My Place (2009) s01e05 Episode Script

(INTRIGUING PIANO AND CELLO MUSIC) I'm a witch.
Brrrmmmm! I am the magician! I'm not weird.
You're gonna get in so much trouble! (LAUGHTER) GIRL: Oooh! (GIRL SQUEALS) (FUSE BURNS) GIRL: All set.
Run! (GIRLS GIGGLE) (BANG!) Whoa! Got 'em! Take that, you sneaky Chinese! They're Vietnamese, not Chinese.
What? I've got another bunger.
Let's do it again! Hey, isn't that Michaelis? GIRL: My name's Sofia, and this is my place.
And my job is to save my brother Michaelis from girls.
Mum! (WOMAN SPEAKS GREEK) (CONTINUES SPEAKING GREEK) No, she's the Australian girl, Janice.
Her name's Janice.
(DOOR OPENS) MAN: Hello! It's me.
(KISSES) (SPEAKS GREEK) Me? SOFIA: OK, a little unfair, I know.
But this is war.
(DOOR CREAKS) Don't you knock? It's eight o'clock.
It's the weekend.
But if we leave early, we can park really close.
I can't make it today.
Why not? I'm going out.
Where? Oh, it doesn't matter where.
I'm going out! But we always go to Luna Park! Well, today we're not! But I'll get bored! Ask Maroula.
But you're going away! This is our last chance.
I'll be back on leave.
We'll do it then.
That could be months! Sofia, don't follow me to the toilet, OK? (MEN SPEAK GREEK) Use the backyard toilet.
You want it ready for your party or not? I need a shower! You can wait an hour.
MAN ON TV: How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, and my friends everywhere? I'm Julius Sumner Miller and physics is my business.
I have here a thermometer, mercury in glass.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) You know how it is made and works.
Well, notice Sophie, isn't it? I'm Janice.
WOMAN: Sofia? (SPEAKS GREEK) (WOMAN YELLS IN GREEK) Oh, gas man, Mama.
(WOMAN REPLIES IN GREEK) (SPEAKS GREEK) Is, um Mick in? He's out with Gina.
With his girlfriend.
She's Greek.
She works at the shop with Maroula.
Really? Janice! Hey! Hi.
You're early.
You look good.
Er Come in.
Thanks.
Gas man? Hey! SUMNER MILLER ON TV: Yeah, I'm alright.
OK? Faith in physics.
JANICE: This is lovely.
Thank you.
(HAMMERING) You must get quite homesick for Greece.
(SPEAKS GREEK) (SPEAKS GREEK) Yes, we do, but we love Australia.
(CRASH!) (MEN YELL IN GREEK, WATER RUNS) Oh, do you keep birds? Yes, we love birds.
But we don't have one right now.
I love birds too.
Ah.
(FOOTSTEPS) OK.
Ready? Yeah.
What did you say to her? I don't know.
Was it rude to ask about the bird? Give me my i Give me my ice-cream.
Give me my i Give me my Mick! (LAUGHS) (LAUGHS WILDLY) No, no, no! No, please don't.
Please don't! Please don't! Please don't! Mmm.
(KISSES) (WOMEN CHAT) (SPEAKS GREEK) They went to the pub together and drank beer.
And she used some bad words.
(SPEAKS GREEK) SOFIA: Mum! (BEAR SQUEAKS) (RAPID FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) How could you do that? Don't lie! You told them she was drinking and swearing! What do you think Mama thinks now? Don't you ever do something like that again! (DOOR SLAMS) SOFIA: "Dear God, please get rid of Janice.
Should I say anything else? I dunno.
What are you putting? "It's OK if she doesn't die.
Thank you.
" Maybe we should have written in Greek.
My dad says Greek is the language of the Bible.
God speaks English too.
God must have a lot to think about.
SOFIA: So in case God is too busy, I need a plan B.
BO Y: Let me bowl! Come on! Yes! Howzat! Shut up, you wog.
Go and play soccer.
Use a soccer ball, you might hit something.
Sofia? Hi.
I'm on my way to your place.
I've got a present for your mum.
You wanna see? Actually, I'm telling everyone it's for your mum.
But it's really for you.
It's for your sitting room.
(GASPS) Oh.
Can I see what's in the box? It's just a bird.
BO Y: It's a six! There he is in there.
Can you see? Ohh! SOFIA: Here! I found your keys! Thanks, mate.
It's alright.
She found them.
Gotta go.
See you in the morning.
(MUSIC PLAYS ON TV) (DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES) MICK: Sofia! Sofia, get up here! (FOOTSTEPS) Look.
Look at this.
Every one.
Every one! They've all got lipstick on the collar! What are you doing to me? Why are you? Get out! Get out! So, he put all his shirts in a laundry bag and took them to her place and showed her.
