"Previously on Dance Academy..." "You have a genetic obligation to talk to me." "Well can we do that while I'm writing job applications?" "The Company decided today that it's time I spread my wings." "I was just wondering if this was strictly a professional relationship between us." "You're never going to make it." "You're not good enough and you never will be." "So why didn't you fight getting expelled?" "I broke the rules." "I went to an outside doctor." "I think I need an estimate, of how long you're going to hate me." "If the doctors say that my fracture's healed, will you help me plead my case at the Academy?" "Webster, I thought you'd never ask." "Last summer when I came home for the summer holidays," "I discovered that Mum had given most of my toys away." "She didn't understand why I was so traumatised." "From her point of view, they weren't a part of my life anymore." "It was time to move on." "And you finish up at the Company this week?" "Yeah." "Look, I've loved being there, but I'm really excited about taking the next step, you know?" "But when you're an only child and you live 40 minutes out of town, your toys end up becoming your friends." "Oh, I'm going to miss you." "If we're going, we should leave now." "And I wasn't ready to say goodbye." "Look, the thing is, I'm not a clone of my dad, right?" "I have my own voice and I'm really excited about getting to start to express that." "Ah, a latte, thanks." "I've always been so impatient to grow up." "It's just lately that I want to stop time and live in toy world a bit longer." "I guess that's the thing you don't realise about the adult world... it's actually kind of tough." "If there's any opportunity to observe," "I am willing to do unpaid work." "The doctors have all said the fractures were caused by force, and that they were recent." "Ben was there." "He saw Saskia stretch me and then refuse to stop when I asked her to." "This is a very serious accusation." "Yes, it is." "And we want her gone." "Dad, no." "I just want to come back to the Academy." "It's not an option while she's still teaching here." "I'm hoping that the Academy will do what's right, but I do have an appointment with a solicitor later today." "Hola, Barcelona!" "Impresion!" "Totes drooled on your showreel." "Yeah." "They said to call in for a coffee next time I'm in town." "That's a polite for 'no, thanks'." "'Local indie musical seeking dance captain.'" "OK, remember Pirates of Penzance?" "Ugh." "You walked out saying it was cheesy and insulting to your dance sensibility." "It was cheesy." "You were five." "Ethan, you've always hated musicals." "Well maybe I'm the right person to reinvent them." "If we sue the Academy, how long will that take?" "I don't know, princess." "A while." "And it'll be expensive, won't it?" "I just want this to be over." "You're here!" "Hey, Kat." "OK, I'll leave you girls to catch up." "How's your back?" "Still sore, but the bone knits, so it's healing." " Does that mean that..." " Tara!" "I have been wilting in this place without you." "Ew, awkwardness." "You don't need that." "You got me out of Dance History for this?" "Ew, I'm allergic to musicals." "Come on, after all the work I did on your Prix solo?" "Please." "Ballet dude." "Ethan." "Finn." "Love ballet." "Well, the modern stuff, not that ye olde world classics." "Who gets into that?" "This is Abigail." "She's my human showreel." "Well, can you be ready to go next?" "Sure." "So I'll chory as many dances as you want." "Be your own personal handmaiden." "If you get this job, I'm taking a percentage." "Ah, Finn, so are you cool for us to just..." "Do it." "OK." "Do it." "You alright?" "Just..." "Yeah, yeah, that'll do." "Ah, did you mean that in a good way, or..." "Are you serious?" "That was..." "Ohh, I'm in love with you both." "Can you stick around and check out the other auditions?" "Yeah." "You're like the most experienced person here." "Are you sure you're not missing any classes, because I'll pay for a cab?" "It's lunchtime." "I've always wanted to be the mean judge on a panel." "You know, this guy has something." "Yeah." "Well Tara said 'stop', like pretty loudly." "And then Saskia gave her another push, and then Tara's back just went snap." "It was like knuckles crunching." "And you were so concerned you didn't tell anyone about it?" "Well, Tara said she was fine, and we're dancers." "Things make noises all the time." "But this was different, now that I think about it." "When was the first time Tara told you her injury was Saskia's fault?" "Before or after she was expelled?" "After." "No, but..." "I couldn't talk to anyone." "I went into shutdown." "I was there when you had the scan." "You said you were fine." "I guess we all have our secrets." "And the awkward moments keep coming." "I think the real tragedy here is that we could have been torturing Saskia all this time." "Hey, Tara." "I met your dad." "Miss Raine wants to see us." "And the teachers are going to be there too." "I was rock solid." "She pretends not to believe me but she's almost definitely on your side now." "I have good news." "The board has agreed to allow Tara back into the Academy, conditional on a good behaviour period." "What about her?" "Saskia has denied that she did anything wrong, and I don't have any evidence that she did." "She broke my daughter's back!" "How much evidence..." "Mr Webster, I know this is a difficult situation." "I'm trying to find a solution." "You're trying to protect the Academy's backside." "And a negligent, inexperienced teacher." "Dad!" "I would love to come back to the Academy, provided that Saskia apologises for what she did to me." "I'm..." "I did nothing to you, Tara." "Saskia." "No." "I can't just sit here and..." "It's ridiculous." "This is just the next chapter in her personal grudge against me." "I'm the one with the grudge?" "There is nothing I did in any class that I didn't