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JACK: So what's your passion?

Music, same as yours.

I'm setting up a meeting for them in Sydney

see if I'm getting them a gig.

We're working Saturday. Sorry, Jack.

Come on I'm going to need you guys out there.

Sorry.

No, actually we will play.

Actually, we won't.

Then I will.

Count me in, Jack.

Ah.

Are you all right mate?

I think it's broken.

You all right?

I slept with Toby.

I love you.

I know.

[car taking off]

When it happened it was fast.

Just got too hard.

Held his hand.

He tried so hard to stay with us.

If you really love meyou'd go when I ask you to.

Oh, no.

When you love someone set them free,

isn't that what the songs says?

No that song's crap.

I believe in Jewish mother love.

If you love someone hang on forever.

MAN [ON RADIO]: Be clear aboutyour goals, but also be open

to continuous feedback.

Allow yourself to accept noinformation, modify your plans,

and then continue moving forward.

Always be open to new id---

[fast forward sound]

[swoosh]

[music playing]

[tape player eating tape]

To keep your insides healthyyou'll feel like a new man

in just a few days.

Containing all theessential vitamins and also

antioxidants to increase--

New man.

MAN [ON RADIO]: [inaudible]

[music playing]

What have you come as?

[inaudible]

A Mormon?

Ah, mormon. No, nah.

I'm in insurance.

[laughs]

Here you go, one cup.

Thanks.

It's for him.

[suspenseful music]

Can you see him?

[suspenseful music continues]

Yeah.

[suspenseful music continues]

You're real.

Last time I looked.

Helen, are you OK?

[suspenseful music continues]

[theme music]

[SINGING] Take me to that open silent space

where the air breath your name.

Leave me underneath the starlight sky,

all our troubles fade away.

Hold me now as the quarter sunrise rise

and cross your face.

La la la la.

This must be a dream.

I'll just lie down and then I'll wake up.

OK.

That's better.

A little bit early for a nap, isn't it?

What were you doing out there?

What are you talking about?

I saw you.

Oi, careful.

Are you sure you haven't out dated

on those muscle relaxants?

No.

Huh, We better go have a look.

Trousers?

Yeah, It's all i got.

Nickname.

Doesn't ring any bells.

Helen this is David.

David Black, we sort of met before.

I'm so sorry about being rude earlier.

No worries.

What did you do?

Helen, Helen you cangive David back his hand.

[laughs]

So what brings you to Alice, David?

Uh, I'm looking for thebeneficiary of a life policy.

Different eyes.

Insurance.

David has only had a nickname that go by.

Trousers, ring any bells?

Uh, no.

Different mouth?

JACK: Uh, me neither.

Love a good mystery, eh?

Shocking hair.

Yeah the policy holders Carl Morgan.

Lived in Alice Springs about 15 years ago.

Seems like this Trousers character

was a close friend or colleague or something.

Anyway, we'll solve it.

Better be making tracks.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

Good luck, we'll keep an ear out for you.

Thanks so much.

Helen.

And he certainly doesn't have my bum.

Helen, what are you doing?

Hey, David?

Yeah.

You want some help?

Helen, what are you doing?

That hick is not me.

Finding Trousers, a bit oflocal knowledge be invaluable.

People get pretty suspicious about blinds

asking questions around here.

Oh, it's very kind ofyou, but I couldn't impose.

Don't be silly.

Sounds like fun.

OK.

[suspenseful music]

[car door closes]

[engine starts]

[suspenseful music continues]

So being in insurance, youmust have seen a lot of lives?

Yeah, yeah, I guess I have.

Do belief that peoplecross our path for a reason?

What sort of reason?

Fate.

Uh, no, not big on fate.

I believe most things happen because good old

fashioned human error.

What about acts of God?

Oh, yeah.

I guess there's that.

Then we don't pay.

Just give up now.

Carl Morgan is dead.

So you knew him?

Just a couple of years older than me.

What did he die of?

It was a heart attack.

It was pretty sudden.

