[suspenseful music playing]
- [Amerie] Rowan!
- [music stops]
["Rockstar" by Mallrat playing]
♪ You're my darling ♪
♪ I'm on standby ♪
♪ Doesn't make sense ♪
♪ Don't understand why ♪
♪ Keep me guessing... ♪
[Amerie] So, when can I watch your film?
What? It's finished, right?
Yeah, no, it is. It's, uh...
It's just, it's pretty personal.
[in raspy voice]
All good filmmaking is personal.
- [chuckles]
- [exhales]
[Rowan] Yeah.
[song continues over speakers]
[Amerie in normal voice] Oh. Thanks.
I'm scared of what you'll think about it,
to be honest.
I promise I'll love it.
[Woodsy] Harper!
- Yo.
- Yo. How'd you go?
Oh. I mean, nobody gets it the first time
so, I mean, I wouldn't be...
Except that I did.
- Oh! You got...
- [laughing]
[exclaiming excitedly]
Isn't that wonderful!
I thought I'd muck up the reverse park,
but I didn't hit the curb once.
Not once! Oh, I'm so proud.
I can't tell you.
Well, yes...
- Well done.
- Thank you, Miss.
- [clears throat]
- [Malakai] Hey, Harper.
[Harper] Hey.
- [Amerie chuckles]
- [imperceptible]
[Amerie] Why? Come on! Come on.
[smacks lips] Cool. Good chat.
Sorry, uh, Rowan and Amerie...
I don't want to do this, Malakai.
Do what?
The whole jealous ex-boyfriend thing.
Amerie's been through a lot.
It's not about that. It's, um...
It's about Rowan.
So you're still into him too?
No...
Look... [hesitates]
He did something really weird yesterday.
I need to tell Amerie about it.
Do you have a radar for when she's happy
and you wanna f*ck with her?
That's not...
- I'm not. I...
- Why can't you just leave her be?
Because I f*cking love her, okay? I...
[somber music playing]
[sighs]
[softly] f*ck.
Whatever this is... [sighs]
...Amerie's in a really good place
right now.
Just don't ruin her formal, please?
[indistinct chatter]
- [quirky music playing]
- So how do you just switch it off?
Cold showers? Thinking about dead puppies?
You know,
you don't just switch it off, yeah?
It's patience. There's so much to learn.
Okay, peepareenos.
at formal regret it later.
So our mission, spread the word.
- Spread the word.
- Yeah.
If we can get just one person
to not make a shitty decision tonight,
it will all be worth it.
Sixteen days, m*therf*ckers.
- [all snapping fingers]
- [Darren and Zoe chuckle]
- Forty-six days.
- [all snapping fingers]
- [Darren] Wow.
- [Zoe] Yeah.
[exhales sharply]
Sixty-seven days.
[all snapping fingers]
[gasps] Oh, um... [chuckles nervously]
Mm-hmm... [chuckles]
Um... Fifty-three... [chuckles]
[softly]...minutes.
[chuckles softly]
Um, excuse me. Self-accountability. Yeah.
[all snapping fingers]
What in the Hillsong...?
- Oh, God.
- Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me.
Amerie! My cards!
I know breakups are hard,
but what the f*ck is this?
I lost Ca$h
because I can't control my urges,
but maybe if I try hard enough,
we can get back together
and everything will be okay.
No, no, no. This is not it.
You need to get your sh*t together.
Amerie, this is me
getting my sh*t together.
[chuckles softly]
- [Zoe chuckles]
- No, no. Don't you f*cking click!
- Amerie!
- [grunts]
[exhales sharply]
I don't know what else to do.
[Darren sighs]
Goodbye, Amerie.
[quirky music playing]
[soft knock at door]
[music fades]
First day of being school captain
and you're already wagging.
It's not a great look.
What are you doing here?
I think Bird Psycho's
about to spice things up again.
[tense music playing]
[Voss over cell phone]
Principal Woods has unfairly dismissed me.
So tonight at formal
we will let our voices be heard once more.
We will awaken
the students of Hartley High
- to the truth about the woke agenda.
