Original subtitles

[Cal] God has shown me His vision,

together with Pastors Mitch and Kasey Leeway.

Welcome to the City of Angels, U Star.

God bless you all.

You need to show others the love that God has shown you.

And her parents, should they forgive Maddox too?

I'd like to think they could.

Even though she's only 15 years old?

[reporters murmur]

[Moses] My real parents don't want to meet me, Issy.

What do Mum and Dad think about this?

Dad doesn't care.

He loves you.

Come on, Moses. Please, just...

You know what he's going through with the search.

[Cal] Yes. He should leave it alone.

Mo! Don't be stupid!

Mo! Mo!

Thanks for picking me up.

You cannot keep secrets like that from us, Issy.

No, no way.

You do not get to lecture me on secrets.

[Rosa laughs in video]

Oh!

Whatever's coming to Dad, he deserves it.

God answered me and he answered my family...

[audience gasps] ...with a miracle. A miracle.

[applause and cheering]

[pensive soundtrack building]

[gasps]

[breathing heavily]

[dramatic music builds]

[phone buzzes]

Yes, Helen.

[Helen] I'm just letting you know, Nick's not coming now.

What do you mean? His flight lands in an hour.

I was about to go pick him up.

[Helen] Well, he didn't get on the flight.

He just called me from the airport.

Why are you calling me? Why couldn't he?

He was supposed to come on a wilderness walk.

[Helen] He's not a boy anymore, Eli. You can't force him.

We both know you'll be working anyway. I have to go.

[call disconnects]

Morning.

Morning.

Hold that.

All the way down.

Keep your back straight.

Tighten your core.

Good, Mo.

[physio] That's it.

Good boy.

Push through.

Up, up, up.

Ah!

Hey!

Hey, you right?

Yeah.

Yes?

He can't go.

There's no way he's up to it.

Are you OK?

I'm sorry, Dad.

- I'm sorry. - Hey, hey, hey.

Mate, don't worry about that.

You OK to stand, Mo?

- Yeah. - Take it easy.

Slow.

- Good to do again? - Yep.

Right, we'll leave the weight, OK?

Just do it without.

- OK. - Deep breath.

Take a few deep breaths.

[Moses breathes]

[upbeat music plays through speakers]

Are you alright? What happened?

My dad. That's what happened.

He wants me to do some stupid wilderness walk

up some friggin' god-damn mountain.

But I faked a spasm to get out of it.

You're good.

A miracle boy, don't you know?

Hey, one day, you'll find your real dad.

Yeah.

I'll be late for school.

See you this arvo.

Knock, knock! Oh, my god. I'm sorry!

- Do you knock? - I did.

Yeah. Well, you're meant to wait!

What are you doing?

Nothing.

I made you cookies.

Great. What am I, five?

OK, I'll just... I'll leave them there.

Um, have you heard anything from the adoption people?

None of your business.

[Abi] Issy?

I was just dropping something up to Mo.

[Abi] Can you come here, please?

What are you doing?

[Issy] What?

You know what.

Have you spoken to Ravi yet?

Yes, but what Ravi decides is up to him.

You can't control that.

And what about you?

I, um...

I told the agency the request for contact was denied.

[Abi] Good.

Is it?

- [door closes] - [woman] Morning!

Morning.

Um, the plane's just landed.

Oh, great. Let's go.

Hey.

How's Mo? Is he all set for the walk?

No, he's not set for the walk.

He's almost a bloody cripple. Doesn't anyone get that?

OK, chill.

Your dad said he was coming. I thought he was coming.

Yeah. Well, he's not.

Hey...

What's going on?

You've been over there a lot lately.

He's needed help.

Yeah.

And he is lucky that he has got you for a big sis.

You must be feeling like a piece of shit.

It burned down, Leroy. What was I supposed to do?

So, some of us weren't born

with a silver platter stuck up our arse.

That your backpack?

So, what is this thing anyway?

My dad's bonding ritual.

Bunch of men climbing a mountain.

Sounds gay.

Oh, what's she doing here?

[Kasey] Abi!

