Doctor Doctor (2016) s04e01 Episode Script
Hugh Am I?
1 You used to be George Clooney, but now you're more like Charlie Sheen.
HUGH: I've worked harder than anyone to get where I am.
Where you are is sitting in front of me about to piss into a jar for a drug test.
- I love you.
- I know.
But I don't want kids.
You can either be a dad or be with me.
And if I were you, I know which one I'd choose.
I think we need to end this.
I'm so sorry.
Matt, I totally get it.
You need Charlie.
I know these things.
You don't, and you're wrong.
HARRIET: Option A, we co-parent, or option B, you walk away, no strings.
This baby is going to change things.
You're right.
Didn't you want to be with me anyway? [SCREAMING.]
Hey, baby girl.
You're a natural.
She's not here.
Well, she's probably in the shower.
I never saw her go.
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
How are you enjoying fatherhood? The first 9 hours have been kind of challenging.
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
[SIGHS.]
WOMAN: Hugh? For God's sake, where are you? Hugh? Jesus.
Hugh.
Hugh, are you all right? Hugh? Hugh! Hugh? Oh, my God.
Please don't be dead.
Hugh! Hugh! [SIGHS.]
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but you have totally ruined my life.
But you know what? You're worth it.
Hey.
Happy birthday, Eliza.
Oh, you're asking for trouble letting Eliza sleep in the same bed.
Given the choice, I wouldn't have had you boys in the same house.
Suddenly, everything is explained.
[CHUCKLES.]
Not that I wasn't consumed with love, but you cannot let them wrap you around your little finger.
Of course not.
All right.
That's enough.
Can't dawdle.
Yes, there we go.
Thank you.
Yup.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ah.
Just remember next time you see me, I will be almost disgustingly rich.
Never doubted that for a second.
So sorry about it.
- [CLATTERS.]
- [GASPS.]
[HORN HONKS.]
Ajax! Bloody hell! [HORN HONKS.]
Can we, um, move it along a bit, please? HUGH: Yes? Some of us have meetings to get to.
You want to come here and help out a bit, mate? No.
Kind of loses something of the solemnity of the occasion, don't you think? [SCOFFS.]
What? You know, I don't have time for this.
Hey, you! Jesus.
WOMAN: Happy birthday, Eliza! Yeah! Happy birthday, Eliza! HUGH: Very sorry for your loss.
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round 'Round and 'round, 'round and 'round Ha! The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round HUGH: Show me the money! All the way to town [MID-TEMPO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MID-TEMPO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
TARA: I don't know.
Well, not today.
[HORN HONKS.]
It says, "Doctor.
" Get over it, dipshit.
Yeah, I don't know.
So here we are then.
It's the meeting.
Happy days, Betty.
Happy days.
Let joy be unconfined.
BETTY: Hello, Eliza! Happy birthday, pumpkin! Aw, hello, bubba.
[LAUGHS.]
- Shit.
- Huh? - Shit! - What? The meeting! It's today! Shit, Jared.
Shit! I can't do this.
What was I thinking? [SIGHS.]
Oh, I can't do it.
But it was but it was excellent.
Its really, really was excellent.
Hey! Hey! Come here.
Oh, God.
Shit! Where are they, the buyers? Have I kept them waiting? Have you, um, brushed your hair today? What? No.
Yes.
Of course I have.
Where are they? You're very late.
Yes, I know.
I'm sorry.
What? Tell me.
- They've rescheduled.
- Why? What have you done? They're not pulling out.
No, no, no.
The Knight Cartwright cardiac unit is still being bought out by one of the most cashed-up medical dividers on the planet.
We're partnering with them.
It's not about the money.
Hm.
Speak for yourself.
Why have they rescheduled? We're supposed to sign off today.
Oh, and you brushed your hair especially.
- Hugh.
- Oh, I don't know.
This or that.
Apologies, but they'll finalize in a couple days.
Ah, Dr.
Cartwright, Dr.
Knight, let me introduce Tara Corder, our new GP registrar.
Very pleased to meet you both.
BETTY: Ken has been bringing Tara up to speed on his breakup with Mia.
So ironic, don't you think, Tara? Mia, M-I-A, missing in action, which is where my heart has been since the long white cloud called Mia home to New Zealand.
Time is a bad healer, Ken.
We all regroup and move on.
Dr.
Knight.
I believe we met earlier.
Oh, God.
- Ah.
[LAUGHS.]
- Ah.
And I've been so looking forward to meeting you.
I've heard so many amazing stories about you.
[LAUGHS.]
They're hilarious.
Well, some of them.
It's laughter all day long here.
We all go home with a stitch.
I'm obviously hugely grateful for you agreeing to have me come aboard in Whyhope and for giving me the chance to get my head straight.
Just so long as this is in the past.
Penny, I stumbled, but it was everything to do with the company I was keeping in Sydney, and [CHUCKLES.]
one stupendously shitful relationship.
So you understand that you're on probation now for a full year and that your conduct is subject to continual review and monthly drug testing? I also understand that it's a brilliant time to be joining this practice.
We're finalizing a partnership with Alcan Health Group and providers that will see a major expansion in the services we can offer.
Amazing.
So I will come down hard on anyone who doesn't perform.
Welcome to Whyhope.
MERYL: Clearly, the road needs to be sealed.
You can't keep losing caskets all the time.
It's untidy.
The road is on our land, so if we want it sealed, then we have to pay for it, and I've had it costed.
How much? This cemetery business is meant to be an investment in your future, not a drain on our resources.
That's ridiculous.
Hayley, let's go now.
Yes, Meryl.
Where are we going? Town to see council.
Oh, for heaven's sake.
HAYLEY: Charlie! - [LAUGHS.]
- Hey! - Fancy seeing you here! - Wow! Hi, guys.
Yes! Yeah, I've been on the road with the book promoting, and next thing I know, Whyhope.
Yeah, yeah, Yes, it Yes, it is! Yeah! So I thought, you know, it's been a while, so maybe just a night or two.
Why not? As long as you're here, you should come to Eliza's party this afternoon.
She's 1.
Ah, yeah, thanks.
That would be lovely.
But it's probably, you know Here's a thought.
Hayley has got a couple of errands to run.
- For Eliza's party.
- And I have a meeting.
Maybe you could drop me at home later on.
And you could stay for the party, see everyone.
Okay.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I can do that.
Sure, later.
I should, um Yes.
Yes, of course! Okay.
HAYLEY: Great.
