[Agnes Obel's "Riverside"]
♪ ♪
♪ Down by the river by the boat ♪
♪ Where everybody goes to be alone ♪
♪ Where you won't see any rising sun ♪
♪ Down to the river we will run ♪
♪ Oh, my God, I see
♪ Down by the riverside ♪
- You have to understand that women had no power.
Finch fired Alice for daring to reject him.
- What am I going to do?
- There's a shack.
It's on our island.
You could stay there.
- Careful.
It's perfect.
I could practice my singing, and no one would hear me.
♪ But instead this stays ♪
♪ The lowest star
[laughs]
- Since the war, our dad's afraid of Russians.
- She doesn't have to speak to him.
I can be the go-between.
- Well, he's not gonna rent it to a single woman anyway.
- Come.
It was my mother's wedding ring.
And now, I have husband.
- It started with a lie to her dad, and it--
it went from there.
- Her husband, Jack, is away working on the mainland,
so we won't see much of him.
They've paid a month's rent, Dad.
[pensive music]
- What are you doing in there?
Look at you.
- I thought a few Jack sightings
might help from a distance.
- [clears throat]
[sighs]
[record player clicking]
[non-English singing]
[camera shutter clicks]
- Jack is handsome, but he needs a beer.
- I was completely infatuated.
I'd never come across anyone as exciting as Alice.
I never have again.
- Yeah, well, I guess it was more complicated back then.
- There's a lot in life that's complicated and painful.
But when I look back on that--
[gentle music]
- a couple of hours, a couple of days
with the person you love, that goes beyond the reach
of any opinion.
What about you?
Your friend?
Are you scared?
- No, I--
I just panicked, messed it up.
I just--I think maybe I don't know how to be happy.
- That sounds like bullshit to me.
- [chuckles]
- You're a big girl.
Go and figure it out.
- [sighs deeply]
Hey.
- Hey.
They're gonna release Ollie in the morning.
He's doing much better.
- Oh, good.
That's--that's great.
- Yeah, but it's weird.
We can't--we--
I can't find Grace anywhere.
Callum arrived, and I took him in to see Ollie,
but she was gone.
You haven't seen her, have you?
- No.
Well, I--I mean, I'm sure she'll show up somewhere.
- Mm.
- Soph, I--I have to call you back.
I'll, um--talk to you later.
[call ending]
- Welcome to Scribbly Gum Estates.
Have you ever dreamed of investing
in a luxury private estate, a slice of paradise?
Only 40 minutes from the city of Sydney,
you will find spectacular homes in all configurations,
world-class restaurants, and aquatics.
- Can't watch it again.
[video stops]
[exhales]
- He's greedy.
Always has been.
He spends thousands on himself.
And I get in trouble if I don't buy discount.
- Yes, he is a monster.
But right now, we're just--
we have to focus on stopping him.
- Stop him?
I'm gonna kill him!
I am gonna cut him up and put him in the crab
pots up and down the river.
- Here, drink.
- [gulping] Mm.
Mm.
I never thought I'd find myself wishing it
was an affair he was having.
This is a much bigger betrayal.
- Okay, but you can't tell him that we know.
- Cannae.
- Margie, push it down to your toes.
Can you do that?
Just until we figure out what to do.
Push it down to your toes.
[SYML's "The Walker"]
[crickets chirping]
♪ When your heart rips out your chest ♪
♪ When your voice ♪
- Hi.
♪ Is trembling
[chuckling]
- Come.
♪ Lift your head to the blood red moon ♪
♪ Hold your pain as you breathe ♪
♪ Walk on with your burden
♪ I belong with you ♪
♪ Walk on with your burden
♪ I belong with you ♪
♪ Walk on with your burden
♪ I belong with you ♪
♪ When your heart stills in your chest ♪
♪ When your tongue is poetry
- Morning.
♪ Speak in the night ♪
- Should we try Grace again?
♪ Hold that moment close to you ♪
[birds chirping]
[water running]
- He's asleep.
- I'm sorry.
