2 -Careful of the fucking face! -It wasn't me!
It was...him!
-What the fuck? -Don't look at me! I'm hideous.
Worth it for that save, though, bro!
I mean, at least now you can get a proper nose job.
You think I need one?
BOTH: Yes.
Yes.
You don't even need to think about it. You need it.
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
(REFLECTIVE MUSIC)
Catch you around, sir!
LUCINDA: OK day?
ALAN: Got through it.
-Thanks. -LUCINDA: Yeah.
-ALAN: OK, I've got that. -LUCINDA: Yeah.
ALAN: Got it.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
-Hello, you. -Hey.
Is Alan back at work?
Yeah, he wanted to try getting out.
If you think about things too much, they just...
..seem to get bigger.
-You can do this. -Mmm. I know.
I know. I will.
I love you.
(SIGHS)
What are you doing?
Is Maya on her way home?
-Mo? -What?!
-Maya. -What about her?
I thought you might know where she is.
Probably off cooking lizards or something. I don't know.
What's it got to do with me?
(ADELA TAPS CHAIR)
Where are you going?
To my room. Is that allowed?
-Wait. Wait. -Oh, I swear to God.
-This house, man! -Mo, wait!
I didn't plan things to happen this way.
What way?
I'm divorcing your dad.
OK?
I, um...
I haven't told him yet.
Well, why not?
(LAUGHS SADLY) Because, um...
(SIGHS)
I will. I will soon.
OK, well...
..can I go now or what?
(SIGHS) Yeah. Yeah.
Go to your room.
-I've got a few options. -Mm-hm?
Like...this one.
-Yep, I like that. -Yeah?
You would look so good in that.
-You think? -Yeah.
It's giving, like, old-school Rihanna.
You know?
(PHONE DINGS)
Mm-hm.
GIRL ON PHONE: So I thought it might be...
Wait. Isn't this Priya?
Oh, my God.
Her TikToks are literally social suicide.
OK, that was unnecessarily mean.
(PRIYA CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY ON VIDEO)
Uh, sorry, I...
My parents are getting a divorce.
(LAUGHS) Shut the fuck up.
Really?
No, seriously, like...right now.
Do you wanna talk about it?
Do you need to go home or...
Um...I'm not sure I wanna go home.
Do you wanna stay at mine?
We have a sofa bed if you don't want to share.
Oh, um... OK.
But it kinda gets cold in the spare room.
('YEAR OF SONG' BY SARAH BLASKO AND RICHARD PIKE PLAYS SOFTLY)
What are you doing?
Top to toe.
Why?
You worried I'll try to spoon you?
SONG: ♪ Look behind me
♪ See there is no ocean... ♪
Can I see this?
Is it you?
Maybe.
You're not that weird, you know?
(CHUCKLES) No, just...clueless.
What are you supposed to know?
♪ It stopped
♪ Before it had the chance
♪ And if we wait
♪ Perhaps we'll have another glance of this life
♪ Forever beginning
♪ And ending... ♪
Do you even like me?
What do you mean?
♪ Look behind me See there is no ocean... ♪
Let's go to sleep.
You can still keep the shirt.
♪ There is no ocean
♪ In the year of joy
♪ In the year of... ♪
You win a game and you think
you're too good to clean up your own rubbish.
Have you forgotten why you wear this tape?
You're running the Glebe circuit.
(GROANS)
You aren't back before the bell, you aren't playing.
Sir?
My parents said that I shouldn't be running with my nose.
Your legs still working?
-Chop-chop. -I...
Thanks, sir.
('ON THE FLOOR' BY LUNA + YURY)
♪ I don't mean to front this way
♪ But I got things that I wanna say
♪ I got five fingers on my hand
♪ But you only need one to understand me
♪ Got a lot of people round but they don't know
♪ How to add me up, how to watch me go
♪ If you roll with us, you gotta play like us
♪ Catch a vibe and you give a show, hey... ♪
(MUSIC FALLS SILENT)
-Wanna join? -(RETCHES)
Well, if you think that's bad,
imagine forgetting to bring your deo.
Oi, Gus, hurry up!
Yeah, I'm coming, bro! Relax!
Hey.
(TENDER MUSIC)
BRENDAN: Gus!
I'd go if I was you.
Ioane's not kidding around.
Yeah, I have to...
Yeah.
See you around.
'Bye.
Mo, good job. Hey.
You're really stepping up.
Have you been talking to my mum again?
No.
MO: Maya!
I know you weren't at Priya's last night.
And?
And I'm not about to cover for you with Mum.
How do you know I wasn't at Priya's?
Because you weren't.
How would you even know what she was doing?
Look, alright, just 'cause you ditched all your friends,
it doesn't mean everyone else has.
I haven't ditched all my friends!
And I bet you didn't do your poetry assignment either.
-What poetry assignment? -Counts for 15%!
(MOCKINGLY) Counts for 15%!
Lie to Mum, be a fuckin'... be a flake, I don't care.
But stop using other people
as an excuse for your own identity crisis.
Or you could stop being a fuckin' cop!
