Significant Others (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

(OVER RADIO) I reckon in
this weather, with these tides,

body's going to surface within days.

You don't have to
say anything about my mum.

Mum's not dead.

The police are literally
still looking for her.

They're going to find the person
who took the posters down.

I tried to tell you. Sarah and I,
we weren't in a good place.

Stay the fuck away from my family.

I don't think this is the first
attempt Sarah made on her life.

Do you?
I... I don't.

(RECORDING) I'm really scared about
what I'm... Oh, please forgive me.



You knew Sarah was investigated
for stealing medication.

She wasn't disciplined
because it wasn't true.

She took her own life.

That's not... It's...

No, it's not, that's not it.

Shit, shit, shit, shit...

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(WHISPERS) Where's the fuck...

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Are you leaving?
Oh!

Yeah, yeah I've got to
hurry back up the mountains.

They're saying it might flood.

I'll come with you.
Oh, nah. I work better by myself.

No offence. (LAUGHS)



Um, Den and Wayne
will be here this morning.

You're coming back?
Yeah, of course.

Yes, just one or two days.

So see if you can get some sleep, OK?

(PHONE VIBRATES)

What's going on Claire?

Sarah's been gone a week and,
what, are you just buggering off?

What about the kids?

(SIGHS) Just call me back, please.

WAYNE: You still not sleeping?
CIARAN: Not since Mum went.

I did once.
I got some gummies from a mate.

Yeah, well I wouldn't
make a habit of that.

We'll try and tucker you out, huh?

Wayno, who's this?
Ciaran.

Ah, hello, Ciaran.
Learning the ropes.

How's this weather treating you?
Oh, terrible.

This crazy weather is really
knocking around the exotics.

I've got to get
the roses from Colombia.

Strange times, huh?
Yeah.

Protea?
Yes, round the back.

They're beautiful. It's Armageddon.

Rain, fires, soil erosion.

Lucky we're not koalas.
They'll be extinct soon.

Do you want me to put it
on the account?

Yes, ta, love.
Alright.

You stay strong.
Always will.

Give my love to the big man.
Will do.

Wayne. Wayne.

Yeah?

Sorry, I just put $200
in the till.

Just now.

You sure?
Yeah.

OK.

Uh, Ciaran?

You didn't see anybody take any
money out of Freya's till, did you?

No.

Well, she had 200 bucks.
There's only you and me here.

I... I didn't see anything.

OK. Alright.

Take that lot to the van.
I'll see you in a sec.

I'm so sorry. He's...

He's really a good kid.
Aww.

He's just lost his mum.

Ooh.

I've been thinking it might be time
to get you back to school.

You know, it's HSC and all that.

A kid last year
had a meningococcal scare,

got special conditions,
ended up getting Dux, so...

Seriously? (LAUGHS)

(PHONE VIBRATES)

(SIGHS)
(WATER TRICKLES)

Hello, there.
Huh? Oh.

Are you Claire Houlihan?

Oh, shit, I haven't
missed the appointment?

No, no, no, no. You were just...
three hours early.

I didn't want to wake you.
It looked like you needed the rest.

Yeah.

Just wanted to get out of my digs

before anyone asked
awkward questions.

I get that.

Your file says that you were here
just over two years ago.

Your support person was, uh, Sarah.

Is that still the case?

Uh, no, no.

Um, no, Sarah couldn't come today.

But I know the drill.

It's sedation, no driving.

I'll get an Uber home. It's not far.

You sure you want a swim?
Yeah. I want to get in.

Maybe a walk?

Get you an ice cream.

Yeah, that's a...
You still a hokey-pokey girl?

Um, I think
I just want to stay here.

Oh.

OK.

Like, by myself, if that's OK.

Right.

OK, alright, so in your pairs,
one of you is going to be the victim

and the other one
is going to be the rescuer.

So we're gonna do the vice grip.