[CHUCKLES.]
Bye, guys.
That was a bit awkward.
Yes, and revealing.
[CHUCKLES.]
MERYL: A sealed road to the cemetery would be an enormous benefit to the entire community of Whyhope, alive or dead.
Oh, nice try, Meryl, but private road, your problem, old mate.
Oh, we're all going to use it one day, Rod, some sooner than others.
If only I, as mayor, could give your proposal a consideration it warrants.
But I'm flat-out trying to get this redevelopment of the old farmer's market site through council, so Medium density shopping mall got money written all over it.
But that are prune-faced, hippie cow Green Annie is holding out.
See, that's our little block in the road.
Let's say if the prune-faced, hippie cow Green Annie, Councilor Matthus were persuaded to come aboard.
You know, when I was on council, I always found Green Annie open to office once her own needs were accommodated.
Perhaps that offer would be better coming from someone outside of council though.
Let me give that some thought.
Please.
Because, see, then, we can talk about your road again.
Hugh? You should be the one to supervise Dr.
Corder's probation.
She's on probation? Why? What did she do? Read her report.
Plenty of things you'll be familiar with.
Can't have forgotten all those hilarious escapades.
I know I haven't.
Uh, and you want me to supervise? Like you said, we've all moved on, grown up a bit.
Maybe it's time you become the adult in the room.
So this is what the fuss is all about, the Knight Cartwright cardiac unit.
You know, I got to say, knowing that you would be here was the icing on the cake.
Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
We are shy an MRI, but once we partner with Alcan Health, we'll be upgrading.
Those stories, how did you get away with it? No mystery, really.
As one of this country's pre-eminent cardiothoracic surgeons, I make a point of doing everything I touch extremely well.
KEN: Hugh and Tara, good news.
Your eco nappies have arrived with the improved liner, less leakage.
Charlie, why are you really here in Whyhope? Is it to get back with Matt? No, absolutely not.
[CHUCKLES.]
Because he's very settled right now after everything.
I'm pleased.
And you must stay at the homestead.
Can't have you skulking around town and hiding out in a cheap motel.
It wasn't cheap.
I wasn't hiding out.
MERYL: Charlie, I'm just being practical.
You and Matt have been separated for a year.
You can now start the divorce proceedings.
[SIGHS.]
Oh, dear.
- Thank you.
- Welcome back.
It's good to be back.
Don't mind me.
Eliza's party.
- I should let you two catch up.
- No, no, no.
- That's cool! - No, no! Please.
- You can stay.
- Right here.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
- To toast.
- Yay! - Cheers.
- Cheers.
- You're looking good, Matt.
- MATT: You too.
Yeah, you look happy.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Bet you forgot what that looked like.
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY.]
Well, we've made some improvements to the brewery, haven't we? Since you've been gone, we do more dining now.
Okay.
Oh, and I hear your book has done really well! Yeah, read it.
Loved it.
That's I'm pleased.
So you staying for Eliza's party? Yup.
Yeah.
So I should let you set up.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'll see you later.
- All right.
See you! Well, as far as crap conversations go, I think we nailed it.
JARROD: Let me know if there's any problems with it, mate.
PENNY: Wow! You're all dressed up! It's an event! Well, you're putting me to shame.
Am I a shocking disappointment? No.
I love you, Dr.
Cartwright.
Good.
Pleased to hear it.
[MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS.]
HAYLEY: Oh, look! - There she is! - Wow.
- Hi! - Hi! Jimmy, say happy birthday to your Auntie Eliza.
- I'll take her.
I'll take her.
- Oh.
- Yeah, sure.
Okay.
- Your party, yes.
- You look beautiful.
- HUGH: See you.
Uh, that's Matt, my brother.
He, uh He owns the place.
- Oh, and this - Is another brother? Ajax.
He was my dad and my little boy's grandpop, aren't you? Yeah.
Thank you, Ajax.
Oh, my God.
What now? My brother's ex-wife and my ex-girlfriend.
Have you ever seen the movie "Deliverance"? [MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS ON STEREO.]
Charlie is back.
Oh, you noticed, did you? Well, what does she want? You tell me.
Are you okay with it? What? I'm just trying to be, you know, understanding and shit.
Oh, there's nothing too exciting about my job.
I'm just a humble miner.
Jarrod is the mine manager.
Wow.
So does that make you two, like, Whyhope's celebrity couple? What really excited me is how Penny's medical facility is going to put this town on the map.
TARA: I know.
I'm very lucky.
It's a great time to be starting here.
And we're very lucky to have Jarrod.
The mine was failing until he came along and took charge.
Meryl Knight.
I'm Hugh's mother.
It's Hugh's reputation that single-handedly made the expansion of the clinic possible because he does that.
I'm being ironic.
Oh, no.
Actually, I don't think I am.
[LAUGHS.]
Would you like some cabanossi? Are you with anyone? You first.
- Me? - Mm-hmm.
No.
No time.
Eliza occupies my whole life.
All of it? So what does that mean? You haven't had sex in a year? [LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
Oh, we well, um Well, what about you? [TRILLS.]
It's none of your business.
No, I'm happy for you, Hugh.
It's great.
You're obviously being a great dad.
Yes.
And celibate as well.
Go Don't think twice We can't bring ourselves back Back to life Matt, I can live with some moody silence just so long as you know that I am totally cool with Charlie showing up here.
For a day or two.
Or a day.
Then she leaves again and never comes back.
I think I'm being completely reasonable.
Ain't nothing going to break my stride.
[CHUCKLES.]
APRIL: Is that a smile? I think that's a smile.
- I think it's a smile.
- HAYLEY: Cake! Cake! - Can we please do the cake? - Oh, yep! Yep! - Please? Here.
- Oh, yeah.
Can you please put this on Jimmy? Sure, sure.
[GLASS CLINKING.]
JARROD: Uh, good day, everyone.
My name is Jarrod Powell.
I got something to say.
Penny Cartwright.
Come on.
[SIGHS.]
Not now, Jimmy.
These past eight months have been the best days of my life.
So, Penny.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Would you do me the great honor of becoming my wife? Um all right.
I mean, okay.
- Yes.
- JARROD: Ah-ha! - Yes! - Yes! [LAUGHS.]
- Oh.
Yes.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Aww.
- Oh.
[APPLAUSE.]
Drink.
Yeah? Whoo! [LAUGHS.]
[GIGGLES.]
PENNY: I know! MERYL: Congratulations, Doctor.
