All language subtitles for The.Commons.S01E03.WEBRip.Stan_.en_

[gentle atmospheric music]

-[Francesca] Oh, come on!

Oi! This isn't fair!

Not fair! Not fair!

[laughter and squealing]

[squealing]

[gentle atmospheric music]

[alarm sounds]

- [Dom] Go, go, go!
Come on, everyone, you know what to do.

Go! Let's go!

Stop. This is serious.

Archie!

[alarm continues]
Move.

Nice and steady.
Archie, you know what to do.

- Yup
- Quick as you can.

Come on, Tillie.
Sage, that's it. You're safe.

Archie, backpacks, fast.

Come on. Quick as you can.
Quick as you can.

[alarm continues]

- [Dom] Quickly, quickly. Come on, guys.
- [Francesca] For your sister.

Tillie, here you go. Tillie.

- [Dom] Just go, just go, just go.
- [Archie] Mum!

-[Dom] Keep close behind me. That's it.

Keep the pace up, guys. Keep the pace up.

Move ahead.
Come on move ahead.

Keep going.
Quick, quick, quick.

[Archie] Come on.

[Dom] That's it. Bags in the boot.

Here you go, darling. Off you go.

Good girl.

Two minutes, 20.

Sloppy work, people. Sloppy work.

We should be able to do it in under two.

[zipper creaks, tablets rattle]

[solemn music]

[newsreader] Relief for tens of thousands
of city residents this morning

as predicted storms fall
well to the west of the city.

Not such good news, I'm afraid, for the
people of Oberon and Wisemans Creek.

Winds topping 170km/hr
raged through the night.

Some Pacific island nations
were also unlucky,

bearing the full force of
Hurricane Katelyn,

with multiple casualties and some
isolated islands completely devastated.

[electronic beep, broadcast ends]

Are you sure you can't start tomorrow?

-[Eadie] It's National Service.

I don't remember them saying

"Turn up when you feel like it"
on the form.

I just don't understand why you don't get
Dom to sort you out an exemption.

[Eadie] I don't understand why I have
so many shoes. I mean, it's absurd.

Is there some sort of weird thing
going on between you and him?

You don't want him to do you a favour
or something?

It's like I've got some sort of
octopus delusion or something.

I mean, how many feet
do I really think I have?

And are you sure
you can't start tomorrow?

I don't want an exemption, alright.
I don't want to be exempt.

I just want to do something that's
not about me for one second, and you're...

I don't know why you're so hung up
about it. Why do you even care?

Is that...
Have you got product in your hair?

No. Ye... Maybe.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. Shit! I'm so sorry.

- You're presenting today.
- Yeah. Yeah, we are.

- I'm so sorry.
- It's OK. It's fine.

It's not a big deal. It's...

Of course it's a big deal.

It's the biggest presentation
of your career.

- Don't worry about it. It's fine.
- I'm gonna call them.

- I'll see if I can...
- Don't. Just...

[scoffs] I'm such a bad wife.
I'm sorry. I just...

I'm so sorry.

I'm just a bit all over the shop
at the moment.

Hey, hey.

It's okay.

You go do your thing.

If you don't show up
when we win the Nobel Prize,

then we've got a real problem, OK?

[quietly] I love you, baby.

[quietly] I love you too.

[tender orchestral music]

[bus engine idling]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[beep]

[electronic voice] Please repeat after me
- In Australia, my voice identifies me.

What if I don't want to?

[ai assist] Please repeat after me -
In Australia, my voice identifies me.

[Australian accent]
"In Australia, my voice identifies me."

[beep]

[haunting atmospheric music]

[crowd chatter,
indistinct announcements]

[muffled announcement]

[man] Get your bags ready please.
Passports...

[haunting atmospheric music]

- [man] If you're only here for
emergency relief,

but you're planning
to return to your homes,

please make your way
back to the pavilion.

Now, if you're here applying
for an Urban Residency Permit,

you need to go through
the registration tent

and get an identity wristband.

[haunting atmospheric music]

[muffled shouting]

[man] Good morning National Service.

Correct? You're the new
National Service person?

