Script – Season one =================== Episode 9 --------- *(Whale sounds)* :Dianne: He’s back. This is the fifth day in a row. :Winston: And his little friend is with him? :Dianne: It’s gotta be a dolphin :Winston: Or a mermaid. :Dianne: Do you know what I think? I think this guy is just as interested in us as we are in him. :Winston: Both of them. --------- :Jason: She can’t keep coming here. :Brett: I’m going to have a double scoop – no, I’ll have a triple scoop. Choc-chip and strawberry surprise. :Jason: She’s going to get caught. :Brett: I’m going to have the biggest, greasiest hamburger I can find. :Jason: Brett – this is serious! :Brett: So’s shore leave! Maybe I’ll have the burger first. :Jason: Mum’s seen her heaps of times on sonar. Every time she swims with Charley, the tag transmits that back to the lab. :Brett: Okay, they know it’s another creature but they don’t know it’s Neri. They think it’s just another whale. :Jason: And Vanessa knows we’re hiding something. :Brett: Vanessa thinks it’s just a cleaner on a day pass. :Jason: If Vanessa gets one look at that pass you came up with – :Brett: Oh, Vanessa, Vanessa! Come on. Hurry up. :Jason: I look like a dork in this uniform. :Brett: That’s because you are a dork. --------- *(music)* --------- :Lee: Sure, Jodie. :Jodie: He does. :Lee: It’s just your imagination, that’s all. Jason and I are just friends. :Jodie: Then why is he always looking at you? And going out of his way to be nice. :Lee: He is? :Jodie: Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed? :HELEN: This is the final call for all personnel scheduled for shore leave. Please assemble at the turbo lift reception area. :Commander: On your best behaviour, you two, remember, you’re representing ORCA. :Jason: No, sir, we won’t forget. Oh, no! You shouldn’t have come! Not today! :Brett: We’re going on shore leave. To port douglas. :Neri: Douglas? Who is douglas? :Brett: Not who, It is a place on the mainland. :Neri: Is it fun? :Brett: Is it ever! We’re going to have a great time! :Jason: Now, we’ve got to get you out of here. :Commander: Bates! It’s too late to go back to get anything. Stay with the group. :Brett: Oh well. She’ll have to come with us. :Jason: Are you kidding? :Brett: Well, no one’s been counting heads. Besides, we can’t leave her here on her own, can we? :Jason: Let’s hope we don’t end up regretting it. :Vanessa: What’s she doing here? :Brett: She’s coming along – if it’s any of your business. :Vanessa: I thought she was a cleaner. So why isn’t she cleaning? :Brett: She forgot her broom. :Damien: Hey, Lee, didn’t Neri just arrive? :Lee: So? :Damien: It’s funny, don’t you think? Why come all the way out here on a boat and then turn around and have to go back again? :Lee: Maybe she just wants to be with you, dags. :Damien: What? Nah, not me. Wow. --------- :Dianne: Winston, come here. The other creature – the little one – it’s gone. :Winston: But where? --------- *(music)* :Jason: We’ve got to find somewhere safe for her. :Brett: The hamburger shop! :Jason: Oh Brett, stop thinking about your stomach and start thinking about Neri. :Brett: I bet Neri just loves hamburgers, don’t you, Neri? --------- :Driver: *(Honking horn)* *(squealing tires)* Strewth! This is a road, not a footpath! :Neri: This road? :Brett: Neri! :Jason: Sorry – she’s new in town. Are you crazy? You could have got yourself killed. :Neri: Why these trees grow wires? :Jason: They’re not trees. They’re power poles. You know – like, electricity. :Neri: Electricity trees. :Jason: Ya, sort of. :Brett: Great afternoon this is gonna be. --------- :Jason: Tourists love that sort of junk. Like this. :Brett: Hey, Jase, check this out! :Jason: It’s too big. :Brett: Not for me, dummy. For mum. :Store Owner: Hey, where are you going with that?! :Jason: Neri, you can’t just take it. :Neri: I like. :Jason: Yeah, well – you have to pay for it. With money. I might be back later. --------- :Neri: Who lives here? :Jason: It’s a church. :Neri: Church? :Jason: Kinda like god’s house. :Neri: