Every time we have a row, you run away?
- ISSIE: I miss Dad.
I have these dreams about a ship.
- [CLANGING, SCREAMING ECHOES]
- There was a shipwreck. Only one girl survived.
- I'm gay. - You haven't told anyone else?
- I'm supposed to be your best friend.
How could you tell her first?
- I still haven't received details of the expansion plans.
- He doesn't know yet? - He doesn't need to know.
- It looks like a borehole, where someone's drilled.
- That's why they left - the noise of the drilling.
We're gonna start a campaign to stop Hexronn.
- CAROLINE: We need a killer website.
- You have no proof Hexronn has done anything illegal.
You have no idea what you've just done.
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[BIRDSONG]
- CAROLINE: How's Coco today? - STELLA: Difficult. Mean.
Typical Coco. - [LAUGHS]
You're like two outlawed cops
who are forced to work together.
- What? - You know, in the films -
where the lazy cop who eats doughnuts all day
has to work with the really uptight cop,
and they hate each other.
- So what am I? The doughnut cop?
- I dunno.
What do you think, Issie? - I think...
our parents are gonna kill us if they see that website.
- Yeah.
- Well, hopefully they won't. - [HORSE SNORTS]
[ENGINE STOPS, DOOR OPENS]
- 'We hate Hexronn'? Really, Issie?
- OK. - Honestly,
what are you thinking?
- Oh, that would've been a better name for our site -
'Water you thinking?' Get it? [GIGGLES]
Sorry.
- I work for these people. Are you trying to ruin my life?
- They're the ruiners.
They're creating an environmental disaster zone.
- You have to take that website down.
- I know. We're doing it.
- Well, do it quicker!
- [HUFFS]
- JULIA: This website must be taken down.
- SAM: Look, it's just kids messing around.
I'll have a word. - This sort of thing
can be incredibly damaging. - [SIGHS]
- There can be financial implications
for all of us. - Look...
- Are your friends aware they're spreading fake news?
- Those things are real. - Natasha, for goodness' sake.
- But the swim hole - it's polluted!
- That's a- a temporary glitch.
- And what about the borehole in the forest?
- We need to find a primary new water source for the expansion,
and...
this is looking very positive.
- I'm sorry, what? - I was going to tell you
when I had something more concrete to discuss, but...
might as well be now. - No-
People around here get pretty heated
when you mess with the forest.
- Well, that's something we need to manage.
Call a meeting with the community.
Let's put this to bed before it snowballs into hysteria.
I know your friends think
they're being good little eco-warriors,
but the lies they're spreading,
they'll cost jobs,
destroy lives.
- I tried to stop them putting it up.
- Ah.
Do you know the passcodes?
- So, we've really got everyone's backs up, eh?
- Yeah, but we just need more proof. That's all.
- Guys! - [HORSE SNORTS]
- [BRAKE SQUEALS]
- I just went to take our site down,
but it's gone. - Whoa.
Do you think Hexronn did it? - We're in trouble.
- Yeah, with a massive multinational billion-dollar company.
Good [!]
- Yeah, but...
don't you see that the fact that they've taken it down
means they've got something to hide?
We're totally on to them. - [EXHALES IN RELIEF] Cool.
- OK, so no turning back now? - No way! We keep going.
- But didn't you tell your mum-? - Whatever.
[SCOFFS] I ain't scared of her. - I am.
I don't get it.
They couldn't have taken it down without the passcodes.
- Well, it's Hexronn.
They've probably got hundreds of nerdy geeks working on it.
Oh, no offence.
- Some taken. - [CHUCKLES]
- [CELL PHONE CHIMES] - But seriously,
it is kinda weird.
- Wow. OK.
- What? - They're calling
a community meeting for tomorrow.
- Who, Hexronn? - Yeah.
- Probably just gonna feed us a bunch of lies.
- Then we need to make sure they don't get away with it.
- [SEAGULLS CRY IN DISTANCE]
- What do you think it means, Hexronn calling this meeting?
- Who knows? But I do not trust them.
- Well, whatever it is, this is our opportunity to get heard.
- Wow. You weren't kidding.
- Morning, kids. Ready for battle?
- Wow. You look- - Like a nosebleed?
Yeah, I told her. - It's the red of protest.
