Fireflies (2004): Season 1, Episode 17 - Kin Oath - full transcript
Peg Beecher is back and after escaping from her nursing home, she makes a beeline for her house only to find it's been rented out to the new doctor and his family. When Peg lands on Lill's doorstep, Lill decides to champion her cause, but she doesn't know what she's let herself in for. Peg's not happy, so it's tantrums all round first at Lill and Perry's, then at Backa and Svettie's. Backa is agonising over whether to sell the homestead paddock that his father's ashes are on while Svettie sympathises with his dilemma she knows they need the money and pushes him accordingly. Backa visits Joey to ask his advice, but Joey is furious that Backa would even contemplate doing such a thing. Meanwhile Lill and Perry are still trying to patch up their relationship as best they can. Fifi comes home to find Hank acting even more suspiciously than usual, and when he hands her over some cash she knows something is going on. At dinner the next night, the Sharps hear of a bookie robbery over the radio. While everyone suspects Hank, nothing is said. Hank is full of bravado and when he destroys a piece of Joey's property, Fifi is pushed over the edge. She will be forced to choose between her new life with Joey and her family.
- Your friend had a severe
stroke during the night.
- Oh god.
- She owes her life to you.
- I'm gonna get changed.
- I think you already have.
- Okay, what are you trying to tell me?
- I wanna put our partnership on hold
for at least a year, possibly longer.
- Don't I count here?
- I didn't count when you
decided to move out here.
- Oh, Jesus, here we go again.
- If we don't get the land,
the whole project will fall over.
That'll mean a 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.
- That's the old homestead, pally.
- Yeah, I think so, but there's
no homestead on it now.
- No there's not, but
my father's ashes are scattered there.
- ♪ 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 thee ♪
♪ lying on a blanket ♪
♪ underneath that big
old spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
- Come on, dig in.
Thin and crispy, eh?
Mmm, mmm!
Mmm!
- No, I don't want any.
- Sure you do.
Come on, eat up like a good girl.
- Give her a break, Hank.
- I hear you, bro.
Just hate seeing good food go to waste.
- Pull your head in, Hank.
- Oh.
Try and do something nice for people
and all they do is
bloody piss and moan.
- You're a real wanker, you know that?
- Uh, you know that's not true.
Hey?
- Hey, it's afternoon.
- Okay, I'm up.
- So, not much on today?
- Nope. You?
- Oh, yeah, yep, I gotta go.
- Well, you better go.
I'll think of something to do.
Hey, listen, kc and I are
in hiatus for a bit,
and I was just wondering about
that project you mentioned,
the candy rainbow series.
Oh really?
Oh no she's a very talented
young illustrator.
No, no, I'm pretty busy too, yeah.
But hey listen, well done.
She is fantastic.
Okay, v, cool.
Bye.
Ugh, candy bloody rainbow,
good luck to you.
Peg!
What a surprise.
- What, that I'm still alive?
- She said you'd pay the fare.
- Did she?
I've got some money in the house.
How much do I owe you?
- 129 dollars.
- How much?
- From fox cove,
plus 40 minutes waiting
while the mad ci
gettin' in a toss with some
people living at her house.
Look, we'll call it quits at 120.
Fair enough?
- You take credit card?
- Lunatics running the place.
- Still, maybe you shouldn't
have signed yourself out.
Those nurses are very caring there.
- No manners, none of them!
Overeducated monsters!
- Went easy on them, did you?
- One of them had an earring
through her eyebrow,
like a cannible.
- You okay, peg?
- I'll put the kettle on.
- Lipton, white, two sugars.
- I've got early grey...
- bloody boat people!
They should stick 'em on
an island and sink it.
- What boat people?
- The boat people in my house.
Asians, orientals.
They've invaded the country,
and the now they've invaded my house!
- All right, slow down and
tell me what you mean.
- I got a taxi home.
When I got there, other people
had taken over my house!
Aren't you listening to me?
- Well maybe it wasn't your house.
You've been through a lot, peg.
- I know my own home!
I've lived there for 40 years!
It's been taken over!
It's full of the wretched people!
- Okay, I'm gonna make this tea,
and then you can tell me all about it.
- We should call the police.
That's what we should do.
- God, been chewing dust all day,
and now patto reckons we gotta work out
the winter burn off before
tomorrow's meeting.
There's no one else can do it.
And that doesn't solve the big problem.
God, just been churning and churning,
and churning and churning
in my head all day.
What was that last bit?
- It's an impossible decision.
And it's yours.
- We need the money.
- What do you wanna do?
- Well I guess the first thing is
I gotta talk to Joey.
Hey Joey.
- Hey man.
- Thought I'd grab you
before you went out.
- No, we're not going out.
- What?
- Kevin can't get
the boat started.
- How's the swearing down there?
- Pretty bloody fierce.
- It could get pretty fierce
up here in a second too.
How'd you feel if uncle Jeff
sold the homestead property
of that twelfth grain mall.
Now, to be fair, he
hasn't said yes or no.
In fact, he's left the
decision up to me.
I mean, I haven't said
yes or no either.
- It's no way, mate.
That's where dad's ashes are.
I can't believe we're
even talking about it.
- Developers offered a
premium for the shop,
and that's stupid money.
We could sling you some
of it for your deposit.
If dad was here, he'd say go for it.
- Well you can't know what he'd think.
Okay, so it's just his ashes but...
But what if he was buried there, backa?
Would you wanna dig him
up then and move him?
- Yeah he's not buried there.
- Yeah, but what if he was?
Because that's what it is to me, mate.
It's dad's grave.
It's where I go when I need some space.
No.
I won't sign whatever it
is you want me to sign.
- There's nothing to sign.
- What do you mean?
- It's up to uncle Jeff.
I mean, it's up to me.
He signs but
he said it's my decision.
- Come on, Joey, I'll
give you a lift home.
- No thanks, mate, I've got
another half hour work here.
- I'll wait.
- No thanks.
- They're not gonna take
me without a fight.
- There's nobody here, peg.
- We'll see about that.
This is my house.
This is my country.
You are trespassing!
- Sorry, we are already
renting this house.
I told this woman already!
- See, not a word of English.
Let's call the police.
- She's speaking English, peg.
I'm sorry about this.
- Yes, but it's not Australian English.
- How long have you lived here for?
- No! She is awful woman!
- This is my house!
What have you done with my things?
- We renting this house furnished!
There is not much here.
- I can't understand
a word she's saying.
Let's call the police.
- Gooday.
Can I help you?
- What have they done with my swan?
- It's called power of attorney.
- Sounds American.
Invaded by all sorts.
No one's safe.
- It means that when
you had your stroke,
all your legal rights
reverted to your daughter.
And she decided to rent your house out.
- Home. It's not a house.
It's a home.
- I know. I do.
But she's rented it out, and
she has the legal right.
- That little bitch.
- You get on well then, do you?
- Now I'm out on the streets.
I've got nowhere to live.
I don't know what this
country's coming to.
- Well maybe you could
stay with us tonight.
I'll help you sort it out tomorrow.
- How do you know so much
about this attorney business?
- Common knowledge.
- Well, I'm not common.
- So what about...
Smiths?
- Oh no, we burned off
smiths last year.
- So your old man loved
the place, but do you?
- Mate, he's got his
ashes scattered there.
And it's like a...
It's like a sacred site.
- Mmm, a sacred site.
