♪ Moody ethereal music ♪
[Junior VO] My dad used to say that we work in acres,
not hours.
He was proud of that.
He'd get up before the sun did and...
go get onto some tractor that was probably gonna
break down before the day ended.
And I just... I knew that this meant something.
And I want to know why...
something so... selfless and something so simple...
could go south so quick.
[sighs]
- [Kody in distance] - ♪ Stone-cold death! ♪
♪ Stone-cold death! ♪
♪ Thrash metal playing from speakers? ♪
♪ Stone-cold death! ♪
[coughing]
[inhales deeply]
[Valerie] All right.
It's fine, Georgia.
I'm sure it happened in his sleep.
Hey, can you read me the medication schedule from
yesterday?
It... it should be there on his chart.
I will speak to Cynthia when I get there,
just read me the medication schedule, please.
[softly] You are are gonna Kill yourself singing that Satanic
music.
It ain't about the Devil.
All right, you know what?
Just don't touch anything.
I am on my way in, and I'm gonna be there in a few minutes,
but if you could calm down for me and I'm gonna call you back.
No, Geor... you know what?
Hang on a second.
Just one second.
[soft creaking]
[man on TV] Thanks, Don.
Well, folks, we've got another hot week ahead of us.
The high pressure system is continuing to work its way
north, bringing with it sunny days and high temps.
Mid-day highs are expected to reach 105 degrees.
Nighttime lows...
Got your biscuit!
[man on TV] Some shower activity is expected in the
southern region of the county later in the week but...
- Have you seen my hat? - [Junior] Thanks a lot, man.
- How's he doing? - [Adler] Clara, where's my hat?!
He's on one.
Smell like you had a good night.
Ah, closing down the Black Horse,
- you know. [Laughs] - Ah.
- I'll catch you out there. - All right, I'll be in the back.
What?
[Junior] Why don't you eat your breakfast?
- No, no, no, I... - S... I got to go.
Stanley needs a load.
[Junior] Stanley's been gone for 20 years.
Wh...
No, that... that... That's not right.
Where's Clara?!
[Junior] Just sit back and relax, will you, please?
But I...
[Junior] You want me to change the channel?
No! No, no, no, no.
Heavy sun, I've got to keep an eye on it.
Makes the air heavy too.
[laughs]
[Junior] Somebody's coming so I gotta go.
[man on TV]...Expected in the southern regions of the county
later in the week but it's unlikely to reach Columbia or.
New Hope regions.
[Valerie] Well, did you call the family?
Can you please calm down and don't touch anything?
I will be there in a second.
I'm just dropping Kody off and I'll be there,
all right?
Can you just hold on, for Heaven's sake?
I... all right, I... I gotta go.
Hey, Kody!
Kody!
I need to know if you're gonna be home for dinner tonight.
Do you even feel anything when they go?
Excuse me?
Kody!
It... it's my job!
I can't...
You drive two miles outside of town just to avoid his gas
station.
[Junior] Morning!
[sighs]
How y'all doin'?
Oh, [laughs] every day's a new blessing.
Well...
[laughs] Kodiak tell you how he drove the sprayer yesterday?
- [laughs] - Practically drives itself.
First time Daddy let me drive it,
I took out a fence.
- [Kody] [laughs] - Sounds about right.
Well, I'm proud of you, Kody.
That sounds real good.
Lucha here?
Uh, he's over by the bay, I think.
Great, thanks.
Bye to you!
God...
[Junior] He's a good kid.
He's just a kid, you know?
- [sighs] Yeah. - Takes a little while.
How's your dad doing today?
About the same.
Just keeps getting stuck in the past.
It ain't easy.
It is what it is.
It's gonna take a little work getting used to it but...
I gotta go, Junior.
I'm late and I got a new girl who who can't tie her own laces.
[Junior] I'll see ya.
See ya.
I don't, uh, guess you know anybody that could maybe help me
out with him, just a couple hours a day.
So I can get out in the fields without,
you know...
Yeah, I... I don't know, I was just... just if you know
- somebody... - Yeah, yeah, no.
I'll ask some of the girls.
