That Dirty Black Bag (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Chapter One: A Head Weighs Less Than a Body - full transcript

I'm looking for a fella,
carries a Bowie knife

with eye wrote into the handle.

I don't know anyone like that.

Jesus Christ!

If you had,
I might've let you live.

Fucking bounty hunter.

Fuck you!

That's enough for the horses.

Shit.

Michelle, the horses.

We could
come with you.



I already told you
I'll be quicker alone.

Well take this then.

No, that's for you and Dorian.

Don't worry,
I'll find some more.

You'll be back riding Brownie
by tonight, all right.

I promise.

Hey, Mr., there's still
gold in Greenvale,

have a look.

You can have it for some water.

- Steve.
- Sheriff.

Two of them are brown
and one's a

skewbald white...

I know what your horses
look like, Steve.

What do you want me to do?



Well, if you went after
the Wilson brothers...

You think Thompson stole them?

They work for him.

Well, I thought you
just said they were gone

by the time got there.

I know it was him, Sheriff.

Steve, I know how you
feel about the man.

I know you think you're making
some pretty wild assumptions there.

I mean, what with the
livestock shortage

could've been anyone, right?

It's not the
livestock he's after.

It's my land.

I told you he's
been harassing me

and you still
continue to sit there.

You...

I need those horses, Sheriff.

I need to plow my land.

Why?

Has it rained in the
last five goddamn years?

This year it will.

'Cause God decreed it.

Yes.

Listen, Steve, you're
a farmer, right?

Farming's what you do,
I understand that

but if he's offering you
this crazy kind of money

for that piece of shit land,
why don't you just sell it?

Get the fuck outta here.

Buy another piece of
land far, far away.

Start over. Not many people
get that opportunity.

I don't wanna start over.

God has given us another chance.

We can go back to what we
were before the gold rush.

Farmers.

I plow the dry earth
every day since...

When it rains.

What?

Better see for yourself.

I'll see what I can do.

I'll be right here.

Thought you might.

What can I do for you, folks?

Quinn's back, Sheriff.

- Oh, Quinn.
- That's right.

You gave your word he weren't
gonna bother us no more.

And did he bother your daughter?

- No, but...
- Well, it looks like I kept my word.

Why don't you do
something, Sheriff?

Did I say I was not gonna
do something about it?

Now you people do your
job and I'll do mine.

All right?

Next time you have
something to tell me

a couple of you will do
not the whole goddamn town.

Now, go on, get outta here.

You heard the
Sheriff, get moving.

That's Quinn's final warning.

So, what's the plan?

Plan is we're gonna
earn the paycheck

these people provide us with.

I'm coming too, right?

Nope.

Come on, Sheriff,
I can be just as good...

New Deputies do not question
orders, they obey them.

You understand?

You understand?

Yes.

So what you gonna do?

Wait for further orders.

That's right.

Make a fine Sheriff one day.

If he's not dead.

You'll make it, kid.

Mr. Thompson.

This'll blast you
a hole 10 feet deep.

This will get you down to 20.

But the miners will have
to take it from there.

There are no miners
here anymore.

Francis, I need
to get all the way

to the center of the earth.

On my own.

Ooh.

These are from Germany.

Soluble nether.

They're much more stable
than nitroglycerine.

How does it react with benzene?

Mix it with benzene and you risk

meeting the devil
in person, Sir.

Then I'll
take all you got.

Isn't that a pressure balancer?

Very good, Sir.

Works with blood interfusion.

Doesn't it really work?

I can't say for sure.

There's only two in existence.

And the man I sold the other
one to is no longer with us.

Wow.

The original mother.

Created 1833 in Sardinia.

In all probability,

it's the first revolver
in human history.

My gift to you.

No, Francis, no I
can't accept that.

Please.

You and your father were
my very first clients.

You trusted my merchandise
when many wouldn't.

It fills me with enormous joy.

When you come back this way,

I'm gonna decorate your
entire wagon in gold.

In the meantime...

Hey, Mr. Wilson, go fetch
those two beautiful horses

we got from the
farmer yesterday.

My gift to you.

