Don't Say Its Name (2021) Movie Script
1
[water rushing]
[footsteps in snow]
Radiator finally blew, Ma.
Can you come get me?
I'm on road 236,
just come from the bank council meeting.
Oh, it got pretty rank.
Oh, I said my piece,
you'd be proud of me.
Well, the battle's sure not won yet.
Ma?
Ma, I can't hear you.
[engine running]
[engine revving]
[ominous music]
Come on.
[tense music]
[screaming]
[eerie music]
[dog barking]
[News Reporter]
Fighting broke out overnight...
[muffled speaking]
...guerrilla base,
killing at least 49 soldiers...
[muffled speaking]
...Israeli jets that reportedly
made it back to their headquarters.
You're welcome for the nice
breakfast I made you.
[news muffled]
Take a bite,
it'll put hair on your chest.
I don't need hair on my chest.
What I need you some new hockey gear.
Well, this rat trap of a house
that nevertheless keeps us warm and dry
needs a new heat pump.
There's nothing wrong with used gear,
and that's what you're getting.
So why don't you put that flyer down
and look at something useful?
Like the homework
you neglected to do last night.
Used gear smells.
Plus, we got some deals.
New gear smells too,
once you wear it a couple times,
plus girls like the smell of male odor,
it excites them.
You're a dictator, you know that?
Worse, I'm your Auntie.
So drop the sullen teenager shtick,
and eat your nutritious breakfast.
Andy what's Mary Lynne's ETA?
Okay, I'll see you at the shed.
Kharis?
Mm-hm.
That's too bad about her, huh?
Yeah, it is.
You gonna catch the guy?
We certainly hope to.
Any clues?
There's always clues.
You should CSI the shit out of it.
That's a great idea.
I think I'll just fire up
my tribal DNA lab.
You got one?
No, I'm lucky
if I get a budget for earmuffs,
but I waved Andy in,
and the police have all that, so.
She had a hard life, didn't she?
[news muffled]
[door closing]
[soft instrumental music]
I'm so sorry, Mary Lynne.
You met Andy?
The police will be assisting
with the investigation.
They have a crime lab,
resources we don't.
Me and Andy will go in first
to get the physical report.
And then we'll bring you in
for the formal identification.
I want to come with you, now.
I think it'd be best
if you stay outside.
You just ready yourself.
It can get very technical
and disturbing.
She's my daughter.
I want to know.
Okay.
[door creaking]
[gasping]
Once they transport the body,
the pathologist will do a formal autopsy
and he'll send that to the coroner.
We'll see what the pathologist
comes back with,
but it looks like massive trauma
consistent with an automobile impact.
Internal bleeding, road burns.
Maybe she was dragged.
She called.
I would've come.
But the line was so bad.
There was nothing you could do.
She overcame so much
to be reduced to this.
Do you know who did this?
We have evidence, paint, tire marks,
part of a broken headlight.
We're pretty good at matching
these things up.
People already calling in tips.
Are you ready?
[dark music]
Mary Lynne Redwater,
are you able to identify
the deceased before you?
[Andy] I'm sorry,
you have to say it out loud.
I know.
Mary Lynne Redwater,
is this Kharis Redwater?
Yes.
That's Kharis.
[wind blowing]
[bird cawing]
[gun firing]
[gun firing]
[combat, guns firing,
men screaming, explosions]
[screaming]
[birds chirping]
[Beth] I think this is it.
You know, there's nothing wrong
with a wedding in Vegas, Beth.
Yeah, this is the spot.
Sure this is okay?
On tribal land?
Band council signed
the land lease yesterday.
You know, I researched it.
$87, a hug from Elvis,
a complimentary glass of champagne,
domestic I guess, and easy peasy,
you're on your way.
No relatives, no wedding hall?
That costs too much.
It'll just be you and I, two love birds.
Well, what about
wedding cake and flowers?
Too bourgeoisie, but I will pick you up
a bouquet on the way.
Oh, you'd do all that for me?
Absolutely.
That's so generous of you.
It's just part of my great
unappreciated goodness.
Think about all the money we would save,
for travel, for furniture.
For your tricked out Shelby Cobra.
I gotta throw in something for me.
I'll save a little bit for the odd kid,
and then a house, maybe.
What if the Cobra eats it all up?
It won't, I'll save a little bit.
Just a little bit.
You know what?
I've got an even better idea.
Yeah, what's that?
How about, no wedding?
What?
But Beth, we love each other.
Yeah, well you'd better
start thinking about
what you're gonna lose.
All right,
it's kind of fun yanking your chain.
Yeah well, keep it up
and you'll be yanking your own chain.
Now you just do what I tell you.
And I hope you got your long undies on,
because it gets cold
just standing out there.
It's a real drag,
your pole man called in sick,
but I will be happy to help,
and talk Elvis.
Just looking into some used hockey gear.
[Betty] That's very constructive.
Yeah.
I could smell the hockey
through the paper.
Oh, then I suggest
you breathe through your nose.
Eh, and remember it's 250, max.
Betty, you just don't understand, okay.
I'm on the rink
with these rich moonyashs,
and me, this broke res kid,
with hand-me-down goalie pads,
and stuffing coming out.
One of their moms probably donated it.
Those guys already look down on me.
Now they're gonna laugh.
Listen, you come from a proud people,
all right?
And that pride, it beats in your heart.
So you just get on that ice,
and you make sure that heart
of yours beats so loud,
those kids hear it like thunder,
and they start shaking
in their jock straps.
And then you play so hard
you beat the goddamn shit
out of them, huh?
Move left three and a half meters.
You know,
I lied about the long underwear.
Well, if that's the extent of your lies,
then we'll have a happy marriage.
[bird cawing]
Ray, do you smell something?
No, just clean oxygen on my end.
[sinister music]
Beth, are you okay?
Do you see it?
See what?
Beth?
Beth!
[screaming]
Beth.
Beth!
Beth!
No no no no, Beth Beth, okay. [crying]
[siren blaring]
Ben, are you alone?
Good, just stay there for now.
I don't want you going out.
Just do what I say.
Stay inside until I figure things out.
[siren blaring]
Jesus.
Looks like someone went at her
with a chainsaw.
Is that the husband?
Fiance.
She's a surveyor,
just started working for WEC.
Scoping out plans for their base camp.
He's a junior prof in economics
helping her for the day.
Pretty incoherent,
babbling he saw nothing.
No attacker,
just blood suddenly gushing from her.
Meth?
That shit makes people do crazy things.
We're checking.
Do a full tox screen.
Mister Patel,
I'm Officer Stonechild, tribal police.
I'm sorry for your loss.
She smelled something like blood.
Is, is she alive?
Is she coming back?
No, Mister Patel she's dead.
Was too slow.
I didn't see anything.
Sir, have you been drinking?
Talking, talk Elvis.
Sir, I'm gonna need you to focus.
Did you find the weapon?
Still looking.
Nine times out of 10,
it's the husband, boyfriend.
Fiance?
Whatever.
Ben,
will you promise me something?
Sure.
Tell me that when you're big and grown,
you're never gonna hurt a woman.
I wasn't going to.
[wind blowing]
All good?
Next time, make it more rare.
Well, that would be raw.
Hear you've been pretty busy
at the shed.
Yeah.
Yeah, ice roads out now,
so it's getting pretty busy back there.
Well, makes you a hero in my book.
Stacey?
You ever just stand
in front of the mirror?
Yeah, all the time.
No, no, I mean just,
just looking at yourself hard
for a really long time.
Why would I? I know what I look like.
Anyway, you know
what the philosophers say about that?
Which one? I read so many.
Okay, well the guy I have in mind,
he said that the person
looking back at you,
that reflection,
is fighting a really great battle.
