Fireflies (2004): Season 1, Episode 16 - Between a Rock and a Rock - full transcript
- You're in debt up to your eyeballs.
Your wife is hemorrhaging money faster
than they can print it,
but you've hardly put me at my ease
thinking the land's gonna
be safe in your hands,
particularly with that wife of yours.
- And okay, there are
soggy developers around.
- This lot's one of 'em.
- Come on Kieran, I'm sorry.
- You crossed the line, Hank.
- Yeah, I know.
Mate, do you want in
on this job or not?
You'll make a few bucks
and I'm gonna need someone I can trust.
- It's fugly.
- If I lived here,
I'd be drinking every day.
- You said you liked it.
- The view, not the people.
- Well, nothing is
stopping you from leaving.
- Well, so much
for the open invitation.
- You're right, actually.
What I meant to say was nothing
is stopping me from leaving.
♪ 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 o' wine, a loaf
o' bread and thee ♪
♪ lying on a blanket underneath ♪
♪ that big old spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ I was born in a lucky country ♪
♪ every day I hear the warning bells ♪
♪ in the land of the little kings ♪
♪ there's a price on everything ♪
♪ and everywhere the little kings ♪
♪ are getting away with murder ♪
- It's just gonna be a
bunch of wealthy wankers.
I mean who plays golf?
Wankers!
It's so much the yuppies,
it's the wankers get up my nose.
Hey, why don't we just
put up a sign saying
wanker capital of the universe?
- Mate, Tiger Woods is not a wanker.
- You know what I mean.
- Well, my ex was a wanker.
He never played golf in his life.
- Tell you who the biggest
wanker of all of is.
Backa!
He is not gonna be happy until he has a
giant bloody golf pool parked
outside that stupid shop of his.
Sell his first born son
for a hundred bucks.
- Oh, fair goes.
- Well, he would.
- Why me?
That's what I can't figure out.
- Maybe they wanna bribe you.
- Well, they've got
the right bloke then.
- Just don't be too keen or
they won't bribe you enough.
- Okay, mum.
How do I look?
- Oh, you're not wearing them?
- What?
I just got 'em off the line.
- You're unbelievable!
- What?
- They're taking you somewhere flash.
You can at least try and
look like you're not poor.
- No, I'm not wearing that.
- You look great in this suit.
- 10 years ago, sweetie.
- I'm gonna make us some eggs.
- I haven't got time.
- You have to eat something.
- I'll pick up a pie at the servo.
- Mum, when are we going?
- You kids hurry up
and put your sunscreen on, please.
- I don't wanna
put sunscreen on!
- Did you hear me?
- Mom!
- Backa, scrambled or fried?
Oh, scrambled it is then!
Eggs are done.
You look nice.
Like a film star.
- Look what I found.
It's the order of service
from dad's funeral.
- He'll be with you in spirit today.
- Yeah.
Maybe.
- All right, there's 200 bullets,
so that's roughly 15 an hour.
Now fire off a few at a
time, then wait a bit,
then bang off some more, okay?
Don't make it sound too regular.
- Yeah, I wanna know what
I'm doing it for, Hank.
- You're doing it for 200 bucks.
That's what you're doing it for.
- Well, you never tell me anything.
- That's because you're my
favorite little brother
and I don't want you getting
into trouble, that's why.
You'll need something to eat.
- Yeah, well, I'll get pizza.
- I told you to stay put out
there until I come get you.
Okay, the whole thing'll fall over
if you leave during the day if
people see you out and about.
- Who didn't flush the toilet?
- Don't look at me.
- What are you two up to?
- Nothing.
- Shooting rabbits.
- Again?
We're gonna be up to our
ears in rabbits soon.
Hey, babe.
- Hey.
- Do you want me to want
me to run the shower?
- Yeah, thanks.
- You wanna come rabbit
shooting Joey, eh?
- Yeah, some other time, eh?
- Oh, okay, I'll be
holding my breath, mate.
- Hank!
You would have been stuffed
if he had said yes.
- Think laterally, mate.
- Ah!
- Ah.
All right, ready to rock and roll!
Come on go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
- Can you drop this off
at lill's on the way?
- Oh, no, I can't be late.
Really.
- No, 10 minutes, that's all it takes.
Just tell her it's 110
or 100 if she pays cash.
- Okay.
Oh, god.
It's 40 degrees out here.
See you.
- Ah, I'm sweating so much
it's washing the fly spray off.
- Well, put some more on.
That was Ali on the phone.
They've invited us for a
swim at the waterhole.
- Oh?
- They're burying fugly.
Apparently it was his favorite place.
The waterhole.
So they want to have a
memorial swim and picnic.
- Jesus wept!
It's just a bloody dog, lill.
- Well, maybe that's
what happens, Perry,
when people don't have kids.
They transfer their
affections onto their pets.
- What about kc, wasn't she coming up
with a swag of rave reviews?
- She may be bringing
up some reviews, yeah,
but we're also gonna talk about work.
So I'm gonna give her a call.
- Well, I can't come,
I'm waiting for patto.
- Well, that's what I told Ali.
I said you probably wouldn't be able
to tear yourself away from...
- they should give you an
award for community service.
- Better than being a hermit like you.
- G'day.
- Backa.
Oh, is that for me?
- Yep.
- Thank you.
Great.
How much do I owe you?
- Uh, 110, 100 if it's cash.
- Mm-hmm.
- How about these flies, eh?
- Hadn't noticed.
- A hundred.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- What's the special occasion, backa?
Don't tell me you're going to
the dog's funeral, as well.
- Oh, I'm gonna met this guy
from twelfth green, Maurice.
- Oh, first-name terms, that's cozy.
What do they call you, backa?
Tim?
- Don't care what they call me mate
if it means jobs for the locals.
- There's more to life
than jobs, you know.
- Not if you don't have one.
- Well, what's the
point of the meeting?
I mean you're already in bed
with these developers, so.
- I don't know Perry,
I'm just gonna have to
play it by ear, aren't I?
See you.
- Did you enjoy that?
- What?
- You know what.
- We are huntin' wabbits!
Be wery, wery quiet.
- You sure he's old enough
to handle that gun, Hank?
- You want to find out?
- Bloody hell, put that
thing away, Kieran.
- Hey, backa, we're going
rabbit shooting, wanna come?
- Oh, that was real smart.
- What do you got?
Shit for brains?
- What?
What did I do?
- Oh, nothing!
Just drew attention to the fact
that we're in a stolen car.
- You told me to think laterally, Hank.
- Yeah, I didn't tell you to be stupid.
- Good one.
Good stuff.
- You forgot your sangas.
- You can shove your bloody sangas!
- You're gonna
be hungry later on.
- Piss off!
- Can you stop being such
a big girl's blouse?
Here take 'em!
Anyone wants to know where I am,
I'm taking a dump in the bush, right?
Now stay put till I get back.
Don't want you stuffing anything up.
There's no way I'm going back inside.
I'll top meself first.
- Hank!
I won't stuff it up.
- I know you won't, mate.
- Oh, all right guv'nor?
Poppet?
- Put a sock in it, fly.
- You'll be all right.
Look after yourself.
- Make sure it's deep enough
so the wildlife can't dig him up.
Thanks for coming.
I really appreciate it.
This was his favorite spot, you know.
- Yeah, you were saying.
- He was a real water baby.
You'd be having a swim and he'd come
paddling towards you wanting
to climb all over you.
Nearly drowned me once.
God, he was funny.
- Perry says to send his love.
He's sorry he can't make it.
- Look at his little face.
- He looks at peace.
- I know.
Feel his little nose, it's so cold.
- Yes, it's cold.
- Been so bloody hot, we had
to keep him in the freezer.
- Lu, you wanna put him in
or do you want one of us to?
- I want to do it.
- Okay.
- Where's eris?
A bit much for him, is it?
- No, she said he thinks
it's a stupid idea.
- Goodbye, beautiful boy.
Hey, where's his dog biggies?
He loved his dog biggies.
They should go in, too.
- No, do you really think
that's a good idea?
'Cause you know, food
attracts predators
and if you know what I mean.
- Uh, yeah, I got it, yeah.
- All right, everyone.
Grab a handful of dirt.
Someone should say a couple of words.
- We should have a poem.
Lill, you're the writer.
