Bay of Fires (2023) s02e01 Episode Script

1
I need you to listen
to me very carefully.
The two men who just
entered are here to kill you.
Your new home,
a place called Mystery Bay.
Your new name? Stella Heikkinen.
Today is the day you cut off
ties to everything and everyone
you know.
We're heading to Mystery Bay.
Why would you do that?
Hi, I'm your new
neighbour, Frankie McLeish.
How is this woman running a
drug empire keeping anyone safe?
The world put us here and
then proceeded to forget us.
Everyone in this town
is on witness protection.
I'm the same.
I found one of our floats, Frankie.
It's been cut.
All the drugs are gone.
Whoever did this will
pay with their life.
So are you going to help me or what?
(GUNFIRE)
(SCREAMS)
I'd say her company is
just like one of many,
washing money for some cartel.
What is stopping us doing
exactly what they do?
There's $800,000 sitting
in Tasmanian bank accounts
waiting for us to collect.
Accounts have been set
up in multiple names.
Withdrawals over $10,000 are
mandatorily reported by bank staff.
So be ready for their questions.
They just don't appear to have noticed
that some of their money has gone.
- So we can keep doing this?
- Mm-hm.
(SNIGGERS)
- To us.
- To us.
To you.
All I'm suggesting is that you
chew the protein bar too fast.
Oh, you were timing my chewing?
That's how I ground myself.
Chew in relation to distance.
So one bar is consumed
in ratio to the journey.
One bar, one kilometre.
- And hydrate for the next five.
- Uh-huh.
Yeah.
How much further have we got?
Best estimate, 22 kilometres of
rough terrain before we hit any town.
So how many protein bars would that be?
There's a town down there.
No.
This is the latest
geographical survey map, OK?
There is no town.
Yeah, there is.
Huh.
That shouldn't be there.
(ENGINE REVS)
Do you do oat milk lattes?
Oh, yeah, it's in that
glass thing over there.
$18 for a small coffee?
Yeah, it's impossible
to get fresh stuff here.
You know, your town
isn't even on the map?
Still?
After all these years.
We may as well not exist.
Taylor might be able to help.
He's an influencer.
What's that when it flies in?
Oh, an influencer is someone
who connects with people
It's more than just connecting.
It's garnering and
channelling attention.
I see myself as a life coach
who guides people into making
the right lifestyle choices.
So, advertising.
(LAUGHS)
No, nothing like advertising.
I endorse a product from
a place of knowledge.
So, nothing like advertising.
- How wrong I was.
- Hm.
- He has over a million followers.
- Well, 82,000 more than a million.
Oh, my goodness.
Do you hear that, everyone?
This young man here could
put our little town on the map
with 1 million and 82,000 people.
You two should try our local mushrooms.
Heather here is our resident mycologist.
Heather, dear, you
wouldn't mind picking out
some of the very best ones
for our young influencers here?
Yeah.
It's on the house.
(BUS PULLS UP)
MAN: The bushfire was
a $5 billion nightmare.
You pay out on all those claims,
you won't have a company to run.
I won't let the company go under.
It's just a wrestle between
ethics and cash flow.
Leave ethics to the bloody churches.
The last thing I want
is corporate watchdogs
crawling all over our books.
Douglas, good evening.
Hey.
I worry your father and
I are becoming too close.
He's just being a prick.
Where have you been?
Admiring the plumbing.
Gone 20 minutes.
- It's very good plumbing.
- (LAUGHS)
Want to check out a
cubicle with me later?
Mm! That's very romantic.
- Slightly public, but romantic.
- (LAUGHS)
- and Melinda Gates.
- Oh, that's you.
Mm. Wish me luck.
Like you've ever needed it.
She's the daughter of industry
legend Douglas Van Cleef
and fast becoming a
legend in her own right
Nice to see you!
..ladies and gentlemen,
this year's winner
of the prestigious Corporate
Woman of the Year award,
please welcome Anika Van Cleef.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, that is lovely.
Uh
Let me start with a story.
A story of a little girl who
who was always in awe of
her great, all powerful,
often formidable father.
A man who built a great empire.