Now, what do I owe you
for the explosives?

Oh, Quinn?

Hey, Quinn?

You remember the
one about the snake?

Goes back to his lair, gets
killed by the other snake.

Give him time.

See how he wants to check out.

Christ, McCoy,
rather take a bullet

then stay out here in this heat.

Let's just do what we came to.

Are you the Sheriff or am I?

We move when I tell us to move.

You piece of...

Who the hell are you?
Where's Quinn?

Oh, Quinn.

Wanting for rape and murder
in three separate counties.

That's the one.

He's in here.

And who might you be?

I'm Red Bill.

Red Bill.

The head weighs
less than the body.

Careful, Sheriff, if you
disfigure those faces,

how are you gonna recognize 'em?

Why would I wanna recognize 'em?

So you can pay me the
bounties you owe on 'em.

You gotta be
kidding me, right?

No, that's the law.

These warrants, they're
wanted dead or alive.

And where's the law that says
you can walk around the country,

chopping people's heads off.

These aren't good
people, Sheriff.

And you are?

Well, I haven't done
nothing illegal.

So you might tell
your two boys here

that they can lower
their weapons.

You know we don't like
bounty hunters around here.

Especially ones
that get in the way

of us carrying out our duty.

So I suggest you take
your face and you stink

and whatever that is
in your bag and...

Well I've already
got what I came for.

Do I make myself clear, Mister?

You do your job, Sheriff

and I'll do mine.

You keep your crazy ass
outta my jurisdiction,

you understand?

Son of a bitch.

Come on.

Well.

Oh, shit.

Be clear about one
thing, all right.

We killed Quinn.

All right?

Yeah.

Henry, you
clean this mess up.

We'll head back to town.

How proud do you think you'd be?

Emptying my stables?

Destroying my tools,
raising my fields?

What do you want?

I'm not leaving.

As God is my witness, I'll
never sell to you, Thompson.

Hagen won't either.

Most of the land in
Greenvale was mine already.

As for Hagen, he'll give
in soon and you will too.

It's just to matter of time.

Then I'll have the gold
and you'll die of thirst

waiting for your
God to make it rain.

- The gold's all gone.
- Is that right?

It was gone five years ago

just before the streets
started running with blood.

When we all forgot
what the hell we were.

Farmers.

Decent people.

The great vein is beneath
us here somewhere.

- According to my calculations...
- What calculations of those?

The ones that made
you divert a river,

bringing drought to us
and death to 200 miners?

My father died in those mines.

How do you sleep at night?

Like a baby.

And when I do I dream of that
golden city I'm gonna build.

How long do you really
think you can hold out?

As long as it takes.

Well, then you
better keep praying.

I'll pray for you as well.

That's a federal coach.

That's a robbery going bad.

Didn't you tell Jessie
to stay in town?

Fucking Jessie.

Hey Jessie, you stay
right there, you hear?

All right, Sheriff.

An ambush.

Yes, Kurt, an ambush.

It's like that one got killed
from somewhere up there,

about 400 yards.

Caused the others
to trip over it.

He was pretty fast.

Takes a peacemaker a tenth
of a second to fire a bullet.

Whereas a trained
man, such as yourself,

it's pull cock and fire,
take three-tenths of a second.

Whereas me.

I take half that time.

No shit.

Body's still warm.

Nice shootin'.

Thanks.

Jesus Christ.

It's only money, Jessie.

What you wanna think about
what happens to the bad guys.

Good afternoon, Sheriff.

Good afternoon, Eve.

Are you admiring your kingdom?

The amount of work you put
into this goddamn place.

It's our damn town, McCoy.

Well, no wonder
your people adore you.

Here's your cut of
the weekly taxes.

There's a little
extra there for you.

Why?

Well, why not?

I'm in a good mood.

It's hard to believe there
was ever gold in this town.

Tell me what it was like.

You've heard it all before.

Indulge me.

Everyone had pockets full
of gold and muddy boots.

And then the gold ran out.

And you never found any?

I was just a whore.

You were never
just a whore, Eve.

The settler convoys are
gonna arrive any day now.

