Jack Irish: Bad Debts Page #9

(Screams)

You can stop now.

I think they understand.

Yeah.

CAM:
Ow.

I've taken worse beatings.

(Laughs)

Ohh.

I'm thinking maybe I should

just return to conveyancing.

Oh, that's Anne Jeppeson.

Officers Garth Bruce

and Martin Scullin.

I need you to be with me tonight.

Well that's a relief, 'cause

I haven't got anywhere to live.

(Chatter on TV)

LINDA:
I need a car sent

to the Prince of Prussia Hotel.

I need to come in

the back of the building.

Make sure there's

plenty of security staff.

Yes, Gavin, it is life and death.

I'm not drinking till I file this.

Oh, well I'll have yours, then.

You realise this

doesn't really link Kwitny.

He could still

bullshit his way out of it.

Yeah, we'll get him eventually.

Great win last Saturday, Jack.

Yes, a truly, truly great win.

Ball out of defence

still a weakness.

Shame about your place.

Yes, isn't it just.

Don't they want you now

for murder or something?

It's a misunderstanding.

Some great songs.

But I could have bet

the whole bar here

that Nelson Riddle done

the arrangements on this record.

Well, that's lovely for Riddle.

Look, Wilbur,

it's been a long couple of days.

Oh, it was Riddle.

Money on the table.

I've never heard

of the bloody Kwitny Orchestra.

Pitman on counter sax.

Sh*t, how did I miss this?

There.

The Post Office Box

is the recording studio.

Abbotsford.

Well, that's plain wrong.

Nat recorded that in Chicago.

My guess is he never came

anywhere near Abbotsford.

We would have heard about it.

No, he was never there,

to my knowledge.

How does it feel to bring down

an entire government, Wilbur,

without getting off your bar stool?

NEWSREADER:
With this extraordinary

story still unfolding,

we can confirm that both the

Minister for Police, Garth Bruce,

and the Minister for Planning,

Lance Pitman, are now in custody.

And following the revelation

of secret documents

from an inside source,

Special Branch Detectives

have also raided

the offices of Charis Corporation,

making several arrests,

including that of millionaire

developer Joseph Kwitny,

and Father Alex Gorman

of the Good Hands Foundation,

on multiple charges

of graft and corruption.

In what is certainly proving

to be the biggest scandal

to hit the city in decades,

we spoke exclusively

to the woman who helped

break the story, Linda Hillier.

Dakota Dreaming's

at twelve-to-one now.

Reckon we can push it to twenty

before they smell a rat.

Oh, Harry, I just came by

to tell you that my house blew up,

so I couldn't raise the 25.

Your place was insured, wasn't it?

You'll be good for it.

Cam knows how to find you.

Could really go down big time here,

couldn't we?

You know what Oscar Wilde said?

Only one thing makes more

of a fool of a man than a woman,

and that's a horse.

And this one's

got a woman riding it.

(Laughs)

Pulling off a coup's

always a bit of a miracle.

I've had a coup horse

run stone motherless last.

Goodbye seventy grand.

And today, there's thirteen other

cattle out there trying to sink us.

But some bunny's gotta win, eh?

Why not us, Jack?

RACE CALLER:
Just about ready

for the running of race number four

on the program at Caulfield.

Group one feature, moving in.

Just about set.

Ready to run.

Dakota Dreaming sprung the gates.

NAT KING COLE:

The mere idea of you...

VOICEOVER:
In a moment,

a look at next week's Jack Irish.

Then stay with us

for an encore of the

critically acclaimed drama The Slap.

I might have

something for you, mate.

MAN:
This is an international

business run by ex-CIA.

And we were

the Australian arm of it.

Drugs, is it?

If these boys want

snow in Darwin, Jack, it falls.

(Car approaches)

(Gunfire)

Police! Drop your weapon!

Unless we find Gary, we're dead men.

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