But as this little girl grew, she
realized she wasn't her father.
So she decided to act more as a guide.
I want to be driven by more
than just the bottom line
and shareholder return.
I want to view our business as
part of a broader community
(SOFTLY) Boys, come
on, come on, come on.
- empowered by our sense
- Come on, pass, pass.
- of our social contract.
- Yes!
(EXHALES)
To take collective
responsibility for who we are
within reason.
(LAUGHTER)
I want to wake up every morning
and be able to look in
the mirror and ask myself,
"Are you being true to your core values?
"Are you happy where you are?"
And I can honestly say
yes.
Yes, I am.
(APPLAUSE)
Why can't we just meet in an office?
Why can't you push my head
into the mud between 9 and 5?
You have two choices. The same
two we gave you a year ago.
Take over where Frankie left off
How many times?
I don't cook drugs.
Then increase our payment by 50%.
If I increase what we pay you,
it will alert the Russians to the scam
and probably the banks as well.
The boss says find a way.
Then let me explain why I
can't to him or her, please.
Why am I even talking to you?
You wouldn't want to do that.
Your town cost him a
shipment worth $2 million.
That wasn't me. That was Frankie.
Well, Frankie's not here anymore.
Increase our take by 50%.
Oh
No!
(GURGLES)
(THUNDER CRACKS)
Where has she been?
I don't know.
Can I have a sandwich?
No, this is for Graham.
He's out walking.
Nope, he's in Melbourne.
(SIGHS)
Graham!
Here's your sandwich.
Thank you, Bong Cha.
Enjoy!
(CAR TOOTS MELODIOUS HORN)
You can't show her this.
Miss Butler says I have to, and
Mum has to sign it and come in.
(KNOCKS)
I think two of them live in here.
A woman and her baby who
drowned in a shipwreck in 1846.
You know what? I'll do it.
I do Mum's signature all the time.
Hi, Mum.
Hi.
When's dinner?
I left a pizza on the counter.
It's frozen.
Yeah, just let it melt in your mouth.
What were you about to
forge my signature on?
It's just a parent-teacher meeting.
So what? Of course I can be there.
It's too dangerous for
you to leave town, Mum.
I've done it before, and I'm careful.
Yeah, and the last time you did that,
the Russians came and tried to kill us.
Things are easier now.
Since when?
Guys!
I know we've been through a
lot, but things are working here.
There's ghosts in the walls.
No, there isn't.
There's nothing dead
that can hurt you here.
(WILD ANIMALS SCREECH IN DISTANCE)
How?
How do I make more money?
Which one was it?
The headless one that died
when the sword fell on its head.
Well, at least he can't eat you.
Go to sleep.
I wish Dad would come back as a ghost.
He could stay in my room.
(SIGHS)
Why is Otis still up?
He just wanted to see us.
Alright, for one pretzel,
where is the Saragossa Sea?
There.
Very good.
Alright, alright, alright.
That's it. It's time for bed.
- Come on.
- Wait, wait, wait.
What is the Saragossa Sea famous for?
That's where all the eels come from.
(LAUGHS) Genius.
We shall sail the rest of the oceans
in the morning, my young shipmate.
OK.
Alright. Say night.
- Goodnight.
- Hey, hug. Hug, hug.
Don't wake up your sister, alright?
Goodnight.
- Oi.
- No!
Cheeky boy.
You know, not all eels come from there.
What about the eels in the ponds here?
How did they get here?
Um, don't know.
Private charter, maybe?
No one knows.
It's a mystery.
You didn't listen to my speech, did you?
I saw you watching the
bloody soccer on your phone.
I thought you were terrific.
Oh, yeah? What did I say?
Well, you told a story.
About?
About
Well, it wasn't exactly a classic story.
There was no serial killer leaving
bottle tops behind as clues.
You know, it was business talk.
You looked great.
Oh, so I looked great,
but you thought what I said was crap?
Your people loved it.
I meant it.
OK, well, what even is
collective responsibility?
I mean, isn't that just an excuse
for taking no personal responsibility?
We can't solve global warming
because some guy in Sierra
Leone has a coal-fired stove.
