American Primeval (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

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[gunshots]
[Young] We have endured anguish
- and pain to reach our Zion.
- [screams echoing]
And yet still they follow,
- with their persecution.
- [gunshot and screams echo]
We have been trying long
enough with our enemies,
and I go in for letting the sword
of the Almighty be unsheathed
in word and in deed.
For we have reached
Zion, our Zion.
Here is our Zion.
[pigs snorting]
[Sammy] Wait. Hold on, one
second. Jim's on his way.
Don't move any more pigs till
he gets here. He's coming.
[Jim] Where the hell
are my pigs going?
I had no choice, Jim.
No choice for what, Winkie?
Mormons want 'em all, paid me
five times what you offered.
[Jim] It wasn't what I offered.
- It was what we agreed to.
- You kept dragging your feet on paying.
- The Mormons paid me in full.
- Shut up, Winkie.
- Start herding them back there.
- Nothing to say here, Bridger.
- Made a fair deal with the hog man.
- He's the hog man in name only.
All livestock inside
them walls belongs to me.
You don't own the hogs. He owned the
hogs. I paid him. I own the hogs.
- Oh. You paid him, did you?
- [Bill] That's right.
That was your first mistake.
Second was wasting
all this energy
just to lead my pigs
back where they started.
Can't do that, I'm afraid,
but if you need hogs,
Brother Wilkinson would
be happy to help you.
Of course, price is
double what I just paid.
Well, God damn. That seems
a little steep, Bill.
Especially for my own pigs.
Well, pigs today, your
goods and supplies tomorrow.
Till you've got left
is an empty fort.
It feels as if your governor's
still doing some negotiating.
[Bill] Well, he
wants what he wants.
Mormons and them deep
pockets makes it tough
for the rest of us to
make a decent living.
That's not my
concern now, is it?
Not at the moment, I suppose.
[screaming]
[pigs squealing]
More so now, I expect.
[continues screaming]
[urging pigs]
Go! Let's go!
You son of a bitch, Bridger!
I'll kill you for this!
Perhaps, Wild Bill.
Just not today.
Go!
Tell that governor of yours to
reach deeper in them pockets of his.
My price just went up.
[Bill] I'll kill you!
[Edmund] I have come to believe
that these lands possess forces
that we civilized are not
able to defend against.
These lands get inside of us,
into our bones,
into our blood
and then even deeper
as they assume
occupancy of our souls.
[men whooping]
[grunting and chanting]
[singing in Shoshone]
[Edmund] These lands come
alive inside all of us.
Alive with power.
Alive with violence.
Alive with clarity of spirit.
And many other great excitements that
have thus far eluded our language.
Faced with such forces,
I find myself helpless to feel
anything other than a great humility.
[singing continues]
I have told Red Feather we
will take you to your people.
My people?
Not sure what
people I have left.
I have a question.
Why do you think your people
have so much hunger to kill?
Fear.
I think.
Of what they don't understand.
This.
Your world.
It's not like my world.
That is a good thing.
This valley was filled
with so many Shoshone.
But hunger and war and
sick changed our world.
And I do wonder,
if so much change,
can we survive?
It's a fine dress.
You shouldn't wash it all away.
It has your life painted on it.
Not all good colors.
That is life.
[flies buzzing]
[old woman shouting in French]
[in English] You shouldn't
be a part of this.
[man] Gonna get you!
[laughter]
[old woman speaking French]
[in English] What did you do?
What?
What did you do?
What are you talking
about, Pratt?
[whispers indistinctly]
[Virgil] Mmm-hmm.
Thank you, ma'am.
Got information on our bounty.
Man rode through here with two
women and a boy some days ago.
Get the booze, get the guns.
We got ground to make up.
[girl speaking French]
- [in English] Gimme that.
- [shouts in French]
[in English] Virgil.
Why'd you shoot her?
It's part of the job.
- How's shooting her part of the job?
- It's part of the job.
- How's that part of the job?
- Good things come at a price, okay?
[girl continues souting]
[Tilly] Go on, get! [laughs]
How long we been trying
to get outta of here, huh?
How long we been scratching rock
looking for our piece of gold?
That's what Sara Holloway is.
Our piece of gold.
Stop looking at me like that.
