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Snowball - Episode 1: The Girl With the Dragonfly Tattoo

November 3, 2025·52 min·3 clips

A liquidator posed as a customer and ordered lunch before telling Ollie's father he was about to lose everything — mid-service.

Jake makes the handoff plain. Deep Cover is not taking this story over. It is giving space to Ollie Wards and the Unravel team at ABC Australia. That modest frame helps, because the excerpt gets its tension from awkward household details, not big accusations. Greg is trying to be decent. Leslie's explanation about Hawaiians does not quite make sense to him, but he lets it go because marriage is now the thing in front of him. The ceremony is bare bones. Betty wears a nice dress, Andrew puts on a jacket, and they drive to the courthouse in his Cadillac. The registry office has flowers in the corner and not much else. Greg is happy, more or less. He is also far from home, newly married in Santa Ana, and still sleeping apart from the woman he has just married. That is the part that starts to buzz. His line about having done the deed plays less like a joke than a small confession: he is confused, and he is holding himself back. Betty and Andrew stay close to the story. They seem happy at the courthouse, but the mood changes when Leslie is meant to leave California for New Zealand. Greg catches it. At LAX, their tears could be ordinary parental grief. The excerpt leaves room for something heavier underneath. The host does not force an answer. Instead, Greg's uncertainty becomes the thing to watch. A courthouse, a Cadillac, separate beds, conservative parents, and an airport goodbye turn into the first stress points in a relationship that is already hard to read.

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A strange family mystery opens with a rushed marriage, tearful parents, and Greg's first sense that Leslie's past may not add up.

Deep Cover hands its feed to Ollie Wards and ABC Australia's Unravel team for a family mystery that begins in awkward, intimate places: a fast courthouse wedding in Santa Ana, conservative parents, separate beds after the vows, and Greg trying to understand why Leslie's parents…

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You want a family story that starts with a courthouse wedding and keeps pulling at what everyone was feeling.

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