- Like a ghost horse. - I've seen Mystic.
I told Issie to meet me there, but I couldn't make it.
- What if she gets in trouble and tries to swim out?
- What do you want, horse?
[BELL TOLLS]
He shows me things.
Wait, what the...?
It was Natasha. She let Blaze out. Oh, I am so gonna get you.
[INTRIGUING THEME MUSIC]
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[SINISTER MUSIC]
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[LOCK CLANKS, BELL TOLLS]
[HORSE WHINNIES, BELL ECHOES]
[GASPS, PANTS]
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
[BLAZE SNORTS]
- Ta da! - Nice.
- [SNORTS] - Thanks.
- Oh, I was talking to Blaze. - Ha ha, very funny [!]
[GRUNTS]
[SIGHS] So, what you doing today?
- Uh, more teaching, and then I'm practising my speech for
my mum and dad's anniversary party.
- Ugh, speeches suck.
- What, making them or listening to them?
- Both. - Yeah,
but you haven't seen my slideshow.
I've got pictures of them when they were younger.
Their clothes are like... shame.
- Oh, please tell me you're gonna put in your baby pics.
- Let me think about that. Uh, no.
No, I'll just put a song underneath. It'll be sweet.
- [GROANS] Will it, though?
Because... no offence, but your taste in music is pretty suss. - [EXCLAIMS]
I mean...
Yeah, I don't follow the crowd, but, like...
OK, do you have any recommendations?
- Yeah, I've got it.
Oh, you're gonna have to let me know how it goes, though.
- Whoa, aren't you coming?
It's a big party at the marae. Everything's going.
You know, you stay the night.
- [CHUCKLES] All together? What, like a sleepover?
- Yeah.
Yeah, hopefully you don't snore.
- Yeah. No- No, I mean, maybe.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Right. I found a song for you. And send.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS] - Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- [SIGHS]
[GRUNTS] Hang- Hang on, this isn't right. Its way too-
It's too runny!
Ooh, can you pass the cornflour?
It's in the cupboard.
- Oh, this expired in 1999. - Give it here. It'll be fine.
- Starting to see where your culinary decisions
take a wrong turn.
Oh, Issie! Not this again. - She let Blaze out on purpose.
- We've been through this. Natasha loves horses!
She'd never do anything to hurt Blaze.
There has to be another explanation.
- Yeah, that she hates me.
- Mm, if you see her later today, go easy on her, OK?
She will have just got back from
seeing her mum in Queenstown.
Sam says she's having kind of a tough time with her.
- Oh, put the violins away, Mum. - I'm just saying
you could try and be a little bit understanding.
- Well, maybe I would if she wasn't such a lying,
nasty- - OK, right, that's enough.
Moving on. Oh, actually, I need to search for something.
- What? - Mm, this, um...
Yeah, before the party bit, the ceremony, their... po-her-ree.
- [CHUCKLES] Powhiri. - What's a powhiri?
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
- I'm just getting a park. See you in a few minutes.
- Oh, hey! Hi.
- Oh, hey! Oh, wow. You look amazing.
- Oh, thanks.
Wasn't sure how smart to be, you know. [CHUCKLES]
- Can't we just take them straight to the kitchen?
- Uh, yeah, grab a box. I'll be right there.
- So, how was your... night? - Oh, it was good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come with me. I'll show you something. - Mm.
- You're completely two-faced. Do you know that?
- Oh, hi, Isadora. Nice to see you too [!]
- You let Blaze out. I saw you.
Security footage, loser.
Even you can't lie your way out of that one.
- So what if I did? No one cares about
your stupid feral horse, and no one cares about you either.
- Oh, so you admit it?
You let Blaze out?
- I prefer to call it helping a prisoner to escape.
- And you lied about the beach too.
- So what? - I nearly drowned.
- Can't ride, and you can't swim.
- You've really got it in for me, haven't you?
- I hate to break it to you,
but you've barely crossed my mind at all.
