Did you hear the one about the crim who got carjacked twice in the same day? It happens to Ray Shoesmith (Scott Ryan) on the worst day of his life after leaving the strip club base of his boss, local crime lord Freddy (Damon Herriman). He knows one of his captors and enjoys unorthodox introduction to the other.
Many local thugs might want to abduct Ray out of retribution for any number of his misdeeds or simply to rip him off. It is something he never appears to take personally even though the things he does take personally so often result in him getting very violent. Many have wanted to put him six feet down under. Who can it be now? If you've been watching the series, one group of suspects seems likely and it is them.
Bobby (Dorian Nkono), a knuckle-dragging/mouth-breathing side of beef with the brain of a half-eaten rock melon serves in the employ of another Sydney crime boss i.e. Davros. He has been dispatched to assist bikie bloke Dave (Matt Nable) in abducting Ray as prelude to his inevitable murder. Ray's feud with Davros should have reached a conclusion and would have if Davros had been even remotely reasonable.
Ray - known sometimes as "the Magician" confuses his captors with the ploy of a safe with his supposed stash inside insisting it is contains $162,000. Ray insists he has forgotten the combination to open it. Expectant father Dave is taken in and follows Ray's instructions to retrieve it at an abandoned house. Dave isn't nearly as dumb as so many of the Sydney crims (almost all) we see on the series. But his need for a nest-egg for his family does make him vulnerable to Ray's stall tactic.
A pair of stoned-out bogans boost Ray's car while it is in park as Dave purchases a blowtorch to open the safe. Bobby, who was supposed to stay with car, went off to buy smokes not even leaving the door locked. Dave and Bobby emerge from the mini-mall shocked to find Ray has disappeared seemingly like magic.
The trick never seems like much of trick after you know how it is done. While no boy scout, Ray is nevertheless always prepared for contingencies. This can seem like magic to the dimmest of bulbs. All it shows us is where he exists on a scale of those active in the Sydney underworld. From one to ten, Ray is well above five. He always seems pitted against those who are twos or less.
No sooner have the bogans pawned Ray's car off to a chop shop than the mechanic who has paid to assume the problem senses Ray's presence in the boot and attempts to abandon him in the middle of nowhere.
Ray escapes the boot of his abandoned car, pops the zipties on his hands and preps for his next trick: confronting those that have put him through the ordeal and going back to his life none the worse for where.
Can he do it? Is he not "The Magician"?
Many local thugs might want to abduct Ray out of retribution for any number of his misdeeds or simply to rip him off. It is something he never appears to take personally even though the things he does take personally so often result in him getting very violent. Many have wanted to put him six feet down under. Who can it be now? If you've been watching the series, one group of suspects seems likely and it is them.
Bobby (Dorian Nkono), a knuckle-dragging/mouth-breathing side of beef with the brain of a half-eaten rock melon serves in the employ of another Sydney crime boss i.e. Davros. He has been dispatched to assist bikie bloke Dave (Matt Nable) in abducting Ray as prelude to his inevitable murder. Ray's feud with Davros should have reached a conclusion and would have if Davros had been even remotely reasonable.
Ray - known sometimes as "the Magician" confuses his captors with the ploy of a safe with his supposed stash inside insisting it is contains $162,000. Ray insists he has forgotten the combination to open it. Expectant father Dave is taken in and follows Ray's instructions to retrieve it at an abandoned house. Dave isn't nearly as dumb as so many of the Sydney crims (almost all) we see on the series. But his need for a nest-egg for his family does make him vulnerable to Ray's stall tactic.
A pair of stoned-out bogans boost Ray's car while it is in park as Dave purchases a blowtorch to open the safe. Bobby, who was supposed to stay with car, went off to buy smokes not even leaving the door locked. Dave and Bobby emerge from the mini-mall shocked to find Ray has disappeared seemingly like magic.
The trick never seems like much of trick after you know how it is done. While no boy scout, Ray is nevertheless always prepared for contingencies. This can seem like magic to the dimmest of bulbs. All it shows us is where he exists on a scale of those active in the Sydney underworld. From one to ten, Ray is well above five. He always seems pitted against those who are twos or less.
No sooner have the bogans pawned Ray's car off to a chop shop than the mechanic who has paid to assume the problem senses Ray's presence in the boot and attempts to abandon him in the middle of nowhere.
Ray escapes the boot of his abandoned car, pops the zipties on his hands and preps for his next trick: confronting those that have put him through the ordeal and going back to his life none the worse for where.
Can he do it? Is he not "The Magician"?
