BIANCA COLIN DAISY DONNA FELIX GLENN MACKENZIE MIKE_COWARD MOLLY PHILOMENA REGGIE SKYE TAHNEE TROY WAITRESS BIANCA La Belle Dauphine, this is Bianca. I can squeeze you in tomorrow morning. See you in eight weeks. Remember, emulsify. DONNA You�re going to look awesome. Tahnee�s the best. BIANCA Donna, sweetheart, over here. DONNA Okay. TAHNEE Oh, we�re doing extensions today, Dais? DAISY Yeah, I just thought I�d do something fun for my anniversary. TAHNEE So fun. DAISY I can still, surf? TAHNEE Yes, yes. SKYE Good morning, ladies. TAHNEE Hi darling. SKYE Hi. TAHNEE So, I�m basically going to section it off, braid. BIANCA Argh! BIANCA Oh! SKYE Sorry. BIANCA You made me jump. SKYE Well, I have got another surprise for you. DONNA & TAHNEE - Happy birthday! - Happy birthday, bestie! DONNA We�re taking you to lunch. TAHNEE We have booked a table at ... DONNA, TAHNEE & SKYE The Hut. TAHNEE I�ve just got to finish doing Daisy�s hair. BIANCA Oh, thanks girls. BIANCA Okay, I need to make some calls. DONNA Okay. TAHNEE Okay. SKYE What? TAHNEE Cool. TAHNEE Get ready Daisy. First things first, blow dry. DONNA Oh. DONNA I forgot to say, the booking�s at twelve, so we�re heading over in about an hour or so. BIANCA Yeah, almond oil. BIANCA And I would love to get that by tomorrow morning. DONNA Wow they look beautiful. DAISY What, not too much? TAHNEE For an anniversary? TAHNEE No way! MUSIC ENDS DAISY Yeah, it�s nice, isn�t it? Alright, thank you. Um, I will see you lot in fifteen minutes or so. DAISY Okay, bye. TAHNEE Bye darling. Alright Donna, let�s do it. DONNA Alright. TAHNEE Bianca! Skye! Lunch! TAHNEE Bianca, lunch. BIANCA Mm-hm. Mm-hm. DONNA I guess she�s meeting us there. TAHNEE Skye, we going? SKYE Yeah, two seconds, I�m nearly done. Hey, look at this. TAHNEE Oh my God! DONNA What is that? Is that like red velvet? TAHNEE Yeah, Bianca�s favourite, ever since she saw it in a magazine when we were in Year 5. SKYE Okay, we off? TAHNEE Yeah. SKYE Where�s Bianca? TAHNEE Um, she�s going to meet us there. SKYE Oh, typical. Alright, let�s go then. TAHNEE Yeah. WAITRESS Hi, are you ready to order? DONNA Still no reply? TAHNEE She probably just got caught up on the phone. She won�t be far off. DAISY Oh, no Bianca? DAISY Did you want to order? DONNA You know what? I don�t know why we bothered. She was never going to show. TAHNEE Donna. TAHNEE Sorry Daisy. DAISY Yeah, it�s fine. SKYE Hey, your hair looks fab. DAISY Oh, thank you. TAHNEE She probably just got caught up, you know? You know how hard she works. DONNA I know how hard she says she works. SKYE Bianca! SKYE Bianca. DONNA Bianca! DONNA Bianca? TAHNEE Bianca? SKYE Bianca? Bianca! MACKENZIE Hello? COLIN Glenn. COLIN Already here? GLENN Hey, Col. GLENN Mack. MACKENZIE What have we got? GLENN Looks like strangulation. GLENN Suffusion of the face with some mottling of the skin just here. GLENN No liver mortis yet, no rigor mortis. The body�s still at a normal temperature, suggesting that death occurred sometime in the past couple of hours. MACKENZIE What was the ligature? FELIX We don�t have one. FELIX Looks like there was a bit of a struggle though. GLENN Which means it probably wasn�t quick. MACKENZIE How long? GLENN Hard to say exactly, but if she was struggling, at least a minute or two. GLENN Maybe. FELIX I�ll get that. COLIN Robbery? FELIX There�s nothing here to take. Salon went cashless, eleven weeks ago. COLIN Security cameras? FELIX Unfortunately not. MACKENZIE It�s a terrifying way to die. COLIN So have you had a look round here? FELIX Briefly, but I didn�t touch anything. COLIN Massage room? MACKENZIE There�s no smoke detector in here. COLIN So? MACKENZIE So. COLIN Do you want me to refer them for a safety breach? TAHNEE So, ah, I ... I sort of organised this kind of like surprise lunch for ... for Bianca, for her birthday. MACKENZIE Tahnee Jones, senior stylist. TAHNEE Um, so I ... I booked lunch for twelve, and then when it came time to go, Bianca got stuck on the phone, so we ... we left. COLIN Um, did you lock the door? TAHNEE No. SKYE No, because Bianca was here. MACKENZIE And you left together? TAHNEE Yeah, yeah. So we ... we were out here, and we were looking at the cake that I got, which was red velvet, and Skye was -- MACKENZIE Skye Bailey? SKYE Yeah, I�m her sister. SKYE I�m Bianca�s sister, and so I was in the wash room. And then I came here, and then the three of us, we left. We left at the same time. COLIN So that must make you, ah, Donna Smithwick, ah, the apprentice. COLIN Um, can you talk us through exactly what happened? COLIN When did you come back? TAHNEE It was about one, so, um ... and that�s ... that�s when we ... that�s when we found her. TAHNEE My best friend since year two. COLIN Really? TAHNEE Yeah. We both wore tiaras on our first day at Airey�s Inlet, and we�ve been best friends