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- I had hoped this conversation would've played out

with us in opposite roles.

I'm leaving.

- You know, this one won't last,

you don't like people, Heather.

Hey!

- Oh shit.

- Are you leaving me for that bloke?

- For Christ's sake, Cole,

he's 15 years younger than me.

- He's jumping fences for you.

- Might I be able to introduce to you

Kevin Daniel Richard Fitzsong, otherwise known as Simmo.

♪ We gotta lift you up

[crowd cheering]

- I think you might have your eye on someone else, any?

- No.

[dogs barking]

[pots clanging]

- [Heather] Are you sleeping,

because I don't know how anyone can sleep in here.

Someone's going to the toilet every hour on the hour.

And if they're not going to toilet,

it's the shower.

- [Ben] I knew it was gonna change me

moving into this place and I was counting on it.

[bright music]

A couple of months in,

we were all rubbing off on each other.

Everyone bringing something different to the table.

I was covering the painting and look,

I've done work like this before, but on a place of your own,

it's a whole different experience.

- You all right?

It is better than sea mist.

- Duck and go away, mate.

Plus keeping Simmo in the house.

Well, that kicked me

into my unofficial house role, matchmaker.

- Ainsley Peregrine Finnigan, actually, perfect timing.

I was just gonna head down to the bar

if you want to keep old Simmo company.

- Actually mate, I'm off to the turfs today.

- True?

- Ah, that's a shame.

- [Ben] Even visitors just being around the house

seemed to make everyone better, more grown-up.

You feeling all right in the guts or something?

- Yeah, just doing a cleanse.

- Good on you, mate.

I didn't want to sound like a wanker,

but life was finally back on track.

And with my living situation so good.

I was just about ready to tackle the other stuff.

[belching]

Finally.

- I can't live with him and neither can Harry.

- Really?

- Well...

Look, for me,

and this is by no means my main concern,

but I do have to bring up his lack of pants.

- Ben's not wearing pants, he's doing nudie runs.

- He's doing nudie strolls, leisurely, nudie strolls.

- Well, I mean, sometimes he has a towel,

just not fastened properly or at all.

- He's not parading per se,

it's more nudity in transit.

- Yeah, just to clarify,

we talking like full-frontal tackle out?

- Yes. - Yeah.

- Any pattern to it, any in a particular days or times?

- Every day. - All the time.

- And for me, it's the painting.

I mean, he swore he'd have it finished by Tuesday,

a fortnight ago.

And you know, we didn't even ask him to do it.

And do you know about the skin checks?

- What skin checks?

- He's sending his mates to see me at work.

I'm a surgeon, I don't do skin checks,

but sometimes I'm finishing a shift

and finding half his football mates wanting moles examined.

- We need an intervention immediately.

- Maybe we can, you know, drop a few hints.

- No, I'm thinking a full ultimatum.

Lift your game or you're out.

- I just don't want him to feel ambushed.

- You don't even have to be there.

- Let me handle it.

When I get my voice, more men change

on a molecular level.

You three go to work. [energetic music]

By the time you get back tonight,

Ben will be a different person, trust me.

[soft music]

- Sweet, one of them for me?

- No both mine, here you go.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Ben, We need to have a chat.

- Everything all right?

- You're rubbing people up the wrong way.

- What?

Who? - Everyone.

- Well, even Harry?

- Well not as much as Liz,

but the two of them are driving the charge here.

You've been sending your mates to Harry's hospital

for free skin checks.

- Oh, he asked me to.

- Break that down for me.

- Harry was under me and Simmo about sun smarts.

Which is fair enough.

He'd asked us when we last had checks,

which was never, and yeah, he said come in.

- And did you extend that invitation?

- I did tell Buckets, yeah, 'cause he's red as a rooster

most of us and Dez, and Scotty, shit.

- Skin checks is not even what Harry does.

Harry is the big shot who cuts the cancers out.

The free skin check offer, that was just a favor for you.

- Really?

Shit.

You might want to look awayI'm just, I'm not wearing much.

- Seriously?

- Look, what you've done is you've just...