Well, wouldn't work for me.
I'm the happiest person I know.
I'll tell the cook you want your meat
still breathing next time?
Atta girl.
Excuse me.
Could you move your vehicle?
No problem,
I just wanted to give you something.
Giving these out, public relations.
Get the natives on our side.
Thank you.
Now, could you please move your pickup?
Saw you in the diner.
Thought you'd look real good in it.
You must live around here, huh?
That's none of your business.
Now, please move your vehicle.
I'm moving.
I'm moving.
I'm a digger.
Coal mines, advanced guard,
I set up the machines,
Alaska, Wyoming, Texas,
man, I travel.
Now here,
bring some money to the squaws.
You know their bucks.
Who knows,
maybe they'll be able to afford
a toilet or something.
It's kinda like the army.
You know, you get lonely,
away from our loved ones.
So I was thinking,
you might want to have dinner
with me sometime.
You know, I was in the army.
I know what it's like.
Tell you what,
it does get lonely out here.
How about I give you my number
and you move your truck.
I will take that deal.
Mm oh, you are gorgeous.
Thank you.
Spend most of my time with wildlife.
I don't really get many compliments.
I got plenty more.
Where's that pen?
Now, get in the driver's seat
and move your fucking truck.
Fucking bitch.
Motherfucker.
[truck starting]
Hey, did you get any tox results yet?
[Andy] Nothing yet,
ice road is still closed.
Well, do we have anything?
What's his mental history?
[Andy] We're checking all that.
I got him at the nurse's station.
They are keeping sedated.
Did he say anything else?
Started babbling about a blackbird
circling them before the attack.
[Man] You see anything?
Just you.
And I always wanted a trophy on my wall.
You got dimples.
But I do got a riddle for you.
Yeah?
[Man]
Why do they call it tourist season,
if you're not allowed to hunt them?
[Woman] That is so bad.
Guess I either gotta work
on my material, either that,
or get a new audience.
Hey don't you fucking dare.
Well, I ain't going nowhere
without a fucking kill.
That, and.
Hey, hey.
Concentrate,
you're on a mission, remember?
So is this legal what we're doing?
[Man] Word is,
local warden got suspended,
clocked one of our guys
if you could believe it.
Left them bleeding in the parking lot.
Why did he do that?
It was a she.
Nice.
So, wide open season.
[bird cawing]
Bang.
[Woman] You need a shotgun for that.
Man can pretend.
You smell that?
What?
Geez, that's foul.
What? I don't smell anything.
[banging]
Wolverine, maybe?
Geez, that smell.
Hey. No, no, no, no.
Let's get out of here.
Hey, here's my chance.
I'm getting my kill.
[ominous music]
Gary?
Gary.
[screaming]
What the hell did this?
You saw nothing?
Just um, just Gary, walking towards me.
He was,
holding his insides.
No sound?
A smell.
You smelled something?
Not me, Gary, I didn't.
But you, you smelled nothing.
Yeah, we should never have come.
Have you been drinking?
A beer.
Just beer.
[sinister music]
Had some luck, looks like.
Take what you can get.
Always carry that thing on your line.
Might run into poachers.
Some of them are nasty.
What do you do then?
Sometimes poachers need to be poached.
Ah, like that one
that got ripped to shreds
by the beaches.
You didn't have anything
to do with that, did you?
Mighta.
I don't know,
since you got back from Afghanistan,
you've had a few screws loose.
Army shrink wouldn't argue with you.
Section eight.
Just to reassure you,
I haven't killed anyone
the past two days.
That's useful,
'cause I'm here to deputize you.
What?
Something's happening out here
that I don't understand.
You're the best tracker I know.
And that arsenal that you're stockpiling
might come in handy.
You're allowed to just deputize people?
Sure, a band member of good character,
physically able and over 18
in an emergency, yes I can.
Maybe you forgot.
My mom married a white guy,
I'm still waiting for my status.
You're a band member in my books.
We'll let them worry
about blood quantum later.
You know the warden service
just suspended me.
You don't have to smack every asshole
that pisses you off, you know.
Fucker backed me in.
Wouldn't let me leave the parking lot.
That's an indictable offense.
Forcible confinement.
I reacted to secure my own safety.
Okay, well next time you feel like
securing your own safety,
just file a report instead, or call me.
Noted, officer.
Besides, I needed that dose of violence.
I think you need to get back
to that shrink.
So are you in?
Let's do this.
Look like animal wounds.
You know what kind?
I've seen most, we're trained for that.
Keep track of predation,
who's hunting who.
But this here, and this,
this wasn't something
looking to just kill.
This is something looking for a meal.
You think it's...
Stace, Stace!
Where are you going?
You asked me to help,
it's what I'm doing.
It's hard to believe, but,
the survivors say
they never saw the attacker,
just the victim's blood
flying in the air.
No sense of who or what was doing it.
There was a bird, right?
Yeah.
Black one, circling overhead.
And before the attacks,
the victims smelled something.
Dead animals.
Mm-hm.
What's Betty say about all this?
She's following the empirical line.
Meth, psychosis,
weird cult running around
out there, maybe.
So why are you out here
telling me this instead of her?
I can tell she's wavering,
wondering if something else is going on.
The type of thing you might understand,
but right now,
whatever she's coming around
to thinking,
she can't say out loud.
They'll call her nuts
and take her off the case.
So, this is on me.
On you, huh?
Look at you,
all deputized and everything.
Still got your usual arsenal?
Like a sorority girl's makeup bag.
Won't go anywhere without it.
[eerie rock music]
All right.
Surveyor is killed here.
Poacher, here.
It's not listed, but...
right around here there's a creek and...
Even predators need to drink.
You got it.
[rock music]
I'll take point.
[birds chirping]
[whistling]
[bird cawing]
[whistling]
Remember when I first took you hunting,
and we ran into that bear?
Don't smell it, do you?
[bird cawing]
[yelling]
[gun firing]
You hang on, Carson.
Hold on there.
I've lost too many,
I can't afford to lose you, too.
[coughing]
Hey, got it?
Yeah.
It was...
Sssh, don't say it's name.
[grunting]
You went without me?
I wanted to keep you out of it.
I was afraid they'd think
you were crazy.
Hear you're out there running after
things you can't see.
It was just how knew for sure.
Knew what?
Carson.
He said, whoever did this was hungry.
So he baited her, brought her to us.
Baited who?
He said it was Kharis.
I saw her too,
just a flash,
like a corpse covered in dirt,
blood around her mouth.
I opened up with everything I had.
There was nothing to see,
I was shooting at air.
Sounds crazy,
but maybe
that saved Carson.
So,
so she's out there?
I'm sorry.
[knocking on door]
He's lost a lot of blood,
but he's as tough as a mule.
I know him.
How come nobody let me out on this?
It was a special circumstance,
there wasn't enough time.
Why is she here?
She was with him.
I deputized her.
Does the crime scene check out?
Okay.
That Jessica girl with the poacher,
blood alcohol 0.15, some THC.
That's not enough to trigger a delusion.
Not in somebody
who's sane to begin with.
There's a lot of people out here Betty,
living in the bush.
Isolation can be worse than any drug.
Are you familiar with mass hysteria?
What?
1879, Cree hunter, swift runner,
takes his family
to an isolated hunting camp,
has a vision,
says the spirit told him
to kill his family, eat them.
So he complies,
down to his infant daughter.
Doesn't bother hiding the bones.
Belcher Island,
Inuit shaman saw a meteor,
declared it a sign he was Jesus Christ.
Ordered six of his relatives
onto the ice,
where they froze to death.
One case after the other.
So you're saying.
I'm saying that sometimes an idea,
fear,
gets into a community, spreads,
people see things they would never see,
do things they would never
ordinarily do.
