Fireflies (2004): Season 1, Episode 5 - Best Laid Plans - full transcript
One of the realities of living in the bush is making the best out of a bad situation, which Lill and Perry are learning to do fast. Their shed has been overrun with rats, Perry is working on rebuilding their dream house after it was destroyed by fire and Lill struggles to meet an urgent work deadline in the surrounding chaos. It seems the world is conspiring against her.
- Lill!
- I'm working, Perry.
(Perry chuckling)
- At 3:30 in the morning?
- You don't know her, Perry, she's...
- oh, I know you,
and I know what you're thinking.
- You wish.
- Joey, the burnover wasn't your fault.
- Oh, I reckon there are
somethings that are my fault
and I just gotta work out
which ones they are.
- Hey, patto, this is
a friend of mine, kc.
- [Kc] Hi.
- Kc.
So where's the sunshine band?
(Patto laughing)
(Kc laughing awkwardly) (Lill laughing)
- He's got a good plan, it's ready.
We just have to meet
with him once a week,
he goes over our accounts, that's all.
- So now he's got control
of finances as well?
You give him too much...
- well, then, why did you run
off and spend his money?
- What's the story, lill?
Do you wanna end the partnership?
'Cause if you do you have to
come right out and say it.
- [Lill] Um, what're you talking about?
- Lill, you spent the
whole day yesterday
doing anything you could not to work.
- Life is different out, kc,
you just don't get that.
(Chill rock music)
♪ I have to pinch myself to feel ♪
♪ if what is goin' 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 ♪
♪ lyin' on a blanket underneath
that big ol' spreadin' tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feelin' ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feelin' ♪
- [Lill] I'm always terrified
to show you my work
- it's part of the process.
I don't understand why you're here,
it feels like you're running away.
- What?
- [Kc] From me.
- Look, just because we moved out here
doesn't mean that it's
the end of my life.
- [Kc] Really?
- [Lill] Shit, I'm not abandoning you.
- [Kc] It feels like it.
- [Lill] I'm not gonna give
up my work, god, I need it!
I need to be a success.
- [Kc] I know.
- I'm married to a 55-year-old man,
we don't have much, just
this shed and the land.
How much time do you think
he has left to work?
- [Kc] (Chuckling) Warned you
not to go with the old guy.
Before you know it,
you'll be pushing him
around in a wheelchair.
- [Lill] Okay!
Here's my work, but
they're just sketches.
- I know! (Tea kettle whistling)
- [Lill] All right, these
are our first draft.
- Thought you must've been
picking a bloody tea leaves.
Well, hey, where is it?
- Oh, Jesus!
- Anyone thinking about Alzheimer's?
- Hey, I can't remember every
bloody thing, you know.
(Gentle rock music)
(Lill screaming)
- Lill, what is it?
What, huh? (Lill sobbing)
- What's the matter?
- Oh god!
- What is it?
- Oh Jesus!
- What, what?
- There's this thing
on my face!
(Shrieking) There it is! - Get off!
(Rat squeaking)
(Blows thudding) (Rat squealing)
- Ah, Perry!
(Blows thudding) (Perry grunting)
(Lill groaning)
(Perry panting)
- [Perry] I don't think he'll be
giving you any more trouble.
- No, you made sure of that.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Never seen you so aggressive.
- Well, it's not like I
make a habit out of,
I mean, what was I supposed to do?
- I don't know.
Oh, it's all over the doona.
(Gentle rock music)
(Water splashing)
Well, we've gotta get rid of
them before we have a baby.
Rats eat babies' faces.
Rats bring snakes.
- [Perry] We'll get a cat,
there's a pet shop in fox cove.
- We can't have a cat out here,
it'll kill all the native animals!
- Okay, I'll get some rat poison.
- Oh god, Perry, what
about the wildlife?
They eat the poison rat.
- Oh, don't look at me like that!
- Well, you surprised me, that's all.
- Better than being predictable.
Look, just leave it to me,
I'll find an eco-friendly,
non-violent way
of killing the little bastards.
- Good, 'cause I don't have time.
Got kc on my back all
week and if I don't get
these roughs finished today
she's gonna kill me.
And it's cwa day, that means
I've gotta pick up peg
and a minimum of two hours wasted.
- Forget about the rats, I'll
do some research on the net.
- 'Kay.
Oh, shit!
(Tense music)
Shit, shit!
(Car engine revving)
(Horses whinnying)
- What're you doing?
- I'm doing the receipts for you.
You know how much I love
doing the receipts.
- Yeah, right.
Well, thank you, I appreciate it.
- You look good, baby.
- Don't feel good.
Sometimes I think I won't
survive another summer.
When you gonna fix the aircon?
- Yeah, when I get a spare 500 bucks.
- [Candy] Hey.
Hi. - Hey.
- Hey, hey, hey, kids, big day today!
It's the new truck handover.
- We know you, dad,
you've told 1,000 times!
- Oh, have I?
- 10 million times.
- [Backa] Thanks, hey,
um, why don't you
bring 'em down to the
station after school?
(Dog barking)
- That old Jeff, this is
such a waste of time.
- No, no, hey, he'll get
sick of it sooner or later,
I promise you, svettie.
You gonna be all right?
- Yeah, no problem.
You go and play with your new toy.
- Thank you.
- Hey kids!
- [Kids] Hey!
- Which hand?
- That one.
- That one!
(Jeff laughing)
- Dad's got a new
firetruck, uncle Jeff!
- [Backa] Yeah, you should drive down
to the station if you get a chance.
- Yeah, I'll see how I go.
- [Backa] All right.
- Come on, dad, we're
gonna be late for school!
- Okay.
- Hey!
- Oh, thanks, mum.
Bye!
- Have a good day at school.
- [Girl] Love you!
Come on, come on! - Here, Carter.
Hurry up.
(Carter laughing)
- See you later, kids!
- Bye!
- Okay, bye!
- See you later, hon.
- Come on, dad!
- Have fun!
- [Candy] Come on!
- [Carter] Bye, uncle Jeff!
- [Jeff] Bye, kids!
- Come on.
- Come on, let's go!
Come on, dad!
- [Candy] See you after school!
- All right, let me see
what sort of a mess
these books are in.
- Lost river's a breathing
apparatus, brigade.
You put this gear on
for structure fires
because it's most bloody deadly,
and you don't wanna die!
- Say what, now?
Can't hear ya!
(Men laughing)
- (Sighing) You took your time,
I thought I'd have to do
with handover without you.
- Come on, mate, with both know
you can't do anything without me.
Hey, Joey, nice to see ya!
- Thank for tellin' us about her.
- Well, I would've if I'd seen ya!
What do ya reckon, eh?
Pretty flash!
- It's a bit too bloody
flash, I prefer the old one.
- Come on, Joe, this one is
a better design all around.
I mean, you get the cable
gear out much better,
you've got aircon, you've got a great
four-wheel drive
configuration on the dash.
- Uh-huh.
- The best thing of all
is you can start the
pump and sprinkle it
inside the truck as
well as out, I mean...
- it's a pity we didn't have
this during the burnover, mate,
would've made your life a lot easier!
- Hm.
- [Man in red shirt] Come on,
mate, we should take off...
- all yours, backa.
- All right, thanks, Bryce.
Thanks for everything, man. - G'day.
- [Man in red shirt] See
you next time, backa!
- Oh, yeah, cheers, boys, see ya.
Hey, Bryce, any word on the
basic firefighting course?
- Only that we don't do it
during our bushfire danger...
- yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, but you've been
saying yourself we've had
major fires already,
it's only early in the season,
everyone saying it's
gonna get a lot worse!
We've gotta build the numbers up!
- You can't send new
recruits to a major fire!
- So we'll do it hazard
reduction, then!
You know, just give 'em some practice.
- Just bad timing around, mate.
- We'll do it here in lost river,
I'll get Fifi and Joey to do it.
(Car door thudding)
- I'll think about it.
- G'day!
- Hey, fif'.
- Wow!
- So how many new we call?
Lill yengill, Tully,
Knowles, and Newman...
- whatcha doin', Joey?
- Ah, nothin'.
- So, looks like a big fat
red dick, doesn't it?
(Joey laughing)
Do you wanna check it out?
Come on, we'll check it out.
Smells real good!
Doesn't stink of smoke
like the other one.
There's a lot more room in the back.
Come on, Joey, backa's gonna be
gasbagging with Bryce forever.
What, not even for old times' sake?
Come on
(Joey chuckling)
Come on, come up, come up, Joey!
- Hey, fif', I'll show
you the controls.
- Hey, backa, wait!
So Joey can come up.
- No, no.
