The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Padraic leaves; Colm thanks him for looking after the dog, and they part without reconciliation.

Scene 174 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Last scene of act three

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Padraic
Colm

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:34 into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 174

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.
Scenes 92–128
The cost accumulates through more self-mutilation, Padraic’s cruelty, Siobhan’s departure, and the feud’s growing consequences.
Scenes 129–153
After Jenny’s death Padraic abandons his former gentleness and carries the feud back to Colm’s house.
Just before
Scene 171
Mrs McCormick watches Colm and Padraic from beside the ruins.
Scene 172
Colm supposes the burned house may make them quits; Padraic explicitly says it does not.
Scene 173
Colm apologizes for Jenny; Padraic says some things cannot be moved on from.
Scene 174
This scene

174EXT. BEACH - CONTINUOUS

PADRAIC

Anyways...

Pause. PADRAIC starts heading away...

COLM

Padraic?

Padraic stops.

COLM (CONT'D)

Thanks for looking after me dog for me,

anyway.

PADRAIC looks at the dog for a moment.

PADRAIC

Any time.

PADRAIC continues away...

As COLM looks back out to sea and whistles his tune a few moments, then lets it drift away to nothing...

And MRS MCCORMICK, pole still across her shoulders, watches it all, slightly disappointed...

And the distance between the two men gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

165 END