Reprisal (2019) s01e10 Episode Script
The Horpus Horrendous
1 [birds chirping.]
[roaring in the distance.]
[flames roaring.]
BURT: You've grown tall, Katherine.
Guess I've been gone long enough for you to grow.
You know, our father [inhales deeply.]
He was a bitter man.
Bitter and weak.
We may have been born with his name, but we damn sure are not weak.
It's Mom's blood in our veins.
It's her spirit.
It's her name Harlow.
That's who we truly are.
Come with me, Katherine.
Move beyond that horizon and come see the true family that I've built for us, where you'll be loved [dramatic music.]
Where you'll be home.
[bird cawing in the distance.]
[footsteps crunching in grass.]
QUEENIE: I told you not to go out there, didn't I? [sighs.]
So this is the place, huh? Not as gothic as I'd heard, but not bad.
Mm-hmm.
Here you go.
- [gulps.]
- Just a little.
[glass thuds.]
I remember when he brought you to us.
Said he gave you a choice, but how the hell is a 12-year-old supposed to decide where to grow up Especially after hearing your father beaten to death? I don't care how bad he was.
No child deserves to hear a parent die like that.
And even at such a young age, I could see a difference in you.
[chuckles.]
Hell, you're his goddamn sister.
I don't know anything fucking truer than that.
Which is what I'm most afraid of.
You're gonna want to come back here, and I'm telling you, Katherine, you just can't, because if he can do this I'm afraid I don't know what comes next.
[sighs.]
Get out of here.
Go away.
Be happy you survived.
And just know your brother Your brother will eat himself.
I see it one day, one way or another, if he hasn't already.
Take comfort in that.
When I take you to the station and you head up north think long and hard about staying gone.
But if you do decide to come back You're gonna need this.
And if I ever see you again I'll be happy to tell you all about where it came from.
[electricity buzzing.]
[tape rips.]
Hey, get over here and help.
[Johnson grunts.]
[grunts.]
I fucked up.
I'm sorry.
Always thought I'd do anything for the Brawlers.
[Ethan panting.]
But Avron [scoffs.]
He saw the whole Katherine situation and tried to turn it against us.
- Became a threat to us.
- [lighter clicks.]
And you saw that threat, and you said, "Fuck it.
" That's more of a Phoenix than I've ever been.
ETHAN: What are we gonna do with him? Mm.
I got a friend a couple hundred miles up the river.
Alice? Alice.
Alice? [engine rumbling outside.]
[engines roaring.]
[engines stop, doors opening, closing.]
[Joel panting.]
[blowtorch whooshing.]
- [sizzling.]
- [grunting.]
[phone line trilling.]
[coins rattle, buttons beeping.]
[trilling continues.]
BERNICE: Hello.
EARL: Hey.
Hey.
EARL: You okay? Sure.
EARL: Yeah, um That wasn't what I expected.
BERNICE: Is that your way of telling me that I was right? EARL: I'm not sure you ain't ever been wrong before, Bernice.
I just can't get what you said out of my head, you know, about me robbing and gunning it all away.
And, um, some shit just went down out here.
So BERNICE: You're the smartest man I know, Earl.
And something told you to follow her, and you did.
You asked me to trust you, when trusting you's always been my weakness.
EARL: There ain't nothing weak about you, Bernice.
BERNICE: Keep following your gut, then, and I'll see you when you get home.
[line clicks.]
BRU: He may or may not come around.
I don't know.
That was the place motel last night.
Think I had a run-in with one of her guys.
Can't say for sure, but There's really someone sniffing around here for her, we got to find them Now.
[indistinct chatter.]
[metallic scraping.]
MATTY: Hey! Um, hey.
Are you trying to get a head start today? Took it easy last night.
MATTY: What was going on? What, you you didn't hear? About Katherine and Meredith? [knock at door.]
You told them where she was? [door closes.]
MEREDITH: I didn't tell them about you.
ETHAN: What's that matter, Meredith? W-what about when they put it together? You don't know that they will.
You think if they find her, they're just gonna forget? Well, you've seen how much they drink.
[sighs.]
If my mother put me through hell, if she's the reason that I've always felt alone then Doris was the one person that gave me hope.
Hmm.
It's why it's why I did it, without even questioning her Because I trusted her.
I've always trusted her.
- [exhales deeply.]
- And then she used you.
She used you.
If this is your home and you really feel like you belong here Then maybe it's time to cut your ties.
[somber music.]
[sighs.]
- [knob squeaks, water running.]
- Good morning, Molly.
[water stops.]
Where have you been? I never asked you how it felt That.
You haven't ever opened up to me very much, really.
Have you ever seen me open up to anyone before? I guess that's why Colin's family never knew what to make of you.
[scoffs.]
Sometimes I don't think Tommy ever knew what to make of me either.
