What Josiah Saw (2021) Movie Script
1
[water sloshing]
[magical music]
[ominous music]
[upbeat folk music]
[ominous music]
And the right to be free
And to follow that great
freedom call
[thud pounding, dragging]
[thud pounding, dragging]
[thud pounding, dragging]
- You got it this time, all
right?
[ominous music continues]
[engine choking]
You ain't gonna do me like
that today.
Not today, Betsy. Not today,
Betsy.
[engine choking]
[engine blows]
[upbeat folk music]
[Josiah whistling]
Then pray to God for a
helping hand
With liberty for you and me
Be gone my son
[ominous music]
As man have marched and
fought
For the freedom that we've
got
Freedom stars shine for you
and me
- God I just, I just love
you, God,
and I thank you from
the bottom of my heart
for this food today.
I pray for Ma, I pray for
Pa.
I pray for Mary and Eli,
too.
Amen.
- Saw the damndest thing this
morning.
Can't shake it.
It's difficult because
the
sheer magical nature of
it.
But uh,
I was up early on account of
my leg and uh,
went ahead on downstairs
and out the window,
just as the sun broke on the
horizon,
I see,
I see this little man.
And by little, I mean no
bigger
than a half a foot or so.
And he's wearing this green
suit
and he's got these funny
shoes
that curled up at the
tips.
And then this little man,
he
just up and start
dancing.
He's dancing in place.
A jig, a jig is what you'd
call it.
He's just jigging away,
faster and faster
and then he just up and
stops.
- Then what happened?
- Well, he squats down all
low.
He drops his drawers.
His face squench up.
And then it happened.
- Pa, what happened?
- He shat out a rainbow
out his little ass.
[Thomas laughs]
He shat it out all bright and
beautiful,
pulled up his drawers and run
off.
Ain't that something?
- You know, listen Pa,
you
know that ain't happen.
Leprechauns don't exist.
- Yeah well, you think God
exists
and you're ignorant
enough to believe that.
I suppose ignorant was a
poor choosing of my
words.
It's a bad judgment, that's
all.
You come with me
tomorrow.
Would you like that?
You can drive.
[crickets chirping]
[tense music]
- Ah.
[ominous music]
- [Mullins] We've
resurfaced
most of the main roads,
even put in that new filling
station.
I'm sure you've seen
that.
- [Gentry] Biggest one I ever
saw.
[men laughing]
- Biggest one he ever
saw.
- Well, you being an
assemblyman
here in town and all,
we're gonna be perfectly
candid here.
Now, your town is all but
dead.
Now the only thing keeping it
together
is our company's
interests.
See, it all goes hand
in hand with our plans
to harvest oil from the
shale.
Let's just cut to the
chase here, Mr. Gentry.
Any help we can get in
acquiring
those outlying
properties,
Well, we'd see that as a real
asset.
- We're prepared to offer
generous commissions.
- Well.
This is Willow Road,
that's the Graham
property.
That'll be a tough sell.
- Most have a price.
- We have drafted some offer
letters
for all the parties
involved.
I'm sure you will find
that
the offers for
compensation
are much more than market
value.
- That place has a bad
history.
- [Shinberg] Is that
right?
- Mm-hm.
Anybody left around here
can tell you about it.
Something awful come
about.
- Cat's left that bag, Mr.
Gentry.
- Well,
sometime back, we're talking
decades now,
the wife, her name was
Miriam,
people around here called her
Mim.
Real big in the church.
Always made sure her
twins
and the youngest boy,
Tommy,
were present and dressed
proper.
Real saint of a woman.
God tested being married
to
a man like Josiah Graham.
This particular Sunday,
Mim
was nowhere to be found.
Wasn't like her.
Tommy, he was especially
close to his mother,
he kept looking at the church
door,
trying to catch some sight of
her.
Never seen a boy so lost.
He run out mid sermon.
Figured he'd gone to fetch
her.
[ominous music]
Found her hanging from that
old oak tree,
swinging dead from the
neck.
Left to right.
People say that, that
property,
I mean town folk.
They swear it's haunted.
The ghost walks that farm at
night.
Some say it's her.
Oh it's just town folk talk,
really.
- That's some story.
- Seeing as how you guys
need a friendly face
to help in acquiring that
Graham property,
figure any commissions
gonna
have to be very generous.
[ominous music]
[Truck engine turns off]
- You got money, boy?
- I got that $10 that Mary
sent.
- 10 whole dollars?
Well I can't figure if
that
makes you or Mary rich,
then.
- It's for my birthday.
- For your birthday.
- Eli, he didn't, he didn't
send nothing.
- If Eli had anything to
send,
he'd probably whore it or
gamble it away.
First step that boy took
was a mud pile of
trouble.
Get that outta your head,
boy.
- Tanner's my friend.
- You ain't got no
friends.
Don't you see him no
more.
You know what that woman
say?
Mrs. Tate.
She say I should keep that
retard of mine
locked up in the
basement.
She say she gonna sick
that
dog of theirs loose on
you,
you ever try to see that boy
again.
She think you the village
idiot.
Good for nothing simp.
That's what she think, all
right.
- She can see anything she
want.
- [Josiah] Witch of a
woman.
- [Thomas] Hmm.
[light pleasant music]
[tense music]
- Pst.
- [Mrs. Tate] Tanner.
Tanner, Tanner.
Come on, we gotta go.
You wanna get the
magazine?
[upbeat music]
- Come here, boy!
Hey!
I got the leprechaun jiggy
going!
Hey boy, look!
I'm a leprechaun!
Ah yeah! Happen every same
damn time.
Drink a little too much
shine
Come on, Pa...
No, you better not fall, Pa.
No.
Oh God, Pa! No, you can't
fuckin' do that now.
Now one day that wasn't
workin'
When the farmer's daughter
came
- Here you go.
- Pa.
[Thomas Laughs]
Pa, you,
Pa, you gonna spill this.
Hold on.
Pa, you gonna spill that.
Let me get that for ya.
There you go.
Get you ready for bed
now.
Come on, you gotta wake
up.
Pa, you gotta wake up.
Pa, wake up.
[Josiah grunts]
- I wanna ask you
something.
What is it you watching
for
outside your window come
nightfall?
- Oh, Pa it's,
Pa, I ain't lookin' at
nothin'.
- Ah, don't you lie to
me.
- You ever see her, Pa?
- [Josiah] See who?
- Ma.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, I swear, people
been talking out there.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, people say it.
That's what they been
saying.
- She ain't out there.
- But they were, that
they.
[slap smacking]
[Josiah incoherent
mumbling]
[wind blowing]
[tense music]
[intense music]
[eerie music]
You can say what
you want to say to me.
- It's important you
awake.
It's important you
understand
what I need to tell you.
Son,
whatever bad you got
inside you, come from me.
And everything good, it
come from your mother.
- I done nothing wrong,
Pa.
- I know you think that
and
I know this is hard for
you,
but what's important is,
is
we've been shown the way.
We've been given a way
to wash away our sins
and make peace with God.
- You don't believe in God,
Pa.
So.
- Last night something
happened.
Something you been trying
to tell me all this time.
Something I've denied for
years.
God,
God watches us.
And your mother,
your mother's in the
hellfire.
She killed herself, so
she wasn't there for you.
So she burns.
She suffers.
And we gonna burn, too.
- You lying to me.
- I am a liar, and I've
been
a fool, but not no more.
[eerie music]
Last night, your mother,
she come to me and she
stood at the foot of my
bed
and she told me that
you've
been right all along.
She walk out there at
night.
[Thomas crying]
- Why I never seen her?
I never seen her, Pa.
- Well she seen you.
She sees you watching from
that window.
And she wanna come to you,
too.
She said she want to come to
you.
She to say, you ain't ready
yet.
She say that we gotta right
our ways,
and she gonna send somebody
to guide us.
But they gonna come to me,
and me only.
And she say, if we right our
ways,
and we right a great
wrong,
that we could save her.
We can save your mother,
boy.
She say she love you.
She say she loves you the
best.
Lord, we are grateful for
a whole mess of things.
We're especially grateful
for the chance to right our
wrongs.
We,
please get this strength to
Eli and Mary
and we'll pray for them,
too.
Lord forgive us, amen.
- Amen.
[intense music]
[wind blowing]
[Josiah panting]
[Something close by
creaking]
[light ominous music]
[door opening]
[door creaking]
- Mama.
Mom, is that you?
[tense music]
Pa, did you, did you see
her?
- I did.
She weren't alone.
Whatever she was with, it
spoke without saying a
word.
- Oh yeah?
- I knew what it say,
it's like this voice come up
inside me.
It say, your mother,
she can't keep hidden from
these demons.
And that, and that we
got chores we gotta do.
First and foremost of
which,
we gotta spit shine this
house, top to bottom.
Take pride in ourselves,
where we lay our heads.
That sit right?
- And Ma, she say anything
for me?
- She ain't do no talking,
but that angel,
if that what it were, say
he
got a chore special for
you.
Say we need to take care
of
things around here first,
and then you do what need be
done then.
- Okay, Pa.
- Ain't that somethin'?
- Yeah, boy!
I'm noticed it!
[lightly upbeat music]
- [Josiah] Leave it be.
- No morning tea?
- [Josiah] Not no more.
- Okay.
Give us this day our daily
bread,
and forgive us our
trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And lead us not to
temptation.
[engine chugging]
Pa, where you at?
Pa?
God damn it, I know
exactly
what to tell you, Pa.
Pa?
You God damn.
Pa, ain't gonna believe
what I seen out there,
Pa.
I just done fixed Betsy.
She up and running.
Pa, them Eli's, he left them
here.
- Yet they under your
bed.
Well, you only human.
Eli human, too.
Come on in here.
Sit down, come on.
[Josiah] Ain't no shame in
looking.
God made women.
He gave man sight.
Pick one of them up.
Go on.
Flip it open.
Flip it open.
Yeah, find yourself a pretty
one there.
Oh yeah, she's a beauty.
Look at her.
You like them bumps and
curves?
What is God's hand?
Temptation's the work of the
devil,
but resolve,
that's God's hand.
This bringing you back.
Bringing you back to when
Eli,
he took you out there in the
shed and,
he showed you what's
what.
- That was long time ago,
Pa.
- Yeah, well that's
'cause you show resolve.
Yeah, ain't nothing wrong
with
looking at whores, no
sir.
You look at whores all you
want.
As long as you got
resolve.
But a man only has to
ride a bicycle one time
and he know how to do it
twice.
Go on there and take it
out.
- No Pa.
- Come on now.
- I don't want you to touch
me there.
- Pull it out!
Pull it out.
- Pa, please.
- You pull it out.
- Pa, please.
- Pull it out now.
Pull it out.
You know you can, you pull it
out.
- Please, I'm begging you,
Pa.
- Pull it out, boy.
You take it out.
You get over here and you
take it out.
You take it out now.
It's not time for you to be
no sissy boy.
You take it out now.
You show me you're a man.
Show me how you do it.
Show me how you ride that
bicycle.
