Sundown (2025) Movie Script
(ominous music)
(footsteps pattering)
(Jesse panting)
(body thuds)
(Jesse panting) (shovel rattling)
(gun cocks)
(shovel rattling)
(ominous music continues)
You broke the rules.
(gun fires)
(gun clicks)
(bell tolls)
And that's one more rule you broke.
Please!
(flesh squelching) (blood spluttering)
(shovel chinks)
(ominous music)
(water splashes)
(Paul sighs)
Any luck?
(plate thuds)
Reckon we give it another week?
We can try the north bend.
Pan up there awhiles.
I'll go tell the Mexican
to rustle us up some food.
(footsteps pattering)
(insects chirping)
(ominous music)
(flies buzzing)
(Paul sighs)
(water splashes)
(water splashes)
(mellow music)
(Paul whoops)
[David] Well, I'll be damned.
(miners whoop)
[David] Reckon we start
on the east or west bank?
Between the four of us,
we can tear this whole
bend up before winter.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
Wow. Look at that.
Yes.
Look at that.
This is chock.
Chock full.
I don't need any of that.
Good job.
(insects chirping)
(nuggets thud)
[Pete] I dug just as
hard. I deserve an equal cut.
Ah, like hell you did.
I mean you did a little digging,
not like the rest of us.
What I did kept you
fed, kept the horses alive.
I deserve an equal cut.
We gave you a lesser cut
'cause we paid you up front
for the work you were gonna do.
I mean, we took all the risk.
We could have walked away here with nothing
and you'd still walk away
with money in your pocket.
My work is worth more
than a hundred dollars.
Oh, we paid you what you were worth.
(gun cocks)
Whoa now. There's no use for that.
Pete, put that iron away.
We already dug these holes out here.
It'd be a shame not to fill one of them.
Nobody gotta know.
Ain't nobody gonna care.
He died out here from Injuns or wolves.
Nobody gonna know no different.
That ain't who we are, Pete.
One less pocket to fill.
We promised him a fair
share. We'll pay him a fair share.
(punch thuds)
Enough.
I do not wanna play peacemaker
all the way back to town.
Now you boys make nice and shake
or we can just go our
separate ways right now.
Sounds mighty fine to me.
Yeah, me too.
We ain't splitting up.
It's hostile style country out there
and we're gonna have to stick together
if we're gonna make it back to town.
I'm not leaving till I get my fair share.
You don't like the gold you're getting?
I got some lead for you.
(gun cocks)
- Pete.
You know I'm right.
No, I don't.
Judd, you can have a quarter of my share.
Paul?
You give him a quarter of your share,
I'll shoot him on principle.
You know what you're doing, Paul?
Oh hell. I got one
foot in the grave already.
I reckon I can't spend
it in the time I have left.
What do you say, Judd?
Will that make it right?
Can we put this behind us?
Holster that gun, Pete.
Oh hell. Well, it ain't my cut.
[David] What you gonna do with your gold?
I need some peace and quiet.
Gonna have me a big house,
hire me a former house slave,
one that already knows
how to cook and clean
and I'll spend my day smoking cigars,
drinking sweet whiskey.
Both of those sound nice
but I have my eye on this plot
right outside of town
Beth and I grew up in.
It's probably sold by
now, but something like it.
Raise me a few head of cattle,
something about owning
the land you stand on.
You spend all this time out here
sweating, breaking your back and why?
So you can go sweat, break your back
working land and cattle. (Laughs)
Don't make a lick of damn sense to me.
It does to me.
Sure. Hard work.
I wanna give Beth everything she deserves.
I miss that woman.
Many a night out here, I
thought about packing up
and heading home just to see her smile.
You sure she'll still be waiting for you?
Two years is a long time.
Yeah, she waited.
How about you?
We sit around this fire every night.
How come we ain't talked about this before?
Bad luck wishing too soon.
Worse luck talking about it.
So let's not talk about it now.
We told you ours.
I owe some folks.
What, like gambling debts?
Had a rough life.
Had to make some tough choices to survive.
I did some people wrong.
Hell, most of 'em is dead and gone but
that don't mean I can't try to make amends.
I don't understand.
Well, I think Paul here
thinks he's gonna buy his way
into that Holy city.
Ain't no Holy city.
There ain't nothing
after death, but darkness.
A whole lot of quiet nothing.
Sounds peaceful but I'm with Paul.
I'll take my chances with the good book.
Well, imagine we die
and get to that Holy city and
all the streets are paved with this,
what kind of fools would
that make us look like
breaking our backs, digging it all up?
Pretty big ones.
I reckon I was pretty
quick with you today, Pete.
I apologize.
And I reckon you're just saying that
to buy your way in that Holy city.
Guess to buy my way in,
I accept your apology.
Don't mean you ain't a
greedy foul smelling Texican.
Don't mean you ain't a
bastard and a son of a bitch.
Well, can't nobody say
neither of us ain't honest.
(dramatic music)
Something wrong, boy?
Nah, nothing.
I just didn't look around tonight
before the sun went down.
We've been out here two years.
I didn't take it all in before we left.
You can, in the morning.
Yeah.
(mellow music)
(mellow music continues)
(mellow music continues)
(mellow music continues)
(Banshee howls)
(mellow music continues)
[David] Paul.
Paul.
It's not morning.
No.
[Paul] Wake me when it is.
Judd's dead.
[Paul] Who found him?
I did.
I had nothing to do with this, Paul.
I didn't say you did.
Well, I know you boys
think I wanted him to die
but I had nothing to do with it.
I don't think you did.
It was just his time.
It might be best though
you turn over that pistol.
How about you turn over yours?
I mean, you're the one who found him.
You could have killed him and woke us up.
(gun cocks)
How about you gimme yours?
Nobody's giving anybody their pistols.
Judd didn't have any help dying.
He wasn't shot. We'd have heard it.
There's no holes.
His eyes aren't bloodshot
and there's no marks on his neck.
No blood.
Well I'm through sleeping for tonight.
I'll wake your boys up
at sunrise if you want.
We'll bury him in the morning.
I think I'll wait for the sun too.
[Paul] You do what you like.
How about some coffee, Pete?
Tell him.
Tell me what?
Nine o'clock.
It's fast.
We ain't been back to sleep.
Yeah?
It's been hours at least.
What are you saying? The sun?
It ain't coming up, Paul.
(Paul chuckles)
I ain't certain of a
whole lot in this world
but one thing I am,
that the sun rises every morning.
Not this morning.
I am going back to sleep.
Y'all wake me up when the sun comes up
so I can have a laugh at you both.
You ain't tired, are you, Paul?
How long have you been awake?
You really think the sun's not coming up?
Well, I ain't tired now,
but it's not because I slept all night.
It's because I'm stirred up.
But since we're all awake,
we might as well go ahead
and get a start.
Pete, go get the horses.
You know, I expect superstition from him
but not from you.
I wound it at 3:00.
I've watched it ever since.
I told you it's fast.
I counted the seconds.
Well, if you've been awake for six hours,
you at least could have
started burying that bastard.
Horses are dead
except for yours, Paul.
You still think Judd
didn't have any help?
(gun cocks)
Hey, we're not doing this.
I said we're not doing this.
So what do we do? Load
everything on one horse?
Walk ourselves back to Gibson Station?