- Sorry, you're sitting on my towel.

Cheers.

What were you saying?

- You put Harry in a situation

where he's finishing his workday with a front-row seat

to half the asses on your footie...

- Honestly, I thought I was doing him a favor.

Drumming up some business.

I'll tell them to lay off, what else was there?

- Sorry, I've just gone a bit blank.

- [Ben] You all right?

- Yup, terrific.

- Well listen, thanks for telling me face to face.

Might just need a little bit of that too.

- If you could just avoid touching it,

it should clear up of its own accord.

- It just really looked like it was getting bigger.

- Well, pimples tend to do that,

but it's nothing to worry about.

- Cheers Doc, thanks.

- I'm so sorry, Cynthia, I can assure you

what have been happening.

That will absolutely be the last of them.

- Actually there's one...

- Heather told me I might've been a bit of a dickhead.

- Look, really, I should have been

clearer about the process.

- No no, see, don't you apologize.

I'm the one who sent you a dozen asses to check out.

You're just too much of a giver.

We've all noticed it.

You got to learn to say,

"Look, I'd love to help you, but I can't, it's me time,

"it's Hauser time."

- I'm extremely unlikely to use that phrase.

- In your own words, but just promise me

you'll say it, all right?

- Deal.

- Now I do have this one spot on my arm.

[Harry laughs loudly]

I actually do.

- Okay, and when did you first notice this?

Was it days, weeks?

- Last year before Christmas?

At first, I thought I'd just been bitten by something,

but it kept changing.

- Okay, Ben, this does look abnormal.

- Abnormal, what like cancer?

- We can't be sure of anything

until I see the biopsy results, okay?

[soft instrumental music]

Hi Janine, I'm gonna need you to run something down

to pathology for me shortly.

- Ben, Ben?

- Not here.

- How did Heather go, success?

- Well, not in any way that's apparent

to the naked eye, no.

- Okay, well, we'll do the group intervention then tonight.

What?

Why are you so worried about him?

- I'm not.

- Well, you realize that he would not show

this level of consideration towards you.

- Well, actually I'm not sure that's true.

I think he's quite considerate in his own

[laughing] misguided sort of way.

- Oh my God.

- What?

- You're having one of your episodes, aren't you?

The heavy Ben.

- No.

- Jesus Christ.

- No, no.

Please don't say anything to Heather.

- So you admit it.

- I do not, I am simply asking you

to keep your terribly misconstrued assumptions to yourself.

- There's no shame in it, Aines.

He's a very attractive unit.

Lizzie knows where you're coming from.

- I can assure you I'm not.

And you know what, you're absolutely right.

We should confront him tonight, group intervention.

Enough's enough.

- I'm drawing up an agenda.

- And in your case, the tumor area

is already over two millimeters,

which places the cancer definitely in stage two.

And when we get into surgery, I'll be able to see

if it's gone further to stage three.

- Surgery?

- As soon as possible, I'm hoping tomorrow.

- It's not life-threatening though?

- We'll know more after surgery,

but you don't have any other symptoms.

- So what am I...

I have to do like chemo or?

- Again, once we've removed the tumor,

once we've done the mapping,

we'll be able to determine that, okay?

- Okay.

- [Harry] I know it's a lot to take in.

- Yeah.

- And what about your next of kin, is that your mother?

- Yes, I suppose, no, actually it'd probably

be my daughter, right?

- I wasn't aware that you had a daughter.

- I haven't seen her for just over two years,

she's 11 actually 12, fuck, Mia.

- Okay.

- I shared her half the time with her mom.

But not since I went to jail.

- Right.

- Sorry, I was working up to telling you like,

mate, I was barely in there.

I got done for pot and it wasn't even mine

but it was kind of the last straw for my ex, Rebecca.

- So you've had no contact with her at all then.

- No Becs, thought it was easier,

for everyone while I was inside, which is fair enough.

[tense chuckling]

I've been working towards getting in touch with her,

you know, but I wanted to get myself properly set up first.

Get the hassle, you know, then actually go.

Do you think I should call 'em now?

