The early hours of Monday morning and the sound of gunfire rends the air.
A policeman, hit in the head by a bullet, scrambles to find cover as colleagues rush to his aid. A second man lies lifeless on the ground.
With that bloody shoot-out on a dark, rural road in New Zealand, it appeared the final chapter in a mystery that has captivated a nation and beyond had been written.
Tom Phillips, on the run from police with his three young children for almost four years, had at last been found.
His eldest daughter, Jayda, was with him when he died, their quad-bike having been forced off the highway as they fled from the scene of a botched burglary.