- Ah, luisa, I just do the drawings.
Um.
We're all gonna miss you, fugly.
You were a beautiful dog.
You certainly weren't ugly.
And, um, your mum and dad
are feeling very sad,
'cause you're the best dog
they could have ever had.
- Hey, boss.
- Hello.
- What are you trying to do?
- Just working out a system
to get those poles up.
- You're gonna need
backhoe for that, mate.
- Well, can't we just do it ourselves?
- No offense, but you're not
exactly Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Patto, I'm not too sure about this.
I can't afford to pay the
guys anything, you know.
- Aw, it'd be against all if you did.
Hey, you bludgers.
- Hey.
- G'day.
- Are you gonna be
working on that all day?
- What do I know?
Why?
- Oh, we're putting up the
main pole up at Perry's.
He needs to borrow you fellows.
- Oh, yeah?
- Look, it doesn't really matter, i...
- what about the winch in the trooper?
- Well, I thought of asking
Paul hope for his backhoe.
He wouldn't mind taking
it out for the day.
- Well, I'll give him a call.
Are you gonna take the ute?
- I really can't afford
to pay him anything.
- Ah, mates' rates, mate.
- No worries. You'd do
the same for us, Perry.
- What exactly would mates'
rates be in this situation?
Patto?
♪ Come on sissy, let's go downtown ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's ride ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's go downtown ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's ride ♪
- Svettie.
- Hi!
- Rebekah.
I got the watercolor paper, thank you.
- Oh, did you?
- Yeah, I gave backa the money.
- Oh, thanks.
That's our electricity
bill taken care of.
- Oh, it was really good
timing 'cause kc's coming up,
so we're probably gonna work on
a few new sketches for the book.
- Oh!
- Yeah, we got some really good
reviews for "which witch,"
so we're looking forward to
starting the next one, yeah.
- Well, as long as you keep getting
your materials throughs our shop.
- I thought backa looked
very dashing all dressed up.
- He scrubs up well, my man.
- Pity, it's wasted on the
developers, hey, Fifi?
- Oh, god, don't talk to me about it.
I'm sick of all of it.
- Development is good.
What else is there?
- Life?
Hey, how is eris?
He must have been pretty cut
up finding fugly like that.
- Well, that's only part of it.
Anyone can figure out what's going on
in his mind right now,
please let me know,
'cause I don't have a clue.
- How about beginning
with m, ending with e?
- What's that supposed to mean?
What?
- It's not a state secret.
- What is?
- You and Mike.
- What about me and Mike.
- Do I have to spell it out?
- Don't look at me.
- Well, so what?
So I had a thing with Mike, so what?
He's a very nice man.
He likes women.
He looks you in the eye
when he talks to you.
He made me feel good.
- You're right, he's a very nice man.
- Mm.
And don't forget his secret weapon.
- Secret weapon?
No.
- "I don't know if you're
interested, but uh,
"some women consider me to be
slightly larger than average."
- How do you know that?
- You told me!
- No, I didn't.
God, you didn't.
- I'm sorry, mate, I
should have told you.
I should have told you
when you told me,
but if it's any consolation,
it was over before you.
- He told me I was the only one
he'd done it with since his wife.
- Seven.
- What?
- Well, from where I'm standing,
Mike's done it with seven
women in lost river.
- Like who?
- Well, that's for me to
know and you to find out.
- Embryonic fluid
returning five dollars.
Fourth event of the day
coming up shortly,
however, there's expected
to be real action...
- sammo?
Sam O'Donnell!
- Backa!
Mate!
Geez, when'd you become a Mormon?
- Jesus!
- You were just off on
a big trip out west
to shag a chick in every
country, if I remember rightly.
- Well, yeah, I got um,
I got as far as Minsk.
- As in Russia?
- Da.
- Still together?
- Da.
- happy?
- Da.
- Kids?
- Dva.
And you?
- Nyet to all the above.
You want a beer?
- Oh, mate, I'd love one,
but I'm just about to meet somebody.
- Ah, here he is.
- Sorry, I'm late.
How are ya, Tim?
- I'm good, Maurice.
You guys have already...
- Yeah, Sam does all the
legals for twelfth green.
- Ah.
Still a lawyer.
- Ah, can't get a job in real society.
Hey, what about you?
Maurice said something about a shop?
I always thought you'd
end up on the land.
- Yeah, so did I.
One day.
- I think our table's ready.
- So is nobody else coming?
- No, the fox cove shire engineer
and the local member cried
off at the last minute.
- Right.
- Uh, vodka for this guy!
Beer for you, Maurice?
- Yeah, Sam.
- Same for me, thanks.
- Uh, no, I'll just have a lite
beer, too, please. Thanks.
That'd be great.
Um, can you guys just give us a second?
What are you?
You're a wanker.
- I need a slash.
- It can wait till we get there.
- What is this shit?
Ah, just as I thought, faggot music.
What else we got here?
Ah!
We got some more faggot music, hmm?
And there's even more faggot music.
- Hey, turn the air con up, eh?
- Yeah, well, shut the windows first.
- I'm getting bored here!
- Put the radio on.
Hey, grab one of those
bunnies out of the eski.
- What for?
- We have to defrost it so
we can give it to the dog.
Don't want it to rip our legs off.
- A dog.
Well, that's good, you
told me about the dog.
- Hey.
I told you about the
dog back at his place.
- Oh, we'll kill it.
- No one's killing anything.
Everything under control, remember?
- Yeah, under control.
You know what happens when
you feed a dog a rabbit?
It mauls it in two seconds
and then it rips your leg off.
- Well, why don't you
Chuck him a tennis ball
and see if he wants to play?
- Jesus!
- Good thinking on you, eh.
You really got it.
- God, if I have to listen to
you two whinging all the way!
- Full of surprises, eh?
Shit for brains, just like his brother.
Unbelievable.
- Thanks, mate.
That's it.
That's it, Paul.
All right.
Bit further.
Bit further. There he is, there he is.
- That's it, right?
- Got it under the bucket, mate!
- Ought to get some danger
money from you for this, bud.
- Bit more!
Bit more, Paul.
Righto!
Down.
- That's it, that's it.
- Just back it up a bit, mate!
- Yeah, there we go.
That's it.
Right, right.
- Just brake it in a bit.
Ah!
That's it!
- Hey!
Well done, guys.
There she is.
Hey, eris, sorry I couldn't
make it to the funeral, mate.
- Oh, didn't miss much.
- Yeah, I know fugly
was a pretty important
part of your life, though.
- He was just a bloody dog, Perry.
- Mm.
- What happens next, Perry?
- Oh, mate, we have
to start on the rafters
for the roof!
- Yeah.
- Oh, don't like the sound of that.
- Lightning gives me the creeps!
- Don't worry.
It's out of the way.
- So who are they?
These conquests of Mike?
Maggie Utah?
- Uh-uh.
- God, listen to them.
- Marlene robertson?
- Frigid.
- Fan bell?
- Religious.
- Yeah, kama sutra.
- Lill yengill?
- Ah!
- So what is it about Mike?
I mean, apart from the obvious.
- Maybe it's because
he's like a little boy.
He makes women want to mother him.
- Maybe it's because it
can get pretty lonely
out in the country.
- Yep.
Tell me about it.
Some days I don't see
another human being
till Perry gets home.
- God, some days I'd kill
for some peace and quiet!
- Yeah.
Any time you want to swap places, lill.
- Well, you
know, the way things are
with Perry and me at the moment
it's not such a bad idea, I tell you.
Right?
- Finally!
- Hey, kc!
You've found us!
- Yep.
- Did you bring any wine?
- No, why?
- 'Cause you always bring wine.
- Well, this time I didn't.
Sorry, you should've said something.
- That's all right.
This is Rebekah.
- Hello.
- And Ali, Fifi.
- Hi.
- I don't think
you've met svettie.
- Hi.
- And this is luisa.
This is kc, she's the
partner of my books.
She does the words.
- You ever done any stories about dogs?
- Not yet.
- I know a really good dog story.
- I haven't been for three months
and they're still
talking about the dog.
- Yeah, we just buried him.
- It was beautiful.
- Hey, come on, big fella!
Stop mucking around!
It's cold in here!
- Jennifer crowther?
- Uh-huh.
- Come on, go for it!
Yeah!