- Oh look, that's up to you.

I probably would.

- Yeah, yeah, no, I'll go and see her.

- Yeah.

[tense music]

[Ben laughs loudly]

- It's funny just seeing you at work with all the bells

and whistles, you actually look like a real doctor.

- I am a real doctor, Ben.

[both chuckling]

- [Rebecca] Where?

- Just up the street a bit, look to your right.

- Sorry, but it's not fair on us, especially Mia.

- Yeah, I know.

- If you do want to see her again

and that is something we can work towards.

But just turning up out of the blue,

that's not what we agreed on.

- Becky, I'm not asking for anything.

I mean, of course, I want to see her,

but that's not why I'm here.

I just wanted to let you know that

I've got to have an operation tomorrow.

- Well, what kind of operation?

- Well, it's for cancer.

It's skin cancer on my arm and hopefully,

it hasn't spread and he's gonna cut it out

and see where we're at.

- What, how long have you known?

- I just found out.

- This is emergency surgery.

- I just think they like to get on top of this stuff quick.

- Wait, is there anything I can do to help?

Do you need anything?

- No, no, the doctor just said I should tell next of kin.

- So you want me to tell Mia?

- Well, Becca, I've got no expectations, especially,

you know, after everything I've put you both through.

It's just real annoying that I'm seeing you like this,

because actually, I've been going through a good patch.

I'm in a new place, it's really nice.

- Is it?

- Yeah, yeah, actually, I reckon you'd really like it.

I'm working towards getting you around to see it.

Maybe like a month or something.

- [Mia] Mom, Brett is leaving.

- She showed up?

- I'm sorry, I have to go pay for the violin teacher.

- Go, go, go.

- Where is that, the operation?

- The Edwin.

- All right, I'm just gonna have to see how it goes

with telling Mia.

- Whatever you reckon, go, I'll text you.

[soft music]

- [Heather] There were extenuating circumstances.

His business was right up in my face.

- [Heather] I'm sorry but a penis

is not an extenuating circumstance.

- [Heather] I beg to differ.

- Honestly, I think you really, perfect.

Okay, as you can see, Heather's intervention

has failed on every level.

- Not on the Harry level, I nailed that one.

- Every aspect bar one.

The Ben situation has degenerated,

so we are going to confront him.

The four of us right here tonight.

- Wait, if I could suggest an alternative.

- What?

- I just don't think tonight's a good time.

- Harry, we were united on this.

- I know, I'm just concerned that...

Four on one's a bit much.

- Have you been speaking with her?

- No, it's-- - Shh, shh, shh.

- Okay, don't worry, I'm just gonna do it.

- Hey, well Liz.

- Ben, there has been some discord about the framing

of what I'm about to say.

I personally think that you are strong enough to hear it.

- I wanted to flag something with the house.

At my work, we have the system for coworker feedback

where every few months we fill out an anonymous feedback.

- For the love of God.

- What we do is we write down some concerns

that we might be having with a colleague,

deliver them confidentially.

And I just thought it might be a good idea

to consider for the house.

Now that we're a couple of months in.

- Or we could do it down the track.

- Oh no, I'm, I'm thinking tonight.

No time like the present.

I'll get some pens and paper.

- I've got nothing to say about anyone.

[soft music]

[knocking on door]

Yep.

- Hi, how did you go?

Did you see your daughter?

- Yeah, well not, not close up,

but she looks like she's growing heaps.

- Will she be coming tomorrow?

- Well that's a bit of a juggle,

I think probably better that she doesn't.

I really don't want her to see me like that, anyway...

- Look, Ben, just about telling the others,

it'll be very obvious you've had an operation.

- Alum left a special feedback box in the kitchen.

So just pop your thoughts in there

and we'll share them tomorrow night.

I think it's gonna be very constructive.

- You sure you don't want me to say something?

- It's all right, I'll tell them in my own way.

It'd be pretty innings, wouldn't it?

The few decades have been a rat bag and then...

- Hey, many more decades of rat bagging.

[Ben laughing]

- Excuse me.