[Abi] Kasey, hi!

Mitch sends his blessings.

Manny was actually meant to take you to the hotel

to freshen up first.

[Kasey] Oh, honey. No time for that.

We've got a women's seminar to put on.

I've got all I need right here.

Are you sure you wouldn't like some privacy?

Abi, we are going to be sharing everything this weekend.

Spray that for me, girlfriend.

Oh, yeah. Sure.

Girlfriend?

What decade has she flown in from?

Oh, here he is!

Good to see you.

Dad, this is Leroy.

Hello, mate.

Good to meet you, Leroy.

- Nice wheels, man. - Oh, thanks.

Yeah, they do the job.

These ones are really hard to break into.

[chuckles] Yeah, right.

I met Leroy through the centre.

Welcome to the inner sanctum, Leroy. I'm Dion.

You've got surprisingly soft hands, man.

[chuckles]

- What's that supposed to mean? - Don't worry about it.

- Felt them, they're like butter. - Hey.

[car horn toots]

This the place for secret men's business?

What is he doing here?

- Did you invite him? - No.

Lets hope Mitch Leeway doesn't get wind of this.

[Cal] I mean, he's completely toxic.

- Cal! - [Eli] I'll collect the phones

before anyone posts on socials.

Maddox!

My lawyer said I have to stay in Sydney.

Yeah, good to see you, buddy.

You should've told us you were coming.

Hey.

Right, men.

We're on a mission and the Lord is watching.

[Cal] Now, every year, we have to get out of town

because of the dangerously high levels of oestrogen

in that building down there.

[men chuckle]

So, last year, of course,

we had our beautiful, beautiful Colo River experience.

We raised a barn.

I mean, incredible.

You know, to raise this structure

that was going to stand in nature for generations.

What I haven't told you about the barn is that it...

It...

It didn't thrive. The barn collapsed, OK?

[laughter]

I mean, it lasted... This is true.

It lasted about three weeks

and then it is, like, then it was done.

This year though, we're going into the wild, alright?

We are going to separate the wheat from the chaff

and we are going to reach the summit, my friends,

and when we get to that summit,

we're going to be closer to our Lord

than we have ever been and along the way...

[car horn toots]

Dan, the man!

Huh?

I told you he wouldn't let us down.

Yeah.

- [Dan chuckles] Cal. - [Cal] Ah!

[Cal] Good to see you, brother.

- Yeah, thanks for having me. - So good to see you.

Great to be here. Thank you.

Gentlemen, the member for Gaffney.

- [Eli] Hello, Dan. - Minister of the Crown.

Where is his Secret Service detail?

Doesn't have one, man. He's just a congressman.

Maddox? What's he doing here?

Yeah, yes, it certainly wasn't my idea, mate.

No, he just invited himself.

We'll keep it in the bubble. It'll be cool, OK?

Alright, good, good.

So, guys, one last thing before we go up the mountain.

No provisions.

We are taking zero supplies up that mountain.

We're going to forage,

we're going to hunt for our own food like men.

That's a terrible idea.

The Lord will provide.

OK, come on.

Come on, you knuckleheads, get it all in there.

- Mixed nuts? - Everything.

Not a piece of trail mix, nothing.

- In there, in there. - Alright, yes.

Get it out, get it out.

Good. Good boys.

Good.

So, we all know who the head of the house is.

We've been taught about authority and submission,

the covenantal headship,

but for Christ, women have an intrinsic value

equal to that of men.

Jesus said, in the beginning,

the creator made the male and female.

Matthew, 94.

Now, we all know the Old Testament

was written by balding men with back hair.

[laughter]

Am I right?

But Jesus was a revolutionary.

He came to this earth not as a man

but as a person interested in us

in terms of our relationship...

She's good.

...to God.

[baby cries]

[Kasey laughs]

I'm so sorry.

Don't you be sorry, girlfriend. You're doing God's work.

Only women can know the burden you have carried.

[laughs]

[woman] OK, bubba. That's better.

Good girl.

Hey, where's my baby bear?

She OK?

Oh, yeah. Happy now.

[chuckles]

When are you due?

