[thunder]
[music]
[creaking]
[music]
[bubbling]
[indistinct chatter]
[paper tearing]
[man] Yo, man, what's up?
[buzzing]
Hey, you know that's aspirin, not sugar.
Mm, yeah, I ain't blind yet.
Not bitter enough?
Aspirin's for the back.
Still?
Yeah. It's from all this sitting around.
That's what does it. They studied it.
Oh, uh...
Happy...
Happy birthday.
My birthday ain't until March.
Day you get out of here, that's your birthday.
Go on. Make a wish.
Didn't you once say wishes are for little boys
and men who had given up?
[laughs]
Just make your damn wish.
I'll save it for when I've given up.
Better be dust by then.
[shutter clicks]
[man] Turn right. Let's see the ink.
[Man 2] I gotta roll up here.
[Man on Loudspeaker] Comm check tower three.
Tower three, go to four...
[sniffs]
[music]
Sign here for your gate check.
[indistinct chatter]
[buzzer]
Open the gate. Comin' out.
[Ray] Look, son, there's, uh, something else.
I have a daughter.
I know. I said I never met the right person...
Had a family, but I...I did.
I've got a daughter.
We haven't spoken in seven years.
As far as she knows, I...I might be dead.
I didn't know whether uh... If she was still
in Virginia or even the country.
Then the damnedest thing.
Now you know I'm not a religious man,
But... Then, well...
About a month ago this rose up out of the sea after a storm.
It's the mast of an old shipwreck off the Outer Banks.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, but that's not...
Look...
That's her.
That's Marina.
[guard] L-Block, time to frolic.
Are you sure?
Yeah, if I was on the outside I'd be down there tonight.
Go to Currituck for me, will ya?
See if you can find her.
Hey, Dovey, I got a bus idling on taxpayer gas. Let's go.
["Dressed for the Drought" by Patrolled By Radar playing]
[train whistles]
♪ Met an old forest ranger ♪
♪ In a naugahyde bar
♪ After the whisky Then he told me true ♪
[gate buzzes]
♪ He said, "I never had a tree Bold lie to me ♪
♪ The way them there bush's do ♪
All right.
♪ Now you're walking like you're Tumbling north over south ♪
♪ You look like you've been Punched in the mouth ♪
♪ All the flowers On the neon avenue ♪
See ya, Dovey.
- Yeah, don't bet on, CO. - [grunts]
♪ Are perfectly dressed For the drought ♪
♪ Perfectly dressed For the drought ♪
♪ We're in ♪
[Ray] Sometimes I dream I pass her on the street.
She just smiled...
And without even knowing it's me.
Let me know if she's happy.
I think I've earned that much from you.
Childress, yard.
You got it, Ray.
Thank you, son.
All right, hey, hey, come on.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, just take care of yourself.
It'll be a hell of a lot easier now
I ain't gotta take care of you.
♪ Perfectly dressed For the drought ♪
♪ We're in ♪
[engine idling]
[man] Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
[Man 2] Hey, man, what's up? [dogs barking in distance]
[bus drives away]
[cash register dings]
Ten and five and five is 20 and one.
That's only 21.
Yes, sir.
$27 minus the $6 fee.
Lucky 21.
[man] Come on and get in there. - [girl laughs]
[music playing]
[man] What the hell? That's off my ball.
You played off my ball.
I can take the shot if I want.
Ain't no tater scratchin'.
[woman] Where's that Tri-Tip?
[indistinct chatter]
All done, sugar?
Uh, yeah, sorry.
Sorry, thanks.
You ain't gotta be sorry, twice.
Well, you might get ready to call the cops.
You planning something?
Well, those four are about to make a mess of this place.
That's bullshit. You can't do that.
You shoot that over there...
Only eleven you spot it, god damn it.
Walter.
Y'all can bleed all you want out in the parking lot.
But you get stupid in here again,
you'll be doing your Sunday drinking
on your back porch this fall.
You got a space heater for that porch, Walt?
It's gonna be cold.
[patrons laughing]
Come on, let's throw darts.
Yeah, make sure you throw them at the board this time.
[laughing] [clapping]
Thank you.
With Walt, you've got to do some of the work his mammalian brain
- should be doing but ain't. - [grunts]
Well, thanks, but I don't have--
I know.
You came in here with $21, right?
The warden owns this restaurant
and the check cashing place next door.
So, State gives you $27, you give it right back
that same afternoon.
- Damn. - Welcome back to "That's life."
That obvious?
Yeah.
Guys just out of St. Brides always sit there,
back to the corner, just like you.
They never look down at their plate, always out there.
Like you.
Must be weird not having to watch your back anymore.
Yeah.
You know. Just my wallet.
[chuckles]
Well, that one's on me.
Kendra.
Dovey.
Like lovey-dovey?
Yeah.
Yeah, but just the Dovey part.
We'll see.
["Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung plays]
[Kendra laughs]
I just love these old records.
They're silly and fun and you can't get them out of your head.
[car approaching]
[splashing]
[seagulls squawking]
[rustling]
Damn.
You can still stay down like a turtle, can't you?
I've forgotten how nervous it makes me when I think
you ain't gonna come back up.
[chuckles]
But you always do. [opens ice chest]
I'll pull that last pot.
Yeah, you sure?
Oh, thanks, Pops.
[exhales]
[grunting]
[Dovey] Hey, careful there.
[deep exhale]
- Go ahead, let it out. - [laughs]
That's a fat haul.
We can boil some tonight.
That's good money in there.
Ah, no, we gonna celebrate tonight.
Not every day you get out.
I'd of come for you but...
My truck motor went out a month ago.
That's okay.
I missed you, boy.
And they took you for no good reason.
I guess they found reason enough.
Anyway...
Welcome home.
[music]
Come here, *****.
[echoing] Eyes down, Fish.
You don't wanna be a witness.
[grunts]
[door opening]
About time you got up.
