[Money for Nothing by Dire Straits] ♪ MTV...
[music]
[indistinct chatter]
Morning, Mrs. Dutton.
Morning, Mabel.
[clock ticking]
Hmm. Can't get here soon enough.
No cable?
Not today.
If one comes, I'll send Steven with it.
At least spare you the carriage ride.
- Then I'll be waiting for a man
who never comes instead of a cable.
The carriage allows me to remove hope early,
so I can get on with my day.
[music]
Okay. [clicks tongue]
Come on.
Elsa: Life had become a series of melancholy routines.
Like a defeated stag that had retreated deep
into the forest to tend its wounds...
[heavy breathing]
Our family had lost itself in the tedium of healing.
[crow cawing]
[crow cawing in distance]
[horse hooves approaching]
The hobby of watching young love had been robbed from her,
Jack choosing to spend his evenings
patrolling headquarters, choosing revenge over passion.
[music]
I've sent for the doctor.
What for?
For you.
I'll not spoon feed and bathe two, Emma...
You have a child, he needs you.
He is a man.
Who has a woman.
He has no need for me.
- Sons outgrow their mothers, now, do they?
- Become a mother before you lecture me
about sons and what they do.
[gunshot]
Elsa: A billion years of life led to my family standing
in the mountains of Montana.
And only four Duttons remained on this earth
to survive another generation.
[crow cawing]
We were going extinct.
[music]
- When we get to port, stay close.
- I came through Mombasa, it was fine.
- You came with a group and your drivers waiting.
We have neither.
Stay close.
Elsa: Our family is condemned to journey.
Journey from Ireland to escape poverty.
Journey from Tennessee to escape war.
Journey from Kentucky to offer salvation.
Journey from Africa to seek vengeance.
[indistinct chatter]
Montana is the magnet now.
It is the next journey.
And for my young brother, it will be his last.
[music]
Thank you.
When you come back, Spencer?
I don't come back.
This is goodbye.
- Last ride for a friend is free.
Thank you.
[grunts]
- You said stay close. Ow. [laughs]
Let's go.
[music]
[indistinct chatter]
- I need to book passage to America.
- America? And how do you expect to do that?
You tell me.
- We have no liners to the States.
I can book you to London.
You can arrange transport from there.
Book me to London.
Which class of travel?
The cheapest.
- First class is forty pounds per passenger.
It's thirty for tourist class,
but the lady will melt beneath the bow,
while you will war with the rats, sir.
And I do not refer to rodents.
First class, then.
How long is the journey?
- Depends on traffic at the Suez.
A month, give or take...
Your vessel is the RMS Franconia.
You will embark on...
November 11th.
That's three weeks.
I can't wait three weeks.
What's another option?
- I don't know. We're gonna have to find out.
- There are no other options, sir.
[music]
[crow cawing]
[music]
[pounding]
[sobbing]
[woman screams]
[music]
Summon the girls.
Where did she go?
I don't... I don't know.
[sobs]
- If you don't know, why are you crying?
What have the innocent to fear?
Fear is the stench of guilt, child.
And you reek of it.
Where did she go?
I don't know.
I don't know!
[sobbing]
[music]
- When you do not tell the truth, you aid a sinner.
To aid a sinner is a sin itself, child.
To aid a murderer is to bathe in the blood of her victims.
I told you... truth.
She went home.
Walking...
Four hundred miles...
Through badlands and desert and canyons...
With no assistance.
No supplies...
You expect me to accept that as fact?
- You have strayed from the light.
Forsaken it.
The devil runs you now.
You are his marionette.
He works your filthy mouth with his little strings.
You will tell me the truth or I will deliver you to him.
[grunts]
[music]
[grunts] [crunch]
[music]
[crow cawing]
[whistles]
Bring her back to me.
[music]
[horse whinnies]
[wind whistling]
[music]
[water running]
[wind howling]
[music]
[owl hooting]
[rustling]
[music]
[shrieks]
[screams] [growling]
[wolf whimpers]
[music]
[panting]
[music]
[sobbing]
[music]
[indistinct chatter]
- It's just you? - My bride.
