![]() ![]() Margaret believes their only chance of survival right now is to follow Cookie and the group. They’re the only group to remain behind, and Elsa suggests they leave the wagon and try to catch up with James on horseback. He hopes to cut the six-hour ride down to four hours.Īll the wagons and horses head out except the Duttons. Cookie insists the Lakota are hunting nearby and when they discover the dead women and children, they’ll slaughter this group.Ĭookie doesn’t want to wait around and invites anyone who wants to to join him, but warns he’ll be moving fast. Margaret disagrees and explains they’ve been told to stay put. Margaret warns young John to hide if there’s any trouble.Ĭookie rides up, learns about their troubles, and yells for everyone to mount up and head to the fort. They’ll need to tell them they have men out hunting down the killers and promise they’ll bring back the murderers’ scalps and horses.Įlsa tries to go with her dad but, again, she actually listens and remains behind. James wants Wade and Colton to stay with the group and if any Native Americans show up, they should take them to see the dead bodies. James fills Wade and Colton in on the deaths and explains everyone will assume their group’s responsible because of the tracks. He wants to hunt them now and then move all the wagons to the fort. James is certain the murderers travel at night and are sleeping in the shade right this minute. Thomas suggests sending a few wagons directly to the fort right now, but Shea doesn’t think they have any guides to spare. They can then present the murderers and their horses to the victims’ families. Shea believes their first order of business needs to be killing (and scalping) the murderers. Everyone will be aware of the murders before they can make it to Fort Casper. Shea points out they’re about to go through Lakota, Nez Perce, Blackfoot, and Shoshone land. They can head there and let the soldiers take care of the thieves. One option is to head straight to Fort Casper. Margaret ( Faith Hill) joins them and James asks her to keep Josef as comfortable as possible. Risa and Josef are both in desperate need of a doctor, and Shea, Thomas ( LaMonica Garrett), and James also realize they need to do something about the thieves. He arrives as Colton’s sucking out the poison. She tells her dad about Josef and Risa, and he rides over to help. James ( Tim McGraw) yells at Elsa to stay away and for once she does as instructed. Whoever comes across this is going to assume Shea’s group is responsible for these murders. Suddenly, Shea realizes they’re leaving tracks all over the area. One has been raped before being murdered, and Shea ( Sam Elliott) knows whoever did this did it for sport. Thomas, Shea, and James ride a short distance ahead of the main group and are the first to discover smoldering teepees and the dead bodies of Lakota women and children. Wade ( James Landry Hébert) hustles off to grab a tourniquet. Colton (Noah Le Gros) leaps into action, throws his coat over the snake, and stomps it to death. Risa (Anna Fiamora) is injured in the fall and as Josef (Marc Rissmann) rushes to his wife’s aid, he’s also bitten by the snake. It hates us and everyone can feel it,” muses Elsa in a voice-over.Įlsa’s proven correct when a rattlesnake bites Risa’s horse’s leg causing her to be bucked off. “If land can have emotions, this land hates. She’s certain winter’s eager to kill them all as they travel through inhospitable territory. Elsa screams as she runs face-first into the remaining attackers firing wildly.Tim McGraw as James, Sam Elliott as Shea and LaMonica Garrett as Thomas in ‘1883’ season 1 episode 9 (Photo Cr: Emerson Miller / Paramount+ © 2022 MTV Entertainment Studios)Įlsa ( Isabel May) has concluded the world doesn’t want inhabitants as Paramount+ 1883 season one episode nine opens. Yet he is just as quick, piercing her stomach with an arrow. But she won’t back down.Įlsa draws her pistol, landing a fatal blow through the skull of her attacker. And Elsa is only breathing because these “enemies” can sell her at a high price. Native Americans run the land in 1883 a time scarred by the war between these Indigenous Peoples and the descendants of European settlers. Right from the start, she’s cast into the hellscape of the Westward Expansion. But those phrases were invented by professors at universities. And I understand it less than when I first cast eyes on this place. I heard a thousand stories… But none could describe this place. As she lies face down in nondescript plains, her words ring out: 1883 begins with the narration of the young woman we come to know as Elsa Dutton (Isabel May), daughter to James and Margaret Dutton (Tim McGraw & Faith Hill). ![]()
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