Searchers Search
After a tense encounter with Tui’s father, Robin Griffin is driving home and finds Tui’s rider-less horse on the road. The community turns out in force to search for her but the questions only multiply. As the search grows, so do fears for her survival. Tui’s father addresses a crowd assembled in the local pub asking anyone who knows anything to come forward, but his threatening words hardly seem to encourage hope. Robin questions an accused paedophile in his house, but the encounter spirals quickly out of control. Desperate, Robin turns to Johnno Mitcham, the girl’s half-brother, for help., As Tui’s disappearance remains unsolved, fear for her survival increases, while her father solicits help, Robin has a run-in with the girl’s half-brother and a perverted local., As Tui’s disappearance remains unsolved, fear for her survival increases. While her father solicits help, Robin has a run-in with the girl’s half-brother and a perverted local., Early afternoon, Bunny slaps a hundred dollar bill down on the bar of the pub in Laketop and offers it to the first man who agrees to have sex with her. Bunny wants sex but on her guru GJ’s orders is limiting her exposure to men to seven minutes in a bid to reduce the risk of emotional entanglement. Robin briefs the officers assigned to the investigation into the disappearance of Tui Mitcham. Against a hostile atmosphere of know-it-all bravado, she lays out the list of possible suspects: family members, the Mitchams, and a local barman with a paedophile record, Wolfgang Zanic. Later at a coffee bar Al Parker opens up and tells Robin he is impressed and moved by the passion she shows for the investigation and agrees to give her two helicopters for an aerial search of the bush.
