PATSY: Is there anyone out there? Mom? Dad? Where are you?

RAYMOND THOMPSON: The Tribe is certainly a very radical series, its edgy, different-

DAL: If there were any adults in the world-
JACK: They cant all be gone!

PATSY: Now there is a new world, a new beginning, with no adults, we're on our own.

LEX: Daemon Dogs!

DWAYNE CAMERON: We didn't know what we were in for. How's it going to go? It was- You just hopped on this roller coaster and its been great.

VICTORIA SPENCE: Oh my gosh! This is so cool!
CALEB ROSS: Wow!

DANIEL JAMES: Im the big bad guy.
CALEB ROSS: And Im the good bad guy. He's the bad bad guy, Im the good bad guy, if that makes sense.
DANIEL JAMES: You really dont get any bader then me apparently.
CALEB ROSS: Yeah.
DANIEL JAMES: I've been told. Yeah, its pretty cool, I dont get to sleep on the comfy beds but I get a police car.

DEBRA KELLEHER-SMITH: Victoria? We've got you. Welcome, its good to see you.

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GEOFF HUSSON: You may have to cheer Sarah up, because her mom's just off and she's very- very tearful.

RAYMOND THOMPSON: This is Jamie, this is Nick.
NICK WILSON: How are you doing?
JAIMEE KAIRE-GATAULU: Very good. How about you?
NICK WILSON: Very good.

NICK WILSON: One of the basic notions that Ray and I had when we first started talking about the idea for a programme that became "The Tribe" was to find a new way of doing a drama for older children and teenagers that didn't take the kind of pat route of being set in a school, or being set in a community or something else. And it gave us an opportunity to look at- at issues and problems that- that all teenagers confront, but to put them in a situation where there was absolutely no adult input at all.

ZOOT: No more teachers!
LOCOS: Yeah!
ZOOT: No more schools!

DWAYNE CAMERON: Bray's just- he's basically a real loner. He's a real quiet and reserved character, and he tries and does it best, but people dont understand, they dont quite understand where he's coming from, he's just kind of on another level.

BRAY: And you know where you can stick your democracy! What kind of world are you planning?

LEX: These Tribe leaders, they get too much power, I'll show them, I'll get even with them, that's a promise! Stop your snivelling!
ZANDRA: Dont touch me!

CALEB ROSS: Lex has- from the beginning always been kind of the bad character.

LEX: What's the matter? Cant take a little joke?

CALEB ROSS: He's always been the bully, the one that pushes everyone else around.

LEX: Well go on! Say it!
JACK: Ah-

CALEB ROSS: He's done a lot of bad things, and he's always manipulating and trying to get his own way.

TRUDY: What have I done to you?
LEX: Nothing personal girl, we voted you out, and now you're leaving.
TRUDY: Bray invited me to stay.
LEX: And who's he to do that? Some of us didn't want him either!

BRAY: Give it up Lex. Im bigger then you, and Im braver then you, and Im going nowhere.

ZANDRA: If we stick together I know our love is strong enough to beat this.

LEX: Alleluia.

GEOFF HUSSON: I think some of the logistics of this show have been extremely hard. I mean, we had to increase the number of minutes a day that we shoot, uh- we had to get great pictures and they had to be colourful. At the outset it would seem like, you know, we had to climb Mount Everest without any kit whatsoever. We had to devise 38 sets, in one studio space and I think we achieved that. I mean- I cant think of an inch of this studio, including the workshops, including the backstage areas that we haven't used for sets.

JACK: Oh Im Jack, and I think you've got something to say to me?
AMBER: Like what?
JACK: Well in my day it was thanks, but times are changing.

MICHAEL WESLEY-SMITH: I play Jack, the computer "geek".

JACK: Hey um guys-! Hey I think I've got something!

DAL: Its searching the skies!

MICHAEL WESLEY-SMITH: He's got a pretty close relationship with Dal. That's probably been one of his main story-lines. Like all the inventions he's made with uhm- Dal.

[MALL RATS CHEER]

MICHAEL WESLEY-SMITH: He's got a kind of dry humour.

JACK: Im a genius! I am a genius!
DAL: What are you on about?
JACK: Pure rainwater. Collected and filtered for drinking. Just looking at it makes me feel kind of-
DAL: Humble?
JACK: Yeah that's it. That's it.

MICHAEL WESLEY-SMITH: And he hassles quite a lot of people, which I really, really like doing.

JACK: Is this is 21 Century or the dark ages?!

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MICHELLE ANG: Maths.
MERYL CASSIE: Oh my god!
VICTORIA SPENCE: Oh my god!