- Bride... A woman.
Mister, this... this ship is a trawler.
The quarters, they are...
They deck hands, they are... they are deck hands.
A woman on board? No.
Is she pretty?
She'll take your breath away.
Are you crazy?
No.
They will throw you overboard
and keep the woman for themselves. No.
I have idea for you.
That old man.
He is transporting a tug to the Suez.
Once you get to the Suez you can get passage to anywhere.
He is looking for deck hands.
Ever worked a deck?
No.
Better you lie. Say yes.
Come.
Lucca!
Lucca, you found any sailors yet?
- No, nobody wants to transport a tug.
All the money is on the merchant ships and whalers.
Well, I have one for you here.
Looks like a hunter.
- I need transport to a port that gets me to Britain.
- [scoffs] - I can pay.
And I'm willing to work.
How much you want to pay?
- Cruise liners charge 30. I'll pay you that.
- Thirty pounds to swab deck and stow gear?
All right. You got a deal.
We leave first light.
Harbor nine, slip 52.
Mustard gas.
How do you know that?
- Used to captain a liner made into a hospital.
Bring the boys on hit with that mustard.
Once you seen them boys...
There's no unseeing it.
You just know it when you look at it.
[coughs]
- Mr. Hunter... [clears throat]
Tomorrow we're gonna make a sailor out of you.
[coughs]
[gags]
[groans]
[music]
[sheep bleating]
[crow cawing]
[horses approaching]
Your father is Runs his Horse.
Hank.
Hank. Why Hank?
- When they made us choose names,
everybody was choosing George or Jim.
Nobody was choosing Hank so I chose it.
This isn't part of the Rez.
Ain't part of nothing.
That's why I'm here.
That doesn't make sense.
- The sheep belong to the people.
If the government finds out we got 'em,
the government's gonna take 'em.
Why would they take 'em?
Why would they take you?
[sheep bleating]
I'm in big trouble.
[sobs]
I killed the nun who beat me,
and I killed the nun who raped me.
Now they're gonna come and kill me.
I beat 'em...
choked one and stabbed the other.
[music]
They did this?
I'd say they had it coming.
You come home with me.
I'll send word to your father.
- Maybe we should go to Canada.
No Canada.
Canada's worse.
First we find your father, then we find a place.
[music]
Teonna: What about our tracks?
Hank: What tracks?
[music]
It's incredible.
This yours?
It belongs to the bank.
- Strafford widow packed up. Headed east.
That ranch borders the Yellowstone.
Goes into the mountains?
- More mountain land than the Yellowstone.
I don't know know much about mines,
but if I was building one...
I'd build it there.
Spring creeks through both canyons.
See here?
Headwaters, here.
Another one here...
Feed down into the Yellowstone.
- And to the south is the Park. - Aye.
And she abandoned it.
Walked away.
It's the bank's now, too, I'm sure.
All these ranchers leveraged their land
to build up their herds.
Only way to make money off cows now is steal 'em.
- Get me more of these. Anyone you can run off.
We'll choke this Dutton out.
How much land do you want?
I want it all.
I want the whole valley.
[music]
Where do you feed the wood?
It runs on gas.
Gas from where?
It's piped into the house.
Where do you live, Banner?
- I've a homestead up north in the mountains.
Log and sod?
- Aye. - Never lived in a city.
Never.
- In the country, you survive your surroundings,
or try to, anyway.
It's the most a man can muster when he abandons civilization.
Cities are the mastery one's surroundings.
[music]
Necessities become comforts.
In the wild, the availability of water
dictates whether you survived the day.
In the city...
That most precious of resources...
becomes an afterthought.
No more log and sod for you.
It's yours.
Now you're a master, too.
[music]
[cattle lowing]
[whistling]
[train whistle blows]
[music]
- Hard to build a herd when you sell all the heifers.
- We ain't building it. We're shrinking it.
Everybody's getting out.
Never thought I'd see the day.
Heard some of your hands went off to Hollywood
with them Strafford boys to play cowboy in the silent pictures.
That your plan, too?
- They can play cowboy all they want.
I'll stick to doing it for real.
