
McLeod's Daughters
Ep. 38 - Stripped Bare
12/18/2021 | 42m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Everything from Drover’s Run is stolen.
Everything from Drover’s Run is stolen whilst Jodi and Craig have a secret rendezvous in the spa. When Wilgul is also burgled, Tess and Nick decide to set a trap to catch the thieves.
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McLeod's Daughters
Ep. 38 - Stripped Bare
12/18/2021 | 42m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Everything from Drover’s Run is stolen whilst Jodi and Craig have a secret rendezvous in the spa. When Wilgul is also burgled, Tess and Nick decide to set a trap to catch the thieves.
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- [Announcer] Previously on the McLeod's Daughters.
- He's got a crush on me.
Can you believe it?
- You look great Jodi.
- So do you.
(soft music) - Look, you won't find two people more committed to the training of your horse than my business partner and me.
(country upbeat music) - That's my boy!
(crowd cheering) - My organic wheat seeds, they'll be moved before you know it.
- You said wheat, you never said organic.
- Well apart from making good business sense, they're environmentally friendly and organic produce sales for 20% more so... - Wouldn't the whole property have to be chemical free?
- I know another local farmer, who's looking to go organic.
- Great.
- He's got a few scars, but nothing he can't get past.
Little help.
(laugh) (upbeat music) - Do you know what fuse runs the power, Jode?
- You're the electrician, don't you know?
- I'm the electrician's cousin, I'm just here to follow orders.
- Not all day, I hope.
Window of opportunity, remember?
- Yeah it's sorted.
- Craig, I told you to lay the twin and earth, mate.
We're rewiring, we need wire.
Big drum of it, not in the van.
- Sorry, Mick, I missed that one.
- Right, well, you can go back to town and get it from the shed.
- Right, so, that drum was the... - Right, there's 12 of them, you don't want the red one or the green one or the coaxial.
I'll get it myself.
You can prepare, start clearing some elbow room around the power points and pull them, okay?
- No worries, Mick, take your time.
I'll be on the job.
- You're still on the first load?
- Hey, Nick, puts some in the horse float, and I'll drop them off at Wilgul for you... - It's not an accredited organic horse float though, is it?
- Not like my truck.
- Hey look, I'll give you a hand on Tuesday.
You'll probably still be going then.
- Righto!
I'll start her up if you're almost ready.
Seed won't move itself.
- Hey you guys busy?
- Sorry, we'd love to help.
- Sheep to move from the river paddock.
Big job.
- Very big.
- So what about Jodi?
She's cleaning the troughs.
- All day.
(gentle music) - All clear, everyone's gone.
That is a nice bikini - Thanks!
- Nice... Oh well, maybe you won't be in them for long.
Let's go Luke Skywalker.
(upbeat music) ♪ It'll take some time ♪ ♪ To find your heart ♪ ♪ And come back home ♪ ♪ You could walk for miles ♪ ♪ Cross every river ♪ ♪ And find you're not alone ♪ ♪ Cause I'll be there ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ No no ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ Cause I'll be there ♪ Sandalwood for relaxation - We should have at least two hours.
- And I've got some orange blossoms for scent.
- Tess and Nick will be back first.
It's only 30 minutes to Wilgul, 40 minutes to unload, 30 minutes back.
- Craig.
- What?
Oh sorry.
Orange blossom.
- And patchouli for romance.
- We don't need much help in that department.
I mean, with you around, a guy can't think of anything else.
- Your cousin?
- It can't be Mick.
Not this soon.
(truck door opening) (dramatic music) - Hey, just in time, mate, give us a hand.
- What's going on.
- Floor sanding.
We've got to shift out all the furniture before we start.
Didn't Claire say anything?
Hey, hey, careful!
- Okay, look, all right.
It's the first I've heard of it, but hey.
Move.
Good.
Look, I've got work on too, okay?
- [Carrier] Yeah, yeah, not worry.
- There's drinks in the kitchen.
All right, help yourself, okay?
- Yeah, thanks, we will.
- Oh, so what, our party isn't over?
- No, just some guys doing floorboards.
They won't bug us.
- Some guys?