That's a five days ride, Paul. Walking?
Yeah, and what about him?
We're supposed to start
burying him in the dark?
You're right.
We'll load enough food for a week's walk
and we'll load as much
gold as the horse can carry.
We can find food along the
way. We ain't leaving no gold.
Don't be a fool.
If y'all wanna leave your gold here
for beans and jerky, y'all go right ahead
but we're not leaving any of mine.
He's right. We can
find food along the way.
Unless the sun don't come up.
(vegetation rustles) (footsteps pattering)
What the hell moves that fast?
It's not gonna approach the camp
as long as the red flower is burning.
Unless it's mad.
We best get packing.
Go get the horse.
I never heard anything
move like that before.
It's a big cat.
Cat?
Yeah.
I have seen storm clouds block out the sun
for days at a time.
[Pete] You know, if there was a storm,
there would've been lightning, thunder.
An eclipse maybe.
I was in Carolina in '69.
It was only a few minutes
Still, there's a reason for it.
No sense in getting spooked.
You ain't seen the moon?
Yes, I've seen the moon.
Looks like every other moon I've ever seen.
Yeah, but every other
moon you've seen moves.
(ominous music)
[Paul] It's not going to
do any good getting spooked.
(ominous music continues)
(hooves pattering)
(vegetation rustles)
(vegetation rustles)
(ominous music continues)
(vegetation rustles)
(David panting)
Did y'all see that?
Paul?
David?
I think we should run.
(ominous music) (creatures growling)
(guns fire)
(ominous music continues)
(creature growling)
[Woman in Green] David?
I'm here.
I can help you.
The father, David. Help me find the father.
David, the father, help me find him.
David. (Laughs)
(ominous music continues)
(gun fires)
- Hey!
What is wrong with you?
- Oh my eye.
- There's a woman,
a woman out there.
So you're gonna shoot her?
My eye, I can't see. My eye.
You son of a bitch.
You tried to kill me. You shot me.
It's probably just the
flash. Let me look at it.
(Pete groaning)
[David] I'm sorry.
Like hell you are. You tried to kill me.
No. There's someone out there.
Yeah, like hell there is.
First, Judd and now me?
Paul, he's trying to kill us for the gold.
[David] Gold? Where's the horse?
[Paul] He got spooked.
[Pete] I can't see.
It's gonna hurt like hell.
But when we get to town,
we'll have the doc look at it.
You'll probably be able to keep the eye.
If I lose my eye, it's
coming outta your gold.
All right, he bought your eye.
But it's not gonna do a damn bit of good
if we don't find that horse.
Which way?
(horse neighs)
(gun clicks)
- No!
- Hey!
We're in the middle of nowhere
with nothing but stars to guide us
and there is something out there.
If y'all want to kill each
other, we'll do 10 paces
or we can go
and find that horse and become rich men.
(Pete growls)
[David] We're just gonna
let the blind man lead us?
Can you do any better?
(dramatic music)
[David] You really think you
can buy your way into heaven?
What I think?
I think what I've done,
there is no forgiveness for.
Well, if that's true,
why not just enjoy the
rest of the time you have?
Why bother making amends?
I can't enjoy that time
with guilt I have in my soul.
Well, you could just ask for forgiveness.
I can't forgive myself,
why would the almighty?
Because he's the almighty.
(dramatic music)
We shouldn't be hitting a
town for another five days.
[Paul] What days?
Is this our only road, Paul?
It's a town. Towns have docs.
We can get your eye
looked at. Save it, maybe.
Well, I think I'd rather lose my eye.
Fine. I ain't paying for it then.
What town do you think this is?
There shouldn't be a town.
You boys go around it if you
want. I'm going down there.
(ominous music)
(tongue clicks)
(hooves pattering) (ominous music)
Saloon.
[Pete] Gold safe out here?
Who's going to take it?
(door creaking)
(ominous music continues)
(Pete coughs)
You gonna pay for that?
What do you reckon?
It's a town.
Where are all the townsfolk?
(shovel rattling) (ominous music)
(shovel rattling) (footsteps pattering)
(ominous music continues)
(footsteps pattering)
Welcome to Sundown.
I see you already helped yourself.
Well, I gave you what I had.
(shovel thuds)
You can drink for two nights with this.
(Pete coughs)
Your friends too.
Burying something?
Mad dog. Had to bash its head in.
Then burn it to be safe.
Probably should have put
the spade in the fire too,
just to be safe.
You said we're in Sundown?
Yes, sir.
It's our first time.
Of course it is.
Ain't no one ever comes to Sundown twice.
The sun, is it,
is it coming back?
I reckon it is in the morning
just like it does every morning.
Well, I ask 'cause we
ain't seen it in a couple days.
(Coraline laughs)
Maybe I ought to have
another one of those nuggets.
How much of my whiskey you already had?
It's evening?
Until it's morning.
You staying or passing through?
I guess we're staying till morning.
If you're staying,
you have to follow the rules.
Pardon?
The rules. You have to follow the rules.
Well, how many rules you got?
Six.
Well, that ain't bad, I reckon.
Paul, you know I can't read.
Rule number one.
No firing pistols from 3:00 to 4:00.
Well, what are you looking at me for?
I'm the one missing an eye.
(shovel thuds)
Sure you wanna stay till morning?
Rule two.
Rule number two, don't
talk back to the telegraph.
You got no business with
the one on the other end.
Well, I don't think
that's gonna be a problem.
Do not,
do not leave until sunup.
Well, what for?
I'm sure they'd rather
have us leave town than
rather have us run around breaking rules.
Rule number four.
Don't go poking the whore after 2:00.
This town has a whore?
[David] It says don't
go poking her though.
After 2:00.
And how do you know what time it is?
Well, how do you know?
(bells tolls)
(bell tolls)
(Pete sighs)
(door creaks)
The others?
Rule number five, don't
help the father find the son.
The sun in the sky
or the son like as in a boy?
I reckon, the son of the father.
What?
It's nothing. What's the last one?
Rule number six.
Don't trust no one,
you'll be better off.
Yeah, ain't no sense
even writing that one down.
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
I'll go find a place for the horse.
You get us a hotel room,
How do you reckon we'll pay?
See if they'll hold a rock
till we can get to the bank in the morning.
Paul?
That's her.
The woman I saw on the trails,
the one who knew my name.
What she wearing?
Paul.
(ominous music continues)
(door slams)
What'd she say to you out there?
Well?
She said something about the father.
I reckon she's looking for him.
So there's a woman looking for a father
looking for his son
and we're not supposed to help him.
I don't think we should help any of them.
I think we should keep our
heads down, wait till morning
and get out of this God forsaken place.
Maybe you're right.
We'll get a hotel room, hold up till sun up
and then get out of this town.
I'll go find the livery.
(chair creaking)
Hotel is closed.
Where'd you come from?
I hail from Colorado.
Born in a snow storm.
I came out here to make my mark.
Hotel is closed.
You said that.
I figured I'd go in and see for myself.
You can go in there and poke around.
Ain't against any of the rules.
Who made the rules?
Don't seem like rules for a town.
Hotel is closed.
Yes, sir. Mind if I see for myself?
(chair creaking)
[Creepy Man] Hotel is closed.
I see that.
