MERRICK: This is a declaration of war.
One we cannot let go unanswered.
The other Barons have fled. Gone to ground.
(SNIFFLES)
(BREATHES DEEPLY) As Ryder's rightful and only successor...
All powers of this Barony fall to me.
Merrick, will you administer my oath?
Put your hands on the blade.
Do you pledge to uphold the twin pillars of the Foundation Treaty,
peace through force, and justice without mercy?
I pledge with my life.
Grip the blade and join your blood
to the sword of this Foundation Stone
and the Barons who came before you.
(GRUNTS)
Do you swear to protect and preserve the Badlands
from this day forward until your last?
I swear.
Kneel before your Baron.
Quinn will pay for what he has done.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
BAJIE: Uh, so, the next morning,
I wake up completely naked, totally hungover.
Worst birthday I've ever had.
But, hey, you only turn eleven once, right?
SUNNY: Please tell me we're almost there.
BAJIE: (SNIFFS) Whoa! You smell that?
Gasoline and moonshine.
Not much further now.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
SUNNY: So this is Nos' place?
Yeah, but he likes to be known as the Commandant.
Guess he thinks it gives him gravitas.
That's the thing about Mechs, they're so self-important.
Mechs? Those bastards that sold me to the mines?
There has to be some other way.
(SIGHS) Do you want to get into the Badlands or not, all right?
Then, our best way in is through.
Well, I mean, it's technically under,
but you know what I'm saying.
Look at these mongrels. See what they're carrying?
Metal? Metal.
They scavenge and trade it for food.
Then, Nos smuggles it in tunnels into the Badlands on the black market.
You wanna see Veil? You wanna get home?
You wanna see your baby? Huh?
Then, this is our ticket in.
(SIGHS) Unless you wanna walk a few hundred more miles,
find a way over the mountains? Please say no.
How well do you know this guy?
Nos? Oh. Yeah, we're, like, thick as thieves.
We go way back. I saved his life once.
(CHUCKLES) I mean, entirely by accident.
But, I mean, if it comes up, don't mention anything.
No, listen, trust me...
He's gonna be very happy to see my cheeky little face.
Cheers, boys. Oh. (CHUCKLES) The Commandant.
(CHUCKLES) Huh?
Love what you've done with the place.
Bajie...
You miserable piece of shit.
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
You got a lot of balls showin' up here
after you left my ass swinging in the wind.
(CHUCKLES AND STUTTERS) I was gonna pay you back.
(LAUGHS)
Go on, get over here, you thieving bastard. Oh!
You nearly gave me a heart attack. Your game face is shit.
Which is good for me, 'cause I plan on winning all my money back.
(CHUCKLES)
This is my mate, Sunny. Clipper from the Badlands.
NOS: Clipper? Oh, yeah.
(WHISPERS) He's fine.
Yeah. Ex-Regent.
One of the deadliest.
Go on.
Want to show you something.
This is the blade that belonged to Nathaniel Moon.
Moon. Silver Moon?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) May I?
Yeah, please do... Careful. One of a kind.
I've heard the stories about this blade.
Nearly a thousand lives claimed by its obsidian steel.
(SWORD CLINKS) (CHUCKLES)
The man who wielded this sword would never part with it.
How did you get it?
(EXHALES AND CHUCKLES) How do you think?
What do you want for it?
A shortcut into the Badlands.
Give us that and the sword is yours.
Shortcut?
Your smuggling tunnels.
(CHUCKLES) I'm just a simple metal trader
trying to make a living in this cesspool.
And all we want is a way in.
You've come to the right man.
(EXCLAIMS)
Thank you.
DECLAN: Sir, what is it?
Let's keep moving, sir.
TILDA: I know I should have listened to you and stayed away from the conclave.
But I only disobeyed because I just...
(SIGHS) I felt something was wrong.
(THE WIDOW SCOFFS)
Forgive me, Mother.
There's nothing to forgive.
You did the right thing.
You're the only reason that I'm still alive.
I only wish I'd listened to my gut instead of
trying to play by somebody else's rules.
I should be thanking you.
Thanking me?
Part of being a good Regent is learning to trust that voice inside of you.
I'm grateful that you did.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I need a moment with Waldo.
(WALDO GRUNTS)
(SIGHS) Look, I know you're spoiling to give me a spanking,
but there's no way I could've known about Quinn.
