Church's informant, Jonah is waiting in the car. It is late at night and he is nervous. Suddenly he receives a call from well known crime drug lord Tony Fenandaz, who's sitting watching on in a nearby car with another associate.
JONAH: (Answers his phone) Yeah!
FENANDAZ: Hey Jonah! I'm counting on you. Don't go cold on me.
JONAH: I said I'd do it, ok.
FENANDAZ: This didn't need to happen you know that. A man should be more careful about his friends.
JONAH: Just let me do it, alright! Just let me do it.
FENANDAZ: Well a man's got to do what a man's got to do.
The camera shot zooms in on the gun that Jonah is holding in his hands. As he looks on outside, he is shaky and nervous. Danni suddenly comes into view driving a sporty white car and pulls into the car park. She steps out of the car carrying some groceries in each hand. Jonah seizes the moment to step out of the car and starts making his way over towards Danni, hiding the gun behind his back.
DANNI: (Turns around to see Jonah standing a few metres away from her) Hi! Just in time to help me with the shopping.
Jonah pulls out the gun shooting her in the chest and abdomin, the bullet deflecting off the protective vest she's whereing underneath. Danni falls to the ground pretending to be dead,
FENANDAZ: Let's go ( He and his associate drive away in their blue vehicle assuming her to be dead). A little later on Mac and all the other police are gathered on the scene of the crime. There is tape all around marking the scene of the crime in an attempt to make it look authentic.
MAC: (Opens the back of the ambulence and jumps in unzipping the body bag where Danni is lying) Ok! sleeping beauty, shows over.
DANNI: (opens her eyes) Think they bought it?
MAC: Well they better have.
Back at the crimplex Church has just arrived back from paying a visit to Jonah. He and Mac start making their way to the briefing room.
MAC: Is Jonah going to contact him?
PETE: No! It's safer to wait for Fenandaz to call immediately. The last thing we want right now is jonah looking pushy.
MAC: How is he?
PETE: He's cool.
MAC: Well i'll be pleased when we're finished with this guy. There's way too much writing on him.
PETE: He'll come good.
MAC: (walks into the briefing room followed closely by Pete) Well I don't need to remind you how far over budget we are on this. Upstairs are asking questions. So this heroine shipment they're holding back on better materialize and soon.
DANNI: There's nothing to stop him now I'm dead.
MAC: If they buy it, and if they don't we'll have to pull Jonah out of there fast. I don't want to have to explain that upstairs.
PETE: Or the new haircut.
MAC: Owi!(Exits)
ANGIE: (Enters) So how's it feel to be dead?
DANNI: (Looking down at her obituary notes) Tell you when I've read my obituary.
PETE: Oh my God! (looking at the dental bill his just received in the post)
ANGIE: Bad news?
PETE: Dentist bill.
DANNI: I told you to go to Dr. Holme.
PETE: I'm not going to a backyard dentist who's going to mess around with my teeth.
DANNI: he's not a backyard dentist and he wouldn't mess around with your teeth or your wallet, ouch. Can you afford that?
PETE: I'll manage.
DANNI: I'm glad it's you and not me. I'd have to take out a loan.
PETE: Yeah right!
Mac and Hollister are going for a casual stroll in the park across the road from Headquarters.
BILL: Did you know in three years I've never found the time to visit this place, and it's just across the road from the office.
MAC: Hmm! well ah, I couldn't tell you what's across the road from the factory.
BILL: We'll go for a walk one day and find out.
MAC: Is this your way of telling me I need to get a life?
BILL: Well you made a good start and got me in.
MAC: Oh yeah! With scenes of the park, very romantic.
BILL: Fussy aye! Alright well, ah, What about a a cossie cabbin in the alps?
MAC: Better!
BILL: Is that better? (Mac nods) Well maybe a moonlit walk on the beach somewhere!
MAC: (laughs) Oh! dream on Romeo.
BILL: I'm not dreaming.
MAC: You're not Romeo either.
BILL: Well you come away with me for the weekend and I'll try and change your mind, Ok!
MAC: I'm in the middle of something.
BILL: You're always in the middle of something.
MAC: This one's messy.
BILL: Yeah! I know.