Now get out of my way.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
- Hi. - Hey,
so we're starting in, like, one minute,
and I accidentally wiped the song that you sent me.
- Don't stress. I'll resend.
- OK, sweet. See you soon.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
- Leave it. - Oh, I've got to take it.
- Put it down. We're starting.
- Oh, no, I'm not going- - Kia tire, girls. Kia tire.
- WOMAN: ♪ Haere mai ra nga ma te waka nga hoe whae.
- What's happening?
- ♪ Haere mai ra i runga i te kaupapa te ra nei.
♪ Haere mai.
ECHOING: ♪ Haere mai ra.
[ETHEREAL FLUTE MUSIC]
- CHANTS: Ka ringa-ringa! Ata ranga! Aue ha hoki mai!
- [ALL CHANT, SHOUT]
[ALL CHANT HAKA]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
- This is a time for us to come together,
to make new friends, heal rifts.
I suppose that's what life is about, eh?
About aroha, our love,
you know, and how we share that love,
like when we share a hug,
even when we have to share a hug with someone we don't like.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
- And we are watched
by the spirits of the ancestors of our marae.
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.
- ALL: ♪ Te whakapono.
♪ Me te rangimarie.
♪ Tatou, tatou e.
- Congrats. - WHISPERS: Lovely.
- No, uh... on the nose.
- Yes. - Yeah, no. No.
- Quite right. Yes. - No, um, nose. Oh, kei te pai.
Tena koe.
- Kia ora, darling. I'm Dan's nana.
- Tena koe.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
- CHANTS: Ko Ranginui e tu iho nei.
Ko Papatuanuku e takoto ake nei. Tuturu whakamaua kia tina.
- ALL: Tina! - Haumi-e, hui-e!
- ALL: Taiki e!
- E kai. - [ALL CHATTER]
- Are you OK? - Yeah, I just...
thought this was going to be a normal party.
I didn't expect the ceremony and everything.
- It's cool, eh? It brings everyone together.
Ooh! Cabbage.
We've been helping out in the kitchen for hours,
and this is the happy result. Trust me.
- Cabbage?
- You do know I got stuck on the beach with Issie, eh?
The tide sucks around there. I thought we were toast.
- It was supposed to be a joke.
- She's trying real hard to fit in,
and you're not helping. Just... chill, OK?
- [SNIFFS]
Mm, yum!
- Your first powhiri! Level achieved.
- You know, it's weird, it kind of had me like... I don't know.
- Dan is so good at the haka, right?
- Yeah. - Hey, I meant to ask you.
Did you find any footage of Mystic on the CCTV?
- No, but what I did find was- - BOTH: Hey.
- Um, about before, I'm sorry, OK?
Blaze was an accident.
- But it didn't look like an accident.
- A mistake, then - a big mistake.
I'm glad she wasn't hurt, and the beach thing,
honestly, it was just supposed to be a joke.
I'm really sorry, truly. Truce?
- Sure. Truce. [GLASS CLINKS]
- Turituri koutou. Quiet, everyone.
My grandson Dan would like to say a few words.
- Whoa. - Yep, she let Blaze out.
- Yeah, but she also said sorry twice.
We should have recorded it.
- Kia ora, whanau. - Oh, no.
- Nau mai, haere mai.
- Ko Miriama rauako Jake ingoa matua. - Oh, I've got to stop him.
- Where are you going? - Nga mihi kia koutou. Kia ora.
- ALL: Kia ora.
- It's really good to see all you guys here today.
Looks like we've got most of Kauri Point here.
- [SCATTERED LAUGHTER] - It's a good thing that
we've got Tipene and the crew on security, eh?
- Kia ora, neph.
- Kia ora, Uncle. - [LAUGHTER]
- [PANTS]
- And actually, um, thanks to everyone for helping out.
- ALL: Kia ora. - Also thank you, Mitch,
for the...
the interesting cake. - [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah.
