01x11 - Out of Control

[bunniefuu]

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♪ There's too much choice and not enough time ♪

♪ To find what's mine ♪

♪ Aiming for your head, get down ♪

♪ You're the only one in town ♪

[lively music)

[reel clicking)

[grunting)

- All right.

Hey, I give up, you got me.

Last witness, the inquisition.

[hammer banging)

I, Heath Carroll of the Solar Blue Surf Academy,

do swear to tell the truth.

- Take a seat, Heath.

After all, it's not an inquisition.

- But it is a serious situation.

- A serious accident.

- We've spoken to the others,

now we'd just like to hear your version.

- A version.

Version, okay, um...

[phone ringing)

- Oh, sorry, I'm sorry.

Ah, hello Andrew.

We're handling it right now.

- [Heath Voiceover] It's not an inquisition, yeah sure.

Mister Solar Blue himself on the phone, and the parents.

They're gonna want heads to roll on this one.

Problem is, it's a bit like a puzzle,

with a heap of different pieces, different little incidents.

And the first incident began days before,

with a really small moment,

when someone new rode into town.

- Wow.

- [Heath Voiceover] And that was the start of everything.

In that one moment

things that had been bubbling away underneath for weeks

came to the surface.

Matt and Edge had been neck in neck in the comps

and on the scoreboard for weeks.

- , ...

- [Heath Voiceover] Things had hotted up in the training

and the competition had shot pow into everyday stuff.

In fact, the rivalry was starting

to get more and more insane.

[cheering)

I have to admit, I was egging them on.

[guys shouting)

But, it was the arrival of the beautiful stranger

pushed the competition up another notch.

- First one to do a .

Go!

[exciting music)

- Hey, hey, check it out.

[laughing)

[rock music)

[shouting)

- Ben!

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Ben!

Ben!

Ben!

[coughing)

Ben.

[coughing)

You idiot, Ben.

How many times have I told you,

stay out of the surf zone?

And where's your leash?

- Yeah, Bec's right.

- And you, what were you thinking?

I mean where was your brain, where were your eyes?

- Oh, come on, he's okay.

You're not a sissy, are you Ben?

You'll be telling all your mates,

showing off to them about how you survived

being a speed bump.

- Yeah, I'm fine, let me go.

Stop making a big deal.

- Hey, you listen to me.

- Hey, Bec, he's years old.

You can handle yourself, can't you, mate?

- Yep.

- Here ya go.

See?

- And, bingo, Edge went from being the deadly vanquisher

to becoming Ben's hero.

So, if A, Edge hadn't been showing off

in front of that girl,

and B, he hadn't nailed Ben,

then Anna wouldn't have come out of the water

at just the right time to see.

- Hey, it's Blair and Leah from school.

- Ah, I didn't know they surfed here.

- Neither did I.

- Hey, Leah, Blair,

this part of the beach isn't for grommets, okay?

- Says who?

- Says everyone, it's the rules.

- Well, where we supposed to surf, then?

- That's your problem.

- How can girls like them learn to surf properly

if they aren't allowed on the good breaks?

- If they really want it, they'll find a way.

Everyone else does.

- But does it have to be so hard for them?

- [Heath Voiceover] And now, we had a third thing happening.

Anna became a woman on a mission.

- In surfing, you have to take risks, right?

- Yeah, that's okay for you academy girls.

You're all top surface.

They guys respect you.

- But if we go there, they hardly ever let us get a wave.

- And if we wipe out, it's, "Oh, stupid grommets.

"Just wasted the best wave of the day."

- Why don't you just join the bull runners club then?

- What's the point?

- They don't have beginner girls' events.

They make us compete against the boys.

- So, that's the first thing we're gonna change.

- [Heath Voiceover] Looking back,

it's amazing how everything started

from just a few little incidents.

And then started to build up and up.

- So, I've got Edge as front runner to win the next comp,

Matt shortly behind and Heath--

- Are you blokes betting on us?

- Sure, why not?

- No argument from me, I'm just curious, that's all.

- Just as a matter of statistical interest,

why is Edge in the lead

on everything?

- He is, he creams you.

- [Heath Voiceover] Hearing Edge was favored,

really got Matt wound up.

So, did what happened next.

[gentle music)

[upbeat music)

Goddess from the beach yesterday.

And whatever faults she had,

gymnastics wasn't one of them.

- What is her name?

- Laurel something.

[mellow rock music)

- Where did she learn to move like that?

- Been here half a day

and already trying out for the gym team.

- I'd say she's gonna get in.

- Definitely.

[mellow rock music)

[clapping)

- Very good, Laurel, thank you.

