The Abandons (2025) s01e07 Episode Script

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[Constance] We are at a crossroads, Fiona.
My pursuit of your land is not greed,
it is survival.
I told her we'd decide together,
as a family.
- How did you vote?
- [Elias] We voted yes.
- [Miles] What happened?
- She knows the body isn't Willem.
What have you done?
I told her no.
[screaming]
[dramatic music playing]
[Constance] Fiona and the others
denying my generosity…
I now need to rid Jasper Hollow
of its stubborn weeds.
I gave the soldier to the fucking wolves.
I turned down Van Ness.
This is my fucking home!
And I would kill for this family.
[Samara] It is quite strange.
We see each other every day
and yet know so little
about who we truly are.
We must take the time to remedy that.
[Garret] Adam Winston,
his wanted status, still very active.
- Why are you showing me all of this?
- Our quiet, bespectacled distiller,
I am quite certain is Adam Winston.
This is how we take the Hollow.
Miles sells to us or he hangs.
- [Jenny shrieks]
- [pots clatter]
I get caught,
and I'll tell the law about Mama.
Outlaws, guns in the cellar,
treason, murder.
[gun fires]
[Garret] Jenny was also
a victim of Dupar's rage.
He whipped me, killed her,
would have harmed Mother
had you not done your job as protection.
- [Jenny screams] No! No! No!
- [gun fires]
Jenny.
You here to deliver her next demand?
No more demands.
What's that mean, Cree?
Ready yourselves.
Hell is comin'.
[foreboding music playing]
[men shouting in distance]
[music fades]
Where is Garret going?
He is taking the sad news into town.
Jenny was killed by a fugitive
in a desperate fit of rage.
Mr. Roache saved your brother
and me from a similar fate.
That is the fiction
Garret will deliver with the bodies?
Your Redmask leader
murdered an innocent woman.
I know who Roache is
and saw what happened from my window.
Your window deceives you.
How could you twist Garret in
to be a part of this?
He's your only son!
Do not reprimand me.
[expectant music playing]
All right. Got her.
[darkly intriguing music playing]
[Fiona] She's gathering an army.
If you're going to make that claim,
you need proof.
Go to Van Ness.
You'll find 30 Redmasks.
Well, you can't just go
to US Marshals spouting lunacy.
Do not misunderstand me, Sheriff.
I will go above you.
You have 20 men out there,
and no one thought to stop her?
In the future, should we shoot on sight?
Trisha saw what happened last night.
All of it.
She's most likely on her way to town
to share that stubborn truth
with anyone willing to listen.
Bring her home.
And if she's not willing?
The day does not afford us the luxury
of conventional persuasion.
Wait here.
[intriguing music playing]
Your father?
At the gun miller.
Uh…
You have been kind to me, Samara.
Even with…
family complications,
I know you to be a good woman.
Thank you.
That is why I convinced my mother
to offer a charitable solution.
It is best to bring it to you first.
Have you convey to your father
the weight of this.
Putting together the deal for the Hollow,
our clerks had to pull some old records.
They discovered some
very disturbing facts about your father.
A wanted criminal.
And a very dangerous man.
[dark music playing]
- Hold on.
- Did you tell the sheriff her lies?
About the Redmasks and Jenny?
I saw what happened last night.
I know the truth.
- [angrily] What are you thinking?
- I am thinking for myself!
You need to do the same.
[sighs]
- Whatever you saw last night--
- I saw what you saw.
Mother watched her Redmask murder Jenny.
[pensive music playing]
To say such things to others,
the consequences could destroy all the--
No, it is her lies and puppetry
that are the destruction!
Do you not see that?
Someone has to help her
through this crisis.
[sighs] With Vanderbilt, the Hollow.
The burden is mine.
[scoffs] No, it is not. It is hers.
Fucking hell.
- Your mother needs you to come home.
- There's nothing I need at home.
- She was quite set on your return.
- And you are to make certain of that?
It is best we are together, sister.
- [Garret] Please…
- No!
[Garret] Please!
[Trisha shrieks]
Trisha!
- Elias!
- [menacing music playing]
[Trisha] Let go!
