Outsiders (2016–2017): Season 2, Episode 8 - Healing - full transcript
As Big Foster is ostracized following a disastrous effort to help G’Win, Wade is suspected of helping Lil Foster escape.
NARRATOR:
Previously on Outsiders:
BIG FOSTER: Oh! G'Win.
Why did you do it?
GORDON: An action at the Coal Days
Festival. One that gets real attention.
Now is not the time to back off.
LEDDA: Coal kills!
- Coal kills! WOMAN: Arrest her!
LEDDA: Coal kills!
- What are you worried about?
- Every time you walk out that door...
- I'm scared you're not gonna come back.
- I'm always coming back.
We're getting some noise complaints
from an address over on Maple.
[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Wait! Hey!
Foster Farrell VIII.
I know where he is.
He's being transferred from a county
facility to a state prison miles away.
Once he's there, you'll
never lay eyes on him again.
Just tell us what we have to do.
Yeah!
Why ain't you dead like
you're supposed to be?
- What's wrong with you?
- Get your goddamn hands off me.
I brought you home.
[PANTING]
[ALL SPEAK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
The mountain welcomes you home.
[CHATTERING]
Thank you, cousin.
[♪♪♪]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait.
Sorry.
Thank you. Sorry.
Lil' Foster.
Living proof that even
their prisons can't hold us.
MAN: That's right.
CORNBREAD: Here you are, cousin.
- What the hell is this, Cornbread?
- A real, live jacket, you peckerwood.
[ALL LAUGHING]
LIL' FOSTER: Oh, wow.
Thank you, Cornbread.
[ALL SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[BOTH SPEAK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[MEN SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
♪ The dawn is up There's
fire on the mountain ♪
♪ They'll have to answer
for The crooked claim ♪
♪ The hollows,
they'll surround them ♪
♪ And they'll go runnin' Back to
the wretched realm they came ♪
♪ Nor will the dogs
of hell refrain ♪
♪ And the land will suffer
Those who came ♪♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[DOG BARKING]
- Which house is it?
- Neighbor said he went in that one.
Stay there. Don't
let anybody in or out.
[♪♪♪]
Where's the knife?
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Hey!
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[LABORED BREATHING]
[BIG FOSTER
WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
Foster.
I'm here, my queen.
- Did you get him?
- Yeah.
We did.
You can see for
yourself soon enough.
I don't know about that.
- I'm gonna die.
- No.
No, it's just taking
time to heal is all.
You'll be on your feet...
ordering me around
soon as can be.
I got dark red lines
from the wound.
Well, then tell me what to do. Wait.
No. We got everything right here.
- Just tell me what to do.
- No point.
There's nothing
here that can fix it.
Foster, listen to me.
When I go, that Oak
will be yours again.
And you have changed.
I've seen it.
But the darkness
is still there too.
So I'm afraid, Foster...
that if you lead us again...
more blood will be spilled.
So promise me...
when that Oak is in your hand...
that you will keep
the darkness at bay.
Well, don't go
and I won't have to.
Promise me, Foster.
[♪♪♪]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Oh. So this is your plan, huh?
Right. Build a pile,
making it out of...
Making it out of twigs
and junk, kneeling...
mumbling to yourselves.
Might as well be wallowing,
squealing pigs for the good you're doing.
- We're giving her our strength.
- Ah.
- Mountain's gonna heal her.
- Oh, the mountain?
You wanna count on
that? You go right ahead.
But I'm actually gonna
go do something.
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Sure you gotta go? It's been
real good having you back.
Yeah. I promised the Bren'in I
wasn't gonna live back and forth.
You just came back
to help Lil' Foster.
Well, that's done now.
BIG FOSTER: Hey, Hasil.
- We're going down with you.
- What?
Yeah. G'Win is dying.
She can't well minister to
herself, and even if she could...
what's the matter with her will
take more than roots and berries.
Down below, they got pills, needles.
People who know what to do with them.
- So we gotta go get her help.
- Hell, yeah.
Look, Foster...
- I don't want her...
- You don't want her what?
I can't imagine it, but after
everything we just done...
going right back down there?
- I just... I don't know.
- Ah.
Look, maybe... Maybe
she's meant to die.
All right? So that you
can be the Bren'in.
Don't you ever, ever, ever
say anything like that again.
Not any of you.
Don't you even think it.
Now, G'Win is not just our
Bren'in, she is the best of us!
[♪♪♪]
If anyone here thinks that
we are better off without her...
that man is gonna
have to answer to me.
Any of you don't help me, you'll
be putting her in the ground...
with your own hands.
Huh?
Now y'all coming with me or not?
For the Bren'in.
[MEN SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Sheriff.
OFFICER 1: Hey, there
he is. OFFICER 2: Okay.
[ALL CLAPPING]
- Thank you. Okay.
- You're the man.
- Good job.
- All right. Just doing my job.
- Nice police work, Wade.
- Thanks, Matt.
No. Really. I'm impressed.
Yeah. Well...
- I'll cherish that forever.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Fair enough.
Of course, there's still the
matter of our other escapee.
Though not much of a mystery
about where he's gone, is there?
No.
Don't suppose you want me and
the deputies charging back up there?
Oh, no, no, no.
