The Broken Shore Page #8

But if they didn't,

I probably would have cheered.

Got an address for Duncan Ballins.

He's the last one left.

Coburg. St Aidan's. An ex-seminary.

Are we really sure

we want to protect this prick?

- Armed?

- A bit.

It's just one old priest,

not the Hell's Angels.

I'll go the front. You go around

the back in case he bolts.

Who is it? What do you want?

Detective Sergeant Joe Cashin.

Homicide.

You're a bit of a hermit here,

aren't you?

Long time since the glory days when

you got to help the boys in the shower.

Your old chums from the Companions camp.

Presumably you've heard they're at rest?

- Though I doubt at peace.

- There's nothing I have to tell you.

You know they were all tortured, killed.

Unless you've got a warrant,

you know the way out.

Robin's was particularly awful.

Some sort of colonoscopy,

an appliance heated over a gas ring.

Don't move.

Dove? You alright?

Dove'.

Dove, where are ya?

Help me... please.

Please...

Help me'. Please forgive me'.

Help me. Help me, please.

- Joe.

- Dove?

- Joe!

- Dove?

Joe...

- F*** me.

- Joe.

Please...

Please, help me!

Please.

Drop your weapon.

Put the gun down, Jamie.

No!

'I am he that liveth and was dead,

and behold I am alive forever more.

Suffer the little children

to come unto me.'

Our Lord said that, didn't he, Duncan?

But you know that already.

And those three boys that

you and my father went too far with,

the ones you had to burn

to cover your sins...

..what mercy did you show them?

Father, forgive me my sins.

I am in thy light.

Forgive me.

'And in those days shall men seek death

and shall not find it,

and they shall desire to die.'

I told a cop 30 years ago.

I told him everything.

Pleaded with him to save us boys.

You know what that cop did?

Huh?

Nothin'.

He was the last of them.

We done what we set out to do.

It's time to make peace with the Father.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those

who trespass against us

and lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from evil, amen.

Amen.

We say farewell to a great cop,

a great detective

and a great man who died too early.

Vale Detective Inspector

Derek Singleton.

By the way, you were right. Singo's

company, he was paid to turn his head.

200,000 bucks within three days

after the Cromarty fire.

And then two days after the inquest,

another 200,000 went in.

It's like two f***ing deaths.

Oh, mate, he was like a parrot

on your shoulder the whole time.

'Go the extra mile,

follow all your leads.'

Unbelievable.

You know we were mentioned in the will?

Oh, the Salvos can have my share.

This man has blood

with the clotting power of a lobster.

You two have to be

the luckiest blokes on earth.

Yeah, if I was so lucky, would never

have met you two in the first place.

That's actually a good point.

- So what happened to Hopgood?

- Shifted laterally.

Desert country, I think.

We'll get him in the end.

Just have to prove he was

on the old bastard's payroll.

Alright, I'm off.

Some d*ckhead stole two frozen chickens

from the local supermarket

so it's all hands on deck.

Then you're coming back, OK?

OK? I'm not joking. You're coming back'.

- Thought you'd gone walkabout.

- Rostered days off.

I saw a photo of the Companions camp

footy team from 1981.

There's a kid the spitting image of you,

played half-forward flank.

Nah. Never was a kid.

The, ah, the gate's my idea.

Thought we might need quick access

on the odd cold, dark night.

But I put the bolt on my side.

So... speaking to him,

not speaking to him.

Speaks, no speaks.

- You up for a walk?

- Yeah, sure.

As long as we can go past that tree.

'More broken than you are.'

A funerary urn.

Jesus, Joe, is Blue Balls on

a different time zone or something?

Mate, I need Trace to put together

a list of missing kids

from the following years-

'78, '81, '88, '89...

Alright, I will get her to call you

during normal, sane business hours.

There's no end to it for you, is there?

Not in this lifetime, mate.

Not in this lifetime.

Captions by CSI Australia

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