Um...

I can tell.

Second trimester.

I'm still getting a bit of morning sickness but...

Oh, you think pregnancy's hard.

Wait until the birth.

[chuckles]

I can only imagine.

Hey, I don't suppose you could hold her

while I go to the bathroom?

Of course, I can. Yeah, sure.

Hey! Oh, my goodness. Hello!

Thank you so much.

Yeah, sure.

Hey, bubba.

[pensive soundtrack]

He's so cringe.

I mean, when your dad talks,

it's like a word salad of nothingness.

He says what they want to hear.

They all do.

Men have been making up God for thousands of fucking years

so they can control us.

He's not even your real dad.

Yeah. Well, my real dad doesn't give a rats.

He hasn't messaged back?

Made a total dick of myself.

[cockatoos squawk]

[Dion] Can't believe Benji brought him.

After all that stuff with the underage girl.

Oh, look, you know, things are complicated with Maddox.

Obviously, he's got a very big following.

There's a lot of spinning plates.

[kookaburras laugh]

I was thinking about reaching out to her.

You know, make sure she's OK.

Oh, mate, haven't you done enough damage as it is?

[Maddox] All this talk about nature being good for you.

Not buying it.

Fuck me.

- You OK? - Fuck me. What is...

Fuck. Fuck me.

Fuck! Fuck me! Fuck me! Fuck.

Get off! Oh!

- It's just a leech, mate. - Fuck.

Dion, you got the matches?

What the fuck?

It's OK, it's no big deal.

I'm not insured for this shit, man!

It's no big deal. I've had one before.

Hurry up! Hurry up!

Don't be a pussy. This faggot dealt with it.

What did you say?

What did you say?

- He's a kid. - I know, it's fine.

- Just tell me what you said. - What?

Tell me what you said.

Dion, walk away, son.

Oh! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Oh!

There.

What the fuck?

So, Jackie, was that the lowest point for you?

We'd been through nine rounds of IVF,

three clinics.

Everybody, my husband, the doctors, my sister,

was saying that I was losing it, that it was time to give in.

And that was when God gave you your precious family?

My beautiful daughter, yes.

[applause]

Thank you, Jackie.

Isabel.

Would you like to share your moment?

OK.

I was 15 and I was living in Hong Kong at the time.

I was an exchange student for six months.

And it was very lonely.

And in your hour of need,

tell us how God was there for you.

Well, I don't...

I don't really remember, actually.

Like, I guess you could say...

It was a very difficult time for Issy. Wasn't it, sweetheart?

And... I mean, we tried to visit when we could

but we were busy planting churches

in London, Stockholm, Jakarta,

and of course, building our new church here in Sydney.

It was a difficult time for all of us.

But God showed us the way

and I think it brought us closer together as a family.

Didn't it, sweetheart?

Yeah. Yeah, it really did.

All these women's seminars ever do

is whip our wives up into a feminist frenzy

that we pay for.

Oh, no, women in a frenzy.

Please spare us.

Oh, it's not your problem anyway, hey?

Half your luck.

[laughing] I know, right?

My only problem at the moment is...

A charity tax audit.

Do we know any more?

What, are you asking me

to breach cabinet confidentiality?

Well, I shouldn't have to ask.

Mate, it's not going anywhere, Eli.

The PM's a dog with a bone.

I just don't get why he's trying to bury us.

Probably because people are starting to ask

where the church ends

and a multinational corporation begins.

My son, the Marxist.

[chuckles]

Hey, what's that all about, mate?

What?

Well, you know, we're trying to protect our pastures here.

Do you think that Jesus hung out

with high-powered politicians like Dan Gascoigne?

I know for certain that he didn't cross his father.

Did he? Hey?

Huh?

Jed, we're going hunting. You in?

- Yes, I will come. - Eli?

Yes, hunting!

- Ah-ooh! Ah-ooh! Ah-ooh! Ah-ooh! - Yes!

- Hunters! - We are hunters!

We are hunter-gatherers

and we are feasting tonight, my friends!

Whoo-hoo!

Anything?

