The Son (2017–2019): Season 1, Episode 10 - Scalps - full transcript

The tribe faces an unexpected return in 1849. In 1915, Eli's plan for the future forces Pete into a life-or-death decision about his loyalties.

This whole town...

Look here.
Damn time.

Louis: We're under attack,
Sheriff.

They're coming after us.

Who are?
What are you talkin' about?

Tell the sheriff
what you saw.

I was comin' around
the corner there,

and I saw a bunch
of Pedro García's men

running away
from the fire.

I shouted at 'em to stop,
but they took off.

How many men did you see
running away, Louis?



Four,
maybe five of 'em.

I shoulda followed 'em, Sheriff.
I know I should've, but..

the fire went up so fast
and I had to tend to that first,

so I ran for the water truck
and --
You did the right thing.

We're gonna fight back.
You hear me?

Look, you don't have
to convince me.

I'm just trying to get
all the facts before I go

banging on Pedro García's door
in the middle of the night.

Those are the facts!
He just told you!

All right, Niles.
All right.

You better stay
with the car.

I'll be fine.

Colonel,
thank God you're here.

Pedro García burned down
my saloon.



We need your help.

I wouldn't be
anywhere else.

Everybody, gather 'round.

Most of you have known me
a long time.

Yes, sir.
Mm-hmm.

You know
I'm a patient man.

I'm a deliberate man.

I'm a fair man.

But tonight, once again,
we were attacked.

Tonight, this war
continues against us,

against our women and children,
against our way of life!

And make no mistake --
it is a war.

And what have we done
to stop it?

Look around at yourselves.

You're all brave men,

but what have you done
to stop this?

Not a goddamn thing.

That's right.
He's right.
Mm-hmm.

Truth is...

I am guilty of hesitation.

Because I believed
that this problem

was gonna go away on its own,
but it has not.

Our enemies are not common
bandits or common thieves.

They're not after
gold and land.

They're determined to destroy
our way of life,

and their weapon of choice
is terror.

So they burn down homes.

They derail trains.

They shoot innocent people
in broad daylight.

And now I'm hearing that
they have been aided and abetted

and supported
by one of our own!

You all know the Garcías
were there

when our ranch was hit.

People are saying
that maybe

they had something to do
with it. Is it true?

I don't know, but I sure as hell
want to find out!

And what are we gonna do?

Do you think we should
continue to do nothing?!

No.
Do you want to look
your wives in the face

and tell 'em
you did nothing?!

All: No!
You want to look
your children

in the face and tell them
you did nothing?!

No!
No more innocent men
being murdered.

No more buildings being burned
in the night.

Man: No more.
Do you want justice
or not?

Yes!
Are you with me?!

Yes!
Are you ready to go
and deliver that justice now?!

Yes!
Let's get 'em.

Let's get 'em.

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Hello! Hey!

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Maria!
Let me in!

Maria!

Peter.

What's wrong?
What are you doing here?

I need to talk
to your father.

No. N-No,
that's not a good idea.

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What is this?
Pedro,
you need to let me in.

I don't think so.
We need to talk.

You're all in danger.

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What is it?

My father found oil
on your land.

Did you hear
what I said?

I heard.

I'm just
trying to figure out

why your father sent you
to say this.

My father
didn't send me.

He did everything he could
to stop me from coming.

Why would you do this
for me?

I think you know why.

Maria.
Maria.

Why is your father doing this,
Pete?

What does he want?

There's oil on your land.

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Get out of my house!
Mama.

We should all go.

My father doesn't start fights
he can't win.

Pete.

You have to help me
convince your father.

Convince him
of what exactly?

Convince him to leave.

I don't know
what to believe, Pete.

Is your father
doing this?

Or are you?
Or is it both of you?

At this point,
it's everyone in town.

You have to go.
No. Why?

No one wants you here.
Do you understand that?

They've all been waiting
for an excuse.

My father gave it
to them.

So we just run over the border
in the middle of the night?

Yes.

This is
the United States.

There are laws here.

Not right now
there aren't.

We're not running,
Pete.

You're gonna protect us.

You are going
to stop him.

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I can't believe
you're back.

Barely made it.

Everyone thought
you went back to the whites.

Everyone?

None of that matters.