Yeah. You don't
suppose correctly.
- Mind if I close the door?
- Uh...
Of course, you didn't want him
locked up in the first place, did you?
- What's that?
- You didn't wanna lock him up.
We had a particularly feisty
conversation about it as I recall.
Yeah. No.
We did. Mm.
- What's your point?
- Nothing.
Just it was something that you
had very strong feelings about.
And you know, who knows
what someone would do...
with a feeling that strong.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I...
I couldn't really do anything, considering
that you pretty much shut me down.
Yeah.
Well, the Farrells
took care of it.
Lucky thing they got ahold of
that prisoner transfer schedule.
Somehow. Right?
Say, didn't you answer a noise complaint
the other night? About some fight club?
Heard there was a Farrell there.
- Did you get a chance to talk to him?
- No.
No, I didn't. He ran away.
Mm.
Are you spying on me?
There some reason
I would need to?
Well, it's just that if there's anyone
to blame for all of this, it's you.
- What?
- Well, I mean...
you put that fella in
jail for no good reason...
you know, put up
that stupid fence.
I mean...
you're stupid.
You've been provoking
them the minute you got here.
What'd you think
was gonna happen?
Don't look at me cross-eyed just because
you've been handling this all wrong.
A lot of coincidences.
That's all.
And...
as far as how I'm handling them?
Things will be a little different
on that front from now on.
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR OPENS]
[SIGHS]
- Oh. Hey, Carol.
- Ledda, hi.
- Hey, here. Uh...
- Okay.
- What is it?
- Just...
Come in.
[PEOPLE CLAPPING]
[ALL CHEERING]
MAN: All right!
[SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
- Hey.
- Wade.
I need to talk to you.
- Listen, we have had this conversation.
- No.
We need to each do what it is...
- we're gonna do.
- No, no.
I need you to say I was
at home two nights ago.
The night before Coal Days.
You need me to say that to who?
Anyone who asks.
Why? Where were you?
- You can't ask me any questions.
- Wade, what did you do?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Look, since we're
asking for things...
I'd like you to
lay off my group.
- What?
- Mountain Witness.
We're gonna be stepping things up
even more, and I would appreciate it...
- if you'd give us a little latitude.
- It's not really a good time.
It's a perfect time.
People are more
energized than ever.
- It is the perfect time.
- Ledda, Ledda...
you haven't got any pets left.
So next, it's gonna
be one of the kids.
[♪♪♪]
Look at you. I mean,
in your condition?
You're running
yourself to death as it is.
Look...
you asked me for a favor...
and I'm asking you for a favor.
I got a job to do.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Ledda...
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
I come in peace.
- To do what?
- To apologize for the coal dust.
Police can be here in five minutes. In
the meantime, I've got Mace in my bag.
- Really, I'm just here to say I'm sorry.
- Apology not accepted.
Why don't you tell me
why you're really here?
You know, every time I do
this, there's always one of you.
The boots on the ground
getting dirty for the higher-ups.
But what do you really get...
when it's all over and
they're done using you?
You know, I'm gonna answer
your question with a question.
In all the times that
you've done this...
have you ever actually won?
Well, that depends on
what you mean by "winning."
I mean, stop the thing
you went there to stop.
Once or twice. Heh. Not usually.
But it's not about the
battle, it's about the war.
And that is far from over.
Listen, Haylie, how much do
you actually know about this place?
This mountain that you're
so determined to destroy?
I'm going up there for
a hike this weekend.
Why don't you come with me?
See what's actually up there,
what you wanna just sweep away.
You know...
everywhere I go,
there's one of you.
An activist who thinks I
can be shamed or bullied...
or manipulated or talked around.
Who thinks I'm not
gonna do my job...
the job I'm paid and
paid very well to do.
I wonder why that is.
[HAYLIE CLEARS THROAT]
[DOOR OPENS]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
I wish I would've been here.
I would've protected you.
I would've protected
you to my dying breath.
[♪♪♪]
I know now why you
did what you did...
marrying my fa.
You did what you
had to do to survive.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Could we go around?
This is around. This is the
way they don't usually guard.
Let's just wait a minute.
Maybe they'll just head off.
Oh, the hell with this.
Who's there?
Foster, stop. You're
gonna get us killed.
BIG FOSTER: Wait. Go, go, go!
Go.
- Go, go, go. BIG
FOSTER: Go, go, go.
HASIL: Come on. Go.
[GUNSHOTS]
- Go! GUARD: Stay where you are!
Don't move!
- Aah! BIG FOSTER: Enoch!
HASIL: Phil'up! Phil'up!
BIG FOSTER: Enoch!
- Trevor!
- Oh, my God.
Come on. Get, get.
[♪♪♪]
BIG FOSTER: Stay with us, boy.
Right here. Okay? All
right? Just stay with us.
PHIL'UP: We got you. BIG
FOSTER: Are you okay?
- Okay. Come on. BIG
FOSTER: Come on, cousin.
Boy, come on. Come
on. Come on, cousin.
Come on, just stay. Stay
right here. Okay, boy?
Maybe we should...
go down...
- and get me some medicine.
BIG FOSTER: Enoch.
[ENOCH SOBS]
Come on.
Come on, Enoch. Come on.
Come on, Enoch. Come on.
