[WOMAN SINGS]
- It belonged to Dora,
your great-great-great- great-great-grandmother.
- You've still gotta follow up on
your promise to protect this whenua.
- Maybe we should organise a community clean-up.
- Wh-What do I say? 'Hey, everybody, I'm gay'?
- Yeah. When you're ready.
Tom hasn't told you - about the asbestos?
- That man was gonna keep his racehorse here.
I really could've done with the income.
- We know you want what's best for your horse,
so can you please just listen to
what we have to say? - OK, I'm willing to
give it a try. [ALL CHEER]
- But we're not out of the woods yet,
which is why I've decided to invite Dulmoth Park
to stable their horses here.
Who's gonna show them around?
['MYSTIC' THEME MUSIC]
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[HOOVES THUNDER]
[WATER SPLASHES]
[HOOVES THUNDER]
[BRIGHT MUSIC]
[WHIP CRACKS]
- GINTY: Sit up.
I don't want to have to keep saying it. That's better.
- ISSIE: That's really weird.
- Drills - so boring. I don't bother.
- You're too good for the basics, eh?
- You said it. [CHUCKLES] - Better.
Yes. [WHIP CRACKS]
[HORSE WHINNIES] Nicole, what are you doing?
Why are you clinging to the saddle?
If it was meant to be clung to, it would have handlebars.
- I can't believe Tom's let Dulmoth Park move in.
- How can it take a month to put a roof on?
- Well, it's our stables. We're in charge.
Dulmoth Park are just gonna have to suck it up.
- Don't even think about it. [HORSE SNORTS]
Dulmoth Park are our guests - our fee-paying guests.
So we are gonna be gracious hosts - helpful and charming.
- Charming?! - Well...
hospitable, then.
So play nice.
All of you. Got it?
And, Caroline, this is you training for the regionals,
is it?
Cos I don't believe spying on Dulmoth Park is on the schedule.
- No, but I'm totally on it.
I've been doing it all morning. - Ah.
- Hey, is this the racehorse, Tom? He's gorgeous.
- Yeah. Goes like the wind too. Three-time Auckland Cup winner.
- Wow. [WHIP CRACKS]
- Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. [HORSE WHINNIES]
Whoa, boy. Whoa.
Whoa. Whoa. [CELL PHONE RINGS]
[SCOFFS]
Hey, Gary.
Yeah, no, I just took him for a run.
Well, nah, I'm not a fan of those supplements.
I mean, he's already pretty sparky, but...
All right, then. Sure. Yeah, OK.
- We have to be nice to Dulmoth Park?
- I guess Tom needs the money. - They're so awful.
- Well, I guess we just have to be the bigger people, then.
- Is this it? Do you only have two fields?
- Do you only have one thumb? - 'Gracious hosts.'
- Yeah, sorry.
But, hey, they're all yours. - This place is shocking.
- [SCOFFS] Keep walking.
- Here.
- Oh, uh, how about supplements?
You got, like, a lutein, concentrated kale?
What do ya got?
- There you go.
- Thanks.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hello again. You must be he, our newest resident. Welcome.
- Hi. - I'm Kenny, the mayor here.
- Oh.
- I'm sure Gabe's told you all about me.
- No. No.
- Oh. Hey,
we've got a bit of an investment opportunity for you.
- Oh, I'm afraid- - We've got a wonderful forest-
- So I hear. - It needs a bit of an upgrade.
- Look, I'm gonna... stop you there, buddy.
I'm- I'm actually not here for business.
This is more like a... system cleanse.
- He ate, uh, two bags of goji berries last night,
so it shouldn't take long.
- GINTY: Stop gripping. He'll sense your fear. Use your core.
[WHIP CRACKS, HORSE WHINNIES]
Come on! Keep the momentum! [WHIP CRACKS]
Do it again! [HORSE WHINNIES AGITATEDLY]
[WHIP CRACKS]
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
[WHIP CRACKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- Oh, hey, you guys grow manuka around here, right?
- Yeah, that's not all. We've got a whole medicine cabinet
growing out in the forest.
- No way.
- You should come check it out this afternoon.
- Huh. Forest clean-up. That sounds so your thing, huh, Alex?
- Hey, man, I love your necklace.
- Oh, it's, uh, pounamu.
- Where would I get one of those?
- Oh, they're usually given as a gift.
- Right. Yeah, no. That- That makes it much more meaningful.
- Or you could just buy one at the airport. [CHUCKLES]
- So you're a Maori, right?
And- And you people, you come from a tribe? I-I love that.