MAC: Are they talking about me?
BILL: Thes's a few grumbles about what it's costing.
MAC: And...
BILL: Well this business last night, the shooting. If they weren't nervous before, they are now.
MAC: It was either that or lose my informant. You, you know or worse...
BILL: Alright, you don't have to convince me. I'm on your side remember. Just thought you'd like to know. I know I would.
MAC: Yeah thanks.
BILL: Do you think it'll be over by the weekend?
MAC: Hope so!
BILL: So we've got a date?
MAC: I can't.
BILL: Oh come on, just for a weekend.
MAC: I can't!
Later on that Day Danni pulss up at Stone's place and starts emptying his mail box, which is filled with junk mail and a couple of letter which apear to have been left there for a while. She looks on at the place, which is overrun with bushes and a lawn which is unmowen. She head over to the door and goes to knock.
OSCAR: (Answers the door. He is wearing a white T-shirt with a red collar and red sleeves and jeans and looks rather scruffy and unshaven) Danni Hi!
DANNI: Hi! We've been worried about you.
OSCAR: Yeah! I ah...
DANNI: I've been calling you all week.
OSCAR: Well! haven't been around much. Ah! Come on in.
They both walk down the hallway, Oscar leading the way. Danni Looks around at the state of the place a gasped. There are clothes, books and bits of paper chucked everywhere and the place looks like a total pig-sty.
OSCAR: Do you want a coffee or a drink or something?
DANNI: Yeah! coffee's good, thanks. Ah yep! your mail. (hands over the mail to Oscar)
OSCAR: Ah! need a shredder not a mail box. (tosses the mail onto the table, which is already covered in junk) Sit down I'll do the coffee. (Walks over to the sink and starts preparing the coffee)
Danni looks around, catching sight of the phone which has been disconnected.
DANNI: So um! How've you been?
OSCAR: Yeah great! Running in the morning, gym in the afternoon, weight-training.
DANNI: That's good. Good...on you
OSCAR: Never been fitter.
DANNI: You still doing physio?
OSCAR: No! Finished last week. They gave me a clean slate.
DANNI: Great! So there's nothing to stop you coming back then!
OSCAR: (appearing a little disorientated) I've only got Decafe. Is Decafe alright?
DANNI: So! what's really the problem?
OSCAR: What do you mean?
DANNI: Phone's off the hook, place is a mess, you're drinking Decafe and you're bouncing off the roof.
OSCAR: (facing with his back turned away from Danni)They're not going to let me back in.
DANNI: What?
OSCAR: I've got to have a psychological assessment. There looking for an excuse, Danni. They don't want me back.
Later on Oscar is seated at the kitchen table playing with a empty coffee mug dangling it from one finger before placing it down on the table, while Danni is standing nearby.
OSCAR: You think I've lost it, don't ya'?
DANNI: I think you're worrying about something that might not even happen.
OSCAR: They're looking for an excuse to sideline me. Unfit for opporational duty. They'll shunt me off to some office some place. They don't want people like me working undercover, I'm a liability.
DANNI: (goes and sits down opposite him on the kitchen table) You don't know that. God! you haven't even been assessed yet.
OSCAR: It's not the first time I've been involved in a shooting incident. I've been in front of these people before. I know what they're like. They! they make up their mind before you go in there, it's like you have to change it for them.
DANNI: And you did fine last time.
OSCAR: Yeah well this time it's different. I've got a history of it now, and between you and me it scares the shit out of me. I'm not up to this and they're going to know it.
DANNI: Hey!
OSCAR: There a...going to know.
DANNI: (kneels down beside him) The first thing to do is to stop worrying about it.
OSCAR: What else am I going to do?
DANNI: We're going to think of something. When's the assessment?
OSCAR: (Reply's vaguely) Tomorrow!
Meanwhile Church is outside Jonah's appartment building chatting with Angie. He tells her he's just going to go and give Jonah a little peptalk just to keep Mac happy. He steps out the the car and runs up the stairs and heads up to Jonah's appartment.
PETE: Jonah, It's me, Jonah? (He spots Jonah standing at the end of the coradoor dressed in a smart looking grey suit and tie, wearing a pair of glasses) You right, mate?
