♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ There was just enough to get that far away
♫ Ooh ooh ooh
- [Lockie] Nighttime in Angelus is usually
when mother nature gets together
for a major jam session.
But, tonight, her loudest band members
had packed their instruments away.
And when things get this quiet, it gives you time
to think about things you don't particularly
want to think about.
Like your best friend kissing your girlfriend.
And with so many thoughts in your head, you can't sleep.
I wasn't the only one.
(dramatic music)
Egg couldn't take it any more.
He decided he needed to be punished,
and so, like mother nature's band,
he packed away his instrument too.
- No more air guitar.
- Lockie, how come you can't tickle yourself?
- What?
- You can't tickle yourself.
If someone else tickles you, it's ticklish,
but if you try to do it yourself, it doesn't work.
- Go to sleep.
Phillip and me weren't the only Leonards
keeping vampire hours.
- Things to do tomorrow.
Iron the breakfast, fold the bed,
change the kids' lunch, send Cyril off to school,
tie up Phillip to eat grass.
What else?
- I think you've got it covered, Joy.
- [Lockie] And as for Cyril.
- [Cyril] 28, 29, 20.
'Um, uh.
(bleating)
One, two, three.
- "Insomnia is the inability to sleep,
"commonly caused by worry, loud noise."
- Noise? You can erase that theory.
- [Sarge] Last was so quiet, you could hear
the proverbial a pin drop.
- "Other causes include bright light and caffeine."
- Caffeine?
Maybe it was the cola chicken we had last night.
(stomach gurgling)
- What kind of mother do you think I am?
I only feed my family caffeine-free casseroles.
- Sorry, Joy, it was a beautiful dish.
Very inventive.
(stomach gurgling)
- Now, these are due back at the library today.
- Read it.
- [Phillip] Read it.
- [Sarge] Ribbit.
- [Phillip] Ribbit.
- [Sarge] Ribbit.
- Ribbit.
- [Sarge] Ribbit.
- That's it!
- What's what?
- We can't sleep 'cause of the frogs.
Their croaking helps send us off to sleep at night.
Now they've gone quiet, we've become insomniacs.
- And to think their croaking used to
keep us awake when we first got here.
(frogs croaking)
- But the question remains.
What is causing the silence of the frogs?
(playful music)
- Good question, Sarge.
But it will be answered.
(mosquito buzzing)
(slap)
- [Lockie] Phillip wasn't the only one on a mission.
After the kiss, Vicki was determined
to forget it ever happened.
Convincing Egg was another matter.
- Egg, we can't say anything.
- But, I have to tell Lockie it was all my fault.
- No, you don't.
- My dad's the rev.
Confessing is in my blood.
I'm sure if we're honest about what happened.
- Nothing happened.
If we tell him, he's gonna get really upset,
and he's gonna stop being friends with both of us.
Is that what you want?
- All right, come on, Lock.
It's all right.
Nothing has to change as long as no one mentions the kiss.
They're your friends.
Just act nice and normal.
Hi, guys.
Oh, a picnic.
What a great idea.
- Yeah, with kites.
- Ah, that's something we've never done before.
- But, it's not weird or anything?
- No, it's totally normal.
- I just thought it might be fun
to try something active for a change.
- But Lockie, first up,
there's something I need to tell you.
- Good, isn't it?
Isn't this fun?
- [Lockie] It wasn't just the frogs
who were silent that day.
And with a little help from Vicki's sandwiches,
we were happy to keep the truth hidden as long as we could.
- The frogs are still here, just silent.
(mosquitoes whining)
(stomach gurgling)
- Sorry.
Perhaps the frogs are responding to
a negative change in their environments.
- So we need to give them something new to react to.
Something worth croaking about.
- Exactly.
(clears throat)
"Oh, magnificent creatures of the swamp.
"What is it that you seek?
(gentle music)
"A little shady place to hide
"from the dreaded wing or beak?
"A lily pad is sure to offer the safest place to jump.
"Or perhaps the soft, damp mud will call
"to lure you from your stump.
"And won't you treat us to your song,
"as your chimes are like a spell?
"So we can rest our heads again
"and know that all will be well."
- [Phillip] Never mind, Sarge.
- [Sarge] At least your mother's responding well
to the sudden change.
- We need to get the frogs croaking again.
- Because f their mouths aren't open.
- They're not catching mosquitoes.
- [Sarge] Exactly.
(mosquito buzzing)
- [Lockie] While things at home were getting quieter,
things at school were getting weirder.
- Okay, today we're going to try something different.
It's called silent music.
It's all about imagining the music
rather than actually playing it.
This group will be on violins,
and this group cello.
Egg, naturally you'll be on air guitar.
- I don't want to play the air guitar.
Maybe I can play the air triangle?
- Stop what you're doing and listen very, very carefully.
