The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Siobhan packs to leave; she and Padraic say goodbye tearfully.

Scene 123 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Padraic
Siobhan

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:17 into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 123

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 120
Colm throws his severed fingers at Padraic’s empty house.
Scene 121
Padraic follows Siobhan and sees Colm pass with every finger gone.
Scene 122
Padraic and Siobhan search for the other fingers outside the bloodied house.
Scene 123
This scene

123INT. PADRAIC’S HOUSE - DAY

SIOBHAN is putting the final few things in her suitcase, to PADRAIC’s dismay.

PADRAIC

Now?! But you can’t be leaving now!

SIOBHAN

I can be leaving now. I can’t be waiting

round for any more of this madness.

(pause)

What did you say to him, Padraic?

PADRAIC

Nothing really!

She gives him a look.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

Well, I’d sort of had a chat with

Dominic earlier, and a new sort of tack

we thought I should try...

SIOBHAN

Oh God...

PADRAIC

More of a standing up for meself sort

of tack. Well it was all going fine

until he chopped off all his fingers!

SIOBHAN shakes her head, shuts her suitcase, & looks over the house one last time, tearfully.

SIOBHAN

Me books wouldn’t fit. Would you look

after them for me?

PADRAIC

Ar don’t go, Siobhan!

SIOBHAN

They’re all I have, really. Apart from

the obvious.

For a split second he can’t work out what that is, but then he does and they hug tearfully...

PADRAIC

You’ll be back soon, won’t ya, Siobhan?

SIOBHAN

Oh Padraic!

PADRAIC

Don’t say “Oh Padraic!” Say yes!

She sobs, then smiles thru her tears, grabs her suitcase, and leaves, and PADRAIC watches her go from the window, up the * misty lane to the bend, where she waves back at him...