My beautiful Julia.
[ Laughing ]
You gave me so much in this life.
But nothing more important or precious than our two kids.
- Listen, we've been inundated with calls
to cull that great white in the bay.
Constable's worried if we don't turn things around quickly,
people are going to start taking matters into their own hands.
In what way?
- Do you know how many people have guns in this country?
They're going to shoot the shark.
- All my family can think and speak about is the disease.
Just something that doesn't remind me
that my sister is dying every single day.
We're not married yet.
- Okay, so until then, I must tiptoe around you
and wait for you to throw me a bone.
- Please stop being so irritating.
- You know what you've done, huh?
You have brought shame on this family.
They will never accept you or that baby that you're carrying.
You will never be part of their family!
- Maybe marrying me is just one big mistake.
♪♪
The great whites are back.
This is incredible news.
Ah.
♪♪
[ Chuckles ]
Whoo! Yes!
I can't believe it.
♪ I can feel your tide ♪
♪ Pulling me ♪
♪ So I go where the sunlight falls ♪
♪ And the tide will bring me home ♪
[Birds crying]
Yes, Mrs. Davies?
Yes, if your little one's in the tidal pool,
I highly doubt there's a white shark in there.
- [ Laughs ] - No, really.
No. If he's paddling, he'll be fine.
You have a lovely day at the beach, okay?
Good, then. Bye.
[Phone chimes]
Hello. Wilma speaking.
Hi, Marianne.
No.
I'm sure they won't cancel their bookings.
Okay, good. All right then. Bye bye.
- Hi, wife, golden tongued wonder.
Are you being sarcastic?
No, not at all. No, no, no.
You're handling the local dimwits like a pro.
- Mm all those years of handling the Navy
and their wives prepares one for almost anything, it seems.
- Well, all the years in the Navy didn't prepare me for this.
- What? - This.
Having all this time on my hands.
Time to You think about what I would have done differently,
what I neglected.
And it's definitely given me enough time to act like an ass.
[ Laughs ]
There's such a contradiction.
Yes, we have lots of time. No, I don't have any time.
It's so ethereal. Time just passes us by.
So let's make the most of it.
- You're right. I'm done with being a fool.
I'm not going to waste any more of my precious time without you.
♪♪
You all sorted?
- I want to give something back to the community, as well.
Hold on.
Uh, excuse me, buddy. Where do you think you're going?
You can't just come killing sharks.
Get out of the way, man.
You don't know what you're talking about, old man.
- He's a man eater. - Hey, guys.
- Hannes, what's this? Now, you care about the sharks?
- These guys are planning on bombing the bay.
- Come on. - What are you talking about?
- Look. - Hey!
Look at this.
Homemade bombs designed to drive away sharks.
- Look, man, I lost a buddy, okay?
They clapped his leg.
He bled out on the beach over there, man.
- Listen, this is highly illegal, and it's extremely dangerous.
Yeah, well, so are the sharks.
[In Afrikaans] They just need to bugger off...
- This bay has been their home for millennia.
Where are they supposed to go?
Dude, it's a matter of time
before we can't go to the beach anymore.
Businesses will close down.
It'll be the downfall of this community.
Come on.
We need to do something now
before somebody ends up being killed.
And you, you shark cage guys, you're the problem.
You need to be shut down.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! - Stop it, man!
- Come on. - It's your chumming
that brings the sharks back into the bay.
Hey! Listen to me.
There's absolutely no scientific evidence
that links chumming to shark attacks.
Exactly.
- And you? Your brother's a surfer, man.
What are you sticking up for him for?
- Yes, and he understands that this bay
belongs to the sharks first.
- That's bull, man. - Hey, come on, guys.
- Come on. It's bad for tourism.
- You know, the next time somebody gets offed,
it's on you guys.
[In Afrikaans] Leave! Bugger off!
Okay, okay. It's okay, guys.
Everything's okay.
Thanks for that, man.
The shark tourism industry has suffered enough already.
Yeah, Hannes, yeah.
Okay.
♪♪
- I didn't know who else to call.
Why is your bags packed?
I don't want to stay here anymore, Auntie Cheryl.
Where's Rebecca?
She's inside.
She really doesn't want me to be here, Auntie Cheryl,
so it's just best that I leave.
Her and Gavin had a fight last night.
- But you can't be blamed for that.
- The fight was about me, Auntie Cheryl.
I mean...
You know...
You being here is bringing up a lot of things for Rebecca.
Do you know she stayed with your parents when she was young?
- You have shamed them. You have disobeyed Allah.
- Even in prison, I'd be allowed a phone call.
