Listen to that.
Now this is real music.
Lame.
Dad stop.
Much better.
So honey bun or bear claw?
Aren't they basically the same thing?
- Not at all. - Surprise me then!
You got it!
Harvey's here we come.
Dad.
Dad?
Hello, dad?
You're doing that stare thing again.
You are your mother's daughter; you know that.
You're scanning while we're waiting.
And you're laying that accent on pretty thick.
You'll catch it too when you've been here longer.
I mean, do you think you're ever gonna unpack?
It's only been seven months.
That's not too long at my age.
I reckon.
All right, I'll be right back.
- ¡Hola! - Howdy.
You been busy?
S... Sorta.
Honey bun or bear claw.
Huh?
Honey bun or bear claw?
Big decision of the day.
Aren't they sort of the same?
That's like saying North Carolina and Texas
barbecue are the same.
Sorry.
Honey bun's got less cinnamon.
Harvey said he was hiring.
I just recently moved here myself.
Career change.
Are you from around here?
Just passing through.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Trying to grab some cash before I head north.
The Appalachian, ha.
I hiked the Golden Crest of California...
which is the equivalent.
Cool.
Maine to Georgia.
That's a commitment.
Takes a lot of discipline.
Yes sir.
You don't look like a hiker.
That's the beautiful thing about hiking, isn't it?
Anybody can do it.
Yeah...
I'll be right back.
Where is he?
Where is Harvey?
Help!
Shut him up!
Hey man... Do you hear anything?
Shh.
Uh-oh.
Good job!
You all right, Harvey?
Yeah.
Good work; thanks Justin.
Man, I tell ya...
two tours of duty, four special ops,
three stick-ups here in 40 years.
And nobody's ever surprised me that bad, Justin.
You were outnumbered.
Well so were you.
I'm just not the man I used to be, man.
Well, none of us are.
Harvey, I'm gonna bring Maddie in.
Wait for the cavalry to arrive.
Okay, thanks again buddy.
Oh, man.
Better check your phone.
Mom's probably calling.
My phone's broke.
Goodness gracious, Sheriff!
Roadhouse called, they're wanting their mules back.
Did you run the tags?
You put a whoopin' on these boys Sheriff.
There ain't nothing to brigadee about 'em now.
Did you run the tags?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
The car's stolen, Sheriff.
- Outsiders? - Yes sir.
Yeah, Philly got a warrant out for 'em.
Murder.
How did you know something was amiss?
Every millennial I've ever known is always on their phone.
- Obsessed with the stupid thing. - Hmm.
He was just standing there... alert.
You learn that in the army?
Dad?
Mom's gotta be worried sick; let's go!
All right, you're in charge.
Oh, yes sir.
You know, if I had a phone I could've called mom.
Justin...
Oh! Now that's what I call good country music.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Me and the boys are gonna take a little bit of a breather now.
Give the mayor a chance to get up here and say howdy.
I want you all to give it up for Mayor Brady.
Yeah!
How about that band, y'all?
I would like to hand the mic over to our
gold-level sponsor and our town's newest developer...
Your very own Vivian McGrath-Keagan.
Hello, friends and neighbors.
Like most of you I grew up here in Blue Ridge.
My roots, like yours, run deep.
I've seen the world and that means I've seen the differences.
Our history speaks for itself.
Believe me when I say this is one of the few places left in
in our country where we can say it's safe to raise a family.
We give neighborhood watch...
its truest meaning.
Friends stands by friend,
family protects family.
Blue Ridge is our home.
Hey, it's Justin, leave it.
Well, this definitely ain't getting mom back.
Sorry, we're late.
Could've called.
Phone broke.
He beat up some bad guys at Harvey's.
Does trouble just find you or do you seek it out?
Both!
But of course... this could've all been resolved
- if I had my own phone. - No!
Where were you while your daddy was beating up bad guys?
She was safe in the car.
Safe?
Safe like when you chased that pick-pocket
with her in a stroller?
People run with strollers all the time.
Run, yes... chase, no.
My job was to protect and serve.
You can't put that on a calendar.
That's the story of my life.
Come on!
- Hi. - Hey.
I missed you.
You comin'?
Come on, you can shake a few hands, kiss a few babies.
Sheriffs don't kiss babies.
You could do the dunk tank and I could throw some apples at you.
Can you blame me?
Sorry we were late.
Again.
You're not helpin' any.
