In Cold Light (2025) Movie Script
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[INHALING]
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[PHONE BUZZING]
[TRUCK RUMBLING]
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Price still the same?
Yeah.
All right. Be right back.
[MAN TALKING, GUNSHOTS ON TV]
[PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE ON TV]
[GUNSHOT ON TV]
MAN [ON TV]:
I've been hit!
[MAN CONTINUES TALKING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BANGING]
Police, freeze!
Get on the ground!
Get on the ground right now!
On the ground!
[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[GROANING]
[MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE
INDISTINCTLY]
Stop! I said stop!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DOG BARKING]
[GRUNTING]
[SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
[PRISON DOOR BUZZES, OPENS]
[CHATTING IN DISTANCE]
[INMATE COUGHING]
[INMATE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
INMATE:
...finally getting out.
INMATE:
Have fun out there.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENOVER PA]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GAGGING]
[RETCHING, COUGHING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Did you take something?
Need medical. B-4-5.
DOCTOR:
You know what? I'll get my list,
and I'll let you know.
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[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
[DOOR BUZZING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BIRD CALLING]
Wow! She's a blondie now.
Looks good.
Love you, all right?
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
Kelly?
[IN AMERICAN
SIGN LANGUAGE]
Hey, Eva,
congratulations.
Good for you.
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
Don't let him get to you.
I don't.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
TOM:
I quit drilling.
We started selling.
Full time up in the oil patch.
It's been crazy.
Seth got a shell corp
to help stash the cash.
I said stay small.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
We bought this unit,
and these are for another one
on the floor below.
You can take your pick,
but I figured this one
was better, so...
Here, I got new ones of Amy.
[CHUCKLING]
Does Dad know about her?
TOM:
No.
You know how it is
with me and Donna.
We're, uh...
still figuring things out.
That her choice
or yours?
Where you want to put Mom?
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Stand there, please.
You gotta look up.
Heard your dad was thinking
about riding again.
He was sweet
in his day.
Think he'd be
crazy now.
All right.
One, two, three...
[CAMERA CLICKING]
Mmm. We'll take another one.
One, two, three...
[CAMERA CLICKING]
[GRUNTING]
DAD [SHOUTS]:
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
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[LOCK CLICKS]
[CHATTING INDISTINCTLY]
[SIGHS]
[TRUCK BEEPING IN DISTANCE]
Hey! What's up?
Ooh, you look good, Ava.
You look better.
Thanks, Donna.
You want to hold her?
AVA:
Where is everyone?
In the back.
What's the code?
[NUMBER PAD CLICKING]
Such a pro now, huh?
Hey!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Seth, who set me up?
Jesus, Ava.
No one set you up.
You were using.
Using?
You were a wreck.
I'm not an idiot.
I didn't screw up.
Well, would you know
if you did?
Oh, fuck you.
It's just bad luck.
What the fuck
do you know, Donna?
Enough!
I want back in, today.
I start making
our decisions again.
You just got out of prison.
Hey...
I know how hard it must
have been for you inside.
Get the fuck out of my face.
What?
Tom told me you were trying
to sell us out.
Take some cheaper package
from the woman up north.
They're too big for us.
That woman, Claire,
she's old stock, a killer.
She owns everything here.
You don't deal
with people like that.
We were just talking about it.
You're a fucking
pharmacist, Seth.
You forget
who started this?
I brought you all in,
and now?
And now
things are different.
Now you're a risk.
You gotta give it time.
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[BUZZER BUZZING]
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
MARGE: Doing meetings?
Mm-hmm.
Activities in violation
of the terms of your release?
Nope.
And work? Any issues?
Mm-mmm.
I want to write down
that we had a good meeting.
Are you gonna let me do that?
Of course
I'll have good meetings.
Says you had a panic attack
in EIW morning of your release.
You had them before?
You want to talk about it?
If I'm gonna help you,
then I need to know
what you want from all of this.
From what?
Your life, I guess.
This is the hard part.
Here.
This is why you go back
or die or don't.
So...
what's the one thing
you want most?
To feel free.
To be alone.
That's two things.
No, it isn't.
[HORSE NEIGHING IN DISTANCE]
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[CROWD CHEERING]
ANNOUNCER [OVER PA]:
Ladies and gentlemen,
you do not want to miss
your chances at the 50-50 draw.
Yo!
Cast your eyes
down to the infield.
K.J. Potter is about
to attempt...
[GROWLING]
Remember this fucking guy?
Number one at Saskatchewan
last week
and is, of course,
our current champion.
There's 40 grand in there
for you, cash.
Fuck you.
I'm not taking a payoff.
Ava, it's for the time.
Protecting all of us.
To get you on your feet.
And then what?
Can she keep them all up? Yes!
[ANNOUNCER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA]
I don't want it.
It's yours.
I want back in.
TOM:
Just take it, please.