I've never steered you wrong.
We've seen a lot of them
come and go in this world.
Busted, broke, buried.
We're still here.
You and me.
We're gonna be here till we
get what's our fair share.
Got you a little present.
[horse snorts]
[Devin] Come on.
- Come on!
- [horse whinnies]
Mr. Reed! Mr. Reed!
My horse.
Can't bear weight. We
stay here for the night.
- I don't think we should stop.
- It's too lame to lead.
Get some wood.
- Go.
- Okay.
[Devin] How much longer
until Crooks Springs?
Depends on what we run into.
It's about to get cold.
Let's start digging.
[Devin] Mr. Reed?
Do you feel bad killing men?
Not the bad ones.
Killing bad men is okay, right?
I mean, you don't go to
hell for that. Do you?
[Isaac grunts]
Me and my mom killed a man.
[Isaac] You ain't
gotta worry about that.
Whatever your mother's
done to protect you both
ain't no sin in that.
[wind howling]
[man hooting]
[in Shoshone] Why have
you brought him here?
We found him hiding.
Watching the village.
We will use him to lead
us to the white soldiers.
I told your white leader
I have no war with him.
The Shoshone did not kill
those white settlers.
The captain does
not believe that.
He wants to find Red Feather.
They want to kill him.
Let your master come.
We will cut out his
tongue and feed it to you.
Quiet.
They know Red Feather is here.
You have brought war upon us.
No. I will take it to them.
[all hooting]
And you will die
And bring more hate and death
on our people.
On my grandson.
Young Elk would rather
die fighting his enemy
than on his knees
begging for food.
I do not know you anymore.
You do not know me?
You do not know me?
You do not know me?!
I am the slayer of demons!
I am Creator's warrior
who bleeds for him!
Bleeds for you!
[men hooting]
Bleeds for you too!
Bleeds for all Shoshone!
When the white invaders
kill one of us,
I kill ten of them!
The whites do not know peace.
So I give them what they know.
No.
You give them what they want.
[all hooting]
[shouting in Shoshone]
[gasps]
[shushing]
It's time to go home
now, Ms. Holloway.
[Sara gasps]
- [panting]
- [wind howling]
That's why I don't sleep.
Slide over.
The name that the
Shoshone called you
"Kinii Da-Dawon."
What does it mean?
It means "Spotted Hawk."
I was a young
boy with freckles
when the Shoshone traded for me.
They were so kind.
Not at all what I expected.
I had always been told
the Indians were savages.
- They are.
- No, I
I only mean that I've
never felt so safe.
Ever.
[Isaac] Hmm.
Why would you leave that?
You need to rest.
These should give you a
few hours' extra warmth.
Will you please stay? Please.
Please.
Please stay.
Thank you.
[Abish] Do you pray that after the
white soldiers have killed you,
they will not come
here to kill your son?
[translating in Shoshone]
[speaking Shoshone]
[in English] Careful
with your words.
Or you will open my throat
like you did my friends?
How many must die to
avenge all you have lost?
[Grey Fox translating
in Shoshone]
[Grey Fox in English] As
many as his god tells him to.
Your god tells you
to kill the whites?
Whites believe their god
tells them to kill you.
Perhaps the gods are playing
a game with all of us
to see who can kill the most.
[Grey Fox translating
in Shoshone]
[Abish in English]
Your god will lose.
If you bring war on the white
soldiers instead of peace,
it will be like you cut Young Elk's
heart out with your own knife.
[Grey Fox translating
in Shoshone]
Why do you risk your throat
by speaking to me this way?
[in English] Young Elk deserves
a long life in this world.
All the Shoshone deserve that.
[Grey Fox translating
in Shoshone]
[in English] Even you.
- [horse neighing]
- [Isaac] This ain't good.
We'll see how far she goes.
If not, we leave her here.
[Virgil] This Holloway
woman we're after,
nearly got at her myself.
Didn't sniff her out as
a man-killer at the time.
It's a good thing you didn't have a
chance to add her to your harem, Pratt.
Might not have been long for
this new paradise of yours.
[Tilly] Now that I think back, I
remember seeing your wife in Bridger.
Pretty-looking lady.
I can promise there's more
I'd do with her than killin'.
