Hey, hey!
Bismillah. Bismillah. Allahu Akbar.
But we go north next.
To the mining camps.
Good trade up there.
We have a business to run, remember?
A break from work will do us good.
Wait! I must pray.
Our new adventure awaits, huh, my Lila?
Hey!
Hey, boy!
We're in the desert, yeah?
I don't appreciate you washing your stinking feet
in my drinking water.
Hello, friend!
It is OK. You can have the well. It is OK.
No problem.
It's OK, Hanif.
Finish up and then we go.
We will go soon, huh?
Hey. It's OK.
Come with us to the tribe. Yeah?
Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey, hey!
God, no! Stop!
God! Stop!
Just let us go!
No!
Mate, we're out of here! We're gone!
Lila?
Lila.
Lila? Hey.
Ah.
Hey. Good girl.
An angel.
Come to save me.
Hey. Your rifle's busted.
What are you gonna do, whack me with it?
What's your name, son?
Oh, righto. Righto, I'll call you Dimwit.
Dimwitted Ghan kid with a bung rifle.
Fuckin'...Chinese pricks jumped me and me partners.
I just... I just need somewhere to rest
before the dingoes get me.
There but for the grace of God go I.
You with me?
Relax, son. It's empty.
Hey. Hey, load me gear up first, would you?
I'm not gonna bloody leave without that.
Attention!
Gentlemen, your attention, please.
In the name of the Crown...
Fuck the Crown!
Three nights ago, £3,000 worth of Crown-marked gold
was stolen from the Mount Magnet Mine.
Send your Queen out here to fetch it back!
She can share me bed!
For God's sake!
We are the Gold Squad.
A new arm of law enforcement.
The Mount Magnet Mine has been robbed!
Restitution...
punishment...
will be swift and severe.
If you have information...
that may lead to the capture of the thieves
and the return of the gold bars,
report it!
If we deem it useful...
you'll receive rations...
of flour and salt
and the Queen's finest sugar.
Here's the last of them.
Father and Son and the Holy Spirit.
Chinks attacking whites.
Cannot say I've seen this before.
What have we got here?
Sergeant, someone should ride to Kalgoorlie.
Wire Perth for a tracker.
Can't wait for a tracker.
Opium, Corporal.
Where there's Chinks, there's opium, eh?
Trooper.
I... I'm sorry, Dad.
The heat.
Remember, the only reason anyone's here is gold,
and gold drives men mad, boy.
Look at me.
The law is all that holds this hell of a place together, OK?
So keep it together, Trooper.
This is our chance, huh? To make a name for ourselves.
Sergeant.
We need a tracker.
And we don't yet know if we're looking for Chinese or whites.
Four whites robbed the Mount Magnet Mine.
Three whites lay here
and the fourth is gone, along with the gold.
So we pursue the fourth man.
Yes, but Chinese don't just attack whites.
They're not even welcome in the Goldfields.
They must have known about the gold.
Well, we act on what we know.
Our man needs a furnace,
and it'd be good if we beat him to it.
Sergeant, we should bury these men.
You know, your blackfellas tried to poison me.
I am Hanif.
Hanif Gilal Abdullah.
Mal.
They keep you alive, Mal.
We leave at sunrise.
Oh, pig's arse!
Mate, I thought I'd have a sleep in.
You are weak.
Lost.
- You do as I say. - Alright.
'Cause you helped me out back there,
you reckon you're the boss, do you?
You have debt to me.
Oh, yeah?
Go on.
Hmm. Is that what you're angling for?
£3,000 worth of Crown-marked gold.
You don't know what to do with it, do you?
You need me.
I leave you here... you die.
This not save you. You need me.
Yeah, righto, righto. Yeah, I know.
I'm stuck with you and your bloody girlfriends.
You know... you know, gold's only good
if you can trade it.
Only a fool would try and trade it
with the mark of the Crown on it.
Are you a fool?
We must melt them.
Remake them.
Ah.
Yeah. You know the melting point of gold?
1,947 degrees Fahrenheit.
How we do this?
Kalgoorlie.
Me partner Jimmy in Kalgoorlie has got a large furnace.
It'll get the job done.
Kalgoorlie days away.
Well, you get me there,
you get what's yours.
Good as gold.
Two bars. I take one. This is fair.
Hey. Hey.
We have a deal?
Hey.
Your blackfellas are gone.
Hey, we need to move fast.
Your bloody camel girlfriends will slow us down.
Hey, them spears are gonna get us noticed.
Hey, do you even know how to use them?