- [Missy sighs]
Tonight is our Glenrowan.
Trust in the plan.
You can't leave tomorrow. Can you?
No, uh, Mum starts her new job on Monday.
- Does she?
- Yeah.
But, um, I'm not...
I'm not really good at goodbyes.
It's just, I think a few of your mates
might be a bit upset.
Yeah, but I don't know.
Sometimes things are better left unsaid.
Much unhappiness has come into the world
from things left unsaid.
[Malakai] Hmm.
As sad as I am to say goodbye,
Malakai Mitchell,
I'm also very excited for you.
You've got the whole world
at your fingertips.
- So, go, go, go.
- [chuckles]
- Go.
- Yeah.
Thanks, Miss.
[Malakai clears throat]
[Quinni] Has Amerie seen this?
Uh... No, I just, I... I mean, it's so hectic
and I just wanted to show you first.
[suspenseful music playing]
This isn't Bird Psycho's usual style.
What do you mean?
His other att*cks had
some sort of moral points in them
trying to teach her a lesson.
This one's just cruel.
Who would be
angry enough at her to do this?
This is your chance to figure it out.
It's all good. [chuckles]
["Come On Mess Me Up"
by Cub Sport playing]
[Amerie] Yeah, it sucks, but...
Better than puking...
♪ I left it behind pretty quickly ♪
- ♪ Still the farthest thing from pretty ♪
- [school bell ringing]
Bye.
- [Malakai] Hey.
- Hey.
Um... [clears throat]
[hesitates] You okay?
Actually, yeah, like, I'm really good.
♪ But I want this, you know I want this ♪
♪ So come on, mess me up ♪
- ♪ And you can break me ♪
- [chuckles]
♪ If you'll still take me ♪
Bye, c**t.
[chuckles] Bye, c**t.
♪ One of the ones
You say you won't forget ♪
♪ 'Cause I want this ♪
♪ You know I want this ♪
♪ So come on, mess me up ♪
♪ 'Cause I want this ♪
♪ You know I want this ♪
♪ So come on, mess me up ♪
[song fades]
How did they get this photo?
Looks like she took it herself.
Yeah and broke Miss Obah's rule
of "don't put your face in it."
She sent it to someone
she was romantically involved with.
Well, yeah, so Malakai?
Or Rowan.
But she was having sex with Malakai
when we found the dead bird
and Rowan's handwriting doesn't match
the note in Amerie's locker. See?
That's not Rowan's feeling.
This is Malakai's.
No, it's not. She ripped up
Malakai's feelings pit note...
No, I saw Malakai kick this over
because he didn't want anyone to see it.
He was really cut up about.
Okay, okay. So this is Malakai's feeling.
And it's Malakai's handwriting
and it doesn't match
the note found in her locker,
meaning there's one person
we haven't got a handwriting sample for
that Amerie could've sent that picture to.
Rowan.
[foreboding music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[Jett] She's late.
[Rowan] She'll be here.
[music fades]
Aren't you embarrassed
to give her that stupid flower thing?
It's romantic.
[Jett] It's dumb.
You say that.
But one day
you'll be doing this for a girl.
No, I won't.
Hey, it's just a girl.
[sighs] It's not just a girl. It's...
- It's...
- [horn honks]
["Fade Into You" by Mallrat playing]
♪ I want to hold the hands inside you ♪
You look beautiful.
So do you.
I got this.
Oh, thanks.
Where'd you get the car?
[Amerie] Borrowed one of Roger's.
[Rowan chuckles]
- So you ready?
- I'm ready.
Okay. [laughs]
♪ I think it's strange you never knew ♪
["BGC" by Flo Milli playing over speakers]
♪ I'ma blow your mind like I'm E-V-E ♪
♪ He tryna hit me up, hit me up
I ain't pickin' up ♪
♪ Out with my girls tonight ♪
♪ Titties sittin' up, sittin' up... ♪
Spiked it with a bottle of Malibu
from Mum's liquor cabinet.
Dude, I'm driving.
Oh. No problemo.
- I'll get you something non-alcoholic.
