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Where are your gaiters?

I fucking forgot.

Come here.

Thank you, husband.

Marriage.

I don't think you're going to be able to walk anywhere like that.

I'm fine.

Tanya and I can finish it off.

We should be able to handle it.

Us two are old pros.

Yeah, I know you are.

It's just... it's meant to be really beautiful over at Monument.

The whole fucking island looks the same, to be honest.

You want anything?

Latte?

Croissant?

No?

Is she okay?

Yeah, she's fine.

That must stay for long before they leave.

Blooming Plateau, 22 kg.

Monument Harbour, 24 kg.

Cossack Ridge, 22 kg.

And Smoothwater Bay, 24 kg.

With an additional 8 kg of Broderfugger poison in the intertidal zone.

And this is High Rabbit.

Hello?

You there, New Zealand?

Coming through now, Sarah.

There must be a storm coming.

Okay, I'm moving my queen to F6.

You've been thinking about that move for a while.

I've got all the time in the world.

So that's the whole island covered now?

Are you guys celebrating?

Depends what you send down on this flyboat.

Okay.

Last lot.

I hope they haven't drunk it.

There are going to be at least four days in this weather.

Speech, Tonya.

Come on.

To my lovely crewmates.

To those weeks of sub-antibody.

Tugged at freezing rain.

I say...

Fuck you, I'm going home!

Woo!

Pete.

So whatever brought you down to this godforsaken dot of Earth...

for the next six months, we say... No, mate.

Hi there, mate.

Welcome, bro.

A few grand rules.

Don't fuck off the sea lions.

That's for sure.

No shoes inside.

No shoes inside.

And clean up after yourself.

Anything else, sir?

Don't be a wanker.

Are you going to miss us?

No.

I'm bloody homesick.

I reckon you need a soul patch.

Yeah.

Why don't you come back on the boat with me?

I'm going to worry about you.

It's just a winter.

Are you happy just being his acolyte?

Stop.

Stop it.

I know you think you know him, but you don't.

Another one.

Fuck me.

Hey.

Hey.

What's happening back in New Zealand?

I don't really read the papers.

Is that Antarctica that way?

Yeah, it is.

That way?

I mean roughly.

It's good to have you here, man.

Ten years ago, this island had everything.

Cats, rats, rabbits, pigs, feral sheep eating the grass.

Well, we killed the cats.

The poison will deal with the rabbits.

Now our job is to monitor the island, take its temperature.

We're going to see this whole ecosystem shift back

to the way it was before humans ever touched it.

Down at Disappointment Inlet, there's been a 25% drop in chlorophyll levels.

The hillside's getting eaten away, Glen.

We should call this stuff in now?

I'm taking care of it.

The island was too big for hand fading.

We need to get choppers down there before winter.

You're going to have to trust me.

You know, in a hundred years, when the polar caps have gone, the population of

the world will be a tenth of what it is today.

Worst case scenario.

Best case?

Best case?

Best case is that we wipe each other out entirely and there's no one left at all.

Sorry, Pete.

Glen loves to indoctrinate everyone he meets.

I'm sorry, darling.

I didn't realise it bored you.

I'm not planning on having kids anytime soon, then.

God, no.

It's arguably one of the most egotistical things you can do.

All these little visions of yourself running everywhere.

Hey there, Perseverance.

Um, didn't expect to hear from you for a while.

Some troubling results have come in.

Uh, okay.

I'll just find a pen knowing of.

No doubt.

Sarah!

There's a front coming.

We need to secure the nets.

I need you and Pete to go.

Me?

Hey, what happened to you?

Do you have something to change into?

I didn't bring any extra clothes.

A raincoat?

Okay.

Well, there's a lookout about an hour away.

Do you think you can make it that far?

I don't feel the cold.

Of course you don't.

Keep moving.

This way.

I'll wait here for the steam to pass.

Shit, Pete.

You're like ice.

You gotta take that off.

Come on.

Come on.

Sit down.

Try and stay awake.

Tell me how old you are.

23.

I told you.

You asked me something.

Why'd you marry Cleen?

I don't know.

I took his class at uni.