- You've brought this on yourself.
- Yeah, obviously, that's how sex works, Auntie Farida.
- Hey, Rebecca, show some respect, or I'll lock you in
your room until you've repented.
- She mentioned she doesn't like him very much.
It's just wait a little while.
Rebecca was going through a rebellious phase,
and her father didn't know what to do with her,
and he sent her away.
It was a very, very hard time for her.
And your parents were very, very tough on her.
Yeah, she said that.
To be honest, so was I.
Come.
Pack your bags. You're going to stay by me until
all this is sorted out.
Come, come.
Ami!
Amina.
Wait.
I don't know what you heard.
I'm sorry.
Please don't go.
Stay.
♪♪
Stay.
- I thought you said no devices at the table, Dad.
Ooh, you see?
The tablet police. Yes, sir.
Maybe you should put it away.
Oh, that's not fair.
Rules are rules.
Or did you not say these wise words, Dad?
- Okay. The dad has spoken loose.
Luce, get rid of it.
- Ah! Womp womp. - [ Laughter ]
- Hey, Gav. Is it your night off?
Yeah, yeah it is.
- Weren't you going to go to Rebecca's?
- Can I dish you something up? Hm?
- No. I'm good. Thanks, Mom.
- Cheers. - Okay.
Well, let's clear the dishes and go to bed.
- Oh, um, really good idea. Yes. [Clears throat]
- Not sure if I prefer them loving or fighting.
Or maybe I prefer the...
Hey.
Hey!
- Cereal for supper? - Mm.
- I gave the last of the leftovers Yolande.
She's sleeping. I gave her her meds.
- I'm sorry. I need to go shopping.
Cereal is fine.
Cereal it is.
So, uh, how's she doing today?
- She's still going to do that trial in America?
- Yeah, that's what I'm pushing for.
- Dad, I'm starting to get really worried.
- I know, I'm squeezing every cent from every corner.
I can to get her accepted.
- But, I mean, like, I don't know.
I don't know how much time we've got.
- That's why, unlike your mother,
I'm trying to do everything I can for you, too.
We have our first dive tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. sharp.
Oh, Dad, I can't.
- Wesley, I don't want to hear "I can't."
You want to help your sister or not?
♪♪
[Phone rings]
Rebecca?
- Hey, come on, just -- just say something.
You know I love you, right?
I love you, and you love me, and I'm not mad, okay?
Becs, you know nothing.
[Receiver clicks]
♪♪
You know I love you, Becky.
- When are you going to stop meddling in my life?
- Meddling? Okay.
- You know, it took me about half a bottle of wine
to see thoughts that I had to suppress for 20 years now.
We didn't have a choice.
Millions of young mothers
don't have to give up their babies, Mom.
You were a child.
How does a child raise a child?
With your support.
Wasn't that simple.
Wasn't it?
No, Rebecca. It wasn't.
And it is done now.
Ultimately, you made the choice,
and you're going to have to live with the consequences.
What you can do is accept it and move on.
Move on?
I supported you.
I protected you against your father.
I stood up for you.
Every cent I could spare, I sent to you.
I was the one that forced your father to support your dreams
and your studies.
- That's not the stuff I needed, Mommy.
Oh. So I was a bad mom?
- You should have let me stay here with you.
- Well, you shouldn't have slept with a boy
before you were married.
You should have honored your mother and your father
and our values and beliefs.
Ultimately, you made the choice.
And now you're gonna have to live with
the consequences, my dear.
Wow.
Thank you for the empathy, Mother.
- Empathy? That's not what you need.
Especially with Gavin.
- See? There you go again. Meddling.
[ Sighs ]
- Amina told me that you guys were fighting.
You know, if you keep ratting on with Gavin like this,
you're going to push him away and he might leave.
What if he doesn't want me?
- That doesn't sound like Gavin.
That sounds more like you.
You know, Becky,
I gave you a choice.
The night before you left, I asked you, "Do you want to go?"
And if you want to stay, I will fight daddy on it.
But you said you want to go.
You want to get away from it all.
So let's not get it twisted, what actually happened.
♪♪
[Cellphone chimes]
[ Chuckles ] Hey.
Good news.
- Yep, I think I scored myself a date. Right.
Uh, there you go, bud.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Thanks.
So what's up?
- Rebecca being Rebecca, you know.
Huh? What do you mean?
- Well, did you know she's not running away?
She's pushing her away, forcefully.
Both hands.
- Oh, no, no. I know all about that.
So what happened?
- You know better than I do, bud.
You guys talk about it?
- Yeah, I tried everything, and I just -- I get nothing back.
