Harrow (2018) s02e10 Episode Script
Pater Familias
1 Previously on Harrow FRANCIS CHESTER: I left you flowers because I'm the one who shot you.
I let you go back to work too early after the shootings.
Are you self-medicating? HARROW: There was a string of murders, all linked to him.
And Harrow found the evidence to convict him? Harrow and Pavich found propofol in the liver tissue of the female victims.
GRACE: Could we be looking at the wrong body? There's nothing to prove any of this.
You're a coward.
Dr Harrow asked to exhume Francis's body.
I said no.
- Harrow, get the hell out of there! - I'm telling you, he's alive.
What are we looking for, exactly? Anything to indicate it's the same body.
This is Francis Chester.
- So, Dr Harrow got it wrong? - So it seems.
- Those records have been altered.
- That's impossible.
We can compare the DNA with Chester's original arrest swab from 15 years ago.
CHESTER: You can either try and stop me or you can try and save the boy.
Chester's alive, and I will end this.
(CLOCK'S CHIME ECHOES) (CLOCK TICKS) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) The mail's arrived? Yes.
Is it about Francis? Maurice? He's lost his final appeal.
Oh (CLOCK CHIMES REPEATEDLY) (EERIE MUSIC) - (MEDICAL EQUIPMENT BEEPS) - WOMAN: Vitals are stable now.
NICHOLS: OK.
We'll have an officer outside the door.
What the hell's going on, Bryan? You don't seriously think I'm making this up? This is serious, Harrow.
If Callan had died, you'd be up for manslaughter at least.
I saved him! Chester did that! - Francis Chester is dead.
- He's alive! Why would I hurt Callan? Look, I want to trust you, I do.
But, frankly, I've got nothing to go on here.
Chester injected a paralytic into Callan's drip line.
Test the drip line.
Hospital staff cleaned it up before it could be tested.
Look, if we checked Callan's blood, would the drug show up there? The succs would have metabolised by now.
Dan, come here.
Are you using any controlled or illegal substances at the moment? The propofol.
I told you, Chester injected me.
I found these on your boat.
I know.
- But I didn't put those there.
- Your DNA was on the needle.
Then it must have been the syringe that Chester used on me at the cemetery.
He planted it on the Bettie.
Look, Dan, a lot of people in our line of work use substances to help them cope I'm not using! I'm being set up, Bryan.
Where's Fern? Is she OK? Her moped's over the road.
She's not inside.
- Oh, God - Harrow! - She's in danger.
- There's police everywhere.
- That's probably why she's laying - Why would she have left her moped? She's missing.
Bryan, please, you've gotta help! I'll see what I can do.
But you stay put.
You're in enough trouble as it is, OK? OK? OK.
Jo? I need an urgent meeting with Superintendent Crowley.
Can you sort that out for me, please? - Yes, Sarge.
- Thank you.
(LIFT BELL DINGS) Hey Daniel, what happened? - I didn't hurt Callan.
- Of course not.
But where's Fern? She's not inside.
No-one has seen her.
We have to find her.
- You think Chester has her? - I don't know.
Oh, my God.
What can we do? Are are the police doing anything? Stay on Nichols.
He doesn't believe me, but he might listen to you.
Well, what are you gonna do? I have to find something to prove that Chester's alive.
GRACE: So, Succinylcholine, which, as you know, metabolises into succinic acid.
And, look, succinic acid was found in Chester's three male victims.
And also in the chemist, Tim Markides, and Simon.
The same amount in each victim.
Yes, an amount so small, it would never convince a jury.
Well, I'm not trying to convince a jury.
Grace, what do you want? I don't know, but if we can somehow show that Simon and the chemist were injected, maybe You can prove that Harrow is right, and Francis Chester is actually alive? Or prove conclusively that he's wrong.
Right now, Daniel is being interviewed by the police.
He put Callan Prowd's life in danger last night.
And your uncle and I are off to argue to a tribunal why Daniel should be allowed to continue practising medicine.
- Ready? - Yes.
You've ordered a DNA test on the body Harrow dug up.
That should tell us everything we need to know.
Meanwhile, I am three key staff down, so would you please just do your job.
Tribunal? The day was bound to come.
OFFICER: Step into this room here, sir.
You let Harrow go? Uh well, I felt I didn't have cause to detain him.
Even though he endangered the life of a patient in intensive care? He claimed someone else tampered with Mr Prowd's meds.
Any proof of that? No.
And I believe Harrow is suspended from the morgue, pending an investigation into his attempt to exhume a body.
Not just any body! It was Francis Chester.
Look, boss I know how it sounds.
There have been a lot of very concerning circumstances surrounding Harrow.
And now his daughter, Fern, is missing.
Well, has she got form for going missing? Yes.
Ma'am? Thank you.
(NICHOLS SIGHS) - OK.
- What? A psychiatrist and magistrate have just agreed that Dr Harrow poses a threat to himself and to others, and an involuntary treatment order has just been issued Come on, boss! .
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stating clearly that he is to be detained on sight and transferred to the Mental Health Unit at Southside.
- (SCOFFS) But what about his? - Bryan I respect that you care for Dr Harrow.
But by the sounds of it, he's gone off the rails, and he'll get all the help that he needs at Southside.
Bring him in, Bryan.
WOMAN: Well, I'll go get I'll get the copy first before I get started on the paperwork.
Does that work for you? - MAN: Excuse me for a moment, too? - Yep, yep.
OK.
Dr Fairley? - Yes.
- Um, it took a while, but Thank you.
It's a pretty old file.
