01x05 - Episode 5

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My name is Hannah Martin.

And we are the parents

of Sinead Martin.

I was asked to bring something

personal of our daughter's.

Some "thing" that would

encapsulate

what Sinead means to us.

Our daughter doesn't

find meaning in things.

She finds it in family

her friends, love, happiness.

Nothing that I can

show you here today.

Sinead told us a joke

when she was seven.

"Knock, knock?"

"Who's there?"

"Ice cream."

- "Ice cream who?"

- Pull!

"I-scream

"so you can hear me."

If you have Sinead

please let her go.

And Sinead, love

I scream

so you can hear me.

- Thank you.

- (REPORTERS CLAMOUR)

DS Huia, can you confirm

Colin Friends is a suspect?

- Thank you, everybody,

for your time.

- (CLAMOUR)

Mr Friends,

where were you on the evening

of November 10th between

the hours of 6:30 and 10pm?

As I said, I left work

at the usual time.

I went home, I made my wife

soup and then I spent an hour

or two at the g*n club.

- Your wife can confirm

the time you arrived home?

- My wife?

My wife's not well.

My client's already answered

those questions. I suggest

you cut to the chase.

Yesterday, when Sergeant Harris

asked you when you first

came to the region,

you advised September 2020,

three years ago.

That wasn't your first time

in Mount Affinity.

You lived here back in 2006,

Mr Friends.

Why did you lie to us?

I didn't lie.

I didn't lie!

We moved here three years ago.

And I stayed here briefly

from May 2006, working

on a project at the mill.

You were here at the same

time Emma Wilson and Gabriel

Peeters were m*rder*d.

You can't be serious.

Where did you get those

scratches, Mr Friends?

- I'm not sure.

- I'm requesting

a voluntary DNA sample,

access to your electronic equipment,

including home computer,

- laptops, cell phone

- Not without a warrant.

I need air.

Where's Sinead?

- LAWYER: I'm calling an ambulance.

- RICHTER: Look at me and relax.

You've had a panic attack before,

you what this is, yes?

Breathe in through your nose. In and

out slowly, you know what to do.

I need to go home.

Unless you're arresting

my client, we're leaving.

Come up slowly. Get up.

- There we go.

- This way.

(DOOR CLOSES)

We need that warrant.

Confirmation from ESR.

The blood from the mill is Ronan's.

There's also animal blood

and another human profile

but it doesn't match Sinead's

and it's not on the database.

Colin's blood's not in the profile.

Any update on his history

in Mount Affinity?

Colin rented a bach.

- A what?

- A small house on the outskirts

of town in late 2006.

He lived alone for quite

a number of months.

- He said he was working at the mill.

- Why does a mill

need a tech scientist?

He was researching fungal spores

and resin acid exposure.

He wrote a paper

published later that year.

- When exactly did he get here?

- 15th November.

Three weeks before the first m*rder.

Until he returned to his post

as a lecturer at Auckland Uni

in late

February 2007.

So, Colin was definitely in Mount

Affinity for both murders.

If Ronan's blood was in

that room at the mill and

the goat was dismembered there,

the k*ller had to have

been coming and going.

Bruce, I want a team

knocking on doors

to see if anyone saw anything

in the vicinity of the mill.

And until we get that warrant,

I want 24-hour surveillance on

Friends' house.

He doesn't do anything, he doesn't go

anywhere without us following, OK?

- Copy that.

- Great, thank you.

Good work, team. Thanks, everyone.

PODCAST: 'Who were the victims?

'How did they come to be in Mount

Affinity that fateful summer?

'What drew the Goat Man to them?

'And, other than

their grizzly murders,

'is there another link

that binds Emma and Gabriel?

'I'm Ava Scott, and this is episode

two of The Mountain Murders.'

RICHTER: Let me know

if Ava solves this one, will you?

- (PODCAST OFF)

- Hey.

You know the way serial K*llers

typically don't just stop?

If that's what we're dealing with,

where do you think they've been all

this time?

In rare cases, they go dormant

for years, sometimes even decades.

Hm.

- Why, have you got a theory?

- Maybe.

You?

Drink?

- I promise I won't

ask a single question.

- Oh, yeah?

Go on, then.

Whoa.

All right.

- So, how are you?

- Yeah, I'm good.

- You?

- I meant since Derry.

I'm not pressing charges.

Come on, talk to me.

I knew he wasn't going to do it.

