Faraway Downs (2023) s01e05 Episode Script

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[BUDJERAH AND MATT CORBY: THE WAY]
Just one ♪
Drop from ♪
The sky like the ♪
Teardrop ♪
That forms in my eyes ♪
It brings ♪
New strength ♪
To take its claim ♪
Regeneration ♪
To heal our pain ♪
Ride into the wind ♪
Until you're home again ♪
Feel it in the rain ♪
Can you find the way? ♪
Feel it in the rain ♪
Can you find the way? ♪
It's time we start to relay ♪
The wonders of our history ♪
Our breath defies ♪
The story's page ♪
The songs created ♪
The path we made ♪
Ride into the wind ♪
Until you're home again ♪
Feel it in the rain ♪
Feel it in the rain ♪
Can you find the way? ♪
The way, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Feel it in the rain ♪
The rain ♪
Can you find the way? ♪
The way, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Feel it in the rain. ♪
[TYPEWRITER KEYS TAPPING]
[BIRDSONG]
[PEACEFUL MUSIC]
NULLAH: Drover! It's the Drover!
[HORSES NEIGH]
Yah!
[GENTLE PIANO MUSIC]
[DROVER GROANS AND LAUGHS]
Alright, alright!
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
[ALL CALL ENCOURAGEMENT]
NULLAH: Yeah, Drover!
Ride him!
Yeah, Drover! Drover!
Yeah, I try to be.
Maybe.
I go droving 'cause that's my job.
Alright, boys, that'll do.
Bring 'em down the
back paddock, will ya?
Yeah.
Listen. It's up to Missus
Boss what you do, alright?
SARAH: Come on inside,
boys. It's time for dinner.
NULLAH: I'm coming.
- Jedda, come on!
- [JEDDA BARKS]
Come on, girl.
- [JEDDA BARKS]
- NULLAH: Come on!
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
DROVER: Emmett Dutton radioed in today.
They're putting together
a big Army drove.
He wants me to lead it.
SARAH: Absolutely
not. You just got back.
DROVER: Really?
[SMOOTH JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
What's wrong?
I'm just not used to people
making decisions for me, that's all.
I was just expressing an opinion.
Captain Dutton told me about
this wonderful School of the Air.
It's conducted by radio
all across the country.
I thought it would be good for Nullah.
He wants to go walkabout
with King George.
That's ridiculous. He's a little boy.
- It's not safe.
- He'd be safer in Arnhem Land
than he would be hangin' around here.
- I thought you said
- You can't change him, Sarah.
I thought you said it had
nothing to do with you.
It doesn't.
It's just sooner or later,
you're gonna have to let that boy go.
I don't know what you're talking about.
If he doesn't go through ceremony
he'll have no country, he'll
have no story, no dreaming.
He's gonna be all alone.
[WATER SPLASHES]
This big Army drove.
Let's have dinner, shall we?
I'm gonna take it.
NULLAH: [WHISTLES] Come on!
[JEDDA BARKING]
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
[NEIGHS]
[SINGS IN LANGUAGE]
[VOICES SING IN LANGUAGE]
You belong here.
Emmett! Why didn't you radio?
I'm so glad you're here. Would you
Jeez, you done the place up nice.
Oh, I hope you don't
mind. Bandy let me in.
Yeah, my father would've been proud.
Yeah, it's bloody beautiful.
[LAUGHS] Jeez, I bet
you got all the mod cons.
What do you want?
What I've always wanted. Faraway Downs.
Bandy, call the men.
Bunchemup, Mr Fletcher needs
to be escorted off the property.
Callahan won't be having
any more cups of tea.
I will, though.
Cup of tea, thanks, Bandy.
You know how I like it.
Yeah.
It's alright, Bandy.
You know, these days I
can pull a few strings.
I can probably bring your
creamy in, if you like.
Or I can talk to Dr Barker
and get you guardianship.
I will never sell you my land.
Your land?
My family worked this
property for three generations.
My father died making
people like you rich.
Faraway Downs belongs to me.
Just like you believe the
little creamy belongs to you.
I'll pay you what it's worth.
You can use the money, go south,
get the little one an education.
I'll go to the highest
levels of government,
I'll go to the high court
beyond this country if I have to.
An unmarried woman living
with the likes of the Drover?
I will tell your wife he is your son.
That'd be a mistake.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Kimberley spear.
Glass-tipped.
Real collector's items.
Ooh-er!
You're missing one.
Anyway, I was just, uh, out here
checking on all the properties.
Might do a little buffalo hunting later.
Yeah.
Oh.
Did you hear about the King?
Terrible accident, yeah.
Very dangerous place out here,
even for locals like the
Drover and the little creamy.
You with me?
Anyway, you ought to think
about it, Lady Ashley.
After all, pride's not power.
[DOOR SHUTS]
[SONG IN LANGUAGE]
[GASPS]
Sarah!
SARAH: Drover!
Drover!
[GALLOPING HOOVES APPROACH]
He's not down at the billabong.
Well, then, he's gone walkabout.
Oh! He wouldn't have just
left without saying goodbye.
Get the packhorse ready. We're
going up to Punctuation Point.
- Sing Song?
- Yes?
Tinned food. We're going after him.
- SING SONG: OK, OK.
- You're not listening.
- What?
- Sarah, he's gone walkabout!
Oh, come on, Drover. He is a child.
Yeah, well, he's not our child.
He's an Aboriginal child.
He's gone walkabout!
Bandy!
The next time you see him will
be when he wants to see you.
Besides, he'll be halfway
up to Arnhem Land by now.
- You'll never find him.
- You could find him.
You know that land better than anyone.