Or are they just for decoration?
We will start east and stay off the main road.
It will take longer, but it is safer.
So...
that is that.
Hey.
Hey!
I'm gonna need my gun back.
Hey, you can play dimwitted Ghan all you like.
I know your game.
You stashed it, didn't you?
And I'll bloody search you...
You have no shots left.
Yeah. Well, I'll buy more on the road.
The main road is too busy.
- We must... - Hey, listen.
There's someone coming for me and I don't mean the troopers.
You with me?
Who?
The devil and his dog.
Now, they catch us before we get to Jimmy's, they'll gut us.
- Jimmy's? Who... - Jimmy's.
Jimmy's. My partner in Kalgoorlie.
Remember? With the smelter?
Ah. You say this to scare me, right?
So I give you the gun back?
Hey, listen.
Listen, Jimmy's is where we've got to get to, and fast.
Now, the road's the quickest.
So we're gonna need protection,
and two fuckin' spears is not gonna do it,
so I'm gonna need my gun back.
No.
Then you are in control.
I've always been in control.
Alright, fish it out.
Hey, son.
Why are you doing all this?
This land - your people - they took all I have.
I will not go back empty-handed.
Anger.
That's as good a reason as any.
Hey. Stash the gold in there, will you?
In the grain sack.
Why you do all this?
It's gold, son.
A man doesn't need a reason.
Ha!
Go on, get! Get!
Don't worry, he'll move on. Wait here a moment.
Fergal.
Hold the northern road.
Gentlemen!
Hold it there.
Watch the horses, Sammy.
Hanif.
- It is you. - Sadhu?
Assalamu alaikum.
Alaikum salam.
I know Jundah's old girl any day, huh?
Where is he? Where are the camels?
You alright?
Who's your, uh, white friend?
He's... he's a...
He's a prospector.
I-I am his guide.
Sadhu!
Hanif. What is wrong?
Where is Jundah?
Tell me.
Gone.
He is gone.
He... he got... he got typhoid.
And sick.
Sadhu. Sadhu.
Lila and Arisha...
they are under Jundah's name.
If troopers ask for my papers, I get fined.
Bloody Ghan!
- Hey, hey, hey, hey. - Outta my fuckin' way!
He's a friend. He's a friend, alright?
- He saves us. He saves us. - Get outta my fuckin' way.
Both ways. Both ways. Look.
They check and question goods.
They will not check 11 camels owned by the Chadwick Freight.
Alright?
- Look... - All in order here?
Yeah, Trooper.
I just thought I saw a Ghan fella who owed me money,
but... yeah, it's not him.
They all look the same, don't they?
Hey, pardon, Trooper, you... you fellas
are hunting some kind of secret furnace, yeah?
To catch those gold-thieving pricks?
Now, look, I... I'm not a snitch but, um...
there's a tallow-man.
He's Irish.
You know? He burns animal fats in a cauldron.
He's installed a bloody large furnace,
"to burn off waste," so he says.
But I tell ya... I tell ya, it looks more to me like...
I'm not a snitch, I'm just a good Queen's man, you know?
Wait.
You must tell the Sergeant.
No, I told you, son.
He's about... about a mile outside Yalgoo.
Sadhu travels to Kalgoorlie.
He invites us to go with him.
I say we hide as part of Sadhu's team.
Bloody spears.
Don't ever get ahead of yourself again.
And get rid of those spears...
or I will.
You're welcome.
Your Ghan mate - you can vouch for his men?
Yes. I worked with them, for Chadwick Freight, for a time.
Hey, don't make me regret this.
Hanif?
Is it true, about Jundah?
Take.
Almost as good as dried dates.
It's a hard land.
But, for those who know where to look,
it offers small gifts.
And large.
You're a prospector, no?
Just another fool who scratches around in the dirt a bit.
Mm.
Where are your tools?
Why don't you and him pray with them lot?
I'm Sikh, not Muslim.
Hindu.
Majid and Adeeb are Sunni Muslim,
but Majid from Balochistan, Adeeb from Afghanistan.
And Kourosh...
Shia Muslim, Persia.
What about him?
Why's he not praying?
Afghan.
Beyond that, I cannot speak for Hanif.
We are from Punjab, India.
You call us all 'Ghans' because it's easier.
You're not wrong about that, mate.
Some water, boss?
Two shillings a gallon.
That there says one. One shilling.
Can bloody read, eh? How 'bout that?
Yeah, boss.
I only got sixpence too.
Won't get much for that, boy.
But we're real thirsty...
boss.
