Original subtitles

Here´s to a summer of endless possibilities, then, eh?

I´ll drink to that.

KATIE: I don´t think you´re ready for someone new, George.

You would never be a huge mistake.

But we might have made the mistake

of screwing up a great friendship.

-[ Horn honks ] -Oi! Get a room!

[ Laughs ]

ROBBIE: I know you and I are history.

I just hope that we can reconnect on some level.

Maybe even be friends.

Yes!

♫ I´m alive, oh, oh ♫

I believe in you, Fiona.

♫ Well, I´m alive ♫

[ Crowd cheering ]

TOM: Get one. There we go.

-Get one, Barry. You... -[ Cellphone ringing ]

Constable Tom.

Sorry. There´s a what?

Where?

[ Mid-tempo music plays ]

GEORGE: Wait.

Stop.

How on earth did it come to this?

Every story need a villain.

Um...

Once upon a time, there was a good guy and a bad guy.

No.

[ Cellphone ringing ]

[ Ciaran McMeeken´s "Hallelujah" plays ]

Hello.

Good morning.

Hi.

How are you feeling today?

A bit stiff. Uh, the shoulder.

Been a while since I swung a bat.

You?

Well, no matter how much sunscreen

I smear all over myself, I always manage to burn.

I was wondering...

Should we talk about last night?

I´m... I´m sorry.

Last night?

What... What about it?

♫ I sense the heat ♫

Well, you know,

I mean, it could be written off as just a...

just a kiss.

Except it was more than just one kiss.

♫ Hallelujah ♫

And this time, I really am going.

I can´t ignore that

[ Horn honks ]

♫ I´m falling for you ♫

Yes. Okay.

I haven´t stopped thinking about it,

and we have things we should talk about.

Yes, we do.

Lunch? You come to me?

1:00?

I´ll see you at 1:00.

-Perfect. -♫ Hallelujah ♫

♫ I´m falling for you ♫

♫ The room is light ♫

Hey.

Hey.

Did Emma get away okay?

Bus was on time. She got on it.

Oh, never mind, Arlo.

You´ll get a new girlfriend soon.

I have a girlfriend... Emma.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Is that why you´re too scared to let Ike go away to uni?

I am not.

You may not have faith in your partner, but I do in mine.

"Partner"? What are you, 40?

No. I´m very secure in my relationship.

Yeah, a-and nothing or no one is gonna change that.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

LINDSAY: Hey, Arlo!

Still a spare bed going at your place?

SHAY: Laters.

You do know she was just teasing.

Yeah. I also know that Emma and I are the real thing.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ]

GEORGE: They say with anything,

the beginning is the hardest part.

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

-And here is where the story... -MONTY: George!

-Hey. - Begins.

[ Music continues ]

-Morning. -George.

George.

Brenda.

[ Music continues ]

Hiya.

George.

Is it just me, or is everyone a bit different today?

How so?

I don´t know. Sort of smiley.

Oh, it´ll just be yesterday´s victory.

Yeah, it will.

The whole town on a high? Long may it last.

GLORIA: Something wrong, George?

W-Was there not another picture?

I´m not sure whether this is appropriate.

Um, it just makes it look like it´s all about me and Fiona.

GLORIA: Ah.

Was there not a photo of Monty and the trophy?

Yep. Page 2.

GEORGE: Well, this should´ve been the front page.

Oh, no.

This is an iconic image

which encapsulates the moment of victory.

Like the flag at Iwo Jima.

And Fiona does look very pretty.

Well, I guess it´s too late now, hey?

Yeah.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

[ Clears throat ]

Customers don´t want to see this "Twilight" carry-on.

They want to see someone pretty.

I don´t do pretty.

If you didn´t put that muck on your face, you´d be attractive.

Okay. You need to make him stop before I hurt him.

This is a real estate agency, not a freak show.

That´s all I´m saying.

Steady on, Robbie. That´s a bit rough.

Hey, who´s running this place?

-Neither of us at the moment. -[ Telephone ringing ]

Are you gonna get that, Morticia?

-Get it your bloody self. -Oh. So you don´t want this job?

No, I don´t, actually.