Sergeant, does the nameTrousers mean anything to you?

Trousers?

See, Carl Morgan has listeda Trousers as his beneficiary.

He put that on his policy, just a nickname?

That's right.

Wouldn't have thought that would be legal.

Guess our Carl wasn'tplanning to cock at first, eh?

So you do know who Trousers is?

Sorry, can't help you.

Ow, well, thanks Sergeant.

Likewise.

Oh, uhm, just out of curiosity, what is

this Trousers stand to inherit?

Oh, not a great amount somewhere

in the vicinity of $24,000.

Shall we?

I think I want to get a tattoo.

If you want pain, I canjust hit you with a stick.

[laughs]

You should call Darrin, talk to him.

I have.

And?

And he's OK.

So everything's OK then?

I still want to get a tattoo.

Ned Kelly two guns blazing such is life.

That would be cool.

In 50 years time, nursing homes

will be full of sad old people with saggy bums

and ridiculous tattoos and you're

not going to be one of them.

Thank you, Darren has a tattoo.

You bloody rich [inaudible].

Check this out, Mike.

There's a 2002 Troopy here11-seater, diesel turbo,

heaps of grunt, and check out the price.

I'm gonna give him a ring wouldbe mad to miss out that one.

What are you doing?

What about the barbie?

Sorry, girls.

I was looking forward to a lazy afternoon.

A few drinks, a hit of cricket, then I sleep.

Troopy, Mike.

11-seater.

We've been waiting forsomething like this forever.

If he remembers Carl Morgan others will too

and one of those guys is boundto remember the Trousers.

Well that's what I'm banking on,

but nothing's certain in this world hey.

We'll find him.

I don't give up easily.

Which way now then?

Uh, left.

Sorry other left, other left.

Watch out.

[tire screech]

[hooting]

Sorry, I'm bit whoopsywith my direction sometimes.

No worries.

You bloody idiot.

Are you OK?

Stop playing silly buggers, right?

Get out, get out.

Here, here.

[chocking]

Gross.

Ah, ah, ah, we nearly died.

Ah, ah, ah.

[suspenseful music]

There's still the localpaper, our library, churches.

[laughs] You don't give up easily, do you?

I'm a terrier.

Still, I suppose we shouldcall it quits for today here.

Why?

Uh, got to email head office, catch

up [inaudible] case files.

All right.

But uhm, you've been a valuable help Helen.

And uhm, really appreciate it, eh?

Yeah, yeah it's been fun.

Look, maybe we could regroup later on you

know and discuss some plans, strategies.

Strategy?

Yeah, just have a quiet biteat the barber, that's of course

if you haven't got any other plans.

[laughs] No, no, now the plans are--

yeah, I'd love that.

Good.

You asked him out on a date?

Not a date just dinner.

Gotta find out why he's here.

You know why he's here, insurance.

There's gotta to be more to it than that.

Helen stop looking forthings that are not there.

Haha, very funny.

Look, it's random chance, that'sall it is, I admit he looks

a little tiny bit like me.

A little tiny bit.

He was, so what?

So does George Clooney.

[suspenseful music]

There's a reason.

I'm going to find out what it is.

[suspenseful music continues]

I've been going out on that story ever since.

That is hilarious.

I'm hopeless at keeping secrets, especially

when it comes to myself.

That is interesting.

Uhm more wine?

Yeah, thanks Pat.

Uhm, David, David, Sorry.

No worries.

So who's Pat.

Uh, he's an old friend,you remind me so much of him.

Really?

Uhm, in a cool way, I hope.

Yeah.

What's she doing with the insurance guy?

[laughter]

Helen has been exhibiting abizarre taste in men recently.

I gotta tell you this isjust what the doctor ordered.

You have a really nice smile.

Thank you.

Hope you don't mind me saying that?

Of course not, what girl wouldn't?

You reckon she fancies him?

Nah, probably more professional courtesy.

You know Accountant to anInsurance sort of thing.

A bit like me buying drinks for a drummer.

