Bay of Fires (2023) s02e05 Episode Script

1
How's it working out with
your new boss? What's his name?
I produce the finest
raw honey in Tasmania.
Great. An environmental drug dealer.
Heroin has lost its cachet.
We are still cooking the gear?
Yeah, we're almost ready.
I remember a time when
we used to be so close.
Who is this?
What?
The little village
that appeared overnight.
They breed rabbits and eat them.
When did we start
fraternising with outsiders?
Let's just get them
drugged and out of here.
You know her.
They're sending a
talisman out after her.
Only six in the world and
no-one knows who they are.
Oh, god. No!
Ah!
- Want me to call you?
- Giddy up, will ya?
Connor?
They're gone.
And the drugs have gone.
You're the one who let
them into the town, pet.
(FRANKIE SINGS) ♪
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo. ♪
Oh, what is that song?
We were just about to deliver
and then it all gets stolen
and all you can do is hum a tune.
Oh, I understand why you're so tense.
Terrible position to be in.
I don't envy you one iota.
Us.
Oh, no, no. You, dear,
You're our new number one.
I'm just here being neighbourly,
offering my support,
hoping to find my Mixmaster.
You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Oh, it's always lovely to
have a nice day out, hey.
(LAUGHS) Don't you worry.
There's nowhere on this
island they can hide
without me finding them.
Rubber ball! That's it!
Like a rubber ball I'll
come bouncing back to you
Rubber ball I'll come
bouncing back to you. ♪
That's them.
Huh! Told you I'd find them.
(KNOCKS AT DOOR)
Huh!
Alright.
My Mixmaster is here.
Seriously? Is that all
you're worried about?
Oh, I find I have to gravitate
towards the little wins
now I'm not very popular, you see.
Nobody came to my party
because you organised something else.
I had to do something
to get rid of them.
On the night of my big opening.
Sorry, I forgot.
And your grand plan?
Did that include them stealing
everything from the entire town?
Oh.
Well, there's no sign of
blood or wounds. It's
This is a professional hit.
Could the new boss have done it?
No.
This is an outsider.
Five bodies just out of town.
Place will be swarming with
cops if we don't get rid of them.
GRAHAM: You will just
have to learn to move on.
Last night, I had sex with Tarquin.
Right. Mmm.
Are you concerned it's
too soon after Reg?
No. I'm concerned it was Tarquin.
And that he was surprising,
for a stupid man.
I'll never get over it.
I could never love any
man the way I loved him.
You and Reg were
married for a long time.
Oh, my god, not Reg!
Reg is dead to me.
Raoul.
Hang on, hang on.
Wasn't wasn't Raoul the man
that you and Reg went into
witness protection for?
Yeah. Well, I always regretted that.
Raoul he oozed Latino passion.
He was an extraordinary lover.
He taught me so much.
I can still feel him, you know.
Let's, um
Let's take a breath
and have a cup of tea.
Yeah. Why not?
Where's the kettle?
My tea caddy's been moved.
Are you missing something?
I found the drugs.
Oh, that's a pity.
Oh, my god.
Tarquin, I need your help now.
Bring Kerry.
I remember, even with
Bev, and we were so happy,
there were times when one or both of us
had to remember it was a mutual thing.
It's just realising that you're
just two halves of a whole.
I remember Bev once saying to me
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- Kerry?
Bugger.
For you to fully grasp the
story of my escape, Jez,
I need to paint a picture.
You've been through an ordeal.
Alright, relax.
Well, I'm not sick, am I?
Just bilious.
Too many funerals.
Too many curried egg
sandwiches. I'm full of wind.
Who steals a jumper?!
Anyway, there I am,
in this dingy little three-storey hotel
run by this tasty little
short called Bella.
She's an identical twin.
- Just tell me how you got away.
- Yeah, right.
So there's three gunmen,
OK, surrounding the hotel.
Well, not completely,
because there's, like,
half acre of car park
to take into account.
You'd probably need five men
to effectively surround it.
Eight would be optimum.
The bastards have stolen the pram.
Why? They don't even have kids.
Well, they were good with Buzz, though.
