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What the show is about...


The drama follows Kyle Connor and Pete Griffiths, twenty something friends from London who set off to travel the world. They?ve worked hard, saved even harder and they?re now eager to soak up as many different cultures and experiences as possible. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. But upon his arrival in the South Pacific, he is unsettled by the local people?s reaction to his tattoo; it clearly has a significance that he is entirely unaware of. Later, while snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle discovers the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. When he returns with the police, the corpse has disappeared. Budgie questions if his friend is going mad, but Kyle begins to believe that he instead has seen into the future. Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked into a desperate race to prevent Aumea?s murder, as Kyle learns that his gifts don?t stop at prophecy and the full meaning of the tattoo soon is revealed.

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Nice! I hope there are enough episodes ordered to fully tell the story!

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O.P. says they've worked hard and saved for their trip, but seems to have missed the fact that Budgie is obviously on the hook to bad people for at least 25K back in London.

BOHICA America!

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From the hints dropped in Episode 2, I am wildly guessing that Aumea stumbles across illegal shortcuts being taken in the family's cultured pearl business. Shortcuts being taken with Maui's blessing! And, so, he is going to be ordered (by his co-conspirators) to do away with her.

I will also wildly guess that the old Maori kahuna will turn out to be the ghost of one of Aumea's ancestors and that Kyle will recognize him in some century-old photograph.

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What still--thankfully--mystifies me is _why_ Kyle is having these visions. After all, to paraphrase what Aumea and her relatives keep saying, he _is_ a British haole (Hawaiian synonym for "gringo" or "gaijin")! So, from their religious/cultural view point, he should be totally unworthy to have such visions.

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The Cook Island Maori word for white person or foreigner is papa'a - you hear the local actors use this word in the series.

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Thanks, tekura; I couldn't make out the pronounciation, too clearly.

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I'm asking the same thing! I'm halfway through the second episode and had to take a break Not sure if I can finish!

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Godard

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The third episode explains that he created his own tattoo which enabled him with shamain abilities.The other poster was correct in guessing that the high priest was really a ghost of one of Aumea's ancestors

That's just my two cents.

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Two Brits wanted a long vacation in Fiji so they pitched a plot line to the BBC...

They ad-libbed all the way.

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