Original subtitles

-At least we know his real name's Hunter Kingston now.

-I'm not confused anymore.

-No?

-No te vayas! No quiero que te vayas!

-I thought something happened to you.

-Thanks for coming by.

No me dejes sola.

-Just give me a chance. It won't happen again.

We are not family!

-The girl shot the boar!

-We almost got ourselves killed.

-I did it for you. -I'm not your mom!

♪♪

-Next time on "Sacred Lies"...

♪♪

[ Boar squealing ]

♪♪

♪♪

Aah!

You're okay. I'm not gonna hurt you.

♪♪

-It's okay.

♪♪

[ Boar grunting ]

-She's not gettin' my necklace.

-Hey! Don't let that girl get the boar!

-You don't belong here!

-Right there!

♪♪

That black girl, she just ran into the woods with the boys.

[ Indistinct talking ]

♪♪

♪♪

-Did you see her?

-I'm sorry.

-[ Grunts ]

Elsie, those girls in the woods.

[ Voice breaking ] Tell me who they were.

What are their names?

just like you ran from everything --

-And you ran away...

-You -- You saved me.

-[ Breathing heavily ]

You're different.

You've changed.

[ Boys grunting ]

♪♪

-Get her! -Aah!

[ Grunting ]

[ Boys, grunting shouting ]

-Aah!

-Where are you going?

♪♪

[ Grunting ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Grunts ]

-She needs to learn her lesson.

You want to be a boy? Is that it?

Huh?

Answer me.

You got no right killing that boar, making a mockery of us.

And what the hell are you doing out here?

[ Spear clatters ]

♪♪

Saved by a girl.

Goddamn pathetic.

♪♪

-Hunter!

-[ Breathing heavily ]

[ Thud ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Crunch ]

[ Boar grunting ] -Aah! No!

[ Boar grunting ]

[ Crying ]

[ Boar squealing ]

-[ Exhales sharply ]

-Amelia Harper.

♪♪

Mr. Kingston?

[ Boar squealing ]

[ Boar grunting ]

Somebody help!

-Aah!

-Help!

-Ah! [ Wincing ]

♪♪

[ Gun clicks ]

[ Both grunting ]

♪♪

-Mr. Kingston?

[ Thud ]

[ Electricity crackling ]

And we kill the beast.

Aah! No!

We pick up our spears.

Aaaah!

[ Boar grunting ] [ Screaming ]

No!

♪♪

Hello? Mr. Kingston?

We face our enemy.

-I know how Kingston men fight.

-Hello?

Well, that ain't the way a Kingston man fights.

-You take a cheap shot, and you hide up in your room.

[ Electricity crackles ]

[ Indistinct conversations in distance ]

♪♪

You ungrateful piece of --

-You think you can humiliate me in front of the whole town?

[ Boar grunting ]

Aaah!

♪♪

[ Boar squeals ]

Aaaah!

[ Boar grunting ]

♪♪

[ Leaves rustling ]

[ Boar grunting ]

-[ Breathing heavily ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Leaves rustling ]

-Stop her!

-Get her!

-Crazy bitch!

Get her!

-Amelia Harper! -Dyke!

-Hey, it's a girl!

♪♪

-[ Breathing heavily ]

♪♪

-Hey, girl, come back here!

-Hey, that's a girl!

-What's she doing out here?

-Who is that? -I've never seen her before.

♪♪

-What the hell's she doing?

♪♪

-Is that Amelia Harper?

-That bitch has some nerve showing her face here.

Stay here.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-I'm gonna go talk to Kingston.

Stay here. I'm serious.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

♪♪

♪♪

That monster is clever and dangerous.

Go get him!

One of you boys have got to stop this thing now!

He's gone. He...

He escaped!

[ Crowd murmuring ]

-Yeah!

-[ Grunts ]

-Where is it?

-So is that how you got your scar?

-Now, are boys ready to kill this monster?

A boar attacked you?

-For a minute...

-I'm sure as hell it felt good.

till it didn't.

I would have done the same thing.

everybody being pissed off at you doesn't make life easier.

