Upright (2019) s02e02 Episode Script

Tomatoes

1
G'day, Melbourne!
How the fuck are ya?
Baby! You nervous about the trip,
it's still like a week away.
Eight days.
Then why be interested
in what Avery thinks about you
getting it on with Mary Doyle?
But I didn't do
The point is that you gave them a
story.
- Get off me!
- Give me the fucking camera!
No!
Hey, dickhead. Miss me?
You told me that she was overseas
but she's been in Queensland
this whole time.
Meg, you can't show up
after four years,
and just expect me
to hop on a plane with you.
OK, it will take two days,
tops. I promise.
Oh, it didn't take long, hey?
This one's a bit young though.
Sshh, sshh.
Shush!
Mum?
Yes, Matty?
What's wrong with Meg?
Darl? You got the bub?
Yeah, I'm just doing her bottle.
This is a boarding call
for Flight EH-545 to Brisbane.
We will begin boarding
in a few minutes at Gate 47.
I'm gonna look at headphones.
We would now like
to invite our priority passengers
to board from Gate 47.
You can et 'em if you want.
My shout.
Honestly, just get them.
I'm looking for more expensive ones.
I'm looking for more expensive ones.
Oh, fuck
No, look, It's a one hour flight.
Please, it's so fluffy. Please!
Come on.
- Shit.
- What?
Oh, don't worry about it. Let's go.
No, there's heaps of time.
Sorry, mate.
Nah, they're boarding.
I heard them.
Meg, we have the join
the end of the queue.
Hi.
Sorry, ma'am, I'll need you to move
to the back of the line.
I'm from Karingunna,
and it's my first time on a plane,
and I'm just really nervous,
so, um
Youse don't mind, do you?
Sorry, it's her first time on a
plane.
It's like a mentor-y thing.
Brisbane here we come.
Yeah.
- What was that about?
- Queues are for pussies.
Glad you haven't outgrown
the gendered slurs.
People who say "gendered slurs"
are cunts.
All passengers
on Flight EH-454 to Brisbane.
Tell her give it to me right now,
tell her give it to me right now ♪
We ain't need to turn the lights
out ♪
We ain't need to turn
the lights out ♪
Tell her give it to me right now,
tell her give it to me right now ♪
We ain't need to turn the lights
out ♪
We ain't need to turn
the lights out ♪
Why not? It's a pub, it'll be open.
Because it's eleven
o'clock and the Valley
will be heaving of vomiting bogans
looking for a fight.
And besides, you're under age.
They won't let you in.
They'll let me in with you.
Meg, I've had three hours sleep
and I'm on my second hangover of the
day.
I just need to go to bed.
So?
I was on an overnight bus for seven
hours sitting next to some dude
who thought the 'Greyhound Magazine'
was sending him satanic messages,
but I'm not having a whinge.
Are you 520?
Yeah.
After you.
I'll leave my phone on.
So, just call me if you need
anything.
I don't have your number.
You used to.
Yeah. You changed it.
Oh. Yeah. I forgot.
I think I still got yours. Unless
No, it's the same.
Give me.
Legend.
Are you OK?
Yep.
See ya.
You just waved it in front of
That?
Yeah.
It's good to see you.
How'd you figure
out it was this pub?
That's the post code.
And then I Google-stalked to find a
building that looked like it.
I can only read "four-zero".
That's the whole of Brisbane.
Yeah. Yeah, it took fucking ages.
You say she worked here?
Yeah, she has an apron.
Oh, yeah.
No, sorry, she's unfamiliar.
I've been here nine years.
That's before they repainted
the balcony, so it's pre-2011.
Looked nicer the old way, I reckon.
Oh, Christ.
Don't you have, like,
employment records or something?
I mean, if she was a casual,
she coulda been paid in cash.
But I'll have a look.
What's her name?
Linda Adams.
Or maybe try her maiden name?
McCaffrey?
- What?
- 2010?
2010. You said you found these
a week ago.
I did.
And you said that this was a
recent
I said, "Most recent".
It's 12 years ago, Meg.