(chair creaking)
(ominous music)
(chair creaking)
Pardon, sir, might you
have a livery here in town?
The livery's closed.
Just wanna stable my horse for the night.
I can pay in the morning.
I ain't seen no horse
around here for some years.
Not a one?
I reckon that's not likely.
Livery is closed.
[Paul] But you do have one.
It's closed.
Have we met?
(chair creaking)
(ominous music) (chair creaking)
(door creaks) (dramatic music)
Got the time?
Not for you.
Well, that's not polite. I
was only trying to be kind.
You seem like a man
who ain't had much politeness come his way.
I reckon not many people are kind to you.
It's a lonesome night. You
want someone to talk to?
Just talk?
Just talk.
Just talk.
I'm Scarlet.
Well, Scarlet, I reckon
talking ain't against the rules.
(Scarlet gasps and chuckles)
Can I see?
It is beautiful.
Oh, they're just rocks.
Rocks that other folks want.
Want enough to gimme the things I want.
And what do you want, Pete?
Do you want the touch of a woman,
breath on your skin
or do you want her love?
No.
You want more than that.
You want her respect.
I can give you mine
and it won't take a bunch
of shiny rocks to have it.
Well, what will it take?
Be mine.
Hotel's closed.
Livery too. I can't even find it.
Something ain't right
about this town, Paul.
I'm finding it difficult
to differ with you on that.
We need to grab the horse, rustle up Pete,
get on out of town.
We can't.
The hell we can't.
It ain't sun up yet. We
can't leave till morning.
What do you think is gonna happen
if we leave town before the sun comes up?
If we're gonna break a
rule, that's the one to break.
(Pete and Scarlet giggling)
It's like Pete has his
own thoughts on that.
We gotta stop him.
Let him have his fun.
(Pete and Scarlet giggling)
What are you doing?
I'm having fun with Scarlet here.
The rules, Pete.
I worked hard out there for two years.
Not a minute of pleasure.
Nothing but pain and suffering.
Well, I aim to correct that.
No, don't.
(punch thuds)
Dammit, Pete.
You having yourself a time, miss?
I'm fine.
(Scarlet laughs)
Look, Paul, he's given me the evil eye.
Dammit.
Y'all tell me when you're
ready to leave this here town.
- You, all right?
- I'll be fine.
My pride just stings a little, that's all
Good. It looks like
we have a new problem.
Well, it's gotta be in town somewhere.
It won't be too hard to find it.
Let me see if I can't find this old nag.
It appears I've lost my escort.
My apologies, ma'am.
I have a horse to find.
(Pete coughs)
(footsteps pattering)
(dramatic music)
David?
David?
Beth, is that you?
When did you...
How did you get here?
I couldn't wait any longer.
I had to come find you.
(Pete sighs)
To hell with the damn rules.
(door creaks) (mellow music)
Telegraph is closed.
Is anything open in this town?
[Both] Saloon.
That message ain't for you.
I couldn't make heads
or tails of it even if it was.
Telegraph is closed.
I know.
You have a nice evening, sir.
You as well, Sergeant.
(mellow music continues)
I do know you.
(ominous music)
(coin rattles)
You don't have to worry
about those silly old rules.
They're just to keep people under thumb.
Ain't nothing gonna happen
to you if you break one or two.
Besides, you earned a
little something, didn't you?
Working so hard out there.
Working those tender fingers to the bone.
I reckon I did. I've
waited so long to see you.
I know you did.
Now how about you go
wait for me on the bed?
I wanna look my best for you.
[David] You look just fine.
I don't think I can wait a second more.
All good things are worth
waiting for, sweetheart.
Go wait for me on the bed.
(mellow music)
Pete?
[Pete] What?
Where were you?
Looking for you.
Where's the horse? Find a livery?
No, I can't find the horse.
You lost the horse?
Two years of our hard work,
breaking our backs, scarred bones.
(bottle shatters)
Well, you better help me find him,
find the damn thing
or you're gonna be lost too.
I am lost, boy. We all are.
And if we don't get outta this town soon,
we ain't ever getting out.
What the hell are you talking about?
We'll find the horse
and we'll do it before sunup.
Something tells me we got to.
There's something wrong
with this town, ain't there?
You, uh,
you seen things that ain't there?
You seeing ghosts now, Paul? (Laughs)
Let's go find the horse.
(ominous music) (flesh squelching)
(ominous music continues)
You're as beautiful as
the first time I saw you.
Been all up and down
this town. Ain't seen a soul.
No horse, no townsfolk. I
ain't even seen a damn rat.
Where the hell are we, Paul?
That's what I'm afraid of.
You seen David?
You didn't?
First, the horse then that damn kid,
what else is this town gonna eat?
(mellow music)
Tell me you want me.
[David] I want you.
[Scarlet] Tell me
you'll give me anything.
I'll give you anything.
Anything you desire.
[Beth] Anything?
I'll give you the gold.
Mine, Pete's, even Paul's,
I'll give you all of it
just to have you again.
I don't want your gold.
What do you want? Name it.
Anything,
and it's yours.
I want you, all of you.
[David] I'm yours.
(shirt rips)
(dramatic music)
(flesh squelching)
(flesh squelching)
(flesh squelching)
[Woman In Green] Paul.
Come here, Paul. (Wind chimes tinkling)
(Woman in Green laughing)
(door creaks) (wind chimes tinkling)
Help me find him.
(door creaks)
(ominous music)
[Paul] Ma'am, pardon my interruption.
I'm looking for my friend,
the man I was with when you last saw us.
The one you spoke with on the trail.
[Woman in Green] He is
coming. He needs your help.
Help me find him. I need to talk to him.
David?
[Woman in Green] The father.
I can help him.
(knuckles rapping)
[Pete] Hello?
(Woman in Green whispering)
(door creaks)
[Pete] Kind of late for
you to be out on the streets,
ain't it, ma'am?
Well, you ain't,
you ain't seen no horse
around here, have you?
You want to leave?
Well, yes ma'am. That's our plan.
We're gonna find our horse
and get up on outta here.
I can help you leave.
Bring me the father
and I'll help you leave.
Father? What father?
Help the father.
[Paul] Pete? (Ominous music)
What? Where'd she go?
[Paul] Who?
The woman who was standing right here.
What woman? Wearing a green dress?
Yeah, I think so.
It's hard to tell with this
light and my eye and all
but you saw her.
Not here, down the way.
Come on. We're getting outta this town.
[Pete] No.
What?
We're gonna find the horse first,
then we're gonna get outta here.
And David.
David can fend for himself.
I'm not leaving him behind.
Well, fine. You find
David, I'll find the horse.
(cannon firing)
(dramatic music)
(people chattering)
(cannons firing)
I'm sorry I couldn't kill
those people, Sergeant.
(gun cocks)
(cannons firing) (people chattering)
Take care of my son, Paul.
(gun fires)
(dramatic music)
(door creaks)
(shovel rattles)
(dramatic music continues)
I am sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to scare you.
You gave me a fright there, boy.
Again, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
My name is Manny.
I'm Paul. Is this your town?
No, no, no, no. I just got here.
I'm not really sure where here is or...
Or?
Or when.
Sun playing tricks on you too, boy?
Son.
My son, you see him?
(bells toll three times)
[Paul] So what part
you hail from here, Manny?
