What are you gonna do, shoot in the air?
You wouldn't let me die, you're not gonna kill me.
So that makes me weak?
I'm not a threat to you or your boy. I need to be on your property.
I'd rather there's no contact at all. I'm gonna stay in the fields.
There's one thing I need, then you'll never have to deal with me again.
Verify this is your house so I'm in the right place.
What's this? It's a map.
That's my house. Why is it marked?
Okay, doesn't matter. Look, I'm gonna be out of the barn in an hour.
If you can spare it, I'm gonna take this canteen.
Is there somewhere I can fill it? This number, how did you get this?
That mean something to you?
What? Hey! Hey! Hey!
You're right. I'm not a killer.
But I'm fine with how a blast of rock salt to your face won't kill you.
Now you're gonna tell me who you are,
and what the fuck you're doing on my farm.
Okay.
Time travel hasn't been invented yet,
but in 30 years, it will have been. It's gonna be used by these criminal...
You're a looper?
I can't go back to the city because Abe, the boss,
his men will be searching for me 24/7 until they find me. Or find him.
All I've got is that map.
He had three houses marked on it, yours is one of them.
I know he's coming here.
You know about loopers? You know what we do?
So he's coming here to murder my son
because he thinks he might be this Rainmaker?
Once he kills the Rainmaker, what happens?
I think he thinks if he killed the Rainmaker,
he never would have been sent back.
He'd just vanish. He'd disappear just like he appeared.
He'd be back with his wife.
Who is he, this guy you let run?
Just some random guy from the future?
He's just somebody. You know what the numbers mean?
This is Cid's birthday
and this is the med code of the hospital he was born in.
How many kids were born in that hospital that day with your son?
- Like, two? - Sounds right.
Three kids, three houses marked on his map.
One of them is the Rainmaker.
He doesn't know which. What's he gonna do?
Oh, God.
Can he really do this? Think about what doing this would fix.
What he thinks it would fix.
If he comes here, will you stop him?
I'm asking, can I trust you? I don't care if you trust me.
I don't care about your son.
I lost my life. I kill this man, I get it back.
He'll kill the other two kids and come here last. Put off facing me.
All this goddamn cane leaves us blind.
He can get within 50 yards of this place without a hawk spotting him.
What makes sense is we burn the fields. Level them.
How much gas you got in that barn?
No, you can't burn down my cane fields. This stuff is half dead anyway.
It's the seed for next year. It's not gonna happen, you fucking nut.
Listen, use what you need and set up anywhere.
But one thing: I don't want you talking to Cid.
I watch my son, you watch the cane.
That's the deal. Good by me.
Fine.
Jesus. All right, hold still.
It's easy for things to get infected on a farm.
Start falling off.
Pussy.
I'm out here and you're in the house. We need a way to communicate.
There's a dinner bell in the barn. You can ring that if someone's coming.
Dinner bell. We need buzzers or walkies or something.
I don't know what we've got, but I'll look.
Cid!
- How's the math coming? - I want to help the man.
Help him with what? I could help him with my toys.
No. Let me talk to you.
I need you to stay away from that man. Okay?
Let him do his thing, but stick with me.
Okay? Is he not good?
Well, we're gonna see what he is. All right?
But I need you to stick with me.
Good boy.
Shh.
Hand me that Phillips.
Tell me if you hear her coming. What are we doing here?
Commundication.
But I need to make it stronger.
And how do we do that? Bigger battery.
Smart.
Do you kill people?
Uh... Let's say I kill people.
With your gun?
Uh-huh.
You want a gun like mine? Yeah.
What are you gonna do with it, pole vaulting? It's bigger than you.
Stop bad things from happening.
Shit!
So how long you and your mom been out here on the farm?
She's not.
She's not what?
Sara doesn't know, but I remember my real mom.
When I was a baby, I couldn't stop it.
Couldn't stop what?
I couldn't stop her from getting killed.
I saw it, but I couldn't stop it.
I wasn't strong enough.
You should, uh...
You should talk to your mom about this. She's not my mom. She's a liar.
Spotted him coming out of a sewer tunnel on the west end. He's on the run.
Think he's heading to the west on Talbott Street,
possibly to Whore's Alley. We have a visual.
You can't take that thing out with a plow or something?
Uh-huh.
Listen, I found a, uh...
In the barn, I found some parts and I made a thing.
Here.
So if you see something, just push that.
When?
Last night he woke me up. Don't tell him I told you. He didn't...
You said you were his morn.
Yeah.
He told me you're not.
He said that?
Yeah.
If he's not your son, who is he? He's my son.
I had Cid when I was 22.
But I didn't want to give up my life in the city.
