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Hey, I want to ask you something.

I want you to be honest, all right?

Okay.

You got any regrets?

wash my bones away I'm slaving for

the company and I can't get any pay

well mine and coal

ain't a way to make a life

and I can't be the

kids in Hawaii now the haulers

are empty and the company left town

If you are dead, can I keep the truck over?

I'm in the main tunnel.

Ain't no one been in here in a hundred years.

And none of you don't get to keep no damn truck over.

for you to say.

Strange shit down here.

But there's coal, all right.

Over.

Hallelujah!

How much we talking? Over.

Seal shut.

Hold gas seal, maybe.

um

You've seen with your own eyes what they're doing next door at Rock Creek.

Dynamite in the mountain.

Bitting lead into the air.

Arsenic into the river.

They ain't here to hire us.

They're here for the land.

So we get new homes.

Ain't nothing special about this holler over any of them. We got elderly.

We got young.

Not everybody can up and move on. When we got money, we'll figure it out.

I got offered 50 large.

Now, when am I going to see another $50,000 in this lifetime?

If you sell, and many of us sells, they'll use court precedent to sue to

get the rest of the pots, just like they've done at Hobart.

Now, maybe you'll get 50 grand in your pocket, but the rest of us, we'll be

lucky if we get five.

You're going to sell out your mom?

Your cousin?

You're not going to plot over? Casey, your folks have been here longer than

any of us.

What do you say?

I saw coal dust on the patio today.

Coming down out of the sky like it was snow.

The same black dust that got into my daddy's lungs.

Chase, he turned 10 tomorrow.

He was out there playing in it.

It ain't right.

We'll put her to a vote.

Hey, Meemaw.

Any good

news?

Saddam Hussein's nuclear bomb potential.

We will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities.

Thanks.

What if we did get out?

You heard Doc.

He's selling out everyone we know.

Josie can't travel now with her loves.

But this here land might be worth a lot more than they're letting on.

I went down that old walk. I can't mind down the holler.

There's coal down there, Casey. Maybe a lot.

You went down there and you didn't tell me?

Look, you said you're worried about Chase. I am, too. I just... I want to

know our options.

Hey, I'm sorry, all right?

I should have told you.

This here's your family land. You got to be the one to side.

This is the only home I've ever known.

To let them win after all they done?

They don't figure it out.

Don't you go down that mountain again.

Promise me.

Yeah.

I do.

Okay.

You're annoying.

You all right, bud?

Hi. It's your birthday tomorrow.

You're only 10 years old.

Imagine that.

How about you and me?

We go down to New River Gorge tomorrow and catch some trout.

Okay.

We got some bank taxes we can't pay.

The bank is threatening foreclosure.

Look, son, I'm gonna live it with you.

The price on condemned land, if we take it through a minute domain, it ain't

much.

But if there is coal underneath there, and... We can do a direct sale.

Well, then we can talk turkey.

Casey and I would agree to that.

That's a damn shame.

Hey, do you hunt?

Buck season's coming up.

Yeah. Well, let me show you something.

6.3 tons on that big boy. Can you believe that?

See? That right there is me. And that man next to me you might recognize from

being on TV on account that he sits on the U.S. Senate.

Have you ever been on a safari, Jesse?

No. No.

Well, I figure you've never even lived in a county, have you?

Is that right?

Yeah, you can't even pay your mortgage.

What's that?

That is an offer.

Look, son, we're going to take the land either way.

Just a matter of when.

And how long before that bank moves in? What, a few weeks?

And they're going to take it anyway?

And leave you with nothing?

Just help us get what we need, Jesse.

And you'll be compensated.

And the real question is, how can you go home and look that pretty little wife of

yours in the eye if you don't?

What are you doing?

Feel the fire that burns in your eyes.

Time for bed. I don't want to go fishing.

What did I tell you?

If ISM bought for Kenya nuts, every day would be Christmas.

That's right.

I don't want to hear it.

You've been waiting to say I told you so since the day we were married.

So what? He dealt a little dope when he was a kid. Did a little time. Who didn't

around here?

I'm going to go look for him.

That ain't kind and that ain't true.

We'll talk when you can be nice.

Jetty in there?

Jetty? I told you, he ain't here.

How old is she?

How am I supposed to know?

Maybe when we go last year with Henley, though.

Hey, that ain't funny.

Do I look like a fucking clown?

It was with Bo Brown, okay?

Where? I don't know.

Probably drunk.

