"Frankie, Frankie, Frankie." "Aw, Frankie." "What's your mum going to say?" "Have a look at that." "Frank is a very difficult child." "How difficult?" "Well, three arrests by the time you're eight's not bad going." "Mind you, with his background I'm not surprised." "Father, in and out of jail, mother an alcoholic." "I hope you know what you're taking on." " We never thought it would be easy." " Look, fostering a child of this sort." "Yeah, we do know Mr. Jarvis." "That's why we're here." "Anymore you've got like him." "We'd be just as happy to take them." "I think you'll find that one is quite sufficient." "I think you'll find you're wrong." " How's it going?" " Fine." " Do you think he looks like you?" " Mmm, no." "Not handsome enough." "I'll see you." "Bye." "Frank, Carly, Lynn, Sally, Steven." "More like five is enough is sufficient Mr. Jarvis." "For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us, and so say all of us, and so say all of us for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow," "for he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us." "Tom, give us a little speech." "Show us what you're made of." "Oh, I'll show you more than that chum if you're not careful." "Now turning forty for some men it's, it's like a threat." "End of their youth and all that sort of thing, but for me, looking around me, it's just the start." "I've got a terrific wife." "The best." "No, I'm serious mate." "I've got five top kids." "Frank, Carly, Lynn, Steven and Sally." "What about Milco?" "Oh, sorry." "How could I forget him?" "Milco, too." "Sorry, mate." "Yeah, we've had our ups and downs getting to know each other haven't we?" "We'll probably have some more too." "I reckon I'm a pretty lucky bloke." "Now I've turned forty all I'd like to say is, well I'm just looking forward to the next forty." "I'm looking forward to seeing you all grow up, have kids of your own and you your own fortieth birthdays." "See, there's nothing to be worried about." "Not when you've got as much love around you as I have." "Let's cut that cake, hey." "G'day." " Can I see you please, Tom?" " Yeah, whatever it is, I'm innocent." " It's that bad, eh?" " It's not good." "Come into the office." "Hi." "You're home early." "You sick." "I just got retrenched." "What?" "Yeah." "In the current economic climate, we regret, if there was any alternative, all that sort of stuff leading up to the big way and oh." "Sorry, Tom, we're closing your department." "You've been with them fifteen years." "Yeah, well old Sam's been with them twenty five." "Didn't save him." "I knew things weren't good, but I didn't think they'd pull a stunt like that." "You won't have any trouble getting another job." "No, of course I won't." "Life begins at forty, eh." "Now, I don't want any of you worrying." "It sounds a lot worse than it is." "Yeah, but you see all those things on TV about older men losing their jobs and not being able to get another one." " Carly!" " Well you do." "Now that's all right mate." "That's what we're here for, so everyone can talk out their worries and I can answer them." "Tom won't have any trouble finding another job with his experience." " What if he doesn't?" " Yeah." "Well, we've got some savings." "We live off those for a while." "Yeah, and I've been trying to get a job." "I'll just have to try harder now, that's all." "Yeah, we know you have mate." "Look, the last thing I want you doing is acting likes it's the end of the world." "Well, I could maybe leave school if it gets too bad." "You'll do no such thing." "That's exactly what I'm talking about." "No hitting the panic button unless we have to." "Which we won't." "No one should lose any sleep over could's and maybe's." "OK." "Yeah, OK." "There's nothing in here." "Friday's always a bad day." "They'll be more tomorrow." " Can I talk to you?" " Yeah, course you can, mate." " What is it?" " I was thinking," "I've only been with you a few weeks and I'd understand if you want me to go back to the home." "No one's going anywhere." "Come here." "Do you remember we had this photo taken on your first day here?" "We did the same with all the kids." "It's became a sort of ceremony." "A welcome to the family photo and once the photos taken, once you're in that frame, you're stuck there." "You're part of the family, through thick and through thin, OK." "It's just, sometimes I feel like I don't belong." "Do you trust me?" "Then believe me, you do belong." "OK." "Yeah, I second that mate." "Thanks." "Nice work, Mrs F." "It has come to our attention that you have recently been retrenched and despite strenuous efforts over the last six weeks are no closer to find alternative employment." "As you are aware, any change in your circumstance has to be reviewed by us in cause it augers ill for the in your care." "We would regrettably have to reassess your situation should you prove financially unable to adequately acquit your role as foster parents." "We would appreciate it if you would call to arrange an appointment, for you and your wife at your earliest convenience." "Yours sincerely, Tarquin Pearce." " We knew it had to come." " Can we do anything?" "I don't know." "I tell you what though." "No one's taking our kids away from us, no one." "Well, that's the bottom line." "Unless you find a job pretty quickly we'd be forced to move on the situation." "Frank's no longer our problem, of course, but, eh, we'd certainly be reviewing the custody of the others." " Well, you're overreacting a bit, aren't you?" " Not really." "The kids will suffer more from seeing their security tumble down around them than from being taken away in the early part of the process." "They're mature enough to cope with things being a bit tight." "More than a bit if they keep going on as they are." "Yeah, we're doing everything we bloody well can." "There's no point in getting heated, eh." " We have got a plan." " Yes, a last resort." "Well, I'd say we were pretty well there." "Yes." "Well, we worked out some figures." "If we were to sell the house and maybe relocate out of the city we'd make quite a good profit." "We should be able to live off that for a while and we'd be able to live more cheaply as well." "It would be good for the kids." "Clean air." "Health environment." " It's got a lot going for it." " Move where?" " Well, we don't know." " We'll know when we see it." "Do you mean you're prepared to sell out and up stakes just to keep the kids?" "Look, I don't know what other foster parents are like, but you're acting as if this is something strange." "We'll do anything to keep the kids." "OK, OK." "I'm impressed." "Well, then, give us a go." "Hey." "Tom and Pippa should be back soon." "There's something I have to do." "Where do you go on your secret little trips anyway?" " There's nothing secret about them." " No." "Then, why do you sneak off?" "Where do you go?" " Why don't you like me?" " I don't trust you." "Tom and Pippa have got enough troubles as it is." "I can't help it if I'm a bit smarter than you." "What's that got to do with anything?" "I don't know why you've got a hang up about smart kids, but you have." "That's why you pick on me." "I haven't got hang ups about anything." "You'll have your secrets, I'll have mine." "You'll keep." "And they'll want to see us all, so whatever it is you're doing will just have to wait." "And he agreed." "In fact, by the time we left he was right onside." " He thinks it will