The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Colm tells Padraic to sit elsewhere, then moves outside himself.

Scene 14 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Padraic
Gerry
Colm
Jonjo

Act oneAct two

Begins 5 min into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 14

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.

Scene 1
Padraic’s contented walk through Inisherin’s familiar landscape establishes his small, settled world.
Just before
Scene 11
Padraic spots Colm walking away through the telescope.
Scene 12
Padraic follows Colm across walls and fields, then loses him.
Scene 13
Padraic discovers Colm laughing with Jonjo and Gerry at the pub.
Scene 14
This scene

14INT. PUB - DAY

PADRAIC enters the pub and idles towards the jovial group, smiling. As he gets there, COLM loses his jocularity.

PADRAIC

Howdo!

GERRY

Howdo, Padraic!

COLM

Sit somewhere else.

PADRAIC

Hah?

A tension, COLM not even looking at him. The others look at each other.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

But I have me pint there, Colm...

JONJO

He has his pint there, Colm, from when he

came in and ordered his pint before... *

COLM

Oh, okay. I’ll sit somewhere else, so.

COLM takes his pint and leaves the pub, sitting at the table outside, which we see through the small window, GERRY & JONJO a little perturbed by all this.

GERRY

Are ye rowing?

PADRAIC

I didn’t think we were rowing.

GERRY

Well ye are rowing...

JONJO

Well ye are rowing. He’s sitting outside

on his own, like a whadyacall.

PADRAIC

It does look like we’re rowing. I

suppose I’d best go talk to him so. See

what all this is fecking about.

GERRY

That’d be the best thing.