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This land here is what we make of it.

We're family. And I need youse to fight for it now.

You're lucky Colin didn't come in.

'Cause that gun that he carries on his hip, it's not just for show.

What's it for?

For killing snakes.

Miller, I've got quarantine yards ready. Now, you want to shut me down?

You know, hold our cattle and just bleed us dry?

When this is over, I'm coming for you.

Thought you was my brotherboy.

You both screwed me, stabbed me in the back.

Sandra Kirby bailed me out.

She also told me that Dan

was gonna sell Marianne to her.

When I get back, you and my brother are gone.

I will hunt you from this place!

She seems to think maybe there was more to his death.

I saw it all.

You keep them all away, or you're gone.

Sorry Place, that one.

Bad business happen there.

You gotta feel country, so the country knows you.

An old gold mine.

It's got infrastructure we need.

There are better alternatives.

They're not on Lawson land, are they? Get me that one.

Letting Sandra build a port on your property?

She's gonna put a road through Marianne because of this.

It's your property. Your problem.

Marshall been for a visit?

No, rich boy left me to die.

Sharnie's dead.

Who are you mixed up with now?

I'm working for Campbell Miller.

Get out of here.

- Let's go! - Hey!

- Marshall! - Yeah?

Marshall!

Susie!

Susie!

Ma.

Leave him! Marshall!

All right! Break it up! Enough!

Susie! Let go!

Save me...

for the waters are come in unto my soul.

Deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Remember the waters recede

and the land must be remade anew.

Emily!

Hey!

Hey!

Lower that rifle!

Put it down!

It's not gonna bring her back.

Nothing will.

I can't be here.

Hey, mate.

Might be time to give it a rest now, son.

Says the fucking alcoholic.

Yeah.

Listen to me, Marshall.

It's not your fault that Susie died, mate.

Well, whose was it then?

Huh?

I'm a... I'm a piece of shit like you!

Come on, mate.

That's not true. You're a good person.

Shut up.

Come out to the campfire.

We're gonna get through this, but we're gonna do it together, okay?

No.

I'm right here.

You're home, mate.

You need to look out for that boy.

- He'll need help. - Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's you and me go shoot that bull.

Nah.

No, that's for Em.

You were with her for such a short time.

But I could see how special she was.

That poor family.

From what you told me,

she was the only one keeping them together.

The only hope they had.

And now she's gone.

And now she's gone what?

It's a tragedy for them.

Now she's gone, they're broken, and you can...

- you can exploit their weakness? - No, that's not what I meant.

She's... She's dead and all you see is opportunity.

Do you know why I loved Susie Lawson, Mum?

Because she's the opposite of you.

You wanna talk honestly, my boy?

She would have ruined you.

You've seen that pathetic wreck her father is.

That would be you.

A weak man dominated by a strong woman.

You think I'm weak, but I've been watching you.

Listening, learning.

Careful, son.

You be careful, Mum.

Schedule that meeting for Monday.

And then we're just gonna do one on Thursday.

3:30.

Hi.

Hey, girl. You know that deal you done?

Not good.

Not good at all.

That deal's bringing in $40 million to our community.

And all we gotta do is let Sandra drive on our land every now and then.

And Marianne Station?

That Lawson place is nothing we gotta worry about.

The Lawsons mean nothing.

That's all our country.

That road's going through that Sorry Place and sacred place.

What sacred place?

You don't know?

It's men's business area.

You know what they'll do to it to get their road through.

You need to shut that road down.

But the deal's being done.

Get it undone or big trouble.

Okay.

I'm warning you now.

That's my beer.

Is that right?

What are you gonna do about it?

- Piss off, you roo. - Roo?

Who the fuck says "roo", you Neanderthal-looking cunt?

Jesus Christ.

You can do better than that, mate.

Oi! Oi, Nathan!

Get him out of here. He's fucking pissed.

Oi.

Sharnie?

What's wrong with you?

Marshall?

Susie's dead. And I...

I thought I killed you.

Hey.

Hey.

I'm so sorry.

You're a mess.