- Just come up!
Joey, just come up!
- No, let backa have a go.
- Wait, Joey!
Joey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
- I gotta get back to work,
Fifi, I got a job on!
- I just wanted to know...
- Fifi, I just need time okay?
I don't know!
You know, to think.
(Somber music)
(Car engine revving)
- See ya later, alligator!
Yeah, in a while, crocodile.
(Marker squeaking)
- Ah, that's 10 minutes to
pick up peg, two hours, cwa,
then 10 minutes to take peg
home, that's back here by,
back here by 12:30, 'cause we
need five and a bit hours,
that's one hour per drawing.
(Marker squeaking) (Car rumbling)
- Hot enough for ya?
G'day, how's it goin'?
- Oh, you know, running late as usual.
- Ah, me too, sorry about that.
Got my cousins in town at the moment,
it's been in a bit full-on.
Mate, I tell ya, they'll talk
all night if you let 'em.
Like there's nothin' else
you should be doin'.
- (Chuckling) Know what you mean.
- [Patto] Then they had to
go and see the new truck.
Didn't see you there.
- No, busy.
- So, heard from your mate,
what's her name, uh, kc?
- Yep, nearly every day.
- Nice girl.
Expect she's got fellas
coming out of their ears, eh?
- Kc?
She's gay, patto.
Bats for the other team.
- (Scoffing) What, dead-set?
Hey, she doesn't look like it.
- Trust me, she's a dyke.
(Alarm beeping)
- Oh, sorry, I gotta go.
You can come if you want, see
the new truck in action.
- Oh, I'd like to, but I can't.
See ya.
(Siren wailing)
- It's the best bloody
appliance in the district!
Faster, better, shinier,
more flashing lights.
- Could you turn that up any colder?
- Hey, when we get there,
let's roll out 38.
Still the live reel,
just to test it out, eh?
- Firecom, lost river one blue.
- [Firecom] Lost river one,
this is firecom, go ahead.
- [Patto] Firecom, lost river one blue,
we have a small skid fire.
- Tell 'em we can handle it ourselves.
- Gee, do you reckon?
Firecom, looks like we've
got it under control.
We'll call if we need backup.
- [Firecom] All right,
patto, firecom clear.
- It's all right, mate, we'll
take it over from here.
You all right, patto?
- Yeah, got it.
- Nice roll, patto!
Come on.
- Water on!
- [Backa] It's not going!
- [Patto] Well, try turning
it on inside the truck!
- Oh, yeah!
It's still not going!
- [Patto] Mate, not too close
to the fire, eh? - Hey, fif'!
Where's Joey?
- How should I know, I'm
not his bloody secretary!
- Hey, what's goin' on?
- I don't know, must be the
battery, it just won't fire.
- Did you try the start button here?
- Mate!
- [Eris] Hey, um, backs,
luisa wants to join the rfs.
- Oh, great.
- [Eris] Yeah, it'll take her
mind off stuff, you know?
- Yeah, I'm sorry to
hear about pugley, mate.
I know how much he
meant to both of you.
You haven't found him yet?
- No.
That bloody dog is like
a kid to both of us.
- [Backa] Yeah, I know, you could tell.
- Boys out?
- Great new truck.
Doesn't matter, patto,
it's just a bloody truck.
- He was out jogging along
the beach one morning
when this kangaroo came bounding out
of a national park and attacked him.
- You're telling me that your client
got attacked by a kangaroo?
- Yeah, it wasn't skippy, we're
talkin' about a big red.
You ever seen the claws
on those things?
Practically ripped my
client's face off!
Anyway, the only way he could stop it
was by actually putting
his hands around its neck
and strangling it, which he did.
But that's not all!
- What, the koala went for him, too?
- While he was recovering in hospital,
the conservation society
found out about the incident
and took him to court for
killing a protected species.
Judge threw it out, thank
god, but the whole experience
shattered my client and I've
been treating him ever since
for post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Bullshit!
- Yeah,
it sounds like a made-up
story, I know, but it's true!
The thing is he's become such
a classic passive-aggressive,
he's driving me crazy!
We'll be in the middle of a session
and I get consumed with these feelings
of hatred and contempt for him,
he's such a victim, I
just wanna whack him!
- Maybe you're having
difficulty coming to terms
with your own violent behavior.
- For god's sake, I was
protecting my woman from rats!
Here, have a look at this.
Rat enters cage in search of bait,
door snaps next shut behind
it without hurting it.
- What are you gonna use for bait?
- Cheese.
- You gotta give them poison, mate!
Otherwise, what's the point?
You're gonna have some very
happy, very fat little
cheese-eaters living happily
ever after in their cage.
You gotta give them poison, mate.
- Yeah?
Don't tell lill, will you?
Nonviolent cage, violent poison.
Very passive-aggressive,
don't you think?
(Peaceful guitar music)
- Can't talk, kc, I'm driving, bye!
(Car horn honking)
Hurry up, peg, please.
(Car horn honking)
- [Peg] Coming, coming!
- [Lill] How are we today, peg?
- Don't know 'bout you, but
I've got a splitting headache!
- Well, if there are no
questions on the minutes,
we might move on to
item one on the agenda,
which is the, um, the conference
and how we want our delegate to vote.
- You all know my views.
People who have a terminal illness
shouldn't be forced to
suffer unnecessarily.
If cannabis can help
relieve their suffering,
then I can't see anything
wrong with legalizing it.
- Well, I'm not saying to
listen to this rubbish!
- Everyone in this room knows somebody
who would have been
helped with cannabis,
especially you, Jean Gibson,
after what your Ken just went through!
Six months of agony?
- How dare you bring Ken into this!
- Ladies, please!
- I did everything I could for him,
but I was not going to see
him turn into a drug addict,
cancer or no cancer!
- It doesn't turn you
into a drug addict.
I've smoked a fair bit of cannabis,
do I look like an addict?
- Thanks for that, lill.
Jean, sit down for god's sake!
Peg, you're entitled
to your own opinion,
but you're going to the conference
as the lost river delegate and as such
you have to represent
the views of the branch
and that's that!
- Then I'm not going.
- [Mena] You can't pull out now,
we booked your plane ticket
and it's non-refundable.
- I think you should let peg
have a conscience vote.
I think it's great that
she's come up with a view
that's compassionate and wise.
- Don't patronize me!
- I wasn't, I just think that
not many people in your situation...
- would support drug addicts!
She should be ashamed of
herself, and so should you!
- I'm not supporting drug addicts,
I'm talking about pain relief!
People have the right to
make up their own minds
and when they're...
Sorry, I need to sit down.
- [Mena] You all right, peg?
- Oh, it's just a headache.
- Jean, get her a glass of water.
- [Peg] I better go home.
- Jean, have you got your car?
- Oh, well I'm not taking her!
- I'll take her.
(Peg groaning)
- I may be 63 but I'm not an invalid!
- Okay.
All right, I got work to do.
See you later.
(Car engine revving)
Oh, you stupid old bag.
(Gentle somber music)
(Knocking)
- What do you want?
- I just thought if you wanted me
to go to the canvas for you...
- go home.
I don't need anything.
(Peg groaning)
- Oh, peg.
It's all right.
Come on.
How long have you been
getting these headaches?
- [Peg] Oh, a couple
of weeks, on and off.
- [Lill] You been to see the doctor?
- (Scoffing) Doctors are stupid.
It's just stress.
Those idiot women, I don't
know why I bother with them.
- [Lill] Has he given
you anything for it?
(Peg sighing)
- In my handbag.
- [TV host] I've heard of this before.
Thank you, Louie, thank you very much.
Continuing live on our show...
(metal clattering)
- [Lill] Okay.
- [TV host] And all this time
he was getting concerned.
- I'll get you some water.
(Water rushing drowning out TV)
- [Woman on tv] And
the lady said to me,
"I'll give you one as a present."
And I said, "well, I won't
need mine, but thank you."
- [TV host] Around Australia
with David cruthers.
I've got this email.
Now, Paige, it says you're
being a bit facetious.
(Peg sighing) (Bed creaking)
(Peg groaning)
- [TV host] I've lived away
from the coast myself,
with seafood extender,
you can have more!
- You can go now, I'll be all right.
- I'll make you a cup
of tea, then I'll go.
(Peg groaning) Okay.
(Gentle somber music)
- [TV host] Soon to be.
(Car door thudding)
(Joey sighing)
- [Joey] What're you doing here?
- [Fifi] I was worried about you.
- Just been havin' a snooze.
Haven't been sleepin'
all that good at night.
- Me neither.
Just getting a bit of practice in
before the baby comes along.
