Hey, Ken
What's up?
You're getting skinnier on me
Yeah
Where's my money?
Your friend was late four hours last week
And he's late again today
So...
Go have a talk with him
The talk is happening right now
You're going nowhere until clive gets here
Ahh
Never seen no speed limit on this road, sheriff kilbaught,
so I...
So I made a... A modest estimate
Never been anything modest about your modesty, clive
This truck don't go a mile over 50, sheriff
Now, you were driving a different truck this morning
I've been watching you the last few weeks,
driving back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth
Now, we both know there ain't nothing in this town
worth taking a second look at
Yeah
That against the law now, sheriff?
Okay, come on, out
Even your mama thinks you're a piece of shit
You don't belong here
You got me thinking
Two trucks...
Hauling the same junk in the same day?
I mean, what's garbage like you
doing with garbage like this?
Come on, open her up
It's the only job I can get
seeing as how people are so damn discriminant...
Against those who have paid their dues
Discriminant?
Hell of a word there, clive
But it ain't your word
What did you do with the other truck, huh?
You're gonna start walking--
hey
What you got there, boy?
You spit that out
Spit it out!
You spit that out!
Huh?
Come on, get up
Get up!
What?
Is it the stew-maker?
Hear the cartel has a guy,
dissolves people in acid,
puts them in a barrel,
makes them soup
Is that who I'm waiting for?
Is it you?
My job is to place a call at 7:30
And if you don't make the call?
You get put on a list
And if you get put on the list...
It's unfortunate
But if clive isn't here in the next 15 minutes,
soon enough, I'll be talking to a dead man
Well...
If I'm already dead...
You're a dead man!
You ain't doing too good a job at staying gone
You know, sometimes...
I can't get through an entire day
without hearing all kinds of rumors
getting told about you
Like what?
I don't know
One of my favorite ones is the one
about you getting murdered on Indian Ridge
Well, they have the decency to bury me, at least?
Can't say
Don't really keep track of the rumors I didn't start
Got any rumors about me being made sheriff?
Sheriff kilbaught ain't gonna like you coming back
Well, he's gonna find he ain't got much room to argue
Maybe I don't like you coming back
You know I always told you,
you deserve better than this
Marla
Welcome home, Wallace
Hey, how come that thing always stayed broken?
Don't got a phone connection at my ma's old house anymore
Marla was good about looking after it, but...
Use that one
You ever hear anything about me getting murdered?
Yes, sir, i believe I have
They shot you in the throat
- Throat? - Yeah
- No kidding? - Mm-hmm
Heard you was mouthing off like you used to,
and somebody just shot you right there how you stood
Well, Jerry,
ain't you gonna welcome me back from the dead?
Asshole
Armor-piercing
They call them "cop killers"
Why is that?
On account of them killing cops
Do you need it for, like, DNA?
Forensics lab is two weeks and 150 miles away
from giving half a shit about this town
Bet you no one's told you that
Yeah, yeah
Yep, don't let that worry you none too much
You know, are you lonely for a car?
I get lonely when I don't have a car
But I'm not lonely anymore,
'cause at Diaz motors I've got plenty of friends
Ahh
You don't got to knock
I know what you're after
Come on in
Yeah?
You are scared shitless
What did you know about that?
There's just the matter of this job
you come to do
Six reported incidences of harassing motorists,
two with brutality
Then there's you, crossing the line
No, that ain't it
It's been a long time coming, Leland,
the way you've been running things
If you ain't scared of what needs to be done,
then you ain't got no clue why you're here
I got sent here to replace you
Maybe a day too late,
but replace you nonetheless
You got sent here
because it's your punishment, Wallace
Taking your statement, is all
You fetch me some water, would you?
Hmm?
Hm
You have no idea what that...
That boy clive was threatening to bring
These horrible people doing immoral things,
and now they're creeping across the border,
threatening to make the boogeyman a real thing
It's enough to give you a good start
It'll make you want to wait
for all the bad things to come get you
I don't regret what happened
Takes a willing hand to punish horrible men
They're building a case, le
They're gonna lock you away
You come here to get my statement?
Huh?
Expecting me to say I'm innocent?