- [Heath] It was at this point

that Matt decided it was time to impress.

[rock music)

- Are those two feeling all right?

- Well, you know what they say.

Boys will be boys.

- [Heath Voiceover] With Matt and Edge, though,

it wasn't just boys being boys.

It was boys being complete idiots.

Things on the other front

weren't going much better.

Nobody else seemed all that interested in her mission.

- It's only a comps, three or four a year.

- I can't, I got enough on my plate,

plus, I gotta help baby-it Ben this weekend

while Mum and Dad are in Queensland.

- I thought you'd love to help.

You're the local.

- We all had to mix it with the guys, Anna.

Nobody set comps up for us.

- But wouldn't it be better if we helped these girls.

- Save it, Anna,

if they really want to surf, they'll find a way.

- Why are they so resistant?

- That's the way it's always been, Anna.

- Well, I'm gonna change it.

- [Heath Voiceover] One thing that wasn't changing

was the competition between Matt and Edge.

If anything, it was going from bad to worse.

- Laurel's amazing, isn't she?

More amazing than say Perri?

- Oh no, I mean, Perri's amazing too,

what about those gymnastics?

- You know what I reckon?

I reckon the main reason you think that Laurel is so amazing

is because you think that Edge thinks she's amazing.

And so does Edge.

- Heath, you really talk garbage sometimes.

- Whatever you say.

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- What's up? Your training wheels fall off?

- Just admiring the view.

- It is nice.

- [Heath Voiceover] If I had to pick a moment

when things started to get really out of control

with these guys,

this would probably be it.

- I can get up to Ks along this jetty.

- No way you could prove it.

- Yeah, I could.

End of the pier's about meters away,

at Ks an hour, it's about seconds.

- Six seconds to the end of that jetty you reckon?

I could beat that.

- [Heath Voiceover] And once again,

I couldn't resist playing my part.

All right guys, you ready?

[exciting music)

Go!

[exciting rock music)

- Watch out!

[splashing)

[laughing)

- [Heath Voiceover] No doubt about it.

- My brakes didn't work.

- [Heath Voiceover] These two guys were fast becoming

an accident waiting to happen.

- Were Matt and Edge just an accident waiting to happen?

- Well, at least Edge jumped in

at the deep edge of the gene pool.

No harm done,

apart from his backpack getting soaked.

- And when did they start to bet their own possessions?

- What do I say?

Do I show them exhibit A?

Evidence on the video camera.

Like the underwater breath holding challenge.

[light music)

Two minutes, . seconds.

Good work.

Been training really well lately.

- Is that a record?

- That's a record, mate.

We had a bet.

- Come on, Ben.

- Do I have to?

- Yeah, and Perri's coming to stay the night

with us too.

- So, see you tomorrow?

- Oh, you bet!

- All right.

- Thanks, mate.

This is quality gear.

- [Heath] It's one thing to be rivals,

but it starts to become something else

when you start betting your own stuff.

And Anna was about to take it one step further.

- You organized a girls comp for tomorrow?

- And I thought you could be judge, Simmo,

and Deb, you could get Solar Blue to be the sponsor.

- As an academy coach,

I'm not permitted to judge local comps, Anna.

- And Solar Blue only ever sponsor elite athletes

and the academy.

- No exceptions?

- Never.

- I really, really want to do this.

- Why? Why's it so important?

- It's unfair that there's no junior girls comps.

It's makes things so much harder for them.

We can help.

- Anna's got a point.

Come on, Simmo, there must be dozens of potential judges

in this little black book of yours.

- Oh, yeah, and heaps of potential sponsors

in this electronic diary thingy of yours.

Surely they can give a few prizes to Anna for the day.

- What's all this stuff going on between Matt and Edge?

- Who knows, secret boys business.

- Yeah, but don't you think pushing the competitive thing

a bit far, though?

- Bec, they're boys.

That's what boys do.

- Yeah, guess you're right.

You know something, I'm so glad I'm not a boy.

- Yeah.

- All that having to prove yourself all the time.

I mean, who's the toughest, who's the smartest,

who's the best?

I mean who cares?

- Yeah, but boys are lucky too.

- How?

Tell me one way.

- Because they get to date fabulously beautiful girls

like you and me.

- Perri, only you could have thought of that.

[laughing)

- [Fly] These are the prizes?

- [Anna] Yeah.

- They guys get heaps better stuff at the local comps.

- Fair enough, there's more guys competing

so it's harder for a guy to win.

- Plus, guy surfing's way more out there.

It's more spectacular.

- How can you say that when your own mother's

a champion surfer?