ANNOUNCER:
Next up, a blast
from the past,
but you guys all remember him.
Will Bly is mounting Sugar Bag
in Chute 2.
He's been off the circuit now
on ten years,
but you all know him.
You can take the cowboy
out of the rodeo,
but you can never, ever take
the rodeo out of the cowboy.
Get up for him, folks.
Let him hear it.
Let him hear it!
[BUZZER BUZZING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
That right there, my friends,
is what we were talking about.
Is Bly back?
Oh, no! That'll be the end
of Bly's weekend.
Horse just got
the better of him.
Replay up now
on the big screen.
Bly had the top of the ride,
but it just got away from him,
and his weekend ends
in the dirt.
Tough ride.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA]
In the back corner now,
just leaving the stadium...
[ANNOUNCER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
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[SCREAMING SOFTLY]
[LIGHTER FLICKING]
I could never lie like you.
I gotta do something
real quick.
You wanna hang out?
Have a night?
Nah, I'm good.
Look, you're
my fucking sister,
and I'm worried about you.
Come on.
Where's the cash?
Thinking about it.
Can I ask you something?
Yeah, sure.
Why are you being
a bitch about Amy?
It's your responsibility.
Yeah, I'm not stupid.
I'm buying them
a place.
Where?
Hmm... Sending them off.
They're still living
in the old stash house downtown.
I'll buy them a proper spot,
give her a good life.
Good for you.
Good you're doing
so well for yourself.
[TOM SCOFFING]
What, want me to thank you
for bringing me into this shit?
All of us out of work
chewed up overnight.
You think I had
a choice?
Of course you did.
You went to the drill sites
and you fucking sold.
Now look at you.
Oh, so now
you're disappointed.
Aren't you?
AVA:
What's this?
I found a new guy
for Oxys.
I got a buyer in there.
Wanna come with me?
I thought
I was a risk.
[UNBUCKLING SEATBELT]
[SIGHING]
I don't know
how to help you, Ava.
I never have.
But if you need this...
You know who I am,
right?
You really think the guys in our
family are meant to be fathers?
They haven't tried yet.
Who named her Amy?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[SIREN HONKS]
Oh, shit.
Oh, fuck. What do you
have in here?
Uh... Uh, cash in the bag
and coke in the glove.
Oh, fuck.
Just...
Goddammit.
It's all good.
Just fucking be cool, all right?
How's it going,
officer?
OFFICER:
Good. What brings
you two out here?
Picking up a friend.
OFFICER:
Here?
You sure you're not out here
for a little...
tryst?
[CHUCKLING]
[LAUGHING]
OFFICER: What?
Oh, my God.
She's, uh...
She's my twin.
OFFICER:
You...
Uh, you-you two are twins?
For real?
Seriously? Let me see your IDs.
That's not necessary.
Well, I asked you, didn't I?
Come on.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SNIFFLING]
OFFICER:
Thank you...
Tom.
May 27.
Ava, May 27.
You really are twins.
I'm gonna be a second.
Stay in the vehicle, please.
If he searches us,
I'm screwed.
Calm down. It'll be okay.
[SCOFFING]
I can't go back.
Tom, I-I can't go back.
I know. I know.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[MUFFLED]
Good job.
Listen to me.
That shit...
That shit's hard, okay?
And I am proud of you.
No, no, don't be crying.
These people...
Adam, these people,
they aren't for us, right?
So, what are they for?
Okay. Good to go?
Okay. The money.
Go get the money.
Hurry up! I'll call Claire
and tell her it's done.
ADAM:
Fuck. Dad!
Dad, she's not there.
MAN: What?
ADAM: She's not there!
ADAM:
Fuck!
MAN:
All right, all right.
She couldn't have gone far.
There! In the alley, quick!
With me!
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[CRYING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hey! Down for a smoke,
or what?
What the fuck?
[SCREAMING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[TIRES SCREECH]
Oh, no, no, no, no!
Don't move, please!
Okay, stay there.
I'll get help.
[GASPS]
No, no. Wait. No, no!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:
All crimes: Suspect, Caucasian.
Female, 20s. Injured, blond.
Fleeing the scene by the
Laser Quest on 110th Street.
[DISPATCHER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
[SIREN WAILING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
Mama!
Mama!
Mama!
[CRYING, BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CRYING, COUGHING]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
[CUTLERY CLINKING]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Do you need help?
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
WOMAN:
Call an ambulance.
Call an ambulance!
[MACHINE BEEPING]
NURSE:
Patient's Ava Bly.
Ambulance brought her in
a couple hours back.
They thought car accident
at first, not a gunshot.
Took us a minute to call it in.
She's in the second bed
over there.
Victim is her own brother.
She's our prime suspect.
NURSE:
Okay.
OFFICER:
Looks like a drug thing.
I don't know.
One dead at the scene...
NURSE: Right.
OFFICER:
She's just got out of jail
on assault and trafficking.
