(OH MY LOVER BY PJ HARVEY PLAYS)
(TURNS WALKMAN OFF)
Hey! Ready for tonight, the big dance?
Yeah, pretty much.
Izzy, you're just going to have to trust me, OK?
Nothing happened with Tash, I swear. Scout's honour.
So, she just made the tape for you and me to make out to, did she?
It's just a stupid tape, OK?
I only kept it 'cause it's actually a pretty good mix.
I'll smash it right now if I have to.
I'll do anything to prove to you you're the only one for me.
I'll do it.
- I love YOU, alright? - (BELL RINGS)
Oh, that will do, you two.
Isabel, we are just waiting on you.
Sorry.
Alright.
I look forward to seeing you all in 25 years when we open it up.
Hey. Can't go anywhere without this.
Thanks, Aunty. See you there.
See you there, bub.
Is Dad going to come?
Uh, I'm not sure, bub.
- Can I come? - No.
Please! Who's going to do your hair?
- Chloe can't. - Bye.
HAZEL: Whatever.
(CATHY'S CLOWN BY YOU AM I PLAYS LOUDLY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
CHLOE: Whoo!
No, I've gotta pee, I've gotta pee.
(INSECTS CHIRRUP)
(CAMERA WHIRS)
STEVE: Isabel! You look gorgeous.
I thought you were sailing.
Missed the tide.
Come here.
I'm so proud of you.
You're all grown up.
I'm not, actually.
I'm 17.
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
I know what you are.
You're a predator.
Isabel, this is...
You're a fucking predator that feeds off black bodies.
I heard you with the cleaner.
- She's not much older than Chloe. - Isabel, what are you talking about?
And I know you lied about Niman and Kalip.
Those boys didn't go home.
They could be in trouble and you don't even care.
Don't come here and talk to me like that.
You don't fool me. I know what you are.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
CHLOE: Let's get this party STARTED!
(SINGS) # Ooh-ooh! Ooh-ooh! #
Oh.
- (STEVE LAUGHS) - Hey, Dad.
Um, ignore the Esky.
It's definitely not full of drinks for the afterparty.
- You look gorgeous. - Thanks.
- Be sensible, OK? - Yeah, OK.
We're going to go now, so I'll see you there?
Yeah. See you, Izzy.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES HEAVILY)
Iz.
Izzy. Izzy.
- Nice, mate. - (INAUDIBLE)
- Madam. - (LAUGHS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
HECTOR: Well, well, well!
(INAUDIBLE)
(SOUNDS BECOME DISTORTED)
Can I take a picture?
(SHUTTER CLICKS)
Ah!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
You look beautiful.
Anton!
(SIZZLING)
(METAL SCRAPES)
What are you doing here?
You look like shit.
What do you want?
I know the last couple of weeks have been really hard on you,
but I need you to pull yourself together, mate.
Stop hanging around the Baker girl. People are starting to talk.
Fuck people.
Pull your shit together.
You're embarrassing your mother.
CORMACK: Are you sure that you were with Anton all night after the formal?
Tasha, whoever killed Isabel may have killed Billy too.
Hmm...
Yeah, we did go to sleep together,
but when, uh, I woke up, he wasn't in bed anymore.
Oh, for fuck's sake!
You know, there were still a few stragglers partying outside by the fire.
I mean, he could have been with them.
- But you're not sure? - Nup.
Of course not. Thank you.
(BIRD CALLS)
(PHONE RINGS)
Come on, bub.
KALANA: Hey, mum.
- Hey, where are you? - Goal-kicking practice with Meg.
- (SIGHS) - You right?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'll talk to you later, OK.
- 'K, bye. - Bye.
(KALANA HANGS UP)
(SIGHS)
(WATER POURS)
Aunt told you?
(EXHALES) I'm sorry.
JOE: It's not me you need to apologise to.
(SIGHS)
You think she'll ever forgive me?
She could have had a father.
(SIGHS) Dad I...
I thought I was doing the right thing.
Izzy cast such a shadow over our lives. I just...
I like to remember the LIGHT your sister cast.
Kalana has that same light.
You need to tell her.
Today.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hi, love.
KATHERINE: Where the hell is Anton? I thought you spoke to him.
What, he didn't show up for work?
No, and the detective has just been here looking for him.
What's going on?
Uh...
