Bark (2023) Movie Script
1
[audio logo]
[chittering]
[nature sounds]
[wincing]
[grunting]
[labored breathing]
- Help!
Help.
Help!
Help!
Help!
[nature sounds]
What the fuck?
What the fuck's happening?
[grunting]
[scratching]
[grunting]
Help!
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
Hello?
Hello!
[grunting]
Help!
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
[rustling]
Hello?
I can hear you.
[grunting]
[distant howling]
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey, I see you!
I'm over here!
Hey, help.
Help!
Hey!
Over here.
Over here!
Help!
Help!
Help please!
Please.
[nature sounds]
[music playing]
[sobbing]
[nature sounds]
[rustling]
[low growling]
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
[deep breathing]
[low growling]
[cracking]
[panting]
[low growling]
[labored breathing]
[low growling]
[nature sounds]
[wind rushing]
[exhaling]
[flies buzzing]
[labored breathing]
[music playing]
[labored breathing]
[scratching]
[growling]
[panting]
[scratching]
[grunting]
[labored breathing]
[distant thunder]
Come on, man.
[music playing]
[chirping]
Welcome to the party.
You gonna eat all
that by yourself?
Come on, man.
You're not sharing?
You don't wanna fling
some of that my way?
[chirping]
Selfish.
- Hey, there.
- Who are you?
- I'm Nova.
- You're tied up, too.
- Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
- What the fuck is going on?
- We're staging a protest.
- Protest?
I'm not supposed to be here.
- Yeah, none of us are, but
we're here for the trees.
- We?
Fuck.
[clicking]
Water!
Water.
Oh my gosh, could I have some?
I need some of that.
Hey, no, no.
Why would you do that?
- Do what?
Drink?
That bottle's 100% biodegradable
as are we ironically and--
[nature sounds]
Listen.
OK, this is it.
- This is what?
- This is the end.
- I'm-- I'm not
supposed to be here.
- Here they come.
Hold your signs up, everyone.
Bravely, everyone.
Show them if they want
to cut down trees,
they must first cut down us.
Murder is murder!
If they want to
commit this murder,
then we will all pay the
price for it together.
- Oh, shit.
[barking]
[overlapping screams]
- Loud and proud!
Loud and proud!
[high-pitched ringing]
[music playing]
[gasping]
[birds squeaking]
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut the fuck up.
Get out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get out of here.
Get the fuck out of here!
[squeaking stops]
Selfish.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Come back.
[distant engine]
[music playing]
[rainfall]
[thunder rumbling]
[cracking]
Hey.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Over here.
Over here.
Thank God you're here.
I've been out here--
oh my God.
Oh God, thank you.
Oh God, thank you.
I-- I don't know
how I got out here.
I'm tied to this tree.
Someone kidnapped me.
I've been out here for days.
Maybe even longer.
I haven't had food or water.
Thank God.
Thank God.
Can you cut the ropes?
I-- I got a head wound.
It's a bad injury.
I think I need to
go to the doctor.
Oh, thank God that you're here.
Can you untie the ropes?
[music playing]
- Bark.
- Bark?
I don't understand.
- Bark.
- Bark, yes, that--
that is bark.
Now, can you please untie me?
Can you please untie the ropes?
You cut the ropes.
Could you please cut the ropes?
OK.
No, no, no.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Hey, hey.
Come back here.
You can't leave me here.
I'll eat the bark.
I'll eat the bark.
[panting]
Oh my God.
[panting]
What is it?
What's going on?
Oh my God, what is going on?
What is happening?
Please.
Please.
I'll eat the bark.
Bark?
You want me to eat
the fucking bark?
I'll eat the bark.
What is happening?
OK.
OK.
Get a grip.
You're losing it.
OK.
All right.
OK.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
[moaning]
[grunting]
[retching]
[coughing]
[tapping]
[nature sounds]
[whistling]
[tapping]
Hello?
Can you hear me?
- Yep.
- Wanna help me out?
You see, I'm tied
to a tree here.
- I can see that.
- Oh, OK.
Could you please untie me?
- Nope.
- OK.
Is there a justifiable
reason for that?
You're not gonna help me out?
I don't understand.
Gonna set up camp.
- Oh, this is my spot.
- Untie the fucking tree.
- What if you are a tree?
No.
What if you're one of many
trees here in these woods?
[music playing]
What if I'm the lumberjack
that's come to chop you
and the rest of
your friends down?
Or you're just a guy
that's tied to a tree
and I really don't give a shit?
- Wake up.
Wake the fuck up.
You know, if I die out here,
you will be held responsible.
- By who?
- The law.
- I don't see any
lawmen out here.
- Maybe not.
Not right now.
But they will come eventually.
- Yeah.
Now the cops, they're out
in full force in the city
and in the towns but
not out here in nature.
I mean, have you ever seen a
cop wandering the woods looking
for criminal activity?
No, you haven't.
Hey, this is nature.
There are no rules out here.
Survival of the fittest or
whoever is not tied to a tree.
- There may not be roaming
officers out here right now,
but the law still applies.
And they will find you, and they
will drag you in and stick you
in jail.
- Yeah, on what charge?
What-- what crime did I commit?
- On the charge of not
fucking helping me out
of a very criminal situation,
which makes you culpable.
- That makes me indifferent.
- Same thing in the
eyes of the law.
- You know, you
say these things,
you talk down to me, and I--
I get the feeling that you
don't practice what you preach.
- What makes you say that?
You're tied to a
tree left to die.
This predicament
just screams revenge.
Wouldn't you say?
- Please, man, can I
have some of that water?
- Please.
That's such an interesting
word, isn't it?
Please.
And man.
I notice you-- you say that a
lot when you want something.
Please, man.
Come on, man.
Well, do you really think
that's gonna help you
in some sort of way with me?
Because I'm going to be first
to tell you that it's not.
- Give me some!
- I would, but I
have to be fair.
- What does that mean
you got to be fair?
What do you mean by that?
- Well, it means
life isn't fair.
And by no means am I gonna
step in the way of life's
grand old plan for you.
- Grand plan?
Fuck you.
If you are a decent
human being, then
free me from the fucking tree.
Free me from the fucking tree.
- I get that you're--
you're angry.
I do.
Trust me.
But I don't think you're
really seeing it from--
from my perspective,
my point of view.
All right.
I mean, think about this, OK.
You want to go out in the
woods and do some camping,
next thing you know, you find
a guy that's tied to a tree.
What do you think?
Hmm?
I tell you what you think.
You think that guy, well,
he's-- he's there for a reason.
Or if that's not the case, one
would assume that maybe, you
know, he put himself there
or some type of punishment
or something.
I don't know.
But, look, whatever
the reasons may
be that you find yourself tied
to the tree in these woods,
you know, I'm not interfering.
On the other hand,
though, untying you
would be what a-- a decent
human being would do.
[crunching]
- Yes.
Yes, it would.
And that's-- that's all I ask.
- Now, well, you and I are in
complete agreement together.
[smacking]
[rustling]
- You're not gonna
untie me, are you?
- So you-- you
think I'm real now?
- I'd say you are real.
- Would have to be if
I'm gonna untie you?
- Yeah, you're the
one who put me here.
- You ever seen
this face before?
- Don't think I have.
- Why would I go to
all this trouble if I--
if I didn't know you?
