- (DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) - (TENSE MUSIC) - (DOOR OPENS) - Hey, what are you doing? Excuse me, you can't be in here. - I'm a... a friend of Farida's. I heard she died. Could I have a moment, please? - I'm sorry, no. Only close family are allowed to view the body. - I only need a minute. - You need to go ` right now. - (TENSE MUSIC) - You need to go home. - I just wanted to go in and see her, but this lady doesn't know` - I'm sorry. I have asked you. - Just calm down. - I'm telling you` - This is a public place. - No, it's not. - Come on. Come on, darling. I got here as fast as I could. - Do you know this woman? - Yes, of course I do, Margo. - Your niece, Ray. - What are you gonna do? Arrest me? - Listen. Was wanting to visit Mrs Korrapati, who has just passed away. - Yeah, yeah. Natalie met Farida last time she was visiting from the city. - And I wanted to say goodbye to my friend. - We'll go now. Thank you. Thanks, Margot. - Thank you. - Thanks, Rhonda. OK. We're good. Come on. - (EERIE MUSIC) (UNSETTLING MUSIC) (EERIE MUSIC) Captions by Able. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able - (WHIRRING, BEEPING) - Gwen's. Martin's. - So Gwen Reed's blood is the same as Martin's. - Yeah, like, almost exactly the same mutations. - That's good, isn't it, for replicating this and for cancer treatment? - Hopefully. But given the urgency, I still wish we had the real thing. It's a pity Gwendolyn Reed's not at death's door. She'd be the perfect specimen. (SCOFFS) - (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) - Did you find anything? - There's nothing there, Ray. You really think she's fine? Bursting in on a dead woman like that? You know what I think? I think you're wanting to delude yourself. - I'm gonna take her home. Get her to have a rest. We can talk later. - Yep. - Did she find it? Was it there? - No, there was nothing there. And she did us both a favour by covering for you. - Are you sure? Maybe she's lying. - I trust her. You shouldn't have just rushed in there like that. - I thought it could be your chance, right? I mean, if there'd been another berry` - Did Max call you about Farida? How did he know about the berries? How could he know how they grow? - I don't know. He called, said she'd died, so I came here to check. It's fine. It's our secret. - (EERIE MUSIC) - It's magnificent. - It kind of... It pulls you in. - Yeah, yeah. You said it came from a body? - Yeah. One of the residents died overnight. I mean, she was... She'd been sick for months. - From death, he gives new hope. God delivered this to me through you to bring people back to the church and to give them faith again. - So... what's the first step? - Well, I'm going to choose someone who needs it most. - Yeah. - This is horse piss, and it's been watered down, and that's fraud. Oh, gidday, Father. Just having a morning bevvy. Can I get you one? - Are you sure that we can't do any` - No, no, he's perfect. - (OTHERWORLDY MUSIC) - Your Grace, thank you so much for coming. - John. - Always a pleasure. Close your eyes, open your mouth. - (SCOFFS) Said the Archbishop to the choirboy. Kidding! - I humbly accept this gift, O Lord, and deliver it in your name. - (GULPS) How about a bit of the old sacramental to wash it down? - Get the wine, please. - Hmm. Ah! So what's meant to happen? - (SHUSHES) You'll see. - (SIGHS) - Oh. (GROANS) Something really weird is... (GROANS) Boo! (LAUGHS) What, am I supposed to levitate? - Your Grace! Your Grace, just wait! Keep filming. - (DOOR CLOSES) - Yeah. - (INHALES) - Wait, what are you doing, Donnie? - Show's over, and you tell the Father he's not getting his money back. (BURPS) - Your Grace! - That was a mockery of the sacred Eucharist. - I was just trying to honour the miracle. - All I saw was a wild fantasy, someone stumbling to tell fact from delusion. - But, Archbishop, you saw the berry. Have you ever seen anything like that before? - Are you clean right now? - Of course. Yes. - Are you sure that you're in a fit state to serve this parish? - I am. I was meant to be here. But this is real. Yesterday I met