Rippy (2024) Movie Script
1
[tense music]
- My dad was a hero, a
sporting hero, a war hero,
and the local cop.
He died young to save me.
I think about that a lot,
about what he gave up for me.
It's been tough at times not
having him or Mum around.
But I've learned that
when your dad's a hero,
it's like he never died.
Everyone remembers
him, speaks about him
like he's still around.
I've got a lot of work
to do to fill his shoes,
to make him proud and maybe
fill the hole that he left.
- There, there.
Left, right, left.
Left, left.
Tiny bubbles in my whiskey
make me feel a little frisky.
Left, left.
Left, right, left.
You hear that?
Sounds like dinner to me, huh?
You stay.
Protect my rear.
I gotta go get
this motherfucker.
Ooh.
Sweet.
All right.
I'm gonna get your number.
[tense music]
Ah!
- Hold there.
- Oh, thanks, Maddy.
- Let's bring that trophy
home again this year, eh?
- Yeah, I'm on it.
- Was I speeding?
- Where are my eggs?
- Another shakedown.
Double yolkers, right?
- Yeah, I can't have
breakfast without 'em.
- They're back home
waiting for you.
You come around
whenever you want.
- Thanks, Bob.
You're the best.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
[horn honking]
Schmitty.
- Maddy, Maddy,
Maddy, I've seen it.
- You've seen what?
- I've seen a beast
in the guise of a--
of a huge kangaroo!
A 7 foot tall big red.
I named him Rippy.
Maddy, you must listen to me.
- Schmitty, just can you get--
get that thing off the road
or I'll impound it, OK?
- Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, I feel
that we're all in mortal danger.
I shot the thing point
blank, and it didn't die.
I think he got Ralphie.
- Ralphie?
- Yeah.
Just-- just-- can
you just stay there?
- Wait, Maddy, wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
- I want you to tell me
what you really think.
- Hey, look, everyone.
He's got--
- Get out of my face, pinhead.
- Little man's lost his temper.
- Oh, here we go again.
- We're pushing now, are we?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- You like pushing?
- Hey, eh, eh, boys.
- Look what you done again.
- Little peanut.
- Yeah?
Well, you're a pirate
who no one wants to root.
- Pull your head in, Parker.
- Had a few too many, boys?
- Sorry about this, Maddy.
- Sorry, sorry, boss, sorry.
- Well, do you want to root him?
Ugh.
- All right.
- Get him out of here!
- Ow, ow.
- Sit.
- Hey, thanks so much for that.
He's being a real dick.
Ah.
- I'm gonna need a torch.
- With pleasure.
- All right.
- All right, get up.
Get up.
- She kicked your ass, bro.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- All right, you can
sleep it off in your car,
or you can walk, but you're
not driving anywhere.
- No, no.
What?
- Come on.
We're sorry.
- We will not have
any more trouble.
- He farts in his sleep.
- Hey.
We'll walk home then, huh?
- Far out.
- Bye.
- This is bullshit.
- Schmitty was here.
- When?
- Just before.
He said Ralphie ran off and
something about a giant roo.
Sorry.
I didn't want to upset ya.
- It's OK.
I reckon the divorce is longer
than the marriage by now,
anyway.
- Hey, that cop,
bro, she was tough.
- She overreacted, bro.
- Well, we were pretty wasted.
- In a pub.
That's where you get wasted.
- [laughs] I can't believe you
actually asked her if she'd root
me.
And I don't remember
hearing her response.
Did you?
- I forgot to tell you.
- What?
- She slipped her
number in my pocket,
asked me to give it to you.
- Eh?
- Yeah, it's right here.
It's right here.
Here it is.
[laughs] As if, bro.
- Screw you, bro.
- Hang on.
I gotta take a piss.
Ah.
What are you doing?
- You hear that?
- My piss?
- All right.
- Nothing.
There's nothing.
It's starting to
creep me out, bro.
- What is that?
- Ah, it's just--
[screams]
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
- Hey, you don't
have to be here.
- Dave called.
Thought I could help.
- Hey, Maddy.
- Hey.
- It's Tim.
- Oh, my god.
- Yeah.
And the other one,
Ricky's over there.
Looks exactly the same.
- So you found them what time?
- Well, when they didn't
come back last night,
I decided to come
out looking for 'em.
I thought I'd find them
sleeping under a tree but--
- What time?
- 6 o'clock.
- So this could have
happened anytime?
- Anytime overnight.
- OK.
[tense music]
Have you ever seen
anything like this?
- Maybe it's a croc
or a pack of dingoes.
- Whatever did
this bloody strong.
Dragged both these men
around like rag dolls,
tore them apart like nothing.
- Yeah, it can't be a croc.
We're too far from any water.
And dingoes haven't been
seen around here for decades.
- So what are you thinking?
- Well, maybe it
was a hit and run.
- Car don't do that.
- Yeah, but scavengers
might after they were dead.
I don't know.
Maybe dingoes are back.
All right, we've got to
get these into cold store.
- Well, let's get an
ambulance or a coroner
out here to pick them up.
- They're not sending
an air ambulance
for two dead bodies, darling.
And the coroner's unit are all
tied up with the fires up north.
- Oh, no.
- Schmitty.
- Deb.
I tried to tell you.
- Tell her?
Tell her what?
- Undead roo on the loose.
It cannot be killed.
- Like it refuses?
- Yeah.
- People have died
here, Schmidt.
Have some respect.
- Schmitty, how did you
turn up here of all times?
- I was looking for Ralphie.
Oh, jeez.
Look.
Oh.
Look at these tracks.