How'd you know where to find me?

I didn't.

I was getting a bottle for me and Rich.

You're back with him?

No.

I'm just staying with him for a few days.

I'm moving on.

Clean yourself up.

Wait, Sharnie.

I thought you were dead.

Thought I'd never see you again.

You're going to live here now?

I can't go back to Marianne.

I remember a little girl...

who wanted to be somebody in the Top End.

Beat everyone.

Everyone who looked down on us.

All those up-themselves bastards.

Then you married one of them.

Little Susie came along.

You put on that mask of yours and forgot who you were.

Fooled yourself into thinking you were doing it all for your daughter.

But it was never for her, was it?

You know what I'm saying?

It was all for you.

It was your ambition.

Even your daughter knew that.

So, the only way back from this now is to stay true.

Take that station and fuck those Lawson bastards.

That's not what Susie would've wanted.

- Hey! - Well, it's a stitch-up, innit?

Well, how's this for an accusation?

When I'm done with him, I'm coming after you.

Which one of your friends was that, Dad?

That's Oscar Hillderman Trucking.

Refusing to deliver any fuel.

All right. Well, what about the quarantine mob?

No, no, no. Miller's got them as well.

Refusing to expedite anything. Nah. No, we're royally fucked.

We've got to get these cows out of the country

because the hay dealers are squeezing us.

Graham, you on channel?

Hey, mate.

Mate, it looks like someone's lighting fires

along that eastern fence line.

Fuck.

Six months' worth of cattle feed up in smoke, Dad!

Yup.

To the right, you fat fuck!

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

Hey!

Hey! Wait for me!

Guys, guys...

Guys, I'm trying to put it out.

You working for Campbell Miller?

What? Who's that?

"Who's that?"

All right.

Fucking stay down, mate.

I want you to give him a message from me.

If I catch more of you out here, I'm going to fucking kill you.

You hear me? And I'm gonna kill him, too. You got it?

No! What the fuck! Don't you...

Don't you fucking dare! Don't! Don't!

Oh, you fuck!

All right, Dad, we're good.

You fucking psycho!

You can't fucking leave me out here, I'll die!

You should have thought about that before you fucked with us.

At least leave me some water.

There's a river about 50 clicks

- right over there. - Yeah.

Are you fucking serious?

I'd watch out for crocs.

A five-meter bad boy in that one.

You're fucked. Fuck you!

Starting to get sick of these fuckers.

Well, they're gonna keep coming for us, though.

If we're gonna save Marianne,

we have to hit back at Miller with everything we've got.

Because that's the only way to hang on to it.

It's all or nothing, mate.

A conversation about...

Ah. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

- Thank you, Chief Minister. - Thank you.

Col.

Listen, things have gone too far with Miller. I need that prick gone.

Mate, you're talking to the wrong bloke.

You told us everything would be fine,

that Miller wouldn't get the fucking presidency.

Oh, fuck that, Col. Your son got pissed and blew it.

Embarrassed both of us.

Anyway, this is cattle industry stuff.

I can't be seen to be sticking my hand in this.

The cattle industry put you where you are, mate.

My family put you where you are. Don't you ever forget that.

Now you're the Chief Minister, nothing more.

Bloody-well listen to me.

Marianne Station means something to people up here.

And you're gonna let a little pissant Campbell Miller destroy us.

And he won't stop with me.

He'll have his sights on you.

Well, that's why I've got to stay on his right side.

- I can't make an enemy of him. - You want to make one of me?

Well, what could I even do?

You ever heard of storm birds?

Mmm-mm.

Those big grey things, like channel-bills.

They migrate north when the rains come.

Farmers call them storm birds because when you see one,

you know a big mob storm's gonna follow.

And these...

things, they don't...

build a home and raise their young.

They just sneak into other birds' nests, lay their eggs, and keep going.

I reckon that's because if they stayed in one place...

storms would come and destroy everything.

Sounds like they're always running.

Maybe if they just...

stayed in one place,

and let the storms pass, they could make a life.

Hmm.

We could make a life.

