2 (AIRY CELLO MUSIC)
BRENDAN: Uh. Less teeth, please.
If you're so good at it, you should suck yourself off.
We can just, like, reschedule.
-GEORGE: No, no, no, it's fine. -BRENDAN: Alright. Yeah.
Are you sure?
No, sorry, I shouldn't...
I shouldn't have said anything.
GEORGE: Sorry!
-You're doing great. Just... -GEORGE: Yeah?
Keep it up, yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
TULLY: Bruzz.
How can you fellate during a time like this?
-Uh! Fuck! -BRENDAN: What are you doing?
Did somebody see us? I told you we can't...
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
George, where are you go...
George!
Where are you going?
I'm sorry!
(TOILET FLUSHES)
(BIRD CHIRPS)
(RAIN PATTERS)
(MEN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY)
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
ADELA: Lucy!
-(KNOCKING CONTINUES) -Lucy! It's me!
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
(TOOLS WHIRR AND THUD)
(PHONE RINGS)
LUCINDA: Hey, Alan.
You're messing up your sleep schedule.
I need you to wake up and help me.
Alan?
Al!
Hey, Alan, wake the fuck up!
-LUCINDA: Cold. -ALAN: Sorry.
It doesn't matter how many times you've done this,
it always...
..makes me feel...
-Alright, you ready? -Yeah. No, no.
-Just... OK, yeah, just do it. -Three, two...
No, don't count. Don't count. Just...press it, OK?
(DEVICE CLICKS)
-I reckon you're good. -Yeah?
Off you pop. I gotta go to sleep.
LUCINDA: No. Alan.
Our world is crumbling.
And I'm...
I'm desperately trying to pull it all back together.
And you, you're just...
(VOICE CATCHES)
..you're sleeping through the whole thing.
(SIGHS)
('RUN THE TRACK' FEAT. COCO BY MATT SOFO)
(BUZZING)
♪ Me delimit it, turn and look, see
♪ Pinstripe with a polka dot, see
♪ Me a crazy, a crazy fool
♪ So much fool to go back to school
♪ Where them ABCs are like one-two-three
♪ And the DJ can't come back to me... ♪
(DRILL WHIRRS)
Just give them space.
(SCOFFS) Space! Don't be so heartless. They need support.
Yeah, space as support. (SIGHS)
Eshayz Adelay!
Maya, stop swearing.
MO: Mum, 'eshayz' isn't a swear word.
MAYA: Told you, Mum!
MoMo, I need to show you something. You're gonna die.
MO: Not interested.
MAYA: I haven't even showed you yet.
MO: No means no, window licker.
MAYA: Oh! Mum! What is wrong with you?
Mo's calling me a window licker again!
MO: Oh, you're always sooking!
MAYA: Mum!
Bruh, I thought it was a vibrator or some shit.
Mo, ew!
-It's upside down. -MAYA: Oh!
Why are you such a buzzkill?
Your body, your choice.
You better hide that shit from Mum, though.
She's losing it that you gave Lucinda her key back.
Whatever.
You better not snitch.
You've always been the snitch one.
(PHONE VIBRATES)
(MOUTHS WORDS)
Hey, Dad, Maya's here but she doesn't want to speak
because she's going through another phase.
You are such a spinner. What's wrong with you?
MOSES: Is she always crazy like that in the mornings?
-Yeah. -MAYA: Let me live!
MOSES: Tell her to simmer down. What's wrong with her?
Ask her why she deleted me on Instagram.
Maya, why'd you delete Dad off Instagram...
No, yeah, I can still hear youse,
even though we have a whole house.
MO: She says she can hear you.
MOSES: Sounds like she's in a bit of a mood.
MO: Yeah, she's always in a mood.
Oi, so you coming down soon, or what?
MOSES: Maybe in a few weeks.
MO: Like, in a month?
MOSES: Yeah, well, there are a few things
I have to sort out first, and...
Did you tell him?
MOSES: Tell me what?
Are you in trouble at school?
No, um...
Tully, he...
MAYA: Tully died, Dad.
MOSES: Oh.
MAYA: Tully from next door. Lucinda and Alan's son.
MOSES: No, no, no, I...I remember.
I mean, that's...that's really horrible.
I thought they'd moved out.
(WOMAN AND MOSES ARGUE IN ARABIC)
Did you wanna speak to Mum?