- Yeah.
- Maybe you could sell it off
in Egan for laying rights.
What I'm saying is, you gotta
do what's right for you.
Everything else just
takes care of itself.
And your old man, he lives in here
not on some hillside somewhere.
- Didn't know you were
a philosopher, patto.
- I'm not, mate. It's just logic.
- Fair enough.
- Straight, this is hard.
We can't burn off banzanicas
and not do up at the national park.
- That will be irrelevant if
we get a big fire anyway.
Well we'll be here all bloody night.
- Boom.
Boom!
And he's still runnin'.
And then boom!
Game over, Roger.
Hey Joey, if you can
afford a night off,
how come you can't afford
to buy a better chair?
This one's gonna give me a bad back.
You gotta be psychic, eh?
You gotta know which way
the rabbit's gonna run.
You're following with the gun.
Then whamo!
Last thing that goes
through that bunny's mind,
he sees our straight bullet 22.
- Right, I've heard enough.
Put the silencer on.
- Wanna be careful with that bit.
You can see where the bullet went in.
- You hear me?
- Bookie, Bob biddy
is in a critical condition
after being stabbed in
the stomach and face,
during the robbery yesterday.
The thief is believed to have escaped
with over 50 thousand dollars.
Police are looking for a
silver powerful station wagon.
Anyone with information
can call their local police.
The weather now.
- What?
Don't look at me, look at your food!
Me and Kieran, we been hunting rabbits.
- Yeah.
- God, you can't put a
foot right 'round here.
- It's good to have all
the family together.
Except noodle of course.
- Be all right if we had a
noxious pest control program.
- Shut up.
- Not a bad job, sharpie.
- Yep.
State crystal grind,
herbs, bruka, hops,
and a kilo of maltodextrin.
Comes up at about six percent.
- All right, so we can
talk about the fact that
your an old piss-head alcho,
but we can't talk about the fact
that I'm the one that put
dinner on the table?
Isn't that what your supposed to do?
Hey?
Put dinner on the table?
- Maybe you should have an early night.
- If someone told me I
couldn't feed me family,
I'd knock their friggin' block off.
Wouldn't you, Joey?
- You're tired.
You're not thinkin' straight.
Go to bed, son.
What if I don't wanna go to bed?
Hey? What are you gonna do about it?
- Just shut up, Hank. Go to bed.
- I'll have you for breakfast, mate.
- You oughta know when to stop.
- I oughta know when to stop?
You're the burn-out old hippy,
always noddin' off into your beer.
You're bloody pathetic!
- Sharpie!
Sharpie, get off him!
- Get off me, you pot head!
- You've got no idea you!
- Oy! Easy fellas.
- Settle down, fella.
- I'll have you right here!
- Cut it out, man!
- This is family shit.
Keep out of it, mate!
Just because you're with my sister...
- Hank! Pull your head in.
- Doesn't make you family.
Stuff the lot of yous.
- You up for another bevy?
Eh, Joey?
- Yeah, sure.
- Get us another bottle, will you fif?
Ta.
- Daughter's rented her house out.
She's got nowhere else to go.
- Since when did that
become our problem?
- I'm not gonna put her
out in the street.
- No, she can go back
to the nursing home
where she came from.
- She doesn't like it there.
- That's hardly the point.
- Okay, I'll call them tomorrow.
- Good.
Well, peg. Hi, everything okay?
Anything you need, just let lill know.
- I'm fine.
Although tomorrow night,
I'd prefer it if you
didn't give me the curry.
Gives me terrible wind.
- Right, tomorrow night, no curry.
What they been feeding you
in that nursing home?
- Ghastly stuff. I'd
rather not think about it.
- How 'bout a cup of tea?
- As long as it's not that fancy
stuff you gave me before.
- Right. Coffee, instant.
- So, what do you think of the place?
- It's small.
Tin roof must be hell on hot days.
- Yeah, but it's only temporary.
I'm building another place.
You might have noticed.
- It's the five to 15 year plan.
- The place across the way?
- That's the one.
I'm planning to put up a mezzanine.
- It looks like an old ruin.
- No it's... a building
site, a work in progress.
- And the bricks don't look normal.
- Well they're not. They're mud bricks.
I make them myself.
- Mud bricks?
We're not living in the
third world, you know.
- Well, uh, that's about it for me.
Way past my bed time.
Goodnight, peg.
Uh darling, you won't
forget that phone call
in the morning, will you?
- No. Uh, Perry, we're out here.
Peg's in our bed.
- Where's my coffee then?
- Voila.
- Peg?
She's gone.
She's gone!
- What?
- Peg, she's gone!
- Oh well, she was drinking coffee.
She's probably gone for a walk.
- Well, we'll know that for
sure when we find her.
Come on, get up!
- It's a nice night for a walk.
Or are you hitchhiking, peg?
- I'm minding my own business;
That's what I'm doing.
- You're a long way from home.
Hop in.
- I was doing fine by myself.
- What are you doing out here?
- Been staying up at that lill's place,
and I decided I'd rather
sleep in my own bed.
- So you're heading home.
Is that where you wanna go?
- I'm on my way to evict
those boat people.
- Boat people?
- Illegal immigrants in my
house, breeding like rabbits.
Lill knows. She saw them.
We'll send them to a detention center.
That'll cool them off.
- All right?
- Yep.
- You know, that would be the angs.
He's the new doctor in town.
- Rubbish. They don't
have doctors over there.
- Yeah, yeah.
Great, thanks backa. Cheers.
- Backa found her?
- Yeah, he picked her up.
She was trying to walk
her way back into town.
She's spending the night
with him and svettie, so
we can go to bed, in our own bed. Yes!
- Well did she say why?
- You can ask her on the way
to the nursing home tomorrow.
Come on, sleep! Bed!
God, every time that woman shows up,
everything else goes out the window!
- We weren't rude to her.
We fed her.
She's got nobody else.
- Oh she's got people, lill.
She's got a whole town here.
She's got old friends,
she's got a daughter.
She's got a home.
- Well, she came to me.
- Careful with those eggs.
Don't overcook them, and I can't
eat them if they're runny.
- No runny eggs, got it.
- They've got lipton here.
No proper cups, but you
can't have everything.
- Well look, I called the
nursing home this morning,
and they'd prefer that peg found
alternative accommodation.
- They don't want me there?
I knew it!
- They said that? Are you serious?
- They just felt that...
Peg was a little high maintenance
for the services they provide.
- High maintenance, what
a stupid expression!
- There you go.
- Thank you, dear.
- So what's next?
- Well I'm gonna call your
daughter, sue, today and then
just see if we can work something out.
- You'll do nothing of the sort.
You take me home.
I'll get rid of those squatters.
I can't eat these, dear, they're hard.
I'll get indigestion.
- Really?
- Well I'll have 'em. (Clears throat.
They look all right to me.
- I wouldn't mind some weetabix though.
- Oh, we got some.
You can get it yourself.
I've gotta get the kids to
school and stuff, you know?
- I'll get them for you, peg.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
I'll get them myself.
- I wanna show you some pastels.
Milk's in the fridge.
How's the work going?
You can't take rubbish from that woman.
She's just like a child.
- What if she can't manage?
- She walked three
kilometers from your house.
- She has to work in the office.
How it works.
Everyone skates shit in summer,
and you did your sums twice
before you went and complained
about your paycheck.