Rich will be back tonight. You should go.

I wanna be with you.

The only thing you had to do was light a couple of fucking fires.

Yeah. Miller.

Aye.

Bullshit. How?

Yeah, we'll see. I'll call you back.

They're going to start investigating me for cross branding.

Cancel my brand.

You know what that means?

It means I can't fucking sell any of my cattle. Any of it!

What if I kill the Lawsons for ya?

And how soon?

All right.

- Yeah. - Keeley's here to see you.

- I'll call you back, Don. - That road.

You didn't show us where it was going on Marianne.

- That's no concern of yours. - Old men aren't happy.

They reckon it's gone through a sacred place.

Come on. My anthropologists have cleared it all.

There's no legal documentation of any sacred site.

I don't give a shit what they say.

It's there.

Thank you, Sophie.

There's 100 kilometers of impenetrable ridge line

and the one place I can get a road through,

you've just realized is a sacred place.

We can throw some lawyers at you if you like.

- Oh, come on. - Tie this up for 10, 20 years.

No, that's not necessary.

Where?

That outcrop.

It's a Sorry Place from way back.

The mob don't go out there anymore, but it's sacred.

Men's business.

It's been a sacred site for 60,000 years.

Keels, these pop-up song lines that your mob keep hitting me with,

it's starting to test my patience.

And your mob treating our land like it's yours is testing mine.

Community tried to get it recognized in the '90s

and Colin Lawson shut down the idea.

Paid off some oldfellas.

Go on, then.

We'll just give them some more.

Name the price.

Uncle Bryce won't take it.

Just move the road.

I can't just move the road.

Come on, how much?

I can't help feeling like I'm being played here.

I put my trust in you.

I pushed your deal through.

You mess us around, and we are going to have a real problem.

Hey, Nolan. Ain't none of our stray cattle out here.

You sure I'm allowed on Marianne Station?

Graham okayed it.

He said our cattle were along the river.

Bullshit, they are.

Hey, youngfella.

What you doing?

Nothing.

You're from Marianne Station, eh?

Come with us. We'll take you home.

I'm not from Marianne Station.

Just out on country, aye.

Yeah, okay, kid.

- Hey! Come back here! - Shit!

You idiot.

I think we've got a problem, boss.

Did you hear the Lawsons are trying to bury me?

How?

Colin's old boys' club.

He's using the Chief Minister. I don't know what he's got on him, though.

Well, Chief Ministers don't last forever, Campbell.

Perhaps it's time for a change of government.

I'm a billionaire.

What's the point of all this power if I can't use it?

I'm putting infrastructure on that place.

The road and the gold mine.

There's a wrinkle to be ironed out.

And they won't be happy about it, so, it would be reassuring to me

if you could be on hand to protect my men at the escarpment.

I expect the Lawsons will overreact.

And once they're gone, Marianne Station's yours.

All I ask is that you never ask about my business.

Keep it here.

Hey. Your new best mate is back, Ethan.

Look, I don't know how to tell you this.

The gold mine my mum's reopened on Marianne Station,

it's the infrastructure she wants.

The mine's a cover for uranium.

There's no uranium here.

She's not mining it, she's enriching it.

You sell enriched uranium overseas

and then you get paid to take the radioactive waste back.

All this land out here, we can bury it, store it, hide it.

The gold mine's a cover.

She's converting the older shafts into underground storage facilities,

preparing to store radioactive waste forever on your land.

Just a suggestion of radiation on Marianne...

And no one will buy our cattle.

My mum wants the Lawsons gone.

And she's going to poison the land to do it.

I know how much Marianne has meant to you and Suse.

You have to hold on to it, for Susie.

Wakey, wakey, lover boy.

Hey, Marsh, I was...

You know I love Sharnie.

Mmm-hmm.

It's weird 'cause I always had issues with, um...

What's the word? Intimacy?

Till I met her. Yeah.

I never really liked people touching me.

Man, I trusted yous.

You were my mate.

You were my mate.

You fucked me.

Yeah. Yeah, you fucked me.