But the biggest thanks of all goes to my mum and dad,
whose wedding anniversary
actually brought us here in first place.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- Mum met Dad at Kauri Point High,
but they didn't get together till after they left,
because Mum thought Dad was an egg.
- [LAUGHTER] - Not even denying.
- There was this fancy-dress party.
Mum was done up like a mermaid, and Dad, a fisherman.
- [LAUGHTER] - But Dad didn't know
how to get Mum to talk to him, so he got his fishing rod,
and he hooked her tail, and the rest is history.
- [EXCLAIMS] - ALL: Aw.
- Which we can see now.
- HUSHED: Dan! - ALL: Aw! - Oh.
- Dan! - Cue the music. [CHUCKLES]
- Dan, move! Just-
- What are you doing? - Give it to me!
- NATASHA ON PA: I prefer to call it
helping a prisoner to escape.
- ISSIE ON PA: And you lied about the beach too?
- Just give me the phone!
- [ALL EXCLAIM] - MAN: Someone caked it!
[LAUGHS]
[CHATTER]
- What the actual...? - Look, I know you're angry,
but the thing is, I- - You tried to humiliate me
in front of everyone. I thought we had a truce!
- The truce came after. I was trying to stop it.
- I don't believe a single word you say.
- [SIGHS]
[SOMBRE MUSIC]
[CICADAS BUZZ]
- Oi!
- Dan, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have sent you that file. I-
- I just listened to the recording, Issie.
You planned the whole thing.
So don't tell me you didn't mean to play it
in front of everyone
and you didn't mean to ruin my speech, because you did.
- I'm so, so sorry.
I just wanted to get back at Natasha.
I didn't think. - We welcomed you here, Issie,
and you treat us like this.
[TROUBLING MUSIC]
- Issie!
[SIGHS]
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYS]
- Kia ora, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm your mayor with the flair.
- Funny as, though. Honestly,
I didn't think I'd enjoy your speech so much.
- [GROANS] Leave him alone.
Look, you did a great job, OK? [SMOOCHES]
- You all right? - Yeah, you know,
I just think I might try Issie again.
- Yeah, cool, please. - Yeah. Mm.
[POP MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
- I wanna try a little something now
I'd like to call a musical extravaganza.
So put your dancing shoes on, and- or your high heels...
[MUSIC MUFFLES]
Or gents. Obviously anyone can wear high heels nowadays,
so, um... And without further ado...
- I've ruined everything with everyone. It's really bad,
and I don't know how to fix it.
- Listen, if you're not having fun, just go home.
- I can't.
We're sleeping here tonight. - What, all of you?
It's sounding like the weirdest party ever.
- It's... It's different.
- Listen, I'll call you later,
yeah, when I've worked up properly.
Love you. - You too.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
- Hey, Hamish.
Stella said you're training hard.
Me too. - You?
- Yeah, you know, I've got my eye on the Olympics.
- [LAUGHS]
Oh. I- I thought you just went to my sister's pony club.
Yeah, well, I'm intermediate,
which is actually quite advanced, and, uh...
Yeah, well, I mean, you'll see at the cross-country.
- The- The what? - When you come see
the trials next week. - Oh, no, I can't.
I'll probably have training. - But Stella's riding.
You know that, right?
And you didn't see your last time at the Family Fun Day.
- Come on. Stella doesn't care about stuff like that.
- Really?
Well, I guess she's only your sister,
and you're such a big important rugby star. [SIGHS] Loser.
[DRY ICE HISSES] - Oh, Kenny!
- Hey, Tom! Hey.
Ooh, is there more hangi?
- Yeah, Miriama left me some out the back.
- Choice. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- I've gotta go. - Oh, parties not your thing?
- Yeah, yeah- Nah, yeah, it's just...
I can't, uh, do...
small talk.
Mm.
So...
Yeah, so, um...
Moving countries, eh?
That's a big thing. - Uh-huh.
- Are you running away from something?
- Oh, gosh. You really don't do small talk, do you?