be great for you." " Which it will." " So, we're moving away?" " To the country." " Great." " Yeah, big changes all round." " You can count me in." " We don't want to force anyone in to anything." "We know you all have friends here, school." "Yeah, the main thing is it'll stop Pearce making noises about breaking us up." "It's your choice." "You don't have to come with us if don't want to." "It does seem to be the only way to keep the family together." " Milco wants to go." " I thought he might." "What about you?" "Me too." "Me and Milco always think the same." "Funny that." "Look as Pippa said no ones being forced to do anything, be great." "A whole new start." " Steven." " Yeah." "Do you want to talk about it?" "You didn't look too happy." "Tonight." "I'm late for something." "What is it?" "Well it's Brad." "If we move I'm never going to see him again." "Brad Adams." "I thought you couldn't stand him." "Yeah, I couldn't, but that's just because I thought he was so gorgeous and he acted like I didn't exist." " That's changed, has it?" " Yes." "Yesterday I dropped my books and he picked them up for me." "He smiled at me." " That's it." " Well, at least he knows that I'm alive." " It's start, eh." " Yeah, I know and if we move." "Look, you can believe, but in six months" "I'll say the name Brad and you'll say Brad who." "Didn't think so." "It's not like I've been with them long." "You know I'd give you a home if I could." "That was good friend." " Pippa and Tom are great." "It's" " The other kids." "Yeah." "The oldest one, Frank." "What's his beef?" "It's because I'm smart." "He said it's because he doesn't trust me." "That's not it." "Why should your being smart worry him?" "At least with the karate he'll think twice about hitting you." "They don't even know I'm doing it." "I don't want them to know, because if they do, they'll start asking questions and" "I'll have to tell them that dad taught me." "I can't help thinking of him and mum burning and" "I couldn't keep on having lessons wherever we went and I think dad would have wanted me to." "Small towns have karate schools." "Not many." "You're good enough now to keep it up on your own anyway." "You've found a good mob to live with." "Frank will cool down." "You don't want to go back to the home now, do you?" "Well there." " G'day, Alf." " G'day, Alf." "G'day, Nev, Floss." "How are you going?" "Aw, can't complain as the bearded lady said to the barber." "Aw, Neville." "There not getting any better." "Hear you thinking of buying a new boat." " Who's the big mouth, Floss?" " Ailsa." "That would be right." "You get your groceries from Ailsa and you get the news of the world as well." "Decided to come and play landlord did you?" "Yeah, well I might not have to much longer." "I've got a family coming to look over the place." "A young couple, a couple of mugs I hope." " There coming to look the place over." " Yeah." "When?" "Well, I thought they might have been here now as a matter of fact." " They're coming here now." " For an inspection." "Yeah, what's wrong?" "Well, nothing, nothing, no." "You should have called, that's all." "We'd have given the place a bit of a tidy up wouldn't we, Nev?" " Yeah, sure." " It's not too late." "Why don't you go and clear some of the junk out of the way?" " All right." " Aw, look." "Don't worry about it." "I mean, the joints not looking real flash anyway." "Go on, love." "Yeah." "We wouldn't want you to think that we've lost you the sale, Alf." "Place being on the market for so long." "Still got a problem with them geraniums." "Here, people are coming to look the place over." "We'll keep Alf busy and you better get in to the bushes until there gone." "It's too late." "I'll make sure they'll look at the house first." "When they are inside you skedaddle." "Right, this is our lot." "This is Frank, Carly, Lynn, Steven and Sally." "And Milco." " Milco." " Milco." "Milco." "Sorry, Milco." "Yeah, Milco is Sally's special friend." "He's a bit hard to see sometimes." "Oh, he's not hard to see at all." "How do you do, Milco?" "He's just like the little folks at the Carnie." "Now you could always see them if you took the trouble to look properly, but you wouldn't believe the number of people who couldn't be bothered and used to knock the poor little blighters over." " Floss and I worked in shows for years." " Oh, yeah." "Madame Zara, fortune teller." "And I was the billed as the world's strongest man." "That was just for kids and it was a long time ago." "Well, eh" "Don't wander too far." "We'll tell you when we're going inside the house." "You should do that first up." "It's lovely in there." "Aw, too right it is." "Yeah, it's a credit to Floss the way she keeps it." "We can if you like." "No, you're right." "I think I'll look at the books first." "I'll get that boring financial stuff out of the way." "Now, tell me, how does the place move?" "Well, in it's heyday it was a goldmine." " Aw, I could kill you, Nev." " Uh." "Such I nice young couple and their family." "I'd like to be able to relax and enjoy their visit." " Well, there's no chance of that." " Exactly." "We better keep an eye on those kids." "We don't want them going in the caravans." " Alf tells me you've retired here, Neville." " Yeah." "See it as a bit of a home for a while do you?" "Yeah, that's right, Tom." "Hey." "What is it, child?" "What's wrong?" " She hit me." " Who?" " The girl in there." " There was no girl." "She went round here." "She's more shocked than hurt I think." "Where does it hurt, Sally?" "My bum." "Bottom." " My bottom." " Oh, does it hurt bad?" " Anything else that hurts." " It's numb." "Oh, I think you're going to have a bruised bum pumpkin." " Bottom." " Sorry." "There wasn't anyone there." "There was someone." "There was a girl." "Have you seen a girl around the place?" "No, not me." "Floss?" "No." "She probably toppled back when she opened the door." "It tends to be a bit free on its hinges that one." "Well, if there was someone there she's gone now." "Come on, we're going to get you cleaned up." "Hey, you can use the house if you want, Tom." "Thanks, Alf." "I told you that girl would be trouble." " There's no real harm in her." " Well, what do you call that?" "You'll have us in strife with the cops if you're not careful." "Good as new." "Should we get on with the tour and inspection, shall we?" "Sure, sure." "In case you hadn't of noticed, this is the kitchen and of course the dining room." "Carly." "No, you're all right, kids." "Poke your noses in wherever you like." "You're here to have a look." "Just take it easy please." "We don't want Alf here suing us for property damage." "Let's hope you buy the place and then it won't matter what you do." " It's so clean." " Yeah, yeah." "Well, like I said I've had Floss look after it since my wife died." "She used to keep the place spotless." "Only woman I knew who'd wipe under the table every day." "She would have wanted it this way and she would have wanted a nice family like you lot in the place." "Let's have a look upstairs, shall we." "How far is it to the beach, Mr. Stewart?" "Oh, my dear from here I'd say it's about a well hit two wood." "Sorry, you're not a golfer." "Just down the road." "Carly wants to know where to find the surfies." " Lynn." " Oh, don't be embarrassed Carly." "There's some very nice surfies down there." " Aw, great, stairs." " Last one up's a rotten egg." "I've got a good feeling about