You gotta be there in an hour.
Here, I got you something.
Try it on.
Yeah, that's sharp.
First impressions, right?
Yeah.
Who's your parole officer?
- Bonnie Bell. - Bonnie Bell.
Sounds like a sweet little ol' granny.
[lawnmower in distance]
Dovey, huh?
Since I was 12.
You know how a name that's meant to hurt
and you claim it for your own.
Hm.
- You staying with your dad? - Yes, ma'am.
Well, it's a small place. I'm on the couch.
You're working for him too, huh?
I did back in high school too before, um, you know,
up until what happened.
What happened?
What you did.
Active.
Best to start using the language of accountability.
Yes, ma'am.
You know you're not allowed to live
with a convicted felon, right?
I know.
But exceptions have been made if it's a family member
with a clean record of ten years or more.
I looked it up.
Looked it up?
[chuckles]
Suppose it's better than a Cell Block Six.
Cell Block Six?
A pay-by-the-week motel filled with guys like you
killing time until their next bid.
That's not me.
Listen, hon, I give you a list of rules, you follow them
to the letter Z.
You do that and you'll stay a free man.
Ma'am, all respect, but I plan to, active,
save every penny and get myself into Tidewater College
next spring.
You got a cell phone?
Yeah. Uh, yes, ma'am.
Put the number down here.
Keep it paid up. Always take my call.
Oh, one thing, um...
I'd like to go see a buddy some weekend soon.
He's down the coast near Currituck.
He used to come up and lifeguard with me in the summers.
- He got a record? - No.
No, he doesn't even drink.
Well, tell him make like old times and come up here
and see you.
You can't leave the state of Virginia for a year.
Not even for a weekend?
Hon, not even for a hurricane.
That's bullshit.
That's just your PO trying to control you.
She'll make you think if you fart at the wrong time of day
you'll be back in here before you smell it.
I don't know, man.
She was pretty damn clear.
She didn't put a collar on you, did she?
- No. - So...
Say you're going up to Roanoke to look at that school.
I hear you.
What about everything you taught me about risk and reward?
- Look, after a year-- - I ain't got a year.
What?
Uh... [exhales]
Well, you know that back pain that's been bothering me
the last couple months?
What is it, Ray?
It's in the bone, son.
They say the cancer is all up in my spine like rot in a tree.
Jesus, Ray, when did you--
[woman] Virginia Department of Corrections.
This call may be recorded or monitored.
Now you listen to me, I've only got about ten seconds.
So would you listen? I need this.
I never did right by her
and it's the most I ever tried at anything.
If she's happy, well, it'll help me
accept this other thing.
You understand?
[man] Childress, time's up.
- I gotta go. - Ray...
You can sleep easy.
Thank you, son.
Do what the doctors tell you.
Hell, they've got all kinds of ways of fighting-
Miss your little beeyotch shadow, Ray? [laughs]
Hell yeah.
Uh, but maybe not as much as you long for the smell
of your sister's panocha.
[chuckles]
But they say smell's the strongest of the sense memories.
Did I get that word wrong?
Panocha?
- It's like a Mexican soufflé. - Shut the **** up, Ray.
'Cause they only got those European Spanish books
in the library
so I've had to pick up your Mexican-Spanish idiosyncrasies
just along the way.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
Papa, Patata.
Right, Cheech-o?
[gate buzzing] [neck cracking]
You're so smart you're stupid.
You're not out a week and you're already
running off in the middle of the night.
There's nothing to this.
- A guy I know-- - A guy inside.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- He's inside for good. - Yeah.
He's sick and he's trying to reach out to some family--
He can't afford a stamp?
Son, I had to start over too.
Know what I did when I got out?
I kept my head down and I worked.
I took care of you and sometimes,
sometimes, I slept.
I couldn't afford to **** up.
Look, I made a promise.
How many have you made and not kept?
Only one.
But she broke hers too.
Well, she broke more than one.
Hey...
How easy do you think it was for your mom when I went away...
With her big dreams and aspirations and...
Me locked up up in prison.
We all did our time.
Even her.
[music]
Eat those scallops if you want.
I'll be back before low tide.
Day after tomorrow.
I promise.
Hey.
Here.
Don't run outta gas.
Thanks, Pops.
[music]
[engine starts]
[music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
You got two minutes.
Six thirty-three... Six thirty-four...
Six thirty-five...
[Ray] Six thirty-six...
[watch beeps]
[Ray chuckles]
Why are you always counting?
This is meditative.
Like sheep over the fence.
You didn't say nothing about bringing
his family into this.
Ha! With that panocha jab?
Hell, I was just fishing on him
and I didn't even know Cheech had a sister.
Listen, ese...
I ain't your ese.
No, yeah, well, okay.
[man shouting in distance]
In fact, maybe I'm rethinking this whole crazy-*** idea.
Who am I in this place?
What?
How do people see me?
Just a broken down old professor.
[chuckles]
Yeah, well, I didn't finish high school so thank you, Luis.
Who's Cheech Dorado?
Cheech is king.
And who are you?
[music]
Huh?
What's the one part of a king you can't armor, Lou-eece?
His pride.
Now, I'm not gonna be here that much longer.
But, what, you got 12 more years?
Fifteen.
You wanna make a name for yourself?
You wanna have a name...
Maybe even get a rank in this concrete kingdom?
This is how.
Okay.
No more of the family shit.
That dude's gonna kill you for real.
Claro.
[music]
[sea gulls]
[music playing]
[man] That's an interesting theory.
So they're airlifted in, whole damn thing.
Dead of night.
Sink it like a goddamn dock piling.
We wake up the next day, think it's another old bucket
- churned up by a storm. - [clicks tongue]
We're gawking at a shipwreck the government
put there for us to gawk at.
Meanwhile across the sound they are surveying
egret nesting lands to mow over
and build a weather base so they can--and Jim Baird
at the post office, he confirmed this--to seed clouds
with silver iodide to make our hurricanes worse.
