01x05 - A Man of Vision

[bunniefuu]

Previously on Cleverman.

Gota get out of here. Go!

Just get rid of the Namorrodor.

Just stories Waru Like sand in claws.

More people are going to die.

Unless you act.

It's spoke to Koen again?

What you want you me to beg?

Will take a few minutes the drug to make effect.

You are so close to loose everything.

We work to hard and too long for you mess it up now.

Help us.

Call an ambulance.

What's that?

Woman: Charlotte Slade.

Hi.

How are we today?

A little bit nervous. I've been through this quite a few times.

We've managed to harvest and fertilize very impressive embryos.

I have full confidence.

Oh, this is my husband.

Jarrod Slade.

Pleased to meet you.

And you.

Come through.

Thinking of England. (sighs)

Think boy or girl.

All right, Charlotte.

I'm just gonna ask you to relax.

Okay, keep steady.

Here we go.

Oh!

I love you.

I love you.

"Take Me Home" playing

(man singing in native dialect)

♪ Take the head and the body will follow ♪
♪ Take the head ♪
♪ Take the head and the body will follow ♪
♪ Take the head ♪
♪ Take me home ♪
♪ Take me home. ♪

I can't imagine what it must be like to look at this view every day.

No, a couple of years, a few more melted polar ice caps, then we'll be the ones with waterfront.

Perhaps we should be selling, Charlotte.

Yeah.

It's a lovely meal.

Oh, thank you, but Jarrod takes the credit for lunch.

No.

Oh, you can cook, too?

Waruu here can't boil an egg.

I enjoy the alchemy of the kitchen.

I'll be back in just a tick.

(vomiting)

(flushes)

Need a GPS to find yourself around here.

Is everything okay?

I'm pregnant.

Oh!

Oh, my God.

Okay, well, that was about three months premature.

I won't say a thing.

Oh, is it something you want?

Oh, God, yeah. I just...

I didn't think I could.

Oh.

Well, I'm really happy for you.

(both laugh)

Congratulations.

Oh, God. I hope it sticks.

Sorry, I'm just after the bathroom.

Oh, God, I'm sorry. It's just down here.

Great.

(horn honking)

Cops should be crawling all over the place.

(speaking native dialect)

Blair, wait. Blair, we don't know who's in there.

Blair!

Blair: Grab something to hold her.

We got to go, brother.

I'm not leaving her here like this.

So why are we here?

Charlotte's filled me in with what you're trying to do in the Zone.

The issues you're facing with a lack of basic amenities, the ongoing accommodation crisis.

I'd like to help you out.

You offering me money?

Mmm.

I'm always on the lookout for worthy philanthropic projects.

Yours is a good cause.

Right in my own backyard, too.

Well, not quite your backyard.

Come on, you tell me how much you need to kick-start some real improvements in the Zone.

300,000.

From what I understand of the situation, 300 won't touch the sides.

Three million.

You're a man of vision, Waruu.

Why don't we add another zero to that?

Can't take that much money.

30 million.

Now you can leverage off that capital.

Turn it into 300 million. Build a citadel.

I'm giving you the chance to have a real stake in your people's future.

Before people like Matthews take that away, too.

I would feel comfortable with less.

Moses led the Israelites out of the wilderness.

He didn't just drop them off at the bus stop midway.

Take the money, Waruu.

Let's stop mucking about.

And what do you want in return?

Your brother.

(speaking native dialect)

I still don't understand a word you're saying.

Let's go.

If we go into the Zone half-cocked, we will lose personnel.

Then do your job properly.

You promised me air support, tear gas.

For three kids? Come on.

(groans)

What happened to you?

Subhuman encounter.

Send a couple of cars in.

I don't care about collateral damage.

I can work with that.

But three Hairy boys loose in the streets tearing people's hearts out...

They didn't. I did.

You k*lled Dickson?

No, I just made the best of a bad situation.

That symbol on the wall, that was you?

Your approval rating went up 10 percentage points after your press release, after that image went viral.

Now, did I do the wrong thing?

Hey!

Hey, dickheads.

Look here.

Get me those boys.

Come on, come on.

(sirens wailing)

(laughs)

(crowd chanting)

Boy: Welcome to the Zone.

The savage. Stop! Show us your hands.

Stop!

Wait! Don't sh**t.

That's assaulting an officer.

Stay down. Get down.

(screaming)

Get off! Get off me!

Don't touch a CA officer, you rug bastard.

Okay, Max, I'm gonna need you to keep your eyes open.

Okay? Can you try? It's gonna hurt.

Okay, let me just get the milk in there.

Okay? Oh, I know it hurts.

(groaning)

I know it hurts. Just try and keep them open. What happened?

