[crowd roaring]
[lively traditional music playing]
Still taking bets on these mighty pugilists!
Still taking bets!
[roaring continues]
You have him now, Mici!
You have him!
A new one, Paud, seeing you here.
Stay back from him Mici! Did I not tell you, use your reach!
I need to talk to you about the hospital.
Have a bed ready for Mici!
[laughs]
[crowd booing]
Oh, Mici!
Mici, you can't do that!
[all cheering]
That's enough!
Mici, this'll cheer you.
Your share of tonight's winnings.
How have you winnings?
You bet against me?
Ah well, I wanted you to win.
But betting money is another thing.
You had the longer reach.
You should have used it.
It wasn't a fair fight anyhow.
It was not, faith.
I thought you'd knock yer man's balls down into his boots!
[laughter]
[woman] You're a Connolly, aren't ya?
I am.
How much?
How much what, you poor creature.
To put it up.
[whispers]
[laughs]
Christ!
You're getting richer than the Klondike Kings!
And faster than ye lads digging in the dirt day after day.
I'm no man's slave.
[theme music playing]
[Belinda] We see too little of you, Mrs. Hopkins.
[Estella] I have been much occupied, Miss Mulrooney.
So I can loan you the two nearest girls,
Gertie and Edith. Dollar dances only.
-Nothing upstairs. -Naturally.
Tell me, does Kate Mulryan still sing here?
When she's up to it.
Do you tell me she's unwell?
Kate suffered a very bad setback.
A private matter, you understand.
Life here is dreadful enough without added troubles.
It may be time Miss Mulryan returned to the greater world.
If she needs financial aid in moving on,
I'm happy to contribute.
I never slaved like this in my life.
Ah Mici, you call this slaving?
It's not play acting.
When I was below in Montana,
I was caught trying to steal silver under my tongue from the mine.
They put myself and Tom to hard labour.
Oh cousin, that was slaving.
Back home,
my brother Dan was put working the quarry for poaching salmon.
Oh, that was fairly harsh, wasn't it?
It was harsh alright.
We were the Connollys who killed the Peeler.
While we're telling tales,
I heard one in town. I heard you were in a gun duel
with a fella named Hopkins.
You were bound to hear it sooner or later.
-Who told you? -Who?
Sure you're famous.
Seamus Connolly, the gunslinger.
Stop that now. I did nothing but make a widow.
And what was the cause?
Dumb pride and other shite.
It's all behind me now.
I've a notion there was a woman in it.
I've to head down and get Padraig set up.
Mici, you'll hear a store of things about us in town.
Don't believe everything. If anyone asks,
you tell them,
"Sure the Connolly brothers,
they're as quiet as lambs."
What will you say?
"Quiet as lambs."
That's it, Mici.
Quiet as lambs.
[Belinda] It's not an area I've dabbled in,
salvaging from shipwrecks.
We're discussing an entirely unknown cargo.
That's how salvage rights are auctioned.
What's on board is pot luck.
But she was steaming for Dawson City.
It is sure to be useful provisions.
My Lord Carbonneau, is this in your own hand?
It is handsome.
I suffered under the most ruthless tutors in all of France.
[all laughing]
We divide the cargo equally.
-By weight. -Half for Madame.
And half between...
Your trusted business partners.
Come when you like.
Take all the hot water you want, soap, towels.
It will make the world of difference, Tom.
[coughing]
God help us.
We keep the Cholera in here
and the Typhoid up in the church.
There's no hope for a man who gets hit with both.
Oh! Hot as the devil's tail.
Thank you, Tom!
Thank you.
Doctor...
Water and towels.
[chuckles]
We slam the stable door, gentlemen,
but this horse is long gone.
You mind yourself first, right?
You've a wife to think of.
Tom...
You saved lives today.
El Soo.
I've been... thinking of you.
Oh.
Sometimes I go to Skookum Jim's burial place.
I go there to soothe his spirit.
Oh, right.
I will visit him tomorrow.
Will you come?
Yes.
Yes, I'd like that very much.
I will come to your claim at dawn.
Do you know him?
That Indian.
I know that he travels with the Judge.
