Reef Doctors (2013) s01e12 Episode Script

1 When the sun did rise this morning I got a change upon my mind I could hear my soul a-calling In my heart I know it's time 'Cause I'm a medicine woman I know the sparks are gonna fly Whoa, woman For a cure of heart and mind Ah, ah, ah 'Cause I'm a medicine woman I'm gonna look life in the eye Yes, I'm a medicine woman I know the sparks are gonna fly! If you're gonna perve, at least make it less obvious.
If you're supposed to be working, can you give me a hand? I am working.
How much did you waste on that metal detector? I invested a hundred bucks.
A hundred? It's called venture capital.
If you wanna make money, you gotta buy the hardware.
Welcome to another exciting and profitable idea - treasure hunting.
You've got no business brain.
Backpackers are always losing coins and jewellery in the sand.
And I'm gonna find it.
Uh-huh.
How's that working for you? Here.
50 cents? Wow, you're gonna be so rich! Now you can stop working two jobs and retire.
It just It just needs adjusting.
And that's where you come in.
Me? Yeah, alright, sure.
I'll calibrate it for you.
For 20% of everything you find.
In your dreams.
5%? 10, and that's my final offer.
Deal.
I'd have gone with 12.
I'd have gone with the five.
Thank you.
What were you saying about my business brain? Can you help me with this? Oh, hi.
Whose is that? It's Nell's.
What's all this? Spring cleaning and major de-cluttering before the wet season.
And I felt the need to reaffirm my connection with the kitchen.
Oh, Mum, you can't throw this out.
Jack, he has been devoured by white ants, black ants, moths, cockroaches, a wasp even built a nest in him.
Hey, uh, what's this? Oh, that is some of your grandad's things.
I didn't wanna throw it out so I'm just moving it to another cupboard.
But you are happy to throw my stuff out.
These are his marine charts.
I used to love it when he'd show me these.
Used to have scribbles all over it.
Water depths.
Tidal flows.
He spent years compiling all of this stuff.
He even had this amazing theory that, uh, the Portuguese landed here before Captain Cook.
Mum, do you mind if I have a look through this? Maybe show these to Toby? I know he'll get a kick out of this.
Sure.
She looks like she can swim a bit.
In training.
After this, it's the Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim challenge.
She takes it all pretty seriously.
Then we head for the Rottnest Channel.
I did the Southern Ocean Swim when I was 23.
Damn near killed me.
Whatever happened to playing netball? Very funny, Dad.
How did I go this time? Water.
Hydration is the key to long-distance ocean swimming.
Give it to Dad.
He needs it more.
Don't stay in the sun if you get tired, OK? Who's the parent here? Good kid you've got there, Brian.
The best.
You got any? Yeah, one.
Not too close, though.
Not like you, obviously.
You got a daughter who still wants to go on holiday with you.
You must have done something right.
A lot of it's down to my wife.
Well, then you've both done good.
Got any other kids? Two boys.
Oh.
They keen on hanging out with the old man? Been away with each of them one on one.
Aw, I see.
They, uh, don't get on together, eh? Nah, they're all good mates.
I just wanted to spend a bit of time with each of them.
Kind of a bucket list.
Coming here to train was Emma's idea.
Sorry, mate.
Didn't mean to pry.
Small island, you know.
Didn't mean to be a downer.
I've got type 2 diabetes.
Multiple sclerosis.
Treatable? I give myself daily injections to try to stop the progress.
But it's not a cure.
Andrew rang.
Oh, OK.
He wanted to know if we've ever had a patient with a centipede envenomation.
Not in my time.
Dad might have.
We don't have biting centipedes on the island, do we? No, no, no, that's fine, Andrew.
We can do that.
Thanks, Sam.
I know it's an unusual request, even for you.
Yeah, and you spooked Livvy.
Sorry.
Before you go, I understand you spoke to James again.
About the funding? Yes.
And? I told him what I told you, Andrew.
I will not give my data to Malcolm and that is that.
Alright, we'll talk.
OK.
Do you need me? No, not yet.
Rick has the first three covered.
Oh.
Gus! Do you feel like a bug hunt tomorrow? Always.