- I'm sorry about him. - Uh, yeah, man.
I come from the Ngati Kahurangi tribe.
We go back hundreds of years right here in Kauri Point.
- Right.
Heard you guys got like a chief or something?
- Well, uh, this guy comes close enough.
- What?
- Yeah, he- he's from the tuakana line.
He could be a rangatira one day, a leader on the marae.
- [CHUCKLES] Man, I... I feel like I should bow or something.
- Oh, nah, nah, you don't- you don't have to.
- He's kidding. He only bows to Elon Musk.
- It's a lot of responsibility.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I-I guess so.
I mean, um, I kinda also wanna be a vet, so...
- Wow.
I love your ambition. You should take note.
[SLAPS GABE'S THIGH] See, my brother here,
he can't even stick school for a couple of semesters.
[GLASS CLINKS] - Here you are.
[BIRDS TWITTER]
- CALEB: Wow, Gally, you're filthy.
Did you deliberately find the muddiest spot in the field?
- CAROLINE: I'll grab him. - STELLA: Thank you.
- Whoa, big breakfast, Stel? - The forest is seriously bad.
- We're gonna need a lot of trash bags today.
- [SIGHS] I hope the herd are OK.
- Why? Have you had more visions?
- Nah, not about them, but something's going on.
I'm seeing other stuff. Here. I did some sketches.
- Is that Mystic?
- There was a wind chime,
and someone was singing a nursery rhyme.
And I saw a girl. She was wearing an old-fashioned dress.
- Dora?
- I don't know. Maybe.
- But that would mean you're not just seeing the future.
You're- You're still seeing the past too?
I need to sit down.
- OK. How about this?
It all started at Alex Zarkoff's, right?
Maybe there was a girl who lived there once
and she wrote a book... about a wind chime.
- It's like watching Sherlock Holmes [!]
- Wait, wait, wait, wait. Stay with me.
And then there was a horse, and it came along and-
and it liked music. And then- - This is awful.
- You're telling me. - [CHUCKLES]
- No. Um... You need to come see this.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
Like they had to bring these. This is so out of order.
- Hey, come on, guys.
Do we wanna be angry, resentful people?
Or do we wanna be the bigger people?
- I'm fine with being the angry people.
- Yep, but we've gotta suck it up.
- Who are you and what have you done with Issie?
- Yeah, I know, but... they're paying to be here.
So, you know, Tom needs them.
- Fine, but, for the record, I'm not happy.
- CAROLINE: None of us are.
- Take a good look, Natasha.
That's the closest you'll ever get to winning the champs.
- Well, it'll be ours next year.
- Caroline.
- I mean, may the best team win.
- Oh, yes, I forgot. You are the KP...
Super Team. - [SCOFFS]
- Hilarious.
- Don't touch that! - Hey!
- Where are we supposed to sit?
- Yeah. There's not enough room in here for us all.
- Maybe you should find somewhere else,
then. - Maybe you should.
- Or maybe you should stop talking.
- GINTY: ...tack room? Makes no sense.
- TOM: Because that's where the box thingy...
Everything all right?
- Oh, brilliant. - So good.
[ALL AGREE]
- Shouldn't you lot be down at the forest clean-up?
- Picking up trash? That's so fitting. [CHUCKLES]
- Dulmoth Park, how would you guys like to join us?
- What a lovely offer. Accepted.
- [SIGHS] Sorry.
I'm not supposed to use this hand.
- Well, use the other one.
I would join you, but I need to pick up a rump of beef for
the man that I'm romantically involved with.
It's our anniversary.
- Ah, congratulations.
- Although he is planning on spending it
servicing a boiler in Hamilton,
so it could be $34 down the drain.
- Right. A heating engineer. - I believe so.
I don't like to pry.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
- I'm so glad that you can join us.
- AMANDA: In transit? In transit to where?
Where is my suitcase going?
[THUD!] - Aargh!
Dulmoth Park, they're so...
- Darling! - Ah! Mum, you're back!
- Ooh!
Aw. So you two have coped without me all right then?
- Yeah, it was great. - Yeah, easy.
- Oh.
- And also... - I was really sad.
- ...really hard. - Mm.
What's all this about Dulmoth Park?
- Yeah. What are they doing?
- They're all getting in our faces.
- Then you get back in their faces.
- No. No, no one's face needs to be near anyone else's face.
- Figure out where they're weak.
Then you can take them down.
- Hey, that's really responsible, Mum [!]
- She needs to learn life skills, Amanda.
