Don't Say Its Name (2021) - full transcript

Radiator finally blew, Ma.

Can you come get me?

I'm on road 236, just coming
from the band council meeting.

Oh, it got pretty rank.

Oh, I said my piece.

You'd be proud of me.

Well, battle's
sure not won yet.

Ma?

Ma, I can't hear you.

Come on.

You're welcome, for the
nice breakfast I made you.



Take a bite.
It'll put hair on your chest.

I don't need
hair on my chest.

What I need is
some new hockey gear.

Well, this rat trap of
a house that nevertheless

keeps us warm and dry
needs a new heat pump.

There's nothing
wrong with used gear

and that's
what you're getting.

So why don't you
put that flyer down

and look at
something useful?

Like the homework you
neglected to do last night.

Used gear smells.

Plus, we got some deals.

New gear smells too once
you wear it a couple of times,

plus girls like the smell
of male odor, it excites them.



You're a dictator,
you know that?

Worse,
I'm your auntie.

So drop the sullen
teenager shit

and eat your
nutritious breakfast.

Andy, what's
Mary Lynne's ETA?

Ok, I'll see you
at the shed.

- Kharis?
- Mm-hmm.

That's too bad
about her, huh?

Yeah, it is.

You going to
catch the guy?

We certainly hope to.

Any clues?

There's always clues.

You should CSI
the shit out of it.

That's a great idea.

You know, I think I'll just
fire up my tribal DNA lab.

You got one?

No, I'm lucky if I get
a budget for ear muffs,

but I waved Andy in and
the police have all that, so.

She had a hard life.
Didn't she?

I'm so sorry,
Mary Lynne.

You met Andy?

The police will be assisting
with the investigation.

They have a crime lab,
resources we don't.

Me and Andy will go in first
to get the physical report

and then we'll bring you in
for the formal identification.

I want to
come with you, now.

I think it'd be best
if you stay outside,

just ready yourself.

It can get very
technical and disturbing.

She's my daughter.

I want to know.

K.

Um, once they
transport the body

pathologists will
do a formal autopsy

and he'll send
that to the coroner.

I'll see what the
pathologist comes back with,

but it looks like
massive trauma

consistent with
an automobile impact,

internal bleeding,
road burns.

Maybe she
was dragged.

She called.

I would've come,
but the line was so bad.

There was nothing
you could do.

She overcame so much
to be reduced to this.

Do you know
who did this?

We have evidence,
paint, tire marks,

part of
a broken headlight.

We're pretty good at
matching these things up.

People are already
calling in tips.

Are you ready?

Mary Lynne Redwater,

are you able to identify
the deceased before you?

I'm sorry,
you have to say it out loud.

I know!

Mary Lynne Redwater,
is this Kharis Redwater?

Yes.

It's Kharis.

AHHHH!

I think this is it.

You know,
there's nothing wrong

with a wedding
in Vegas, Beth.

Yeah,
this is the spot.

Are you sure this is okay,
on tribal land?

Band council signed
a land lease yesterday.

You know, I researched it,
$87, a hug from Elvis,

a complimentary
glass of champagne,

domestic I guess and
easy-peasy you're on your way.

No relatives,
no wedding hall?

That costs too much.

It'd just be you and I,
two lovebirds.

Well, what about
wedding cake and flowers?

Too bourgeoisie,
but I will pick you up

a bouquet
on the way.

- Oh, you do all that for me?
- Absolutely.

That's so
generous of you.

It's just part of my
great unappreciated goodness.

Just think about
all the money we would save

for travel,
for furniture...

For your tricked
out Shelby Cobra.

I gotta throw in
something for me.

I'll save a little bit for the
odd kid, and then a house maybe.

What if a Cobra
eats it all up?

It won't. I'll save a little
bit, just a little bit.

You know what?
I've got an even better idea.

Yeah.
What's that?

How about no wedding?

What?!

But Beth,
we love each other.

Yeah well, you'd better
start thinking about

what you're
going to lose.

Oh man, it's kind of
fun yanking your chain.

Yeah, well,
keep it up and you'll be

yanking your
own chain.

Now you just do
what I tell you

and I hope you've got
your long undies on,

because it gets cold
just standing out there.

You know, it's a real drag
your pole man called in sick.

I will be happy to
help and talk Elvis.

Just looked into
some used hockey gear.

Oh, that's
very constructive.