I was gonna make that boy walk
I was gonna put him on that back road,
leave him to the boogeyman to rip him apart,
or return him to whatever ungodly dirt he came from
And if the road couldn't do it...
I'd do it myself,
'cause sometimes that's just what you got to do
Well, you've done enough
Ah
Welcome home, Wallace
Asshole
Ken mersey didn't go home last night
He's been reported missing this morning
Boys need stupid things to do
That's how their mamas wire them
Well, his mama wasn't no electrician
Explains the dim bulb
It's not like you to be so funny so early
Well...
I always figured Ken mersey liked you
a whole lot more than you liked him
Maybe he just don't want to show his face
He's missing, I'm worried
It doesn't have to be so black-and-white, Lilly
For fuck's sake
All I'm saying is that...
Maybe he's gone because he wants to be gone
This ain't hardly about Ken, is it?
This is about Wallace coming back
Hey, do you want to take care of this?
Oh, Jerry, you're just aching for coffee, aren't you?
Here
Drink up
There's plenty more
That's an awful shame about kilbaught
Old sheriff kilbaught is a violent dinosaur
going the way of his kind
How about yourself?
I'm good on coffee
Uh-huh
Spent a good five months
figuring out smuggling routes up in Indian Ridge
Kept on hearing about peculiarities and such
Catapults and back-alley breast implants
Even heard about a submarine once
somebody took the time to build by hand in their garage
Mm
And these brass bastards,
they buy fear and panic,
which makes them a whole lot cleaner than money
You can speculate all you want about where they came from
or where they're going,
but the real concern here is,
what's gonna happen if this bullet
don't make its destination
So...
You found just the one?
Shit
You still alive?
Someone's calling looking to speak with the sheriff!
He sure rushed my gate in a hurry
I called you because the plates came back
They were registered to a used car lot
over in your jurisdiction
Diaz classics?
Yeah
Showed up as stolen
I called it in It took 40 minutes
Anyway, they chased him
all the way out to the 24,
lost him out there on a back road
before your guy went in after him
What guy?
I don't know
I couldn't flag him, but I saw him
I saw the tan uniform
I figured I'd just call your partner
in the morning and check in
Was me and the old man
As of this morning, got to be just me
Dispatch, we have a code 32 off carrion road
Burning pretty good, by the smell of it
I think I found us Ken mersey
What the hell happened to you, Ken?
Where'd you get off to?
Shit
Well, that's everyone that's come in
Closest thing to a molotov cocktail
these folks have seen is a broken air conditioner
Sorry about that, deputy
But I don't believe your friend is here
Didn't say he was a friend
And it's sheriff
Is Ken in there?
Is he okay?
Don't give me that look, Wallace
Surprising, is all
Ken mersey is a good man
He looks after me
Oh, Wallace, stop it
What do you know about the truck?
He bought it
He told me to fix it up and sell it to shep
You know he was smuggling ammunitions
across the border in that truck?
That's a lie
Well, whatever he ain't telling you
got him in trouble last night,
got him confronted
By who?
Still sorting that out
But whoever that may be,
I ain't gonna tell you that Ken mersey
don't got his own consequences coming to him
Ah, fuck
You bring him home, Wallace
They got your commercial on TV up in Indian Ridge
It's 4:00 in the morning, but it's TV nonetheless
You trick-or-treating?
Was wondering if you knew anything
about Ken mersey going missing
Yeah, what kind of trouble he got?
The considerable kind, i guess
Ooh
Really taking yourself seriously
in that uniform, ain't you?
Don't mind going after
an old drinking buddy like that?
As far as I can see, he's under arrest
Ah
If he's still alive
How do you take your coffee?
I don't
Well...
No sales being had
No maintenance or repairs being had
It's just a whole lot of nothing
I haven't had a real need for Ken in the garage
What about the stolen truck?
Trucks
He took them with
He didn't say anything
He just...Went
That don't sound like him
People have a way of changing on you, I guess
I guess
I want the trucks back
That's why I only reported one
I wanted him to know, you know?
