Redemption (2025) Movie Script

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Have lost their polity.
Their nation.
They have been scattered
throughout the world.
They were cut off for their part
Dispersed.
Their bones,
their hopes of ever coming back
together were very dry indeed.
And this promise that
the Lord would bring them back t
How precious that must have been
Because the Lord performed that,
has he not?
We have seen that, brother.
And how strength, how that stren
our faith
as we live in these special days
So we see here in this picture
that bones picture our hopes.
And you can understand and why J
the, may made his descendants
promise that after
his death and and and and,
he was embalmed
and, temporarily sent to rest in
but he wanted his bones,
his folks back in Israel.
That's where his hopes were.
So we see
bones are ultimately
the foundation for life.
Look what you did.
What you did to me.
What you did to her.
You best believe.
You're going to see what I do to
Oh, God.
Just do it.
Damnit!
Oh, God.
Okay.
Come on Luke. Get up.
Time for school.
No sir.
You to baby girl.
Peter.
Pete.
What the hell, man?
These trailers
aren't going to fix themselves.
Yeah.
You feeling okay?
No.
Im not.
Just feel like I'm
going through the motions right
Like its...
Nothing there.
Ever feels like it's
just too much.
Every damn day.
Do you ever ask why me?
Try not to think about that. But
Yeah.
Yeah,
I find myself asking a lot, actu
You know better men.
We're giving less of a chance ye
here I am, and
there they go.
I guess it's all a big joke, huh
The whole God thing.
man plans and God laughs.
Matt, I'm just so damn angry rig
I just feel like I wanna watch t
I know.
I know that feeling.
And what do you do about it
for that?
Nothing.
It's a fire consumes you.
You can fuel it.
You get nothing from it.
You think of to feel good, but j
All you're left with is regret.
And when you fight it.
It's not a fair fight.
Just when you think
you got the upper hand.
Calls out for help.
For you know what you're
outnumbered 100 to 1.
-And how is nothing supposed to
-If I knew the answer to that qu
Nothing is nothing, man.
You know, we, we coexist in our
nothing
Leaves me be, I leave it be.
Man the fuck up, Peter.
What if I just let the anger tak
And I fear for every man,
woman or child in its wake.
-Oh, hell.
-Just take the day off,
Clear your head a little bit.
A little hard work. It never hur
What do you want?
Hey, Pete.
I need you to do something for m
You've got a lot of nerve.
What do you need?
Your uncle hasn't spoken
to anyone in the family for
over a month.
Since you live the closes to him
-I just thought...
-you need me to check up on him.
-if you, if you could.
Look, I'm not in town right now.
Please, son.
You do not deserve to call me th
Look, I'll swing by and I'll che
Uncle Robin.
Hey, uncle Robin, you here?
Where you at, you old fart?
Robin.
Robin.
Uncle Robin.
Well, damn.
You finally did it.
You old drunk.
You know.
I hate to say it.
Youre lucky.
I wonder if you found peace
in death.
You did something that I couldn'
He hurt her.
My ex-wife's boyfriend.
He hurt my little girl, Hannah.
He did things to her.
Her mom. She...
She called me a few days ago.
We called the cops, and...
They used those swabs.
To collect evidence.
Im gonna press charges.
But I couldn't stop him.
I didn't stop him.
That monster, he hurt my little
And I haven't done a damn thing
- You
always
were weak.
Says the man who drunk himself t
Death
is no weakness
it was resolution
A means to an end
Weakness ain't no physical trait
it is one that succumbs
in the heart
Did...
You get justice?
Where is it?
I bet you're tasting
that sweet nectar now.
The honeysuckle
hate
of betrayal.
You fail your daughter,
you failed your family
and your god.
I can't just kill someone.
What is this word?
Cant.
Whats stopping you boy?
Morals? God?
The Law?
None of these
are stronger
then a fathers duty.
Laws can be bent.
Religion
overlooked and more.
You wanna argue
the morality array?
He would have to be alone.
Well now, theres an idea.
He would recognize me.
