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Come on, Snob.

Pick it up.

Snob, we'd get a lot more balls if we were both collecting them.

Now, go get it.

Hey.

Sorry. Those are my golf balls.

These golf balls are lost. Anyone can collect them. This is my territory. Get

out of here and take your feral mutt with you.

Don't even think about it.

Hey! You did it! Good dog!

Dead dog?

What are you doing here? What are you doing here?

Nearly. Like you wouldn't believe.

See you later, sucker.

Yeah, you too, loser.

Sorry, mate.

Thought I'd known I'd have ridden around him.

I'll just have to get some more, won't I?

So, uh, what were you doing there?

Uh, working.

What do you need the money for, anyway?

That. I see.

Yep.

Man's got to have wheels.

Yep. Hi, Terabath.

Snobbs. G'day, Abby.

I'd better get back to it.

See you, Dad.

Look what I found at home. Want to go swimming?

Try it out? I can't. I've got to get some money for a new bike tyre.

Weren't you running golf balls yourself?

Well, I found some, but I lost them.

Typical.

I've just had an idea.

Yeah, let's go swimming.

But the beach is that way.

Great.

I'll text message her. How's that?

No problem.

swimming at the beach. But there's got to be a thousand golf balls in there.

that zithead's not going to get them.

What zithead? Some older kid. Never seen him before.

He'll never think of this though. This is brilliant.

No, it's all right.

Excuse me, can you help my friend?

Toba?

Hey, stop that. What do you think you're doing?

You stole my golf balls.

Toba, your case officer's here.

What's going on? This is my son. I'm just trying to sort something out.

Case officer?

I don't see much work getting done here.

Dad, what's a case officer?

I can't believe it, Marion.

You'd better get back to work or else you'll be in breach of your court order.

Okay. I'm sorry.

I'm coming.

Dad?

What court order?

Has your dad been in trouble with the police?

I don't know.

But I'm going to find out.

Talked him into giving me half an hour off to have a word with you. You went to

court, didn't you? Got sentenced for something.

Yeah.

I got community service.

Instead of jail, I have to work a whole lot of hours for the good of the

community. Well, that's why we came here.

What did you do?

I stole something.

From a car.

What?

Electrical stuff.

Pawned for money.

So you're a thief? No.

I made a mistake.

I'm sorry and now I'm painful.

That's just a nice way of putting it. Face it, you're a thief and now you're a

liar too. I didn't lie to you.

I wanted to protect you.

Don't treat me like a little kid.

You are bound to find out, sooner or later.

Did you do that?

How'd you go?

Bad. Abby!

Quick, behind the bed.

I'm off to play golf now.

Okay, Mum.

Don't forget your homework.

Nearly finished, Mum.

Well, when you're finished, give me a call on the mobile.

Why? Because you've been neglecting your homework lately.

I'll call you when I'm finished.

Good girl.

So what happened about your dad?

It's okay if you don't want to tell me.

He stole something.

What? And he only told me because I found some of it out.

That's up. I know that my parents don't tell me. I don't care.

He goes on about always telling the truth. And he didn't.

Don't tell anyone about him.

Please? Of course not. Promise? I promise. Totally.

Thanks.

I suppose I better go.

What are you going to do?

I don't know.

Find snobs, I suppose.

He's nicked off somewhere.

Don't worry, I'll see you when you get here. Okay.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry.

You.

Thank you.

I can manage.

And get out of it!

Have you seen Snobs? I'm looking for him too.

Look what your idiot dog did to my bike.

How could he? He pushed the gas bottles onto it.

Snobs couldn't have pushed that.

There he is.

Where have you been, mate? He's hiding from me.

Come here, boy.

Snobs couldn't have pushed that over.

It must have been someone else. No one else was around.

Well, it wasn't snobs. Well, what else could it have been?

Hey, it's your soccer ball.

You been kicking this around?

I was angry. I kicked it really hard. It was an accident. Tough. You did it. You

fixed it. Well, how?

That's your problem.

You're back early.

I lost three balls.

Goodness knows how. I saw exactly where they went.

Anyway, I came home.

Finished your homework?

Yep.

You didn't call me.

I tried. You didn't answer.

Oh, that's rubbish, Abby. I had the phone right in here.

Who is it?

You haven't lost another one.

Oh, I had it in the car park.

I just finished talking to Clarissa and he ran into me.

Who? He was picking everything up. Who, Mum? Oh, that boy Marion, his father. He

ran into me.

You mean Tobar.

He ran into me deliberately to knock everything flying.

That's where my phone went. He stole it. But he wouldn't do it. He'd only get

into more trouble.

I beg your pardon?

Nothing, Mum.

You said he'd only get into more trouble.

What sort of trouble has he been in?

I don't know.

He's obviously been in trouble with the law. What sort of trouble?

Mum, please don't ask.

Abby, darling, there's nothing to get upset about.

If you know what sort of trouble he's been in, you just tell me the truth.

That simple.

Oh, Charlie, put that skateboard away before you kill yourself.

Charlie. Are you okay?

Yeah.

We'll have to take the forks off my bike to fix bikes.

G'day, Marion.

Am I comfortable?

Hello, Marion.

Is your dad around?

No? What's wrong?

Constable Stubbs is investigating the theft of my mobile phone. I'd just like

talk to your dad.