Jason, just shut up
and go find the stuff.
Uh, yeah
Actually, wasn't there
a table and chairs here?
Was there? Don't remember.
Anyway, this is where it
gets really interesting.
I mean, the one thing in my favour
is none of these three are a talisman.
- But I mean they're still
- Sorry?
Yeah. So, I mean, that's industry speak.
They're the elite of the elite.
Us in the know call them talisman.
Like the one they've
hired to kill Stella.
But none of these three
blokes are talisman, OK
But hang on.
Talisman killing Stella?
I mean, I found out all about
this when I was in Melbourne.
Didn't let on I knew Stella, obviously.
I need to warn her.
Find out who's after her.
Well, you can't. I mean, these
people, they just come in,
they research the target,
and they kill them,
- often, like, leaving no trace
- Bastards!
We don't have to worry.
The kill order on Stella
went out about two months ago.
Why the hell wouldn't I worry?
Because if they knew she was
here, she'd be dead by now. Yeah.
Anyway, these
What happened back there?
Haven't you got more pressing
things to concern yourself with?
This is so much less
than we promised him.
And it's got half the
Tarkine Forest in it.
That's the second
shipment you've ruined.
How are you going to explain
that to your big new boss, hey?
You get off here.
What?
We're we're three K's out of town.
The walk will clear your head.
This is my car.
We're business partners.
You're going to have to
learn to share resources
if we're going to work together.
Mm. Out you pop.
I've got an errand to run.
- Any sign of her?
- Can't tell. They stole my computers.
They have absconded with the
majority of the town's contents.
Hey. Where is everyone?
They're not there, any of them.
Where were you?
Anyway, Tallulah, you are under arrest
for stealing all the town's stuff.
By what right?
Well, by the power invested
in me by this state,
through the instrumentality
No-one's invested any
power in you, Jason.
You just keep her safe, yeah?
Safe?
Who would want to hurt me?
Well, look around you
and take your pick.
- Come on.
- Why is everyone freaking out?
Look after you.
Yes, you can buy many things cheaply
at the supermarket, can't you?
I suppose it depends on whether
your palate can taste the difference
between raw, unheated,
unfiltered wildflower honey
or some processed, mass-produced
dross from a squeezy bottle.
- Well, that's your opinion.
- (FOOTSTEPS DEPART)
If you were going to kill the hippies,
you could have at least warned me.
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
I've got a field back there
with five dead bodies in it,
and most of the contents of the town.
Well, it appears we have competition.
Were they after the drugs?
I took the decoy batch.
The poodle thinks she's lost
half of what she's going
to be delivering to you.
The poor thing doesn't
know the difference
between icing sugar and smack.
And you're still on
track for the real thing?
Of course.
And after I deliver,
can we please stop all
this nonsense with Stella?
Frankie, I didn't bring
you back too soon, did I?
No.
I'm right as rain.
In the meantime, I'm going
to need you two to stay close.
Like peas in a pod.
Get on top of this.
Righto.
What happened?
OK, tell me what happened.
They're all dead.
All of them.
- How?
- How the fuck do I know?
Do you think any of this makes
any sense? There was no
There was no blood. There
was no bruising, no guns.
Just talk me through it.
OK, I woke up this morning
and found five dead bodies
draped across a field.
Now, if you'll excuse
me, I need a shower.
Connor thinks there's a trained
assassin trying to track you down.
Well, Connor also thinks
there's a civilisation
of interplanetary beings
living under his laundry.
Yeah, this time he could be right.
You can't explain any
of what you've just seen.
Seriously? You think I
don't have enough problems
without listening to what Connor thinks?
I mean, why did he even come back?
Nothing but murder and mayhem live here.
Hi, Mum. What are you doing?
Oh, just the usual, sweetheart.
Otis, can you take that skateboard
out onto the veranda, please?
The caravans are gone.
Well, there goes all the fun.
Why don't I cook us up some breakfast?
I love it when we have real food.
OK, everyone, can you get out?
I just I want to get changed.
Let her out, Jason. She deserves
everything that's coming.
