The Code

We built this city

We built this city on rock'n'roll

We built this city

We built this city on rock'n'roll...

Theme music

Can I help you?

Suppose a taxi's not coming to get me.

I heard about the accident with the young kids.

Was that...?

Where are you going? Lindara.

Why you going there?

Just meeting someone.

Who? A friend.

Who?

She's a teacher at the school.

Alex?

Oh, you know her?

Yeah, I know her.

You going anywhere near there? I haven't got any space.

I don't take up that much space.

Hey. Leave a message if you want.

Hey, it's me. I've just landed. Give us a call when you get this.

Hope everything's OK. Bye.

..on rock'n'roll

We built this city...

We built this city on rock'n'roll

We built this city...

Shall we sit?

Sit down, Mr Banks.

Ah!

There is a spot on the wall.

Just below the air conditioner.

Can you see it, Mr Banks?

That is your spot.

Do not look away from it. Do you understand?

No!

I don't understand why I'm here or why I would look at that spot.

There's no conceivable reason for me to look at that spot.

Alright! Alright, alright! I'm looking at it! I'm looking at it!

I told you to look at the spot. That is your reason.

I'm going to ask you some questions.

I want Ned. I want to call Ned.

Er, no, you don't get to make calls. You get to cooperate.

You go to the movies.

I'm sure you understand the benefits of cooperation.

I don't. I don't go to the movies. It's too much for me, the sound.

The surround sound and the screens are too big and...

You have no idea how much trouble you're in, do you?

The little... The little Rain Man act.

You, my young friend, have fucked up in profound way.

I don't know what you're talking about!

Really?

You hacked into a system last night and stole some files

that do not belong to you.

I wanna know why, I wanna know who you're working for

and I wanna know where the files are now.

Those questions will not be changing.

So, have a good ol' think.

Time is no object here.

You need to, er... You need to go home, Glynnis, hmm?

Hey. You alright?

You better close the door.

What's going on?

Marcia Poulson had something of an accident...

Oh, no.

..involving car fumes and a locked garage door.

Yes, it apparently wasn't the first time

that Graeme had fallen prey to the charms of another woman.

Not something we could've known, obviously.

Oh, well, that makes it OK, then. Hysteria is not an option here.

You need to take a breath and collect yourself

because this is gonna hit the gallery within the hour

and you need to have a statement ready.

What am I gonna tell them, Randall?

Some things are not worth the knowing?

Well, there is a certain wisdom there.

I want to know why.

Senate estimates is in five.

Thank you, Glynnis.

Thanks.

You guys missed out on the Tidy Towns awards

so you're concentrating on hospitality instead?

You a smartarse?

Only when I'm mildly nervous.

'Cause it doesn't work out here. No.

I'm Ned Banks.

You posted that video without talking to me.

I know. I know I did. I let that happen. It's not cool.

But half an hour after we posted it someone hacked our site

and now the video's gone.

Mum!

Which one's Sheyna?

And Clarence?

They were together? That depended.

Depended on what?

Whether or not their parents were gonna find out.

Not allowed?

Do you wanna grab the end of this, please?

Just here.

So who do you think took it down? We can't say yet.

But the video showed the kids clipped a truck.

It was transporting cargo to a research company in Canberra.

If I can clean it up again

maybe we can get Clarence to take a look

and work out who is so desperate to make this disappear

and why.

So Clarence's folks have gone up to Queensland

to visit his grandmother, who's sick.

His mum's coming back

but the train won't get in until the day after tomorrow

so he's staying with me in the meantime.

Was this the first time that he's cut himself?

Look, he's...

He's a beautiful kid. He just feels everything.

Hey, Carl. They charged him yet?

We still don't know what really happened, Carl.

We know exactly what happened. My little girl is dead!

Tell that little prick when you're done patching his fuckin' conscience

I wanna talk to him.

Just hear him out.

Hey. I'm Ned. How you doing?

Yeah, that was a stupid question.

I'm sorry to hear about your girl.

Alex said you could fix my phone.

My brother showed me how.

I know it'll be hard

but if you take a look at it it might help you remember something

that'll help prove you weren't to blame.

You reckon?

I took the car. I talked her into wagging school.

I ran into the truck.

No video is gonna change any of that.

G'day, mate.

Lyndon? Coover.

Glad you could join us. How's the wife?

She's good. She's pregnant again.

You know how that happens, don't you?

Your message was scant on details.

Yeah, I just got word they picked up our hacker.

I was a bit distracted. So you got your man.

What do you need me for? Oh, not quite so simple.

It was a level three critical infrastructure breach.

Got everyone from the PM's office down watching.

The PM knows? No, I said the PM's office.

His people are keeping him at a distance for now.

Ian Bradley's all over it like a rash.

Why is DFAT involved?

'Cause it's a cluster fuck of fantastic proportions.

Friday just before dawn

there was an accident out west involving a Physanto truck

and a four-wheel-drive with two kids inside.

The truck was part of a classified transport.

I was about to ask what the cargo was.

Well, there you go - classified. There was an overzealous clean-up.

One of the kids ran and one of the kids was hurt.

Fuck knows what he was thinking,

but the head of security pushed the four-wheel-drive into a gorge

with the kid still inside.

Shit! Exactly.

Help me with the rationale there. Yeah, wish I could.

Shipment arrived in Canberra as planned. He wasn't with it.

He's been offline every since. So I'm here to what?

Find him.

Andy King, head of Physanto security.

I have to declare a conflict here. I know him. He's my mate.

Yeah, buddies for 15 years.

Met on a bilateral policing operation in Europe.

Helped him with some business contacts when he moved.

Held him together when his wife died.

And you want me to play Judas?

Or, another way of looking at it,

your friend's been blown a little off course.

You're the best chance we've got of helping him land safely

before things get completely out of hand.

That's part A. Take a breath. Part B is where it gets tricky.

Don't hurt me, please! (Cries)

Please! No! (Screams)

That video shows up on some flea-bitten online news site,

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have kittens,

then half an hour later this guy,

who's the brother to the press gallery journo,

hacks into Physanto and does a runner with half the documents in the place.

We don't know if he's in Physanto

'cause he's too curious for his own good

or whether he has a plan to sell off what he took.

Has he got a history?

No, he's been quiet since his suspended sentence.

You've been monitoring him? I've had a spotter on him.

I'll organise a meet. You can take over the handling.

I've got a briefing in ten.

You request whatever you need to find Andy.

Cheque book's open on this. And when I find him?

You smooth his feathers. Tell him everything will be sorted.

How long have we got this one for?

Rolling warrants. As long as it takes.

To be honest, I'm not sure anyone's home.

Have you ever been contacted

by anyone looking to buy intellectual property?

Did you speak to anyone about your hack into Physanto?

Are you listening, shithead?