And I told her I can't do it anymore, man.
What do you mean by that?
- I might have said that maybe marrying her was a mistake.
Whoa!
Is it?
I don't know.
Now the ball's in her court.
[ Drink pouring ]
♪♪
Morning.
Cereal or cereal?
Cereal.
Why are you so enthusiastic this morning, eh?
Well, it'll be nice to,
like, create something for a change, you know?
- Yeah? - If I can't be
a prima ballerina,
at least I can tell people how to place their bodies.
- Do you mean tell people how to pose?
- Yeah. I'm gonna make you pose.
- Yolande, I don't think you've met my friends.
Dude, they're just gonna goof around all the time.
- Well, I'll make them goof around with purpose
so that we can get amazing shots.
- Okay, I just want to look like a plank.
- Hey, baby! - Scope mag shoot.
What's all this?
- Check. - Oh, my God, this is so cool.
- [Cellphone chimes] - [ Gasps ] A bubble maker!
Thanks.
- Lande, might need to --
- No, don't even think about bailing on me.
- No, man, I was just gonna say I,
uh, I dibs this guy for later.
What do you think?
It's all yours.
This is pretty sick.
Hey, man, you're getting it in my breakfast of champions!
♪♪
You sneaking away, eh?!
Trying to.
Where could be more important than here?
- Just the whole underwater animal kingdom in False Bay.
- Don't tell me you're still doing that
"save the shark" thingy for Martin.
No. ?
Why?
Well, they need me.
Well, I need you!
- Well, their lives potentially depend on it.
Oh, yeah, and mine doesn't?
I've missed you.
[ Sighs ]
Come back to bed.
I'll see you. Hm?
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
♪♪
Morning.
How do you like your coffee?
Huh?
Black.
[In Afrikaans] Here you go.
I made you some of my special eggs.
Okay. It's just my dad that calls them that.
But he really likes them, so I think you will, too.
Try them.
I knew you'd like it.
Amina, what is this about?
What's going on here?
Nothing.
All right.
I thought maybe if I cooked you something,
then I wouldn't be so much in your way.
Yeah, you're not in the way.
- Also, Auntie Cheryl told me about your time with my parents
and how harshly they judged you.
I get it. Really I do.
They're good people. They are such good people.
For instance, my dad, he...
he just wants to spend time with me.
He told me all there is to know about cars
just so that we can spend time together.
And my mother,
you know how conservative she is.
Yeah. She just...
she knows me.
She knows me so well, and she loves me so much,
and I couldn't ask for any better parents.
Honestly, I think that they have turned out for the better
since I came into their lives.
Yeah.
- Hey, boy band, NSYNC cover, let's go!
Album cover.
- Boy band cover. - Yeah yeah.
- Like these poses? - Yeah, yeah.
Both ways.
- Yes. - Yes. Maybe.
Oh my god. I love that.
- Balls of fire! - Flex those muscles!
- Oh, yes. - We're gonna do wild cats.
- What? - Who are the cats?
We're the cats.
- So come on. - Let's go!
- Roar. - Roar, man.
- Roar! - [ Laughs ]
[Roaring]
Yes, I love it!
Step there and there.
There we go. Welcome on the tour.
Hello. ma'am. There we go. Very good. Hello. Hello.
Are you ready to be scared?
You're gonna see the great white in its natural habitat.
Come, come. Thank you.
Just take them up here.
- Welcome, ma'am. Welcome aboard.
Watch your step. This way, sir.
Come on, come on. There we go.
Woman: The number you have called is not available.
- [Beeps] - Where are you?
[ Laughing ]
- Yes, yes, point. - For Dad, for Dad.
- These are going on the fridge.
I don't think they're going on the calendar.
- Okay, I love it, I love it, I love it.
- I'm done. Done. - Okay.
- I'm all done. - Okay.
- Let's go. You take this hat.
Okay, cowboys.
Cowboys.
[ Indistinct talking ]
Stop, stop.
[ Indistinct talking ]
- Look at the camera. Look at the camera.
That's a wrap! Whoo!
Boss, we've been out for hours.
I don't think any are gonna come.
- If we don't see any sharks, we want our money back.
- [ Chuckles ] That's not gonna happen.
- Then we'll give you a bad online review.
[All shouting]
- Wait, wait. Just relax everybody.
Okay, we're going to see a shark.
I'm going to take you where we can see one.
Don't worry. Just trying this out.
Let's go to Strandfontein.
- Close to the shore? - Exactly.
There's a current that the sharks move through.
We keep chumming until they come.
Okay, let's get this cage up.
