0:00:02 > 0:00:06MUSIC: Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
0:00:06 > 0:00:08CHEERING, SHOUTING
0:00:34 > 0:00:37- Hey, you got something to say? - You sold it!
0:00:37 > 0:00:39- So, what's it to you? - Mate, come on.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Mate, I don't know what this is about, but leave it.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17COWS MOO
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Evening, ladies.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hello, ladies.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33COWS MOO
0:01:37 > 0:01:39That's easy for you to say.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Sure, mate. Just like my old man, mate.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Oh, that is rubbish! Rubbish! "Just like your old man"?
0:01:52 > 0:01:53How did they get out?
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Oi, boys, go that side. Go that side.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hey, Bessie. What are they doing out of their pen?
0:02:00 > 0:02:01I don't know.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07Boys.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17The body's as you found it, Charlie?
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Yeah, exactly as a couple of teenagers found it last night.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23They saw it, got scared, ran off.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Only reported it an hour ago.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Right.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28He'd been drinking, clearly.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Curious. He's come in here and left the gate open.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I'd have thought, rule number one when dealing with livestock,
0:03:34 > 0:03:35you shut the bloody gate.
0:03:35 > 0:03:40Well, he was drunk, went into the pen, forgot to close the gate,
0:03:40 > 0:03:41got trampled by the cows.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Why'd he go inside?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46You seem a little edgy today, Charlie.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Half the station was called out to a brawl at McCain's Alley last night.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51And the cells are full.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55The deceased is Mark Dempster.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Local dairy farmer.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00How would you know that? His face is only partially...
0:04:00 > 0:04:02One of those teenagers worked on his farm.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04This is his cow pen, his cows.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And that there is his watch.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09And obviously, that was his beer bottle.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10And I'd say...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Oh, yes -
0:04:14 > 0:04:16he polished off quite a few before that.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18And...
0:04:18 > 0:04:21we know he enjoyed a game of two-up.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25We also know these footprints here aren't his.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27What?
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Different sole, different heel.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31In fact, different shoe size altogether.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34We'll get a plaster mould of those imprints.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38I think he's come over the fence, rather than through the gate.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43So, let's say he falls, rolls, ends up partially under the trough...
0:04:45 > 0:04:47And then what?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Remains completely motionless while being trampled to death?
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Sergeant!
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Doc, I need you to hold off on that autopsy,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57just until we get a positive identification.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Yes, of course.- Thanks, Doc.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07So, we just sit here? We can't even examine him?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10His wife's on her way here now, to make the formal identification.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Until then, no touching the body.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- Ah!- What? I'm not touching the body.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Caucasian male, well-nourished. About 11st?
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Height?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Under six foot.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32Look.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Major chest trauma, multiple rib fractures,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38collapse of the thorax, all on the left-hand side,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41all consistent with having been trampled.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43If the entire right-hand side of the body
0:05:43 > 0:05:45was positioned under the water trough...
0:05:45 > 0:05:48..then there should be no markings on the right-hand side whatsoever.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50But there are. Look.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I suspect... DOOR OPENS
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Right this way, Mrs Dempster.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Mrs Dempster, I'm Dr Lucien Blake, this is Dr Alice Harvey.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Please.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20It's not him.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23That's not my husband.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33The deceased is Ben Dempster.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Yes, Mark Dempster's brother.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38He was murdered. I believe he was struck on the back with this.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41He fell, and the cattle did the rest.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43So, Ben Dempster was at his brother's cow pen, for some reason.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Wearing his brother's watch.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Charlie, I'll swap you.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50The men in lock-up are going to need some stitching up.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Yes, I'll see to them.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Doc, there's something else I really need to talk to you about.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Give me a moment, Charlie.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Superintendent, what do you make of this?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06An unidentified print from the murder scene.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Is there something you want to tell me, Doug?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17I've been dismissed.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20- All there, sir?- I'm sorry?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22What about proper procedure?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Not this time.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Don't make yourself too hard to like.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Lucien.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43All new evidence, all findings, you will hand over directly to me.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46And I want those reports typed and on my desk
0:07:46 > 0:07:48no later than ten o'clock. Go.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Sir, this is Dr Lucien Blake, Police Surgeon.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Chief Superintendent William Munro.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Superintendent, welcome to Ballarat.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I was just briefing Davis here on how we'll go about
0:08:03 > 0:08:06redeeming ourselves for misidentifying a body.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Yes. Ah, the autopsy suggests...