You know?
NURSE: Yeah.
OFFICER:
Yeah.
OFFICER:
Why don't I go in...
[MACHINES BEEPING]
[GRUNTING]
Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
Come back here!
Stop!
Stop her!
MAN:
Hey!
[DOOR OPENING, CLOSING]
Hey! Stop!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTS]
AVA:
Donna, I need help.
Donna, it's Ava. Let me in.
[ALARM BEEPING, WAILING]
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[BABY CRYING]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[FUSSING]
[BABY CRYING]
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
Hey.
Hey, someone's gonna come, okay?
Shit.
[BABY FUSSING]
[BABY CRYING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE]
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[DOOR OPENS]
Security! I'm armed!
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit, oh, shit.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
I got two bodies.
Call the police.
DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:
Unit 129?
Dispatch immediately
to 136 31st Avenue Southwest.
[DISPATCHER SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[BABY CRYING]
Shh.
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[DOG BARKING]
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
Come on!
Hey...
[PATIO DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR CHIMES]
[BABY CRYING]
Hey...
It's okay. I know.
I know, it's okay.
Hey...
Ah... okay. Uh...
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
This is gonna feel better.
Okay.
EMPLOYEE:
Excuse me. Miss!
You can't just...
[SCOFFING]
I'm getting my manager.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Hi.
[CHUCKLING SOFTLY]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[DRUMMING AND CHEERING CONTINUE]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
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You'll be okay.
[]
[CRYING]
[BABY FUSSING]
[CRYING]
[CRYING]
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[SNIFFLING]
[CRYING]
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[FIREWORKS EXPLODING
IN DISTANCE]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN: Hey, what the...
Fuck! I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
No, wait, wait.
You gotta buy me a beer now.
That's the rodeo rules. Come on!
Stop fucking
touching me. Stop!
You're kind of fucked up.
Get the fuck out of my way.
You owe me a fucking beer.
Hey!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING, LAUGHING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[GUNSHOTS]
[]
[GUNSHOTS]
[HORSES NEIGHING]
Hey there, Ava.
How's it going?
You got a gun in that bag?
That why you're here?
[BULL MOOING]
Now, we've got some people
at your place.
But I'll be honest.
I kind of figured
you'd have blown town by now.
And your father told us
that we could find you here.
He said he wanted to save you
from yourself now.
I don't know
what kind of feelings
you have for your old man.
If you try anything,
I'll find him.
And anyone else that you have.
And, Ava, I will hurt them.
Do you hear me?
So, now...
let's just be easy, okay?
[BULLS MOOING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[]
[BULLS MOOING]
Fuck!
I lost her.
BILL:
Claire wants this clean.
We don't protect her,
she kills us.
If the uniform brings her in,
we need to get to her first.
We taking the dad?
I'll go get him.
Make sure Adam
stays at her place
in case she comes back.
BILL:
You sure he's up for that?
You trying to say something
to me, Bill?
[HORSE NEIGHING]
I gotta call Claire.
She's been asking about her.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
No, no!
No!
[AVA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
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[HORSES CHUFFING]
Camo!
Camo!
[CLICKING TONGUE]
Hey.
I got weapons.
He's ours.
I didn't steal him.
I just found him
wandering, and...
I'm not a threat.
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[INAUDIBLE]
[POPPING LOUDLY]
[MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[HORN HONKING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
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[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN:
Whoo!
[BELL DINGING]
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[AVA GASPING, GRUNTING]
[GASPING FRANTICALLY]
[SCREAMING]
Fuck!
No! No, no, no!
No, no, no, please wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
WOMAN:
Adam?
Adam?
Is this Claire?
[OVER PHONE]
Surprised you went home.
Is my dad alive?
Boy dead?
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
Now you.
They're somewhere else.
[LINE CLICKS]
Hello?
Bob.
BOB:
Yeah, we're all here.
Bob, I have your son.
BOB:
Yeah. I have your father.
How do I know?
BOB:
Hey.
[BOB WHISTLING]
WILL [SPEAKS WEAKLY]:
Ava...
[EXHALING SLOWLY]
CLAIRE:
Okay, what are we doing, Ava?
Please just let my dad go.
Why? He turned you in,
and you're okay with that?
I'll kill the boy.
Okay, kill him. Then what?
[MUFFLED SHOUTING]
[ADAM GRUNTING]
Or I could go to the police.
Tell them the truth.
CLAIRE:
You were seen
near everybody tonight.
No one will believe you.
I'll trade.
The boy for my dad.
CLAIRE:
Where?
Night of Joy.
Thirty minutes.
Meet me there with him.
You or no deal.
I'm done running.
[]
CLAIRE:
All right.
Good girl.
[LINE CLICKS, BEEPING]
[]
[DOOR OPENING]
Stop.
I said stop.
[GROANS]
[MOANING SOFTLY]
Now, what did he say?
