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Detectives Rachel 'Goldie’ Goldstein (Catherine McClements) and Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) take a break from interviewing their suspect. Over lunch, they rib each other about their various ex-spouses and Goldie suddenly remembers a school event for her son she was supposed to attend. Helen Blakemore (Toni Scanlan) overhears her subsequent tense phone conversation with her ex-husband and offers support.
Curator’s notes
Friels and McClements bring energy and chemistry to their portrayal of Frank and Goldie’s partnership, with its camaraderie and jocularity. Frank and Goldie are presented as cops who are good at their jobs but not so good at their personal lives – something of a cop show archetype. Their mutual struggle with their work-life balance is something over which they bond.
There’s a lot of talk in this episode about exes and who’s sleeping with whom – establishing the police station as a 'blokey’, masculine environment where these things are treated with dry humour. But we also see another side to this for Goldie in her problems with her son. Goldie’s custody issues are one of the serial story strands that are introduced here to revisit in later episodes.