- Yeah, Claire arranged it, it's cool.
- That'd be right.
Claire'd get the house demolished and would forget to tell me.
- Hey, she could knock it down now and I wouldn't even notice.
- Come here instantly.
- I wish that thing could suck faster.
We'll be here all day.
- And all day tomorrow, I reckon.
- Okay, that's a big 10-four.
Got to go, truck won't drive itself.
Over.
- You can give us a hand, couldn't you, Charlie?
You come with the truck, don't you?
- Oh no, no, no lifting.
Disc trouble, had a bit of a banana lounge accident.
- That must be hard, being a truck driver.
- Oh, it's very tough, yeah, yeah.
I'm run off my feet these days.
Everybody wants to use me.
Everybody's going organic.
- See, I told you, it's a trend.
- Yeah, well, you've got to give the market what it wants.
People want good, healthy food.
They don't want any more of this chemical pesticide crap mixed in, do they?
- We're even gonna need you tomorrow.
- I can't help you there.
I'm booked tomorrow.
Booked for weeks.
Why'd you buy all your seed in bags?
That's a bit of a mad idea, isn't it?
- Yeah, well, we'll manage, thanks.
If we could just get this think to suck faster.
(upbeat music) - You know, I think I may have had enough of this spa.
- Well, we could go inside and dry off.
- How long have we got?
- Mick won't be back for another 55 minutes.
Your mom?
- Hours away.
(laughs) You know, this is exactly the way I wanted it.
You know, for my first time.
And you were so sexy up onstage doing that stripper thing.
You knew all the right moves.
You can show me the moves, right?
- I reckon the moves come naturally, Jode.
- Yeah, but you do know how to do everything.
- Sure, we'll work on it.
- Yeah, but, you can lead the way.
- I guess.
- Craig, you have done this before, haven't you?
- Course.
- Oh my god.
- It's not that bad, okay?
I've been upstairs on the inside and downstairs on the outside.
- Upstairs?
What about Melissa Jemison?
I mean, you guys dated for a whole year.
- Upstairs on the outside only.
- Okay, what about you and Stephanie Sinclair?
I mean, she said that you and her, the whole shebang.
- I couldn't even get in the front door.
- Sorry.
I mean, I guess I was just sort of hoping for someone who knew the way around the whole house, you know.
- Well, can't we work our way around the house together?
- I guess.
Hey, it's a house.
How hard can it be?
- And a very nice house too, structurally speaking.
(laughs) - Why do floor polishers need such a big truck?
- A lot of furniture to shift, I guess.
- Furniture?
(funky music) I am so dead.
- [Craig] But if they had to sand the floor, I mean, it made sense of the time.
- You are so dead!
- They only just left, we could catch them.
- What are we supposed to do, Craig, chase after them in Tess' VW?
- Nick, he left his bike.
(grunts) - Great!
Go on, which way?
- Is that?
(gentle music) - Oh no.
(gentle music) Hi.
A furniture truck?
We're looking for a furniture truck.
- Well, I haven't seen one, should I?
Am I about to be unhappy?
- Kind of.
Probably.
- A lot.
- They worked really fast.
- The study and the lounge room's all gone, Claire.
I haven't been upstairs yet.
Very sorry, mate.
- How could they do this?
You were doing the rewiring, and Jodi, you were-- - There was something wrong with the spa, and Craig came down to fix it, and once he got it working, we thought hey, why not... - You were in the spa.
- Claire, maybe we should wait for-- - How could you take a spa when there're half a dozen burglars ripping off the house?
- Two burglars.
There was two of them.
They were big blokes, you know, really big.
- You saw them.
- I'd better get Casino unloaded.
- Keep coming.
Keep coming.
- I'll just have some morning tea.
- All right.
- Hey, Tess.
It's time to take a break.
- No, we can't, we're doing okay.
And if the day goes for another 28 hours, we'll be fine.
- Look, you've had a bit of trouble in the house.
You've been robbed.
- What?
- Yeah, and there's not much left.
- Hey Nick, I wouldn't, mate.
- Claire, have you seen the dining room?
- Seen it, yeah?
When's he due back at the station?
- Yeah, but the table and all that beautiful crockery and the sideboard.
