03x05 - Episode 5

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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 ♪

- Is it bad to want to win?

When I made it into Solar Blue

I was determined to go all out, %.

Winning was everything.

Nothing less was acceptable.

- Come on guys, keep this up, let's do it.

Come on guys, you can do it,

five meters left, come on.

Excellent stuff, right on the money.

Well done guys.

- Is Bridget trying to show us up or what?

- You know what she's like.

If Gary asks us to do laps, she'll do .

- Doesn't she ever give up?

- She's incredible.

I don't know how Cassie and I are meant to compete.

- I'm just glad she's not a guy.

- Yeah, how come you're only up against normal humans?

It's unfair.

- Just lucky I guess.

- [Bridget] All my life I've wanted to win,

even if it's just an egg and spoon race.

I've always pushed myself to go faster,

higher, better than everyone else.

I don't know why I'm like that.

What I do know is, the thought of coming second

scares me more than anything else in the world.

- You know what?

I reckon Beck's deliberately not getting

that dishwasher fixed so that we have to do more work.

- Oh, it's not clean.

- What?

- There's still gunk inside.

- That's not gunk.

It's just a bit of scratch.

- That's gunk.

Come on, when we wash the dishes

they should look cleaner than anyone else

can make them.

- Since when did washing dishes

become a competitive sport?

- My brothers and I competed over everything

especially the washing up.

- Explains a lot about you Bridget.

There, does that meet your completely

unreasonable standards of hygiene?

- Eh, it's perfect.

- You two should get a move on.

School starts in a half an hour.

- Yeah don't we have uniforms?

- You do, they're on your beds

and with a bit of luck they might even fit.

- This whole uniform thing's a bit sauced

don't you reckon?

I mean I never had to wear one

at my old school.

- We did, we even had a tie.

- Did you like wear it and stuff?

- Yeah we had to otherwise we'd get sent home.

- Fair dinkin.

- It was quite good actually

because if surf was up in the morning

you just tell them that you left your tie at home

and you'd nick down to the beach

and turn up with it an hour later.

- [Adam] (laughs) That's a decent scam.

- Yeah of course, you had to put up with

an hour detention to make up for it

which wasn't so good if the surf was better then

than it had been that morning.

- Now here's what I call

a couple of elegant looking dudes.

My don't we look cool?

- Get this man.

Charlie had a tie at his old school.

- Did you like wear it and stuff?

- Yeah we had to otherwise we'd get sent home.

- Fair dinkin.

- Aye.

- Hey, what do you guys think about the new uniforms?

- At least I don't have to worry about

what to wear in the morning.

- I think I'm gonna have to take mine in a bit.

- Are you serious?

Yours fits perfectly.

- I wouldn't say perfectly.

- Oh okay, so it's like half a milimeter out.

Would you seriously bother with that?

- I like it when things fit properly.

- You're too fastidious Bridget.

- No I'm not, I just like it when things are right.

That's all.

- That's what I mean.

Fastidious.

- Now you need to know

that sometimes the Solar Blue group

is given a bit of a stir by the others.

- What kind of stir?

- It's mostly tame.

A bit of rubbishing, some practical jokes.

- Why's that?

- Well, they all think that you're very spoiled

getting to live and train in a place like this.

- Well hasn't anyone told them about Gary

and the t*rture he inflicts on us?

- Thanks a lot.

- Anyway, the important thing is to make the effort

to mix with the others.

You know, don't act like you're better than the rest.

- Oh Beck, we'd never do that.

- I know but people will say it anyway

so just don't give them any excuses.

- Right then, as a first day treat

you'll be personally driven by moi.

Just so you know the way.

- And what happens tomorrow?

- You walk.

- Isn't that about minutes?

- Yeah, that'll mean less time for morning training.

- No, it means you get up at am

instead of :.

I knew you'd like that.

Come on, the thrills of your limo await you.

- [Bridget] I've always enjoyed school

and I was stoked to be having a year

at a different one.

I couldn't wait to get stuck into it.

- Welcome to Blue Water High.

Now, remember what Beck said,

mix in, make friends, and have a good day.

- [Everyone] Thanks Gary.

- See ya tonight.

- Well I hope we get some good teachers.

- So how do you define a good teacher Bridget?

- Oh, someone who's a good communicator.

Sets interesting work and inspires you.

- Heck, you don't ask much, do you?

- Oh I figure we spend so much time here

it's only fair to wanna get the most out of it.

- All I want is no hassles, pass my exams,

stay out of detention,

which if I can wrangle,

it will actually be a major achievement.

- I'm with you Cassie.

A no problem school year

will be a good school year.