I'll take care of it.
How much further?
Not far.
Everything OK? I thought you said you wanted to see it.
- I do. - Yeah?
It's just... I'm ditching school, so...
- Ooh. - Hey!
You know the rules.
No phones at training.
This isn't really training.
I just need to text Meg and see if she' can cover for me in first period.
You don't need to do that.
You've got to live on the edge a little more... like Izzy did.
Can I have my phone back?
- Please, coach? - Later, later.
You kids spend too much time on your screens.
(PICKS UP CASSETTE)
You've got to look up, look around.
(PUSHES TAPE INTO PLAYER) Life's short.
(DISARM BY THE SMASHING PUMPKINS PLAYS)
(BAND PLAYS DISARM)
- Let's move in together. - What?
Yeah. In Brisbane, next year, for uni.
I thought you were getting a place with the boys.
Yeah, I mean, I was, but...
I'd rather live with you.
Come on, it would be sick. I can...
I can even go down early and find us a place
while you're on the road trip with Chloe.
It's a win-win.
I need to use the bathroom.
(RETCHES)
Are you alright?
Yeah, I'm OK.
Are you?
The past few weeks have been confusing.
The past few weeks have been...
the best of my life.
That's because of you, Izzy.
Just you.
It's been fun hanging out with you.
(IMITATES ENGLISH ACCENT) A lot of fun.
Whoa!
Seriously? You just yakked.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(HECTOR MURMURS) Sorry...
Things will be better for you in Sydney.
You can be yourself.
And you can kiss...
a lot of people.
(SCOFFS)
(SPEAKS SOFTLY, INDISTINCTLY)
(LAUGHS)
I'm going to miss you.
We'll always be in each other's lives.
- Yeah? - Mm-hm.
And to prove that,
you can have this...
little diamond piece...
even though there's no diamonds.
Don't get too close to me, you've still got vomit on you.
- (MURMURS) - Only joking. (LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
I should get home. (SIGHS)
You're too drunk. Just walk.
Good call.
(MUMBLES) Goodnight...
See you tomorrow.
(CAR TIRES SCREECH)
- What happened? - I went to the boss.
I begged him to tell me where the boys went.
Steve did this?
I told him I'd go to the police.
He said they wouldn't care about a couple of Kanakas gone walkabout.
I just lost it.
I hit him.
Billy pulled me off Steve and he beat the hell out of me.
He threatened to kill me if I didn't leave town.
You need a doctor.
I need my cousins' passports!
I'll get them on my way home and meet you tomorrow.
But you need to get checked out.
Go to the camp and get your things. It will be safe there now.
And then go see my dad. He'll know what to do.
- I can't, it's late... - Zeke, go see Dad.
BILLY: It's the prom queen.
- Give us a look at that camera. - No.
- Give me it. - No.
- Fucking piece of... - (GRUNTS)
(BOTH GRUNT)
- What are you going to do, hey? - (COUGHS)
What are you going to do?
It's about time you hardened the fuck up.
(GRUNTS)
(COUGHS, GASPS)
This is going to be the last one for youse tonight.
Thanks so much for coming. You've been a great audience.
- (CHEERING) - No, thank you!
(BAND PLAYS WEEZER'S SAY IT AIN'T SO)
(EXCITED CHATTER)
Come on...
It's the last dance.
What's wrong?
I don't want to dance.
Where's your necklace?
Can we not do this now?
Do what?
Izzy, what did I do?
It's not you. I just need to...
I just need to figure myself out.
What it's the "it's not you, it's me" kind of thing?
I'm sorry.
No, don't touch me.
Fuck off.
Yeah.
(SHOUTS) Yeah, why don't you fuck off?
QUINN: Isabel's shoes are still in the queue.
They're still searching but they haven't found anything else at Dalkeith.
I really don't think she was killed at Dalkeith.
The red dirt on her dress tells us she went somewhere else that night.
Well, the re-examination of her dress is still on the way, but...
- ..I've got the analysis of her hair. - Mm-hm?
Um, what's 'wisteria sinensis'?
It is a flower. A Chinese wisteria.
She didn't have any flowers in her hair.
What? What is it?
- (BEEP!) - Hi, it's Hazel. Leave a message.
Hey.
I think I know where Izzy went that night.
Come to the station.
Are you camping here?
