Schapelle

Synopsis: The arrest of Australian Schapelle Corby at Bali airport in 2004 with 4 kg of marijuana. Note that the story line has subsequently been proven to be fiction: the book on which it is based has been subject of record defamation awards.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Khoa Do
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Year:
2014
18 Views


Worst possible conditions.

So far the air crane

is not being used

but it remains on standby.

The total cost of bringing

the air crane to South Australia

has been put at over

a quarter of a million dollars.

Schapelle.

You said to remind you

you've got heaps to do.

I'm just going to go

for a few more.

I'll see you at Mum's tonight.

This time tomorrow... Bali!

Hey, don't drink it all.

The last sip gets a wish.

Well you know what my wish is.

Take more than bloody prostate

cancer to knock me off my perch.

Dad.

Katrina? It's Pel.

I'm going to be a bit later,

much later, picking you up.

I'll call you when I get to

your place, OK? Yes,

of course I'm pissed off.

You got that much right.

Dad, could you not? Right.

Just got to fix the ripped

plastic on your boogie board bag.

Dad. Yeah, and I'll

cut down on the brewskis.

I'm meeting the girls

at Mum's soon.

No, no. Meet them at the airport

first thing.

I can't. Yes, you can.

OK.

First thing when you get home,

you sign back

up at that beauty school.

And you finish your course.

You don't worry about me.

I can get to the doctors

and all the rest of it, right?

Yeah, I said I will. I mean it.

Take care of yourself.

She's supposed to be here by now.

I had to glue her boogie board

plastic. What's it matter?

Don't get cranky with me.

I'm just worried she might have

broken down.

Well if she did she'd cope.

She's not a kid.

Bloody ex-husbands.

Don't rack up too many of them.

I'll try not to. Good to the kids.

That's the main thing in a man.

Yep?

It's close. Half an hour.

It's on its way.

Oh, 30? Jeez.

Yeah, she should

have called her 29.

20's going to be OK, but 30?

That's the hotel.

Oh, bags that deckchair.

Show me.

Mm. Very nice. Look at the beach!

I hope the plane doesn't crash.

Stop saying that!

Sorry. So you got your Lomatil

and your gastrolytes and all that?

Yeah, and my hankie

and my lunch money and...

You're not too big for a smack.

Go check on your brother.

Make sure he's set his alarm.

Up at four, girls.

Oh, thanks heaps, Schapelle.

Yeah, really.

Give me a break, guys.

They were the only tickets

I could get.

James? Have you set your alarm?

Yeah.

Mum's only told me like 28 times.

OK, 4am.

That's what time I go to bed.

We're going

to have a good time, OK.

Wait.

Whoo-hoo!

You'll need to carry

this to oversize

once we're done here.

Yeah. And you'll transfer

in Sydney

to the international airport

but your

baggage is checked through to Bali

on the Australian Airlines flight.

Alright. Here are your boarding

passes. Enjoy your flight.

Thank you.

Come on. You're not getting

on that plane till I get ya.

Big smile, Katrina, otherwise

I'll fire you from the fish shop.

Beer!

Oi! Thanks for the extra beers,

not.

B*tch. As if we've had too many.

Welcome to Bali.

Could you put your bag up here?

Is that yours?

Is that yours?

No, no, that's mine.

Please. Put it up.

Can you tell me your name, please?

Schapelle Corby.

Can you open it, please?

Nothing.

Can you open this one, please?

Where's Pel?

Why not?

Because there's something...

Do you know what it is

in that bag?

Can we inspect, please?

This bag is yours?

Yes.

This board is yours?

Yes.

This is also yours?

Yes.

Is this yours?

This isn't mine.

Do you understand?

It's not mine.

I'll check.

OK.

Could you not?

Sample for testing.

Do you know what this is?

I can smell it,

but I've never seen it before.

You should find out whose it is.

Maybe someone out there...

Narcotic. Positive narcotic.

Positive.

Do you have a permit from

authority

to import marijuana

into Indonesia?

What? Sorry, what?

Do you have a permit from

authority

to import marijuana into

Indonesia?

I don't know, I don't know,

I don't know,

I don't know, I don't know.

She doesn't know. I don't know.

You sign this, please,

to say it is your bag.

We can't read Indonesian, OK.

You should fingerprint this bag of

whatever it is.

Breathe out.

Hello?

Is this Mercedes?

Yes, it is, who's this?

It's Katrina, Schapelle's friend.

Where are you guys?

They've got Schapelle and

they're saying that she's got drugs

in her bag. What?

And it's real and they've got her

and she's terrified.

What?

Say it again?

I don't...

I don't know what to do.

Corby. Schapelle Corby.