Yeah, she ransacked Berlin, And
then she took my outdoor broom.
Hey, I'm gonna caution
you both once more.
Brony! Brony! Move away.
Or what? What are you
gonna do, little man?
Oi! Don't pick on him.
But what are you gonna do?
I'm just saying,
allow the full weight of
the law to handle this.
We take her to trial.
No theatre trials.
No more plastic bags on someone's head.
Listen, Kerry and Tarquin are
bringing your stuff back right now.
- Oh.
- OK, then.
That's all you care about? Stuff.
What about the rest of her lot?
Dead. Five of them, at least.
JASON: You hungry?
Oh, yeah. Sure. Go on.
Is this the work of your talisman?
Wouldn't have thought so.
Don't tend to draw attention
to themselves like that.
Right, so not someone
Stella needs to be worried
about immediately, yet?
- No. Definitely not.
- Alright.
Unless they're already in town
and the others works
out who the talisman was.
Hmm. There's a thought.
We buried the bodies.
What's happening out there?
One of the travellers is still here.
You like your work, Jason?
It's a calling, the force.
Hmm.
Oh, shit.
- Open that up for me, pet.
- Frankie, she's, um
- She's in police custody right now.
- Key!
No, I can't.
No more vigilante justice. We're
playing by the book nowadays.
You're coming with me, pet.
- I didn't do anything.
- Frankie!
I most strenuously object.
- I mean, surely it was an accident.
- Not from what I saw.
The pretty one in that
caravan will have the answers.
- Just leave her with me.
- No, I'll come with you.
Listen, I made a career in
Russia out of breaking people.
I think I can handle our little
boho seductress on my own.
Just let me get to the bottom
of her little vaudeville
fortune telling act.
She is a mistress of interrogation.
She manipulates the frontal lobe.
No. Beyond that. I like
to get to the cerebellum.
Mm. Interesting. So,
bypassing the hypothalamus?
No. Rupturing it.
You know, you just target the
same place over and over again.
Even bullet-proof glass shatters
if you hit the same spot eight times.
I think I'll start with the, um.,
you know, "We share the
same date of birth" ploy.
Establish commonality.
BOTH: Old spy trick.
There's a bit of an issue vis a vis
Vis a vis what?
Vis a vis, Frankie has taken Tallulah.
FRANKIE: Who Put you up to this?
I've already told you, I don't
know. I find that hard to believe.
Who are you?
No-one.
But I know who you are, Vicky Stiles.
Ooh. Now, that is interesting.
- It's not you I'm here for.
- That's lovely to hear.
Who is it you are
especially here for, dear?
Shall I give you some thinking time?
Ah.
Jesus Christ, you're gonna kill her!
Frankie! Stop!
Frankie! Let go of her!
Get off her, you mad fuck!
Who do you think you are?
Why couldn't you just stay dead?
Evil psycho!
None of his business.
That boy needs to be
taught a lesson or two.
He's gonna pay for this.
So, uh, nothing to say, any of you?
Nothing of note during the day?
We weren't allowed to talk at the table.
It was a sin against the prophet.
For those who were too frightened
and weak to stand up to him.
Well, this prophet likes to
chat at the table, you know,
sing and laugh.
How about a song, eh?
I love mother
(OTHER JOIN IN) I love her way
I love her gospel precepts to obey
I love mother I love her way ♪
JEREMIAH: Frankie!
Jeremiah. Just in time for tea.
- You mad bloody cow!
- (SINGING CONTINUES)
You dropped a 100-year-old
Radiata pine on my house.
Mmm.
Guilty as charged.
What is wrong with you?
Oh. Would you like some
rissoles to make up for it?
You have lost it. You know
what? You are not worth my anger.
I almost feel sorry for you.
- Keep singing.
- (SINGING CONTINUES)
Nobody feels sorry for me.
I'm doing just fine,
thank you, sweetheart.
I have a house full of kids
who I adore and who worship me.
And you? You have nothing.
Yes. Not even a fucking house now.
I've apologised. What more
could you want from me?
Ah, you have a sad little life.
no-one to love.
