[sheep bleating]
[grunts]
[speaking Crow]
Where is your son now?
Bringing in the other flock.
He'll be back soon.
Then send him for my father?
Then feed him supper.
Then he sleeps.
Then send him for your father.
[music]
[sheep bleating]
[speaking Crow]
[music]
[sheep bleating]
[speaking Crow]
Maybe we bury them.
Bury them deep.
By the creek where the ground is soft.
- Hole won't look fresh then. - Mm.
Yeah.
[music]
[knocking]
Issaxche Rainwater?
That is me.
Your granddaughter is Teonna Rainwater,
enrolled at the U.S. school for Native Americans?
Yes?
I have a warrant for her arrest.
Please step aside.
You say she is murdered?
I say she did the murders.
She killed two teachers at the school. Now step aside.
My granddaughter? You make no sense.
Why-why are you here? What are you doing?
[rummaging]
I saw a barn out back. Check it. Check the teepee.
Harboring a fugitive is a felony.
What is a fugitive?
Get out of my house now!
[grunts]
Ain't no sign of her in the...
What happened here?
She attacked me.
I pushed her back.
She must have hit her head on the stove.
[music]
Why are you asking?
You were here, you saw everything.
Didn't you.
Yeah. Yeah, she attacked you.
Let's keep looking.
[music]
[gasps]
Alex!
[music]
Alex!
[pounding from inside boat]
Alex!
[pounding continues]
I'm coming!
[music]
[gasps]
[Alex cries] Spencer!
[Alex panting]
Come on.
Catch your breath.
How well do you swim?
Under normal circumstances, I would say quite well.
Hang on.
[gasping]
- Hang on to these, okay? - Okay.
- Ready? - Yeah. Yeah.
[inhaling]
[music]
[both gasping]
[grunts]
What happened?
Ghost ship hit us.
How long can this stay afloat?
I don't know.
Doesn't really matter.
We're not gonna make through the day without water or shade.
[Alex panting]
Hey. I gotta go back down.
What for?
We need things.
Hey, stay here.
That was a dumb thing to say.
Just stay in the center of the hull.
Don't go towards the edge.
I'll stay in the center.
- Be right back. - You'd better.
[music]
[gasps, coughs]
Alex!
[Alex gasping]
[weakly] - Spencer!
We're drifting away from it!
We swim right now or we die.
Okay?
[coughing, gasping]
- Come on! - [Alex screams]
Spencer: Keep going!
Swim as hard as you can!
There you go! Keep going!
Come on!
This way. Come on. Come on.
Not your sharpest moment.
I'm aware, thank you.
This is not how I thought I'd die.
Because it isn't. Look at me.
This is hopeless.
Is it hopeless?
I'll admit we're gonna need a little bit of luck.
We're certainly due some.
May not feel like it now...
but sitting on this hull is about the luckiest thing
that ever happened to you.
I made contact with a ship before we went down.
They know we're here, okay?
Wanna hope for something?
[Alex coughs]
Hope they're coming. Okay?
Try and get all of yourself underneath.
What about you?
I'm gonna work on my tan.
[sobbing]
[music]
I'll catch up.
Good to see you moving.
Glad someone enjoys seeing me moving.
I sure don't.
Pretty stiff?
Damn bed sucked all my strength from me.
You were in it a while.
Might sleep standing up from now on.
Well, if you figure out that trick, gotta teach it to me.
Spencer's coming home.
From where?
Cara sent the last letter to Africa.
That sounds like a long trip.
Six, eight weeks on a ship. Another week on the train.
Then we get after their ***es.
Start asking around real quiet
about who wants to be on the posse.
Half the cowboys around here went to California.
Quitters went to California.
Tough ones are still here. Find some.
Want me to saddle you a horse?
No, I think I'll just walk for today.
Make sure I don't come unstitched.
[music]
[indistinct chater]
Have a seat, Spur.
Are you currently employed?
Ma'am?
Do you have a job?
In the spring I have a job.
When the snow melts.
What ranch?
Ma'am, why are you so curious about where I work?
Well, you're applying for the position of Livestock Agent.
It would stand to reason we consider
your previous employment while making a decision.
Who's conducting this interview?
I am.
What the hell does a woman know about law enforcement?
Cara: Absolutely nothing.
But I know men.
You see, I can look in a man's eye and know
if he can be trusted, if he can maintain his composure
while facing adversity.