Look at how big they are.
- Yeah, there's--
there's lots of tracks.
Schmitty, can you just
go and find Ralphie?
We have work to do here.
- All right.
It's a zombie.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- Sorry about the dust.
Oh, there's gonna
be a bit of a smell.
- Oh.
- Look, I've done
the best I can,
but this is really
not my cup of tea.
- Just do your best.
- [sighs] OK.
Oh.
- Are you OK?
- Not really.
This is massive trauma.
It looks like a
stab, a slash, a rip.
But here, here is a bite wound.
And this, this looks
like it's been torn off.
- Ugh.
Was it a weapon of some sort?
- That's not really
my area of expertise.
I can't see any sign
of a knife or an ax.
There's no evidence of
blunt force trauma, either.
These-- these bodies
look like they've
been ripped apart by something.
- There's no way someone
from town has done this.
It's got to be someone
else, maybe one of the fly
in, fly out miners.
- Or Jack the Ripper.
[phone ringing]
- Hi, yeah.
- Hey, Maddy, I ran that list
for you, and I got something.
You want me to fax
the details or--
- Yes.
No, just send his name and
mugshot to my phone, please.
And can you read out the
list of priors to me?
- Five counts of
drunk and disorderly,
three counts of
disturbing the peace.
- Yeah.
- One count of aggravated
assault and one count
of manslaughter 2.
[tense music]
[phone ringing]
Dave, can you get one
of your new workers
to meet me at your office?
His name is Reuben Williams.
He's got a violent
rap sheet, including
a prior for manslaughter.
He looks like our guy.
And if he doesn't have an
alibi, I've got to take him in.
- All right, Mads, I'll
get him to the office.
[tense music]
- She's here.
- Reuben Williams?
- Yeah.
- Where were you
last night, Reuben?
- I want my lawyer.
- How you want to do this?
I hope you have a good lawyer.
[tense music]
- I heard it was a miner.
- Ah, yes, yes,
he's locked up now.
- So that's it, then?
- That's it.
- Wait, so I can go for a run?
- Get that trophy, remember?
[laughs]
- Your dad would be so
proud of you, my love.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I hope so.
[tense music]
[screeching]
- Dinner's up.
[screeching]
[panting]
- [screams]
- Come on.
Come on, Dad, it's
not that cold.
Dad?
- Hang on, hang on.
- Dad!
[phone ringing]
- Yep?
Hello, Maddy speaking.
- We can't find Troy.
- Troy?
- He didn't come
home for dinner.
He always comes home in time.
- He went out where?
- On his run.
Something has happened.
- OK, just stay calm.
Stay calm.
We'll find him.
I'll be right there.
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[sobbing]
It's OK.
- No!
No!
No!
I can't look at him
like this again.
You said he was safe, Maddy!
[tense music]
[sobbing]
- Sweetheart, this
is not your fault.
- I don't understand who's--
- You can't have known.
- He was gutted like a fish.
He looked just like the others.
- So what's going on?
- Maybe-- maybe Schmitty
knows something.
It's-- it's worth
checking, right?
- Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, Maddy.
- I told her we'd all be safe.
- I think it's worth
putting together
a hunting party for an actual
animal that actually exists.
I'll talk to Dave.
Those miners, they're all mates.
They love hunting.
They'll all help.
Schmitty's words, they're
not to be trusted.
- Why?
- He's broken, love.
He's damaged inside his mind.
He was a bit odd when we met.
I thought it was the
war, not that he ever
talked to me about that.
It was when your dad died.
- Donna, there was--
- It's a level of broken
that's hard to get a handle on.
- There were tracks.
There were tracks
all around Troy.
- What tracks?
- Roo tracks.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- Maddy?
Darling, how are ya?
If you called before you
came over, I would have--
I would have cleaned
the place up a bit.
- You don't have a phone.
- Yeah.
Well, they don't-- they
don't work out here.
- Is there still
no sign of Ralphie?
- More people have died?
- Yeah, Troy Kitchener.
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
The weight of the uniform.
It's time for you to see it.
Making decisions for
people and about people
without having all the
information, it's really tough.
But when I look at you, I see
wisdom, strength, and courage
you don't even know you have.
I believe you can do anything
you set your mind to.
- Schmitty.
Thank you, but I--
I just don't think you're
really seeing things clearly.
- Well, you have the benefit
of not knowing what I know.
- What?
What do you know?
- I met your father in the
jungles of Southeast Asia.
- Yeah, yeah, I know that.
- But what you don't know
is that our friendship
was forged when I shared vision
of the beasts of which I speak.
- What did you see?
- Evil.
- OK, I was thinking
more of an animal, maybe.
- It takes all forms.
In Vietnam, it was everywhere.
June 30, 1971, we were overrun.
Men struggled to tell each other
in the mud, in the moonlight.
We used bullets, knives, rocks.
The beast was in us.
And when our commanding
officer ordered a napalm strike
on our own position, we saw it
embodied in its terrible glory.
- What happened?
- Instead of the
sound of aircraft,
we heard the roar of a beast.
When we looked up, there
was no jet fighter.
But we saw a dragon fly out
of a black cloud and spew
fire on everything around it.
Hell itself opened up
and swallowed men alive.
We hid in the
bottom of our hole,
wanting to scratch our eyes
from our faces for the horror
that we had looked upon.
- Dad never spoke about anything
that happened over there.
- You were a child.
And to talk about
it is to relive it.
What we choose to do about
this, it's how we find peace.
- Well, this-- this beast that
you saw, can you track it?
- I can track
anything that moves.
