SHEILA: We are with you live from the Waterhole, and with me is Clive Gibbons, the COO, isn’t he cute.
Sheila finishes her intro and asks Clive who the next letter is from.
CLIVE: It’s from you, they’re all from you.
SHEILA: Oh, don’t be ridiculous. What would I possibly have to gain by writing the letters?
CLIVE: ‘Dear Sheila, I have come back to Ramsay Street after being away for decades. I have reconnected with someone on the street and made new friends. One really good friend in particular.’
Sheila points to herself, then shares a knowing look with Clive.
CLIVE: ‘But there’s stuff about my past I haven’t spoken about and I don’t know when the right time is to do that. Maybe I’m worried there are things that she won’t like or approve of, am I being silly? Signed, mystery man.’
SHEILA: Well?
CLIVE: Well what?
SHEILA: Is he being silly?
CLIVE: One of us is!
Sheila thinks he obviously has something really important to share and is waiting for the right time. Clive says he’s a mystery man, maybe he doesn’t have something exciting to share. Maybe his good friend is setting herself up to be disappointed. Sheila says anything he had to say wouldn’t be disappointing. Clive says maybe he’s conventional, married, kids, career, and now he finds himself unshackled. He’s now middle aged and looks like his granddad. Sheila thinks that’s interesting. Clive says it doesn’t sound interesting.
SHEILA: I’ll tell you what is interesting, he knows a lot more about his incredibly beautiful friend than she knows about him. That’s not really fair is it?
CLIVE: Well what do you want to hear, what does she want to hear I mean?
She wants to know the mistakes, stuff ups, the whole thing.
CLIVE: Okay, well he did volunteer as a medic for the freedom fighters of the Congo for a while, hacking his way through the jungle to retrieve the dying and the wounded.
SHEILA: Really?!
CLIVE: No! He didn’t, but that’s clearly what she wants to hear! Indiana Gibbons!
Sheila says she wants to know that they’re in this together, and she isn’t the only one doing the emotional work.
SHEILA: She wants to know there are no ghosts going to come rattling out of the closets and scare the bejesus out of her!
CLIVE: You mean skeletons? Ghosts don’t rattle, they float.
SHEILA: She’s serious.
CLIVE: Is she?
SHEILA: Deadly.
CLIVE: Anyone ever tell you you’re beautiful when you’re angry.
SHEILA: No, because they’re usually too scared to speak.
Clive says there are no skeletons coming rattling out of anyone’s closet. Sheila rubs her hand over Clive’s shoulder.
SHEILA: I quite like Indiana Gibbons, does he have a whip?
CLIVE: Whip and a hat, its all he wears.
SHEILA: In the jungle?
CLIVE: And a loincloth.
SHEILA: Very biblical. Prove it.
They lean in to kiss, when Clive winces in pain, rubbing his back. He says Indiana Gibbons is not as young as he used to be. Sheila says he’s just fine, and tells him to turn the camera off, she knows some voodoo.