- [laughs] - Huh?
To get us on board with the climate agenda.
I mean, it is a classic misdirection.
Yeah.
That's just more of that gibberish.
You can't keep talking--
[man] You think I'm full of crap?
I'm telling you, when the shit goes down,
you're gonna come knocking at my door.
[indistinct chatter]
Coffee?
I just brewed a pot.
Best to pick one and just lock on.
Sorry, I'm... I'm just waking up.
Maybe I do need a coffee.
Sugar? Cream?
Um, black's okay.
Straight now?
[chuckles]
Perfectly, thanks.
You've seen this, I guess.
[Maggie] You a true believer?
In what?
One of them folks thinks it's a sign from God or something.
They're all camped out behind the church
Waiting for... Whatever.
No, I just... I lost touch with a friend of mine.
I think this-- I think it might be her.
- What's her name? - Marina.
Hold on.
Hey, y'all know a girl named Marina?
He says she's in the picture.
Oh, the picture.
- That's Eve. - Who?
Eve, she... She owns The White Whale, the bookstore
down at the end of Pinecroft.
These fools, they don't read anymore...
Unless it's on the internet.
- [small laugh] - That's Eve all right.
Sweet girl.
Sorry, fella, I... I don't know no Marina.
Thank you.
[Maggie] See ya, Kurt.
[Kurt] So long.
Which way is Pinecroft?
♪ ...Around Just moseyin' along ♪
♪ I'm with you And all my dreams came true ♪
♪ And now we're looking around ♪
♪ Here's the preacher we are found ♪
♪ 'Cause oh my goodness Look at what we've found ♪
[music plays in background]
[girl] You're going to jail.
Not this time, skippa.
My turtle's got you surrounded.
- Hi. - [gasps]
Oh...
Who's this?
My turtle.
I didn't know turtles could fly.
They can't.
He would've been dead.
[chuckles]
She's very literal... Even in her imagination.
Sorry, they just delivered the new Jacqueline Cinder novel.
It's like gold around here.
I always expect an armored car to pull up.
Oh, a page-turner.
Eh, I don't really have the sweet tooth for beach novels,
but the owner loves a Jackie Cinder year.
Doubles the customers.
And he's not here for the big day?
Oh, uh, she.
She's out marketing.
How's that?
She gives these tours at the lighthouse.
She works in the novel, drops a couple cards,
and I wait for the onslaught.
Are you looking for something special?
Browsing.
A friend sent me by.
Oh, well, look around and thank your friend.
We can always use some more customers
at the edge of nowhere.
[music]
[indistinct chatter]
[sniffs]
[indistinct chatter]
Does anyone know when this lighthouse was built?
[woman] So the tower stands at 162 feet.
The walls are five-feet wide down here,
three-feet wide at the top.
One million bricks make up the cylinder you're in right now.
[woman 2] Did you hear this?
[woman] We get a lot of storms on the island,
but none in a 147 years has huffed and puffed enough
to blow this bad boy down.
[group laughing]
[girl] What is that?
[woman] It looks like a ship.
That out there may not be a sign from God...
But she is pretty special.
She showed herself after a recent storm
and what you see is about all we know so far.
Just a ship that could've used a lighthouse.
A friend of mine read an advance copy
and said it's her best.
- White Whale bookstore. - Thank you.
I'll see you there. - You bet.
Eve.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Oh, I...I hope it was a little interesting.
Well, that shipwreck, I love that kind of stuff.
And it's still a mystery?
They haven't ID'd her yet.
A nautical Jane Doe.
[small laugh]
Yeah, some divers came up from the college in Greenville,
but the currents around the rocks beat 'em to shit.
I mean...
Yeah.
Then, uh, a couple local kids thought they'd play
Treasure hunter and... Almost Drowned so they buoyed it off.
Oh that's a shame.
Oh yeah?
I mean, I'll be long gone before the mystery is solved.
Hmm.
This is really your thing?
I grew up on the water.
Would you like to see her?
Oh, the boat?
Ship.
Yeah...
Yeah I would.
[music]
Ow, dammit.
The beach grass'll cut you to pieces,
but it holds the sea back.
Otherwise the lighthouse would be the only
dry land around here.
[Dovey] Surreal.
Come on, you've got to see it closer.
[music]
She was probably on her side, buried in the sand
for a couple hundred years before the storm.
Amazing how something can stay hidden for so long.
Then in one night...
Want to know what I think...
That's not a part of my tour?
That's why I'm here.
I think that once they finally do get down there,
they're going to find what's left of the captain
and crew, shackled to chains by the slaves they were carrying.
Shit, let's go.
The tide swallows these rocks in no time.
Be careful.
[music]
No!
[Eve] Shit.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
[Dovey] Oh, man.
I'm sorry, it must be worth a lot.
My dad...
It... It's not even real.
[music]
Shit.
Jesus, dude, what the **** happened?
I think it's worth more than you say.
[exhales]
How... The ****?
You know, you cuss worse than my grandma,
and she raised three sailors.
Well, thanks for bringing me here.
Thank you... Crazy ****ing dolphin boy.
So, back up to Virginia now?
Yeah.
My dad wants me on his boat before light.
Untangling shit?
Uh, that and listening to him telling me
how to solve all the world's problems.
- Heavy burden. - [Dovey chuckles]
You better get back to it for all our sakes.
But, hey, uh, before you do, this place north
of the harbor makes these
unholy-good Tabasco hushpuppies.
I think you'll find them an even trade for risking your life.
[chuckles]
They're that good?
You tell me.
Garland's Dockside. [truck starts]
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
She look like in the picture?
[Dovey] Oh, she's the one.
Only her name's Eve, not Marina.
[Ray laughs]
It's a good choice, sweetheart.
Prototypical.
She seems happy, Ray.
Maybe I should tell her. I'd want to know.
