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There's too much choice and not enough time to fall.

Aiming for the head, get down.

You're the only one. Get down!

Lambert, Adolphe, Jacques, Quintelet.

Say what?

He's the dude that invented the IQ test.

To work out who was smart and who wasn't. Do you want to know why?

You're probably going to tell me anyway.

He made a whole heap of people do a test.

Most did okay.

Not great, not bad, but somewhere in the middle.

A small number of people did brilliantly.

But they were the extremely brainy end of the season.

Then there's people like you who balls up.

They go to the other end of the curve.

What, me?

The thick end, hey?

You can't escape it.

Yeah, that's one story all over.

Thick and thick.

Peace?

Oh, we might as well talk in here since everyone else is going.

Ah, you and Gavin playing teacher's pet again today, are we?

You know what, Ryan, you've got a really big zit.

Just there, yeah.

Yeah, you might want to do something about that.

So, Heath, just wanted to check in and see how things were going for you.

Oh, yeah, things are going great.

Excellent. Sure.

I thought there might be something up because you're about that far from

failure. And in my experience, there are kids who are failing because they're

too busy messing about, and then there are the kids who are messing about

because they're failing.

Maybe they're struggling because they're too embarrassed to ask for help.

Why are you awake?

Grey knob.

It'd be cranky.

Sure would be.

And if we didn't have school, we'd probably get to enjoy it.

and grain. It was freaking out.

There.

I'm the second branch.

Yep. It's a bird.

Oh, there's something wrong with it. It wanted me to get it. Up you go.

Well, maybe not me exactly, but someone. It named who it wanted to rescue it.

Oh, God.

Don't climb up, Matt.

If you climb up, it scares them. You need something they can perch on.

You're the tallest. Hang on. Where's Heath? We need to get this on camera.

He was up earlier checking the surf report at Green Knob.

Heath wouldn't have been stupid enough to go up there before school.

No, so I'm sure he's hiding under his bed.

Go grab his camera fly.

He won't mind.

A little more to the left, Ed. Do you want to do it?

Well, you're nowhere near it.

Careful. Watch it.

Someone get a pillowcase.

Got a towel? Not good enough. The clothes will get stuck in the thread.

Here you go.

Gently, Ed. Gently. Get him, fly.

Well done.

Oh, look at it.

It's so cute.

Um, it's 20 to 9, people.

Did you hear that? Time for school.

The birdie's not coming to school.

Oh, sorry, Hayes.

It's okay.

Ow!

Why did you do that for?

Because he shouldn't be here.

Fly, I know you're angry, but can you just take a peek?

Just check that he's okay.

It's obviously someone's pet.

Maybe it stepped a while ago, so it's either hungry, thirsty.

Let's try and give it some water.

Just drop something to its feet.

Can you just show me?

Honestly, Perry, you're such a wuss.

Here we go.

See? Morning, all.

Take him back.

Well, maybe since you know how to do it, you should just keep going.

Can someone from each group please bring me the results from last week's survey?

Probably also a good time to remind you that tomorrow is D -Day for the major

assignment.

Thank you, ladies.

Maybe you can remind Heath that it's worth more than half the marks for the

term. If he doesn't hand it in, it's guaranteed.

Yeah, he's, um... I haven't checked the roll today, so I might run out of time

and not get to do it at all.

All right, I care, I care, I care so deeply.

Look, it's easy for you, Super Rain. You'll spend like two minutes of the

assignment and watch videos all night.

Am I wrong?

I already finished.

What? So what's all this groper study and the researching and scribbling? It's

just something extra. It's not for school.

Give me those.

I need to see what could drive a boy to do extravoluntary, non -compulsory work.

Yeah, she's all right. It's the hay, the brown ones are the girls. I think

there's something wrong. They're not breeding.

So you've done quite a bit of work on this, yeah?

Enough to whip up into a science assignment?

Forget it. It's not up for donation.

You got another plan?

No, I was just going to leave it up to the universe.

Because somehow things always work out.

Worst plan I ever heard.

Unless someone wanted to help me out at the last minute.

I know, because I'm great at brainstorming. Yeah, and if anyone was

Hope you fellas left me something to kill.

Give it a rest, man. You get so dull so far.

Something big and blue and good to eat.

You touch those gropers, I go straight to the ranger.

Shaking in my boots.

Ah, let's get out of here before the tone degenerates any further.

