That Dirty Black Bag (2022) s01e01 Episode Script

[TENSE MUSIC.]
[WIND WHISPERING.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[WIND WHISPERING.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
- [SPIT SPLATTERING.]
- [FLY BUZZING.]
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[WIND WHISPERING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[SACK THUDDING.]
[GUN BOOMING.]
[MAN GROANING.]
- [GUN BOOMING.]
- [MAN GROANING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[MAN SCREAMING.]
I'm looking for a fella, carries a Bowie knife with eye wrote into the handle.
I don't know anyone like that.
- [BONES CREAKING.]
- Jesus Christ! - [MAN SCREAMING.]
- [AX WHOOSHING.]
If you had, I might've let you live.
[MAN.]
Fucking bounty hunter.
Fuck you! [AX WHOOSHING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
[BONES CREAKING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[THEME MUSIC.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[STEVE SIGHING.]
[STEVE GROANING.]
[BOTH CHUCKLING.]
That's enough for the horses.
[WINDMILL CREAKING.]
[DOOR RATTLING.]
Shit.
Michelle, the horses.
[MICHELLE.]
We could come with you.
I already told you I'll be quicker alone.
Well take this then.
No, that's for you and Dorian.
Don't worry, I'll find some more.
You'll be back riding Brownie by tonight, all right.
I promise.
[DOOR THUDDING.]
[UPBEAT MUSIC.]
[CHURCH BELL TOLLING.]
[TOWNSFOLK QUIETLY CHATTERING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[WAGON RATTLING.]
Hey, Mr.
, there's still gold in Greenvale, have a look.
You can have it for some water.
[MAN LAUGHING.]
- Steve.
- Sheriff.
Two of them are brown and one's a skewbald white I know what your horses look like, Steve.
What do you want me to do? Well, if you went after the Wilson brothers You think Thompson stole them? They work for him.
Well, I thought you just said they were gone by the time got there.
I know it was him, Sheriff.
Steve, I know how you feel about the man.
I know you think you're making some pretty wild assumptions there.
I mean, what with the livestock shortage could've been anyone, right? It's not the livestock he's after.
It's my land.
I told you he's been harassing me and you still continue to sit there.
You I need those horses, Sheriff.
I need to plow my land.
Why? Has it rained in the last five goddamn years? This year it will.
'Cause God decreed it.
Yes.
Listen, Steve, you're a farmer, right? Farming's what you do, I understand that but if he's offering you this crazy kind of money for that piece of shit land, why don't you just sell it? Get the fuck outta here.
Buy another piece of land far, far away.
Start over.
Not many people get that opportunity.
I don't wanna start over.
God has given us another chance.
We can go back to what we were before the gold rush.
Farmers.
I plow the dry earth every day since - [DOOR RATTLING.]
- When it rains.
What? Better see for yourself.
I'll see what I can do.
I'll be right here.
Thought you might.
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
What can I do for you, folks? Quinn's back, Sheriff.
- Oh, Quinn.
- That's right.
You gave your word he weren't gonna bother us no more.
And did he bother your daughter? - No, but - Well, it looks like I kept my word.
Why don't you do something, Sheriff? Did I say I was not gonna do something about it? Now you people do your job and I'll do mine.
All right? Next time you have something to tell me a couple of you will do not the whole goddamn town.
Now, go on, get outta here.
You heard the Sheriff, get moving.
[TOWNSFOLK CHATTERING.]
That's Quinn's final warning.
So, what's the plan? Plan is we're gonna earn the paycheck these people provide us with.
I'm coming too, right? [CHUCKLES.]
Nope.
Come on, Sheriff, I can be just as good New Deputies do not question orders, they obey them.
You understand? You understand? Yes.
So what you gonna do? Wait for further orders.
That's right.
Make a fine Sheriff one day.
If he's not dead You'll make it, kid.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Mr.
Thompson.
This'll blast you a hole 10 feet deep.
This will get you down to 20.
But the miners will have to take it from there.