I don´t want to listen to your smarmy voice,

fetch your stupid coffee,

and I´m not gonna sit there and watch

while you treat my father like a moron.

-Okay now, Siouxsie. -As for you, you are a moron.

Eh?

Letting this douchelord walk all over you.

He deliberately ran you out, for God´s sake.

It´s just embarrassing.

I´ll see you at home, then.

Where I´ll be packing.

I´m moving to Stafford to live with Mum.

ROBBIE: Oh, great. Who´s gonna answer the phones now?

Have you seen the paper this morning?

The picture speaks a thousand words.

I only see one word.

Read between the lines.

There´s only one line.

Where there are winners, there´s always a loser, loser.

Fiona out the back?

Uh, she´s at home today.

Didn´t say why. Maybe she´s recovering.

Yeah. I´m feeling a bit sore today myself.

Hmm. Then you must have been doing something right.

From the cricket.

Yeah.

I´m sure that´s the same reason Fiona´s not here... the cricket.

Would there be any other reason?

I don´t know.

Maybe it looked to me like she might have got busy all night.

W-When you say "looked like"... You haven´t seen her today.

I´m not talking about today, George.

The car only fits five, including the sober driver,

and I´m not...

[ Chuckles ]

Don´t worry, George.

Most of us thought it was a beautiful thing.

Most of you?

-She said she was fine. -Yeah. Of course.

I mean, why wouldn´t she be? It´s not like we were...

You know, I just wish for once I could have something to myself,

that there wasn´t always this conjecture.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

G´day.

Stay away from my wife.

You know what?

I´m not gonna do that, because Fiona isn´t actually your wife.

Well, we never got a divorce, so she is.

Not even gonna waste my breath.

[ Music continues ]

Hi.

Hi.

-Um... -Oh.

[ Both laugh ]

Well, that was suave.

Uh, yeah. I´m sorry.

I-I thought that you meant lunch at the Boat Club.

Oh, God. That´d start people talking, wouldn´t it?

Uh, it seems that people are already talking.

Actually, it doesn´t seem that way.

It is that way.

They saw us.

They?

Tom, Gloria, Hannah.

Oh, okay. Well, that´s okay.

-Um, we can just... -Sean, Brenda, Monty.

Katie.

Okay.

Welcome to Weld. [ Chuckles ]

Oh, a-and Robbie, actually.

He, um, he shirt-fronted me at the Boat Club

with the whole "stay away from my wife" routine.

I´m not his wife.

Well, legally I am.

-Just ignore him. -Yeah.

I can do that.

It´s actually... It´s Katie that I´m more worried about.

Should I... Should I say something?

Well, like what?

I have no idea.

Wow.

All this drama before we´ve even decided if we have a thing.

-Yeah. -[ Clears throat ]

So, shall we?

Sorry. What?

Decide.

I´m sounding a bit cold and clinical, aren´t I?

Glass of wine or two, bit of lunch...

a little...questionnaire.

Sorry. Did you say "questionnaire"?

I couldn´t sleep last night, as I said,

so I wrote a few things down... Thoughts, really.

And then the thoughts turned into questions,

and the questions turned into... a questionnaire.

For you.

Cards on the table...

I don´t believe in love at first sight.

You know, getting lost in the moment,

falling head over heels, giving in to chemistry...

These things do not do it for me.

Okay. All right.

And yeah, someone can kiss you,

and it can just knock you for a six.

Excuse the cricket pun.

But maybe... You know, maybe it´s appropriate,

because it was the heat of the moment.

And the chemistry was...

Wow.

But that´s where it gets confusing,

and I don´t like feeling confused.

I´m sorry, but do you mind if we...take a rain check?

Oh, crap.

I´ve scared you. No, I´ve... I´ve terrified you.

No, not at all. It´s just been one of those mornings.

And, uh, you´re right... We shouldn´t rush in.

But you´ve... You´ve made your list...

Questionnaire.

And now I need to do mine, so to speak.

I mean, I-I won´t make a list, but...

I do need to think.

Okay.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Okay.

Good...to think.

Yeah.

[ Music continues ]

-Good to be home? -EMMA: We just got here.