Hey, Jun, a word of advice:
When he goes back to the past like that...
just let him stay there.
♪ Moody ethereal music ♪
Yeah, we just... we just talked and talked and that was pretty
much it.
Then I dropped her off and went home.
[scoffs] That's all you did?
Swear to God.
I spent like 30 bucks on Chili's, man.
That's way too much.
I even wore that damn red button-up shirt.
That thing is ugly.
[indistinct chatter]
It was m... that's disgusting.
But man...
what a tease, dude.
She just kept talking about Bobby dumping her.
Wait...
did she even know it was a date?
What are you talking about?
- Of course she did. - Did you ask her on a date?
I paid for the damn meal.
You boys come on, we're gonna prep the sweeper.
You got it.
Sorry, buddy.
I think you're friendzoned on that one.
Goddamn it.
[spits]
Well, shit.
[Junior] What's the problem, Sutt?
Bin five's goes sour.
[grunts] Earl's going to want a couple thousand bushels by noon.
Well, I think we got enough in bin three to keep him happy.
You boys are on maintenance this morning.
No sprayer?
[laughs]
You know the difference between young and old?
What's that?
Young still thinks they've got a choice in life.
All right, y'all go grease the corn head and I'll come find you
in a minute.
I'm only going 'cause I want to.
Shut up, Luch.
Hey, somebody's gotta mow that back half!
[Kody] Got it!
We're gonna have to knock that out of there.
[Junior] Let's give it a little bit.
See if it can air out.
You remember when you were their age?
Hardly.
Well, I do.
[laughs]
You are growing into your daddy's boots, Junior.
I'll give you that.
Hm.
Well, let's take a look at this.
♪ Moody ethereal music ♪
[Valerie] Look, it's gonna happen, it's fine.
[Georgia] I don't wanna call his family.
[Valerie] Okay, I'll make the call.
High today of 97 degrees, cooling later in the evening...
All right, look, you gotta be real careful with this or your
- finger'll come right off. - Wait a second, there's
- fucking spiders. - [Kody] Dude, who cares?
What do you mean "Who cares?'
Y... you're like the only person in this state that cares about
- spiders. - [Lucha] Are you kidding me?
- Have you been bit by one? - Just... just watch.
- [Lucha] All right. - [Kody] Two hands.
Pull this out.
That's gonna release the mechanism so we can push this
bad boy right on up.
All right?
♪ Emotional strings ♪
Oh, clever.
Yeah, that's real clever.
♪♪♪
Well, hi, Miss Barbara.
How are you doing today?
You all right?
Now, this is your new room.
What do you think?
- Pretty. - It's all right, yeah?
What do you think of your view?
I hear you like...
♪♪♪
[Adler] There you are.
[laughs]
♪ Thrash metal playing from speaker? ♪
Dude, so heavy!
Shit, yeah!
Shut up, wait for the transition.
Ready?
Ahh!
Holy shit, man!
[laughs]
You sound like friggin' chainsaw when you sing.
I still gotta work on the versus but...
I'm just saying, you... you always sound good when we play.
- This is mean, man. - [laughs]
[Lucha] Man, it's gonna crush live.
[laughs] I don't know about that.
I'm telling you, Ben could get us a slot at VFW.
And then all we have to do is get a... a demo to his uncle and
[smacks lips] bam.
Seriously?
Who's gonna come see us live?
We could open for someone.
I don't know, I mean, what's... What's the name of that band,
that hardcore band that Riser signed?
- Um... - [Kody] Bricklayer?
Yeah, yeah!
Holy shit, that would be crazy, man!
They bring a... they bring a big audience.
A... all we gotta do is practice and we're gonna be...
Dude, it's one thing to track this shit at home.
But doing it live?
There's no way.
I told you to quit listening to her, man.
Your dad would love that.
Dude, ain't about that.
I just don't think it's that good.
"I don't think it's that good."
Well, I think you're wrong, man.
- [Sutter] Hey, boys! - [laughs]
Gonna need ya out here!
♪ Ominous ethereal music ♪
[Kody] We walkin' it?
[Sutter] Well, it ain't gonna break itself up.
Wait, wait, wait wait.