- I've gotta get him up to the house.
[birds chirping]
- Grace?
Hey.
[sighs] The doctor said you didn't do anything wrong.
There's RSV everywhere, apparently.
- No, there would be antibodies if I was breastfeeding.
- Well, they didn't say anything about that.
I do think they were wondering why you left, though.
- I wasn't feeling well.
Yeah, I thought I'd make him worse.
If it was a different bug or something.
[phone chimes]
- [chuckles]
[sighs]
- Who's that from?
- My teacher, about an assignment.
- Why did Enigma call it "photography class"?
- I have no idea.
- Is there something you'd like to share with me, Margie?
- I'm not just some 1950s housewife with no life.
- I never treated you like a '50s housewife.
- What?
- I don't expect you to make my sandwiches.
- You haven't made a sandwich in 33 years.
- Well, don't rewrite history.
You like making them.
- I do not like making your sandwiches.
I do not like your dirty Q-tips out on the sink.
Your breath?
What do you think all that fish oil that you take smells like?
- So I should stop breathing?
I'll stop breathing then.
Good, eh?
- I don't like tiptoeing and pandering
and existing less and less.
- They do say that menopause brings out the bitchiness.
- It's time for the truth!
- Oh, don't you start, not after you
sneaking into Sophie's bed.
- What? Who told you that?
- Veronica.
- Well, haven't you been having a thing
with the photography teacher?
- Where did you get that idea?
- Veronica.
So it's true?
- And you knew?
How could you keep this secret from your own father?
- I kept it secret from Mum that you made
me buy strong weed for you,
which ended up being for Rose and almost
got her kicked off the island.
- I demand to know the truth!
- The truth is that Deborrah kicked me out
because I called her the wrong name during sex!
- What name?
- It doesn't matter what name.
- Sophie!
We're on our way to Margie's.
Come.
Did Ron proposition you about buying Connie's house?
- Yeah.
- You cannot sell it to him.
You've got to promise on your life.
Hostile takeover.
- Hey, guys.
How do you think Grace is doing?
She seems really disconnected.
- I mean, she's just had a newborn.
You have to disconnect.
It's the only way to survive because it's hell.
Think every minute watching the clock until they're asleep,
and then you try to sleep.
And you sleep while the baby sleeps.
Sleep while the baby sleeps.
But you're still watching the clock
make every minute a minute closer to them waking up.
And then guess what?
You're in hell again.
Grace will be fine.
She just has to figure out how to get on with things.
- Hmm.
[Ron shouting in distance]
- Everything I do--
- That's Ron!
- Everything I do is--
- What is he doing?
- He's heading for the shack.
Come on!
- [shouts]
- Shortcut!
- I'll show all of you bloody women!
[shouting]
[rumbling]
- Ron!
Ron, what are you doing?
Ron!
Are you out of your mind?
What is wrong with you?
- It's my house.
- It is not your house!
- What's he doing?
Margie.
- Oh, he's unhinged!
- It's running at a loss.
It's mine, my money.
- It is not your money!
It's our money.
- There is no "our."
You're fucking the photographer!
- That has nothing to do with it.
- So you are fucking him?
- [panting]
[whacking] - [screams]
- Get back!
- You're fucking us!
We know you're trying to sell the island out from under us!
[screaming]
[whacking, crumbling]
- [heavy breathing]
[baby crying]
[bird calling]
- Think I'll need stitches?
- [sighs]
What's the grand plan?
- Can we talk about this later?
- You buy Connie's house from Sophie.
Shuffle Rose off to a retirement village.
- I might have a concussion, Margie.
- Bankrupt the business.
- The business was doing that all by itself.
- What about Enigma's house?
You can't sell the island without selling all of it.
- Enigma would sell to a developer
if the offer was right.
She's an idiot, but not stupid.
- [sniffles]
And our house?
Are you gonna give me any say?
- I was doing it for us.
- [grunts]
- I was so we could get away,
start a new life
in Southeast Asia, Indonesia.
We buy land, a big house with staff.