Big house. God has many friends. :Jason: Yeah, I guess he does. --------- :Damien: Are you sure she went in there? :Lee: Positive. :Damien: Oh, no, here she comes now. What am I going to do? :Lee: Ask her. :Damien: What if she says no? :Lee: Then you can go away and let me finish my book. :Damien: Hi. :Neri: Hello. :Damien: I just thought maybe – you know – if you didn’t have anything on today – and, you know, we could – I mean yourself and myself – :Brett: What are you raving on about, dags? :Damien: Do you want to go to the movies? :Jason: Uh, Neri hates the movies. :Neri: What movies? :Damien: Do you mean to tell me you’ve never seen a movie? Wow! :Lee: Really? :Neri: I should go? :Damien: Of course, it will be really fun. Come on. :Brett: You’d better do something quick. :Jason: Do you want to go too? --------- *(Dialogue from movie)* :Actor: Janette. You shouldn’t be here. It’s much too dangerous. :Actress: I didn’t feel safe with it loose in the city. It will never be able to find us here. :Actor: But you might have been followed. We have to be careful. :Actress: It’s after the antidote. It won’t think to look here. :Actor: How do you know? It’s much smarter than we are. It seems to know everything. Look what happened to the others. You didn’t see it, Janette. It was horrible. :Actress: It will be all right, Michael. We’re safe here. *(Rumble of thunder)* *(screeching cats)* :Actor: What’s that? :Actress: Nothing, Michael. Just relax. Enjoy the fire. That’s better. Mmm. Who taught you to kiss like that? *(Screaming)* *(gunfire)* :Damien: Gross. --------- :Jason: You were supposed to watch her! :Brett: I had my eyes shut. --------- :Commander: How long’s he been out there? :Dianne: Since about nine this morning. It’s like he’s lost something. :Commander: What about the smaller one? :Winston: Swam right up to the front door. :Commander: And? :Winston: And… Vanished. :Jason: She’s got to be around here somewhere. --------- *(Horn honking)* *(percussive sounds)* --------- :Jodie: Hi :Neri: Hello :Vanessa: Neri, you’re here! I mean – hi. :Neri: So many clothes. :Vanessa: Yeah, it’s great, isn’t it? Maybe Jodie can help you chose something. :Jodie: Oh, right. I mean – sure. :Vanessa: Won’t be a sec. :Jodie: That’d look great on you. Would you like to try it on? :Neri: I can? :Jodie: Sure! No. In the change rooms. :Vanessa: Jodie, would you help me? The zip’s stuck. --------- *(Commotion outside)* :Local Boy: No! No! :Tough Guy: What are you doing here, man? This is our turf. :Local Boy: Get outta here. :Tough Guy: Oh, nice bracelet. :Tough Guy: Bracelet, huh? :Tough guy 2: What a loser. :Tough Guy: Come on. --------- :Vanessa: At last, we’ve got her. :Jodie: Breathe in. :Jason: No Jason Bates to save her this time. We’re finally going to get to the bottom of this. :Jodie: Got it. :Vanessa: Okay, Neri, let’s have a little talk. --------- :Local Boy: Why are you following me? :Neri: They hurt you. :Local Boy: I’m all right. Just picking on me ’cause I’m different. :Neri: I’m different too. :Local Boy: You sound kind of different. :Neri: I saw the boys take something. It was special? :Local Boy: A bracelet. My mum made it. :Neri: She can make another? :Local Boy: She died. I’ve got to get it back. :Neri: I will help you. :Local Boy: Lot of good you’ll be. --------- :Jason: We’ve looked everywhere. :Brett: Twice. The beach, the shops, the streets, the beach again. :Jason: The beach. Maybe she needs to get wet. :Brett: We’ve already looked there. :Jason: Well – where else could she go to get wet? :Brett: The shower? --------- :Tough Guy: Hey, pal, how’s it going? Oh, I’m sorry. It slipped. What are you doing here, man? :Boy: What are you doing? :Tough Guy 2: Look who’s here. :Tough Guy: Oh! :Boy: Going fishing? :Local Boy: I want it back. :Tough Guy: You want a swim. That’s what you want. :Neri: Why did you take it? :Tough Guy: Who’s this? :Tough Guy 2: Ha! One of them ORCA kids. :Neri: Please give him back his bracelet. :Tough Guy: What a wimp! --------- :Brett: There she