- [chuckles] Okay.
- ♪ We gon' be bad tonight ♪
- ♪ Oh, she bad, she bad, oh she bad ♪
♪ Break the rules... ♪
Miss. You were right.
About what?
All men are f*cked.
Well, I never said that.
Not in those words.
Wait. Missy, is that all
you've been taking from my classes?
Makes me really sad.
You're not gonna give me
a "not all men" speech, are you?
No, I wasn't going to.
I don't want you
to feel this way at your age.
It's true.
Not everyone is capable of change.
But if we start believing no one is, then...
♪ This the bad, bad, bad girls club ♪
♪ This the bad, bad, bad girls club ♪
Don't worry.
[Zoe] Ooh, Sissy!
Remember your body is a temple
not a visiting center.
This is why Mum don't like you. My God!
Come on.
Hello.
I just wanted to say
make this a night to remember,
not one to regret.
Aw! Isn't that just...
- [chuckles]
- [Zoe] That's very nice.
- Thank you.
- Yep.
Would you like to dance, milady?
Why, thank you, kind sir.
["Come Into My World" by Kylie Minogue
playing over speakers]
♪ Come, come, come into my world ♪
Ugh.
Make it a night to remember,
not a night to forget.
[exhales]
Make it a night to remember,
not a night to regret.
♪ Na-na-na-na, na-na-na ♪
♪ Take these lips
That were made for kissing ♪
♪ And this heart that will see... ♪
Sometimes I wonder if that gummy overdose
did something permanent to your brain.
Harper isn't drinking.
I can't remember which one I didn't spike.
Uh, yep, that's foul. [clears throat]
Crap! Which one is it?
Oh, my God, Ant, just ask her out already.
Is it that obvious?
The jewelry box? Please.
Do you think she likes me back?
[Darren] Does Harper like anything?
Every time I think about her
I take, like, ten damage.
You should tell her.
No, I can't. [clears throat]
I'm serious. You have nothing to lose.
Well, there's my dignity.
No, no, no, it wasn't a question.
♪ Won't you lift me up, up ♪
♪ High upon your, high upon your love? ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na, na-na-na ♪
- [song continues]
- [Ca$h] Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.
[song stops]
Oh, my God!
- You're going.
- No, I'm f*cking not.
You f*cking are.
You've been at that school
for 50 bloody years
and you haven't been to a formal once.
I just want one photo,
one photo of you in your suit.
Well, I can't, okay? I can't...
I can't go there and face Darren.
[Nan sighs]
[exhales]
It's not fair. I...
[hesitates] I would do anything.
Why does it have to be the one thing,
you know, like, the one thing
I can't change about myself?
[clicks tongue] Well, Dougie,
everyone's walking around
with a poo in their pants.
Jesus, Nan.
I'm serious.
Everyone has something.
You and Darren have been
living in your own romantic novel.
Now, you're hitting the real stuff,
the gooey center, the problems.
No relationship is a smooth sail.
It's about wanting to know
what you're willing to fight for.
I don't know. I just...
I feel like someone's
always gonna be making a sacrifice
if they'd be with me.
There's all kinds of ways to love someone,
to be with someone.
You don't have to play
by other people's rules.
And to be honest,
that was never your style anyway.
[gentle music playing]
[sniffles]
[music fades]
[Sasha panting]
Oi, slow down for a second.
Thanks.
I still don't get why we're not
going to formal and exposing him.
We don't have sufficient evidence.
We have to play this safe.
Amerie and Rowan are dating.
I'm not gonna blow up her life
without proof first. Come on.
[Sasha] This is actually
kind of sick. [panting]
["Nutbush City Limits"
by Ike & Tina Turner playing]
[all cheering]
- "Nutbush!"
- "Nutbush!" Let's go! Let's go!
Go on, do the Nutbush! Do the Nutbush.
- You can do the Nutbush! Yes!
- Ow.