I'm sorry, Rich.

No. It's all good.

Don't worry about it.

Hey, you wanna know where we're going?

Destiny, that's where.

'Cause I'm the hero.

And you're the mutt that dies.

- Nol. - Hey, Colin!

What's up?

You got a big problem at your station, Lawson.

This boy here, Dezi, he was shot at on Marianne.

Okay.

Okay. Hey, all our men are here now.

Everyone's accounted for, okay?

You remember what these fellas looked like, Dezi?

- I don't know. Whitefellas. - It's okay.

- Okay. - Had A-N-F-O on their cruisers.

ANFO. That's explosives. Miners.

- Sandra Kirby. - Right. Yeah.

Where'd this happen, Dezi?

Near the place where your son died.

Next to that Sorry Place.

- A sacred site. - What's Kirby doing out there?

She wants to put a road through.

I told Keeley, "No. Move that road."

Sandra's not...

She's not moving the road around the Sorry Place.

She's gonna blow it up.

I just had Lachie Kirby at my brother's place.

Sandra Kirby is gonna transport nuclear waste through that port of yours.

And the road that she's building to Marianne,

she's gonna use that to take it for storage at the gold mine.

She wants to turn my land into a nuclear waste dump?

She never said anything about nuclear waste.

Uncle, that sacred site is still registered, yeah?

No. This guy blocked it.

But you could register it now,

so she can't touch it.

And we won't oppose it this time. Right, Colin?

We gotta get up there quick. We gotta stop her.

Hang on. Hang on.

I know this fella.

We need conditions now.

I can make a claim on that sacred site, shut that road down for good,

because you can't. You need me.

What do you want, Bryce?

All that land around that river.

No more locked gates. No nothing.

It comes back to us. Official.

Well?

Dad, it's only 300 acres.

Jesus. Yes. That's a deal, Uncle.

No more locked gates.

Okay? You mob can move in whenever you want. Yours.

Everybody happy? Nothing else?

Let's go.

- All right, let's go. - Okay.

Fuel up a couple of utes. Rifles in the back. Go.

Okay. You, come with me.

- Go, go! - Let's get moving!

We'll stop these bastards.

Let's go, Bryce.

Go.

All right. I'm taking the chopper. You get moving.

Pop.

Watch out!

Rich, no!

There's something that I've been needing to tell you.

But Graham...

I know.

Dan.

I know.

I just wanted to scare him.

When I did, I left him to die.

I'm not asking for your forgiveness for that.

But I do need your forgiveness for Susie.

Because I feel like...

I feel like I put that out there.

That's how it came back.

And I'm...

- I'm so sorry. - It's okay.

You can let that go now.

I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, Em.

It might not have happened if I had been...

What should we do?

We don't have to do anything.

- Okay. - No.

All right.

First thing's first.

Where's the key to that big black thing?

Up your ass.

Yeah.

Hi, buddy.

Okay, so, so your cockhead grandson,

he promised me and my girl, like, like a whole lot of fucking money.

And he may be a lying little cunt, but I know you're good for it...

because you're a man of honor.

And I really need you to pay the family debts.

Now, what's Miller doing here?

Graham.

Sandra Kirby has engaged specialists to examine this site

in connection with mining activities, so it's her legal right.

What are you doing here?

Well, she feels that the Lawsons have a bit of a reputation for violence.

- I'm here to protect against that. - Mmm-hmm.

I was expecting your old man to accompany you today, though, Graham.

Yea, well...

he's on his way.

I really, really enjoy this shit.

What do you reckon, oldfella?

You gonna open them safes?

Piss off, swamp rat.

Swamp rat.

Hey, my step dad taught me this one.

Fuck. You're a tough bastard, aren't you?

He's a tough one, isn't he?

I will slit your fucking throat, you dog.

It's in the drawer.

Top drawer. It's here.

He loves ya.

He loves ya.

Ta.

Very much.

I'm sorry, mate.

Don't matter.

Uncle, that's them.

You!

Hand over your detonator, now!

You're trespassing, whitefella.