What'd you really come down here for, Doris? To hurt some people.
A few [breathes shakily.]
Who I once loved very much and who once hurt me very badly.
Perhaps no more than the one I was with last night.
[softly.]
Is he dead? I'm not sure.
I once asked you what it felt like to kill someone when you killed Colin.
And you said you weren't sure if you felt anything at all, and I.
.
I-I didn't know what you meant by that.
I-I couldn't even begin to fathom it.
Colin wasn't a good man, not in the least.
I don't even think he saw me as another human being.
And when I found out what was going on with him and you and the restaurant, I Well, it's like you said It was my idea.
But when I heard him, when I heard him struggling, when I heard those gunshots When I knew he was gone I suppose not everyone with a place in our hearts deserves it.
I'm glad you're down here with me, Molly.
[Insight Out's "It Makes You Feel So Bad".]
SINGER: It makes you feel so bad When you're down and out And you've lost everything you had It makes you feel like crying, yeah When you're all alone [eerie music.]
[banging on door.]
[light switch clicks.]
How the fuck that piece get there? [light switch clicks.]
[bowling pins clatter.]
[indistinct chatter.]
- Is that Lander Graham? - [slurps.]
Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
What a magnificent sight if I do say so myself.
Tolly, how you been? [snaps fingers.]
Last I knew, you were supposed to be getting locked up.
Did I hear that right? You, uh, whacked one of your business partners? Little bit of why I'm here.
Why? You need a favor? Because not for nothing, you and me ain't been friends for a while.
You remember that, right? Is that right? You promised me just east of that highway over there.
As soon as we set up shop, your goons came and shot 'em all down.
Huh.
Shit.
I can't even keep up with my own fucking feuds no more.
Tolly [clears throat.]
I'm looking for somebody.
Blonde egomaniac.
Okay.
BIG GRAHAM: Part of me thinks this is a false lead, you know, but I want to say she wasn't in here looking to bowl, you know? The guy that used to run this place, fucking dipshit named Bolo I even let him use his own dum-dum name he did mention something about a woman coming in looking for a crew.
Not that he was able to do shit for her, but not ten minutes later, we got knocked over by the, uh [smacks lips.]
By the, uh, monsters? Monster Ring? Yeah, them.
We got knocked over by the Monster guys.
I put the fucking screws to Bolo, put the screws, to motivate the putz to figure out who they was, but Nothing? He disappeared.
I don't know if the craven motherfucker ran or what.
- Hmm.
- That's why I've had to deal with this family fun bullshit since, run the games we got in the back.
We did track him To a little landscaping shack.
But we never seen nobody come or go except for this one woman that works there.
Let me guess.
She didn't know nothing, right? I don't know.
I'm not interested in talking to her, so I haven't.
Tolly are you a fucking moron? Little bit.
[door opens, bell jingles.]
[bag thuds.]
- [bell jingles.]
- Your name, Flip? It's Lenny.
Lenny.
You remember me, Lenny? I think.
Guy I was talking to last night scar on his neck who was he? [inhales deeply.]
A guy.
[exhales sharply.]
A guy you've seen around? We don't allow smoking in here.
Could pull his fuses.
The woman with the blonde hair, who else she been here with? Look, man, I just What the fuck? JOEL: 'Cause if you don't give it to us, we're gonna pull your fucking fuses.
- You understand that? - LENNY: Fucking what? [panting.]
Okay.
[shrieks.]
Look, look, look, look, look.
Uh uh, usually, it was just four of 'em except, uh Except? [Lenny panting.]
- Lenny.
- There's been some guy.
He's got, uh, some hair and, uh and a shitty station wagon.
He's been around a lot.
[breathing shakily.]
It's Witt.
Who the fuck is Witt? [bone crunches, Lenny screams.]
[paper bag crinkling.]
[ominous music.]
That birdman looks pretty neat.
What do you think his name was? What was that, sweetie? What? The birdman over there.
I was wondering if it was Harold.
Maybe he came to tell me his story.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe.
Seat belts.
Seat belts.
[engine rumbling.]
Okay, everything is cool, 'cause they don't know shit.
Just got to fight 'em, just got to play it cool.
[door closes.]
[breathing shakily.]
I can explain everything.
Look, I was I was on the road.
I was working and I just came across her.
[breathing shakily.]
I swear.
I swear that's what happened.
I s Why didn't you tell us? [dramatic music.]
I don't know.
A good deal of our family are dead because of her and because of you.
And the kid, he BURT: What kid? JOEL: Ethan.
[cell phone ringing.]
[Witt breathing shakily.]
[Witt moans.]
[can tapping.]
[stool clatters.]
[Witt gurgling, gasping.]
[clattering.]
[shrieks.]
BURT: Let's see, we got Doris, Joel, Mom.
I think I'm gonna guess Doris.
[cell phone buzzing.]