[rhythmic feet tapping]
♪ A church house, gin house ♪
♪ A school house outhouse ♪
♪ On highway number nineteen ♪
- ♪ The people keep the city clean ♪
- [student whoops]
♪ They call it Nutbush ♪
♪ Oh, Nutbush ♪
♪ Call it Nutbush city limits ♪
♪ Twenty-five was the speed limit ♪
♪ Motorcycle not allowed in it ♪
♪ You go to the store on Fridays ♪
♪ You go to church on Sundays ♪
Yeah!
♪ They call it Nutbush
A little old town ♪
♪ They call it Nutbush ♪
[all cheering]
["Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"
by Sophie B. Hawkins playing]
- Wanna dance?
- Yeah.
What are you doing?
♪ That old dog
Has chained you up all right ♪
♪ Give you everything you need
To live inside a twisted cage... ♪
Harper...
I fully failed.
Failed at what?
Beginning of the term,
you told me
to try to be friends with a girl.
So I did.
It's great.
Got to see how sick she is.
Get to know her.
I f*cked it up.
How'd you f*ck it up?
♪ I'll do such things to ease your pain ♪
Sort of...
fell for her.
Ant, um, I'm sorry I...
It was dumb.
I'm meant to be your mate.
- Um...
- I... I am.
Your mate, that is.
We're mates, okay?
Hey, hey.
It's cool.
♪ Is it just too good? ♪
♪ Don't say you'll stay
'Cause then you'll go away ♪
♪ Damn, I wish I was your lover... ♪
If you'd told me
on my first day at Hartley
that I'd be here, dancing with you,
I wouldn't have believed you.
Yeah.
Me neither.
Do you want a drink?
Yeah. Thanks.
I actually got to go piss, uh... Wee.
Sorry. I've got to go to the dunny...
ladies room.
Wow, I really feel
like I'm ruining the moment.
- You kind of did. I'll be back.
- I'm sorry. Okay. Bye.
[cell phones chiming]
Come on.
You coming?
♪ If I was your girl believe me ♪
- [Voss] You boys got your helmets?
- [Ant clicks tongue]
Good lads.
What are these for exactly?
The only way to survive this day and age
is to revolt,
be warriors once more
because the revolution is upon us.
Can you feel it?
- Not really.
- Yeah
[loudly] I said can you feel it?
- Yeah!
- Yeah... Yes, sir.
Because this woke world,
it's got its claws out for you boys.
Saw it happen with my father.
I watched my dad, my hero,
beg,
grovel, compromise and then apologize,
and for what?
Hmm?
A series of allegations
from a group of jealous employees
who clearly wanted to bring him down.
I thought it was just one joke.
What?
I thought it was one joke
that got him fired.
Yeah, and then it was a pile-on.
- Because of the joke?
- No!
About a bunch of other bull
that wasn't true.
And it wouldn't have got through
in a court of law either.
Because Alex from accounting felt bullied?
Or Emily from HR said that
Dad held a hug too long?
I mean that's what this world
is now for men. Right?
Men walking around every day on eggshells.
Maybe your dad was just a d*ck.
[grunts]
[breath trembling]
- [ears ringing]
- [tense music playing]
[Voss breathing heavily]
Man up.
Either you're with me...
or you're against me.
What's it gonna be?
[door opens]
[footsteps approaching]
[exhales]
[Amerie] Look at us!
Look at us!
[Amerie sighs]
It's funny how things ended up, eh?
What do you mean?
[Amerie] You know, like, Quinni not here,
Darren with the Puriteens.
Me going to formal with Rowan
and not Malakai.
It's crazy how things can change.
Change for the better though, right?
You wanna be here with Rowan?
Yes, definitely. I...
I did always imagine this night
being with Malakai though.
Are you sad you're not?
A bit.
But you know, Rowan is such a sweetheart,
so it's whatever.
[laughing] Men.
- [gags]
- [Amerie chuckles]
Forget about him.
- Who?
- [scoffs]
Malakai.
Didn't even have the guts to stick around.
Just racked off into thin air.
What are you talking about?
["Untouched" by The Veronicas
playing faintly over speakers]
This punch tastes proper f*cked, eh?
Missy? Missy, racked off where?
Switzerland? [sighs]
I need to call him.
I need to find my phone.
