Fireflies (2004): Season 1, Episode 9 - Home Is Where the Heat Is - full transcript
- How long's it gonna
take to finish that?
- A year, 18 months.
- I don't wanna wait that
long to start a baby.
- Well, once we've
rat-proofed the place.
(Gentle music)
(Engine rumbling)
(Beeping)
(Tires squealing)
- Did something happen?
- I hit a cowboy.
- You...
Oh my god, taz, what have you done?
- Well the ride lasts
for eight seconds.
After that, it doesn't matter
whether you're tossed or you jump.
When it's your turn to ride,
you ride him in style.
- You come and work for
me, I'll pay you a wage,
and in six months' time,
if things work out,
then I'll sign over 25%
of the trust to you.
You can sell the shop after the rodeo,
when the books are good.
You might even pay off your debt.
(Crashing)
- The most important
decision in our lives,
and you make it without me.
- I haven't made a decision yet.
I'm waiting for uncle
Jeff to change his mind.
I wanna keep our family here.
I want you to keep the shop,
and I want Joey to get his share.
(Rumbling)
("Beautiful feeling" by Paul Kelly)
♪ 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 ♪
- I saw him go, all clear?
- Yeah, we have to be quick.
- She's here.
Svettie, don't mention the crop.
You've got a rich uncle who's gonna
be dead by February, okay?
- Sharpie.
- Hi, val.
- Hi, I'm svettie.
- What is it, pet?
- Svettie, Svetlana, it's Russian.
- I'm never gonna remember that.
I'll call you sweetie, will I?
Bricks and mortar, eh?
Nothing like it, is there, sweetie?
- I'll wait out here.
- Now there'll be further
charge for same-day service.
I've had to forego my usual checks.
- Can we add that onto the loan?
- Yeah, yeah, you can.
So that'll make the
first payment due in...
- sharpie, sharpie?
- Yeah?
- When did I say my
uncle Dmitri will be?
- Oh, February at the earliest.
March, more likely, April for sure.
- Yeah.
Can I make the first payment in April?
- Don't let it get away
from you, sweetie.
Now, collateral, that's your guarantee.
- Yeah, I understand.
A guarantee for me to repay the loan.
- Mm-hmm.
- And the collateral is,
my part in the shop.
- Bricks and mortar.
- Yep.
- But you don't own the
shop on your own, do you?
- Oh, the bank.
- [Val] Besides the bank?
- There's my husband.
(Soft music)
- What about the cooling
off period, val?
- I don't need to cool off.
The advance we talked about?
- Got it right here.
Three thousand. The cheque
for the other 12 thousand
will be here next week.
Feel a lot better, does it, sweetie?
(Crickets chirping)
(Rooster crowing)
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- How is anyone supposed
to breathe in this heat?
- Well, stand in the window like this,
you'd be the most beautiful
thing in the shop.
Might have to take you home.
- Go away, you're too hot.
Just one day, is it too much?
One day, one time,
with you and no kids.
And no fire station.
- Yeah, if we had any sense
we'd jump in the car
right now before it got any hotter.
Pack a picnic.
What about deep creek, you and me?
Just us, all day.
- Why you saying that?
I don't trust you.
- Come on.
Let's get the kids up.
We'll drop them off at uncle Jeff's.
- What about fire engine?
It's a total fire ban
today, extreme conditions.
- Yeah, they can text
me if they need me.
- Oh, backa, where's
backa, we need you, backa.
- Shh, shh, listen.
For the first time in living memory,
I've got up this morning,
knowing that I'm not gonna
get hammered for money
I haven't got.
Thanks to you.
(Sighs)
How you found someone to
take that milking equipment
off our hands I will never know.
- It was an exceptional.
- Oh, it was an exceptional.
- I would do anything to save us.
Anything, do you understand that?
- I know, baby.
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
♪ Here he comes now ♪
♪ gutless wonder ♪
♪ with his miracle ♪
♪ stepping lightly ♪
(Knocking) (Shouting)
♪ Those big eyes on you ♪
- Just go stick your
bloody head down a toilet.
- Okay.
So how come you stopped
coming to visit me?
- What, you were always in my thoughts.
- You've changed, feef.
- How did it?
- You're not up for it anymore.
- What, up for what?
Hot-wiring cars and nicking
bottles of jd from the border
shop and in foxcove, yeah!
- Once upon a time.
Remember, banned from the supermarket?
Now, you're nearly running the joint.
- It's been three years, Hank.
- I know how long three years takes.
I counted every day of it.
- Hey, I know you've had it rough.
- So was I, dunno, dead?
Like Damian?
Some other guy you forgot?
- Can you please not
touch my stuff, hey!
- You're having a kid with Joey Burke.
(Laughs) What a kak!
God, I reckon poor bloody
Damian would be scratching
his head trying to figure that one.
- Turn the page Hank.
I'm 20 and pregnant, okay?
It's a different demographic.
- Oh yeah, you've really
come up in the world.
(Crashing) You know what?
If it bends, it breaks.
- What does?
- Don't!
- You know you love it! (Screaming)
- Kieran?
- What?
- Get me sunnies will ya?
On the bedside table.
- They're on your head, dad.
- No they're not.
You bugger!
(Laughing) (Horn beeping)
Hey, Johnny!
- Who's this then, noodle?
- Johnny blunt's coming over
to help him chop his chopper.
Kieran's gonna help.
- Oh, and what are you
gonna do, watch him?
- Don't know.
- The man!
(Laughing)
The legend!
- Hey!
- Good on ya mate, thanks for coming.
- No worries.
Suzie?
Leave the twirl seat on, leave it.
(Sighs)
I'm here but I'm not here,
you know what I mean?
That much buzz near
my head is not funny.
- I know.
There's the beast.
- Whoa, mate, what's the sentence?
- Well, she started spluttering,
coughing, and spurting
shit everywhere, you know?
- Noodle.
You got the package.
I never realized.
The eyes, the bod, the smile.
Never realized.
- You don't wanna start on
this straight away do you?
Not unless you really want to.
- Nah mate, bugger it, let's sit
down and have a break mate.
- Hey noodle, look at this!
(Screaming)
(Laughing)
Alright, let's get the pool happening.
- Hey, what'd you do that
for, huh, to noodle?
- Hank, you're evil!
- To cool her down bro,
what do you reckon?
- Fifi, go, that's your
mobile, go, go, go,
you don't wanna miss it,
it could be important!
(Phone ringing) Go, go,
go, go, go, go, go...
- Hi.
- Hey, are you naked?
- No, I'm not naked.
- Do you wanna get naked?
- [Fifi] Yeah, eventually.
Why, you made plans?
- Fit in with yours.
- [Fifi] Say something cute.
- When you coming in?
- No, cuter than that.
- Feef, I'm not good at this.
Alright.
I've got you in my head, and
you're not wearing very much,
you know. - Yeah, go on.
- Still got this.
Damian's guitar.
I can't believe you've still got it!
- Feef, I love you babe.
- Yeah, same.
- Under your bed, feef,
it's still under your bed.
- There he is, hiding in here.
- Who's that?
- Fools who live in a house.
- Crew just rolled in.
- Oh yeah?
- Patto's cousin's here.
- Who, rolly?
Better get out of there, hey.
- [Joey] Don't tempt me.
So anyhow, you gonna be long?
- I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know, no.
- Oh, god.
It's hot enough to boil my arse!
- Come in out of it, babe.
- [Joey] Okay, well I'll think
up something cute, will I?
- Yeah, you better.
- Righty-o.
See-ya. - See-ya.
- You and me.
We loved that guy.
Damian was a crazy man.
Joey Burke's a, Jesus, what is he?
He's always doing the right thing.
He's a bloody square head
with his tongue hanging out,
following you around.
- He's the one, mate.
(Soft music)
- (Scoffs) Oh, I get it.
Girl of your experience,
one out of two ain't bad.
- Oi, it's too hot and
you're too annoying.
- So, what's the story?
(Guitar strumming)
- Hot day, mummy.
- Here we go.
(Bird tweeting)
- Polly, Polly, Polly, the
pirate, pirate, pirate,
princess, princess, princess!
What's happening, I need a project.
- [Kc] When did you get so pushy?
I mean, you're always delivering late.
- Hey, the book's being
printed, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- Focus, kc.
Polly the pirate princess.
- [Kc] But I'm stuck!
See, I just need this
one big exciting thing
to happen to Polly, and I
can't think what it is.