- Yeah, right on sister.

- What color was it?

- What?

- This tie you had to wear.

- The school colors, um green, gray, and yellow.

- Oh, that sounds horrible, like vomit.

- So did it have like dots or circles?

- Stripes.

What's with you guys?

Haven't you ever seen someone

wear a tie before?

- Yeah, but like not at school.

- Yeah, not one that looks like rotten vomit.

- You need to get out more, seriously.

- Hey guys, we're all in the same home class.

- Ah, maybe they wanna quarantine us

so that we don't spread our germs around.

- Oh speak for yourself.

- I got our locker keys.

Cassie, Bridget.

- Uh, where's mine?

- And since when did I become your sl*ve?

- You got theirs.

- And Adam has yours.

It's down the corridor.

- Oh cool.

Well in that case ladies,

I bid you farewell.

- Has Guy been watching a lot of bad movies lately?

- Yeah I think so.

Come on, we've got lockers to find.

- Here we go.

Eight, five.

Where's Guy?

- I don't know, probably talking to cumbersome nerd.

- Yeah probably.

- Hey, get your paws off that locker.

- Sorry?

Are you talking to me?

- Course I'm talking to you.

I don't see anybody else around here.

Jimmy, you see anybody else?

- No, I don't see no one.

- I think you mean anyone.

- And who asked you waxhead?

- He said he can't see no one.

That means he must have seen someone.

Haven't you guys heard of the double negative?

- Uh listen dork, these are our lockers.

- The whole bay.

- Nobody else uses them

especially not some waxhead from Solar Blue.

- No one uses nothing.

- Here we go again.

- If noone's using nothing

then that means someone must be using something.

You've really gotta iron out your grammar man.

- Listen pal, we're gonna be back here at lunchtime

so you just make sure that we see you guys gone.

Right?

- Well, that's impossible.

- And who says?

- First, you can't see me gone

because if I'm gone it means I'm not here

and you can't see something that's not here, can you?

It's also known as a contradiction.

Second, we have keys to these lockers

which means that we're obliged to use them

so if you have a problem with that

I suggest you take it up with the school administration.

- Good day boys, what's doing?

- Oh nothing mate, here's your keys.

- Oh cool.

How are you fellas?

I'm Guy.

- Moron.

- Just make sure you're out of here by tonight.

- Did I say something?

- No man, where on earth did you learn

all that grammar stuff?

- I told you, I went to a school

where I wore a tie.

(laughing)

- Renaissance Italy is your topic

and I want a snapshot from you

on what life would be like in that period.

- Yes, now you must be?

- Bridget.

- Yes Bridget?

- Didn't Italy only become a country a hundred years ago?

I mean in the time of the renaissance Italy

didn't actually exist, did it?

- Very good Bridget.

Yeah, so in the renaissance

what we now know as Italy

was actually a collection of city states

but for the purpose of the exercise

we'll generalize and call it Italy.

Now, we'll do this assignment in groups of four.

- Oh, I'm with you big brain.

- And I'm sure you Solar Blue people

won't mind if we split you up.

You must get tired of seeing the same faces everyday.

- No, no, it's cool.

We can handle it.

- It'll be a good chance for the other students

to get to know you too.

- Sorry.

- You're sorry?

I'm devastated.

This sounds like hard work.

- Don't worry Guy.

It gives you a chance to grow and develop.

- What?

Grow, I'm not a tomato Lauren.

Thank you I've grown and developed enough.

- Before you go, please check this sheet

for your group members and remember

this assignment will be due in two weeks

and there will be no extensions.

- How's the lunch?

- Yeah well.

- Be careful what you say.

I slaved for over half an hour making it last night.

- Well actually it's pretty good.

In fact it's excellent.

Really spectacular.

- No need to go over the top either.

- As far as I'm concerned

any lunch that I don't have to make is fantastic.

- Thank you.

- Hey, where's Bridget?

- Swimming laps to our .

- What?

- Over there.

She's already got her group together

to start work on the assignment.

- [Cassie] I wonder if they know what they're in for.

- Yeah well I think they're about to get

a pretty good idea.

- So I think if we divide it into arts,

economics, politics, and science

then we can cover all the bases

and we can each pick one topic

and write a couple of pages

focusing specifically on that aspect.

What do you think?

Well, feel free to choose the topic you'd like.

I thought we could spend tonight

getting some basic data, you know,

check out Wikipedia and places like that

and then we can meet here tomorrow lunchtime

and go through it all.

Sound like a plan?

Cool.

(upbeat music)

- That's not too bad,

not too bad.

(upbeat music)

Here we go.

(upbeat music)

Remind me to talk to Charlie about his back foot.