[soft music]

- [Ben] I don't know what it was, just seeing Mia again,

or the house, or the cancer,

♪ Yeah that's my love

but turns out I had a fair bit to say.

♪ There they go

♪ Does she know

Dear Aines, love our chats, but truth be told,

I tend to dance around the deep stuff.

Right now I'm feeling very present

and I want you to know that you are one of the kindest,

most generous people I've ever met.

You just sprinkle joy everywhere you go.

And I know you give yourself a hard time,

but compared to me, you are basically perfect.

♪ I am searching high

♪ I'm searching low in the night ♪

Before I met you, Aines, I wasn't in a good place.

I've caused a lot of pain to people

I should have been looking out for.

♪ Don't wanna cry but I break that way ♪

I'm not sure if this is what we're supposed

to be writing, it might have gone a bit off track here,

but what I want to say is you Aines,

you change people's lives for the better.

You've changed my life and I adore you, love Ben.

♪ If she ran away, come back home ♪

PS, got a bit of the old Spanish dancer

having surgery today, no-fuss, just wanted to let you know

Harry's got the dates anyway.

Have a good day.

[ducks quacking]

- [Aines] Thank you for meeting me Ellie, and offside.

- Is this about the Ben situation.

- There is no situation,

but I would appreciate your discretion and assistance

as I resolve it privately.

When you had your dalliance with him,

how did you turn your feelings off so quickly?

- I never really turned them on in the first place.

- Huh, was that a preemptive strategy of some sort?

- No, just a gut reaction to the fact that he's a debacle.

- Right.

- You just need to dig into the negatives, Ainslie.

- Yes.

- I mean I could list them for you if it would help.

- Probably would be quite helpful, yes.

- Okay, well, apart from the physical.

- Are there physical, negative?

- Pay attention.

Okay, one, wet boots smell like death.

- I haven't noticed.

- Two, inability to dispose a dental floss.

- Hence the perfect teeth.

- You're actually finding yourself here.

Do you realize that line?

Okay, three, singing on the toilet.

Four, [spitting].

- Oh, I'm not getting the hang of these, am I?

- You just gotta feel it.

- Four, sometimes he laughs a bit too loud.

- We'll try again.

- Four, it's bad when he gets me coffee.

- He makes bad coffee.

- No, it's pretty good.

[soft music]

- [Ben] Dear Heather, I know you had your wobbles

moving into the house, but geeze, I love living with you.

You, me, the couch, take away, watching the tape,

doesn't get any better than that.

You talk yourself down and I laugh.

But I hope you know that's 'cause you're such a crackup

not because it's true.

You're smart and you're kind and you light up every room.

I see you Heather and I like what I see.

PS just on a personal note, got a bit of cancer.

Having an operation today.

Harry can tell you all the rest and whatnot, cheers.

[rapid music]

- We'll play it by ear,

but [music drowning out speech]

sorts of procedures so I might be keeping an eye on you.

- You cheated, you wrote a letter.

- What a roller coaster, bit to cover.

I'm gonna start with, you've got cancer.

I mean that's your opening line, Ben.

"I've got cancer."

It's not your fucking PS.

- See, I knew you'd be like this.

- You haven't seen anything yet, mate.

Heather in time of sickness,

that's a special strain of heather.

It's both comforting and terrifying at the same time.

Okay, Harry, what do we got?

- Stage two melanoma on his arm.

We're having to excise it today,

do some lymph node mapping, make sure it hasn't spread.

- Hello,.

- Becca.

Beccs, these are my housemates.

Harry, Heather, this is Becks.

- I decided in the end with Mia that it probably wasn't

a good idea to--

- Yeah, I get it, I get it.

- Wasn't a good idea to keep something like this from her.

She insisted on coming in so.

- She's here.

- I'm sorry, who?

- I think we should, give you some space, yeah.

- I'll bring her in but

but actually haven't said the word cancer.

I just said there was something wrong with you,

just when she comes in--

- Oh yeah, of course, of course.

[laughs softly]

Thanks, Beck.

[soft music]

All right.

- [Becca] Heya, honey.

[soft chuckling]

- Hey dad.