-[ Chuckles ] Trust me,

I was messing with everything they believed in.

-Screw what they believe in.

That how you got back at them, by running after a boar?

That's why everybody hates you?

-Traditions matter to these people.

-That's it?

♪♪

-Get back here!

♪♪

-Amelia, what are you doing?

-Amelia.

-Go, boys!

-Go, Kingston boys!

-Come on, boys!

-Go get him, boys!

♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

I decided to show everybody who I really was.

-When I was 15, this was the day

-That's the reverend's daughter.

-You know who that is?

-It's the day everybody gets to live out

the fairy tale they grew up with.

-Wow, this is some serious "Lord of the Flies" shit.

-It's that Harper girl?

-These people look forward to this day all year.

♪♪

Get in there.

What the hell's the matter with you, boy?

♪♪

Go, boys!

[ Crowd cheering ]

[ Boar squealing ]

[ Boys shouting ]

Are you ready to kill this monster?

and now this is your chance to be part of our history,

[ Cheers and applause ]

your chance to be the King of Kingston!

-This tradition goes back more than 125 years,

♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Nobody's gonna remember what she was wearing.

Hey. Hi, ladies.

-She can change before the service tonight.

-She can't even put on a dress for one day.

[ Boar grunting ]

Come on.

There you go. You're okay.

♪♪

Well...

And your mama's watching over you.

You're ready for this. I know you are.

You make me proud, now, Hunter.

♪♪

won't just wear this necklace,

but you're also gonna drive home in a pre-owned 2013 Dodge Ram!

Huh?

to honor that heritage

to a Kingston man who has gone before us.

[ Banging ]

And whichever one of you is strong enough

Good luck, son.

-Is he stronger than you? -No!

These teeth have spilled the blood of our ancestors!

-Matt, good luck this year, son.

♪♪

-George. -Sir.

♪♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

for the generous donation.

Thanks to Lou and Orlane at Kingston Auto for --

[ Cheers and applause ]

He thinks he wants that crown more than you!

-Faster than you? -No!

-Every one of these teeth is your tribute

Are you gonna let him have it? -No!

-Boys, take a look at the fella sitting next to you.

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♪♪

[ Cheers and applause ]

Someone with my name in this little town?

♪♪

That's a weird coincidence, right?

-It's, uh, honoring the Kingston family.

-Elsie?

They're the assholes who founded this town.

-What is this?

and if he's in Kingston, I know where he'll be.

They definitely recognized Peter,

-[ Sighs ]

We don't need anything from them.

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♪♪

Come on. We don't need their help.

-That's your shame, not hers.

Haven't you brought enough shame on this family?

Just tell me his name. -Enough, Amelia.

You leave him alone.

-Who is he?

-I can take care of myself, Dad.

-I'm not gonna watch you get hurt again.

-You stay away from him.

Do you recognize him?

He might be a local.

I'm looking for this guy.

-I don't expect anything.

I don't.

I don't know what you expect from us.

And you threw it in all our faces.

After what you did, your dad almost lost the church.

-You made your choice.

-I don't go by that name anymore.

I pray for you every day, Amelia.

"I miss you. How are you?"

you could say to a daughter you haven't seen in 25 years.

-You know in your heart how I feel.

-I-I -- Man, I could think of a million other things

W-What are you doing? You can't be here, not today.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

♪♪

-Oh, God.

-Oh.

-Yeah, she does. Lots of them.

-But you still have girlfriends?

She's not my girlfriend.

-Did you have to bring your friend here?

You know we don't condone that sort of thing.

-No, she's a teenager, Mom.

This is my friend Elsie.

I'm sure everybody knows I'm here by now.

[ Scoffs ] It's nice to see you, too, Mom.

-Yep.

-Amelia!

Did anyone see you?

♪ The Bible tells me so ♪

♪ Yes, Jesus loves me ♪

♪ Yes, Jesus loves me ♪

♪ Yes, Jesus loves me ♪

-♪ Little ones to Him belong ♪

♪ They are weak, but He is strong ♪

♪ For the Bible tells me so ♪

[ Organ playing ]

-♪ Jesus loves me, this I know ♪

♪ Oh, how I love Je-- ♪

[ Discordant notes play ]

♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪

♪ Because He first loved me ♪

♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪

♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪

And everybody knew it.

-♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪

I wasn't like those other girls.

Never fit in.

♪♪

[ Organ playing ]

-I was in choir.

I hated it.

♪ They are weak ♪

♪ But He is strong ♪

-Damn. You can really sing.

♪ Little ones to Him belong ♪

♪ For the Bible tells me so ♪

Do you know this one?

♪ Jesus loves me, this I know ♪

[ Organ plays ]

[ Click, organ humming ]

Nothing happens in this town

So if anybody knows Peter, this is the place to ask.

without you hearing about it in church.

-Hello?

♪♪

Anybody here?

♪♪

Guess I'd have to know them first.

-I wish I could imagine my parents talking to me.

-...even if most of what she says is irritating.

-People die. Get over it.

It kind of works sometimes...

A therapist told me it helps with grief.

Sometimes I talk to my sister.

-Oh, no, I wasn't talking to you.

-I didn't say anything.

That's the universe telling you to turn the hell around.

-Yeah, just shut up.

That's not a coincidence, sis.

-Seriously?

♪♪

Of all the days to come home -- Kingston Day?

Everybody in Kingston has a gun.

♪♪

You're just gonna walk around with that in your pocket?

-Really?

-Don't let all this quaint, neighborly bullshit fool you.

Maybe I'm just losing it.

[ Seat belt clicks ]

There's something almost familiar about his face.

He's probably looking pretty different.

wouldn't you have, like, known each other?

-So, if you and Peter are from the same small town,

How's he doing this morning?

Yeah, he's good.

♪♪

-You would have run away first chance you got, like my sister.

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.

♪♪

-I haven't stepped foot in this town since I was 15.

-I used to fantasize about growing up in a place like this.

and be King of this town for a year.

-Hey, whoa, there you are!

Kingston has The Hunt.

and put on their Sunday best.

-[ Grunts ]

Hunter here's been helping me get him ready.

-Oh, he's good, Dad.

-Wait till you see the monster we have this year --

biggest guy yet.

-Good luck today.

There's somebody I want you to meet.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

Wait, wait.

This is my boy, Hunter.

[ Laughter ]

They have to be strong if they want to kill the Beast

And they feed their men to make them big and strong.

They curl their hair.

-Once a year, all the women in the town bake

They paint their nails.

Some towns have homecoming dances.

Some towns have Friday Night Football.

-Home.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-Where the hell are you going with that?

Is it connected to Peter?

-There's only one place I've seen scars like mine.

♪♪

-I got to go.

-Go where?

Is it because of the scar?

it's just too crazy.

What are you doing?

-What's too crazy?

It would have been 25 years ago, but...

Harper? Talk to me.

-I just don't recognize him.

♪♪

-What?

♪♪

[ Indistinct whispering ]

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♪♪

♪♪

it was a living hell.

For me...

♪♪

For the people of that town, it was a safe place,

a good place, a place where they belonged.

So most of them never left.

the God they should believe in.

The world outside was full of things they didn't agree with.

the clothes they should wear, the language they should speak,

where people all cared about the same things,

where everybody agreed on just about everything --

-Once upon a time, there was a little town

♪♪

♪♪

On who?

-Peter.

-Have you seen a scar like this before?

-Tradition back in my hometown.

-Who are you really?

Okay, good night.

-What is that?

-It's no problem.

-Yeah, well, you have kind of a old-timey, weird name.

-Short list.

-Thank you for letting me stay here, and in Roan's room.

Let me help you.

-This is every Elsie that was born in the last 15 to 20 years.

-I don't want to wait around to find out who I am.

You're no monster.

You're just scared.

♪♪

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.

Prepping him going on three months now.

And that was the very first Kingston Day.

-We got ourselves a big one this year.

and he hunted down that giant boar.

John Kingston marched off into those woods,

-It all happened a long time ago.

-Aah!

-Previously on "Sacred Lies"...

You would know that if you returned my calls or e-mails.