- Not if she ends up in prison.
- That's where she'll need them the most.
- [SCOFFS] OK, I'm off. - Well, that was quick.
Well, we gonna catch up later then, darling?
- Mm-hm. - Yeah.
See ya down the forest, love. - Yep. OK, bye.
Oh, um... Gran?
Do you have any wind chimes? - No. Why?
- No reason.
- Ha! Found it. Beijing.
Why is it in Beijing?
Baggage receipt!? I gave you the baggage receipt.
[SIGHS] - What's that?
- Oh, yeah, Auntie Hester gave me that.
She thought you might want it.
Who is that in the picture with you and Auntie Hester?
[KEYS CLACK] - Um... nobody.
No one. - Mm.
- Ugh, it's repulsive.
Get it.
- Welcome to Kenny's Community Clean-Up.
Just grab some gloves. It gets a bit dark down there.
There you go.
- Kenny, is that from our bathroom?
- Yes. There are literally no bins left
in our house any more.
- I'm just shoving all my rubbish under the bed.
- Oh, fantastic [!]
[BRIGHT MUSIC]
- Whoa.
Ugh, this is rank.
- KENNY: Which is why I thought it was a great idea
to have the clean-up.
- Don't you take credit for this, Kenny.
The kids organised this.
- And unless you wanna come down here every day,
this is not a solution.
We're still waiting to hear your grand plan, bro.
- Yeah, yeah, I'm on it. - Yeah.
- Welcome to Kenny's Community Clean-Up Day.
[WATER BURBLES]
- Nicole, you've missed some.
Ugh.
This place is a rubbish dump.
May as well let it be a rubbish dump.
- Yeah, because who needs trees, right [?]
- Actually, we do need trees, cos they do photosynthesis.
- What?
- They pull energy from the sun...
lock in carbon and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.
So that's how we breathe.
And there's this tribe in Africa
who use the bark to help their hair grow.
- Should you be doing that? - No?
- Whatever.
- So Bianca's just as delightful as we remembered [!]
- [SIGHS] Wait till you see what they've done with
the tack room. - We have to play nice,
though, for Tom.
- TIPENE: Ah, there they are.
- So this is what you do for fun?
You guys really need a mall.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Here. - Thank you.
This how you welcome all new people to your town?
- Nah, just you.
- NATASHA: Wh- That's actually not a bad idea.
Every tourist should have to pick up a bag of rubbish.
We're sorted.
- Nah, that's too much stick, not enough carrot.
- Huh?
- We need to educate people. We can't just punish them.
We know what they're doing is wrong
because we know the history of this place.
- Well then, you should give them, like, guided walks, Tips.
- Mate, I don't walk. You got horses.
You could, uh, take them on rides to the forest?
- Yeah, we have Blaze, so we can always find the herd.
- Wait, hang on. So...
So you wanna take people straight to them?
- Well, they're gonna try to find them anyway.
At least this way, we'll be there.
- STAMMERS: And we can charge them -
make money for the stables.
- Yeah, and we can get rid of Dulmoth Park.
- Yeah. Yeah. OK. Well, yeah, I guess it makes sense.
['DULMOTH PARK' RIDERS LAUGH] - This is demoralising.
- Oi, you lot.
Get on with it.
[ISSIE LAUGHS]
[MOMENTOUS MUSIC]
- [GASPS]
WHISPERS: 'Hey. Hey, buddy.
'Hey.
'Hey. What's up?'
[HORSE SNORTS]
LAUGHS: Man, this place is wild!
[BIRDS TWITTER]
Hey.
Yeah, I wouldn't touch those.
Some- Some of them are poisonous.
- Oh.
Well, is this one? - Maybe.
- Don't you know? Thought you were the chief.
- Wait, a chief?
- No, no. Um... I'm- I'm tuakana.
- What's that again?
- It's, uh... It's the senior line of my tribe.
- Uh, what does that mean?
- It doesn't... OK, it's not a big deal. OK?
- OK. Don't take it out on us little people. Jeez.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
- I should probably go, so... I'll take these.
- CALEB: See ya, Stel.
- NATASHA: Thank you. - See ya.
- So, are you living here in Kauri Point now?
- Nah, nah, nah. I'm just, um...
watching my brother pretend to find himself
while my mum looks for a school that'll take me.
- Why don't schools want you?
- Well, if you believe my report card, I'm mouthy.
But I see myself as more of a keen debater.
- No, I think 'mouthy' was right.
- LAUGHS: Takes one to know one.
