Original subtitles

-He's escaped! He's -- He's gone!

-[ Grunts ]

♪♪

-Are you boys ready to kill this monster?!

-Yeah!

[ Cheers and applause ]

-Where? -Home.

-I used to fantasize about a place like this.

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

-Next time on "Sacred Lies"...

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

It's okay. Come out.

-Peter.

On who?

-Hey, come on.

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Have you seen a scar like this before?

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-What are you talking about, Elsie?

-What?

-Who are you, really?

-Who are you?

-Oh, uh, it's a long story.

It's a tradition back in my hometown.

-What is that?

Okay, good night.

-You're welcome.

[ Sighs ]

...it's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me.

-It's no problem.

-Getting my guitar back...

and in Roan's room.

-Thank you for letting me stay here,

and there's probably a spare, uh, toothbrush under the sink.

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-There's some towels i-in the closet,

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Aren't you?

Just scared.

You're just scared.

Yeah, you're no monster.

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[ Boar grunts ]

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I'm not gonna hurt you.

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There you go.

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Here you go.

You're okay. You're okay.

It's okay.

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-It's okay.

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[ Boar snorting ]

"Dancing Lions."

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What could that possibly mean?

-What, like she joined the circus?

"Mommy's with the Dancing Lions."

I didn't talk, but it says here I told the social worker,

-I always thought when they first picked me up,

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-Yeah.

-"Dancing Lions"?

-What's that?

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I wouldn't have picked me, either.

I made it so they had to choose --

I just wish...I could have met them sooner.

them or me.

I think by the time I met them, I was already too screwed up.

God, I really put them through it.

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They were really nice.

-They really wanted me.

-What happened here?

I don't know which one was worse.

Six months in juvie.

A year and a half in a group home.

I don't think she had a lot of money.

brand-new, and shoes.

She was really old. Sh-- She got sick.

But she took me shopping one time for clothes,

She always paid in change.

But we used to go for doughnuts after.

Used to make me go to mass with her every day,

like, every day, at 6:00 a.m.

Okay, she wasn't that bad.

until the state came and shut it down.

Turns out using foster kids as slave labor is not fair trade.

Eight of us sleeping in a barn, working sun-up to sundown

but happens more than you'd think.

The farm.

'cause I was getting fed on the regular

and they let me do whatever I wanted.

Then the wife got jealous, which sounds weird

But I didn't say anything to anyone

Let me see.

This guy was creeping on me.

like me.

-Good people?

you know, pushing everybody away,

-I don't want you to end up like Roan.

I don't want you to end up,

-What's your point?

Maybe somebody who tried to help you?

some good ones in there.

-Yeah. -But there had to be

I've been going through this thing.

You've known some pretty garbage people in your life.

You've been through 18 homes, right?

-Is this my file? How did you get it?

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-Well, it's probably better I don't answer that.

-[ Exhales sharply ]

-No one's ever gonna hurt me like that again.

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Yeah, you should make sure the strings are in there

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What was that about?

[ Boar squealing ]

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and all the pieces.

-Probably just paid three times what he gave the kid for it.

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-Hunter!

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[ Electricity crackling ]

I'm not proud of this.

Get back here!

Or your bullshit legacy.

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-I'm not you.

[ Crackling stops ]

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You get in there, and you show him who's boss!

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[ Boar snorting ]

[ Electricity crackling ]

-Yes, sir. -Yeah?

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-'Cause it's what makes us the men we are.

The histories, the traditions -- they matter.

-Yes, sir.

-Proud of where you come from.

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-Yes, sir.

All I ever wanted was for you to be proud of your name.

[ Electricity crackling ]

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[ Grunts ]

Come out here every night, get him good and riled.

So, he ain't been fed going on a week!

[ Boar grunting ]

Then you gotta make him mad.

Overfeeding him, bulking him up.

Ohh.

[ Grunts ]

Been prepping him going on three months now.

[ Boar grunts ]

He's locked up good and tight.

[ Snorting continues ]

He can't get ya.

[ Can clatters ]

-Ahh.

Relax already.