I can sure see why you're
lookin' to the ends of the earth
to find that pretty
little thing.
Little fuckin'
pecker Mormon boy ♪
Can't satisfy your wife?
Little pecker. I bet you Red Feather's
takin' care of her for you, though.
Yeah, Mormon little pecker boy.
Oh, you're gonna get off your
horse, little Mormon boy?
[both grunting]
Brother Pratt! That's enough!
The devil lives in you!
You fucking Mormon!
Tilly, get off!
Take a little bite of
your wife, cocksucker.
Hey! Knock it off!
Knock it off!
[screaming]
Come on!
[spits, screams]
We should get back
to our people.
This bunch, they're no good.
[fly buzzing]
They'll end up killin' us both.
Let them take care of the woman.
And your wife, Brother Pratt,
we're never gonna find her with
the people they're lookin' for.
So, we should leave.
We need to get out of here now.
I've seen this before.
They're just after a bounty.
And we got nothin'
to do with that.
So, we should go right now.
[grunts]
Pratt. Why?
[Virgil] And you say this belonged
to your dead Mormon friend?
[Jacob] William.
And that Cook, who's now floatin'
face down on his way toward Mexico,
could only have
got his hands on it
if he was part of the bunch
that attacked your camp.
Well, but bein' as Cook is
not here to defend hisself,
and also the fact
that you are just about as
crazy as a shitter-trapped rat,
I have decided it's
time we part ways.
I can't risk wakin' to you
beatin' my skull in with a rock,
claimin' I stole
your granny's girdle.
Now I could
sentence you to death,
but I'm gonna put your
future in fate's hands.
I'm gonna leave you some food,
warm clothes, and a mule.
Good luck to you.
[Lucas] Sorry about how
this went, Mr. Pratt.
I really do hope
you find your wife.
[Red Feather in Shoshone]
She will come with us.
I will deliver
her to her people.
[Winter Bird] What people?
If you kill the white soldiers?
She will talk to them first. Tell
them what she knows of the Shoshone.
Tell them who
attacked her people.
And then you will not
bring war on them?
If they believe her words.
[men ululating]
[grunts] Come on!
Push on! Come on.
Hold on!
Get up!
Keep going!
The horse! We need
to rest the horses!
Bring 'em back in the trees.
[men shouting indistinctly]
[Pepper] Captain!
Positions!
Where's my rifle?
Weapons ready!
Secure the flank!
[Pepper] Secure the flank!
Hold your fire! On my command!
What is this shit?
[soldier] Hold your fire!
[in Shoshone] If I do not
come back, wait for night.
Then kill them all.
[in English] Stop there!
Right there!
[Abish] This is Red Feather.
Red Feather from
the Shoshone tribe.
He's come to talk
to your captain.
You armed?
We're unarmed.
What about them?
They'll stay there, long as
Red Feather returns to 'em.
All right, approach
slow! Real slow!
[Red Feather speaking Shoshone]
[in English] Too much blood.
If white man lets
us live in peace,
I will not bring
more war on them.
That's mighty kind of him, considering
all the murdering he's already done.
I'm afraid there's a little bit of
pressure to punish those responsible
for the massacre of a large group
of settlers a few weeks back.
Red Feather and the Shoshone
had nothing to do with that.
How exactly would you know that?
Because I was there.
And your name is what, exactly?
Abish Pratt.
There were white men. In hoods.
And also a few from
the Paiute tribe.
That's who the
bandits traded me to.
But somehow you ended
up with the Shoshone.
Red Feather took me from them.
You said some of the
men there wore hoods.
How can you be so
sure they were white?
After the attack, many
removed their hoods.
- And you saw their faces?
- Yes.
Mrs. Pratt, if
you've been compelled
to tell us these things in
order to protect that man
Everything I'm telling
you is the truth.
I can walk you through every
detail of what happened that night.
Bandits and Paiutes?
Massacred our party.
Killed everyone.
[Pepper] No, Mrs. Pratt.
Not everyone.
[Edmund] Your husband survived.
Jacob?
He's alive?
[Edmund] He's been searching
for you. Since the attack.
Where is he?
He's with the Mormon group.
Not too far from here.
We can take you.
[Red Feather speaks Shoshone]
[in English] You stay.
