An Klondike (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

JOYOUS MUSIC

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

She's as green as old Ireland.

You haven't got a
snowball's chance in hell.

I can turn her.

Can you now?

On your own?

I'd pay to see it.

Would you now?

Let's have fifty bucks on it.



JOYOUS MUSIC

Oh, an Irish girl.

I'd know an Irish girl
anywhere,...

..and I bet you this is one for
sure.

I'd say myself that she is
English gentry.

I'm as Irish as yourselves and I
know very well you're only
teasing me.

Oh, and she's good and
clever on top of it all.

Well, maybe we'll meet each
other later on.

Right now I have to tend to a
friend of mine who is feeling
poorly.

Do you mind?

Peadar is my own name,
but they call me Petey.

And?

Úna. Úna is my name.

SOMBRE MUSIC



Hey, hey, hey!

What are you telling me?

You know nothing.

Fuck!

It was the easiest thing I've
ever done.

Úna was the girl's name.

Fifty bucks. I prefer notes
instead of gold on this one too,
if you please.

That girl's just not cut out for
the work.

The bet that we made hadn't
anything to do with that.

He's out cold now.

Leave it 'till morning if you
like.

Would you ever get out of here.
Tomorrow is Patrick's Day.

(SOUND OF A CREAKING DOOR)

(SOUND OF WHISTLING)

TITLE MUSIC

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

(SOUND OF VOICES)

(SOUND OF THE WIND HOWLING)

(SOUND OF VOICES)

-Happy St. Patrick's Day Petey.
-Same to yourself.

-Tom. A drop of the hard stuff
for the day that's in it.
-Ah, good man!

S?amus doesn't need Patrick's
Day or any other day to have a
little drop!

So, any bit of colour in there?

Well, I reckon now that
Tom's hiding it somewhere.

'Cause he has me on a labourer's
pay.

Lads, let's go to Dominion?

We'll go in the parade and we'll
see that new hotel of Belinda's.

The hotel will still be there
when we have reason to be in
town.

Ah Tom, for fuck's sake,
Patrick's Day!

Alright.

In Dominion, pretty girls need
not stoop to laundry or the
nursing of scurvy men.

No laundry or nursing, Ma'am?

You don't need to nurse
or do laundry.

The girls here earn a dollar
a dance.

Their share is half.

You get fifty cents to dance
with a man.

Ask her if she understands what
else is expected of the girls
here.

Do you know what else the girls
do here?

In the bedroom?

Is she a virgin?
Ma'am?

You understand. Ask her if she
knows how to fuck.

Do the laundry.

Well. At least Bridget's English
is improving.

(SOUND OF A HAMMER DRIVING
NAILS)

I understand your case
with S?amus.

But what has Tom ever done
to make you so angry?

Paudie, Tom was very generous to
us.

He paid for the windows.

It's about time there was peace
between you again.

It's time for the parade.

I can give you five dollars
for the lot.

You mean twenty. These are good
skins, the best.

Five dollars.

I'll take the lot.

The price you said. Twenty
dollars.

Great haggling, Tom.

Chief Isaac is looking
for a business partner.

Shipping supplies to Dominion
Creek.

He has packers to deliver
directly to the claims.

That's interesting.
I could see that working.

Very interesting. It's
fascinating.

S?amus, the parade is starting
down there...

..go down.

And your brother needs cash to
set it up, is that it?

Yes.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

With Winter past, the Connollys
emerge from hibernation...

..to parade brazenly under
my window.

You say the oldest brother is
keeping the gold from S?amus?

He is. It's driving Shamie
stone mad.

And the youngest brother,
the chapel builder?

That's P?draig. He thinks
he's some class of a Saint.

He stole two of my whores
and turned them into nurses.

He wants nothing to do
with his brothers.

We must be sure he comes their
way.

Colonel, are you aware that we
still hold the deed to that plot

where he has built this
Catholic chapel?

I was not aware, Dear Estella.

I haven't seen Skookum Jim
in a while. Have you?

