"Previously on Dance Academy..." "Can we go somewhere and... talk?" "I'm supposed to be meeting..." "Ethan!" "Good for him." "I want to create my own work." "I can't do that in a corps de ballet for the next five years." "I've known you since we were five and you have never walked out of class." "Kat?" "Ex-best friend, now frenemy." "Well, this guy, he's closer than a brother." "We need Aaron to say he's the one who planned the robbery, OK?" "He's the one who brought the knife." "Hey, stranger!" "Have you seen Aaron?" "Yeah, he's gone up north." "Our sentencing hearing is next week." "Kaylah's right." "You're running away." "What am I supposed to do?" "Get legal advice, keep taking class to get a reference from the Academy." "You know, you're like a 40-year-old man trapped in a geeky 16-year-old body." "I came home from the first day of Grade 2 with a new best friend." "Layla Carter and I did everything together." "I gave her a pencil sharpener, she gave me a friendship bracelet." "We gave each other nits." "OK, get ready, everyone." "Let's pick it up from the slide." "And one, two, three, four..." "The following year, we were put in different classes and Layla met Ruby Simpson." "Though she tried to deny it, I knew she had a new best friend." "Mum said it's natural that people grow up, move in different directions." "Some friendships aren't meant to last forever." "Good work, guys." "Great." "See you tomorrow." "Hey, I'm scrounging around for dancers." "You have a sisterly obligation." "You" " I just need." "I'll be there." "Are you gonna tell us what it's for?" "Rehearsal room at 6:00." "OK." "Hey, we need to practise that last lift." "Sorry, I..." "I can't right now." "Ethan needs dance bodies." "I don't think he's picky." "Clearly." "He asked you." "Are you doing anything better?" "No." "So I can come with you tomorrow." "And they've already given me permission to go to court which basically means..." "I'm by your side all week." "So if I wanted to go to the bathroom, say, is that a group activity or what?" "It's about keeping your eye on the prize." "Let me hear the magic words." "Suspended sentence." "Sorry, what was that?" "Suspended sentence." "Oh, I've got to get home." "I have to play nice with Dad." "Are you OK to stay here by yourself?" "Sammy, I'll be fine." "OK." "See ya!" "Hey!" "Aaron!" "What, man?" "You miss me that much?" "Where have you been?" "I've been freaking out." "I've been in Byron, up the coast." "Wait, our court hearing is this Friday and you go on a surfing trip?" "I got scared." "I just... got on a bus and... when I started thinking again, one thing was pretty obvious." "What, that you'd get caught?" "No." "Don't you understand how much worse it'd be?" "No." "I'd take my chances if this was just about me." "But I can't let you do this on your own." "Come on, let's go for a surf." "Come on, man." "Thank you, all of you, for coming." "I know general consensus is that I'm an idiot for turning down a contract with a company..." "Is this one of those confessionals where you ask for help?" "Uh, kind of." "I've been applying for choreography positions." "I just heard back from Impresión." "Barcelona?" "Exactly." "They've asked to see some of my current work." "Wow, Ethan, that's incredible." "It would be an opportunity to be seen by one of the world's most interesting contemporary companies." "Hopefully we can do something really special." "Let's get started." "That's great, everyone." "Abigail, can I get you to move downstage?" "Can you tell I'm excited?" "Yeah, but Barcelona?" "You don't even like tapas." "It's an amazing workshop and it's only for a year." "Then what?" "Sell myself around Europe, small experimental companies." "Work my way up." "But you don't do poor." "You don't do indie." "You don't even do facial hair." "And there are heaps of contemporary companies here." "Are you listening to yourself?" "You're trying to convince me to stay when all you ever do is talk about getting out of here." "How many hours do you think we spend out here, man?" "I don't know if I'm going to survive jail." "The legal aid guy said that's not the case if we make a decent impression." "If you do." "You're a good kid at a fancy ballet school." "I'm the bad influence that led you astray." "Look, I'm not gonna let them put this all on you, alright?" "I know, mate, but I'm 18." "I'm the one who brought the knife." "They're just not gonna let me out of this with a slap on the wrist." "So are you gonna shut up and surf or have you lost all your moves?" "Can I pose you a hypothetical?" "Why?" "Limited options." "OK, so, say you know someone that's about to throw away everything that they've worked for?" "Do you think it's worse to, A, try and stop them, or, B, let