The Gulf (2019) s01e05 Episode Script

1 We came to talk to you about our baby.
He wasn't always by the book.
He was a damn smart cop.
(WATER SPLASHES) He's got another young woman with him.
Where's the girl! Forensics want to do a sweep of the yacht.
I said you'd probably want that.
I don't think we need it.
(SIGHS) Oh, fuck.
(RAIN SPLASHES) (THUNDER RUMBLES) (TENSE MUSIC) (RAIN PATTERS) (METAL WHINES) (RAIN SPLASHES) - (PHONE RINGTONE PLAYS) - (GRUNTS) (SIGHS) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (RINGTONE STOPS) BREATHLESSLY: Hello? Hello? Now? Yeah.
OK.
No.
OK.
OK.
(SIGHS) (INSECTS CHIRP) (ENGINE APPROACHES) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES) Doug? (INSECTS CHIRP) (MAN MURMURS IN DISTANCE) (MAN MURMURS IN DISTANCE) (EXHALES) (SIGHS) (SLOW, SORROWFUL MUSIC) WHISPERS: Oh, Doug.
Four years in the army.
35 years a cop.
First time I ever killed a man.
- (MURMURS) - Uh, no, just, um - Just put it on the ground.
- OK.
(SLOW, SORROWFUL MUSIC) (SORROWFUL MUSIC BUILDS) His name is Hoani Casey.
Have you called it in? I I called you.
Between you and me is a body of water.
(DREAMY THEME MUSIC) (GULL SQUAWKS) (WAVES CRASH) - (RADIO CHATTER IN BACKGROUND) - So, uh, why did he call you? I think he was in shock.
Aw, what's this? It's instant.
You didn't think to call for backup? I didn't know that I was walking into a crime scene, Denise.
I He just called me and said he needed me.
Yeah, well, you did everything right once you were here.
Thanks.
Hey, is it all right if I go and change my clothes? I've gotta go give a statement.
Yeah.
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
We'll sort everything out.
Uh, wait.
Hold on.
The Caseys are arriving.
They're at the gate.
Right.
I'll get some help for Rory.
(SIGHS) - MAN: Is that Rory? (GRUNTS) - Get that stupid uniform off, bro.
(PEOPLE CLAMOUR) What are you doing?! - Get that uniform off, bro.
Kaupapa! - Acting like it's nothing.
(ANGRY SHOUTING) You know better than this, bro.
- Same blood! - Are you proud of this, bro? (PEOPLE CLAMOUR) Yeah, Rory! (SLOW, TENSE MUSIC) (PEOPLE YELL AND CLAMOUR) (CROWD YELLS AND CLAMOURS) (ANGRY SHOUTING CONTINUES) (TENSE MUSIC) We know you killed him! You won't get away with this! (ANGRY SHOUTING CONTINUES) Got your cop mates fucking protecting you? What are you protecting him for? (SHOUTING FADES) (EERIE MUSIC) (ENGINE HUMS) (AMBIENT MUSIC) (AMBIENT ELECTRONIC MUSIC) OVER SPEAKER: I was asleep in front of the TV.
I'd been watching the rugby, the Test.
I think it was the gun against my head that woke me up.
And Hoani was just standing there right in front of me.
- Hoani Casey? - Yeah.
- So, you knew him? - Oh, yeah.
I know all the Caseys from my policing days.
I hadn't seen Hoani for a while, though a year or more.
Go on.
He said he wanted the key to my gun cabinet.
I got up, and we started to walk towards the garage.
He got a little bit ahead of me, and I saw my chance.
I grabbed the lamp off the side table and I whacked him across the head.
And what happened after you hit him on the head? Well, he went down.
He wasn't unconscious, but he dropped the gun.
We both went for it, and we both had our hands on the gun.
There was a bit of a struggle, a scuffle, and it went off.
- Did you pull the trigger? - (SIGHS QUIETLY) I dunno.
I-I-I just I was just trying to get it off him.