[ Muffled, echoing ] ♪ We will rise ♪

[ Boar snorting ]

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♪ To the other side ♪

[ Indistinct, echoing singing ]

♪ We can make it ♪

-[ Muffled ] ♪ My eyes are wide open ♪

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I'm so sorry.

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-[ Retching ]

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What have you ever done?

Every last man, woman, and child.

hell, this whole country exists because of men like him.

And now all these families --

The whole festival, what we do to the boar --

Huh?

He didn't share the land with the Natives, Dad.

-John Kingston did what he had to do to provide for his family.

It's barbaric.

He slaughtered them.

Just a white guy with a gun.

like the preacher tells those kids.

-He wasn't big or strong

-Yeah.

They'd think you was a pansy.

-What, you mean our great-granddaddy, John Kingston?

We got a legacy.

Couldn't tell folks that you run off to "make music."

-I had to make up something.

Tell everybody I was in the Army?

Mm. -Why'd you lie?

[ Laughs ]

Took six guys to load him into the truck.

-[ Sobbing ]

-We got ourselves a big one this year.

You're okay.

-[ Sobbing ] -I'm not going anywhere.

It's okay.

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-I'm not going anywhere.

It's okay.

You bitch, let me go!

-Let go! -Don't you touch me!

-Hey! -Don't touch me!

-That was all I had! That was all I had left of her!

-You son of a bitch! -[ Sobbing ]

-How could you do that to me?! -I told you -- [ Grunts ]

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-I'm sorry.

I sold it.

What did you do with her guitar?

I'm gonna get the money. I'm gonna get it back.

-Terrence, look at me.

and then I'm gonna get it back to you.

Like I'm a loser. Like I'm my mother, man!

Don't -- Don't look at me like that, please.

And so, he's gonna get it for me,

And this guy, he owes me.

And he said, "Tomorrow," he said.

So he'll give it to me tomorrow.

-I told you. I told you, okay?

I couldn't sleep, so I needed something.

-Listen, I don't know

I -- -Are you high?

what you're talking about, lady, okay?

You're gonna tell me what you did with her guitar.

-Who -- Who the hell are you?!

-I'm Elsie's friend.

What'd you do with the guitar, Terrence?!

-Hey!

Hey!

There are organizations that can help.

-Terrence!

-There are options.

and I have nowhere else to go.

And I'm turning 18 soon, so the benefits will end,

-Elsie, you shouldn't have been out here.

-You don't know what it's like under all of those roofs.

[ Laughter ]

You have a roof over your head.

[ Girls scream ]

you're that close to.

I can't imagine what it'd be like to lose someone

-I'm sorry.

She was j-just alone, unidentified.

She was just a-a numbered toe tag in a drawer for years.

And our parents didn't report her missing.

The cops just wrote it off as a junkie sex worker, no ID.

Nobody was looking for her.

-She OD'd.

-She's dead?

In a drawer at the county morgue.

She... [ Chuckles ]

For years.

And then I finally found her. [ Chuckles ]

Uh, I was just looking.

-Yeah, I rented a place,

got a room for her.

You found her?

-And you guys got a place, right?

so I left, too, and just started looking for her.

-No, things got really bad after that,

-But she didn't.

said she would come back for me.

and we didn't fit.

So, she finally had enough and just left,

She was wild, always getting into trouble.

-What was Roan doing out here?

We were, uh, from this tiny conservative town,

-She ran away from home.

-Yeah, it's one of the places I came looking for my sister.

[ Dogs barking ]

-You know your way around here pretty well.

Hey, have you guys seen a black kid, uh, carrying a guitar?

So, he's gotta come back for them.

His name is Terrence.

His sleeping bag, clothes?

but I told you already, he left.

-Okay, but he left his stuff, right?

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-Uh, Terrence's spot is over there,

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Welcome home, Hunter Kingston.

Thank you for your service.

living right here amongst us today.

And we have a couple of John Kingston's descendants

And that was the very first Kingston Day,

and that's how our town got its name.

until the ends of their days.

to share this beautiful land with the Native people.

And they all lived together in peace

Well, then there was a great feast to celebrate

and to welcome John and his family

the people's freedom from the terrifying beast

And he brought the head back to the chief.

