
Episode 4
11/1/2026 | 42m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Joan's first Australian Christmas is put on hold after a scuba dive goes horribly wrong.
Joan's first Australian Christmas is put on hold after a scuba dive goes horribly wrong, and Joan and Darby discover the drowning was really a case of sabotage.
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Episode 4
11/1/2026 | 42m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Joan's first Australian Christmas is put on hold after a scuba dive goes horribly wrong, and Joan and Darby discover the drowning was really a case of sabotage.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ Joan: "Ian and Rob.
The Lindwall, 1974."
Lucy: So, this Rob guy was your husband?
Joan: I'm not even Mrs.
Kirkhope.
Not really.
I'm just... I'm just nothing!
What if Ian is someone I never knew?
Jack: Wouldn't want to know.
Joan: You daft bugger.
What were you thinking?
Why do men do that?
-Jack: Do what?
-Joan: Run away from the truth.
Isn't it easier to just be honest?
Officer: Darby.
Like the detective inspector.
Jack: Common name.
Joan: What was it like being a detective?
Jack: Lonely.
Felicity: My sister was a Mrs.
Darby a few wives back.
Joan: How many times has he been married?
Felicity: Two, three?
Two-and-a-half, I suppose.
Rebecca: But who are you?
And how do you even know my mother?
Jack: I wanted to say how much I liked your daughter.
I thought she was lovely.
Joan: Yeah, she's not so sure about you.
♪♪ [ "Canon in D" plays ] ♪♪ Jack: [ Exhales ] Liz: I'm so happy for you, Dad.
Rosemary's awesome.
♪♪ Jack: This isn't gonna work.
-Liz: What?
-[ Diesel whimpers ] ♪♪ Dad.
Dad!
♪♪ ♪♪ [ Fishing reel clicking ] ♪♪ Jack: It's better this way.
♪♪ Liz: What are you doing?
Jack: What I should've done weeks ago.
Liz: No, no, no, no, no.
She's totally in love with you.
Don't... ♪♪ Rosemary: Jack, is something wrong?
Jack: Look, I cannot go through with this.
Rosemary: What?
♪♪ -Joan: Watch out!
-Jack: Ah... Joan: Hello?
Are you okay?
That's it.
Easy, now.
You're gonna be alright.
-Jack: Diesel.
-Joan: Good.
Jack: Diesel, that's it.
That's it.
Sit down, boy.
Let's have a look at you.
You come out of that alright?
Yeah, he's alright.
♪♪ Jack.
Jack Darby.
♪♪ Joan: Joan Kirkhope.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: Lindwall.
Looking for a boat called The Lindwall.
Sounds fancy.
Jack: Plenty of money around here.
Joan: You've never been tempted?
I could see you at the wheel.
-Jack: The helm.
-Joan: Oh, the helm.
You might be better at steering a boat than a car.
Little captain's hat like the Skipper in "Gilligan's Island."
I used to have a thing about The Professor.
Brains over brawn, anytime.
Jack: Yeah, right.
There's no Lindwall here.
Bloke at the office said so.
Joan: Well, someone might remember it.
♪♪ Needle in a sodding haystack, I know.
♪♪ Jack: I don't know why you think it'd still be here after all these years.
Joan: They might have renamed her.
Joan: I reckon we should go straight up north, you know, for your first Aussie Christmas.
Joan: Why do that?
It's so beautiful here.
-Jack: Yeah?
-Joan: Yeah.
♪♪ ♪♪ All: Merry Christmas!
♪♪ Jack: Rowdy bunch.
Not too late to head north.
Joan: Oh, no.
Let's not join the holiday traffic.
It's lovely here.
Nicola: If we're being too noisy, you can -- Joan: Oh, no.
Not at all.
It's Christmas.
It's for celebrating.
Nicola: Glad you said that.
Apparently, these are mandatory.
Joan: Oh.
Thank you.
Jack: Couple of days early, aren't you?
Nicola: Yeah, tell me about it.
Cassidy: Welcome, welcome.
Merry Christmas.
I'm Cassidy.
Joan: I'm Joan, and this is Jack.
Cassidy: For you.
Couple of beveraginos.
-Joan: Beveraginos?
-Nicola: We're from Melbourne.