And I want you to go real
slow,
and you let me see how it's
done,
and you make me proud.
[Thomas masturbating]
Yeah, that's right, that's
right.
Yeah, look at them dirty
pillows.
Oh yeah.
[Thomas moans]
All right, now slow down,
slow down.
Don't go too fast.
Take it easy.
Take it easy, I want to see
how you do it.
[Thomas grunting]
All right now, you finish
up and get it done.
God is watching you right
now
and you a sinner in his
eyes.
You got to atone and
you're
going to have to atone,
and we're gonna walk
down that path together,
for your mother.
Your mama love you.
And you finish up, boy.
You finish up, get it
done!
[Thomas crying]
[ominous music]
- The light that appeared
with your mother,
say there's something
else needs to be doing.
Says I need to wait till dark
to tell ya.
- It's dark now.
- No man or woman judges.
God's got something he wants
done, boy.
[lively music]
[woman moaning]
[lively music]
[radio busting]
- I liked that song.
You could've just unplugged
it.
- You got that thing you said
you got?
- Careful with that,
it ain't been cut yet.
That'll drop an elephant as
is.
Kind of makes you a
prostitute, doesn't it?
- There are worse things to
be.
- Do you even remember my
name, lover?
- Yeah, it's Jenny.
- It ain't.
[motor humming]
- Shit.
You a couple weeks early!
- Well, I like to stay
sociable.
Breakfast of champions.
- Hooch ain't why you're
here.
- Get up.
Turn around.
Put 'em together like you're
praying.
- All right, easy now.
Come on.
God damn.
- Nine year old girl
went missing last week.
Little ways outside of
Austin.
- Well this ain't a
little
ways outside Austin.
- It's close enough.
You're on my list.
You know anything about a
nine
year old girl gone
missing?
- The only thing I know
is you're gonna make me late
for work.
- Life ain't hard enough for
you?
Words out that you're
gambling
again and you're in deep.
Drinking, whoring.
How many violations you
think
I need to put you back
inside?
The answer is none.
I get one crooked hair up
my ass and you are done.
- You know, I got some
Prep H inside the
trailer,
you can help yourself.
- You're funny.
Don't worry about being late
for work.
I had a talk with your boss,
man.
He was all sorts of
unaware
about you being a nonce.
That's what I called it.
He didn't know what it
was.
So I explained to him,
that's what they call
child fuckers in prison.
- That girl was 16, she's
boozing up in a bar.
She told me otherwise.
You wouldn't know it by
looking at her.
All that, that was five years
ago.
I did my time for that.
Come on, you know that.
- Only thing I know is a
crossed line
is awfully hard to step back
over.
- You best go toss it.
- Oh yes, sir, I'll do
that.
You move an inch off your
throne, I'll shoot you
dead.
Nonce.
[ominous music]
- Hey.
[upbeat country music]
Here to see Boone.
- Logan ain't seeing you,
Eli.
- I don't need Logan, I
want to talk to Boone.
- Well, you know this.
You want to see Boone,
you
gotta go through Logan.
[Billy] Let me check.
Hey Logan, Eli's here to see
Boone.
[Logan] Tell him to fuck
himself, Billy?
- [Billy] He says go fuck
yourself, Eli.
- Hey, I got, I got
money.
- He says, he's got
money.
- [Logan] Yeah, he always
says he's got money.
Tell him to fuck himself,
Billy.
- He seems resound, Eli.
- Know what man, I'm fucking,
fuck you.
I'm not doing this shit.
Hey, you fucking dope.
[Billy laughs]
- Shit.
[gun cocking]
- [Boone] Put it away.
You boys done blowing each
other?
- [Logan] Eli wants to see
you.
- No shit.
Come on then, hey, come
on.
- God damn it, man.
Can't make a bloody
Mary to save your life.
- You're the only one that
drinks them.
- Have a seat, Eli.
I apologize Sheriff, where
were we?
Oh, he's no bother.
Eli, I'm gonna give the
Sheriff here
an envelope full of
money.
There's a little bit
extra in there, Sheriff,
on account of your
anniversary.
Sheriff's been married 40
years.
God bless.
Sheriff, always a
pleasure.
- Eli, is it?
- You owe me money,
of the substantial variety.
Four hundred and eighty
dollars?
You're in for a mess more
than that.
- Forgot, you know, I got
something else.
That ain't even been cut
yet.
That's worth two grand, at
least.
- [Boone] You just toss smack
on my desk?
Did you just toss smack on my
desk?
Do I have to ask the
fucking question again?
- All right.
- I'm gonna have you killed,
Eli.
Dead and buried.
And there won't be a soul
in
the world who'll give a
shit.
- I'll work it off.
I'll work off the debt.
I'll tend bar.
I'll even clean the shitters,
you know, I'll do--
- You want me to put you on
the payroll?
Well you might as well
start
by hitting me in the dick
with a hammer.
'Cause that'd be about as
appealing to me.
- I'll get it.
I'll get you the money.
- Forgetting immediate
unpleasantries committed,
you getting me my money
is the general nature of the
conversation
we're about to have.
You ever hear of Romani.
Gypsies.
From Germany, Romania,
wherever, over there.
Most come after the second
World War.
Jews got the bum wrap,
sure,
but Hitler's boys, they
killed
communists and radicals.
Gimps, retards and
queers.
Generally anyone they
disagreed
with, or couldn't trust.
Gypsies being part of that
congregation.
You know why Nazis pulled Jew
teeth?
'Cause Jew teeth had gold
fillings,
and them Nazis took their
share.
Little here, a little
there.
Bunch of gold adds up over
the years.
Them Gypsies comes
through
these parts each year,
with a carnival.
They pitch their tents and
then move on.
And this part of the
story
is the part you best pay
attention to,
'cause it's a fact, Jack.
[tense music]
A week back, a man sat
downstairs,
got himself drunk at my
bar.
Kept going on about them
Gypsies.
Said he was one of those
Romani.
Told that tale about Jew
gold,
and how this clan, these
carnies,
were sitting on 10 bars of
it.
Said for the right price,
he might know where they
stash it.
They pitch their carnival
tents
on a lot I got down by
the
rail yard, just outside
Odessa.
You're goin' with Logan and
Billy
to see if that gold story's
true.
- You gotta be shittin'
me.
- I got all sorts of
friends
collecting all sorts of
envelopes.
Clear your markers.
Have that record of yours
wiped clean.
New start for you.
Or I kill you right here and
now.
- Gypsies, huh?
- Go figure.
Three of you,
going over to Odessa,
coming back with Jew
gold.
You fuck it up,
those two gonna take another
initiative.
[tense music]
- They say if a dog howls for
no reason,
there's trouble coming.
Gypsy lore.
[thunder roaring]
Lightening without rain,
these are omens.
- That's just heat
lightening.
- Yeah?
Well,
I find it best to be
educated, so let's see.
They navigate by
moonlight.
If it's obscured, they stay
put.
They never get married if
a shoe falls out of a
tree,
and crows are bad luck.
They put a curse on
everything.
- How would a shoe fall from
a tree?
- Well, it must have
happened at some point
if they're deciding
something
like marriage on it.
- Whoop-de fucking do, are
we
gonna do this shit or
what?
What are we waiting for?
- All right, tenderfoot.
Now remember, we go in,
we have a few drinks,
then Logan and I will close
out the tab.
Now this is their last
night,
so they're gonna be
partying.
As soon as they're good and
sauced up,
Logan and I will go after the
gold,
you keep them distracted.
- You know where it's at?
- Well that's none of your
business, Eli.
You ain't gotta do shit but
sit, drink,
and entertain the pretty
girls.
That's all we need from
you.
Can you do that?
[lively Romani music]
[singing in foreign
language]
- [Marco] I thought it was
the beer. [laughs]
Howdy.
- Hey.
- We're looking for
Marco.
- Boone's guys.
- [Billy] That's right.
- Come on in.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Eh, a little fiesta
before
we leave town tomorrow.
- [Billy] Yeah, this is
great.
- You guys want beer?
Beer?
- Please.
- Towne, beer for everyone,
please, come on.
- So you're Marco.
- I am, yes.
- So you're having a little
party?
- Oh yeah.
-[Logan] Take a seat.
[people chattering]
- [Billy] Is that your
sister?
- No no no no.
Dude, watch out.
[men laughing]
-[Marco] Here we go, come on,
Towne.
There we go.
Everybody get a beer.
- Thank you.
- Follow me in the back,
gentlemen.
- Whoa [laughs] Eli!
- You're cute.
- Eli, I'll be back.
Got my eye on you.
[lively music]
[people clapping]
- Can I help you with
something?
- What are you doing
here?
- Doing some business.
- Just doing some
business.
That's it.
- Yeah.
- Good.
That's good.
- What's your fucking
problem, huh?
- [Gina] Roy Roy, Marco wants
to see you.
[hand smacking]
Now!
Sorry about that, he's
kind of a bad drunk.
Here, please.
- I already got one.
Thank you.
- I'm Gina.
- Hey.
Where'd you learn to dance
like that?
- It's very traditional in my
culture.
Taught very young.
- I never seen it before.
- Maybe you'll have to try.
[giggles]
I could teach.
- I don't think I could
ever learn to do that,
hand, you know, whatever
that was, the leg shaking
stuff.
- I'd love to see you do
this.
So what are you doing
here?
- Just finishing up some
business.
With uh, whatever, boss man
is in there.
- Did you get a chance to
take part in the
festivities?
- No.
- Shame, we leave
tomorrow.
- Maybe I'll catch you on the
next one.
- All right.
Ever seen a medium
before?
- What?
- Fortune teller.
- Oh no, no.
I, I don't have much
fortune.
I don't think.
- Well this one's
special.
- I'm not a talker, you
know?
That's, that's what it
is.
- It's good to know, I like
that.
- What are we doing here?
- What's your name,
handsome?
- What are we doing here?
- I don't know yet.
But I don't know one
shouldn't pass up a
reading
if she's willing.
And that this is our last
night.
And I don't know anything
about you.
- James.
- Mr. James.
I'll be right back.
- What am I doing here?
- [Gina] Have a seat.
[eerie music]
- Are you serious?
[speaking in foreign
language]
- Give her your hand.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
Says you're easy on the
eyes.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
You're impatient.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[tense music]
[speaking in foreign
language]
You've come through quick
hardship.
You keep secrets.
A burden.
- My hands are scarred from
work.
Skin's leather from the
sun
and everybody keeps
secrets.
Should've pulled out that
crystal ball.
At least it would've looked
the part.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- [Gina] She says you're
going to die.
- Everybody dies.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- [Gina] Some sooner than
others.
- You not save her.
[tense music]
[tea kettle Whistling]
-[Mama Luna] Drink.
Straight down.
- This is a real show,
stranger.
[tense music]
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You are why she burns.
- Why who burns?
- Mother.
- What the fuck she just
say?
- She said your mother.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[tense music]
[man laughing evilly]
[intense music]
[Mama Luna crying]
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
- That tea.
- You run from something
unspeakable.
It's not finished with
you.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You came to settle the
debt?