Sir?
- Sir... - Hey, Becky.
- What's up? - Elli, wait.
Don't go in.
We've got a problem, sheriff.
- What? - You know Vivian, the developer?
Yeah...
She's been murdered.
She's back there.
- Who found her? - Mrs. Pierce.
She went looking for Vivian when she heard their yells.
She found her all right.
She's in shock.
What did she want from the deceased?
She's working some land next to Vivian's
house with her husband Jim.
After this, get a statement.
Sheriff!
- Mayor... - This is terrible.
Just horrible... and on the biggest day of the year.
What's our plan?
Our plan?
This sort of thing's never happened around here, Sheriff.
Take one step at a time.
That's how you solve these cases.
Let me tell you something.
We're a tight-knit community with a resistance against
change and outsiders.
And you're both.
Which is why we brought you in.
To clean things up a bit.
To bring a fresh perspective.
Or maybe do some good that only an outsider could do.
Clean this up, okay?
We'll do our job.
Whether they want to or not, the community is depending
on you Sheriff.
Make sure you do your job right.
What a day.
Out of the frying pan into the fire, huh Sheriff?
- Did you clean Harvey up? - Yes sir.
Three bandits are behind bars.
Pennsylvania staties are on their way.
Probable cause of death?
Capillary damage was in the surrounding interstitial tissues
on her lower extremities.
English Becky for the love of Pete.
Scratches and bruises...
broken ankle...
probably from a struggle.
I'm guessing, cause of death is blunt force trauma
to the back of the head.
There's dirt impacted in the wound.
Take a look at that gash.
Probably from a rock, don't you think?
Yeah, I think.
We're having the area searched.
Anyone search these porta potties, hmm?
Oh...
My theory Sheriff is...
if I was a killer I wouldn't wanna hide
no evidence in a toilet.
Report what you find.
- Okay c'mon... - All right.
Ha!
Oh, uh... fine, uh!
I'll go find some proper attire.
On it, Sheriff.
Persons of interest?
At this point, the whole town.
When was the last time you saw her?
- During her speech. - And anyone...
can now own a piece of this mountain paradise...
starting in just the 700s.
Please, I know it seems drastic-
You won't get away with this!
If you have any questions I'd love to-
Here we go.
Vivian's part of the McGrath family.
Old man Cliff's daughter.
She was his pride and joy.
- Was? - Until she married big-city Lem Keagan.
He took her off to D.C. where she made some real
money and came back "different," as us locals say.
What happened next?
Well...
things escalated pretty quickly after that.
Thompson, don't puke on the crime scene.
Ah, hey Sheriff-
Hey Sheriff?
Are them my fishing waders?
Well, they were in your truck.
Well, that would make them mine.
Well there ain't no evidence in there.
I figured.
What, you figured?
- Ah, gah... - We gotta be sure.
- Yeah, he's right. - Well...
In six months, nothing.
Then on the busiest day of the year,
a robbery and a murder to boot!
When it rains it pours.
- Where you going? - Find Lem.
Clock is ticking.
I think I left my... phone in there.
You lost?
Lem Keagan live up there?
All right, Sheriff.
I didn't recognize you from your picture in the paper.
Yes sir, right up that road right there.
It's not on the map, it's right up there make that right.
I thought...
I thought we'd check on him once we heard but...
I figure a man needs his moment.
Were you there at the festival?
I had a heifer in the red angus competition.
What's your name?
Jim, Jim Pierce.
Nice to meet you, Jim.
Yes sir.
Right up there?
Yep, a long way up there.
Becky, I just ran into Nancy's
husband, Jim Pierce.
He was at the festival, put him on the list.
I'm gonna search the perimeter before dark and check on Lem.
10-4, Sheriff.
What were you thinking idiot?
Hello?
Sheriff's department.
Hello?
You can't back down now!
It doesn't work that way!
Look man, we had a plan and now you just like...
I lose money because of this!
I'm gonna kill you!
You're dead!
So dead!
I'm gonna kill you!
What were you thinking, you idiot!
This is why we prac-
- Wh... who are you? - Sheriff Wise.
What's going on?
Lem Keagan?
Yeah.
What?
What happened?
Is there a number I can call, a family member to reach out to?
No.
Viv was all I had.
She was my only family.
Were you here all day?
Is there someone that could vouch for that?
I can shoot you a pic of my game log.
Is there a human that could vouch for that?