And he acts like a ghost.
[Judge] You stand trial before me and you ride free.
What's your alternative?
My alternative is that you put some lead in Sam Steele
and unlock this fucking cage.
-Sam Steele has our firearms. -Yeah.
We'll have our man here slit his fucking throat.
Trial's in three days.
You wait.
Before the moose hunt,
we keep dogs tied up,
hungry for a few days.
See them get on the moose after that.
What's he fucking talking about? Huh?
What's this fucking Indian...
Am I dog now?
Am I a fucking dog? Is he calling me a fucking dog--
Son...
-Yes, Judge. -I'd like you to have this.
Thank you.
In dark times, the Bible is a wise guide
and a loving companion.
Praise the Lord.
Amen, your Honor.
[Kate] ♪ I'll dye my petticoats I'll dye them red ♪
♪ And round the world I'll beg for bread ♪
♪ Until my parents Shall wish me dead ♪
[singing in Irish]
[baby crying]
[gasping]
[cries in anguish]
Get on home.
Bridget will tear strips off you if you're late.
Doctor Dunn is drunk asleep again.
I'll stay 'til he wakes.
Padraig, listen. I'm here.
You go on home. Rest.
Make that lovely stew for Bridget.
We're needed tomorrow and after.
Are you Padraig Connolly?
Uh... yes.
Yes, your Honor.
You're witnessing against Captain Galvin?
Son, you certain of what you saw?
Yes, sir.
Captain Galvin tried to hang Jim and then he shot him.
I hear this Skookum Jim,
was the combative hard-drinking type Indian.
Jim was a good man--
Also hear Captain Galvin knows bad men.
Have you considered that?
Captain Galvin has to pay for his murdering.
You can count on me for the trial.
You're a stalwart.
But that don't stop bullets.
I guess you've a few days to think on it.
You and Bridget Mannion...
[whistling]
[gasps]
El Soo.
I'm Mister Angel, from the Mi'kmaq tribe.
Is that a Mi'kmaq greeting?
Whistle like a bird and pounce like a wolf?
El Soo speaks to white men without brother.
El Soo needs a husband,
to call her nigumaach.
And you need to be on your way.
Tom!
Come here.
Is it true someone tried to blow you up?
Below in the mine?
That's how I got this gimp.
Who'd do that to you?
The order came from Jacob Hopkins.
From the Golden Nugget.
Steer clear of him.
You never went after him?
What did I tell you about hunting out stories on us?
Listen, you're being paid the same as those lads.
You have to work your share.
And you know that this is a dry claim.
[Estella] I've allowed you here to say goodbye.
[baby crying]
I recommend San Francisco.
I'll provide your fare, rent you an apartment,
you can begin a new life.
I am offering a substantial sum.
You're trying to buy him from me.
No. Moses is entirely mine. I've been clear about that.
I can feed him, I have milk.
And I have a wet-nurse! Give him to me!
-You're using laudanum. -I am not.
I know the smell of laudanum. Give him to me this instant!
-No, no please. He's my child! -Billy!
Please, he's my child.
Please, he's mine. Please don't take him!
[cries] No!
Please, he's my child!
-[baby crying] -[shushing]
The judge was asking
if we wanted to get out of giving evidence at the trial.
He was saying how Captain Pat has dangerous friends.
A judge should be herding up all the witnesses he can find.
Don't worry. We'll give evidence.
Listen Padraig, have ye anything to protect yourselves?
It's a nice piece.
You'd do plenty of damage to timber with it.
But it's another thing altogether, going at a man.
-Bridget has her little pistol. -That pea shooter?
She's well able to shoot it.
I know, and I saw the eye patch on Captain Pat.
But she didn't kill him.
Come up to our claim. Take one of Tom's revolvers.
One of them? How many has he?
You'd think he was starting an army.
Ah, Mici.
Your first wages, here's to you.
Is this the lot?
That's it. To the ounce, yeah.
No fear of me getting rich at this rate.
You won't get rich crawling in and out of whores' cots either.
[horse neighing]
Pat...
How many miles would a man travel to find your like again?
Oh, many thousands.
And only finding a poor likeness then.