- Can't move.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You've come for our
gold.
[ringing drone]
[eerie music]
[intense music]
[ominous music]
[baby whimpering]
[people whispering]
My Mom she died in a fire
she set
The law man was stated
while daddy wept
[ringing drone]
[Eli moaning]
- Raven tea packs a punch,
don't it?
- What the fuck happening,
man?
What'd you put in that
shit?
[Marco laughs]
- [Marco] Your boss sold you
out, brotha.
Dead and buried.
Those were his words.
- Can you watch her?
I'm gonna go help them start
closing up.
- Ah.
This is worth a lot more than
money.
Goes way back with us.
But you, you didn't do it for
gold.
It was different for you.
- Oh, don't pretend to know
me.
You're a low rent homicidal
Gypsy cult.
You kidnap kids and you
murder people.
So just save me all the hooey
bullshit
just fucking do what
you're gonna do to me.
But little girl you took,
the
police been looking for
her.
You should let her go.
- Gina can't have any
kids.
Mama Luna says you got a beng
on you.
That's the devil.
She says you've seen him,
too.
- Well then I guess
you're
just doing me a favor.
- It's nothing personal.
Here, stay awake.
It's gonna be a long
night
clearing out of here.
And get rid of this fat
fuck.
[oldies music]
[Miggs snorting
substance]
- Man you're too God damn
big, huh?
You like to party, big
boy?
Oh. Hold on, I'm just, I
got something for ya
here.
Such a long, long time
And I love you so
It's the best snort in
all of Texas, right
there.
Be a real shame to waste it,
I guess.
It's all yours.
Just make it quick with
me and we're square.
[Miggs snorting drugs]
[Miggs laughs]
[Miggs snorting drugs]
- Ooh! [laughs]
[Miggs exhales]
[Miggs snorting drugs]
- Fuck.
[Miggs grunts]
[Miggs breathing deeply]
[Miggs grunts]
Wondering, wondering
Shit.
[Eli grunting]
I'm wondering
Wondering, wondering
My life is whole
Yes I'm wondering, yes I'm
wondering
[Eli grunting]
And it seems like I will
see you
My love, wondering
I know, oh yes
Yes I know
I knew, you are mine
[Eli snorting]
To see my one wondering
Wondering, yes I'm
wondering
[Eli panting]
I'm wondering yes I'm
wondering
It seems I will see you
My love, wondering
[Eli grunting]
Shit.
[Eli grunting]
[keys jingling]
Shit.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- We'll get her a couple
of
moonpies or something.
Yes?
[Marco grunting]
- [Marco] No, no.
[splattering]
[tense music]
[tense music]
[eerie music]
- Come on.
Let's go.
Hey, hey hey hey.
Come on.
I need you to stay close to
me, all right?
Stay close to me.
[tense music]
- Hey!
[Gypsy Gina] Hey!
Oh my God, you took the
girl!
No, no!
[Gina panicking]
- Come on, run.
- [Gypsy Gina] They took the
girl.
-Run, run.
- [Gina] He took the girl
Marco!
[gunshots firing]
[Eli grunting]
- Get in.
Get in!
Shit, oh shit.
[Gypsies yelling]
Stay down, stay down!
- [Gypsy] Come on!
[gypsies yelling]
- [Gina] No, no!
[tense music]
[tires screeching]
- Ahhh.
Hey, you okay?
Are you okay?
Talk to me.
Oh, oh shit.
You don't talk much, or
what?
[girl whimpering]
- Just so we're clear, I
got nothing to do with
her.
- I left a real mess back
there.
- The Sheriff will clean it
up.
Hell, they might even throw
him a parade.
Returning this little
one.
Might even throw one for
you.
- I can't exactly show up
with a little girl, now can
I?
- You could have just left
her.
Run off.
- I got no way of pawning
that much gold
without someone noticing.
Not with what's on me.
And you, you said you
would clean my record.
- You earned it.
We'll get you a fresh
start.
What, she got a name?
- How the fuck would I
know?
- We give them out on
Tuesdays
for wet T-shirt night.
[ominous music]
- You don't seem to busted
up
about Billy and Logan,
huh?
You know them Gypsies,
yeah they ain't done with
you.
- Enjoy your new life,
Eli.
[tense music]
- Just clear my God damn
record,
and we can forget about this
shit.
- Oh it sure is pretty,
the way it shimmers in the
light.
It's like a. [grunts]
[head thudding]
[Boone gasping]
[ominous music]
- Hey, hey, hey, don't, don't
touch that.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Come on.
Walking in the shadows
Walking, in the shadows
Just passing time, I'm
walking in the shadows
To think that I'm alone
[police scanner
chattering]
In the shadows
In my lonely reverie
In my lonely reverie
- Come on.
When you run, boy, you run
far from here.
[door creaking]
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[bottles clanking]
[sharp ominous music]
[camera snapping]
[dramatic music]
[Mary breathing hard]
[machine whirring]
[machine whirring]
[Mary slurping]
[eerily calm music]
- There are concerns.
They aren't just my
concerns.
You've been through
the application process
with our agency before.
- [Ross] Uh yeah, several
years ago.
- Well, two other agencies as
well.
May I ask why tubal
ligation?
- Um, I had the procedure
almost 20 years ago.
I um,
I was, I was young.
- But sterilization is an
extreme measure.
- Yes.
I uh,
I made the, I made the
decision
before I knew I was meant to
be a mother.
- [Social Worker] You
filed for separation.
There was accusations of
infidelity.
- Uh yeah, that was um,
that was six years ago.
We, you know when you,
when you're having
difficulties you,
you know, you see things
that aren't there.
We worked through it,
though.
- [Social Worker] Mrs.
Milner,
would you be consenting
to a third party counsel?
- [Ross] Counsel?
- [Social Worker] For a
psychiatric exam.
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[loud dub-step music]
- Little bit more.
[loud dub-step music]
[Ross muffled yelling]
- Mary!
I thought you went grocery
shopping?
They're coming in a few
hours.
[ominous music]
[people chattering]
- [Man] You got me going.
- [Man] Cut him off, no
more wine for this guy.
[people laughing]
Oh wow, that is really,
really good.
- [Woman] This is really
good.
- [Damon] Mary, you
cooked
that to perfection.
- [Mary] Oh, thank you.
- Well, he know, believe
me.
He'll tell you how to cook
it.
- Oh really?
- No.
You know, I thought I
wanted
to do that for a little
while.
- Be a teacher?
- Not for everybody.
- Be a teacher?
- Mm-hm.
- Oh.
- Mm-hm.
- [Harley] I don't think
I could do middle school.
- Oh.
- Uh-uh.
That's too, that's rough.
- Both of your kids are off
at school?
- [Kirk] Oh, it's killing
her.
- It's not, really.
- [Harley] It really is.
I, I don't care how old they
get,
I'm always gonna need that
mama fix.
- Oh, 'cause they're her
babies.
Well, speaking of which,
what's going on with your
thing?
Is there any updates?
Ross and Mary are trying to
adopt.
- Oh.
- Well, we're in,
we're just in the process of
that.
- Well that's wonderful.
- Thank you, yeah,
thanks.
- Dan, we can talk about
that
fishing trip that we
planned.
- What's wonderful about
it?
- [Effie] I miss it so
much.
- [Damon] A big football
field.
- I, I just meant you'd
make lovely parents,
yeah.
- But you don't know me.
- Hey Mar, let's not, we
don't need that.
- [Kirk] I don't think she
meant anything by it.
- No, it's fine.
- You know, I, this is my
fault.
I shouldn't have said
anything.
- No no no no.
It's, I promise it's not your
fault.
It's not a big deal, at all,
it's not.
- No.
But I just, I'm.
I'm sorry,
I just really want to
know
what's so wonderful about
it.
- Hey, we can just kind of,
not now, okay.
- But this is the first time
she's met us.
- [Ross] It is the
first time she's met us.
- It's the first time
she's been to our home.
- [Ross] That's right.
- [Mary] I just,
how do you know what kind
of parents we would make?
- [Kirk] I'm sorry,
I think maybe you just
misunderstood what she
was.
- It's, it's fine.
I was just trying to be
polite.
- [Ross] Mm-hm.
- But you're right, Mary.
I don't know a thing about
you.
- [Ross] And that's why we're
here.
[Ross] So let's, I'm
gonna
serve us some more wine.
How bout that?
Great.
- Smooth cabernet.
- Even though we've topped
that off.
Okay, who, you're good.
Can I get you some more?
- Cheers.
- [Ross] We have sugar
coming,
which is my favorite part of
the meal.
- [Effie] Yes, yes.
- [Kirk] Desert. Desert
[ominous music]
- Did you stop taking
these?
- Counting my pills now?
Yeah.
- I mean I thought,
I thought we were
working on this together?
I mean after the shit you
pulled tonight
I don't know what's going
on.
- That's not working
together.
Counting my pills, that's
not fucking working
together.
- You asked me if I ever get
mad.
I'm always mad.
I'm always mad, but I can't
say anything
'cause I'm so fucking
terrified
you're gonna kill
yourself.
- Whoa, kill myself?
- I had some crazy fucking
idea
that a baby was give you
a,
give us like a fresh
start,
but if you can't stay on
track,
how the fuck you expect me
to?
It's like you're punishing
me.
All this shit, you know
what this tells me?
You're not in this with
me.
Do you know how
embarrassing
that was for me tonight?
Do you know what you
fucking said out there?
- I was just being
honest.
- You got this fucking
narrative in your head.
No one's against you, at
all.
- You're right.
Baby, I'm not trying to
punish you.
You deserve,
you deserve so much
better.
And you always have.
But please don't ever
assume
that you know what a
child will mean to me.
[Ross humming]
[ominous music]
Hi.
- Hey.
I'm sorry.
[knife slicing]
- No it's, it's fine.
It's not your fault.
[knife slicing]
- Don't you ever get mad?
[ominous music]
Don't you ever get mad?
Don't you ever get mad?
[knife slicing]
Don't you ever get mad?
Don't you ever get mad?
[knife slicing]
[Mary screaming]
Baby, come on.
Mary, oh no no.
No no no no no.
It's a dream.
Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.
[Mary panicking]
Wake up, wake up, wake
up.
It's all right, it's all
right.
[Mary panting]
It's okay, it's okay, you're
okay.
You're okay, okay, okay.
What happened, babe?
What was it, sweetheart?
- I don't know, fuck.
- It's all right, it's
all right, it's all
right.
It's okay.
[tense music]
- [Psychiatrist] Mary,
I'd
like to ask you
something.
What is it you need?
- Um,
I uh.
- Okay, let me put it this
way.
What purpose would a child
serve you?
[Mary exhales]
- Ma'am, there is um,
there's a hollow inside
me.
I uh, I can't ever fill
it.
Not, not even with a
child.
It um, it burrows, deep
inside me.
But uh,
there's something else.
There's something beautiful
and loving,
and it is there for a
reason.
It is,
it's there so I can give
it to somebody else.
I need to give it.
If I don't then,
then only the hollow
exists.
