01x04 - Fly Takes a Dive

[bunniefuu]

♪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 ♪

♪ Whatcha gonna do with yourself? ♪

- Waves, I love them.

Fast or slow, big or small, even waves like this one.

Got ya.

- [Surfer] See that, she's chopping it up.

[laughing)

- Yeah, woohoo.

Oh yeah.

[laughing)

- [Boy] Yeah.

- Woo hoo.

Yeah.

- Way to go, little Fly.

- Drop off.

- What did I say?

It's a compliment.

She was flying.

- Don't even try to understand

what goes on in a girl's mind.

- Little Fly?

Why is it always little Fly?

Fly, m*dget, flea, kitty, wink.

Ugh, why don't people take me seriously?

- Hey, Fly.

You got a message to call home.

Fly, like now, it's urgent.

- Thanks, Simmo.

Mom?

- [Mom] Hi, you've called the Watsons.

Leave a message for George, Sandy

Kate, Josie, Liz, Jen, Nell.

[beeping)

- Hi, anyone at home?

Mom, Dad?

You said urgent.

Is anyone home?

Is everything okay?

Please call, I'll be right at the phone.

Bye.

- See you later.

- Where are you going?

- My sister's wedding this weekend.

- Oh yeah right, you're going home.

- Yeah, so don't get into any trouble while I'm away, yeah?

- Come on, come on.

- See you in three days.

- [Fly] Have fun.

- [Heath] Yeah, I'll do my best.

[rhythmic guitar music)

- [Deb] Where's Fly?

- Inside, her family called.

- Huh.

- Okay, I'll see you all in minutes.

Just so you know, what Deb's about

to tell you, I had nothing to do with.

All yours.

- Great, thanks, Simmo.

Righto, then, gorgeous beaches, all the surf you want.

Out of school for lunch and study periods.

For training, pretty privileged life right?

- Well somebody's gotta live it.

- Solar Blue also feel it's important

for you to have some balance in your life.

To be a part of the community here.

- By more socializing, maybe?

- By doing some community service.

- What?

- [Kids] Oh come on! [groaning)

- About hours throughout the year.

[kids groaning)

- hours?

- When are we supposed to do that?

- Deb, we're already pushed beyond.

- That's surfing, training, chores.

- School, homework.

- I thought we're here to surf.

- Yeah, you are, you're also here to learn

how to be part of a team and to give something back

to the community that supports you.

So, read up.

- It'll be fun, I've done community stuff at my old school.

- Some of the suggestions might be cool.

Maybe like, helping at the National Park?

- Sure, we've got a free slot between midnight and four.

- Midnight and four?

But that's your snoring practice time, Edge.

- Watch it.

- We should check on Fly.

- Edge, I maybe know how you and I can do

this community service and get some extra training.

- Yeah, how?

- I'm a local, I've got contacts.

- We put your board away.

- You know they took my name off

the message machine at home?

- Well, duh, that's because you're not there, are you?

- No, I'm not.

- While we're on the subject of phone messages.

On the left, guys who are likely to call me.

On the right, messages you have to give them.

- Uh, why are we your personal answering service?

Can't they just call your mobile?

- I've given this number to people

I'm not sure I really wanna talk to.

- So why give it out?

- To keep my options open.

Now if Jason rings, I'm home.

Mark Fisher, I'm out.

Derek Slack, freako, I've left the country.

Just follow the chart, please?

[gentle music)

- [Fly] Ring.

[gentle music)

- Oh, no I'll do it.

Okay, good.

- [Fly] Please ring.

Perth to Sydney, , ks

- Oh, oh.

- [Fly] Maybe they've had a bush fire.

- How long did you leave it in for?

- Like what you said to do.

- Right. - I did that.

- Two hours, right?

[upbeat music)

♪ Moving to the city, ♪

♪ Was so hard to say farewell ♪

- Don't go anorexic on us Bec.

- Jilly I just pigged out at lunch that's all.