- People do a lot of
weird, awful things.
- Yeah, you got that right.
- So what's the deal?
- What was the last
thing you remember?
That-- that head
wound of yours, it's--
it's really fogging
your brain, huh?
- How bad is it?
My head, is it bad?
- Affecting your--
your memory apparently.
Just think.
OK, think.
You got to try a little harder.
Maybe I'll help you.
I just need to have a
better understanding of what
the circumstances
are, so, you know,
I don't feel like I'm putting
myself in a danger or anything.
- I was at home making dinner.
[music playing]
There was a doorbell.
The doorbell rang.
The doorbell rang.
And then-- I can't--
can't-- can't-- that's it.
That's it.
- You didn't-- you didn't
say anything to anybody.
Piss anybody off with
that big mouth of yours?
- No way.
I keep mostly to myself.
I don't start shit with anyone.
- Well, you know, I kind of
find that hard to believe.
- Hey, look, look, look.
Can we-- can we hit
the reset button?
Can we-- can we start over?
I-- I am genuinely sorry
if I disrespected you,
but you have to understand that
I have been out here for days.
No, food, no water, no
shelter, no answers.
I am dehydrated.
I am starving.
I am tired.
And I-- I just want to go home.
- So you really are an
innocent victim here?
- Yes, yes.
Yes, that's what I've
been trying to tell you.
- You promise?
- Yes.
Yes, I promise.
- You sure?
- I promise.
- OK, I'll help you out.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, I will.
Yeah, let me-- let me just
figure out how you're tied up.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
The-- the ropes are so tight.
They're cutting into my arms.
It's like fucking wire.
If you can just--
Hello?
Oh, no, no.
It's a fucking joke.
[labored breathing]
[tapping]
[music playing]
You're not gonna
help me, are you?
- Nah.
- No.
- What's that?
- Shovel.
- What's it for?
- I'm gonna dig a hole.
- Why?
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, come on.
You don't have to do this.
Come on.
We can figure this out.
What do you need?
What do you need?
What do you want?
Money?
Hey, I can get you money.
How much do you want?
50?
60, 60,000?
- You can get me 60,000?
- $60,000, yes, yes.
That is not a problem for me.
Now you listen to me.
This is between you and me.
No one else is gonna
ever know about this.
You cut me loose, and then it
is-- it is gone, dead, buried.
- Buried?
- Mm-hmm.
- How about 100 grand?
- OK, yeah.
Yeah.
- 200 grand.
- 200.
OK, I can try.
- $1 million.
OK.
How much you think
your life is worth?
- I don't have a million.
- How much!
- You really think that
this is about money?
- I have no idea
what this is about.
I don't know who you are.
I don't know why I'm here.
I don't know why I'm
quibbling with some fucking
redneck in the middle
of the fucking woods.
I have no idea
what this is about.
- You can keep your money.
Just building fire pit, man.
I mean, I don't have to tell you
it's gonna get really cold here
tonight and--
and really dark.
- You're staying the night.
- I mean, you know, I hadn't
planned on it, you know?
But, look, change of plans.
Now I gotta be here
in the morning.
- What happens in the morning?
[music playing]
- That real enough for you?
This right here.
It's what we got
going on tomorrow.
Happy Trails Hiking Day.
I just want to be here in
the morning in case one
of these happy hikers, they--
they stumble across you.
[music playing]
- Tell me why I'm here.
- You're not really in
a position to negotiate.
- Now!
- You're the only person
that can answer that.
You got to look deep
within yourself.
Understand?
[spitting]
- Fuck you.
- I wouldn't-- I wouldn't
waste your saliva.
- Why?
- What, why don't you
want to waste your saliva?
- Why, why, why are
you doing this to me?
Why are you doing this to me?
- Calm-- take a breath.
Calm down.
Look, your tear ducts
are going to dry up.
Trust me.
This is for your own good.
[spitting]
Hmm.
Wow.
You do that again and,
well, this is gone.
You'll never see this again.
- My wedding ring?
- It's my ring now.
- Why would you take that?
- Question you should be asking
yourself is how did I take it,
and judging by that
look on your face,
you had no idea when
I went behind the tree
that I took it off
your finger then.
And it was stuck on pretty good.
I had to actually
give it a bit of a--
bit of a yank, and that
actually doesn't bode well for--
for the circulation
in your hands.
- You're robbing me?
- Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, but, look,
you should thank me.
Seriously.
See this right
here, this is just
something that confined
you to this world.
OK, this-- this ring just spins
round and round and round.
It's like a dog chasing
its tail in a park.
- My wife is dead.
- My condolences.
- She died this year, this
past April, April 15th.
But you don't know that.
You wouldn't know that.
You don't know who I am.
You don't know what
I've been through.
You don't know about me.
I don't see a ring
on your finger.
- No.
Didn't realize I needed one.
- Oh, your age, you do.
- I am a free man.
- Are you?
What are you, 40, 45?
Yeah, you probably don't
have time for relationships.
Spend too much time running
around the woods playing
lumberjack, and intimacy
scares the shit out of you,
intimacy with a woman.
- Oh, woo.
Run for the hills!
Barking up the wrong tree, boy.
- Come on, let's mix it up.
Come on, let's figure this out.
Come on, let's have a fight.
You and me.
You and me man to man.
What, are you scared?
- I look scared of you?
- Yeah.
Yeah, you look scared.
You look like someone who's
scared of a fair fight.
You probably get off on this.
You one of those
sickos, those sickos
who likes to have
sex with trees.
- Yeah, it's called
dendrophilia.
[cackling]
- Yeah, of course
you would know.
- It's a term, yes, I know.
- You practice what you preach?
- No, I read books, man.
OK, I educate myself.
You should try it sometime.
It might help you.
- Coward.
Coward.
Fucking coward!
That's right, coward.
Go back to your stones.
Man, how do you become you?
What happened to you?
How do you become
a man like you?
What do your parents
think of you?
They must be like, oh, fuck.
We should have
aborted this mission.
We should have turned right at
that fucking fork in the road.
Nip this one in the bud.
What do you get abused?
Your dad smack you around?
Or your mom didn't
give you any attention?
That's it.
Bet she's popping pills.
Alcoholic.
Neglect, that's for sure.
And now you won't dare
risk giving yourself over
to another person.
They'll just let you down.
Why give over?
Apathy is so much easier.
Happiness, lone wolf.
I must make you feel
powerful, strong.
If you just pull your head up
out of your ass for one second,
you might realize that
everyone here is just--
just trying to get by.
Everyone is just
trying to survive.
Yeah, the monsters that you
made them out to feel your head,
they have-- they have families
and people that love them.
And people are good.
They have good intentions.
They are worth saving.
- I'm gonna make this
real clear for you.
You are never getting
off this tree.
I can promise you that.
- Coward.
[grunting]
- You just cost
yourself a shoe, man.
And for what?
You know, you make a lot
of irrational decisions
based on anger.
You realize that?
- You are gonna burn.
Woo.
Oh, you're gonna burn in hell.
You are gonna burn.
- I doubt it.
These fancy shoes will.
- Tomorrow I am going to
be yelling and screaming,
and people are going
to come running.
And when they do,
it is not going
to go well for you
'cause I'm not giving in.
You're not gonna beat me.
I'm not giving in to you.