Okay, tell him if he
so much looks at you again,
I'm gonna fuck you both up.
Where's Claire?
Where's my son, Ava?
Off bleeding somewhere.
You know...
I told him about what really
happened to your brother,
you know, the truth.
Because I wanted him to know
that when he called us
and told us where you were,
he was killing you.
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Bring me to Claire...
and I'll show you
where your son is.
This a fucking joke?
AVA:
Call her, or you don't
see your kid again.
[SIGHING]
BOB:
Yeah.
She'll take us to Adam if
she can meet you face to face.
It's my son, Claire.
You can threaten me all--
Okay.
I get it.
I'll let him go.
But you come with us now.
And tell him if anyone
finds out about this...
well, I don't have to tell you
what happens next.
We're leaving.
BOB:
We're leaving!
[]
We're gonna pat you down
if you don't mind.
[SIGHS]
Now, if you don't talk--
Look at me.
If you don't talk...
we're gonna have to
work on you, Ava.
Until you tell me
where my boy is.
Off you go.
[]
[]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]
CLAIRE:
Got curious about you, Ava.
Why'd you go back
to your apartment?
You must have known
we'd have someone watching it.
You went there looking for us.
Okay. Glad we could talk.
I could use some advice.
It's not easy for me
to get honest advice.
Your mother died.
A long time ago.
How?
What is this?
How'd she die?
She was swimming...
and had a seizure.
She was alone?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was supposed
to be with her.
But, uh...
we got in a fight.
I went to my room.
When I got back, I found her.
How old were you?
I was 10.
But you remember her well?
I was young, but, um...
I wrote a lot of things down.
What do you mean?
Memories,
things about her.
Did that work?
It gives me a picture.
And you remember the picture?
Claire, you realize
that my boy--
What kind of things
did you write down?
[SIGHS]
I don't know. Um...
She would always get these...
deja vus.
We'd be doing something,
and she would just...
stop and say that
she'd been there before,
she'd seen it before.
She said it felt like she was...
moving through time
in a different way.
What's your mother's name?
Amy.
It's different
with last parents,
especially for daughters.
Is there any chance
you won't kill me?
Hmm.
What about my father?
My mother's my last parent.
I have her in care,
which isn't easy
for either of us.
I'm hers. Her daughter.
But she walks
into the room now,
and she doesn't recognize me.
She thinks she's
talking to someone else,
someone no one has heard of
except for her.
She talks to me
as if I'm this other woman.
When I tell her she's wrong,
she gets upset.
But I need her to know
she's talking to me.
So I insist on it,
even though it hurts her.
And it bothers me
that I do this,
but I can't help it.
So?
Do you think I'm wrong?
I... I don't know--
I don't know what you mean.
When she looks at me,
do I belong to me
or do I belong to her?
[AVA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREAMING]
He set us up.
You all took too much
too quickly.
We just meant
to kill your brother,
but he brought you along
and you got away,
so I had to talk to this man
and clean house.
That's all this is.
[CRYING]
When I was arrested,
was it him?
BOB:
How do you think we met?
Oh, God.
[GROANING]
CLAIRE:
Ava. Ava...
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I asked you a question.
Oh, God.
If I were you...
[AVA CONTINUES
BREATHING HEAVILY]
I don't know. Maybe it's like
a panic attack or something.
Hey, get up.
Ah... Ah!
I thought you searched her.
BOB:
I did.
I could be useful to you.
I can fix this.
You think
you can just walk away
after this mess you made?
Hmm? Ah!
AVA:
Please...
I can't.
I can't, Claire.
Stop it.
BOB:
Fucking help me. Help me.
Stop it.
He's right.
You can't just walk away.
I can protect you.
I can protect you
better than he can.
How?
[]
BOB:
Adam...
Hey, let me look at you.
Come here.
Come here. Come here.
It's gonna be okay.
Keys?
They're over there.
Look at me.
I'm gonna get you
through this, okay?
I'm gonna get you out of here.
Ah!
We have people
if you try anything.
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
Just give me
the fucking knife.
[]
Ava?
What's happening?
I made a deal.
We work with them now.
Let's go.
Why did you do it?
What?
Why?
You and Tommy,
you never really understood.
We had to do it, Ava.
Listen, let me
explain it to you.
It's all gonna make sense.
[KNIFE PIERCING FLESH]
[GROANING]
I have to keep them safe.
I have to keep my family safe.
[KNIFE PIERCING FLESH]
I'm sorry.
[]
Is that her?
What is she doing?
[INDISTINCPOLICE RADIO CHATTER]
Hey. I'll be watching,
all right?
MARGE:
They said you asked to see me.
What did you do?
Ava...
I killed my brother.
I killed them all.
MARGE:
Why?
Now I'm free.
[]
[WOMEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Hi.
Hey.
Hi.
