Into the Badlands (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 5 - Chapter XXI: Carry Tiger to Mountain - full transcript

(THUNDER CRASHES)

(THUNDER CRASHES)

(THUDDING IN TRUNK)

What was that?

(PANTING)

Who are you?

Don't you recognize me?

Minerva.

(THUNDERING)

PUPPETMASTER:
Long ago, noble warriors

challenged each other
for supremacy.



The mightiest

was Horatio Chau

who vanquished them all and became
the first Baron of the Badlands.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

- ROARKE: Minerva!
- (GASPS)

I was only looking, ma'am.

Focus on your task.
Nothing else.

Look sharp! The guests await.

There can be no mistakes for
Master Gaius' birthday celebration.

PUPPETMASTER: Chao became
the most feared name in all the land.

Ruling his people by one simple law...

No mercy.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)

Hi, Minerva.



(WINCES)

- (MINERVA GRUNTS)
- Stop!

My apologies, Baron.

I will see to it
that she's disciplined.

And when it's done,
lock her in the pig box.

Yes, Baron.

Gaius, give her 10 lashes.

(GRUNTS)

I'll do it, Father.

This is your brother's responsibility.

I can't.

Juliet?

(GRUNTS)

(SNIFFLES)

(GRUNTS)

A Baron never hesitates.

A Baron shows no mercy.

(MINERVA GRUNTING)

(THUNDERING)

Is this how you
welcome your guests?

Only the ones that I plan to kill.

But I am curious why you found
your way into my trunk?

I was hoping for some
hospitality from an old friend.

Why would I lift a finger for
the brother of my sworn enemy?

Because I can help you
take her down once and for all.

And how would you do that?

I know how she thinks, how she moves.

We can get inside her head and cut it off
before she takes both of ours.

Believe me, she is coming for them.

Lock him up.

- MALE GUARD: Let's go.
- (GAIUS GRUNTING)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTING) There it is.

Vulture's Peak.

(HENRY CRYING)

You sure you want to do this?

After all we went through to get here,

- we're not turning back.
- Is he all right?

SUNNY: He seems to be sleeping
more and more.

It's getting worse.

Then we better get climbing.

Almost there.

I believe these belong to you.

No. Not me.

This looks like the work of my brother.

I knew nothing about this.

(SPEAKS ANCIENT LANGUAGE)

I don't believe you.

It's the truth.

The truth is that you're now at my mercy.

But I'm a merciful man.

A forgiving man.

What is it that you want?

I need workers for
a special project.

One thousand would be
good for a start.

A thousand?

My men are fighting
on the front lines.

CRESSIDA: The new moon is upon us.

You have until the crescent rises.

There's no way I can
gather that many in time.

Just understand that failure
will not be absolved.

- Baron...
- I know.

There's one missing.

My brother's.

Since when does a routine inspection
of the front take days?

Things got, uh,

complicated.

MINERVA: Looks like you got
your favorite toy back.

Tell me you brought
Sunny's head with it.

Sunny's not looking for revenge.

What, I'm supposed to
take his word for it?

No, not his... Mine.

I wouldn't let him live otherwise.

I thought you wanted him dead, too.

His child already lost his mother.

Making the boy an orphan
wasn't necessary...

Yet.

You always were
an honorable man, Nathaniel.

But should Sunny stray
into my orbit again,

I'll take his head.

And yours.

Are we clear?

Very.

Guess it was too much to ask
that your old master

live in a house like everyone else.

Honestly? I'm surprised
it's not up in cuckoo-clock.

BAJIE: Ankara?

Maybe we're too late.

Maybe we'll find her skeleton
rattling around in here.

(HENRY FUSSING)

BAJIE: The old bat has been busy.

(FUSSING CONTINUES)

Ankara?

Bajie?

(LAUGHS)

You're rounder than I remember.

Did you come to kill me?

Why would I kill you?

What good are you
to us if you're dead?

(HENRY COOING)

We need your help.

You brought a Dark One...

Try not to move.

Where am I?

You're safe here.

I... No, no, I... I need to go.

You must rest.

(BREATH TREMBLES)

Don't try and stop me.

(SPEAKING IN ANCIENT LANGUAGE)

(GASPING)

- How did you do that?
- Pilgrim has many gifts.

