The Clearing (2023) s01e08 Episode Script

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(ROOSTER CROWING IN DISTANCE)
(LOCK RATTLING)
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (GOAT BLEATS)
GREER: Oh, bugger.
Possums got into the broccoli again.
(TAMSIN GROANS)
Cecilia, you had one
bloody job, hey? Come here.
GREER: I reckon they climb on
her back to get over the fence.
TAMSIN: I reckon she's after
a share of the profits, hey?
- (CAR APPROACHING)
- (CHUCKLING)
GREER: Who's that?
I'll go see.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(THEME MUSIC)
(FREYA BREATHES DEEPLY)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
POLICEMAN: Billy!
Let's get you back home, Miss Heywood.
POLICEMAN: Billy!
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(SIREN BLARING IN DISTANCE)
POLICEMAN: Do you have any
idea of his whereabouts?
CHRISTINE: I don't know where he is,
but Wayne's got nothing to do with this.
POLICEMAN: When was the last
time that you saw mister
CHRISTINE: That's him. That's him.
- POLICEMAN: Wayne Dhurrkay?
- Yeah.
It's Billy. He's gone.
- Where have you come from this morning?
- CHRISTINE: He's gone!
- What are you talking about?
- CHRISTINE: He's he's gone!
POLICEMAN: Mr. Dhurrkay!
- Out for a jog.
- They can't find him.
- Christine, tell me what's going on.
- We don't know. We don't know.
- So you need a ute to go out jogging?
- He's just gone. He's gone missing.
- Did you speak to Freya?
- POLICEMAN: Look, we're gonna need you
- to come back to the station.
- CHRISTINE: No, I
- Go to Freya's.
- CHRISTINE: Please, please find him.
Find out what happened.
- I'll call you from the station.
- CHRISTINE: Okay, all right.
(FREYA PANTING)
(LEO BARKING)
FREYA: Leo!
- (LEO WHINES)
- Where's Billy?
(LEO WHIMPERS)
(FREYA PANTS)
Billy?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
("MÁ VLAST" PLAYING ON CASSETTE PLAYER)
- (PANTING)
- (DOOR CLOSES)
Henrik Wilczek has been
sleeping in my son's treehouse.
He's a convicted criminal
right out of jail.
DEROSA: Get forensics to
check out the treehouse.
- POLICEMAN: Okay.
- DEROSA: Have a seat, Miss Heywood.
I need to ask you a few questions.
Henrik is a part of The Kindred cult.
They take children.
That is what they do.
Can you think of any reason
why Billy might have run away?
He hasn't run away. I just
told you, he was abducted!
DEROSA: Did you see anyone
suspicious near the lake?
I don't know. I was swimming.
I was underwater.
DEROSA: How long were
you underwater for?
BILLY: Six, seven, eight
FREYA: I don't know.
Two minutes.
Billy times me.
DEROSA: Billy was sitting on
the bank when you went underwater
and two minutes later, when
you surfaced, he was gone.
(BUBBLING)
Before your swim, did you and
Billy have any angry words?
What?
No.
DEROSA: And do you have
an older child, Maxine?
Maxine was the subject
of a custody dispute
between you and her
father, Wayne Dhurrkay.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
Parental access was denied to you
due to a history of mistreatment.
Is there someone who can verify
that Billy was at the
lake with you this morning?
Other than you, who was the last person
to see Billy?
- CHRISTINE: Don't try and stop me!
- I'm her mother.
- (EXHALES DEEPLY)
CHRISTINE: Come here.
My daughter will not say another
word without a lawyer present.
- (CELL PHONE RINGING)
- CHRISTINE: Come on.
DEROSA: Yep. Keep him in there.
- Don't let her leave, constable.
- (FREYA GRUNTS)
DEROSA: No, I need to speak to
They have taken Wayne
in for questioning.
What?
- FREYA: He's got nothing to do with it.
- I know.