I um,
I want a child because
I need to give love.
[Mary cries lightly]
[tense music]
What the fuck?
No, no no no no no no.
[door opening]
Ross?
- [Ross] Yeah?
- [Man] See you.
- [Ross] Okay.
- [Man] Yeah, good to see
you.
- You get my calls?
He just showed up.
I mean, we gotta talk
about this but I gotta
go.
All right, I'll catch you
later, all right, Eli?
- [Eli] All right, take
care.
- Yeah.
- You have no right showing
up like this.
- Well now, he didn't
seem to feel the same
way.
- I told you I didn't
want to talk about it.
- Good, all you gotta do is
listen.
- Eli.
- Hear me out, and I
won't
bother you about it no
more.
- You look rode hard and put
away wet.
- Yet you get prettier every
day.
God, Mary, it don't
matter
where I lay my head.
I left a heap of trouble back
in Texas.
Skipped my parole.
It's a matter of time
before it catches up to
me.
This letter.
- I know what it says.
- Okay, well then, then
you
know what they're
offering.
That kind of money,
well that could, that could
really
get me outta things.
That could get me a new
start.
Look, this oil company,
right,
that just, outta nowhere
they wanna buy the farm.
This, this is a lottery
ticket.
We just, we need all of
us
to sign off on it to
sell.
- Anything come from there is
no good.
- We all had it bad.
- [Mary] Yeah, some of
us worse than others.
- All you gotta do is
sign.
That's it, it don't have
to go no further than
that.
I'll take care of the
rest.
Hey, you remember that
game
we used to play when we were
kids?
How I'd ask Mary, may I?
You'd have to do it no matter
what?
[ominous music]
I'm asking again.
I need this, Mary.
I need it.
- I want to go back.
I'll go.
- No, you don't, I'm not
asking you to do that.
- No, I want to see it
through.
I want to know it's gone for
good.
You get Tommy to sign
yet?
- Hell Tom, Tommy won't talk
to me.
You know that, I, it's been a
long time.
- Do you blame him?
- Not at all.
If he'd give me the time
of day I'd tell him that.
But you, you're in
contact
with him, now and again,
right?
- God.
What would anyone want with
that farm?
- If you go, you need to
convince Tommy
it's time to let the place
go.
- Eli, what about Pa?
- Don't worry, I'll deal with
our father.
[haunting whistling
music]
[Eli pounding on
windshield]
You okay?
You just gonna stay in there
or what?
[tense music]
[door creaking]
- Tommy.
Look at you.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
You're so much bigger than I
remember.
- Yeah, I've always been big,
Mary.
I just ain't seen you in so
long.
- I'm sorry.
[footsteps approaching]
- Hey Tommy.
[Thomas crying]
Tommy, I'm sorry.
Hey, Tommy.
- Yeah.
- Hey, you got any hootch in
there?
- Oh yeah.
You know I got some
hootch.
- Let's go get some.
- Come on.
Oh, I've been, I wear
the.
I like your jacket, Mary, it
matches mine.
- Yeah, we do.
- Kinda, you know?
Come on in.
I figured you two would be
here earlier.
- How'd you figure that?
How'd you know we were
coming?
- I got a letter from the oil
company.
Y'all staying the night?
- Oh.
- Is that a joke?
- Oh, you know, like old
times.
I been fixing it up.
Making the house real
special.
I'm gonna go finish getting
ready.
Well come on in.
- Thank you.
- Make yourself at home.
- Thank you.
[light switch clicking]
[ominous music]
- They here.
- [Josiah] So they are.
- Eli look like he been
through a hard spell.
Mary looks as pretty as
ever.
- [Josiah] Pretty as ever.
[laughs]
Steady, boy.
[bell ringing]
- Ah, thank you, Jesus.
- That's a familiar
sight.
[tense music]
- Best get to it, then.
[tense music continues]
- We should leave it all.
- They start digging,
they might hit something
we can't have them
finding.
- Eli--
- That sink hole is
still down by the creek.
It's a salvage dump.
They're gonna fill it soon
enough and,
ain't nobody gonna look at
what's in it.
- 20 minutes.
Eli, I sat in the car for
minutes before I could go
in.
- You went in, right?
[ominous music]
That's all that matters.
[ominous music continues]
God, what are we doing
here?
- You see, son?
God don't lie.
Your mother, she saw it.
Saw what they were all these
years.
Drove her mad.
Couldn't turn it off.
[baby whimpering]
They the reason she burn.
[tense music]
[tense music]
- Been fixing the place
up.
- Yeah, you already said
that.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hm.
- I ain't gotten to all that
mail yet.
It just.
- Come sit with me,
Tommy.
[tense music]
- Okay.
- Yeah, okay.
[ominous music]
How you doin'?
Really?
- Oh, you know, getting
along.
- You uh,
you seem glad to see Eli.
- I'm glad to see you
both.
- Well, he was afraid you
wouldn't be.
He says he's been trying
to get a hold of you for a
while now.
- Oh yeah?
- Mm-hm.
I saw that. [laughs]
- Yeah.
That's a lady bug.
Well I say the past is the
past, you know?
All that matters is we here
now.
- The letter, Tommy.
There's some men from an oil
company.
I guess they want to buy the
farm.
[phone vibrating]
Will you give me a
second?
- Be my guest.
Take your time.
[ominous music]
[thud pounding, dragging]
- Is everything okay?
Ross?
- [Ross] Hey, how soon can
you come home?
- Why, what is it?
- [Ross] They made a
decision, baby.
Mary, you're gonna be a
mother.
[Mary crying]
Mary?
Oh my God.
Ah, I can't believe it.
Ah...
Hey Mary, you still
there?
Mary?
- Best get to it, then.
[Eli panting]
[tense music]
- [Eli] Well, I guess
we're gonna have
ourselves
a little sit down, huh?
- You guessed right.
[intense music]
- Is there something you
wanna tell us?
- Tell it, boy.
Tell him what your mama
say.
- Ma,
she's in the hellfire.
- Hellfire?
You figure ma's in hell, is
that it?
- I figure we all gonna
be,
unless we change our way.
You need to live pure,
righteous.
- I doubt I'm ever gonna be
saved, Tommy.
Sure as shit ain't gonna be
pure.
What the fuck do you
about
being righteous, huh?
This here's a restraining
order.
Your ex-wife's attorney.
- That,
that ain't real.
- [Eli] Oh that ain't
real?
What about out back?
Yeah, you know what I'm
talkin' about.
Is that real?
- Your ex-wife, Tommy.
Her name's Catherine.
She left you a year ago.
She remarried a man named
Tate.
He's your boy's
stepfather.
- He's my best friend.
- [Mary] He's your son.
- [Thomas] That's who he
is.
- [Eli] All these
letters.
All these letter right
here,
they're telling you to keep
away from them.
Says you hadn't been doing
it.
Is that why you moved
back here? To the farm?
How long you been here,
hm?
What the hell's goin' on with
you?
- The two of you.
Ma, she saw it.
She killed herself 'cause of
it.
You know you two had that
baby.
- Oh shit.
Tommy, you, you don't
you know, do you?
- What do you mean?
- That baby came from Pa.
- Liars!
[fist slamming table]
Liars! Drowning in their
unholy semen of their
incest!
- Stop no.
Okay.
- [Mary] Oh my God.
- [Thomas] Okay, that ain't
true.
- Who the fuck you talking
to, Tommy?
- [Eli] Huh?
- Boy, you know the
truth.
- You tell him what I
saw.
- Pa.
[Mary gasps]
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
- Oh the lord!
You sin together.
You still sin together.
You were at that motel
before you come home.
- [Eli] What, are you
watching us, Tommy?
- And you sinned again.
- I'm shacking up at that
motel
'cause I got nothing to go
back to.
And Mary, she came and met
me.
She followed me up the rest
of the way
so we could do this
together.
- [Mary] How dare you.
- [Thomas] Just admit it.
He'll forgive you.
Pa'll forgave you, I forgive
you.
Ma would forgive you.
- Tommy listen, okay.
Pa has been dead and
buried for 23 years now.
- You're not listening.
- [Eli] Tommy, that grave's
been dug up.
- He's trying to save us.
- Save us?
You know how you got your ear
like that?
Pa found you playing with his
pipe
and wanted to teach you what
happens
when you play with his
things.
So he heated up an iron
and he stuck it on the side
of your head.
You were four years
old when that happened.
Me, he liked to use a
strap.
Said it wasn't a lesson
unless it bled.
He taught me lots of
lessons.
And Mary,
well, well that was
something
different, wasn't it?
[intense music]
The old man had nothing
better to do
than to mark his boys and
to fuck his own daughter.
[Mary crying]
When Mary got pregnant,
that's when Ma killed
herself.
That's when the three of us
did it.
23 years later,
and I'm still trying
to get rid of the past.
- You gonna ask for
forgiveness.
- You need help.
- 23 years later,
you're still crazy as shit,
Tommy boy.
And if Pa is speaking to
you,
he ain't trying to save
us.
That old bastard just wants
revenge.
You need to sign these
fucking papers
so we can get rid of this
place once and for all.
You got it?
- You need help.
- You two killed that
baby.
Took a long time finding
it.
We all together now.
[tense music]
[lock rattling]
[intense music]
[ominous music]
[Mary crying]
- Why would he do this?
Why would he do this?
[Thomas yelling]
Don't, Tommy!
[Eli grunts]
[Mary screaming]
[Eli screaming]
[door locking]
[Eli screaming]
[Thomas grunting]
[tense music]
[Mary whimpering]
[Vinyl record jolt,
scratching]
[eerie whistling music]
[Vinyl record jolt,
scratching]
[door unlocking]
[floor creaking]
[Mary gasping]
[intense music]
[Mary whimpering]
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, don't,
don't.
[Mary whimpering]
[eerie music]
- That was his favorite
tune.
[footsteps running]
[tense music]
[Mary panting]
[tense music]
[footsteps approaching]
[intense music]
[wind blowing]
[knife slicing]
[knife slicing]
[knife slicing]
[haunting music]
[Mary grunting]
[Mary choking]
- Thomas
Don't hate me.
[record static buzzing]
[alcohol pouring]
[haunting music]
[heavy breathings sounds]
[music intensifies]
[fire burning]
[passionate heavy
breathing]
[fire raging]
In Dynamite mine your hour
will come
In a shower of stones steel
beams
They'll push and
they'll
pull against the rock wall
And find you buried among
the debris
When they search for
you
the dogs will sniff him out
From a torn peace of his
shirt
They'll bound down the
path
with lust on their breath
And find you under a
patch of fresh dirt
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
You cut off the past
Buried him here
Deep in the belly of the
mines
Blasted the wall sealed the
tomb
Lived out those short
days secure in your crime
Many years have passed
But still we trudge on
So we will till the end of
our days
Many have come and many
have gone
But there's one who
never
strays from this place
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
[Josiah laughing]
[water sloshing]
[magical music]
[ominous music]
[upbeat folk music]
[ominous music]
And the right to be free
And to follow that great
freedom call
[thud pounding, dragging]
[thud pounding, dragging]
[thud pounding, dragging]
- You got it this time, all
right?
