The Code

Run! Run!

Run! Run!

Why didn't you tell Dad they stole our car?

They didn't steal it. They just borrowed it without permission.

They'll turn up soon, Eddie.

I love it. You're the best spider drawer I know.

Lisa, what colour do you want, darling?

Let's see.

I want the colour, um, red.

Good choice.

..overnight lows of zero in parts of the city and the Ranges.

And the cold snap looks set to hang around well into next week.

Spare a thought for the poor Prime Minister

sweating it out at the Asia Pacific Delegation.

Word has it...

You're driving, er, quite aggressively.

Yeah, well, it's probably 'cause

I'm gonna be aggressively late to work again.

If I don't get a story soon,

I'll be aggressively demoted out the door.

What are you doing?

There's a leaf in there. It's making a very... Like a pht, pht, pht, pht!

It's really, I dunno, disconcerting.

Well, how do you like head-on collisions?

They're not too disconcerting for you?

That's sarcasm. Yep, sorry.

What are you doing? This is Callum. Work's right at Callum.

Yeah, well, just this once you're gonna have to be late.

Right, don't get out of the car. Don't talk to anyone.

Just stay in the car.

Don't get out of the car. Stay in the car.

You're making the same point twice.

Not ideal, in your line of work, I'd have thought.

Stay in the car. One more for good luck.

Glynnis? Glynnis.

Figure out what you can on vivisection.

I know it's unethical but I'll make an exception

for the fuck knuckle who's writing the PM's Twitter stream.

Hold on, that'd be one of your Einsteins, wouldn't it, Soph?

Afraid not. He's still very keen to pen them himself.

5:56. We'll do this on the run.

Hm.

Kids Off The Couch, it's a what?

It's an after-school health initiative.

The PM is obsessed with healthy small people.

Capital works announcement? Regional roads.

Ah, the pointy end of government today.

And there's talk of some journalists

being detained for questioning in Pyongyang.

Anyone we know?

Three Americans, two Brits, one Aussie,

but she's been living in the UK for 10 years.

Hardly belongs to us anymore. Who's the lucky spokesperson?

Minister McMahon.

Then you write his answers out. You have to write his answers out.

He's got the IQ of a numbat.

I wrote them out. You did?

Can I just say, you've been spectacularly trained.

Shall we?

Oh, Mr Banks, your special friend.

They don't revoke your gallery pass

when you only show up three times a year?

The limit for membership is two, actually.

Er, Keats, I need you.

Yeah, I'll be right there after the briefing. Er, now.

Does the Prime Minister know about this?

No.

No, and the thinking is

it'd be best to keep him at arm's length with this until, um...

..until we know how the dust is gonna settle.

Arm's length? You wanna talk me through 'arm's length'?

Everything will go through me.

Your job's to protect the PM,

so for him to be able to say, 'Hand on heart, I didn't know,'

I think is the best possible position at the moment.

So we need to, um... need to give the reptiles in the gallery

something to chew on instead.

That needs to go out today.

Christ, Ian. I don't know. It's not a conversation, Randall.

You're the javelin catcher.

You feel squeamish about it, feel free to take the hit yourself.

Dr Enid Shore.

Enid Shore. Enid Shore.

En... Sure thing, Enid.

To be sure, Enid.

Minister, Peter Lawson, National News Australia.

What can you tell us about the Australian woman?

What's she been accused of?

Well, as I understand it, there are always grave concerns

when it comes to... when it comes to places like this.

Er, perhaps I could add a little more detail.

I've just received a DFAT update

the minister hasn't had the benefit of reading.

The Australian journalist's name is Sarah Caville.

The North Korean Central News Agency just released a statement

confirming the detentions.

Discussions are in progress

to set up non-resident countries to handle the situation

and we're confident the matter will be resolved quickly.

That's what they said about Tehran's Black Sunday, wasn't it?

I know she's one of your colleagues

but let's try not to get ahead of the curve.

Will we get a statement from the Foreign Minister? Yes, most likely.

Can you tell us what the Australian government is doing

to secure the journalists release?

Put the box down on the ground in front of you!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Put the box down in front of you!

It's OK. Put the box down now.

Officer, this is my brother. It's OK...

It's just a misunderstanding. Everything's gonna be fine.

Jesse, just gonna have to put the box down, mate, OK?

No! I don't wanna put my hands on my head!

I know. OK, they'll stop shouting at you if you put it on the ground.

Just please do it, Jesse. Come on, mate.

Put the box down now. That's it. Pop it on the ground.

Thank you, mate. Come on. Step away from the box.

Sir, do not touch the box!

It's just pills in the box.

You're angry, aren't you? I told you to stay in the car.

Didn't I say that, 'Stay in the car'?

Yeah.

I'm not angry.

So... Why did you decide to send your medication back?

I don't like it. Well, talk to Dr Shore again.

Haven't we been through this 100 times?

You can't just decide to stop taking it.

Yeah.

Are you finished or do you need to back inside?

'Cause I'm 67 minutes late for work.

Wow. You look awful.

Yeah. Thank you.

I'm afraid I can't return the compliment.

We need a, er, press release with a distribution list of one.

Randall, this is Graeme.

Have you taken to stating the obvious or is this just a one-off? Why?

I've neither the time nor energy

to run you through the plumbing on this one

and while Poulson is a thoroughly lovely bloke,

albeit with a terrible case of halitosis,

everyone knows that the only reason he got a seat at the big table

is 'cause he supported the PM on the Clean Energy Bill.

Are you trying to make me feel better about knifing him

or yourself?

Sophie, I thought we were done with the hand-holding.

What's the timeframe on it? Now.

It's a shame you had to run off. Things were getting interesting.

If you're here to gloat, I'm gonna change to whisky.

Two whiskies, please.

The more things change, hey? You know Jesse has a condition.

Really? Selfish, manipulative pain-in-the-arse-itis

is a condition now?

Haven't we had this argument already? Oh, only about five or six times.

But I think the last time he'd just flushed my keys down your toilet.

Oh, yeah. And you were assuring me that he was perfectly well.

He was just a prick.

Needs to go out fast, it obviously needs to be unsourced

and if my name ever gets a mention I will personally hunt you down...

Take my eyes out with a fork.

So why do I get lucky?

Because the editorial standards at Password are so low

I can rest assured it's not gonna get snarled up in red tape.

Missy?

Early start in the morning, Miss. Might be time for bed.

Hey. Hey.

What?

What's going on?

What is it?

Eh?

Oh, Miss! You bought a bra?

Where'd you get it? Online.

Paid for with what?

I... I asked Dad if I could use his credit card.

Did he know what you were buying with it?

God, Mum! Did he?

Why do you have to make everything so complicated?

Oh, shit.

Miss?

Who's there?

Who's there?

OK, let's get you in the kitchen.

Miss, start up the generator. Gonna need some light in here.

Clarence... Clarence, where are you hurt?

Is it here?

Hey? Hmm? What about here?

Christ. What happened to you?

Clarence, you have to tell me where you're hurt.

It's... It's not my blood.

Miss, go call Dad, eh?

Go!

Clarence, where's Sheyna?

I... I dunno.

Clarence...

..is it her blood?

Clarence, where is she?

Clarence?

I dunno.

What do you mean you don't know? I can't remember!

'The question is whether the PM is going to let the Kims

use five human carrots to get Washington to come to tea -

new para - or whether they'll be