I hope you haven't deluded yourself
that that poodle would ever
be with you out of choice.
(SINGING CONTINUES)
- Shut up, you little suck toads.
- (SINGING STOPS)
- I thought we had a system.
- Yeah, but this is next level.
So if we put it across here,
it'll alert us to visitors.
How am I not meant to
trip over all of this?
Because we're putting this
here, so you'll know where it is.
- And if I forget?
- Don't.
The Egyptians called their
land Kengir, which means
BOTH: country of the noble lords.
- This is so stupid.
- Where do you get all of this?
BOTH: Heather.
Right.
- (DOOR OPENS)
- Oh, more instant noodles?
Yeah. Boil some water and pour it over.
Egypt only had three kingdoms.
(GROANING)
You guys stay here.
Oh! Fuck me.
You alright?
What the hell are the
Christmas decorations about?
- It's to warn us of intruders.
- You could have warned me.
- What are you doing here?
- I wanted to talk to you.
Well, if it's about me and
Frankie working together
No, I wanted to talk
to you about (GROANS)
- I was thinking about
- Shh. About what?
I was thinking maybe
Maybe what?
We should try living
together for a while.
- Give it a run.
- Like a car?
Will you give it a shot?
OK. Living together is
more nuanced than that.
Yes. He can live with us and cook.
Yeah, he can stay in my room.
Oh, well, maybe we could
start with a short-term trial.
- Yeah.
- (LAUGHS) Yeah.
When were you thinking?
Oh, why not start tonight?
Why suddenly tonight?
Because once we've made the decision,
we should jump in head first, commit.
Yeah. What am I missing?
Frankie chainsawed a tree onto my house.
- I will make up the spare room.
- Thank you.
- Alright, Iris
- Yes?
can you please grab two of those carrots
and peel them for me?
- Absolutely.
- Big help. Thank you.
Right. I need another fry
pan to seal the chicken.
- Give it a crust.
- You've used my only two fry pans.
Well, another saucepan then.
Otis, do you mind, mate? Saucepan?
Ta.
Oh, no, I need one with a heavier base.
You've used the lump sum in
total of my culinary utensils.
Looks like we're using
this. Thanks, mate.
You need more? I'll bring some.
I'm perfectly capable of cooking
without all of your clutter.
Except you don't cook.
You just pour hot water
over ramen noodles.
Thank you. I'm sure it's just as tasty
as what Jeremiah's destroying
the kitchen for now.
This is unbelievable.
It's just mulligatawny.
I learned it off a Scottish bloke
when I was working
in the Bering Straits.
This is the best meal I've ever eaten.
Like, ever.
Wow. We're safe tonight.
She's asleep.
Though I note she has
flexible circadian rhythms.
Consistent with trauma,
historical and current.
She's been exposed to numerous accents
from a very young age.
You know, the upward inflection
of several of her vowel digraphs.
Indicating she's moved
around frequently.
Consistent with what
we know of a talisman.
- She doesn't have the nous.
- Yeah, I mean, she's smart,
but I don't buy her as a murderer.
Maybe that's part of her act.
I'll break her in the morning.
- Well, just don't be too brutal.
- Yeah.
Oh, how gorgeous.
Iris wrote this. It's very sweet.
Yeah, I'm sure it is.
Just turn out the light.
IRIS: So, Jeremiah, do you have a five?
- JEREMIAH: What is it?
- A five?
- OTIS: Go fish.
- No.
- Yeah. That's it.
- Oh, my gosh.
Guys, my cards are so hot,
they've gotta cool down.
Check it out.
(KIDS LAUGH)
- You're all going down.
- Actually
Yes.
Goodnight.
Is this
normality?
What's normal, huh? Wednesday bin night.
Gas bills and, "Oh I see
Jenny and Ian have bought
themselves a new leaf blower."
Well, I would settle for that.
Feeling safe. Not
living in constant fear.
Like, um
breakfast at a cafe, drink with friends,
night out, that sort of thing, I guess.
Yeah. Overrated.
Yeah.
Compared with, um
"Well, how was your
day?" "Well, today I saw
the people that I spent the
night partying with murdered.