Thank you.
Lonely hearts club.
- Congratulations.
- Yeah.
- Much appreciated, mate.
- Yeah.
To both of you, of course.
Thank you.
Well done.
Wow.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Enter.
Oh.
Uh, now I know why toxicology is your subspecialty.
Care to join me? I think that might reflect poorly on my duties as your supervisor.
I've heard all the stories, Hugh.
HUGH: Oh.
It may also reflect poorly on your test results.
Oh, come on.
I'll be squeaky clean by the time the next test rolls around in a month.
Well, bloods and urine, sure, but I was thinking more hair analysis where traces can last up to 6 months.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Truth now Is this really and truly what you want to be doing? Testing your urine? Absolutely not.
Oh, God.
[CHUCKLES.]
Come on.
We're both doing time here.
Can't we at least try and make a little fun? HAYLEY: [IN DISTANCE.]
Has anyone seen Hugh? Can we please do the cake? ALL: Happy birthday, dear Eliza Happy birthday to you Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Going to blow out the candle? You ready? ALL: Blow.
Here we go.
I want that piece.
[CHILDREN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Hi.
Hi.
Little late to come for a swim.
Well, Meryl has invited me to stay at the homestead.
Oh, right.
Probably should've told you I was going to be around.
It's a bit last minute.
There is actually a reason I'm here.
I thought there might be.
Yeah, writing the first two books, they came really easily and sold really well.
Writing the follow-up has been tough.
I know what I need to do.
I just can't get started on it, so I thought say if this is a bad idea I thought if I came back here to write, you know, swim in the dam every morning, retrace my steps Make everything the way it was.
Yeah.
Have everything back the way it was might get things started again.
Is that why mom asked you to stay? CHARLIE: No.
I didn't say any of this.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't bother.
Is that okay? If I just stay for a week or two? Sure.
My solicitor has confirmed she got the divorce papers you sent.
Yeah, well, on your own time.
Good morning! TARA: Hello, Eliza.
Well, someone is chirpy.
Pleased to be here.
Ken, why weren't you at Eliza's party? Everyone else was.
Too soon, Tara.
Penny, Jarrod, let me be among the last to congratulations you on your engagement.
Ring, please.
Beautiful.
If only I could've known the same.
It's gorgeous, Penny.
Tara, you and I should go through your patient list.
What? That's it? Biggest thing to hit Whyhope since I don't know when.
Yeah, Hugh, I need you to help me convince my future wife here to let me take her to lunch.
Absolutely.
I mean, how many times you get engaged in your life? Five? Six tops.
Take this woman out to lunch, Jarrod.
Tara and I can cover.
Too easy.
Excuse me.
I'll be back for you.
Thanks, mate.
Of course.
When you're ready, Tara.
Uh, that, um, thing that didn't happen last night can never happen again.
Nothing did happen.
The clinic, everything that Penny and I have been working towards the last 3 years becomes an actual physical reality tomorrow.
Mm.
When you get your payout.
I have a duty to ensure the integrity of the clinic remains unsullied by any Good day, lover boy.
Kimberly.
Uh, this is Tara, uh, the new GP.
Oh! And Kimberly's a pharmaceutical rep.
Are you staying overnight in town? - Yeah.
- Good.
We could, um, meet.
Do you think I've forgotten that you bailed on me last time? One drink, and you scurried off to your kid.
[CHUCKLES.]
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY.]
ANNIE: The farmer's market is a joyful place where Whyhope comes together on the first Sunday of every month to share, to sell our wares, but also to honor our sense of community.
It's a rather glorious event too, Annie.
That Nancy Miller and Rod Eagle want to flush down the crapper.
Hardly.
ANNIE: How come you've drawn the short straw? Butter her up.
Don't come back until you got her vote.
That is not going to happen, Meryl.
Not at any price? Community takes many forms, Annie, and the farmer's market is especially one of them.
But there are other kinds of communal gathering places, some of them attractively mall-like in character.
Oh, how much do you want for this rather magnificent piece? Not sure how much you'd be willing to pay.
- Oh, it must be worth about $4,000.
- Oh, it's a one-off.
I couldn't dream of letting it go for less than Six? Or even eight, cash? Put it aside for me, and I'll come back tomorrow and make a payment.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Everything is looking really good, Annie.
What are you doing inviting Charlie to stay? Well, she's family.
I can't let her pay for a motel.
You're meddling in my private life, and whatever it is that you think you're doing, I need this to stop right now.
I've always been very fond of Charlie.
No, you haven't.
You've always been horrible and rude to her.
Do you think so? I hope she doesn't think that, not your wife.
Charlie is not my wife at this point.
Well, I don't like saying "partner.
" It sounds like tennis doubles.
- April is my partner.
- For now.
But you can't be sure.
Enough.
Stay out of this, yes? If I thought I'd done anything inappropriate.
I can't see the harm in offering Charlie a bed.
I'm making tea.
Do you want one? I believe congratulations are in order.
Thank you.
To our future.
- Jarrod.
- You happy? You kind of sprung the proposal on me.
Well, from everything I read, I believe that's pretty standard.
I felt pressured into saying yes because it was in public.
Couldn't we just Can we just go along with things the way they were before? Well, now they're one way or another, why would we want to do that? I'm cautious.
I have a terrible history with relationships.
Well, you're not your past history.
You're who you can become when we make a life together.
If you even want that.
The way I live my life, the only way to go is forward, and I completely believe that that's going to be with you.
If it's not, you need to let me know.
Hiya.
We need to talk.
Okay.
So Matt tells me you've moved back into the homestead.
Just for a week or two.
Is it the book? Is it writer's block or something? Yeah, something.
- So clearing the air - CHARLIE: Do we need to? - Yes, we do.
- Okay.
Matt is silent as a grave when it comes to dealing with this shit.
Yeah, that's true.
APRIL: Firstly, I want to apologize for what happened when you came back from Bali.
Like I'd moved in, and then you moved out.
Well, it's fine.
We've all moved on.
Or moved back, in your case, here.
Listen, I've told Matt, coming back here, it's only to do with the book.
No, no.
I understand.
That's what I'm saying.
It's all going to be okay.
Absolutely, it is.
Because I'm here to stay, and you're only here for a week or two.
Then you go, and everything goes back to the way it was before you got here.
Hugh! - Look who I found.
- Yeah.
We were so certain you'd pike, we started already.
I hear tomorrow is your big day.
All right.
All right.