Yeah.

I can smell the hockey
through the paper.

Well then I suggest you
breathe through your nose.

Hey, and remember
it's $250 max.

Betty, you just
don't understand, okay.

I'm on the rink
with these rich moonyashs,

and me, this broke
Rez kid with hand-me-down

goalie pads and
stuffing coming out.

One of their mom's
probably donated it.

Those guys already
looked down on me.

Now they're
going to laugh.

Listen, you come from
a proud people, alright.

And that pride,
it beats in your heart.

So you just get on that
ice and you make sure that

heart of yours beats so loud
those kids hear at like thunder

and they start shaking
in their jockstraps.

And then
you play so hard

you beat the goddamn
shit out of them.

Huh?

Move left
three and a half meters.

You know, I uh, I lied
about the long underwear.

Well, if that's
the extent of your lies,

then we'll have
a happy marriage.

Ray, do you
smell something?

No, just uh,
clean oxygen on my end.

Beth, you okay?

Do you see it?

See what?

Beth.

Beth!

Beth!

Beth! Beth!

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no. Beth. Beth.

Okay-

Good, just stay
there for now.

I don't want
you going out.

Just do what I say.

Stay inside until
I figure things out.

Jesus.

Looks like someone went
at her with a chainsaw.

Is that the husband?

Fiance.

She's a surveyor,
just started working for WEC,

scoping out plans
for their base camp.

He's a junior prof in economics,
helping her for the day.

Pretty incoherent.

Babbling
he saw nothing.

No attacker, just blood
suddenly gushing from her.

Meth? That shit makes
people do crazy things.

We're checking.

Do a full tox screen.

Mr. Patel, I'm Officer
Stonechild, Tribal Police.

I'm sorry
for your loss.

She... Sh... Sm...

Smelled something
like, blood.

Is she alive?

She coming back?

No, Mr. Patel,
she's dead.

I didn't
see anything.

Sir, have you
been drinking?

Talk Elvis.

Sir, I'm going to
need you to focus.

Did you
find the weapon?

No, still looking.

9 times out of 10 it's
the husband, boyfriend...

Fiance.

Whatever.

Ben, would you
promise me something?

Uh, sure.

Tell me that when
you're big and grown

you're never
going to hurt a woman.

I wasn't going to.

All good?

Next time
make it more rare.

Well, that would be raw.

Hear you've been
pretty busy at the shed?

Yeah. Yeah.
Ice road's out now,

so it's getting
pretty busy back there.

Well, makes you
a hero in my book.

Hey, Stace-

- Hmm?

You ever just stand
in front of the mirror?

Yeah.
All the time.

No, I mean, just, just
looking at yourself hard

for a really long time.

Why would I?
I know what I look like.

Anyway, you know what the
philosophers say about that?

Which one?
I read so many.

Okay. Well the guy
I have in mind,

he said that the person
looking back at you,

that, that reflection is
fighting a really great battle.

Well, wouldn't
work for me.

I'm the happiest
person I know.

I'll tell the cook
you want your meat

still breathing
next time?

That a girl.

Excuse me,
could you move your vehicle?

No problem. I just wanted
to give you something.

Giving these out.

Public relations.

Get the natives
on our side.

Uh, thank you.

Now, could you please
move your pickup?

Saw you in the diner, thought
you'd look real good in it.

You must live
around here, huh?

That's none
of your business.

Now please
move your vehicle.

I'm moving.

I'm moving.

I'm a digger, coal mines.

Advance guard,
I set up the machines,

Alaska, Wyoming, Texas.

Man, I travel.

Now here, bring some
money to the squaws.

You know,
their bucks.

Who knows, maybe
they'll be able to

afford a toilet
or something.

It's kind of
like the army.

You know, you get lonely
away from our loved ones.

So I was thinking
you might want to

have dinner
with me sometime.

You know,
I was in the army.

I know
what it's like.

Tell you what,
does get lonely out here.

How about I give you my number
and you move your truck?

I will take that deal.

Oh, you are gorgeous.

Thank you.

I spend most of
my time with wildlife.

I don't really
get many compliments.

I got plenty more.

Where is that pen?

Now get in the driver's seat
and move your fucking truck!

Fucking bitch.

Aw, mother fuck.

Hey, did you get
any tox results yet?

Nothing yet.
Ice road is still closed.

Well, do we have anything?

