Original subtitles

[light piano music]

♪ Look into the future

♪ What do you see

♪ I really need to know now

♪ Is there a place for me

♪ If we're gonna survive

♪ The dream must stay alive

- Authorities are appealing for calm

throughout the evacuation process.

♪ Alive

[upbeat electronic music]

- [Kid] Is there anyone out there?

Mom?

Dad?

Where are you?

- The Tribe is certainly a very radical series.

It's edgy, different.

- Is there any adults in the world?

- They can't call be gone.

- [Kid] Now there is a new world.

A new beginning with no adults.

We're on our own.

- Demon dogs!

- We didn't know what we were in for,

how's it gonna go.

You just hopped on this rollercoaster

and it's a big ride in.

[singing in foreign language]

[afrobeats music]

♪ The fence is crumbling

♪ Crumbling far

♪ Well that's all right

♪ I don't mind at all

♪ Let it all tumble

♪ Right into the sea

♪ That's just fair

♪ That's all right with me

♪ Since you came down the line

♪ I can't sleep at night, I have one thing on my mind ♪

♪ 'Cause every day

♪ I wanna be with you

♪ I wanna be with you

♪ That's all I wanna do

♪ All the while

♪ I wanna be with you

♪ I wanna be with you

♪ That's all I wanna do

♪ Baby, don't you go

♪ I wanna be with you

- [Woman] Oh my gosh, this is so cool!

- Wow, I'm the big, bad guy.

- And I'm the good bad guy.

He's the bad bad guy, I'm the good bad guy.

If that makes sense.

- You don't get any badder than me, apparently.

I've been told.

But yeah, it's pretty cool.

I don't get to sleep on the comfy beds

but I get a police car.

[sirens wailing]

- Victoria.

Got you, welcome.

It's good to see you.

- I thought that's quite nice.

- You may have to cheer Sarah

because her mom's just off

and she's very cheerful.

- This is Jaime, this is Nick.

- How are you doing?

Good.

Very good.

- One of the basic nations that Ray and I had

when we first started talking about

the idea for a program that become The Tribe

was to find a new way of doing

a drama for older children and teenagers

that didn't take the kind of pat route

of being set in a school or being set in a community

or something else and gave an opportunity

to look at issues and problems

that all teenagers confront,

but to put them in a situation

where there was absolutely no adult input at all.

- No more teachers!

[cheering]

No more schools!

- Bray is just,

he's basically a real loner.

He's a real quite and reserved character

and he tries and does his best

but people don't understand.

They don't quite understand where he's coming from.

He's just kind of on another level.

- You know where you can stick it.

What kind of world are you planning?

- These tribe leaders.

They get too much power.

I'll show 'em.

I'll get even with them, I promise.

Stop your sniffling.

- Don't touch me.

- Lex has from the beginning

always been kind of the bad character.

What's the matter?

Can't take a little joke?

He's always been the bully.

The one that pushes everybody else around.

Well, come on, say it!

[chill electronic music]

He's done a lot of bad things

and is always manipulating and trying to get his own way.

- What have I done to you?

- Noting personal, girl.

We ratted you out, and now you're leaving.

- Bray invited me to stay.

- And who's he to do that?

Some of us didn't want him either.

- Give it up, Lex.

I'm bigger than you

and I'm braver than you

and I'm going nowhere.

- If we stick together,

I know our love's strong enough to beat this.

[chill electronic music]

- Hallelujah.

- I think some of the logistics of the show

have been extremely hard.

I mean, we had to increase the number of minutes a day

that we shoot.

We have to get great pictures.

It had to be colorful.

At the outset, it would seem like,

you know, we had to climb Mount Everest

without any kit whatsoever.

We have to devise 38 sets in one studio space

and I think we achieved that.

I can't think of an inch of the studio,

including the workshops, including the backstage areas

that we haven't used for sets.

[gate crashing]

- Oh, Jake,

I think you've got something to say to me?

- Like what?

- Well, my idea was thanks

but times are changing.

- I played Jack.

The computer geek.

Hey, guys,

I think I got something.

- It's searching the skies!

- He has a pretty close relationship with Darryl.

That's probably been one of his main storylines.

Like all the invasions he's made with Darryl.

[cheering]

He's got a kind of dry humor.

I'm a genius.

I am a genius.

- What are you on about?

- Pure rain water.

Collected and filtered for drinking.