- All right, well, there's
a hunting party leaving town
at dawn.
Will you come with me?
- Yeah.
- Crazy.
This is crazy.
- Matilda?
It'll change you
when you see it.
Decide who you want to become.
- Just-- just make sure
you're wearing pants tomorrow.
OK?
[tense music]
- All right, how we looking?
- Good.
All set.
- Front and center.
- Nice shorts.
- Well, with long
pants, I chafe.
And the bikini.
- Oh, Schmitty, just
put it in the back.
- Maddy.
- You don't have to go
out there, you know?
We have enough people.
- No, those boys
are important to me.
It's not about have to.
I wanna.
- How about you head over to
near where Troy was killed,
and we'll head back
down to the main road
and then meet up over
near the camping ground?
- That's gonna take all day.
I better get cracking.
See ya.
- Bye.
- Righto, let's get going.
Maddy.
- It's a police
operation, Donna.
My call.
- Fine.
But I get the front seat.
- Your throne awaits you.
[upbeat music]
- Dave, we'll head west
towards the mine road
and catch up later, OK?
- Copy that.
We're headed over towards
the Kitchener farm.
- Copy that.
Stay safe.
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
I hope Dave's posse is
having more luck than we had.
- Can't be doing any worse.
I bet they're all still awake.
- Just resting me lids.
- You've been
snoring for an hour.
You know, I haven't missed that.
- So there are some
things that you did miss?
[radio chatter]
- It's gonna be dark soon,
so let's check out here
and then we'll head back
towards Dave and the others.
- It's been a while.
- It's like riding a bicycle.
[tense music]
We're actually really close
to where your father died.
- Schmitty!
So this is the edge
of the mine's land.
- What?
What?
What is it?
[screeching]
- What?
What is it?
- Wait.
- Matilda!
- Mads, there's
something out here.
- Yeah, there's
something here, too.
[tense music]
[gunshot]
- Let's get out.
Come on.
[tense music]
- Oh, shit.
- Fuck me.
[tense music]
- What did that?
- I don't think you were
the first one to kill this.
- No, this thing has
been dead for a while.
It was moving.
I shot it in a drop.
- What the fuck?
- Hey, guys, keep
the noise down.
Turn your lights out.
- What's wrong, Dave?
Do you see something?
- You see another
dead cow we can shoot?
- I'm worried about
what can see us.
Hey, be quiet.
Spread out.
Head back up in that direction,
and then double back here
to the Yurt, OK?
And if you hear anything
or see anything, call out,
and we'll come running.
- If I see anything,
I'm shooting it.
- I'm killing whatever it is.
I'm not wasting time
telling you guys where.
- You couldn't even kill a
dead bull laying in the grass.
Come on.
[tense music]
- This water, it has
the smell of the beast.
- I reckon it's
runoff from the mine.
This billabong
should be glowing.
- I never trusted the
chemicals they used over there.
[tense music]
- Come on, you piece of shit.
[screeching]
[screaming]
- Mecca!
- Faster, faster, faster!
- Jenny!
Jenny!
- Dave!
Dave!
[tense music]
[screeching]
- What now?
- It's Dave.
[radio chatter]
Holy shit.
- Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
- Dave.
- Please, please.
- Stay with us.
Stay with us.
- It's gonna be OK.
We're gonna take you home, OK?
- Stay with us.
It's
- Gonna be OK.
We're gonna take you home.
- It's all right.
It's OK.
- Dave, please.
You're safe.
You're safe.
It's OK.
- Dave, please, can
you listen to me?
Listen to me.
We'll take you
home, Dave, please.
We have to do something.
We have to do something!
- Sweetheart, he's gone.
- He's not.
Come on.
Come on!
Come on.
He's not.
He's not gone.
Come on, please.
[somber music]
- Come on, Dad.
It's not that cold.
Dad.
Dad!
- Hang on, hon.
Hang on, hang on!
Maddy, where are you, love?
[somber music]
- Maddy.
- The miners and Troy and--
and Dave.
- This is not your fault.
- And Dad.
It's like they're all
just dying because of me.
- That's not true, sweetheart.
- It is.
- Tell her.
Tell her.
- I don't--
- Tell me what?
- You had nothing to do
with your father's death.
- Schmidt.
- He-- he died because of me.
- Bullshit.
- Schmidt.
- It's because he was drunk.
- No.
What?
- He was staggering
around out there.
He fell down.
- No.
- He hit his head,
and he bled out.
That's what happened.
- No, that's not what happened.
He-- no, I remember.
He cried out for me.
I remember that, Schmitty.
He saved me.
- Think about it, Maddy.
You were a incredible
swimmer from the time
you were knee high.
The whole story doesn't
even make sense.
Try to remember.
Try to remember about that time.
- Come on, Dad.
It's not that cold.
- Maddy?
Maddy, where are you, love?
- Maddy?
Darling.
- And that the--
the whole town
just believed that?
- The whole town wanted to
believe your father was a hero.
Star athlete, Vietnam vet.
Everybody loved hanging out
with him, drinking at the pub.
Sometimes it's easier
to believe a lie
than to face an ugly truth.
- Donna?
- Is that how you
wanted to remember him?
Is it, Maddy?
- Don't move.
I don't think he
knows we're here.
- Let's get the
fuck out of here.
- No.
Suck it out.
Suck it out.
[screeching]
- Move!
- Drive, Maddy, drive!
- Get us out of here!
Get us out of here!
- Did I kill it?
Did I kill it?
- You must have, Maddy.
[tense music]
- Shit.
- How is that thing still alive?
- Yeah, he won't be for long.