- She could get pregnant?
- (Laughs) Excuse me?
- I'm sorry, I'm just
thinking out aloud.
- Hello, didn't you think
when you bought this shed,
the middle of summer, the
heat might become an issue?
- Yeah, it's all systems
go, folic acid check,
rubella status check and
it's that kinda day.
- [Kc] Oh yeah, what's Perry up to?
- [Lill] He's catching up
on his patient reports.
- [Kc] How long for?
- All day I think, poor bugger.
- [Kc] Why don't you jump on him?
- Yes, I know that's what
you'd do if he was a girl.
- [Kc] Oh, yeah! (Laughing)
- This is so third world.
- Hello?
- Hank.
Yeah, it's taz, what's happening?
- [Hank] Ah, got the pool
out, you wanna come over?
- Oh man, that would
be such a lifesaver.
Yeah, don't go away.
- Oh, keep it clean, kc!
- Perry, so the sharp's want
me to come over for a swim
so they're gonna fill the
pool, so it's good to see
someone's thinking.
- Interesting development,
call you back.
- [Kc] Bye!
- The sharp's or Hank sharp?
- I suppose he'll be there.
But so will Fifi and
Kieran and all the other
little sharp's, unless
they've been wiped out
by a mysterious virus.
- [Perry] Yeah, well if I just
make a call first, then...
- you're not serious?
No, you are.
Is he serious?
- Oh, Perry I think it'll
be okay, probably.
- See, even she thinks it's alright.
- Taz, don't think you can
just bludgeon an answer
out of me...
- I'll have my mobile,
I'll apply sunblock,
year 12 dad, not year six,
when you were last at home.
You still there?
- Anyway Perry, you and I
got a couple of things
we need to be dealing with.
This morning, this afternoon
and tonight, maybe.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
- It's okay, I'm coming,
come and get me.
(Beeping)
Don't let him call.
Promise.
You have to promise not to call me.
- I will do my best to
keep him distracted.
- Taz, we've gotta at least
have a few ground rules,
like not getting behind the
wheel of someone else's car.
And, hey, wait a minute,
I haven't finished yet.
- Yeah, no dope, no eccies, no clothes.
(Laughs) Just joking.
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
(Laughing) (Shouting)
- [Hank] Fifi, come on, smile!
Turn that frown upside down!
- Hey, give us a hand,
would you darling?
Poor bloody horsey.
There's not a blade of
grass in the paddock.
I should get rid of her,
never ride her anymore.
- Hank's been talking about
Damian, stirring the pot.
- We've all gotta make
some allowances, darling.
- Yeah, point is, we've all moved on
and Hank's still an arsehole.
- Well you have to be an arsehole
in there just to survive.
- Hi Fifi.
- Keys for shed, all the
milking machines on one side.
Don't take anything else! - I won't.
Hey, are you gonna tell backa, babe?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, today.
I have to soften him
up first, you know?
But right now, he's got
the motor running, so...
- See-ya.
- Bye Fifi!
- Anyway, this is Hank's
home too, and he adores you.
- Yeah, I know, I'm blessed.
Mum, you're not gonna be long are you?
- Well I might have to take
horsey up to the old place,
they've got feed.
And I've gotta pick up
something from svetti's.
Yeah, I could be a while.
(Engine revving)
- Oh, what's happening feef?
Been keeping across
all the issues there?
- Yeah, I'm pretty
much on top of things.
- Oi feef, can I borrow your car keys?
Taz is coming over for a swim.
- Kieran's gonna go pick her up.
- You coming noodle?
- Nah.
- Well why not, why don't you
just come along for the drive?
- Because, I've got my swimmers on.
- So what, so have I.
- Mate, the faster you go,
faster you're back, huh?
Don't stress bud, I'll
look after your woman!
- Yeah nice one Hank, well done.
- Jeez, she's hot one today feef.
This would be what they
call extreme conditions,
wouldn't it?
- Yeah, you're on the ball
there Johnny, no two ways, eh?
- You got an early hour feast, huh?
- Not yet, I'm the delegated
parent 'til ma gets back.
- How's that work?
You're voted as mum for the day?
You alright sweetheart?
- It's a long story sharpie,
I'll listen to you tell it
if I had the time, Jesus dad,
when'd you bloody give up?
- Come here noodle, I
wanna talk to you.
Listen, noodle.
Just because Hank says he wants you,
doesn't mean he wants you.
Yeah, he's eight years older than you.
- You missing the
attention or something?
(Water splashing)
Hot, eh?
- That's exactly what I was thinking.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- (Laughs) You bastard!
(Panting)
(Screaming) (Water splashing)
(Laughing)
- Right, dairy gear.
What's this?
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight boxes.
Alright, I guess four in
the car, four in the ute?
Don't touch anything else.
And watch out for spiders.
- Okay, now don't be late.
- Yeah, alright.
- Alright.
(Engine spluttering) (Engine revving)
You wanna give that a
break for a little while?
- Yeah, yeah, I'll just...
- I'm sorry, that wasn't
actually a question.
(Laughs)
- Well.
I could do with some exercise.
- Even in this heat, you're
up for a bit of hard,
hard, yecka.
- Well maybe we should put
on the romantic music?
- Something unforgettable,
make the moment momentous.
(Laughing)
So what have you got
to say for yourself?
- This.
(Smooching)
- Since we've got the
place to ourselves...
- ah-ha, so that's why you
were so helpful getting taz
out of the door, huh?
- Well, okay.
But I wanna have a baby with you.
(Smooching)
- On the other hand, I've got
a hell of a lot of stuff
I gotta get through here.
- But Perry, Perry, Perry, Perry.
If I've made up my mind that it's on,
I don't care how many patient
reports you're looking at.
It's on.
(Laughing)
- And then I might feel used.
- Soiled, and debauched.
Come on, get focused,
you got work to do.
- Lill, lill.
- The choice is me, or a patient report
for the regional health board.
Don't you wanna have a child with me?
- Yeah, I'd like to discuss it.
- I thought we had,
lots and lots of times,
I thought this was one of our choices.
- Yeah, of course it is.
- In theory, yeah, now I'd kinda
like stop talking about it
and go for it, wouldn't you?
Well, when?
I need a project.
- Yeah, projects are
good, it's good to have
lots of projects.
- Okay, having a baby.
- Lill.
I'm not saying no to this, I'm
just a bit of a slow thinker,
I mean, when you throw
something like this at me...
- I wasn't tryna ambush you
here, I just thought that...
- no, no, no, no, I just
need to sit back on my heels
and do some processing, you
know, tick, tick, tick.
- But what I don't understand, Perry,
is that I thought the decision
had already been made.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
But you got lots to do,
so you get back to it.
♪ As the summer went on ♪
♪ the flames grew high ♪
♪ we just stare and stare and stare ♪
♪ at everything melting ♪
♪ melting ♪
- Good question.
I think if I was to choose
to come back to earth
as something else, I'd choose...
- I hope you'd come back as a flea.
- [Sharpie] I'm the one
dealing with the bastard,
I'm not taking all the risk
for 10 bloody percent.
- Whatever it is, keep Hank out of it,
'cause he's just in the
mood for it, I can tell.
- Jesus, credit me with
some intelligence, will ya?
I got so much to be
going on with, feef.
I can't get me arse into gear.
- It's debilitating.
- Me, I get snakey.
Which isn't me, is it feef?
Any bloody little thing and
I'm likely to go right off.
(Engine rumbling)
- Oh hello, here's somebody.
(Door slamming)
- Now, I'm thinking about food.
- We could have a Barbie?
Or a hungy.
- Or a hungy you won't
dad, there's a fire ban!
- Well no, something you
think I'd really like
watching you walk about it.
Say, if we headed off to the cove.
- Where's noodle?
- She's gone inside.
- Here's that really smart city chick
I can't get out of my head.
(Laughing) Thanks for coming over.
- Thanks for the invite.
Guess I better change into my swimmers.
- Hey, sure.
- Christ, sharpie, you
get some visitors.
Who's this? - Future son-in-law.
- Hey.
(Smooches)
- Beer, Joey?
- No, it's a bit early for me, sharpie.
- He sounds like your
bloody son-in-law.
(Laughing)
- Hey, I thought of something cute.
- Go away!
- Noodle...
- Hang on.
- It's me, Kieran!
- I gotta go put out a fire.
- Noodle.
