01x02 - The Last Bloodhunter

[bunniefuu]

Neeks!

[GROWLING NEARBY]

Neeks! Stay there. I'll winch you.

[GROWLING AND BANGING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[GROWLING NEARBY]

- [ROCK MUSIC]
- What the... ?

Back, now. Now!

[GROWLS]

[SQUEALS]

[BOTH GRUNT]

[SCREAMS]

[GRUNTS]

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[GRUNTS]

- [GRUNTS]
- [FLESH SQUELCHES]

No, no, no, Neek!

[ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES]

I'll hold 'em.

Neeks, hang on!

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

[WINCH SQUEAKS]

[SNARLS]

[SNARLS]

- Argh!
- Hold! Hold!

- Neeks!
- [SHANIKA SCREAMS]

[SNARLS]

[GROANS]

[PANTS]

- [SCREAMS]
- [SHOUTS]

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[SNARLS]

Aim for his bloody heart!

- Quick!
- [SHANIKA GRUNTS REPEATEDLY]

Hold on!

[GRUNTS]

- [SNARLS]
- Where'd you learn that?

[GROANS]

- [SNARLS]
- [FLESH SQUELCHES]

I thought I told you to watch your back.

Good to see you too.

You know him?

Ohhh!

Don't touch me!

I'm fine.

[OLD MAN GROANS]

Let's get him in the car.

[OLD MAN GROANS]

[GROANS]

[CAR DOOR SHUTS]

[ENGINE REVS]

[ROCK SONG ENDS]

[ROCK MUSIC]

[ENGINE REVS]

[EXCITING MUSIC]

[SHANIKA] Who is he?

[TYSON] Big swingin' d*ck
blood hunter, that's who he is.

- What's a blood hunter?
- Keep pressure on that wound.

Be even more annoying if he dies.

I'll never hear the
bloody the end of it.

You're gonna be OK.

- What's his name?
- His name is Jalingbirri.

[OUTGOING CALL RINGS]

[TUTS]

[ENGINE REVS]

[JALINGBIRRI GROANS LOUDLY]

[GROANS]

Oh, come on, answer your damn phone!

[GROANS] My truck! I gotta go.

Hey, you're gonna bleed
out. Stay where you are.

Bandages, medical supplies. Anything.

[GROANS]

[WHISPERS] What the
hell are you doing here?

[JALINGBIRRI GROANS]

[GROANS]

[CONTINUES GROANING]

[JALINGBIRRI SCREAMS IN PAIN]

[JALINGBIRRI COUGHS]

I want answers, Tyson.

- [JALINGBIRRI COUGHS]
- I need you to go.

I'm not going anywhere unless
you tell me what's going on!

- What's a blood hunter?
- Yeah, give that!

Blood hunters are blackfellas
that hunt vampires.

- Like us?
- Yeah, like us, but not.

These men are trained like lore-men.

- We should call his mob.
- Nah, he got no mob.

Blood hunters got no family.
They live away from everyone.

Uh, sewing needle, thread.

[JALINGBIRRI GROANS]

[SHANIKA] Where is it?

- Neeks, look at me.
- I can't find it.

Go get Kitty. You bring her
back here. I'll deal with this.

- But...
- No, you're following orders.

OK? We'll have the biggest
yarn when you get back

and this sh*t is dealt
with, you copy me?

- Yes.
- All right.

Hey, eyes to the ground!

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[GROANS]

[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVS]

sh*t.

[ENGINE REVS]

[SOMBRE MUSIC]

No sign of him in the eastern shafts.

Looks like he wasn't alone.

[BODIES THUD]

[SIGHS]

Find the blood hunter.

[MAN] Elvis!

Elvis!

El!

Hey!

Uncle Elvis!

Hey!

- Where you at, Unc?
- No, no, no, no, no.

Uncle!

Something's not right.
- Uncle!

- We should go.
- What? Why?

Hey! Unc?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Hey, who are you?

What you doing?

Jalingbirri.

There's no-one here by that name.

[CHILLING MUSIC]

Run, JT, run!

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[BODY THUDS]

[BLOOD GURGLES]

Leave her.

Let her spread the fear.

It'll flush out the blood hunter.

[CHOKES]

[JT GASPS, BLOOD GURGLES]

Bring him with us.

[OUTGOING CALL RINGS]

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

[ROCK MUSIC, CHATTER]

Hey, love. [WHISTLES]

oi!