PM: I bet 2/3 of them will be doing correspondence and about 1/3 will be doing stuff the schools are providing. The spot correspondence school stuff comes in booklet form, with tapes.
CS: French. Victoria's French with her tapes, and they work through a book- a book should take two weeks.

JAIMEE KAIRE-GATAULU: I do social studies, maths, home and family living, science and- yeah that's all.

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TAI-SAN: I told you we'd have been better off teaching them about caring and sharing.
CLOE: Im never sharing anything with her!
AMBER: I think I've gone off this idea in a big way. Class dismissed.

AMBER: Its a girl!
[MALL RATS CHEER]

RAYMOND THOMPSON: I dont think parents might necessarily approve, but they should. They should sit down I think and watch this series with their kids, and they will learn, I believe, a lot, about the issues children, teenagers are living every day of their lives, whether is bullying in the playground, or bulimia, teenage pregnancies.

EBONY: These are the old ways, the adult ways, we can not allow them.
KID: We?
EBONY: I mean the Tribe leaders, its up to us to set an example.

AMBER: I think I've found a way to solve our leader problem. Im putting myself up for it.
LEX: Im not fighting a girl.
AMBER: There wont be any fighting! We'll have a democratic election. May the best man win.

TAI-SAN: You're looking to the past again Amber, things have changed. We are making new rules. We are whatever we want to be.

BETH ALLEN: Amber's a pretty- she's a bit of a leader anyway. She's got quite a bit of leadership quality in her and when she came into the Mall she saw that- this whole group of kids had an opportunity here to be something better.

AMBER: You realise you could have just crashed the whole group!
SALENE: I dont want any lectures, thank you!

BETH ALLEN: I think she saw that- you know- this- this could actually be something good and she tried to make it work. She really cared about the future.

AMBER: You're destroying the Tribe, you know that, dont you?!
LEX: Rubbish! He never fitted in here anyway!
AMBER: That is a lie! You hated him because he stood up to you!
LEX: I hated him because he is an arrogant creep!

SASHA: Come with me.
AMBER: I cant! I just cant! They need me.

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ZANDRA: I miss television, its boring now.
AMBER: Boring? Which planet are you living on Zandra?

ZANDRA: I want us to get married.
LEX: I say you're completely off your trolly!

TAI-SAN: Zandra, come to your husband.

AMY MORRISON: I play Zandra in the series and uhm- she sort of lives in her own fantasy world. She doesn't really like to be told what to believe or what to do.

ZANDRA: You've really got it in for him, haven't you?
AMBER: It isn't him I care about, its us.

AMY MORRISON: She's very stubborn, and she's very into the whole- you know- she's very material girl and uhm- but she's- she's quite good inside, and she has good intentions and she doesn't mean to hurt people.

ZANDRA: Where's Glen?!
LEX: Look they got him! There's nothing we can do! Zandra!

AMY MORRISON: Yeah, they sort of became her second family. And so- she grew a lot with that, and took on some of the responsibilities of being in a family like that.

ZANDRA: If only I could fall for a good guy like you.
RYAN: So your saying no?
ZANDRA: Im saying find a girl that deserves you, and Im really sorry its not me.

RYAN: Zandra, no.

ZANDRA: Hi.
RYAN: Hi.

RYAN RUNCIMAN: He's a little bit- uh- slow.

RYAN: What do we do?

LEX: We cant afford to feed animals unless we're going to eat them.

RYAN: We've just given it presents and everything.

RYAN RUNCIMAN: At the start of the series he was more sort of a- just a sort of follower of Lex. He's physically quite big and strong.

RYAN: Locos!

RYAN RUNCIMAN: He deals to anyone that hurts anyone in the tribe and stuff like that!

LEX: Let's go!

RYAN: You laughed at me Lex, you were laughing at me all the time.
LEX: Yeah, well I'm sorry Ryan.
RYAN: I thought we were friends Lex.

RYAN RUNCIMAN: And he's gone away from Lex, and as the series has gone on he's- I think he's developed a bit more- perhaps got a bit more of a brain.

ZANDRA: I've got a nice smelly fish for you.
RYAN: Uh- Stop it Zandra no!

RYAN RUNCIMAN: I reckon he's pretty cool.

DEBRA KELLEHER-SMITH: We start our day usually at 7 am, which is the make-up and wardrobe call and we are there to make sure that people arrive on time and that everything that has been put on the call sheet the day before is happening.

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DEBRA KELLEHER-SMITH: We get the schedules in place, talking to design, making sure that all of the requirements from the scripts are able to be achieved. It is a lot of discussions and communications, and forward planning.