He opened my eyes to a new way of thinking.

He's the most interesting person I've ever met.

And the age thing?

Do you like it here?

It can be hard.

Sometimes you feel like you're the only person left on earth.

I like that.

It makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger.

You sound like him.

All our problems.

All the shit we worry about.

Our lives.

None of that matters here.

That's horrible.

Beautiful.

Are you hungry?

Fucking starving.

I've got protein.

Fuck off.

Come on.

No.

Here you go.

Yum.

It's so good.

No.

You're going to eat it.

Just try a little bit.

No.

I'm not eating it.

Don't.

Get it off me.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Oh man.

Ugh.

What?

Shit came out of the radio.

Yeah.

You should be able to fix it.

Once you clear this step out of the way.

There's things to do.

A huge storm last night.

I can't believe what that did to the radio.

Yeah.

Hard for you to report home now.

Just disappointment in Lent.

In the creek.

Landover.

All those plants absolutely stripped and scarred.

It's under control, Sarah.

It's not the end of the world.

The point of science is that you accept failure as an extra bit of data.

The fact is, the Marksman's not working.

We can't kill every rabbit on this island by ourselves.

I don't know what's wrong with that radio.

I put it back together and it's...

I'll fix the goddamn radio when I get a minute, OK?

What's funny?

I think I'm pregnant.

Have you told Glenn?

He's arguing with my sister.

One of the most egotistical things you can do, having

these little visions of yourself running everywhere.

Little human vermin.

What

are you so happy about?

Pests.

Hey!

Hey!

Surprise.

Surprise.

Happy birthday to us.

We found all this Christmas shit in the spare room.

Thank you...

for this.

This is nice.

And...

also, I...

made some...

Christmas greatest.

Hey, hun.

What do you call a letter that goes up the chimney at Christmas?

It doesn't make a noise.

I think you have to make it yourself.

Bang!

Blackmail.

What?

What do you call a letter that goes up the chimney at Christmas?

Blackmail.

You don't have a hat.

Do one with Glenn.

Mmm.

Do one with me.

Bang!

You only say bang if you win.

Ha, ha, ha.

Bang!

Bang!

Ha, ha,

ha.

Bang!

Hey, we're gonna take advantage of this break in the weather.

Bowmont shakes and this thing up.

Bouncy.

Bouncy shakes... and this thing up in the cliffs.

Do you wanna come?

No, you guys go.

Len?

Where's Pete?

You need to fix that radio right now.

I'll help.

The sooner we get helicopters down here, the better.

Sarah, there's no way that he would have survived in the water all this time.

This is a person.

He's my friend.

You need to report this.

I once had to share a tent with a corpse.

That's what we sign up for.

If we don't get helicopters down here soon, that's us trapped for the winter.

Okay, so that's what this is about.

So you can get back to your drone life in your drone city with all the other shells.

And keep sucking the life out of this planet.

You know what's really funny about your whole humanity's bad philosophy?

You need some loser to listen to your bullshit.

You lonely, lazy, bit of shit!

Fix the radio!

No!

Never!

Why?

Because I'm not going back.

What are you doing?

Untie me.

Sarah, untie me.

No!

No!

Sarah!

Please!

Stop!

Shut up!

Right here.

Here's your lower intestine.

A stab wound.

Yes.

It will hurt, but it shouldn't cause too much pain.

No medical attention within three or four days will

generally result in painful infections and death.

There's just something worth saving here, okay?

I'm sorry.

You need to fix the radio for me so we can go home.

To my lovely crewmates.

To those...

weeks of sub-Antarctic freezing rain, I say...

Fuck you, I'm going home!

Rello sucks her heart.

They wanted to make sure you got this.

Bad news?

Pen bushes, you know.

How's the kid?

It's just a kid.

Seems a bit useless.

Yeah, well...

You want to take a bit of time with him.

He's keen enough.

Wants to learn.

So it's that Antarctica, that way?

Yeah, it is.

No, no, no.

That way.

I meant roughly.

It's good to have you here, man.

Bloody difficult to get poison into them.

Didn't think there was many of them left.

This one's a real survivor.