He'd be home sooner if you quit hounding him.

Hey, look, I didn't sell nothing, okay? I swear.

Don't you dart.

Jesse, what did you do?

You got the carbon monoxide detector?

About that.

Oh, now, settle down. What the hell you got in there?

I couldn't get my hands on the CMD, so I brought an old dusky here.

That's a cat, Bo.

Yeah. Ain't you never heard of a cat in a coal mine? It's a canary, dumbass.

It's a bird.

Yeah, I caught me a bird, too.

Just get it.

Anyway, I figure it's the same in principle.

How's your damn cord?

Well, come on.

Maybe I should stay here.

Give me the captain.

Why?

Because what if there's gas?

I don't want no harm to come to her.

It's Dusky. Bo, give me the cat. No. Give me the cat, Bo. Give me the cat.

You're scaring her.

It's okay, Dusky.

It's all right.

Talk to us if you get in trouble.

This place is huge.

Is it any cold?

Bo? Is that you?

Well, okay.

Finders keepers.

Tuskegee.

He's been missing since yesterday.

Well, how long do I got to wait to report it?

Look, it ain't like him.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

I understand.

Hey!

Well,

howdy, ma'am.

This here's a company of mine. For right now, I'm going to have to ask you to

keep off the property.

You're Dorothy Caton.

You strapped my daddy, Jeff.

You must be KC.

Yeah.

So you know for a fact that this ain't your land, and you got no right to be

here.

All I know is what's right here in black and white.

You can take it up with the home office, but I can't do nothing for you.

And I can't let you pass. Is Jesse in there?

Jesse?

What you want with that junkie?

What?

Don't tell me you went and married him.

Hey, I'm kidding.

What's the matter? You can't take a fucking joke? Yeah, I don't know, but...

They used to talk about you on the pit.

Jim's little girl had something of a reputation.

A real fucking stag. Fuck you. What I heard, you like to squeal like a stuck

fucking pig.

Oh, hi. Ma'am, can you just have a seat in the

corner?

Excuse me. Your goddamn thugs are on my land and my goddamn husband is missing.

I am so sorry, sir.

Casey, we've been trying to get a hold of you.

Why don't you sit down? Where's Jesse?

Sit.

For my sake.

Now listen, uh...

I don't know how to tell you this, but it seems like he ain't got words, so

here it is.

I got a call a few hours ago from the boys running GPR.

Your Jesse was in that mine during a partial collapse.

What? I want you to know I'm doing everything in my power to try to save

that boy.

Did you send him down there?

Point of fact...

He volunteered.

You're lying.

And even if you ain't, I want you off my land.

I'm finding myself.

Look, let me put this to you simple.

It ain't your land no more, Casey.

I made Jesse an offer, and he took it.

That's all right. We got copies. It's a fucking forgery.

Prove it. I will.

I'll sue you.

Yeah, and it'll be your word against his.

And without him there in court to testify, well, good luck.

Amen.

Told you so.

Manhattan is expecting a report.

You know what's at stake for our investors.

Now look, things work different down here.

You gotta work the people.

Now, our bosses know this.

And that is why they put me in charge of it.

Results, Lawson.

Hey who's there?

Help me, Casey!

Help me, Casey, please!

You're all right.

You're all right. You're all right.

Come on.

Hold still. It's going to sting, okay?

Okay.

What's this?

Where did you get this?

Case. The cool man gave it to me.

Okay.

Let's get you back to bed, okay? Okay.

Hey, open up.

Cricket?

Jesse's in trouble.

We gotta warn him.

It's too late.

He and Bo got trapped down a mineshaft.

It can't be. Well, it is. It ain't, Casey.

Bo was here.

Last night, he came in.

Coughing, hacking up a lung.

He was begging me for a hit.

Scared as shit.

I think he got me sick.

Where the hell is he now?

I called the Black Lung Clinic, and they came and took him.

The one up in Kingwood.

I've got to go.

Casey, you've been dreaming.

I've been having this one over and over.

It's dark. It's like my feet sliding under the ground, like it's pulling me

in.

In this dream, something's hunting me.

Something from down in the mountain hall or something.

It ain't human.

Get some rest.

Breathing Center

Well, shit, Poe.

Okay, okay, okay.

Here,

put it back.

No. Okay.

You've got to get me out of here, Casey.

They know I got out.

They don't want me to talk.

Please,

Casey. What happened, Poe?

Did you laugh?

in some greater dark.