[foreboding music.]
He text you back? No, but like you said, - their schedule doesn't change.
- EARL: Hmm.
[cell phone rings.]
[exhales sharply.]
Hello, Witt.
BURT: I see you go by Doris now.
DORIS: Where's Witt? Well, he's right where you put him.
And that kid, Ethan That was very clever, Katherine.
Where is he? Weren't you worried that something like this would happen to him? Yes, I was.
BURT: But you did it anyway.
Now, that's a Harlow if I ever knew one.
[breathing sharply.]
Dottie, what's going on? We just, um We need to wait.
We need to wait.
- Okay.
Yes.
- [vehicle approaching.]
Yes, masks! Masks! What the hell is this? CORDELL: We just want the cash.
- [gun cocks.]
- EARL: You [zipper closes.]
Let's go, come on.
The trunk.
[bird caws in the distance.]
Whoa, whoa.
What are you doing with him? EARL: You follow us, it's his ass.
MOLLY: Hi, Ethan.
[engine turns over.]
[engine rumbling.]
What in the world? ETHAN: It's a river.
They know the river.
[menacing music.]
[engine shuts off.]
We could cigarette-burn your whole car, you know? [gun cocks.]
MATTY: We don't even care about the money.
Shit, that little won't even get noticed.
We'll call it a slow week and move the hell on.
We just want our brother.
[phone ringing.]
Call 'em back later.
You can't go with them.
Ethan Burt knows.
No.
You've been lying to me.
- I'm I'm not lying to you.
- The guy never died.
I bought it at first, but I saw it when you said the lawyers were good to go.
I knew it.
It was too easy, too neat.
- Ethan, I only did it - You only did it for yourself.
No.
Ethan, Ethan, listen to me.
Okay I am not lying to you, not now.
Burt knows, and you can go home.
You need to go home.
Anything that happens to me, Doris, it'll only be because you brought me down here.
[car door closes, Doris sighs.]
[engine turns over.]
Lyla, sweetheart, come have some lunch.
[dogs bark, growl in the distance.]
Lyla! [dog barks in the distance.]
Lyla? [ominous music.]
[indistinct chatter.]
Well, this is nice.
Did you know about him? Who's that? Ethan.
I've seen him around.
[exhales sharply.]
People saw you come back with him that morning after Katherine kidnapped you.
[makeup brush clacks.]
He didn't know what she was up to.
He thought she was trying to help him, to protect him.
[breathes deeply.]
MEREDITH: But she lied to him.
He doesn't deserve whatever it is you're gonna do to him.
Well people rarely have.
How do you think she knew when the Ghouls were gonna make their drop at Percy's? Who do you think planted that bag of guns that she and her friends used to light this place up and kill a good deal of your family? Now, I've put some Brawlers on the river to bring him back.
[breathes deeply.]
And when they do I'm gonna have him tell you himself.
[cane tapping.]
[phone line trilling.]
MEREDITH: Come on.
[trilling continues Come on, Matty.
[phone rings.]
- Call 'em back later.
[phone clangs.]
[engine revs.]
[tires screech.]
[engine shuts off.]
[nozzle rattles, clicks.]
[gas pump whirring.]
[phone dialing, coins drop.]
[phone line trilling.]
[phone rings, receiver clacks.]
BIG GRAHAM: Hello.
Is that you, Earl? Earl, my name is Lander, Lander Graham.
Afraid you might know me as Big Graham.
You and me, we got some business to discuss.
DORIS: Earl? [taps on window.]
[lock clicks.]
- Cordell - Whatever you about to say, don't even say it.
You better not think for one goddamn second I'm gonna let you go up there by yourself.
Bernice is my family, too.
So let's get out of here.
What did we learn on the Archipelago? Split up if we have to, but what? Never leave a man behind.
This is different.
But it ain't, though.
After all the shit we done been through.
You know, maybe if we never said yes, maybe if we killed her in the first place hell, maybe if we never stepped foot into fucking Bolo's None of that matters now.
And she got something she needs to handle, and she needs her team behind her.
So after I get done handling Big Graham, you tell Dottie I'll be back in time to ask her brother why he did it.
[engine revs.]
[cell phone ringing.]
Katherine.
Hello, Burt.
BURT: How you feeling? I was wondering if you'd like to meet, you and me.
[indistinct chatter.]
[metallic jingling.]
[engine sputtering.]
[engine turns over, revs.]
[engine roars, tires squealing.]
What the hell? [ominous music.]
[sighs.]
Well they know.
Know what? Johnson, know what? Ethan know what? It's been me.
This whole time, it's it's been me.
[gasps.]
[engines revving.]
What the fuck? What the fuck? - Johnson? - Your call, bud.
[lighter clicks.]
[engine roaring.]
[Matty panting.]
JOHNSON: You know they're not gonna stop till we stop.
