The Sounds (2020) s01e07 Episode Script

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Previously on "The Sounds"
Now, where are we?
Nikau Bay, and over here
is Matai Bay.
Between there and Pelorus,
it's just forest.
We chose a fishbowl
so that everyone would see
how in love,
how flawless we are.
I siphon off, say, $60 million,
and then I bury it in a cavern
of trusts and shell companies
so complicated no one
but you can ever find it.
Everyone knows everything
except what actually matters.
Because if that got out,
hellfire and damnation.
Kath found something
at Matai Bay.
Aroha Kelliher, Ru's daughter.
She was murdered
14, 15 years ago now.
Ryan ended up coming back,
but Aroha didn't.
He confessed?
He would've said yes to anything
after they'd finished with him.
I told you it couldn't have
been my boy.
How could he have got her
to Matai Bay, eh?
I killed someone!
Okay?
I killed someone!
I need $330,000.
You're gonna pay to deliver this
little madam back to her baby?
If it's Tom's, yes.
Then she faked the test.
She lied.
I had the test done.
It's your baby.
We need to get the money
and we need to disappear.
I don't care about the money.
Tom, please.
Maggie, I love you!
I love you!
No!
You can't leave $160 million
rotting wherever it is.
Let me go.
Why?
So you can go back,
start a new life without me?
Oh, what, you lied
and you got loaded
and you slept around for me?
You don't love me anymore!
Just me!
Dropping these towels
in your room.
What do you think you're doing?
Bringing fresh towels.
I told you never to come in here
without my permission.
I retain the right
to clean and tidy.
Because any more than that
would be a criminal offense.
Like impersonating someone,
you mean?
That's none of your business.
No, but it is Stuart's business.
Maybe Jack's, if we're talking
criminal offenses.
That will be all.
What are you even doing here?
Another example
of none of your business.
You know,
ever since you arrived,
I've done my best
to defend you.
I never asked you to.
You don't have to
in a town like Pelorus.
We're nice people,
and we want you to be happy.
You've just thrown it
back in our faces.
Do you actually enjoy
upsetting people?
Hannah, Stuart, Maggie.
Poor Maggie.
Her husband's just died, and
you're adding insult to injury.
I don't know
what I'm doing here.
Or I didn't.
But now I --
Now what?
What will make me happy
is finding the Cabbotts'
missing money.
And I think Tom had something
to do with it.
Tom?
You know, I already have
a lot of towels.
Tell me more.
If I don't pay her,
she's gonna kill me.
Jesus.
Oh, I'm so sorry!
Sorry.
No, I -It was -I --
You okay? Something happened?
No, I'm fi-I'm fine.
Okay.
Honestly, I'm fine.
Um, well, we were seeing
if you wanted to help us
do some baking for
the fundraiser tomorrow.
Fundraiser?
Yeah, we do it every year
for the Volunteer Fire Brigade.
It's a bit hokey, but, um, it's
kind of a big deal around here.
Sorry, you're asking me to --
I-I can't. I was about
to run some errands.
I-I was just heading out.
Oh, of course, of course.
You're probably desperate
to get out of here.
I would be.
I am.
Um, alright, well, uh,
give us a yell later
if you want to have coffee.
Or something stronger?
Tom Cabbott?
You're the one who said
he was too good to be true.
Why would he steal
from his own family?
It's his money.
His father doesn't see it
that way.
Okay.
So say you're right and he is
a kind of criminal mastermind.
How did he do it?
Where did he hide it?
And why wasn't he off somewhere
more exciting spending it?
What do you think
I'm trying to find out?
Sorry.
I should really get back to it.
Sure, okay.
But I could help.
Done much forensic accounting?
Award-winning journalist
11 years running,
before I got sucked in
to the black hole of management.
Look, I'm just saying, you don't
have to hack an e-mail account
to find stuff out.
I didn't hack it.
I created an e-mail address
that's one letter away
from Stuart's.
You didn't notice
the difference,
and neither will anyone else.
Still, it's a dead end.
Sandy doesn't have anything,
just idle gossip.
How do you know that?
He told Tracy, who told Hannah,
who told me.
You really don't know
how small towns work, do you?
There you go.
What do you want?
Hey, Pania.
I said, what do you want?
Can we go inside?
Yeah, sure,
just go and dust off
my finest china teacups,
shall I?
What is it?
Is it Ryan?
I'm sorry, Pania.
No.
I found him this morning
out at Whaler's Cove.
Go away.
Go away.
I wanted you to hear it from me.
E tama.
E tama.
How?
