01x04 - She Talked! This Happened!

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Robert?

Mr Wong wanted me to tell you

that they received a

telegram today, too.

- We're getting married.

- Yes!

But not in a bloody church.

Gwyneth Victoria Mountjoy,

will you marry me?

Oh! Congratulations.

Get up! I asked you a

question. Now answer me.

Go on, hit me!

(PANTING)

(MOANING)

Oh, my gosh. You're right.

That that's a dead body.

Happy anniversary, darling.

- Te amo.

- Thank you.

- Oh, yeah!

- (LAUGHS) Yay!

- It's a

- It's a hay baler!

hay baler.

We've already got a hay baler.

Yeah, no sh*t, Einstein.

What we don't have is the

latest model until now.

Now, in order to get this

started, you just need to, um

Um

Perhaps you should press

(TUTS) It's OK. It's alright.

Everything's under control.

Um

Do you want some help?

When I want your help, I'll ask for it.

So

(GRUNTS)

(ENGINE STARTS)

See, the thing about hay balers,

is it's like riding a horse.

(LAUGHS)

And riding a horse,

it's like making love.

You've just got to feel Ow!

- Are you alright?

- Yeah. Yeah.

No, it's OK. It's just hot.

Um

I'll give you a bit of a demonstration.

What you want to do is get a little bit

and it goes and it compacts it

into like, a cube, which is

which is a bale.

A hay bale, which is why it's

called a hay bale. Bale.

And that should be pushing

it out at the end there,

and it's not here at the moment.

I'm not sure

Maybe you shouldn't Harry.

Maybe you should shut up, Robert.

Um

Harry, my love

Just Just be careful.

My darling, I know this equipment

like the back of my hand.

(SCREAMS)

(MOTOR REVS)

(SCREAMS)

It doesn't explain why

you didn't tell anyone.

What if they didn't believe us?

You're his wife. Of

course they'd believe you.

Yeah, let's say they did.

Harry's dead.

Means Frankie's not protected.

She's a foreigner we're at w*r with.

Des takes over the farm,

boots me out on day one.

His contempt for Aborigines is

legendary.

So God knows where he's

going to send Kathleen,

away from her family.

So we pretended he enlisted.

You're lying to his family.

It's wrong, plain and simple.

How can you lie to Des

when he's here all the time?

He should know.

We should have told the truth.

But we can't do that now.

Going to the police isn't

going to bring him back.

Gwen

I don't feel safe anymore.

Well, I'm pretty sure

we've got to k*ll him.

Why is your mum's answer

to everything more death?

Robert, you're not funny.

No, what's not funny, Frankie,

is that I told you we should

have burnt him in the first place.

Cremation is a mortal sin.

Oh, sh*t. It's Des.

I'll distract him. Check Esther.

(HONKS HORN)

- Ciao, Des!

- Ah, Francesca.

I came as soon as I heard.

Heard what?

I've got flares. I've got sandbags.

- We're prepared.

- Flares? Sandbags?

Why you brought them?

(EXCITED, INDISTINCT CHATTER)

b*mb shelter. The b*mb Kaboomio!

Kaboom. Kaboom.

(INDISTINCT, EXCITED CHATTER)

b*mb shelter. Stand

back. b*mb shelter

(GASPS) Oh, my God.

Oh. (GASPS)

You're scaring me, Des.

Oh.

Whoa, oh, oh.

Francesca,

I will be your protector.

Thank you.

But first I have to

go and collect Mother.

We'll see you at the community hall.

The hall?

You haven't heard?

Oh, my chest. I can't breathe.

"Singapore has fallen".

WOMAN: (ON RADIO) The apparently

impenetrable stronghold

surrendered to the Japanese on Sunday.

Millions had been spent

on protecting it from

attack from the sea.

Practically nothing had been done

to protect it from a land as*ault.

A total of 60,000 soldiers,

British, Indian and Australian,

have been taken prisoner.

The fall of the city is a

smashing blow to British prestige.

Prime Minister Curtin said the

disaster was Australia's Dunkirk

- and that it opened the battle

- Hey.

for this continent

Uh Are you right?

Its capture by the Japanese

will considerably help them

Nothing a little bit

of pickle won't fix.

(SIGHS) Sure.

Apart from finding a dead

body, I've never been better.

(GRUNTS)

Hey!

Robert!

- Robert!

- Let me out!

(SIGHS)

(BANGS ON DOOR)

Can't take her to the

meeting, she's a liability.

(BANGS ON DOOR) Hey! Hey!

Shh!

Schmuck!

Schmuck?