Dad tried to sack her,
there's so many people
complaining about her.
He chickened out and
the wingers left him.
- I thought your dad was a farmer.
- Yeah. Well, then he
ran the works but,
I mean yeah, he was a farmer first.
- I never heard that story.
He was a nice man, his father.
Nice to everyone.
But he got walked over.
That's why we're not
living in the farm.
- It's more complicated than that.
Dad just...
He just wasn't very good with money.
- Svettie, I don't think I
can afford these just...
- Damn thing!
- Damn thin! Damn, damn thing!
It won't stop damn pouring!
Damn it!
- It's all
right, it's all right.
Careful, careful, careful now. Careful.
Lift that, peg. It's all
right, I've got it.
I've got it.
There we go. - Stupid damn arm.
Stupid head, none of it works anymore!
Stupid rehab, stupid nurses!
- The rehab
will get easier, peg.
- I don't want the bloody rehab.
I wanna go to my own home.
It's my home. I've always lived there!
- Well all we can do
is ring sue, you know.
Maybe you can.
Maybe something can be arranged?
Meals on wheels?
- I delivered meals on
wheels for 20 years.
Now some days I can't
even get out of bed.
- I'm sorry.
- You don't know he did it.
- Come on.
- Talk to your folks then.
- Yeah, but they know,
don't you reckon?
- I can't tell, fif.
It's a different world, your family.
Except your family isn't trying
to sell your father's grave.
- God, you look exhausted.
- No, I slept okay,
thanks to sharpie's brew.
- Oy, Kieran!
Why you doing this?
Why you sticking your
neck out for Hank?
He wouldn't do that for you.
- Yes he would.
- No.
No, he wouldn't.
He slept with noodle.
- I know.
- What, you know?
- Yep, and he got down on his knees,
and he begged my forgiveness.
He's my brother, fif.
He's all right.
He just wants to, just get out of here.
- What did noodle tell you?
- What are you saying?
That there was only one of
them there at the time?
She was into it.
What do you reckon?
- Look, I'm sorry about
last night, dad.
It was just the piss talkin'.
I didn't mean it.
- You want some taste?
- Yeah.
- All's well that ends well.
- I wanna talk to you.
- Look, I was just telling
everyone sorry about last night.
- Not about last night.
- Then what's it about?
- You don't give a shit about
anyone but yourself, Hank!
- Where is this going, you two?
- Sorry about this, mate.
It's better you see
this side of her now,
before it's too late.
- Just go, Hank!
- So you could be in my shoes one day?
- Just leave her alone, all right?
- Yeah, no worries.
- You got your money;
Why don't you just go?
- Oh what, and spend it?
The fox cove mall, buy a nice
shirt and tie, get a job.
- He's in hospital.
He's critical.
- What the hell are you talking about?
- When you came home I thought,
"okay, it's the same old Hank."
What happened to you, man?
I don't know who you are.
- Never knew people broke so easy.
They scream.
Your little sister's
worried about me future.
I don't know. With my prospects,
I thought I might get into
the re-upholstery racket.
Gotta go.
Might wanna take that
back to the dump, mate.
Like a pile of bones.
- Don't.
- Hank. Hank, get back here!
- Yeah, I'll be back, mum.
I'm a boomerang.
- Now what, mum?
He's threatening Joey. Look!
Look!
- I don't know, Fifi.
Why do you always look at
me for the bloody answers?
- He's all talk, babe.
He's all talk.
- Tell that to the bookie.
- Just got off the phone
from peg's daughter, sue.
That woman is impossible.
- Like mother
like daughter, eh?
- When I told her that the
nursing home didn't want peg back,
she wasn't surprised. She
didn't even seem to care.
- What time is she
coming to pick her up?
- She says she's too busy.
- Well, she's too busy this morning,
but she's coming this afternoon, right?
- I dunno, she didn't say.
- Peg can't stay here.
- Well where else is
she gonna stay, Perry?
- This is great news,
so this evening we can
look forward to enjoying
the effects of last night's curry.
- She was so mean about peg.
- There's two sides
to every story, lill.
- Peg is the most independent
woman I've ever met.
She's frustrated, all right?
She's probably really lonely.
- Lill, could
you get me a cushion?
- You know, it sounds like
peg just needs a date.
Know any blokes around her age?
- Oh just forget it, darling. Drop it!
Look, I can make some inquiries.
Fox cover health can
make some arrangements.
- You don't wanna do that.
- I do want to do that,
so that you can get back to things.
- What things?
After I finish with peg
I'm gonna run around
and find all the losties
and discover all their
grievances and solve them,
solve them all, am I? - No, no, no, no.
Look, you can just get back to
doing some stuff around here!
- Haven't got any work, Perry, have I?
I'm waiting for kc to deliver.
- Well get onto her then.
- Peg needs me, all right?
And it feels nice to be needed.
- I need you.
- You don't bloody need me.
- I do!
- You don't need me, you've got him!
You can hire him! He needs you!
You can go and hide in
your bloody cubby house.
- I come out of my cubby house for you.
Come on.
- That's crap!
You're a man with a heart
the size of a walnut.
Mr. "I'm problematic".
If you'd seen her trying to
pour her milk into the bowl...
- oh, for god's sake, lill,
I can guarantee you I've
seen worse than that,
but fine, you go ahead,
you just do your best.
But don't expect my lifeline to
be open on this one anymore!
- I'm gonna ring your
bloody daughter again.
- Fifi sharp.
Official visit?
- No, just knocked off work.
- So...
What can I do for you?
- It's about my brother.
- Right, I'll...
♪ Here it comes again. ♪
♪ The burning in the blood. ♪
♪ I found it in my brain. ♪
♪ They're riding out... ♪
- Selling, eh?
I just want you to
understand why I'm doing it.
- It's dad's grave
you're selling, mate.
Does that mean nothing to you?
- ♪ We can hide the drug. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
♪ I remember when, ♪
♪ a night of falling snow ♪
♪ me and you were tamed ♪
♪ from Edgar Allan poe. ♪
♪ By the firelight, ♪
♪ how your dark eyes shone. ♪
♪ I had no idea, ♪
♪ it would be so strong. ♪
♪ But we are young. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
- I don't know about
this fire com job, mum.
I mean, it's okay, but I
like being amongst it.
It's so boring now.
I feel like a glorified receptionist.
- You know what I always did
when I worked a job I
didn't really gel with,
just kept my eyes on the pay
packet at the end of the week.
- Yeah, but a job's
gotta be more than that
if you're gonna stick at it.
- Maybe that's why I didn't.
- Don't you wanna sit 'ere?
- Sharpie, Mike Jones.
- Damn. What does he want?
- Maybe he wants to talk to you.
- No! Nikki, no!
- They teach 'em to knock
like that at the academy?
- Mike.
- Bekah, sharpie,
Fifi.
I'd just like a word with
young Hank if he's about.
- Just one word?
All right, shouldn't take long.
- What's this about?
- I'm sure Hank will fill you in.
- The last
thing we need is coppers
sniffin' around the place.
- What the bloody
hell was that all about?
- Everything's cool, dad.
- Not when you keep bringing
the cops around, not cool!
What did he want?
- Wanted to know if I
had something to do
with the bookie robbery.
- And did you?
- Mate, they're interviewing everyone
in the world who's got any form.
Look, what's this?
It's a dead rabbit.