It's rosé.
Brad: Yeah, not our first, definitely not gonna be our last.
Cassidy: This is Brad.
He's my husband.
Husband.
I'm not sure why I love saying that.
Brad: I love hearing it.
Cassidy: Sorry.
[ Laughs ] Joan: When was your big day?
Cassidy: A week ago.
This is our honeymoon.
Um...Mexico was the plan, but... Jack: Took a wrong turn.
Cassidy: Somebody talked me into diving.
Jack: Why's that?
Brad: Cass needed to get her hours up, so we're here.
Cassidy: Yeah, something like that.
-Brad: Something like that.
-Nicola: Ugh!
Do I need to throw a bucket of cold water over you two?
Brad: Oh, Nicola, always spreading the Christmas joy!
Cassidy: So, um, how long have you two been married?
Joan: Oh, Jack doesn't do marriage...anymore.
He's my toyboy.
Jack: That's me.
Toyboy Jack.
-Nicola: Alrighty.
-Brad: We gotta go.
Cassidy: Um, hey, come and eat with us.
Jack: Oh, we couldn't impose.
Cassidy: Oh, no.
You wouldn't be at all.
come on.
Joan: We'd hate to.
[ Women laughing ] ♪♪ Come on.
Jack: Here comes your toyboy.
♪♪ Pete: Garides barbecue.
How good do these look?
-Joan: What?
-Jack: Barbecued prawns.
Joan: Oh.
You speak Greek now, do you?
Cassidy: Pete is Brad's best man.
Jack: Oh, so the best man goes on the honeymoon, eh?
Lucky boy.
Cassidy: Well, yeah, you know when your boyfriend has a boyfriend and they have to do everything together?
Jack: No, not really.
Brad: Well, he's gonna get crushed on the dive tomorrow, aren't you, big fella?
Jack: And what's "crushed"?
Brad: Oh, who's the better diver.
I mean, there's no competition, but it's not gonna stop him from trying, is it, eh?
Pete: No, please, come on.
There's no chance.
Brad: Oh, here we go.
-Pete: Me, though?
-Brad: Don't start this with me!
Nicola: Neither of you muppets will make it a 100 feet down.
-Joan: 100 feet?
-Cassidy: Yeah.
Most people, meaning me, freak out at 10, so... Nicola: So will Brad.
He's full of... Cassidy: Nic, can you not?
♪♪ [ Instrumental "Silent Night" plays ] ♪♪ I've warned you about my husband.
And your hubby, what was he like?
Joan: Oh, you don't want to know about that.
Cassidy: Oh, go on.
Nicola: She won't stop until you tell her.
Joan: [ Laughs ] Well, he would've loved all this.
He was a big fan of Christmas.
He would play carols over and over just to annoy me.
But I didn't mind.
We were a good fit that way.
Yeah, in every way.
Nicola: Romantically, intellectually.
Cassidy: Imagine being that together as a couple?
One day.
[ Chuckles ] Joan: I suppose you could say we were in love from day one.
Cassidy: Christmas without him must be hard.
Joan: [ Sniffles ] Oh, dear.
I think I've had too many of those beveraginos.
Jack: You're not the only one.
Look.
♪♪ Cassidy: Brad!
That pen is impossible to get off.
Brad: [ Laughs ] I know!
Cassidy: I swear, everything is a competition with them.
[ Sighs ] Hey, leave that to me.
Join us for the dive tomorrow.
Please?
Joan: No, no, no.
I-I don't dive.
Nicola: Well, you can start a new Christmas tradition.
Jack: You have snorkeling gear?
Cassidy: Yeah, snorkeling is amazing.
-Nicola: Yeah.
-Jack: You'd like that.
Joan: Would I?
Jack: Don't have to go underwater.
-Joan: Oh... -Jack: What about it?
Cassidy: Yes, Mr.
Toyboy.
Come on!
[ Laughter ] Joan: Alright.
You're on!
Brad: Yes!
You're coming?
Oh, you're gonna love it!
It's gonna be the best day!
Cassidy: Aah!
We're gonna have the best day.
♪♪ Joan: They're so sweet, aren't they?
Jack: Yep.
Bit over the top, maybe.
