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- We've got company.

- Party's over.

- - Sorry. - - What for?

- I hit a guy.

- The party's over. - - I literally just said that.

- Yeah, and I thought it was cool.

- Oi! Stop right there!

Oi!

- Get the jeep!

Look out!

- Get in!

- It's locked!

- Pull him in!

- I'm trying. His body is all slippery.

- Pull him in!

- - They're getting closer. - - I think I have a plan.

- I think it just might be crazy enough to work.

- I haven't said the plan yet.

- Yeah, I'm just predicting that the plan is gonna be good, but also crazy.

- I guess. Thank you for having faith in the plan.

- I would like to hear the plan before I share my opinion on the plan.

- Grab that can of paint from the boot.

We're gonna get this thing driving itself.

- - The plan was good. - - The plan was good.

We better get moving, though.

The car's gonna crash out at the end of this road.

- Where's Isabel? - Uh, she's gone to Auckland.

- Forever? - No, no, just for four days.

Here we go. Open the dossier.

Last night, Sue snapped some documents.

And one name kept coming up.

Jim Marshall. He's a politician.

Leader/only member of the Unite party.

Tomorrow morning, on the 10.30 train from Wellington to Auckland,

Jim Marshall is planning to meet Dennis Green.

Next photo.

As we know, Dennis is the head of the AIS, which stands for?

- Australian.

- The A stands for Australian. - - Australian Intelligence Service.

- Nice one, Sue.

Jim is a traitor.

He's agreed to sell Dennis classified New Zealand documents.

- Those documents are classified.

- We need to find out what those documents are.

- Whoa!

- Awesome.

- Why was it under the sheet?

- - Just a little bit of showmanship. - - I really like it.

- Now. There are six carriages on the train.

Jim Marshall is travelling at the front of the train, in carriage one.

Dennis Green is travelling at the back of the train, carriage six.

At midday, they plan to meet in the dining car, carriage four.

You will be travelling in carriage three.

Upon departure, you'll convert the carriage into a fake dining carriage.

At midday, Dennis Green will move through to the real dining car.

At the same time, Jim Marshall will come back and hit carriage three.

- And think it's the real dining carriage.

- Exactly.

Where, Anderson, you will be waiting, pretending to be Dennis Green,

and you'll intercept the documents from Jim Marshall.

Simultaneously, Michael, you'll be disguised as Jim Marshall.

You'll make your way back to the real dining car,

meet the real Dennis Green and give him fake documents.

- What am I doing?

- You will be the waiter in the fake dining carriage.

Nah.

No, I do not accept.

- - What? - - What do you mean, what?

I always get the worst fricking jobs.

- Oh, here we go.

- In Queenstown, I was stuck in a frickin car all day while these two were frickin skiing

That's, like, so fun.

- It was fun.

- In Christchurch, I was just a straight up chef cooking spaghetti all day,

while these two are frickin winning medals and all that.

- Bronze.

- And now you're telling me these two muppets get to play high ranking diplomats

doing actual espionage while I'm a frickin waitress?

No, I do not accept.

Nah.

- I'll go and talk to her. You stay here.

Do not touch the train.

- Oh.

- Help yourself to a pistachio.

You don't eat the shell, Michael.

Maybe you can have a bit of fun with the character.

The backstory. A complex characterisation.

The thing is, Sue, they both kind of need to be men

because Jim and Dennis are both men.

So if you show up as Dennis, or Denise,

Jim's gonna be suspicious.

Please.

- Fine.

But just so you know, I am gonna have a lot of fun with this character.

- OK.

- Accent ― French.

- OK.

- Personality ― crazy.

- Not a problem.

- She'll also have a very nice hat.

- - OK, we'll get you a hat. - - A nice one, though.

- Yeah, and I'll get you a really nice hat.

- OK. I'm in.

- What the hell?

You ate all the pistachios.

- You said we could.

- I said eat a pistachio, Anderson.

One pistachio.

Those are imported from Iran.

- They were really moreish. - I was gone for two minutes.

How did you even eat that many pistachios in two minutes?

- I love pistachios.

- Should we just get back to the mission?

- Um, yes. Um, intercepting the documents.

There is one problem with the plan.

We tried to book all the seats in carriage three, that fake dining carriage,

but three of them had already been booked.

- By who?

- What?

- OK, if you're not gonna go, we're going to need you to cooperate with us.

