Michael Pelton is a nice guy who has been pushed too far by his ex-wife Wednesday Brandt and her constant interference in a meaningful relationship between him and his daughter Rochelle. He determines to do something about it. With the assistance of a hacker named Dex, he installs several self-replicating spy programs into a laptop Christmas present for his daughter and starts reading all the emails that Wednesday sends and receives. He is initially shocked to discover the extent of her past and current planning against him. He decides to move from passive monitoring to a plan of active deterrent to prevent Wednesday from ever being able to exert any control over him again. Wednesday’s brother is Angus, a convicted murderer, who hatches a brazen scheme to defraud Australian shareholders of money they don’t know they have. Angus needs his sister’s participation in his ‘Locksley’ plan as she is an Information Technology executive at ASIC. Her role will be to gather the target information, keep an ear to the ground to see if they have been detected and set up a fall guy. Initially, Wednesday makes it clear to her brother she does not want to be part of anything illegal. Angus gets out of jail on parole and he changes his name to Guru Angus. He and his gang move into the Butterfly Temple outside Lismore and stage a violent takeover of the commune and its current inhabitants. They begin turning the previously peaceful temple into the Butterfly Fortress. Michael monitors Wednesday’s reluctance to join her brother’s fraud and realises she needs to be encouraged into the plan. He can only do this by destroying her carefully manicured reputation. He rigs a ballot and gets her electronically voted in as CEO of the RSPCAA. At Wednesday’s planned inauguration speech on the steps of the Sydney Town Hall, she arrives towing her dead pet dog on a leash behind her car which Michael had carefully placed there the previous evening. The Meat & Livestock Australia association are having