Moron. Don't waste your time, Matt.

Come on, we've got work to do.

So, you need to give an example to show how when you change the chemical input,

you get a resulting chemical change in the outcome.

I don't know, Mr. Matt.

My brain's gone surfing. Come on, man. It's not rocket science.

Get away, you horrible beast!

It just came at me out of nowhere, and it headed straight for my face.

How on earth did it get in here?

Um, I... Well, we found it this morning.

I made a box for it. I don't understand how it got out.

It's lost, Julie, and I know it's got a few behaviour problems, but it can be

kind of sweet too.

It's not staying.

You're going to have to make some posters, ring up the radio station and

on the lost and found, whatever.

But that bird's home is not here.

The answers are all there. Just make sure you change the examples, all right?

You saved my life.

I'm going to have to thank you.

Get off me, you weirdo.

You can finish up in the kitchen if that can thank me, all right? Let me get

some sleep. Your wish.

Too hard.

I'll never get this done.

Unless I could copy.

Not too much. Just a few lines, just to get me started.

Yeah, this is the way to go.

Why didn't I think of this earlier?

Who taught you that one, huh?

Dad is watching you.

Yeah? He's watching you too.

And he's hungry.

And you don't look that much different from a chicken, my friend.

Right, so I know I shouldn't have copied.

and I definitely can't hand it in.

But what am I going to do instead?

Yeah, I'm definitely feeling it a little off -color.

What do you think?

Brilliant, Anna. Yeah, excellent.

Oh, coming through.

It is very good.

But I don't think you captured the fish's streak.

Good. The sooner it's up, the better.

Morning, Heath. Are you all right, Heath?

Oh, you look awful.

Did you get finished?

They're sort of... Heath?

What's the matter?

Heath! Oh, he's not a well boy.

Excellent stuff.

No more video, do you think?

No, cos the whole point of taking today off was to do some proper work on the

assignment.

I know. If I bring it in here, I can do some during the boring bits, eh?

Multi -task.

Hello?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we found a bird.

No, it's yellow and grey.

Yeah, um, no, I'm pretty sure that it's not pink and grey.

Sorry, yeah, sorry, I'm just looking for something.

Yes, I hope yours comes back.

You haven't seen my assignment, have you?

Red folder?

He's really thick.

He's nauseous and almost vomiting.

Almost vomiting, eh?

This is my assignment, and this is Heath.

It's starting to get on my nerves.

You need a lesson.

Yeah?

Be afraid, mate.

I've got a stinking headache.

You know, I thought something cold might help.

Hello there.

What happened to you?

Some of its feathers are missing.

It's a plucker. You can shout that out. I was with it all day. The bird

definitely has some emotional issues.

Hmm, could be stress.

Sometimes they pluck when they're lonely and they want a mate.

Harry.

I didn't do anything.

Something's got it going.

It's the fridge.

Edge, open the fridge again.

Crazy bird. How weird is that?

Why would it be terrified of the fridge?

Julie, you changed your mind.

I did no such thing. It's a temporary accommodation only.

Mum wants her back in a week.

You're the expert. I'm cooking in case you didn't notice. Someone else can give

us what it takes.

Yeah, do we give it a name or is that just too much bonding? How about mongrel

features?

What about wax head?

I like it.

Wax head it is. Yeah, wax head.

Oh, hey, I'm...

By any strange twist of fate, did you, I don't know, move or hand in my

assignment? Yeah, I handed it in.

Yeah, filled as much.

Do you know what this is about?

Uh, yeah, maybe.

Save it for the office, boys.

Would either of you care to explain the startling similarity of the work?

First off, this isn't Matt's fault.

It's entirely my fault. You stole Matt's assignment.

No, he didn't. I gave it to him. You gave it to me so I could get a sense of

inspiration. Stop it, Hayes. Why?

Look, you gave me your assignment because you felt sorry for me. Be that

may, he has done you both a disservice.

And cheating, in all its ugly forms, will not be tolerated in this school.

Two weeks detention, rubbish collection for three weeks, and you each give a

talk in the year seven about the peril of cheating.

I'm also expecting that Mr Simmons will be deducting significant points from the

only thing you do seem to care about.

Ten points each from your serving scores.

I should probably make you two walk.

Suppose I'll give you a lift.

I'm walking.

I know it was stupid to copy. I figured that out.

That's why I pretended to be sick.