So one hand is clasped
on the back of the neck.

Even a young healthy person
can have a sudden event.

A heart attack, or who knows?
They could have had an aneurism.

You have found them here.
You are the first responder.

You have to act.

Alright, let's give it a go.

So...

You right? Hey, where you going?

Hey.

Could you please just move away?

Alright, I'm just trying to...
OK, I'm just...

What? Why?

Why do you just keep
staring at me like that?

So, about 10 weeks.
Does that sound right to you?

Yeah.

Yeah, I would have come in sooner,
but we've had a bit of a...

..hiccup in the family, so...

Was it over this?
No, no, no.

Nothing whatever to do with this.
OK.

So you know what to expect.
Yeah.

Bleeding. A bit of cramping.

Do you have any questions for me?

Mm-mm.

I take it you
don't want to see the scans?

Sorry to put you through this again,
but I do need to ask.

You are absolutely sure?
I am.

You don't want any counselling
about the decision?

Nah.
Any counselling after the procedure?

No, I'm good, thanks.

Claire. Call.

Ursula, where's Claire?

Uh, well, clearly I don't know.

I know about this theory of yours.
Is that why she's taken off?

What theory?

About Sarah killing herself.

She had too much to live for.

We've got an honesty policy when it
comes to the pillow talk.

(EXHALES) Tremendous.

Thank you, Wayne.

You're excluding me. Don't do that.
This is about my sister's fate.

If you really
want to be included, Den,

why don't you try, hour after hour,
on the phone to Sarah's bank?

I would do that.
Or the builder.

See how far you get paying for
the steel with no life insurance.

I might, actually.

Because that is what I've been
doing, because you know what?

We could lose this house.
We could lose her insurance.

You know, even my colleagues
can't help. It's like a wall.

I might want to help.
Sarah was a nightmare.

Oh, don't say that.

With her finances,
she was a nightmare. She was.

Just don't lock me out.

(KNOCKING) Um, is Hanna here?

Hello, there.

Sorry, I tried knocking for ages.
The door was unlocked.

George, isn't it? I'm Den.

Hi. Um...
I'm squeezing some fruit.

Making a lovely juice concoction.

Would you like some?
Thanks, I'm fine.

I think you'll like it.
No, really. Fine.

Alright.

Look, um...

I just came to say...
I'm really, really sorry.

I'm really sorry I messed up, OK.

I put you off.
YOU didn't mess up.

I did.

Since that day with your mum,
I've been...

..I'm a bit weird at the moment.

No. I mean, I'm weird.

Like, I'm, like, really weird.

Can you get me some
more of those gummies?

Um, I don't think I...

Please, man, it's... it's
the only thing that makes me sleep.

I knew they'd work.

How did you know?
I just know.

I can't get them right now.
You're just gonna have to wait.

Man, I can pay you.

I'm not a drug dealer.

Can you fit it?

Yes.
Yeah?

Hey, you can take
the old iron if you like.

You know, sharp creases
will impress the girls.

Mum, girls don't go
for shit like that.

Oh, yeah?
What are girls impressed by, then?

Thanks for that, Xavier, that's...

(PHONE RINGS)

Claire. What were you thinking?

I told Ciaran where I was going.

Yes, but not for how long.

I've got Xavier moving out.
Wayne's working. Den just...

Den seems to think he can do it all,

but, just, you never think
of anybody else, do you?

Hey? And what about this steel?

I've got five giant beams
from a foundry.

Actually I don't...
I don't know if it is a foundry.

Where's steel
get manufactured anyway?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Look, I live in a floodplain.
They're predicting 300 mils, so I...

I don't have to tell you
everything I...

Jesus Christ, I can't even
take a shit

without putting it on WhatsApp.

Why would I want to
see that on WhatsApp?

You know what? You sound strange.

Claire, you're not...
You're not drunk, are you?

Claire, you're not driving drunk?
Oh, for fuck's sake.