- Where's my phone?
- He's flying already. He's... He's gone.
Why didn't he tell me?
Why didn't he say any of this to me?
He might've been trying to.
What do you mean?
Harper, what are you talking about?
I had a conversation
with him this morning.
About?
He said that he loved you.
- And what did you say to him?
- [sighs]
Harper? What did you say to him?
I sort of told him to leave you alone.
What?
- I thought that's what you wanted.
- And how he's gone.
I can't believe you did that.
I can't believe
you made that decision for me.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, my God. This is the second time
you've ruined my relationship with him.
What relationship?
You didn't have one with him.
You didn't want one.
That's why I said what I said.
What, you think he would've stayed?
- Maybe!
- Bullshit.
The world doesn't work like that.
Classic. More of
your downer bloody attitude.
It's called reality, Amerie.
Well, at least I have a heart.
Yours is just a piece of dog sh*t.
What?
It sounded better in my head. f*ck you.
Stop it. I'm not gonna fight you.
All term you've been saying
you're over the drama,
you're over the way
he's been treating you.
And now what?
You're in love with Malakai again?
Yes! I love Malakai. I never stopped.
And now he's gone.
- [breathing heavily]
- [students laughing]
♪ See you, breathe you, I want to be you ♪
♪ A-la-la-la, a-la-la-la ♪
♪ You can take, take, take, take
Take time, time ♪
♪ To live, live the way you gotta
Gotta live your life ♪
[Amerie] Rowan!
Rowan!
[Harper] Amerie! Move!
- Amerie!
- Enough of that.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Quinni] This is it.
This is Rowan's house.
Keep watch for me.
Uh... Mm-hmm.
[hinges creak]
[suspenseful music continues]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[gasps]
[music intensifies]
["I Feel Love" by Sam Smith playing]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ It's so good, it's so good
It's so good, it's so good ♪
♪ It's so good ♪
[sniffs]
- ♪ Ooh ♪
- [exhales]
♪ I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love ♪
[Zoe] We are Puriteens.
And even if they tear our hearts up,
even if they're spitting in our faces,
we spread the message. Yeah!
Are you sniffing glue?
What are you doing with this lot?
[Zoe] Hmm?
- What?
- Being accountable.
No, Darren.
Look, I... No offense.
This isn't you.
But it can be.
It's not just about sex with me, Ca$h.
- Oi, dickhead.
- [microphone feedback]
- Sorry. I...
- [music stops]
- I'm sorry. To all of you.
- [students muttering angrily]
[Darren] What kind of
CUMLORD prank is this?
I know I've been a prick
to every single one of you at some point.
Piss off, Spider!
I'm trying to f*cking apologize, okay?
[breathing heavily]
[student laughing]
I f*cked up.
And I'm not gonna make excuses.
Uh, I'm gonna own it,
and I know that
you probably don't believe me,
but I wanna be...
better.
And not because
I expect anything from you.
That's not what this is.
I need to do this for myself.
Because otherwise...
I know you're probably never
gonna want to speak to me again,
and I completely understand why.
I just... I hope I can be
worthy of your respect
one day.
- [gentle music playing]
- [chuckles]
You're always telling me
to shut the f*ck up.
So, I think it's time that I actually did.
Starting... now.
Oi! There's a bunch of Ned Kellys
on the Oval!
[all] What?
[all clamoring]
[Voss, muffled] This is our last stand.
[student] Now what?
We will not be silenced!
[Woodsy] What?
[Voss, muffled]
I said this is our last stand.
No, I can't understand you because
you've got a dustbin on your head.
I said this is our last stand.
We will not be silenced!
You have overseen untold injustices
on the males at Hartley High!
And you have ruined
their future opportunities
and destroyed this school!
Right. Nothing to see here.
Everybody back inside
into our lovely formal,
- greatest night of our...
- Even boys
you thought were immune
can fall prey to the relentless campaigns
of the woke brigade.
[flame whooshing]
[students chattering]
[Woodsy] Why are you still here? Come on.
[Jojo] Let's not listen
to CUMLORD of the Rings out there.