What's his
mental history?

We're checking all that.

Got them at
the nurses station.

They are
keeping him sedated.

Did he say
anything else?

He started
babbling about a black bird

circling them
before the attack.

You see anything?

Just you.

You know I always
wanted a trophy on my wall.

- You got dimples.
- Eh.

- But I do got a riddle for you.
- Yeah.

Why did they
call it tourist season?

You're not
allowed to hunt them.

That is so bad.

Guess I either got
to work on my material,

either that,
get a new audience.

Hey, don't you
fucking dare.

Well, I ain't going nowhere
without a fucking kill.

That, and...

Hey, Hey concentrate.

You're on a
mission remember?

So it this legal,
what we're doing?

Word is,
local warden got suspended.

clocked one of our guys,
if you could believe it,

left him bleeding
in the parking lot.

- Why did he do that?
- It was a she.

- Nice.
- So.

Wide open season.

You need a
shotgun for that.

Man can pretend.

- You smell that.
- What?

Jesus, foul.

What?
I don't smell anything.

Geez. That smell.

No, no, no, no.
Let's get out of here...

Hey, here's my chance.

I'm getting my kill.

Gary?

Gary?

Oh my god.

What the hell did this?

You saw nothing?

I saw um, just Gary
walking towards me,

he was um,

holding his insides.

No sound?

Smell.

You smelled something?

Gary.
I didn't.

But you,
you smelled nothing?

I should
never have come.

Have you
been drinking?

Beer.

Just beer.

Had some luck,
looks like?

Take what
you can get.

Always carry that
thing on your line?

Might run
into poachers.

Some of them
are nasty.

What do you do then?

Sometimes poachers
need to be poached.

Aw, like that one that got
ripped to shreds by the beaches.

You didn't have anything
to do with that, did you?

Why'd I?

I dunno, since you got
back from Afghanistan,

you've had
a few screws loose.

Army shrink wouldn't argue
with you, section eight.

Just to reassure you,
I haven't killed anyone

in the past two days.

That's useful, because
I'm here to deputize you.

What?

Something's happening out
here that I don't understand.

You're the
best tracker I know.

And that arsenal that you're
stockpiling might come in handy.

You're allowed to
just deputize people?

Sure. A band member
of good character,

physically able and
over 18 in an emergency.

Yes I can.

Maybe you forgot.

My mom married a white guy,
I'm still waiting for my status.

You're a band
member in my books.

We'll let them worry
about blood quantum later.

You know though warden
service just suspended me?

You don't have to
smack every asshole

that pisses you off,
you know?

Fucker
backed me in.

Wouldn't let me
leave the parking lot.

That's an indictable offense,
forcible confinement.

I reacted to
secure my own safety.

Okay, well next time you feel
like securing your own safety

just file a report
instead, or call me.

Noted officer.

Besides I needed
that dose of violence.

I think you need to
get back to that shrink.

So are you in?

Let's do this.

They look like
animal wounds?

You know what kind?

I've seen most,
we're trained for that.

Keep track
of predation.

Who's hunting who.

But this here, and this,

wasn't something
looking to just kill,

this is something
looking for a meal.

You think it's...?

Stace. Stace!

Where are you going?

You asked me to help.

That's what I'm doing.

It's hard to believe,
but the survivors say

they never saw
the attacker.

Just the victim's
blood flying in the air.

No sense of who
or what was doing it.

- There was a bird, right?
- Yeah.

Black one,
circling overhead.

And before the attacks,
the victim smelled something.

Dead animals.

What's Betty
say about all this?

Well she's following
the empirical line.

Meth, psychosis, weird cult
running around out there maybe.

So why are you out here
telling me this instead of her?

I can tell
she's wavering.

Wondering if something
else is going on.

Type of thing
you might understand.

But right now, whatever
she's coming around to thinking

she can't say out loud
or they'll call her nuts

and take her
off the case.

So this is on me.

On you, huh?

Look at you,
all deputized and everything.

Still got
your usual arsenal?

Like a sorority
girl's makeup bag.

Won't go
anywhere without it.

Alright.

Surveyor
is killed here.

Poacher here.

It's not listed,
but right around here

there's a creek and...

Even predators
need to drink.

You got it.

I'll take point.

Remember when I first
took you hunting,

and we ran
into that bear?

Smell.

Carson. Carson.

Hang on Carson.