It's a gunshot wound.
It looks self-inflicted.
Tama e.
No. No.
I'm sorry, Pania.
Stay away from me.
This is your fault!
This is your fault.
You and that pokokohua
from Wellington.
No, he wouldn't have given up.
He wouldn't have given up.
He -He wouldn't have
done that to me.
He loves you, Pania.
He loves you.
What would you know?!
I should've
I should've done it all
differently.
I shouldn't --
I shouldn't have done it.
My boy.
Everything okay?
Um, I need you to pull $330,000
out of the business. Today.
I would do it myself, but the
bank needs you to authorize it.
Even if I wanted to,
I couldn't pull --
With respect, Stuart, I don't
really care what you want.
I own 90% of the business.
Well, not officially.
Not until we, you know,
sign the papers.
I don't have time for this,
alright?
Call it a, um --
Just call it an excess --
bulk purchase of feed
or netting or whatever.
Pay it into
my credit-card account.
And we'll write it off
at the end of the month.
We've only just got back
on our feet.
I don't feel comfortable --
I don't care
what you're comfortable with!
Maggie, what's going on?
Stuart, I wouldn't ask
if I wasn't desperate.
Well, it's gonna take
an hour or so.
Thank you.
But I'm gonna need to know
what it's for.
Dane, what's up?
Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm on my way.
Go away from me!
Go away!
You can all stare.
What are you looking at?
Huh?
What are you
looking at?
Love, you're bleeding.
I'm not bleeding.
I tried to cut her off.
I'm dying.
I'm dying.
Can't you tell?
He knows, he knows.
It's not the truth that hurts.
It hurts.
All the lies.
I can't live with it any longer.
Give me the bottle.
Aren't you tired, Jack?
I'm just so tired.
You need to go home.
Go home, Annette.
Go home.
Come on, sweetheart.
It's gonna be alright.
I promise.
More lies, more lies.
Yeah, it will be okay, Mum.
I'm so sorry, sweetheart.
$320,000.
$330,000.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Excuse me, Mrs. Cabbott?
You left your credit card.
Thanks.
How much money did he spend
on that boat?
$876,000.
How the other half live.
So I'm looking for
anything unusual --
large payments
to small companies
or local companies
you've never heard of.
Why?
Do you want to help me or not?
No wonder you don't
have any friends.
Who says I don't have friends?
The boatyard did well.
I checked those.
They're all real transactions
matching to receipts from Malc.
M-A-L-C.
Malcolm, yeah.
That's why he took the family
to Fiji twice in one year.
What's that one?
That is
This is wrong.
Why?
Who are you calling?
Hey, this is my investigation.
Malc, hi.
It's Kath.
Yeah, good, thanks.
Good.
Hey, you haven't started
doing cash jobs, have you?
No, it's just me, not the IRD.
Hey, I'm helping a mate do
due diligence on Tom Cabbott,
you know, the Cana--
Yeah, I know.
It is.
Tell me,
did he ever pay you in cash?
Sure?
Cheers, mate.
Good as gold.
Good old-fashioned footwork.
It's private information.
Do you have an alternative?
Yes.
Esther, you are not
hacking a bank.
Great, I know him.
I'll do the talking.
Brendan, hi.
Kath, Ms. Ishikawa,
how can I help?
I need a favor.
Yeah?
And not like a "me picking up
your mum from the airport
because you forgot"
kind of favor.
That was one time.
More a "me renting a room to you
and that blonde from Picton
even though your Emily was
500 meters down the road asleep"
kind of favor.
You said you'd never tell.
Tom Cabbott withdrew $39,000
on the 7th of March last year.
How do you know that?
So I need you to look for any
deposits of the same amount.
Or a bit less.
On the same day or thereabouts.
I could lose my job.
I could tell Emily.
Or your mum.
You wouldn't.
No, but I would.
If you tell anyone --
I'm very good
at keeping secrets.
Uh, someone deposited
just under 39K on the 10th.
Who?
Davy Jennings.
You know him?
'Course I do.
Thank you.
Mum'll be pleased to see you.
She here?
Waiting.
Patience is a virtue.
Hm.
That's what she says.
The baby's his, eh?
So it would seem.
They're all bastards.
Where's Zoe?
Do you bake?
Scones, as it turns out.
You took your time.
What's this?
It's better than cash.
We agreed on cash.
Our friend here thinks we're
gonna swap little Miss Muffet
for a pile of tiddlywinks.
What are you doing?
You take these to the casino,
you cash them in,
you walk out with all that money
clean as the driven snow.
