Danni and Church are headed back to the factory in Church’s WRX .

Danni: Got to go to the bank at lunchtime. Machine thingy ate my card, still haven’t issued me with a new one. Oh! Plus I’ve got to get something for Angie. It’s her birthday on Friday.
Pete: (Flicks on his indicator and turns left) That’s no good.
Danni: What do you mean?
Pete: I mean it’s not good.
Danni: It’s not good Angie’s having a birthday?
Pete: What? Oh! Sorry, I thought you said something else.
Danni: You alright?
Pete: Yeah, yeah fine. Are you?
Danni: Yeah, yeah, I’m fine.
Pete: Good!
Danni: Good!
Pete: Bit tired, otherwise. Bloody dog next door kept barking all night, kept me awake. (Sighs) Should buy one of those collars, you know every time it barks it gets a zap.
Danni: We’re going to be Ok!
Pete: Yeah! (Turns into the factory)

Angie enters on the scene and she and Danni are discussing the tribunal hearing.

Angie: You did really well at the tribunal. It was a good result.
Danni: Thanks, Ange.
Angie: It was really good.
Danni: Thanks, Yeah ah! Have you read any of this stuff?
Angie: Hey?
Danni: `The Don’! He’s connected, seriously connected, Pete?
Pete: Hmm!

Mac enters the room carrying a whole load of files and folders, which she’d picked up from HQ.

Mac: More bedside reading from drug squad.
Pete: Yeah! Give them to me. (Mac goes to place the reading material down on the desk and winds up dropping it everywhere all over the floor). Just put ‘em anywhere.
Angie: Are they spring cleaning or something?
Mac: No! `The Don’s’ been on their hit list for quite some time.
Pete: Can we not call him `The Don’. Donald Tadesco is a major drug importer, all right! I doubt he’s ever wielded-the-willow in his life.
Mac: Wielded-the-willow?
Pete: Yeah cricket! Gentleman’s game.
Danni: Yeah! Well according to these files, `The Don’s’ got a great batting average.
Pete: Tadesco, OK!
Mac: Call him what you like. This guy is moving heroine via Thailand…(Angie takes one of the files and upon opening it spots a photo taken of her sister inside along with a report. She then closes the file and takes it over to her desk)…And we have got names and faces of potential couriers. (Angie removes the photo along with the information on her sister from the file and places it in another separate file without the others knowledge)
Mac: (Looking around for the file) At least I thought we did. Reg want’s to target every name and face on the list… Where did I put it?
Angie: (Holding up the file containing all the information on names and faces of the Dons’ potential couriers, except for the information she removed pertaining to her sister). This it?
Mac: Uha! Thank you, so if we can handle one of these couriers, they might hand us over Tadesco. Come through, Pete. I’ll take you through this.

MacKenzie is visiting at head quarters she ahs just finished in a meeting with Reg Masters. She is heading along the foyer just outside Reg Masters office when she bumps into Det. Nick Jardine from homicide.

Mac: Oh sorry! Detective.
Nich: In a hurry?
Mac: Yeah! No!… Actually I think I’m just having one of those days.
Nick: Oh! Anything I can do to help?
Mac: No! I’m in debt to you as it is. (They both step into the elevator)
Nick: Well in that case you should let me buy you a drink sometime, probably not first thing in the morning.
Mac: (Laughs) That’d be great.
Nick: What about tonight?
Mac: Tonight! Lets not put a date on it. I’ll call you. Are you going down.
(It is at that point Jardine realizes he’s not meant to be going down in the lift and steps out before the door closes).

Later Angie is sitting down having lunch with Marty Engle.

Marty: No! Alright, no way, nolus-bolus.
Angie: Oh! Come on Marty you’ve got to.
Marty: You’re not listening to me alright. I said no trucking way.
Angie: If anyone can get me in there it’s you.
Marty: Tadesco is large scale. I don’t make that type of enemy.
Angie: He’ll never know you’re the enemy, alright! Like I said, `All you have to do is get me in there and I’ll do the rest’.
Marty: I’m telling ‘ya. You should stay right out of there.
There’s a long pause
Angie: I’ll make sure you get paid really well.
Marty: No! Alright, N-O!
Angie: Marty, I’m letting you think you’ve got a choice here.
Marty: Then I guess this is your bill then.

Later back at the factory Angie catches up with Mac regarding the case.

Mac: I’m sorry, Ang but I’ve already ear marked Pete for this one.
Angie: I know that, Mac, but I’ve got an in.
Mac: Well maybe you should take to him about it. He might need your help.
Angie: No! I can’t play it that way it’s complicated. I need to work this one solo.
Mac: Why? What’s your angle?
Angie: Try Thorpe, Tadesco’s Leutenant, he goes back with Marty.
Mac: What’s you cover.
Angie: I’ve got a couple of options but I haven’t thought it through yet, Mac.
Mac: Ok! Come in talk me through it.