Hold on there.

I've lost too many, I can't
afford to lose you too.

Ok, got it?

Yeah.

Alright.

- It was...
- Shh, don't say its name.

- It was Kharis.
- Huh?

- Kharis.
- Kharis?

You went
without me?

I wanted to
keep you out of it.

I was afraid they'd
think you were crazy.

Hear you're out there running
after things you can't see,

it was just til
we knew for sure.

Knew what?

Carson, he-

He said, whoever
did this was hungry.

So he baited her,
brought her to us.

Baited who?

He said
it was Kharis.

I saw her too,

just a flash, like a,
a corpse covered in dirt,

blood around
her mouth.

I opened up with
everything I had.

There was nothing to see,
I was shooting at air.

Sounds crazy.

But...

Maybe...

That saved Carson.

So...

So she's out there.

I'm sorry.

He's lost a lot of blood,
but he's as tough as a mule.

I know him.

How come nobody
let me in on this?

It was a special circumstance,
there wasn't enough time.

Why is she here?

She was with him.

I deputized her.

Does the crime
scene checkout?

Okay. That Jessica
girl with the poacher,

blood alcohol 0.15,
some THC.

That's not enough
to trigger a delusion.

Not in somebody
who's sane to begin with.

There's a lot of people out
here, Betty, living in the bush.

Isolation can be
worse than any drug.

Are you familiar
with mass hysteria?

- What?!
- 1879.

Cree Hunter,
Swift Runner,

takes his family to an isolated
hunting camp, has a vision.

Says a spirit told him
to kill his family, eat them.

So he complies,

down to his
infant daughter.

Hey.

Doesn't bother
hiding the bones.

Belcher Island, Inuit Shaman
saw a meteor declared it a sign

he was Jesus Christ ordered six
of his relatives onto the ice,

where they
froze to death.

- One case after the other.
- So you're saying...

I'm saying that
sometimes an idea...

fear gets into a
community, spreads.

People see things
they would never see,

do things they would
never ordinarily do.

These are my people,
Andy, my band.

They're not
a bunch of hysterics,

running wild,
ripping people open.

It doesn't have to
be a lot of people.

We need to get a team
of psychologists down here

when that
damn road opens!

And I need
to get back.

We'll talk.

Her heart.

Where is her heart?

Hey.

Hey, uh...

I looked online today.

I found some delicately
used pre-owned equipment.

I used your credit card.
Altogether it was $241.

Saves you nine bucks.

We'll blow it on a night on
the town, burgers should do it.

And I'll spot you
for the fries.

You do know the
way to a woman's heart.

Hey, you okay?

We'll see.

She is beautiful there, no?

Sorry.
I didn't see you.

Lost in my
own thoughts.

Yes, she is beautiful.

You were right
to be proud of her.

It was an honor.

I offered to buy her a car
when she got that diploma,

she said, "old age is creeping
up on you Ma, save your money."

She was right.

I still remember all the
times she'd come by my cabin.

We'd drink coffee, strictly
decaf for her because she said-

she said she'd had so much
illegal stuff on the street,

she was afraid.

She was afraid
any kind of stimulant

might make
her backtrack.

She was hard
on herself.

Red road was
important to her.

She fought
to stay on it.

She was
a real fighter.

Yes.

She was.

It's happening.

Carson...

Carson.

Ben.

Show me that
Kharis video you took.

I got a B plus.

You don't have to
check on everything I do.

I just need to see it,
it's for my work.

Oh, okay.

I've heard what some
of the band members are saying,

and yes,
we need a new school,

a new rink,
a treatment center.

But look around,
other reserves have those things

without digging up
the bones of our elders,

polluting the land the
Creator gave to sustain us.

When I was away in the city,
on the streets, I lost my soul.

When I came back here,
I remembered who I was.

I don't want
to lose that again.

Yes, there are problems.

But this precious
land we walk on,

the creek we fish from,
draw water,

the forest we hunt in,
all part of the blood and soul

of each and
every one of us.

And to mutilate all
that with a strip mine,

this is not the way of
our ancestors and us-

Hey, come back here.

You hear that
band councillors?

You listen to her.

You went
behind our backs.

No consultation,
no advance warning.

We wake up one
morning to discover

WEC is digging up
the ground from under us.

We had to cut
out that last part.

The teacher was afraid that
the band would retaliate

or do something crazy, like
cancel the hockey program.