Where are you going?

I need those marks.

Why? Come on, you know you're going to pass the year easily.

I know you need the serving points, but science? I don't understand why science

has anything to do with the world circuit. You don't understand full stop.

And if I thought there was any point in explaining it to you, I would. I didn't

know you were going to hand it in without checking. I'm going and handing

friend's assignment so they wouldn't lose marks because I thought they were

sick. What an idiot I was, huh?

Pete.

Mr. Salmon.

I just wanted to see if this situation was irreversible.

Or whether or not we could make up the marks?

You want to do it?

Well, you're nowhere near it.

But anybody care to explain?

We're going to get the camera fixed.

I'm really sorry.

Yeah, well, I kind of needed the video today.

Why today?

I was going to take Matt's group of research.

You know, those fishy things.

Thought if I could tie it all together with some footage, maybe I could get

marks back for him.

You could always write about it.

Doesn't work for me.

Well, I thought it was always, fuck, it's not easy.

Like it is for you guys.

It can't be that bad, Heath, or you would have held way before this.

Maybe it's just a confidence thing.

No, it's not.

You know, I'm great at getting people to explain things, so I don't have to read

it. And you fake, and you joke, and that doesn't work, I guess.

I guess you cheat.

Oh, go to an alternative school.

You tie two sticks together and call it an essay.

Two sticks?

I want a still camera and I'll ten.

Took a photo of two sticks and called it an essay.

Have you still got the camera?

Wouldn't it be easier just to photocopy it?

I don't happen to have a photocopier on me now, do I, Fly?

I don't know what you think you're doing, but you do not touch my stuff!

You've already done enough harm. Look, Matt, I was just... It's not up for

discussion, okay? You touch my stuff again, I'm going to go to Simmo and get

of us moved.

You don't understand, all right?

Probably not.

But there's some stuff that you don't understand either.

You're the most moronic, selfish, idiotic excuse for a human being.

You're going to put that fish back where you found it and you're going to do it

now. It's just a fish, man.

It's not just a fish. They're protected.

Give it over.

Oh, you like you can talk.

You're busted cheating and you reckon you can tell me what I can and can't do.

It's dying.

Give us it.

Come on, give it over.

Give me the net, Ryan.

Great. Now it's really dead.

Get out of here, Ryan, or we'll chuck you down there.

Forget it, hey.

It didn't die from the impact. It'll run out of air before you get down there.

Come on.

I'm under no illusions now.

How can I see when I am blind?

To all the table folks now I sure do

make it kind of tough Not gonna make me change my ways I've

come too far for that now Oh

Now a number of options occur to me, hey?

You've had a major transformation overnight and become a dedicated

B, alien visitation, and this is what the little green men left.

Or C, Matt's friendship for you remains intact enough for him to do all this,

and your job is to play courier.

Well, um, you know what?

You decide.

These are brilliant.

I never knew you could make guts look great.

What did you chop them open for?

Oh, because he had a scar.

You know, Matt could all work out why the group was so old, so I thought if I

looked inside, maybe I could get some answers.

He'd been speared ages ago, and my guess is they got him in the reproductive

department. So it couldn't breed?

No, I guess not.

I could be wrong, but baby gropers would say that I was right.

Now, what would I know?

A fair bit, by the sound of it.

Oh, he took pictures of Wax Head too?

Oh, yeah, I have to finish off the roll.

Yeah, cool.

Mr.

Sabin wants you to swing by school to talk to you about some assignment.

This is like hundreds of babies after years of them not producing at all. Yep,

that's what I said in the assignment.

What a son.

You went ahead and made an assignment out of the groper data.

I was trying to get to Mark that for you.

And you included all the stuff about there only being one male, and that when

cocks it, one of the females changes sex and goes from brown to blue, and the

fact that the old guy's death might mean they start to breed again?

Yeah, I got it all.

I don't get how you can whip up something like this in a day, but you

like mental when it's an official assignment.

Yeah, give me a groper to chop up, I'll tell you how it works. Give me a book

about it, I'm never going to understand it. Wow, I hope you never need to

understand me.

17 out of 20.

You realise I've never got 17 out of 20 for anything in my life?

Yeah, I know, but sometimes friends have to give struggling friends a leg up

when they can, because I guess that's what friends are for.

Come on.

Come on.

There's too much joy and not enough time To fall one more

Aiming for your head to get