Why does she care? Because it looks like he's been kissing someone else.
Ugh! Does she believe him? She's coming for dinner tonight.
Hey, what's up with Silvio? His brother got blowed up in the war.
He stepped on a bomb or something.
(WHISPERS) How come you hate her so much, anyway? Because she's not Greek? (QUIETLY) "To who "it may concern" What are you doing? I need you to take this for me somewhere after school, alright? "Please stop annoying my boyfriend, "Michaelis Koutafides.
" Can we have an ice-cream? Maybe.
This way, mate.
I need to get a haircut.
I want you to lay off Janice, alright? Things don't always stay the same just because you want them to.
You'll get a boyfriend yourself one day.
Blurgh! I will not! (SIGHS) Why do you have to go? You were there.
They called out my birthday on the TV, remember? I don't wanna go.
Yes, you do.
No, I don't.
But they put you in jail if you don't go, and that could make it hard for me to be a teacher, so Is it dangerous? No, it's just like camping.
Silvio's brother got blowed up.
I think he's dead.
Well, OK, it's a little bit dangerous, but hardly anybody gets hurt.
The Army's very, very careful.
Hey, listen, I need you to look after my record collection, OK? It's very important.
OK.
Anybody plays 'em, they die.
Except you.
OK? You can play them, nobody else.
You want an ice-cream? You gonna write to me? Yeah.
One letter every week.
I said I would.
Good.
(CLIPPERS BUZZ) (KNOCK AT DOOR) MAROULA: Oh, hi.
Come in.
He's in the kitchen.
Thanks.
Hey.
What do you think? GI Joe, huh? What's up? I found this under my door when I got home.
What is it? Read it.
"To who it may concern" She says you've been going out for a year.
Sofia! Get down here! What? Will you get down here? What for? Just do as I say! Do you know anything about this? No.
MICK: You don't even know what it is.
I found it under my door this afternoon.
Well, I didn't do it.
I was at school.
Then after that, I was at the barber's with you.
(PHONE RINGS) Look, I really don't know any girl called Gina.
I don't even know what this is.
MAROULA: Michaelis! There's a Gina on the telephone.
A young girl.
Right, I'm going.
No, just wait.
I don't know what Just wait there.
MICK: Who is this? Yeah, I don't know any girl called Gina! Who is this? (HANGS UP) Janice.
'Bye! Janice, wait! I don't know who that was.
I don't care.
(SPEAKS GREEK) (SIGHS) Here's your coffee.
Go away.
Why don't we do something? We could go skating.
Go away.
But you're leaving in a few days! Go away, Sofia! Get out! Get out of my room! I'm not your property! (GREEK MUSIC PLAYS, PEOPLE LAUGH AND CHATTER) Why don't you get me a beer, huh? (BOTH SPEAK GREEK) (SPEAKS GREEK) Turn down that noise! I've got rights too, you know.
Hey, sorry, Mrs Benson.
I said, could you turn down that noise? Oh, yes, OK.
OK, Mrs Benson.
Deaf, they're all deaf.
(SPEAKS GREEK) (REPLIES) (SPEAKS GREEK) Hi.
Hi.
I couldn't stay away.
(MAN CLEARS THROAT) Er, this is my father's cousin, Theo Yannis.
(MAN SPEAKS GREEK) Hello.
(SPEAKS GREEK) And this is his wife, Gina.
She works at the shop with Maroula.
Here's your drink.
I forgot about it.
Er anyway l-I need to Thanks for coming.
(SPEAKS GREEK) Nice to meet you.
Mick.
(SIGHS) Want some? (SOBS) (SPEAKS GREEK) (SPEAKS GREEK) (ALL LAUGH) You'd better take the badge off before you get there.
I'll call you from Kapooka.
(EMOTIONALLY) Make sure you do.
Just tell me one thing.
How'd you do the letter? Hey, I'm your brother, I'm going to war.
You wanna leave anything unsaid between us? Mareka.
I wrote it, but she put it under the door when we were at the barber's.
And that was her on the phone, huh? Pretending to be Gina? I think I'm safer in Vietnam.
You look after Janice for me, huh? (SPEAKS GREEK) (SOBS) (SPEAKS GREEK) 'Bye! 'Bye.
'Bye! Drive safely! Australia.
It's OK.
Come here.
It's OK.
SOFIA: So, I had to write a second letter to God, which is kind of embarrassing.
You can't laugh, alright? So I said, "Dear God, please look after Michaelis in Vietnam.
"Don't let him kill anyone or get killed, "and forget what I said about Janice.
"Thank you.
Love, Sofia.
" I said it was embarrassing.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC) (GIRLS LAUGH) GIRL: Wait for me! GIRL: It's just like heaven.
(GIRL SQUEALS) Duck for cover! Cover!