What... what are we doin'?
Grain clumps together when it's sour,
won't come out the auger.
Uh, d... do y'all... do y'all do that a lot?
Just with the newbies.
[Sutter and Kody laugh]
I didn't know you Mendosa boys were so soft.
[Kody and Lucha chuckle]
We ain't... we ain't soft.
Hey, Daddy.
I'm sorry I'm late.
You wanna grab some grub?
Go get us some Eddie's?
Hey Daddy, is that good with you?
[groans]
[sighs]
[Sutter and Kody laugh]
- Hey, m... come on, stop, man! - What? [Laughs]
Did I ever tell you boys...
about the time I spent on the USS Gridley during Vietnam?
You, uh... you were in the Navy?
[Sutter] Sure was.
First time I ever saw the ocean.
[laughs] You talk about something big and scary...
[Kody] You good?
Just don't look down.
[birds chirping]
[Sutter] Most of the kids on that ship had never seen the
ocean, either.
We were... farm boys.
There was this one kid.
Man, he was a mess.
Could not keep a meal in his stomach.
Never did figure out what he was so afraid of.
Maybe...
Daddy!
[Sutter] Maybe something happened to him when he was
a kid around water or something.
Navy don't seem like a great place for someone like that.
No, it isn't.
We were sailing halfway around the world.
And this kid made it a living hell for every one of us.
He would not shut up.
Dad!
[Sutter] It started spreading to the rest of us.
Fear like that's contagious.
So what'd you guys do?
[Sutter] What do you think we did?
Threw him overboard!
We pulled him back in.
And I'll tell you what, he never made a sound the whole time on
that ship.
[Junior] Daddy!
What are you doing?
I've been calling for you.
You didn't hear me?
Stanley needs a load.
I told you this morning, Stanley...
Okay.
I forgot, you're right, yeah.
Uh, you better get it for him, then.
[laughs] I guess after thrashing around in that water,
the deck of that ship felt as good as dry land.
[loud mechanical rumbling]
[Sutter] Kody!
Kody, help!
Help me, Kody!
[Kody] Sutter!
[Sutter] Kody!
Kody!
No!
[Lucha] Kody, don't go!
Kody, [inaudible]!
Kody!
Hang on!
I'm sinking.
Oh, my God.
I can't move!
Get something!
- Come on, grab... grab this! - [Kody] Don't come down here!
- I can't move my legs. - Reach!
Reach!
Come on, grab it!
[Sutter] Help!
[Kody] Shit.
[Sutter] I can't... I can't get my legs up.
Help, please, Kody!
Help me!
[Kody] Shit.
Shit, shit, shit.
[Sutter] Help me!
[Kody] I'm sinking, Lucha.
Lucha!
[Lucha] Kody, come on, come on, pull yourself out!
Pull, pull!
♪ Dramatic music ♪
Come on, Kody!
Pull yourself out, man, come on!
Pull!
[Kody] I can't do it!
- I'm slipping, I'm slipping! - [Lucha] Kody!
Don't let go!
[Kody] [groans]
[groans]
♪♪♪
[machine powers down]
[Lucha in distance] Help!
Help!
They're going down!
They're in there!
Turn it off!
Help!
Shut it off!
Junior, they were in there!
Help, come on!
♪ Dramatic music ♪
[praying in foreign language].
[Junior] What happened?
Lucha, what happened?
What happened, what happened, what happened?
[breathing heavily]
Sutter, he, uh...
Sutter went under.
You got your cell phone?
- Call 911. - Yes, sir.
♪ Tense music ♪
[Junior] Kody?
[whimpering]
All right, don't move.
[whimpering] Went under...
Sutt?
Sutt?!
- Junior, we gotta get him! - Hey, stop!
Kody! Kody!
- [Kody] Junior, [inaudible]! - Don't move!
[breathing heavily] Oh, God.
Junior, I'm going under.
No, no, no, Kody, stop!
Stop, stop!
Okay?
Just right here.
Right here.
Don't move, not even a little bit.
It's 44.50.
♪ Mellow country music playing on radio ♪
Do you see something you like?
