The Daughter

Put that thing

out of its misery,

will you, Peterson?

You're a good man, Peterson.

Give my regards to the family.

Yep. Thanks.

You'll be right. Good girl.

Well,

the mill is going to close.

We lost our last contract

on Friday.

I don't really have any choice.

So how long have we got?

It'll be the end of the month.

It's a very generous

redundancy package.

You're just giving up

on the town, are ya?

We've explored every possible

option. There's no way out.

What about old Dave?

He's 61 years old.

What's he supposed to do?

It's never too late

to start again.

You should hang your head

in shame!

Shame on you, nielson!

Look, this mill

has been in my family

for well over 100 years.

I do understand your shock.

I'm sorry.

We'll all just have to try

and hold our heads up high

and move on.

What's it been - 15, 16 years?

You know, I don't remember.

Different place,

now your father's

shut the mill down.

Where's everyone moving to?

Depends on where

they can get jobs.

Yeah.

Your dad said you got married.

Yeah. Yeah, I did.

You got kids yet?

No. No, no kids.

Tables here,

dance floor down there.

- Yes.

- Now,

what have you decided

about the lights?

- They'll rig this...

- Now, do you think

that this floor is

a little bit uneven?

- I don't think so.

- Slippery though, right?

Now, we've decided no

with the ribbons.

Flowers are going to be here,

but tomorrow...

- Christian!

- Hi.

It's lovely to meet you.

It's lovely to meet you too.

Come on,

I'll show you to your room.

I have an appointment

with the florist in ten.

You probably want to settle in

anyway.

It's been hectic here

this week.

Christian?

I know this might be

a bit weird for you,

and I just wanted to say, I

really appreciate you coming,

and I know that it means a lot

to your father.

Good flight?

Yeah, it was fine.

You hungry?

I'll make you a sandwich.

Since when

do you make sandwiches?

I've always made sandwiches!

I've never once seen you

make a sandwich.

You got everything you need

in the bedroom?

Yes. I guess that's

one of the advantages

of marrying your housekeeper.

- Very funny.

- How old is she?

She's 31.

Is she really?

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Oh, my god!

- - Christian

no, I mean,

she could be your daughter.

So is grace not coming?

She had a few meetings

she couldn't get out of.

- When's she getting here?

- Wednesday.

Take the Volvo. Ask Peterson

to give you the keys.

You've still got mom's car?

Why wouldn't I?

I'm going to go for a walk.

Anna's putting on

a special dinner for you.

Don't be late.

A mate of mine's a manager

of a steel mill up north.

I'll give him a call.

Charlotte's job will

tide you over.

Who knows if

there'll still be a school?

- They won't shut the school.

- Without kids left to teach?

Jesus.

I'll see you at the pub, then?

Nah, I've got to head down

to the science competition.

Of course, yeah.

Best of luck to hedvig, eh?

Thanks, mate. Are we still

good for tomorrow?

Yeah, dad said we can

borrow his boat, so we're on.

I'm looking forward to it.

It'll be a nice distraction.

- We bloody need one.

- See you, mate.

So I've researched amino acids

as part of my science project,

particularly focusing on the

amino acids in the human body

and also in the food and drink

industry.

Um, so this is a skeleton

diagram of an amino acid,

which I connected to

a nitrogen atom,

which is here, silver.

Then we...

That's then in turn connected

to the Alpha carbon atom.

Ah, so, yeah. That's it.

Thanks for listening

to my presentation.

The standard of the whole day

has been very, very high.

Hi.

- How'd you go?

- She was great.

I stumbled over

my presentation.

I'm sure it was great.

- Hey.

- Did you hear?

Kate told me. I'm sorry, baby.

We'll talk about it later.

- Hedvig.

- Hedvig, it's you!

- Hedvig?

- Yeah! Told you so.

Whoo, yeah!

Hedvig! Yeah!

Hang on a sec.

I'm just going to grab

my stuff from the classroom.

Still think they should have

given you first prize.

- Shut up, dad!

- Just saying.

- Hey, guys.

- Adam.

- Hey, mr Finch.

- Adskis.

What's up, man?

How was practice?

It was good.

I scored two 3-pointers.

- Cool.

- Totes, totes.

- Hedvig got second prize...

- Dad!

I wouldn't bring it up. She's

a bit embarrassed about it.

- Yeah?

- Show him your certificate.

- Check it.

- Yeah, awesome.

- Do you want to hang out?

- Yeah, man. Let's do it.

Yeah, I do.

- Can you take that?

- Yeah, whatevs.

- I'll see you later.

- See you later. See you, man.

Two 3-pointers, man -

that's gnarly.

Yeah, thanks.

It's gnarly!

Say no to drugs.

Oliver?

What?

Banksy is, like, the most

famous street artist

in the world!

Like, he tags all these

warehouses and stuff.

He's pretty good.

Adam! You've got to see this.

What is it?

You have an unfair advantage.

Whoo-hoo!

- Can I have my bike back?

- Nope!

What, you giving up?

This place is awesome.

Come on!

Are you seriously going to

make me chase you again?

If you catch me,

you can kiss me.

You know what? I'm tapping out.

Well,

lamb chops are discounted.

It's going to be a nightmare

for hedvig's exams

if we've got to move.

We should wait till the end

of the year, at least.

- Money's going to get tight.

- We'll figure something out.

F***ing hell!

- What?

- It's Christian!

- Who?

- Hey!

- Hey!

- My god!

Is that all you've got to say

for yourself?

- When did you get in?

- I got in this morning.

- No phone call?

- I was about to call you.

- What are you doing tonight?

- I'm meant to be...

Come over for dinner.

Hi.

This is my wife, Charlotte.

Charlotte, this is

my old friend, Christian.

- It's so nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

He's Henry's son.

He's been overseas.

I haven't been home for awhile.

He's coming for dinner tonight.

I don't want to be any trouble.

- We're having chops.

- Chops.

- Ow.

- Oh, sh*t!

- Sorry! Sorry, sorry.

- It's ok, it's alright.

You know what? Let's just wait

till tomorrow, alright?

Ok.

We'll do it on your birthday.

Ok.

Tomorrow.

Going somewhere?

My dad told me never

to get in cars with strangers.

Yeah, right. He sounds like

a pretty smart guy.

- How'd she go?

- She blitzed it.

- Second prize.

- You beauty!

- You went to school with dad?

- I did.

Dad, you remember Christian,

don't you?

- Mr Finch.

- Henry's son.

I taught you

how to play football.

That's right.

- You still rubbish?

- Dad!

- Well, he was.

- Come on, Christian.

He's back in town

for his dad's wedding.

Henry's getting married again?

You know that, dad. I told

you. We've been invited.

He's a little... you know.

So what was dad like as a kid?

- Don't tell her anything.

- Was he naughty?

- About average.

- What did he get up to?

Um, no comment.

- Good man.

- You know, though,

your dad was the golden boy

back in school.

- What?

- He was just like you.

He won all the prizes, topped

the state in three subjects.

Isn't that right, Oliver?

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