City Homicide

Look out! Get down, get down!

I need Detective Joyner back.

Superintendent Jarvis, I didn't hear you knock.

I got a drive-by shooting in leafy suburbia.

I got the media going bananas and you've had one of my team

holed up in that interview room for two days already.

I haven't finished my report yet. Your report?

Want a report, I'll give it to you.

Bad man falls off balcony.

Good cop forced to sit on his arse instead of out there chasing crooks.

If only it were as simple as that.

It is.

A murderer is trying to crawl out of doing jail time

by pointing the finger at a copper.

So say you. So says Detective Joyner.

Good enough for me.

I'm afraid it's not good enough for my department, sir.

They want a full and thorough investigation.

Want a clean-out.

If that's what's needed, yes.

Commander made it perfectly clear that cowboy cops

will not be tolerated.

These officers put it on the line every day.

As soon as things get a little bit hairy,

your mob want to put their toes in the jar.

Not everyone in the police force is a shining light, Superintendent.

They're not all bent, either.

There are too many cops with psychological issues

working in the field.

Don't give me that psycho-babble crap, Senior Sergeant.

All I'm interested in here is the facts.

Well, alright, I'll give them to you, then.

I will continue with my investigation until I'm convinced

that Simon Joyner did not push an unarmed man off a balcony.

What about my drive-by shooting?

Victim is Lionel Lewis. He's 55.

Survived radical heart surgery last year

only to be gunned down in his own street.

Fully automatic weapons. Who are these people?

Bad shots, thankfully.

All those rounds, they only managed to hit two people.

One in hospital, one dead.

Crime Scene will be retrieving bullets for days.

Everyone's saying the same thing - the car came around that corner,

along here, and just started shooting.

Vehicle make? Rego?

Red Corolla.

Great. How many in the car?

Most people think two - a driver and a shooter.

Male? Female?

Not sure, it happened too quickly. People kept their heads down.

Don't blame 'em. Any suggestion they were aiming for Lewis?

Hard to tell.

Everyone's talking about the sound of gunfire

and panic as they tried to get out of the way.

Spoke to the victim's wife. There's no reason anyone would want him dead.

They lived quietly.

Not a lot of money, no enemies that she can think of.

If he wasn't the intended victim, who were they aiming for?

Try that guy there with the ambos, with the orange blanket around him.

This is his car.

The bullets are mainly concentrated around the front driver's side area.

Witnesses said that he yelled a warning

then he dropped down behind the car.

If he'd been in it, no way he could have survived.

Poor Lionel. I've lived next door to him for years.

Why would anyone want to shoot him? They didn't.

They wanted to shoot you. Me?!

They shot straight at you, Mr Duffy.

Don't tell us you didn't notice. I don't really remember much.

Did you see the shooters? No. It's all a bit of a blur.

What about the vehicle they were driving?

No. Sorry. Well, that's funny.

Because one of the witnesses said

that you were the one that yelled to everyone to get down.

Which means you must have seen the car, the shooters

and you must have known what was going down.

No. Who would want you dead, sir?

No-one.

Mr Duffy, two people got into a car today

with a fully automatic weapon

and drove to your house with the intention of gunning you down.

You must have some idea who'd want to do that.

I don't. There must be some mistake.

I'm a TAFE student. I study engineering. Who'd want to kill me?

Well, somebody wanted him dead.

His name's Eric Duffy.

He's got no criminal record, never been associated with any criminals.

Never had so much as a speeding ticket.

Yeah, but what he didn't mention,

he's the president of the Patriotic Front.

It's a nationalist student group

for the protection of Australian culture.

Don't start me.

He operates the group from his home, runs its website,

and campaigns against the influx

of foreign students at TAFEs and universities.

"We bend over backwards to celebrate other cultures.

"What about celebrating and protecting our own?"

Mmm. Duffy claims he's a patriot,

not a racist.

The students we spoke to at the TAFE

believe that his group are behind posters like these.

Charming.

God, this country was black before it was white.

They also say that the Patriotic Front's behind

a series of violent race-related attacks at the campus

over the last couple of months.

Anything to back that up?

No evidence in the assault investigations,

but the students believe it's Duffy.

Well, I believe that counts as motive.

One of the worst assaults was on this man, Naveen Roshan.

He was jumped while waiting for a tram.

So badly beaten, he's been a month in hospital.

He lost the sight in one eye.

Well, does he have an alibi for this afternoon?

Yes. A good one.

He decided Australia was too dangerous -

he went home to Mumbai.

But his brother's still here.

Sanjay Roshan, the president of another student group,

Fight It - students against racism.

Mmm. Alright, well, talk to Sanjay Roshan.

Find out how far he's prepared to go to fight it.

Fight It is a call to solidarity, not to arms.

Our whole ethos is non-violent protest. Right, Ben?

Yeah, absolutely. We use words, not guns.

Words like this, Sanjay? Can you explain that, please?

Uh, it's a letter of protest.

A letter that you wrote to the TAFE administration.

Yes, that's right. And signed by over 300 students.

Including myself, there - Ben Corrigan.

Can you just read out

the highlighted section for me, please, Sanjay?

"Eric Duffy and his Patriotic Front must be held accountable

"for the attacks on foreign students.

"If the TAFE does not act, there will be consequences."

That looks like a consequence to me.

His name is Lionel Lewis.

He was murdered when the person firing at Eric Duffy missed.

Where were you between 3:00 and 5:00 this afternoon, Sanjay?

Are you serious?

This is ridiculous.

When my brother got bashed nearly half to death,

I couldn't even get the cops to return my phone calls,

and now some white man gets shot at and here you are?

It's a simple question, Sanjay. Please answer it. Where were you?

I was here. Alone?

I was in class.

Can anyone vouch for your whereabouts between 3pm and 5pm?

Yeah, I can. Why, who are you?

Detectives Buchanan and Freeman.

This is my girlfriend, Michelle Brady.

Hey.

What's going on?

Eric Duffy was shot at this afternoon.

Couldn't happen to a nicer racist. Is he dead?

No. They missed.

Wow, that's a pity.

Wait a minute, don't tell me they think it was you?

How dare you? Do you know what happened to his brother Naveen?

That's why we're here.

Eric Duffy and his people bashed Naveen nearly to death.

Broken ribs, an arm, a leg, fractured cheekbone.

He'll never see out of his right eye again.

So you're certain Eric Duffy and his Patriotic Front

were responsible for the attack?

Yes. We know they were. How?

Oh, come on. A racist organisation, racist members.

You tell me that doesn't make any sense to you?

Look, we don't have any proof,

but there's no doubt the rhetoric spouted by Eric Duffy contributed

to a climate of hatred around the campus.

People like Duffy are ruining this country's reputation.

So you acknowledge there's no love loss between you and Mr Duffy?

There's no love at all.

But we didn't attack him. Sanjay and I were both here at home.

All afternoon and evening.

Can you prove that?

No.

But I can prove I didn't shoot at Eric Duffy.

And how's that?

Because if I shot at Eric Duffy, I wouldn't miss.

Yeah.

Senior Sergeant. Any word on Simon?

Only that the investigation is ongoing.

I see.

The officer interviewing him is thorough, for want of a better word.

That's not how I heard Superintendent Jarvis describe her,

but it's a fair assessment.

You're familiar with Senior Sergeant Blake?

Yes, we studied Psychology together. It used to be my job.

Is she a particularly political animal?

Blake would not be averse to career advancement.

But I think that she's more dangerous than pure politics.

She has sat in my chair, she has talked with police officers

with deep-seated psychological issues.

So she knows how dangerous that can be.

Yes.