Well, if she's happy, me being far from her mind
is the reason why.
I don't know, man.
You know, she almost lost her bracelet today,
and the look on her face...
A little string of freshwater pearls with a sand dollar clasp?
She's... Still wearing That damn thing?
Okay, then it is her.
[music]
Yeah...
Yeah, thank you.
You don't know what you've done for me, son.
So what now?
That's it.
Keep all your meetings with your PO.
Walk the line.
I'm gonna come see you.
[woman] Virginia Department of Corrections.
This call may be recorded or monitored.
[music]
Yeah, in the cabinet over the sink, high up.
But only two at this time of night.
Right.
Tasmanian Devil.
["Widow Next Door" by Patrolled By Radar plays]
♪ This turpentine has got A hell of a grip ♪
Ooh, tonight be a little later.
♪ I'm going legally blind ♪
You sure?
♪ At a rapid clip I'm gonna steady my mind ♪
♪ Anchor my sinking ship In your bay ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't tell ♪
[Eve] Jess. [Jess] Hey.
[Eve] You look amazing.
♪ Or get up off the floor ♪
Okay.
♪ I'm taking a shine To the widow next door ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[man] I'm sorry, man. I'll get it straight.
[music]
[Cheech] An armored car going down the road talking about...
What we're gonna do after work.
Yeah, stop at the usual place, yeah, and then I get out
and we go to the place behind the donut shop...
[indistinct chatter]
[grunts]
One...
Two...
Grand, stupid gestures.
Well, I told you I was born on the water.
It was literally in a bathtub.
That's not true.
Well, my mom says I just floated on my back...
Quietly looking up at her.
[chuckles]
Sounds like a beautiful way to come into the world.
And a tough mom.
Yeah, yeah, she's tough.
Hey, why are you so sure about what happened to the ship?
'Cause nobody looked for her for 200 years.
No record of a manifest.
In the 1800s, South Carolina or Georgia
or wherever she was headed,
they treated a sunken ship full of Africans like losing
a crop of tobacco to a flood.
Nothing to salvage but wood and bone.
But a mile from here, at the tip of the sound,
there's folks that say their kin came from the sea.
She's one of them.
Maybe her great-great-great grandfather broke his chains
and helped run that ship aground on the shoal.
[music playing]
♪ Mmm-mm-mm... ♪
♪ Well tell me, pretty baby ♪
♪ Do you think You're too sweet to die ♪
♪ Well tell me, pretty baby ♪
♪ Do you think You're too sweet to die ♪
♪ 'Cause we kiss and we cuss And we carry on ♪
[woman] Girl!
♪ We kiss and we cuss And carry on ♪
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
[audience cheers]
Six thirty-five.
Six thirty-six.
♪ Well I was born In the country ♪
♪ You think I'm easy to fool ♪
♪ Well, I was born In the country ♪
♪ You think I'm easy to fool ♪
♪ 'Cause we cuss and we kiss And we carry on ♪
♪ We cuss and we kiss And we carry on ♪
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
- For Cheech, ese. - Ah!
[grunts] [guard] Call security back up.
♪ Well I see You're smiling, babe ♪
♪ The knife behind your back ♪
♪ Well, I see you smile ♪
♪ With the knife Behind your back ♪
[sirens blare]
♪ We kiss and we cuss And we carry on ♪
Childress, roll over and nose dirt, now.
♪ Yeah, we kiss and we cuss And we carry on ♪
- [grunts] - Oh, hell.
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
I need medical assistance now.
♪ Until the break of dawn ♪
Hey, you ride along.
What do I do when we get there?
Grab a coffee, flirt with a nurse.
Should I cuff him?
You wanna cuff a corpse, go ahead.
[indistinct voice over dispatch]
Hey, come on, let's go.
He ain't dead yet.
[sirens blare]
So Virginia got that kid from Franklin.
Runs a four-six forty.
Hey, you okay?
[gurgling sounds]
Jesus, dude, do not puke in my box.
I'm good.
Yeah, you good.
Maybe you oughtta be laying down here.
[laughs]
I'm telling you, man, this kid was a beast.
His mother couldn't [voice fades]
Six twenty-seven.
Six twenty-eight.
[music]
Boy grew up eating syrup sandwiches,
you know what I mean?
Six thirty-one.
They got him on 5,000 calories a day, hm.
Six thirty-two.
Oh no.
He was running four-six with a syrup sandwich.
Why don't y'all pass his ***--
Six thirty-six.
[music]
[hissing]
Oh God. [coughing]
Oh shit.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ray!
Hey, wait!
Hey!
[Ray] Hit... Hit the brakes.
[siren stops]
[Ray] Get back there. Go on.
You left those lights spinning, right?
Sit down, big guy.
What the hell you doing? Get over there. Ahh.
All right now, focus.
Is there, uh, antibiotics in here, huh?
Uh, your phones or walkies, anything that squawks and talks,
put it in there.
Cuffs and keys too, son.
Get the phone in there!
- How fast? - What?
Your speed. What about your speed?
- I, um... - Come on.
Open roads, no traffic.
Fifty. Fifty-something.
Fifty? Fifty what? Do better.
Uh, fif--fifty-eight thereabouts.
Fifty-eight miles an hour. **** you, lady.
This ain't a Sunday drive.
I'm back here dying.
No, I imagine 75 with lights and sirens.
That leaves us three miles from the service road.
I wish I could shoot your ***.
[music]
But I need to shoot him.
- Ray, wait. - Wait, wait, wait--
[man screams]
Aw, Justin, you'll be all right, son.
They'll patch you up.
No better place to get shot in than an ambulance.
[Justin groaning]
Especially if she drives faster than 58 miles an hour.
[door opens, shuts]
[music]
[grunts]
[woman singing in distance]
Guess it's too late to drive back.
Hey, slow down now.
[music]
Come on.
What are you doing?
