Off the Lip (2004) - full transcript

(upbeat music)

(graphics whooshing)

(waves crashing)

(static buzzing)
(phone beeps)

(waves crashing)

(water bubbling)

- Okay, hi.

(police siren wailing)

This is her journal.

This is the last words that she ever wrote

before she disappeared.



So it's special.

(paper rustling)

(static buzzes)

Okay, these are her last words she wrote

before she disappeared.

Reporters journal.

Now that there's nothing left,
at least the waves exist,

and I'm finally getting to
see them on a breaking day.

(light ominous music)

- [Dave and Kat] This is
the ultimate big waves spot.

This is Jaws.

Why do we call it that?

(waves crashing)

Could it be the aura death
which surrounds this place?



Or is there something else?

Something about being pulled
headfirst into the unknown.

(water bubbling)

See it like I do now.

It's majestic, powerful, awesome.

It'll never get out from under your skin.

And even if you've never
had before in all your life.

- You'll think, I wanna surf.

(upbeat rock music)

♪ Your friends keep telling me ♪

♪ I bear a striking resemblance
to someone you used to know ♪

♪ But baby it's me ♪

♪ So why the hell do you
keep on calling me Flo ♪

♪ And I would hope ♪

♪ That you would have the decency to ♪

♪ Let me go ♪

♪ In case of an emergency ♪

♪ But you keep reassuring me ♪

♪ Telling me to quit tripping on it ♪

♪ And maybe it's me ♪

♪ I guess that I should
probably get a grip on it ♪

♪ But it's hard to do ♪

♪ Every time I see that tattoo ♪

♪ Over your heart ♪

♪ It ain't right I
can't even look at you ♪

♪ Why you doing what you're doing ♪

♪ You should be doing what you want ♪

♪ Who the fuck you think you're fooling ♪

♪ She's the one the one you want ♪

♪ Florence if you hear this won't you ♪

♪ Come and take your girlfriend back ♪

♪ She's been calling out your name ♪

♪ Every time we're in the sack ♪

♪ She's been a mess
since you've been apart ♪

♪ So Flo if you had half a heart ♪

♪ Florence can you hear me ♪

♪ Can you hear me Flo ♪

♪ Florence can you hear me ♪

♪ Can you hear me Flo ♪

♪ We've been going for a while ♪

♪ But lately she's been somewhere else ♪

♪ She don't even smile ♪

♪ And I think it's a cry for help ♪

♪ And I would pray ♪

♪ That you would have
the common courtesy ♪

♪ To take her away ♪

♪ It ain't right she don't belong to me ♪

♪ Why you doing what you're doing ♪

♪ You should be doing who you want ♪

♪ You're the only one you're fooling ♪

♪ She's the one the one you want ♪

♪ Florence if you hear
this won't you come ♪

♪ And pick your girlfriend up ♪

♪ She's been talking in her sleep ♪

♪ And I think I've had enough ♪

♪ She's been a wreck
since you've been away ♪

♪ So Flo if you have something to say ♪

♪ Florence can you hear me ♪

♪ Can you hear me Flo ♪

♪ Florence can you hear me ♪

♪ Can you hear me Flo ♪

♪ Florence can you hear me ♪

♪ Can you hear me ♪

(static buzzes)

- Ah, you'll see, it's a
present for my wife, three chip.

They say the resolution on this thing

is better than broadcast quality.

Look at this thing, it is fucking amazing.

It's so small, it fits right
in the palm of your hand.

You take, I'm sorry, is it
all right if I film you?

- Actually, I'm a little
shy in front of the camera.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

It says here that you're looking for a job

as a live-action reporter.

- Oh yeah, that's right.

But I'm just starting out.

- Oh, okay.

Katherine Shutte.

- Kat, no more Katherine's for me.

- Shutte is a Scandinavian?

- Northern California, Santa Cruz.

- So Kat, you're obviously
familiar with the surf scene?

- Can I tell you the truth?

- [Rick] Please, tell me the truth.

- I've never surfed a day in my life

and I actually don't even like surfers,

I think they're kind of ridiculous.

- [Rick] My mother was a surfer.

- Oh, well I didn't mean anything

against her personally or anything, I'm-

- Kat, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding, it's a Joke.

(Kat laughs)

Come on.

But seriously though,
if that's how you feel

then why don't you come to us?

After all, we are in internet surf scene.

- Well, I think that
reporters should be able

to tackle any subject

no matter how foreign
to her own experience.

(Rick laughs)

- [Rick] All right.

Let's see, so BA from BU.

- BFA.

- [Rick] So have you ever
done a documentary before?

- Nope.

But I know about
production assistant work.

(static buzzes)

- Good.

So about a week ago,

we started hearing these
rumors on the scene

about a big wave surfer,
a guy, they call the Monk,

supposedly the best in the world.

I wanna do a feature on this guy.

I wanna tie it into the scene,

I wanna get a film distributor on board,

and then I'm gonna take
all that stuff to a major,

major cross campaign that's gonna timeout

so it coincides perfectly
with my surf scene's IPO.

The problem is I can't get to him.

The people down there, they're
just so unwilling to talk.

And the people with
access, they won't bite.

I think I'm gonna have the best
luck with someone like you,

someone who is fresh and innocent, young,

and completely unknown
to the surf community.

So there it is, that's really it.

What do you think?

That the nerve center
for the entire operation.

Dave transmits from here,

we'll be tracking you the whole time.

Dave?

- We've got to state-the-art data center

located in a BBN facility
with the Cobalt server

directly connected to it in T10C1192,

a backbone with a 10 gig capacity.

I think we're ready to rock and roll.

- I need you to sign
here for me, right there.

Right there.

Right there.

And on the last page right there.

That just the usual protecting
my investment in the end.

Hey, hey, hey, no, off, off.

(static buzzes)

This is a 2,500 bucks, it's your per diem.

Okay.

And then you just sign for it right there.

- Okay.

- And this is your corporate credit card.

And Dave took care of your hotel,

it's a very nice hotel, you're
gonna be comfortable there.

I think we're gonna start
you off at three grand.

- A month?

(Rick laughs)

- A week.

Is that all right?

- God, yes.

- We're also gonna have
a top surf photographer,

he's gonna meet you at the
airport, he'll be your guide.

- [Kat] Yeah.

- And I think that's it.

So how do you feel?

(Rick claps)

- A little overwhelmed.

(upbeat music)

- [Rick] Be perky.

Be independent.

Be a MTV.

Be sexy.

Be daring.

(Kat roars)

Smile with the camera.

(Kat laughs)

- I can do it.

- You see, that's what I love right there.

Authenticity.

You love this girl or what, Dave?

God, you love my instincts?

Here Kat, take this, take the camera.

Take it, it's yours.

Now go, go, go, go make me rich.

(static buzzing)

- Hello, hi.
- Oh, hey.

- I was looking through the elevator?

- It's right down there.

- So how is he?

Rick as a boss?

- Oh, Rick's a real visionary.

(static buzzes)

"Jack London?"

I would have figured you
for a "Wired" or something.

- Well, frontier literature.

- He's one of my favorites too.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

Well, thank you for the tip.

I'll see you around.

- Okay.

- Probably on the new frontier.

Bye.

- Bye.

- Love, what is it anyway?

(bright memorizing music)

For thousands of years,
the ancients have sought

to define it through poetry or song.

I intend to make films my parchment,

or digital video, anyway.

I will use film or the theory
of film to document a love,

my love, love for the woman I love.

The woman I intend to marry.

A woman named Kat.

Oh, cut it Brian, that's bullshit.

Just cut it, cut it, I'm
giving you heartfelt,

Godard would've wanted ironic.

Jean-Luc Godard, you know Godard, right?

- [Brian] No.

- Jesus.

Where did I get you guys.

Kat.

- Oh Brad, you'll never
ever even believe it.

(Kat laughs)

- Tell me.

- You'll be so proud of me.

I, who are these guys?

- What guys?

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

This is Brian, camera, Tito,

I got them from the Pep Boys,

you'd be amazed how much they have there

more than automotive stuff.

Go ahead, tell me, how did it go?

- Not on the camera.

- Don't be shy, they're under your hood,

go ahead and tell me.

- You're gonna be so
proud of me, my friend.

- [Brad] Kat, back up.

- So I was all ready to take
a secretary job or something.

- [Brad] Wait, just keep
walking, I'm listening,

just back up a little more.

- Oh, and I asked if I could
take a PA job or something,

anything.

- [Brad] Honey, still further,

I'm trying to get a shadow
thing on your face there,

just keep going back, keep going back.