- You haven't been sick or anything?
- No, nothin'.
Just my boobs are a bit tender.
♪ On the ground ♪
♪ my way ♪
- You moved your caravan.
♪ My way is to you ♪
- It's much nicer here.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way is to you ♪
- Joey?
Hey, you had time to think?
♪ Your gates were guarded ♪
- No.
♪ I had to swing around ♪
♪ all the dogs are silent now ♪
- I don't know who you are anymore,
and I miss you.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way ♪
- Yeah, me too.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way is to you ♪
- It think it's best if
you maybe went home.
(Trailer door slamming)
(Engine revving)
(Water splashing)
(Backa laughing)
- Here's trouble! (Kids laughing)
Come on!
(Kids screaming playfully)
(Backa yelling)
How'd it go with Jeff today?
(Sighing) You wouldn't
believe the dramas
I've had with this today.
- Bet it wasn't as bad as the dramas
I've had with your uncle.
You should've heard him goin' off
about the money I spent in fox cove.
Thought he was gonna
have a heart attack!
One would think it was $10,000
instead of a lousy 664.
- Svettie.
- Over here!
- I reckon it was $664 well spent.
I mean it, you work so
bloody hard, darling,
you deserved a break!
I'm gonna sort this out, svettie.
I'm gonna get him off our
backs for good, I promise.
I can't let him stress
you out like this again.
- If you think it might help.
- Let's go to the front.
- Wait for me!
- I saw eris and Louisa today.
- How are they?
Did they mention the dog?
- They're doin' it tough.
- [Candy] Hey, how'd you get up?
- Just felt sorry for 'em.
They just looked so lost or something.
- It's the dog I feel sorry
for, he's the one who's lost.
What're those kids up to?
Carter, what're you doing?
- Come on, Carter, take it easy,
you don't wanna scratch the duco.
- Don't wanna scratch the duco.
- Hey!
Come on, we need a driver.
- Oh, no, no, no!
- There's an emergency!
Come on, up you go!
It's three points of contact,
grab hold of the wheel.
(Both grunting)
- [Svettie] What're you doing?
- Hey.
- Don't be silly.
- What do you reckon we christen it?
- No!
- Well, Fifi and Joey aren't going to.
♪ Well, I wanna show you my love ♪
♪ it's bigger than a Cadillac ♪
♪ but you keep up your resistance ♪
- Stop it!
♪ And you're tryin' to drive me mad ♪
♪ well, I wanna show you all my love ♪
♪ it's bigger than a Cadillac ♪
- Stop it.
♪ Give in to my love, ba da da dum ♪
(Knocking)
(Carter vocalizing in tune)
(Backa and svettie laughing)
(Gentle music)
- [Kc] No stress, lill, just
an international publisher.
It's 3:30 P.M. in the
afternoon, I'm waiting.
Just tell me exactly what time
the sketches will arrive.
Lill, call me.
Call me!
- [Carter] I'm gonna get you!
(Kids laughing)
- [Svettie] What're you
doing home from work,
darling, everything okay?
- Yeah, everything's fine.
- I saw the truck.
Are the boys still wetting themselves?
- Yeah, I suppose so.
It's pretty cool, it's pretty flash.
- I'm gonna get you!
- All right, mate, all right.
- Gotcha! (Kids laughing)
♪ My way ♪
- [Carter] Hey, can I
play with your dog?
- Yeah, yeah, sure, just
don't break it, okay?
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] Tell me she's jokin'.
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] You don't
even know who pulled up
the last one, do you?
- Of course I don't, but it's
gonna be different this time,
I worked it all out.
Carter, cut it out!
No more in Jeff's land.
- No more fluoro tape,
that was a great idea.
- How else was I to
find it in the dark?
- I mean, you might as well put
up a sign, come and get it!
- Look, we're gonna sell
the ceilings to svettie
at half price... - you're joking!
- And I'm gonna get your
share of the proceeds.
- [Sharpie] What're you talking about?
- [Rebekah] What I'm talking
about is a new car.
I want a new car!
- [Sharpie] You want a new car?
You're supposed to trade
in, I could do that.
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] And I could do
some work on the grounds.
- [Svettie] Carter, leave candy alone!
- [Rebekah] I want a new
car, as in brand-new!
I wanna feel what it's like...
(somber music drowns out speech)
♪ My way ♪
- [Svettie] Carter, cut it out!
Come on, candy.
- Do you want a cup of tea, darl?
- I didn't know you
wanted a new car, mum.
(Rebekah chuckling)
- Funny, eh?
Ever since I was a little ki
I used to dream about it.
But, um, was it John Lennon
or someone used to say
"real life's what happens
"while you're busy making other plans."
- Yeah, I know all about that.
- I know you do, love.
(Tools thudding) (Men grunting)
- Lill wants me to rat-proof the place
before we have a baby.
- Baby, that's a big decision,
starting a new family at your, again.
But if Rupert Murdoch can do it.
- Rupert Murdoch was 72 when
he had that bloody baby!
- That's that rat-proofing, eh?
Reckon you'd have a few in the
roof, walls, compost heap.
Yes, probably lookin'
at hundreds all out.
- Oh god, I can't stand the
thought of hundreds of rats
exploding all over the place.
Makes me wanna Jack it all
in and go back to the city.
- Eh, you get used to it.
Come on, you live in the bush!
Can't be a boy in a bubble.
But if you wanna be
mother Teresa about it,
then drowning's the
best way to go, mate.
They don't feel a thing.
- Drowning?
- Oh yeah, it's quick, it's painless.
You ever nearly drowned?
- When I was a kid I
got caught in a rip.
- [Patto] You remember
what that felt like?
- Terrifying!
- Got caught in a flood once,
ended up at the bottom of
the river, felt great!
Once the panic stopped, high as a kite!
- You obviously had a
better experience than me.
- Well, you're gonna give them rats
that same kinda high I had,
all you need is a garbage
bin, cage, water.
- Speaking of cages.
- Mate, you should
thank your lucky stars
this isn't north queensland,
up there rats bigger than wallabies!
Bite your finger off without
even thinking about it!
(Phone ringing)
- [Lill] Perry, pick
up if you're there.
- Lill?
- You won't believe where I am.
I'm at peg beech's house!
- Yeah?
- She is such a dour old thing!
If I get like that when I get older,
I want someone to take
me out and shoot me!
(Perry sighing)
Perry, you should see this
house, it's absolutely bizarre.
There's no trace of her in here at all.
There's no pictures,
no photos, no nothing!
How could anybody live like that?
Oh god, I think I'd die!
- Lill, when are you coming home?
- I'm on my way.
Had a shit of a day, zero work done.
(Perry sighing)
Hey, um, make a Martini for me.
- Yeah.
- I'm off, peg.
(Peg groaning)
(Peg retching)
- It's all right.
(Peg coughing) It's okay, peg.
Sorry about the handbag.
Thought it was better than
getting it all over the floor.
I'll wash it out for you later.
(Peg groaning)
Peg, I'm gonna take you to hospital.
- Oh, I just wanted to go away.
- Yeah, I know.
Come on, up your pop.
(Somber music)
Shoes.
(Crickets chirping)
- Take the old road, it's much quicker.
- Are you sure?
Is there anyone in your family
you want us to call, peg?
- Don't talk to my sister anymore.
That husband of yours, what's he doing
leaving his kids and his wife?
That girl, what's her name, tiz?
- [Lill] Taz.
- Stupid name.
Well, what I saw of her,
she's heading for trouble
with a capital t!
You don't have kids, do you?
- No, not yet, but we're planning to.
- No one ever planned kids in my day,
they just came along and you
had to make the most of it.
- I guess things are different now, eh?
Not going to believe what
happened to me this morning.
I woke up with a rat on my face.
Move to the country for a
bit of piece and quiet,
the last thing you expect
is a rat on your face, eh?
- Dirty houses bring rats.
- Well, no one could ever say
that about your house, peg,
it's the cleanest house
I've ever been in.
(Calm rock music)
Okay, which way, peg?
(Peg moaning)
(Phone line beeping)
- [Automated message] The mobile
telephone you have called
is currently switched off
or out of mobile range.
Please try again later.
(Peg groaning)
- Is everything okay?
- Gearbox is rooted.
You wouldn't have a
mobile phone on you?
- No, I can't get a signal.
- Same here.
Look, um, I can give
you a lift to a phone
but I'm in a real hurry,
I've gotta get to fox cove hospital.
- Come on, bud.
Come on, man.
Thanks for this.
Come on, Nathan!
- Just Chuck those books
on the floor, yeah.