You keep selling off your herd
you ain't gonna have nuthin' to cowboy with.
Take that to the cashier, she'll pay you out.
[music]
What happened?
Doctor says he needs sunlight.
[music]
[Jake breathing heavily]
Look how angry you are.
Brewsters sold out.
Straffords are gone. My parents gone...
You're goddamn right I'm angry.
We can't win...
No leader.
Can't win without a leader.
I can lead 'em.
They won't follow you.
Not yet.
This must be done right.
Or we lose everything.
[music]
[crow cawing]
You got old.
I've been old, son.
Guess I'm gonna have to learn how to shoot left-handed.
Fuckers got me pretty good, huh?
We're gonna get them back.
He's taking it pretty hard.
- It's cost him more than anyone.
Keep him close.
Don't let him go to town anymore.
Did you start hiring livestock agents?
- Sheriff has started interviewing.
No. You gotta do it.
You gotta look 'em in the eye.
Don't trust the charming ones.
Charming ones work for him.
If he's smart, he's got somebody to back him.
Someone with money.
Why do you think that?
'Cause that's what I'd do,
if I was in his spot.
- I find it hard to believe that anyone
would support that monster.
- It'd take another monster, that's for sure.
Who's the one man in this state
benefits if the ranchers move out?
What's the one business that doesn't have recessions?
Gold.
- You can start on solid foods tomorrow.
Oatmeal. Rice.
Bland.
Have some of your cowboys help you walk.
You need to start moving.
I'll check on you next week.
- Cowboys don't get to see me like this.
I'll help you.
- You're gonna have to 'cause they're leaving.
- You've lost enough weight, I bet I can carry you myself.
Guess we'll find out.
[music]
[door opens]
This isn't what you promised.
You haven't lost anything that I haven't lost.
I'm an orphan too, now.
And all we have is each other and I don't even have that.
Our wedding day came and went with no mention of it.
We don't... We don't speak.
You don't even touch me.
I've got just as much right to hate the man as you do,
but I don't.
Because hate takes your whole heart,
every bit of it.
It leaves no room for love.
I choose not to hate him,
so there's room in my heart for you.
If you won't do the same for me, then take me to town.
Send me home, Jack.
[cries]
[door opens]
Look at the size of this prison.
That's what I'm in, Jack.
No, you're not.
It's a prison.
You have made this place a prison.
- It's not a prison. It's not.
It's home. It's your home.
I am your husband.
Not yet, you aren't.
- We don't need a wedding to get married.
We don't need a church.
We're standing in front of God right now.
I, Jack Dutton, take you,
Liz Strafford, to be my lawfully wedded wife.
To have and to hold,
in sickness and in health,
for richer and for poorer...
- [laughs] - For better or worse,
so long as we both shall live--
[music]
We're only half done.
- You gotta say it back. - [laughs]
[Liz speaking indistinctly]
[Jake sighs]
Sun feels good.
How does some rice sound?
Sounds like shit.
[chuckles]
- Don't we have a steak in the ice box?
- Mm, mm, mm. Doctor said--
- If nine bullets don't kill me I doubt a steak will.
I'll boil a chicken.
With rice...
He said rice, you're having rice.
Chicken and rice.
That's nobody's last meal.
Exactly.
[music]
[sighs]
[music]
- Did you plan on leaving a note?
It's on the dresser.
What does it say?
- Says that this trip is too dangerous.
Envelope has money so you can book passage back to London.
Says I'll send for you when it's safe.
Says a lot.
There is no sending for me, Spencer.
We have a life together or we live our lives apart.
Can you do that?
Can you live your life without me?
[music]
You only get to choose me once.
The choice will not be offered again.
Get your things.
[music]
[indistinct chatter]
[seagull cries]
Did you send a wire?
Telling them you're coming home.
Can't send a wire to the States from here.
Ships can.
They have radios that can send signals
a thousand miles or more.
I toured the helm on our passage.
The Captain showed me how they send messages
from ship to ship until they reach London.
From London, they can wire anywhere in the States.
[music]
- You need permission to board this ship, sir.
Apologies.