There are no miners here anymore.
Francis, I need to get all the way to the center of the earth.
On my own.
[DOOR THUDDING.]
Ooh.
These are from Germany.
Soluble nether.
They're much more stable than nitroglycerine.
How does it react with benzene? Mix it with benzene and you risk meeting the devil in person, Sir.
[CHUCKLES.]
Then I'll take all you got.
Isn't that a pressure balancer? Very good, Sir.
Works with blood interfusion.
Doesn't it really work? I can't say for sure.
There's only two in existence.
And the man I sold the other one to is no longer with us.
Wow.
The original mother.
Created 1833 in Sardinia.
In all probability, it's the first revolver in human history.
My gift to you.
No, Francis, no I can't accept that.
Please.
You and your father were my very first clients.
You trusted my merchandise when many wouldn't.
It fills me with enormous joy.
When you come back this way, I'm gonna decorate your entire wagon in gold.
- [LAUGHING.]
- In the meantime Hey, Mr.
Wilson, go fetch those two beautiful horses we got from the farmer yesterday.
- [TENSE MUSIC.]
- My gift to you.
Now, what do I owe you for the explosives? [MCCOY.]
Oh, Quinn? [GUN BARREL WHIZZING.]
Hey, Quinn? You remember the one about the snake? Goes back to his lair, gets killed by the other snake.
Give him time.
See how he wants to check out.
[HENRY.]
Christ, McCoy, rather take a bullet then stay out here in this heat.
Let's just do what we came to.
Are you the Sheriff or am I? We move when I tell us to move.
- You piece of - [DOOR THUDDING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- [HORSE NEIGHING.]
- [GUN CLICKING.]
Who the hell are you? Where's Quinn? Oh, Quinn.
Wanting for rape and murder in three separate counties.
That's the one.
He's in here.
And who might you be? I'm Red Bill.
[SHERIFF LAUGHING.]
Red Bill.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
The head weighs less than the body.
Careful, Sheriff, if you disfigure those faces, how are you gonna recognize 'em? Why would I wanna recognize 'em? So you can pay me the bounties you owe on 'em.
[MCCOY.]
You gotta be kidding me, right? No, that's the law.
These warrants, they're wanted dead or alive.
And where's the law that says you can walk around the country, chopping people's heads off.
These aren't good people, Sheriff.
- And you are? - [GUN COCKING.]
Well, I haven't done nothing illegal.
So you might tell your two boys here that they can lower their weapons.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
You know we don't like bounty hunters around here.
Especially ones that get in the way of us carrying out our duty.
[RED WHISTLING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
So I suggest you take your face and you stink and whatever that is in your bag and Well I've already got what I came for.
Do I make myself clear, Mister? You do your job, Sheriff - and I'll do mine.
- [HORSE NEIGHING.]
You keep your crazy ass outta my jurisdiction, you understand? Son of a bitch.
Come on.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Well.
Oh, shit.
Be clear about one thing, all right.
We killed Quinn.
All right? Yeah.
[MCCOY.]
Henry, you clean this mess up.
We'll head back to town.
[UPBEAT MUSIC.]
How proud do you think you'd be? Emptying my stables? Destroying my tools, raising my fields? What do you want? I'm not leaving.
As God is my witness, I'll never sell to you, Thompson.
Hagen won't either.
Most of the land in Greenvale was mine already.
As for Hagen, he'll give in soon and you will too.
It's just to matter of time.
Then I'll have the gold and you'll die of thirst waiting for your God to make it rain.
- The gold's all gone.
- Is that right? It was gone five years ago just before the streets started running with blood.
When we all forgot what the hell we were.
Farmers.
Decent people.
The great vein is beneath us here somewhere.
- According to my calculations - What calculations of those? The ones that made you divert a river, bringing drought to us and death to 200 miners? My father died in those mines.
How do you sleep at night? Like a baby.
And when I do I dream of that golden city I'm gonna build.