Just do it soon before
they change out the chips.
I never want to see
or hear from you again.
Do I make myself clear?
Right. Fine.
And if there's even
the tiniest whiff
that you've talked
to your policeman daddy
Can we get out of here?
Alright, can we go?
I'm going to the airport.
I need a ticket to Australia.
I'm taking you home, Zoe.
You heard Mitch.
I have to shoot through.
You think that I put myself
through that for you?
I did it for your daughter.
And Tom's.
She's got Dad.
And Hannah.
You'll break Jack's heart.
I did that already.
Don't tell him, okay?
Zoe, I'm not taking you
to the airport.
Fine.
I'll walk.
Zoe.
Zoe!
She's better off without me,
okay?
That isn't true.
You do one bad thing.
No matter what happens after,
it's still there.
At the bottom of everything.
Like that's all you really are.
Your mistakes don't define you.
Yeah, they kind of do.
I need a fresh start
somewhere else.
You wouldn't understand.
Where in Australia?
Don't get mushy.
It's only the Gold Coast.
Davy Jennings?
Who are you?
She's with me.
Oh.
Is she your --
No.
Mnh-mnh.
Touchy!
What can I do you for?
Tom Cabbott.
Never met him.
Now, Davy, we know
that that's not true.
Oh, you do, do you?
Who gave you $39,000
on the 7th of March 2018?
That would be Mother Goose.
That's the name of the company
that bought my hut.
Your hut?
Out in Matai Bay.
Family built it about
13 years ago, but new knees.
Can't get up there anymore.
In Matai Bay?
Yep.
It's not worth 39 grand,
but what are you gonna do?
Thanks, Davy.
You know, I was just out there
a couple of days ago.
You saw it?
It's locked up.
It was abandoned?
Why, because of the bones?
Because of Aroha.
And stocked up the wazoo.
Right out there in the wop wops.
Middle of nowhere.
You know, someone planning
for the zombie apocalypse.
Or someone lost at sea.
Oh, come on.
Isn't that putting 2 and 2
together and getting 143?
You won awards?
I did, actually.
But journalism's about facts.
Well, used to be.
Don't tell me
financial investigators
have gone the same way.
What's going on?
We found something
out in the Sounds.
Tom.
No, Maggie,
it's Pania's son Ryan.
He went bush a few years ago
after getting out of prison.
Listen, Maggie, we need to talk.
How did he die?
Gunshot wound.
Any idea who did it?
Who says anyone did it?
Uh
police, gunshot wound.
Every suicide gets investigated.
Suicide?
It looks that way, yeah.
Poor Pania.
I think someone was with Ryan
when he died, Maggie.
I think it was Tom.
And I think he faked
his own death.
I don't know that for sure.
I do.
Tom was alive
until this morning.
I think I killed him.
Let me get this straight.
You did this for money?
You don't understand
what Tom was like
when his father was around.
But you don't know
what it did to him.
I did this so that we could get
away and have a different life.
Well, you don't need
$160 million to do that, Maggie!
There's nothing I can say!
I crossed a line.
I have to live with that
for the rest of my life.
If I thought for even a moment
that we would do
any real harm
What about all the volunteers
out looking for Tom
while you sat here
fucking pretending?
I know!
What do you want me to say?
I deserve everything
that I have coming to me.
So, shouldn't we be doing this
down at the police station?
I'm not going to arrest you,
Maggie.
I just told you
I killed my husband.
You struggled in the water.
You were fighting for your life.
That's the truth, isn't it?
Isn't it?
Did he do that to you?
Jack, you can't just let me
walk away.
Let me ask you a question,
Maggie.
Were you with Tom
when Ryan was shot?
I'm not gonna drag this town
through another
murder investigation.
Damage here has been done.
What if Tom's body --
That won't happen.
Those tides that make the Sounds
so good for salmon farming?
We never expected to find Tom.
Ever.
So all that effort, Maggie,
was for you.
But you knew that, didn't you?
Just tell me you're not
a flight risk.
Look at me.
Maggie, look at me.
Don't do anything,
and don't say anything.
You understand?
I still don't get why he would
fake his own death.
How else was he going to
spend the money he stole?
You don't know he stole it.
I know he drowned,
but his body never turned up.
There was a complication
with the fishery
that his wife
somehow managed to fix.
You're not dragging Maggie
into it!
Have you met the woman?
I know that the fishery
is secretly for sale
and that he bought
a cabin in the woods
and it's set up
for someone to hide in,
and that's the big kahuna.
You don't know that!
