Hunted.AU.2024.S03E10
Hunted.AU.2024.S03E10
Transcript
00:00Mm, they're not bad.
00:04Here comes the hunters.
00:07Shit, they're here.
00:09It is the hunters.
00:10Previously on Hunted...
00:12Kayleigh and Tony!
00:14Rally team Tony and Kayleigh's time on the run reached a dead end.
00:19The time on the run is over!
00:21Woo!
00:23Yay!
00:25Leaving only three fugitive pairs still at large.
00:30Seriously, get a massage on the run.
00:32That is fierce.
00:34Comedian Joe and athlete Akech were staying on the move.
00:38How are you?
00:39How you doing?
00:40Good to see you.
00:41Scrambling between their many contacts.
00:44Do you by any chance know anyone with another place?
00:48But the hunters were catching up on their trail.
00:52OK, y'all need to move. There's a hunter at Leila's door.
00:55OK, let's go.
00:57The fugitives are in Brunswick, I am confident of it.
01:00They've got nowhere to go.
01:02Will they catch them before the fugitives' next move?
01:06Oh, shit.
01:09They've run back inside.
01:10They'll confirm you're out of position.
01:12I'm at the back of the unit.
01:13Take the money and go.
01:14OK, OK, give me the money.
01:16Take the money.
01:28Come catch me.
01:30She's running, she's running.
01:33Akech, stop where you are.
01:36No.
01:37Stop, stop, stop, stop.
01:39Stop.
01:40There she is.
01:42Come on, Akech, run.
01:44Come on.
01:45Stop.
01:46Stop.
01:47Come on.
01:48Come on, run.
01:52Yeah!
01:54Come on.
01:56Stop where you are.
02:01Stop there.
02:02Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
02:05Akech, the time on the run is over.
02:08You've been hunted down.
02:10Yeah!
02:15You beauty!
02:17One more, one more, one more.
02:19Confirm Jo's still unsighted.
02:22No.
02:23Not at this stage.
02:26Roger that.
02:27OK, eyes down then, guys.
02:29Come on, where are you?
02:37They've gone over the balcony.
02:39Roger that.
02:40Delta at the back.
02:41I'm at the rear.
02:42I'm ready.
02:43Eyes on, eyes on.
02:45Come on.
02:54I can hear something.
02:55I can see Jo.
02:56OK, eyes on Jo, eyes on Jo.
02:59There he is.
03:00I can see Jo.
03:01I can see Jo.
03:02Go!
03:03You've been hunted down.
03:04Your time on the run is over.
03:06Yeah!
03:08Yes!
03:10And two of them, they have been hunted down.
03:12Well done.
03:13This is great stuff.
03:15Done.
03:17I've got to ask a question.
03:18Did you go to any comedy shows or do any comedy sketches
03:21while she'd been on the run?
03:22Well, mate, being on this run is pretty much a comedy sketch
03:25for me, so...
03:27So you got a load of new material?
03:29Lots of it.
03:30We couldn't have got to the extraction and be beaten
03:33by a comedian, but congratulations.
03:35Well done for getting so far.
03:37Well done.
03:38Thanks, mate.
03:39Thanks, Paul.
03:40Good run.
03:42OK, Akech, your plan was working very, very effectively
03:46in so much as we knew where you were pretty much all the time,
03:49we just couldn't get in front of you.
03:51Like I always say, you've got to get lucky every day,
03:53we've got to get lucky once.
03:55It was our turn.
03:56Congratulations, Akech.
03:57You've been a very worthy adversary.
04:03Thank you so much.
04:07Bloody good.
04:08Righty-ho.
04:10And here it is.
04:11Ha-ha, we got the cash.
04:13Cash, mate.
04:14We've just captured Joanne Akech.
04:16Obviously, Akech is an athlete, she played AFL football.
04:21She can run fast, we can run faster.
04:23We caught her.
04:26It's a bittersweet moment, but I'm super proud
04:29that we highlighted the strength of our networks
04:32and the way that we did this run is basically
04:35how we live our normal lives.
04:37You know everyone and everyone knows you
04:39and that's just how a community thrives.
04:42Jo, are we still friends?
04:44Man, we're not friends.
04:46We're great friends now.
04:52With less than three days to go until extraction,
04:56the hunters have captured 14 of the 18 fugitives.
05:02We need a clean sweep.
05:04We need every fugitive pair captured.
05:08And reclaimed more than $700,000 of the stolen money.
05:14We have two fugitive pairs still left on the run.
05:17We've frozen their bank accounts.
05:19Let's squeeze them.
05:20We'll flush them out.
05:22Let's chuck everything we've possibly got at them.
05:25No one will get to the extraction point.
05:28Yes, Chief.
05:29Let's get to work.
05:31DEVICE BEEPS
05:36After spending most of the run camping...
05:40Hold my hand.
05:42..married couple Andy and Deb have ventured
05:45into Melbourne's outer suburbs.
05:50I don't think there's anyone home here.
05:52They want to be more centrally located by extraction day.
05:57Well, there was somebody that just pulled into that house,
05:59but how do we...?
06:01Yeah, we could walk up there.
06:06OK.
06:07That's under construction.
06:09To keep off the hunters' radar, Andy and Deb are sticking
06:14with their strategy of asking strangers for help.
06:18Hello, mate. How are you going?
06:20We're fugitives on the run.
06:21We're looking for someone to maybe pitch a tent on some grass or...