MOSES: No, no, no, no, no, I've gotta get back to work.
I'll talk to you later. Love you.
-Love you. 'Bye. -MAYA: Love you. 'Bye.
Stop wishing he'll get it, Mo.
He's a flop and you are too. Are you always this angsty?
That's our dad, Maya.
MAYA: Dad deez nuts.
-MO: 'Bye, Mum! -(BREATH CATCHES)
-(DOOR CLOSES) -(SOBS)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
What happened to the mural?
We had to take it down. It'd been up nearly two weeks.
-(SIGHS) -BOWIE: Guess what.
IOANE: ..with the wellbeing team.
I deleted all the apps.
What? Why?
IOANE: ..teachers can access this at any time.
Oh, am I right we could do
with another volunteer for the wellbeing team?
Anyone?
-BOWIE: I can. -IOANE: Right.
What about you, Mae?
Someone established in the school community
and has a relationship with the students might be a head start.
Yeah! Sure. OK.
Great. OK.
(WHISPERS) Sorry!
No, you're perfect for it.
Can you feel it?
Feel what, babes?
Mercury. It's in retrograde.
It could be anxiety, but I feel like that's a normal response
to anything that's happening in this sick and twisted world.
Or it could be that someone's just died.
Not to be disrespectful, but no.
It's Mercury retrograde.
I can feel it. It's, like, a whole vibe shift.
GEORGE: Hey, this is George. Leave a message.
Mo? Mo, hi.
Have you... Have you spoken to George?
MO: Why would I have spoken to George?
BRENDAN: It's just that, uh, he's been ignoring me.
You see, something happened between us this morning.
George and I were...
You know...
I don't know how you'd say it here. Like...
Like...like oral sex?
-MO: Australians say oral sex. -Right, yeah, OK.
So yeah, he's doing it to me. And it's good.
I mean, he's surprisingly good at oral sex,
despite his narrow mouth.
Then what's the issue?
I think I sexually assaulted him.
Oh, well, did he say yes or no?
Uh, he...he said neither,
but he did leave running and said nothing.
OK, Brendan, maybe you need to speak to him.
Yeah, I mean...
Yeah, but I don't want to be in this relationship
where I've got this constant ambient fear
of being broken up with.
And, Mo, I just wasn't that horny.
Oi! I'm over this gay shit, bro!
So am I.
PRIYA: Um, you deleted social media?
KATE: I just feel like this is a cry for help.
MAYA: Actually I'm being haunted by Tully
and I just find it triggering.
PRIYA: Well, if you're triggered,
then just, like, say that.
I just did, like, say that.
Kate, is this to do with that white pagan shit
you were just talking about?
KATE: No! This is why I wish George was here.
It's scientific, Priya.
OK, so the planet Mercury moves backwards
and when everyone's all extra for no reason
and moral posturing is at, like, a hundred...
So yeah, actually, Maya's social media
could be a result of such.
People delete every day, though.
It's very millennial ennui of you, Maya.
Hey, maybe I'll deactivate in solidarity. Mm?
BRENDAN: George? Hey, please pick up. Are you mad at me?
(BRENDAN CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
I'm sorry, I...
-Don't be mad at me. -Trouble in gay paradise?
KATE: Priya, like Brendan and George.
OK, breaking up is, like, the base mode of their relationship.
But our whole group, Priya. Look at us.
Oh, my God. What if you're right?
If? I am right.
PRIYA: Yeah, well, then what about me?
KATE: I don't know, maybe you're just built different.
Immune to the astrological reality of it all.
(BELL RINGS)
OK, but until I see it firsthand,
then I'll buy it.
OLIVE: Uh, excuse me! Show no resistance!
Sorry, miss.
OLIVE: Gus, was it?
Haven't seen you in some days.
Yeah, um... I'm just mental and that.
You're mental? Hm!
Trust me, young man, I've lived mental.
You, you don't look mental to me.
Mental doesn't really have a look anymore.
Even guys can get it too.
Yeah, I've watched the football. I know all about it.
It's all in the eyes. Sanpaku. It's Japanese.
-Sanpaku? -OLIVE: Yes.
Three whites. You've only got two.
Charles Manson. Abraham Lincoln.
Diana, God rest her soul. All sanpaku.
I don't think they're in my year.
-OLIVE: Excuse me? -Gus. You're here.
Hey, Gus.
IOANE: It's good to have you back.