(Car engine revving)
(Calm rock music)
(Dog barking) (Tires screeching)
Whoa, Jesus, what was that?
Sorry about that.
- Did you say fox cove?
It's back that way,
you're going to tamworth.
- Bloody hell!
Hang on peg, not long now.
- What's wrong with her?
- Don't know, that's why I
gotta get her to hospital.
- [Wayne] Sounds pretty crook.
- You're not wrong.
So where you guys trying to get to?
- Tamworth, sister lives there.
But the car's dead,
bloke sold us a lemon.
- Well, how're you gonna
get there from fox cove?
- I'll just give our cousin a
call, he'll give us a lift.
- Patto still owes us one, eh, bruh?
Put us on that sharpie fellow
in the first place, eh?
- You're not patto's cousins, are you?
- You know him?
- He's been doing a bit
of work out at our place.
- Right, the buy with the mud bricks.
- [Lill] Yeah.
- You must be his daughter, eh?
- Not exactly.
His wife.
- [Nathan] Feel like a smoke?
- No thanks, I'm driving.
Peg might.
- Peg?
(Calm rock music)
- Wheelchair!
- On it!
- [Wayne] Come on, we're here now.
- Who are you?
Where's that lill?
- It's all right, peg,
here I am, it's okay.
- If I don't come home
I want you to burn the letters.
- What letters, peg?
- Don't let my family
get their mitts on 'em.
- Just burn them, just burn them.
- It's okay.
- Bags, mate.
- It's okay.
- Just burn them!
- It's all right.
- [Peg] Burn them!
- I dunno, hospital!
Yeah, he's here, standin'
right next to me.
- [Nurse] Age?
- Don't know.
Uh, 63.
- [Wayne] Just hurry up!
- Next of kin?
- Don't know.
- [Nurse] What's your
relationship to the patient?
- Um, suppose you can put I'm a friend.
She'll be right, won't she?
- Can't tell you
anything at this stage,
not 'til we get the
results of the cat scan.
- Okay.
- [Wayne] All right, just behave.
(Phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Oh, Jesus, lil, where
the hell have you been?
I've been worried sick!
Kc's been leaving frantic
messages for you.
- Yeah, I tried to call but the
bloody phone wouldn't work.
Um, I've had to take peg to hospital,
and then we got lost,
it was bloody awful.
I thought she was gonna die.
- What's wrong with peg?
- They're doing tests.
Um, I think I should
wait 'til they're done.
- How long is that gonna take?
- [Lil] I don't know Perry, I'll
call you when they tell me.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
Just a bit tired, that's all.
What about you?
You sound a bit funny.
- No, I'm all right.
I just had a, a weird thing,
it was like a dream
only I wasn't asleep.
You were caught in a flash flood
and you were underwater in the
car and you were drowning.
- [Lil] Drowning?
- Yeah, and I couldn't save you.
- Perry, what sort of dream is that?
Um, listen, I think I might
stay here to make sure peg's okay.
All right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- So how long has patto
been in lost river?
- Two years.
- Nah, it'd be three, eh?
It was just after him and Julie
come down from queensland,
bruh, remember?
- [Lill] Julie?
- Patto's wife.
- He never said anything
about being married.
- Oh, he's not anymore,
they had a big Buster.
- Yeah, he's still not
over, too, eh, bruh?
- True.
She was a love of his life, and
she treated him like dirt.
Poor bugger.
Speak of the devil!
- Taxi's here.
Should charge you for dragging me
outta bed in the middle of the night.
- Oh, what about you, bud?
Puttin' us on to that ripoff merchant?
- Yeah, 'cause you told me you
wanted to buy some ganja,
you never told me you wanted
to buy a car off him!
Eh, he must've seen you
fellas comin' a mile off.
Hi, lill. - Hey.
- How's peg?
- Oh, just waiting to
find out (Chuckling).
- Do you want us to stick around?
- Oh, god no.
- Come on, boys, meter's runnin'!
- Thanks, lill.
Give our love to peg, eh?
- Okay.
See ya.
- Thanks for lookin' after 'em, lill.
(Clock ticking)
(Phone ringing)
(Somber guitar music)
♪ All the kings and
queens in the Bible ♪
♪ they could not turn back time ♪
(Perry sighing)
♪ So what chance have I of a miracle ♪
♪ in this life of mine ♪
♪ I only want one day ♪
♪ to unsay the things I said ♪
♪ undo the thing I did ♪
♪ 24 little hours ♪
♪ oh god, please wipe them all away ♪
♪ and I promise I will change ♪
♪ if I could start today again ♪
- Your friend had a severe
stroke during the night.
- Oh, god.
Is she all right?
- It's early days.
We'll keep her in intensive care.
You might as well head off home
and get some proper sleep.
♪ Please give me back today ♪
- She owes her life to you.
If you hadn't brought
her in when you did.
♪ Or did that thing I did ♪
♪ every minute, every hour ♪
♪ the replay's just the same ♪
♪ and I can't stand the shame ♪
♪ oh, let me start today again ♪
(Birds chirping)
- Lill?
Lill?
- What?
What?
(Knocking)
- What're you doing here?
- I ran out of petrol.
- Ah.
- Peg beecher had a stroke.
- Shit, how she doin'?
- Not so good.
- [Backa] Did you take her to hospital?
- Mm-hmm.
Oh.
- You sure you're okay?
- [Lill] God, sorry about the mess.
- Oh, that's all right,
don't worry about it.
(Lill sighing)
- Can't believe I spent the
whole day and night with peg.
Haven't got time to be
looking after people,
I've got work to do.
- Sorry.
I shouldn't have lumbered you
with her that first day.
- No, I'm glad you did.
I mean, god, she could
have died in that house.
You know, people say the
country's really friendly
and nobody's alone, but
it's really isolated.
What if what happened
to peg happened to me
in 30 years time, who's
gonna drive me to hospital?
- I'll drive you, if
you'd like (Chuckling).
Oh, you gotta look on the
bright side, haven't you?
And you gotta a let land,
you got that view.
- Yeah.
A view I never get to see.
When have I got time
to do all the things
I wanted to do in the country?
(Sighing) I need to unclutter my life.
Be a bit more like peg.
- What do you mean?
- You seen inside her house?
- No.
- Unbelievable.
She's the most uncluttered,
unsentimental person
I have ever met.
(Backa chuckling)
There's no pictures,
no trace of a family,
no sign of the past, no nothing!
Sometimes I think that's
how I'd like to be.
- In 30 years time you
want someone to say,
"ah, that lill,
"she's the most uncluttered
person I've ever met!"
(Both laughing)
- What'll they say about you?
- What they say already.
That he lives like a city
bloke in a tiny little shop.
I never thought I'd end up
working at a souvenir shop.,
selling postcards and
trinkets from China.
Not when I'm surrounded by all this.
In 30 years time,
I wanna have something
beautiful to leave my kids.
Right.
Let's sort out this petrol.
(Phone ringing)
- Piss off, kc.
(Slow peaceful rock music)
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ needs a good companion ♪
♪ for their life ♪
♪ everybody ♪
♪ needs a good companion ♪
♪ for their life ♪
- Thought I heard the car.
Oh, don't look, close your eyes!
I got something to show you.
Come on, this way. - What is it?
- Just wait'll you see it.
This way, careful! (Lill chuckling)
All right now.
Ready and
open 'em!
There!
(Perry laughing)
I told you I'd fix it up!
The nonviolent rat trap.
I had to use a little
bit of rat poison.
- Well, I thought we agreed...
- hey, you win some, you lose some.
If you want me to get
rid of all the rats,
I've gotta use a little bit of poison.
Now, the trick is to use enough water,
otherwise you get them swimming around
sorta half-drowned for
a couple of days,
but the beauty of it is it
doesn't damage the environment,
it's quick and it's painless,
and you can use it again and again.
- So who's gonna deal with them?
(Perry sighing)
(Both laughing)
- Go on.
(Lill groaning) (Perry laughing)
- [Lill] Yuck!
(Lill groaning) - Yay!
- How long's it gonna
take to finish that?
- Well, with patto helping
me in his spare time,
a year, 18 months?
- I don't wanna wait that
long to start a baby.
- Well, once we've
rat-proofed the place.
♪ Everybody ♪
- Hey, come on.
I'm gonna make you brekkie
and then you can crawl into
bed and have a little sleepy.
You deserve it.
- Well, I might have to
give the sleepy a miss,
gotta finish that bloody book.
- No, you don't, because I rang kc
and I bullied her into
giving you another day,
so you can sleep in.
- You're an angel.
- Hmm.