Let's just put this fallacy to bed right here, right now, okay? Tequila, three.
Thank you.
- Ooh! - [LAUGHS.]
HUGH: I'm not a piker.
- Very good.
- Thank you.
Salute.
- Ahh.
- Oh, God, that's awful.
Again.
To the buyers.
- Prost.
- Prost.
- Again.
- Okay.
- Mm.
- Mm-hmm.
So do we need anything else to take the edge off? Whatever you want I got it by the dozen Come on.
Oh.
I got it by the pound Give me a call I'll bring it around It don't look so good In black and white - Uh-oh.
- Oh, my God.
It don't matter what you do Don't matter what you say It's all in the delivery Yeah, yeah I'm the delivery man Yeah, yeah I'm the delivery man I deliver DARREN: Meryl? Darren.
Ah, get you some veggies, Meryl? We're holding some parsnips back for the farmer's market on Sunday.
Eddie, go and help Darren.
Yes, Annie.
You here to pay for the pot? I am, and I'm rather excited.
Gorgeous, isn't it, Meryl? But I think I'll leave it.
- I'm late for work.
- Oh.
- Bye, Betty.
- Bye.
To the prosperity of our precious Whyhope, may all our roads be smooth trails from now on.
Way over my head, Meryl.
MERYL: Just keep the lunch box.
It'll remind you how to vote.
You'll be wanting to take the pot with you.
No.
Not for now.
- Thanks, Eddie.
- See you.
Hi, Eddie.
- Darren.
- Nice day for it.
Just just just give me a minute.
Where the hell is Hugh? KEN: Why isn't he answering his phone? Do schedules mean nothing to him? - Shit! Shit! Shit! - Deep breaths, Penny.
Like this.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
Sorry, not helping.
What's up, guys? Big wigs are here to finalize the buyout of the cardiac unit.
- We've lost Hugh.
- PENNY: In what universe do you go missing on the most important day in the history of the clinic? Does he do this on purpose? Perhaps we shouldn't rule that out.
Um, I I think I'm What? TARA: Hugh? Oh, for God sake.
Where are you? Hugh? Oh, Jesus.
Hugh.
Hugh, are you all right? Hugh? Hugh, it's your meeting.
The buyer! The dudes are here to sign off on your deal.
[SIGHS.]
Hugh? It's the money.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Yes.
Absolutely.
Shower first.
No, no.
There's no time for that.
God, you look shit.
Come on.
- Just got to go home and change.
- No.
No, no, no.
There's no time for that.
You need to be in there with them right now.
Here.
[CHUCKLES.]
How was good last night, aye? I feel so used.
Hugh, you need to get it together.
Where are your shoes? HUGH: You're right.
You're right.
Ohh! Hugh, hurry up! [GROANS, EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What have you done with your socks? Hm.
Lead me to the money, guys.
Yeah? Okay.
I'm going to need a pen.
Oh.
Can can I get you a glass of water? You seem overexcited.
Why wouldn't I be? Why aren't you? Of course I'm excited.
There's a very, very big drink coming our way.
Though, that's not why you're doing it.
I should let them know you're here.
[LAUGHS.]
- Oh, my God.
- What? - Good to go, right? - No, seriously.
Are you sure you're even okay to do this? Just remember who you're talking to.
These hands, the daily miracles they perform, the lives they've saved.
If they'd like to start the meeting, let's do it.
Okay.
I'm warning you.
You better not screw this up.
Just remember, when we get in there, people are talking to me, okay? Sweet.
Dr.
Hugh Knight.
Okay.
Deep breaths now.
Out with the red, in with the blue.
And turning the page to paragraph 6B, subsection 17.
4.
Wherein we itemize the 5-year expansion schedule for the Whyhope Alcan Health Center through 2023.
Yes.
Yes.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Except for one thing.
You're forgetting you're acquiring the most prestigious regional cardiac unit in the state.
Hugh, sit down.
Headed up by the most prestigious and revered cardiothoracic surgeon in the country the brains, the inspiration, the pure genius behind the Knight Cartwright stent.
- Hugh, sit down now, please.
- HUGH: It's all good.
It's all good.
So why don't we make this deal just a little bit tastier? Let's cut to the chase.
Let's talk figures, shall we? Now, I can tell you've been working very hard on yours.
And believe me, it does look good.
Congratulations.
But I think we can do better.
Hmm? Let's endow this deal the generosity of spirit that it deserves by adding a zero at the end of the check.
Otherwise we take the deal off the table.
No, you can't listen to him.
We'll give you a few minutes to improve the offer.
We'll take the deal as-is.
It's excellent.
Penny, we don't have to settle just because you're hopping into bed with the mining industry.
Good point.
There are any number of major industries in the district in need of this kind of facility.
It is an excellent deal, correct.
But you've raised a number of issues which will need to be addressed.
We were looking to the existing staff as a promotable asset.
Exactly.
We're a dedicated team of highly motivated professionals.
What she said, 100 percent.
But, yes, we would like to avail ourselves of a 30-minute break to confer among ourselves.
[CHUCKLES.]
Make it happen, Ken.
Of course.
Do you have any idea what you've done? Everything I've worked for.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You got to play hardball these characters, okay? We've got them worried now.
I'll say.
What are they doing, you think? Well, it's not all bad.
They still want to purchase the Knight Cartwright cardiac unit, but they're going to relocate it to another town where Hugh can have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Penny will have to pay back the grant she accessed to establish the unit, but since Hugh put in his own money, you're now a rich man.
Lucky Hugh.
- I - PENNY: Just so you understand, I have a life of my own now, and it is good.
If I ever doubted it before, I now know why I've had to move on.
Oh, and one other thing.
I will never ever forgive you for this.
Still, never mind.
Your share at the pub tonight.
JARROD: More rock.
Well done.
Do you still have that ring? No, I threw it away.
If your proposal is still on offer, I would very much like to accept on one condition a small ceremony, just the two of us.
None of this me being the center-of-attention crap.
When? Soon as.
[HORN HONKS.]
Sometimes I think the only reason we're still apart is because Meryl wants us to be together again.
We need to talk about the divorce.
There's your share in the brewery to be sorted.
Matt, look me in the eye and tell me you want a divorce, and you can have one.
I'm here because I want to be with you, and if we try, I think we can make it work.
I reckon you and me, we're at our best when we're apart.
April and I, we have something that I haven't felt before.
We're happy.
So, yeah.
I want a divorce.
[SIGHS.]
