Cleverman

Hairy!

Hands on your head!

- Stop it! - Come up!

You must submit to the CA!

Hands on your head!

- What happened? - Hey, hey, hey, it's okay, it's okay, you're fine.

You're fine. Baby's fine.

Have you run any tests?

Nobody's run anything.

I checked your vitals and hid you away in here.

Kept everybody else at arm's length...

Including your husband.

I can't go home.

Well, there's no rush.

No, I mean I can't go home.

It's not safe.

Charlotte, can we talk?

Give me a chance to apologize.

I hate arguing with you.

Are we ready to go if we need to?

We're prepped for fetal extraction.

And this group is being set up to mimic a subhuman womb.

The fetus will continue to develop normally?

Exactly as if it were in a healthy mother.

No danger to the mother with this procedure?

Any surgical intervention carries a certain risk,

But the risk is not significantly greater here.

Excellent.

Ah, you hear that, boy?

It's killing me.

Means the past is reaching out to you,

Trying to show you something.

It's tied to this land, boy...

And connecting to it will make you stronger.

Could you tell the past to be a little bit quieter?

It'll stop when you're strong enough to go home, boy.

Drink.

Now, drink this.

You'll get a warm, tingly feeling in your mouth,

But it'll go away soon.

Okay. Thank you.

Hello, aunty.

Now, you don't mind if we film, eh?

Of course, dear.

Is it just you today or is your family here?

Just me.

You from around here?

My people have always lived on this land.

Moved out west when the boats came.

Your mob stayed out there?

Most of them.

Can't be jumping around, hiding all the time.

To old for that these days.

21 is not that old.

Smooth-talker, aren't you?

Are you comfortable with the procedure?

Yes.

They said the blue stuff goes in

And the green comes out.

Sounds simple enough.

Simpler than what's going on out there.

You must've seen a lot in your time.

The thing I remember the most...

Was this little human girl.

My family told me

Never to make contact with the humans.

But I used to watch them whenever I got the chance.

She had long, curly hair.

She was wearing the most beautiful dress.

That dress was the whitest thing you've ever seen.

And it had a blue ribbon wrapped around her like a belt.

Well, you don't see much of those dresses anymore, aunty.

Drink up.

- Can I? - Come on.

Hey, what do you think you're doing?

I'm thirsty.

- What? - I'm thirsty.

Hey.

She's already had water today.

She'll learn the rules.

Just because Koen wants her here

Doesn't mean she gets special privileges.

Watch yourself.

My boy's just looking after people.

Come on, girl. Come with me.

You happy crashing with this mob?

Yeah.

I saw your son at the warehouse.

The blue light thing coming from his chest,

Smashing through steel like it was nothing.

Can you do it, too?

What are you looking at?

Something's happened.

Yeah, no kidding.

Everything's gone to shit.

Genocide is what's happening,

And my husband's in the middle of it.

Maybe he doesn't have a choice.

There's always a choice.

Why are you helping us?

Because you're decent people.

And Latani?

She's just like anybody else as far as I can see.

Very few people see hairies that way.

Well, most have never met one,

At least that they knew was a hairy.

I mean, that's why the government's been so successful

In stirring things up.

Nerida, there are some decent people in this city,

- And there is hope in that. - We need way more than hope.

Yeah.

But it only takes one person to show others

There's something worth being happy about.

From Mr. West.

Okay, no smiling for the photo.

This is for your ID.

Come on, no smile and we'll all be done.

Okay, good.

Hold it.

Congratulations.

Bye-bye, yani,

And hello to Gwen.

It's a beautiful name they've chosen for you.

My name is Gwen.

Trev, make sure you unpack that other truck.

And mop the floors when you're done.

Put your back into it, Trev.

Come on, Trev, today!

Confirm ID.

- ID confirmed. - Fingerprint and hand recognition standing.

This is Trevor. Would you mind having a couple of words with us?

We were hoping that you might be able to tell us

How it's been settling into Bennelong House.

Are you on your way home from work?

Excuse me.

So, before this city went to hell, what did you do for work?

What do you do?

A security guard.

- Pretend policeman. - I was once.

- And that's it? - Now I do security.

So, you left the police force because...?

Well, when all the new security measures were brought in by the government,

Hundreds of police were redeployed

Whether we liked it or not.

If we objected, we lost all our entitlements

And any other chance of government work.

I got security.

Come on, then, I'm gonna beat your hairy ass.

From here to their various places of work.

- That your bishop? - Yeah.

Could've sworn it was your knight before.

You gonna argue with an old lady?

And this is Trevor.

Would you mind having a few of words with us, Trevor?

Can you tell us how it feels now to be a human?

Trevor, can we have a look at your place?

Excuse me.

Observe the same customs,

And join in the hopes, beliefs, and loyalties

That are the very things that make us human

And set us apart from the animals.

I'll tell you two good things about the curfew.

What's that?

The city's dead quiet.

No cars, no sirens.

Nothing.

The second thing is...

All the city lights are out,

So you can finally see the stars.

Makes me feel like I'm back on country.

You see that big emu up there?

It's there, running full pelt.

All I see is the milky way and the southern cross.

You've gotta look at the dark clouds,

Not the stars.

All I see is stars.

You're powerful, boy.

Doesn't feel like it.

Don't have accuracy when I use the blue blast thing.

It's not a weapon.

It works like a weapon.

It's a power not to be messed with, boy.

Anyone who's caught in its blast

Can no longer move on from this life.

So, what, they become immortal?

Opposite.

They lose their essence.

Their soul?

Once they die, that's it.

They can't join their ancestors,

They don't move on.

They simply cease to exist.

So, there's no trace of them left?

They've been obliterated?

- Slade? - Mm.

What's the point in having this gift

If you can't use it the way you need to?

Stop forcing things.

Allow the powers to come through.

- You can't go out there. - I'm going to Bennelong House.