People don't work in pubs
for 12 years.
Well, I didn't know the photo
was that old.
Well, I didn't know the photo
was that old.
And Stan at the 'Gunna Hotel'
started there in 1961!
Look, I understand
how much this means to you,
but you're gonna have to forgive me
for being a tiny bit pissed off
that you're dragging me on another
wild fucking goose chase.
I'm not. I didn't know.
Morning, Patrick.
Sorry, love. No Adams, no McCaffreys.
Sorry about that.
While you're there
Whattaya having?
Um, lager. Whatever.
Just something without 'Boutique'
in the name.
Actually, Patrick might know.
What's that then?
Don't suppose you
recognise this one?
Yeah, I do remember her.
She wasn't here long,
and she was pretty quiet.
Oh, god. Now, what was her name?
Um
Linda?
That's it! Linda. Yeah, Linda.
No idea where she got to.
I remember Kaylee Pascoe.
Who's that?
Who's that?
Kaylee, the other bird.
She wasn't staff, she was a regular.
Very regular.
We did AA together in the end.
It sticks for some.
She was pretty wild back in the
day
but now she's a bloody saint.
Ended up down at St Abigail's,
looking after my uncle.
Still there, as far I know.
Kaylee that is, not my uncle.
Hundred and three he made it to.
Got a letter from the queen and all,
and he reckoned he wiped his arse
with it!
Which is a good story,
but I'm pretty sure he kept it
in his drawer.
Not long after that it was Kaylee
wiping his arse.
- Thank you.
- Bless 'er.
I hate these places.
Why? Oldies are hilarious.
You understand that it's very likely
they're not going to be still
be in touch, right?
Twelve years is a long time.
Some of us have been
in the same place for seventeen.
I just don't want you
to be disappointed.
Just take a seat.
Kaylee won't be too long.
Oh! You're here!
Hello.
And I thought it was Tomatoes.
Sorry?
I thought it was Tomatoes again,
but it's you.
Jan! It's not Tomatoes!
It's a show.
Jan! It's not Tomatoes!
It's a show.
- What?
- A show! A concert!
Oh a concert! Lovely!
I thought it was Tomatoes.
So sorry, I think there's been some
sort of mis
Kaylee won't be too long.
She'll be out in a minute.
Hetty, darling,
be a total bloody sweetheart
and fetch that mag for me,
will you?
No, not that one,
the crappy one.
See?
Oooh! I love that Grant Bunning.
Sexy.
Not him! The hairy one. See?
That's him.
Mrs Plunkett, this gentleman
isn't here to play a concert.
My arse he's not.
Because if I have to watch
'Fried Green Tomatoes'
one more time,
I'm going to set fire
to this fucking place.
Excuse my language.
I heard you on 'Radio National'
podcast.
You were quite good.
Thank you.
Barry! Concert!
You just turn that thing off
right now.
I don't really do
Oh, sweet boy.
Oh, sweet boy.
Just go over to that piano
and play us a song
so that us old buggers
have a few minutes of distraction
from our interminably boring
bowel-grumbling stumble
towards death, will you?
Try not to bitch about it.
I'll be in the front row.
It's a concert.
Hello, I'm Kaylee.
- You guys needed something.
- Hi.
Um, I'm Meg Adams,
and I'm looking for my mum, Linda.
Well, we only have one Linda.
And her kids are
Oh, no sorry, she's not,
like, an inmate. Um
She's Um
That's you, right?
You're Meg.
Yeah.
Shall we have a cuppa.
Once in a while ♪
Will you try to give
one little thought to me? ♪
Though someone else may be ♪
Nearer your heart ♪
Once in a while ♪
Will you dream of
the moments ahead ♪
He's not your dad, though.
No, he's um He's my godfather.
He's lovely.
Yeah, when he's doing this.
When he doesn't have a piano,
he's pretty annoying.
When you get sober,
it's hard to go back.
You're not supposed to go back.
It's hard for me, to look at this,
because I
Are you sure you want to know all
this?
Yeah, please. If you don't
If you don't mind.