- - We're spies. - - We're not supposed to say that.

- - These are not our regular clothes. - - Shut up, Michael.

- Spies? - Not real spies. Are you real spies?

- Not so much yet.

- We are going to need you to play along with something.

A performance. - A performance?

- Yes. - Oh.

- In 80 minutes, a man will enter this carriage. When he opens the door, it's showtime.

- Oh, OK.

- You ready?

- You've not given us any lines.

- - You don't have to say anything. - - Just be yourself and act natural.

- - I take acting classes. - - That's perfect.

- We're not doing it unless we get lines. - And motivation.

Like, what's my motivation?

- - No way. - - I'm with them.

- What?

- As someone who was overlooked and is playing a waiter, I think they should get lines.

- - I perform better with catering. - - Jesus Christ.

- You have cheese and crackers right there.

- Hot food. I think we need hot food. - Yeah, we need hot food.

- It's a dog-eat-dog world.

- It's a doggy dog world.

- It's dog-eat-dog.

- It's dog eat dog.

- Yeah, that's what I said.

- That's what I said.

- Sounded like you said doggy dog.

- It sounded like you said doggy dog.

- Well, I didn't.

- OK, well, maybe start again.

- OK. It's a dog eat dog world.

- It's a dog eat dog world.

- Luckily, I like the taste of dog.

- Good.

Jim Marshall.

- Jim Marshall.

- Dennis Green.

- Bonjour, monsieurs. Welcome to the, um, how you say, uh, restaurant.

Have you dined with us before?

- No. - No.

- First time? Well, that is fine.

Do not worry, because all the meals are written out on his, uh...

Oh, I just say an English paper.

- Menu's a French word.

- Mm, mm.

- Um, what would you recommend?

- But that's the question.

Um, I personally love...

that one.

- The side salad?

- Oui. Oh, I love the side salad..

- I think we'll get the steak, rare.

- Fantastic choice, sir.

Uh, for you?

- I'll have the chicken parmigiana. - Chicken.

And would you like that rare as well?

- Won't rare chicken make me sick?

- It 100% will.

- Why would you want it rare, then?

- I am from French, and so I― My English is not so good.

So I will now, as you say, take those orders to the kitchen and put your orders in.

So, why thank you.

- I highly recommend the leg of lamb.

- We've already ordered.

- You don't do milkshakes, do you?

- No. Sorry. - That's OK.

Tap water is fine.

- OK, so that's one lobster risotto with a glass of red wine and one oodles of noodles with t

- But an adult sized oodles of noodles?

- Yes, an adult size oodles of noodles. - Correct.

- Thank you.

- You're younger than I was expecting

- Thank you. You're looking good as well.

- You bring the documents? - Mm-hm. Big time.

- You bring the money? - - 35,000.

- That's all it takes for a man to betray his country.

- It's a lot of money.

This train is weird.

- So that's one steak rare and one chicken parmesan well done.

- Well done to you as well for getting my order right.

- OK, buddy. Good luck, sir.

- What? - Bonjour. It is I, here with your meal.

- - Danny? - - What's wrong with him?

- Oh my God. Oh my God.

- He's panicking. He's panicking because you told him he was a spy.

- I did not.

I did not do this.

- OK, we're gonna move through there, I reckon. - I told you, you must stay seated.

- I like it in here. There's a bit of ambience.

- Australia thanks you.

- Don't mention it, Australia.

- See you tonight. - Absolutely.

- Wait. What is happening tonight? - - Party.

That the Australian Beef Board is throwing. You RSVPed.

- I can't wait for the party tonight.

- Stay seated, please.

- This is crazy in here. We're gonna move through there.

- I cannot let you do this. I cannot let you do this.

- Move! - Do not be rude.

- Oh my God, this man. This man is violent.

- I said 'do not be rude.'

- It's boring as hell out here.

I just looked at the top secret documents we intercepted.

And it's just a list of every farm in New Zealand.

- - How's Jim? - - Still out cold.

- Good. Don't let him out of your sight.

Michael, you need to track down Dennis Green and find out what he wants with those documents.

- Magnus is here. He knows what I look like.

- I told you you should have worn those glasses.

- Yeah, well, they hurt my eyes, and they made me look like that politician.

- That's the point, Michael. Find Dennis Green, say hi, and let's get out of here.