Yeah, just like it.

Cheers.

Cheers.

I never get sick of that skywindow into the universe.

It feel insignificantspecial at the same time.

Special?

Yeah, you, me, all of us.

Stuff stars are made of.

Yeah, suppose you're right.

So what brought you here, David?

What do you mean?

Into my life.

Trying to work it out.

Racking my brain.

I don't know, maybe it was fate.

[laughter]

Goodnight.

Good night.

Yeah.

What were you expecting?

You let him on.

I didn't

For you went running after him,

you made him tell you his life story.

Yeah, But--

Yeah, yeah you laughed at his lame jokes.

Not uproariously.

Well, they're all signals Helen.

Signals?

Yeah, well, look you knowmen are like Rusty here,

you pat us and we think we'vedone good and yet you yell

at us and we think we haven't.

You can't be that, face it.

Trust me, we are.

He looks exactly like Patrick.

Your dead Patrick?

Ribbity ribbata, a doppelganger.

Apparently, I've got a doppelganger.

He's a dive instructor in Tahiti.

This isn't about you Jack.

Well, some peoplebelieve that a doppelganger

is a harbinger of death.

You know life insurance death.

Sort of fits.

So what you think I should do?

Well, be honest with him unless, of course,

you're interested in him romantically.

No, I'm not.

Then send him packing.

Rip the band-aid off forthe least amount of pain.

Yeah, there you're right.

The original the doppelganger can't

exist in the same dimensional framework.

It's time space conflict.

In the frontier nature.

Where were you going?

The BaBar is this way.

Yeah, I know I've just got towork out what I'm going to say.

Rusty.

[door knock]

She's gone from morning bike ride.

Could be a long one.

Oh, right yeah.

Have you spoken to oneof the old tribal fellows

about your mate Trousers?

Uh, no, no I haven't.

Yeah, well, I know of them.

We can go and speak them now if you like.

She'll be ages, mate.

Uhm, sure.

All right.

Hey, once we get our hands on this Troopy,

we're going to be able toexpand our client base mate.

School groups, pensionersrock climbing club's,

high corporate training groupsmate, that sort of stuff

is so lucrative.

And we're also never going tohave to fight again either who

gets the hottest girl on the tour

because there's going to bethree or four of them each.

Or we might have to look atgetting bigger offices mate.

Putting on more staff.

OK, so first you kiss me, and then you show me

up a footy game, and then you know

you push me the drinks table.

WOMAN: That was a legitimate jostle.

But whatever, the point is at this rate,

I'm going to end up in a wheelchair.

Hi, it's me.

Can you give me a callwhen you get this message?

I know that you said your fine but--

ah cause I just wanna hear your voice.

OK, I love you.

[music playing]

The truth is I don'thave such a great history

with the guys I like.

Just give me a sec to process that.

OK, how about this?

We go on not liking each other.

Not liking each other?

Actively.

That might work.

Well, no.

It might seem like a big commitment now, Mike,

but before long we will be racking it in.

Then we could have anentire fleet of Troopies.

And groupies, we're goingto have to add more staff.

Yeah, but as long as we make impact

there's no one taller or betterlooking than either of us,

will be sweet, right?

What, jeez is that the time?

I got the meeting with the bank in an hour.

I can't be late.

That's a good thing Mum got this filing cabinet

sorted before she left, eh?

Sorry, but I can't do this.

No worries mate, I just need you

to sign the loanapplication on the last page

under my signature there.

I mean, I can't do this.

I can't be your partner anymore.

OK, Michael, you can be thefirst one to drive the Troopy.

- I'm serious, Tobe - No, your not.

I am.

I want out.

Look, Michael, I'm going to be running

late mate unless you signthe bloody forms, so you can

you just do it?

Will you please listen to me?

I can't do this anymore.

I quit.

Hey.

Wait what did I do?

What?

To piss you off.

Nothing.

Well, did you hit your head inthe car yesterday or something.

You lose some oxygen to the brain

when you choke on that sausage mate.