Come on, buddy.
- Enoch.
- No, no.
[BARNABIS WHIMPERS]
- Don't you touch
him! PHIL'UP: Hey!
You done enough!
Come on.
Phil'up, come on.
[♪♪♪]
[KNOCKING]
MAN: Yeah?
- I got a delivery for Steve.
Hi, I'm Steve.
Well, shit.
- I don't know where he's at.
- You don't?
No. I mean, he went up
back the mountain, so...
So he went up the mountain,
or you don't know where he's at?
- Which one?
- Both. Both of those.
Listen, I just
wanna talk to him.
- I need an address.
- He's not there all the time.
Not where all the time?
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[HASIL SIGHS]
Let me guess.
I should see the
other guy, right?
- Sally-Ann, not right now.
- So when, then?
This baby's coming,
whether you're ready or not.
I know that.
All right? But you have no
idea what I just been through.
So tell me.
Hasil, just tell me.
[HASIL SIGHS]
Forget it.
I know this song by heart.
Something that you
had to do for your family.
- What are you doing?
- I'm staying with a cousin in Cleveland.
Where is that?
What you gonna do? Just
gonna go? You gonna walk out?
- Because I need you right now.
- I need you!
I need you, Hasil.
And you just...
I'm going to Butch and
Frida's for the night...
and I'll be back tomorrow.
And if you're here...
then you're here for good.
And if not, I will pack the
rest of my things and I'll go.
Because I can't do this anymore.
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
MAN: Enoch...
EMELYE: Shame on you, Foster.
I said it to him. I said, "The
thing that scares me the most...
is one day, you're gonna
go away and not come back."
And what does he do?
He goes away, and
he doesn't come back.
Well, he's working.
He's trying to provide.
I know what
they're doing, Frida.
I hear he's really good at it.
I'm sure. I saw him fight
plenty the week we met...
but that's not the point. The
point is that I can't count on him.
And this time, I'm not even
sure he was with Butch.
Where do you think he was?
I got a cousin in Cleveland.
I don't know her all that well,
but I gave her a call, and...
I'm gonna go stay with her.
For the baby.
You do what you think you need
to do, but love ain't easy to find.
This may come as a surprise to you,
but Butch, he ain't perfect. Mm-mm.
There are times when he is talking and
I just wanna stab him right in the eye...
but he loves me.
And he takes care of me.
And he accepts me as I am.
And Hasil loves you.
And he is cute. Heh.
I mean, that hair.
I'm just saying...
if I was you, I would think
twice before I threw all that away.
[♪♪♪]
I don't think I can do it.
Everything I touch...
blood...
and more blood.
If I take that Oak...
the darkness is gonna win.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
BIG FOSTER: Son?
Can I speak with you?
- Why?
- Just come with me.
Please.
LIL' FOSTER: You want
me to follow you back down...
so I could be the
next to be killed?
- You heard about Enoch.
- Of course I did.
Oh... Oh, oh, oh.
My father...
Foster V, you were just
a boy when he passed...
but he was like the sun,
the moon and the stars to me.
He was powerful, and he was
warm, and he led by love, not fear...
with that Oak in
his hand and then...
he was gone.
And my mother...
she took it.
And she was terrible to me.
She shamed me every chance she
got, with that mountain Oak by her side.
And after a while, it was all I
wanted: to get my hands on that Oak.
So I became the demon.
Me.
G'Win is right.
[♪♪♪]
We've tainted this mountain.
I have. I have tainted it...
by what I've done.
I killed my mother.
I killed our ways.
And try as I might to change,
I kill everything I touch.
The mountain, it
wants a sacrifice.
And right now,
it's taking G'Win.
And nothing that
we do to heal her...
is gonna help, short of
someone taking her place.
So I need you to
do something for me.
Because it ain't gonna
work if I do it myself.
I need you...
to kill me.
I know just the place.
BARTENDER: Another glass
of wine? HAYLIE: Yes, please.
Well, hello again.
You know, stalking's illegal.
We ever gonna have a conversation
that doesn't begin with you...
threatening to sic law
enforcement on me?
I think the real question is why are
we having so many conversations?
- Thank you.
- So this how you spend your evenings?
Alone, in a hotel bar?
Are you concerned
about me, Gordon?
No, I mean, it's
just a little sad is all.
You know, what, with all the
culture this place has to offer.
[LAUGHING]
- Whoo.
- I'm serious.
There's a whole world out here.
You are still trying to get
me to come on that hike, huh?
No, but the offer is still open.
Here. Check this out.
- What are those?
- I've been to a lot of places, like I said.
And everywhere I go, I come
across what they call "outsider" art.
Just paintings, sculpture,
music... Ah. Here we go.
Totally unschooled local folks
following some sort of inner muse.
Untainted by whatever fashionable
idea of what art should or shouldn't be.
- Okay.
- It's a little compilation I made...
of music performed by those
people that I've met on my travels.
I'm still not seeing what
that has to do with me.
Well, if I can't bring you
to see what you're killing...
maybe I'll bring
what you're killing...
to you.
So you want me to listen to it.
Yeah.
How? By holding it up to my ear?
You're telling me you don't have
a means to play that? Come on.
Not here in the bar. No.
All right. Well, maybe
we don't stay at the bar.