Where does your anger lie?
Boy
With the son of a bitch
That robbed my daughter
of her innocence.
Oh, no.
No, no,
you say her name
Hannah.
-Say it again.
Hannah.
Who is the victim?
Hannah.
What is your purpose?
To protect her.
Say,
His name,
John Lipsey.
Now, what must you do?
I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him.
-Hello
Luke
Look, I am so sorry.
Where are you at right now?
-At moms house.
All right. I'm on my way.
I'll be right there.
Nah, You know, you left both th
Do you know what each one called
I had to get someone to cover fo
You know, I have u-i-l after sch
You know, I have u-i-l after sch
and their father on his days
couldn't be bothered.
Pick up his fucking kids.
Where were you?
No one could reach you.
I was here.
I had to check on my uncle.
Dianne, I don't know.
One moment.
It was the afternoon in the next
The next, it was now.
And now I'm the bad guy.
God, damn.
I know things happen,
and that is just life.
But those are your kids.
I know when it comes to my kids,
I didn't say that.
Was it my failure that brought
that monster into our little gir
You been drinking again,
Peter?
You can't just walk in there.
Luke, Hannah!
-Peter, get the fuck out of my h
Your house? This is my fucking h
I paid for the damn thing.
Luke!
Luke, stay in your room.
Look, you're going to leave
or I'm going to call the police.
I will take you to court, and I
and will get full custody of tho
You're not even going to let me
apologize to my own children?
I would have, but youre fucking
You think it's my drinking
that caused all of this?
I, I know who you were
when you were an alcoholic.
And I know the man that you were
when you quit.
Right now, I don't know who
the fuck you're trying to be.
Go...
Tell em I love em.
Can you do that?
Hey, you're lucky.
Kerosene. That's no joke.
They go up pretty fast.
Your telling me.
Hey, man. You,
need a place to
chill out
just for the night?
Yeah, I got that spare bedroom.
No, Im good thank you.
It's just a shed
you know?
You sure?
Betsy wouldn't mind.
Im sure.
Just a freak accident.
Yeah.
But have you eaten?
I can always eat.
I thought so.
Hey, I ever tell you about the,
the worst experience
I ever had in the job?
No, I can't say you have.
What's been about
15 years ago now.
We get this call.
It's a two story
house, engulfed in flames.
Not too strange.
Normal procedures. Really.
So we arrive on the scene, and,
we notice we noticed that the
the smoke, it's just it's billow
It's billowing
out of the second floor windows.
And so we assume, you know,
the fire must be isolated
to the upstairs.
So we,
but we we run right to the front
I we're just trying to see
if we can get anyone out of ther
We got inside, and,
Well, Jim went in first.
And we noticed, family.
They were already all downstairs
The father,
Well, he must have set the fire
And then.
Then come back down
and, off himself later.
But the family,
they had been dead there
for some time.
Their skin.
Dripping, off the bone.
It was haunting seeing them ther
like that.
I'll never forget the way they l
And they seemed happy.
I know that has to do with them.
Skin sagging and, melting.
But it seemed like they were.
Like they were smiling.
Smiling.
At Jim and I, when we went in.
No, you had never told me that s
Just my way of,
Of coping with it, I guess.
Why are you telling me this stor
Do you think that I started that
No. Just.
Conversation.
I don't think anything.
I was just telling you a story.
Who was the guy?
What guy?
The monster in your story.
Monster?
The man who killed his family.
A man named,
Adam Schaefer.
Ive never heard of him?
Doesnt surprise me.
He didn't do much for the commun
Just another deadbeat father.
Hey. You heading out?
Yeah.
It's getting late.
Look, Pete.
If there's ever anything
you need to share,
I'm all ears, man.
Just anything you need to get of
your chest.
I appreciate that.
And the food.
You know that guy?
In your story.
He was quite the monster.
The problem is, in all of my sto
Are full of monsters.
Bull, Bluey
Barey
Missy
Pretty.
Cotton Candy
rainbow sparkles
And... Lama Boy
Mama, mama!