These are my people, Andy, my band.
They're not a bunch of hysterics,
running wild,
ripping people open.
It doesn't have to be a lot of people.
We need to get a team
of psychologists down here
when that damn road opens,
and I need to get back.
We'll talk.
[Carson coughing]
Her heart.
Where's her heart?
[rock music]
[helicopter running]
Hey.
Hey, I looked online today.
I found some delicately used
pre-owned equipment.
I used your credit card,
all together it was $241.
Saved you nine bucks.
We'll blow it on a night on the town.
Burger should do it.
And I'll spot you for the fries?
You do know the way to a woman's heart.
Hey.
You okay?
We'll see.
[solemn string music]
She is beautiful there, no?
Sorry I didn't see you.
Lost in my own thoughts.
Yes, she is beautiful.
You were right to be proud of her.
It was an honor.
I offered to buy her a car
when she got that diploma.
She said,
"Old age is creeping up on you, Ma.
"Save your money."
She was right.
I still remember all the times
she'd come by my cabin.
We'd drink coffee,
strictly decaf for her,
'cause she said she...
she said she'd had so much
illegal stuff on the street,
she was afraid.
She was afraid any kind of stimulant
might make her backtrack.
She was hard on herself.
Red road was important to her.
She fought to stay on it.
[Stacey] She was a real fighter.
[Mary] Yes she was.
[bird cawing]
[ominous music]
It's happening.
[bird cawing]
[eerie music]
Carson,
Carson.
Ben?
Show me that Kharis video you took.
I got a B plus.
You don't have to check
on everything I do.
I just need to see it, it's for my work.
Oh.
Okay.
I've heard what some
of the band members are saying,
and yes, we need a new school,
a new rink, a treatment center.
But look around.
Other reserves have those things
without digging up
the bones of our elders,
polluting the land the Creator
gave to sustain us.
When I was away in the city,
on the streets, I lost my soul.
When I came back here,
I remembered who I was.
I don't wanna lose that again.
Yes, there are problems.
But this precious land we walk on,
the creek we fish from, draw water,
the forest we hunt in,
all part of the blood and soul
of each and every one of us.
And to mutilate all that
with a strip mine?
This is not the way of our ancestors,
and us.
Hey, come back here.
You hear that band counselors?
You listen to her.
You went behind our backs.
No consultation, no advanced warning.
We wake up one morning to discover
WEC is digging up the
ground from under us.
We had to cut out that last part.
The teacher's afraid
that the band would retaliate
or do something crazy,
like cancel the hockey program.
Too bad though.
Should have put those two
and Carson in the same video.
See some real sparks.
You videoed Carson?
Yeah.
Teacher said we should get a real
and respected elder.
And so we had to trudge
all the way out to his cabin.
Lucky a bear didn't get us.
Show me.
Now?
Well, this morning woke up with the sun,
smudged, had breakfast,
went out to my trap,
same as every morning.
No one around for miles.
Just me and my one true love,
Mother Earth.
Now Ben here's asked me
to speak as an elder, but,
and I know what you're thinking.
Yeah, here comes another lecture
from good old, crazy Carson, right?
Well the truth of the matter is,
my life wasn't always like this.
And with everyone at odds
over this WEC thing,
Well, I figure it's maybe better
I just cut to the chase, huh?
Too many of us are losing ourselves,
to alcohol and those goddamn drugs.
I know 'cause I was one of them.
And I know reconnected to my culture
helped me get off that path.
But I also grabbed onto opportunities.
And when you mix
those two things together, well,
that's one powerful thing.
That's why I was able to be there
for my niece, Stacey.
I was able to raise her,
give her the gift of our culture,
and opportunity.
And I sure as hell didn't do it
living on fresh air and sunshine.
Our people need growth.
Our land,
she's precious.
Men that come to our lands,
well, they're definitely outsiders,
but they're outsiders
offering something.
They're promising something precious,
training.
And that means opportunity
to build our people.
But we need to stick together.
We gotta watch 'em like hawks,
make sure we hold them to it.
He promises jobs.
Let's hold them to it.
They promise us
something to build off of
for future generations
of our people to come,
let's hold 'em to it.
We need to take that chance.
Yeah.
I love the forest,
creeks, creatures,
everything the Creator gave us,
I love it all.
But the truth of the matter is,
we're out here on our own,
and we're losing too many of our people.
As much as I love all this,
I love my people more.
That means all of you.
Afterward he showed us
how to make spruce tea.
Cool guy, huh?
Hmm.
[dramatic music]
Her heart.
Where's her heart?
Oh, hey Betty, what's up?
Where's Kharis's body?
It was transported.
Where? The road's not open.
Yeah, the pathologist
he was actually able to...
What's his name? Which morgue?
You know,
I'm gonna have to check in the files.
Show me the transport order.
Okay, yeah.
They're mixed in with
the diners stuff right now.
The paperwork's chaos right now.
It's in your computer.
Betty, we've had a bug
in the system for weeks.
I can't actually access anything.
Do you know what this is?
It's a pretty stone.
Stop lying to me.
This is a Buffalo stone.
It belongs to the Blackfoot.
It's sacred to them.
It's found only on their territory,
it belongs to them and not you.
It was a gift.
You're play acting,
with your drum circles
and your round dances.
That's not fair,
we honor those traditions.
You honor nothing, you know nothing.
The body, what happened to it?
I don't know.
The body.
Where is it?
Mary Lynne.
You ask Mary Lynne
where her daughter's body is.
You here to arrest me?
Not today.
Your Mountie won't be pleased.
How is he?
Same.
Look, I gotta show you something.
That surveyor, Beth,
out there peacefully doing her job,
smelled something awful, saw something,
ran, got ripped apart.
Her fiance, helping her out for the day,
smells nothing, sees nothing,
just blood spurting out
from his bride to be.
He's left alone, he survives.
Who does she work for?
WEC, about to start mining
the shit out of the reserve.
That poacher in the pickup,
got himself gutted.
His girlfriend Jessica,
again sees nothing, smells nothing,
like Ray, is left alone, unharmed.
WEC.
Kharis hated WEC.
Big time.
But, Carson has got nothing
to do with them.
[Carson]
Men that come to our lands, well,
they're definitely outsiders,
but they're outsiders
offering something.
They're promising something precious,
training.
And that means opportunity
to build our people.
But we need to stick together.
She came after him
because of that speech.
[Carson] You gotta watch 'em like hawks.
And he saw her.
[Carson] Make sure we hold 'em to it.
She revealed herself to him.
But I saw her, too.
She was gonna attack me.
Because you tried to defend Carson.
You became his ally,
and that puts you on side with WEC.
When I was 10, Carson took me hunting.
I saw two bear cubs
and I followed them.
But I wandered away too far.
I couldn't see 'em anymore.
And then I heard something behind me.
I felt the hair
on the back of my neck stand up.
And I could smell her.
As I looked over my shoulder,
there she was, the mother.
I heard a shot, and then she fell.
He saved me.
[Betty] Now, you saved him.
That was the first time
I ever felt the power of a gun.
I grew up with the myths,
the tales from my Cookum,
scary stories, spirits, cannibals,
foxes in the night,
crying out to open doors.
Whistle at the northern lights
and they'll come down
and take you away.
These spirits, they're still here.
They've just been
pushed to the side of your brain.
One of them is pushing back,
standing in front of us.
Not Kharis anymore.
Not gonna let your Mountie friend
in on this.
He has his theories, I have mine.
Besides what am I supposed to tell him?
Order WEC to shut down
the entire operation,
'cause the angry spirit
of a dead Neechee
is eating the innards of its employees.
He'd lock me up,
they'd probably take my badge.
Even if these miners in London or China,
or wherever the hell,
paid any of this some credence,
doubt it would make a difference.