What exactly is it that you're looking for? The name of a family dentist.
Yes, I'm chasing an urgent DNA sample for cross-reference.
Chester, Francis Andrew.
Sure, yes.
Look, I know it normally takes that long, but it's Fine, I understand, but if it can happen sooner, call me.
- Thanks.
- DNA? Another 48 hours.
- What's going on? - Have you checked your email? No.
Why? Oh, shit.
Please state your name.
Dr Maxine Aleksandra Pavich.
Thank you, Dr Pavich.
- As you know, this hearing - Yes, I know what it's for.
OK, then.
I see you've brought in some documentation.
Yes.
Uh, post-mortems Dr Harrow's performed since 1997 and transcripts of evidence he's given at various courts as an expert witness None of that will be necessary.
Well, what do you want? We want you to explain why a psychiatric evaluation conducted soon after Dr Harrow's shooting recommended he not return to work, yet you ignored that and let him recommence.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) Not now.
Oh, my God.
Are those girls that Chester killed? You do know that Fern's missing, right? Yeah, we don't know that yet This is what he'll do to her! Why are you not looking for her? - Why are you not?! - Steph.
Steph! Right now, we're focusing on finding your ex-husband.
Oh, please.
Dan would never hurt Callan.
You know that.
- It's how it looks, Steph.
- And what about Fern? Chester tried to get her on Daniel's boat.
How can you not believe that? I do.
I'm her mother! I know when she's lying and when she's not.
I honestly don't know where to start looking for a dead man, Steph.
Have you spoken to his mother? Yes, and she's just as damaged by what her son did as everyone else.
- Let me speak to her.
- Look Please, Steph, just go home.
Just leave it with me.
I'm doing everything I can.
Constable, escort Ms Tolson outside, please.
(KNOCKS) (KNOCKS) Hello? Police.
(CLOCK TICKS) Hello? Police.
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDE) MAN: Unfortunately, we had some water problems here eight years ago and a lot of the older files got damaged.
Whose records are you looking for? Francis Chester.
I had him as a patient from age 6 to maybe 12.
He wanted to be called Frank, but his father insisted on Francis.
- Did you ever meet Maurice Chester? - No.
A very accomplished generalist surgeon.
A very serious man.
Ah.
A bit ruined.
Ask me about any other patient from that long ago and I couldn't tell you about their teeth.
But I can tell you what this boy's would have shown.
One of his adult pre-molars, gone.
Gone? Knocked out.
By his father, Maurice Chester.
His mother brought him in one night.
The boy's mouth was bleeding like a stuck pig.
And she I'm pretty sure she had bruising around her throat.
Francis asked me, begged me .
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not to send him home again.
But what choice did I have? Please state your name for the purpose of the record.
Dr Lyle Ridgewell Livingston Fairley.
Thanks for your time, Doctor.
One of the issues this tribunal is investigating is that the behaviour of Dr Harrow has put himself, others and the reputation of the State coronial system - at risk.
- Ha! Can you elucidate? I think you'd have to be more specific.
Alright.
In July 2008, Dr Harrow provoked a knife fight with a parolee and was subsequently hospitalised for nearly two weeks, at the expense of the department.
Yes, I remember.
How many post-mortems could Dr Harrow have conducted in that time? Oh, 30 or more, easy.
- So, who did them? - I had to.
And this is far from atypical behaviour? Exactly.
Harrow's always doing that kind of thing.
So, you agree Dr Harrow is a problem? Certainly not.
The thing with that knife incident is that a young boy had been stabbed to death just a week previous, and another young boy had gone missing.
Harrow was sure it was that man and that knife, but the evidence was insufficient.
So, he took it upon himself to confront the man and provoke him into pulling the knife.
Reckless.
Very.
But he did this deliberately, in front of a council camera.
The result is that the attacker was convicted and a young life was saved.
Of course it was reckless and against the rules.
But the rules don't always embrace how sometimes things need to be done now, without consultation, with care only for a boy who needed saving.
Harrow shouldn't have done it.
He shouldn't have had to do it.
But he did it.
I can't tell you what to do.
But I can say this.
If you take away that doctor's ability to do his job, we'll all be the poorer for it.
HARROW: Hi.
Do you know what's going on? Anyone who sees you is supposed to call security.
There's an involuntary treatment order out for you.
I'm not surprised.
Nichols also knows the results of my blood test.
Propofol.
So, are you using? If you are, it's OK.
I mean, I understand.
I've thought about it too.
No.
I'm not.
I didn't inject the propofol, but I know who did.
I've got something to show you.
Can you bring up the CT scan of the burnt body's teeth? What are those? Old dental films? Where did you get them? I visited Chester's childhood dentist.
When he was 12, Chester's lower second pre-molar on the right was knocked out of his mouth by his father.
His permanent pre-molar? This skull still has it.
The lower second pre-molar.
It's not a denture or an implant? No, that is a healthy adult tooth.
Because the body in the coldroom is not Chester.
Look, those old films, they're not clear.
I know.
And it could be a mistake.
The dentist you got it from might have misfiled them.
I know.
Or .
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Chester somehow swapped his health records for that guy in the coldroom.
Yes.
- (KNOCK AT DOOR) - MAN: Dr Molyneux? Oh, shit.
- (KNOCKING CONTINUES) - Dr Molyneux? - Hi, Glen.
- Hey, Doc.
Uh, Julie here says that she saw Dr Harrow come in here.
Really? Julie, do you mind? Seriously, Glen, don't you think if Harrow was here, I would have? Shh.
Listen.
I like Doc Harrow too.