♪ Through the good times and the bad ♪
♪ the happy and the sad ♪
(Calm guitar music)
♪ We're chasin' ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ takes the sun dyin' ♪
♪ 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 sign steady ♪
♪ it waxes and wanes ♪
- I'm working, Perry.
(Perry chuckling)
- At 3:30 in the morning?
- You don't know her, Perry, she's...
- oh, I know you,
and I know what you're thinking.
- You wish.
- Joey, the burnover wasn't your fault.
- Oh, I reckon there are
somethings that are my fault
and I just gotta work out
which ones they are.
- Hey, patto, this is
a friend of mine, kc.
- [Kc] Hi.
- Kc.
So where's the sunshine band?
(Patto laughing)
(Kc laughing awkwardly) (Lill laughing)
- He's got a good plan, it's ready.
We just have to meet
with him once a week,
he goes over our accounts, that's all.
- So now he's got control
of finances as well?
You give him too much...
- well, then, why did you run
off and spend his money?
- What's the story, lill?
Do you wanna end the partnership?
'Cause if you do you have to
come right out and say it.
- [Lill] Um, what're you talking about?
- Lill, you spent the
whole day yesterday
doing anything you could not to work.
- Life is different out, kc,
you just don't get that.
(Chill rock music)
♪ I have to pinch myself to feel ♪
♪ if what is goin' 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 ♪
♪ lyin' on a blanket underneath
that big ol' spreadin' tree ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feelin' ♪
♪ it's such a beautiful feelin' ♪
- [Lill] I'm always terrified
to show you my work
- it's part of the process.
I don't understand why you're here,
it feels like you're running away.
- What?
- [Kc] From me.
- Look, just because we moved out here
doesn't mean that it's
the end of my life.
- [Kc] Really?
- [Lill] Shit, I'm not abandoning you.
- [Kc] It feels like it.
- [Lill] I'm not gonna give
up my work, god, I need it!
I need to be a success.
- [Kc] I know.
- I'm married to a 55-year-old man,
we don't have much, just
this shed and the land.
How much time do you think
he has left to work?
- [Kc] (Chuckling) Warned you
not to go with the old guy.
Before you know it,
you'll be pushing him
around in a wheelchair.
- [Lill] Okay!
Here's my work, but
they're just sketches.
- I know! (Tea kettle whistling)
- [Lill] All right, these
are our first draft.
- Thought you must've been
picking a bloody tea leaves.
Well, hey, where is it?
- Oh, Jesus!
- Anyone thinking about Alzheimer's?
- Hey, I can't remember every
bloody thing, you know.
(Gentle rock music)
(Lill screaming)
- Lill, what is it?
What, huh? (Lill sobbing)
- What's the matter?
- Oh god!
- What is it?
- Oh Jesus!
- What, what?
- There's this thing
on my face!
(Shrieking) There it is! - Get off!
(Rat squeaking)
(Blows thudding) (Rat squealing)
- Ah, Perry!
(Blows thudding) (Perry grunting)
(Lill groaning)
(Perry panting)
- [Perry] I don't think he'll be
giving you any more trouble.
- No, you made sure of that.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Never seen you so aggressive.
- Well, it's not like I
make a habit out of,
I mean, what was I supposed to do?
- I don't know.
Oh, it's all over the doona.
(Gentle rock music)
(Water splashing)
Well, we've gotta get rid of
them before we have a baby.
Rats eat babies' faces.
Rats bring snakes.
- [Perry] We'll get a cat,
there's a pet shop in fox cove.
- We can't have a cat out here,
it'll kill all the native animals!
- Okay, I'll get some rat poison.
- Oh god, Perry, what
about the wildlife?
They eat the poison rat.
- Oh, don't look at me like that!
- Well, you surprised me, that's all.
- Better than being predictable.
Look, just leave it to me,
I'll find an eco-friendly,
non-violent way
of killing the little bastards.
- Good, 'cause I don't have time.
Got kc on my back all
week and if I don't get
these roughs finished today
she's gonna kill me.
And it's cwa day, that means
I've gotta pick up peg
and a minimum of two hours wasted.
- Forget about the rats, I'll
do some research on the net.
- 'Kay.
Oh, shit!
(Tense music)
Shit, shit!
(Car engine revving)
(Horses whinnying)
- What're you doing?
- I'm doing the receipts for you.
You know how much I love
doing the receipts.
- Yeah, right.
Well, thank you, I appreciate it.
- You look good, baby.
- Don't feel good.
Sometimes I think I won't
survive another summer.
When you gonna fix the aircon?
- Yeah, when I get a spare 500 bucks.
- [Candy] Hey.
Hi. - Hey.
- Hey, hey, hey, kids, big day today!
It's the new truck handover.
- We know you, dad,
you've told 1,000 times!
- Oh, have I?
- 10 million times.
- [Backa] Thanks, hey,
um, why don't you
bring 'em down to the
station after school?
(Dog barking)
- That old Jeff, this is
such a waste of time.
- No, no, hey, he'll get
sick of it sooner or later,
I promise you, svettie.
You gonna be all right?
- Yeah, no problem.
You go and play with your new toy.
- Thank you.
- Hey kids!
- [Kids] Hey!
- Which hand?
- That one.
- That one!
(Jeff laughing)
- Dad's got a new
firetruck, uncle Jeff!
- [Backa] Yeah, you should drive down
to the station if you get a chance.
- Yeah, I'll see how I go.
- [Backa] All right.
- Come on, dad, we're
gonna be late for school!
- Okay.
- Hey!
- Oh, thanks, mum.
Bye!
- Have a good day at school.
- [Girl] Love you!
Come on, come on! - Here, Carter.
Hurry up.
(Carter laughing)
- See you later, kids!
- Bye!
- Okay, bye!
- See you later, hon.
- Come on, dad!
- Have fun!
- [Candy] Come on!
- [Carter] Bye, uncle Jeff!
- [Jeff] Bye, kids!
- Come on.
- Come on, let's go!
Come on, dad!
- [Candy] See you after school!
- All right, let me see
what sort of a mess
these books are in.
- Lost river's a breathing
apparatus, brigade.
You put this gear on
for structure fires
because it's most bloody deadly,
and you don't wanna die!
- Say what, now?
Can't hear ya!
(Men laughing)
- (Sighing) You took your time,
I thought I'd have to do
with handover without you.
- Come on, mate, with both know
you can't do anything without me.
Hey, Joey, nice to see ya!
- Thank for tellin' us about her.
- Well, I would've if I'd seen ya!
What do ya reckon, eh?
Pretty flash!
- It's a bit too bloody
flash, I prefer the old one.
- Come on, Joe, this one is
a better design all around.
I mean, you get the cable
gear out much better,
you've got aircon, you've got a great
four-wheel drive
configuration on the dash.
- Uh-huh.
- The best thing of all
is you can start the
pump and sprinkle it
inside the truck as
well as out, I mean...
- it's a pity we didn't have
this during the burnover, mate,
would've made your life a lot easier!
- Hm.
- [Man in red shirt] Come on,
mate, we should take off...
- all yours, backa.
- All right, thanks, Bryce.
Thanks for everything, man. - G'day.
- [Man in red shirt] See
you next time, backa!
- Oh, yeah, cheers, boys, see ya.
Hey, Bryce, any word on the
basic firefighting course?
- Only that we don't do it
during our bushfire danger...
- yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, but you've been
saying yourself we've had
major fires already,
it's only early in the season,
everyone saying it's
gonna get a lot worse!
We've gotta build the numbers up!
- You can't send new
recruits to a major fire!
- So we'll do it hazard
reduction, then!
You know, just give 'em some practice.
- Just bad timing around, mate.
- We'll do it here in lost river,
I'll get Fifi and Joey to do it.
(Car door thudding)
- I'll think about it.
- G'day!
- Hey, fif'.
- Wow!
- So how many new we call?
Lill yengill, Tully,
Knowles, and Newman...
- whatcha doin', Joey?
- Ah, nothin'.
- So, looks like a big fat
red dick, doesn't it?
(Joey laughing)
Do you wanna check it out?
Come on, we'll check it out.
Smells real good!
Doesn't stink of smoke
like the other one.
There's a lot more room in the back.
Come on, Joey, backa's gonna be
gasbagging with Bryce forever.
What, not even for old times' sake?
Come on
(Joey chuckling)
Come on, come up, come up, Joey!
- Hey, fif', I'll show
you the controls.
- Hey, backa, wait!
So Joey can come up.
- No, no.
- Just come up!
Joey, just come up!
- No, let backa have a go.
- Wait, Joey!
Joey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
- I gotta get back to work,
Fifi, I got a job on!
- I just wanted to know...
- Fifi, I just need time okay?
