The Ridge (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

1
THUNDER
You should have her back
by the end of the day,
depending on what they find.
You'll need a shower.
The formaldehyde smell
really lingers.
You're an anaesthetist, right?
Google says you're five times
more likely to be an addict
than other medical practitioners.
Sounds like internet bullshit to me.
I saw you at the gas station
yesterday doing your patches.
It's hormone patches.
My mum's tried those.
But Ava's mum,
when she had her mastectomy,
she got prescribed Duranyl patches.
Josh nicked some from the bathroom,
we tried them. They were so fun!
Oi!
Best friends, was it? Huh?
You and Cassy.
I don't get naked
with my best friends.
Were you shagging my sister?
What are you talking about?
Were you skinny-dipping with her
the night before she died?
Were you having an affair with her?
No. Really?
So weird.
That is what it looks like to me.
Uh, we were, erm
Where did you get this?
How long was it going on for?
Someone sent this to Cassy.
They were trying to blackmail her.
Who shot this? What are they saying?
How long was it going on?
How did you know where to find her
water bottle when no-one else could?
I I just saw it.
Oh, did you know where to look?
A postmortem will discover
if you were shagging her
the night before she died.
You need to give a little sample.
I loved Cassy.
We were just good friends.
Did she want to break it off
with you
because the wedding was happening?
What's going on here? Christ, Mum!
Why do you lot have to come halfway
around the world to stir things up?
Why don't you do it
in your own back yard?
Telling us how to run our farms
and burning our property!
I didn't burn your tractor
and neither did my sister.
She was too busy dying!
Pull your head in, Mum.
Look, I'm not saying I'd wish
her dead, and I'm sorry for you,
but people like her think
they're heroes and they're not,
so stick that up your woke arse!
Hey, hey
Oh, wait Enough, enough, enough.
Come on, Mum. Just let it go.
Come on, come on.
Hmm.
Aww
Come on.
Oh, Mia, love. How are you doing?
Uh Tired. SHE CHUCKLES
Yes, you will be.
It's a lot.
Want to come in?
Oh, um
No, thank you. I'm actually
on the hunt for some caffeine.
God knows, I should give
that up as well.
I I wonder if you could help me.
I don't know what this is.
My sister was wearing it.
Pounamu.
That's a taonga - a treasure.
They're given at important occasions
or just to those we love.
This could be one of Eru's.
At the souvenir shop down the road.
OK.
That's really helpful.
Thank you, Mrs Olsen.
Brenda, love.
Shit.
Are you Eru? You got me.
Um
Is this Is this one of yours?
I don't make them any more.
My sister was wearing it
when she died. OK.
OK, I did make this one.
Who for? For her? No.
For Harry. Harry Grimes.
The undertaker?
Why would he have given it to Cassy?
These get passed on
from person to person.
What?
Like a Taylor Swift bracelet, or?
It's a little bit deeper than that.
What does it mean? This?
This is a toki.
It signifies courage and leadership.
Are you OK, sis?
Is there something else you want?
A pill or two to get you through
the next few days?
Some weed, maybe?
I can get you something stronger.
Um
Sweet.
Well? You'll have to speak
to Sergeant Grimes.
She gets the official report.
Did they find anything?
If you're talking about
the postmortem,
it takes up to 48 hours
for the report to get to me.
After that, we can decide
what action, if any, to take.
It's a process. 48 hours?!
If they do find anything suspicious,
the funeral might be delayed,
but they did give us permission
to get the process started.
Harry and Sadie can do their work,
and you can see her again
a bit later on if you'd like to.
My sister didn't like jewellery
and this was found on her
when she died.
Pounamu.
You ever get one of these?
Can't say I have.
It's a nice memento for you.
This was left on my windshield.
Someone else who fell off a cliff?
Mm-hm. Must be 15 years ago.
That was a sad one.
Took her own life.
What happened?