- So how they hanging, Joey?
- [Noodle] I just wanna
get changed in here!
- [Kieran] Just tell me
what I'm doing wrong.
- [Noodle] Will you get out of my face?
- [Kieran] Okay, but why can't
I come to foxcove with you?
- [Noodle] You're not invited, okay?
(Knocking) - Guys?
- What?!
- What?!
- Go away!
- Alright!
- Help me, I don't know what to wear.
- Well you could wear a
target on your head.
- Can I change in your room, Fifi?
- Yeah, sure.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Fifi.
- What babe?
- Easy.
- What?
- Fifi, you asked me
to say something cute.
- Yeah alright, what?
- Fifi!
It's the cutest thing I
could think of, you.
- You calling me a poodle?
- Oh, all that raw vital stuff.
- I'm just having a conversation
with my girlfriend, man.
- God, I can see what you see in him!
- Fuck off, dickhead.
- Did you come back here to earn some
brownie points with Fifi?
- Give it a break man, you're
not in silverwater now are ya?
- Oh, Jesus wept, Joey!
That was good, yeah, that was cutting!
God, you two are so
worthy of each other.
Bushwick and pisswick.
- I'm gonna go back to the
station, it's pretty dodgy here.
- Shit, Joey.
- Well he's acting like a
school bully, your family's...
- well then why don't you
go and leave us to it?
- You want me to fight him?
Is that what you want?
- No, I don't want you, I
just want you to go, okay?
Just go, go, just go.
- Parked on the driveway, Joey.
- Well I wouldn't want to
block the driveway, would I?
(Soft music)
- More jailbait.
- No, that one's legal.
Just.
- Where the hell is mum?
- Oh, you look nice.
- Thanks.
- Oh, nice outfit, girl!
Where'd you track down that?
- Foxcove.
- Yeah but where in foxcove?
You're not tryna keep
it a secret are you?
- So, Hank yeah, we
going into the cove?
- Oh, it's a bit hot
for me noodle, sorry.
- Cool.
That's okay.
- Oh, Kieran will take you.
- What's in foxcove that's so cool?
- Noodle.
Dickhead.
- Young love, eh?
(Scratching)
- Hey, my castle and a half brick.
This your new book?
Polly the pirate princess?
Hey,
lunch, eat?
- Just leave it there, I'm working.
(Rattling)
- Are you looking for
anything in particular?
- It's your hair.
- So it is.
Why did you go to jail?
- Because I was off me face.
- You were on drugs and stuff?
- You come across Jeff Burke yet?
Well I had this buddy,
Jeff's son, Damian.
Anyhow, I was the one who
found Damian when he OD'd.
After that I stopped thinking straight.
For a while.
- That's pretty sad.
- Well, next thing I know,
they're hauling me off some guy,
tryna take his head off
at foxcove tavern,
except I can't remember
a thing about it.
Which is scary.
- So, why are we making
noodle look ridiculous?
- You're perceptive.
Beause I'm a pile of shit.
- Is that true?
I don't think that's true.
- Listen, I'm not coming on to you.
- I know.
(Engine rumbling)
- Don't do that.
Get under my skin like that.
- I am, I'm a joke!
- Noodle, you're not a joke.
- Stop calling me noodle,
my name is tezza, get it?
Tezza?
- Yeah, okay noodle, but listen...
- Stop making fun of me!
- Noodle...
- I'm never gonna make fun of you!
- What's going on?
- You got time for a chat?
(Sobbing)
I can't keep cleaning
up after this lot.
- Well let 'em clean
themselves up then!
- Oh yeah right, so as
long as horsey's in shape,
we don't worry 'bout it?
- We all have to cut
him some slack, Fifi.
That's what a home is.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
(Engine rumbling)
(Engine revving)
- Oi, Hank!
- Good day, this is the
welcoming committee.
- Rolly, you're a bit out
of your way, aren't ya?
- Yeah, I've come to see
you, as a matter of fact.
- Good day, mate.
- Good day, sharp.
- Where's Hank going in your car?
- What's this?
What are you thinking about?
- We've still got our shop.
I won't have to go work for uncle Jeff.
I won't have to rip my brother off.
We've got enough money
in the bank to last
for a week, at least. - Three months.
- It's incredible!
- Don't do this.
Don't make it sound so wonderful.
Gave up your dream, uncle
Jeff offered you everything,
and you said no.
- He'll come 'round with another offer.
A better offer, one that doesn't
break everyone's hearts.
- This is why I hate money.
- You hate money?
Say that again?
- Money steals everything from us.
Why can I only feel like a nice
person when there's money?
I wanna take time to lie in
the sun, but there's money.
Fall in love.
- Svetti.
The dairy fairy came and
gave us lots of lovely dosh.
I just can't believe it happened.
- I know.
Can't believe it either.
I'm sick of talking about money,
when we can be like this!
(Laughing) (Smooching)
(Beeping) - Hold that thought.
- And then even here, they find us.
Even on the sweetest days.
- I won't be a tick.
(Beeping)
Patto, what's happening?
- Just a cloud going over the sun.
- No, I can't see anything from here.
Well, check it out, yeah.
Mate, you're wearing the
captains hat today.
Sure.
No mate.
Alright, I'll see ya.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- Yeah, okay patto.
Yeah, thanks for that mate, see-ya.
(Beeping)
- Burt dyer's been
incinerating some brush,
patto and Donna have got
the hose on it, but...
- [kieran] Has he got enough help?
- Yeah, patto's keeping an eye on it.
I might drop in though.
- Yeah, think I better
stay here though.
- [Fifi] Yeah.
- Hey feef, you want a
lift to the fire station?
- Look,
yeah alright, I might catch
up with my boyfriend there.
- So if this is like an
emergency, we can get breaking
all them road rules, that's right eh?
- [Fifi] No!
- Hey lill.
This went off a while ago.
- Oh, did it?
I didn't hear it.
Maybe I should go and check it out.
♪ As the summer went on ♪
- Be cool in the car.
- Yeah.
♪ We just stare, stare, stare ♪
♪ at everything melting ♪
(Horn beeping)
♪ Melting ♪
(Engine whirring)
- Hey, I'm not seeing any
little red fire truck
ringing it's bell.
- They've already gone.
- Oh, so what happens now?
- I staff the radio, keep
an eye on developments
as they unfold.
Can get pretty tedious.
- This is good, I'm into this,
this is just like community
service, eh?
I'm loving it.
Where's your boyfriend?
- He's not here.
I mean, I just needed to
get away from the family.
- What's wrong with your family?
- Nothing you could fix.
- I could try.
At least help you forget for
a solid couple of hours.
- Oh, hi.
- Hey lill.
- Sorry, didn't...
- oh lill, you know
patto's cousin, rolly?
From the rodeo.
- Good day lill, how you going?
- Yeah, course I do, hi.
I just got the message on the
pager about the burn off
so I wondered if there was
something I could do.
But if you've got it all under control.
Aren't you meant to be
on light duties, Fifi?
- Yeah, but the fire's under
control so I'm not going.
- Yeah.
Well, back to the hot house.
- See-ya later.
- See-ya.
- [Fifi] Bye!
- I don't say no to a cuppa.
- Yeah, kitchen's through there.
(Engine whirring)
(Laughing)
- Okay babe, now it's your turn.
- No, no, look, honestly I can't...
- yeah, but, you get to
wear the drivers helmet.
- Alright, I'll wear the helmet.
- Okay, you can wear the
helmet, but you've gotta
take everything else off.
No I'm joking, come on, get in!
Here we go!
Do you want a drink instead?
(Door slamming)
- I can't drink and I
can't drive, not today,
I'm on probation.
- Join the freakin' club!
Alright?
I'll drink, you can drive me.
- Look, I'm not ready for this.
- Yeah you are!
You've gotta face your demons.
That's what your dad says to me.
Now look, you don't need the car going,
there's a cowboy ahead,
come on, go faster,
you're going too slow, come
on, they bounce back up!
- No they don't.
- Your cowboy did.
(Shouting)
- Jesus, we got him!
(Panting)
He's still breathing,
we're gonna have to back
back over him again.
Come on, back, back, back,
back, back, back, back, back!
Pretend it's me.
Hey?
Then we'll call Perry.
You're lucky to have a dad
like him, aren't you?
Looking out for you.
Save me daddy, save me!
- I don't wanna be saved.
- No, I bloody do.
You're not driving!
