Janet King

Dutch analysis on the full human genome of George and Ash's killer

finally came through.

Confirmation of what we already know - male, mixed ethnicity.

Very hard without a full face morphology

to see what this bloke would look like.

And we have something else in common - I've also lost a loved one.

I'm sorry.

But if he had been murdered, I don't know how you survive that.

Don't think I could've got through it without my kids.

After this... I've decided not to return to the DPP.

It's a tough job, Richard. The isolated nature of the bar is...

I wasn't actually asking for advice.

This visionary development has only been made possible

by your state government

agreeing to sell the Crown land on which this centre will be built

for the nominal sum of $1.

I see this embryo as a potential baby of mine

and a potential niece or nephew of my sister who's no longer with us.

Ms King, as the de facto partner of the deceased

at the time of her death, has title to that embryo.

The appeal is dismissed and the decision of the trial judge stands.

According to this, Heather was in here at 2:16am for seven minutes.

At quarter past two in the morning?

Where were you, uh, last night?

If I'm under official investigation, I'll give you his name.

Until then, a bit of trust would be nice.

We know these weapons are being imported

by someone Brett was working for.

And whoever it is has so far made no attempt

to pick up a container that'd give them a multimillion-dollar payday.

Janet, I've got a lot of options on the table

and this ship is sinking right now. Help us save it.

How?

The shadow caused by my impending appearance

before the State Corruption Commission

means we are unable to fulfil our wider brief.

While I refuse to resign,

I have no choice but to suspend this Royal Commission

until that investigation has been completed.

All sessions of the Commission have been cancelled

and all current operations will cease immediately.

We're closed. Thought you'd still be here.

Just got the call to be a witness at your Corruption Commission hearing.

Want to give us a heads up about what they might ask?

I think they're fairly desperate to find anything

that can be twisted to cast me in a bad light,

no matter how tiny, tenuous or historical.

Right. How far back can they go?

Well, I was born in 1974, so anything before that probably can't be counted

and our paths haven't crossed until now, so...

There was Queen and Doherty.

2012, Jandamarra Doherty, accused of rape.

I was the instructing defence solicitor.

Turned on consent, you got the jury to believe her, not him.

Sent a few fairly aggro texts about you when you went down.

She was a very credible witness.

Nah, turned out to be a complete liar.

Well, if the defence knew that, then they should have proven it.

Not that easy sometimes, particularly against you.

Anyway, ancient history, love you to bits now.

Night, Heather. - Night.

Hey. - It's on.

Camera?

They're in the container now. Who, Bao Long?

Uh, it's hard to see, but there's two of them.

Is it still at the docks?

No, no. It's been moved to some kind of back lot somewhere.

Oh, hang on, they're taking one of the fridges out now.

Listen, I'm at home. OK. Be there in a sec.

What's happened? - Hey.

Two heavy guys arrived first - I think they're the sellers.

And then a few bikies after them. Ah. Nice place.

Thanks. Um, alright, you sit down there, I'll turn this around.

This big guy in the middle -

sergeant-at-arms for the Death Angels.

Broke a jockey's legs for Bao last year.

Guy wouldn't fix a race he was supposed to.

Do we think this guy organised the import?

Nah, he's just muscle.

Well, at least we've got some ID so we can follow it up.

Mm.

OK.

Time to display the goods.

Who's this?

Holy fuck.

Patrick Boccaro.

He must have organised it -

the container, drive-by,

George's murder.

He must have imported the first lot of Zodiacs as well.

This is enough to arrest him. Not yet, though.

He's the one who imported the...

Why go to the cops now?

This is exactly what's going to save the Commission.

Till you get us back up and running,

and I'll make sure he doesn't go anywhere, yeah?

The problem is I can't touch him yet.

This is pretty damning evidence.

Yeah, but it's useless unless I'm cleared by the Corruption Commission.

If I'm not, Patrick will just get a fat QC

to argue that because I'm tainted,

all the evidence against him is equally tainted

and everything will be nolled.

That'll be it, gone -

my last chance to find out who it really was...

..who shot Ash.

You always knew why I took on this Commission.

And now the man with... with the answer

might walk off into the sunset.

To bring him down, I need the Royal Commission up and running

with no mud stuck to it.

So I need a QC better than his.

To argue what?

Well, that's what I'm relying on you to find.

An argument? - Yeah.

To stop the State Corruption Commission hearing from going ahead?

Janet, you OK?

Yeah, no, I'm fine, I just can't sleep.

Have you got any chamomile? I'm not a tea person.

You just haven't found the right tea.

Iced rose and hibiscus on a hot day? Come right at me.

No, you don't want to do the actions this morning. Alright.

Why are you not looking?

I am, sweetie. It's amazing. Just keep singing, it's really good.

Mummy, where are you going? No, I'm here, I'm here.

But I have to go to work.

We'll do one more song? I want a song!

OK, stop... stop fighting. Shush. I want a song!

Stop... OK, where is Grandma?

Alright, munchkins, breakfast time, here it comes.

Mum, they're going to need a knife and fork.

You know, they're not... They can't eat it with their hands.

Off you go. - I just need to...

Owen. What's happening?

I stayed at Boccaro's house,

followed him across town this morning.

And? He's having a champagne breakfast.

Celebrating? You'll never guess who with.

Heather.

Our Heather?

Mm-hm.

I mean, I knew they knew each other, but, uh, pretty chummy.

OK, are you going to stay with him?

I haven't had this much fun in forever.

Keep me posted.

Good of you to see us, Roger.

Don't you have a day job?

Uh, on leave, nose banging against the grindstone in a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, I'm concerned about the future of this place.

This inquiry into Janet, it's trivial, single text.

When we were set up 20-odd years ago,

this state was rife with corruption.

Pollies colluded with lawyers,

lawyers colluded with cops, cops colluded with criminals,

criminals paid anyone who stuck out their hand.

'New South Wales for sale' - that's what it was called.

We stamped it out.

'To investigate and prevent corruption among public officials' -

that's your charter. Yeah, that's right.

And an officer of the court advising kids on how to avoid arrest

lands right in that ballpark.

Except it doesn't.

You might think it does, but under the terms of the Act,

the SCC explores corruption by

and collusion between public officials.

And that text message

didn't cause any public officials to act corruptly.

There was no raid on the house.

No police were paid to look the other way.

No judge was bribed to acquit.

Oh, for God's sake, even the bloke at the pub could see

that she attempted to pervert the course of justice.

And investigating an individual perverting the course of justice

is not a power the SCC actually has.

Individuals come under the remit

of the Department of Public Prosecutions.

Ipso facto, if somebody were to challenge

the validity of these hearings in the High Court,

you'd have to refer the case to... well, me.

And I would find that Janet had no case to answer

because no raid occurred.

We've run and won dozens of similar investigations.

The findings of which would all be called into question

if you go ahead with this public hearing.

You're going to look like a lawyer

who's using the fine print to avoid interrogation.

He'll look like a lawyer who actually understands the law.

How do you feel, Ms King? I'm delighted.

Because you won't have to answer the allegations?

Because I have no case to answer and I'm glad it's been resolved