Mum forgot to pick me up at the bus stop, so...

Bummer.

But this guy I met on the bus kept me company

until she turned up, so...

Oh. That´s good.

What... What guy?

Oh, he was super cute.

You are joking, right?

Duh. [ Laughs ]

He was like 55 and bald

and keen to tell me about Jesus Christ, our savior.

Hey.

Hey.

I guess Arlo mentioned I´m back.

-No. -Yeah.

No offense, but Daniel turned out to be so boring.

I ditched him after like a week

and then just hitchhiked around doing whatever.

I probably should´ve just let you have him

now I think about it.

Good to go?

Yeah.

Hey, Lindsay.

Look at you all. You´re not focused.

Well, you are, but you´re focused on the wrong things.

How many houses have you sold this last month?

-I don´t know. -No. Not you, obviously.

We are McNamara Realty.

We´re a family business, and we work together.

Look. There´s a reason your daughter left.

She came back this morning.

I had to move my weights out of her room.

Not Lindsay. Siouxsie.

Holed up at my place, more of a mess than usual.

She said she was going to Stafford.

She remembered how much she hates her mother

and decided to inflict herself on Grandpa.

-Makes sense. -No.

It´s annoying is what it is.

Not that I blame the girl.

How would you like to go to work

and find your father and your uncle at each other´s throats?

-It´s not my fault, you know. -It´s not my fault. He´s...

Enough!

You´re like a couple of preschoolers.

-Hey, babe. What´s up? -I am not your babe.

And where do you get off talking to George like that?

I did it for your own good, Fi. People around here are talking.

-What about? -About her and George.

Just stay out of my life, Robbie.

-What about her and George? -Getting it on after cricket.

Pipe down, you little turd. Fiona, you´re still married.

Oh, please. Don´t you dare try that with me.

ROBBIE: Maybe you and that Aussie

want to tone down the public displays.

That´s all I´m saying.

What I do is none of your business.

Shoot. Arlo...

Uh, I-I´ll deliver these.

Here you go.

Fiona and "that Aussie"?

Yeah. He means George.

Yeah. I didn´t think he meant one of us.

George, eh?

Dark horse.

I mean George, eh?

Have you heard anything about Dad?

Dad and Fiona?

No. Why?

Apparently, they were, like, doing something

after the cricket.

Doing what?

I´ve got to go.

Arlo.

-Hi. -It doesn´t matter.

-What doesn´t? -Anything.

It´s your business, and we don´t have to converse about it.

I don´t want things to be weird because...

No, no. Nothing´s weird. It´s fine.

It´s fine.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Hey.

Oh. Hi. Uh, Shay´s on her lunch break.

Actually, it´s you I came to see.

Oh, really?

Yeah. I, uh...

I understand you saw something.

And I suppose I thought I should explain.

I mean...it... It wasn´t planned or anything.

Uh...you know, we´d just won the match.

Um, and it was in the heat of the moment.

-It just... -George.

I don´t need to know any of this.

Well, yeah. It´s just that not so long ago, you and I...

Yes. And we decided to be friends.

We both decided that... Unless you remember differently.

No. That sounds about right.

So why are you here?

Um...just to make sure you´re okay.

I have my own life, and I do my own thing.

So what you and Fiona or anyone else get up to...

No one else. Just Fiona.

Whatever you and whoever get up to, I don´t care.

I´m sorry.

I just want to make sure...

I mean, you know, work out... where we all stood.

Where we stand is where we´ve always been.

In the friend zone.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

GEORGE: Everyone is the hero in their own life story.

No one ever deliberately casts themselves as the bad guy.

But even heroes make dumb moves.

[ Exhales deeply ]

I don´t think George is the strutting type.

Well, I didn´t think he was the man-ho type, but...

Hey, hey. Come on. That´s... That´s a bit harsh.

Okay. First Jan.

And then he´s kissing Katie and then Fiona.

I mean, he´s worse than the Year 10 kids.

He´s single and he´s a grown-up.

Things didn´t work out with Katie,

so he´s not allowed to see anyone else?

Well, he could´ve waited a bit longer.

Well, how long?