[inhales deeply.]
[tires screeching.]
[Matty grunts.]
[breathing heavy, sniffs.]
[engines roaring in the distance.]
[roaring intensifies.]
[gunfire continues.]
[gunfire stops.]
[whimpers.]
[car door closes.]
[sniffles.]
[breathing deeply.]
[Warren Zevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".]
[somber bluesy music.]
ZEVON: Roland was a warrior From the Land of the Midnight Sun With a Thompson gun for hire Fighting to be done The deal was made in Denmark On a dark and stormy day So he set out for Biafra To join the bloody fray Through '66 and '7 They fought the Congo War With their fingers on their triggers Knee-deep in gore For days and nights they battled The Bantu to their knees They killed to earn their living And to help out the Congolese Roland the Thompson gunner Roland the Thompson gunner ZEVON: His comrades fought beside him Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best [gunshot.]
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead That son of a bitch Van Owen Blew off Roland's head [suspenseful music.]
[panting.]
[indistinct shouting outside.]
LYLA: I finally figured out Harold's story.
[panting.]
[melancholy music.]
Harold's been trying to find his face.
[panting.]
His face? Harold's been trying to figure out where he came from, but it's been difficult because nobody can recognize him.
Because he doesn't have a face.
LYLA: That's correct, daddy-o.
- Did he find it? - LYLA: That's his story.
Because it turns out, that years ago, he accidentally dropped his face in a park without realizing it.
So he had to retrace every step, good and bad, a journey that he found to be quite horrendous, which is why I call his story The Horpus Horrendous.
[breathes deeply.]
- I lit a match.
- What? ["Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" continues.]
ZEVON: Roland the headless Thompson gunner Norway's bravest son SINGERS: Till he evens up the score ZEVON: They can still see his Seat belts.
[seat belt clicks.]
ZEVON: In the muzzle flash Of Roland's Thompson gun [seat belt clicks.]
JOEL: Seat belts.
ZEVON: Of Roland's Thompson gun [clock ticking.]
BIG GRAHAM: It's a funny thing, isn't it? Just how goddamn small this world can be.
How many times you slick pricks robbed me, huh? [spits.]
Each time, impressive, got to say.
I don't even know how you kept with the shit I was running back then.
And yet, now here we sit.
Completely different set of circumstances.
Earl [grunts softly.]
My man.
Your wife seems like a nice person.
You care about her you'll take me to our mutual friend.
You understand that? DORIS: There's no one here.
[bird cawing.]
Why don't you two wait in the car? CORDELL: What? Fuck, no.
Please.
It's okay.
[sighs.]
[door creaks.]
QUEENIE: Bash is alive.
Bad shape but alive.
To be honest, I had hoped so.
QUEENIE: I told you never to come back.
Did you ever believe that I wouldn't? QUEENIE: Huh.
I told you that if you ever did, I'd tell you all about where that pistol in your hand came from.
When, uh, I'd travel with the circus, small group of us, we'd rob banks in the towns we were passing through.
That's it.
That's the story.
I was a bank robber, and that's my old gun.
Point is I never thought I'd see you again, Katherine.
I wish you hadn't come back here.
Where's Burt? [bird cawing in the distance.]
In the barn.
The way he sees it, he figured you'd come gunning for him pretty early on.
He wanted to give you a chance to think about his offer.
You were wronged.
You came back, started a bogus war, got a bunch of people killed in the process, and now you're here.
And if you had anything anywhere else, you'd be there not here.
So he'd like to welcome you back in.
Hmm.
All you got to do is trust me.
Give me our gun and go see him.
What's he waiting in there with? Would I ever put you in danger? [door creaking.]
BURT: [sighs deeply.]
So you're blonde now? What did I tell you the last time we saw each other about Mom's stren [gunshot.]
[coughs.]
[breathing sharply.]
[wheezes.]
[laughing.]
I ain't been shot in a long time.
[snorts.]
[gunshots.]
I was wondering if I could have that back.
That one belonged to my friend.
It was nice to see you, Queenie.
[gasps.]
Oh, um it's wonderful to be home.
[Marianne Faithfull's "This Little Bird".]
[bright pop music.]
FAITHFULL: There's a little bird That somebody sends Down to the Earth To live on the wind [tires screech, engine revs.]
Born on the wind [panting.]
FAITHFULL: And he sleeps on the wind All right.
Well FAITHFULL: This little bird MATTY: Let's make this right.
FAITHFULL: That somebody sends Let's go find your girl.
FAITHFULL: Fragile and feathered sky blue [engine turns over.]
So thin and graceful The sun shines through This little bird Who lives On the wind This little bird That somebody sends He flies so high Up in the sky Out of reach Of human eye And the only time That he touches the ground - Is when that little bird - SINGERS: That little bird - FAITHFULL: Is when that little bird - SINGERS: That little bird FAITHFULL: Is when that little bird dies
[roaring in the distance.]