Who killed it?
I did!
- I don't give a stuff
about the rabbits!
We all reckon you did it.
Kieran was with me, weren't ya?
- Yeah, shootin' rabbits! Pfft!
- You're both such
hopeless bloody liars.
- Oh yeah, well then where'd
the rabbits come from?
- Hank, you can stop it now.
- Oh what? You don't
believe me either?!
- And you dragged Kieran into it!
- Do I look like someone who's
just made a chunk of money?
- Ah, he's
taking your car, dad.
- Do you think he did it?
- Says he didn't.
- Sue, thanks for coming. I'm lill.
- This had better be worth it.
- Suzanne.
- Mother.
What's that over there?
Looks like a ruin.
- Apparently, it's a work in progress.
- Why don't we all go inside
and I'll make a cupa'.
- I'd prefer to sit here
and admire the view
while you two stab me in the back.
- Suit yourself.
I know I must seem
quite uncaring to you,
but it's not that I don't care.
I love my mother.
I just don't like her.
- Well maybe you should
give her another chance.
- The woman cares for one
person, and that's herself.
She was the most absent
mother I've ever known.
- Well she needs people
to care for her.
- She may need care, but
she doesn't need family.
She never has.
- The nursing home won't take her back.
- I know, surprise, isn't it?
I've got another one lined up.
- She won't go.
- I've got power of attorney over her.
She'll do as she's told.
- I will not be shut away
with a bunch of old
people waiting to die!
- It's more like a serviced
apartment in a way.
- Kerosine baths and
rat-infested meals.
I'm not going.
- I will come and visit you.
- I don't want you to visit me.
There's no need to,
because I won't be there.
- Well I'm sorry, mother,
you don't have a choice.
- I won't have you
telling me what to do!
- Sue, I don't think you're
doing what's best for peg.
You haven't even asked
her what she wants.
I think you need to take a
long, hard look at yourself.
- Don't you speak
to my daughter like that.
She's driven all the way up
here only to be insulted!
Where are your manners?
- I'm only trying to help, peg.
- Well it's none of your business.
It's a family matter,
so stay out of it.
- Yes, and I'll thank you to keep
your half-baked yuppie
ideas to yourself.
Have you got nothing
better to do than t...
- don't you talk to lill like that.
She was the only one there
when I needed someone to talk to.
And where were you, Suzanne?
- I work!
- Long lunches and daycare centers!
Not good enough for my grandchildren.
Suzanne, get my bags.
I'm leaving.
- You're not staying with us!
- I wouldn't want to.
I'm going to the serviced apartment,
where I can mind my own business
and I don't have to worry
about anyone fussing
or fighting over me.
- ♪ Once I had ♪
♪ a place I could call my own ♪
- My god, you're exactly
as she described you.
- ♪ Now we're in the rain. ♪
♪ Lay my heads on. ♪
♪ Fell into some trouble
back on down the road. ♪
♪ They didn't like the look of me. ♪
♪ Someone took a... ♪
♪ I'll keep my eyes open, ♪
♪ for smoke. ♪
- I'm gonna go to a meeting.
♪ Keep on holdin' ♪
- Okay, with each hazard reduction
we've got the letterbox drops.
We'll need to get the
pamphlets printed.
It's gonna be a four-stage
operation, over three months.
- Yeah, but won't some of
this land already be cleared?
I mean, the golf course
thing's going ahead, right?
- Uh, yeah. Looks like it.
But, yeah we've still
gotta do the burn.
- Backa, not everyone's
sure it's a good idea.
- The back burn?
- No, the golf course in the units.
- Yeah, and the environmental damage.
- The lack of community consultation.
- What about all the jobs?
All the new people coming here?
- We don't want a whole new suburb.
- Not to mention the money
that's gonna come into the area.
- And your pocket. It's your
family's land they want.
- Not everyone in backa's
family wants to sell up.
- Man, it's your call.
- Backa's right.
I mean, we need the jobs and the money.
- The town's dying in front of us.
Are we gonna stand around
and listen while the pulse
of our town fades away?
Or are we gonna move with the times and
do what's best for all of us.
- What did Hank get you to do?
Make sure no one was coming
while him and his mates
bellered the poor bloke?
- We were shooting rabbits.
- Why don't I believe you, mate?
- You don't have
to lie for your brother.
- I'm not lying!
- A man is in hospital.
If Hank was involved,
we need to know...
- Can't you hear me?!
- Night.
- We were shooting rabbits.
- When I was a girl,
at Bible class
they told us a story.
There was a big family, everyone
taking care of each other.
One day, some of the brothers decided
they didn't like the other brother.
So they sold him to slave traders.
Told their mum and dad
he was killed by a lion.
- I never heard that story.
- Then the teacher asked us,
what would we do in the same situation.
Would we own up?
- Well, it depends why they did it.
The brothers.
- Why'd you do it?
Why'd you bring Mike into it?
- I...
I...
- Hank might have done the wrong thing,
but that beside the point.
You gotta be loyal to your family.
You let us figure it out.
- Mum, what kind of job
have you done so far?
- You didn't only betray Hank.
- I'm sorry.
- So am I.
I want you and Joey out of
this house by the morning.
- I was standing there in
front of all those people
trying to make this suburb
sound like Disneyland.
All I could hear was
uncle Jeff's voice.
Might as well have been
him talking to 'em.
You know, half the town hates me.
Probably get a brick
through the front
window sooner or later.
- That doesn't turn
you into uncle Jeff,
because you're not
doing it for yourself.
You're doing it for
us, for your family.
No matter what half the town thinks.
- Bloody dad.
Feels like he's trying to
stick it to uncle Jeff.
"Yeah, yeah, you got the land, but
I'll be here forever."
What if I said no?
- Can't believe we had
that fight today.
I still don't even know
what it was about.
No, yes I do.
It was your bloody
diversionary tactics.
- Perry, spare me the
psycho-babble just speak English.
- All right then, hear this.
The only home you need to
worry about is our home.
The only relationship
you need to worry about
is our relationship.
And you're not gonna solve
the problems of the world
if you don't start at home.
It starts with talking.
No more bullshit by the mud bricks.
- Right then, let's talk.
- ♪ Some men climb mountains, ♪
♪ just to test their souls. ♪
♪ Other men, they dig in the ground, ♪
♪ looking for buried gold. ♪
♪ Some men go diving, ♪
♪ and never come up for air. ♪
♪ I'm a climber. ♪
♪ I'm a miner. ♪
♪ I'm a diver for her. ♪
♪ 'Cause she's rare. ♪
- Yeah, just
kinda outta the blue.
Fif and Joey have decided
to move out together.
- Maybe they want their own space.
It's gettin' to be crowded 'round here.
You think it had anything to do
with the blew I had with Hank?
- Oh, I think that might be part of it.
And just what Hank's gettin' like.
- I'll go and talk to her,
get her to change her mind.
- No don't. You'll just
make more bad blood.
- Sometimes I don't think
I'm in control of the family anymore.
Fifi moving out, Hank
in and out of jail,
trying to drag Kieran along with him.
Maybe I never was.
- Well, if you're not in control,
we can be outta control together.
'Cause I'm not goin' anywhere.
- What are we doing here, dad?
- Look.
- Cool! Come on, candy.
- Aw, cool!
- Go on.
- There's lots of beautiful places.
- Yeah, but this is
dad's beautiful place.
