Tatau Screenplay

Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.

2015 Crime Drama Science Fiction Fantasy Richard Zajdlic Touchpaper Television

Tatau 1x01: Episode 1.1

Londoners Kyle Connor and Pete "Budgie" Griffiths travel to the Cook Islands for an eagerly anticipated holiday. But when they drink a traditional local hallucinogen Kyle begins seeing visions of a beautiful woman in a red dress.

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Tatau 1x02: Episode 1.2

After his encounter at the airport Kyle seeks answers but he causes trouble with a powerful local family forcing him to take some dangerous and extreme actions. Budgie makes a rash decision that will further complicate matters.

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