Winter (2015): Season 1, Episode 1 - Skeletons - full transcript

Please stop! Don't do this!

Come back here!

Please stop!

Don't do this! Please!

Please, it doesn't have
to be like this! Stop it!

Knock, knock.

Oh, hello, sweeties.

Where's Mummy?

Mummy isn't here.

Oh.

Come here, kids.



Hello.

Oh, you're putting that in.

Hello.

Yeah. Oh.

Hello, darling.

Karly.

They're in TV.

TV. Karly!

And so would I.

Karly!

Jude. What's up? Karly's not here.

The kids are watching TV, the place
looks like it's been done over.

What should I do? Should
I call the police?

Hey, calm down. Where's Karly?



That's what I'm telling
you! She's not here!

Judith!

Karly! Hey, Judith, what's happening?

Karly!

Judith, what is happening?!
Where is Karly?!

Oh, God.

Oh, no.

Karly. No.

Oh, no! Karly!

OH, NO!

Oh, what a relief.

Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Eve. Sorry?

If you want, I can call
you Detective Winter.

Cute. What I want is for
you to stay out of trouble.

Hey, you listen to your aunty.

God knows he doesn't listen to me.

Hey, that could easily have
been a possession charge.

Don't make light of it.

Oh, come on. He got busted with
one joint. Talk about unlucky.

He needs to know there are
repercussions for his actions.

You're the psychologist,
you should know that.

OK, we don't need to make
a big deal out of it.

It's serious, Mel. Point taken.

Boundaries. Got it.

Eve Winter.

Where?

On my way.

Eve.

Sorry, not the best of
conditions to be working in.

Better hurry before she
gets washed out to sea.

Ooh. Be careful, boss, the
rocks are a bit slippery.

Alesia. This is Detective Milo Lee.

Detective Taylor. I've
heard good things.

Oh, right.

Karly Johansson. Husband Luke
Thompson is a fisherman.

Karly worked part-time
in the local bank.

Mother of two.

How old are the kids?
Faith's four, Lily two.

And where are they? With
the victim's mother, Judith.

She arrived to babysit, found the
kids alone, the place ransacked.

Went to look for her daughter.

Detective Sergeant
McKenzie's with her now.

Lachlan's here already?

Karly! Karly!

Karly!

Sir, police. You can't
go any further.

My wife. No, please! Sir, I'm sorry.

No. I'm sorry, sir.

Is it Karly?

Sir, I'm Detective Sergeant Eve
Winter. Are you Luke Thompson?

Is it Karly?

I'm sorry, sir.

I'm going to need to
ask you some questions.

Puffer. He needs a puffer.

Here.

Luke.

Daddy, where's Mummy?

That's the victim's mother, Judith.
That's her sister, Lauren.

Lauren's husband, Travis, is taking
their 10-year-old son to school.

Explains what they're doing
here. How about you?

Just wanted to get here
early, cover the basics.

Just so we're clear, I'm
lead detective on this.

Absolutely, boss.

I'm not here to change that.

The reason I asked
to join the task force

is because I think this might be
linked to one of my cold cases.

How?

Dead woman on the rocks
eight years ago.

Eight years ago? School
counsellor, yeah?

Janet Pagent. Mm. Was she stabbed?

Strangled. Was her house broken into?

No. Any similarities
other than location?

Mrs Johansson, I'm Detective
Sergeant Eve Winter.

Who could have done this?

That's what we're here to find out.

Can you tell me what was in the safe?

Oh, it's been empty for years.

Bjorn had it fitted in the
early days of the business,

when everyone paid in cash.

Bjorn? My husband.

So, this is your house? Yeah.
It got too big for us.

Especially after Bjorn's illness.

He's got cancer.

I can't believe this is happening.
It doesn't feel real.

When did you last see Karly?

Um... last night. I helped her get
the kids to bed. I left about 10.

Maybe if I'd stayed a little bit
longer this wouldn't have happened.

Can you think of anyone that
would want to harm your sister?

No. No, everyone loves Karly.

Oh, Mum. Mum. Shh.

You don't believe the robbery
angle any more than I do.

Prime suspect in Janet
Pagent's murder

was her husband, Paul Pagent.

We need to talk to him.
Our priority is Karly.

We need to talk to Paul Pagent.

You are not using Karly's murder
to shoehorn your cold case.

I need all the resources
I have to find her killer.

Janet Pagent was 25 years old
when she was strangled to death

and dumped on those same rocks, Eve.

Body wasn't found for three days.

Finding her killer matters to me.

OK, canvass all the
neighbours, talk to everyone.