They were introduced to kill the rats.

Un-fucking-believable.

What are you going to do with it?

You want to do it?

What, kill it?

Yeah.

You've killed an animal before, haven't you?

Of course.

Well, you can take it back to the hut.

Kill it humanely, but...

one of us will have to bring the cage back.

Exactly.

The good shit, eh?

On the boat on the way down, we...

we passed the pot of whales.

Ah.

Beautiful.

And I was wondering, like...

what happens to whales when they die?

Do they just sink away to the bottom?

It's called whale fall.

See...

the beautiful thing... when a whale dies is that...

its carcass can sustain an entirely new ecosystem.

Yeah.

Thousands of organisms can live and propagate off it.

It's trippy.

Evolution has led us to a dead end.

All the empirical evidence suggests... points to us being...

a complete utter failure as a species.

You know?

And yeah... we keep getting told that we're somehow special.

By who?

Oh, the fucking...

television, internet, radio, books, music, you know?

Everything that mediates between us... and the outside world out there.

This fucking thing here.

Fucking stupid thing.

Yeah!

I'm the king of this island.

Huh.

What?

I die...

if the island dies with me.

Okay.

You sent me to spy on me.

Is the old fella not up yet?

I cannot take your rearing to go.

Not a rabbit so dear.

General Sherman... sails straight into those rocks in the 1860s.

The survivors...

men and women... they lived around here.

They ate... seals and grass and... the odd bird.

Lived like that for two years... before building a boat and...

sailing to Stewart Island.

They all made it.

They were the lucky ones.

About 20 miles up the coast...

another ship was wrecked... around the same time.

Nineteen men washed up.

A year later...

only three left.

They'd eaten each other.

That's why there were only three left.

Go ahead, mate.

I've been trying to get in touch for a while, Glenn.

It looks like the rabbit population has not been affected whatsoever...

by the hand baiting.

Over.

Well, it's way too early to judge that.

Sarah's figures are damning.

The soil...

Sarah rang those through.

Yep, it's a disaster.

And you've made it worse... by deliberately ignoring your responsibility.

You've got the review notice, I take it.

Sarah!

There's a front coming.

We need to secure the nets.

I need you and Pete to go.

OK.

This is a trophic cascade.

What's that?

It's when the top predatory level of an ecosystem is taken away.

It causes an imbalance.

The whole system could collapse.

The entire island could become extinct.

This is not a trophic cascade.

The feral cats are wiped out.

Without them as predators, the rabbits are thriving.

So the poison drop's not working.

The point of science is that you accept failure as an extra bit of data.

I don't know.

We can't kill every rabbit on this island by ourselves.

Hey, Pete.

G'day, man.

What you doing?

Sarah's pretty worried about this tropical cascade.

It's trophic.

Huh.

You should feel a lot better if you've got that radio fixed up.

So what do you do in dock again?

All sorts.

Stewart Island, eh?

Yeah.

So you must know Danny Kramer.

Oh, actually, he probably left before you were there.

How old are you?

Twenty.

So you probably didn't know him.

No.

We should get back.

There's a storm coming.

Who is this?

Huh?

Who is this?

I don't know.

I've been looking at that radio for Sarah.

There's a regulator missing.

It works as an antenna-o-antenna.

Someone's been into a real good.

You stay away from Sarah.

Stitch yourself, old man.

You didn't forget Sarah's birthday, did you?

Hey.

I need that passport back.

Let's go for a walk later, huh?

There's something I want to show you.

Do you have the passport?

What?

Yeah, we're gonna take advantage of this break in the wither.

But, um, Beaumont shakes and this thing up... Bounty.

Bounty shakes and this thing up on the cliffs.

You wanna come?

Nah, you guys go.

I won't fall in.

I won't commit... Don't touch me!

Fucking touch me.

Give me the passport and I won't say anything scary about the radio.

There's your fucking passport.

If you're stupid enough to go in there, I hope you fucking drown.

Pete!

Pete!

Nothing happened with me and Pete.

He deserved to die.

You have no idea who he was, lying little shit.

Did she kill him?

Shut up.

Shut up.