Angie later arrives at the ten-pin-bowling place with Marty, who introduces her to Troy Thorpe and they start chatting and wind up arranging to meet up at a later stage. Meanwhile Church does a bit of nosing around on the Murray case.

Church is parked outside Murray’s place, near where he was killed when an Officer approaches him.

Officer: I don’t know why you want this. Murray walked in front of a car. There’s no case.
Pete: Yeah! Well I’m probably just nuts let’s face it.
Officer: You owe me, again.
Pete: Slabs in the mail.
Officer: You didn’t get it from me. (Tears off a sheet of paper handing Pete a speeding fine).
Pete: Yeah! What would this be?
Officer: Just to be on the safe side, besides you were speeding. (Gives Pete a big cheesy grin and walks off).

Marty and Angie arrive back at the ten-pin-bowling alley together to meet up with Thorpe.

Marty: You met him, you put the offer on the table, you should just leave it at that.
Angie: Are you trying to tell me how to do my job?
Marty: No! No more than you tell me how to do mine.
Angie: Marty! If you want to help.
Marty: Oh no, no! Not without you, sweetie.
Thorpe: You guys on a date or what?
Marty: Yeah, yeah, yeah! I guess you could call it that.
Angie: I bowl 260 consistently. (Thorpe goes and bowles, taking out a strike, before making his way back over to where Angie and Marty are standing) If I can’t beat you I’ll quite for good.
Thorpe: Get yourself a ball.
Angie: See you later, Marty:

Later Angie and Thorpe arrive back at his place.

Thorpe: 260 my ass, huh!
Angie: Oh! Come on I gave you a fright in the last game.
Thorpe: What?
Angie: I had you running scared.
Thorpe: Oh in your dreams! Make yourself comfortable.
Angie: Thanks! Oh I can’t stay long I’ve got to be up early in the morning.
Thorpe: Oh relax will you! You’ve got the world’s easiest job.
Angie: Oh!
Thorpe: Oh how hard can it be? Hum! You sit there watching people come in, you check your list, you conduct the odd… (Makes a popping noise, while pretending to fire a cracker) Strip search.
Angie: Yeah, yeah! The glamorous stuff!
Thorpe: So how long have you been in the game?
Angie: Ah! Transferred here about twelve months ago.
Thorpe: Where from?
Angie: Brisbane.
Thorpe: Ah, Brisvagus! Hey! You’d know my friend, Amber. (Angie gives him a baffled look) Amber Gleeson.
Angie: (Shakes her head) No! I don’t know anyone by that name.
Thorpe: You sure?
Angie: Hmm!
Thorpe: Neither do I (winks and makes a clicking sound) Just checking.
Angie: Well I’m glad to see you trust me.
Thorpe: Well I’m sure the feeling’s mutual. Here! (Hands her a piece of paper with a list of names on it) Any of these people under surveillance I want to know about it.
Angie: What’s it worth?
Thorpe: Well let’s just say the first on is a freebie.
Angie: I don’t do freebies.
Thorpe: If you get it right. It’ll be more than worth you while.
Angie: It’s not worth my job or a prison term.
Thorpe: Five hundred bucks.
Angie: A Thousand!
Thorpe: Ooh! That’s an expensive test run.
Angie: Ooh! Well it’ll be worth it.
Thorpe: Alright! A grade it is. (Angie nods) You’ve got a lot of front. You’re lucky I like that. (Passes her a drink) Nightcap?
Angie: Thanks!
Thorpe: Cheers! (They both hold up their glasses before guzzling them down.
Thorpe then goes to walk out of the kitchen when Angie suddenly catches sight of a photo of her sister, Sam up on Thorpe’s wall).
You OK?
Angie: Yeah! She’s a pretty girl. (Referring to the photo)
Thorpe: Yeah! She can bowl to. You go to love a girl who can bowl.

Later back at the factory Stone, Mac and Angie are all gathered around for the briefing. Stone is sitting on the top step reading a newspaper.

Angie: That’s it, only one of the names showed up on the customs security system.
Mac: Great work! Oh, when is the next time you’re going to meet?
Angie: Ah couple of hours!
Mac: At his house?
Angie: Ah! Not sure he’s going to give me a call.
Mac: Ah Oscar! Would you be available for some bug work this afternoon?
Oscar: I can cancel a few things.

Angie goes back for another meeting at the bowls with Thorpe, dragging a rather reluctant Marty Engle along with her, while Stone goes and bugs Thorpe’s place, when he inadvertently comes across a photo of Angie’s sister up on his wall.