Ooh! What is wrong?
Can't I just hug my friends?
Maya, seriously. What is wrong?
Is this about the Peeya-gate thing?
No.
Please do not tell me that everyone found out
I pissed my pants in the church.
(KATE LAUGHS)
-OK... -Hold up. You did what?
No, no. This is not a conversation for now.
-(KATE LAUGHS) -Please. I'm serious, Kate.
GUS: 'Sup, homies. What did I miss?
KATE: Oh... Priya pissed herself in church.
Nothing! Nothing.
Eh, who hasn't?
The trick is to wear dark pants.
(LAUGHS) Wait. What?
-OK. -Um, OK?
Why do you know that?
-MAYA: OK! -Catch you later?
There's somewhere new I wanna show you.
No, I can't. Sorry, I'm busy.
Maybe go buy some deo instead.
Why would you say that?
-PRIYA: What was that? -Kate, what just happened?
ALAN: Our team of builders have got plenty of options for you.
WOMAN: Do you offer a sage cleanse?
My aunty told me this place used to be a surgery.
Yeah, back when all the surgeries were lobotomies
and...and amputations.
So if these walls could talk...
(CHUCKLES) I wouldn't wanna listen.
So I love the light, obviously.
I'd really like to do something about that doorway if possible.
It's all about the approvals roulette, isn't it?
I mean, we had one place, he ripped the kitchen out and...
..touched the bathroom and...
Yeah, it's... All hell broke loose.
I mean, most of these places are unsafe.
Who wants to be stepping up into a shower when they're 75?
(WHISPERS) Oh.
She kicked.
(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)
My son is in Portugal.
I've never been to Portugal.
Neither have I.
-Sorry. -Do you wanna see the kitchen?
Yeah, let's do that.
(TROUBLING MUSIC)
WOMAN: I was sorry to hear about what happened.
IOANE: Thanks.
We've...
..been taking it one step at a time.
Word is you've done a wonderful job with the students.
(BASKETBALL BOUNCES)
-Decent view up here. -(BALL BOUNCES CLOSE BY)
Sorry, miss. Sir.
Joe, this is Mr Ioane.
Joe's one of our scholarship students.
-Bright kid, eh? -I'm actually on Pathways.
-Oh, yeah? What sport? -Basketball.
Um, Australian Schools.
What?
10% of our cohort are on scholarship.
It's not quite the bubble you might think.
And so my meeting Joe was just a coincidence?
Look, I know you've been here before
and I hear you've been doing great work since then.
We'd love to have you at St Patty's.
I mean, think about it, of course.
I will.
I heard this podcast that says your life is like a garden.
If you don't tend to it properly, it gets overgrown.
The wrong kinds of relationships are like too much rain.
They seem good at first, but then next thing,
you're wading through a swamp with weeds up to your neck.
So...I need to do some pruning.
No sex. No relationships.
No chaos.
(SIGHS)
Sounds a little puritanical.
I just mean we definitely shouldn't see each other.
I didn't think we were.
Yeah, I know. I was just...
I've been...
You've been thinking about it?
Maybe it's best we don't do this while we're on duty.
OK.
I'm trying to do a boundary here.
I'm pruning.
I don't wanna be pruned.
Then why did you take me back to your place
if you didn't wanna fuck me?
Who said I didn't?
You did.
That's not what happened.
OK. We...we can't do this here.
OK, um...
I don't feel like I'm the one bringing the chaos here.
"The colour jubilee.
"Colour jubilee centre.
"His nose is a nose...
"..is a nose."
Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
Um, great, uh...adaptation, George.
Thank you.
Next up...Maya.
(MUTTERS) Um, I didn't do it.
She left it at home, sir.
But I've got it here.
BOWIE: Alright. Let's hear it.
"He, she, they, them.
"My body is a prison.
"I hate my mum.
"My heart is an ingrown pubic hair,
"a ball of pus
"destined to tear.
"Hands up, trying to be iconic.
"Hands down, max out, lesbionic."
(STUDENTS LAUGH)
"Dig through the shit
"and find a hole.
"Look in the mirror.
"You are the mole."
(LAUGHTER)
OK! OK. Very, um... Very brave.
I like it. Thank you, Maya.
Alright. Gus!
(SIGHS)
Come on, mate.
Where is it?
In my head, sir.
OK, but I do need you to hand something in.
It's all about the flow, sir.
-(BELL RINGS) -Oi. Oi. No.
(STUDENTS CHATTER)
Mate?
You know I actually did do it.
Yeah, I...I believe you.
But I still need you to give me
something I can look at and mark.
Mate, how about you just say it,
I write it down and then we're good?
Come on, mate. Go.
My mind is warped, you know?
I'm like a twisted tunnel in the dark, you know?
(SIGHS) I popped a pill but the high wasn't there.
She took it with her.
I have no-one, nothing, no peace.
I can't tell a soul that when I'm with her...
..it's...it's like...light.
OK.
Yeah, good job.
Thanks, sir.
(KNOCKS)
Have you got a minute?
I think so.
BOWIE: OK.
Um...