I didn't really want Ken
to get into any sort of trouble,
knowing his mama and all
Ken was cutting armor-piercing slugs
into scrap engine parts
not 20 feet from where you're sitting
Well, if he was doing any of the sort,
it wasn't in my garage
There's no other place in town
suited for that kind of...Activity
First off, how about his garage?
Ken opened his own shop?
Always get a ribbon for trying
Asshole
You're good right there, Wallace
What'd you get yourself into, Kenny?
I took 250,000 to leave this place,
to not belong in here,
for just-- for just one night
It kicks a good bit of life into you
That cousin of yours,
he's laid out on a slab
Kilbaught took his head clean off,
and you ain't too far behind
I want to know where the bullets are coming from
and who struck the deal I want names,
names I can hunt down and put away this side of the border
The cartel won't take this lightly
They'll send someone
What's coming, it ain't some butcher
It's punishment
You can't stop a thing like that
All that money you took can't buy the fact
that now you got them coming after Marla too
She didn't know
They won't care
I only took my cut!
What's this?
Oh, you chicken shit, just go
Fuck me
Ugh!
Aah!
Kenny
Fuck
Aah!
Oh, god
What the hell?
Wallace?
Wallace!
Wallace...
Hey, Wallace
What the hell happened to you, son?
Huh?
Who did this to you, boy?
When it happens...
When it stops...
You can't feel it
It don't hurt
We got to get you some...
Come on, Wallace
Come on, you're gonna be okay
How does that feel?
About as good as it looks
If we fetch it, we can re-attach it
They do... Do that, right?
Well, you got one of two options:
Get used to it, or don't look at it
Hear that?
What?
That'd be me, slow-clapping you,
if my clapping hand was still with us
Could have been a lot worse on you
I saw your friend when they brought him in
He ain't my friend
Way you saw him...
Kilbaught was right about people like him
bringing hell up into this town
The way I see it,
Ken mersey got what was coming to him,
getting his head cut off the way--
you said you were gonna bring him home
Marla...
That's what you said to me, Wallace
Well, the hell with him
I know what I said
There was nothing to bring home
You're such a fuck
Shepard Diaz
History of misconduct, brutality,
or any badges with that name?
Uh-huh
Hang on
Shoot
Yep
Simon, yep
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on
Well, does the system make any note
of tattoos or distinct markings and such?
The neck
Yeah
Last known address?
Wallace, I need to talk
Think I've done more than enough of that
with you today
I'm sorry for snapping at you back at the hospital
Shit
Wallace...
You should be back in that bed
You ran off without these
I don't want you to do this
It's not your job to punish me like this
I ain't punishing
Going out there and getting yourself killed?
Yeah, what are you calling that?
Please don't do this
You're all I got left
Wasn't too good at taking you
away from this place, was I?
No
Mm
You are tired, busted, and hurt,
is what you are
Don't be mad
Got to thinking about that stolen jalopy of yours,
which got me thinking about your ex-wife
Hm?
Hm
I couldn't hold on either, shep
Never could
And I was captivated by my bride
I just couldn't tell which color was what on her
Didn't know why i never did bother
Anyway, she got to walking out on me
Hm
Been gone more years now than we was actually together
No...
You can't win a woman back
That's something ugly beasts like you and me
do not get to do
Oh, go fuck yourself, le
- Hey! - Fuck you, fuck you
Hold on there a second
Don't you go dwelling in dignity
Does not suit you
Doesn't suit us
She's half your worth, and she's gone
You haven't sold a car on that lot for ages
You got a face like a thumb,
and you stuck it on a TV commercial
How dare you, hmm?
I do must ask myself,
how the hell do you keep this place afloat?
Ahh
Come on, sit down, shep Hmm?
Sit
You are not an unfortunate man
You're an auspicious parasite,
and I need you to tell me
who's on the other side of that spook
You came in with your mind made up
What the fuck you want me to tell you, le?
Huh?
Can't ask you to trust me
Well, then don't
Shame on you
I had trouble finding the fix for it
But I found it
So what's this, then?
It's only ever been three crosses that I remember
Who's the fourth?
Could be the one waiting for me
"This god-forsaken road
will bury us all somehow,"
was the way Ken said it
You look good with that promotion on you
You already got made sheriff
You got what you wanted
- Oh, yeah - What about me, huh?