So I dropped him here on the farm with my sister,
and she saw how I was living, so she took him.
And my sister, she raised him.
She loved him. He called her Morn.
How did she get killed?
Jesus Christ.
He remembers it. You've gotta talk to him.
I told you one thing. I told you to stay away from my son.
He asked about my gun. Stay out of it!
And stay the fuck away from my son!
Where does 56 go?
Oh, good. You're smart.
Twenty-one?
How long can you not sleep?
I don't know. Probably a while. It's a good question.
Where does it go? Come on.
Good.
Thirty-two?
You should help Joe watch. Joe?
Because he can't stay awake all the time.
Isn't our business. Okay? He's keeping us safe.
Let's do this now, okay?
You have 32 there. I know you know this one.
No. Eight times three is what? Thirty-two.
Eight times three is what?
Thirty-two.
I want you to count three eights. Eight, sixteen...
thirty-two.
You telling me you want alone time? No.
Then why don't you put that where it belongs?
Alone time. He's protecting us
because you can't do it.
I told you to stay away from him, didn't I? I never did anything.
Do you think I'm stupid? So?
I told Joe to leave... So?!
You do what I tell you! You can't tell me what to do.
You're not my mom!
You're not my mom! You're a liar!
You're gonna get killed because you won't stop lying!
Cid, calm down. You're lying! I hate you!
You're lying to me! I hate you! Cid...
I hate you! Liar! You're lying! Calm down. Calm down.
Liar!
You're not my mom! You're a liar!
You're not my mom!
I hate you!
Liar!
Liar! Liar!
I'm sorry.
It's okay, sweetie.
Holy shit.
Evening, ma'am.
Evening. How can I help you?
Ahem. You can start by accepting my apologies re the hour.
Hope I didn't catch you at supper. That's fine.
I've been walking between empty farms all day.
Thought I'd just tick this one off the list.
Not have to come back tomorrow. What's this about?
You alone here, ma'am?
My husband should be back any time.
Happy to hear it. Mm-hm.
Could I trouble you for some water?
I'll get you some. You can take the glass with you.
Actually, ma'am,
my business today, this ticking off the list business,
is gonna require me coming in, if that's all right.
Will you tell me what this is about? I will, yes.
Can I come in?
Ma'am?
I'm a deputized police officer, looking for an escaped criminal.
Anyone through here in the past two days, vagrants?
Vagrants are always passing, nobody near the house.
That man there?
He's young. No.
We're looking for his father too. Similar looking build, late 50s,
may or may not be traveling together.
Do you recognize them?
No. Keep them.
Your kids with your husband?
Yeah, just one.
How old? Ten.
Ten...
I'm gonna show you the barn and house.
And then you can be on your way.
I took the liberty with your barn. Apologies.
So the house.
Ten, you said? Your boy? Yeah.
And your husband? Mm-hm.
I've just gotta check in with the home office.
The boy's in the city with his father. When they getting back?
Couldn't tell you.
Ah.
This goddamn thing.
I can never get a signal this far out of town.
Ah. Piece of shit.
Okay. Here we go.
Is this man dangerous?
He shoots men down for a living. He's a stone-cold killer.
My boss has half the city looking for him.
Half the city and me, so...
And if you find him, there's a hell of a price.
Chunk of money like that, you should think on it.
I will. All right. Show me upstairs.
There's drafts in the house.
My granddad built this tunnel when the vagrant raids got bad.
- Nana said he was nuts. - Thank you, Granddad.
That wasn't the man. No. It's funny. I know that guy, though.
His name is Jesse. I like him. He's good.
He's gonna go away once he doesn't find me.
He won't hurt your morn.
Sara. Where's your morn?
Where's my mom?
She, uh, gave me up. I was younger than you.
We were vagrants, and she was alone.
I thought she was stupid for getting on the drugs she was on,
but now I see she was just so alone.
It's what she had.
She sold me to a panhandle gang.
I got away and I ran and ended up on this train.
I remember I was sitting there in an empty car.
And I saw myself over and over again,
killing those men that bought me, that got my mom on what she was on.
Just finding them and tearing them apart. Saving my mom.
But you didn't.
No, a man in the city found me, put a gun in my hand.
Gave me something that was mine.
That's just men trying to figure out what they would do to keep what's theirs, what they've got.
That's the only kind of man there is.
I'm not gonna let Sara get killed.
I think we're clear.
Sara!
Baby.
All working girls, yeah?
This whole block and a couple of blocks over.
Hello, Joe.
If you want to check those, too, I can arrange.
I'm an arranger, stranger.
If you don't see what you want to see, no refunds.
What?
What happened?
