Territory (2024) s01e06 Episode Script

1
[Graham] This land here
is what we make of it.
We're family.
And I need youse to fight for it now.
[door closes]
[Emily] You're lucky Colin didn't come in.
'Cause that gun that he carries
on his hip, it's not just for show.
What's it for?
For killing snakes.
Miller, I've got quarantine yards ready.
Now, you want to shut me down?
You know, hold our cattle
and just bleed us dry?
When this is over, I'm coming for you.
Thought you was my brotherboy.
You both screwed me,
stabbed me in the back.
[Graham] Sandra Kirby bailed me out.
She also told me that Dan
- was gonna sell Marianne to her.
- [gun fires]
When I get back,
you and my brother are gone.
I will hunt you from this place!
She seems to think maybe
there was more to his death.
[whinnying]
[groans]
I saw it all.
You keep them all away, or you're gone.
Sorry Place, that one.
- Bad business happen there.
- [shouts]
You gotta feel country,
so the country knows you.
[man] An old gold mine.
It's got infrastructure we need.
[man] There are better alternatives.
They're not on Lawson land, are they?
Get me that one.
Letting Sandra
build a port on your property?
She's gonna put a road through Marianne
because of this.
It's your property. Your problem.
Marshall been for a visit?
No, rich boy left me to die.
[sobs] Sharnie's dead.
[Sharnie] Who are you mixed up with now?
I'm working for Campbell Miller.
[Marshall] Get out of here.
- Let's go!
- Hey!
- Marshall!
- Yeah?
[Susie] Marshall!
- Susie!
- [bull bellows]
Susie!
Ma.
[birds squawking]
[breath trembling]
[Susie] Leave him! Marshall!
All right! Break it up! Enough!
Susie! Let go!
[sobbing]
[priest] Save me
for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Remember the waters recede
and the land must be remade anew.
[cattle mooing]
[snorts, grunts]
Emily!
[rifle cocking]
[Colin] Hey!
Hey!
Lower that rifle!
Put it down!
It's not gonna bring her back.
Nothing will.
[Emily] I can't be here.
- [car door closes]
- [engine starts]
[horse whinnies]
[crickets chirping]
Hey, mate.
Might be time to give it a rest now, son.
Says the fucking alcoholic.
Yeah.
Listen to me, Marshall.
[Marshall sobbing]
It's not your fault that Susie died, mate.
Well, whose was it then?
Huh?
I'm a I'm a piece of shit like you!
Come on, mate.
That's not true. You're a good person.
Shut up.
Come out to the campfire.
We're gonna get through this,
but we're gonna do it together, okay?
No.
I'm right here.
You're home, mate.
[Colin coughs]
[fire crackling]
[door opens]
You need to look out for that boy.
[engine starts]
- He'll need help.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's you and me go shoot that bull.
Nah.
No, that's for Em.
[birds chirping]
[Sandra] You were with her
for such a short time.
But I could see how special she was.
That poor family.
From what you told me,
she was the only one
keeping them together.
The only hope they had.
And now she's gone.
And now she's gone what?
It's a tragedy for them.
Now she's gone,
they're broken, and you can
- you can exploit their weakness?
- No, that's not what I meant.
She's She's dead
and all you see is opportunity.
Do you know why I loved Susie Lawson, Mum?
Because she's the opposite of you.
You wanna talk honestly, my boy?
She would have ruined you.
You've seen that pathetic wreck
her father is.
That would be you.
A weak man dominated by a strong woman.
You think I'm weak,
but I've been watching you.
Listening, learning.
Careful, son.
You be careful, Mum.
[Keeley] Schedule that meeting for Monday.
[indistinct chatter]
And then we're just
gonna do one on Thursday.
3:30.
[speaks Australian Aboriginal language]
Hi.
Hey, girl. You know that deal you done?
Not good.
Not good at all.
That deal's bringing in $40 million
to our community.
And all we gotta do is let Sandra drive
on our land every now and then.
And Marianne Station?
That Lawson place is nothing
we gotta worry about.
The Lawsons mean nothing.
That's all our country.
That road's going through
that Sorry Place and sacred place.