- Aw, slag.
- We're gonna have to deck him.
- I wanna do it.
- I'll do it.
- Yeah, let's!
- Hey, Mike!
Mike!
Hey!
- Mike, show us your butterfly!
- Show us your butterfly!
- The butterfly?
- Come on, Mike!
- Yeah, well, it
takes quite a bit of work
in the shoulders.
- Come on!
Keep going, that's excellent!
- Hey!
- Hey, there.
- Go!
- Hey!
Hey!
Hey, Ali, give it back!
- Bring 'em here, bring 'em here!
Throw them up!
Give it here!
Throw them up!
- Come back!
Hey, girls, that's...
Come back here!
Ali!
- Hey, Mike!
- It's not funny! I've gotta
get back to the station!
Wait, Fifi!
Luisa!
Fifi, please.
Luisa!
It's not funny! -
It's a good one.
Oh, Jesus.
Come on, we'd better get out of here.
- Ali!
Darl, Chuck us me shorts back, please?
- Here, you can have this.
- Oh, thanks, lill.
Thanks, lill.
You're a champion.
- Woo-hoo!
Woo!
What a bod!
Let me at it!
- So we decide we want
to race the dog ourselves
and benno knows this woman
who keeps greyhounds.
- 25 of them.
- And there's a council bylaw, right,
you can only keep two in the suburbs,
so she has to hide them
all inside her house.
- Place is like a dog motel.
All these rows of
greyhounds on mattresses
in the bedrooms.
- So we find one we like, we
train him up, give him a name.
- Floppy.
- Floppy.
And we enter him in his first race.
- We put all our money on him.
- Floppy comes last.
- Ah, floppy is so slow the
stewards do a drug test on him
to see if anyone slipped him a Mickey.
- Floppy comes dead last
in every single race
we enter him in.
- Well, then what?
- Oh, he took off overseas
and I finished law school.
That was the last time we
saw each other, wasn't it?
- No, what happened to floppy?
- Oh, Tim shot him.
- You shot him?
- Yeah, that's what you do.
He wasn't earning his keep.
Anyway.
We didn't come here to
talk about floppy, did we?
Sorry, Maurice, do you want to
talk about the development?
- Oh, no, no, we can
do that after lunch.
More wine?
- Mm.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Why not?
Here's to floppy.
Here's to floppy.
- Hey, Paul, thanks, mate!
- Thanks, Paul!
- Looks all right from here.
- Yeah.
- Geez, don't you guys ever stop?
- Right, that's it, there it is.
- Just one, mate?
- Oh, cool, hey.
Thanks.
- Yeah, look um, leave
the rafters, boys.
I'll do them myself next week.
- Oh, we can help you lay
some of these bricks, then.
- No, no, look it's fine.
I really appreciate everything
you've done so far.
- Oh, we'll just um, top it up, then.
- No, no, just uh, have a beer.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers!
- Cheers.
- Thanks, mate.
- Oh!
So did you bring the reviews?
- Oh, in my bag.
Mostly good. You know, a
couple of them don't know
what they're talking about.
- Oh, we'll burn them.
"Doesn't talk down to kids.
"Puts itself in the minds of children."
Oh, "scrumptious illustrations,"
I like that bit.
"Brings to life characters
that will resonate
"with children of all ages."
This is fantastic, kc!
- Yeah, I guess so.
- It's great. Better
than a kick in the head.
What's wrong?
You look tired.
That new girlfriend of yours
giving you a hard time?
- Erica?
No.
Oh, she's great.
- So what were you going to
tell me about the stories?
- You know how it's always
been a big ambition of mine
to write a young adult novel?
- Mm-hmm.
- I've had a really great
offer from the publishers
and I've been thinking about
it for the last month
and that's why I'm not
making much progress
with the "pirate princess."
- What are you trying to tell me, kc?
- Well, if I want to meet
the schedule for the novel
something's got to give.
- Such as?
- I want to put our partnership on hold
for at least a year.
Possibly longer.
- I don't get it, we have just
published a book with
international interest
and you want to pull the plug?
- Who said anything
about pulling the plug?
- You did.
- No, I said I wanted time out.
- Oh, time out, okay, sure.
Every boyfriend who ever split
up with me used that line.
- Lilli!
- Don't call me that!
I thought you were my friend.
- I am your friend!
- No, you're bloody not!
Where's my cigarette holder?
- This is my big chance.
It's what I've always dreamed of.
- Okay, good.
What am I gonna do for a year
or two years or however long it takes
for you to follow your dream?
Don't I count here?
- I didn't count when you
decided to move out here.
- Oh, Jesus, here we go again!
Ever since I moved out here,
you had this thing
that I ran out on you.
You are running out on me!
- Fine, if that is the way
you want to look at it.
- Kc, all right, all right.
I'll move back to the city.
- It's too late.
I've already signed the contract.
- Oh, are you cold?
We'll get you your shirt.
- Hey, lill, thanks.
Hey.
You okay, lill?
What's wrong?
Here.
Oh, you poor thing.
Hey, it's all right.
- What do they want?
- They want your help.
And they want to know what you want.
- Yeah, but what kind of help?
- Let's talk
about it with Maurice.
- I just want to know what
the game is, you know?
How should I play this?
- Well, it's a business thing.
Just play it straight up, be yourself.
- Yeah?
- You remember
Cheryl Saunders?
- Yeah.
- There's a dog called
Cheryl in the next race.
Eight to one, I know the trainer,
reckon she's a real goer.
You want to put one on?
- No, we should get back to Maurice.
- Oh, he's not going anywhere.
What's wrong, man?
I'll spot you if you
haven't got any money.
- Oh, no, no, no, it's
not that, it's not that.
I just, I just...
- Well, come on.
For old times' sake.
- Eight to one?
- Eight to one.
- Oh, go on, then 100 bucks.
- Good man.
- Off and running...
- Ah!
Straight to the front,
look at that, mate.
- That's her, right?
- Yep.
- The black one?
- Yep.
- Go.
- Beautiful.
- Go, Cheryl!
She's right out front!
- Yeah.
- Go, Cheryl, go.
- That a girl.
Stay there, stay there!
- Go, Cheryl, go!
- It's too easy!
- Go, Cheryl!
- All the way, come on!
- Sammo, she's still there!
- She's
not going anywhere.
- Go!
Go, Cheryl!
Go Cheryl!
She's balls in!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
- Come on, baby!
- Go, Cheryl!
Go Cheryl!
Yes! - Yes!
Yes!
I told you she was a goer, mate.
Told ya.
- 800 bucks!
- Yeah. You want to double it?
- Eh?
- Double it.
- No, mate!
- Hey, this is the same trainer,
different dog, bogan rogan.
Two to one favorite.
- Yeah, but that's the
most money I've had
in one lump in a long time, mate.
No, I don't want to risk it, no.
- It's two to one!
It's very lavish!
Maurice, you want to bid?
- Yep, sure.
- Come on!
- Which one's bogan rogan?
- Number six, mate. He's in
the lead, what'd I tell ya?
- He is, he is!
- Go, bogan, boy!
Go, boy! - Go, bogan!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Go, bogan, go!
Go, go, go!
Where's he going?
- Bogan rogan's run
off the track at the turn!
- Where's he going?
- Oh, no!
You want another one?
Want another one?
- Bogan rogan all the rage,
bailed up in the race.
- It's all right, mate.
- We'll get after the car.
- Make sure you wipe it clean.
- Give you a call tomorrow.
- Hello!
Anyone home?
Kieran?
Where's everybody?
Where's Kieran?
Thought you and him were
going rabbit shooting.
- Uh, yeah, we did.
He's uh, just gone to get a pizza.
- When's he getting back?
- Well, they take a while to make.
Pizzas.
You look nice.
- I'll wait in the veranda.
- No, well, uh...
You can wait here if you like.
Keep me company while
I finish burning off
all this old rubbish.
So what've you been up to?
- What do you care?
- I'm interested.
I mean, you, you're a
very interesting chick.
Kieran's a lucky guy.
Wish I had a girlfriend like you.
- What about taz?
- Nah.
That's all over.
Kind of immature, you know?
Compared to you.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I mean, you're not just a pretty face.
You're complex.
Mysterious.
Surprising.
Wild at heart.
- Yeah?
