-It all happened a long time ago.
John Kingston marched off into those woods,
and he hunted down that giant boar.
And that was the very first Kingston Day.
-We got ourselves a big one this year.
Prepping him going on three months now.
All I ever wanted was for you to be proud of your name.
-I'm not you.
I'm not proud of this. Or your bullshit legacy.
You're no monster.
You're just scared.
♪♪
-I don't want to wait around to find out who I am.
Let me help you.
-This is every Elsie that was born in the last 15 to 20 years.
-Short list.
-Yeah, well, you have kind of a old-timey, weird name.
-Thank you for letting me stay here, and in Roan's room.
-It's no problem.
Okay, good night.
-What is that?
-Tradition back in my hometown.
-Who are you really?
-Have you seen a scar like this before?
On who?
-Peter.
♪♪
-Once upon a time, there was a little town
where people all cared about the same things,
where everybody agreed on just about everything --
the clothes they should wear, the language they should speak,
the God they should believe in.
The world outside was full of things they didn't agree with.
So most of them never left.
For the people of that town, it was a safe place,
a good place, a place where they belonged.
For me...
it was a living hell.
♪♪
[ Indistinct whispering ]
♪♪
-What?
Harper? Talk to me.
-I just don't recognize him.
It would have been 25 years ago, but...
it's just too crazy.
-What's too crazy?
What are you doing?
-I got to go.
-Go where?
Is it because of the scar?
Is it connected to Peter?
-There's only one place I've seen scars like mine.
♪♪
-Where the hell are you going with that?
-Home.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
Some towns have Friday Night Football.
Some towns have homecoming dances.
Kingston has The Hunt.
-[ Grunts ]
-Once a year, all the women in the town bake
and put on their Sunday best.
They curl their hair.
They paint their nails.
And they feed their men to make them big and strong.
They have to be strong if they want to kill the Beast
and be King of this town for a year.
♪♪
[ Laughter ]
[ Indistinct conversation ]
-Hey, whoa, there you are!
Wait, wait.
There's somebody I want you to meet.
This is my boy, Hunter.
Landon here has been King of Kingston three years running.
Nobody has put more teeth on this trophy than he has.
-It's an honor to meet William Kingston's son.
-Good luck today.
-Wait till you see the monster we have this year --
biggest guy yet.
Hunter here's been helping me get him ready.
How's he doing this morning?
-Oh, he's good, Dad.
Yeah, he's good.
♪♪
-I used to fantasize about growing up in a place like this.
-You would have run away first chance you got, like my sister.
-So, if you and Peter are from the same small town,
wouldn't you have, like, known each other?
-I haven't stepped foot in this town since I was 15.
He's probably looking pretty different.
[ Seat belt clicks ]
There's something almost familiar about his face.
Maybe I'm just losing it.
-Really?
You're just gonna walk around with that in your pocket?
-Don't let all this quaint, neighborly bullshit fool you.
Everybody in Kingston has a gun.
♪♪
-Seriously?
Of all the days to come home -- Kingston Day?
That's not a coincidence, sis.
That's the universe telling you to turn the hell around.
-Yeah, just shut up.
-I didn't say anything.
-Oh, no, I wasn't talking to you.
Sometimes I talk to my sister.
A therapist told me it helps with grief.
It kind of works sometimes...
-People die. Get over it.
-...even if most of what she says is irritating.
-I wish I could imagine my parents talking to me.
Guess I'd have to know them first.
♪♪
-Hello?
Anybody here?
♪♪
Nothing happens in this town
without you hearing about it in church.
So if anybody knows Peter, this is the place to ask.
[ Click, organ humming ]
Do you know this one?
[ Organ plays ]
♪ Jesus loves me, this I know ♪
♪ For the Bible tells me so ♪
♪ Little ones to Him belong ♪
♪ They are weak ♪
♪ But He is strong ♪
-Damn. You can really sing.
-I was in choir.
I hated it.
[ Organ playing ]
♪♪
I wasn't like those other girls.
Never fit in.
And everybody knew it.
-♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪
♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪
♪ Because He first loved me ♪
♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪
♪ Oh, how I love Je-- ♪
[ Discordant notes play ]
[ Organ playing ]
-♪ Jesus loves me, this I know ♪
♪ For the Bible tells me so ♪
-♪ Little ones to Him belong ♪
♪ They are weak, but He is strong ♪
♪ Yes, Jesus loves me ♪
♪ The Bible tells me so ♪
-Amelia!
Did anyone see you?
-Yep.
I'm sure everybody knows I'm here by now.
[ Scoffs ] It's nice to see you, too, Mom.
This is my friend Elsie.
-Did you have to bring your friend here?
You know we don't condone that sort of thing.
-No, she's a teenager, Mom.
She's not my girlfriend.
-But you still have girlfriends?
-Yeah, she does. Lots of them.
-Oh.
♪♪
-Oh, God.
[ Chuckles ]
♪♪
W-What are you doing? You can't be here, not today.
-I-I -- Man, I could think of a million other things
you could say to a daughter you haven't seen in 25 years.
"I miss you. How are you?"
-You know in your heart how I feel.
I pray for you every day, Amelia.
-I don't go by that name anymore.
You would know that if you returned my calls or e-mails.
-You made your choice.
And you threw it in all our faces.
After what you did, your dad almost lost the church.
I don't know what you expect from us.
-I don't expect anything.
I don't.
I'm looking for this guy.
He might be a local.
Do you recognize him?
-You stay away from him.
-Who is he?
-I'm not gonna watch you get hurt again.
-I can take care of myself, Dad.
Just tell me his name. -Enough, Amelia.
You leave him alone.
Haven't you brought enough shame on this family?
-That's your shame, not hers.
Come on. We don't need their help.
We don't need anything from them.
♪♪
-[ Sighs ]
They definitely recognized Peter,
and if he's in Kingston, I know where he'll be.
-What is this?
-It's, uh, honoring the Kingston family.
They're the assholes who founded this town.
-Elsie?
Someone with my name in this little town?
That's a weird coincidence, right?
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Boys, take a look at the fella sitting next to you.
He thinks he wants that crown more than you!
Are you gonna let him have it? -No!
-Is he stronger than you? -No!
-Faster than you? -No!
-Every one of these teeth is your tribute
to a Kingston man who has gone before us.
These teeth have spilled the blood of our ancestors!
And whichever one of you is strong enough
to honor that heritage
won't just wear this necklace,
but you're also gonna drive home in a pre-owned 2013 Dodge Ram!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Thanks to Lou and Orlane at Kingston Auto for --
for the generous donation.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
[ Indistinct conversations ]
♪♪
-George. -Sir.
♪♪
-Matt, good luck this year, son.
♪♪
Well...
You make me proud, now, Hunter.
You're ready for this. I know you are.
And your mama's watching over you.
Huh?
Good luck, son.
[ Banging ]
[ Boar grunting ]
Come on.
There you go. You're okay.
-She can't even put on a dress for one day.
-She can change before the service tonight.
Nobody's gonna remember what she was wearing.
Hey. Hi, ladies.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-This tradition goes back more than 125 years,
and now this is your chance to be part of our history,
your chance to be the King of Kingston!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Are you ready to kill this monster?
[ Boys shouting ]
[ Boar squealing ]
Go, boys!
[ Crowd cheering ]
♪♪
What the hell's the matter with you, boy?
Get in there.
♪♪
-Wow, this is some serious "Lord of the Flies" shit.
-These people look forward to this day all year.
-It's that Harper girl?
-It's the day everybody gets to live out
the fairy tale they grew up with.
-You know who that is?
-That's the reverend's daughter.
-When I was 15, this was the day
I decided to show everybody who I really was.
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Go get him, boys!
-Go, Kingston boys!
-Come on, boys!
-Go, boys!
♪♪
-Amelia, what are you doing?
-Amelia.
-Get back here!
♪♪
-That's it?
That how you got back at them, by running after a boar?
That's why everybody hates you?
-Traditions matter to these people.
I was messing with everything they believed in.
-Screw what they believe in.