[Dovey laughs]
[Eve] Permission to come aboard.
[Eve laughs]
[Eve sighs]
This is really your boat?
No.
I commandeered it.
[Dovey laughs]
[chains clanking]
He said he had a friend in Currituck he wanted to see.
Do you think he headed down there?
Currituck's down on the Banks.
Well, that's across state lines.
He ain't allowed across state lines, is he?
No, he ain't.
Well, there you are.
Maybe he went to see his mother up outside of D.C.
That's one trip he wouldn't tell me about.
See him?
He ain't my chauffeur.
Now, there's a manhunt statewide for an escapee
who was on the phone with your son
just hours before being put into an ambulance
a lot less dying than he looked.
So tell Dovey to call.
Officer Bell, my son didn't even know me
until he was 12, but we made up for lost time
and now we gotta do it again.
Do you really think he'd go and risk all that?
Then have him call me.
Even a failure to report can land him back in St. Brides.
He shouldn't have been there in the first place.
[boat engine starts]
[echoing] Happy birthday.
That's her. That's Marina.
[Eve laughs]
[Ray] Go on. Go on. Make a wish.
[seagulls squawking]
[Eve] He rises from the dead.
- Oh... Hey. - [chuckles]
I, uh, I had to get home last night,
but you were sleeping so soundly.
I didn't want to wake you.
Thanks.
Okay.
Well, get your sea legs under you, we're taking her out.
How you feeling?
Awake.
Your dad, he gave you the bracelet?
Sweet 16.
What's he like?
Ah, when it gave me this, he was the strongest man
I'd ever known.
A year later, he was in a wheelchair.
[music]
Next fall he was gone.
Gone like...
I haven't visited his stone in...
Seven years.
I mean, he wasn't perfect but...
When I think of him now...
He stands tall.
Hey...
Sailor, it's a beautiful ****ing day, you know?
[music]
[water running]
Hey!
Hello?
Fella, what the hell are you doing?
Do I smell coffee?
Sugar and milk? [bird squawking]
Black please.
[TV playing in background]
So you're a doctor?
Well, a paramedic.
We've been searching in those woods back there
all night for a little... A lost girl.
And then I...I got mixed up in those briars something awful.
[bird squawking] Oh.
[kisses]
- What are doing? - Mm...
Good and strong.
[bird] Strong chin. Strong chin.
[woman] Shut up, birdbrain.
We've got company.
[man on TV] The neighbor who witnessed the ruckus
told us what it was like--
So you have not seen any kids coming through your yard?
You and the mailman are the only folks I've seen in a month.
Hope she's okay.
It's dangerous out there for kids nowadays.
You almost gotta keep them locked up.
[bird squawks] Ow, you little shit.
[bird] Little shit. Doppler radar.
- That's Quaker. - Mm.
My son bought him... And then run off to California.
His final... To his mama.
[bird] Little shit. [squawks]
I got to ride in an ambulance once.
Did you now?
Ended up just being gas.
[bird squawks]
Better safe than sorry, I reckon.
Hm.
I was gonna wanna patch myself up a little bit.
Oh... Round the corner, Second door.
Thank you.
You know, we're gonna have to make you Samaritan of the Week
down at the station.
[TV playing]
[bird chitters]
You ever let that bird out?
Where's it got to go?
[music]
I have to get back to my store.
Thanks for finishing up.
Sure thing.
Hey, Eve, out there when I asked about your dad--
It's okay.
[water sprays]
- Hey. - Eh?
Yesterday was the best kind of unexpected.
[thunder]
[TV weatherman] We're gonna start seeing...
[Quaker squawks] Strong chin.
[TV weatherman as this front finally closes in.
[chain rattles]
[TV weatherman] Some of these dark green areas--
Looks like another storm.
[Quaker] Doppler radar.
[TV weatherman] So if you've got big plans
for the day or just...
You look nice.
[music]
[Quaker squawks]
Vaya con Dios.
[car starts]
[music]
[phone rings]
Hello? [music plays on radio]
[Ray] Three-piece chicken dinner, pinto beans,
and gravy...
If I had to pick a last meal,
and I might...
That'd be the one.
Ray, what? Where the hell are you?
What? You didn't hear the news?
What news?
Oh man, I had Luis really stick me about a half a dozen times.
Felt like I stepped in a yellow jacket nest.
Looked like a horror show.
And by the time I'm in the ambulance,
I just rise up like Night of the Living ****ing Dead.
[laughs]
Yeah, but I did have to put one in Justin,
but that's just so those ****ers didn't stand there
and flag somebody down.
Pretty slick, huh?
Jesus, Ray, you...
Are you saying you're out?
[chuckles] Buddy, I'm telling you I flew.
I'm almost at the state line.
♪ I'll always be right here By your side ♪
Dovey?
Now don't tell me you told her I sent you
because goddammit that's the one thing I--
No, no, man, of course not.
No, but you mighta said what you're up to.
I'm part of this now.
Well, I told you I'd give anything to see her again.
That's what I'm gonna do.
But you--you don't have to be involved
in anything you didn't know about.
Well, the cops don't know that.
Well, as long as you're home, they ain't got nothing on you.
- You are back home? - Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
I gotta check in with my PO tomorrow.
Straight and narrow, yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
Good because it's a long way down on either side.
Remember that.
♪ Don't cry Don't cry ♪
[music]
Bye.
Marina?
How do you know Ray?
St. Brides.
Had to be an ex-con.
The man has no friends left in the real world.
I think you know this ****ing liar.
Marina.
Marina. Marina!
Say that name one more ****ing time and I call the sheriff.
Any outstanding warrants or parole violations
he'd like to know about?
[huffing] The photo.
He saw the ****ing newspaper.
Yes.
What does he want?
To know your happy.
[laughs]
Look, Ray told me he was your father.
After this morning, I don't know what to think.
No, but, Eve... He escaped somehow.
He's out and driving this way.
