[door creaks]
[Dire Straits' "Six Blade Knife"]
♪ ♪
- [exhales]
[smacks gum]
♪ ♪
Beer?
- ♪ Your six blade knife do anything for you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Anything you want it to ♪
♪ ♪
♪ One blade for breaking my heart ♪
- Ahh.
Mmm.
I'm on the road quite a bit.
Long time now.
And I am a fan
of establishments like this right here.
Oh, yeah.
Believe it or not, not easy to find.
Huh. Really is.
'Cause a lot of places...
well, lotta places are full of lowlifes.
Mm, but not‐‐ not this establishment.
No, no, no.
Good cold beer like this right here,
good company like you.
You know...
folks that come to a place like this,
they, uh...
they deserve bigger, yeah.
Folks that come to a place like this,
they‐‐they deserve freedom.
Yeah, good people like yourselves here...
they deserve a Bang‐A‐Rang.
- How do you get your hair so smooth and gummy like that?
- [chuckles]
Now these, these are the spine tremblers.
Space Time Sally and Rocket Horn.
[boisterous jazz music]
♪ ♪
They're a duo, one hell of a duo.
They likes the horn. [chuckles]
They find their best expression in little jazzy numbers.
- Where's the rocket?
- The one who got away.
[energetic jazz music]
♪ ♪
Snare drums, bass, power.
She will leave you with a powerful sense of abandonment.
- [chuckles]
- But have you coming back for more.
The Bang‐A‐Rang, gentlemen, is an escape.
It is a goddamned haven.
Anything you need.
You need a drink?
Welcome to the Bang‐A‐Rang.
You need a fight? We got a fight pit.
welcome to the Bang‐A‐Rang.
You want a show?
[chuckles]
Boy, buddy, do I have something for you.
Welcome to the fucking Bang‐A‐Rang!
- What about that one?
- Huh?
- In your pocket.
Who's that?
- Oh, uh, this, um...
it's Katherine, uh...
K‐Katherine Harlow.
She's not around much anymore.
Um...
But when she was...
Those were special times.
She was the original siren of the Bang‐A‐Rang.
She paved the way for all the others.
[blues music]
♪ ♪
MAN: ♪ Well, you can't get me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Honey from a bone ♪
♪ Can't get no loving ♪
♪ While your man is gone ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Love, don't you weep ♪
♪ Honey, don't you moan ♪
♪ You can't get blood ♪
♪ From a stone ♪
♪ ♪
HIDALGO: Well, what happened to her?
- What you boys gotta do,
you gotta make your way down to Bopa's.
Mm‐hmm.
- Bopa's?
WITT: Get a haircut.
Then ask for a ticket.
[engine chugging]
[bottle shatters]
[camera shutter clicks]
[George Strait's "Amarillo By Morning"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Amarillo by morning ♪
♪ Up from San Antone ♪
♪ Everything that I got ♪
♪ Is just what I've got on ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When that sun is high in that Texas sky ♪
♪ I'll be bucking at the county fair ♪
♪ Amarillo by morning ♪
♪ Amarillo, I'll be there ♪
♪ ♪
♪ They took my saddle in Houston ♪
♪ Broke my leg in Santa Fe ♪
♪ Lost my wife and a girlfriend ♪
♪ Somewhere along the way ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'll be looking for eight when they pull that gate ♪
♪ And I'll hope that judge ain't blind ♪
OWEN: And, uh... what's the organization
you say you work for?
- It's more of an enterprise, really.
It's a private organization.
- Well...
is this something you think they'd be interested in?
- Owen, my friend, I appreciate you showing me around, but...
this is more work than we're looking to take on.
- Oh.
- Say, you got any good steak recommendations around here?
[bell dings]
[indistinct chatter]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[bottle cap clinks]
[beer bottle scrapes]
♪ ♪
- This is for you. - Thank you.
WITT: Uh, excuse me.
- Yes?
May I help you?
- I‐‐you just...
Uh, nothing.
♪ ♪
Um, you just, uh...
you look familiar.
[clears throat]
- Have we met?
- No.
Not officially, but, uh...
You used to go by Katherine, right?
- I'm afraid not.
- You sure?
- Hope you have a wonderful afternoon, sir.
- You mean to tell me...
that that is not you?
You're not Katherine Harlow?
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- So you're a Brawler?
- They never, um...
[clears throat]
[inhales deeply]
No.
I used to, um, used to help spread the word.
Like guerilla marketing.
Yeah, back in the early days, and uh...
[inhales deeply, sighs]
Now I'm‐‐I'm just a scout.
Yeah, I drive around,
look for old properties that they might want to convert.
- How'd you find me?
- I‐‐
You okay?
- In a million years...
I never thought anyone from that world
would walk through those doors.
And now I understand why.
[gulps]
My, uh..
my husband and I, we uh...