Come here, boy.
Fuck.
- Are you sure you
want to do this?
- Fuck.
Shit.
- Maddy.
- Maddy?
- Oh, shit.
- Oh, fuck.
- Ow.
- Fuck.
For fuck's sake!
Shit.
- I'm gonna check the perimeter.
- You lied to me.
- I know I should have told you.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Hey.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's OK.
- No sign of him.
- I don't know what's going on.
But I shot it,
and it didn't die.
- Indeed.
- We have to warn everyone.
- Oh, I guess we're walking.
Follow me.
We've lost him for
a while, I think.
[tense music]
It's not far now.
[tense music]
[sighs]
- So is that piece of
crap car gonna work?
Where are the keys?
- Yeah, I got the keys.
But that's-- that's
not the problem.
- What's the problem?
- The battery died on
the way back from town.
- Sorry, so it's not in the van?
- No, it's on a--
it's on the charger,
which is out there.
- All right, well, does
this thing still work?
- Yeah, that works.
- Yeah, all right, because I
think we need to head into town.
We need to warn people.
We need backup.
- I gotta go fire
up the generator.
- No, I'll--
I'll go.
You call it in as soon as that
thing sparks up, all right?
Is the genny still
in the same ditch?
Be ready to go.
- We'll be ready.
- Do you still think about him?
- Every day.
I think about you
every day, too.
It's been a while since
we had a chance to--
to talk.
- We had the chance for
about 20 years, Schmitt.
You weren't the one
for much talking.
- Some things, they're
just hard to talk about.
- I know.
Easier to take off, hang
gliding, fire fighting,
all that hero stuff,
while I run the pub.
- It wasn't about--
- It was the rush, wasn't it?
The adrenaline?
There was a big part of you
that was still in the war.
We both paid the price for that.
- Guilty.
- I know the war did terrible
things to you and Murray.
But it did terrible
things to you and me.
Why couldn't you just
talk to me, Schmitty?
I would have listened.
I lost my brother,
and then I lost you.
- Losing you was the worst
thing that ever happened to me.
- You never told me that.
- You deserve better
than this, this Schmitty.
Hmm?
What?
What?
- That smile.
- Like me a little bit?
Might like me a little bit?
- A little bit.
[dog barking]
- Ralphie!
Come here, buddy.
Oh, hello.
[tense music]
- Yes!
- Good girl.
Mads.
Farinet Hotel, come in, please.
Farinet Hotel, come in, please.
[upbeat music]
- Ralph!
Ralph!
Come on.
Oh, my goodness.
What a good boy.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, there's my boy.
That's my boy.
You found him.
- He found me.
There you go.
- I'll get the battery.
- I'll get Donna.
Yes, yes.
OK.
Oh, you're a good boy.
Come on.
- Copy that.
All available units are
being turned to Ax Head.
Over.
- Thank you.
Ralphie.
Good boy.
[screeching]
The hotel isn't answering.
- I think we better
get over there.
[tense music]
- Shit.
Here.
[screeching]
- Go, go, go!
[tense music]
- A group of us went out
to destroy whatever animal
killed Troy Kitchener.
It's a fucking massive roo.
We're the only ones left.
- Where's Dave?
- He's dead.
They're all dead.
[tense music]
- It is here!
It is here!
- Come on.
Maddy, come on.
Come on.
- We need to lock-- we need
to lock every door and window.
We need to barricade
that front door.
And our only chance
is to keep it out.
Go.
- Barricade that door.
Lock everything top
to bottom, you guys.
- That way.
[tense music]
- Come on.
One more, one more.
- Got it.
Come this way.
- Where is he?
Where's he gone?
I can't see him.
Where is he?
- I'm not sure.
But he knows we're in here.
[sirens blaring]
- They're coming.
They're coming.
- How many cows are coming?
- There's only one car.
- Shit, shit, shit, shit.
He doesn't know why he came.
Stan!
Stan!
- Stan!
- Stan, get back in your car!
Stan!
Stan!
- Maddy?
- Stan, get back in the car!
- Stan, get back in the car!
- G'day, skip.
[screaming]
- Fuck me.
- Maddy, we got to get
these people to safety.
- We've got to get out of here.
- OK, everyone, listen up.
Donna, is there
room in the cellar?
[screaming]
- Follow me!
- You'll be safe.
Don't worry.
All right, all right.
You'll be safe.
Careful.
- Get in, get in.
- I've been thinking about Dad.
- Maddy.
- Just everything I've been
doing since then, everything.
- Maddy, we've gotta
get out of here.
- Yeah, but we have
to do something.
- They are safe in the cellar.
We can go out and get help.
- I can't do that.
- Maddy, I was--
I was wrong to lie about Murray.
But you keep wanting to pay
a debt that you don't owe.
- Stay as hidden as you can.
Go.
Hey, go, go.
[panting]
- They're safe for now.
- I have a plan.
- So what's your plan?
- I'm gonna blow the
fuck his brains out.
[screeching]
- Maddy, we got to save
those people down there.
- Sweetheart, no, no.
Sweetheart, no,
it's not worth it.
Don't do it, sweetheart.
No.
Don't leave.
Please, please.
[tense music]
[screeching]
[screaming]
- Don't you touch my
girl, you big red bastard!
- Maddy!
- Oh, my god.
Hey.
[dog barking]
My dad wasn't perfect, but
I know that he loved me.
Maybe I can take that
and be OK with it,
to choose to let go
of the hero I lost
and hold on to the
family I found.
[somber music]
- What the hell?
Ah!
[screaming]
- Hey, boss!