Joan: What do you mean "over the top"?
Jack: Well, you know, he was flinging his arms around and then he had his arms around her neck, very nearly strangled her... Joan: He was expressing his feelings.
Unlike some people.
♪♪ Jack: So this is about you missing Ian, is it?
Joan: No, it's about you.
♪♪ ♪♪ [ Clanking ] ♪♪ [ Waves roaring ] ♪♪ Cassidy: You've never loved him.
Nicola: He lies to you all the time.
And you let him.
Cassidy: You're jealous.
Tragically single, Nicola.
Nicola: Cass, you're going there?
Really?
Cassidy: It's true though, isn't it?
Nicola: God, I hate you sometimes.
Cassidy: Yeah, the feeling's completely mutual.
Nicola: [ Scoffs ] ♪♪ Joan: Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to... Cassidy: Joan... It's sisters, it's... It's fine.
Are you alright?
Nicola doesn't like Brad much, does she?
-Look, I know Brad's not perfect.
But he loves me.
Makes up for a lot, you know?
Joan: Mm.
Yeah.
♪♪ ♪♪ Jack: How are the chakras aligning?
Joan: The chakras are all over the sodding place.
[ Sighs ] -Jack: You alright?
-Joan: It's a lot.
First Christmas on your own.
Jack: Yep.
Joan: I never doubted what Ian and I had.
Not once.
But now I've got 250,000 reasons to think it was all a lie.
♪♪ And here I am... other side of the world.
What am I doing?
Jack: Nothing wrong with looking for answers if it helps you move on.
Joan: Am I, though?
Moving on?
Oh, God.
What a sad sack.
Jack: No time for that, not with what you've got us into.
-Joan: What's that?
-Jack: Snorkeling.
Come on.
♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: Morning.
Brad: Oh.
Morning.
Joan: Cassidy and Nicola aren't coming?
Brad: No, they're running a bit late.
Joan: A bit hung over, I bet.
Brad: Yeah, they're a bit dusty.
But they're not as bad as Pete.
He's pulled the pin on today completely.
Joan: Do you think it's a good idea they go diving if they're not feeling well?
Brad: Well, Cass and I are gonna be scuba-diving the wrecks of Fiji next month, so... she needs all the practice she can get.
[ Low, ominous tone plays ] Joan: Whether she likes it or not.
Matt: Come on, Danny, give us a smile.
Danny: Have you even got it turned on?
-Matt: Oh.
-Danny: [ Chuckles ] Matt: It looked much easier in the manual.
Danny: As if you even read it.
Jack: Who does read the manual?
Danny: You're not helping.
Joan: If I get eaten by something... Jack: Don't worry.
Sharks only feed at night.
Joan: Oh, that's a relief.
Jack: Depending on the species.
-Joan: What?
-Jack: Yep.
It's the bad eyesight you've gotta worry about.
You know, seal, wet-suited Englishwoman -- they all look the same.
Joan: [ Sighs ] Stop it!
♪♪ Anthea: Hi, this is Anthea, your skipper.
Welcome aboard.
Be ready to suit up.
We're approaching a beautiful dive spot.
-Woman: Okay, let's do this.
-Man: Yup.
You got it.
Man: Yep, ready to go.
Joan: Say "Happily ever after."
-Cassidy: Oh.
-Brad: Oh.
[ Chuckles ] Both: Happily ever after!
-[ Camera shutter clicks ] -Joan: That's lovely.
I'll text it to you.
-Cassidy: Thank you.
-Brad: Okay.
Alright, Mrs.
Townsend.
Are you ready?
Cassidy: I'm so nervous.
Brad: No.
Hey, hey.
Don't worry about a thing.
You're with a pro.
I'm gonna take care of everything.
-You're safe with me, alright?
-Cassidy: I know.
-Brad: Alright.
Nicola: See you down there.
[ Scuba tank hissing ] ♪♪ Matt: Are you ready, Danny?
Giddy-up.
Danny: And don't worry, the camera's on.
♪♪ Jack: Right.
You ready?
♪♪ Joan: I don't feel like getting wet.
Jack: You really are afraid of sharks, are you?
Joan: I know, it's crazy.
Jack: Nah, it's not crazy.
I mean... we all have our fears, don't we?