I don't know!
You know, to think.
(Somber music)
(Car engine revving)
- See ya later, alligator!
Yeah, in a while, crocodile.
(Marker squeaking)
- Ah, that's 10 minutes to
pick up peg, two hours, cwa,
then 10 minutes to take peg
home, that's back here by,
back here by 12:30, 'cause we
need five and a bit hours,
that's one hour per drawing.
(Marker squeaking) (Car rumbling)
- Hot enough for ya?
G'day, how's it goin'?
- Oh, you know, running late as usual.
- Ah, me too, sorry about that.
Got my cousins in town at the moment,
it's been in a bit full-on.
Mate, I tell ya, they'll talk
all night if you let 'em.
Like there's nothin' else
you should be doin'.
- (Chuckling) Know what you mean.
- [Patto] Then they had to
go and see the new truck.
Didn't see you there.
- No, busy.
- So, heard from your mate,
what's her name, uh, kc?
- Yep, nearly every day.
- Nice girl.
Expect she's got fellas
coming out of their ears, eh?
- Kc?
She's gay, patto.
Bats for the other team.
- (Scoffing) What, dead-set?
Hey, she doesn't look like it.
- Trust me, she's a dyke.
(Alarm beeping)
- Oh, sorry, I gotta go.
You can come if you want, see
the new truck in action.
- Oh, I'd like to, but I can't.
See ya.
(Siren wailing)
- It's the best bloody
appliance in the district!
Faster, better, shinier,
more flashing lights.
- Could you turn that up any colder?
- Hey, when we get there,
let's roll out 38.
Still the live reel,
just to test it out, eh?
- Firecom, lost river one blue.
- [Firecom] Lost river one,
this is firecom, go ahead.
- [Patto] Firecom, lost river one blue,
we have a small skid fire.
- Tell 'em we can handle it ourselves.
- Gee, do you reckon?
Firecom, looks like we've
got it under control.
We'll call if we need backup.
- [Firecom] All right,
patto, firecom clear.
- It's all right, mate, we'll
take it over from here.
You all right, patto?
- Yeah, got it.
- Nice roll, patto!
Come on.
- Water on!
- [Backa] It's not going!
- [Patto] Well, try turning
it on inside the truck!
- Oh, yeah!
It's still not going!
- [Patto] Mate, not too close
to the fire, eh? - Hey, fif'!
Where's Joey?
- How should I know, I'm
not his bloody secretary!
- Hey, what's goin' on?
- I don't know, must be the
battery, it just won't fire.
- Did you try the start button here?
- Mate!
- [Eris] Hey, um, backs,
luisa wants to join the rfs.
- Oh, great.
- [Eris] Yeah, it'll take her
mind off stuff, you know?
- Yeah, I'm sorry to
hear about pugley, mate.
I know how much he
meant to both of you.
You haven't found him yet?
- No.
That bloody dog is like
a kid to both of us.
- [Backa] Yeah, I know, you could tell.
- Boys out?
- Great new truck.
Doesn't matter, patto,
it's just a bloody truck.
- He was out jogging along
the beach one morning
when this kangaroo came bounding out
of a national park and attacked him.
- You're telling me that your client
got attacked by a kangaroo?
- Yeah, it wasn't skippy, we're
talkin' about a big red.
You ever seen the claws
on those things?
Practically ripped my
client's face off!
Anyway, the only way he could stop it
was by actually putting
his hands around its neck
and strangling it, which he did.
But that's not all!
- What, the koala went for him, too?
- While he was recovering in hospital,
the conservation society
found out about the incident
and took him to court for
killing a protected species.
Judge threw it out, thank
god, but the whole experience
shattered my client and I've
been treating him ever since
for post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Bullshit!
- Yeah,
it sounds like a made-up
story, I know, but it's true!
The thing is he's become such
a classic passive-aggressive,
he's driving me crazy!
We'll be in the middle of a session
and I get consumed with these feelings
of hatred and contempt for him,
he's such a victim, I
just wanna whack him!
- Maybe you're having
difficulty coming to terms
with your own violent behavior.
- For god's sake, I was
protecting my woman from rats!
Here, have a look at this.
Rat enters cage in search of bait,
door snaps next shut behind
it without hurting it.
- What are you gonna use for bait?
- Cheese.
- You gotta give them poison, mate!
Otherwise, what's the point?
You're gonna have some very
happy, very fat little
cheese-eaters living happily
ever after in their cage.
You gotta give them poison, mate.
- Yeah?
Don't tell lill, will you?
Nonviolent cage, violent poison.
Very passive-aggressive,
don't you think?
(Peaceful guitar music)
- Can't talk, kc, I'm driving, bye!
(Car horn honking)
Hurry up, peg, please.
(Car horn honking)
- [Peg] Coming, coming!
- [Lill] How are we today, peg?
- Don't know 'bout you, but
I've got a splitting headache!
- Well, if there are no
questions on the minutes,
we might move on to
item one on the agenda,
which is the, um, the conference
and how we want our delegate to vote.
- You all know my views.
People who have a terminal illness
shouldn't be forced to
suffer unnecessarily.
If cannabis can help
relieve their suffering,
then I can't see anything
wrong with legalizing it.
- Well, I'm not saying to
listen to this rubbish!
- Everyone in this room knows somebody
who would have been
helped with cannabis,
especially you, Jean Gibson,
after what your Ken just went through!
Six months of agony?
- How dare you bring Ken into this!
- Ladies, please!
- I did everything I could for him,
but I was not going to see
him turn into a drug addict,
cancer or no cancer!
- It doesn't turn you
into a drug addict.
I've smoked a fair bit of cannabis,
do I look like an addict?
- Thanks for that, lill.
Jean, sit down for god's sake!
Peg, you're entitled
to your own opinion,
but you're going to the conference
as the lost river delegate and as such
you have to represent
the views of the branch
and that's that!
- Then I'm not going.
- [Mena] You can't pull out now,
we booked your plane ticket
and it's non-refundable.
- I think you should let peg
have a conscience vote.
I think it's great that
she's come up with a view
that's compassionate and wise.
- Don't patronize me!
- I wasn't, I just think that
not many people in your situation...
- would support drug addicts!
She should be ashamed of
herself, and so should you!
- I'm not supporting drug addicts,
I'm talking about pain relief!
People have the right to
make up their own minds
and when they're...
Sorry, I need to sit down.
- [Mena] You all right, peg?
- Oh, it's just a headache.
- Jean, get her a glass of water.
- [Peg] I better go home.
- Jean, have you got your car?
- Oh, well I'm not taking her!
- I'll take her.
(Peg groaning)
- I may be 63 but I'm not an invalid!
- Okay.
All right, I got work to do.
See you later.
(Car engine revving)
Oh, you stupid old bag.
(Gentle somber music)
(Knocking)
- What do you want?
- I just thought if you wanted me
to go to the canvas for you...
- go home.
I don't need anything.
(Peg groaning)
- Oh, peg.
It's all right.
Come on.
How long have you been
getting these headaches?
- [Peg] Oh, a couple
of weeks, on and off.
- [Lill] You been to see the doctor?
- (Scoffing) Doctors are stupid.
It's just stress.
Those idiot women, I don't
know why I bother with them.
- [Lill] Has he given
you anything for it?
(Peg sighing)
- In my handbag.
- [TV host] I've heard of this before.
Thank you, Louie, thank you very much.
Continuing live on our show...
(metal clattering)
- [Lill] Okay.
- [TV host] And all this time
he was getting concerned.
- I'll get you some water.
(Water rushing drowning out TV)
- [Woman on tv] And
the lady said to me,
"I'll give you one as a present."
And I said, "well, I won't
need mine, but thank you."
- [TV host] Around Australia
with David cruthers.
I've got this email.
Now, Paige, it says you're
being a bit facetious.
(Peg sighing) (Bed creaking)
(Peg groaning)
- [TV host] I've lived away
from the coast myself,
with seafood extender,
you can have more!
- You can go now, I'll be all right.
- I'll make you a cup
of tea, then I'll go.
(Peg groaning) Okay.
(Gentle somber music)
- [TV host] Soon to be.
(Car door thudding)
(Joey sighing)
- [Joey] What're you doing here?
- [Fifi] I was worried about you.
- Just been havin' a snooze.
Haven't been sleepin'
all that good at night.
- Me neither.
Just getting a bit of practice in
before the baby comes along.
- You haven't been sick or anything?
- No, nothin'.
Just my boobs are a bit tender.
♪ On the ground ♪
♪ my way ♪
- You moved your caravan.
♪ My way is to you ♪
- It's much nicer here.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way is to you ♪
- Joey?