06:24But my wife, we can't rent.
06:27No problem. Yeah, that's OK.
06:29Yeah, I don't love being in the suburbs.
06:32Black four-wheel drive just pulled into that house behind us.
06:35There's just so many more people around.
06:37It's just always in the back of your mind, you know,
06:39can I trust this person?
06:40Oh, that stranger just looked at me.
06:42Oh, they're on their phone now after looking at me.
06:45These people are already looking at us.
06:47We want to, you know, find someone's house and stay there,
06:51but then you start knocking on a few doors
06:53and people don't let you in, and then you worry, you know,
06:56are they going to dub us in?
07:01Hello. Hello.
07:02I'm really sorry to bother you.
07:04My name's Andy, this is Deb. We are fugitives on the run.
07:07What are you after, man? Well, we're just wondering...
07:09Sorry, we can leave you alone. Yeah, that's fine.
07:12We're just going to see if there's anywhere we can spend a night
07:14on the grass or something like that, out in your backyard or...
07:17No, that's all right. Thanks anyway. Thanks, mate.
07:20I think just coming close to the end,
07:23I'm definitely more twitchy now than I was earlier.
07:26Right, so we've got two properties there with cars out the front.
07:29Do you want to try one of them?
07:31You know, relying on other people is really difficult.
07:34Hello, mate.
07:36Sorry to bother you. We are fugitives on the run.
07:39We're just looking for somewhere we could put a tent for the night or...
07:44Oh, you are a legend. Really? You are an absolute legend, mate.
07:48Thank you so much.
07:50Shiloh, I'm Andy. Nice to meet you, mate.
07:52Nice to meet you. I'm Deb.
07:54That's such a relief.
07:56Oh, thank you so much.
07:58This is better than your man cave.
08:00Yeah, it is.
08:02Oh, wow.
08:04This is crazy.
08:06Mate, this is amazing. Amazing, Shiloh.
08:08This will more than work.
08:19BELL RINGS
08:23BELL RINGS
08:25With Andy and Deb, still faffle, really, isn't it?
08:28They're so off grid, it's not funny.
08:30So...
08:32Yeah, we need to think well out of the box with these guys.
08:36At HQ, after intensifying their public appeal campaign for Andy and Deb...
08:42Hmm. Seems somewhat legit.
08:44Yeah, that's cool.
08:46Where's Belgrave Heights?
08:48Yeah, Rangers.
08:50..the hunters have received a crucial tip-off,
08:53a screenshot of a chat between a member of the public named Michael
08:58and his in-laws, who live in Belgrave Heights.
09:02Hey, Ben. Yeah?
09:04We've had something juicy come through on the tip-line form.
09:06Ooh. Come have a squiz at this.
09:08It looks pretty credible.
09:10Assistance from the public can go either one or two ways.
09:14You can do a tip-off which puts you right bang on top of the fugitives,
09:17or you can spend your entire day dealing with misinformation
09:20after misinformation.
09:22They uploaded the screenshot of a convo.
09:25We had people from the program Hunted try and get a place to stay
09:29and he didn't know the show or what it was,
09:32so when he heard Fugitive on the run, he said no thanks
09:35and closed the door on them.
09:37It's our job to sift out the factual pieces of data
09:40with all of the guff, as I like to call it.
09:42Give him a call. Bloody earth.
09:44That's where we earn our money, and we're quite good at it, actually.
09:47PHONE RINGS
09:48Here we go.
09:50PHONE RINGS
09:54Hello? Is this Michael?
09:57Yeah. Ben here, Hunter Headquarters.
10:00Michael, how are you today, mate? Yeah, not too bad yourself.
10:03Yeah, not bad. Busiest ever, mate. Yeah, I can imagine.
10:06So, firstly, thank you very, very much for giving us a shout.
10:10We really appreciate it, mate.
10:12But to confirm, I'd love to just go over the sequence of events.
10:16If you wouldn't mind just starting from the very beginning.
10:19Yeah, all good.
10:21So, my in-laws had told us at about 2, 3 o'clock
10:27they had these two people come down the driveway,
10:31the blonde female and the brunette male,
10:35and then my father-in-law pretty much just said,
10:39no, we don't really want a housey sort of thing, so we settled away.
10:43That's weird, isn't it? Just brazen, isn't it,
10:45to turn up someone's house and knock on the door?
10:48But then we found out that they're staying with our neighbours
10:53right across the road.
10:56OK. Do you know who lives there, Michael?
10:59Er, I think it's Shiloh.
11:03Is it Shiloh, do you say? Yeah.
11:06Perfect.
11:08We had absolutely zilch on Andy and Deb since day one in Geelong.
11:12Perfect. Michael, you've been an absolute legend.
11:15This is the closest we've ever been, but we do need to capitalise on it.
11:18We will find them.
11:28So, should we just confirm what our plan here is?
11:32Yeah. Less chaotic?
11:34After lying low at family friend Marion's house,
11:38best friends Romani and Chelsea want to move closer to Melbourne
11:43before extraction day.
11:45Our entire game plan this entire way has just been keep it simple.
11:49But being day 18, we wanted to throw a few curveballs out,
11:53and last night we conjured up...
11:56..the double decoy.
11:58They've come up with a plan they hope will throw the hunters off their scent.
12:03The vision here is I think we've split up.
12:06One of us is in Bendigo, the other one is in Sale.