He is always in town.

Drunk?

Always.

See you, Tom.
See you.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

(IRISH MUSIC BEING PLAYED
IN THE STREET)

Peter, it is rumoured that you
wish to compete with me in the
saloon business.

No, not at all, Colonel. Never.

It's just Belinda Mulroney
has the fancy new hotel now...

..and she's putting her old
boarding house up for sale.

Indeed, that old rat's palace
always turned her a profit.

Well, that place will go for
eighty grand at least.

I'd be lucky if I could scrape
together ten.

Here's my offer. Convince S?amus
Connolly to partner with you
for another ten thousand...

..I will advance you both
the remaining sixty.

At my usual rate of interest.

Your usual rate is ferocious
high.

It's the price of going
into business in Dominion.

You're out to ruin Connolly.

How will it not ruin me too?
I give you my word.

If S?amus Connolly is ruined,
you will not go down with him.

I swear it.

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF SHOUTING AND CHEERING)

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF SHOUTING)

IRISH MUSIC

My dear, I would not have you
publicly drunk.

You would have me in widow's
weeds?

Would that improve business?

I would have you happy.

I have your happiness close
to heart.

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

Hey, I have big news to tell
you.

I'm going to sell my claim and
I'm going to head off home.

What are you saying? No way!

They price the same for salt
around here as they do for gold.

But Miche?l, as long as the gold
keeps coming, what matter the
price of salt sure?

No matter, because it's all
plain nonsense.
Three dollars for an egg!

I've gotten everything I wanted.

Plenty of money saved.

So I'm going to head off home
now,...

..before someone takes it from
me, or before I spend it
foolishly.

It's a cruel place here Tom.

Everyone turning on each other.

Well, that's not going
to happen to us anyway!

I'll see you later, Miche?l.

Hey Miche?l,drinking and
dancing, huh?

Hey, the word's going around
that you're selling up your lot.

Only rumours. Don't heed them.

How much do you want to get for
the claim?

I wouldn't sell it to you, even
if you freed Ireland herself.

Bollocks!

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

Oh, you heard the news did you?

Belinda's boarding house
is for sale.

Eighty thousand.

And I'm looking for a partner to
buy it.

Hey, listen to me.
I'm talking about you.

Me?

Do you think now that there's
forty thousand in there, do you?

It's only ten thousand bucks
each.

You see, I happen to have
someone who's going to put the
rest in.

-Oh? Who?
-Hopkins.

Fuck off lad!

I'm after killing his son and
now he's going to give me money?

Hopkins doesn't respect anything
but gold.

Ooh la la, look at this.

Soapy Smith is back in town with
a whole crowd of new women with
him.

Look at the legs on that one.

Soapy Smith? Where is he?

We should head back up to the
claim before it gets dark.

Yeah, they're gorgeous.

EXHILARATING MUSIC

Spiritus Sancti, Amen.

Sanctuary, Father!

I demand sanctuary!

I am pursued by demons!
Is there a key or a bolt?

No! You!

My father was dead and you
mocked him with your telegram.

Paud, you have received
absolution.

(SOUND OF A STRUGGLE)

P?draig. P?draig! Take it easy!
Take it easy!

This must be about the early
malfunctions of my telegraph
office.

I swear to God, I'll hang you
with your own guts.

-I know a place we can bring him
lads.

-You will bring him to the
Mounties.

You mentioned the Mounties?

But you know exactly what he did
to us.

Yes I do, and the law is the
way...

..we should deal with crimes in
this town.

He's right.

We'll let Sam Steele deal with
you.

No use talking P?draig.
The decision's made by Tom.

Right!

UPBEAT MUSIC

Is it looking for a pay rise you
are? A one pipe conference we'll
be having so.

How far gone are you?

A month?

Two months?

You know yourself how
things can be up here.

Time slips past.

Three months?!

Pull your wedding date
back by a little bit.

Sam will be thrilled and
he won't notice anything.

None of us will let on.

It's not even a month since I
was with Sam for the first time.