this place." "Yeah, I think he's a bit of a shafter." "Well, we'll just have to out shaft him, won't we?" " Aw, bags this room." " You're" "Wow!" "Good girl." "Aw, I'll fix that." "Why don't you have a look in that room and see if you see the pussy cat that lives in there." "Wow!" "Well, I'd say if the kids have got anything to do with it, I've got myself a sale." "Why don't we look in the main bedroom?" "I've got a bit of a surprise for you." "All right." "Yeah, we should have given them sedatives." "Every squeal of joy adds a hundred to the price." " Well, what do you reckon?" " It's beautiful." "It's antique, isn't it?" "Yeah, it's been in my wife's family for years and my daughters not one for sentiment so no one to leave it to." "I always said if I found the right young couple that it would go with the house." "I reckon I've found them." "They seem such a nice young couple." " Who?" " The Fletchers of course and all this waffle Alf's going on with." "This place has never done well." "I don't know where he's got them figures he's been showing them." " It's called creative accounting love." " I don't care what it's called." "I don't like seeing nice young folk diddled." "I'm in half a mind to say something." "Here." "You keep your beak out of it." "It's none of our business." "Oh, that's right." "You'll help a little crim, but you won't say a word to help a decent young couple." "Number one, Bobby didn't do what they say she did." "You've only got her word for that." "It's good enough for me and number two, the Fletchers look smart enough to look after themselves so keep your beak out of it Floss." "Rack off!" "The caravan park, you're hoping to make a go of it, are you?" "Well, you bet." "From the business it used to do, a bit of spit and polish, we'll have it going soon." "And we're not only buying a house, we're buying a job into the bargain." " Ah, I was thinking" " Floss." "I was just about to suggest that I give Pippa a reading." "I'm getting vibrations dear." "I reckon a good in the crystal ball could yield results." "Aw, I don't." " Aw, go on, Pippa." " Come on." "Bookie, bookie, bookie." "I'm with you mate." "Don't mock what you don't understand, you fellow, me lad." "Aw come on love." "Give an old girl a go." "Go on." " Why not?" " Come in then." " Now, Floss." " Girls only, Nev." "Get rid of them." " Ah, Donald." " Mr. Fisher." "I heard a commotion so I thought I should check." "Better to be safe than sorry." "I was burgled recently myself so I'm very aware of it." " Donald Fisher." " Ah, please to meet you." "I live over there." "It's a distance, but not that far." "Noise carries unfortunately." "I'll play my bagpipes whenever the mood takes me." "I wouldn't object if you could play." "If I a man can't use his retirement to learn an instrument he's admired all his life, what can he do?" " And your name?" " Ah, Tom Fletcher." "Yeah, Tom's thinking of buying the place." "Yeah, and these are my kids." "Steven, Lynn, Sally, Frank and Carly." "Charming." "Charming." "I see an oven." "Let me look inside." "Aw, Books." "Books." "Books in an oven." "That's what I see." "Why would anyone want to cook books for?" "Alf's books are shonky right?" "Madame Zara doesn't interpret;" "she just tells what she sees." "Thanks for the warning, Floss, but we're not totally gullible." "Anyway, who cares what the figures were?" "It's what they are going to be that's important." "You're quite a shrewdie aren't you Miss Earagard." "No flies on you." "We'll be back." "Milco." "Where's Milco?" "We left Milco behind." "He's definitely back there." "I've told you about this before, young lady." "Milco's your responsibility." "You're supposed to see he's in the car, all right." "Back we go." "Told you." " I didn't hurt her, did I?" " You could have." "You think I'm a creep or something." "Go around, getting a kick out of hurting little kids." "You don't think, Bobby." "That's just your problem." "Yeah." "Well thanks for nothing." "You don't have to help me now." "Stop it both of you." "Look, we're letting you hide out her because we believe what you told us and we're no fonder of Fisher than you are." "I suppose you think I really did pip his joint off." "If I thought that you'd be out of here so fast your feet wouldn't hit the ground." "Now, Neville sees some good in you, all right, so be it, but that doesn't mean I have to lie, you here." "It's a criminal offence, you know." "Harbouring a felon." "Geez, you're a dag, Floss." "Hey, you watch your tongue." "Now off you go." "You're OK, Nev." "That's the girl that hurt me." "Get her." "All right, who are you?" "Who the hell are you?" "Justice prevails for once." "Congratulations, Mr. Fletcher, a perfectly executed citizens arrest." "Come on." "Let go of me." "Come on." "Let go of me." " I'll follow in my car." " No need to worry, Mr. Fisher." "It was my house the girl burgled." "I ought to be there." "What do those two know about it?" "Nothing, if you insist." "Good to have you in the neighbourhood, Fletcher." "Now, how come I get the feeling we wish we hadn't caught her?" "Yeah, because what ever she is, she's a creep." " Yeah." " Do you think she did it?" "Well he's certainly got her hung, drawn and quartered before she's even charged." "I got the story from Neville." "She's a local." "Mother's dead, dad's in jail." "Apparently Fisher's always had it in for her." " And this her first arrest?" " She's always in trouble." "She said she never broke into Fisher's house." "Neville thinks someone else did it." "Fisher saw it as a chance to get rid of her." " So you reckon Fisher lied?" " Well, either he did or she did." "He swears he caught in the act." "She says she was never even there." "Anyway, whatever she is, Neville says she's no liar." "He says there is a lot of good underneath." " No." " What do you mean?" "I know you." "We're going to have enough on our plate moving into this place." "There's no harm in just trying to get to know the girl, even if she is found guilty." "It's her first offence, she might get off on a bond." "Look, we're not taking on anyone else's future until we've got our own sorted out." " But" " No, no." "Just practising my routine for the Riley night." " Oh, she's coming in." " Who?" "The lass who's just taken over Alf's old place." "Fletcher's the name." "Husband, wife, five children." "Poor little thing." "She must be worn out." "Catholic I expect." "I saw the children." "I took a peak up the drive just as I was passing." " Yeah, neighbourly curiosity." " Yes, yes, just neighbourly curiosity." "I was wondering if it was her second marriage." "None of the children looked anything alike." "In fact, one of them looked positively foreign." " Aw." " Oh, well," "I'll just browse around Ailsa whilst you attend to, Mrs Fletcher." "Mrs Doris Peters." "How do you do?" "Nice to see you." "Welcome to Summer Bay." "There's not many secrets around here." "Ailsa Hogan." "I'm Pippa Fletcher." "Please call me Pippa." "Of course, as long as you can manage Ailsa." " How are you settling in?" " Fine." "It's only a few weeks since you looked the place over." "You must have got all that paperwork settled very quick." "Like I said, there's not that much that goes on around here that everybody doesn't get to hear about." "Alf was kind enough to let us move in before everything was finalised." "It's school holidays so it was a good time to move without disrupting the kids." " Five