[flames roaring.]
BURT: You've grown tall, Katherine.
Guess I've been gone long enough for you to grow.
You know, our father [inhales deeply.]
He was a bitter man.
Bitter and weak.
We may have been born with his name, but we damn sure are not weak.
It's Mom's blood in our veins.
It's her spirit.
It's her name Harlow.
That's who we truly are.
Come with me, Katherine.
Move beyond that horizon and come see the true family that I've built for us, where you'll be loved [dramatic music.]
Where you'll be home.
[bird cawing in the distance.]
[footsteps crunching in grass.]
QUEENIE: I told you not to go out there, didn't I? [sighs.]
So this is the place, huh? Not as gothic as I'd heard, but not bad.
Mm-hmm.
Here you go.
- [gulps.]
- Just a little.
[glass thuds.]
I remember when he brought you to us.
Said he gave you a choice, but how the hell is a 12-year-old supposed to decide where to grow up Especially after hearing your father beaten to death? I don't care how bad he was.
No child deserves to hear a parent die like that.
And even at such a young age, I could see a difference in you.
[chuckles.]
Hell, you're his goddamn sister.
I don't know anything fucking truer than that.
Which is what I'm most afraid of.
You're gonna want to come back here, and I'm telling you, Katherine, you just can't, because if he can do this I'm afraid I don't know what comes next.
[sighs.]
Get out of here.
Go away.
Be happy you survived.
And just know your brother Your brother will eat himself.
I see it one day, one way or another, if he hasn't already.
Take comfort in that.
When I take you to the station and you head up north think long and hard about staying gone.
But if you do decide to come back You're gonna need this.
And if I ever see you again I'll be happy to tell you all about where it came from.
[electricity buzzing.]
[tape rips.]
Hey, get over here and help.
[Johnson grunts.]
[grunts.]
I fucked up.
I'm sorry.
Always thought I'd do anything for the Brawlers.
[Ethan panting.]
But Avron [scoffs.]
He saw the whole Katherine situation and tried to turn it against us.
- Became a threat to us.
- [lighter clicks.]
And you saw that threat, and you said, "Fuck it.
" That's more of a Phoenix than I've ever been.
ETHAN: What are we gonna do with him? Mm.
I got a friend a couple hundred miles up the river.
Alice? Alice.
Alice? [engine rumbling outside.]
[engines roaring.]
[engines stop, doors opening, closing.]
[Joel panting.]
[blowtorch whooshing.]
- [sizzling.]
- [grunting.]
[phone line trilling.]
[coins rattle, buttons beeping.]
[trilling continues.]
BERNICE: Hello.
EARL: Hey.
Hey.
EARL: You okay? Sure.
EARL: Yeah, um That wasn't what I expected.
BERNICE: Is that your way of telling me that I was right? EARL: I'm not sure you ain't ever been wrong before, Bernice.
I just can't get what you said out of my head, you know, about me robbing and gunning it all away.
And, um, some shit just went down out here.
So BERNICE: You're the smartest man I know, Earl.
And something told you to follow her, and you did.
You asked me to trust you, when trusting you's always been my weakness.
EARL: There ain't nothing weak about you, Bernice.
BERNICE: Keep following your gut, then, and I'll see you when you get home.
[line clicks.]
BRU: He may or may not come around.
I don't know.
That was the place motel last night.
Think I had a run-in with one of her guys.
Can't say for sure, but There's really someone sniffing around here for her, we got to find them Now.
[indistinct chatter.]
[metallic scraping.]
MATTY: Hey! Um, hey.
Are you trying to get a head start today? Took it easy last night.
MATTY: What was going on? What, you you didn't hear? About Katherine and Meredith? [knock at door.]
You told them where she was? [door closes.]
MEREDITH: I didn't tell them about you.
ETHAN: What's that matter, Meredith? W-what about when they put it together? You don't know that they will.
You think if they find her, they're just gonna forget? Well, you've seen how much they drink.
[sighs.]
If my mother put me through hell, if she's the reason that I've always felt alone then Doris was the one person that gave me hope.
Hmm.
It's why it's why I did it, without even questioning her Because I trusted her.
I've always trusted her.
- [exhales deeply.]
- And then she used you.
She used you.
If this is your home and you really feel like you belong here Then maybe it's time to cut your ties.
[somber music.]
[sighs.]
- [knob squeaks, water running.]
- Good morning, Molly.
[water stops.]
Where have you been? I never asked you how it felt That.
You haven't ever opened up to me very much, really.
Have you ever seen me open up to anyone before? I guess that's why Colin's family never knew what to make of you.
[scoffs.]
Sometimes I don't think Tommy ever knew what to make of me either.
What'd you really come down here for, Doris? To hurt some people.
A few [breathes shakily.]