What?

Don't let him open up the mountain, Casey.

I closed it back up.

But you've seen what it's done to me in just one second.

Don't let it out.

What brings you to Kenwood today?

And you are?

My name is Eli.

Visiting a relative.

Relative?

Would that happen to be... Bo Bryant?

You're blocking my truck.

Oh shit.

Come on, Jesse.

Where's your statue?

Hey, Bob.

Don't.

Get in.

Where are we going?

Taking you to Doc and Dipper's to stay a while.

Why? Keep you safe is why.

Because the call man?

Well, ain't you a little miracle?

I do.

Coming to get you, that's what.

What you think you're going to find down there in all that dark?

Don't matter.

You've got others that need you more than my junkie head.

You ain't real, so I don't got to listen to you.

Oh, that's okay, see.

Morning.

Give me a cigarette.

No, Meemaw, you know you can't.

You can shoot somebody.

Maybe.

You get to shoot at some bitch, I get to have smoke.

I was dead.

You were sick with something.

He said something real bad got in him down there.

And Cricket had it too.

What's down that mountain?

Cigarette.

What's down there?

It ain't the coal.

It's your drought. It meant it.

We got changed.

Jesse, the light down there, I can feel it.

Don't you go after him, girl.

There ain't no curse here.

It's just plain greed and sickness.

I'm gonna go get him out.

And then we're all gonna get out.

I know that this is home.

But it ain't worth this.

You've got a response.

responsibility to my family.

What the hell, Cricket? What are you doing?

It's after me.

What is? Cut me down like a goddamn whistle, Tig. You calm down. There ain't

nothing there.

You look.

Your pie-eyed is all.

See?

Is it Raleigh after you?

Yankee in the coat?

It ain't no Yankee.

It ain't a man at all.

Talking crazy.

Ain't you got a gun in here?

It's in the truck.

Just a little critter.

Cricket?

Me more.

Come on out, Cricket.

Not with that booger I hate.

There ain't no booger.

Grow a fucking sack, man.

Come on.

I'm gonna get you cleaned up.

Get a little coffee in you, my God.

Oh, Jesus. Meemaw.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. Come on. You're okay.

You're okay.

I'll get the spare.

You're okay. You're okay. You're okay.

Come on.

Come on.

Just give me more.

Doc, it's Casey.

Just here's Doc and Tipper's message machine.

Go on or leave us one, then.

Doc, it's Casey. You give me a call back as soon as you can.

Doc, is that you? Is Chase all right?

Doc?

Mrs. Scarborough, do you know who I am?

You killed Moe.

Moe Brown carried the flame.

He did not have the will to become it.

Go to hell.

Ma?

Chase?

You son of a bitch, what do you want?

Where?

Let him go.

You've got my father!

Stop it!

Stop it!

Jason! No!

You'll be good.

You already took our land.

You took our home.

Just let us go.

Don't you want to see your Jesse again?

Where is he?

We are found.

Embarrassing must we.

You were right.

You got any regrets?

Yeah, I got my share.

But I guess you ain't wantable.

Jason.

Jesse?

Hold on, okay?

Stay back.

I said stay fucking back!

Chase.

I found daddy.

Peace.

We should have just gone.

Oh, come on.

You've got to try.

What?

to fight for clean coal jobs for Americans, and we will be moving forward

with the Trout Mountain Dig at the soonest viable opportunity.

That ain't over yet.

It'll just keep coming again and again.

You're a good girl, Casey Scarborough.

Make your family proud.

You stay in a dark old mine.

Working away every day.

With your wife and kids on your mind.

You wake up in the morning and grab your hard hat.

Pray that you make it back home.

Your body is aching.

And you just can't take it, minding that dark black hole.

Dark black hole, take my soul, owe it to

you anyway.

Just don't let my children become the victims of the

mountain's evil ways.

And you miss being younger, a boy with a hunger to get far away

from this town.

You never knew how, why, or when, just knew that

you'd make it somehow.

Now 20 years older, shorter to shoulder, with boys who

are just like you.

Spinning their lies underground, proving their colors

are blue.

Dark black hole, take my soul, owe it to

you anyways.

Just don't let my children become the victims the mountains

eat.

Just don't let my children become the victims of

the mountain evil

Don't go down To dig the company's grave

Don't go down

Don't go down that dark hole

Don't go down

Don't go down that dark hole

Don't

go down and fill your

lungs with cold

that cleave you from your soul.

go down