Wasn't so much a promotion,
like I said it was
Why wasn't I good enough?
Good enough for you to stay?
Can't...
So how much money he take?
Well, enough, i guess
You sound like you really care
They don't care about the money neither
They just got to decide if his death is enough
Simple as that
If they can find Ken in the middle of a back road,
they're sure as hell are gonna find you
I've seen the man who killed him
I know his name, i know where he is
And what are you gonna do?
You can't even write him a ticket
Kilbaught, he knew
There's no arresting anyone
Not anymore
I need a ride
Up here, on the left
You know you don't got to go
Call it a good cause, then
The only good cause you'll ever have
is listening to me
We could go
Keep driving
I'd really like that
Oh, fuck!
Get back, get back!
Go on, put it down
That girl behind you
ain't gonna like you with no pecker
Now put the fucking gun down
Who the fuck are you?
I'm the man looking for Samuel Gibbons
That'd be me
Is this you hiding him? Huh?
Look, look, i don't know much,
but just take whatever you want and go
Shut up!
You're a cop?
I work for county, same as you
Whatever the issue is here,
you and I, we can sort it out
We can understand each other
How is it that they own you?
I don't know what you're talking about
I know they own you
I swear to god, I don't know--
I don't know what you're talking about!
I know they do, you son of a bitch, I know they do!
Stop it! Stop it!
- You're gonna take me to him! - Oh, my god!
Now we're gonna make a liar out of you
Why are you helping him?
Take me to him!
You gonna take me to him now?
I don't know what you want me tell you
I don't know!
They're good at making threats
- Get the fuck away from him! - Get back
No Just--just stop!
They're efficient
at getting their points understood
So maybe you had a gun held to your head
But I bet she ain't had a gun held to hers
No, stop it!
You stop it, god damn it
Please, no, please, please
Stop, god damn it, please
Stop, stop No
Shh
Stop him
It's okay
You're gonna be okay
What happens to her
is because of you
Now, you tell me where he is!
I swear to god, I don't know what you fucking mean
You know what he done
And that don't make you any better than him
Oh, my god
Is that the guy who killed Ken?
I don't know
I was sure that he--
you were gonna kill him anyway?
What is it with you, Wallace?
You find the wrong guy, and then you won't stop
It ain't making you any better than what you're chasing after
Marla, wait
What a pair, huh?
Yeah
What's that you said about good people disappearing?
Was that...
'Cause there's no protecting them?
Or you fail to protect them?
Or you scare them away?
One of those
All of those
Nearly killed an innocent man
Well, there's no getting him,
the man you're after
Could be anybody
Because incidentally,
he is anybody
Monsters hide in plain sight
And once you put enough money in a man's hands,
he'll do almost whatever you want,
and you can turn him
into whatever you need him to be
Just like these boogeymen on the back roads
They're demons
And "demons" is only a way
of calling their illness
- Ahh - What's there to stop it, then?
You go after the illness itself
Crumpled under the vest?
Seņor Diaz selling them crap
They're after shep
So shep was using Ken
to smuggle shitty bullets into Mexico?
Huh
Would you do it?
Make a go at it for 250,000?
That don't seem enough
No, I wouldn't
I wouldn't run if I knew I couldn't
I'd burrow down
Where?
Put him on the back road, let the back road take him?
What's different, then?
What's changed?
Shep owes your friend Ken mersey a death
Now, he'll pay for it,
and he'll pay for it right, to us
You're making an arrest?
That's why you're here
Helping restore me to the man I once was
He wasn't my friend
This guy, you sure he's here?
Asshole showed me a wire receipt
just before he shot me
Hey, stupid! Come on out!
We know you're in there!
Oh, shit!
He's under the house!
You gonna shoot?
I was thinking about it, yeah
Fuck
Put it down, shep!
Wallace!
Oh, shit
It's okay
Easy
So...That hovel you've been squatting,
what made you think of that place, huh?
Might as well spill it, shep
The way you've been going about getting folks killed
is only gonna get me madder
Some young filly on the side, huh?
That was a long time ago, sheriff
Sheriff? Oh, no, no
I don't think there's any need
for formalities anymore,
not after you shot me
What the hell you mean by that?