Hey, you had time to think?
♪ Your gates were guarded ♪
- No.
♪ I had to swing around ♪
♪ all the dogs are silent now ♪
- I don't know who you are anymore,
and I miss you.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way ♪
- Yeah, me too.
♪ My way ♪
♪ my way is to you ♪
- It think it's best if
you maybe went home.
(Trailer door slamming)
(Engine revving)
(Water splashing)
(Backa laughing)
- Here's trouble! (Kids laughing)
Come on!
(Kids screaming playfully)
(Backa yelling)
How'd it go with Jeff today?
(Sighing) You wouldn't
believe the dramas
I've had with this today.
- Bet it wasn't as bad as the dramas
I've had with your uncle.
You should've heard him goin' off
about the money I spent in fox cove.
Thought he was gonna
have a heart attack!
One would think it was $10,000
instead of a lousy 664.
- Svettie.
- Over here!
- I reckon it was $664 well spent.
I mean it, you work so
bloody hard, darling,
you deserved a break!
I'm gonna sort this out, svettie.
I'm gonna get him off our
backs for good, I promise.
I can't let him stress
you out like this again.
- If you think it might help.
- Let's go to the front.
- Wait for me!
- I saw eris and Louisa today.
- How are they?
Did they mention the dog?
- They're doin' it tough.
- [Candy] Hey, how'd you get up?
- Just felt sorry for 'em.
They just looked so lost or something.
- It's the dog I feel sorry
for, he's the one who's lost.
What're those kids up to?
Carter, what're you doing?
- Come on, Carter, take it easy,
you don't wanna scratch the duco.
- Don't wanna scratch the duco.
- Hey!
Come on, we need a driver.
- Oh, no, no, no!
- There's an emergency!
Come on, up you go!
It's three points of contact,
grab hold of the wheel.
(Both grunting)
- [Svettie] What're you doing?
- Hey.
- Don't be silly.
- What do you reckon we christen it?
- No!
- Well, Fifi and Joey aren't going to.
♪ Well, I wanna show you my love ♪
♪ it's bigger than a Cadillac ♪
♪ but you keep up your resistance ♪
- Stop it!
♪ And you're tryin' to drive me mad ♪
♪ well, I wanna show you all my love ♪
♪ it's bigger than a Cadillac ♪
- Stop it.
♪ Give in to my love, ba da da dum ♪
(Knocking)
(Carter vocalizing in tune)
(Backa and svettie laughing)
(Gentle music)
- [Kc] No stress, lill, just
an international publisher.
It's 3:30 P.M. in the
afternoon, I'm waiting.
Just tell me exactly what time
the sketches will arrive.
Lill, call me.
Call me!
- [Carter] I'm gonna get you!
(Kids laughing)
- [Svettie] What're you
doing home from work,
darling, everything okay?
- Yeah, everything's fine.
- I saw the truck.
Are the boys still wetting themselves?
- Yeah, I suppose so.
It's pretty cool, it's pretty flash.
- I'm gonna get you!
- All right, mate, all right.
- Gotcha! (Kids laughing)
♪ My way ♪
- [Carter] Hey, can I
play with your dog?
- Yeah, yeah, sure, just
don't break it, okay?
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] Tell me she's jokin'.
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] You don't
even know who pulled up
the last one, do you?
- Of course I don't, but it's
gonna be different this time,
I worked it all out.
Carter, cut it out!
No more in Jeff's land.
- No more fluoro tape,
that was a great idea.
- How else was I to
find it in the dark?
- I mean, you might as well put
up a sign, come and get it!
- Look, we're gonna sell
the ceilings to svettie
at half price... - you're joking!
- And I'm gonna get your
share of the proceeds.
- [Sharpie] What're you talking about?
- [Rebekah] What I'm talking
about is a new car.
I want a new car!
- [Sharpie] You want a new car?
You're supposed to trade
in, I could do that.
♪ My way ♪
- [Sharpie] And I could do
some work on the grounds.
- [Svettie] Carter, leave candy alone!
- [Rebekah] I want a new
car, as in brand-new!
I wanna feel what it's like...
(somber music drowns out speech)
♪ My way ♪
- [Svettie] Carter, cut it out!
Come on, candy.
- Do you want a cup of tea, darl?
- I didn't know you
wanted a new car, mum.
(Rebekah chuckling)
- Funny, eh?
Ever since I was a little ki
I used to dream about it.
But, um, was it John Lennon
or someone used to say
"real life's what happens
"while you're busy making other plans."
- Yeah, I know all about that.
- I know you do, love.
(Tools thudding) (Men grunting)
- Lill wants me to rat-proof the place
before we have a baby.
- Baby, that's a big decision,
starting a new family at your, again.
But if Rupert Murdoch can do it.
- Rupert Murdoch was 72 when
he had that bloody baby!
- That's that rat-proofing, eh?
Reckon you'd have a few in the
roof, walls, compost heap.
Yes, probably lookin'
at hundreds all out.
- Oh god, I can't stand the
thought of hundreds of rats
exploding all over the place.
Makes me wanna Jack it all
in and go back to the city.
- Eh, you get used to it.
Come on, you live in the bush!
Can't be a boy in a bubble.
But if you wanna be
mother Teresa about it,
then drowning's the
best way to go, mate.
They don't feel a thing.
- Drowning?
- Oh yeah, it's quick, it's painless.
You ever nearly drowned?
- When I was a kid I
got caught in a rip.
- [Patto] You remember
what that felt like?
- Terrifying!
- Got caught in a flood once,
ended up at the bottom of
the river, felt great!
Once the panic stopped, high as a kite!
- You obviously had a
better experience than me.
- Well, you're gonna give them rats
that same kinda high I had,
all you need is a garbage
bin, cage, water.
- Speaking of cages.
- Mate, you should
thank your lucky stars
this isn't north queensland,
up there rats bigger than wallabies!
Bite your finger off without
even thinking about it!
(Phone ringing)
- [Lill] Perry, pick
up if you're there.
- Lill?
- You won't believe where I am.
I'm at peg beech's house!
- Yeah?
- She is such a dour old thing!
If I get like that when I get older,
I want someone to take
me out and shoot me!
(Perry sighing)
Perry, you should see this
house, it's absolutely bizarre.
There's no trace of her in here at all.
There's no pictures,
no photos, no nothing!
How could anybody live like that?
Oh god, I think I'd die!
- Lill, when are you coming home?
- I'm on my way.
Had a shit of a day, zero work done.
(Perry sighing)
Hey, um, make a Martini for me.
- Yeah.
- I'm off, peg.
(Peg groaning)
(Peg retching)
- It's all right.
(Peg coughing) It's okay, peg.
Sorry about the handbag.
Thought it was better than
getting it all over the floor.
I'll wash it out for you later.
(Peg groaning)
Peg, I'm gonna take you to hospital.
- Oh, I just wanted to go away.
- Yeah, I know.
Come on, up your pop.
(Somber music)
Shoes.
(Crickets chirping)
- Take the old road, it's much quicker.
- Are you sure?
Is there anyone in your family
you want us to call, peg?
- Don't talk to my sister anymore.
That husband of yours, what's he doing
leaving his kids and his wife?
That girl, what's her name, tiz?
- [Lill] Taz.
- Stupid name.
Well, what I saw of her,
she's heading for trouble
with a capital t!
You don't have kids, do you?
- No, not yet, but we're planning to.
- No one ever planned kids in my day,
they just came along and you
had to make the most of it.
- I guess things are different now, eh?
Not going to believe what
happened to me this morning.
I woke up with a rat on my face.
Move to the country for a
bit of piece and quiet,
the last thing you expect
is a rat on your face, eh?
- Dirty houses bring rats.
- Well, no one could ever say
that about your house, peg,
it's the cleanest house
I've ever been in.
(Calm rock music)
Okay, which way, peg?
(Peg moaning)
(Phone line beeping)
- [Automated message] The mobile
telephone you have called
is currently switched off
or out of mobile range.
Please try again later.
(Peg groaning)
- Is everything okay?
- Gearbox is rooted.
You wouldn't have a
mobile phone on you?
- No, I can't get a signal.
- Same here.
Look, um, I can give
you a lift to a phone
but I'm in a real hurry,
I've gotta get to fox cove hospital.
- Come on, bud.
Come on, man.
Thanks for this.
Come on, Nathan!
- Just Chuck those books
on the floor, yeah.
(Car engine revving)
(Calm rock music)
(Dog barking) (Tires screeching)
Whoa, Jesus, what was that?
Sorry about that.
- Did you say fox cove?
It's back that way,
you're going to tamworth.