We just got some news.
Recently.
And it, uh...
well, it...
put some things in perspective.
Was wondering, Witt...
If I might ask for a favor from you.
There was something that I was hoping
you could retrieve for me.
♪ ♪
Witt...
I'd like to discuss with you how we might move forward.
You know?
♪ ♪
From here.
[electricity buzzing]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[telephone ringing]
- What is that?
- Betty's phone.
Been awhile.
[telephone rings]
Yeah?
[tires squeal]
♪ ♪
- Are you sure it was her?
- When I say it was Katherine, Joel,
does that make you uncomfortable?
BURT: Said they had a mask on.
- And you said she just disappeared.
Ask you something, Burt.
Why did you all do it like that?
Why not just shoot her?
Was it the thought of it, huh?
The idea behind what you could make her feel?
- She deserved better than a gunshot.
♪ ♪
- Kill some Brawlers, that adds up.
♪ ♪
But rob the vault?
♪ ♪
I don't get it.
- Kept lots of money in here when Katherine was around.
Maybe she was looking for an added bonus, I don't know.
I'll let you two figure it out.
- Holy fuckin' shit.
We should've been here.
BRU: It wouldn't have made a difference.
Had every one of us after 'em.
They still got away.
- We're gonna find her.
- [groans] - When we're on the river,
we're gonna find her. I mean, she can't be far‐‐
BRU: You're gonna lay low, Matty.
You're gonna lay low right here is what you're gonna do.
We didn't call you back for a task.
You just gotta stay off the river for a few extra days
until all this is sorted out.
All right, now, don't go looking for trouble.
I'm telling you, now is not the time.
MATTY: Johnson, you believe this?
- Yes, I do.
- What if it's been her this whole time?
- What?
MATTY: Katherine Harlow
coming back to finish what she started,
coming back to start a war.
JOEL: Matty.
- Yeah, yeah, Bru already told us‐‐
- Need your help with something.
Come on.
- You need us, too, Joel?
♪ ♪
[bullets clink]
- I'm proud of you girls.
All of you.
Because that's what we mean
when we say we protect our home.
♪ ♪
[blade rings]
♪ ♪
- Queenie.
What's going on?
- What's going on?
You were there.
- No.
Something is wrong.
I can tell.
- You know...
if you ever do leave this place...
I want you to remember something.
The past doesn't ever stop.
[door creaks]
[fuse clatters]
[electricity buzzing]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
DAVIE: And you and the other one.
MOLLY: Doris, yes.
DAVIE: You set out to frame Lander Graham
so you could take the restaurant
which was so rightfully his.
MOLLY: Yes.
DAVIE: And was this your idea...
Molly?
Or was it Doris's?
MOLLY: It was Doris.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [groans quietly] MOLLY: Sorry.
I tried to numb everything with some...
We‐‐we didn't have any numbing agents, so...
Nothing.
- I'm on my way out?
- Oh... [chuckles politely]
Goodness, no.
I have to be honest, I wasn't so sure at first.
- [groans]
[sighs]
Ain't the first time I've been stabbed.
- I'm sure.
The 37th was primarily stab wounds.
Just a big ol' stab fest.
I guess when you run out of ammo,
that's what bayonets are for.
- Were you scared last night?
- Yeah, sure.
Were you?
I guess it was more...
Where do I go from here?
- Fuck you mean? You're here.
- No, I...
[soft music]
♪ ♪
I killed five men in that club.
- [groans] Think it was six.
- It was five.
- So what you mean? Like, go home?
♪ ♪
- No.
I don't feel like there is any going home at this point.
- You like movies? - Sure.
- Ever see "Blood of the Heart?"
- What's that about?
- The battle of the 37th.
- Did it‐‐
- No. [chuckles]
Ain't nothing capture what the 37th was like.
Just that the shit that change you,
ain't no coming back from that.
You are what you are because, admit it or not,
this is who you wanted to become.
- Your boy fucked up.
- I'm not sure I would agree with that.
- Oh, you're not sure you agree with that?
Because I think‐‐ - It wasn't his fault.
It was mine.
I just...
I assumed.
- [chuckles]
- Used to carry a lot of money in those vaults, and...
just‐‐I never thought that they would switch up their routine.
- So if the money's not in the vault,
then where is it?
- I don't know.
- And if this vault was empty...
- [sputters, sighs]
Means...
The other ones probably are too.
- There you go.
Dottie...
- You're gonna leave.
- I almost got killed 100 times last night.
Cordell?
My man is lucky to be breathing.
All for nothing.
- If it's any consolation‐‐
- It ain't.
Whatever you're gonna say...
it ain't.
Listen, I think that you went about this all wrong.
I think that you didn't need a crew.
You knew how to get in there, you knew how to get out.
I think that...
you were just scared.
- [scoffs] - Mm‐hmm.