She was my friend,
and then one day she was gone.
You must have seen her file.
It was a long time
before I joined the force.
But since then. I mean, surely,
if it was my friend, I would
And that's the difference
between us.
Beautiful Hera.
You totally don't want to be here.
I wanted to speak to your dad.
Right now he's doing his job,
so later's better.
SUCKING AND GURGLING NOISES
MIA SIGHS
BIRD TWEETS
TWEETING
TWEETING
SHE EXHALES
TWEETING
For fuck's sake!
Mum, please!
CRUNCH
THEY SCREAM
SHE BREATHES DEEPLY
ALARM RINGS
Oh, hey, Frances.
Sorry about your loss. Take care.
You all right?
See you at the festival.
Got any sleep yet?
Oh, not enough of it,
and at all the wrong times.
You? You getting enough yourself?
Yeah.
It's the yearly arrival
of the whitebait to spawn here,
which means the festival stops
for no-one, and I'm the chair.
Huh.
See you, Ewan. See you, mate.
They're more fans of Dad's
than mine.
He was the legend in his day.
Following in his footsteps.
Oh, God, if I had, honestly,
I'd still be doing it wrong.
I found her phone.
It was in her jacket pocket.
Her jacket pocket, of course.
You should hand that in
to the police, yeah?
The day she died
she got this.
You were fucking my fiancee!
Were you?! No! Bullshit!
You were in the river naked,
at night,
days before my wedding, Teddy!
Calm the fuck down, Ewan.
You've got it all wrong.
Bullshit! I saw the fucking video!
You OK, son? Yes. Put the gun down.
When I'm ready. MIA CHUCKLES
Is this a joke to you?
We're all about to lose our farms.
It's got nothing to do with Cassy.
Your son, Louise
was sleeping with my fiancee, OK?
So this is between me and him.
It was just skinny-dipping.
Bullshit!
Listen, you entitled little shit,
if you come onto my property
and you threaten my family,
I have every right to defend myself.
Bugger off, the lot of you!
Fuck!
I'll drive.
GUNSHO
You said you guys were good.
It just doesn't
feel very like Cassy.
You know, when Cass first arrived
in town, I thought she was just
one of those nomads, you know?
Running away from something
or running to something,
but never really arriving
and staying.
The first time we ever saw
each other, she was literally
getting off the bus that
she'd just arrived into town on
and she was arguing with
the driver about whaling.
I mean, like, really shouting
at the guy,
like she was in a fight to the death
for the very last whale
on the planet.
Full disclosure, though, I was going
out with Nat when Cassy arrived.
You know that?
Jesus, you're game.
Yeah.
Yeah, I broke up with her
that evening.
It wasn't going anywhere. We were
kind of just like old mates who
didn't really find anyone else
here in town, you know?
So you saw Cass getting off the bus.
Then what?
The naked sprint.
The naked sprint?
Yeah, it was actually going to be
part of my wedding speech.
You see, there was a bunch of us
down at the creek that evening,
and someone came up with the idea
for a naked sprint
down the main street,
so, next minute, there was, like,
I don't know, five or so of us,
including Cass and I,
running stark bollock
Or tit in her case.
Yeah, running stark tit, bollock,
naked down the main street.
And me being a bloke, took the lead,
followed none other than by Cass.
And me being a bloke
who fancied her
let her pass me. Ooh, foolish.
She immediately started attacking me
for letting her win. Huh.
I taught her well.
Anyway, she challenged me
to a rerun - just me and her.
And this time, obviously,
I ran my heart out.
But we were
pissing ourselves laughing that
she actually overtook me.
She never told you this?
I mean, if she had, erm
Erm, no.
I remember it like
it was in slow motion.
We reached the end of the street,
we'd left everyone behind,
we were on our own
so we just kept running
and running.
And eventually, we reached
this big, open, grassy field,
and we just collapsed
because we were so exhausted
from running and laughing so much.
