Sea Patrol

Do you hear there? Captain speaking. SITREP.

We're evacuating six Australian aid workers.

Intel reports insurgent groups are active in the area

and are terrorising the local population and foreigners alike.

All non-essential personnel proceeding on the upper decks

are to wear body armour.

I remind all personnel of our rules of engagement.

We are not to fire unless fired upon.

Speed and efficiency is the key here, team.

Let's get in, get our people and get out.

Stand by to go alongside.

Upper deck sentries, take your position.

Standard 30. Altering 025.

OK. Yes, understood. Stand by for a moment, please.

Sir, locals are blocking their vehicle

and some of them are armed.

They'll have to find a way to push through.

We need them on that wharf in five minutes. Yes, sir.

HORN HONKS

GUNFIRE

Bow thruster's showing high temp alarm, sir.

That's not what I need to be hearing

as I'm about to put us alongside, Charge.

Is it the thruster or the sensor?

My money's on the sensor but, you know,

Bill Gates here'd probably have something to say about that.

Alright, get someone down to the bow thruster compartment

and check that sensor personally.

Make it fast.

Nav, we're gonna talk about that.

That was supposed to be fixed. Yes, sir.

Hello... Sir, I've lost them. Do you want to keep trying?

Bet they wish they'd listened to their travel advisory.

I can see them.

Sir, they've made it.

Sir, thruster's online.

Roger.

SHELL WHISTLES

That was a mortar. Clear the upper decks.

All personnel, clear the upper decks at the rush.

Stand fast, cable party.

Nav, get us out of mortar range but maintain visual contact.

MORTAR FIRES, SHELL WHISTLES

Account for all the crew, give me a damage report.

Sir.

SAS are flying out from Townsville for the extraction.

Townsville's at least six hours away, sir.

I know.

How are we going locating that mortar?

This is roughly where the shells impacted.

They could have been fired

from anywhere above the shoreline in this area.

How much of that's guesswork?

Er, 60/40. If they fire again, I can be more accurate.

Anything, Spider?

Just lots of jungle so far, sir.

They're volunteer aid workers. Leave them alone.

You know what they say about best intentions.

What?

The road to hell is paved with them.

Shut up.

Contact. Bearing 330, range 1,200 yards, sir.

Acquire target.

Typhoon aimer target.

Aimer target confirmed, sir.

Take it easy. Come on, guys, there's no need for this.

We just want to get on the boat and get out of here.

Permission to fire typhoon, sir.

I just wanna give you something, alright?

I'll just give you my watch.

Just a little something to go along with.

Alright? Thanks very much, guys.

Sir!

Hold fire.

We're within our rules of engagement, sir.

Can't exacerbate this situation any further, X.

Have the RHIBs prepped and ready to go.

You're gonna have to run the gauntlet of that mortar.

If it fires again, it'll be taken out.

Stand by to launch both RHIBs.

Away sea boat, away sea boat.

Stand by to launch starboard RHIB.

Away sea boat, away sea boat.

Stand by to launch port RHIB.

Personally, I would have blown that mortar into next week.

Put your weapon down.

DROP YOUR WEAPON!

Put your weapon down...

OK, stop, stop!

We are the Australian Navy. These are Australian citizens.

We will make way and you will let us

take them aboard our ship.

Lower your weapons.

Lower your weapons!

Alright, put your weapons down. Lower them.

Don't let 'em go. Right, make way.

Keep 'em here. Make way.

Make way. Make way.

This island belongs to me, woman.

Go away!

OK, Buffer, we don't wanna provoke the situation.

Show him you mean him no harm.

Don't let 'em go.

All we want is our people and we will go.

You make way.

OK, let's move. Let's move.

Ray Walsman. How do you do?

I want you to form into a tight group, gentlemen,

and start moving forward - we'll take you to the ship.

Start moving forward. Keep the pace up.

Start moving forward. Move as fast as you can toward the boat.

You buy us.

We mean you no harm. We go.

We go.

OK, get them moving, Swain.

We go.

You don't belong here, Aussies.

This is ours.

Follow me, gentlemen.

I'll find you somewhere comfortable to relax.

Mr Walsman, this is our Commanding Officer

of the 'Hammersley', Lieutenant Commander Flynn.

Very glad to meet you, sir.

Oh, please, call me Mike. Welcome aboard.

My friends and I would like to thank you

for getting us out of there.

It took some guts what you did up on that wharf.

Stood right up to them, your executive officer did.

So did you, from what I saw.

Oh, well, that's thanks to years of my boardroom brawling.

What kind of aid work are you gentlemen doing here,

if you don't mind me asking?

Businessmen, mostly.

And, when we're not advising the government on economic reform,

we're fishing out their stocks of marlin.

It's a shame they don't realise you're here to help.

Yeah, well, most bad things in this country

come from somewhere else.

I can't blame them for being uncertain of our intentions.

We all here?

Swain. Where's Swain?

Oh, he's... Here, boss. Sorry.

Anzac bickies, anyone?

Oh, thanks, Bomber. They're still warm.

Fresh from the oven. Smell's been driving me crazy.

You know we have six extra guests for dinner?

Yes, sir.

Tonight's a choice of a nice red prawn curry

served on jasmine rice,

or I've got some spag bol for the plebs.

And what's the Chefo's recommendation?

Uh, that'd be spag bol for you, Bob.

Is she settling in alright?

Short fuse.

She won't cook chips, boss.

No, well, that's gonna have to change.

I like her chicken she did the other night. It was good.

Anyway, well done today. All departments.

It was a tough nut, and excellent outcome.

Make sure you pass that on. Thanks.

Sir.

Nav, you wanna talk to me about that bow thruster.

Yes, sir... You let me down on that.

Techs were supposed to look at it on Tuesday.

I'm sorry, sir. We lost power to the galley fridges.

Since we stood to lose all our perishables,

that took priority.

Keeping the beer cold took priority

over being able to accurately manoeuvre the ship?

Sir, I signed off on it.

We're too far from home to be resupplied,

and I concurred that keeping the ship in meals

was more important.

We need to bolster electronics.

I've spoken to NAVCOM

and persuaded them to give us an op relief.

That would be enormously helpful, sir.

Well, we pick him up tomorrow

when we drop our guests off on HMAS 'Melbourne'.

I'm sure you'll put him to good use.

One last thing - Canberra is in the process

of formalising a peacekeeping arrangement

with the Samaru government.

So we can expect to be back here over the coming months!

Great! That'd be the Solomons all over again.

'Hammersley', this is 'Melbourne'.

Boat transfer, my port-side. Over.

Thanks!

If you're ever by Truman Island, drop in for a drink!

Will do.

Excuse me, sir, I've ordered our other RHIB to be launched

to pick up our op relief.

Very good.

ET's being posted with us?

Good to have the old gang back together.

Wouldn't you say?

Yep.

Let's go!

It's the creature from the deep!

Well, I heard you fellas couldn't do without me!