Page 171 of Murder in the Family

(turning to Bill)

You going to tell me I’m wrong?

BILL SERAFINI

No. But like I said, it’s not that simple—

JJ NORTON

(slowly, as if putting it all together)

So that’s really what’s been going on here: you’ve been usingourinvestigation to solveyours.

You knew we’d work out eventually that Ryder wasn’t who he said he was, and if we were too thick to manage that on our own, you were right there, ready to give us a nudge in the right direction—

ALAN CANNING

(pointing at him)

That’s absolutely it, JJ. Spot on.

Canning taps his keyboard again; more previous FOOTAGE appears on the screen, this time an edited version of Bill putting a photo of ‘Eric Fulton’ on the pinboard.

BILL SERAFINI

Yes it is. This is the man who left Sydney in November 1995, and was injured in a bus bombing in Beirut in August 1997.

Only he wasn’t injured that day.

He was killed.

The man we’ve been chasing – the man who met Rupert Howard in Greece, the man who married Caroline Howard and ended up beaten to death in her garden – that wasn’t Luke Ryder.

It was an imposter.

CUT TO: Team.

HUGO FRASER

(dryly)

Looks like he wasn’t the only one. You’re not exactly who you said you were either, Bill.

BILL SERAFINI

Oh come on—

MITCHELL CLARKE

Now we know where all those cliff-hangers of yours came from. Not hard to drop a bombshell if you’ve a whole arsenal of them primed and ready to go.

LAILA FURNESS

(turns back to Nick, her eyes narrowing)

You didn’t answer my question: didyouknow? You didn’t pick him for this series precisely because he was already halfway there?

Because it strikes me as a pretty damn big coincidence that you alighted on the one ex-cop from the whole of the NYPD who was already on the case—

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