What about the bushfire claims?
I assume that's what you were
arguing about with your father.
Why don't you go practise
your personal responsibility?
Pick up the oat milk you forgot to get.
- (LAUGHS)
- Go on.
Too menopause milk.
Otis likes it on his cereal.
Yeah, I bet he does.
Mm-hm.
- Who won, by the way?
- (LAUGHS)
We scored against AC Milan
in the final three minutes.
We are the winners.
We are los premieres!
(BIRDSONG)
(CONNOR COUGHS)
How real is this asbestos thingy?
Walk 10 metres up that road,
your will better be in order.
I read nothing about it in the papers.
Papers!
Won't find the truth in there, are you?
You think the powers that be
are going to come clean on this?
Just waiting for us all to die.
This the state government?
Higher.
Federal?
Higher.
You go as high as you can, then
you go several light years higher.
Well, if it's that bloody bad,
why is everyone ordering
all this expensive shit?
(COUGHS)
Well, you don't want us to enjoy
the last few weeks of our life?
(COUGHS)
Oh, mate.
You stay right here.
I'll sort it.
- Yeah?
- Cheers.
(COUGHS)
Microwave.
I know.
Step.
Stack nicely, yeah?
I am stacking. Can you just move?
Can people line up?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Why do you even want three air fryers?
- I like chicken wings.
- Yeah, my trail bike?
Connor's.
All big items are stored at Connor's.
I keep walking into perfectly good
appliances chucked out in the street.
My old man would roll in his grave.
He hung onto the same
fridge for 35 years.
I think you should slow down on
the deep fried stuff, Bong Cha.
I remember it well.
Lukewarm beer.
Yeah, it was basically a cold
cupboard that sounded like a 747.
We never had ice cream.
Well, we did, but we drank it.
Now we could get three
perfectly functioning ones
just walking down Goonah Street.
I don't know where your
inflatable kayak is.
Look for yourself.
Free-range capitalism squeezed into
three streets and a post office.
- Yeah.
- It's right here.
Hey, since when have
you ever even kayaked?
You don't even swim.
Which is why I need a kayak.
- Yes, that's me.
- Are you sure?
- Oh, OK.
- What did you buy? I want one too.
- I've got two big ones too.
- Wait, one, two, three
I can't even move in here.
I have a third one.
Where's my other one?
How much longer is your lady
friend going to keep this going?
She's unleashed a tidal wave.
She's not my She's a
lady and a friend, but
Well, hang on, hang
on. What is she, then?
Can you just get out?
- All of you!
- Alright.
You can stay, Graham and Jeremiah.
Alright, through here.
I just need a couple of stamps.
I don't know if we sell them.
Stella and me, we don't have a
We're not in It's
just We're sort of
Sort of Thursdays.
Yeah, Thursdays.
(VACUUM WHINES)
Yeah. Yeah, got him.
Set it off, set it off.
(VACUUM TURNS OFF)
Nice.
How many is that we've got?
Three.
The one with the burnt head
is still in the desk drawer.
Uh, might need water for that one.
You go release this
lot down in the garage.
Connor won't mind. Give
him someone to talk to.
- Hey, Mum.
- Hi, sweetheart.
- And don't drop 'em.
- Mm-hm.
I have spent the last few
months trying to convince her
there is no such thing
as ghosts in this place.
Oh, you won't do that. Not here.
Tasmania is wall-to-wall
ghosts, real or imagined,
but you live here long
enough, you feel them.
Well, for God's sake,
don't say that to her.
Stella, this town, this building,
everything frightens her.
Iris is fine.
She's strong, she's resilient.
Allow me to know my children.
No kid's that resilient.
Look, things are quieter now.
The Russians have caused
enough problems globally
without worrying about little me.
I have things under control.
How? By paying off a drug cartel
on an insane religious cult?
Stella, these people won't go away.
Golden rule of crims
they keep coming.
We have established
you don't want to know,
so let me run things as I
have done for the past year.
By bringing everything that's
wrong with the outside world
and dumping it on the main street?
And improving their lifestyle!