How you supposed to test
daddy's limits if you don't
put it into gear?
Run him down, go on!
(Shouting)
Look, there's another cowboy!
(Screaming)
I'm sorry.
I'm scary, I go too far.
You gonna hold me or what?
(Soft music)
- Thanks Reggie.
They've sent a stop.
- What's that mean?
- Everyone goes home.
They're all coming back here.
- Now I was all fired up
feef, I was right up for it.
- Yeah, well we're gonna
be up to our ears
in fires any minute.
Can you give me a lift
back to my place?
- What, back to your family?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, sure.
(Chattering)
- Probation, probation, probation.
(Laughing)
- Loo.
- Want me to come too?
- Taz?
- Oh, noodle!
What you doing to me girl,
you're driving me crazy!
(Laughing)
Oh, look who's back!
Oh, you have her, she's
blocking tezza's way.
(Grunting)
Hey come on bro, come on bro!
You're my brother!
And I took it too far, give us a break.
I'm putting together a major earn,
you can earn too.
I'm sorry, eh?
I need ya, mate.
For the job.
You're so lucky mate.
You've got a spunk-rat girlfriend,
and what have I got?
You.
- What job?
- Big.
Later.
- Look, Hank.
You're being a spiteful creep mate.
I can't make any more excuses for you.
- Just flake out and go with it, mum.
It's what you always used to do.
(Eerie music)
- Here you go.
I find this always helps.
- Backa?
I have to tell you something.
Please listen carefully.
Important.
Imagine if we have a lot more money.
(Laughing)
- I have trouble imagining
we have the money we've got.
- Shush.
I mean, there's lots of
developments around.
You know there's one at deep creek.
Imagine putting some money into...
- svetti, we owe uncle Jeff
five thousand dollars.
And the rest.
He put up half our deposit,
we pay uncle Jeff back first.
Can we just not talk
about money please?
- We don't have to pay him
back, he's a relative.
He has money.
- God, I hate debt.
Everything's red ink. - Everything.
But not today, backa.
(Laughing) (Shouting)
(Water splashing)
- Okay darling, yeah.
Yeah, quick as I can.
(Beeping)
Taz wants to come.
- Oh okay, I'll come too.
Hey look, Polly. - Come on.
- The pirate princess.
(Soft music)
(Sobbing)
- Hey, it's noodle isn't it?
- I'm going home to my mum.
- [Perry] Sounds like trouble.
(Soft music)
♪ Give me little sugar now ♪
♪ gotta have a little
bit of sugar now ♪
♪ that sweet, sweet, sugar now ♪
- You've got it really
nice here, haven't you?
Bit of everything.
- Yeah, you're right.
I'm blessed.
- Howdy.
- Hey lill.
- Hey.
- Hey Perry.
- Taz around?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, that's right,
no problems with that.
♪ Some of that sugar now ♪ - hey.
- We don't have to go right
now this second, do we?
- Well I thought that
things were getting
a bit ugly round here?
- Chill out dad, have a drink.
She's having one.
- So have you had time
to do some processing?
Tick, tick, tick, tick.
- Sorry?
- Sorry lill, no can do.
- What it is about today, in
particular, that is so special?
That this is something that has
to be resolved right here,
right now, without any
thought to the consequences?
- What is that supposed to mean?
Without any thought
to the consequences?
- This baby thing, it's great,
it's lovely, it's cute,
but how far ahead have
you thought exactly,
apart from the first
six months, I mean.
No, you're standing here right now,
because taz is stressing
out about something.
I gotta deal with that,
that's what being a parent
is about, you think I
wanna still be doing this
when I'm 70 bloody two?
- So from now on, I'm
the young second wife.
Trophy wife, that's what I am?
That's all I ever was.
♪ I need that sugar now ♪
(Water splashing)
- Ah, the trouble maker.
You don't even compete.
- I could try.
You wanna play paddles?
Jesus, dad.
- Hank!
- Can't stand this.
You're like a guy in a coma.
You used to have go,
or was it all going?
- What are you doing?
(Water splashing)
- Jesus, Hank!
Come on sharpie, let's get you out.
It's alright.
Go away!
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- Let's get outta here.
♪ Melting ♪
♪ and tonight, I pulled the
top off a bottle of beer ♪
♪ and I've lit a fire ♪
♪ and I'm staring ♪
♪ staring ♪
♪ where are you ♪
- Well, they're gone.
(Sighing)
Jesus.
We should do a monster
clean up in here one day.
- Saved our arses from uncle Jeff.
- Yeah, that's one way of putting it.
- Darling, what did you
mean this morning?
About me, in a shop window?
- Nothing.
Well, I was just saying,
we're really good, you know?
I'm just driving,
coming home, suddenly,
in the window, in the
moonlight, there she is,
this beautiful... - like a goddess.
- Yeah, that's exactly right.
I'm not saying Amsterdam
or anything, I'm just,
I'm just saying, a
vision in the moonlight,
and that'd be you.
- Who's Damian?
- Oh, it's this bloke I
knew when I was a kid.
He left me his guitar.
- Okay, must have been
a good'un, was he?
- No, good, not good.
He was this disaster, he
was like this explosion,
he was just this,
amazing one off.
- Wow, sounds good.
- Where are those boys
that can make you forget?
- I'll have a go if you want.
(Water trickling)
- Get away from me, you mongrel!
- Dad, I'm not mucking around now.
She's gonna stuff it up.
- Who?
- Your little girl.
Alright, I'm a mongrel, but she's not.
And you can't let her
muck it all up forever.
She'll hate herself.
- Oh come on now, come on!
- Don't do this!
Think what you're getting into!
- Stop it!
- Oh come on, dad!
What are you doing, it's my room!
- I'm their father!
- I don't care who you are!
- It's my room!
- Get out.
- It's my life!
Jesus.
- Darling, it's okay, it's okay.
- Stay out of my life!
(Door slamming)
- Oh, sharpie.
- Here you go mate, have this.
- Oh, just go back to
bloody jail, would ya!
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
♪ Bet your bottom dollar ♪
♪ bet your bottom dollar ♪
- You know, no one said he was perfect.
To tell you the truth,
he could be pretty
bloody scary at times.
If you can handle that, my god.
There's just something so...
(soft guitar music)
- Where's Hank?
- Sorry, Fifi.
- Yeah.
No, you're alright dad.
We're all having one of them nights.
- Small town.
(Glass smashing)
So boring here.
- You don't have to compete
with him, neither.
- Compete with who?
- Damian.
He's dead, and I'm not
a teenager anymore.
He's always gonna be a teen.
- What a crap family.
You touch it and it falls apart.
- Yeah, but it's still there
when you've finished.
Go and tell mum you're sorry.
- I'm sorry, feef.
- Yep, go and tell mum that.
- Mum?
- I know.
You're my son.
- I'm going to hell, mum.
You can't hate me as
much as I hate myself.
- I don't hate you.
I feel sorry for you.
I feel guilty too, if that
makes you feel any better.
Took my eye off the
ball for a few years.
Not your fault.
Me and sharpie were some other place,
in our heads.
Out of our heads.
Hey.
You come back soon, huh?
Just don't wait too long.
(Engine rumbling)
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Thought you might like
some help with the dishes.
- There's just a few glasses.
I'm starving. - Yeah?
Wanna get some Chinese?
You know that dump of
a place in alaleo,
well it turns out it's bloody hopeless.
So I thought I'd do up the
caravan, buy it off Noel.
And I thought I'd get my
steers off uncle Jeff too, eh.
Get it started.
- I have no idea what
you're talking about.
- About getting going with this.
You and me.
We gotta plan.
- Svetti?
- What do you reckon?
(Laughing)
- Yep.
I'd buy ya.
Wouldn't matter what the price was.
'Cause it was so exceptional,
that you found someone
to buy two grands worth of
milking equipment for 15 grand.
I mean, it might have
been worth 15 grand once.
So exceptional.
(Speaking foreign language)
- Cup of coffee?
(Smooches)
- How 'bout a cup of tea?
("Beautiful promise" by Paul Kelly)
♪ We're chasing ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ it takes the sun dying ♪
♪ to turn the world gold ♪
♪ the days run ♪
♪ outside my window ♪
♪ like wild horses ♪
♪ across the plains ♪
♪ fireflies ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady ♪
♪ it watches and waits ♪
take to finish that?
- A year, 18 months.
- I don't wanna wait that
long to start a baby.