- [Trisha yelps] Elias!
- [Elias] Trisha!
[Trisha shrieks]
- Trisha!
- [Roache whistles] Let's go.
[straining, grunting]
[Elias] Trisha!
Brother.
Now is not the time.
I'll catch up.
[menacing music continues]
- [slap]
- [Trisha yelps]
[shrieks] No!
- [Trisha grunting]
- [menacing music continues]
[shrieks]
[coughing and sobbing]
[door slams]
You and your family,
you are the filth choking this town!
- [spits]
- [grunts]
[breathes deeply]
So fucking self-righteous.
All of you.
[Dahlia screams]
[grunts]
You have no idea what you have done to us.
Stop! I don't want to hurt you!
[Dahlia screams]
[Albert] Jesus.
Stay here.
You… cannot win this.
- Fuck winning!
- [groans]
- Bleed.
- [Albert] Dahly!
[Garret groaning]
- [Albert] Let's go! Now!
- [groaning loudly]
- [glass clatters]
- [grunting loudly]
[Fiona] We can take her, Lord.
I am certain of that.
I sleep knowing
the man I killed deserved it.
You have given me
a lifetime of fucking scars!
This was meant to be my peace!
This place!
- This fucking land.
- [somber music playing]
What more do you want from me?
- Dahlia stabbed the Van Ness boy.
- They took Trisha.
I did not do it for her.
We fight when we can win.
On our own terms.
Fuck terms!
- Easy, sister.
- Easy nothing!
I am tired of priests,
and deals, and allies.
Where is the woman
who killed a man for beating her?
What do you want?
To see it all burn.
[dark music playing]
Where did this come from?
Garret.
He showed me everything.
Arrest records.
Wanted posters.
I know who you are.
The things you did.
Was any of it true?
Your love for Mama?
The powerful men that I worked for
found out that I'd married…
in secret.
The things I knew,
the things I did…
If anyone talked,
and the wrong people were listening, then…
So they demanded that I…
end the marriage.
I could not do that.
I promised your mother
that we would always be together.
So Adam Winston
went away,
and that's when Miles Alderton
and this family started…
running.
We don't have to run anymore.
Papa, Garret convinced
his mother to give us a chance.
We sell her our land
and Constance makes all of this go away.
We can start fresh.
Free of the Hollow.
It's a kind offer.
And it's our only option.
[dog yapping]
- [Walter grunting]
- [wood creaking]
Keep the dog out.
What are you doing, Walter?
Johanna.
My children.
Always here.
In my heart…
and under my feet.
Van Ness turns this into a mining dredge…
Can't have 'em
spend eternity in a sludge pit.
[somber music playing]
[Samara] Papa,
you can't shoot your way out of this.
If we agree to this deal,
there won't be any trouble.
You have no idea
of the harm that she plans.
[Samara] Listen to me.
Please, we have to meet Garret.
We have to sign all the papers,
and we have to do it tonight.
There is no deal to make.
Constance cannot make my past go away.
[pensive music playing]
[groaning softly]
[knock on door]
[expectant music playing]
[bittersweet music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
What are you doing here, boy?
[sobs] You're hateful, Mother!
[Trisha crying]
Hold her head.
[whimpering]
Mother!
[sobbing] Why? No…
[muffled sobbing]
[Trisha] Get off of me!
[dark music playing]
Your daughter…
is there a plan?
Trisha will go to Portland.
Hawthorne Sanitarium.
She will be…
untroubled there.
Until then, we will
care for her here,
diligently.
Delusion and an excitable nature.
Not uncommon traits in our family.
[door opens]
[Garret] Mother!
What is it, Garret?
[Trisha] I need the chamber pot.
I haven't wet the bed, I just…
[laughs]
- [dull thud]
- [pot clatters]
For fuck's sake!
[expectant music playing]
[Trisha] Ugh!
[Constance] It is remarkable
how I continue to underestimate you.
Give me the fucking key.
You can barely hold it straight.
My tremor's from the opium
poured down my throat.
Why do you tremble, Constance?
Since you could first crawl,
you've been willful…
defiant.
You are in every way my daughter.
I am leaving, Mother.