Who I once loved very much and who once hurt me very badly.
Perhaps no more than the one I was with last night.
[softly.]
Is he dead? I'm not sure.
I once asked you what it felt like to kill someone when you killed Colin.
And you said you weren't sure if you felt anything at all, and I.
.
I-I didn't know what you meant by that.
I-I couldn't even begin to fathom it.
Colin wasn't a good man, not in the least.
I don't even think he saw me as another human being.
And when I found out what was going on with him and you and the restaurant, I Well, it's like you said It was my idea.
But when I heard him, when I heard him struggling, when I heard those gunshots When I knew he was gone I suppose not everyone with a place in our hearts deserves it.
I'm glad you're down here with me, Molly.
[Insight Out's "It Makes You Feel So Bad".]
SINGER: It makes you feel so bad When you're down and out And you've lost everything you had It makes you feel like crying, yeah When you're all alone [eerie music.]
[banging on door.]
[light switch clicks.]
How the fuck that piece get there? [light switch clicks.]
[bowling pins clatter.]
[indistinct chatter.]
- Is that Lander Graham? - [slurps.]
Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
What a magnificent sight if I do say so myself.
Tolly, how you been? [snaps fingers.]
Last I knew, you were supposed to be getting locked up.
Did I hear that right? You, uh, whacked one of your business partners? Little bit of why I'm here.
Why? You need a favor? Because not for nothing, you and me ain't been friends for a while.
You remember that, right? Is that right? You promised me just east of that highway over there.
As soon as we set up shop, your goons came and shot 'em all down.
Huh.
Shit.
I can't even keep up with my own fucking feuds no more.
Tolly [clears throat.]
I'm looking for somebody.
Blonde egomaniac.
Okay.
BIG GRAHAM: Part of me thinks this is a false lead, you know, but I want to say she wasn't in here looking to bowl, you know? The guy that used to run this place, fucking dipshit named Bolo I even let him use his own dum-dum name he did mention something about a woman coming in looking for a crew.
Not that he was able to do shit for her, but not ten minutes later, we got knocked over by the, uh [smacks lips.]
By the, uh, monsters? Monster Ring? Yeah, them.
We got knocked over by the Monster guys.
I put the fucking screws to Bolo, put the screws, to motivate the putz to figure out who they was, but Nothing? He disappeared.
I don't know if the craven motherfucker ran or what.
- Hmm.
- That's why I've had to deal with this family fun bullshit since, run the games we got in the back.
We did track him To a little landscaping shack.
But we never seen nobody come or go except for this one woman that works there.
Let me guess.
She didn't know nothing, right? I don't know.
I'm not interested in talking to her, so I haven't.
Tolly are you a fucking moron? Little bit.
[door opens, bell jingles.]
[bag thuds.]
- [bell jingles.]
- Your name, Flip? It's Lenny.
Lenny.
You remember me, Lenny? I think.
Guy I was talking to last night scar on his neck who was he? [inhales deeply.]
A guy.
[exhales sharply.]
A guy you've seen around? We don't allow smoking in here.
Could pull his fuses.
The woman with the blonde hair, who else she been here with? Look, man, I just What the fuck? JOEL: 'Cause if you don't give it to us, we're gonna pull your fucking fuses.
- You understand that? - LENNY: Fucking what? [panting.]
Okay.
[shrieks.]
Look, look, look, look, look.
Uh uh, usually, it was just four of 'em except, uh Except? [Lenny panting.]
- Lenny.
- There's been some guy.
He's got, uh, some hair and, uh and a shitty station wagon.
He's been around a lot.
[breathing shakily.]
It's Witt.
Who the fuck is Witt? [bone crunches, Lenny screams.]
[paper bag crinkling.]
[ominous music.]
That birdman looks pretty neat.
What do you think his name was? What was that, sweetie? What? The birdman over there.
I was wondering if it was Harold.
Maybe he came to tell me his story.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe.
Seat belts.
Seat belts.
[engine rumbling.]
Okay, everything is cool, 'cause they don't know shit.
Just got to fight 'em, just got to play it cool.
[door closes.]
[breathing shakily.]
I can explain everything.
Look, I was I was on the road.
I was working and I just came across her.
[breathing shakily.]
I swear.
I swear that's what happened.
I s Why didn't you tell us? [dramatic music.]
I don't know.
A good deal of our family are dead because of her and because of you.
And the kid, he BURT: What kid? JOEL: Ethan.
[cell phone ringing.]
[Witt breathing shakily.]
[Witt moans.]
[can tapping.]
[stool clatters.]
[Witt gurgling, gasping.]
[clattering.]
[shrieks.]
BURT: Let's see, we got Doris, Joel, Mom.
I think I'm gonna guess Doris.
[cell phone buzzing.]
[foreboding music.]
He text you back? No, but like you said, - their schedule doesn't change.