[Edmund] Mrs. Pratt.
I wanted to tell you that I'll do my
best to convey his offer to my superiors.
But I doubt they'll agree to his terms.
He has a lot of blood on his hands.
But the Shoshone people do not.
They've moved their home
over and over to avoid war.
[Edmund] Well, be
that as it may,
this country decided these
lands don't belong to them.
And these tribes just
stand in the way.
They deserve better than that.
Yes, they do.
[breathing shakily]
[watch ticking]
[ticking continues]
You feel him start to favor that
foot, you get off and tell me.
All right. Let's go.
How far do you think
they are, really?
Whoever it is, we haven't
seen the worst of it yet.
There's a hunting
cabin up a ways.
Let's just get there. Rest.
We'll move at first light.
Let's get you on the horse.
The man in Philadelphia
He put his hand on my throat
and choked me until I fainted,
and every morning that I
woke up alive was a curse.
When he did it to
Devin, I killed him.
And, Isaac, I would do it again.
[man] That's far enough!
What's your business?
- [Edmund] Get me the officer in charge.
- Brother Hickman.
[thunder rumbling]
Patrolling a little beyond your
borders, aren't you, Captain?
Last I checked, this
was still the US.
For the moment.
We're looking for Jacob Pratt.
He's still out
searching for his wife.
Well, we have his wife.
I'm so grateful.
Grateful you're
safe, Sister Pratt.
Captain Dellinger told me
Jacob had been injured.
[Bill] Took a blow to the
head. Seemed to be healing up.
Still on the trail looking
for Indian-killers, Captain?
He brought Jacob Pratt's wife.
Praise God.
Brother Jacob will be over
the moon at your safe return.
- I didn't get your name, Sister Pratt.
- Abish.
I believe he mentioned.
[Edmund] You know where
we can find her husband?
As we discussed, he's out
looking for Abish there.
But we expect him
back in a day or so.
You're more than welcome to
stay with us, Sister Pratt.
[Edmund] Mrs. Pratt is providing us
information on the Meadows Massacre.
So, we'll take her
back to our camp.
Of course.
We're so pleased you've been
brought back to us, Sister Pratt.
Thank you for returning a blessed soul
to the flock, Our Heavenly Father.
"And he who receiveth all things with
thankfulness shall be made glorious."
Yeah, yeah, amen.
She didn't see us.
Did you recognize them?
That man.
Wolsey.
He was there.
Are you absolutely convicted
it was those men, Mrs. Pratt?
I am.
Get it to Fort Bridger. If the
post is already gone out
I'll go straight to Gilbert. I'll
hand it to Colonel Johnson myself.
I want you to know that you're
safe. You have my word
You took me there hoping
I'd recognize them.
It's my job.
You used me.
I needed proof that the Mormons
were involved in the attack.
They will be brought to justice.
I'm your proof.
Yes.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm
sure I'm being used just as much as you.
Brother Hickman.
Someone's here to see you.
She recognized some of your men.
Sister Pratt has
just started a war.
They'll be coming for you.
[soldier 1] Ma'am!
- [soldier 2] Somebody get some help!
- Captain!
[Edmund] What?
[soldier 3] Hey!
What is it? What?
She just got on the
horse and took off.
Should we go after her?
[Edmund] No.
Let her go.
These fucking Mormons.
This keeps happening.
[horse snorting]
[Devin] Come on!
Keep going! Come on!
Mr. Reed! Mr. Reed!
[horse whinnies]
Get off him!
Let go of the rein!
Devin!
[Devin yelling]
[screaming]
[Devin sobbing]
Devin!
Devin.
Hey. I've got you.
I got you.
I've got you.
[wind howling]
- [Isaac grunts]
- [Devin sobbing]
Mama! Mama!
- Breathe. You'll be all right.
- [screaming]
What now?
[Devin] No! Please, stop, Mama!
[sobbing]
What is that?
Medicine.
- Open.
- Devin, open your mouth.
[Isaac] Good. Hold him.
[Devin sobbing]
It's all right.
[screaming]
What is that, Mama? Mama!
No, don't look. Don't
Mama!
Stop! Get off of me!
Get the fuck off of me!
Stop! Fucking get off!
Devin, stop!
It's just pain.
It's just
[screaming]