0:08:09 > 0:08:11..the spade was used.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15A deliberate act, causing Ben Dempster to fall into that cow pen.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19- Indeed. The intent was definitely to kill.- Well, clearly.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22And my officers will consider all the evidence.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Ah, evidence.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25An unidentified print from the scene.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29- You'll notice the unusual heel. - Now, the fight...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32The men were playing two-up at the time.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36I know, because I was there briefly, before the fight broke out.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38I found this broken kip.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Clearly, a casualty of the fight.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Well, it seems the deceased may well have been at that very same game.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48We found this on him.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Head down to the cells.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Stitch up the men from the brawl.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02I'll question them all in turn, to see what the connection may be
0:09:02 > 0:09:04between the brawl and our victim.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Very good.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Then spend the day with Davis, who'll stop in on Ruth Dempster.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11I've already informed her of her husband's death.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13My guess is, she'll need some medical attention.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16And let's find out what we can about Ben Dempster.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19After that, you can both check in on Mrs Mark Dempster.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20See if she needs anything,
0:09:20 > 0:09:24considering the trauma she was put through at the morgue this morning.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Davis, you'll question Mark Dempster,
0:09:27 > 0:09:31who is alive and well, about how his watch came to be on the deceased.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- Yes, sir.- I hope my instructions are clear
0:09:33 > 0:09:36and you're both aware of what your jobs are.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Police can take evidence from a crime scene.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Police surgeons cannot.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Ah, finally! Come on.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Oh, you're kidding.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56We weren't the only ones in that fight.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00Do your job. Stopped looking for the rest of them, eh?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Been in the wars, eh?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Why don't you take a seat and we'll have a look at you.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- What's your name?- Nathan.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Nathan.- Nathan Eaton.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Nathan Eaton.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Did you sort out your differences?
0:10:15 > 0:10:18I think we're clear on where we all stand.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Just need to separate alcohol from social events next time.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Social events like gambling, eh?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- A game of two-up never hurt anyone. - NATHAN WINCES
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Well, until now.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Usually a bigger crowd than this at a two-up game, I would have thought.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Yeah, well, some of us weren't lucky enough to be let go scot-free.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Some of us are just born lucky, aren't we?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Leo Gilmore certainly is.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Leo? Leo the milkman?
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Yeah, delivering milk is more important than justice, apparently.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Who else got off scot-free?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Ben Dempster. He made a run for it.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55His brother Mark copped a few hits before he took off, too.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Cowards.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59So, they both left at around the same time?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Pretty much.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I don't make it a habit to hit a bloke
0:11:02 > 0:11:05and then follow him home to talk it through.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Shame the way it all ended up, though.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11I'm sure you've heard about Mr Dempster.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12I heard someone died.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Didn't realise it was Dempster. How did Ruth take it?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18How did you know I was talking about Ben?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Well...
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Eaton's definitely hiding something.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Indeed.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Might be worth checking to see if he's got fallen arches, Charlie.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48That shoe imprint of ours.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50That unusual heel.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53It's an orthotic and it's used to help people with flat feet.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Well, either way, he's got a pretty good alibi.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58He was beating up some locals at the time.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00True.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03However, that alleyway is only, what...
0:12:03 > 0:12:06five minutes away from the showgrounds?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Well, he could have got a few punches in,
0:12:08 > 0:12:09followed Ben to the cow pen,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12then gone back to the fight in time to be arrested.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Perfect alibi.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19KNOCKS AT DOOR
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Someone's home.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Nine o'clock.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27This day can only get better.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Mrs Dempster?
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Ben loved a drink.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42He needed something to unwind.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46This farm took it out of him.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49Any idea why your husband would have gone to the showgrounds?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53No, not really.
0:12:53 > 0:12:58Mrs Dempster, have you heard of a man named Nathan Eaton?
0:13:00 > 0:13:01One of Ben's friends.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05I met him once or twice, in passing.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I have to ask, were you home all night?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Yes.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13What were you doing?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Same thing I'm doing now -
0:13:16 > 0:13:20trying to fix some of Ben's old clothes.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Can't afford a new pair of overalls, so...
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Oh, for God's sake!
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Ruth, Ruth.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Is there anything I can do for you?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Perhaps something to help me sleep.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Yes. Of course.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Is there anyone you'd like us to notify?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Someone who can stay with you?
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Ben's all I have.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51All I had.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Ruth, what about Ben's brother, Mark?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58No, they didn't speak. Hadn't for some time.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Ben never had a head for business.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Always had one foot in the flypaper.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Mark thought Ben should be more like him. More logical.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20So, you left the two-up game...
0:14:20 > 0:14:23..right after one of the blokes got a punch in.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Then where did you go?
0:14:24 > 0:14:29Oh, I gave the alleyway a wide berth. Wound up home, eventually.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30I slept in the barn.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32And in the meantime, I was worried sick.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I figured if the police turned up on our doorstep, at least my wife
0:14:35 > 0:14:38would be able to honestly say that she didn't know where I was.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Turns out the police did turn up, only to tell me my husband was dead.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Oi! Helen!
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Grab the little one.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51So, no-one saw you all night?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Not your farm hands?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56No. I didn't see Ben after he left the game, either.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58When did he leave?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00When the fight got going -
0:15:00 > 0:15:02after he won some money, and my watch.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04My old man's watch.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Your father's? He handed it down to you, not your brother?
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Yeah, I reckon he just knew that Ben would lose it.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Sell it, more like.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14You didn't much like your brother-in-law, Mrs Dempster?
0:15:14 > 0:15:18I'll admit it. I never really warmed to Ben.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- All the best things in his life, we practically gave him.- Barbara.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Well, it's true. You know, you helped him buy that farm.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25You loaned him God knows how much money.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28He only met Ruth because she worked here.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32I'm sorry, love. I know he was your brother, but enough was enough.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I'd like to continue this interview down at the station,
0:15:35 > 0:15:37if you don't mind.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52You have fallen arches. Is that right?
