Fireflies (2004): Season 1, Episode 13 - Clouds Got in the Way - full transcript
- And if development
is the way forward,
then I'm for development.
- This is a focal moment for us.
Whichever way it goes, I mean
we should think about this
'cause this place isn't
gonna be the same again.
- Whoa it's you!
God you stink, yuck! - Fif!
- Where have you been?
- I've been on a prawn trawler!
I wanted to get money for us, fif!
- Joey, I'm sorry.
- If I don't wanna have another child,
then I'm perfectly at liberty to sex.
- Oh Perry, I won't be having children.
It's a shock.
Just give me a day or two
and stop being such
an insensitive prick.
- Let me sleep! (Laughing) (Exclaiming)
- Where are those boys
that can make you forget?
- I'm not like everyone.
- Don't worry.
(Screaming)
Let go, you're gonna be all right!
- You okay?
(Thoughtful country music)
♪ I have to pinch myself to feel ♪
♪ if what is going on is real ♪
♪ from the gods themselves we steal ♪
♪ night and day ♪
♪ night and day ♪
♪ a jug of wine a loaf
of bread and beans ♪
♪ lying on a blanket ♪
♪ underneath that big
ole spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
- Lean down.
- No, it doesn't matter.
- Just lean forward.
Come on.
Lean forward.
That's it, just there.
There it goes.
There it goes.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Svettie] Whose blood is that?
- A car ran off the road.
It's the driver's.
- Is he dead?
- No.
- Your head is full of
these sad, awful things.
- I got some good things in there too.
- Can you only keep the good ones?
- I want all things.
- Who else was there?
- What?
- Did you find him by yourself?
- Lill was with me.
(Easy guitar music)
(Vocalizing)
- Oh god, Joey!
- [Joey] Oh I had a
shower, I had a shower!
- Oh prawn pong!
Prawn pong!
I'm sorry, it just makes me wanna spew.
- Yeah it's okay, I'll sleep out here.
- I love you, prawn boy.
- What time's he gonna be there?
- He said at eight.
Eight.
And I wanna get there before that.
- You want some toast?
- Oh, I'll take a vegemite traveler.
- Listen eddy knows
you really want this.
And he's gonna want
something in return.
- My ass!
- You call me if there's any dispute.
Any dispute!
I don't want any shit.
- Right-o.
- You call me!
- [Sharpie] Right-o!
(Thoughtful music)
- Hank!
It's me!
What?
Sorry.
This is Hank's number!
His mobile!
Right.
Well do you know Hank sharp?
Hello?
Hello?
- Mate.
- Hey, eddy!
How you going?
How you going, good, you?
How'd you go?
- I reckon you'll be
pleasantly surprised.
- Great!
- You care to look behind you.
Subtle, down.
You'll see a camera up there,
and that camera's operating 24/7.
This may be a Christian operation
but they're not stupid.
You help me unload, you
see what you like.
Anyone asks, I tell them it's taken.
- Right.
- Right?
Yeah.
(Moody music)
Over there.
- Gotta call bek.
(Phone key pad beeping)
Bekah, it's me.
Look I can get a double mattress,
or I can get a queen size with a base.
No, the queen size is a bit
more but, it's got the base!
Well my question is,
will it fit in her room?
Oh bloody hell!
Hang on.
It's eight feet, that's real feet.
Well I haven't got a tape measure!
- Hey top your voice.
- Right.
Thanks.
I've got a tape measure.
Well try the top of the fridge.
- No, it's definitely not here.
Oh hang on, does anyone know
where the, don't worry.
- (Chuckling) What was that?
- I don't know, mum's lost something.
- [Joey] Oh man you guys
spend a lot of time
trying to find lost
stuff in this house.
- Do we?
- Yeah!
- No, it's not here.
- [Joey] Nothing's where
it's supposed to be.
- [Fifi] Like what?
- Oh I don't know.
Well the remote, the
car keys, the paper.
The jam!
- It's in there!
- It's up there.
- [Fifi] Mum, where's the jam?
- Oh sorry, run out.
Hey Kieran, what are you up to today?
- I don't know.
- Hey mate, you wanna come with me?
I've gotta pick some stuff
up from uncle Jeff's.
(Chuckling)
- Oh too right!
I'd love to have a cup
of tea with uncle Jeff!
(Laughing)
- Honey?
Can you pick us up some
jam on the way home?
- Mwah.
- [Fifi] Bye.
- Hey! (Laughing)
Here it is!
- Oh my god!
- Wow.
Go on!
- It's real!
(Laughing)
Is it good?
Do you think it's good?
- Yeah, it's great.
- What?
- Well it got published, I
mean someone's backed it.
(Laughing)
- Come on now.
What do you think, do you like it?
- I don't know!
Now that it's here,
I just didn't expect
to feel so confused.
- What are you confused about?
- I don't know!
I just wanna be able to see it
like I've never seen it before.
You know I just see the hour
I spent working on that bit
and a cup of tea spilling
on that drawing,
I had to redraw it and then I never got
the tea spilt one back
to the way it was,
but that's all just crap!
I just can't see the book!
- Come on lill, take a step back,
you know what you're like.
Your first reaction's always negative.
Especially when it comes to
you, and your abilities.
- Oh I don't know about that!
Is that what people do?
How're you supposed to stop
feeling what you feel?
- Hey.
- Do you want to stop?
- Hey I think it's great!
I do.
I think it's twice as
good as the last one.
And I'm really proud of you.
- Thank you.
- When's the launch?
- Next Tuesday.
I imagine you can't.
(Grunts) (Joan and Mick chatting)
Do you know what I really want?
I want to give this to a kid.
I just want to see that face.
We could have another kid, Perry.
That didn't come out right, did it?
I mean, you know what I mean.
- [Perry] Hello.
- Oh.
- Can I help you?
- Excuse us, we're hiking and
we didn't know this place was settled.
No, no, it was my first
job out of training.
I was 21 and I turn up
here the only teacher.
Had 52 kids in my class!
- [Lill] Oh my god, how did you cope?
- You know I've no idea.
My mind has conveniently wiped
out a lot of that time.
- So when you lived in lost
river, this was all just bush?
- [Mick] No, there was
never a house here.
- We used to come up and have picnics.
- And other things.
- [Joan] Mick proposed to me up here.
- Oh, really?
- Just over there, on the escarpment.
- And it was 45 years ago.
- So what does your family think of you
going off on this big adventure?
- We were too old, all
our family are dead.
- We're going down the river tonight.
We've got a little boat,
and we're going to spend a
few days tralling around.
- [Lill] Oh I'd love to do that.
- [Joan] Now look,
we'd better be going.
- I can give you a lift
into town if you like.
- Oh that'll be great!
- Oh lill hey, look I love your book.
It's really delightful!
- Thank you, I've going to
show some kids, I think.