- Have a look at you, you look so...

You look so grown up.

- You look exactly the same.

- Okay if you could keep relaxed Zen face as I tell you.

That's Ben's daughter.

Yes, he has a daughter, I didn't know either, okay?

Very good and now if you could maintain that expression

as I add, they haven't been in contact for some time

since Ben went to jail for possession of pot.

Did you find my magazine?

- No, no.

- Wait, ex-wife.

- These are new.

Couple extra holes in your ears.

How long have they been there?

- Dunno, a year, I think.

- They're pretty fancy.

- Where have you been?

- Well, I was up north

and I thought about you every day.

- You can call me.

- May, I'm sorry, there's no excuse for that, is there?

- Do you have cancer?

- What did mom tell you?

- She said you banged your arm at work,

but if it was a bang at work

I don't think you'd need an operation.

I'm not stupid.

- I know that, you've been running rings

around me since you were two years old.

- Do you still live in the caravan?

- The caravan?

No actually, I'm in a big joint now.

Five bedrooms, pool, and a yard, whole bit.

It's actually, have to have a word, see if

we can't get you over for a visit, maybe.

- Did you know mom's having a baby?

- Eh?

- With Richard?

- No, she, I didn't know that, that's great.

[soft music]

Yay.

[voice speaking faintly on intercom]

- So you're renting a place with Ben?

- Well, actually we've purchased it, haven't we?

- Yes.

- As an investment that we live in, a live-in investment

type situation.

- I never thought Ben would be in a position to buy,

let alone invest.

- You know Ben is really, I'd say he's the backbone

of the house, wouldn't you Heather?

- Oh yeah, absolutely.

He's the linchpin, the Mr, Fix it, the house mascot.

- I can't imagine what he said about me.

- Not all that much.

- No, he's been very respectful and discreet.

- Very discreet.

- Oh, I'm so sorry, that's my cue.

It was lovely to meet you, Rebecca.

- I want you to give Richard heaps of lip.

Don't give him a free ride, all right?

- Mia honey, it's time to go.

- I'll see you, kiddo.

- See you.

- Do you know what time you'll be discharged tomorrow?

- No, but I'll text you when I get out.

- No, I'll pick you up.

Need to see this new life of yours.

- Well no, the just, the house is not ready

and you know, I wanted to have it perfect

before you and Mia--

- You need a lift, just say thank you and shut up.

House will be ready.

[soft music]

- Okay.

See you, Mia. - See you.

[machines beeping]

[Ben breathing softly]

- How are you feeling, Ben?

- Good, yeah.

[chuckling]

- [Woman] Ben, if could get you to count backwards.

- Geeze, you look good, Hauser.

You should wear that more.

- Scrubs?

- I don't know if it's the drugs talking,

but I'm telling you, for a gentleman looking

for another gentleman and I saw you in...

- [Woman] He's out.

- Just look, I believe you didn't say anything.

- Well, he chose to put it in his house feedback letters.

God knows why.

Possibly a very Ben combination of modesty, bashfulness

and sheer idiocy.

You knew about the kid, yeah?

- Mia, yeah, of course, he loves her to bits.

When he got done, honestly he was taking the fall

for the whole team.

No one knew you could go to jail.

- I'm sorry, jail?

- We'll explain later,

right now we've got to figure out how to get this house

looking vaguely presentable

because the mother of his child--

- The mother of Ben's child.

- Is gonna be here at 10:00 AM tomorrow

and I've got a feeling

maybe she's softening her attitude to Ben.

And if I came here as a mother, I'd be concerned.

I am concerned.

- I haven't even started on the bedroom.

- Forget about the bedroom.

So can we get the hallway and the living area

and then we'll just get rid of all this crap.

- I'll give the boys a ring.

Burkey's got an industrial fan we can use.

Might be tight, but I reckon we can get it.

- Oh my God.

- Okay. - I can't read

all of the handwriting

but what I can read...

- [Man] Any chance you can swing by...

- Beautiful.

- Anytime, mate, soon as you can, really.

[soft music]

- [Ben] Dear Lizzie.