[ominous music continues]
[engine choking]
You ain't gonna do me like
that today.
Not today, Betsy. Not today,
Betsy.
[engine choking]
[engine blows]
[upbeat folk music]
[Josiah whistling]
Then pray to God for a
helping hand
With liberty for you and me
Be gone my son
[ominous music]
As man have marched and
fought
For the freedom that we've
got
Freedom stars shine for you
and me
- God I just, I just love
you, God,
and I thank you from
the bottom of my heart
for this food today.
I pray for Ma, I pray for
Pa.
I pray for Mary and Eli,
too.
Amen.
- Saw the damndest thing this
morning.
Can't shake it.
It's difficult because
the
sheer magical nature of
it.
But uh,
I was up early on account of
my leg and uh,
went ahead on downstairs
and out the window,
just as the sun broke on the
horizon,
I see,
I see this little man.
And by little, I mean no
bigger
than a half a foot or so.
And he's wearing this green
suit
and he's got these funny
shoes
that curled up at the
tips.
And then this little man,
he
just up and start
dancing.
He's dancing in place.
A jig, a jig is what you'd
call it.
He's just jigging away,
faster and faster
and then he just up and
stops.
- Then what happened?
- Well, he squats down all
low.
He drops his drawers.
His face squench up.
And then it happened.
- Pa, what happened?
- He shat out a rainbow
out his little ass.
[Thomas laughs]
He shat it out all bright and
beautiful,
pulled up his drawers and run
off.
Ain't that something?
- You know, listen Pa,
you
know that ain't happen.
Leprechauns don't exist.
- Yeah well, you think God
exists
and you're ignorant
enough to believe that.
I suppose ignorant was a
poor choosing of my
words.
It's a bad judgment, that's
all.
You come with me
tomorrow.
Would you like that?
You can drive.
[crickets chirping]
[tense music]
- Ah.
[ominous music]
- [Mullins] We've
resurfaced
most of the main roads,
even put in that new filling
station.
I'm sure you've seen
that.
- [Gentry] Biggest one I ever
saw.
[men laughing]
- Biggest one he ever
saw.
- Well, you being an
assemblyman
here in town and all,
we're gonna be perfectly
candid here.
Now, your town is all but
dead.
Now the only thing keeping it
together
is our company's
interests.
See, it all goes hand
in hand with our plans
to harvest oil from the
shale.
Let's just cut to the
chase here, Mr. Gentry.
Any help we can get in
acquiring
those outlying
properties,
Well, we'd see that as a real
asset.
- We're prepared to offer
generous commissions.
- Well.
This is Willow Road,
that's the Graham
property.
That'll be a tough sell.
- Most have a price.
- We have drafted some offer
letters
for all the parties
involved.
I'm sure you will find
that
the offers for
compensation
are much more than market
value.
- That place has a bad
history.
- [Shinberg] Is that
right?
- Mm-hm.
Anybody left around here
can tell you about it.
Something awful come
about.
- Cat's left that bag, Mr.
Gentry.
- Well,
sometime back, we're talking
decades now,
the wife, her name was
Miriam,
people around here called her
Mim.
Real big in the church.
Always made sure her
twins
and the youngest boy,
Tommy,
were present and dressed
proper.
Real saint of a woman.
God tested being married
to
a man like Josiah Graham.
This particular Sunday,
Mim
was nowhere to be found.
Wasn't like her.
Tommy, he was especially
close to his mother,
he kept looking at the church
door,
trying to catch some sight of
her.
Never seen a boy so lost.
He run out mid sermon.
Figured he'd gone to fetch
her.
[ominous music]
Found her hanging from that
old oak tree,
swinging dead from the
neck.
Left to right.
People say that, that
property,
I mean town folk.
They swear it's haunted.
The ghost walks that farm at
night.
Some say it's her.
Oh it's just town folk talk,
really.
- That's some story.
- Seeing as how you guys
need a friendly face
to help in acquiring that
Graham property,
figure any commissions
gonna
have to be very generous.
[ominous music]
[Truck engine turns off]
- You got money, boy?
- I got that $10 that Mary
sent.
- 10 whole dollars?
Well I can't figure if
that
makes you or Mary rich,
then.
- It's for my birthday.
- For your birthday.
- Eli, he didn't, he didn't
send nothing.
- If Eli had anything to
send,
he'd probably whore it or
gamble it away.
First step that boy took
was a mud pile of
trouble.
Get that outta your head,
boy.
- Tanner's my friend.
- You ain't got no
friends.
Don't you see him no
more.
You know what that woman
say?
Mrs. Tate.
She say I should keep that
retard of mine
locked up in the
basement.
She say she gonna sick
that
dog of theirs loose on
you,
you ever try to see that boy
again.
She think you the village
idiot.
Good for nothing simp.
That's what she think, all
right.
- She can see anything she
want.
- [Josiah] Witch of a
woman.
- [Thomas] Hmm.
[light pleasant music]
[tense music]
- Pst.
- [Mrs. Tate] Tanner.
Tanner, Tanner.
Come on, we gotta go.
You wanna get the
magazine?
[upbeat music]
- Come here, boy!
Hey!
I got the leprechaun jiggy
going!
Hey boy, look!
I'm a leprechaun!
Ah yeah! Happen every same
damn time.
Drink a little too much
shine
Come on, Pa...
No, you better not fall, Pa.
No.
Oh God, Pa! No, you can't
fuckin' do that now.
Now one day that wasn't
workin'
When the farmer's daughter
came
- Here you go.
- Pa.
[Thomas Laughs]
Pa, you,
Pa, you gonna spill this.
Hold on.
Pa, you gonna spill that.
Let me get that for ya.
There you go.
Get you ready for bed
now.
Come on, you gotta wake
up.
Pa, you gotta wake up.
Pa, wake up.
[Josiah grunts]
- I wanna ask you
something.
What is it you watching
for
outside your window come
nightfall?
- Oh, Pa it's,
Pa, I ain't lookin' at
nothin'.
- Ah, don't you lie to
me.
- You ever see her, Pa?
- [Josiah] See who?
- Ma.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, I swear, people
been talking out there.
- She ain't out there.
- Pa, people say it.
That's what they been
saying.
- She ain't out there.
- But they were, that
they.
[slap smacking]
[Josiah incoherent
mumbling]
[wind blowing]
[tense music]
[intense music]
[eerie music]
You can say what
you want to say to me.
- It's important you
awake.
It's important you
understand
what I need to tell you.
Son,
whatever bad you got
inside you, come from me.
And everything good, it
come from your mother.
- I done nothing wrong,
Pa.
- I know you think that
and
I know this is hard for
you,
but what's important is,
is
we've been shown the way.
We've been given a way
to wash away our sins
and make peace with God.
- You don't believe in God,
Pa.
So.
- Last night something
happened.
Something you been trying
to tell me all this time.
Something I've denied for
years.
God,
God watches us.
And your mother,
your mother's in the
hellfire.
She killed herself, so
she wasn't there for you.
So she burns.
She suffers.
And we gonna burn, too.
- You lying to me.
- I am a liar, and I've
been
a fool, but not no more.
[eerie music]
Last night, your mother,
she come to me and she
stood at the foot of my
bed
and she told me that
you've
been right all along.
She walk out there at
night.
[Thomas crying]
- Why I never seen her?
I never seen her, Pa.
- Well she seen you.
She sees you watching from
that window.
And she wanna come to you,
too.
She said she want to come to
you.
She to say, you ain't ready
yet.
She say that we gotta right
our ways,
and she gonna send somebody
to guide us.
But they gonna come to me,
and me only.
And she say, if we right our
ways,
and we right a great
wrong,
that we could save her.
We can save your mother,
boy.
She say she love you.
She say she loves you the
best.
Lord, we are grateful for
a whole mess of things.
We're especially grateful
for the chance to right our
wrongs.
We,
please get this strength to
Eli and Mary
and we'll pray for them,
too.
Lord forgive us, amen.
- Amen.
[intense music]
[wind blowing]
[Josiah panting]
[Something close by
creaking]
[light ominous music]
[door opening]
[door creaking]
- Mama.
Mom, is that you?
[tense music]
Pa, did you, did you see
her?
- I did.
She weren't alone.
Whatever she was with, it
spoke without saying a
word.
- Oh yeah?
- I knew what it say,
it's like this voice come up
inside me.
It say, your mother,
she can't keep hidden from
these demons.
And that, and that we
got chores we gotta do.
First and foremost of
which,
we gotta spit shine this
house, top to bottom.
Take pride in ourselves,
where we lay our heads.
That sit right?
- And Ma, she say anything
for me?
- She ain't do no talking,
but that angel,
if that what it were, say
he
got a chore special for
you.
Say we need to take care
of
things around here first,
and then you do what need be
done then.
- Okay, Pa.
- Ain't that somethin'?
- Yeah, boy!
I'm noticed it!
[lightly upbeat music]
- [Josiah] Leave it be.
- No morning tea?
- [Josiah] Not no more.
- Okay.
Give us this day our daily
bread,
and forgive us our
trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And lead us not to
temptation.
[engine chugging]
Pa, where you at?
Pa?
God damn it, I know
exactly
what to tell you, Pa.
Pa?
You God damn.
Pa, ain't gonna believe
what I seen out there,
Pa.
I just done fixed Betsy.
She up and running.
Pa, them Eli's, he left them
here.
- Yet they under your
bed.
Well, you only human.
Eli human, too.
Come on in here.
Sit down, come on.
[Josiah] Ain't no shame in
looking.
God made women.
He gave man sight.
Pick one of them up.
Go on.
Flip it open.
Flip it open.
Yeah, find yourself a pretty
one there.
Oh yeah, she's a beauty.
Look at her.
You like them bumps and
curves?
What is God's hand?
Temptation's the work of the
devil,
but resolve,
that's God's hand.
This bringing you back.
Bringing you back to when
Eli,
he took you out there in the
shed and,
he showed you what's
what.
- That was long time ago,
Pa.
- Yeah, well that's
'cause you show resolve.
Yeah, ain't nothing wrong
with
looking at whores, no
sir.
You look at whores all you
want.
As long as you got
resolve.
But a man only has to
ride a bicycle one time
and he know how to do it
twice.
Go on there and take it
out.
- No Pa.
- Come on now.
- I don't want you to touch
me there.
- Pull it out!
Pull it out.
- Pa, please.
- You pull it out.
- Pa, please.
- Pull it out now.
Pull it out.
You know you can, you pull it
out.
- Please, I'm begging you,
Pa.
- Pull it out, boy.
You take it out.
You get over here and you
take it out.
You take it out now.
It's not time for you to be
no sissy boy.
You take it out now.
You show me you're a man.
Show me how you do it.
Show me how you ride that
bicycle.
And I want you to go real
slow,
and you let me see how it's
done,
and you make me proud.
[Thomas masturbating]
Yeah, that's right, that's
right.