- Well, I leave the day after tomorrow.

- [Brad] Wait a minute.

No, no, I got the camera
package for the whole week.

- I'm sorry.

- Honey, no, no, no.

Back, back, back, this
(indistinct) is gonna great.

It's gonna be-

(Kat shouts)

You know, your dad's gonna be furious.

- What does my dad have do with this?

- Well, he's the one
that paid for the rental.

Think of it as an investment,

something with the chance for return.

- My dad is funding your movie.

- Yeah.

I lied to him, I told him the
movie's a romantic comedy.

- It's gonna be a kind of style

we haven't seen any 20, 30 years,

long pans of things that don't relate,

actors with their backs to the camera.

No sound whatsoever, drops
out, nobody knows why.

- I'm paying for this?

- You know what?

I don't think I can be squeamish

about a little white lie
at this stage of my career.

- Right, so you're not gonna
fuck me on this, are you?

(Martin laughs)

- What's the subject of
your so-called movie?

- The woman I intend to spend
the rest of my life with, you.

- Oh no.

- Yeah.

- You're not Hawaii.

- Hey Brian, you guys can
get off of work, right?

- [Brian] Hawaii, are you kidding me?

- Tito?

- [Vito] It's Vito, man.

- I don't care.

You're not, nobody's coming to the Hawaii.

This is my job, you're
not coming to Hawaii, no.

- Of course he's coming.

- [Kat] But dad.

- Look, I spent a lot of money on this.

Suction Katherine.

- [Kat] It's Kat.

- I'm gonna leave the hours
from 4:00 to 5:00 open every day

and you can call me then,
there'll be nothing scheduled.

- [Kat] Don't be ridiculous, dad.

- If you're going to a foreign country,

I would feel much better
if I could monitor you.

- [Kat] Maui is not a foreign
country, it is a state.

It's part of the union.

- It's a late state.

(upbeat music)

♪ Well I walked outside into a sunny day ♪

♪ Called some friends to back my play ♪

♪ Went downtown to taste a few ♪

♪ Then over to the coast ♪

♪ To see what kind of
trouble we could get into ♪

♪ What trouble we could get into ♪

♪ What trouble we could get into ♪

- Aloha.

(waves crashing)

- Day one, in the elusive
search for the big wave surfer

that natives called the Monk,

this is Kat Shutte, reporting
live from the island of Maui.

- [Brad] Maui's twin mountains
are just coming into view.

- Would you stop being such a dope?

- Yeah Brad.

Yeah Brad.

- [Brad] Who's side are you guys on?

(Kat laughs)

- Long before modern day surfers

were towed out on jet-skis
past massive breaks

to riding the waves of
famous surf spots like Jaws.

There was a man that the
natives called the Monk.

Bird spiritual leader, part guru,

he blazed a trail for others to follow.

Is he a man or is he a myth?

A Santa Claus for surfers

or a local legend from a bygone day

who has maintained his
purity throughout it all.

- That was great.

- [Kat] You think?

- Yeah.

Look directly into the eye of the camera.

- Like this?

- Yeah.

(Dave laughs)

Yeah, like that.

- Dave, Dave, Dave?

- Also, there was a little interference

at the beginning of the transmission.

- Oh, that's Brad.

- Oh hey.

Sorry pal, no harm intended.

Yeah, you're great.

- Yeah, could you lose him?

He is right for the image,
it's just perky, dependent.

- I guess a better thing
twice about marrying him then.

Dave?

(static buzzes)

Hello?

(static buzzes)

- Look, I lost you for a second.

We're cutting out.

I'll talk to you real soon.

- Aloha.

(water bubbling)

Got that done.

Yeah.
- You all set?

- Yeah, I think so.

- So where's this fool that's
supposed to pick us up?

- He's a surfer.

I mean, he's a surfer.

Maybe he got lost.

- Whatever.

(upbeat rock music)

♪ American made ♪

- [Lenser] Watch it,
watch it, not too close.

Ah, my nose.

(static buzzes)

Ah, my nose.

(horn blares)

- [Announcer] Calling Crash to the next E.

- [Kat] Are you okay, that looks painful.

- Hey, it goes with the territory.

(horn blares)

- Kat.

- Hi.

Lenser.

- Oh, we know.

Didn't Rick mention,

you were supposed to pick
us up at the airport?

- Yeah, but who are you guys?

- Oh, hi, I'm Brad, I'm Kat's fiance.

- Hey.

I thought I was gonna be doing shooting?

- Oh no, no, no.

Listen, just ignore us, we're
working on something else.

This has nothing to do with-

- Nothing.

So where are we exactly?

- This is Aloha classic, man,

Maui's been kind, the best
wind surfing anywhere.

- But I thought the
Monk was a big wave guy?

- Yeah, he is, he's legendary,

he's the best ever, best ever will be.

In fact, they say one time,

his entire beach house got
sucked out there by a tsunami,

he ripped off a piece of the
roof, he rode it back in.

Another time, there was
this little Cessna airplane

flying a couple of
tourists around, crashed.

It was in the morning, the Monk
was the only one out there.

He paddled out, the pilot
was deceased unfortunately,

the honeymoon couple was alive,

he put them on the back of his board.

He put the leash around his
neck, paddled them in to safety.

Set them ashore, walked
away, never said a word.

- [Brad] That's ridiculous.

- Oh, for you or me, yeah.

Not for the Monk.

- So where he is he?

What are we doing here?

- I don't know what you're doing here,

I'm working for the man.

- Everybody's got sponsors pal.

- Hey, what's with the stink-eye bra?

- No, no, no, we're good, we're good.

- Didn't Off the Lip put
you on their payroll?

- Oh yeah, but I forgot that was today.

- Fine, I'll do it myself.

I'll find the Monk.

- I wouldn't talk to those guys.

(upbeat music)

(waves crashing)

- Talk to the lens.

- The Monk, he's just folklore.

- The Monk, you believe that?

- Is this is a student film or what?

- God, some people are so rude.

- [Brad] Brian, the pan with the blonde.

Nice.

Can you get tighter?

- Hey, what are you doing?

That's my girlfriend, get out of here.

Turn that off right now,
I'm gonna kick your ass.

(boyfriend punches)

(Brad moans)

- Oh, savages.

I wasn't shooting his girlfriend.

It was the atmosphere.

- Are you okay?

Let me se.
- I'm fine.

- Hey, don't be a hoo hoo
bra, it'll be all right.

Listen Tita, I'll pick you
up in the morning 5:00 AM.

We'll do the hang.

That's the local scene.

We'll find your monk.

We'll find him.

Take care art boy.

- You too.

- Holy capitalism Batman.

No, Brian, not me.

Get this place, it's ridiculous.

Go to the fountain, Tito,
get a level on the water.

- [Vito] It's Vito, man, come on.

- Right, right.

Unbelievable, unbelievable, look at-

(Brad gasps)

Brian.

(water splashing)

Ooh hey, Brian, I got a good idea.

Pan up, exactly, exactly.

Come across, now come down
and see if you can find Kat.

Oh Boy.

Oh boy, there she is.

(upbeat rock music)

♪ 24 years old ♪

♪ All dressed up with somewhere to go ♪

Why can't they stay with us?

- You invited them, why can't you pay?

- Kat, that's really
gonna put it up a strain

on the budget of the film.

It's your dad's pocket
book I'm worried about.

People's teeth are getting better, oh.

- [Kat] Do they have to
always be watching us?

- [Brad] I think that's wrong,

I told them not to do that
unless I told them to do that.

(static buzzing)

(phone rings)

Goodnight Brian, Tito.

- [Vito] It's Vito, man.

(phone beeps)

- [Martin] Katherine.

Katherine, where are you?

It's pass 5:00, your mother and
I are waiting for your call.

Katherine.

- Is this the kind of
movie that you're making?

- [Brad] Surf photographers,
weird characters,

where do they get these guys?

(Kat laughs)

- Talking about weird.

Come take my slip off.

- [Brad] Oh, I thought you'd never ask.

Hey, your old man's not
going to see this tape.

- I'm flossing.

What do you think is better?

My breasts or my ass?

(phone beeps)

- [Martin] Katherine,
it has been five minutes

since I last called you,

now your mother and I are
expecting to hear from you.

(phone beeps)

- [Dave] Reporters journal, she writes,

Dave got me reading "Jack London,"

he calls surfing the sport of kings.

- [Dave and Kat] but there are
no more kings in the world,

except maybe the Monk.

Maybe he's an old Hawaiian king.

- [Kat] Wouldn't that be neat.