For an advisor, there seems to be a lot that you don't know.
Think...
Quinn's reappearance could work in our favor.
How so?
It buys us time.
The other Barons are going to be focused on hunting him down. So...
You present yourself as an ally
in the fight against the greatest threat in the Badlands.
You want me to crawl back to them
after they tried to kill me?
They're gonna come after you in any case...
But not until they've dealt with Quinn.
So, you deal with him..
You deliver his head on a platter.
We gain leverage, and maybe even gain their favor.
Grovel to my enemies or lose everything that I've built?
Minerva, align or die.
Those are the options.
(MEN GRUNTING)
(HORN SOUNDING)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(PANTING)
Where's M.K.?
I don't know.
(M.K. PANTING)
(PANTING)
(OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS)
To our honored guests.
May the food fill your bellies,
the shine burn your throats,
and may the ladies tickle your wands.
(ALL LAUGH)
BAJIE: I love having my wand tickled.
Hey, hey, hey...
Don't hold back.
I haven't had a decent meal in weeks.
Which one was your favorite?
Favorite?
Kill? Over four hundred men, you've got to have a favorite.
He doesn't like to talk about that stuff.
(SMACKS LIPS) Personally, I think it adds to his mystique.
There's something to be said for pride in your work.
I have pride in mine. My place, my girls.
Hmm...
Like this little one.
A greedier hand might put a jewel like her in rotation too early.
I know exactly when she'll be ripe.
Come on, sweetie.
Takes a... special kind of man to do what you do.
I didn't always want to be in the people business, Sunny.
When I was a kid,
all I wanted was to get into the Badlands and become a Baron.
But now, I wouldn't trade places with a Baron
for all the opium on the other side of the wall.
Not with all the trouble that's brewing over there.
What do you mean?
One of my shipments went through a couple days ago.
All the Barons are on high alert.
They had some powwow to hash it out but it got crashed.
Turned into a bloodbath.
Bloodbath?
Quinn showed up,
gave his son quite a surprise.
A sword right through the heart.
Ended that boy's reign before it began.
Quinn? That's impossible. I clipped him myself.
Either you're not as good as you think you are
or Quinn's got one hell of a healer.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Wiping away the blood won't change what you've done.
What kind of man kills his own son?
(SCOFFS) Look at you.
Holed up here like a rat
pretending to play house with another man's woman and child.
The child of the man who ran you through.
How pathetic.
Pathetic, hmm?
Since the moment you first sucked air, you were a disappointment.
Oh, there he is, huh? The mighty Quinn.
You know, I used to think you were so strong.
But you're weak.
No wonder all the women in your life betrayed you.
My mother, Jade.
You wanna know the truth?
Jade always came running back to me because you couldn't satisfy her.
Think Veil will be any different?
Shut your mouth! Veil is pure and honest.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
She and Henry are the only good things I got left in this world.
RYDER: Honest?
She's lying to you.
You think the tumor's really gone?
She's saving my life.
Then why do you still get the headaches?
You seem to be getting weaker by the day.
I'm stronger than I've ever been.
Then why am I here?
You know, there's a way to find out the truth.
You get Henry,
put a knife under his tiny little throat...
(WHIMPERS)
And you see what Veil tells you then.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(GRUNTS) If you wanted to invite me for tea,
all you had to do was ask.
Quinn attacked the conclave.
He resurfaced and all but declared war on the other Barons.
Quinn is dead.
JADE: He's very much alive.
I don't believe you.
(SIGHS)
There's something you need to see.
JADE: Quinn did it.
Cut him down.
I know things were difficult between you both...
But Ryder always loved you.
I need to be alone...
With my son.
Oh, my beautiful boy.
(BREATHING DEEPLY)
(CRYING)
(VEIL GRUNTS)
Watch the door.
Where's Quinn?
You can't keep me like this. He won't stand for it.
Quinn's locked down.
Right now, you're dealing with me.
I need to see my son. Where is he?
You'll see him after you answer my questions.
What happened to Edgar?
(VEIL WHIMPERS)
We come back from battle
to find him with his head smashed in
and the door locked from the inside.
It's kind of strange, don't you think?
(WHIMPERS)
(VEIL SHUDDERS)
(WHIMPERS)
Now, you killed him! (WHIMPERING)
You beat him like a dog and you will answer for that.