♪♪ Joan: Yeah.
-Brad: Let's go, wifey.
-Cassidy: [ Giggles ] Alright.
-Brad: Two, one, go!
-Cassidy: [ Squeals ] ♪♪ [ Scuba tanks hissing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Jack: They must be having a good time down there.
Joan: Why don't you go?
You can go.
Jack: I want you to come with me.
-Joan: What's down there?
-Jack: Fish.
Joan: [ Breathes deeply ] But will you stick with me?
Jack: Of course I will.
-Joan: You promise?
-Jack: Promise.
-Joan: Okay then, come on.
-Jack: Good, come on.
♪♪ Cass!
♪♪ Joan: What?
What's happened?
♪♪ Is she conscious?
-Man: [ Grunts ] -Joan: Get the gear off.
Have you got a kit?
Woman: Yep, I'm onto it.
♪♪ Joan: Let me help.
[ Grunts ] [ Groans ] I'm checking her airway.
Cass, can you hear me?
Jack: Cass, can you hear us?
Woman: Buoyancy-control device activated.
Pushed her straight back to the surface.
Jack: Ring for help.
Joan: She's not breathing.
I'm gonna start CPR.
-Brad: Cass!
-Joan: [ Vocalizing ] Brad: What the hell's going on?!
What happened?!
♪♪ Cass.
♪♪ Jack: What happened down there?
Brad: I just turned away for a second, and she was gone.
Nicola: You left her?!
Brad: She saw something and swam away, okay?
Jack: Let's get back as fast as you can.
♪♪ Nicola: Cass?
♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: All that time without oxygen.
Her chances of survival are not great.
Jack: She's lucky you were there.
♪♪ Joan: Brad's in shock.
♪♪ Nicola: You bastard.
♪♪ What did you do?
♪♪ You did this.
You did this!
-Jack: Nicola.
Come on.
-Joan: Nicola, Nicola.
No, Nicola.
Look, it was an accident.
It was a terrible, terrible accident.
[ Engine turns over ] [ Siren wails ] Jack: If it was an accident.
♪♪ [ "Silent Night" plays ] ♪♪ [ Monitors beeping ] Can I ring someone for you?
Want me to ring your parents?
Nicola: No, no.
Cass would tell me to stop being such a baby.
Jack: Your sister is not as fearless as you, is she, eh?
I mean, you're a pretty good diver, right?
Nicola: Yeah.
Mis-spent 20s in Vietnam.
Tour guide, dive instructor.
But Cass, you know, she wouldn't even stick her head underwater when we were kids.
Jack: And now she's diving wrecks?
Nicola: Because of Brad.
Everything always has to be his way.
Brad: [ Sobbing ] Pete: I'll go see if there's any news on Cass.
Brad: Alright.
♪♪ Joan: Pete's a good friend.
♪♪ Brad: On the boat, with the police, I just... It's just too much.
Nicola: That guy's a sociopath.
Jack: That's a heavy statement.
Nicola: He's broke -- again.
He wanted Cass to ask Mom and Dad to bail out this Tex-Mex franchise he ran into the ground.
Jack: Did she ask them?
Nicola: She still believes in him.
But our parents can't afford to lose their life savings like I did.
Yeah, Brad talked me into investing.
Pete too.
This morning, I begged Cass to tell Brad "no more."
Jack: How'd he take that?
Nicola: Went nuts.
Brad: Before the dive, I was worried about her.
♪♪ She was nervous.
She was fine when I checked on her.
♪♪ And I turned around for like a second, and she was gone.
I thought she had surfaced.
♪♪ What if she never wakes up?
You know, we had this perfect life planned together, all these adventures, a house... ♪♪ ...kids.
Jack: Why would Brad hurt Cassidy?
♪♪ Nicola: Life insurance.
He bragged about it before the wedding.
Huge pay-out if anything ever happened to Cass.
♪♪ Joan: Brad, if something happened down there, something you didn't mean to happen... ♪♪ Brad: What are you trying to say?
Joan: We all want to understand what happened.
Is there something?
Anything?
Jack: You think Brad did this to Cassidy?
Nicola: Of course he did.
Brad: Nicola's relationship with Cass -- it wasn't healthy.