(FREYA SIGHS)
CHRISTINE: I heard on the radio
that a dog walker saw a
Kombi leaving the lake.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Oh, my God.
(FREYA BREATHES HEAVILY)
ANTON (ON VOICEMAIL): This
is Anton. If I like you,
- I might call you back.
- (VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
Call me immediately.
(FREYA INHALES DEEPLY)
The police say I can't leave.
That Kombi is Anton's.
The Kindred have Billy, Christine.
(SIGHS)
You know what they're capable of.
If Billy comes home, I'll be here.
- Okay?
- Thank you.
- CHRISTINE: Constable Troy, is it?
- TROY: Mm-hm.
- My daughter just needs to have a shower.
- TROY: Okay.
Uh, can I get you a coffee
while you're waiting?
TROY: Oh, great, thank you.
- CHRISTINE: Uh, how do you have it?
- TROY: Uh, little bit of milk.
(KEYS JANGLING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(CAR ENGINE IGNITES)
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
- (REVVING CONTINUES)
- (PANTING)
Christ!
Can anyone confirm your whereabouts
this morning, Mr. Dhurrkay?
DEROSA: Must have come as a shock to you
discovering you had another
child after all these years.
Thinking of applying for custody?
I can understand why you would.
Billy's bruised eye.
Your ex's history of abuse.
All any parent wants is
to keep their child safe.
You've had to make that decision
before, haven't you, Mr. Dhurrkay?
Do you know how many missing
children's cases are custody matters?
80%.
And the other 20?
So, what the fuck are
you doing questioning me,
when you should be out
there finding my boy?
(PANTS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(DOOR CLOSES, CREAKS)
MO: Freya!
- Where is she?
- I just got here.
It was all here yesterday.
(SPLUTTERS) What happened?
- She doesn't have dementia.
- I know that.
- I tried to tell you.
- I know.
And I am so sorry for
what I said to you.
She threatened me.
I was protecting Billy.
I could lose my job for
not reporting it, Freya.
She has my little boy.
I need your help.
If you can remember anything at all.
Any conversations,
visitors, phone calls
MO: I write down words that I hear
that I don't know the meaning of.
Mrs. Beaufort spoke a lot about
birds, animals, and strange things.
- I look them up to improve my English.
- FREYA: "Sciatica, belvedere, korela."
Korela. It is a small cockatoo.
The pastoral life always
suited you, Tamsin.
It's quiet, but we enjoy it.
Solitude is essential for
refining the soul's journey.
Not that I'd know.
I've had my every move
monitored for years.
(SCOFFS)
Preferable to prison, I'm sure.
Preferable?
For who?
ADRIENNE: All roads lead to Rome.
And all documents lead to Tamsin Latham.
A trial would have seen
you in prison for life.
I made sure that never happened.
We're family.
REPORTER (ON RADIO): The search
for 8-year-old Billy Heywood
has intensified with police confirming
that the missing child's
mother, Freya Heywood,
disappeared after
- (SIGHS)
- (HAND BRAKE CLICKS)
(BIRD CAWING)
FREYA: Henrik's been
sleeping in Billy's treehouse.
Anton's Kombi was seen at the
lake, Adrienne's disappeared,
and the cops won't
follow up on any of it.
JOE: Well, Adrienne knew
the game was up and she ran.
- She's done it before.
- FREYA: No.
JOE: It doesn't mean she has Billy.
Anton and Henrik are doing
Adrienne's dirty work.
- Just like they have always done.
- Why would Adrienne want Billy?
(SHOUTS) Because you
publicly exposed her, Joe!
- I told you this would happen!
- What did you expect me to do?
- Keep her dirty fucking secrets?
- Yes!
This is my last chance, Freya.
I've finally got her.
Deception.
False testimony.
Obstructing the course of justice.
This is my chance to
put her away for life.
Did you really think I
was gonna stay silent?
If it meant protecting Billy, yes.
Please.
I need you.
