"Sleigh Ride" plays in background
* Just hear those sleigh bells jingling *
* Ring-ting-tingling too
* Come on, it's lovely weather *
* For a sleigh ride together with you *
* Outside the snow is falling
* And friends are calling yoo-hoo *
* Come on, it's lovely weather *
* Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up, let's go *
* Let's look at the show *
* We're riding in a wonderland of snow *
* Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up, it's grand *
* Just holding your hand
* We're riding along with a song *
* Of a wintery fairyland
* Our cheeks are nice and rosy *
* And comfy cozy are we
* We've snuggled close together *
* Like two birds of a feather would be *
* Let's take that road before us *
* And sing a chorus or two
* Come on, it's lovely weather *
* For a sleigh ride together with you *
* There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray *
* It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day *
* We'll be singing the songs we love to sing *
* Without a single stop
* At the fireplace where we'll watch the chestnuts pop *
- ( popping sound ) - * Pop pop pop
* There's a happy feeling *
* Nothing in the world can buy *
* When they pass around the coffee *
- * And the pumpkin pie - ( wind whistling )
* It'll nearly be like a picture print *
* By Currier and Ives
* These wonderful things are the things *
* We'll remember all through our lives *
- * These wonderful things are the things * - (Luci speaks, muffled )
* We'll remember all through our lives *
* Just hear those sleigh bells jingling *
* Ring-ting-tingling too
( wind howling, drowning out music )
( baby crying )
( muffled speech )
( wind whooshing )
( baby's cries echoing )
( muffled speech )
( wind whooshing )
( muffled )
( growl )
( crying )
( crying continues )
*
( slam echoes )
( engine starts )
*
( wind blowing softly )
*
Strand.
( chatter )
What happened?
This was meant to be a knife through butter.
- No resistance, you said. - Mea culpa.
Someone tipped off the dam you were coming.
It was beyond my control,
but all is well now.
There are corpses floating in the water
we're meant to distribute and drink.
And my men-- casualties?
Dozen brothers dead.
A dozen dead brothers.
The guards have surrendered. Please.
Your men are executing the workers.
I told them to secure the dam,
and that's what they're doing.
Meanwhile, I need my dressings changed and a rest, nurse.
I'll have a full accounting later of the events.
And a grand tour.
Plan to be persuasive.
( distant gunfire )
( bag unzips )
My mother?
Hidden.
Safe for now.
And Nick?
He came to warn us, set off this shitstorm.
What are we gonna do now?
Strand: You're gonna trust me.
I can get us out of this.
( grunts) If we work together.
*
( clicking )
( chambering round )
So where does it stop?
You should be thanking me that you're alive to ask that question.
'Cause I think you might kill me if you didn't have a choice.
That's insane.
When I was using, you never wished you'd get that call?
"Mrs. Clark, we have terrible news."
It'd all be over.
I never wished you dead.
What kind of mother would that make me?
I don't know.
Honest, maybe?
I mean, sometimes the burden's too much.
I saw it in your eyes when you went after Troy.
He needed to be put down.
And you get to make that call.
Yeah, I get to make that call-- for your sister, for you.
- Not for me! - It's the world we live in!
You always lived in that world.
Now it's okay for you to be who you really are.
Fuck you.
( distant gunshot and shouts )
You're what's dangerous.
One day, you'll have no choice.
That's the scary part.
One day, I'll have no choice.
'Cause one day, Mom,
you may have no choice with me.
I would never hurt you.
Unless you had to. Unless it was necessary.
- Stop it. - Could you do it?
Stop it!
( whispers ) Mom.
( gunshots )
Lola: ( speaking Spanish )
( groans )
( grunts )
( speaking Spanish )
*
( footsteps ascending ladder )
( grunts )
( scraping )
( footsteps withdrawing )
( quietly moaning )
( sharp intake of breath )
You have a high pain threshold.
Years of living with a white Buddhist
with a sharp tongue and a yoga mat.
I hear narcissists are drawn to Buddhism.
The truth of the real self is a lie,
as it is in every religion.
And I detest liars.
Above all else.
Strand's an excellent example.
How do you know him?
Hmm?
Alicia.
I've made my living holding others to the light.
Strand helped my family escape from Los Angeles.
And you didn't acknowledge him because you felt indebted to him?
Yes, we've gotten to know him.
A lie of omission is still a lie, Alicia.
I thought my mother was here.
Her and Strand are friends.
What's your mother's name?
Madison.
Shehere.
Was.
One of Strand's deal points for letting us in,
we'd spare a woman by the name of Madison.
I hope we haven't killed her yet.
If she is alive and here, would you spare her?
Your mother was a part of a larger
negotiation.
And that negotiation collapsed.
Strand's lies.
( gun clicks )
I've served you well in a short time.