My room.
- Can you reach Frank out there?
Well, it's just down the road.
If he doesn't answer, give me a call and I'll drive out there myself.
- They have been in my room.
And all that jewelry that mom left me.
- Yeah, yeah, great.
Okay.
Thanks.
- They've taken dad's desk.
We just got it back.
And the names written underneath.
- It's easier to identify when the police check it out.
- All the pictures are gone.
All those memories for you and for me.
- They've left the paperwork.
At least I can get the accounts back together.
- Don't you care?
- I'm sorry abour your things, Tess, but the work's still here.
- How can you... Don't you have any feelings at all?
- You're being melodramatic.
They were thieves.
They do what thieves do, they steal things.
Now there is no point wasting any time blabbering about it.
I'm gonna make some calls.
I'm gonna call the neighbors and see if they spotted that truck.
(suspenseful music) - I didn't look at the license plate.
I didn't think I needed to.
- What make of truck was it?
- Well... - What about the color?
Did you notice that?
- Tess.
- It was a white truck with a red cab.
- And these men, big blokes, brown hair, was it possible there were more than two?
- I guess, except I got them to help move the table.
- You help them to move-- - Can you let me get on with this, Tess?
- Can't you hypnotize him or something, get a decent description?
- Is this my assistant's fault in any way?
- Yes.
- [Craig] No.
- Right, well, can I have him back when you're finished?
Lot to do.
I said clear some elbow room, mate.
What's all this?
- So, what's next?
When do you start dusting for fingerprints?
- Any fingerprints are on your furniture.
- What about mugshots?
Maybe Craig'll recognize someone.
- Gungellan police don't keep mugshots.
- These are our things, Frank.
Generations of our family built this home.
It's our history.
It cannot just be gone.
Claire?
- There must be something you can do.
- I'll do everything I can, but your stuff's probably on its way interstate.
It'll end up in a warehouse, be sold off.
Burglaries are all the same, city or country.
Your chances of getting anything back are almost zero.
- Been flat-out all day, mate.
Loading and unloading.
My back's killing me.
I'll tell you what, have a coldie waiting for me, I'll drop by later.
- So Nick how's the wheat business going.
- It's going.
- Horse business?
- It's good.
- [Charlie] Okay, got to go, over.
- Listen.
- Yeah?
- You and Tess.
It is just business, isn't it?
- So the whole house, eh?
Tess is gonna be pretty upset.
- Yeah ,Claire seems to be taking it in stride.
- You have absolutely no idea about women, do you?
- So while Jodi and Craig were in the spa... My God, they've stolen the blender and the toaster oven.
- It wasn't my fault, mom.
And it wasn't really Craig's fault either.
- I'm not saying he helped them load the truck.
Oh, this is Claire's tureen.
It was her mother's.
If you'd been doing your work instead of lolling about in the spa with Craig... - Craig did give us a description of the men and the truck.
- Yeah, and it was just as well we were in the spa.
Because if we'd been cleaning the troughs, we wouldn't have heard the trucks at all.
- Hey, Meg, look at it this way, at least there's a loot less dusting to do.
- I'd offer you a cup of tea, Frank, but I'm afraid the kettle's been... Oh my God, the cottage, the cottage.
- Your place wasn't touched.
- Never have the heart to tell her.
Our stuff isn't worth stealing.
- Hopeless.
You know, you think you could do something.
He just tells me to fill out an insurance claim.
- You're a bit upset, mate.
- Yeah, of course I'm upset.
It's a waste of time filling out forms and making reports.
- Lot of stuff in that house, Claire.
Stuff of your dad's.
- Yeah, it's insured.
- That's what I reckon, don't get too tied down to stuff.
You known, if Killarney burned down tomorrow, I wouldn't go back for anything.
- Your parents'd be pleased to hear that.
- Except maybe the chopper.
Hey, you know they're in Adelaide till the weekend.
Why don't you come over my joint for dinner?
You know, since you don't have a-- - Since I don't have a dining room table to eat off?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Actually, a hot meal's a good idea.
I shot you on in Gungellan.
- Cougar's not that bad.