Then we hugged each other.
And when our skin touched
When our skin touched
it was like our energy just
shot through each other like
lightning bolts.
It just felt so real.
I'm sure whatever it was
between Cass and Teddy,
I'm sure it wasn't serious.
I mean, she was still wearing
her engagement ring.
That has to count for something.
I don't think she thought
it was really for her.
She sent me a clip
when you gave it to her.
She said it was your grandmother's,
it came from Scotland.
Edinburgh, no less.
It's true.
She was terrified of losing it
in the bush.
Which leads me to, um
a really terrible confession.
It's so stuck.
Oh.
And this.
Oh, here we go, a bit of movement.
Gotcha! Yeah, shit
You all right? Mm-hm. Sorry.
Oh, my darling Mia.
How are you?
You must be so tired still.
And what a shock about poor Cassy.
We loved her so much.
Yeah So did I.
I'm sure you did. So young
and so beautiful and so spirited.
Mum.
Such a loss.
Sorry. You OK?
Jesus Christ.
We did the same with Dad, too.
It's just, you know,
nice to have them here
so you can see them, talk to them.
It just feels better, eh?
I did the make-up.
I do all the make-up.
She's a talented kid.
She didn't wear dresses very often.
Oh, it was her going-away dress
for the honeymoon.
Oh, my sweet Lord.
She looks like a reject
from the Addams family.
Mum Poor Cassy,
sailing off to Tir na nOg
looking like a portrait from Elton
John's attic. OK, that's enough.
I'm sorry. It's all right.
It's lovely.
Thank you, Sadie.
Thanks, Harry.
Now we keep her spirit company
until the burial.
CHAINSAW MOTOR ROARS
SHE SNIFFS Urgh!
Shouldn't you be growing trees,
not chopping them up?
Erm, it's a eucalyptus,
not a native.
We're trying to clear them out
so natives can grow here instead,
but, well, you don't give a shit
about that, do you?
I just found a load of clothes in my
sister's eco-pod covered in petrol.
She's living on a farm.
Lived.
So, who burned the tractor
the other night, then?
Sorry?
Well, it couldn't have been her.
She was lying at the bottom
of a cliff at the time!
Was it you?
To be honest, arson,
it's not really my jam.
When are you heading back
to Scotland?
MIA LAUGHS
I thought I'd wait till
they buried my sister.
We need Ewan back.
He needs to continue our work.
He's just lost his fiancee.
What is wrong with you?
And nothing's going to
bring her back, is it?
She would want us to keep our
work going. I want to honour that.
And I'm sure Ewan does, too,
in his own time.
You sure about that?
What? What are you talking about?!
Ewan's a great leader,
he keeps us all together, but
he's always needed a woman nearby
with some real knowledge
or else nothing would happen.
Do you know what I think, Natalie?
I think you might still have
a bit of a thing for Ewan.
No.
Sure about that?
Just don't take everything
he says at face value, yeah?
CHAINSAW RESTARTS
Mia, there you are.
Would you like a drink?
No, thanks, Annot, you're all right.
Hey, erm
I need to sort my head out.
Will you come back
up the hill with me?
Do you think that'll help?
Do I believe in closure?
No.
But do I want to think more
on the spot where my sister died?
Yeah, I think that's fair enough.
Sure, yeah, I'll join you.
I'll stay with Cassy until teatime.
I wouldn't worry, though, dear,
the way she looks,
there's no fear
from the body snatchers.
SHE GASPS
ALARM RINGS
It's strange to be here.
So tell me about Hera.
I told you,
we went to the same school.
That's all?
She had a bit of a crush on me
at the time.
Of course she did. You were
About 17. And she was 15.
Nothing happened between us.
Yeah, nah. Sure.
I just heard that
that was around the age she was
when she killed herself.
Yeah, I mean,
that was the talk in the town.
They kept it from her mother. It was
just kinder to say that she fell.