- Bloody hell!
Hang on peg, not long now.
- What's wrong with her?
- Don't know, that's why I
gotta get her to hospital.
- [Wayne] Sounds pretty crook.
- You're not wrong.
So where you guys trying to get to?
- Tamworth, sister lives there.
But the car's dead,
bloke sold us a lemon.
- Well, how're you gonna
get there from fox cove?
- I'll just give our cousin a
call, he'll give us a lift.
- Patto still owes us one, eh, bruh?
Put us on that sharpie fellow
in the first place, eh?
- You're not patto's cousins, are you?
- You know him?
- He's been doing a bit
of work out at our place.
- Right, the buy with the mud bricks.
- [Lill] Yeah.
- You must be his daughter, eh?
- Not exactly.
His wife.
- [Nathan] Feel like a smoke?
- No thanks, I'm driving.
Peg might.
- Peg?
(Calm rock music)
- Wheelchair!
- On it!
- [Wayne] Come on, we're here now.
- Who are you?
Where's that lill?
- It's all right, peg,
here I am, it's okay.
- If I don't come home
I want you to burn the letters.
- What letters, peg?
- Don't let my family
get their mitts on 'em.
- Just burn them, just burn them.
- It's okay.
- Bags, mate.
- It's okay.
- Just burn them!
- It's all right.
- [Peg] Burn them!
- I dunno, hospital!
Yeah, he's here, standin'
right next to me.
- [Nurse] Age?
- Don't know.
Uh, 63.
- [Wayne] Just hurry up!
- Next of kin?
- Don't know.
- [Nurse] What's your
relationship to the patient?
- Um, suppose you can put I'm a friend.
She'll be right, won't she?
- Can't tell you
anything at this stage,
not 'til we get the
results of the cat scan.
- Okay.
- [Wayne] All right, just behave.
(Phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Oh, Jesus, lil, where
the hell have you been?
I've been worried sick!
Kc's been leaving frantic
messages for you.
- Yeah, I tried to call but the
bloody phone wouldn't work.
Um, I've had to take peg to hospital,
and then we got lost,
it was bloody awful.
I thought she was gonna die.
- What's wrong with peg?
- They're doing tests.
Um, I think I should
wait 'til they're done.
- How long is that gonna take?
- [Lil] I don't know Perry, I'll
call you when they tell me.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
Just a bit tired, that's all.
What about you?
You sound a bit funny.
- No, I'm all right.
I just had a, a weird thing,
it was like a dream
only I wasn't asleep.
You were caught in a flash flood
and you were underwater in the
car and you were drowning.
- [Lil] Drowning?
- Yeah, and I couldn't save you.
- Perry, what sort of dream is that?
Um, listen, I think I might
stay here to make sure peg's okay.
All right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- So how long has patto
been in lost river?
- Two years.
- Nah, it'd be three, eh?
It was just after him and Julie
come down from queensland,
bruh, remember?
- [Lill] Julie?
- Patto's wife.
- He never said anything
about being married.
- Oh, he's not anymore,
they had a big Buster.
- Yeah, he's still not
over, too, eh, bruh?
- True.
She was a love of his life, and
she treated him like dirt.
Poor bugger.
Speak of the devil!
- Taxi's here.
Should charge you for dragging me
outta bed in the middle of the night.
- Oh, what about you, bud?
Puttin' us on to that ripoff merchant?
- Yeah, 'cause you told me you
wanted to buy some ganja,
you never told me you wanted
to buy a car off him!
Eh, he must've seen you
fellas comin' a mile off.
Hi, lill. - Hey.
- How's peg?
- Oh, just waiting to
find out (Chuckling).
- Do you want us to stick around?
- Oh, god no.
- Come on, boys, meter's runnin'!
- Thanks, lill.
Give our love to peg, eh?
- Okay.
See ya.
- Thanks for lookin' after 'em, lill.
(Clock ticking)
(Phone ringing)
(Somber guitar music)
♪ All the kings and
queens in the Bible ♪
♪ they could not turn back time ♪
(Perry sighing)
♪ So what chance have I of a miracle ♪
♪ in this life of mine ♪
♪ I only want one day ♪
♪ to unsay the things I said ♪
♪ undo the thing I did ♪
♪ 24 little hours ♪
♪ oh god, please wipe them all away ♪
♪ and I promise I will change ♪
♪ if I could start today again ♪
- Your friend had a severe
stroke during the night.
- Oh, god.
Is she all right?
- It's early days.
We'll keep her in intensive care.
You might as well head off home
and get some proper sleep.
♪ Please give me back today ♪
- She owes her life to you.
If you hadn't brought
her in when you did.
♪ Or did that thing I did ♪
♪ every minute, every hour ♪
♪ the replay's just the same ♪
♪ and I can't stand the shame ♪
♪ oh, let me start today again ♪
(Birds chirping)
- Lill?
Lill?
- What?
What?
(Knocking)
- What're you doing here?
- I ran out of petrol.
- Ah.
- Peg beecher had a stroke.
- Shit, how she doin'?
- Not so good.
- [Backa] Did you take her to hospital?
- Mm-hmm.
Oh.
- You sure you're okay?
- [Lill] God, sorry about the mess.
- Oh, that's all right,
don't worry about it.
(Lill sighing)
- Can't believe I spent the
whole day and night with peg.
Haven't got time to be
looking after people,
I've got work to do.
- Sorry.
I shouldn't have lumbered you
with her that first day.
- No, I'm glad you did.
I mean, god, she could
have died in that house.
You know, people say the
country's really friendly
and nobody's alone, but
it's really isolated.
What if what happened
to peg happened to me
in 30 years time, who's
gonna drive me to hospital?
- I'll drive you, if
you'd like (Chuckling).
Oh, you gotta look on the
bright side, haven't you?
And you gotta a let land,
you got that view.
- Yeah.
A view I never get to see.
When have I got time
to do all the things
I wanted to do in the country?
(Sighing) I need to unclutter my life.
Be a bit more like peg.
- What do you mean?
- You seen inside her house?
- No.
- Unbelievable.
She's the most uncluttered,
unsentimental person
I have ever met.
(Backa chuckling)
There's no pictures,
no trace of a family,
no sign of the past, no nothing!
Sometimes I think that's
how I'd like to be.
- In 30 years time you
want someone to say,
"ah, that lill,
"she's the most uncluttered
person I've ever met!"
(Both laughing)
- What'll they say about you?
- What they say already.
That he lives like a city
bloke in a tiny little shop.
I never thought I'd end up
working at a souvenir shop.,
selling postcards and
trinkets from China.
Not when I'm surrounded by all this.
In 30 years time,
I wanna have something
beautiful to leave my kids.
Right.
Let's sort out this petrol.
(Phone ringing)
- Piss off, kc.
(Slow peaceful rock music)
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ needs a good companion ♪
♪ for their life ♪
♪ everybody ♪
♪ needs a good companion ♪
♪ for their life ♪
- Thought I heard the car.
Oh, don't look, close your eyes!
I got something to show you.
Come on, this way. - What is it?
- Just wait'll you see it.
This way, careful! (Lill chuckling)
All right now.
Ready and
open 'em!
There!
(Perry laughing)
I told you I'd fix it up!
The nonviolent rat trap.
I had to use a little
bit of rat poison.
- Well, I thought we agreed...
- hey, you win some, you lose some.
If you want me to get
rid of all the rats,
I've gotta use a little bit of poison.
Now, the trick is to use enough water,
otherwise you get them swimming around
sorta half-drowned for
a couple of days,
but the beauty of it is it
doesn't damage the environment,
it's quick and it's painless,
and you can use it again and again.
- So who's gonna deal with them?
(Perry sighing)
(Both laughing)
- Go on.
(Lill groaning) (Perry laughing)
- [Lill] Yuck!
(Lill groaning) - Yay!
- How long's it gonna
take to finish that?
- Well, with patto helping
me in his spare time,
a year, 18 months?
- I don't wanna wait that
long to start a baby.
- Well, once we've
rat-proofed the place.
♪ Everybody ♪
- Hey, come on.
I'm gonna make you brekkie
and then you can crawl into
bed and have a little sleepy.
You deserve it.
- Well, I might have to
give the sleepy a miss,
gotta finish that bloody book.
- No, you don't, because I rang kc
and I bullied her into
giving you another day,
so you can sleep in.
- You're an angel.
- Hmm.
♪ Through the good times and the bad ♪
♪ the happy and the sad ♪
(Calm guitar music)
♪ We're chasin' ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ takes the sun dyin' ♪
♪ 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 sign steady ♪
♪ it waxes and wanes ♪