My buddy in Tulsa.
We'd been playing for hours, so-
He could tell you.
Is there anyone you could think of that would
do something like this?
Kill my wife?
We never should've moved here.
Old man Cliff McGrath...
- the rattlesnake. - Your father-in-law?
You think he could've done it?
Yeah, I despise that man.
I'm gonna go pay him a little visit.
Where's my keys?
If you drive, I'll arrest you.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not going anywhere Sheriff.
Give me the keys.
I'll get your statement in the morning.
Sober up.
More coffee?
Thank you.
Thompson, can you check for me...
Thanks for letting us use-
Than... Thanks for letting us-
Thanks for letting us use the diner as an office, Elli girl.
Elli girl, that's stupid.
How about we grab dinner sometime?
Like old times?
Old times, old times...
Old times is like bad times.
You want to go dancing?
You love to dance.
I've been practicing my moves.
Yeah, come on.
You can do this...
Justin.
You can... You can do this.
You ever heard of courtesy flush?
We all know the town hated her.
And I've heard you say most people kill out of passion.
But, I think she died because of that land.
Look at this.
It's massive.
Practically its own county.
She owned all that land?
Every stick and stone.
Even her husband didn't have any shares.
Yeah, she was leveraged big time.
Banks trusted her, had investors eating out of her hand.
Yeah, she made a down payment of...
two and a quarter million to start construction
on the clubhouse and the first nine homes.
How much did the land cost?
Not a penny.
Daddy McGrath.
So he owned all this?
Yep, sure did.
Well where is he at in all of this?
She pulled a Jacob and Esau.
Tricked him out of it.
He was having some trouble with the IRS.
He transferred it all to her, but when he settled it
she didn't give it back.
The way I see it, either she finagled him,
she deceived him or, I don't know...
Maybe he just trusted her too much.
All right, coconut for the lady.
Pecan for the gent, apple for the Sheriff.
Courtesy of the chef.
Oh!
Oh, here.
Viv...
I'm sorry you had to see that ma'am.
You knew her?
We played softball together in high school.
I always thought of her as too big for Blue Ridge.
I'll get you some coffee.
Who are the suspects?
M'm...
old man McGrath, disgruntled father.
Betrayal.
If she dies according to NC law, half the land
reverts back to him.
The other half...
her husband.
He has an alibi.
Ever heard of the three day rule?
Isn't that when a lady gives you her number and you've got
three days to call her back?
In North Carolina, you stand to inherit...
you gotta outlive the deceased by three days.
Else, next in line gets their share.
It's the three day rule.
Maybe we should meet somewhere else.
I like the coffee.
All right...
We need to figure out what happened to Vivian when
she left the stage.
We need to set up a tip-line at the station.
We need to ask the Mayor to loan us some floaters.
And we need to stay on Lem.
Make sure that he doesn't have any accidents.
I'll do it.
Elli's got Maddie tonight.
You guys go home and get some sleep.
Relieve me in the morning.
I'm gonna settle up here.
Yeah, you will.
You two are too comfortable.
Ha-ha!
You need to respect your elders.
Yeah you will.
You ready?
- How much I owe ya? - Mmm...
$8.43...
That's it?
I gave you the military discount.
Elli no, we're working here.
It's all right.
The town tipping me now, too?
No, that's all me.
Oh wow, Sheriff.
I mean, you really gotta work on your pick-up lines.
It's awful.
Will-
Will you...
will you go out...
Justin... how long have you been here?
- Seven months. - Mm-hmm.
And how many friends have you made?
I mean, besides me and Maddie and my parents.
Becky...
Thompson...
They work for you.
So is that a no?
Justin...
I have seen you run head first into danger
more times than I can count.
You're the bravest man I've ever known and now here
you are nervous asking me out.
Well...
Justin, we were together for 10 years.
We have a kid together; I make you nervous?
That's a good thing.
It was never you, okay?
It was...
- The excitement? - No!
It's danger.
Well it's a small town now.
It's small town problems.
Murder.
I'll quit.
What are you gonna do, hmm?
You gonna be a JV football coach?
Just give me a chance.
Justin...
All right, how about this.
How about you solve the case, okay?
And then you relax a little?
Just settle down.
Then we'll see.
We'll see?
We'll see.
Stop - We'll see.
- I gotta go get Maddie. - We'll see?
- Stop it. - We'll see.