- Yeah.
- Awesome.

Eadie. Abel Keralo.
Get gloved up, masked up.

We don't get on top of this intake,
the whole day is shot.

Everyone gets a blood test for hepatitis,

HIV, malaria, Ross River,
yellow fever, typhoid.

Swabs in there for influenza.

Blood smear for chagas. Skin test for TB.

And they spit in a cup on the way out.

What's the spit for?

DNA repository.

Wow.
They have a choice?

Or - you want help,
you hand over the data?

I'm sorry, you are a doctor, right?

'Cause they told me
I was getting a doctor.

Yeah, I'm a neuropsychologist.

[chuckles]

Oh, great.

As they say in medical terms,

I need someone who can put
300 sausages on buns

and they send me a souffle chef.

[exasperated sigh]

[PA announcement] Attention, attention.

[muffled PA announcement]

[Abel] Ta.

[speaker feedback]

Hi. Attention, everyone.

You all need to get
your wristbands scanned.

If you were given
a positive medical score,

you'll be shown how to access food
and clothing and shown where to sleep.

Now, if you have a negative medical score,

you'll be led through the side doors,

where Border Control Officers
will direct you onto the buses.

Thank you.

[crowd chatter,
muffled announcements]

So what happens to the people
who end up back on the bus?

They go back to their residency zone,

treated in hospitals
close to their registered address.

Back to the rural hospitals?

That don't have the expertise to treat
what they've got in the first place.

The centre's remit is to help
those who qualify for it.

Remit?

Welcome to the remit.

[solemn music]

- Hey.
- Hey.

Stonehewen.

Concierge. I buzz you through
to see your brother.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't...

Recognise me without the suit.

Yeah. [laughs]

Do you do the security here as well?

No, no. Um... my family are here.

They still had to do their regional year

before they could apply to
come into the city.

Do you work here?

No, I'm a volunteer. National Service.
Just helping out in the medical tents.

Oh, well, you drew the short straw.

Cool. I won't hold you.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Give us your phone.

I've gotta show you
how this data loop works.

So...

This is a loop of last week's data
when you, ah...

lost the baby.

This will keep coming to you and Lloyd
in a loop until you take the implant off.

And this is what's actually going on
inside there.

Thank you.

Eadie, are you sure
you shouldn't just tell him now?

Tell him.

Ask forgiveness.

I think I've missed that boat.

Right now, until I know
if this one's sticking around,

the only reason to tell him
is so I'd feel better.

OK.

Good luck for today.

[chattering]

[electronic beeps, phones ringing]

Great.

All good?

- [announcer] The presentation
will begin...

-You sent me your key data, yeah?

[beep]

Just released by the legal team.

All methodology specifications

have been registered this morning
as proprietary knowledge.

But you have to stick absolutely
on script.

Yes, you mentioned, Herman.
Twelve times.

You deviate and include
any more of the data,

we're going to have to
give it away for free.

- I get it.
- Do you?

Just a reminder, there's 300 campuses,

12 venture capitalists
with declared interests

just waiting for you to slip up

and give them just enough
to make their own running without us.

- I get it, OK. I get it!
- OK.

[tense music]

Lloyd.

Thank you.

[chattering]

[bike horn beeps]

Oh, shit. Look out.

[male newsreader] Scientists gathered
today for a major announcement

at the National Institute of Science...

[female newsreader]
Two young vector biologists...

[female newsreader two]
The fight against chagas disease

has taken on a new urgency...

Excuse me, can I get through, please?
Thank you.

With rising temperatures delivering
an explosion in populations

- of the kissing bug...
- [Shay] Excuse me. Sorry...

which carry this deadly disease.

Early peer review of the pair's materials
has sounded positive notes.

But, as ever, it's not until
the full data set is revealed

that the real importance of this work
can be evaluated.

[chattering]

Sorry, can I just...

- Mate...
- Sorry, I didn't set my alarm.

[man] Shay.

- You are not wearing that.
- What?

[Lloyd sighs]

What?

Oh, sausage, are you nervous?

Please don't. Don't, OK? Not today, OK?