- You've gotta be kidding me.
- What?
That's the worst pickup
line I've ever heard.
"Let's go back to your room so I
can play you my compilation CD...
of Appalachian
hill-people music"?
[LAUGHING]
- Whoo. Nice try.
- All right.
Fine. Suit yourself.
But it's really good.
Try again.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
[MOANING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
- Who is it? WADE: It's Wade.
Wade. Who?
WADE: It's the sheriff.
The river becomes a flood.
What's that?
Nothing. Long day.
What do you want?
Good job.
Nobody got hurt
doing that, uh...
The thing.
What thing?
Right.
Anyway...
what I was thinking is, with
everything that's going on...
I think it wouldn't be a bad
idea for you to leave town.
For good.
- That so?
- I mean...
you're obviously pretty
identifiable walking around.
With things amping
up, I can't protect you.
So I think it'd be better
if you just disappear.
Okay.
What's that mean? "Okay."
It means "okay."
It means I'll disappear.
It means you ain't gonna see
me around here ever again.
Oh, okay. Um...
- This is a real nice place.
- Mm-hm.
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
LIL' FOSTER: You said your father
was the sun, the moon and the stars.
Every boy sees
his father that way.
You remember that time...?
I must've been, what, 10?
We was out hunting buck...
and I crouched in the brush, and
I stepped on a twig or something.
Scared them all off.
You remember that?
You remember what you did?
To show me what a
bad mistake it was?
You tied me to a tree.
Left me there for 10 days.
Passed out from the
thirst and the hunger.
Chafed so bad from the
rope, it nearly hit bone.
That wasn't... That wasn't the last
thing you ever done to me, neither.
That's the tree right there.
All right.
Then do it. Huh?
Do it. Kill me.
I killed my mother.
You gotta kill me.
So go ahead. Go ahead and do it.
Everything that Lady Ray passed down
to you, you passed down to me 10 times.
Still, I loved you.
No. I ain't gonna kill you.
It's better to let you
live, suffer through it.
You are the demon.
Spilling more blood just
taints this mountain more.
[♪♪♪]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
You're the only one who
can save her. All right?
So do it.
If you don't do it...
- she will die.
- You...
She never loved you.
Farrells don't kill Farrells.
[BOTH PANTING]
[♪♪♪]
Elon.
My boy.
My son.
Are you...?
Are you really here?
[WHIMPERS]
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I am sorry that I
let you get hurt.
Thank you for letting me
see you one more time.
I've missed you so much.
[ELON WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
Thank you.
[ALL CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
You're still here.
Something bad happened.
One of my cousins...
a friend...
he got hit by a bullet.
We got separated...
and now I don't know
if he's alive or dead.
And you wanna go to him?
[SIGHS]
Won't make any difference now.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, there's something
that I gotta do for my family.
Come on out and show us.
HASIL: Don't wanna.
Babe? Come on.
Come on.
[BOTH SNICKERING]
All right. Look...
- I look ridiculous.
SALLY-ANN: No.
- No. It's cute.
- Mm-hm.
And it's just temporary. Okay?
Until we find you
something that's more you.
Good, because Butch is gonna
want these clothes back anyway.
- Why?
- Don't know why.
Beggars can't
be choosers, y'all.
No, it's just, I look in the mirror,
and I just, I don't see myself.
That's kind of
the point, isn't it?
I guess. Yeah.
Hey.
I see you.
- Okay?
- Mm.
I see you.
Even in all this.
Come here.
Mm... Heh.
I... I'm just gonna let
myself out, then. Heh.
- Excuse me. HASIL: Come here.
Come here.
[SALLY-ANN GIGGLES]
[DOOR OPENS]
What happened?
Hilda?
Your daughter was in a fight.
A what?
A fight?
- It wasn't my fault, Mom.
- Okay. What happened?
She grabbed one of her classmates
and threw her to the ground.
- They had to be separated.
- My daughter would never do that.
I mean, not unless she was provoked.
What did this other girl do to her?
Apparently, she said
something about you.
About how your
organization's hurting the town.
Now, the other girl's parents
are prepared to let this thing go...
but the school's policy
on violence mandates...
- a three-day suspension on a first...
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
What...?
What about your policy for
insulting someone's mother?
- Mom... LEDDA: No.
Why is my daughter the
only one on the hook here?
- Mom.
- What happened to this other girl...
and what she said?
What kind of message
does that send? Huh?
Punishing someone for
standing up for what is right...
and letting the person
who started it all comple...?
[COUGHING]
You all right, Mrs. Dobbs?
Mom?
[COUGHING CONTINUES]
WADE: It's not too late to
start treatment. You know that.
I mean, everything I said...
- you can still do that.
- No.
I still don't wanna do that.
You were right, though, Wade.
I just... I felt so good
doing what I was doing.
But I...
I can't...
I can't outrun this forever.
I love you very much.
You know I'm gonna...
I'll take care of them.
I'll take care of everything.
I know.
You have to tell them.
[SNIFFLING]
I know.
Will...? Will you stay here?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I'll bring them in.
Okay.
[DOOR OPENS]
WADE: Hey, Hilda. Abby.
