Goldstone Page #3

What do you really want,

Mr. Policeman?

Need to know what's

going on out here.

What do you think

is going on?

Not too sure yet.

The truth can be

hard to find out here,

especially once

the sun goes down.

And when you find the truth,

what will you do about it?

[phone rings]

Yeah?

[man] I got some information.

About what?

About what

the f***'s going on.

Who is this?

Meet me out

at Shadow Tree Crossroads.

[hangs up]

[bird screeches]

What happened?

Looks like the old man

tanked himself.

[camera shutter clicks]

How do you know that?

'Cause I know

what it looks like.

[camera shutter clicks]

Except usually it's the kids.

We had five in the last year.

[camera shutter clicks]

And I got a witness.

[camera shutter clicks]

[Josh] Said he

came here fishin'.

Saw old Jimmy

swinging from the tree,

but... it was too late.

Sadly.

[speaking foreign language]

[Maureen] Josh!

Oh, hope I'm not interrupting.

I was just heading home

and I saw the car.

No, you're all right, Maureen.

I just heard about Jimmy.

Shame, takin' his

own life like that.

Yeah, I know. I didn't

think he was the type.

Oh, it's often

the way it goes.

Ones you least expect.

Yeah.

Is there a problem?

No, no, just... just procedure.

I record all

the suicides we get.

Oh, good. I want to make

sure there's no problems

for the family getting

a release so they can go

ahead with the burial.

Can be really painful,

dragging these things out.

Yeah, no worries.

No worries, Maureen. I'll...

I'll get Max over in the morning

and I'll dress the body.

Should be ready

by tomorrow afternoon.

Oh, good, Josh.

Appreciate it.

No worries.

Oh, there's one other thing...

Don't ya reckon

Mr. Swan has overstayed

his welcome, eh?

Yeah, I get your drift,

but it might not be so easy.

He's here on Federal authority.

Joshua.

Since when were you afraid

of a little authority?

Talk later.

[animal howls in distance]

[animal howls in distance]

[Josh] I want you out of here,

pure and simple.

I did some checkin'.

I know why you

got sent out here.

Because of the hornet's nest

you set on fire

back in your hometown.

I've gotta admit,

lookin' at you now,

I wouldn't have thought

you had it in ya.

Five men ended...

pretty much single-handed.

Jesus, you're

a dangerous man, Jay.

I guess all that

blood on your hands...

send anyone to drink.

Ya ever loved anyone?

What do you reckon?

I reckon you're too gutless

to do a lot of things.

It's probably one of 'em.

Just end in a big

f***in' mess anyway.

I reckon I'll just bypass it.

Yeah, why not bypass

the whole f***in' thing?

But you already thought

about that more than once.

Pulling that Glock

out of your holster

and popping it in your mouth.

Out here,

all on your lonesome.

F*** you, Jay.

F***in' bypass.

Like this whole

f***in' country.

You think your

missing girl's out there,

you go right on ahead.

I won't stop ya.

But you're chasin'

a f***in' ghost, Jay.

You got no witness

and you got no victim.

No f***in' crime.

Belongs to the missing girl.

Where'd you get it?

Doesn't matter.

It's just a lost passport.

Oh, it's just a lost passport.

What, just like an old man

just killed himself...

on your watch.

You think you or me

or anyone can make a

difference to any f***in' thing?

Think you really cleaned up

that town of yours?

You might have

stirred up a bit of dirt,

but it's just a matter

of time that the dust settles.

Well, at least

it's a little bit thinner.

You go out there, guns blazing,

they'll probably kill ya.

And all of this sh*t,

it'll just keep goin' round.

And I'll be the one

stuck on light duties

in some f***in' hell hole.

I thought you

were already there.

[slow orchestral music plays]

[exhales]

Why did you come back?

Still looking for the truth?

Or something else?

I don't know.

Maybe... a lot of things.

All at once.

Why did you choose me

from the others?

I guess something

just caught my eye.

What something?

You sure you are just

like the others, Mr. Policeman?

What are you

really doin' here?

What do you think?

I think you're pretending.

Pretending what?

To be like the others.

I do what they do.

Makes me no different.

Just like you,

do like the others.

Let me help you.

Why do you

think I need it?

'Cause it's in your eyes.

And why should I trust you?

I'm giving you a choice...

to be who you wanna be.

Maybe it's me...

giving you the choice.

If you need help,

press this green button.

And I'll come.

Then what will

become of you?

[priest] We are gathered today,

my brothers and sisters,

to return our brother

Jimmy to mother earth.

His life

is not destroyed by death.

God has taken him

to eternal life.

As we commend Jimmy to God

and commit his body to the earth

let us express

in prayer our common faith

in the resurrection.

As Jesus Christ was

raised from the dead,

we too are called

to follow him through death

to the glory

of eternal life with God.

[priest continues indistinctly]

Old Jimmy told me

all about you.

He wanted me

to give you this.

Your father

had two brothers.

That's them at the

front there, on the side.

Your father's

the one at the end.

What happened to them?

Government sent people away.

Far away from here.

They must

have been with 'em.

There's a lot of families

out here won't accept you.

They want to keep everything

for themselves.

But old Jimmy

wanted you to know that...

This mob... it's your mob.

This land, you belong to it.

[kitchen appliance whirring]

[Maureen] Come in!

Detective Swan.

Cuppa tea?

Grandchildren?

Nah, I couldn't have kids.

So I figured sponsors

was the next best thing.

I heard you were

at Jimmy's funeral.

Just plain terrible

what's happening out there.

People taking

their own lives.

We lost a bunch

of kids last year.

Yeah, I was speaking

to Jimmy's daughter, Maria.

She must be devastated.

Yeah, she was saying

Jimmy was gettin' pressure.

Really? Who from?

The Land Council

and Furnace Creek.

I heard you caused

a bit of commotion

back in your hometown.

Is that right?

I was just doin' my job.

My daddy was a sheep farmer

a long way south

and a little bit east of here.

Fifty thousand acres

of the most desolate,

driest land you've ever seen.

Now, my daddy was a hard man,

but my granddaddy... [exhales]

he was from a different world.

Nothing my daddy did could

ever please that old man.

There was no pleasing

my daddy, either.

When I heard he'd

hanged himself in the feed shed

one October morning,

I couldn't feel any sorrow.

Couldn't find

a reason to miss him.

And then it dawned on me.

I was just like him.

Daddy and Granddaddy,

the three of us.

As hard as that trampled on,

dried old earth

that we grew up on.

So after skippin'

from town to town,

marriage number five,

I just let things go.

Decided I just had

to look after number one.

Now, I never

told anyone that before.

But I reckon you

should think about it, Jay,

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