You need to fix the radio for me so we can go home.

Be fixed?

Are you gonna be sleeping over the window with a fucking corpse?

Why didn't you tell me that?

Leave me alone.

Leave me alone.

Just let me look at her.

Get out.

Stop your moping.

Let's just drop this asshole off.

That water pump's rooted.

You're going to have to do it by hand while I start it up again.

How far have we come?

About a quarter of the way.

Can I help with anything?

Nah.

This useless prick's going to clean out the bilge soon.

How long you done there for?

Ah, six months.

Just a short study.

What's it like?

The island?

Yeah.

Fuck no.

You don't work on the boat normally?

I got the second from my old job.

Dad was my brother-in-law.

Helped me out.

Nice day at family, eh?

Not when they're pricks like mine.

Not when they're pricks like mine.

I'm gonna worry about you.

It's just a winter.

Stop.

I just been with everyone.

Stop.

Stop it.

I know you think you know and you don't.

Another one.

Fuck me.

Get your hands off me.

You can't boss me around anymore.

You should stick to yourself.

Do whatever they tell you.

You alright?

We were just having a discussion.

Oh yeah?

What about?

Oh, you know.

Chance and necessity and which drives evolutionary biology.

Well there's no chance in nature.

None at all.

Take your fucking boots off and sign.

Who are you really?

Just a biology book.

What's it about?

There's chance and then there's necessity.

But both of them work together to drive evolutionary biology.

It's like us.

We're a combination of accident and design.

Something's fun.

How'd you get the job on the island?

Been working for Doc for years.

Stewart Island.

Southland.

Started off volunteering, weeding, replanting goat culls.

Goat kills?

Why?

I don't know.

Are you interested?

Because they're pretty selective about who they take down.

Hey bro.

Yeah.

They're good shit, eh?

On the boat on the way down we...

we passed a pot of whales.

Hmm.

Beautiful.

And like I was...

I was wondering what...

what happens when they die.

You know they...

sink away to the bottom?

Well...

Well...

It's called...

whale fall.

The beautiful thing about when a whale dies is that

its carcass can sustain an entirely new ecosystem.

Thousands of... organisms can live... propagate on it.

I'm not eating that.

No way.

No.

You just stick to yourself.

Do whatever they tell you.

You're not like these people.

No.

Mmm.

Yum Petey.

It's delicious.

Cheers.

It's our birthday soon.

Is it?

Cause I'm...

thinking of milking the sea lion.

You know.

Baking a cake.

Good luck.

Oh.

These hands sure know how to make a sea lady happy.

Hey!

Who's this?

Huh?

Who is this?

Stay away from Sarah.

Drink up.

Last night of civilized company.

Have I done something to annoy you?

You catch me if I fall?

Don't be stupid.

Road to Southern Lights.

Ricky!

Ricky!

What's going on?

He leapt off the fucking boat.

Oh, he's a good swimmer?

Don't think the only thing he is good at.

No, he's pissed.

He hasn't come up yet.

I can't swim.

You're on a boat.

She's on a boat.

I don't need to fucking swim.

Yo, I wasn't planning on falling off.

Fuck.

The fuck is he?

Hey, Pete!

You stupid idiot.

I think I need a hand.

Oh, fuck off.

Pull out the ladder.

I can't.

I can't get up.

Fuck you.

Please.

Did you call it in?

You're joking, right?

With what we've got on board.

There'll be cops all over this boat.

I'll go.

Okay.

I'll go in this place.

I'll keep my head down.

Pick me up in a month.

I'll disappear.

Get lost.

No one will know.

Okay.

You fuck it up.

You're going to prison for a very long time.

You're gonna be a dead.

Didn't she tell you?

There's a boat here.

There's a boat here.

What?

We need to leave.

I thought I killed you.

I hurt him.

He's gonna die.

I have to get him.

Wait.

Take him down there.

Are you coming?

Tell him I'm dead.

He tried to look for me but I was washed away.

You can't stay here.

There's nothing for me there.

When does it get dark?

April.

Jesus.

The sky is huge.

The infinitely big is the same as the infinitesimally small.

It's all a matter of perspective.