Next thing I knew, the bloody thing discharged.
And then what happened? Well, I rang Jess.
- Detective Savage? - Yeah.
Why did you call Detective Savage and not ring the emergency number? I dunno.
I should have.
But I was pretty shaken up, you know? I remember thinking, 'I don't know what to do.
' (SIGHS) I'm s sorry.
(INHALES) - Could I get a drink of water? - Yeah.
Of course.
Let's leave it there for now, Doug.
Pausing the interview at 10.
58.
Just sit tight, all right? - So, Petrie's OC? - Uh No, I'm a witness, but for all intents and purposes, this is my investigation.
(SIGHS) Well, that all stacks up.
We'll need to get confirmation that the .
303 belongs to Casey and get the prints off it.
But it's all pointing toward self-defence.
I think he should stay in Auckland while the SOC are at the house.
Things are getting pretty tense on the island.
Agreed.
They're keeping the body there overnight.
- Mm-hm.
Do you wanna go in and have a word? No.
(DOOR OPENS IN DISTANCE) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (DOOR THUDS) (LOCK CLICKS) (URINE TINKLES) Don't really have the time to keep coming in here and peeing in jars.
You know that's the deal, Jess.
(SIGHS) If it helps, you're not the only one in the programme.
Yeah.
Sorry.
(SIGHS) OK.
It's taken a while for the methadone to offset the morphine withdrawal, but you should be stabilised now.
- OK, great.
I can start reducing.
- Very slowly.
I just want off, now.
(SIGHS) You do it our way, Jess, or this whole file goes upstairs.
(SIGHS) Small reductions are far more successful than big ones.
Any side effects? (SIGHS) I'm having more flashbacks.
ECHOES: Things can seem very vivid, even hallucinatory as you ween off the morphine.
(WHOOSH) OK.
You're doing well.
- Anything you'd like to talk about? - No.
No.
I'm good.
Thanks.
(PENSIVE MUSIC) (WATER PATTERS) (DOOR OPENS) - (VOMIT SPLATS) - (GROANS) (GROANS) Where are the crackers? I thought you bought more.
I did.
They're in the cupboard.
Hello to you too (!) (DOOR SLAMS) - You OK? - Yeah.
- Have you been in Auckland? - Yeah.
How's the rehab? (CRACKER CRUNCHES) - It's not rehab.
It's recovery.
- Yeah.
Thanks.
I don't have the, uh, peaks and troughs like I had, but it's certainly different.
I notice the difference without dope.
You do? Yeah.
It sucks.
(CHUCKLES) (WAVES CRASH) (ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS) (INDISTINCT CHATTER, ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS SLOWLY) PEOPLE SING: He kororia.
He maungarongo ki te whenua.
He whakaaro pai ki nga tangata katoa.
- That for me? - Yeah.
WHISPERS: Kia or a, whanaunga.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) (JARRING MUSIC) (RAIN PATTERS) (METAL CRASHES) (INHALES SHARPLY) (PANTS) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (BIRDS CHIRP) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (WAVES LAP GENTLY) (DOOR HANDLE CREAKS) (INSECTS CHIRP) - Koro.
- (ANCHOR THUDS) - Oh.
This is my grandson Nikau.
Kia or a.
- Tuna for you.
- Thank you.
E noho.
(WAVES LAP GENTLY) I was sad to hear about Alex.
Thank you.
Now this business about Hoani, it's causing the whanau a lot of pain.
They want their boy back, so they can do right by him.
Yeah, I understand, but we have procedures.
We have procedures too.
The whanau needs to be beside him now.
No autopsy.
He's had enough violence to his tinana.
(TENSE MUSIC) Do you know anything about what happened? Why Hoani broke into Doug's house? Kao.
I didn't come here for that.
But you and Doug go way back.
We're different men now.
(GENTLE MUSIC) - Thank you for the eel.
- Yeah, they're good with puha.
- Or wasabi mayo.