Grow avocados.
And no family,
with no one taking, taking.
Just us, like it used to be.
- [sighs]
Well done.
[sniffles]
[crying softly]
[The Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko"]
♪ My grandma and your grandma
♪ Were sittin' by the fire
♪ My grandma told your grandma ♪
♪ I'm gonna set your flag on fire ♪
♪ Talking about hey now ♪ Hey now ♪
♪ Hey now
♪ Iko, Iko an de
♪ Jackomo fe no an e ♪
♪ Jackomo fe nan e ♪
♪ Look at my king all dressed in red ♪
♪ Iko, Iko, an de ♪
♪ I bet you $5 he'll kill you dead ♪
♪ Jackomo fe nan e ♪
♪ Talking about hey now ♪ Hey now ♪
♪ Iko, Iko an de
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Jackomo fe no an e ♪
- Oh!
That's different.
- Did you speak to Grace?
- Sorted.
You ready?
♪ My flag boy and your flag boy ♪
♪ Sittin' by the fire ♪
♪ My flag boy told ♪
[horn honking]
- Auntie Sophie!
- Hi!
- Ellie, oh ho!
[laughs]
- Don't run!
No running! - Oh--
- Hey.
- my God.
Oh, I'm so glad you guys are here.
- So where is he? Your dream man?
- Hmm. - Oh, God.
Can of fucking worms, I tell you.
- Sophie?
- Grace.
Hey.
These are my lovely friends.
Guys, this is Grace. - Hey.
- Hi.
- Uh, can I talk to you?
Careful.
Not so fast, please.
[baby squealing]
[giggling]
- You told my mum I was struggling.
- Shit.
Um--I'm sorry.
I--I--I've just had friends who've
had post-natal depression.
- [laughs] I don't have that.
If--if I'm odd, it's--
it's guilt.
[sighs] Fuck.
Um, please don't hate me.
I know that you and Zeke were just--were just casual.
But he and I do this.
We circle each other.
It started when we were teenagers.
And maybe it feels different this time,
like it could be real.
I don't know.
I just--I don't wanna keep lying.
What are you thinking?
- [sighs]
Callum is gonna be destroyed.
- I don't think he will be.
The truth is, he's a perfect human.
And I'm not.
[crying]
And he deserves better.
And I think with the right person,
you move on pretty quick.
[upbeat music]
- Welcome, ladies, gentlemen, and kids
to the Baby Monroe Mystery Anniversary.
It's said to be the biggest one yet.
- What time you wanna eat?
- Ugh.
- Baby Monroe, Enigma herself, will be doing
signings in the big tent.
- Dope.
I think you're good.
- Grace.
You'll have to take the pram.
I'm about to go on stage.
- Okay, I'll put him in a harness.
See?
I bought him a little hat.
- He doesn't like it.
[laughs]
- Sorry.
- There's nothing to be sorry about.
Oh, by the way, I, um--
I found these sleeping pills in the bathroom drawer.
Okay, these things make you feel like you're
depressed when you're not, like you're hungover all the time.
You don't need them.
Why don't you bring him over so he can watch me?
[tense music building]
Hello, Scribbly Gum Island!
[cheering, applause]
[laughs] Every year, we come together and celebrate the day
I was discovered as an infant by two
incredible women, one of whom is sadly no longer with us.
So on this very special anniversary,
I would like to dedicate this song to the wonderful Connie
Doughty. - Woo!
[applause]
- ♪ For all those times you stood by me ♪
♪ For all the truth that you made me see ♪
♪ For all the joy you brought to my life ♪
♪ For all the wrong
- Dad.
I don't think you've met my girlfriend.
- Audrey.
Hi.
- Who's that with Mum?
Is that him?
- My girlfriend, Dad.
- Oh, I think it's poor form flaunting
him right in front of my face.
- My lesbian lover?
[scoffs]
- You know, you don't have to come out all at once.