- Well, you know, it's like...
a big move...
thing. - Yeah,
it is.
Um, I guess we just wanted a new start.
- Oh, right.
Yeah, I get that.
- Really? What, you wanted a new start too?
- Yeah, I mean, maybe. I just...
Things got, uh, difficult for a while, but, you know,
it's all good now. It's great.
- Ah.
- 'Ah' what?
- I had you down as someone quite different.
- Ah, right. Yeah, well, of course, you know.
It's hard to
size up anybody
when all you've done is yell at them.
- Yeah, yeah. That is...
- Yeah. - ...fair. [CHUCKLES]
- Yeah.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Here's a little number for Jake and Miri.
Always gives me goosebumps
seeing the love between these two.
Jake and Miri, this one's for you.
[SCATTERED CHEERS]
[UPBEAT POP SONG PLAYS, CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[ALL GUFFAW, CHUCKLE] - Hey. Hey, babe!
- Really? Has no one in Kauri Point got a dance move? Tom!
Never mind.
Sam! Sam, you've got the moves.
- No, no, no, no, no. - Show us how it's done.
- Dad. No, no, no. Dad, don't. No, no, please. Please.
[SCATTERED CHEERS]
- Come on. - Wait, what?
- Come on. - No, no, no. [MUMBLES]
- Let's put him out of his misery. - Oh, no, I- [EXCLAIMS]
[ALL CHEER]
- That's what I'm talking about.
- Everybody is staring at us.
- Something tells me we'll be celebrating another anniversary
sometime soon, am I right?
[LAUGHS] Time to get frisky.
- This is... Oh, OK, that's- Yeah. Um...
[SCATTERED CHEERS]
[POP SONG PULSES, CHEERING AND LAUGHTER]
[SOUND MUFFLES]
- Do you remember that time your dad went snorkelling
and swam straight into a school of jellyfish?
- [CHUCKLES] Yup, I was thinking the same.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE, SONG FINISHES]
- Such a good sort. [LAUGHS] - Um, listen,
I've got to- um, yeah.
- Yeah, hey, I had a- I had a really good time.
- [CHUCKLES] - Yeah, I mean it.
- Jake. - Oh, hey. Nice moves, boss.
- Huh? - [CHORTLES]
- Hey, um, I don't want to talk shop on your happy day,
but did you fix the wastewater overflow at the plant?
- Yeah. Yeah, it's fine.
- Good.
You know I warned them this could happen.
- It's all sorted, OK? It's good.
Go enjoy yourself. Maybe, uh...
Maybe have another dance. [CHUCKLES]
- Yeah, yeah. Good.
- [LAUGHS]
- No point crying over spilt cake.
- I'm so sorry. - Don't worry about it.
That cake was a train wreck
before you went anywhere near it.
- [CHUCKLES]
Dan said that...
Well...
Dan said that you get...
messages from the eels in the creek.
- [CHUCKLES] Sometimes, yes.
They let me know what's going on.
- Have you seen, like, visions or anything?
- Of course - spirits, dreams, visions.
- What do you mean?
- I don't believe in coincidences, Issie. Do you?
- [SIGHS] I see this horse, this...
amazing horse that...
shows up out of nowhere.
It complicates everything and then... vanishes.
What do you think that means?
- Well, I think spirits are there to guide us,
help us.
If you don't know what they're saying,
you need to pay more attention.
- Well yeah, but- - Don't stay out here too long.
- Why? Will a ghost get me?
[HAND SLAPS] - No, mosquitoes.
- [CHUCKLES]
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
[GASPS]
[HORSE CRIES, WHINNIES, OCEAN ROARS]
[LOCK CLANKS, BELL TOLLS, ECHOES]
- [CRIES] - [TOLLING ECHOES]
- [SIGHS]
[CRICKETS CHIRP]
[ALL SNORE GENTLY]
[GUITAR PLAYS SOFTLY]
Issie! [MAN SINGS WAIATA]
- I was wondering where you got to.