It's a symbol of the blood on their hands.
- CALEB: You two have been busy.
What does your mum think about all this?
- All those years I carted her around on my hip
at Greenham Common - you think it would have rubbed off.
- 'Hex Wrong'. I love that. - Thanks, love.
Help yourselves, kids. - 'I heart Justin Bieber'?
- Oh. Sorry, I was gonna...
paint over that. - [GIGGLES]
- There's a whole stack out there.
- CALEB: Ooh, I want that one. - CAROLINE: Me too!
Oh- Oh! - Oh- Hey. Watch it.
SOFTLY: Look, how long are you gonna be in a mood with me?
I said I was sorry.
- Yeah, well, too little, too late.
- [SCOFFS SOFTLY]
- When you told Issie you were gay,
you never gave me a second thought, did you?
- No, Caroline.
For once, it wasn't about you.
- Well, it was really hurtful.
- Look, I just didn't want it blurted out to everyone.
- I wouldn't blurt it out. - Oh, come on, Caz.
You know you're a motor mouth,
and you don't think before you speak.
- Just get over yourself, Caleb. It's the 2020s.
No one cares if you're- - HISSES: Caroline.
- Hey. You guys ready to go? - Yeah.
Yeah. We're coming. [CHUCKLES HALF-HEARTEDLY]
SOFTLY: That's what I'm talking about.
- So I dressed up as a salmon
and just lay down in the fountain.
- And what happened? - I got arrested.
But they listened.
- INDIGNANTLY: Mum. Issie.
Do you even hear the words coming out of my mouth?
- They took our website down, just like you wanted.
They wanna gag us. They know they're in the wrong.
- Or maybe they took it down because it was libellous.
- What? - You can't post lies about people.
It can ruin reputations.
- They're not lies! - Issie, you keep pushing me,
you keep testing the boundaries -
well, this is the boundary, kiddo.
- Yeah? Well, watch me walk all over it.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
- That went well [!] - SIGHS: Oh, don't-
Mum, [SCOFFS] don't even- [SCOFFS]
She's winding me up on purpose,
just like she did back in London.
- That kid's had a lot to deal with, Amanda - losing her dad.
- Yeah, well,
it was hard for me too, Mum.
- I know, love.
- Sorry. I think I picked up the wrong sign.
- CHUCKLES: Come on, then. [SNIFFS] Let's go.
- [DOOR CREAKS, SHUTS]
- Perhaps let me do the talking in there today.
- But I thought it wasmy job to win the people over. - You're having enough trouble
keeping your own daughter in line right now.
- Now, hold on.
That website wasn't Natasha's doing.
- I-I know that, and, you know,
she seems like a good kid - but perhaps... easily led?
Those friends of hers...
- No, they were all good kids.
Until Issie arrived.
She's from London,
so obviously she's a bit more sophisticated than our lot.
Gave her mum a fair bit of trouble back home.
Now, on the other side of the world,
it doesn't look like much has changed.
- What sort of trouble?
- [CHATTER]
- Well, this is a stupendous turnout.
- Shouldn't we be, like, outside? Chanting?
- What would Greta do?
- Make an amazing speech, obviously.
- Well, do you have an amazing speech?
- KENNY: ...that goatee is doing wonders for your chin.
- You guys are so embarrassing. - KENNY: Last time we were here
was the murder mystery fundraiser, I think.
Again, sorry about that -
lost a bit of perspective that night.
And hopefully today, different scenario -
little bit less dramatic, a lot more, uh, water-based.
And of course, who can deny the healing properties of water?
I mean, my wife, Corinne, she has irritable bladder,
and it's cleared it right up! [CHUCKLES]
- [AUDIENCE MEMBER COUGHS]
- Anyway, um, I'll introduce to you-
Crikey, you're close. Um,
Julia. - [POLITE APPLAUSE]
- Kia ora, everyone. - AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Kia ora.
- My name's Julia Allen,
and I'm thrilled to be here in your beautiful town.
Now, I understand that some of you have concerns,
so let me allay them.
If you refer to Subclause 3.2
in our environmental impact statement-
- In English, please!
