The Killings at Parrish Station

Get your own.

Yeah, I'll just duck to the shop, shall I?

There she is.

Fuckin' how does anyone survive out here?

You don't, I guess.

Happened slowly enough

they managed to get a distress signal out.

What distress signal?

You're standing on it.

Ah, you two drew the short straw, huh?

Hey, give us one of those?

Local PD are underground in the living quarters.

They're waiting for a chat.

OK, so, uh, just this way. Watch out for the...

So, yeah, uh, young Darryl here found 'em.

Is that right, Darryl?

You found the bodies?

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, four bodies, uh, all found

in and around the premises.

All male. All in states of deceased.

What do you know about the missing scientist?

Kate Reynolds.

We were looking for her by the creek

and, uh, we came across...

...the old guy.

Yeah.

Do you know what it is they were studying out here?

Space.

Space?

Yeah, you know, stars. Galaxies.

You know, things of that nature.

- Planets. - Well, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Uh, um, I mean, we largely left them to themselves.

I mean, this station's - what is it, Darryl? -

about 340 clicks from Barrawin, so...

So how did you know something was wrong?

Well, apparently there were plans

for the scientists to contact their families

on Christmas Day via radio

and, you know, when those communications were missed,

that's when the family members, uh, contacted us.

Howard, that was three days ago.

That is... That's...

Yeah.

You waited three days

to come and check it out?

Yeah, well, look, it was Christmas Day.

You know, Barrawin PD,

I mean, it's just basically me and Darryl, you know?

Oh, yeah, and Geoff. Except Geoff has the diarrhoea.

Who's Geoff?

He has the diarrhoea.

OK.

What's down there?

Mick?

Alright, you nasty bitches!

Are you ready for some murders?

Whoo!

Yay! Amazing!

So it's been 37 years since the Parrish killings.

Man, these killings are older than me.

- Are they? - What?

So we've been talking about this for months now.

This Parrish series has been a huge multi-parter for us.

Big-time.

And I've gotta say,

you do get obsessed from time to time.

But this one, the Parrish Station massacre,

this is special for you.

- Well, yeah, this is my baby. - Yeah.

- This is my little murder baby. - Don't call it murder baby.

It's not just that this case

remains unsolved.

This thing, the more time you spend with it

and the deeper you go,

the weirder it becomes.

And you have these two cops at the centre of it,

Georgia Cooke...

...and Michael Thorne.

And neither of them

will ever run another case after this.

Simon Lim. Late 40s, early 50s.

Body's been displayed post-mortem.

Crudely autopsied.

Organs removed.

Tell me when you spot it.

George, you seen...

Toaster's been taken apart.

A couple of other items on the pool table too.

A guitar, a cassette player, some tools.

Oi.

Is this a research station or a mine?

Uh, correct, yeah.

What's correct?

Uh, well, I-I-I mean, it used to be a mine.

And then, um, you know, Parrish Minerals converted it,

as it were, into a research station.

You seen it yet?

Yeah, what did they mine?

Um...

Uranium.

My dad worked out here in the '60s.

So this was all run by the Parrish family?

Yes, yes, that's right.

Uh, all part of the philanthropic, um...

Oh, Jesus.

It's... That's a bit full-on.

Mick?

Is that clotting on the incision?

It is.

This happened while he was alive.

Times of death are gonna be

hard to pin down precisely in these conditions.

You understand how massive this is gonna be?

How close can you get?

Uh, they've been here at least three days.

Uh, beyond that, I don't know.

Heat does some fairly wacky stuff to the human body.

This is a site run by Parrish Minerals.

This will be national news for weeks.

Gary Boyd.

Circular gouge to the left side of the throat,

consistent with...

Beer bottle?

About the right size.

No shortage out here.

Can I ask a silly question, Wendy?

Where the fuck are his teeth?

Left hand.

Left hand?

Now, I've never claimed to be a dentist.

- True. - OK?

But that is not where teeth,

you know, medically go.

You know what I mean?

So, I guess...

Uh, I guess, what the fuck?

- We don't know. - Mm.

We honestly don't.

The case file, which has been publicly available since 2002,

is, I would say, suspiciously thin

on the details about all of this.

OK, so it's a cover-up. Does it go all the way to the top?

OK, just so you know, I am aware I am being mocked.

But let me give you another example

of something that we have fuck-all explanation for.

This was found in the vicinity of the crime scene

and four more dotted around the site.

George, reckon we can hurry things along out here?

What's this about?

Pile of rocks.

Fuck, you're good.

Did he get burned by something?

The sun.

The sun did that?

He tried to crawl to shade.

See those marks?

That tree, maybe.

They said they looked for the missing scientist out this way.

But there wasn't another vehicle?

Just that one back there?

No. As far as we can tell.

If she's on foot, she's dead.

And the last one?

Tower.

Paul Edgars.

Blunt force trauma to the head and, uh...

Where are the fingers?

Had a poke around, haven't found them yet.

What's Callum Parrish doing funding a radio telescope?

I don't know.

Half the shit in this city is named after that family.

That'd be alright, wouldn't it?

Do you hear that?

Ah!

Oh!

- George! - I'm fine, I'm fine.

Found her!

Can we talk about the only survivor, Kate Reynolds,

for a hot second here?

Yeah, I was actually really hoping

this was gonna come up, if I'm honest.

- Is this? - It is.

So, for anyone who's new here, whenever we get a new case,

I pick an element of it

and text it to my mother, Denise.

Whoo!

- Yeah! - Go, Denise!

Oh, some Denise fans in.

Kind of creepy with the shirt, but still cool.

So I texted my mum to find out