I hear." " I'm sure you'll be seeing plenty of him." " You're a beggar for punishment." " No, it's not like that." "Tom and I can't have any of our own so we fostered." "Oh." "This has gone up." "I hope Pippa hurries up." "I'm starving." " Me too." " What are you doing there, pumpkin?" "I can't find Milco." "Maybe he's hiding in one of these." "Aw, I'm pretty sure he hasn't." "Why don't you just check upstairs?" "Tom, do you think it's wise to keep pandering to her childish fantasies?" " Pandering to her childhood fantasies." " I only asked." "Yeah, well we got along without your concerns until now, thanks." "Cut it out you two." "Now, you see, Steve, having Milco around helped Sal through some rough times before she came to us." "Yeah, she lost her parents and her nan." "Yeah, she didn't have anyone, but Milco." "We figure one day she won't need him anymore and he, well, he'll just be gone." "You should have told me." "Everyone's background is there own business in this family, mate." "People tell, they tell what they want to tell, but that's an important bit, so you can understand, all right." "Einstein, understands all about not telling people things." "Get off my back and stop calling me Einstein." "Hey, hey, break it up." "Don't grind him so much, eh." " I don't trust him." " I do." "Well you would, wouldn't I?" " Well, I do." " You never, ever give up." "That's enough." "Now split, all of you, all in different directions, all right, and when you come back, I want to see some smiles." "So, all in all I feel pretty damn lucky." " We're the happiest family." " Sounds perfect." "I believe you had a bit of trouble with one of our local youngies when you were first here." " Bobby." " Yeah, that's her." "Mmm." " No need for that, Doris Peters." " The girl's a mischief." "It's just a shame the courts can't see it." "You agree with Neville and Floss, do you?" "Aw, there's good there, all right." "I heard she got off on a bond." "A few of us around town willing to bat for her." "You obviously care for her." " I have a thing about underdogs." " She's very aggressive." "Aw, not always and when she smiles, she's a different girl." " I've never seen her smile." " No, I'm sure you haven't, Doris." "This town's divided into pro and anti Bobby." "The anti's are led by Fisher." "You might have another member on your team." "What are you doing, creep boy?" "Over here bozo." "I asked you a question?" " None of your business." " Tough." " What's your problem?" " You and your family, vacuum head." " You're a Fletcher, right?" " So?" "So, you watch it." " Your own little room, eh." " It's my favourite." "Sleep tight." "Hey, butterfly kiss." "That's a good girl." "Sleep tight, pumpkin." " Can I have it on?" " A big girl like you." " You're not afraid of the dark." " Milco is." "Aw, I see." "Probably because it's a strange new place, right?" "Aw, I think we can leave the light on tonight, just for Milco, can't we, Pippa?" "I think we might." "Nightie night." "Yeah, night you lot." " Good night." " Good night." " Aw." " Oh, Brad." "Shut your face, pea brain." "No dirty dreams about him." "I should be so lucky." "Make it work, God." "Don't let us all be split up." " Amen." " Saying your prayers, are we?" "Nothing wrong with that." "Waste of time." "While you're at it ask him to send me a new boyfriend as good as Brad." "Good night." "Oh, Brad." "Turn it off, Egghead." "Well, you told me not to call you Einstein." "I can't sleep with you flashing this thing about." " Give it back." " Or what?" " You're not worth it." " Wimp." "Someone with brains must have really dumped on you once." "Is that what you call psychology, is it?" "No, I call it sense." "Night, Dad." "Night, Mum." " What are you up to?" " Nothing." "Everything's going to be all right." "It already feels like home." "Yeah, well let's make it even more like home." "I love you." "Yes, I feel strangely attracted to you too." "Hey, I forgot something." "Hey, nothing can be that important." "It is to me." "Now, where were we?" "Hey, Lance, check it out." " Yeah, right, check it out." " Whoa." "I hope that's not the best Summer Bay can offer." " He's going to talk to us." " Not for long he's not." "How are you going?" "He's Martin." "I'm Lance." "And I'm not interested." " Too bad, mate." " Shut up." "It's your loss." "Suckers." "If that's the answer to last nights prayer then I'm an atheist." " What's an atheist?" " She's just being silly." "G'day." "Amen." "Thanks, Ailsa." "I'll catch you." "All the junk you eat, it's a wonder you're not one big pimple." "You should have seen the look on your face." "Hey, it's the Fletcher girls." "Boo." "Come on in, girls." "Don't mind Bobby." "She's all bark and no bite." "Now what can I get you?" "Oh, I think I know what you like." " She's nice." " Yeah, Pippa said she was." " Won over." " Yeah." " How are we little girls?" " Just ignore her." "Don't think you're going to get away with it that easy, do you?" " You lot got me arrested." " Look, you got yourself." " Think you're tough do you?" " Leave her alone." " Or what?" " Look, you want a fight," "I'll give you a fight, but not around her." "Come inside, Bobby." "Carly, take her home." " You'll pay." " Get inside." "You always have to do it, don't you?" " They're creeps." " They're nice young kids." " They're as bad as Fisher." " Their mother was in here yesterday." "She was actually worried about you." "She won't give a damn now." " Doesn't worry me." " Now you listen to me, young lady." "You need every friend you can get." "OK, you've had a tough life, but it only excuses so much." "If you're not careful, you'll even turn the likes of me against you, now out." "In case you're wondering, it's a pineapple upside down cake." "What happened?" "Ailsa told me I might find you here." "I'm Pippa Fletcher." "Come to warn me off, have you?" "Our family is not out to get you." " I don't care." " We regret what happened." " Sure you do." " Please." "Hear me out." "I want to prove to you that the arrest wasn't our idea." "We've got spare caravans." "You can have one rent free if you help out around the grounds." " Me." "Live at your joint." " Why not?" "You already have." "That was before the Brady Bunch moved in." "You don't have to have anything to do with us if you don't want to." "I'm offering you accommodation, that's all." " Why?" " I came here wanting to thump you, then I thought that makes me no better than you." " And that's pretty rotten, isn't it?" " I didn't mean that." "Ailsa told me where you live so I went there looking for you." " It's a hovel." " I does me." "I want to prove to you that we're friends and help you into the bargain." " What do you say?" " I get it." "Talk about running scared." "You think by buttering me up will stop me hitting your little brats, then forget it." " It's a genuine offer." " Sure it is." " I don't want trouble with you, Bobby." " You've got it." "I'm warning you." "I'm not going to stand by and watch you hurt my children and I don't think you want to." "Don't bet on it." "Now I'm in full charge and you're all going to do what I say." "Ooohh." "Now there's some raking to be finished round there." "Lynn and Sally." "Milco and I declare that the barbecue is open." "Look at what we've done in just a few days." "It's working, Tom." "Tom, Tom, fire!" "One of the caravans is on fire." "Come down here quick." "Fire!" "Floss, be careful." "Tom, the fire brigade is on