NCIS: Sydney

Nate! Finally.

Buddy, I can't believe you're missing this, dude.

The view up here is insane.

The sunset on top of the bridge is mind-blowing.

They weren't joking when they said...

What'd you say?

I'm in Chinatown. There's... there's some festival going on.

Huh? What?

I can barely hear you.

Sorry, Tyler, there's people everywhere.

Where are you?

Yeah, I can't hear you. Say that again.

Hang on a minute. I'm gonna move away from the crowd.

Huh? Can you say that again, man? Where are you?

Oh, it is chaos down here.

You didn't show, so I tried calling you.

Yeah, sorry.

It's all good, I mean...

I mean, the tour was at 8:00, but where you been?

The trolls were waiting for me in the hotel lobby.

Trolls? You lose 'em?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. - Okay, good.

Come to me. Jump in a cab and I'll meet you when we get down.

- Hello? - Okay, I'll be there soon.

- Oh! - Nate?

- The hell was that? - Nate?

Oh!

Hello? Nate?

You still with me, buddy?

Nate!

Stop messing around, dude.

Hello?

Nate!

Hello? Nate?

What's going on, buddy?

Ugh. Shooter.

Did you say 'shooter'? Dude, it's hard to hear you.

Did you say 'shooter'?

- Someone's trying to kill me. - What are you...

What are you talking about?

Okay, you need to give me your location, man.

Like, a street name, anything.

- Just give me something. - Ugh.

Nate?

Nate, buddy?

Talk to me, Nate!

Nate?!

Dammit! Nate!

Nate, talk to me!

Buddy! Nate!

Special Agent Mackey, NCIS.

Is there a problem?

Thank you, Special Agent Mackey.

Chief Petty Officer Nathaniel 'Nate' Holbrook,

stationed out of Mayport, Florida.

He was out here on leave.

Flew out with his brother a few days ago.

Thank you.

Welcome to Sydney.

The shots were fired about a hundred meters down the road.

That's where he caught the wound to his torso.

Stuffing from a toy koala.

The shot went right through them both.

Poor bastard ran till he was brought down.

Second round must have gone through his heart

if he dropped like that.

He would have... He would have died in seconds.

- Anyone else hit? - No.

Packed street, and the killer

focuses his fire on our boy.

Why?

Yeah, he seems to have a fan base too.

- Holbrook, right? - Yeah, Nathaniel Holbrook.

Justice for Zoe!

Justice for Zoe.

True crime podcast superfans.

Marsh Family Murders.

It's a podcast based on an Aussie family,

two parents and a daughter,

who were murdered on Thanksgiving Day.

What happened in the end?

Well, according to this,

absolutely nothing.

No one ever stood trial for their deaths.

But the main suspect

was US Navy Chief Petty Officer...

Nate Holbrook.

Nate used to date the murdered daughter, Zoe Marsh.

Looks like someone got their justice in the end.

Sorry, little fella.

You're supposed to be a protected species.

Evie!

Got another one.

Come on.

Check it out.

...308, full metal jacket.

Favored by long-distance shooters.

That's comforting.

Sounds like we got ourselves a sniper.

Angle of fire suggests the shooter

had an elevated position.

Plenty of options.

Let's narrow 'em down, then.

Damn! Hell of a shot.

Yeah, I could make that.

Girl, in your dreams.

I took out Hansie from a moving boat.

A croc chalked up that hit.

- Oh, whatever. - Ugh!

Shooter doesn't seem bothered about leaving evidence.

D.

What is that? Opal?

Yeah, not just any opal. Black opal.

Rarest of the rare.

Not something you leave behind.

Unless you're making a statement.

Zoe Marsh, her mother, Jacquie, and her father, Brendan,

sat down to celebrate Thanksgiving

with Zoe's boyfriend, US Navy sailor Nate Holbrook.

None of the Marsh family

made it through to the pumpkin pie dessert.

Zoe's boyfriend was found covered in blood,

clutching a shotgun,

with gunpowder residue on his hands.

He had no plausible alibi, yet the case never went to trial.

Five years on and a lot of people are still asking why.

I'm Lucinda Wainwright.

Join me as I find answers to what really happened that day.

The real mystery is

why they were celebrating Thanksgiving.

It was Thanksgiving Day.

It's not an Aussie thing, D. You know that, right?

Y'all appropriate Halloween.

You know, why miss out on a chance

to eat turkey and cornbread with your nearest and dearest?

Because turkey's a dry bird.

See, now,

you ain't tried my grandma's turkey.

The trick is buttermilk brine.

Three whole days.

Then there's the butter that she slips under the skin.

D...

Bacon grease all over the breast meat.

Then that special basting of her garlic butter every half-hour.

D, come on, you're giving me hunger pains.

Yeah, giving me a coronary.

Does the podcast have a theory as to motive?

Episode 2: The Letters.

Covers Nate's possible motive.

According to the podcast,

Zoe was suspected of cheating on Nate.

He supposedly found letters to her from a mystery lover

and just snapped.

Hmm.

Theory is

Nate then draped the letters

over Zoe's body after he shot her.

- The police charged him, right? - Initially.

But the Department of Public Prosecutions

declined to prosecute,

as featured on Episode 6: Justice Never Served.

So what happened? Not enough evidence?

See, to answer that, y'all want Episode 7: Cover-Up.

Which is part 1 of 2. It's a banger.

Who did the covering up?

Well, according to this, we did. The US Navy.

The NCIS case at the time

states Nate was granted emergency leave.

Once he returned to the States,

charges were mysteriously dropped.

- I want that file. - Sitting in your inbox.

Hey, Blue, how are we going, uh, fingerprint-wise?

Uh, not very wise. No prints.

But I'm running the DNA from the coffee cup

and cigarettes from the sniper's nest.

Figure we'll check out the gun ranges around town.

Guy was a hotshot. Only comes with practice.

Or natural talent.

Bit of luck, we match the gun and ammo

with the names from the podcast's subscriber list.

Now, um, I believe you have my brother's body.

Appreciate everything you're... you're doing

to catch whoever killed my little brother.

Why did Nate come back after all these years?

Wainwright got in contact.

Sweet-talked Nate into coming to Australia

to tell his side of events.

- Nate went on the podcast? - Yeah.

He recorded a vlog interview yesterday with Lucinda.

The Marshes were like a family to Nate.

Zoe was his sweetheart.

He couldn't stand the thought

that the actual killer was still out there, so...

I mean, I came out to make sure he had someone in his corner.

I had to perform a full autopsy.

I've, uh, sewn him back up,

but you might find...

...my handiwork a little confronting.

I'd like to say goodbye, if that's all right.

That's fair enough.