It's like Cassy.
As far as we know, Cassy did fall.
Hera jumped.
Maybe the Grey Man got them both.
There's no more a Grey Man here than
there is a monster in Loch Ness.
So
when you left Cassy up here,
it was still daylight?
Just.
She tried to call me, as I was
taking off. I was halfway here.
So she fell sometime between
you leaving her and that call.
You know I didn't leave her
up here, Mia.
What?
I didn't leave her here.
It was down there.
Here?
I was here, she was there.
What were you doing?
Talking, discussing.
About what?
Tactics for our rewilding campaign.
I thought that she'd finally gone
too far, you know, with the vision.
She was burning tractors,
people's property.
I mean, it's not like you're
attacking a government, is it?
Mia, people here, the farmers,
they're just trying to
make a living.
The activists, this generation,
yeah, they want to send out
real messages,
they want to disrupt shit,
they don't want to just walk
down a street with a placard.
Ah, be the change. Yeah, and Cassy
was at the forefront of it.
She was leading the pack,
riling them all up.
I thought, great, here we go,
she's going to get caught.
If she gets arrested,
she'll get deported,
and that was just the beginning.
They set their sights far greater
than burning tractors,
and me, Mia, I'm tired,
I just want to plant trees.
Is that why she went to live
in the eco-pod?
I thought I was giving her space,
you know? I thought maybe
Maybe that would be good
before the wedding.
Why didn't you just tell me that?
I did ask you
if there were problems.
I thought that we were both
looking forward to getting married
Did you fuck her here?
Sorry?
You just said that you were
all over each other when you met,
so I'm just trying to understand
and get my head around a little bit
where you were at.
Right. Well, maybe I blocked that
part out when you let me know
that your sister
was screwing around on me.
So So you were standing?
No, actually, I was sitting,
she was standing.
The whole time? I don't know.
I got up at some point, I guess.
Why? Why? Because we weren't!
We weren't discussing, all right?
We were fighting,
we were having an argument.
About her guerrilla tactics? Yes!
Yes.
And, yeah, I blame myself for
walking off on her that day,
all right?
Did she hit you?
Piss off, Mia. Did she shove you?
She didn't touch me.
Did she ever tell you about
our mother? She'd hit us.
She'd scream at us,
she'd shout at us.
That was our life training ground.
That's where we learnt
what to do in an argument.
Yeah, I get it. It's not good.
Cos when Cassy was pissed off,
she'd hit me.
Yeah, well, she never even
touched me, OK? Ever. Lucky you.
Did you hit her?
No.
What? She never made you so mad?
She never wound you up?
Because she could do that.
She could wind people up
to the point of bursting.
She actually took pride in it,
in the fact she'd never back down.
It was always someone else that
hit her. It was always someone else
that slammed the door in her face.
Were you going to hit her, and then
decided not to and walked away?
Were you having an affair?
All right, you listen to me,
it's not just you that's hurting,
Mia, OK? I'm hurting.
I'm hurting, Mia.
We're all hurting, OK?
So you don't get to come here
and shit on all of us like this!
I just don't understand
how you survive our childhood
and then just fall down
some big, dumb cliff!
Fuck off!
Cassy!
Arrrgh!
Let me go!
Arrrgh!
Evening.
Don't you have a? A digger? It's
bust and I can't afford to fix it.
Burying people is not the business
it used to be.
Cremations have taken over.
Recognise this?
Nope.
Cassy was wearing it when she died.
Nothing to do with me.
But you had it made.
I passed it on a long time ago.
To who?
You're not the police, mate.
But your wife is.
She didn't recognise it.
Listen
you want to do some digging?
Feel free to help.
Because if I don't finish this,
your sister's not going to find
any peace and neither will you.
So you didn't have this made
for your wife?
Don't play with me.
S'up?
Who the fuck are you? We've got
something you'd like to see.
Uh-huh? A video of your sister.