He can teach you to master yours.

I can help take away your pain
if you let me.

I can't stay.

There's somebody I need to find.

Who?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

The man who killed my mother.

(SIGHS) I'm sorry.

Losing a mother is more than
any young man should have to bear.

If it were me,

I would hunt down the killer
and tear out his heart.

Some wounds cut so deeply

that vengeance is the only salve.

But how can you right this wrong
if you can't even walk?

(SIGHS) I'm fine.

Nix, fetch food and wine.

He must be strong if he's going to heal.

We all need someone
to look out for us.

What's your name?

M.K.

I know what it feels
like to be alone, M.K.

I was never blessed with the dark gift,

but I have been the target
of fear and scorn.

Pilgrim and I have traveled
the barren world beyond the great wall.

Along the way we have gathered
lost souls in need of a home.

This way we have
created a family of our own.

One that accepts all
despite their differences.

No matter how dark their pasts
or deep their pain.

Put your faith in Pilgrim.

And we will find Azra together.

You're looking for Azra, too?

(SIGHS) Yes.

And you can be a part of it.

There are no prisoners here, M.K.

Stay or leave, the choice is yours.

(SIGHS)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

- (CRYING)
- ANKARA: Why did you bring him to me?

We couldn't take him to the Monastery

and risk him getting needled
by the Abbots.

(LAUGHING)

- What is it?
- The energy.

I hear it inside him.

- I lost that gift a long time ago.
- Listen.

It's like a thousand bolts of lightning
flashing at once,

setting his little body on fire.

Can you help my son?

I am the ointment, not the scab.

The relief I can offer is only temporary.

I can't take away his dark gift.

(CRYING)

Do whatever you can to save him.

It's okay, Henry.

ANKARA: Give him to me.

You want your son healed?
You have to trust me.

(HUMMING)

(HENRY CONTINUES CRYING)

Let him go!

(GRUNTS)

I'll need your strength.

(CRYING)

(SIGHS)

(ANKARA SIGHS)

Henry!

Henry. Come on.

(GRUNTING)

- (HENRY COOING)
- (LAUGHS)

Is he healed?

For now.

A more permanent
solution is what you need.

How?

The answers you seek are within you.

You are the father of a child
whose gift is abundant

and yet you show no signs of it.

Me?

Oh, yes!

I can see it now.

You're a catalyst,

an artery through which
the dark gift flows.

It's buried deep inside you.

Sleeping now...

- (THUNDER CRASHES)
- But its black eyes

will open if you wake it.

Don't listen to her.

(THUNDERING)

(SCREAMS)

(THUNDERING)

- Ankara. Hey, easy, old girl.
- (ANKARA GROANS)

Easy, easy. You okay?

- (GROANS)
- Hey, pass me one of those bottles.

What is this, some kind of magic potion?

It's booze. Nothing magical
about the power of alcohol.

How do you think I started?

- (GULPING)
- Easy, come on.

- (SPITS)
- You think you can stand?

- (BOTH GROAN)
- Come on.

The gift has its price.

It'll take what's left of me.

Don't talk like that.

No use fighting it.

(SIGHS) The power inside you
is something to behold!

I've never seen anything like it.

Whoever locked your darkness
is more powerful than me.

I saw it so clearly just for a moment.

- (SIGHS) It was like staring into the sun.
- Leave him alone.

- You've had enough.
- There's a reason the two of you

were brought together.
I saw Fate's hand in this.

Enough. Enough of your bullshit.

That's something you've always
been full of, not me.

(SIGHS)

You see that?

That's what you do, isn't it?

You get people to believe the old

(IMITATES SOBBING)
poor old crazy Ankara thing.

And before people realize it's bullshit,

you're gone.

When I was at that monastery,

I believed everything you told me.

I spent years following your lies

and your lunacy.

I got the book.

I sent that signal.

A signal so that someone
would come and save us.

To save all of us!

No one replied.

Didn't they?

(RADIO STATIC)

(MORSE CODE BEEPING)

No, no, no, no, no.

- This is not my signal.
- No, it's Pilgrim's.

He's the one that answered your call.

- NIX: Beautiful, isn't it?
- (M.K. CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)

Yeah.

It's beautiful.