(CHUCKLES) - (CHUCKLES) (TENSE MUSIC) (RADIO CHATTER IN BACKGROUND) (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) Rory, come with me.
You OK? Well, you know, I'm related to half of these people, so - That's why I asked.
- Yeah, I'm fine.
(EXHALES) Even better when we can release the body to the family.
Any idea what Hoani's motive was? The same motive behind 90% of Maori crime poverty.
(SOMBRE MUSIC) Hoihoi.
(GRAVEL CRUNCHES) (SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES) (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) Pikia, I I have ordered an autopsy on Hoani's body.
(SOMBRE MUSIC) Why? Because I wanna know the truth of what happened here.
(SOMBRE MUSIC) I want to see him.
(EXHALES) WHISPERS: OK.
OK, but you cannot touch him.
(SCOFFS) - I can't touch my own husband? - No.
No, you can't.
Not yet.
(RAIN PATTERS) (SOMBRE MUSIC) (KEENS QUIETLY) (SNIFFLES) (RAIN PATTERS) (WEEPS QUIETLY) (ZIP RASPS SLOWLY) (CONTINUES WEEPING) (INHALES QUIETLY) (GENTLE MUSIC) (INHALES) (ZIP RASPS SLOWLY) (WEEPING CONTINUES) atu ra.
Haere atu ra.
Haere atu ra.
(SNIFFLES) (RAIN PATTERS) (GATES WHINE) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES GENTLY) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES) (FAMILY WAILS, CHANTS) Haere, e tama! Haere! (FAMILY CHANTS KARAKIA) Haere koe! Moe mai ra! Moe mai ra, moe mai ra, e tama! (FAMILY WAILS, CHANTS) SCREAMS: hui e! ALL: Taiki e! - MAN: Ka mate! - ALL: Ka mate! Ka or a! Ka or a! Ka mate! Ka or a! Ka or a! Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru! Nana nei I tiki mai whakawhiti te ra! A, upane! Ka upane! Hupane! Kaupane! Whiti te ra! (FAMILY SHOUTS, WAILS) E tama haere koe.
WOMAN WAILS: Haere atu ra, e tama e! Haere atu ra! Haere atu ra ki te kainga tuturu, e tama, e! Haere atu ra! (TENSE MUSIC) (TENSE MUSIC) (SIGHS) And then he rang you? Yeah.
You didn't try and resuscitate him? - No.
You saw the body.
- Mm.
Could've tried.
You don't like Bennington very much, do you? What's that got to do with anything? Just that everybody else does.
Yeah.
Including you.
- Hm.
- (PHONE RINGTONE PLAYS) Jess Savage.
Yeah.
(AMBIENT MUSIC) (AMBIENT MUSIC CONTINUES) (AMBIENT MUSIC CONTINUES) What does the label on Bennington's blazer tell you? He's got some serious money.
- Who was that? - Ronan Croft's father.
What did he want? Ronan's in hospital.
He's been attacked.
- Attacked? - Mm.
By a prisoner or a guard? (CURIOUS MUSIC) We've known each other since kindergarten, Jess.
I know who you are.
Well, you know more than I do, then.
(BIRDS CHIRP) (PHONE RINGS IN DISTANCE) Hey.
BREATHLESSLY: Sorry I'm late.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION IN DISTANCE) You know, scans, they don't hurt, right? - Do you think she's fat? - No.
You didn't look.
It's cos she's not fat.
Look at those thighs.
She's not fat.
- Are you worried about getting fat? - No.
Cos you will.
Yeah.
You really will.
Huge.
- And your breasts, just ginormous - (GROANS) and nipples like saucers, and they leak everywhere.
- (CHUCKLES) It's really full on.
- I'm not going to leak.
- Tsst, tsst, tsst, tsst! - (CHUCKLES) Shut up.
- (CHUCKLES) - It's true.
(CHUCKLES) (AMBIENT MUSIC) (EXHALES) The smell reminds me of being in hospital.
I didn't think you even remembered that.