I went straight from Becks to you.

Uh, no. Hang on a sec.

´Cause, uh, that... That came out wrong.

What I meant to say was...

Well, it´s not like you don´t have a past.

What about Bevan?

What about Bevan?

I thought I was in love with him.

I thought he was the one.

Yeah, but you were wrong, weren´t you?

Because there isn´t any "the one."

What?

Well, there´s not just one person out there

who´s our perfect fit.

If there was, what are the chances we´d even meet them,

with 7.4 billion people in the world?

-So I´m not your soul mate? -Yes, you are.

Babe. Of course.

You are...my soul mate.

But if you left me...

eventually, hopefully, one day I´d find...

another soul mate.

The whole point of a soul mate

is that there´s only one of them.

But that doesn´t make any sense. Think about it.

You don´t just have one favorite singer, do you?

There´s quite a few singers that you like.

Oh, come on, Trace. You´re doing this on purpose.

Doing what?

You´re making me out to be the bad guy.

Oh, no, Woody. You´re doing just fine all by yourself.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ]

[ Door opens ]

Your dad came to visit while you were out.

Oh. To see me?

No. Me, actually.

It´s not that I didn´t appreciate

what he was trying to do.

Which was what?

Uh, to make sure I wasn´t heartbroken.

Oh, Dad. No.

Well, at least that´s what he said.

And then I thought about it,

and maybe he was just coming ´round to get the all-clear.

I mean, I don´t care.

Sometimes these nice guys are actually worse than the bad boy

because they´re just the bad boy in disguise.

A bad boy that thinks that if he apologizes

and says the right thing, then that makes him a nice guy.

I´m sorry.

He´s your dad.

In his defense, can I say that generally,

he is trying to do the right thing,

even when he´s messing it up.

I know.

And it´s not all his fault. It´s me.

I´m so crap with men.

So, so crap.

No way. You´re awesome.

You´re so great.

Which is what makes this so hard.

This?

We need to talk about your job.

[ Up-tempo music plays ]

Did you have to go and do that to Katie?

What?

Go and pat her on the head, like "poor, heartbroken you."

It was nothing like that.

There was no patting, for a start.

You know what I mean.

Actually, no, I don´t.

Because what I did was... Was something sensitive...

Me trying to be a good person.

Was I supposed to forget the whole Katie thing ever happened,

move on without a care?

So you do have a care?

About Katie.

Sorry?

Are you torn between two women?

No. He´s just overthinking everything, as usual.

[ Cellphone ringing ]

George Turner.

-FIONA: Hey. -Hi.

How are you?

I´m good,

thanks to the lovely surprise on my doorstep this afternoon.

What surprise?

The flowers.

Uh...

You didn´t send them.

Uh, no. I´m sorry. I didn´t.

Oh.

But I would...

If... if an occasion ever called for flowers to be left.

It´s fine. It´s fine, George.

You don´t sound fine.

[ Chuckles ] Don´t worry. It´s not you.

Shall I see you tomorrow?

Yeah. Yep. That´d be good.

GEORGE: You´re born, you live, then you die.

That´s the bones of the story.

But the details...

[ Computer ringing ]

-Hi. -Hey there, you.

Still basking in your after-cricket glow?

I´m not really basking in anything right now.

Oh, that doesn´t sound very good.

I-I just keep getting myself into trouble

without even trying to.

Oh. The sledging.

No. Worse.

Fiona. This is a pleasant surprise.

Is he here?

-Who? -Hey, Fi.

Okay, Dad. I´ll, uh, handle this.

Uh...they were to say sorry.

I don´t care what they were for. I don´t want them.

You don´t want a peace offering?

I want you out of my life... A divorce and to sell the house.

And when you can promise me that, then we´ll talk.

All right.

First the house, then a divorce. If that´s what you want.

You know it is.

Well, meet me at the office tomorrow.

We´ll get the paperwork under way.

Good.

I´ve only ever wanted what´s best for you, Fi.

Yeah. Let´s do it. Be free to move on.

I just want to do the right thing, you know?

But it seems that every move I make, I´m doing something wrong.

Shay says I´m overthinking it.

George, do we have to do this?