[]
[]
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[]
[INHALING]
[]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[TRUCK RUMBLING]
[]
Price still the same?
Yeah.
All right. Be right back.
[MAN TALKING, GUNSHOTS ON TV]
[PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE ON TV]
[GUNSHOT ON TV]
MAN [ON TV]:
I've been hit!
[MAN CONTINUES TALKING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BANGING]
Police, freeze!
Get on the ground!
Get on the ground right now!
On the ground!
[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[GROANING]
[MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE
INDISTINCTLY]
Stop! I said stop!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DOG BARKING]
[GRUNTING]
[SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING]
[PRISON DOOR BUZZES, OPENS]
[CHATTING IN DISTANCE]
[INMATE COUGHING]
[INMATE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
INMATE:
...finally getting out.
INMATE:
Have fun out there.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENOVER PA]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GAGGING]
[RETCHING, COUGHING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Did you take something?
Need medical. B-4-5.
DOCTOR:
You know what? I'll get my list,
and I'll let you know.
[]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
[DOOR BUZZING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BIRD CALLING]
Wow! She's a blondie now.
Looks good.
Love you, all right?
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
Kelly?
[IN AMERICAN
SIGN LANGUAGE]
Hey, Eva,
congratulations.
Good for you.
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
Don't let him get to you.
I don't.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
TOM:
I quit drilling.
We started selling.
Full time up in the oil patch.
It's been crazy.
Seth got a shell corp
to help stash the cash.
I said stay small.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
We bought this unit,
and these are for another one
on the floor below.
You can take your pick,
but I figured this one
was better, so...
Here, I got new ones of Amy.
[CHUCKLING]
Does Dad know about her?
TOM:
No.
You know how it is
with me and Donna.
We're, uh...
still figuring things out.
That her choice
or yours?
Where you want to put Mom?
[]
Stand there, please.
You gotta look up.
Heard your dad was thinking
about riding again.
He was sweet
in his day.
Think he'd be
crazy now.
All right.
One, two, three...
[CAMERA CLICKING]
Mmm. We'll take another one.
One, two, three...
[CAMERA CLICKING]
[GRUNTING]
DAD [SHOUTS]:
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
[]
[LOCK CLICKS]
[CHATTING INDISTINCTLY]
[SIGHS]
[TRUCK BEEPING IN DISTANCE]
Hey! What's up?
Ooh, you look good, Ava.
You look better.
Thanks, Donna.
You want to hold her?
AVA:
Where is everyone?
In the back.
What's the code?
[NUMBER PAD CLICKING]
Such a pro now, huh?
Hey!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Seth, who set me up?
Jesus, Ava.
No one set you up.
You were using.
Using?
You were a wreck.
I'm not an idiot.
I didn't screw up.
Well, would you know
if you did?
Oh, fuck you.
It's just bad luck.
What the fuck
do you know, Donna?
Enough!
I want back in, today.
I start making
our decisions again.
You just got out of prison.
Hey...
I know how hard it must
have been for you inside.
Get the fuck out of my face.
What?
Tom told me you were trying
to sell us out.
Take some cheaper package
from the woman up north.
They're too big for us.
That woman, Claire,
she's old stock, a killer.
She owns everything here.
You don't deal
with people like that.
We were just talking about it.
You're a fucking
pharmacist, Seth.
You forget
who started this?
I brought you all in,
and now?
And now
things are different.
Now you're a risk.
You gotta give it time.
[]
[BUZZER BUZZING]
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
MARGE: Doing meetings?
Mm-hmm.
Activities in violation
of the terms of your release?
Nope.
And work? Any issues?
Mm-mmm.
I want to write down
that we had a good meeting.
Are you gonna let me do that?
Of course
I'll have good meetings.
Says you had a panic attack
in EIW morning of your release.
You had them before?
You want to talk about it?
If I'm gonna help you,
then I need to know
what you want from all of this.
From what?
Your life, I guess.
This is the hard part.
Here.
This is why you go back
or die or don't.
So...
what's the one thing
you want most?
To feel free.
To be alone.
That's two things.
No, it isn't.
[HORSE NEIGHING IN DISTANCE]
[]
[CROWD CHEERING]
ANNOUNCER [OVER PA]:
Ladies and gentlemen,
you do not want to miss
your chances at the 50-50 draw.
Yo!
Cast your eyes
down to the infield.
K.J. Potter is about
to attempt...
[GROWLING]
Remember this fucking guy?
Number one at Saskatchewan
last week
and is, of course,
our current champion.
There's 40 grand in there
for you, cash.
Fuck you.
I'm not taking a payoff.
Ava, it's for the time.
Protecting all of us.
To get you on your feet.
And then what?
Can she keep them all up? Yes!
[ANNOUNCER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA]
I don't want it.
It's yours.
I want back in.
TOM:
Just take it, please.
ANNOUNCER:
Next up, a blast
from the past,
but you guys all remember him.