[register opens, coins clink]
[door dings]
[sighs]
[radio chirps]
[man on radio] Code three, 10-25 to Adler Grain and Feed.
We have two individuals involved in a grain engulfment.
One of them appears to be a minor.
Repeat, 10-25 to Adler Grain and Feed.
[phone rings]
Bill, you on this?
[Bill over phone] On it.
All right. [Clears throat]
I'll head straight there.
You bring the engine.
Make sure you grab a couple of O2 tanks.
- [Bill over phone] Frank... - [breathing heavily] What, Bill?
[Bill over phone] I think it might be Avery's boy.
Get the engine, Bill.
♪ Tense music ♪
[car engine starts]
[siren blares]
- [breathing heavily] Can't... - Can't you just pull me up?
I could come down in there and get you but I don't think that
this grain's stable.
I think I'll just push it on top of you, okay?
So we're just gonna wait until help comes.
- Junior, I can't... - Can't breathe.
I can't breathe.
[cries]
[sharp gasping]
All right, all right.
Where's your inhaler?
- [sharp gasping] - It's... it's in my pocket.
[whimpering]
That's gonna be a problem.
- [Kody] [sharp gasping] - Get my mom.
Get my mom, Junior.
[whimpering]
Okay, sit tight.
It's gonna be all right.
[phone buzzes]
Hey, Jun, what's going on?
Hello, Jun?
[Junior over phone] Now, um, everybody's okay and he's okay...
Wait.
What... what are you saying?
What's going on?
- [Junior over phone] - There's been an accident.
He's okay.
He's okay right now.
Junior, what are you talking about?
[sighs] It's Ko... it's Kody, he's in the grain bin.
He's...
he's in a bin?!
Junior, what happened?!
I... I don't know.
They were working in here, I don't know,
I don't know.
Listen to me.
You're gonna need to bring him his inhaler.
No, h... I... Kody should have his inhaler with him.
I know.
I know, but he can't get to it right now.
He, uh... it's under the corn.
Val?
♪ Tense music ♪
[Kody] [gasping and coughing]
All right, she's on her way.
[distant siren]
[siren]
[Adler] What's going on around here?!
I'm sorry.
[Adler] What?!
[softly] I'm sorry, Adler.
[sighs]
Well, what is it?!
Which bin?
We got a fire?!
♪ Eerie ambient din ♪
[breathing heavily]
Come on, come on.
[Kody] [sharp gasping]
[Frank] Heads up!
Frank, is that you?!
[Frank] Afraid so.
The sky's falling!
All right.
So Kody, I want you to tie this under your arms,
okay?
Do it slow.
[gasping] Are you gonna...
you gonna... are you gonna pull me out?
[Junior] No.
It's like I told you before, the pressure from the grain's too
much.
That's to keep you from going under.
[laughs] No shit.
All right, tie it off!
Frank, we're gonna need a grain tube!
On the way!
What's that?!
[Frank] Fall Creek's on the way!
Now get up here, Junior!
I can't leave him!
And I can't help with you the hell in the way!
All right, I'm going up, okay?
But I'm not leaving you.
I... I'm with you, everybody's with you.
[sharp gasping]
Frank!
Is that you up there?!
[Frank] Here!
Jesus, I hope he's not drunk.
Go lock down the road.
And... and Burges, no need to take the Lord's name in vain.
Yes, ma'am.
- Welch, you're with me. - Yes, ma'am.
[indistinct radio chatter]
How are you doing there, Mr. Adler?
Fire in number five.
There's no fire, sir.
Why don't you go with Deputy Welch?
You remember him?
I believe he used to play ball with Junior,
- Right? - Yeah.
- Junior? - Yeah, that's right,
that's right.
- You remember? - Where's Junior?
Come with me, I'll take you to him.
How are you doing there, son?
Were you in there?
Mm-hm.
Easy.
You're a Mendosa boy, right?
You want us to call your... your family for you?
No.
I'll call.
Okay.
Why don't you go wait in the shop, huh?
We'll send them your way.
[sniffles]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[distant siren]
M... ma'am.
Ma... ma'am, you gotta stay behind the lines!
- You gotta stay... - No!