Of course, a king without a
kingdom is just kind of sad.

It seems like we spend half our lives

searching for people to believe in

and the other half finding out they aren't

who we thought they were to begin with.

- [Dave and Kat] We can
save ourselves a lot of time

if we just believe in ourselves.

- [Dave] Of course, that's just too hard.

- I'm sure it's Lenser's place.

Look, there's a surf board,
there's a camera mount.

Go ahead.

- The door's open.

- Go on, I'm sure it's safe.

- No handle on the door.

Note.

- Nice.

Oh great, go ahead Brian, go ahead.

- Wow.

- [Brad] Oh.

- Oh wow.

- [Brad] Shh, don't say anything.

Don't say-

(speaks faintly)

- [Kat] Give me that.

- [Brad] No, no.

- [Kat] Give it.

Don't, put it down-

(hooter blares)

- Hey.

Oh.

- [Kat] Oh.

- An hour's sleep.

(static buzzes)

We got to find out where the
waves are breaking today.

You got to check the horizon.

You've got to gauge the swells.

You got to smell the salt.

(Lenser inhales)

And you got to call the surf report,

find out what's happening.

They're breaking it,
(in foreign language).

Let's move.

(upbeat music)

(waves crashing)

They don't like strangers,
so let me do the talking.

I'll butter him up a little bit,

then you can move in there
and ask your question, see.

You better wait here for a second.

Hey, what's up bra?

- Yeah, what's up, man?

Why are you such a sell out, Lenser?

- She maybe shooting some logos

for some surf mags or something?

- Oh, right.

(Lenser laughs)

That's good.

Okay.

They're just kidding around.

- I have a better idea.

You wait here.

I will go there.

- Oh Kat, Kat, Kat.

Now you sure you wanna do this?

You feel comfortable?

- Yeah.

- As long as you feel comfortable.

- Thank you.

- Yes, yes.

Go to work.

(upbeat music)

- Hey.

So how's it hanging, bra?

(surfer laughs)

- How's it hanging?

- Anyway, I'm a friend of the
Monks, I'm looking for him.

- A friend of the Monks?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

Hey Boner.

Boner, hey, I got one for you.

Boner.

- Hey.

- [Kat] Interesting name.

- Well, thank you.

It's not my given one.

A lot of people are surprised by that.

You guys with CNN?

- Not really.

- ESPN?

- [Kat] Uh-huh.

- SPBB?

- [Kat] Huh?

- CSSS?

(static buzzes)

- Actually we're with Off the Lip.

- The tip?

- [Kat] Huh?

- Off the tip, what are you shooting

a porno movie or something?

(surfer ladies laughing)

- No.

- Oh man, look at that guy ride that wave.

Oh yes.

Stay on it now, stay on the, oh, don't.

Ah shit.

I should be out there.

I should be out there.

- Can we get an interview quick first?

He told me that you know about the Monk

and we would love to just ask
you a few questions on camera?

(static buzzes)

- There you go.

- Is that legal?

- What?

Oh shit, are you fucking FBI?

Oh fuck me, get the fuck
outta here, you're fucking-

(static buzzes)

Molokai.

- Molo-

- Kai.

- It means ancient enchanted
island of pineapples

and like shit that.

(Kat cheers)

- So this is where the Monk is.

- Shut the fuck, keep your
voice down, Jesus Christ.

- This is where you'll find him?

- Yes, you go through
these pineapple fields.

And you turn right, turn
to go through the pine,

fuck, there's guides all over the place.

You find one of the guides,

you tell them you're looking
for, use his Hawaiian name.

Pupule.

Pupule.

- Pupule.

Pupule at (in foreign language).

- You're good, very good.

- Thanks.

- You wanna buy some pot?

(static buzzes)

- So you're going to be
laying right up here.

Just right about there.

Good.

I'm gonna be behind you right here

and we're gonna be paddling.

And when that wave starts to take us

and you feel it pushing the board.

You paddle faster and faster.

Here we go.

(shouts loudly)

I'm gonna get up and then you come on up.

- Is it my imagination

or is the surfing lesson
going a little too far?

- [Lenser] Does that feel uncomfortable?

Okay, feel good?

Now we're good.

(Lenser and Kat shouting)

(in foreign language)

- And tomorrow the Monk.

My only regret is that
it was just too easy.

- Oh my girl, today were
terrific, absolutely terrific.

- Thank you.
- Just wonderful.

- What are you looking at?

- [Brad] Entertainment.

- [Kat] She's quite entertaining.

- [Brad] I'm entertainment so far.

(upbeat Hawaiian music)

(singing in foreign language)

(upbeat tribal music)

(horn blaring)

(crowd cheering)

- Thank you for today.

- Oh no, you.

- You.

- You, seriously, come on.
- You.

- Oh well, whatever.

It was a good day.

- Yeah.

Cheers.

- I hope you're having your movie blessed,

because if he don't
there could be bad manna.

(static buzzes)

- [Kat] I see that you're wearing my hat.

- You can also see that I'm quite ready.

- Oh my you are.

- Wow.

- Oh la la.

(phone beeps)

- [Martin] Katherine, are
you picking up your messages?

(phone beeps)

(static buzzes)

- Molokai, an island just
a few short miles away,

yet a world apart.

It's far from the crass
commercialism of the hotels

that lay in southern shore of Maui.

Molokai is the perfect
hiding spot for the Monk.

- Big improvement.

Can you loosen up a little?

- I'm trying.

You hate me.

- No, I don't.

- [Kat] You're being nice.

- No, I'm not.

- Do we have many hits?

- A few, it's not easy,
the field is way over mind.

It's it's like the gold
rush, it's gotten too big,

it used to be small, used
to be a few scientists

and computer geeks and
sharing a secret knowledge,

now it's 20 bucks a month,

any creepy geek in his
basement could get wired in.

- But you're not one of them?

- Well, hell no, what makes you say that?

- No reason.

Go on.

- Anyway, the level of
conversation is way, way down

and the level of personal, insult, sex

and sales is in the stratosphere.

- So I take it that we're
not getting any hits?

- Hey, hey, don't discourage her.

You're doing fantastic, the
drama of the Monk will hit.

It'll take off, trust me.

Just a matter of time.

If not, we'll just have to
go there and assassinate you.

(Rick laughs)

- Hey, what's going on in the office?

- They're just doing a little remodeling.

- Rick wants a younger image.

- Like what, kindergarten?

(upbeat music)

♪ Here we go ♪

♪ Jump, jump ♪

♪ See me do the wild thing ♪

♪ Would you rock, rock ♪

♪ You come move your body ♪

♪ I say me jump, jump ♪

♪ See me do the wild thing ♪

♪ Would you rock, rock ♪

(Kat shouts)

We're gonna see the Monk.

(Brad spits)

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- Think you gonna be
all right little buddy?

- Yeah, I'll be fine, just
cutting the camera, would you?

- Try some of this, this
will help your stomach.

- Oh, thank you, captain.
- There you go.

- Hey listen, I found us a guide.

Thing is he's kind of
uneasy around people,

I'm not sure he should be
taking tourists around.

- What exactly is that supposed to mean?

- Lenser.

- Why are you so uptight all the time?

- Why you always hitting on my girlfriend?

- I'm not hitting on your girlfriend.

- I'm worth this crap.

- What's up with that surf
lesson, you grabbing on her hips.

- It's a surf lesson man.

- I'm on to you.

- Maybe somebody should grab her hips.

- [Brian] Easy guys.

- What's that's supposed to mean, man?

- [Lenser] What are
you talking about, man.

- [Brad] You wanna go?

You wanna go?

Come on.

- Oh yeah, thank you.

- We weren't doing anything, were we Tito?

- Hey, it's Vito.

Vito, come on, you got
it from him or what?

- I'm sorry.

- Do I look Turkish?

(Kat laughs)

- I'm sorry.

I'm Italian from Armenia,
but I was born in Canada.

- I'm a lot more comfortable in the water,

I don't know about this
whole horse riding activity.

- So you say you friends with Pupule?

- Boner sent us.

- [Guide] Are you sure
Pupule is expecting you?

- Well-

- Yes.

Definitely, yes.

(bright country music)

♪ Yodel hey ♪

- [Lenser] He-ha.

♪ Yodel hey ♪

♪ Yodel hey ♪

I think I'm starting to
get the hang of this.

Yeah, it's kind of like riding
a big, gnarly, long board,

but with legs, and a head, and a saddle.

- Ow.

Oh Jesus.

Oh my God.

A bee just bit my pecker.

Oh my God.

- [Guide] There's bombs out there.