- I'm sure they'll love it.
Look I'll just get my bag, thanks.
- So what did you do
in lost river, Mick?
Mick?
- We should get going 'cause
this meeting starts in an hour.
- [Perry] Yeah.
- [Joan] Come on.
(Cows mooing)
- [Kieran] Do you need
a hand with that?
- This is all there is,
the bastard's thrown
everything else out.
- Fair dinkum!
- What about the rest of my stuff, eh?
What couldn't you have called
me I would've taken it away!
You coulda just rung me up,
and I woulda moved it out.
- Your stuff is in the carton.
Whatever else I've thrown out,
I bought in the first place.
- G'day, Mr. Burke.
Yeah good thanks, yourself?
- [Backa] It starts in a minute.
- I thought we were gonna have a swim?
- After the meeting.
- Candy.
- Cool!
- Kids can come too.
Growth green developments
supports the community,
they've got a room for the kids.
- The ballroom's gonna be stinking hot.
- Hey!
- Hey guys.
- [Svettie] Hello.
- [Joey] Going to the creek?
- [Tim] Yeah, come down after
the meeting if you want.
- What are you boys up to?
- [Kieran] Nothing much.
- I was just up at uncle Jeff's and
he's chucked out all my stuff.
- It'll be all right.
- [Joey] Kieran mate, could
you give me a minute?
- Yeah, I'm in no hurry.
Shrimp sounds good though.
- Could you wait in the car?
I just want to talk
to svettie for a bit.
- Yeah.
No worries.
- What is it, Joey?
- You know that I'm on the trawler
now, and Fifi's pregnant.
- Yeah.
- Well I was wondering if
you've got anything here
that could help get rid of
you know a strong kind of smell.
- The smell of prawns makes Fifi sick
so she won't sleep with you?
- Yes! (Chuckling)
- That's no good.
You have a shower?
- Yeah, yeah, but her smell's
gone all hypersenstive.
- Yeah.
Not for you, for Fifi.
Put that on her nose and on her pillow.
And for you just wash your
clothes in white vinegar.
And put it in your bath, and
don't forget your hair.
- White vinegar?
Right, right.
Can I get that here?
- Supermarket.
Get a couple big
bottles, they're cheap.
- Oh!
Thanks svettie, thank you so much.
- No worries,
gotta get rid of everything
that keeps you apart.
- Here we go again, whole town crowd.
- Here we go again.
- Where's backa and svettie?
Do you think their kids are too old?
Maybe not.
- Hey lill.
I hope I'm not being too arrogant.
Thinking that I might
be enough for you.
- Perry...
- is that what you've been thinking?
Say something.
I don't know what to say.
- Okay if everyone could come
and sit down the front, could
people fill up the spaces?
Thanks.
- The riffraffs and the
blow-ins have turns up.
(Chuckling)
Oh is that the book?
Let's have a look! - Yeah!
- Wow!
- Come on people.
Squeeze up. - That's great!
- Lill, Perry.
Eris!
(Chuckling) There's a
seat down the front.
- Oh, yeah, okay.
Lill, how're you doing?
- Good.
Good, yeah.
- Okay, well I know we all
want to get out of here
and go for a swim. - Yeah, a swim!
- So I'll do the introductions.
Mr. badroek from the 12th
green development group.
(Applauding)
(Moody music)
♪ Images they come and go of
you and me like a movie show ♪
♪ in my head ♪
♪ so tenderly you held me close ♪
♪ said you're the one I need the most ♪
♪ but we gotta stay strong ♪
♪ there's only trouble ahead ♪
- We wanna make this work.
And we want the town and
the people of lost river
to help make it work.
(Applauding)
- Okay, are there any questions for Mr.
badroek?
- Yeah, I'd like to ask one
about the environment.
I mean this is gonna change the area
in ways we can't even imagine.
- We're not wood chippers,
we're not intensive chicken farmers.
We're part of the growing
leisure industry.
We're clean, and green.
- [Eris] Clean and green!
- Eris, hey can you just shut
up and give him a go mate?
I for one would welcome
the economic benefits.
And I wouldn't mind a
decent golf course, either.
(Laughing)
- Oh Jesus, backa you're like
a kid in a toy shop mate,
it's all mights and maybes.
- Eris, just...
- There is one thing
these guys want, and
that is to make money!
- Eris!
- Steady, steady.
- As much as I love public speaking.
(Laughing)
An 18 hole international
standard golf course.
Four artificial lakes, 100
townhouses, villa club rooms,
I'd like ask the meeting a question,
what is wrong with that?
What's wrong with an extra
million dollars a year
being spent here?
What's wrong with an extra 120 jobs?
- I'm taking up golf.
(Laughing) - Yeah, why not?
Go ahead, there's nothing
else to do here.
(Applauding)
- Yeah, okay so, this could
be good for our town.
But it could be disastrous.
- Yeah with respect Perry,
you've been here about 10 minutes mate.
- Well we're both here now.
And I just think we gotta be
careful, read the fine print.
And if we do that, I don't
think we'll like what we see.
- Fine print, my ass, you can see
the development's bigger
than the whole town!
(Crowd murmuring)
You know things like
this can be stopped.
- If you don't like it, we move on.
There are plenty of places
that'd love the benefit.
- Okay, there's the door, see ya later.
- Eris!
(People shouting over each other)
- Hey, enough, enough.
(Laughing)
- Look at this!
- Yeah!
- Is Joey here?
- [Bekah] Yeah he's hanging
out at the washing machine.
- [Eddy] Hey bek, it's been a while!
- Yeah you know where we are, eddy.
- [Sharpie] What do you reckon?
- It's great!
- Yeah, not bad, eh?
Man we have been to janderburg mall.
I will never go there again!
- Well there Sushi there is very good.
- Well what'd you go there for?
(Laughing)
- That's pretty good.
I can't get a whiff of anything
except maybe salad dressing.
- Does it make you sick?
- No, just hungry.
Dad picked me up from work.
He's got a surprise, come on.
- Hey, watch the juco Kieran!
- [Bekah] You all right?
- [Kieran] Yep.
- Shit, where'd you get that?
- Mate, you don't wanna know!
But it's as good as new.
All right this is queen
size, we've got the base,
and we got the mattress.
- [Fifi] Isn't it great?
- Yes!
Yeah, it's great.
- Anytime, mate.
So you have a good day
hanging around with Kieran,
doing the brother-in-law shit?
- Yeah yeah, Kieran's pretty cool
when you get him away from Hank.
- Yeah, well,
we better get the old one out
and see if we can fit this
into Fifi's room, eh?
Now you take the other end, mate.
Ready? - Yeah.
- [Sharpie] Got it.
- That mattress has seen
a bit of action eh, fif?
- Yeah more like ancient history.
- Oh come on, the rodeo
was only a month ago.