(BANGS ON DOOR) Let me out!

I'm going to tell Des and

Mrs Whitmore about this.

(RATTLES DOORKNOB)

I want you to know

(GROANS FROM INSIDE ROOM)

I believe you.

Hey!

I'll stay behind, talk to Esther.

Hello?!

WOMAN: (ON RADIO) he was

named by Prime Minister Churchill,

who reviewed the motive

and manner of Japan's

(CLEARS THROAT)

he has nothing to offer but the heart

(BANGS) The window's painted shut!

(GROANS EXASPERATEDLY)

Butchered young men!

Men from here.

Men from down the road.

Men from over the mountain.

- m*rder*d!

- (ALL EXCLAIM)

Please stay calm.

- (LOUDLY) m*rder*d

- (ALL EXCLAIM)

by the Japanese

who are making their way towards us,

pillaging and looting

and no doubt worse.

Chinese.

We're Chinese.

There's a curfew from sunset to sunrise.

No lights at night, or a kamikaze

will crash into your house.

That starts tomorrow.

So tonight will be your last

night of democracy and freedom.

Also,

all the prisoner of w*r

camps have been expedited

because the enemy has never been closer.

Not just the Japs, but

also Huns and Italians.

(MURMURING AND EXCLAMATIONS)

Our brave diggers thank you.

There is a w*r on. The

usual morals don't apply.

Practically everyone's complicit

in someone's death somewhere.

What if your family

had to keep a big secret

or they'd lose their home?

Wouldn't you put aside your

misgivings to protect them?

Hiding a dead body

is hardly a misgiving.

Reporting his death means

they lose everything.

And for what? So you can

feel better about yourself?

(SIGHS)

Why were you in Frankie's bath?

Frankie never lets

anyone use that bathroom.

If I tell you,

you have to promise not to say a word.

I shared space

with Frankie.

As in intimate space.

Oh, my God.

And I know, I know I should

be feeling shame or disgust

or, at the very least, remorse.

But

but I don't.

I

I feel so happy.

Oh, Esther,

I think I'm in love.

If you're capable of loving someone

who is capable of burying her

husband and lying about it,

then you must be colour blind,

because that is a colossal red flag.

What the hell were you doing

out on a tractor in the

middle of the rain, anyway?

Oh, wait.

Darling,

the horrors overseas.

How are you holding up?

Terrified.

Yet truth be told,

I've never felt so alive.

Well, I've heard the government

can't protect the whole country,

so they're drawing a line

from Brisbane to Melbourne,

and everything west of it

will be abandoned to the Japs.

(GASPS) But

Adelaide, the City of Churches?

Perth I can understand. But

(SLURRING DRUNKENLY)

That's very good, ladies.

Well done, you all.

That's not the same mayor

who farewelled the troops?

No, no, dear. He is with the angels now.

Mr Flanders, over there,

would be our sixth mayor

since the w*r began.

Yes, it's the stress of their

position and, you know, their age.

So much change. My head's spinning.

Well, change

We don't like change.

Unless it's a new season. Like spring.

- Yes, that's alright.

- Daffodils

(BIRDSONG)

Harry's family will understand

if you tell them the truth.

We'll vouch for you.

I'm going to tell you a story

so you'll understand.

What is this room? A confessional?

The old mission manager

had a son my age.

One day we came across

a bunch of bad berries

and I pretended to eat one,

and him, going along with it,

he actually ate one.

The doctor said permanent brain damage.

As punishment, they put

me in a hole for months.

Oh

Kathleen, you were a child.

You didn't deserve that.

Esther?

- Yes?

- None of that really happened.

I never played with him.

I never even spoke to him.

That was THEIR story.

The only reason I got put in that hole

was because I found the boy.

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

You ready, bob?

I'm so sorry, Kathleen.

Kathleen?

Kathleen!

- Are you gonna wear that?

- No.

Let me get changed.

Hava nagila ♪

Hava nagila ♪

(LAUGHS)

Oh. Oh

Oh. Oh.

(GOAT BLEATS)

(BLEATS LIKE A GOAT)

It's me, Harry.

My soul is trapped

in the body of a goat.

(SOFTLY) Oh, my God.

You found my body because you

gave yourself sexual pleasure.

The only way to absolve this sin

is to tell everyone the

truth about my death.

(SOFTLY) What's happening?

God saw.

He isn't pleased.

I didn't do anything. I swear.

And now you're lying.

Bella donna.

Mother wanted to know where

Harry was doing his army training,

so she could write him.

But it's odd.

I can't find any

record of him enlisting.

Des.