Meanwhile, Church does some investigating of his own into the John Murray hit and run accident, uncovering what appeared to be a homicide when a witness tells him how he saw him being pushed.

Later at the pub, Angie is with a nervous and rather apprehensive Marty Engle.

Angie: Mum, have you heard from Sam?…Ok! Well if she calls you. You get her to ring me, OK!… Right! Now I’ve got to go cause I’m running low on battery… Yeah! I love you to. (Just at that point the battery goes dead). Phone’s dead!
Marty: We’re dead, any day now.
Angie: Marty, you are a ray of sunshine.
Marty: You know, you could be anything you want and you do this.
Angie: I’m going to take that as a compliment.
Marty: Yeah! Take it how you want it but I’m bailing, Ang. I’ve had enough.
Angie: (Grabs hold of him by his jacket sleeve) Marty, you listen to me. We’re in there right. We’ll nail Thorpe and maybe, just maybe Thorpe will give us Tadesco. I don’t know but if you Start freaking out you’re going to get us all killed, you understand!
Marty: ANG! Take a breath, alright! (Angie turns away). What’s going on! WHAT’S going on?
Angie: Nothing!
Marty: Ang, I’m risking my life here, alright. Now tell me what’s going on!
Angie: It’s my sister.

Later back at the factory.

Angie: Piper! Samantha Piper…Australian passport. .. She’s holidaying up there somewhere…I’m not exactly sure where…Yeah, I realize that but…(reaches across her desk and starts rustling through her draws hoping to find the file on her sister) But I thought the embassy could check.. Alright! Well, umm! You could contact me… Thanks. (Continues searching for the file when Stone enters)

Oscar: Are you looking for this? (He approaches Angie carrying the file on Angie’s sister in his hands and takes a seat beside her) It’s funny isn’t it? Some of Tadesco’s suspected couriers. They look like normal, everyday people.
Angie: Oscar...
Oscar: I don’t understand it myself and I sure don’t understand why you’re working this case when your own sisters involved.
Angie: (Stone sits shaking his head in disbelief) You know my sister right! You were there. Oscar you saw what I went through with her.
Oscar: She definitely wasn’t on Thorpe’s list?
Angie: No! No, which means she’s out of the picture at least as far as this case is concerned.
Oscar: Well! All the more reason you should have come clean to Mac. What about this? (Holds up the photo of Angie’s sister).
Angie: Can we just keep this between you and me? (Oscar gives her a disapproving look) Please! Oscar.

Angie arrives back at work early the next morning to walk in and fine Stone spilling the beans to Mac about her sisters involvement in the case.

Oscar:…No I don’t! I think she should stay with the case. I would be too dangerous to pull her out now.
Mac: Leave it with me. I’ll handle it. (Angie enters) Angie can I talk to you please? (Angie turns to Oscar giving him a dirty look as Stone turns to spot her standing in the door way. The pair walk past each other. Their heads are lowered as neither one dares to give eye-contact).

Mac: (Slams the door behind Stone as he exit’s the room) Is there any reason why I shouldn’t suspend you?
Danni: Oscar, need your signature.
Oscar: What is it?
Danni: It’s a card for Angie. It’s her birthday on Friday.

Angie: I’m really sorry…
Mac: I’m not interested. You lied to me.
Angie: I know! I didn’t give you the whole picture, alright! But I was going to tell you, absolutely everything.
Mac: Oh really! And when were you going to do that? What, next year, the year after?
Angie: I just needed to know my sister’s not involved and she’s not..
Mac: Not as far as you know.
Angie: She’s not, Mac, believe me but I couldn’t sit back here and do nothing.
Mac: Well you’re just lucky I heard via Oscar.
Angie: (Glances back, peering out the window at Stone before turning back to face Mac) Yeah! He’s a gem.
Mac: And I wish that you trusted me enough to come to me in the first place. I can’t pull you out. I don’t want to jeopardize the operation more then you already have.
Angie: I won’t mess it up, Mac, I promise.
Mac: Make sure you don’t and if there is one more thing out of place on this. You come to me immediately, agreed!
Angie: Agreed!

Meanwhile Stone and Danni are sitting just outside Mac’s office. Stone is writing a note for Angie on her birthday card, his other hand is covering his mouth.

Danni: Hey! Do you know how we always get flowers and Chocolates (Stone nods). Let’s get something different this year.

Mac: (To Angie) Go! Angie: (Turns and exits running into Stone just outside .Mac’s office) Thanks! Oscar: I had no choice. Angie: Just know this, Oscar. One day when you least expect it. I’ll be there, just for you. (Angie’s phone rings) Hallo! Yeah sure, I’ll be right there.

Danni: What was that about?
Oscar: Why don’t we get her a lot of flowers…And chocolates as well.

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