♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ Worlds away from anyone
♫ They were burning themselves out in the sun
♫ It was just enough to get them far away
(dreamy music)
- So here we are, Sydney Australia
in our ritzy new apartment, courtesy of the radio
station my mum's been working with
for the past three months.
- I do now have my own radio show.
Monday through Friday every afternoon.
Let Joy Be Unconfined.
Although honestly, I only have a million or so listeners.
- Who would've thought devoting myself to poetry
full time would pay such dividends?
- Sure there's a small amount of lecturing involved
at the Science Academy, but for the most part,
they leave me alone to conduct my groundbreaking research.
- [Woman] We're home.
- Ah. - Hi.
- And I'm happy too.
I imagine your surf sponsors are even happier.
I guess the time really was right to leave Angelus.
I miss Egg of course.
For a time there he was my best friend ever.
And then Vicki, the girl who seems to hold
a life time season ticket to my heart.
And Mel, I just had this feeling that after certain
events involving kissing and standing her up,
I kind of worn my welcome out.
- Suggestions please.
A word that rhymes with fire brigade.
Everglade.
Marmalade.
Marmalade, Lockie.
Pass the marmalade please.
- Okay, so maybe we haven't left Angelus yet.
But it wasn't long before we did.
Sorry, Sarge, I was miles away.
- Right, now team, as it's only two days until we,
leave Angelus forever.
(baby farting)
- Pardon you, Blob.
Again, I don't know what's gotten into her.
- In the mean time, I thought it might be an idea
to leave the weekly family meetings
to a daily basis till we can get across
all of our various to-do lists.
Lockie, you first.
- Oh, right, to do list.
Pack surfboard, say goodbye.
Say goodbye, easier said than done.
Maybe it was time to talk to someone
who'd set sail for more towns than anyone
I'd ever heard of.
And talking about something was better
than not talking at all.
I've come for tips, Mel.
How to make that grand exit?
You've done it heaps.
Do I go for tears or laughs?
Are there speeches?
- So you're assuming you'll be missed.
- Oh, you.
- Sure I'll help.
But my question is have you got the guts to carry out
the three tasks I'm about to set you?
Task one.
- Okay, I didn't have to carry out Mel's tasks.
But just maybe she'd think better of me if I did.
So task one, I had to make peace
with my worst enemy.
And since it was the weekend, I knew exactly
where to find him.
Sir, I'd just like to say.
Thank you.
For everything you've tried to teach me, math wise.
- Sorry, Leonard, I find myself strangely remorse
at your family's departure.
- Yeah, it will be tough without Phillip.
- It's not that, that Phillip is obviously
a great loss.
It's you, Leonard major, you're the one I'm going to miss.
- I am?
- Even I need someone like you Leonard, the class dunce,
so that my little gems of sarcasm might fill the classroom
with howling laughter.
- Right.
- Go boy, leave me to bring the curtain down
on this golden age.
(sobbing)
- [Lockie] Sarge didn't really have any worse enemies
to make peace with.
But making his good byes to Angelus was still
the hardest thing he ever had to do.
- [Sarge] Steady on now, remember,
we're trained professionals.
- Of course we are.
- Got it.
- What about your poetry books, Sarge?
- Ever since Joy's wedding ring was stolen,
I'm no longer certain poetry has a place
in the Angelus of today.
- Don't say such things.
- That can't be true, say it isn't so.
- From now on, you'll be leading this ceaseless
war on crime in this town.
Whether the poetry has a role top play,
that's your call now.
(phone ringing)
- [Man] That's the emergency phone.
- After you, Sarge.
One last response.
(sighs)
- It's dad.
He's had some bad news.
Josh's family's empire has gone into meltdown
and bought dad's business down with it.
We've lost all our money, our house,
furniture, everything.
- I'm so sorry, Vicki.
- Doesn't look like they'll be building
a retirement village or anything here anymore.
It looks like your house is safe though.
- You seem to be forgetting.
All of this will soon be Constable Wattle's domain.
- It'll always be your house to me.
- There's nothing to worry about!
We'll be getting all our money back shortly.
Ah, half past three at the latest.
- Dad's in denial.
- Just you wait, Sergeant, I always said
your family's what's holding this town back.
- I think this is you, Constable Wattle.
- Mr. Streeton.
No point talking what you could've been
or regretting the things that went on.
Life's full of mistakes.
Destinies and fate.
Remove the clouds, look at the bigger picture.
♫ And all that you'll see is me
♫ And all I truly believe
♫ That I was born to try
♫ I've learned to love
♫ To be understanding
♫ And believe in life
♫ But you gotta make choices
♫ Be wrong or right
♫ Sometimes you've got to sacrifice
♫ The things in life
♫ I was born to try
- I just want someone to tell me
it isn't fair.