with a woman who was transformed to her youth. - Really? And where is she now? - (CAR DOOR OPENS) (BIRDSONG) - (HUMS) - (SCOFFS) Oh... my God. What is this? - Morning ` or afternoon. Are you hungry? - Hmm. - You look terrible. Let me make you something. - Oh, hell no. (CHUCKLES) I'd seriously throw up. Never mixing my drinks again. - Oh dear. And on a weeknight. - Yeah, right. But, hey, Skeeter loves his bacon, so if you really want to cook, go nuts. I'm running late for work. - Yeah, here. - Thanks. Hey, did you sleep OK? - Uh, not so well. I virtually slept on the floor. - Oh, shit, sorry. That's my bad. I've been meaning to ask Skeeter to fix the bed. Babe, can you fix your bed for Lola, please?! - Yeah. Uh, I'll just put my pants on. - (CHUCKLES) Later. - Uh. Oh, speaking of later, I was hoping that I could talk to you properly about your future. - I'll be down in a second, and you'll be safe and sound. Just try not be too vigorous, if you catch my drift. - Oh, I... (SCOFFS) - (CHUCKLES) - Don't you have to go to work at the supermarket? - Uh, no, actually. I, uh... I got fired the other day for punching out my dickhead boss. - Oh my goodness! Look, you and I need to talk. You and my Bella` Isabella... are entirely different. She has ambitions. She probably hasn't told you this, but she was an excellent student. She could've been a doctor. Still could! - Whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys really bonded. - There are plenty of other girls out there who I'm sure would be far better suited to someone, uh... physical, like you. - Sweet. It's ready for action. All right. - (CLEARS THROAT) - Sweet. I'll see you later. - Later. WHISPERS: Oh Lord. - (BIRDS CAW) (SHEEP BLEAT) - (PANTS) - (GRUNTS) (YELLS) - (SCOFFS) Miracle, my arse! - (GRUNTS) Come on! Come on! - (GROWLS) Come on! - (RETCHES) - (GROWLS) (PANTS) (EXHALES) - (CHUCKLES) Oh. (LAUGHS) There you go, Mrs Finn. I gotcha! Bugger to be old, huh? - Thank you, young man. - No worries. And Mrs Patterson. - Yes? - Looking good, hey? (LAUGHS) - (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) - Whoo-hoo-hoo! (LAUGHS) Gidday, fellas. Beautiful day. - Who was that? - You kissed her? - I` What?! - Eva told me that you kissed! - No. Oh my God. No, no, no. It was completely innocent. Seriously, Anne, she tried to kiss me. No, it's not what you think. - Jesus. What? - Oh, God. - And you didn't think to tell me? - No, sorry. I was a little bit preoccupied by your terminal diagnosis, so forgive me, I... - Keep your voice down, and when it comes to Eva, you tell me everything, OK? - OK, do you honestly think I could do something like that to my own daughter? - Look, I don't know what you're capable of. I don't know what this is doing to you. You don't sleep. You're not thinking properly. You've got these teenage hormones. - No, no, I'm thinking clear. I'm thinking clearer than ever. We need a plan B to save your life, Anne. And if Ben doesn't find a cure in time and with how you said these things now grow... - What, you're gonna kill someone for it? - I'm saying we should at least find out who had the berry before, right? Can't hurt. - I could go talk to Gwen directly. - OK. - But you're gonna go and live with Ben. - No. What? Annie. Annie, stop. No, I need to be with you with you to help you. I need to be here for Eva, and` - You are confusing Eva by staying here, OK? It's not a discussion. - (SCOFFS) Jesus. And you did this to them? - Do you really need to be here, Teen Wolf? Because if I'm going to engineer a treatment for Anne, then this is what I need to do. I need to test it in the cancer cells first, then inject it into mice, and if there's promise, then a human. - OK, and that'll cure their humps? - Yeah, that's the plan. - And how long away are we talking? - As early as next week. - Next week? - Look, I get it. I know how important this is for Anne, OK? But there's a process. It needs to be stable first. - (TENSE MUSIC) - Max didn't call me... to just tell me Farida died. - I don't understand. - He knows about the new berries. I tried to do it, but I couldn't. I'm sorry, I