(WHIMPERING) He attacked me.
Attacked you? Why?
I had to defend myself. I... I had no choice.
He tried to force himself on me.
You're lying.
It's the truth!
Edgar would never harm a woman.
And as pretty as you are, sweetheart,
(VEIL BREATHING SHAKILY)
you don't have the right equipment
(THUDS) (SHUDDERS)
that he liked to play with.
Now, you kill a man,
and you piss on his good name,
I ought to clip you for that.
But luckily for you,
I need you.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Need me for what?
To keep Quinn alive.
You're the only one who can save his life.
But you haven't been doing a good job of that lately, have you?
That is all I've been doing. Hmm...
Explain this to me then.
(SHUDDERS)
Now...
You may have fooled Quinn, but not me.
So you better start to heal him for real this time,
or you'll be joining your old friend, Edgar.
Do you understand? (WHIMPERING) Yeah.
Now get to work.
(EXHALES) I need you to tend the wounded.
(WOLVES HOWLING)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(M.K. GRUNTING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
I wanted to have more,
but the birth was so difficult...
that we couldn't.
All my hopes and dreams were wrapped up in just one.
And now I have none.
Nothing.
The one thing we had in common
is that we both loved him.
And now we both want Quinn to pay for what he's done.
He has a bunker in the woods on the eastern border.
Let me summon Merrick. He will round up his best men.
One more thing...
The most important.
I get to kill Quinn myself.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Hmm.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(BAJIE MOANS)
Wait, wait. I want you to know that...
Well, I'm a teddy bear in the streets,
but I'm a warrior in the sheets. (IMITATES GROWLING)
(CHUCKLES AND GASPS) SUNNY: Hey.
Wrong tent.
(CHUCKLES) Sorry. Hey... Do you wanna watch?
You might learn something.
The art of war is one thing, my friend,
but the art of love... (CHUCKLING)
Get out of here!
BAJIE: In here, in here...
Bajie!
I'm sorry.
I saw you at dinner, right? What's your name?
Amelia.
My mom's getting ready. She'll be with you tonight.
Oh, uh...
(STUTTERS) You can tell her I'm okay.
I just need to get some rest.
You're not like the other men.
They get angry if she's late.
Yeah, um,
I already have someone.
Is that the reason you want to get back to the Badlands?
I heard you talking earlier.
Yeah, for her and, uh, our baby.
A baby? Boy or girl?
You know, I... I don't know.
I left before it was born.
I'm sorry.
Amelia, leave this man alone.
Go on now, sweetie.
My name's Portia.
But you can call me whatever you want.
I don't need any company. You can go with her.
(SIGHS)
If I don't spend time with you,
Nos will think I haven't pleased his guests,
and I'll get the lash.
Well, you can stay as long as you like.
(SIGHS)
Nice kid.
How old is she?
Almost old enough to work as a Doll.
She's just a child.
(SCOFFS) Nos doesn't care.
No, I was her age when I started.
(SIGHS) I don't want this for her.
(WHISPERING) I have to get her out of here.
Maybe you could help.
How?
Kill Nos.
I don't do that. Not anymore.
No, I could pay you.
See, I've been saving to run away, but that money is yours.
I don't kill for hire.
I'm begging you, please.
That's what your friend was bragging about. All the marks on your back,
each one was for a life.
What difference would one more make?
Look, I'm sorry about Amelia,
but I can't help you.
I can't.
Good luck getting back to your family.
(VEIL GASPS)
(CLATTERS)
Where's my baby?
(INHALES SHARPLY) Where's my baby?
(HUMMING)
Quinn...
Please put the knife down.
Whatever's wrong, we can talk it through.
Don't listen to her.
All she cares about is the boy.
Let me handle this.
Handle what, Quinn?
I love this boy, Veil.
He means everything to me.
I know.
So put the knife down.
No. (CHUCKLES)
Ask her about the tumor.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
How well am I, Veil?
Is that...
Is that tumor almost gone?
You're getting better every day.
(HENRY COOING) She's good.
But she doesn't give a damn about you.
You killed her parents. You think she forgot...
Shut your filthy mouth!
You despise me, don't you, Veil?
Maybe I did...
Once.
But... (GRUNTS)
Since we've been down here,
my feelings have changed.
Changed?
Changed how?
After you saved my life,
you forced me to see that despite the things you've done,
you're not the man you were.
