division 4 'they walk the night'

This is from an episode of Division 4 called 'They Walk the Night' (not sure why it's called that) which deals with pack rape - of a woman in her late 50s including a few choice mentions of how you'd have to be particularly sick to assault an old woman (the implication about what's 'natural' being fairly obvious). Old fashioned attitudes. This one ends, atypically, with a court scene (if you haven't seen much of this stuff, usually there is a voice-over announcement of the jail terms criminals received). So obviously the enactment of a courtroom scene (very minimalist) is acknowledgment that there's a 'public education' aspect to this, rather than 'shoot-'em-up bad guys' entertainment. 

One other less important but still interesting element of this episode is that three grand dames of Crawfords etc appear - Vivean Gray, Sheila Florance and Anne Charleston.* Charleston's scene is perhaps the strangest because her voice is so unlike her own (could she have been dubbed? Not entirely impossible I suppose). Sheila Florance on the other hand is still (to me anyway) so much Prisoner's Lizzie to me that the posh middle-class voice she puts on here, while not preposterous, still seems like a bit of a put-on. Well, acting is. 

The main reason (!) I wanted to mention this episode is the scene above where Banner and Vickers are discussing the place where the incident happened. This crime is way out of the way of 'Yarra Central', which is the beat that the D4 people control. 

You can see better in this image which part of the map they're talking about. 

It's way up in the corner, far beyond the boundaries of 'Yarra Central'. It's definitely not in their patch.

Hey, I'm not that bothered, because it's not really that important to the story which is more interesting for its own reasons, and I am aware that this is a story set in a fictional Melbourne suburb overlaid on real Melbourne. That's interesting too though. 

In early eps of Division 4 they actually went out of their way to create 'Yarra Central'. This is from the opening credits of episode 1. 'Yarra Central' sits between Melbourne and St Kilda and South Melbourne (so it's not South Melbourne)

It looks to me like what they've done is swapped South Melbourne with Port Melbourne, then made Yarra Central South Melbourne. Quite a complicated fabrication here considering they didn't use this in the opening credits for long at all. 

Neither of the maps below are incredibly clear (the first is from 'They Walk the Night', the second from episode 1 which I think is called 'The Soldiers') but what they do show is that the scene of the crime is very, very far from Melbourne, let alone 'Yarra Central'. 

Which is all fine. I assume that when Chuck Falkner and Gerard Kennedy were going to go to the map for this scene the director of the camera person or whoever said 'no, get way up in the corner, it's the only way we can get you lit properly/ in focus/ etc'. 

By the way Yarra Central is an interesting choice for the name of a suburb, and I think while it does very clearly locate Division 4 in Melbourne, it's surely done for national viewer purposes. There is of course no such place as Yarra Central (how could there be, but then there is Yarraville, and South Yarra). The Melbourne maps in use are also interesting. You don't need to know where you are in a Crawford's police drama - I mean, in real terms - but it doesn't hurt. 

 *And Queenie Ashton