Pullin' up to Lem's house.
I'll call in if I see anything.
Over and out.
Sleep tight, Lem.
After trying both and considering...
I think I like honey buns better.
Good call!
Next time we'll microwave it for about 10 seconds.
Change your life.
So any boys I need to take to jail for you?
Maybe...
We'll see.
There's this one boy that I like but...
he doesn't know I exist.
Good.
Are you working?
No.
Busted... no wonder we don't go to that other trail like always.
That's someone's daughter...
And it's my job-
It's my job to figure out...
who harmed her.
I get it but...
you've got too much going on.
You moved here to slow it down.
No, I moved here to be with you.
And it will slow down.
Well at least you're not far away.
That's the spirit.
I can't believe you didn't tell me first.
I should've been the first one to know.
You're right, I'm sorry.
Uh, I got to get back to mom's.
How about the same time tomorrow?
I'd like that.
Okay you two, keep it safe.
Let me know when you need any help.
Deputy 2 will come a'callin'.
Is that a church bell?
Something like it.
It's not Sunday.
Who are these yahoos?
It's for Vivian.
McGrath's Appalachian roots run deep.
It's tradition to ring the bell for every year
the deceased lived.
Calls the neighbors and family together.
What are you trying to tell me?
I'm telling you, we're about to walk into a backwoods wake
filled with moonshine swillin' fiends who won't take kindly
to an outsider's justice.
Got it.
Stay here.
Hey fellas, I'm looking for the old man.
I'm gonna kill you...
and keep that badge as a trophy.
Hey!
Can you help me get them in the trunk?
Uh-yep.
McGrath?
- McGrath? - Get out.
Go...
Come on.
McGrath?
Get in the house!
Go and cut me a switch.
How'd you get past my men?
What you want, boy?
Can I have a moment in private?
These are all my kin, it's about as private as it gets.
Sorry for your loss.
My condolences to you, and to your family.
You have any idea who may have done this?
I can't imagine.
Your daughter's plans for the property weren't too popular.
- You think that had something to with it? - Maybe.
Would it surprise you if someone suggested that
you may have done this?
Well if you want to find suspects you can start
flippin' rocks over all over Blue Ridge.
You didn't answer the question, Mr. McGrath.
How old is your daughter, Sheriff?
When my little girl was young
we were about as close...
as a father can get to his daughter.
I loved her.
But...
when a man leaves this life
all he has left is his legacy.
That's all he has.
And this land is McGrath legacy.
We've had this land long before Sherman marched to the ocean.
But...
my daughter robbed me of that.
She swindled, trashed and parceled off my legacy.
Well, it's yours again.
At least half of it.
Your son-in-law has the other half.
Good day, Sheriff.
You didn't answer the question!
Did you kill your daughter?
It's just land Sheriff.
It's just land.
And Sheriff...
I'm gonna give you three days to find her killer.
And if those so-called badgers can't do the work...
Mountain justice is gonna take over.
And I will guarantee you
that these mountains will burn!
You heard the old man.
We got three days.
That killer's out there, Becky.
Here you go, Justin.
- Appreciate it, Harvey. - Yeah, absolutely.
Ah, it's the least I can do man.
You saved my store and probably my life, you know.
How's Penny?
Well, life's taken a few sharp turns here for us.
Well, we just-
kinda stretched to the limit if you wanna know the truth,
right now, but we'll be all right.
We'll be fine, don't worry about us.
Stop and Save ain't the only egg in the basket, you know?
So we'll be fine; we'll be good.
And then as far as her, she-
She's just worried.
We worry most about what we love.
Yes sir, yes sir we do.
Hey, let me let y'all get back to it there.
If you got any questions just holler.
- Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
So... what do we have?
I mean, there's no murder weapon, no witness.
No solid suspects.
Let's see if Thompson has anything.
- Hey boss? - Did you confirm Lem's alibi?
I been trying.
But Lem doesn't actually know this guy's real name.
And the gaming company ain't too keen on passing
out private information
without a warrant.
So Lem's alibi "GunDart468" is still just an avatar for now.
- Get the warrant. - We may not need to.
Ah, I got the sugar in my-
Why is that, Deputy Thompson?
Uh...
Well we got an anonymous email
through your tip line.
Great idea, Sheriff, by the way.
With a very interesting photo.
Seems your boy Lem...
lied...
He was at the festival.
You have visual proof that Lem was at the festival?