- Yeah!
And beautiful.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Come on.
Look.
See?
I think you're really beautiful.
- If you want me to talk to Bryce
about the asset protection
zone, there's...
- oh, no, there's no need for that.
No, we had a really productive meeting
with Bryce Austin last week.
- Ah.
Well, so what do you want then?
- More land.
We need to sell a limited
number of residential sites
to make the golf club viable.
- And?
- A little while ago we
approached Jeff Burke
with a proposal to sell us
40 hectares of his land.
- He didn't say anything
to me about it.
- Aye, he knocked us back.
- Said we'd have to come up
with something extraordinary
if we wanted him to sell.
But what Jeff Burke
calls extraordinary,
our board calls impossible.
- Oh, yeah, that'd be right.
- When I heard what was going down,
I told the boys that Jeff
Burke was your uncle, mate.
- We were wondering whether
you might be able to talk to him.
- I see.
- If we don't get the land, the
whole project'll fall over.
That'll mean the loss of at
least 120 jobs for locals.
- Yeah, but,
just what part of the property
are you talking about?
- 40 hectares on the West Side.
- Top or bottom?
- It's on a hill.
It'd be overlooking the golf course.
- That's the old homestead paddock.
- Yeah, I think so, but there's
no homestead on it now.
- No, there's not, but...
My father's ashes are scattered there.
Dad lost everything before he died.
That paddock is all me and
my brother have left of him.
- I realize this is a difficult
thing we're asking, Tim.
But before you dismiss the idea,
is there anything we can offer you?
- See you later.
- Thanks, sammo.
Hey, babe.
- How did it go?
- Do you want the good news
or the bad news first?
- Bad.
- I lost the hundred
bucks lill gave me.
- You lost it?
- On a dog.
- You put a hundred dollars on a dog?
- Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Do you want to hear the good news?
- What?
- Twelfth green have offered
us $300,000 for the shop.
- No way.
- Scout's honor.
- Oh, backa!
This is like the answer to our prayers.
300,000?
- Yep, they asked me my price
and I told them that's what it was.
- What do you mean?
- Well.
They want me to ask, well,
no, they want me to convince
uncle Jeff to sell them 40 hectares.
- Well, that should be easy.
With that kind of money
they're offering...
- yeah, there's just,
there's a problem, svet.
It's the homestead paddock.
- Barry.
- Yeah.
I um...
I just don't think
I could live with myself.
- That's 50,000 over what we
would get from anyone else.
- I know.
- That's if anyone else
would ever want to buy it.
- I know.
- You should at least
try and talk to him.
- Yeah, just...
It's dangerous when you
get into a conversation
with uncle Jeff.
You've got to count your
fingers afterwards.
But yeah, I mean, yeah.
There's no harm in
bringing it up, is there?
- See you, Perry!
- Patto.
- No kc?
- She had to go back.
- Ah.
That's a lot of driving all in one day.
- Yeah, she had something to do.
- Hmm.
- She said to say hello.
- Hello, kc.
How were the reviews?
- Terrific.
- Good.
Well, that's good for
the next one, isn't it?
- Yep.
How'd you go?
- Fine.
Joey and eris came over,
we got a lot done.
Flickered out.
- That would've been fun.
- Yeah, it was.
Poles.
- Do you want a hand?
- Yeah, sure, you wanna help?
- Yep.
- Okay.
Put that brick on there.
Yeah, that way around.
Ugh!
- Oi, what are you doing here?
- Bloody hell!
What are you doing here?
- Just came back from a swim.
Where is everyone?
- Uh, well, I don't know.
I just came back to use the dunny.
- Where's Kieran?
- He's uh, ordering pizzas.
I was going to pick him up.
Think you want to get some
pizza for the little fella?
Eh?
Olives, anchovies?
Oh, maybe a supreme?
- Whatever.
- Why don't you buy something
nice for the little sprog, eh?
- Where'd you get this?
- Sold a couple of rabbits, mate.
- Hi, noodle.
Didn't see you before.
What's going on?
- Shit.
What happened to you?
- Oh, I've just been
crapping my guts up all day
'cause those bloody
sangas you made were off!
What took you so long?
- Uh, you don't want to know.
- I want my money!
- Jeez, you don't waste
any time, do you?
All right.
Chuck in another 50 'cause
you did such a good job.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You done good.
Uh-oh.
G'day, patto.
What are you up to?
- Ah, rope's come undone.
- Ooh, bummer.
- No worries.
- Hey, uh, we've been rabbit
shooting up in the hills.
Here.
Have a rabbit.
- I don't want a rabbit.
- Oh, go on, take it.
- I don't want it.
- Give it to your dog. Come one.
- It's a bit cold?
- Yeah. Put it straight on
the ice when we killed it.
Enjoy, eh?
All right, we'll grab a pizza.
Get something for your guts.
- It was on the news, Hank.
- What was?
- The job.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- Hank, I heard it.
They said there was three
guys in a station wagon
that robbed someone.
It was you guys, wasn't it?
- What else did they say?
- Nothing.
Just that the guy's in hospital.
- Is he dead?
- Nah.
- That's good.
That's good.
- So it was you guys, wasn't it?
It's all right, it's cool, I won't dob.
- All you got to do
is stick to the story
and let me sort everything
else out, all right?
Then it will be sweet.
- You know what you said before
about topping yourself if
you had to go back inside?
- Did I say that?
- Yeah, you did.
- Well, I'm not going back inside.
So you can forget about
that, all right?
Right, as soon as all
this shit's sorted out,
I'm heading off up north.
Gonna buy meself a
boat and make a packet
renting it out to tourists.
- I'm coming with you.
- Sure.
'Cause you did a really good job.
And you're me brother and
I'll always look after you.
Isn't that right?
Eh?
- Yes!
- Yes?
- Yes!
- Yes? Can't hear you.
- Ah, yes, yes!
- Okay.
- That single malted
was your father's favorite.
- I know. I got so pissed
on it at dad's funeral
I haven't been able to stomach it since.
- I always prefer a blend, but Barry,
Barry was a malt man.
- He was.
Remember when we scattered
his ashes up here?
The nor'easter blew up, sent
him flying all over the place.
- I think he would have
enjoyed the day somehow.
- Yeah, he would've.
Funny old bastard.
- Barry always had to be different.
- Yeah.
- Everyone else in the family's
buried in the cemetery,
but no, no, we had to burn Barry.
- Well, he had plenty of time
to think about it, didn't he?
A long, slow death.
"A long, slow death is
just what I need, Tim,
"just what the doctor ordered."
Ah, I still miss him.
- You'll miss him even
more if I sell this land.
What's left of him is here.
- Yeah, I know.
You think I don't know that?
Jesus, what's a
bloke supposed to do?
It's my one chance to
get out of the shop.
- And they all lived
happily ever after.
What have they offered
you for the shop?
- 300.
We could buy a new place,
we could start again.
- Did you get it in writing?
Or did they just wine and dine you?
You're a fool, Tim.
What do you think they're gonna do
once they've got the land?
They'll have no need for the shop,
so they're not going to buy it.
Besides, this land has
sentimental value.
I don't want to see it in the hands of
con men and land sharks.
- Oh, what do you care?
This was dad's land!
Yeah, this is Joey's
land, this is my land,
and we know, yeah, I know you own it,
but come on!
You bought it cheap!
You could've done the right
thing and given it to us!
You could've given us
this lousy 40 hectares,
it's only half of what you owe us!
I mean, you don't even use it!
We coulda come here and
lived here years ago!
- What would you have
farmed on 40 hectares?
Guinea pigs?
- I would've been on the land.
It would've changed everything.
How do you think I felt today?
Talking to these guys about
convincing you to sell the land?
You know, like I was
some kind of errand boy?
It's me they should have been
talking to in the first place!
- All right.
Let's imagine it's your decision.
Let's make it your decision.
You want to be a landowner?
- I want to be a farmer.
I want to work the land.
You know that.
I always have.
- Well, it comes with responsibilities
and I'm going to leave
the decision up to you.
No, I'm serious.
You're the man.
You're the friend of the developers.
You decide whether to sell the
40 hectares or not to sell.
It's up to you.