An element of this interview you seem to be failing.
My own mama never talked to me like that.
Mm. Maybe she should've.
Ain't a ****ing woman on this--
[grunts]
I'm afraid you lack the temperament
this job requires.
We thank you for your interest.
And don't forget your hat.
[indistinct chatter]
Go easy on the head busting.
Nobody speaks to my aunt like that.
We've been at it all morning.
And we've only found two.
It's a dangerous job that don't pay well.
We're gonna have to sort through a lot of drifters and bullies
to find true believers, ma'am. [door opens]
[indistinct chatter]
- Have a seat. - Thank you, sir.
So, are you currently employed?
No, ma'am.
I have a homestead north of Big Timber.
That's a long ride from Big Timber.
Three days or more.
But three hours by train.
Them engines shrink the world, aye?
For better or for worse.
I think worse in the long run.
[chuckles] You may be right.
We should mark the calendar, ma'am.
It's rare when that happens.
Jack: I've seen you before.
At the Civic Center.
I don't miss a meeting.
McDowell: What makes you want to be a Livestock Agent?
Well, if you think the thieving's bad here, go east.
Go where there's no cities at all
and a straight shot to Sheridan...
No big ranches my way.
If we lose ten head, we feel it.
We lose twenty and we're out of business.
Plus, I know the life.
Was a copper during the war, when the stockyards was booming.
Half the city drunk,
trying to beat and steal from the other half.
Why'd you quit?
The smell.
Fifteen million cattle and three million people
all belching and pissing and screaming and fighting.
crammed together in the same place.
My apologies, ma'am, but there's no gentle way to describe it.
I don't know what hell is but it ain't worse than Chicago.
Now I try to limit the time my feet spend on concrete.
Well, thank you for your interest, we'll discuss--
Sign there you received it.
Pays two-hundred and twenty a month.
Better than Chicago.
A little more risk here.
I don't know about that.
We have an orientation at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow,
you'll receive your book of penal codes,
and a firearm if you don't have one.
I'm plenty armed, thank you.
Ma'am, it's been a pleasure.
Thank you for the opportunity.
How many is that?
Three.
Jacob said we need at least twenty.
We'll get there. It's just gonna take some time.
We don't have any time.
Cara, time is the one thing we have in abundance.
You have it in abundance.
[music]
My family, however, has run out.
I need to show you something, Will.
[sweat drops sizzling]
Alex: What is that?
Schools of little fish
collecting in the shade beneath the boat.
[thud]
What's that?
Bigger fish.
Tuna, I think.
[thud]
Alex: Are we in danger?
More danger than we were five minutes ago, I mean?
I wouldn't go swimming.
Think about it like this...
In the last six hours
this ocean has adapted to this boat being here.
Taking advantage of it.
People think they're so smart.
[boat creaking]
People ain't that smart.
You might be. I know I am.
[chuckles]
I learn from my mistakes,
but I still make plenty.
Like our current situation.
Are you saying this was likely your last tugboat ride?
No matter how this shakes out,
this was my last tugboat ride. [chuckles]
[music]
I refuse to be scared.
Refuse it.
I will not feel sorry for myself.
If death is our fate I will draw my last breath
and kiss you with it. I swear to God.
[boat creaking]
[music]
It ain't our fate.
You're gonna need another reason to kiss me.
[music]
[Alex shrieks]
[gunshot]
[music]
Aw. This makes me smile.
You wouldn't be smiling if you knew what I was waiting for.
I don't care what you're waiting for
so long as you're standing there doing it.
What are you waiting for?
See that mountain? About two-thirds of the way up?
- See that? - Yes. What is that?
They're cutting a road.
Up the side of a mountain?
A road to nowhere, then?
Jake: A road to somewhere.
Guess you're gonna be holding nursing me back to health
pretty high over my head, huh?
Put it this way.
There is no more debate about a generator.
Ahh.
Or a clothes-washing machine.
Pretty expensive nurse.
And you might want to lean on your cane for this one.
- Don't say it. - Motor car.
[whispers] - Oh my God. Jesus...
Suppose there's no way I could kind of
just ease into this modern age?
Yes, of course. I'll let you choose which one we get first.
That's mighty generous of you.
Jake: You find any more men today?
Fewer than I'd hoped.
Well, what we can't hire, I'll raise in a posse.
You leave all the fighting to the agents.
I'm not going through that again.
It's not my intention to get shot.