- ♪ You were my voice when I couldn't speak ♪
♪ You were my eyes when I couldn't see ♪
♪ You saw the best that was in me ♪
♪ Lifted me up when I couldn't reach ♪
♪ You gave me faith 'cause you believed ♪
- Hey, Sophie.
[chuckles] Nice to see you again.
- Ian. Hi.
- Um, oh, this is Caitlin, my daughter.
- Ah, hi, Caitlin.
You're a panda.
- I'm actually meant to be meeting Margie.
Have you seen her around?
- Uh, yes.
I know she was up at the museum with her photo exhibition.
- Oh, good. - Good to see you.
- Thanks.
How are you?
- [sighs]
[applause]
- [chuckling] Oh.
[cheers]
- If you want to take home a piece of the mystery,
why not grab a marble cake in the museum gift shop?
A delicious piece of history--
- Hey.
What do you think about Grandma crushing it on stage, huh?
I wonder if he's old enough for those little earmuff things.
- Did you speak to Sophie?
- About what?
- She, um--she saw me and Zeke.
[somber music]
I thought she might have run and told you.
- When?
- When Lee was in the hospital.
That's where I was.
- You turned your phone off.
Where?
- His boat.
- Back on, Callum.
- Yeah.
Why?
- I don't know.
[cheering]
- And now put your hands together
for Callum, the tidy man.
He's actually married into the island.
And he can sing, so we're very happy to keep him.
[cheering, applause]
- ♪ And I'm feeling, yeah
- ♪ I wanna love you ♪
♪ I wanna love and treat you right ♪
♪ I wanna love you ♪
♪ Every day and every night ♪
♪ We'll be together
♪ With a roof over our heads ♪
♪ We'll share the shelter
♪ On my single bed ♪
♪ Is this love ♪
♪ Love that I'm feeling? ♪
- ♪ That I'm feeling, yeah ♪
- ♪ Is this love ♪
♪ Is this love ♪
♪ Love that I'm feeling ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I wanna know, wanna know ♪
♪ Wanna know now ♪
♪ I wanna know, wanna know ♪
♪ Wanna know now ♪
♪ I, I, I, I, I, I, I ♪
♪ I wanna know ♪
[water gently lapping]
[muffled audio]
- Please bring your cameras and your smile.
[background chatter]
[suspenseful music]
[sizzling]
[cheering, applause]
- Two, please.
- [crying]
[steady creaking]
- the island business.
Um, he can't claim anything that
contributes to that business.
So the houses and the land--
- Right.
Kaelyn, please.
Could you--what is this?
- Oh.
- What's a lawyer doing here?
- Take it easy.
- And him.
- Just in time, darling.
We're almost done.
We're starting a new life like you wanted--
only different.
[birds calling]
- Hey.
- You all right?
I should have emailed you.
You should join me.
You think we'd be married with babies by now?
[light music]
- This is wrong.
She thinks you're perfect, Callum.
She feels like a failure.
She's so lost.
- If she felt that way, she could have told me
and not fucked someone else.
- Did you ask her?
Did you ever really ask her?
Maybe you didn't wanna know.
- [crying] I'm sorry.
[baby crying]
I'm so sorry.
[baby wailing]
[grace crying]
It's okay.
[kisses] I'm sorry.
[sobbing]
- We need Margie to run the numbers,
but I'm calling it our biggest one yet.
Lots of fresh interest in the mystery.
- Grace was gonna come back.
- Oh, she went to put the baby down.
She can't leave him alone.
- Why don't we go and give her a hand?
- Okay.
[tapping]
- Yeah, we--yes, we're going home.
- How are you doing? You okay?
- Hey. - Hey!
- Testing. - How are you?
- Hello.
Hello. - You all good?
- Yeah, I am.
- Um, Scribbly Gum Island, just testing.
May I have your attention?
I really tried to make things work for Thomas
and I for the sake of Lilly.
- What?
- But his obsession with Sophie Honeywell
has made that impossible.
I found a folder on his phone full of pics
from her social media.
And he just confessed to me that he
spent a night in her bed.
[laughs]
- That was against my--that was--that was against my will.