How long do you really think you can hold out? As long as it takes.
Well, then you better keep praying.
I'll pray for you as well.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[GUN BARREL WHIZZING.]
[KURT.]
That's a federal coach.
That's a robbery going bad.
Didn't you tell Jessie to stay in town? Fucking Jessie.
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Hey Jessie, you stay right there, you hear? [JESSIE.]
All right, Sheriff.
An ambush.
Yes, Kurt, an ambush.
It's like that one got killed from somewhere up there, about 400 yards.
Caused the others to trip over it.
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[KURT.]
He was pretty fast.
Takes a peacemaker a tenth of a second to fire a bullet.
Whereas a trained man, such as yourself, it's pull cock and fire, take three-tenths of a second.
Whereas me.
I take half that time.
No shit.
Body's still warm.
[GUN COCKING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[GUNS BOOMING.]
Nice shootin'.
Thanks.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Jesus Christ.
- [LID THUDDING.]
- It's only money, Jessie.
What you wanna think about what happens to the bad guys.
[UPBEAT MUSIC.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
Good afternoon, Sheriff.
Good afternoon, Eve.
Are you admiring your kingdom? The amount of work you put into this goddamn place.
[EVE.]
It's our damn town, McCoy.
[MCCOY.]
Well, no wonder your people adore you Here's your cut of the weekly taxes.
There's a little extra there for you.
Why? Well, why not? I'm in a good mood.
It's hard to believe there was ever gold in this town.
Tell me what it was like.
You've heard it all before.
Indulge me.
Everyone had pockets full of gold and muddy boots.
And then the gold ran out.
And you never found any? I was just a whore.
You were never just a whore, Eve.
The settler convoys are gonna arrive any day now.
I need more water for my girls and the men to know that the only place they can get a decent bath is here.
Oh, that's what the men come here for? A decent bath.
They will.
I'm gonna meet the water suppliers.
I'm gonna try to convince them to lower their prices.
[CHUCKLES.]
Sure, whatever you want.
I want water for the whole town.
May I ask? All these grand ideas, where are they gonna lead? To the moon, McCoy.
To the moon.
[MAN GROANING.]
Again, a man with an eye carved into the handle of his Bowie.
I don't know him.
- [FOOT THUDDING.]
- [MAN GROANING.]
[AX WHOOSHING.]
[SCREAMS.]
Oh, God, no! If you had, I might've let you live.
Please.
Please.
- [AX WHOOSHING.]
- [TENSE MUSIC.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
You all right? Yeah, yeah, like that? You like that? I think we should stick around a little longer.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[FLAMES BLAZING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[WOMAN.]
Please, God, please.
[WOMAN YELLING.]
[WOMAN CRYING.]
The things you'll do for money.
[GASPS.]
[WOMAN.]
Billy.
[FLAMES FLICKERING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
Everyone ready? Looking good, Simone.
Okay, ladies, it's showtime.
[GLASSES CLINK.]
It's over my friend.
After years of scratching around with pennies and dimes.
We found $200,000 fucking dollars.
- [LAUGHING.]
- [KURT WHISTLES.]
Why Italy? I told you, it's where my mama's from.
Yeah, green, lush rolling hills.
Ancient architecture.
- [KURT LAUGHING.]
- What? What? Since when are you interested in ancient architecture? There's a lot about me you don't know.
But you got a good point.
All right, how about the women? - We got those in America too.
You know? - All right.
[LAUGHING.]
How about because it's a long, long, long way from this fucking place.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[TOWNSFOLK QUIETLY CHATTERING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
Water.
You got money? Good.
'Cause water will cost you a lot more than whiskey around here.
Yeah.
This too.
[MAN.]
I heard the Sheriff got Quinn.
[GLASS THUDDING.]
I'm looking for two brothers.
Name's Wilson.
I heard these outlaws work for someone called Thompson.
Whoever they are, I didn't see them.
And if you want to stay here, you have to leave that outside.
It's messing up my saloon.