The grain sack burst.
What?
Gold is safe. I put it in the packsaddle.
It is safe.
Hey, it is safe. It is safe.
Alright? It is safe.
What is this? What is this?
What is this?
- Hey! - Hey-hey-hey!
You've got no business having them, son.
I play the winner, huh?
I'm happy to beat you next.
Be careful.
The only time I've seen someone beat Jundah.
Ooh.
Sadhu says you sell your camels.
Yes.
To pay for my journey home.
This land has beaten me.
No other reason you go now?
Or why you stop praying?
What did you and Jundah think, leaving Chadwick?
Adeeb...
You should have stayed. Kept your heads down.
Earn money. Go home a hero.
It was foolish.
This crown...
This crown is in our homelands.
We did not come here as convicts...
but we are prisoners...
to this.
Jundah wanted to be his own man,
with his own business.
Now he is dead.
I shared his dream.
That's why he chose me to be his partner, Adeeb,
not you.
I know it hurt you.
- Hey-hey-hey! Hey! - Hanif!
Enough!
Sit.
Sit!
Play your game.
What happened?
What happened? What happened?
You fucked up, son. We're leaving now.
Wait - don't!
Get the camels.
Hurry!
I caught him in our gear, thieving.
I don't want any more trouble.
He comes with us for a mile.
Hey! Hurry up!
But, Arisha...!
Hey. Stop!
Stop!
Now go.
And don't follow us.
Let's go.
Hanif...
do not go with him.
Hanif...
I'm... I'm sorry.
He must've seen the gold when the grain sack burst.
Well, if you'd been honest,
none of this would've worked out this way.
- I worked with him! - Hey! Hey!
- I prayed with him! - Hey! Hey, hey, hey.
Hey. Hey, don't be thick.
He would've told the others. Then what would've happened?
He was a prick anyway, the way he spoke to you.
Yeah, I...
I thought you were gonna...
I thought you were gonna kill him there for a second.
Hey.
This gold... this gold is your chance
to be your own man,
just like you dreamt.
Hey.
We make a good team, son, you and me.
We just gotta get this done, yeah?
You and me... you and me against the bloody lot of them.
Yeah?
You with me? Eh?
Are you with me?
Ugh.
That skin won't last till morning.
They're gaining on us.
Yates and his mongrel dog.
There's a law among prospectors
you... you catch a man thieving your gold,
it's fair game to cut his ear off,
mark him as a thief.
All you need know, Yates catches up with us,
he'll... he'll take more than an ear.
Your ear. Not mine.
Oh, no. You're forgetting, son - we're partners.
We are not partners
"There, but for the grace of God" -
you say this to me.
God knows what you have done.
Oh, says you, eh?
A godless Ghan.
Hey, you ever heard of the Kalkadoon tribe?
Oh, they were a... they were a fierce mob, the Kalkadoon.
The Crown decrees their land as prime cattle grazing country.
Yeah, beef. You with me?
Oh, they put up a...
they put up a helluva fight, the Kalkadoon...
Can you imagine?
600 blacks, rallied together.
Men and women, children...
torn apart by musket fire.
Massacred.
But, my word, you never tasted
such a juicy cut of beef before.
There's no grace of God out here, son.
It's just the land...
and all its spoils.
Sooner you realise that, you'll go home a wealthy man.
Sergeant.
Speak, Corporal.
We ride south on highly convenient hearsay
from a man none but your son bore witness.
It strikes me as a bit tenuous, sir.
You calling my son a liar?
No, the man...
who... who told Sam of the...
of the Yalgoo tallow-man.
None of us saw him.
We couldn't judge his character, his credibility.
We don't even know his name.
Call my son a liar again...
and I'll bury you in the desert.
Mount up!
This is the law!
Come out now!
You're surrounded!
Come out now!
Or we'll force our way in!
We can hear you in there!
Get back! He's armed!
Get down!
Stop! Stop! I'm sorry!
Drop your weapon!
As God is my witness,
I surrender!
Just... just please don't shoot poor Aiden!
Turn your ear to my pleading. In your justice, hear me.
Do not judge your servant.
Nothing that lives can justify itself before you.
The enemy has hounded my spirit,
he has crushed my life...
Up! Up, you filth!
People need candles!
Uh... uh... Lamps need oil!
Uh... uh...
Steam engines need... need lubricant.
But... but people...
treat Aiden like he was a leper!
So I shot them cattle.
But that's because they wandered on Aiden's land!
The dead cow?
Aiden. Around the barn, there?