He killed him!

that giant boar and, boom!

armed with nothing but his special "black spear"...

[ Laughter ] ...and he hunted down

Well, John Kingston marched off into those woods

his people, then John and his family

If he would kill the wild boar that had been terrorizing

could live amongst the Native people in peace.

So the chief offered John Kingston a deal.

and he knew that this man

was the solution to all their problems.

Well, the Native American Chief took one look at John Kingston,

-[ Laughs ] I thought you might.

-Oh, yeah. -I do.

Now, how many of us recognize that name?

One day, a man came to the village.

He was a settler by the name of John Kingston.

[ Children gasping ]

a tribe of Native Americans

who lived in fear of a terrifying beast,

a giant wild boar the size of 10 men!

Our town was inhabited by a very different people,

or even their mommies and daddies.

Before your mommies and daddies were born,

Before you were born.

it all happened a long, long time ago.

-Who we are and how we came to be here --

-I-I don't have anywhere else to go.

-Whoa.

This isn't a good time.

-Mnh-mnh.

Have you seen a guy with a guitar?

No, no, no, no.

[ Dogs barking ]

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-[ Crying ]

[ Knock on door ] -Okay, I'm coming!

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[ Grunts ] Damn!

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[ Indistinct conversations, dog barking in distance ]

You did! You did!

Hey.

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No.

Terrence.

I didn't mean to leave you, you know.

Terrence, dude, where are you?

-Terrence?

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-Stop using me as an excuse to push people away.

[ Clattering ]

-J-Just shut up!

Maybe I should just go?

-Shut up.

-Um...

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This is why you don't have anybody in your life except me.

I-I'm just confused.

-Yeah, no shit.

Dick move, sis.

[ Door opens, closes ]

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[ Both laugh ]

-I mean, I-I just have never, um, you know, with a --

It's just, um --

Um, I need a sec.

-Wow.

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-Yeah, good idea, 'cause I don't get any less weird.

-Wait. Wait. Sorry. Sorry.

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Why do any of this for me?

Did you see Buckner when we left?

-No, that's not what this is. I-I like you.

off your list in undergrad?

I just...

Hanging out with me --

You forgot to check "queer experimentation"

Eyebrows were full mast.

Okay.

-Right.

you don't want to raise eyebrows.

with a woman.

-Wow. Weird?

Your job is safe.

Congrats.

You get to go to work with those assholes in the morning.

It's just a little weird for me.

-Yep.

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It's true.

Why are you doing this?

Eyebrows were raised. [ Chuckles ]

-[ Laughs ]

-That was really dumb.

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-You're welcome.

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[ Caps clatter ]

-Well... [ Chuckles ]

was worried about you.

-You might want to watch that.

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-[ Grunting ]

-[ Coughs ]

I...

-That's not why I did this, though.

I-I wasn't protecting my job.

Or condolences, maybe. [ Chuckles ]

-Aah!

Aah! [ Grunts ]

She was leaving you!

I knew it from the first time I saw you.

She never loved you!

[ Both grunting ]

-Thanks.

-You're the one who killed her!

or that you'd been helping us out.

But you didn't have to bail me out just to keep your secret.

I didn't tell them that you tested Elsie's DNA

-No, obviously, thanks.

You took her from me!

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She was everything, and you were nothing!

-You made me do it!

You took my family from me!

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[ Wails ]

You should've left us alone!

-This is all your fault!

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They deserve to matter to somebody.

Everybody deserves to have the dignity of a name.

[ Gasps ] Aah!

-Yes.

I know about your sister.

-Have you ever even solved a case in your life?

-What's her name? -Roan.

-I know why you're doing this.

-This your room? -It's my sister's.

wanted a son.

[ Grunts ] -I was your son.

Never felt like it.

-I do.

-I just...

feeling like you don't belong anywhere?

Do you have any idea what it's like growing up

-Get ready for a new roommate.

I'm aging out next month.

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Not a foster kid anymore.

-What do you mean "gone"? -He's 18.

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-Where's Terrence? -Gone.

Left this morning.

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-Previously on "Sacred Lies"...

[ Gun cocks ]