[thunder]
You're a fool.
Ray doesn't have a daughter.
He has a vendetta.
[Harper] Mama.
I finished it.
Great, sweetie. What did you think?
It is creepier than "Coraline."
Hey, go pour some iced tea and I'll be in
to hear all about it.
Okay.
[door closes]
Where is he now?
Near the Virginia state Line... He said.
[thunder]
It'll take him a couple hours to drive around the inlet.
If Ray's not your father, why is he so hell-bent on getting here?
Your buddy...
Is coming to kill me.
[thunder]
- All right, this way. - Thank you.
[Ray] Highway 168 was a parking lot.
Must've been a pile-up or something.
[man] Well, no traffic jams out here.
You're my last charter.
[Ray] Yeah.
Yeah, I was headed home to get some
of the old lady's clam chowder.
Well, I don't want to keep you from your supper.
That's okay.
She's making it from the can now anywho.
[chuckles]
Thinks I can't tell.
Which side of the sound?
You want, uh, Poplar Branch or Corolla?
The one with the lighthouse.
[music]
Does he know about my daughter?
No, I wasn't sure she was yours.
How did he convince you to do this?
He said he hadn't done right by you.
But knowing you were happy would bring some comfort.
He... He's sick.
Sick?
- Like... - Cancer.
Oh, cancer?
Ray once told a cop that his mother
had hung herself and he was headed
to go identify the body just to get out of a speeding ticket.
Tears and all.
I meant what did you owe him?
It wasn't like that.
It's always like that with Ray.
He trades in emotional debt.
Look, I was helping out a guy who helped me.
Maybe he even saved my life once or twice.
What debt is he coming to collect from you?
Time.
I got him sent away.
["Warm Shadow" by Fink plays]
♪ What you got going on? ♪
♪ Behind those, eyes closed Holding on ♪
♪ And I don't want another ♪
♪ Day to break ♪
[Eve] You can see everyone coming or going
but he'll be just a speck.
I know Ray's walk.
♪ And take our, Steal our, night away ♪
♪ Warm shadow ♪
♪ Mmm ♪
[Eve] What are you gonna say to him?
Mexico's warmer than another prison cell for one.
♪ Won't you cast Yourself on me? ♪
Eve, I didn't know.
[grunts]
[wind howling]
[grunts]
[music]
Mommy.
Come on, come on, come on, we gotta go.
We gotta go.
[music]
How long will you be gone?
[beeping] I don't know.
Mommy, where are we going?
On an adventure like in, uh...
"Peter Pan"?
Yes.
Very much like "Peter Pan."
On the boat?
That's right.
If I'm not back in a week, The Whale is yours.
Here.
Eve, what the hell is going on?
Mommy, where's my turtles?
I don't know, honey, look around.
- Jess, I gotta go. - Go? Go where?
[Eve] Something happened. I have to leave.
I'll call you once we're settled, okay?
Oh yeah.
[Jess] I don't understand. Are you in some kind of trouble?
[Eve] Remember that time - [door creaks]
we got drunk on mezcal, what I told you that night?
Not really.
Good.
[music]
[Eve] Harper, let's go.
Harper!
[thunder]
[music]
He took her!
[Eve grunting]
- Took who? - Harper.
Okay, we have to call the police.
We can't.
Look, I'm past getting out of this clean.
I can't.
They'll find out who I am, and then I'll lose her for good.
Who you are?
He won't hurt her.
I still have something he wants badly.
Eve, why can't we go to the cops?
Because they want it too.
[music]
You hungry?
You want some?
Well that's a real nice find.
It's my turtle.
I see.
What's your name, sweetheart?
Harper.
Strong name for a strong girl.
Now you're gonna be brave for me right now, right?
Aren't you... Harper?
Yeah.
I know you will. You know how I know?
It's 'cause I know your mama, and she's
about as brave as they come.
We're good friends, you know...
Your mama and me.
What? You don't believe me?
There, you see her?
That's my mom?
Yeah, well she was younger then.
Real pretty, like you.
[music]
Oh, so how's your little turtle doing now?
Better.
Good.
Harper...
How old are you?
Ray didn't come for my daughter.
He improvised.
Right now he's figuring out what he wants us to do.
He knew you were lying.
How long were you in with him?
Three years.
All that time you thought Ray was teaching you,
he was studying you.
He knows you better than you know yourself.
I built a home here, and the two of you burn it down
in a ****ing night.
The two of us?
I came back to tell you.
That you showed the Devil right to my doorstep.
You said I brought the Devil...
Well the Devil doesn't come for the innocent.
[phone vibrates]
She's okay.
He wants to meet at a church?
It's funny to him I guess.
All those Sundays my mom dragged him there.
If Ray was here to kill you, he could have.
What's he really want?
What he wanted before.
A different life.
He was managing a bowling alley when he met my mom.
She wasn't doing so well after my dad died
and some friends had gotten her out for the night.
So a few months after he starts seeing my mom
he comes into my work,
the gift shop at this state park where this big Civil War battle
had been fought.
And he acts all interested, but he keeps circling back
to these coins and weapons on display
above the battle diorama.
- Ray saw an opportunity-- - He lifted the loot.
We did.
But then you gave him up and ran.
The things you'll do for your kids.
How much is left?
His half...
At least.
Give him what he wants.
I'll make the trade in church.
Ray and I, we've got a come-to-Jesus coming anyway.
[waves crashing]
[music]
I'm sorry, I didn't know he was gonna turn jackrabbit,
Pops, I swear.
[heavy sigh]
No, you just gave him reason to.
Just get your skinny *** back here and...
We won't talk about it again.
I'm going to.
I just wanted to say you were right.
Well...
"right" changes over time.
I'll see you soon.
[church choir singing]
[church bells tolling] - Good to see you.
♪ God in Three Persons Blessed Trinity ♪
Amen.
Be seated with the Lord.