Come on.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CHANTING STOPS]
[♪♪♪]
[ALL GASPING AND MURMURING]
[♪♪♪]
Translated by: Will Motomura
Previously on Outsiders:
BIG FOSTER: Oh! G'Win.
Why did you do it?
GORDON: An action at the Coal Days
Festival. One that gets real attention.
Now is not the time to back off.
LEDDA: Coal kills!
- Coal kills! WOMAN: Arrest her!
LEDDA: Coal kills!
- What are you worried about?
- Every time you walk out that door...
- I'm scared you're not gonna come back.
- I'm always coming back.
We're getting some noise complaints
from an address over on Maple.
[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Wait! Hey!
Foster Farrell VIII.
I know where he is.
He's being transferred from a county
facility to a state prison miles away.
Once he's there, you'll
never lay eyes on him again.
Just tell us what we have to do.
Yeah!
Why ain't you dead like
you're supposed to be?
- What's wrong with you?
- Get your goddamn hands off me.
I brought you home.
[PANTING]
[ALL SPEAK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
The mountain welcomes you home.
[CHATTERING]
Thank you, cousin.
[♪♪♪]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait.
Sorry.
Thank you. Sorry.
Lil' Foster.
Living proof that even
their prisons can't hold us.
MAN: That's right.
CORNBREAD: Here you are, cousin.
- What the hell is this, Cornbread?
- A real, live jacket, you peckerwood.
[ALL LAUGHING]
LIL' FOSTER: Oh, wow.
Thank you, Cornbread.
[ALL SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[BOTH SPEAK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[MEN SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
♪ The dawn is up There's
fire on the mountain ♪
♪ They'll have to answer
for The crooked claim ♪
♪ The hollows,
they'll surround them ♪
♪ And they'll go runnin' Back to
the wretched realm they came ♪
♪ Nor will the dogs
of hell refrain ♪
♪ And the land will suffer
Those who came ♪♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[DOG BARKING]
- Which house is it?
- Neighbor said he went in that one.
Stay there. Don't
let anybody in or out.
[♪♪♪]
Where's the knife?
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Hey!
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[LABORED BREATHING]
[BIG FOSTER
WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
Foster.
I'm here, my queen.
- Did you get him?
- Yeah.
We did.
You can see for
yourself soon enough.
I don't know about that.
- I'm gonna die.
- No.
No, it's just taking
time to heal is all.
You'll be on your feet...
ordering me around
soon as can be.
I got dark red lines
from the wound.
Well, then tell me what to do. Wait.
No. We got everything right here.
- Just tell me what to do.
- No point.
There's nothing
here that can fix it.
Foster, listen to me.
When I go, that Oak
will be yours again.
And you have changed.
I've seen it.
But the darkness
is still there too.
So I'm afraid, Foster...
that if you lead us again...
more blood will be spilled.
So promise me...
when that Oak is in your hand...
that you will keep
the darkness at bay.
Well, don't go
and I won't have to.
Promise me, Foster.
[♪♪♪]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Oh. So this is your plan, huh?
Right. Build a pile,
making it out of...
Making it out of twigs
and junk, kneeling...
mumbling to yourselves.
Might as well be wallowing,
squealing pigs for the good you're doing.
- We're giving her our strength.
- Ah.
- Mountain's gonna heal her.
- Oh, the mountain?
You wanna count on
that? You go right ahead.
But I'm actually gonna
go do something.
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Sure you gotta go? It's been
real good having you back.
Yeah. I promised the Bren'in I
wasn't gonna live back and forth.
You just came back
to help Lil' Foster.
Well, that's done now.
BIG FOSTER: Hey, Hasil.
- We're going down with you.
- What?
Yeah. G'Win is dying.
She can't well minister to
herself, and even if she could...
what's the matter with her will
take more than roots and berries.
Down below, they got pills, needles.
People who know what to do with them.
- So we gotta go get her help.
- Hell, yeah.
Look, Foster...
- I don't want her...
- You don't want her what?
I can't imagine it, but after
everything we just done...
going right back down there?
- I just... I don't know.
- Ah.
Look, maybe... Maybe
she's meant to die.
All right? So that you
can be the Bren'in.
Don't you ever, ever, ever
say anything like that again.
Not any of you.
Don't you even think it.
Now, G'Win is not just our
Bren'in, she is the best of us!
[♪♪♪]
If anyone here thinks that
we are better off without her...
that man is gonna
have to answer to me.
Any of you don't help me, you'll
be putting her in the ground...
with your own hands.
Huh?
Now y'all coming with me or not?
For the Bren'in.
[MEN SPEAKING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Sheriff.
OFFICER 1: Hey, there
he is. OFFICER 2: Okay.
[ALL CLAPPING]
- Thank you. Okay.
- You're the man.
- Good job.
- All right. Just doing my job.
- Nice police work, Wade.
- Thanks, Matt.
No. Really. I'm impressed.
Yeah. Well...
- I'll cherish that forever.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Fair enough.
Of course, there's still the
matter of our other escapee.
Though not much of a mystery
about where he's gone, is there?
No.
Don't suppose you want me and
the deputies charging back up there?
Oh, no, no, no.
Yeah. You don't
suppose correctly.
- Mind if I close the door?
- Uh...
Of course, you didn't want him
locked up in the first place, did you?