So suck on that, you psychopath.
- You know, you are so
fucking annoying, man.
Seriously.
- Fuck you.
- Well, just so we're clear,
we are way off the beaten path.
Those trails, they, well,
they're a far trek from here.
I just want you to know so you--
you don't get your hopes up?
- No, not that far.
Just a click or two east
to the nearest trail--
- West.
- Thanks.
I just got my bearings.
- That's clever but irrelevant.
Yeah.
You ain't going anywhere.
- Yeah, we'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will.
[whistling]
- Hey, boy.
Hey, who's a good boy?
Yeah, want your ball?
Want your ball?
Yeah?
Fetch.
- I'm not gonna be
here when you get back.
I'm not gonna be here.
- We'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will.
Come on.
Nolan, think, think, think.
You gotta be missing something.
There's got to be trails.
He wouldn't come back
if he wasn't worried.
Where do you think
there's trails?
[music playing]
Yes.
Yes.
The Black Pine
National Forest is
one of the world's
largest havens
for the red striped
western chipmunk.
Blocked by natural forces, the
habitat for a vast diversity
of animals--
bobcat, bears-- 38 groves that
comprise the black pine strip
provide shade to 1,400 square
miles of undisturbed wilderness.
1,400 square miles.
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
[music playing]
[wind rushing]
[nature sounds]
[wincing]
[chuckling]
[music playing]
Hey!
Hey, help!
Hey.
Hey, help.
Help!
Over here!
Over here!
Help!
Help!
[groaning] Help!
Help!
Over here!
Over here!
[music playing]
There's some--
there is somebody.
[music playing]
[helicopter rotors]
Here!
[wincing]
Yes.
[laughing]
Wait.
Oh.
[sirens]
Woo.
[radio chatter]
Here.
Here!
Oh, thank God.
Thank God you found me.
I'm here.
- Hey!
- I'm right here.
Yes!
Yes!
- Hey!
- Oh, you found me.
Over here.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, there's a psychopath
running around the woods.
That's his tent over there.
Oh, thank God.
- I found the body.
- You found both of them?
- Oh, yes.
Untie me.
- It's a 1011.
Blunt force trauma to the head.
Dehydration.
Body's warm.
Dead as a dog.
[music playing]
- I thought you were dead.
- My hands are numb.
My tongue feels like
a popsicle stick.
- Yeah, you probably got
two days or so before you
succumb to dehydration.
- You'd be fine with that.
I still don't understand why.
- Oh, come on, man.
You should know why you're here.
The fact that you don't sort
of just justifies the end.
- How so?
- I'm not here to unpack
that for you, buddy.
But this-- this was
an interesting move.
Not sure what the
endgame was but help.
Cute.
- What's your name?
- What's that?
- What's your name?
You tell me.
- What does it matter
what I know about you?
- You can call me
the outdoorsman.
- The outdoorsman?
[chuckling] That--
what is that, a joke?
[chuckling]
- Yeah, all names are a
joke if you think about it.
It's just something
my parents made up
to stroke their own egos.
- Isn't calling yourself
the outdoorsman sort
of the same thing?
- But it's who I am.
You know, I really
don't think people
should be given their
names until they actually
know who they are.
Yeah, but I guess
then there'd be a lot
of people who die nameless.
[snickering]
- Mr. and Mrs. Outdoorsman.
What are you going to
name your little boy?
Oh, we're very fond
of the name The.
[laughing]
[chuckling]
- Near the end of your rope?
- No.
I'm just through the
looking glass here.
- Well, you're only saying
that because it's nighttime.
You see, at night, we
get a little more calm
and introspective.
But as soon as that sun rises,
it just wipes it all away.
The day is for doing.
The night, that's for thinking.
- Whatever you say, man.
- You know, for what it's
worth I never really liked
my real name, my given name.
- Well, you can take
comfort in the fact
that you didn't have a choice.
- Well, that's it
right there, isn't it?
Choice or lack thereof.
Nature versus nurture.
You know there's-- there's one
that always wins, don't you?
- Nature.
- Wrong.
- Nurture.
That's what I meant.
- Wrong again
- Oh, Jesus, man.
I don't know.
It's your game.
- Thing about nature
versus nurture is there's--
there is no competition.
They're on the same team.
[grunting]
- Nolan Bentley.
That's my name.
Nolan Bentley.
I have a life.
I have people that love me.
I'm a person.
I think you need to--
you need to hear that.
I'm not a good person.
I'm not claiming to be a saint.
I'm not.
I've done things that
I'm not proud of,
things that make me cringe.
I try to be better.
I fucking try.
I try to evolve.
Try to make every day
better than the last.
Am I flawed?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, I'm very flawed.
Have I done things
that I can't reconcile?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Shitty things.
There was-- there was this girl
in high school, Beth Moore.
She made fun of pimple that
I had in my head, and I--
I decimated her in front
of the entire class, outed
her eating disorder.
It was awful, awful, terrible.
Still feel bad.
But I'm not heartless.
I'm not cold.
I'm not pure.
You sort of have to be an
asshole in my profession.
It comes with the territory.
I've used people.
I've been used.
I've betrayed people,
and I've been betrayed.
I have lied,
cheated, and stolen,
and so has everyone else.
Have people gotten hurt?
Yes, but not physically.
And that's fucking capitalism.
I'm sorry, OK.
And some people are dumb,
and that's not my fault.
If there is an
opportunity, I got
to take advantage of it
or some other fucker will.
Do I have work to do on myself?
Yes?
A lot of it.
But we're all a fucking mess.
We're all just trying to get by.
No one is innocent No one is
blameless No one is exempt.
No one comes out
of this unscathed.
That's life.
That's life.
My wife Ella, she's not dead.
I lied.
- Why would you lie?
- Because it sucks.
It hurts.
And she won't talk
to me, and she's
gonna marry some other guy.
OK.
OK.
OK.
I will tell you something that
I have never told anybody else.
I've never even
said this out loud.
One night I was late to a
fucking opening or something.
And I just blew
through the stop sign.
I ignored it.
I didn't give a shit.
I was-- I was rushing.
And I made a turn onto
the small highway,
and this mini van came
barreling toward me.
And it swerved, and
it just missed me.
It just-- just
fucking missed me.
I could feel the death vibrating
between our cars as it passed.
I could feel the impact in
my bones of the crash that
never happened.
I could see their petrified
faces and the brake lights
and then the smoke
from their tires
as it flipped into this
fucking ditch and disappeared.
And I just kept driving.
I thought about going
back, but I didn't.
I just kept going.
I didn't want it.
I didn't want to own it.
I didn't want to admit it.
I didn't want to
have it in my life.
And so I just kept going.
I kept driving.
[music playing]
But I-- I want to be better.
I can be better.
I want to live.
And I want you to
give me that chance.
From now on, I am going
to be a new person.
I am going to make a difference.
That is my word to you, and
I'm not doing it for you.
I'm not saying it for you.
That is for me.
I want a change for myself.
I'm worth saving.
- I appreciate your candor.
I do.
That middle-aged guy in the.
In the minivan, remember
what he looks like?
- No, it was too quick.
- Yeah, why don't you
try a little harder?
Any chance he looked a little
like me, maybe a little younger?
- No, no.
- The lady that was
sitting beside me, that
was my Aunt Trish, and she
died in the ICU that night.
