Hunt for the Wilderpeople Page #5

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They say he's dangerous.

You guys get along?

Yeah, we're like best friends.

We get on so well.

He's, like, one of the best

bushmans in the whole country.

He, like, teached me

all of his skills,

so now we're, like, equal best bushmen

in the country. Yeah, we're best friends.

Oh, where's your mum and dad?

Don't know who my dad was, and my

mum got rid of me when I was little.

Oh, you know where she is?

You ever met her?

You know anything about her?

Oh, pretty. She must've had

you when she was a teenager.

You ever try and find her?

Oh, you don't have to.

She should find you.

What do you reckon you'd say

to her if you ever met her?

Don't know. Never

really think about it.

You want to hear a song I wrote?

OK. Here goes.

It's an original.

# Turn your lights down low.

OK, I lied. It's not an original.

# And pull your window curtains.

# Your window curtains.

GIRL AND DAD SING # Oh, let

Jah moon come shining in.

# Into our life again...

# Saying, "Ooh, it's been

a long, long time..." #

Morena, bro. Sausage?

Oh no!

Yeah bro, you slept in.

Oh no!

Man, we gotta work on your dismounts.

You all good from here?

Yeah.

OK, Ricky bro, catch you up.

Catch you up.

Uncle!

Tupac, come on!

Oh no!

Ninjas!

Dire wolves!

Child Welfare!

Where did they go? Where did they go?!

I know you know something.

He knows something.

Paula, he's the ranger. He had

diabetes. They saved his life.

Oh, spare me, Andy.

This is Gavin, our tech guy.

Gav, Paula Hall, Child Welfare

Services. No child left behind.

So, talk to me, Gav.

What's the situation?

Uh, well, the hut is empty so they

must've left before we got here.

Ooh, you worked that

out on your own, Gav

OK, what else?

Well, uh, we've, ah, set up a rendezvous

spot here for the search party.

And, uh, then we can

bring in, uh, Stingray.

Stingray? Talk to me, talk to me.

Oh, well, basically it's just a portable cell

phone tower that emits a false frequency.

So any cell phone in a 5 K radius will

latch on, thinking it's an ordinary network.

Frickin' A, brother. That's some

"five eyes" sh*t right there.

OK. Them clowns is

about to get Stingray-ed.

Uncle, Uncle, Uncle.

Think, think, think, think.

Oh! Tupac, find Zag.

Oh, you're useless.

Oh! Think, Ricky, think.

What would Uncle

do? What would Uncle do?

Oh yes. Yes! Find water,

and then go to higher ground.

And don't get naked.

Ricky Baker and Hector Faulkner-

two renegade outlaws on

the run for four months now,

and fast becoming legends here in NZ.

Faulkner and Baker's

popularity is on the rise

after a valiant effort to save

a critically ill park ranger.

The forces are circling against them,

and I am reminded of "First Blood".

John Rambo, a man alone-

obviously they're two men alone-

out there somewhere beyond the cutty

grass in this dense, thick bush.

OK? Easy, efficient,

economic. All right, guys?

Take us back a step.

What happened in...?

Uh, I lost control and, uh,

I gave him the beating of his life.

Yeah, you got him good.

We're offering $10,000 to anyone

who can capture them, dead or alive.

Oh,... alive.

They should be alive.

They are fighting for freedom. And we believe

in freedom in NZ. It is a marvellous thing.

Oi! Ricky! Freeze!

OK, OK. OK, Ricky. Stay there

we're coming over to you. Come on.

It's too steep. It's too steep.

Ricky, you come across here.

No.

Just slide down the bank, cross this stream,

and then climb up to us. You're absolutely safe.

All you have to do is grab some

branches or some roots. OK?

No.

Ricky. Come over here right now!

I'm not going back.

I'm not going to juvie.

You are playing with a bag of snakes,

boy. A big bag with a lot of holes in it.

You've got the whole

country looking for you.

I'll never stop running.

Yeah, and I'll never stop chasing you.

I'm relentless. I'm like the Terminator.

I'm more like Terminator than you.

I said it first. You're

more like Sarah Connor.

No, I'm not.

Yes. And in the first movie too,

before she could do chin-ups.

It doesn't have to be

this difficult, Ricky. Yeah?

You're cold, you're damp...

and hungry.

Look at that- scroggin.

Got some nuts and dried fruit...

Little pieces of chocolate.

Yum. Delicious.

We could cut a deal; make a trade.

What kind of deal?

The old man.

You say that he made you do it,

let him take the rap,

and I'll make sure you

never go back to juvie.

We'll find you a new

foster home; a new Bella.

No deal.

Oh, come on, Sarah Connor.

Don't be a fool.

You don't trade family for anything.

Well, you just keep running.

He's here! He's here.

We got him!

Go! Go! Go!

OK. So you ate a sausage,

she sang a song, and you went to sleep.

What? It was a relaxing song...

and a relaxing sausage.

Do you think we've walked a thousand

miles yet? Like the wildebeest?

Well, it feels like it, eh?

Yeah. Always on the move,

always on the lookout for hunters,

just like the wildebeest,

except humans.

We're... Wilderpeople.

Yeah, that's us.

OK then, Wilderboy, let's

find somewhere to eat, shall we?

There they are!

Freeze!

Sh*t just got real. Again.

Now, drop your weapons.

We're not holding any weapons-

Drop 'em!

Go see what they got, Ricky.

Baked beans,

spaghetti,

ba- baba- What?

Oh, baba ganoush.

What?

Baba ganoush.

What?

Binoculars,

rope, gaffer tape.

Get their guns, Ricky.

Give me your guns.

Take the bolts out.

There's a reward for your capture.

How much?

10 grand.

Tell us when it gets to 20.

And when they ask who did this,

tell them it was the Wilderpeople.

The What-er-people?

The Wilderpeople.

No, I can't go back there. It wasn't

my farm; you know that. It was Bella's.

She ran the show. I could do stuff- me

and the dog- but she was the farmer.

And the cook.

Yeah, a bloody good cook too.

But you- you can't keep on the run forever.

You've got to go back to society, you know that.

I'm a menace to society.

Anyway, if I ever went back, I'd probably

end up driving a steamroller or something.

That's what happens to gangsters.

Well, there's nothing wrong with that,

but if you're better at something else,

then you should probably

give that a go, shouldn't you?

Yeah, but I'm better

at being a gangster.

You're not a bloody gangster.

How would you know?

Because I've known real gangsters,

and they're a lot tougher than you are.

Yeah, but were they skux, though?

Skux? What the hell does that mean?

You know,... skux.

Yeah, but what does it mean?

Everything. It's cool, spunky, brainy,

good-looking, you know, gangster.

Oh, for God's sake.

You're not a bloody gangster!

Oh, jeez.

Zag!

Tupac!

Get back, Zag! Get back!

Come back here, you-!

Get in behind!

Get in behind, Zag!

Zag!

Zag!

Get out of it, you mongrel!

Sh*t.

Uncle!

What have you done?

Oh jeez.

Give us your gun, mate.

Hm?

Go on, get out.

No, Uncle.

Get out of- Uncle!

Get out of here, Ricky.

Go on, get out.

But can't we just-?

Go!

What does that say?

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