Wait, wait, Claire. You are alright?

Claire?

What was that training course
you were doing?

Just an impulse I had.
Not a good one.

I quit.

Yeah.

I want to be able to
get back in the water.

(SIGHS) I don't know,
I just feel like maybe it's...

Like, if I can dive in, I can
deal with the worst thing, you know?

Does that sound totally weird? I
haven't said it to anyone else yet.

Maybe I could train you.

Get me tougher?

Stronger. Just on land, though.

I bet you're a real hard-arse.
Mmm!

Nah.

Oh, well, I can be, you know?
If they're real dick scratchers.

(LAUGHS)

I haven't seen you laugh.

I'm laughing.

You are.

Are you having nightmares?

Is that why you can't sleep?

Kind of.

My brain keeps going 'what if?'
all the time about my mum.

I don't know.

Messes with your head, I guess, eh?

Yeah.

Here, you have a go.
(LAUGHS)

(BOTH LAUGH)

Hey!

(BOTH GIGGLE)

That's messed up!

Hey, good luck with your reno.

Oh, thank you.

I don't live here.

Hey, beautiful.

Afternoon.
Hi.

Bye.

Everything I've touched today
has wilted.

Can't say the same for you?
Is there a bus?

I thought there was a bus.
Oh, no, it's up.

Great.
Bet that was nice.

(CAR APPROACHES)

Hi, Den, just returning these.
Anything?

Didn't find anything on there.
Nothing at all?

Our digital team were very thorough.

I'm sorry.
OK. Well... Thank you.

Can you do a braid?
Yeah, I can do a braid.

I can actually do a French braid.
OK.

Hanna needs answers.

It's not easy, but I think she might
be more grown up than you think.

Mmm.

Hi. (LAUGHS)

What are you doing?
Ah, white with one.

Oh, thanks.
Or was it two? No, one.

Where are the kids?
Out.

(LAUGHS)

Mmm...

(INDISTINCT)

Well...
I better get back to this.

I love you.
OK.

I love you too.

Ooh. Well, what do you know?

That was recent.

Why hasn't he told us?

Poor guy.

Is that weird?

Well, I don't... I don't judge.

No, I mean, the kids don't know,
do they?

Well, they would have said.

That's where it ends.

Look at the date.

That's her last sunrise.

They reckon it takes two years,

you know, to feel normal again,

when someone you love dies.

I read that.

I better go home.

Come on, just sit.
Nah, I've gotta go.

Just sit with me.
I've got to go.

What are you afraid of?
Dying?

I'll see you later.

What about the gummies?

Out of the way, dickhead!

(COUGHING)

(COUGHS)
Uh... Excuse me.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Son. My son. Inside.

(COUGHS)

Can I ask where you got that?

This? This for the chest.

No, no, I know what it is.

Where did you get it?

This.

Where did you get it?
Did you steal it?

(COUGHS)

(SPEAKS GREEK)

Can I help you?

That, belongs to my sister.

Look, I can show you.

It's linked to her phone.
It's been stolen.

That's not right.

(BOTH SPEAK GREEK)

When my son Janis
found this watch in the boat,

I said, "OK, finders keepers."

And this one is not a very good one.

It's... an internet
knock-off, really.

No offence.

I gave it to Dad.
It just counts his steps.

They're my sister's steps.

Dad's been depressed.

You saw. His lungs.

It's awful.

I just thought we might be able to

give him an incentive
to get a bit fitter.

That's why I gave him
the job with me.

This is ours.

This little tin can.

Someone took off with her.

You should have reported that,
you know, to the police.

I got it back.
I just need to replace the anchor.

Where's the anchor?

It was an old one anyway.

They parked it, the boat, up there.

I'm sorry about your sister.

I'm sorry I upset your father.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

HANNA: I have flashes of Mum,
that morning.

Just, like, out of nowhere.
Like, I'll be...