[KITTY] How do you deal with them?

I just don't make eye contact
with the real sleazy ones.

Jerk!

Is it your ex?

I don't know, Ellie.

You know, you just keep thinking

one day things will be different.

All right. What do you want? It's on me.

Well, whisky, then.

Tell me not all men are fuckwits.

I am working a bar on the
edge of the bloody desert

on the other side of the
planet to avoid my ex.

So I am not the one to talk about hope.

Yeah, you got... got any kids?

Nah.

One fire opal and we'll be out of here.

You're right as.

[SPUD] Hey!

I don't pay you to run a girls club.

Why are these glasses still unwashed?

Look, I've got a crazy idea.

Why don't you wash the glasses
and I'll look after customers?

All right?

Girls club would run
rings around you, Spud.

["POSITION VACANT" BY JACK LADDER PLAYS]

♪ The king wrote his resignation ♪

♪ Swallowed it in capsule form... ♪

[KITTY] Wow. Hey. Look out.
A bunch of lost cowboys.

Band on the run.

♪ And said, "I ain't
gonna reign no more ♪

♪ "I ain't gonna reign no more" ♪

♪ You know I'm tired of
all the expectations ♪

♪ And the diseases in my meat ♪

♪ So he hung a sign 'Position vacant' ♪

♪ As he kicked the chair
out from under his feet ♪

♪ Whoo! ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh-oh... ♪

- [SONG FADES]
- [EERIE SOUNDSCAPE]

[PATRONS' VOICES BECOME MUFFLED]

[MUFFLED SHOUTS]

Oi! What's that kid doing in here?

- Come on, mate.
- Shanika!

- Come on.
- Aunty Kitty, we need you.

[KITTY] Hey! Get your hands off her!

She shouldn't have been in here!

[KITTY] Oh, piss off!
She's leaving with me.

[DARK ROCK MUSIC]

[SNAPS FINGERS]

[KEYS JANGLE]

[PAPER RUSTLES]

[SCOFFS]

You old bastard.

You knew I was still here.

Hey! [KNOCKS] Hey, wake up!

Hey!

What the hell are ya doin' here?

Why have you got my number?

f*ck.

[VEHICLE APPROACHES]

sh*t!

You keep quiet, old man.

[CAR DOORS OPEN AND CLOSE]

What's his name?

- [GROANS]
- [AIR PUMPS]

[AIR RELEASES]

[KITTY] Jesus. Not good.

Get blankets.

[KITTY SIGHS] Let's see.

Way too close to the main artery.

[SHANIKA] Is he gonna be OK?

[KITTY] Let's keep him warm.

Can't let him slip
into hypovolemic shock.

Hypo what?

This bloke could die.

I can stop the blood loss, but
he needs to go to hospital now!

No hospital.

Nah, you won't force him. Trust me.

This motorbike crash,
was it on the north road?

- Yeah.
- Nah, south.

You think I was born yesterday?

Come on, Kitty, just help him.

He needs a hospital by morning.

I ain't gonna last that long.

[KITTY] All right.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[KNOCKING]

He's through the worst.

[ROCK MUSIC, CHATTER]

["I DON'T WANNA GO OUT"
BY BITCH DIESEL PLAYS]

[BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER]

♪ I don't wanna go out
I don't wanna go out... ♪

[MAN] Dickhead! What was that for?

Come here, I'll have ya!

[GRUNTS]

Oh!

[APPLAUSE]

[BOUNCER] Oi! Break it up!

Bastard!

♪ I don't wanna go out ♪
♪ I don't wanna go out... ♪

[MAN] Hey, what was that all about?

♪ I don't wanna go out... ♪

Jalingbirri's not here.

No-one knows him.

♪ I don't wanna go out ♪
♪ I don't wanna go out... ♪

This place is different
to how I imagined.

[ELLIE] All right.

[LUCAS] Now that you're leading us,

we're confident to
come out of the shadows.

We've been trying to
recruit the outliers.

Before you got here, we
weren't really united.

Just k*ll them.

k*ll them?

Mmm. Those that don't fall in line.

[VAMPIRE KING] It'll be easy to rule.

♪ I don't wanna go out ♪
♪ I don't wanna go out ♪

♪ I don't wanna go do it... ♪

[ELLIE] Oi, Spud!

Keg's been replaced,
cans have been restocked,

and can I please crash here for a bit?

What happened to your last place?

It didn't work out.

Yeah, righto. Well, you can
take the room out the back.