- [Woodsy] Go!
- [Jojo] Back inside.
Timothy, you are embarrassing yourself.
You are embarrassing yourself.
I am not going to let you
subject my students to this nonsense.
So I suggest that you get off
the school property now.
Or what?
Or I'll call the police.
Okay.
Okay, that's fine.
But before we go,
we are leaving a calling card
- for all the male victims in there.
- [dramatic music playing]
So they know that
we are continuing our fight
for mankind!
[laughing]
[all laughing]
[laughing boisterously]
Um... Is there supposed to be
a third testicle?
[dramatic music continues]
Oh, sh*t.
- [expl*si*n]
- [all gasp]
[music winds down]
[flames whooshing]
[all screaming]
- [muffled screaming]
- Oh!
[tense music playing]
- [CUMLORD 1] What do we do now?
- [CUMLORD 2] Oh, sh*t.
Run!
- [CUMLORD 1] This way.
- [CUMLORD 2] Run!
- [CUMLORD 3] Go!
- [CUMLORD 4] This way!
Rowan! [panting]
[music fades]
[exhales]
- [Harper panting]
- [door closes]
Please, Am. Can we just sort this out?
Just leave me alone.
- [switch clicks]
- [mellow music playing faintly]
Is someone in here?
[Harper] Amerie.
- Can you please just let me explain? I'm...
- [gasps]
It's locked.
Wait. Let me try.
What the hell is going on?
- [switch clicks]
- [projector whirring]
[Rowan] My name is Rowan,
but kids call me Spud.
Spud.
[Rowan] I'm 12.
I'm a small, fat, hairless potato.
- [kids laughing]
- I don't exist to her,
but my whole life seems to revolve around
catching a fleeting glimpse of Amerie
at the skatepark.
[birds squawking]
[mellow music continues over speakers]
Then one day...
a chance.
We call him Eggo.
Every day, I bring Eggo to the park.
We take care of him together.
[chirps]
Then everything goes to sh*t.
[grim music playing over speakers]
We decide to have a funeral for Eggo.
Other kids crowd around
and start laughing at us.
[kids laughing]
"What babies,
having a funeral for a bird."
Amerie is embarrassed.
She tells them it was my idea.
She walks away from me.
[kids laughing eerily]
[unsettling music playing over speakers]
[eerie laughter echoing]
The dam walls are breaking.
I feel like I'll never be okay again.
I need to do something,
anything to stop the pain.
My little brother Jett... he's scared.
He tells me to stop, but I can't.
He goes to get my parents,
but they're across the road at a barbecue.
He doesn't see the car.
- [car horn blares]
- [tires screeching]
[music fades]
[inhales, exhales sharply]
- [projector clicks]
- Do you remember me now?
Yes.
You.
You're Bird Psycho?
- So you came back to f*ck with her?
- No, no.
I went to Dubbo with Dad to get better.
And I was better.
- I came back ready to move on.
- [banging on door]
But you didn't remember me.
I didn't recognize you!
You've changed so much.
And you haven't changed at all.
You're still selfish.
Still hurting people.
Let us out now.
[Rowan] I will.
I just need her to understand.
Understand what?
Why you did all this sh*t to her?
Harper, stop! It doesn't matter.
It does. He f*cking abused you!
His brother d*ed.
- [Harper] That's not an excuse.
- He was traumatized.
I don't need your f*cking pity.
- [Harper] I smell smoke.
- [rattling]
I f*cking smell smoke!
- [Harper breathing heavily]
- [grim music playing]
[imperceptible]
[music intensifies]
[door rattling]
You need to let us out now!
- Not until she understands.
- [Harper] She doesn't owe you anything!
She hurts people.
You're hurting people.
You're hurting us!
There's smoke coming under the door!
What have you done?!
[sobbing] Rowan, Rowan, Rowan.
Please, I... I...
- [door rattling]
- What can I do? What can I do to fix this?
I need to believe you're sorry.
Rowan, I am sorry.
I'm sorry for tonight
and that I left you in that playground.
No.
What are you sorry for?
I'm sorry that I was horrible to you
with those kids.