couldn't... - You couldn't do what? - (KNOCK AT DOOR) - Hello? - You stay here. - Is that her? - Gwen! Gwen, let me talk to her. - Gwendolyn Reed. There you are. - My blood sample. Did it work? Could you do it? Did you... grow a plant? - Not yet, but we are very hopeful. So, there's a personal reason for my search as well, cos my cancer's returned, and I... I don't have a lot of time. - I'm so sorry. - So... I've actually written my daughter letters to be opened a year from now. Sorry, I'm so sorry. It's so silly. On her graduation and on her wedding day. - It's not silly. - But I didn't want to tell her that I was sick again, not until there's absolutely no hope. - But you have that now. I mean, it's a possibility with Gwen's blood? - Yes. Thank you so much. What I really want to know is how does it feel to take that... When you took that first berry, was it different? - Different? Um... Not really. Just that it wore off. - Oh, right. And... all the other people in town and your friends, did anyone else become young again? - We never heard. Apart from Tommy Brydon, who you already know. - She knows. She knows they come from the dead. We can't trust her. Ray, I saw it on her face. And she's dying, so we know she's desperate. She wants what we want, what we need. - Gwen, calm down. - I couldn't do it. I tried for us. I tried to drown him, but I just couldn't... - You tried to drown who? - ...do it. Max. Ray, I tried. - Gwen, you tried to drown Max? - Yes, but I couldn't do it! I took him down to the river and I put his head down under the water and I let him go, and I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I just let him go. - (OMINOUS MUSIC) - Yes. Of course. You can do it. I've seen it. You can do it, Ray. You have it in you. - (SIGHS) (GASPS) Rhonda, hi. - What's happened? - Oh, um, Ethel, she ran into me with her electric scooter. (CHUCKLES) I've got every right to sue, I reckon. Do you want a chair? - No. So you were working when Mrs Korrapati passed away? - Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yes. Poor old thing. I mean, I reckon that she'd been dead for hours by the time I found her. I told Margot immediately. - That was at 7.15 am? - Uh... yeah. - But you would've checked on her three times before that during the night, as per your notes. - Oh, look, you know, she'd been on her last legs for months. I mean, her lungs were stuffed. I mean, it's` Don't get me wrong, it's sad... - I'm actually not talking about cause of death yet, although I'm holding on to her body for a full autopsy. I'm trying to work out whether you actually did your job. - Oh. OK. OK. I was sleeping. I was asleep. Rhonda, can you please just not tell Margot? Cos I'm on my last strike as it is. Please? - (SIGHS) No doubt we'll be talking again. Until then, you'd better watch out for little old ladies, huh? - (MAN LAUGHS RACOUSLY) - What the hell? - (LAUGHS) Ronnie, this was in the roof! I brought it all in to show you. Ronnie, look. Little monkey man. Remember him? You wouldn't go to sleep without this fella. Oh! (LAUGHS) Your old footie. All those big games I took you to. And you had a cracker drop punt. Tackling all those young sheilas to the ground. Did you find it, Dad? - I should have picked it then. Or did someone give it to you? - Oh, look at this. Ronnie... (PANTS) No one would say boo to you in this. It's all, 'Yes, sir. Thank you, officer.' Every chippie would give you a burger for free. Beers on the house. 'No charge for you, Donnie.' - Dad, these aren't good, all right? Farida may have been killed for this. They grow when someone dies. - You mean you knew about this? Oh, Ronnie, and you didn't tell your old man about this marvel? - Where? Where did you get it? - Um, the new priest. - What? OK, you need to pack all this crap up, and I'm going to take you home. - Oh, come on, Ronnie. - And you're gonna stay there. - What are you talking about? He told me she died naturally. - And you believed him? Bit of a coincidence, wouldn't you say? Because, I mean, clearly, you wanted this berry very badly, which then you then gave to my dad. - Your dad? I