You and Magarri can find him.
And do what, huh? Bring him
back here and lock him up?
You could start your own little mission.
Oh, you're just trying to be clever
because you don't want
to be responsible
He's not my son!
What did you say?
I've got to go.
Don't leave, Drover! Don't.
I understood when you
said you had to be free.
I I understood that.
But that that was between you and me
but it's different now.
We've got Nullah.
I've got to go.
- I need you to stay.
- I'll be back in six months.
I need you to stay with me,
and if you can't do that,
then I I would prefer
it if you didn't return.
Alright.
You're the boss.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
Drover.
[FAST-PACED MUSIC]
- [GROWLS]
- Get off me, you stupid mutt!
[GUNSHOT]
Jedda!
Constable!
[BROODING MUSIC]
NULLAH: No!
[NULLAH SHOUTS IN LANGUAGE]
We're here to apprehend
this renegade black,
not to waste a bullet on a dog.
Take this kid and put him in the truck.
[NULLAH SHOUTS IN LANGUAGE]
DUTTON: (OVER RADIO) Tango, echo, seven,
this is Captain Dutton to Faraway Downs.
SARAH: Emmett, this is
Faraway Downs, Sarah speaking.
DUTTON: Thought you'd like to know
police apprehended Aborigine
accused of murdering your husband.
Another thing, they've brought him in
with a half-caste boy
from Faraway Downs.
SARAH: I understand. Will
travel to Darwin. Over.
DUTTON: Sarah, we're evacuating Darwin.
The Japanese threat is very real.
SARAH: Then I'll be there
as soon as I can. Over.
Mr Fletcher.
We've apprehended that young'un,
and in the course of our duties
we arrested the
suspected murderer of
Lord Ashley, King George.
[NULLAH SHOUTS IN LANGUAGE]
You've finally lifted your
game, Callahan. Good on you!
Things are lookin' up.
- [NULLAH SHOUTS]
- [KING GEORGE SPEAKS LANGUAGE]
- [KING GEORGE GROANS]
- NULLAH: No!
[NULLAH SHOUTS IN LANGUAGE]
NEWSREEL: At the urging of
the Australian Parliament,
all local industry is assisting
in the militarisation of Darwin.
Even the Carney Cattle Company
has joined the war effort,
converting its head office,
once a proud icon of the city,
into a military headquarters.
Just days ago, at 6:15am local time,
United States Pacific Fleet
was attacked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
by the Empire of Japan.
The United States has joined the war.
As the Japanese hordes pour
southward towards Australia,
the final evacuation
of Darwin is underway.
[SINGS IN LANGUAGE]
[CHANTS IN LANGUAGE]
[CONTINUES SINGING]
Hey, creamy! Creamy!
Doesn't your mummy want
ya, you filthy creamy?
Come here! Come on.
Come on, my child. Come on!
BOY: Creamy. Hey, creamy!
[TENSE MUSIC]
Don't be so pig-headed, Catherine.
Mother!
Mrs Fletcher, it is possible
for us to arrange someone
to do your essential
job at the Army barracks.
I've told you, this is
my home. I'm not going.
Hang on, love, wait! What
do you think you're doing?
Hey, come back here!
Oh, come on, ladies, come on.
We can say our farewells up on deck.
- Excuse me!
- Nullah!
- It's Lady Ashley.
- SARAH: Nullah!
- Father Benedict, deal with it!
- Nullah!
SARAH: No, this is madness!
NULLAH: I don't want to go!
Was she hiding a piccaninny?
People do the most extraordinary things.
- In times of war.
- NULLAH: Missus Boss!
These poor unfortunates
will be safe in God's hands.
These are not unfortunates.
These are children!
These are no different
to the children you are
taking south to protect.
Missus Boss, don't
let them take me away.
- Nullah! Nullah!
- No!
MYRTLE: She's humiliating herself.
- Please help me!
- We've got to help her!
- Lady Ashley! Lady Ashley.
- Help me!
- This is my child.
- I understand.
Please Nullah!
You don't have an essential
job. You must evacuate
Missus Boss, don't
let them take me away!
MYRTLE: The Church has a plan for them.
To leave those children behind
while we send ours to safety?
Catherine, control yourself!
How can you all be so heartless?
SARAH: Be a brave boy
for me. You be brave.
Neil, I want you to do
something about this.
I want you to help Lady Ashley.
Yeah, no, look, I could
probably sort it out.
You show the ladies to their
cabins, I'll see what I can do.
ALLSOP: Come on, ladies.
To the upper decks.
I will come and find
you, whatever happens.
Whatever it takes, we'll be
together again, I promise.
Come along, child. Quickly. Quickly.
Missus Boss.
You be brave.
- SARAH: Nullah.
- FATHER BENEDICT: Come on.
Nullah! It'll be alright.
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
I will find you! I will!
Nullah!
Nullah!
And I will hear you, my darling.
You know, there's a radio
tower on Mission Island.
Directly in the path of
the oncoming Japanese.
Be the first place the Japs hit.
You are monstrous.
You know, it's not
too late, Lady Ashley.
You can sign Faraway Downs over to me
and I can get your little fella back.
I want them all.
All of the children off the island.
You know, you suffer
from an Achilles heart.
I'll have the original
contract with the original offer
drawn up and ready.
It'll take a little while
to sort the Church out.
You get yourself a room at Ivan's
and I'll get you a job with Cath at HQ.
We'll do this, Lady Ashley.
After all pride's not power.
Yeah. Pride's not power.
[ELECTRIC FIELDS: TJUKURPA]
[WRITERS: Z. FIELDING, M. ROSS]