Just looking at it makes me feel kind of--

- Humble?

- Yeah, that's the word.

He hassles a lot of people

which I really, really like doing.

Oh, it's the 25th century of the Dark Ages.

- What are you doing?

- Math.

- Oh my God.

- Oh my God!

- About 2/3 of them be on correspondents

and about 1/3 would be doing stuff

that schools are providing.

This correspondent school stuff comes in booklet form

with tapes.

- Victoria's French with her tapes.

And they work through a book.

Book should take two weeks.

- I do Social Studies, Math,

Home and Family Living, Science,

and yeah, that's all.

- Jake, we heard you downstairs.

You're gonna go back and do C 22, 26.

- I told you we would have been better off

teaching them about caring and sharing.

I'm never sharing anything with her.

- I think I've gone off this idea in a big way.

Class dismissed.

It's a girl.

[cheering]

- I don't think parents might necessarily approve,

but they should.

They should sit down, I think,

and watch the series with their kids

and they will learn, I believe, a lot

about the issues that children, teenagers

are living every day of their lives.

Whether it's bullying on the playground

or bulimia, teenage pregnancies.

- These are the old ways.

The adult ways.

We cannot allow them.

- We?

- I mean the tribe leaders.

It's up to us to set an example.

- I think I found a way to solve our leader problem.

I'm putting myself up for it.

- I'm not fighting a girl.

- There won't be any fighting.

We'll have a democratic election.

May the best man win.

- You're looking to the past again, Amber.

Things have changed.

We're making new rules.

We're whatever we want to be.

- Amber's a pretty,

she's a bit of a leader anyway.

She's got quite a bit of leadership quality in her,

and when she came into the mall,

she saw that this whole group of kids

had an opportunity here to be something better.

You realize you could've just crashed the whole group?

- I don't want any lectures, thank you.

- I think she saw that this could actually

be something good

and she tried to make it work.

She really cared about the future.

- You're destroying the tribe!

You know that, don't you?

- Rubbish!

He didn't fit in here, anyway.

- That is a lie!

You hated him 'cause he stood up to you.

- I hated him 'cause he is an arrogant creep!

- Come with me.

- I can't.

I just can't.

They need me.

- [Director] 1866 Take One.

- [Director] Action.

- I miss television.

It's boring now.

- Boring?

Which planet are you living on Zandra?

- I want us to get married.

- I say you're completely off your trolley.

- Zandra, come to your husband.

- I play Zandra in the series

and she sort of lives in her own fantasy world.

She doesn't really like to be told

what to believe or what to do.

You've really got it in for him, haven't you?

- It isn't him I care about.

It's us.

- She's very stubborn

and she's very into the whole,

you know, she's a very material girl,

but she's quite good inside

and she has good intentions

and she doesn't mean to hurt people.

Where's Glen?

- They've got him.

There's nothing we can do.

Zandra!

- Yeah, they sort of became her second family

and so, yeah, she grew a lot with that

and took on some of the responsibilities

of being in a family like that.

If only I could fall for a good guy like you.

- So you're saying no.

- I'm saying, find a girl that deserves you,

and I'm really sorry it's not me.

- Zandra, no.

- Hi.

- Hi.

He's a little bit slow.

What do we do?

- We can't afford to feed animals

unless we're gonna eat them.

- We've just given them presents and everything.

At the start of the series,

he was more sort of a,

just a sort of a follower of Lex.

He's physically quite big and strong.

Locos!

He's the only one

that hurts anyone in the tribe and stuff like that.

Go!

You laughed at me, Lex.

You were laughing at me all the time.

- Yeah?

Well, I'm sorry.

- I thought we were friends, Lex.

He's gotten away from Lex

and as the series is going on,

I think he's sort of developed

a bit more sort of, perhaps,

got a bit more of a brain.

- I've got a nice, smelly fish for you.

- Stop it, Zandra.

No.

I reckon he's pretty cool.

[light music]

- We start our day usually at 7:00 a.m.,

which is the makeup and wardrobe call

and we are there to make sure

that people arrive on time and that everything

that has been put on the call sheet the day before

is happening.

- [Director] Action!

- We get the schedules in place,

talking to Design,

make sure that all of the requirements

from the scripts are able to be achieved.

There's a lot of discussions and communications

and forward planning.

- And here comes some chocolates.

We're pulling script pages for what's happening on

Monday for the fight coordinator.

- Really send him over.