didn't know Donnie was your father. - Yeah, well, there's a lot about this you don't know, mate. - Look... Shane is a bit of a lost soul, but I don't think he's a killer. - Oh, OK, then. Case closed (!) Look, this isn't over, all right? And the next time you get the urge to make someone else young, you need to call me first. - But I thought you knew! - That he was the local police officer's dad? No. Wouldn't have been my first choice. - You haven't done anything wrong. You gave him a new life. - That's not how people are going to see it. Shane, I have to ask you, did you kill her? - What? - As revenge for whatever she did to you? - No! Hell, no. No, I didn't kill her. I just didn't save her. There's a big difference. - How could you? That's a mortal sin. - No, it's life! People die all the time. - There's no coming back from this. - I did this for you! This is what you wanted. You practically begged me. John, together. Together, we gave him that berry in front of the Archbishop, and I have it all recorded. We both did this. You and me. We're in this together. (CHUCKLES) - (OPERA MUSIC PLAYS) (DOOR OPENS) - Oh, Isabella, is that you? We're out here. - Who's we? - Oh, you and me. It's all still warm. Sit. Sit. - It's 5.30. Oh, and... I don't eat meat. - I can't believe I forgot. Well, there's, uh, steamed beans and pumpkin and fresh rolls. - (CHUCKLES) - And there's plenty more where that came from, so eat, eat up. Isn't this nice? - (EXHALES) - Now, Bella, I want you to know that you can trust me. It's been very illuminating being here, and I can see it takes a lot of... It takes a lot of courage to live like you do. - What are you talking about? - With so little. And with him. - I need a beer, so... - Oh, darling, you won't find any in this house. - What? - I threw them away. I'm sorry. I thought they were his. - Are you serious? - Well, it's not very ladylike drinking beer. - Lola, what the hell is wrong with you? Sorry, but you need to back off, cos this... this is really weird. OK? - (SIGHS) - Annie? Annie. Annie, look! Look! Come look. - What? - Annie, come look! Come and look. - What? - Look, your treatment worked. It totally fixed them. It cured their cancer. - Oh my God. - You injected my serum into them without asking me? - Well, Ben, we didn't have a week to wait. - (BOTH LAUGH) - Well, I'm gonna have to examine them to see what's really happening. - OK, then. Good, do that. But then it goes straight to Anne, OK? This is it, Annie. - Oh my God. (LAUGHS) - See, now we're friends. And you get to serve up lovely full-strength beverages, and we're all happy. - Wow, it's you. Isn't it? - I really have no idea what you're talking about, mate, I'm sorry. I would be very careful about accosting an officer. - Listen, I know it's you. And I made you. - I thought it was God who did this. And as much as I appreciate the Lord's fine work, well, it's another loophole, isn't it? I mean, wasn't he supposed to give youth eternal after death? It seems to me like I've won, so God... can be damned. - I lifted you out of this. I chose you to be transformed. - And that says something about your judgment, doesn't it? If you come near me again or tell anyone about this, I will unleash a storm of holy fury on you. Good night, Father. - (TOILET FLUSHES) - (SCREAMS) - Oh, uh. - I'm sorry. - It's all right. I'm just finishing. Hey, Izzy told me about your romantic dinner for two. The big roast. - Oh, well, a roast is really very simple. It's... You just have to buy the lamb on the day or... - Yeah, she thinks that you're trying to steal her away from me. I mean, hey, I get it, she's hot, and she's been with chicks before, but she's kind of tight with me now and just a little FYI, you're kinda freaking her out. It's coming off a bit Single White Female. But, hey, you're going to be dope. There are so many chicks out there that'll be into you. I mean, look at you, right? You've just gonna broaden your` - I've just come from the res' care. A Sergeant Stone just released Farida's body to her family before the autopsy. They're Buddhists. They cremate their dead. The evidence is