Once, he gave mouth-to-mouth to Fuzznuts.
- Huh? - My cat.
Saved his life.
Then But I still need to look in there, OK? Fine.
OK, you were right.
He's not in there.
Dr Molyneux, can you open the archive room for me, please? (SIGHS) (PHONE RINGS) CHESTER: Dr Harrow, I know it's you.
Is my daughter alive? Yes, for now.
What do you want? I want you.
What do you want me to do? I'm parked behind the institute.
Why don't you come out and say hi? There are security guards out in the corridors right now.
Why don't I just tell them that you're here? Well, you could, but if you do tell, I'll know.
And if you're not out here, alone, in two minutes, you will never know what happened to Fern.
- If you hurt her - One minute, 55 seconds.
One minute, 54 seconds.
I have to go.
What's going on? Just show this to Nichols.
What are you going to do? No security guards? No.
Just me.
Just you.
Lovely.
Jo, just give us a moment, please? So, where is he? I let him go.
Have you got any proof? It's so thin, you could shave with it.
What? Not all the dental records match.
CHESTER: Well, this is nice, isn't it? Just having a moment to chat.
This is a mistake, Francis.
Another mistake.
Another? You made a mistake not killing me with that first shot.
You made another killing Simon.
Another, threatening my daughter.
And what are you gonna do about it? (CHUCKLES) All this grief.
To hurt me? Why? It was the police who caught you, the DPP who prosecuted you, the judge who sentenced you.
So, why me? How did you find the propofol? In the dead girls, how did you find it? The police found propofol at your house.
Uh-huh, because I used it to help my mother sleep.
And I found propofol in your female victims.
Why are you asking? You injected it.
Because I didn't.
I didn't.
Succinylcholine for the boys, sure, because I knew there'd be no substantial trace post-mortem.
But propofol? I never injected propofol into those girls.
Yet you miraculously found traces of propofol in their liver tissue.
You presented that evidence.
You convinced the jury.
You put me away because you planted the propofol.
Well done.
Well done.
- You know, at times like this - Don't.
OK.
It's unfortunate that Dr Harrow has neglected to appear in order to state his case.
But we've heard sufficient evidence and it is our unanimous decision to recommend to the Board of Forensic Surgeons .
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that Dr Daniel Harrow be struck immediately from the register.
Mr Lincoln roses.
You've been staying here? You begged Dr Biggs not to send you back here.
And, yet, he did.
That's how you found out about the exhumation.
Louise .
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please, call the police.
End this now.
It's too late.
CHESTER: Dr Harrow? Fern! (MUFFLED) Dad, no! OK, male victims were injected with succs .
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and female victims injected with propofol.
How'd you go with their samples? - I got most of them.
- Most of them? What do you mean? There's some missing.
I presume you heard about Daniel being struck off.
There was nothing I could do.
- He's made his own bed.
- I don't think he did.
Histology slides, for Chester's female victims.
- Liver, lung and brain tissue.
- Mm-hm.
It was in these liver tissue samples that Harrow found traces of propofol and it resulted in Chester's conviction.
But if there was propofol found in the liver, it should also have been found in the brain tissue.
But the brain tissue samples are gone.
I think it's because someone discovered at the trial that Chester had been in possession of propofol, so that same someone added propofol to the liver tissue samples to convict him.
But they forgot to add it to the brain tissue.
And when Harrow started poking around about Chester, that someone remembered those brain tissue samples.
If they were found, it could all come unstuck.
Impossible to alter them now, so easier to just get rid of them and put their absence down to bad housekeeping.
And you were worried you weren't going to make a good pathologist.
(SIGHS HEAVILY) Chester was a monster, the way he killed all those young couples.
There wasn't going to be a conviction.
He was going to keep on killing and get away with it.
I had to do something.
So, you set Harrow up to perjure himself.
No.
Harrow was telling what he believed to be the truth.
I was the liar.
I think Chester is alive.
It's impossible.
The DNA will be back soon on the body Harrow dug up.
Then we'll know.
But you have to admit what you did.
VOICEMAIL: You've called Bryan Nichols.
Please leave a message.
(WHISPERS) Hey? Feeling better? Oh, don't worry.
That was just a little dose of propofol.
But you know all about that, right? And now .
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Succinylcholine.
Please! Let her go! Fern? Succinylcholine It it's quite a clever little paralytic.
It imitates the action of acetylcholine.
That's a neurotransmitter that makes our muscles move.
Now, when succs is administered, it makes every muscle in the patient's body twitch to the point where it can no longer respond to any other stimulation.
The patient can no longer move.
He can no longer talk.
All he can do .
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is watch.
Because that's all you could do, wasn't it? While your father was hurting your mother in front of you.
He was choking her.
But you were just a little boy.
So, what else could you do? Nothing.
You couldn't even move.
That's right.
(GASPS AND COUGHS) (WHIMPERS) Every time I did this .
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every time I made a young man freeze, while I did this (GASPS) .
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I'd get to imagine what it was like to be him.
Frank Please "Why you?" you asked.
Because you put me in prison and I was in there when he died, so I couldn't do this to him.
- Just like he did to you, Mum.
- I know.
Your father died of respiratory failure, didn't he, Frank? - Yeah, why? - Who does the gardening? You do.
Don't you, Louise? I saw the roses.
But I also saw the monkshood.
Aconitum napellus.
Highly toxic.
If ingested, its only post-mortem sign is asphyxia.
She grew them so she could kill your father.
(FERN GASPS FOR BREATH) Mum? She's lying, Frank.