- Yeah. Or Te Reo. - [AUDIENCE MUTTERS APPROVAL]
- OK. In, uh, simple layman's terms-
- Or laywoman. [CHUCKLES] - [SCATTERED LAUGHTER]
- [CHUCKLES UNCOMFORTABLY] OK. Um,
let's just cut to the chase.
You guys are important to Hexronn...
and I want you to feel like
you are all part of the Hexronn team too.
- [GAGS] - Oh, yeah?
So what about those pictures, then?
- DAN: Yeah, on that website! - [APPROVING EXCLAMATIONS] - Yeah! Tautoko.
- I am so glad you brought that up.
- Oh, bet you are!
- I know that many of you have been alarmed
by the small borehole in the forest.
We were testing for potential water sources.
- Yeah, in our native forest? You're kidding.
- Yeah, that's right! - But as it turns out,
the results were not promising. - Dad.
- CHUCKLES: So you have nothing to worry about.
Sam, perhaps you'd like to say something.
- Um- - Yeah.
- Come on, Sam! Explain this one. - [APPLAUSE]
- Uh, well, as Julia said, it was simply an avenue
that we were exploring, really,
but the forest is no longer under consideration.
- Right. So if that's true,
why are you trying to buy out my land?
Right next to the forest. My stables-
- And my cottage!
- Yeah, a bit sus, isn't it? - Yeah.
- [MUTTERING] - Yeah.
- Sure, sure, I can- I can see what you're thinking.
But it is standard industry practice
to buy properties that are in the radius of our plant, folks.
Honestly, Hexronn is absolutely on your side.
In fact, I'm thrilled to announce that
we will be sponsoring your local rugby team.
- [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE, BOOING]
- LOUDLY: Which I understand
is on a winning streak. - [LAUGHTER]
- You have the blood of thousands on your hands!
- Uh, excuse me? - Entire colonies of bees,
devastated by your pollution! - Come on, Mitch.
Hexronn isn't that bad. - Yeah.
They've given us jobs. - Yeah.
- This town was being bypassed and left for dead.
- Now, that's a bit harsh.
We've got a wonderfully vibrant choir.
- And they've invested in the roads!
- Hear, hear! Yeah.
Let's hear it for Hexronn! - [CHEERING, SCATTERED BOOING]
- No! No. Don't you get it? They're not on our side.
They took down our website.
They don't want you to see the polluted swim hole.
And why are they hiding what they're doing in the forest?
They've driven the wild horses out of their home.
- What wild horses?
- The Kauri Point herd. - [GASPING, MUTTERING]
- SCOFFS: What? No. They're extinct.
- No. They're alive.
They've been hiding in the forest for hundreds of years,
and she is destroying their environment.
- [SUBDUED MUTTERING]
- It's, uh, Issie, yes?
Issie, from London?
Hi.
I am sorry, sweetie,
that we haven't considered your wild horses,
but we only have the Loch Ness Monster and the Sasquatch... - [CHUCKLING]
- ...on our protected biodiversity profile.
- No. They're real.
I know they are. - Issie, please.
- Oh, I can see that they are real to you Issie, and I get it,
but you see, you have woven a tapestry in your mind.
I mean, kids do that under stress.
- She's only stressed because of
what you and your cronies are- - Children will go off the rails
when a parent dies.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [WHISPERING]
- So sorry about your dad, Issie.
- How does she-?
- It was difficult, wasn't it?
You fell in with a... bad group,
went off the rails,
and now your poor mum's had to bring you all the way down here.
- Stop talking. - But you're doing it again, eh?
Girls like you will always find a way to make trouble.
- You are way out of line. - I know it's hard to hear,
but I will not have the delusions of one disturbed child
affecting the whole community,
and I'm sure that all of you as parents would feel the same.
- I said stop talking.
- Or I'll come up there and stop you myself!
- I'm just providing context. That's all.
- [MUTTERING]
- Y-You're a nasty piece of work.
- Issie! You OK?
- Issie!
Don't do this! Please, wait.
Wait! - What did you say to her?
- Nothing, I promise. I...
Sam and I were talking. - Sam?
- About Natasha. About the divorce,
about her mum moving away.
She was struggling with her mum's new family,
so I-I mentioned your bad patch. - [SCOFFS]
- But that you had come out of the other side of it.
- What, cos you got me away from it
by dragging me out here?
