{"id":92541,"date":"2025-03-24T01:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/1923-season-2-episode-recap-only-gunshots-to-guide-us\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:28:29","slug":"1923-season-2-episode-recap-only-gunshots-to-guide-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/1923-season-2-episode-recap-only-gunshots-to-guide-us\/","title":{"rendered":"1923 Season 2 Episode Recap: Only Gunshots to Guide Us"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This is a full scene-by-scene recap of 1923 Season 2 Episode 5, \u201cOnly Gunshots to Guide Us.\u201d For a full episode discussion, please visit our 1923 Season 2 Episode 5 review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Father Renaud is panicking as cowboys run a herd of cattle through town. He\u2019s pressed against a door to keep himself safe.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s on the way to the Cattlemen\u2019s Club, a saloon and steakhouse, to peer into the windows. The nasty marshal is talking with Anders (C. Thomas Howell has a name!) inside about Teonna.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The marshal is waxing poetic about the lack of evolution the Native Americans have chosen, calling Teonna a bridge between the two worlds. She decided to remain an animal, lusting for the kill, and like the wolf, must be erased from this planet.<\/p>\n

Anders hasn\u2019t seen her, despite what the cowboy who rode with him said. Now, the cowboy changes his tune. Nobody wants to cross Anders. He\u2019s their paycheck.<\/p>\n

The marshal says Teonna killed the nuns in her sleep. Anders doesn\u2019t know this guy from Adam. Bring in the priest, and let\u2019s hear it from him. Father Renaud doesn\u2019t want to step foot inside such an awful place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Father Renaud is surprised when Anders asks him why<\/em> Teonna killed nuns. The father claims she\u2019s evil, and that prompts Anders to spill the tea.<\/p>\n

They find some hoofprints indicating they went north. Anders says that\u2019s not too bright since there\u2019s no cover up that way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teonna\u2019s trio is out in the open with thirsty, tired horses. Pete wants to split off to look for water. Since they\u2019re looking for three, it shouldn\u2019t be a problem.<\/p>\n

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Teonna laments that this used to be their country, but not one of their kind has ever escaped. Runs His Horse reminds her that they didn\u2019t escape because they refused to leave their people behind.<\/p>\n

Mamie Fossett and two others have guns trained on Spencer, who is handsomely dozing under a tree. They are asking about his exploits with animals. They\u2019re looking for the others we\u2019ve already visited. Fossett notes that all of them are from Montana and hauls Spencer in for daring to be from there.<\/p>\n

They tell Spencer how lucky he is that they have happened upon him since there\u2019s no water anywhere within 30 miles. Without them, he\u2019d die. Fugitive or not, he\u2019s damn lucky.<\/p>\n

Alex is on the train. She\u2019s not on the train for full service, so she gets to starve. She has no money, and the woman in her compartment only ordered one meal for her and her children. Alex lays her cards on the table with the man overseeing meals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He laughs when she says she can have money transferred in Chicago. It\u2019s been days since she ate, so she begs him. She doesn\u2019t mention she\u2019s pregnant. The man in charge of the dinner service isn\u2019t thrilled about her begging, but if she works for the meals, he\u2019ll keep her fed. She thanks him.<\/p>\n

Alex, dressed in a maid\u2019s uniform, cleans tables and serves meals. She\u2019s not bad at it.<\/p>\n

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A British couple talks about Alex\u2019s skin. Something tells me they will know who she is if they put their minds to it. Alex doesn\u2019t speak, even when they act as if she\u2019d have no idea what a biscuit is since she\u2019s an American.<\/p>\n

When the train hits a bump on the tracks, tea spills, and a man wants her to rub his crotch. He\u2019s a pig like so many men during this time. He takes her hand and places it on his junk, as if it\u2019s something he\u2019s proud of.<\/p>\n

Alex counts her tips. Another woman says that if she doesn\u2019t tell anyone about it, the money is hers. Once she gets her meal in hand, Alex devours it. Her new friend tells her to soak the hard bread in the stew. It will be soft soon enough.<\/p>\n

She returns to her cabin, and as soon as she takes off her shoes, the fellow from earlier knocks. He tells her when breakfast service begins and gives her a better pair of shoes.<\/p>\n

Her cabin mate is Irish and spurns Alex for being rich. Maybe, if she can marry (and with that face, of course she can), she can make it. <\/p>\n

Alex informs her again that she was robbed and she\u2019s already married. The Irishwoman says she doesn\u2019t think Alex has what it takes to survive out here, but mothers can endure anything.<\/p>\n

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Elsa speaks a voiceover about mothers and children who experience love like nobody else. It\u2019s instinct.<\/p>\n

