The Twelve (2022) s02e07 Episode Script

I care about you, Dad. I
don't care about the money.
I give up.
Softness isn't weakness
and money isn't love.
No.
It wasn't the roller
rink that got me pregnant.
It was that I knew nothing about boys.
Shh! We are not talking
about this now, OK?
There was someone at
the house there with him.
We didn't find any of the drugs.
Do you know anyone who
could've given him the drugs?
Nah.
I want you to leave. Now.
So is this where Sasha
and Patrick parked?
No, they'd come by the back road.
They'd parked where
we did, across there.
Colby the ringmaster of
the circus or are you?
We work together as a team.
Well, then, Colby must have told you
that Patrick Harrows
wanted to change his plea
in the wee hours of Sunday.
Sharing tactics is off the table.
I'm putting Sasha on the witness stand.
You're what?!
I have to do what's best for my client.
Something very important's
just landed in my lap,
something, um a new
piece of the puzzle.
Oh, yeah, this is just what
I was looking for. Thanks.
She's not well enough prepared.
She will be.
Good evening.
I can't believe you want me to testify!
Sh, sh.
Thanks, Enzo. Appreciate this.
- OK, I've been thinking
- Just one sec.
Right, so your advice before
was not to testify, right?
Yeah, it was, but our
situation's changed.
Here, take a seat.
This was always going to
be a volatile situation.
Co-accused, different representation.
I was relying on a
transparent relationship
with Patrick's barrister,
but I no longer have
faith in that approach.
Patrick will never testify
and he's not allowed
any character witnesses,
and that really works in our favour.
So you want me to throw
Patrick under the bus.
Nina!
I've seen dirty tactics, but this
At the 11th hour?
OK.
What did Santa give us?
A whole new case theory.
OK, we're going to go through
every single memory you have,
starting with the waterfall.
Well, Meredith, you have it all.
I told the police everything I remember.
Yeah, I know, but we
OK, so
you were sitting at the waterfall
and you're waiting for Patrick
Yes, that's right.
Do you remember seeing a council truck
in one of the, um
car parks?
Um
Because there was a
a weeding truck there
- until, look, 3:21pm.
- OK.
If you remember seeing a truck there,
it would mean you arrived
there earlier than you thought,
and if you arrived there
earlier than you thought,
then you were waiting longer
for Patrick than you realised.
But if you, uh, don't
remember seeing a truck,
obviously we can't use that as evidence.
Uh, wait, um, um
I I think
I think I-I might've seen the the
I might've seen that truck.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hm. OK.
And do you remember
where you saw that truck?
Was it in the main car
park or the back car park?
The main car park, yeah,
the one with the the highway side.
- The main car park.
- Yeah, yeah.
OK.
Good.
We need to contact the lab
that did the evidence analyses.
It's a police lab. They
won't share any info.
They used a private lab.
And they'll talk.
Sure.
Fine, I'll beg them.
- How's it going?
- Fine, weirdo.
OK, here you go.
'Bye, Mum.
'Bye, hon. Have a good day.
'Bye.
You didn't give them to her.
Rules are rules.
Do you remember that one summer,
I think I was in year
4 or 5 or something,
and there was that heatwave?
There was this one Sunday
where it was just unbearable,
so just that once
you let us skip church.
Did I?
It's my favourite memory of you.
The day you broke the rules for me.
Claudia.
Come on.
You know what can happen.
Yeah.
We got her.
That's what happened.
The bloody deal was that
neither of us testify.
This was a surprise to us as well.
I thought you were
both on the same team.
Patrick, I'm asking you to be patient.
- We have a strategy.
- What is that fucking strategy?
Her just sending me up
shit creek without a paddle?
Nina is getting our ducks in a row
and they will not be
up shit creek, alright?
Let's go.
Stay cool.
Thank you, Enzo.
Well, my dad died when I was 15,
so, um, then it was just
the two of us, really.
I guess we kind of
relied on each other a lot
after that, yeah.
Sasha, there has been a lot of talk
about your mother in this courtroom,
but how would you describe your mum?
Uh, well, she'd
she'd had a hard life,
so, um, she she could be hard.
She was tough.
But fair. Tough but
fair, I think I'd say.
What kind of relationship
did you have with your mother?
It's too hot here, Mum.
- Let's go!
- Take your gear off and have a dip.
What if someone sees me?
Get a show for free, won't they?
Hey?
Go on!
- Yeah, alright. Alright, alright.
- Good!