It's where I feel closest to her.
Your grandparents didn't know about us, so we spent a lot of time here.
- KALANA: It's not even faded! - Yeah. I touch it up every few years.
Let me get a photo of you, in next to it.
OK.
Here we go.
Come this way.
(SHUTTER SOUND CLICKS)
It can't be Anton. He loved Isabel.
Anton doesn't have an alibi AND Tasha...
said that he wasn't there when she woke up.
But what's he got to do with Zeke's cousins?
I think the boys might have been hiding at Dalkeith
and I think Isabel might have been helping them.
Anton must have followed them.
And we do know that he does get jealous.
Forensics found wisteria pollen in Isabel's hair.
I think he took her there.
Does that look familiar at all?
Yeah, I know where this is.
OK.
Anton and Iz used to go here when they...
..you know, needed time alone.
He took me there too.
Is Anton...
Kal's father?
Yeah.
Wow. You're just telling me this now?
Ugh... OK, OK, OK. Um...
Does Kal know?
No.
But he has been threatening to tell her ever since the time capsule.
Ugh...
(PHONE RINGS)
Hey, Meg. Kal's phone's off. Is she with you?
OK, I've got to go.
What?
Anton picked Kal up after training.
Show me where this is.
Why would he take Kal there?
Cormack, why would he take Kal there?
(PHONE RINGS)
This is Kal. Leave a message.
Kal, if you get this, call me back, bub.
It's urgent.
You want a beer?
I won't tell your mum.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah.
Thanks.
What did you and Aunty Izzy used to drink
at parties and stuff?
Uh... Whatever we could get our hands on.
Izzy didn't drink as much as the rest of us.
She was smart. She focused on getting to uni.
You really miss her, don't you?
Yeah.
If you loved her so much...
..why did you guys break up?
She realised I wasn't good enough for her.
And she was right.
CHLOE: You're such an arsehole.
(BOTH LAUGH)
- And you're such a slut. - TASHA: Aww...
(LAUGHS) Come on. Let's go back.
Fuck this. He's not ruining our night.
Come on. We've still got booze in the van.
(GIRLS CHAT AND LAUGH INDISTINCTLY)
CHLOE: Put these on.
I always get the front and the back mixed up.
Hey.
To chicks before dicks?
AND to the best road trip ever.
I'm not coming on the trip.
Wait, what?
- I don't want to go anymore. - Why?
Can we talk about this tomorrow?
Did I do something wrong?
I'm just going through some things, and...
it's just not about you.
Well, it is about me.
It's our trip - you and me.
I gave up Paris for you.
- I didn't ask you to do that. - It's just what friends do, Izzy.
My dad is the reason you got that scholarship.
You really think Vic and the other growers
wanted to give it someone like you?
Your dad doesn't care about me. He exploits people like me every day.
Ask him about Niman and Kalip. Ask him what happened to those boys.
What are you talking about?
Your dad's a criminal and a fucking racist.
What the fuck?
You want the fucking truth? That's what it is.
- No, that is not the truth! - It is the fucking truth!
I don't even know who you are anymore, Izzy!
Get the fuck out.
I don't want you here anymore.
Find your own way home, bitch.
(DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE STARTS)
IZZY: In 2019, I predict that Ashford will be...
still full of predators disguised as friends.
I've seen the Ankou here,
sharpening its scythe,
waiting to reap our souls.
There are people here I trusted,
but now I know they feed on suffering.
One day...
when I'm safe from their clutches,
I will expose them and their cruelty.
That's if they don't kill me first.
Do you think you guys would have gotten back together?
I would have tried, yeah.
But I think I lost her that night.
Even before she...
And my life...
has felt empty since.
Um...
Then you came along.
What do you mean?
This one, this one.
- (TYRES SQUEAL) - That's it.
You got your mum's skin and you got her brains.
But I... I...
I'm your dad, Kal.
Mum said he was a backpacker she met at uni.
Yeah, I know.
And I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I should have told you. I should have just told you.
- I want to go home. - Kal, please.
- Just give me a second. - Take me home.
There's a reason I couldn't tell you, OK?
About the night Izzy, died.
Izzy brought your mum and I together,
but she's also what... kept me apart from you.
CORMACK: Just stay calm.
Oh... I just need to...
- Anton. - ..talk for 10 minutes.
