01x05 - Anna Loses Her Way

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["Aiming For Your Head" by Betchadupa)

♪ Ah ah, ah ah ♪

♪ There's too much choice and not enough time ♪

♪ To find what's mine ♪

♪ Aiming for your head, get down ♪

♪ You're the only one in town ♪

♪ Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah woo ♪

[electronic music)

- Anna, drop the leading shoulder.

Take it, take the drop.

Come on, push up from your legs.

Push up.

Come on, paddle.

Aah, Anna.

Try and relax.

- Try to relax, yeah right.

Coach is speaking a secret language.

Like when they tell you you're definitely improving,

it really means you're going backwards.

- Anna, you're definitely improving.

- [Anna] At least he didn't say, tomorrow's another day.

Cause when they say that,

you might as well give up there and then.

- So, Simo at this point in time

your main advice to Anna would be?

- Yeah.

You did understand what I was telling you, didn't you?

- I understood.

- Yeah but as far as improving her form?

- Well, sometimes you've gotta get worse at something

before you get better, right?

- Far as I can see she's balking at the last minute,

you know piking it basically.

- One coach is enough, thanks.

- Tomorrow's another day, right?

Okay guys listen up.

Nice as it would be to keep this a friendly game,

this year is a competition.

You get points from the weekly comps,

you lose them by breaking any of the rules.

- Aah. - Aw come on.

- Consequences people, boring but inescapable fact of life.

So first round points are up.

- Hey. - ., I can wear that guy.

- Good score. - Okay, now this is

the beginning, it's where you finish that counts.

It's good to keep an eye on where you're going

but obsess about the numbers this early on in the piece

and you'll drive yourselves mental.

- Oh, I'm last.

Oh.

- You're learning a whole new skill Anna.

You've been a Kite boarder for how long?

- I don't think I'm going to get any better.

I don't think anyone else does either.

- That's not true.

- Please Fly, you don't need to be nice about it.

- I was being serious.

Why would Solar Blue send you halfway around the world

if they didn't think it was possible?

[upbeat music)

- Excellent, a live one.

Hey, hey, hey, look, look, I just want you to tell me,

how are you feeling at the end of the one month mark?

You know, not that big a deal.

- I'm running late as it is.

Besides, I got nothing interesting to say.

- [Heath] Oh, come on.

What, are you serious?

- See ya.

- Oh, come on Edge.

We could talk about the fact that you're coming first.

[hand slapping)

[door slamming)

- Gonna be a weird doco guys,

just lots of footage of Perri talking about herself.

Hey and not that there's anything wrong with that,

it just means cause you're the only one

that'll talk to me there won't be much variety.

- Hi Heath.

Breakfast?

- Ah, yeah.

Looking for the answers to her recent slump in performance,

kite boarding star Anna looks to nutrition for the answer.

Perhaps more bread will do the trick.

- You can't seriously call this gray foam bread.

- I don't know, depends how hungry I am.

Oh, come on Anna, please, please talk to me.

I'll get on my knees if it'll help.

- We have scored invites to the party of the season.

- Summer Vibe?

- The surf club have it every year.

Anyone who's anyone in the surf scene goes,

but not usually the kids from the academy, correct?

- Correct but I mean we can't have been

too near the top of the list.

The parties tonight and we got these invites today.

- Always look for the crack in the window Bec

and you'll miss the view.

Anna, there doesn't seem to be one for you.

You know what, I'll go give them a call and--

- Don't, there's no need. - Anna, Anna.

I'm sure we can fix it.

[upbeat music)

- What are you doing?

- I'm, tidying up.

- I'm not gonna bother with the surf club party tonight.

Sounds boring, think I'd rather stay home

and watch David Ace.

- Please Fly, I know what you're trying to do

but I don't need this party like you all do.

In Germany we aren't treated like babies until we turn .

So you run along to this party tonight and play grown ups.

I'm quite capable of looking out for myself.

Fly, I'm sorry.

[tape crinkling)

- The things last night, but a few things came up.

I would have done it this morning

but yeah, I'm running a bit late

so I'll be there in about minutes.

- Hey Anna, you wanna wait up

or you wanna get some traveling shots?

Okay, unless you're in a screaming hurry.

Hey Deb, hang on the files.

Hey Deb!