I'll keep a lookout for Magnus.

- OK. Dennis Green.

Where are you?

Oh.

Great party, huh?

- You can say that again.

- Great party, huh?

- Yeah.

- Can you hear me? - Yes, I can hear you.

I'm responding. - Oh, yeah.

I'm― I'm, uh, Jim Marshall.

I'm a― I'm a politician.

- Nice to meet you. I'm Robert.

- Do you live in Auckland? - Yes, but I am from Uganda.

We came here two years ago as refugees.

- Oh, wow.

- Dad, these two men are from the group I was telling youabout.

the Dorian Society, New Zealand's first organisation for gay men.

- Oh, I see.

Very, very cool.

- Who's your friend? - The name's Jim Marshall.

- The politician? - The very same.

- Wow. - You know my work.

- Of course I do. You campaigned to stop New Zealand from accepting refugees with disabili

- - Did I? - - Yeah.

- Sorry.

- You also killed the Crimes Amendment Bill, which would have legalised being gay.

- What the hell, man? - What's your problem?

- I just―

- You just... what?

- I guess I just don't like...

- Yeah?

- People who are different to me.

- Like who? Specifically.

- Gay people and disabled refugees.

- - Whoa! - - My goodness.

- You are a piece of shit.

- Get me away from this scumbag piece of shit.

- Michael?

- Isabel. I'm undercover.

My name is Jim Marshall.

- Oh, sorry. Hi. Jim Marshall.

- What are you doing here?

- Uh, my boyfriend got an invite.

- Oh, sorry if it's not appropriate, but I thought you guys had broken up.

- We had, but then I apologised about the whole shoes in the bed thing.

And now we are back together.

- He sounds amazing. Where is this incredible guy?

- Uh, that's him over there.

- I'm not getting in until you get in.

OK. It's warm. It's good.

Isabelle!

- - He looks awesome. - - He's drunk.

- Get in here!

- I should probably go get him out of the fountain.

Well, a pleasure to see you, Mr Jim Marshall.

- You too, Mr Jim Marshall.

- You're Jim Marshall.

- - Oh, yeah. - - I'm Isabelle.

- - Sorry. - - From the office. - I remember.

- See ya. - - Bye. - Bye.

- Michael, we found Dennis Green.

Find out what his plan is.

- Oh, crap.

Sue, we may have a problem.

- Jimmy, boy. - Dennis, boy.

- Glad you could make it.

Of course.

- What do you mean, you lost him?

Well, he can't have gone far.

Probably.

Jim. Jim.

Jim!

- You really helped the cause today.

- And if I may be so bold, what is the cause?

- You're on the right side. That's all you need to know.

- Really?

- New Zealand is dying.

And a golden dawn is coming.

A green and golden dawn.

Can we help you?

- My name is―

- Why did you do that? - He was weird.

- And you had me on edge by talking all scary.

I'm going to go now. But it's great seeing you again.

- Jim, where are you, mate?

Oh my gosh. Wow. You really scared me.

Oh, wow, that was crazy.

What are you doing here?

Why are you―

- Oh.

- Oh, sorry.

Hi, Jim Marshall.

- What's wrong?

- Ricky broke up with me again.

And this time it's forever, I think.

- Oh, no. I'm so sorry.

- I know. There's plenty more fish in the sea.

- No, I wasn't going to say that.

There are plenty more fish in the sea. But every fish is different.

And you liked that fish.

- Do you have a tissue?

- No, but you could use my bow tie.

- It's OK.

- Here.

- Thank you, Michael. You're a good fish.

- Hey.

Are you the guy who hates gay people and disabled refugees?

- Yes. - - What?

- You got 10 seconds to get out of here before we kick your arse. 10...

- OK, I might have to go now, but please know that I don't hate gay people or disabled refugees

- But you just said that you do.

- I don't have time to explain,

but you are one of the most wonderful and most beautiful fishes in the whole ocean.

And anyone would be so unbelievably lucky to catch you on a hook or in their net.

OK, I gotta go.

- # Something good will come our way.

# Maybe this good things gonna happen today.

# If I were honest, I'd tell you everything.

# But it keeps coming out as lies.

# It's not a promise,

# in case you're wondering,

# it's not some blessing in disguise.

# Something good will come our way.

# And maybe this good thing's gonna happen today.

# Something good will come our way.

# Something good will come our way. #

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