Don't splash me till
I'm undressed, right?
- Don't laugh!
- I am!
Oh, God, no wonder you're
hot. You've got a singlet on.
- Shut up, Mum.
- Hey?
- Oh, it's so nice.
- Go on!
- Don't splash me!
- Yahoo-hoo-hoo!
I'm getting in!
- Whoo!
- Look out!
She was my mum.
And I loved her a lot.
Sorry.
Do you need to take a moment, Sasha?
That's alright.
No, no, I'm OK.
OK, I want to talk now about
the day that your mother died,
- if that's alright.
- Yeah.
OK. What did you do that morning?
Um, I ran a few errands in town.
- G'day.
- Morning.
I'm just here picking up
a script for Bernice Price.
- Yeah, no worries.
- Thanks so much.
Thanks so much, Nik. Appreciate it.
You keep that safe, eh?
- Yeah, will do.
- See you.
See you later.
About 10:30, I got back to the farm
and I gave the pills
and the money to Mum.
Then I, uh I did
the pregnancy test
which was positive,
and, um, 11 o'clock, Mum left for town
and I did a couple of hours
of work around the farm.
How did Patrick Harrows respond
to the news of the pregnancy?
Um
- I'm sorry, I'm just
- That's OK.
- You said
- That's alright.
Just take your time, yeah? Um
How did Patrick Harrows
respond to the news?
So, he didn't, um he
didn't answer straightaway,
um, which wasn't like him, so I left
I called a few more times
and then just ended up
leaving a voicemail message
just telling him I was pregnant.
And did you leave anything
else on the message?
Uh, yeah, I asked him to
meet me at the waterfall
so we could talk about it in person.
And did you go straight to
the waterfall after that?
No, I didn't. I, uh, finished
making the burn pile for Mum
and then I drove there.
Mm-hm.
Sasha, what's the parking
arrangement at Point Falls?
There's two car parks.
- There's a main one
- Mm-hm.
which is on the
highway side of the river,
and then there's the
back one that locals use.
But you can't see that one
when you're at the falls, so
Which one did you park in?
Oh, I took the local
road, so the back one.
What's the local road, for
those that perhaps don't know?
Oh, it's just the quickest
way from Airly, so a shortcut.
Do you know, is there any
CCTV cameras along that road?
It's a country dirt
road. I don't think so.
So what happened then?
Then I walked to the falls
and waited for Patrick.
What time did you
arrive at the waterfall?
Uh, 3:30. So I was waiting for a bit.
And how long do you think
you were waiting there?
10 minutes or so.
And what time did Patrick
arrive at the waterfall?
At 3:42.
3:42pm. That feels very precise.
How do you know it
was exactly at 3:42pm?
I checked the time on my phone
when he was, like, walking towards me.
And it sort of felt like a long time
between me leaving the
message that I was pregnant
and him arriving.
I was feeling a bit anxious, so
Sasha, from where you
sat at the waterfall,
could you see the car park?
- Well, just the main one.
- Mm-hm.
Were there any vehicles parked there?
There was one, yeah.
- What kind of car was it?
- It was a truck.
- Like a council truck.
- A council truck.
The State evidence shows
that two council workers
left the car park at
3:21pm in a weeding truck.
Sasha, 3:21pm to
3:42pm, how long is that?
That's
- Well, it's 21 minutes.
- 21 minutes.
So if you saw that council truck,
how long were you waiting
for Patrick at the waterfall?
OK, so, 20 minutes, at least.
And can you remind us,
how long does it take
to drive from your farm
along that dirt road to the waterfall?
- 10 minutes.
- So if Patrick Harrows
was at Airly Downs at 3:30pm
and he drove along that
dirt road to the waterfall,
could he have got there in 10 minutes?
- Yes.
- Objection. Your Honour,
counsel is leading the witness.
I think not, Mr Colby.
Continue, Ms Nelson-Moore.
Thank you, Your Honour.
Sasha, you previously stated to police
that you were waiting for
Patrick for 'about' 10 minutes,
but could you be clear at any point
precisely how long you were waiting?
I just found out I was having a baby,
so I was
Yeah, my mind was just
everywhere. It was
It's a very very
overwhelming, um, experience,
so
Uh, I know I wasn't precise,
but 'cause I couldn't have been.
I
Thank you, Sasha.
Thank you, Your Honour.
No further questions.
Read this, please.
Did you know?
I didn't know.
You see how this
complicates our case theory?
Is it motive?