What happened down there, Junior?
Sutter went under.
How long?
Hey, Kody's up, he's breathing, Val's bringing his inhaler...
- How long?! - 10 or 15 minutes.
- So what do we do about that? - We gotta focus on Kody now.
Yeah, what do we do about Sutter?
Yeah, where the hell are you?
- [Bill over radio] I'm in. - Make it four.
- I need that O2. - [Bill over radio] Copy.
I need you on that while I'm in there.
I can't risk a spark with all that dust.
[distant siren]
[labored breathing]
[Frank] Bad day, huh, Kodiak?
Listen, right now, the fine men of the Fall Creek Fire.
Department are tearing down Route 10 at 90 miles an hour in
a truck that weighs 65,000 pounds.
And on that truck, they got one of them grain tubes.
[sharp gasping]
And we're gonna lower it in here,
insert it around your body, and it's gonna save your life.
Frank, what do we do until then?
We keep you breathing.
[sirens]
Mrs. Rose, n...
- No, I need to see Kody. - No, Mrs. Rose, it's not safe.
But I need to see Kody!
There's not enough space up there for you and we need you to
stay out of the firemen's way.
But I've got his inhaler.
Okay, great, you need to give that to Bill.
But he's my son!
And right now, you're not helping him any.
Go on, Bill.
We'll take good care of him, Val.
I promise.
Just watch Frank.
Please.
Just watch him.
[whispers] Don't worry.
They say lightning don't strike twice.
They say a lot of stupid things.
[Kody] [sharp gasping]
Frank, it's getting t... tight.
I can't... I can't breathe.
That's the corn pressing in on your lungs.
Grain is like cement.
I ain't gonna shit you, Kody, it's bad.
We got you covered.
We're gonna get some oxygen down to you.
That should help.
- Bill! - [Bill] Ah, Jun!
- What do you need? - Set that there.
- Frank in there? - Yup.
- What do you need from me? - Uh, well...
Do you need me to do anything?
Well, uh, we're gonna need some lights soon if you wanna...
- You got it. - All right.
[groans]
[sighs]
[panting]
[Bill] Here, Frank!
'Bout time!
[Bill] How are we gonna make the handoff?
[Frank] Hold tight, Kody.
Hey, is he all right?
D... did Kody get his inhaler?
Yeah, they're gonna get it to him.
Jun, what happened in there?
Listen, Sutter went under, okay?
- Sutter went under? - Yeah.
What's up, you're just gonna goof around?
I mean, where were you, Jun?!
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!
Just stay here.
I'm trying to help.
[Frank] Shovel!
A little tight up here.
[Bill] You always gotta be such a dick?
Hold this.
Let me tell you something:
I'm a man who's known people.
I have known other human beings in a deep and intimate way.
And never, not once, have I looked into another person's
soul and not seen that secretly, that person was a dick.
[Bill] [laughs]
Now, when I get down in there, you hand that to me.
[sharp gasping]
[Frank] Now!
Hold it!
[sharp gasping]
All right, now.
Don't you move.
You let me do the work.
Here she comes!
Reach out and grab it.
Good boy.
[inhales deeply]
[Frank] Now, the mask.
♪ Emotional strings ♪
Keep them breaths quick and shallow.
Them deep breaths let the corn press in.
Bill!
Gimme an ETA on Fall Creek!
You're doing good.
♪♪♪
[mechanical clanking]
♪ Thrash metal bleeding through headphones? ♪
[Valerie] Lucha.
Lucha!
Shit!
Hey, uh... [sniffles] Miss Rose, uh...
Hey.
Hey, you all right?
Yeah, uh...
yeah, I'm... I'm okay.
What you listening to?
It's, uh...
it's Kody's.
You know, in, uh...
in the four years of him playing basketball,
I... I don't ev... I don't ever think he scored a point.
And, uh, he's about the only person I ever met that...
struck out in tee-ball.
[both laugh]
[sniffles]
I was always good at those things, Miss Rose, but...
sometimes, I wish I had what he's got.
[sniffles]
Thank you.
I tried to save him.
I swear I did.
[... I... I tr... I tried everything I could.