How was yours?"
I'm really scared.
And I'm not sleeping.
Sleeping
Sleeping a couple of
hours every night, so
Surely, all this danger is telling us
to grab on to the good stuff
and hold on to it for dear life.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have to, um,
deliver a load of premium
heroin to a drug lord tomorrow.
And this is all I have.
Where's the normal in that?
I'll come with you.
What? So you become like me?
No way.
We're in this together still.
If I have to negotiate my way out
of this, I'lll do it alone, but
thank you.
Goodnight.
Stella?
Should I blame myself
for the shit that's
gone down in this town?
Am I in any way
responsible, do you think?
Yes.
- Well, that's hardly fair.
- Well, you asked.
I expected a modicum of
consideration for my situation.
Well, if you're looking for absolution,
there's a priest in Strahan.
People come to you.
And all of them claim it
was none of their fault.
You feel like you're the
victim in all this, do you?
I care about the people in this town.
And I have gone out
of my way to help them.
By returning them all to crime.
Oh.
I told you a year ago,
that is exactly what Frankie
said when she arrived.
- I am not Frankie.
- Nor was she.
You know, unless unless
you're a young person,
very unlucky in life - and
you are far from either -
I find that most lives
usually go off kilter
by making bad line calls,
small moral choices that
just seem to escalate.
I am stuck in this town
because I questioned some
corruption in my company,
and I never got the
chance to correct it.
Fine.
Then you are absolved.
Graham!
(DOOR CLOSES)
Where is this place?
What is she ?
All over the place!
Oh, god.
(HORN HONKS)
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
Jesus. Alright, here we go.
What's he doing here?
(HORN HONKS)
Well, that was some of
the worst driving ever.
Well, you try driving with a map.
Now get back in your truck and go home.
No. I'm doing this.
- Stay here.
- No!
- He's gonna kill you.
- Possibly.
- No, no, you stop it!
- You give me
Stop being so pig-headed.
Terrific.
I thank you, Sir Galahad.
You've saved the day.
- Fuck. Fuck!
- That's
That's icing sugar into pepper berry.
Hmm.
Oh. Alright, alright.
Good. You stay here.
I can
Well, here I am, your bunny, your mule.
And you know I don't, I don't care,
but I think there's a better
way for us to synergize our
- relationship.
- (GROANS)
(BEES BUZZING)
My queen, you look startled.
Don't worry about the bees.
It's only if they sense tension in
a person that there's any threat.
Except, of course,
for the Brazilian bee,
which will attack anything.
That looks like less than a
fifth of what I was promised.
Yes, You're right.
I'm sorry, the bag tore.
but I don't know what you are
going to bake with this icing sugar.
But when I realised
the icing sugar was just a decoy batch,
like the abalone was for
your black tar heroin,
I thought, "I don't mind,
whatever I can do to help
your organisation thrive."
You know, I've been
I've been thinking
about what well, the scale
of what you're trying to achieve.
And you know, I just
can't shake from my mind
what you said to me
the first time we met.
What was that?
You're right.
Heroin has lost its
cachet as a glamour drug.
And I-I started to wonder
what we could do together
to lift its appeal.
So, I thought, and I know it's crazy,
but what if we infused
it with natural herbs?
And then I thought, well, hey,
what about natural flavour?
I mean, they do it with vapes.
So imagine heroin with
pepper berry or eucalyptus.
And then it hit me.
Your honey, the best
honey in the market,
and my heroin, the
best heroin available.
And all the benefits of both.
"Hey, I've got a cold."
"Oh, here, have some honey
to soothe your throat.
And infused with heroin
to lighten the mood.
All in one jar."
I've been experimenting for hours
trying to get the balance right,
and so I thought if I
Next time, leave your drone at home.
(BEES BUZZING)
We need to get out of here.
You alright to drive?
Oh, yeah.
I thank you both very
much for your hospitality,
even if I'm technically a prisoner.
If I'd gone with them,
I would be dead now.
But you didn't, did you?
But if I'd gone,
perhaps I could have
helped them or stopped it.
- Yes, quite possibly.