[announcement chime]

[announcer] The presentation
will begin in...

- This is why I forgot to set my alarm.
- [announcer]...doors will close...

I kept on having visions of this mob
shooting the whole thing down.

All the things that we missed.

Yeah. Finally and completely
being exposed as faking it.

- Faking it?
- Me, darling, not you.

- You never fake it.
- Don't touch me. OK.

-[technician] Hey. Mics are on now.

In searching for a high efficiency gene
disruption in Trypanosoma Cruzi,

the etiologic agent of chagas disease,

we had a singular hypothesis.

This shows the C-terminal tagging
of the endogenous proteins...

We used the...
[voice fades]

Cas9/pTREX vector

to insert...

[Shay]... SGRJ targeted the GO1 is

PCR amplified and cloned.

The donor sequence contains
both the tag sequence and the marker

for antibiotic resistance...

in addition to more than 100bp
homology arms corresponding

to regions located upstream

of the stop codon
and downstream of the Cas9 target site.

- [Lloyd] ..aiming to induce
a double strand break in a site

that could be replicated multiple times
down the germ line.

And verify that it doesn't generate
off target effects

on the T.cruzi genome...

And so we come to the final results
and to the sigma.

What's the "sigma"?

Oh, it's the number that lets us know
if your dad's results were a fluke or not.

So, zero - obvious fail.

Two's good. Three's excellent.

All the way up to four, out of the park.

It's yours.

Take it.

[energetic strings begin to fade in]

Detached flagella indicated by
the white arrows.

Single cell details shown in Panel 'B'.

Second generation blood count...
numbers are in green.

And when we run these numbers through
our standard deviation modelling...

it delivers a sigma of... five.

[applause]

[tense atmospheric music]

[cheering]

[applause continues]

[cameras click]

If there was ever a reason
to take a day off...

I know, I would love to,
but I have a tonne of work to do.

And I'd rather take the day off with you
when we can just hang out together, OK.

Come on, I'll take you.
You'll be back in time for maths.

Hey, thank you.

Thank you for bringing her down.

Couldn't be happier for you.

Interview requests

from SCN, ASR,

Stream 365 News and CBN.

Three companies are offering us
equipment.

And an offer to fly us to the
Capstone Festival in Prague next week.

[chuckles] OK.

Here we go.

Remarkable. Who'd have thought it?

Certainly not you, Herm.

Judgements I retract in full.

I mean, I could go on about it
but I'd rather make good in kind.

What's that?

Preliminary research budget.

But get ready for some serious courting.

There are a dozen
expressions of interest already.

How many years is this over?

Oh, ah, just the one.

Better make a plan for spending it
before the board changes their mind.

[Shay chuckles]

Today's been a good day, eh?

Yeah, it has indeed.

No Eadie?

No, no, she's made
the National Service commitment.

She wanted to bail but I insisted.

Zahra Malak, CBM News.

I'm wondering if you can talk about

what brought you both to science
in the first place?

And what do you say to those claiming

you're stomping all over Mother Nature,
playing God in the lab?

Uh...

[chuckles]

Well, that's a pretty reductionist way
of thinking about things.

But I got into biology because I wanted
to understand the laws of nature, not...

Uh, you know, we don't have
too many kissing bugs

because there's
a fault with those natural laws.

We have too many kissing bugs

because we have made such
an horrendous mess of things, OK.

So, far from... from...

I don't know, trying to dominate
Mother Nature,

I am in Mother Nature's service.

-[Shay mumbles] That's cute.

-And you, Mr. Levine?

I am just in it for the money.

[laughter]

I might let Shay finish this off.

He's got more than enough to say
for both of us.

Uh... Herm...

why don't you...

Yeah.

Thank you, everyone, for coming.

It's been a great day for NIS.

And I'd just like to say
we're extremely proud of our...

Would it actually kill you to admit
that what we did was a big deal?

It actually means something.

I'm happy to. But I'm not gonna do it
like some performing seal.

We don't owe those people anything.

Let alone a peek into our souls,

that they're gonna turn into
some cheap bullshit sound bite

for morons to chew up and spit out
three minutes later.