- What's that?
- You didn't wanna lock him up.
We had a particularly feisty
conversation about it as I recall.
Yeah. No.
We did. Mm.
- What's your point?
- Nothing.
Just it was something that you
had very strong feelings about.
And you know, who knows
what someone would do...
with a feeling that strong.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I...
I couldn't really do anything, considering
that you pretty much shut me down.
Yeah.
Well, the Farrells
took care of it.
Lucky thing they got ahold of
that prisoner transfer schedule.
Somehow. Right?
Say, didn't you answer a noise complaint
the other night? About some fight club?
Heard there was a Farrell there.
- Did you get a chance to talk to him?
- No.
No, I didn't. He ran away.
Mm.
Are you spying on me?
There some reason
I would need to?
Well, it's just that if there's anyone
to blame for all of this, it's you.
- What?
- Well, I mean...
you put that fella in
jail for no good reason...
you know, put up
that stupid fence.
I mean...
you're stupid.
You've been provoking
them the minute you got here.
What'd you think
was gonna happen?
Don't look at me cross-eyed just because
you've been handling this all wrong.
A lot of coincidences.
That's all.
And...
as far as how I'm handling them?
Things will be a little different
on that front from now on.
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR OPENS]
[SIGHS]
- Oh. Hey, Carol.
- Ledda, hi.
- Hey, here. Uh...
- Okay.
- What is it?
- Just...
Come in.
[PEOPLE CLAPPING]
[ALL CHEERING]
MAN: All right!
[SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
- Hey.
- Wade.
I need to talk to you.
- Listen, we have had this conversation.
- No.
We need to each do what it is...
- we're gonna do.
- No, no.
I need you to say I was
at home two nights ago.
The night before Coal Days.
You need me to say that to who?
Anyone who asks.
Why? Where were you?
- You can't ask me any questions.
- Wade, what did you do?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Look, since we're
asking for things...
I'd like you to
lay off my group.
- What?
- Mountain Witness.
We're gonna be stepping things up
even more, and I would appreciate it...
- if you'd give us a little latitude.
- It's not really a good time.
It's a perfect time.
People are more
energized than ever.
- It is the perfect time.
- Ledda, Ledda...
you haven't got any pets left.
So next, it's gonna
be one of the kids.
[♪♪♪]
Look at you. I mean,
in your condition?
You're running
yourself to death as it is.
Look...
you asked me for a favor...
and I'm asking you for a favor.
I got a job to do.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Ledda...
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
I come in peace.
- To do what?
- To apologize for the coal dust.
Police can be here in five minutes. In
the meantime, I've got Mace in my bag.
- Really, I'm just here to say I'm sorry.
- Apology not accepted.
Why don't you tell me
why you're really here?
You know, every time I do
this, there's always one of you.
The boots on the ground
getting dirty for the higher-ups.
But what do you really get...
when it's all over and
they're done using you?
You know, I'm gonna answer
your question with a question.
In all the times that
you've done this...
have you ever actually won?
Well, that depends on
what you mean by "winning."
I mean, stop the thing
you went there to stop.
Once or twice. Heh. Not usually.
But it's not about the
battle, it's about the war.
And that is far from over.
Listen, Haylie, how much do
you actually know about this place?
This mountain that you're
so determined to destroy?
I'm going up there for
a hike this weekend.
Why don't you come with me?
See what's actually up there,
what you wanna just sweep away.
You know...
everywhere I go,
there's one of you.
An activist who thinks I
can be shamed or bullied...
or manipulated or talked around.
Who thinks I'm not
gonna do my job...
the job I'm paid and
paid very well to do.
I wonder why that is.
[HAYLIE CLEARS THROAT]
[DOOR OPENS]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
I wish I would've been here.
I would've protected you.
I would've protected
you to my dying breath.
[♪♪♪]
I know now why you
did what you did...
marrying my fa.
You did what you
had to do to survive.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Could we go around?
This is around. This is the
way they don't usually guard.
Let's just wait a minute.
Maybe they'll just head off.
Oh, the hell with this.
Who's there?
Foster, stop. You're
gonna get us killed.
BIG FOSTER: Wait. Go, go, go!
Go.
- Go, go, go. BIG
FOSTER: Go, go, go.
HASIL: Come on. Go.
[GUNSHOTS]
- Go! GUARD: Stay where you are!
Don't move!
- Aah! BIG FOSTER: Enoch!
HASIL: Phil'up! Phil'up!
BIG FOSTER: Enoch!
- Trevor!
- Oh, my God.
Come on. Get, get.
[♪♪♪]
BIG FOSTER: Stay with us, boy.
Right here. Okay? All
right? Just stay with us.
PHIL'UP: We got you. BIG
FOSTER: Are you okay?
- Okay. Come on. BIG
FOSTER: Come on, cousin.
Boy, come on. Come
on. Come on, cousin.
Come on, just stay. Stay
right here. Okay, boy?
Maybe we should...
go down...
- and get me some medicine.
BIG FOSTER: Enoch.
[ENOCH SOBS]
Come on.
Come on, Enoch. Come on.
Come on, Enoch. Come on.
Come on, buddy.
- Enoch.
- No, no.
[BARNABIS WHIMPERS]
- Don't you touch
him! PHIL'UP: Hey!