But I suppose him,

or someone like him, might.

Do you ever get sick of it all?

All the ugliness and the

All the sh*t coming at you

non-stop from all sides.

Dou you ever just want to stop?

And give up all of this?

Richter, I know the risks.

You've seen the locks on my doors,

but what else would I do?

I don't know who the f*ck

I am without this job!

- You can do whatever you want.

- (SCOFFS)

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah, course you can.

You're Aileen f*cking Ryan!

Good night, Aileen.

Good night, Richter.

'Let's start right back

at the beginning,

'to what we knew then

and what we know now'

Where'd you go?

Nowhere important.

What are you hiding from me?

Nothing, my love.

Not one thing.

Colin, I'm dying.

I'm not a child.

WIKI: # I te po marino e

Te korowai

o Te Atua

Ko taku whare okioki

BUSTER: I know your heart is broken.

Our boy leaves us today.

And I'll leave, too,

if that's your will.

Te kapua

i te Ikaroa

Moku, mo aku takahanga ♪

(BIRDSONG)

DOC: Harriet's doing well,

considering. Her stomach

should settle in a day or so.

- As if you need more on your plate.

- You've heard the talk, I'm sure.

Do you think I'm capable

of what they're saying, Ray?

I think anyone is

capable of anything.

But when I look at you,

I see a good man.

TAMATI: Jesus!

- Hey, Tamati.

- Hey, Doc.

Hey, Colin.

Oh, come on, mate.

(LOCK TURNS)

(SIGHS)

Listen, I

I don't understand any of this.

You know, what they're saying.

You hurt Sinead?

Colin! It's bullshit!

I know it is.

Come on.

Look, just tell me

that you didn't do anything wrong.

Please, mate.

You're the best man I know, Colin.

(CRYING)

(SOFTLY) Hi, my love.

Scrambled eggs.

You try to eat it, OK?

HARRIET: Where are you going?

COLIN: Well, those chickens

of yours won't feed themselves.

I love you.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(DOG BARKING)

VOICES CALLING: Sinead! Sinead!

Sinead!

Sinead!

Sinead!

- Sinead!

- Sinead!

Sinead!

(RADIO CRACKLES) 'Val. Val, come in.'

- Go ahead.

- 'Yeah, we're near

the end of the valley.

'We need you down here, boss.'

Copy.

This way, team.

We almost missed it.

There.

(BUZZER)

(CLUNK)

Colin?

(COUGHING)

AILEEN: Frank.

Shelly Duncan, Frank's solicitor.

What are you doing here?

Shelly?

Just checking in.

Losing a son?

It's not easy.

OFFICER: 15 minutes.

Colin?

You said something

the day of the funeral.

First off

who are you?

I'm a journalist.

Colin?

Colin!

And what are you doing here

with me, missy journalist?

You tell me.

Colin?

(CHICKENS CLUCKING)

AILEEN: The Goat Man.

You heard those words,

closed your eyes and off you went.

Where did you go?

HARRIET: Colin?

Call me.

AILEEN: I think you

do know something.

The public is safe from you.

But who's out there?

(RINGING)

(RINGING STOPS)

Have they found the girl?

- Not yet.

- Do they have a suspect?

They do.

But they're not giving anything away.

You said,

"It's not what it looks like.

"Never was."

What did you mean?

Diana Huia.

She's the main pig

on this case, right?

What does she know that you don't?

What's she not telling you

little Diana?

Did they ever find her mummy?

OFFICER: Hey, Pastors. Time's up.

VAL: One of my teams

found this place this morning.

Signs of a struggle.

Sinead's shoe.

She didn't break out.

This was unlocked.

So, he came and got her. When?

(PHONE RINGING)

DS Huia.

How long ago?

Our guys outside Colin Friends'

house? They lost him.

- What's our timeline?

- Last time they saw him,

four hours ago.

Enough time to get up here.

Bruce knows the river best.

I'll get some dive teams

under his command to search

for likely dump spots.

Can you go with him?

We need to act fast before

there's any chance of flooding.

To clarify, the ground

search is abandoned?

Keep some teams on the ground.

They're out there

so we're not giving up.

But we need to redirect some of our

resources to recovery and the water.

DIANA: A young woman's life

is at stake, Mrs Friends.

RICHTER: Do you have idea where

your husband might have taken her?

I'm sorry, I really am,

but the best way you can help your

husband right now is by telling us everything.