♪ In the land of the little kings ♪
♪ justice don't mean a thing ♪
♪ and everywhere the little kings are ♪
♪ getting away with murder ♪
♪ 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 ♪
Your wife is hemorrhaging money faster
than they can print it,
but you've hardly put me at my ease
thinking the land's gonna
be safe in your hands,
particularly with that wife of yours.
- And okay, there are
soggy developers around.
- This lot's one of 'em.
- Come on Kieran, I'm sorry.
- You crossed the line, Hank.
- Yeah, I know.
Mate, do you want in
on this job or not?
You'll make a few bucks
and I'm gonna need someone I can trust.
- It's fugly.
- If I lived here,
I'd be drinking every day.
- You said you liked it.
- The view, not the people.
- Well, nothing is
stopping you from leaving.
- Well, so much
for the open invitation.
- You're right, actually.
What I meant to say was nothing
is stopping me from leaving.
♪ 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 o' wine, a loaf
o' bread and thee ♪
♪ lying on a blanket underneath ♪
♪ that big old spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ I was born in a lucky country ♪
♪ every day I hear the warning bells ♪
♪ in the land of the little kings ♪
♪ there's a price on everything ♪
♪ and everywhere the little kings ♪
♪ are getting away with murder ♪
- It's just gonna be a
bunch of wealthy wankers.
I mean who plays golf?
Wankers!
It's so much the yuppies,
it's the wankers get up my nose.
Hey, why don't we just
put up a sign saying
wanker capital of the universe?
- Mate, Tiger Woods is not a wanker.
- You know what I mean.
- Well, my ex was a wanker.
He never played golf in his life.
- Tell you who the biggest
wanker of all of is.
Backa!
He is not gonna be happy until he has a
giant bloody golf pool parked
outside that stupid shop of his.
Sell his first born son
for a hundred bucks.
- Oh, fair goes.
- Well, he would.
- Why me?
That's what I can't figure out.
- Maybe they wanna bribe you.
- Well, they've got
the right bloke then.
- Just don't be too keen or
they won't bribe you enough.
- Okay, mum.
How do I look?
- Oh, you're not wearing them?
- What?
I just got 'em off the line.
- You're unbelievable!
- What?
- They're taking you somewhere flash.
You can at least try and
look like you're not poor.
- No, I'm not wearing that.
- You look great in this suit.
- 10 years ago, sweetie.
- I'm gonna make us some eggs.
- I haven't got time.
- You have to eat something.
- I'll pick up a pie at the servo.
- Mum, when are we going?
- You kids hurry up
and put your sunscreen on, please.
- I don't wanna
put sunscreen on!
- Did you hear me?
- Mom!
- Backa, scrambled or fried?
Oh, scrambled it is then!
Eggs are done.
You look nice.
Like a film star.
- Look what I found.
It's the order of service
from dad's funeral.
- He'll be with you in spirit today.
- Yeah.
Maybe.
- All right, there's 200 bullets,
so that's roughly 15 an hour.
Now fire off a few at a
time, then wait a bit,
then bang off some more, okay?
Don't make it sound too regular.
- Yeah, I wanna know what
I'm doing it for, Hank.
- You're doing it for 200 bucks.
That's what you're doing it for.
- Well, you never tell me anything.
- That's because you're my
favorite little brother
and I don't want you getting
into trouble, that's why.
You'll need something to eat.
- Yeah, well, I'll get pizza.
- I told you to stay put out
there until I come get you.
Okay, the whole thing'll fall over
if you leave during the day if
people see you out and about.
- Who didn't flush the toilet?
- Don't look at me.
- What are you two up to?
- Nothing.
- Shooting rabbits.
- Again?
We're gonna be up to our
ears in rabbits soon.
Hey, babe.
- Hey.
- Do you want me to want
me to run the shower?
- Yeah, thanks.
- You wanna come rabbit
shooting Joey, eh?
- Yeah, some other time, eh?
- Oh, okay, I'll be
holding my breath, mate.
- Hank!
You would have been stuffed
if he had said yes.
- Think laterally, mate.
- Ah!
- Ah.
All right, ready to rock and roll!
Come on go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
- Can you drop this off
at lill's on the way?
- Oh, no, I can't be late.
Really.
- No, 10 minutes, that's all it takes.
Just tell her it's 110
or 100 if she pays cash.
- Okay.
Oh, god.
It's 40 degrees out here.
See you.
- Ah, I'm sweating so much
it's washing the fly spray off.
- Well, put some more on.
That was Ali on the phone.
They've invited us for a
swim at the waterhole.
- Oh?
- They're burying fugly.
Apparently it was his favorite place.
The waterhole.
So they want to have a
memorial swim and picnic.
- Jesus wept!
It's just a bloody dog, lill.
- Well, maybe that's
what happens, Perry,
when people don't have kids.
They transfer their
affections onto their pets.
- What about kc, wasn't she coming up
with a swag of rave reviews?
- She may be bringing
up some reviews, yeah,
but we're also gonna talk about work.
So I'm gonna give her a call.
- Well, I can't come,
I'm waiting for patto.
- Well, that's what I told Ali.
I said you probably wouldn't be able
to tear yourself away from...
- they should give you an
award for community service.
- Better than being a hermit like you.
- G'day.
- Backa.
Oh, is that for me?
- Yep.
- Thank you.
Great.
How much do I owe you?
- Uh, 110, 100 if it's cash.
- Mm-hmm.
- How about these flies, eh?
- Hadn't noticed.
- A hundred.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- What's the special occasion, backa?
Don't tell me you're going to
the dog's funeral, as well.
- Oh, I'm gonna met this guy
from twelfth green, Maurice.
- Oh, first-name terms, that's cozy.
What do they call you, backa?
Tim?
- Don't care what they call me mate
if it means jobs for the locals.
- There's more to life
than jobs, you know.
- Not if you don't have one.
- Well, what's the
point of the meeting?
I mean you're already in bed
with these developers, so.
- I don't know Perry,
I'm just gonna have to
play it by ear, aren't I?
See you.
- Did you enjoy that?
- What?
- You know what.
- We are huntin' wabbits!
Be wery, wery quiet.
- You sure he's old enough
to handle that gun, Hank?
- You want to find out?
- Bloody hell, put that
thing away, Kieran.
- Hey, backa, we're going
rabbit shooting, wanna come?
- Oh, that was real smart.
- What do you got?
Shit for brains?
- What?
What did I do?
- Oh, nothing!
Just drew attention to the fact
that we're in a stolen car.
- You told me to think laterally, Hank.
- Yeah, I didn't tell you to be stupid.
- Good one.
Good stuff.
- You forgot your sangas.
- You can shove your bloody sangas!
- You're gonna
be hungry later on.
- Piss off!
- Can you stop being such
a big girl's blouse?
Here take 'em!
Anyone wants to know where I am,
I'm taking a dump in the bush, right?
Now stay put till I get back.
Don't want you stuffing anything up.
There's no way I'm going back inside.
I'll top meself first.
- Hank!
I won't stuff it up.
- I know you won't, mate.
- Oh, all right guv'nor?
Poppet?
- Put a sock in it, fly.
- You'll be all right.
Look after yourself.
- Make sure it's deep enough
so the wildlife can't dig him up.
Thanks for coming.
I really appreciate it.
This was his favorite spot, you know.
- Yeah, you were saying.
- He was a real water baby.
You'd be having a swim and he'd come
paddling towards you wanting
to climb all over you.
Nearly drowned me once.
God, he was funny.
- Perry says to send his love.
He's sorry he can't make it.
- Look at his little face.
- He looks at peace.
- I know.
Feel his little nose, it's so cold.
- Yes, it's cold.
- Been so bloody hot, we had
to keep him in the freezer.
- Lu, you wanna put him in
or do you want one of us to?
- I want to do it.
- Okay.
- Where's eris?
A bit much for him, is it?
- No, she said he thinks
it's a stupid idea.
- Goodbye, beautiful boy.
Hey, where's his dog biggies?
He loved his dog biggies.
They should go in, too.
- No, do you really think
that's a good idea?
'Cause you know, food
attracts predators
and if you know what I mean.
- Uh, yeah, I got it, yeah.
- All right, everyone.
Grab a handful of dirt.
Someone should say a couple of words.
- We should have a poem.
Lill, you're the writer.
- Ah, luisa, I just do the drawings.
Um.
We're all gonna miss you, fugly.