Nor is it my intention to become a widow.
So, all those thoughts of justice in your head...
They stay there.
Jake: They're blasting a mine
right above this ranch's main water supply.
They own the property to the north now.
And to the south.
To squeeze what's in the middle.
And what's in the middle is us.
Justice would be a luxury.
My concern is survival.
I know.
That's why I did it.
- [sighs] - Did what?
[car approaching]
Don't be mad.
I did it for you.
[music]
For God sakes, Jacob, you're a damned law man.
You know how bad this looks?
It's just like I said.
And there's a dozen witnesses say the same.
But no proof anywhere.
You want some ****ing proof?
I'll show you some ****ing proof!
And there's more proof buried in our graveyard here
and even more proof shipped back east and buried there.
Where's all the bodies of all the Creighton men?
Rotting on the Wyoming border.
Mm-hmm.
Well, you sure got a lot done for a dead man.
What would you have done different?
I would have told the sheriff.
Jake: You think you could've kept the bank away,
along with every thief from Laramie to Whitefish?
I understand what the bank would've done.
And I know what the thieves would've done if you'd died.
But you didn't.
And you still sat on this.
Now, I know what you're up to, and I won't allow it.
Wyoming's already had a range war,
Montana ain't having another.
I'll arrest him in the morning.
In the meantime, everybody, and that means you,
gives a statement to the deputies.
[music]
[engine starts]
Damn right, I'm mad.
Jacob.
[panting] Cara: Jacob.
Jacob...
Cara: How dare you give your back to me?
After all I've given to you.
It's not even justice.
It's more petty than that.
It's vengeance you seek.
Never mind he'll be arrested in the morning.
You'd rather put the bullet in him yourself.
Then it's you in prison and the ranch is lost all the same.
You think it's you who's suffered the most?
How would you know, you were asleep half the time.
While I bathed you and spoon fed you like an infant,
I wiped your *** like an infant.
While I shoveled graves between unanswered prayers.
You don't know what it is to suffer.
Emma did. She suffered her way into the hole I dug her.
Elizabeth knows it.
Father in the ground, family gone, stuck in this house
like a dungeon.
Can you fathom the strength it took for that girl
to smile again?
If there is a line forming for vengeance,
you are at the back of it.
But we've abandoned any desire of vengeance.
Even Jack, for you.
I wonder if your pride can withstand the sacrifice
of showing us the same courtesy.
[music]
[grunting]
[panting]
Son of a *****.
Boy, come here.
[music]
[grunts]
I don't hear anything.
Supposed to hear 'em moving around.
Not yet. It'll be six months or more.
You don't look pregnant.
[laughs] I will be in time, trust me...
I'll be milk-cow fat with cheeks like a beaver.
[giggling continues]
[chuckles]
[Elizabeth squeals]
[Elizabeth laughs]
Awful cold outside to have that window open.
Not in that room.
Can't make two at once.
Well, it seems they are embracing the sport of it.
[Elizabeth laughs]
We can hear ya!
[window closes]
You saved my life.
I know it.
I did not need to be told.
It's not vengeance .
It's preservation.
You've been to New York, you've been to Boston.
Um-hum.
Now close your eyes and imagine those places
if the cities weren't there.
Come on, do it.
White sands stretching to a forest of
hickory and elm...
taller than the buildings that stand there now.
Meadows filled with bison
and moose and bear,
and millions of salmon swimming up the east river
to spawn, so thick, you could walk across them.
Now think about what's there now:
a thirteen-mile island of cement
with rivers of sewage running underneath it
until they dump into the bay where salmon don't dare to swim.
That's what they'll do to this place:
dam the rivers...
flood the valleys...
cut every tree that stands to build cities.
This paradise becomes another concrete desert.
I'm not going to kill him for what they done to me,
or what they done to John,
or what they're still doing to you.
I'm going to kill them...
because the men who build cities
always send men like Banner first.
I do it for the child of a child I will never meet.
I do it for the land.
I do it for you.
So that when you're laid to rest under the aspens...
no one cuts them down and builds a city over you.
I know how much you've suffered.
And I thank you for it.
It's their turn now.
God damn it, it's their turn now.
[music]
[waves lapping]
[thud] [boat creaks]
[panting]
[music]
[bell ringing in distance]
[voice quivering]
Spencer. Spencer.
Alex: Do you see that?
Is that the shore?
It's a ship.
