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Original classification rating: PG. This clip chosen to be PG

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Buffer (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor), Charge (John Batchelor) and Blake (Matthew Holmes) talk women and toxins over their meal. Their banter is interrupted by the arrival of Federal Agent Martina Royce (Yvonne Strechowski). Meanwhile Nav (Saskia Burmeister) and Leading Seaman Communicator Robert Dixon (Kristian Schmid) track the path of a nearby storm. Later, Buffer approaches XO Kate McGregor (Lisa McCune) in a quiet moment to ask her a personal question about Martina.

Curator’s notes

by Kate Matthews

Sea Patrol builds up its relationship plotlines and a general sense of camaraderie in small moments within the action plot. Ths sequence is an example.

Sea Patrol hit screens nearly 30 years after Australia’s first series set on a navy patrol boat, Patrol Boat (1979). The newer show’s take on navy life is more action driven and reflects contemporary preoccupations around border security and terrorism. However, the image of the navy ‘character’ is more consistent between the two. Here, the Buffer and XO’s discussion about ‘uneducated Popeyes’ and ‘uni types’, echoes Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign (1979), in which that show’s Buffer meets his match in the form of an educated, city-living, feminist journalist played by Jacki Weaver (see Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign, clip two). John Batchelor, appearing here as Charge, also appeared in Patrol Boat.

The same year this episode screened, Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski (credited in Sea Patrol as Yvonne Strechowski) was cast as the female lead in US series Chuck (2007–current).

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