She wanted him dead just as much as you.
No, darling.
And when you lost your last appeal (INHALES SHARPLY) .
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she poisoned him.
Did you? - Oh, darling.
- But why? Why then? Oh, he hurt me and I was scared that if I .
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if I fought him and I failed, then he'd hurt you.
But why didn't you kill him when I was a kid? (SHOUTS) Why didn't you protect me?! (HARROW GRUNTS) (PANTS) (GRUNTS) (GUN CLICKS) Dad LOUISE: Stay there, Francis.
Louise Don't let him close! You took from me the one thing that I needed.
To kill him.
But you .
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you would never have done it.
You would never have done it because .
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darling, he's dead and you're still scared of him.
Mum? No.
HARROW: Louise No.
Oh, my darling Ohh! (GUNSHOT) Aah You took something to counteract the succs.
Didn't you? BChE.
Butyrylcholinesterase.
That's clever.
Your heart must be having a hell of a time, though.
Dad! NICHOLS: Yep.
Yep, it's coming now.
Thanks very much, Kev.
Appreciate it, mate.
Come on, come on, come on.
Is that it? Yeah.
DNA from the National Database.
OK.
(COMPUTER BEEPS) EDWINA: They don't match.
That's because that body in the coldroom is not Francis Chester.
Let's finish this.
I understand.
You understand what? How it changes.
- What changes? - Fear.
To anger.
I know how it feels .
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to be young and afraid.
My stepfather hurt me.
So much.
I was terrified.
For me and for my mother.
I wanted to die, except I was scared of what he'd do to her.
So, eventually .
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that fear it changed.
It became anger.
I wasn't afraid of him.
I wanted to kill him.
But before I could .
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someone else did.
So, now I'll never get to fix that part of me that's broken.
Because he took away my chance to make it right.
So, I understand.
(GRUNTS) Oh (CHESTER GRUNTS AND GROWLS) Get off him! You can't Shut up! One more word and I will shoot you.
- Fern - No.
- No! - Bub He shot you! He killed Simon.
- And Callan - I know how you feel.
I want the same thing.
Let me do it.
I can't stop you.
You have the gun.
But, Bub, I've done what you want to do.
And it's always there.
Always.
I don't want that for you.
You could do this, yes.
But not doing it doesn't mean he wins.
Because it's your choice.
- Yours.
- (SOBS) Bub, please I'll call the police.
(SIRENS WAIL) Excuse me.
Alright, put him in.
Watch his head.
Wait! Wait, Harrow, you can't I think I've earned it.
Give Dr Harrow a moment.
I got out before.
I'll get out again.
"Bub, I've done what it is you want to do.
" I can't wait to tell everybody .
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you're a killer too.
No-one will believe you.
Hmm.
(SNIFFS) One more thing.
This is for Simon.
(WINCES) (GROANS) (ENGINE STARTS) Harrow? I'm sorry.
No.
You believed me.
Can I talk to her? Yeah, yeah.
Look, I I need a formal statement from you soon.
We want everything watertight for his trial.
Absolutely.
('BLOODLINE' BY ZELLA DAY PLAYS) Hey! Hey! Hey! What's a man to do Hey! When a woman takes his faith? Hey! And the evil of the world offers no escape - HARROW: One more thing.
- (GASPS) This is for Simon.
The trigger of a gun Is what my life's become And you may not believe that love is a disease Until you've seen the things I've done Bloodline Whoa-oh Bloodline NICHOLS: Harrow? I'm sorry.
Until your heart is mine Bloodline Whoa-oh Bloodline Whoa-oh Across the river, through the pine Until your heart is mine You OK? I wanted to kill him.
I know.
Is it over? Yes.
It's over.
- What are you doing? - You know.
And you know why.
The tissue samples? I was just so repulsed by what he did.
- Maxine - No, no.
No, it's fine.
It's It's my fault all this happened to you.
It's OK.
I've done worse.
(CHUCKLES) And now he's dead.
Heart failure.
Jesus.
I should have believed you.
I'm so ashamed.
Oh Hey.
Hey, hey.
You don't know how many lives you saved, putting him behind bars.
But Simon is dead.
Max .
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you can't leave.
Daniel .
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I can't stay.
(SIGHS) ('APOCALYPSE' BY CIGARETTES AFTER SEX PLAYS) You leapt from crumbling bridges, watching cityscapes turn to dust Filming helicopters crashing Fish? From way above You're OK.
You're OK, you're OK.
I'm OK.
I'm fine.
Got the music in you, baby, tell me why I love you.
I love you too.
And you just can't say goodbye Come here.
(LAUGHS) Oh Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms You've been hiding them in hollowed-out pianos Does your boat ever leave the dock? Well, yes.
I mean, I have been preoccupied lately, but .
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now I have to take time off.
So, maybe .
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the Whitsundays? There's room.
I can't take time off.
I need to do well at my job.
I can't fail again.
I don't think you ever failed.
I think you were just finding where you needed to be.
Apocalypse Go and sneak us through the rivers Flood is rising up on your knees Technically I'm still suspended.
So, technically You're not my supervisor.
Ooh.
Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids But that won't last long, will it? See you back at work in a couple of weeks.
Got the music in you, baby, tell me why Got the music in you, baby, tell me why You've been locked in here forever And you just - (PHONE RINGS) - Can't say goodbye.
Harrow.
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS) You do understand I'm on leave at the moment? Sorry, Dr Harrow, Nichols insisted.
Nichols, what's going on? This young man was found dead about an hour ago.
What's it got to do with me? Found his passport in his pocket.