[Rowan] No! What are you sorry for?
- I'm sorry for not recognizing you.
- No! No!
What are you sorry for?
What do you want me to be sorry for?!
k*lling my brother!
[sobbing]
I can't say sorry for that.
What I did to you wasn't right,
but I didn't k*ll your brother.
Then whose fault is it, Amerie?
Whose fault is it?
Tell me whose fault it is. Tell me.
[sighs]
[grim music playing]
- No. No. Let us out!
- Rowan? Please!
[muffled shouting]
[Harper, muffled] Let us out!
[imperceptible]
[all coughing]
[Woodsy] I think this is the last.
[tense music playing]
- [explosions]
- [all scream]
Where is Amerie and Harper?
Has anyone seen Amerie or Harper?
Or Rowan?
What if he's got them in there?
Quinni? Quinni, get back here!
Quinni, don't!
- Quinni, no! Quinni!
- No! No. Darren, I won't let you.
- No. I won't let you go. No.
- [Darren] Quinni!
- [grim music playing]
- [Amerie and Harper coughing]
[Harper crying] I can't breathe.
I can't breathe.
[both coughing]
[Harper grunts]
[music fades]
Am, I'm sorry about Malakai.
I just didn't wanna see you
get hurt again.
I know.
I'm... I'm sorry I called your heart
a piece of dog sh*t.
It kind of is.
I think I shut that part of myself off.
Locked the door.
After everything.
And now it doesn't even matter.
Are we gonna die here?
[low suspenseful music playing]
- [alarm ringing]
- [Quinni coughing] Amerie!
Harper!
[panting, coughing]
[suspenseful music continues]
Rowan Callaghan from Dubbo.
Farmcore, but really a film nerd.
Farmcore, but really a film nerd. [gasps]
[panting]
[thudding]
[Rowan coughing]
Where are they? Where are they?
What have you done with them?!
[door unlocking]
- [Rowan coughs]
- Oh, my God! Harper?
Harper? Are you okay?
Okay, come on. Come on.
Come on. It's okay.
[Harper coughing]
[Quinni] The whole school is going up.
[Amerie] Rowan, we have to go!
[Quinni] Am, I need you
to help me with her!
- We can't just leave him here!
- [Quinni] Then we'll die with him!
Please, Rowan, we need to go.
[Quinni] Harper is going to die.
- We need help!
- Okay.
- [intense music playing]
- [Amerie whimpers]
- Can you get her up there?
- What?
Can you get her the last bit?
But what are you doing?
Amerie? Am? Amerie!
[panting] Hey. Hey.
Please, Rowan. Please, please, Rowan...
- I k*lled him.
- No, you didn't.
- I'm the reason he's gone.
- No.
Your brother was out on that road
because he loved you.
You love him. He knew that. Okay?
And so don't you think he'd be pissed
if you d*ed because of him?
["As Long As We Last" playing]
Okay.
So take my hand, come with me,
let's get out of this flaming sh*thole.
♪ Just this flash of light ♪
♪ In the endless night ♪
- [sniffles]
- ♪ And it's done ♪
♪ One day a diamondback ♪
♪ From the flour sack ♪
♪ Is gonna come ♪
Yeah.
Yeah.
♪ I hear the old folks when they say ♪
♪ "It's funny how time slips away" ♪
♪ I hear the old folks when they say ♪
♪ "Days getting shorter every day" ♪
- [sirens wailing]
- [Amerie coughing]
[indistinct chatter]
♪ Come here now ♪
♪ As long as you last ♪
This is a symbol.
A symbol.
The flames are a symbol
of a phoenix rising from the ashes,
and I am that symbol.
I am the phoenix!
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[Amerie] You finally solved it.
Of course you did.
With Sasha's help.
Quinni, I hate this.
You're my person.
But I hate what's happened.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for everything.
I want you to see what it was like
when I don't try.
I wanted you to see how much I do
under the surface that no one ever sees.
I've been performing who I thought
I should be for my entire life.
I don't think I know who I am anymore.
I'm gonna find out,
but I don't wanna lose you in the process.