For what? The university want to buy some centipede venom.
Centipedes.
I hate centipedes.
I thought that it was eight legs that you didn't like? Yeah, well, a hundred's gotta be worse.
You really think this is gonna be the 'Esperanca'? You wanted provenance.
I have clients who would sell their grandmothers for a piece of shipwreck history like this.
Well I prefer the cash.
So do I.
And now that we have proof that this is the 'Esperanca', every artefact triples in value.
We'd best protect the evidence then.
OK.
Trust me, it'll work now.
I've got something already! Hold this.
Didn't you set this so it doesn't detect beer-bottle caps? Hey! Haven't you people ever heard of bins? Shhh.
Sorry, did you want the 'gold and jewellery only' setting, did you? Hey, who's Toby with? Uh backpacker? She doesn't look like a backpacker.
And that's not a very big pack.
Scuba diver? She so ain't getting wet.
Oh, shit! Toby's got a girlfriend.
No way! Definitely a girlfriend.
- Isn't she exhausted yet? - Energy of youth.
She'll swim all day, dance half the night.
Surprised you were still here.
Not that it's any of my business.
I should have headed back in hours ago.
I just hate wasting time these days.
That kid of yours.
Do you get to catch up with him? Not that it's any of my business.
He showed up recently.
After 30-odd years, he finally got to meet his old man.
Left me his business card.
Sometimes I think it would be good to keep in touch.
It's never too late.
I think it is.
A drink to celebrate? Thank you.
I spoke to our client.
He's very keen to proceed with the sale.
How much will he pay for the bell? Well, here's a down payment.
Eight and a half grand.
That's nothing to what we will get.
And we know there's plenty more down there for which you can write your own cheque.
Cheers.
Before we go any further, though, I thought we could discuss our exit strategy.
What strategy? Well, unless we're going to declare the wreck Pay over half of everything to the government? So we need to make sure we're long gone before anyone starts knocking on our door.
This place is now a part of your past.
It's no longer part of your future.
Oh, come on, Toby.
It can't be a surprise to you.
I need time to get things in order here.
You know, you and I make a good team.
Be a shame to break that up.
You know, while you're working things out, why don't you find me a room? Unless there's a spare bunk on your boat? I'll, uh I'll find you a room.
Can I give you a hand with that? No, thanks.
No, I got it.
Where do you want it? Oh, on the veranda, I'll get Gus to go through it later.
Thanks.
No worries.
How have you been? Fine.
You? Good.
Busy? Always.
Catch you later.
What? Slow down.
What do you mean? Stop scurrying around trying to cover the whole beach.
Yeah? Yeah.
You should measure out a grid, so you're not covering the same ground.
Find more that way.
Yeah.
Cool.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Way to go, Jack.
I've found a dozen coins, a watch and now this.
Oof! Keep the money and advertise the rest for a finder's fee.
Nell, you have got some initiative.
Well, gotta keep my investors happy.
Oh, you've got investors? Well, Jack.
He's maintaining my means of production in return for a profit-sharing arrangement between employees and management.
You're gonna run the world one day, Nell.
That's the plan.
You like it here, don't you? Well, I grew up here.
What's there not to like? You've seen lots of other places.
I've been nowhere.
This place is all I've ever seen.
You know, you might travel the world, but in the end sometimes you find that you had it all right there in front of you.
When I'm rich and been everywhere, I'll definitely feel like that.
Till then, I'm not gonna stay in this place one day longer than I have to.
No of fence.
No, none taken.
Jack! Uh, in here.
Here's your 10% of the cash.
Sweet, thanks.
Plus you'll get a cut of the finder's fee on the watch.
Told you it would work.
Hey, how much do you reckon this is worth? Are they maps of the reef? Yeah.
Yeah.
Shipwrecks, storms, tides.
And a lot about jellyfish.
But it's in some sort of code.
It's really hard to figure out.
Kind of suits me, hey? You're gonna hand that in, right? What for? Well, it's not actually yours.
Uh, it's on my actual finger.
If someone's looking for it, then they can pay a finder's fee.
And if not, why shouldn't I have it? Or sell it? Because it's probably against the law.