You're gonna... You're gonna have to
help me out a bit here.

Things aren't great on the home front.
It's just this...

It's just this whole baby thing, you know.

We have to stay connected to
this monitoring app for the next month

and every day it's just like...

It's like watching her
getting stabbed in the face.

"You are not pregnant.
You are not pregnant. You're not..."

Like she could forget.

And you know what the worst thing is...

it's like, for two years,
I have had my hand in the fire

and now I'm finally able to take it out.

And I just want to
punch myself in the face,

'cause all I feel is just relief
that this horror show is over.

But every day since we've given up...

she gets further away from me.

It's like when she sees me,
she looks at me, she sees her pain.

[scoffs]

Thank you.

For what?

[scoffs] For not...

you know, for not saying anything.

Thanks.

Anytime.

[clattering]

-[woman] I need to get out of here!

-[Eadie] Hey, hey, hey.

She's got no ID.
She won't even tell me her name.

- Won't or can't?
- [woman whimpers]

I know I don't always want to do
what I'm told, but...

Hey. My name's Eadie.

Can you tell me your name?

No? OK.

Do you know it?

No.

[Eadie] OK. That's OK.

It's so hot in here.

Do you want to, um,
come and get some fresh air

and we can make a bit of a plan?

Yeah? Just go for a little walk.

So, if we work backwards,

you remember getting off the bus here,
yeah?

Yeah?

How about getting on the bus?

This last one came from the Central West,

so you would have got on at, um...

Dubbo?

Millthorpe?

Oberon?

Um...

Yeah?

Yeah. So maybe...
Maybe you live in Oberon?

Maybe you were caught up in
the storm there last night?

Do you know what day it is?

Tuesday?

You're doing good.

Can you tell me something
that's happening in the news?

Something current?

Weather's turned to shit.

- Nausea?
- Mm.

Headache?

OK.

Can you hold your hands up?

Grab my hands.

Make fists, really tight.

Great.

Don't let me pull your arms down, OK.

Good.

Well, I think it's safe to say
you don't work in a nail salon.

Honest hands. That's what my um...

My...

Are you married?

Maybe.

So, there's no external injuries,

then the first thing we consider
is a traumatic brain injury.

A knock to the head
and things haven't resettled properly.

-[Abel] Has rice arrived yet?

Oh, as I speak. You're too good, people.

To be sure, she needs an MEG scan

and without any ID credentials,
that's gonna be a hard one to pull off.

We're a little low on brain tech.

And unless it's an emergency,

you won't be able to
get her into your hospital, correct?

Any ideas?

I'll bring it back. I promise.

I heard you were never here.

Maybe that's why
you're not answering my calls.

You've disappeared
off the face of the earth.

Sorry.

Have you been doing the
injections yourself?

No, I uh...

You tell me you've gotten a new support
person, I'm gonna feel very cheated.

You're off the hook.

I'm so sorry, babe.

When?

A couple of days ago.

You didn't call me.

No, I just um...

I just needed to do this one on my own.

Of course. Sorry.
That was so needy of me.

I'm sorry.
Look, I'm... around if you need me.

And I'm not around if you don't.

[helicopter whirring]

Where's that going? Um...

Hey, boss, can I just get
your signature real quick?

- OK.
- Thank you.

Well, it's not his decision if he goes
to school or not, Chesca. It's ours.

Yeah, and every time you let him
get away with it... No, I'm just saying...

I'm just saying
that if there's a real problem

and we need to get away in a hurry,

it doesn't matter if he likes the way
it feels or not.

[door shuts]

Yeah, I know.

I'm sorry.

OK.

I'll see if I can swing by this afternoon.

Bye.

-Cosmo?

Yeah, I'm running drills with them
at the moment.

Unless he gets 24 hours notice and
some sheepskin earmuffs, he can't cope.

So, give them to him?

You know when the shit hits the fan,

you're just gonna pick him up
and get the hell outta there.

So why put all of you through it?

At the end of the day,
remind me to fire you.

I'm taking the kids away for the weekend.
You can get the early train.