No, I do.
It's just, you know, beforehand that I don't remember.
But it's slowing coming back.
Yeah? What kind of stuff? - It's weird, weird stuff.
- (DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) - Hey, Miss Savage.
- AJ.
Hi.
Yeah, I didn't know that you Ruby? Um, you can still come if you want.
No.
You You guys go.
I'll just talk to you later.
- Good luck.
- (CHUCKLES) (GULLS SQUAWK) (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) Jess.
Oh, hi.
You haven't come to meet me, have you? No.
I, uh I just I'm heading to Auckland.
I didn't think you'd be back on the island so soon.
Oh I thought I'd get things back to normal as soon as I could.
Mm-hm.
Well, try to, anyway.
(HORN BLARES) - Oh.
You better - Yeah.
I I never said thank you.
Thank you, Jess.
Thank you so much.
No, it's it's OK.
Yeah.
Well, you better go.
Oh, there's Jack.
Jack! Well - I'll see you, Jess.
- See ya.
(GULLS SQUAWK) (TENSE MUSIC) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES) (AMBIENT MUSIC) (BIRDS CHIRP IN DISTANCE) We can do better than tea, Jack.
- I'm on the wagon.
- Oh.
You're a better man than I am.
Look, I've gotta, um (CLEARS THROAT) (TENSE PERCUSSIVE MUSIC) (ENGINE APPROACHES) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES) (ENGINE TURNS OFF) (HAND BRAKE CREAKS) - How's it? - Good.
- See you.
- Kia or a.
(ENGINE WHIRRS) (TENSE MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (BUZZER BLARES) (DOOR CREAKS) (KEYS JINGLE) (TENSE MUSIC BUILDS) What took you so fucking long, then? (SCOFFS GENTLY) Good to see you too, Dad.
(WAVES SPLASH) (SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE) (SIGHS) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (METAL CRUNCHES) (WATER SPLASHES) Are you getting in? Um (EXHALES) No, sorry, I'm gonna walk.
(SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE) (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) What did you wanna see me for, Dad? Can't a father ask his son to visit him? Or are you scared your cop buddies will find out where you really come from? I'm not scared.
I hear you're on that killer cop job Bennington.
(CHUCKLES GENTLY) - Where did you hear that? - Listen.
I've got a job I'd like you to do.
Get fucked.
I don't work for you.
I'll tell you what.
We'll trade.
(AMBIENT MUSIC) I'll give you something.
You give me something.
You don't have anything I want.
(SCOFFS) (AMBIENT MUSIC) Until now, Ronan's had the very best protection.
He's been pretty much untouchable, like prison royalty.
Mm.
So, what happened? Word is the ones who ordered the protection for him are also the ones who arranged the attack.
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES) (TENSE MUSIC) So, how'd you get that out of the warden? Natural charm.
- You should try and smile more.
- (CHUCKLES QUIETLY) Do you wanna hear the rest? Go on.
Guess who went to visit Ronan in prison.
- Who? - Hoani Casey.
When? Same day he turned up at Bennington's.
Huh.
- Hey, you wait out here.
- You can't see him by yourself.
(SIGHS) (DOOR SQUEAKS) (SIGHS) Oh shit.
Really did a number on you, huh? Cramp your style, Ronan? Chelsea and Talia aren't laughing, are they? (EXHALES SLOWLY) - I've information for you.
- (EXHALES QUIETLY) There's drugs high-end, clean meth and crack coming into the Gulf, lots of it.
I'll give you names, contacts.
I can tell you when and where the next pickup is.
- Everything you need.
- OK.
And how do you know? I might've used the Dividend to do some of the pickup.
(SCOFFS) Oh, OK.
Drug mule.
Right.
Yeah.
A little bit.
(EXHALES) The girls weren't supposed to be on the yacht.
- Mm-hm (!) - It went bad.
Look, I'll give you everything you need, but you have to get me a prison transfer.
A new identity, the works.
