Episode 5 - The sideboard

EPISODE 5 - The Sideboard
Created by David Brown

LOGLINE
As truth tightens its grip, the real cost of connection is revealed. A simple estimation moves from comic absurdity to a shared devastating past. A street brawl explodes over stolen cash, and the Tupperware party just never seems to get started.

SYNOPSIS
We return to Martin, now bandaged, shoeless and shirtless, being tenderly tended to by Sharday and awkwardly questioned by Karen. The shrine, or sideboard, looms large, both physically and symbolically, as Karen attempts to push Martin into completing the 'estimation' job. Sharday reminds everyone that “truth is hard to talk about,” and we begin to see how literal and devastating that statement can become.

Out in the paddock, the fallout from the pampas fire continues. Doug and Dayne are scrubbing the soot off when Doug starts poking. His taunts escalate; homophobic, racist, and violent until Dayne snaps back: "You're just a fat fucken cliché." When Macca returns, a full fight breaks out. A till full of cash falls from Dayne’s bag. Money flies through the air. Their frantic scramble to clean up is interrupted by an old ice cream van, now revealed as Gary and Yolanda’s SES vehicle.

The Tupperware party hits new emotional lows and comic highs. Gyppo continues his unsolicited monologues, Valda argues over a corkscrew refund, and Domingo offers unsolicited mytho-poetic metaphors involving chained bodies and birds feasting on livers. Meanwhile, Cherry grows more and more pained, both physically and metaphorically.

As tensions peak, Karen finally makes her move. She corners Martin and reveals that the man inside the sideboard is her brother, Sharday’s father and he was the junkie who killed Martin’s dad.
Sharday, bright-eyed, walks in on the moment with the pitch-perfect line: “Jeez, who died?”