You won't. You won't.
I'll be here.
See that?
- That's what happens when we fight.
- [chuckles]
- [Quinni sniffles]
- Yeah.
Let's, uh... never fight again.
We probably will.
But that's okay. I love you both.
- [flames crackling]
- [indistinct chatter]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
You could've just left me to die.
I guess, but then I would have
felt like an even bigger shithead.
You're not a shithead.
I think it was just easy for me
to make you the villain.
But you're not.
Don't know if anyone is.
I think maybe we're all just
a bunch of f*cked-up kids
trying the best we can.
I'm sorry.
- [Spider] Radical honesty, dude.
- Yeah.
[Harper] Never got to finish that dance.
I don't think you should be dancing.
It's just the equivalent of 1,000 ciggies.
[DJ deck powering up]
[chuckles]
["Flame Trees" by Sarah Blasko playing]
♪ Kids out driving... ♪
I don't really feel like dancing.
Me neither.
You and me, we'd be good together.
Aw. Quinni, I...
I don't know if that's a good idea. I...
[chuckling] Oh. Sasha, no, I meant
do you want to be my vice-captain?
[laughing] sh*t, yeah, I do!
[laughing] Cool. Okay.
Although vice-captain of what?
[both laughing]
"Of what?" There's no school left.
♪ And I can't stop
That long forgotten feeling of her ♪
[clears throat]
♪ Time to book a room to stay tonight ♪
♪ Number one is to
Find some friends to say ♪
♪ "You're doing well" ♪
♪ "After all this time
You boys look just the same" ♪
♪ Number two is the happy hour ♪
♪ At one of two hotels ♪
♪ Settle in to play... ♪
I'm glad you're not dead.
[mutters]
I thought you might want me to be.
Then I'd never find out if you were
capable of shutting the f*ck up.
[laughs]
[Spider] Hmm.
♪ Oh, the flame trees ♪
♪ Will blind the weary driver ♪
♪ And there's nothing else
Could set fire to this town... ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[Woodsy] So...
[Jojo] So...
- Don't say I told you so.
- No, no. I wasn't going to.
You know, depending on
whether we have any classrooms left,
I was wondering if you'd want to,
you know,
take over the sexual tutorials again.
[chuckles softly]
- I'd really like that.
- Hmm.
- That's good.
- Hmm.
But I think I can change it up, you know,
make sure
there's something in it for everyone.
- Right.
- Hmm.
Amalgamation.
Yeah, exactly. Hmm.
- CUMSLUTS.
- Oh. Okay. Wow.
I didn't say that.
Maybe the SLUTLORDS?
- Wow, okay. Ooh.
- [chuckles]
- What about the PIMPSLUTS?
- Oh!
- Okay. We're done.
- PIMP... Yeah?
Okay, we are. That was my last one.
♪ And see which one of us can tell
The biggest lies ♪
♪ And there's a girl
Just falling in love ♪
♪ Where the pianola stands ♪
♪ With her young local factory
Out-of-worker ♪
♪ Just holding hands ♪
♪ And I'm wondering
If he'll go or if he'll stay ♪
♪ Do you remember ♪
- ♪ Nothing stopped us on the field ♪
- [sniffles]
♪ In our day ♪
♪ Oh, the flame trees
Will blind the weary driver ♪
♪ And there's nothing else
Could set fire to this town ♪
[Woodsy sighs]
What happens now?
I have no idea.
♪ Everything within its place ♪
♪ Just makes it harder to believe ♪
♪ That she won't be around ♪
♪ Oh, the flame trees ♪
♪ Will blind the weary driver ♪
♪ And there's nothing else
Could set fire to this town ♪
♪ There's no change, there's no pace ♪
♪ Everything within its place ♪
♪ Just makes it harder to believe ♪
♪ She won't be around ♪
02x08 - Boys Don’t Cry
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Amerie, along with her news friends Quinni and Darren, must navigate love, sex and heartbreak at Hartley High.
Amerie, along with her news friends Quinni and Darren, must navigate love, sex and heartbreak at Hartley High.