We were just fooling around and the guards pulled out their g*ns.

Then they went Uncle Max. Kicked him on the ground and stuff.

You all right, Uncle?

(groaning)

I've got to go, brother.

Come on, we can't stick around here. Let me drop you somewhere.

Getting rid of me?

It's not safe for you where I got to go.

Dump and run time?

I've got sh*t to deal with, Blair.

And it doesn't involve you.

It's a bit late for that.

Blair.

Blair.

You knew what was gonna happen to Ash, didn't you?

(laughs) That's why you had the g*n.

(liquid pouring)

You knew and you didn't tell me.

Did he know?

(speaking native dialect)

See? Kora knows you're an ass.

Don't you, Kora?

Ass.

I remember when I first met him.

I was 13 sleeping rough under a bridge.

But it was better than sleeping at home with a randy old man.

It was cold.

Freeze a witch's tit off cold.

And this guy comes up asking for somewhere to sleep.

But he didn't have anything.

I just split the Zone.

He was full of the same old Koen sh*t.

Telling stories, making us laugh.

You're a funny bastard when you want something, aren't you, Koen?

Then he wanted my sleeping bag.

Later he wanted my girlfriend.

I knew.

No.

No.

Come on, brother, you got that wrong.

That's not what she's saying.

Kora, do you concur?

(speaks native dialect)

Kora concurs. So that's three against one says you lie.

We need to go.

I'm not going anywhere until you say you screwed Ash.

(knock on door)

We're not open!

Say it.

Okay, whatever.

Not good enough.

Say "I screwed Ash."

I screwed Ash.

How many times? Lose count?

It didn't mean anything.

So you screwed my girlfriend and it didn't mean anything?

Is that what you're saying?

Ass.

Cleverman.

Blair.

(engine starts)

announcer: Coming up...

woman: You dirty animal!

(protestors chanting)

(electricity buzzing, painful groaning)

(shouting)

announcer: Stay tuned for more "Cleverman."

Rowena: Didn't you hear me? I'm at work.

Okay, he has to call me back.

No, no, listen to me.

He has to because I can't 'cause my phone's almost out of credit.

Jesus, Jordan!

(mutters)

(sighs)

Okay, that's both hands. You're good to go.

(door closes, lock clicks)

crowd chanting: Hairies out, Hairies out...

(speaking native dialect)

Man: They're a bunch of savages.

Woman: You dirty animal!

Guard: IDs, please.

Charlotte: Hey!

Woman: You filthy rug!

Hey, which one of you used capsicum spray on an unarmed man?

Ma'am, you need to calm down.

Was it you?

No, I'm not gonna calm down.

I want your name and I want your rank and I want them right now.

Guard: Mam you need to back off.

I'm not gonna back off.

Excuse me, sir.

We have a slight situation on our hands.

Charlotte: I'm not gonna back off.

McIntyre: No one is to touch a hair on her head.

Do you understand me?

Uh, yeah.

f*ring on innocent children.

Macing old men.

You people are a disgrace.

The Zoners, they're no different from you.

They're just trying to raise their families as best as they can.

And now you stop food trucks from getting in.

There's children in there.

Whatever happened to live and let live?

Man: Get a real job.

Whatever happened...

Woman: Stop helping savvies.

You're the ones that are subhuman!

(man laughs)

Hey, hey, monkey!

You're the ones that are subhuman.

You're the ones that are subhuman.

Man #2: Get back inside, you Hairy lover.

Welcome to the Zone.

(knocks on door)

Just push it.

Well, here's trouble.

Blair: Hey, I'm Blair.

This is Ash.

We're operating under the idea that her name is Kora.

But we've got no idea.

You understand her?

Where'd you say you know her from?

We sort of picked her up.

Picked her up where?

Ass.

Suck it up.

No.

That's not good.

She's not from here.

This is old spiritual stuff here.

She's like some kind of ancestral spirit.

You didn't screw her, did you, boy?

He screws anything that moves.

(distant siren wailing)

Where's my phone, you Hairy bitch?

You're gonna regret this.

Get up.

Get up!

If I find out that you are lying to me...

you're lying to me about this...

What's the problem?

She's got my phone.

I had it on me when I was doing her nails.

She must have hidden it someplace.

I'll ask you once.

Do you have her phone?

You're lying.

Shut up, Rowena.

If I find out you're lying to me about the phone...

Who would I call?

You're off your face.

(electricity crackles)

(groans)

How many times do we have to have this conversation, Rowena?

(sobbing)

No doing dr*gs in Frankie's house.

(crackling)

(Rowena whimpering, mutters)

(door closes, lock clicks)

Here.

