SONG:♪ Do you remember ♪
♪ When we used to laugh and cry? ♪
♪ And do you remember ♪
♪ We will stand together and forever ♪
♪ Hold on, be strong ♪
♪ Things will be just like they used to be ♪
♪ Where we belong in the time that was before. ♪
My name is Ellie Linton.
Three weeks ago,
my bestie Corrie and I decided to go camping with our pals.
I loved my life, but I always wanted something more.
Then it happened.
The future.
Sudden.
And fast.
And I knew nothing would ever be the same again.
Because one day, the war began.
(GUNSHOT)
(BOY RINGS BELL)
- ELLIE: It's celled Hell. - MAN: Why's it called Hell?
MAN: It's irony, Dad. It's actually really safe.
And beautiful.
WOMAN: Just keep an eye on each other.
Ellie's been there before, Mrs Takkam, heaps of times.
That makes me feel better.
Ah, we'll be back before you know it.
- Hey, what about your concert? - Ahhh...
- Love you. - Love you too, Mum.
Hey. So you don't go hungry.
See ya, Dad.
There goes my street cred.
They're sweet.
- Hey, Robyn. - Hey!
MAN: Oh, watch the family jewels.
- Prawn crackers? - Oh, my man!
SONG: ♪ Playing all day ♪
♪ Travel all night... ♪
♪ Playing all day ♪
♪ Travel all night... ♪
(ALL LAUGH AND CHAT)
♪ Playing all day ♪
♪ Travel all night... ♪
SONG: ♪ Playing all day ♪
♪ Travel all night... ♪
MAN: (OVER SPEAKERS) Attention, all show-jumping competitors.
Registration is now open.
The registration booth is located adjacent to the equestrian arena,
behind the main pavilion.
(WOLF-WHISTLES) Thanks, Ell.
Not you, old man. The bull.
- Hi, Mum. - Hi, you lot.
- ALL: Hi, Liz. - Fit any more trouble in there, eh?
I would if I could.
- See you in a few days! - Bye, love.
(GEAR CRUNCHES, ENGINE STARTS) Clutch. Ellie, clutch!
Dad, I know!
They're interesting markings, George.
Yeah. I'm gonna kill that kid of mine.
(CHUCKLES)
MAN: So we get the new girl and THEN we're out of here?
- And then we're out of here. - LEE: Her name's Fiona.
But everyone calls her Fi.
Alright guys, sit tight. Be back in a second.
Stretch my legs. You all... everyone, get out. Don't go anywhere.
NEWSREADER: ..has confirmed Australia's radar defences
were compromised overnight
during multinational war games in the Northern Territory.
In a statement, the department said
an accidental cyber violation
had effectively crashed
the sophisticated Jindalee Over Horizon Radar System.
Australia relies on the Jindalee system
for early warning of military activity or attack.
- WOMAN: Fi! Your friends are here! - Hi.
She won't be long.
They call it an idiot-proof chocolate cake.
Hopefully I'll be less of an idiot tomorrow when I make the real one.
(PHONE RINGS) FI: Ready.
Great. Hey, Fi. Let's go. (PHONE RINGS)
Oh, Fi, that's your father.
Wait and say goodbye to him?
- Say it for me. - Wanna get out of here?
- Do you need a hand with these? - Bye, Mum.
- This is a lot of bags. - Thanks.
Stay out of my room.
Bite me!
- Have fun! - I will.
Come on, let's get this stuff in the car and let's go!
Dan, Fi's just left.
She didn't want to talk to me, did she?
Her friends were waiting.
I thought you'd be back in time.
I tried to, but I haven't stopped.
When will you be home?
This whole political thing's spooked the client.
Means we've gotta go through the whole deal again tonight.
I have to go.
Rach? (SIGHS)
Dad won't be home until tomorrow.
Wow, what a surprise.
(UP-BEAT SONG PLAYS)
♪ There are things that you don't, ♪ ♪ you've never really seen before ♪
♪ Take a closer look and you'll find there's even more ♪
(ALL LAUGH AND CHAT INDISTINCTLY)
♪ A thousand different roads to teach me different things in store ♪
♪ You get that call and it's too hard to ignore ♪
Bye, Wirrawee! See ya, Wirrawee.