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Excuse me?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56This'll take a lot longer, if I have to repeat everything.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Yes, my shoes are custom-made.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Tell me about your relationship with your brother
0:16:02 > 0:16:05- and why it was so fractured. - What's that got to do with my feet?
0:16:08 > 0:16:12I helped Ben for years, with his money problems.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Eventually, I had to stop.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16That must have been hard.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Like watching a train crash.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20So, Ben owed a lot of money, then?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25A couple of two-up games isn't going to pay the bills.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Maybe you helped Ben out this time with his money problems.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32No.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34How often did you play two-up together?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Just this once.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Sergeant.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Can you open a window in here?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Ah, no, sir, they don't open.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56Stuck in this tiny room, we can't even open a window.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00And not a lot of oxygen to the brain.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Make officers forgetful.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08That's not good, when we're trying to remember the details of a case.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10If we get something wrong,
0:17:10 > 0:17:13it can mean the difference between guilty and innocent.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17That's why we need our interviewee -
0:17:17 > 0:17:19that's you -
0:17:19 > 0:17:20to be clear...
0:17:21 > 0:17:23..so there's no room for error.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Now...
0:17:28 > 0:17:31..how often did you play two-up with your brother?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Every month.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Thank you.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Now, all that's left to work out
0:17:38 > 0:17:41is why your shoe print was found at the crime scene,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43when apparently you were asleep in a barn.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51What did Mark say to that?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53He had no response.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Doesn't know how his shoe prints got there.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Everything all right with Jean?
0:18:01 > 0:18:04No. It's the anniversary of Christopher's passing.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Where are you off to, Charlie?
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Chief wants me back at that farm, to visit the widow.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14See if she can tell me any more about
0:18:14 > 0:18:16who exactly her husband owed money to.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20I imagine it's no fun going back to the scene of a death knock.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Not much fun being on the receiving end of one, either.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- I think I'll join you, Charlie. - No, Munro doesn't like...
0:18:29 > 0:18:33I promised I'd go back with some sedatives. Just give me a moment.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Jean, do you mind if I ask you something?
0:18:44 > 0:18:48That plant out there, the cactus-y looking one there.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50What variety is that?
0:18:50 > 0:18:52- Aloe spinosissima...- Oh.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56..or Gold Tooth Aloe, because of the red and gold rosettes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- Doc, we need to go.- Coming, Charlie.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Funny, I saw another one quite like it today,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04at the farm we were at this morning.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Is that Ben Dempster's farm you're talking about?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Is he the one who's died?
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Yes. How did you know?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Would you mind terribly, if I came along with you both?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I know Ruth Dempster. I'd like to check that she's all right.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Sure.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Who did we owe money to?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Easier to tell you who we didn't owe money to.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30You don't take milk, do you, Ruth?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34And the foreclosure date on the farm, it was two weeks ago?
0:19:35 > 0:19:38We waited, but the bailiffs never came.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Kept our suitcases open, ready to pack.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43That must have been very difficult.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47We made the most of it.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50But these last few weeks, Ben wasn't the same.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55You know what it's like, Jean. Farmers working the land.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Up one minute, down the next.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01And your husband never considered selling the farm?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04He had an estate agent pushing us to sell,
0:20:04 > 0:20:07but Ben thought we should hold off.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08- Right.- Last night, when...
0:20:10 > 0:20:12..when he didn't come home, I...
0:20:13 > 0:20:15..I should have gone looking for him.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19This is my fault.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21No, Ruth, it isn't.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23This is what it feels like.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Your Christopher didn't come home, either.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31No. He didn't.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Ben and I, we...
0:20:37 > 0:20:42We used to say to each other that if one of us dies, the other one...
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Do you think Ruth meant what she said,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57when she said she couldn't go on without Ben?
