Northeastern Victoria, April 1878. The rain doesn't wash the dirt, it turns it to soup.

Greta. A three-legged stool, turpentine brandy, and a 14-year-old girl named Kate Kelly trying to stay invisible.

Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick rides in with a horse-theft warrant for Dan Kelly. He doesn't want Dan. He puts a sweaty hand on Kate. Ellen Kelly answers with a coal shovel to his helmet. Clang.

Fitzpatrick rides out, writes a report that Ned shot him. Doctor says it's not a bullet wound. It's a scratch. Ellen, nursing an infant, gets three years hard labor on a liar's word.

Ned and Dan take to the wombats.

Stringybark Creek. Three troopers dead. Felons Apprehension Act — shoot Ned on sight.

June 1880, Glenrowan. Plow mouldboards beaten into 44kg armor. A ghost in iron walks through dawn mist. Bullets ping off l ...