OK.
So, Linda was really unwell
when I met her
So, Linda was really unwell
when I met her
and I wasn't much help.
We weren't exactly
what we needed for each other.
But, I adored her, though.
Your mum was, um
very depressed.
Do you understand that?
Yeah.
But she talked about you all the
time, about you and your brother
and about how she was going to get
well and go home.
But she struggled with that.
Mostly because the only way she knew
how to deal with the sadness was
with
it doesn't really matter, but
not just booze. Yeah?
Yeah.
She worked at the pub
for about two months.
About a year after that,
she, um she had a really bad
She
Sorry.
It's OK.
Your mum ended up in hospital.
That's what made me
start going to meetings.
I'll always remember that.
It's the best thing that
happened to both of us in a way.
She started seeing a counsellor,
she got clean.
My group told me not to,
but I saw her one more time.
Actually Here.
She was so beautiful that day
and she was happy.
She said she was going home
to you.
She didn't.
I always wondered.
But she wanted, you said.
It's all she wanted.
Code Blue in Iris Wing.
Code Blue.
Bugger. That's me, I'm afraid.
I'm sorry I don't know more.
Thank you. That was
lovely.
- Thank you.
Oh, um, Meg
Yeah?
She wasn't 'Adams'.
She was 'Johnson'.
She wasn't 'Adams'.
She was 'Johnson'.
I don't suppose that will help,
but
Thank you.
Meg, I just don't think
you're going to find her online.
I mean, there'll be hundreds
of Linda Johnsons.
Thousands.
And anyway, from the sounds of things
she wasn't isn't your
a post-pictures-of-your-labradoodle
kind of person.
Look, I have to go back to Sydney,
Meg.
Like, now, today.
Meg.
Look, I said I'd help you,
and I did. OK?
And I get how badly I get it.
Alright?
But you're not going to find her
on Facebook.
She could be anywhere, Meg.
She could be in Port Hedland
or, fucking Peru.
She could be dead.
Can you just shut the fuck up, Lucky?
Fuck.
Yeah, I had the red wine.
And the white wine.
And one of the little vodkas.
And the chocolate-covered peanuts.
Meg did you have anything
from the minibar?
- Nah.
- Could you
Um, could you sort us a taxi
to the airport, please?
Thanks.
Hi, there. Can I just
get a taxi to the airport
Meg.
Let's go.
Oh, my god!
- Oh, fuck me!
- Sorry, bro.
Jesus, Jaxon. What the fuck?
Sorry. I was just worried,
you know?
Who's this?
Sorry. I'm Jaxon, with a 'X'.
Jax-on.
Yeah, Meg's boyfriend.
Ex.
Hold on.
Are you stalking her?
Oh, settle down, Lucky.
How did you find me?
'Find My Friends'.
No, I switched that off.
No, you switched off 'Glympse'.
Shit.
Look, Meg, I'm just worried about
you.
I don't want to put any pressure on
you either way,
but I just wanted to be here.
- Jaxon.
But I just wanted to be here.
- Jaxon.
Besides, besides
It's not just your decision.
It's both of ours.
- Shut the fuck up.
Hold on. Sorry. Hold on.
Are you Meg
Are you pregnant?
Whatever.
Are you fucking kidding me?
You're pregnant?!
I'm seventeen and I live in
Karingunna!
Of course I'm fucking pregnant!
Ooh.
So much conditioner.
What?
No, sorry, we need two to Bourke
and one to Sydney.
Right, and you're going to
Hey, I think you guys
might want to have a look at this.
I'm Flynn, and I'm going to Sydney.
And Manu and Adams
are going to Bourke.
Right, go it.
So, we have one to Bourke,
and two to Sydney.
No, sorry.
I need two to Bourke
and one to Sydney.
Yes, but we have one to Bourke
and two to Sydney available. OK?
Yes, but we have one to Bourke
and two to Sydney available. OK?
Hey, you guys
want to have a squiz? I think
Holy fucking shit!
Holy shit, Lucky!
I told you so.
OK, we're just going to need one
minute.