Get really close together, hand to hand.

Pushing, shoving, and during that, Ryan goes--

- Here, you're actually getting hit.

- What do I do when I come in?

- Here we go.

And action!

[chill electronic music]

I take my hat off to the cast.

Not only with what they've done

with each of their characters,

but how they've bonded together

and have literally formed a tribe

and carried that message through loud and clear.

- It's pretty cool, I have to say.

- What?

- I mean, the kids generate such an enormous energy

and enthusiasm for their work.

- Oh, I can't go any further.

- With a schedule like this,

they need a little looking after,

a little love and care, and they get that in big doses.

- It is kind of kind a very

relaxed boarding school environment

where you all come down,

and I suppose if you were in a boarding school,

there would rules and they'd be firm rules.

But here, we're a little bit more relaxed about it.

Come on, fellas, no loitering.

Come on, I saw you.

Everybody's responded really well to those rules,

you know, and it just seems to

work really smoothly for everybody

and we've had, you know, it's just been great.

- [Director] One, two, three.

[light music]

- I can see in myself that I have matured through this

because I think of the character that I've had to play

and just sort of, being the adult world of filming,

you sort of have to behave

and be a bit more responsible.

- Babies have been getting born for a long time now.

It's natural, isn't it?

- Not in this world, it isn't.

Trudy is a teenage mother.

Bray is coming, the baby's coming!

When I played the birth, I was nervous

because, obviously, I've never had a baby before.

[screaming]

- Come on, push!

- I can't, I can't push anymore.

She's only a tiny baby but she needs so much.

She hates the baby and gets very obsessive

over the baby's uncle, Bray,

because she just really needed someone

to just look after her.

- Oh what?

It's not how it looks?

Please.

- It's not.

- After everything you've said to me.

You little liar.

Sort of disturbs her a bit

and so for a while, she goes a bit sort of mad.

- There you are.

- Put her down.

- You've completely lost it.

[sobbing]

- Come anywhere near Brady

and I will scratch your eyes out.

- Cut.

Good!

- [Trudy] There's nowhere to hide.

- I think the performances are quite exceptional

and mature.

We've tried, of course,

to work a lot inside the cast from the very beginning

so that they can target their performances accordingly.

They're hoping to have picked

an exhausted auditioning process

where, in addition to their natural acting abilities,

we've really tried to match up ages and looks.

[light orchestral music]

- What are you doing?

- M-M-O-B.

M-M-O-B.

- What's that mean?

- Minding My Own Business.

Are you stupid or something?

- I was only asking.

- Well, don't.

- I'm sorry about your brother.

I didn't hear anything about him or I'd say it.

I didn't hear anything about him, or I'd say it.

My character is fiendish

and very sly.

And he gets away

with quite a lot of things.

- We don't like these no more.

- Every drama and every soap looks at those kind of problems

but The Tribe has a slightly different way

of looking at them because it's all from,

from your perspective.

It's not from the perspective of somebody

who's an agony aunt, a parent, a teacher.

- Do you know what will happen?

They'll kick Lex out instead.

He goes, I go.

Please, Ryan, I'm begging you.

Don't say anything.

- Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt.

Amber wants a child for Bray.

- Probably the real target is like 11 to 17

but it'll spill over a bit in either way.

[rats squeaking]

- [Salene] I owe you for saving me.

- That's okay.

I'd have done it for anybody.

- I think she's a very strong character.

I think she's finding herself in the moment

with her new relation developing with Ryan.

What are we gonna do with you?

- I don't know, what do you wanna do?

- Look after, I suppose.

She is very motherly

and looks after the kids a lot

and they mean a lot to her.

She's like their mum or older sister.

The Tribe really made our heads turn, I think.

She's kind of wanting to find somewhere

where she can belong.

- You're ill.

- Bray risks his life to get food.

What do I do?

- Well, I can only find two bars.

It seems to have gone.

- Gone?

- I learnt quite a bit about bulimia and stuff

and how you act and sometimes it's not even visible

within the person.

I was glad that they brought it up in the story line

'cause I thought it was quite a good idea

'cause lots of teenagers go through it.

- That was brilliant.

- [Director] Shooting, turn over.

Action.

- [Boy] Well, Patsy.

- [Girl] Come on, Pats.

- My character, Patsy, she has a best friends called Chloe

and she's playful, fun,

and likes her animals [laughs].