Well, the photo was taken right before or
after the estimated time of Vivian's death.
Find out who sent that photo.
Get one of the IT folks at the library to help.
Copy that!
- He has a crush on one of them. - What?
Aw, Becky...
Ah, Becky I heard that.
Where's Lem?
At the funeral home.
We're on our way.
Deputy Thompson don't get no respect.
On a day like today nobody's out?
It'll stay that way.
There's a killer on the loose.
Yes ma'am, I understand.
All right.
Yes ma'am, I will tell him that if I see him.
All right.
Mayor Brady... said she couldn't find you.
Wanted to know where you were.
Said she wants an update on the case asap.
She said, and I quote,
"The town is waiting."
- Is Lem in there? - Yeah.
Good work.
You find out who sent this?
Not yet, they're working on it.
You ask the IT girl out?
Maybe.
That would be a no.
What do you want us to do?
I'll either make an arrest or I won't.
When's the funeral?
Geez.
You always sneak up on people?
Sometimes.
You found something.
Your wife's murdered...
You lied to me about where you were.
Which just so happens to be the place where she was murdered.
She knew no one here liked her.
Treated her like she was an outsider-
You're floundering, Lem.
You gotta talk straight to me.
Or I'm gonna take you in.
She practiced that speech for weeks.
Our morals are strong.
Our history is even stronger.
No... no, no, no.
What does that even mean?
Stupid speech.
I heard it so many times.
Even I had it memorized.
All that mumbo-jumbo about the mountains' welcoming arms.
Blue Ridge...
is our home.
And she has wide arms, welcoming arms...
plenty of room for growth.
Family stands by family.
She just wanted people to like her, you know?
She just wanted to break through to them.
I knew it would never work.
But I'm the outside looking in, you know?
She wouldn't listen to me, she never has.
I went there to make sure that nothing happened to her.
I was worried about her.
I mean you can understand
that, can't you Sheriff?
I just wish she knew I was there, you know?
She thought differently.
Wait a minute.
That's Elizabeth Wade, Jeremiah Wade's wife.
Jeremiah Wade, the musician?
The Wades hate my wife's family and they always have,
from what I hear.
They used to own that land back in the day.
And they've always wanted it back.
They would hound the old man for decades.
When Vivian got it... I mean...
We expected to get some bricks thrown threw the windows and
she was surprised when we didn't.
And she would talk to you about this?
You know how families talk about politics or football?
Yeah.
Well, at the McGrath family reunion,
all you talk about is the no-good Wades.
Don't leave town.
Where am I gonna go, sheriff?
I mean yeah, our marriage wasn't perfect but...
Viv is all I had.
- Old man's holding out. - McGrath?
I bet he thinks he knows who did it and
he's not gonna tell an outsider.
And I bet he's gonna kill the man he thinks did it...
Jeremiah Wade.
The Wade/McGrath feud? This all a part of that?
It's time to meet Jeremiah.
Give me his whereabouts.
Don't let Lem leave your sight.
Yes, sir.
Come on, I'll take you to your car, Becky.
Sheriff, he's in there.
Evening, sheriff.
I can't say as we've had the pleasure.
I don't believe we have.
I've heard a lot about you though.
Ex-Green Beret... Medal of Honor....
May I?
It's beautiful. Did you make this?
Yeah. Not much different making a gun
or an instrument when you get right down to it.
It's all about shape, structure...
and the purpose.
Purpose?
They both move people.
Do you know why we're here?
Yep, I do.
My wife sent you those photos; they were supposed to be
anonymous but like I tell my kids,
nothing on the internet's anonymous.
And so like a good detective,
you deduce that we sent a photo that may have pointed
you in the direction of a potential killer.
And after consulting with the potential killer-
Suspect.
Fine, suspect.
You've learned...
with of course the help of your local detectives...
about the problem between my family,
and the family of the deceased.
Do I got another suspect on my list?
Namely me.
That's pretty much the definition
of cut to the chase.
Very well deduced I must say.
Well, you don't have to have two possums in a pot
to know you're cookin' for two.
Why were you anonymous with that photo?
And what... ignite an already
combustible feud? No, thank you.
We just wanna help out where we can
to find that poor girl justice,
not reignite a war.
A war? It was that bad, huh?
You are an outsider.
Our family's been fighting over that land
since the War of Northern Aggression.