is! :Jason: And she’s in trouble. :Brett: And there’s three of them. --------- :Local Boy: Give it back to me! :Tough Guy: Come on. Come and get it. You want it, don’t you? Come and get it. I’m gonna drop it. I’m gonna drop it. :Tough Guy: Aaah! :Jason: Come on. Let’s get out of here. *(music)* --------- :Lee: You weren’t really scared, were you. :Jason: Of course not. :Lee: So, why did you run out? You weren’t scared of me, were you? :Jason: No. :Lee: I’m glad. --------- :Damien: The cop pulls out his gun and he starts firing. And the skeleton explodes. Blam! And there was slime and there were worms everywhere on everyone. It was unreal. *(music)* :Damien: Did you buy that? :Neri: Jason. --------- :HELEN: Would all personnel please note that reports must be logged in the appropriate data banks. :Jason: Are you all right? We’ll meet you on the island tomorrow, okay? :Neri: But – :Damien: How would you like to go and see what’s happening in the rec room? :Neri: Okay. :Damien: Yeah? Okay, ace. --------- :Jason: Well, We’ve got the place to ourselves. :Lee: That’s good. :Jason: Anyway, what I wanted to – :Lee: Shhh. :Commander: What’s going on? Bates? :Jason: Nothing. We were just – :Lee: Just talking, daddy. We were just talking, okay? :Commander: Well, I’m glad to hear that. :Jason: Well, um, I’d promised I’d help Brett with his physics. ’Bye. --------- *(music)* :Neri: Tell me about – kiss thing. :Brett: What? :Neri: You know. :Brett: Oh, yuck! No, that’s only for grown ups. :Neri: What’s it like? :Brett: Disgusting. I don’t know why anyone would want to kiss a girl. :Neri: Does it taste good? :Brett: About as good as this thing. And if you don’t believe me, go and kiss someone. No way! :Neri: Damien? :HELEN: Attention all day pass holders. Please report to reception prior to departure from ORCA. :Neri: Have to go now. Bye, Damien. :Damien: Wow. *(Whale sounds)* --------- :Dianne: All right, all right. I’m listening. :Winston: Don’t you see? He’s listening too and now he’s answering. *(Whale sounds)* :Dianne: Something’s talking to him. Our little friend? :Winston: Right! I know a chap in Seattle. He’s a sound freak. He has a laser operated, multi-channel separator – ultra high, ultra low frequency. We should be able to adapt it. Patch it into our system – so it hears the electric impulses. If he is listening, we’ll be able to listen too. :Dianne: Oh, Winston, we’re a long way from Seattle. :Winston: A week, 10 days maximum. Soon, no more secrets. --------- :Dianne: We’ve had a breakthrough. We’re getting some new equipment. We always thought the whale was communicating with another whale hundreds of kilometers away. :Brett: You mean like talking? :Dianne: Not exactly talking. But not until today. You should have heard them. It was like a video-phone conversation. Except we could only hear one side of it. :Brett: Ah… With this equipment… :Dianne: We will be able to hear both. You know the little bleep that is always following the whale around? :Brett: Ya, we know that one… :Dianne: That is who we think the whale is talking to. Not some other whale in some other ocean. :Brett: So with this new equipment. You gonna find out heaps of stuff? :Dianne: Ya, more then we ever dreamed of. We’re this far away from discovering who the other little creature is. This could solve the riddle. :Brett: That’s great, Mum. :Dianne: Jason? What? You don’t think so? What? What is it with you? Just once I would like to think you actually cared what I am trying to do here. :Jason: It is not that. :Dianne: Then what is it? I mean can’t you just pretend you care. It is like you don’t want us to succeed. That’s it, isn’t it. You really don’t want us to succeed. :Jason: It’s not exactly that. It’s… :Dianne: Well please tell me. I don’t get it. Tell me what it is. :Jason: I can’t explain. :Dianne: No, it’s not that you can’t explain, you don’t want to. :Jason: We can’t tell her. :Brett: Well, they’re gonna find out, aren’t they? :Jason: Yes, they are gonna find out. We’ll have to think of something.