Thank you.

♪ I don't wanna go to the movies ♪

♪ Going to the movies costs too much ♪

♪ I don't wanna go through the till ♪

♪ I find that they're a bit too much ♪

♪ I don't wanna go out ♪
♪ I don't wanna go out ♪

♪ I don't wanna go oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ I don't wanna go out ♪

Afraid she's not for sale.

So, beer?

Oi.

I think you spilled my beer, mate.

[LAUGHS]

I'm sorry. Can I buy you another one?

[SUSPENSEFUL ROCK MUSIC]

Nah.

[WIND WHISTLES]

[DOG BARKS IN THE DISTANCE]

[BALL BOUNCES]

- Oh!
- [BOY] Ooh! Ah!

Get dressed for school, you mob.

[CHILDREN CHATTER AND LAUGH]

[DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN, THEN SHUTS]

[AUNTY MARIA] We can't
keep the secret much longer.

[CHILDREN SHOUT OUTSIDE]

[DOOR OPENS]

[EXHALES]

[DOOR SHUTS]

[SMOKEY SIGHS]

Nothing.

Can't find Elvis anywhere.

Cops don't care. They reckon he
probably took a bus out of town.

That's bullshit.

Call off the search.

What?

It's too dangerous at night.
There's too many open shafts.

Well, what if my brother's
down on one of them?

I'm not gonna give up.

Sorry, Smokey. Well, keep lookin'.

Yeah, sure.

Hey, you seen JT?

I can't... can't find him.

He got a call from his
mother's side this morning.

Had to leave early to go down south.

- True?
- I'll get one of the other boys.

OK.

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR SHUTS]

[AUNTY MARIA SIGHS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Yeah!

What's this?

Breakfast.

You never give me breakfast.

Oh, well, things have changed.

I think we should tell Aunty
Kitty what really happened.

We have one rule, Shanika
- keep it between us.

I thought it was "eyes to the ground".

Oh, well, two rules,
then, OK? [BUTTERS TOAST]

No-one else, just you
and me. Not even Kitty.

Why didn't you tell me about
how you know the old fella?

He's from a lifetime ago.

Before I even knew you.

[CONTINUES BUTTERING
TOAST, THEN PUTS Kn*fe DOWN]

Were you a blood hunter?

No.

[PHONE RINGS]

[GRUNTS]

sh*t, it's your school. Are you late?

- [PHONE RINGS]
- No. I'm suspended, remember?

- Oh, sh*t.
- [PHONE RINGS]

Watch him.

[PHONE BEEPS]

[TYSON] Hello?

[JALINGBIRRI BREATHES DEEPLY]

Women shouldn't hold boomerangs.

This woman saved your
arse with this boomerang.

Hmph. You definitely take after Tyson.

How do you know him?

Same way I know you.

You're a blood hunter.

- Hmm.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[TYSON] Yeah, we got to
meet your principal tonight.

Fine.

You right, old man?

[JALINGBIRRI] Yeah.

No thanks to this girl here.

This girl saved your arse.

[CHUCKLES] Who saved his arse?

[KITTY] Glad to see you're OK.

Nah. Your wound looks all right.

But maybe stay off it
for a couple of days, eh?

And get over your elder stubbornness

and go to a hospital?

I don't need a hospital.

Well, I can't be
following you round / .

I'm not even allowed to know your name.

Jalingbirri.

Thanks.

Well, bub. [KEYS JANGLE]

- See you later.
- 'Bye, Aunty Kitty.

[KITTY] I gotta go to work.

Hey, I just wanna say...

You know, Tyson, I'd like to think

we shared something special
between us once upon a time.

Yeah, we did. We still do.

I'm not even expecting
the full truth anymore.

I deserve at least halfway.

Yeah, I know.

[SIGHS]

[CAR DOOR SHUTS]

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[CAR DRIVES AWAY]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[JALINGBIRRI SIGHS]

[JALINGBIRRI] So he
taught you about vampires?

Yeah.

How do you k*ll 'em?

Boomerang to the heart.

Is that the only way?

You can cut their heads off.

But it's a bit hard to
get through the backbone.

Sunlight'll k*ll 'em too.

He ever take you down?

No. We're not allowed to go down.

So that was your first time down there?

Are you OK?

A blood hunter doesn't bottle sh*t up.

So what do youse do?

Pest control. Above ground only.

Hmm.

What's wrong with that?

He's not following lore.