Yeah, look at them dirty
pillows.
Oh yeah.
[Thomas moans]
All right, now slow down,
slow down.
Don't go too fast.
Take it easy.
Take it easy, I want to see
how you do it.
[Thomas grunting]
All right now, you finish
up and get it done.
God is watching you right
now
and you a sinner in his
eyes.
You got to atone and
you're
going to have to atone,
and we're gonna walk
down that path together,
for your mother.
Your mama love you.
And you finish up, boy.
You finish up, get it
done!
[Thomas crying]
[ominous music]
- The light that appeared
with your mother,
say there's something
else needs to be doing.
Says I need to wait till dark
to tell ya.
- It's dark now.
- No man or woman judges.
God's got something he wants
done, boy.
[lively music]
[woman moaning]
[lively music]
[radio busting]
- I liked that song.
You could've just unplugged
it.
- You got that thing you said
you got?
- Careful with that,
it ain't been cut yet.
That'll drop an elephant as
is.
Kind of makes you a
prostitute, doesn't it?
- There are worse things to
be.
- Do you even remember my
name, lover?
- Yeah, it's Jenny.
- It ain't.
[motor humming]
- Shit.
You a couple weeks early!
- Well, I like to stay
sociable.
Breakfast of champions.
- Hooch ain't why you're
here.
- Get up.
Turn around.
Put 'em together like you're
praying.
- All right, easy now.
Come on.
God damn.
- Nine year old girl
went missing last week.
Little ways outside of
Austin.
- Well this ain't a
little
ways outside Austin.
- It's close enough.
You're on my list.
You know anything about a
nine
year old girl gone
missing?
- The only thing I know
is you're gonna make me late
for work.
- Life ain't hard enough for
you?
Words out that you're
gambling
again and you're in deep.
Drinking, whoring.
How many violations you
think
I need to put you back
inside?
The answer is none.
I get one crooked hair up
my ass and you are done.
- You know, I got some
Prep H inside the
trailer,
you can help yourself.
- You're funny.
Don't worry about being late
for work.
I had a talk with your boss,
man.
He was all sorts of
unaware
about you being a nonce.
That's what I called it.
He didn't know what it
was.
So I explained to him,
that's what they call
child fuckers in prison.
- That girl was 16, she's
boozing up in a bar.
She told me otherwise.
You wouldn't know it by
looking at her.
All that, that was five years
ago.
I did my time for that.
Come on, you know that.
- Only thing I know is a
crossed line
is awfully hard to step back
over.
- You best go toss it.
- Oh yes, sir, I'll do
that.
You move an inch off your
throne, I'll shoot you
dead.
Nonce.
[ominous music]
- Hey.
[upbeat country music]
Here to see Boone.
- Logan ain't seeing you,
Eli.
- I don't need Logan, I
want to talk to Boone.
- Well, you know this.
You want to see Boone,
you
gotta go through Logan.
[Billy] Let me check.
Hey Logan, Eli's here to see
Boone.
[Logan] Tell him to fuck
himself, Billy?
- [Billy] He says go fuck
yourself, Eli.
- Hey, I got, I got
money.
- He says, he's got
money.
- [Logan] Yeah, he always
says he's got money.
Tell him to fuck himself,
Billy.
- He seems resound, Eli.
- Know what man, I'm fucking,
fuck you.
I'm not doing this shit.
Hey, you fucking dope.
[Billy laughs]
- Shit.
[gun cocking]
- [Boone] Put it away.
You boys done blowing each
other?
- [Logan] Eli wants to see
you.
- No shit.
Come on then, hey, come
on.
- God damn it, man.
Can't make a bloody
Mary to save your life.
- You're the only one that
drinks them.
- Have a seat, Eli.
I apologize Sheriff, where
were we?
Oh, he's no bother.
Eli, I'm gonna give the
Sheriff here
an envelope full of
money.
There's a little bit
extra in there, Sheriff,
on account of your
anniversary.
Sheriff's been married 40
years.
God bless.
Sheriff, always a
pleasure.
- Eli, is it?
- You owe me money,
of the substantial variety.
Four hundred and eighty
dollars?
You're in for a mess more
than that.
- Forgot, you know, I got
something else.
That ain't even been cut
yet.
That's worth two grand, at
least.
- [Boone] You just toss smack
on my desk?
Did you just toss smack on my
desk?
Do I have to ask the
fucking question again?
- All right.
- I'm gonna have you killed,
Eli.
Dead and buried.
And there won't be a soul
in
the world who'll give a
shit.
- I'll work it off.
I'll work off the debt.
I'll tend bar.
I'll even clean the shitters,
you know, I'll do--
- You want me to put you on
the payroll?
Well you might as well
start
by hitting me in the dick
with a hammer.
'Cause that'd be about as
appealing to me.
- I'll get it.
I'll get you the money.
- Forgetting immediate
unpleasantries committed,
you getting me my money
is the general nature of the
conversation
we're about to have.
You ever hear of Romani.
Gypsies.
From Germany, Romania,
wherever, over there.
Most come after the second
World War.
Jews got the bum wrap,
sure,
but Hitler's boys, they
killed
communists and radicals.
Gimps, retards and
queers.
Generally anyone they
disagreed
with, or couldn't trust.
Gypsies being part of that
congregation.
You know why Nazis pulled Jew
teeth?
'Cause Jew teeth had gold
fillings,
and them Nazis took their
share.
Little here, a little
there.
Bunch of gold adds up over
the years.
Them Gypsies comes
through
these parts each year,
with a carnival.
They pitch their tents and
then move on.
And this part of the
story
is the part you best pay
attention to,
'cause it's a fact, Jack.
[tense music]
A week back, a man sat
downstairs,
got himself drunk at my
bar.
Kept going on about them
Gypsies.
Said he was one of those
Romani.
Told that tale about Jew
gold,
and how this clan, these
carnies,
were sitting on 10 bars of
it.
Said for the right price,
he might know where they
stash it.
They pitch their carnival
tents
on a lot I got down by
the
rail yard, just outside
Odessa.
You're goin' with Logan and
Billy
to see if that gold story's
true.
- You gotta be shittin'
me.
- I got all sorts of
friends
collecting all sorts of
envelopes.
Clear your markers.
Have that record of yours
wiped clean.
New start for you.
Or I kill you right here and
now.
- Gypsies, huh?
- Go figure.
Three of you,
going over to Odessa,
coming back with Jew
gold.
You fuck it up,
those two gonna take another
initiative.
[tense music]
- They say if a dog howls for
no reason,
there's trouble coming.
Gypsy lore.
[thunder roaring]
Lightening without rain,
these are omens.
- That's just heat
lightening.
- Yeah?
Well,
I find it best to be
educated, so let's see.
They navigate by
moonlight.
If it's obscured, they stay
put.
They never get married if
a shoe falls out of a
tree,
and crows are bad luck.
They put a curse on
everything.
- How would a shoe fall from
a tree?
- Well, it must have
happened at some point
if they're deciding
something
like marriage on it.
- Whoop-de fucking do, are
we
gonna do this shit or
what?
What are we waiting for?
- All right, tenderfoot.
Now remember, we go in,
we have a few drinks,
then Logan and I will close
out the tab.
Now this is their last
night,
so they're gonna be
partying.
As soon as they're good and
sauced up,
Logan and I will go after the
gold,
you keep them distracted.
- You know where it's at?
- Well that's none of your
business, Eli.
You ain't gotta do shit but
sit, drink,
and entertain the pretty
girls.
That's all we need from
you.
Can you do that?
[lively Romani music]
[singing in foreign
language]
- [Marco] I thought it was
the beer. [laughs]
Howdy.
- Hey.
- We're looking for
Marco.
- Boone's guys.
- [Billy] That's right.
- Come on in.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Eh, a little fiesta
before
we leave town tomorrow.
- [Billy] Yeah, this is
great.
- You guys want beer?
Beer?
- Please.
- Towne, beer for everyone,
please, come on.
- So you're Marco.
- I am, yes.
- So you're having a little
party?
- Oh yeah.
-[Logan] Take a seat.
[people chattering]
- [Billy] Is that your
sister?
- No no no no.
Dude, watch out.
[men laughing]
-[Marco] Here we go, come on,
Towne.
There we go.
Everybody get a beer.
- Thank you.
- Follow me in the back,
gentlemen.
- Whoa [laughs] Eli!
- You're cute.
- Eli, I'll be back.
Got my eye on you.
[lively music]
[people clapping]
- Can I help you with
something?
- What are you doing
here?
- Doing some business.
- Just doing some
business.
That's it.
- Yeah.
- Good.
That's good.
- What's your fucking
problem, huh?
- [Gina] Roy Roy, Marco wants
to see you.
[hand smacking]
Now!
Sorry about that, he's
kind of a bad drunk.
Here, please.
- I already got one.
Thank you.
- I'm Gina.
- Hey.
Where'd you learn to dance
like that?
- It's very traditional in my
culture.
Taught very young.
- I never seen it before.
- Maybe you'll have to try.
[giggles]
I could teach.
- I don't think I could
ever learn to do that,
hand, you know, whatever
that was, the leg shaking
stuff.
- I'd love to see you do
this.
So what are you doing
here?
- Just finishing up some
business.
With uh, whatever, boss man
is in there.
- Did you get a chance to
take part in the
festivities?
- No.
- Shame, we leave
tomorrow.
- Maybe I'll catch you on the
next one.
- All right.
Ever seen a medium
before?
- What?
- Fortune teller.
- Oh no, no.
I, I don't have much
fortune.
I don't think.
- Well this one's
special.
- I'm not a talker, you
know?
That's, that's what it
is.
- It's good to know, I like
that.
- What are we doing here?
- What's your name,
handsome?
- What are we doing here?
- I don't know yet.
But I don't know one
shouldn't pass up a
reading
if she's willing.
And that this is our last
night.
And I don't know anything
about you.
- James.
- Mr. James.
I'll be right back.
- What am I doing here?
- [Gina] Have a seat.
[eerie music]
- Are you serious?
[speaking in foreign
language]
- Give her your hand.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
Says you're easy on the
eyes.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
You're impatient.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[tense music]
[speaking in foreign
language]
You've come through quick
hardship.
You keep secrets.
A burden.
- My hands are scarred from
work.
Skin's leather from the
sun
and everybody keeps
secrets.
Should've pulled out that
crystal ball.
At least it would've looked
the part.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- [Gina] She says you're
going to die.
- Everybody dies.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- [Gina] Some sooner than
others.
- You not save her.
[tense music]
[tea kettle Whistling]
-[Mama Luna] Drink.
Straight down.
- This is a real show,
stranger.
[tense music]
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You are why she burns.
- Why who burns?
- Mother.
- What the fuck she just
say?
- She said your mother.
[speaking in foreign
language]
[tense music]
[man laughing evilly]
[intense music]
[Mama Luna crying]
[speaking in foreign
language]
[speaking in foreign
language]
- That tea.
- You run from something
unspeakable.
It's not finished with
you.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You came to settle the
debt?
- Can't move.