What sacred place?
You don't know?
It's men's business area.
You know what they'll do to it
to get their road through.
You need to shut that road down.
But the deal's being done.
Get it undone or big trouble.
Okay.
I'm warning you now.
[loud rock music playing on speakers]
[indistinct chatter and laughter]
That's my beer.
Is that right?
What are you gonna do about it?
- Piss off, you roo.
- Roo?
Who the fuck says "roo",
you Neanderthal-looking cunt?
[man grunts]
[laughs sarcastically]
Jesus Christ.
- You can do better than that, mate.
- [both grunting]
[people exclaiming]
[thuds]
[man grunting]
[woman] Oi! Oi, Nathan!
[Nathan] Get him out of here.
He's fucking pissed.
[groaning]
[woman] Oi.
[coughs]
Sharnie?
[birds screeching]
[groaning]
What's wrong with you?
Marshall?
Susie's dead. And I
I thought I killed you.
Hey.
Hey.
I'm so sorry.
You're a mess.
How'd you know where to find me?
I didn't.
I was getting a bottle for me and Rich.
You're back with him?
No.
I'm just staying with him for a few days.
I'm moving on.
Clean yourself up.
Wait, Sharnie.
I thought you were dead.
Thought I'd never see you again.
[both breathing heavily]
You're going to live here now?
[tool clicking]
I can't go back to Marianne.
[birds screeching]
I remember a little girl
who wanted to be somebody in the Top End.
Beat everyone.
Everyone who looked down on us.
All those up-themselves bastards.
Then you married one of them.
Little Susie came along.
You put on that mask of yours
and forgot who you were.
Fooled yourself into thinking
you were doing it all for your daughter.
But it was never for her, was it?
You know what I'm saying?
It was all for you.
It was your ambition.
Even your daughter knew that.
So, the only way back
from this now is to stay true.
Take that station
and fuck those Lawson bastards.
That's not what Susie would've wanted.
[door opens, creaks]
[door closes]
[cattle mooing]
- [man] Hey!
- [Colin] Well, it's a stitch-up, innit?
Well, how's this for an accusation?
When I'm done with him,
I'm coming after you.
Which one of your friends was that, Dad?
That's Oscar Hillderman Trucking.
Refusing to deliver any fuel.
All right.
Well, what about the quarantine mob?
No, no, no. Miller's got them as well.
Refusing to expedite anything.
Nah. No, we're royally fucked.
We've got to get these cows
out of the country
because the hay dealers are squeezing us.
[Trent on radio] Graham, you on channel?
[radio beeps]
Hey, mate.
Mate, it looks like
someone's lighting fires
along that eastern fence line.
- [radio beeps]
- Fuck.
[Graham on radio] Six months' worth
of cattle feed up in smoke, Dad!
Yup.
To the right, you fat fuck!
[helicopter hovering]
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Hey!
Hey! Wait for me!
Guys, guys
Guys, I'm trying to put it out.
You working for Campbell Miller?
What? Who's that?
"Who's that?"
[grunting]
All right.
Fucking stay down, mate.
I want you to give him a message from me.
If I catch more of you out here,
I'm going to fucking kill you.
You hear me?
And I'm gonna kill him, too. You got it?
No! What the fuck! Don't you
Don't you fucking dare! Don't! Don't!
[screams]
Oh, you fuck!
[gasping and screaming]
All right, Dad, we're good.
You fucking psycho!
You can't fucking
leave me out here, I'll die!
You should have thought about that
before you fucked with us.
At least leave me some water.
There's a river about 50 clicks
- right over there.
- Yeah.
Are you fucking serious?
[Graham] I'd watch out for crocs.
A five-meter bad boy in that one.
You're fucked. Fuck you!
Starting to get sick of these fuckers.
Well, they're gonna keep
coming for us, though.
[helicopter blades whirring]
If we're gonna save Marianne,
we have to hit back at Miller
with everything we've got.
Because that's the only way
to hang on to it.
It's all or nothing, mate.
- [woman] A conversation about
- [phone vibrating]
Ah. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
- Thank you, Chief Minister.