Denillo's have booked a pick-up.

Quick taxi run to the airport.

Better fire up the limo.

[pilot] What, are you coming?

Yeah, they've just upgraded to
premium customers,

so Harlow wants to make sure
they get looked after by a partner.

- [Eadie] So let me talk you through
what I'm seeing.

I'm seeing swelling here,

which is one of the markers we'd
expect from a traumatic brain injury.

What I'm also seeing are

some pretty significant changes
to your dopamine receptors.

What does that mean?

It means you've been cooking yourself
a pretty intense pharmaceutical habit

for the last couple of years.

Probably one of the peptide-based
analgesics like Oliceridine or Fentanyl.

Here and here, that's structural
change to the neural pathways.

And all of this red activity here,
that's acute opioid withdrawal.

That's the good news.

Because it accounts for
part of why you feel so bad.

You're up to your eyeballs in cold turkey.

In time that will subside.

Is that why I can't remember anything?

I just fried my brain?

I don't think so.

But it's so noisy in there right now,

it's like trying to hear a pin drop
in the middle of the freeway.

We just need to ride out the withdrawal

until we can get a better picture
of what's actually happening.

A junkie, eh?

What a first thing to know.

[Abel] Our support team
will take it from here.

If she was getting her fix over the
counter, we'll be able to track a file.

It's a Schedule 8 drug and you can't
get it without a thumb print anymore.

I think we'll keep you after all.

Well, don't put yourself out.

[helicopter whirrs]

[pilot] Wondered how you'd feel about
me taking Mo out

for a flight next weekend?

It's his birthday.

Wow, he's gonna love that.

You'll be dad of the year.

Let's get these guys out
and take an early mark.

[helicopter powering down]

Lou, how are you?

Good. Good to see you.
We're not quite ready, though.

Miles isn't feeling so good.

-[woman] Nice and slow.

That's it. Just nice and slow.

Hey, guys. It's Miles, right?

Hi, Miles.

- Can I, um...?
- Yeah.

Hi there.

I'm Dom.

I need you to squeeze both my hands,
OK.

OK.

That feeling of not being able to breathe
is the worst, right?

Excellent.

Hearing you loud and clear.

Now, the key is
I need to find out whether

this feeling's coming from the outside in
or the inside out.

So I need a really big two-handed squeeze

if you're feeling wired
and nothing if you're feeling tired.

OK. This is more like a panic attack.

- So what we need is... Have you got a bag?
- [Miles] Yep.

Hey... [whispers] I have these too.
You'll be fine.

[Miles] Here you go, Dom.

I want you to breathe
into this very high-tech paper bag

and that'll bring
your carbon dioxide levels down

and the world will start looking like
a much happier place.

There you go.

He'll be fine.

[woman] That's it, darling.

A serotonin reuptake inhibitor
would make the flight a whole lot easier,

stop him having another attack
in the air.

[woman] Good boy.

- [Lou] If we hang around for another
two hours waiting for a prescription,

we're gonna miss our flight.

We've got a list of tame pharmacists
on the books.

We can email through a script request.

And picking up?

Tully will be more than happy to
drive into town and get it for you.

Absolutely. Happy as Larry.

- Thank you. That's brilliant.
- It's all part of the service.

You haven't got a tame plumber
on the books as well,

because I've got a shitfight in the
bathroom I don't know what to do about.

[gurgling]

[sigh]

Leave you to it
while I pop down the shops, boss.

Unless you want to swap jobs.

What's going on?

- Tried to call you.
- What?

I ran some more numbers.
I wanted to double check.

- We double checked.
- Triple check.

The CCR5 fertility deletions came out with
a different set of coordinates.

The DNA changes hitched a ride on
the transposons.

I tested it on other insects.

Crosses the species barrier, so...

whatever eats our bug gets its fertility
bombed too.

We're a long way from ready.

We have to push the pause button.

-[Eadie] Hey, it's me again.

Been watching you break the internet.

I'm so proud of you.

Wish I'd been there.

The centre is...

It's tougher going than
I thought it would be.