You done enough!
Come on.
Phil'up, come on.
[♪♪♪]
[KNOCKING]
MAN: Yeah?
- I got a delivery for Steve.
Hi, I'm Steve.
Well, shit.
- I don't know where he's at.
- You don't?
No. I mean, he went up
back the mountain, so...
So he went up the mountain,
or you don't know where he's at?
- Which one?
- Both. Both of those.
Listen, I just
wanna talk to him.
- I need an address.
- He's not there all the time.
Not where all the time?
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[HASIL SIGHS]
Let me guess.
I should see the
other guy, right?
- Sally-Ann, not right now.
- So when, then?
This baby's coming,
whether you're ready or not.
I know that.
All right? But you have no
idea what I just been through.
So tell me.
Hasil, just tell me.
[HASIL SIGHS]
Forget it.
I know this song by heart.
Something that you
had to do for your family.
- What are you doing?
- I'm staying with a cousin in Cleveland.
Where is that?
What you gonna do? Just
gonna go? You gonna walk out?
- Because I need you right now.
- I need you!
I need you, Hasil.
And you just...
I'm going to Butch and
Frida's for the night...
and I'll be back tomorrow.
And if you're here...
then you're here for good.
And if not, I will pack the
rest of my things and I'll go.
Because I can't do this anymore.
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
[GROUP CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
MAN: Enoch...
EMELYE: Shame on you, Foster.
I said it to him. I said, "The
thing that scares me the most...
is one day, you're gonna
go away and not come back."
And what does he do?
He goes away, and
he doesn't come back.
Well, he's working.
He's trying to provide.
I know what
they're doing, Frida.
I hear he's really good at it.
I'm sure. I saw him fight
plenty the week we met...
but that's not the point. The
point is that I can't count on him.
And this time, I'm not even
sure he was with Butch.
Where do you think he was?
I got a cousin in Cleveland.
I don't know her all that well,
but I gave her a call, and...
I'm gonna go stay with her.
For the baby.
You do what you think you need
to do, but love ain't easy to find.
This may come as a surprise to you,
but Butch, he ain't perfect. Mm-mm.
There are times when he is talking and
I just wanna stab him right in the eye...
but he loves me.
And he takes care of me.
And he accepts me as I am.
And Hasil loves you.
And he is cute. Heh.
I mean, that hair.
I'm just saying...
if I was you, I would think
twice before I threw all that away.
[♪♪♪]
I don't think I can do it.
Everything I touch...
blood...
and more blood.
If I take that Oak...
the darkness is gonna win.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
BIG FOSTER: Son?
Can I speak with you?
- Why?
- Just come with me.
Please.
LIL' FOSTER: You want
me to follow you back down...
so I could be the
next to be killed?
- You heard about Enoch.
- Of course I did.
Oh... Oh, oh, oh.
My father...
Foster V, you were just
a boy when he passed...
but he was like the sun,
the moon and the stars to me.
He was powerful, and he was
warm, and he led by love, not fear...
with that Oak in
his hand and then...
he was gone.
And my mother...
she took it.
And she was terrible to me.
She shamed me every chance she
got, with that mountain Oak by her side.
And after a while, it was all I
wanted: to get my hands on that Oak.
So I became the demon.
Me.
G'Win is right.
[♪♪♪]
We've tainted this mountain.
I have. I have tainted it...
by what I've done.
I killed my mother.
I killed our ways.
And try as I might to change,
I kill everything I touch.
The mountain, it
wants a sacrifice.
And right now,
it's taking G'Win.
And nothing that
we do to heal her...
is gonna help, short of
someone taking her place.
So I need you to
do something for me.
Because it ain't gonna
work if I do it myself.
I need you...
to kill me.
I know just the place.
BARTENDER: Another glass
of wine? HAYLIE: Yes, please.
Well, hello again.
You know, stalking's illegal.
We ever gonna have a conversation
that doesn't begin with you...
threatening to sic law
enforcement on me?
I think the real question is why are
we having so many conversations?
- Thank you.
- So this how you spend your evenings?
Alone, in a hotel bar?
Are you concerned
about me, Gordon?
No, I mean, it's
just a little sad is all.
You know, what, with all the
culture this place has to offer.
[LAUGHING]
- Whoo.
- I'm serious.
There's a whole world out here.
You are still trying to get
me to come on that hike, huh?
No, but the offer is still open.
Here. Check this out.
- What are those?
- I've been to a lot of places, like I said.
And everywhere I go, I come
across what they call "outsider" art.
Just paintings, sculpture,
music... Ah. Here we go.
Totally unschooled local folks
following some sort of inner muse.
Untainted by whatever fashionable
idea of what art should or shouldn't be.
- Okay.
- It's a little compilation I made...
of music performed by those
people that I've met on my travels.
I'm still not seeing what
that has to do with me.
Well, if I can't bring you
to see what you're killing...
maybe I'll bring
what you're killing...
to you.
So you want me to listen to it.
Yeah.
How? By holding it up to my ear?
You're telling me you don't have
a means to play that? Come on.
Not here in the bar. No.
All right. Well, maybe
we don't stay at the bar.
- You've gotta be kidding me.
- What?
That's the worst pickup
line I've ever heard.