- But if you pit the top women's surfers against the top men

there's no contest.

- Girls got their own style.

- Guys, they take more risks,

they surf bigger waves

and they put up with more punishment and pain.

- So how's this for pain?

- Ah!

- Thought you could put up with it, macho man.

- Right, I'll get you for that.

[everyone shouting)

- [Heath Voiceover] We were all making such a racket

we didn't hear the doorbell, or that anyone

was trying to get our attention until...

- Hello.

- I asked Laurel to join in the girls comp tomorrow.

- Girls comp?

What a great idea.

- Yeah, it's about time we had something like this.

It's terrific.

- [Heath] And I guess if Laurel hadn't walked in,

all the next stuff would never have happened.

- Oooh.

Excuse me.

- So, there's two heats with two girls apiece.

- I never though about competing before.

I only really surf for fun.

[laughing)

- Too short.

- So, Laurel,

how long have you been surfing?

- Oh, I'm really a beginner,

no where near you guys.

- Which is why it's so great that Anna's

organizing this girls comp.

You'll be up to speed in no time.

- I wish.

I have half a year's school work to catch up on too.

- No worries, I've got copies of all our year's work.

They might be useful.

If you want.

- That'd be great.

- All right, come upstairs.

[chuckling)

- It's another great thing about the bay here

that the reefs are teaming with fish.

I could take you snorkeling something if you like.

- I'm up for that, it'd be fun.

[knocking)

- Make yourself home, Ben.

Ben's staying here.

- Ah, is Bec okay with that?

- I called her and said we'd take care of him

so that they could have the night off.

- And she agreed?

- I said I'd guard him with him life.

- Man, look at that poster.

To Edge, a future world number one, Brad.

Awesome, when'd he give you that?

- When I was like your age.

- Wow.

- Liv Cameron.

- Yeah, that's my mum.

- Hey, she was one of the first women

to ever take on big waves, wasn't she?

- They key was her stamina, her paddling.

She'd make me paddle for hours too,

out to the fishing buoys and back.

- How long would it take you to paddle to the fishing buoys

off Blue Water and back?

- Um, under minutes.

- No way.

- Yeah, easy.

- All right, let's see you do it, then.

- Okay, then, sure, if you do it too.

- All right, I win, I get your Brad Gilmore poster.

- All right and if I win

I get that fish book you're so hooked on.

- [Heath Voiceover] Yes-sir-ree.

With Laurel's arrival,

the boys went from stupid to crazy.

Each contest saw more of their precious stuff

changing hands.

[mellow rock music)

- Go on, mate, have another one.

- Okay, so I'll see you tomorrow.

- Yeah, thanks, it's been fun.

A great intro.

- Hey, Laurel, it'll be getting dark soon.

How about I walk you home?

- Thanks, that'd be nice.

See ya, Anna.

- Ciao.

See, I told you it could happen.

Everything's going to be perfect.

[upbeat music)

- Ah, you've been a while.

So, have you made it to the next rung on the food chain?

- I've got an idea.

- Do you, Edge?

- Some of the older guys were telling me about

a point break where the waves hit pretty solid

around the rocks.

So, I thought we could surf switch foot.

No, leg ropes,

the ultimate challenge,

winner takes all.

- Even Laurel?

- Whatever you want.

Bring her along, she can be one of the judges.

Spielberg here can video it.

- Okay, you're on.

- [Heath Voiceover] I don't know why, but at this point,

I began to feel that maybe things were going

a little too far.

Nothing I could do though.

These guys were primed and ready to fire.

- The swell's a bit high isn't it?

- It'll be fine.

- It's only a three second window between the waves.

You've got no room for error.

- We won't make one.

Will be, mate?

So, ah, you wanna go first?

- It's your call.

- Hey, look, guys.

I reckon Fly's right.

Maybe you should wait til the breaks down a bit.

- Hey, this is our show, right?

You just get your camera ready.

Well?

- I'm on, whatever you want.

- What do you say, Laurel?

Me or Matt go first?

- I agree with Fly,

isn't it too risky?

- That's the whole idea,

isn't it, Ben?

- You're right.

- Okay, I'll go first.

You ready, maestro?

- Yeah, ready to set.

- Go for it, Edge.

- Are you certain of this?

Okay.

I will.

- You want some juice?

Hey Anna, how's the contest going?

- There's a storm coming in.

I've got to bring it forward an hour.

- Shouldn't be a problem should it?

- Not if you can help.

I need to get word to Laurel.

- Where is she?

- With Edge and the others.

Somewhere called Stressors Point.

- What are they doing there?

- No idea.

Can you tell her, while I call the other girls?