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Oh, I don't know.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01- But my feeling is, we should keep an eye on her.- Mm.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Goodness me, this crop's seen better days.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Yes, I don't understand. The soil's always been so rich.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Oh, did you see the plant? Our plant?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- The old Gold Tooth?- Gold Tooth Aloe.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Yes, it's the same plant.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Most definitely the same variety. - No, it's exactly the same plant.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23I took a cutting from that one and planted it at your house.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28This was our farm, Lucien. Christopher's and mine.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Jean, I had no idea.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Oh, so much has happened.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39It's a relief that it's still there. It's exactly the same.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41A bit larger, of course.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Are you all right? Today, of all days?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Not really. But I wanted to be here.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Yes.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00BLAKE SPITS
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- Did you...?- Yes, I didn't want to say earlier.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05That is so damn salty.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15BLAKE SPITS
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Definitely the lettuce. And look, some are oily to the touch.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23- I thought you'd given up cigarettes. - I have.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Just for emergencies.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30- Why would Ben use so much herbicide?- Why, indeed.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38BLAKE SNIFFS
0:22:56 > 0:22:57There you are.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01And good luck to you.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05So, the chemical being used on Ben's crops is 24-D?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Yes, a substance originally intended for agricultural use,
0:23:08 > 0:23:11now used as a type of weed killer.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Right.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16So, if it wasn't Ben or Ruth who did it,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18why didn't they notice the damage to their crops?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Well, maybe they did,
0:23:20 > 0:23:23and didn't want to scare off any prospective buyers.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Next question.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29Did the person poisoning Ben Dempster's crops also kill him?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Well, Ruth mentioned a real estate agent
0:23:31 > 0:23:35who was bothering them to sell about a week ago.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Which is a good motive to destroy Ben's crops.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Either Ben starts to doubt his ability as a farmer,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43or he gets sick of the vandalism to his property.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Decides to throw in the towel and sell up.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48And the agent gets his healthy commission.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Then, there's Nathan Eaton -
0:23:50 > 0:23:52the bloke who was in lock-up from the fight.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Ben and he were both at the alley the night Ben died.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58So, apart from Mark Dempster, we have Nathan Eaton
0:23:58 > 0:24:00and this real estate agent?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05They're the same bloke.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Nathan Eaton works at Wright Homes. He's a property developer.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09And he has the right shoe size.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I don't enjoy taking the credit for your hard work.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Well, someone has to update Munro
0:24:19 > 0:24:21and I get the feeling it's best it's not me.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Now, listen. With Ben Dempster dead, the property would go to Ruth.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Well, it turns out, Nathan Eaton is the real estate agent.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31So, he knew she was happy to sell.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Could be a reason to kill Ben.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Even so, killing someone just to make a sale?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Oh, that Eaton, not the most measured chap I've ever met.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Murder may not be beyond him.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43And listen, I had a phone call from Jean.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Her house plant? It's already started wilting.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50You're saying there were two estate agents
0:24:50 > 0:24:53vying for the sale of Ben Dempster's property?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Yep. No, Mrs Carter.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Us here at Wright Homes, and Lilley Estates.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03The land surrounding Ben Dempster's has all been sold off.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Once he sold,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08we could start developing the area for low-income housing.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11So, getting that sale was important to you.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Mate, all sales are important to me.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18And in order to get that sale, you befriended the Dempsters.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Buttered them up. - All part of the job.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Convincing people to do things.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Yes. Explaining farms to prospective buyers.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30What makes for good soil, and so on.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34You were here to enquire about Ben Dempster's property?
0:25:34 > 0:25:35With Ben now deceased,
0:25:35 > 0:25:37I imagine you'll be approaching Ruth Dempster
0:25:37 > 0:25:39to get that sale that you wanted.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Why would I? There's no point.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Not now that their farm's off the market.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Lilley Estates got to the Dempsters before we did.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50The deal was done a few days ago.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Mr Muir, you were Ben Dempster's bank manager.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58What were the extent of his financial problems?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00He was defaulting on his mortgage payments.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04I suggested he sell his farm, pay back the bank what he owed.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Move somewhere smaller.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Oh, selling the farm would have been the right thing to do.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Pay off the mortgage, give us some money in our pockets.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17But I stood by Ben's decision not to.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Well, according to the developers at Wright Homes, Ben did sell the farm.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- To Lilley Estates. - No, that's not possible.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Well, the money was deposited into Ben's account.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33The bank was paid back what it was owed - around £3,000.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35So Ruth Dempster has a sizeable inheritance?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37She doesn't, actually.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40What do you mean, the money's gone?
0:26:40 > 0:26:44A day after the money from the sale went in,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46your husband took all the funds out again.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49The money's gone.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Were there any other unusual transactions
0:26:53 > 0:26:55from Mr Dempster's account that stood out for you?
0:26:55 > 0:26:59I always found it strange that a man who seemed to have no normal routine
0:26:59 > 0:27:01would come into the bank on exactly the same day every year
0:27:01 > 0:27:03and take out £20.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11So, would you like to tell me what we're doing here now?
0:27:11 > 0:27:12This case, Charlie.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17We've become so fixated on the financial side of things,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20we've lost sight of the crime scene.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22You going to introduce me to your friend?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25No need. She's about to meet a very untimely end.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27She belongs to Mrs Beazley.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30What, and you're just going to throw her in?
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Yes.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35I have one or two theories I want to try out.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37What are you doing, Charlie?
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Put this over her.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41How very decent of you.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44She's going to tell us how easily cows stampede.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Whoever killed Ben Dempster needed to know for certain
0:27:47 > 0:27:50that these cows would do precisely that.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Let's see, eh?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55All right.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Sorry about this.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04Absolutely nothing.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08I wonder... What about noise?
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Let's try a bit of yelling, Charlie.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15All right, let's start with the money.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16Off you go.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21Peter Muir said £15,000 still missing.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22Yah!
0:28:23 > 0:28:25From the sale of the farm?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- Yes!- Really?
0:28:27 > 0:28:28Yes.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Yeah, we checked Mark Dempster's bank balance.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32No large sums of money have gone in.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35- Right.- Ruth and Ben's accounts are almost empty, as well.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36- Thanks.- I see.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40How's your whistle, Charlie?
0:28:40 > 0:28:42- Oh, pretty good.- Let her rip.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46CHARLIE WHISTLES
0:28:46 > 0:28:47COWS MOO
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Ah! High-pitched noises, Charlie. Whistles.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53That's what gets them moving - whistles.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57Well, that narrows it down to every farmer in Victoria, Doc.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59All right, Charlie, thank you.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01- Doc!- Yes?