- Well Edge reckoned we could cook the rice

in half the time at twice the temperature.

[phone ringing)

- Hello.

Oh this is Anna's grandmother?

[speaking in a foreign language)

- Thanks fly.

- Fly why don't you take a break

and we'll call you when they ring.

- Fly, I've got informo ba*ls,

you can have one of those if you like

as soon as I get them working.

- Thanks Edge.

- No probs kiddo.

- [Fly] Kiddo?

- [speaking in foreign language)

- You get a silver medal for sloppiness Edge.

- Try sharing a room with him.

- Jilly, a message came through to the voicemail for Fly.

- Hepatitis?

That's serious.

- Glandular fever and suspected hepatitis.

- Poor Nell, and she's doing her final exams.

I better call them back.

- The message said to wait.

They won't get the test results

for the hepatitis til tonight,

they said they'd call you after that.

- I hate this three hour time difference

to West Australia.

- Now Fly, you are not going to camp out

underneath the phone all night.

- Here, it's cheap rates at night.

Call them anytime you like.

- That's a great idea Anna.

- Thanks Anna.

- Here's the telephone number of the hospital,

in the meantime sit tight and try and get some sleep.

- This is Fiona, Nell Watson's sister.

I heard she's in ward seven.

I was wondering how--

Yeah, I'd love to speak to her if I'm allowed.

Thanks.

Nell, I've been so worried.

No, going home tomorrow?

But that's great.

Me?

Yeah, of course, I love it here.

Sure, school's good.

Everything's cool.

The other kids?

They're awesome.

There's Edge, cool guy, wicked freestyler.

Bec's a local, knows everyone and everything around here.

Perri's totally hot, she's even been in magazines.

Matt's a braniac, he knows heaps more than most teachers.

Heath's really fun, he's part Larry,

his mum's from New Zealand.

He's like a professional surf film director.

Anna's my roommate.

She's a champion kite boarder from Germany.

Travel's everywhere, she's pretty famous.

And then there's me, you know, youngest, smallest.

Maybe I should come home for a bit while you're sick.

No, I suppose not.

Yeah, I better let you get some sleep too.

It was great talking to you Nellie.

Miss you.

Night.

[gentle music)

God on hold?

On hold?

- Fly, your sister okay?

- Um, yep, great.

No hepatitis, going home today.

- That's a relief isn't it?

I'll charge the battery.

- Bathroom's free.

If you wanna get in ahead of Perri.

- Fly?

- Um no, no, you go.

- Thanks, I won't be long.

- We've got enough lifesavers for now Bec.

I'm sorry.

- Well yeah, it's fine, I understand.

Really, thank you for trying.

- Maybe next year.

[upbeat music)

- [Fly] My family's skint and I run up the bill

of two hundred seventy four dollars?

Such a kid.

- Time.

[upbeat music)

- Has anyone organized community service yet?

- No, not yet.

- I'm gonna try the Surf Life Saving Club.

- Forget it Perri.

Life savers think we surf school kids are full of ourselves.

Won't commit or work hard for anything but surfing.

- Bet I can talk my way in.

- Fine, what would I know?

- Time.

- She'll fall flat on her face if she even tries.

- Fly, want a leg up?

- No, I can do it.

- Hi, the job you advertised,

is that still?

Okay then, thanks.

- [Woman] Can't see you hoisting a crate

of drink bottles kid, sorry.

- Here ya go, you all right?

- Excuse me, can you tell me where the manager is?

- Why?

- I was wondering if that job he advertised

was still going.

The one in the paper.

- I don't think so love, sorry.

- We need someone who can actually pick things up.

- You know I spent my whole life

on a dairy farm.

Milking, herding, hauling in grain, mukking out sheds.

I sold fruit and veg at the local markets

since I was five years old and handled the cash.

I can drive a tractor, fix a bailor, and work in a flood.

So being something like a checkout chick

at a service station would be a piece of pie,

I mean cake.

Bet you've never hauled a heifer out of a dam.