The wedding really seemed to dial up her crazy.
Joan: Why was that?
Brad: Because no one was ever allowed to love her.
No one was ever good enough.
-Joan: Especially not you.
-Brad: [ Scoffs ] This morning, Cass told Nicola that when we got back, they needed some time apart.
Nic lost it.
Joan: It didn't show.
Brad: You've seen Nicola.
She's a sociopath.
♪♪ Jack: Do you think Nicola's capable of this?
Joan: I don't think either of them are.
Jack: Me either.
-Joan: "Me either"?
-Jack: Yep.
Joan: Do you mean "me neither?"
Or, better, "me neither?"
Jack: Either.
Anthea, we were wondering if, um, maybe the problem was with Cass' air supply.
Anthea: The gear she rented from us was triple-checked.
Joan: Making foul play the likely cause.
Jack: Easy, Miss Marple.
We're not there yet.
Anthea: All I know is Brad isn't as experienced a diver as he likes people to think.
-Joan: Meaning?
-Anthea: First rule of diving -- never leave your buddy.
Jack: Yeah, right.
Thanks.
Joan: You don't know of a boat called The Lindwall, do you?
Anthea: Smithy's old dive boat.
Joan: You know it?
Anthea: He names his boats after sporting heroes.
-Joan: Who?
-Anthea: Ray Lindwall.
Of the "Invincibles."
Cricket legend.
He had a Warne, now The Pup.
Joan: Pup?
Jack: Australian captain, Michael Clarke.
Anthea: Wreck of a thing, it is.
-Jack: Where is it now?
-Anthea: Far side of the marina.
-Jack: Good.
-Joan: Thanks.
Jack: You know your cricket.
Anthea: [ Chuckles ] Jack: Not a sodding haystack after all, eh?
Joan: Nope.
♪♪ Jack: Somewhere up here.
♪♪ Reckon that's it?
It's a pretty nice-looking boat.
Joan: That's it!
The Pup!
Ahoy, there!
Smithy, is it?
♪♪ Jack: We got a name.
Joan.
-Joan: I'm fine.
-Jack: Oh, yeah, I can tell.
Joan: What?
What am I supposed to say?
Jack: We got a name.
Joan: Yeah.
Rob Deacon.
Rob Deacon.
Flipping Rob Sodding Deacon.
I don't know who that is, but apparently I was married to him for the last 40 years.
-Jack: Joan, look -- -Joan: Oh, just... [ Sobbing ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cellphone buzzing ] ♪♪ [ Buzzing continues ] Liz: Haven't heard from you since the wedding.
Oh, other than to take delivery of a wrecked Land Cruiser.
Jack: Merry Christmas.
Liz: You alright?
Jack: I got caught up.
Liz: Oh.
Have you thought about calling her?
Jack: I'm the last person Rosie needs to hear from right now.
Liz: Oh, right.
Closure is overrated.
Jack: Think you can run a name for me?
Liz: [ Scoffs ] I see.
Not a father-daughter call on Christmas Eve.
Jack: Come on, Lizzie.
Liz: Detective Inspector.
Jack: Come on, Detective Inspector.
♪♪ Liz: You know how they are about the database.
It's not the Wild West anymore.
Jack: I wouldn't call you if I didn't need it.
♪♪ Liz: I'm listening.
Jack: Rob Deacon.
Can you run that name?
♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: [ Sighs ] [ Laughing ] Graffiti?
How old are you?
♪♪ Ian: Happy Anniversary, my darling.
Joan: [ Gasps ] I thought you'd forgotten!
[ Laughs ] Ian: Me?
[ Chuckles ] Never.
♪♪ Joan: Oh, Ian.
Who were you?
[ Knock on door ] ♪♪ -Jack: You okay?
-Joan: Yeah.
Jack: Fancy talking to the best man, see if he can shed some light?
Joan: Stellar idea.
Pete: Brad hurt Cass?
Come on.
He's hopelessly in love with her.
Joan: We heard about the insurance money.
Pete: Yeah, well, we're into adventure sports.
Brad just wanted Cass looked after if anything happened to him.
Jack: And if something happened to her?
Pete: No way.
Brad thinks he's a player.
Always got some sketchy scheme going, but this?