You're here now.
We have to move quickly.

Come on. Help.
Let's go.

Go where?

You came back
to get me.

Didn't you?

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I don't understand.

Why are you here?
You could've run.

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I belong here.

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Tiehteti?

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What happened?
Where were you?

Where's Prairie Flower?

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Stay back.
What'd you do?

What did I do?
You disappeared.

So you just went and got
married, just like that?

I had no choice.

This is our way.
You know this.

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You have to go away,
Eli.

I can't see you anymore.

Toshaway: Tiehteti.
Where is he?

Tiehteti.
Come on.

Come with me.

Four horses?

He pushes me off a cliff,
and you get four horses?

Four horses is a lot.

I could have died.
But you didn't.

And now I have
four more horses.

You can have
two of them.

It's not right.
The punishment should be bigger.

I don't think he was very happy
about it, either.

He'll have to borrow the horses
from Prairie Flower's father.

It's not about
the horses.

There are other girls.
We'll find you a different one.

It doesn't work
like that.

I love her.

And she's with
someone else now.

Then I'll kill him.

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Comanche cannot hurt
another Comanche.

You're free, Tiehteti.

If you want to go back
to the whites,

no one can stop you.

But if you want
to be one of us,

then you'll live
by our rules.

Understand?

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Clean this up.

Tomorrow,
we go hunting.

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This is beautiful.
Mm.

Try not
to shoot yourself.

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Did you cut
the phone lines?
Yes, sir.

Get that dynamite ready!

Once we lay down enough fire
to pin 'em down,

we'll blow the door.

You ready?
Ready.

Man:
You got the shotgun?

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Just surrender yourself,
Pedro!

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I will not.

How many of you
did I personally welcome

when you came
to this town?

How many have dined here
at my house

with my family?

And now here you are.

To kill me.

To take my land.

You turned my bar
into a goddamn bonfire!

No.

I would never destroy property
in this town.

It is my home.

My family has lived here
for two centuries.

How long have you lived here,
Niles Gilbert?

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How 'bout you, Sheriff?

Minister Frank, how long
have you lived in this town?

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To me,
you are all intruders.

Carpetbaggers.

Canallas.

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And you, Eli, you,
now I see my mistake.

You will never have enough.

Enough land,
enough money.

I should have let you die
with all your family.

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Hold your fire.

Hold your fire.
Hold your fire.

Pete.

Get away from there.

I don't know
what my father told you,

but you're all
being lied to.

Pedro didn't burn down
that bar.

Come on, Pete.

He's using all of you
to get this land.

Please stop.
My family is bankrupt.

We're about
to lose the ranch.
I don't wanna
say this.

Not in front of all these people
who care about you.

He paid somebody
to burn down that bar.

Easy, son.

Pete, I know you've been
going through a hard time.

There are people here
who can help you.

We can find medicines
for your troubled mind.

Just...come back
to your friends.

There's oil on Pedro's land.

My father wants it.

He's willing to do
whatever it takes.

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That's a lie, Pete.

Pedro's been supporting
the sediciosos for years.

But that wasn't enough,
I guess.

Today...

I lost my place
of business!

But be rest assured,

tomorrow,
it will be one of you.

Your homes,
your families.

Unless we take
action now.

Hold it together.

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You see how
the wind's blowing.

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Come with me, son.

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Aah!

Eli: Pete!

Pete! Pete!

Stop shooting!

Stop shooting now!

Down, down.

Aah!

Mi amor.

Aah!

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Aah!

Ugh!

¿Dónde está Maria?

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Ignacio!

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No!

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Niles: Get in there!
Get that door open now!

Give 'em cover.

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Ugh!

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Ugh!

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Get those guns up!

Get those goddamn guns up!

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That's good.
Press 'em down.

Roof's clear.

Good man, Neptune.

Now retrieve
that damn dynamite.

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Light it up.

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Get back, boys.
Get back.

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Come on. Come on.

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Come on.

Aah.

Is Pete alive?
Is Pete alive?

I don't know.
Let's get you out of here.

It's all right.

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You're mad at me?

Yeah.

I don't like it.

I don't really care.

She your first woman?

Eh, you're young.
There'll be others.

Man: Hyah! Hyah!

Those are goddamn
rangers.