- [LAUGHS]
[SOLEMN MUSIC CONTINUES]
[EXHALES]
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRP]
- [GROANS]
[TRANQUIL MUSIC]
- [CHUCKLES LIGHTLY] [BIRDS TWITTER]
So, what have you got here?
- Well, all of this is kawakawa.
It's your classic painkiller, analgesic, anti-inflammatory.
And right over here, we've got kumarahou.
It's a cough medicine.
And down there, we've got horopito,
which is an antiseptic.
- LAUGHS: Wow.
It's all just randomly growing here. This...
- Well, not randomly. I mean...
doesn't look like much, but this is actually the result of many-
- Well, what about this one here?
- [CLEARS THROAT] Yeah, that's, uh, poroporo.
Gets rid of ulcers, eczema, girlfriends.
- Girlfriends? - Yeah, it stinks.
- [LAUGHS]
That's funny. - LAUGHS: Yeah.
Yeah, is everything all right there, e hoa?
- MUTTERS: Hello, Mr Zarkoff. I'm...
Hello, Mr Zarkoff. We met. I'm Caleb.
I just really admire how you started in your garage
and became a billionaire.
- It was a little more complicated than that, but...
- Sure. Sure.
Of course. W-Well... it was good to...
Well done.
MUTTERS: 'Well done.' Idiot.
- [CRINGES] That was, uh, weird.
- Yeah.
You know, this place has a real mystical vibe to it.
- Yeah. For my people, this place is a sanctuary. It's tapu.
Uh, my tribe began here about 600 years ago
when our ancestor Kahurangi-
- LAUGHS: My fingers are literally tingling right now.
Hey, get this. - Hmm?
- I saw a wild horse, just randomly this morning, just...
just hanging out. - Yeah.
There is a wild herd that lives here. This is, uh, their home.
- In the forest? - Mm-hm.
- QUIETLY: Whoa. [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
- [CLICKS TONGUE] Yeah, nah, all good.
- Kenny the mayor. - Alex Zarkoff.
- Good to see you. - Gidday.
- Yeah, nah, everything's fine. Just a couple of things to do.
K, see ya.
This can't be happening.
Come on.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- You know, I really think that we could do
something pretty special here.
And I will cover the cost of your infrastructure.
- Yes, that'd be superb. Let's go bash out the details.
- I was thinking tomorrow. - Yeah, yeah, of course.
Of course. Hey, we can take the boat out, make a day of it.
- You know what?
Phone call?
- Copy that.
- Yes. - Great.
Oh.
[BIRDS TWITTER]
- I'm getting a mix of trash
and dork.
No offence.
- CORINNE: Caleb, sweetie. - Oh, is that Mummy calling?
- Don't get cold. - Thank you. Thanks, Mum.
- We'll see you guys for dinner.
- See you. - Would you like to bring
your friend?
- Oh no, she- she's not...
Sh-She's busy.
- OK. Another time then.
- This just gets sadder and sadder.
[CHUCKLES]
[UNCOMFORTABLE MUSIC]
- I'm sorry, but I don't know how much longer
I can be nice to her.
- Yeah, she's so annoying. - Me too.
- [EXHALES] - Agreed.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
- So, Issie,
which one's it gonna be? - What?
- You must be having so much fun
playing two boys off against each other.
- OK, that's it. You're asking for it.
- Issie... - Where's your little sidekick?
I hear her brother's rugby squad's really bombing
out there on the Gold Coast - not won anything all season.
Bit like the KP team.
- You wait till champs, Bianca. - Oh, the champs.
Of course - when you're gonna put us in our place [!]
- Why wait till then? - What?
- Well, that's ages away. Let's do it now.
A race.
Let's settle it once and for all.
- [EXHALES] I take it back. You guys do not need a mall.
- I can't ride, remember?
- Well, you don't all have to ride.
Just pick someone to represent you.
- Fine by us.
We pick Caroline.
- [SCOFFS] Well, that's hardly fair.
I'd have wiped the floor with you.
[NATASHA SCOFFS]
- Are you guys chicken?
[INQUISITIVE MUSIC]
- Nicole will ride.
- Me?
- It's only Caroline. - Yeah. It's only Caroline.
- [GABE CHUCKLES]
- TOM: Come on. Where are you, boy?
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[WINGS FLUTTER]
- So, what are the stakes of this race?
- Glory. - The honour of our team.
- SCOFFS: Come on. Those aren't real stakes.
Why don't you lay down some cash?
- Because we're not the brother of a billionaire.
- The tack room.