That's her only post.
Just that photo. Uploaded July
Just give me a minute.
Avery, are you alright?
No, I'm not alright.
What?
- Have you seen the video?
- What video? I haven't
I said, you guys might want
to take a look.
Of course I'm fucking pregnant!
Oh, shit. No. OK, right.
That is absolutely not what it,
obviously, what it seems to
wrecks my reputation.
I get that, but I didn't know people
were filming. I know
It's my career you're ruining.
I know it's your
Fucking shit-itty.
Cairns! Cairns! She put a place of
work in her profile! Some farm!
What about Cairns?
Plenty of seats to sunny Cairns.
Lucky, we have to go!
So, three tickets to Cairns?
OK, no! Stop! Just stop!
Look, Meg, I did what I said
I was going to do,
I brought you to Brisbane.
OK, but my life is falling apart,
and I have to go home now.
OK, but my life is falling apart,
and I have to go home now.
And you have to get back to your dad
and stop avoiding your problems.
- Oh, you can talk.
- What does that mean?
So, one ticket to Sydney?
Please one more day.
Meg, you don't understand.
Even if I wanted to, which I don't,
I can't go to Cairns.
I don't go to Cairns.
Why the fuck not?
Too sticky.
Lucky, sit down.
- No, I don't want to sit down.
- Mm, yep.
Just sit down for a second.
Come on.
Thank you. Thank you.
- I don't want to
- Lucky, sit!
I am begging you for your help
for one more day.
We've come this far
- No, no, no. There is no way.
And every time you say,
"There's no way",
there's been a way.
Please.
Meg, do you understand
how far north Cairns is?
I'm sure they have sunscreen in
Cairns
and I will buy you
a nice big sunhat. Just
Come on. One more step.
Come on. One more step.
For me.
Come on, for old time's sake.
That is not the sell you think it is.
I'll do you a deal.
Yep?
We go to Cairns this evening, but
tomorrow morning,
before we do any Linda-chasing,
we find a family planning place
and you talk to a doctor.
Deal?
Deal.
- Fine.
- Fine.
Oh, and one more thing.
You're absolutely not taking old
mate.
Pringle.
Check it out, one two ♪
Hey, yo, hey, yo ♪
I came a long way
since back in the day ♪
From a teenager
trying to make a rap in this way ♪
From a teenager
trying to make a rap in this way ♪
Ever since I was a kid
I had something to say ♪
Rocking mics was a dream
I didn't care about pay ♪
I sacrificed late nights
and going out with my friends ♪
Just to stay home alone
with my pad and my pen ♪
Had my eyes on my prize,
my mind on my goal ♪
As I carved these rhymes out ♪
With my hear and my soul ♪
I didn't have a CD,
all I had was a tape ♪
On the dole through my flow
was my only escape ♪
From a world where they didn't want
to see my prevail ♪
Didn't want to see me take it all ♪
They'd rather see me fail ♪
Its like ♪
I was down and out ♪
Struggling ♪
Wondered how I'm
gonna make it through ♪
I got a dream, I got a dream ♪
Holding old ♪
I'm gonna hold on ♪
I can't let go
'cause I gotta make it come true ♪
Hey, yo, I got a dream
to make it big in New York ♪
Give up the drugs and alcohol ♪
I didn't want to distort my vision
to be living life to the full ♪
And I wouldn't of made it I
f it wasn't for you ♪
You picked me up
every time that I fell ♪
When I was going through hell,
you told me that I would prevail ♪
You said I had exactly what it took
to be great ♪
You said I had exactly what it took
to be great ♪
That I was young and in future
would a man I would make ♪
It's like you saw something in me
I couldn't see ♪
You said I would succeed
and be anything I wanted to be ♪
I'm 23 and I just want to be me ♪
I want to be free want
to be everything I can be ♪
But I don't have many choices ♪
Can't afford to be wrong ♪
All I do is try to stay true
to the words of my song ♪
Just don't hesitate
and wait too long ♪
'Cause like a dream when you wake
up it's gone it's gone. ♪
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