I'll be in the shower, you know,
I'll be eating dinner,

I'll be, like, on the toilet and...

I just keep seeing it.

Like... like it's on a loop, you know?
And I can't stop it.

Don't. Like, you don't have to.

I think that hurts even more.

Yeah. I just...

I just keep seeing her,
in the water,

waving, you know...

Like...

..waving goodbye.

No, not goodbye, Hanna.

She needed help.
You do know that, right?

You think she drowned?

Yeah, I do.

She used to say
she'd die for me and Ciaran.

That's what mothers do.

Nah.

They live for you.

It's going to get dark soon.

I think you'd better go.

Well, I'll see you tomorrow anyway,
for the burpees, right?

Sure.

Yeah.

URSULA: Do it! Do it!
SARAH: So, hit it.

Do it!
Hah!

(INDISTINCT VOICES AND LAUGHTER
ON RECORDING)

(RECORDING CONTINUES)

(MUSIC PLAYS ON RECORDING)

OK, what's the next bit?

This one.
Oh, yes, that's it.

Like Thriller?
CLAIRE: Yeah, Thriller.

And... add a bit of moonwalk.
Oh, my God, it was the moonwalk.

Oh, my God.
How do you remember all of this?

Um...
Barn doors!

No.
Yeah, barn doors, it was.

No. No, it wasn't barn doors.
It's barn doors.

And then it went like that.
And then it was both ways.

Mum, mum, mum...

Can you... Can you do the recording?
Yes.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Hey.

What are you...? (SIGHS)

You OK?

You know you really do look awful.

Thank you.

Well, why didn't you tell me?
I mean...

I'll do that.

You should have
had someone with you.

Sarah came last time.

Yeah, done it before.

Oh... (LAUGHS) See?

So Catholic.
I'm just saying. Hey.

Yeah, I knew you wouldn't approve.
I'm still your sister.

God, and you
drove all the way up here,

and we could have lost you too.

Hey.

What are you doing?

I'm sandbagging.

What for? The sun's out.

They said the dam might overflow.

(SPLASH!)
Oh!

(LAUGHS)

What are those shoes? (LAUGHS)

(SADLY) My espadrilles.

Don't worry, I've got boots.

(LAUGHS)

Oh, that's disgusting.

Ohh...

Shit.
Oh, sorry.

That's alright.
In the bag, in the bag.

OK. I'm gonna need you
to hold that again.

Oh, do you?
Yeah.

OK. (GRUNTS)

Hey, it's fun, isn't it?
(CHUCKLES)

That's a Wollemi pine.

Yeah. That... That's
an endangered species, isn't it?

Yeah.

Sorry.

(BELL RINGS)

Jake.

I've got maths.

I'm sorry I freaked you out.

Freaked me out? You didn't.

I can't sleep.

You said.
Yeah, but I didn't say why.

I was asleep when Mum... went.

Uh, then I was too scared to sleep.

And now I've forgotten how.

I can get you some more.
But they're not here.

And I can't miss maths.
Last period. Just wag it.

I've never wagged.

Never?
Never in my life.

Me too.

Till now.

DEN: Someone's interfered with her.

They snapped it off her.

Someone could have done
awful things to her.

COULD BE DOING awful things to her.

Den, it's not a good idea to let
your imagination go to places.

A person out there
knows where she is.

Our patrol will keep
looking for when Sarah surfaces.

But if her heart elevated,
or gave out,

there's a good chance it will show up
on her fitness tracker.

Is that something you want to see?

Mmm.

Thank you.
Welcome.

Cheers.
Cheers.

(CLEARS THROAT)

You really shouldn't.

Hm?

With antibiotics.

Oh, don't shit me.

I'm grieving my Wollemi pine.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Oh.

Couldn't have kept it?

It'll grow back.

The baby.

Nah, not me.

You and Sarah, you're the ones. I...

I haven't got what it takes.