Where the fuck are they?

So, Maddox, you heard from Gigi?

Hell has no fury, dude.

Believe me.

My fiancee.

Yeah, I heard.

Probably my fault.

Oh, you reckon?

You cheated on her with a 15-year-old.

Sorry I didn't check her ID.

I'm a fuck-up, alright?

I don't have a family like yours

with an old man I can look up to.

- [phone buzzing] - Oh!

Oh! Gigi!

Babe! Hey!

Guess where I am?

Yeah, in nature. Listen.

You've baptised this guy.

He wanted to be born again.

Oh, right. How many times is that now?

[water splashes]

I got one!

You got a fish!

- I got one! - Hey!

Yeah!

[Cal] Lord, we thank you for your bounty.

We are humbled fishers and men,

bringing our fellow man into your church, into Christ,

and it to life eternal,

for which we are eternally grateful.

Amen.

- Amen. - Amen.

Well, let's hoe in to this beautiful repast.

Thank you, Brother Leroy!

[cheering and clapping]

Hunters or what!

[howling]

[laughter]

Wonder how the gatherers are getting on.

Oh, no, not for me. Thank you.

Ladies!

I can't help but notice

this heavenly spread going to waste.

We women need to enjoy our food

and stop obsessing about our bodies

and what men think of us.

Go on, it's delicious!

Mmm!

- Oh, come on, everybody! - Sure. [chuckles]

[Kasey] Get into it!

Come on.

[Kasey] That's the spirit.

Oh, thanks.

Please, after you.

I mean, this is good though

'cause we usually have so much stuff to throw out.

[music plays from the room]

I love this one.

♪ By the shores of Galilee... ♪

Sing it.

♪ I read the names I bring to life ♪

♪ The feelings buried in me ♪

♪ Let the spirit take me, take me ♪

♪ I wanna hear something true ♪

♪ Let the spirit take me... ♪

Oh, sorry.

- I didn't... - No, you have a beautiful voice.

Me? No.

I was meaning to say, I...

I was really sorry to hear about your mum.

Oh...

Um, yeah.

Thanks.

And do you know, God gave you that voice.

It's His.

He wants you to let it out.

Tayla...

Sorry, I can't seem to find Pastor Kasey.

She hasn't gone yet, has she?

Um, I'm not sure. I haven't seen her.

Right. Thanks.

[coughing and gagging]

[toilet flushes]

Gosh, are you alright?

I'm great.

Thirsty.

Shall we?

Sure.

Are you keeping that to yourself?

[chuckles]

Here.

Thank you.

It's a shame Nick couldn't come.

Yeah.

I saw the surfboard.

Yeah, he'll like that.

You know, Eli, I...

I shut my family out for three years,

so I know how hard it is.

I didn't shut them out.

She took him away from me.

Why didn't you follow them?

My work is here. She knew that.

There's no pleasing her.

Maybe Helen got sick

of always coming second to my old man, you know?

I don't know.

Anyway.

I'll see you in the morning.

[phone chimes]

[rap music plays in distance]

Mo?

[loud music continues]

Mo?

Get the fuck out!

What do you think you're doing?

- [music stops] - None of your business!

You're 16, she's 15!

I don't need to be lectured to by the Virgin Mary.

Do you really want an unplanned pregnancy, Tia?

Do you have any idea what that would do to your life?

- Fuck this. - Wait outside.

I'll drive you home.

Don't bother.

- Give me that. - Are you serious?

Hey!

This is your shit, not mine.

[door opening]

[Abi] Well, here we are.

Nice!

Glad you're happy.

What's your poison, Abi?

Oh, no. You must be jetlagged.

I insist.

Oh...

Perfect.

My first husband used to cheat on me in a hotel like this.

Sorry, I didn't know you were divorced.

[Kasey] I had to. It was devastating, but...

In his mercy, God sent Mitch to me.

My first love offering.

And two beautiful children.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Abi.

They're not ours.

Barren as the Judaean desert.

Oh, well. I'm sorry.

I'm not.

Still get to fit into a size 6...

Listen, Kasey, there's something I need to talk to you about.