Get away from her.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

You go out without me one time...

and you've already
found my replacement?

Replacement?

I saw you,

with Pilgrim.

You don't have to cut yourself,
you're not like us.

It's not what you think.

Then what is it? Is he going to
share your bed too then, huh?

Hey. Don't talk to her like that...

(SHOUTS) Why don't you stop me, huh?

Get out of my way.

You're bleeding.

(CASTOR SIGHS AND SNIFFLES)

- Castor...
- I don't need your pity.

He's losing control.

He just needs time.

Time is one gift he does not have.

I know how deeply you care
for our dear ones,

- but you must prepare to let him go.
- No.

Not yet.

M.K. can access his gift
without cutting himself.

He is more powerful than Castor
will ever be.

He is what you need...

Castor is not some creature
to be dispatched at your bidding!

(SIGHS)

We will use his gift when I say...

not before.

- SUNNY: What's he saying?
- He's summoning followers.

"I am Pilgrim. Seekers of enlightenment,
come join our cause.

"We will cleanse the land

"and prepare for Azra's return."

Azra?

BAJIE: "We await for you at the temple

"where the rivers meet."

Any idea where that may be?

No. But I know someone who might.

When he said "cleanse"... (SCOFFS)
what did he mean?

I thought I was
summoning the good guys.

Good and evil are insufficient terms

for what's set to be unleashed
on this world.

Unleash? What... What
did you have me unleash?

For the new world to be born
the old must die.

This Pilgrim will transform the Badlands.

I could sense him
ushering in an era of blood

and chaos.

We can't afford to withdraw
any troops from the front.

If I don't give Pilgrim what he wants,
he won't hesitate to wipe us out.

My scouts report a large refugee camp,

in Sector Twelve.

It's just over the border
in The Widow's territory.

I need those recruits.

Burn it to the ground if necessary.

(SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)

Who's there?

I was hoping you could mix something
to maybe fix me.

The bitter truth is that
you are dying, dear one.

No earthly tincture can stop it.

If you don't use your dark gift

you could perhaps extend
your life for a short time...

but it would only be
delaying the inevitable.

Fighting is all I know. That's who I am.

Avoiding battle
is the coward's way.

What if I told you you could still
help our great cause?

How?

We made a pact with one of
the Barons who still rules this land.

She agreed to provide us
with new workers.

You are to make sure
that she keeps her word

and put down any who resist.

Help Pilgrim deliver us
unto the gates of Azra.

I'll find Nix and
I'll seek Pilgrim's blessing.

This you do alone.

Honor us with your gift, dear one.

And if it be Fate's will
that it be the last time,

we will rejoice in the glory
of your sacrifice.

(SIGHS)

LYDIA: What do you intend
to do with Chau's brother?

I don't trust him.

You know, she once lured me
into a trap using M.K.

She could be using Gaius this time.

She had him locked up for

freeing Cogs and going against
everything his family stands for.

If he's conning you,
that's a very long con.

You told me he was kind to you
as a child.

All I know is that every man that
I've ever trusted has betrayed me.

I know about your husband,

how he bragged about his abuse.

He deserved every inch
of that blade you gave him.

And Quinn?

Quinn never hit me.

His cruelty wasn't in his hands.

He turned me into a living ghost.

Invisible, so he could
move on to his other wives.

Don't let the past stop you
from doing what need to do.

What would you suggest?

To end this war, you're gonna need
every advantage you can get.

Like it or not, you're gonna
have to trust somebody.

You know, from this side of the bar

it's hard to believe
we were once friends.

"Friends?"

That might be an overstatement.

I was a star struck Cog
and you were a resentful Baron's son.

Call me naive,

but I thought our connection was deeper.

It wasn't.

I'll decide your fate in the morning.

I decided yours long ago.

On my birthday, no less.

When my sister lashed you,

and the overseer locked you
in the pig pen.

Do you remember that night?

(PIG SQUEALING AND SNORTING)

(SCREAMS)

After all these years,

did you ever wonder
how you managed to get free?

I watched you crawl out
of that pen, covered in filth.

That night changed everything,

for both of us.

I don't believe you.

You think I'm too weak to kill?

If you really were there you would know
that something was left behind.

A dagger. A gift from my father.

Two words inscribed on the blade,
"no mercy."