Not possible.
Joan: Nicola mentioned a franchise that went bust?
Jack: He lost a bit of coin on that, apparently?
Pete: Brad went too big, too fast.
Risk you take bankrolling a mate.
Joan: No hard feelings, then?
Pete: You think I drowned Cass as payback?
That is sick.
Where do you get off saying...like that?
-Jack: Hey!
-Pete: You're a pair of clueless gray nomads sticking their noses in, not helping anyone.
Jack: Hey!
Listen, son.
When you're this lady's age and you've got the curiosity and the enthusiasm that she's got, then maybe you'll earn the title "Gray Nomad."
Until then, just pull your head in.
♪♪ Joan: Her lack of diving experience, the alcohol in her system.
Maybe she just panics and runs out of air?
-[ Diesel barks ] -Jack: Before the others, yet she was the last one in.
Joan: Yeah, and everyone's down there together, and they don't see anything?
Jack: Or somebody did.
Joan: What if Nicola pulled that ripcord thingamy, knowing that the fast ascent might kill Cass and conceal whatever was happening between them?
Jack: You really don't want to believe it's Brad, do you?
Joan: The insurance money?
Bit obvious.
Jack: And one sister kills the other sister because she married a liar?
Joan: Yeah, also a stretch.
Jack: We need to find out what happened between the time Brad left Cass and Nicola found her.
-Danny: Hi, there.
-Joan: Oh, hi.
Danny: That smells good.
Joan: The boys and that fancy camera thingy.
-Jack: GoPro?
-Joan: Yeah.
Maybe there's something in it.
Danny: The police told us they think it was a terrible accident.
Joan: Thank you.
Matt: I don't know how helpful this will be.
We really didn't see anything.
Joan: Anything could be useful to see.
Matt: We haven't looked at any of it yet.
This is the start of the footage.
Jack: Might just fast-forward it a bit then.
♪♪ Just play it from there, will you?
♪♪ Joan: That's Brad and Cassie behind the two of you.
Jack: Pause there.
Joan: Are they fighting?
♪♪ [ Monitors beeping ] Brad.
Any change?
Jack: Can we have a word, mate?
♪♪ Brad: What's all this about?
Jack: This was taken during the dive.
♪♪ Brad: I should get back.
I want to be there if -- when, Cass wakes up.
-Jack: No, you'll stay here.
♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: You knew she was in trouble.
♪♪ Jack: There was something wrong.
She was out of air.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Wasn't the thumbs-up "okay."
She was telling you she needed to surface, she was in trouble.
♪♪ Joan: But you pushed her away.
Brad: She was so out of control, I thought she'd drown us both.
♪♪ I panicked.
♪♪ I should've shared my reg.
♪♪ I could've saved us both.
♪♪ Joan: But you didn't.
Brad: Sometimes, you do things... ♪♪ ...and you realize... ♪♪ Jack: You're not who you thought you were.
♪♪ Joan: I can't believe that Brad would do this to Cass.
Jack: So you think he's telling the truth.
Nothing to do with the insurance.
Joan: I'm hardly an expert in knowing whether men are telling the truth.
Jack: Well, I can't work out how she got into trouble.
Tanks were full of air, regulator was fine.
Joan: Her regulator?
Hey.
Look at this.
Say "Happily ever after."
-Cassidy: Oh.
-Brad: Oh.
[ Chuckles ] -Both: Happily ever after!
-[ Camera shutter clicks ] Joan: Cass' regulator was black before she went into the water.
♪♪ Jack: But chrome when she was underwater.
♪♪ Joan: Why change it at the last minute?
Jack: To screw with someone.
Joan: You think Brad would've sabotaged his and given it to Cass?
Jack: Either way, he abandoned her.
Joan: Who would do that to the woman they love?
To their bride?
Pillock.
♪♪ Jack: This isn't gonna work.
Liz: What?
What are you doing?
Jackson I cannot go through with this.
♪♪ Joan: We should go tell the police.
Jack: I'll leave you to do that.
Joan: Really?
Jack: Yeah.
I'll catch you later.
Joan: But where are you... [ Sighs ] ♪♪ [ Car door closes ] ♪♪ ♪♪ Rosemary: Jack, is something wrong?