Just then a tall solidly built man appears out of nowhere pointing a gun to the back of his head.
PETE: Hey! Hey! Hey!
Pete turns his head to spot Fenandaz sitting on the couch dress in a smart suit.
FENANDAZ: (To Jonah) Do you know this guy?
PETE: Cause he does, Jonah mate. Come on.
JONAH: Yeah! I know him.
FENANDAZ: What are you doing here?
PETE: You're not bloody cops are you?
FENANDAZ: (laughs) No! not cops.
PETE: I'm buying. I'm buying, man. Jonah and me we're doing some business. I'll come back maybe later.
FENANDAZ: Yeah later. Tomorrow! Come back tomorrow.
Danni has just arrived back at Stone's place, entering into the lounge room. She is wearing a black blouse and Oscar is wearing a off white shirt and dark navy trousers.
DANNI: Oh! You cleaned up. Looks better than yesterday. (both make their way over to the couch)
OSCAR: Well I was up half the night.
DANNI: Make you feel good?
OSCAR: Yeah! I guess. Where do you want to do this. (Standing next to the couch).
DANNI: Here's good (Indicates to Oscar to take a seat, while she paces up and down) OK! Alright! So I'm the psych, you're you, OK!
OSCAR: Well, feels a bit dumb, but yeah.
DANNI: Yeah! we're just practicing. Alright, here we go, first question. How'd you sleep last night?
OSCAR: Well I slept fine, well eventually when I got to bed after cleaning the house.
DANNI: Uha, And why were you cleaning the house?
OSCAR: Oh, come on Danni. You saw it.
DANNI: Come on! just answer the questions, OK!
OSCAR: I've been sleeping fine.
DANNI: any nightmares?
OSCAR: No!
DANNI: How about flashbacks to the day you were wounded?
OSCAR: No! I don't really think about it very much. It doesn't worry me anymore.
DANNI: Uha! And how do you feel about the person who shot you? Are you still angry at them?
OSCAR: Not really! I mean it's a risk. It goes with the job. It was an accident anyway, so...
DANNI: Any feelings of isolation?
OSCAR: None at all.
DANNI: You don't feel like your colleagues have abandoned you?
OSCAR: No! I don't feel that way.
DANNI: (sits opposite him on the coffee table) BULLSHIT!
OSCAR: Well it's the truth...
DANNI: (Disbelievingly) Well...!
OSCAR: I don't feel like anyone's abandoned me.
DANNI: Yes you do.
OSCAR: (retorts) No I don't
DANNI: You do! Stonie, I don't believe you. You're just telling me what you think I need to hear. And if I can pick it, the psynch can pick it. (Stone looks down and away)
DANNI: (Takes a seat beside him) Ok! listen, I think what you are going to have to do is you are going to have to fudge it a little.
OSCAR: Fudge it!
DANNI: Yeah! Instead of saying everythings fine, say it's getting better. Things aren't a hundred percent but they're improving. You with me.
OSCAR: OK!
DANNI: OK! We'll give it another shot. (takes her seat back on the coffee table) Any nightmares?
OSCAR: Yeah! everynight.
DANNI: Do they scare you?
OSCAR: Not as much as they first did. I guess I'm learning to live with them.
DANNI: Good answer. How do you feel about the person who shot you?
OSCAR: Angry! I mean if she wasn't a woman.
DANNI: Do you feel angry all the time?
OSCAR: No! not as much as I fist did.
DANNI: do you feel lkie your friends and colleagues have abandoned you?
OSCAR: Yeah! Yeah, I feel that (Starts to cry) I feel like noone cared, I...(Breaks down sobbing, sheilding his eyes with his hand).
DANNI: (takes a seat beside him, placing an arm over his shoulder for support) Oh Stonie! I'm sorry. I'm sorry you felt like that.
OSCAR: (taking his hand away) What am I going to do, Danni? (asks tearfully)
DANNI: Exactly what you did then. Stonie you can do this. (Stone shakes his head) You do it all the time, half truth, lies it's your job. It's what you're good at. Revisiting the psych is going to be easy.
OSCAR: I can do it.
DANNI: Easy peasy!