Where are your drug buddies now? Why aren't they protecting you? I mean, come on, Ronan, you cannot that you're that important.
No.
The people I can name are.
OK, great.
Give me a name, and we've got a deal.
(GLOOMY MUSIC) No? Hoani Casey.
- I'm telling you nothing - Mm.
until you guarantee me a transfer.
That's a bad decision, Detective.
I've got your fingerprints on my yacht's medical kit the one you stole opiates from.
Well, my lawyers have them.
(DARK MUSIC) (GROANS QUIETLY) (BUTTON CLICKS) (MACHINE BEEPS) (DROPS SPLASH) Put me somewhere safe, and I promise you the fingerprints will disappear.
(DROPS SPLASH) (SIGHS) (DARK MUSIC) (BREATHES DEEPLY) Hey, you tell that guard not to let anyone in the room without my permission, OK? - Yeah.
- I'll be in the car.
Boss? - (KEYS JINGLE) - Oh, yeah.
(GRUNTS) (GASPS) (BREATHES RAGGEDLY) FLASHBACK: (ENGINE RUMBLES) (METAL CRASHES) (RAIN WHOOSHES) (TENSE MUSIC) (GRUNTS) (EXHALES) (EXHALES DEEPLY) (DOOR OPENS) (SIGHS) (DOOR CLOSES) - You all right? - Yeah, of course.
- (SIGHS) - What did he say? I think that, uh, Hoani was taking over the drug mule business from Ronan Croft.
Right.
Maybe that's why he broke into Bennington's get weapons for his new job.
Yeah.
(ENGINE STARTS) (ENGINE HUMS) (GLOOMY MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH SLOWLY) (GLOOMY MUSIC BUILDS) (INDISTINCT ECHOEY SPEECH) ECHOES: Hey, whoa, whoa.
Where are we going? Oh shit.
(TENSE MUSIC) Please, please, I'll give you anything.
Anything, please.
Please.
Fuck! Jesus.
Fuckin' hell.
Please! (WEEPS GENTLY) - (BANGS ON DOOR) - Fuck! (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) This is fucking bullshit! WOMAN: Hey! You can't do that! What are you doing? I don't have to listen to anything you fucking tell me! Actually, you do.
No, I shouldn't have to see that shit on a ferry! - Hey, hey.
Oh, what, are you gonna arrest me, then? I hope not.
Oh, fuck.
Well, have you seen this shit? Eh? - Yeah.
- It's like it's already decided.
It's just, like, one side of the story.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
Uncle doesn't get to say his truth.
Cos he's dead.
Yeah.
You're right.
Do you wanna have a drink? - Yeah, yeah, I'll take a beer.
- OK, good.
No, you can't have a beer.
Do you want a coffee? - Yeah, that'll be all right.
- OK.
Go on upstairs.
I'll bring it up.
(TENSE MUSIC) (ZIP RASPS) (URINE SPLATTERS) You go to school in town? Yeah.
- Must be expensive.
- (SCOFFS) - You think my folks can't afford it? - No.
No, no.
No, I was just thinking that your parents must really care about you to send you to such an expensive school.
True.
And that you must be really smart.
Hey.
If you know anything about Hoani going to Doug Bennington's house that night, you should you should talk to me about it.
- (SIGHS) - Or your whanau.
Just tell them and they can talk to me.
I want to know their side of the story.
Are Are you saying you'd take our word over a cop's? I will if it's the truth.
You and him are mates.
(SIGHS) They say dead people don't talk.
I guess that's true for you, in your world.
Not for me.
You see, in my world they can get quite chatty.
Kia or a for the coffee.
(TENSE MUSIC) (GLASS TINKLES) (THUNDER RUMBLES) (WATER SLOSHES) ECHOES: Help! (WATER SLOSHES) (METAL CREAKS) Jess! Help! (WATER GURGLES OMINOUSLY) (TENSE MUSIC BUILDS) (WAVES CRASH) (MUSIC FADES)