I don't know.

I just don't know.

We have no idea how he's moving -

by foot or vehicle,

or in what direction.

I want checkpoints on every road

going out of Mount Affinity.

Check every car, every truck,

their back seats, their boots.

Yes, I know it's a big job.

It's someone's life!

The police have specified

a person of interest.

Colin Friends, 54 years old,

most recently employed at

the local tech company, Houkura.

- Do you know Colin Friends?

- I don't know Colin Friends well.

I do know that he's a brilliant

scientist, committed to

the Houkura philosophy.

But apart from that, I have

no knowledge of why the police

would want to speak with him.

- Thank you, everybody.

- (CLAMOUR)

Gwenda.

- Anything on that

priority one alert?

- Nothing yet.

- Bruce?

- Sorry, mate.

(PHONE RINGING)

DS Huia.

OK, where?

Oh, f*ck.

Yeah. Yeah, we'll be

there in ten minutes.

(VOICES INAUDIBLE)

(VOICES INAUDIBLE)

The news is not good, I'm afraid.

Sinead has not been found.

(NOTIFICATION CHIMES)

DAVID: What's going on?

- What do you mean?

- What do I mean? Seriously?

The main suspect in Ronan's death,

a potential f*cking serial k*ller,

committed suicide today.

What were you doing?

Obsessing about some

- Frank Pastors knows something.

- He's playing with you.

There's no story here. Let it go.

I'm not asking you.

BRUCE: I know the stats.

Every hour she's gone,

the chances plummet.

But in my bones

I really felt like

we were going to get her back.

Stupid!

It's not stupid, Bruce.

What do you think?

Is there a chance?

None of the other crimes were

abduction for abduction's sake.

He took them to k*ll them.

If he's gone, she's gone.

Looking for her, on the river bed.

(EXHALES)

BRUCE: I'm going home.

RICHTER: You're not going

to sleep tonight?

Me neither.

I'm gonna need a drink.

Drink just makes it worse.

- This is a police station, Richter.

- Yeah, but out there

is just a car park.

(SHE CHUCKLES)

With the Mountain m*rder*r dead

they'll give a bit of resources

into finding the last victim, but

there'll be a limit.

Her body could be anywhere, Richter.

That's what they said to me.

That Mum

We might never find Sinead.

Or know what happened to her.

Anyway, you'll be

wanting to get back.

Can't be who I was there.

- Not now.

- So, what's your plan?

Give up?

f*ck you!

How is it that Irish

can always make "f*ck" sound so

- Bitter?

- (LAUGHS) I was going

to say "charming".

I don't know, must be a gift.

Mm!

What about your friend, Aileen?

And don't say you don't

like her, it's lame.

- You just going to walk away?

- Hm.

Don't do that.

Because that, my Irish friend,

that is a special kind of hell.

What about you? What's next?

Tie up the loose ends.

- Back to the city and my real life.

- Are you sure this isn't your real

life?

Mm-hm!

So, Mr Flash International Detective

thinks he knows all about me now,

does he?

- Maybe I do.

- Or maybe you don't, gob-sh*t.

It's gob-shite, not gob-sh*t.

(LAUGHING) You're a gob-sh*t,

you gob-shite!

Oh, God!

Good work, Detective.

(TYRES SCREECH, CRASH)

- Oh, f*ck!

- (DOGS BARKING)

I'm quite stoned.

Hannah!

DIANA: Hannah!

RICHTER: Hannah.

- Oh.

- Oh, sh*t!

BOTH: Hannah!

Hannah!

Lean back.

(GROANS)

- DS Huia reporting

a traffic collision.

- It's OK, I'm here.

One car, solo occupant,

ambulance assistance

HANNAH: Oh, God,

I don't want to be alive.

DIANA: ..main street, about halfway

up, opposite the police station.

HANNAH: Where is she, Richter?

DIANA: Yeah, I'll stay on the line.

It's OK. I got you.

I don't want to live.

I got you, I'm here. I'm here.

DIANA: Yeah, I'm still here.

Sinead?

Sinead!

- Sinead.

- Mum!

Mum.

(SPLUTTERS)

(CHUCKLES)

This isn't the first time

she's made a big entrance.

I was abroad when she was born.

Hannah went into labour early

and I couldn't get a flight.

So, I stayed in

the hotel room and smoked.

- About five packs of cigarettes!

- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

(COUGHS) That's how long the delivery

took, five packs of cigarettes!

I haven't smoked since then.

Mr Martin.

Your wife and daughter

are a little hard to keep

apart, understandably so.

How is Sinead?

Dehydrated, bruised, traumatised.

Physically, she'll be fine, but right

now, she just wants to see her dad.

Thank you, Doctor.

- When can we talk to her?

- She needs to rest.

Tomorrow?

(HE CHUCKLES)

I thought I was protecting Wiki.

Protecting myself.

OK.

(KNOCKING)

(SIGHS)

Sinead's alive and safe.

- No way?

- Yeah.

How?

I I don't know.

It's a bloody miracle.

We get to talk to her tomorrow.

- Oh, that's amazing.

- Yeah.

That's f*cking amazing!

- What happened?

Did she escape or?

- We don't know anything yet.

- We get to talk to her tomorrow.

- Jesus!

- If I believed in miracles, well

- Yeah.

- Yeah, best news ever.

- Yeah.

Well good night.

Aileen.

Yeah?

I'm sorry.

I really didn't

want to come out here.

I thought the story

was a goose chase.

- David dug his heels in, of course.

- (CHUCKLES)

I'm glad he did.

Are you? What was that?

I miss this.

Yeah, me too.

Can I ask you something?

Yeah.

Why are you leaving your job?

I should go.

Hey.

Enough.

OK, you're not leaving

until you just tell me what the

what the f*ck is wrong!

What is it?

I have the gene for Huntington's.

Do you know what that is?

- Yeah, I know it.

- OK. That's it.

- Oh

- Don't, please.

Come here.

(WHISPERS) I'm sorry.

I don't want this to

touch you, you know?

When I can't walk or talk

or I can't look after myself.

I'm just so f*cking angry

all the time. I'm just

- So f*cking angry.

- Whatever happens, I don't care.

- I do. I do!

- OK.

I care.

I don't want you anywhere near this.

Don't go.

- Theo, don't go.

- I have to.

I'm sorry.

I was calling but

you, er, weren't in your room.

Sinead's awake.

She's ready to talk.

SINEAD: Mum says you flew

around the world to save me.

RICHTER: Well, lucky for us,

you saved yourself.

DIANA: I can't tell you how much

we hoped for this moment.

- Was it you who found him?

- Search and Rescue.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I knew he was dead

when I saw him on the deck.

What happened, Sinead?

Can you tell us what

happened from the start?

I went to the garage

to put petrol in the car

and pick up a bottle of wine.

Ronan was cooking

when I left, then

Ronan? Ronan!

Jesus Christ! No, no, no, no!

Ronan, Ronan.

(SCREAMS)

I felt something

and then nothing.

- Then I woke up in

the boot of a car.

- (SCREAMING)

Help me!

Oh, no! No!

Next thing I remember was the hut.

(BOLT THROWN)

No.

Let me out.

Let me out!

Let me out!

LET ME OUT!

LET ME OUT!!!

How did you get out?

Last time he came,

I grabbed at his arms

and then he put

this cloth over my face.

I lost consciousness.

When I woke up

the cable ties were cut

and the door was open.

So I just ran.

Ran until I found the road.

Mum says you found who did it,

says he k*lled himself.

Who was he?

It was your boss, Colin Friends.

- Colin?

- Mm-hm.

That's impossible.

It couldn't have been him.

I saw him that night on

the way home from the garage.

Jeez! Oh, my God!

(MUSIC POUNDING)

Colin?

Colin?

Are you OK?

Are you all right, Colin?

OK, then.

Jesus!

He was locked. He could barely walk.

Colin didn't do it.

(CAR BEEPS)

If it wasn't Colin

(ROCK PLAYING)

Well, there's a hell cat,

loose cat, hear it wail

Well, it's gonna get to you,

got the demon power

You got to run, run, brother,

you know your soul's on fire ♪

A copycat copies exactly.

How did they know about the bones?

It's just a diversion.

'I'm scheduling this to send to you

this time tomorrow. Undo what I've

done.'

(YELLING)

Someone on this list was

out there that night and

no one saw a damn thing.

Don't be a f*cking coward,

Richter. Richter!

(HORN BLASTS)

Today's a day this

town's gonna remember.

No more secrets, eh?

I will find out,

and he will answer for it.

What are you afraid of?

Just admit it - you k*lled him!

Why?