Anyway, just call me
when you get sick of all the glory.

I love you.

[sombre music]

-[Eadie] Rachel Elleanor Mawson,

born 28th of July 1998.

You had your tonsils out
when you were six.

And you broke your arm playing netball
when you were 13.

Then a back injury two years ago,

after a tractor accident on your farm.

You had surgery to remove
part of a herniated disc.

That's where the Fentanyl came in.

I could find prescriptions for six months.

After that, you must have been
getting them in other ways.

You married Gianni Reece
seven years ago.

He's quite handsome, right?

This is your family home.

It belonged to your mum and dad.

And her mum before that.

Are they alive, um, my parents?

They both passed.

The year after,
you gave birth to Louisa Mae.

She's seven.

What hap...

Do you know where they are?

I put a call in to the Emergency Services
at Ashton.

There was a lot of damage to your house.

So there's a good chance that they're in
one of the evacuation shelters.

I got some things from the hospital

to help take the edge off
some of your withdrawal symptoms.

Start off with a patch.

OK.

Once the withdrawal starts to subside, my
memory's gonna start to come back, right?

[phone rings]
Seriously? Now?

Answer call.

-[Tully] Uh, Dom.

Stopped off for a coffee, have we?

- Yeah, I've stumbled into a situation
here at the pharmacy.

[shouting in background]

Bit of a hold-up actually.
It's alright. Woah, woah!

- Tully?
- [Tully] It's alright.

- [Tully] We can work this out.
- Tully, what's going on?

- [man] Work out?!
- [Tully] Listen! [gun shot]

[tense atmospheric music]

[no audible dialogue]

-[Abel] Welcome, sisters.

Welcome, brothers.

As we come together
to give thanks for what we have,

even in the face of what we have lost.

[solemn music]

[no audible dialogue]

[no audible dialogue]

-[Abel] Some of us have lost homes.

Homes we built or grew up in.

Some have lost possessions,
special things,

sacred things,
handed down over generations.

Some have lost loved ones.

In that loss, that stripping down,

when we lose the things
that say who we are,

who we think we are.

When we don't have the car
that says how much we earn,

or which team we barrack for,

which party we vote for,

what school our kids got into,

what brands we let do our talking for us.

All those things, those attachments,

those aversions,

those stories...

And what's left,
it's not what makes us different.

It's what makes us the same.

And without all that crap...

Sorry, kids.

We've got a chance of seeing that.

Seeing that we all want the same thing.

We want to be loved.

We want to feel safe.

And it would be easy to despair and
to think where is the sanity in all this,

where is the sense.

And if God floats your boat, maybe you're
asking, "Where is God in all this?"

Maybe in the dark hours of the night,
you're thinking that God is punishing us.

[baby cries]

Or Mother Nature is trying to rid herself
of some overgrown parasitic infection.

[baby cries]

But this, frightening
and destructive as it is...

-[Rachel] It's OK, baby.

Is God lamenting with us.

[baby cries]
- [Rachel] I've got you.

- [Abel] It is the mourning and weeping
of Mother Nature. It's not a punishment.

- [girl] Mumma! Mumma!
It's a message about what we've done

and what we need to do differently.

I've got you. I've got you.

Mummy needs to go for help, OK?

[Abel] Before it goes cold.

I need you to stay here
and look after Daddy.

You sit tight and just stay in the car,
alright?

And before you know it, we'll be home.

We'll have a hot chocolate and a bath.

And your job...

Your job is to think about how many
chapters we read before sleep.

OK?

-[Abel] To give thanks for this day,

to honour those lost,

to appreciate this excellent dinner.

Two, four, six, eight,

bog in, don't wait.
[laughs]

[Rachel whimpers, sobs]

[sombre music]

Rachel?

We ran off the road.
I think I walked for help.

I left them there.

OK. Let me put a call in...

Eadie. The hospital's on the phone.
I think it's urgent.

Thanks. Um, just give me one minute, OK.

[solemn music]

Oh, Bear.

I called his wife on the way here.

I told her he was gonna be OK.

I lied.

The world's gone mad.

[tense music]