Hey, hey, hey.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

4.2 kilos of narcotics.

She had it in her bag.

No, it's not hers.

It's not hers.

She doesn't take drugs.

She doesn't have anything to do

with drugs. It's not hers.

My bag wasn't locked.

Anyone could have put it in there.

Somebody else's. Not hers.

They've come here for my birthday.

A holiday, OK?

It's not hers.

Don't sign anything, Pel.

No, I'm not. I keep telling them.

Excuse me!

Close that.

Stop them!

Stop them taking photos!

Get them away.

Get them away from her.

Bend.

Spread your legs.

Hello? Merc? I can't understand

what you're saying.

For God sake, Mercedes.

It must be bad news,

just tell me what it is.

Jesus. Jesus f***ing wept.

Like, where does

it even come from?

I never.

Never even seen it before. F***!

They need to fingerprint the bag.

Fingerprint the bag of marijuana,

OK?

Oh, please just go home, Mick.

I can't tell you anymore.

What are you even doing here?

I've got

to be bloody somewhere, haven't I?

So, Merc's getting Pel a lawyer.

Yes. Yes.

Someone planted that bloody stuff

on her.

That's how the system works.

First up, we've got

to play it their way.

First up?

My little girl cannot stay in

a jail. Not for another night.

Look, it's all about money

in that bloody country.

Someone will be on the take.

I can find out...

Who that is... Sshh.

That'll be them, that'll be them.

Where's my bloody phone? That's

the newspapers you hang up on them.

The last thing she

needs is a media circus.

The last thing I need

is your advice.

Rosleigh Rose speaking, hello?

Hi, Mrs Rose. Jess Thompson here.

I'm from A Current Affair.

Can I...

Sh*t.

So I open the bag and got

the shock of my life.

It was not your brother's? No.

Not anyone else that you know?

No. No. No.

I don't know how it got there.

Someone else put it in there.

We have to find out who.

Oh. I told you that if your sister

is innocent I will do all I can to

help her. Yeah, you did.

Thank you, Lily.

One thing, Schapelle.

When did you last see

inside your boogie board bag?

At Mum's, the morning we left.

We showered at 4am

and met in the garage

and my friend Ally gave me back

some flippers that she'd borrowed

and I opened my bag and I threw

them in and everyone saw inside.

Good.

So I'll get out Monday, right?

Once you show them that it

was all just a big mistake.

It's not that simple.

So what happens if you can't

prove that it wasn't mine?

What?

It is the death penalty,

Schapelle.

You must come out.

The only thing I did wrong

is not lock my bag.

Is the marijuana from Australia?

Has she admitted to the crime?

What it's it feel like, Schapelle?

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Katherine Thomson

Katherine Thomson is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Katherine Thomson was born in Manly, New South Wales and began her theatrical involvement as a teenager with the Australian Theatre for Young People. She helped found Theatre South in Wollongong and acted in many of their productions. Her first work was A Change in the Weather, which was followed by Tonight We Anchor in Twofold Bay. Both works were performed in Wollongong in the early 1980s, while the latter was also staged at the Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Studio. Her next play, A Sporting Chance, was commissioned by the Magpie Theatre Company in South Australia in 1987. It was succeeded by Darlinghurst Nights, developed from the light verse of the noted Australian poet Kenneth Slessor and it was presented, along with musical accompaniment, by the Sydney Theatre Company in 1988. In 1991, Diving for Pearls premiered at the Melbourne Theatre Company, with Peter Cummins in the role of Den. Later the same year, Belvoir Street theatre in Sydney produced the play with Robyn Nevin as Barbara and Marshall Napier as Den. Other productions have taken place in Adelaide, Wollongong, Newcastle and Penrith and the play was awarded the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Barmaids was first performed by the Deck Chair Theatre Company in Western Australia and has since been performed in the eastern states and in New Zealand. As writer in residence for the Sydney Theatre Company in 1995, Thomson wrote Fragments of Hong Kong and in 1997 a production of Navigating, directed by Richard Wherrett, with Jacki Weaver as Bea, was staged by the Queensland and Melbourne Theatre companies. The following year, the Sydney Theatre Company presented a production of this play directed by Marion Potts, featuring Noni Hazelhurst in the central role. In 2007, King Tide was premiered by Griffin Theatre Company, in a production directed by Patrick Nolan, starring Toni Scanlon.Thomson has written for a number of television series, including Wildside, Halifax f.p., Fallen Angels, G. P. and Mirror, Mirror. She received an AWGIE Award for an episode of GP and an AFI nomination for an episode of Halifax f.p. She has also served as a member of the board of the Sydney Theatre Company for a number of years. more…

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