What's going on mate?
- I need you to hear it from me. - Just talk to us.
OK? And you need to hear it too.
Izzy broke up with me at the formal.
It wasn't the last time I saw her that night.
(ENGINE APPROACHES)
HAZEL: (ON PHONE) Iz, are you still there?
(OH MY LOVER BY PJ HARVEY PLAYS)
HAZEL: Izzy?
(SONG CONTINUES)
(LAUGHS)
Izzy!
What are you doing out here?
Izzy?
What are you doing here?
What? I was just on my way home. I'm... I'm so stoked.
Nothing happened with Tash.
It's completely fine. I don't even care about her, OK?
It's about you.
What are you doing?
Come here.
What are you doing? Give me a hug. We're meant to be together.
- What are you doing? - Just get off me.
- No, just listen! - (ENGINE APPROACHES)
I've got more to tell you.
Anton, what are you doing?
I'm done lying!
I'm sick of it.
Look, this is the truth, OK?
She died instantly. (SOBS)
She died instantly. She didn't suffer... at all.
OK? She went to sleep.
(SOBS)
I'm sorry, Kal.
Hey, you're scaring her, mate.
Just... Just let her go.
OK, He's... not well.
Anton, it's going to be OK.
We'll get you a good lawyer.
Don't do anything stupid.
I loved her... so much.
And I love you.
Yeah, if you love her, let the girl go.
No-one wants to see the girl get hurt.
- ANTON: (SOBS) Kal... Get hurt? - (KALANA CRIES SOFTLY)
I could never hurt my girl.
- HAZEL: (SOFTLY) It's all right, bub. - (GUN COCKS)
Step away from the knife, Anton.
What the fuck are you doing?
What?
Don't do it, son.
CORMACK: What the fuck are you doing? Relax.
Mate, I can't let him hurt any more people.
He's not hurting anyone.
You would do it, wouldn't you?
(HEAVY PERCUSSIVE RHYTHM)
Well, go on then!
It would solve everything.
HAZEL: Anton!
(MOUTHS)
(RHYTHM CONTINUES)
(BEATS END)
Come on, bub. Come on.
- (SOBS) - It's OK. Shh...
- OK. - (SOBS)
I'm sorry, Dad.
I'm so sorry.
(SOBS)
I'm so sorry...
CORMACK: (WHISPERS) Mate...
It's OK. Just let it go.
Let it go.
(ANTON CRIES SOFTLY)
Let him go.
You beat the shit out of your own son,
just to keep him quiet.
Your own son!
Isabel found the boys here, didn't she?
VIC: Now, where are you off to? I need you to stay away from the shed.
Some clown's tipped over a drum of pesticide.
Whole place is toxic.
(PANTS)
(RATTLING)
(GASPS FOR AIR)
MAN: Niman...
Niman!
Kalip?
I'm Ezekiel's friend.
My name is Isabel.
Please. Help me.
I'm going to get you out of here.
Is your brother OK?
He's dead.
Boss-man killed him.
I tried to dig. Look.
Over here.
You're going to be alright.
- I'm going to get help. - Please...
You're bleeding.
Here. Put this around the cut.
It will help with the bleeding. I'll be back soon.
- I promise. - Please.
(ENGINE APPROACHES)
(RATTLING)
It's alright.
Don't fucking worry. I've got medicine.
(MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)
Boss.
It's alright. It's alright. It's alright.
No!
No, you fucking idiot! Shit!
Don't move!
Stay still!
(SHOT RINGS OUT)
(INAUDIBLE)
(THUMP!)
(INAUDIBLE)
MAN: Easy, easy.
(SHUTTER CLICKS)
Call me when you find the boys' bodies.
Vic's in the holding cell.
Nice shirt.
CORMACK: Can you confirm you have
waived your right to have counsel present?
VIC: Yes.
CORMACK: You're aware this is an official statement of record
and anything you say can be used in court?
VIC: Yes.
Human remains have been found on your property.
We believe them to be the bodies of two Vanuatu boys
who went missing in 1994 -
Niman and Kalip Iesul.
Did you kill them?
It was self-defence.
They broke into my home.
I catch one of them actually trying to molest my baby daughter.
IZZY: In 2019,
I predict that Ashford will be
still full of predators, disguised as friends.
