The Last Wave

[Bird Squawking]

[Deep Rumbling]

[Kids Chattering, Indistinct]

[Chattering In Native Dialect]

- [Thunder Rumbling]

- [Giggling]

- [Chattering Continues]

- [Baby Crying]

[Thunder Continues]

[Kids Shouting]

[Goat Bleating]

[Thunder Rumbling]

[Shouting, Bleating Continue]

My turn next!

[Thunderclap]

There's no clouds.

There's no clouds, miss.

[Chattering, Laughing]

[Bell Ringing]

[Woman]

Quickly, children. Inside now!

- [Ringing Continues]

- [Dog Barking]

Melanie? Melanie.

[Thunderclap]

[Cheering]

Children, come on!

Get inside!

[Shouting Continues]

[Goat Bleating]

Come on. Come on.

Everybody sit down now.

[Shouting Continues]

Sit down!

All right.

Sit down and calm down!

Everybody, calm down!

Get down!

[Shouting, Chattering Continue]

Wayne, stop that screaming.

We are witnessing nature at work.

As we all know, it never rains

in November. Karl, will you get down!

[Banging On Roof]

- [Banging Continues]

- [Window Shatters]

- Sh*t!

- Away from the window!

[Children Screaming]

- [Bleating]

- [Banging Continues]

[Thunderclaps]

[Car Horn Honks]

[Man Singing In Italian]

- Good night, Guido.

- Oh, Mr. Burton.

Mr. Burton. Sorry.

Sorry. I almost forgot.

I have a surprise for Mrs. Burton.

Annie will be delighted.

- I grow it in my garden.

- Yes?

- Yeah.

- Well, I've never seen a yellower pepper.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- Thanks.

[Singing Continues]

[Speaking In Italian]

[Man Shouting Back In Italian]

[Car Horns Honking]

Listen, will you get this

bloody thing out of the way?

- [Arguing Continues, Indistinct]

- What are you doing?

- Hey, move it!

- Move the bloody thing!

What do you think this is, bush week?

You can't park here.

Open the door! Door!

[Horn Honking Continues]

[Radio:
Man Chattering, Indistinct]

[Newscaster]

During the last 24 hours.

Following a freak thunderstorm,

hail hit the desert town

of Milawee in Central Australia...

the first ever recorded

fall of hail in the region.

Weather experts say

the situation is being caused...

by an unusually widespread

low pressure drop...

moving up from the southern

polar ice...

[Car Door Closes]

[Footsteps Approaching]

- Hello, Daddy!

- Hello, Sophie!

Oh, what a nice surprise.

- It was so wet today, we couldn't go out to play at school.

- Oh, really?

[Low Chattering, Indistinct]

Nice and sweet.

Tell us about school, Sophie.

Oh, yes, um, we started

painting windows today.

- Painting windows?

- Mm-hmm.

[Annie]

What windows?

[Chattering Continues]

- Very dark.

- And when the sun shines through, we got all these different colors.

- That should be pretty.

- Darling, Andrew asked us to dinner on Wednesday.

I know.

Betty phoned me this morning.

Mmm. She did?

- Yes.

- Doesn't trust me anymore.

Well, after last time...

Grace, darling, will you,

will you let Daddy by, please?

What's the matter?

Annie!

Oh, my God!

- [Both Giggling]

- It's raining!

[Annie] Children, up here at once!

Come on, out of that wet!

Come on. Come on! Hurry!

- Oh!

- Who left these taps on?

- Did you children leave these taps on?

- [Both] No.

Well, they don't go on

by themselves.

Come on. Out, out, out.

Take off those wet things.

I'll get something to help clean it up.

God, the carpet!

[Girls Chattering]

[Water Draining]

[Thunder Rumbling]

- Was Grace out of bed again?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Yells]

- Dave?

- Wh-What's the matter?

What's happened? - Mmm?

It was a dream.

Just a dream, darling.

It's all right.

[Humming]

Grace, chop's ready now!

[Humming Continues]

Here you are, Sophie.

It says, " Make it mullet

if you want a saver in seafood."

- I know. The price of fish is appalling.

- Is it?

Mmm. Even mullet's expensive.

We never eat mullet.

But the accountant

in that end of the company...

was supposed

to know nothing about it.

Well, uh, listen.

I'll contact Ed about it Monday.

It's a taxation problem, mainly.

It's all right.

I can understand your getting upset.

It's all right.

Yes, I'll see you Monday. Bye.

You lawyers

are worse than doctors.

[Chuckles]

You look tired.

Well, I, I haven't

been sleeping well.

- Problems at the office?

- No.

- I've been having bad dreams.

- Are you serious?

- Yes.

- Oh.

You used to have those terrible dreams

when you were a little boy.

Nightmares. Used to worry

your poor mother sick.

What sort of dreams?

Oh, I don't know.

The usual...

witches, ghosts,

- the wind.

- [Chuckles]

- Whoo!

- [Kids Laughing]

I remember one night, not long

after I married your mother,

you came to me and told me you were

afraid to go to sleep at night.

Because, explained

this very serious little boy,

when you go to sleep,

people come and steal your body.

[Laughing]

Did I say what sort of people?

- I asked that, and you said taxi drivers.

- Taxi drivers?

Taxi drivers on night shift

stole people's bodies...

and took them on a long ride to another

world and returned in the morning.

That's why, you said, you wake up

feeling tired in the morning.

[Laughing]

Whee! It's pouring!

Mommy, I'm getting dizzy!

- Are you?

- Yes.

Oh. Come on.

[Rumbling Continues]

[Grunting]

- [Gasps]

- You stole our things.

You die!

[Tribal Drumming]

[Drumming Continues]

[Folk]

[Hooting, Laughing]

[Hooting, Laughing Continue]

[Man]

Get him, boys!

[Men Shouting, Indistinct]

[Shouting Continues]

[Man Shouting, Indistinct]

[Thunderclaps]

[Sirens Wailing]

[Man Hooting]

[Speaks In Native Dialect]

[Man Whispering In Native Dialect]

[Whispering Continues]

- [Man Chattering Over Radio]

- [Chattering]

Car 49, five suspects...

detained in connection with this matter

now being conveyed to the station.

- Hold it!

- [Screaming]

- In you go!

- [Screaming Continues]

He was a strong,

healthy young man.

He was pissed.

I'll tell you that.

Not more than the usual

Saturday night.

Bruising on the neck.

Some facial abrasions.

Water in the lungs.

Not a lot.

I don't think

there was enough to drown him.

So what killed the bastard?

- His heart stopped beating.

- Geez.

Well, don't look at me.

You're the doctor.

What's the charge going to be?

Manslaughter?

Probably.

There's something about this.

You once told me a cup of fresh water

was enough to drown a sheep, right?

So half a cup

would drown an Abo, right?

[Chuckling]

David!

Telephone.

It's Don somebody or other

from the Legal Aid office.

- Ah, Don Fishburn.

- Yeah.

[Kids Chattering, Laughing]

Don, how are you?

Well, I'm fine. Thanks.

How are you going to ruin my Sunday?

Well, I hardly do any criminal work.

You know that.

I know that, but I also know

you support Legal Aid.

Well, yes,

of course I support Legal Aid.

It was Sammy Damo

who suggested your name to me...

because he said you had a little

experience working with Aborigines.

No, I've never worked

on a case involving Aborigines.

I did give some advice once

on a land rights question.

Can we get together tomorrow,

say around 2:
00 in the afternoon,

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