See if anyone saw anything, any
witnesses to the alleged break-in.

What about the husband?

I checked with the deckhand
- he alibis him for last night.

We need to build a profile on Karly.

Facebook, Twitter, emails. Talk
to her colleagues at the bank.

I want to know everything. Alright,
let's go and talk to Mr Pagent.

We'd like to ask you a few questions.

Let me guess.

Did I murder my wife?

The answer is no.

Did I strangle my wife?

Ditto.

Did I throw my wife's
body on the rocks?

How many times do I have to say it?

The answer is no, no and no.

That was eight bloody years ago.

This isn't about that, Mr Pagent.

Did you know Karly
Johansson? Bjorn's kid?

What's happened to her?
She's been murdered.

Her body was found on the
same rocks. Same beach.

And you wanna pin this on me.

Where were you last night? At home.

Anyone with you? No.

Didn't go out at all? Oh, that's
right, I remember now.

That's right, I ducked out quickly
to murder Karly Johansson.

I know what you did
to your wife. Lachlan.

You see this?! Police brutality!

Mr Pagent, if you can
remember anything

that can confirm your
whereabouts last night -

takeaway order, petrol receipt
- please let me know.

What the hell do you think you're
doing? I should put you on report.

Prick's been free for eight years.
He should have been behind bars.

This isn't about Janet, this
is about finding Karly's killer.

You can't exclude him, he doesn't
have an alibi for Karly.

We need to talk to Steve Wheeler,

local cop at the time
of Janet's murder.

He totally sides with
me about Pagent.

We found fibres from the boot of
his car in her hair, for Chrissake,

but that's not enough to prosecute
him according to the DPP.

Yep?

OK. Thanks, Alesia.

Body's being moved.
Where's Wheeler now?

He's a detective in the drug squad.

Well, you talk to Wheeler
about the Johanssons,

and ask him about the
husband, Luke Thompson.

Thought he had an alibi.

Doesn't mean he didn't hire
someone else to do it.

Steve. G'day, mate.

How's it going?

Hear about the Rocky Point murder?

Yeah, Karly. Poor kid.

Know the family?

Johanssons? Yeah, good people.

Been fishing the local
area for years.

Did the Johanssons have anything
to do with Paul Pagent?

Why? Is there some link
to Janet's murder?

That's what I'm trying to find out.

I can't believe that prick's
still walking around.

He did it, 100%.

What about the Johanssons?

No connection I know of. Yeah.

Do you know Luke Thompson?

Karly Johansson's husband.

She was still at school
when I left. How's drugs?

Oh, no end of trade there.

We just shut down a
pizza shop operation.

You order the right combo,
you get the pizzas

and the drugs delivered
inside the box.

Hey, um... I can ask
around if you like.

I mean, I know these people.

They're more likely to
talk to a familiar face.

There's a beer in it.

You're on.

Had to move her sooner
than I would have liked.

The ocean has a way of
reclaiming everything.

Do you have a cause of death yet?

Not yet.

She has one stab wound.
Lots of superficial cuts.

None deep enough to cause serious
injury. Collectively, however.

Most of the wounds
are likely defensive.

She would have been holding her arms
out in front of her like this.

Any sign of a sexual assault?

It's too early to tell.

Sorry, you can't be here.

I'm Federal Agent Jake Harris.

Your homicide turned
up on our database.

AFP?

What's your interest?

This is Indiana Hope,

the victim of a hit-and-run
last night in Kings Cross.

So, what's this got
to do with my case?

Indiana's a key witness in
a major AFP investigation

and I need to know if there's any
link between your girl... and mine.

Indiana.

Indy. You know her?

Yes, she lived with us
for about six months.

Must be, what, eight years ago?

How did she come to live with you?

Do you know her parents?
She was a foster-child.

What agency did she come through?

I don't remember. My husband
handled all that stuff.

We must have the paperwork somewhere.

What's this all about?

What does Indiana have to do with
my daughter's... with Karly?

It's important for us

to know everything there
is to know about Karly.

Her background, her history,
who she was friends with.

It helps us understand what
might have happened to her.

Oh.

They were very high-spirited.

What Mum means is that they were
always getting in trouble.

They took off one weekend
and got those tattoos.

They're supposed to mean
'friends forever'.

You didn't like your sister
hanging out with Indiana?

I didn't like being held responsible
for whatever they got up to.

I'm an older sister,
I know what you mean.

I keep expecting her to walk
through the door any moment.

I'm sorry. Look, we've only
got a few more questions.

When did you last see Indiana?
We haven't. Not since she left.

Any reason why?

She stayed with you for six months, she was
best friends with Karly and then nothing?