ever since. MACKENZIE Down in Victoria? TAHNEE Yeah. MACKENZIE Mm. TAHNEE Yeah, we moved up here when Bianca -- Skye and Bianca�s Mum passed away and she set up the salon. MACKENZIE Where�s the smoke detector? SKYE Sorry, what? MACKENZIE In the massage room, there�s no smoke detector. TAHNEE Um, is that ... TAHNEE Sorry, are we in trouble? COLIN We�re investigating everything at this stage. TAHNEE Okay. COLIN Door unlocked. All the staff at lunch. Anyone could have walked in off the street. MACKENZIE Look at this. MACKENZIE Bianca had back to back appointments, treatments, meetings with suppliers. Evening training for new products. She didn�t do anything else. COLIN So ... MACKENZIE So, this place was her entire life. MACKENZIE It filled every minute of her day. Did Donna go through here? TAHNEE Yeah. MACKENZIE This is an active crime scene. You can�t just walk away. DONNA I just needed a moment. MACKENZIE What were you inside for? It�s a prison tattoo, isn�t it? DONNA Armed robbery. I did nine years. MACKENZIE It must have been hard to get a job. DONNA Well, I came here for a fresh start, but people weren�t exactly keen to hire a crim, so Bianca took a chance on me. MACKENZIE That was good of her. DONNA She was alright. As long as she didn�t get in her way. MACKENZIE Did you get in her way? DONNA If there�s one thing you learn inside, it�s how to keep your head down. DONNA This is a murder investigation. You�re a witness, Donna. MACKENZIE So, who did get in her way? DONNA The landlord. DONNA She hated him. DONNA I saw them. I thought she was going to take his head off. MOLLY When was this? DONNA Last week. DONNA They were out in the garden, screaming at each other as usual. MACKENZIE About what? DONNA I don�t know. He drops around all the time. GLENN Hey Mack? MACKENZIE That�s all for now, Donna. GLENN Ah, just before you -- MACKENZIE Anything? GLENN Not yet. I�ve sent the body for an autopsy. GLENN It was something else actually. I wanted to see if you�d be keen to look after Frankie this weekend. MACKENZIE Oh, um ... GLENN You don�t have to. Mum said she would if she had to. But you know how she feels about dogs. MACKENZIE No, I�d love to. GLENN Great. GLENN I�m away for a couple of days camping. Yeah, just going -- COLIN Daisy can talk to us. MACKENZIE Yeah, well, um, just, you know, drop her over whenever. Yeah. DAISY They didn�t leave. COLIN None of them? DAISY Well, maybe to use the bathroom, but what�s that, like, two minutes? COLIN It�s ten minutes at least to the salon. MACKENZIE Did anyone stop at their table? DAISY Just me, but it was busy so I can�t be a hundred percent sure. DAISY They must be devastated. Poor Bianca. COLIN I hope this hasn�t put a dampener on your anniversary weekend. DAISY Oh. MACKENZIE It�s your anniversary. COLIN Five years. MACKENZIE And you�re going camping. DAISY Glamping. Yeah, it�s fancy. Hence the ... You�re taking care of Frankie, aren�t you? MACKENZIE Yeah. DAISY Yeah. MACKENZIE Thanks for your help. DAISY Okay. MACKENZIE So, seems the salon girls were all definitely at lunch. MUSIC ENDS COLIN Maybe it was someone off the street. MACKENZIE Yeah, possible, sure, but random murders, they don�t happen very often. No. MACKENZIE People are killed by those closest to them. COLIN You think the staff? COLIN They were alibied. MACKENZIE At lunch together, in full view. MACKENZIE So, if the killer was at that table, how did they do it? MACKENZIE Tahnee Jones, victim�s best friend since kindergarten. MACKENZIE Skye, the sister. MACKENZIE Donna has a record. MIKE COWARD Robbery, like she said. Nine years. COLIN Model prisoner. Paroled. COLIN First job was apprentice to Bianca. PHILOMENA It�s very altruistic of her to hire an ex-crim. MACKENZIE Mm. MACKENZIE Especially an upmarket salon with a very strong image. PHILOMENA Who inherits? COLIN No will. Parents dead, so in theory the sister, Skye. PHILOMENA And no witnesses saw anyone coming or going? COLIN Felix and Reggie are door knocking. PHILOMENA But the door, it was unlocked, so it doesn�t have to be one of these three girls. MACKENZIE Mm, no, Bianca was working 24/7 to keep that place going. MACKENZIE She had no social life, no hobbies. MACKENZIE The only people in her life, those three employees. COLIN None of them were anywhere near the salon at the time of the murder. PHILOMENA So what sort of employer was she? COLIN Well, they were throwing her a surprise party. Hardly the kind of thing you do if you don�t like your boss. MACKENZIE Unless you�re sucking up. I mean, we have all fantasised about killing our boss. COLIN Mm. PHILOMENA Oi. MACKENZIE No, we can�t rule out the people closest to Bianca. MACKENZIE They might hold the answer. COLIN Well, if they don�t, it might be the guy she owes sixty grand to, Bianca�s landlord. According to these texts, she was behind