them make the biggest mistake of their life?" "If you want Ethan to stay..." "Who says this is about Ethan?" "All you have to do is give him a reason." "Like?" "Tara... is always sneaking things into my laundry." "Can that girl seriously not afford her own washing powder?" "Where did this come from?" "I thought it was time we started over." "And I wanted to express that in flowers." "Really?" "No." "Does that look like a 'T' to you?" "Why would anyone be communicating in flowers?" "The better question is, why would anyone get anyone a gerbera?" "I like gerberas." "They're happy flowers." "No, sunflowers are happy flowers." "Gerberas are all like, "Ooh, look at me, I'm a gerbera."" "So attention-seeking." "Well, obviously your secret admirer has a different taste in botanicals." "You really think I have a secret admirer?" "Christian, can you just read your statement and confirm for me that it's an accurate record of events?" "The plan is to make the case that the robbery was out of character." "Christian has been a model student all year." "I'll vouch for that, if it helps." "Yeah, sure." "He's got no prior convictions." "So it was clear that he was led astray by bad company." "This should give the judge good reason not to send him to juvenile detention." "Sorry, I..." "I need to change the statement." "It says here that..." "I didn't know about the knife." "I did know." "It was mine." "Christian, what are you doing?" "There is no way it was his knife." "You told me you freaked when Aaron pulled it..." "I lied." "I'm sorry." "Hey!" "Do you want to go to juvie?" "You heard the guy." "I'm a model citizen with no priors." "The knife changes everything, Christian." "I don't remember you getting your law degree." "We... we were on track." "I don't understand." "Done." "We're sweet." "Thank you." "Tara!" "I know we all wait breathlessly to be kept up-to-date with your love life, but perhaps this can be confined to outside of class." "Yes, Miss Raine, sorry." "Girls, get changed into your pointe shoes and come back into the centre." "Oh!" "Mystery boy's inviting you on a picnic." "How sweet." "How embarrassing." "I'm not going to go." "Could be anyone." "If I tell you something, you have to promise me that you won't go." "You've already broken his heart once." "Christian broke MY heart, remember?" "I meant Ethan." "No, really." "What?" "Oh." "We need to check before we reach that point, OK?" "I'll see you before then." "OK, 6:30 tomorrow." "Uh-huh." "Um, just give me a sec." "What have you got there?" "Oh, nothing." "Yeah, it's from my pigeon hole." "Who's giving me gerberas?" "Oh, some people like gerberas!" "And trust me when I tell you, you don't want to read this." "Kat..." "I thought she'd gotten over it." "Kat, give..." "OK, OK, OK." "Just pinkie promise that you won't do anything with this information." "Tara told me that breaking up with you was the biggest mistake of her life." "Thanks for coming." "Have you spoken to Aaron?" "You've got to change his mind." "Where is he?" "Ballet boy." "Not bad." "I thought I might come and check out the famous Academy." "Figured it was my last chance since you may not be here much longer." "Are you two friends now?" "I'll leave you to it." "He's a good mate." "What?" "Unlike Aaron?" "You changed your life." "He's doing the same old thing with the same old people." "You should go home, Kaylah." "Is this what you were trying to do?" "A whole year at this fancy dance school, hey?" "Maybe I should audition." ""Some flowers for a flower."" "You look nice." "Um... thanks." "This is nice too." "Isn't it?" "Really... nice." "Shall I serve?" "Ow!" "Ow!" "Ow!" "Ow!" "What?" "What?" "I think I just got stung by a bee." "Where?" "Oh, um..." "OK, here." "Let me get you some ice here." "Oh." "Um, sorry..." "Tara..." "Let me just..." "Ow!" "What are you trying to do to me?" "I don't know." "Why are we even here?" "You tell me." "You invited me." "No, I didn't." "You invited me." "Kat!" "Kat." "Ohh." "I can't believe you were coming here to let me down gently." "I was planning to say we work better as friends." "How is that gentle?" "At least I was going to pull out the long-distance card." "So do you?" "So do I what?" "Only like me as a friend." "Sure." "I like you as a friend." "No, you like me more than that." "Oh, really?" "Don't I smell like Christmas or something?" "Ow!" "Ow!" "Aaron." "Ah, dance school." "Cheddar's mate." "I thought I'd give you the heads-up." "Christian's lawyer convinced him to stick with his original story, so... you should tell the truth about the knife." "And Christian sent you here to tell me this?" "He's busy, getting ready for court and, you know..." "And what?" "Polishing his shoes?" "You don't know him at all, do you?" "I