[speaking in foreign
language]
- You've come for our
gold.
[ringing drone]
[eerie music]
[intense music]
[ominous music]
[baby whimpering]
[people whispering]
My Mom she died in a fire
she set
The law man was stated
while daddy wept
[ringing drone]
[Eli moaning]
- Raven tea packs a punch,
don't it?
- What the fuck happening,
man?
What'd you put in that
shit?
[Marco laughs]
- [Marco] Your boss sold you
out, brotha.
Dead and buried.
Those were his words.
- Can you watch her?
I'm gonna go help them start
closing up.
- Ah.
This is worth a lot more than
money.
Goes way back with us.
But you, you didn't do it for
gold.
It was different for you.
- Oh, don't pretend to know
me.
You're a low rent homicidal
Gypsy cult.
You kidnap kids and you
murder people.
So just save me all the hooey
bullshit
just fucking do what
you're gonna do to me.
But little girl you took,
the
police been looking for
her.
You should let her go.
- Gina can't have any
kids.
Mama Luna says you got a beng
on you.
That's the devil.
She says you've seen him,
too.
- Well then I guess
you're
just doing me a favor.
- It's nothing personal.
Here, stay awake.
It's gonna be a long
night
clearing out of here.
And get rid of this fat
fuck.
[oldies music]
[Miggs snorting
substance]
- Man you're too God damn
big, huh?
You like to party, big
boy?
Oh. Hold on, I'm just, I
got something for ya
here.
Such a long, long time
And I love you so
It's the best snort in
all of Texas, right
there.
Be a real shame to waste it,
I guess.
It's all yours.
Just make it quick with
me and we're square.
[Miggs snorting drugs]
[Miggs laughs]
[Miggs snorting drugs]
- Ooh! [laughs]
[Miggs exhales]
[Miggs snorting drugs]
- Fuck.
[Miggs grunts]
[Miggs breathing deeply]
[Miggs grunts]
Wondering, wondering
Shit.
[Eli grunting]
I'm wondering
Wondering, wondering
My life is whole
Yes I'm wondering, yes I'm
wondering
[Eli grunting]
And it seems like I will
see you
My love, wondering
I know, oh yes
Yes I know
I knew, you are mine
[Eli snorting]
To see my one wondering
Wondering, yes I'm
wondering
[Eli panting]
I'm wondering yes I'm
wondering
It seems I will see you
My love, wondering
[Eli grunting]
Shit.
[Eli grunting]
[keys jingling]
Shit.
[tense music]
[knocking on door]
- We'll get her a couple
of
moonpies or something.
Yes?
[Marco grunting]
- [Marco] No, no.
[splattering]
[tense music]
[tense music]
[eerie music]
- Come on.
Let's go.
Hey, hey hey hey.
Come on.
I need you to stay close to
me, all right?
Stay close to me.
[tense music]
- Hey!
[Gypsy Gina] Hey!
Oh my God, you took the
girl!
No, no!
[Gina panicking]
- Come on, run.
- [Gypsy Gina] They took the
girl.
-Run, run.
- [Gina] He took the girl
Marco!
[gunshots firing]
[Eli grunting]
- Get in.
Get in!
Shit, oh shit.
[Gypsies yelling]
Stay down, stay down!
- [Gypsy] Come on!
[gypsies yelling]
- [Gina] No, no!
[tense music]
[tires screeching]
- Ahhh.
Hey, you okay?
Are you okay?
Talk to me.
Oh, oh shit.
You don't talk much, or
what?
[girl whimpering]
- Just so we're clear, I
got nothing to do with
her.
- I left a real mess back
there.
- The Sheriff will clean it
up.
Hell, they might even throw
him a parade.
Returning this little
one.
Might even throw one for
you.
- I can't exactly show up
with a little girl, now can
I?
- You could have just left
her.
Run off.
- I got no way of pawning
that much gold
without someone noticing.
Not with what's on me.
And you, you said you
would clean my record.
- You earned it.
We'll get you a fresh
start.
What, she got a name?
- How the fuck would I
know?
- We give them out on
Tuesdays
for wet T-shirt night.
[ominous music]
- You don't seem to busted
up
about Billy and Logan,
huh?
You know them Gypsies,
yeah they ain't done with
you.
- Enjoy your new life,
Eli.
[tense music]
- Just clear my God damn
record,
and we can forget about this
shit.
- Oh it sure is pretty,
the way it shimmers in the
light.
It's like a. [grunts]
[head thudding]
[Boone gasping]
[ominous music]
- Hey, hey, hey, don't, don't
touch that.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Come on.
Walking in the shadows
Walking, in the shadows
Just passing time, I'm
walking in the shadows
To think that I'm alone
[police scanner
chattering]
In the shadows
In my lonely reverie
In my lonely reverie
- Come on.
When you run, boy, you run
far from here.
[door creaking]
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[bottles clanking]
[sharp ominous music]
[camera snapping]
[dramatic music]
[Mary breathing hard]
[machine whirring]
[machine whirring]
[Mary slurping]
[eerily calm music]
- There are concerns.
They aren't just my
concerns.
You've been through
the application process
with our agency before.
- [Ross] Uh yeah, several
years ago.
- Well, two other agencies as
well.
May I ask why tubal
ligation?
- Um, I had the procedure
almost 20 years ago.
I um,
I was, I was young.
- But sterilization is an
extreme measure.
- Yes.
I uh,
I made the, I made the
decision
before I knew I was meant to
be a mother.
- [Social Worker] You
filed for separation.
There was accusations of
infidelity.
- Uh yeah, that was um,
that was six years ago.
We, you know when you,
when you're having
difficulties you,
you know, you see things
that aren't there.
We worked through it,
though.
- [Social Worker] Mrs.
Milner,
would you be consenting
to a third party counsel?
- [Ross] Counsel?
- [Social Worker] For a
psychiatric exam.
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[loud dub-step music]
- Little bit more.
[loud dub-step music]
[Ross muffled yelling]
- Mary!
I thought you went grocery
shopping?
They're coming in a few
hours.
[ominous music]
[people chattering]
- [Man] You got me going.
- [Man] Cut him off, no
more wine for this guy.
[people laughing]
Oh wow, that is really,
really good.
- [Woman] This is really
good.
- [Damon] Mary, you
cooked
that to perfection.
- [Mary] Oh, thank you.
- Well, he know, believe
me.
He'll tell you how to cook
it.
- Oh really?
- No.
You know, I thought I
wanted
to do that for a little
while.
- Be a teacher?
- Not for everybody.
- Be a teacher?
- Mm-hm.
- Oh.
- Mm-hm.
- [Harley] I don't think
I could do middle school.
- Oh.
- Uh-uh.
That's too, that's rough.
- Both of your kids are off
at school?
- [Kirk] Oh, it's killing
her.
- It's not, really.
- [Harley] It really is.
I, I don't care how old they
get,
I'm always gonna need that
mama fix.
- Oh, 'cause they're her
babies.
Well, speaking of which,
what's going on with your
thing?
Is there any updates?
Ross and Mary are trying to
adopt.
- Oh.
- Well, we're in,
we're just in the process of
that.
- Well that's wonderful.
- Thank you, yeah,
thanks.
- Dan, we can talk about
that
fishing trip that we
planned.
- What's wonderful about
it?
- [Effie] I miss it so
much.
- [Damon] A big football
field.
- I, I just meant you'd
make lovely parents,
yeah.
- But you don't know me.
- Hey Mar, let's not, we
don't need that.
- [Kirk] I don't think she
meant anything by it.
- No, it's fine.
- You know, I, this is my
fault.
I shouldn't have said
anything.
- No no no no.
It's, I promise it's not your
fault.
It's not a big deal, at all,
it's not.
- No.
But I just, I'm.
I'm sorry,
I just really want to
know
what's so wonderful about
it.
- Hey, we can just kind of,
not now, okay.
- But this is the first time
she's met us.
- [Ross] It is the
first time she's met us.
- It's the first time
she's been to our home.
- [Ross] That's right.
- [Mary] I just,
how do you know what kind
of parents we would make?
- [Kirk] I'm sorry,
I think maybe you just
misunderstood what she
was.
- It's, it's fine.
I was just trying to be
polite.
- [Ross] Mm-hm.
- But you're right, Mary.
I don't know a thing about
you.
- [Ross] And that's why we're
here.
[Ross] So let's, I'm
gonna
serve us some more wine.
How bout that?
Great.
- Smooth cabernet.
- Even though we've topped
that off.
Okay, who, you're good.
Can I get you some more?
- Cheers.
- [Ross] We have sugar
coming,
which is my favorite part of
the meal.
- [Effie] Yes, yes.
- [Kirk] Desert. Desert
[ominous music]
- Did you stop taking
these?
- Counting my pills now?
Yeah.
- I mean I thought,
I thought we were
working on this together?
I mean after the shit you
pulled tonight
I don't know what's going
on.
- That's not working
together.
Counting my pills, that's
not fucking working
together.
- You asked me if I ever get
mad.
I'm always mad.
I'm always mad, but I can't
say anything
'cause I'm so fucking
terrified
you're gonna kill
yourself.
- Whoa, kill myself?
- I had some crazy fucking
idea
that a baby was give you
a,
give us like a fresh
start,
but if you can't stay on
track,
how the fuck you expect me
to?
It's like you're punishing
me.
All this shit, you know
what this tells me?
You're not in this with
me.
Do you know how
embarrassing
that was for me tonight?
Do you know what you
fucking said out there?
- I was just being
honest.
- You got this fucking
narrative in your head.
No one's against you, at
all.
- You're right.
Baby, I'm not trying to
punish you.
You deserve,
you deserve so much
better.
And you always have.
But please don't ever
assume
that you know what a
child will mean to me.
[Ross humming]
[ominous music]
Hi.
- Hey.
I'm sorry.
[knife slicing]
- No it's, it's fine.
It's not your fault.
[knife slicing]
- Don't you ever get mad?
[ominous music]
Don't you ever get mad?
Don't you ever get mad?
[knife slicing]
Don't you ever get mad?
Don't you ever get mad?
[knife slicing]
[Mary screaming]
Baby, come on.
Mary, oh no no.
No no no no no.
It's a dream.
Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.
[Mary panicking]
Wake up, wake up, wake
up.
It's all right, it's all
right.
[Mary panting]
It's okay, it's okay, you're
okay.
You're okay, okay, okay.
What happened, babe?
What was it, sweetheart?
- I don't know, fuck.
- It's all right, it's
all right, it's all
right.
It's okay.
[tense music]
- [Psychiatrist] Mary,
I'd
like to ask you
something.
What is it you need?
- Um,
I uh.
- Okay, let me put it this
way.
What purpose would a child
serve you?
[Mary exhales]
- Ma'am, there is um,
there's a hollow inside
me.
I uh, I can't ever fill
it.
Not, not even with a
child.
It um, it burrows, deep
inside me.
But uh,
there's something else.
There's something beautiful
and loving,
and it is there for a
reason.
It is,
it's there so I can give
it to somebody else.
I need to give it.