Peter.
You piece of shit.
Filing a restraining
order in the morning.
Here you go.
Oh, this too.
What can I get for you today?
Just have a cup of coffee.
Coffee? Okay.
I'll go get that.
-John,
-it will make life easier for yo
-A stupid accusation.
-John Lipsey, a child molester,
-They don't just go away.
-I know things like this
don't just go away.
-But find a small town somewhere
-you can get out of all this dra
-Start over.
Start over.
You can't just start over, okay?
This isnt the 80s.
Everybody and their grandma
has a cell phone
You know, I saw and 8 year old
the other day, with a smart phon
Everybody's just
everybodys connected.
-I'm just trying to help.
yeah, I know.
I know.
You know, helping is not
really helping right now
Just need all this to blow over,
the trial. Everything
Can we just stop talking about t
You know, it's all a fucking lie
She fabricated a story.
That of the fucking
girl that I was dating.
Got all weird.
Because.
She got weird because I wanted t
a little bit
more experimental in the bedroom
She freaked out.
And she made up this story.
And now we're here.
You know that I'm accused
before I'm even accused.
-I thought you said you don't
want to talk about it?
You're right.
I don't let's just.
Let's just drop,
-Okay.
What do you wanna eat?
-I don't know.
-I'm not really all that hungry.
Well, I'm going to order the pan
-All right, well.
-If she comes by.
-Give me eggs, overeasy and toas
Really?
I thought you said you weren't
all that hungry.
-Changed my mind.
-I'm gonna use the restroom.
Okay.
Can I help you?
Oh! What the fuck?
Somebody sitting there.
Do you know who I am?
No. Should I?
Name is Simon.
Okay.
Well, Simon,
my sister's
about to come back from the bath
She's sitting there.
So you're going to have to leave
Are you sure
you've never seen my face before
Bud this is getting kind of weir
No, I've never seen your face be
You keep this up.
You and I are going to have a pr
Yeah?
Yeah. I.
We are.
You reek . . .
of failure.
Its pungent.
That aroma suits you well.
You were right.
I did nothing.
Of course you didn't.
If you were a man of conviction
You wouldn't be in this position
A man
with pride, morals or virtue.
Theres your failing Trinity.
Knock three times
and you got nothing to answer ba
I looked right into his eyes.
And I felt nothing but a seethin
hatred and anger.
And I froze.
You froze ...
the fear.
Fear of worldly conviction in al
This mortal flesh is damned.
And you wont parade with it for
You're pathetic.
What is a father's calling
But to protect his offspring.
His life ceases
importance as the childs takes
But not for you.
No no, no.
Your selfish ways command those
to wrought away in a condemnatio
of fatherless scraps.
You are a fallacy
of man.
Look, I get it!
You don't get shit.
No, I do get it!
Im a fucking failure.
I know who I am.
I know what I am.
And I know what I've done.
Problems
always have
solutions.
What's going on?
Why are you here?
I just wanted to see you.
I wanted to talk to you
before anything happens.
What's gonna happen?
Luke.
You're going to hear things abou
From people . . .
probably your mother.
And I just want you to know
that it's not true.
Are you leaving?
Never.
Did your mom say something to yo
She
She said you've been drinking ag
She's lying.
Why would you say that?
Because of what I'm about to do.
What are you about to do?
Luke
My job in this life
is to be your protector,
to be your provider.
To be your father.
There's some days
that job requires me to be one
more than the others.
I know one day that youll under
but I just want you
to know that everything I do . .
I'm doing it for you.
Whatever it is,
you don't have to do it.
It's not that easy.
It's not that easy.
Actually it is.
You don't understand.
Stop saying that.
Stop saying that
Ill only understand
whenever I become this or grow t
I understand things perfectly.
Maybe it's your understanding
that's wrong.
Maybe there is another way.
I'm not just some little kid any
I don't know what you're going t
right now
or whatever it is you can't avoi
But please . . .
just stop.
I gotta get back to class.
-Runs through us.