on her rent. A long way behind. MACKENZIE Donna saw them arguing last week. What�s his name? COLIN Troy Lexton. MACKENZIE Right, find out where he is and what he�s doing. PHILOMENA Hey, Mackenzie, just before you go, can we have a word? MACKENZIE Mm-hm. PHILOMENA Okay, let�s get this out of the way. HR are sending a contract for you. MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE Why? PHILOMENA Because they�re sick of paying your casual rates. They want to put you on permanent. PHILOMENA And no one in the entire police force has ever stopped them getting what they want. MACKENZIE But I�m only here temporarily. PHILOMENA Yeah, but what if you�re not? PHILOMENA There�s no guarantee that you�re going to be cleared. MACKENZIE I have to be. I didn�t do anything wrong. PHILOMENA And no one who�s innocent�s ever been found guilty before? MACKENZIE This is different. We had him and the key evidence disappeared. PHILOMENA How? MACKENZIE Someone on the inside is my theory. PHILOMENA Ah, really? MACKENZIE It�s the only thing that makes sense. PHILOMENA Ah. PHILOMENA Be that as it may, you either work here or you don�t. MUSIC BEGINS ... 16 SEC SCORE_11.L PHILOMENA HR, they want an answer in the next couple of days. Answer? PHILOMENA Yeah? COLIN Mackenzie, I found Troy Lexton. TROY Yes, I said I�d fix the ceiling fan. MACKENZIE Troy Lexton? TROY No, stop calling me MUSIC ENDS or I�ll have to put you out on the street, okay? TROY Ah, yeah, look, I was joking about evicting her. I wouldn�t do that. MACKENZIE We want to talk to you about the murder of Bianca Bailey. TROY What? When? COLIN At her salon, around lunchtime today. TROY Gee, that�s ... that�s awful. MACKENZIE She owed you money. She was sixty grand behind on the rent. TROY No, she ... she paid me. MACKENZIE When? TROY Well, not all of it. She gave me 42K in cash and said she�d get the rest soon. Not going to get it now, am I? MACKENZIE Where did she get the money? TROY No idea. My old man always used to say, whenever anyone offers you money, you take it. TROY No questions. TROY You don�t think I had anything to do with it, do you? MACKENZIE Where were you between noon and 1pm today? TROY Well, I was nowhere near the place. TROY I was inspecting a building in the industrial park on Southey Road. COLIN Did, ah, did anyone see you? TROY No, but ... hey, hang on a sec. TROY Ah. Charging for parking in a coastal town. Profiteering at its worst. TROY Look, Bianca could be a pain, but it�s always sad to lose a tenant. COLIN It�s sad when someone dies. TROY Right. Yeah. COLIN Alright, mate? Ah, not far away. Just ... MACKENZIE Why isn�t there a smoke detector in the massage room? TROY Well, there is. TROY Look, no idea how that happened. TROY I will get on to replacing that as soon as I can. In my properties ... COLIN Okay, cheers. TROY ... safety comes first. COLIN Mackenzie. GLENN She was definitely strangled, as we suspected. GLENN I found symptomatic petechia, broken capillaries and oedema. And a broken hyoid bone. MACKENZIE What was the ligature? GLENN Good question. GLENN It definitely wasn�t the hair dryer cord. MACKENZIE How do you know? GLENN The ligature marks. GLENN If it was a cord or rope, they�d be darker, narrower, more focused. But these are fainter than usual and a bit more spread out. MACKENZIE So what? A belt? A scarf? GLENN Maybe. I�m not willing to rule that out at this stage, or in. I still need a bit more information there. MACKENZIE Is that it? GLENN For now, yep. I�ll keep going. MACKENZIE So Skye�s background check had her living in Aireys Inlet until she left at sixteen and moved around all over the place, which made me wonder if something had happened, which led me to the local newspapers, which led me to ... COLIN To her? MACKENZIE Mm-hm. MACKENZIE Hi Skye. SKYE Hi. MACKENZIE Thanks for coming. COLIN Yeah, I mean, anything I can do to help. MACKENZIE First thing, tell us about being a teenage arsonist. SKYE How is ... how is that relevant? That was a long time ago. MACKENZIE What I don�t understand is why your little accomplice was convicted and you weren�t. SKYE Do we really have to do this now? MACKENZIE Your sister�s dead, Skye. SKYE Wow. Um, okay. Look, my Mum pulled some strings. I don�t know what else to say. MACKENZIE Well, that was lucky for you. SKYE It wasn't lucky for me, because then she chucked me out. COLIN At sixteen? SKYE Yes. Bianca and I were raised in a very strict religious household and I brought shame on the family, so she made my charge disappear and in return I had to go. MACKENZIE Did Bianca contact you at all? SKYE No. Mum had a real hold over her. MACKENZIE What happened then? SKYE I went off the rails didn�t I? SKYE My ... my own mother completely cut me off. MACKENZIE What changed? SKYE Mum died. And I ... I know that sounds really bad, but it ... it