- No, that's unlikely.
Sometimes it can make
all the difference.
I'll make a fresh pot of tea.
I was very impressed with your,
um, fortune telling at the party.
I don't know how accurate it is, but
You know, it's just
observation, isn't it?
You follow up on something you see
in a person to a logical conclusion.
For example, I can tell that you
are from regional New South Wales,
probably somewhere near Parkes.
No way.
Can I ask, what's your star sign?
Aquarius.
Wow. Me too. Aquarius. Yeah.
Really?
I wouldn't have picked it.
What date are you?
12th of February.
No way. You're kidding.
That's the same as me.
- Wow.
- Really?
- Who'd have thought?
- Huh? That's so weird.
Because, no offence,
but you really seem like a Scorpio.
Why do you say that?
With a moon in Libra
and a Gemini Rising.
You were born in the
Northern Hemisphere, yes?
If you want, I can read your tarot.
- Got them right here.
- It's not my sort of card game.
Wow, you keep those close.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they, uh,
helped me navigate my way.
Hmm.
OK. Pick up a card.
- Put some intention into it.
- Mhm.
Ah!
Queen of swords.
That's very interesting.
Pick up another one and then another.
Mm-hm.
Brava.
Oh, this is weird.
I see you dying.
Only it's not
It's not you.
You didn't have a twin, did you?
A sister who was taken from you, maybe?
Violently.
I'm feeling a really terrible
sense of guilt about it,
like you feel responsible.
It's made you keep others at a distance.
You try to control them
with your intellect,
but you can't really show love.
You're frightened of something.
No, you're terrified of something.
I am never that.
So you're not worried about
losing what's most precious to you?
But someone seems to
be moving on from you,
and it's hurting you quite a lot.
Not me at all.
Utter nonsense.
As you say, it's just
it's all guesswork.
It's just guesswork.
I hope I haven't upset her.
She asked for a reading
and I think she took it too seriously.
She's a Scorpio, isn't she?
Yes.
They feel very deeply.
I know you didn't kill your friends,
but you knew they were
leaving, didn't you?
Maybe. I didn't want to
stay with them too long.
And there is something about this place.
It just seems doomed.
And yet you stayed.
Come on.
Bong Cha?
She stays here. 24-hour surveillance.
Fine, but she's getting Adelaide.
I couldn't sleep for excitement.
I see you're the same.
Your brainchild.
Heroin honey, it's quite Promethean.
(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
Honey, of course, being
a natural preservative.
They found it in Tutankhamen’s
tomb. Still edible.
Right.
Our challenge will be
to attract the youth.
You want to market it
to children as well?
It's healthier than fizzy drinks.
Well, neither is exactly good for them.
Understand, I am no performer,
so try to imagine me as the
pop starlet of your dreams.
Hey, cats, don't go for
dark web psychedelics.
What I've got here has
all the nutrition of honey
combined with the subtle lift of heroin.
And at this point I
think we might introduce
some contemporary
visuals and modern music.
And then the presenter
might wink at the camera.
What do you think?
Yes, yes, that might work.
What I need from you is to secure
the high-profile star to front it.
I was thinking this woman.
Oh. She's come out pretty
heavily against drugs.
I will put some feelers
out first thing tomorrow.
Luther here
I don't know if that's his real name,
I've never bothered to ask,
he'll be with you 24 hours for support.
Great.
He'll send me the odd photo
to monitor your progress.
Oh, uh,
some mountain men stole
two of my manuka hives,
so I'm going to need an arsonist.
The flame-haired one, Tarquin.
He'll do. Tell him to burn the hives.
Ah!
(KNOCKS AT DOOR)
- Oh, for god's sake.
- Uh
- Don't think this is normal.
- No.
The new man in my life.
A gift at 3am.
We're off to Heather's.
She's teaching us French.
(SPEAKS HALTING FRENCH)
(SPEAKS FRENCH CONFIDENTLY)
She's teaching me about
thermodynamics after lunch.
Oh, yeah? Do you need me to
make you a special sandwich?
Oh, god, no.
She's making Turkish eggs
with some homemade feta from their goat.