The detective thinks it was me.
They have my history. All of it.
I've got nowhere else to go.
(SIGHS)
There'll be an alert out on your car.
Lay low here.
(SIGHS) Thank you.
JOE: If The Kindred have Billy
I'll get him back.
They have him.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
JOE: She's laying low here.
Yeah, okay.
I'll need your help
to bring her in, Colin.
She's on the run. She needs
to face what she's done.
- We're going to get her this time.
- (PANTS)
JOE: Don't say a word to anyone.
Run the Mercedes' plates.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (FREYA PANTING)
JOE: Adrienne can't have
got far without her passport.
(CAR ENGINE REVS)
Fuck!
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
- (BUZZES)
- I need to find my son.
I know my rights!
You can't hold me here without charge.
- (TIRES SCREECH)
- (HAND BREAK CLICKS)
FREYA: Where have you taken him?
(FREYA PANTS)
Where is he?
Billy?
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
KIDS: Close the door, light the light ♪
We're staying home tonight ♪
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)
(SIGHS)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(FREYA EXHALES SHARPLY)
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
FREYA: Where is he?
- (FREYA EXHALES SHARPLY)
- HENRIK: Amy, what are you doing here?
Where's Billy?
- FREYA (SHOUTS): Where?
- HENRIK: I would never hurt him!
You broke into my house.
You were sleeping in the
treehouse. Where is he?
I-I was watching over you and Billy.
You mean waiting for your chance?
HENRIK: No. I knew they would come.
I didn't I just didn't know when.
You know, I know how
The Kindred work, Amy.
When you threaten them
they just take away the
thing that you love the most.
- Where have they taken him?
- I don't know.
FREYA: You must know.
You've stayed a part
of it all these years.
Kept Adrienne's secrets.
She has something I needed, Amy.
And it's something important.
In the beginning,
I truly believed that we
could change the world.
I just never realized that
beauty could be so dangerous,
and Adrienne, she played the
reed and I danced to her tune.
And when Hannah and I had children,
had a perfect boy and a perfect girl
you know, we should have walked away.
But Adrienne, she
she convinced us that they
would grow up and be stronger,
without the parental stain,
and they would be loved
and they would be
cherished by a community
Where are your children now?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- No.
- (BREATHES SHAKILY)
- No.
- You have to believe me.
Everything I did was to protect you.
All those years, at Blackmarsh.
You never once protected me!
- (FREYA SNIFFLES)
- (BREATHES SHAKILY)
FREYA: That judge should
have put you away for life.
Yes.
He should.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
MO: Corella. It is a small cockatoo.
"Corella."
(DREADFUL MUSIC)
(HAND BRAKE CLICKS)
(KEYS JANGLING)
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(BOAT ENGINE RUMBLING)
(TRANQUIL MUSIC)
(CHAIN RATTLES)
(FREYA GRUNTS, PANTS)
(PANTING)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(FREYA GRUNTS)
(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)
MALE VOICE (IN DISTANCE):
Floods, fires, droughts,
catastrophes of Biblical proportion.
The end of the physical world is nigh.
No one can deny this.
Do we fight it?
An unwinnable fight
against neo-Capitalism,
greed, corruption.
Or do we embrace that our new world,
the world we can
preserve, lies inside us?
Here, without distraction,
we can discover the
the planes of existence
that, in the real world,
lie just beyond our reach.
Together, we can accept the end of days
and and find an
alternate world of serenity,
purity, and wisdom.
Together, we must find the
courage, open the door to meaning
(GRUNTS)
Together, we must find the
courage to seek an alternative
to the cataclysmic failure
that this world offers.
ADRIENNE: Amy.
Welcome.
Tamsin's come home.
Just like you.
It's been a long time
but the light has held
strong in all of us.
- Now we can all be together again.
- Where is Billy?
I wouldn't go making
unfounded accusations, Amy.
They're not unfounded.
You threatened to take Billy if I
Betrayed me?