- [Sharpie] Hey Joey,
we might need a bit
of a hand here, mate!
Joey!
(Upbeat music)
- Did you see the book?
Isn't it beautiful?
- I'll say!
I can't believe I know someone
who's actually published a book!
(Laughing)
Hey Raymond, don't do that!
It's not a bloody toy, stop it!
- Joan, do you and Mick have children?
- Yes, we had one, a son.
He fell of his motorbike when
he was 28 and was killed.
- Oh god.
- That's terrible!
- To go through that and then
to lose a child as an adult,
I don't think I could bear that.
- [Ali] Just like my worst nightmare.
- Why do we do it?
- We had Joe for 28 years.
He was extraordinary!
I mean I can't imagine what my life
would've been like without him.
(Thoughtful music)
- Bold.
- Well children respond to
bright, primary colors.
- That's funny.
I like it.
Do you want to sell it here?
I can organize a book signing for you.
Line up the two-year-olds, you know.
- Yeah?
- Yeah!
- Mum can we have some ice cream?
- Nope.
- When?
- Later.
- When later?
- Later, later, go on!
- [Carter] And do what?
- I don't know, play!
- [Lill] You know you
could read this book.
I want a full report later.
- It's a baby's book!
- Excuse me!
Driving me crazy!
- [Backa] Hey.
What are you up to?
- Gonna meet Perry.
- Yeah.
- Been hobnobbing with
the suits, have you?
- (Chuckling) Yeah.
Man they are slick!
- Eris is right, they're
not interested in us,
or this town, or the
families that live here.
- I noticed you didn't have
too much to say this time.
- Well there were other people there
who said what I thought.
- Like Perry?
- And others.
I thought you loved this place!
Gonna let other people
change it for you?
- Lill kids leave,
businesses are closing down,
what's gonna be left here
when Carter and candy have grown up?
You know they may not wanna stay,
but I'd like them to have a choice.
- What you love might disappear.
- Well, I'm gonna make
sure that doesn't happen.
- [Lill] Good luck.
- I'd like to think we
were on the same side!
- So would I!
See ya.
- No it was a shouting match mate,
eris was at full throttle.
(Video game beeping)
Yeah he just, he'd mediate
it sometimes, that's all.
Nope, no I can't, it's school holidays.
Well, it's holidays for the teachers.
- [Candy and carter] Dad!
(Laughing)
- No, I better go.
All right mate, bye. (Exhales)
Tail end of the holidays
and that boarding school's
looking pretty good. (Groaning)
- They come for holidays,
and you don't know who
they are anymore.
That would be worse, wouldn't it?
(Bell rings)
- Shop!
- Oh excuse me, is your surname Burke?
My husband insists that he knows you.
- Edgar Burke.
- Well, that was my grandfather.
- I knew I knew you!
- Well, in that case, I once
taught your father, Barry.
- Barry?
- Yeah, that's dad.
Really?
- [Joan] Yeah, really! (Laughing)
There we are.
Oh look. - What?
- That's me.
- Oh!
(Laughing)
Wow!
What was he like, the
old man, as a boy?
- Well, I remembered him.
I mean that's something
in a class of 50!
He was what I call a teacher's dream.
Cheeky but charming and
always tried to be good.
Your boy's a lot like him.
- Oh, he's a good looking kid, kinda.
- [Svettie] And you Mick, you?
- Oh Mick was a jackaroo
on a farm out of town.
Used to be the o'rions?
- Oh yeah.
- We looked it up but
it's all been divided up,
and the families have all scattered.
- Yeah.
- But you're still here!
And your brother.
- Yeah.
I thought about leaving.
About a million times.
(Chuckling)
I don't know, I like it here.
It's home.
- And what about you?
Is this place home for you?
- Oh I don't know.
What's home?
Backa's still here where he grew up and
I don't know I guess it's my home too.
It's where ever they are, my family.
- Who are you?
- I'm svettie.
- Svettie.
- Where's your toilet?
- Out back, this way.
Just,
out the door there, on your left.
That's it.
- My grandfather used to be like that.
- Oh, he's not too bad.
It's just occasionally it's
like a fog falls over him.
- Yeah, it's like they're
still here but they're gone.
How long have you been married?
- Over 40 years.
- Wow, he's lucky to have you.
- No, we're fine!
We're fine.
Oh, what a lovely girl! (Chuckling)
What's your name?
- Candy.
- Candy!
(Svettie drowned out by Mick)
- Oh excuse me.
- That old man's taking
a whizzer on the floor.
(Laughing) (Shushing)
- He's not well!
- Do you need anything?
- A bucket and some bleach
and hot water, I think.
- Okay.
(Laughing) Shhh, the two of you!
(Laughing)
For richer or for poorer,
in sickness and in health.
Both of you, quiet.
- Oh, this is great!
Joey, have a go.
- Oh, hang on.
- This is my bed from uncle Jeff's.
- No.
How do you know?
- Well I know my own bed.
It's from the house.
Stuff he just bought
wasn't mine anyway.
- Oh don't tell dad, he's so stoked.
- [Sharpie] Here we go.
(Laughing) - Dad, well!
Dad, these are really nice!
- Yeah!
I'm all class, didn't you know that?
I think you'll find
there's a fitted, a flat, and
two pillowcases in there.
- Aren't they cool Joey?
Do you like them?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah I like them.
- [Bekah] Anyone want a cup of tea?
- Let's put them on.
Come on!
Grab the other end.
- Okay if you don't wanna
talk about anything...
- well I'm not gonna say something
if there's nothing to bloody say, am I?
- There's nothing to say?
All right well your face
says something different.
Kieran said something
different today...
- that's because he's shitty at you
because you had a go at Hank.
Why does everyone have to
talk about everything?
"I feel like this.
"No, I feel like this."
It's so boring!
- All right well let's just
like let it sit there.
You want that?
You want it sitting there between us?
You like that idea for one
month, one year, 10 years.
- There's nothing to say.
- Okay, well I got something
to say, I kissed lill.
- What, are you joking?
- No.
Couple of weeks ago on the strike team.
It was nothing, but it happened.
- Stuff you!
(Sniffing)
- That's good, Matey.
- No thank you, I really
needed your help today.
Come and peel some spuds for us.
- Pleasure.
Tell you what, but I'm rooted.
- Maybe you should have a lie down.
You've been working too hard, eddy.
Not like you.
- You know what I've realized?
There's only one thing worse
in this life than working.
- [Bekah] And what's that?
- Not working.
- Well you'd know all about that.
- Joey doesn't like the bed.
Does he feel it's something
he should provide, does he?
- Dad, the bed's fine.
He's got other stuff on his mind.
I've got other stuff on my mind.
(Peaceful music)
- [Lill] So which one is yours?
- Oh that little white one over there.
We've had it for years.
- [Lill] It's sweet.
- We stay on it for weeks at at time.