You think we're here because you shot someone's cattle?
Yeah.
Hey! The Mount Magnet Mine!
Huh?! Who robbed it?!
The gold, you idiot! The gold!
Who robbed it?! Tell me!
Dad! Stop! Stop!
Tell me!
Ugh!
Be a fucking man!
The man you spoke to in town...
It... it's alright. It's alright. Alright?
Who was he? What'd he tell you?
What did he look like?
- I told you... - Tell me again!
Sergeant?
From the shoot-out.
And this... from here, right now.
Don't slow me down.
Look - under the lid.
Where'd you get this?
At the gorge. It's me medicine!
The gorge?
What gorge, you idiot?
Hey, if ever you were gonna start praying again,
now would be the time.
A prayer for water would be good.
Hey, set us... set us down.
I just wanna stretch my legs.
Hey.
Oosh.
Hey. Hey. Up. Up. Up.
Lila!
She found water.
She found water!
Come on.
Come on, you fuckin' prick.
You're not fuckin' empty.
Date palms, from my homeland.
Must be 30 years old, maybe more.
The first cameleers to arrive
must have stopped here for water.
So, why'd you get sent here, eh?
What, you steal a loaf of bread, did ya?
Or you kiss a camel?
My father.
A merchant.
He send me here when I was 17.
I have not heard from him since.
Oh.
Oh, so that's what this is about, is it?
Go home a hero? Yeah?
Win Dad's respect after he's cast you aside out here, eh?
Nah, mate, I...
Hey, I seen you.
I seen ya.
Yeah. It's the crown, isn't it?
The crown. Revenge.
What's that thing?
"A man of wrath stirs up strife,
"while a man of anger causes much transgression."
Are you an angry man?
The scars you have.
Coobering say they are from spears.
Before, you talk about a massacre.
The Kalkadoon.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, there it is. There it is.
It's rife in your eyes. I see it.
Such self-righteousness. I've seen ya.
You think you're higher than thou, eh?
Silently judging me?
All the time reaching out for me gold,
just like any greedy fool?
I oughta... I oughta cut you off at the knees.
Hey, hey...
Cut you off at your knees
and send ya hurtling to the dirt like the rest of us, eh?
Come on, I'm just yanking your chain, son.
Mate, you're a crack-up, son.
You're a bloody crack-up.
Oh, I cannot get that foul stink off me.
This damn gorge better be real, eh?
Get some food in you, Trooper.
Your father's proud of you.
Wouldn't be here otherwise.
Mal!
Fuckin' Yates! Yates is there!
Green-eyed prick.
He's there, with his dog.
Can you hear him howling?
Angel of death,
hunting me to the gates of hell for all I've done.
I can't let him take me, son.
I'll show him.
No, I better save some.
I better save some for when I need 'em.
Mal.
The gun.
Let me look after it.
You trust me, huh?
Mal...
Mal.
We are partners, yes?
Yes?
It's better with me.
Probably don't even know how to use it...
let alone aim.
I know this place.
This is our way.
No, Jimmy's this way.
But Kalgoorlie's this way.
No, Jimmy's not in Kal, mate.
Couldn't have you swiping me gold and then...
going and cutting a deal with Jimmy yourself.
Oh, you getting cold feet, are ya?
Mate, you sh...
Mate you should've gone off with your blackfella mob
instead of coming with me.
Come on.
Hey, your camel's not gonna be able to get down here.
Just stash... stash her and your spears and shit somewhere...
and just bring the gold down with you.
Oh!
We're almost there, son.
Who this?
Where are our men?
Hey, it's a long story.
I'd rather just tell it the once.
Where's Jimmy?
You talk now, Mr Riley.
Where are our men?
Hey. Hey, Jimmy.
Zhan Mei doesn't remember
making deal with Ghan boy, Mr Riley.
I wouldn't have...
I wouldn't have made it without him, Jimmy.
Wouldn't have been able to bring this, either.
Hey, you should've sent more men, Jimmy.
I almost didn't make it.
Mal. Mal. Mal.
Mal...
There.
Sit.
No look!
You no go!
You no look!
Mal.
What... what are you doing?
I was promised a share of the gold.
Mal.
Mal. Mal.
Mal, please, wake up.
Please.
Please answer me, Mal.
Mal...
Mr Riley must rest.
Body is tired.
Soul...
troubled.
You should not have followed him here.
Mal. Mal.
Mal, look at me.
Something's happening, huh?
Mal. Wake up. Wake up.
Oh, mate...
- Hey, where's my gun? - Hey, hey.