I need more water for my
girls and the men to know

that the only place they can
get a decent bath is here.

Oh, that's what the
men come here for?

A decent bath.

They will.

I'm gonna meet
the water suppliers.

I'm gonna try to convince
them to lower their prices.

Sure,
whatever you want.

I want water for the whole town.

May I ask?

All these grand ideas,
where are they gonna lead?

To the moon, McCoy.

To the moon.

Again, a man with an eye carved

into the handle of his Bowie.

I don't know him.

Oh, God, no!

If you had,
I might've let you live.

Please.

Please.

You all right?

Yeah, yeah, like that?

You like that?

I think we should stick
around a little longer.

Please, God, please.

The things you'll do for money.

Billy.

Everyone ready?

Looking good, Simone.

Okay, ladies, it's showtime.

It's over my friend.

After years of scratching
around with pennies and dimes.

We found $200,000
fucking dollars.

Why Italy?

I told you, it's where
my mama's from.

Yeah, green, lush rolling hills.

Ancient architecture.

What?

What?

Since when are you interested
in ancient architecture?

There's a lot about me
you don't know.

But you got a good point.

All right, how about the women?

We got those in America too.

- You know that.
- All right.

How about

'cause it's a long, long,

long way from this
fucking place.

Water.

You got money?

Good.

'Cause water will
cost you a lot more

than whiskey around here.

Yeah.

This too.

I heard
the Sheriff got Quinn.

I'm looking for two brothers.

Name's Wilson.

I heard these outlaws work
for someone called Thompson.

Whoever they are,
I didn't see them.

And if you want to stay here,

you have to leave that outside.

It's messing up my saloon.

I can't do that, sorry.

Now gimme a whiskey.

And he had a roll
of money this big.

So he must've killed
a bunch of 'em.

Why do you reckon he
chops their heads off?

Oh, Phil also said he
killed a man with a bullet

- but without even using a gun...
- Jesus Christ, Jessie,

don't believe all
the bullshit you hear.

Breaking the
law already, Billy.

Congratulations,
I heard you got Quinn.

Yes, I did.

'Cause I protect these people
from the likes of you.

I told you to stay
outta my jurisdiction.

Which you did not do,
that's breaking the law.

I just made up for you.

Vagrants who disobey my
orders, lose their gun.

And pay a fine.

Well, go on, pay up.

That's not enough.

$20.00 more ought to do it.

No wonder you wouldn't pay me.

The town coffers are empty.

Red.

You forgot your canteen.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that
law contains a subsection.

Vagrants who disobey my orders

also lose their right to water.

Gentlemen, you're
forbidden to sell, trade,

or donate even a single
drop to the offending party.

When you finally
decide to leave town,

come to my office, I will
give you back your gun.

And don't be too long about it.

You understand?

Son of a bitch.

Let's see what you got?

Every time.

How the hell do you do that?

His dad was a grocer.

Grew up playing one
of those things.

And you couldn't have
told me that before?

I learned the hard way,
why shouldn't you?

The bounty hunter's gone.

- What?
- He left.

He was seen heading
west towards the bridge.

Well, how about that?

The infamous Red Bill.

Smoke was far from his ass.

Apparently didn't have the
courage to come to say goodbye.

Well, looks like our friend

has sponsored you boys
a night with the ladies.

- Well you ain't comin'?
- Nope.

I'm going to the old station.

Next time, asshole.

Hey, McCoy, what you
doing at the station?

I'm meeting Eve.

She wants to fix up
the road station.

Lower the price of water.
She has got real vision.

Where is my horse?

Where the hell is my horse?

Christ, please tell me
this is not happening.

Nathan, go catch up with him.

Really?

His unarmed, so it's him.

Bring him back here,
you think you can do that?

Well, go.

I'm desperate
and I thought that maybe...

That if, if you
could have a word.

McCoy, doesn't care
about your horses.

Does he care about this town,
'cause Thompson's killing it.

Steve.

This dream of yours...

Seeing this area prosper
and thrive again,

we've got to give it up.

Without dreams what are we?

I'm not gonna help you.