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What a day.
[SIGHS.]
Thank you for being there for me.
[MID-TEMPO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
HUGH: I've worked harder than anyone to get where I am.
Where you are is sitting in front of me about to piss into a jar for a drug test.
- I love you.
- I know.
But I don't want kids.
You can either be a dad or be with me.
And if I were you, I know which one I'd choose.
I think we need to end this.
I'm so sorry.
Matt, I totally get it.
You need Charlie.
I know these things.
You don't, and you're wrong.
HARRIET: Option A, we co-parent, or option B, you walk away, no strings.
This baby is going to change things.
You're right.
Didn't you want to be with me anyway? [SCREAMING.]
Hey, baby girl.
You're a natural.
She's not here.
Well, she's probably in the shower.
I never saw her go.
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
How are you enjoying fatherhood? The first 9 hours have been kind of challenging.
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
[SIGHS.]
WOMAN: Hugh? For God's sake, where are you? Hugh? Jesus.
Hugh.
Hugh, are you all right? Hugh? Hugh! Hugh? Oh, my God.
Please don't be dead.
Hugh! Hugh! [SIGHS.]
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but you have totally ruined my life.
But you know what? You're worth it.
Hey.
Happy birthday, Eliza.
Oh, you're asking for trouble letting Eliza sleep in the same bed.
Given the choice, I wouldn't have had you boys in the same house.
Suddenly, everything is explained.
[CHUCKLES.]
Not that I wasn't consumed with love, but you cannot let them wrap you around your little finger.
Of course not.
All right.
That's enough.
Can't dawdle.
Yes, there we go.
Thank you.
Yup.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ah.
Just remember next time you see me, I will be almost disgustingly rich.
Never doubted that for a second.
So sorry about it.
- [CLATTERS.]
- [GASPS.]
[HORN HONKS.]
Ajax! Bloody hell! [HORN HONKS.]
Can we, um, move it along a bit, please? HUGH: Yes? Some of us have meetings to get to.
You want to come here and help out a bit, mate? No.
Kind of loses something of the solemnity of the occasion, don't you think? [SCOFFS.]
What? You know, I don't have time for this.
Hey, you! Jesus.
WOMAN: Happy birthday, Eliza! Yeah! Happy birthday, Eliza! HUGH: Very sorry for your loss.
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round 'Round and 'round, 'round and 'round Ha! The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round HUGH: Show me the money! All the way to town [MID-TEMPO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MID-TEMPO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
TARA: I don't know.
Well, not today.
[HORN HONKS.]
It says, "Doctor.
" Get over it, dipshit.
Yeah, I don't know.
So here we are then.
It's the meeting.
Happy days, Betty.
Happy days.
Let joy be unconfined.
BETTY: Hello, Eliza! Happy birthday, pumpkin! Aw, hello, bubba.
[LAUGHS.]
- Shit.
- Huh? - Shit! - What? The meeting! It's today! Shit, Jared.
Shit! I can't do this.
What was I thinking? [SIGHS.]
Oh, I can't do it.
But it was but it was excellent.
Its really, really was excellent.
Hey! Hey! Come here.
Oh, God.
Shit! Where are they, the buyers? Have I kept them waiting? Have you, um, brushed your hair today? What? No.
Yes.
Of course I have.
Where are they? You're very late.
Yes, I know.
I'm sorry.
What? Tell me.
- They've rescheduled.
- Why? What have you done? They're not pulling out.
No, no, no.
The Knight Cartwright cardiac unit is still being bought out by one of the most cashed-up medical dividers on the planet.
We're partnering with them.
It's not about the money.
Hm.
Speak for yourself.
Why have they rescheduled? We're supposed to sign off today.
Oh, and you brushed your hair especially.
- Hugh.
- Oh, I don't know.
This or that.
Apologies, but they'll finalize in a couple days.
Ah, Dr.
Cartwright, Dr.
Knight, let me introduce Tara Corder, our new GP registrar.
Very pleased to meet you both.
BETTY: Ken has been bringing Tara up to speed on his breakup with Mia.
So ironic, don't you think, Tara? Mia, M-I-A, missing in action, which is where my heart has been since the long white cloud called Mia home to New Zealand.
Time is a bad healer, Ken.
We all regroup and move on.
Dr.
Knight.
I believe we met earlier.
Oh, God.
- Ah.
[LAUGHS.]
- Ah.
And I've been so looking forward to meeting you.
I've heard so many amazing stories about you.
[LAUGHS.]
They're hilarious.
Well, some of them.
It's laughter all day long here.
We all go home with a stitch.
I'm obviously hugely grateful for you agreeing to have me come aboard in Whyhope and for giving me the chance to get my head straight.
Just so long as this is in the past.
Penny, I stumbled, but it was everything to do with the company I was keeping in Sydney, and [CHUCKLES.]
one stupendously shitful relationship.
So you understand that you're on probation now for a full year and that your conduct is subject to continual review and monthly drug testing? I also understand that it's a brilliant time to be joining this practice.
We're finalizing a partnership with Alcan Health Group and providers that will see a major expansion in the services we can offer.
Amazing.
So I will come down hard on anyone who doesn't perform.
Welcome to Whyhope.
MERYL: Clearly, the road needs to be sealed.
You can't keep losing caskets all the time.
It's untidy.
The road is on our land, so if we want it sealed, then we have to pay for it, and I've had it costed.
How much? This cemetery business is meant to be an investment in your future, not a drain on our resources.
That's ridiculous.
Hayley, let's go now.
Yes, Meryl.
Where are we going? Town to see council.
Oh, for heaven's sake.
HAYLEY: Charlie! - [LAUGHS.]
- Hey! - Fancy seeing you here! - Wow! Hi, guys.
Yes! Yeah, I've been on the road with the book promoting, and next thing I know, Whyhope.
Yeah, yeah, Yes, it Yes, it is! Yeah! So I thought, you know, it's been a while, so maybe just a night or two.
Why not? As long as you're here, you should come to Eliza's party this afternoon.
She's 1.
Ah, yeah, thanks.
That would be lovely.
But it's probably, you know Here's a thought.
Hayley has got a couple of errands to run.
- For Eliza's party.
- And I have a meeting.
Maybe you could drop me at home later on.
And you could stay for the party, see everyone.
Okay.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I can do that.
Sure, later.
I should, um Yes.
Yes, of course! Okay.
HAYLEY: Great.
[CHUCKLES.]
Bye, guys.
That was a bit awkward.