You can't... you can't be here, son.
You can't be here.
What is this?
It's just their way.
They put gold in his body
then they send it back to China.
Come on, son. You can't be here.
Oh, fuck.
Say no look!
No go!
Disrespectful dog!
Hey, Jimmy he... he means no disrespect.
What the fuck?!
I will not die like that.
Hey...
I want my share.
Hey, son.
- The gold. - Hey.
And to go.
Son, no.
Hey, Jimmy.
Put 'er down.
Son...
It's not an issue, Jimmy.
He's taking my share!
A dying man needs no share.
Come, Mr Riley.
I give you peace, as your soul leave your body.
No more pain.
Come.
Stand down!
Stand down in the name of the law!
In the name of the Crown!
We have all six - now five - of you marked!
Six. Six. They did not see us.
They do not know we're here.
Throw down your weapons!
Sam, get back!
Stay back, Sam.
Take him out!
I've got you.
Got him, Sarge!
Samuel...
discounting the old lady and the girl,
we're four against two,
and one's hit.
Let's bring this in, men.
Moving in!
Samuel! Cover us!
Mal. Mal.
Go now.
Mal.
Mal. Mal.
Our share.
Hey.
Zhan Mei! Zhan Mei!
Zhan Mei.
Zhan Mei! Zhan Mei!
Hold.
Advance.
Hold! Hold your positions!
Aagh!
Stop, in the name of the law!
What are you doing?
He's drowning in his own blood.
No-one deserves that.
Don't worry, son.
It's alright, lad.
Come on, son.
Come on.
Move it, to cool off.
We'll weigh it in Kalgoorlie to make sure it's all there.
Yes, Sergeant.
Congratulations.
Fetch Sam.
I want him to see this.
Just a rock.
At least your... girlfriend didn't run away again.
Samuel?!
Sam?!
Samuel?!
Sam?!
Get up.
Get up! Get up!
Get... get... get up!
Sergeant?
Oh, God.
Shaw?
Stop!
Shaw! Stop!
Stand down or I'll shoot!
I can't let you do this!
You killed my boy...
They're our prisoners!
MY... BOY!
I will shoot!
We are the law!
Please...
Shot my boy.
Sergeant!
- Sergeant! - Sergeant!
- Enough! - Stop, Sergeant!
Sir...
- My boy! - Sir. Sir!
- My boy! - Sergeant, stop!
My boy!
It's alright, Mal.
You have fever.
Tomorrow, we reach Kalgoorlie
and doctor will fix you.
Where's the gold? Where's the gold?
Look at that, eh?
Look at that.
There's no... there's no crown.
It's blank.
Unmarked.
That is beautiful.
Take it. Take it.
Hey, here.
It helps... it helps with the pain.
Go on. Just this once. Go on.
That's it.
Hey...
If you go... if you go to Kalgoorlie,
you're gonna have to leave the spears behind.
Or you could choose... you could choose different.
I'll tell you something, son.
After we broke the Kalkadoon tribe...
I led a squad
to try and find the last handful of 'em -
the last handful that got away.
To finish 'em off.
We searched for months.
We didn't come close.
It's like they... they vanished into thin air.
They...
they... they didn't want to be found...
You with me?
They will never have me back.
Why do... why do think they left you the spears behind?
They are gone now.
They moved on.
You'll find 'em.
If they want you to.
Your name is not Mal. Is it?
Arthur.
Pray for me, Hanif.
Arthur.
My angel.
Arthur.
Yates.
Come to make amends?
Bit late for that...
Knew you were coming.
Figured I'd face ya, before ya caught up.
I respect that, Arthur.
But what you've done.
And who you are...
No changing that.
I'd think less of you, if ya didn't hold me to account.
Hmm.
Gold's gone.
I've come a long way for you, Arthur.
Stars are beautiful tonight...
don't you think?
Yeah... I reckon so.
Arthur...
It's alright, son...
English?
Hey, quiet!
Shut it!
Heading to Kalgoorlie?
You seen any Chinamen around here?
Or, a white man?
Anyone suspicious?
No English, eh?
Believe in God, son?
He's the only one who can make a sense of this mess.
You wait here.
Here, take this.
It's not much, but...
Don't!
Shut it!
Steady on, Sergeant.
Sergeant...
What do you know...
Did you...
Did you see my boy?
Hey?
Sergeant.
My son.
It's alright, Sergeant.
I've got you.
I am a good father.
Here. Take it, damn you.
Quiet!
Shut it!
Shut up!
I said shut up!