I remember an old Indian story my mom
used to tell me before I went to sleep,
about a shadow,
that blanketed the land in darkness.
I know it had a happy ending of some sort but...
all I can remember is the way it made me feel.
Seemed like it could just, swallow you up, the way she told it,
like it was right around the corner.
Never knew what it was, she was talking about.
At least I didn't used to.
I always wondered if guys like Cassidy,
Crockett and Crazy Horse came rising up from the holes
we dug for them if they'd even recognize this place...
land they called home.
But the West...
it isn't dead yet.
It's just on fire and no one seems to care.
Relax.
- Open it! - Shut up!
Never been with a cowboy before.
Fucking whore!
I paid good money for you.
- Someone as gentle as you... - I'm sorry.
Don't know about goddamn fucking whore.
You got no right telling me no.
Look at me, whoa whoa we getting in on here.
- We're getting hit off. - Hey.
We're occupied. Get the fuck out!
- Leave her be. - Get the hell out Delmar!
What was that?
How about I carve some manners in that pretty face of yours?
Hey. Hey, you alright?
You need a ride somewhere?
Just trying to help.
Can you buy me a new car?
Fly me some place nice?
Didn't think so.
No, you can stay at our ranch.
You need a place to stay for the night.
Got a room?
Plenty of room.
Paris.
Where's Laura?
Was too busy getting hit on my head with fucking telephone
to notice which direction she went.
I should be askin' you for a recompense, truth be told.
Look what she done.
Alright then.
Much obliged.
Look, I didn't touch her any more than normal.
Course.
Ah! Fuck! Shit! Damn!
- Fuck. - Hold on, Paris. - Uh God no no no!
I hope, this is okay.
Should get some rest.
Too bright in here for you?
You got back late.
Called my brother.
He agreed to hold the ranch in trust.
Help us out while we get back on our feet.
You know we're gonna have to sell that mare.
Laura!
Come on skuville...
Come on! There you go.
Take it easy, take it easy.
- So Kip, what's yer name? - Come on.
Reason you slept out hangover off on the couch.
Come on Kip, spill the beans.
Oh, shit.
You started that, you better finish it.
You gonna help or just.. sit there on your high horse?
Hugs bulls and bring 'em home.
Come on boy.
Where's Laura?
She here?
Go inside Bae.
Thought you didn't believe in this sort of thing.
Get off my porch.
- Laura around? - That's not her name.
You know it makes me sad..
what you do keepin' them all cooped up like that.
They come here freely.
You think you're helpin' 'em, but you're not.
There's more in world than the one you forced them into.
They'll be back, one way or another.
If you do see Laura,
tell her we're lookin' for her.
- Sorry. - So you can tell a lot about a man by his bookshelf.
I was just lookin'.
- Where you from? - Bethel.
Wh' part?
Above the Missouri.
Mandarin?
Used to fish in the river just south of there.
I just got down to check on the rus...
From Mandarin.
Hm.
You sing to all your horses?
Morning.
She uh... she was my mother's.
Car accident about a year ago.
Left a pretty scar.
Vet, wanted to put her down but...
I wouldn't give up on her. Isn't that right?
I'll go saddle up another horse, show you around a little bit.
- Hadley. - Been a while Beckett.
Sorry I couldn't make it to the funeral.
You remember Kip?
My God. Kipple.
- Uncle Beckett. - Looks just like grandpa.
Almost forgot.
Best gin in all Dakota.
Must have known I'm in oil 'cause
they did charge me accordingly.
Are you serious?
Come on in.
Never understood your taste for gin.
This stuff'd make an injun quit drinkin'.
That survey was, twenty years ago
about as detailed as I got.
This is all of our land I own.
This will be fine.
Right.
Hey where'd you learn to ride like that?
We're a horse nation.
Surprised you kept up.
Thanks for letting me stay.
I'll leave the clothes.
Listen, I was thinking I might go see a movie later.
Maybe you might wanna join?
I mean you don't have to leave.
Waniya.
My name's Waniya.
Easy get lost in, huh?
Not how I see it.
It can help you find your way if you know what you're lookin' at.
Maybe I shoulda stayed in school.
You gave it up?
Around here it's either ranching or oil.
You end up in a field one way or another.
Not too many you can see anymore.