[tense music]
[tense music]
- My dad was a hero, a
sporting hero, a war hero,
and the local cop.
He died young to save me.
I think about that a lot,
about what he gave up for me.
It's been tough at times not
having him or Mum around.
But I've learned that
when your dad's a hero,
it's like he never died.
Everyone remembers
him, speaks about him
like he's still around.
I've got a lot of work
to do to fill his shoes,
to make him proud and maybe
fill the hole that he left.
- There, there.
Left, right, left.
Left, left.
Tiny bubbles in my whiskey
make me feel a little frisky.
Left, left.
Left, right, left.
You hear that?
Sounds like dinner to me, huh?
You stay.
Protect my rear.
I gotta go get
this motherfucker.
Ooh.
Sweet.
All right.
I'm gonna get your number.
[tense music]
Ah!
- Hold there.
- Oh, thanks, Maddy.
- Let's bring that trophy
home again this year, eh?
- Yeah, I'm on it.
- Was I speeding?
- Where are my eggs?
- Another shakedown.
Double yolkers, right?
- Yeah, I can't have
breakfast without 'em.
- They're back home
waiting for you.
You come around
whenever you want.
- Thanks, Bob.
You're the best.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
[horn honking]
Schmitty.
- Maddy, Maddy,
Maddy, I've seen it.
- You've seen what?
- I've seen a beast
in the guise of a--
of a huge kangaroo!
A 7 foot tall big red.
I named him Rippy.
Maddy, you must listen to me.
- Schmitty, just can you get--
get that thing off the road
or I'll impound it, OK?
- Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, I feel
that we're all in mortal danger.
I shot the thing point
blank, and it didn't die.
I think he got Ralphie.
- Ralphie?
- Yeah.
Just-- just-- can
you just stay there?
- Wait, Maddy, wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
- I want you to tell me
what you really think.
- Hey, look, everyone.
He's got--
- Get out of my face, pinhead.
- Little man's lost his temper.
- Oh, here we go again.
- We're pushing now, are we?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- You like pushing?
- Hey, eh, eh, boys.
- Look what you done again.
- Little peanut.
- Yeah?
Well, you're a pirate
who no one wants to root.
- Pull your head in, Parker.
- Had a few too many, boys?
- Sorry about this, Maddy.
- Sorry, sorry, boss, sorry.
- Well, do you want to root him?
Ugh.
- All right.
- Get him out of here!
- Ow, ow.
- Sit.
- Hey, thanks so much for that.
He's being a real dick.
Ah.
- I'm gonna need a torch.
- With pleasure.
- All right.
- All right, get up.
Get up.
- She kicked your ass, bro.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- All right, you can
sleep it off in your car,
or you can walk, but you're
not driving anywhere.
- No, no.
What?
- Come on.
We're sorry.
- We will not have
any more trouble.
- He farts in his sleep.
- Hey.
We'll walk home then, huh?
- Far out.
- Bye.
- This is bullshit.
- Schmitty was here.
- When?
- Just before.
He said Ralphie ran off and
something about a giant roo.
Sorry.
I didn't want to upset ya.
- It's OK.
I reckon the divorce is longer
than the marriage by now,
anyway.
- Hey, that cop,
bro, she was tough.
- She overreacted, bro.
- Well, we were pretty wasted.
- In a pub.
That's where you get wasted.
- [laughs] I can't believe you
actually asked her if she'd root
me.
And I don't remember
hearing her response.
Did you?
- I forgot to tell you.
- What?
- She slipped her
number in my pocket,
asked me to give it to you.
- Eh?
- Yeah, it's right here.
It's right here.
Here it is.
[laughs] As if, bro.
- Screw you, bro.
- Hang on.
I gotta take a piss.
Ah.
What are you doing?
- You hear that?
- My piss?
- All right.
- Nothing.
There's nothing.
It's starting to
creep me out, bro.
- What is that?
- Ah, it's just--
[screams]
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
- Hey, you don't
have to be here.
- Dave called.
Thought I could help.
- Hey, Maddy.
- Hey.
- It's Tim.
- Oh, my god.
- Yeah.
And the other one,
Ricky's over there.
Looks exactly the same.
- So you found them what time?
- Well, when they didn't
come back last night,
I decided to come
out looking for 'em.
I thought I'd find them
sleeping under a tree but--
- What time?
- 6 o'clock.
- So this could have
happened anytime?
- Anytime overnight.
- OK.
[tense music]
Have you ever seen
anything like this?
- Maybe it's a croc
or a pack of dingoes.
- Whatever did
this bloody strong.
Dragged both these men
around like rag dolls,
tore them apart like nothing.
- Yeah, it can't be a croc.
We're too far from any water.
And dingoes haven't been
seen around here for decades.
- So what are you thinking?
- Well, maybe it
was a hit and run.
- Car don't do that.
- Yeah, but scavengers
might after they were dead.
I don't know.
Maybe dingoes are back.
All right, we've got to
get these into cold store.
- Well, let's get an
ambulance or a coroner
out here to pick them up.
- They're not sending
an air ambulance
for two dead bodies, darling.
And the coroner's unit are all
tied up with the fires up north.
- Oh, no.
- Schmitty.
- Deb.
I tried to tell you.
- Tell her?
Tell her what?
- Undead roo on the loose.
It cannot be killed.
- Like it refuses?
- Yeah.
- People have died
here, Schmidt.
Have some respect.
- Schmitty, how did you
turn up here of all times?
- I was looking for Ralphie.
Oh, jeez.
Look.
Oh.
Look at these tracks.
Look at how big they are.