Sorry?

I don´t know if it´s appropriate,

all your kissing and telling... Telling me specifically.

I mean, do you not stop to think?

Apparently I do too much of that.

That´s what I´m saying.

Really? ´Cause right now, you´re not thinking at all.

You´re not thinking about how I might feel,

how we were together and now we´re not and...

I-I thought we agreed that was a mistake.

I´m sorry, but you´re on your own with this one.

I-I...cannot be your wise auntie, too.

That is... That is not who I am to you.

Goodbye, George.

I´ll, um... I´ll talk to you later.

[ Dial tone ]

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Morning.

Messy as.

Messy as what?

What?

What?

Oh, I don´t know.

That´s just a Kiwi-ism. I picked it up.

It´s like they just expect you to know the "as" bit.

It´s weird, eh?

Oh, sorry, mate.

I had a long sleepless night on the couch,

on account of other things rubbing off on me, actually.

So yeah. Cheers for that.

-I´m sorry, Woody... -Apology accepted.

I hadn´t finished.

I´m sorry,

but I haven´t the slightest idea what you´re talking about.

Well, you mate, and your bad behavior.

Me and Tracey had a barney about it last night.

Then all of a sudden it was about my bad behavior,

when I´ve done nothing except worship her.

No. This... This isn´t right.

Yeah. You´re telling me. A bloke could feel hard done by.

I kissed one woman... Just a kiss, just once.

And that was after taking her out.

And then there was Fiona.

It´s not like I´ve leapt into bed with anyone.

You know, apart from Jan.

Jan. Yeah.

But all parties concerned agreed that was a mistake.

But I have not lied or cheated or deceived anyone,

but I´m being made to feel like this villain.

Now other people are getting involved,

and you´re sleeping on the couch.

It´s okay. It´s all right.

´Cause...there´s gonna be some making up happening tonight,

so it´s not all bad.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Don´t say anything.

It´s a family business. Everyone´s got to do their bit.

ROBBIE: Where´s that coffee, Maureen?

He thinks it´s hilarious calling me Maureen,

because he´s too scared to do a "girl´s" job.

Oh. How modern of him.

Not to mention witty and clever.

Forget those coffees, Maureen. We´ll get them on the road.

Babe. Shall we?

Shall we what?

I thought we were talking about selling the house.

We´re doing more than that. We´re listing the property.

We´ll get up there, get some photos.

You want me to go up to the house with you?

I made a promise to you last night, and I meant it.

You want to cut all ties? That´s what we´re gonna do.

And she doesn´t trust me.

All right, Monty.

Gonna need you to chaperone, darling.

Grab the camera. We´ll get some shots up there.

Of course, you don´t have to come if you don´t want to,

but I just thought we could get everything sorted,

you know, in the proper adult fashion.

Morning.

Shouldn´t you be at work?

Nope. No more work anymore.

Katie doesn´t need me.

[ Door closes ]

[ Up-tempo music plays ]

Bugger.

[ Door closes ]

Hello.

Hi.

Look, I don´t want to be confrontational.

Oh. That´s never a great start to a conversation.

I thought we were all right.

That´s what we said yesterday... That we were friends.

-Everything was good. -Yes.

So what about Shay?

-What about her? -Letting her go.

Are you gonna tell me that´s just coincidence?

Oh, my God.

Do you think... Do you actually think...

No, it´s not just a coincidence. It´s common sense.

Because the summer people have gone,

the peak season´s over,

and there´s not enough work for one person, let alone two.

-Oh. Okay. -And Shay knew that going in.

She had no problem with it yesterday.

-Have you spoken to her? -No. No.

How dare you think that I would do something so horrible,

that I´d be so vindictive and mean?

I´m sorry, Katie. I´ve got the wrong end of the stick.

You need to get over yourself, ´cause you´re not that special!

Yeah, I know I´m not. I´m just a bumbling...

Oh, God.

You know, I wasn´t always like this.

I was married for 20 years,

and I knew that woman back to front.

I knew everything.

She had this little crease here,

and that meant she was annoyed, but just low-level annoyed,

like I hadn´t put the rubbish out or something like that.