- No, we can ask around at the pub, see if anyone's heard anything.
You never know, a cheap dinging room table might be on offer.
- Could be lucky.
- I want these guys, Alex.
- [Nick] You all right, Tess?
- [Tess] My house has been cleaned out, my back kills, my arms are ready to drop off.
- [Nick] Cheer up, we moved a lot of bags.
- [Tess] It's still not enough, Nick.
- I got to get out of here.
- That was a pig of a day, wasn't it?
- What's your overnight rate on the truck?
- What?
- Sorry?
- Well, I've got to get the seeds into the field bin or it's money down the drain.
- You can hardly move, Tess.
I can hardly move.
- Direct plus 30%.
- I have a note without you even driving it.
- 10%.
- 20.
And you have to have it back to me by 8a.m.
- Okay.
- And how do I get to Gungellan?
My dinner's not gonna cook itself.
(railroad signal) - See it as an opportunity, Claire, okay, you know?
Upgrade your computer, get your house running more efficiently.
- So we were inefficient before?
- No.
At least let us give you some furniture.
I mean, mom has rooms piled with the stuff.
- I thought she gave everything to Nick to Wilgul.
- Only the really good stuff like that piano I use.
- I'm sorry to hear about your trouble.
But it's nice to have a bit of charity when things get tough.
- I don't want charity.
- It's not charity, it's a loan.
(train horn honking) - [Charlie] You two married?
- No!
- We're business partners.
- [Charlie] Same thing.
(railroad signal) - Right, well, that's your downstairs power circuit, good as new and set to go.
- Pity there's nothing electrical left to plug in.
- Yeah, that is bad luck, eh?
We'll be back Thursday, do some more.
(car door slams) - Mick, I'm gonna hang here a while.
There's still a bit of mess to clean up, I reckon.
- Yeah?
Good on you, then.
You all right for a ride?
- Yeah, I'll be okay.
- [Mick] I'll pick you up Thursday.
- Hey, can I go a lift into town?
- Yeah, hop in.
- Hey, I guess that means you're free for tonight, huh?
- I stuffed up, Jode.
The least I can do is make myself useful for a while.
(suspenseful music) - [Neil] The whole house?
- [Claire] Yep.
- What about Casino?
- Oh no, no, no, no, the horses are fine.
There's no problems there.
If you hear anything, just give us a call, or the sergeant.
Cheers, Neil.
- Didn't know you were coming in.
- Oh, just sort of asking around a bit, see if anyone hear anything.
You?
- Great minds.
Any joy?
- No.
You eating?
- Yeah, in a minute.
- Watch yourself, Claire.
You know how touchy Thompson is about Casino.
- Yeah.
Give us a bit of credit.
- Hey.
- Good day.
- Chowing your face after the big strip.
- Yeah, my face is the only thing I'm trying to stuff.
You had trouble at Drovers.
Sleep on the floor now.
- Hey, no, I'm lucky.
I don't have anything worth stealing, especially not my bed.
- That depends.
You a mattress girl or a futon girl?
- That depends what a futon is.
Beer?
- Yeah.
- Listen, Claire, I've been thinking.
Maybe we should shift our business administration over to Killarney.
It makes sense.
Computer's there with the software, faxes, phones, all the gear.
- You're the financial backer, Alex.
- Yeah.
- And now you want to shift everything to your place?
- Get away, Claire, you're being paranoid.
Look, I just want to show it's business as usual at Ryan-McLeod Horse Services.
- McLeod-Ryan Horse Services.
Your name's not even going on the sign, mate.
- Got a meat tray.
Green 48?
Green 48?
- Hey, bozo, you won.
- My luck's finally changed.
- Hey, well, let me take this off your hands, huh?
Since you don't have a fridge.
- Hey!
Your wine and sympathy really needs a lot of work.
(suspenseful music) - Oh, Claire.
We've almost finished shifting seeds.
One more load ought to do it.
Craig's helping, so we're gonna go to Wilgul now, and we'll be back soon.
My back's killing me.
I could actually do with that spa now.
Sorry.
Shouldn't have said the spa word.
Actually wish they'd stolen it.
With me in it.
This is so awful, Claire.