?: And here come some chocolates. We're pulling script pages for what's happening on Monday for the fight co-ordinator.

?: Its really simple, they just get really close to each other, hand to hand, some pushing and shoving, during that Ryan goes-

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RR: ?

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DEBRA KELLEHER-SMITH: I take my hat off to the cast, not only with what they've done with each of their characters but how they've bonded together and have literally formed a tribe and carried that message through loud and clear.

VICTORIA SPENCE: Its pretty cool, I have to say.

RYAN RUNCIMAN: What?

GEOFF HUSSON: The kids generate such enormous energy and enthusiasm for their work.

JACK: Oh look that's it, I cant go any further!

GEOFF HUSSON: With a schedule like this they need a little looking after, a little love and care, and they get that, in big dosses.

TOBY JAMES: It is a kind of like a very relaxed boarding school environment. Where we- where you all come down- and I suppose if you were in a boarding school there would be rules, and there would be firm rules, but here we're a little bit more relaxed about it.

TOBY JAMES: Come on fellers, no loitering.
MICHAEL WESLEY-SMITH: Im not loitering.
TOBY JAMES: Come on Michael, I saw you.

TOBY JAMES: Everybody's responded very well to those rules, you know, and it just seems to have worked very smoothly for everybody, and we've had, you know- its just been great.

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ANTONIA PREBBLE: I can see in myself that I have matured through this, because I think of the character that I've had to play, and just sort of being, you know- the adult world of filming you sort of have to behave and be a bit more responsible.

SALENE: Babies have been given born for a long time now, its natural, isn't it?
TRUDY: Not in this world it isn't.

ANTONIA PREBBLE: Trudy is a teenage mother.

TRUDY: Bray its coming! The babies coming!

ANTONIA PREBBLE: When I played the birth, I was nervous because obviously I've never had a baby before.

TRUDY SCREAMS.
BRAY: Come on push!
TRUDY: I cant! I cant push anymore!

TRUDY: She's only a tiny baby but she needs so much.

ANTONIA PREBBLE: She hates the baby and gets very obsessive over the babies uncle Bray, because she just really needed someone to just look after her.

TRUDY: Oh what? Its not how it looks? Please!
SALENE: Its not!
TRUDY: After everything you said to me, you little liar!

ANTONIA PREBBLE: It sort of disturbs her for a bit and so for a while she goes a bit- sort of mad.

SALENE: There you are.
TRUDY: Put her down.

BRAY: Have you completely lost it?!

TRUDY CRIES

TRUDY: Come anywhere near Brady and I will scratch your eyes out!

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PATSY: And there's nowhere to hide.
RAYMOND THOMPSON: I think the performances are quite exceptionally mature. Uh we've tried of course to work alongside the cast from the very beginning so that they can target their performances accordingly. They've all been hand picked from an exhausting audition process where in addition to their natural acting abilities we've tried to match up ages and looks.

ARI BOYLAND: What are you doing?
PATSY: MMOB.

PATSY: MMOB.

KC: What's that mean?
PATSY: Minding My Own Business.

PATSY: Are you stupid or something?
ARI BOYLAND: I was only asking.

PATSY: Well dont!
KC: Im sorry about your brother.

ARI BOYLAND: I didn't hear anything about him, or I'd say.

KC: I didn't hear anything about him, or I'd say.

ARI BOYLAND: My character is uhm- fiendish and very sly- and he gets away with quite a lot of things.

BRAY: We dont like thieves in our Mall.

NICK WILSON: Every drama and every soap looks at those kind of problems but "The Tribe" has a slightly different way of looking at them because its all from your perspective. Its not from the perspective of somebody who's an agony aunt, a parent, a teacher.

ZANDRA: Do you know what will happen? They'll kick Lex out instead. He goes I go. Please Ryan, I'm begging you, dont say anything!
SALENE: Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Amber wants a trial for Bray.

NICK WILSON: Probably the real target is like 11 to 17 but it will spill over a bit in either way.

SALENE: I owe you for saving me.
RYAN: That's okay, I would have done it for anybody.

VICTORIA SPENCE: I think she's a very strong character. I think she's finding herself at the moment, like with her new relation developing with Ryan.

SALENE: What are we going to do with you?
RYAN: I dont know, what do you want to do?
SALENE: Look after you I suppose.

VICTORIA SPENCE: She- uhm- is very motherly and looks after the kids a lot, and they matter a lot to her. She's like their mom or older sister. The tribe really matters heaps to her and I think she's kind of wanting to find somewhere where she can belong.