And this is why.
Now to break ya I'll show you
where we used to find
fossils when I was a kid.
- Mum! Give us a push, mum!
Carter's taking turns on.
He reckons I'm heavy.
Woohoo!
- Yeah, because you are.
- Thanks a lot.
- Calm down.
You're not.
- I know, but still it's mean.
- Push her really high, mum!
- ♪ The old story of a boy. ♪
- ♪ 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 plain. ♪
♪ Fireflies, ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady. ♪
♪ It waxes and wanes. ♪
stroke during the night.
- Oh god.
- She owes her life to you.
- I'm gonna get changed.
- I think you already have.
- Okay, what are you trying to tell me?
- I wanna put our partnership on hold
for at least a year, possibly longer.
- Don't I count here?
- I didn't count when you
decided to move out here.
- Oh, Jesus, here we go again.
- If we don't get the land,
the whole project will fall over.
That'll mean a 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.
- That's the old homestead, pally.
- Yeah, I think so, but there's
no homestead on it now.
- No there's not, but
my father's ashes are scattered there.
- ♪ 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 thee ♪
♪ lying on a blanket ♪
♪ underneath that big
old spreading tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feeling ♪
♪ such a beautiful feeling ♪
- Come on, dig in.
Thin and crispy, eh?
Mmm, mmm!
Mmm!
- No, I don't want any.
- Sure you do.
Come on, eat up like a good girl.
- Give her a break, Hank.
- I hear you, bro.
Just hate seeing good food go to waste.
- Pull your head in, Hank.
- Oh.
Try and do something nice for people
and all they do is
bloody piss and moan.
- You're a real wanker, you know that?
- Uh, you know that's not true.
Hey?
- Hey, it's afternoon.
- Okay, I'm up.
- So, not much on today?
- Nope. You?
- Oh, yeah, yep, I gotta go.
- Well, you better go.
I'll think of something to do.
Hey, listen, kc and I are
in hiatus for a bit,
and I was just wondering about
that project you mentioned,
the candy rainbow series.
Oh really?
Oh no she's a very talented
young illustrator.
No, no, I'm pretty busy too, yeah.
But hey listen, well done.
She is fantastic.
Okay, v, cool.
Bye.
Ugh, candy bloody rainbow,
good luck to you.
Peg!
What a surprise.
- What, that I'm still alive?
- She said you'd pay the fare.
- Did she?
I've got some money in the house.
How much do I owe you?
- 129 dollars.
- How much?
- From fox cove,
plus 40 minutes waiting
while the mad ci
gettin' in a toss with some
people living at her house.
Look, we'll call it quits at 120.
Fair enough?
- You take credit card?
- Lunatics running the place.
- Still, maybe you shouldn't
have signed yourself out.
Those nurses are very caring there.
- No manners, none of them!
Overeducated monsters!
- Went easy on them, did you?
- One of them had an earring
through her eyebrow,
like a cannible.
- You okay, peg?
- I'll put the kettle on.
- Lipton, white, two sugars.
- I've got early grey...
- bloody boat people!
They should stick 'em on
an island and sink it.
- What boat people?
- The boat people in my house.
Asians, orientals.
They've invaded the country,
and the now they've invaded my house!
- All right, slow down and
tell me what you mean.
- I got a taxi home.
When I got there, other people
had taken over my house!
Aren't you listening to me?
- Well maybe it wasn't your house.
You've been through a lot, peg.
- I know my own home!
I've lived there for 40 years!
It's been taken over!
It's full of the wretched people!
- Okay, I'm gonna make this tea,
and then you can tell me all about it.
- We should call the police.
That's what we should do.
- God, been chewing dust all day,
and now patto reckons we gotta work out
the winter burn off before
tomorrow's meeting.
There's no one else can do it.
And that doesn't solve the big problem.
God, just been churning and churning,
and churning and churning
in my head all day.
What was that last bit?
- It's an impossible decision.
And it's yours.
- We need the money.
- What do you wanna do?
- Well I guess the first thing is
I gotta talk to Joey.
Hey Joey.
- Hey man.
- Thought I'd grab you
before you went out.
- No, we're not going out.
- What?
- Kevin can't get
the boat started.
- How's the swearing down there?
- Pretty bloody fierce.
- It could get pretty fierce
up here in a second too.
How'd you feel if uncle Jeff
sold the homestead property
of that twelfth grain mall.
Now, to be fair, he
hasn't said yes or no.
In fact, he's left the
decision up to me.
I mean, I haven't said
yes or no either.
- It's no way, mate.
That's where dad's ashes are.
I can't believe we're
even talking about it.
- Developers offered a
premium for the shop,
and that's stupid money.
We could sling you some
of it for your deposit.
If dad was here, he'd say go for it.
- Well you can't know what he'd think.
Okay, so it's just his ashes but...
But what if he was buried there, backa?
Would you wanna dig him
up then and move him?
- Yeah he's not buried there.
- Yeah, but what if he was?
Because that's what it is to me, mate.
It's dad's grave.
It's where I go when I need some space.
No.
I won't sign whatever it
is you want me to sign.
- There's nothing to sign.
- What do you mean?
- It's up to uncle Jeff.
I mean, it's up to me.
He signs but
he said it's my decision.
- Come on, Joey, I'll
give you a lift home.
- No thanks, mate, I've got
another half hour work here.
- I'll wait.
- No thanks.
- They're not gonna take
me without a fight.
- There's nobody here, peg.
- We'll see about that.
This is my house.
This is my country.
You are trespassing!
- Sorry, we are already
renting this house.
I told this woman already!
- See, not a word of English.
Let's call the police.
- She's speaking English, peg.
I'm sorry about this.
- Yes, but it's not Australian English.
- How long have you lived here for?
- No! She is awful woman!
- This is my house!
What have you done with my things?
- We renting this house furnished!
There is not much here.
- I can't understand
a word she's saying.
Let's call the police.
- Gooday.
Can I help you?
- What have they done with my swan?
- It's called power of attorney.
- Sounds American.
Invaded by all sorts.
No one's safe.
- It means that when
you had your stroke,
all your legal rights
reverted to your daughter.
And she decided to rent your house out.
- Home. It's not a house.
It's a home.
- I know. I do.
But she's rented it out, and
she has the legal right.
- That little bitch.
- You get on well then, do you?
- Now I'm out on the streets.
I've got nowhere to live.
I don't know what this
country's coming to.
- Well maybe you could
stay with us tonight.
I'll help you sort it out tomorrow.
- How do you know so much
about this attorney business?
- Common knowledge.
- Well, I'm not common.
- So what about...
Smiths?
- Oh no, we burned off
smiths last year.
- So your old man loved
the place, but do you?
- Mate, he's got his
ashes scattered there.
And it's like a...
It's like a sacred site.
- Mmm, a sacred site.
- Yeah.
- Maybe you could sell it off
in Egan for laying rights.
What I'm saying is, you gotta
do what's right for you.
Everything else just
takes care of itself.
And your old man, he lives in here
not on some hillside somewhere.
- Didn't know you were
a philosopher, patto.
- I'm not, mate. It's just logic.
- Fair enough.
- Straight, this is hard.
We can't burn off banzanicas
and not do up at the national park.
- That will be irrelevant if
we get a big fire anyway.
Well we'll be here all bloody night.
- Boom.
Boom!
And he's still runnin'.