experience when I was a student." "Tara was just too weak to..." "That's enough, Saskia." "Then I can't accept." "If Saskia gets away with this then it obviously means that the Academy thinks that what she did was OK, and it wasn't." "This is everything you've worked for, Tara." "It could happen to someone else." "Do you mind if I stay here with Grace tonight?" "I'd like to say goodbye, properly this time." "Give me a call when you want me to pick you up." "You were brave in there, sweetheart." "Neil!" "City kid." "How're you doing?" "Look, I just wanted to say I'm sorry." "After everything you guys have done for me," "I should have looked after her better." "Wasn't your job." "Yeah, it was." "Busted." "'Let the walls tear down Let the floors all drown'" "Wow, it's poetry." "Be nice." "This is Finn's dream project." "I'm just trying to make it good for him." "That's no noble of you, making other people's dreams a reality." "Well you can help me, because I need to hear this to start visualising the chory." "One, two, three, four." "♪ You may believe that it's safe where it's warm ♪" "So inspired right now." "For real." "♪ You may believe that it's safe where it's warm ♪" "♪ I've seen what lies in the eye of the storm ♪" "♪ Let the walls tear down ♪" "♪ Let the floors all drown ♪" "♪ To be lost and found ♪" "♪ Is what it takes to land on solid ground ♪" "♪ Solid ground. ♪" "What?" "Any imbecile can sing." "You open your mouth and sound comes out." "But not like that." "Tara-related baking?" "So, run me through a synopsis of your news." "Well, you're looking at a gainfully employed choreographer." "I knew those Spaniards would come to their senses." "Ah, no, the musical." "But I think it'll be interesting." "Oh, look at you being all non-judgey." "We are going to have to celebrate this biographical moment." "We really don't need to make a big deal out of it." "At the very least it'll stop me baking." "Fair enough." "Mm-hmm." "Come on guys, I don't want to be here on a Saturday, either." "How's your injury healing, Saskia?" "Slowly, Grace." "Thank goodness it wasn't your back." "Where are you going?" "He has no partner." "Kind of makes pas de deux..." "Redundant?" "Precisely." "Fine." "Christian, Abigail, again from the attitude." "Good, Abigail." "I think you can make that extension even better, though." "Really?" "Maybe you could stretch it out for me." "Lost another bracelet?" "Or clover hunting again?" "I wanted to take one with me." "Found five." "So, Sammy told me about the job." "I'm really happy for you." "It's just fringe theatre, but Kat demands that it be celebrated like I've conquered Broadway or something." "Ah, right." "Um, you know she would never deliberately hurt you." "How did you forgive me?" "I mean, I knew I hurt you but I didn't get it." "Not properly." "It took a while." "But if I didn't forgive you, then I wouldn't be getting to talk to you right now." "Kind of makes it worth it." "My sister summons." "You won't come?" "Well if I don't see you for a while." "I'll be there opening night." "Front row." "You don't need this place." "You're going to be a star, wherever." "Ahoy there, matey!" "Ahoy!" "This was meant to be low key!" "Hey." "So I think we should go out." "On a proper date." "Do you now?" "I do." "That kiss, your eyes were closed." "You're not my type." "I like guys with ambition." "Harsh." "You used to be Ethan Karamakov, star of third year." "You turned down a contract with the Company so you could choreograph." "And then you stayed here because..." "I wanted to learn, and I wasn't ready to go out on my own." "It's OK." "Some people just aren't equipped to leave their comfort zones." "I dance like you." "Excuse me?" "I'm not as good as you, but we dance the same way." "I just..." "I never noticed it before." "Whatever you say, Tara." "I get it with Abigail." "We're in the same year, we're always going to be competing." "But I wanted to be exactly like you." "I never asked to be your hero, Tara." "But you're a dancer." "You know what it means." "How could you want to take that away from me?" "Your injury wasn't my fault." "And before that, you picked on me and belittled me." "You made me wake up every day feeling sick about going to class and then you..." "You tried to break what matters to me more than anything." "That's a serious look." "Did someone just defriend you?" "My phone says that I just bought a ticket to Barcelona." "Wow." "I think that's officially an impulse purchase." "I'm going to have coffee with Impresion, every day until they realise they can't live without me." "Are you going to be OK?" "Abandoned by your last remaining family member?" "Hey everyone, my big brother is off to conquer Europe!" "Finally!" "Tara." "Can we talk?" "I'll see you in the office." "Miss Raine is going to tell you that I'm leaving." "I'm going home to Perth to concentrate on my physio till my ankle gets better." "And I told her that you and I... that I could have been better... as your teacher." "That's it?" "That's your apology?" "Just..." "Wait till you're my age." "You know, when there are dancers coming up behind you, wanting your roles." "And they're younger, healthier, more exciting." "I would never do what you did." "I love ballet, but I wouldn't let it destroy me." "Tara." "I love it, too." "So in the grand spectrum of growing up, giving away my toys is a tiny step compared to forgiving an enemy." "Or starting over again in a place that is familiar but feels so different, with new friends." "Where I have to say goodbye to the first boy who changed the way my heart beats." "Ah... um..." "Song lyrics." "I gave Finn your number." "Ah, this is becoming very Wizard Of Oz." "It's been special, Webster." "It has." "Play nice, you guys." "You think it's going to be one moment that grows you up but really it's like a thousand different moments." "And when they happen... there's no going back."