[Valerie] I know, I know that you did.
I tried to pull and pull and it was... it was too strong.
It was like tugging against the ocean, you know?
- It was... - I... I know!
But if you hadn't climbed out of there and shouted for help...
He's still in there!
I mean, is...
is he gonna be okay?
[sniffles]
[sighs]
Lucha.
What happened in there?
[whispering] I don't...
I don't know.
They... they... they tell us to go in there 'cause the corn
wouldn't come out and, uh...
[sniffles] and that thing turned on and they...
they just went under.
Where was Junior when this happened?
He was... I mean...
he was... he was n... he was on the ground by the time I got up.
♪ Emotional strings ♪
- [inaudible]! - Mama!
[crying]
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
♪♪♪
[groaning]
What's next?
How do I get out?
You just hang in there, all right?
[crying] How much longer?
[Frank] Real soon, Kody.
You still playing music?
[groaning]
I once told your mama you'd be the next Eddie Van Halen.
When we get out of here, you gotta play me some new tunes,
all right?
She hates you, you know.
[whispering] I know.
[Bill] Fall Creek's about 15 out!
Just keep that on.
Hey, Bill!
Come here.
They're about 15 minutes away.
I know.
I heard.
All that corn pressing in on him ain't good, Bill.
Well, what about a makeshift coffer dam.
Then we don't have to wait on Fall Cre...
That ain't the problem.
The problem is a 10-foot wall of corn between us.
It's an avalanche waiting to happen.
It just needs someone to push on it.
- Shit. - Now, I think, if I can get
a pulley up under that roof, we could lower in.
Have someone grab the rope access kit from the engine.
- I'm on it. - All right.
All right, Kody!
[groaning]
That grain tube is almost here.
How you feeling?
[whimpering] It's getting really heavy.
I'm gonna be down there with you real soon, buddy.
Make it quick, Bill!
Hey, Donald.
Hey, Jun.
How's he doing?
He's been a bit restless.
[Junior] Okay.
All right, I've got it from here.
- Thank you. - [Welch] All right.
Hey, Jun?
[, um...
I'm really sorry about what happened with Sutter.
[Junior] Okay, I... I appreciate it, Tommy.
Anytime.
Wait, what happened to Sut...
Hey, nothing.
No, that fella said somebody...
[Junior] No, it's after quitting time.
Sutter's, um...
he's probably down at the Black Horse having a cold beer.
[Adler] Pretty waitress down at the Black Horse.
[laughs] Knows how to tell a joke.
- [laughs] - [Junior] Clara?
- Oh, yeah. - [Junior] That's right.
I oughta marry her one day.
Oh, you will, I promise you.
- Where is sh... w... - Where's... Clar?!
Where's everybody?!
[sighs] Daddy.
[sighs] I'm right here.
[Adler] N... n... you're my son.
You and me, we're...
Did... did I do something wrong?
No, Daddy.
- No, I... I did... - No.
I did something wrong.
N... n... you... you're my son and you should tell me the truth!
What did I do?
Nothing, nothing.
- Come here, have a seat. - W...
Just have a seat, get comfortable.
Go and have a seat, Daddy.
Good, good.
[sharp gasping]
[Frank] You have to focus, Kody.
You can control it if you focus.
[crying] I can't.
I'm trying.
You're gonna have to try.
Hey.
Look at me.
Try to breathe like me.
[coughing]
[whimpering] I'm gonna... I'm gonna... I'm gonna drown!
[crying] I'm gonna drown just like my dad.
[gasping]
[crying]
[Valerie] Why didn't you just tell me?
I mean, he's confused.
Why didn't you just say that?
[Junior] Because I was right there and I let him do it.
I watched him do it.
Why was he even out there?
What was he doing?
[sighs] He thought he was working.
He thought he was doing something he'd done 1,000 times
before.
It's...
You just let him stay in the past.
- This is my fault. - No, it's not.
I mean, it is and it isn't.
It's everybody's but nobody's.
[sighs]
We're meek, ain't we?
Meek against all of this.
What are you talking about?
Do you ever ask yourself why, Junior?
Why your mama had to die the way she did?