- Passage may be booked at the Union Castle office on Hudson--
I don't need passage.
I need a favor.
My family in the United States has suffered a tragedy.
I must return home. With haste.
I'm leaving today and I need to send word.
Could you use the radio and send a message for me?
[music]
I can send that message.
We'll need the recipient's name and where to send the cable.
Write it here, sir.
And the message.
- Thank you. - My pleasure, sir.
[music]
Why are you smiling?
- I'm extraordinarily pleased with myself.
You should be smiling too.
I'm proving quite resourceful on this journey
and we haven't even left yet.
No telling how I'll save the day next.
Yeah. No telling.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Is my jovial nature infringing upon your sullenness?
- You're not going to do this the entire trip, are you?
- Do what? - Talk.
I talk when I'm nervous.
If you'd speak as well you could cut my talking by half,
but no, you're too busy sulking,
which makes me doubt everything,
which makes me more nervous,
which means I must double my talking to compensate.
Frankly, I'm shocked it bothers you.
Most men find it quite endearing.
I've blabbered my way into many a courtship, let me assure you.
I have no doubt.
[ship creaking]
Spencer: This is it.
Alex: This is what?
Spencer: Our ship.
Alex: What is it?
Spencer: Tugboat.
- Spencer, I don't think those are supposed
to leave the harbor.
This one's leaving the harbor.
- I'm supposed to ask permission?
Girl with you?
Girl's with me.
- Quarters are small, and the seas can be rough on a tug.
I'm tougher than I look.
I used to say that.
Now, I'm an old man and I'm looking tougher than I am.
[laughs]
[coughs]
[spits] All right. So, come aboard.
You can stow your gear below.
Free the lines from the bollards.
Untie the ropes from those hooks, then roll it up
and store it on deck.
[engine starts]
Alex: And we're off.
No safety brief, no--
typically, a toast to the Gods of the sea...
- This is the easiest it'll be.
Okay?
Just be careful, I don't need you bouncing off into the bay.
[music]
- How far does this boat take us?
Suez Canal.
From there we find a ship going anywhere.
Venice, Messina, Barcelona.
- Then what? - Whatever takes us west.
Your vacation's over, I'm afraid.
- But the adventure is just beginning.
[music]
Shit.
Lucca: It's hot.
Thank you.
[coughs]
[drops spoon] I'll be right back.
[music]
Spencer: What the hell is it doing?
It's a ghost.
A ghost ship. Boilers blew in the spring,
and crew abandoned ship, but she didn't sink. No, no.
And she won't run aground.
The current in this channel holds her.
Now, she lists back and forth hunting captains
who don't pay attention.
[music]
Are they mad?
It's abandoned.
Spencer: No one's piloting the ship.
It's just floating?
Just floating.
[music]
Lucca: There was this ghost ship called the Zebrina.
British cargo ship hauling coal.
She ran aground in France
after floating past all of you fellas
coming to join the war.
My hospital ship ran from her for weeks.
I swear that empty bitch, she was chasing us.
[coughing]
But the strangest thing I ever saw
was off the coast of Indonesia.
Little dinghies, two-man fishing skiffs,
Just floating, three hundred miles off shore.
The seagulls swarmed 'em like hornets,
picking at the men inside.
And there must have been
a thousand of them small dinghies, maybe more.
I passed 'em for a week.
Must have been a big swell
that pushed 'em all out to sea.
I don't know.
It's a mystery.
[music]
The sea's like that.
Cunning...
Like a fox.
Always looking for ways to trick you.
Now, who wants first watch?
What do you do on watch?
Pilot the boat, ma'am.
Who's piloting the boat now?
The fox.
[chuckles]
[door opens, closes]
- Looks like I've got first watch.
I'm coming with you.
- There's not much to it. This is the wheel.
Tiller rope connect it to the rudder.
Turn the wheel, you turn the rudder...
Compass.
Now, our course is fifteen degrees north-northeast.
The wheel is locked on that heading.
If you need to adjust, you do it right here.
How far off the coast are we?
Twenty miles.
Just far enough the pirates can't see us from shore.
Now, here's the throttle.