- [Brad] My pecker.

- [Kat] What?

- [Lenser] They used to use this island

for target practice after the war.

There's a lot of unexploded
artillery shells.

- [Kat] Brad, don't move.

Brad, there are land mines, don't move.

- Okay, this is the end of the trail.

Pupule's house is just down the ridge.

I'll wait up here with horses.

Sorry about your penis, bra.

- [Brad] Thanks for the sympathy.

♪ Yodel hey hey hoo ♪

♪ Yodel hey, hey hoo ♪

♪ Yodel hey, hey hoo ♪

- [Brad] Kat, honey,

you couldn't have done that
while we're laying track?

Look, the surfers coming in.

Dolly's gonna move with her,

Kat, let's go, let's go, let's go.

He's coming up, honey, come on.

Okay, move and a slow pan to
pick up the surfer, Brian.

Look at this guy, perfect
timing, perfect timing.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- [Kat] Aloha.

- Are you filming me?

- [Brad] No, it's tape.

- This is my land.

This is my home.

Did I say you could do this?

- No, no, no.
- Give me that.

- [Brad] Easy on the camera.

- No, give that.

You easy.

- [Brad] It's your land, that's my camera.

- Yeah okay, and I want
what's in the camera.

Pop it out.
- Brian, pop it out.

- Or I pop rock to your brain, got it?

Brian, pop it out.
- Let's go.

(static buzzes)

Pop, pop, pop, let's go, come on, come on.

- You happy now?

- [Monk] No, now I am.

- No, no.

- [Monk] That's what I think
of that shit, soul snatcher.

- I would've erased it.

- So you're Pupule?

- How do you know that name?

That's my Hawaiian name,
that's a sacred name.

- [Kat] So you're the Monk?

- What are you gonna do if I am?

- [Kat] I'm making a documentary,

it's for a surf scene on the web

and I was hoping that
you would participate?

- So your little web surfers
think they could know me,

and you think you can know me?

But can you really know me?

You can't know me.

I'm the Monk, greatest big
wave surfer in the world.

- So Mr Monk, why surfing?

- Hey, surfing is like being born.

It's like a religion,
it's like a re-religion.

- You mean like sort of-

- Like re, re-identify, re-realize,

relive, release, relearn, re-be.

- Re-be?

- The shark's mouth,

the man in the gray flannel suit.

Check it out, bra.

(Lenser laughs)

Don't even man, it's razor sharp.

No, seriously, don't even
stand that close to it.

Oh fuck.

Oh shit, look at that.

He's coming around, man.

(upbeat tribal music)

You're the shark, man.

- No, no.

- Come on, be the shark
man, that'd be cool.

- No, no, no.

- No, no, be the shark.

Be the shark.

(Monk growls)

(Lenser growls)

- [Brad] Kat, you gotta see this.

Kat, honey, look what I just found.

- Anti-psychotics?

- [Brad] Anti-psychotics.

- That was frigging weird.

I can't believe it, I'm sorry,

but who knew Pupule
meant crazy in Hawaiian.

- Hell, I could have told you that.

- [Brad] Gotta be honest with you, Lenser,

That's that's the best
shark I've since "Jaws."

You're really committed to the part, man.

- You funny aren't you, smart ass?

- You guys, stop fighting, stop it.

- Hey guys, the Monk is like a big fish?

(explosion detonates)

(Vito shouts)

- [Kat] Vito.

Vito.

- [Lenser] Oh man.

- Landmines, man.

- That's how I could afford this place.

(static buzzes)

- His name was Vito.

(light music)

He was an Italian from Armenia,

whose parents made the
difficult commute to Canada

before he was even born.

(static buzzes)

Brian, do you wanna say anything?

Just a little raw here right now.

This is Kat Shutte for Off the Lip.

- Hertzog And Fitzcarraldo,
Wells, and it's all true.

And now Brad to do, Kat,
the story of a girl.

- You should have listened to that dancer,

you should have gotten us blessed.

- You want a knuckle sandwich?

- Hey, I don't need this negativity, dig?

- We'll just have to start over.

- Excuse me, I'm Che,
new audio technician.

- It's great to meet you, Che.

- [Che] Nice to me you too.

- Welcome aboard.

- Okay.

- Brian.
- How's it?

- Cameraman.

- Kat.

- Hi, how you been, Kat?

(car engine revving)

- Hey, you see that cove over there?

The Monk used to trap sharks in there

and then he'd wrestle them

just to entertain the village children.

- All right, you can cool it
with the legend stuff, Lenser,

the Monk doesn't exist,

I know, I figured it
out, it's all bullshit.

(Brad laughs)

- Wrong, you're bullshit.

- [Kat] Hey do you know the Monk?

- You mean Jerry Garcia?

- I'm looking for the Monk.

Hey, this is Kat Shute for Off the Lip.

- Fucking media, Jerry's not dead.

(car engine revs)

- Are you looking for the Monk?

- Look, I have a little
dog named the Monk.

- Hey, it's Kat Shutte,
Off the Lip, what's up?

- Jerry faked his death

and went underground
here on Maui as the Monk.

- Whoever meets the goanna,
must fuck the goanna,

it's our religion.

- This is probably not the right lead.

Okay, moving on.

- There'll be no meeting of goanna,

There'll be no fucking of
goannas, this is my fiance.

- Look.

(Dave laughs)

- [Brad Hey, you think you
pull over for a second?

- Not everybody survives
the Ahona highway, sorry.

- I'll survive.

(upbeat music)

(car engine revs)

(pukes loudly)

- Oh man.

The road does that to some people.

- He's a nice guy, believe me,

he's not at his best right now.

- Yeah, it happens.

He's probably just tense.

- You never seem to get tense.

- Oh yeah, I get tense.

Why do you think I came to Maui?

- I don't know, why did you?

- Well, I saw some heavy shit in Granada.

(Kat laughs)

- It's hot out here.

- Oh yeah.

Keep going.

- Take that.

(water splashes)

- How's the water?

- Did she just jump in, in her panties?

(Brad sighs)

Anyway, it's me.

- [Che] You mean ma?

- No, no, no.

Dogma, it's pronounced dogma, it's Danish.

- [Che] So it's probably the same word,

meaning an arrogant
declaration of opinion.

- [Brad] Yeah.

- [Che] Like the church,
laying down a central tenant.

- Yeah.

- [Che] Or like the dogma of Marxism,

that postulates class
identification between all workers,

regardless of their individual loyalties.

- Well, that too.

- Which is why I hate dogma,

it represents things in black and white,

which life never is.

- Where'd you go to school, Che?

- I'm a self-educated Jeffersonian.

And the name is Che.

(singing foreign language)

(water splashes)

- [Lenser] Around here there's
a (in foreign language)

we could try,

she's like a spiritual
leader in the community.

- I've seen the Monk.

- [Kat] Really?

- Many times in my dreams.

- [Kat] What does he look like?

- Like a blinding flash of light.

(graphics whooshing)

When you see this massive figure

rise through their cross
of that 60 foot wave,

this is like a ghost of
another time made flesh.

There is an island, some say,

invisible to the eye without faith.

It can be seen at sunrise and sunset,

and sometimes it floats overhead

and you can reach up and
touch it with your fingertips.

And here on this island, lives the Monk,

there you will find him.

You will find him.

You'll find him.

(static buzzes)

- I swear to God, wherever you
are, I will track you down.

As God is my witness,
I will find you, Monk,

I will find you, I will find you.

- Che, you're in the shot.

Che, Che, get out of the shot, would you?

Get out of the-

(Che shouts)
No.

(Kat shouts)

(water splashes)

That's not my fault, that's not my fault.

Brian, can you get the camera over there?

Please be careful.

Oh God.

Brian, can you see?

Oh Che.

Can you see?

- [Lenser] Bummers, bra.

- [Brad] Is there anything,
nothing, not a shoe?

Was he wearing shoes?

- [Lenser] That might
be a shoe over there.

Might be a sea turtle
head, it's hard to say.

(singing in foreign language)

- Please bless and guide
all of these people

until you're knowing ways.

And most of all, please
bless their new sound man.

- Cool.

- The name's Mee.

- Sorry, Mee.

(in foreign language)

That was terrific.

- Ole, please no, this is for all of you.

And for you (in foreign language).

- Why'd you do that?

- What?

- I think you just really offended her.

- Oh, come on.

It's only two bucks, but it's a gesture.

(upbeat music)

- Sorry you couldn't bring Brad.

- [Kat] He'll get over it.

- You got to understand
the locals around here

don't want a million
tourists tramping around.