Yeah, what law? I don't know.
Hey, I saw Toby's chick again this morning on the beach.
You're always imagining stuff.
You know, they're probably just friends.
Oh, you should show that stuff to Sonny.
It's his beach.
- What are we aiming for here? - Ideally? The giant centipede.
Big forcipules, nasty bite and a lot of venom.
How nasty are we talking? Rippling pain.
Numbness for a few days.
Nausea and vomiting.
And the swelling level, well, that depends on the victim.
OK, well, I'm not planning on getting bitten.
Oh, Gus, every time you get interested in a new specimen, you can't help yourself.
You get overexcited and wham! You get a chunk taken out of you.
Sam.
Don't 'Sam' me.
Have you got them this time? OK, pack them.
So do you reckon this bug hunt is a ploy from Malcolm? What do you mean? Getting Andrew to keep us distracted while he hijacks our ulcer cream trials? That thought never crossed my mind.
So what do we do? We do our own tests, and then we can thank Malcolm for the idea.
Can you? Ta.
Do you know anything about laws on lost property? Oh.
Nell, right? She gave me the pitch this morning.
Wanted to know if I wanted to invest.
Did she tell you she's gonna sell the stuff she finds? I mean, is that legal? You're the internet generation, mate.
Look it up.
I did.
It depends on the situation.
But just because you find something, it doesn't make it yours.
You've gotta at least try to find the true owners, right? Yeah, sure.
Hey, Toby.
We found some of Grandad's old charts.
Mum said he had some really interesting theories about shipwrecks.
He thought the Portuguese came here to this island before the English.
I've looked it up and the Portuguese were in Timor in the 18th century.
Maybe they came exploring here.
You're always diving at Angel Reef.
Can you take me with you? I'd love to have a look.
If there was a shipwreck, someone would have found it by now.
Not if it's as old as Grandad says it is.
Look, he wrote that hundreds of hurricanes shifted the ocean floor and that any wreck would be scattered.
You won't find anything.
I'd still like to come with you.
Mate, if you wanna go on a wild-goose chase hunting sunken ships, do it on your own time.
I've got a business to run.
Hello, I waited up for you last night.
You didn't show.
Well, I I got caught up with a few things.
Can you remember having that much energy? Oh.
Sorry, mate.
Foot-in-mouth syndrome.
Even without the MS and 20 years younger, I'd never have the stamina to do that.
Hey! Watch out! Emma! Emma! Emma! Hello.
Hope Island Clinic.
Can I help you? Yep.
Got that.
Is she still in the water? Uh-huh.
Is she breathing? No, no, that's fine.
Just tell them please do not move her again if at all possible.
Get them to support her neck and head, and then wait for us, do you understand? Nell.
Sonny's beach.
Swimmer versus kayak.
Can you get Rick? I'm gonna ring Sam.
Yeah.
No, we're on our way.
Ethmostigmus rubripes.
Can't be too 'ethmostigmus', otherwise we would have found it by now.
Yeah.
This is its habitat.
No wonder no-one wants to research them.
You can't bloody find them.
Oh, damn.
Hey, Livvy, what's up? Yep, OK, we're on our way.
Alright, this is Emma.
She was hit in the water by a kayak.
GCS - 15.
Possible internal injury, suspected forearm fracture.
Her breathing is equal and regular.
Heart rate - 90.
Thanks, Sonny.
Emma, we're going to move you onto a stretcher.
And to do this we need you to stay completely still.
Do you understand? - Yeah.
- We're gonna roll her.
On my count of three.
Thanks.
One, two, three.
Alright, Emma, we're gonna take you up to the vehicle.
On three, lift.
Nell, how far away is the medivac chopper? Well, we're next in line, but it's gonna be some time.
OK, Sonny, do you mind sticking around in case we need an extra pair of hands with the dad? Sure.
Ta.
Heart rate's up.
Not surprising, given what she's been through.
Uh-huh.
All her other vitals are within normal limits.
We're just going to keep her comfortable until the medivac chopper arrives.
That's all you're doing? That's all we're equipped to do.
When the crew arrive, they'll take it from there.