Jack: I can't go through with this.
Rosemary: What?
♪♪ Jack: It's not fair on you.
Rosemary: What?
♪♪ ♪♪ [ Indistinct chatting, laughter ] Jack: Rosemary?
♪♪ Rosemary: Jack.
Got your text.
Somewhat out of the blue.
Jack: I didn't want to intrude, you know?
[ "Silent Night" Plays ] Rosemary: What are you doing here, Jack?
Jack: Well, I was in the area and I thought maybe we could have a chat?
♪♪ Rosemary: I got two minutes.
I'll come down.
♪♪ ♪♪ Jack: I want to apologize.
...thing to do, leaving you like that.
Rosemary: What?
Is that it?
Jack: Well, I was -- You know, I was a mess.
I was no use to you.
You deserved better.
And I know I let you down.
Rosemary: Oh, no, you didn't let me down, Jack.
You humiliated me in front of everyone I care about.
Liz: We'll get a drink, we'll talk everything through.
Everything will be fine.
♪♪ Rosemary: I know that you were getting over a heart attack and you felt vulnerable, but why did you have to punish me for seeing that vulnerability?
Because that's what happened, isn't it?
♪♪ Jack: I am sorry.
Truly.
That's what I came here for.
♪♪ Bye, Rosie.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Joan: So, where's he got to?
[ Diesel Whimpers ] Hey, Diesel.
There you are.
[ Ringtone ] Oh!
Hello, darling!
Merry Christmas.
Frida: Merry Christmas, Joan!
Oh, how's paradise treating you?
Joan: Frida, it's wonderful here.
You have to bring the kids.
Rebecca: Hey, kids, come and say hello to Nana.
Frida: Kids!
[ Both giggle ] Both: Hi, Nan!
Joan: How are you?
Guess who I am.
-Charlee: Nana, you're Rudolph!
-Toby: Rudolph.
Joan: Yeah!
Toby: We miss you, Nana.
Rebecca: Yeah, we miss you, Mum.
Joan: I miss you, too.
Rebecca: Kids, I need to speak to Nana.
Say bye-bye.
Toby: Mwah!
-Charlee: Bye, Nana.
-Toby: Bye, Nan.
Rebecca: Mum, I've been worried about you.
Joan: We're having a lovely time here in the sunshine, in December.
Can you imagine?
Rebecca: "We"?
Is that you and Jack?
You're spending Christmas together?
Joan: Yeah, it's no big deal.
Rebecca, I need to tell you something about your father.
Rebecca: Wha... Joan: Something I just found out.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ What are you doing lurking about out here?
Jack: I'm not lurking.
I don't lurk.
Joan: You're definitely lurking.
Where were you tonight?
Jack: I had stuff to do.
Joan: Oh, yes.
Your famously important "stuff."
Hm.
Diesel's sleeping on my bed.
Diesel!
[ Diesel panting ] Jack: Hey, mate.
Joan: He's been fed.
-Jack: Thank you.
-Joan: Have you been fed?
-Jack: Yeah, no, I'm good.
-Joan: Are you sure?
I've got some Christmas dinner leftovers, and we could have a whiskey.
Jack: I'll take a rain check.
Thanks.
Joan: Okay.
You're not in a snit, are you?
Jack: No, I'm not in a snit.
Joan: Okay.
Sleep tight.
-Jack: Goodnight.
-[ Door closes ] Will we get in this way and face there or face the other way?
What do you wanna do?
[ Diesel barks ] We'll turn around.
Alright.
♪♪ Joan: [ Sighs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Monitors beeping ] [ Instrumental "Jingle Bells" plays ] ♪♪ [Cheering, laughter ] ♪♪ Joan: Merry Christmas!
-Officer: Thanks.
-Jack: Thanks, man.
Jack: Not exactly.
Cass' regulator was tampered with, which means she would've run out of air well before you would've expected.
Joan: You mean someone sabotaged it?
Jack: Brad didn't confuse her hand signal.
He ignored her.
But why?
Because he knew she would run out of air?
♪♪ Hold on, mate.
This won't take long.
We wondered how Cass ended up with your regulator.
Brad: Because my reg was top-shelf.
I thought she'd feel more comfortable with it.