Too bad though.

Should've put those two
and Carson in the same video,

see some
real sparks.

- You videoed Carson?
- Yeah.

Uh, teacher said we should
get a real and respected elder.

And so we had to trudge
all the way out to his cabin.

Lucky a bear
didn't get us.

Show me.

Oh.

Um, now?

Well, uh, this morning
woke up with the sun,

smudged,
had breakfast,

went out to
my trap line.

Same as every morning.

No one around for miles.

Just me and my one
true love Mother Earth.

Now, uh, Ben here's asked
me to speak as an elder,

but, and I know
what you're thinking,

yeah here comes
another lecture

from good old,
crazy Carson, right?

Well, truth and matter is, my
life wasn't always like this.

And with everyone at odds
over this WEC thing.

Well, I figure it's maybe
better I just cut to the chase.

Too many of us
are losing ourselves

to alcohol and
those goddamn drugs.

I know because
was one of them.

And I know reconnected
to my culture

helped me get
off that path.

But I also grabbed
onto opportunities

and when you mix those
two things together.

Well, that's one
powerful thing.

That's why I was able to be
there for my niece, Stacey.

I was able
to raise her,

give her the gift of
our culture and opportunity.

And I sure as
hell didn't do it

living on
fresh air and sunshine.

Our people
need growth.

Our land,
she's precious.

And men that
come to our lands,

well, they're
definitely outsiders,

but they're outsiders
offering something.

They're promising
something precious, training.

And that means opportunity
to build our people,

but we need
to stick together.

We got to watch
them like hawks,

make sure we
hold them to it.

He promises jobs.

Let's hold them to it.

They promise us
something to build off of

for future generations
of our people to come.

Let's hold them to it.

We need to
take that chance.

You know, I love the
forest, creeks, creatures,

everything the Creator
gave us, I love it all.

But the truth of the matter
is we're out here on our own

and we're losing
too many of our people.

As much as I love all of this,
I love my people more.

And that means
all of you.

After, he showed us
how to make Spruce Tea.

Cool guy. Huh?

Her heart.

Where is her heart?

Oh, hey Betty,
what's up?

Where's Kharis' body?

Uh-uh,
it was transported.

Where?
The road's not opened.

Yeah. The pathologist,
he was actually able to...

What's his name?

Which morgue?

You know, I'm going to
have to check in the files.

Show me the
transport order.

Okay. Um, yeah,

they're mixed in with
the diner stuff right now

the paperwork's
chaos right now.

It's in
your computer.

Betty, we've-we've had
a bug in the system for weeks.

I can't actually
access any...

Do you know
what this is?

- Is it pretty stone...
- Stop lying to me!

This is
a Buffalo stone.

It belongs
to the Blackfoot.

It's sacred to them. It's
found only on their territory.

It belongs to
them and not you.

It was a gift.

You're play
acting with your

drum circles
and your round dance.

That's not fair!
We honor those traditions.

You honor nothing!

You know nothing!

The body,
what happened to it?!

- I don't know...
- The body?

Where is it?

Mary Lynne.

You ask Mary Lynne where
her daughter's body is.

You here
to arrest me?

Not today.

Your Mountie
won't be pleased.

How is he?

Same.

Look, I gotta
show you something.

That's surveyor, Beth, out
there peacefully doing her job,

smelled
something awful,

saw something, ran,
got ripped apart.

Her fiance, helping
her out for the day,

smells nothing,
sees nothing,

just blood spurting out
from his bride to be.

He's left alone,
he survives.

Who does
she work for?

WEC, about to start mining
the shit out of the reserve.

That poacher in the
pickup got himself gutted,

his girlfriend Jessica, again
sees nothing, smells nothing,

like Ray was left alone,
unharmed.

WEC.

- Kharis hated WEC.
- Big time.

But, Carson has got
nothing to do with them.

Men that come to her lands,

definitely outsiders,

they're outsiders,
offering something

they're promising something
precious, training.

And that means opportunity
to build our people.

But we need
to stick together.

She came after him
because of that speech.

And he saw her.

She revealed
herself to him.

But I saw her too.

She was going
to attack me.

Because you tried
to defend Carson.

You became his ally, and that
puts you on side with WEC.

When I was 10,
Carson took me hunting.

I saw two bear cubs
and I followed them,

but I wandered
away too far.