Oh my goodness.

What to do?

What to do?

What to do?

- It goes in the fridge Perri,

and Matt clean up the glasses, will you?

[camera clicking)

- Okay so on the one hand I've been trying

to put together a portrait of each of the other kids.

They're not cooperating and so fate delivers

exactly what I need, right into my lap,

thank you very much.

But then on the other hand,

you don't have to be Einstein to work out

that there's gonna be some ethical issues.

- Einstein was such a bore, wasn't he?

- Don't you ever knock?

- Not usually on the door of my own room.

What have we got here, my precious?

- Our personal files, applications to get in,

psychological assessments, judges comments.

Hamburger with the works.

- Hmm to look or not to look?

- Yep, that's the one.

- Why do you care anyway?

We all got in, what good's it do

to know what the judges said?

- Because it would tell us what they thought

our strengths and weaknesses were.

What we need to improve.

- And 'cause they're the same judges we're gonna

be surfing in front of in the final.

- That's a very good point that one.

- We all know what you think already, okay?

Fly?

- Call me goody two-shoes

but I think we should give it back.

It wasn't meant for us to see.

- Goody two-shoes?

- So if we had to vote now it'd be three against?

- Yeah.

- And three for looking inside the folder.

- Well there's no point even thinking about it

'cause Anna's not here.

- It shouldn't matter.

Anna didn't have to apply to get in.

Where is she anyway?

- I'm supposed to go back in a year

but if I wanted to change, is that possible?

- I'll just have to check.

[gentle music)

Yes you can.

Would you like to be wait listed

for the first available flight next week?

- Um. - Well has anyone seen her?

- You know, I haven't seen Anna since just after breakfast.

- So where the hell is she?

Or Perri for that matter?

- Perri has clearly fallen down the toilet

because that's where she reckoned she was going

half an hour ago.

- Okay, what about Anna?

- [Fly] I'm sure she's around here some place.

- What?

None of you care she's taken off

and left you with all the hard work?

What a loyal bunch we have this year.

- Hey guys, I've misplaced some really important files.

Has anyone seen them?

They're like big gray folders.

- How important?

- Well there was a check for a lot of money

in one of the files.

We're in big trouble if we can't find it.

Please keep your eyes open, okay?

- Perri, have you seen any of Deb's files?

- I don't know what you are suggesting

but I was in the toilet the whole time.

- [Simon] Really?

[whistling)

- Question is, how do we get it back to her?

- And whether we read the files first.

If Anna would hurry up and get home

we could vote and get it over with.

- There's not much of interest in her file anyway.

- You read Anna's file while you were

in the toilet didn't you?

- I was just curious about the whole kite boarding thing,

and why she's here, I didn't--

- Did you just read hers?

- Well no, not just hers.

[group moaning) - Oh h* h*.

- Are you serious Perri?

- Hi Jilly. - Hi guys.

- Well I'm sorry but it was just sitting there

and I'm weak and the truth is

unless Matt hadn't busted Heath,

he probably would have read them all too.

Well you all probably would have given the chance.

- No this is completely unfair.

Now she knows everything about all of us.

- Well why don't we just all read them?

And it's the fairest thing to do,

and Anna can make up her own mind when she gets home.

If she ever gets home.

[upbeat music)

[laughing)

- Fly.

Okay.

- Er, you're not gonna look at it?

- Maybe there's stuff in there it'd be better not to know.

- Right? - And once you know stuff

you can't just press erase and get rid of it, can you?

- No I guess not.

- You think I'm completely weird.

- Yep.

Em but hey, look, that's a bonus in my book.

[camera whizzing) [door squeaking)

- You can't be serious, can you?

If Deb or Simo see this they'll know we had it.

- Come on, it's just so cruel.

I'm trying to make a doco in which

none of the subjects wanna tell me

anything about themselves except you of course,

and a pot of gold lands in my lap

and I'm not allowed to use it?

- Heath. [camera clicking)

- Well you're very dressed up.

- Hello, the party?

- Simo is picking us up in two minutes

which means you've got two minutes to get ready.

- Ready.

- No, no, no I bags the front.

- I bags it. - Come on, in ya get.

Anna, I'm wondering if there's an explanation

for your absence today.

- Yeah there is, but I'm not sure I'm ready

to talk about it yet.

