Terence J McLernon is the fifth generation of his family to enter the Police Force, a record in Australia yet to be surpassed. After a highly trained career in the Royal Australian Air Force, Terry joined the Wallopers. As a mature man, he was deeply unimpressed by the Cult of the Copper whereby the power to do good was perverted to private purposes of commerce and control. He views the sub-strata of corrupt officials and police as being The Fifth Estate, the new 'untouchables'.