Come on mate we are ateam, we always have been.

Mate, do you think this is easy for me?

I mean, it cuts me to the guts,but there comes a time when--

Yeah, what about our dreams,Michael, like the Troopy.

Look, you won't even let me finish.

All right, all right, go on.

Tobe, it's your dreams not mine.

That's rubbish, Mike.

It's been me and you the wholeway mate, since the beginning.

Come on, come back to work.

Sorry, Tobe, I cant.

[music playing]

[bang]

[crash]

Toby, What are you doing?

[bang]

This place is a bit of a hang.

Well, they're cultural.

No groceries.

[laughs] right.

Hi, Frank.

- Hi. - Are you good?

Good. This is David.

David, Frank [inaudible]

Oh, watch there, mate.

Please to meet you.

You're not from around here, are you?

Well spotted.

Frank.

David's from Darwin he's lookingfor a fella called Trousers.

And I told him if anyoneknows who he was, it'd be you,

am I right mate? - You do.

Yeah.

You know him?

Yeah.

Were does he live the? - Uh.

What? Out of town?

Yeah, yeah.

This is great, Jack.

What do you reckon, Frank?

Do us a favor mate.

Oh.

Thank you very much.

MAN [ON RADIO]: And in Science Buzz tonight,

we look at the BaBar experiment,the Stanford Linear Accelerator

Center in California--

[laughs]

MAN [ON RADIO]: --studying thedelicate symmetry between the--

The BaBar experiment-- how about that?

[laughs]

What's that?

Oh, sorry, Jack, I wasn't listening.

MAN [ON RADIO]: Equal amountsof matter and antimatter

were created by the Big Bang, but o--

- Hey, Dougie. - G'day, Jack.

DOUGIE: How you going? - Good, how you going?

We got Frank there.

Yeah, g'day, Frank.

This is David Blake.

Yeah, good to meet you, Trousers.

G'day.

Ah, look, here's my card.

I'm here to tell you thatyou're the beneficiary

of Carl Morgan's estate.

Sorry to tell you, Mr. Morganpassed away a few weeks ago.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, eh.

But who's Carl Morgan?

[music playing]

You don't know?

DOUGIE: No, I've never heard of him.

Uh, wait a minute, you're Trousers.

My trousers.

What's wrong with my trousers?

[laughs] No, no, don't they call you Trousers?

DOUGIE: Nah, Dave, you'vegot the wrong fella, mate.

BARRY: [laughs] They callhim a lot worse than that--

Shovel Nut, Broomhead, BoxHead, Snot Head, Kings Canyon.

Frank, you said you knew Trousers.

You said it, Jack, not me.

BARRY: I reckon you're probably putting

words into Frank's mouth, Jack.

It's a cultural thing.

Frank here was just trying to be polite.

Weren't you, Frank?

Yeah.

Well, uh, thanks anyway, fellas.

JACK: I'll take you home, Frankie.

Sorry, Dave.

It's funny how you can pickup mixed signals, yeah?

DOUGIE: So Barry, who calls me Shovel Nut?

[birds chirping]

Helen, uh, I've really enjoyed the time

we spend together, aye.

David, this is all my fault. It's not yours.

Cut, cut.

That is-- that is so weak.

Now, come on, let's go again.

Just be firm, but friendly, all right?

Here we go.

See, Helen, you seemed, um,like, really interested in me.

Well, David, when you turnedup here out of the blue, I--

I thought it was for a special reason.

Yeah good, keep going.

Yeah.

I thought that Ineeded you to fill a void

in my life, an emptiness.

But-- but, uh--

well, silly me, I didn't say.

So it's all good.

No, no, don't wimp out.

You just focus.

Keep the contact strong.

And go from, um, that void in my life bit.

OK, go on.

Go on.

OK.

A void in my life, anemptiness that I was scared of.

[music playing]

You were scared?

HELEN: Yeah, I realized that we've

all got our fears to deal with.

It's part of growing up.

I thought I needed you in mylife, but I realize I don't.