Well, she turned 16. She
got a job in the city.

Have you had any contact since then?

I tried to stay in touch,
see how she was getting on,

but she never answered my calls.

I figured she was just busy
with her new friends and job.

What about Karly? Did
she keep in contact?

Not that she ever talked about.

We're very close. I'm sure if
she had she'd have mentioned it.

Thank you.

I want Mummy.

It's Faith, isn't it?
Have you been drawing?

Can I see?

So now are you going to tell me
what your investigation's about?

It's not relevant.

They knew each other.

Eight years ago.

It's worth digging deeper, surely.

Nothing I heard bears any
relation to my case, so...

But it might to mine.

Two women, same tattoos, both
victims on the same night.

Yeah, and the tattoos were explained.

Look, the fact that
Karly was murdered

on the same night as
Indiana's accident,

it's coincidence but
it's not significant.

And I don't need this sidebar
muddying my investigation,

so thank you.

Indiana Hope. She's part
of a federal investigation.

Now, the feds aren't
telling us anything,

but she was a foster-kid who lived
with the Johanssons eight years ago

and was a victim of a hit-and-run
in the Cross last night.

Eight years ago?

Yeah.

Indiana and Karly both
went to the same school

where Janet Pagent was counsellor.

What's the relation?

Do you think the girls had something to
do with the counsellor's murder, boss?

It's too soon to say, but
I don't like coincidences.

So, what have we got so far?

The husband was on the boat all
night. Deckhand alibis him.

We checked with Karly's employers at the bank
- no-one saw her yesterday.

But Karly was at a banking
conference in the city last week.

OK, well, let's follow that up.

I mean, the parents say the
girls didn't stay in contact,

but if Karly was in the
city, maybe they met.

And get onto the Kings Cross branch and see
if they've got anything on that hit-and-run.

Eve Winter.

Great. Thanks.

That was one of the nurses
at the hospital.

I asked her to let me know
if Indiana had any visitors.

Be careful, Eve.

Start messing in a
feds investigation,

they're not gonna like it.

So, please help Indy to get well
and bring her back from her coma.

Even though she's not real good with
being tidy and drinks my soya milk.

Amen.

You obviously know her.

Yeah, we live together. Do
you think she can hear us?

Maybe.

Don't worry about that soya
milk, I don't like it anyway.

Is Indy a working girl, too?

Nah, she was, but she...
How did you know that?

Yeah, I got nothing to hide.

It's a good job. I get paid super,
workers' comp, holiday pay even.

And Indy?

She's doing a business course online.

Wants to change her life.

Good luck to her I say. Online?
So she's got a computer?

Yeah, the other cop took
it already. The other cop?

Can't remember his name. He was
tall, good-looking. Bit of a dick.

Thank you.

Anything?

I'm just checking the hotel where Karly
stayed, see if she had any guests.

I've been meaning to ask you.

Earlier you said that you'd heard
some good things about me.

Yeah. Who was that from?

Can't remember.

Can you remember what was said?

You were very analytical.

That's it? And punctual.

Yeah.

Thanks.

No record of any guests.

It's hardly a compliment,
though, is it?

What? Punctuality.

Well, Eve obviously thinks so.

Oh, my God! What have you got?

I asked the techies to check
Karly's phone records

to see if anything had
been deleted recently,

and this image was sent
to her three days ago

from a work colleague at
the bank, Romain Gellar.

That is what I think it is, right?

It's a penis with a smiley face.

It was just a joke. We
did it all the time.

Karly sent you photos?

Well, I'd send a photo

and she'd text back with
a caption to go with it.

Well, look, see, she wrote back,
"Peter Pecker on holiday!"

Have you ever worked in a bank?

We have to amuse ourselves somehow.

Were you at a conference
with Karly last week?

Yeah, Banking In The New Age.

Shorthand for "You don't have
a job for much longer, sucker."

You stayed at the same hotel.
The same hotel, different rooms.

You texted her asking if she wanted
to see Mr Pecker in person?

I knew she'd knock me back.

But you can't blame a guy for trying.

Karly was married.

Yeah. Luke.

Nice guy. He must be pretty cut up.

Did you and Karly go anywhere
other than the conference?

On our last night, we went
to a bar for a few drinks

and then Karly saw someone
she knew and that was it.

I didn't see her after
that. What bar?

CCTV footage from a
bar called The Cave.

Romain's story checks out.
He and Karly are seen here.

Then Karly and Indiana
find a table in the corner

and sit talking for hours.

And now one's at intensive care and
the other's on a slab at the morgue.

What did you talk about?