[music playing]
- How could you have found me?
- This is the last stop in
a very long and winding road
of vengeance.
[chuckling]
- You should see
your face right now.
- Goddamn you!
Goddamn it.
No more.
- There is absolutely nothing--
- No more lies.
No more riddles.
No more bullshit.
What do you want me to do?
- Did you know that in certain
corners of South Africa
that they tie the
mentally ill to a tree
and they are denied food
by the very people they
are supposed to protect
them, their families?
Did you know that, Nolan?
Did you?
No, you didn't, but I
didn't expect you to.
Look, I'm not here to help
you figure this out, OK.
Nor am I one for half measures.
But you are exactly
where you deserve to be.
Things are not
always as they seem.
And I believe that
things can and will
go wrong in this process
of life, and sometimes we--
we veer off course and we just--
we just let it happen.
But like you said,
Nolan, no one's innocent.
No one is blameless No one
comes out of this unscathed.
And sometimes, you know, we--
we just left with the the lesser
of two evils.
- So is that what I am,
the lesser of two evils?
- No, you're the greater.
[music playing]
All right.
But you should get some rest.
You got a big day tomorrow.
[rustling]
[zipping]
[smacking]
Wake up.
Hey, rise and shine.
I need you to open your mouth.
I take something from you,
you get something in return.
Fair's fair.
[panting]
I need to hear you say it.
Fair is fair.
- Fair is fair.
- Open your mouth.
[grunting]
OK.
That should keep
you nice and quiet.
All right.
[water rushing]
[nature sounds]
- Regarding context,
Jenny and Mark
and I talked about
this a little bit--
[grunting]
[music playing]
[moaning in agony]
- Help!
Help.
Help.
Help!
[music playing]
[flapping]
[labored breathing]
[cracking]
[labored breathing]
- I should tie that
around your neck.
Live and learn.
- Did you kill them?
- You think I'm some
type of serial killer?
I just redirected them and
sent them on their way.
- Didn't they see your face?
- Doesn't matter.
I'm just another friendly
hiker out here in these woods.
You know, I--
I did think you might have
screamed for help or something
like that.
That's the unfortunate
part about dehydration,
and it's going to get worse.
- Why don't you kill me?
- If I wanted to
kill you, I would
have done it a long time ago.
This right here,
it's about justice.
- Justice?
- Mmm hmm.
- In a court of law.
You can't try someone
if they don't understand
the charges against them.
Help me up.
- Why would I do that?
- Help me up.
I-- I gotta take a shit.
I got leg cramp.
- Yeah, you are right
where you need to be.
[wincing]
[grunting]
[wincing]
Fair is fair.
[cracking]
[screaming]
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
You know, I should shoot
you like a rabid dog
right here and right now.
But the thing is, Nolan,
I could never hurt a dog.
They are such simple,
beautiful animals.
You know that?
They don't lie.
They don't have an agenda.
They don't hold grudges.
But humans, people
like you, you're
like a plague that
needs to be eradicated.
You only get one shot in life,
and what you do with that shot
dictates how the rest will go.
Win, lose, pass, fail,
there's no gray areas.
There are only the people that
did and the people that didn't.
And, you know, maybe--
maybe it's as simple as what
goes around comes around.
It's OK.
It's all right.
Look at me.
The hard part's over.
All you have to do
now is wait and die.
And sometimes the answer
is six feet under.
But for you, it's only two,
and then you'll be free.
Then you'll be free, Nolan.
- I don't want to die.
I'm scared.
I don't want to die.
Hunter.
That's your name.
That's your name.
So you're fucking leaving me?
- I can't do this anymore.
- Can't do what, you
fucking little princess?
You stay in your
fucking pajamas all day,
driving your little
Tesla around,
going to your fucking spa.
- I'm seeing someone else.
- You're what?
- I am fucking someone else.
- Ella, I want to see you.
I want to sort this out.
- Please-- please just don't
make this difficult, Nolan.
You can just drop
Django inside the gate.
- Yeah, sure.
I'll drop him there
if you're there.
- What are you threatening me?
You need help, Nolan.
- I need help?
- You really do.
- I need fucking help?
I need-- fuck you, Ella!
Fuck you, Ella!
You are screwing some other guy.
You get the moral high ground?
Fuck!
- Look at you still
trying to win.
- Win?
What the fuck am I winning?
What am I winning, Ella?
Tell me what I'm winning.
- Leave Django inside the gate.
Jared is there, and he'll
kick your fucking ass
if you try anything stupid.
- All right.
No, no, you listen to me.
You listen to me.
You better fucking
be there, Ella.
- All right.
- Listen to me--
- Bye, Nolan.
- You better fucking
be there, Ella!
Oh, you fucking bitch.
You fucking bitch.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
- Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
[beeping]
[hyperventilating]
[panting]
[dial tone]
Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
- You fucking bitch.
You fucking bitch.
[dial tone]
- Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
[beeping]
- So I've made a decision.
You want to fuck
some other guy, fine.
You want to end this?
You want to belittle
me, all my efforts,
all the time and money
I've squandered, fine.
But an eye for an eye, Ella.
And maybe you're right.
Maybe I am just a stunted
fuck who wants to win.
So guess what?
You got 10 minutes to
call me back or you lose.
That's it.
It's her fault, pal, not mine.
[whimpering]
[barking]
[squeaking]
- What you find there, Hunter?
[flies buzzing]
Oh, no.
Who would do such a thing?
That's OK.
You're free now, buddy.
You're free now.
[door slamming]
- 2nd down and 9
from their own 45.
[vibrating]
Just over 9:00 minutes
to go in the quarter.
And they score on this one.
- Yo.
- Hello, sir.
I'm with the US
Census Bureau, and I
was wondering if I could ask you
a few questions this evening.
- I'm busy.
- My apologies for
the interruption, sir.
We were just conducting a survey
on the families in your area,
and we were wondering
if you could fill us
in on some details about
your living situation.
It won't take but a minute.
- Jesus.
Dude.
- Yeah, you got a
minute and 30 seconds.
Go.
- Very good.
I'll get right to it then.
How many people live
in your household, sir?
- Just me.
- Any visitations by a child
or children on a semi-permanent
basis?
- No, me and only me.
No kids.
Any pets?
- Pets?
- Yes, sir.
- The Census Bureau wants
to know if I have any pets.
- That is correct, sir.
- OK.
No, no pets.
- Have you ever had an
animal under your care?
- Under my care, I mean--
- Sorry, sir.
We've just added some questions
to help us get a better idea--
- I don't care.
I don't care.
Yeah, I had a dog.
He ran away.
- That's sad.
- Yeah, it sucks.
We done here?
- Did you ever go
looking for him?
- Did I--
[dinging]
What is this some kind of prank?
Scam?
- Did you ever go out
looking for your lost dog?
- OK, go fuck yourself.
[pinging]
- He's coming.
And it is.
He threw it.
In the field ahead of--
[music playing]
[sobbing]
[nature sounds]
[water rushing]
[nature sounds]
[squelching]
[end theme]
[humming]
- (SINGING) Who am I in the end
If I had the chance
Would I do it again
And again
And again
And again
Who am I in the end
If I had the chance
Would I do it again
And again
And again
And again
[audio logo]
[chittering]
[nature sounds]
[wincing]
[grunting]
[labored breathing]
- Help!
