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Little Boy Blue Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Apr 23, 201745 mins
In 2007, 11-year-old Rhys Jones is inexplicably shot dead walking home from football practice. When newly-promoted Superintendent Dave 'Ned' Kelly, leading the murder inquiry, discovers that Rhys' older brother Owen was in a gang, he suspects that Rhys was innocently, inadvertently caught up in turf warfare. Meanwhile, teenager Sean Mercer hides a gun and an anonymous caller names Mercer and two fellow gang members as the culprits. However, Ned is unable to gather sufficient evidence to charge them.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
44 mins
As Rhys' family attends his funeral, Mercer's friends Dean Kelly, James Yates, and Nathan Quinn all alibi each other, Yates disposing of anything to incriminate him. A bug on Yates' house leads Dave to another of their circle, Jordan Olssen, who bullies his mother Claire; Claire's statement goes some way to discredit the gang's stories, though Dave still has no clear evidence to make an arrest. A raid on the house of dim teenager Kevin Moody recovers the suspected murder weapon, and Dave gambles on him incriminating the others in exchange for immunity from prosecution, but tests on the gun prove to be inconclusive.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
46 mins
Dave believes that he has a lead when Kevin Moody, encouraged by his sister Sandra, admits to the police that Mercer gave him the gun, but the Crown prosecutor still feels that there is insufficient evidence to proceed. Dave hopes that this will make the culprits more confident about getting away with it and steps up his pursuit. There is a setback when Claire Olssen is bullied by the killer's family and gang into giving a false alibi, so Dave is relieved when Kevin finally agrees to enter witness protection and names Mercer and his associates, thus making arrests possible.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
46 mins
Mercer and his accomplices--Kelly, Olssen, Quinn, and Yates--are brought to trial, where they show no respect for the court, laughing, smirking, and throwing paper planes. Mel is upset when the judge requests that she stops crying lest it influence the jury, but Dave explains that the defendants are receiving no such warnings so that the jury can see their true natures. Nonetheless, she and Steve are troubled that the defending barristers seem to be successfully discrediting the prosecution witnesses. However the testimonies of the brave Claire Olssen and redemption-seeking Kevin, given anonymously on CCTV, plus the defendants' refusal to take the stand, swing the jurors into recording a verdict of guilty with the boys' lying families also being convicted. After the trial Dave takes early retirement but continues to remain friends with Mel and Steve.