0:29:05 > 0:29:06Look at this.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08That wasn't there before.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09It's a money clip.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16"MD."
0:29:16 > 0:29:17Mark Dempster, I'm arresting you
0:29:17 > 0:29:20under suspicion of the murder of Ben Dempster.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24I must inform you that you do not have to say or do anything,
0:29:24 > 0:29:27but anything you say or do may be given in evidence.
0:29:27 > 0:29:28Do you understand?
0:29:30 > 0:29:33We've confirmed the money clip belongs to Mark Dempster.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36Oh, so you think it might have fallen out of his pocket when he killed his brother?
0:29:36 > 0:29:38Well, that is what we initially thought.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42But then, Evan Sanders' father dragged his boy into the police station.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44- That's the teenager that found the body?- Yeah, yeah.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47He stole the money clip and the money from the crime scene.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49That's until he realised it was a murder investigation.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52- And so, he put it back? - Yeah, exactly.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Yeah, you should have seen the boss go through him.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57- It was like a hot knife through butter.- Oh, I'm sure.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Look, all the evidence we have still points to Mark.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03They're doing a search through Ben and Mark Dempster's houses tomorrow.
0:30:03 > 0:30:07- I see.- What about the man who's indirectly killing my plant?
0:30:07 > 0:30:08Ah, Nathan Eaton.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12Well, he isn't clear of suspicion just yet.
0:30:12 > 0:30:13Oh, the showgrounds.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15There's an article here about the agricultural show.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19It says that there's farmers who are in uproar over...
0:30:19 > 0:30:21- ..over prize money. - Oh, there's always a cash prize
0:30:21 > 0:30:24for the Best of British livestock competition at the show.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27- There isn't one this year? - Apparently not.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29It mentions the Muir family in the article.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Oh, they always put up the money.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33They have done, for as long as I can recall.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Peter Muir, the bank manager.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37It's the same Muirs?
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Yes, Peter. He's an interesting sort.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42They've always looked to him to manage their finances.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46So, it would have been his decision to pull that prize money.
0:30:46 > 0:30:47Oh, I presume so, yes.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52You reckon he was at that two-up game, don't you, Doc?
0:30:52 > 0:30:53Possibly.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56You know he'll just deny ever being there.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57Yes, I know.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00But there may be another way to find out, Charlie.
0:31:09 > 0:31:10There's my girl.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Doc! Bit early for you, isn't it?
0:31:15 > 0:31:18- Leo.- G'day.
0:31:18 > 0:31:19Been in the wars, have you?
0:31:19 > 0:31:22- Hey?- Looks like you've had quite a scrap.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23Ah.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27I know you were at that two-up game with Ben Dempster the night he died.
0:31:29 > 0:31:30Doug Ashby let me go.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32I needed to do me milk deliveries.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35I've already been dragged in by that Munro bloke to answer questions.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38Leo, it's all right. You're not in trouble. I just need a name.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42Someone who was at that game, in that fight.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Someone who wouldn't want people to know they liked to bet.
0:31:45 > 0:31:46Really liked to bet.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53- Finance can be quite dull, can't it, Mr Muir?- I know, I know.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57The only thrill I get these days is during a game of cards or two-up.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00It's not a problem or anything, though. I... I can control it.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Then why didn't the Muir family contribute prize money
0:32:05 > 0:32:06to the show this year?
0:32:06 > 0:32:08I've informed my family to look to the future.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10Start tightening their belts.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13With your access to their accounts, you gambled it.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Your family could lose their business, their land.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21I'm sure Ben Dempster could sympathise.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Let me tell you what I think, Mr Muir.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27I think a man in your precarious financial position
0:32:27 > 0:32:29may have misappropriated the funds
0:32:29 > 0:32:32from the sale of Ben Dempster's farm.
0:32:32 > 0:32:36What's to say you're not just lying through your teeth?
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Maybe you were the one who murdered Ben.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44Then you cook the books, pocket the balance
0:32:44 > 0:32:46and try to play me for a fool.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49No! No, please. You've got it all wrong.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Ben wanted in on some card games, bigger games.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55A way to keep his farm. Except, he was a dreadful player.
0:32:55 > 0:32:59He was just terrible. He told me to extend the foreclosure date.
0:32:59 > 0:33:00I refused.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04He threatened to notify head office about my gambling problem.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06I didn't kill him. I didn't!
0:33:06 > 0:33:09I know you didn't, Muir. Look at you.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Who threw the first punch at the two-up game?
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Nathan Eaton. He went straight for Ben.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21Tell me, Sergeant, how did you know Peter Muir was at that two-up game?
0:33:23 > 0:33:27You initially suggested someone was sabotaging Dempster's crops.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29You've done a very thorough job.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Perhaps even gone beyond the call of duty.
0:33:37 > 0:33:41Now, I'd like to think that inside my station,
0:33:41 > 0:33:44there is a certain structure and order.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46Our name is attached to our role.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49It means that we are qualified to be part of an investigation.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Constable Simmons, Acting Sergeant Davis...
0:33:55 > 0:33:57..Chief Superintendent Munro.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00We've earned our place.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Yes, you have.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06But it's my name attached to those autopsy reports.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08It indicates that I know the cause of death.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- We know how the victim died.- Now, we need to know who killed him...