Got an ex-foster-girl in hospital,
the victim of a hit-and-run,

a dead young mother who didn't
have an enemy in the world,

and a cold murder case possibly
linking the three together.

You'll figure it out.

You always do.

You say the four-year-old
drew this? Yeah.

A lot of confusion.

It reminds me of the pictures
you used to do after Dad died.

Blew his brains out, you mean?

You'd sit and draw for hours. Mum
called them your angry pictures.

I'm surprised she even noticed, the
amount of 'medicine' she was on.

I noticed.

Anyway, can you talk to the little
girl? I mean, you're the expert.

Sure. If the father agrees. Do
you think she saw something?

Maybe.

Are you expecting someone?

No.

You've been trampling
all over my case.

What are you doing here?

You went to the hospital, you
spoke to her friend Sharni.

What, you think because you're a fed
you can just show up on my doorstep?

The murder of Karly Johansson has
got nothing to do with Indiana Hope.

You're wrong, actually.
They met three nights ago.

Agent Harris, this is my
sister, Melanie Winter.

Hi. Everyone calls me Mel.

Hey.

OK, I'm off.

Got a son to keep out of juvie.

I'll see you out.

Not expecting anyone,
eh? I wasn't. I'm not.

Kind of cute for a fed. Is he single?

I thought you didn't date cops.
Not for me. You, silly.

Oh, goodnight.

You know what they say about
all work and no Shades Of Grey.

Get out.

Do you still believe in coincidences?

You tell me. What's
it look like to you?

Looks like they ran into
each other in a bar

and stayed talking for two hours.

I want to know what they
were talking about.

And unless I know to do otherwise,

I'm gonna follow this
investigation wherever it leads me.

Indiana has information that could
put away a major crime figure.

She has to testify at a committal
hearing in two weeks.

We didn't think anyone knew about
her involvement in the case.

So your hit-and-run could
have been deliberate.

Have you found the car?

Witnesses say they saw
a grey Holden Nova.

I've got officers trawling through
the CCTV footage at the Cross.

So maybe it's time
for some cooperation.

Lachlan, hi. How'd
you know it was me?

Only you know I'd still be awake.

Let me guess, in bed
surrounded by case files.

With the next-door neighbour's
cat, yes. Where are you?

Just checking out a lead.

It's late. I'm an early starter.

Get some sleep. I could
say the same to you.

I'm an insomniac, I've got no choice.

I'm an obsessive bastard,
neither do I.

You know,

it is good to be working
with you again.

Yeah, you, too.

No CCTV footage of the accident but
we double-checked with e-tag records

and got this Holden Nova
speeding through the tunnel.

It's registered to Chris Higgins.

We went to the address
and took this photo.

It was parked at the
unit block under a tarp.

Good work.

This guy's a former mercenary
with a long list of priors.

Carrying a concealed
weapon, common assault,

cultivation of prohibited substance,

unlawful use of a firearm,
possession of explosive materials.

The list goes on. Do you
want us to bring him in?

With those priors, I don't think so.

In the spirit of cooperation...

Police! Don't move!

Leave me alone! Dad!
Get off me, you pigs!

Leave her alone! That's my daughter!

What do you bastards want?!

Your car was involved in a hit-and-run
accident two nights ago.

Bullshit! You've got the wrong guy.

No, we don't, 'cause
we've got you on CCTV.

You pricks. Take him away.

I didn't mean to do it.
She came out of nowhere.

I had to work back late
and I was driving home,

and she just stepped onto the road.

She didn't look or anything.

I thought she was drunk or on drugs.
It was an accident, I swear.

Why didn't you stop?

I was scared. I didn't
want to lose my job.

OK. Alright, come on, sit
'em both down on the couch.

Yep?

Search the rest of the flat.

Come on, man, sit down.

Thank you.

That was the hospital.
Indiana's awake.

The last time I saw Karly we were 16.

What? No, you met three
days ago, Friday night.

I don't remember.

And now you're telling me she's dead?

I'm sorry.

Do you know anything about that?

No.

Why would I? We were friends.

Did you keep in contact
over the years?

Phone calls, Facebook?

I don't know. No.

I can't remember.

Well, what's the last
thing you do remember?

Heading out Friday night.

Getting ready, talking to Sharni.

Then that's it.

Waking up here. Now.

What about Sunday night?

Sunday night? You were hit by a car.

The driver said you were on drugs.

What? I don't take drugs.

How many ways do I have to say it?

I don't remember anything
about the last three days.

Right.

What about our deal?

You remember that?

You have to testify at
the committal hearing.

Are we still good?