The ranch suits you.
No matter how old you get, there's that part
of growing up you'll never forget.
I'm glad you said that, Owen.
I'll remember that when I'm gone.
Now.
- Got room for one more? - Get on.
Cold?
Didn't know you meant the drive-in.
Here.
Where'd you get that?
Was my mother's.
Markinyur, my grandfather used to call it.
She did too.
He used to laugh at these old westerns.
Tell me how the Indians were never sayin'
what you think.
His name is Dakota.
Look happy.
I noticed your tattoo earlier.. of the wolf.
No I-I like it.
Why'd you pick it?
I didn't.
Hope you weren't too bored.
Sucker for those old westerns.
Just take me north of Watson.
There's a house there I could stay at.
You know you... be alright if you stayed with us another night.
Why were you there last night?
Just a mistake. That's all.
Right.
I guess...
I just wanted to feel, uh...
I don't know...
What in the hell?
Shit.
Just a sec.
Got car trouble?
Not my night, I guess.
I can't argue with that.
Sorry?
You have somethin' of mine.
Kip!
Come here!
Wait Paris, wait!
- I was coming back, I swear. - Shuddup!
I swear.
Help...!
Hoh..
Kip Summer that you?
Ooh. Entire pub running over your face?
No sheriff.
I don't know who lost the fight.
Who's the other guy?
I don't know.
Never seen him before.
Smoke?
Dad smokes.
Yeah well, I ain't him.
All got our vices.
Pretty girl.
Well, not going anywhere with the wheel as flat as Fargo.
Poor Laura.
Poor little Laura.
You got a taste of the outside world didn't you?
World blind as a shit.
That world.. it wasn't made for us.
It's good to have you back.
That'll do it.
You sure it was a Volvo?
Yeah.
Put the word out. Let you know what I find.
Far you didn't turn off.
What are we gonna do with her?
Just what we were doin' before.
She ain't gonna work anymore, not like that.
Hey, why don't we just sell her?
You know where we can take her.
Mean more than you'll make in a month.
I need you to get the word out for tomorrow.
Jamie.
What I do with her..
is got nothing to do with you.
You don't ever leave me again.
I know you.
Hey. Get back in there.
Can I be of some assistance?
I'm looking for this girl.
She was here the other night.
Caused quite a stir.
- She inside? - No.
No she one of his.
One of whose?
Blue-eyed wolf.
If I wanted to find him?
He does most his huntin' up in The Cloud.
You can't go after a wolf.
Not when you're a sheep.
So what is it?
Gout.
Hmm.
Disease of kings.
What they call it.
The disease of kings.
Ahhh, lucky me.
How you drive?
Left foot, no clutch.
There you go.
How're your cattle?
Oh they're dead...
most of 'em.
You mind?
Pity.
Anything?
Well the photo from a red-light camera north of Harvey.
That him?
Dominic Chapel.
Goes by Paris.
Came here when the boom hit.
Traffics girls up and down the oil camps.
- What about Waniya? - What about her?
Best you leave this to me.
Used to be a sayin': Forty below keeps out the riffraff.
Just ain't true no more.
Money is missing from my desk.
You brought her back to this house.
Wasn't like that.
Who's telling you about these places?
Is it Bear?
- I asked you a question. - Wasn't Bear.
What would your mother say?
You don't have a damn clue.
The mare's going to my brother's.
She's not yours to give.
I need you back here son.
Not fussing over some damn horse we can't afford
and some girl you don't even know.
That horse was mom's.
I need you back.
For what?
So we can scrape by?
Hold on a few more years?
And what?
There's nothin' here for us anymore.
Jamie's out tonight.
You'll stay with me.
Suspect is wanted for trafficking
and assault with a deadly weapon.
Suspect is known to go by the name of Paris...
So this is him.
Hoping you could show your girls.
What'd you think, knew him?
I know.
Wouldn't be askin' if I didn't have to.
Some of them, they're doin' real well.
Wish you could see them.
We still matter to them.
The ones I never found...
I want you think it matter to them.
Yeah.
Come on, girl.
Hey.
It's alright girl.
Now this is a nice place.
Gonna treat you real good.
Come on now.
My uncle home?
He's up at the house.
Colt Single-Action Army .45 cal.,
the gun that won the West.