freed me. Like, I just felt like she couldn�t judge me anymore, and I reconnected with Bianca, and just everything changed. You know, she�d set up the salon. SKYE She gave me a job. It was just ... it was a new start. MACKENZIE And now you inherit it all. SKYE Excuse me? MACKENZIE Well, she doesn�t have a will, Skye. It�s all yours. SKYE I was at a lunch, and I came back, and my sister was dead on the floor. Okay? So I could inherit a hundred salons, and it will never make up for the fact that I will never see her again. COLIN Kicked out of home at sixteen. COLIN She looks so fresh-faced in that photo. COLIN Hair looks a lot lighter. MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE So, the salon was behind on rent, yet Bianca finds forty-two grand to pay most of it off. Where from? COLIN I�m going to head back there, get into the books, see if I can find the answer. MACKENZIE Mm-hm. MACKENZIE Skye�s got an unhappy history with her sister, but looks like they were repairing it. Tahnee was supposedly Bianca�s best friend, so there could be something there. COLIN She was at lunch anyway. MACKENZIE And, well, Troy Lexton, he�s a real piece of work, but he was nowhere near the place. MACKENZIE Ugh! MACKENZIE What was going on in that salon? REGGIE Hey, tools down, folks. We have cracked it. FELIX Wade Thornburn from Thornburn Quality Meats from across the road from the salon. REGGIE Mm. Now he shut his shop early yesterday cos the trevally were biting, but we got him this morning. FELIX Yeah, he said someone walked in there around about 12.55. REGGIE 12.55. MACKENZIE Who? FELIX Ah, he said he didn�t know him, but he said he was an Asian bloke with polyester slacks and brown shoes. REGGIE Mm. MACKENZIE Troy Lexton. COLIN Yeah, but he�s alibied. MACKENZIE No, his car is alibied. MACKENZIE How long was he in there for? FELIX Oh, Wade told us he cubed a shoulder of lamb for Mrs Merritt and rang it up -- REGGIE Wrapped it. FELIX Wrapped it up, and then Troy came out. COLIN Yeah, how long were we talking? FELIX Two to three minutes. REGGIE Yeah, yeah. MACKENZIE Long enough. MACKENZIE Come on. TROY Hey, can you get off the lawn? I just mowed it. TROY What are you doing? MACKENZIE What side of the road did you park on, Troy? TROY What? COLIN At the industrial estate yesterday. They marked the bay numbers on the ticket, but we won�t test you on that. So just tell us, was it the east side of the road, or west? TROY Yeah, I�m not really good with directions. MACKENZIE East is the beach, west is the escarpment. TROY Ah ... east? MACKENZIE Oh, Troy. So close. You weren�t in the car, were you? TROY'S DAD Troy. TROY You can�t prove that. MACKENZIE We spoke to Kirsten. Kirsten at your office. Kirsten who borrowed the car to do the inspection. TROY Yeah, look, I, um ... I would -- COLIN Oh, and a witness saw you going into La Belle Dauphine at 12.55pm. TROY What? That�s, that�s crazy. I was nowhere near the place. MACKENZIE Asian bloke in polyester slacks. TROY They�re wool. MACKENZIE Brown shoes. TROY Well, they�re actually more caramel. MACKENZIE Sweating like you wouldn�t believe. TROY Okay, okay, I did go to the salon. MACKENZIE Why? TROY The rent. COLIN I wanted the rest of it. I went there to talk to her about figuring out a fair payment plan, but ... TROY Bianca? COLIN ... when I got there, I, ah ... TROY Bianca. TROY ... found her dead. So I just bolted, as quick as I could. TROY I didn�t kill her. I mean, why would I? I�d never get my money. MACKENZIE Why didn�t you tell us? TROY Well, I didn�t want to make things worse for myself. I just ... You know, I panicked. MACKENZIE Come on, let�s go back to the salon and turn it over, knowing what we know. MACKENZIE Felix, can we keep an eye on Troy Lexton? MACKENZIE Yeah, well he might not have motive to kill Bianca but he lied about finding the body so, something else is going on. MACKENZIE Yep. COLIN Sick waves this morning. MACKENZIE Were they? MUSIC ENDS COLIN No better way to start the day. MACKENZIE Mm. COLIN Being in the water, sun shining. COLIN The other morning, I literally saw dolphins. MACKENZIE What, in Dolphin Cove? MACKENZIE Well, I never. COLIN Just saying. COLIN When I was a kid, if you�d have told me one day I�d be surfing with dolphins ... MACKENZIE What, don�t you ever find it boring? COLIN No way. COLIN They jump out of the water. MACKENZIE I was talking about the weather. MACKENZIE I miss the grey skies. MACKENZIE Rain, bit of wind. The kind of weather that inspires great literature. COLIN Only because there�s nothing better to do. Guarantee you, if Charlotte Bront� owned a surfboard, Wuthering Heights would never have happened. MACKENZIE That was Emily Bront�. MACKENZIE You�re making my argument for me. Hey, this is interesting. MACKENZIE Tahnee has a brochure for a nursing home in Victoria. COLIN