Original subtitles

JOYOUS MUSIC

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

She's as green as old Ireland.

You haven't got a

snowball's chance in hell.

I can turn her.

Can you now?

On your own?

I'd pay to see it.

Would you now?

Let's have fifty bucks on it.

JOYOUS MUSIC

Oh, an Irish girl.

I'd know an Irish girl

anywhere,...

..and I bet you this is one for

sure.

I'd say myself that she is

English gentry.

I'm as Irish as yourselves and I

know very well you're only

teasing me.

Oh, and she's good and

clever on top of it all.

Well, maybe we'll meet each

other later on.

Right now I have to tend to a

friend of mine who is feeling

poorly.

Do you mind?

Peadar is my own name,

but they call me Petey.

And?

Úna. Úna is my name.

SOMBRE MUSIC

Hey, hey, hey!

What are you telling me?

You know nothing.

Fuck!

It was the easiest thing I've

ever done.

Úna was the girl's name.

Fifty bucks. I prefer notes

instead of gold on this one too,

if you please.

That girl's just not cut out for

the work.

The bet that we made hadn't

anything to do with that.

He's out cold now.

Leave it 'till morning if you

like.

Would you ever get out of here.

Tomorrow is Patrick's Day.

(SOUND OF A CREAKING DOOR)

(SOUND OF WHISTLING)

TITLE MUSIC

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

(SOUND OF VOICES)

(SOUND OF THE WIND HOWLING)

(SOUND OF VOICES)

-Happy St. Patrick's Day Petey.

-Same to yourself.

-Tom. A drop of the hard stuff

for the day that's in it.

-Ah, good man!

Séamus doesn't need Patrick's

Day or any other day to have a

little drop!

So, any bit of colour in there?

Well, I reckon now that

Tom's hiding it somewhere.

'Cause he has me on a labourer's

pay.

Lads, let's go to Dominion?

We'll go in the parade and we'll

see that new hotel of Belinda's.

The hotel will still be there

when we have reason to be in

town.

Ah Tom, for fuck's sake,

Patrick's Day!

Alright.

In Dominion, pretty girls need

not stoop to laundry or the

nursing of scurvy men.

No laundry or nursing, Ma'am?

You don't need to nurse

or do laundry.

The girls here earn a dollar

a dance.

Their share is half.

You get fifty cents to dance

with a man.

Ask her if she understands what

else is expected of the girls

here.

Do you know what else the girls

do here?

In the bedroom?

Is she a virgin?

Ma'am?

You understand. Ask her if she

knows how to fuck.

Do the laundry.

Well. At least Bridget's English

is improving.

(SOUND OF A HAMMER DRIVING

NAILS)

I understand your case

with Séamus.

But what has Tom ever done

to make you so angry?

Paudie, Tom was very generous to

us.

He paid for the windows.

It's about time there was peace

between you again.

It's time for the parade.

I can give you five dollars

for the lot.

You mean twenty. These are good

skins, the best.

Five dollars.

I'll take the lot.

The price you said. Twenty

dollars.

Great haggling, Tom.

Chief Isaac is looking

for a business partner.

Shipping supplies to Dominion

Creek.

He has packers to deliver

directly to the claims.

That's interesting.

I could see that working.

Very interesting. It's

fascinating.

Séamus, the parade is starting

down there...

..go down.

And your brother needs cash to

set it up, is that it?

Yes.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

With Winter past, the Connollys

emerge from hibernation...

..to parade brazenly under

my window.

You say the oldest brother is

keeping the gold from Séamus?

He is. It's driving Shamie

stone mad.

And the youngest brother,

the chapel builder?

That's Pádraig. He thinks

he's some class of a Saint.

He stole two of my whores

and turned them into nurses.

He wants nothing to do

with his brothers.

We must be sure he comes their

way.

Colonel, are you aware that we

still hold the deed to that plot

where he has built this

Catholic chapel?

I was not aware, Dear Estella.

I haven't seen Skookum Jim

in a while. Have you?

He is always in town.

Drunk?

Always.