gone. - I couldn't risk it, Ronnie. It might point things in my direction. No one's gonna take this from me. - What? What the hell is this? It's not bloody Halloween. Take the uniform off. - Oh, hold your horses, love. You see, look, I finally get it. I understand why you haven't been coping. Because you're all about logic, black and white, but some things just are. And I reckon this came to me so I could help you, to look after you, Ronnie, and show you how it's really done. - (BELL DINGS) - Morning. What can we do for you? - Officer, my husband's lost his... - Mm-hm. - (AUDIO FADES) - (AUDIO FADES) - (EXHALES) - (DOOR OPENS) - You're not supposed to be here. - I know, I know. Look, your treatment on the mice, it didn't work. - What? How do you know? - Well, they're dead. They're all dead. I don't think it's gonna work, at least not in time. Did the doctors give you any indication of... of how long? - Months. - You need the berry. You need an actual berry to take you back to before you were sick. Look, please, if there's no other way, I'll do it. I'll do it. I've eaten the berry. It'll come from me. - Do what? - I'll kill myself. It... It's for you. It's for Eva. - Marty, don't... - No, no. I'm serious, Annie. - No! - Annie, please, please, please. - Oh, Marty. - Please. - Mum? - Eva! Eva! - Evie! - Eva! - I'm so sorry, sweetheart. - Don't talk to me! - Evie, Evie, Evie. - It's not what you think. It's... - Look, Evie. Evie Bear. It's me, honey. It's your dad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know it's crazy, but that's why we couldn't tell you. - It's true, sweetheart. - You've grown up so much in the past year, and I've missed all of it. But I'm here. I'm here now. Your front tooth. It looks great, but it's fake, remember? I told your mum that we rode our bikes down the big hill and that we hit a branch and you flew over the handlebars, but really I took you out water-skiing on Uncle Sandy's boat. - What?! - Even though she told us not to. - Oh my God. You idiot. - Remember, and the skis just flew backwards, and I thought I'd lost you, but... - Sweetheart. It's... it's why I'm here. See, because... whatever made him like this... I really need it. My cancer's back. And... Oh, darling. It's OK, my darling. It's OK. - (SOMBRE MUSIC) - (DOOR CREAKS) - Hello? - (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION, SPLASHING) - Ray? - ...and we'll just let it go? Bring him up. It's called loyalty, you get it? - No, no. - And again! Bring him up. - (STAMMERS) - Stop your blubbering! - Ray? - Who's that? - (STAMMERS) - Who is it?! - No one. Mate, mate... - (TENSE MUSIC) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - Pull over. Pull over! - What? - Stop the car now. Right now! This is on my terms. - What are you talking about? - I wouldn't have thought you had it in you. City bloke, academic. It's a big prize, isn't it? You get to be with her forever. - Come on, Max. - I'll do it. But not here. With my rifle, at home. - I'm not gonna kill you, Max. This thing's got hold of her. Not like before. I don't know how to help her. I'm driving you home to pack, and then I'm putting you on a train. You know, you'll get your strength back before too long, and in a month or a year, this'll all be behind you. - And where do you think I'm gonna go? - Wherever you like. But make sure it's a bloody long way away and don't let anyone know. Not even me. - Well, did you get it? What happened? Was he not there? Do we need to go to the farm? - Gwen. Gwen, just stop it. Max is gone. He's really gone. He's out of Mullan. - What? Why? Why would you tell him? Why would you let him leave? - Can you hear yourself? I mean, this is insane, and it's corrupting you. - You're right. I'm sorry. So that's it? Ray, there has to be another way. - Maybe there is. Without hurting anyone. - Well, your tissue might have different properties that are more stable than your blood, and that might give us a better chance of producing a berry. OK. OK. - Thank you. It's OK. This will work. I can feel it. Captions by Able. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air.