I happen to think your father stole it at the golf course. My dad wouldn't take

your phone.

Why not?

He's a convicted thief.

Well, who told you?

Abby, of course.

We tell the truth in our house.

Marion, will you ask your dad to come and see me? This afternoon or first

in the morning.

Thanks.

You promised you wouldn't tell. You promised.

Sorry. I tried not to. She made me.

Nico.

Please, Marion.

Get out of here.

Go on, get lost.

You're the only one I can trust.

Is Marion's father really a criminal?

That's enough, Brooke.

You don't know Tobar took your phone. You shouldn't have told Constable

The phone's not the point, Abby.

I've put out a reward for it, but otherwise I'll just replace it. This is

community matter. If people are living surrounded by criminals, they're

to know... And you shouldn't have told Marion... Who knows how many of them

got convictions? Don't talk over Mr Corelli, darling, please.

Not only are we entitled to know, we're entitled to protect ourselves.

So we're reforming our Neighbourhood Watch Committee.

Yes, except now we're calling it our...

Feral watch committee.

Hello,

mate.

What you up to?

Nothing. Constable Stubbs wants to see you in the morning.

Hmm.

Did he say why?

Abby's mum says that you stole her mobile phone.

Well, I didn't.

Well, you reckon I did?

How would I know?

You reckon once a thief, always a thief?

Why didn't you tell me the truth?

Mate, it wasn't that I didn't think you were old enough.

It's just that I only ever wanted you to be proud of me.

I was.

Can you be again?

Please?

I promise you I'll even take that phone.

I told Abby about you. I'm sorry.

No worries.

She's your best mate.

But she promised not to tell anyone, and she told her mum.

Abby's a good kid.

She must have had a reason.

I never want to see her again.

Fair enough, mate.

Now, what are we doing with these boys?

Knock it off in no time, eh?

Well, how did you get all that done in one night? It's none of your business.

And now we're even again.

Now you're going to need a new tyre, new wheel and new forks. I'll get them.

What's Stubbs doing here?

Wasting his time.

Come on, I need a heap of money. We're going to have to find a million golf

balls.

Yeah, it's me. We're going to the golf course.

What? Where did you get that? At the golf course.

Were you at the golf course yesterday?

Yeah, I got it for a dollar from a kid there.

But it's busted, see? Got it from which kid? I think his name's Jason.

Jason? He had heaps of them for sale. Real working ones too.

I don't know where he gets them from.

I've got a pretty fair idea. Come on.

Yeah, it's me. We're going to the golf course.

You're talking into a busted phone, you dummy. No one else knows that.

Besides, I look cool.

Come to the golf course?

Ignore her.

What? You heard.

Hi, Marion.

Spike.

Hi, Snubs. Leave my dog alone.

Hey, Snubs.

Yeah, I miss you too.

Any ideas how we can fix up this mess?

But Marion's gone that way.

Oh well, you usually know what you're doing.

So she broke her promise. Big deal. Big deal. She's your best mate. Give her a

break. Mind your own business.

Where's Snob? I don't know.

Nicked off again.

Give us your phone.

Why? What are you going to do with it?

pinches it. That's the whole idea.

Come on.

Where are we going, Snob?

That's him.

Any money, he's the phone thief.

What are you talking about?

That's my phone. You were stealing it.

What are you two ferals doing trying to steal my mobile phone?

What? I put my phone down for one second and you try and steal it. What's going

on here?

These two ferals tried to steal my phone.

It's Black's phone. I can prove it. It's busted.

It has no back on it.

This phone's brand new.

You ferals are getting out of control.

Hang on to them.

I'll call the police.

You brought me all this way to show me an old shed?

Uh -huh.

You think I can get back into his good books by giving him a heap of golf balls

to sell.

Problem is, Snob, these balls must belong to someone. We can't steal them.

Jason Cobb.

This explains a lot more.

Snops?

We left Bot's busted phone in the car to see if anyone took it. So where is it

now? He must have run a swap.

Garbage. You've got to believe us. The story's not making a lot of sense,

Marion. Comfortable stuff?

In a minute, Abby.

But you should save it.

You don't need me anymore, do you, Constable?

No, I don't think so, Jason, no.

Hang on, Jason.

Is this yours?

Have you ever seen it before?

But it has your name on it.

And look, it's inside.

The silver one there is my mum's, the one she had stolen yesterday.

He already met with me.

He just won't admit it.

Hey, Spike, want to be my new best friend? Sure.

Okay, I'm sorry.

Really, truly sorry.

Me too.

Hey, it was great being your best friend for about two seconds.

Same here.

It was my fault. Your mum did force you.

No, it was my fault. I tried to lie, but I couldn't. Well, that's a good thing.

Best mate?

Best mate.

What is it, boy?

Hey, you learned how to do it. Good boy.

I need heaps of these to get enough money to fix my bike now, mate.

No, he doesn't, Snob.

Not if Mum comes good with a reward for finding a phone.

You earned that reward, Snob.

Great. You go get your reward so you can get your bike fixed and you get your

best mate back.

But what about me?

Little old Spike gives up his mobile phone so you can have your happiness.

Spike, any time you want a phone, you can always share mine.

And this one works, too.

Really? Sure.

Thanks.

Well, aren't you going to call anyone?

Don't know anyone who's got a phone.