it's way." "Can't you do anything?" "No, it's too far gone." "The bush is dry." "If we don't contain it the whole damn thing might go up." "Watch out!" "I don't believe it." "When did you put that bloody thing there?" "Well, where's the fire?" "Aw, deary me." "I'm too far over the hill for this sort of caper." "You're not the only love and I'm afraid you won't need your crystal ball to see what's going to happen." "What do you mean?" "Well, no one's had time to think yet, but when they do I'm going to give you one guess at where they're going to point the finger." "Right." "I just want to know one thing." " Did you do it?" " Rack off!" "Did you do it?" "See." "Even you think I might have." "Don't blame me for going while the going's good." " Did you do it?" " No, all right." " Bloody well no, OK." " If you do a flit now you're as a good as signing a confession to something you didn't do." "I'm on a bond, a good behaviour bond." "Torching a caravan's not good behaviour." " There was no proof that you did it." " There was no proof I robbed Fisher." "Aw, how many times do I have to tell you?" "The Fletcher's are nothing like Donald Fisher." "If you start running now, you won't stop Bobby, trust me." "Trust me, you stubborn little idiot." "I'm sick of being dumped on, Ailse." "Sit down." "I noticed the police sifting through the ashes as I came over." "Glad to see you brought them in." "Yeah, well we didn't really have much choice." " Alf had to report the fire." " Well at least we will see justice done." " Just, why are you here, Mr. Fisher?" " Well, it's obvious, isn't it." "There's no doubt that they'll find proof of arson." "I've suffered at the girls hands too." "I understand." "Yeah, there are such things as electrical faults." "And there are such things as delinquent girls." "You know it wasn't a girl as well as I do." "Bobby Simpson decided to get her own back." "There's no proof." "There will be and I want to make sure you don't side with the bleeding hearts of Summer Bay when there is." "With your help I can see the girl behind bars, where she belongs, even if we have to tell a few white lies." "I know I can count on a decent couple like yourselves." " Out please!" " There's no need." " Our or I'll throw you out." " I expected better from you." "Just because I helped you arrest Bobby by accident, don't think we're going to join your little club." "We don't get kicks out of persecuting kids." " Or framing them." " What does that mean?" " I think you know." " Well, if that's your attitude." " You better believe." " Hardly surprising of course." "I hear you little brood all come from bad blood too." "I'll go now while the going's good if I were you." "I was prepared to be a good neighbour." "I can see how it's going to be though." "I have a lot of influence in this area." " The condemned man ate a hearty meal." " What?" " With or without salt?" " It's my nerves." "You haven't done anything wrong." "You've got nothing to worry about." "Come on." "Come give us a hand." "Why do you bother, Ailse?" "Because if I don't they'll be nothing on the shelves, stupid." "No, I don't mean this." "I mean me." "Why bother?" " I'm a beggar for punishment." " No, I'm serious." "Why?" "I knew somebody very like you once." "They weren't given a chance." "What happened to them?" "Nothing." "Oh, this old dames got a history darling, but don't expect to hear it from my lips." "Do you want a cuppa?" " I want to hear the story." " One cuppa coming up." "Stop." "Ailsa." "G'day, Bobby." "Thought I might find you here." "I'd like a word with you." "Look, you don't know what she's like." "You haven't been there." " You are overreacting." " We're not." "You're not being fair." "Will you listen to me please, for a minute." "Now the police have found no proof one or another." "They know it wasn't an electrical fault, but there's no proof of arson either." " They're not sure how it started." " So it could have been Bobby." " It could have been." " Yeah, but we're not prepared to see someone thrown in the slammer on a maybe." "She's on a good behaviour bond." "If she breaks it, she's done for." " Yeah, well good riddance." " Yeah." " I hate her." " Sally." "Well, I do!" "Look, I can understand you girls, but we can't tell the police to put her away just because she had a go at you." "If we do, we'd be no better than Fisher." "And I don't think any of us want to be like him." " No, no way!" " We've told the police that we're not interested in seeing it taken further and that means by any of us." "So that means if you see Bobby, they'll be no accusation and no slanging matches because we decide right here and now that she didn't do it, right, and we never mention it again." "Right." "Yeah, OK." " Carly." " Look, if she hassles me I'm not just." "Yeah, well you just come and see us, but no accusations right." "Good to see her happy for a change." "I hope she realises how lucky she is." "If the Fletcher's had really wanted to force the issue it might have been a different story." "Yeah, I hope she realises that to." "I don't suppose a pies out of the question." "Come on." "They're hot." "Hey, Lance, check it out." "It's Bobby, man." "Yeah, right." "G'day, you dag." "Up yours, Lance." "That's no way to talk to Summer Bay's most eligible bachelors." "Aw, I don't know where they are." "I can only see you blokes." "We used to be good enough for you once." "Yeah, well we all grow up, don't we?" "Well some of us do." "Aw, guess what." "Barnett just told me I'm off the hook, not even if I torched that caravan." " Do you reckon we should tell her mate?" " Good for a laugh." "Hey, Bobby, what would it be worth to you to know who lit the fire?" "You know?" " Maybe." " Maybe." " But you don't get nothing for nothing." " Right!" " Who brought the echo?" " What do you mean?" " Forget it." "Who was it?" " What's it worth?" "Tell me Martin or I'll throw up." "Just tell us." "A mate of Lance, he snuck in with his Sheila for a bit of fun and he reckons he left a ciggy burning." "Not surprised though." "He's a real drongo." " Yeah." " When did you find this out?" " This morning." " He told me at work." "You knew this morning and you didn't say anything." " Aw, I'm not going to dob in a mate." " What about me?" "Aw, you're not a mate." "You're just a" " A Sheila." " Sheila, yeah, that's right." "You mongrels." " Watch it" " Hey!" "I nearly had my whole life stuffed up and you knew all along." " Bobby." " Take it easy." " I'm going to kill you!" " You're nuts!" " Aw, you're nuts!" " Let go of me!" "Let her go!" "Let her go!" "Rack off!" "I don't need any help." "Doesn't look like it to me." "Drop her!" " We'll do what we like." " You with weed killer." " Yeah, you weed." " Rack off will you." "Not until they go." " Aw, I'm scared." " This is your last chance." "What are you going to do about it?" "Blow on us." "Come on." "That's it, mate." "Where did you learn to do that?" " You're going now, aren't you?" " You should watch your temper, kid." " Can't a bloke have a joke." " Serves you right." "She's nuts." "You can have her." "Did you see that?" "The little blokes Bruce Lee." " You sure you're a Fletcher?" " Yeah." " Well, why did you help me then?" " Well, why not?" " You don't even like me." " Who said?" " Don't tell my family about." " The karate?" " Yeah." " As if I'd talk to your family." " Hey." " Yeah." "The cops reckon your folks kept them off my back." "Did