♪ Whoa-oh-oh, take the scenic route around ♪
♪ We've looked in every corner, nook and cranny of this town ♪
♪ You might discover things that would delight us down ♪
♪ Whoa-oh-oh, take the scenic route around ♪
♪ Whoa-oh-oh, take the scenic route around... ♪
So I, uh, saw Steve the other night.
You know, the guy you used to be in love with?
Don't go there, Kevin.
Lift.
It's so beautiful.
Why's it called Hell?
The hermit.
Guy goes psycho, kills his family.
Then he went bush, where the camp site is.
- When? - Before we were born.
But they reckon he's still out there.
Shut up.
Really?
Sometimes at night, you can hear him sharpening his axe.
They're messing with you. He's long gone.
Clutch, Ellie, clutch!
(THUD!)
- Who is that? - The hermit's stupid brother.
Homer!
G'day, what's up? I'm Homer.
As in Simpson.
Not with these abs!
You been finger-painting again?
Oh, just decorating cows.
I'm not even gonna ask.
(LIVELY, UP-BEAT SONG PLAYS)
♪ Take what you need but you better need all you take ♪
♪ 'Cause there's fire in the mountain ♪
♪ There's a ghost in the lake ♪
♪ So when the devil comes calling ♪
♪ You better send him away ♪
(ALL LAUGH AND CHAT INDISTINCTLY)
♪ And get your ambitions ♪
♪ Off square in your head ♪
♪ 'Cause when you start feeling anxious, ♪
♪ You get out of your bed ♪
♪ 'Cause when your heart's full and dancin' ♪
♪ You better dance till you're dead. ♪
This part's called Tailor's Stitch.
Next we've got to get through Satan's Steps,
which is, like, full-on rocks and stuff.
And then we get to Hell.
Which is actually like Heaven.
Oh, Heaven? I might not get in.
Thanks.
- I'll carry it if you want. - I'm fine.
Let's go!
Three o'clock fly boys heading home.
She shot you down.
Yeah, but I live to fly another day. (BOTH LAUGH)
♪ You better stop and smell the roses ♪
♪ You better love the life you live ♪
♪ You better take note ♪
♪ Of when it's killing you ♪
♪ We all end up ♪
♪ You better stop and smell the roses ♪
♪ You better love the life you live ♪
♪ You better take note of when it's killing you... ♪
Five days of goofing off before we have to get serious.
Jobs. (GRUNTS)
Study.
Grind.
Life.
Travelling.
Who needs Schoolies?
We should mark it with a ritual.
Like a bit of naked dancing in the moonlight.
Oh, Homer, yuck!
Oh, bad suggestion, Kevin.
Told you no-one would go for it.
♪ We all end up ♪
♪ Yeah, we all end up ♪
♪ Yeah, we end up in the cemetery. ♪
Is this Hell?
Looks like Miss Invincible has stuffed up.
If you reckon you can do better, lead on.
No, I'm no Boy Scout.
But you've been here before, right?
Ah, not all the way in.
- So no-one's been in. - Nup.
We must have missed the path.
Just give me a minute. It has to be around here.
Where's Lee? Lee!
We have no clue where we are and you've lost someone already.
Classic.
Robyn?
Make that two people lost.
Guys! Down here!
Oh, nice! How'd you get there?
(ALL LAUGH)
- Here, take my hand. - That's sick!
Ellie Linton, you legend!
Hey, remind me to never call you an ignorant slagheap again.
And remind me to never not invite you to anything again.
- You're dripping. - What?
Arghh!
- Whole bottle! - Yow!
I'll check out the creek!
Let's get comfortable. Who wants to sleep where?
Just anywhere?
There's room near me.
- Is this OK? - LEE: Yeah.
What are you listening to?
Um, something I'm messing around with.
I think I hate it, though.
I'm gonna get some firewood.
Do you need any help?
Sure.
Hey! How do you know they're not poisonous?
(SPLUTTERS)
Yum. (BOTH LAUGH)
We never go camping.
Dad says, "What's the point?
"We've evolved from living in tents and being attacked by animals.
"Why would we ever want to go back there?"
Yeah.
Why?
(COCKATOOS SCREECH)
God's amazing.
Sure is.
(ALL LAUGH AND WHOOP)
(UNDER THE CHERRY TREE BY TELEMETRY ORCHESTRA PLAYS)
I don't get how things can be going totally great with Steve one day
and then not working the next.