Help.
Help!
Help!
Help!
[nature sounds]
What the fuck?
What the fuck's happening?
[grunting]
[scratching]
[grunting]
Help!
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
Hello?
Hello!
[grunting]
Help!
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
[rustling]
Hello?
I can hear you.
[grunting]
[distant howling]
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey, I see you!
I'm over here!
Hey, help.
Help!
Hey!
Over here.
Over here!
Help!
Help!
Help please!
Please.
[nature sounds]
[music playing]
[sobbing]
[nature sounds]
[rustling]
[low growling]
[nature sounds]
[cracking]
[deep breathing]
[low growling]
[cracking]
[panting]
[low growling]
[labored breathing]
[low growling]
[nature sounds]
[wind rushing]
[exhaling]
[flies buzzing]
[labored breathing]
[music playing]
[labored breathing]
[scratching]
[growling]
[panting]
[scratching]
[grunting]
[labored breathing]
[distant thunder]
Come on, man.
[music playing]
[chirping]
Welcome to the party.
You gonna eat all
that by yourself?
Come on, man.
You're not sharing?
You don't wanna fling
some of that my way?
[chirping]
Selfish.
- Hey, there.
- Who are you?
- I'm Nova.
- You're tied up, too.
- Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
- What the fuck is going on?
- We're staging a protest.
- Protest?
I'm not supposed to be here.
- Yeah, none of us are, but
we're here for the trees.
- We?
Fuck.
[clicking]
Water!
Water.
Oh my gosh, could I have some?
I need some of that.
Hey, no, no.
Why would you do that?
- Do what?
Drink?
That bottle's 100% biodegradable
as are we ironically and--
[nature sounds]
Listen.
OK, this is it.
- This is what?
- This is the end.
- I'm-- I'm not
supposed to be here.
- Here they come.
Hold your signs up, everyone.
Bravely, everyone.
Show them if they want
to cut down trees,
they must first cut down us.
Murder is murder!
If they want to
commit this murder,
then we will all pay the
price for it together.
- Oh, shit.
[barking]
[overlapping screams]
- Loud and proud!
Loud and proud!
[high-pitched ringing]
[music playing]
[gasping]
[birds squeaking]
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut the fuck up.
Get out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get out of here.
Get the fuck out of here!
[squeaking stops]
Selfish.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Come back.
[distant engine]
[music playing]
[rainfall]
[thunder rumbling]
[cracking]
Hey.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Over here.
Over here.
Thank God you're here.
I've been out here--
oh my God.
Oh God, thank you.
Oh God, thank you.
I-- I don't know
how I got out here.
I'm tied to this tree.
Someone kidnapped me.
I've been out here for days.
Maybe even longer.
I haven't had food or water.
Thank God.
Thank God.
Can you cut the ropes?
I-- I got a head wound.
It's a bad injury.
I think I need to
go to the doctor.
Oh, thank God that you're here.
Can you untie the ropes?
[music playing]
- Bark.
- Bark?
I don't understand.
- Bark.
- Bark, yes, that--
that is bark.
Now, can you please untie me?
Can you please untie the ropes?
You cut the ropes.
Could you please cut the ropes?
OK.
No, no, no.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Hey, hey.
Come back here.
You can't leave me here.
I'll eat the bark.
I'll eat the bark.
[panting]
Oh my God.
[panting]
What is it?
What's going on?
Oh my God, what is going on?
What is happening?
Please.
Please.
I'll eat the bark.
Bark?
You want me to eat
the fucking bark?
I'll eat the bark.
What is happening?
OK.
OK.
Get a grip.
You're losing it.
OK.
All right.
OK.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
[moaning]
[grunting]
[retching]
[coughing]
[tapping]
[nature sounds]
[whistling]
[tapping]
Hello?
Can you hear me?
- Yep.
- Wanna help me out?
You see, I'm tied
to a tree here.
- I can see that.
- Oh, OK.
Could you please untie me?
- Nope.
- OK.
Is there a justifiable
reason for that?
You're not gonna help me out?
I don't understand.
Gonna set up camp.
- Oh, this is my spot.
- Untie the fucking tree.
- What if you are a tree?
No.
What if you're one of many
trees here in these woods?
[music playing]
What if I'm the lumberjack
that's come to chop you
and the rest of
your friends down?
Or you're just a guy
that's tied to a tree
and I really don't give a shit?
- Wake up.
Wake the fuck up.
You know, if I die out here,
you will be held responsible.
- By who?
- The law.
- I don't see any
lawmen out here.
- Maybe not.
Not right now.
But they will come eventually.
- Yeah.
Now the cops, they're out
in full force in the city
and in the towns but
not out here in nature.
I mean, have you ever seen a
cop wandering the woods looking
for criminal activity?
No, you haven't.
Hey, this is nature.
There are no rules out here.
Survival of the fittest or
whoever is not tied to a tree.
- There may not be roaming
officers out here right now,
but the law still applies.
And they will find you, and they
will drag you in and stick you
in jail.
- Yeah, on what charge?
What-- what crime did I commit?
- On the charge of not
fucking helping me out
of a very criminal situation,
which makes you culpable.
- That makes me indifferent.
- Same thing in the
eyes of the law.
- You know, you
say these things,
you talk down to me, and I--
I get the feeling that you
don't practice what you preach.
- What makes you say that?
You're tied to a
tree left to die.
This predicament
just screams revenge.
Wouldn't you say?
- Please, man, can I
have some of that water?
- Please.
That's such an interesting
word, isn't it?
Please.
And man.
I notice you-- you say that a
lot when you want something.
Please, man.
Come on, man.
Well, do you really think
that's gonna help you
in some sort of way with me?
Because I'm going to be first
to tell you that it's not.
- Give me some!
- I would, but I
have to be fair.
- What does that mean
you got to be fair?
What do you mean by that?
- Well, it means
life isn't fair.
And by no means am I gonna
step in the way of life's
grand old plan for you.
- Grand plan?
Fuck you.
If you are a decent
human being, then
free me from the fucking tree.
Free me from the fucking tree.
- I get that you're--
you're angry.
I do.
Trust me.
But I don't think you're
really seeing it from--
from my perspective,
my point of view.
All right.
I mean, think about this, OK.
You want to go out in the
woods and do some camping,
next thing you know, you find
a guy that's tied to a tree.
What do you think?
Hmm?
I tell you what you think.
You think that guy, well,
he's-- he's there for a reason.
Or if that's not the case, one
would assume that maybe, you
know, he put himself there
or some type of punishment
or something.
I don't know.
But, look, whatever
the reasons may
be that you find yourself tied
to the tree in these woods,
you know, I'm not interfering.
On the other hand,
though, untying you
would be what a-- a decent
human being would do.
[crunching]
- Yes.
Yes, it would.
And that's-- that's all I ask.
- Now, well, you and I are in
complete agreement together.
[smacking]
[rustling]
- You're not gonna
untie me, are you?
- So you-- you
think I'm real now?
- I'd say you are real.
- Would have to be if
I'm gonna untie you?
- Yeah, you're the
one who put me here.
- You ever seen
this face before?
- Don't think I have.
- Why would I go to
all this trouble if I--
if I didn't know you?
- People do a lot of
weird, awful things.