Why your daddy's slipping away and you gotta watch it?
[sighs] Uh...
I always just kinda figured, you know, that's...
that's not really for us to know.
You sound like everybody else.
Everybody says "Have faith.
God knows why."
[scoffs] Do you know what I always say to them?
If there is a God, He's got...
Well, He's got a mean sense of humor.
Or a mind about like your dad, because you know what?
The why...
The why beats me down until I feel so numb,
I can't feel anything anymore.
I mean...
why?!
All of this, again!
And that man is the only one who can save my son!
[Junior] Listen to me.
I know, you know, and Frank knows... he knows...
That shouldn't have let Avery drive that night.
What the hell does that have to do with anything right now?
Right now, Frank is the only person who can save Kody.
And right now, sweetheart, that's the only thing that
matters.
I don't even know my own son anymore.
[coughing and gasping]
You know, I almost lost one of my girls.
You ever know that?
It was the scariest day of my life.
I never knew if I even wanted to have kids.
Some things have a way of deciding themselves.
I was scared shitless of being a dad.
I mean, puking in the sink kind of scared.
Little Emma, she come out fine.
She was screaming bloody murder when the doc slapped her.
But Sarah...
she wasn't... she wasn't breathing.
They called it a "spontaneous pneumothorax."
Collapsed lung.
And then they raced her out of there before I knew what was
going on.
She... she was in critical condition for three long days.
The longest days.
Your dad...
he was a damn good friend to me, Kodiak.
Man, he saw me at my worst.
I wasn't eating or sleeping.
But he stayed with me in that hospital hallway three long
days.
He wasn't gonna leave 'til we knew Sarah was gonna be okay.
And I'm gonna get you out of here, Kody.
You hear me?
I'm gonna get you out of here!
[distant siren]
See?
I told you they'd be here.
It's almost over now.
[Bill] Frank?
They need to talk to ya!
I'll talk to 'em when they get up here!
[Bill] They're cutting into the bin to relieve the pressure!
It's almost over.
I'll be right back.
[crying softly]
♪ Suspenseful music ♪
[Merrick] [inaudible] and find me a hole to cut.
As long as you get that stuff [inaudible] get that ladder up
there on top of that bin, we're gonna get that kid out of there.
Hey!
- You Captain Asshole?! - Excuse me?
Who in the hell are you?
You need to have your boys hold up for a second.
The situation in there ain't as simple as it seems.
- You're the New Hope chief? - Yeah.
The boy got a breathing condition or not?
Yeah, we got an inhaler...
Then we've got no time to waste.
That bin is what, 50,000 bushels?
About half full, right?
That's a million and a half pounds of corn in there.
That's a lot of pressure on that kid's lungs.
The kid is surrounded by unstable corn!
The minute you try and manipulate it and play God,
it's gonna pour in on him!
He'll be six feet under before you ever get in there!
You need to lower in from the roof with a grain tube!
Lower in?!
What the hell are you talking about?!
We ain't got time for that!
Besides...
I can't be sure you're thinking clearly given the circumstance.
Circumstance?
What the hell's that supposed to mean?
It is standard procedure to drain these things,
get the pressure off that kid's chest.
Standard procedure's gonna kill that kid!
You need... you need to listen to what I'm saying!
Goddamn it!
We are all here for the same goddamn reason!
Listen!
Frank.
He's right.
You shouldn't be the lead on this.
Look, you did good, you got Kody stabilized.
Let him bring him out.
It's just...
it's just too much for everyone right now.
[sighs] All right.
But he's wrong.
♪ Tense ambient music ♪
[groans]
[coughing]
[tearfully] Come on, Avery.
[crying] Come on!
Please.
[crying]
Avery...
Help!
An unexpected drop in pressure tonight as temperatures are
expected to dip as low as 73 degrees in the southern and
central areas of the county...
Who was was that girl?
You don't know her.
[sighs]
[Adler] Was that Clara?
No. [Sniffs]
Clara's not coming back.
[sighs]
♪ Emotional strings ♪
[Adler] It's all right, Junior.
Sun's gone down.
[inaudible] for a while now.