Will Bly is mounting Sugar Bag
in Chute 2.
He's been off the circuit now
on ten years,
but you all know him.
You can take the cowboy
out of the rodeo,
but you can never, ever take
the rodeo out of the cowboy.
Get up for him, folks.
Let him hear it.
Let him hear it!
[BUZZER BUZZING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
That right there, my friends,
is what we were talking about.
Is Bly back?
Oh, no! That'll be the end
of Bly's weekend.
Horse just got
the better of him.
Replay up now
on the big screen.
Bly had the top of the ride,
but it just got away from him,
and his weekend ends
in the dirt.
Tough ride.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA]
In the back corner now,
just leaving the stadium...
[ANNOUNCER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
[]
[SCREAMING SOFTLY]
[LIGHTER FLICKING]
I could never lie like you.
I gotta do something
real quick.
You wanna hang out?
Have a night?
Nah, I'm good.
Look, you're
my fucking sister,
and I'm worried about you.
Come on.
Where's the cash?
Thinking about it.
Can I ask you something?
Yeah, sure.
Why are you being
a bitch about Amy?
It's your responsibility.
Yeah, I'm not stupid.
I'm buying them
a place.
Where?
Hmm... Sending them off.
They're still living
in the old stash house downtown.
I'll buy them a proper spot,
give her a good life.
Good for you.
Good you're doing
so well for yourself.
[TOM SCOFFING]
What, want me to thank you
for bringing me into this shit?
All of us out of work
chewed up overnight.
You think I had
a choice?
Of course you did.
You went to the drill sites
and you fucking sold.
Now look at you.
Oh, so now
you're disappointed.
Aren't you?
AVA:
What's this?
I found a new guy
for Oxys.
I got a buyer in there.
Wanna come with me?
I thought
I was a risk.
[UNBUCKLING SEATBELT]
[SIGHING]
I don't know
how to help you, Ava.
I never have.
But if you need this...
You know who I am,
right?
You really think the guys in our
family are meant to be fathers?
They haven't tried yet.
Who named her Amy?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[SIREN HONKS]
Oh, shit.
Oh, fuck. What do you
have in here?
Uh... Uh, cash in the bag
and coke in the glove.
Oh, fuck.
Just...
Goddammit.
It's all good.
Just fucking be cool, all right?
How's it going,
officer?
OFFICER:
Good. What brings
you two out here?
Picking up a friend.
OFFICER:
Here?
You sure you're not out here
for a little...
tryst?
[CHUCKLING]
[LAUGHING]
OFFICER: What?
Oh, my God.
She's, uh...
She's my twin.
OFFICER:
You...
Uh, you-you two are twins?
For real?
Seriously? Let me see your IDs.
That's not necessary.
Well, I asked you, didn't I?
Come on.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SNIFFLING]
OFFICER:
Thank you...
Tom.
May 27.
Ava, May 27.
You really are twins.
I'm gonna be a second.
Stay in the vehicle, please.
If he searches us,
I'm screwed.
Calm down. It'll be okay.
[SCOFFING]
I can't go back.
Tom, I-I can't go back.
I know. I know.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[MUFFLED]
Good job.
Listen to me.
That shit...
That shit's hard, okay?
And I am proud of you.
No, no, don't be crying.
These people...
Adam, these people,
they aren't for us, right?
So, what are they for?
Okay. Good to go?
Okay. The money.
Go get the money.
Hurry up! I'll call Claire
and tell her it's done.
ADAM:
Fuck. Dad!
Dad, she's not there.
MAN: What?
ADAM: She's not there!
ADAM:
Fuck!
MAN:
All right, all right.
She couldn't have gone far.
There! In the alley, quick!
With me!
[]
[CRYING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hey! Down for a smoke,
or what?
What the fuck?
[SCREAMING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[TIRES SCREECH]
Oh, no, no, no, no!
Don't move, please!
Okay, stay there.
I'll get help.
[GASPS]
No, no. Wait. No, no!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:
All crimes: Suspect, Caucasian.
Female, 20s. Injured, blond.
Fleeing the scene by the
Laser Quest on 110th Street.
[DISPATCHER CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]
[SIREN WAILING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
Mama!
Mama!
Mama!
[CRYING, BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CRYING, COUGHING]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
[CUTLERY CLINKING]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Do you need help?
[IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE]
WOMAN:
Call an ambulance.
Call an ambulance!
[MACHINE BEEPING]
NURSE:
Patient's Ava Bly.
Ambulance brought her in
a couple hours back.
They thought car accident
at first, not a gunshot.
Took us a minute to call it in.
She's in the second bed
over there.
Victim is her own brother.
She's our prime suspect.
NURSE:
Okay.
OFFICER:
Looks like a drug thing.
I don't know.
One dead at the scene...
NURSE: Right.
OFFICER:
She's just got out of jail
on assault and trafficking.