0:34:11 > 0:34:14If I find that you are no longer a fit here,
0:34:14 > 0:34:16the next station is in Bendigo.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21It's an awfully long way from the people you love.
0:34:23 > 0:34:27Sergeant, let's find those chemicals on Nathan Eaton.
0:34:27 > 0:34:28We can bring him in with that.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30Yes, sir.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34So, Mr Eaton.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37I found this in the bottom of the bin behind your office.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Much need for the use of dangerous herbicides
0:34:40 > 0:34:42in the property sales business?
0:34:42 > 0:34:45I just wanted the Dempsters to sell.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49I didn't use enough to poison them, just their plants.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53But you stopped using the chemicals once the place was sold?
0:34:53 > 0:34:54No.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58I stopped using them when I saw Ben shopping for his wife.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Shopping with his wife?
0:35:00 > 0:35:03No, FOR his wife. He was at Thomson's Jewellers.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05When he came out, I saw him holding a necklace.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Sorry, what does that have to do with anything?
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Look, I've got a wife too, mate.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15Ben was just a regular bloke, buying a present for his missus.
0:35:17 > 0:35:18That's when I stopped.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Mark's already been questioned about that. You know he has flat feet.
0:35:23 > 0:35:24Indeed.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28But I was looking for this particular shoe.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32Well, it could be his work boot.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37- Give me a minute.- Thank you.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44- We're just getting a glass of water. - Well, what a good idea.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47- Hello, I'm Dr Blake. Lucien. - Helen. Nice to meet you.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49This is my little girl, Janet.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51- Do you like my dress?- It's new.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54Well, yes, I do. It's lovely.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59- We'd better get that water. Nice to meet you.- And you.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05What a beautiful child.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07The whole family live on the property?
0:36:07 > 0:36:11Ah, just Helen. She's raising Janet on her own.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13You know, it's the weirdest thing.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16That pair of Mark's boots is missing.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25So, somebody else was wearing Mark Dempster's shoes?
0:36:25 > 0:36:29Yes. That's how this footprint came to be in that cow pen.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31Mark's shoes, not Mark's feet.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35There's no sign of the money from the sale of the farm, either.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Did you find anything else?
0:36:37 > 0:36:40Yes, there was something that took my interest earlier.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43The Dempsters' children. I thought they had four kiddies.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45We saw them playing together yesterday.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Turns out one of them wasn't theirs.
0:36:48 > 0:36:49A little girl.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52Belongs to a farm hand - Helen.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Does that mean anything?
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Oh, I don't know.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59This little girl, she...
0:37:00 > 0:37:02She looks a lot like Mark Dempster.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04- Oh?- Yes.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08Anyhow, the big question is,
0:37:08 > 0:37:10where does someone hide £15,000?
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Well, I know where I'd hide it.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Mark Dempster's confirmed it. He's Janet's father.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- His wife knows, too. - Oh, how could she not?
0:37:21 > 0:37:23I'll tell the Chief.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26- He's going to be back any minute now.- Good.
0:37:27 > 0:37:28Doc.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Oh, Charlie, I have every right to be here.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Perhaps I'm here checking up on your mental health.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Hey, there's nothing wrong with my mental health, thank you very much.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40- Oh, I'm sure I'd find something, if I looked hard enough. Tea? - No, thank you.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Come on, what else have you been reporting back to the Chief?
0:37:43 > 0:37:47Well, there's no cash at Ben Dempster's house, or Mark's.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50And Mark Dempster bought a new car, only days before Ben died.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54- Now, that's not cheap.- Yeah, we searched his property. Nothing.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Perhaps the money's in a really, really good hiding place.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Yeah, I don't want to hear what you're going to say next.
0:38:01 > 0:38:02What?
0:38:05 > 0:38:09I'm off to speak to the jeweller about Ben's purchase.
0:38:09 > 0:38:13If he was taking 20 quid out of the bank at the same time each year,
0:38:13 > 0:38:16maybe the jeweller was an annual visit as well.
0:38:16 > 0:38:17Exactly.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Doc, if Barbara catches you,
0:38:20 > 0:38:23she'll tell the Chief, and you'll be making it easy for him.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18DOG BARKS OUTSIDE
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Jean, you're a marvel.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34- Wash up time, kids. Come on. - KIDS SHOUT
0:39:41 > 0:39:43CELL DOOR OPENS
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Yes, that's Ben's money.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53It's from the sale of his farm.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I'm part of a local property group.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00Ben wanted me to invest all of his money.
0:40:00 > 0:40:01I was about to, when he died.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05He was finally growing up.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08He didn't want me to say anything to anyone.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15You made me feel guilty, as though I was the one who killed him.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17That's why I kept lying.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28What's wrong with him?
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Could show some compassion.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35I'd like to do some more digging,
0:40:35 > 0:40:37before we throw the book at Mark Dempster.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Among the smaller details of the case is the piece of jewellery
0:40:41 > 0:40:44Ben bought on the same day each year.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Davis, I want you to speak to Ruth Dempster about the jewellery.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51The rest of you, I want you to go over every report,
0:40:51 > 0:40:53every statement again.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Leave no stone unturned.