- [woman] Thank you.
[cell phone beeps]
Col.
Listen, things have gone too far
with Miller. I need that prick gone.
Mate, you're talking to the wrong bloke.
You told us everything would be fine,
that Miller wouldn't get
the fucking presidency.
Oh, fuck that, Col.
Your son got pissed and blew it.
Embarrassed both of us.
Anyway, this is cattle industry stuff.
I can't be seen to be
sticking my hand in this.
The cattle industry
put you where you are, mate.
My family put you where you are.
Don't you ever forget that.
Now you're the Chief Minister,
nothing more.
Bloody-well listen to me.
Marianne Station means something
to people up here.
And you're gonna let a little pissant
Campbell Miller destroy us.
And he won't stop with me.
He'll have his sights on you.
Well, that's why I've got to stay
on his right side.
- I can't make an enemy of him.
- You want to make one of me?
Well, what could I even do?
[thunder rumbling]
You ever heard of storm birds?
[Sharnie] Mmm-mm.
Those big grey things, like channel-bills.
They migrate north when the rains come.
Farmers call them storm birds
because when you see one,
you know a big mob storm's gonna follow.
And these
things, they don't
build a home and raise their young.
They just sneak into other birds' nests,
lay their eggs, and keep going.
I reckon that's because
if they stayed in one place
storms would come and destroy everything.
Sounds like they're always running.
Maybe if they just
stayed in one place,
and let the storms pass,
they could make a life.
[Marshall] Hmm.
We could make a life.
Rich will be back tonight. You should go.
I wanna be with you.
The only thing you had to do
was light a couple of fucking fires.
[phone ringing]
Yeah. Miller.
Aye.
Bullshit. How?
Yeah, we'll see. I'll call you back.
[phone clacks]
They're going to start investigating me
for cross branding.
Cancel my brand.
You know what that means?
It means I can't fucking sell
any of my cattle. Any of it!
[sighs]
What if I kill the Lawsons for ya?
- And how soon?
- [door opens]
All right.
- Yeah.
- Keeley's here to see you.
- I'll call you back, Don.
- That road.
You didn't show us
where it was going on Marianne.
- That's no concern of yours.
- Old men aren't happy.
They reckon it's gone
through a sacred place.
Come on.
My anthropologists have cleared it all.
There's no legal documentation
of any sacred site.
I don't give a shit what they say.
It's there.
Thank you, Sophie.
There's 100 kilometers
of impenetrable ridge line
and the one place
I can get a road through,
you've just realized is a sacred place.
We can throw some lawyers
at you if you like.
- Oh, come on.
- Tie this up for 10, 20 years.
No, that's not necessary.
Where?
That outcrop.
It's a Sorry Place from way back.
[birds squawking]
The mob don't go out there anymore,
but it's sacred.
Men's business.
It's been a sacred site for 60,000 years.
Keels, these pop-up song lines
that your mob keep hitting me with,
it's starting to test my patience.
And your mob treating our land
like it's yours is testing mine.
Community tried to get it
recognized in the '90s
and Colin Lawson shut down the idea.
Paid off some oldfellas.
Go on, then.
We'll just give them some more.
Name the price.
Uncle Bryce won't take it.
Just move the road.
I can't just move the road.
Come on, how much?
[scoffs]
I can't help feeling
like I'm being played here.
I put my trust in you.
I pushed your deal through.
You mess us around,
and we are going to have a real problem.
[birds screeching]
Hey, Nolan.
Ain't none of our stray cattle out here.
You sure I'm allowed on Marianne Station?
Graham okayed it.
He said our cattle were along the river.
[radio beeps]
[sighs] Bullshit, they are.
Hey, youngfella.
What you doing?
Nothing.
You're from Marianne Station, eh?
- Come with us. We'll take you home.
- [rifle cocking]
I'm not from Marianne Station.
Just out on country, aye.
Yeah, okay, kid.
- Hey! Come back here!
- [man] Shit!
You idiot.
[birds screeching]
I think we've got a problem, boss.
[car door opens]
Did you hear the Lawsons
are trying to bury me?
How?
Colin's old boys' club.