- I would love to come and
have a fish with you.
If you, oh before you go.
- Sure.
- Ooh!
- Now hold her steady!
(Water splashing) Oh hell!
Look at that.
- It's all right, it's all right.
We'll leave the boat tied up here
and we'll pop back into town.
What was it?
- The tea and biscuits.
- Oh well, can't do without those.
(Chuckling)
(Thoughtful music)
(Phone beeping)
- G'day, is Hank there, Hank sharp?
A friend of his gave it to me,
said it was where he
was staying in Sydney.
I'm his dad.
Okay, thanks.
Yeah, all right, okay.
Well could you let him know I called?
Yeah, that'd be good, thanks.
Bye.
(Motor thrumming)
- [Backa] Used to come up here fishing.
- [Eris] Yeah.
- It's not quite the same,
responding to a triple 0 call.
- Yeah, a bit right.
(Moody music)
Hey, there it is.
- [Backa] When'd they get the call?
- Six.
Fisherman smelt it.
- Okay, cut the engine.
Did you and remember to
ask if I called the...
- Yeah, yeah, the gas gear, the anvos.
- Yep.
(Propane hissing)
(Suspenseful music)
They're there.
They're covered.
And they look they're asleep.
- Well, we better get
her back to fox cove.
- Yeah it's just, don't
touch anything, eh?
- [Eris] We're gonna need the lot.
The coroner, the cops, and the ds.
- Anyone call?
- [Bekah] No.
- [Sharpie] (Groans) Shit.
- What?
- Oh when I was in town yesterday,
I ran into a mate, he gave me a number,
said it was where Hank was staying.
- Did you call it?
- Yeah, last night.
Spoke to some guy.
Said he thought Hank was
staying in a room there,
but he wasn't really sure.
Didn't have much of an idea, really.
- Can I have the number?
- [Sharpie] Here you go.
- Ta.
(Phone beeping)
(Water running)
Hi, is Hank there?
Is Hank staying there?
Hank sharp.
Yes, please.
He's getting someone else.
Hi, is Hank there?
All right, yeah, okay.
No no, it's just his mum.
Just haven't heard from him in a while.
Still alive then, is he?
Yeah, yeah that'd be great.
Yeah thanks, bye.
- Well?
- Well he was there last Tuesday.
She hasn't seen him since.
- Is that where he's living?
- She's not sure.
- God!
At least when he was in
jail we knew where he was.
(Sirens wailing)
(Somber music)
- Backa, here you go.
- Ta.
- No thanks, Louisa.
- How long do we stay?
- Oh fox cove police are
gonna put it on a trailer.
The problem is where are
they gonna find one?
Why don't you two go home?
- [Eris] You sure?
- You want anything?
- No, I'm all right.
What'd you see?
- Doesn't matter.
- [Lill] I wanna know.
- You think you do.
- Would you do that?
- Can't see it.
(Easy music)
- They keep you in this
world, don't they?
- Like an anchor.
Sometimes it feels like a dead weight.
Sometimes you know it's saved
you from drifting away.
♪ Here come my tears again ♪
♪ I'm gonna cry ♪
♪ one more time ♪
♪ you don't cry no more ♪
♪ cry ♪
♪ cry one more time ♪
♪ you won't cry no more ♪
♪ images they come and go ♪
♪ of you and me like a
movie show in my head ♪
♪ so tenderly you held me close ♪
♪ said you're the one I need ♪
- What selfish shits!
- [Patto] Dunno about that, fif.
- You can't put yourself
in their position.
I mean they were married
for a long time.
Mick's mind was going!
The thought of losing the
other must've been terrible.
- It's not romantic to
leave your ship behind
for other people to deal with.
- You okay, Fifi?
- Yeah, I'm fine, you?
- Okay.
Joey.
- Should I be worried about you?
- No.
Not for a second.
No.
(Thoughtful music)
Hey.
- Come sit down.
You know it's funny to think
that this space once held them.
And that none of this was here.
We weren't here.
You weren't even born.
What's it all amount to anyway?
I mean what's it matter what you do?
You work, you love, all of this.
And then one day it's all gone, poof.
Could you do that with me?
Just decide to lie
down and go to sleep?
Say, "goodbye life, I'm
off to sleep now."
- I don't know.
I'm not faced with the loss of my mind.
Not yet, anyway.
I can still do whatever I have to do.
- But if that did happen.
Because Joan and Mick didn't
leave anyone behind, did they?
- Well they must've had friends
or something, someone.
- No, you'd never do that.
As long as taz was around,
you'd never do that.
- Hey, eight hours of weekend left.
Why don't we go and count
our chickens together?
Or maybe we can swing in the hammock?
Mix a Martini.
- I'll see you a bit later.
- Yep.
- I'm off.
- [Fifi] Joey?
- Yep?
- Okay.
I kissed rolly.
We didn't have sex or anything,
we just kissed for a bit.
- Okay so what happens you know?
Do we make rules and you
know if you break them
you have to lie and?
- No.
I don't know, I've never had
kids with someone before.
(Chuckling)
- Me too.
- So did we just sort that?
- [Joey] Yeah.
- Is that sorted now?
- Yes, yes that is sorted.
Well I tell you what, if rolly
came through that door now
I would smack his head in.
- No you wouldn't!
You'd think about it,
but you wouldn't do it.
- No, no I would. (Chuckling)
Did you say something to lill?
- I didn't smack her head in,
if that's what you mean.
(Sighs)
- I wish I didn't have to go to work.
- Just think.
Right here, right where we're lying.
Joan and Mick may have
sat and had a picnic.
Maybe they had sex here.
(Scoffs)
(Laughing)
- What I asked you before.
- Are you enough for me?
Not really the question, is it?
- Well yeah, it is really
the question, I mean.
If we don't have children,
then can we still go on?
Will our marriage last?
- Do you think we can?
- Oh I don't know.
I mean I wish it was just up to me
and then I say, "yeah, sure.
"I mean look how good it's been so far,
"it can only get better."
- Come back.
(Thoughtful piano music)
I'm a bit drunk.
And I'm just gonna sort my head out.
I just know that right
now I don't wanna be
anywhere else but here.
With you.
Just, like this.
♪ It's a pretty part ♪
♪ how you always seem
to land on your feet ♪
♪ a little undone ♪
♪ anybody else by now would becoming ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ whenever you fall ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
- Shit.
♪ Any time ♪
♪ any time you're passing by this way ♪
♪ remember ♪
♪ you will always have
a place to stay yeah ♪
(Door clicks)
♪ Let heaven fall ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ yeah ♪
(Thoughtful music)
♪ We're chasing ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ takes a sun dying ♪
♪ to turn the world gold ♪
♪ the days run ♪
♪ outside my window ♪
♪ like wild horses ♪
♪ across the plains ♪
♪ fireflies ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady ♪
♪ it waxes and wanes ♪
is the way forward,
then I'm for development.