Rick, she's very short of breath.
- Chest is hyper-resonant.
- She's becoming restless.
Is she hurt worse than we thought? - She was breathing OK on the beach.
- Blood pressure's dropping.
What's happening? Air's only entering one lung.
What's going on? Talk to me.
Heart sounds have shifted.
Cyanosis.
High flow of oxygen.
Is Emma a smoker? No.
Never.
- Sonny.
Thanks, just out there.
- Come on, mate.
We're just getting in the way.
Yeah, thanks.
She was fine when I checked her on the beach.
It's a tension pneumothorax.
Should we do an emergency chest decompression? The long needle might hit a structure that we don't want it to hit.
There is another option.
Sam, this is not a hospital.
We're not equipped to do that.
Well, we might just have to improvise.
Hey, Nell! I need you to find me something that can hold a couple of litres of water and, um, a length of hose that's gonna fit onto this.
No-one's told me what's going on.
I have the right to know what they're doing to her.
- I should be with her.
- Gus! Sorry, Nell, I No, stop whatever you're doing.
I need you now.
Small hose, small hose, small hose.
Big hose.
Big hose.
How come we don't have any small hose? Are you following this? The impact from the kayak may have caused a tear on her lung.
Air's getting into the space between her lung and the skin.
The trapped air puts pressure on her lung, it collapses.
It's like blowing up a balloon inside her body.
The pressure's increasing, her organs are being pushed away from the injured side.
It can obstruct blood flow or it can block her airway.
She could suffocate.
She could suffocate.
That's my daughter in there, Sonny.
Look, there's nothing you can do about it.
Now, Sam will fix it.
She's a good doctor.
They're all good people in there.
They know what they're doing.
Ah! Yes! Would this do for the water? Oh! Mwah! Nell's idea.
This alright? Yeah, that's perfect, Gus.
Can you put a couple of litres of water into that, please? Emma, we need to release some air from your lungs and to do that, we're going to insert a tube.
The tube is going to allow the air to escape into the water tank.
The water is going to stop the air from being sucked back in.
Just try to relax.
Dad.
Yeah, he's just outside.
Pl Please, I don't want anything to happen to him.
Well, that's OK.
We'll keep an eye on him.
It was my job to walk the shoreline, sight her course.
I was supposed to be watching out for her.
She trusted me to make decisions to keep her safe.
And we worried about sharks and jellyfish.
I can't believe I didn't see this coming.
I should never have brought her to this island.
Brian, you're not going in there.
Don't even think about it.
Look, I know the way you feel.
I know why you blame yourself.
But this is not the way to fix it.
Come on.
Get some fresh air.
Come on.
- How's this looking? - Can you feel that, Emma? No.
The area's anaesthetised.
OK.
Administering nitrous oxide.
Alright.
And a scalpel.
We all ready to go? - Mm-hm.
- Here you go.
Thank you.
OK.
Clamp.
Oh, get that tube, Rick.
OK.
OK.
Tell me about the rest of your family.
Those boys of yours, what are they like? They're fine.
Take after you? They're nothing like me.
I bet they're a lot like you.
They're nothing like me.
They're not selfish bastards for a start.
You think I'm father of the year or something.
I was a crap dad.
I told you a lot of the credit's down to my wife? Well, it's all down to her.
Hey, hey, hey, mate.
When they were kids, I'd be away for months working.
Then I wouldn't be in any hurry to get back home.
Emma? I reckon I was around for maybe three of her birthdays.
Well, she's here with you now.
I eventually realised what a selfish piece of work I was, and I asked them to give me a second chance.
And they did.
Just like that.
I swore I'd make it up to them for the time I wasted.
Then I got the MS.
And I realised I wasn't gonna have as much time as I thought.
Now I may not even have that much.
Oh, come on.
Aspirated air is clearing.
Respiration rate's improving.
That's amazing.
Alright, Doctor.
OK, the stitching is the hardest part of doing the chest drain.
It's all yours.
Dad.
Is my dad alright? I'll get him for you.
Thanks, Doctor.
So we'll keep Emma under close observation until we can medivac her out of here tonight.