Must be for a relative. MACKENZIE And an unpaid invoice from them. MACKENZIE For forty-two grand. I appreciate you meeting me here, Tahnee. TAHNEE Of course. MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE Tell me about your Grandma. TAHNEE What? MACKENZIE She was meant to be moving into Heritage House Supported Care, but the deposit was never paid and she lost her place. MACKENZIE Forty-two thousand dollars. What happened? TAHNEE Well, we decided that it just wasn�t the right fit for her. MACKENZIE Or did you give the money to Bianca for the rent? TAHNEE I thought that I was buying into the business. MACKENZIE Didn�t you know the financial state of the salon? TAHNEE Bianca told me the salon was thriving. That we could run it together. Best friends forever. TAHNEE She said that I�d make enough money to move my Nan up here. Somewhere warmer. MACKENZIE So she lied to you? TAHNEE She didn�t mean it. She thought that the salon could get over this hump and that everything would be okay. And it would have been. Bianca could make anything happen. TAHNEE Her Mum left her a bit of money and she built La Belle Dauphine, with her hard work and determination. I was lucky to be her best friend. MACKENZIE How did you find out the truth? TAHNEE I saw her give the money to Troy. MACKENZIE What did you do? TAHNEE I confronted her about it. She didn�t deny it. TROY Bianca, forty-two thousand dollars! BIANCA Yes, sweetheart, you�re blowing this way out of proportion. MACKENZIE When was this? TAHNEE Three days ago. MACKENZIE You must have felt very betrayed. TAHNEE Honestly? No. I wish she told me about it, but I knew that we could get through it. We always have. I knew that we�d be okay. MACKENZIE That�s all for now. Thanks. MACKENZIE I�ll be in touch. Colin, what have you got? COLIN I�m at the salon. You need to get down here. REGGIE My opinion -- FELIX Which I didn�t ask for. MUSIC ENDS REGGIE You�d think with all the properties he owns he could afford a better car. I mean, have a look at the bomb. REGGIE Oh, that�s nice. FELIX Where�d you get that? REGGIE From the salon. FELIX Did you nick it? REGGIE No, it was a free sample. FELIX From a crime scene! That�s wrong. REGGIE Oh, well there�s wrong and then there�s wrong, isn�t there? FELIX And they�re both wrong. REGGIE What�s he up to? REGGIE Oh, don�t tell me he�s going to use that reject stuff for his rentals. FELIX It�s not illegal. REGGIE Yeah, but it�s still dodgy. That�s a hanging offence, in my book. FELIX Yeah? And how�s your moisturiser going there? REGGIE God, you�re still going on about that? FELIX Well, when you were our teacher in school, you went on about honesty. REGGIE Yeah? FELIX It wasn�t �there�s wrong and there�s wrong.� Told us to do the right thing no matter what it cost you. REGGIE Yeah, well I didn�t have to worry about it with you, Mr Perfect Behaviour. A bit of rule-breaking would have done you good. FELIX Didn�t always behave perfectly. REGGIE Oh, I think I�d remember. REGGIE You were a beautiful boy. You always got my special pen, the top work one with the rainbow ink. I haven�t thought about that in years. Don�t know where it got to. Oh, what�s he got now? FELIX Oh no, way. Don�t do it. REGGIE Oh, I bet a coffee he does. FELIX Oh, seriously? REGGIE Oh. yeah, you still defending him? FELIX Oh, build the gallows. REGGIE That�s the way. COLIN When I went through Bianca�s payroll records, I found some discrepancies. MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE Why did Bianca stop paying you? DONNA I don�t know what you�re talking about. COLIN Last weekly pay check was the 4th of September. For the last eleven weeks, not a cracker. DONNA I was an apprentice. You don�t get paid much, it�s about the experience. MACKENZIE Mm. MACKENZIE So, eleven weeks ago, the salon goes cashless. A week later, your pay stops. My guess, she caught you with your hand in the till. DONNA It was once. DONNA Twenty bucks for everyone�s coffees. MACKENZIE Which I had to get and pay for out of my own pocket every day. MACKENZIE Right, so what was the play? MACKENZIE You work for free and in return she doesn�t tell anybody? DONNA Well, she knew that if my parole officer found out that ... MACKENZIE Back inside? COLIN But why didn�t you just quit? DONNA Are you serious? I�m a woman in her fifties, fresh out of prison. DONNA I�m not what you�d call an easy hire. DONNA And she knew it. DONNA Taking all the credit for giving me a second chance. MACKENZIE Yeah, you must have hated her for it. DONNA Oh yeah. DONNA Oh yeah, I did. DONNA But I didn�t kill her. PHILOMENA Okay, so here�s our state of play. PHILOMENA We�ve got Tahnee, we�ve got Skye, we�ve got Donna, right? And they�ve all got motives? MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE Mm-hm. Bianca took the forty-two grand that Tahnee