- [chuckles]
- Yeah, shit ain't easy to admit to, right?
But you were, you were scared.
And you don't gotta own up to it,
but it just is what it is.
You don't need us, Dottie.
Look at me.
You just need...
To work your shit out.
And move on.
[inhales sharply]
AVRON: Found that in the old caution room.
- Okay.
- Could've never got through the doors.
Yet here it is.
- A bag.
- [chuckles]
It had guns in it.
It ain't always gotta be so simple, Bru, okay?
Think about it.
How else would they have gotten them in here?
We don't let bar patrons in the back now.
We're pretty good about that.
Unless someone helped them.
- That's your family you're talking about.
- Is it, though?
- Okay.
- Hey, I'm just trying‐‐ - No, no, no, no, no, no.
What you're saying makes sense.
Just hard. 'Cause, you know...
Don't none of us really like you, Avron.
- [inhales sharply]
[fist thumps]
[dramatic music]
[phone buzzing]
- You guys left the fucking bag?
DORIS: What's that, sweet pea?
- Of guns.
You left it here and now they know.
♪ ♪
- Know what?
- That there's a fucking guy on the inside, Doris.
Fuck!
I have to be done with you.
This whole thing...
it's over.
♪ ♪
[bell rings]
- This isn't, uh,
the first thing you'd like to hear, but...
I have an idea.
If you'll just, well...
hear it...
out.
[motorcycle engines revving]
[brakes squeak]
- Thought you'd come alone.
JUKES: Well...
it didn't feel like the smartest move.
- Not always about numbers.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Your guys made a move on Burt's daughter.
♪ ♪
The hell were you thinking?
- Does that really matter now?
Yeah, Konstantinov was a problem,
but we had an agreement.
- And I thought you broke that.
- We didn't. - I know.
♪ ♪
We were set up, Jukes...
manipulated.
- By whom?
♪ ♪
- The past.
♪ ♪
The point is...
we can end this right now.
- You asked me to get him under control.
- And you didn't. - You didn't give me a chance.
And then you up and killed Konstantinov.
So now it's starting to feel like
there's only one way this can go.
♪ ♪
Imagine it were one of yours.
That I just...
well, you know what you did...
and you know why.
♪ ♪
Embrace the war, old friend.
It'll all be over soon enough.
♪ ♪
[motorcycle engines rumbling]
[engines roaring]
♪ ♪
MATTY: What should we do?
♪ ♪
- Well...
I haven't been drunk in a long time.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
WITT: What?
Jesus fuck!
Uh, all right, well...
this is your chance, kid.
Get the hell out of here right now.
Go someplace and lay low for a while, do something.
Because if they find out that it was you...
You understand that it's my ass, too, right?
Leaving was what you wanted, isn't it?
Well, fuck me.
You're in, ain't ya?
Well, god damn it, I guess it's my fault.
I mean, I told you to adjust.
You‐‐you fuckin' adjusted.
- It's not just that, it's‐‐
- [stutters] What?
It's what?
Camaraderie?
Are you one with them now?
I was fuckin' wrong.
♪ ♪
There hadn't been a war in a long time and now...
now there's a fuckin' war, and I'm telling you,
you do not wanna be around here for it.
♪ ♪
Neither of us sure as hell want to be around
if they figure out that we helped start it.
♪ ♪
- I think it's ugly.
- I like ugly.
- You hear it was her?
- I heard something about that.
- Did you know her?
- When I was a girl, sure.
I was very young, though.
- I was just gonna say, if you needed anything...
- That's very sweet.
Whatever business my aunt has with my father,
or for that matter...
any of the clowns here...
that's for them to figure out.
- Your boyfriend's back.
[blues guitar music]
♪ ♪
[tapping on beam]
- You boys missed a hell of a party.
♪ ♪
- Hey, you wanna get out of here tonight?
♪ ♪
- And go where?
- Somewhere fun.
♪ ♪
- Fun sounds fun.
♪ ♪
[crickets chirping]
[glass shattering]
- Never seen you drink like this.
- [chuckles]
And I see you drink like this too often.
- [chuckles]
- Haven't been out here in a long time.
Used to look forward to it.
Rig up shitbox little motor cars.
Race 'em around.
Some would win, some would lose.
In the end...
we'd all fight.
[chuckles]
Drunk idiots.
[sighs]
Don't do what we used to.
All about money now.
Protecting it.
- No, it's not.
My parents were good people, but they didn't...
they didn't know what to tell me.
They didn't know how to tell me...
what was the right way.
They lacked vision.
Fucking vision.
Didn't have it... you know?
So I did well in school,
and then I heard about the Brawlers.
And that's when I knew...
That's when I knew where I belonged.
That's when I knew where to find that vision.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Well...
being a Brawler, Matty...
[glass shatters]
♪ ♪
Makes you do horrible things.