I don't need you.

Bingo.

[WHISPERING] I don't need you.

[sighs]

You got insurance, Jack?

Nah, mate, I'm a risk-taker.

Never had insurance, never will have.

DAVID: I've never not had it, aye--

car, house, contents, medical,hospital, travel, accident,

ordered, income protection.

How many claims have you made?

Oh, I didn't want to losemy no claim bonus, aye.

And you add up all themoney you spend on premiums.

I'd be a lot better off.

JACK: There you have it.

I mean, look at old Carl Morgan.

What good did having life insurance do him?

He didn't live a second longer, did he?

And we might never find his beneficiary.

JACK: Yeah.

Nah, mate, you got to catchall the balls the universe

throws at you and run with him.

Because if you spend yourtime worrying about things

you can't control, before youknow it, you'll wake up dead.

You're right, Jack.

I am.

I'm a hollow man.

I haven't even lived.

Sorry, what I meant is--

always time to change.

You believe that?

With every fiber of my being.

I'm gonna bite the bullet.

I'm gonna do it.

Good man.

What do you mean?

Oh, my god.

What happened here?

Where's Toby?

He just took off.

He didn't say where.

[music playing]

You know what they say, mate.

Act in haste, repent in leisure.

Don't worry, Jack.

It's not as bad as it looks.

Full signal.

You go in, Jack.

I got a call to make.

Helen!

Helen.

There's something I have to tell you.

What the hell?

Toby had a little accident.

Little?

I haven't seen a roomlike this since the Motley

Crue tour of '84.

What did you want to tell me?

David!

David, stop!

Oh, hi, Helen.

Hey.

I was just practicing what I was gonna say.

To your wife?

Yeah.

I guess I should've told you about Karen.

We only met yesterday.

You don't even know who I am.

No, no, Helen, we got a connection.

You said so yourself.

Remember?

Fate.

Look, the reason why I wantto spend so much time with you

is because you lookexactly like someone else.

Oh, yeah, this guy Pat, yeah?

Yeah.

He's a friend of mine who died.

I loved him very much.

We grew up together.

We were soul mates.

Gee.

Well, I could be him.

What?

Yeah, if that's what you want,if that's what it takes to have

you, I can be him for you.

No.

Yeah.

No.

Can we-- you just tell me something about him.

What-- what was he like?

He was gay.

Sorry?

He was gay.

But I thought you and him were--

No.

[sighs] Well, I misreadall the signals, didn't I?

I'm so sorry, David.

This is all my fault. I feel--

I feel terrible.

DAVID: Did I tell you, I, um--

did I tell you I've got a lead?

Oh.

Trousers.

No.

Yeah, I got a phone call from a guy

who saw the ad in the paper.

It's good news, aye?

Yeah.

Anyways, it's a bit of a drive, so,

uh, better make tracks.

I don't want him to slip through our fingers.

Are you gonna be OK?

DAVID: Yeah, yeah.

I'm good, Helen.

I just got a job to do,so, uh, I'll see you later.

See you later.

Sorry about your phone.

DAVID: Oh, no worries.

It was insured.

[music playing]

Hey.

Hey.

Pretty sure you'd be here.

We always used to come here askids when we were in trouble--

far from the law, and your dad.

Remember that time you burneddown Carly Dublin's fence?

It took Hugh all day to find us.

Then we really copped it.

Toby--

It's fine.

You can do what you want.

Yeah, but we'll always be friends, right?

I mean, we can always go for a beer or--

or a kick, or a game of pool?

Yeah.

[hissing]

Great.

Great!

OK.

[scoffs] OK.

OK.

OK.

PATRICK: It all has to go, you know?

What?

Isn't that what you're doing, clearing

out the debris of a past life?

No, I'm--

Then what are you doing?

HELEN: I don't know.

I'm just going through it.

Maybe I don't need to hang on to it.

I don't know, I mean--

Just chuck it.

I can't.

PATRICK: Helen, come on, out with the old.

OK OK.