UPBEAT MUSIC

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

UPBEAT MUSIC

I don't propose that we become
friends.

Mister McDonagh there has
elected a partnership with you.

And I see a profit in it.
For us all.

My son chose his own fate.

I'm in Dominion to pursue
wealth, not feuds.

Me too.

Do we need to consult your
brother?

Jacob, I don't answer to anyone.

(SOUND OF THE WIND BLOWING)

(S0UND OF A BURNING FIRE)

You killed his son and now he
wants to buy you a saloon?

Have you not had enough?

No.

If you accept that loan from
him you'll be in his pocket.

He won't bother us at all.

We only need ten thousand...

..and there are saloons in town
taking in five thousand a night.

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF RAINFALL)

Put away that whiskey and those
notions that go with it.

That gold is mine too, Tom.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

(SOUND OF MUSIC AND LAUGHTER)

Father Judge.

A unique place of worship.

Clearly built with love.

It's not Saint Peter's Basilica
but it serves God and us.

This lot of land was allowed to
you by my son.

But no deed exchanged hands.

I see.

What do you want?

The Connollys. I find their
presence in this town a grievous
insult.

I want you to send the boy
on his way.

You're making the vilest threats
in a consecrated place.

I'm offering you the deed to
some valuable land.

I'm offering a generous donation
to your hospital.

I'm offering to leave your
church standing.

And I'm offering you the door.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

(BIRD SONG)

You're very fond of that
communist there I see.

He says that workers have
nothing to lose but their
chains.

And do the Hopkins have chains
on you?

I'm a slave to the worst
family in Dominion, it seems.

What about my brother's claim?

They have no one who could cook
beans without burning them...

..or could even mend a hole in a
sock.

The only use you seem to see in
women is for cooking and mending
clothes...

..and keeping a bed warm.

I didn't mention a bed.

It was you that said
you felt like a slave.

Well why don't you go up
yourself to help your brothers?

Maybe I'll have to yet.

Sure we'll see.

I'd better be off.

(BIRD SONG)

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF RAINFALL)

Hey. I'm heading.

Going down to see your Squaw,
huh?

I'm going to meet Chief Isaac.
There's profit in it.

Have some patience, S?amus.

We're going to own half of that
town down the line,...

..not just that old boarding
house.

See you now.

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

(SOUND OF HITTING SOLID
MATERIAL)

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

Mister Connolly, I've followed
your rise with admiration.

You are shrewd.

What do you want with my
brother?

Business, profit. Nothing else.

He killed your son.

I have scarcely forgotten.

Best leave my brother be.

He doesn't have the means to go
into business with you.

You are saying he doesn't have
the financial means?

I'm saying best leave him be.

(SOUND OF DOOR SLAMMING)

MELLOW MUSIC

(SOUND OF CHATTING)

And yours for only twenty
dollars.

MELLOW MUSIC

I prefer paper money please.

You can go.

(SOUND OF RUSHED FOOTSTEPS)

I had him on a drunk
and disorderly charge.

Twenty dollars.

Now that's a crime in itself.

I knew we were doing a deal on
packers and supplies,

but I didn't think I'd be buying
a horse as well.

Neither did I.

That's a good deal though.

Thanks.

The whites call the newcomers
by our word, 'Cheechako'.

To us, they are all Cheechako.

We trade with them.

That is all.
Do you understand?

I understand.

Well the claim is yours now,
Bridget, and every blessing with
it.

You made a poor bargain
on the price...

..despite you being so clever.

Now Belinda, 'tis never a poor
bargain to do the right thing.

It's well you know that
yourself!

So will you go back home to
Ireland now?

That's right. And even though
I'll be sorry to leave you all
behind me...

..I won't be one bit sorry to
leave the land of gold behind
me.

You know Irish Pat won't be
happy that you've bought this
claim girl.

You may as well have insulted
the devil himself.

You understand that?

I see that devil's work clearly.

SOMBRE MUSIC

S?amus?

S?amus, come here till you
see our little horse.