Your name is down as his emergency contact.
And there was a note.
He claimed he was your son.
I let you go back to work too early after the shootings.
Are you self-medicating? HARROW: There was a string of murders, all linked to him.
And Harrow found the evidence to convict him? Harrow and Pavich found propofol in the liver tissue of the female victims.
GRACE: Could we be looking at the wrong body? There's nothing to prove any of this.
You're a coward.
Dr Harrow asked to exhume Francis's body.
I said no.
- Harrow, get the hell out of there! - I'm telling you, he's alive.
What are we looking for, exactly? Anything to indicate it's the same body.
This is Francis Chester.
- So, Dr Harrow got it wrong? - So it seems.
- Those records have been altered.
- That's impossible.
We can compare the DNA with Chester's original arrest swab from 15 years ago.
CHESTER: You can either try and stop me or you can try and save the boy.
Chester's alive, and I will end this.
(CLOCK'S CHIME ECHOES) (CLOCK TICKS) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) The mail's arrived? Yes.
Is it about Francis? Maurice? He's lost his final appeal.
Oh (CLOCK CHIMES REPEATEDLY) (EERIE MUSIC) - (MEDICAL EQUIPMENT BEEPS) - WOMAN: Vitals are stable now.
NICHOLS: OK.
We'll have an officer outside the door.
What the hell's going on, Bryan? You don't seriously think I'm making this up? This is serious, Harrow.
If Callan had died, you'd be up for manslaughter at least.
I saved him! Chester did that! - Francis Chester is dead.
- He's alive! Why would I hurt Callan? Look, I want to trust you, I do.
But, frankly, I've got nothing to go on here.
Chester injected a paralytic into Callan's drip line.
Test the drip line.
Hospital staff cleaned it up before it could be tested.
Look, if we checked Callan's blood, would the drug show up there? The succs would have metabolised by now.
Dan, come here.
Are you using any controlled or illegal substances at the moment? The propofol.
I told you, Chester injected me.
I found these on your boat.
I know.
- But I didn't put those there.
- Your DNA was on the needle.
Then it must have been the syringe that Chester used on me at the cemetery.
He planted it on the Bettie.
Look, Dan, a lot of people in our line of work use substances to help them cope I'm not using! I'm being set up, Bryan.
Where's Fern? Is she OK? Her moped's over the road.
She's not inside.
- Oh, God - Harrow! - She's in danger.
- There's police everywhere.
- That's probably why she's laying - Why would she have left her moped? She's missing.
Bryan, please, you've gotta help! I'll see what I can do.
But you stay put.
You're in enough trouble as it is, OK? OK? OK.
Jo? I need an urgent meeting with Superintendent Crowley.
Can you sort that out for me, please? - Yes, Sarge.
- Thank you.
(LIFT BELL DINGS) Hey Daniel, what happened? - I didn't hurt Callan.
- Of course not.
But where's Fern? She's not inside.
No-one has seen her.
We have to find her.
- You think Chester has her? - I don't know.
Oh, my God.
What can we do? Are are the police doing anything? Stay on Nichols.
He doesn't believe me, but he might listen to you.
Well, what are you gonna do? I have to find something to prove that Chester's alive.
GRACE: So, Succinylcholine, which, as you know, metabolises into succinic acid.
And, look, succinic acid was found in Chester's three male victims.
And also in the chemist, Tim Markides, and Simon.
The same amount in each victim.
Yes, an amount so small, it would never convince a jury.
Well, I'm not trying to convince a jury.
Grace, what do you want? I don't know, but if we can somehow show that Simon and the chemist were injected, maybe You can prove that Harrow is right, and Francis Chester is actually alive? Or prove conclusively that he's wrong.
Right now, Daniel is being interviewed by the police.
He put Callan Prowd's life in danger last night.
And your uncle and I are off to argue to a tribunal why Daniel should be allowed to continue practising medicine.
- Ready? - Yes.
You've ordered a DNA test on the body Harrow dug up.
That should tell us everything we need to know.
Meanwhile, I am three key staff down, so would you please just do your job.
Tribunal? The day was bound to come.
OFFICER: Step into this room here, sir.
You let Harrow go? Uh well, I felt I didn't have cause to detain him.
Even though he endangered the life of a patient in intensive care? He claimed someone else tampered with Mr Prowd's meds.
Any proof of that? No.
And I believe Harrow is suspended from the morgue, pending an investigation into his attempt to exhume a body.
Not just any body! It was Francis Chester.
Look, boss I know how it sounds.
There have been a lot of very concerning circumstances surrounding Harrow.
And now his daughter, Fern, is missing.
Well, has she got form for going missing? Yes.
Ma'am? Thank you.
(NICHOLS SIGHS) - OK.
- What? A psychiatrist and magistrate have just agreed that Dr Harrow poses a threat to himself and to others, and an involuntary treatment order has just been issued Come on, boss! .
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stating clearly that he is to be detained on sight and transferred to the Mental Health Unit at Southside.
- (SCOFFS) But what about his? - Bryan I respect that you care for Dr Harrow.
But by the sounds of it, he's gone off the rails, and he'll get all the help that he needs at Southside.
Bring him in, Bryan.
WOMAN: Well, I'll go get I'll get the copy first before I get started on the paperwork.
Does that work for you? - MAN: Excuse me for a moment, too? - Yep, yep.
OK.
Dr Fairley? - Yes.
- Um, it took a while, but Thank you.
It's a pretty old file.
What exactly is it that you're looking for? The name of a family dentist.
Yes, I'm chasing an urgent DNA sample for cross-reference.