What? Same lore that says
women can't hold boomerangs?

You can't wipe out a
colony unless you go down.

That's what a blood hunter is.

We don't d*ck around with defence.

We att*ck. We k*ll 'em. We win.

Was Tyson a blood hunter?

He could been.

What stopped him?

He was selfish.

Neeks, get outside and
check the gate, bub.

- Why?
- Shanika...

[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]

OK, cut the sh*t. What the
hell are you doin' here?

The King.

The King?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[JALINGBIRRI] You know what a King is?

[TYSON] Yeah, one of First Fleeters.

I didn't forget
everything you taught me.

We chased him out of Bree
where he left a dozen bodies.

I tracked his car he
took to cross the desert.

He sent his vampires to
ambush me when I arrived.

[HYDRAULICS HISS]

[SNARLS]

[ENGINE REVS]

[SNARLS]

[g*nsh*t]

[JALINGBIRRI] The King showed his face.

I thought all the Kings were dead.

He's the last.

[GRUNTS]

The other blood hunters?

They're all dead.

[JALINGBIRRI GROWLS]

[JALINGBIRRI] He was too strong for me.

[GROWLS]

[ROARS]

[SPITS]

Hmm.

[JALINGBIRRI] The sun
saved my black arse.

- [GRUNTS]
- [JALINGBIRRI COUGHS]

[JALINGBIRRI] I'll never give up!

So, you're the last one?

You need my help, but you're
too bloody stubborn to ask me!

'Cause this is the last colony.

And you're too gutless to go down there!

I think we both know why that is.

Hey, I've been keepin' this mob safe.

Safe? How many bleeders have
they taken over the years?

- None!
- How would you know?

You never go down!

I've been countin' a shitload
of missin' blackfellas

up and down the desert.

Vampires been draggin' em down
and feeding on 'em for years.

You think bleeders aren't worth it?!

It's easier to write them off
than to try to save them, eh?

Yeah, typical blood hunter.

"Gotta go down the hole and die!"

Nah. Not me, old man. I wanna live.

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[CLANG!]

Here.

Hey, you just told me
there's a King in town.

- This might be your last drink.
- [SPITS]

Oh! Whatever.

You trained her.

Southpaw.

Yeah. Wouldn't get in the
way of that left hook, but.

Neeks? Neeks! From here. Pssht! Pssht!

You know how stupid that sounds?

Oh, here we go.

Not to mention all the lores you broke.

Yeah, well, culture changes.

All right? This is not .

Tyson, this isn't playtime!

Them bastards sent them everywhere!

America, Asia,

Africa.

Every colonised country is at w*r

and you choose to piss your life away!

Oh, cut it out, all right?

You sound like a bloody
history book. A boring one.

You're selfish.

You choose to protect one
person instead of a community.

[GRUNTS]

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

You're a disappointment.

An embarrassment.

And you're a failure.

[METAL CLANGS]

Hmm?

Yeah?

Your old, wise ways,
they're gonna die with you.

And no-one's gonna
cry when they bury you!

You cranky, old... Neeks!

Come on, we gotta go,
see your principal!

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[CAR DRIVES AWAY]

[CHATTER]

Oh, thanks, Maria.

Hey, look, uh... I... I tried
to get her to eat, but she won't.

Every time she goes to sleep,
she just wakes up screaming.

Take her to the clinic.

You reckon?

Tell them she hasn't slept,
she's having difficulty eating.

Maybe they'll give
her something to help.

OK.

I'll round up some fellas
to continue looking out bush.

- No worries, bro.
- Be back before sundown.

Yeah.

[SMOKEY] Thanks, Maria.

[BROODING MUSIC]

[WIND BLOWS]

[ENGINE REVS]

[RACE CALLER ON RADIO]
... the outside. Light's on.

Rocket's plain restless.

[TYSON] Why are you quiet?

[RACE CALLER] Set now. And they're off.

Don't go all teenager on me.

[RACE CALLER] Jumped about mid field...

Do you remember that day?

What day? Yesterday?

[TURNS RADIO OFF] Do
you remember that day?

- What day?!
- The day with Mum.

Yeah, what about it?

Did she die or was she taken?

[SCOFFS]

What's this got to do with anything?

What's a bleeder?

Is it true that they take blackfellas

and keep them down there and bleed them?

Yeah, it's true. They're
evil sons of b*tches, Neeks.

Is my mother one of them?

I don't know.

Did you see her die or was she taken?

