Killing Ground

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Salvation, eleven letters.

- Salvation?

- Yeah.

Second letter, E.

- Nah, sorry, can't help you.

- Redemption. Redemption.

R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N. No, doesn't fit.

- No?

- Oh, here's one for you.

"Connected to the knee bone, five letters."

Uh, tibia. Or the femur.

- Ah, it's femur.

- Yes!

And the femur's connected to the...

To the pelvis.

- The hipbone?

- Yeah.

And what's the hipbone connected to the...

The sacrum.

- And the sacrum's connected to the...

- To the lumbar vertebrae.

And the lumbar vertebra's connected to the...

Thoracic vertebrae.

And the thoracic vertebra's

connected to the...

The cervical vertebrae.

And the cervical vertebra's

connected to the...

The skull.

What about shoulder bone?

I think you missed it.

Actually, the shoulder bone is only

connected to the axial skeleton...

...via the sternoclavicular joint which is

where the collarbone meets the sternum.

Interesting fact, the shoulder is

held in place mostly by muscle...

...which is why it's so easily dislocated.

Mmm, love it when you talk medical to me.

Oh, how good's that champagne gonna be?

- Did you pack it?

- No.

I left it in the fridge...

...there was no room in the esky,

I was gonna put it all in a cooler bag.

No, that's alright.

We can stop in at a pub or something.

- Just the champagne?

- Uh, grab us a six pack?

Oh, sh*t!

- Oh, f***.

- You okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

- Hey, excuse me, mate?

- Hang on, mate. Banjo!

- Yeah?

- Yeah, we're just, um...

...we're heading into Gungilee Falls.

Do you know what that road's like in there?

Yeah, you need a four wheel drive

to get into the falls.

- Ah, really?

- Yeah.

- You goin' camping?

- Ah, that's the plan, yeah.

- You ever been to Stony Creek?

- No, where's that?

It's upriver from Gungilee Falls.

There's a good camping spot there.

We just graded the road in,

so you won't have any trouble.

- Okay, thanks. We'll think about it.

- Yeah.

Cheers.

No worries, mate.

- Hey, how'd you go?

- Uh, it's not French, but it's got bubbles.

- That'll do.

- Yeah.

Every school holidays till Dad got sick.

Big campgrounds, mostly, you know.

Grown ups pissed and sunburnt,

kids running everywhere.

We loved it, but Dad preferred it

when we went somewhere quiet like this.

I think the last time I went camping

a guy set his tent on fire.

- What? When was that?

- High school.

This guy got covered in melted plastic

and he got third degree burns.

- He lost most of his hair.

- Jesus! Did you see it happen?

No, 'cause boys and girls were kept

separate but we heard him.

- Everyone heard him.

- That's awful.

Everyone thought he was smoking,

but he wasn't a smoker.

And I asked him how he started the fire.

He said he was playing with matches...

...but the flame wasn't big enough so he lit

a piece of paper and the tent just went up.

Mm.

He was already a pretty weird kid.

The scars just made it worse.

Uh... that's the turn off!

F***! Are you okay?

- Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Are you alright?

- Yeah? Yeah. Sorry.

No, it's okay.

D*ckhead.

Looks like someone's beaten us to it.

- Maybe they're just here for the day.

- It's a long way to come just for the day.

It's beautiful.

Yeah, it is. It's pretty much

how I remember it except for the tent.

There's plenty of room.

We can set up over here.

Yeah.

Hey, it might not be such a bad idea

to have company on New Year's.

Well, what if they're d*ckheads?

Oh, well, then we'll just go to bed

and we'll have really quiet sex.

You can be quiet?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- If I have to.

- Mmm.

- Mmm?

- Alright, I'll get the stuff.

- I'll help.

- No, no, stay here. Relax.

- Won't take a minute, yeah.

- You sure? Okay.

Hey, Chook!

Chooka, Chooka, Chooka, Chooka!

- Chook!

- Hmm.

- Get up.

- Mm.

Where's Chook? Go get Chook!

Go get Chook! Go get Chook! Go get Chook!

Get the f*** off me, Banjo! F*** off, Banjo!

F*** you, German!

- Okay.

- Yeah, I think that's right.

- Hey, we make a pretty good team.

- Yeah.

Let's get married.

- You serious?

- Yeah.

Yeah, okay, let's do it.

- Really?

- Yes.

- Hmm.

- Hmm.

- I'm sorry, I surprised you there.

- Oh, no, don't be sorry.

Don't be sorry at all.

- Excuse me.

- Are you calling your sister?

Yes.

Actually I'm not,

because I've got no reception.

Well, you can consider this

your cooling off period, then.

Nuh. This is a done deal.

Good.

Get us something to eat too, eh?

I'm f***in' starvin'.

Hey. Hey, baby.

Oi, how old do you think that Vicki girl is?

She's got a kid.

- So?

- So she's old enough.

Yeah.

Hey! Hey, Ollie, what's that?

Over there?

Who's that, Ollie?

- Boo!

- Oh!

That's Em.

We were just about

to send out a search party.

- I wasn't lost.

- See anything interesting?

Trees. Rocks. Water.

- What's for dinner?

- My special dhal and rice.

- Can I give him one?

- Not before dinner.

- Oh, sh*t!

- What have you done?

- I broke the ring pull.

- Don't know your own strength.

- No, I don't.

- There you go. It's got a can opener.

- Where did you get this?

- It was Dad's old knife.

There's not much call

to use it round the flat.

- What is that?

- That is an awl.

It's used for punching holes in leather.

Does this thing even have

a proper knife on it?

Yeah, it's even got a nail file.

- Oh, that's handy.

- Isn't it?

Hey.

- Do you like it?

- Oh, that's beautiful. Is it expensive?

Yeah. Mm. My husband's a doctor,

so he can afford it.

Well, lucky you.

Another sacrifice to the fire Gods?

I like watching them melt.

How far do you think it is to the falls?

- I thought it was 20 minutes.

- Looks further.

You know there was a massacre at the falls?

The local Kooris were all killed up there.

Driven over the edge

of the falls at gunpoint.

By who?

Settlers. They wanted them off their farms.

There aren't any farms near here.

Looks like there's some

cleared land above the falls.

Gungilee means weeping. The weeping water.

I don't like it here.

How about a change of tune?

- Any requests?

- No Simon and Garfunkel.

- I thought you liked Simon and Garfunkel.

- When I was five.

How about, El Condor Pasa?

- No.

- They didn't write that one.

- Dad.

- Okay.

How about this one? "Tis The Season."

Isn't there like a law where you

can't play carols after Christmas?

There's no statute of limitations on carols.

Anyway, Christmas was only four days ago.

- Everyone's a critic.

- That's my cue.

"The dog would bring it out

and lay it on the opposite side...

"...to where the man stood but would

not allow the man to catch him.

"Though it was only to wash the blood

of the sheep from his mouth and throat...

"...for the sight of blood

made the man tremble."

- That's dark.

- Yeah.

She published this in 1896.

That was the same year that Henry Lawson

published "While The Billy Boils..."

...but nobody's ever heard of bark painting.

Mmm.

God, I... I wish we published

this kind of stuff.

Hey, you remember when we first got

together, we'd stay in bed all weekend...

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