01x02 - Ride of Your Life

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do animals have a birthday well they're

born

so i suppose they have birthdays and do

you think their parents give them

presents

and birthday parties i don't know i hope

they do

be terrible to have a birthday and not

have a party or any presents

well just in case you're forgotten happy

birthday little wombats

happy birthday wallaby did you get lots

of presents

happy birthday it's that time of the

year again

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well what did you do from last year dad

took us all to luna park for the day

he's not like any normal kid you can say

that again

normal kids you can take to the zoo on

their birthday

he's got a problem how is she

coming along fine good dad what are we

going to do for tim's birthday

it's tuesday oh you've got no worries

this year i've just been talking to his

father and they're

taking him to see his pops up he'll

still expect us to do something

what about monday that's a school

holiday could we do something then

well monday i'm not gonna be much help

i'm afraid because uh that's when we're

moving fred down to where it'd be safari

park

you'll be tied up on that two jewels we

could all go to werribee

and take tim too yeah give him a

surprise party down there

yeah great idea susie great idea

starting a breeding program it'll be his

first trip outside these walls

he was born here this compounds all he

knows of the world

i reckon alfred would be pretty cluey

wouldn't miss much of what's going on

from up there

good day you're all set for monday sure

mitch i think i'll put ernst wire in

charge of the move

ernst i'm afraid of pretty good mates

good idea mitch

peter something you should see all of

you arrived in the mail

oh no some maniac must have read in the

paper about the move

what's it saying move that giraffe to

werribee safari park

and it's as good as it did

i've talked to the police but i still

think it's a hoax

what did the police have to say about it

well the official line is that you trade

all threats like this seriously

i say bennett i'd have thought you'd

have more important things

to be falling around with llamas

what sounds like some foreign takeaway

food oh we do have

important things to do as it happens mr

spencer if so i hear

quite by accident i might add i would

have thought in a matter involving

t*rrorists a man of my experience would

be the first person to turn to

highly t*rrorists mr spencer threatening

the well-being of a very

valuable animal is not an act of

terrorism it is in my book bennett

now what's been done about it well we

were just discussing whether the move

should go ahead or not of course it goes

ahead mark my words mitchell

if we start letting people of this ilk

take one inch of rope before we know it

they'd have taken a yard to turn it into

a noose and have it around our necks

of course the move goes ahead right now

you two had better watch from here okay

you might stay tuned yep fred will be

nervous enough without an audience to

upset him

all sentenced all set mitch all right

let's try and get him aboard

good luck

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did you see that fred knows someone's

after him

he doesn't want to go he'll go

gee i've never seen a giraffe move

before

we've never done it before what are they

doing now

well that's to support him stop him from

falling if he went down and broke a leg

we'd never be able to save him

your dad's giving him an injection it'll

calm him down for the trip

that'll keep him warm make him feel more

confined

more secure what about his neck

what if his head gets caught in the

street well see

they use a rope around his neck to pull

him down

well good old fred's about to start on

the right of his life

the others are really going to miss him

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they're not the only ones

is he going to be all right dad well it

should be susie i've got police all

along the way in plain clothes and

unmarked cast and we'll be on the

lookout too

anything happens to that animal well

look after fred

don't you worry

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well it belongs to werribee park now

fred's not the only animal in the zoo

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dad is it true mr spencer has set up a

command post in a tent at werribee park

yes poor old ken's got to put up with

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him

mz7 convoy to command

command to convoy command convoy

receiving you and go ahead convoy

over we're mobile mr spencer

no problems today good work convoy uh

please report your present position

over intersection geelong road and

robert street

thank you convoy keep up the good work

over and out

great start ben now let me see

yes

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great start indeed

uh-huh they took no notice of my warning

all right grandpa this is crazy

all right well maybe it's not such a

good idea listen ladies something's got

to be done

and it's up to us to do it come off it

grandpa this is stupid

and this rubbish get your hands off that

you want to do yourself an injury knock

yourself senseless

it's only something you've cooked up

it's a secret from the islands

spit a stock fade mixed with a couple of

ways

weeds will put any man or beast into a

coma from which there's no

returning unless he's got the antidote

and only we mcgregors have the

mithridate

the what the cure

ah grandpa this is fantasy

listen laddie when you've proved

yourself a man

and a mcgregor the secret of this will

be passed on to you

still made it easy for us i thought they

might had a couple of copper's cars

hanging about

who's two men what about it

don't they look like police to you do

you think so

they are coppers

so they're getting cunning are they

i just happen to have another wee place

where we can still get at them

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grandfather there's someone up there