And then boom!
Game over, Roger.
Hey Joey, if you can
afford a night off,
how come you can't afford
to buy a better chair?
This one's gonna give me a bad back.
You gotta be psychic, eh?
You gotta know which way
the rabbit's gonna run.
You're following with the gun.
Then whamo!
Last thing that goes
through that bunny's mind,
he sees our straight bullet 22.
- Right, I've heard enough.
Put the silencer on.
- Wanna be careful with that bit.
You can see where the bullet went in.
- You hear me?
- Bookie, Bob biddy
is in a critical condition
after being stabbed in
the stomach and face,
during the robbery yesterday.
The thief is believed to have escaped
with over 50 thousand dollars.
Police are looking for a
silver powerful station wagon.
Anyone with information
can call their local police.
The weather now.
- What?
Don't look at me, look at your food!
Me and Kieran, we been hunting rabbits.
- Yeah.
- God, you can't put a
foot right 'round here.
- It's good to have all
the family together.
Except noodle of course.
- Be all right if we had a
noxious pest control program.
- Shut up.
- Not a bad job, sharpie.
- Yep.
State crystal grind,
herbs, bruka, hops,
and a kilo of maltodextrin.
Comes up at about six percent.
- All right, so we can
talk about the fact that
your an old piss-head alcho,
but we can't talk about the fact
that I'm the one that put
dinner on the table?
Isn't that what your supposed to do?
Hey?
Put dinner on the table?
- Maybe you should have an early night.
- If someone told me I
couldn't feed me family,
I'd knock their friggin' block off.
Wouldn't you, Joey?
- You're tired.
You're not thinkin' straight.
Go to bed, son.
What if I don't wanna go to bed?
Hey? What are you gonna do about it?
- Just shut up, Hank. Go to bed.
- I'll have you for breakfast, mate.
- You oughta know when to stop.
- I oughta know when to stop?
You're the burn-out old hippy,
always noddin' off into your beer.
You're bloody pathetic!
- Sharpie!
Sharpie, get off him!
- Get off me, you pot head!
- You've got no idea you!
- Oy! Easy fellas.
- Settle down, fella.
- I'll have you right here!
- Cut it out, man!
- This is family shit.
Keep out of it, mate!
Just because you're with my sister...
- Hank! Pull your head in.
- Doesn't make you family.
Stuff the lot of yous.
- You up for another bevy?
Eh, Joey?
- Yeah, sure.
- Get us another bottle, will you fif?
Ta.
- Daughter's rented her house out.
She's got nowhere else to go.
- Since when did that
become our problem?
- I'm not gonna put her
out in the street.
- No, she can go back
to the nursing home
where she came from.
- She doesn't like it there.
- That's hardly the point.
- Okay, I'll call them tomorrow.
- Good.
Well, peg. Hi, everything okay?
Anything you need, just let lill know.
- I'm fine.
Although tomorrow night,
I'd prefer it if you
didn't give me the curry.
Gives me terrible wind.
- Right, tomorrow night, no curry.
What they been feeding you
in that nursing home?
- Ghastly stuff. I'd
rather not think about it.
- How 'bout a cup of tea?
- As long as it's not that fancy
stuff you gave me before.
- Right. Coffee, instant.
- So, what do you think of the place?
- It's small.
Tin roof must be hell on hot days.
- Yeah, but it's only temporary.
I'm building another place.
You might have noticed.
- It's the five to 15 year plan.
- The place across the way?
- That's the one.
I'm planning to put up a mezzanine.
- It looks like an old ruin.
- No it's... a building
site, a work in progress.
- And the bricks don't look normal.
- Well they're not. They're mud bricks.
I make them myself.
- Mud bricks?
We're not living in the
third world, you know.
- Well, uh, that's about it for me.
Way past my bed time.
Goodnight, peg.
Uh darling, you won't
forget that phone call
in the morning, will you?
- No. Uh, Perry, we're out here.
Peg's in our bed.
- Where's my coffee then?
- Voila.
- Peg?
She's gone.
She's gone!
- What?
- Peg, she's gone!
- Oh well, she was drinking coffee.
She's probably gone for a walk.
- Well, we'll know that for
sure when we find her.
Come on, get up!
- It's a nice night for a walk.
Or are you hitchhiking, peg?
- I'm minding my own business;
That's what I'm doing.
- You're a long way from home.
Hop in.
- I was doing fine by myself.
- What are you doing out here?
- Been staying up at that lill's place,
and I decided I'd rather
sleep in my own bed.
- So you're heading home.
Is that where you wanna go?
- I'm on my way to evict
those boat people.
- Boat people?
- Illegal immigrants in my
house, breeding like rabbits.
Lill knows. She saw them.
We'll send them to a detention center.
That'll cool them off.
- All right?
- Yep.
- You know, that would be the angs.
He's the new doctor in town.
- Rubbish. They don't
have doctors over there.
- Yeah, yeah.
Great, thanks backa. Cheers.
- Backa found her?
- Yeah, he picked her up.
She was trying to walk
her way back into town.
She's spending the night
with him and svettie, so
we can go to bed, in our own bed. Yes!
- Well did she say why?
- You can ask her on the way
to the nursing home tomorrow.
Come on, sleep! Bed!
God, every time that woman shows up,
everything else goes out the window!
- We weren't rude to her.
We fed her.
She's got nobody else.
- Oh she's got people, lill.
She's got a whole town here.
She's got old friends,
she's got a daughter.
She's got a home.
- Well, she came to me.
- Careful with those eggs.
Don't overcook them, and I can't
eat them if they're runny.
- No runny eggs, got it.
- They've got lipton here.
No proper cups, but you
can't have everything.
- Well look, I called the
nursing home this morning,
and they'd prefer that peg found
alternative accommodation.
- They don't want me there?
I knew it!
- They said that? Are you serious?
- They just felt that...
Peg was a little high maintenance
for the services they provide.
- High maintenance, what
a stupid expression!
- There you go.
- Thank you, dear.
- So what's next?
- Well I'm gonna call your
daughter, sue, today and then
just see if we can work something out.
- You'll do nothing of the sort.
You take me home.
I'll get rid of those squatters.
I can't eat these, dear, they're hard.
I'll get indigestion.
- Really?
- Well I'll have 'em. (Clears throat.
They look all right to me.
- I wouldn't mind some weetabix though.
- Oh, we got some.
You can get it yourself.
I've gotta get the kids to
school and stuff, you know?
- I'll get them for you, peg.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
I'll get them myself.
- I wanna show you some pastels.
Milk's in the fridge.
How's the work going?
You can't take rubbish from that woman.
She's just like a child.
- What if she can't manage?
- She walked three
kilometers from your house.
- She has to work in the office.
How it works.
Everyone skates shit in summer,
and you did your sums twice
before you went and complained
about your paycheck.
Dad tried to sack her,
there's so many people
complaining about her.
He chickened out and
the wingers left him.
- I thought your dad was a farmer.
- Yeah. Well, then he
ran the works but,
I mean yeah, he was a farmer first.
- I never heard that story.
He was a nice man, his father.
Nice to everyone.
But he got walked over.
That's why we're not
living in the farm.
- It's more complicated than that.
Dad just...
He just wasn't very good with money.
- Svettie, I don't think I
can afford these just...
- Damn thing!
- Damn thin! Damn, damn thing!