- Yeah, there's--
there's lots of tracks.
Schmitty, can you just
go and find Ralphie?
We have work to do here.
- All right.
It's a zombie.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- Sorry about the dust.
Oh, there's gonna
be a bit of a smell.
- Oh.
- Look, I've done
the best I can,
but this is really
not my cup of tea.
- Just do your best.
- [sighs] OK.
Oh.
- Are you OK?
- Not really.
This is massive trauma.
It looks like a
stab, a slash, a rip.
But here, here is a bite wound.
And this, this looks
like it's been torn off.
- Ugh.
Was it a weapon of some sort?
- That's not really
my area of expertise.
I can't see any sign
of a knife or an ax.
There's no evidence of
blunt force trauma, either.
These-- these bodies
look like they've
been ripped apart by something.
- There's no way someone
from town has done this.
It's got to be someone
else, maybe one of the fly
in, fly out miners.
- Or Jack the Ripper.
[phone ringing]
- Hi, yeah.
- Hey, Maddy, I ran that list
for you, and I got something.
You want me to fax
the details or--
- Yes.
No, just send his name and
mugshot to my phone, please.
And can you read out the
list of priors to me?
- Five counts of
drunk and disorderly,
three counts of
disturbing the peace.
- Yeah.
- One count of aggravated
assault and one count
of manslaughter 2.
[tense music]
[phone ringing]
Dave, can you get one
of your new workers
to meet me at your office?
His name is Reuben Williams.
He's got a violent
rap sheet, including
a prior for manslaughter.
He looks like our guy.
And if he doesn't have an
alibi, I've got to take him in.
- All right, Mads, I'll
get him to the office.
[tense music]
- She's here.
- Reuben Williams?
- Yeah.
- Where were you
last night, Reuben?
- I want my lawyer.
- How you want to do this?
I hope you have a good lawyer.
[tense music]
- I heard it was a miner.
- Ah, yes, yes,
he's locked up now.
- So that's it, then?
- That's it.
- Wait, so I can go for a run?
- Get that trophy, remember?
[laughs]
- Your dad would be so
proud of you, my love.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I hope so.
[tense music]
[screeching]
- Dinner's up.
[screeching]
[panting]
- [screams]
- Come on.
Come on, Dad, it's
not that cold.
Dad?
- Hang on, hang on.
- Dad!
[phone ringing]
- Yep?
Hello, Maddy speaking.
- We can't find Troy.
- Troy?
- He didn't come
home for dinner.
He always comes home in time.
- He went out where?
- On his run.
Something has happened.
- OK, just stay calm.
Stay calm.
We'll find him.
I'll be right there.
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[sobbing]
It's OK.
- No!
No!
No!
I can't look at him
like this again.
You said he was safe, Maddy!
[tense music]
[sobbing]
- Sweetheart, this
is not your fault.
- I don't understand who's--
- You can't have known.
- He was gutted like a fish.
He looked just like the others.
- So what's going on?
- Maybe-- maybe Schmitty
knows something.
It's-- it's worth
checking, right?
- Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, Maddy.
- I told her we'd all be safe.
- I think it's worth
putting together
a hunting party for an actual
animal that actually exists.
I'll talk to Dave.
Those miners, they're all mates.
They love hunting.
They'll all help.
Schmitty's words, they're
not to be trusted.
- Why?
- He's broken, love.
He's damaged inside his mind.
He was a bit odd when we met.
I thought it was the
war, not that he ever
talked to me about that.
It was when your dad died.
- Donna, there was--
- It's a level of broken
that's hard to get a handle on.
- There were tracks.
There were tracks
all around Troy.
- What tracks?
- Roo tracks.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- Maddy?
Darling, how are ya?
If you called before you
came over, I would have--
I would have cleaned
the place up a bit.
- You don't have a phone.
- Yeah.
Well, they don't-- they
don't work out here.
- Is there still
no sign of Ralphie?
- More people have died?
- Yeah, Troy Kitchener.
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
The weight of the uniform.
It's time for you to see it.
Making decisions for
people and about people
without having all the
information, it's really tough.
But when I look at you, I see
wisdom, strength, and courage
you don't even know you have.
I believe you can do anything
you set your mind to.
- Schmitty.
Thank you, but I--
I just don't think you're
really seeing things clearly.
- Well, you have the benefit
of not knowing what I know.
- What?
What do you know?
- I met your father in the
jungles of Southeast Asia.
- Yeah, yeah, I know that.
- But what you don't know
is that our friendship
was forged when I shared vision
of the beasts of which I speak.
- What did you see?
- Evil.
- OK, I was thinking
more of an animal, maybe.
- It takes all forms.
In Vietnam, it was everywhere.
June 30, 1971, we were overrun.
Men struggled to tell each other
in the mud, in the moonlight.
We used bullets, knives, rocks.
The beast was in us.
And when our commanding
officer ordered a napalm strike
on our own position, we saw it
embodied in its terrible glory.
- What happened?
- Instead of the
sound of aircraft,
we heard the roar of a beast.
When we looked up, there
was no jet fighter.
But we saw a dragon fly out
of a black cloud and spew
fire on everything around it.
Hell itself opened up
and swallowed men alive.
We hid in the
bottom of our hole,
wanting to scratch our eyes
from our faces for the horror
that we had looked upon.
- Dad never spoke about anything
that happened over there.
- You were a child.
And to talk about
it is to relive it.
What we choose to do about
this, it's how we find peace.
- Well, this-- this beast that
you saw, can you track it?
- I can track
anything that moves.
- All right, well, there's
a hunting party leaving town
at dawn.