Look at me, Indiana.

Are we still good?

Well, it's convenient she
can remember your case

but not what she talked to
Karly about three nights ago.

Do you think she's lying?

I think she's holding something back.

Could be the bump on the head. The
main thing is she can still testify.

And Karly?

Hey, they met up, they talked.
Who knows what about?

Getting tattoos, old times, whatever.

It doesn't matter, it's got
nothing to do with my case.

I'm glad you can make that conclusion.
Look, I've told you whatI know.

No, you haven't. You've told me what
you want me to know, not everything.

Not names.

'Cause you don't need to know them. I
mean, how's that going to help the case?

Well, how do I know that
if I don't know the facts?

You're just gonna have
to take my word for it.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Are you OK?

Bought you this.

I thought you could do with some
shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser.

Anyone you want me to call
- relative? Your flatmate Sharni?

There's no-one.

You've been taking care of yourself
for a long time, haven't you?

We've got that in common.

I used to think I could
never ask anyone for help,

it was a sign of weakness.

It's not true, though.

We all need help from
time to time, Indiana.

Is there anything
you want to tell me?

OK.

Well, if you do remember
anything about Karly

or even if you just want to talk
about what's happened to you,

give me a call, OK?

I'm on your side, Indy.

I can summarise it for you.

In short, the fall killed her.

But the knife attack
caused her to fall.

Backed up against the cliff edge,
she had nowhere else to go.

What do you know about head
injuries and memory loss?

I work with dead bodies, Eve
- they don't have memories.

Yes, but is it feasible that
you can wake from a coma

and not remember the last three days?

I love that you think I can
give bar-room assessments

of patients I've never met.

Neurologist said that she's
got post-traumatic amnesia

but can't give a time
line for recovery.

That's because with head injuries
there isn't a 'normal'.

Yes, but will she regain her
memory? There you go again.

If you think of your skull
as this glass, a light knock.

But hit by a car, it depends
on how hard she landed,

whether she was
intoxicated at the time.

Mm.

The Cave. It's not our
usual watering hole, Eve.

What made you wanna come here?

Something different.
Keeps it interesting.

Same again? No, I'll get these.

Two more of the same, thanks.

Are those your only cameras? And
the ones in the shop outside.

Just out on the street.

Oh. Thanks.

I got this outside
a bar called The Cave.

Your wife met Indiana Hope there.

They chatted for ages and then
Karly went outside for 15 minutes.

She's crying.

I seriously don't know
anything about this.

Karly never mentioned anything
about going to this bar. Nothing.

So, can you tell me about
this drawing, Faith?

What do you like about
it? Everything.

Me, too.

So... so, is this Mummy? Yes.

Mm-hm. And who's this one?

The monster.

You said you had something?

I asked around about Karly and Indiana
with a few of the old locals

and it seems there could
be a link to Paul Pagent.

How? This is all rumour, OK?

Nothing so far I can
substantiate, but...

What? What is it?

I'm sorry we couldn't
be more helpful.

Well, didn't get a name,
doesn't mean it didn't help.

Oh, thank you, Faith.

Do you think she saw someone?
The monster's real?

Yeah, I think she saw someone.

Thanks.

There's a link between Paul
Pagent and all three women.

We knew he used to be the
groundskeeper at the school

until his wife's murder.

There were rumours about
him and certain schoolgirls

that were investigated at
the time, came to nothing.

But what we didn't know was that
Karly and Indiana were amongst them.

What if Janet Pagent hears about
it and confronts her husband?

They argue, she threatens
to expose him,

he kills her to cover up and then,
eight years later, he kills Karly.

It's him.

He's our guy.

We don't have enough to arrest him.

We've got enough to bring
him in for questioning.

Yeah, which I'll be doing.

This is my guy. I've been
on this for eight years.

Yeah, and that's exactly why
- you're too close.

You sound like my ex-wife.

She says it took over my life.

Eve Winter.

Eight years and the
prick tops himself.

So, what does this do to our case?

Nothing. We're still looking
for Karly's killer.

You don't think Pagent did it?

Well, if he did, we need to prove it.

We need to pull phone
records, logbooks,

double-check his whereabouts
from when Karly met Indiana

until the night of her murder.

If Karly threatened to expose him,
we need evidence of that... meeting.

Indiana's toxicology report.

Barbiturates mixed
with unknown poison.

The hit-and-run might
have been an accident

but someone did try to kill her.

I need your help.

Stop!

Yeah?

What?

OK, thanks.

That was Alesia.

She checked the foster records
and births, deaths and marriages.

There is no Indiana Hope.

She doesn't exist.