Used by Custer, until his demise..
at Little Bighorn.
See, he was warned, by one of his Crow scouts
about a massive Native encampment ahead,
and fearing that his enemy would scatter,
Custer.. Custer charged on.
He came over the crest, of that ridge,
he and his regiment of six hundred came upon eleven thousand Indians,
just waitin' for 'im.
Must've been quite the surprise.
Yes sir.
Every damn one of 'em wiped out by these savages.
Only American survivor...
a horse, named Comanche.
Ironic, no?
I guess so.
Mmm...
Just got off the phone with your father.
Indian girl surely, I can understand trouble.
Something I can help with?
It's just, uh.. the sheriff...
He said this man, takes these girls to the camps.
- And I just thought... - She might be on one of my fields?
Sure, could be.
Her name's Waniya.
And you feel compelled, to find her?
It's noble of ya.
Most everything you see here..
belong to your great-grandfather.
Well he was obsessed with the West, man that shaped it.
Discovered a few miles from here.
Mine's abandoned now but uh...
I still find reason to go there, from time to time,
reflect upon what our ancestors did to, get me where I am.
You know there's a world outside that ranch that your father has you on.
Wanted to be a cowboy since as long as I can remember.
Now...
Giddup...
You can't be bound by Hadley's choices.
And that way of life is dire.
Why'd you help?
Land's always serve me well.
I never had a son.
You can always come and work for me.
This country's got everything to offer someone like you.
I will put the word out,
on all of my rigs.
I do hope that we can track her down.
Deer.
Go on.
It was my sister's.
I'm gonna have to leave this place.
Thinking I'd...
take you with me.
Saw the ads of your picture in the news.
They even used your Christian name.
Shit.
- Not bad, huh? - Jim Bowie?
Because you're knive, you know.
- Kind of the same... - Yeah I just don't like it.
Had to think of somethin', ha-ha.
Seems a little light.
I didn't just bring cash.
Uh-huh, hoho.
You sure about this Kip?
Bear, the guy said he hunts in "The Cloud".
- Hey. - Watch where you're going.
No idea.
That's a nice necklace you got.
Does it look like I'm workin'?
That's not what I'm asking for.
Here you go hun.
Where'd you get it, the necklace?
Fucking hell, would you just...
Jesus, someone sure shit-kicked you, ah-heh..
Why you drive that old Volvo I'll never guess.
It's a safety thing.
You know what it is?
Just like we're...
Waniya did too.
Where is she?
Oh baby.
Oh we're gonna have a good time.
What's wrong? Never got what you paid for?
Oh don't worry. I'll be gentle.
I know how special you are to him.
Pretty.
Seems like you're always running after some new young thing.
I just can't seem to keep them tied down.
You're never gonna find her.
You tell me where she is.
You shoulda left when you had the chance.
Have fun with him.
Hard to imagine why they'd run from you.
Hey, don't you fucking get it?
He gave you to me.
I wouldn't.
You would.
No! Get off of me.
- Come back. - No! Stop it.
Listen I'm sorry.
Fuck you!
Hey, get back here. Arrgh!
- Hey! - Stop it!
He gave you to me!
The door!
Come on there.
Hey.
911, what's your emergency?
- I need help. - Is this Cavalier County?
I don't know. I don't know where I am.
I need to know which part of the county so we can route it
to the rough dispatch.
Miss, is this Cavalier County?
Stay on the line...
They say some faces only a mother could love.
Is that true, White?
Said to be lost in, boss' field somewhere.
Heard she was with you.
I see a lot of girls that look like her.
Keep it.
There was a fight.
- And the cops raided the club. - What-what happened?
Kip, the one Laura was with he just showed up.
The girls?
They arrested almost everybody,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Nooo!!
Tomorrow we go to the shelter.
We'll talk about this tomorrow.
Told me I should leave the ranch..
and go work for him.
Seemed to think we had somethin' in common.
You don't.
Me and him you take after.
Well I ain't you.
I know that.
You know I remember the day Bear showed up here.
He had a face of a young boy,
but tall, even then.
Told me he wanted to work.
Said he didn't have a place to stay
but I knew he'd.. just run away from home.
I was gonna tell him no.
But then your mom showed up.
Boy was not my problem.