Some of the things that you've been saying at the seminar

about men.

I mean, you know that that's not the way things are.

Our husbands are the head of the household.

As Christ is the head of the church.

Right?

Right.

[tent zipper sliding]

[kookaburra laughing]

Oh!

Hey.

Eli.

- Eli. - [Eli mumbles]

Get up, man.

Come on, get up.

You OK?

You alright?

[vomits]

Let's get you up, let's get you changed before they wake up.

- Come on. - [Eli grunts]

- Get up, get up. - No way.

You can't trust them.

Who?

Women.

Liars.

Helen said she'd never take a child from their father.

I'm warning you, Benji.

You can't trust them.

Issy and I, we tell each other everything.

Really?

Are you sure?

Do you know something, Eli?

[vomits]

[Dion] Hey! What are you doing?

Get your hands off me!

- What was that? - I'm sorry.

- What was that? - I'm sorry.

What the hell was that?

Hey, hey!

- I will destroy you! - Hey, hey!

Dion! Dion!

- What's going on? - He came into my tent and...

Get off him! Get off him!

Got a vibe off him.

Leroy!

[helicopter overhead]

Just find a clearing, drop me a pin and I'll meet you there.

What are you doing?

I've got to go to Canberra.

What, now?

- The PM's summoned cabinet. - Oh, come on, mate.

What, is there a spill or something?

No, look, sorry, mate. I've got to go, I've got to go.

Wait, I'm coming too!

Mad Dog, we haven't even reached the summit, man.

- Come on! - I'm starving, bro.

You missed one meal.

Wait!

Wait!

Now, can we have our phones back?

[phone ringing]

Benji!

Yeah, I'm just about to go in.

Baby, I know something's going on.

Ah...

[Benji] You're holding out on me. Eli told me.

Told you what?

The baby.

Is it mine?

Benji, of course it is.

Don't lie to me.

Don't... Don't lie to me, Is.

Just tell me.

Please?

Just say it.

I had a baby when I was 16.

What?

A boy.

It's Moses.

I'm not his sister, I'm his mum.

Mo... What?

- [call disconnects] - Issy?

Benj?

Is... Issy?

Oh, shit.

Benj?

[no-signal beeping]

[ominous soundtrack]

[Benji] Cal?

Cal?

You right?

Issy is Moses's mum?

I don't know where you heard that.

You know, when I think of the third degree

you gave me before we got married.

Judging me.

Was I worthy of your virginal daughter?

What was Moses, Cal? The immaculate conception?

OK. Just be careful, son.

Oh, careful?

Careful?

Or what? I'll ruin my chances?

What chance? What chance?

You don't even take me serious, man? Never have!

I did what I had to do to protect my child.

Are you sure it was your child you were protecting?

I'm out.

Oh, come on.

Hey!

Benji!

Don't walk off!

If you want to talk, come back here and talk!

Hey, chill.

Look, we're bushed.

[Jed] OK? We're starving.

I think we need to head back.

Oh, for fuck's sake!

Bullshit!

I think this barn's fallen down.

Oh, bullshit!

What's wrong with you?

- Come on, Leroy. - Wait up.

I'm going too.

You!

You are staying here!

That... That was Taz!

She told me about Issy and Mo.

OK, if you want to talk about it,

you don't just walk off!

Because that's weak!

You're weak!

In the sight of God!

[Eli grunts]

I guess we separated the wheat from the chaff!

[Kasey] Do you know what my favourite thing to do is?

Whenever I'm in the women's section of a bookshop,

I find every book that's been written by a man and I hide it.

[applause]

Is there any topic the unfairer sex

don't think they're an expert on?

You want to know where women's real power lies?

Abstinence and consent.

When we deny men our bodies

until they have our consent,

and most importantly, God's consent,

that's when they know our true power.

[applause]

[Kasey] It's important to understand...

Isabel.

He wants to find me, Mum.

Now, what do you think that is going to do to Moses?

Sweetheart, when you're a mother, you will realise...

- I am already a mother. - You are...

Nobody knows that, sweetheart.