- This is a focal moment for us.
Whichever way it goes, I mean
we should think about this
'cause this place isn't
gonna be the same again.
- Whoa it's you!
God you stink, yuck! - Fif!
- Where have you been?
- I've been on a prawn trawler!
I wanted to get money for us, fif!
- Joey, I'm sorry.
- If I don't wanna have another child,
then I'm perfectly at liberty to sex.
- Oh Perry, I won't be having children.
It's a shock.
Just give me a day or two
and stop being such
an insensitive prick.
- Let me sleep! (Laughing) (Exclaiming)
- Where are those boys
that can make you forget?
- I'm not like everyone.
- Don't worry.
(Screaming)
Let go, you're gonna be all right!
- You okay?
(Thoughtful country music)
♪ I have to pinch myself to feel ♪
♪ if what is going on is real ♪
♪ from the gods themselves we steal ♪
♪ night and day ♪
♪ night and day ♪
♪ a jug of wine a loaf
of bread and beans ♪
♪ lying on a blanket ♪
♪ underneath that big
ole spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
- Lean down.
- No, it doesn't matter.
- Just lean forward.
Come on.
Lean forward.
That's it, just there.
There it goes.
There it goes.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Svettie] Whose blood is that?
- A car ran off the road.
It's the driver's.
- Is he dead?
- No.
- Your head is full of
these sad, awful things.
- I got some good things in there too.
- Can you only keep the good ones?
- I want all things.
- Who else was there?
- What?
- Did you find him by yourself?
- Lill was with me.
(Easy guitar music)
(Vocalizing)
- Oh god, Joey!
- [Joey] Oh I had a
shower, I had a shower!
- Oh prawn pong!
Prawn pong!
I'm sorry, it just makes me wanna spew.
- Yeah it's okay, I'll sleep out here.
- I love you, prawn boy.
- What time's he gonna be there?
- He said at eight.
Eight.
And I wanna get there before that.
- You want some toast?
- Oh, I'll take a vegemite traveler.
- Listen eddy knows
you really want this.
And he's gonna want
something in return.
- My ass!
- You call me if there's any dispute.
Any dispute!
I don't want any shit.
- Right-o.
- You call me!
- [Sharpie] Right-o!
(Thoughtful music)
- Hank!
It's me!
What?
Sorry.
This is Hank's number!
His mobile!
Right.
Well do you know Hank sharp?
Hello?
Hello?
- Mate.
- Hey, eddy!
How you going?
How you going, good, you?
How'd you go?
- I reckon you'll be
pleasantly surprised.
- Great!
- You care to look behind you.
Subtle, down.
You'll see a camera up there,
and that camera's operating 24/7.
This may be a Christian operation
but they're not stupid.
You help me unload, you
see what you like.
Anyone asks, I tell them it's taken.
- Right.
- Right?
Yeah.
(Moody music)
Over there.
- Gotta call bek.
(Phone key pad beeping)
Bekah, it's me.
Look I can get a double mattress,
or I can get a queen size with a base.
No, the queen size is a bit
more but, it's got the base!
Well my question is,
will it fit in her room?
Oh bloody hell!
Hang on.
It's eight feet, that's real feet.
Well I haven't got a tape measure!
- Hey top your voice.
- Right.
Thanks.
I've got a tape measure.
Well try the top of the fridge.
- No, it's definitely not here.
Oh hang on, does anyone know
where the, don't worry.
- (Chuckling) What was that?
- I don't know, mum's lost something.
- [Joey] Oh man you guys
spend a lot of time
trying to find lost
stuff in this house.
- Do we?
- Yeah!
- No, it's not here.
- [Joey] Nothing's where
it's supposed to be.
- [Fifi] Like what?
- Oh I don't know.
Well the remote, the
car keys, the paper.
The jam!
- It's in there!
- It's up there.
- [Fifi] Mum, where's the jam?
- Oh sorry, run out.
Hey Kieran, what are you up to today?
- I don't know.
- Hey mate, you wanna come with me?
I've gotta pick some stuff
up from uncle Jeff's.
(Chuckling)
- Oh too right!
I'd love to have a cup
of tea with uncle Jeff!
(Laughing)
- Honey?
Can you pick us up some
jam on the way home?
- Mwah.
- [Fifi] Bye.
- Hey! (Laughing)
Here it is!
- Oh my god!
- Wow.
Go on!
- It's real!
(Laughing)
Is it good?
Do you think it's good?
- Yeah, it's great.
- What?
- Well it got published, I
mean someone's backed it.
(Laughing)
- Come on now.
What do you think, do you like it?
- I don't know!
Now that it's here,
I just didn't expect
to feel so confused.
- What are you confused about?
- I don't know!
I just wanna be able to see it
like I've never seen it before.
You know I just see the hour
I spent working on that bit
and a cup of tea spilling
on that drawing,
I had to redraw it and then I never got
the tea spilt one back
to the way it was,
but that's all just crap!
I just can't see the book!
- Come on lill, take a step back,
you know what you're like.
Your first reaction's always negative.
Especially when it comes to
you, and your abilities.
- Oh I don't know about that!
Is that what people do?
How're you supposed to stop
feeling what you feel?
- Hey.
- Do you want to stop?
- Hey I think it's great!
I do.
I think it's twice as
good as the last one.
And I'm really proud of you.
- Thank you.
- When's the launch?
- Next Tuesday.
I imagine you can't.
(Grunts) (Joan and Mick chatting)
Do you know what I really want?
I want to give this to a kid.
I just want to see that face.
We could have another kid, Perry.
That didn't come out right, did it?
I mean, you know what I mean.
- [Perry] Hello.
- Oh.
- Can I help you?
- Excuse us, we're hiking and
we didn't know this place was settled.
No, no, it was my first
job out of training.
I was 21 and I turn up
here the only teacher.
Had 52 kids in my class!
- [Lill] Oh my god, how did you cope?
- You know I've no idea.
My mind has conveniently wiped
out a lot of that time.
- So when you lived in lost
river, this was all just bush?
- [Mick] No, there was
never a house here.
- We used to come up and have picnics.
- And other things.
- [Joan] Mick proposed to me up here.
- Oh, really?
- Just over there, on the escarpment.
- And it was 45 years ago.
- So what does your family think of you
going off on this big adventure?
- We were too old, all
our family are dead.
- We're going down the river tonight.
We've got a little boat,
and we're going to spend a
few days tralling around.
- [Lill] Oh I'd love to do that.
- [Joan] Now look,
we'd better be going.
- I can give you a lift
into town if you like.
- Oh that'll be great!
- Oh lill hey, look I love your book.
It's really delightful!
- Thank you, I've going to
show some kids, I think.
- I'm sure they'll love it.
Look I'll just get my bag, thanks.