You know?
NURSE: Yeah.
OFFICER:
Yeah.
OFFICER:
Why don't I go in...
[MACHINES BEEPING]
[GRUNTING]
Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
Come back here!
Stop!
Stop her!
MAN:
Hey!
[DOOR OPENING, CLOSING]
Hey! Stop!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTS]
AVA:
Donna, I need help.
Donna, it's Ava. Let me in.
[ALARM BEEPING, WAILING]
[]
[BABY CRYING]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[FUSSING]
[BABY CRYING]
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
Hey.
Hey, someone's gonna come, okay?
Shit.
[BABY FUSSING]
[BABY CRYING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE]
[]
[DOOR OPENS]
Security! I'm armed!
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit, oh, shit.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
I got two bodies.
Call the police.
DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:
Unit 129?
Dispatch immediately
to 136 31st Avenue Southwest.
[DISPATCHER SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[BABY CRYING]
Shh.
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[DOG BARKING]
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
Come on!
Hey...
[PATIO DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR CHIMES]
[BABY CRYING]
Hey...
It's okay. I know.
I know, it's okay.
Hey...
Ah... okay. Uh...
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
This is gonna feel better.
Okay.
EMPLOYEE:
Excuse me. Miss!
You can't just...
[SCOFFING]
I'm getting my manager.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Hi.
[CHUCKLING SOFTLY]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[DRUMMING AND CHEERING CONTINUE]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
[]
You'll be okay.
[]
[CRYING]
[BABY FUSSING]
[CRYING]
[CRYING]
[]
[SNIFFLING]
[CRYING]
[]
[FIREWORKS EXPLODING
IN DISTANCE]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN: Hey, what the...
Fuck! I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
No, wait, wait.
You gotta buy me a beer now.
That's the rodeo rules. Come on!
Stop fucking
touching me. Stop!
You're kind of fucked up.
Get the fuck out of my way.
You owe me a fucking beer.
Hey!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING, LAUGHING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[GUNSHOTS]
[]
[GUNSHOTS]
[HORSES NEIGHING]
Hey there, Ava.
How's it going?
You got a gun in that bag?
That why you're here?
[BULL MOOING]
Now, we've got some people
at your place.
But I'll be honest.
I kind of figured
you'd have blown town by now.
And your father told us
that we could find you here.
He said he wanted to save you
from yourself now.
I don't know
what kind of feelings
you have for your old man.
If you try anything,
I'll find him.
And anyone else that you have.
And, Ava, I will hurt them.
Do you hear me?
So, now...
let's just be easy, okay?
[BULLS MOOING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[]
[BULLS MOOING]
Fuck!
I lost her.
BILL:
Claire wants this clean.
We don't protect her,
she kills us.
If the uniform brings her in,
we need to get to her first.
We taking the dad?
I'll go get him.
Make sure Adam
stays at her place
in case she comes back.
BILL:
You sure he's up for that?
You trying to say something
to me, Bill?
[HORSE NEIGHING]
I gotta call Claire.
She's been asking about her.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
No, no!
No!
[AVA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
[]
[HORSES CHUFFING]
Camo!
Camo!
[CLICKING TONGUE]
Hey.
I got weapons.
He's ours.
I didn't steal him.
I just found him
wandering, and...
I'm not a threat.
[]
[]
[INAUDIBLE]
[POPPING LOUDLY]
[MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[HORN HONKING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN:
Whoo!
[BELL DINGING]
[]
[AVA GASPING, GRUNTING]
[GASPING FRANTICALLY]
[SCREAMING]
Fuck!
No! No, no, no!
No, no, no, please wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
WOMAN:
Adam?
Adam?
Is this Claire?
[OVER PHONE]
Surprised you went home.
Is my dad alive?
Boy dead?
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
Now you.
They're somewhere else.
[LINE CLICKS]
Hello?
Bob.
BOB:
Yeah, we're all here.
Bob, I have your son.
BOB:
Yeah. I have your father.
How do I know?
BOB:
Hey.
[BOB WHISTLING]
WILL [SPEAKS WEAKLY]:
Ava...
[EXHALING SLOWLY]
CLAIRE:
Okay, what are we doing, Ava?
Please just let my dad go.
Why? He turned you in,
and you're okay with that?
I'll kill the boy.
Okay, kill him. Then what?
[MUFFLED SHOUTING]
[ADAM GRUNTING]
Or I could go to the police.
Tell them the truth.
CLAIRE:
You were seen
near everybody tonight.
No one will believe you.
I'll trade.
The boy for my dad.
CLAIRE:
Where?
Night of Joy.
Thirty minutes.
Meet me there with him.
You or no deal.
I'm done running.
[]
CLAIRE:
All right.
Good girl.
[LINE CLICKS, BEEPING]
[]
[DOOR OPENING]
Stop.
I said stop.