Look, I understand that
after all these years,
tying everything up neatly
would be rewarding,
but you have no proof.
I find him.
That's my proof.
Okay.
We go to the cabin.
How?
Boat?
No.
Why?
Because we know he's not there.
That's crazy. You just said,
it's the big kahuna.
It's not crazy.
Yes, it is.
I'm not crazy.
No one said you were crazy.
You just did!
I just want to take you
to the cabin.
I'm not going to the cabin
in a boat!
Because?
Because I'm
afraid of the water.
Come on, you can do it.
Good, that's good.
Baby steps.
Stop talking.
Keep coming.
You're nearly there.
Here.
Don't touch me!
I'm just trying to help.
I don't care.
Hey, there's no need
to be like that.
I told you I had enough towels!
You know what?
You bloody well did.
Senior Constable McGregor.
Great, you're back.
I don't want to be here, either.
But this Ryan Cottle case
just doesn't seem to go away.
Nothing else can happen
to him now.
Couldn't live
with the guilt, eh.
But you always thought
he was innocent.
So I'd expect you
to be asking questions,
not telling my forensics team
to look the other way.
I didn't say that.
I'll take this from here.
Next time we do this
There's always tomorrow morning.
Our lives will never
be the same.
That's the idea.
You quite like this dying thing,
don't you?
Yeah, it's my favorite part.
That way I know the old man
will never come after me
and I can spend
his money however I want.
Our money, and we agreed
we're gonna spend it
righting your father's wrongs.
You know what I mean.
Do I?
You know everything about me.
Mm. Well.
There's something else
I need to tell you.
I saw Zoe.
What?
After Tom this morning.
She was in trouble,
but I helped her out.
What do you mean
you helped her out?
She said you do one wrong thing,
and it sticks to you forever,
like that's who you really are.
What's my daughter
got to do with anything?
The grieving widow's been after
your dad since the get-go.
That is not true!
She's in love with Tom.
You should hear the way
she talks about him.
Like how?
Like, they couldn't
have children,
but, boy, did they try.
Three miscarriages,
12 rounds of IVF.
12!
Can you even imagine that?
And then on top of all of that,
one adoption gone haywire.
I mean, I know
I moan about mine,
but poor old Mother Goose.
Mother Goose?
That's what Tom
used to call her.
You know, Mother Goose
had all the children,
the blah, blah, blah, but Maggie
never got to have the children.
That is sad.
Mm.
Kath, can you stir that?
It's about to catch.
Sorry.
I wonder if that's enough.
You should have come to me.
I'm her father.
I'm a policeman.
I wanted to tell you.
She made me promise
that I wouldn't.
This is drugs, Maggie.
Alright!
And Bella?
This is all just happening
under my nose.
And the DNA test,
there's no doubt about that?
I can show you the results.
You should have.
This is my family.
If I could wind back the clock,
I would.
Yeah, to when, Maggie?
Before you tried the --
the crime of the century?
Before you screwed with my kid,
before you lied to my face?
I know what it feels like
to be betrayed, alright?
I know exactly where that lands
and how much it hurts.
Well, thank you for that.
I don't expect you
to understand.
But the thing I wanted most,
Tom got it with Zoe.
And when I told him,
he didn't even care.
Neither did she.
She wants a fresh start.
I get that.
I've made you an accomplice
and a liar.
I'm making one terrible mistake
after another.
We all make mistakes, Maggie.
Mine cost two lives.
The man I loved
and thought I knew and Ryan.
How am I supposed to live
with that?
Ryan's not your fault.
If Tom and I hadn't come
here in the first place
Ryan's my fault, Maggie.
I was there
the night Aroha died,
doing something
I shouldn't have been doing.
They were just a couple
of kids fooling around.
What's Zoe doing here?
What are you doing here?
Get lost, weirdo. You
know he doesn't even like you.
He does, too!
I told you to get lost!
No, you get lost,
you stupid bitch.
Ryan didn't kill Aroha.
Zoe did.
And I covered it up.
You let Ryan go to jail.
How?
How have you been looking at
Pania after all these years?
I made the wrong choice for what
I thought was the right reason.
Understand me.
You lose a kid to the system
here, you never get them back.
I had to protect my daughter.
Who was protecting Ryan?
I can't justify any of this.
After it happened, I thought
I had it all covered
and then Ryan confessed.
Detective Pilau, she just --
She wouldn't stop.
Then it was too late.
And now because of Tom and I
Ryan's dead.
I killed that boy
a long time ago, Maggie.
How do you live with it?
You can't turn back
what you've done.
All you can do
is try to make amends.