Chester, Francis Andrew.
Sure, yes.
Look, I know it normally takes that long, but it's Fine, I understand, but if it can happen sooner, call me.
- Thanks.
- DNA? Another 48 hours.
- What's going on? - Have you checked your email? No.
Why? Oh, shit.
Please state your name.
Dr Maxine Aleksandra Pavich.
Thank you, Dr Pavich.
- As you know, this hearing - Yes, I know what it's for.
OK, then.
I see you've brought in some documentation.
Yes.
Uh, post-mortems Dr Harrow's performed since 1997 and transcripts of evidence he's given at various courts as an expert witness None of that will be necessary.
Well, what do you want? We want you to explain why a psychiatric evaluation conducted soon after Dr Harrow's shooting recommended he not return to work, yet you ignored that and let him recommence.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) Not now.
Oh, my God.
Are those girls that Chester killed? You do know that Fern's missing, right? Yeah, we don't know that yet This is what he'll do to her! Why are you not looking for her? - Why are you not?! - Steph.
Steph! Right now, we're focusing on finding your ex-husband.
Oh, please.
Dan would never hurt Callan.
You know that.
- It's how it looks, Steph.
- And what about Fern? Chester tried to get her on Daniel's boat.
How can you not believe that? I do.
I'm her mother! I know when she's lying and when she's not.
I honestly don't know where to start looking for a dead man, Steph.
Have you spoken to his mother? Yes, and she's just as damaged by what her son did as everyone else.
- Let me speak to her.
- Look Please, Steph, just go home.
Just leave it with me.
I'm doing everything I can.
Constable, escort Ms Tolson outside, please.
(KNOCKS) (KNOCKS) Hello? Police.
(CLOCK TICKS) Hello? Police.
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDE) MAN: Unfortunately, we had some water problems here eight years ago and a lot of the older files got damaged.
Whose records are you looking for? Francis Chester.
I had him as a patient from age 6 to maybe 12.
He wanted to be called Frank, but his father insisted on Francis.
- Did you ever meet Maurice Chester? - No.
A very accomplished generalist surgeon.
A very serious man.
Ah.
A bit ruined.
Ask me about any other patient from that long ago and I couldn't tell you about their teeth.
But I can tell you what this boy's would have shown.
One of his adult pre-molars, gone.
Gone? Knocked out.
By his father, Maurice Chester.
His mother brought him in one night.
The boy's mouth was bleeding like a stuck pig.
And she I'm pretty sure she had bruising around her throat.
Francis asked me, begged me .
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not to send him home again.
But what choice did I have? Please state your name for the purpose of the record.
Dr Lyle Ridgewell Livingston Fairley.
Thanks for your time, Doctor.
One of the issues this tribunal is investigating is that the behaviour of Dr Harrow has put himself, others and the reputation of the State coronial system - at risk.
- Ha! Can you elucidate? I think you'd have to be more specific.
Alright.
In July 2008, Dr Harrow provoked a knife fight with a parolee and was subsequently hospitalised for nearly two weeks, at the expense of the department.
Yes, I remember.
How many post-mortems could Dr Harrow have conducted in that time? Oh, 30 or more, easy.
- So, who did them? - I had to.
And this is far from atypical behaviour? Exactly.
Harrow's always doing that kind of thing.
So, you agree Dr Harrow is a problem? Certainly not.
The thing with that knife incident is that a young boy had been stabbed to death just a week previous, and another young boy had gone missing.
Harrow was sure it was that man and that knife, but the evidence was insufficient.
So, he took it upon himself to confront the man and provoke him into pulling the knife.
Reckless.
Very.
But he did this deliberately, in front of a council camera.
The result is that the attacker was convicted and a young life was saved.
Of course it was reckless and against the rules.
But the rules don't always embrace how sometimes things need to be done now, without consultation, with care only for a boy who needed saving.
Harrow shouldn't have done it.
He shouldn't have had to do it.
But he did it.
I can't tell you what to do.
But I can say this.
If you take away that doctor's ability to do his job, we'll all be the poorer for it.
HARROW: Hi.
Do you know what's going on? Anyone who sees you is supposed to call security.
There's an involuntary treatment order out for you.
I'm not surprised.
Nichols also knows the results of my blood test.
Propofol.
So, are you using? If you are, it's OK.
I mean, I understand.
I've thought about it too.
No.
I'm not.
I didn't inject the propofol, but I know who did.
I've got something to show you.
Can you bring up the CT scan of the burnt body's teeth? What are those? Old dental films? Where did you get them? I visited Chester's childhood dentist.
When he was 12, Chester's lower second pre-molar on the right was knocked out of his mouth by his father.
His permanent pre-molar? This skull still has it.
The lower second pre-molar.
It's not a denture or an implant? No, that is a healthy adult tooth.
Because the body in the coldroom is not Chester.
Look, those old films, they're not clear.
I know.
And it could be a mistake.
The dentist you got it from might have misfiled them.
I know.
Or .
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Chester somehow swapped his health records for that guy in the coldroom.
Yes.
- (KNOCK AT DOOR) - MAN: Dr Molyneux? Oh, shit.
- (KNOCKING CONTINUES) - Dr Molyneux? - Hi, Glen.
- Hey, Doc.
Uh, Julie here says that she saw Dr Harrow come in here.
Really? Julie, do you mind? Seriously, Glen, don't you think if Harrow was here, I would have? Shh.
Listen.
I like Doc Harrow too.
Once, he gave mouth-to-mouth to Fuzznuts.
- Huh? - My cat.