I would have done the same thing.
-[ Chuckles ] Trust me,
everybody being pissed off at you doesn't make life easier.
-I'm sure as hell it felt good.
-For a minute...
till it didn't.
-So is that how you got your scar?
A boar attacked you?
-Now, are boys ready to kill this monster?
-Yeah!
-[ Grunts ]
-Where is it?
[ Crowd murmuring ]
He's gone. He...
He escaped!
That monster is clever and dangerous.
One of you boys have got to stop this thing now!
Go get him!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
♪♪
[ Indistinct conversations ]
-I'm gonna go talk to Kingston.
Stay here. I'm serious.
Stay here.
-Is that Amelia Harper?
-That bitch has some nerve showing her face here.
♪♪
-What the hell's she doing?
-Who is that? -I've never seen her before.
-Hey, that's a girl!
-What's she doing out here?
-[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
-Hey, girl, come back here!
♪♪
-Hey, it's a girl!
-Amelia Harper! -Dyke!
-Crazy bitch!
Get her!
-Stop her!
-Get her!
♪♪
-[ Breathing heavily ]
[ Leaves rustling ]
♪♪
[ Boar grunting ]
[ Leaves rustling ]
[ Boar grunting ]
♪♪
Aaaah!
[ Boar squeals ]
♪♪
[ Boar grunting ]
Aaah!
-You think you can humiliate me in front of the whole town?
You ungrateful piece of --
♪♪
[ Electricity crackles ]
[ Indistinct conversations in distance ]
-Hello?
Hello? Mr. Kingston?
-You take a cheap shot, and you hide up in your room.
Well, that ain't the way a Kingston man fights.
-I know how Kingston men fight.
♪♪
We face our enemy.
[ Boar grunting ] [ Screaming ]
No!
Aaaah!
Aah! No!
We pick up our spears.
And we kill the beast.
[ Electricity crackling ]
[ Thud ]
-Mr. Kingston?
♪♪
Mr. Kingston?
♪♪
[ Both grunting ]
[ Gun clicks ]
-Ah! [ Wincing ]
♪♪
-Amelia Harper.
-[ Exhales sharply ]
[ Boar grunting ] -Aah! No!
[ Boar squealing ]
[ Boar grunting ]
[ Crying ]
-Aah!
-Help!
Somebody help!
[ Boar grunting ]
♪♪
[ Boar squealing ]
[ Crunch ]
[ Thud ]
-[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
-Hunter!
♪♪
Saved by a girl.
Goddamn pathetic.
♪♪
And what the hell are you doing out here?
[ Spear clatters ]
You got no right killing that boar, making a mockery of us.
You want to be a boy? Is that it?
Huh?
Answer me.
[ Grunts ]
-She needs to learn her lesson.
♪♪
[ Grunting ]
♪♪
-Where are you going?
-Aah!
[ Boys, grunting shouting ]
[ Grunting ]
-Get her! -Aah!
[ Boys grunting ]
♪♪
-[ Breathing heavily ]
You're different.
You've changed.
-You -- You saved me.
-And you ran away...
just like you ran from everything --
Elsie, those girls in the woods.
[ Voice breaking ] Tell me who they were.
What are their names?
-I'm sorry.
-[ Grunts ]
♪♪
-Did you see her?
That black girl, she just ran into the woods with the boys.
[ Indistinct talking ]
♪♪
-Right there!
-Hey! Don't let that girl get the boar!
-She's not gettin' my necklace.
-You don't belong here!
[ Boar grunting ]
♪♪
-It's okay.
You're okay. I'm not gonna hurt you.
♪♪
Aah!
[ Boar squealing ]
♪♪
-Next time on "Sacred Lies"...
-The girl shot the boar!
-We almost got ourselves killed.
-I did it for you. -I'm not your mom!
We are not family!
-I thought something happened to you.
-Just give me a chance. It won't happen again.
-No te vayas! No quiero que te vayas!
No me dejes sola.
-Thanks for coming by.
-I'm not confused anymore.
-No?
-At least we know his real name's Hunter Kingston now.
-Aah!