MAYA: Are you seriously ignoring me?
No.
You're, like, emotionally punishing me. I can tell.
Oh, my God, Maya!
If this is because of what I said about Dad,
I'm not apologising for stating facts.
When I speak, I'm a gronk, heartless,
spinner, flop,
and when I don't speak at all,
there's something wrong with me.
Can I just go to school in peace
without everyone breathing down my neck
about stupid, meaningless shit?
Well, can I? (SLAMS LOCKER DOOR)
(HEARTBEAT-LIKE PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
MO: Get off me, freak!
OK, you were right.
BOWIE: "Oh, you are well tuned now,
"but I will let down these pegs
"that make this music as honest as I am."
What is Iago on about?
STUDENT: Is he jealous of Othello?
BOWIE: OK, I like that.
If you're a jealous person, what might you usually do?
-STUDENT: Kill the vibe. -(STUDENTS LAUGH)
BOWIE: You all laugh, but that's a really good answer.
Let's find a good word for "kill the vibe".
-STUDENT: Revenge. -BOWIE: Yes, revenge.
Anybody else?
-Yes, Mo? -MO: Betrayal.
Betrayal.
Um, Mo, mate, your hand.
IOANE: Sometimes, punching
trains your brain into thinking
that anytime your body feels that emotion,
it needs a fist to relieve it of itself.
Slowly, it acts like a reflex.
I'll make sure to write that down.
(PHONE VIBRATES)
(LAIDBACK MUSIC PLAYS)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
PHIL: You're not hard.
Yeah, I know. Keep going.
(LAUGHS)
(SIGHS) You know,
at one point in my life
I was very easy to be with.
I don't know if this means anything to you,
but I found that all of my exes who couldn't get hard
were one of either three things.
Deeply depressed,
on drugs...
..or were guilty.
So which one is it today, George?
Or maybe...
..I just find you really fucking disgusting.
(HALF-LAUGHS)
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
Well, you look terrible.
GEORGE: Ah.
Well, I was dehydrated.
OPHELIA: Well, that was very expensive wine.
Especially for a palate that can only comprehend goon sack.
So you're welcome.
Thank you.
OPHELIA: It's Mercury in retrograde.
High anxiety, major miscommunications.
Shitty, shitty feelings.
All that noise.
Can you only tell me the bad parts?
Don't be so performative.
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
I hate it here.
OPHELIA: The Lovers.
Mm, lack of direction.
PHOTOGRAPHER: You excited for school to end?
OPHELIA: It's very normal at your age.
PHOTOGRAPHER: OK. Kate, is it?
Give me a smile, won't you?
OPHELIA: Ace of Pentacles.
You need to be honest with yourself.
Reversed Two of Cups.
Try to avoid gossip.
But then who doesn't love a goss? (CHUCKLES)
Reversed Nine of Wands.
Careful not to get manipulative.
The Devil.
Interesting.
You're releasing limiting beliefs.
See, it seems to me
that you nurture the people around you naturally,
and you need to be careful not to let that exhaust you.
What was the last thing he said to you, Tully?
I was the glue.
OPHELIA: The glue of what? What needed fixing?
I don't know.
OPHELIA: OK, George,
I'm gonna say this once, and you need to listen,
because I'm not gonna repeat myself.
But people like you and I, George...
..we're meant to live our lives in excess.
Accountability looks very different for us, George,
because we very rarely miss and we are never wrong.
And guess what. We don't fix.
And we should never have to apologise
for seeking out the pain,
because the pain
is where the juice for our lives comes from.
And, George, when people ask you if you're in pain...
..this is what you ask back.
Do I look like I'm in pain?
(GEORGE LAUGHS)
I am fucking obsessed with you. (LAUGHS)
IOANE: Gus has been doing really well since he got here.
Actually, he's integrating quite smoothly
into the school community, the team.
Am I right you've always liked reading?
Only if it's good. Not the shit stuff.
EMME: Yeah, whenever I'd visit him up the coast,
he'd be in a corner somewhere reading, wouldn't you?
And Jed, he's a bit more...
Well, Jed's Gus's big brother.
He's a bit more hands-on, you know?
He made this table in jail.
He's out again now, but this table,
it's the best coffee table on the block.
-See this bit here? -Mm.
(EMME TAPS TABLE) Resin.
Resin.
You must be so happy to have them both here.
EMME: Oh, I am.