Money matters more
to these guys than people.
Andy?
Christ.
Stone Crossing Road, by the Pines?
There's been another,
Andy's already there.
Follow me, and don't say anything.
Game on.
[rock music]
[bird cawing]
Here, sorry man.
Aggie.
It's a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
The guy was packing a .32.
The Doc still has to look
at your friend,
but far as I can see, nothing critical.
Our cowboy here got spooked.
Oh yeehaw.
That's Aggie Fox Child,
she's one of our elders.
How the hell am I supposed to know?
I'm just getting
the lay of the land here.
And I see something moving in the woods,
and it spooked me.
I yelled out, who's there?
I got no answer.
So I figured maybe it's whoever
or whatever's been
slicing and dicing
all the other people around here.
You fucking moron.
You shot an 81-year-old grandmother
who's stone deaf, can't hear a thing.
That's why she didn't respond.
She's an herbalist,
she was probably gathering plants.
Again, how the hell
was I supposed to know?
By using your goddamn eyes.
Ah, she should have bells on.
Why do you have a firearm?
Well, your little sexy minx
over there has a gun.
How do you think
I got this pretty little nose?
She's a game warden,
which makes her a federal peace officer.
Who the hell are you?
Betty.
I got it, Betty.
Okay, already booking him.
I'm taking him to jail
as soon as I get Aggie some help.
Missing a phone call.
Okay, it's getting out of hand.
I was afraid this would start happening.
Just remember what I was saying.
We got to end this.
I know, that's what I'm trying to do.
Hey.
Game on.
[sinister music]
You're busy, eh?
You don't know the half of it.
I saw you the other day,
at the hit and run site.
Just paying my respects, best as I can.
Thanks.
I knew Kharis a bit,
authorized the permit for that
anti-mine demonstration she organized.
I let her block the road
for a few hours.
That was Kharis.
Yeah.
I'm all for at pulling the energy
out of the ground myself,
but you sure had to respect her,
especially after everything
she went through before.
Andy?
Andy?
Andy?
Andy, do you have a sec?
Yeah, yeah.
That guy you got in there, Donny.
He asked me out the other night
and I'm pretty sure
he slipped me a roofie.
[Andy] Okay.
Everything was fine.
And then,
then I just kind of blacked out.
I have really hazy memories.
It keeps coming back and forth.
Mary Lynne?
Sweet, internships.
Shit.
The body, where is it?
You won't find it.
The spirit is within it now.
What does that mean?
What are you trying to say?
The intruder came here,
stole everything he could from us,
our language, our stories, our songs,
and worst of all, the land.
This land is what we are,
and without it, we are no more.
And right now strangers
want to devour it,
steal it from right under us
as we speak.
Mary Lynne, do you understand?
There are people dying out there,
innocent people,
our people too.
If you can help us.
Where is Kharis?
Kharis is dead.
She was killed on a road late one night
by some beast who dragged her 100 feet,
cared less about her
than a scrap of roadkill.
[speaking in native language]
What the hell you make of that?
Your guess is as good as mine.
We need to stop this.
[Ben] Hey Bet, how goes the case?
I'm asking myself the same question.
I just wanted to let you know
that I'll be heading out
to the community center,
so I may not be here when you get back.
That's a good distance,
how you getting there?
[Ben] On my bike.
You sure? It's pretty cold out.
My warrior spirit can handle it.
[Betty] A warrior on a bicycle.
At least until I get my Harley anyway.
And guess what?
That's on you.
Ben?
Actually,
I don't want you going out alone
until all this is settled, okay?
But this is important to me.
[Betty] Ben.
Long time ago,
we were teenagers too, Mother.
I never was.
So what now?
I don't know.
Kharis, or whatever the hell
that thing is out there,
it's hunting.
So, we gotta go hunt the hunter.
Man, I wish Carson was here with us.
Yeah, I wish he was, too.
You out for bear now?
Poacher set it.
Get the gallbladder, sell it to China,
Leave the rest of the animal to rot.
These things cost money.
I hope whoever said it, cries.
[chuckling]
You go ahead.
I'm gonna go check on Ben.
[truck starting]
[sinister music]
Hey Mary Lynne, I need to talk to you.
This belonged to my friend, Jock O Deer.
He's Mohawk from Ganowaga.
We served together.
He used to say to me,
what are you doing over here?
Shooting up people
that never did anything to you.
10,000 miles from your nice little res.
We laughed 'cause we both knew
why we were there.
It's the kind of thing
that goes so deep
it's hard to explain,
even to yourself.
What's your point?
One night before a mission,
he said to me,
I'm tired of fighting.
And I said, yeah, we all are.
But he said, no,
not this kind of fighting.
He was tired of fighting the past,
of everything we lost,
everything that was done to us.
It's always there,
but you gotta move on,
or you won't get anywhere.
So he made a plan for himself.
He was gonna join his father
and his uncles
on the high steel.
You know what he wanted to build?
Bridges, bridges connect people,
he said.
Everyone pays the same toll.
You get off and you got no choice.
You're in someone else's territory
all of a sudden,
and you gotta deal with them.
Without the bridge,
you're both screwed so,
we're all in this together.
That'll be my contribution, he said.
Did he?
No, he didn't make it.
I've been hanging on
to this for eight years.
But, it's time to move on.
It's my gift to you.
[mournful piano music]
[phone ringing]
Ben, when I said stay home, I meant it.
WEC is hiring, paid summer internships.
Even if you're 14.
I called around
and there's only 20 spots.
And if I don't go today,
I don't get one.
Just stay away from anything, WEC.
We'll figure something else out, okay?
You know something?
You're always telling me
to be more responsible,
to take initiative, eyes on the prize,
make something of myself.
And now that...
Ben, Ben, are you okay?
What happened?
I thought I saw something.
What?
[bird cawing]
Auntie, I'm getting scared.
How far are you from home?
I barely left.
Okay, you pedal like the devil.
Get inside, and lock the door,
I'm not too far.
[siren blaring]
Stace?
Jesus.
Inside, she's trying to get in.
I'm almost there.
Get down to the cellar,
barricade yourself.
Auntie, I'm bleeding.
Can you run?
I think so.
Get down to the cellar.
Ah.
[siren blaring]
Ben?
I'm down here.
[gun firing]
Hey, I'm here, do you see her?
She's inside, Ben's hurt.
We're in the cellar.
Put your foot up here.
[eerie music]
[gasping]
It's gonna be okay.
She's trying to break down the door.
My last clip's almost empty.
She's almost in.
Hey Kharis.
Check it out.
I work for WEC now. Scarden!
[panting]
Kharis, come on.
Come at me.
[gun firing]
Fucking hell.
What do we do with her?
Drag her to death.
Again?
I don't know.
[eerie music]
[growling]
Betty!
Betty.
She's here for you.
The head.
The head.
[intense music]
[grunting]
[siren blaring]
Is it over?
Almost.
[heart beating]
You're hurt.
Accident.
Fell off a ladder.
That's life.
Yeah, life.
You.
Just visiting.
I was playing on thin ice, fell through.
We can say its name one more time,
and never again.
Your prisoner in the back there
seems like he needs some
medical attention.
He took a tumble
getting in the cruiser.
He actually did double duty tonight.
Had himself another charge.
He's the hit and run, killed Kharis.
What led you.
Frances, from the diner.
She gave him up.
She was with him.
She was in the truck?
He slipped her a date rape drug.
She was pretty unconscious,
but then fragments started coming back,
truck starting, stopping,
and hitting something.
We had a little chat.
He volunteered
some more info.
[heart beating]
What the hell is that smell?
[heart beating]
[bird cawing]
[screaming]
[glass breaking]
[slashing]
[screaming]
[acoustic guitar music]
[rock music]
[water rushing]
[footsteps in snow]
Radiator finally blew, Ma.