know he's not a coward." "And I know he's loyal." "I mean, that's what you're relying on, isn't it?" "You can't ask him to lie for you." "Mates don't have to ask." "I knew you'd always end up in a place like this." "It could have just as easily been you." "No." "It's like you've got this thing around you." "Like a light or something." "You've got to stop feeling guilty for getting chances." "I mean, I love him too, but you don't owe him this." "Well, I just had the best date of my life." "Really?" "Ah!" "Who would have thought?" "Oh, first it was a little awkward, but Tara and I together, with the flowers..." "Hmm." "She admitted she still has feelings for me and I realised I hadn't gotten over her either." "Mm-hm." "So we're running away together." "Right." "Did you just want to embarrass me one last time before going overseas?" "Like your version of a goodbye present." "No, I just..." "You just what, Kat?" "!" "Tell me." "You have my full attention." "Can we raincheck the lecture?" "You can yell at me as much as you like." "Just not right now!" "T, I shouldn't be telling you this, but..." "I need your help." "Yeah, of course." "Anything." "It's about Christian." "Then you should talk to Kaylah." "Seems like she's all over it." "You... have no idea what you're talking about." "Why didn't you tell me?" "You know everything about me." "Every stupid little thing." "You knew about Aaron." "You let me think it was shoplifting!" "I didn't know about the knife or the criminal record." "How could you not tell me that?" "What do you want to know, Tara?" "You want to know that we robbed a service station?" "That we scared the guy so much he hasn't worked since?" "You want to know that when my mum died," "I slept on Aaron's couch every night, that he was the only person that gave a crap?" "Christian..." "Maybe you want to know that every member of my family screwed up their lives and I'm probably gonna do the same." "Is that the kind of stuff you want to know, Tara?" "!" "You don't know me." "And if you're honest, you don't want to." "Wow." "Haven't seen you do that many since your cat got run over." "Poor Fred." "He had no road sense." "So, do you need to talk about it?" "Uh-uh." "No." "I prefer to express it in cupcake." "You know, but since you asked, I am just sick of everybody leaving me." "Now, I get that I'm not enough to keep my parents around." "I do, but I just thought that Ethan might stay for a little bit longer." "OK." "You've got to stop feeling sorry for yourself." "Remember all those years ago?" "Postcards you sent me?" "Amazing places." "But you said that you couldn't wait to get back to junior school so that we could be..." "Best friends forever?" "Then you decided you were a rebel and I was a Betty Bunhead." "Well, we grow up." "Became different people." "Yeah." "But you still left ME." "Not the other way around." "Here." "You're not gonna try and stop me?" "Will it make a difference?" "No." "I'll admit it wasn't my best plan." "At the start of the year, you were diabolically opposed to me dating Ethan." "People change." "Hey." "Why aren't you ready?" "He doesn't want me there and I don't know what I'd say to him." "After this is over, it's Indonesia." "You and me, surf..." "What, you don't want to get back to ballet land?" "I don't think they'd let me back in if I've been in juvie." "But... with the references and everything..." "Even if you say you took the knife, you're still gonna get a suspended sentence, right?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying." "Worst-case scenario." "Find the connection." "Trust your partner." "Be there for them every time." "Ow!" "Tara, are you with us?" "They've, uh..." "They've called us in." "Sammy, wait." "Thanks... for everything." "No-one's really tried that hard for me before." "Check it out." "Christian?" "It's time." "Hey, hey, hey." "I'm gonna tell the judge that I'm the one who brought the knife." "Aaron, what are you..." "We're not gonna argue about this." "T..." "Tell the truth, yeah?" "I don't want you on my conscience." "My dad says if when you die you can count your true friends on one hand, then you're beyond lucky." "Let me hear those magic words." "Suspended sentence." "Suspended sentence!" "I don't know how he's gonna cope in there for six months." "I'll come visit him with you." "You realise no matter what happens" "I'm always gonna be your brother, right?" "Plus Barcelona knocked me back anyway, so..." "What?" "They're idiots." "What are you thinking about?" "The future." "The Layla Carters will come and go." "With true friends, it doesn't matter how long you're away from them." "And it doesn't matter how many times you push each other away." "When it counts, you just have to be there." "Ye-hay!"