IOANE: Any chance I can borrow Gus for an hour or so?
Yeah, absolutely. You can go now if you like.
'Hot Seat's on and you've been sitting on my remote.
Oh.
-(DOOR OPENS) -IOANE: Hey, mate, come in.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Whoa! Did you get that checked?
No, it's G. These are from Mum.
Oh. Nice. Mm! Come in.
Hope you like prawn and avocado risotto.
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) -(IOANE WHISTLES)
You can take a seat.
Not gonna lie, sir, but this looks putrid.
No, it's what will make you good at football.
GUS: Good? I think you mean better.
Well...
No, it's chat.
I'll let my mum know.
No, it's nice. Tell her I said it's really nice.
Kidding.
So you didn't wanna have dinner alone?
GUS: Oh, sir's lonely!
I'm not lonely!
I'm making you captains. Of the football team.
GUS: What?
Both of us?
Yeah. You'll be vice captain.
Um...I can just play on the team normally.
IOANE: It's my call.
Funny.
Ha-ha.
I'm not joking.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
I mean, what's going on?
I'm sorry.
Mo, I'm sorry.
What are you sorry for?
Yeah, Gus. What are you sorry for?
MO: That night. He was there.
I mean, you saw it, right?
Right, Gus?
MO: You saw it.
Well, then say it!
Tell him you saw your friend dying and ran away.
(DOOR SLAMS)
(JONATHAN JEREMIAH SINGS) ♪ A restless heart
♪ Here in me... ♪
(GASPS) Oh, my God. That's what I'm talking about!
Get in here, give me a spin.
Unbelievable. You look just divine.
♪ No amount of clicking my fingers
♪ Could ever stop me in its tracks
♪ A restless heart
♪ Here in me It's running out of track... ♪
What's in there?
MAYA: Nothing.
♪ But when these wheels, they start to turn
♪ I have all I could ever need
♪ All my senses taken leave
BACKUP: ♪ Oh, Lord, oh, Lord, oh, Lord, they've taken leave
JONATHAN: ♪ Till in the end
♪ It's just me and my restless heart
BACKUP: ♪ Yeah, I got a restless heart, yeah
JONATHAN: ♪ Oh, yeah, one-track mind
♪ Couple demon to feed
♪ Each of them sat back reclined
♪ Checking out the perfect view
-♪ From a first-class seat... ♪ -(THUNDER CRASHES)
♪ While the couplings strain
-♪ And the axles creak... ♪ -Whoo-hoo-hoo!
ADELA: Quick! It's gonna rain any second.
-MAYA: Stop! (LAUGHS) -Maya! Girls!
It's your bedsheets!
(GIRLS SPEAK INDISTINCTLY AND LAUGH)
PRIYA: Are you telling me that little Maya's ticklish?
Oh, shit!
PRIYA: Oh, my God, she's fully naked.
MAYA: Stop. She's fully grieving.
LUCINDA: You know I can hear you.
I hope you two have been keeping out of trouble.
Oh, perfect little angels.
LUCINDA: Why do I find that hard to believe?
Oh, Lucy!
I, uh...I tried to come over.
LUCINDA: Yeah.
You know, I never come over to your place and I...
..I don't quite know why.
I think that would be really nice.
I...I'd love that.
ADELA: OK, girls, let's get inside. Come on. Let's go.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(SIGHS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
('PARTY TRICKS' BY ALICE SKYE PLAYS)
(OPHELIA CHUCKLES)
He's not coping.
Nobody's asked him how he is
and you need to talk to him, alright?
Kate!
Kate! (RETCHES)
GEORGE: Ohhh!
You OK?
Do youse think I'm annoying?
KATE: No.
Slightly annoying that you got drunk with my mum
without telling me, but you know I think that's just probably...
GEORGE: Kate.
Be serious.
I can take it.
I'm being serious. I don't think you're annoying.
GEORGE: I'm the reason Tully's dead, though.
George, you can't think like that.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
I just really miss him.
I know, I miss him too.
We all do.
I really missed you at school today.
I had no-one to talk to about Mercury retrograde.
GEORGE: Oh.
When will it be over?
(WHISPERS) It ended five minutes ago.
(THUNDER CRASHES)
(KATE GIGGLES)
(KATE AND GEORGE CONVERSE INDISTINCTLY)
(RAIN POURS)
(MOODY STRINGS AND SYNTH MUSIC)