Pssh! If ever a town didn't need
a lifestyle, this has to be it.
Bread went up to 23 bucks this morning.
People are just adjusting
to having money for a change.
It'll settle. The
market will determine
There is no bloody market!
One post office that can't
cope since Charlie left.
One Thai pub selling salmonella noodles.
One op shop selling busted plates.
And Connor's garage?
Fuck knows what he does.
So what would you have me do?
- Leave.
- I can't.
The world still wants me dead.
I can't show my face on a screen,
I can't use a real credit card.
All I can do is the odd round
trip on one tank of petrol
and not stop anywhere.
The kids are safer here.
There are places they wouldn't find us.
'Us'?
Yes.
I suppose.
You You don't want me to?
I I didn't say that.
Why are you here?
It's Thursday.
(LAUGHS)
Thursday!
Magic Thursday. Romance. Oh!
We can go for a walk first.
I could cook a meal.
My place. Bring the
kids. Stay the night.
(SIGHS) You've got wheat pillows.
It's like sleeping on cereal.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(THUDDING)
(THUDDING)
(THUDDING)
(THUDDING)
(THUDDING)
Did you forget to take your key again?
It's in the Oh.
OK. You can go in, girls. Go on.
Sorry
You heard, they're
coming to live with you.
Sorry, sorry. You need to go.
Where do you expect us
to go, lady executive?
Huh? You took our house.
You let them watch
their mother die in agony
and now my two little girls are
sleeping in that car over there.
Do you think that's a nice
place for little girls to live?
OK, come on, girls.
If this is about an insurance claim,
you need to come into my office
OK, fuck that!
18 times I came to your
lying fucking office!
Just calm down, please.
22 years I paid your
company thousands of dollars.
I missed two payments because their
mother is dying in the hospital.
The bushfire takes our home
and you will not pay me a cent!
I said you could come
into my office tomorrow
and I promise I will talk to you,
but you need to go now or I
will have to call the police.
How the fuck do you
live with yourself, lady?
Playing God with people's lives?
Let's go, girls.
The bitch will not help you.
Let's go.
Get in the car. Now!
Fuck.
Get in the car!
(CAR DOORS CLOSE)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(EXHALES HEAVILY)
(ENGINE REVS, TYRES SQUEAL)
Any news on my vehicle, Connor?
They promised later today.
Whatever a promise is worth.
I'm on my way to chase it up now.
- We have a meeting.
- I know.
Gutted to be missing it.
So you got Connor to order your new car?
He and I, we have a relationship now.
He wouldn't be stupid enough
to steal another car from me.
Just let me know the minute it turns up.
Mm-hm.
So, what's this meeting about?
Well, we need to reprioritise
the ambitions of this town.
Create a community we
all want to live in.
Yeah, except no one wants to live here.
That's kind of the only
thing we have in common.
I take it someone's leaning
on you for more money?
Hi!
I make you a celestial Malaysian
treat with my new air fryer.
Thank you, Bong Cha. (LAUGHS)
$38.
Look, you try and take
away this lot's income
and they will turn on you, bitch.
In the last fiscal year, I
brought in around $3.4 million
into this town, which I've
spread evenly amongst you all.
So
For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
- Oh, no, no, no OK
- For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
Wait, it's not
For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
Um, thank you.
I
- (CARRY NOTE)
- I could
Um
And so say all of us ♪
And so say all of us ♪
And thank you. Thank you, thank you.
But there comes a time
in every enterprise
where you have to have a re-evaluation.
I've examined the economic terrain
and there are some rocks ahead
that will affect outcomes.
You think we should take more?
No, Bong Cha. The opposite.
We should take less.
Nah, I think we should get more.
Me too. Yes, definitely more. More.
Yeah, I think we should
vote on this, don't you?
Let's take a vote.
Well, let's wait and hear
what the rest of the
No. This isn't a voting matter.
I'm telling you all how it is.
You'll still have plenty of money.
I mean, you don't know what to
do with the money you have now.
Bread is $23. Milk's $18.
- Free market. So?
- It's not a free market.
We're trapped here because it's
too dangerous to shop anywhere else.
You're eating each other alive.