He's using the Chief Minister.
I don't know what he's got on him, though.
Well, Chief Ministers
don't last forever, Campbell.
Perhaps it's time
for a change of government.
I'm a billionaire.
What's the point of all this power
if I can't use it?
[Campbell sighs]
I'm putting infrastructure on that place.
The road and the gold mine.
There's a wrinkle to be ironed out.
And they won't be happy about it,
so, it would be reassuring to me
if you could be on hand to protect
my men at the escarpment.
I expect the Lawsons will overreact.
[grunts]
And once they're gone,
Marianne Station's yours.
All I ask is that
you never ask about my business.
[indistinct chatter]
Keep it here.
[Hank] Hey. Your new best mate
is back, Ethan.
[car door slams]
Look, I don't know how to tell you this.
The gold mine my mum's reopened
on Marianne Station,
it's the infrastructure she wants.
The mine's a cover for uranium.
There's no uranium here.
She's not mining it, she's enriching it.
You sell enriched uranium overseas
and then you get paid to take
the radioactive waste back.
All this land out here,
we can bury it, store it, hide it.
The gold mine's a cover.
She's converting the older shafts
into underground storage facilities,
preparing to store radioactive waste
forever on your land.
Just a suggestion
of radiation on Marianne
And no one will buy our cattle.
My mum wants the Lawsons gone.
And she's going to poison
the land to do it.
I know how much Marianne
has meant to you and Suse.
You have to hold on to it, for Susie.
[shower running]
Wakey, wakey, lover boy.
Hey, Marsh, I was
You know I love Sharnie.
Mmm-hmm.
It's weird 'cause
I always had issues with, um
What's the word? Intimacy?
Till I met her. Yeah.
I never really liked people touching me.
Man, I trusted yous.
You were my mate.
You were my mate.
You fucked me.
Yeah. Yeah, you fucked me.
I'm sorry, Rich.
No. It's all good.
Don't worry about it.
Hey, you wanna know where we're going?
Destiny, that's where.
'Cause I'm the hero.
And you're the mutt that dies.
- Nol.
- Hey, Colin!
What's up?
You got a big problem
at your station, Lawson.
This boy here, Dezi,
he was shot at on Marianne.
Okay.
Okay. Hey, all our men are here now.
Everyone's accounted for, okay?
You remember
what these fellas looked like, Dezi?
- I don't know. Whitefellas.
- It's okay.
- Okay.
- Had A-N-F-O on their cruisers.
ANFO. That's explosives. Miners.
- Sandra Kirby.
- Right. Yeah.
Where'd this happen, Dezi?
Near the place where your son died.
[Bryce] Next to that Sorry Place.
- [Nolan] A sacred site.
- What's Kirby doing out there?
She wants to put a road through.
I told Keeley, "No. Move that road."
Sandra's not
She's not moving the road
around the Sorry Place.
She's gonna blow it up.
[door slams]
I just had Lachie Kirby
at my brother's place.
Sandra Kirby is gonna transport
nuclear waste through that port of yours.
And the road
that she's building to Marianne,
she's gonna use that to take it
for storage at the gold mine.
She wants to turn my land
into a nuclear waste dump?
She never said anything
about nuclear waste.
Uncle, that sacred site
is still registered, yeah?
No. This guy blocked it.
But you could register it now,
so she can't touch it.
And we won't oppose it
this time. Right, Colin?
We gotta get up there quick.
We gotta stop her.
Hang on. Hang on.
I know this fella.
We need conditions now.
I can make a claim on that sacred site,
shut that road down for good,
because you can't. You need me.
What do you want, Bryce?
All that land around that river.
No more locked gates. No nothing.
It comes back to us. Official.
Well?
[Graham] Dad, it's only 300 acres.
Jesus. Yes. That's a deal, Uncle.
No more locked gates.
Okay? You mob can move in
whenever you want. Yours.
Everybody happy? Nothing else?
Let's go.
- All right, let's go.
- Okay.
Fuel up a couple of utes.
Rifles in the back. Go.
Okay. You, come with me.
- [Colin] Go, go!
- [Trent] Let's get moving!