It won't stop damn pouring!
Damn it!
- It's all
right, it's all right.
Careful, careful, careful now. Careful.
Lift that, peg. It's all
right, I've got it.
I've got it.
There we go. - Stupid damn arm.
Stupid head, none of it works anymore!
Stupid rehab, stupid nurses!
- The rehab
will get easier, peg.
- I don't want the bloody rehab.
I wanna go to my own home.
It's my home. I've always lived there!
- Well all we can do
is ring sue, you know.
Maybe you can.
Maybe something can be arranged?
Meals on wheels?
- I delivered meals on
wheels for 20 years.
Now some days I can't
even get out of bed.
- I'm sorry.
- You don't know he did it.
- Come on.
- Talk to your folks then.
- Yeah, but they know,
don't you reckon?
- I can't tell, fif.
It's a different world, your family.
Except your family isn't trying
to sell your father's grave.
- God, you look exhausted.
- No, I slept okay,
thanks to sharpie's brew.
- Oy, Kieran!
Why you doing this?
Why you sticking your
neck out for Hank?
He wouldn't do that for you.
- Yes he would.
- No.
No, he wouldn't.
He slept with noodle.
- I know.
- What, you know?
- Yep, and he got down on his knees,
and he begged my forgiveness.
He's my brother, fif.
He's all right.
He just wants to, just get out of here.
- What did noodle tell you?
- What are you saying?
That there was only one of
them there at the time?
She was into it.
What do you reckon?
- Look, I'm sorry about
last night, dad.
It was just the piss talkin'.
I didn't mean it.
- You want some taste?
- Yeah.
- All's well that ends well.
- I wanna talk to you.
- Look, I was just telling
everyone sorry about last night.
- Not about last night.
- Then what's it about?
- You don't give a shit about
anyone but yourself, Hank!
- Where is this going, you two?
- Sorry about this, mate.
It's better you see
this side of her now,
before it's too late.
- Just go, Hank!
- So you could be in my shoes one day?
- Just leave her alone, all right?
- Yeah, no worries.
- You got your money;
Why don't you just go?
- Oh what, and spend it?
The fox cove mall, buy a nice
shirt and tie, get a job.
- He's in hospital.
He's critical.
- What the hell are you talking about?
- When you came home I thought,
"okay, it's the same old Hank."
What happened to you, man?
I don't know who you are.
- Never knew people broke so easy.
They scream.
Your little sister's
worried about me future.
I don't know. With my prospects,
I thought I might get into
the re-upholstery racket.
Gotta go.
Might wanna take that
back to the dump, mate.
Like a pile of bones.
- Don't.
- Hank. Hank, get back here!
- Yeah, I'll be back, mum.
I'm a boomerang.
- Now what, mum?
He's threatening Joey. Look!
Look!
- I don't know, Fifi.
Why do you always look at
me for the bloody answers?
- He's all talk, babe.
He's all talk.
- Tell that to the bookie.
- Just got off the phone
from peg's daughter, sue.
That woman is impossible.
- Like mother
like daughter, eh?
- When I told her that the
nursing home didn't want peg back,
she wasn't surprised. She
didn't even seem to care.
- What time is she
coming to pick her up?
- She says she's too busy.
- Well, she's too busy this morning,
but she's coming this afternoon, right?
- I dunno, she didn't say.
- Peg can't stay here.
- Well where else is
she gonna stay, Perry?
- This is great news,
so this evening we can
look forward to enjoying
the effects of last night's curry.
- She was so mean about peg.
- There's two sides
to every story, lill.
- Peg is the most independent
woman I've ever met.
She's frustrated, all right?
She's probably really lonely.
- Lill, could
you get me a cushion?
- You know, it sounds like
peg just needs a date.
Know any blokes around her age?
- Oh just forget it, darling. Drop it!
Look, I can make some inquiries.
Fox cover health can
make some arrangements.
- You don't wanna do that.
- I do want to do that,
so that you can get back to things.
- What things?
After I finish with peg
I'm gonna run around
and find all the losties
and discover all their
grievances and solve them,
solve them all, am I? - No, no, no, no.
Look, you can just get back to
doing some stuff around here!
- Haven't got any work, Perry, have I?
I'm waiting for kc to deliver.
- Well get onto her then.
- Peg needs me, all right?
And it feels nice to be needed.
- I need you.
- You don't bloody need me.
- I do!
- You don't need me, you've got him!
You can hire him! He needs you!
You can go and hide in
your bloody cubby house.
- I come out of my cubby house for you.
Come on.
- That's crap!
You're a man with a heart
the size of a walnut.
Mr. "I'm problematic".
If you'd seen her trying to
pour her milk into the bowl...
- oh, for god's sake, lill,
I can guarantee you I've
seen worse than that,
but fine, you go ahead,
you just do your best.
But don't expect my lifeline to
be open on this one anymore!
- I'm gonna ring your
bloody daughter again.
- Fifi sharp.
Official visit?
- No, just knocked off work.
- So...
What can I do for you?
- It's about my brother.
- Right, I'll...
♪ Here it comes again. ♪
♪ The burning in the blood. ♪
♪ I found it in my brain. ♪
♪ They're riding out... ♪
- Selling, eh?
I just want you to
understand why I'm doing it.
- It's dad's grave
you're selling, mate.
Does that mean nothing to you?
- ♪ We can hide the drug. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
♪ I remember when, ♪
♪ a night of falling snow ♪
♪ me and you were tamed ♪
♪ from Edgar Allan poe. ♪
♪ By the firelight, ♪
♪ how your dark eyes shone. ♪
♪ I had no idea, ♪
♪ it would be so strong. ♪
♪ But we are young. ♪
♪ We are young. ♪
- I don't know about
this fire com job, mum.
I mean, it's okay, but I
like being amongst it.
It's so boring now.
I feel like a glorified receptionist.
- You know what I always did
when I worked a job I
didn't really gel with,
just kept my eyes on the pay
packet at the end of the week.
- Yeah, but a job's
gotta be more than that
if you're gonna stick at it.
- Maybe that's why I didn't.
- Don't you wanna sit 'ere?
- Sharpie, Mike Jones.
- Damn. What does he want?
- Maybe he wants to talk to you.
- No! Nikki, no!
- They teach 'em to knock
like that at the academy?
- Mike.
- Bekah, sharpie,
Fifi.
I'd just like a word with
young Hank if he's about.
- Just one word?
All right, shouldn't take long.
- What's this about?
- I'm sure Hank will fill you in.
- The last
thing we need is coppers
sniffin' around the place.
- What the bloody
hell was that all about?
- Everything's cool, dad.
- Not when you keep bringing
the cops around, not cool!
What did he want?
- Wanted to know if I
had something to do
with the bookie robbery.
- And did you?
- Mate, they're interviewing everyone
in the world who's got any form.
Look, what's this?
It's a dead rabbit.
Who killed it?
I did!
- I don't give a stuff
about the rabbits!
We all reckon you did it.
Kieran was with me, weren't ya?
- Yeah, shootin' rabbits! Pfft!
- You're both such
hopeless bloody liars.
- Oh yeah, well then where'd
the rabbits come from?
- Hank, you can stop it now.
- Oh what? You don't
believe me either?!
- And you dragged Kieran into it!
- Do I look like someone who's
just made a chunk of money?
- Ah, he's
taking your car, dad.
- Do you think he did it?