- I mean, he says they were just spooning,
but Sophie, Sophie, you think if you can make
yourself indispensable, you will
become a part of this family.
But all you are doing is wrecking everything.
You should also know that he was the one who wrote
the PS on Connie's letter.
Check the handwriting.
Your mystery man is my husband.
[crowd murmuring]
[microphone feedback]
- I need to get off this island.
- Grace!
Grace!
- Grace?
- Check the nursery.
- Grace?
- Ollie's asleep.
No Grace.
- Grace?
- She's left a note!
- Grace?
[sighing]
Where would she go?
- Oh, God.
- Where would she go?
If she was gonna do something really stupid,
where would she go?
- [crying]
Mystery Beach.
- Mystery Beach?
- Stay with the baby!
[dramatic music]
[panting]
Grace!
Wake up! Wake up!
I'm here, baby.
I'm here now.
[panting]
Breathe, baby.
Come on.
Come on, darling.
Breathe.
All right.
[panting]
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Come on, Grace.
Breathe for me, darling.
[panting] Come on, baby.
Come on, Grace. Come on, darling.
Come on.
Breathe for me.
Please, darling.
Breathe for Mama.
Come on, fucking breathe!
- [gasping]
- Yes! Yes!
- [coughing]
- Up we go.
Come on.
Good girl, Grace.
That's the way. Good girl.
Yes.
- [coughing]
[wheezing]
- [sobbing] Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Good girl.
Oh, God.
[sobbing]
[waves crashing]
- Thank you.
It wasn't intentional.
- You didn't have an EpiPen.
- We're lucky you had one.
- I always have one.
You won't remember this, but when you were about 11,
you threatened me with a peanut brittle.
- I was 12.
It was a summer roll.
- It was a peanut brittle.
Yeah.
I had a pen in my bag that day.
- [crying]
- I always have a pen.
- [crying]
How did you know tonight?
- I didn't.
It was Rose.
- [kisses]
[soft music]
You know I felt like I was drowning
when I had your mother?
- When you had my mother?
- Go on.
- He, um--that man--
he attacked me for stealing a dress.
Alice had an audition, and I stole it for her.
But really, he attacked me for stealing Alice.
Connie found out soon enough, of course.
She kept me away from my dad, made me dress in loose clothes.
And then your mother was coming.
Something was wrong.
[thunder rumbling]
- [panting, moaning]
- Everything was wrong.
- There's too much blood!
- Get a doctor on the mainland!
Go, now.
- But the storm!
- Take the boat, Alice.
Go!
- She never came back.
[thunder rumbling]
- [panting]
- [screaming]
[baby crying]
- [sobbing]
[screaming]
- Guys, I found something that Alice forgot.
- I couldn't pull myself out of it, out of the grief.
- Washed up.
- It's Alice and Jack's.
- [sobbing]
- I couldn't be what I needed to be for you.
I was incapable.
[thunder rumbling]
[rain pattering]
Should never have came back.
[monitors beeping]
[background chatter]
- [sighs] Well, that was then, and this is now.
[sniffles] We have doctors, we have medicine,
we have talk therapy, okay?
- [crying]
- Your mother's right.
We have all those things--
and family.
We're gonna be here for you this time.
[soft music]
[Emiliana Torrini's "Sunny Road"]
- How is she?
- She's gonna be fine?
- [sighs]
- We'll all make sure she's fine.
- Yeah.
Should I take you home or--
- Yeah, or I can.
- Sure, yeah.
Yeah, you stay with Enigma.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
- With my daughter.
♪ Wrote you this
♪ I hope you've got it saved
♪ It's been so long ♪
♪ I don't know what to say ♪
♪ I traveled around through deserts on my horse ♪
♪ But jokes aside
- I'm sorry.
♪ I wanna come back home ♪
♪ You know, at night, I said I had to go ♪
♪ You said you'd meet me on the sunny road ♪
♪ It's time
♪ Meet me on the sunny
- You good to do it?
- Yeah.
- Your share from the party.
- Thanks, Mom.
