Blue Heelers S05E21

The Living Dead

Episode 5.21 (191)
July 08, 1998
Written by Michaeley O'Brien
Directed by Richard Jasek

PJ is pressuring Maggie to get out of her date with Ben Stewart as they are driving along the road when they notice a car that has run off the road. As they radio for an ambulance, they discover the real cause of the accident — the driver has a bullet through his head. Ben is immediately interested, convinced the unknown gun seller from last week may have been involved. He is particularly interested in finding a bullet from the gun to see if it matches one that was used to murder a police mate of his two years ago. Unfortunately, the only available bullet is in the driver's head.

When Det. Sgt. Peppy Romano arrives from Homicide, Ben starts to act strangely. Obviously these two have a history, but it is one they are unwilling to share with the curious PJ and Maggie. Peppy almost immediately announces his chief suspect as being the new wife of the brain-dead driver, citing his reason as the large life insurance policy held by her husband. But the two representatives of an American cryonics organisation turn up to claim the body, explaining that the man had previously signed over his life insurance to them in return for freezing his body for future rejuvenation. When the body goes missing from the hospital, Peppy is even more convinced that the wife was somehow responsible for the death and PJ is inclined to go along with him, after all, he is a highly experienced Homicide detective.

Maggie, on the other hand, is aware that Ben doesn't trust Peppy and supports his search for another bullet. But it is only when an old hermit, who lives in a humpy at the tip, turns up with a gun that the real story starts to emerge. Ben triumphantly discovers from the serial number that this gun is one of the stolen ones, and prints on the gun lead to a local thug, young Trent Kenny. PJ questions Trent, forcing him to admit that he was at the tip and in the act of buying the gun from a stranger when they were interrupted by the driver. He says the stranger grabbed the gun back from him and fired wildly at the driver, who drove away. Ben is convinced that this is the same gun seller and, what's more, that he holds the key to the gun mystery that has obsessed him for the past two years. PJ and Maggie find themselves helping him track down the stranger, still puzzled by Peppy's role in all this.

Guest Starring: Paul Bishop as Ben Stewart, Karen Davitt as Dr. Zoe Hamilton, Joe Petruzzi as Peppy Romano, Rebecca Macauley as Jill Foster, Daniel Fletcher as Trent Kenny, Fiona Walsh as Nola Budge, Michael Ellenford as Vince Allen, David Watson as Old Horrie, Nancy Black as Claire Janssen, Robert Cooper as Dr Steiner, Justin Marsden as Grant Foster.

(encoded with Handbrake - Blue Heelers - from Complete Sixth Season DVD - the early years)

Duration: approximately 45 minutes
Aspect ratio: 4:3 standard
Audio: linear hi-fi/stereo
Size: 407MB
Video format: MPEG-4 (MP4)

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