they?" "Yes." "Pippa and Tom are OK." "Did you know we're not their kids?" "We're fostered, all of us." "So here's to Neville and Floss." "Neville and Floss, we can't thank you enough for all that help." "Aw, no worries." "Getting stuck into a bit of work like that helps the old girl drop a bit of weight." "The only weight I'll drop will be this fist on your head if you don't watch it." "Ooh." "No, seriously, though, you two, thanks for last night and your help with the clean up." "It was great." "Oh, my pleasure, as the Siamese twins said to their girlfriend." "A bloke with a crook back is not really up to all this disco dancing rubbish." "Where's your crook back when it comes to bowling?" "Golf." "Bowls is an old mans game." "Besides, that's different." "I think your back is very selective about when it does and doesn't play up." "Oh, hello, Pippa." "I won't keep you a minute." " No hurry." "Hi, Alf." " G'day, Pip." "Look, Ailse, I've got nothing against dancing, but just so long as I don't have to do it." "In other words you'd rather go to the pub, again." " You're a born salesman." " Oh, come on, Alf." "Haven't you ever heard the word variety?" "Yeah, it's the spice of life, but just because we're going to the pub doesn't mean there's going to be any spice." "Oh, stop it, Alf Stewart!" "Go on." "Get out of here!" "I'll pick you up about eight." "You fixed your barbie yet?" "We're thinking of leaving it as it is." "The leaning tower of Summer Bay." "Might catch on as a tourist attraction." "Love a woman with a sense of humour." "Rare commodity." "I didn't know you and Alf were an item." "Oh, we're what they used to call in the old days a courting couple." "The trouble is it's more coupling than courting." "What can I get you?" "Five hundred grams of sliced ham to start with." " Bobby's still playing it cool." " Oh, is she still out there?" " I think she might like a word with you." " Why?" "Well, let's just say she's starting to see things a bit differently." " Hey!" " Yeah." "You know that caravan, is it still there?" " The one I said you could live in." " Right!" "Like, it's not the one that burnt down or anything, is it?" " No." " Is the offer still good?" "Do you want to take me up on it?" "Could do for a while, I suppose." "Good." " You did what?" " You heard." "Well, when did you come up with this little bright idea?" "Remember the other day when I tracked her down and read her the riot act." "Oh, asking her to live with us is reading the riot act." "She won't be living with us." "She'll just be using one of the caravans." "Look, this is the girl that's been monstering our kids." " It's all going to change." " Oh, you've got that in writing, have you?" "I thought you were on her side." "I didn't want her thrown in the slammer." "That doesn't mean I want her living here." "You've never even met her." "Believe me, it's a breakthrough." "Look, you know what we're doing here, don't you?" "I mean, we need every bit of support we can from this town, to make this place a going concern." "You bring her in, you risk blowing it." "I mean, if we don't get this place up and running love, we jeopardise the entire family." "The departments out there waiting to take our kids off us or have you forgotten that fact?" "I'm sorry, love, but that's the way things are." "There's no guarantee bringing Bobby here will cause trouble." "If it does I'll ask her to leave." "We've never turned our back on a kid in trouble before." "Did she actually ask you if she could move in?" "Yes." " Well, do you think it might work?" " It's worth a try." "Right, one condition." "We have to get a majority vote on it." "We rave on about being democratic parents." "We're going to have to put our money where our mouths are." "Well, that's about it." "Over to you." " You must be nuts." " Sounds OK to me." "Aw, what would you know?" "You've never even met the girl." " Have so." " Aw, where?" " Down the beach one day." " What happened?" "Nothing." "I said hi and she said hi." "That was it." " I bet." " Einstein's got the knack." " Hey." " Sorry." "Steven has." "The trouble with you girls was once incident." "I'm sure she's over it." " I hate her!" " Would you stop saying that." " But I do!" " Hey, let's take a vote, shall we, before we all start arguing." "Majority rules, OK." "Now, hands up all those in favour of giving Bobby a go, and I want to stress, the first sign of trouble and she'll be out." "Yeah, well, I suppose we should at least give her a go." "That's four." "Sorry, girls." "That's a majority." " No, it's not." " Yes, it is, sweetheart." "Me, Tom, Steve, Frank, that's four." "You, Lynn and Carly that's three." " Four to three, that's a majority." " What about Milco?" " What about him?" " Me, Carly, Lynn and Milco." "That makes four." "Four of us and four of you." " Sorry, sweetie, but Milko can't vote." " Why not?" "Yeah, why not?" "Milco's a member of the family, isn't he?" " Carly." " Well, he is!" "You can't say he is one minute and not the next." " Yeah." " You're a stirrer, Carly." " So what if I am." " We don't want her here." "Right, and you said there had to be a majority vote for it to happen." "Well, there's not a majority vote." "It's a tie so Bobby." "You watch your tongue, young lady." "Milco can't vote and that's it." " Milco can vote, he can." " Aw, Sal." " It's not fair!" " We agree, Sal." "Come on." "Let's go!" "You can't change the rules to suit yourself." "We'll by upstairs." "Come on, Milco!" " I could throttle her!" " Yeah, she's being a little devil." " She's got a point." " What point?" "Well we can't acknowledge Milco just when it suits us." "If we do that we're threatening Sal's whole belief in him." "It's effectively giving her two votes." "If we want to be consistent, yes it is." "Look, I'm on your side about Bobby, but Tom's right." "So Bobby loses out because of a figment of Sally's imagination." " Not unless you can talk Milco around." " Don't be stupid, Tom." "Maybe I can!" "Now no giving in OK." "Yes." " I'm sorry I was cross, girls." " That's OK." "We're not going to change our minds." "I wanted to say sorry to Milco too." "Where is he, Sal?" "Of course!" "Maybe I got cross about you voting Milco because this means such a lot to me." "Remember how we helped you and Sally when you came to us." "I want to help Bobby too." "I know she can be mean." "She's never had anyone to love her." "Her mummies dead and her daddies gone away." "No one cares about her." "Maybe you'd be like her if you hadn't come to live with us." "I'm so proud of you and the girls." "Wouldn't it be terrific if we could help Bobby." "Give her the chance you've all had." "That's all." " That will be her." " I'll get it." " Do your best." " Bobby, right!" " Yeah." " Yeah, good to have you around the place." " I'm Tom." "Come on in." " The neighbours." "Well, you know most of the family, but by name, Steven." "Yeah, I know Steve." " Sally." " Hi!" " Frank." " Hi!" "Lynn and Carly." "Yeah, well, that's that done." "We're having some lunch." "Do you want to join us?" " Not hungry." " Sure." " Yeah, just point me to the caravan." " I'll be back in a minute." "There you go." "All right." "It will do." "I'll leave you to it then." "You know where we are if you need anything?" "What's my first job?" " Sorry." " Around the joint." " Nothing for nothing." " No rush about that." "The deal was this for some work." "I'm no one's charity case." "Fair enough." "Ask