That's pretty good.
In the city, young guys would
hit on me by floating fucking quarters.
And I wouldn't tell them I was TK,
but I would keep their quarters down.
This one guy just busted a blood vessel in his eye trying to get it up.
He's you.
Your loop.
You lied to me.
But I know you're not lying when you say you're gonna kill this guy,
your own self.
You protected Cid from that gat man.
Uh...
Yeah. He saved your ass, didn't he?
He saved my ass. Yeah.
He's a...
He's a good kid.
Yeah, he is.
You know, when I came back, after my sister died,
I remember seeing him
for the first time in two years, just sitting on the porch.
I drove up crying. I'd been at this
party all night in the city when I got the call...
so I was wearing this ridiculous party dress.
All my ridiculous shit.
And I don't know if he...
even remembered me,
but he looked at me...
I abandoned him.
I abandoned my baby.
And I've seen so many men in the city,
who I look in their eyes and they're just lost.
So whether he loves me back or not,
as long as I'm there to raise him,
he's gonna be taken care of.
He's gonna be safe.
He's never gonna get lost.
Hello, Joe.
Jesse.
Put this down and let her go.
Sara, Jesse here is the best shot with a gat that I know.
When he lets you go, just sit on the couch. Don't do anything stupid.
He's coming here, Jess. My loop is coming here.
I gotta take you in. I got 948 bars of pure silver.
I close my loop, I get right with Abe.
Whatever he gives back, I'll split it with you.
Was that your plan?
Okay, take all of it.
Are you delusional? You ain't getting right.
Long as Abe's got one gat man standing he's gonna hunt you till his dying day.
We're gonna go now. Gonna get in my truck and you're just gonna...
I'm sorry.
The Rainmaker...
Cid!
Oh, my God!
Cid!
Cid?
It's him. What is he, some TK freak?
You knew.
What are you doing? How did your sister die?
What are you doing with those guns? Is that what happened to her?
No! He kill her like that?
No. He was climbing a bookshelf and it fell back on him.
He can get scared. It exploded.
Jesus frigging... He'll learn to control it.
Imagine what he's gonna do! If he did good with it, though.
If he grew up with me raising him.
If he grew up good...
He doesn't.
You stay away from him, Joe!
Cid! Stay away from Joe, baby!
Follow me, baby!
Come to me. It's okay.
It's okay, baby.
Right now two things have happened.
My loop knows Cid's the kid he's looking for.
And my gang knows I'm here.
That means in 15 minutes, one or both of them is coming down that highway.
Pack up the truck. Take everything you can and go.
Drive north away from the city.
Thank you.
Got everyone here, all our men.
Arm them up. Let's go.
I got him, Abe. I got him.
Well, shit.
That's right, motherfuckers.
Whoa. I got him.
Knew he was sweet on this one whore.
I checked her building... They found Joe
in a farm on the east side. That's why all the gat men are here.
The whole crew is arming up to make a sweep.
Joe?
Fuck Joe. Save your bullets! I've got the loop!
Not such a fuck-up now, huh? I'm bringing him up to see Abe.
Get this asshole!
Motherfuckers!
Holy shit.
Joe!
Guess I put the gun in that kid's hand, huh?
I guess everything comes back around.
Like your goddamn ties.
Take this truck. And take your gold and go live your life.
Nobody's coming after you. I fixed it.
You go kill the boy. That how you fix it?
You're goddamn right I'm gonna kill that boy!
You just got your life back. My life?
Your life. Becoming you.
Goddamn it! You've lost your fucking mind!
You let this boy live, he's gonna take everything you've got.
And everything I got!
See what he becomes. I haven't seen that yet.
Goddamn it!
Shit.
Okay, baby, we're going.
Put your seat belt on.
Stop. Duck down. It's okay.
- Stop, please. He can shoot us. - Duck down.
Stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Cid. I'm sorry.
It's okay. It's okay. I'm gonna get you down.
Okay, we're going into the cane. Go. Go.
Go.
No!
No. Cid, no.
No!
It's okay, baby. You're okay.
It's okay, baby.
It's okay.
I love you. Calm down.
Good boy.
Mommy loves you.
It's okay.
Mom.
Shit.
Oh. Oh. You did good.
You did so good. Good boy.
Listen to me. I need you to run into the fields now.
No, Mom, I don't want to leave you. It's okay.
- You need to go. Go! - Move!
Move, goddamn it!
Move.
Then I saw it.
I saw a mom who would die for her son.
A man who would kill for his wife.
A boy, angry and alone.
Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it.
And the path was a circle...
round and round.
So I changed it.
Cid!
Where's Joe?
He had to go away, baby.