- Um, no, no we don't get a lot of heifer's around here.

I am the manager here and I do have a job

you might be interested in.

♪ Summer days lying back in the shade ♪

♪ A cool drink of lemonade doing nothing all day ♪

♪ Summer days and the yummy displays ♪

♪ Mangos, nectarines, apricots, and grapes ♪

♪ Summer days and the boring go games ♪

♪ And the long hot nights that make you wanna misbehave ♪

- Hi boys.

- You must be Perri.

- Casey Cogsworth, hi.

- Hi.

- How are you?

- Good.

- You know we've got three assignments this weekend.

- Well forget about the cooking,

that's all taken care of.

- Great, and now my community service is sorted.

- What?

Already?

Where'd you volunteer the abitwa?

- The Surf Life Saving Club.

Bec's got me and her in as members.

- Just you and Edge?

- Um, not exactly.

They wouldn't take us.

- But you're a local.

You've got contacts.

- Embarrassing, huh?

Sorry.

- Okay everyone.

Guess what we are.

- What?

- Members of the Blue Water Surf Life Saving Club.

I got us in.

- All of us?

- Yep, told you I could talk em into it Bec.

[upbeat music)

♪ Do it again and again and again ♪

♪ You tell me what to say ♪

♪ I'm coming out strong ♪

♪ Coming out strong ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Look me in the eyes ♪

♪ And tell me that it's all right ♪

♪ Without your love ♪

♪ I'm okay and I will never leave you ♪

♪ Without your love ♪

- Oh no, I see him, I see him.

All right cheers mom, thanks.

You're a legend.

Okay, bye.

Hey.

Okay, Anna we need to get this stuff off mom's dishes

and onto Jilly's plates.

- They smell so good Ben.

- Mom said you gotta give us more notice next time.

- And just how much notice does mom need?

I've got Uni tonight so you get the short version riot act

which is realize you've all left home.

There are no parents here to pick up after you,

no meals on wheels, and no laundry service from mom.

I know you're competing but you all have to look out

for each other, cause for this year, get used to it,

we're all each other's family.

Does anybody wanna say anything?

- You're not really gonna throw out

Bec's mom's pies are ya?

- Not if you save me some.

[speaking in a foreign language)

- Hi there.

- Where have you been?

- Nowhere.

- I let Jilly know you were doing community service.

I'm trying to video phone on the internet to Germany

but this stupid thing keeps crashing.

- You're so far away from home Anna,

different language and customs and stuff,

you don't act homesick.

- I miss things, good black bread,

really German TV, my school, my friends, mom and dad.

[gentle music)

- What happened to using the life boat?

- And sitting in the tower meeting all the hotties?

- Our first set of day offs since we get here,

Heath gets to go to a party

and we're doing this here instead of surfing out there.

- Okay, obviously we've gotta prove ourselves

to begin with.

- Made it in after all, hey Bec?

I wasn't playing favorites.

Perri suggested that I give you all a go

on probation, better get on with it.

The juniors will need this area for training pretty soon.

- Great.

- So, you talked him into giving us cruddy jobs

on probation, hey Perri?

Wow, what a negotiator.

- At least we got our foot in the door.

- I don't know what Fly's community service is

but it has to be better than this.

[upbeat music)

- Any money you find is mine all right?

- So it needs to be--

- Interior right?

- Okay, I'll be back to pick it up around three.

- Three?

- This lady wants a full interior clean, okay?

- Hey, I pressed start, you should be in there.

[upbeat music)

♪ Y'know it happened once again last Thursday ♪

♪ And viva la resistance ♪

♪ The sun shines in other skies ♪

♪ The moon rise, I'm hypnotized ♪

♪ Who's coming through the window ♪

♪ Take a look around, take a look around ♪

♪ There's a lot to see ♪

- Go up, go up.

- John, john.

- What's happening?

That's my car in there.

- You've got to turn it off ya drongo.

- Luckily there was no serious damage

but it's against surf school rules

to take on a job without our approval.