It's come to my attention that
Ms Archer was callously and heartlessly
locked in her room last week.
- Help! (tapping)
Help, help!
- And the culprit is still at large amongst us.
But don't be afraid, my little sparrows.
Justice is imminent.
- [Lockie] Egg's guilt levels were at an all time high,
and he had to do something to reduce them.
- I have a confession to make
- No, you don't.
- Yes, I do.
- No, you don't.
- I do.
It was me.
I locked Ms Archer in the music room.
- Oh, that!
Yeah, I suppose you might have done that.
- See?
It's in my blood.
- [Lockie] At last, Egg told the truth.
Well, part of it.
(frog croaking)
- Why just one frog croak and no others?
It doesn't make any sense.
It defies all natural amphibious tribal behaviour, hmm.
- There's nothing to show
that the oxygen levels aren't normal.
Maybe it's a bit more mystical.
- Right, yes.
What do we need to measure mystical?
- Like the great silence of 1856.
- The great silence?
- It's not in any history books.
Nobody spoke about it, let alone wrote about it.
But I remember it well.
That started with the frogs.
They stopped croaking.
- They did?
- Dogs stopped barking,
cats didn't meow for a few days, birds stopped chirping,
it was like a contagious disease.
- So what happened, Marjorie?
How did the silence get broken?
- That's the strangest thing of all.
I can't remember.
Shall we have a chocolate crackle?
- [Lockie] Like Marjorie had warned,
nothing was safe from the silence.
Even Ms Archer's bell.
(bell rattling)
(thud)
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
Are you okay?
- Yes, it was totally my fault.
My bell wouldn't ring.
I really ought to have it, er, seen to.
(soft music)
- [BOTH] As long as the recorder's okay.
(laughing)
- Lemon chicken.
I love lemon chicken.
- Me too!
- What a coincidence!
- I should have it again.
Some time soon.
- When do you think that one day might be?
- When I'm hungry, I suppose.
Perhaps even tomorrow night?
- So, uh, what time do you usually find yourself hungry?
- Around seven.
- That's interesting.
Well, and again, I'm so sorry.
If there's anything I can do.
- I'll see you soon, perhaps?
- Yes, perhaps you will.
- What are you doing here?
I thought you hated surfing.
Now Egg had started to confess.
Vickie was worried he wouldn't stop.
- How about on Friday night, you and I have lemon chicken
at the new Chinese restaurant?
Just you and me, my shout.
- But I thought you wanted us
to start doing more active things?
- Yeah, well, all that eating will keep us busy.
- Lockie!
- Hey, Egg.
- [Egg] Hi.
- Heard you got detention.
- It was stupid.
It's not the only stupid thing I've done lately.
Lockie, last week at the eclipse.
- Egg.
- I kissed Vicki.
- [Lockie] The truth had started to come out
And apparently.
(croaking)
It was something worth croaking about.
- I'm so sorry, Lockie.
It was all my fault.
- Yeah, Egg's right, it was totally his fault.
- And it didn't mean anything.
- It was like kissing my brother.
- If I had a brother, I would have been just like that.
And as a personal punishment,
I banned myself from guitar, all forms,
real, air, or shower.
I know that withdrawal's hard, but it's what I have to do.
- All right, Lockie.
Time to tell some truths of your own.
Guys, I know.
I saw you at the eclipse, and I understand.
It's no big deal.
Cue more frogs croaking.
But, the frogs knew better.
- You knew all this time and you didn't say anything?
- I didn't want anything to change,
so I didn't tell anybody.
- And you're not angry at all?
- No, why would I be?
- I can't take it any more.
Go on, just kick me.
If I could kick my own bottom I would.
- I'm not going to kick you.
Like you said, it didn't mean anything,
so why should we bother making a big deal out of it?
I'd told the truth and forgiven my friends.
Come on.
Everything had changed back to how it was before.
The silence of the frogs could officially end.
But it didn't, because some of us
weren't telling the whole truth, yet.
- Where are you going?
- Nowhere.
Somewhere.
With no one in particular.
Well, someone, I think.
It's an apology with lemon chicken.
- Trust me, apologies are overrated.
- So, how do I look?
Is this colour me?
- So, who's this apology to?
- Ms Archer.
- Ms Archer?
As in my music teacher Ms Archer?
- I can cancel if you prefer.
- You can go on an apology with anyone you like.
- [Lockie] Neither of them were being completely honest,
and they both knew it.
Back at our house, there was still no talking.
We were all too tired to communicate.
(mosquitoes whining)
(playful music)
(Chinese music)
We've all heard of blind dates.
But a date that was completely silent?
(bowl ringing)
(tinkling drumming music)
Despite their inability to speak, Rev. and Ms Archer found
a unique way to communicate.