Well, the best of luck to you
lads.

It's not easy doing business in
this town.

Oh, we'll be fine. Won't we,
Petey?

I've made a decision now.

I'll go up to my brother's claim
in the morning.

You're going to go and leave us.
What brought this on?

I know about Hopkins and the
threats he made to you.

P?draig,...

..we will not be frightened by
men such as Hopkins.

And I'll make certain of that by
going.

I won't give you my blessing if
you do go.

(SOUND OF A SAW GETTING JAMMED)

This work isn't tough enough?

Every time I look up, I must be
confronted by your desolate
physiognomy.

What are you talking about?

Did you ever hear of Boethius,
sixth century Roman Philosopher.

Oh I did, yeah. A proper cunt
wasn't he?

Boethius had this idea that life
was like a wheel. See.

Going round and round with us
riding it.

Sooner or later, you've just got
to be at the bottom.

But the good news is, once
you're at the bottom you can
only rise to the top.

The thing is, you've got to
stick with the wheel.

And how do you know when you're
at the bottom?

How can you doubt it?

Come on.

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

(SOUND OF SIGHING AND PANTING)

DREARY MUSIC

Fucking idiot!

IRISH MUSIC

I wouldn't mind, only that was
the last time I was going to be
dealing in guns.

I'm sure.

It was, I'm serious. I'm not
going to be doing anything
illegal from now on.

Legitimate business from here on
S?amus.

It's time for Petey McDonagh
to settle down.

There's this girl, Úna.

I put her working in the Nugget.

But I like her, this one.

Hey, more whiskey!

IRISH MUSIC

I knew you'd come.

Ah Kate. Do you remember
the first night I saw you?

And you sang that song.

The Fair-Haired Boy.

Sing a verse. Sing the whole
lot.

I'm here to wish you
the luck of the Irish.

What luck? The luck that left
them trampled in the famine?

-Or spread the world over,
slaving? Nah...
-S?amus

I really can't stay.

Why not? Don't tell me that
Mountie has knocked all the fun
out of you, has he?

I shouldn't have said that.
That's not what I meant. Come
here. Stay a while.

Another time. I swear.
Another time.

The luck of the Irish!

Well this here is our luck.
American dollars.

And there's nothing Irish about
it.

In all of my days I haven't
been with an Irish girl yet.

Ah good God. Isn't the
Klondike...

.. full of surprises. 'Tis
indeed.

Ah now, that's it.

Now girleen, lie back there.

Now, that's it.

Good.

Stop!

Good.

-Stop!
-You're alright, take it easy.

-Stop!
-Take it easy.

Stop! Stop!

UPBEAT MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

Two big long weeks,
chopping wood like a nigger.

And me owning a saloon.

Don't be worrying about it
Petey.

All the hardship will soon be
behind us.

Hardship? Is it?

None of you know anything about
hardship.

I was raised on the side of the
road.

We were evicted from the house
when I was only a young lad.

The bastard peelers.

They wanted to burn the thatch
over our heads.

That was hardship.

Oh, bastards.

And the Government man.

Him blotting down notes on
any sorrowful thing we had.

And he whistling away without a
care.

Play us a jig, a good jig now...

..before I tie the strings of
your violin around your
forehead.

MUSIC - THE CONNAUGHTMAN'S
RAMBLES

That's it!

Come on, S?amus.

Come on, Skooky!

Up there, boy!

THRILLING MUSIC

(SOUND OF CLAPPING)

THRILLING MUSIC

You fucking thief, you!

I'll have you paid back
within a month, Tom.

There's no way of paying back
what you did.

You dirty little thief!

Take it easy!

Stop! Enough!

I said enough!

I promised Dad that I'd look
after you.

But now he's dead. That's the
end of it.

-The gold's not just yours.
-Don't go anywhere near the
claim again.

That gold belongs to me.
You're no brother of mine
S?amus.

Did you fucking see that, Jim?

What?
Tom, he's got a horse.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

Seven hundred and forty two
dollars.