I can't do that, sorry.
Now gimme a whiskey.
And he had a roll of money this big.
So he must've killed a bunch of 'em.
Why do you reckon he chops their heads off? Oh, Phil also said he killed a man with a bullet - but without even using a gun - Jesus Christ, Jessie, don't believe all the bullshit you hear.
[DOOR THUDDING.]
[GUN COCKING.]
[TUTTING.]
Breaking the law already, Billy.
Congratulations, I heard you got Quinn.
Yes, I did.
'Cause I protect these people from the likes of you.
I told you to stay outta my jurisdiction.
Which you did not do, that's breaking the law.
I just made up for you.
Vagrants who disobey my orders, lose their gun.
And pay a fine.
[GUN TAPPING.]
Well, go on, pay up.
That's not enough.
$20.
00 more ought to do it.
No wonder you wouldn't pay me.
The town coffers are empty.
Red.
- [GUN COCKING.]
- [ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
You forgot your canteen.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that law contains a subsection.
Vagrants who disobey my orders also lose their right to water.
Gentlemen, you're forbidden to sell, trade, or donate even a single drop to the offending party.
When you finally decide to leave town, come to my office, I will give you back your gun.
And don't be too long about it.
You understand? Son of a bitch.
[MAN.]
Let's see what you got? - Every time.
- [LAUGHING.]
How the hell do you do that? His dad was a grocer.
Grew up playing one of those things.
And you couldn't have told me that before? I learned the hard way, why shouldn't you? [DOOR RATTLING.]
The bounty hunter's gone.
- What? - He left.
He was seen heading west towards the bridge.
Well, how about that? The infamous Red Bill.
Smoke was far from his ass.
Apparently didn't have the courage to come to say goodbye.
Well, looks like our friend has sponsored you boys a night with the ladies.
- Well you ain't comin'? - Nope.
I'm going to the old station.
Next time, asshole.
[MAN.]
Hey, McCoy, what you doing at the station? I'm meeting Eve.
She wants to fix up the road station.
Lower the price of water.
She has got real vision.
Where is my horse? Where the hell is my horse? Christ, please tell me this is not happening.
Nathan, go catch up with him.
Really? His unarmed, so it's him.
Bring him back here, you think you can do that? Well, go.
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
[STEVE.]
I'm desperate and I thought that maybe That if, if you could have a word.
McCoy, doesn't care about your horses.
Does he care about this town, 'cause Thompson's killing it.
Steve.
This dream of yours Seeing this area prosper and thrive again, we've got to give it up.
Without dreams what are we? I'm not gonna help you.
Why not? Did you truly come here expecting me to help you save the very thing that drove us apart? Christ.
I fell in love with a man who was strong.
And whose beliefs made some kind of sense.
Look at you.
Why did you come here? Because you wanted to see me.
[GENTLE MUSIC.]
Because you think about me every day and you can't resist anymore.
Because you can't live without me.
Even if you got your horse's back nothing would change.
This future you see, it's just a dream.
You are my dream.
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[HORSE HOOVES THUMPING.]
[NATHAN.]
Greenvale Sheriff.
Stop.
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[RED.]
Now would be your chance to turn back.
[AX WHOOSHING.]
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
[HORSE HOOVES THUMPING.]
Simone? - Oh my gosh, you are - Running late.
Come on, give me a hand.
How'd it go? What? [SIMONE.]
With him.
Tighter.
[SIMONE.]
I hate to see you this way.
Don't worry about it.
But why should you have to suffer like this? I mean, you can have him for yourself if you wanted.
Right? You're beautiful.
You're powerful.
And I've never seen you give up on anything.
Yeah, but then what? Live the rest of my days as the shabby worn-down wife of a farmer.
You and I are destined for better things.
Hmm? With your beauty, you'll achieve anything.
You know what? Come with me.
- You're kidding.
- No, I'm not.
Only sorry I didn't think of it before.
Pick out a dress.
[STONE CLIPPING.]