I've seen the Ankou here,
sharpening its scythe,
waiting to reap our souls.
(MAN SINGS INDISTINCTLY)
Oi! What's the fuck taking so long?
Need a break boss, get some more water.
Ha! You'll get a drink when you're done, you dopey bastard.
Kalip!
I saw an orange tree out back.
Yeah.
(BABY CRIES)
(CRYING CONTINUES)
Hello?
(BABY WHIMPERS)
Hello.
Hey!
Hello.
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
Come here. Hey, hey.
- (DOOR OPENS) - Hello.
Look at you. Hey.
Hey...
She was crying.
You give her to me.
Come here, my little darling.
Oh, my little girl. My little girl.
You wait outside.
My little darling.
Daddy can look after you.
- I can look after my daughter! - I'm sorry, boss.
- I can look after my daughter! - I'm sorry!
- Hey? - Sorry, sorry, boss.
P... Please, sir. We are sorry.
(GRUNTS)
(VIC GRUNTS, NIMAN GROANS)
NIMAN: Run.
Right, in, in.
CORMACK: You locked them up for a week.
Why didn’t you try and get help?
I couldn't trust them.
They'd try and pin an assault charge on me or something.
I was just gonna, you know,
leave them there until the boy got better.
But then he got some sort of infection.
He was probably fucking...
sick before he even got to my place.
So on the night of the formal, I go off to the SES shed,
which is where, you know, we keep the antibiotics on hand there.
So I'm actually going back to HELP him...
..and he's already dead.
Did you run Billy Hopkins off the road?
You know he's a drug dealer.
Did you run Billy Hopkins off the road?
He's fucking as bad as them, mate.
A piece of shit.
He was the one that dropped the boys at my place.
Then he's at the pub, fucking... mouthing off.
You know, I couldn’t risk him remembering.
My family built this region.
You know... if those two had just done their work...
This is your legacy now.
IZZY: There are people here I trusted.
But now I know they feed on suffering.
One day, when I'm safe from their clutches,
I will expose them AND their cruelty.
Well...
You're free to go, for now.
You should probably surrender your passport, though.
OK.
What do I do now?
I don't know.
Um...
But your father...
will spend the rest of his life in prison,
so maybe that's enough for you...
for you to start again.
Is it true?
(WAILS)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
HAZEL: Kalana needs to ask you something.
I can speak for myself.
Why did you take Aunty Izzy's hair?
I was in shock after he... hit her. I...
After he hit her, he took her boots,
and he ordered me home.
But I... I couldn't leave her like that...
..lying there in a ditch,
so I took her to the cemetery,
and I laid flowers on her...
..and I promised her that one day
I'd be strong enough to face him down,
and that when I was, I'd need proof.
So, I cut her hair and I put it in the time capsule.
And then she spoke to us.
She did what YOU couldn't.
Do you think...
there's a chance I could be a part of her life?
I don't know.
But it's her life.
So, you need to stay away from her until she's ready.
- KALANA: Mum? - HAZEL: Mmm?
Can I have some money? I'm going to town with Meg.
How much do you need in?
30.
- 20. - Fine.
Thanks.
Be safe, please.
- Hey. - Hey, bullyman.
Hmm.
How is she coping?
She's still angry at me.
But, you know, we're healing... slowly.
It's good to see you, Corm.
You too.
(EXHALES)
Anyway, what are you doing here?
- I thought you left. - I did.
But...
I promised you that I would return Izzy's hair, so...
I had forensic clean it, so...
It's beautiful.
Thank you.
And, Corm...
I really hope you find answers too.
Thank you.
Do you want a drink?
I would, actually. I forgot how bloody hot it is up here.
- (CHUCKLES) - Thank you.
Are you sure you don't want cooking brandy?
I know where Mum hides it.
(SONG PLAYS WITH MAN SINGING IN OWN LANGUAGE)
JOE: ..bless the family that are gathered here today.
Bring peace and comfort
to the family from Tanna Island,
as we pray for these young boys,
Kalip and Niman.
(SONG CONTINUES)
(JOE CONTINUES, INDISTINCTLY)
IZZY: Hazel!
(SONG CONTINUES)
(BOTH LAUGH INDISTINCTLY)
(SONG ENDS)
(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
(LAUGHS)
(SUGAR COATED LIES BY ZIGGY RAMO PLAYS)