After being rude, the Irishwoman asks Alex if she\u2019ll take some extra food at the end of her shift.<\/p>\n

The British couple is alone in the dining car when she serves them tea. She interrupts their discussion, and now they\u2019re interested in who she is. It earns her a good tip. Then the crotch man calls her over. He asks after her stockings and some coffee.<\/p>\n

When she returns to the table, he moves his cup closer so she can spill it on his lap. What a total dick. She cries as he has his hand up her skirt and inside of her, and when he says her body says something other than no, she beats the living hell out of him with the coffee urn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex\u2019s next stop is a small cell where she won\u2019t even be able to stand up. The conductor threatens her with a lobotomy. He\u2019s seen plenty of women take a beating, but none of them have lost all of his teeth. She says he raped her with his hand. Is that not a crime on their trains?<\/p>\n

That will be up to the Chicago police. She falls to her knees and screams out in mental anguish.<\/p>\n

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Spencer is at the sheriff\u2019s office in Amarillo with Fossett. It\u2019s a busy place, so much so they\u2019ve built a lobby. There is active construction all around.<\/p>\n

When oil was found, a new level of rascals infiltrated the area, which is why it\u2019s hopping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fossett calls the sheriff in Boseman. Boseman has no sheriff, so they contact him with the Galliton County sheriff. She doesn\u2019t get the sheriff\u2019s name, but we know the sheriff. It\u2019s the Terminator, Sheriff McDowell!\u00a0<\/p>\n

When he hears Mamie\u2019s voice, he\u2019s skeptical that she\u2019s who she says she is since she\u2019s a female. McDowell says Spencer is a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and asks to talk with Spencer. McDowell wonders why he\u2019s taking the scenic route.<\/p>\n

Spencer asks if the men who killed his brother are still free. McDowell says that if he plans on returning to start a war, he should stay in Texas. McDowell tells her to arrest Spencer to save him the trouble, but Fossett says you can\u2019t arrest a man for what he might do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spencer gets his train ticket and even gets to keep his rifle. He wonders what happened to this country and what other rules were made while he was killing for this country.<\/p>\n

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Banner and his fellows are at the \u201ctrain station,\u201d as we know it from Yellowstone. A county with no people, judge, or jury of your peers. This is where they put the whole fucking lot of them. The poor woman who was asphyxiated by the whore is the first body.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd just like that, a problem disappears,\u201d one of the men says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The whore is out looking for new prey. As if we care. Why is this still part of the story? Eight episodes ad we\u2019ve got so much of it wasted with this trash. Fill in the blanks because I\u2019m fast-forwarding.<\/p>\n

The British couple says what happened to Alex isn\u2019t right, and the woman makes it her business to intervene. A police officer manhandles her to get her out of the brig, just as the woman and her husband, Paul, say, uh, she was a victim. OMG. That\u2019s not just any woman \u2014 that\u2019s Janet Montgomery!<\/p>\n

The guy who raped her told the police she was his girlfriend. Alex says perhaps a rapist is also capable of lying. Paul says he was prepared to intervene, but the lady was quite adept at intervening on her own behalf. They will make a statement, and Alex is released.<\/p>\n

The man is subsequently arrested. Alex has to file a formal complaint so they can prosecute him. She\u2019s free to go.<\/p>\n

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The Irishwoman stole her bag and her tips. She threw the \u201cone day you\u2019ll have children and you\u2019ll see\u201d comment at Alex, but Alex said she already sees.<\/p>\n

Alex looks at the train schedule. The train to Fargo has been canceled. It will be canceled until the snow melts. No one goes to Fargo in the winter, and winter ends in Fargo in June.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s defeated again, walking through the train station in her maid\u2019s uniform with nowhere to go. She spots Paul and Janet Montgomery, who offer her a ride somewhere. The woman seems adamant about helping Alex. Hopefully, she\u2019s not another predator like the whore in Boseman.<\/p>\n

Alex is sobbing into her hands when they approach. This isn\u2019t the place for a young lady. They offer to take her to Winnaker, which will remind her of Oxfordshire. Paul says a bit of respite from her adventures might be needed.<\/p>\n

Alex reminds him what happens to men with wayward hands around her.<\/p>\n

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Pete sees a gazelle or something running. They don\u2019t wander far from water, so he follows. A tree in the middle of the plains has the tiniest little pond around it. Of course, the nasty marshal and Father Renaud are down there. The chase is on.<\/p>\n

Pete\u2019s horse is exhausted and thirsty, so it\u2019s unlikely to be a long chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure enough, Pete\u2019s horse collapses, and my heart plummets to my feet. I just scared my cats to death when I screamed out loud. Pete grabs his rifle and begins shooting.<\/p>\n

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