"Let's go back to your room so I
can play you my compilation CD...
of Appalachian
hill-people music"?
[LAUGHING]
- Whoo. Nice try.
- All right.
Fine. Suit yourself.
But it's really good.
Try again.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
[MOANING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
- Who is it? WADE: It's Wade.
Wade. Who?
WADE: It's the sheriff.
The river becomes a flood.
What's that?
Nothing. Long day.
What do you want?
Good job.
Nobody got hurt
doing that, uh...
The thing.
What thing?
Right.
Anyway...
what I was thinking is, with
everything that's going on...
I think it wouldn't be a bad
idea for you to leave town.
For good.
- That so?
- I mean...
you're obviously pretty
identifiable walking around.
With things amping
up, I can't protect you.
So I think it'd be better
if you just disappear.
Okay.
What's that mean? "Okay."
It means "okay."
It means I'll disappear.
It means you ain't gonna see
me around here ever again.
Oh, okay. Um...
- This is a real nice place.
- Mm-hm.
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
LIL' FOSTER: You said your father
was the sun, the moon and the stars.
Every boy sees
his father that way.
You remember that time...?
I must've been, what, 10?
We was out hunting buck...
and I crouched in the brush, and
I stepped on a twig or something.
Scared them all off.
You remember that?
You remember what you did?
To show me what a
bad mistake it was?
You tied me to a tree.
Left me there for 10 days.
Passed out from the
thirst and the hunger.
Chafed so bad from the
rope, it nearly hit bone.
That wasn't... That wasn't the last
thing you ever done to me, neither.
That's the tree right there.
All right.
Then do it. Huh?
Do it. Kill me.
I killed my mother.
You gotta kill me.
So go ahead. Go ahead and do it.
Everything that Lady Ray passed down
to you, you passed down to me 10 times.
Still, I loved you.
No. I ain't gonna kill you.
It's better to let you
live, suffer through it.
You are the demon.
Spilling more blood just
taints this mountain more.
[♪♪♪]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
You're the only one who
can save her. All right?
So do it.
If you don't do it...
- she will die.
- You...
She never loved you.
Farrells don't kill Farrells.
[BOTH PANTING]
[♪♪♪]
Elon.
My boy.
My son.
Are you...?
Are you really here?
[WHIMPERS]
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I am sorry that I
let you get hurt.
Thank you for letting me
see you one more time.
I've missed you so much.
[ELON WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
Thank you.
[ALL CHANTING IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
You're still here.
Something bad happened.
One of my cousins...
a friend...
he got hit by a bullet.
We got separated...
and now I don't know
if he's alive or dead.
And you wanna go to him?
[SIGHS]
Won't make any difference now.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, there's something
that I gotta do for my family.
Come on out and show us.
HASIL: Don't wanna.
Babe? Come on.
Come on.
[BOTH SNICKERING]
All right. Look...
- I look ridiculous.
SALLY-ANN: No.
- No. It's cute.
- Mm-hm.
And it's just temporary. Okay?
Until we find you
something that's more you.
Good, because Butch is gonna
want these clothes back anyway.
- Why?
- Don't know why.
Beggars can't
be choosers, y'all.
No, it's just, I look in the mirror,
and I just, I don't see myself.
That's kind of
the point, isn't it?
I guess. Yeah.
Hey.
I see you.
- Okay?
- Mm.
I see you.
Even in all this.
Come here.
Mm... Heh.
I... I'm just gonna let
myself out, then. Heh.
- Excuse me. HASIL: Come here.
Come here.
[SALLY-ANN GIGGLES]
[DOOR OPENS]
What happened?
Hilda?
Your daughter was in a fight.
A what?
A fight?
- It wasn't my fault, Mom.
- Okay. What happened?
She grabbed one of her classmates
and threw her to the ground.
- They had to be separated.
- My daughter would never do that.
I mean, not unless she was provoked.
What did this other girl do to her?
Apparently, she said
something about you.
About how your
organization's hurting the town.
Now, the other girl's parents
are prepared to let this thing go...
but the school's policy
on violence mandates...
- a three-day suspension on a first...
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
What...?
What about your policy for
insulting someone's mother?
- Mom... LEDDA: No.
Why is my daughter the
only one on the hook here?
- Mom.
- What happened to this other girl...
and what she said?
What kind of message
does that send? Huh?
Punishing someone for
standing up for what is right...
and letting the person
who started it all comple...?
[COUGHING]
You all right, Mrs. Dobbs?
Mom?
[COUGHING CONTINUES]
WADE: It's not too late to
start treatment. You know that.
I mean, everything I said...
- you can still do that.
- No.
I still don't wanna do that.
You were right, though, Wade.
I just... I felt so good
doing what I was doing.
But I...
I can't...
I can't outrun this forever.
I love you very much.
You know I'm gonna...
I'll take care of them.
I'll take care of everything.
I know.
You have to tell them.
[SNIFFLING]
I know.
Will...? Will you stay here?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I'll bring them in.
Okay.
[DOOR OPENS]
WADE: Hey, Hilda. Abby.
Come on.
[CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CHANTING STOPS]
[♪♪♪]
[ALL GASPING AND MURMURING]
[♪♪♪]
Translated by: Will Motomura