Saved his life.
Then But I still need to look in there, OK? Fine.
OK, you were right.
He's not in there.
Dr Molyneux, can you open the archive room for me, please? (SIGHS) (PHONE RINGS) CHESTER: Dr Harrow, I know it's you.
Is my daughter alive? Yes, for now.
What do you want? I want you.
What do you want me to do? I'm parked behind the institute.
Why don't you come out and say hi? There are security guards out in the corridors right now.
Why don't I just tell them that you're here? Well, you could, but if you do tell, I'll know.
And if you're not out here, alone, in two minutes, you will never know what happened to Fern.
- If you hurt her - One minute, 55 seconds.
One minute, 54 seconds.
I have to go.
What's going on? Just show this to Nichols.
What are you going to do? No security guards? No.
Just me.
Just you.
Lovely.
Jo, just give us a moment, please? So, where is he? I let him go.
Have you got any proof? It's so thin, you could shave with it.
What? Not all the dental records match.
CHESTER: Well, this is nice, isn't it? Just having a moment to chat.
This is a mistake, Francis.
Another mistake.
Another? You made a mistake not killing me with that first shot.
You made another killing Simon.
Another, threatening my daughter.
And what are you gonna do about it? (CHUCKLES) All this grief.
To hurt me? Why? It was the police who caught you, the DPP who prosecuted you, the judge who sentenced you.
So, why me? How did you find the propofol? In the dead girls, how did you find it? The police found propofol at your house.
Uh-huh, because I used it to help my mother sleep.
And I found propofol in your female victims.
Why are you asking? You injected it.
Because I didn't.
I didn't.
Succinylcholine for the boys, sure, because I knew there'd be no substantial trace post-mortem.
But propofol? I never injected propofol into those girls.
Yet you miraculously found traces of propofol in their liver tissue.
You presented that evidence.
You convinced the jury.
You put me away because you planted the propofol.
Well done.
Well done.
- You know, at times like this - Don't.
OK.
It's unfortunate that Dr Harrow has neglected to appear in order to state his case.
But we've heard sufficient evidence and it is our unanimous decision to recommend to the Board of Forensic Surgeons .
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that Dr Daniel Harrow be struck immediately from the register.
Mr Lincoln roses.
You've been staying here? You begged Dr Biggs not to send you back here.
And, yet, he did.
That's how you found out about the exhumation.
Louise .
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please, call the police.
End this now.
It's too late.
CHESTER: Dr Harrow? Fern! (MUFFLED) Dad, no! OK, male victims were injected with succs .
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and female victims injected with propofol.
How'd you go with their samples? - I got most of them.
- Most of them? What do you mean? There's some missing.
I presume you heard about Daniel being struck off.
There was nothing I could do.
- He's made his own bed.
- I don't think he did.
Histology slides, for Chester's female victims.
- Liver, lung and brain tissue.
- Mm-hm.
It was in these liver tissue samples that Harrow found traces of propofol and it resulted in Chester's conviction.
But if there was propofol found in the liver, it should also have been found in the brain tissue.
But the brain tissue samples are gone.
I think it's because someone discovered at the trial that Chester had been in possession of propofol, so that same someone added propofol to the liver tissue samples to convict him.
But they forgot to add it to the brain tissue.
And when Harrow started poking around about Chester, that someone remembered those brain tissue samples.
If they were found, it could all come unstuck.
Impossible to alter them now, so easier to just get rid of them and put their absence down to bad housekeeping.
And you were worried you weren't going to make a good pathologist.
(SIGHS HEAVILY) Chester was a monster, the way he killed all those young couples.
There wasn't going to be a conviction.
He was going to keep on killing and get away with it.
I had to do something.
So, you set Harrow up to perjure himself.
No.
Harrow was telling what he believed to be the truth.
I was the liar.
I think Chester is alive.
It's impossible.
The DNA will be back soon on the body Harrow dug up.
Then we'll know.
But you have to admit what you did.
VOICEMAIL: You've called Bryan Nichols.
Please leave a message.
(WHISPERS) Hey? Feeling better? Oh, don't worry.
That was just a little dose of propofol.
But you know all about that, right? And now .
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Succinylcholine.
Please! Let her go! Fern? Succinylcholine It it's quite a clever little paralytic.
It imitates the action of acetylcholine.
That's a neurotransmitter that makes our muscles move.
Now, when succs is administered, it makes every muscle in the patient's body twitch to the point where it can no longer respond to any other stimulation.
The patient can no longer move.
He can no longer talk.
All he can do .
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is watch.
Because that's all you could do, wasn't it? While your father was hurting your mother in front of you.
He was choking her.
But you were just a little boy.
So, what else could you do? Nothing.
You couldn't even move.
That's right.
(GASPS AND COUGHS) (WHIMPERS) Every time I did this .
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every time I made a young man freeze, while I did this (GASPS) .
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I'd get to imagine what it was like to be him.
Frank Please "Why you?" you asked.
Because you put me in prison and I was in there when he died, so I couldn't do this to him.
- Just like he did to you, Mum.
- I know.
Your father died of respiratory failure, didn't he, Frank? - Yeah, why? - Who does the gardening? You do.
Don't you, Louise? I saw the roses.
But I also saw the monkshood.
Aconitum napellus.
Highly toxic.
If ingested, its only post-mortem sign is asphyxia.
She grew them so she could kill your father.
(FERN GASPS FOR BREATH) Mum? She's lying, Frank.
She wanted him dead just as much as you.
No, darling.
And when you lost your last appeal (INHALES SHARPLY) .