- So what did you do
in lost river, Mick?
Mick?
- We should get going 'cause
this meeting starts in an hour.
- [Perry] Yeah.
- [Joan] Come on.
(Cows mooing)
- [Kieran] Do you need
a hand with that?
- This is all there is,
the bastard's thrown
everything else out.
- Fair dinkum!
- What about the rest of my stuff, eh?
What couldn't you have called
me I would've taken it away!
You coulda just rung me up,
and I woulda moved it out.
- Your stuff is in the carton.
Whatever else I've thrown out,
I bought in the first place.
- G'day, Mr. Burke.
Yeah good thanks, yourself?
- [Backa] It starts in a minute.
- I thought we were gonna have a swim?
- After the meeting.
- Candy.
- Cool!
- Kids can come too.
Growth green developments
supports the community,
they've got a room for the kids.
- The ballroom's gonna be stinking hot.
- Hey!
- Hey guys.
- [Svettie] Hello.
- [Joey] Going to the creek?
- [Tim] Yeah, come down after
the meeting if you want.
- What are you boys up to?
- [Kieran] Nothing much.
- I was just up at uncle Jeff's and
he's chucked out all my stuff.
- It'll be all right.
- [Joey] Kieran mate, could
you give me a minute?
- Yeah, I'm in no hurry.
Shrimp sounds good though.
- Could you wait in the car?
I just want to talk
to svettie for a bit.
- Yeah.
No worries.
- What is it, Joey?
- You know that I'm on the trawler
now, and Fifi's pregnant.
- Yeah.
- Well I was wondering if
you've got anything here
that could help get rid of
you know a strong kind of smell.
- The smell of prawns makes Fifi sick
so she won't sleep with you?
- Yes! (Chuckling)
- That's no good.
You have a shower?
- Yeah, yeah, but her smell's
gone all hypersenstive.
- Yeah.
Not for you, for Fifi.
Put that on her nose and on her pillow.
And for you just wash your
clothes in white vinegar.
And put it in your bath, and
don't forget your hair.
- White vinegar?
Right, right.
Can I get that here?
- Supermarket.
Get a couple big
bottles, they're cheap.
- Oh!
Thanks svettie, thank you so much.
- No worries,
gotta get rid of everything
that keeps you apart.
- Here we go again, whole town crowd.
- Here we go again.
- Where's backa and svettie?
Do you think their kids are too old?
Maybe not.
- Hey lill.
I hope I'm not being too arrogant.
Thinking that I might
be enough for you.
- Perry...
- is that what you've been thinking?
Say something.
I don't know what to say.
- Okay if everyone could come
and sit down the front, could
people fill up the spaces?
Thanks.
- The riffraffs and the
blow-ins have turns up.
(Chuckling)
Oh is that the book?
Let's have a look! - Yeah!
- Wow!
- Come on people.
Squeeze up. - That's great!
- Lill, Perry.
Eris!
(Chuckling) There's a
seat down the front.
- Oh, yeah, okay.
Lill, how're you doing?
- Good.
Good, yeah.
- Okay, well I know we all
want to get out of here
and go for a swim. - Yeah, a swim!
- So I'll do the introductions.
Mr. badroek from the 12th
green development group.
(Applauding)
(Moody music)
♪ Images they come and go of
you and me like a movie show ♪
♪ in my head ♪
♪ so tenderly you held me close ♪
♪ said you're the one I need the most ♪
♪ but we gotta stay strong ♪
♪ there's only trouble ahead ♪
- We wanna make this work.
And we want the town and
the people of lost river
to help make it work.
(Applauding)
- Okay, are there any questions for Mr.
badroek?
- Yeah, I'd like to ask one
about the environment.
I mean this is gonna change the area
in ways we can't even imagine.
- We're not wood chippers,
we're not intensive chicken farmers.
We're part of the growing
leisure industry.
We're clean, and green.
- [Eris] Clean and green!
- Eris, hey can you just shut
up and give him a go mate?
I for one would welcome
the economic benefits.
And I wouldn't mind a
decent golf course, either.
(Laughing)
- Oh Jesus, backa you're like
a kid in a toy shop mate,
it's all mights and maybes.
- Eris, just...
- There is one thing
these guys want, and
that is to make money!
- Eris!
- Steady, steady.
- As much as I love public speaking.
(Laughing)
An 18 hole international
standard golf course.
Four artificial lakes, 100
townhouses, villa club rooms,
I'd like ask the meeting a question,
what is wrong with that?
What's wrong with an extra
million dollars a year
being spent here?
What's wrong with an extra 120 jobs?
- I'm taking up golf.
(Laughing) - Yeah, why not?
Go ahead, there's nothing
else to do here.
(Applauding)
- Yeah, okay so, this could
be good for our town.
But it could be disastrous.
- Yeah with respect Perry,
you've been here about 10 minutes mate.
- Well we're both here now.
And I just think we gotta be
careful, read the fine print.
And if we do that, I don't
think we'll like what we see.
- Fine print, my ass, you can see
the development's bigger
than the whole town!
(Crowd murmuring)
You know things like
this can be stopped.
- If you don't like it, we move on.
There are plenty of places
that'd love the benefit.
- Okay, there's the door, see ya later.
- Eris!
(People shouting over each other)
- Hey, enough, enough.
(Laughing)
- Look at this!
- Yeah!
- Is Joey here?
- [Bekah] Yeah he's hanging
out at the washing machine.
- [Eddy] Hey bek, it's been a while!
- Yeah you know where we are, eddy.
- [Sharpie] What do you reckon?
- It's great!
- Yeah, not bad, eh?
Man we have been to janderburg mall.
I will never go there again!
- Well there Sushi there is very good.
- Well what'd you go there for?
(Laughing)
- That's pretty good.
I can't get a whiff of anything
except maybe salad dressing.
- Does it make you sick?
- No, just hungry.
Dad picked me up from work.
He's got a surprise, come on.
- Hey, watch the juco Kieran!
- [Bekah] You all right?
- [Kieran] Yep.
- Shit, where'd you get that?
- Mate, you don't wanna know!
But it's as good as new.
All right this is queen
size, we've got the base,
and we got the mattress.
- [Fifi] Isn't it great?
- Yes!
Yeah, it's great.
- Anytime, mate.
So you have a good day
hanging around with Kieran,
doing the brother-in-law shit?
- Yeah yeah, Kieran's pretty cool
when you get him away from Hank.
- Yeah, well,
we better get the old one out
and see if we can fit this
into Fifi's room, eh?
Now you take the other end, mate.
Ready? - Yeah.
- [Sharpie] Got it.
- That mattress has seen
a bit of action eh, fif?
- Yeah more like ancient history.
- Oh come on, the rodeo
was only a month ago.
- [Sharpie] Hey Joey,
we might need a bit
of a hand here, mate!
Joey!