I ain't familiar with the way you talk.
Down south.
You look like a Mexican
but you don't sound like one.
Sicilian actually.
Hmm.
So you think you can help me find my son?
There's a woman said
she could help us leave.
A woman?
Yeah, a woman in a green dress.
A woman in green, you saw her?
You seen her?
No, but I've been told about her.
Did you look her in the eyes?
No, I don't think so.
In fact, her eyes were
all covered in shadows.
Good, good.
Why?
Just don't look her in the eyes.
It's gonna be hard for her to help us
if we don't look her in the eye.
Help you how?
She said she could help us
if we helped you.
Then let's help her help me help you.
(glasses chink)
(Manny coughs)
Yeah, you ain't a Mexican.
(door creaks)
So how'd you lose your boy, Manny?
We went to this hunting
cabin for the weekend.
We got separated.
I made it out, but he didn't
so I went back to try to find him,
somehow I ended up
here, not quite sure how.
Is he a good boy?
He's a good boy, yeah.
I mean, he got lost a bit along the way.
Met a girl that wasn't right for him.
Got her pregnant and I don't
think he was ready for that.
So he just up and disappeared?
No, no, no. It wasn't like that.
I mean, he was scared
but he wouldn't run away.
He wouldn't abandon her
and definitely not his kid.
It's just he's been
going through a lot lately
and we lost his mother last year and I
guess he blames me a bit for it.
Hmm.
How long you been
looking for your boy, Manny?
About 130 years, apparently.
You seem to be going
through a lot looking for him.
He's my boy. I love him.
Even though he ran off
and left his wife and daughter?
Everybody made mistakes.
[Paul] Some mistakes can't be forgiven.
A father would always love his kids.
He may be disappointed
in them from time to time
and get angry
but as long as they want to come home
when they see the errors of their ways,
a real father would always be waiting.
You reckon?
I reckon.
Don't you?
I figure there's some things
even a father can't forgive.
That's just pride talking.
Pride? What's pride got to do with it?
A man thinks he's so great
that his deeds are so bad
that a father can't forgive him?
Thinks that his choices are
greater than his father's love?
That sounds like pride to me.
(wind chimes tinkling)
You never had kids?
I did but I lost him
in the war.
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
(ominous music continues)
(door creaks)
- Remember,
don't look her in the eyes.
Why?
I don't know.
You know, I had my doubts
at first given the list and all
but you love your son.
I don't see how helping
you can be anything but right.
Wait, list? What list?
The list with the rules.
You have a list of rules?
Barmaid gave them to me.
What was the rule?
What's the rules? What are you doing?
There's one about not helping the father
help find the son.
You broke a rule?
You can't break the rules. This is wrong.
No, you gotta go.
You gotta go. You gotta go.
(Woman in Green laughs)
Okay, go, go, go, go.
(door slams)
(ominous music)
(knuckles rapping)
It's you.
It's me, Manny.
[Paul] Manny!
- Manny!
- I know why you're here.
(knuckles rapping)
[Paul] Manny, let me back in.
I'm looking for Steve.
He's okay now.
You don't have to worry about him anymore.
He's with family.
No, I'm his family.
No, not anymore.
That's why you couldn't let go.
You couldn't let him be with his family.
We are not his family anymore.
He is us now.
(Manny sobs)
It's time to let him go.
You can't help him anymore.
No. He needs me.
You won't let him live his life.
No.
Then I have to stop you.
(flesh squelching) (wood splinters)
This was always your
problem. Always too big.
It allowed us to control you.
Now you're ours completely.
(body thuds)
(wood creaks)
(ominous music)
(flesh squelching)
(door creaks)
(door creaks)
(dramatic music)
Ma'am?
Now where are you off to, sweetie?
I'm looking for my friend, David.
You remember the youngest of us?
You ain't seen him, have you?
Oh, the tasty one.
Tasty? You done ate the poor bastard?
I wonder if you'll be as scrumptious.
Oh, no, ma'am.
At my age, I bet I'm pretty gamey.
(punch thuds)
(shovel thuds)
I want your soul.
I ain't got one.
Rule number one, Pete.
No firing of pistols
between 3:00 and 4:00.
(bells toll)
(Bell tolls second time)
(Bell tolls third time)
(Bell tolls fourth time)
(gun fires)
(ominous music)
(Scarlet screams) (flesh squelching)
(wind chimes tinkling)
Who's that?
[Paul] Stranger.
What the hell happened to him?
The woman in green.
Whore's dead, had to shoot her.
[Paul] You find David?
Sorry, Paul.
What happened?
Scarlet fever.
(paper rustles)
What's that?
Seems this fellow
had his own set of rules,
different from ours.
There's one here that says do
not talk to the one eyed man,
but tip you a dollar.
Well, where's my dollar?
Don't break the rules, Paul.
[Pete] This ain't no dollar.
Hmm?
(telegraph key tapping)
You sure about this?
Rules say don't talk to it.
I reckon whoever,
whatever is on the other end
of that telegraph has an answer
on how to get us out of this.
(door creaks)
What?
I've broken the rules. You haven't.
What am I supposed to do?
Go wait in the saloon.
There's a dead demon
woman in there, Paul.
Then wait outside.
(dramatic music)
(telegraph key tapping)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music)
(ominous music)
Judd? I thought you were dead.
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music continues)
(telegraph key tapping)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music continues)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music)
(blade slashes)
(blade slashes)
(blade slashes)
(dramatic music continues)
(blade slashes)
(telegraph key tapping)
[Woman in Green] You are almost there.
Keep going.
Welcome home, Judd. (Laughs)
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
Have a seat, Paul.
Oh, right. Sorry.
Lemme tidy up a bit.
(fingers snap)
(flames roar)
You know who I am?
You're the one I prayed to for the gold.
Nah, I'm the second one you prayed to.
See, he didn't answer your
prayer, so you asked me.
I reckon he did answer my prayers.
Turns out the answer was no.
That was the right answer.
Look what all this gold got us.
World of hurt for me and my friends.
Grief for my friends' families.
Where are they? Where are my friends?
Oh, they're on their way
to where they should be.
You wanna play me for what you lost?
I ain't much of a gambling man.
How do you expect to get it back?
I don't.
It ain't mine to wager.
It ain't mine to lose.
You know it ain't bad where you're going.
We keep ourselves entertained.
Have ourselves lots of fun. (Laughs)
It's not where I want to be.
He ain't there. Nobody to judge you.
You can be yourself.
Why are you trying to sell me on this?
It's still up for grabs, ain't it?
Excuse me, darling.
You win one hand, it's
yours. I'll give it back to you.
You lose, well,
well, you still win.
It ain't bad with us.
You just don't get to meet him.
(Paul sighs)
(dramatic music)
(cards rustling)
(Paul sighs)
(mellow music)
Three kings?
You see, that's why we don't
like having him around here.
He always wins.
Who wants to lose for all eternity?
I'm sorry you see it that way.
(mellow music continues)
(palm strikes)
How?
How did you know you would win?
(Paul sighs)
(paper rustles)
(mellow music continues)
I hate this rule.
