A double fatality puts Jack and Dash at odds, one driven by anger and the other, despair.
While checking out a routine disturbance, Dash and Jack witness a freak double fatality involving two popular young locals. Dash's upset turns to anger when she discovers the car accident was caused by a boy with a crush on one of the victims. Between Dash's fury and the victim's distraught brother, he'll be lucky to walk away with just his crash injuries.
Jack sees a different side to the culprit, who is a country boy like himself and appears genuinely distressed. The only way Jack can deal with this senseless waste of young life is to understand what went wrong. Is this guy really capable of a twisted lover's revenge or was the vehicle somehow responsible? The bereaved families aren't asking questions. They want a head on a stake – an eye for an eye.
With the council election just days away, Chris's campaign manager jumps onto the tragedy as a fine platform for youth issues and government spending. If kids had something better to do, proper entertainment facilities, they wouldn't be hooning around the streets. More than just a publican, Mt Thomas will know that Chris Riley's got heart. But Chris's coverage in The Gazette reeks more of sensation than genuine concern. How can she justify dragging in a victim's mother to score votes? For Chris, there's no time to undo the damage as she faces a voter backlash.
In retracing events, Jack suspects several reasons for the car's loss of control but he's got to play out the hunch before anyone will listen to him. The Boss will never allow him to attempt such a crazy feat. Jack's error is to involve Maggie in a re-enactment without telling her. When the truth comes out, someone's going to end up dead.
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