The high-level annoyed, that was just silence,

and her mouth just set.

And then I knew I had some work to do.

And when she was trying not to laugh

because someone had said something stupid

and we had these private jokes, her eyes, they just danced.

And I just had to look at her, just for a second,

and I knew exactly what she was feeling or thinking.

And now I´m starting again, and I´m feeling my way.

And I-I´m trying to work out what people want.

And I don´t want to get it wrong,

but that´s what I keep doing, over and over.

-So... -George.

-Do you want to know my advice? -Yes.

And you can take this advice with a grain of salt,

because I´m crap with men.

Well, we have something in common.

With women. I´m... I´m crap with women.

I know.

Yeah. Sorry.

One, you need to stop apologizing.

Okay.

Two, you need to stop second-guessing yourself,

trying to work out what people think.

I bet you couldn´t read Laura´s mind right away.

Took you 20 years to perfect that skill.

Well, this is good advice so far.

Enjoy the adventure of getting to know someone new.

Let your heart take charge.

And if it´s pointing you to Fiona, follow it.

[ Cat meowing ]

Mm.

What does "mm" mean?

She, uh, she made a questionnaire.

Say what?

[ Chuckles ] She...

She wants me to answer a questionnaire.

That is so Fiona. [ Chuckles ]

She likes to be in control, to be organized.

What happened to adventure, let your heart decide?

-That was advice for you. -All right.

For her, that kind of thing has landed her

in a world of trouble.

The amount of times Robbie has lured her back.

Everyone has their own story, you know?

Robbie.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Make sure you don´t get your reflection in the glass.

I´m not a complete imbecile.

Well, it was Siouxsie who had the photography skills.

-Let´s be honest. -Leave him alone.

MONTY: I´ll go do the bedrooms.

What do you think? Auction? PBN?

I don´t know. That´s your department.

This is our love nest, babe. You could have a part...

"Love nest." Listen to it.

[ Shutter clicks ]

Are you telling me you don´t remember our first night here?

When the furniture truck was delayed?

All we had was an air bed.

I remember thinking that night, "This is it, man.

All my dreams have come true.

I got my castle.

Got my princess."

Then what happened, Robbie?

I know, Fi.

I had everything I ever wanted,

and I let it slip through my hands.

[ Shutter clicks ]

So?

So give me another chance...

and I´ll make damn sure every day

you know just how much you mean to me.

You mean everything to me.

It´s too late.

Light´s not the best in the en suite, but I got some good ones.

Um, shall we do the garden?

Yep.

It´s only the house´s biggest selling point,

but how about we leave it out, eh, Monty?

Wouldn´t want to attract buyers or anything, would we?

I´m gonna wait in the car.

Good one, dipstick.

You have no idea, do you?

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

[ Shutter clicks ]

You know ice cream´s not the answer, though.

Uh, the answer to what question?

A broken heart.

You know that cliché of a girl eating a tub of ice cream to...

Whoa. For starters, I´m not a girl.

And second, my heart isn´t broken.

I just happen to like ice cream.

Uh-huh.

You know, being unemployed is having an effect on you.

It´s making you even more irritating.

-Oh, whoa. -Hey, hey.

Tell your dad we´re all good, all right?

Will he know what that means?

Yeah, because we don´t.

It means making up, done and dusted.

And tell him that it was some good making up.

TRACEY: Woody, I am the school principal.

You can´t go sharing details of our...

George, he needed to know, all right?

He felt responsible.

Tell him.

TRACEY: I haven´t taught them that yet. They don´t...

Did you comprehend any of that?

I never do.

GEORGE: I guess any good story

needs to have bumps along the way to make it interesting.

Like getting on a roller coaster,

as someone very wisely recently told me.

The plunging lows and the soaring highs,

the thrill of it.

[ Door closes ]

George. Not interrupting, I hope.

Actually, I was finally on a bit of a roll...

I won´t keep you too long from your work.

Uh, now, this might be a little bit awkward,

but, um, man to man or family man to family man...

My son has been through a hell of a lot in recent years.

Yeah, I know. I feel for him. He´s a... He´s a good guy.

Well, I´m glad you feel that way.