- Says he didn't.
- Sue, thanks for coming. I'm lill.
- This had better be worth it.
- Suzanne.
- Mother.
What's that over there?
Looks like a ruin.
- Apparently, it's a work in progress.
- Why don't we all go inside
and I'll make a cupa'.
- I'd prefer to sit here
and admire the view
while you two stab me in the back.
- Suit yourself.
I know I must seem
quite uncaring to you,
but it's not that I don't care.
I love my mother.
I just don't like her.
- Well maybe you should
give her another chance.
- The woman cares for one
person, and that's herself.
She was the most absent
mother I've ever known.
- Well she needs people
to care for her.
- She may need care, but
she doesn't need family.
She never has.
- The nursing home won't take her back.
- I know, surprise, isn't it?
I've got another one lined up.
- She won't go.
- I've got power of attorney over her.
She'll do as she's told.
- I will not be shut away
with a bunch of old
people waiting to die!
- It's more like a serviced
apartment in a way.
- Kerosine baths and
rat-infested meals.
I'm not going.
- I will come and visit you.
- I don't want you to visit me.
There's no need to,
because I won't be there.
- Well I'm sorry, mother,
you don't have a choice.
- I won't have you
telling me what to do!
- Sue, I don't think you're
doing what's best for peg.
You haven't even asked
her what she wants.
I think you need to take a
long, hard look at yourself.
- Don't you speak
to my daughter like that.
She's driven all the way up
here only to be insulted!
Where are your manners?
- I'm only trying to help, peg.
- Well it's none of your business.
It's a family matter,
so stay out of it.
- Yes, and I'll thank you to keep
your half-baked yuppie
ideas to yourself.
Have you got nothing
better to do than t...
- don't you talk to lill like that.
She was the only one there
when I needed someone to talk to.
And where were you, Suzanne?
- I work!
- Long lunches and daycare centers!
Not good enough for my grandchildren.
Suzanne, get my bags.
I'm leaving.
- You're not staying with us!
- I wouldn't want to.
I'm going to the serviced apartment,
where I can mind my own business
and I don't have to worry
about anyone fussing
or fighting over me.
- ♪ Once I had ♪
♪ a place I could call my own ♪
- My god, you're exactly
as she described you.
- ♪ Now we're in the rain. ♪
♪ Lay my heads on. ♪
♪ Fell into some trouble
back on down the road. ♪
♪ They didn't like the look of me. ♪
♪ Someone took a... ♪
♪ I'll keep my eyes open, ♪
♪ for smoke. ♪
- I'm gonna go to a meeting.
♪ Keep on holdin' ♪
- Okay, with each hazard reduction
we've got the letterbox drops.
We'll need to get the
pamphlets printed.
It's gonna be a four-stage
operation, over three months.
- Yeah, but won't some of
this land already be cleared?
I mean, the golf course
thing's going ahead, right?
- Uh, yeah. Looks like it.
But, yeah we've still
gotta do the burn.
- Backa, not everyone's
sure it's a good idea.
- The back burn?
- No, the golf course in the units.
- Yeah, and the environmental damage.
- The lack of community consultation.
- What about all the jobs?
All the new people coming here?
- We don't want a whole new suburb.
- Not to mention the money
that's gonna come into the area.
- And your pocket. It's your
family's land they want.
- Not everyone in backa's
family wants to sell up.
- Man, it's your call.
- Backa's right.
I mean, we need the jobs and the money.
- The town's dying in front of us.
Are we gonna stand around
and listen while the pulse
of our town fades away?
Or are we gonna move with the times and
do what's best for all of us.
- What did Hank get you to do?
Make sure no one was coming
while him and his mates
bellered the poor bloke?
- We were shooting rabbits.
- Why don't I believe you, mate?
- You don't have
to lie for your brother.
- I'm not lying!
- A man is in hospital.
If Hank was involved,
we need to know...
- Can't you hear me?!
- Night.
- We were shooting rabbits.
- When I was a girl,
at Bible class
they told us a story.
There was a big family, everyone
taking care of each other.
One day, some of the brothers decided
they didn't like the other brother.
So they sold him to slave traders.
Told their mum and dad
he was killed by a lion.
- I never heard that story.
- Then the teacher asked us,
what would we do in the same situation.
Would we own up?
- Well, it depends why they did it.
The brothers.
- Why'd you do it?
Why'd you bring Mike into it?
- I...
I...
- Hank might have done the wrong thing,
but that beside the point.
You gotta be loyal to your family.
You let us figure it out.
- Mum, what kind of job
have you done so far?
- You didn't only betray Hank.
- I'm sorry.
- So am I.
I want you and Joey out of
this house by the morning.
- I was standing there in
front of all those people
trying to make this suburb
sound like Disneyland.
All I could hear was
uncle Jeff's voice.
Might as well have been
him talking to 'em.
You know, half the town hates me.
Probably get a brick
through the front
window sooner or later.
- That doesn't turn
you into uncle Jeff,
because you're not
doing it for yourself.
You're doing it for
us, for your family.
No matter what half the town thinks.
- Bloody dad.
Feels like he's trying to
stick it to uncle Jeff.
"Yeah, yeah, you got the land, but
I'll be here forever."
What if I said no?
- Can't believe we had
that fight today.
I still don't even know
what it was about.
No, yes I do.
It was your bloody
diversionary tactics.
- Perry, spare me the
psycho-babble just speak English.
- All right then, hear this.
The only home you need to
worry about is our home.
The only relationship
you need to worry about
is our relationship.
And you're not gonna solve
the problems of the world
if you don't start at home.
It starts with talking.
No more bullshit by the mud bricks.
- Right then, let's talk.
- ♪ Some men climb mountains, ♪
♪ just to test their souls. ♪
♪ Other men, they dig in the ground, ♪
♪ looking for buried gold. ♪
♪ Some men go diving, ♪
♪ and never come up for air. ♪
♪ I'm a climber. ♪
♪ I'm a miner. ♪
♪ I'm a diver for her. ♪
♪ 'Cause she's rare. ♪
- Yeah, just
kinda outta the blue.
Fif and Joey have decided
to move out together.
- Maybe they want their own space.
It's gettin' to be crowded 'round here.
You think it had anything to do
with the blew I had with Hank?
- Oh, I think that might be part of it.
And just what Hank's gettin' like.
- I'll go and talk to her,
get her to change her mind.
- No don't. You'll just
make more bad blood.
- Sometimes I don't think
I'm in control of the family anymore.
Fifi moving out, Hank
in and out of jail,
trying to drag Kieran along with him.
Maybe I never was.
- Well, if you're not in control,
we can be outta control together.
'Cause I'm not goin' anywhere.
- What are we doing here, dad?
- Look.
- Cool! Come on, candy.
- Aw, cool!
- Go on.
- There's lots of beautiful places.
- Yeah, but this is
dad's beautiful place.
And this is why.
Now to break ya I'll show you
where we used to find
fossils when I was a kid.
- Mum! Give us a push, mum!
Carter's taking turns on.
He reckons I'm heavy.
Woohoo!
- Yeah, because you are.
- Thanks a lot.
- Calm down.
You're not.
- I know, but still it's mean.
- Push her really high, mum!
- ♪ The old story of a boy. ♪
- ♪ 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 plain. ♪
♪ Fireflies, ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady. ♪
♪ It waxes and wanes. ♪