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Redfern Now Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Family
Grace and Wesley haven't had a decent holiday in years. Now they're off on the holiday of a lifetime with their two children, and the taxi is waiting. Just as Grace is about to shut the door, her nephew Tyler calls to say that Grace's sister Lily, is off her medication and raving, and he and his sister Maddi need help. Grace not only has to have her sister committed, and find a temporary home for the children, but has to get it all done in time for the family to make their flight. However one relative after another declines to take both children, and Grace arrives home with Tyler to a very icy reception. She will need to consider fostering Tyler and Maddi longer term, which doesn't go down well with the family. But then Tyler disappears and seems to have taken Maddi with him. Grace eventually finds them at the hospital - astonished to discover they walked ten kilometres to see their mum - something her own spoilt kids would never do. How will she look after these special kids?
Episode 2
Joy Ride
In her mid fifties, Coral's work brings her into contact with victims of abuse, which leads her to the mistaken conclusion that her daughter Rosie's bruised face is the result of domestic violence. So they don't talk. On her way home from the local shops, Coral is knocked down by some teenage boys in a stolen car. One of them, Danny, who hadn't wanted to joyride anyway, stays to call an ambulance, but leaves before it arrives. The police trace the call back to his mobile, but Danny won't grass his mates and is sent to juvenile detention. Released from hospital, Coral begins to have dizzy spells. She reluctantly lets her granddaughter Julie come to stay, but complains that Rosie - Julie's mother - didn't offer to come. All Julie wants is for them to forgive and forget. When the spells get worse, Coral is re-admitted to hospital and Julie agrees to stay on to look after the house. Newly released from detention, Danny arrives with some stolen birdseed as an apology to Coral, but meets Julie instead. Properly smitten, he pretends he's from the pet shop. A romance slowly develops until Coral reveals that Danny was one of the kids who hit her. Julie refuses to see Danny, but he's determined to convince Julie and Coral of his innocence.
Episode 3
Raymond
Raymond and Lorraine have it pretty sweet: a house, four kids, Raymond has been nominated for an award for his services to the community, and he's up for a promotion at work. But then their world collapses when Lorraine is accused of benefit fraud. For the last six years she has claimed she is not in a full-time relationship, and has been claiming family allowance payments - and a full pension. Centrelink has a written statement from someone who has dobbed them in. Lorraine faces serious consequences unless she agrees to repay $60,000. She's devastated and is now desperate to find work. Raymond, however, consumed by the thought that someone has dobbed them in, starts to suspect everyone around him. His obsessive pursuit of the truth starts to destroy everything he's built: his friendships, his reputation, his marriage and job all come crashing down. And too late he realises the truth he was searching for is the very last thing he wants.
Episode 4
Stand Up
A young indigenous boy Joel (or joely) obtains a scholarship to Clifton Grammar. While there he refuses to stand and sing the Australian National anthem due to its disagreement with his aboriginal heritage and views on history. With the help of his dad Joel stands up against the principal of Clifton Grammar and inspires a large amount of aboriginal students to do the same as they stand in support of their aboriginal beliefs and history which the Australian National Anthem disagrees with.
Episode 5
Sweet Spot
Indigo is a professional boxer, so he knows how to land the perfect punch; find the sweet spot. It's why he's good in the ring, and it's why he's just served a six-year sentence for killing a man in a street fight. Back home now, he's trying to reconnect with his wife Allie and his two kids, and things are looking up as the family adjusts to having him back after so long away. But a series of small incidents spark a jealous streak in Indigo: why does this guy Jumpy keep coming round to see Allie? Why does she know how many sugars Jumpy takes in his tea? His cousin Keshen has found him a job on the building site he works on and is trying to control Indigo's temper about Jumpy being on the scene. But the green-eyed monster has got a hold and things spiral out of control. Allie declares finally that she can't take any more and throws him out. Wild with rage, Indigo goes after Jumpy, and Keshen has to step in to stop the fight. Too late, Indigo realises he's broken his parole conditions. Back in gaol Indigo finally realises that he has to take responsibility for his previous misdeeds, as that's the only way he has a real chance of getting his life back on track. A few months later he walks free - but will Allie and the kids be there to meet him?
Episode 6
Pretty Boy Blue
Aaron Davis is a proud Indigenous policeman: proud of the community in which he works, and very proud of his daughter Robyn and his three-year-old granddaughter Donna. It's early morning, and Aaron does his usual boxing training with local kids, and the only thing to mar the day is that he is being taunted by young troublemaker Lenny. Late that day as Aaron is finishing up at the station Lenny is brought in yelling abuse. Lenny's been in a bad fight and Aaron is about to call for a doctor. But he stops when Lenny's taunting pushes him too far, and so when Lenny calls out from the cell in pain, Aaron ignores him. But Lenny's cries suddenly stop and Aaron realises that something is terribly wrong. He rushes to help, but it's too late - Lenny is dead. And so Aaron's nightmare begins. As word of the death spreads, Lenny's brother tries to cause trouble but he and his young friends are held back, talked around by family and community. Lenny's mother, Aunty Mona, asks Aaron whether her boy suffered. Aaron lies and tells her no. But when Lenny's family is shown the cell surveillance tapes, Aaron has to find the courage to go and tell Aunty Mona the truth.