And did you?
Please tell me where he is,
and I'll go.
FREYA: I won't say a word. I
I'll leave.
Given your history, I would have thought
you'd kept a better eye on Billy.
You want someone to
blame, don't you, Amy?
But the truth is, you've never known
how to look after your children.
You know why, don't you?
Because you've never been cleared.
- (AMY BREATHING HEAVILY)
- (INDISTINCT VOICES)
- Help.
- (YELLS)
When tragedy befalls your children,
you brush it off as an accident.
Someone else's fault.
When will you realize
it all comes back to you?
Your failings.
Your refusal to go through.
The question is, what have
you done to Billy, Amy?
(BUBBLING)
I know you took him.
If I did
I'm sure you'll find him.
BILLY: Mom. Mom.
Mom? Mom! Mom!
(SIGHS)
Billy?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(SIGHS)
(GLASS CLANKING)
CHRISTINE: Amy.
FREYA: Mom.
(SIGHS, SNIFFLES)
BILLY: Mom!
(OMINOUS STING)
(SIGHS)
Billy?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
FREYA: Billy.
Billy.
- SARA: Amy! Help me!
- (WATER RUNNING)
ADRIENNE: The truth is,
you've never known how to
look after your children.
(WATER SLOSHING)
TAMSIN: Sit down!
- SARA: I want to go home!
- TAMSIN: Down!
- (HISSES)
- (YELPS, WHIMPERS)
ADRIENNE: You've failed
in your duty, Amy.
- (AMY BREATHING HEAVILY)
- ADRIENNE: You've failed to realign Asha.
And your failure has put us all at risk.
- I'm sorry!
- Sorry's a hopeless word.
ADRIENNE: The only way to right a wrong
is through actions, Amy, not words.
(AMY BREATHES HEAVILY)
You must baptize Asha
into The Kindred tonight.
Clear her of her sins
and make her one of us.
I don't want to be here! I hate
this place, and I hate you all!
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
ADRIENNE: Clear her of her
sins and make her one of us.
(AMY BREATHING SHAKILY)
AMY: Hold your breath.
One, two, three.
(WATER SPLASHES)
(AMY BREATHES HEAVILY)
(SOBS)
FREYA: No.
(PANTING)
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(AMY BREATHING HEAVILY ON VIDEO)
(AMY BREATHES SHAKILY ON VIDEO)
AMY (ON VIDEO): I'm
sorry, I didn't mean to.
- What have you done?
- Don't leave me!
- Answer me! What have you done?
- I'm sorry!
I killed Asha. I killed her!
AMY (ON VIDEO): I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
(BUBBLING)
- (SOBBING)
- Again.
Again.
(SOBBING)
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
(AMY SOBBING ON VIDEO)
(SOBS)
ADRIENNE: If you could forget that,
then what else have you forgotten?
Billy.
Billy's not here, Amy.
We would never make that mistake twice.
FREYA: I hurt them all.
Asha. Max.
- Billy.
- (LOCK RATTLES)
(KEYS JANGLING)
- I'm sorry.
- (ADRIENNE SHUSHES)
I don't let the past define
me, Amy, and you mustn't either.
The future is what matters.
Where is she?
With Maitreya.
You know if she returns to the mainland,
she'll tell the Blue Devils everything.
Maitreya must be protected at all costs.
We cannot allow Amy to leave the island.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(BIRDS CAWING)
COLIN: I've been
following the money trail.
You'd think given Bryce is
Adrienne's power of attorney,
he'd be in control of Kindred assets,
but Adrienne is way too smart for that.
After the trial was aborted,
everything moved off-shore
and was put into dummy names.
Ada Atkins, Ada Smith, Evelyn Smith.
Yeah, anything to stop
those kids getting a cent.
Then, in the past two years,
property in Brighton, France,
the UK, the Dandenongs,
it's all been sold.
80 million dollars' worth.
Where's the money now?