12:09So then whilst they're wasting all their time looking for us,
12:14we're actually in Melbourne.
12:17Now how's that? Let's do it, hey?
12:19Yeah, let's go. Let's make it happen.
12:25I'm excited. Me too.
12:28So the first part is, because we still have Romani's debit card,
12:32we are going to book a motel for one in Sale,
12:37which will alert the hunters and draw them to Sale.
12:40Good luck. Let's go. Nail it, baby.
12:43All right, see you on the other side.
12:53Hi, how are you going?
12:55I just wanted to book a night of accommodation for one person
12:58for tomorrow night.
13:00Hopefully it'll all be OK.
13:02Romani and Chelsea are unaware
13:05the hunters have blocked their bank cards.
13:08All right, so the credit card number is 48.
13:17It declined.
13:21She can't be too far away.
13:25Yeah, that's really odd.
13:27Thanks for your help anyway.
13:31I think the hunters might have blocked our cards.
13:33I think I might try one more person and we'll see if that works.
13:37Although the bank cards are blocked...
13:40Yeah, I'm just wondering if I can book a night of accommodation
13:43for one person for tomorrow night.
13:46..the hunters will still be alerted
13:48if there are any attempted transactions.
13:52Declined. OK.
13:57Ben? Hello.
14:00We've got bank card activity from Romani.
14:03The card was used at 11.25 and 11.29 at sale.
14:09Right, so that's obviously someone who's tried again.
14:13Maybe a bit of desperation.
14:15I think it's them.
14:17I think so as well. Why would I do it twice?
14:19Yeah, the fact it's happened twice, 11.25 and then 11.29...
14:24If it's a decoy, you do it once.
14:27Ben, that first hit, was that a comfort inn?
14:30A comfort inn? Yeah.
14:32This second one is also an inn as well, a motel.
14:36I think this is legitimate.
14:38We want to book somewhere.
14:44G'day, Ben. G'day, Alpha.
14:46Just checking, guys, you got your driving gloves on?
14:49Always, mate, you know that.
14:51We've just got a live hit on the bank card for Romani.
14:56The fact there's a second attempt makes us more confident
14:59this is potentially Romani with the card.
15:02Please, could you plan to track towards sale?
15:05Yeah, Alpha, copy.
15:07VTO, two hours, 20 minutes, over.
15:17Take your bloody time. Guess what? Guess what?
15:20They've blocked our card.
15:23The card was frozen,
15:25but we're hoping that the declined pings are still going to sale.
15:30You've got this.
15:32So, part two of our decoy taunt extravaganza
15:36is my job, where I go in to a cafe
15:40and hopefully get them to help me out
15:43by posting a social media taunt tomorrow morning.
15:46So, I'm a futurative on the run,
15:49and what I'm wanting to do is create a decoy.
15:52So, I was hoping that you would be able to post
15:55an Instagram story of me at your cafe tomorrow when you're open,
16:00and in return, I'd love to pay forward $300 worth of copies
16:03for people tomorrow, if that works out for you.
16:06We have decided that we're going to put $300 on,
16:09effectively, a tab for this cafe for the first people in tomorrow
16:14when they post this taunt on their Instagram
16:16to get a free coffee on us.
16:19So, that's the $300 for copies tomorrow.
16:22Lovely, thank you. No worries.
16:25Hello! Hello! How's it going?
16:27It literally could not have gone better.
16:30Off to Melbourne we go.
16:32As Romani and Chelsea head into the city...
16:37..married couple Andy and Deb are already in the outer suburbs...
16:43I feel ready for the day.
16:45..spending last night at stranger Shiloh's house.
16:49So, today we had a few ideas
16:51and we're just sort of seeing how far you're willing to travel.
16:54You're amazing.
16:56Thank you so much.
16:59So, we're currently in a very comfortable place.
17:02We've got amazing hosts,
17:04but Andy particularly is feeling really edgy this morning.
17:08Worried they could be tracked by the hunters,
17:11Andy instructs Shiloh to remove the SIM card from his phone
17:16before hitting the road.
17:18Feels good to be on the move.
17:22I don't reckon they would come to your house at all anyway,
17:25but I just thought...
17:26Depends how desperate they are. That's right.
17:28You feel like you shouldn't be waiting for them.
17:30That's what it feels like.
17:31Since going on the run,
17:33they've been mostly winging it by relying on help from strangers.
17:38So, turning right? Yep. Thanks, mate.
17:40But approaching the end of the game,
17:43Andy and Deb have asked Shiloh to drive them 30km
17:48to the more urban suburb of Dingley Village
17:51where their trusted friend Glenn lives.
17:54There is wanted posts out on social media now.
17:58Strangers are essentially danger for us
18:00because we just don't know if we can trust them.
18:03Our whole strategy this whole game
18:05has been to try to find ways to not pop up on the radar.
18:09This is the street.
18:10We won't call contacts.
18:12We will find a way to their house.
18:15OK, no red balloons?
18:17No balloons.
18:20You want to give me a pen? I'll start writing.
18:22Back on day one, Andy and Deb sent a letter to Glenn
18:27setting up their potential visit.
18:29Code names Karen and BJ.
18:31If they're feeling compromised or are being visited by the hunters,
18:34chuck a balloon on your letterbox or your front door.
18:37We've driven past his house. There's no red balloon on it.
18:40So we believe it's completely uncompromised.
18:43To be sure.