Come on now, it's time for you to go home.
Why? I told you already.
I was requested to guard this place for McCoy.
You're wasting your time playing sheriff.
We'll always be losers if we don't have a dime to our name.
Speak for yourself.
I've got money.
Shut up, you don't got no money.
[CHUCKLES.]
I got money.
[STONE TAPPING.]
You wanna see it? You can't tell no one, got it? [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
This will be my percentage.
- Why you hide it here? - Where we supposed to put it? [HORSE NEIGHING.]
[GOATS BLEATING.]
I'm looking for the Wilson brothers.
You know where I might find 'em? Probably find 'em just behind those hills.
[RED.]
Got water for your goats? Uh-huh.
Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt you.
If you have more, I can pay you handsomely for it.
[GOATS BLEATING.]
[WATER SPLASHING.]
Um, beggars can't be choosers.
So how often do these two come through here? Nearly every day.
In the beginning, they only took my food.
Now they steal my animals too.
Yeah, well not for much longer.
How much do I owe you for the water? Oh.
No, no, no, you rid me of these sons of bitches sounds like payment enough.
Oh, thank you.
So uh, that's your collection, huh? Head weighs less than the body.
[CHUCKLES.]
I guess it does.
Tell me something.
How many men have you killed in your life? Oh, come on, don't be bashful.
I ain't never met a bounty hunter before.
Tell me about all the bastards you consign for What? [SURREAL MUMBLING.]
[RED GROANING.]
[SURREAL MUMBLING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[RED GROANING.]
Yep, that was him all right.
[MCCOY.]
Where is he then? I lost him.
You lost him? [NATHAN.]
Mac, he was pretty fast.
Fast enough to outride you on one horse while leading another? - I'll go find myself.
- Mac? Find Henry tell to set the gals up in town.
Show everyone how horse thieving assholes are treated in Greenvale.
You think you could manage that? I'm sorry, Mac.
Oh, you're sorry? [CHUCKLING.]
I always knew you were a chicken shit.
[DOOR THUDDING.]
[DOOR THUDDING.]
Mac? Mac? What are you doing? Mac, we don't need this.
Help with the bounty hunter, we've got other pressing problems we need to take care of.
Then we need to be on our way like you said.
Before some Before someone comes looking for that money.
Hey, you hear me? Mac.
Mac.
We don't care about this.
[FINGER TAPPING.]
I told you not to come out here.
It's dangerous.
I wasn't able to find them, sorry.
Carr architects, huh? They're also killers.
Well, I guess bugs don't have a choice.
You and me, on the other hand, we get to decide for ourselves what kind of men we're gonna be.
Go on back to the house.
Go on.
Okay, go on.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[UPBEAT MUSIC.]
[FLAME BLAZING.]
[STICKS RUSTLING.]
[FLAMES BLAZING.]
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
[WIND WHISPERING.]
Jessie, Jessie, Jessie.
You really had to come follow us? I just wanted to see where you put it.
[MCCOY LAUGHING.]
You didn't tell anyone else now, did ya? No one, Sheriff.
You promise me? I swear, I swear.
All right, off you go.
Go on.
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
[GUN BOOMING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
All he had to do was obey orders.
[KURT.]
Great, now we have to bury two bodies.
[RED GROANING.]
[SURREAL MUSIC.]
[WOMEN YELLING.]
No.
[SWORD WHOOSHING.]
[RED.]
Peace, deformity.
[ANXIOUS MUSIC.]
[CLEAVER THUDDING.]
[CHAINS RATTLING.]
[DOOR CREAKING.]
[FOOD SPLATTERING.]
I suggest you eat this before the flies come.
I need your strength.
You're gonna be my guest a while.
It's delicious.
It's your horse.
[DOOR CREAKING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[YELLING.]
Fuck you.
Fuck you! Shit.
Look at Jessie.
Those damn kids.
[HORSE NEIGHING.]
Let's go get that horse-thieving son of a bitch.
[THEME MUSIC.]