My great, great, great granddaddy
was cheated out of it by McGrath.
Where were you at the time of the murder?
Oh, I don't know.
Somewhere all by myself with nobody to testify to it.
I took the picture, sheriff.
The mayor's my alibi.
Convenient.
Now would I kill for that land?
Absolutely.
It's not something I'd expect an outsider
like you to understand, but did I?
No.
I did not kill that woman, nor hire somebody to kill her.
A hitman... I didn't think of that one.
I'd take a real hard look into that snake McGrath.
I don't care if she was his daughter.
That man is one land-hungry son of a gun.
Don't leave town.
Jeremiah Wade, what a creep.
He says the mayor's his alibi.
Nah, he wouldn't get his hand dirty.
He'd pay someone to do it...
send in the photo to frame a McGrath.
Lem's a Keagan, not a McGrath.
If Lem gets jailed, he has a better shot of getting
that land off the old man.
He wants that land; he hates the family.
What other motives do we need?
We're not short on motives, we're short on evidence.
Well...
Old man McGrath...
disappeared.
What?
Yep... and no one's heard from him all afternoon.
Who's watching Lem?
Pardon?
If you're here, then...
Deputy...
No, I was lookin' for McGrath; dispatch was supposed
to call me back with a floater-
We're understaffed sheriff!
Get in the car, Thompson.
Lem? Lem?
Lem?
Becky, search downstairs.
Thompson, upstairs.
Should I call an ambulance?
You should call the coroner.
This is my fault.
He's dead because of me.
He's dead because there's bad people in this world.
And you're not one of them.
Hey...
Find Cliff McGrath.
The son-in-law's dead and that means he's the
sole owner of that land, and the #1 suspect.
You find him...
and you bring him in.
Do you know anyone in ballistics?
My roommate from the academy.
She's in Raleigh now.
Does she owe you any favors?
No, but I'll put it on my tab.
With a bullet, we can trace it back to a gun.
The killer just made their first mistake.
Freeze!
Hey!
Becky, stay with the body.
Police! Freeze!
Stop! I said stop!
Stop! Police!
Stop!
Where'd she go?
Pierce's cows.
Get in the house, quick! Someone's coming!
Evening, Jim.
Evening, sheriff.
You lost again?
Is your wife home?
What does she got to do with anything?
Do you know what happened to Lem?
You don't have to be Matlock to know what all those
police lights mean.
Something bad happened.
Can you call your wife out?
I'm not gonna ask you again.
Nancy, darling... come on out here.
What's all this?
Have you been here all evening?
All night.
Like he said.
Did you hear or see anything suspicious?
A gunshot.
You didn't call it in?
Sheriff, this is Blue Ridge.
Gunshots are like copperheads; they're everywhere.
Ain't nobody hollerin' unless they're bit.
You didn't... stop by?
What you pokin' at, sheriff?
There was a man murdered tonight.
I'm just doing my job.
So you are.
Thompson and Becky, meet me at the diner in ten.
Let's get the mayor there too.
Copy, sheriff.
I got your call sheriff. So what do you have?
When I was in the army,
I was stationed in the desert a lot and when you're
in the desert, you think about one thing
over and over and over again...
water.
Water is the most vital necessity on this planet.
See this? Know what that is?
It looks like Vivian's land.
That's the future Eagle's Nest Gold Resort.
See this? That line going through there?
That's the river that runs through it.
Plenty of maps have rivers, so why would you kill for it?
I thought I'd take a look for myself.
It's the only water for miles.
What does this have to do with anything?
Water rights.
What?
The right to use the water.
When I was in the desert, people would kill for water.
And who would kill for water in the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Someone whose livelihood
came from that water... farmers.
So Mayor, I've got the warrant for the arrest of
Jim and Nancy Pierce.
What?
Our prime suspects are the Pierces.
When I went to the river, I saw it.
I saw Pierce's cows drinking from the river.
And without water, the cows will die.
Kill or go broke.
But don't they lease that land?
This is the lease agreement
between McGrath and the Pierces
for 5 years guaranteed water rights.
But see this? The golf resort gets in the way.
Because you can't have a cow drinking out of a water
hazard on the 14th hole.
So you're trying to tell me they killed Vivian
and her husband over water, over cows?
Well, ain't this a surprise.
Mayor... sheriff.
Jeremiah.
So you said you got a warrant for a broken lease.
Nancy found Vivian's body,
and she was also at Lem's crime scene.