COLIN: That I don't know.
Money's all she's ever cared about.
We figure out where that 80
million is, we find Adrienne.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
So glad you're here, Ames.
Hey, here.
Max will be happy to see you.
Max?
You thought she came
to see you, didn't you?
But Mommy told her to
come. (SOFT CHUCKLE)
I took her to see her.
Mommy.
They connected instantly.
Mommy told her all about
what we were doing out here.
Max was so excited.
- She wants to be a part of it.
- No.
No, she would never. She
She's gone home on the bus.
No, I met her at Horsham.
I left her with my Kombi, and
now she's coming to join us.
Max has the Kombi?
Yeah.
Yeah, she should be here by now.
Hope she's okay.
Max has Billy.
- Max
- Hey.
(GRUNTS, SNIFFLES)
Max was lost, but now she's found.
What have you done to me?
Family need to stick together, Ames.
Adrienne is not our mother.
Henrik and Hannah gave us up.
(FREYA GROANS, SNIFFLES)
Don't say that.
Don't ever say that.
(ANIMALS CHATTER)
(DOOR OPENS)
You're not going anywhere, Amy.
I didn't hurt Billy.
He's okay. He's with Max.
Adrienne made me believe
that I did, but it's not true.
Maitreya can make
anyone believe anything.
FREYA: What did she make you believe?
That children should be starved?
Drugged? Beaten?
That I was empty,
and that her light would fill me.
And did it?
But you still came back.
Because I love her.
And because I'm weak.
Maybe both, I don't know.
She'll never love you back, aunty.
I know that.
You just watched.
You stood there and
you watched as Asha
Sara. (SNIFFLES, BREATHES SHAKILY)
Her name was Sara.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
Please.
I need to find my little boy.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(FREYA PANTING)
(MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING IN DISTANCE)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
(GASPING)
(FREYA GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
- (GUNSHOT)
- (YELPS)
(PANTING CONTINUES)
SARA: One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
27, 28, 29
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(GRUNTS, GASPS)
I didn't kill Billy.
JOE: I know you didn't.
Max took him.
To to protect him.
(SOBBING)
(FREYA SOBBING)
COLIN: We need back-up via air.
Yes, five kilometers south of
JOE: Colin's put an alert
out on Anton's Kombi.
They'll find Max.
Henrik came to see me.
He told me about the tape.
He confessed to Asha's
kidnapping on the condition
Adrienne would never
show the tape to anyone.
I killed Asha.
No, you didn't.
Adrienne did.
(SOBBING)
(DOOR BEEPS)
If anything's happened to my boy,
I'll hold you personally responsible.
You want me to lock you up for
threatening a police officer?
Go fuck yourself.
(DOOR OPENS)
BRYCE: We are all
searching for an elsewhere.
A place where wonder can deepen.
(HELICOPTER ENGINE RUMBLING)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(HELICOPTER ENGINE RUMBLING)
(SIGHS)
(RUMBLING CONTINUES)
Maitreya.
We must close our eyes,
knowing our existence
continues on another plane.
Let us walk on together.
(SOMBER DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(GOAT BLEATING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(GOAT BLEATING)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
FREYA: No. No, I'm not seeing anything.
All right, all right.
Keep, keep going.
Right there. Over there.
Yeah, we've got it, we've got it.
Thank you so much, Colin. Thank you.
FREYA (SIGHS, INHALES SHARPLY): Billy!
Mom!
WAYNE: It's okay, Max.
You're not in trouble.
(SOBBING)
Max taught me how to make a fire!
Did she? Did she?
Hey, little man.
Good to see you.
Max taught me how to make a fire.
And it's a pretty good fire.
- WAYNE: Wow.
- He doesn't belong to them, Mom.
No. He doesn't.
I think he's
WAYNE: I reckon he's a friend.
None of us do.
(SOFT MUSIC)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(FREYA SIGHS)
(CLOSING THEME MUSIC)