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'64-year-old Emma Evans claims her son is innocent of murder. Nobody, including Bluey, believes her - until Emma becomes the victim of a hit and run.

'After seeing and talking to Emma in the hospital, Bluey promises that he will at least review the evidence.

'Against the advice of everyone around him, including the Assistant Commissioner, Bluey starts to dig, coming up with some very interesting new facts, that involve the arresting officer and the chief witness for the prosecution.

'The more digging Bluey does, the more twists he finds, causing upheavals at Russell Street - to the point where Bluey is threatened with suspension by the Assistant Commissioner.

'Bluey won't give in, firmly believing there's a case to answer, but even Bluey finds that things are not always what they seem.'

Source: Synopsis held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection (RMIT).

The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'EMMA EVANS: 64 years old. Homely, hardworking, old before her time, brought on by the lone fight to prove her son Tom innocent of murder. Emma has a helping hand for everyone, young or old. With Emma it's all or nothing, very rarely is it nothing.

'LESLIE STEVENS: 35 years old. Emma's married daughter. Leslie's a lot like her mother, except Leslie's a lot harder and unlike her mother she believes her brother Tom to be guilty. She has no illusions about him.

'TOM EVANS: 30 years old. Emma's son. Tom's been in trouble all his life. No reason for it, he could just never keep his hands off other people's property. He has two faces - one for his mother and the other for the rest of the world.

'SENIOR DETECTIVE BILL HOLDEN: 34 years old. A handsome well-built man. Good at his job, but he has a tendency to lose his cool if crossed. Like all of us, he's human and makes a mistake.

'HELEN TRENT: 30 years old, married to a dull business man. Helen was the witness who saw Tom Evans running out of the garage after the murder. Intelligent, pretty, but emotionally incapable of being able to cope with the simultaneous break-up of a love affair and the threat of blackmail.

'MOGGY MOON: 29 years old. A creep in every sense. Has an ocker accent with a peculiar whine brought on by nerves.

'TERRY BAXTER: 34 year's old. Terry's a house-breaker. No real harm in him. He's just a loser.

'JENNY DAVIS: 28 years old. Hard and brittle. She blames Tom Evans for being the reason that she's turned to stripping for a living.

'SNOOP BENSON: 40 years old. Ferret-like. A petty crim.

'DOCTOR WICKS: 30 years old. Very efficient.

'CUSTOMER (A): Old age pensioner. A real granny type.

'CUSTOMER (B): A father type.

'POLICEMAN: 20's.'