But your mother, she uh...
She didn't see it that way at all.
You've got her heart Kip.
I see her in you every day,
and it makes me both sad and happy
in ways I never thought possible.
And I know I can't tell you what to do anymore, Kip.
Maybe it's selfish..
'cause I can't lose you too.
Son...
I sure wish you'd let this one go.
Kip.
Remember when we were little...
we used to play cowboys and Indians?
Yeah.
I remember.
You always wanted to be the cowboy.
How was that?
Cowboys always won.
Got tired of losin', huh?
Guess it doesn't matter now.
Both disappeared just the same.
You can't give up.
It's not how she raised you.
You can't hide from, who you are.
Besides... who's to say, cowboys and Indians all disappeared?
We're still here my brother.
I asked around back home.
People from Mandory remember Waniya.
Said her grandfather used to train wild horses.
No one's seen him in a while.
Hello. Anybody home?
January 8th. Today I got to help grandpa with the wild horses.
What you have to do, pass the information.
April 3rd. Today Grampie took me
on a ride to see the old cut-outs.
July 4th... April 14th...
I met a man today after school...
I loved his eyes... He offered to take me to the city...
He gave me his number... he's different.
I'm sorry to have to ask you this Bae.
But do you recognize him?
It's two years ago.
He came to my school, with gifts, a car.
Gave me his number.
Thought I was special.
You are special.
You couldn't have known.
Was with him about a year, when I..
noticed a couple of girls had disappeared.
He'd take one away and.. and they'd never come back.
I began to hear rumours.
- Rumours? - Hold on, they are going home.
I'll be right back.
Easy Jamie.
Move, come on.
Where we going?
Get the fuck who...
No. No no, stop!
Lookie here girls. Ms. do-goody left her rifle.
Where is he?
Tried to warn ya.
No way.
Hmmph.
Ain't exactly Rembrandt.
We... goddamn it.
I know it's him.
Okay.
Let's call this twisted fucker.
- Me? - Uh-ha
I got a radio voice, son. Might spook.
Yeah?
- I heard you have girls. - How'd you get this number?
One of the guys on the rig.
The eyes.
The wolf's eyes, what colour are they?
Blue.
The eyes are blue.
Thirty-two Reservation Way.
Get over here. Until every rig pig's paid.
What the fuck you looking at?
Hey hey hey hey. Easy.
Where's the sixty huh?
Watch the exits.
Cops!
Everybody get yourselves on the fucking ground!
- Where's Jamie? - I dunno.
- Back up. - Drop the knife, Paris.
Drop it.
You alright?
Shit.
Freeze!
Fuck.
You're under arrest.
Move.
Fuck you.
I said.. move!
Paris! Paris!
Stop right there!
- You're bleeding. - Be quiet.
Where are we going?
Home.
- Paris, where are you taking.. - Shut up!
I said shut up! You shut your fuckin' mouth!
- Beckett. - Hadley.
She hasn't changed much.
You coulda called.
Never understood this room.
Seemed a sadness to it.
I... didn't have a chance to ride that mare yet.
- I fully.. - It wasn't mine to give.
Mm-hmm.
Drove to Williston.
Found a bank. Agreed to loan me some.
I told you there's no need to get a bank involved...
I'll take the ranch back.
Ahar, Hadley.
- I don't think you thought this through. - I really do appreciate
you trying to help us.
Really wanna scrape through another winter?
Take on that.
And by all means, have the horse.
But I'm gonna do you a favour, by sayin' no.
I ain't asking.
The hell is this?
You ain't putting a pipeline through my home.
Well...
You made sure I can.
It's my fucking land!
Land there is no loyalty.
Where'd you go Beckett? Huh?
That boy I grew up with...
I donno where he went.
- You just don't give up. - Where'd he take her?
Please.
He's taking her to the only place left to go.
Where is she?
Here.
Somethin' to remember her by.
- Let's talk. - Come inside.
- What are you doing here? - Shh shh shhhh.
Goes away. ... chatting.
- Where's Kip? - He's alright.
I just missed him. Come on ...
You don't understand, he'll kill you.
- Just do it, c'mon! - He'll kill you, I swear.
It's okay, that's okay, it's okay. Here we go. Get you out of here.
Okay, come on.
Howdy.