[Becca yelping]

I've never known anyone

who's such a gun in so many ways.

[people chattering]

- What is happening?

- It's for Ben, sorry your room is the biggest,

need it for storage.

- Read this.

[people chattering]

- [Ben] You're a crack lawyer, you do Pilates,

your posture's incredible

and you smell so damn good always.

You are so excellent at so much.

It sounds wankey, but you inspire me to do better

in my own life.

Anyway, I'm bloody proud to live with you.

PS, I've got cancer.

Don't stress, it's bad, but not too bad, and Harry's on it.

- Firstly, I would like to withdraw

the housemate thing feedback letter for Ben.

Secondly, give me a paintbrush.

- And when you've done now if you can help me

cart in, that'd be great. [energetic music]

Aw, beautiful, Ains.

Gold, I love it, love it.

- Oh hi, is it, is that high? - Aww, yeah, no.

It's a good start.

Might just grab...

- Water please.

[crowd chattering] [energetic music]

- Harry, how is he?

How'd it go?

- Oh, um...

- Shush, shush!

- Well, we did quite a wide excitation

around the melanoma site and performed

a biopsy of the Sentinel lymph nodes--

- Just, is Ben gonna make it?

- He'll be fine, the spread is contained.

[all cheering]

He will have to be vigilant going forward.

- Get that into you, mate.

[crowd chattering]

- So this is why you wanted me to go easy on him?

Harry, can I just remind you that one of your roles

in this relationship is to operate

the Liz, you're being a total bitch alarm?

- I acknowledge that, I do want to sound said alarm,

but it was tricky.

- In such cases could I ask that you sound

the Liz, you're being a total bitch

discreet early warning system?

- Noted.

- Does it hurt?

- It's a bit stingy when the painkillers wear down.

But nothing too crazy.

Hey, um...

Hear you're having another kid.

- She told you.

- Yeah.

- Listen, I was gonna say

obviously when I was a bit further on it

and introduce you to Richard, of course.

- I'm thrilled for you, Beck.

I know you wanted to have another one

and you're an awesome mom.

- Ben, the last time we spoke I said some things.

- I deserved it.

- No, I made you think that Mia would be better off

without you and I hate myself for that.

- Honestly, you don't have to explain anything to me.

- I just don't know whether I've made the right decisions.

- Beck, of course you did.

You made the best decisions.

I should have been around and I wasn't.

That's on me, but I'm here now, Beck

and I want to be in her life.

[soft music]

- Really?

- Yeah.

- This one, how many people put in?

- You just have to understand,

it's a bit of a wreck right now, but--

- I would strongly advise seeing it now.

Hi, I'm Ainsley, lovely to meet you, you're welcome.

- Oh, Ainsley's the mastermind behind the whole idea.

- Not technically true.

- I wouldn't say mastermind.

- Neither would I.

- She saved my life.

- [Heather] I'm pretty sure that was Harry.

- It was a team effort.

[both laughing]

[soft music]

- [Ben] Hey, g'day, mate.

- Hi.

- Simmo, is...

- It's all in a duck egg, mate, perfect time.

- Any particular room you want to see first?

- I want to see it all.

- After you.

Told you it was nice.

- Wow, art's beautiful, Ben.

- You like it?

- [Becca] Is that, I don't like the meat grill.

- [Ben] Yeah, yup.

- No, that's a massive negative right there.

- The meat grill?

- No, the ex-wife, that he neglected to tell us about

on top of the child he didn't tell us about

and the jail sentence

he also omitted, and how many negatives do you need?

- I'm just not sure that I respond well

to the digging for negatives theory.

It's almost like it has the opposite effect.

- Jesus.

- I think I might be better placed

just avoiding him for a bit.

- You live with him.

- But I think you'll be surprised by how much

I can limit my exposure to him to almost nothing.

I genuinely enjoy spending time in my room

and I can keep very odd hours when I have to.

- Let me know how that goes.

- I will, actually no.

There'll be nothing to report

and we will never need to speak about this again

to anyone ever. [fast music]

Oh, thank you.