See you, Tom.

See you.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

(IRISH MUSIC BEING PLAYED

IN THE STREET)

Peter, it is rumoured that you

wish to compete with me in the

saloon business.

No, not at all, Colonel. Never.

It's just Belinda Mulroney

has the fancy new hotel now...

..and she's putting her old

boarding house up for sale.

Indeed, that old rat's palace

always turned her a profit.

Well, that place will go for

eighty grand at least.

I'd be lucky if I could scrape

together ten.

Here's my offer. Convince Séamus

Connolly to partner with you

for another ten thousand...

..I will advance you both

the remaining sixty.

At my usual rate of interest.

Your usual rate is ferocious

high.

It's the price of going

into business in Dominion.

You're out to ruin Connolly.

How will it not ruin me too?

I give you my word.

If Séamus Connolly is ruined,

you will not go down with him.

I swear it.

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF SHOUTING AND CHEERING)

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF SHOUTING)

IRISH MUSIC

My dear, I would not have you

publicly drunk.

You would have me in widow's

weeds?

Would that improve business?

I would have you happy.

I have your happiness close

to heart.

IRISH MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

Hey, I have big news to tell

you.

I'm going to sell my claim and

I'm going to head off home.

What are you saying? No way!

They price the same for salt

around here as they do for gold.

But Micheál, as long as the gold

keeps coming, what matter the

price of salt sure?

No matter, because it's all

plain nonsense.

Three dollars for an egg!

I've gotten everything I wanted.

Plenty of money saved.

So I'm going to head off home

now,...

..before someone takes it from

me, or before I spend it

foolishly.

It's a cruel place here Tom.

Everyone turning on each other.

Well, that's not going

to happen to us anyway!

I'll see you later, Micheál.

Hey Micheál,drinking and

dancing, huh?

Hey, the word's going around

that you're selling up your lot.

Only rumours. Don't heed them.

How much do you want to get for

the claim?

I wouldn't sell it to you, even

if you freed Ireland herself.

Bollocks!

IRISH MUSIC

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

Oh, you heard the news did you?

Belinda's boarding house

is for sale.

Eighty thousand.

And I'm looking for a partner to

buy it.

Hey, listen to me.

I'm talking about you.

Me?

Do you think now that there's

forty thousand in there, do you?

It's only ten thousand bucks

each.

You see, I happen to have

someone who's going to put the

rest in.

-Oh? Who?

-Hopkins.

Fuck off lad!

I'm after killing his son and

now he's going to give me money?

Hopkins doesn't respect anything

but gold.

Ooh la la, look at this.

Soapy Smith is back in town with

a whole crowd of new women with

him.

Look at the legs on that one.

Soapy Smith? Where is he?

We should head back up to the

claim before it gets dark.

Yeah, they're gorgeous.

EXHILARATING MUSIC

Spiritus Sancti, Amen.

Sanctuary, Father!

I demand sanctuary!

I am pursued by demons!

Is there a key or a bolt?

No! You!

My father was dead and you

mocked him with your telegram.

Paud, you have received

absolution.

(SOUND OF A STRUGGLE)

Pádraig. Pádraig! Take it easy!

Take it easy!

This must be about the early

malfunctions of my telegraph

office.

I swear to God, I'll hang you

with your own guts.

-I know a place we can bring him

lads.

-You will bring him to the

Mounties.

You mentioned the Mounties?

But you know exactly what he did

to us.

Yes I do, and the law is the

way...

..we should deal with crimes in

this town.

He's right.

We'll let Sam Steele deal with

you.

No use talking Pádraig.

The decision's made by Tom.

Right!

UPBEAT MUSIC

Is it looking for a pay rise you

are? A one pipe conference we'll

be having so.

How far gone are you?

A month?

Two months?

You know yourself how

things can be up here.

Time slips past.

Three months?!

Pull your wedding date

back by a little bit.

Sam will be thrilled and

he won't notice anything.

None of us will let on.

It's not even a month since I

was with Sam for the first time.