If if you didn't know and Sasha did,
then, yes, it's motive
for her, certainly.
You can't say this in court.
It's not fair.
Patrick
she blew up your alibi with a lie.
But we can use the truth.
If you let me.
It's too late for fair.
So, do you think Patrick
did it alone, then?
Whatever happened, she's
obviously got it in for him now.
Ms Price
you were paid by your
mother to work on the farm,
weren't you? That's right.
And it was a fair wage, wasn't it?
Fair? Um, yes, it was.
Did you ever disagree with
your mother about the wage?
No, never.
Did you pay for board
or a mortgage for food?
No.
You were going to inherit
the farm, weren't you?
Yes. Yes, I was.
And you were the sole beneficiary
of her will, weren't you?
I was, yes.
How did your mother
feel about Mr Harrows?
Did she like him? Did she trust him?
No, she, um, she was very
suspicious of him.
Did she say he was beneath you?
Yeah, she did say that, yeah.
Did she believe he was after your money?
Yes.
Did Patrick tell you that
your mother fired him unfairly?
He did, yeah.
Did you know that your
mother was intending
to pay Patrick to leave
town on the day of her death?
Where's the cash for the well-digger?
It's on the bench there.
And the paper bag has
got your pills in it.
You need to start taking them again.
Right?
I'll be down at the
big shed if you need me.
Oh, are you going to Bevan's now?
Yep.
Hey, um, Mum, there's something
I want to talk to you about.
Yeah, we'll talk about it later.
She told me she was
going to pay Liam Bevan
for the work he did on the well,
but I had absolutely no idea
that she was gonna give half
of that money to Patrick, no.
On the morning that she died,
did your mother tell you
that she was contemplating
changing her will?
No, she didn't.
Did you believe she
would disinherit you?
No, I did not.
But you suspected
that your mother would take steps
to make sure her property
didn't end up in Patrick
Harrows's hands, didn't you?
No, she didn't say
anything about it to me.
You were terrified of losing
your inheritance, weren't you?
No.
You were fed up
with your mother's domineering behaviour
controlling your relationship
and your life, weren't you?
That's why you murdered her!
You concocted a plan with
your lover to kill her.
No!
You and Patrick hit your mother
over the head and you drove her body
- up to the well, didn't you?
- No.
And after dumping her in the well,
you went to your salon appointment
and made a future
appointment for your mother
in order to create an alibi, didn't you?
I didn't kill her. I didn't.
I loved her. I loved
her very, very much.
I didn't kill her.
We're satisfied, Your Honour.
The State has no further questions
for the accused?
None, Your Honour.
Well, then!
Um, Mr Colby,
are you ready to begin
your cross-examination?
Your Honour
in light of my learned colleague's
surprisingly succinct cross-examination,
my, uh, instructing
solicitor is not yet present,
so may I kindly ask Your
Honour for an adjournment?
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
it appears that today you
are to receive an early mark.
Court will recommence tomorrow morning.
Court is adjourned.
I'm starving.
Could you get me one of those
fried chicken sandwiches?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Thank you.
- Do you want any mayo?
- Mayo would be gr
Yeah, meet you back at the cells.
You've made a mistake.
And what happens next
needn't have happened
if you'd stuck by our agreement
and I'm sorry for it in advance.
Mm, that's OK.
I'm a big girl.
You don't scare me, Colby.
Just thought you should know.
Have a little faith, Alex.
Things are looking up.
- If you say so.
- Hey!
What was that?
Kora, just trust me.
I've busted my arse for 18
months on this case for you,
and you go on and flush it
down the toilet on a weak cross.
Nothing to be gained
by suffocating the jury
with her denials.
You had her on the witness stand.
That was the gift.
I know what I'm doing.
Mm.
Is that your sister?
She's not coming.
Why not?
Because she doesn't
want to get ambushed.
Again.
Well, you can pass this
on to her afterwards.
I sold the business for a good price
and I'm gonna split it into equal parts.
Not after I die. Now.
And whatever you want
to do with the money,
it's your business.
If you want to see me
you come see me.
If you want to stay away
so be it.
Mum
was Dad part Aboriginal?
Shh!
- Shh!
- No. No, I'm not shooshing.
'Cause it's in my DNA.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander region.
- Oh!
Now, Mum, I know that
you can understand me.
Can you please just answer me?
Oh!
Mum!
Jackson was too, wasn't he?
That's why the record
said 'quarter-caste'.
So is Did Dad know?
Because all of the family that
I met of his, they were white,
so what happened?