There's no trust in this town.
When was there?
What we have is a rubbish monopoly.
Thank you, Heather, Magda.
I agree.
So we need to take less
money for ourselves.
(GASPING)
We still want the money.
- Oh, you do?
- Mm.
- More, if anything.
- More.
I mean, the eastern barred bandicoot.
The eastern quoll.
- 40 spotted pardalote.
- (GROANS)
The devils.
I mean, you reduce our money
and you condemn at least
one of those to extinction.
You choose. Which one?
So let me start with a story.
No! I think more money.
Yeah, definitely. OK, now we vote.
Alright, let's vote here.
I'm going to put my hand up.
- More.
- More.
OK, there'll be no damn vote!
I'm reducing the money,
whether you like it or not.
OK?
- No, but we want more.
- More.
We need more.
You're not getting more!
- We need more.
- More.
- More.
- More.
Right?
I take it it was a triumph in there.
It went very well.
What exactly were you hoping to achieve?
Or haven't we moved on
from wheat pillows yet?
Bruce is demanding more money
to pay off Frankie's debt
or I make the drugs.
You know, I've got
mates in Luang Prabang.
They run a nice backpacker lodge there.
It'll be tricky, but we'd be safe.
In Luang Prabang?
Yeah, if we leave from
a regional airport,
go by Singapore and then
make our way north
And what am I supposed to do in
a backpacker lodge in Vientiane?
Well, in the short term, stay alive.
I can get us work there.
Oh, yeah, like what?
Cleaning toilets?
Making beds?
Sex every Thursday? Or
is it different there?
I have a degree in economics.
I've run huge
And what the fuck does that mean now?
None of it matters.
I'm not cleaning
toilets in Luang Prabang.
(SNORING)
Tarquin!
Tarquin, do you see that?
I mean, who's to say
she's not setting us up?
Take all the money for herself?
She wouldn't do that.
She means well, doesn't she?
I mean, she does.
A lot of people die around her.
Yeah, and you might ask her
what happened to Frankie.
She let Manfred burn
just to watch him die.
No, no, she definitely didn't do that.
I don't think she did.
100% no, she wouldn't.
She would.
Yeah, and Manfred isn't
here to tell us otherwise.
Or Frankie.
Would you listen to you all? I
mean, your greed has caused this.
And hers.
Well, to some extent.
To some extent.
I mean, more people are showing
up at the town limits every day.
It's because of this all-pervasive
laisser-aller attitude you all have.
Free for all.
Spending too much.
You have made the town porous.
I mean, all these truck
deliveries you're getting?
Money attracts attention.
Our standard security measures
have proven entirely nugatory.
That's bad, right?
BOTH: Bad.
BOTH: Play your jacks.
- (EXCLAMATIONS)
- How did you know he had that?
Well, you've got a pair of queens,
Kerry's got a couple of fours,
the rest of you, nothing much really.
You're cheating.
And you pulled the queen of
hearts out of your sleeve.
One card only.
I can't keep drugging people.
I mean, these mushrooms only
grow around here once a year
and their toxicity is variable.
I could end up killing someone.
Maybe we don't need to worry as much.
I mean, maybe the outside
world is less of a threat now.
Yeah, well, I wake up
every morning and think,
"Maybe today I should risk it."
Because I'm not even sure
being murdered in the real world
is any worse than living here.
(DOOR OPENS)
(SIGHS)
It's Friday.
Yes.
Your Thursdays usually
make it to Friday.
Apparently not always.
Am I sensing a touch of saudade?
Lost love.
Longing.
Met a girl at a gun show, caught her.
Take her bowling.
Plan out the rest of
your life and then
rotisserie chickens.
(GASPS)
Pardon?
She went out to buy one.
"Be a half hour," she said.
Just never came back.
It's all about to happen again.
Alignment of the planets
in five days' time.
They will descend to Earth.
The rotisserie chickens?
Conjunction of Venus.
Saturn forming a beacon
of light to Earth.
Landing lights.
Centred on the scrubland
outside of Morwell
where these bastards can land
their ships in a safe harbour.
Every pseudoscientist agrees.
