Scrublands: Trust

The four-part season jumps back a decade to unravel a devastating secret. Mandy Bond (Heathcote) thought she’d dealt with her past, but an old name has come back to haunt her: Tom Molloy (Younes).The man who stole $15 million before vanishing, the fiancé she never told Martin about. His body has been found and with it emerge secrets Mandy is desperate to keep hidden. Meanwhile her partner, investigative reporter Martin Scarsden (Arnold), is rocked when his long-time mentor, Max Fuller (Bell),apparently suicides mere hours after asking Martin for help on a big story. Martin picks up where Max left off, his search leading him through the back lanes of Sydney, the homes of the rich and powerful, and headlong into a bloody shoot-out in the depths of the Blue Mountains. The closer Martin gets to answers, the more risks he’ll have to take, as killers-for-hire, corrupt developers and powerful figures stand in between him and the truth. But until Mandy trusts Martin with all the secrets of her past, the truth will elude him, and by the time it comes to light, will it be too late?