It might have been your last chance.

I don't want to have what it takes.

OK.

OK, fair enough. (LAUGHS)

Really?
Yeah.

(LAUGHS) Can I have that in writing?

(CLEARS THROAT)

I... I use the back way.

Um, don't come in, yeah.

Just, no matter how long I take,
just don't come in.

OK.

(BREATHLESSLY) Jake...

Jakey, can you...?

I told you not to come in.

They're hers, aren't they?
You wanted them.

No. You hit me up so you could
sell your dying mum's drugs.

You're a freak.

I'm still thinking
about Dale and patchouli.

(BOTH LAUGH)

I mean, it's quite a feminine smell.

(BOTH LAUGH)

And he's got
questionable taste in jumpers.

I like that jumper.

Do you?
Yeah.

I just don't like the red bits.

Or the... mustard-coloured bits.

Yeah.

It's funny, you know, 'cause...

..like, I've wondered
about your life up here.

Have you?
I have.

And I wondered what kind of life
you live up here, like...

I reckon I've got a better idea now.

Well, yeah. This is it.

Yeah.

Are they what you live off?

Those trees?

We overestimated demand
last Christmas, as you can see.

When you say we,
you mean you and Dale?

He helped.

Nah, it's a pretty frugal way to live

but I am pretty good at my life.

Yeah.
I'd be shithouse at yours.

Yeah! No kidding.
(LAUGHS)

Hey, was that Sar's voice
last night?

Yeah.

Could I see it?

What you were watching.

Hang on.

I'm coming!

What is it?

It's the...

You know, Den's scholarship...
thingy that we did.

Go, go, go.
Ready. Get it together, Claire.

Yep, I've got it.
Oh, my God.

Den, congratulations
on your Fairton fellowship.

We couldn't be happier for you.

We're gonna be there
on your opening night.

Opening night!
Opening night.

And, uh, we just wanted to
give you this re-enactment

of that dance that you made us do.

Yeah, do it. Do it.
So, hit it.

Do it, Sar.

(MUSIC STARTS)

(BOTH LAUGH)

Can't help myself.

(LAUGHS) Oh, my God, those moves.

She's not even doing the dance.

(LAUGHS)

Oh, my God.
Look at her.

She's making it up.
Look! That wasn't even the dance.

(BOTH LAUGH)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON VIDEO)

(ON RECORDING)
And then it went like that.

URSULA: I'm trying to work out
how to get out of it.

Oh, look, see her shaking.

Oh, my God!

My arms.
Look at your hair.

It was so long.
But it was so dark.

And then it was crotch grab.

Crotch grab.

What?

Crotch grab.

The lasso. Whoo!

(LAUGHS)

Remember those arms?
I do.

Those ones.
This one.

Yeah.
Hang on, how's it start?

Like that.
Side.

In. And up.

Ahh!
Are you serious?

Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh,
ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh!

(LAUGHS)

You can't believe that. (LAUGHS)

No, 'cause you were shit!
You were shit at them.

I've spent 30 years practising it,
waiting for this opportunity.

We don't need you, Den. We've got it.

No, we do.

And Sar, we need Sar.

Oh, God.

Look what I've got.

What you got?

Ohh...

Been carrying that around.
No...

Pulled it out of her hairbrush.

There's little greys in there.

Oh, yeah.
She was going grey.

She's going grey.

Oh, that would have looked
so stylish.

Maybe she would have dyed it.

Yeah. She might have.

We'll never know.

We weren't there...

..when the grey began.
Yeah.

We weren't there to hear about it.

Was the last time you spoke to her?

Uh, we... We were texting.

Were you?
Mmm.

Do you know she tried to ring me?

I didn't answer.

I've been so angry at her.

So angry.
Me too.

I, um...

I lie awake at night and I go...

..is it my fault?

No.
'Cause... Like, I just...

Nah. Urs, like... She...

