Redfern Now: Dec 5

It’s the final episode of Redfern Now this week, which centres around a neighbourhood dispute which escalates.

Ernie Dingo puts in a good performance here as a Vietnam vet dealing with lingering trauma, now nominated for an AACTA Award.

Two burglaries in the same street seem to be targeting homes without dogs, so Derek (Bruce Carter), father of two young children, purchases a German Shepherd.

Across the street, a heavily pregnant Evonne (Katherine Beckett) has her father Ernie (Ernie Dingo), a retired army sergeant, to stay, and he installs new security.

But Ernie’s terrible nightmares and screaming cause Derek’s dog Toby to bark. This wakes Ernie’s neighbours, Jimmy (Glenn Hazeldine) and Susie (Maya Stange), and their new baby. As friction between the neighbours begins to mount, Evonne suggests Ernie help train Derek’s dog, but he refuses. As his nightmares continue and Toby barks, it provokes a big confrontation in the street.

8:30pm Thursday December 5 ABC1