- Okay, well maybe we should make some time to talk.

- About my commitment to the program,

whether my motivation is where it needs to be?

- Yeah, yep, we'll talk about that too.

- Hey Anna, I rang the surf club.

There's an invitation for you,

it just slipped through the net.

They're expecting you to come.

- It's cool really, I don't feel like going.

Have a good time.

[upbeat dance music) [crowd shouting)

- Chris, how you doing?

Good, I've got this third contestant and helmet.

Tommy, how you going?

- Were you invited too?

- Yes Perri, I was but I forfeit my invitation

so as not to cramp your style.

That's the sort of guy I am.

- You're a very nice man sometimes Simo.

- Thank you Perri.

Now, do I need to remind anybody about the o'clock curfew

or are we all clear about the o'clock curfew.

- We're clear. - Clear about?

All together now.

- [Everyone] The o'clock curfew.

- Excellent, go wild.

- Aaron Campbell, XWCT in the brown shirt.

Marti Cooms, manager of PR for Maco boards,

with the black glasses on.

And that's-- - Who is he?

- That's Jesse Vandenburg.

- What no details?

- She doesn't waste any time does she?

♪ So hot ♪

♪ It's so hot ♪

♪ It so hot ♪

♪ You know what ♪

♪ It's so hot ♪ [camera shutter clicking)

- Here take this.

Come on hit me.

[camera shutter clicking) [laughing)

- Come on Fly. - Woo hoo hoo!

- Woo hoo!

[speaking in a foreign language)

- So you didn't read my file then?

- No, not much point reading any of the girls files

since I don't have to compete with you.

- Yeah, not much point really.

- I was curious though, just didn't have time, you know?

- Yeah, right.

- Want my shirt?

I'm wearing two. [laughing)

- Thanks.

♪ But you know she would walk to the beat of your drum ♪

♪ If you knew just how much you'd managed to do wrong ♪

♪ Don't you want to be all ♪

- And it was so embarrassing

because I didn't know anyone was watching so.

[laughing)

- Oi, Perri.

Perri, don't mean to spoil your fun

but it's time to think about that curfew, yeah?

- Oh what a shame.

Just when the real party's about to begin.

- What real party?

- Just a new surf magazine being launched in town.

We're gonna head in there.

- Have I got time to go home,

get a jacket, and push the snooze button on this curfew?

- No, I've known Simo for a while,

if you mess with his curfew, you're gone.

- Right to bed please. - Bye.

- I begs the bathroom first. - I was gonna use it.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Do you mind if I come?

Thanks.

- Perri?

- Does the name Jesse Vandenburg mean anything to you?

Oh well, he's amazing.

He's seen me surf and without wanting to jump the g*n,

I think he's interested in more than just my technique.

- And that explains why you're halfway out the window.

- After party.

- You're walking back on your own.

- I won't be on my own, Jesse will be waiting.

Wish me luck.

- [Fly] Are you going to be all night?

- Sorry.

- Oh, what happened to Perri?

She fall in?

- No, she went back to some after party.

- What?

Guys, Perri's gone back to the party.

- So? - So, curfew is .

Bed check is :.

- No one said anything about a bed check.

- Well, that would kind of defeat the purpose

of doing an unannounced bed check, wouldn't it?

- Well if it's so unannounced,

then how come you know about it?

- I'm a local, I've been doing my research for years.

- But what do we do about Perri?

- We can't go after her.

We won't be back in time ourselves

and then we'd all cop a caning.

- Jesse?

So you gonna tell me what kind of

secret surfers business you're up to in there?

So, we going to the party now or what?

- Yes, we're going to the party

but you'll have to make your own way there

if it's not already way past your bedtime.

[laughing)

Ah! - Sorry.

You better take those shoes off.

It'll be easier to run without them.

- Run?

- Simo's doing a bed check in six and a half minutes.

- Give me a leg up Anna. - I am.

- [Perri] I'm nearly there, just a bit more.

- Perri, Perri. - Okay, your turn.

- I'm glad you went first, that was very smooth.

- It wasn't my fault.

I wasn't the one who left the house without any keys.

- Yes you did, oh!

Help me up.

- Hang on, this window won't stay.

I need to find something to hold it.

Eww, yeah that'll--

Hi.

