Martha was walking along the beach her eyes caught Alf and she walked down to him whilst he was busy fishing.
"A speeding ticket can you believe it?" Martha said "You were speeding?" "I was doing 60 in a 50 zone" "So that's speeding" "Yeah well everyone does it" "Everyone shouldn't flammen well do it" "I was barely over the limit and besides I think the locals would have a little bit more knowledge about the roads around here than some jerk that's only been in town for 5 minutes!".
"Martha!" "You should have seen the way he was strutting around the place he's so up himself" at that moment Tony, Lucas and jack were walking down the beach for a surf "Hey how are you going?" jack asked friendly Martha looked with her mouth open and turned around "Oh Scott your mum bought us in some muffins this morning" said Tony "They were unreal!" said Lucas "Yeah she's pretty good at that"
"Sorry love have we done something wrong?" Tony asked "Aah its not you dad it's me I gave her a speeding ticket this morning I don't think she likes me very much" "Are you going to book me for that too" Martha snapped. "So what brings you blokes to this part of the world?" Alf asked changing the subject "Ah jack got posted to the local cop shop so we tag along turned out pretty good actually there was a p.e position opened at the new high school yeah its good I get to look after this one" "Just what I need" "Well mate this is a pretty sleepy little town most of the time won't have any trouble" "Part of any speeding violations" jack asked laughing. Martha stared at him "Im going." "I'll see you round" jack smiled.
At the surf club Martha, colleen, and Leah were arguing about Jack's case. Scott walked in and assured them it wasn't jacks fault. "His side of the story is a lie names Harry Chambers my daughter didn't have to die she was at the wrong place wrong time did that mean she had to die Jack Holden shouldn't be carrying a gun if he didn't my daughter would be alive today. Yabby creek are holding a meeting here tonight so everyone will know the truth".
At the town meeting it wasn't looking to good "Im here to show this thug up for what he is" snapped Harry Martha was confused she was just looking at jack deep down she felt bad for him but the other side was stubbornness "Did it make you feel like a man watching my daughter die?" "Did it make you feel like a man did it?" Martha said jack looked at her he didn't know such a pretty face could be so mean he walked out with tears in his eyes. After some talking from Tony, jack decided to tell the story.
"I have a right to speak" "Yeah? Well so do i?" replied tony with jack behind him. "You have all heard my son jack killed someone she was a 17 year old girl called Emily chambers. Now her fathers angry he wants vengeance and I can understand that because Im a father too. Im a father who had to watch his son so down of guilt that he can hardly get out of bed in the mornings a father who's seen his son pounded out of too many faces… Im a father who is proud of his son he doesn't understand how people can be so damn mean he had been put in a impossible position im not going to drag Emily chambers memory in the mud, her family has suffered enough but im going to ask you this if someone had put a gun to your sons head what would you want him to do? Would you want him to defend himself if you had a choice between your son and someone trying to kill him? You here all try to judge jack you swallow Harry chamber's rubbish hook line and sinker! But not one of you not one of you have got off your but and checked the facts he did a report and they cleared his name he did his job! And he's still doing his job he's putting himself in harms way just for you so next time your in trouble and you pick up the phone you think about that. I brought my boys here because I thought summer bay was a minded place we have met some good people but the fact is I don't give a damn anymore if you people want to sit here and be ignorant then that's your problem. But if you want to take on my son then you be sure as hell to come through me first."
Martha listened to these words she was shocked she felt awful how she had been treating him. Colleen was midering on to jack everyone was showing there sympathy to him. Martha saw jack sat down she walked over to him... "I owe you a apology for what I said before… must of been really hard having to do that" "Apology accepted, this mean your going to ease up on me now?" "I was wrong about this but I still think you're a jerk" "You might be wrong about that too" Martha smiled and walked off.