Outsiders is are strictly
(in foreign language).

This is Jaws.

(in foreign language) is
what the locals call it.

This is the ultimate spot, man,
it's completely outrageous.

- It's totally flat.

- Well, yeah, it's kind of flat today,

but when it's pumping,

when you got those Northwest
coming through here,

it is freaking spooky.

You get into the zone,
you know what I'm saying?

And you got like a 60 foot
wall of water on your ass

and the sound is just deafening.

(waves crashing)

It's like you got a train
in your brain or something

and it's like you're out there
with some sort of an animal,

some huge prehistoric water beast,

and you're going there with it,

you're just going with it.

And you can't even think about it

because it's doing the thinking for you.

You don't have a choice, you're
just trying to stay alive

and be part of that thing.

And it's like Hoover Dam just broke,

and everybody's getting electrocuted

and you're riding that wave

and you don't care 'cause
you don't have time.

It's Jaws man, you just
hope you don't get chomped.

(announcer speaks faintly)

I could have been a monster surfer,

have my own sort of style,

but I just, I don't know, I got scared.

Just got scared.

- It's really beautiful
here, thanks for bringing me.

- You're welcome.

- Even if it is flat.

- It just feels like we've
gotten off track is all.

- What do you mean?

- Kat, I love you and I
need you to make this film.

And I guess I'm just
feeling a little insecure

and I need some reassurance.

- Would a blowjob make you feel better?

(Brad sighs)

I'm not gonna say that,
but it wouldn't hurt.

- That's what I thought.

- Wait a minute-

- Guys, I think I got a lead

on some film of the Monk.

- [Kat] Really?

- Yeah, seriously,

but we're gonna have to move like now.

- [Kat] Okay, okay, we're going.

(upbeat music)

- [Brad] This is like that
film, that Coppola thing,

"Hearts of Darkness."

Mee, you know that movie?

- What movie?

- You got to know that movie.

- "Apocalypse Now," he's talking about.

- Mee, where does that name come from?

- It's Hebrew, it means who?

- Who means Mee?

- That is fucking deep.

- "Hearts of Darkness."

Oh yes.

- There she is.

- [Kat] Wow.

- [Brad] So who is this guy again, Lenser?

- He's a great, great grandson
of some plantation boss.

And the thing is he's a little bit a-

- Aha, another freak.

- Yeah, but he's trustworthy,
a hundred percent.

He's not gonna like these cameras up.

- Who, you and Brian just
stay here and shoot this way.

It's Mee.

- You put this in your
bag, and just set it up

and he'll never even know it's there.

- A hidden camera.

(Kat coughs)

Geez, this place stinks.

- Just don't breathe

- Come on.

(Kat shouts)

You must be McReady.

- You Kat?

- You got the stuff?

- You ready to trade?

- I got 5,000 right here.

- [McReady] You said 25.

- I need to save some cash.

- Yeah, well fuck that.

Hey, if you don't want what I got,

Y'all can just move right on.

My great, great granddaddy
got marooned in paradise

because he was a mutineer
walking around Honolulu

with 15 cents in his pocket.

But I'll tell you something,

by God, he was a man.

Do you know what that means to be a man?

A real man, huh?

Huh?

Huh?

How about you?

Do you know what it's like to be a man?

You don't know what it's
like to be a man, do you?

Just 15 cents in your pocket

and yet you are still able to grab

a whole country by the back and just ride.

He's riding the whole country at once,

at the wheel driving, I got
you now, white man in charge.

(McReady grunting)

Squeal like a pig, squeal for me country.

(Lenser squealing)

Yeah?

No, you don't know what that's like.

You don't know.

(upbeat tribal music)

I don't either.

(McReady cries)

- [Lenser] It's okay for
a real man to cry, right?

(static buzzes)

- This is the link between
what was and what can be.

The Hawaii's call him the Monk,

but the Hawaiians call
him (in foreign language).

(McReady growls)

My tutu mama took me by the
hand at the tender age of 10

down to the shores of Peahi.

And she said, I want you to see

what it means to surf the big ones.

(waves crashing)

And that's when I saw my gambling debts

are barking louder than my
conscience is right now.

- This is the film of the Monk?

- The one and only
version existing anywhere.

- [Kat] 22, 23, 24, 25.

- Thank you very much.

God bless this country.

- Thank you so very much.

(McReady shouts)

Brad, roll projector, please.

- [Brad] Yes ma'am.

- Drum roll, gentlemen.

(tapping knees)

And now the moment that
you all been waiting for,

the face behind the name, the Monk.

(Brad and Lenser cheering)

(videotape rolling)

- Oh, that's so beautiful.

(Kat shouts)

- This is unbelievable, do you see that?

No one can do that.

- Give me a break, it depends on the wave.

- He is just ripping, go, go.

- [Brad] Hold on.

Oh shit.
- Wait, what are you doing?

Brad, what are you doing?

- Turn it off, man.

Shit, man.
- Don't touch it.

Don't touch it.

(screen burns)

Oh my God, what is happening?

(screen burns)

Oh boy, well, maybe
there's stuff in the middle

is salvageable, but the rest of this is,

with all the silver nitrate
in this old film stock,

it's very lucky, the whole
place didn't go up in flames.

- You should've just left it alone.

Would been so easy to transfer to video.

- Wait a minute, we all
wanted to watch it together.

We all wanted to watch it.

- Don't, okay, just don't.

You're a filmmaker and you
should've known about this.

- What the hell does this film have to do

with I being a filmmaker?

- [Lenser] You know what?

I'm just gonna step out.

- [Brad] Take it easy, man.

- I'm sorry.

- [Lenser] I'll see you later.

- [Kat] See you tomorrow.

- [Lenser] Okay, okay.

- Listen, I don't think we
should let this get in the way-

- Oh, get out of my face.

- The Italian say never go to bed mad.

- [Kat] You know what?

I'm not Italian.

(waves crashing)

- I'll take a pay cut.

- Oh no, it's not your fault, seriously,

forget it, you're doing a great job.

- Thanks.

Is that a rake?

- We're in Rick's garage.

He out right now talking to
some more venture capitalist

about another three mil
for this year's budget,

you can't show a profit if
you wanna make a killing.

I actually haven't seen
him in a couple of days,

but he'll be back soon.

- [Kat] Well, what happened to the office?

- Oh, Rick said that office
was stifling our creativity.

- It's been a little
tough around here lately.

- This is Kat Shutte for Off the Lip,

we on our way to a Lahaina, a
popular tourist destination.

And according to our hotel security guard,

a possible home of the Monk.

- Actually, it was me who got the tip.

- Brad, please, I'm doing a report.

(upbeat music)

(engine steaming)

- Oh man.

This blows, I just re-taped
this hose about four days ago.

(engine steams)

- Nice job, I hope it worked.

- How far is it to the Lahaina?

- About 10 miles.

- Why don't you guys go
hide in the lone fields?

I have an idea, go.

Brian, you too.

- [Brad] Brian, get down, get down.

Here comes a car.

(car engine revs)

- Hey, can I hitch a ride?

Come on you guys.

- You gonna be fine here just
by yourself with the car?

- I'll be fine.

- Great, we'll see you back at the hotel.

You're a real sport, Who.

- It's Mee.

- You guys ever see Contempt?

You know the Godard?

Well, he would've loved this.

All about reality, capturing reality,

the reality of the capture.

- [Kat] So you have heard of the Monk?

- Oh, the Monk, yeah, he's the coolest,

him and cool drink are the best.

- Excuse me miss.

Excuse me miss.

- [Kat] Yes.

- You drive an 89 black Jeep?

- That sounds like my
car, is there a problem?

- I'm sure I tied the
boards up on the car.

Big, huge gust of wind comes up.

Boom, plenty boards flying
through the air, cuz,

my brand new surf board-

(local man hits)

goes right through this guy here.

$400 for nothing now, nothing.

- Whoa is Mee.

- Gnarls.

- My condolences.

- Yeah.

- Fuck it, I quit.

- Brian.

Wait no-

- Fuck you, Brad.

- Wait, no, no, you cannot quit,

Brian, you call yourself an artist?

- [Brian] Fuck off.

- Amateur.

He's an Amateur.

Sorry Who.

- It's Mee.

It's Mee, he's name is Mee.

God.

- I feel terrible.

If I hadn't pushed so hard,

maybe if I hadn't wanted it so badly,

Che, Who, Tito would still be with us.

On the other hand, you
can't make an omelet

without breaking a few eggs

and what kind of artist
would I be if I just gave up?

What would their lives have meant?