- Yeah, you got that right.
- So what's the deal?
- What was the last
thing you remember?
That-- that head
wound of yours, it's--
it's really fogging
your brain, huh?
- How bad is it?
My head, is it bad?
- Affecting your--
your memory apparently.
Just think.
OK, think.
You got to try a little harder.
Maybe I'll help you.
I just need to have a
better understanding of what
the circumstances
are, so, you know,
I don't feel like I'm putting
myself in a danger or anything.
- I was at home making dinner.
[music playing]
There was a doorbell.
The doorbell rang.
The doorbell rang.
And then-- I can't--
can't-- can't-- that's it.
That's it.
- You didn't-- you didn't
say anything to anybody.
Piss anybody off with
that big mouth of yours?
- No way.
I keep mostly to myself.
I don't start shit with anyone.
- Well, you know, I kind of
find that hard to believe.
- Hey, look, look, look.
Can we-- can we hit
the reset button?
Can we-- can we start over?
I-- I am genuinely sorry
if I disrespected you,
but you have to understand that
I have been out here for days.
No, food, no water, no
shelter, no answers.
I am dehydrated.
I am starving.
I am tired.
And I-- I just want to go home.
- So you really are an
innocent victim here?
- Yes, yes.
Yes, that's what I've
been trying to tell you.
- You promise?
- Yes.
Yes, I promise.
- You sure?
- I promise.
- OK, I'll help you out.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, I will.
Yeah, let me-- let me just
figure out how you're tied up.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
The-- the ropes are so tight.
They're cutting into my arms.
It's like fucking wire.
If you can just--
Hello?
Oh, no, no.
It's a fucking joke.
[labored breathing]
[tapping]
[music playing]
You're not gonna
help me, are you?
- Nah.
- No.
- What's that?
- Shovel.
- What's it for?
- I'm gonna dig a hole.
- Why?
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, come on.
You don't have to do this.
Come on.
We can figure this out.
What do you need?
What do you need?
What do you want?
Money?
Hey, I can get you money.
How much do you want?
50?
60, 60,000?
- You can get me 60,000?
- $60,000, yes, yes.
That is not a problem for me.
Now you listen to me.
This is between you and me.
No one else is gonna
ever know about this.
You cut me loose, and then it
is-- it is gone, dead, buried.
- Buried?
- Mm-hmm.
- How about 100 grand?
- OK, yeah.
Yeah.
- 200 grand.
- 200.
OK, I can try.
- $1 million.
OK.
How much you think
your life is worth?
- I don't have a million.
- How much!
- You really think that
this is about money?
- I have no idea
what this is about.
I don't know who you are.
I don't know why I'm here.
I don't know why I'm
quibbling with some fucking
redneck in the middle
of the fucking woods.
I have no idea
what this is about.
- You can keep your money.
Just building fire pit, man.
I mean, I don't have to tell you
it's gonna get really cold here
tonight and--
and really dark.
- You're staying the night.
- I mean, you know, I hadn't
planned on it, you know?
But, look, change of plans.
Now I gotta be here
in the morning.
- What happens in the morning?
[music playing]
- That real enough for you?
This right here.
It's what we got
going on tomorrow.
Happy Trails Hiking Day.
I just want to be here in
the morning in case one
of these happy hikers, they--
they stumble across you.
[music playing]
- Tell me why I'm here.
- You're not really in
a position to negotiate.
- Now!
- You're the only person
that can answer that.
You got to look deep
within yourself.
Understand?
[spitting]
- Fuck you.
- I wouldn't-- I wouldn't
waste your saliva.
- Why?
- What, why don't you
want to waste your saliva?
- Why, why, why are
you doing this to me?
Why are you doing this to me?
- Calm-- take a breath.
Calm down.
Look, your tear ducts
are going to dry up.
Trust me.
This is for your own good.
[spitting]
Hmm.
Wow.
You do that again and,
well, this is gone.
You'll never see this again.
- My wedding ring?
- It's my ring now.
- Why would you take that?
- Question you should be asking
yourself is how did I take it,
and judging by that
look on your face,
you had no idea when
I went behind the tree
that I took it off
your finger then.
And it was stuck on pretty good.
I had to actually
give it a bit of a--
bit of a yank, and that
actually doesn't bode well for--
for the circulation
in your hands.
- You're robbing me?
- Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, but, look,
you should thank me.
Seriously.
See this right
here, this is just
something that confined
you to this world.
OK, this-- this ring just spins
round and round and round.
It's like a dog chasing
its tail in a park.
- My wife is dead.
- My condolences.
- She died this year, this
past April, April 15th.
But you don't know that.
You wouldn't know that.
You don't know who I am.
You don't know what
I've been through.
You don't know about me.
I don't see a ring
on your finger.
- No.
Didn't realize I needed one.
- Oh, your age, you do.
- I am a free man.
- Are you?
What are you, 40, 45?
Yeah, you probably don't
have time for relationships.
Spend too much time running
around the woods playing
lumberjack, and intimacy
scares the shit out of you,
intimacy with a woman.
- Oh, woo.
Run for the hills!
Barking up the wrong tree, boy.
- Come on, let's mix it up.
Come on, let's figure this out.
Come on, let's have a fight.
You and me.
You and me man to man.
What, are you scared?
- I look scared of you?
- Yeah.
Yeah, you look scared.
You look like someone who's
scared of a fair fight.
You probably get off on this.
You one of those
sickos, those sickos
who likes to have
sex with trees.
- Yeah, it's called
dendrophilia.
[cackling]
- Yeah, of course
you would know.
- It's a term, yes, I know.
- You practice what you preach?
- No, I read books, man.
OK, I educate myself.
You should try it sometime.
It might help you.
- Coward.
Coward.
Fucking coward!
That's right, coward.
Go back to your stones.
Man, how do you become you?
What happened to you?
How do you become
a man like you?
What do your parents
think of you?
They must be like, oh, fuck.
We should have
aborted this mission.
We should have turned right at
that fucking fork in the road.
Nip this one in the bud.
What do you get abused?
Your dad smack you around?
Or your mom didn't
give you any attention?
That's it.
Bet she's popping pills.
Alcoholic.
Neglect, that's for sure.
And now you won't dare
risk giving yourself over
to another person.
They'll just let you down.
Why give over?
Apathy is so much easier.
Happiness, lone wolf.
I must make you feel
powerful, strong.
If you just pull your head up
out of your ass for one second,
you might realize that
everyone here is just--
just trying to get by.
Everyone is just
trying to survive.
Yeah, the monsters that you
made them out to feel your head,
they have-- they have families
and people that love them.
And people are good.
They have good intentions.
They are worth saving.
- I'm gonna make this
real clear for you.
You are never getting
off this tree.
I can promise you that.
- Coward.
[grunting]
- You just cost
yourself a shoe, man.
And for what?
You know, you make a lot
of irrational decisions
based on anger.
You realize that?
- You are gonna burn.
Woo.
Oh, you're gonna burn in hell.
You are gonna burn.
- I doubt it.
These fancy shoes will.
- Tomorrow I am going to
be yelling and screaming,
and people are going
to come running.
And when they do,
it is not going
to go well for you
'cause I'm not giving in.
You're not gonna beat me.
I'm not giving in to you.
So suck on that, you psychopath.