Jack: And you gave it to her just before you went in the water.
Brad: Yeah.
She was nervous.
Joan: Who else had access to the gear before the dive?
Brad: Everyone.
It was stowed outside on our balcony.
Jack: You didn't tell the police about the swap?
Why not?
Brad: Hey, my wife almost drowned.
It's not really a detail I thought was important at the time.
I... ♪♪ Wait a second.
You think someone did this to her deliberately?
Joan: Or to you.
How would they know that you were going to lend your regulator to Cassidy?
♪♪ Brad: They wouldn't.
♪♪ Jack: Thanks.
♪♪ Nicola: Okay, well, I've really got to go now.
Okay.
♪♪ Joan: It's understandable you might want to bring Brad down a peg or two.
Nicola: Look, I despise the guy, but Cass loves him.
If I hurt him, I'd be hurting her.
Jack: Yeah, but you did a lot of dough on that franchise.
Nicola: This is ridiculous.
I'm a high-school art teacher.
Why would I -- Jack: Yeah, but you're an expert diver, you had access to the gear, and you've got a bit of a temper.
Nicola: Exactly.
So piss off.
And take your... accusations with you.
[ Bells jingle ] Jack: If Nicola wanted Brad dead, she's the type of girl to just walk up and shoot him point-blank.
Joan: What if nobody was supposed to get hurt?
What if the tampering was just something that an experienced diver would've easily fixed?
Jack: Those boys like a prank.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" beard, anyone?
Pete's a good diver, though.
Joan: That night before the dive, the -- the footsteps that I thought I heard... [ Clanking ] Maybe that was Pete accessing the gear.
Jack: Had been on the turps all night.
Makes sense.
♪♪ Joan: What if Pete's left?
Jack: Car's here.
Surfboards are gone, though.
Joan: They've gone to the beach.
If he's with Brad... Jack: And now Brad suspects Pete.
Joan: Oh.
♪♪ Pete: I dunno, man.
Just not really vibin' it today.
♪♪ Brad: I wouldn't worry about it.
♪♪ Pete: Hey, don't you want to be at the hospital for when Cass wakes up?
You know she's going to, right?
She'll be alright.
♪♪ Brad: Let's get into the water.
♪♪ You can finally show me who's boss.
Come on.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Grunts ] It's all about the one-up...for you, isn't it?
Jack: Here.
♪♪ Eh?!
Eh?!
-Pete: It was only a joke.
-Brad: A joke?!
♪♪ Pete: No one was supposed to get hurt.
Brad: You did this to her!
[ Indistinct shouting ] Jack: Get off him!
Get off him!
What're you doing?!
Get off!
Get out of it!
Get out!
♪♪ Get back!
You've done enough.
♪♪ Joan: Your husband and the best man facing charges.
Not the best news to wake up to.
Jack: Better than not waking up at all.
[ Cellphone ringing ] I'll take this.
[ Ringing continues ] Cassidy: Hey!
Jack: Lizzie?
Liz: Impressed you had the stones.
Jack: You've been talking to Rosemary.
Liz: Mm-hmm.
How was it?
Jack: She was thrilled to see me.
Liz: [ Chuckles softly ] So, Rob Deacon.
Colorful guy.
Remind me again how you know him?
Jack: How colorful are we talking?
Liz: Open-investigation colorful.
Jack: Really?
Liz: So, where do you wanna start?
Jack: Beginning.
♪♪ Joan: Ah!
[ Chuckles ] [ Fishing reel clicking ] You thought I'd be rubbish, didn't you?
♪♪ Such a beautiful spot.
♪♪ I just love the skies here.
Huge skies.
[ Birds chirping, water whooshing softly ] Jack: I rang my daughter, Liz.
Joan: Liz is your daughter!
[ Chuckles lightly ] I thought she was one of your floozies.
Jack: She's a detective.
Joan: Oh.
Jack: I asked her about Ian -- Rob Deacon.
Joan: Yeah?
Jack: On the off chance that he had a record.
Joan: Right.
And what did you find?
A parking in a loading zone?
♪♪ What?
Jack: He's wanted for murder.
♪♪ Joan: [ Softly gasps for breath ] [ Breathes heavily ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪
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