I'd need to look at more of you.
Tom talks to me like I was a common labourer.
That's how Tom talks when he's working.
I'm due more respect.
He shouldn't forget the mess left to us back in Ros Muc.
For God's sake. Don't go looking for a rise out of Tom,
or you'll be sorry.
There he strides, the bollock puncher.
-What's that? -Punching a man below the belt.
Like a woman protecting herself.
Come on, so. I'll punch you above, below and anywhere else.
Save it for the ring, Mici. Get paid for your bruises.
[shouting] They're all filthy. Savage. Animals.
Is he after losing the head?
Animals!
Are we going in?
Savage Irish animals!
We'll see does he piss down on us in here.
[lively music playing]
I want to get drunk, Mici.
As drunk as a f***ing pig.
Alright so.
[Bridget] They're saying the trial is in two days.
Yeah. Didn't I meet the Judge today.
After that, we buried four men in one grave.
We said a few prayers, but you couldn't call it a funeral.
Doctor Dunn isn't coping.
[sighs]
You're thinking of staying on.
But we're going home after the trial.
That's what we agreed.
When we first met,
you pointed a gun at me.
I suppose scissors is an improvement.
We're going home after the trial.
[dogs barking]
[snoring]
[suspenseful music playing]
[snores loudly]
[breathing heavily]
It is precisely half the cargo,
as agreed with Miss Mulrooney.
We precisely asked by weight,
not by actual value.
We got here first and claimed the half
that happened to be whiskey.
-It is not juste. -Juste?
Of course, it's not juste.
It's simply our good fortune.
And Lady Luck doesn't balance her fucking blessings on a scale.
Oh, fucking hell!
[El Soo] This is where I come to be with Skookum Jim.
Do you know Jim could weigh gold in his hand?
To the ounce.
Jim could do everything.
Except dance.
He was terrible to watch.
[both laughing]
Do you remember, El Soo,
when you told me my heart was stopped
and it was closed like a fist?
I'm living with my brother again.
And... I took in a fool cousin.
I've tried to change.
My heart's not stopped anymore.
Where's the whiskey?
Belinda, they left you with nothing but Wellington boots.
How many pairs, Dan?
Maybe five hundred. And look.
They left you a sample of their cargo.
The final insult!
Ha! The cheapest of rotgut.
I wouldn't rub down a horse with it.
I'll get a few boys together and we'll teach them a lesson.
Dan, you'll do no such thing.
They're fine boots.
Look.
So, Jim finally returns to camp.
He has this little sack of bear claws.
He's shouting, "Father! I have wrestled and killed a Grizzly!'
With only my knife!"
[both laughing]
What age was he?
He was hardly even a boy.
And Isaac said,
"Little Brother, was it difficult
to wrestle a bear that has been dead for five days?"
Jim stuck to his story.
It's not so different from my own time,
with the brothers.
Jim
gave the claws to me for a necklace.
Hey...
God, I missed you.
I felt like only half a man without you.
I'll talk to Isaac.
No.
-No, you cannot. -I have to.
After the last time, it's the right thing.
No.
Since Jim's murder, Isaac is completely set against the whites.
It'll be all right.
I'll do what he wants. Look, I'll do anything.
No, Tom.
We have today, but we cannot be together.
You've the day slept out.
If you're not happy with your pay now,
you'll like it less when Tom clips it for you.
My stomach is like a boiling kettle.
[man] Murder! Two innocent white men killed by Indians!
Murder! Murder!
Injuns. Injuns I tell ya!
It was Injuns, y'all. I'm telling you, it was like an attack.
Straight from the old wars.
The Indians around here aren't Wild Comanches.
How do you know this wasn't done by a bear?
Bears don't sport scalping knives, no, sir.
I'll stake my claim on it!
I'll stake my scalp on it!
-This was two innocent white men. -That's enough.
-This was Indians. -Move on.
Two white men!
The Indians stripped them down to their flannels
and scalped them.
Imagine, like the fucking Wild West.
Savages.
Savages?
Yes, savages.
There's dangerous men up here.
You keep your head down in town.
They're afraid of us Connollys.