-And he wants to do more and par
the way that he does.
-That is he helps us to open up
-and open up to others and see m
-that need to be on
those balls over there. But.
-We need to be into
-him so we can be sponsored.
-And a lot of times we have our
-And my husband, as I very much
-he almost always put his head u
God?
I mean . . .
Dear God?
I'm sorry.
I'm rusty at this.
It's been a long time.
But you already know that.
Lord, I need your help.
I need your help to . . .
fix myself.
And I'm not asking for me.
I'm asking
so I can be the man that I need
for my family.
-But what about my soul?
Just give that negative emotion
off to a higher power.
Allow him to cleanse you of that
All of this anger you feel
can be burning your soul.
Just . . .
Give it to God.
When we give our problems to God
weight lifts from our shoulders.
You can physically feel it.
How?
Excuse me?
How?
-I'm sorry
-I don't fully understand your q
I don't think that I was stutter
I'm asking you how?
You're telling these people
to give their anger
and their woe over to God.
And I'm asking you, how?
How is that done?
Through faith and prayer.
Does that not seem like a cop ou
Sorry that answer is not to your
That answer is not to anyone's l
You can explain to me how to mor
or spiritually give over somethi
so personal to
some thing that may or may not e
These people are here
for guidance, not because they
refuse to believe in God.
These people are here because th
That's enough.
You're going to have to leave.
Why?
Because I called you weak?
The only one who's weak is the o
showing aggression in the house
Okay,
then show me how to forgive me.
-I'm not falling for this trap.
-Please leave the church.
Okay? Okay. Look. I...
Think we got off on the wrong fo
Sit down. Sit!
All of you.
Okay.
Forgive me.
For what I'm doing right now.
Show me, forgiveness.
Please
Show me!
-Show me.
Please.
Look . . .
If you can't tell me how to do i
then just expl--
show me how to forgive.
Show me.
Please.
How very disappointing.
Coming all this way to see me?
You haven't done something like
since. . . .
Never.
I've never come to see you, Ma.
Yeah . . .
never.
Some kind of special
I got.
Family means everything
A bunch of bullshit.
Why did you do the things that y
Do what?
The neglect . .
the abuse.
Abuse!
I was the mother of four
ungrateful children
-with a husband whose
-job sent him away for weeks on
And I was left with you shithead
-Manage on my own.
I think I did pretty good with t
I was handed.
You didn't raise us.
You lived your life in a bottle.
There's no excuses.
Did you come all this way
just to accuse me
of being some kind of bad parent
I don't need that in my house.
I came
here because I needed to talk to
Dianne and I, we um . . .
We separated.
We got a divorce.
I lost my house.
I only have half custody of my k
I lost my job.
Been working with a buddy of min
fixing trailers.
Not even enough to get by.
Dianne. She um . . .
She started seeing this guy.
A few months back he uh . . .
He got caught doing some things
to my little girl . . .
To Hannah.
She's okay, but . . .
The damage is done.
Children, they're.
They're blessed with innocence a
Once it's taken away,
you can't ever get it back.
Its irreversible.
My little girl, she
She needed me to be there for he
And I wasn't.
I gotta find some way to live wi
Because I couldn't be there for
Is he in jail?
No.
He's out on bail right now.
My heart is full of anger right
I can feel the hatred
pulsing through my veins.
And I can't control it.
And I'm afraid that
I'm afraid of what I'm gonna do.
These walls.
There's always been anger.
Majority of it by you.
Even as a kid,
you'd be getting into fights
and picking on animals.
Neighbor's dog was a big target
My thinking was that if
Maybe I could somehow
figure this out.
By thinking as if I could someho
maybe forgive you.
Forgive me?
I don't need your forgiveness.
I did what I had to do,
If I had to wake up
and be a monster that day.
I did it
If I had to be
somebody I never thought I could
I did it,
I did it for my family.
I did it for
the greater good of our well-bei
Because outside of this family u
-meant nothing to me.
Anybody who says anything
different is full of shit.