You were a beautiful dog.
You certainly weren't ugly.
And, um, your mum and dad
are feeling very sad,
'cause you're the best dog
they could have ever had.
- Hey, boss.
- Hello.
- What are you trying to do?
- Just working out a system
to get those poles up.
- You're gonna need
backhoe for that, mate.
- Well, can't we just do it ourselves?
- No offense, but you're not
exactly Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Patto, I'm not too sure about this.
I can't afford to pay the
guys anything, you know.
- Aw, it'd be against all if you did.
Hey, you bludgers.
- Hey.
- G'day.
- Are you gonna be
working on that all day?
- What do I know?
Why?
- Oh, we're putting up the
main pole up at Perry's.
He needs to borrow you fellows.
- Oh, yeah?
- Look, it doesn't really matter, i...
- what about the winch in the trooper?
- Well, I thought of asking
Paul hope for his backhoe.
He wouldn't mind taking
it out for the day.
- Well, I'll give him a call.
Are you gonna take the ute?
- I really can't afford
to pay him anything.
- Ah, mates' rates, mate.
- No worries. You'd do
the same for us, Perry.
- What exactly would mates'
rates be in this situation?
Patto?
♪ Come on sissy, let's go downtown ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's ride ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's go downtown ♪
♪ come on sissy, let's ride ♪
- Svettie.
- Hi!
- Rebekah.
I got the watercolor paper, thank you.
- Oh, did you?
- Yeah, I gave backa the money.
- Oh, thanks.
That's our electricity
bill taken care of.
- Oh, it was really good
timing 'cause kc's coming up,
so we're probably gonna work on
a few new sketches for the book.
- Oh!
- Yeah, we got some really good
reviews for "which witch,"
so we're looking forward to
starting the next one, yeah.
- Well, as long as you keep getting
your materials throughs our shop.
- I thought backa looked
very dashing all dressed up.
- He scrubs up well, my man.
- Pity, it's wasted on the
developers, hey, Fifi?
- Oh, god, don't talk to me about it.
I'm sick of all of it.
- Development is good.
What else is there?
- Life?
Hey, how is eris?
He must have been pretty cut
up finding fugly like that.
- Well, that's only part of it.
Anyone can figure out what's going on
in his mind right now,
please let me know,
'cause I don't have a clue.
- How about beginning
with m, ending with e?
- What's that supposed to mean?
What?
- It's not a state secret.
- What is?
- You and Mike.
- What about me and Mike.
- Do I have to spell it out?
- Don't look at me.
- Well, so what?
So I had a thing with Mike, so what?
He's a very nice man.
He likes women.
He looks you in the eye
when he talks to you.
He made me feel good.
- You're right, he's a very nice man.
- Mm.
And don't forget his secret weapon.
- Secret weapon?
No.
- "I don't know if you're
interested, but uh,
"some women consider me to be
slightly larger than average."
- How do you know that?
- You told me!
- No, I didn't.
God, you didn't.
- I'm sorry, mate, I
should have told you.
I should have told you
when you told me,
but if it's any consolation,
it was over before you.
- He told me I was the only one
he'd done it with since his wife.
- Seven.
- What?
- Well, from where I'm standing,
Mike's done it with seven
women in lost river.
- Like who?
- Well, that's for me to
know and you to find out.
- Embryonic fluid
returning five dollars.
Fourth event of the day
coming up shortly,
however, there's expected
to be real action...
- sammo?
Sam O'Donnell!
- Backa!
Mate!
Geez, when'd you become a Mormon?
- Jesus!
- You were just off on
a big trip out west
to shag a chick in every
country, if I remember rightly.
- Well, yeah, I got um,
I got as far as Minsk.
- As in Russia?
- Da.
- Still together?
- Da.
- happy?
- Da.
- Kids?
- Dva.
And you?
- Nyet to all the above.
You want a beer?
- Oh, mate, I'd love one,
but I'm just about to meet somebody.
- Ah, here he is.
- Sorry, I'm late.
How are ya, Tim?
- I'm good, Maurice.
You guys have already...
- Yeah, Sam does all the
legals for twelfth green.
- Ah.
Still a lawyer.
- Ah, can't get a job in real society.
Hey, what about you?
Maurice said something about a shop?
I always thought you'd
end up on the land.
- Yeah, so did I.
One day.
- I think our table's ready.
- So is nobody else coming?
- No, the fox cove shire engineer
and the local member cried
off at the last minute.
- Right.
- Uh, vodka for this guy!
Beer for you, Maurice?
- Yeah, Sam.
- Same for me, thanks.
- Uh, no, I'll just have a lite
beer, too, please. Thanks.
That'd be great.
Um, can you guys just give us a second?
What are you?
You're a wanker.
- I need a slash.
- It can wait till we get there.
- What is this shit?
Ah, just as I thought, faggot music.
What else we got here?
Ah!
We got some more faggot music, hmm?
And there's even more faggot music.
- Hey, turn the air con up, eh?
- Yeah, well, shut the windows first.
- I'm getting bored here!
- Put the radio on.
Hey, grab one of those
bunnies out of the eski.
- What for?
- We have to defrost it so
we can give it to the dog.
Don't want it to rip our legs off.
- A dog.
Well, that's good, you
told me about the dog.
- Hey.
I told you about the
dog back at his place.
- Oh, we'll kill it.
- No one's killing anything.
Everything under control, remember?
- Yeah, under control.
You know what happens when
you feed a dog a rabbit?
It mauls it in two seconds
and then it rips your leg off.
- Well, why don't you
Chuck him a tennis ball
and see if he wants to play?
- Jesus!
- Good thinking on you, eh.
You really got it.
- God, if I have to listen to
you two whinging all the way!
- Full of surprises, eh?
Shit for brains, just like his brother.
Unbelievable.
- Thanks, mate.
That's it.
That's it, Paul.
All right.
Bit further.
Bit further. There he is, there he is.
- That's it, right?
- Got it under the bucket, mate!
- Ought to get some danger
money from you for this, bud.
- Bit more!
Bit more, Paul.
Righto!
Down.
- That's it, that's it.
- Just back it up a bit, mate!
- Yeah, there we go.
That's it.
Right, right.
- Just brake it in a bit.
Ah!
That's it!
- Hey!
Well done, guys.
There she is.
Hey, eris, sorry I couldn't
make it to the funeral, mate.
- Oh, didn't miss much.
- Yeah, I know fugly
was a pretty important
part of your life, though.
- He was just a bloody dog, Perry.
- Mm.
- What happens next, Perry?
- Oh, mate, we have
to start on the rafters
for the roof!
- Yeah.
- Oh, don't like the sound of that.
- Lightning gives me the creeps!
- Don't worry.
It's out of the way.
- So who are they?
These conquests of Mike?
Maggie Utah?
- Uh-uh.
- God, listen to them.
- Marlene robertson?
- Frigid.
- Fan bell?
- Religious.
- Yeah, kama sutra.
- Lill yengill?
- Ah!
- So what is it about Mike?
I mean, apart from the obvious.
- Maybe it's because
he's like a little boy.
He makes women want to mother him.
- Maybe it's because it
can get pretty lonely
out in the country.
- Yep.
Tell me about it.
Some days I don't see
another human being
till Perry gets home.
- God, some days I'd kill
for some peace and quiet!
- Yeah.
Any time you want to swap places, lill.
- Well, you
know, the way things are
with Perry and me at the moment
it's not such a bad idea, I tell you.
Right?
- Finally!
- Hey, kc!
You've found us!
- Yep.
- Did you bring any wine?
- No, why?
- 'Cause you always bring wine.
- Well, this time I didn't.
Sorry, you should've said something.
- That's all right.
This is Rebekah.
- Hello.
- And Ali, Fifi.
- Hi.
- I don't think
you've met svettie.
- Hi.
- And this is luisa.
This is kc, she's the
partner of my books.
She does the words.
- You ever done any stories about dogs?
- Not yet.
- I know a really good dog story.
- I haven't been for three months
and they're still
talking about the dog.
- Yeah, we just buried him.
- It was beautiful.
- Hey, come on, big fella!
Stop mucking around!
It's cold in here!
- Jennifer crowther?
- Uh-huh.
- Come on, go for it!
Yeah!
- Aw, slag.
- We're gonna have to deck him.
