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The lights of River City glow at night. Screen Queensland and Screen Australia Present. In association with ZDF and ZDF Enterprises. A Jonathan M Shiff Production. The Bureau walk through a forest. Kyra raises a hand toward a giant snake as credits appear.
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Kimie Tsukakoshi. Elizabeth Cullen. Mia Milnes. Julian Cullen. Rainbow Wedell. Jamie Carter and Christopher Sommers.
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Kyra looks out her bedroom window at the night sky. The title appears in gold letters "The Bureau of Magical Things". This episode "Testing Times".
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A sunny day in River City.
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Kyra and Peter stroll along a shady path through the park.
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She smirks.
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Peter grips her hand.
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In the common room of the library.
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Krya and Peter appear.
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Peter grabs Ruksy's hand and leads her away, watched by Imogen.
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Imogen.
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Imogen leaves.
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Ruksy looks exasperated as Peter turns away. The Common room.
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Kyra jumps, followed by Imogen. Lily walks in carrying an armful of folded oil-paper umbrellas. She sits on one of the elegant armchairs.
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Peter pauses in the arches leading off, then a smile plays across his face and he ducks away.
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Lily hands Maxwell an umbrella. Ruksy and Lily walk through the Mural, followed by Maxwell with a backpack.
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Peter peeps over a shelf laid-out with a row of pens, all different.
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He runs his eyes across them. One is made of bone.
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The set of wooden stairs shakes negatively.
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He pulls his phone out.
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He dashes off.
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He returns to the common room, finding it empty.
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He stands alone in the elegantly appointed room. Now in the park.
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He examines a vine.
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Ruksy holds up her phone to take a photo of the slender purple pods.
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At school, in class.
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Kyra and Mathilda look around for Peter.
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[FAST] Kyra shrugs at Mathilda.
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The students turn over their papers as the teacher starts a timer.
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Kyra surreptitiously gets her phone out. It's Peter calling.
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Kyra looks chastened, and hangs up the call.
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Peter stands in the library, looking at his phone.
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He pockets his phone, and looks around.
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He looks at the library aisles through the archways and wanders off.
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Later, he blows a magic French-Horn.
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He runs his hands over the spines of the old volumes as we walks an aisle.
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As he explores, he notices something and pulls up short, eyes widening.
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In a lit display case, a white tuxedo with a silk shawl-collar, black bow-tie and black pants. On a small plinth before it is a small goldfish bowl.
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Peter looks up at it in awe.
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Bending to look at the fish-bowl, he sees it contains a small model of an orange diving suit.
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The tux seems to glow with light, and Peter again looks up at it.
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Panning up from a pair of black men's dress shoes, Peter adjusts the cufflinks, and then runs his hand through his hair.
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He struts towards a vintage, wood-framed standing mirror.
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Admiring his reflection he adjusts the bow-tie.
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He does a twirl.
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Dancing a little, he suddenly disappears in a blur of motion
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Like a comet, he zooms through the common room, looping through the corridors 3 times before coming to a stop.
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He speeds off.
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Exhilarated he runs around the library at super-speed.
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He careens into the glass-display cabinet and stumbles.
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The jolt topples the fish-bowl. On the floor, the figurine of the diving suit starts to glitter with sparks of magic.
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In the classroom, the timer shows 34 minutes remaining.
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Mathilda stares at the test, spinning a pencil in her hand.
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Kyra turns the page, and looks back at Peter's empty desk.
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In the Library, Peter comes to a stop next to the display-case.
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He notices the fishbowl and water on the floor, and scoops up some of the aquarium gravel.
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He picks up the model pedestal the diver was standing on and frowns at it.
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Puzzled he looks around.
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He notices a line of giant wet footprints on the parquet floor.
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He gets up, and follows the trail.
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He follows them around a corner.
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Standing in the aisle is a giant figure wearing a bulky diving suit dripping with water. Its head is a brass sphere with portholes, attached to a wide locking collar.
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Astonished, Peter approaches it, and peers through his glasses at the front porthole.
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He grins, but it fades as the diver slowly raises its bulky gloved hand into the air.
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The creature clenches its hand into a fist.
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Behind Peter, a vase shatters by magic and he looks scared.
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The diver takes a step forward, but Peter rockets away.
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In the park on a bridge.
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They look across the lake.
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Darra turns.
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Peter stops, back against a bookshelf, hiding.
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In the aisle behind him, the Diver appears and pauses, looking around.
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It stomps off in a different direction.
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The set of steps waggles, indicating a book set on its shelf.
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The book opens, catching Peter's attention.
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A photo of a white-bearded man in a diving suit.
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He pulls open the jacket ...
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... but it snaps back onto him.
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He struggles to open the jacket, slowly prising it off him.
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It snaps back.
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He hops on one leg, trying to wrench a shoe off.
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Now in hiding, Peter crouches low and holds his phone.
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Nervously, he looks around.
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He wipes away a drop of water on the phone screen.
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More water drips onto it.
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Slowly he looks around, and up.