0:40:56 > 0:40:57Yes, and one more thing.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00If Ben was buying jewellery on the same day each year,
0:41:00 > 0:41:03it might be worth looking into birthdays and anniversaries.
0:41:03 > 0:41:04Seems logical to me.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07That's it for now.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10I'll leave you to follow up your leads.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20If it wasn't for the Dempsters' neighbour
0:41:20 > 0:41:23reporting a 1937 Standard outside her property,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26- I may never have known. - Yes, I was trying to be...
0:41:26 > 0:41:29I'm considering whether to make your act of trespassing
0:41:29 > 0:41:30a disciplinary matter.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35I know I probably don't work quite the way you'd like me to,
0:41:35 > 0:41:37but I did find that money.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40It may well be the best lead we have.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Are you telling me how to do my job?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44No. No, absolutely not.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47I just want to find out who did this.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49You and I want the same thing.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Yeah, but you're happy to sabotage your career in the process.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57You served on the Malay Peninsula.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Saw your fair share of nameless soldiers
0:42:03 > 0:42:05dying without their loved ones.
0:42:07 > 0:42:08So, what...
0:42:10 > 0:42:14..now you have to somehow justify their deaths,
0:42:14 > 0:42:16by justifying everyone else's?
0:42:31 > 0:42:33RADIO CRACKLES
0:42:42 > 0:42:43KNOCKS AT DOOR
0:42:43 > 0:42:46- Sorry to interrupt. - No, not at all, Charlie. Come in.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Well, we checked on Ruth Dempster.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54She doesn't know who that jewellery was for.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56And it's not her birthday for another six months.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58I see.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Are you finally going through those boxes from my room?
0:43:01 > 0:43:06Yes. This is the surgical records journal from Ballarat Hospital,
0:43:06 > 0:43:11from around the time my dear mother passed away.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13I should leave you in peace.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15No, no, no, it's fine. It's curious, though.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19I was told my mother died on the operating table. Appendix.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21And yet, in here,
0:43:21 > 0:43:25there's no mention of her having had an emergency appendectomy
0:43:25 > 0:43:29on the night she died - or any other procedure, for that matter.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30I put it down to doctor error.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34We do make mistakes, on occasion.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39- I'll leave you to it. - All right, Charlie. Thank you.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05Charlie, do you mind bringing in the milk?
0:44:05 > 0:44:08- Where are you off to, Charlie? - Just getting the milk.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11Lucien, sorry about the mess. We're baking for the church fete.
0:44:11 > 0:44:12- Ah.- "We"?
0:44:12 > 0:44:14Ruth Dempster and I. I'm going over there.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16Thought it might be good to keep her busy.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19- Yes, very good idea. You all right, Charlie?- Yep.- Thank you.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22Charlie, tell me, what do you know about eye colour?
0:44:22 > 0:44:23Not much.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Well, it's inherited, and it's influenced by more than one gene.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29Sorry?
0:44:29 > 0:44:31Er, different Jean. Here, look at this.
0:44:31 > 0:44:36- Oh, your mother's?- Yes, a wonderful old picture of my dear father.
0:44:36 > 0:44:40Now, look. Here, she's used two different tones of blue on that tie.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43It wouldn't have mattered how many different blues she used,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45that tie would still turn out blue.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49However, if she'd used a brown over the top of that blue...
0:44:49 > 0:44:52Brown is a dominant colour. It would override the blue.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54With eye colour,
0:44:54 > 0:44:56the only way to have blue eyes is to have two blue genes.
0:44:56 > 0:44:59- Mm.- And if you have brown eyes, you can have either two brown genes,
0:44:59 > 0:45:01or one blue and one brown.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Yes.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Remind me, Jean - your boy, Jack. What colour are his eyes?
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Blue, like his father.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- What about all the other colours? - Merely variants of the same thing.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15Mark Dempster and Helen Patten both have blue eyes.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18Meaning any child they had together would have...
0:45:19 > 0:45:20Blue eyes.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29Mark Dempster told us that Janet is his child.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31And yet, it was his brother, Ben,
0:45:31 > 0:45:34buying jewellery for Janet's birthday every year.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37- People always bought presents for Janet.- Yes.
0:45:37 > 0:45:41Like the pretty brown dress that matches her eyes so beautifully.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Eyes just like her father's.
0:45:46 > 0:45:50Ms Patten, Mark Dempster is under investigation.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52He's about to be charged with murder.
0:45:52 > 0:45:57Helen, if there's anything you need to tell us, now is the time.
0:45:57 > 0:45:58Please, for Janet's sake.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02She's Ben's daughter.
0:46:38 > 0:46:40Ruth, I know it's not my place,
0:46:40 > 0:46:44but I worry that you feel responsible for Ben's passing.
0:46:45 > 0:46:48I am.
0:46:48 > 0:46:49You weren't there when he died.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56Anyway, I'm listening, if you need to talk.
0:47:01 > 0:47:02I never met anyone like him...
0:47:04 > 0:47:06..like Ben.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11Together, we were unreliable.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14Unpredictable.
0:47:16 > 0:47:17We had the time of our lives.
0:47:23 > 0:47:24I never stopped loving him...