[GROANS]
[MOANING SOFTLY]
Now, what did he say?
Okay, tell him if he
so much looks at you again,
I'm gonna fuck you both up.
Where's Claire?
Where's my son, Ava?
Off bleeding somewhere.
You know...
I told him about what really
happened to your brother,
you know, the truth.
Because I wanted him to know
that when he called us
and told us where you were,
he was killing you.
[]
Bring me to Claire...
and I'll show you
where your son is.
This a fucking joke?
AVA:
Call her, or you don't
see your kid again.
[SIGHING]
BOB:
Yeah.
She'll take us to Adam if
she can meet you face to face.
It's my son, Claire.
You can threaten me all--
Okay.
I get it.
I'll let him go.
But you come with us now.
And tell him if anyone
finds out about this...
well, I don't have to tell you
what happens next.
We're leaving.
BOB:
We're leaving!
[]
We're gonna pat you down
if you don't mind.
[SIGHS]
Now, if you don't talk--
Look at me.
If you don't talk...
we're gonna have to
work on you, Ava.
Until you tell me
where my boy is.
Off you go.
[]
[]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]
CLAIRE:
Got curious about you, Ava.
Why'd you go back
to your apartment?
You must have known
we'd have someone watching it.
You went there looking for us.
Okay. Glad we could talk.
I could use some advice.
It's not easy for me
to get honest advice.
Your mother died.
A long time ago.
How?
What is this?
How'd she die?
She was swimming...
and had a seizure.
She was alone?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was supposed
to be with her.
But, uh...
we got in a fight.
I went to my room.
When I got back, I found her.
How old were you?
I was 10.
But you remember her well?
I was young, but, um...
I wrote a lot of things down.
What do you mean?
Memories,
things about her.
Did that work?
It gives me a picture.
And you remember the picture?
Claire, you realize
that my boy--
What kind of things
did you write down?
[SIGHS]
I don't know. Um...
She would always get these...
deja vus.
We'd be doing something,
and she would just...
stop and say that
she'd been there before,
she'd seen it before.
She said it felt like she was...
moving through time
in a different way.
What's your mother's name?
Amy.
It's different
with last parents,
especially for daughters.
Is there any chance
you won't kill me?
Hmm.
What about my father?
My mother's my last parent.
I have her in care,
which isn't easy
for either of us.
I'm hers. Her daughter.
But she walks
into the room now,
and she doesn't recognize me.
She thinks she's
talking to someone else,
someone no one has heard of
except for her.
She talks to me
as if I'm this other woman.
When I tell her she's wrong,
she gets upset.
But I need her to know
she's talking to me.
So I insist on it,
even though it hurts her.
And it bothers me
that I do this,
but I can't help it.
So?
Do you think I'm wrong?
I... I don't know--
I don't know what you mean.
When she looks at me,
do I belong to me
or do I belong to her?
[AVA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREAMING]
He set us up.
You all took too much
too quickly.
We just meant
to kill your brother,
but he brought you along
and you got away,
so I had to talk to this man
and clean house.
That's all this is.
[CRYING]
When I was arrested,
was it him?
BOB:
How do you think we met?
Oh, God.
[GROANING]
CLAIRE:
Ava. Ava...
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I asked you a question.
Oh, God.
If I were you...
[AVA CONTINUES
BREATHING HEAVILY]
I don't know. Maybe it's like
a panic attack or something.
Hey, get up.
Ah... Ah!
I thought you searched her.
BOB:
I did.
I could be useful to you.
I can fix this.
You think
you can just walk away
after this mess you made?
Hmm? Ah!
AVA:
Please...
I can't.
I can't, Claire.
Stop it.
BOB:
Fucking help me. Help me.
Stop it.
He's right.
You can't just walk away.
I can protect you.
I can protect you
better than he can.
How?
[]
BOB:
Adam...
Hey, let me look at you.
Come here.
Come here. Come here.
It's gonna be okay.
Keys?
They're over there.
Look at me.
I'm gonna get you
through this, okay?
I'm gonna get you out of here.
Ah!
We have people
if you try anything.
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
Just give me
the fucking knife.
[]
Ava?
What's happening?
I made a deal.
We work with them now.
Let's go.
Why did you do it?
What?
Why?
You and Tommy,
you never really understood.
We had to do it, Ava.
Listen, let me
explain it to you.
It's all gonna make sense.
[KNIFE PIERCING FLESH]
[GROANING]
I have to keep them safe.
I have to keep my family safe.
[KNIFE PIERCING FLESH]
I'm sorry.
[]
Is that her?
What is she doing?
[INDISTINCPOLICE RADIO CHATTER]
Hey. I'll be watching,
all right?
MARGE:
They said you asked to see me.
What did you do?
Ava...
I killed my brother.
I killed them all.
MARGE:
Why?
Now I'm free.
[]
[WOMEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Hi.
Hey.
Hi.
[]
[]
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