- Well, once we've
rat-proofed the place.
(Gentle music)
(Engine rumbling)
(Beeping)
(Tires squealing)
- Did something happen?
- I hit a cowboy.
- You...
Oh my god, taz, what have you done?
- Well the ride lasts
for eight seconds.
After that, it doesn't matter
whether you're tossed or you jump.
When it's your turn to ride,
you ride him in style.
- You come and work for
me, I'll pay you a wage,
and in six months' time,
if things work out,
then I'll sign over 25%
of the trust to you.
You can sell the shop after the rodeo,
when the books are good.
You might even pay off your debt.
(Crashing)
- The most important
decision in our lives,
and you make it without me.
- I haven't made a decision yet.
I'm waiting for uncle
Jeff to change his mind.
I wanna keep our family here.
I want you to keep the shop,
and I want Joey to get his share.
(Rumbling)
("Beautiful feeling" by Paul Kelly)
♪ 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 ♪
- I saw him go, all clear?
- Yeah, we have to be quick.
- She's here.
Svettie, don't mention the crop.
You've got a rich uncle who's gonna
be dead by February, okay?
- Sharpie.
- Hi, val.
- Hi, I'm svettie.
- What is it, pet?
- Svettie, Svetlana, it's Russian.
- I'm never gonna remember that.
I'll call you sweetie, will I?
Bricks and mortar, eh?
Nothing like it, is there, sweetie?
- I'll wait out here.
- Now there'll be further
charge for same-day service.
I've had to forego my usual checks.
- Can we add that onto the loan?
- Yeah, yeah, you can.
So that'll make the
first payment due in...
- sharpie, sharpie?
- Yeah?
- When did I say my
uncle Dmitri will be?
- Oh, February at the earliest.
March, more likely, April for sure.
- Yeah.
Can I make the first payment in April?
- Don't let it get away
from you, sweetie.
Now, collateral, that's your guarantee.
- Yeah, I understand.
A guarantee for me to repay the loan.
- Mm-hmm.
- And the collateral is,
my part in the shop.
- Bricks and mortar.
- Yep.
- But you don't own the
shop on your own, do you?
- Oh, the bank.
- [Val] Besides the bank?
- There's my husband.
(Soft music)
- What about the cooling
off period, val?
- I don't need to cool off.
The advance we talked about?
- Got it right here.
Three thousand. The cheque
for the other 12 thousand
will be here next week.
Feel a lot better, does it, sweetie?
(Crickets chirping)
(Rooster crowing)
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- How is anyone supposed
to breathe in this heat?
- Well, stand in the window like this,
you'd be the most beautiful
thing in the shop.
Might have to take you home.
- Go away, you're too hot.
Just one day, is it too much?
One day, one time,
with you and no kids.
And no fire station.
- Yeah, if we had any sense
we'd jump in the car
right now before it got any hotter.
Pack a picnic.
What about deep creek, you and me?
Just us, all day.
- Why you saying that?
I don't trust you.
- Come on.
Let's get the kids up.
We'll drop them off at uncle Jeff's.
- What about fire engine?
It's a total fire ban
today, extreme conditions.
- Yeah, they can text
me if they need me.
- Oh, backa, where's
backa, we need you, backa.
- Shh, shh, listen.
For the first time in living memory,
I've got up this morning,
knowing that I'm not gonna
get hammered for money
I haven't got.
Thanks to you.
(Sighs)
How you found someone to
take that milking equipment
off our hands I will never know.
- It was an exceptional.
- Oh, it was an exceptional.
- I would do anything to save us.
Anything, do you understand that?
- I know, baby.
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
♪ Here he comes now ♪
♪ gutless wonder ♪
♪ with his miracle ♪
♪ stepping lightly ♪
(Knocking) (Shouting)
♪ Those big eyes on you ♪
- Just go stick your
bloody head down a toilet.
- Okay.
So how come you stopped
coming to visit me?
- What, you were always in my thoughts.
- You've changed, feef.
- How did it?
- You're not up for it anymore.
- What, up for what?
Hot-wiring cars and nicking
bottles of jd from the border
shop and in foxcove, yeah!
- Once upon a time.
Remember, banned from the supermarket?
Now, you're nearly running the joint.
- It's been three years, Hank.
- I know how long three years takes.
I counted every day of it.
- Hey, I know you've had it rough.
- So was I, dunno, dead?
Like Damian?
Some other guy you forgot?
- Can you please not
touch my stuff, hey!
- You're having a kid with Joey Burke.
(Laughs) What a kak!
God, I reckon poor bloody
Damian would be scratching
his head trying to figure that one.
- Turn the page Hank.
I'm 20 and pregnant, okay?
It's a different demographic.
- Oh yeah, you've really
come up in the world.
(Crashing) You know what?
If it bends, it breaks.
- What does?
- Don't!
- You know you love it! (Screaming)
- Kieran?
- What?
- Get me sunnies will ya?
On the bedside table.
- They're on your head, dad.
- No they're not.
You bugger!
(Laughing) (Horn beeping)
Hey, Johnny!
- Who's this then, noodle?
- Johnny blunt's coming over
to help him chop his chopper.
Kieran's gonna help.
- Oh, and what are you
gonna do, watch him?
- Don't know.
- The man!
(Laughing)
The legend!
- Hey!
- Good on ya mate, thanks for coming.
- No worries.
Suzie?
Leave the twirl seat on, leave it.
(Sighs)
I'm here but I'm not here,
you know what I mean?
That much buzz near
my head is not funny.
- I know.
There's the beast.
- Whoa, mate, what's the sentence?
- Well, she started spluttering,
coughing, and spurting
shit everywhere, you know?
- Noodle.
You got the package.
I never realized.
The eyes, the bod, the smile.
Never realized.
- You don't wanna start on
this straight away do you?
Not unless you really want to.
- Nah mate, bugger it, let's sit
down and have a break mate.
- Hey noodle, look at this!
(Screaming)
(Laughing)
Alright, let's get the pool happening.
- Hey, what'd you do that
for, huh, to noodle?
- Hank, you're evil!
- To cool her down bro,
what do you reckon?
- Fifi, go, that's your
mobile, go, go, go,
you don't wanna miss it,
it could be important!
(Phone ringing) Go, go,
go, go, go, go, go...
- Hi.
- Hey, are you naked?
- No, I'm not naked.
- Do you wanna get naked?
- [Fifi] Yeah, eventually.
Why, you made plans?
- Fit in with yours.
- [Fifi] Say something cute.
- When you coming in?
- No, cuter than that.
- Feef, I'm not good at this.
Alright.
I've got you in my head, and
you're not wearing very much,
you know. - Yeah, go on.
- Still got this.
Damian's guitar.
I can't believe you've still got it!
- Feef, I love you babe.
- Yeah, same.
- Under your bed, feef,
it's still under your bed.
- There he is, hiding in here.
- Who's that?
- Fools who live in a house.
- Crew just rolled in.
- Oh yeah?
- Patto's cousin's here.
- Who, rolly?
Better get out of there, hey.
- [Joey] Don't tempt me.
So anyhow, you gonna be long?
- I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know, no.
- Oh, god.
It's hot enough to boil my arse!
- Come in out of it, babe.
- [Joey] Okay, well I'll think
up something cute, will I?
- Yeah, you better.
- Righty-o.
See-ya. - See-ya.
- You and me.
We loved that guy.
Damian was a crazy man.
Joey Burke's a, Jesus, what is he?
He's always doing the right thing.
He's a bloody square head
with his tongue hanging out,
following you around.
- He's the one, mate.
(Soft music)
- (Scoffs) Oh, I get it.
Girl of your experience,
one out of two ain't bad.
- Oi, it's too hot and
you're too annoying.
- So, what's the story?
(Guitar strumming)
- Hot day, mummy.
- Here we go.
(Bird tweeting)
- Polly, Polly, Polly, the
pirate, pirate, pirate,
princess, princess, princess!
What's happening, I need a project.
- [Kc] When did you get so pushy?
I mean, you're always delivering late.
- Hey, the book's being
printed, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- Focus, kc.
Polly the pirate princess.
- [Kc] But I'm stuck!
See, I just need this
one big exciting thing
to happen to Polly, and I
can't think what it is.
- She could get pregnant?
- (Laughs) Excuse me?
- I'm sorry, I'm just
thinking out aloud.
- Hello, didn't you think
when you bought this shed,
the middle of summer, the
heat might become an issue?
