Homestead: The Series (2024) s01e02 Episode Script

You know what brother,
between the two of us,
I always figured I'd be
the one to take a bullet someday.
But you figured the same.
Like the place, by the way.
Very posh, but tasteful.
And now, brother,
it's like we always said,
back when we were working together,
live strong or die.
How did it go?
Armageddon suits you.
What's wrong with you?
My husband's in
there fighting for his life,
and two of my children are missing.
I know.
Did he try to find them?
No.
Before he got shot, he was just
trying to get this place stabilized.
Well, it's a war zone out there.
Gonna take more than thoughts
and prayers to get them back here.
I was pretty shocked to get your call.
Yeah, I didn't have a lot of options.
Well, clearly.
What do you need, Jenna?
I feel like I'm
losing control of this place.
You want me to help you get it back?
Yeah, I need you
to help me figure out how.
Well, he's more
to figure it out, brother.
I'm the more of the get-it-done guy.
So let's get her done.
You gonna show me where I go?
Yes.
Mm.
I got to head to army
man training in a few minutes.
No, no, you don't.
Just stay here and rub my neck.
I would love to, but I gotta go.
What do you got going on today?
Well, I have training, too.
No, no, I told Evan that you can't do--
Can't?
That you shouldn't train because--
Because what?
Baby, it's just a
little bit of exercise.
It's actually good for the baby.
-Well, getting shot--
-I'm not getting shot.
I'm not getting shot.
-The stress.
-The stress?
Yeah.
If you can believe it,
I actually kind of like it.
You're a therapist
who enjoys mock battle.
I'm your therapist.
Oh, is that why I'm such a mess?
Jacqueline, you are one of a kind.
Hmm.
I'll be home for dinner.
Home.
Shoot straight, Private.
I will have you know that
I've been promoted to Lance Corp.
Ooh, well, then
shoot straight, Lance Corp.
Tom.
Yeah?
I love you.
I love you.
Dad, he's-- he's pointing
a rifle at me--
-Abe shoot!
-Don't do it
Mr. McGavin, if you can hear--,
you've been shot--,
I need you to stay with me, all right?
Buddy, please keep--
Come on.
Please, please.
Hold on.
What do I do?
What do I do?
Shoot!
Sorry I'm late.
It's fine.
What's wrong?
Nothing.
Dude, what's going on?
That day
right here.
Yeah.
Well, we just gotta
talk about something else.
How about you and Claire?
What's going on with that?
Yeah, I think, um
think she broke up with me, so
What? Why?
I don't know, dude.
I'm different.
Our families are different.
Yeah.
Well, the Ross' are for sure different.
And not in a good
way, you know, like, look.
These rich people.
A 12-foot fence with
barbed wire all around it.
Food to feed a town.
All to themselves.
And a vault with a million rounds
of ammunition and machine guns,
tucked away with a vault code.
That's the test.
Whether they think
you're an insider or not.
They keep it just to
themselves like everything else.
It's like their birthright.
No one's ever mentioned that before.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know who knows it.
It's Claire.
That's the attack siren.
Perimeter incursion east boundary.
All QRF's rally east stations.
We're under attack.
I repeat, the homestead is under attack.
Dude, we should go.
They said we should stay, so
No!
We should fight.
Not hide.
But we're not hiding.
You need to go down there
and show Claire who you really are.
QRF 2, on station now.
A perimeter post six here.
What are we supposed to do?
All QRF's reporting.
QRF 4, reports a grey long.
Over.
Hold your fire until
you're positive of a target ID.
Perimeter station 12, we're taking fire.
Perimeter post, stay off the air.
Christian!
Contact URF 3 is forced.
All homesteaders pull
back to the apple orchard.
I repeat, all homesteaders
pull back to the apple orchard.
Jeff!
What's the sit-rep?
They missed the ORP. I'm pulling back.
There's no command or control down there.
-Enemy count?
-Unknown.
We've got to make sure the homesteaders
don't shoot our own retreating guys.
Georgie and Leif are up in the suite.
And Abe?
Jeff, I think he's down there.
We've got to get him out.
Abe, what's your 20?
Abe respond!
Whoa, friendly, friendly.
We stay put. We
don't know where they are.
Stay put! Claire! Hold! Hold!
Claire!
Claire!
You're gonna be
all right. Stay put, okay?
Guys, take cover, stay put!
Hold it. Hey!
Hey, you got it?
On your left!
How you doing, little brother?
How you doing, little brother?
-Hey!
-Yo, sir!
Got him!
You hit?
Get up out of here, man!
What about Claire?
I see her,
I see her.
Jeff, total chaos down here,
man. We got friendlies everywhere.
Head down!