I couldn't
see him anymore.

And then I heard
something behind me.

I felt the hair on the
back of my neck stand up

and I could
smell her.

I looked over
my shoulder,

there she was,
the mother.

I heard a shot,
and then she fell.

He saved me.

Now you saved him.

That was the first time
I ever felt the power of a gun.

I grew up with myths.

The tales
from my Kokum,

scary stories,
spirits, cannibals,

foxes in the night,
crying out,

open doors, whistle at
the Northern lights

and they'll come down
and take you away.

These spirits
they're still here,

they've just been pushed
to the side of your brain.

One of them is pushing back,
standing in front of us.

Not Kharis anymore.

Not going to let your
Mountie friend in on this?

He has his theories,
I have mine.

Besides what am I
supposed to tell him?

Order WEC to shut down
the entire operation

because the angry
spirit of a dead nishi

is eating the innards
of its employees.

He'd lock me up.
He'd probably take my badge.

Even if these miners
in London or China,

or wherever the hell paid
any of this some credence,

doubt it would
make a difference.

Money matters more
to these guys than people.

Andy.

Christ.

Stone Crossing Road
by the pines?

There's been another.

Andy's already there.

Follow me and
don't say anything.

Game on.

Yeah.
Sorry Man.

Aggie.

It's a gunshot
wound to the shoulder.

Guy was
packing a 32.

The docs still have to
look at your friend,

but far as I can see
nothing critical.

Our cowboy
here got spooked.

Oh, yee-haw.

That's Aggie Foxchild,
she's one of our elders.

How the hell am
I supposed to know?

I'm just getting the
lay of the land here.

And I see something moving in
the woods and it spooked me.

Yeah, I yelled out,
"Who's there?"

I got no answer.

So I figured maybe it's
whoever or whatever has been

slicing and dicing all
the other people around here.

You fucking moron!

You shot an
81 year old grandmother

who's stone Deaf,
can't hear a thing.

That's why
she didn't respond.

She's an herbalist. She was
probably gathering plants.

Again, how the hell
was I supposed to know?

By using
your goddamn eyes!

She should
have bells on.

Why do you
have a firearm?

Well, you're your little sexy
minx over there has a gun.

How do you think I got
this pretty little nose?

She's a game warden,

which makes her a
federal peace officer.

Who the hell are you?

Betty, I got it, Betty.

Okay, I'm already booking him.

I'm taking him to jail as
soon as I get Aggie some help.

Piss and a phone call.

Okay, it's getting
out of hand.

I was afraid this
would start happening.

Just remember
what I was saying.

We got to end this.

I know.

That's what
I'm trying to do.

Hey.

Game on.

Been busy, hey?

You don't know
the half of it.

I saw you
the other day.

At the uh,
hit and run site.

Just paying my respects,
best as I can.

Thanks.

I knew
Kharis a bit.

Authorized a permit for
that anti mine demonstration

she organized, I let her block
the road for a few hours.

That was Kharis.

I'm all for pulling the energy
out of the ground myself,

but you sure
had to respect her.

Especially after everything
she went through before.

Andy.

Andy.

Andy.

Andy.

Do you have a sec?

Yeah, yeah.

The guy you got
in there, Donny, um,

he asked me out
the other night

and I'm pretty sure
he slipped me a roofie.

- Um...
- Okay.

Everything was
fine and then, uh,

then I just
kinda blacked out.

I've got really
hazy memories.

It keeps coming
back and forth.

Mary Lynne.

Sweet. Internships.

Shit.

The body,
where is it?

You won't find it.

The spirit is
within it now.

What does that mean?
What are you trying to say?

The intruder
came here,

and stole everything
he could from us,

our language,
our stories,

our songs,
and worst of all the land.

This land is
what we are,

and without it,
we are no more.

And right now
strangers want to devour,

steal it from right
under us as we speak.

Mary Lynne,
do you understand?

There are people
dying out there,

innocent people,
our people too.

If you can help us, th-

Where is Kharis?

Kharis is dead.

She was killed on
a road late one night

by some beast who
dragged her a hundred feet,

cared less about her
than a scrap of roadkill.

What the hell
you make of that?

Your guess is
as good as mine.

We have
to stop this.

Hey, Bet.
How was the case?

I'm asking myself
the same question.

I just wanted to
let you know that

I'll be heading out
to the community center.