- Yeah, it's all systems
go, folic acid check,
rubella status check and
it's that kinda day.
- [Kc] Oh yeah, what's Perry up to?
- [Lill] He's catching up
on his patient reports.
- [Kc] How long for?
- All day I think, poor bugger.
- [Kc] Why don't you jump on him?
- Yes, I know that's what
you'd do if he was a girl.
- [Kc] Oh, yeah! (Laughing)
- This is so third world.
- Hello?
- Hank.
Yeah, it's taz, what's happening?
- [Hank] Ah, got the pool
out, you wanna come over?
- Oh man, that would
be such a lifesaver.
Yeah, don't go away.
- Oh, keep it clean, kc!
- Perry, so the sharp's want
me to come over for a swim
so they're gonna fill the
pool, so it's good to see
someone's thinking.
- Interesting development,
call you back.
- [Kc] Bye!
- The sharp's or Hank sharp?
- I suppose he'll be there.
But so will Fifi and
Kieran and all the other
little sharp's, unless
they've been wiped out
by a mysterious virus.
- [Perry] Yeah, well if I just
make a call first, then...
- you're not serious?
No, you are.
Is he serious?
- Oh, Perry I think it'll
be okay, probably.
- See, even she thinks it's alright.
- Taz, don't think you can
just bludgeon an answer
out of me...
- I'll have my mobile,
I'll apply sunblock,
year 12 dad, not year six,
when you were last at home.
You still there?
- Anyway Perry, you and I
got a couple of things
we need to be dealing with.
This morning, this afternoon
and tonight, maybe.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
- It's okay, I'm coming,
come and get me.
(Beeping)
Don't let him call.
Promise.
You have to promise not to call me.
- I will do my best to
keep him distracted.
- Taz, we've gotta at least
have a few ground rules,
like not getting behind the
wheel of someone else's car.
And, hey, wait a minute,
I haven't finished yet.
- Yeah, no dope, no eccies, no clothes.
(Laughs) Just joking.
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
(Laughing) (Shouting)
- [Hank] Fifi, come on, smile!
Turn that frown upside down!
- Hey, give us a hand,
would you darling?
Poor bloody horsey.
There's not a blade of
grass in the paddock.
I should get rid of her,
never ride her anymore.
- Hank's been talking about
Damian, stirring the pot.
- We've all gotta make
some allowances, darling.
- Yeah, point is, we've all moved on
and Hank's still an arsehole.
- Well you have to be an arsehole
in there just to survive.
- Hi Fifi.
- Keys for shed, all the
milking machines on one side.
Don't take anything else! - I won't.
Hey, are you gonna tell backa, babe?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, today.
I have to soften him
up first, you know?
But right now, he's got
the motor running, so...
- See-ya.
- Bye Fifi!
- Anyway, this is Hank's
home too, and he adores you.
- Yeah, I know, I'm blessed.
Mum, you're not gonna be long are you?
- Well I might have to take
horsey up to the old place,
they've got feed.
And I've gotta pick up
something from svetti's.
Yeah, I could be a while.
(Engine revving)
- Oh, what's happening feef?
Been keeping across
all the issues there?
- Yeah, I'm pretty
much on top of things.
- Oi feef, can I borrow your car keys?
Taz is coming over for a swim.
- Kieran's gonna go pick her up.
- You coming noodle?
- Nah.
- Well why not, why don't you
just come along for the drive?
- Because, I've got my swimmers on.
- So what, so have I.
- Mate, the faster you go,
faster you're back, huh?
Don't stress bud, I'll
look after your woman!
- Yeah nice one Hank, well done.
- Jeez, she's hot one today feef.
This would be what they
call extreme conditions,
wouldn't it?
- Yeah, you're on the ball
there Johnny, no two ways, eh?
- You got an early hour feast, huh?
- Not yet, I'm the delegated
parent 'til ma gets back.
- How's that work?
You're voted as mum for the day?
You alright sweetheart?
- It's a long story sharpie,
I'll listen to you tell it
if I had the time, Jesus dad,
when'd you bloody give up?
- Come here noodle, I
wanna talk to you.
Listen, noodle.
Just because Hank says he wants you,
doesn't mean he wants you.
Yeah, he's eight years older than you.
- You missing the
attention or something?
(Water splashing)
Hot, eh?
- That's exactly what I was thinking.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- (Laughs) You bastard!
(Panting)
(Screaming) (Water splashing)
(Laughing)
- Right, dairy gear.
What's this?
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight boxes.
Alright, I guess four in
the car, four in the ute?
Don't touch anything else.
And watch out for spiders.
- Okay, now don't be late.
- Yeah, alright.
- Alright.
(Engine spluttering) (Engine revving)
You wanna give that a
break for a little while?
- Yeah, yeah, I'll just...
- I'm sorry, that wasn't
actually a question.
(Laughs)
- Well.
I could do with some exercise.
- Even in this heat, you're
up for a bit of hard,
hard, yecka.
- Well maybe we should put
on the romantic music?
- Something unforgettable,
make the moment momentous.
(Laughing)
So what have you got
to say for yourself?
- This.
(Smooching)
- Since we've got the
place to ourselves...
- ah-ha, so that's why you
were so helpful getting taz
out of the door, huh?
- Well, okay.
But I wanna have a baby with you.
(Smooching)
- On the other hand, I've got
a hell of a lot of stuff
I gotta get through here.
- But Perry, Perry, Perry, Perry.
If I've made up my mind that it's on,
I don't care how many patient
reports you're looking at.
It's on.
(Laughing)
- And then I might feel used.
- Soiled, and debauched.
Come on, get focused,
you got work to do.
- Lill, lill.
- The choice is me, or a patient report
for the regional health board.
Don't you wanna have a child with me?
- Yeah, I'd like to discuss it.
- I thought we had,
lots and lots of times,
I thought this was one of our choices.
- Yeah, of course it is.
- In theory, yeah, now I'd kinda
like stop talking about it
and go for it, wouldn't you?
Well, when?
I need a project.
- Yeah, projects are
good, it's good to have
lots of projects.
- Okay, having a baby.
- Lill.
I'm not saying no to this, I'm
just a bit of a slow thinker,
I mean, when you throw
something like this at me...
- I wasn't tryna ambush you
here, I just thought that...
- no, no, no, no, I just
need to sit back on my heels
and do some processing, you
know, tick, tick, tick.
- But what I don't understand, Perry,
is that I thought the decision
had already been made.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
But you got lots to do,
so you get back to it.
♪ As the summer went on ♪
♪ the flames grew high ♪
♪ we just stare and stare and stare ♪
♪ at everything melting ♪
♪ melting ♪
- Good question.
I think if I was to choose
to come back to earth
as something else, I'd choose...
- I hope you'd come back as a flea.
- [Sharpie] I'm the one
dealing with the bastard,
I'm not taking all the risk
for 10 bloody percent.
- Whatever it is, keep Hank out of it,
'cause he's just in the
mood for it, I can tell.
- Jesus, credit me with
some intelligence, will ya?
I got so much to be
going on with, feef.
I can't get me arse into gear.
- It's debilitating.
- Me, I get snakey.
Which isn't me, is it feef?
Any bloody little thing and
I'm likely to go right off.
(Engine rumbling)
- Oh hello, here's somebody.
(Door slamming)
- Now, I'm thinking about food.
- We could have a Barbie?
Or a hungy.
- Or a hungy you won't
dad, there's a fire ban!
- Well no, something you
think I'd really like
watching you walk about it.
Say, if we headed off to the cove.
- Where's noodle?
- She's gone inside.
- Here's that really smart city chick
I can't get out of my head.
(Laughing) Thanks for coming over.
- Thanks for the invite.
Guess I better change into my swimmers.
- Hey, sure.
- Christ, sharpie, you
get some visitors.
Who's this? - Future son-in-law.
- Hey.
(Smooches)
- Beer, Joey?
- No, it's a bit early for me, sharpie.
- He sounds like your
bloody son-in-law.
(Laughing)
- Hey, I thought of something cute.
- Go away!
- Noodle...
- Hang on.
- It's me, Kieran!
- I gotta go put out a fire.
- Noodle.
- So how they hanging, Joey?
- [Noodle] I just wanna
get changed in here!
- [Kieran] Just tell me
what I'm doing wrong.
- [Noodle] Will you get out of my face?
- [Kieran] Okay, but why can't
I come to foxcove with you?