Yes, and revealing.
[CHUCKLES.]
MERYL: A sealed road to the cemetery would be an enormous benefit to the entire community of Whyhope, alive or dead.
Oh, nice try, Meryl, but private road, your problem, old mate.
Oh, we're all going to use it one day, Rod, some sooner than others.
If only I, as mayor, could give your proposal a consideration it warrants.
But I'm flat-out trying to get this redevelopment of the old farmer's market site through council, so Medium density shopping mall got money written all over it.
But that are prune-faced, hippie cow Green Annie is holding out.
See, that's our little block in the road.
Let's say if the prune-faced, hippie cow Green Annie, Councilor Matthus were persuaded to come aboard.
You know, when I was on council, I always found Green Annie open to office once her own needs were accommodated.
Perhaps that offer would be better coming from someone outside of council though.
Let me give that some thought.
Please.
Because, see, then, we can talk about your road again.
Hugh? You should be the one to supervise Dr.
Corder's probation.
She's on probation? Why? What did she do? Read her report.
Plenty of things you'll be familiar with.
Can't have forgotten all those hilarious escapades.
I know I haven't.
Uh, and you want me to supervise? Like you said, we've all moved on, grown up a bit.
Maybe it's time you become the adult in the room.
So this is what the fuss is all about, the Knight Cartwright cardiac unit.
You know, I got to say, knowing that you would be here was the icing on the cake.
Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
We are shy an MRI, but once we partner with Alcan Health, we'll be upgrading.
Those stories, how did you get away with it? No mystery, really.
As one of this country's pre-eminent cardiothoracic surgeons, I make a point of doing everything I touch extremely well.
KEN: Hugh and Tara, good news.
Your eco nappies have arrived with the improved liner, less leakage.
Charlie, why are you really here in Whyhope? Is it to get back with Matt? No, absolutely not.
[CHUCKLES.]
Because he's very settled right now after everything.
I'm pleased.
And you must stay at the homestead.
Can't have you skulking around town and hiding out in a cheap motel.
It wasn't cheap.
I wasn't hiding out.
MERYL: Charlie, I'm just being practical.
You and Matt have been separated for a year.
You can now start the divorce proceedings.
[SIGHS.]
Oh, dear.
- Thank you.
- Welcome back.
It's good to be back.
Don't mind me.
Eliza's party.
- I should let you two catch up.
- No, no, no.
- That's cool! - No, no! Please.
- You can stay.
- Right here.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
- To toast.
- Yay! - Cheers.
- Cheers.
- You're looking good, Matt.
- MATT: You too.
Yeah, you look happy.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Bet you forgot what that looked like.
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY.]
Well, we've made some improvements to the brewery, haven't we? Since you've been gone, we do more dining now.
Okay.
Oh, and I hear your book has done really well! Yeah, read it.
Loved it.
That's I'm pleased.
So you staying for Eliza's party? Yup.
Yeah.
So I should let you set up.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'll see you later.
- All right.
See you! Well, as far as crap conversations go, I think we nailed it.
JARROD: Let me know if there's any problems with it, mate.
PENNY: Wow! You're all dressed up! It's an event! Well, you're putting me to shame.
Am I a shocking disappointment? No.
I love you, Dr.
Cartwright.
Good.
Pleased to hear it.
[MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS.]
HAYLEY: Oh, look! - There she is! - Wow.
- Hi! - Hi! Jimmy, say happy birthday to your Auntie Eliza.
- I'll take her.
I'll take her.
- Oh.
- Yeah, sure.
Okay.
- Your party, yes.
- You look beautiful.
- HUGH: See you.
Uh, that's Matt, my brother.
He, uh He owns the place.
- Oh, and this - Is another brother? Ajax.
He was my dad and my little boy's grandpop, aren't you? Yeah.
Thank you, Ajax.
Oh, my God.
What now? My brother's ex-wife and my ex-girlfriend.
Have you ever seen the movie "Deliverance"? [MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS ON STEREO.]
Charlie is back.
Oh, you noticed, did you? Well, what does she want? You tell me.
Are you okay with it? What? I'm just trying to be, you know, understanding and shit.
Oh, there's nothing too exciting about my job.
I'm just a humble miner.
Jarrod is the mine manager.
Wow.
So does that make you two, like, Whyhope's celebrity couple? What really excited me is how Penny's medical facility is going to put this town on the map.
TARA: I know.
I'm very lucky.
It's a great time to be starting here.
And we're very lucky to have Jarrod.
The mine was failing until he came along and took charge.
Meryl Knight.
I'm Hugh's mother.
It's Hugh's reputation that single-handedly made the expansion of the clinic possible because he does that.
I'm being ironic.
Oh, no.
Actually, I don't think I am.
[LAUGHS.]
Would you like some cabanossi? Are you with anyone? You first.
- Me? - Mm-hmm.
No.
No time.
Eliza occupies my whole life.
All of it? So what does that mean? You haven't had sex in a year? [LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
Oh, we well, um Well, what about you? [TRILLS.]
It's none of your business.
No, I'm happy for you, Hugh.
It's great.
You're obviously being a great dad.
Yes.
And celibate as well.
Go Don't think twice We can't bring ourselves back Back to life Matt, I can live with some moody silence just so long as you know that I am totally cool with Charlie showing up here.
For a day or two.
Or a day.
Then she leaves again and never comes back.
I think I'm being completely reasonable.
Ain't nothing going to break my stride.
[CHUCKLES.]
APRIL: Is that a smile? I think that's a smile.
- I think it's a smile.
- HAYLEY: Cake! Cake! - Can we please do the cake? - Oh, yep! Yep! - Please? Here.
- Oh, yeah.
Can you please put this on Jimmy? Sure, sure.
[GLASS CLINKING.]
JARROD: Uh, good day, everyone.
My name is Jarrod Powell.
I got something to say.
Penny Cartwright.
Come on.
[SIGHS.]
Not now, Jimmy.
These past eight months have been the best days of my life.
So, Penny.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Would you do me the great honor of becoming my wife? Um all right.
I mean, okay.
- Yes.
- JARROD: Ah-ha! - Yes! - Yes! [LAUGHS.]
- Oh.
Yes.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Aww.
- Oh.
[APPLAUSE.]
Drink.
Yeah? Whoo! [LAUGHS.]
[GIGGLES.]
PENNY: I know! MERYL: Congratulations, Doctor.
Thank you.
Lonely hearts club.
- Congratulations.