You gotta go fast to turn fast, go slow to turn slow.
Right?
But you shouldn't turn unless there's something in front of you,
and there shouldn't be anything in front of you.
Radio work?
It works when it works.
What's the distress channel?
- Hundred fifty-eight point six.
Dial is right there.
But if there's any distress don't use the radio,
come and get me.
- Now that's three-hour shifts each.
So wake me up in six.
[wheezes, coughs]
[music]
Don't turn it.
I'm not.
I'm awaiting the calamity I must react to.
I'm driving the ship.
- Piloting, I think they call it.
I'm piloting the ship.
I need a hat.
One shouldn't pilot without a hat. I feel naked.
Don't get any ideas.
This is no tree in the Serengeti.
This is serious business, piloting.
Thank you.
For what?
Just thank you.
- For talking you out of abandoning me in Mombasa
and piloting you across the sea,
nothing but my nautical expertise to guide the way?
You're quite welcome
- You're gonna be hard to argue with when the time comes.
[laughs]
It will be most unpleasant for you, I'm afraid.
Me, too.
- Don't ever doubt me again, Spencer.
If you never doubt me I'll never doubt you.
It wasn't a doubt.
It was a worry.
Well, don't do it.
I'll never doubt you.
It's settled then.
You can be my love slave.
[music]
Ah!
Yes.
[whale song]
[music]
Hey.
Let's go down below.
Our watch is up.
Three o'clock?
Yeah.
[coughs]
I'll take the next watch.
It's my watch.
Old man, you need to rest.
This is my fucking ship.
Only one who gives orders here:
me.
[music]
[crows cawing]
[panting]
We should probably...
Do you think we could...
I would like to set a date for the wedding.
I'm sure you would, dear.
But we should wait until the spring.
I'm afraid...
I don't think my dress will fit in the spring.
- There isn't enough rum cake in Montana
to put a pound on you, girl.
Not because of cake.
We said our vows, we just...
Left the law out of it. And the preacher.
And everyone else.
- That is the first good news these ears
have heard in months.
[sighs]
[music]
[chuckles]
Oh!
[laughs]
Yes, we will plan a small wedding very soon.
With a preacher who knows how to backdate the license,
if you know what I mean.
Well, they can do that?
- It's the savior of countless reputations, my dear.
[sighs]
[panting]
Gah!
[panting]
[grunts]
[music]
[creaking]
[music]
Let me up.
- What's wrong? - Engines aren't running.
[music]
[clicking]
- [static] - Mayday, mayday, mayday.
- This is S.S. Lambridge. What's your mayday?
- I'm a passenger on a tug headed to Suez.
The Captain has expired.
Can you read a compass?
I can.
What is your heading?
Due east but we're drifting.
Have you nautical maps?
- We do. - Alright, chap.
I'll talk you through finding your bearings
with the compass...
Sir?
[engine sputtering]
[grunts]
[music]
[banging]
You'd be Mrs. Dutton.
I would.
- Don Whitfield. Seems we are neighbors.
I've acquired the Strafford Ranch.
- The Lazy S. is the name.
- That's the brand. And I've no use for it.
Perhaps it's useful to you?
We have a brand.
- If you'd like another, it's yours.
- One is plenty. Thank you.
I'd love to meet your husband.
Is there a time I might pay a visit?
- I'll inform him of your interest.
We could choose a time now.
I don't keep his calendar.
- Isn't that what rancher's wives do?
Keep the books and the calendar?
Not this wife.
- Then perhaps I'll just stop by and see if he's free.
The valley is changing. Progress is upon us.
There are opportunities beyond cattle,
which isn't much of a business these days.
More of a... dream, really.
And not a good one.
Well, it's our dream.
[music]
Think she'll sell?
What choice does she have?
Let her spend a winter here without her husband
to run that ranch.
By spring she'll beg me to buy it.
Oh...
Winter can't wait to have its way with us.
I expected you earlier.
- It's been an interesting morning.
- It's about to get more interesting.
Cable came this morning.
[music]
- [Cara reading Spencer's words] Aunt Cara...
I received your letter...
and I am coming home.
[music]