- Copy that. - Skip, we're on the move.
Let's go see the great white.
This is actually so cool.
I feel like I'm in an episode of "CSI: False Bay."
[ Laughs ]
And just to let you know, I am playing the role
of the really beautiful and incredibly smart scientist,
who's also tough and brave, but she also doubts herself.
And she's also tougher than her male co-star.
But he doubts her ability to make decisions under pressure
because of the one time,
the one time that she broke down and cried
because she couldn't save the injured penguin.
- Amina, hey, I don't doubt you, okay?
Plus, you are living with Rebecca,
and that requires a PhD in toughness.
- Yeah. I forget you know my cousin.
Listen, here. Is Rebecca always this prickly?
She's being prickly, huh?
- She wouldn't even eat my special eggs.
Wow. Yeah.
Your cousin's a bit of a closed book, you know.
Pretty difficult to open up, but I don't know, if you --
If you're patient and stick around, then...
Yeah. Um, like...
If she does open up, you'll probably find, like,
she's a thousand pages of most beautiful poetry.
- You really loved her. - We were teenagers, you know.
Life got in the way.
I got married, and she's back in my life now, so...
Yeah, and she's gonna be my sister in law,
so there's that.
Martin? Hi.
Charlie? You came.
Well, I mean,
who can resist an invitation for an instant coffee?
- Mm. And coffee creamer.
- Geez, if you mentioned that I would have come earlier.
- Sorry to burst your guys' bubble,
but we have [speaks indistinctly]
so you can't boil the kettle.
Uh...
Two cold beers?
Sure.
Yeah? Good.
Amina, if you can just label those and take them to the lab.
- Right? - Gotcha.
- Perfect. Thanks. Let's go.
Ah.
Hey, nice.
At the end?
Okay, so home time?
Let's chill while we're here.
- Why? - Because it's the beach, man.
The waves are still here. We can go for a swim.
[In Afrikaans] It'll be fun.
- No, no, no. We're not swimming.
There are sharks.
I'll race you back.
- We are walking. - Race, Tristan.
I am not carrying you again.
I think you are carrying her.
[Door closes]
Tough day at the office?
Yeah, you could say that.
I spent the whole morning handing out
these information pamphlets down at the harbor.
And you won't believe how aggressive
and selfish people are.
I mean, I'm trying to explain to them
how fundamental sharks are to our entire ecosystem,
and all they can think about is,
oh, I can't swim for 10 minutes.
You know, like,
who swims for longer than 10 minutes anyway
because the water is so cold.
- So I take it, officially, sharks are your new thing.
- Well, what's so wrong about that?
What's so wrong about having my thing?
Oh.
So we've gone back there, have we?
I used to be your thing.
Jack.
I need more out of this marriage.
Well, I'm sorry
if our marriage is such a disappointment to you.
I used to think when I retired, I would...
we would spend more time together.
The Navy was your thing.
- Well... - Yeah.
The kids and I were --
We were a nice distraction now and then.
Mm-hmm.
And now you've got nothing to do,
you want me to be your thing.
Couldn't that have happened 30 years earlier?
- What the hell has gotten into you?
Last night and this morning, you were so nice to me.
- Well, as were you, but, you know,
I don't want to come home to these barbed little comments
just because I choose to do something
that's not what you choose for me to do.
- Okay, I apologize, but just don't bite my head off.
Okay.
I'm...
I'm trying to work on myself so I can work on this marriage.
But first, I need to work on myself and what I want.
And it's not forever.
And what about me?
[ Laughs ]
You'll figure it out.
I'll figure it out?
Hmm.
Great.
Two old farts having an existential crisis.
[ Laughs ]
You!
- Oh, wait. I'm sorry. I didn't know.
- Oh, Lucy's been having a one track mind at the moment.
- Yeah? About what? - Sharks.
- Great whites, to be exact. - Yeah.
- She believes they came to visit her especially.
No, that's thanks to Julia.
She absolutely loved great whites.
She would photograph them.
She'd name them. Was quite obsessive.
How did that go?
- What? The memorial? Yeah. How do I put it?
Um, it felt right, you know?
And I wanted to say thank you to you.
- Me? - Yeah.
You've been amazing with the kids,
and, um, you gave them space just to be able to express to me
exactly what they needed, you know?
And, um, the more I think about it...
Yeah, it's exactly what I needed, too.
So thanks, Charlie.
It's a pleasure.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've been grappling with so much lately.
It's been hard, you know, but, um...
There's one thing that I'm absolutely certain about.
- What? - It's how I feel about you.
Oh.