Will you come with me?
- Yeah.
- Crazy.
This is crazy.
- Matilda?
It'll change you
when you see it.
Decide who you want to become.
- Just-- just make sure
you're wearing pants tomorrow.
OK?
[tense music]
- All right, how we looking?
- Good.
All set.
- Front and center.
- Nice shorts.
- Well, with long
pants, I chafe.
And the bikini.
- Oh, Schmitty, just
put it in the back.
- Maddy.
- You don't have to go
out there, you know?
We have enough people.
- No, those boys
are important to me.
It's not about have to.
I wanna.
- How about you head over to
near where Troy was killed,
and we'll head back
down to the main road
and then meet up over
near the camping ground?
- That's gonna take all day.
I better get cracking.
See ya.
- Bye.
- Righto, let's get going.
Maddy.
- It's a police
operation, Donna.
My call.
- Fine.
But I get the front seat.
- Your throne awaits you.
[upbeat music]
- Dave, we'll head west
towards the mine road
and catch up later, OK?
- Copy that.
We're headed over towards
the Kitchener farm.
- Copy that.
Stay safe.
[tense music]
[radio chatter]
I hope Dave's posse is
having more luck than we had.
- Can't be doing any worse.
I bet they're all still awake.
- Just resting me lids.
- You've been
snoring for an hour.
You know, I haven't missed that.
- So there are some
things that you did miss?
[radio chatter]
- It's gonna be dark soon,
so let's check out here
and then we'll head back
towards Dave and the others.
- It's been a while.
- It's like riding a bicycle.
[tense music]
We're actually really close
to where your father died.
- Schmitty!
So this is the edge
of the mine's land.
- What?
What?
What is it?
[screeching]
- What?
What is it?
- Wait.
- Matilda!
- Mads, there's
something out here.
- Yeah, there's
something here, too.
[tense music]
[gunshot]
- Let's get out.
Come on.
[tense music]
- Oh, shit.
- Fuck me.
[tense music]
- What did that?
- I don't think you were
the first one to kill this.
- No, this thing has
been dead for a while.
It was moving.
I shot it in a drop.
- What the fuck?
- Hey, guys, keep
the noise down.
Turn your lights out.
- What's wrong, Dave?
Do you see something?
- You see another
dead cow we can shoot?
- I'm worried about
what can see us.
Hey, be quiet.
Spread out.
Head back up in that direction,
and then double back here
to the Yurt, OK?
And if you hear anything
or see anything, call out,
and we'll come running.
- If I see anything,
I'm shooting it.
- I'm killing whatever it is.
I'm not wasting time
telling you guys where.
- You couldn't even kill a
dead bull laying in the grass.
Come on.
[tense music]
- This water, it has
the smell of the beast.
- I reckon it's
runoff from the mine.
This billabong
should be glowing.
- I never trusted the
chemicals they used over there.
[tense music]
- Come on, you piece of shit.
[screeching]
[screaming]
- Mecca!
- Faster, faster, faster!
- Jenny!
Jenny!
- Dave!
Dave!
[tense music]
[screeching]
- What now?
- It's Dave.
[radio chatter]
Holy shit.
- Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
- Dave.
- Please, please.
- Stay with us.
Stay with us.
- It's gonna be OK.
We're gonna take you home, OK?
- Stay with us.
It's
- Gonna be OK.
We're gonna take you home.
- It's all right.
It's OK.
- Dave, please.
You're safe.
You're safe.
It's OK.
- Dave, please, can
you listen to me?
Listen to me.
We'll take you
home, Dave, please.
We have to do something.
We have to do something!
- Sweetheart, he's gone.
- He's not.
Come on.
Come on!
Come on.
He's not.
He's not gone.
Come on, please.
[somber music]
- Come on, Dad.
It's not that cold.
Dad.
Dad!
- Hang on, hon.
Hang on, hang on!
Maddy, where are you, love?
[somber music]
- Maddy.
- The miners and Troy and--
and Dave.
- This is not your fault.
- And Dad.
It's like they're all
just dying because of me.
- That's not true, sweetheart.
- It is.
- Tell her.
Tell her.
- I don't--
- Tell me what?
- You had nothing to do
with your father's death.
- Schmidt.
- He-- he died because of me.
- Bullshit.
- Schmidt.
- It's because he was drunk.
- No.
What?
- He was staggering
around out there.
He fell down.
- No.
- He hit his head,
and he bled out.
That's what happened.
- No, that's not what happened.
He-- no, I remember.
He cried out for me.
I remember that, Schmitty.
He saved me.
- Think about it, Maddy.
You were a incredible
swimmer from the time
you were knee high.
The whole story doesn't
even make sense.
Try to remember.
Try to remember about that time.
- Come on, Dad.
It's not that cold.
- Maddy?
Maddy, where are you, love?
- Maddy?
Darling.
- And that the--
the whole town
just believed that?
- The whole town wanted to
believe your father was a hero.
Star athlete, Vietnam vet.
Everybody loved hanging out
with him, drinking at the pub.
Sometimes it's easier
to believe a lie
than to face an ugly truth.
- Donna?
- Is that how you
wanted to remember him?
Is it, Maddy?
- Don't move.
I don't think he
knows we're here.
- Let's get the
fuck out of here.
- No.
Suck it out.
Suck it out.
[screeching]
- Move!
- Drive, Maddy, drive!
- Get us out of here!
Get us out of here!
- Did I kill it?
Did I kill it?
- You must have, Maddy.
[tense music]
- Shit.
- How is that thing still alive?
- Yeah, he won't be for long.