(flame roars)
(door creaks) (birds chirping)
(mellow music continues)
(dog barking)
(mellow music continues)
(ominous music)
(ominous music continues)
(ominous music continues)
(footsteps pattering)
(Jesse panting)
(body thuds)
(Jesse panting) (shovel rattling)
(gun cocks)
(shovel rattling)
(ominous music continues)
You broke the rules.
(gun fires)
(gun clicks)
(bell tolls)
And that's one more rule you broke.
Please!
(flesh squelching) (blood spluttering)
(shovel chinks)
(ominous music)
(water splashes)
(Paul sighs)
Any luck?
(plate thuds)
Reckon we give it another week?
We can try the north bend.
Pan up there awhiles.
I'll go tell the Mexican
to rustle us up some food.
(footsteps pattering)
(insects chirping)
(ominous music)
(flies buzzing)
(Paul sighs)
(water splashes)
(water splashes)
(mellow music)
(Paul whoops)
[David] Well, I'll be damned.
(miners whoop)
[David] Reckon we start
on the east or west bank?
Between the four of us,
we can tear this whole
bend up before winter.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
Wow. Look at that.
Yes.
Look at that.
This is chock.
Chock full.
I don't need any of that.
Good job.
(insects chirping)
(nuggets thud)
[Pete] I dug just as
hard. I deserve an equal cut.
Ah, like hell you did.
I mean you did a little digging,
not like the rest of us.
What I did kept you
fed, kept the horses alive.
I deserve an equal cut.
We gave you a lesser cut
'cause we paid you up front
for the work you were gonna do.
I mean, we took all the risk.
We could have walked away here with nothing
and you'd still walk away
with money in your pocket.
My work is worth more
than a hundred dollars.
Oh, we paid you what you were worth.
(gun cocks)
Whoa now. There's no use for that.
Pete, put that iron away.
We already dug these holes out here.
It'd be a shame not to fill one of them.
Nobody gotta know.
Ain't nobody gonna care.
He died out here from Injuns or wolves.
Nobody gonna know no different.
That ain't who we are, Pete.
One less pocket to fill.
We promised him a fair
share. We'll pay him a fair share.
(punch thuds)
Enough.
I do not wanna play peacemaker
all the way back to town.
Now you boys make nice and shake
or we can just go our
separate ways right now.
Sounds mighty fine to me.
Yeah, me too.
We ain't splitting up.
It's hostile style country out there
and we're gonna have to stick together
if we're gonna make it back to town.
I'm not leaving till I get my fair share.
You don't like the gold you're getting?
I got some lead for you.
(gun cocks)
- Pete.
You know I'm right.
No, I don't.
Judd, you can have a quarter of my share.
Paul?
You give him a quarter of your share,
I'll shoot him on principle.
You know what you're doing, Paul?
Oh hell. I got one
foot in the grave already.
I reckon I can't spend
it in the time I have left.
What do you say, Judd?
Will that make it right?
Can we put this behind us?
Holster that gun, Pete.
Oh hell. Well, it ain't my cut.
[David] What you gonna do with your gold?
I need some peace and quiet.
Gonna have me a big house,
hire me a former house slave,
one that already knows
how to cook and clean
and I'll spend my day smoking cigars,
drinking sweet whiskey.
Both of those sound nice
but I have my eye on this plot
right outside of town
Beth and I grew up in.
It's probably sold by
now, but something like it.
Raise me a few head of cattle,
something about owning
the land you stand on.
You spend all this time out here
sweating, breaking your back and why?
So you can go sweat, break your back
working land and cattle. (Laughs)
Don't make a lick of damn sense to me.
It does to me.
Sure. Hard work.
I wanna give Beth everything she deserves.
I miss that woman.
Many a night out here, I
thought about packing up
and heading home just to see her smile.
You sure she'll still be waiting for you?
Two years is a long time.
Yeah, she waited.
How about you?
We sit around this fire every night.
How come we ain't talked about this before?
Bad luck wishing too soon.
Worse luck talking about it.
So let's not talk about it now.
We told you ours.
I owe some folks.
What, like gambling debts?
Had a rough life.
Had to make some tough choices to survive.
I did some people wrong.
Hell, most of 'em is dead and gone but
that don't mean I can't try to make amends.
I don't understand.
Well, I think Paul here
thinks he's gonna buy his way
into that Holy city.
Ain't no Holy city.
There ain't nothing
after death, but darkness.
A whole lot of quiet nothing.
Sounds peaceful but I'm with Paul.
I'll take my chances with the good book.
Well, imagine we die
and get to that Holy city and
all the streets are paved with this,
what kind of fools would
that make us look like
breaking our backs, digging it all up?
Pretty big ones.
I reckon I was pretty
quick with you today, Pete.
I apologize.
And I reckon you're just saying that
to buy your way in that Holy city.
Guess to buy my way in,
I accept your apology.
Don't mean you ain't a
greedy foul smelling Texican.
Don't mean you ain't a
bastard and a son of a bitch.
Well, can't nobody say
neither of us ain't honest.
(dramatic music)
Something wrong, boy?
Nah, nothing.
I just didn't look around tonight
before the sun went down.
We've been out here two years.
I didn't take it all in before we left.
You can, in the morning.
Yeah.
(mellow music)
(mellow music continues)
(mellow music continues)
(mellow music continues)
(Banshee howls)
(mellow music continues)
[David] Paul.
Paul.
It's not morning.
No.
[Paul] Wake me when it is.
Judd's dead.
[Paul] Who found him?
I did.
I had nothing to do with this, Paul.
I didn't say you did.
Well, I know you boys
think I wanted him to die
but I had nothing to do with it.
I don't think you did.
It was just his time.
It might be best though
you turn over that pistol.
How about you turn over yours?
I mean, you're the one who found him.
You could have killed him and woke us up.
(gun cocks)
How about you gimme yours?
Nobody's giving anybody their pistols.
Judd didn't have any help dying.
He wasn't shot. We'd have heard it.
There's no holes.
His eyes aren't bloodshot
and there's no marks on his neck.
No blood.
Well I'm through sleeping for tonight.
I'll wake your boys up
at sunrise if you want.
We'll bury him in the morning.
I think I'll wait for the sun too.
[Paul] You do what you like.
How about some coffee, Pete?
Tell him.
Tell me what?
Nine o'clock.
It's fast.
We ain't been back to sleep.
Yeah?
It's been hours at least.
What are you saying? The sun?
It ain't coming up, Paul.
(Paul chuckles)
I ain't certain of a
whole lot in this world
but one thing I am,
that the sun rises every morning.
Not this morning.
I am going back to sleep.
Y'all wake me up when the sun comes up
so I can have a laugh at you both.
You ain't tired, are you, Paul?
How long have you been awake?
You really think the sun's not coming up?
Well, I ain't tired now,
but it's not because I slept all night.
It's because I'm stirred up.
But since we're all awake,
we might as well go ahead
and get a start.
Pete, go get the horses.
You know, I expect superstition from him
but not from you.
I wound it at 3:00.
I've watched it ever since.
I told you it's fast.
I counted the seconds.
Well, if you've been awake for six hours,
you at least could have
started burying that bastard.
Horses are dead
except for yours, Paul.
You still think Judd
didn't have any help?
(gun cocks)
Hey, we're not doing this.
I said we're not doing this.
So what do we do? Load
everything on one horse?
Walk ourselves back to Gibson Station?
That's a five days ride, Paul. Walking?