18:46They've asked Shiloh to deliver a second message to Glenn.
18:50PHONE RINGS
18:52Hello. Hello.
18:54How are you going?
18:56Stay.
18:57I have a letter from BJ and Karen.
19:01OK. Yep.
19:03Is that something you can help out with?
19:06Yeah, I can do that today.
19:07You can do that? OK.
19:12Success.
19:13Yay! Thank you, Shiloh.
19:16It's coming together.
19:17Thanks, Shiloh.
19:18Before staying with Glenn,
19:20the fugitives have devised a three-stage plan to cover their tracks.
19:26First, Andy and Deb will now have Shiloh drive them to Keysborough,
19:31six kilometres away.
19:33Then they'll use Shiloh's phone to call a taxi,
19:37which will take them another four kilometres to Springvale South,
19:42where they've arranged to be picked up by Glenn,
19:45who will drive them to his house across the road from where they started.
19:51So then we're going to...
19:52Right behind that car, I reckon.
19:53..call the taxi from here.
19:55To call the taxi, Shiloh has to put the SIM card back in his phone.
20:00We can delete the phone call once we've made it.
20:03So this is the pointy end of the game.
20:06I have scheduled your trip.
20:08From now until extraction, we have to just be so careful...
20:13There's your taxi here.
20:15..and overthink everything.
20:18My dad was on the run for half his life.
20:21He did end up getting caught.
20:23Thank you so much.
20:25But I think that we can actually get away with it.
20:28Hopefully.
20:33Oh!
20:42Turn left onto Chapel Road and then left onto Cheltenham Road.
20:47Before saying goodbye to Shiloh in Keysborough,
20:50Andy and Deb used his phone to call a taxi
20:54to take them to Springvale South...
20:56Just left here.
20:58..where they've instructed their friend Glenn to pick them up.
21:02That's it. Thank you.
21:03Thanks very much.
21:04Can you get... Yep.
21:05Can you grab him some money?
21:07Yep, I'll sort you out your money.
21:10It's close to the end.
21:11The ground hunters are looking for us
21:13and members of the public might be dobbing us in.
21:17We just need to be undercover all the time.
21:19We don't want to be out in public.
21:21There's a direct hotline for them to call,
21:23so for us to be out and about in public and seen
21:27is extremely dangerous for us.
21:29Here he is.
21:31Hey, Glenn!
21:33Hello, mate.
21:35How are you, buddy?
21:36Fantastic. Good to see you.
21:37Hello. How are you going?
21:39Thank you so much, mate.
21:41Oh, really appreciate it.
21:43While Andy and Deb travel back to Glenn's house in Dingley Village...
21:49So, was this the property?
21:51Yeah. Right, OK.
21:53..Team Charlie is following a tip-off from this morning.
21:57This is it here?
21:58Yeah.
22:00..hoping to catch them at Shiloh's house in Belgrave Heights.
22:06All right, are we ready?
22:11Are you Shiloh?
22:13Hi, Shiloh. I'm Kim.
22:16Nice to meet you, too, and this is Howie.
22:18How have you guys been?
22:20Um, we've had some visitors overnight.
22:23Have I? Yeah.
22:24Would I be aware of it?
22:25I think so.
22:26Right.
22:27Don't you think, Howie, that that's a good place
22:29for someone to sleep?
22:32I just... I can't help you with that, to be honest.
22:34Really? No.
22:35Oh, come on, you know a little bit more than you're letting on.
22:37I can tell by your smile.
22:38I can't...
22:40Yeah, you can have a look in the shed.
22:41Oh, that'd be good.
22:42This is gorgeous.
22:43It is, isn't it?
22:49Let's just hypothetically say that there was a couple of people
22:52staying here last night that would have left this morning.
22:54Right.
22:55Where do you reckon they would have gone?
22:56Did they discuss any of that with you?
22:58No idea.
22:59I wouldn't even tell them where they came from, to be honest.
23:00Really?
23:06They were very casual.
23:07So what time did they leave this morning?
23:11Oh, it must be half to nine o'clock.
23:17Mm.
23:18And they were on foot?
23:19They didn't get picked up by anyone?
23:21They're not.
23:22I didn't see them get picked up by anyone.
23:29Team Charlie, how are you guys?
23:31OK, so we've just visited that address in relation to...
23:37Andy and Deb.
23:38Yeah, first time I've heard of them, that's all.
23:40Yeah, oh, likewise.
23:41You know what I mean.
23:44Initially, Shiloh was very closed-lipped, but...
23:47A little bit of Kimmy's persuasion, and we had him singing like a canary.
23:50Brilliant.
23:51Which was great.
23:52So they definitely bedded down there.
23:55They left on foot, but he wouldn't give us the exact time that that occurred.
23:58They were very tight-lipped about their plans.
24:00They didn't mention anything about direction of travel.
24:03I'm thinking that they're not going bush any more.
24:05They're going to stay in the urban areas,
24:08which means that they're going to stay relatively close.
24:11Yeah, look, I'm happy for you guys to coordinate with Bravo,
24:14but do a vehicle patrol around the whole area,
24:17you know, see what we can spike, you know.
24:19We'll see two backpackers on foot, easy.
24:21Nice one.
24:22Good plan, guys, I think that's good.
24:24Yeah, good work.
24:25We're close for the first time, at least.
24:27100%.
24:28The hunters are also monitoring Shiloh's phone.