Tom Reynolds and
Claire Ross are down. Hard.
East forrest. Sector 12.
Jeff: Copy, Evan. Secure that forrest.
All right, guys, move!
Move! Push it forward!
Move!
Move in!
Last man!
Enemy's retreating!
Go, move! Move!
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Are you okay? Are you okay?
Where is the med kit?
That's not her blood.
Looks like an arm wound, move.
All right, let's get her up.
Let's move, people.
No!
No!
No, we believe.
No!
Tom!
Okay. It's Okay.
I got you.
Why did you do this?
You. People poisoned--
Close that right now.
I can't. I can't.
Not even with the med-vac now--
Doctor, he can hear you.
He's been shot twice in the--
Yeah, but you have to help him.
I'm not trained to
deal with this kind of mess.
I cannot fix a
multi-perforated lower GI.
I did chin tucks for God's sake.
But you took an oath.
I can't, and I won't.
Good luck.
Then I will.
Hey, Bing
Can you give me a casualty report?
We've been mopping up all night.
Think they're all down.
Looks like six enemy casualties.
Make that seven.
Actually, that's seven enemy casualties.
Friendly casualty report,
four that we know of.
But listen, Jeff,
there's an enemy combatant inside.
Doc says that --
We don't treat the enemy.
Okay.
They're gonna burn through
our supplies, see everything we got.
They can come back later, stronger.
Doc says he's gonna
live. That's all I'm saying.
They killed four of our guys.
Step away from that man.
I can save him.
This man's gonna die.
You can't know that.
I do know that.
-What are you doing?
-Jeff
What are you doing?
Stop it!
Stop! What are you doing?
-No!
-Ma'am
Let go of me! What are you
I could of saved him.
I know.
Don't touch me!
Burn in hell.
Fair odds of that.
We have other wounded.
I need you, okay?
No, we can't participate in this.
We're leaving and
we're taking all of our meds.
Our supplies and
our equipment. Everything.
Jeff?
Jeff, what are you doing here, man?
Taking him to the perimeter.
That's pretty cold-blooded, man.
Civilians are gonna
lose their ever-loving minds,
and the medics are
never gonna understand that.
Oh.
Can't afford another
group therapy session.
Hey.
You're drifting into
unforgivable territory right now.
I just want to survive.
Our families to survive.
Why am I the only one who gets that?
You're not the only one who gets that.
I got your back even
on the darkest day, okay?
But you just ripped live wounded
out of the hands of nurses and doctors.
There's a cost to that, and you know it.
You ready to carry that?
Quite the goat rodeo.
My master sergeant?
You're the one wearing the hat.
You should know.
Is that your boss
taking those dead bodies to, uh
Hang him up on the post?
Send a message.
No.
No, it's not your boss,
or no, he's not stringing him up.
What kind of parents
name their kid Cain, anyway?
It's really more of a nickname.
Dad had a bad sense of humor.
You know?
Good son, bad son, all that.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Y'all are paid to protect these people?
What's your refund policy?
It was you.
You put that dead animal in our water.
You put your hands on my little girl.
This is what happens.
That never happened.
I was watching your camp, I admit that.
Wait. Wait. Hold up, little girl.
I'd never hurt a little kid.
I have a daughter.
Her age.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to scare you.
Hey, hey, hey!
That never happened.
Banjo, where are you, man?
Homesteadards push us back.
We're going back to camp.
I'm dying.
So you win.
Take this.
Call your people.
Hey, Mom.
We consecrated a graveyard on a bluff.
Where our loved ones
could look down upon us.
And bless us with their eternal gaze.
For to live was to struggle.
And to love was to risk everything.
That was the day I understood.
That the human heart
was where the true battle raged.
So I hear you're
the new sheriff in town.
I hear you're the
judge, jury, and executioner.
Try me.
I might.
Gotta love the new neighbor, huh?
Yeah, I don't know what
they're gonna do without us man.
Yeah.
Don't nobody want to pull a trigger.
I'm done playing church anyway.
They don't understand
what it takes to survive.
It's time for us to move on.
-We movingYeah.
-Let's get some.
Y'all bring this stuff in?
Most of it.
That's the stuff you get to leave with.
Rest stays.
This is ours.
They said we attacked them.
Who said that?
The dying man.
This is ours.
What else did he say?
The dying man.
He said that Jeff and his soldiers
tried to force them off of their land.
He said Jeff did that.
Jeff Eriksson poisoned their water.
Whatever. You done?
That's everything I think.
Good riddance.
Where y'all gonna go?
Going to a relief camp
at the fair. We're done here.
This your vehicle?
Drop them off at the lower gate.
Let them out there.
Hey.
Good luck.
You'll need it.
Word's out about your stunt
with the dead critter in the creek.