- EARL: Hmm.
[cell phone rings.]
[exhales sharply.]
Hello, Witt.
BURT: I see you go by Doris now.
DORIS: Where's Witt? Well, he's right where you put him.
And that kid, Ethan That was very clever, Katherine.
Where is he? Weren't you worried that something like this would happen to him? Yes, I was.
BURT: But you did it anyway.
Now, that's a Harlow if I ever knew one.
[breathing sharply.]
Dottie, what's going on? We just, um We need to wait.
We need to wait.
- Okay.
Yes.
- [vehicle approaching.]
Yes, masks! Masks! What the hell is this? CORDELL: We just want the cash.
- [gun cocks.]
- EARL: You [zipper closes.]
Let's go, come on.
The trunk.
[bird caws in the distance.]
Whoa, whoa.
What are you doing with him? EARL: You follow us, it's his ass.
MOLLY: Hi, Ethan.
[engine turns over.]
[engine rumbling.]
What in the world? ETHAN: It's a river.
They know the river.
[menacing music.]
[engine shuts off.]
We could cigarette-burn your whole car, you know? [gun cocks.]
MATTY: We don't even care about the money.
Shit, that little won't even get noticed.
We'll call it a slow week and move the hell on.
We just want our brother.
[phone ringing.]
Call 'em back later.
You can't go with them.
Ethan Burt knows.
No.
You've been lying to me.
- I'm I'm not lying to you.
- The guy never died.
I bought it at first, but I saw it when you said the lawyers were good to go.
I knew it.
It was too easy, too neat.
- Ethan, I only did it - You only did it for yourself.
No.
Ethan, Ethan, listen to me.
Okay I am not lying to you, not now.
Burt knows, and you can go home.
You need to go home.
Anything that happens to me, Doris, it'll only be because you brought me down here.
[car door closes, Doris sighs.]
[engine turns over.]
Lyla, sweetheart, come have some lunch.
[dogs bark, growl in the distance.]
Lyla! [dog barks in the distance.]
Lyla? [ominous music.]
[indistinct chatter.]
Well, this is nice.
Did you know about him? Who's that? Ethan.
I've seen him around.
[exhales sharply.]
People saw you come back with him that morning after Katherine kidnapped you.
[makeup brush clacks.]
He didn't know what she was up to.
He thought she was trying to help him, to protect him.
[breathes deeply.]
MEREDITH: But she lied to him.
He doesn't deserve whatever it is you're gonna do to him.
Well people rarely have.
How do you think she knew when the Ghouls were gonna make their drop at Percy's? Who do you think planted that bag of guns that she and her friends used to light this place up and kill a good deal of your family? Now, I've put some Brawlers on the river to bring him back.
[breathes deeply.]
And when they do I'm gonna have him tell you himself.
[cane tapping.]
[phone line trilling.]
MEREDITH: Come on.
[trilling continues Come on, Matty.
[phone rings.]
- Call 'em back later.
[phone clangs.]
[engine revs.]
[tires screech.]
[engine shuts off.]
[nozzle rattles, clicks.]
[gas pump whirring.]
[phone dialing, coins drop.]
[phone line trilling.]
[phone rings, receiver clacks.]
BIG GRAHAM: Hello.
Is that you, Earl? Earl, my name is Lander, Lander Graham.
Afraid you might know me as Big Graham.
You and me, we got some business to discuss.
DORIS: Earl? [taps on window.]
[lock clicks.]
- Cordell - Whatever you about to say, don't even say it.
You better not think for one goddamn second I'm gonna let you go up there by yourself.
Bernice is my family, too.
So let's get out of here.
What did we learn on the Archipelago? Split up if we have to, but what? Never leave a man behind.
This is different.
But it ain't, though.
After all the shit we done been through.
You know, maybe if we never said yes, maybe if we killed her in the first place hell, maybe if we never stepped foot into fucking Bolo's None of that matters now.
And she got something she needs to handle, and she needs her team behind her.
So after I get done handling Big Graham, you tell Dottie I'll be back in time to ask her brother why he did it.
[engine revs.]
[cell phone ringing.]
Katherine.
Hello, Burt.
BURT: How you feeling? I was wondering if you'd like to meet, you and me.
[indistinct chatter.]
[metallic jingling.]
[engine sputtering.]
[engine turns over, revs.]
[engine roars, tires squealing.]
What the hell? [ominous music.]
[sighs.]
Well they know.
Know what? Johnson, know what? Ethan know what? It's been me.
This whole time, it's it's been me.
[gasps.]
[engines revving.]
What the fuck? What the fuck? - Johnson? - Your call, bud.
[lighter clicks.]
[engine roaring.]
[Matty panting.]
JOHNSON: You know they're not gonna stop till we stop.
[inhales deeply.]
[tires screeching.]