♪ Thrash metal plays in headphones ♪
[crying]
♪ Suspenseful music ♪
[buzzing]
♪♪♪
[faint grunting]
[buzzing]
[faint grunting]
[distant yelling]
I thought if something happened...
I don't know, but...
[gasps]
You get out my way, you dipshit old man!
- Get that asshole away from me! - I warned you!
We needed to lower in from the top with the grain tube!
- There wasn't time! - There was time!
That kid is a tough son of a bitch!
[overlapping shouting]
We're following procedure!
You can shove your goddamn procedure up your ass, old man!
That kid's dead in there now because of you!
Stop it!
I don't care...
about any of your protocol!
- Get out of his way! - [Frank] Move!
Let him bring my son back to me!
♪ Dramatic music ♪
Move!
[man] I'm not seeing him!
[man] Keep digging.
Dig, dig!
- [man] I can't see him. - [man] Keep digging!
Follow the rope!
- [man] Kody! - [Frank] Keep digging, come on!
Shh, shh.
He's here.
- [Kody] [sharp gasping] - There!
Keep digging!
Kody!
[man] Just keep digging.
Come on.
Come on, kid.
- There he is. - [man] We got him, we got him.
- [man] He's here, he's here. - [Frank] Come on, come on!
[man] We've got him.
♪♪♪
Shh, quiet!
He ain't breathing.
He ain't breathing!
Go!
Come on!
You hang on, buddy.
We're gonna get you.
Pull him out, Frank!
What'd he say?
Say again!
Give it to me.
John.
Give the lady the radio.
Bill.
Bill, what's going on up there?
Where's Kody?
[Frank] Get up under him.
Hold him.
Come on, now, Kody.
Bill, answer me, I swear to God!
[Frank] Come on, now, Kody.
You gotta be strong.
Come on, now!
[gurgling]
Code two.
[Kody] [coughing]
Bill, answer me!
We're gonna get you out now.
Hey, get that grain tube.
- [Kody] [sharp gasping] - Just hang with me.
- [Valerie over radio] - Bill, I am begging you.
What's going on?
They got him.
They got him, ma'am.
He's breathing.
He's okay.
[gasps]
[whispering] You okay?
♪ Emotional music ♪
[crying] He's okay.
He's okay!
[whispering] Okay, okay.
[crying]
♪♪♪
[siren]
You're gonna be fine, everything's fine.
♪♪♪
[man] And up.
♪♪♪
Hell of a day, huh, kid?
♪♪♪
[rustling, mechanical whirring]
[Junior] My dad used to say that we work in acres,
not hours.
He was proud of that.
He'd get up before the sun did and...
go get onto some tractor that was probably gonna break down
before the day ended.
Just working, working, working, working.
And, uh...
then he'd come in through that door for dinner time
just... covered in dirt and grease and...
wore out and sweaty and just this big ol' grin on his face.
Big ol' smile.
And then he and my mama...
Anyhow, it is that smile that made me say "This... this is for
me.
This is what I wanna do."
And he used to say to us, "You know...
people in town may not think much of us,
but don't worry too much about that...
'cause they're eating the food we grow for them."
And I just... I knew that this meant something.
And I want to know why...
something so... selfless and something so simple...
could...
could go south so quick.
I d... I don't understand why.
I don't understand why.
I don't understand why...
he can't tell a joke anymore, I don't understand why...
Kody's daddy got killed in an automobile accident,
I don't... I don't understand why...
somebody like Sutter...
I don't understand why.
And it's not sitting well.
And it don't seem right.
[sighs]
[Baxter] These things aren't meant to make sense to us, Jun.
There's one thing that the Lord has shown me over the years is
that...
He's got a real curious way of making good things come from
something bad.
[sighs]
Maybe.
- [woman over speaker] Dr. - Davis, telephone, please.
Dr. Davis, telephone, please.
[beeping]
[sniffles]
[sighs]
[cries]
[weakly] Hey, Mama.
[whispering] Hey, how you feel?
You okay?
Listen to me.
Your dad would be so proud of you.
- [cries] - Shh.
♪ Melancholic strings ♪
♪ "The Only Life I Know" by Easton Corbin ♪