And?
You know how people are. They talk, so
I'm just gonna keep my ear
to the ground, see where it goes.
Which med people are staying?
Lock, Eric, couple of
nurses, and you know Bing.
He wants to go get all
shoot him up happy in Apocalypse Land.
And Tick is leaving with him.
Apparently they're going
with the med team.
Where do they think they're going?
I don't know. Some
camp starting up in the city.
Let's ask them.
Where to, boys?
You going to check the mail?
What you gonna do with that gun, man?
You gonna shoot over our heads
like you did with the SWAT team?
You gonna ask permission to leave?
Yeah, that's real cute. Permission.
What's that matter now?
Weapon. Tick, really?
Thought we were brothers, man.
We gonna shoot each other,
or we walking away from this?
We both know you
ain't gonna pull the trigger.
If I gotta.
I think we're
better off without him, Jeff.
Yeah, Jeff. Why don't
you listen to your sire king?
Yeah, keep talking.
You leave. You don't come back.
Okay, boss man.
When you get done with this
little church camp you got going on,
you let us know.
Till then, adios.
See you soon, boy scouts.
If it's a bad time, I could
No.
I wanted to talk to you.
Me?
Yeah. I owe you an apology.
I gave you some really bad advice.
The worst kind, actually.
And I forgot what matters most.
Especially here.
Claire.
Life is
is so short.
And you asked me about love.
And about
how you know when to fight for it.
And how you know
how do you know it's him.
How do you know that he is
he's the man that you
were meant to be with forever?
Like your Tom.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like my
big, beautiful work in progress Tom.
I miss him.
I miss him a lot.
Do you know what's
gonna get me through this?
He saved you.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Don't you carry that with you.
That was my Tom.
That's who he was.
If you have even an
ounce of that kind of love
then you don't
mess around with that, okay?
You gotta just go for it.
And you hang on with
every single thing that you have.
Because in the end
love is the only
the only real thing.
He is.
He was my
beautiful work in progress.
I know.
But you gotta go.
I gotta go.
Yeah.
See you.
Cain?
Come in.
Oh.
I can come back in a little bit.
-Jenna, come in.
-It's okay.
Jenna, come in please. Just shaving.
Wow, this is cozy.
Yeah, well
I didn't want to be
in the big house anyway.
I wanted to come and
talk to you about the camp.
-Okay.
-Just get your thoughts.
We're having a
little trouble with leadership.
I noticed.
And I just wanted to know what you think
Ian would do given these circumstances.
Well, I think he'd probably be
in the same spot you are, which is
paralysis of analysis.
I don't know about that.
I mean your brother
built this entire place.
He was a builder. I'll give him that.
He is a builder.
Can you please just put this shirt on?
I brought you here so
you could help me make decisions.
You don't need help
making decisions, Jenna.
You need a strong leader.
Cause that's the decision
that will make all the others.
What do you think if I put
together a cooperative process?
Like a committee?
Jenna, you try to run this place by a
committee, you're gonna
get exactly what you have here.
Which is Jeff Eriksson and his PTSD
shoving his worst
instincts down your throats.
Before Ian got shot, he and Jeff,
they were striking a great balance.
Yeah.
How's that balance going?
Well, Jeff's daughter got attacked,
so rightfully so. He's drawn a line.
All I know is that there is no way
that Jeff is gonna share his power
with your sweet little committee.
If you want me to
do something about that,
I will. You want me
to stop him? I'll stop him.
And how are you gonna do that?
Just gonna keep using force?
That's the only thing he knows, okay?
I would think you would be the last person
that wants this to turn into
some kind of war camp.
I don't. And that's why I'm
trying to figure out a different way.
Give me the code.
Give me the code to the
vault. Give me the guns.
Give me the ammo. I will give
you back control of this place.
And then what?
Then he's gone. Him and all
his strap hangers, they're gone.
I just feel like he's capable of more.
That's real sweet, Janna, but right now
all he is, is a lit piece of dynamite
in the middle of your camp,
and you're allowing it.
What if we went to
him and we offered a deal?
We said, "Jeff, you stand down
from head of security.
Tara, the kids, they can stay--"
And you think he'll do that?
You know he won't.
I'm sorry.
Not by might, not
by my power, but by my
No, Jenna, no, no,
no, no. It is way too late for
your fairy tales, your
little nursery rhymes, okay?
All you need to do is just
tell me what to do, and I will do it.
Okay? Do nothing.
Nothing.
Just for now, do nothing.
I'm not real good at that, Jenna.
I'm aware.
Please. I have to bring
the entire homestead in for this.
I cannot make this decision
on my own is not fair.
Please.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
You are not by yourself.
Not anymore.