- So I thought because I didn't go to the surf club party,

I'd go to this other party and Perri came to find me

because she knew that I'd get into trouble if you found out.

- Anna you're shedding points left, right, and center.

Almost deliberately it seems which makes me wonder

if you really wanna be here at all.

- I can see that it would look like that.

- Well is it like that or does it just look like that?

- I'll go to bed and have a long hard think about it

and have an answer for you in the morning.

- Good.

- Why did you do that?

- I figured the points are more important

to you than they are to me.

- Is Simo right?

And this is just some plan to try

and get yourself kicked out or something?

- It's too late for that.

I changed my flight today.

I just haven't told Deb or Simo yet.

- Hello, you're leaving?

Why?

- I don't love it like you all do.

I haven't been dreaming of surfing since I could crawl.

- And that's what you're going to tell Deb and Simo?

- Something like that.

- Hey, I know the real reason Anna.

And Deb and Simo know it too.

I know about the kite boarding accident.

I know it scared you out of the water and they sent you here

so you could take some time out

and get your confidence back.

And just so you're clear, you were surfing

brilliantly when you first got here.

I thought you could have beaten any of us

but then you seized right up.

And now you're gonna run home,

hang up your swimmers and take up knitting,

which by the way is exactly

what they're all expecting you to do.

- Who? - Your coach, Deb and Simo,

your parents, they basically said as much in your file.

- What file?

- [Woman] Having read the circumstances of Anna's accident

I think it's quite possible that we can tailor part

of the program to target her specific fears.

- [Simon] Solar Blue feel a stint at the academy

may help her break through the psychological trauma.

- [Man] I feel it my duty to register my unhappiness

at the decision to include her.

- Everyone read this? - Just me.

I took your file out before anyone else read it.

- Why would you do that for me?

- Because in spite of appearances I do have a heart.

Your coach's comments are on the last page.

- [Anna] Do I need to feel any worse?

- I reckon it's worth having the whole story.

Goodnight.

♪ Hold on, be strong ♪

♪ They hold you under ♪

♪ They hold you under ♪

♪ They hold you under I can't dream ♪

- How much do you think it'll cost?

- Oh, it's pretty heavy.

I reckon ten bucks at the least.

- Ten bucks? - I still reckon we should

just leave it on the doorstep or maybe let Heath

work out how to get it back

since he was the one who found it in the first place.

- Hey, if you decided not to read it, Edge,

I'd feel guilty about having dragged you into this.

- Yoo! - You forgot mine.

- Hey, where'd you get that?

- Magic.

- Anyone want some toast? - And I need to book in time

to explain some stuff to you,

but right now I need to find Perri.

- Who knows, always missing in action

when there's dirty work to be done.

- I thought about it a lot last night

and the bottom line is I'm staying.

- Brilliant.

Was it me saying you could actually beat us

or was it that reverse psychology stuff?

- I'm still scared but I'm angry now too

and I think the anger will win.

- Your coach sounds like a complete idiot.

- I got good at kite boarding

because he said I wouldn't be strong enough,

maybe now I'll get good at surfing because of him too.

Anyway, thank you.

- It's okay.

- There's just one other thing.

I need the points back Simo took off me last night.

- I have no idea what you could possibly mean.

- I mean, we go to Simo, explain to him what happened,

and then I get back the points.

- But that'd mean he'd then take the points from me.

- Yep. - It's never going to happen.

- Isn't that unfair?

- This is a competition.

It's not a game.

But maybe there's another way I could compensate you

for taking the blame last night.

[upbeat music)

♪ Oh, I love to see you ♪

- What about that time?

Were my arms in a better position then?

- I don't know.

My brain froze up halfway through.

We've been out here for hours.

Are my lips blue?

They feel completely blue.

- They look great, match the water.

- Can't believe you.

- You know from my folder once I set my mind on something.

- I know, I know, you've got determination

the size of an elephant.

- So come rain, hail, or alien invasion,

we are out here til I crack this.

Tomorrow might be another day but today is mine.

♪ Ah ah, ah ah ♪

♪ There's too much choice and not enough time ♪

♪ To find what's mine ♪

♪ Aiming for your head, get down ♪

♪ You're the only one in town ♪

♪ Ah ah, ah ah, woo ♪

[zooming music)