(sighs)

(scoffs)

You got to send her back, Koen.

Back?

To her home, her dimension.

(scoffs) Yeah, go on, Cleverman.

Send her home.

Use your fancy stick. Do your magic thing.

You want another drink, buru?

Hey, don't be a smart-ass.

You need to take her to the old fig tree, where Jimmy used to take you and Waruu.

All I know is she got to get home and you're the one make it happen.

I don't know sh*t.

Pretty accurate.

announcer: Coming up...

(panting)

(grunting, groaning)

announcer: Stay tuned for more "Cleverman".

(winces, groans)

Waruu: Clean functioning housing for everyone in the Zone.

It's everything we've ever dreamed of.

More.

It's big money you're talking about.

How much is Slade offering?

Enough to get a business plan together, to redevelop, to approach the bank for a loan.

How much?

$30 million.

(laughs)

And, what, Jarrod Slade's just gonna hand over the money just like that?

It's already in our bank account.

What?

When a white man gives a black man that kind of money, he wants something back.

What does he get?

He's a philanthropist.

What does he get?

I'm trying to create a viable future here for our people and you're asking me questions?

It's a simple question.

What does he get?

What options do we have?

Hey. What are you doing up?

You all right? You want something to eat?

No, I'm good. I'm here to speak with my son.

Who won't even look at me.

What do you want?

Some bad sh*t's been going down.

Jimmy... he's messed things up.

What are you on about?

Koen.

He needs your help.

Koen's here?

In the Zone?

Right next door.

Linda: Says he found her in some sort of laboratory tied to a bed with tubes sticking out of her.

Mean anything to you?

No.

Jimmy, did he mention?

Jimmy stopped making any sense a long time ago.

(people shouting)

How did you find this place?

She called me.

Got inside my head.

Calling over and over.

What else?

I grabbed her, took her to the bar.

Then nothing till... this guy came around looking for her.

He had a g*n.

He k*lled my friend.

So I sh*t him.

Now, that was smart.

There was this other dude.

sh**t him, too?

Different bloke. Tall.

Spoke with his head up his ass.

Coming offering condolences for Jimmy.

Told me he was a friend of his.

Offered me a job, too.

Straight out of the blue.

What'd you tell him?

Told him to get lost.

You seen a guy like that?

Well, Kora needs to be sent back.

First things first.

We have to get rid of the Namorrodor.

That's your job...

Cleverman.

It always comes back to that.

k*lling it's the only thing that's gonna save the Hairies.

We should do it tonight.

Now?

Why not?

Before more people get k*lled.

Your call.

And leave her at home.

I was thinking... maybe it's time you wound up your work in the Zone.

At least till after the baby.

That's eight and a half months away.

What am I gonna do instead?

Stay home and crochet?

There's a thought.

I intend to work until the day I drop.

If you were working in an office or a GP practice, maybe.

Oh, come on.

It's a dangerous place.

It's not your battle.

Someone needs to take a stand.

Those CA animals used capsicum spray on an unarmed man today.

Exactly, a volatile situation.

It's not just you to consider.

Ah, you thinking about your heir?

You are, aren't you?

Our baby is in rudest of rude health.

Okay? I did an ultrasound today.

Its development is off the charts.

Must be my good genes.

(laughs)

What you gonna be like in eight and a half months, eh?

A monster.

So we lure this thing.

Say it comes.

Then what?

Then you k*ll it.

And it goes back to wherever it came from?

And Kora?

You'll be in your full powers.

You open up the portal, you send her back.

That's not gonna work.

You bring the nulla nulla?

It's in the boot.

It's in the boot.

You better go and get it.

So, what, I just club it to death?

I guess.

Is that all the advice you're gonna give me?

It's quick and it goes for the heart.

(chuckles)

(chanting)

(beeps)

Go, go, go! Go!

(screaming)

(grunts)

(gasping)

(chanting)

It's not working.

It's not coming, Waruu. Something's wrong.

It's probably your chanting.

You want to do this or not?

'Cause you don't look like you do. Looks like you want to run.

Stuff you.

Go on, then. Take it.

Go on, take it.

Uncle Jimmy stuffed up. This is your chance to unstuff it.

Take the nulla nulla, Waruu.

Go on, be the Cleverman.

(trills)

Take it.

That's not how this works.

What?

Am I supposed to die first? That it?

That's what you're waiting for, isn't it, you dog?

I know I die.

I've seen it.

What you see and what eventually...

So how does it work, then, brother, huh?

Tell me, do I get mauled to death, and then you take over?

Be the man you've always wanted to be?

Take it.

Yeah, run.

That's what you're good at, boy.

You're a sellout, Koen.