- You know, you are so
fucking annoying, man.
Seriously.
- Fuck you.
- Well, just so we're clear,
we are way off the beaten path.
Those trails, they, well,
they're a far trek from here.
I just want you to know so you--
you don't get your hopes up?
- No, not that far.
Just a click or two east
to the nearest trail--
- West.
- Thanks.
I just got my bearings.
- That's clever but irrelevant.
Yeah.
You ain't going anywhere.
- Yeah, we'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will.
[whistling]
- Hey, boy.
Hey, who's a good boy?
Yeah, want your ball?
Want your ball?
Yeah?
Fetch.
- I'm not gonna be
here when you get back.
I'm not gonna be here.
- We'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will.
Come on.
Nolan, think, think, think.
You gotta be missing something.
There's got to be trails.
He wouldn't come back
if he wasn't worried.
Where do you think
there's trails?
[music playing]
Yes.
Yes.
The Black Pine
National Forest is
one of the world's
largest havens
for the red striped
western chipmunk.
Blocked by natural forces, the
habitat for a vast diversity
of animals--
bobcat, bears-- 38 groves that
comprise the black pine strip
provide shade to 1,400 square
miles of undisturbed wilderness.
1,400 square miles.
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
[music playing]
[wind rushing]
[nature sounds]
[wincing]
[chuckling]
[music playing]
Hey!
Hey, help!
Hey.
Hey, help.
Help!
Over here!
Over here!
Help!
Help!
[groaning] Help!
Help!
Over here!
Over here!
[music playing]
There's some--
there is somebody.
[music playing]
[helicopter rotors]
Here!
[wincing]
Yes.
[laughing]
Wait.
Oh.
[sirens]
Woo.
[radio chatter]
Here.
Here!
Oh, thank God.
Thank God you found me.
I'm here.
- Hey!
- I'm right here.
Yes!
Yes!
- Hey!
- Oh, you found me.
Over here.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, there's a psychopath
running around the woods.
That's his tent over there.
Oh, thank God.
- I found the body.
- You found both of them?
- Oh, yes.
Untie me.
- It's a 1011.
Blunt force trauma to the head.
Dehydration.
Body's warm.
Dead as a dog.
[music playing]
- I thought you were dead.
- My hands are numb.
My tongue feels like
a popsicle stick.
- Yeah, you probably got
two days or so before you
succumb to dehydration.
- You'd be fine with that.
I still don't understand why.
- Oh, come on, man.
You should know why you're here.
The fact that you don't sort
of just justifies the end.
- How so?
- I'm not here to unpack
that for you, buddy.
But this-- this was
an interesting move.
Not sure what the
endgame was but help.
Cute.
- What's your name?
- What's that?
- What's your name?
You tell me.
- What does it matter
what I know about you?
- You can call me
the outdoorsman.
- The outdoorsman?
[chuckling] That--
what is that, a joke?
[chuckling]
- Yeah, all names are a
joke if you think about it.
It's just something
my parents made up
to stroke their own egos.
- Isn't calling yourself
the outdoorsman sort
of the same thing?
- But it's who I am.
You know, I really
don't think people
should be given their
names until they actually
know who they are.
Yeah, but I guess
then there'd be a lot
of people who die nameless.
[snickering]
- Mr. and Mrs. Outdoorsman.
What are you going to
name your little boy?
Oh, we're very fond
of the name The.
[laughing]
[chuckling]
- Near the end of your rope?
- No.
I'm just through the
looking glass here.
- Well, you're only saying
that because it's nighttime.
You see, at night, we
get a little more calm
and introspective.
But as soon as that sun rises,
it just wipes it all away.
The day is for doing.
The night, that's for thinking.
- Whatever you say, man.
- You know, for what it's
worth I never really liked
my real name, my given name.
- Well, you can take
comfort in the fact
that you didn't have a choice.
- Well, that's it
right there, isn't it?
Choice or lack thereof.
Nature versus nurture.
You know there's-- there's one
that always wins, don't you?
- Nature.
- Wrong.
- Nurture.
That's what I meant.
- Wrong again
- Oh, Jesus, man.
I don't know.
It's your game.
- Thing about nature
versus nurture is there's--
there is no competition.
They're on the same team.
[grunting]
- Nolan Bentley.
That's my name.
Nolan Bentley.
I have a life.
I have people that love me.
I'm a person.
I think you need to--
you need to hear that.
I'm not a good person.
I'm not claiming to be a saint.
I'm not.
I've done things that
I'm not proud of,
things that make me cringe.
I try to be better.
I fucking try.
I try to evolve.
Try to make every day
better than the last.
Am I flawed?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, I'm very flawed.
Have I done things
that I can't reconcile?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Shitty things.
There was-- there was this girl
in high school, Beth Moore.
She made fun of pimple that
I had in my head, and I--
I decimated her in front
of the entire class, outed
her eating disorder.
It was awful, awful, terrible.
Still feel bad.
But I'm not heartless.
I'm not cold.
I'm not pure.
You sort of have to be an
asshole in my profession.
It comes with the territory.
I've used people.
I've been used.
I've betrayed people,
and I've been betrayed.
I have lied,
cheated, and stolen,
and so has everyone else.
Have people gotten hurt?
Yes, but not physically.
And that's fucking capitalism.
I'm sorry, OK.
And some people are dumb,
and that's not my fault.
If there is an
opportunity, I got
to take advantage of it
or some other fucker will.
Do I have work to do on myself?
Yes?
A lot of it.
But we're all a fucking mess.
We're all just trying to get by.
No one is innocent No one is
blameless No one is exempt.
No one comes out
of this unscathed.
That's life.
That's life.
My wife Ella, she's not dead.
I lied.
- Why would you lie?
- Because it sucks.
It hurts.
And she won't talk
to me, and she's
gonna marry some other guy.
OK.
OK.
OK.
I will tell you something that
I have never told anybody else.
I've never even
said this out loud.
One night I was late to a
fucking opening or something.
And I just blew
through the stop sign.
I ignored it.
I didn't give a shit.
I was-- I was rushing.
And I made a turn onto
the small highway,
and this mini van came
barreling toward me.
And it swerved, and
it just missed me.
It just-- just
fucking missed me.
I could feel the death vibrating
between our cars as it passed.
I could feel the impact in
my bones of the crash that
never happened.
I could see their petrified
faces and the brake lights
and then the smoke
from their tires
as it flipped into this
fucking ditch and disappeared.
And I just kept driving.
I thought about going
back, but I didn't.
I just kept going.
I didn't want it.
I didn't want to own it.
I didn't want to admit it.
I didn't want to
have it in my life.
And so I just kept going.
I kept driving.
[music playing]
But I-- I want to be better.
I can be better.
I want to live.
And I want you to
give me that chance.
From now on, I am going
to be a new person.
I am going to make a difference.
That is my word to you, and
I'm not doing it for you.
I'm not saying it for you.
That is for me.
I want a change for myself.
I'm worth saving.
- I appreciate your candor.
I do.
That middle-aged guy in the.
In the minivan, remember
what he looks like?
- No, it was too quick.
- Yeah, why don't you
try a little harder?
Any chance he looked a little
like me, maybe a little younger?
- No, no.
- The lady that was
sitting beside me, that
was my Aunt Trish, and she
died in the ICU that night.