- That's gold, Constable Wattle.
You've taken policing to a whole new level.
- Mel's second task was a lot tougher.
I wasn't sure I was gonna be able to complete it.
- You have to do what?
- I have to do the one thing I've always meant
to do with someone, but never have.
- Have you stopped to think there's a reason why
I've never surfed?
- Couldn't swim?
- No because it's sick and unnatural.
From what I've seen, you get nutted in the goolies
all the time.
- Egg, I'm never gonna ask you to do anything
for me ever again.
- You ain't have to if I get caught in a rip.
- Let's do this for old time sake.
- You know there's no one else on the planet
I'd do this for.
- I know.
On the count of three.
One,
two,
three.
Of course, things don't ever quite work out
the way you expect them to.
(groaning)
So much for task number two.
I guess it was more than a friend could ask for.
(mischievous music)
Meanwhile Phillip was nearing the end of his to-do list.
He'd save the trickiest bit til last.
- Don't worry, Cyril.
Nothing will change, not really.
Nothing at all.
Except it won't be me looking after you.
It will be Joe.
(sniffles)
Unusual.
After all this time,
I must've developed an allergy to Cyril.
- Are you sure it's not anything else?
- Goodness me, Joe, allergy.
- [Lockie] And Mum of course.
She had an entire town to say good bye to.
- Sadly now it's time for me to bring
this final edition of Let Joy Be Unconfined
to a close.
But I can't go without one last thank you
to all my listeners out there.
The people of Angelus, you have taken an ordinary mum
into your hearts and made me feel very special.
So for the last time, this is Joy Leonard,
saying I will never forget you.
I might just step outside for some fresh air.
(cheering and clapping)
♫ For she's a jolly good fellow
- I just can't understand these tears.
- And Cyril isn't even here.
So it can't be an allergy.
It's not as if you're crying over me.
- It just doesn't make any sense.
- Three cheers for Mrs. L!
- Hip hip. - Hooray!
- Get away with you, it was nothing really.
It was my pleasure.
(group sighing)
- [Lockie] Mel's third and final task involved Vicki.
Which meant paying a visit to the Streeton's new home.
Hi, Mr. Streeton.
- Good day, Larry, how you goin', mate?
Bit of a comeuppance, isn't it, Lionel?
Still, gotta look on the bright side.
- Yep.
- Coo-y, hello Lockie.
Visit us already?
Vicki!
Visitors.
- See ya.
- Hi. - Hi.
I'm sorry about your house and everything.
- Oh, it's okay, it's been good actually.
- You're just saying that, aren't you?
- No, it's true.
We've already spent more time together
than what we would've in the last six months.
You kind of have to get pretty up close and personal
in a caravan.
- That's what you've always wanted, isn't it?
To be closer as a family.
- Always.
Hey, do you wanna go for a walk?
- Okay, Lockie, Mel's third and final
and most difficult of tasks.
- Tell the person you care the most about exactly why.
- Hey so, listen--
- This is so weird.
After all this time you're the one that's leaving
and I'm the one that's staying behind.
- You're not staying right here exactly.
You're going back to boarding school.
- With all those pricey school fees, I don't think so.
I'm starting back at Angelus High tomorrow.
- Can you say that again?
- I'm staying right here in Angelus.
- Hey, so, listen--
- I have something to say before you go.
- So do I.
- I know we've had our ups and downs,
but there's one thing that I'm sure of.
Even when I'm 90, I'm still gonna be thinking
about you every day.
What, what are you grinning for?
- You just took the words right out of my mouth.
Every last one of them.
So mission accomplished.
It was time to report back to Mel.
All done now, three out of three.
- The three tasks I set you?
Are you truly so mind boggingly dumb?
You couldn't see that they were all about me?
You could've at least tried to make peace
with your worst enemy.
- What?
Mel, you're not my worst enemy.
Why would you even say that?
- It would've been nice if you said so.
And while we're on the subject,
I don't see why you couldn't have done
the one thing you always meant to do with someone
but never had.
Like surfing at the same time on separate boards with me
and not with Egg.
And here's the best one.
You could've told the person you cared the most about
exactly why they'd been so important to you.
See?
Anybody can see I'll never mean as much
to you as Vicki does.
On the other hand, Vicki's about as good
on a surf board as a fish is on a bicycle.
And if you can live with that,
I think I should be able to.
- Egg's board's still got a few hours before it's due back,
if you're free.
Unless you're not done yelling at me that is.
So here's the thing, when I thought about
what I'd be leaving behind
like the best friend I ever had,
the girl who wasn't gonna shake herself
out of my head until we were 90 years old
and the surfing buddy who loved the ocean
just as much as I did.