- Yeah.
- Much appreciated, mate.
- Yeah.
To both of you, of course.
Thank you.
Well done.
Wow.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Enter.
Oh.
Uh, now I know why toxicology is your subspecialty.
Care to join me? I think that might reflect poorly on my duties as your supervisor.
I've heard all the stories, Hugh.
HUGH: Oh.
It may also reflect poorly on your test results.
Oh, come on.
I'll be squeaky clean by the time the next test rolls around in a month.
Well, bloods and urine, sure, but I was thinking more hair analysis where traces can last up to 6 months.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Truth now Is this really and truly what you want to be doing? Testing your urine? Absolutely not.
Oh, God.
[CHUCKLES.]
Come on.
We're both doing time here.
Can't we at least try and make a little fun? HAYLEY: [IN DISTANCE.]
Has anyone seen Hugh? Can we please do the cake? ALL: Happy birthday, dear Eliza Happy birthday to you Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Going to blow out the candle? You ready? ALL: Blow.
Here we go.
I want that piece.
[CHILDREN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Hi.
Hi.
Little late to come for a swim.
Well, Meryl has invited me to stay at the homestead.
Oh, right.
Probably should've told you I was going to be around.
It's a bit last minute.
There is actually a reason I'm here.
I thought there might be.
Yeah, writing the first two books, they came really easily and sold really well.
Writing the follow-up has been tough.
I know what I need to do.
I just can't get started on it, so I thought say if this is a bad idea I thought if I came back here to write, you know, swim in the dam every morning, retrace my steps Make everything the way it was.
Yeah.
Have everything back the way it was might get things started again.
Is that why mom asked you to stay? CHARLIE: No.
I didn't say any of this.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't bother.
Is that okay? If I just stay for a week or two? Sure.
My solicitor has confirmed she got the divorce papers you sent.
Yeah, well, on your own time.
Good morning! TARA: Hello, Eliza.
Well, someone is chirpy.
Pleased to be here.
Ken, why weren't you at Eliza's party? Everyone else was.
Too soon, Tara.
Penny, Jarrod, let me be among the last to congratulations you on your engagement.
Ring, please.
Beautiful.
If only I could've known the same.
It's gorgeous, Penny.
Tara, you and I should go through your patient list.
What? That's it? Biggest thing to hit Whyhope since I don't know when.
Yeah, Hugh, I need you to help me convince my future wife here to let me take her to lunch.
Absolutely.
I mean, how many times you get engaged in your life? Five? Six tops.
Take this woman out to lunch, Jarrod.
Tara and I can cover.
Too easy.
Excuse me.
I'll be back for you.
Thanks, mate.
Of course.
When you're ready, Tara.
Uh, that, um, thing that didn't happen last night can never happen again.
Nothing did happen.
The clinic, everything that Penny and I have been working towards the last 3 years becomes an actual physical reality tomorrow.
Mm.
When you get your payout.
I have a duty to ensure the integrity of the clinic remains unsullied by any Good day, lover boy.
Kimberly.
Uh, this is Tara, uh, the new GP.
Oh! And Kimberly's a pharmaceutical rep.
Are you staying overnight in town? - Yeah.
- Good.
We could, um, meet.
Do you think I've forgotten that you bailed on me last time? One drink, and you scurried off to your kid.
[CHUCKLES.]
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY.]
ANNIE: The farmer's market is a joyful place where Whyhope comes together on the first Sunday of every month to share, to sell our wares, but also to honor our sense of community.
It's a rather glorious event too, Annie.
That Nancy Miller and Rod Eagle want to flush down the crapper.
Hardly.
ANNIE: How come you've drawn the short straw? Butter her up.
Don't come back until you got her vote.
That is not going to happen, Meryl.
Not at any price? Community takes many forms, Annie, and the farmer's market is especially one of them.
But there are other kinds of communal gathering places, some of them attractively mall-like in character.
Oh, how much do you want for this rather magnificent piece? Not sure how much you'd be willing to pay.
- Oh, it must be worth about $4,000.
- Oh, it's a one-off.
I couldn't dream of letting it go for less than Six? Or even eight, cash? Put it aside for me, and I'll come back tomorrow and make a payment.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Everything is looking really good, Annie.
What are you doing inviting Charlie to stay? Well, she's family.
I can't let her pay for a motel.
You're meddling in my private life, and whatever it is that you think you're doing, I need this to stop right now.
I've always been very fond of Charlie.
No, you haven't.
You've always been horrible and rude to her.
Do you think so? I hope she doesn't think that, not your wife.
Charlie is not my wife at this point.
Well, I don't like saying "partner.
" It sounds like tennis doubles.
- April is my partner.
- For now.
But you can't be sure.
Enough.
Stay out of this, yes? If I thought I'd done anything inappropriate.
I can't see the harm in offering Charlie a bed.
I'm making tea.
Do you want one? I believe congratulations are in order.
Thank you.
To our future.
- Jarrod.
- You happy? You kind of sprung the proposal on me.
Well, from everything I read, I believe that's pretty standard.
I felt pressured into saying yes because it was in public.
Couldn't we just Can we just go along with things the way they were before? Well, now they're one way or another, why would we want to do that? I'm cautious.
I have a terrible history with relationships.
Well, you're not your past history.
You're who you can become when we make a life together.
If you even want that.
The way I live my life, the only way to go is forward, and I completely believe that that's going to be with you.
If it's not, you need to let me know.
Hiya.
We need to talk.
Okay.
So Matt tells me you've moved back into the homestead.
Just for a week or two.
Is it the book? Is it writer's block or something? Yeah, something.
- So clearing the air - CHARLIE: Do we need to? - Yes, we do.
- Okay.
Matt is silent as a grave when it comes to dealing with this shit.
Yeah, that's true.
APRIL: Firstly, I want to apologize for what happened when you came back from Bali.
Like I'd moved in, and then you moved out.
Well, it's fine.
We've all moved on.
Or moved back, in your case, here.
Listen, I've told Matt, coming back here, it's only to do with the book.
No, no.
I understand.
That's what I'm saying.
It's all going to be okay.
Absolutely, it is.
Because I'm here to stay, and you're only here for a week or two.
Then you go, and everything goes back to the way it was before you got here.
Hugh! - Look who I found.
- Yeah.
We were so certain you'd pike, we started already.
I hear tomorrow is your big day.
All right.
All right.
Let's just put this fallacy to bed right here, right now, okay? Tequila, three.