- Leave it to us, Anna.

[upbeat music)

- Come on, Edge, here we go.

[upbeat rock music)

- Yes!

- Yeah, all right!

[cheering)

- He's pretty cool, huh?

- Pretty cool.

- That was amazing.

- That way, Edge.

- Woo.

- You have to admit,

he outdid himself that time.

All right, buddy boy, time to show your stuff.

- Sure.

- Edge's board, it'll get smashed.

- I'll get it.

- [Bec] Ben stop.

- [Matt] Right, Ben, I'll get it.

- [Bec] Ben!

[shouting)

- Ben!

Ben!

[shouting)

Quick, get him outta there.

Pull him out.

- Paddle in, Ben.

- I can't, it's stuck.

- What is?

- My ankle, it's wedged in.

Bec, help me, Bec!

- It's gonna be okay.

[water roaring)

- It hurts.

- I can't get him free.

- Try again.

- [Ben] Bec, I'm scared.

- It's all right, I've got you.

[rock music)

- Fly! You gotta come in.

- Why?

- His leg's stuck in the rock.

I can't get it free, I need small hands.

- Anna, have you called all the girls?

- All except Laurel, but Bec and Perri went to collect her.

- Beach is all marked.

I'm ready to go when you are.

- Shouldn't be long now.

- Here come the girls now.

[rock music)

- Bec, can you support him?

- He's getting heavy.

- I'll take over.

- I'll do it.

Got him.

- How's Fly going?

- She's still trying.

[tense rock music)

- She's been under there for over two minutes.

Get her out now.

- I think she's got it.

- You okay?

[coughing)

- Okay, mate?

[coughing)

Fly, that was a hell of a way

to beat Edge's underwater record.

- Thanks, Fly.

- What the hell's going on?

- This part of the beach has been reserved half an hour

for a surf comp.

- Got the best waves we've seen in a month

and they're reserved for some wussy beginners comp?

- Don't worry, you'll get your chance at it.

- When?

I reckon there's a storm coming.

- Maybe we can start without Laurel.

- Rules say minimum four.

- It's all right, still got a couple of minutes.

[phone ringing)

- Perri?

How bad it is?

Well, get him straight down to the doctor

and we'll meet you there.

Guys, there's not going to be any comp today.

Laurel's not coming and that's the least of our worries.

- And this is all because of your stupid competition.

- Sort of.

- Ben wasn't even meant to be here

and we're supposed to be back at Anna's surf comp by now.

But you two couldn't wait because you had to prove

who was Mr. Macho Man.

What is it with you guys?

Do you always have to act like cavemen?

- Hey, that camera's not still rolling is it?

- Thanks for showing us that, Heath.

- The three of us voted to show you.

- Not a very flattering picture is it?

- Does anyone have anything to say?

- I should cop the blame.

I started it all.

- It's my fault as much as his.

I issued just as many challenges as Edge did.

- Look, to be quite honest, I'm responsible for a bit.

I stirred them both up.

I egged them on every step of the way.

- Thanks, guys.

You've really done the male population of the academy

very proud.

- They, we just overdid the competition thing a bit.

- Overdid it?

- It's one thing to compete.

It's another thing to compete at the expense

of things like safety,

especially the safety of others.

- Now you all have to face the consequences

of your actions.

- [Heath Voiceover] And there were lots of consequences,

facing Bec's parents, extra chores,

including a cool one for Matt and Edge.

- Can we go now, Mister?

[upbeat music)

[whistle blowing)

[laughing)

- [Heath Voiceover] But in the end, though,

Anna did get to hold her comp for girl beginners.

[horn blowing)

Not everyone was thrilled about it, of course,

but you can't please all the people all the time.

- Hey, cutie.

- [Heath Voiceover] As for Ben,

he had more attention than he could handle.

And as for us guys,

we had more attention than we wanted.

- Hey, Edge, Ben would like an ice cream, thanks.

- Sure.

- Oh, and, I wouldn't mind one either.

What about you two?

- Great.

- I'll have one.

- And, Matt, maybe you could get us all a drink too?

- I'm on my way.

[upbeat rock music)

- Woo! It's getting a bit hot, Heath.

Do you reckon you could put up a sun shade?

- If you really want it?

- I think we do.

Don't we girls?

- Definitely.

- Absolutely.

- [Heath Voiceover] So, we had our few days

of boys being boys.

Now, we just have to pay for it.

And pay for it,

and pay and pay,

and pay and pay...

[rock music)

♪ There's too much choice and not enough time ♪

♪ To find what's mine ♪

♪ Aiming for your head, get down ♪

♪ You're the only one in town ♪