[Matty grunts.]
[breathing heavy, sniffs.]
[engines roaring in the distance.]
[roaring intensifies.]
[gunfire continues.]
[gunfire stops.]
[whimpers.]
[car door closes.]
[sniffles.]
[breathing deeply.]
[Warren Zevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".]
[somber bluesy music.]
ZEVON: Roland was a warrior From the Land of the Midnight Sun With a Thompson gun for hire Fighting to be done The deal was made in Denmark On a dark and stormy day So he set out for Biafra To join the bloody fray Through '66 and '7 They fought the Congo War With their fingers on their triggers Knee-deep in gore For days and nights they battled The Bantu to their knees They killed to earn their living And to help out the Congolese Roland the Thompson gunner Roland the Thompson gunner ZEVON: His comrades fought beside him Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best [gunshot.]
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead That son of a bitch Van Owen Blew off Roland's head [suspenseful music.]
[panting.]
[indistinct shouting outside.]
LYLA: I finally figured out Harold's story.
[panting.]
[melancholy music.]
Harold's been trying to find his face.
[panting.]
His face? Harold's been trying to figure out where he came from, but it's been difficult because nobody can recognize him.
Because he doesn't have a face.
LYLA: That's correct, daddy-o.
- Did he find it? - LYLA: That's his story.
Because it turns out, that years ago, he accidentally dropped his face in a park without realizing it.
So he had to retrace every step, good and bad, a journey that he found to be quite horrendous, which is why I call his story The Horpus Horrendous.
[breathes deeply.]
- I lit a match.
- What? ["Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" continues.]
ZEVON: Roland the headless Thompson gunner Norway's bravest son SINGERS: Till he evens up the score ZEVON: They can still see his Seat belts.
[seat belt clicks.]
ZEVON: In the muzzle flash Of Roland's Thompson gun [seat belt clicks.]
JOEL: Seat belts.
ZEVON: Of Roland's Thompson gun [clock ticking.]
BIG GRAHAM: It's a funny thing, isn't it? Just how goddamn small this world can be.
How many times you slick pricks robbed me, huh? [spits.]
Each time, impressive, got to say.
I don't even know how you kept with the shit I was running back then.
And yet, now here we sit.
Completely different set of circumstances.
Earl [grunts softly.]
My man.
Your wife seems like a nice person.
You care about her you'll take me to our mutual friend.
You understand that? DORIS: There's no one here.
[bird cawing.]
Why don't you two wait in the car? CORDELL: What? Fuck, no.
Please.
It's okay.
[sighs.]
[door creaks.]
QUEENIE: Bash is alive.
Bad shape but alive.
To be honest, I had hoped so.
QUEENIE: I told you never to come back.
Did you ever believe that I wouldn't? QUEENIE: Huh.
I told you that if you ever did, I'd tell you all about where that pistol in your hand came from.
When, uh, I'd travel with the circus, small group of us, we'd rob banks in the towns we were passing through.
That's it.
That's the story.
I was a bank robber, and that's my old gun.
Point is I never thought I'd see you again, Katherine.
I wish you hadn't come back here.
Where's Burt? [bird cawing in the distance.]
In the barn.
The way he sees it, he figured you'd come gunning for him pretty early on.
He wanted to give you a chance to think about his offer.
You were wronged.
You came back, started a bogus war, got a bunch of people killed in the process, and now you're here.
And if you had anything anywhere else, you'd be there not here.
So he'd like to welcome you back in.
Hmm.
All you got to do is trust me.
Give me our gun and go see him.
What's he waiting in there with? Would I ever put you in danger? [door creaking.]
BURT: [sighs deeply.]
So you're blonde now? What did I tell you the last time we saw each other about Mom's stren [gunshot.]
[coughs.]
[breathing sharply.]
[wheezes.]
[laughing.]
I ain't been shot in a long time.
[snorts.]
[gunshots.]
I was wondering if I could have that back.
That one belonged to my friend.
It was nice to see you, Queenie.
[gasps.]
Oh, um it's wonderful to be home.
[Marianne Faithfull's "This Little Bird".]
[bright pop music.]
FAITHFULL: There's a little bird That somebody sends Down to the Earth To live on the wind [tires screech, engine revs.]
Born on the wind [panting.]
FAITHFULL: And he sleeps on the wind All right.
Well FAITHFULL: This little bird MATTY: Let's make this right.
FAITHFULL: That somebody sends Let's go find your girl.
FAITHFULL: Fragile and feathered sky blue [engine turns over.]
So thin and graceful The sun shines through This little bird Who lives On the wind This little bird That somebody sends He flies so high Up in the sky Out of reach Of human eye And the only time That he touches the ground - Is when that little bird - SINGERS: That little bird - FAITHFULL: Is when that little bird - SINGERS: That little bird FAITHFULL: Is when that little bird dies