(tinkling drumming music)
At least things were back to normal with me and Vicki.
- How weird is it that someone else kissed me?
Someone that wasn't you?
- I told you, I totally understand.
- How long were you planning on not telling me you knew?
You gonna torture me forever?
- Have I done something wrong?
- No, do you think I have?
Are you mad at me?
- Why would I be mad at you?
It was Egg's fault.
He's the one with the problem, not us.
- [Vickie] Yeah, I guess so.
- If anyone needs help, it's him.
- Do you want to help Egg?
- Yeah, totally, we're his friends.
It's what friends are for, right?
We need to get him back to being Egg.
Make him happy.
That way, all of us can be happy.
I'd like us to be happy.
- Okay, well, I'll help you to help Egg.
- Great.
- Have you got any ideas?
- None.
It's a bit hard to find the time and place
to help someone serving 23 years of detention.
- Hey, I've got an idea.
- [Lockie] Vicki's plan was dangerous, cunning,
ruthless, and exactly what we needed.
- Lockie!
(playful music)
(grunting)
- I thought you said he was on yard duty.
- Just hurry up!
(feedback whining)
(rock guitar music)
♫ You know you're the one they need
♫ Yeah, won't you be the one
♫ Yeah, you got no reason to be late this time
♫ Oh, you only got the time
♫ Oh, oh, you've got to see yourselves again, again
♫ Oh, whoa
♫ You're not afraid to be the one
(guitar solo)
- [Lockie] Okay, so it was slightly against the rules.
- You three, get down now!
- [Lockie] But it was worth getting detention
to get things back to the way they used to be.
Not that there weren't consequences.
- We need to talk to you downstairs, young lady,
presto, pronto.
- Now, you know we're going to have to ground you
for that incident today, Lockie.
Right after lemon chicken, all right?
- Sarge, I'm busting!
(toilet flushing)
- [Lockie] Mum's cola chicken
was still causing Sarge trouble.
- Wouldn't go in there if I were you, son.
(stomach gurgling)
(yelling)
(knocking)
- I'll get it!
What's wrong?
- My dad's sending me off to boarding school.
He's been looking for any excuse,
and after today, he got one.
(horn honking)
I've got to go.
- Now?
(horn honking)
- If I'm not there for assembly tomorrow morning
then I lose my place.
I'm sorry.
- You can't go.
- Try telling that to my dad.
(horn honking)
- Wait.
- Is there something you wanted to say first?
- No. I mean.
(horn honking)
- I've got to go.
- Vic, stop.
And then the words just came how I really felt all along,
what I needed to say, the honest truth.
I hated seeing you and Egg kiss.
I don't want you to kiss anyone else except me, ever.
Except maybe your mum.
♫ A movie plays without the sound
♫ Words to say left in my mouth
- I promise I'll only ever kiss you, Lockie Leonard.
- Me too.
You know what I mean.
- Always have.
♫ Silver moon feeling high
I really have to go.
- I'd never felt so close to Vicki,
right at the moment she was leaving Angelus.
Wait!
(splashing)
(zipping)
(frogs croaking)
♫ With nothing left to pour
- [Lockie] And it was only then,
when the whole truth was out,
that the frogs started croaking again.
Vicki!
Your flowers!
She forgot her flowers.
(sighing)
- I didn't know it then,
but at the same time I spoke the truth to Vicki,
the Rev admitted the hard truth to Egg.
- It was a successful apology,
except for the fact it was really a date
a proper, enjoyable date.
And there may be some more.
- [Lockie] Now the truth was out there,
the frogs were back on song,
and Mum could finally put away the mosquito repellent.
Even Cyril was happy.
Meanwhile, Phillip had his own theory.
- Basically, I came up with a formula that consisted
of water, creatinine, potassium and a few other compounds.
Just did the trick, I guess.
- Hmm.
- [Egg] Hey, Lockie.
- Hey.
- Want to give it another go?
- Yeah, sure.
- I don't know, Lock, it just doesn't feel the same
without sandwiches or Vicki.
- That's because it's not the same.
- Well, we'll see her during the holidays.
And absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Although the jury's still out on that one.
I reckon we'll get these suckers up this time.
By the time Vicki gets back, we'll be pro.
- [Lockie] And then, out of nowhere, it came to me.
I knew exactly what we both needed.
(thumping)
- Ow!
What was that for?
- You asked me to.
Begged me to, remember?
- Oh, yeah.
♫ Where did I go wrong?
- [Lockie] Without Vicki,
things were going to be different from now on.
(frogs croaking)
But at least some things were back as they were.
(frogs croaking loudly)
("Worlds Away" by Jebediah)
♫ Ooh ooh ooh
♫ Boy is breaking underneath the weight of strain
♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ There was just enough to get them far away
♫ Ooh ooh ooh