Can you come get me?
I'm on road 236,
just come from the bank council meeting.
Oh, it got pretty rank.
Oh, I said my piece,
you'd be proud of me.
Well, the battle's sure not won yet.
Ma?
Ma, I can't hear you.
[engine running]
[engine revving]
[ominous music]
Come on.
[tense music]
[screaming]
[eerie music]
[dog barking]
[News Reporter]
Fighting broke out overnight...
[muffled speaking]
...guerrilla base,
killing at least 49 soldiers...
[muffled speaking]
...Israeli jets that reportedly
made it back to their headquarters.
You're welcome for the nice
breakfast I made you.
[news muffled]
Take a bite,
it'll put hair on your chest.
I don't need hair on my chest.
What I need you some new hockey gear.
Well, this rat trap of a house
that nevertheless keeps us warm and dry
needs a new heat pump.
There's nothing wrong with used gear,
and that's what you're getting.
So why don't you put that flyer down
and look at something useful?
Like the homework
you neglected to do last night.
Used gear smells.
Plus, we got some deals.
New gear smells too,
once you wear it a couple times,
plus girls like the smell of male odor,
it excites them.
You're a dictator, you know that?
Worse, I'm your Auntie.
So drop the sullen teenager shtick,
and eat your nutritious breakfast.
Andy what's Mary Lynne's ETA?
Okay, I'll see you at the shed.
Kharis?
Mm-hm.
That's too bad about her, huh?
Yeah, it is.
You gonna catch the guy?
We certainly hope to.
Any clues?
There's always clues.
You should CSI the shit out of it.
That's a great idea.
I think I'll just fire up
my tribal DNA lab.
You got one?
No, I'm lucky
if I get a budget for earmuffs,
but I waved Andy in,
and the police have all that, so.
She had a hard life, didn't she?
[news muffled]
[door closing]
[soft instrumental music]
I'm so sorry, Mary Lynne.
You met Andy?
The police will be assisting
with the investigation.
They have a crime lab,
resources we don't.
Me and Andy will go in first
to get the physical report.
And then we'll bring you in
for the formal identification.
I want to come with you, now.
I think it'd be best
if you stay outside.
You just ready yourself.
It can get very technical
and disturbing.
She's my daughter.
I want to know.
Okay.
[door creaking]
[gasping]
Once they transport the body,
the pathologist will do a formal autopsy
and he'll send that to the coroner.
We'll see what the pathologist
comes back with,
but it looks like massive trauma
consistent with an automobile impact.
Internal bleeding, road burns.
Maybe she was dragged.
She called.
I would've come.
But the line was so bad.
There was nothing you could do.
She overcame so much
to be reduced to this.
Do you know who did this?
We have evidence, paint, tire marks,
part of a broken headlight.
We're pretty good at matching
these things up.
People already calling in tips.
Are you ready?
[dark music]
Mary Lynne Redwater,
are you able to identify
the deceased before you?
[Andy] I'm sorry,
you have to say it out loud.
I know.
Mary Lynne Redwater,
is this Kharis Redwater?
Yes.
That's Kharis.
[wind blowing]
[bird cawing]
[gun firing]
[gun firing]
[combat, guns firing,
men screaming, explosions]
[screaming]
[birds chirping]
[Beth] I think this is it.
You know, there's nothing wrong
with a wedding in Vegas, Beth.
Yeah, this is the spot.
Sure this is okay?
On tribal land?
Band council signed
the land lease yesterday.
You know, I researched it.
$87, a hug from Elvis,
a complimentary glass of champagne,
domestic I guess, and easy peasy,
you're on your way.
No relatives, no wedding hall?
That costs too much.
It'll just be you and I, two love birds.
Well, what about
wedding cake and flowers?
Too bourgeoisie, but I will pick you up
a bouquet on the way.
Oh, you'd do all that for me?
Absolutely.
That's so generous of you.
It's just part of my great
unappreciated goodness.
Think about all the money we would save,
for travel, for furniture.
For your tricked out Shelby Cobra.
I gotta throw in something for me.
I'll save a little bit for the odd kid,
and then a house, maybe.
What if the Cobra eats it all up?
It won't, I'll save a little bit.
Just a little bit.
You know what?
I've got an even better idea.
Yeah, what's that?
How about, no wedding?
What?
But Beth, we love each other.
Yeah, well you'd better
start thinking about
what you're gonna lose.
All right,
it's kind of fun yanking your chain.
Yeah well, keep it up
and you'll be yanking your own chain.
Now you just do what I tell you.
And I hope you got your long undies on,
because it gets cold
just standing out there.
It's a real drag,
your pole man called in sick,
but I will be happy to help,
and talk Elvis.
Just looking into some used hockey gear.
[Betty] That's very constructive.
Yeah.
I could smell the hockey
through the paper.
Oh, then I suggest
you breathe through your nose.
Eh, and remember it's 250, max.
Betty, you just don't understand, okay.
I'm on the rink
with these rich moonyashs,
and me, this broke res kid,
with hand-me-down goalie pads,
and stuffing coming out.
One of their moms probably donated it.
Those guys already look down on me.
Now they're gonna laugh.
Listen, you come from a proud people,
all right?
And that pride, it beats in your heart.
So you just get on that ice,
and you make sure that heart
of yours beats so loud,
those kids hear it like thunder,
and they start shaking
in their jock straps.
And then you play so hard
you beat the goddamn shit
out of them, huh?
Move left three and a half meters.
You know,
I lied about the long underwear.
Well, if that's the extent of your lies,
then we'll have a happy marriage.
[bird cawing]
Ray, do you smell something?
No, just clean oxygen on my end.
[sinister music]
Beth, are you okay?
Do you see it?
See what?
Beth?
Beth!
[screaming]
Beth.
Beth!
Beth!
No no no no, Beth Beth, okay. [crying]
[siren blaring]
Ben, are you alone?
Good, just stay there for now.
I don't want you going out.
Just do what I say.
Stay inside until I figure things out.
[siren blaring]
Jesus.
Looks like someone went at her
with a chainsaw.
Is that the husband?
Fiance.
She's a surveyor,
just started working for WEC.
Scoping out plans for their base camp.
He's a junior prof in economics
helping her for the day.
Pretty incoherent,
babbling he saw nothing.
No attacker,
just blood suddenly gushing from her.
Meth?
That shit makes people do crazy things.
We're checking.
Do a full tox screen.
Mister Patel,
I'm Officer Stonechild, tribal police.
I'm sorry for your loss.
She smelled something like blood.
Is, is she alive?
Is she coming back?
No, Mister Patel she's dead.
Was too slow.
I didn't see anything.
Sir, have you been drinking?
Talking, talk Elvis.
Sir, I'm gonna need you to focus.
Did you find the weapon?
Still looking.
Nine times out of 10,
it's the husband, boyfriend.
Fiance?
Whatever.
Ben,
will you promise me something?
Sure.
Tell me that when you're big and grown,
you're never gonna hurt a woman.
I wasn't going to.
[wind blowing]
All good?
Next time, make it more rare.
Well, that would be raw.
Hear you've been pretty busy
at the shed.
Yeah.
Yeah, ice roads out now,
so it's getting pretty busy back there.
Well, makes you a hero in my book.
Stacey?
You ever just stand
in front of the mirror?
Yeah, all the time.
No, no, I mean just,
just looking at yourself hard
for a really long time.
Why would I? I know what I look like.
Anyway, you know
what the philosophers say about that?
Which one? I read so many.
Okay, well the guy I have in mind,
he said that the person
looking back at you,
that reflection,
is fighting a really great battle.
Well, wouldn't work for me.