Everything's gone.
You must feel really bad.
I mean really, really bad.
- I'm fine.
I just don't know what to do with this stupid meat tray.
- Here, I can take it.
At least we've still got a fridge at the cottage.
(footstep sound) (guitar music) - Well, I can smell coffee already.
- Tell me I hallucinated those last few bags back at Drovers.
- We'll just have time.
- Breakfast first.
- Bacon and eggs.
- I want a scramble.
Sunny side up, thanks.
(suspenseful music) - Where's all your stuff?
- Nothing to do with me this time.
- There was a whole table here, a cedar.
It was my grandmother's.
- You're away from the house all night?
- Yeah, but we were on the road from Drovers to Nick's paddock the whole time.
We didn't see another vehicle.
- [Frank] They're probably watching, knew how long each run was.
- There must be something you can do.
- If I was in the city, I'd put out an alert for the trucks but there's no cars patrolling and nobody to put out an alert to.
- Well there's bread and eggs.
- But nothing to cook them on.
- What about the other farms from here to Gungellan?
There's got to be someone that saw a truck go past last night.
- I'll ask them, but the odds aren't good.
- So that's it, we just sit here, the whole house is gone, and we can't do anything about it.
He's not coming back, is he?
- No reason to.
- Let's just get the truck back before Charlie starts charging us double time for another day.
- No, no, I can assure you there's no possibility of...
If that's the way you feel.
- All organized, I see.
Listen, I've got an old shoebox you can have for receipts.
- That was Neil Thompson.
He's taking Casino back.
- What?
No, he's not.
Ring him back and tell him we'll move the horses to Killarney and run our business from there.
Claire, it's the only way, right?
If we can't reassure our clients, we won't have a business to run.
- These people aren't stock thieves, Alex, they stole my father's desk and his chair, and my grandfather's table, and my great-grandmother's sideboard.
All those memories.
That smell, even.
Everything that meant home to me.
That's what they stole.
And I can't lose the horses as well.
- Okay.
Then they stay, all right?
And we'll tell Neil Thompson to stop being an old woman, right?
- You think your mother will cook us something?
- You know, Frank reckons they could've sold all the stuff in Adelaide by now.
- Bummer.
- Yeah, but they were at Drovers yesterday and Wilgul last night.
I mean, they can't be offloading any further away than Fisher.
- Who says they unloaded straightaway?
They could store the stuff in some shed somewhere for months.
- What, and risk being caught?
I'd get rid of it ASAP.
I mean, I think it's worth a try.
- What is?
- We go to Fisher and check out all the antique dealers.
- Got any bike helmets?
(gentle music) - There's my coffee table, for instance.
They could've taken that.
It was my mother's.
It's very nice.
And some of my vases.
Antiques.
Better than some of the things that were in here.
- Oh, I'm sure it's just cause they were in a hurry.
- Really?
- Absolutely.
I would have cleaned your place out, had I had the time.
- Have you seen Jodi?
- Have you checked the spa?
(door knocks) - [Frank] Hello?
- Come in.
- Meg.
- Frank.
- This might sound crazy, and I know the age could be an issue, but I need to talk... - Hi.
- [Frank] Hi.
- You need to talk to?
- Jodi.
Is she around?
- Wasn't she at Wilgul with you?
- Yes, she was, of course she was.
I'd best be off.
- No tea?
- No, fine, next time, thanks.
- What was all that about?
- I don't know.
Why would he want to see Jodi?
- Charlie's late.
Must've slept in, the lucky bastard.
- I've never been burgled before.
- I have.
The thing is, you never really finish doing the list.
- The list of stolen things?
- Yeah.
You think you've written everything down, and then a week later you realize a pair of earrings have gone, a moth later your favorite ABBA record.
- ABBA record?
(laugh) - Yeah.
- [Radio] Big Charlie, you read me there, over?
- Breaker, breaker.
Big Charlie reading you.
Radio doesn't answer itself.
(chewing) Over.
- [Radio] Thanks for the tipoff, Charlie, over.
- No worries, over.
- [Radio] Nice upright piano last night, mate.
Keep us posted.
Check's in the mail for you, over and out.