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The diver looms over him.
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Peter zooms into the Common room and looks around for a way to escape.
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Anton clumps through an archway, and Peter starts backing away.
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Backed up against the mural, Peter's hand passes through.
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He leaves through the mural.
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Anton experimentally puts his massive hand through the mural, then stomps through.
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The classroom. The room of students work on their tests.
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Outside the window, Peter's head peeps up.
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He taps on the window. Kyra notices him, and he gestures to her.
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She points to her test.
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Peter mouths "help me".
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Peter's head pops up again and he taps.
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Kyra gives him an irritated look. Tayla notices.
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Frustrated, Peter zooms around to the window on the other side of the classroom.
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And returns.
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Peter ducks.
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She navigates the desks and rushes out the door. The teacher looks irritated.
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Tayla watches her go
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Krya searches an under-cover area lined with lockers.
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[FAST] He zooms to a halt.
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She glares at him. In the park, Maxwell picks a plant.
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[FAST] He passes out spades and buckets.
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Maxwell hands Imogen the smoke-bush.
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As they split up, Imogen hurries down a path after Darra.
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He turns around. Imogen gives him a smug smile.
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She shoves past him, knocking into his shoulder.
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The classroom.
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[FAST] Tayla.
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Kyra pulls Peter's sleeve.
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Kyra lets go, and the tuxedo jacket sleeve slides back.
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They turn to see Anton's shadow fall into the undercover area. Peter hauls Kyra behind a bank of lockers.
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Anton strides in and stops. Peter gestures to Kyra, and they start creeping away.
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Anton raises his hand .
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The bank of lockers slide away, revealing Kyra and Peter.
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Kyra's fingers light up and she points at Anton, pushing him backwards with magic.
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He shrugs it off.
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Suddenly Tayla appears, using her wand to conjure a sheet of ice at Anton's feet.
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He slips, and ponderously topples backwards.
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... and keeps sliding down off the path into the shrubbery.
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She grabs Peter's arm.
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In the Park, Lily meets Ruksy.
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Ruksy gives Lily an apologetic look and checks her phone.
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She walks away from Lily to take the call.
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Later, she jumps into the Library, carrying her bucket of plants.
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She looks down, considering her words.
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Anton lumbers through the entrance mural.
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Peter, Ruksy and Kyra run.
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Ruksy turns back and points her wand at the small bucket of collected plants. Smoke billows out, confusing Anton.
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He flails at the smoke.
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Elsewhere Ruksy, Kyra and Peter creep around the aisles.
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Kyra looks at Ruksy.
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Ruksy points her wand; Kyra points her fingers. The tuxedo begins to glitter.
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Suddenly Peter is in his vest and boxer-shorts.
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Ruksy and Kyra spin around. Peter gathers the Tux and scampers away.
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Later, Ruksy opens the magic freezer.
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With insulated tongs, she picks up a chunk of crystal from the misty interior and studies it.
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Later.
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They creep through the library.
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Anton appears at the end of the aisle and squares off to them.
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Ruksy brandishes the white jacket, flapping it like a matador.
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They back away at Anton stomps towards them.
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Ruksy uses her wand.
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Anton has stepped between three crystals on the floor, which form a triangle of arcing energy.
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He struggles, but he can't free himself.
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In a flash, he's reduced to a tiny figurine of a diving suit. They all relax.
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Later Anton is restored to the fishbowl.
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Peter beams.
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Ruksy rubs her hands, and looks at him, her dark brown eyes serious.
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She walks away.
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She stops, glancing back.
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She walks off, into the Library, leaving Peter, eyes wide behind his horn-rimmed glasses, looking after her.
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He blinks a couple of times.
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Later, he sits with Kyra in a booth at Gangway. He looks sad as he stirs his juice with his straw.
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He gets up and leaves.
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He gives her a small smile.
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Audio Description for this episode "Testing Times" was written by Brett Coulstock, and co-written by Kyle Warwick-Mathieu. Narrated by Kyle Warwick-Mathieu. Credits appear over words and illustrations from books in the library. Kyra: Kimie Tsukakoshi. Imogen: Elizabeth Cullen. Lily: Mia Milnes. Darra: Julian Cullen. Ruksy: Rainbow Wedell. Peter: Jamie Carter. Professor Maxwell: Christopher Sommers. Tayla: Miah Madden. [Other cast added] Mathilda: Arnijka Larcombe-Weate. Ms Rayner: Laura Kenneally. Anton Krasnarsky: Dorian Djoudi
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Script and Story Producer: Mark Shirrefs. Director of Photography: Andrew Conder ACS SOC. Production Designer: Michael Rumpf. Editor: Ahmad Halimi. Credits continue.
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The characters, events, places and organizations portrayed in the program are entirely fictitious. Any similarites to actual persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental. Copyright 2021 Jonathan M. Shiff Productions PTY LTD. ZDF Enterprises, Screen Queensland PTY LTD, and Screen Australia.
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Jonathan M. Shiff Productions.