Yeah.

Ugh!

Ugh.

Ugh!

Aah!

Ugh!

Get the horses.
Find the others.

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Don't do that!

Aah!

Ooh.

Aah!

Aah!

I bet that smarts,
huh?

Aah!

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You gonna be
my first Injun.

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You know,
I hear tell...

you can't get into heaven
if someone takes your scalp.

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Come here.
That long black hair a'yours

is gonna look real sweet
hangin' from my belt.

Hold still, ya --

Ugh.

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Why'd you come here?

Why are you after us?

Y-You're on our land.

If you go somewhere else,
we'd leave you alone.

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Maria?

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Shh.

Come on.

Come on.

Shh. Shh. Shh.

We got to leave right now,
okay?

Mm-hmm.

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Maria,
we got to move quick.

We got to move quick.
Come on.

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Louis.

Hey, Louis.

How you holding up there,
buddy?

You didn't say
it was gonna be like this.

What'd you think
it was gonna be like?

We're all going to hell.

Well...

maybe you just don't have
the stomach for this.

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Come on.

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Phineas: So, it seems Pedro
had been sympathetic

to the sediciosos longer
than any of us had realized.

He burned down
Niles' bar,

which could have destroyed
the whole town.

We're lucky it didn't.

And after that, everyone in town
was so furious and scared,

they all rode out
to the García ranch.

And the Colonel tried
to talk Pedro

into surrendering
peacefully, but...

his men
just opened fire.

That doesn't
make any sense.

Why would they start shooting
with the family inside?

I don't know
what to tell you.

Maybe he felt cornered.

By the mob of people with
torches surrounding their house?

Hard to believe.

There weren't
any torches.

How do you know?
You weren't even there.

Phineas: A whole lot
of people died.

Everyone in town's
wearing black. It's horrible.

So wh-where was Daddy
in all this?

He was trying to reason
with Pedro.

Stop anyone
from getting hurt.

Unfortunately,
it didn't work out.

So where is he now?

Is he dead?

No, if he was, we would have
found him by now.

Well, then where is he?
Where'd he go?

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He left us.

So it doesn't
matter.

Of course it matters.
What's wrong with you?

Shut your mouth.

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We have every Pinkerton
in the state looking for him.

I promise you all,

I'll do everything in my power
to find him.

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Tell me the truth.

What did you
do to him?

Where is he really?

We don't know.

How could you
possibly not know?

I'm sorry, Sally.

Don't apologize.

Tell me something
that isn't bullshit!

I know you're
understandably upset.

What have you done
to our family, Eli?

I need to rest.

Pete hasn't been well
for a long time.

It's everything you been
feeling,

everything you been
noticing about him.

And this was the, uh...

the last straw, I guess.

Something broke.

All right, you're telling me
how Pete is,

but not where he is.

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The last time
I saw Pete,

he was heading to the border
with Maria García.

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Did you know about them?
No.

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He is not right
in the head, Sally.

Anyone who
would leave you --

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Don't.

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* It seemed the better way

* When first I heard him speak

* Now it's much too late

* To turn the other cheek

* It sounded like the truth

* Seemed the better way

* Sounded like the truth

* But it's not the truth today

* I wonder what it was

* I wonder what it meant

* First, he touched on love

* And then it touched on death

* It sounded like the truth

* Seemed the better way

* Sounded like the truth

* It's not the truth today

* I better hold my tongue

* I better take my place

* Lift this glass of blood

* Try to say the grace

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Judge Kilborne: In the matter
of the agricultural land

formerly owned by Pedro García,

including the house,
outbuildings,

and 125,000 undeveloped acres.

The original deed is Spanish.

Paid the last transfer...
April 17, 1750.

$563.64

are due Dimmit County
in back taxes.

I will begin the bidding
at $563.64.

Are there any bidders here?

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Are there any other bidders
here?

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Going once.

Going twice.

Sold to the McCulloughs.

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* Seemed the better way

* When first I heard him speak

* Now it's much too late

* To turn the other cheek

* Sounded like the truth

* Seemed the better way

* Sounded like the truth

* But it's not the truth today

* I better hold my tongue

* I better take my place

* Lift this glass of blood

* Try to say the grace

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When will they
stop coming?

They won't.

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