[pig grunting] [chicken clucking]

- Wait there!

Don't run away!

[cow braying]

Before she didn't really communicate with people

as well as she did with the animals.

All her problems would be told her cow Blue Bell.

[light music]

[cow braying]

- [Director] Take 12.

- It looks as if we're gonna have steaks

for dinner after all.

- Living away from home was hard at first.

I really missed Mum,

but we've grown together as a family

and they're like older sisters

so they've helped, like, when you have problems,

they'll cheer you up and stuff.

[kids giggling]

- They're coming!

Stop!

[yelling]

- I play this guy named Dell

and he's like a mechanic and a doctor put together.

Trudy's lying out there so sick.

She might not make it through the day,

and all you lot can argue about is dirty dishes.

Occasionally, we get some conflicts, but we resolve them.

These are for you.

- What a sweet thought.

[low drumming]

- [Director] I think the important thing

is to get the best of both worlds.

It's to get the beach, set, and sea.

[singing in foreign language]

- Let's have a look.

- I think it's been great

that my character is into dancing and singing

because I am as well.

[light music]

[cheering]

My character, Tai-San,

she's into the spiritual sort of things

and she has her head up in the clouds

a lot of the time, so when she gives advice,

she doesn't really take into account

the other person's viewpoint

and so she ends up hurting a lot of people.

The seven centers of color

contained within the aura surrounding the body.

- Right.

- Aura-balancing exercise?

[dramatic music]

- It's so much fun playing a bad character

'cause you know it's not very often

you get to play someone bad.

You wouldn't last a minute outside.

- At least we're looking to the future.

Trying to build something better.

- Well, when you do,

I'll be there to knock it down.

- [Director] And action!

- Hey.

- I'm a really bad loser, Bray.

It's awesome playing her.

It's a totally different character

and I just think she's really overruling and strong person.

- Throughout the production,

we prefer to keep in mind the thoughts

of children and teenagers.

What do you think of the outset?

Is it good?

Would you watch this?

- Maybe. - We're being attacked!

- I think so.

- The production, of course,

was only part of the process.

The logistics to produce a series of this magnitude

was really quite complex

and I think the entire team pushed the boundaries

to bring The Tribe together in such a short period of time.

[light piano music]

It's been an enormous challenge

but one that every single member of the team had,

a long journey and at the fruition of the production,

there was a sense that, you know,

the entire team was celebrating something

really quite extra special.

["The Tribe Theme"]

It's been a very difficult one to get off the ground.

Not necessarily just in production terms,

but in the storyline terms.

["The Tribe Theme"]

- You were supposed to be in charge.

Not anymore.

I own this center

and you're trespassing.

All those that thing Jack is guilty, put up your hands.

- What about love, Amber?

- Undying love.

[intense music]

- Yeah, be nice.

- [Lex] I'll be nice to Alice.

- I'm glad to hear it.

- And almost we've come up with, I think,

a different genre.

- Starting from scratch.

A whole new way of life.

And we get to invent it ourselves.

- We can do anything.

- Now, there's nobody to blame.

There are no adults.

There's no judiciary system.

Society as we know it is literally broken down.

- We need a safe place to say.

- The sick is a war zone.

- The whole city's a war zone, in case you hadn't noticed.

- Power and chaos!

- [People] Power and chaos!

- Some democracy.

- Democracies need defending.

[yelling]

- The series has very, very profound thematics

and truly and series for the millennium.

- Have you seen it?

- [Sammy] Something's coming through.

[Man speaking indistinctly]

- [Salene] What's it say?

- I think it really has all the ingredients

to evolve into something very, very special.

A cult serious, who knows.

- The beginning of something new here.

Not the end.

- Please, don't go, don't leave us.

[Man speaking indistinctly]

- [Director] Cut, perfect.

[water hissing]

[light piano music]

♪ Look into the future

♪ What do you see

♪ I really need to know now

♪ Is there a place for me

♪ Tell me where do we go from here ♪

♪ Take me as you find me

♪ For what I am

♪ When I make mistakes

♪ Please understand

♪ And as long as I know you're near ♪

♪ There is nothing for me to fear ♪

♪ Out of the darkness

♪ A light shines

♪ Burning through the coldest night ♪

♪ Oh, we can find a way

♪ Together, we'll make it

♪ With every step we take

♪ Moving close together

♪ If we're gonna survive

♪ The dream must stay alive

♪ Alive