Safe House
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2012
Penned by prolific scriptwriter John Banas (Siege), this feature-length TV movie is loosely inspired by true events. In 1980s Auckland, solo mum Carole Taylor (Morgana O'Reilly) extracts herself from a fling with criminal Tony Michaels (a creepy Erroll Shand). A dogmatic detective (Peter Elliott) eyes Taylor as his star witness in putting the elusive Michaels away for murder. Taylor and and her kids are smuggled into a "safe house". Guarded by cynical, sexist officers (including Stickmen's Scott Wills), Taylor resists becoming the bait in the detective's game. Safe House is directed by John Laing (Beyond Reasonable Doubt).
Witness protection, It's a bloody joke! It'll be all over the news now.– Carole (Morgana O'Reilly) rips strips off her police protection, after a gun goes off
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