Into the Badlands (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Chapter I: The Fort - full transcript

The wars were so long ago,

nobody even remembers.

Darkness and fear ruled
until the time of the barons,

seven men and women
who forged order out of chaos.

People flocked to them
for protection.

That protection
became servitude.

They banished guns
and trained armies

of lethal fighters
they called clippers.

This world is built on blood.

Nobody is innocent here.

Welcome to the badlands.



You lost, stranger?

Nomads ambushed a transport
a couple miles back.

Killed all the cogs except one.

We don't deal
in human cargo here.

What's your interest?

The transport belonged
to my baron.

Check it out, boys.

We got a real live clipper here.

Don't you dogs
usually travel in packs?

What's in the trunk?

That's none
of your damn business.

Ah!

Get up. Get up.

- Let's go!
- Kill him!



Ah!

There's nowhere to go, kid.

You want to tell me how you
ended up in that trunk

and not dead like the rest?

Lucky, I guess.

Lying to me is a bad idea.

Someone named the widow
paid those nomads
to find me.

That one's yours.

Her name was Sarah.

She didn't deserve
to die this way.

So now what happens to me?

I'm taking you back to the fort.

Or you could let me go.

What difference
would it make to you?

You'll survive
a lot longer working in
my baron's poppy fields

than you will out here.

I'll take my chances.

You got a name?

Or do you just show up,
kill people, and leave?

If I tell you, will you shut up?

Can't make any promises.

Sunny.

Sunny?

Why, 'cause you brighten
everybody's day?

Dig.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine.

10.

One.

Two.

Three...

Welcome to the fort, kid.

Five.

One.

Regent present!

One!

- Two.
- Come on.

Three.

Four!

What is this?

They're colts.
Clippers in training.

Every boy gets the chance
to join our ranks.

No, thanks.

Then you'll spend
the rest of your life
working in the fields.

Come on.
You're about
to meet the baron.

He's welcoming the new recruits.

People once thought this
a holy book.

They believed
it held the answers

from a god that would save them.

Boys, there is no god
in the badlands.

How do I know?

A god does not feed you
or clothe you

or protect you.

I do.

Most of you are orphans.

Your parents died
after a life of servitude

and left you
to pay off their debt.

But I'm offering you
a different path.

The strongest among you

will have the opportunity

to train as one of my clippers.

Some see clippers
as cold, heartless killers.

But the men
that fill this fort
are more than that.

They're my family.

Once you're accepted
into my family,

there is no other family.

Boys, I'm not
asking you to be monks.

You can wick whatever you want.

But a clipper's loyalty
is to his baron.

That's the first rule
of our code.

In return,
you get the best
of everything...

Food, weapons, women.

Come here, sunny.

Remove the vest.

Quite a sight, isn't it?

Each mark represents a life,

a life that sunny has taken

without remorse, without regret.

Because he kills for one reason,

and what is that, sunny?

To protect
your interests, baron.

That's right.

To protect my interests, baron.

404 souls, all taken for me.

No clipper in the badlands

is more feared or more loyal.

This man standing here
is a far cry

from the miserable whelp
I laid eyes on all
those years ago.

Sunny was found
naked and shivering

down by the rabbit river,

no parents, no past,

no name.

I figured if the badlands
hadn't killed him,

there must be
a strength inside him,

so I took him in,

forged him into the man
you see today.

Maybe the boy

who will follow in his footsteps

is in this room.

Is it you?

Or you?

Or you?

Now, I ask,

do you want to be
part of my family?

Yes, sir!

Do you want the best
of everything?

Yes, baron.

Do you want to kill in my name?

Yes, baron.

Your future has begun.

Tell me why the widow's
so interested in you.

I don't know, baron.

You know what happens
to people who keep
secrets from me?

Get him in the pit.

Let's see what you're made of.

- Keep an eye on the boy.
- Yes, baron.

Father, I was handling
the nomad problem.

Why did you send in sunny
without telling me?

Turns out nomads weren't
the real problem.

The widow was paying them
to do her dirty work.

Another baron
is moving against us.

Just because she
murdered her husband

does not make her a baron.

Call her what you want.

Our poppy can't be processed

without her oil
to run the factory.

You want to wait
for her to choke us off?

If we strike,
we'll be starting a war

with the other five barons.

If we do nothing,
we'll look weak

and they'll
come after us anyway.

We do not move on the widow.

Thank you, sunny.

What's this?

Give it back.

It's mine now.

- You little shit.
- Get off.

- That's mine!
- Back off.

Give me that.

Get out of here.

Be careful.

Guys like Ajax
start fights to show off
for the clippers.

They want to be picked as colts.

I'm Bale.

M.K.

You watch my back,
I'll watch yours.

Jacobee sends his regrets.

He's the third baron to do so.

When you and I got married,

none would have dared
decline the invitation.

Lydia, you offered to handle
the wedding arrangements,

but if it's too much
of a burden...

Oh, please,
I'm beyond jealousy
at this point.

Marry jade, your cog bride.

Take as many wives as you want.

Another headache?

I blame this one on you.

You need to rest,

let Ryder take some of the load.

We talked about giving him
more responsibility.

So that's what this is about?

Are you planning
a wedding or a wake?