This is our land.

Lower the weapon, you dumb prick.

Drop the weapon, Brannock.

Drop it!

Drop the weapon!

There's 35,000 in there.

Cash.

My mother's jewelry, that's worth 20k.

Just take it and go.

What about the smaller safe?

What's in the smaller safe?

Nothing.

What's the fucking code?

Just take what you got and go.

I'll kill him.

No, you won't.

You reckon?

What are you gonna do?

Kill us all?

Oh, fuck.

How's that there, eh? Eh!

Leave him!

- Leave him! - How's this then, eh?

That's enough.

Leave him!

He'll open it.

He'll open it!

You're gonna be all right, son.

I'm gonna kill this prick if he doesn't put that gun down.

Come on.

You're gonna have to kill us.

Shit.

Get down!

Shit!

Fuck!

Open that thing again.

What the fuck was in it?

Uncle!

Uncle!

- Bring him around! - Get him behind.

- Dezi, stay with him. - Hey!

Uncle! He's been shot.

Marshall! Stop! Stop!

Oi! Look at me!

Marsh!

Look at me!

You are not a killer.

Hey!

Bring it!

Shit.

I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry. - You all right, mate.

No!

No, no. Pop.

- Pop. No. - She was in on it, Marsh.

- She had nothing to do with it. - Look at her.

Been playing you the whole time.

Campbell. Campbell.

Don't.

Don't, please, mate.

- She's a parasite. - Don't.

Fuck 'em all!

Oh, my poor country.

Shit.

Oh, shit.

No. Come on, Uncle! Uncle!

Fuck.

Nolan!

I dare you, prick.

- They played you. - I'm begging you.

- They played you. - I'm begging you, please.

Please.

Marshall.

Please, let her go.

Come here, mate.

Good boy.

Please stay.

I can't, Marsh.

I love you.

You love me. Don't you?

Rich is dead inside, Marsh.

He's gone. You can't ask me to stay.

I can't watch you turn into your grandfather. I can't.

Hey, I won't.

I won't.

Sharnie.

I'm going home.

We can't fight who we are.

Don't. Sharnie. We can make things different.

We can.

Take it, Marsh.

Please.

Marsh, take the necklace.

Campbell Miller wasn't acting on my direction.

Okay. So, who put those explosives in that cave?

And dumping nuclear wastes on Country.

I am perfectly within my rights to use the port and road for more than cattle.

Yeah, you're perfectly more than welcome to come here

and explain it to the mob.

I would, but I am en route to Singapore.

Now, if Miller survives, he will face the full consequences of his actions.

And that's why I'm putting you forward

for Acting President of the Cattlemen's Federation.

Who said I want that?

Nolan, we've had a setback,

but don't get distracted by petty politics.

The territory's yours if you still want it.

I didn't know it was yours to give.

Goodbye, Sandra.

Uncle.

You all right?

I'm still here. Don't worry.

That Sandra Kirby mob.

She took something precious from us.

But we got a long memory, boy.

True God.

Hey.

I'll be all right, don't worry.

Don't worry about me. Should have seen this one.

He shot that lug like he shot that buffalo.

What do you reckon, Uncle Bryce?

Yeah.

You leaving?

I can't stay.

I know that was our deal...

but I don't belong here.

Hmm...

Hey.

Good luck.

The place'll be in good hands.

See you, Pop.

The big house is yours.

You and Graham can have it.

♪ Made our bed in which we lie ♪

♪ Pretend we don't hear mothers cry ♪

♪ Led by leaders we deserve ♪

♪ All our penance we will serve ♪

♪ And I'm waiting ♪

♪ Waiting for the kingdom ♪

♪ And I'm waiting ♪

♪ Waiting for the kingdom ♪

♪ We walk together Through the jungle to the other side ♪

♪ We're running away From everything that we left behind ♪

♪ Now do you remember anything? ♪

♪ I can remember everything ♪

♪ So who's coming with me? ♪

♪ Yeah, who's coming with me To the kingdom? ♪

♪ Feel the sun come up on high ♪