Not yours.
It's not yours either.
Tell me you got an explanation for this.
Alright... we're leavin'.
Afraid... I can't let you do that.
Beckett.
Don't worry.
I'll take care of Kip.
Don't you walk away. Beckett!
She's just a girl.
She's just a goddamn girl!
Beckett!
Ohhh...
There's no need for that.
Don't do this, please!
I'll just go. I'll come with you.
You stay there.
I can pay.. whatever you want.
Do it ... please.
I'll buy her.
You ain't got the pocket.
I can get it.
Laura.
God.
Yes Pop.. what happened to you?
They took her.
- What? - The mine.
- My brother... the mine. - Pop pop...
You stay with him.
911, what's your emergency?
I need ambulance to 27 Red Bridge.
My dad's been shot.
- Twenty seven Red Bridge? - Yeah.
EMS will take an hour to arrive.
- Hour? - I know. I'm very sorry...
Most of what you see,
belong to your great-grandfather.
Well he was obsessed with the West.
Discovered a few miles from here.
Mine's abandoned now but I.. still find reason to go there
from time to time. Reflect upon what our ancestors did to,
get me where I am.
- Kip. - The ambulance is gonna take too long.
He won't make it. Need take him to the hospital, Bear.
- Kip, what're you doing? - I know where she is.
Pop, Bear's gonna get you out of here alright?
- Kip... - Okay?
The mine, how do I get there?
Follow the river, east.
It's.. four miles.
- Okay. - Son...
Pop...
I love you, Pop.
- You gotta go. - Where you going?
- Kip. Kip. Wait. - Get him outta here!
Easy. It's alright.
Shhhh.
Jesus, look what he did to you.
She's in trouble. Okay?
And I can't get there alone.
Stay with me. We're almost there.
Yeah! Giddup.
Yeah!
Laura... let's go!
You want her or no?
Wait please, don't leave me. Please don't leave.
Don't do this.
We were close, you and me.
We were so close.
Come on, let's go.
Move.
After my nephew gave me your picture..
I just couldn't get the image of you out of my mind.
This face.
So when I found out who it was you belonged to...
naturally, I just couldn't partake my luck.
Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.
So just like my grandfather left me.
First I couldn't.. understand this place.
Secrets.
What I realized, ran in my blood,
and my grandfather's,
and Kip's.
Little by little..
I've been able to add, to his collection.
Here.
See?
Washington called you people beasts.
Lincoln, I believe used the term, half-breeds.
Myself..
I was always partial to..
the term Jackson used, in his letters to Congress..
savages.
But I reckon anyone of them saw you,
they might be given pause, for saying such things.
Even just a second.
- Help! Help! - Shh shh shh shh shh shhh!
Shhhhh!
Help her! Someone help her!
You believe us, to be a sickness,
disease, uninvited, forever
harping on about all possession of stolen lands.
That all, dominance, equates to greed.
Now you have sat here, alone, unchecked, for over a thousand years.
Tell me, whadda you have to show for 'im.
He won't, still, cowering among us.
And you say we're the disease.
This land, no longer caters to your survival.
Here you can hide.
You ...
- Fucking whore! - I'm not your whore!
I'm not your savage.
I'm not your anything.
I have a name.
We all have names.
Jesus.
- Waniya. - Get away from me!
Stay away!
It's alright... I'm not him.
I'm not here to hurt you. Okay?
I'm just trying to get you out of here.
Come home.
C'mon let's go, right?
Let's get out of this place.
... down.
Laura.
This way.
Go. Go.
Kip!
- Kip! - Waniya run!
Keys. Keys.
Arghh!
- ... shit. - Goddamn it Laura.
I'm gonna kill you.
Come here.
I came back for you, Laura.
That's not my name.
Paris!
Shit.
Fuck.
So long...
Kip.
Don't move.
You're gonna be okay.
Easy.
I'm right here.
- Stay with me Kip. - I'm sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
There was once a shadow, nameless,
that came down from the north,
wreaking havoc on the tribes it preyed upon.
The devastation, the pain that was suffered,
angered many.
They were hopeless against such evil.
It's a shame.
This outraged the Thunder Beings, Wakinyan.
They came down from the clouds, and fought back against the darkness,
shooting a thunderbolt.. through its heart.