24:31They want to find out where it's been used
24:34and any numbers that have been called.
24:39Ben and Cece?
24:40Yeah.
24:41We've got a list of cell towers that were pinged
24:43by the number connected to Shiloh,
24:45so I'll send you through the info right now.
24:47Great, thank you.
24:48Maybe Shiloh did help and didn't say everything.
24:52Great.
24:53Right, let's get onto that.
24:56It looks as if it was static at his house between 9 and 10.30.
25:05Oh, OK, right.
25:07He's taken them down here.
25:09He's moved them out of that area.
25:11Has he?
25:12Yeah.
25:13So from the cell tower,
25:15Has he?
25:16Yeah.
25:17So from the cell tower at 9, stationary,
25:20then his phone ends up down to the south-west
25:22at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
25:24So that's a drop-off.
25:26Let's see where that is with CCTV.
25:29It does get frustrating.
25:30The more that, I guess,
25:31people that are assisting these fugitives on the run
25:33that are lying to our ground hunters,
25:35but it's actually given us more of an insight
25:37as to where we're on the right track.
25:39He looks like they left at 10.30,
25:41which would explain he wouldn't be sure on when they left.
25:44Next one.
25:45Cheeky little git.
25:46He's taken them down to Keysborough.
25:47Back into the city.
25:48By the look of that.
25:49Hey, Ben?
25:50Yeah?
25:51We've got some call-charge records on Shiloh's device.
25:53I'll send the details through now.
25:58Oh, bingo.
25:59That's a cab.
26:00Yeah.
26:03Andy and Deb have used Shiloh's phone
26:05to call the cab from where Shiloh's dropped them.
26:08Fantastic.
26:09So let's get the cab details.
26:11Let's get the cab details.
26:14So what we're trying to do now is track that cab.
26:16Where did it start?
26:17Where did it end?
26:18And what the destination is for Andy and Deb.
26:21Find me where the cab went.
26:23Yes, Chief.
26:24Yes, Chief.
26:25Yes, Chief.
26:29Thanks, Glenn.
26:31Lifesaver.
26:32Andy and Deb are back at Glenn's house in Dingley Village.
26:37When you reach out to one of your contacts,
26:40it feels risky just because the hunters
26:43might try to make a connection.
26:45So, you know, we just want to make sure we keep moving.
26:49So, all right, we need to come up with a little plan...
26:51Yep, yep.
26:52..as to...
26:54Where we go from here.
26:55Yeah.
26:56Glenn calls his wife, Linda, for advice.
26:59Just got Karen and BJ dropped in.
27:01Have a chat, but you're not home.
27:03Sorry we missed you.
27:05Yeah, I know. Bummer.
27:07We were sort of worried about spending the night here
27:09just cos we don't know what people know.
27:12And we're just wondering if you have any other suggestions
27:15of someone at a short notice
27:17who might consider taking us for a night or something.
27:20Yeah, well, Jenny across the road.
27:23Thank you, Linda.
27:25You're amazing.
27:28I think the hunters must be getting pretty desperate now to find us.
27:31We haven't left a lot of breadcrumbs.
27:34And we don't plan on doing that right up until extraction.
27:38Across the road would be good
27:39cos we could see if anyone was up here, probably.
27:41Yeah.
27:45Andy and Deb would not think we'd piece this together so quick.
27:47No.
27:48It's only cos we assessed Shiloh's handset, we got the extra data.
27:51Having determined the location of Shiloh's phone
27:54when the taxi was called...
27:56I still would like to see CCTV to make sure it's them.
28:00..the hunters are able to source private CCTV
28:04from the suburban area.
28:06I'm just going to put the footage on the big screen.
28:08Awesome.
28:09This is the pick-up. This is the pick-up of the taxi.
28:13Shiloh's driven them to that location.
28:22That's Andy.
28:25That's Andy, that's Deb.
28:27Andy's in yellow high-vis, Deb's in pink.
28:30At least they're still together as well.
28:33This is the first time we've seen Andy and Deb.
28:36This is the first time since day one.
28:39After receiving info from the taxi company,
28:43they now know the fugitives' drop-off point.
28:47They were dropped off in Springvale South.
28:52Thanks, Jane. Let's get on it, team.
28:54Woo-hoo!
28:56Here we go.
28:58Charlie, Bravo.
29:00HQ, Bravo. We're co-located with Charlie. Over.
29:03We now have information about a drop-off point in that taxi,
29:07and this was in Springvale South.
29:10Yeah, Springvale South. It's just here.
29:12It's just here. It's just over here.
29:14Let's go to Springvale.
29:17Yes.
29:19I really want to catch up with you, Deb.
29:21I can't tell you how much.
29:23We'll get them. Don't you worry, Chief.
29:25We will get these little buggers.
29:27I want them in the bag today.
29:29Not yesterday. Not tomorrow.
29:32Today.
29:43Yeah, Charlie, given how well these guys have operated so far,
29:47I doubt they're going to catch a cab to the front of the residence
29:50they're going to stay in.
29:52After CCTV footage revealed fugitives Andy and Deb
29:56were meeting a taxi in Springvale South...
29:59We're just on foot now, just scouring some of the parkland.
30:03I think just continue to scour those streets.
30:06Bravo, Roger. On it.
30:08..HQ has ordered Team Charlie and Team Bravo to the area.
30:15This is the rough vicinity of where they were dropped off.
30:18Yeah.
30:21No people.