Seamus the gunslinger.
And yourself, Tom.
What about me?
You killed a Peeler with your bare hands.
A clean scrap no doubt and you had no choice.
Mici...
Watch now what you say next.
Then ye disappeared.
Ye left it all behind you.
And us Connolly Bans behind you too.
They put Dan to slaving in the quarry.
And you thinking there's nothing owed.
Over here, getting rich.
You're making a bad mistake.
I'm not.
You made me do it this way.
Blackmail?
Don't call it blackmail.
I only want my due.
And what do you think you're due?
I've been pricing claims.
-'Tis no game for poor tinkers. -How much?
Fifteen thousand.
Gold or cash,
whichever's handy.
I'm gonna have to head up there, see about these murders.
Let me gallop up there.
Mister Angel will know for sure if it was an Indian attack.
This wasn't Indians.
Least, it wasn't our local tribes.
They're fishermen and hunters.
So you got a theory?
These men were probably killed for their gold.
See my hunch is, there was a grudge involved.
I have to go to Dawson City,
identify the victims.
Judge Lewis, while I'm gone,
I'm asking you to be the law here in Dominion Creek.
This is the last time I find you like this. Do you hear me?
Leave me be.
Sometimes babies die.
It's terrible but it happens.
But we go on with our lives.
He's not dead, alright?
-What? -The baby.
He's alive.
Estella Hopkins has him.
You're not making sense.
I left him in the woods. Estella found him.
She's keeping him.
You left him, thinking he was dead?
She calls him Moses.
Kate, I asked you, did you think he was dead?
You left him out there to die?
He didn't die. He's alive.
You left your child to die?
Out. I want you out.
You will never set foot here again.
Pack your things and go.
Belinda...
Keep your dresses. Go to whoever will have you.
But I will not.
You come here again, I'll put you in the ground, still breathing.
Ah Tom, we can't be strangers to each other.
We're family.
Ah, fuck!
Fuck it!
You bastard!
That's how you use a long reach.
Stay well out of mine if you want to live.
Connolly! How long does it take to wash an Indian?
He's ten minutes left. Nothing to stop you hopping in.
You don't expect me to bathe with a fucking Indian?
If you brush up on your fucking manners, he might just let you.
[Padraig] I want to talk about Kate Mulryan.
Did she send you?
I'm done employing her. That's the end of it.
No, Belinda.
I just want to know how she is.
I know her engagement to Sam Steele is off.
But I've seen Kate lately.
Is there something wrong with her?
You care about her?
Well you know, she and I sort of courted last year.
Kate had a child two months ago.
She had me believe he died at birth, but he's alive.
Estella Hopkins has him.
She's keeping him.
[Kate singing]
[Judge] I reckon Sam Steele will be gone for a week.
Yeah. So cut me loose.
The minute this town sees you cut loose,
we gotta take to our heels.
I've got heels, so do you.
Don't Mister Angel look sweet?
He got himself acquainted with a local squaw.
It's getting romantic.
Whoop-a-di-doo, maybe I can be his fucking bridesmaid.
And while I got the run of this town,
I think I deserve a taste too.
Get me out of this cage, you son of a pox-riddled whore.
I asked you before,
leave my mother out of things.
We leave Dominion Creek,
when I'm done with Dominion Creek.
She drinks Laudanum and goes off into them woods.
Dancing or who knows what.
You see her today?
Yes. Not an hour ago.
[man] Place your bets, gentlemen! Place your bets!
Will Lady Fortune caress you tonight?
All bets are off!
You will not prevent me seeing my son.
-Your son, what are you talking about? -John Jacob.
The boy needs correction.
-He continues to pine for Boston. -John Jacob?
It's the Typhoid.
-He has the Typhoid! -Colonel!
Please, take to your bed.
I will bring John Jacob to your side.
You can't just leave.
My boy, it was an epidemic, now it's a plague.
I've done all that I can.
I will gamble with my health no longer.
-You're a fucking doctor. -Yeah.
And I've had a bellyful of that too.
Let him go, Padraig.
He's only good for drinking now anyway.
Doctor.
You're a fine girl, Maud. And a fine nurse.