TRUDY: You're ill.
SALENE: Bray risks his life to get food, and what do I do?

AMBER: Well I can only find two bars, it seems to have gone.
TRUDY: Gone?

VICTORIA SPENCE: I learnt quite a bit about bulimia and stuff and how you act and sometimes its not even visible within the person. I was glad that they brought it up in the story line cause I thought it was quite a good idea, because lots of teenagers go through it.

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RYAN: Blow Patsy.
TRUDY: Come on Pats.

SARAH MAJOR: My character Patsy, she has a best friend called Cloe and she's playful, fun and- likes her animals.

CLOE: Wait there, dont run away.

JAIMEE KAIRE-GATAULU: Before she didn't really, like, communicate with the people as well as she did with the animals, so all her problems would be told to her cow Bluebell.

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LEX: It looks like we're going to have steaks for dinner after all.

JAIMEE KAIRE-GATAULU: Living away from home was hard at first, I really missed mom, but we've grown together as a family, and like- they're like older sisters, so they've helped, like when you have problems, they'll cheer you up and stuff.

DAL: They're coming! Go! Arghh!

ASHWATH SUNDARESAN: I play this guy called Dal, who's a mechanic and a doctor put together.

DAL: Trudy's lying out there so sick she might not make it through the day, and all you lot can argue about is dirty dishes!

ASHWATH SUNDARESAN: Occasionally we get some conflicts but we resolve them.

DAL: These are for you.
TRUDY: What a sweet thought.

GEOFF HUSSON: I mean the important thing is to get the best of both worlds, is to get the beach, set, and sea.

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MICHELLE ANG: I think its been great that my character is into dancing and singing because I am as well.

MALL RATS & KIDS CHEERING.

MICHELLE ANG: My character Tai-San, she's into the spiritual sort of things and she has her head up in the clouds a lot of the time so when she gives advise she doesn't really take into account the other persons viewpoint, and so she ends up hurting a lot of people.

TAI-SAN: The centres of colour contained within the aura surrounding the body.
LEX: Right.

ZANDRA: Aura balancing exercise?!
TAI-SAN: Hi-ya!

MERYL CASSIE: Its so much fun, like, playing a bad character, cause you know its not very often you get to play someone bad,

EBONY: You wouldn't last a minute outside.
AMBER: At least we're looking to the future, trying to build something better.
EBONY: Well when you do, I'll be there to knock it down.

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BRAY: Hey!

EBONY: Im a really bad looser Bray.

EBONY: Just be careful. If you cross me, I might not be as understanding as I was last time.

MERYL CASSIE: Its awesome playing her, like its a totally different character. I just think that she's really over ruling and a strong person.

RAYMOND THOMPSON: The production of course was only part of the process, I mean the logistics to post produce a series of this magnitude was really quite complex and I think the entire team pushed the boundaries to bring "The Tribe" together in such a short period of time. Its been an enormous challenge, but one that every single member of the team met and a long journey and at the completion of the production there was a sense that the entire team was celebrating something really quite extra special. Its been a very difficult one to get off the ground, not necessarily just in the production terms but in the story line terms.

BRAY: We're trapped.

LEX: You were supposed to be in charge! Not anymore.

LEX: I own this sector and you're trespassing.

LEX: All those who think Jack is guilty put up your hands.

BRAY: And what about love Amber?

LEX: Undying love.

JACK: Yeah, be nice.
LEX: I'll be nice to Alice.
ALICE: Im glad to hear it.

RAYMOND THOMPSON: And almost, we've come up with- I think- a different genre.

JACK: Starting from scratch, a whole new way of life, and we get to invent it ourselves.
DAL: We could do anything!

RAYMOND THOMPSON: Now that there's nobody to blame, there are no adults, there's no judiciary system, society as we know it has literally broken down.

BRAY: We need a safe place to stay.

GLEN: This sectors a war zone.
LEX: The whole city is a war zone in case you hadn't noticed.

ZOOT: Power and Chaos!
LOCOS: Power and Chaos!

LEX: Some democracy.
AMBER: Democracies need defending.

WAR CRIES.

RAYMOND THOMPSON: This series has very very profound thematics and truly is a series for the millennium.

AMBER: Have you seen it?
JACK: Wow. Quiet something is coming through.
[SPANISH]
SALENE: What's it say?

RAYMOND THOMPSON: I think it really has all the ingredients to evolve into something very, very special. A cult series? Who knows.

TAI-SAN: We have the beginning of something new here, not the end.

SALENE: Please dont go, dont leave us!
[SPANISH]

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