See? You couldn't even be honest with me
about why we came here!
It was because of me.
- I was out of my depth, Issie.
The climbing out of the window at night, staying with...
heaven knows who, or where - anywhere but home with me.
- Because you didn't want me there!
- What? - You didn't want me there
because it's my fault he died.
I know it, and you know it.
Dad is dead because of me.
- OK. Uh, that just crossed the border into crazy town.
- CHUCKLES: Oh!
And I'm crazy too. Good to know.
- No. But what you're saying is a little-
Issie, please don't do this!
- What was that all about, in the meeting?
- Yeah, I guess you must have been blindsided.
- Duh, yes. She's a liar, Dad. - I know.
When Amanda told me about that stuff in London,
I should have seen it then.
It's just that kids like her are a bad influence.
- [SCOFFS] No, not Issie.
Julia. She told us the borehole was gonna be
the new water source and then lied to us at the meeting,
and so did you. - No,
I think you're getting confused
with what we meant- - Dad.
Hexronn is gonna destroy Kauri Point,
and you're one of the bad guys.
- [STRIKES TABLE] That's what I'm talking about -
you and these kids winding each other up.
Well, it ends now.
I'm moving Aramis. - What?
- If you want to keep riding, that's what's gonna happen.
- [SCOFFS]
This is so messed up, Dad.
- Like I said, that's up to you,
but you're out of Kauri Point Stables.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY]
[BROODING MUSIC]
- [BREATHES HEAVILY]
[PANTS]
- MITCH: What was she talking about? [CHUCKLES] Wild horses?
- I should have gone after her. - You keep pushing her, Amanda,
you'll end up pushing her away.
- Oh, that's profound [!]
- See, that's exactly the kind of unhelpful energy
I'm talking about.
- What are you gonna do, Mum? Wave sage over me?
- She's hurt.
She feels betrayed.
- [SIGHS]
- Give those to me. You're in no state to drive.
- But we don't know where she's gone.
- Yes, we do.
- [SIGHS] People really suck, don't they?
[SNIFFLES] But you get me. - [BLAZE NICKERS SOFTLY]
- I think you're the only one who does.
[SIGHS, SNIFFLES]
[BROODING MUSIC SWELLS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [SEAGULLS CRY]
[BROODING MUSIC]
- STELLA: I texted her, but nothing.
- CAROLINE: Same.
Natasha. What have you done?
- I-It wasn't me.
- Sheesh. - [SCOFFS] How- How could you?
- [SURF CRASHES, SEAGULLS CRY]
- Once, we were on holiday in Tenerife.
There was sand.
Black, like this.
[CHUCKLES]
Dad bought a magnet,
[VOICE BREAKS] and he showed me
how the iron makes it stick to it.
All spiky, like a sea urchin. - [BLAZE HUFFS SOFTLY]
- For the tenth time, why would I do it?
- For the tenth time, because you're Team Hexronn!
- Did you give them the passcodes to our website?
- STAMMERS: Well- I, um... - Natasha.
- You've always been on your dad's side.
- Well, not any more. He toldme he's moving me to another stables.
- What? - Why?
- Apparently, you're all a bad influence.
- We are not. - No way. - That's pretty cool.
But also, yeah, how dare he? - [SIGHS]
Anyways, I don't think it's that at all.
It's because we're getting too close to the truth.
- Come on, Tasha. Spill the tea.
- [HANDBRAKE GRINDS] - AMANDA: I'll talk to her.
- You're not the one who needs to talk. - [ENGINE STOPS]
- You, my girl,
you need to listen. - [SIGHS]
[SOMBRE MUSIC]
- [SEAGULLS CRY IN DISTANCE]
- How did you find me? - [SIGHS]
I have Bear Grylls-level tracking skills.
And I went to the stables.
Tom said you'd probably be here.
He figured you'd want to be alone.
- Yep.
You're kind of ruining that. - SIGHS: Oh, Issie, I'm sorry.
When- When I told Sam about why I moved us here,
I never thought he'd tell anyone,
let alone Julia.
[SIGHS] I guess I have extremely bad taste in men.
- Except for Dad.
- Except for your dad.
What did you mean when you said... it was your fault?
- [BLAZE HUFFS]
- You know how I got obsessed with
that bubble game on my phone?
