Is Mapua the Achilles's Heel of the Watson Case?

Mapua, a quiet but beautiful tidal backwater, was not given much attention by the Operation Tam police. Already feeling confident of hiding the Ketch at Furneaux Lodge, they possibly sensed that Mapua was smaller and far less difficult to make the narrative. I think 2026 will show how wrong that under-estimation was. Police misread the people at Mapua and may have even viewed them arrogantly. I certainly didn't after an introduction there, I quickly saw they were right onto things and possibly wondering how things had gone so much askew for Scott. More so, how much they were underestimated as country hicks or similar. 

I seldom bet, but I believe that the residents and visitors to Mapua over the Christmas Holiday season of 97/98 will break the back of Scott's convictions and see him freed. A good boat builder or tradesman by the time of finishing their apprenticeship have sharpened the fact that the context of continuity may not be a tool but its part of the vision of doing a job and seeing it completed, and I think those that any experience any part of Tam operation at work in Mapua saw that it was moderately arrogant and condescending to the point that you could tell a Mapuan anything, and they would believe it. Well, hello Charlie. And thanks Mapua.