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she poisoned him.
Did you? - Oh, darling.
- But why? Why then? Oh, he hurt me and I was scared that if I .
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if I fought him and I failed, then he'd hurt you.
But why didn't you kill him when I was a kid? (SHOUTS) Why didn't you protect me?! (HARROW GRUNTS) (PANTS) (GRUNTS) (GUN CLICKS) Dad LOUISE: Stay there, Francis.
Louise Don't let him close! You took from me the one thing that I needed.
To kill him.
But you .
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you would never have done it.
You would never have done it because .
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darling, he's dead and you're still scared of him.
Mum? No.
HARROW: Louise No.
Oh, my darling Ohh! (GUNSHOT) Aah You took something to counteract the succs.
Didn't you? BChE.
Butyrylcholinesterase.
That's clever.
Your heart must be having a hell of a time, though.
Dad! NICHOLS: Yep.
Yep, it's coming now.
Thanks very much, Kev.
Appreciate it, mate.
Come on, come on, come on.
Is that it? Yeah.
DNA from the National Database.
OK.
(COMPUTER BEEPS) EDWINA: They don't match.
That's because that body in the coldroom is not Francis Chester.
Let's finish this.
I understand.
You understand what? How it changes.
- What changes? - Fear.
To anger.
I know how it feels .
.
to be young and afraid.
My stepfather hurt me.
So much.
I was terrified.
For me and for my mother.
I wanted to die, except I was scared of what he'd do to her.
So, eventually .
.
that fear it changed.
It became anger.
I wasn't afraid of him.
I wanted to kill him.
But before I could .
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someone else did.
So, now I'll never get to fix that part of me that's broken.
Because he took away my chance to make it right.
So, I understand.
(GRUNTS) Oh (CHESTER GRUNTS AND GROWLS) Get off him! You can't Shut up! One more word and I will shoot you.
- Fern - No.
- No! - Bub He shot you! He killed Simon.
- And Callan - I know how you feel.
I want the same thing.
Let me do it.
I can't stop you.
You have the gun.
But, Bub, I've done what you want to do.
And it's always there.
Always.
I don't want that for you.
You could do this, yes.
But not doing it doesn't mean he wins.
Because it's your choice.
- Yours.
- (SOBS) Bub, please I'll call the police.
(SIRENS WAIL) Excuse me.
Alright, put him in.
Watch his head.
Wait! Wait, Harrow, you can't I think I've earned it.
Give Dr Harrow a moment.
I got out before.
I'll get out again.
"Bub, I've done what it is you want to do.
" I can't wait to tell everybody .
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you're a killer too.
No-one will believe you.
Hmm.
(SNIFFS) One more thing.
This is for Simon.
(WINCES) (GROANS) (ENGINE STARTS) Harrow? I'm sorry.
No.
You believed me.
Can I talk to her? Yeah, yeah.
Look, I I need a formal statement from you soon.
We want everything watertight for his trial.
Absolutely.
('BLOODLINE' BY ZELLA DAY PLAYS) Hey! Hey! Hey! What's a man to do Hey! When a woman takes his faith? Hey! And the evil of the world offers no escape - HARROW: One more thing.
- (GASPS) This is for Simon.
The trigger of a gun Is what my life's become And you may not believe that love is a disease Until you've seen the things I've done Bloodline Whoa-oh Bloodline NICHOLS: Harrow? I'm sorry.
Until your heart is mine Bloodline Whoa-oh Bloodline Whoa-oh Across the river, through the pine Until your heart is mine You OK? I wanted to kill him.
I know.
Is it over? Yes.
It's over.
- What are you doing? - You know.
And you know why.
The tissue samples? I was just so repulsed by what he did.
- Maxine - No, no.
No, it's fine.
It's It's my fault all this happened to you.
It's OK.
I've done worse.
(CHUCKLES) And now he's dead.
Heart failure.
Jesus.
I should have believed you.
I'm so ashamed.
Oh Hey.
Hey, hey.
You don't know how many lives you saved, putting him behind bars.
But Simon is dead.
Max .
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you can't leave.
Daniel .
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I can't stay.
(SIGHS) ('APOCALYPSE' BY CIGARETTES AFTER SEX PLAYS) You leapt from crumbling bridges, watching cityscapes turn to dust Filming helicopters crashing Fish? From way above You're OK.
You're OK, you're OK.
I'm OK.
I'm fine.
Got the music in you, baby, tell me why I love you.
I love you too.
And you just can't say goodbye Come here.
(LAUGHS) Oh Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms You've been hiding them in hollowed-out pianos Does your boat ever leave the dock? Well, yes.
I mean, I have been preoccupied lately, but .
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now I have to take time off.
So, maybe .
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the Whitsundays? There's room.
I can't take time off.
I need to do well at my job.
I can't fail again.
I don't think you ever failed.
I think you were just finding where you needed to be.
Apocalypse Go and sneak us through the rivers Flood is rising up on your knees Technically I'm still suspended.
So, technically You're not my supervisor.
Ooh.
Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids But that won't last long, will it? See you back at work in a couple of weeks.
Got the music in you, baby, tell me why Got the music in you, baby, tell me why You've been locked in here forever And you just - (PHONE RINGS) - Can't say goodbye.
Harrow.
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS) You do understand I'm on leave at the moment? Sorry, Dr Harrow, Nichols insisted.
Nichols, what's going on? This young man was found dead about an hour ago.
What's it got to do with me? Found his passport in his pocket.
Your name is down as his emergency contact.
And there was a note.
He claimed he was your son.