30:23Let's go to 711, eh?
30:26Mate, I'm looking for a couple of fugitives on the run around the area.
30:29Can I show you a photo? Let me know if you've seen them this afternoon.
30:34No, haven't seen them.
30:37..while the hunters continue to scour Springvale South...
30:40Can you let me know if you've seen anyone like this today?
30:43Not necessarily. That sticks out in my mind.
30:45Oh, cool. No worries.
30:48..Andy and Deb are four kilometres away in Dingley Village.
30:53OK. Thank you very much.
30:55Thanks, Glenn.
30:57It's been full-on the last couple of days, hasn't it?
30:59Thank you. Thanks very much.
31:00Instead of staying overnight with Glenn,
31:03they've arranged to stay with Glenn's neighbour.
31:06But to avoid being caught on CCTV walking across the road to her house...
31:12Hello, Jenny. Hi, hello.
31:14Very good. Yourself?
31:15..they're meeting at a nearby park.
31:17Thank you so much for taking us.
31:19Hello, Jenny. Nice to meet you. I'm Deb.
31:22We've just reached extreme levels of paranoia.
31:25Definitely nervous about the next few movements.
31:28We're really, again, relying on strangers to help us.
31:32They just want us to get to day 20.
31:35Let's duck down now.
31:40We'll just play it safe.
31:43They've got CCTV cameras in their driveway,
31:46so we're going to go into the garage so we're not seen.
31:53Team, just in regards to Romney and Chelsea,
31:56can we get an update on where we're at with those guys right now?
32:00Alpha is going to check out the two hotels all the way over in Sale.
32:04Back at HQ...
32:06I've put in call-charge records, simf,
32:08and latest in relation to those two hotels.
32:11..the hunters have also been on Romney and Chelsea's trail
32:15since bank activities spiked this morning.
32:18So we've had two failed bank card transactions on Romney's ATM card.
32:23Both were at hotels in Sale.
32:25They can't get to both locations in four minutes,
32:28so I reckon they're ringing into the hotels to make the booking.
32:32The bank kids might be a decoy.
32:34Love it, CC.
32:37So now we think that someone has called the hotels,
32:40cos if you look at geographically where they are,
32:42they're an eight-minute drive apart.
32:44The transactions were four minutes apart.
32:46CC, we've got call-charge records on the two numbers in Sale.
32:51Let's see if they are the same.
32:55It is...
32:57Guess what?
32:58Ben? Yeah?
33:01The phone call to the hotel was done from a payphone near Bendigo.
33:06For both hotels, the same payphone?
33:08Same payphone.
33:11Oi, oi, oi. OK.
33:21G'day, Ben. G'day, Alpha.
33:23We've traced the number that called into the hotels earlier.
33:28It was the same number calling both.
33:30It was a Telstra payphone in Bendigo.
33:33The likelihood of Romney and Chelsea staying together
33:37The likelihood of Romney and Chelsea still being in Bendigo
33:41probably quite low.
33:43It looks like they're trying to chuck us to Bendigo and or Sale,
33:46but obviously going in a direction we're unaware of at this point.
33:49Just stand by where you are. There's no point tracking further east, guys.
33:53Alpha out.
33:56Is everybody feeling like they're still together?
34:01So I am working on the theory that they are together,
34:04that Romney and Chelsea are together. They're thick as thieves.
34:07We think the two phone calls are to decoy,
34:09but in any event, what we really need to do is navigate ourselves
34:12into the route that they would take from Bendigo,
34:14because that bit is unclear.
34:16How do we get ahead of Romney and Chelsea
34:19so we can have them come to our arms and effect the capture?
34:23So where are they going to keep their head down?
34:29Ben decides to take another look
34:31at where he thinks Romney and Chelsea have already been.
34:35So from Wangaratta, they've driven over to Echuca,
34:40into Bendigo, phone calls this morning.
34:44In the hopes this will reveal their direction of travel.
34:48So maybe that is quite a southbound move, isn't it?
34:52So maybe we are looking generally towards Melbourne.
34:55Makes sense.
34:56Right, yeah, that does make sense on a map when you look at it.
35:00Yeah, we should be concentrating on that spine
35:03that goes from Bendigo into the north-west of Melbourne.
35:09Taking a closer look at Melbourne's north-western suburbs...
35:16Hang on to something.
35:19..the cyber team discovers a potential contact.
35:23Meoli. Who are the Meolis?
35:26Is it Rom's side?
35:28Yeah.
35:29We've done some forensic imaging of Romney's phone
35:32and we've found a lot of metadata coming from some of the photos,
35:36things like location information of where the photo was taken
35:39and that's led us straight to this address.
35:43There's, like, a lot of activity that's happened there.
35:46This one here.
35:51CCLP, can I see you guys over here?
35:55We've got Mary and Joe Meoli.
35:58Luke was doing some interrogation of Romney's device
36:01and found some metadata linking to the location
36:05through photos, searches,
36:07and started IDing a number of family members that are close associates.
36:11That's awesome. That's really good news.
36:13It's a good lead, though. It's a good lead.
36:15The Meoli family, I think, are going to be key for that extraction plan
36:19so we'll get across them like a bad rash.
36:22I think we have to throw everything,
36:24even the kitchen sink, at this one for Romney and Chelsea.
36:27So could we deploy someone undercover
36:29to go to the Meoli family with a burner phone?
36:32We can say this is their way of communicating with you now
36:35in the last couple of days on the run.