♪ ♪
Right here, at this track...
I fell for something that didn't exist.
You might feel okay with it...
in the moment.
But then the years go by.
And the real consequences...
All the fucking bullshit you've done?
Well...
There they are.
♪ ♪
Katherine Harlow...
She's come back for revenge.
♪ ♪
And I don't blame her.
- Her revenge?
♪ ♪
[telephone rings]
- Don't answer it.
♪ ♪
[telephone ringing]
No good news is coming this time of night.
♪ ♪
[crickets chirping]
[knock at door]
- Strange thing, this life.
I gotta say.
What was the name of that bar that, uh...
they sent me to look for you in?
- She wasn't a threat to us.
She was just looking out for us.
But you...
you told us that all these others...
that all of them wanted to devour us.
"Devour."
That's...
colorful language.
When, really, they just wanted their own.
They didn't want trouble.
You...
You wanted the trouble.
And I followed that want.
I believed in all the...
in all the bullshit you'd spew.
Lost souls building a family...
redefining ourselves...
all of it.
About...
Shit.
What's belief?
Because, see, the one person...
I remotely cared about...
The one person on this fucking planet...
- [sighs]
- I let you kill her.
[scoffs]
I let you kill her...
Because I believed.
- And yet, you still sit here.
You still believe, Bash.
- No.
I don't, actually.
She killed Percy.
She killed him because she knew what it would do to me.
She knew no matter what...
she knew I could never forgive her for it.
She knew I'd want to kill her.
So yeah...
I sit here.
[engine roaring]
[engine revving]
[lively piano music]
♪ ♪
MEREDITH: Popcorn?
ETHAN: Yeah.
♪ ♪
- You haven't stopped moving since we sat down.
♪ ♪
Did you forget your breathing?
♪ ♪
ETHAN: You seem all right.
MEREDITH: As opposed to what?
- Just‐‐everything last night, Ghouls last week,
had your own breakdown.
Just tons to deal with.
♪ ♪
- The Ghouls were different.
I was alone, outnumbered.
♪ ♪
But last night...
Last night I was home.
- She's your aunt.
- From what I've always been told.
♪ ♪
- You ever find out what happened to her?
- A lot of rumors over the years.
Lot of different versions of one story.
- You never really knew your mother.
It's why you've really wanted to leave, isn't it?
[soft dramatic music]
- Excuse me?
- I don't‐‐ I didn't hear it anywhere.
It's just...
call it instinct, I guess.
I don't know, I don't know.
I knew mine, though.
My mother.
♪ ♪
And I'll tell you, she wasn't a great person.
Put me through a hell of a lot.
And once you...
Once you asked me what brought me here.
And honestly, I didn't really have an answer.
But now...
Shit, now?
Feels like the only place I belong.
♪ ♪
- Dollface...
♪ ♪
I knew you belonged here from the minute I laid eyes on you.
♪ ♪
[audience laughs]
I'm gonna go to the restroom.
[lively piano music]
♪ ♪
- I haven't been to a puppet show since I was a kid.
[tense music]
- What the fuck are you doing here?
- Yeah, I know. Weird, ain't it?
To be honest, I was looking for that a big‐ass Cadillac,
and then I got lucky
when I saw you and lil' mama pull up in that rust bucket.
Anyway, we gotta talk.
- I'm here with someone. - I'm sure she'll understand.
- No, you don't‐‐ - Ethan.
The vault was empty, so we need you for plan B.
You gotta come with me,
and there really ain't no discussion about it.
You feel me?
Let's go.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Move.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
[engine turns over]
[engine rumbling]
[dramatic music]
[engine roaring]
♪ ♪
- Shit.
- Hello, Pumpkin.
- What the fuck is wrong with you?
I was in a public fucking place, Doris.
- Uh‐oh.
Well...
I needed to speak with you, and it couldn't wait.
- I'm done.
With all of this.
DORIS: Yes, you are done.
That's what I wanted to tell you.
- What?
- I‐‐I just have one more call to make
to one of Thomas's lawyer friends,
and then all of this is over,
and you can go off back to Detroit or‐‐
or wherever you fancy.
- Just‐‐just like that?
- Just like that.
[indistinct TV chatter]
[bell ringing]
- Where's your phone?
- What?
- Your phone.
- Outside.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[phone line trills]
[telephone rings]
JOEL: Don't answer it.
♪ ♪
No good news is coming this time of night.
♪ ♪
- Matty, you fucker, you fucker.
♪ ♪
MEREDITH: Excuse me.
Give me the key to room 126.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Did you know the vault was empty, Ethan?
- No, I told you I've never seen the vault.
If I were you, I'd‐‐I'd leave tonight.
I'd leave tonight before shit just‐‐
[gun cocks]
♪ ♪
[thud]
- She was dangerous, right?
[slurping]
[vaudeville music]
♪ ♪