They would've wanted me to continue.

Sex and death is like
a potent combination.

- Jesus Christ, don't you ever get enough?

- What are you talking about?

We're in like the most
romantic island on earth

and we've only done it like three times.

- Is that all that this
relationship is to you?

(knocking on the door)

- I'll address that
question when you get back.

- [Rick] Kat.

- Rick.

It's my boss.

Stay in here, you're
not supposed to be here.

Be quiet.

- [Rick] Wow, didn't
realize that I was paying

for a full suite.

- [Kat] Well, that's how you booked it.

But if it's a problem, I can-

- [Rick] No, hey, come
on, it's no problem,

money is no option when
we looking for the Monk.

Is that the terrorist right there?

Let's go out there.

Wow, that's not a real Picasso, is it?

Nah.

Listen, come on out here,
I got to ask you something.

Hey, I'm sorry that,

I just didn't feel comfortable in there.

Prying ears, lot of people wanna
find out where the Monk is.

- So what's up?

- We spotted the Monk in Southeast Asia.

- Southeast Asia?

- Yeah.

Me and Mar, just formerly Burma,

the king and I, (indistinct) and all that-

(Rick mumbling)

The point is, do you have
your passport on you?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Great.

I knew a kid like you would come compared.

Do me a favor, go get it for me, will you?

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Great.

Good, I'm gonna go to the airport now,

I've got to pick up our tickets.

- Why do you need my passport?

- For the visas.

- Oh.

- Yeah, you need a visa to get there.

So a friend of mine works
in the consulate in Oahu,

who's gonna grease the whole thing.

So there it is, tomorrow
morning 10 o'clock,

just pack your bags and I'll pick you up.

- I have run out of my per diem.

- Oh, no problem.

Let me, oh, you know what?

This is my last 100, I
need it for the limo.

- Okay.

- Tomorrow when I come
I'll bring a lot of cash

'cause we gonna need it for the trip.

Uncle Rick is gonna
take care of everything.

All right.

- Thank you.

- [Rick] Okay.

(Kat sighs)

(Kat chuckles)

- Would you turn that off?

Turn that off.

(static buzzes)

- Yes, Burma, Burma.

B-U-R-M-A.

These idiots are telling me

there's no Burmese consulate in Honolulu.

I'm gonna call you back.

Silly.

Listen, I think Rick
won't mind if I tag along.

So long as I pay my own way.

I guarantee, I can find it
very cheap Burmese crew.

I'm gonna miss you guys.

Even you, Bradford.

- Oh, Lenser, I'm not so
sure I'm gonna miss you.

(Lenser chuckles)

- It's half past noon, where is Rick?

- [Lenser] Yeah, he owes me money.

- [Kat] He owes me money too.

- I'm sorry, this credit card's
not going through either.

- This doesn't even have a balance on it.

- Could you try it again?

It should work.

Thank you.

- We should probably eat pretty fast.

- Yeah, yeah, I'm in Maui,

but I did not take out a
$10,000 cash advance yesterday.

Are you listening to me?

No, that is what I'm asking you.

I don't have an American
Express card number

because I don't have an
American Express card.

No, I'm sorry to be talking
to you in this voice.

No, don't don't transfer, no, no.

I owe $150,327 and some cents.

They said I signed an application.

It must have been at the
office, those employment papers.

And he signed himself in as a co-signatory

and now he's left the country

with my passport and I'm liable.

- They'll sort it out, you'll see.

Look, I might have to lay
low for a little while.

The feds came by.

- The feds?

- Yeah, they were looking for him,

apparently he's been laundering money

for a Colombian drug cartel

and came up a few hundred grand short.

- How stupid, how could I do this?

I knew this job was too good to be real.

- Look, the job might not be
real, but the Monk is real.

You have to find him,
people are counting on you,

people are rooting for you now.

- You're actually getting hits?

- Over a hundred thousand last week.

And I got a call from a magazine

offering 50 grand for an
exclusive once you find him

and a photo shoot.

- I can't do that.

I'm not that desperate.

No, not of you, of the Monk.

- Where are you, anyway?

- The downtown library.

I can't go back to the
office, it's too hot.

Are you gonna be okay?

- No, but I'll talk to you later.

(static buzzes)

What are you filming the boat for?

- [Brad] Product placement, honey.

Mama said she'll give us
some fish on the house.

I told him we work for
the exploratory channel.

Pretend like you're exploratory.

Yes.

- Thank you.

- Compliments of Mama's Fish House.

- Thanks very much.

(static buzzes)

(Kat sighs)

- With all that's gone wrong
today, at least I have you.

- Kat, I got a call from Boston,

they want me to go back there.

- I thought you gave that up.

- I did, I did.

Well, the guys at the station at K Cam,

they got a great opportunity

to do a bunch of promotional spot

like public service
announcements for child safety.

So it's a good cause.

And then the money is not
much, but I can use it,

I can use it to make
my film, not this film,

but the film that I told you about,

the one about the dying of mother earth.

- [Kat] Well, I can that.

- You can see that?

- [Kat] Yeah.

(Brad chuckles)

- Wow, I'm glad.

I mean, I thought you
were gonna be really mad.

- God no, why would I be mad?

- Well, I have to leave today.

I have to leave soon.

- [Kat] You have to leave today?

- Yes.

- [Kat] But what about the Monk?

- Oh, you'll find the
Monk, I have confidence,

I have faith, you'll find
him, Kat, you don't need me.

- Brad, I do need you, you
can't leave me right now.

- Kat.

What about the movie?

What about our movie?

- I got them here, this is all of it,

this is everything that we shot
since we came to the island,

including the bedroom stuff.

And I want you to have
it or your dad to have it

and tell him I said thank you

and I'm sorry, it just got away from me.

It was not my film anymore,

I had a vision and then people
blew up and fell and stuff.

- [Kat] You're leaving me.

- I'm not leaving you.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I mean, yes, I'm leaving
you, but I'm not leaving you.

- You're an asshole.

Fucking take your tapes.

(Kat cries)

Shit.

- It's just a job, Kat.

- Yeah, we'll see.

- Can you give me a ride to the airport?

(drink splashes)

- Reporters journal.

- [Dave and Kat] Remember
I wrote about those idiots

we look forward to believe in?

- Well, Brad is example
(in foreign language),

a pathetic king without a
kingdom, but you know what?

I'm starting to feel okay
that he bailed on me.

Asshole.

(static buzzes)

My key.

- [Hotel Assistant]
Yes, how can I help you?

- It doesn't seem to be working.

- Oh, one moment, please.

Katherine Shutte?

- Yeah, that's me.

- I'm afraid, I'm gonna have
to ask you to settle your bill.

- I will, it's being taken
care of by the company.

- Apparently not.

(Kat chuckles)

- Well, there has been a huge mistake.

- Yes, I'm afraid there has
your bill is rather substantial.

You're gonna have to come with me, please.

- No, get your hands off of me.

- Let's not make it serious.

- What's your name?
- Is that a camera?

- What's your name?
- Is that camera on?

- [Kat] Yeah.

- You shut the camera off right
now or I'll call security.

Redolpho.

Redolpho.

(bright music)

- [Dave] Reporter's journal.

- [Dave and Kat] What
hap&pens when white kids

who come from wealthy
homes fall on hard times?

(static buzzes)

- [Kat] The rescue boat
comes and you hate yourself

for jumping on board.

- [Local Man] Hey, Hawaii
girl, where you going?

- [Dave and Kat] But not
me, I refuse to give up.

I won't do it.

(static buzzes)

(knocking on the window)

- Hey Kat, come on in.

Hey, what's going on?

- [Kat] Brad dumped me.

- Ouch, wow.

Sit down, have a Mai Tai.

- I'm not complaining,

plenty of people have
it worse off than me.

It's like you have your national disasters

and your local disasters,

and Brad was just your
complete domestic disaster.

I never really had any belief in myself,

like to think I could do something

or mean something to
someone on my own terms.

(birds singing)

- [Lenser] It's a pretty place, isn't it?

I always come up here when I wanna think.

You look really nice in this light.

- Thanks.

(bright music)

(Kat laughs)

- Hi mom and dad.

- Hey mom and dad.

- I went to Hawaii, and I
got was this lousy surfer.

(Lenser laughs)

- Sorry.

Better than a T-shirt.

(Kat laughs)

- What are you thinking now?

- Oh, all that stuff I was
telling you about the Monk,

about wrestling sharks and
pulling the honeymoon couple

out of the surf and all that stuff.

Well, I'm not sure all that
stuff really ever happened.

