Safe House

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2012

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

That bastard's pissed on my patch before. Find him.

– Detective Inspector Hunter (Peter Elliott) has history with criminal Tony Michaels (Erroll Shand)

It's okay. We'll lock the monster in.

– Detective Morrissey (Dan Musgrove) tries to reassure Carole's son Paul (Flynn Allan)

Go back to wherever you came from . . . You are no better than a whore. Look at those two poor little kiddies there. You ought to be ashamed of yourself

– Carole's nosy neighbour Dotty (Brenda Kendall) misunderstands all the men she sees hanging around next door

My son loves guns. He thinks you get shot and jump up and play it again.

– Carole ( Morgana O'Reilly) objects to the police officer's casual attitude to leaving their weapons lying around

Directed by John Laing (Go Girls, and also director of local crime dramas Street Legal and Duggan), Safe House is clever in the way it moves seamlessly from the safe-house scenes to flashbacks which reveal the story of Taylor and Michaels' relationship, and the murder inquiry.

– An anonymous reviewer of Safe House, Time Out (The NZ Herald), 7 June 2012

Although Michaels is a nasty piece of work, the three policemen minding Taylor are just as heavy and manipulative. There's the disdainful old-school dective Cliff Stout (played by veteran Kiwi actor Paul Gittins), the sleazy Lewis (Scott Wills, The Cult, Stickmen) and naive do-gooder Morrissey (Dan Musgrove, who played drug Lord Marty Johnstone in Underdelly).

– The NZ Herald summarises the dodgier characters in Safe House, Time Out (The NZ Herald), 7 June 2012

I am trying to protect you, you stupid cow — and them.

– Detective Cliff Stout (Paul Gittins) loses it with Carole Taylor after she sends her children outside to play