I can continue to do so.
You can trust me.
Spare her.
I will...
if you come with me to Tampico.
We'll board my ship and sail for what's left of Houston.
Will you do that?
You're testing my loyalty?
( snickers )
I'm testing your wisdom.
Yes, I'll do that.
Good.
*
( distant gunshots )
( lock opens )
Hey. Hey! Wait.
Wait. Hey! Easy, Madison.
Lola and Daniel took you in. They gave you sanctuary.
Temporary sanctuary at best. Proctor John was coming.
I made a deal for your protection.
You made a deal to save your own ass.
And I told you to get Madison out of here!
I told you to leave!
But you had to be stubborn.
Can you please remove the gun?
Alicia's here.
She's here with Proctor John.
He brought her here.
That doesn't make any sense.
He likes his toys.
Maybe he likes her enough to let you go,
but I wouldn't bet on it.
( exhales )
Put these on.
Why?
It's how I move you through the dam.
I'll walk you out right under their noses.
Can you just do it?
Everything's gone to hell.
Just... do what I ask of you.
Please.
Your time has come, hasn't it?
Please, put on the damn uniforms.
What did you do?
Who was it?
Daniel.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
- I did it for you. - Don't say that.
- But he was alive when I left him. - You shot Daniel?
Strand: I didn't kill him.
It was the worst thing
that's ever happened to me.
And Lola?
I let her go.
You said it would be easier.
It wasn't. I couldn't do it.
Good. There's hope for you.
( panting )
*
( soft clatter )
( panting )
( speaking softly in Spanish )
*
( distant shouts )
( gunshot )
Get to the end of that bridge,
cross that checkpoint, and blend in with the locals.
Lose the uniforms,
walk, and keep walking.
Proctor John wanted me to dispose of these traitors myself.
( chatter )
How do we find Alicia?
You don't. Take the gun and hide yourselves in town.
I find Alicia, get out of here.
We could just find her now and take her with us.
I thought this out, Nick. This is the best I can do.
I can't leave her. I don't have a good feeling about this.
You don't have a choice.
And I haven't had a good feeling about anything since 1997.
- Lola, no! - ( gunshots )
( shouting in Spanish )
( gunshots )
( gunshot )
- ( gunshot ) - ( thud )
( wind whistling )
What fresh hell is this, gentlemen?
What fresh hell?
*
( soft sigh )
( long sigh )
I am mystified.
I can explain.
I'm sure you can, but I don't want to hear it.
I was gonna kill them myself.
( groaning )
- John. - Shut up, darling.
Proctor John: I'm told the woman I dispatched
was the "Water Queen,"
whom you were supposed to kill,
and here she springs up like goddamn Whack-a-Mole.
One wonders, is her soldado alive
and waiting to assassinate me?
He's dead, I swear.
- ( kick ) - Oh!
He's tellin' the truth.
He confessed to me.
And I believe him.
You're Madison.
I am. I'm Madison Clark.
Go to your mother, dear.
Let's see a joyful family reunion.
Please.
And what role do you play in this
internecine family drama?
Madison: He's my son.
This one was with another white boy at the Bazaar,
asking questions.
Is your friend here, Nick?
No, he's dead. My mom killed him.
Proctor John: Wow.
Really?
You killed your son's friend?
He was more threat than friend.
( snickering )
What a perverse family you have, Alicia
from Los Angeles.
You've been a good nurse to me.
But you know what I have to do now.
- Wait, listen to me. - Shut up, mother.
I have to kill her because I'm going to kill her brother.
I'll never be able to trust her again after that.
I'll kill you first,
so you don't have to witness what follows.
But you, mother-killer,
you bear witness.
*
Say your goodbyes if you have them.
( Alicia gasps )
Safe travels.
Thank you.
Enough.
( kiss )
There's an end game here, Proctor,
one on which you did not plan.
You really do talk too much.
Lola and Daniel didn't have enough guns to defend the dam,
so they wired it with explosives.
Bullshit.
Strand: Top to bottom.
C-4 to build the dam, C-4 to take it down.
Take his tongue already.
No more lies, Proctor.
( patting coat )
You got a hole in your pocket?
( Strand grunting )
Nick: Strand.
Says it's armed.
( gun cocks )
Nick, don't touch the other button.
What, the one that says "detonate"?
*
"The Christmas Spell" plays in background
* When you walk down the street *
* And a stranger you meet
* Smiles a "how do you do"
Oh, that smells so nice.