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saying you were worried well i guess

that's it then we'll have to give it

away now

get rid of that stuff max again where

you lied

grandpa you aren't serious about this

poison

get in the car lots

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you think spencer was responsible for

getting fred safely here all by himself

now now good show mitchell

no problems all quiet on the western

front

we showed the blight as a what's to say

they won't get at him down here

you don't understand tactics my boy that

was their optimal moment

we've thwarted them i reckon i could

still get it

nonsense

pensioner for me and one for the boy

there's no entrance spacer

in no charge go through

a hoax of course well let's hope you're

right

a mansion they call it it should

rightfully be called

mcgregor castle

ah any justice at all in this world

robbie

that should be ours and all of this here

she belonged to the clan mcgregor

i've ever told you larry about the first

mcgregor ever to come to this place

he was your great great grandfather

hamish mcgregor in 1859

you have grandpa often i'll tell you

again laddie in case you forget it

because all of this here should have

belonged to him

hi all of this should really be

mcgregor country

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look at tim he's still worried about

fred

come on tim

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i don't believe that he doesn't know

where reality stops again

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we'll get a chance robbie we'll get rid

of them

animals make this part feel

then this land will just have to come

back on the market

grandpa be reasonable even if somehow

this land did come up for sale

we couldn't afford the front door

knocker off the place

not worried about the house this is what

i want robbie

just these few acres here have a look at

robbie look at that

just have a look doesn't that remind

your home

of scotland hey i've never been there

you were 10 years old when you left

grandpa

i bet my father and his father before

him

told me just what it would be like it'd

be just like this robbie

green and barney tell you what laddie

we get rid of them animals and then

we're going to get back what is the

right polio

grandpa forget it please

it's not very deep really that's them

kids from the overpass

robbie you make friends with them

just in case there's any more of them

playing close placement about

grandpa robbie get a mcgregor you'll do

it

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come on tim get out what are you

worrying about

still reckon i should have stayed there

gardening it'll be okay

now get out

besides you've got better things to do

like what like this hey

what's going on surprise surprise

happy birthday but it's not my birthday

not until tomorrow

we won't be seeing you tomorrow so make

the most of it

two birthdays that's really something

hey mitch i'm having two birthdays

oh good on you tim happy birthdays mate

gee thanks

you better do the honest with the ryder

toy

well i'll organize the eats beauty

come on

i say i would organize the i'll organize

the okay

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team you're bigger than those peggers

now what are we going to do next

you're fine

that's kid stuff mate

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dad said we had to look after him

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look time

hardly freaks you out does it no not

really

the rest of the park's great though yeah

you've been on the safari bus tour um

no we're on that next you're on your own

i'm a grandpa that's all wanna come with

us

oh thanks

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hey everybody welcome aboard

i volunteer to take over the commentary

and give our driver a break on this trip

because this is a special birthday tour

but you know who

sit down i'll open the gate

you won't need that tip watch

solar-powered electric fences and

electric gates tip

keep the animals in and to protect them

from anybody who

might want to get at them

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kangaroos

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look at the bus

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look at them all

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would you like to pet him could i dad

sure

oh thanks everybody this is fred he's

just

right fred

come on fred fred

come on

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thanks for today oh that's okay well i

guess i'll see you later then

sure see ya

did you see fred grandpa it was great

he should have come over i touched his

neck and was so

soft he was so gentle

i'm glad we didn't get the chance to

hurt him wouldn't have been right

i reckon we should take that stuff

you've gotten

where is that stuff grandpa you do with

it

well you were making a fool of yourself

letting that thing slobber all over you

i was doing what we came here to do you

what

i did what had to be done

grandpa grandpa

grandpa you can't get out of my way

if that stuff can do what you're saying

if it could hurt him

well we've got to warn them tell them

what you've done

you must be out your mind at least i had

the courage to do what i had to do

it takes courage to hurt a poor

defenseless animal it takes courage to

fight

for and get back what should have been

ours the mcgregors will win back their

entitlements and hang on to them forever

not this mcgregor grandpa not this

mcgregor

if you won't tell them i will

ah you wouldn't have the cuts tell them

grandpa

tell them please get in the car

grandpa

well he's put some crazy mixture or

other out for the animals

what animals fred well any others i

don't know

then we have to find out where is he in

the car park come on

julie find dad

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oh

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please call up over this is nick

mitchell there's a utility on its way

out of the ground

stop it boy have you taken leave of your

senses

stop that vehicle please it concerns

fred

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young man i i hope you

he's on his way back to you right thanks

dad hurry get the truck i'll try to hit

him

okay kids grab a seat hold on right

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so

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it wouldn't have hurt him and he said it

would have put him in a coma

some secret formula or something from

scotland

i doubt very much that such things exist

fred wouldn't have eaten it anyway

giraffes are top feeders they won't eat

off the ground

your grandfather evidently didn't know

that grandpa gets mixed up at times

particularly when well he's been known

to take the odd nipper something that i

know comes from scotland

what is going to happen to mr mcgregor

dad well he's done no real harm

maybe the police will just talk to him

but if you could put in a good word dr

mitchell at least i can do

what you did robbie took took a lot of

courage yeah

yeah it's been a birthday but i reckon

the best present i got

was from you robbie what you did to

protect old fred

come on i'll take you home dr mitchell

can i say goodbye to fred off you go

yeah fred come on fred

that's a good

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monkeys

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