Paul Verhoeven's ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime: he'd spill his guts on tape.
What unfolded in Loose Units was a goldmine of true-crime stories, showcasing John's dramatic experience of policing in Sydney in the 1980s and brilliandly twisted sense of humour. But what happened next in John's career was twice as weird.
Electric Blue spans the final years of John's stint in the New South Wales Police Force, when he took up an offer to move into the grimy, analytical world of forensics. Paul unpicks his father's most terrible cases. There was the rapist hiding in the walls of a shower block, a body that was quite literally cooked, and the bizarre copycat suicides.
But what's it actually like to have a hero for a dad? Paul delves into his unique father-son relationship with John to find out exactly how they ended up so different from one another. He'll try and figure out how to live with the choices they've both made... or wish theyd made. And Paul's mum, Christine, reveals what it was like to be a pioneering female cop in the eighties, when misogyny was rife in the force.