- I didn't just open the
gate for our friends on a whim.
God told me to do it.
I mean, He didn't-- not so many words,
but He told me to do it.
- I know, Jenna.
- And Georgie said
that someone would die,
and somebody died.
- I don't think we should
look too much into this.
- Oh, I think that she knows.
- Jacq says she's
compensating for trauma.
Maybe, maybe it's just that.
- No.
No, God is doing
something here, I believe that.
And Georgie is
She's part of it.
Georgie says it's your son.
It's Sage, she
said this is him right now.
- He's alive.
Thank you.
- Hello Abe.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Sorry to bug ya.
- Oh, no, it's okay.
I needed to be bugged.
- Claire told me that she talked to you.
She thought it might be
helpful if I talked to you too.
- I don't know that
I should be giving anybody
advice right now, but I
can give it to you straight.
I don't think you
have time for anything else.
- Claire and I--
- She loves you.
That girl loves you.
But here's the thing, Abe.
You're not a fourth
of the man her father is.
You're just a boy.
Do you know what her father did?
He stood in front
of a bullet protecting her.
My children's father,
he died protecting this whole place.
He died protecting Claire.
That's what a man is.
And she is choosing you
to be that for her.
- What do I do?
- How do I be that for her?
- Put some steel in your spine
and be a man of character,
of honor, of sacrifice.
Find that.
That is what she needs.
- Religion is super
important to her and her family.
Jacq, I don't even
know if I believe in God.
- It doesn't matter.
She needs you to believe in God,
her mom needs you to believe in God.
It doesn't matter, Abe.
You're not sure?
Nobody's sure.
- What about you?
What do you believe in?
Do you believe in God?
- I don't believe in God.
- Okay.
- No, I don't.
- But I wish I did.
- Because then I would
know that there was someone
up there protecting us
and that we're not alone down here.
And that Tom still exists somewhere.
And that my kids are
gonna grow up happy and healthy,
not in a world of hate and destruction.
And if there is a God, I
am absolutely furious at him.
Because we need Him.
I need him, my
kids need him, you need him,
this whole place needs him.
So where is he?
- How do we find Him?
- Abe, you just
look up in the sky and ask.
Maybe it's that easy.
- Dear God,
I have so many questions.
It's just so lame.
- Abe, Abe.
What are you--are you okay?
- Yeah, yeah, I was,
I was just, just thinking.
- Praying.
- What about?
- Claire, about you and me,
the future of our family.
- Our family?
- Can't you see it?
- Yeah, I can.
- There are so many
things that I need to figure out
that we've gotta figure out.
But I wanna do it together.
- Okay.
- I wanna show you something.
So.
Hey Jeff, you there?
Go for Jeff.
Homesteaders are having a meeting.
- A meeting?
- Yeah, about you and what you did.
- I'll meet you at the barn.
- Copy, Jeff out.
- What's the matter?
- General Ross
called a meeting about me.
- Okay, what's your plan?
- Grab Evan, go to the
meeting, consolidate control.
- That's not a good idea, Jeff.
Some of these people are not on your side.
- Just playing the cards I've been dealt.
- You're accelerating
conflict and you know better.
You don't rush into
an ambush, you play for time.
- Ian's brother's looking for a fight.
Clock's ticking.
- You don't know that, Jeff.
You're not fighting a dictator.
You're up against a control freak.
There's room for agreement,
but you have to want to find it.
- So I'm just supposed
to do whatever they tell me.
- Okay, for now would
that really be so terrible?
- If our family ends up dead, yes.
- Back to two options.
- I'm going.
- I'm going too.
- Okay, I understand what you're saying,
and I agree with
you, but my concern here
is that we lose another able-bodied man,
and I just, I worry
that by thinning our numbers,
we lose power, we lose
our ability to protect ourselves.
- We're losing men because of Jeff.
No Jeff, no fueling.
- I think we need to weigh the options.
Although he is unstable in some manner,
there are not men like him--
- What's going on?
- Jeff.
- You need to leave.
- Says who?
- At this point, pretty much everybody.
- Okay, I understand what you're saying.
I need everybody to quiet down.
- I need everybody to quiet down.
Jeff, listen to me.
Nothing has been decided yet.
We just want to talk about the situation.
- Hey, now's your chance.
Yes, right now.
Get your men ready.
Dude, they are going
to start gunning each other
down any second now.
Attack now.
I repeat, attack now.
My family's not going anywhere.
- That's fine.
They can stay.
You need to pack your crap, and go though.
- Okay, hold on a second.
No, this meeting is--
- This meeting is over.
- Jeff, listen, we--
I decided to--
- No, Jenna.
He's right.
It's over.
- Jeff!
- Georgie, no!