Was he adopted?
Just talk to me, Mum!
Why did you lie to me?
Whatever you thought you
were doing by not telling me
was not your decision to make!
Oh.
OK, Mum.
If you don't want to
talk to me about it,
then you can just sit there.
Just sit there in the
mess that you have made.
The lab confirmed.
I was half hoping they wouldn't.
You're really gonna use this?
Because this isn't just tactical.
And it could it could backfire on us,
it could alienate the jury from
from both of them.
But after that ludicrous
cross from the prosecution,
it's clear they are targeting Patrick
and we really don't have a choice.
Do you believe him, that he didn't know?
It's better for us if he didn't.
Ms Price
did you share in the
profits of Airly Downs?
No, I was paid a wage.
You were paid a wage. And
what was your annual income?
Around 50K a year.
50,000 a year.
So even though your mother
was earning profits of $1.2
million from Airly Downs
and you managed the property,
she was paying you less
than 5% of its profits.
Well, the profits mostly
went back into the business,
but, no, I got money, so
Pocket money?
It was more than enough, I thought,
and I did live in the
house rent free, so
Yes, the house that you stood to inherit
once your mother died.
Tell me,
how old was your
grandmother when she died?
Uh, my maternal grandmother?
Yes.
Um Oh, she was 101.
And her mother, your great-grandmother?
So had your mother not
died at the age of 69,
you could reasonably expect
to be receiving "pocket money"
for the next 30 years,
something of a grim
prospect for a mother-to-be.
Your Honour, relevance.
Mr Colby.
Your Honour, it speaks to motive
and the accused's inheritance.
Yes, well, you've gotten
that point across, Mr Colby.
The women of the family
evidently enjoyed great longevity.
Kindly move on.
With pleasure, Your Honour.
Now, you've testified that
you had a close relationship
with your mother.
Would you remind us of the
nickname she liked to give you?
She used to call me Heifer.
- Heifer.
- Yeah.
Was that a cruel
reference to your weight?
No, it wasn't.
Uh, it was because I won
a prize at a show once.
Yes.
Would you bring up exhibit 43, please?
Mm.
Did she not like to give you that name
because you you liked
to show off your strength
by lifting a heifer?
- Maybe it had something to do with that.
- Mm.
How much would a heifer weigh?
Uh, something like that, 70 kilos or so.
70 or 80, something like that.
How much did your mother
weigh when she died?
- I I don't know.
- Well, fortunately, I can tell you.
At the time of her death,
she weighed 82 kilos.
So, in fact, you'd be capable
of picking up your mother
on your own, wouldn't you?
Answer my question, please.
You would be well capable
of carrying your mother's body
on your own, would you not?
Sorry, I don't know
because I've never tried.
You're doing great.
You said this was gonna work.
It's working, it is working.
This is his strength. He's an
expert in humiliating people.
Yeah, well, it's not going well for me.
Listen to me, you have put a
massive hole in Patrick's alibi.
I know Brett Colby.
He is attacking you personally
'cause he knows he's gonna lose.
You told police
that you arrived at the
waterfall at about 3:30pm.
You've changed that story.
- Did you lie to police?
- Um
I never said I didn't arrive at 3:30.
I just didn't realise how
long I'd been waiting for.
Would you agree there's
a great deal of difference
between waiting for
someone for two minutes
or for five minutes, or even 20 minutes?
Uh, under normal
circumstances, I would agree.
But I
I was pretty, um
As I said, I was pretty tuned out.
Yes, so tuned out that you cannot recall
how much time you spent
waiting for Mr Harrows.
And yet you can conveniently recall
seeing a council truck at the car park.
- That's right, yes.
- The council workers saw no-one
at the waterfall that day,
and yet you're claiming
that you saw them.
How do you explain that?
Well, it doesn't surprise me.
I was sitting on a rock in the river
and they were quite far away.
And, um
my car was parked at
the back car park, so
Bring up exhibit 9, please.
Yes, now, this is CCTV
footage from 7:39pm
on the night of your mother's death.
What was this fight
about with Mr Harrows?
Um, he, uh he didn't want
me to keep the, uh the baby.
Why not? Why was that?
Uh, because he already h-had two
kids of his own? I don't know.
Was that the only reason,
or were there other issues
in your relationship?
You fuckin' get rid of that, right?
You get rid of it! You
don't fucking touch me!
No, we just fought about the baby.
Your mother strongly disapproved
of your relationship with
Mr Harrows, didn't she?