I'm the happiest person I know.
I'll tell the cook you want your meat
still breathing next time?
Atta girl.
Excuse me.
Could you move your vehicle?
No problem,
I just wanted to give you something.
Giving these out, public relations.
Get the natives on our side.
Thank you.
Now, could you please move your pickup?
Saw you in the diner.
Thought you'd look real good in it.
You must live around here, huh?
That's none of your business.
Now, please move your vehicle.
I'm moving.
I'm moving.
I'm a digger.
Coal mines, advanced guard,
I set up the machines,
Alaska, Wyoming, Texas,
man, I travel.
Now here,
bring some money to the squaws.
You know their bucks.
Who knows,
maybe they'll be able to afford
a toilet or something.
It's kinda like the army.
You know, you get lonely,
away from our loved ones.
So I was thinking,
you might want to have dinner
with me sometime.
You know, I was in the army.
I know what it's like.
Tell you what,
it does get lonely out here.
How about I give you my number
and you move your truck.
I will take that deal.
Mm oh, you are gorgeous.
Thank you.
Spend most of my time with wildlife.
I don't really get many compliments.
I got plenty more.
Where's that pen?
Now, get in the driver's seat
and move your fucking truck.
Fucking bitch.
Motherfucker.
[truck starting]
Hey, did you get any tox results yet?
[Andy] Nothing yet,
ice road is still closed.
Well, do we have anything?
What's his mental history?
[Andy] We're checking all that.
I got him at the nurse's station.
They are keeping sedated.
Did he say anything else?
Started babbling about a blackbird
circling them before the attack.
[Man] You see anything?
Just you.
And I always wanted a trophy on my wall.
You got dimples.
But I do got a riddle for you.
Yeah?
[Man]
Why do they call it tourist season,
if you're not allowed to hunt them?
[Woman] That is so bad.
Guess I either gotta work
on my material, either that,
or get a new audience.
Hey don't you fucking dare.
Well, I ain't going nowhere
without a fucking kill.
That, and.
Hey, hey.
Concentrate,
you're on a mission, remember?
So is this legal what we're doing?
[Man] Word is,
local warden got suspended,
clocked one of our guys
if you could believe it.
Left them bleeding in the parking lot.
Why did he do that?
It was a she.
Nice.
So, wide open season.
[bird cawing]
Bang.
[Woman] You need a shotgun for that.
Man can pretend.
You smell that?
What?
Geez, that's foul.
What? I don't smell anything.
[banging]
Wolverine, maybe?
Geez, that smell.
Hey. No, no, no, no.
Let's get out of here.
Hey, here's my chance.
I'm getting my kill.
[ominous music]
Gary?
Gary.
[screaming]
What the hell did this?
You saw nothing?
Just um, just Gary, walking towards me.
He was,
holding his insides.
No sound?
A smell.
You smelled something?
Not me, Gary, I didn't.
But you, you smelled nothing.
Yeah, we should never have come.
Have you been drinking?
A beer.
Just beer.
[sinister music]
Had some luck, looks like.
Take what you can get.
Always carry that thing on your line.
Might run into poachers.
Some of them are nasty.
What do you do then?
Sometimes poachers need to be poached.
Ah, like that one
that got ripped to shreds
by the beaches.
You didn't have anything
to do with that, did you?
Mighta.
I don't know,
since you got back from Afghanistan,
you've had a few screws loose.
Army shrink wouldn't argue with you.
Section eight.
Just to reassure you,
I haven't killed anyone
the past two days.
That's useful,
'cause I'm here to deputize you.
What?
Something's happening out here
that I don't understand.
You're the best tracker I know.
And that arsenal that you're stockpiling
might come in handy.
You're allowed to just deputize people?
Sure, a band member of good character,
physically able and over 18
in an emergency, yes I can.
Maybe you forgot.
My mom married a white guy,
I'm still waiting for my status.
You're a band member in my books.
We'll let them worry
about blood quantum later.
You know the warden service
just suspended me.
You don't have to smack every asshole
that pisses you off, you know.
Fucker backed me in.
Wouldn't let me leave the parking lot.
That's an indictable offense.
Forcible confinement.
I reacted to secure my own safety.
Okay, well next time you feel like
securing your own safety,
just file a report instead, or call me.
Noted, officer.
Besides, I needed that dose of violence.
I think you need to get back
to that shrink.
So are you in?
Let's do this.
Look like animal wounds.
You know what kind?
I've seen most, we're trained for that.
Keep track of predation,
who's hunting who.
But this here, and this,
this wasn't something
looking to just kill.
This is something looking for a meal.
You think it's...
Stace, Stace!
Where are you going?
You asked me to help,
it's what I'm doing.
It's hard to believe, but,
the survivors say
they never saw the attacker,
just the victim's blood
flying in the air.
No sense of who or what was doing it.
There was a bird, right?
Yeah.
Black one, circling overhead.
And before the attacks,
the victims smelled something.
Dead animals.
Mm-hm.
What's Betty say about all this?
She's following the empirical line.
Meth, psychosis,
weird cult running around
out there, maybe.
So why are you out here
telling me this instead of her?
I can tell she's wavering,
wondering if something else is going on.
The type of thing you might understand,
but right now,
whatever she's coming around
to thinking,
she can't say out loud.
They'll call her nuts
and take her off the case.
So, this is on me.
On you, huh?
Look at you,
all deputized and everything.
Still got your usual arsenal?
Like a sorority girl's makeup bag.
Won't go anywhere without it.
[eerie rock music]
All right.
Surveyor is killed here.
Poacher, here.
It's not listed, but...
right around here there's a creek and...
Even predators need to drink.
You got it.
[rock music]
I'll take point.
[birds chirping]
[whistling]
[bird cawing]
[whistling]
Remember when I first took you hunting,
and we ran into that bear?
Don't smell it, do you?
[bird cawing]
[yelling]
[gun firing]
You hang on, Carson.
Hold on there.
I've lost too many,
I can't afford to lose you, too.
[coughing]
Hey, got it?
Yeah.
It was...
Sssh, don't say it's name.
[grunting]
You went without me?
I wanted to keep you out of it.
I was afraid they'd think
you were crazy.
Hear you're out there running after
things you can't see.
It was just how knew for sure.
Knew what?
Carson.
He said, whoever did this was hungry.
So he baited her, brought her to us.
Baited who?
He said it was Kharis.
I saw her too,
just a flash,
like a corpse covered in dirt,
blood around her mouth.
I opened up with everything I had.
There was nothing to see,
I was shooting at air.
Sounds crazy,
but maybe
that saved Carson.
So,
so she's out there?
I'm sorry.
[knocking on door]
He's lost a lot of blood,
but he's as tough as a mule.
I know him.
How come nobody let me out on this?
It was a special circumstance,
there wasn't enough time.
Why is she here?
She was with him.
I deputized her.
Does the crime scene check out?
Okay.
That Jessica girl with the poacher,
blood alcohol 0.15, some THC.
That's not enough to trigger a delusion.
Not in somebody
who's sane to begin with.
There's a lot of people out here Betty,
living in the bush.
Isolation can be worse than any drug.
Are you familiar with mass hysteria?
What?
1879, Cree hunter, swift runner,
takes his family
to an isolated hunting camp,
has a vision,
says the spirit told him
to kill his family, eat them.
So he complies,
down to his infant daughter.
Doesn't bother hiding the bones.
Belcher Island,
Inuit shaman saw a meteor,
declared it a sign he was Jesus Christ.
Ordered six of his relatives
onto the ice,
where they froze to death.
One case after the other.
So you're saying.
I'm saying that sometimes an idea,
fear,
gets into a community, spreads,
people see things they would never see,
do things they would never
ordinarily do.
These are my people, Andy, my band.