If I don't then,
then only the hollow
exists.
I um,
I want a child because
I need to give love.
[Mary cries lightly]
[tense music]
What the fuck?
No, no no no no no no.
[door opening]
Ross?
- [Ross] Yeah?
- [Man] See you.
- [Ross] Okay.
- [Man] Yeah, good to see
you.
- You get my calls?
He just showed up.
I mean, we gotta talk
about this but I gotta
go.
All right, I'll catch you
later, all right, Eli?
- [Eli] All right, take
care.
- Yeah.
- You have no right showing
up like this.
- Well now, he didn't
seem to feel the same
way.
- I told you I didn't
want to talk about it.
- Good, all you gotta do is
listen.
- Eli.
- Hear me out, and I
won't
bother you about it no
more.
- You look rode hard and put
away wet.
- Yet you get prettier every
day.
God, Mary, it don't
matter
where I lay my head.
I left a heap of trouble back
in Texas.
Skipped my parole.
It's a matter of time
before it catches up to
me.
This letter.
- I know what it says.
- Okay, well then, then
you
know what they're
offering.
That kind of money,
well that could, that could
really
get me outta things.
That could get me a new
start.
Look, this oil company,
right,
that just, outta nowhere
they wanna buy the farm.
This, this is a lottery
ticket.
We just, we need all of
us
to sign off on it to
sell.
- Anything come from there is
no good.
- We all had it bad.
- [Mary] Yeah, some of
us worse than others.
- All you gotta do is
sign.
That's it, it don't have
to go no further than
that.
I'll take care of the
rest.
Hey, you remember that
game
we used to play when we were
kids?
How I'd ask Mary, may I?
You'd have to do it no matter
what?
[ominous music]
I'm asking again.
I need this, Mary.
I need it.
- I want to go back.
I'll go.
- No, you don't, I'm not
asking you to do that.
- No, I want to see it
through.
I want to know it's gone for
good.
You get Tommy to sign
yet?
- Hell Tom, Tommy won't talk
to me.
You know that, I, it's been a
long time.
- Do you blame him?
- Not at all.
If he'd give me the time
of day I'd tell him that.
But you, you're in
contact
with him, now and again,
right?
- God.
What would anyone want with
that farm?
- If you go, you need to
convince Tommy
it's time to let the place
go.
- Eli, what about Pa?
- Don't worry, I'll deal with
our father.
[haunting whistling
music]
[Eli pounding on
windshield]
You okay?
You just gonna stay in there
or what?
[tense music]
[door creaking]
- Tommy.
Look at you.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
You're so much bigger than I
remember.
- Yeah, I've always been big,
Mary.
I just ain't seen you in so
long.
- I'm sorry.
[footsteps approaching]
- Hey Tommy.
[Thomas crying]
Tommy, I'm sorry.
Hey, Tommy.
- Yeah.
- Hey, you got any hootch in
there?
- Oh yeah.
You know I got some
hootch.
- Let's go get some.
- Come on.
Oh, I've been, I wear
the.
I like your jacket, Mary, it
matches mine.
- Yeah, we do.
- Kinda, you know?
Come on in.
I figured you two would be
here earlier.
- How'd you figure that?
How'd you know we were
coming?
- I got a letter from the oil
company.
Y'all staying the night?
- Oh.
- Is that a joke?
- Oh, you know, like old
times.
I been fixing it up.
Making the house real
special.
I'm gonna go finish getting
ready.
Well come on in.
- Thank you.
- Make yourself at home.
- Thank you.
[light switch clicking]
[ominous music]
- They here.
- [Josiah] So they are.
- Eli look like he been
through a hard spell.
Mary looks as pretty as
ever.
- [Josiah] Pretty as ever.
[laughs]
Steady, boy.
[bell ringing]
- Ah, thank you, Jesus.
- That's a familiar
sight.
[tense music]
- Best get to it, then.
[tense music continues]
- We should leave it all.
- They start digging,
they might hit something
we can't have them
finding.
- Eli--
- That sink hole is
still down by the creek.
It's a salvage dump.
They're gonna fill it soon
enough and,
ain't nobody gonna look at
what's in it.
- 20 minutes.
Eli, I sat in the car for
minutes before I could go
in.
- You went in, right?
[ominous music]
That's all that matters.
[ominous music continues]
God, what are we doing
here?
- You see, son?
God don't lie.
Your mother, she saw it.
Saw what they were all these
years.
Drove her mad.
Couldn't turn it off.
[baby whimpering]
They the reason she burn.
[tense music]
[tense music]
- Been fixing the place
up.
- Yeah, you already said
that.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hm.
- I ain't gotten to all that
mail yet.
It just.
- Come sit with me,
Tommy.
[tense music]
- Okay.
- Yeah, okay.
[ominous music]
How you doin'?
Really?
- Oh, you know, getting
along.
- You uh,
you seem glad to see Eli.
- I'm glad to see you
both.
- Well, he was afraid you
wouldn't be.
He says he's been trying
to get a hold of you for a
while now.
- Oh yeah?
- Mm-hm.
I saw that. [laughs]
- Yeah.
That's a lady bug.
Well I say the past is the
past, you know?
All that matters is we here
now.
- The letter, Tommy.
There's some men from an oil
company.
I guess they want to buy the
farm.
[phone vibrating]
Will you give me a
second?
- Be my guest.
Take your time.
[ominous music]
[thud pounding, dragging]
- Is everything okay?
Ross?
- [Ross] Hey, how soon can
you come home?
- Why, what is it?
- [Ross] They made a
decision, baby.
Mary, you're gonna be a
mother.
[Mary crying]
Mary?
Oh my God.
Ah, I can't believe it.
Ah...
Hey Mary, you still
there?
Mary?
- Best get to it, then.
[Eli panting]
[tense music]
- [Eli] Well, I guess
we're gonna have
ourselves
a little sit down, huh?
- You guessed right.
[intense music]
- Is there something you
wanna tell us?
- Tell it, boy.
Tell him what your mama
say.
- Ma,
she's in the hellfire.
- Hellfire?
You figure ma's in hell, is
that it?
- I figure we all gonna
be,
unless we change our way.
You need to live pure,
righteous.
- I doubt I'm ever gonna be
saved, Tommy.
Sure as shit ain't gonna be
pure.
What the fuck do you
about
being righteous, huh?
This here's a restraining
order.
Your ex-wife's attorney.
- That,
that ain't real.
- [Eli] Oh that ain't
real?
What about out back?
Yeah, you know what I'm
talkin' about.
Is that real?
- Your ex-wife, Tommy.
Her name's Catherine.
She left you a year ago.
She remarried a man named
Tate.
He's your boy's
stepfather.
- He's my best friend.
- [Mary] He's your son.
- [Thomas] That's who he
is.
- [Eli] All these
letters.
All these letter right
here,
they're telling you to keep
away from them.
Says you hadn't been doing
it.
Is that why you moved
back here? To the farm?
How long you been here,
hm?
What the hell's goin' on with
you?
- The two of you.
Ma, she saw it.
She killed herself 'cause of
it.
You know you two had that
baby.
- Oh shit.
Tommy, you, you don't
you know, do you?
- What do you mean?
- That baby came from Pa.
- Liars!
[fist slamming table]
Liars! Drowning in their
unholy semen of their
incest!
- Stop no.
Okay.
- [Mary] Oh my God.
- [Thomas] Okay, that ain't
true.
- Who the fuck you talking
to, Tommy?
- [Eli] Huh?
- Boy, you know the
truth.
- You tell him what I
saw.
- Pa.
[Mary gasps]
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
- Oh the lord!
You sin together.
You still sin together.
You were at that motel
before you come home.
- [Eli] What, are you
watching us, Tommy?
- And you sinned again.
- I'm shacking up at that
motel
'cause I got nothing to go
back to.
And Mary, she came and met
me.
She followed me up the rest
of the way
so we could do this
together.
- [Mary] How dare you.
- [Thomas] Just admit it.
He'll forgive you.
Pa'll forgave you, I forgive
you.
Ma would forgive you.
- Tommy listen, okay.
Pa has been dead and
buried for 23 years now.
- You're not listening.
- [Eli] Tommy, that grave's
been dug up.
- He's trying to save us.
- Save us?
You know how you got your ear
like that?
Pa found you playing with his
pipe
and wanted to teach you what
happens
when you play with his
things.
So he heated up an iron
and he stuck it on the side
of your head.
You were four years
old when that happened.
Me, he liked to use a
strap.
Said it wasn't a lesson
unless it bled.
He taught me lots of
lessons.
And Mary,
well, well that was
something
different, wasn't it?
[intense music]
The old man had nothing
better to do
than to mark his boys and
to fuck his own daughter.
[Mary crying]
When Mary got pregnant,
that's when Ma killed
herself.
That's when the three of us
did it.
23 years later,
and I'm still trying
to get rid of the past.
- You gonna ask for
forgiveness.
- You need help.
- 23 years later,
you're still crazy as shit,
Tommy boy.
And if Pa is speaking to
you,
he ain't trying to save
us.
That old bastard just wants
revenge.
You need to sign these
fucking papers
so we can get rid of this
place once and for all.
You got it?
- You need help.
- You two killed that
baby.
Took a long time finding
it.
We all together now.
[tense music]
[lock rattling]
[intense music]
[ominous music]
[Mary crying]
- Why would he do this?
Why would he do this?
[Thomas yelling]
Don't, Tommy!
[Eli grunts]
[Mary screaming]
[Eli screaming]
[door locking]
[Eli screaming]
[Thomas grunting]
[tense music]
[Mary whimpering]
[Vinyl record jolt,
scratching]
[eerie whistling music]
[Vinyl record jolt,
scratching]
[door unlocking]
[floor creaking]
[Mary gasping]
[intense music]
[Mary whimpering]
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, don't,
don't.
[Mary whimpering]
[eerie music]
- That was his favorite
tune.
[footsteps running]
[tense music]
[Mary panting]
[tense music]
[footsteps approaching]
[intense music]
[wind blowing]
[knife slicing]
[knife slicing]
[knife slicing]
[haunting music]
[Mary grunting]
[Mary choking]
- Thomas
Don't hate me.
[record static buzzing]
[alcohol pouring]
[haunting music]
[heavy breathings sounds]
[music intensifies]
[fire burning]
[passionate heavy
breathing]
[fire raging]
In Dynamite mine your hour
will come
In a shower of stones steel
beams
They'll push and
they'll
pull against the rock wall
And find you buried among
the debris
When they search for
you
the dogs will sniff him out
From a torn peace of his
shirt
They'll bound down the
path
with lust on their breath
And find you under a
patch of fresh dirt
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
You cut off the past
Buried him here
Deep in the belly of the
mines
Blasted the wall sealed the
tomb
Lived out those short
days secure in your crime
Many years have passed
But still we trudge on
So we will till the end of
our days
Many have come and many
have gone
But there's one who
never
strays from this place
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
Son cover your ears
Lord how the blast will
ring
And when that rumbling
shakes the walls
You can hear that devil
sing
[Josiah laughing]