Well, he is bovine-level stupid.
He's really not. He just acts that way sometimes.
You wanna know something really dumb?
Whenever I see a blue couch, I think of him.
(LAUGHS) Because that's where you really got to know him.
Hey, Smelly Ellie?
Let's make a pact.
The Ellie-Corrie pact.
The ECP.
When we go to South America, there will be zero boys on the scene.
Let no man get in the way of our amazing adventure.
Deal.
(JET ENGINES ROAR IN THE DISTANCE)
Hey.
How'd you sleep?
Ugh, like crap. You?
Really well. (LAUGHS)
Sorry.
So you didn't hear anything just then, did you?
Such as?
Planes?
Coming back from Commem Day, probably.
Mm, the sound was different.
Muffled.
And they had no lights on.
Didn't hear anything.
I know this weekend was meant to be just you and me.
Kevin invited himself.
That's OK.
I never see you anymore.
- We're still best friends. - I can still miss you.
Oh, you miss me?
Oww! Splinter.
Here, let me.
I love splinters.
Ugh, such a nurse's daughter. (BOTH LAUGH)
- Is that it there? - Yep.
- OK, hold on. - Ugh.
Here we go.
Yow!
Hey, guys, up here!
What's going on?
Whoo!
That was insane. You have to do it.
SONG:♪ Church bells howling in the wind ♪
♪ One night stand, my great sin ♪
♪ Empty streets, one park town ♪
♪ Long down my brow, stop going down ♪
♪ Strangers coming from out of town ♪
♪ Black suits, black, shiny shoes ♪
♪ Yeah, girl... ♪
- You guys are first? - Not if I get there first!
Come on, push harder.
GIRL: Why does he always do that?
He calls it Greek roulette.
Bet you never thought you'd miss boarding school.
Why'd you invite Fi anyway?
My mum knows her mum.
Apparently because she's new in town,
she doesn't really have a social life.
Just go talk to her.
I know you want to, I can see it.
Stop hassling me.
Hey, you only live once!
WOMAN: So, I'm going.
Sure you don't want to come? You might have fun.
Yeah.
Right.
One day you're going to get out of the house and meet real people.
And Chris, the boxes are still here. You said you'd sort them.
- I'll do it. - By the time I get back.
(SIGHS)
Hey!
(LAUGHS) See ya!
Hey I need them, they're prescription!
- HOMER: Stop fiddling with it! - ELLIE: I'm fixing it.
- You're not. - I am.
Doesn't make me a control freak!
- You so are! - She's not.
She's smart. She was born that way.
And Ellie's gonna blitz at uni.
Is that what you're doing? Uni?
Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna do next year. Depends on my results.
There's a stack of stuff I'm interested in...
..which is code for I have no clue what I should be doing.
Yeah, I definitely know what I'm not gonna be.
A cabbage farmer like the old man.
Farming's not a bad thing.
It sucks!
I'm gonna try and crack the sprint car circuit.
(ALL LAUGH)
LEE: I wanna be in a band,
and when that makes me famous,
or broke,
I'm going to build a mixing studio and produce stuff.
What about uni?
I don't even want to go to uni.
Not that we're talking about it at home.
Maybe if I kill it in exams, Mum and Dad'll be OK if I defer.
Or not OK.
(ALL LAUGH)
I want to get into social work.
- Maybe help homeless kids. - Awesome.
What about you, Ellie?
Corrie and I are doing a gap year in the US.
Work as camp counsellors for the summer, then maybe go travelling.
Now's a good time, babe.
A good time for what?
I'm probably volunteering at this hospital in Kenya.
First?
Instead of.
She only told me last week.
It's for women only.
To help them have safe births.
They do amazing stuff, Ellie.
Oh, Ellie.
(LOUD JETS ROAR)
(JET STREAKS OVERHEAD)
(JETS CONTINUE FLYING OVERHEAD)
Whoa.
(JETS STREAK OVERHEAD)
Whoa!
Hey.
Hi.
You OK?
Yeah, I was just, um...
Yeah, I'm fine.
It's a bummer, about the Corrie thing.
Her life doesn't have to revolve around me.
- This place is great, isn't it? - So cool.
We shouldn't tell anyone about this when we get home.
Thanks for inviting me this weekend.
I didn't expect it.
That's OK.
I wondered why.