So I may not be here
when you get back.

That's a good distance.
How are you getting there?

My bike.

You sure?
It's pretty cool out.

My warrior spirit
can handle it.

A warrior
on a bicycle.

At least until
I get my Harley, anyway.

And guess what?
That's on you.

Ben. Actually,
I don't want you

going out alone until
this is settled. Okay?

But, this is
important to me.

Ben.

Long time ago, we were
teenagers too, remember?

I never was.

So what now?

I don't know.

Kharis, or whatever the hell
that thing is out there,

it's hunting.

So, we gotta
go hunt the hunter.

Man, I wish Carson
was here with us.

Yeah, I wish
he was too.

You out for bear now?

No, a poacher set it.

Get the gallbladder's
out to China,

leave the rest of
the animal to rot.

These things
cost money.

I hope whoever
set it cries.

You go ahead.

I'm going to
go check on Ben.

Hey Mary Lynne,
I need to talk to you.

This belonged
to my friend,

Jocko Deer,
he was Mohawk from Kahnawake.

We served together.

He used to say to me,

"what are you
doing over here?

"Shooting at people that
never did anything to you

"10,000 miles from
your nice little Rez."

But, we'd laugh because we
both knew why we were there.

The kind of thing that goes
so deep it's hard to explain,

even to yourself.

What's your point?

One night before
a mission he said to me,

"I'm tired
of fighting."

And I said,
"yeah, we all are."

But he said, "no, not
this kind of fighting."

He was tired of
fighting the past.

Of everything we lost,
everything that was done to us.

It's always there,

but you got to move on
or you won't get anywhere.

So he made
a plan for himself.

He was gonna join his father on
his uncles on the high steel.

Nobody wanted
to build...

bridges.

"Bridges connect people",
he said.

Everyone pays
the same toll.

You get off,
and you got no choice.

You're in someone else's
territory, all of a sudden,

and you got
to deal with them.

Without the bridge
you're both screwed.

So, we're all
in this together.

"That'll be my
contribution", he said.

Did he?

No, he didn't make it.

I've been hanging on
to this for eight years.

But uh,
it's time to move on.

It's my gift to you.

Ben, when I said,
stay home, I meant it.

WEC is hiring,
paid summer internships.

Even if you're 14.

I called around and
there's only 20 spots.

And if I don't go today,
then I don't get one.

Just stay away
from anything WEC.

We'll figure something
else out, okay?

You know something?

You're always telling
me to be more responsible

to take initiative,

eyes on the prize,

make something of myself,
and now that I'm...

Ben.

Ben, are you okay?
What happened?

I thought
I saw something.

What?

A-a-auntie,
I'm feeling scared.

How far are
you from home?

I barely left.

Okay, you peddle
like the devil

get inside
and locked the door.

I'm not too far.

Shit.

Oh.

Stace?

Jesus.

Inside.
She's trying to get in.

I'm almost there.

Get down to the cellar,
barricade yourself.

Auntie, I'm bleeding.

Can you run?

I think so.

Get down to the cellar.

Ben!

I'm down here.

Hey, I'm here.
You see her?

She's inside.
Ben's hurt.

We're in the cellar.

Put your foot up here.

It's gonna be okay.

Betty!

She's trying to
break down the door.

My last clip's
almost empty.

She's almost in!

Hey Kharis,
check it out.

I work
for WEC now.

Scarden!

Kharis, come on!

Come at me.

Fuckin' hell.

What do we
do with her?

I don't know.

- Drag her to death?
- Again?

I don't know.

Betty!

Betty.

No, she's here for you.

Go!

The head.
The head.

Is it over?

Almost.

You're hurt.

Accident.

Fell off a ladder.

That's life.

Yeah, life.

You?

Just, uh, visiting.

I was playing on thin ice,
fell through.

We can
say its name one more time,

and never again.

Your prisoner in
the back there seems like

he needs some
medical attention.

He took a tumble
getting in the cruiser.

He actually did
double duty tonight,

had him solve
another charge.

He's the hit and run,
killed Kharis.

- What led you...
- Frances from the diner.

She gave him up.

She was with him.

She was in the truck.

He slipped her
a date rape drug.

She was
pretty unconscious,

but then fragments
started coming back,

trucks starting, stopping
and hitting something.

We had a little chat.

He, uh, volunteered
some more info.

What the hell
is that smell?