[murmuring]
We welcome all believers into His house
this morning as we also welcome Him
into our hearts and our lives.
[preacher] You know I love the sermon of the prodigal son.
Spoke with someone earlier today,
that's their testimony and I love that.
Thank you for sharing that.
God talked to me about something, uh,
on the drive here and...
It's about the story of Jonah and I--
Well... Praise be.
[preacher]--kinda wanna call an audible and talk about Jonah
- for a second. - Where is she?
[preacher] Yeah, Jonah and the whale.
Safe and sound.
[preacher] And it wasn't a whale. It was a big fish.
You on the other hand look a little rough.
There's some things that have been keeping me up.
[chuckles]
Free will's a *****, ain't it?
We're just as liable to make the bad calls as the good.
I think you should be up there preaching.
[preacher] What God placed on my heart was not just--
What, to these people? True believers?
They don't want to hear that...
Everything's they're own damn fault.
You know, that's what you made of me, Ray...
A true believer and a fool.
What you're doing here waiting around for her,
that was pretty damn foolish.
I'm here because you lied to me.
Lies of omission.
Cancer?
You needed a little nudge.
Marina...
Your daughter, Ray?
I was more a father to that girl than her own daddy ever was,
you hear me?
And that cheap shit pearl bracelet's
the only thing she ever got from that man.
Yeah, and you gave her what?
A warrant around her neck?
She earned that one herself.
[preacher] Didn't go where he was supposed to go.
[preacher] I was thinking about some events in my own life--
There's a boat down in the harbor, The Driftwood.
Bring Harper. I'll bring what you're here for and you can
take it and your chances south.
[preacher] We think that if you sin,
it only affects you but there's a ripple effect of sin.
[laughs]
[preacher] It affects so many other people.
Think about the people in your tribe.
[Ray laughing loudly]
Hee hee hee, yeah.
Oh, all right.
I...I'm sorry, pastor.
Just a little extra joyful this morning.
[clears throat] Well, uh, um...
That is all right because, uh, we are called
to make a joyful noise for the Lord.
We should pick up our hymn books and let's turn to the next hymn
in the bulletin.
"I am Coming to the Cross."
Now let's all stand and... And sing that now.
[organ plays]
♪ I am coming to the cross I am poor and weak and blind ♪
Who's the bigger liar now, son?
♪ I am counting all but dross ♪
You tell her to bring the spoils and she'll get her daughter.
♪ I shall full salvation find ♪
♪ Long my heart Has sighed for Thee ♪
♪ Long has evil reigned within ♪
♪ Jesus sweetly speaks to me ♪
♪ I will cleanse you all from sin ♪
Dovey?
Hold on there, boy.
[grunts]
Stay still. Stay still.
[cuffs rattle] Get up here.
You wanna atone?
We got churches in Virginia too, hon.
Let's go.
[walkie talkie chatter]
[Dovey] She was supposed to meet me there and she didn't show.
At the church?
- You in love with this girl? - No, ma'am.
I just made a promise.
A promise... To which fugitive?
I went to see your mom up in D.C.
She didn't know you'd gotten out.
Well, her career ambitions and my felony conviction
never really mixed.
[Bonnie] Hm.
She told me about your summer fling whose father owns
half the Virginia coastline.
About you two coming home from a party, pretty ****ed up.
How she pulls a U and bottoms her Camaro out on a divider.
And it just sticks there, not one tire touching.
I can just see those sweet tears coming down.
So before the cops pull up...
You switch seats.
You decide to get behind the wheel, not thinking
about her influential daddy or the pills in the glove box.
Three years for something you Thought was right... Then.
Yeah, but "right" changes over time.
Hm.
They have recordings of all your conversations with Ray.
Right now they don't suspect you of anything more
than putting your faith in a known con man.
They're gonna work it all out soon enough.
Help them get there quicker.
[music]
[Ray] All right, watch your step now.
- Harper. - Mommy.
Oh... Oh baby, I'm here.
Are you okay?
Yeah, of course she's okay.
She was with me.
Honey... [Ray] Hi, Ray.
Seven years looks good on you.
You held up pretty well considering.
Honey, this man and I have to talk.
His name is Ray.
[Eve] I know.
Ray and I, we need to talk about some grown-up stuff.
Uh-oh.
I'm in trouble.
[Harper giggles]
Can you stay here for just five minutes while we step outside?
I'll be right on deck.
Okay. It's okay.
You renamed our boat.
That's bad luck, you know.
Driftwood?
Well, you didn't drift very far, did you?
I reckon that's 'cause of your mom.
Yeah, hey, how is she?
I ain't got time to reminisce with you, Ray.
They find you, they find me.
And what I bought with my half of the money wasn't for me.
It was for her.
Now none of that matters without her.
So thank you for bringing Her back... But where
- you've put us now-- - Where I put you?
[gasps]
Last night, you not knowing about your daughter,
what you'd find when you woke up...
Yeah, I'm guessing you didn't catch a wink.
Well how much sleep you think I got where you put me?
Mom? Mommy? Where are you?
Go... Ho--honey, go back inside. We're almost done. Go.
You always were much tougher than your own mama.
Your girl's got that too.
Your grit.
You know they say insomnia cuts more years
off your life than smoking.
They've studied it.
So prison, it seems, takes it from both ends.
Yeah...
The now... And the later.
Oh, but...
Being awake 20 hours a day does give you time
to think of what you'd do with the in-between...
If you had the means.
There's plenty left...
But we have to go get it.
[knocking]
Get your story straight.
[muffled voices]
[music]
Hmm.
[breathing heavily]
[phone vibrates]
Give me that now.
Go on. Topside.
Follow Mommy.
[door opens]
Poor woman up in Carova, she's been worried sick
about her husband all morning.
Never brought his boat back in last night.
Know why? [sets phone on desk]
[music]
Time to fill in the blanks...
For the sake of the next someone.