- No worries.
Big Charlie over and out.
Bit more to Big Charlie than doughnuts and bad jokes, I think.
- How's telling the police gonna help?
They'll only grab Charlie, ask a few questions, and he'll pull his head in.
- Yeah, but you heard the guy on the CB.
That's evidence.
It's a start.
- Yeah, against Charlie.
But it doesn't get us any closer to the crooks, doesn't get our stuff back.
- Well, here he comes.
You ready to try something?
- What?
- [Charlie] Morning.
- Hi.
- Get all done?
- A few bags left.
Thank you.
- Yep, thank you.
- We're gonna need an organic seeder.
Put the crop in.
- Yep, no worries, I can do you do.
- Here's my number.
I'm gonna be looking after Killarney for a few days while my mom and dad are in Adelaide.
- Okay, good-o.
I'll give you a call, and I'll tell you when the seeder's free.
- Don't call until tomorrow.
We'll be in town all day today.
- Okay.
Well, you two take care.
Call you in the morning.
- Thanks, Charlie.
Not even a blink.
He's good, make a great poker player.
- Maybe.
Maybe he didn't even take the hint.
- It worth a try.
I mean, I guess it wasn't terribly diplomatic asking them if they bought stolen furniture.
- We could find a hotel.
- Double bed?
- Yeah, but we'd be asleep in two seconds.
- But then we'd waken up next to each other.
- The floor sander.
That's him.
- I thought you said he was huge.
Craig.
Craig!
(upbeat music) (grunts) Fight.
Come on, try it.
(grunts) (upbeat music) Oh my god, are you okay?
- You were alone, Jode.
What would you have done if you caught him?
- Hey, I'm a station hand.
Could've been dag drenched and spayed.
Come on.
That actually made more than one of those hideous lamps.
My god.
It's out dinning room.
(dramatic music) - Doesn't Killarney have alarms?
- Dad never remembers to turn them on.
- So what now?
- I spy.
- Right.
Here they are.
Hey.
- Good day.
- Everyone out of Killarney?
- Yep.
- Good.
- You reckon this'll work?
- We know they're greedy, they're fast, got a good chance.
- What about the police?
Are they showing up?
- No they young cop said it was too much of a long shot.
- But to give them a call if they happen to show.
- That'd be right.
- Doesn't matter, we'll handle them.
Bloody ripoff artists.
- Hey, what happens if they have guns?
- Don't reckon they'd be sneaking around if they had guns.
- Yeah, but you never know.
- You should've decked that Charlie bloke when you had the chance.
- This way we get the whole gang and the whole truckload of evidence.
- Guys.
(intense music) - What do we do now?
- We wait.
- Let me guess, you need another statement from Jodi.
- No.
- DNA sample?
Look, Frank, I know it must be very lonely out here, and all your friends are in the city, probably, any young girl's a temptation, but Jodi isn't interested, Frank.
- Jodi?
- Yeah.
Sorry to be so blunt.
- I'm not interested in your daughter, Meg.
- Well, that's good to hear.
- I'm interested in you.
I wanted to ask you out for quite a while.
I wasn't sure if you were available.
- I didn't... - [Dispatcher] Gungellan base to 16.
- 16 to Gungellan base, receiving.
- [Dispatcher] Yeah, possible break-in entry in progress.
- Copy, stand by.
I have to go.
Can we get back to this conversation?
- Sure.
- Here we go.
- They move fast, these guys.
- Maybe they didn't like mom's taste in furniture.
- Come on, Frank, where are you?
(intense music) Claire.
- Wait up, Claire.
- [Nick] Alex.
Alex!
- This was our idea.
Wasn't this our idea?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Let me do it.
They won't run over a helpless woman.
- Maybe not.
They'll run you over but?
- Good day?
- Oh, good day.
Suppose to be sanding floors.
Got the wrong house, I think.
(laughs) - That's not good.
- Yeah I'm running a bit late.
I think I took the wrong turn.
- Oh, you'd be looking for old Rex Haley's place, then.
- Yeah, that's the one.
- Yeah, yeah, it's about 20k up the road.
- Oh great.
Well, I'd best be off.