(upbeat music)

Adam, Lauren, don't forget you're doing dinner tonight.

- How could I forget.

I've been looking forward to it all day.

- Think positive, you only burned two pans last time.

- Hey Gary, is there any chance of getting

some extra coaching on my turns?

- What?

Your turning's fine Bridget.

You don't need any extra coaching.

- No my weight transference is all over the place.

- No it isn't.

You're just seeing things that aren't there.

Trust your instincts.

- [Bridget] How can Gary say that?

I am trusting my instincts.

I know my turns can be better.

Oh well, if Gary won't help

then I'll do what I always do.

I'll help myself.

(upbeat music)

- Whoa, what's going on here?

- My group assignment.

Aren't you guys doing yours?

- Not tonight.

It's time for our weekly grudge match.

- And anyway, the pool table

is a sacred site, no tainting it with

essence of school.

- Fine, I'll go work in the dining room then.

- [Adam] Thank you.

- Hey, well done partner.

- Guy, do something.

We're being thrashed.

- I haven't had a decent hand all night apart from that.

- Oh rubbish.

Hey Bridget, come take my place.

I'm sick of winning.

- Nah, I'm good.

I'm gonna go work in the lounge.

- Are you sure you don't wanna take a break?

You've been at it since dinner.

- I know, I'm fine thanks.

Oh are you in here for a while?

- A bit, I've got to do my weekly blog.

- Right, isn't anyone interested in doing

their assignments?

- Yeah, but we've got a few weeks yet.

- Well, do you mind if I use our room then?

- No, go right ahead.

Be at least an hour fiddling around here.

- All right, well have fun.

(slow music)

- Bridget, you'll k*ll yourself.

It's quarter past one.

- Nearly done, just one more paragraph.

(slow music)

- Look, I know it's only half an hour earlier

but I feel like death.

- Me too.

Bridget must be whacked.

She was up half the night,

thrashing away at her assignment.

- Yeah, well she still managed to beat us all

out of bed though.

- Man, Bridget's a machine.

How does she do that?

- No way, beats me.

- Let's hope she doesn't conk out.

- What?

- Oh nothing.

- Okay guys, just a few warm up laps

then we'll get into the time trial.

Quick as you can.

(bell ringing)

- Whoa.

What happened here?

Looks like somebody smashed them in with a hammer.

- Mine's the same.

- Hey, waxheads.

Oh no, what happened to your lockers?

What a pity.

You're gonna have to get some other ones.

- You know there are some really nice lockers

in the other building.

Think they'd suit you guys perfect.

- Perfectly.

- What?

- Things can suit perfectly

or they can suit to perfection.

If you're going to use perfect

it has to come before the noun,

as in a perfect suit.

- Look, just take your stuff

and get out of here, all right?

- Actually, you know what?

I think I kinda like this new look.

It kinda gives my locker some real personality.

- Yeah, much more interesting

than your boring average old straight locker doors,

wouldn't you reckon?

- Yeah, I don't know who did this

but it was really thoughtful of them.

- Yeah a sort of welcome to our school present.

- Exactly.

This is so cool.

I think I'm gonna love being at Blue Water High.

- Oh fellas, it's gonna be a pleasure

sharing a locker bay with you.

- Morons.

- Morons.

(bell ringing)

- Guys, I think we built the basis

for a hugely successful long term relationship.

Up top.

(slow music)

- Hi Gina, have you seen Sophie or Kelly?

- They can't make it.

- How come?

- Um, softball practice.

- I thought we agreed to meet yesterday though.

Why didn't they say anything?

- Ask them.

Oh here, Sophie did this.

- It's just a print out of a web page.

- It's all she had time for.

- Okay, well I mean at least we can go through

what we've done.

- Um, I can't stay either,

I've got a dance club meeting.

- Um, okay, what about the assignment?

Can we do it tomorrow?

- We don't think we need anymore meetings.

Here's our email addresses.

We can just send each other our bits

and then someone can print them out

and hand them in.

- But it still needs to be set out

and what about an introduction and a conclusion.

- It's only worth % of the year.

There's no need to go overboard about it.

Look, I've gotta go.

I'll email you by next Monday, okay?

- I couldn't believe how anyone could be so slack.

I mean it was like they were blaming me

for wanting to do well.

I shouldn't have worried though

because it was nothing compared to

what was about to happen.

(alarm ringing)

- [Gary] Bridget.

- Gary, I didn't expect to see you up yet.

- I was hoping not to see you up either.

- Sorry?

- Come on, sit down for a minute.

- What's the matter?

- Look, I really admire your determination

and the amount of work that you put into things.