Come here, boy.
Fuck.
- Are you sure you
want to do this?
- Fuck.
Shit.
- Maddy.
- Maddy?
- Oh, shit.
- Oh, fuck.
- Ow.
- Fuck.
For fuck's sake!
Shit.
- I'm gonna check the perimeter.
- You lied to me.
- I know I should have told you.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Hey.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's OK.
- No sign of him.
- I don't know what's going on.
But I shot it,
and it didn't die.
- Indeed.
- We have to warn everyone.
- Oh, I guess we're walking.
Follow me.
We've lost him for
a while, I think.
[tense music]
It's not far now.
[tense music]
[sighs]
- So is that piece of
crap car gonna work?
Where are the keys?
- Yeah, I got the keys.
But that's-- that's
not the problem.
- What's the problem?
- The battery died on
the way back from town.
- Sorry, so it's not in the van?
- No, it's on a--
it's on the charger,
which is out there.
- All right, well, does
this thing still work?
- Yeah, that works.
- Yeah, all right, because I
think we need to head into town.
We need to warn people.
We need backup.
- I gotta go fire
up the generator.
- No, I'll--
I'll go.
You call it in as soon as that
thing sparks up, all right?
Is the genny still
in the same ditch?
Be ready to go.
- We'll be ready.
- Do you still think about him?
- Every day.
I think about you
every day, too.
It's been a while since
we had a chance to--
to talk.
- We had the chance for
about 20 years, Schmitt.
You weren't the one
for much talking.
- Some things, they're
just hard to talk about.
- I know.
Easier to take off, hang
gliding, fire fighting,
all that hero stuff,
while I run the pub.
- It wasn't about--
- It was the rush, wasn't it?
The adrenaline?
There was a big part of you
that was still in the war.
We both paid the price for that.
- Guilty.
- I know the war did terrible
things to you and Murray.
But it did terrible
things to you and me.
Why couldn't you just
talk to me, Schmitty?
I would have listened.
I lost my brother,
and then I lost you.
- Losing you was the worst
thing that ever happened to me.
- You never told me that.
- You deserve better
than this, this Schmitty.
Hmm?
What?
What?
- That smile.
- Like me a little bit?
Might like me a little bit?
- A little bit.
[dog barking]
- Ralphie!
Come here, buddy.
Oh, hello.
[tense music]
- Yes!
- Good girl.
Mads.
Farinet Hotel, come in, please.
Farinet Hotel, come in, please.
[upbeat music]
- Ralph!
Ralph!
Come on.
Oh, my goodness.
What a good boy.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, there's my boy.
That's my boy.
You found him.
- He found me.
There you go.
- I'll get the battery.
- I'll get Donna.
Yes, yes.
OK.
Oh, you're a good boy.
Come on.
- Copy that.
All available units are
being turned to Ax Head.
Over.
- Thank you.
Ralphie.
Good boy.
[screeching]
The hotel isn't answering.
- I think we better
get over there.
[tense music]
- Shit.
Here.
[screeching]
- Go, go, go!
[tense music]
- A group of us went out
to destroy whatever animal
killed Troy Kitchener.
It's a fucking massive roo.
We're the only ones left.
- Where's Dave?
- He's dead.
They're all dead.
[tense music]
- It is here!
It is here!
- Come on.
Maddy, come on.
Come on.
- We need to lock-- we need
to lock every door and window.
We need to barricade
that front door.
And our only chance
is to keep it out.
Go.
- Barricade that door.
Lock everything top
to bottom, you guys.
- That way.
[tense music]
- Come on.
One more, one more.
- Got it.
Come this way.
- Where is he?
Where's he gone?
I can't see him.
Where is he?
- I'm not sure.
But he knows we're in here.
[sirens blaring]
- They're coming.
They're coming.
- How many cows are coming?
- There's only one car.
- Shit, shit, shit, shit.
He doesn't know why he came.
Stan!
Stan!
- Stan!
- Stan, get back in your car!
Stan!
Stan!
- Maddy?
- Stan, get back in the car!
- Stan, get back in the car!
- G'day, skip.
[screaming]
- Fuck me.
- Maddy, we got to get
these people to safety.
- We've got to get out of here.
- OK, everyone, listen up.
Donna, is there
room in the cellar?
[screaming]
- Follow me!
- You'll be safe.
Don't worry.
All right, all right.
You'll be safe.
Careful.
- Get in, get in.
- I've been thinking about Dad.
- Maddy.
- Just everything I've been
doing since then, everything.
- Maddy, we've gotta
get out of here.
- Yeah, but we have
to do something.
- They are safe in the cellar.
We can go out and get help.
- I can't do that.
- Maddy, I was--
I was wrong to lie about Murray.
But you keep wanting to pay
a debt that you don't owe.
- Stay as hidden as you can.
Go.
Hey, go, go.
[panting]
- They're safe for now.
- I have a plan.
- So what's your plan?
- I'm gonna blow the
fuck his brains out.
[screeching]
- Maddy, we got to save
those people down there.
- Sweetheart, no, no.
Sweetheart, no,
it's not worth it.
Don't do it, sweetheart.
No.
Don't leave.
Please, please.
[tense music]
[screeching]
[screaming]
- Don't you touch my
girl, you big red bastard!
- Maddy!
- Oh, my god.
Hey.
[dog barking]
My dad wasn't perfect, but
I know that he loved me.
Maybe I can take that
and be OK with it,
to choose to let go
of the hero I lost
and hold on to the
family I found.
[somber music]
- What the hell?
Ah!
[screaming]
- Hey, boss!
[tense music]