Glad I don't work here.
Drama, drama, drama!
- I tried to protect you, Michelle.
I went out on a limb defending you
to people that matter
and now this happens.
- Cut the crap, Ed.
- I beg your pardon?
- You fed the journalist this story.
- Why would I undermine the
very service I represent?
- Because undermining me
was more important to you.
- Do you realize how paranoid that sounds?
- You don't want me in this job.
You want someone you can control,
so you can make changes
to Rescue without a fight.
Admit it!
You want my head on a plate!
- Well, I'm gonna have
to have someone's head
to make this go away.
- You want me out of this job?
Fire me.
- The public will accept nothing less
than a full audit of this unit.
Every bit of rope, every
bandage, every paperclip
will have to be accounted for.
All your work practices from
Vince's shonky maneuverings
to pre-shift checks to
interpersonal relationships
within the unit, all of this
will be under the spotlight.
Are you really prepared
for that, Michelle?
- We have nothing to hide.
Bring it on, Ed.
(soothing instrumental music)
- [Male] So are you going to
see that Abigail chick again?
- Nah, mate, too much work.
I've decided to keep my personal
and professional life miles apart.
- Good idea, you don't
want those lines to blur.
So what's happening
with the assault charge?
- Oh, cops dropped the investigation.
- What?
Vince pull some strings?
- No, buddy, haven't you heard?
They're going out on a date.
Senior Sergeant Barry, special crime.
- Hey!
- See you tomorrow, boys.
(men whistling)
Crispy.
- Scrubs up all right.
- Night, Michelle.
- [Michelle] Goodnight, Lara.
- Ed didn't look too happy when he left.
You must have given him what for.
- Oh, I gave him
something, that's for sure.
I suspect more ammunition
to target Rescue with.
- Michelle, I've been in
this job more than 20 years.
Just don't let Frazer get to you.
It's not personal.
You look after yourself.
- It's always personal.
Hey.
- Leaving at a respectable
hour for a change?
- Well, there's more to
life than the job, Dean.
- Listen, about what happened last night.
- Last night.
- I said I've seen a lot
of workplace romances
and well, they can get pretty messy.
- Well then, I guess you're lucky
that's it's not gonna be a problem for us.
- Okay, good.
- Oh, and by the way,
if we ever get audited
- Audited?
- And anybody ever asks,
last night didn't happen.
- Sure.
- See you
(soft instrumental music)
(lively rock music)
♪ See them crawling, their
faces on the ground ♪
♪ My heart keeps jumping
I wanna stay around ♪
♪ Now they can't hear me
I ain't too young to die ♪
♪ But before I let you take me
you gotta look me in the eyes ♪
♪ Gonna get a little dirty ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little dirty yeah ♪
(guitar music)
(heralding music)