[engines starting]
We'll stop these bastards.
[indistinct chatter]
Let's go, Bryce.
Go.
All right. I'm taking the chopper.
You get moving.
[objects thudding]
Pop.
Watch out!
[Colin grunts]
- Rich, no!
- [thuds]
[Emily] There's something that
I've been needing to tell you.
But Graham
I know.
Dan.
I know.
I just wanted to scare him.
When I did, I left him to die.
I'm not asking
for your forgiveness for that.
[sobs] But I do need your forgiveness
for Susie.
Because I feel like
I feel like I put that out there.
That's how it came back.
And I'm
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
You can let that go now.
I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, Em.
It might not have happened if I had been
What should we do?
We don't have to do anything.
- Okay.
- No.
All right.
First thing's first.
Where's the key to that big black thing?
Up your ass.
Yeah.
[sighs]
Hi, buddy.
- [grunts]
- [Marshall grunts, exhales]
Okay, so, so your cockhead grandson,
he promised me and my girl,
like, like a whole lot of fucking money.
And he may be a lying little cunt,
but I know you're good for it
because you're a man of honor.
And I really need you
to pay the family debts.
[engine stops]
Now, what's Miller doing here?
[car door opens]
[Campbell] Graham.
Sandra Kirby has engaged specialists
to examine this site
in connection with mining activities,
so it's her legal right.
[birds screeching]
What are you doing here?
Well, she feels that the Lawsons
have a bit of a reputation for violence.
- I'm here to protect against that.
- Mmm-hmm.
I was expecting your old man
to accompany you today, though, Graham.
Yea, well
he's on his way.
I really, really enjoy this shit.
[Marshall groans]
What do you reckon, oldfella?
You gonna open them safes?
Piss off, swamp rat.
Swamp rat.
[Marshall breathing heavily]
Hey, my step dad taught me this one.
[groaning]
[Rich exclaiming]
Fuck. You're a tough bastard, aren't you?
He's a tough one, isn't he?
- [grunts]
- I will slit your fucking throat, you dog.
It's in the drawer.
Top drawer. It's here.
He loves ya.
He loves ya.
[keys jangling]
Ta.
Very much.
I'm sorry, mate.
Don't matter.
[device beeps]
Uncle, that's them.
[car door slams]
[Nolan] You!
Hand over your detonator, now!
[gun cocking]
You're trespassing, whitefella.
- This is our land.
- [gun cocks]
Lower the weapon, you dumb prick.
Drop the weapon, Brannock.
[guns cocking]
Drop it!
Drop the weapon!
There's 35,000 in there.
Cash.
My mother's jewelry, that's worth 20k.
Just take it and go.
[breathing heavily]
[Rich] What about the smaller safe?
What's in the smaller safe?
Nothing.
What's the fucking code?
Just take what you got and go.
I'll kill him.
No, you won't.
You reckon?
What are you gonna do?
Kill us all?
[breathing heavily]
Oh, fuck.
- [yells]
- [grunts]
How's that there, eh? Eh!
[Marshall groaning]
[Colin] Leave him!
- Leave him!
- How's this then, eh?
- [gun fires]
- [screams]
- That's enough.
- [exhales]
- [screaming]
- Leave him!
He'll open it.
[Marshall groaning]
He'll open it!
You're gonna be all right, son.
I'm gonna kill this prick
if he doesn't put that gun down.
Come on.
[Marshall gasping and groaning]
[lock clicking]
You're gonna have to kill us.
[grunts]
Shit.
[guns firing]
[Campbell] Get down!
[grunts]
[Trent] Shit!
[Campbell] Fuck!
Open that thing again.
What the fuck was in it?
- [Colin grunts]
- [gun fires]
[both grunting]
[gunfire continues]
Uncle!
Uncle!
- [Graham] Bring him around!
- [Nolan] Get him behind.
- Dezi, stay with him.
- Hey!
[Dezi] Uncle! He's been shot.
[grunting]
- Marshall! Stop! Stop!
- [gasping]
Oi! Look at me!
Marsh!
Look at me!
You are not a killer.
Hey!
Bring it!