36:37The plan is to deploy a voice clone on a burner phone.
36:42Something different?
36:43Nothing to lose. It's better than knocking on the door.
36:46This might be more credible if she hears the voice.
36:49We will pretend to be Romney
36:51and we're going to send a message to her associate called Mary
36:54to see whether Mary will unwittingly tell us
36:57where Romney and Chelsea are.
37:00It's me.
37:01I can't call but have access to this number for a little while.
37:04I'll message in a second on here,
37:06but really need to speak with you.
37:08It's pretty urgent.
37:13Sounds a bit slow.
37:15She sounds too happy.
37:16I'll compile a whole bunch of her videos into one.
37:20So AI voice cloning is a tool that we've built.
37:23We're taking words that someone has said,
37:25so, for example, a TikTok.
37:27One of the easiest businesses you can start online is an Etsy store.
37:30And then training our AI on how to speak.
37:33We then use that trained AI to generate words that we want them to say.
37:37Benny? Yeah, mate?
37:38Are we thinking cafe noises in the background?
37:41Yeah.
37:43It's me.
37:44It's me.
37:45I can't call but have access to this number for a little while.
37:48I'll message in a second on here.
37:50The I'll message in a second, that bit sounds great.
37:53As hunters, we always have to think of creative ways to catch fugitives.
37:57This bit cut out, this bit, and then...
38:00From day one, these were the fugitives I thought would be first in the bag.
38:04We are now miles behind, and it's frustrating.
38:06So we are going to use advancements in technology
38:09and new investigative methods,
38:11and that's how we're going to catch Romney and Chelsea.
38:14Hey, it's me.
38:15I can't call but have access to this number for a little while.
38:18I'll message in a second.
38:20Yes.
38:22Ooh!
38:23Lovely.
38:24BANG
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38:42I tend to feel that we're in front of Romney and Chelsea.
38:44I reckon too. Yes.
38:45100%.
38:46Excellent.
38:47Warm and fuzzy. Good work, everyone.
38:48Yeah.
38:49Warm and fuzzy.
38:50Warm and fuzzy.
38:51Hunters think that best friends Romney and Chelsea
38:54are headed to north-west Melbourne
38:56and may reach out to Romney's contact, Mary,
38:59for help before extraction.
39:01Actually gives us out there, whole of Victoria,
39:04a potential place to hone into.
39:06Their plan is for Team Delta to deliver a burner phone to Mary...
39:10Hello. Hey, Ben.
39:12..which the hunters will then message
39:14with the AI clone they made of Romney's voice.
39:19Hey, we've just come to drive past Mary's place.
39:22Yep. There's a couple of cars in the driveway.
39:24It's quite a big front on the house.
39:27So as far as getting up and putting burner phones in and how...
39:30How do we want to play this?
39:32Em does have a scooter, though,
39:34that she could look potentially like a, you know...
39:37A 12-year-old boy scooting.
39:42She's the best.
39:44So, basically, you could go up Buzz,
39:46hopefully get someone, just hand over the package,
39:49minimal conversation, and off you go.
39:51Yeah. All right, OK, fine. Fine, fine, fine.
39:54And at least we know someone's actually taking it from you
39:57and then we'll deliver the message.
39:59Yeah.
40:00One thing I am confident of
40:02is if we deliver a clone voice clip of Romney
40:05to a known associate, they will not expect it.
40:08Good luck, mate.
40:10What we can tease out of them
40:12is the exact location of Romney and Chelsea
40:14and effect a capture today.
40:20Oh, hello. I don't know if I have the right house.
40:22Is there a Mary that lives here? Yeah, I am.
40:24Oh, Mary, um, this is weird,
40:27but a friend of mine knows a girl called Romilly, I think.
40:31Oh, yeah. Yeah? I don't know.
40:34Well, she said to leave you this.
40:36So I don't know what it means, but I'm in the area,
40:40so I was just helping them out.
40:43Oh, sorry, sorry.
40:45That's fine, you can tell her you've given it to me.
40:47All right, thank you. Bye-bye.
40:53Ben, Kelly, just letting you know,
40:56Emma has given Mary the burner phone.
40:59Brilliant.
41:01Thank you very much. Receive. Now she's got it.
41:04We'll get Prime to send that message.
41:07I can't call but have access to this number for a little while.
41:10I'll message in a second.
41:13Ready? Yep, go for it.
41:16Sent.
41:18So as soon as it's read, let us know.
41:20Nice one, mate. All right.
41:24Yeah.
41:29Looks like the phone's been turned off.
41:33She's thrown it in the pool.
41:35Worried that Mary is on to Team Delta...
41:39Where is Bravo at the moment?
41:41Bravo.
41:43Give me two seconds.
41:45They are CBD-centric. They're sort of in the town.
41:48Ben deploys Team Bravo to investigate further.
41:55Hey, how you going?
41:57Good, thanks.
41:59My name's Zach. We're looking for Mary.
42:01Not here. Can we come in?
42:03You can come in. Yep.
42:05Mary has just left,
42:07but her daughter Felicity is still at the house.
42:11Do you know Romany and Chelsea?
42:13I know Romany. Romany is my cousin.
42:15OK. She's your cousin? Yeah.
42:17When was the last time you spoke to her?
42:19Maybe, like, three, four months ago?
42:21OK.
42:23I reckon that she's either been here or she's coming here.