- Yeah.
- Mm.
Now, to the best of your knowledge
did your mother
engage in any romantic
or sexual relationships
outside of her marriage to your father?
No.
No?
I don't know.
Well, she didn't talk
about that stuff with me.
But she had had sex before
marriage, hadn't she?
I don't know.
I put it to you
that on the day she died,
your mother revealed a secret to you.
A secret you never wanted
Patrick Harrows to know.
A secret that made you
want to kill your mother.
She No, she didn't
Secret? What?
No.
What is your relationship
with my client?
Ex-boyfriend.
Is he the father of your child?
Yes, he is, yeah.
And who was the father of
your mother's first child?
No. I'm an only child.
Wasn't your mother sent to Bells
Hill Home for Unwed Mothers in Gully,
where she gave up a male child
to whom she'd given
birth on April 1, 1973?
Ms Price
what is Patrick Harrows's birthday?
I'm going to ask that question again.
What is Patrick Harrows's birthday?
What is the birth date
of Patrick Harrows?
April 1, 1973.
On July 19, your mother discovered
that you were pregnant with
Patrick Harrows's baby
Objection.
Badgering the witness.
Overruled.
Answer the question, please, Ms Price.
I can't do this. I can't, Meredith.
So she revealed to you the truth,
that he was your half-brother,
and you killed her to hide
that secret, did you not?
No, I didn't.
You hit her on the
head with the auger
Why would you do this?
You picked her up
like that prize heifer,
you drove her to the well
where you dumped her
and left her to die.
- No.
- That's what you did, wasn't it?
No
I want to stop. Can we please stop?
And then you arrived at
the waterfall at 3:40pm,
just before my client, didn't you?
It's not true.
- You wanted him for an alibi, didn't you?
- No!
And then you went to the hair salon
where you had your hair
done without any remorse
for your mother's death at all.
No.
And when you got back to Airly Downs,
you threw the auger in the burn pit,
you set alight to it
so there would be no evidence
of your crime whatsoever.
No!
Your Honour, my client
can't continue her testimony
in this state.
Ms Price
are you able to continue
with this cross-examination?
Oh, my gosh.
No, no.
Your Honour
Ladies and gentlemen,
in light of the
witness's emotional state,
court is adjourned for the day.
Clauds, look what Mama gave me!
Wow, so cool!
Where is she?
In there, watching telly.
You know what state
the carer found her in?
I'm sorry.
Ever since you've been
on this bloody jury,
Thel, I
What the bloody hell
is going on with you?
Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK.
Dad.
- Joey, mate.
- What are you doing here?
I thought you'd be at court,
so I was gonna leave this here for you.
Your mum and I had a big
chat last night, mate,
and, uh
Well, we're gonna give you this.
A cheque.
Not getting a big engagement ring
had something to do with
you and Alice breaking up.
Oh, no, Dad, you
You didn't have to do that, mate.
It's not gonna make a difference.
Whatever it is, mate, I'm
sure you two can work it out.
I
I don't know about that.
She's lost her marbles
if she thinks she can
do better than you, eh?
You you've lost
one of your best mates,
and this thing with Alice
I'm here for you if you want to talk.
Would you tell Mum thanks for me?
Yeah.
How do we even start talking about it?
It's fuckin' messed up.
I need a whisky.
Hey!
What are you doing here, mate?
Pete McKirney's death.
Yeah, I I'd like to make a statement.
We have to tell her the truth, Mum.
- I gave her the darned things.
- I know, but it's not enough.
Secrets, especially
family ones like this,
they're toxic.
There's that word again.
These things come out!
They always do, OK?
And finding out the
wrong way is so much worse
than if you'd just been
honest in the first place.
Listen. Rosa is much
better off this way.
- With all of us lying to her?
- OK, who is lying?
- She is my daughter.
- She's not your daughter.
She's mine!
Rosa, wait.
Rosa, stop!
How the fuck did Colby
piece that together?
Maybe Patrick knew.
Even if he did, do you think
he'd tell his legal team?
More like a prisoner's dilemma.
Game theory built around two entities
who can both benefit if
they continue to cooperate.
But chances are, if you keep them apart,
one of them will get cold
feet and betray the other
for fear of losing.
You know what that strategy
doesn't account for?
What?
That love is fundamentally irrational.
Our instinct for self-preservation
is more than irrational, hmm?
It's primal.
If you'd just told me, I
could have dealt with it.
It's not over yet, Sasha, alright?
I'm not listening to you anymore.