had earmarked to put her grandma in a nursing home and spent it on back rent. COLIN I�d be fuming. MACKENZIE Yeah, well, she says she�s not angry, but come on. PHILOMENA Alright, so we�ve got Skye. She inherits, but, ah, salon wasn�t worth anything. COLIN She had no way of knowing that. For all she knew, it was a goldmine. MACKENZIE And Donna was being blackmailed into working for free. COLIN Mm. Criminal background, desperate situation. PHILOMENA Okay, so we�ve got motive, motive, motive, but no opportunity. MACKENZIE Yeah, and then we�ve got sweaty Troy Lexton with an opportunity but no motive. Ugh! MACKENZIE Doesn�t make sense. COLIN Let�s not forget the missing smoke detector. MACKENZIE Yeah! PHILOMENA What�s that? MACKENZIE Well, a woman dedicated to every single aspect of her salon doesn�t have -- Wait. Are you making fun of me? COLIN A little bit, yeah. REGGIE You right? FELIX Yeah. REGGIE Troy Lexton�s a dirt bag. COLIN What�s he up to now? REGGIE Oh, where do you start? I mean, he threw his chip packet out the car window and was leering at a couple of girls crossing a road. COLIN Ugh. FELIX Yeah. And he illegally dumped bags of domestic rubbish into a skip and pinched some old reject building supplies, which he then used to replace a tenant�s windowsill. COLIN Checks out. REGGIE I�m all for upcycling, like we are a disposable culture. You break something, toss it out, move on. But this man was picking through hard waste like he was in a lolly shop. MACKENZIE Reggie? REGGIE Hmm? MACKENZIE What sort of rubbish? FELIX Oh, it was disgusting. He grabbed a toilet seat and he also grabbed this -- MACKENZIE No, no, no, no, no. What was Troy throwing away? FELIX Oh, I don�t know. MACKENZIE Didn�t you look? FELIX In the skip? MACKENZIE Yeah. FELIX No. MACKENZIE But ... MACKENZIE First thing tomorrow morning. COLIN Is this where you pictured your day going? GLENN Bagged evidence in worse places. What are we looking for? COLIN Exactly my question. MACKENZIE As Detective Senior Constable Cartwright has helpfully reminded us, there was a smoke detector in the washroom but not in the massage room. COLIN Oh, this smoke detector. MACKENZIE It had to go somewhere. COLIN Maybe it was never there in the first place. MACKENZIE Humour me. REGGIE Oh, I�m just a volunteer. FELIX You wanted more work to do. COLIN There�s a whole acai ball in here. REGGIE Huh. COLIN Who would throw that out? It�s like eighteen dollars. Oh no, maggots. Maggots! REGGIE Yeah, I don�t think it�s that bad. It just reminds me of playground duty, picking up rubbish. I�d get the naughty kids to do it. MACKENZIE Happy anniversary, by the way. Tomorrow, isn�t it? GLENN Yeah. MACKENZIE Five years. GLENN Yep. You walked out on me, Mack. GLENN Remember? What did you want me to do? GLENN Go live in a cave? Join the priesthood? MACKENZIE You never called me. Of course I was going to move on. And yes, I waited a year, and it was a pretty average year as well, if I�m honest. GLENN And then things happened with Daisy and I�m glad they did. MACKENZIE I know you are. GLENN She is amazing. FELIX Excuse me -- GLENN She is the best thing that ever happened to me. MACKENZIE I know she is. FELIX So I didn�t tell you that I was going away the exact minute I saw you, so what? FELIX Mackenzie! GLENN I don�t have to tell you everything. MACKENZIE I know. GLENN And I don�t need you getting stuck into me for it. MACKENZIE I�m not getting stuck in. GLENN Yes, you are. You can at least admit that. FELIX Excuse me! COLIN I don�t believe it. COLIN Why would a landlord as tight as Troy Lexton rip out a smoke detector and throw it away? MACKENZIE Because of this. REGGIE Is that a ... MACKENZIE A camera. REGGIE Oh, the dirty perve. TROY Nuh, that�s not mine. MUSIC ENDS MACKENZIE We saw you throw it in the skip. TROY No, that ... that was a different one. You know what? TROY This ... this is harassment. I�m actually the victim here. MACKENZIE Oh. COLIN Sorry, what? COLIN Okay, so what if the salon closes? TROY Nobody�s gonna want to rent a place where someone�s been murdered. TROY And that�s an income stream just vanished. MACKENZIE So we�re working on retrieving that footage. MACKENZIE Before we watch it, anything you�d like to tell us? TROY No. MACKENZIE Okay. You lied about being in the salon. You found her body but you didn�t tell us. TROY Bianca! MACKENZIE So fine. Yeah, you�re a liar. But you didn�t have a motive to kill her. TROY Exactly. MACKENZIE And then we find out you�re illegally filming women in the massage room. MACKENZIE Did Bianca find out? TROY No. She had no idea. TROY Look, I went there to talk to her about the rent, and after I found Bianca, I panicked and took the smoke detector out. MACKENZIE And threw it in the skip. TROY Yes. TROY I mean, she ... she was murdered. TROY I don�t want anyone thinking