How about your old glasses case?

You are released.

All right, very good.

Very, very good.

The only problem is, I never wore glasses.

No, you didn't.

They're mine.

Oh, this is too hard.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Helen.

Hugh Delaney.

That insurance friend of yours,I just found his car abandoned.

[music playing]

JACK: It's not your fault, Helen.

He was following a lead.

There wasn't a lead.

He said there was a lead,but there wasn't a lead.

You sure?

I just wanted to believe that he'd be OK

and I let him drive off into the desert.

Well, you ought to know he'd go walkabout.

If he dies out there--

[sighs]

It's all right.

Don't panic.

I found him.

He's over there sitting on a rock.

He won't budge.

What?

Reckons he's happy just sitting there.

Maybe you'll have better luck.

Hi, Jack.

Hugh.

David?

Hi, Helen.

What are you doing?

Oh, just running with one of them bulls

the universe throws at you.

We got too bloody hot, so nowI'm just sitting on this rock.

Mind if I--

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Old Aboriginal fella toldme I don't belong here.

Trouble is, I don't know where I belong anymore.

Maybe at home with your wife.

Yeah, kids.

You got kids.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I got kids, Josh and Brittany.

Their mom, Karen, she's--

she's really great, too.

I-- I don't-- I don't know why--

Ta.

You know, you spend yourwhole life worrying about

unimportant little things.

And then one day, it's allover, just like poor old Carl.

You and him were mates.

Yeah.

I thought I was doing OK, you know?

Good job, great wife, annoying kids.

[laughs]

What does my life amount to?

Everything you just said.

[car starting]

Ha-ha, you little beauty.

So Hugh, the way I see it,uh, David's a lucky man,

you turning up here so quickly.

I reckon.

Better buy himself a lottery ticket.

Yeah.

He told Helen he was headingout here to meet Trousers.

Did he?

Mm.

No one else has turned up.

No, they haven't, have they?

But she reckons that therewas no rendezvous, Hugh.

What are you getting at, Jack?

Well, mate, if the trousers fit.

All this, it's--

[music playing]

It has to mean something, doesn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

Maybe the universe is tellingyou to live your life.

I mean, really live it, not in the past,

or in the future forsomething that might happen.

But in the moment.

Who knows when it will come around again?

Jack, I'm a copper.

My job depends on my reputation.

If this got out, it could wreck my career.

Well, I promise I won't tella soul, scout's honor, dib, dib.

Well, Carl Morgan was my best mate.

And, uh--

Yeah?

He was a wild one.

He was up for anything.

It was my first day on the job, and he

reckoned we should celebrate.

So he took me to--

you know, to a-- to a--

Huh, a place of ill repute.

Look I swear I didn't know.

Yeah, sure.

[music playing]

Anyway they raided the place.

Mm.

So where did the nicknameTrousers come from?

If I told you that, I'd have to kill you.

And that really would wreck my career.

It shouldn't give you any more trouble.

I topped it up with petrol, too.

Oh, thanks so much.

How much do I owe you?

Ah, it's on the house.

Appreciate it.

So I'll, uh, get that paperworkto you by the end of the week.

Thanks.

No worries.

[music playing]

Good to meet you, Jack.

You have a safe trip.

Thank you.

Take this.

Ah, no, I told you.

It was covered.

Call Karen and tell herthat you're on your way home.

OK, I'll do that.

I'll make sure I send it back.

Hey, David.

Have a good life.

Yeah, you too.

Bye.

[car starting]

Hi, honey, it's me.

It's been an interesting day.

Yeah, it has.

The time space continuumis stabilized, captain.

All systems normal.

[laughs]

[sighs]

[music playing]

Not quite.

You were right.

This is a good spot.

I told you.

Listen.

Mm.

We met at the beach.

See?

You do remember.

That accountant's brain ofyours, you remember it all.

I'll always be in here.

And in here.

I'm a bit nervous now myself.

No tears.

No tears.

[wordless singing]

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

See ya.

Bye.

[music playing]