- Mackay is promoted to Inspector and preparing for a transfer to Ballarat when a threat is made against his life. Carl Warren Lee, who made the threat, is a psychopath who lies in wait with a rifle, but shoots dead Fox by mistake.
- David Mackay is promoted from Detective Senior Sergeant to Inspector. While he is preparing to be transferred to Ballarat, a threat is made against his life. The threat comes from Carl Warren Lee, a psychopath who wants to become famous. Lee lies in wait with a rifle, but shoots dead Fox by mistake while he and Mackay are getting out of a car outside a court where Mackay has been testifying in a major case.—Allister Coots
- David Mackay (Leonard Teale), who has just been promoted to Inspector, is in his final days on the Homicide Squad before his transfer to a new unit in Ballarat. The squad receive an envelope that contains a picture of Mackay with a bullet hole in it. Having no idea who sent the envelope, they look at the file of people recently released from jail, suspecting that someone that Mackay had put away is now seeking revenge.
The picture was sent in by a psychopath, Carl Lee (Paul Karo). Lee is sick of everybody picking on him and calling him a loser, and, determined to become famous, he figures out that if he can murder a police officer, he will get his name on television and in the papers. The only reason that Lee is targetting Mackay is because he has been all over the news himself lately, for testifying in a major court case.
Lee has collected several books on assassination and has a scrapbook of famous killings, and has acquired a large rifle with a scope and some ammunition, and picked out an apartment construction site opposite the courthouse as the place where his name will go down in history the following day. Meanwhile, Mackay and fellow squad members Senior Detective Phil Redford (Gary Day) and Detective Sergeant Peter Barnes (George Mallaby) spend the day checking out suspects who may have it in for Mackay.
Lee packs his gear into a large briefcase and heads out for a final check of the construction site. On the way, he runs into "working girl" Audrey White (Isabel Kirk). White talks Lee into joining her for the afternoon at reasonable rates. Lee agrees and follows White to her small apartment, but sex is the last thing on Lee's mind - he just wants to talk to someone. White is game as long as Lee keeps on giving her cash. Lee moans for several hours about how unfair life is, but tells White that all of that will change tomorrow, when he will do something that will make the whole country talk about him. White just smiles and tunes out.
White cooks a meal for the two of them, and after eating, Lee falls asleep. The following morning, White, who is an entertaining young lass, goes through Lee's briefcase while he is still sleeping, and finds the rifle, his murder scrapbook and a picture of McKay. Putting two and two together, she bolts out the door and straight to the nearest phone box to call the police. They send Redford and Barnes to investigate, but by the time they raid White's apartment, Lee has woken up and taken the briefcase with his gear for his appointment with an assassination.
Redford and Barnes call Mackay at the squad room and inform him that they missed Lee. Mackay, who was just about to leave for the courthouse, tells them to put out an all-points on Lee. Mackay's boss, Detective Inspector Colin Fox (Alwyn Kurts), decides to accompany Mackay on his trip to the courthouse.
Lee is well-placed for his moment of fame when Mackay and Fox arrive at the courthouse, but his shot misses Mackay and hits Fox, who collapses back into the car, dead. Mackay gets on the radio to let the station know that Fox has been shot, then sprints across the street with a gun in his hand. After the shot, Lee's rifle jams and it doesn't take Mackay too long to corner him. Furious, Mackay walks slowly up to Lee with his pistol aimed right between his eyes and cocks the gun. Lee falls down to the ground and cries for his life. Mackay looks at Lee for a moment, then holsters his pistol.
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