UPBEAT MUSIC

(SOUND OF LAUGHTER)

UPBEAT MUSIC

I don't propose that we become

friends.

Mister McDonagh there has

elected a partnership with you.

And I see a profit in it.

For us all.

My son chose his own fate.

I'm in Dominion to pursue

wealth, not feuds.

Me too.

Do we need to consult your

brother?

Jacob, I don't answer to anyone.

(SOUND OF THE WIND BLOWING)

(S0UND OF A BURNING FIRE)

You killed his son and now he

wants to buy you a saloon?

Have you not had enough?

No.

If you accept that loan from

him you'll be in his pocket.

He won't bother us at all.

We only need ten thousand...

..and there are saloons in town

taking in five thousand a night.

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF RAINFALL)

Put away that whiskey and those

notions that go with it.

That gold is mine too, Tom.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

(SOUND OF MUSIC AND LAUGHTER)

Father Judge.

A unique place of worship.

Clearly built with love.

It's not Saint Peter's Basilica

but it serves God and us.

This lot of land was allowed to

you by my son.

But no deed exchanged hands.

I see.

What do you want?

The Connollys. I find their

presence in this town a grievous

insult.

I want you to send the boy

on his way.

You're making the vilest threats

in a consecrated place.

I'm offering you the deed to

some valuable land.

I'm offering a generous donation

to your hospital.

I'm offering to leave your

church standing.

And I'm offering you the door.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

(BIRD SONG)

You're very fond of that

communist there I see.

He says that workers have

nothing to lose but their

chains.

And do the Hopkins have chains

on you?

I'm a slave to the worst

family in Dominion, it seems.

What about my brother's claim?

They have no one who could cook

beans without burning them...

..or could even mend a hole in a

sock.

The only use you seem to see in

women is for cooking and mending

clothes...

..and keeping a bed warm.

I didn't mention a bed.

It was you that said

you felt like a slave.

Well why don't you go up

yourself to help your brothers?

Maybe I'll have to yet.

Sure we'll see.

I'd better be off.

(BIRD SONG)

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF RAINFALL)

Hey. I'm heading.

Going down to see your Squaw,

huh?

I'm going to meet Chief Isaac.

There's profit in it.

Have some patience, Séamus.

We're going to own half of that

town down the line,...

..not just that old boarding

house.

See you now.

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

(SOUND OF HITTING SOLID

MATERIAL)

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

Mister Connolly, I've followed

your rise with admiration.

You are shrewd.

What do you want with my

brother?

Business, profit. Nothing else.

He killed your son.

I have scarcely forgotten.

Best leave my brother be.

He doesn't have the means to go

into business with you.

You are saying he doesn't have

the financial means?

I'm saying best leave him be.

(SOUND OF DOOR SLAMMING)

MELLOW MUSIC

(SOUND OF CHATTING)

And yours for only twenty

dollars.

MELLOW MUSIC

I prefer paper money please.

You can go.

(SOUND OF RUSHED FOOTSTEPS)

I had him on a drunk

and disorderly charge.

Twenty dollars.

Now that's a crime in itself.

I knew we were doing a deal on

packers and supplies,

but I didn't think I'd be buying

a horse as well.

Neither did I.

That's a good deal though.

Thanks.

The whites call the newcomers

by our word, 'Cheechako'.

To us, they are all Cheechako.

We trade with them.

That is all.

Do you understand?

I understand.

Well the claim is yours now,

Bridget, and every blessing with

it.

You made a poor bargain

on the price...

..despite you being so clever.

Now Belinda, 'tis never a poor

bargain to do the right thing.

It's well you know that

yourself!

So will you go back home to

Ireland now?

That's right. And even though

I'll be sorry to leave you all

behind me...

..I won't be one bit sorry to

leave the land of gold behind

me.

You know Irish Pat won't be

happy that you've bought this

claim girl.

You may as well have insulted

the devil himself.

You understand that?

I see that devil's work clearly.

SOMBRE MUSIC

Séamus?

Séamus, come here till you

see our little horse.

Well, the best of luck to you

lads.