I�m dodgy. MACKENZIE So we�re looking at any movement at the time of death, anything that can help us figure out what happened. The time window�s between twelve and one. MACKENZIE Okay, so nothing happened in this room between 11.59 and when Troy rips the smoke detector out at 12.56. MACKENZIE Let�s go back. FELIX Sorry, it�s a bit glitchy. FELIX Troy must have damaged something when he threw it out. MACKENZIE Stop, stop, stop. Stop it, stop it! There�s the wireless speaker. FELIX Well, this was before the girls left for lunch. MACKENZIE Okay, go forward again. MACKENZIE Move, Felix, move. MACKENZIE There was a speaker on the shelf, and then there wasn�t. What happened? FELIX Well, that part of the footage is wrecked. I can�t get to it. COLIN So, someone moved the speaker. Who, and why? MACKENZIE Oh! Oh my ... MACKENZIE How did I miss it? MACKENZIE Speaker. Tunic. Killer and the victim. COLIN What about them? MACKENZIE Oh my God. MACKENZIE We thought Troy was the only one who had opportunity. COLIN Right. MACKENZIE Because the girls were at lunch. COLIN Right. And Bianca was still alive when they went for lunch. MACKENZIE Exactly. COLIN I�m sorry, I�m a ... I�m a bit lost. MACKENZIE Get everyone to the salon. MACKENZIE Including Daisy. Reggie, come with me. COLIN Daisy? FELIX Dunno. DONNA Why are we here�? COLIN We�re just waiting for DI Clarke. Sorry, Detective Sergeant Clarke. Do you know where, ah ... COLIN Um, Detective Sergeant Clarke? MACKENZIE Donna, can you join me in the washroom? COLIN Oh, would you mind? MACKENZIE Hello. DONNA Wait, where were you? You were ... Weren�t you just in there? MACKENZIE Was I? Take a seat. Was I in the washroom or wasn�t I in the washroom? That is what this whole case hinged on. MACKENZIE Three of Bianca�s employees, all with motives. Tahnee, she did you out of forty-two grand. MACKENZIE Skye, you thought you�d inherit everything. SKYE Well, not much. MACKENZIE And Donna, well, she blackmailed you into forced labour. MACKENZIE But how could any of you have done it? MACKENZIE You were all at lunch together when Bianca was being murdered. MACKENZIE Leaving Troy Lexton as the only person with the opportunity to kill her. But we thought, mm, no motive. DONNA Apart from being a perve. MACKENZIE Well, yeah. Until we learned he�d hidden a camera in the massage room. DONNA Told ya. MACKENZIE But it wasn�t Troy. SKYE Well, how do you know that he didn�t kill Bianca to just cover the whole thing up? MACKENZIE Well, because of your perfume. SKYE What? MACKENZIE When you left for lunch at twelve, Bianca was alive. MACKENZIE When you came back at one, she was dead. SKYE Yes. MACKENZIE Or that�s what you wanted us to think. Didn�t you? SKYE I�m sorry, I�m not really sure what ... MACKENZIE You killed her. MACKENZIE While Donna was watching Tahnee preparing Daisy�s hair, you were strangling Bianca in the office. TAHNEE We saw her alive when we ... when we left. After that, we saw her. SKYE Yes. MACKENZIE Oh, did you? DONNA She was on the phone. TAHNEE Bianca. Lunch. MACKENZIE And that was the intention, but it was you on the phone, Skye. MACKENZIE With your hair out. MACKENZIE Hair that isn�t naturally brown. MACKENZIE But with a little bit of colour in it, wearing Bianca�s spare yellow tunic, the family resemblance was enough to convince, just for a moment, that you were Bianca. Because at that moment, Bianca was already dead. MACKENZIE But by establishing her as alive, you created a false window for her murder. SKYE Why would I kill my own sister? MACKENZIE Well, look around you. SKYE This isn�t worth anything. MACKENZIE No, no, no. MACKENZIE It�s what it represents. Bianca, the golden child who inherited enough money from your Mum to open a salon while you, you got nothing. MACKENZIE You were kicked out of home at sixteen, disgraced. MACKENZIE Your whole life was taken from you. DONNA But she was in the washroom. I heard her. MACKENZIE Did you? MACKENZIE Or did you hear her voice? TAHNEE Skye, we going? SKYE Yeah, two seconds, I�m nearly done. MACKENZIE That is why the speaker moved from the massage room where it lives, to the washroom, Skye. DONNA But Tahnee saw her in there. MACKENZIE Yeah, Tahnee. MACKENZIE Oh, Tahnee. MACKENZIE Tahnee, whose best friend, took forty-two grand, money meant to make her a partner in the salon, and spent it on what? Rent, for a failing business. Skye alone, she couldn�t pull it off. I mean, she could do the killing. She could impersonate Bianca, but she needed you, Tahnee, to sell it. TAHNEE Skye, we going? MACKENZIE To make sure Donna saw Bianca alive. SKYE Yeah, two seconds, I�m nearly done. MACKENZIE And then, to distract Donna, while Skye quickly took off the yellow tunic, leaving her perfume on it, quickly ducked out of the office, into the wash room, and then emerged as if she had been in