But if I'd... See, when she rang,
if I'd spoken to her...

She didn't kill herself.
Well, you don't know that.

She didn't.
You don't know.

I do.
You don't, actually.

Yeah.

Oh...

You'll hate her if I tell you.

Oh, fuck. You'll hate me too.

Don't be silly.

Sarah and I helped Mum die.

When...

When you and Den were in Canberra.

It's what...

It's what she wanted.

She wanted a p...

She wanted a peaceful death.

And that's why Sarah took
the extra medications from work.

I thought she took them...
for herself.

No, it wasn't for herself.
It was for Mum.

We told you to go to Canberra
to Den's show and...

..she sent Hanna and Ciaran
to friends' houses, and...

..and we overdosed Mum.

And she needed me to be there
because I was the...

But Mum wouldn't have chosen that.
She wouldn't have chosen to...

I mean, to not say goodbye,
you know?

I mean, I get it if she didn't
want to say goodbye to me.

But not Den.

Urs, she... She saw how Dad died.

How he hung on and just... You know?

She didn't want to die like that.

And she knew that you...

..you would...

I'd what?
Like, you... (INHALES)

..you wouldn't be able...

I wouldn't be able to what, Claire?

Well...

It was Mum's wish.

No, actually, how did you
presume to know what I would do?

It was Mum's wish to Sarah.

To have a peaceful death.

Was it?

Was it peaceful?

Yeah.

Yeah.

(INAUDIBLE)

I reckon that's alright.

It's probably enough...
to stop the water banking up.

Is that Mum's?

Oh, fuck!
(GLASS BREAKS)

Don't just come in here.

Sorry!

Fuck.

Why are you acting
like such a psycho?

Hanna!

You did this.

Urs. Hey...

Oh...

Where the hell have you...

What?

Sarah and Claire killed Mum.

They waited until Den and I
were away, and they did it.

She didn't even get last rites.

That's a criminal offence.

They just assumed that
I'd be such a bitch

I'd just want to make Mum lie there
and suffer till the end.

Yeah, but, but wait, wait, wait on.

That could make Pam's will
null and void.

If Sarah committed a crime,

she probably can't
legally inherit the house.

I mean, that... that...
that changes everything.

Can't you forget
about the fucking will?

Urs...
Don't you get it, Scott?

They took away
my chance to say goodbye.

I didn't mean... Of course.

It's...
(SOBS)

Sweetheart... OK, please don't cry.

(SOBS)

Claire, it's Ali.

I'm at the house.

I thought you'd be here.

Don't worry, I can deal with Ursula.

I just... didn't want it
to be awkward for you.

You alright?

What's wrong?

I need your advice, Wayne.

I, um...

Sarah and Claire killed Mum.

Jesus Christ.

How do you know?
She told me.

So I just, um...

I mean, look,

Claire's going to avoid it,
like she always does, but...

I can't know this if Den doesn't,
you know?

I mean, he was Mum's favourite,
from the day he arrived.

Can you be there when I tell him?
Oh, Urs...

Please? Please.

Don't.

Don't what?
Don't tell him.

It'll destroy him.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

MAN: Oh, my Jesus,

forgive us our sins
and save us from the fire of hell.

Lead all souls to heaven,

especially those
in most need of Thy mercy.

MONROE: You know you can phone me.
We don't have any answers, so...

Den, not every family gets answers.

George is having a party, and, like,
I might be a little bit late home,

but Mum lets Ciaran come home late
all the time.

I heard it takes two years before
you go back to being yourself.

No, Ciaran, you become someone new
after something like this.

Happy Blah-de-Blah!

CLAIRE: I really need to tell him.

Claire, is that her?
I can hear her breathing.

Hey, I want Den to have
a really great time tonight.

He can get a bit chatty
when he's high.

Be careful where
the conversation goes.

MAN: Something you want to tell us?

PASTOR: Salvation spring up,
let righteousness flourish!

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