We are responsible for your safety.

We need to know where you are

and what you're doing.

If you have money problems, you come and talk to us.

What were you thinking Fly?

Fly?

- [Fly] You're a baby Fly Watson.

A real pathetic baby.

I ruined everything.

Saturday's the busiest day for the car wash

and they can't get it fixed til Monday.

I just want to go home, see Nell and the others

and the farm.

- You want to leave?

- I don't fit in here.

- You don't fit in here?

What about me?

A German kite boarder.

- Yeah but you can handle it.

Everyone respects you.

I'm just like some annoying flea on their backsides.

- You're having a tough time Fly

but tough times happen anywhere.

- Different when you're home.

- I have an idea.

- What?

- I'll be back to get you.

Don't leave town.

- Can you believe it?

Two hours collecting garbage.

I now have such balance in my life.

- Okay, at least we got the rest of the day off.

- Guys, I need your help.

- What's going on?

- We're doing a geography check.

- Now here's you, , kilometers away from

Margaret River, West Oz.

- And there's Heath.

- Lucky devil's back home right now

. kilometers away in Ballina.

- And Perri.

- Gold Coast, . killometers.

- And Edge.

- Melbourne, ks.

- That's wrong, it's .

- You can change it, okay?

There's me down at King Island

and then there's Anna's home , ks away in Hamburg.

- Am I gonna get a sign?

- You're two blocks away.

- I still want a sign.

- The point is, we are all away from home.

Some of us further than others.

- And we may not be your sisters

Kate, Nell, or Josie.

- Or Liz.

- Or Jenn, but we're gonna be their

[speaking in foreign language)

- Understudies, substitutes.

- We're your substitute family.

- This is too embarrassing.

- Not as embarrassing as us picking up garbage

with little yellow rubber gloves.

- Come on, you guys always know how to handle things.

You don't stuff everything up.

- They stuff up all the time.

- Speak for yourself.

- So you cost the car wash some money

and you're in the poo with Deb, right?

- I just wanna disappear.

- You know I've got an idea how we can fix this,

and call it community service at the same time.

- Whatever it is, no.

- But it's good, hear me out.

Back up, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Stop there.

Good morning madam.

- Good morning.

- We're hand washing cars here this morning

with half the proceeds going to the

Blue Water Surf Life Saving Club's annual appeal.

- How marvelous.

- Part of our community service program.

- All right dad, well can you just get your hands

on as many as possible and bring them down?

Yeah, yeah, that'd be really good.

Okay.

Right, dad's bringing all the cars from the car lot

and I've got all the kids I know from school

putting pressure on their parents to come too.

- I reckon you're gonna clean up here today mate.

- Ah, looking great guys.

Doing good job.

All right, ready for the next.

- Fly, you should learn to worry less.

Besides, they're my old ones.

[laughing)

♪ A new world record ♪

♪ A new world record ♪

[upbeat music)

- Fly, come over here.

One hundred eighty two dollars, forty, in tips.

- No, it's for all of us.

- We voted.

It goes towards the debt for the damage

and the rest of this mystery debt,

pay me back when you turn pro surfer, okay?

- How'd you find out?

- They just text me the bill.

- Righto, that's enough.

Everyone come get a cold drink.

- Right, thanks.

- Okay, okay.

I've got some good news

and I've got some even better news.

You guys did a fantastic job

raising money for the club today.

- Right, one of my best days ever.

- So we're waiving probation.

You guys are now fully fledged members

of the Surf Life Saving Club.

- [Everyone] Yes.

- So what's the even better news?

- George is letting you guys

do a car wash-a-thon for the club every month.

- We did too good a job.

We should have stuffed it up.

- No way, I've done enough stuffing up for life.

I guess there's always gonna be someone

who's the baby of the family

and because I'm the smallest and the youngest

I guess that's me

but I can still get the biggest waves

and the fastest waves.

Even waves like this one.

Got ya.

♪ 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 ♪