Yeah, and what about him?
We're supposed to start
burying him in the dark?
You're right.
We'll load enough food for a week's walk
and we'll load as much
gold as the horse can carry.
We can find food along the
way. We ain't leaving no gold.
Don't be a fool.
If y'all wanna leave your gold here
for beans and jerky, y'all go right ahead
but we're not leaving any of mine.
He's right. We can
find food along the way.
Unless the sun don't come up.
(vegetation rustles) (footsteps pattering)
What the hell moves that fast?
It's not gonna approach the camp
as long as the red flower is burning.
Unless it's mad.
We best get packing.
Go get the horse.
I never heard anything
move like that before.
It's a big cat.
Cat?
Yeah.
I have seen storm clouds block out the sun
for days at a time.
[Pete] You know, if there was a storm,
there would've been lightning, thunder.
An eclipse maybe.
I was in Carolina in '69.
It was only a few minutes
Still, there's a reason for it.
No sense in getting spooked.
You ain't seen the moon?
Yes, I've seen the moon.
Looks like every other moon I've ever seen.
Yeah, but every other
moon you've seen moves.
(ominous music)
[Paul] It's not going to
do any good getting spooked.
(ominous music continues)
(hooves pattering)
(vegetation rustles)
(vegetation rustles)
(ominous music continues)
(vegetation rustles)
(David panting)
Did y'all see that?
Paul?
David?
I think we should run.
(ominous music) (creatures growling)
(guns fire)
(ominous music continues)
(creature growling)
[Woman in Green] David?
I'm here.
I can help you.
The father, David. Help me find the father.
David, the father, help me find him.
David. (Laughs)
(ominous music continues)
(gun fires)
- Hey!
What is wrong with you?
- Oh my eye.
- There's a woman,
a woman out there.
So you're gonna shoot her?
My eye, I can't see. My eye.
You son of a bitch.
You tried to kill me. You shot me.
It's probably just the
flash. Let me look at it.
(Pete groaning)
[David] I'm sorry.
Like hell you are. You tried to kill me.
No. There's someone out there.
Yeah, like hell there is.
First, Judd and now me?
Paul, he's trying to kill us for the gold.
[David] Gold? Where's the horse?
[Paul] He got spooked.
[Pete] I can't see.
It's gonna hurt like hell.
But when we get to town,
we'll have the doc look at it.
You'll probably be able to keep the eye.
If I lose my eye, it's
coming outta your gold.
All right, he bought your eye.
But it's not gonna do a damn bit of good
if we don't find that horse.
Which way?
(horse neighs)
(gun clicks)
- No!
- Hey!
We're in the middle of nowhere
with nothing but stars to guide us
and there is something out there.
If y'all want to kill each
other, we'll do 10 paces
or we can go
and find that horse and become rich men.
(Pete growls)
[David] We're just gonna
let the blind man lead us?
Can you do any better?
(dramatic music)
[David] You really think you
can buy your way into heaven?
What I think?
I think what I've done,
there is no forgiveness for.
Well, if that's true,
why not just enjoy the
rest of the time you have?
Why bother making amends?
I can't enjoy that time
with guilt I have in my soul.
Well, you could just ask for forgiveness.
I can't forgive myself,
why would the almighty?
Because he's the almighty.
(dramatic music)
We shouldn't be hitting a
town for another five days.
[Paul] What days?
Is this our only road, Paul?
It's a town. Towns have docs.
We can get your eye
looked at. Save it, maybe.
Well, I think I'd rather lose my eye.
Fine. I ain't paying for it then.
What town do you think this is?
There shouldn't be a town.
You boys go around it if you
want. I'm going down there.
(ominous music)
(tongue clicks)
(hooves pattering) (ominous music)
Saloon.
[Pete] Gold safe out here?
Who's going to take it?
(door creaking)
(ominous music continues)
(Pete coughs)
You gonna pay for that?
What do you reckon?
It's a town.
Where are all the townsfolk?
(shovel rattling) (ominous music)
(shovel rattling) (footsteps pattering)
(ominous music continues)
(footsteps pattering)
Welcome to Sundown.
I see you already helped yourself.
Well, I gave you what I had.
(shovel thuds)
You can drink for two nights with this.
(Pete coughs)
Your friends too.
Burying something?
Mad dog. Had to bash its head in.
Then burn it to be safe.
Probably should have put
the spade in the fire too,
just to be safe.
You said we're in Sundown?
Yes, sir.
It's our first time.
Of course it is.
Ain't no one ever comes to Sundown twice.
The sun, is it,
is it coming back?
I reckon it is in the morning
just like it does every morning.
Well, I ask 'cause we
ain't seen it in a couple days.
(Coraline laughs)
Maybe I ought to have
another one of those nuggets.
How much of my whiskey you already had?
It's evening?
Until it's morning.
You staying or passing through?
I guess we're staying till morning.
If you're staying,
you have to follow the rules.
Pardon?
The rules. You have to follow the rules.
Well, how many rules you got?
Six.
Well, that ain't bad, I reckon.
Paul, you know I can't read.
Rule number one.
No firing pistols from 3:00 to 4:00.
Well, what are you looking at me for?
I'm the one missing an eye.
(shovel thuds)
Sure you wanna stay till morning?
Rule two.
Rule number two, don't
talk back to the telegraph.
You got no business with
the one on the other end.
Well, I don't think
that's gonna be a problem.
Do not,
do not leave until sunup.
Well, what for?
I'm sure they'd rather
have us leave town than
rather have us run around breaking rules.
Rule number four.
Don't go poking the whore after 2:00.
This town has a whore?
[David] It says don't
go poking her though.
After 2:00.
And how do you know what time it is?
Well, how do you know?
(bells tolls)
(bell tolls)
(Pete sighs)
(door creaks)
The others?
Rule number five, don't
help the father find the son.
The sun in the sky
or the son like as in a boy?
I reckon, the son of the father.
What?
It's nothing. What's the last one?
Rule number six.
Don't trust no one,
you'll be better off.
Yeah, ain't no sense
even writing that one down.
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
I'll go find a place for the horse.
You get us a hotel room,
How do you reckon we'll pay?
See if they'll hold a rock
till we can get to the bank in the morning.
Paul?
That's her.
The woman I saw on the trails,
the one who knew my name.
What she wearing?
Paul.
(ominous music continues)
(door slams)
What'd she say to you out there?
Well?
She said something about the father.
I reckon she's looking for him.
So there's a woman looking for a father
looking for his son
and we're not supposed to help him.
I don't think we should help any of them.
I think we should keep our
heads down, wait till morning
and get out of this God forsaken place.
Maybe you're right.
We'll get a hotel room, hold up till sun up
and then get out of this town.
I'll go find the livery.
(chair creaking)
Hotel is closed.
Where'd you come from?
I hail from Colorado.
Born in a snow storm.
I came out here to make my mark.
Hotel is closed.
You said that.
I figured I'd go in and see for myself.
You can go in there and poke around.
Ain't against any of the rules.
Who made the rules?
Don't seem like rules for a town.
Hotel is closed.
Yes, sir. Mind if I see for myself?
(chair creaking)
[Creepy Man] Hotel is closed.
I see that.
(chair creaking)
(ominous music)
(chair creaking)
Pardon, sir, might you
have a livery here in town?