- I wanna do it.
- I'll do it.
- Yeah, let's!
- Hey, Mike!
Mike!
Hey!
- Mike, show us your butterfly!
- Show us your butterfly!
- The butterfly?
- Come on, Mike!
- Yeah, well, it
takes quite a bit of work
in the shoulders.
- Come on!
Keep going, that's excellent!
- Hey!
- Hey, there.
- Go!
- Hey!
Hey!
Hey, Ali, give it back!
- Bring 'em here, bring 'em here!
Throw them up!
Give it here!
Throw them up!
- Come back!
Hey, girls, that's...
Come back here!
Ali!
- Hey, Mike!
- It's not funny! I've gotta
get back to the station!
Wait, Fifi!
Luisa!
Fifi, please.
Luisa!
It's not funny! -
It's a good one.
Oh, Jesus.
Come on, we'd better get out of here.
- Ali!
Darl, Chuck us me shorts back, please?
- Here, you can have this.
- Oh, thanks, lill.
Thanks, lill.
You're a champion.
- Woo-hoo!
Woo!
What a bod!
Let me at it!
- So we decide we want
to race the dog ourselves
and benno knows this woman
who keeps greyhounds.
- 25 of them.
- And there's a council bylaw, right,
you can only keep two in the suburbs,
so she has to hide them
all inside her house.
- Place is like a dog motel.
All these rows of
greyhounds on mattresses
in the bedrooms.
- So we find one we like, we
train him up, give him a name.
- Floppy.
- Floppy.
And we enter him in his first race.
- We put all our money on him.
- Floppy comes last.
- Ah, floppy is so slow the
stewards do a drug test on him
to see if anyone slipped him a Mickey.
- Floppy comes dead last
in every single race
we enter him in.
- Well, then what?
- Oh, he took off overseas
and I finished law school.
That was the last time we
saw each other, wasn't it?
- No, what happened to floppy?
- Oh, Tim shot him.
- You shot him?
- Yeah, that's what you do.
He wasn't earning his keep.
Anyway.
We didn't come here to
talk about floppy, did we?
Sorry, Maurice, do you want to
talk about the development?
- Oh, no, no, we can
do that after lunch.
More wine?
- Mm.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Why not?
Here's to floppy.
Here's to floppy.
- Hey, Paul, thanks, mate!
- Thanks, Paul!
- Looks all right from here.
- Yeah.
- Geez, don't you guys ever stop?
- Right, that's it, there it is.
- Just one, mate?
- Oh, cool, hey.
Thanks.
- Yeah, look um, leave
the rafters, boys.
I'll do them myself next week.
- Oh, we can help you lay
some of these bricks, then.
- No, no, look it's fine.
I really appreciate everything
you've done so far.
- Oh, we'll just um, top it up, then.
- No, no, just uh, have a beer.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers!
- Cheers.
- Thanks, mate.
- Oh!
So did you bring the reviews?
- Oh, in my bag.
Mostly good. You know, a
couple of them don't know
what they're talking about.
- Oh, we'll burn them.
"Doesn't talk down to kids.
"Puts itself in the minds of children."
Oh, "scrumptious illustrations,"
I like that bit.
"Brings to life characters
that will resonate
"with children of all ages."
This is fantastic, kc!
- Yeah, I guess so.
- It's great. Better
than a kick in the head.
What's wrong?
You look tired.
That new girlfriend of yours
giving you a hard time?
- Erica?
No.
Oh, she's great.
- So what were you going to
tell me about the stories?
- You know how it's always
been a big ambition of mine
to write a young adult novel?
- Mm-hmm.
- I've had a really great
offer from the publishers
and I've been thinking about
it for the last month
and that's why I'm not
making much progress
with the "pirate princess."
- What are you trying to tell me, kc?
- Well, if I want to meet
the schedule for the novel
something's got to give.
- Such as?
- I want to put our partnership on hold
for at least a year.
Possibly longer.
- I don't get it, we have just
published a book with
international interest
and you want to pull the plug?
- Who said anything
about pulling the plug?
- You did.
- No, I said I wanted time out.
- Oh, time out, okay, sure.
Every boyfriend who ever split
up with me used that line.
- Lilli!
- Don't call me that!
I thought you were my friend.
- I am your friend!
- No, you're bloody not!
Where's my cigarette holder?
- This is my big chance.
It's what I've always dreamed of.
- Okay, good.
What am I gonna do for a year
or two years or however long it takes
for you to follow your dream?
Don't I count here?
- I didn't count when you
decided to move out here.
- Oh, Jesus, here we go again!
Ever since I moved out here,
you had this thing
that I ran out on you.
You are running out on me!
- Fine, if that is the way
you want to look at it.
- Kc, all right, all right.
I'll move back to the city.
- It's too late.
I've already signed the contract.
- Oh, are you cold?
We'll get you your shirt.
- Hey, lill, thanks.
Hey.
You okay, lill?
What's wrong?
Here.
Oh, you poor thing.
Hey, it's all right.
- What do they want?
- They want your help.
And they want to know what you want.
- Yeah, but what kind of help?
- Let's talk
about it with Maurice.
- I just want to know what
the game is, you know?
How should I play this?
- Well, it's a business thing.
Just play it straight up, be yourself.
- Yeah?
- You remember
Cheryl Saunders?
- Yeah.
- There's a dog called
Cheryl in the next race.
Eight to one, I know the trainer,
reckon she's a real goer.
You want to put one on?
- No, we should get back to Maurice.
- Oh, he's not going anywhere.
What's wrong, man?
I'll spot you if you
haven't got any money.
- Oh, no, no, no, it's
not that, it's not that.
I just, I just...
- Well, come on.
For old times' sake.
- Eight to one?
- Eight to one.
- Oh, go on, then 100 bucks.
- Good man.
- Off and running...
- Ah!
Straight to the front,
look at that, mate.
- That's her, right?
- Yep.
- The black one?
- Yep.
- Go.
- Beautiful.
- Go, Cheryl!
She's right out front!
- Yeah.
- Go, Cheryl, go.
- That a girl.
Stay there, stay there!
- Go, Cheryl, go!
- It's too easy!
- Go, Cheryl!
- All the way, come on!
- Sammo, she's still there!
- She's
not going anywhere.
- Go!
Go, Cheryl!
Go Cheryl!
She's balls in!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
- Come on, baby!
- Go, Cheryl!
Go Cheryl!
Yes! - Yes!
Yes!
I told you she was a goer, mate.
Told ya.
- 800 bucks!
- Yeah. You want to double it?
- Eh?
- Double it.
- No, mate!
- Hey, this is the same trainer,
different dog, bogan rogan.
Two to one favorite.
- Yeah, but that's the
most money I've had
in one lump in a long time, mate.
No, I don't want to risk it, no.
- It's two to one!
It's very lavish!
Maurice, you want to bid?
- Yep, sure.
- Come on!
- Which one's bogan rogan?
- Number six, mate. He's in
the lead, what'd I tell ya?
- He is, he is!
- Go, bogan, boy!
Go, boy! - Go, bogan!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Go, bogan, go!
Go, go, go!
Where's he going?
- Bogan rogan's run
off the track at the turn!
- Where's he going?
- Oh, no!
You want another one?
Want another one?
- Bogan rogan all the rage,
bailed up in the race.
- It's all right, mate.
- We'll get after the car.
- Make sure you wipe it clean.
- Give you a call tomorrow.
- Hello!
Anyone home?
Kieran?
Where's everybody?
Where's Kieran?
Thought you and him were
going rabbit shooting.
- Uh, yeah, we did.
He's uh, just gone to get a pizza.
- When's he getting back?
- Well, they take a while to make.
Pizzas.
You look nice.
- I'll wait in the veranda.
- No, well, uh...
You can wait here if you like.
Keep me company while
I finish burning off
all this old rubbish.
So what've you been up to?
- What do you care?
- I'm interested.
I mean, you, you're a
very interesting chick.
Kieran's a lucky guy.
Wish I had a girlfriend like you.
- What about taz?
- Nah.
That's all over.
Kind of immature, you know?
Compared to you.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I mean, you're not just a pretty face.
You're complex.
Mysterious.
Surprising.
Wild at heart.
- Yeah?
- Yeah!
And beautiful.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Come on.
Look.