She d*ed, bub.

Come on, now.

Let's nail this meeting. You with me?

Honestly, she's a treasure.

I mean, we've had our
challenges, of course.

I mean, who doesn't?

But this kid here: A plus.

Now, she's so helpful around the house.

History genius.

Every morning she just
can't wait to get to school,

can you, Neeks?

- No. Can't wait.
- Yeah.

Mr Walker, Shanika's behaviour
at school has been escalating.

We are concerned.

All right, well, um, I'll
stop her listenin' to rap music

and playing video games, how's that?

Shanika.

How are you feeling?

Tell us how things are, really.

I know how it looks and...
yes, he's a dickhead.

But he's not an arsehole,
if that's what you mean.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[WOMAN] So the doctor's
prescribed tablets

to help with the sleep and anxiety.

[SMOKEY] Hey.

Is this for the spirits?

[EXHALES] Yeah, for the spirits, sis.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Oh, what the... ?

Hey, you guys got a generator here?

Dunno. I'm... I'm new here.

[LOUD CLUNK]

Hey, stay here, guys.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Anybody there?

[INHALES DEEPLY] Oh.

It's them.

Smokey?

[SMOKEY] Behind you, Coralee!

- [ALL SNARL]
- [HEAVY ROCK MUSIC]

[CORALEE] You k*lled our
brother! You f*cking die!

[SMOKEY] Get back here!
Get back here, Coralee!

[CORALEE SCREAMS]

[GRUNTS]

[CORALEE GRUNTS]

[SCREAMS]

Yah!

Argh!

[CORALEE WHIMPERS]

Coralee!

Smokey, save yourself!

- [BITES]
- [CORALEE SCREAMS]

- [SMOKEY] Coralee!
- [THUMPS]

Oh! Ohh!

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[VAMPIRE FEEDS NOISILY]

[SCREAMS]

[STOPS BASHING DOOR]

The blood machine. That's all he wants.

Grab the body.

[TYSON] All right, Neeks,
seriously, we need to talk.

Here, pull my finger.
Neeks? Neeks, pull my finger.

Neeks? Neeks, pull my
finger, pull my finger.

Please? Please? Please?
Please, pull my finger.

Pull my... Come on, pull my finger.

Come on, please. Oh, I'm
gonna bust! Neeks! Neeks!

Ehhhhh!

[LAUGHS]

You're a dickhead.

You're a dickhead.

[KNOCKS]

[SNIFFS]

Where are these from? The servo?

Nah. The cemetery.

- Hmm.
- A thankyou.

Tyson Walker thanking me?
Thought I'd never see the day.

Yeah, yeah.

I was about to come and see
you mob, check on the patient.

Nah, no need. He's right as rain.

Back to being the pain
in the arse I knew he was.

[KITTY] What's with her?

She's sulking for
some reason. Teenagers.

Anyway, let's go to the pub for a feed.

Pub's closed. Big
dust-up there last night.

Some whitefellas
looking for a blackfella.

You wouldn't know any
blackfellas on the run,

would you?

Tyson?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[ENGINE REVS]

[GRUNTS]

["OUT THERE" BY TEX PERKINS
AND THE FAT RUBBER BAND]

[INSECTS CHIRP OUTSIDE]

[GROANS]

[ENGINE REVS]

So you gonna tell me what's going on?

Gotta tell that old bastard
those suckers are above ground

and they're lookin' for him.

♪ I've been out there ♪

♪ For a while ♪

♪ I've been livin' off the grid ♪

♪ Pushed off the end of the dot ♪

♪ I've been out there ♪

♪ Too long ♪

♪ And where I'm from nobody
even knows that I'm gone ♪

♪ Say I'm deluded ♪

♪ But I'm stayin' secluded ♪

♪ I don't wanna be intruded on ♪

♪ By you ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ I've been out there ♪

♪ Far away from the coast

♪ I'm still alive but I feel
like I'm already a ghost ♪

♪ I've been out there ♪

♪ I've been out there... ♪

[WHISPERING VOICES]

[BANGING]

[GROWLS]

[CRASH!]

[GROANS]

[SAW WHIRRS]

[GROANS LOUDLY]

[SAW WHIRRS]

- [GROANS]
- [BANGING]

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us... ♪

[GRUNTS]

♪ Come with us ♪

♪ Come with us ♪

[GRUNTS]

The last blood hunter.

Argh!

[ROCK MUSIC]