The livery's closed.
Just wanna stable my horse for the night.
I can pay in the morning.
I ain't seen no horse
around here for some years.
Not a one?
I reckon that's not likely.
Livery is closed.
[Paul] But you do have one.
It's closed.
Have we met?
(chair creaking)
(ominous music) (chair creaking)
(door creaks) (dramatic music)
Got the time?
Not for you.
Well, that's not polite. I
was only trying to be kind.
You seem like a man
who ain't had much politeness come his way.
I reckon not many people are kind to you.
It's a lonesome night. You
want someone to talk to?
Just talk?
Just talk.
Just talk.
I'm Scarlet.
Well, Scarlet, I reckon
talking ain't against the rules.
(Scarlet gasps and chuckles)
Can I see?
It is beautiful.
Oh, they're just rocks.
Rocks that other folks want.
Want enough to gimme the things I want.
And what do you want, Pete?
Do you want the touch of a woman,
breath on your skin
or do you want her love?
No.
You want more than that.
You want her respect.
I can give you mine
and it won't take a bunch
of shiny rocks to have it.
Well, what will it take?
Be mine.
Hotel's closed.
Livery too. I can't even find it.
Something ain't right
about this town, Paul.
I'm finding it difficult
to differ with you on that.
We need to grab the horse, rustle up Pete,
get on out of town.
We can't.
The hell we can't.
It ain't sun up yet. We
can't leave till morning.
What do you think is gonna happen
if we leave town before the sun comes up?
If we're gonna break a
rule, that's the one to break.
(Pete and Scarlet giggling)
It's like Pete has his
own thoughts on that.
We gotta stop him.
Let him have his fun.
(Pete and Scarlet giggling)
What are you doing?
I'm having fun with Scarlet here.
The rules, Pete.
I worked hard out there for two years.
Not a minute of pleasure.
Nothing but pain and suffering.
Well, I aim to correct that.
No, don't.
(punch thuds)
Dammit, Pete.
You having yourself a time, miss?
I'm fine.
(Scarlet laughs)
Look, Paul, he's given me the evil eye.
Dammit.
Y'all tell me when you're
ready to leave this here town.
- You, all right?
- I'll be fine.
My pride just stings a little, that's all
Good. It looks like
we have a new problem.
Well, it's gotta be in town somewhere.
It won't be too hard to find it.
Let me see if I can't find this old nag.
It appears I've lost my escort.
My apologies, ma'am.
I have a horse to find.
(Pete coughs)
(footsteps pattering)
(dramatic music)
David?
David?
Beth, is that you?
When did you...
How did you get here?
I couldn't wait any longer.
I had to come find you.
(Pete sighs)
To hell with the damn rules.
(door creaks) (mellow music)
Telegraph is closed.
Is anything open in this town?
[Both] Saloon.
That message ain't for you.
I couldn't make heads
or tails of it even if it was.
Telegraph is closed.
I know.
You have a nice evening, sir.
You as well, Sergeant.
(mellow music continues)
I do know you.
(ominous music)
(coin rattles)
You don't have to worry
about those silly old rules.
They're just to keep people under thumb.
Ain't nothing gonna happen
to you if you break one or two.
Besides, you earned a
little something, didn't you?
Working so hard out there.
Working those tender fingers to the bone.
I reckon I did. I've
waited so long to see you.
I know you did.
Now how about you go
wait for me on the bed?
I wanna look my best for you.
[David] You look just fine.
I don't think I can wait a second more.
All good things are worth
waiting for, sweetheart.
Go wait for me on the bed.
(mellow music)
Pete?
[Pete] What?
Where were you?
Looking for you.
Where's the horse? Find a livery?
No, I can't find the horse.
You lost the horse?
Two years of our hard work,
breaking our backs, scarred bones.
(bottle shatters)
Well, you better help me find him,
find the damn thing
or you're gonna be lost too.
I am lost, boy. We all are.
And if we don't get outta this town soon,
we ain't ever getting out.
What the hell are you talking about?
We'll find the horse
and we'll do it before sunup.
Something tells me we got to.
There's something wrong
with this town, ain't there?
You, uh,
you seen things that ain't there?
You seeing ghosts now, Paul? (Laughs)
Let's go find the horse.
(ominous music) (flesh squelching)
(ominous music continues)
You're as beautiful as
the first time I saw you.
Been all up and down
this town. Ain't seen a soul.
No horse, no townsfolk. I
ain't even seen a damn rat.
Where the hell are we, Paul?
That's what I'm afraid of.
You seen David?
You didn't?
First, the horse then that damn kid,
what else is this town gonna eat?
(mellow music)
Tell me you want me.
[David] I want you.
[Scarlet] Tell me
you'll give me anything.
I'll give you anything.
Anything you desire.
[Beth] Anything?
I'll give you the gold.
Mine, Pete's, even Paul's,
I'll give you all of it
just to have you again.
I don't want your gold.
What do you want? Name it.
Anything,
and it's yours.
I want you, all of you.
[David] I'm yours.
(shirt rips)
(dramatic music)
(flesh squelching)
(flesh squelching)
(flesh squelching)
[Woman In Green] Paul.
Come here, Paul. (Wind chimes tinkling)
(Woman in Green laughing)
(door creaks) (wind chimes tinkling)
Help me find him.
(door creaks)
(ominous music)
[Paul] Ma'am, pardon my interruption.
I'm looking for my friend,
the man I was with when you last saw us.
The one you spoke with on the trail.
[Woman in Green] He is
coming. He needs your help.
Help me find him. I need to talk to him.
David?
[Woman in Green] The father.
I can help him.
(knuckles rapping)
[Pete] Hello?
(Woman in Green whispering)
(door creaks)
[Pete] Kind of late for
you to be out on the streets,
ain't it, ma'am?
Well, you ain't,
you ain't seen no horse
around here, have you?
You want to leave?
Well, yes ma'am. That's our plan.
We're gonna find our horse
and get up on outta here.
I can help you leave.
Bring me the father
and I'll help you leave.
Father? What father?
Help the father.
[Paul] Pete? (Ominous music)
What? Where'd she go?
[Paul] Who?
The woman who was standing right here.
What woman? Wearing a green dress?
Yeah, I think so.
It's hard to tell with this
light and my eye and all
but you saw her.
Not here, down the way.
Come on. We're getting outta this town.
[Pete] No.
What?
We're gonna find the horse first,
then we're gonna get outta here.
And David.
David can fend for himself.
I'm not leaving him behind.
Well, fine. You find
David, I'll find the horse.
(cannon firing)
(dramatic music)
(people chattering)
(cannons firing)
I'm sorry I couldn't kill
those people, Sergeant.
(gun cocks)
(cannons firing) (people chattering)
Take care of my son, Paul.
(gun fires)
(dramatic music)
(door creaks)
(shovel rattles)
(dramatic music continues)
I am sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to scare you.
You gave me a fright there, boy.
Again, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
My name is Manny.
I'm Paul. Is this your town?
No, no, no, no. I just got here.
I'm not really sure where here is or...
Or?
Or when.
Sun playing tricks on you too, boy?
Son.
My son, you see him?
(bells toll three times)
[Paul] So what part
you hail from here, Manny?
I ain't familiar with the way you talk.
Down south.