It's not easy doing business in

this town.

Oh, we'll be fine. Won't we,

Petey?

I've made a decision now.

I'll go up to my brother's claim

in the morning.

You're going to go and leave us.

What brought this on?

I know about Hopkins and the

threats he made to you.

Pádraig,...

..we will not be frightened by

men such as Hopkins.

And I'll make certain of that by

going.

I won't give you my blessing if

you do go.

(SOUND OF A SAW GETTING JAMMED)

This work isn't tough enough?

Every time I look up, I must be

confronted by your desolate

physiognomy.

What are you talking about?

Did you ever hear of Boethius,

sixth century Roman Philosopher.

Oh I did, yeah. A proper cunt

wasn't he?

Boethius had this idea that life

was like a wheel. See.

Going round and round with us

riding it.

Sooner or later, you've just got

to be at the bottom.

But the good news is, once

you're at the bottom you can

only rise to the top.

The thing is, you've got to

stick with the wheel.

And how do you know when you're

at the bottom?

How can you doubt it?

Come on.

(SOUND OF DIGGING)

(SOUND OF SIGHING AND PANTING)

DREARY MUSIC

Fucking idiot!

IRISH MUSIC

I wouldn't mind, only that was

the last time I was going to be

dealing in guns.

I'm sure.

It was, I'm serious. I'm not

going to be doing anything

illegal from now on.

Legitimate business from here on

Séamus.

It's time for Petey McDonagh

to settle down.

There's this girl, Úna.

I put her working in the Nugget.

But I like her, this one.

Hey, more whiskey!

IRISH MUSIC

I knew you'd come.

Ah Kate. Do you remember

the first night I saw you?

And you sang that song.

The Fair-Haired Boy.

Sing a verse. Sing the whole

lot.

I'm here to wish you

the luck of the Irish.

What luck? The luck that left

them trampled in the famine?

-Or spread the world over,

slaving? Nah...

-Séamus

I really can't stay.

Why not? Don't tell me that

Mountie has knocked all the fun

out of you, has he?

I shouldn't have said that.

That's not what I meant. Come

here. Stay a while.

Another time. I swear.

Another time.

The luck of the Irish!

Well this here is our luck.

American dollars.

And there's nothing Irish about

it.

In all of my days I haven't

been with an Irish girl yet.

Ah good God. Isn't the

Klondike...

.. full of surprises. 'Tis

indeed.

Ah now, that's it.

Now girleen, lie back there.

Now, that's it.

Good.

Stop!

Good.

-Stop!

-You're alright, take it easy.

-Stop!

-Take it easy.

Stop! Stop!

UPBEAT MUSIC

IRISH MUSIC

Two big long weeks,

chopping wood like a nigger.

And me owning a saloon.

Don't be worrying about it

Petey.

All the hardship will soon be

behind us.

Hardship? Is it?

None of you know anything about

hardship.

I was raised on the side of the

road.

We were evicted from the house

when I was only a young lad.

The bastard peelers.

They wanted to burn the thatch

over our heads.

That was hardship.

Oh, bastards.

And the Government man.

Him blotting down notes on

any sorrowful thing we had.

And he whistling away without a

care.

Play us a jig, a good jig now...

..before I tie the strings of

your violin around your

forehead.

MUSIC - THE CONNAUGHTMAN'S

RAMBLES

That's it!

Come on, Séamus.

Come on, Skooky!

Up there, boy!

THRILLING MUSIC

(SOUND OF CLAPPING)

THRILLING MUSIC

You fucking thief, you!

I'll have you paid back

within a month, Tom.

There's no way of paying back

what you did.

You dirty little thief!

Take it easy!

Stop! Enough!

I said enough!

I promised Dad that I'd look

after you.

But now he's dead. That's the

end of it.

-The gold's not just yours.

-Don't go anywhere near the

claim again.

That gold belongs to me.

You're no brother of mine

Séamus.

Did you fucking see that, Jim?

What?

Tom, he's got a horse.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

Seven hundred and forty two

dollars.

We never earned that much

digging for gold Petey, huh?