I had to ask myself, why were we leaving again?
- Listen.
(animals chirping)
- It's the frogs.
They're back.
- The music of the night we used to call it.
She's a very impressive woman, your mother.
I hope you realise that.
- I do.
- The impact she's had on Angelus.
Watch out, Sydney. - Yeah, watch out.
- If she hadn't have lost her wedding ring,
we might've stayed.
But if my message of police work and poetry
can't prevent theft in my own town,
I might as well pack it up and waddle off into the sunset.
- It was true, with the frogs back,
this place felt even more like home.
Which meant the thought of leaving it even weirder.
(Phillip crying)
Phillip.
Are you crying?
- It's just one of those unsolved scientific mysteries.
I'm sure they'll find the answer in time.
- Do you think there's a chance it might just
have something to do with leaving Angelus?
- What?
Leaving our home, and Angelus, and our friends
that live thousands of miles away
on the other side of the country, as if.
- (laughs) Yes, yes, of course I have to come
to Sydney to do the show, yes.
Absolutely, it would be ludicrous of me
to think that I could record it from Angelus.
Yes, yes, I know.
How silly of that. (laughs)
(baby crying) Excuse me.
Lockie, would you see to Blob?
I'm just on the phone to Beyonce.
Yes, Beyonce, Derrick, I'm here.
- Dirty nappy, good-o.
Come on, Blob, lay down, thank you.
(soft music)
I figured out why Blob had been so grumpy lately.
Sitting on a secret not being able to tell anyone
can be stressful especially one so big
it could just change everything.
- Seeing how this is our last day in this house,
and with the power due to being cut off
just prior to our departure around the 3 p.m. mark,
I would hope that we've completed all the tasks
on our to-do list.
- Check.
- Lockie?
- Well, there is one last item I'd like to factor in.
- A farewell party, we'd love to come.
- I wouldn't miss it.
- Party, I'm there.
- And you want us to bring some cake?
- Cake.
- [Both] That's affirmative.
- Oh now that's funny, I thought we was supposed
to bring the cake.
Ah, still, never mind.
- They're passed their used by date
but that's not gonna hurt one.
We wouldn't want to see them going to waste,
wouldn't we, Lenny? (laughs)
- Rev.
- Joy, Sarge, I wondered if you could step this way please?
- Goodness me, look at all those cakes.
How are we supposed to eat those?
We'll be gone in under an hour.
- [Man] Under an hour?
("The Wedding March")
- Mum, Sarge.
I know you've always wanted to renew your wedding vows.
But I think you'll be needing this.
- Oh Lockie.
Oh Lockie, where on earth did you find my wedding ring?
- Trust me, you don't wanna know.
I don't think it'll be going back there very soon.
(clapping)
- Okay folks, we're wrestling for time here.
Gather around please.
Okay Sarge, quick as you can.
Do you take Joy to be--
- Hold it right there!
(group muttering)
You drive a hard bargain, Joy Leonard.
But okay, you win.
If it means you'll stay with our radio station
then you can do your show right here from Angelus.
And I guess we're gonna have to double your salary
while we're at it.
(clapping)
- Um, I see.
- Rev, could we just have one second,
and please, nobody go anywhere.
Leonards, family meeting inside now.
Sorry, Reverend, we'll just be a, one second.
This is extraordinary meeting of the weekly
Leonard family conference is now in session.
Agreed? - Agreed.
- We have certain matters to discuss
that may impact very much on our future.
- Cut to the chase, Sarge.
- A vote we stay on here in Angelus.
- I do. - I do.
(easygoing music)
- I do.
- And I do too.
Which means we're staying in Angelus.
(cheering and clapping)
♫ All the way in your town
♫ You stay at home
- How about that?
We don't have to leave Angelus
to get everything we want 'cause everything we want
has been right here in Angelus all along.
- It's true what they say then.
You can have your cake and throw it too.
- Don't you mean eat it?
(shouting) (laughing)
(easygoing music)
(gentle music)
You didn't seem that worry that I'd be leaving Angelus
and you'd never see me again.
- I wasn't, you were never leaving Angelus.
- I wasn't, why not?
- Because you love me, Lockie Leonard.
- Yeah.
I do.
- Suppose I should probably see about getting
the power put on tomorrow at some point.
- Oh yes, probably. - Yeah, yeah, good idea.
- I guess so.
(creaking)
Still there's one thing about the Leonards.
Wherever we find ourselves and whatever
we happen to be doing,
we can always make our own fun.
♫ When I see you baby
♫ I go out of my head
♫ I just can't get enough
♫ We slip and slide as we fall in love
♫ And I just can't seem
♫ To get enough of you
(upbeat music)