there all along ... SKYE Hey. MACKENZIE ... while Donna and Tahnee were admiring the cake. MACKENZIE Red Velvet. SKYE Okay, are we off? Wait, where�s Bianca? MACKENZIE Then you both went off to lunch with Donna, leaving Bianca alive, hoping we�d assume it was just a random attack. DAISY Whoa, ah, should I ... should I be here, or -- MACKENZIE Yeah, no, it�s fine. Please, sit down, Daisy. DAISY Colin called me. MACKENZIE Mm-hm. MACKENZIE The one thing we couldn�t figure out. The ligature. It was something strong, obviously. MACKENZIE But the marks on Bianca�s neck, they didn�t look like anything caused by a rope or a cord. MACKENZIE The ligature, it somehow spread out the force across Bianca�s neck. MACKENZIE It was nothing we�d ever seen before. MACKENZIE But definitely something you�d find in a salon. TAHNEE Oh! MACKENZIE Excuse me. And what better weapon than one that just walks out the door? SKYE Your hair looks fab. DAISY Oh, thank you. DAISY Oh! COLIN Skye Bailey. FELIX Tahnee Jones. COLIN You�re both under arrest for the murder of Bianca Bailey. I must inform you, you do not have to say or do anything, but anything you say or do will be used as evidence. Do you understand? PHILOMENA Hair extensions is a murder weapon. PHILOMENA It�s making me glad I get Madge to do my hair. COLIN Poor old Daisy, though. PHILOMENA Yes, yes. PHILOMENA She did seem a bit shaken up. PHILOMENA Well, good work everyone. REGGIE My top work pen. You. FELIX Me. REGGIE Why? FELIX Aaron dared me to nick it off your desk when you weren�t looking. REGGIE Oh God, he was a nasty piece of work, that kid. FELIX I�m sorry. REGGIE And you kept it. For all these years. FELIX Since year seven. I planned to give it back, I promise, but I just never got the chance. FELIX And I finished high school and now we�re here, you know, doing the right thing. Eventually. REGGIE It still counts. FELIX Thanks, Miss Rocco. REGGIE Hey, Felix. FELIX Yeah? REGGIE Might make a decent copper out of you yet. FELIX I already am a decent copper. REGGIE Oh yeah. PHILOMENA Hey Madge. Yeah, it�s getting pretty scruffy. Yeah, can I book myself in for a trim? Yeah. PHILOMENA Can you just give us, ah, just a minute. MACKENZIE About the contract. PHILOMENA Ah. All sorted. MACKENZIE What? PHILOMENA Well, I explained the situation to HR and I bought you some more time. MACKENZIE I ... I thought you said they were inflexible? PHILOMENA Yes. PHILOMENA Yes, it was a fairly enraging conversation, but we got there in the end. MACKENZIE Oh. So you don�t want me here permanently? PHILOMENA Can I call you back? Okay. PHILOMENA Mackenzie, it doesn�t matter what I want. The only thing that matters is what you want. PHILOMENA We�ve all seen what happens when you get pushed into a decision you don�t like. PHILOMENA Dogs get abandoned. PHILOMENA My precious son gets left at the altar. MACKENZIE Yep, okay, you made your point. PHILOMENA Yeah, yeah, but look, whatever happens with this inquiry in London, I do want you to know that ... that um, I can use you here at Dolphin Cove, but only if you want to stay. MUSIC BEGINS ... 38 SEC SCORE_27.L MACKENZIE Well ... MACKENZIE Good. MACKENZIE Thanks. MACKENZIE Sorry, I got held up. GLENN Oh, it�s fine. We�re early. MACKENZIE Hi Daisy. MACKENZIE Sorry about the -- DAISY Murder weapon on my head. Yeah, it was a bit of a mood killer. MACKENZIE I ... MACKENZIE I maybe should have warned you in advance. DAISY You think? DAISY Look, I know you see murder every day, but it freaks normal people out. MACKENZIE Understood. DAISY Okay. Good. DAISY Well, you guys sort Frankie out. I�ll wait in the car. MACKENZIE Um, if you don�t want to come over Sunday night, it�s fine. She can stay. MACKENZIE She doesn�t need all that stuff. She was fine last time. GLENN I�ve brought it now. MACKENZIE Have a good weekend. GLENN Cheers. See you, Frankie. MACKENZIE I�m sorry! GLENN Don�t stress. Daisy will be okay. MACKENZIE About you. MACKENZIE I am sorry for what I did to you. GLENN Mack. MACKENZIE No, please let me talk. MACKENZIE Um ... MACKENZIE It was awful, and cruel, and it wasn�t fair on you. GLENN Yeah, it, um, it wasn�t ideal. MACKENZIE I put you through a horrible time and it wasn�t right. And I never said I�m sorry, so I am saying it now, So, um, we can draw a line underneath it and then I can go home with a ... a clear conscience. MACKENZIE The inquiry will clear me and then ... GLENN That�ll be it. GLENN Yeah, well, whenever that happens, you�re in the clear with me. MACKENZIE Oh! DAISY Get on it, Glenny! MACKENZIE Off you go, then. Watch out for wombats. GLENN You know, it�s actually very unusual for them to attack. MACKENZIE Mm, I�ve heard it. I�ve still got the scar. GLENN See ya. GLENN Be good, Frankie. MACKENZIE Yeah, you�re the only one I�d stay here for, Frankie. Oh, it�s beautiful, isn�t it?