They're not a bunch of hysterics,
running wild,
ripping people open.
It doesn't have to be a lot of people.
We need to get a team
of psychologists down here
when that damn road opens,
and I need to get back.
We'll talk.
[Carson coughing]
Her heart.
Where's her heart?
[rock music]
[helicopter running]
Hey.
Hey, I looked online today.
I found some delicately used
pre-owned equipment.
I used your credit card,
all together it was $241.
Saved you nine bucks.
We'll blow it on a night on the town.
Burger should do it.
And I'll spot you for the fries?
You do know the way to a woman's heart.
Hey.
You okay?
We'll see.
[solemn string music]
She is beautiful there, no?
Sorry I didn't see you.
Lost in my own thoughts.
Yes, she is beautiful.
You were right to be proud of her.
It was an honor.
I offered to buy her a car
when she got that diploma.
She said,
"Old age is creeping up on you, Ma.
"Save your money."
She was right.
I still remember all the times
she'd come by my cabin.
We'd drink coffee,
strictly decaf for her,
'cause she said she...
she said she'd had so much
illegal stuff on the street,
she was afraid.
She was afraid any kind of stimulant
might make her backtrack.
She was hard on herself.
Red road was important to her.
She fought to stay on it.
[Stacey] She was a real fighter.
[Mary] Yes she was.
[bird cawing]
[ominous music]
It's happening.
[bird cawing]
[eerie music]
Carson,
Carson.
Ben?
Show me that Kharis video you took.
I got a B plus.
You don't have to check
on everything I do.
I just need to see it, it's for my work.
Oh.
Okay.
I've heard what some
of the band members are saying,
and yes, we need a new school,
a new rink, a treatment center.
But look around.
Other reserves have those things
without digging up
the bones of our elders,
polluting the land the Creator
gave to sustain us.
When I was away in the city,
on the streets, I lost my soul.
When I came back here,
I remembered who I was.
I don't wanna lose that again.
Yes, there are problems.
But this precious land we walk on,
the creek we fish from, draw water,
the forest we hunt in,
all part of the blood and soul
of each and every one of us.
And to mutilate all that
with a strip mine?
This is not the way of our ancestors,
and us.
Hey, come back here.
You hear that band counselors?
You listen to her.
You went behind our backs.
No consultation, no advanced warning.
We wake up one morning to discover
WEC is digging up the
ground from under us.
We had to cut out that last part.
The teacher's afraid
that the band would retaliate
or do something crazy,
like cancel the hockey program.
Too bad though.
Should have put those two
and Carson in the same video.
See some real sparks.
You videoed Carson?
Yeah.
Teacher said we should get a real
and respected elder.
And so we had to trudge
all the way out to his cabin.
Lucky a bear didn't get us.
Show me.
Now?
Well, this morning woke up with the sun,
smudged, had breakfast,
went out to my trap,
same as every morning.
No one around for miles.
Just me and my one true love,
Mother Earth.
Now Ben here's asked me
to speak as an elder, but,
and I know what you're thinking.
Yeah, here comes another lecture
from good old, crazy Carson, right?
Well the truth of the matter is,
my life wasn't always like this.
And with everyone at odds
over this WEC thing,
Well, I figure it's maybe better
I just cut to the chase, huh?
Too many of us are losing ourselves,
to alcohol and those goddamn drugs.
I know 'cause I was one of them.
And I know reconnected to my culture
helped me get off that path.
But I also grabbed onto opportunities.
And when you mix
those two things together, well,
that's one powerful thing.
That's why I was able to be there
for my niece, Stacey.
I was able to raise her,
give her the gift of our culture,
and opportunity.
And I sure as hell didn't do it
living on fresh air and sunshine.
Our people need growth.
Our land,
she's precious.
Men that come to our lands,
well, they're definitely outsiders,
but they're outsiders
offering something.
They're promising something precious,
training.
And that means opportunity
to build our people.
But we need to stick together.
We gotta watch 'em like hawks,
make sure we hold them to it.
He promises jobs.
Let's hold them to it.
They promise us
something to build off of
for future generations
of our people to come,
let's hold 'em to it.
We need to take that chance.
Yeah.
I love the forest,
creeks, creatures,
everything the Creator gave us,
I love it all.
But the truth of the matter is,
we're out here on our own,
and we're losing too many of our people.
As much as I love all this,
I love my people more.
That means all of you.
Afterward he showed us
how to make spruce tea.
Cool guy, huh?
Hmm.
[dramatic music]
Her heart.
Where's her heart?
Oh, hey Betty, what's up?
Where's Kharis's body?
It was transported.
Where? The road's not open.
Yeah, the pathologist
he was actually able to...
What's his name? Which morgue?
You know,
I'm gonna have to check in the files.
Show me the transport order.
Okay, yeah.
They're mixed in with
the diners stuff right now.
The paperwork's chaos right now.
It's in your computer.
Betty, we've had a bug
in the system for weeks.
I can't actually access anything.
Do you know what this is?
It's a pretty stone.
Stop lying to me.
This is a Buffalo stone.
It belongs to the Blackfoot.
It's sacred to them.
It's found only on their territory,
it belongs to them and not you.
It was a gift.
You're play acting,
with your drum circles
and your round dances.
That's not fair,
we honor those traditions.
You honor nothing, you know nothing.
The body, what happened to it?
I don't know.
The body.
Where is it?
Mary Lynne.
You ask Mary Lynne
where her daughter's body is.
You here to arrest me?
Not today.
Your Mountie won't be pleased.
How is he?
Same.
Look, I gotta show you something.
That surveyor, Beth,
out there peacefully doing her job,
smelled something awful, saw something,
ran, got ripped apart.
Her fiance, helping her out for the day,
smells nothing, sees nothing,
just blood spurting out
from his bride to be.
He's left alone, he survives.
Who does she work for?
WEC, about to start mining
the shit out of the reserve.
That poacher in the pickup,
got himself gutted.
His girlfriend Jessica,
again sees nothing, smells nothing,
like Ray, is left alone, unharmed.
WEC.
Kharis hated WEC.
Big time.
But, Carson has got nothing
to do with them.
[Carson]
Men that come to our lands, well,
they're definitely outsiders,
but they're outsiders
offering something.
They're promising something precious,
training.
And that means opportunity
to build our people.
But we need to stick together.
She came after him
because of that speech.
[Carson] You gotta watch 'em like hawks.
And he saw her.
[Carson] Make sure we hold 'em to it.
She revealed herself to him.
But I saw her, too.
She was gonna attack me.
Because you tried to defend Carson.
You became his ally,
and that puts you on side with WEC.
When I was 10, Carson took me hunting.
I saw two bear cubs
and I followed them.
But I wandered away too far.
I couldn't see 'em anymore.
And then I heard something behind me.
I felt the hair
on the back of my neck stand up.
And I could smell her.
As I looked over my shoulder,
there she was, the mother.
I heard a shot, and then she fell.
He saved me.
[Betty] Now, you saved him.
That was the first time
I ever felt the power of a gun.
I grew up with the myths,
the tales from my Cookum,
scary stories, spirits, cannibals,
foxes in the night,
crying out to open doors.
Whistle at the northern lights
and they'll come down
and take you away.
These spirits, they're still here.
They've just been
pushed to the side of your brain.
One of them is pushing back,
standing in front of us.
Not Kharis anymore.
Not gonna let your Mountie friend
in on this.
He has his theories, I have mine.
Besides what am I supposed to tell him?
Order WEC to shut down
the entire operation,
'cause the angry spirit
of a dead Neechee
is eating the innards of its employees.
He'd lock me up,
they'd probably take my badge.
Even if these miners in London or China,
or wherever the hell,
paid any of this some credence,
doubt it would make a difference.
