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Happy Endings

Episode 8
Written by Dylan River, Sophie Miller and Benedict Paxton-Crick
Directed by Dylan River

Tensions rise for Robyn on her father’s farm and when the detectives finally catch up to her, she is forced into making a mad dash to reunite with Gidge.

As Robyn’s presence at the farm creates tension between Steve and Cheryl, a frustrated Steve reneges on his deal to take Robyn riding. Seeing an opportunity to get rid of Robyn, Cheryl plays her Gidge’s message. Meanwhile, Gidge tries to unlink the car from the caravan to go find Robyn. But Robert, who has been trapped inside with Maxine all night, refuses to give up the keys to the lock unless he lets him out. So Gidge visits Dick to borrow a hacksaw.

Steve declares to his family that he is going to step up and become a father but when he admits to getting his stable hand Karen pregnant and to the numerous kids he’s fathered along the highway, tempers flare. Robyn’s only concern is Gidge, but as she tries to leave the detectives arrive and arrest her. As Robyn’s father, Steve must accompany them and when he resists, they both end up in handcuffs in the back of the police car. Fearful that something will happen to Gidge if she doesn’t get to him quickly, Robyn convinces the cops that they should go back to Robert’s house by revealing the truth about Maxine.

Determined to leave, Gidge finally saws through the padlock connecting the car to the caravan, but Dick has seen Maxine’s body inside. Robert tries to apologise to Gidge and get him to open the door. He just wants a light for his cigarette and the cooker isn’t working. But Gidge is wary of his dad’s tricks. The cops arrive back at the neighbour’s house and question Dick about the whereabouts of Robert, but he is nervous and reluctant to give up his mate. Meanwhile, having spotted the caravan, Robyn breaks out of the car and, with Steve close behind, is reunited with Gidge. When Robert insults Robyn, Steve becomes irate and confronts Robert through the caravan window. Steve tries to break into the caravan, but Robert fires a warning shot through the door, hitting Steve in the balls and alerting the detectives. Robert is surrounded and Gidge urges him to give himself up to the cops. They give Robert a light for his last cigarette before he comes out, but Robert has inadvertently left the gas on, causing an explosion that sends him flying out of the caravan door and straight into the hole he dug for Maxine.

Sometime later Robyn sits in the prison yard back in her prison greens. She spots Gidge pulling up in the car, just outside the fence. He can’t get visitor access as he’s not family, but they dance together to music through the prison yard fence, waiting for that day when they can be together again.

Cast:

• Sherry-Lee Watson as Robyn
• Will McDonald as Gidge
• Noah Taylor as Robert Senior
• Shari Sebbens as Tracey
• Darren Gilshenan as Mick
• Geoff Morrell as Dick
• Justin Rosniak as Steve
• Bonnie Sveen as Cheryl
• Emily Taheny as Karen