We never earned that much
digging for gold Petey, huh?

The bottom of the wheel.

That's where I am now.

-The bottom of the wheel.
-Ah you eejit!

Come here. You're a business man
now.

And you earning your share
in the city of gold.

As you say yourself.

He said 'From the looks of you,
you'd made good tinkers'.

He did, huh?

Well now Petey, home time I
reckon.

Come here.

Finish it up, I have you.

I have you, here.

Everything we had, thrown
on the side of the road.

-He was whistling away, he was.
-Yeah, fucker, whistling.

(WHISTLING - GREEN SLEEVES)

SOMBRE MUSIC

Bastard.

I have you man.

I have you man.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

SOMBRE MUSIC

Petey, oh Petey?

Wait, wait S?amus.

I didn't want to do it.

They pressured me. That's the
honest to God truth. S?amus!

Right then, I believe you.

Let's go again anyway!

S?amus please don't! S?amus!

(SOUND OF SCREAMING)

DRAMATIC MUSIC

(SOUND OF A HORSE NEIGHING)

DRAMATIC MUSIC

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

SOMBRE MUSIC

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF A HAMMER DRIVING
NAILS)

BIRD SONG

You're doing business with
Tom Connolly.

I want you to stop.

I will make the same deals with
you.

Why change for the same prices?

Tom Connolly does good business.

Ah yeah, Tom Connolly does good
business alright.

Fucking your little sister, El
Soo.

I can swear to that on a stack
of bibles.

-You haven't ever done
this before?
-What's in it?

Rue. Pennyroyal. And other
things.

I won't lie to you Kate.

It will make you sick for a
couple of days.

And you will lose
what's in your belly.

Tell me the story about
how you first came here.

Oh you know that story well
enough now.

Tell it to me again.

I came up the Yukon River with
five thousand dollars worth of
blankets...

...and hot water bottles.

Within a few weeks,
I had earned fifty thousand
dollars...

..selling to the poor frozen
people.

Then I bought a lunch counter.

Then a boarding house.

And now.

Was that a kick, Kate?

The baby just kicked.

Give me that drink quickly!

I can't give it to you.

It would kill the both of you.
You're too far gone.

Fucking hell!

You're late.

And you can get fucked!

You have just bought yourself
a third week here.

Keep talking. I need my wood
choppers.

You're a big man alright.

You're a big man and
S?amus Connolly fucking your
girl.

Go on, go ahead, kick me!

But I saw him take her upstairs.
I saw him.

Here, this will help.
What is..!

It's called Laudanum.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

So pretty.

You will be welcome back inside
eventually.

If Pat reports well of you.

But for now.

Captain Pat, please explain to
her.

Úna, girl.

There's not much to explain.

Violet is your new name now.

And you are a good little whore.

(SOUND OF SCREAMING)

It's not what you think.
We are in love.

You have disgraced us.

You have disgraced me.

Stop this. Go, run!

You are no longer one of us.

Who told you about her and Tom?

Who told you?!

BIRD SONG

Hello.

What has brought you out to the
wilderness?

And what brought everyone else
out here?

We're looking for gold.

And you're wearing trousers.

And wearing trousers!

Violet is the name that Irish
Pat likes to give his whores.

-Maude is my name.
-Maude

We are a workers collective.

The first in the Klondike.

Well, would you have any use for
someone who could cook for you
and darn your socks?

We can vote on it.

Ever been down a mine?

Ever even held a shovel?

I'd say you couldn't hold
your own water.

Are any of you Irish?

Right.

You four set up camp, you're
hired.

You two fuck off back to town
and see can you get work as
whores.

Go on!

(SOUND OF A DOOR OPENING
AND SLAMMING SHUT)

Superintendent Steele,
what can I offer you?

Ready yourself.

This isn't about licensing.

You don't even speak the
same language as her.

You don't even speak her
language!

SOMBRE MUSIC

DRAMATIC MUSIC

DRAMATIC MUSIC

TITLE MUSIC