Sell your own mother if you could.

Even when we were kids, it's always been about my mother, eh?

Koen's a coconut.

Koen's got a white slut mother.

Well, I never had a chance to meet her, so I don't know how you're such an expert.

Huh?

Your mother was a whore.

You're the living proof.

Bastard.

Oh, do you want to keep going, then, brah?

It's not over yet, brother.

(boy groaning)

Maliyan: Shh.

(distant baby crying)

(speaks native language)

(boy wheezing)

Shh.

(boy groans)

Go to sleep.

(speaks native language)

(boy groaning)

Shh.

Hey, little one.

How about I make the pain go away?

I know a special way.

You interested?

I'm gonna let you in on a secret.

I can fly.

When we fly, the pain just goes away.

You want to try?

(imitating airplane)

(boy laughing)

Djukara.

Okay, bud.

Djukara's out of fuel now.

Mungo.

It all go down how you wanted?

What's happened to you?

I can explain.

No need.

I saw the tape.

You k*lled that guard with your bare hands.

No, no. It wasn't like that.

I saw how it was.

Nerida, I swear I had no choice.

You have to believe me.

Believe you? How can I?

Well, come on, then.

Give me your reason.

Level with me.

Tell me what's going on.

Hmm?

Tell me about this deal you've got with Slade.

Tell me.

Must be pretty freaking bad if you can't tell me.

Is it worse than k*lling a man with your bare hands?

It was him or me.

I thought I knew you.

I've no freaking idea who you are.

Look, Nerida.

No, don't you touch me.

(train rattling)

(people chattering)

Hey.

(grunts)

It's your fault my sister's dead.

You have destroyed everything.

sh**t.

Go on.

Do it.

Do it!

(g*nsh*t)

(dog barking)

(people shouting)

(gasps)

Linda: What happened out there?

Koen: Nothing.

Never was going to.

I'm not the one.

I'm just a stuff-up.

Don't say that.

I couldn't save Ash.

I couldn't save Ash.

And a kid.

Little Hairy girl is dead because of me.

I sold her family out to the CA for some extra cash.

CA might have pulled the trigger, but it's my fault that she d*ed.

Doesn't sound so clever to me.

(sniffles)

She was just a kid.

And the last thing that she said to me... she thanked me.

Okay.

Come here, love. Come on.

Minister.

Your man McIntyre needs to be pulled into line.

He's refusing to send down squads into the Zone.

The brief has always been one of containment.

Situations change, therefore responses must change.

You go in there armed and it'll be carnage.

That's the idea.

Assets will be destroyed.

The general public won't like that.

Right now we have the Zone population like fish in a barrel.

What are you guys up to in there?

Don't worry. Our interests are not mutually exclusive.

I want the Zone cleared.

If your company won't do it, I'll find one that can.

And risk losing the support of my network?

Do we have to keep playing this game?

The public want to feel safe in their homes and on the streets and I'm gonna make that happen.

The Zone will be cleansed.

(sighs)

And after it's empty... this.

Top-floor penthouse I've set aside.

Wonderful, isn't it?

Sweeping 360 views of the city, the harbor.

(sighs)

I reckon you're gonna be happy living there.

I've been talking to Frankie about purchasing you.

Outright.

Okay, so you take these twice a day.

(boy wheezing)

And some Valium while you're at it.

Okay.

(boy moaning)

Eve.

There's something weird on his skin. Scratches.

They're getting bigger.

Charlotte: Hey, are you okay?

Ooh, doesn't look good.

Hold on...

When did this happen?

I don't know.

Shh.

Come on, lie back.

Alinta, go get Koen now.

Eve, you still got them eucalyptus leaves I gave you?

What do I tell him?

Tell him to get here now or I'll kick his ass into tomorrow.

Go on, get him.

Do you know what this is?

Yeah. I'm afraid there's nothing in your bag of tricks to fix this.

It's not a what, it's a who.

You've been to a smoking ceremony before, haven't you?

Yeah.

Good. You're running this one.

There's a young boy in there in a whole lot of pain.

Something wrong about it all.

Go and get your dad. He should be doing this.

Nah, time for you to step up.

I'm not the one. Get Waruu.

We don't always get a chance to do good.

If I was you, I'd grab this opportunity with both hands.

(boy moans)

I know, right?

Okay, everyone's got to get out now.

Okay, clear out.

Go on, get, now.

All of you, go on.

You, too, darling. It's not safe for you.

You have to go.

Over to you.

I can't.

(singing in native dialect)

Whoever's in there, it's safe to come out.

Follow the smoke. It will set you free.

I'm so sorry.

Please forgive me.

The smoke will lead you where you need to go.

(singing continues)