Thank you.
- Ooh! - [LAUGHS.]
HUGH: I'm not a piker.
- Very good.
- Thank you.
Salute.
- Ahh.
- Oh, God, that's awful.
Again.
To the buyers.
- Prost.
- Prost.
- Again.
- Okay.
- Mm.
- Mm-hmm.
So do we need anything else to take the edge off? Whatever you want I got it by the dozen Come on.
Oh.
I got it by the pound Give me a call I'll bring it around It don't look so good In black and white - Uh-oh.
- Oh, my God.
It don't matter what you do Don't matter what you say It's all in the delivery Yeah, yeah I'm the delivery man Yeah, yeah I'm the delivery man I deliver DARREN: Meryl? Darren.
Ah, get you some veggies, Meryl? We're holding some parsnips back for the farmer's market on Sunday.
Eddie, go and help Darren.
Yes, Annie.
You here to pay for the pot? I am, and I'm rather excited.
Gorgeous, isn't it, Meryl? But I think I'll leave it.
- I'm late for work.
- Oh.
- Bye, Betty.
- Bye.
To the prosperity of our precious Whyhope, may all our roads be smooth trails from now on.
Way over my head, Meryl.
MERYL: Just keep the lunch box.
It'll remind you how to vote.
You'll be wanting to take the pot with you.
No.
Not for now.
- Thanks, Eddie.
- See you.
Hi, Eddie.
- Darren.
- Nice day for it.
Just just just give me a minute.
Where the hell is Hugh? KEN: Why isn't he answering his phone? Do schedules mean nothing to him? - Shit! Shit! Shit! - Deep breaths, Penny.
Like this.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
Sorry, not helping.
What's up, guys? Big wigs are here to finalize the buyout of the cardiac unit.
- We've lost Hugh.
- PENNY: In what universe do you go missing on the most important day in the history of the clinic? Does he do this on purpose? Perhaps we shouldn't rule that out.
Um, I I think I'm What? TARA: Hugh? Oh, for God sake.
Where are you? Hugh? Oh, Jesus.
Hugh.
Hugh, are you all right? Hugh? Hugh, it's your meeting.
The buyer! The dudes are here to sign off on your deal.
[SIGHS.]
Hugh? It's the money.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Yes.
Absolutely.
Shower first.
No, no.
There's no time for that.
God, you look shit.
Come on.
- Just got to go home and change.
- No.
No, no, no.
There's no time for that.
You need to be in there with them right now.
Here.
[CHUCKLES.]
How was good last night, aye? I feel so used.
Hugh, you need to get it together.
Where are your shoes? HUGH: You're right.
You're right.
Ohh! Hugh, hurry up! [GROANS, EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What have you done with your socks? Hm.
Lead me to the money, guys.
Yeah? Okay.
I'm going to need a pen.
Oh.
Can can I get you a glass of water? You seem overexcited.
Why wouldn't I be? Why aren't you? Of course I'm excited.
There's a very, very big drink coming our way.
Though, that's not why you're doing it.
I should let them know you're here.
[LAUGHS.]
- Oh, my God.
- What? - Good to go, right? - No, seriously.
Are you sure you're even okay to do this? Just remember who you're talking to.
These hands, the daily miracles they perform, the lives they've saved.
If they'd like to start the meeting, let's do it.
Okay.
I'm warning you.
You better not screw this up.
Just remember, when we get in there, people are talking to me, okay? Sweet.
Dr.
Hugh Knight.
Okay.
Deep breaths now.
Out with the red, in with the blue.
And turning the page to paragraph 6B, subsection 17.
4.
Wherein we itemize the 5-year expansion schedule for the Whyhope Alcan Health Center through 2023.
Yes.
Yes.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Except for one thing.
You're forgetting you're acquiring the most prestigious regional cardiac unit in the state.
Hugh, sit down.
Headed up by the most prestigious and revered cardiothoracic surgeon in the country the brains, the inspiration, the pure genius behind the Knight Cartwright stent.
- Hugh, sit down now, please.
- HUGH: It's all good.
It's all good.
So why don't we make this deal just a little bit tastier? Let's cut to the chase.
Let's talk figures, shall we? Now, I can tell you've been working very hard on yours.
And believe me, it does look good.
Congratulations.
But I think we can do better.
Hmm? Let's endow this deal the generosity of spirit that it deserves by adding a zero at the end of the check.
Otherwise we take the deal off the table.
No, you can't listen to him.
We'll give you a few minutes to improve the offer.
We'll take the deal as-is.
It's excellent.
Penny, we don't have to settle just because you're hopping into bed with the mining industry.
Good point.
There are any number of major industries in the district in need of this kind of facility.
It is an excellent deal, correct.
But you've raised a number of issues which will need to be addressed.
We were looking to the existing staff as a promotable asset.
Exactly.
We're a dedicated team of highly motivated professionals.
What she said, 100 percent.
But, yes, we would like to avail ourselves of a 30-minute break to confer among ourselves.
[CHUCKLES.]
Make it happen, Ken.
Of course.
Do you have any idea what you've done? Everything I've worked for.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You got to play hardball these characters, okay? We've got them worried now.
I'll say.
What are they doing, you think? Well, it's not all bad.
They still want to purchase the Knight Cartwright cardiac unit, but they're going to relocate it to another town where Hugh can have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Penny will have to pay back the grant she accessed to establish the unit, but since Hugh put in his own money, you're now a rich man.
Lucky Hugh.
- I - PENNY: Just so you understand, I have a life of my own now, and it is good.
If I ever doubted it before, I now know why I've had to move on.
Oh, and one other thing.
I will never ever forgive you for this.
Still, never mind.
Your share at the pub tonight.
JARROD: More rock.
Well done.
Do you still have that ring? No, I threw it away.
If your proposal is still on offer, I would very much like to accept on one condition a small ceremony, just the two of us.
None of this me being the center-of-attention crap.
When? Soon as.
[HORN HONKS.]
Sometimes I think the only reason we're still apart is because Meryl wants us to be together again.
We need to talk about the divorce.
There's your share in the brewery to be sorted.
Matt, look me in the eye and tell me you want a divorce, and you can have one.
I'm here because I want to be with you, and if we try, I think we can make it work.
I reckon you and me, we're at our best when we're apart.
April and I, we have something that I haven't felt before.
We're happy.
So, yeah.
I want a divorce.
[SIGHS.]
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What a day.
[SIGHS.]
Thank you for being there for me.
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