It's only me
It's a list
It's a walking, breathing list,
and it will follow you to hell
The guy they use,
don't know where he's coming from,
but he finds who they tell him to find
He is a butcher
Won't matter how far I get
Won't matter where I go
They're looking to make an example
You've been liquidating assets
I'm trying to buy my name off that forsaken list
I've given them everything
that's not locked down on my lot
I've given them every buckskin I've earned,
and it's still not enough
Who's wiring your money?
My ex-wife's pension,
few drops in a bucket
All her life amounted to, I guess
I need Ken mersey
If he made it back with that money
and I get my hands on that money,
I promise you, le, on my life,
I promise you,
I'll make all this go away
I'll even cut you in
All you do is let me walk on out that door
Let me make it right
How much you reckon that's worth?
You stay another day in this town,
and you're gonna answer for what you did
They'll put you in a cement box
for what you did to clive
I'm offering you kindness
I'll mull it over
Fuck!
So that's you leaving
Always known what's going on in my head, haven't you?
Not by choice
Yeah, lucky you
Maybe some day, when luck can afford me
Yes, ma'am
You are sweet in small doses
Your picture
You deserve better
Wallace, please don't--
and I'm gonna keep telling it to you like that
until you leave
I can't
Can't think of something nice to say to her
Lilly's a nice girl,
and she was asking for a rosary,
so I think i should get it
Okay
I'll go fetch it
Wallace, please stay
This place is...
Scorched of life
It's a graveyard
Think about leaving
Do what you got to do, but...
The only person that's gonna save you is you
Oh, sorry, i thought Lilly was in here--
it's you
What about me?
Can't remember the last time
I walked around with a picture
of a girl in my wallet
Well...One that i didn't love to pieces, anyway
I don't know
Maybe I'm talking about a different Ken mersey
I know who you're talking about
The Ken mersey i got to know...
Couldn't talk about anything that wasn't you
His share of the take
was always your share of the take
I hear he does that
Always the church girls
No
Shit
Damn it
Lilly?
Slow down, heavy
We're stopping all cars tonight
What the hell is this?
What in the hell you think it is?
What the hell is that cock-skin doing with a gun?
Now, now, now
You're gonna have to mind your manners around Jerry
from here on in
He's been deputized
What is it you're doing here?
Someone is coming
to make something terrible out of shep Diaz
and make an example out of this town
I reckon I'm here doing the same thing
By protecting shep or by getting him killed?
Either way is fine by me
You are a mean dinosaur, Leland
Congratulations, Harry
Go get your gun
You've just been deputized
Here, you take this
And I'll take this
Go on, now
What the hell is this
between you and him?
What's that you call it?
That might as well have been you out there
dismembering people
He ain't hurting no one that don't got it coming
He took my fucking hand!
We fall short of god's glory
because of people like you
What about Marla?
Because that's who he's off getting tonight
I seen the pictures,
the spying you've been doing for him!
God, that's how he knows where to find
who he needs to find
If Marla dies tonight,
I'm gonna make sure that falls on you
His faith is being tested,
like I'm being tested
All right, where's he coming in from?
It's the only way he knows
No, I need to know
So we can be together
Where's he coming in from?
You expect him to come get you?
Come and save you?
I'm the one saving him
Ah
Well, you ain't gonna do
too good of a job of that tonight
There's gonna be trouble like you've never known
if you don't let him finish that list
What are you doing to her?
There's only ever been three crosses
Someone's gonna come
aiming to take Lilly out of here
You don't try to be brave
You let him do just that
He's gonna ask,
and you tell him where Marla and shep went
I don't know where they went
The crosses down on carrion road
Tell him that,
and don't get in his way, you hear?
Where are you going?
To protect this town
Dig faster, lollipop
It'll help you stay warm
I found something
See?
I told you little hands go faster
Come on
This is just a third
This is nothing but his cut
He left my money behind
It ain't gonna be enough
Okay, there were other ones,
some other jobs he did for me
Where does he keep his money?
We're both on the fucking list
Lilly?
Sorry, cap, we're... We're closed
Where is she?
Well, seems the poor girl
got herself into an accident
Don't surprise me none
I'm sorry?
