The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Siobhan returns Colm’s finger and asks what would end the feud.

Scene 91 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Siobhan
Colm

Act oneAct two

Begins 56 min into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 91

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.
Scene 80
Colm appears with his index finger missing beneath a bloodied bandage, showing that his ultimatum is real.
Just before
Scene 88
Colm finishes the tune and leaves the bloody shears in view.
Scene 89
Padraic and Siobhan argue over keeping Colm’s finger; Siobhan takes it back.
Scene 90
Siobhan hears mainland gunfire as she walks toward Colm’s house.
Scene 91
This scene

91INT. COLM’S HOUSE - DUSK

A little later, COLM idles smoking, as SIOBHAN sits wincing at his bloody shears, the shoebox on a table between them.

SIOBHAN

Jesus, Colm. Did it hurt?

COLM

Hurt awful to begin with, I thought I was

going to faint! But, funny, it feels fine

now, in all the excitement. Would you

like a cup of tea?

SIOBHAN

I won’t, Colm. I only came up to give

you your finger back.

COLM nods & looks out the window at the pretty sunset skies.

COLM

It’s cleared up quite nice, actually.

And you wouldn’t have thought it would.

Pause.

SIOBHAN

What do you need from him, Colm? To end

all this?

COLM

Silence, Siobhan. Just silence.

SIOBHAN

One more silent man on Inisherin,

good-oh! Silence it is, so.

She gets up to go...

COLM

This isn’t about Inisherin. This is

about one boring man leaving another

man alone, that’s all.

SIOBHAN

‘One boring man”! Ye’re all fecking

boring! With your piddling grievances

over nothing! Ye’re all fecking boring!

(pause)

I’ll see he doesn’t talk to you no more.

COLM

Do. Else it’ll be all four of them the

next time...

(indicating his left hand)

...not just the one.

SIOBHAN

(You’re not serious.) *

(pause)

Well that won’t help your fecking music.

COLM

Aye. We’re getting somewhere now.

SIOBHAN

I think you might be ill, Colm.

COLM