Tom about it." "Ah, place where you used to live." "Full of love, eh." "Yeah, I'm getting green and white." "Yeah, white, it was white with a green face, eh." " Right!" " Yeah, just you and your parents." "Oh, no, no there another bloke." "Of course there is." " A friend of your dads, eh." " Yeah, Bill." "You're amazing!" "Got to go, Floss." "What about the rest of your reading?" "Maybe later, eh." " You would bring those things out." " I have to practice sometime." "Well you scared young Steven off and I was giving him a real good read too." " More likely you scared him off yourself." " Peesh, tash." "You're good when you get going, Floss." "Sometimes you see things that people don't want you to see." "Oh, young Steven just didn't want his ears bashed, that's all." " Oh, not around here." " What's wrong with it?" "It's hardly a turn on." "Turn on." "Picking up the kids lingo, are we?" " Turn on." " Oh, stop leering, Nev." " You're too old to leer." " You can't blame a bloke." "You're still a very fetching woman, Floss." "Oh, get away will you." "What are you going to do now?" "Well, I'm going to do a reading for Bobby and see what it says." "Ah, good idea!" "Did you see the way he looked at me?" " You don't even know his name?" " Well, he'll get round to telling me." " That's if he even talks to you." " Great, that's all we need." "She's not too bad." "She wouldn't even be here if you and Sal had listened to me." "Well, after what Pippa said." "Emotional blackmail." "Don't, it's not worth it." "You should be used to it by now." " Oh, it's not that, it's these." " Oh, what does it say?" "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "It's not like that crystal ball stuff she goes on with." " She's really accurate with the cards." " She's an old fake." "She'd have pumped the other kids for information." "She knew things none of them know." "I've never come across a paranormal phenomenon before." "To any of us she's a fortune teller, to him she's a paranormal phenomenon." "Yeah, well you wouldn't need to be paranormal to read this lot." "Not good, eh." "Isn't there a tarot card called the hangmen." "Oh, I'm going to puncture that bloody thing one day." "I suppose we have been going through money like water." "The dams almost dry." "We had to start getting things ship shape." "We'll just have to economise from now on." "It will be OK when the customers start coming in, whenever that is." "They will." "Word just has to get around." "Yeah." "Even when it does there's no guarantee they'll come." "And then we've got the offices to cope with." "I think it's time I did something about getting a job." " Need a hand, Ailsa." " Oh, no thanks." " Think it's just the plugs." " Fine." "Mervin." "I hear that Tom Fletcher was in for a interview today." "That's right." "I think there's something we should speak about." "Oh, what's that?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yes, I understand, Mr. Baldivis." "Yeah, sure." "Well, look, if anything else should come up." "Thank you." "He wants a younger man would you believe." "Ah, there's plenty more jobs going." "Course they are." " Aw, g'day." " Hello." "Aw, I've been meaning to ask you, any of your lot got any talent." "We're looking for another act for the variety night." "Frank plays guitar, or if you're really desperate you could get Neville to play a solo on the bagpipes." "We want an audience, thanks." "Hey, are you all right." " I'm trying to stay positive." " What's wrong?" "You don't want to hear." "Bobby's not playing up again, is she?" "No, apart from some tension with Carly she's doing better than we could have hoped." "It's just that Tom can't find a job." "He goes for interviews, everything seems OK and then we get the thanks, but no thanks call." "He's been out looking every day this week." "Gets you down after a while." "Yes." "He should be able to get something." "Well, that's what we thought, but jobs just don't grow on trees." "Certainly not in a small town like this." "Look, I might be wrong, but I think I know what's been happening?" "What do you mean?" "I think your next door neighbour is one step ahead of you all the time." "Mr. Fletcher, a rather boisterous knock." "I know what you're up to, Fisher." " I don't understand." " Oh, you understand all right." "Perhaps you'll be good enough to enlighten me then." "We both know you've been white handing me getting jobs." "Me, stopping you getting work." "That's ridiculous." " I know it for a fact." " Well, I suggest you check your facts." " I've got witnesses!" " Then they're mistaken." "What you do or don't do is of no interest to me, Mr. Fletcher." "I had to put up with your rumours on your own property." "I don't have to put up with it here." "You're a gutless wonder, Fisher." "You're not even man enough to admit what you're up to." "Which is?" "You're trying to drive us out of the area, aren't you?" "Now you really are being paranoid." "Good afternoon, Mr. Fletcher." "I should punch your face in." "You'd be up on an assault charge if you did." "Oh, I bet I would." "Unless you leave now I'll have you charged with trespass." "You like using the law to get your own way, do you?" "Well, there's some decent people in Summer Bay Fisher and you can't influence all of them." "Enough to make your life difficult." "Now get out!" "Hey, this is our home and it's Bobby's too." "You're not going to get away with it." "Ailse!" "You've got to do us a big favour love, now." "You should have given us a ring." "We could have saved you the trip." "You're saying there's no truth in the letter." "That's what I'm saying." " Well, is the girl here or isn't she?" " Yeah, she is." "Are you still having trouble finding a job?" " Yeah, sure I am!" " Is money tight?" "That letter is a distortion of the facts." "The creep next door must have sent it." "He wants us out." " Why does he want you out?" " Because he's a" "OK, Frank, I'll handle this one." "Look, this guy Fisher, he's a real little heckler." "I mean, we got on his wrong side by letting Bobby stay here and he wants out blood." "You make anything out of this you are really backing the bad guy." "Well, let's leave the good guys and bad guys stuff to the movies, eh." "Look, I'm here for the answers to two questions." "Are you still experiencing financial difficulties that could be detrimental to the children and two, is this Bobby Simpson a moral danger to them?" "If the answer's are yes, no matter who sent the letter and for whatever reason," "I'm going to have to reassess your custody of the children." "You take our kids away, the effect will be ten times more disastrous than anything that could happen to them with us." " The facts are" " Facts." "I'll give you facts." "Frank here, a little street urchin." "A virtual resinous, but today, look at him and Carly, catatonic from parental abuse when she came to us." " I know their cases!" " Lynn, run a way." "She's only ever ran away from us once and she can back of her own accord." "And what about little Sally, bewildered by the loss of her grandmother and look at her now." "Steven can actually sleep a full night without waking up screaming." " This is not getting us anywhere." " These are our kids, damnit." "They are the products of the love and the care that we've given them and you'll take them away over my dead body." " Yes, yes." " Hello." "Hope I haven't interrupted anything." "Well, yes, you have as a matter