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* RuralGangsters: In Season two, whilst investigating a decapitated body found in the Mangrove swamps outside the small isolated town of Broome in largely rural Northern Australia, Jay uncovers the area is the source of the largescale cocaine smuggling operation that he's been hunting for years, with drug labs in the outback producing the products and it being smuggled out through Australia by long-distance truckers stopping at the local truck stop. [[spoiler: As it turns out his ex wife's new love interest, the charming local businessman [[BitchInSheepsClothing Simon]] is the mastermind and the local police boss [[DirtyCop Sergeant Owen]] is in his pocket.]]
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring Creator/AaronPedersen as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan. The first season aired in 2018, whilst the second was broadcast in 2020.
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'', with Creator/AaronPedersen reprising his role as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan. The first season aired in 2018, whilst the second was broadcast in 2020.
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A prequel miniseries, ''Mystery Road: Origin'', begun airing in 2022, starring Mark Coles Smith as a younger Jay Swan. In this series Jay, newly appointed as a detective, returns to his home town and promptly gets embroiled in family drama. Meanwhile, the new criminal lawyer in town is investigating the years-old murder of the brother of Mary, the woman who Jay will end up marrying.
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A prequel miniseries, ''Mystery Road: Origin'', begun airing in 2022, starring Mark Coles Smith as a younger Jay Swan. In this series Jay, newly appointed as a detective, returns to his home town and promptly gets embroiled in family drama. Meanwhile, the new criminal lawyer in town is investigating the years-old murder of the brother of Mary, the woman who Jay will end up marrying.
marrying. A second season of ''Origin'' is in development.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Tales of two Swans.[[note]]Mark Coles Smith and Creator/AaronPedersen as the younger and older Jay Swan respectively.[[/note]]]]
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A prequel miniseries, ''Mystery Road: Origin'', begun airing in 2022, starring Mark Coles Smith as Jay.a younger Jay Swan. In this series Jay, newly appointed as a detective, returns to his home town and promptly gets embroiled in family drama. Meanwhile, the new criminal lawyer in town is investigating the years-old murder of the brother of Mary, the woman who Jay will end up marrying.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In ''Origin'', Max resigns from the police after killing Texas in dubious circumstances out of panic (he had been shooting at Jay, but had the gun pointed in the air when he emerged from behind the container and may have been trying to surrender).]]
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* SuppressedHistory: In the first season [[spoiler:Emma discovers that one of her ancestors murdered a number of local Aborigines by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning the local spring]]. It turns out that the Aborigines remembered it, but Emma and her brother were left ignorant by their ancestors.]]
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* SuppressedHistory: SuppressedHistory:
** In the first season [[spoiler:Emma discovers that one of her ancestors murdered a number of local Aborigines by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning the local spring]]. It turns out that the Aborigines remembered it, but Emma and her brother were left ignorant by their ancestors.]]]]
** In ''Origin'', the "Ned Kelly" gang turn out to be militant local Aborigines trying to draw attention to the injustices of the town's past. Jay rips down the wallpaper of the local pub to reveal old murals glorifying the repression of Aborigines.
** In the first season [[spoiler:Emma discovers that one of her ancestors murdered a number of local Aborigines by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning the local spring]]. It turns out that the Aborigines remembered it, but Emma and her brother were left ignorant by their ancestors.
** In ''Origin'', the "Ned Kelly" gang turn out to be militant local Aborigines trying to draw attention to the injustices of the town's past. Jay rips down the wallpaper of the local pub to reveal old murals glorifying the repression of Aborigines.
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:The second season has Owen, the corrupt local Sergeant, and Simon, a corrupt former cop who turns out to be the boss of the drug gang.]]
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* DirtyCop: DirtyCop:
** [[spoiler:The second season has Owen, the corrupt local Sergeant, and Simon, a corrupt former cop who turns out to be the boss of the drug gang.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''Origin'', Peter, the local head cop, helped Patrick cover up his murder of Jay's father.]]
** [[spoiler:The second season has Owen, the corrupt local Sergeant, and Simon, a corrupt former cop who turns out to be the boss of the drug gang.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''Origin'', Peter, the local head cop, helped Patrick cover up his murder of Jay's father.]]
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** In ''Origin'', Geraldine, who in her first scene assumes that Jay (in civilian clothes) must be the person responsible for an armed robbery, seemingly just because of his race. Later on she appears basically honest, however.
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** In ''Origin'', Geraldine, Max, who in her first scene assumes that Jay (in civilian clothes) must be the person responsible for an armed robbery, seemingly just because of his race. Later on she appears basically honest, however.