With someone who is not her fiance.
Seen it!
I'm guessing it was you
that sent it to Cassy's phone
to blackmail her.
I'm also guessing that
she told you to sod off,
which means you're not
very good at it.
What about Teddy? Did he cough up?
We've seen other stuff, too.
Piss off, junior.
OK. It's going to be your loss.
Cassy and Teddy had a big fight
at her eco-pod
the morning before she died.
What about?
Duranyl. We know you've got some.
Why can't you get it from
the tourist shop guy?
Do you want to know or not?
Three Duranyl patches.
Will you have further information
to supply me with in the future?
Yeah.
Yeah, we're totally all over it.
Go on, then!
She was very angry with him.
They were yelling at each other.
She kept telling him to
tell the truth and to man up.
And what did he say?
We couldn't hear.
He made her lower her voice.
MIA SIGHS
We said three. Tough titty!
DOOR OPENS
Hello?
BATS SQUEAK
Aargh!
Aargh! Aargh!
Aargh! Aargh! Oh, my God!
Aargh! Aargh!
Oh, my God! Aargh! Aargh!
Get them out!
Aargh! Aargh!
Aargh!
No!
Little buggers. You all right?
How did they get in here?
I've no idea. They're actually rare.
Not tonight! Oh, they fit in
with all the other friendly locals!
The anti-rewilders.
They went after Cassy too.
The bats were here first.
It's everyone else that should go.
Have you fallen out with anyone
since you arrived?
MIA LAUGHS
Are you OK, love?
MIA LAUGHS MANIACALLY
OK.
PHONE RINGS
OK, I'll leave you to your call.
Hello? Hey. I'm in your flat.
How are you doing? Holding up?
Funeral's on Thursday.
God. I can't imagine
what you're going through.
Which makes this next bit
extremely hard.
But there's questions here.
I think they're building a case.
About Coulter being awake?
Like it was my fault? There's
mutterings of a board investigation.
Then they should just bloody
talk to me,
not try and build a case this way.
I can clear this up.
Mate, there's Duranyl missing
from just before you left.
Riz?
I'm sorry, but I'm your friend,
so I've got to ask.
No, you don't, actually.
I've been clean for years
and you know it. Good.
I'm sorry.
Believe me, Riz.
OK. Of course.
I saw online that they're, erm
they're calling it an accident.
Someone pushed my sister.
I know it.
What are the police saying?
They're waiting on
the postmortem results.
I wish Cassy could just tell me
what happened.
How's Iggy?
He's good. Fine.
Tell him his mum will be home soon.
Copy.
I need to sleep.
Take care, please.
And if you need to talk
Night, Riz.
It's too much for now.
I'll tell her soon.
SNORING
Hello, love.
I think you would laugh
at the state of you.
I'm just glad that you're not here
to see yourself.
Where did that come from?
She was wearing it
when we found her.
Yeah, I remember. It's just weird.
I mean, like the ring.
She didn't usually wear jewellery.
Well, it must have been
just as important to her
so she's going to have it.
What are these?
Manuka.
The first flowers your sister
ever gave me were roses,
the first flowers I ever gave her
I've had bats.
Literally.
Inside of my room.
What do you mean by bats?
Someone planted bats in my Airbnb.
Look, Cassy, erm, told me
about your issues.
I'm not judging, but if you need
support while you're here, I'm here.
I'm not seeing things, Ewan.
For the record, I've been clean
for a number of years now.
It's my shift.
You get some sleep.
I might, um
take a walk, actually,
get some air.
Sorry to say that your sister
is starting to Smell.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Evening, Annot.
How are you this evening?
You look wonderful.
May I?
Yeah, be my guest.
A song from the old country.
SHE PLAYS "THE BONNIE BANKS
O' LOCH LOMOND"
On the bonnie, bonnie banks
Of Loch Lomond. ♪
GROWLING AND BARKING