* You can tell
( chatter )
* The Christmas Spell
* Every heart gets a lift
* When they buy that certain gift *
( song filtered ) * For a somebody who
- ( wind whooshing ) - * Loves
- ( dialogue inaudible ) - * So well
* You see frosty little noses
* Red as little roses
( unfiltered ) * Pressed on every toy store
* Windowpane
( clapping )
* Once again you stop and mingle *
* In the spirit of Kris Kringle *
* Every leather jingle bell
* Ringing happy Noel
( clicks tongue )
( laughing )
* This old world couldn't fail *
* If that feeling would prevail *
* Every day in the year
* Life would be so swell
( distant, echoing ) * In every heart would dwell
( song grows distorted )
* The Christmas spell
* Once again you stop and mingle *
* In the spirit of Kris Kringle *
* Every leather jingle bell
* Ringing happy Noel
* This old world couldn't fail *
* If that feeling would prevail *
* Every day in the year
( whooshing )
* Life would be so swell
* In every heart would dwell
* Ooohhh
* The Christmas spell
( wind whistling )
What's your play, Nick?
Tell him to put his gun down.
Put your gun down.
( chatter )
( wind whistling )
( sighs )
My mom and sister are gonna take a Zodiac across the lake.
Nick, don't do this.
Just go as far upriver as you can.
- We'll pursue them. - They'll have a head start.
Nick, just come with us.
Please.
He can't do that, nurse.
The detonator has a range.
If you go with them, you lose your leverage, right?
Nick: I'm not negotiating, John.
This is my suicide note.
*
Certainly seems to be.
*
Go.
'Cause you have no choice.
If you don't go, we all die,
so just go.
Mom.
Mom, please.
Go.
Victor, get in the boat.
- Nick... - You wanted mercy.
Here it is.
Just take care of them, all right?
It's all right.
There'll be time to find them later.
You don't survive this.
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure.
Many a slip between cup and lip.
I'm interested to see how it all plays out, though.
Not well for you either way, I'm afraid.
I'm not afraid of dying.
The bravado of the Junkie Christ.
( soft chuckle )
That detonator real?
*
( speaking Spanish )
( groans )
( pleading in Spanish )
This asshole's death warmed over.
( grunting )
( gunshots )
( gunshot )
( clip clicks )
Proctor John: This dam could be the center of a new civilization,
right here, a modern Euphrates,
but it needs managing, parceling.
We can't just give it away, Nick.
You're smart. You understand.
And you could help.
It's bullshit. It's just one more thing
that a cruel few want to control.
- Madison: Hurry, Alicia. - I'm trying, I'm trying.
- ( engine starter chatters ) - I'm trying.
( starter chatters )
( engine starts)
Proctor John: If you blow the dam, the river flows.
You think folks won't then fight over what they bottle?
Come on, Nick. Civilization's born of violence.
What's so amusing?
I heard someone else say that.
It's a great truth.
I killed the last man who spoke that truth.
So you do understand this world.
Like mother, like son.
Harness the fury or get stampeded.
I'm lookin' for a third way.
There isn't one!
War was waiting to be realized by us.
And here we are.
( engine sputters and stops )
( starter chattering )
( chatters )
Proctor John: A quandary.
If you blow the dam too soon,
your family won't make it.
Didn't consider that quite, did you?
( Zodiac starter chattering in distance )
End of the road, Nick.
Give me that device.
( chattering )
( grunting )
*
- ( engine starts ) - Madison: You got it! Let's go!
Come on. Let's go. Go.
Come on.
Get the detonator.
*
( gunshot )
( panicked shouts )
( gunshot )
( chatter )
Walker: Nice head-shot.
I was goin' for a heart-lung combo.
Must be the wind.
( wind whooshing )
New wrinkle.
No matter.
It's not a game-changer.
As for you, young Nick...
you're bluffing.
I can see it in your eyes.
You're not a killer.
And your family's not far enough away yet.
Let's find out, shall we?
*
Fine. I'm bored.
Kill him.
( gun cocks )
( gunshots )
( rapid gunshots )
Proctor John: Go! Go!
Over there, near the chaparral patch!
My grandmother could spot it.
Close them goddamn down!
( gunshots )
No, Nick.
( gunshots )
( panicked shouts )
( clicks )
( explosions )
( groans )
( rumbling )
( engine revs )
They're gonna get drawn into the flood
if they don't step on it.
They're full throttle.
( screams )
( engine revving )
Madison: No!
Crazy Dog: North?
North.
*
Madison: No!
*
( wind whooshing )
*
( audibly struggling )
( inaudible )
( echoing cry )
*
( sharp gasp )
( water gurgling )
( troubled gasp )
( splash )
( water rumbling )
*
"Long Way Around the Sea" playing in background
( gasping )
* We've come so far *
* We followed the star
* Herod heard
* Said bring me word
* Take the long way
* Around
* The sea
* Here for us
* A humble birth
* The Son of God
- Hola. - * Descends
* To earth
- * Take the long - Hola.
* Way around
* The sea
* Take the long way
* Around
* The sea