The second part,though,was something else."It took the position of the bombers. It started with the recruiter,Samudra,going to this dusty little village in the backblocks of Indonesia and sitting under a tree talking to the young men,and it followed it right through – including the fact he couldn't even drive a vehicle and yet he drove the bomb car into Kuta. It was very unusual."
Richard Roxburgh,who was to appear in the series,recalls that the second episode was to be filmed entirely in Indonesian,and screened with subtitles. And for the sake of authenticity,it was all to be shot where the events actually unfolded.
"Michael was so determined this thing had to happen where it happened,in central Java and Bali,"he recalls."People were saying'it's just jungle;we could shoot this in Port Douglas'."
Jenkins had his way,though,and the show was about four days into production when it fell apart – a collapse that had nothing to do with the demanding standards the director had set.