See, when Rick called
me, offered me this gig,

I was really, really hurting for cash,

so I said, yeah, okay,
whatever, this a job.

But then when you came
along, you believed so much

and I didn't wanna stop
you from believing,

it seemed to mean so much to you.

- Are you saying that he doesn't exist?

- I'm saying I don't know.

I'm just a guy, takes pictures of surfers.

The Monk's never been found

because the Monk doesn't wanna be found.

I just don't want you keep getting hurt.

(waves crashing)

(water bubbling)

Wow.

I look at you and I can't
believe we slept together.

You're so pretty.

Anyway, it's that time
of day, dawn patrol,

I can hear the surf breaking from my here,

it sounds like a monster swell.

I kind of wanna get out
there, shoot some of it.

I've been up since our talk last night,

I had some time, I wrote a poem,

maybe explain things a little better.

(Lenser sighs)

Shark-a-baby.

I fall upon your coral,
scraped and battered,

scarred and shattered with all hope dashed

being with you again.

Crest of you as far too steep,

fate never meant for us to meet,

on this Emerald isle we took a trip

and now I've fallen off the lip.

Goodbye, Kat.

(waves crashing)

(phone beeps)

(water bubbling)

- They really did a great
job on these stations.

- [Kat] Dave.

- What?

- There are no hits are there?

It's only you, isn't it?

- I'm telling you Kat, if you
find this guy, there will be.

You'll make it, I swear.

- Why are you staying with this?

Why do you even give a shit?

- Just promise me you won't give up.

Kathy, promise me you won't give up.

- Okay.

- And I'm sorry about, you know.

I wouldn't start a new
relationship just yet.

- There's nothing going
on with me in Lenser.

- Really?

Oh, I mean, I didn't mean
to, it's so personal,

it gets a little quiet
on this end sometimes.

- You are looking kind of pale.

- I haven't slept much.

- Funny, neither have I.

I wonder what Jacqueline
would have thought of this.

(water bubbling)

(upbeat music)

- Hi sweetheart, can I
get something for you?

- I could definitely use a drink.

- What would it be?

(balls clashing)

- Honey, you can't sleep here.

- Where's (indistinct) when you need him,

I can't believe it.

- Hey, sorry.

- [Drunk Man] You coming out with us?

(static buzzes)

(torch flicks)

- Don't you dare, give that back to me.

Give it back.

It's not yours, give me back my camera.

Give it back.

Get the hell out of here.

Okay, it's okay.

It's okay, it's okay,
it's okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

(Kat cries)

I wanna go home.

- Welcome to where I spent my night,

it's not the Maui that
you see in advertisements,

it's a possible home of the Monk,

your amid the debris of the 20th century,

it would be somehow fitting.

This is Kat Shutte On the
Wire, and Off the Lip.

(static buzzes)

- Miss Shutte, FBI.

- Oh my-

- You said you have no prior knowledge?

- No, I told you this all already.

- I realized you made use of your passport

to flee the country.

Yes, and I had no idea that
he was going to do that.

- Wasn't he your lover?

- No, definitely not.

- You ever have a criminal record?

- I did not do anything.

- [Martin] Hello?

- Dad.

Hi.

- [Martin] Kat.

- It's Kat.

- [Kat] How are you?

- Not so good.

- I heard a rumor, you're
looking for the Monk.

- Where'd you hear?

- Word travels.

He's in Lanai.

(static buzzes)

- [Kat] I'm sorry.

- [Martin] Where's the
tears, usually lots of tears?

- [Kat] Dad, right here, right now.

- [Martin] A criminal, I
have a criminal in my family.

- [Kat] I made a mistake, I'm sorry.

- [Martin] You made the last
mistake you're gonna make.

Airport please.

- [Kat] I have to go find the Monk.

- [Martin] Are you insane?

- [Kat] Dad, that's ridiculous-

- Come on, we're going home.

- -he's not dealer.

- [Martin] He's a surfer.

If he's a surfer-

- [Kat] Wait a second.

- [Martin] No, you can
take off, we're leaving.

- Do you understand what's going on here?

- If he's a surfer, he's a drug dealer.

It's a simple equation.

- Do you understand
what I'm going through?

- How else do they pay
for their lifestyle?

- Listen to me please, dad.
- Drugs.

- Dad, do you understand
what I'm going through?

This is about you and me,

it is about you and me.
- Nothing to do with me.

- Do you know why I was dating Bradley?

- I have no idea.
- He's like you.

- Thank you, that's great to hear.

- He is like you, he is
you, but he's not you-

- Thank you, honey.

- -you're you, no one could be like you.

You are so strong and fearless,

and you know you don't give up?

- Please.
- Hold on one second.

- I'm a small man in the big picture.

- [Kat] Do you remember Mrs Rosenthal?

Do you?
- Of course I do.

- [Kat] Do you remember that now?

- What's that got to do with anything?

Please.

- Nobody would go near
that mouth, but you-

- It was a horrible mouth.

- You went through that mouth, you did it.

- I went where man would go.

- [Kat] And what happened?

- Bacterial endocarditis.

- [Kat] She's now eating
apples now, isn't she?

- Crispy apples, I know, it's true.

- The Monk is my Mrs Rosenthal's mouth.

- Really?

All right.
- Please do this for me.

- Okay, all right.

You're making a sense,

if you make sense, I'm a sensible man.

That's all I'm asking.
- Thank you.

- Come on, come on.

Where the hell is the Lanai?

Oh my God, a checkered helicopter.

What?

First third of mile, $2000.

Oh my God, I hate these things.

Really, this is a huge psychic price

I'm paying here, honey.

I'm willing to do it.

Let's go up.

(Helicopter chuffing)

- [Dave] Reporters journal.

Sunlight, new hope.

(bright music)

- [Dave and Kat] Getting
arrested was the best thing

that ever happened to me.

Now I know where the Monk is.

I've convinced my dad to come with me.

- [Martin] No.

(Martin shouting)

Where did you learn to drive this thing?

- [Kat] How can you hate

and love someone so much at the same time?

(Martin shouts)

Well, for some reason I needed him here,

maybe only so he could see
me in my moment of triumph.

- Okay, great.

One, two, three, four, five, six, $700.

- $700?

- Yeah.

- A tip would be appreciated.

- Well, okay.

- Helps to motivate the return trip.

(Martin laughs)

- I was gonna give it to you.

I was just testing you.

You don't have to nail me
with your brutal logic.

- Thank you, sir.

- Sure, fine.

I hope I tipped him enough.

(helicopter chuffing)

There's a lot more money
where that came from.

We'll be right here.

Hello?

I'm losing you.

No, I'm losing.

I'm losing.

Nope.

I got no reception.

Katherine.

Katherine, turn the damn thing off.

Don't film this.

- [Kat] Dad, my name is Kat.

- Look, do you know how many appointments

I've canceled to do this for you?

I mean, this is ridiculous.

I mean, Mrs Martin is sitting there,

Mrs Martin with a frontal occlusion,

looks like Eleanor Roosevelt.

And I got to work on this lady,

her husband, gums completely inflamed.

You know what that's worth to me?

You know how many hours that is?

How many gum hours that is for me?

A lot, that's what it is.

And we'll use a rubber tip?

- No, won't do it.

Where are we going?

Which way are we going?

Is it possible for the humidity

to get above a hundred percent?

Is that like physically possible?

This way?

Oh, you're kidding.

Oh, come on.

Oh God.

Oh God.

Okay, whoa, whoa, dinky, dinky.

(static buzzes)

(Kat laughs)

All right, okay.

No, we're going home.

That's all.

(static buzzes)

It's gonna stabilize, I'll be right there.

You just shut up.

(intense music)

- [Kat] What I don't understand

is why you never believed in me?

- I believe in you.

- [Kat] No, you don't.

- Oh, come on.

- [Kat] The fact of the matter is,

you're more willing to finance

my ex-boyfriend's stupid filming
than you are in my future.

- Look, just let us be parents,

we're imperfect damn
it, for heaven's sakes.

Right?

- [Hawaiian Thug] Hey.

- Oh, geez.

- What you doing on my property?

- Look, just relax, I
will take care of this.

Oh, they got a machete and a gun.

Just move, run, come on.

Honey, don't-

(Kat screams)

- [Hawaiian Thug] Hey, check this out.

- Oh, yeah, cuz, some cherry camera.

- Look, we had no idea
this was your drug field.

- You're right, you had no idea.

- No, please, don't kill us.

- [Hawaiian Thug] I'll smash this.

- No, I'm making a documentary.

- [Hawaiian Thug] On drugs?