Look, just don't swing and miss because you
don't get 3 strikes with this, okay?
Hi, Jeremiah.
With pleasure, ma'am.
I heard back from my roommate...
about the ballistics on the killer's gun.
What's next, sheriff?
We finish it.
We gotta end this before someone else gets killed.
Wades... filthy Wades.
Maddie, go in the bathroom and lock the door.
- O-kay. - Go!
Really?
Yeah, really.
You killed my Vivian.
What are you talkin' about?
Now I'm gonna kill you.
You're drunk.
You thought you'd get it back... my land.
But no, you ain't gonna never see it.
From what I understand,
if I had killed your Vivian...
I'd be doing you a favor.
You murderer, I'll kill you!
Hey! Hey!!!
You take this to the mountain boys,
not here... you hear me?
Not in my place.
Just centuries of cussin' and fightin' and feudin'
and you think it's all gonna end here,
right here in this booth? In front of all these people?
You're idiots...
the lot of you.
Cliff, you're drunk. Out.
Out!
I'm gonna be waiting for you outside.
Mm-hmm.
MM-hmm.
Go sober up.
And what are you gonna do?
Well, I'm gonna drink my coffee of course.
Come down to Elli's Diner.
We're gonna finish something that I should
have finished a long time ago.
You two go around the back.
Keep your heads.
Handcuffs... not body bags. Let's roll.
Head out the back, Nancy. I'll scare 'em off.
Alright, you bushwhackers, get off my-
A heck of a way to greet a solicitor.
And it's loaded.
Sheriff, I didn't know it was you.
She tried to make a break for it out the back.
I didn't know it was y'all.
Do you always answer the door with a double barrel?
I do when there's a murderer on the loose.
What's this all about?
- We have a warrant for your arrest and hers. - What?
Go inside and check and see if there's anything that matches ballistics.
You have the right to remain silent;
anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You think we murdered Lem?
You have the right to an attorney.
- And Vivian. - What?!
Sheriff, we're poor. You gotta understand.
That golf course would have tripled the value of our land.
We were one of the few that were alright
with it being put in.
What about your cows?
Cows? Sheriff, I got that one prize heifer and that's
more than I can handle.
I don't have the gumption, nor the demeanor to deal with
any more than one of them dumb animals.
We lease our land for grazing.
We lease part of the McGrath land for water sure but we
had a deal with the old man.
A percentage of the money went to him, okay?
It was like we said, the value of the golf course
surmounts any rent money from cows!
Then whose cows are they?
It's me.
Oh, pick up.
Pick up, pick up, pick up. Come on, Justin.
This is Justin. Leave it.
Mom, what's going on?
It's okay.
Why'd you run from me?
Because I was scared! He was dead!
Becky here.
Get Justin. They're gonna kill each other.
Hurry, please!
We found McGrath.
He and Wade are about to kill each other.
Maybe I should let 'em.
They're at Elli's...
and your family is there.
Come on out here, you coward!
Get a taste of the ol' Blue Ridge hambone!
You murderer!
Come out and face me like a man!
You killed my daughter.
We all know you did. You killed my kin.
Come on out here, you coward!
Look up!
Whoa, look out!
Whoo!
Ooh!
Somebody change my shorts.
Deputy Thompson, are you still there?
Whoo! Yeah, no problem.
I'm coming up behind you.
We're almost there, sheriff.
Hold on, Elli.
Wades.
The filthy Wades!
I should've figured you couldn't fight your own battles.
Hoo-ha!
No! No, stop! Stop this right now!
Stay back, Elli.
This is between me and him.
Get your skinny butt outta here.
Not until you put your guns down.
Put 'em down!
Mom! Mom!
Maddie, you stay back!
Hey!
Justin!
Pointing guns at one another like it's the Wild West?!
There's innocent people here.
There's my family!
My daughter! My legacy!
You had your chance, sheriff... now it's mountain justice.
What justice?
He didn't kill your daughter.
You liar!
I have proof.
He don't care about proof, sheriff.
It ain't about that girl, it's about him finally
having a reason to pull that trigger.
You want this too?
If he wants blood, I'll oblige him.
Then fine... just you two.
You wanna be gunslingers, then so be it.
But you tell your men to put down their guns,
because I'm the law!
And if you've got a problem with that,
you gotta go through me!
Do it!
Alright, you kill one another.