You will do anything, say anything.
You have lied countless times.
We are well past lying.
Look at what your love has left us.
What is that?
I think you know.
- [sighs]
- [poignant music playing]
[mutters] But there was a body.
It was a soldier.
- Fed to the wolves.
- [grave music playing]
And that tall one
stabbed your brother with a pitchfork.
And they buried him under a fucking dog.
He… He did not know.
They all knew.
[grave music continues]
[sobs] Willem…
So here.
Go find your love.
[key clatters]
[bittersweet music playing]
[door opens and closes]
[dramatic music playing]
Thank you, Issac.
We'll pay you as soon as we're able.
I accept that.
[Fiona] We have to get home.
Trisha!
What happened?
Are you okay?
[hoarsely] How did I not see it?
What did you think was gonna happen?
You would just go on forever?
Fucking me and lying!
While his body was under your feet!
[Trisha sobbing]
Your brother
was a monster.
[angrily] He raped my sister,
and your family… strangles us.
I love you.
But I'd do it again.
[bittersweet music playing]
[Elias] Let's go.
[bittersweet music continues]
Hyah.
[Trisha crying]
[Fiona] Lilla!
Lilla, what happened?
Where's Dahlia?
They took her.
I tried to stop them.
I know.
Stopping 'em isn't enough.
Boys.
Find me something that burns.
[chuckles softly]
- [knife slicing]
- [Dahlia gasps, exhales]
[laughing softly]
You are so scared.
[laughs softly]
Take her back.
- [men clamoring in distance]
- [grim music playing]
[intriguing music playing]
- [man] Hey!
- [holster rustling]
- [man whistling]
- [intriguing music continues]
[man] One coming down!
[man whistles]
[horse snorts]
[tense music playing]
I come for my daughter.
Nothing much remains
of the murderous cunt.
[grunting]
You let her go, Constance.
She didn't kill your boy.
I did.
Another convenient lie.
[Fiona menacingly] Oh, I did.
After your son raped my daughter.
[Fiona grunts]
- [Fiona yelps]
- [grunts]
[spits]
Go get her.
- [Constance grunts]
- [Fiona groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
- [Albert] You got it?
- [man] Let's go!
[Dahlia] Mam…
Dahlia…
You fucking cunt!
[spits]
No! No!
[softly] No, no…
[expectant music playing]
- [Dahlia screams]
- Take your fucking hands off her!
[Constance] Does that hurt?
Seeing your pet orphan whine?
[flesh squelching]
- [groaning]
- Dahlia, I'm sorry!
[Dahlia cries out]
- [arrow whistling]
- [grunts]
[muffled yell]
[neck snaps]
[dramatic music playing]
- [knife slicing]
- [Dahlia gasping]
[Fiona yelling]
What about this?
- [Dahlia yells]
- I'm gonna fucking kill you!
That pain is nothing…
[Dahlia gasping]
…compared to that of a true mother!
[Dahlia crying in pain]
[yells] Nothing compared to my suffering!
[shouting continues in distance]
[Constance in distance]
A true blood child!
My own blood!
[whistling]
[rifle fires]
[gasping]
[dramatic music playing]
- [rifle fires]
- [bullet ricochets]
- [groans]
- [rifle fires]
[dramatic music intensifies]
[Elias] Come on!
- [Fiona] Dahlia.
- [rifle fire continues]
Quentin!
[Roache yells]
[dramatic music building]
[shouting]
[Albert] Dahlia!
[moans]
- Come on.
- [Dahlia screaming]
[sobbing]
[Elias] You okay? Come on, Albert.
Come on! Let's go!
Mam!
Mam!
Mam!
- [debris clattering]
- [gasps]
- Get back!
- Leave it!
[windows shattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
- [grunts]
- [gasps]
[shouts, moans]
You will not be our end!
- [both grunting]
- [dramatic music playing]
I told you I'd fucking kill ya!
[Constance coughing]
[Constance grunting]
[yells, coughs]
[grunts]
[Constance coughing, gasping]
[coughing]
- [windows shatter]
- [flames roaring]
[dramatic music intensifies]
[music fades]
[somber music playing]