Red Hill

Alice...

Have you seen my gun?

Somewhere.

Thought I had packed it with the photos.

Alice?

Honey?

Is everything okay?

I'm okay.

Come on Sweetie, come here.

What happened?

Was it cramps?

I'm just scared.

Yeah, I know.

Everything's okay though, right?

Right.

You couldn't find it?

No, I don't have time to look.

I'm sure the Inspector will understand.

I hope so.

Are you nervous?

No.

Kinda feels like my first day.

I'm sure you will a very good impression.

I should go.

I love you.

Me too.

You are not taking the car?

Well, you might want to go into town.

I can walk.

You can waddle.

Do you even know where you're going?

No idea.

Good morning. I'm Richard Morecroft with national and regional news.

We've just received news that there's been a large explosion...

at Western Bay Maximum Security Prison.

The residents of the area were awoken around 8 AM...

for what's being described as a large booming sound.

Hey..

I was just... That's okay.

Constable Shane Cooper reporting for duty.

Sergeant Jim Barlow.

Old Bill said you would be coming by.

So did you just get into town?

Uh yeah, late last night.

How was your drive?

Well, it would have been quicker if my wife didn't have to pee every two minutes.

What? She's got some sort of bladder problem? No, no, she's pregnant.

Oh, that's great.

It's horseshit and you know it.

Bullshit!

Don't say that.

Hey, Manning...

Don't bother me, Barlow. I'm late.

Manning, come here, there's someone I want you to meet.

This is Shane Cooper. The new guy.

He's having marriage difficulties.

So is the Inspector in here or...

No, Old Bill's at Town Hall this morning.

He wanted me to send you there.

Well, you gonna tell me where it is? Or...

Oh jeez, I'm sorry...

Gonna have to get used to having a city boy around.

You go back to the main road and turn right.

You go up the hill, pass the information center...

Information Center? Oh yeah, you can't miss it,

There's a historical exhibit on the front window.

Alright.

Oh, Shane?

You won't tell Old Bill I was sleeping, will you?

Not unless you tell him I was late.

Oh, you guys know there's a horse loose in the parking lot?

Yeah, that's our Betsy. She lives here.

Of course she does.

I often wonder what this town would of been like...

back when it was thriving.

When it had a sense of purpose and pride.

And since that time we've had the logger shut down,

the sewing mill abandoned,

and crops reduced to dust,

and the high country...

riped off for a national reserve.

Well, it turns out fitly...

the Martha here suggests that we rub the last scrap of business...

out of this godforsaken town.

That is not the point, Bill, and you know it!

Instead of living in the past...

this city ought to be looking towards new revenue streams.

You're not suggesting we host a food and wine festival, are you?

Our forefathers didn't sacrifice

their blood, sweat, and tears...

so that a bunch of wankers could come here and sip fucking Pinot!

For those who want to destroy this town,

they better deal with me first...

cause I'm not going down without a fight!

Where's your gun, Constable?

Sir?

Inspector?

Look, I arrived late last night...

I had a house full of boxes...

Why didn't you unpack it?

Sir, I didn't know where it was.

So you lost it?

No sir, I just didn't have time to find it.

If you knew where it was, you would have unpacked it.

Sir...

You know that losing a police issued firearm is a serious offense?

I'd be happy to report the firearm is formally missing,

if you fell that it's required, sir.

Don't go crawling up my ass just yet Constable.

I haven't had breakfast yet.

Yes, sir.

You are the transfer assigned?

Personal reasons, I guess.

What sort of personal reasons?

Just give us a minute, Slim.

If I'm gonna be your superior, there's nothing that you can't share with me.

Now, to be honest with you, Shane...

when a blowing from the big smokes requests to be transferred to my outpost...

I count on two things.

Either he's lazy

looking for what he thinks is a cushy bait

or he's an upstart looking for an easy promotion.

"So which one are you? It's nothing like that, sir.

Then what is it?

It's my wife, sir.

We lost...

We lost our last pregnancy at six months.

The doctor said we should move somewhere quiet, away from the city.

Try and keep her blood pressure down.

And here's something I haven't seen in a while. The Carlin brothers riding on horseback.

Bill. What's the occasion, Micky?

Gleason lost the herd this morning.

Old Jerry Patrick forgot to shut the gate again, did he?

Oh no, reckon something spooked them bad. Stampede broke the fence.

Where they head to?

You are not gonna tell anyone, are you, Billy?

Not unless you don't come back.

This is Shane Cooper the new Constable.

You boys better try and make it back before the storm hits.

It'll only spook the horses even more if we don't.

Well, be good now.

Are they not allowed to ride in those mountains?

Not since the government bought them off.

Heaven forbid...

Somebody once step on a flatten flower.

Yeah.

Useless.

Good to see that business is booming, Ted.

Someone's gotta feed Ken's medicine.

Got a look at your file.

It's not very poor.

Thank you, sir.

What was the counselling for?

You did that, police counselling.

It was mandatory. Why?

I was shot on duty, sir.

Post-traumatic stress?

No, sir. Then why did they send you?

I guess they thought it was my fault.

What, you shot yourself?

No, sir.

Well, who did?

A kid.

He was strung out, he pulled a concealed weapon, I pulled mine and...

You couldn't pull the trigger. He was just a kid.

He was a kid with a gun.

That's one way of looking at it. Well, what's the other way, Constable?

Well, maybe he needed help, not a bullet.

What? You disagree, Inspector?

We would be having a different conversation if you were dead.

Bill, come in. Over.

Yeah, it's me. Go ahead.

Quick call from Gleason.

He wants one of us to go out to his property. Take a look at something.

Is it about the missing horses?

Yes, he says he found out what caused the stampede.

You wanna come by the fort.

No. I'll send Cooper up to you.

It's about time we brought him in.

Copy that.

Once you get to the top of the hill...

There's a communications tower.

Property's six klicks south of that.

Okay. So I'll just take the car out back?

No, that's mine.

Okay.

What about the car out front?

Barlow's.

Well, how am I supposed to get to Gleason's property?

Whew.

Mr. Gleason?

Debbie, I understand the breakout occurred just a few hours ago.

That's right, Richard.

This morning at approximately 8AM,

a huge explosion ripped through the southern wall of the facility.

Initially, prison officers were unsure as to

how many inmates, if any, had escaped.

But we can now confirm the identity of the man the police is searching for.

Dural Conway, also known as "Jimmy"...

was convicted of murdering his wife...