I said it don't surprise me
She's a...
She talks like she's the only one
that's gonna be saved
Who's responsible?
Ain't nothing responsible for an accident
I said, who's responsible?
You best remind Lilly,
there ain't no one walking this earth
who is saved
Then you tell me what you see
What do we do now?
This was Ken's dream
This is why he wanted the money
Jesus Christ
I really hate that I'm believing you,
just let me tell you that
He died for that patch of earth
This just seems so fucking meaningless
Yeah, we'll all have a good cry about that later
You see that?
Come here
Look
Hear that?
- You hear that? - Someday somebody is gonna
put a bullet in that fucking fat head of yours!
You're just about 110 pounds of bummer,
ain't you?
Come on
Give me that
Now, look, baby
This money is part yours too
Do you want it or not?
Well, go find something for us to break this ground
Go!
Oh, god damn it
Oh, Harry
Where is he?
He got away!
Leland?
Oh, god!
Jerry?
Jerry, where are you?
Come on!
You're not afraid of dying, are you?
No!
I'll get you there!
Take me to Lilly!
Hurry up!
We don't have all night!
Wallace, are you there?
Wallace?
Wallace!
Wallace, are you there?
Marla...
Wallace, come get me
I can't
I saw your name on that list
He's coming through here to get to you
I'm gonna slow him down a bit
so you can disappear
Wallace, don't...
Don't...
I always told you
that you deserve better, Marla
But I never said i didn't love you
Wallace?
Hey!
What the hell you doing?
Guthrie...
That was his name,
harland Guthrie
First man I killed
Now I'm old and numb,
but that stinger's still in there,
the kind of sorry that burns in you,
for cutting the breath
of one of god's own creatures like that
Seeing you with her,
like harland looked at his wife,
just days before he killed her
I've been wondering a lot about you
I've been thinking that, you know, if you...
If you fail them...
If shep goes on living like he does,
then they won't hesitate to punish you
And they'll do to you
what you've been trying to do to him
They will erase you
And they'll erase all memory of you,
starting with her
With god by our side, who can be against us?
Come the morning hour,
you'll reckon it's better she dies by your hand
than their cruel hooks
And then you'll be just like old harland
I'll make the same deal tomorrow,
one just like it
Why don't you just leave with her?
You ain't gonna make it
Neither are you
Time to add a few more crosses
to carrion road
Come on, come on, come on, come on
All right
I think we're a minute into your time
You gonna try something stupid again?
No
Oh, yeah, it's a fucking smelly zoo, isn't it?
Don't worry, baby
We're gonna get you stinking too
Come here
All right
Two hands
Okay, come on
Grab it, two hands
Okay
Now, what you want to do is, you want to lift up
You want to put your shoulders into it,
and you bring it down
Real good
Come on, baby
Let's go You want your money,
you got to earn it
Yeah, well,
you can fucking keep it!
Aah!
God!
Come back, you bitch!
You're gonna finish off the list for me
First you're gonna cross out the girl,
then the salesman
If you know the girl don't belong,
why not let her go?
Because it's not the true shape of fidelity
Shit!
I see you
Say it again
Wallace...
Only killing I'll ever see again...
Is you killing me
And I don't even know your name
Wallace
You put this on yourself, son
You don't get to walk away from this place
Don't got to be this way
Don't let it take you, huh?
Wallace?
Give me-- give me the gun
Don't go down the path i did, Wallace
Huh?
I see you
Good enough
It's gonna be all right
It'll be just fine
Now get out of here
I couldn't keep waiting for you, so...
I like that you're here
After some thinking,
I decided I'd come and get you
You know, keep driving
I like that
Get in the car
Buenos dias
Morning, stupid
How'd you find me?
Patience
And I'm telling you, boy, when I get serious,
I stay fucking serious
Times like these, you can't blame a guy
for trying to turn a dollar
Come on
I keep hearing these stories about good people disappearing
If you're talking about that offer I made,
that still stands
Is that right?
All you got to do is let me walk out that door
Let me disappear
No such thing as disappearing, shep
There's only dying
As far as good people go...
I don't recall meeting one that wasn't already dead