God bless you.
If you two got any sense,
you'd take to the hills and hide this one out.
[inaudible]
Kate!
Kate Mulryan!
Kate!
[Kate humming]
Kate Mulryan!
-Kate! -[shushing]
Kate, are you here?
[gunshot]
[indistinct chatter]
Oh no!
Get out of the way!
Oh no! Kate...
Kate? Kate?
Oh child, what have you done?
What have you done?
Padraig, the sun's not down on you
begging for soap and water off me.
I know, but that bath house is the perfect set-up
for spreading Cholera and Typhoid.
Please just shut it down for a few weeks.
Until the epidemic is under control!
We shut the bath house for one week,
someone else will open.
And we'll be out of business for good.
Look, Padraig.
Write down the disease symptoms
and we'll catch them outside the bath house.
That's no solution, Tom!
There's men you wouldn't know it to look at them.
Fuck it, Padraig!
Aren't you going home after the trial?
Three days?
That hospital is not your responsibility.
I caught the end of your speech that night, Tom.
"Dominion is our home..."
"The Connollys will do their bit to keep it clean." Huh?
Come here.
Here. Take this.
Tonight, I'll put two more dead men in my wheelbarrow.
Two men who never knew each other.
But I'll bury them together like brothers.
Tom, I beg you.
Close up for a few days.
It might make all the difference.
Get out of that hospital.
Take your bride home to Ireland.
We're not closing.
[pipe playing in distance]
El Soo!
This is Mister Angel,
of the Mi'kmaq tribe.
He has come with a proposal.
My darling Jacob.
I'm so sorry, but you have papers to sign.
It's for our son.
It's for our John Jacob.
[Nellie and Judge Lewis laughing]
Judge Lewis, we're in mourning here.
I must ask for your respect.
Mourning who? That whore who shot herself?
My pal got betrothed today.
And I'm celebrating.
I allow no prostitution in this hotel.
And, well, you know it!
Prostitution? Why, this here is my Irish rose!
I think I might just get betrothed myself!
[laughs lasciviously]
Oh.
While Sam Steele's out hunting killers,
this town is mine.
So Miss Mulrooney, you best button your lip.
And, Nellie darlin', get ready to unbutton yours.
[Nellie laughs]
Dan, get your horse.
I need you to ride like the devil.
You have to find Sam Steele. Hurry.
Mici went about it the wrong way,
but maybe the Connolly Bans were due something for what happened.
You found a way to take his side.
He blackmailed me.
Well, at any rate, he's gone now.
I shouldn't have let him go.
He's not done with mischief.
What else could you have done?
Mici could still ruin everything we've done here.
We're still under British rule here.
He could...
-He could ruin me. -You won't lay a hand on him.
For God's sake.
I'll deal with Mici Ban.
No one needs to get hurt.
Throw away that bloody shirt.
[banjo playing]
♪ Satan, your kingdom Must come down ♪
♪ I heard The voice of Jesus say ♪
♪ Satan, your kingdom Must come down ♪
"And then He said to me, He said,
He said, 'The sin! The sin, I say
of the people of Israel and Judah is very great!
And the land... the land is filled with people.
The land is filled with people who do bloody murder!
And the city... the city is filled with people
and they do not care!
I say they do not care!'"
[grunts]
[song continues playing]
"'Where is the Lord,' they say!
And the Lord! The Lord has left the land, you see,
and the Lord he does not see!"
And I say,
I say I will have no pity.
I will show no mercy.
And I will bring their evil back down on their heads!
Back down on their heads,
I will rain fire, I say!
I will rain burning fire,
down on their heads!
♪ Satan, your kingdom Must come down ♪
♪ I heard The voice of Jesus say ♪
♪ Satan, your kingdom Must come down ♪
♪ I'm gonna pray until They tear your kingdom down ♪
♪ Gonna pray until They tear your kingdom down ♪
♪ I heard The voice of Jesus say ♪
♪ Gonna pray until They tear your kingdom down ♪
♪ Gonna shout until They tear your kingdom down ♪
♪ I heard The voice of Jesus say ♪
♪ Satan, your kingdom Must come down ♪