You do realise that pseudoscience
is not a branch of actual science?
It wouldn't have science in the name
if it weren't proper, would it? No.
And was it near this scrubland
that your wife was abducted?
No, it was outside of
North Clayton shops.
On the very same day
as the solar eclipse.
Coincidence?
Do me a favour.
(WHISTLES) He is getting worse.
Oh, yeah.
So much.
Oh, is Sammi in Zurich?
No, he's in his happy place.
(MUTTERS) Oh, fucking great!
(TECHNO MUSIC PUMPS)
You miss this, do you?
Well, why would I,
when I have this huge, sickening
scene right out my door?
The clubs, the designer
drugs, the all-night parties.
I mean, honestly, sometimes
it's too much for me in here.
So, I hear the meeting went well.
They've agreed to a reduction.
They'll get over it.
But we also need to substantially
up what we cream from the Russians.
Whoa, that's a bit of a risk, isn't it?
I mean, they might notice an increase.
Well, we've been varying
the amounts anyway.
And we've got to withdraw from
a lot more banks this time.
Don't worry, Sammi, it'll be fine.
OK.
What's your grand design?
Not to get killed.
Standard day, except we're
hitting more banks this time.
But we get less money.
How does that work?
Check your lists.
You know your stories.
Please stick with them.
Don't go over the 10,000 limit.
Don't look at the cameras.
And good luck.
(SOFTLY) Is Magda alright?
She prefers to give
instructions, not receive them.
We'll be there.
I don't see your name on this list.
Where will you be?
Pretending to be a mother.
Connor says your car's arriving soon.
Mmm. Apparently.
Why are we stopped?
Sorry, Stella.
Heavy traffic.
Well, your kids' safety
is my number one concern.
And mine is to get them
educated in their lifetime.
School started 35 minutes ago.
But we are in a police vehicle.
If we were to have an accident,
and God forbid there was one
Jason, please, please, can we just
Let's drive.
Safe now, let's drive.
OK.
Oh! Possum!
No, pothole.
Carry on.
May I ask, is everything OK at home?
Yes, everything's fine.
W Why?
Well, because Iris is
falling seriously behind.
Well, she was top of the
class at her old school.
Oh, she's certainly not that here.
Well, I wonder what that
says about this school.
She seems very anxious.
Everything is fine at home.
So, she's happy.
Iris is drawing terrible pictures.
People stabbing people.
She's talking about ghosts
and witches stealing you
from her all the time.
She's starting to frighten
the other children.
Sometimes I find that
the children hold back
for fear of hurting the parent.
Now, look, I'm not saying
that's the case here
Uh, she does
She does miss her dad.
She didn't know him that well, but
Do you mind if I take her home today?
No, not at all.
(CLEARS THROAT) Thanks for the chat.
Well, how is Otis going at St Leonard's?
Sorry?
Otis transferred to St
Leonard's, didn't he?
I got your letter.
Yes, Otis is
Well, he's very happy.
(CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY)
Thank you.
I'll just find
(DOOR CLOSES)
How about you miss school for a few days
to spend some time together?
- Really?
- Yeah. It'll be fun.
- In you hop.
- Thanks, Mum.
(CAR HORN HONKS)
(HONKS)
Otis!
Sweetheart? Get in the car!
(HORN HONKS)
Persimmons, feijoas, avocados
I mean, have you any idea how
expensive kids' ballet classes are?
(LAUGHS) Do they want our
children to dance or not?
I'm sorry, would you mind
just waiting a second?
Do you have a biro that I
could borrow for a moment?
Sure.
(WOMAN GASPS)
- (PEOPLE EXCLAIM)
- Oh, some help, please.
(SCREAMING)
Is he going to be alright?
He'll be fine.
Can I get, uh, $9,550 in 50s, please?
It's for a
(MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY) Ride-on mower.
riddled mower.
- Ride-on mower.
- Ride-on mower.
Um, you know the ones you ride on?
I'm going to buy one of them.
- Mr Galizel?
- Yeah?
Would you mind waiting?
The manager's going to need a word.
Yeah, yeah, no worries.