Ah, I thought... maybe...
Robyn asked me to invite you.
Robyn. Mmm.
Don't tell her I said anything.
Didn't know where you guys were.
Just here.
What are the others doing?
We were looking for Homer. He's gotta be up to something.
I saw him earlier.
But you know Homer - always got a plan.
(ALL LAUGH AND CHAT INDISTINCTLY)
Ugh!
HATE the country.
Oh, you just have to wait till you get down the valley a bit.
Alright, who wants to sit in the front?
- Me, me, me, me! - And me.
Hey Cor, we're in the back, babe.
(ALL LAUGH AND CHAT)
KEVIN: See ya, Homey! See ya, Homey!
Bye, Homer!
Don't come back.
Later, losers!
(TYRES SCREECH)
- I've got a bad vibe about this. - What do you mean?
Not sure. We should park over there so no-one see us.
OK.
Maybe there was, like, an emergency
and your mum's still at the hospital.
I'll call.
It's dead.
Let's try our phones again.
- Dead as. - Same.
She usually leaves a note.
Mum?
Mum!
Dad!
Dad?
What's going on?
Something terrible has happened, hasn't it?
What are you saying?
All we need to do is find someone and ask them.
Open your eyes! There's no-one around.
Remember the planes Ellie saw?
We should go into town.
(BRAKES SQUEAK)
What's happened?
I think we might be at war.
(DISTANT BURST OF GUNFIRE)
(MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY, GUNFIRE)
MAN: Move!
No talking!
(GUNFIRE IN THE DISTANCE)
Leave everything behind! Stay in line.
Keep the line moving.
WOMAN: No talking!
Keep moving! Keep moving!
Fi, where are you going?
We don't know what's going on, or who's out there.
I wanna go home.
I'll go.
Homer!
Meet you on the foreshore opposite Robyn's place.
We'll go up when we know it's safe.
I should too. Mum and Dad are probably worried.
- I'll come. - Guys!
Isn't it more dangerous to travel as a big group?
SOLDIER: Keep moving!
We can hide better in twos and threes.
See you on the foreshore.
KEVIN: Who the hell are these guys?
Stay in line!
SOLDIER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER) All women and children,
remain in pavilion B until you have been processed.
(GUNFIRE, SOLDIER SHOUTS)
You must not approach...
Anyone disregarding these orders will be severely punished.
There will be a muster at 7 am tomorrow morning.
All prisoners must attend. Rations will be distributed.
You must not approach the guards.
Anyone disobeying an order or command
will be separated from the main camp.
If you discharge a weapon of any kind, you will be punished.
There will be no exceptions.
The actions of any one person will result in the punishment of all.
SOLDIER: Keep moving. Move.
Keep going now!
Stay in line.
MAN: Now! Take him now!
MAN: Get him down!
- Get off! - Grab his gun!
Move!
MAN: That's it! Hold him! Got a gun!
Mum.
- Don't let him up. - MAN: Here!
Help him!
(GRUNTS)
Mrs Takkam?
Shh.
Please, Ellie, shh.
Is Lee alright?
Y...yes.
Mrs Takkam!
Go! Run!
MAN: Stay back!
Mum!
Run! Run!
- Run! Run! - Run!
Mum!
MAN: Sit down!
WOMAN: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER) Lock down all prisoners.
Serious breach...
MAN: Stop! Stop or we'll shoot!
(HORN BLARES)
Two o'clock! Next yard! Next yard!
Go, go, go!
Through here! Through here!
(GRUNTS)
(GUNFIRE)
I don't want to die, Ellie. I don't want to die.
(HELICOPTER APPROACHES IN THE DISTANCE)
They're coming!
Shirt. Off.
Ellie! Ellie! Get back!
(GUNFIRE)
Ready?
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
- Ellie! - Ellie! Ellie!
Ellie!
Ellie! Go, go!
I told myself not to think about what I'd done,
because deep down I knew I didn't have a choice.
It was us or them.
I was saving my life, saving Kevin, saving Corrie.
I didn't want to hurt anyone. I just wanted my friends to be safe.
I'm still trying to figure out what's right and what's wrong.
But in the end, this is how it is.
I've had to teach myself not to think about a lot of things.
Maybe that's why it's hard to remember how it was,
what it was like, the time before all this.
Before the war began.
Synced and Corrected by Clog.