We got your things. Are you OK? - Yeah, I think so.
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SIGHS]
- WOMAN: Turituri. [MUSIC STOPS] - WHISPERS: Sorry, Auntie.
- Well, at least finish the song first, boy. - OK.
[GUITAR STRUMS] - [SINGS WAIATA SOFTLY]
- [GASPS] Watch it! - I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, I know exactly how sorry you are.
- [SIGHS DEEPLY]
Hey, Dan, I just wanted to say that I...
- Come on. We're playing touch.
- Playing what? - We need another girl.
- Come on!
[BREEZY MUSIC]
- [EXCLAIMS]
- You've played before, yeah? - Mm-mm. [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Just... pass backwards and run forwards.
- Pass backwards and run forwards?
- You'll be sweet. - Stell, come join our team.
- Doubt it.
- Let's go! [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Nice, guys. - Go, go, go. [EXCLAIMS]
- [ROARS]
- [BOTH EXCLAIM]
- Hey! Penalty. She didn't have the ball. - [EXCLAIMS]
- Guys, it's touch. No tackling, but good form.
I would say sorry,
but you don't know what that word means, so...
- [BREATHES HEAVILY]
[YELLS] - [SCREAMS]
- [ROARS] - [SQUEALS]
- What is happening right now?
- You've always had it in for me! You nearly killed me!
[BOTH YELL ANGRILY]
- I don't know. - We don't want you here.
Why don't you just leave us all alone?
- Get off of me!
[BOTH ROAR, SQUEAL]
- [FABRIC RIPS] - [SHRIEKS]
[BOTH PANT]
- [EXCLAIMS] - [GASPS]
- [BOTH YELL]
- Caroline's a way better rider than you!
- [GASPS, PANTS]
- That is true. - Yeah, well,
everyone's a better rider than you.
[BOTH ROAR]
- Also true. - [BOTH EXCLAIM]
- So should I break this up or what?
- No. - It's a bit weird,
but I think they're sorting something out.
- Sweet. - [BOTH GRUNT, EXCLAIM]
- [GASPS] - [GRUNTS]
[SHRIEKS]
- [BOTH PANT]
[TOILET FLUSHES]
- [YAWNS] Your gran can snore. She...
What happened?
- Nothing. - [SPITS]
- Well, the others have all gone down to the jetty,
if you wanna join them. - OK.
- Come on. I'll show you.
[POIGNANT GUITAR MUSIC]
- Well, they're alive.
- You two OK? - Never better.
- [GASPS, SHRIEKS]
[YELPS] Natasha! - [BOTH LAUGH]
[ALL GIGGLE]
[CHUCKLES]
I'm sorry about the cake and the song,
the- everything. - Yeah, I know.
- I guess I was just so obsessed with Natasha that...
I wasn't thinking straight. - Did you sort it?
- [SNIFFS] Yeah, I think.
But what about us?
Are we still mates?
- Maybe.
- [INHALES]
[ECHOING BELL TOLLS]
[EERIE MUSIC]
[GASPS, PANTS]
- [ALL CHATTER, LAUGH]
- I've gotta go.
- [SMOOCHES]
- See you soon. - Kia kaha, moko.
- Hi.
I just wanted to say thank you.
- Did you have a good time?
- I had an amazing time.
[THOUGHTFUL MUSIC]
There's something else.
I have these dreams about...
a ship, an old fashioned one.
There are horses and huge waves...
and people are screaming, and someone's ringing a bell,
and the other day,
I found a ship's bell on the other side of a cave.
It's all connected, but...
I just- I don't know how.
- There was a shipwreck here, maybe 200 years ago.
It was carrying horses.
So tragic.
Only one girl survived.
The horses, they made it to land, though.
The herd lived here for years.
My mother told me she saw them when she was young,
but they died out long ago.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
- [BRAYS SOFTLY]
- I think they might still be here.
- [BRAYS]
[INTRIGUING THEME MUSIC]
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