(Upbeat music)
- Did you see the book?
Isn't it beautiful?
- I'll say!
I can't believe I know someone
who's actually published a book!
(Laughing)
Hey Raymond, don't do that!
It's not a bloody toy, stop it!
- Joan, do you and Mick have children?
- Yes, we had one, a son.
He fell of his motorbike when
he was 28 and was killed.
- Oh god.
- That's terrible!
- To go through that and then
to lose a child as an adult,
I don't think I could bear that.
- [Ali] Just like my worst nightmare.
- Why do we do it?
- We had Joe for 28 years.
He was extraordinary!
I mean I can't imagine what my life
would've been like without him.
(Thoughtful music)
- Bold.
- Well children respond to
bright, primary colors.
- That's funny.
I like it.
Do you want to sell it here?
I can organize a book signing for you.
Line up the two-year-olds, you know.
- Yeah?
- Yeah!
- Mum can we have some ice cream?
- Nope.
- When?
- Later.
- When later?
- Later, later, go on!
- [Carter] And do what?
- I don't know, play!
- [Lill] You know you
could read this book.
I want a full report later.
- It's a baby's book!
- Excuse me!
Driving me crazy!
- [Backa] Hey.
What are you up to?
- Gonna meet Perry.
- Yeah.
- Been hobnobbing with
the suits, have you?
- (Chuckling) Yeah.
Man they are slick!
- Eris is right, they're
not interested in us,
or this town, or the
families that live here.
- I noticed you didn't have
too much to say this time.
- Well there were other people there
who said what I thought.
- Like Perry?
- And others.
I thought you loved this place!
Gonna let other people
change it for you?
- Lill kids leave,
businesses are closing down,
what's gonna be left here
when Carter and candy have grown up?
You know they may not wanna stay,
but I'd like them to have a choice.
- What you love might disappear.
- Well, I'm gonna make
sure that doesn't happen.
- [Lill] Good luck.
- I'd like to think we
were on the same side!
- So would I!
See ya.
- No it was a shouting match mate,
eris was at full throttle.
(Video game beeping)
Yeah he just, he'd mediate
it sometimes, that's all.
Nope, no I can't, it's school holidays.
Well, it's holidays for the teachers.
- [Candy and carter] Dad!
(Laughing)
- No, I better go.
All right mate, bye. (Exhales)
Tail end of the holidays
and that boarding school's
looking pretty good. (Groaning)
- They come for holidays,
and you don't know who
they are anymore.
That would be worse, wouldn't it?
(Bell rings)
- Shop!
- Oh excuse me, is your surname Burke?
My husband insists that he knows you.
- Edgar Burke.
- Well, that was my grandfather.
- I knew I knew you!
- Well, in that case, I once
taught your father, Barry.
- Barry?
- Yeah, that's dad.
Really?
- [Joan] Yeah, really! (Laughing)
There we are.
Oh look. - What?
- That's me.
- Oh!
(Laughing)
Wow!
What was he like, the
old man, as a boy?
- Well, I remembered him.
I mean that's something
in a class of 50!
He was what I call a teacher's dream.
Cheeky but charming and
always tried to be good.
Your boy's a lot like him.
- Oh, he's a good looking kid, kinda.
- [Svettie] And you Mick, you?
- Oh Mick was a jackaroo
on a farm out of town.
Used to be the o'rions?
- Oh yeah.
- We looked it up but
it's all been divided up,
and the families have all scattered.
- Yeah.
- But you're still here!
And your brother.
- Yeah.
I thought about leaving.
About a million times.
(Chuckling)
I don't know, I like it here.
It's home.
- And what about you?
Is this place home for you?
- Oh I don't know.
What's home?
Backa's still here where he grew up and
I don't know I guess it's my home too.
It's where ever they are, my family.
- Who are you?
- I'm svettie.
- Svettie.
- Where's your toilet?
- Out back, this way.
Just,
out the door there, on your left.
That's it.
- My grandfather used to be like that.
- Oh, he's not too bad.
It's just occasionally it's
like a fog falls over him.
- Yeah, it's like they're
still here but they're gone.
How long have you been married?
- Over 40 years.
- Wow, he's lucky to have you.
- No, we're fine!
We're fine.
Oh, what a lovely girl! (Chuckling)
What's your name?
- Candy.
- Candy!
(Svettie drowned out by Mick)
- Oh excuse me.
- That old man's taking
a whizzer on the floor.
(Laughing) (Shushing)
- He's not well!
- Do you need anything?
- A bucket and some bleach
and hot water, I think.
- Okay.
(Laughing) Shhh, the two of you!
(Laughing)
For richer or for poorer,
in sickness and in health.
Both of you, quiet.
- Oh, this is great!
Joey, have a go.
- Oh, hang on.
- This is my bed from uncle Jeff's.
- No.
How do you know?
- Well I know my own bed.
It's from the house.
Stuff he just bought
wasn't mine anyway.
- Oh don't tell dad, he's so stoked.
- [Sharpie] Here we go.
(Laughing) - Dad, well!
Dad, these are really nice!
- Yeah!
I'm all class, didn't you know that?
I think you'll find
there's a fitted, a flat, and
two pillowcases in there.
- Aren't they cool Joey?
Do you like them?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah I like them.
- [Bekah] Anyone want a cup of tea?
- Let's put them on.
Come on!
Grab the other end.
- Okay if you don't wanna
talk about anything...
- well I'm not gonna say something
if there's nothing to bloody say, am I?
- There's nothing to say?
All right well your face
says something different.
Kieran said something
different today...
- that's because he's shitty at you
because you had a go at Hank.
Why does everyone have to
talk about everything?
"I feel like this.
"No, I feel like this."
It's so boring!
- All right well let's just
like let it sit there.
You want that?
You want it sitting there between us?
You like that idea for one
month, one year, 10 years.
- There's nothing to say.
- Okay, well I got something
to say, I kissed lill.
- What, are you joking?
- No.
Couple of weeks ago on the strike team.
It was nothing, but it happened.
- Stuff you!
(Sniffing)
- That's good, Matey.
- No thank you, I really
needed your help today.
Come and peel some spuds for us.
- Pleasure.
Tell you what, but I'm rooted.
- Maybe you should have a lie down.
You've been working too hard, eddy.
Not like you.
- You know what I've realized?
There's only one thing worse
in this life than working.
- [Bekah] And what's that?
- Not working.
- Well you'd know all about that.
- Joey doesn't like the bed.
Does he feel it's something
he should provide, does he?
- Dad, the bed's fine.
He's got other stuff on his mind.
I've got other stuff on my mind.
(Peaceful music)
- [Lill] So which one is yours?
- Oh that little white one over there.
We've had it for years.
- [Lill] It's sweet.
- We stay on it for weeks at at time.
- I would love to come and
have a fish with you.
If you, oh before you go.
- Sure.