[gunshot]
See me.
[gunshot]
- Come on, see me! Come on! - [Alex screams]
[Alex whimpering]
[Alex screams] - Come on, see me! Come on!
See me!
[fog horn]
They see us? They see us?
[laughing]
[Spencer grunts] Come on. Come on.
[sobbing]
[laughing] [fog horn]
[music]
[Alex weeping]
Sailor: Here we go.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
I'd like to take you two to a casino.
[Alex laughs]
All right, here we are.
[grunts]
Just slide over here to me.
Thank you.
That's a shiny penny that you have there, mate.
You're lucky I don't whip this skiff around
with you still standing on the hull.
Don't forget how I flagged down the ship.
Teasing ya, mate. Come on, then.
Before the sea eats the rest of this tug.
All right, there you go.
[groans] [motor starts]
[music]
Could I have one of those?
[pours drink]
Captain: I suppose it's unnecessary to point out
how lucky you are to be alive.
[Alex coughs lightly]
You both seem keenly aware.
I doubt you were able to retrieve the Captain's log,
based on the condition of your vessel.
Captain's log was the last thing on my mind.
Yes, I suppose it would have been.
Our port of call is Marseilles.
What was your destination?
Tug was headed to Suez.
Beyond that, I don't know.
Our final destination is the United States.
Quite the journey.
You could book passage from Marseilles.
Where in the United States?
Montana.
Afraid I don't know it.
It's in the mountains.
In the middle of the country.
Your journey is only beginning when you get to port.
You could say that.
I'd recommend the Port of Galveston
or Port Arthur in the Gulf.
Ellis Island is a cesspool of disease.
I hear it takes months for an immigrant to gain entry.
I was hoping that you could help me with that.
I have no dealings with American immigration, sir.
You are the captain of this ship.
I am.
These are international waters.
They are.
Marry us.
Marriage to gain citizenship is illegal, sir.
It's a benefit.
[music]
That's not why I'm doing it.
No.
No, I wouldn't think so.
I'd be honored.
I'll prepare the color guard.
I'd like to do it now. If you could.
We can't make much of a ceremony here,
but we can make something.
Putting things off a day isn't proving conducive
to our current lifestyle.
[laughs]
No, I don't suppose it is.
Very well.
Don't suppose you have rings?
No rings.
[music]
When sailors pass and we've no address
to send belongings to their widows, they accumulate here.
See if you can find some that fit.
Rather morbid, getting wed with a dead sailor's ring.
Yes, I would endeavor to replace at the first opportunity.
Spencer: I don't know.
Ocean almost took us.
Now it gives us rings.
I think I'll keep mine.
They're too big. [laughs]
Try this one.
Belongs to my wife.
I wear it when I'm on the sea.
I'm certain she would approve.
[music]
All right?
[music]
[no audible dialogue]
Alex: What are those lights?
Spencer: That's Egypt.
That's the canal.
Alex: London looks like that at night.
There's a cocoon of light hugging the city.
No light where we're going.
Just moon and the stars.
And whatever you burn in the fireplace.
- Why no lights? - No electricity.
I suppose you'll tell me there's no plumbing next.
[laughs] There's no plumbing.
Fascinating the things men fail to mention
when they're trying to bed you.
What's your dream?
I don't dream.
Everyone has a dream.
I have plenty.
I can take some of yours, then.
I mean it. Tell me.
You're my husband now.
Sworn to tell me everything.
I don't remember that vow.
It's in there.
Right between your vow to honor and obey me.
I think you got all that shit backwards.
[laughs] You weren't listening.
You must tell me everything, honor me and obey me.
You are at risk of breaking all three vows on our wedding night,
something else you didn't dare mention prior to bedding me.
I'll tell you one.
I'll tell you a dream.
In my heart I know it was wrong to take you.
And everything that happened up to now was a sign.
A warning.
The elephant, the lions the shipwreck.
[music]
It was all the universe telling me to put you back.
I'm just too ****ing selfish to do it. So...
My dream is...
My dream is that the universe is wrong.
And you're mine to keep.
Alex: The universe has absolutely no say, whatsoever.
I am following you wherever you go.
Whether you like it or not.
Choose another dream.
This one's already come true.
It's far from coming true.
There is no putting me back.
We are one now.
When the sun hits your face I am your shadow.
When it finds my back you are mine.
I go where you go.
Even if it's the death of me.
[music]