The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Dominic quietly leaves Peadar’s house after confronting his father about executions.

Scene 108 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Peadar
Dominic

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:03 into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 108

In 1923 on Inisherin, Padraic tries to restore his friendship with Colm after Colm suddenly cuts him off, but Colm’s escalating demand for solitude draws their neighbors into a costly feud.

Scenes 1–14
Padraic inhabits an easy routine of animals, home, pub, and daily companionship with Colm.
Scenes 15–40
Colm’s rejection exposes Padraic’s dependence on the friendship and raises the possibility that his easy manner is part of the problem.
Scenes 41–50
Padraic asks the priest to put in a word; Colm then gives Padraic a concrete threat against further contact.
Scenes 51–79
Padraic navigates gossip, violence, loneliness, and attempted apologies while trying to understand Colm’s terms.
Scenes 80–91
Colm’s first missing finger makes his demand for silence undeniable; Siobhan returns the finger and asks what would end the feud.
Just before
Scene 105
Colm sits awake moonlit, looking at the place where his finger was.
Scene 106
Padraic wakes and sits up in bed as morning comes.
Scene 107
Padraic wakes to find Siobhan’s bed made and her gone.
Scene 108
This scene

108INT/EXT. DOMINIC’S HOUSE - DAWN 102 *

PEADAR lying naked on the double bed of his stark room, yawning, as in the next room, DOMINIC, pulls on a shirt and trousers. At one point during the scene we might notice some blood on the crumpled sheets that PEADAR is lounging on.

PEADAR

Aye, they’re not all they’re cracked up

to be, really, executions. No-one

cried. No-one fainted. Not a bit of

puke! Stoic! Equals boring! You cried

more just now, ya gom!

DOMINIC

Aye, well... maybe if it was their

Daddy who was executing them, maybe

then they’d have cried more.

DOMINIC quietly grabs a bottle and heads out with it, door banging behind him.

PEADAR

Well... touché!