0:47:27 > 0:47:30..not even when we went through a really rough patch,
0:47:30 > 0:47:31a few years back.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38It was enough for him to look for someone else for affection.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41KETTLE WHISTLES
0:47:41 > 0:47:45He was like a child. He needed it.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50I'd lost him to that Helen woman.
0:47:51 > 0:47:53I found out for sure last week.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59I found his bank book.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06A lot of our money was going to her.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14We'd been paying her for years.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19All that time, we were struggling just to survive.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25He did this to me!
0:48:34 > 0:48:36Jean!
0:48:36 > 0:48:39And suddenly, it didn't matter if he was dead or alive.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41Jean!
0:48:41 > 0:48:42Jean!
0:48:49 > 0:48:50Ruth...
0:48:54 > 0:48:57..I think we might need to find you a bandage, my dear.
0:49:07 > 0:49:08I can't feel a thing.
0:49:14 > 0:49:15You worked it out.
0:49:17 > 0:49:18Yes.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20You don't drink milk.
0:49:20 > 0:49:24And I'd already cancelled our order when you arrived.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27I must have already known he was dead.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30None of it matters.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38Ruth, please. Please, listen to me.
0:49:38 > 0:49:41- I know...- You know? What would you know?
0:49:42 > 0:49:44What would any man know?
0:49:44 > 0:49:46You're right, Ruth, he wouldn't know, but I do.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49I know what it's like to be unhappy.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Christopher and I, we fought, just like everyone.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54I always told him I wanted to see the world.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56But he... he was happy with the simple life.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00Some days, I felt so trapped.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05And when he didn't enlist, I asked if him wanting to stay in Ballarat
0:50:05 > 0:50:07was the reason why he didn't sign up.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10And he took that to mean that he wasn't a man enough for me.
0:50:10 > 0:50:12And that I thought he was a coward.
0:50:12 > 0:50:15And one week later, he left for the front.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22One stupid fight, and I never saw him again.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30Every morning, I wake up feeling like you do.
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Empty.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40But it doesn't matter what we feel, because we're still here.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45And we have to find a way to keep on going,
0:50:45 > 0:50:46through the sadness.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50I did what I did. You did what you did.
0:50:53 > 0:50:57And we have to live with those consequences every day.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11All right.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18Ben was sitting on the gate.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21I hit him with a spade...
0:51:21 > 0:51:24- BEN GRUNTS - ..hard.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28He fell in, dazed.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32And then, I whistled to get the cows moving.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34RUTH WHISTLES
0:51:35 > 0:51:36Didn't take long.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39After you left the showgrounds,
0:51:39 > 0:51:41you went to Mark's farm to get his boots.
0:51:42 > 0:51:45Well, I knew if I could find something of his to put in the pen,
0:51:45 > 0:51:47I could make it look like he did it.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50Why Mark?
0:51:51 > 0:51:53He hid the truth about the baby.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56He's just as bad as Ben.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21You know, it's not your ability that's in question.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24It's that I don't have time to manage someone who's a rogue.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26And I can't do my job half-heartedly.
0:52:26 > 0:52:27It's not your job.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32An important lesson you learn during police training
0:52:32 > 0:52:34is that we do not guess.
0:52:35 > 0:52:36We do not follow up on every hunch.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39It can and will divert you from the facts.
0:52:42 > 0:52:43Yes.
0:52:45 > 0:52:46Yes, Superintendent.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49Look, you and I, we both want the same outcome.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51We just go about it differently.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54From today onward, you go about it my way.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58You are either with me,
0:52:58 > 0:53:00or against me.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03Your decision.
0:53:22 > 0:53:24I should be helping you with this.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Jean, I put you in danger.
0:53:29 > 0:53:33Oh, you did nothing of the sort and I won't hear another word about it.
0:53:36 > 0:53:40You didn't see much of the world after Christopher died, did you?
0:53:41 > 0:53:42No.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46I had plans, you know?
0:53:46 > 0:53:47For his return.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53The dress I'd wear, the meal I'd make.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55We'd get a chance to sit down together
0:53:55 > 0:53:56and I'd tell him that he was enough,
0:53:56 > 0:53:59and that he meant everything to me and the boys.
0:54:02 > 0:54:06We weren't finished. There was so much to say.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09You're not responsible for Christopher's death.
0:54:09 > 0:54:15Sometimes...sometimes, we end up exactly where we're meant to be,
0:54:15 > 0:54:17facing the challenges we're meant to face.
0:54:20 > 0:54:21It's your life, Jean.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26Find that one thing, that one thing you want for your future
0:54:26 > 0:54:27and go for that one thing.
0:54:31 > 0:54:32I'm still not ready.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Maybe this is the beginning of you being ready.
0:54:42 > 0:54:45Now, tell me something.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47Did you remember what you were thinking
0:54:47 > 0:54:50- when you planted that chappie there? - I remember.
0:54:50 > 0:54:54I remember wanting to take a piece of my old life to this house.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58To keep Christopher's memory alive.
0:54:58 > 0:55:00And you most certainly have.
0:55:01 > 0:55:07And regardless... Regardless of whatever happens next,
0:55:07 > 0:55:08I think you always will.