42:27I reckon you know whether she's been here or if she's coming here.
42:30No, I don't know.
42:32I don't stay here often. I stay with my friends most of the time.
42:35Where is she coming?
42:41After leaving Bendigo...
42:45..Romany and Chelsea have been dropped off
42:48at Felicity's friend's house...
42:50Oh, hi. Hi. How you going?
42:52How you going?
42:54..where they're hoping to spend the night.
42:56I'm Chelsea, by the way.
42:58I'm Rom.
43:00So, you are Felicity's cousin?
43:02Yes. Yes.
43:04How's it going? Good.
43:06Oh, it's been a stressful day.
43:08Let me show you the cabin. Yeah, perfect.
43:10You can get comfortable in.
43:12Thank you so much.
43:14This morning, Romany and Chelsea set up a double decoy.
43:18I hope the hunters are heading to sail,
43:22and then tomorrow, when your post goes out from that cafe,
43:26it's going to ping Bendigo.
43:28The hunters think they've split
43:30and are looking for them in both sail and Bendigo,
43:34while they wait to receive extraction details in Melbourne.
43:38I think what we've done this morning's going to get us to extraction.
43:41Yeah.
43:42But the hunters have already uncovered their plan.
43:46Did you know they've gone to Mary's house?
43:50They were... Yeah.
43:52That makes me nervous they're going to come here.
43:55Chelsea and I just learnt
43:57that the hunters have been at Mary's house.
44:00They would be watching Felicity's phone too right now.
44:04The hunters have questioned Felicity.
44:06They might be tracking her phone.
44:08We missed the hunters by about 20 minutes in the first two hours.
44:12We haven't heard anything since until now
44:15about the hunters actually being on to us.
44:17Yeah.
44:18That's really thrown me, to be honest.
44:20I'm just feeling a little bit nervous.
44:22Same.
44:23Oh, I'm nervous. I'm nervous.
44:25Anything could happen.
44:27The hunters are pulling the stops.
44:29They froze our car. They've been to my family's place.
44:31I think we definitely need to get out of here.
44:39We've literally got two days to go.
44:42I think we definitely need to get out of here.
44:44Worried the hunters can track them to Felicity's friend's house,
44:48her husband John is driving Romany and Chelsea a few streets away...
44:53That's his house.
44:55OK.
44:56..to try their luck staying with Stranger J.
45:03Hello.
45:04What are we doing?
45:05How are you going?
45:06You know, you always ask me to do you a favour.
45:08Yeah.
45:09Well, here's a favour.
45:10What's the favour?
45:11Well, they're looking for a place to crash.
45:12Yeah.
45:13And I couldn't think of a more appropriate place
45:14to bring them across here.
45:15Actually?
45:16Yeah, actually.
45:18If you'd take us.
45:19You'd have us.
45:20And if you can keep your trap shut, that's the main thing.
45:22Mate, trap shut.
45:25This is the first time since day one
45:27that we've actually had any information
45:30to say that the hunters are on to us.
45:33And to be honest, I am stressed through the roof and it is scary.
45:38Here we go.
45:40Oh, look at this!
45:42I still think we can do it.
45:44We've just got to be really, really bloody smart from here.
45:47I don't even know how this just happened.
45:49Me neither.
45:51This has been a whirlwind day.
46:03With less than 30 hours until extraction,
46:06the hunters are pulling out all the stops
46:09for their public campaign to flush out Romney and Chelsea.
46:16You're trending well on TikTok, Chief, so that's good.
46:19Oh, that's good.
46:20Never been on TikTok before.
46:21Can I have a look at it? Where is it?
46:23Oh, my God.
46:24Can I have a look at it?
46:25Oh, here we go.
46:28Hi, team.
46:29We're calling on public help in the apprehension
46:31for fugitives Romney and Chelsea.
46:34We need your help.
46:35If you have any information that leads us
46:37to the capture of Romney and Chelsea,
46:39please provide it on the information in the links provided below.
46:43We want you on our team.
46:45Become a hunter.
46:47You're a TikTok star.
46:48You're all over it, Chief.
46:49Wonders will never cease.
46:51Chief's going to be an influencer.
46:52Can't wait for the unit boys to see that.
46:55Insta-face, TikSnap, Chief.
46:57Insta-Chief.
47:02Anyone got fresh rolls?
47:05Thank you so much.
47:07With just 27 hours to extraction,
47:10best friends Romney and Chelsea
47:12check in on their cafe's social media decoys...
47:15What's it called?
47:16Polka Dot Cafe.
47:18...and come across something else.
47:22Hi, team.
47:23I need your assistance.
47:25A fugitive's on the run.
47:26Oh, my God.
47:28You're joking.
47:32You're joking.
47:34You're joking.
47:36An arrogant...
47:37Stop.
47:39I can't cope.
47:41No.
47:42The hunters are getting, like, closer every day.
47:46We need to just remain that unseen, unheard,
47:50until we can get to the end.
48:00Locating extraction point.
48:03Extraction at 2.15pm.
48:05Extraction details have been accessed.
48:08Let's go, let's go.
48:11The stress levels are through the roof.
48:16They're not here.
48:17Where are the fugitives?
48:18There is $103,000 on the line.
48:20I think we can do it.
48:26Chief, Chief, urgent.
48:27I see a black boat.
48:29In I come!
48:30In I come!
48:31In I come!
48:32You've done this.
48:33We are lost.