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* PoliceBrutality: Jay a little with [[spoiler:Marley]] in Season 1, when he is sick of not getting any answers out of people who are clearly lying.
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** Jay a little with [[spoiler:Marley]] in Season 1, when he is sick of not getting any answers out of people who are clearlylying.lying.
** In ''Origin'', the solution to [[spoiler:Josh's murder. Rex, the former local cop, killed Josh and three other local youths on different occasions while carrying out over-enthusiastic "street justice" on them.]]
** Jay a little with [[spoiler:Marley]] in Season 1, when he is sick of not getting any answers out of people who are clearly
** In ''Origin'', the solution to [[spoiler:Josh's murder. Rex, the former local cop, killed Josh and three other local youths on different occasions while carrying out over-enthusiastic "street justice" on them.]]
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* GoodOldWays: Subverted in the second season in which it turns out that [[spoiler:the traditionalist Aboriginal leader Jimmy Two murdered Zoe and her boyfriend in an [[HonorRelatedAbuse honour killing]]. When this comes out, the local people show nothing but contempt for it.]]
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* GoodOldWays: Subverted in the second season in which it turns out that [[spoiler:the traditionalist Aboriginal leader Jimmy Two murdered Zoe and her boyfriend in an [[HonorRelatedAbuse honour killing]]. When this comes out, the other local Aboriginal people show nothing but contempt for it.]]
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: For Cindy, one of the other local cops in ''Origin'', when she kisses the barmaid of the local pub while they're doing stunts in a car.
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Jay. In this series Jay, newly appointed as a detective, returns to his home town and promptly gets embroiled in family drama. Meanwhile, the new criminal lawyer in town is investigating the years-old murder of the brother of Mary, the woman who Jay will end up marrying.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Jay's family in ''Origin''. His father Jack and brother Sputty are both alcoholics, his mother left his father years ago, and he hasn't seen any of them in years.
* IconicAttributeAdoptionMoment: In the fourth episode of ''Origin'', when Jay finds the straw hat that he will wear in all the later-set films and TV shows in a box in his father's house.
* LastDisrespects: In ''Origin'', Sputty turns up to Jack's funeral late and drunk, interrupts the service, and [[LibationForTheDead pours whisky over the coffin]].
* MalevolentMaskedMen: In ''Origin'', the mysterious group of men in UsefulNotes/NedKelly masks who are committing armed robberies in the area.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: In ''Origin'', the mysterious group of men in UsefulNotes/NedKelly masks who are committing armed robberies in the area.
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Emma comes off as this, especially when she doesn't step away from an investigation that involves her family property. She says no one else is going to care about "an aboriginal kid and a drug dealer.. no offence". She does however appear to have a change of heart as the season progresses.
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** In the first season, Emma comes off as this, especially when she doesn't step away from an investigation that involves her family property. She says no one else is going to care about "an aboriginal kid and a drug dealer.. no offence". She does however appear to have a change of heart as the seasonprogresses.progresses.
** In ''Origin'', Geraldine, who in her first scene assumes that Jay (in civilian clothes) must be the person responsible for an armed robbery, seemingly just because of his race. Later on she appears basically honest, however.
** In the first season, Emma comes off as this, especially when she doesn't step away from an investigation that involves her family property. She says no one else is going to care about "an aboriginal kid and a drug dealer.. no offence". She does however appear to have a change of heart as the season
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* RobbingTheDead: A major plot element of the second season is a conflict between the local Aboriginal people and a white archeologist excavating a site. The Aborigines see it as desecration of their ancestors' graves, while the archeologist sees it as expanding human knowledge and producing evidence of the past that could potentially be politically helpful to them.
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* RobbingTheDead: RecklessGunUsage: In ''Origin'', Jay is teaching Mary to shoot by using beer cans as targets. As soon as Jay has put a can on a fencepost, Sputty, who has grabbed the rifle, suddenly shoots it while Jay is still standing right next to it.
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** A major plot element of the second season is a conflict between the local Aboriginal people and a white archeologist excavating a site. The Aborigines see it as desecration of their ancestors' graves, while the archeologist sees it as expanding human knowledge and producing evidence of the past that could potentially be politically helpful tothem.them.
** In ''Origin'', after Jay's father dies, his brother Sputty invites the other local Aborigines to take their pick of his possessions, leading to a full-on fist fight between the two brothers when Jay objects to it as this. Later, however, Sputty is shocked and offended when Jay starts wearing Jack's hat and shirts.