Sure, OK.
Thanks.
Sorry if I was difficult.
I have a son.
I get it.
She was actually more worried about you than she was about herself.
Can I see her? Yeah, of course.
He's got MS.
You OK? Don't worry about me.
How are you? I should have stuck with netball.
Tough as nails.
Don't know who you got that from.
Hey, Emma, how you feeling? Alive.
I, um I heard you do venom research.
There's this snake serum I read about in America.
Right, and you wanna know if it has any benefits for your dad's MS? That serum is a long way from being useful yet.
Modern medicine, love - it gets better every day.
There's definitely a chance.
Hey, Sam, check this out.
Ethmostigmus rubripes.
Giant centipede.
You went back? For me? Well, it does say, "World's greatest reptile hunter" on my business card.
Yeah, it doesn't count.
You gave yourself that title.
So did you get any venom? Yield? A 16-centimetre centipede gave us 2 grams.
That is twice as much as a funnel web, and twice as much as we're going to give Malcolm.
Did try to fight me for a little bit and then it just sat back and accepted its fate.
Did you get bitten? Ye of little faith.
Of course I didn't get bitten.
That's a pity.
Would have been nice to have a new envenomation to study.
You know, Gus Cochrane, you are going to be running this lab soon.
Who says I'm not already? How did you know what to do with the milking? Got a PhD in guesswork.
You guessed, really? I lie.
I cheated.
I figured out the, uh, internet has many uses.
Ahem.
"Avoiding copulation, male centipedes drop their sperm in bundles, "which they hope females will stumble onto "and use to impregnate themselves.
"In some species the male performs "a little courtship dance to point to his bundle.
"In other centipedes, the male just strolls away hoping for the best.
" You're making that up.
Oh, my god.
That is insect porn.
Big day.
Drinks are on the house.
Since when are you suddenly Mr Moneybags? You'll be shouting the whole bar if you're not careful.
There's a lot you don't know about me, Dr Stewart.
Oh.
Secret millionaire? Well, I have these tropical ulcer cream trials that I would love for you to fund.
Hi.
I'm Erica.
Actually, I think we noticed each other last time I was here.
That's right.
I saw you on the mainland too.
Right.
I hear that you're Toby's accountant? I am an accountant, yes.
And Toby has a very interesting portfolio.
I didn't think that that was your kind of thing.
Oh, you'd be surprised.
So how do you two know each other? We share an island.
Nice to meet you.
Thanks for the drink.
Ooh.
Now I know why you like it here.
I think I better go and check how Brian and Emma are.
I'll get you a drink.
Is Erica your girlfriend? Who's asking? Me.
Obviously.
And, you know, everyone.
Well, 'everyone' can back off and mind their own bloody business.
Alright.
Figured you might be hungry.
Thanks.
How is she? Oh, Rick seems happy.
Hell of a holiday, eh? At least it's memorable.
Now listen, if I don't see you before the chopper arrives, you look after yourself.
And that family of yours.
You too.
It's never too late.
Yeah.
Jack? Angel Reef.
Your grandad was a very complicated man.
Bringing up a little girl didn't come naturally to him.
He stung you with Irukandji venom, Mum.
That's messed up.
Even as a kid, I understood why.
It was his gift, inspiring people to believe in his work.
You know, there's not just shipwrecks here.
There's a lot of information about jellyfish and their food sources.
See, I knew that teaching you how to read would come in handy one day.
Mum, I don't think Toby's with Erica.
She's not his type.
She's pretty.
So are you.
I mean, I think that You know, to other people, to older people, you're very You are I mean, you are very Mmm.
So you think that I am a yummy mummy? Hm? Just forget I said anything.
Sure.
Sure.
I don't know what you're up to, son.
I'm leaving in an hour.
I'll need your decision.
Don't push me, Erica.
You know, I could just hire marine surveyors to scour the ocean floor.
You still wouldn't have the bell.
You know, I remember when I first met you.
You were having counselling and trying to live off a Defence Force pension.
Now, if you wanna go back to that, then be my guest.
But if you want a real life, you're not gonna have it staying on this island.
Time's up.
You have to make up your mind.