- Ooh!
- Now hold her steady!
(Water splashing) Oh hell!
Look at that.
- It's all right, it's all right.
We'll leave the boat tied up here
and we'll pop back into town.
What was it?
- The tea and biscuits.
- Oh well, can't do without those.
(Chuckling)
(Thoughtful music)
(Phone beeping)
- G'day, is Hank there, Hank sharp?
A friend of his gave it to me,
said it was where he
was staying in Sydney.
I'm his dad.
Okay, thanks.
Yeah, all right, okay.
Well could you let him know I called?
Yeah, that'd be good, thanks.
Bye.
(Motor thrumming)
- [Backa] Used to come up here fishing.
- [Eris] Yeah.
- It's not quite the same,
responding to a triple 0 call.
- Yeah, a bit right.
(Moody music)
Hey, there it is.
- [Backa] When'd they get the call?
- Six.
Fisherman smelt it.
- Okay, cut the engine.
Did you and remember to
ask if I called the...
- Yeah, yeah, the gas gear, the anvos.
- Yep.
(Propane hissing)
(Suspenseful music)
They're there.
They're covered.
And they look they're asleep.
- Well, we better get
her back to fox cove.
- Yeah it's just, don't
touch anything, eh?
- [Eris] We're gonna need the lot.
The coroner, the cops, and the ds.
- Anyone call?
- [Bekah] No.
- [Sharpie] (Groans) Shit.
- What?
- Oh when I was in town yesterday,
I ran into a mate, he gave me a number,
said it was where Hank was staying.
- Did you call it?
- Yeah, last night.
Spoke to some guy.
Said he thought Hank was
staying in a room there,
but he wasn't really sure.
Didn't have much of an idea, really.
- Can I have the number?
- [Sharpie] Here you go.
- Ta.
(Phone beeping)
(Water running)
Hi, is Hank there?
Is Hank staying there?
Hank sharp.
Yes, please.
He's getting someone else.
Hi, is Hank there?
All right, yeah, okay.
No no, it's just his mum.
Just haven't heard from him in a while.
Still alive then, is he?
Yeah, yeah that'd be great.
Yeah thanks, bye.
- Well?
- Well he was there last Tuesday.
She hasn't seen him since.
- Is that where he's living?
- She's not sure.
- God!
At least when he was in
jail we knew where he was.
(Sirens wailing)
(Somber music)
- Backa, here you go.
- Ta.
- No thanks, Louisa.
- How long do we stay?
- Oh fox cove police are
gonna put it on a trailer.
The problem is where are
they gonna find one?
Why don't you two go home?
- [Eris] You sure?
- You want anything?
- No, I'm all right.
What'd you see?
- Doesn't matter.
- [Lill] I wanna know.
- You think you do.
- Would you do that?
- Can't see it.
(Easy music)
- They keep you in this
world, don't they?
- Like an anchor.
Sometimes it feels like a dead weight.
Sometimes you know it's saved
you from drifting away.
♪ Here come my tears again ♪
♪ I'm gonna cry ♪
♪ one more time ♪
♪ you don't cry no more ♪
♪ cry ♪
♪ cry one more time ♪
♪ you won't cry no more ♪
♪ images they come and go ♪
♪ of you and me like a
movie show in my head ♪
♪ so tenderly you held me close ♪
♪ said you're the one I need ♪
- What selfish shits!
- [Patto] Dunno about that, fif.
- You can't put yourself
in their position.
I mean they were married
for a long time.
Mick's mind was going!
The thought of losing the
other must've been terrible.
- It's not romantic to
leave your ship behind
for other people to deal with.
- You okay, Fifi?
- Yeah, I'm fine, you?
- Okay.
Joey.
- Should I be worried about you?
- No.
Not for a second.
No.
(Thoughtful music)
Hey.
- Come sit down.
You know it's funny to think
that this space once held them.
And that none of this was here.
We weren't here.
You weren't even born.
What's it all amount to anyway?
I mean what's it matter what you do?
You work, you love, all of this.
And then one day it's all gone, poof.
Could you do that with me?
Just decide to lie
down and go to sleep?
Say, "goodbye life, I'm
off to sleep now."
- I don't know.
I'm not faced with the loss of my mind.
Not yet, anyway.
I can still do whatever I have to do.
- But if that did happen.
Because Joan and Mick didn't
leave anyone behind, did they?
- Well they must've had friends
or something, someone.
- No, you'd never do that.
As long as taz was around,
you'd never do that.
- Hey, eight hours of weekend left.
Why don't we go and count
our chickens together?
Or maybe we can swing in the hammock?
Mix a Martini.
- I'll see you a bit later.
- Yep.
- I'm off.
- [Fifi] Joey?
- Yep?
- Okay.
I kissed rolly.
We didn't have sex or anything,
we just kissed for a bit.
- Okay so what happens you know?
Do we make rules and you
know if you break them
you have to lie and?
- No.
I don't know, I've never had
kids with someone before.
(Chuckling)
- Me too.
- So did we just sort that?
- [Joey] Yeah.
- Is that sorted now?
- Yes, yes that is sorted.
Well I tell you what, if rolly
came through that door now
I would smack his head in.
- No you wouldn't!
You'd think about it,
but you wouldn't do it.
- No, no I would. (Chuckling)
Did you say something to lill?
- I didn't smack her head in,
if that's what you mean.
(Sighs)
- I wish I didn't have to go to work.
- Just think.
Right here, right where we're lying.
Joan and Mick may have
sat and had a picnic.
Maybe they had sex here.
(Scoffs)
(Laughing)
- What I asked you before.
- Are you enough for me?
Not really the question, is it?
- Well yeah, it is really
the question, I mean.
If we don't have children,
then can we still go on?
Will our marriage last?
- Do you think we can?
- Oh I don't know.
I mean I wish it was just up to me
and then I say, "yeah, sure.
"I mean look how good it's been so far,
"it can only get better."
- Come back.
(Thoughtful piano music)
I'm a bit drunk.
And I'm just gonna sort my head out.
I just know that right
now I don't wanna be
anywhere else but here.
With you.
Just, like this.
♪ It's a pretty part ♪
♪ how you always seem
to land on your feet ♪
♪ a little undone ♪
♪ anybody else by now would becoming ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ whenever you fall ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
- Shit.
♪ Any time ♪
♪ any time you're passing by this way ♪
♪ remember ♪
♪ you will always have
a place to stay yeah ♪
(Door clicks)
♪ Let heaven fall ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ you can put your shoes under my bed ♪
♪ yeah ♪
(Thoughtful music)
♪ We're chasing ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ takes a sun dying ♪
♪ to turn the world gold ♪
♪ the days run ♪
♪ outside my window ♪
♪ like wild horses ♪
♪ across the plains ♪
♪ fireflies ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady ♪
♪ it waxes and wanes ♪