He's gonna succeed you one day.

Power is not inherited,
Lydia, it's taken.

Perhaps you'd prefer
if he cut your head off.

I wish he would.
I've spent years
trying to groom him.

Try harder.
He's your only son.

Yeah, well, we both know
he's not up to the task.

After everything
that boy sacrificed...

For you,

I will not let you
abandon him again.

He's stronger than you think.

No!

What did you take from that boy?

You ever seen this before?

No.

You need to reconsider
your position.

We have to move
against the widow.

Your father made his decision.

No, you made the decision.
He agreed, like always.

He's not himself.
I know you see it, too.

The headaches.
We have to protect him.

I have always protected him.

By doing nothing,
you're digging his grave.

I'll hold on to this.

Jade?

Must be hard for you
to see them like that.

Your father's a baron.

He's free to take
as many wives
as he wants.

Don't pretend
it doesn't hurt, mother.

I know it does.

He needs me, Ryder.
And he always will.

I still have
his head and his heart.

I gladly bequeath to her
everything to the south.

It will never
be the real thing,
but you'll get used to it.

Don't worry.

He's not here for you.

"what in me is dark

I-illum"...

I like "cat in the hat" better.

You know, three months ago,

you couldn't read your own name.

And now you're getting picky.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

You can tell me.

I'm pregnant.

How long?

Long enough to be sure.

Say something.

You can't keep it.

Is that the only way
you solve a problem?

Kill it?

Veil, the punishment is death.

You understand that, right?

I know the consequences.

That's not what
I'm talking about.

Do you even want to keep it?

We need to leave the badlands.

And go where?

I've heard stories.

The ones who've tried to escape,

Quinn has hunted
them down and killed them.

I've heard stories, sunny.

There are places
beyond these borders.

They're just stories.

There's nothing out there.

This is a life
you helped create.

Does that mean something to you?

I know

buried under all this ink...

Is a good man.

You're wrong.

Thought you told
veil you was giving
that stuff up.

Apparently, I lied.

You know,
there used to be a time
when you were, uh, excited

about coming in here
and getting your next mark.

Don't take it personally, Ringo.

I don't.

Just seen it before.

Killing that many people
takes a toll on a man.

Even you, sunny.

We have unfinished business.

You embarrassed me
in front of the regent.

What happened in that bathroom?

I've never seen
anything like that before.

That's why
the widow was looking
for you, right?

If I told Quinn what I saw,

he would turn you
into something you
don't want to be.

I need the truth.

I don't know what that is.

It happens when I bleed.

Ever since I was little,
it's been this way.

It's like something
takes control of me.

When I wake up,
someone's been hurt
or worse.

It's my fault
my mother and I
had to leave our home.

My mother had heard
about a healer who
could fix me.

When we went to find him,
we were caught by nomads
and separated.

I've been looking
for her ever since.

That's my home.
That's Azra.

Azra?

Yes, it's beyond the badlands.

Where did you get that?

Do you remember
how to get there?

No, I... I don't.
It was a long time ago.

Look, can I please
just get my pendant back?

It's the last thing
I have to remember
my mother.

The baron's son took it.

Well, I'm getting it back

don't be stupid.

Go back to the barracks
and keep your head down.
Understood?

Valentine, be a peach
and wait in the car.

You really are
as good as they say.

I should kill you
where you stand.

We both know you can't.

I'm a baron.

Now that I got your attention,

there's a boy in the fort.

He has a pendant
with this symbol on it.

Bring him to me.

That's not gonna happen.

You think you kill
for Quinn out of loyalty,

but I know that's
not the real reason.

Let me know when
you change your mind.

You're crazy.
It's not worth the risk.

It is to me.

Okay, look, my sister's
a house cook.

Ryder's room
is on the second floor,
first door.

Got it.
Thanks.

Just don't let him catch you.

Ryder?

I caught this little shit
red-handed.

Where did you get this?

It's mine.

I'll take him out back
and cage him.

Execute him in front
of the new cogs
in the morning.

Spoken like a true baron.

Go away.

I told you to stay
in the barracks.

Who gave you that compass?

It doesn't matter.

You kept it for a reason.

You're hoping Azra's
out there, too.

You're going to die
in the morning.

You know that, don't you?

Sunny, could you
promise me something?

Somehow, could you find my mom?

Tell her that I'm sorry?

I tried to find her.
I never gave up.

And that I love her.

I'll never be able
to keep that promise, kid.

Find your mom
and tell her yourself.

This is your way out.

If you get caught,
you will be killed.

Why are you helping me?

Because I never had a choice.

Now you do.

Thank you.

Now go.

Sunny.

Baron's looking for you.

I caught you, sunny.

I saw you on the wall
staring out.

I've seen that look before.
I've had it myself.

But there's nothing out there.

You can trust me on that.

I want you to move
closer to the house.

One of the cottages right here.

I'm more at home
in the barracks
with my men.

I appreciate that, sunny.

But I'd feel safer
knowing you were closer
to me and my family.

Consider it done.

I know the other barons
are coming for me.

But they will never
take this fort.

And you and I
are the only ones
who can defend it.

Ryder is not gonna
be happy about this.

Family's trouble, sunny.

You're lucky
you'll never have one.

"Lead me home" playing