What is it that
you're telling me to do?
I'm just saying that
as Hannah grows,
she's going to be haunted
by this darkness right outside h
It's not actually there,
but it is somewhere out there
in the world.
Her own demon
living free.
You could fix that.
-You know the way out.
What's going on, partner?
Just let me know if you need any
Can I help you with something?
Yeah, I,
does John work here?
John, uh...
No
No, John.
Why do you ask?
Thanks.
I don't know, but it's weird.
Yeah. I just came in looking for
Some tall cat.
I don't know, actually.
You know what?
Hey, thats him over there John.
Hey, hun, what can I get you to
Let me just get a coffee for now
All right? I'll be right back wi
And if you start to be hungry at
let me know.
Excuse.
You don't know me.
And, I don't know you.
I, This may sound
a little bit weird, but my husba
and I, we've been stuck in the h
across the street for a few days
We're actually on our way home
from visiting relatives.
We had an amazing time.
But that's neither here nor ther
We came to this little town in.
We've been stuck here.
I don't know
if you believe in God or anythin
there's been this
whole overwhelming presence
telling me I couldn't leave.
There was a purpose for me being
So we've come to this little res
two days now.
It wasn't until this very moment
seeing you that I.
I had this swarm of feelings and
I guess information to give.
And again,
I don't know, you.
I've never met you.
But I have to tell you.
Don't do it.
Whatever it is
that you are going to go through
don't.
There's a better way.
There's something more inside of
And those feelings that you're f
They will pass.
It may not seem like it.
But it will.
Love heals all wounds.
Love heals all pain.
Now, I just have to thank you.
now, me and my husband.
We can finally go home.
What are you doing?
-Hey, man relax!
oh my God, get out of here.
-No! Fucking move!
This man's been following me.
What is it?
You guys trying to get your reve
You want to kill me?
I saw the gun in your truck.
You thought it was going to go d
without a fight?
I see you around here again.
I won't be this nice
Hey, hey!
Hold up! Hey!
I'm sorry.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't threaten you.
I'm sorry.
But, you know, I could have kill
I didn't.
I let you live.
Hannah
Yeah. You son of a bitch.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
I'm a sick son of a bitch.
Her name is Hannah.
Yeah, I know, I know.
You know,
just fucking do it.
Just do it.
I'm tired of dealing with all th
I did it, okay?
I did it all.
I'm the sick son of a bitch.
You did it all.
Is that what you want to hear?
I enjoyed every second of it.
And so did she.
Is that what you need?
Just do it, you son of a bitch!
No.
What do you mean, no?
This is it.
This is what you wanted.
You did all of this
just to give up.
What I've learned
over this past year that.
Anger is a punishment
that we do to ourselves
because of somebody else's actio
I can't say that
I have fully found forgiveness
because I haven't.
But I did find another way
another way that didn't
feel so weak to me.
And that way was love.
It all comes down to a choice,
because I made the choice that I
I get to be a father to my child
I get to watch them grow up.
I get to teach them the
the values and principles
that I'm talking to you about to
If I'd made that other choice.
I saw that route.
I look through the eyes
of my own personal demons.
And I didn't like what I saw.
What I know is why I chose that
I wouldn't be standing here
before you today.
It would have been a bleak
and dark future that
I know I didn't want any part of
Forgiveness is not always easy
and I can't tell you how to do i
It is unique
for each and every one of us.
That's what we're all doing here
There's nothing we can do about
but we can all better our future
It's taken a little over a year
to build the Jesus Company
into what it is today,
and I want to thank each
and every one of you.
And to the people that are a par
membership, people that voluntee
I want you all
to feel free to come up
and share your stories of
grace,
mercy, redemption,
forgiveness.
There's only been one
perfect person in the history of
and it is none of you.
And I promise you,
it is definitely not me.
We're here
to love our neighbors
as we love ourselves.
We're here to listen,
to reach out an open hand, to he
That's what we're doing here.
You're all free to speak.
There's a no judgment zone.
And I want to thank you all.
Thank you very much.