The bottom of the wheel.

That's where I am now.

-The bottom of the wheel.

-Ah you eejit!

Come here. You're a business man

now.

And you earning your share

in the city of gold.

As you say yourself.

He said 'From the looks of you,

you'd made good tinkers'.

He did, huh?

Well now Petey, home time I

reckon.

Come here.

Finish it up, I have you.

I have you, here.

Everything we had, thrown

on the side of the road.

-He was whistling away, he was.

-Yeah, fucker, whistling.

(WHISTLING - GREEN SLEEVES)

SOMBRE MUSIC

Bastard.

I have you man.

I have you man.

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

SOMBRE MUSIC

Petey, oh Petey?

Wait, wait Séamus.

I didn't want to do it.

They pressured me. That's the

honest to God truth. Séamus!

Right then, I believe you.

Let's go again anyway!

Séamus please don't! Séamus!

(SOUND OF SCREAMING)

DRAMATIC MUSIC

(SOUND OF A HORSE NEIGHING)

DRAMATIC MUSIC

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF CRICKETS)

SOMBRE MUSIC

SOMBRE MUSIC

(SOUND OF A HAMMER DRIVING

NAILS)

BIRD SONG

You're doing business with

Tom Connolly.

I want you to stop.

I will make the same deals with

you.

Why change for the same prices?

Tom Connolly does good business.

Ah yeah, Tom Connolly does good

business alright.

Fucking your little sister, El

Soo.

I can swear to that on a stack

of bibles.

-You haven't ever done

this before?

-What's in it?

Rue. Pennyroyal. And other

things.

I won't lie to you Kate.

It will make you sick for a

couple of days.

And you will lose

what's in your belly.

Tell me the story about

how you first came here.

Oh you know that story well

enough now.

Tell it to me again.

I came up the Yukon River with

five thousand dollars worth of

blankets...

...and hot water bottles.

Within a few weeks,

I had earned fifty thousand

dollars...

..selling to the poor frozen

people.

Then I bought a lunch counter.

Then a boarding house.

And now.

Was that a kick, Kate?

The baby just kicked.

Give me that drink quickly!

I can't give it to you.

It would kill the both of you.

You're too far gone.

Fucking hell!

You're late.

And you can get fucked!

You have just bought yourself

a third week here.

Keep talking. I need my wood

choppers.

You're a big man alright.

You're a big man and

Séamus Connolly fucking your

girl.

Go on, go ahead, kick me!

But I saw him take her upstairs.

I saw him.

Here, this will help.

What is..!

It's called Laudanum.

(SOUND OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE)

So pretty.

You will be welcome back inside

eventually.

If Pat reports well of you.

But for now.

Captain Pat, please explain to

her.

Úna, girl.

There's not much to explain.

Violet is your new name now.

And you are a good little whore.

(SOUND OF SCREAMING)

It's not what you think.

We are in love.

You have disgraced us.

You have disgraced me.

Stop this. Go, run!

You are no longer one of us.

Who told you about her and Tom?

Who told you?!

BIRD SONG

Hello.

What has brought you out to the

wilderness?

And what brought everyone else

out here?

We're looking for gold.

And you're wearing trousers.

And wearing trousers!

Violet is the name that Irish

Pat likes to give his whores.

-Maude is my name.

-Maude

We are a workers collective.

The first in the Klondike.

Well, would you have any use for

someone who could cook for you

and darn your socks?

We can vote on it.

Ever been down a mine?

Ever even held a shovel?

I'd say you couldn't hold

your own water.

Are any of you Irish?

Right.

You four set up camp, you're

hired.

You two fuck off back to town

and see can you get work as

whores.

Go on!

(SOUND OF A DOOR OPENING

AND SLAMMING SHUT)

Superintendent Steele,

what can I offer you?

Ready yourself.

This isn't about licensing.

You don't even speak the

same language as her.

You don't even speak her

language!

SOMBRE MUSIC

DRAMATIC MUSIC

DRAMATIC MUSIC

TITLE MUSIC