See?
I think you're really beautiful.
- If you want me to talk to Bryce
about the asset protection
zone, there's...
- oh, no, there's no need for that.
No, we had a really productive meeting
with Bryce Austin last week.
- Ah.
Well, so what do you want then?
- More land.
We need to sell a limited
number of residential sites
to make the golf club viable.
- And?
- A little while ago we
approached Jeff Burke
with a proposal to sell us
40 hectares of his land.
- He didn't say anything
to me about it.
- Aye, he knocked us back.
- Said we'd have to come up
with something extraordinary
if we wanted him to sell.
But what Jeff Burke
calls extraordinary,
our board calls impossible.
- Oh, yeah, that'd be right.
- When I heard what was going down,
I told the boys that Jeff
Burke was your uncle, mate.
- We were wondering whether
you might be able to talk to him.
- I see.
- If we don't get the land, the
whole project'll fall over.
That'll mean the loss of at
least 120 jobs for locals.
- Yeah, but,
just what part of the property
are you talking about?
- 40 hectares on the West Side.
- Top or bottom?
- It's on a hill.
It'd be overlooking the golf course.
- That's the old homestead paddock.
- Yeah, I think so, but there's
no homestead on it now.
- No, there's not, but...
My father's ashes are scattered there.
Dad lost everything before he died.
That paddock is all me and
my brother have left of him.
- I realize this is a difficult
thing we're asking, Tim.
But before you dismiss the idea,
is there anything we can offer you?
- See you later.
- Thanks, sammo.
Hey, babe.
- How did it go?
- Do you want the good news
or the bad news first?
- Bad.
- I lost the hundred
bucks lill gave me.
- You lost it?
- On a dog.
- You put a hundred dollars on a dog?
- Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Do you want to hear the good news?
- What?
- Twelfth green have offered
us $300,000 for the shop.
- No way.
- Scout's honor.
- Oh, backa!
This is like the answer to our prayers.
300,000?
- Yep, they asked me my price
and I told them that's what it was.
- What do you mean?
- Well.
They want me to ask, well,
no, they want me to convince
uncle Jeff to sell them 40 hectares.
- Well, that should be easy.
With that kind of money
they're offering...
- yeah, there's just,
there's a problem, svet.
It's the homestead paddock.
- Barry.
- Yeah.
I um...
I just don't think
I could live with myself.
- That's 50,000 over what we
would get from anyone else.
- I know.
- That's if anyone else
would ever want to buy it.
- I know.
- You should at least
try and talk to him.
- Yeah, just...
It's dangerous when you
get into a conversation
with uncle Jeff.
You've got to count your
fingers afterwards.
But yeah, I mean, yeah.
There's no harm in
bringing it up, is there?
- See you, Perry!
- Patto.
- No kc?
- She had to go back.
- Ah.
That's a lot of driving all in one day.
- Yeah, she had something to do.
- Hmm.
- She said to say hello.
- Hello, kc.
How were the reviews?
- Terrific.
- Good.
Well, that's good for
the next one, isn't it?
- Yep.
How'd you go?
- Fine.
Joey and eris came over,
we got a lot done.
Flickered out.
- That would've been fun.
- Yeah, it was.
Poles.
- Do you want a hand?
- Yeah, sure, you wanna help?
- Yep.
- Okay.
Put that brick on there.
Yeah, that way around.
Ugh!
- Oi, what are you doing here?
- Bloody hell!
What are you doing here?
- Just came back from a swim.
Where is everyone?
- Uh, well, I don't know.
I just came back to use the dunny.
- Where's Kieran?
- He's uh, ordering pizzas.
I was going to pick him up.
Think you want to get some
pizza for the little fella?
Eh?
Olives, anchovies?
Oh, maybe a supreme?
- Whatever.
- Why don't you buy something
nice for the little sprog, eh?
- Where'd you get this?
- Sold a couple of rabbits, mate.
- Hi, noodle.
Didn't see you before.
What's going on?
- Shit.
What happened to you?
- Oh, I've just been
crapping my guts up all day
'cause those bloody
sangas you made were off!
What took you so long?
- Uh, you don't want to know.
- I want my money!
- Jeez, you don't waste
any time, do you?
All right.
Chuck in another 50 'cause
you did such a good job.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You done good.
Uh-oh.
G'day, patto.
What are you up to?
- Ah, rope's come undone.
- Ooh, bummer.
- No worries.
- Hey, uh, we've been rabbit
shooting up in the hills.
Here.
Have a rabbit.
- I don't want a rabbit.
- Oh, go on, take it.
- I don't want it.
- Give it to your dog. Come one.
- It's a bit cold?
- Yeah. Put it straight on
the ice when we killed it.
Enjoy, eh?
All right, we'll grab a pizza.
Get something for your guts.
- It was on the news, Hank.
- What was?
- The job.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- Hank, I heard it.
They said there was three
guys in a station wagon
that robbed someone.
It was you guys, wasn't it?
- What else did they say?
- Nothing.
Just that the guy's in hospital.
- Is he dead?
- Nah.
- That's good.
That's good.
- So it was you guys, wasn't it?
It's all right, it's cool, I won't dob.
- All you got to do
is stick to the story
and let me sort everything
else out, all right?
Then it will be sweet.
- You know what you said before
about topping yourself if
you had to go back inside?
- Did I say that?
- Yeah, you did.
- Well, I'm not going back inside.
So you can forget about
that, all right?
Right, as soon as all
this shit's sorted out,
I'm heading off up north.
Gonna buy meself a
boat and make a packet
renting it out to tourists.
- I'm coming with you.
- Sure.
'Cause you did a really good job.
And you're me brother and
I'll always look after you.
Isn't that right?
Eh?
- Yes!
- Yes?
- Yes!
- Yes? Can't hear you.
- Ah, yes, yes!
- Okay.
- That single malted
was your father's favorite.
- I know. I got so pissed
on it at dad's funeral
I haven't been able to stomach it since.
- I always prefer a blend, but Barry,
Barry was a malt man.
- He was.
Remember when we scattered
his ashes up here?
The nor'easter blew up, sent
him flying all over the place.
- I think he would have
enjoyed the day somehow.
- Yeah, he would've.
Funny old bastard.
- Barry always had to be different.
- Yeah.
- Everyone else in the family's
buried in the cemetery,
but no, no, we had to burn Barry.
- Well, he had plenty of time
to think about it, didn't he?
A long, slow death.
"A long, slow death is
just what I need, Tim,
"just what the doctor ordered."
Ah, I still miss him.
- You'll miss him even
more if I sell this land.
What's left of him is here.
- Yeah, I know.
You think I don't know that?
Jesus, what's a
bloke supposed to do?
It's my one chance to
get out of the shop.
- And they all lived
happily ever after.
What have they offered
you for the shop?
- 300.
We could buy a new place,
we could start again.
- Did you get it in writing?
Or did they just wine and dine you?
You're a fool, Tim.
What do you think they're gonna do
once they've got the land?
They'll have no need for the shop,
so they're not going to buy it.
Besides, this land has
sentimental value.
I don't want to see it in the hands of
con men and land sharks.
- Oh, what do you care?
This was dad's land!
Yeah, this is Joey's
land, this is my land,
and we know, yeah, I know you own it,
but come on!
You bought it cheap!
You could've done the right
thing and given it to us!
You could've given us
this lousy 40 hectares,
it's only half of what you owe us!
I mean, you don't even use it!
We coulda come here and
lived here years ago!
- What would you have
farmed on 40 hectares?
Guinea pigs?
- I would've been on the land.
It would've changed everything.
How do you think I felt today?
Talking to these guys about
convincing you to sell the land?
You know, like I was
some kind of errand boy?
It's me they should have been
talking to in the first place!
- All right.
Let's imagine it's your decision.
Let's make it your decision.
You want to be a landowner?
- I want to be a farmer.
I want to work the land.
You know that.
I always have.
- Well, it comes with responsibilities
and I'm going to leave
the decision up to you.
No, I'm serious.
You're the man.
You're the friend of the developers.
You decide whether to sell the
40 hectares or not to sell.
It's up to you.
♪ In the land of the little kings ♪
♪ justice don't mean a thing ♪
♪ and everywhere the little kings are ♪
♪ getting away with murder ♪
♪ 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 ♪