How do you feel about me?
♪♪
- Hey. You kids Have fun? - We had an amazing time, Dad.
[ Laughs ]
- Those candles are gonna sell out like this.
- Is it cool if I go to her room just to download some photos?
Yeah. Go ahead.
Dinner's in half an hour.
Wesley, not so fast.
Yeah?
- Come see me in my study after dinner.
Understood?
Understood.
♪♪
- Been surfing with the sharks again?
No.
Death wish evaporated when I saw the waves.
I'm not risking my life for a rubbish surf.
You didn't call me.
You didn't call me either.
- Gavin, what do you want from me?
Honesty.
Just come with me, please.
- I'm not going anywhere with you until you talk to me.
I can't.
But I can show you.
♪♪
Wesley!
[ Footsteps approaching ]
Yeah?
Come in.
That's for thinking you're smarter than me.
- She begged me to spend that day with her, Dad.
I'm sorry. I didn't want to let her down.
But you did let her down!
I need to run four tours a day with six people each.
At 3.5 a head, that's 84 grand a day.
And I needed you there on day one!
With a deckhand short, I could only do three trips.
So your little photo shoot stunt cost Yolande big time.
Do you get that?
But, Dad, she's got to like...
She needs to have fun as well, Dad.
She needs to live.
Read that.
She got in.
Look how much it's gonna cost.
My boy, I need you to work with me.
She needs us to work together.
We're the only thing she's got.
And the only thing that's standing in the way of
potentially finding something that can save her life
is my ability to make that money or not!
Yes, Dad. Yes.
- I know I've been hard on you. I...
And I won't need you every day, and...
Honestly, I'm scared.
I'm fending off creditors,
shark hugging conservationists
and the idiots in this town, and...
You are the only person I can rely on.
I know.
So I'm asking you, son, please help me to help her.
Yes.
Yes, Dad.
♪♪
[Kids speaking indistinctly]
♪♪
Mom! Mom!
- So, when were you first interested in working with kids?
- I wasn't. Kind of just -- just kind of happened.
Yeah?
- I was doing my honors degree in psychology,
and I was tutoring these kids living in a dingy flat
I was staying in.
There was this one kid. She was exceptional.
Totally misunderstood. She was acting out all the time.
And her parents didn't know what to do with her.
So what did you do?
I guess I just...
I listened to her.
At the bottom of it all, she just felt really alone.
Nobody got her.
I just took the time to get her, challenge her mind,
broaden her world beyond the two rooms of her flat.
It was like watching a flower unfold right in front of me.
It was -- It was so magical to see.
So, yeah, that's when I changed my focus
to educational psychology.
- Do you still keep contact with her?
For sure.
She's a varsity now,
studying to become an aeronautical engineer.
She WhatsApps me all the time, asking advice
and wanting me to invite her for dinner.
- And do you? - Yeah. We're friends.
- Okay. - Sometimes she gives me
advice, too.
What kind of advice?
- Should I go for this guy who's a widower?
He has two kids.
What did she say?
- She asked me if he listened to me.
- Like, really listened. - Yeah.
- And if he did, I should take a chance on him.
Does he listen to you?
I think he hears me.
Yeah?
♪♪
- You should apply to art school.
You're really talented.
You could even get a scholarship.
Come here.
Today was the best day.
It's all I need.
Thank you.
What now?
You can sit if you want.
What is this?
Why are you showing me this?
- Uh, this is from a long time ago.
[Speaking indistinctly]
14th of June, 2004.
You had a baby.
2004. That was... That was the year you ran away.
♪♪
Yours and Martin's?
♪♪
♪ The sun sets when we're driving in your car ♪
♪ Not there yet, but baby, we're not far ♪
♪ No regrets ♪
♪ I give you my only heart ♪
♪ Drive, baby ♪
♪ All through the night ♪
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
♪ Don't ever take me home ♪
♪ Drive, baby ♪
♪ I feel alive ♪
♪ You know I'm good to go ♪
♪ Don't ever take me home ♪
♪♪
♪ No one knows what they're missing ♪
♪ Turn up the heat when we're kissing ♪
♪ Tell me I'm your girl ♪
♪ Like you always do ♪
♪ The sun sets when we're driving in your car ♪
♪ Not there yet ♪
♪ But baby, we're not far ♪
♪ No regrets ♪
♪ I give you my only heart ♪
♪ Drive, baby ♪
♪ All through the night ♪
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
♪ Don't ever take me home ♪
♪ Drive, baby ♪
♪ I feel alive ♪
♪ You know I'm good to go ♪
♪ Don't ever take me home ♪