We may have come
from different worlds, Minerva,

but you and I,
we believe in the same thing.

Hey, we need to leave.

I'm not spending another night
in this wreck, with that witch.

I wish you and your son well.

Thank you.

The only hope you have
of saving him lies with Pilgrim.

He is the one you must seek.

The path to salvation has
already been laid out for you,

but only you can find it.

This is where your journey
takes you next.

Where are you taking me?

There's something I must show you.

- Already seen everything I need to see.
- Perhaps.

But before you make your final choice
to stay or to go,

your eyes must bear witness to why
we've claimed this place in Azra's name.

(WORKERS GRUNTING)

The true test of faith
is not the belief in the seen.

It's the acceptance of the unseen.

We're standing on a revelation
not glimpsed for generations.

Once there were many
sacred places like this

all over the Old World.

And on their hallowed grounds,

the faithful were able
to master their power

and transform their very existence.

What's under here?

Something extraordinary,
and when we uncover it

we're going to build a better world, M.K.

We will bring hope back to this place.

Join us.

- Pilgrim sent me.
- Tell him I don't need any help.

I'm not here to help you,
I'm here to lead you.

There's news from one of our scouts.
Chau is on the move.

A convoy of transport trucks was spotted

traveling northwest
towards Sector Twelve.

The front line's in the opposite
direction. There are no targets there.

Only one. The refugee camp.

And we better go now,
they got a head start on us.

Release Gaius. Give him a sword.

We need every able hand.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

ODESSA: Hey.

I've gone over our supplies,

and it looks like we have enough
to get us all through winter.

(SIGHS) I... I didn't think
we'd pull it through.

(SIGHS)

(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)

(REFUGEES CLAMORING AND YELLING)

(GRUNTS)

(ALL CLAMORING AND YELLING)

(CLAMORING CONTINUES)

(GRUNTS)

(SIGHS)

(GRUNTS)

(EXHALES SHARPLY)

Load them up!
Take as many alive as you can!

(MOTORCYCLE REVVING)

(MOTORCYCLE REVVING)

(BOTH GRUNT)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(SCREAMING)

(STRUGGLING)

(STRAINING) Run!

(STRUGGLING)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(GASPING)

(SCREAMS)

(GROANING)

(CLAMORING AND GRUNTING)

Get the others to safety.

- I'm not leaving you.
- Go!

Let's play.

(ALL GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTING)

(STRAINING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(PAINED GRUNTS)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(CRIES OUT)

(GROANS)

We need to fall back.

- There's too many of them.
- Give the order.

(PAINED GRUNTS)

It's time for a trip.

Pilgrim will come for me.

(PAINED GRUNTS) And when he does,
you won't live another day.

You haven't said a word since we left.

I know that look.

I've seen it before.
I know what it means.

What do you want me to say?

The person who I trusted
the most in the world

used me to usher in a new era
of blood and chaos?

(LAUGHS AND WHEEZES)

You want my advice?

- Do I have a choice?
- (SIGHS) Just stop a second.

Take everything she told you
with a pinch of salt.

Don't trust a word she says.

I spent an entire life
chasing after her dream,

and I do not want you to do the same.

I don't care about my life.
I care about Henry's.

You think this is crazy,
don't you, chasing this Pilgrim?

I think you're doing
a lot of the work for her.

She doesn't give a damn
about you or that baby.

If Pilgrim is the person
I have to face to save Henry,

- then so be it.
- And that's why I'm going with you.

You don't owe me anything, Bajie.

I was there at the beginning.

I set this signal off
and I wanna be there when it ends.

What do you say, old friend?
Trip to Black Wind? (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GRUNTS)

What is it?

These lines are...

Are all the Eye will reveal.

These aren't just lines.

They're tattoos.

Every Clipper in the Badlands gets them.

Each line represents
a person they've killed.

The man who bears these marks
is the Catalyst.

He is journeying to us.

Do you recognize the pattern?

They belong to the man
who murdered my mother.

I'm going to kill him.

No, I forbid it!

This man's destiny
is intertwined with mine.

He must suffer no harm

and be welcomed like a brother.

He'll betray you,
the same way he betrayed me.

CRESSIDA: Be he enemy or friend.
This I know,

he will be joining us very soon.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)