Benji knows.

All of it?

Well, he doesn't know that I was shunted

out of the country like a leper.

- Oh... - Your teenage slut daughter.

- That's enough. - That's exactly what you said.

I was 15.

I didn't know what I was doing.

I didn't know if I gave Ravi my consent.

I didn't even know what consent was.

And I'm sorry about that, sweetheart.

But this is what we do.

We bear the consequences of our actions

and everything...

Look at me.

Everything that I did was to protect you.

Can we please go back inside?

No.

Isabel.

I can't believe they kept it from us all this time.

Can you?

It's none of my business.

[dark soundtrack building]

[Cal] Hey.

How was the walk?

Yeah, it was great.

- Beautiful. - Yeah?

Get to the top?

[Cal] I did.

[Cal] How's the back?

It's going to take a lot of rehab, Dad.

Yeah, I'm not miracle boy.

Well... You are to me.

Dad, I'm not going on stage again today.

No.

That's fine.

Have you...

...heard anything from your father?

Yeah. Yeah, he's blocked me.

Oh, mate.

I'm sorry.

Well...

He's a fool.

'Cause he'd be lucky to have you for a son.

[gentle music begins]

♪ How many sufferers are losing their chains ♪

♪ How many others still suffer in vain ♪

♪ Feeling lost and estranged ♪

♪ 'Til at last we changed ♪

♪ Here tonight ♪

♪ Here tonight ♪

♪ Hand in hand ♪

♪ We walk the line... ♪

[Kasey] Come in.

Thank you.

♪ Hand in hand ♪

♪ In the light... ♪

Don't leave without your...

Love offerings?

Yes.

It's all there.

I'm not going to get in trouble with this, am I?

No, it's taken care of.

Have a good flight.

I'll see you in LA.

♪ Hand in hand ♪

♪ We walk the line ♪

♪ Hand in hand ♪

♪ In the light ♪

♪ I found a treasure ♪

♪ In the light ♪

♪ Worth beyond measure ♪

♪ In the light. ♪

[applause and cheering]

[door closes softly]

[Jed] Is that yours?

[Juno] No.

Not much of this stuff is.

[Jed] Wow.

So, you're just trying all this on for size then?

All what?

You know, church girl.

It's your family's church.

It's not my church.

Hmm.

Why are you here, Jed?

I wanted to tell you

that I thought that you were a revelation up there today.

Really.

I didn't know you could do that.

I didn't know I could do that.

It felt like something came over me.

I don't know, maybe I was inspired by the seminar,

you know?

Oh, the seminar.

The seminar. You know, the seminars, they're a scam.

It's this global network of preachers,

paying each other huge wads of undeclared tax-free cash

to go on these five-star first-class junkets,

paid for by hard-working tax-paying church members

like yourself.

- Mm-hm. Yeah. - No, really.

Juno, my mum and dad paid Kasey Leeway to come over here.

She and Mitch pay them to go over there.

It's a tax dodge,

a gravy train,

the whole thing.

Why do you have to spoil this for me?

I know what they're like

and I don't want you to get hurt. That's all.

You should probably go.

Tayla said no visitors allowed in my room.

What?

Nothing.

It's not you.

It's him.

Um...

- You should... - Yeah, I should go.

[door opens]

[phone buzzing]

Eli.

[Eli] Kasey Leeway just rang me

from the airport.

Customs pulled her up and seized the cash.

I thought we were on the same team here.

And how is this my problem?

I know you fucking tipped them off!

Eli and his potty mouth.

I'm playing the long game and they don't like it.

The PM needs to believe that my first loyalty is to him,

not the church.

I couldn't stand that American woman anyway.

[chuckles]

I don't think I can forgive them for what they did to you.

[Rosa] Mr Cal Quinn,

AKA...

Oh!

...super nostril.

- [Rosa laughs] - [Cal] So good!

[phone buzzes]

[Rosa] Mr Cal Quinn...

AKA...

[Cal] Oh!

[Rosa] Super nostril.

- [Rosa laughs] - [Cal] So good! Oh!

[tense soundtrack building]