The Killing Field

Becky. Hey.

Becky!

You're not going.

The party's just getting started. I'm meeting someone.

Good luck.

Did you bring anything? Of course.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, we'll hang out.

Oi, Lincoln, you dog! Huh?

Jacko! What did you say to my fiance?

What?

Hey.

Ah!

My eye.

Cool.

Becky!

Becky!

Becky!

What the bloody hell are we doing out here?

Just looking for anything of Becky's. Any sign.

Pick up the pace, but keep your eyes peeled.

We'll find her, mate.

Becky!

Becky!

Becky!

Find something, boy?

Have you got something? What's going on?

Found something.

Yeah, well, this is getting bigger by the minute.

Well, I'm going to need some help.

This is Mingara, mate.

OK. Thanks.

Matt! Matt!

It's not her. What?

It's not her. It's OK. It's OK.

It's OK. Shh, it's not her.

Well, it's like you say, John.

If you say it with confidence, you can convince anyone of anything.

We really appreciate it.

You're welcome.

See you, guys.

Lachlan.

Eve.

You look great. Skirt suits. Thanks.

So you don't miss being in the field?

If this is about Mingara, the answer's no.

This case needs you. Oh.

Well, I don't need it.

You know, there's no PTSD in policy-making.

We always said that the bureaucracy was worse than the bodies.

That was a lot of bodies ago.

We'd be running the investigation together, Eve.

Equal footing. And when has that ever worked?

We can make it work.

There are other detectives.

But they're not you.

Good luck with it.

Five bodies, Eve.

Serial killer.

I've done my time with murderers and...

Their Achilles tendons have been cut.

To stop them running away.

You'll find a good team.

Rebecca Ryan's still missing.

I think she could still be alive.

Oh, just great.

Matt Davis. We spoke on the phone.

Lachlan McKenzie. This is Eve.

Eve Winter. I know. Legend.

Thanks for coming. Dan Wild, Bridget Anderson.

Dan, how are you? Bridget.

We've had the air wing doing aerial search.

Dog squad on the ground.

Everything we can think of.

No sign of Becky.

Do you know her personally? She's friends with my son Mikey.

I played poker with her dad.

Good people.

Any chance she's run away?

Absolutely not.

Her family's not like that.

Is anyone compiling these?

Trying to. We're a bit stretched.

Matt, what's your gut feeling?

Has Rebecca been taken by the killer?

I pray to God no.

Five bodies, none of them Becky.

Any identification?

No.

No wallets or bags

and the bodies are so badly decomposed

there's no obvious identifying marks.

We might not have any formal identification for days.

But you've matched two to missing person cases.

Yeah.

Cynthia Lewis, 22 from Brisbane and Jasmine Kyte, 21 from Victoria.

That's a long way apart.

Killer could be a traveller.

A truck driver maybe. Mmm.

Both went missing in November.

Jasmine last year and Cynthia the year before.

It's November now.

That would make Becky number six, right?

All the terminals have internet access

and we've got some more whiteboards coming.

Where are these guys all from?

Some from Mingara, some from the surrounding area.

Any of them know the victims? No, they don't.

Oh. Um, Becky's parents gave us some of her things.

They thought that might help.

Thanks.

Do you have a map of the town?

Yeah. Um, Marsh, can you put the map up of the town centre?

Bridget? Yes.

I want all the evidence on Becky's disappearance front and centre.

Sure.

And we've got some DNA tests coming. Right.

We need to track back what we know

of Becky's route home on Saturday night.

Um, she turned left up... Excuse me.

Oh, sorry. Sorry. You can't come in here, actually.

Please, can I just have a moment?

My daughter went missing from Gosford two years ago.

I need to know.

Is she one of the dead girls?

I have this photo.

This is her.

Her name's Amanda Hughes.

She was on her way to a school reunion in Bathurst.

I put her on the bus myself.

Her friends were waiting for her at the other end but she...

..she never arrived.

Thanks, Bridget.

The police say she must have got off somewhere, but why would she?

She couldn't wait for that reunion.

I know my girl.

This silver cross. Would she have been wearing it?

It's a present from her grandfather.

She never took it off.

Have you...?

Have you found...?

None of the victims were wearing jewellery of any kind.

What do we think?

Is it possible she could be one of the victims?

Right age, right look.

Disappeared in November.

Would she willingly get in a car with a stranger, though?

No. Yes.

Look at the photo. Exactly.

Conservative dress. No hair dye, no crazy make-up.

She still signs her name with a smiley face.

But look at the smile.

She's flirting.

Like her mother did with you.

She calls herself Mandy. It's a little more risque.

The right man, if he was handsome and he said the right things.

She'd go with him.

Yeah, well, we still don't know for sure

if she's one of the bodies, though.

No. But she's not alive.

Her bank accounts haven't been touched.

There's that. And a year without contact?

It takes a very specific personality type to punish like that.

Amanda, Mandy... She wouldn't do it.

No.

So we're most interested in the last five people we know

that saw Becky that night.

OK.

We know she left the party just before midnight.

By the time she got here, the pub was closing.

Now, Lincoln De Luca, 25, works at the stock and rural.

He runs into Darren McKecnie.

Lincoln tells Darren that the pub is closing

so they decide to go back to Lincoln's place

for a couple of beers.

Only Jackson Ciesolka punched him in the nose.

Does anyone know why?

But Jackson is bad news.

It's got to be over a girl, right?

You had Mr Ciesolka down as a person of interest.

Oh, a couple of assault arrests,

plus he had some trouble as a teenager.

Snow dropping, perving, that kind of thing.

Ray Stafford?

Look, Ray's a bit of a mystery.

He won't even admit to being in town on Saturday night,

but both Lincoln and Darren swear they saw him.

What about Damian Jefferies?

Well, he ticks all the boxes.

He's an out-of-towner. Only been here for a year.

Was seen talking to her.

He has a vehicle, so he could've taken her anywhere.

And he knows her.

Knows how?

Works in her parents' bakery.

Jacinta. How you going?

Kev. How are ya?

This is Detective Lachlan McKenzie and Detective Eve Winter from Sydney.

They're here to help us with the search for Becky.

Go inside?

I'll see you back at the station.