But why, if you feel that way, are you moving in on his wife?

Oh, you´re talking about Robbie?

Who´d you think I was talking about?

-Monty, actually. -Monty? No. [ Laughs ]

And Fiona and Robbie have been split for a long time,

and she´s not going back to him.

It has nothing to do with me.

Well, it does, actually, because you are in the picture.

But if you remove yourself from...

No. No, Big Mac.

You... You remove yourself from this office right now.

You´re asking me to leave my own business premises?

Or not.

I´ll go... And get some peace and quiet.

All I´m saying is that Robbie is turning his life around,

and Fiona is key to that.

Absolutely key.

Now, can you say the same?

Is Fiona important to you, George?

Done...and done.

No backing out now... Unless we change our minds

and pull the property from the market,

move back in together, and...

-See you on auction day. -Or if not before.

I mean, if we get a pre-auction offer.

Which could happen,

now there´s a real real estate agent in town.

See you, Monty. Thanks for today.

You´re welcome.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Hang on. Hang on.

You haven´t initialed every page.

She hasn´t initialed every page.

I would´ve thought a real real estate agent

would´ve known that that´s a requirement.

Get your hand off it, Monty.

Unless it´s a stalling tactic.

You can´t sell a property if the paperwork´s not in order.

You know what, Maureen?

Why don´t you go back to your reception desk

and stop making things up?

My name is Monty.

And I don´t appreciate being talked to like that.

Whatever, mate. I´m talking to my wife... Hey.

What the hell was that?

MONTY: I´ve had enough.

I´ve had e-bloody-nough.

Did you just shove me?

There´s three things in this life I was good at...

Selling real estate, playing cricket,

and being a father.

And you... you took them all away from me.

You´d better stop doing that.

Oh, cool. A fight.

[ Music continues ]

[ Grunting ]

-Smack him, Monty! -Shut up, Billy.

Oh, for God´s sake. Stop it, you two.

[ Music continues ]

[ Grunts ]

Stop it... Aah!

[ Music continues ]

[ Music continues ]

[ Music continues ]

GEORGE: And here we are... The climax of the story.

The bit where the hero defeats the villain.

Except it´s not always that straightforward.

[ Music continues ]

Ha. Nice one.

[ Grunts ]

Really, Fi? Really?

Aah!

-[ Grunts ] -Enough! Enough!

All right!

What´s...going on...here?

I had a report of a... street brawl.

I´d assumed... it was out-of-towners.

"It won´t be locals," I thought to myself.

"Locals don´t scuffle in my streets, do they?"

Do they?!

-No. -No.

Good!

Then everyone can just... get on with their business.

Am I right?

Yeah.

ROBBIE: Yeah.

Like how I had your dad´s back there?

Oh, yeah. You´re a real hero.

ZAC: Junior. [ Snaps fingers ]

-Yeah. -We got work to do.

Yeah.

I´ll see you later.

WOODY: Probably best Fiona got in first.

Otherwise you might have broke your hand again.

[ Laughs ]

Yeah. Thanks, Woody.

You know you don´t have to pretend to be macho for me.

Pretend? There´s nothing pretend about that.

That was pure macho energy.

-Uh-huh. [ Laughs ] -It was! Did you not see me?

This was not good parenting by example.

No. No, it was not.

But it was funny. [ Laughs ]

You can move along now.

[ Laughs ] Okay.

Nice punch.

It felt good till it connected.

Now it just bloody hurts.

-We need to talk. -Yeah, we do.

Right now might not be ideal, so want to catch up later?

Yeah.

-Okay? -Yeah. Yeah.

Right.

That´s that sorted.

You´ll be wanting your desk back.

No, no. You just sit down.

[ Exhales deeply ]

It´s like a refuge, this place, isn´t it?

I used to use it like a refuge when I was editor.

Life was good back then.

Uh, not that I begrudge you.

I mean, you´re... You´re a good editor.

I was a useless one.

See, at least I know that I´m bad at this job.

I just thought I was good at my others.

Real estate agent, father, captain of the cricket team.

-But now... -No. I´m sorry, Monty.

I´m not gonna let you do this.