of fact." "I'm sorry." "I'm terribly sorry." "Of course I'll come back later." "I'll just wanted to leave you this." " Well, what's that for?" " You've got the job, start tomorrow." "Just fill that in and bring it with you." " Job, what job?" " Hello, I'm Ailsa Hogan." "I run the local store." "You can start tomorrow, can't you?" "Of course he can." "We'll change our plans darling." " What a relief." " Well, that's settled." "I'll leave you with it." "That's all I came along to say." "After all you've done for Bobby a job is the least I can offer you." "She's one difficult kid, all right." "One of our local troublemakers." "They've done wonders with her." "Well, goodbye, Mr" " Pearce." " Yes." "Nice meeting you." " Think he bought it." " Of course he did." "I was listening." "You even had me believing you." "Tom nearly blew it." "What job." "Now all we have to do is wait." " Why don't you just?" " Why don't you just leave?" "What the hell's going on?" "You might as well of-- How do you think you are?" "Bobby, stop doing that!" "Break it up the pair of you." " Bobby, get up!" " No!" " Get here." " Stand up!" " Get off her!" " Hey!" " She started it." " I don't care who started it." " That would be right, sweetheart." " Stop it, both of you!" " We never wanted her in the first place." " Carly." " Carly." " Well, we didn't." " Carly." " Everything's a mess now because of her." "You care more about hurting people than us." " Who care's about you anyway?" " Yeah." "The whole town hates you." "Stop it, now stop it now!" "I didn't know he was there." "Of course you didn't, sweetheart." "There, there, honey." "If he puts us in home now it's going be my fault." " Shhh!" " I hate her, Pippa!" "I hate Bobby!" " It will be all my fault." " It will be all right." "Shhh!" "Anyone for more toast?" "Now, come on, you guys." "We're all acting like it's a foregone conclusions." " It is." " No, it's not." " You saw him when he left." " What will happen to me and Milco?" " It's OK, Sal." " Look, he believed Ailsa about the job." "That's a start." "Come on." "We've got to look on the bright side." "Here, here, Bobby's done a bunk." "She left this." " Where?" " I don't know!" "She was there till late last night." "She reckons you'll all be better off without her here." " Good riddance!" " Grow up!" " Yeah!" " Look, she doesn't care about us." " She wouldn't have gone if she didn't." " Right, you call her, Steve." "She can't have gone far." "She might not have left town for all we know." "Hey, come on, kids." "Get changed." "We're going to do a full search." " What?" " Frank." "He called me Steve." "For the first time he called me by his proper name." "A breakthrough, eh." "Let's hope they get the chance to build on it." "Thanks." " You can't go in there." " Try and stop me." " I tried to stop her." " It's all right, Miss Purvis." " Bobby, isn't it?" " You know it is!" " I can call security." " It's all right!" " But" " Really, Miss Purvis, it's fine." "Sit down." "No thanks." "It's too late for me, but those kids back there are OK, except Carly, and one out of fives not bad." " Bobby, look" " Shut up and listen." "My folks were no good and I hated them." " I think" " I said listen." "I used to dream about what sort of folks I'd like and" "I reckon Tom and Pippa are just about what I dreamed off." "You take those kids away and stick them in some dumb home, you need your head read." "It doesn't matter how broke they get, those two will never let the kids suffer." "You don't have to worry about me." "I won't be there." "I've stuffed up my own life enough." "I'm not going to stuff up there." "I just hope you welfare blokes show a bit of sense for a change and leave them along." "That's it." "As soon as I realised she intended disappearing into the crowd," "I was out of the office and after her, but she had gone." "Maybe she'll just spend some time in the city and then come back." "She said, it's too late for me." "She's given up on herself." "All the more reason to find her." "Yeah, it will be downhill all the way for her." "You got it." "I can inform the police, but the trouble with that is, she's violated a bond." "She shouldn't have left the district without informing the local constable." "That means to help her we have to dob her in." "I don't think there's any choice." "What do you think will happen?" "Depends on the circumstances when they catch up with her." "At worst she'll have her bond revoked and go to a home." "At best." "Look, this may seem inconsistent from the guy who huffed out of here the other day, but I read Bobby's file." "Anyone who can inspire that kid to go to the bother of tracking me down to make the speech she made to me." "You've done a pretty incredible job." "The best is we make her a ward of the state and allocate her to suitable foster parents." "If I can convince the court it's for her benefit, they'll buy it." "Now how do you feel about taking on another one?" "Here they come." "Well, I'll get on to finding her, but as soon as we do I'll need you both in court." "Yeah, OK." "What's everyone looking so stressed about?" "We got a reprieve." "We're still the Fletcher family." "Thanks, Mr. Pearce." "And there's one person we have to thank more than anyone else." "It's important you realise that, especially you, Carly." "Hey, this calls for a celebration." "Come on!" "Hey, this better be good." "Is she all right?" "Oh, great!" "Yeah, ten o'clock." "Yeah, we'll be there." "Good!" " What was it?" " They've found her!" "We've got to be in court tomorrow." "That's only three days." "That's pretty good going." "Let's hope the court sees it our way." "Lynn!" "Lynn!" "Pippa wants me to take a photo of them all when they arrive?" "You know, Floss, if anyone can get Floss back on the right track, it's those." "That's what she's need all her life, you know." "To belong to a family." "You can't guarantee they'll get custody of her yet." "Well, let's look on the bright side, eh." "If there is a bright side." "Here." "Are you still worried about what you saw in those cards?" "I saw what I saw." "Well, I'd understand why you were worried if I knew what it was." "Forget it eh?" "Just forget it." "Stop being so mysterious." "Well, let's just say that if I'm right, if I'm right, it might be better if the judge doesn't give her too them." "Floss." "Death, all right." "I saw death." "Now, if I'm right, Bobby could be the death of one of them." "Look, I just want to forget about it." "What would I know anyway?" "Silly little chook like me." "Hope you know what you've let yourselves in for." "I think we've got a fair idea!" "And no way am I calling you mum and dad." "No way do we want you to." "You're all right, you know that." "Hey, isn't that Fisher over there?" " Are you going to stop?" " No." "Do you see what I see?" " Hey!" " I ahead of you." "Hey!" "Hey, Tom." "Watch the" " Puddle." " I was watching it." "Ha ha!" "He was aiming at it." "I'm back!" " Can I see you?" " You see me." " Out here, alone." " What is it, Carly?" "Go on." "We'll wait." " Any idea what she's up to?" " Knowing Carly's pride, yes." "Well, you can see what the sign says." " Yeah." "I can read!" " Well, it goes for me to." "They're here!" "Hi!" "Come on, come on!" "Up here!" "We've got to get a picture of you." "Come on!" "Littlies in front." "That's it." "That's it." "Steven, in a bit, in a bit." "That's it." "There." "Smile." "Captioned by Grantman Brown"