- Yeah. You were a total screen junkie.
- I had only got as high as bubble four,
and then one night I was almost at bubble five.
- Quite the achievement.
- I was so close.
And then I heard Dad upstairs.
[SNIFFLES] He called out to me.
I mean,
I thought he just wanted me to do my homework,
so I kept playing. [GASPS]
I got to bubble eight,
and I was so happy.
Can you believe it? [SCOFFS]
Because of a stupid game.
And I saw how late it was,
and you still weren't home from work,
and so I went upstairs,
and that was when I- [SOBS] - Oh, Issie. Love.
- If I had just gone upstairs when he called...
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- It's not your fault.
In the end, the doctors said there was
nothing anyone could have done.
- [SNIFFLES] - Oh...
If I hadn't had you there,
my sweet, clever,
brave girl,
[SNIFFLES] with his eyes
and his smile...
You kept me going,
and you still do.
Your dad loved you
more than anything.
It would kill him to think you would blame yourself.
- [SCOFFS]
Bad choice of words, Mum. - [BOTH CHUCKLE TEARFULLY]
- Yeah, I dunno. I mean, he did, uh...
he did love a terrible dad joke.
- Yeah, he invented dad jokes, right?
- [BOTH LAUGH] - Yeah.
- [BOTH SNIFFLE]
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
- [CAR DOOR SHUTS]
- You two look completely wrecked.
- Thanks, Mum,
Commander of the USS Obvious [CHUCKLES] once again.
- Sorry, Gran. I didn't mean to worry you.
- Don't be silly, love. Worrying's what we're here for.
Isn't it, Amanda? - Yeah.
Except I've had enough of that for one day.
I need a cup of tea and a lie-down.
- Oh, I-I just need to take
Blaze back to the stables first.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Don't worry, Mum. I'm not gonna run away.
I promise.
- Issie.
- [GASPS] The ring! Where did you find it?
- I was going to ask you the same thing.
- Well, it was in the jewellery box in my room,
but I lost it.
- Try to hang on to it this time.
It may not be the Crown Jewels,
but it has been in our family for over 200 years.
It belonged to Dora.
- Dora?
- Your great-great-great- great-great-grandmother.
- Whoa. That's way too old and special.
I will definitely lose it.
- No, you won't.
- [BIRDS TWITTER, BLAZE SNORTS]
- You OK? - Yeah.
- Your mum found you, then? - Mm-hm.
- That's good.
- I know I shouldn't have taken Blaze
without checking with you.
- Nah. Just don't make a habit of it, eh?
- [BLAZE SNORTS]
- What you said at the meeting...
[UNEASY MUSIC]
- [BLAZE SNORTS]
- Another time, eh?
The kids are back there, in the tack room.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
- [SIGHS HEAVILY]
I'm so sorry.
- See? I told you I didn't do it.
- Yeah, I kind of had a meltdown and...
took it out on- - SIGHS: A map.
- So you got kicked out of London for this kind of thing?
Ripping up maps and stuff?
- Not exactly, but,...
yeah, I kind of had an off-the-rails phase.
- Mm. So did Caleb.
- Really? - Yeah.
When we were 8, Mum made this big cake for our birthday,
and he snuck in the night before and ate the whole thing,
and he, like, spewed everywhere -
like, all over the kitchen, and...
Doesn't matter.
- Yeah, so not exactly 'off the rails'.
- Anyway, welcome back, London.
We missed you.
And your drama has already been upstaged.
- By Julia, who is evil. - And Natasha's dad,
who thinks we're all a bad influence,
and she has to move Aramis to a new yard.
- What? - Oh, don't get too excited [!]
I'm not leaving. - Yeah,
we're gonna stop him obviously. - Because we're whanau, right?
That means 'family'.
- Yeah, I kind of picked up on that. [CHUCKLES]
- Then you know that family, we stick together.
No matter what.
[GENTLE, UPLIFTING MUSIC]
- [CRICKETS CHIRP]
[MUSIC BECOMES UNEASY]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [HORSE WHINNIES, SNORTS]
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
- [HORSE HUFFS SOFTLY]
- [HORSE HUFFS, SNORTS]
- [SOFT GROAN ECHOES]
- You saved her.
You saved Dora.
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