You dumped me in the middle of the day
when I didn't even know that we were together
and then you don't give me a right of reply?
OK.
Reply.
I get that my part in this has been...confusing.
But you can also be...
..confusing.
I'm not confused. I'm fucking embarrassed.
One minute it's all... (MOANS EROTICALLY)
And then next thing, you're, like... (GRUNTS)
I didn't realise that was that much of a thing.
So you did wanna fuck me?
Of course I did!
I... Look, no.
-My, um, ex was really... -Oh.
It was... You wanna talk about chaos?
That. I...
I would absolutely fuck you. Right now.
I'm just all over the shop.
OK, then.
What are you smiling at?
Nothing!
So, what do you wanna do now?
I don't know. We could...
We could get pizza.
Hey, Al. Why don't you call it a day?
What's this?
Um...minor damage.
-Was he on overtime? -It's been settled.
How long?
F...fifteen hours.
He shouldn't have been on the road.
We have swing drivers for that.
Well, not this week, we haven't.
We can't find them for love or money.
Well, I tell you what - then they need shorter shifts.
Look, I agree, but I've got to...
You agree, do you? Let me tell you something, Michael.
It's my name on the business as well.
So how do you think it looks for us when we've got trucks
steamrolling everything in their fuckin' path
while these guys are tearing out of here half-asleep?
MICHAEL: Alright.
So you think, what, paying excess
to some third-party fuckin' insurance giant excuses that?
And that's how we're supposed to sleep at night? Is it?
Mate.
I've got it.
(MUTTERS) Fuck.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
(SIGHS)
(WHISPERS) Tully.
(SHOUTS) Fuck!
(ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC PULSES LOUDLY)
(ENGINE STOPS)
(DANCE MUSIC CONTINUES LOUDLY)
Lucinda.
He's been on repeat for the last 20 minutes.
-(CHUCKLES) -Come on in.
(LUCINDA MUMBLES) Oh, the keys.
Hey, hey. What's happening?
-Hi. -Coach!
You joining us for dinner?
-IOANE: Yeah? -Come on!
-Hello, Alan. -Come on in!
Keeping those kids on track.
And the team is going pretty... Lots of wins.
LUCINDA: Mm-hm.
It's OK.
It's good for the boys.
And Gus - is he still at school?
Yeah, Gus is doing well.
He always manages to keep rolling along.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Yeah.
Sometimes I think it would be really good to see him.
Just to let him know that everything's OK.
Anyway,
what about you?
What about this new job, huh?
-ALAN: What? -LUCINDA: Mmm! Oh, yes.
Yeah, I knew they'd come knocking.
This is good!
Yeah... It's private.
-Ooh! Fuckin' look at me! -(LUCINDA AND IOANE BOO)
(IOANE LAUGHS) I know.
But they've got a lot of, um...
-Money. -Programs.
-(LUCINDA LAUGHS) -Programs.
Scholarships. Academic support for those who need it.
A First Nations bursary. It's a lot to...think about.
And it's also OK if you just wanna have a break, mate.
Mmm.
But it's not even about that. It's just...
I think I can be useful there.
Well, there are kids at every school that need help.
But...but you mean that I... that I'd be walking away?
No, no, no, no. There's no judgement here, mate, at all.
I mean, fuck, today,
I told one of my clients that my son was in Portugal.
(LAUGHS)
IOANE: You know, I went to boarding school in the country
for my last couple of years.
I was there on a low-level rugby scholarship.
Then, um...in Year 12,
my best mate died.
May I ask how he died?
The night before term 2 went back,
he drove out to his farm and, um...
..shot himself.
-Oh. -ALAN: I'm sorry, mate.
I'm so sorry.
The weirdest thing is what happened after. Um...
All the good that came after that.
Like, all the petty shit between us boys just stopped.
And we were undefeated that year.
We were probably the best team in the country that year.
This tiny little school.
But it all came back to him.
It was all about him.
(LUCINDA SIGHS)
ALAN: Well, that's not true, mate.
Mmm.
Do I need to confiscate your keys?
Nah. I need the walk.
(LUCINDA CHUCKLES)
-Hey, Eddie. -Yeah?
I'm sorry about your friend.
(SIGHS)
Yeah, they're lucky.
IOANE: Who?
Whoever you choose.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
-(CLICKS TONGUE) -Whoever you choose.
(LAUGHS) Go away.
(DOOR CLOSES)
MO: Hey, sir!
Hey, sir!
I saw your car.
Hey! Mo!
You know, they're lucky to have you.
Are you OK?
I'm OK. You? You OK?
(CHUCKLES)
You're gonna do great without me.
What do you mean?
Oh, I'm just gonna take a little break.
It's OK to take a break.
You're leaving?
Well, fuck off then!
Go!
You're a fucking coward.
(TENDER MUSIC)
(PHONE RINGING TONE)
(MAN SPEAKS ARABIC)
(BEEP!)
(PHONE RINGING TONE)
PRIYA: Yes, I know I haven't given your pants back.
That's not why I was calling.
Oh. What's up?
Nah.
I was just checking to see if you were free.