[screams]
Shit.
[groaning]
I'm sorry.
[choking]
- [Marshall] I'm sorry.
- You all right, mate.
No!
[gasps]
No, no. Pop.
- Pop. No.
- She was in on it, Marsh.
- She had nothing to do with it.
- Look at her.
Been playing you the whole time.
[Emily] Campbell. Campbell.
Don't.
Don't, please, mate.
- She's a parasite.
- Don't.
Fuck 'em all!
- [yells]
- [beeps]
- [explosions booming]
- [gasps]
[in Warlpiri] Oh, my poor country.
Shit.
- [Bryce groans]
- Oh, shit.
No. Come on, Uncle! Uncle!
Fuck.
[coughs]
[grunts]
[rifle cocking]
Nolan!
[breathing heavily]
I dare you, prick.
- They played you.
- I'm begging you.
- They played you.
- I'm begging you, please.
Please.
Marshall.
Please, let her go.
[gunshot echoing]
[Campbell groaning]
[breathing heavily]
[continues groaning]
[Campbell groans loudly]
Come here, mate.
Good boy.
[rumbling]
[birds chirping, squawking]
[Sharnie sniffles softly]
Please stay.
I can't, Marsh.
I love you.
[breath trembling]
You love me. Don't you?
Rich is dead inside, Marsh.
He's gone. You can't ask me to stay.
[crying]
I can't watch you turn
into your grandfather. I can't.
Hey, I won't.
I won't.
[Sharnie sniffles]
Sharnie.
I'm going home.
We can't fight who we are.
Don't. Sharnie.
We can make things different.
We can.
[sniffling]
Take it, Marsh.
Please.
Marsh, take the necklace.
[birds screeching]
[engine starts]
[crying]
[birds chirping]
[birds squawking]
[cattle mooing]
[brakes screech]
[gun cocks]
[bull bellows]
[cattle mooing]
[Sandra on phone] Campbell Miller
wasn't acting on my direction.
Okay. So, who put
those explosives in that cave?
And dumping nuclear wastes on Country.
I am perfectly within my rights to use
the port and road for more than cattle.
Yeah, you're perfectly
more than welcome to come here
and explain it to the mob.
[indistinct chatter]
I would, but I am en route to Singapore.
Now, if Miller survives, he will face
the full consequences of his actions.
And that's why I'm putting you forward
for Acting President
of the Cattlemen's Federation.
Who said I want that?
Nolan, we've had a setback,
but don't get distracted
by petty politics.
The territory's yours
if you still want it.
I didn't know it was yours to give.
[car honks]
- Goodbye, Sandra.
- [phone beeps]
Uncle.
You all right?
I'm still here. Don't worry.
That Sandra Kirby mob.
She took something precious from us.
But we got a long memory, boy.
True God.
[Bryce] Hey.
[in Warlpiri]
I'll be all right, don't worry.
[chatter continues in Warlpiri]
[Dezi] Don't worry about me.
Should have seen this one.
He shot that lug
like he shot that buffalo.
[Keeley] What do you reckon, Uncle Bryce?
[Bryce] Yeah.
[birds twittering]
[grunts softly]
You leaving?
I can't stay.
I know that was our deal
but I don't belong here.
[Emily] Hmm
Hey.
Good luck.
[birds chirping]
The place'll be in good hands.
See you, Pop.
[car door opens and closes]
[engine starts]
[keys jangling]
The big house is yours.
You and Graham can have it.
[horse whinnies]
[horse whinnying]
- ["Kingdom" playing]
- [singer vocalizing]
Made our bed in which we lie ♪
Pretend we don't hear mothers cry ♪
Led by leaders we deserve ♪
All our penance we will serve ♪
And I'm waiting ♪
Waiting for the kingdom ♪
And I'm waiting ♪
Waiting for the kingdom ♪
We walk together
Through the jungle to the other side ♪
We're running away
From everything that we left behind ♪
Now do you remember anything? ♪
I can remember everything ♪
So who's coming with me? ♪
Yeah, who's coming with me
To the kingdom? ♪
Feel the sun come up on high ♪
[song fades]