Are you going to buy a drink or

It must take time for

the paperwork to process.

Francesca,

has Harry run off and left you?

What?

Perhaps that's why there's no record?

Maybe he lied to you?

Hey,

I want you to know that I

don't run away from my problems

like Harry or Robert.

- I'm a real man.

- MAN: Des.

For my friend.

Here. It's a fundraiser, Des.

Free for you all night.

Cheers, Des.

Reg will be a guard at

the prisoner of w*r camp.

Oh.

Pleasure to meet you.

Any friends of Des is a friend of mine.

There's a queue.

Come on.

One cider.

I I think you've had enough.

Robert?

Mum.

No word of warning.

Brought him his boiled

egg and he was gone.

Your father wanted you to have this.

At the services next week,

his battalion will see him off.

I can't go.

I'd be a hypocrite.

Robbie!

- You must, to honour him.

- Mum.

I'd be honouring an idea

of what he should have been.

Nothing real.

(CRIES)

Everyone's here.

Mm.

Someone can sign the paperwork.

But will our unity be

valid under Japanese rule?

Let's go.

I don't want to be around a

bunch of drunk white people.

I don't want you to marry me to

please some old Christian lady.

We'll find another way

for you to come home.

I'm worried.

About?

That we're on

different levels of

liking each other.

Whether it takes two

minutes or two lifetimes

I'll be here, Kathleen.

And if you decide that maybe

you'll never be happy with me

I'll still be here.

Him.

And he looked 12.

Yeah, well, that 12-year-old is

a registered marriage celebrant.

Herbie.

I've clocked off, Kathleen.

You and your people

are late to everything.

Your people seem to

be late to Singapore.

We need you to sign these.

What's in it for me?

I'll spare your f*cking family.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Right. Let's

You Murray?

I am, sir.

You're in for a wild ride.

I now pronounce you husband and wife.

Now kiss. Let's see if it's real.

Serious?

Yeah, I'm serious.

If you don't kiss, I won't sign it.

Yep. Thought so.

Congratulations, Kathleen.

I can't wait to see the boys.

We've missed you, bob.

I don't understand why

it's such a big deal.

It was one time.

Alright, maybe two.

The second was to make

sure the first was real.

I will not be silent.

I will speak the truth.

Step aside.

We can't do that.

- (GRUNTS)

- (GROANS)

Sorry!

I have to tell everyone

about last night.

Esther!

- Kathleen, no!

- I will not be silent.

- Esther!

- I must speak my truth.

(GRUNTS) Esther, no!

Out.

Out.

- (GROANS)

- (FEEDBACK SQUEALS)

- Excuse me

- Esther.

everyone.

Can I have everyone's attention?

Esther, don't do this, please.

Last night

(THUD!)

(SINGS A LILTING ITALIAN SONG)

(MICROPHONE THUDS AND WHINES)

Thank you.

Pull a stunt like that again

and I won't be able to protect you.

So

you weren't going to

tell everyone about Harry?

(SOFTLY) No.

I couldn't do it to Kathleen.

She'd be punished 10 times worse.

Then what did you get up to say?

Well, the goat,

which was my internalised

guilt over sexual pleasure,

it was really shaming me.

So I felt compelled as a woman

to publicly reclaim my enjoyment

of what is a completely

natural neurovascular impulse.

I was very drunk. (LAUGHS)

Does this mean you don't

remember anything from earlier?

I don't fully understand,

but I'm glad you're happy.

I thought you'd never talk to me again.

(BOTH LAUGH)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)

For you, madame.

Thank you.

That song you sung before, what was it?

(SIGHS)

Well, you never looked more beautiful.

Can I tell you a secret?

Of course.

(WHISPERS) I don't like tea. (LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS)

I just pretend.

- Well

- Sorry.

It's (LAUGHS)

It's alright.

Well, can I tell you a secret?

Of course.

I feel like I've spent

my whole life pretending.

You know that they say

love is only a certain way.

I know in

with every cell in my

body that that is not true.

And if they've been lying about that,

then what else?

(SNIFFS)

(I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME

BY HARMONY BYRNE PLAYS)

Oh, I never played the game ♪

But then again ♪

I never had much luck in love ♪

Oh, I never ♪

Eterno riposo.

(CONTINUES PRAYER IN ITALIAN)

But then again, I never had ♪

Amen.

much luck in love ♪

Oh, I never played the game ♪

But then again ♪

I never had much luck in love ♪

Oh, I never played the game ♪

But then again ♪

I never had much luck in love ♪

Oh, I never played the game ♪

But then again ♪

I never had much luck in love.