Money matters more
to these guys than people.
Andy?
Christ.
Stone Crossing Road, by the Pines?
There's been another,
Andy's already there.
Follow me, and don't say anything.
Game on.
[rock music]
[bird cawing]
Here, sorry man.
Aggie.
It's a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
The guy was packing a .32.
The Doc still has to look
at your friend,
but far as I can see, nothing critical.
Our cowboy here got spooked.
Oh yeehaw.
That's Aggie Fox Child,
she's one of our elders.
How the hell am I supposed to know?
I'm just getting
the lay of the land here.
And I see something moving in the woods,
and it spooked me.
I yelled out, who's there?
I got no answer.
So I figured maybe it's whoever
or whatever's been
slicing and dicing
all the other people around here.
You fucking moron.
You shot an 81-year-old grandmother
who's stone deaf, can't hear a thing.
That's why she didn't respond.
She's an herbalist,
she was probably gathering plants.
Again, how the hell
was I supposed to know?
By using your goddamn eyes.
Ah, she should have bells on.
Why do you have a firearm?
Well, your little sexy minx
over there has a gun.
How do you think
I got this pretty little nose?
She's a game warden,
which makes her a federal peace officer.
Who the hell are you?
Betty.
I got it, Betty.
Okay, already booking him.
I'm taking him to jail
as soon as I get Aggie some help.
Missing a phone call.
Okay, it's getting out of hand.
I was afraid this would start happening.
Just remember what I was saying.
We got to end this.
I know, that's what I'm trying to do.
Hey.
Game on.
[sinister music]
You're busy, eh?
You don't know the half of it.
I saw you the other day,
at the hit and run site.
Just paying my respects, best as I can.
Thanks.
I knew Kharis a bit,
authorized the permit for that
anti-mine demonstration she organized.
I let her block the road
for a few hours.
That was Kharis.
Yeah.
I'm all for at pulling the energy
out of the ground myself,
but you sure had to respect her,
especially after everything
she went through before.
Andy?
Andy?
Andy?
Andy, do you have a sec?
Yeah, yeah.
That guy you got in there, Donny.
He asked me out the other night
and I'm pretty sure
he slipped me a roofie.
[Andy] Okay.
Everything was fine.
And then,
then I just kind of blacked out.
I have really hazy memories.
It keeps coming back and forth.
Mary Lynne?
Sweet, internships.
Shit.
The body, where is it?
You won't find it.
The spirit is within it now.
What does that mean?
What are you trying to say?
The intruder came here,
stole everything he could from us,
our language, our stories, our songs,
and worst of all, the land.
This land is what we are,
and without it, we are no more.
And right now strangers
want to devour it,
steal it from right under us
as we speak.
Mary Lynne, do you understand?
There are people dying out there,
innocent people,
our people too.
If you can help us.
Where is Kharis?
Kharis is dead.
She was killed on a road late one night
by some beast who dragged her 100 feet,
cared less about her
than a scrap of roadkill.
[speaking in native language]
What the hell you make of that?
Your guess is as good as mine.
We need to stop this.
[Ben] Hey Bet, how goes the case?
I'm asking myself the same question.
I just wanted to let you know
that I'll be heading out
to the community center,
so I may not be here when you get back.
That's a good distance,
how you getting there?
[Ben] On my bike.
You sure? It's pretty cold out.
My warrior spirit can handle it.
[Betty] A warrior on a bicycle.
At least until I get my Harley anyway.
And guess what?
That's on you.
Ben?
Actually,
I don't want you going out alone
until all this is settled, okay?
But this is important to me.
[Betty] Ben.
Long time ago,
we were teenagers too, Mother.
I never was.
So what now?
I don't know.
Kharis, or whatever the hell
that thing is out there,
it's hunting.
So, we gotta go hunt the hunter.
Man, I wish Carson was here with us.
Yeah, I wish he was, too.
You out for bear now?
Poacher set it.
Get the gallbladder, sell it to China,
Leave the rest of the animal to rot.
These things cost money.
I hope whoever said it, cries.
[chuckling]
You go ahead.
I'm gonna go check on Ben.
[truck starting]
[sinister music]
Hey Mary Lynne, I need to talk to you.
This belonged to my friend, Jock O Deer.
He's Mohawk from Ganowaga.
We served together.
He used to say to me,
what are you doing over here?
Shooting up people
that never did anything to you.
10,000 miles from your nice little res.
We laughed 'cause we both knew
why we were there.
It's the kind of thing
that goes so deep
it's hard to explain,
even to yourself.
What's your point?
One night before a mission,
he said to me,
I'm tired of fighting.
And I said, yeah, we all are.
But he said, no,
not this kind of fighting.
He was tired of fighting the past,
of everything we lost,
everything that was done to us.
It's always there,
but you gotta move on,
or you won't get anywhere.
So he made a plan for himself.
He was gonna join his father
and his uncles
on the high steel.
You know what he wanted to build?
Bridges, bridges connect people,
he said.
Everyone pays the same toll.
You get off and you got no choice.
You're in someone else's territory
all of a sudden,
and you gotta deal with them.
Without the bridge,
you're both screwed so,
we're all in this together.
That'll be my contribution, he said.
Did he?
No, he didn't make it.
I've been hanging on
to this for eight years.
But, it's time to move on.
It's my gift to you.
[mournful piano music]
[phone ringing]
Ben, when I said stay home, I meant it.
WEC is hiring, paid summer internships.
Even if you're 14.
I called around
and there's only 20 spots.
And if I don't go today,
I don't get one.
Just stay away from anything, WEC.
We'll figure something else out, okay?
You know something?
You're always telling me
to be more responsible,
to take initiative, eyes on the prize,
make something of myself.
And now that...
Ben, Ben, are you okay?
What happened?
I thought I saw something.
What?
[bird cawing]
Auntie, I'm getting scared.
How far are you from home?
I barely left.
Okay, you pedal like the devil.
Get inside, and lock the door,
I'm not too far.
[siren blaring]
Stace?
Jesus.
Inside, she's trying to get in.
I'm almost there.
Get down to the cellar,
barricade yourself.
Auntie, I'm bleeding.
Can you run?
I think so.
Get down to the cellar.
Ah.
[siren blaring]
Ben?
I'm down here.
[gun firing]
Hey, I'm here, do you see her?
She's inside, Ben's hurt.
We're in the cellar.
Put your foot up here.
[eerie music]
[gasping]
It's gonna be okay.
She's trying to break down the door.
My last clip's almost empty.
She's almost in.
Hey Kharis.
Check it out.
I work for WEC now. Scarden!
[panting]
Kharis, come on.
Come at me.
[gun firing]
Fucking hell.
What do we do with her?
Drag her to death.
Again?
I don't know.
[eerie music]
[growling]
Betty!
Betty.
She's here for you.
The head.
The head.
[intense music]
[grunting]
[siren blaring]
Is it over?
Almost.
[heart beating]
You're hurt.
Accident.
Fell off a ladder.
That's life.
Yeah, life.
You.
Just visiting.
I was playing on thin ice, fell through.
We can say its name one more time,
and never again.
Your prisoner in the back there
seems like he needs some
medical attention.
He took a tumble
getting in the cruiser.
He actually did double duty tonight.
Had himself another charge.
He's the hit and run, killed Kharis.
What led you.
Frances, from the diner.
She gave him up.
She was with him.
She was in the truck?
He slipped her a date rape drug.
She was pretty unconscious,
but then fragments started coming back,
truck starting, stopping,
and hitting something.
We had a little chat.
He volunteered
some more info.
[heart beating]
What the hell is that smell?
[heart beating]
[bird cawing]
[screaming]
[glass breaking]
[slashing]
[screaming]
[acoustic guitar music]
[rock music]