Why not?

Did you truly come
here expecting me

to help you save the very
thing that drove us apart?

Christ.

I fell in love with
a man who was strong.

And whose beliefs made
some kind of sense.

Look at you.

Why did you come here?

Because you wanted to see me.

Because you think
about me every day

and you can't resist anymore.

Because you can't
live without me.

Even if you got your horse's
back nothing would change.

This future you see,
it's just a dream.

You are my dream.

Greenvale Sheriff.

Stop.

Now would be your
chance to turn back.

Simone?

- Oh my gosh, you are...
- Running late.

Come on, give me a hand.

How'd it go?

What?

With him.

Tighter.

I hate to
see you this way.

Don't worry about it.

But why should you have
to suffer like this?

I mean, you can have him
for yourself if you wanted.

Right?

You're beautiful.

You're powerful.

And I've never seen you
give up on anything.

Yeah, but then what?

Live the rest of my days

as the shabby worn-down
wife of a farmer.

You and I are destined
for better things.

Hmm?

With your beauty,
you'll achieve anything.

You know what? Come with me.

- You're kidding.
- No, I'm not.

Only sorry I didn't
think of it before.

Pick out a dress.

Come on now, it's time
for you to go home.

Why?

I told you already.

I was requested to guard
this place for McCoy.

You're wasting your
time playing sheriff.

We'll always be losers if we
don't have a dime to our name.

Speak for yourself.

I've got money.

Shut up, you don't got no money.

I got money.

You wanna see it?

You can't tell no one, got it?

This will be my percentage.

- Why you hide it here?
- Where we supposed to put it?

I'm looking for
the Wilson brothers.

You know where I might find 'em?

Probably find 'em just
behind those hills.

Got water for your goats?

Uh-huh.

Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt you.

If you have more, I can
pay you handsomely for it.

Um, beggars can't be choosers.

So how often do these
two come through here?

Nearly every day.

In the beginning,
they only took my food.

Now they steal my animals too.

Yeah, well not for much longer.

How much do I owe you
for the water?

Oh.

No, no, no, you rid me
of these sons of bitches

sounds like payment enough.

Oh, thank you.

So uh,

that's your collection, huh?

Head weighs less than the body.

I guess it does.

Tell me something.

How many men have you
killed in your life?

Oh, come on, don't be bashful.

I ain't never met
a bounty hunter before.

Tell me about all the

bastards you consign for...

What?

Yep, that was him all right.

Where is he then?

I lost him.

You lost him?

Mac, he was pretty fast.

Fast enough to outride
you on one horse

while leading another?

- I'll go find myself.
- Mac?

Find Henry tell to set
the gals up in town.

Show everyone how
horse thieving assholes

are treated in Greenvale.

You think you could manage that?

I'm sorry, Mac.

Oh, you're sorry?

I always knew you
were a chicken shit.

Mac?

Mac?

What are you doing?

Mac, we don't need this.

Help with the bounty hunter,

we've got other pressing
problems we need to take care of.

Then we need to be on
our way like you said.

Before some...

Before someone comes
looking for that money.

Hey, you hear me?

Mac.

Mac.

We don't care about this.

I told you not to come out here.

It's dangerous.

I wasn't able
to find them, sorry.

Carr architects, huh?

They're also killers.

Well, I guess bugs
don't have a choice.

You and me, on the other hand,

we get to decide for ourselves
what kind of men we're gonna be.

Go on back to the house.

Go on.

Okay, go on.

Jessie, Jessie, Jessie.

You really had to
come follow us?

I just wanted to see
where you put it.

You didn't tell anyone
else now, did ya?

No one, Sheriff.

You promise me?

I swear, I swear.

All right, off you go.

Go on.

All he had to do
was obey orders.

Great, now we
have to bury two bodies.

No.

Peace, deformity.

I suggest you eat this
before the flies come.

I need your strength.

You're gonna be
my guest a while.

It's delicious.

It's your horse.

Fuck you. Fuck you!

Shit.

Look at Jessie.

Those damn kids.

Let's go get that
horse-thieving son of a bitch.