Deb and I are gonna use it to get away, family holiday.
- Oh, what a great idea.
Oh, you don't mind giving Dad a ride to the mainland, do you?
- No.
- Lilly.
- Thank you.
♪ Well ♪
- [sighs]
♪ This is it ♪
♪ I'm running out of space ♪
- Thank you.
♪ Here's my address
- What's that?
- Seed money.
- For?
- A podcast.
You, the detective.
Me, the pushy pain in the ass.
♪ Now come and meet me
♪ On the sunny road ♪
- Mm.
[kissing]
- Mum took it better than I did.
It was a shock to realize she was
abandoned by someone who was right
there all long, but not there.
- Actually, everything makes more sense to me now.
[baby babbling]
You wanna say hi?
- Hey, Ollie.
- [babbling]
- It's okay.
It's okay.
[soft music]
It's just Mummy.
- [sighs]
[knocking]
- Hello?
- Hey.
- Hi.
For you.
- Oh.
- And Enigma.
Grace says she can come home any time she's ready.
- Oh.
I--I think she's gonna stay here for a while.
- Mm.
[chuckling]
[door opening]
- [sighs]
It was you who used to come and visit
me in Alice's white dress.
- Mummy was here.
- You were mine.
- I know what you've done, and I can end all this.
- [screaming]
- This is honestly the best thing you've ever written.
Such a fascinating story.
[phone dings]
[background chatter]
[phone dings]
I love it.
[laughs] Did the spooning really happen?
[chuckling]
Oh, I don't care that it's 5,000 words.
We'll run it as a three-part feature.
Airdrop it to me right now.
- I'm not gonna send it.
- What are you talking about?
- It isn't for publication.
- No, no.
These people are my family now.
- Sophie, the Baby Monroe mystery finally solved.
You have to publish.
Sophie.
♪ Home again ♪
♪ One day I know I'll feel home again ♪
♪ Born again, born again ♪
- Thanks.
♪ One day I know I'll feel strong again ♪
♪ Lift my head
♪ Many times, I've been told
♪ All this talk will make you old ♪
♪ So I close my eyes ♪
♪ Look behind ♪
♪ Moving on ♪
♪ Moving on
♪ So I'll use my eyes ♪
♪ Look behind ♪
♪ Moving on ♪
♪ Moving on
♪ So I'll close my eyes ♪
♪ Look behind
♪ Moving on ♪
[birds calling]
[gentle music]
- "PS, there is one young man who I believe
will capture your heart when you come to the island.
I won't say anything more, but I feel
as though it may be fated."
[birds chirping]
- You all good?
- Hey.
- I said that.
- Ah.
Sorry.
Um, I have so much trash today.
Um, big family.
I don't have a big family.
Just that these guys are like my family.
We eat a lot.
[chuckles]
- I--I'm the new guy.
Frank.
- Sophie.
- Nice to meet you, Sophie.
I just run a new tender, and I want to make sure things
are great for my customers.
So if you ever need more time or need an extra hand,
I've got you.
- Got you.
Yeah, we got each other.
[chuckles]
[mysterious music]
- Sorry, this is probably gonna sound silly,
but what did you just do when you checked your watch?
What was that?
- That's nothing.
That's stupid.
[bright music building]
♪ ♪
- [clears throat] Hey, hey.
[grunting] okay.
Hello, this is Veronica Gordon, and I
am here with my researcher-- my research assistant--
- Okay.
- Sophie Honeywell.
You can say hi, Sophie.
- Oh, hi.
[laughs] Um, it's good to be here.
- So if you like an unsolved suspected double homicide,
if you like a remote island mystery,
if you like--
Sophie, what could they like?
- Uh, family secrets--
- Yes, yes.
Big, juicy family secrets.
- and intergenerational trauma.
- I mean, who doesn't like trauma?
So if you like trauma and if you like abandoned babies--
- Well, it's just one abandoned baby.
- then we have the podcast for you.
Welcome to the first episode of "What Kind of Mother?"
[bright music]
♪ ♪