- Hey, she's gone.

- Yeah. - How'd you go?

- Ah, well she reckons Mia can start with a visit.

Maybe like a swim or something on a hot day

and then work up to staying over.

- There you go, better than a kick in the pants, eh?

- Thank you.

- Oh no, your mates did the heavy lifting,

Simmo especially.

I just barked a few orders and paid the pieces.

- I don't know, Simmo said you were pretty unstoppable.

He said, "Mate, you should see that woman

"on her hands and knees."

- He's an absolute idiot but a jewel at the...

[people speaking faintly in other room]

- Righty-O, I'm gonna pop painkiller in 10.

Then let's get onto this housemate feedback.

- [Liz] What?

I would strongly advise no.

- I'm starting to think maybe this system

isn't even applicable to a living situation.

- Personally I don't think everyone's had time.

- Well hang on, at at least get my one

for Harry, did two drafts to that one.

- Ah, I just...

- Right on top.

There you go, mate.

- I'm sorry, I honestly can't read this handwriting.

- It's not that bad.

- Dear Harry, when I say I am glad to know you,

to live with you, it's an undergarment.

- Statement, understatement, understatement.

- Because you saved my life.

Or at least I hope you're gonna save my life,

writing this before the op.

But if anything goes wrong, two things.

Firstly, no hard feelings, I'm sure you did your best.

Secondly, your mom.

I really hope you can tell

her the truth soon 'cause I don't think

she'll be as stressed as you think she'll be.

Your mom's a classic and she loves you and so do I.

So would everyone, 'cause you're an incredible man.

Lots of love, your brother Ben.

- Read that one, it's a thesis.

- That's no, sorry, I think that's a--

- No, no, that's an unrelated document.

- To the council? - Yeah, sure,

now I really want to. - No, no, no,

let him have it, have it, have it.

But just know that a lot of water has gone

under the bridge since I wrote that.

- Items for Ben, item one, flatulence,

it's all in capitals too.

Ben, I know your mates laugh at your farts,

but a fart released in an open building site

is very, very different to a closed-in room.

Please consider that.

Fair enough, Liz.

- Okay, second thoughts. - No, no, no, wait!

Item two, there's a difference in function between

a tea towel and a serviette, is it?

- Yep, generally best not to wipe your face on a tea towel.

- Dually noted, three, if you could separate

social media time with toilet time, it would be appreciated.

I don't ever remember mixing those two.

- Ben, Ben, whenever you go into that bathroom,

we each get 57 social media notifications.

Please know that as far as I'm concerned,

every single one of those likes is deeply tainted.

- [Ben] Okay, four.

- Despite all of that I find myself feeling

a surprising amount of warmth towards you

and I am extremely glad that you're okay.

[soft music]

Now, I would have liked to have known about

the existence of your condition and indeed your daughter,

maybe even your criminal record.

But now that I do I sincerely hope that

everything works out.

- Nice, you caught yourself off guard there, didn't you?

- Yes, I did.

[knocking on door]

- Yeah.

- Ben, about the incident earlier, firstly you know,

just thank you, lovely moment, lovely gesture.

I don't know where, yes, but you know, delightful.

As surprises go.

- Well, I'll admit--

- Just let me, if I could.

Secondly, rest assured that I do see it for what it was,

you know, just a random unexplained impulse triggered by,

you know, adrenaline and anesthetic.

And I am in no way expecting

any kind of repeat performance.

- Oh, it wasn't a performance.

- Sorry, poor choice of words.

- And I am very open to the idea of it happening again.

- Okay, you're confused.

You're overwhelmed.

You know, you've got a lot of drugs in your system.

- I like you Heather, I like you a lot.

Is that okay?

And I think I got to kiss you again.

[soft rock music]

- We've been robbed.

- Hello, neighbor.

- An officer and a gentleman.

- Which part of we both take this to our graves,

did you not understand?

- Still thinking about it, eh?

Aren't you?

- Surely four innocent people shouldn't be penalized.

- What's the address?

- Is our house at risk?

- I'm so ashamed.

[upbeat music]