By all means.
(WHISPERS) Nah, they're on to us, mate.
Yeah?
(ENGINE REVS)
Alright.
Otis, you take your sister
upstairs, get her something to eat.
Can I trust you to do this right?
(HORN HONKS)
Thanks, Jason.
Great.
Ladies, we will talk later.
Once, in Irkutsk,
I was working undercover with a
British counterintelligence agent,
only to find that he
spoke very poor Russian,
and we had been given
diametrically opposite targets,
with no way of establishing
which target was correct.
I mean, in the end, we just held
both targets prisoner in a tiny,
frozen Siberian hut for two months.
We survived by eating field mice
and with me wrestling the odd reindeer
whilst awaiting clarification.
I mean, finally, we did
dispose of the correct target,
which was a shame because
he was the one we preferred.
Until today,
that was the worst organised operation
that I'd ever been a part of.
I take it there was a problem.
Sammi's waiting to see you in Zurich.
Right.
Are you sure you can handle that?
How bad is it?
Well, I guess they noticed.
Looks like the Russians noticed too.
Shit.
Hey, kids, I hope you've organised
(GRUNTS)
(MUFFLED) Stop!
Can we just do this
meeting in my office?
I need to be with my kids.
Who the hell is this?
Stella Heikkinen.
I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Or would you prefer your
given name, Anika Van Cleef?
Stella? Stella.
(IMITATES BRANDO) Stella!
This is a particular thrill for me.
I don't get to meet people
of your quality that often.
Maybe the odd person at Organic Markets,
my other passion being I produce
the finest raw honey in Tasmania.
Great. An environmental drug dealer.
You were the one outside my house.
Moving a hive.
To a wonderful field of
hakea laurina I discovered.
I find the flower gives an
edgier note to the honey.
I had the queen under my hat.
So the hive just follow
her like lost souls.
And now here you are,
my queen of Mystery Bay.
I'm not a queen of anything.
Don't be modest.
The new queen kills the old queen.
The hive inevitably bow to her.
I didn't kill Frankie.
No, her brother did.
Along with the idiot brother.
Behrouz, here, sanctioned
the murders all by himself.
Without even consulting me.
Frankie and Arthur are dead?
Leaving you in charge of the town.
No, I'm not.
- No?
- No.
You've been defrauding a
Russian mob for how many months?
That's true royalty to me.
Well, that's over.
I mean, I told Behrouz, I did what
he asked and they shut us down.
Now there's no more money for anyone.
Mm. So I hear.
Then it is time for
you to don your crown
and run my business.
What, the honey? I won't have
anything to do with drugs.
The late Frankie produced the
finest heroin in the market.
In a world flooded with
cheap supermarket narcotics,
Frankie was a craftswoman.
Behrouz never really
respected that, did you?
I don't know the first
thing about heroin,
and I will never take part
in anything that can
ruin people's lives.
Tarquin used to work closely with her.
Maybe he can guide you.
No, I I I
I can't. I can't do this.
Heroin has lost its
cachet, its glamour. Hm?
Where are the the Miles
Davises, the the Coltranes?
Dead or in rehab.
People die of many things.
What you bring to this mix
is genuine business acumen and charisma.
I've watched your old videos.
Collective responsibility, core
values, a broader sense of society.
You bring people together.
What I said in those speeches
was self-serving crap.
I didn't mean it then and I
certainly don't mean it now.
I won't help you.
(LAUGHS)
That's disappointing
particularly for Behrouz.
- (GUNSHOT)
- (YELPS)
(SCREAMS)
(PANTS)
This is how it is from now on.
My Queen.
(WEEPS)
(SCREAMS) No, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
(CHILDREN CHATTER
INDISTINCTLY AND LAUGH)
I'm concerned.
This is a matter of life and death.
My life and my death.
You're not gonna stop us leaving.
If you want to run, you go right ahead.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Praise me for I am eternal.
It would appear there
has been a major theft.
Who stole what?
BOTH: Connor.
CONNOR: I ain't done a hit in 20 years.
MAN: You know her?
CONNOR: Nah, just looks
like someone I used to know.