- Rex getting his floor sanded, is he?
- Sure it.
- That's a bit rough, cause old Rex has a concrete slab with vinyl tiles on it.
(car rolling) (intense music) - Here it comes.
- You don't think he's gonna ram us, do you?
- Alex won't be happy if he does.
- Is this who I think it is?
- Yep.
(truck honking) (brakes screeching) - This should be interesting.
- Yeah.
- I'm Tess McLeod, and you've got my mother's earrings.
- And I'm Claire McLeod, and you've got my father's desk, you bastard.
- Easy, Claire.
Step out, mate.
- I hope they smashed that blue Chinese vase.
(slow music) Charlie, isn't it?
Want to stand up, mate?
(bike engine roars) - Hi.
- Hi.
Heard they caught the bad guys.
- Aren't they all?
- Does that include Brick?
- Well, there's always one exception.
Did you want something?
- Yeah, I though I might check out your bed.
- Oh really?
- Well, you said it was no good, so I thought maybe the frame needed tightening.
- Yeah, maybe.
I'll give this back to you when I'm done.
(door shuts) (horse neighs) - That was Neil Thompson on the phone.
- When's he coming to collect him?
(horse neighs) - He's not.
I had a bit of a discussion with the bloke.
Talked him into leaving him with us.
Now the crooks are out of the picture.
- You know, I've been thinking.
There might be room on that sign after all for both our names.
- Sounds good.
- Yeah.
Claire Louise McLeod.
Alex... - Ryan's fine.
- No, no, fair's fair.
My whole name's up there, I want yours up there too.
- It's no big deal, Claire.
- What is your middle name, Alex?
- It's your business okay?
I'm a silent partner.
Silent partners don't need a middle name, end of story.
- It must be a bit of a doozy.
- Leave it out, will you - What is it?
Cedric?
- Ah, shut up.
- Vern, then?
- Get away.
- Archibald?
- Get away.
- What is it?
- Well, we can't transport the leftovers in a contaminated ute.
- No.
- And we don't have an organic tub to line it with.
- Well, we could just spread the rest of it around and give the chooks a good healthy feed.
- Yeah, organic chicken, that's a good idea.
I got a better one.
- Looks like the meat tray came in handy.
- No thanks, Meg.
- Claire, I've got something for you.
It's all we could manage on the bike, but Frank's organizing the rest.
- Dad's lamp.
Well, you know, it's good for book work late at night.
- Thanks Jodi.
- I see you borrowed my bike again.
- Yeah, thanks.
Nearly out of petrol, though.
- Thanks for telling us.
- Hey, no worries.
- You ready for another beer, Maid Marion?
(laughs) - Yeah, thanks.
- [Tess] What?
- It's his middle name.
(everyone laughs) - Yeah, it's Marion, right?
Yeah, go on, get it out of your system, have a good laugh.
- [Meg] Marion.
- Mom had a thing for John Wayne, right?
Apparently that was his real name.
- What's yours, then?
(laughs) - She also liked Gary Cooper movies.
- What's his real name?
- Gary.
(everyone laughs) - You got the short end of the stick there, didn't you mate?
(everyone laughs) - Had your meat now.
- Cheers to Marion.
(upbeat music) ♪ It's true ♪ ♪ That I love you ♪ ♪ That's right ♪ ♪ So very right ♪ ♪ But don't you break my heart ♪ ♪ No don't ♪ ♪ Although you might ♪ ♪ Cause I'm a hopeless case ♪ ♪ And you're a reckless waste ♪ ♪ I'm a hopeless case ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Watch your hays ♪ ♪ Cause I'm a hopeless case ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ But I'm a hopeless waste ♪ ♪ So sad ♪ ♪ Don't ever leave ♪ ♪ That's wrong ♪ ♪ Cause you're my dream ♪ ♪ Yes day ♪ ♪ I love your face ♪ ♪ Please stay ♪ ♪ And I'm on your case ♪ ♪ Cause you're a reckless waste ♪ ♪ And I'm a hopeless case ♪ ♪ You're a reckless waste ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ ♪ Kiss me now ♪ (thunderstorm sound) (galaxy sound effect)
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