- So what's the problem?

- Well, we're only six weeks in.

We've still got most of the year ahead of us.

It's a long distance race, not a sprint.

- Sorry, I'm not with you.

- Well, you're just going at things so hard

and so early that I'm worried

you're gonna burn yourself out.

- I just wanna do my best.

Are you saying that's wrong?

- No, no I'm just saying,

you're putting too much pressure on yourself.

If you're not careful

you'll end up exhausted.

- Okay, so what do you want me to do?

- I want you to get some extra sleep for a start.

An hour and a half of training in the morning's enough.

Don't need to do more.

Give yourself a break Bridget.

The important victory is the one at the end of the year

not the ones along the way.

- I just don't get it.

Last month Gary was pushing us to do more and more

and now he wants me to cut back.

- Well, last month was just to sort us out

and get us fit.

I mean now that school started the program's changed.

He explained all that.

- Yeah, I still don't see why I can't do more

if I feel like it.

It's my life.

- Yeah, I'm sure he's just trying to be helpful.

- Yeah, but if I'm willing to put in the effort

why can't he support me?

- Look, I don't know.

I'm sorry.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to dump that all on you.

- No, no it's cool.

It's no worries.

- Hey, can you hang on to this?

I'll come and meet you in a sec.

- Sure, I'll be down on the lawn.

- Okay.

- You wouldn't believe it.

She's just so up herself it's not funny.

In five minutes she'd taken over the whole assignment

and was telling us all what to do.

No, Sophie and Kelly couldn't be bothered.

We told her we had dance practice.

Exactly, we're not gonna let

some Solar Blue chick push us around

just cause she doesn't have a life.

(slow music)

- Hey guys, has anyone seen Bridget?

- Thought she was with you.

- Well she was about minutes ago

but I can't find her anywhere.

- She's probably ironing her Superwoman costume.

- Or writing a best selling novel.

- Well if you see her tell her I've got her lunch, will you?

- Yeah, we'll do that.

- Thanks.

Ah, there you are.

I've been looking for you everywhere.

I've still got your lunch.

- Thanks.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

- Doesn't look like nothing.

- All I did was try to be helpful

and suddenly I'm the school b*tch.

- Says who?

- My assignment group.

- Why?

- I just tried to make things easy for everyone.

How was I supposed to know

that they don't care whether they pass or fail?

- Look, I know you're trying to do the right thing.

- But?

- Sometimes you've just gotta back off a little bit.

Go with the flow more.

- You sound like Gary.

- I know we all wanna win at the end of the year

but that doesn't mean we have to compete

on other stuff.

Not everything has to be a race.

- Is that my problem?

Wanting to win?

- No, it's wanting to win all the time.

Just pick the fights that really matter.

- How do I do that?

- Well, for a start you could

stop giving me such a hard time

about washing up.

- That's not gonna happen.

- Ah, didn't think so.

Thought it was worth a try anyway.

- (laughs) Thank you.

I'm sorry for winching so much.

You've been so good about it.

- Well that's just the kind of guy I am.

(laughing)

Lunch?

- When one person tells you you're doing something wrong

it's worth thinking about

but when three people tell you

then you've got to admit that maybe they have a point.

So I decided to take the advice and make some changes.

It'd be hard but I'd give it my best shot.

Okay, who wants a game?

Well come on, or are you all scared

you'll be wiped off the table?

- Bridget is this you?

- Yeah, haven't you got like three assignments to finish?

- I have one and it can wait.

- [Lauren] Cool, I'm in.

- Me too.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, everybody

before you go, Guy and I have a little presentation to make.

- Oh well that sounds grand.

- It is.

Charlie, for services

to the English language congratulations.

- Okay.

Is this for real?

- What is it?

- Come on show us.

- That is seriously gross guys.

- That is worse than gross mate.

- Uh, yeah thanks a lot.

- It's the least we could do.

- Okay.

(laughing)

- Finally we found something you can't do.

- Never thought we'd see the day Bridget.

- Well, enjoy it while you can

because I'm going to practice

until I can thrash you all.

- Oh no, I don't think so.

- No, I will hang out in front of the TV for half an hour,

either or.

- Well if you're extremely lucky

I might even join you.

- You wish.

(cheering)

Don't get me wrong.

I still aim to go all out to win

at the end of the year.

I mean a Leopard can't change its spots completely

and there was one spot this Leopard

definitely wasn't changing.

The assignment, there's a copy for each of you

and I'm not really up myself by the way.

I just like to do things right.

So I'm sorry if that's such a crime.

Enjoy.

Life might not always be about winning

but sometimes it's totally about it.

(upbeat music)