- [Noodle] You're not invited, okay?
(Knocking) - Guys?
- What?!
- What?!
- Go away!
- Alright!
- Help me, I don't know what to wear.
- Well you could wear a
target on your head.
- Can I change in your room, Fifi?
- Yeah, sure.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Fifi.
- What babe?
- Easy.
- What?
- Fifi, you asked me
to say something cute.
- Yeah alright, what?
- Fifi!
It's the cutest thing I
could think of, you.
- You calling me a poodle?
- Oh, all that raw vital stuff.
- I'm just having a conversation
with my girlfriend, man.
- God, I can see what you see in him!
- Fuck off, dickhead.
- Did you come back here to earn some
brownie points with Fifi?
- Give it a break man, you're
not in silverwater now are ya?
- Oh, Jesus wept, Joey!
That was good, yeah, that was cutting!
God, you two are so
worthy of each other.
Bushwick and pisswick.
- I'm gonna go back to the
station, it's pretty dodgy here.
- Shit, Joey.
- Well he's acting like a
school bully, your family's...
- well then why don't you
go and leave us to it?
- You want me to fight him?
Is that what you want?
- No, I don't want you, I
just want you to go, okay?
Just go, go, just go.
- Parked on the driveway, Joey.
- Well I wouldn't want to
block the driveway, would I?
(Soft music)
- More jailbait.
- No, that one's legal.
Just.
- Where the hell is mum?
- Oh, you look nice.
- Thanks.
- Oh, nice outfit, girl!
Where'd you track down that?
- Foxcove.
- Yeah but where in foxcove?
You're not tryna keep
it a secret are you?
- So, Hank yeah, we
going into the cove?
- Oh, it's a bit hot
for me noodle, sorry.
- Cool.
That's okay.
- Oh, Kieran will take you.
- What's in foxcove that's so cool?
- Noodle.
Dickhead.
- Young love, eh?
(Scratching)
- Hey, my castle and a half brick.
This your new book?
Polly the pirate princess?
Hey,
lunch, eat?
- Just leave it there, I'm working.
(Rattling)
- Are you looking for
anything in particular?
- It's your hair.
- So it is.
Why did you go to jail?
- Because I was off me face.
- You were on drugs and stuff?
- You come across Jeff Burke yet?
Well I had this buddy,
Jeff's son, Damian.
Anyhow, I was the one who
found Damian when he OD'd.
After that I stopped thinking straight.
For a while.
- That's pretty sad.
- Well, next thing I know,
they're hauling me off some guy,
tryna take his head off
at foxcove tavern,
except I can't remember
a thing about it.
Which is scary.
- So, why are we making
noodle look ridiculous?
- You're perceptive.
Beause I'm a pile of shit.
- Is that true?
I don't think that's true.
- Listen, I'm not coming on to you.
- I know.
(Engine rumbling)
- Don't do that.
Get under my skin like that.
- I am, I'm a joke!
- Noodle, you're not a joke.
- Stop calling me noodle,
my name is tezza, get it?
Tezza?
- Yeah, okay noodle, but listen...
- Stop making fun of me!
- Noodle...
- I'm never gonna make fun of you!
- What's going on?
- You got time for a chat?
(Sobbing)
I can't keep cleaning
up after this lot.
- Well let 'em clean
themselves up then!
- Oh yeah right, so as
long as horsey's in shape,
we don't worry 'bout it?
- We all have to cut
him some slack, Fifi.
That's what a home is.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
(Engine rumbling)
(Engine revving)
- Oi, Hank!
- Good day, this is the
welcoming committee.
- Rolly, you're a bit out
of your way, aren't ya?
- Yeah, I've come to see
you, as a matter of fact.
- Good day, mate.
- Good day, sharp.
- Where's Hank going in your car?
- What's this?
What are you thinking about?
- We've still got our shop.
I won't have to go work for uncle Jeff.
I won't have to rip my brother off.
We've got enough money
in the bank to last
for a week, at least. - Three months.
- It's incredible!
- Don't do this.
Don't make it sound so wonderful.
Gave up your dream, uncle
Jeff offered you everything,
and you said no.
- He'll come 'round with another offer.
A better offer, one that doesn't
break everyone's hearts.
- This is why I hate money.
- You hate money?
Say that again?
- Money steals everything from us.
Why can I only feel like a nice
person when there's money?
I wanna take time to lie in
the sun, but there's money.
Fall in love.
- Svetti.
The dairy fairy came and
gave us lots of lovely dosh.
I just can't believe it happened.
- I know.
Can't believe it either.
I'm sick of talking about money,
when we can be like this!
(Laughing) (Smooching)
(Beeping) - Hold that thought.
- And then even here, they find us.
Even on the sweetest days.
- I won't be a tick.
(Beeping)
Patto, what's happening?
- Just a cloud going over the sun.
- No, I can't see anything from here.
Well, check it out, yeah.
Mate, you're wearing the
captains hat today.
Sure.
No mate.
Alright, I'll see ya.
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- Yeah, okay patto.
Yeah, thanks for that mate, see-ya.
(Beeping)
- Burt dyer's been
incinerating some brush,
patto and Donna have got
the hose on it, but...
- [kieran] Has he got enough help?
- Yeah, patto's keeping an eye on it.
I might drop in though.
- Yeah, think I better
stay here though.
- [Fifi] Yeah.
- Hey feef, you want a
lift to the fire station?
- Look,
yeah alright, I might catch
up with my boyfriend there.
- So if this is like an
emergency, we can get breaking
all them road rules, that's right eh?
- [Fifi] No!
- Hey lill.
This went off a while ago.
- Oh, did it?
I didn't hear it.
Maybe I should go and check it out.
♪ As the summer went on ♪
- Be cool in the car.
- Yeah.
♪ We just stare, stare, stare ♪
♪ at everything melting ♪
(Horn beeping)
♪ Melting ♪
(Engine whirring)
- Hey, I'm not seeing any
little red fire truck
ringing it's bell.
- They've already gone.
- Oh, so what happens now?
- I staff the radio, keep
an eye on developments
as they unfold.
Can get pretty tedious.
- This is good, I'm into this,
this is just like community
service, eh?
I'm loving it.
Where's your boyfriend?
- He's not here.
I mean, I just needed to
get away from the family.
- What's wrong with your family?
- Nothing you could fix.
- I could try.
At least help you forget for
a solid couple of hours.
- Oh, hi.
- Hey lill.
- Sorry, didn't...
- oh lill, you know
patto's cousin, rolly?
From the rodeo.
- Good day lill, how you going?
- Yeah, course I do, hi.
I just got the message on the
pager about the burn off
so I wondered if there was
something I could do.
But if you've got it all under control.
Aren't you meant to be
on light duties, Fifi?
- Yeah, but the fire's under
control so I'm not going.
- Yeah.
Well, back to the hot house.
- See-ya later.
- See-ya.
- [Fifi] Bye!
- I don't say no to a cuppa.
- Yeah, kitchen's through there.
(Engine whirring)
(Laughing)
- Okay babe, now it's your turn.
- No, no, look, honestly I can't...
- yeah, but, you get to
wear the drivers helmet.
- Alright, I'll wear the helmet.
- Okay, you can wear the
helmet, but you've gotta
take everything else off.
No I'm joking, come on, get in!
Here we go!
Do you want a drink instead?
(Door slamming)
- I can't drink and I
can't drive, not today,
I'm on probation.
- Join the freakin' club!
Alright?
I'll drink, you can drive me.
- Look, I'm not ready for this.
- Yeah you are!
You've gotta face your demons.
That's what your dad says to me.
Now look, you don't need the car going,
there's a cowboy ahead,
come on, go faster,
you're going too slow, come
on, they bounce back up!
- No they don't.
- Your cowboy did.
(Shouting)
- Jesus, we got him!
(Panting)
He's still breathing,
we're gonna have to back
back over him again.
Come on, back, back, back,
back, back, back, back, back!
Pretend it's me.
Hey?
Then we'll call Perry.
You're lucky to have a dad
like him, aren't you?
Looking out for you.
Save me daddy, save me!
- I don't wanna be saved.
- No, I bloody do.
You're not driving!
How you supposed to test
daddy's limits if you don't
put it into gear?
Run him down, go on!
(Shouting)
Look, there's another cowboy!
(Screaming)
I'm sorry.
I'm scary, I go too far.
You gonna hold me or what?