Whoever wins gets it. - What? No.
- You're on. - This is more like it.
- What are you even doing here?
- Hey, I'm just enjoying the show.
- Yeah, this has nothing to do with you,
so why don't you just- - Dan! Stop it!
- I'm going. This has been, um... real.
- Well, that was cute. The sand dunes.
[CELL PHONE CHIMES] That's where we'll do it.
Meet there at 6.
- Better start packing your stuff.
- Guys, it's Tom. He needs us.
- If you're late, you forfeit. - Oh, we'll be there.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[SIGHS] Any sign of the racehorse?
- No.
- Boys haven't found it either. It's getting late.
- Yeah, and we've got the race.
- And we don't wanna miss you crushing Dulmoth Park.
- [GASPS] What did Bianca mean about you playing off two boys?
Did she mean Gabe and Dan?
- Oh, who cares? She's an idiot.
- Yeah, well, you're definitely flirting with Gabe, though.
- I'm not.
Natasha!
- So you and Dan just aren't a thing any more?
- What? Any more? Were you ever a thing?
- It might've been a thing. I don't know.
We sort of lost contact when he went to Oz.
I think he was too busy with that other intern -
Tess or whatever.
Now it's just weird.
- Well, it's only weird because you're flirting with Gabe.
- I'm not! - Well, whatever.
It's- It's all just a bit sordid. Sorry.
[UNCOMFORTABLE MUSIC]
- That horse is, like, super valuable.
If something happens to it, Tom's gonna be in huge trouble.
- I know. And it was, like, our fault
it was here in the first place.
- You just need to keep still. - Look! You found him.
Where was he? Is he OK? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Way down Forest Rd.
I'm just gonna keep him inside tonight -
not risking that again.
Come on, mate. Come on. Come on. Come on.
- [GASPS] WHISPERS: Guys, the race.
- The race. We're gonna be late.
- QUIETLY: Come on. Come on.
- 5.59. Looks like they're not coming.
10, nine,
eight, seven...
[SIGHS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Thought you'd wimped out. - No way. Let's do this.
- OK. Turn at the small boulder,
then down around the big boulder and back.
Ready?
Don't mess this up.
Three,
two, one,
go!
[ALL CHEER]
[ACTION MUSIC]
- Let's go! Let's go!
[HOOVES THUNDER]
- Keep going, Caroline! - Keep going!
- Yes!
[TENSE ACTION MUSIC]
- Put your leg on! Hurry up!
- Come on!
- Keep that pace up! Keep that pace up!
[ALL CHEER]
- [BREATHES HEAVILY] - [HORSE WHINNIES]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
- Faster! What are you doing? Get in!
Like we said. Like we said.
- NATASHA: What is she doing? - Wait, what's going on?
- Nicole, she's taking it really tight. Like, she'll-
she'll never make that turn. - Go, Nicole!
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Yes, Nicole! Yes, Nicole. Yes! Yes!
- How did Nicole do that?!
It's basically a handbrake turn.
- Come on, Caroline! [ALL CHEER]
- Come on, Caroline! - Go, Caroline!
Come on! Catch up!
[TENSE MUSIC]
- No. How did this happen?
[HOOVES CLOMP]
[SOMBRE MUSIC]
['DULMOTH PARK' RIDERS CHEER]
- We're never gonna live this down.
- Good girl. - Whoo!
- Good girl.
Well done, Nicole. And she's not even our best rider.
Good luck at regionals, Caroline. You'll need it.
You lot better start clearing your stuff out of
our tack room. [CHUCKLES]
[SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [BREATHES HEAVILY]
Guys...
I'm so sorry.
- I guess we should've been the bigger people after all.
- It was my stupid fault. OK?
- No, it's all our stupid faults.
We all decided to do it.
- Don't worry, Caz. You'll make the regionals.
- Yeah. And then you can rub Bianca's stupid face in it.
- In the meantime,
we tell Tom we gave our tack room to Dulmoth Park
because we're just really nice.
- Yeah, he'll definitely buy that. [ALL LAUGH]
- GARY, ANGRILY: I trusted you with this horse.
This is completely unacceptable.
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
How could you let this happen?
If anything happens to this horse, Tom, you're finished.
- All right, I heard you.
Dan, can you call a vet? Now.
SOFTLY: It's OK. OK. It's OK.
- Wait. Wait, wait, wait. What's happening?
- It's not good. It's not good at all.
[FOREBODING MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [EXHALES SHAKILY]
['MYSTIC' THEME MUSIC]
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