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** A major plot element of the second season is a conflict between the local Aboriginal people and a white archeologist excavating a site. The Aborigines see it as desecration of their ancestors' graves, while the archeologist sees it as expanding human knowledge and producing evidence of the past that could potentially be politically helpful to
** In ''Origin'', after Jay's father dies, his brother Sputty invites the other local Aborigines to take their pick of his possessions, leading to a full-on fist fight between the two brothers when Jay objects to it as this. Later, however, Sputty is shocked and offended when Jay starts wearing Jack's hat and shirts.
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* TimeShiftedActor: In ''Mystery Road: Origin'', Jay and Mary are played by Mark Coles Smith, and Tuuli Narkle respectively.
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* TimeShiftedActor: In ''Mystery Road: Origin'', Jay and Mary are played by Mark Coles Smith, and Tuuli Narkle respectively.respectively.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: In ''Origin'', Jay and Mary have their first kiss while swimming in a local lake.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: In ''Origin'', Jay and Mary have their first kiss while swimming in a local lake.
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring Creator/AaronPedersen as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan.
The first season, broadcast in 2018 and according to WordOfGod set between the two films, has Jay sent to an isolated cattle-raising community in the outback to investigate the sinister disappearance of two young jackaroos, one a local Aboriginal youth and the other a white backpacker. The second season sees Jay visiting a small town on the coast to investigate the case of a drug-dealer found decapitated in a mangrove swamp, although he also becomes involved in a local Aboriginal police officer's attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of her sister a few years before.
The first season, broadcast in 2018 and according to WordOfGod set between the two films, has Jay sent to an isolated cattle-raising community in the outback to investigate the sinister disappearance of two young jackaroos, one a local Aboriginal youth and the other a white backpacker. The second season sees Jay visiting a small town on the coast to investigate the case of a drug-dealer found decapitated in a mangrove swamp, although he also becomes involved in a local Aboriginal police officer's attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of her sister a few years before.
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring Creator/AaronPedersen as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan. \n\n The first season, season aired in 2018, whilst the second was broadcast in 2018 and according 2020.
Season One (according to WordOfGod set between the twofilms, films), has Jay sent to an isolated cattle-raising community in the outback to investigate the sinister disappearance of two young jackaroos, one a local Aboriginal youth and the other a white backpacker. The second season Season Two sees Jay visiting a small town on the coast to investigate the case of a drug-dealer found decapitated in a mangrove swamp, although he also becomes involved in a local Aboriginal police officer's attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of her sister a few years before.
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring Aaron Pedersen Creator/AaronPedersen as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan.
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''Mystery Road'' is an Australian crime TV series spun off from the films ''Film/MysteryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'' and also featuring Aaron Pederson Pedersen as Aboriginal police detective Jay Swan.
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* SuppressedHistory: In the first season [[spoiler:Emma discovers that one of her ancestors murdered a number of local Aborigines by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning the local spring]]. It turns out that the Aborigines remembered it, but Emma and her brother were left ignorant by their ancestors.]]
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* SuppressedHistory: In the first season [[spoiler:Emma discovers that one of her ancestors murdered a number of local Aborigines by [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning the local spring]]. It turns out that the Aborigines remembered it, but Emma and her brother were left ignorant by their ancestors.]]]]
* TimeShiftedActor: In ''Mystery Road: Origin'', Jay and Mary are played by Mark Coles Smith, and Tuuli Narkle respectively.
* TimeShiftedActor: In ''Mystery Road: Origin'', Jay and Mary are played by Mark Coles Smith, and Tuuli Narkle respectively.
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* RoleReprisal: Along with Aaron Pederson playing Jay again, naturally, Mary (his ex-wife) is played here by Tasma Walton like in the film.
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* OutsideInsideSlur: Jay gets insulted more than once for being a "coconut" (i.e. not ''[[NoTrueScotsman really]]'' Aboriginal, but white on the inside) and related insults because he's a police detective who's accused of locking up his own people (most suspects in fact are white).
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* BarBrawl: Jay's daughter Crystal almost immediately gets into a fight with another Aboriginal girl in a bar once she comes into town, which he berates her over afterward.
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* ThePlaceThePlace: Also an ArtifactTitle. Mystery Road was an actual location in [[Film/MysteryRoad the original movie]], but it does not appear in the series.
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The first season, broadcast in 2018 and according to WordOfGod set between the two films, has Jay sent to an isolated cattle-raising community in the outback to investigate the sinister disappearance of two young ranchhands, jackaroos, one a local Aboriginal youth and the other a white backpacker. The second season sees Jay visiting a small town on the coast to investigate the case of a drug-dealer found decapitated in a mangrove swamp, although he also becomes involved in a local Aboriginal police officer's attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of her sister a few years before.
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