What, unburden?

Run yourself down.

You are an excellent cricketer.

And when I... when I moved here

and I thought I´d bought the wrong house,

who talked me ´round?

Who convinced me to stay? You did, Monty.

You.

The gift of the gab.

You went above and beyond your duty as a real estate agent.

I suppose I did in a way.

And the dad stuff? Hey, it´s... it´s a tough job.

But from what I know of Siouxsie, you´re doing okay.

She´s thinks I´m a moron.

Yeah.

Well, you know, maybe all daughters think that

of their fathers.

It´s up to you to prove to her that you´re not.

Make her see the top bloke that you really are.

Yeah. I suppose I got to just work out how, eh?

No. Don´t just think about it.

Don´t procrastinate. None of that counts.

Nothing means anything until you actually take action.

And I´m not saying it´s a guaranteed happily ever after.

But you´ll never know until you at least try.

So do it, Monty.

And while you´re at it, you tell your brother to go...

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

You stand up to him.

[ Footsteps approaching ]

GEORGE: Okay. About this afternoon.

I have to reiterate, as a parent,

that violence is never okay.

What violence?

You guys were all like, "Unh. Ah!"

No. It was a serious brawl.

There was actual danger of physical harm.

The only person who threw a proper punch

was your new girlfriend.

Fiona´s not my girlfriend.

Yet.

Ooh. "Yet."

If she were, how would you feel about that?

Does it matter?

It does to me, yes.

So if we said don´t do it, you wouldn´t do it?

Well, we´d certainly have something to talk about.

So it would just be adding another layer

to the overthinking thing.

This overthinking thing is overrated.

Oh, you think so, do you?

Look, I´ve got a boyfriend. Even Arlo had a girlfriend.

Has. Has a girlfriend.

Who are we to say that you have to miss out?

Yeah, I think you´re ready... Sort of.

Thanks.

Unless she says no, of course.

Which, after the tragic events of today,

is definitely a possibility.

You can go now.

[ Chuckles ]

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

Siouxsie, you´re not going anywhere except home with me.

So pack your suitcase.

It isn´t unpacked yet.

Good.

´Cause you´re staying... At home and at work.

With a pay rise.

ROBBIE: Hold on. Who is running this business?

Certainly not you, Robert.

You talk yourself up, but ever since you´ve been back in Weld,

you haven´t sold a single property.

-Yeah, ´cause I need time. -No one trusts you!

It´s true, actually, Robbie.

MONTY: You´ve ripped people off.

You´ve showed no remorse.

How is anyone supposed to trust you with their biggest asset?

Are you hearing this, Dad?

He makes some fair points.

As of tomorrow, I´m taking back the helm of McNamara Realty.

Robert can have a secondary role if he so chooses.

And if you ever mock my daughter again,

I´ll fire you.

[ Greg Johnson´s "Anyone Can Say Goodbye" plays ]

GEORGE: We´re all the hero of our own story,

the star of our very own biopic.

Do you have that questionnaire?

♫ Everywhere someone is pleading to get someone back ♫

Why can´t we move on, baby, just leave it at that?

♫ What´s the change in you? ♫

♫ There´s always someone new ♫

-[ Laughs ] -What?

-♫ Come on, just be strong ♫ -Let me see it.

Voilà.

And everyone´s story has its happy moments...

I miss you.

EMMA: Miss you, too.

And the parts that are exquisitely sad.

♫ Just as true ♫

♫ I can´t live without you ♫

But we need those moments like we need the rain...

♫ So sleep tight ♫

♫ The long night ♫

so that we can appreciate it when the sun comes out.

Hero or bad guy,

you´re not only the star of your own story.

You´re also the author of it.

FIONA: I´m just saying that I put a lot of time and effort

into that questionnaire.

GEORGE: But isn´t part of the thrill of a relationship

making discoveries as you go along?

Well, I don´t want to discover that you snore.

Well, I don´t mind if you do.

Uh, ladies don´t snore, George.

"Makes generalizations based on gender."

-Noted. -[ Laughs ]

[ Music continues ]

And they lived happily ever after.

We´ll see.

[ Up-tempo music plays ]