You look like a Mexican
but you don't sound like one.
Sicilian actually.
Hmm.
So you think you can help me find my son?
There's a woman said
she could help us leave.
A woman?
Yeah, a woman in a green dress.
A woman in green, you saw her?
You seen her?
No, but I've been told about her.
Did you look her in the eyes?
No, I don't think so.
In fact, her eyes were
all covered in shadows.
Good, good.
Why?
Just don't look her in the eyes.
It's gonna be hard for her to help us
if we don't look her in the eye.
Help you how?
She said she could help us
if we helped you.
Then let's help her help me help you.
(glasses chink)
(Manny coughs)
Yeah, you ain't a Mexican.
(door creaks)
So how'd you lose your boy, Manny?
We went to this hunting
cabin for the weekend.
We got separated.
I made it out, but he didn't
so I went back to try to find him,
somehow I ended up
here, not quite sure how.
Is he a good boy?
He's a good boy, yeah.
I mean, he got lost a bit along the way.
Met a girl that wasn't right for him.
Got her pregnant and I don't
think he was ready for that.
So he just up and disappeared?
No, no, no. It wasn't like that.
I mean, he was scared
but he wouldn't run away.
He wouldn't abandon her
and definitely not his kid.
It's just he's been
going through a lot lately
and we lost his mother last year and I
guess he blames me a bit for it.
Hmm.
How long you been
looking for your boy, Manny?
About 130 years, apparently.
You seem to be going
through a lot looking for him.
He's my boy. I love him.
Even though he ran off
and left his wife and daughter?
Everybody made mistakes.
[Paul] Some mistakes can't be forgiven.
A father would always love his kids.
He may be disappointed
in them from time to time
and get angry
but as long as they want to come home
when they see the errors of their ways,
a real father would always be waiting.
You reckon?
I reckon.
Don't you?
I figure there's some things
even a father can't forgive.
That's just pride talking.
Pride? What's pride got to do with it?
A man thinks he's so great
that his deeds are so bad
that a father can't forgive him?
Thinks that his choices are
greater than his father's love?
That sounds like pride to me.
(wind chimes tinkling)
You never had kids?
I did but I lost him
in the war.
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
(ominous music continues)
(door creaks)
- Remember,
don't look her in the eyes.
Why?
I don't know.
You know, I had my doubts
at first given the list and all
but you love your son.
I don't see how helping
you can be anything but right.
Wait, list? What list?
The list with the rules.
You have a list of rules?
Barmaid gave them to me.
What was the rule?
What's the rules? What are you doing?
There's one about not helping the father
help find the son.
You broke a rule?
You can't break the rules. This is wrong.
No, you gotta go.
You gotta go. You gotta go.
(Woman in Green laughs)
Okay, go, go, go, go.
(door slams)
(ominous music)
(knuckles rapping)
It's you.
It's me, Manny.
[Paul] Manny!
- Manny!
- I know why you're here.
(knuckles rapping)
[Paul] Manny, let me back in.
I'm looking for Steve.
He's okay now.
You don't have to worry about him anymore.
He's with family.
No, I'm his family.
No, not anymore.
That's why you couldn't let go.
You couldn't let him be with his family.
We are not his family anymore.
He is us now.
(Manny sobs)
It's time to let him go.
You can't help him anymore.
No. He needs me.
You won't let him live his life.
No.
Then I have to stop you.
(flesh squelching) (wood splinters)
This was always your
problem. Always too big.
It allowed us to control you.
Now you're ours completely.
(body thuds)
(wood creaks)
(ominous music)
(flesh squelching)
(door creaks)
(door creaks)
(dramatic music)
Ma'am?
Now where are you off to, sweetie?
I'm looking for my friend, David.
You remember the youngest of us?
You ain't seen him, have you?
Oh, the tasty one.
Tasty? You done ate the poor bastard?
I wonder if you'll be as scrumptious.
Oh, no, ma'am.
At my age, I bet I'm pretty gamey.
(punch thuds)
(shovel thuds)
I want your soul.
I ain't got one.
Rule number one, Pete.
No firing of pistols
between 3:00 and 4:00.
(bells toll)
(Bell tolls second time)
(Bell tolls third time)
(Bell tolls fourth time)
(gun fires)
(ominous music)
(Scarlet screams) (flesh squelching)
(wind chimes tinkling)
Who's that?
[Paul] Stranger.
What the hell happened to him?
The woman in green.
Whore's dead, had to shoot her.
[Paul] You find David?
Sorry, Paul.
What happened?
Scarlet fever.
(paper rustles)
What's that?
Seems this fellow
had his own set of rules,
different from ours.
There's one here that says do
not talk to the one eyed man,
but tip you a dollar.
Well, where's my dollar?
Don't break the rules, Paul.
[Pete] This ain't no dollar.
Hmm?
(telegraph key tapping)
You sure about this?
Rules say don't talk to it.
I reckon whoever,
whatever is on the other end
of that telegraph has an answer
on how to get us out of this.
(door creaks)
What?
I've broken the rules. You haven't.
What am I supposed to do?
Go wait in the saloon.
There's a dead demon
woman in there, Paul.
Then wait outside.
(dramatic music)
(telegraph key tapping)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music)
(ominous music)
Judd? I thought you were dead.
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music continues)
(telegraph key tapping)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music continues)
(telegraph key tapping)
(dramatic music)
(blade slashes)
(blade slashes)
(blade slashes)
(dramatic music continues)
(blade slashes)
(telegraph key tapping)
[Woman in Green] You are almost there.
Keep going.
Welcome home, Judd. (Laughs)
(ominous music)
(door creaks)
Have a seat, Paul.
Oh, right. Sorry.
Lemme tidy up a bit.
(fingers snap)
(flames roar)
You know who I am?
You're the one I prayed to for the gold.
Nah, I'm the second one you prayed to.
See, he didn't answer your
prayer, so you asked me.
I reckon he did answer my prayers.
Turns out the answer was no.
That was the right answer.
Look what all this gold got us.
World of hurt for me and my friends.
Grief for my friends' families.
Where are they? Where are my friends?
Oh, they're on their way
to where they should be.
You wanna play me for what you lost?
I ain't much of a gambling man.
How do you expect to get it back?
I don't.
It ain't mine to wager.
It ain't mine to lose.
You know it ain't bad where you're going.
We keep ourselves entertained.
Have ourselves lots of fun. (Laughs)
It's not where I want to be.
He ain't there. Nobody to judge you.
You can be yourself.
Why are you trying to sell me on this?
It's still up for grabs, ain't it?
Excuse me, darling.
You win one hand, it's
yours. I'll give it back to you.
You lose, well,
well, you still win.
It ain't bad with us.
You just don't get to meet him.
(Paul sighs)
(dramatic music)
(cards rustling)
(Paul sighs)
(mellow music)
Three kings?
You see, that's why we don't
like having him around here.
He always wins.
Who wants to lose for all eternity?
I'm sorry you see it that way.
(mellow music continues)
(palm strikes)
How?
How did you know you would win?
(Paul sighs)
(paper rustles)
(mellow music continues)
I hate this rule.
(flame roars)
(door creaks) (birds chirping)
(mellow music continues)
(dog barking)
(mellow music continues)
(ominous music)
(ominous music continues)
(ominous music continues)