- Surfing.

- [Hawaiian Thug] Well,
sister, you just got totaled.

Ow, my fucking tooth.

Fucking tooth.

- Are you in pain?

Okay, a little wider.

A little wider.

(Hawaiian thug shouts)

A little pressure on this side then.

And we're going to get this.

(tooth pops)

Yeah, yeah.

(Martin laughs)

There you go.

- Owie.

- Owie, huh.

Hey honey, got it.

Now look, this was your
own fault, my friend,

a little oral surgery early on,

it's got impact, you
can't let that happen.

I want you take one of
these for breakfast,

one after dinner, and one or
whenever you want to, for pain.

And did you know that a
distinguished medical journal

has reported that cannabis
can be highly effective

in treating many patients for pain?

- No shit?

Yeah.

- How you feeling?

- No pain.

- Well, you're gonna hurting tomorrow.

(laughs loudly)

(in foreign language)

- Aloha, my brother.

- [Martin] Aloha.

(in foreign language)

- [Kat] I didn't know you smoked.

- Yeah, I was a kid too, a long time ago.

Oh, I feel so tingly.

Everything feels tingly.

You wanna feel tingly?

(Kat laughs)

- [Kat] No, dad.

- I feel like tingling.

Oh my whole body, I haven't
felt like this for a long time

I can tell you that.

- [Kat] You're so cool like this.

- Yeah.

No more vodka, you know what I mean?

(Kat laughs)

Vodka, uh-huh, uh-huh, no, no.

No more vodka, not for me.

(bright upbeat music)

(waves crashing)

(water bubbling)

Hey, this cam is cherry, bra.

- Dad, finished?

We're here.

So would you act cool and
try not to shake the camera.

- [Martin] Yeah.

- Let's try to blend in.

Where's the Monk?

What's going on?

Where's the Monk?

- [Boner] So you heard?

- [Kat] Heard what?

- [Boner] He's dead.

(light somber music)

- Hey Kat.

Hi.

I tried to get ahold of you at the hotel,

they said you already checked out.

McReady here got a hold of me.

- I read about it on Yahoo.

But by the time we got here,
it was already too late.

- He was out there on those
waves, just cutting across them.

- Ride back and forth,
in and out, teasing them.

- He's like a bull fighter
on top of his game,

just in tune with the elements.

- It wasn't the biggest wave we've seen.

- It wasn't the smallest either.

- But it took his life.

- The Monk.

- Last of the pure thing in these islands.

- Besides those waves,
to which he has returned.

- Hey, let's have a moment of silence.

- To me, the wave is like tooth.

A wave is rooted in the ocean

just like a tooth is rooted in the gum,

and at the place where
they meet, that's a coral,

there rises white, brilliant,
inexorable, a tooth,

and we ride it, we ride
it, and we ride it.

And it wears a way and it wears a way

until finally it falls
peaceful upon the shore.

- That is so fucking beautiful.

- I'm flossing every
day, no skipping, man.

Yeah, and those little gum things too.

- Rubber tips.

- Yeah, me too, twice a day.

- I just happened to have some samples.

- [Boner] Come on, give me.

- Thank you.

Oh man, that feels really good.

Can you feel that?

- It feels great, just great.

- It's stimulating.

- Well see, that's the blood
coursing through the gums.

- Yeah, I can feel it,

is there supposed to be this much blood?

(light music)

♪ He head butted a tanker off a reef ♪

♪ He punched a great white's lights out ♪

♪ He always remembered
to floss his teeth ♪

♪ They must be talking about the Monk ♪

♪ He rode a tube so big ♪

♪ A train could fit through ♪

♪ He birthed the baby
whale in one breath ♪

♪ If anybody had better
teeth, don't know who ♪

♪ Must be talking about the Monk ♪

♪ Hope that you believe these tales ♪

♪ If not, there's nothing I can do ♪

♪ Hey, I don't care what you think ♪

♪ You know I was there ♪

♪ And I actually saw it, so fuck you ♪

- I'm sorry that I-

- [Martin] That wasn't necessary.

- I'm sorry that I
snapped at you like that,

not good with people and
I don't have any friends.

♪ His teeth were all his, he had no caps ♪

♪ Back to talking about the Monk ♪

- I got one.

♪ He showed old Neptune who was boss ♪

♪ He surfed from pole to pole ♪

♪ Now for his using kelp for floss ♪

♪ Must be talking about the Monk ♪

- All right.

(Martin claps)

(bright music)

(singing in foreign language)

(flute blares)

- I guess it doesn't
matter what you try for

or what you believe in,

it'll all get shot through
with bullshit in the end.

(guys cheering)

Nothing's pure in the world anymore.

Nothing worth trying for or believing in.

(light music)

I might as well go back home,

be a secretary in my dad's
office, pay him back,

go back to school, get a practical degree,

find a husband, have two kids.

Love them.

Get old, be mad at myself for getting old.

Feel like there was something

that I should have done and didn't.

Get sick and think about
how I spent my whole life

never even thinking that
death was a possibility.

(waves crashing)

I think about the Monk,
at the height of the wave,

where the sea comes crashing into land

and the power of a person

standing on something impossibly strong

and not dying, but riding it,

it becomes not a dream or an
illusion, but something real.

And I know that I will dream of the waves.

And at the time of my death,
I'll dream of them still.

Maybe see myself on them.

Thinking that maybe that's
something I should have done

and didn't.

(singing foreign language)

(static buzzes)

- This has been a fantastic trip.

I mean, a fantastic trip.

Fantastic.

And don't worry about
the credit card thing,

you can come back and work
with me on the office,

that'll be nice?

Dad working on the toothies.

Katherine up in the office.

You're good, honey, you're good.

And in the fall, you
can re-enroll in school,

Pepperdine Dental School,

Pepperdine Dental School
will be glad to have you,

after all it is (indistinct).

We can start over there.

What a guy.

What a guy.

We'll put this all behind us.

Kind of life plan out, feel
smooth, get it straight.

That's the best way.

So you know the future,

I hate not knowing the
future, makes me nervous.

I hate being nervous.

Oh, damn, these nuts are good.

Oh, I gotta save some for your mother.

And we'll brush our teeth on the plane.

(Martin shouting)

Where are you going?

Kathy, where are you going?

Where are you going?

(upbeat rock music)

♪ Your friends keep telling me ♪

♪ I bear a striking resemblance
to someone you used to know ♪

♪ But baby it's me ♪

(water bubbling)

- That was her last transmission,

the camera along with all the tapes

were sent to the office,
COD, no return address.

I intercepted the mailman
before the FBI got to it though.

(static buzzes)

I'd like to thank the
Honolulu Police Department,

Alma Kriegel, vacationing in Maui

with your newlywed husband.

The Shutte family, of course,

and all the others who contributed

all their footage to make
this film what it is.

Yeah.

So on a personal note,
Kat, if you see this,

please contact me.

This is my home number,
actually it's my dad's number,

but he knows how to get ahold of me.

Okay, all of those, if you
in the law enforcement,

doesn't mean he knows where I am now.

(static buzzes)

And all your friends out
there on the internet,

Kathy.

(police sirens blaring)

Shit.

Kathy, if you haven't already
figured this out, I love you.

I can't believe I said that,

it's actually not so bad, I love you.

I dream of you

I love you.

(static buzzes)

(upbeat rock music)

(waves crashing)

♪ 24 years old ♪

♪ All dressed up with somewhere to go ♪

♪ Forever fed up ♪

♪ How can you just sit there ♪

♪ What do you wanna do ♪

♪ What do you mean ♪

♪ What don't I wanna do ♪

♪ I wanna know what's going on out there ♪

♪ Standing alone in the corner ♪

♪ Who knows what I said or where it led ♪

♪ 'Cause in the morning ♪

♪ My head was pounding with regret ♪

♪ Back home with the blinds shut ♪

♪ All alone with my hands up ♪

♪ I swear it's the last time
excess gets the best of me ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I do what
I heard I did last night ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I rely on you ♪

♪ I don't want what I can't get for free ♪

♪ I don't want what I can't get for free ♪

♪ I don't want what I can't take with me ♪

♪ I don't want what I can't get for free ♪

♪ Standing outside of your window ♪

♪ Lights are off but I
know someone's home ♪

♪ That's not my car in
the driveway anymore ♪

♪ One and one is two I make three ♪

♪ Oh god, what am I doing ♪

♪ I gotta go ♪

♪ Yeah, it got the best of me ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I do what
I heard I did last night ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I do what
I heard I did last night ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I ♪

♪ Never again will I rely on you ♪