[music playing]
- How could you have found me?
- This is the last stop in
a very long and winding road
of vengeance.
[chuckling]
- You should see
your face right now.
- Goddamn you!
Goddamn it.
No more.
- There is absolutely nothing--
- No more lies.
No more riddles.
No more bullshit.
What do you want me to do?
- Did you know that in certain
corners of South Africa
that they tie the
mentally ill to a tree
and they are denied food
by the very people they
are supposed to protect
them, their families?
Did you know that, Nolan?
Did you?
No, you didn't, but I
didn't expect you to.
Look, I'm not here to help
you figure this out, OK.
Nor am I one for half measures.
But you are exactly
where you deserve to be.
Things are not
always as they seem.
And I believe that
things can and will
go wrong in this process
of life, and sometimes we--
we veer off course and we just--
we just let it happen.
But like you said,
Nolan, no one's innocent.
No one is blameless No one
comes out of this unscathed.
And sometimes, you know, we--
we just left with the the lesser
of two evils.
- So is that what I am,
the lesser of two evils?
- No, you're the greater.
[music playing]
All right.
But you should get some rest.
You got a big day tomorrow.
[rustling]
[zipping]
[smacking]
Wake up.
Hey, rise and shine.
I need you to open your mouth.
I take something from you,
you get something in return.
Fair's fair.
[panting]
I need to hear you say it.
Fair is fair.
- Fair is fair.
- Open your mouth.
[grunting]
OK.
That should keep
you nice and quiet.
All right.
[water rushing]
[nature sounds]
- Regarding context,
Jenny and Mark
and I talked about
this a little bit--
[grunting]
[music playing]
[moaning in agony]
- Help!
Help.
Help.
Help!
[music playing]
[flapping]
[labored breathing]
[cracking]
[labored breathing]
- I should tie that
around your neck.
Live and learn.
- Did you kill them?
- You think I'm some
type of serial killer?
I just redirected them and
sent them on their way.
- Didn't they see your face?
- Doesn't matter.
I'm just another friendly
hiker out here in these woods.
You know, I--
I did think you might have
screamed for help or something
like that.
That's the unfortunate
part about dehydration,
and it's going to get worse.
- Why don't you kill me?
- If I wanted to
kill you, I would
have done it a long time ago.
This right here,
it's about justice.
- Justice?
- Mmm hmm.
- In a court of law.
You can't try someone
if they don't understand
the charges against them.
Help me up.
- Why would I do that?
- Help me up.
I-- I gotta take a shit.
I got leg cramp.
- Yeah, you are right
where you need to be.
[wincing]
[grunting]
[wincing]
Fair is fair.
[cracking]
[screaming]
[music playing]
[nature sounds]
You know, I should shoot
you like a rabid dog
right here and right now.
But the thing is, Nolan,
I could never hurt a dog.
They are such simple,
beautiful animals.
You know that?
They don't lie.
They don't have an agenda.
They don't hold grudges.
But humans, people
like you, you're
like a plague that
needs to be eradicated.
You only get one shot in life,
and what you do with that shot
dictates how the rest will go.
Win, lose, pass, fail,
there's no gray areas.
There are only the people that
did and the people that didn't.
And, you know, maybe--
maybe it's as simple as what
goes around comes around.
It's OK.
It's all right.
Look at me.
The hard part's over.
All you have to do
now is wait and die.
And sometimes the answer
is six feet under.
But for you, it's only two,
and then you'll be free.
Then you'll be free, Nolan.
- I don't want to die.
I'm scared.
I don't want to die.
Hunter.
That's your name.
That's your name.
So you're fucking leaving me?
- I can't do this anymore.
- Can't do what, you
fucking little princess?
You stay in your
fucking pajamas all day,
driving your little
Tesla around,
going to your fucking spa.
- I'm seeing someone else.
- You're what?
- I am fucking someone else.
- Ella, I want to see you.
I want to sort this out.
- Please-- please just don't
make this difficult, Nolan.
You can just drop
Django inside the gate.
- Yeah, sure.
I'll drop him there
if you're there.
- What are you threatening me?
You need help, Nolan.
- I need help?
- You really do.
- I need fucking help?
I need-- fuck you, Ella!
Fuck you, Ella!
You are screwing some other guy.
You get the moral high ground?
Fuck!
- Look at you still
trying to win.
- Win?
What the fuck am I winning?
What am I winning, Ella?
Tell me what I'm winning.
- Leave Django inside the gate.
Jared is there, and he'll
kick your fucking ass
if you try anything stupid.
- All right.
No, no, you listen to me.
You listen to me.
You better fucking
be there, Ella.
- All right.
- Listen to me--
- Bye, Nolan.
- You better fucking
be there, Ella!
Oh, you fucking bitch.
You fucking bitch.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
- Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
[beeping]
[hyperventilating]
[panting]
[dial tone]
Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
- You fucking bitch.
You fucking bitch.
[dial tone]
- Hi, this is Ella.
Leave a message after the beep.
[beeping]
- So I've made a decision.
You want to fuck
some other guy, fine.
You want to end this?
You want to belittle
me, all my efforts,
all the time and money
I've squandered, fine.
But an eye for an eye, Ella.
And maybe you're right.
Maybe I am just a stunted
fuck who wants to win.
So guess what?
You got 10 minutes to
call me back or you lose.
That's it.
It's her fault, pal, not mine.
[whimpering]
[barking]
[squeaking]
- What you find there, Hunter?
[flies buzzing]
Oh, no.
Who would do such a thing?
That's OK.
You're free now, buddy.
You're free now.
[door slamming]
- 2nd down and 9
from their own 45.
[vibrating]
Just over 9:00 minutes
to go in the quarter.
And they score on this one.
- Yo.
- Hello, sir.
I'm with the US
Census Bureau, and I
was wondering if I could ask you
a few questions this evening.
- I'm busy.
- My apologies for
the interruption, sir.
We were just conducting a survey
on the families in your area,
and we were wondering
if you could fill us
in on some details about
your living situation.
It won't take but a minute.
- Jesus.
Dude.
- Yeah, you got a
minute and 30 seconds.
Go.
- Very good.
I'll get right to it then.
How many people live
in your household, sir?
- Just me.
- Any visitations by a child
or children on a semi-permanent
basis?
- No, me and only me.
No kids.
Any pets?
- Pets?
- Yes, sir.
- The Census Bureau wants
to know if I have any pets.
- That is correct, sir.
- OK.
No, no pets.
- Have you ever had an
animal under your care?
- Under my care, I mean--
- Sorry, sir.
We've just added some questions
to help us get a better idea--
- I don't care.
I don't care.
Yeah, I had a dog.
He ran away.
- That's sad.
- Yeah, it sucks.
We done here?
- Did you ever go
looking for him?
- Did I--
[dinging]
What is this some kind of prank?
Scam?
- Did you ever go out
looking for your lost dog?
- OK, go fuck yourself.
[pinging]
- He's coming.
And it is.
He threw it.
In the field ahead of--
[music playing]
[sobbing]
[nature sounds]
[water rushing]
[nature sounds]
[squelching]
[end theme]
[humming]
- (SINGING) Who am I in the end
If I had the chance
Would I do it again
And again
And again
And again
Who am I in the end
If I had the chance
Would I do it again
And again
And again
And again