[Dovey] "God is real and he's not laughing with you."
That was written in the first cell I ever slept in.
You did good, Dovey.
They'll get him.
He's on an island now.
He was on an island in prison too.
Hey, who told you I'd be at the church?
Didn't leave a name.
You're here by Ray's invitation, just like me.
They won't catch him.
I gotta pee.
To the last drop 'cause we ain't stopping again.
[music]
[grunting]
Goddammit, it's stuck on something.
Ah.
Hey, hey, hey, hold it.
I said plant your ***, boy.
Thank you, PO, for caring enough to come all this way.
Now listen to me, I don't know what you're thinking
but you could be adding months, maybe even years.
Hell, if I'm gonna pay a price again,
it'll be for something of my own making.
For the sake of the next someone, right?
Dovey, don't.
They made their bed, let 'em goddamn lie.
Dovey, let 'em lie! Let 'em goddamn lie!
You couldn't have just shoved it under the floorboards?
All right, let's use the motor to haul this thing up.
Okay? [motor starts]
Real gradual.
Right there, yeah.
[music]
All right, a little more.
[motor revs]
[rope creaking]
Oh, shit, cut it off. Cut the engine.
Now. Do it now.
[engine slows]
[grunting]
Harper, baby, stay right there.
Hold on to that rail.
[banging]
[grunting]
Ah!
[Harper screams] Harper!
[Eve] Harper, be still.
Don't struggle, baby. It's okay.
- [whining] - You stay right where you are.
She's ours.
I swear to god, Ray, she is.
Ah.
I know.
That math ain't hard.
The rope.
Some divers put it there.
I...I don't know what's at the other end
but it's not a dry-bag full of money.
That's the truth.
- Where then? - In the cabin.
There--there's a space under one of the drains.
All right, I believe you.
- Come on. - Ray, wait. Wait!
Wait? Seven ****ing years I waited. Come on.
Go, baby. Come on, go.
Come on.
Oh, not you.
Hell no. Front of the boat.
[music]
You took more from me than I even knew.
- Now get in the water. - Ray, it's--
Go on, you're a good swimmer, you'll make it to shore.
And you'll spend tomorrow... And the next day
and the next day wondering where she is.
It's your turn to wake up afraid.
Ray, we can still do this.
- No. - Together.
I--I--I was a scared kid, Ray, and you were
the last person I should've been afraid of.
I didn't know they would catch you.
Didn't think they could.
You taught me to see into the future.
Everything we need is right here on this boat.
Everything to start over.
Seven years is nothing compared to the time we still have.
I love the way you lie.
[metal clangs]
[grunts]
[Dovey] Get outta here! Go! Run!
[grunting]
[screams]
Harper, come on. Come on, come on.
[grunting]
Go down there.
Harper, stay down.
Don't come out no matter what you hear.
[grunts]
Goddammit.
You haven't learned a damn thing, did you?
You couldn't just let things be what they were going to be?
None of this had to be, Ray.
You're damn right.
You could've just played your part and taken a bow.
Now my daughter has to watch a man die.
You know what that does to a kid?
I do.
You oughtta maybe make that wish now.
We both know who wishes are for.
[gun cocks] I sure hope she was worth it.
Ah!
[groans]
[Eve] Ray... - Huh?
I...
[muffled grunts]
[music]
[groans]
[music]
[breathing heavily]
[splashing]
Dovey?
[sputtering]
Where is he?
He couldn't be saved.
[music]
Take the line.
You've got cover.
You've got the fog.
Dovey, just grab the ****ing line.
You said it.
Everything you need to start over is with you.
The story I tell them will buy you time.
Eve, raise your sail.
[music]
Find me again.
[camera shutters] [man] Straight ahead.
[indistinct chatter]
[door buzzes]
You know they found her boat on the rocks
off Cumberland Island, Georgia.
I might've read something about that.
Didn't find her or the girl though.
Tragic.
They went ahead and closed the case.
Of course...
The water is real warm down there.
Yes, ma'am.
[music]
["February Seven" by Avett Brothers plays]
You hungry for some crab?
♪ I went on to search For something true ♪
Yeah, Pops.
Bring your skinny *** on then. Let's go catch some.
♪ I was almost there When I found you ♪
[engine starts]
♪ Sooner than My fate was wrote ♪
♪ A perfect blade, It slit my throat ♪
♪ And beads of lust Released into the air ♪
♪ When I awoke You were standing there ♪
♪ I was on the mend when I fell through ♪
♪ The sky around Was anything but blue ♪
♪ I found as I regained my feet A wound across my memory ♪
♪ That no amount of stitches Would repair ♪
♪ But I awoke and you were Standing there ♪
♪ There's no fortune at the end Of the road that has no end ♪
♪ There's no returning To the spoils ♪
♪ Once you've spoiled The thought of them ♪
♪ There's no falling Back to sleep ♪
♪ Once you've wakened from the dream ♪
♪ Now I'm rested and I'm ready ♪
♪ I'm rested And I'm ready to begin ♪
♪ I'm ready to begin ♪
♪ I went on the search For something real ♪
♪ Traded what I know For how I feel ♪
♪ But the ceiling and the walls collapsed ♪
♪ Upon the darkness I was trapped ♪
♪ And as the last of breath Was drawn from me ♪
♪ Light broke in And brought me to my feet ♪
♪ There's no fortune at the end of the road ♪
♪ That has no end ♪
♪ There's no returning To the spoils ♪
♪ Once you've spoiled The thought of them ♪
♪ There's no falling Back to sleep
♪ Once you've wakened ♪ From the dream ♪
♪ Now I'm rested and I'm ready I'm rested and I'm ready ♪
♪ Yeah I'm rested and I'm ready I'm rested and I'm ready ♪
♪ Yeah I'm rested and I'm ready I'm rested ♪
♪ And I'm ready to begin ♪
♪ I'm ready to begin ♪
[music]