Whichever one of you is standing,
I'm gonna arrest for murder immediately.
Don't put generations of hate on your daughter's grave.
Don't put your failures as a father on that man.
He didn't kill your daughter, I promise you that.
Get back. Everybody back, back.
Do you know who killed her, boy?
No, no, no.
Face me, you coward!
This ends here, now!
Put it down, Jeremiah.
Put it down or I'm puttin' it down.
So what? You're gonna play big city boy now?
Get him outta here.
Hey, sheriff.
Hey, Harvey.
When's that door comin' in?
Uh, Wednesday they said.
Sorry about that.
Well, that's alright.
You just call it collateral damage there.
Is that what Lem was?
Or was he always part of the plan?
Huh?
We're both soldiers.
We've had death smile at us,
and we smiled back.
So stop pretending.
I didn't recognize it at first...
but that brand on your cows...
H-H... Harvey Harrison.
Your other egg in the basket.
So?
So, the ballistics showed that the gun that was used
to kill Lem was used in a murder up in Philadelphia.
Uh...
Those robbers, they were from Philly.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
I think that that gun...
is the same gun...
that you got in your hand right now.
Justin look now...
We have to do what we have to do...
to protect what we love.
Is that justification?
No.
But to be honest, it's how I've learned to sleep at night.
I like you, Harvey...
but if you pull that gun...
I'm gonna have to kill you.
Are you that fast?
I'm as fast as I need to be.
Nah, I like you too Justin so it's
just a terrible shame-
Stop!!!
Drop it.
Put it down, Penny.
Stop.
It was both of us.
Baby, please no!
I killed Vivian.
But I didn't mean to.
I asked if I could talk to her.
You know, in private.
Vivian.
So we stepped into the woods...
there wasn't anywhere else to go.
I need for you to think about...
And I unloaded on her.
We won't make it without the cows, you see?
It's what keeps us afloat.
But she just listened; didn't say anything.
Can't make it without the cows; it's what keeps us afloat.
I told her about our lease with her father.
And the lease that we signed with your father...
She'd already made up her mind.
...does that not mean anything to you?
I'm sorry.
That's not what bothered me.
It was her smile.
Condescending like we don't
try hard enough or...
maybe we should find another way to make money.
How do you sleep at night?
When she tried to leave...
I'm not finished!
I pushed her.
I wasn't done talkin' so I pushed her.
But she had those red heels...
...in the woods.
She tripped over a rock...
and hit her head.
I knew she'd be dead in a minute.
I could tell by the way she hit.
I could see it in her eyes.
When I told Harvey...
he said, "We done stepped in it
now and we gotta finish it...
...it's our only chance."
If-if we had killed the husband,
the land would have gone back to Cliff and he would
have honored our lease, I know he would have.
And-and... we would have had the cows
on the Pierce's land like we wanted.
And we've put all of our savings into them cows.
Oh!
Nobody was supposed to know because the deputy's
got a gun that had slid up under the shelf there.
And I found it and nobody was supposed to
know and it was untraceable.
I'm sorry.
Put down the gun.
Nobody else has to die.
Put the gun down.
Nobody else has to die.
It's okay.
You didn't ask me how old my daughter was.
She's 12.
Thank you.
Sheriff.
Bye, baby.
Good evening, sheriff.
Want some dessert?
No thanks, I got a date.
Date night?
Nice!
I'm all cleaned up,
and ready for my date.
You know they treat you like you're one of their own
now that you've solved that case.
I'm the same guy they frowned at when I got here.
Well...
you did good, Justin.
Protect and serve.
That's what they're payin' me to do.
Well, listen to you just dropping your "g's"
and becomin' all local.
I reckon'!
You know, Justin...
I think I realized somethin'.
It took me 10 years to figure it out but...
I finally understand why you charge head first into danger.
It's because if you won't do it, nobody else will.
I guess.
It's admirable.
It's important.
I'm ready!
You ready?
The theater is two counties over and I don't wanna miss previews.
I'm ready!
Bye, mom.
Bye, just have her back by 10.
Okay.
Well, come on!
Dad, you're doing that stare thing again.
I'm just scanning.
I'd start driving.
We're gonna be late for the movie... again.
No more boxes... you unpacked!
This is home.
So what is this boy's name?
Ah! You almost got me there, you know?
Yeah, not a chance, Dad.
A mystery, huh?
I like a good mystery!