(Soft music)
- Thanks Reggie.
They've sent a stop.
- What's that mean?
- Everyone goes home.
They're all coming back here.
- Now I was all fired up
feef, I was right up for it.
- Yeah, well we're gonna
be up to our ears
in fires any minute.
Can you give me a lift
back to my place?
- What, back to your family?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, sure.
(Chattering)
- Probation, probation, probation.
(Laughing)
- Loo.
- Want me to come too?
- Taz?
- Oh, noodle!
What you doing to me girl,
you're driving me crazy!
(Laughing)
Oh, look who's back!
Oh, you have her, she's
blocking tezza's way.
(Grunting)
Hey come on bro, come on bro!
You're my brother!
And I took it too far, give us a break.
I'm putting together a major earn,
you can earn too.
I'm sorry, eh?
I need ya, mate.
For the job.
You're so lucky mate.
You've got a spunk-rat girlfriend,
and what have I got?
You.
- What job?
- Big.
Later.
- Look, Hank.
You're being a spiteful creep mate.
I can't make any more excuses for you.
- Just flake out and go with it, mum.
It's what you always used to do.
(Eerie music)
- Here you go.
I find this always helps.
- Backa?
I have to tell you something.
Please listen carefully.
Important.
Imagine if we have a lot more money.
(Laughing)
- I have trouble imagining
we have the money we've got.
- Shush.
I mean, there's lots of
developments around.
You know there's one at deep creek.
Imagine putting some money into...
- svetti, we owe uncle Jeff
five thousand dollars.
And the rest.
He put up half our deposit,
we pay uncle Jeff back first.
Can we just not talk
about money please?
- We don't have to pay him
back, he's a relative.
He has money.
- God, I hate debt.
Everything's red ink. - Everything.
But not today, backa.
(Laughing) (Shouting)
(Water splashing)
- Okay darling, yeah.
Yeah, quick as I can.
(Beeping)
Taz wants to come.
- Oh okay, I'll come too.
Hey look, Polly. - Come on.
- The pirate princess.
(Soft music)
(Sobbing)
- Hey, it's noodle isn't it?
- I'm going home to my mum.
- [Perry] Sounds like trouble.
(Soft music)
♪ Give me little sugar now ♪
♪ gotta have a little
bit of sugar now ♪
♪ that sweet, sweet, sugar now ♪
- You've got it really
nice here, haven't you?
Bit of everything.
- Yeah, you're right.
I'm blessed.
- Howdy.
- Hey lill.
- Hey.
- Hey Perry.
- Taz around?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, that's right,
no problems with that.
♪ Some of that sugar now ♪ - hey.
- We don't have to go right
now this second, do we?
- Well I thought that
things were getting
a bit ugly round here?
- Chill out dad, have a drink.
She's having one.
- So have you had time
to do some processing?
Tick, tick, tick, tick.
- Sorry?
- Sorry lill, no can do.
- What it is about today, in
particular, that is so special?
That this is something that has
to be resolved right here,
right now, without any
thought to the consequences?
- What is that supposed to mean?
Without any thought
to the consequences?
- This baby thing, it's great,
it's lovely, it's cute,
but how far ahead have
you thought exactly,
apart from the first
six months, I mean.
No, you're standing here right now,
because taz is stressing
out about something.
I gotta deal with that,
that's what being a parent
is about, you think I
wanna still be doing this
when I'm 70 bloody two?
- So from now on, I'm
the young second wife.
Trophy wife, that's what I am?
That's all I ever was.
♪ I need that sugar now ♪
(Water splashing)
- Ah, the trouble maker.
You don't even compete.
- I could try.
You wanna play paddles?
Jesus, dad.
- Hank!
- Can't stand this.
You're like a guy in a coma.
You used to have go,
or was it all going?
- What are you doing?
(Water splashing)
- Jesus, Hank!
Come on sharpie, let's get you out.
It's alright.
Go away!
("Melting" by Paul Kelly)
- Let's get outta here.
♪ Melting ♪
♪ and tonight, I pulled the
top off a bottle of beer ♪
♪ and I've lit a fire ♪
♪ and I'm staring ♪
♪ staring ♪
♪ where are you ♪
- Well, they're gone.
(Sighing)
Jesus.
We should do a monster
clean up in here one day.
- Saved our arses from uncle Jeff.
- Yeah, that's one way of putting it.
- Darling, what did you
mean this morning?
About me, in a shop window?
- Nothing.
Well, I was just saying,
we're really good, you know?
I'm just driving,
coming home, suddenly,
in the window, in the
moonlight, there she is,
this beautiful... - like a goddess.
- Yeah, that's exactly right.
I'm not saying Amsterdam
or anything, I'm just,
I'm just saying, a
vision in the moonlight,
and that'd be you.
- Who's Damian?
- Oh, it's this bloke I
knew when I was a kid.
He left me his guitar.
- Okay, must have been
a good'un, was he?
- No, good, not good.
He was this disaster, he
was like this explosion,
he was just this,
amazing one off.
- Wow, sounds good.
- Where are those boys
that can make you forget?
- I'll have a go if you want.
(Water trickling)
- Get away from me, you mongrel!
- Dad, I'm not mucking around now.
She's gonna stuff it up.
- Who?
- Your little girl.
Alright, I'm a mongrel, but she's not.
And you can't let her
muck it all up forever.
She'll hate herself.
- Oh come on now, come on!
- Don't do this!
Think what you're getting into!
- Stop it!
- Oh come on, dad!
What are you doing, it's my room!
- I'm their father!
- I don't care who you are!
- It's my room!
- Get out.
- It's my life!
Jesus.
- Darling, it's okay, it's okay.
- Stay out of my life!
(Door slamming)
- Oh, sharpie.
- Here you go mate, have this.
- Oh, just go back to
bloody jail, would ya!
("Gutless wonder" by Paul Kelly)
♪ Bet your bottom dollar ♪
♪ bet your bottom dollar ♪
- You know, no one said he was perfect.
To tell you the truth,
he could be pretty
bloody scary at times.
If you can handle that, my god.
There's just something so...
(soft guitar music)
- Where's Hank?
- Sorry, Fifi.
- Yeah.
No, you're alright dad.
We're all having one of them nights.
- Small town.
(Glass smashing)
So boring here.
- You don't have to compete
with him, neither.
- Compete with who?
- Damian.
He's dead, and I'm not
a teenager anymore.
He's always gonna be a teen.
- What a crap family.
You touch it and it falls apart.
- Yeah, but it's still there
when you've finished.
Go and tell mum you're sorry.
- I'm sorry, feef.
- Yep, go and tell mum that.
- Mum?
- I know.
You're my son.
- I'm going to hell, mum.
You can't hate me as
much as I hate myself.
- I don't hate you.
I feel sorry for you.
I feel guilty too, if that
makes you feel any better.
Took my eye off the
ball for a few years.
Not your fault.
Me and sharpie were some other place,
in our heads.
Out of our heads.
Hey.
You come back soon, huh?
Just don't wait too long.
(Engine rumbling)
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Thought you might like
some help with the dishes.
- There's just a few glasses.
I'm starving. - Yeah?
Wanna get some Chinese?
You know that dump of
a place in alaleo,
well it turns out it's bloody hopeless.
So I thought I'd do up the
caravan, buy it off Noel.
And I thought I'd get my
steers off uncle Jeff too, eh.
Get it started.
- I have no idea what
you're talking about.
- About getting going with this.
You and me.
We gotta plan.
- Svetti?
- What do you reckon?
(Laughing)
- Yep.
I'd buy ya.
Wouldn't matter what the price was.
'Cause it was so exceptional,
that you found someone
to buy two grands worth of
milking equipment for 15 grand.
I mean, it might have
been worth 15 grand once.
So exceptional.
(Speaking foreign language)
- Cup of coffee?
(Smooches)
- How 'bout a cup of tea?
("Beautiful promise" by Paul Kelly)
♪ We're chasing ♪
♪ a beautiful rainbow ♪
♪ our story ♪
♪ hasn't been told ♪
♪ it takes rain ♪
♪ to make a rainbow ♪
♪ it takes the sun dying ♪
♪ to turn the world gold ♪
♪ the days run ♪
♪ outside my window ♪
♪ like wild horses ♪
♪ across the plains ♪
♪ fireflies ♪
♪ dance in the shadows ♪
♪ love don't shine steady ♪
♪ it watches and waits ♪