(GRUNTS AND CHUCKLES)
Don't ruin what we have by doing something you'll regret.
She's lying to you.
She'll say anything to keep you from the truth.
If you let that boy live,
he will betray you just like I did.
Like Sunny did. Like your wives.
Henry is a gift. A new beginning.
A second chance.
For all of us. (EXHALES)
You betray everyone and everything you touch.
You don't deserve a second chance.
We can be a family.
We can start over.
Together. Isn't that what you want?
(GASPS) Don't be a fool.
(GRUNTING) I know what I'm doing! I know what I'm doing.
(CRYING)
Yes, you kill him.
You made a choice to change.
You promised to protect me and Henry,
and I need you to keep that promise.
I want to believe you. But I...
Trust me.
(HENRY CRYING)
Trust yourself.
He's hungry.
Let me feed him.
(GRUNTS)
I got him.
(GRUNTING SOFTLY)
Women always were your weakness.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
BAJIE: Good morning.
I don't know about you but I slept like a baby last night.
(CHUCKLES)
Just, uh, between us, I... I kind of...
I kind of blew Ravel's mind last night.
(CHUCKLES) You know what I'm saying?
Sorry if we kept you awake.
I had a lot on my mind.
And it was the snoring that kept me awake. Hey!
Tent walls are very thin, you know.
NOS: Hope you enjoyed your stay.
Until our paths cross again.
That's your ticket to the other side of the wall.
Uh-huh.
But before you go, tell me one thing.
Last night while you and Portia were getting all cozy and acquainted,
did she ask you to kill me?
You sure?
'Cause that's not what one of my little bunnies told me.
(NERVOUS CHUCKLES) What's going on? Sorry, I...
RAVEL: I'm sorry, Bajie.
He made me tell him everything I heard the Clipper say.
(GUARD GRUNTS) (SCREAMS)
I appreciate your not taking the offer.
And this is what we do to dishonorable bunnies.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(SCREAMS)
(WHIMPERING)
Her new face will be a reminder to any Doll who crosses me.
She's worthless now.
Up we go. Hmm?
Lucky this little jewel is gonna make me a fortune.
Oi. Sunny.
Sunny!
We gotta go, yeah?
Woman. Baby. Home. You remember? Let's go.
Let me take Portia and her daughter.
That sword I traded you is worth much more than just a ride.
NOS: Not interested.
Try back in six months.
The girl will be on discount. All broken in by then.
Sunny!
We are burning daylight. Come on.
Better listen to your friend.
(SCREAMS)
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
(PAINED GRUNTING)
I'm not leaving without them.
You may be a Clipper, but you're outnumbered and unarmed.
(GRUNTING)
Go.
(GROANING) Come on.
Let's go. (GRUNTING)
Amelia. Please, my daughter, Amelia.
(EXHALES)
(SIGHS) Oh, shit.
NOS: Hey, Sunny.
(SCREAMING)
You want the girl so bad?
How about in pieces?
(GRUNTS)
(GUARDS GRUNTING) You all right? Let's go.
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS) Sunny!
(GRUNTS)
(YELLS) SUNNY: Go!
(GRUNTS) (SQUELCHES)
AMELIA: Mommy.
Amelia. (WHIMPERING)
(GRUNTS) (ENGINE TURNS OVER)
Let's go. Come on.
BAJIE: Sunny!
Let's go!
(GUARDS CHATTERING) (GRUNTING)
I've considered your proposal and I've come to a decision.
Well, you gonna keep me in suspense?
I compromised at the conclave.
I traded my principles for empty promises.
But the lives of the innocent are at stake.
I'm their only chance and their only hope.
And I'm never gonna to let them down ever again.
Which is why I'm making an alliance with Quinn.
You can't be serious.
Quinn is way too...
Combustible.
We tried it your way. Now, we're playing it mine.
Now all you have to do is find Quinn.
(SIGHS)
And may the gods help you if any Baron beats you to him.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
You're sure this is the place?
You bring him out.
But I get to kill him.
Huh?
(GRUNTS)
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
(GUARDS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(GASPS)
(GUARDS SHOUTING)
DECLAN: What just happened?
Someone's coming for us.
I'll have the men set up a defensive perimeter.
(STUTTERS)
Where's Veil? Where's Henry?
Veil!
(PANTING)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)