Bonjour, monsieur.
How dangerous is this guy?
His boss wants me to approach a
pop star to flog his drug honey.
That's a joke.
Didn't feel very jokey.
It feels like some bizarre
game he's playing with me.
Why the hell would he do that?
I guess I'll know when I finally break.
Welcome to our new normal.
The thickness of the cream cheese
sort of overpowers your honey.
Deirdre, darling, what do
you think, a stronger honey?
More tea, everyone?
- Mm.
- I'll pour.
Did you get to the bottom
of the dead bohemians?
No. Not yet.
I don't even think it
was about the drugs.
There's talk of a trained assassin.
Targeting whom?
Stella.
With any luck, whoever it
is will save us the bother.
Oh, it's no bother.
No, I'm quite looking forward to it.
The confusion in her
eyes as the light dims
and her last breath
dissipates in the frigid air.
You're absolutely right, Deirdre.
Not Manuka. Leatherwood.
Leatherwood.
(HORN HONKS)
Hop in.
Where are we going?
Here, put this on.
Oh, have you been to the toilet?
We've got a long drive ahead.
Alright, the celebrity casting agent
has agreed to meet in this coffee shop.
I'll be back in an hour.
OK.
No, they were very
clear. One person only.
We will stay in the car.
We'll be back in an hour.
Unless you need more time.
No. An hour is perfect.
(MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY, INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Hi. What can I get you?
Um
- Do you have a coffee?
- Yeah, uh, name it.
We can do macchiato,
piccolo, latte, flat white.
Whatever you want, with any milk.
I'll have a macchiato, please.
Uh, yeah. So, we've got
two different blends.
We've got a Colombian and a Brazilian.
My favourites a combo of the two,
because it's like these
notes of chocolate with, like,
a hint of berry.
Sorry, I sound a bit like a wanker.
No, what you're saying
sounds really beautiful.
Bit of a a tough day there?
A bit of a tough couple
of years, actually.
Ah, well, you just relax and enjoy.
Thank you.
(TODDLER BABBLES)
(MUSIC AND CHATTER CONTINUES)
- Thank you. Good one.
- Thanks, Dom. See you next time.
- There you go. I made it a double.
- Thank you.
- Oh. That's a cute little pattern.
- Yeah.
Uh, on the house.
No, I want to pay, I must pay.
- I just I need this to be normal.
- OK.
Uh, you can just pay
when you're ready. Thanks.
(MUSIC VOLUME INCREASES)
We are still here
I'll be my own homecoming queen
As long as it feels good to me
I'll be the boss of this town
You'll be you own homecoming queen
Forget all the shit that you've seen
Put on my crown
Put on my crown. ♪
(MUSIC FADES)
(WATER RUNS)
Tallulah?
How did you know it was me?
Your scent. Sandalwood with
a hint of coconut shampoo.
That's impressive.
You're returning my files.
I wondered how you knew so
much about everyone here.
I just I like learning
things about people, that's all.
And yet we've learned
so little about you.
Who did these drawings?
My granddaughter Iris.
But she's not really your
granddaughter, is she?
Yeah. Well, as good as.
I mean, there's nothing more
important than true family.
And without it, we are
nothing more than orphans.
Where's your family?
They're not here any more.
What happened?
They were killed.
How were they killed?
How How were they killed?
Tallulah!
So how'd it go?
It was perfect.
Her people were very intrigued.
There's a couple of sticking points
around being the face of heroin honey,
but I'm sure I can massage that.
Still, it's early days.
Yeah. Probably needs some more meetings.
Ah!
(ECHOING SCREAM)
(THUD)
(GASPS)
From time to time, a hive
begins to perform poorly
until finally it ceases
to produce at all.
I had such high hopes for you.
Your ravenous need to succeed.
Lack of any great morality.
What went wrong?
So, what's the plan, Frankie?
We should try to go back.
What? And get lost.
That could be disastrous
and very dangerous.
Tarquin, can you hear me?
I've given you more than enough
chances to redeem yourself.
Careless people make mistakes.
And I'm not a careless person.