"There he is." Geary says seeing him first.
"He's a dead man." Jensen replies to Geary while making it up the hill besides Geary and Banks.
"Yeah? Well, wait your turn." Dominika says, following up behind them with Kim as Brandon leads the pack, already standing off to the side a bit.
"Hey, Lawson. Don't bother getting up." Banks greets with a smile stopping a couple of feet from him with the others standing on either side of him.
Dom pushes her way inbetween Geary and Banks, both quickly stop her from going past them to the older man. "Son of a bitch!"
"Nice to see you too, honey." Lawson breathed out before taking another drag from his cigarette. Hearing his words, caused Brand to look from the man then back to Dominika. Putting two and two together.
"Where's our fucking money, Lawson?" Jensen asked.
"Gone."
"What do you mean gone?" Geary questions, stepping closer a bit. "Like gone gone?"
"Gone. History. Figure I ain't going make it. And if I can't have it, you sure as hell can't."
Dominika grabs Bank's gun from the front of his pants and quickly takes aim at Lawson, firing once, hitting the man in the chest before firing again, this time nailing him in the head. Kim jumps back in surprise as well as for Brandon who was also in shock but Dom shoves the gun back to Banks and moves away, a bit shanken.
"Aw fuck fuck!" Geary began to complain. "And we came all this way for what, huh? For what? For nothing, huh? This day sucks!" As he goes on, Kim moves a bit closer to her brother and gives him a look. "I told you, I told you."
"Geary, shut your mouth." Banks demands. "Or you're gonna get shot too."
"Banks, just shoot him. He never knows when to shut it." Jensen responds, trying to convince him as he walks up with the cigarette that Lawson had been smoking in his hand.
"Shut up, Jensen!" Geary yells.
"Stop it." Dom says softly from her spot next to Kim and Rhodes.
"Well, why don't we just go down to the end of the river and see if it's there?" Kim suggests looking up at Banks.
Banks nods. "Okay, let's go."
As they all begin to walk off, Brandon stops Kim. "Don't help 'em. Don't help 'em."
"I'm not. It's self-preservation." She says before moving along with Dom who looks at Brandon. He couldn't help but shake his head and give a smile, knowing that his sister got that from her.
Further down stream, they move towards the cliffs and that's when Kim takes notice of a blue bag on the rocks down below. She points it out wuickly to the others. Causing them all to move faster to check it out.
Dominika moves up behind her and looks down to see it as well first as Banks moves up on the other side of her. "Right there, on the rocks in the falls. We found it."
Brandon leads them a bit further down to get right ontop of it but a cliff still stands in their way of actually getting it. Geary looks down at the money bag then around to the others. "And what are we supposed to do now?"
"Someone's gotta get it." Dom says simply while leaning up against a tree, keeping Kim close to her.
"Bollocks to that." Jensen responds, leaning himself up against the same tree only standing higher up on a rock. "I ain't going down there."
"Send Geary." Dominika suggests.
The red head turns around at the sound of his name. "Why me?"
"What's the problem, Geary?" Banks asks.
"Nothing."
"He can't swim, can he?" Jensen says from his place behind Dom with a small smile lingering on his lips.
"Aw, screw you, Jensen."
"I'll get it." Brandon finally pipes up after sizing up the distance from where they were to all the way down to the money.
"He's gonna get it." Geary said pointing to him before moving away from the edge.
"What?" Kim exclaimed at the notion that her brother was going to risk his life to get the money.
"On one condition." Brand says ignoring Kim and looking over at Banks.
"Oh yeah? What's that? You want part of the cut?" Banks asked, leaning up against a tree next to Dominika.
"I'll go down there and get the money, but you're not getting it back until you let my sister go."
"Well, I'll tell you what, partner, why don't you go down there and get the money, then we'll talk about it?"
Brandon looks away from Banks over to Kim who was shaking her head, his eyes then move over to Dom who was just looking at him with a look on her face as if saying 'Why are you trying to make a deal with him'. After looking at the two women he looks back over at Banks and nods his head.
Moving towards the tree that Dom and Kim were at while removing his watch from his wrist, begining to untangle the rope that formed the ban. He tied it to the tree before wrapping the ofther end around his waist to lower himself down. Once he was finished, Banks walks up to him after seeing what the watch was able to do. "Aw, man, that is cool. I'm thinking I'm gonna have to have that watch."
Rhodes smirks then shakes his head. "I don't think so."
"I'm not negotiating."
Brandon holds up the metal face of the watch for him to take, seeing that he was using the rope. "Don't get too attached to it."
He then moves slowly backwawrds towards the ledge as Kim moves forwards a bit to watch him with a worried expression on her face. He looks at her and gives her a smile before continuing on.
"Brand, be careful." She says softly.
He winks at her. "I got you." He says before begining to disappear over the ledge as they all move a bit closer to watch him.
Geary begins to laugh, hitting Banks lightly to get his attention as he watches Brandon. "This guy is crazy bold."
"Oh yeah." Banks says softly before turning to Dominika who is standing a few feet behind Kim watching carefully over her and Rhodes as she decends farther down. He leans his head in and smells her hair. Dom is unphazed by it, ignoring him as she continues to watch.
The closer he got to the ground, Kim moved making her way a bit farther down so she could continue to watch causing Dominika to quickly follow after her, choosing not to make her stay behind because she herself wanted to watch Brandon.
"Oh, come on, Brand." Kim whispered silently to herself.
Once he finally reached the bottom, Brandon moved closer towards the money slowly so he didn't slip and lose the money. Reaching out and pulling it closer till he was able to get a firm grip on it, pulling it up till he wrapped the strap around him then he began to climb back up the rocks. Working against the slippery and cold icy rocks with bare hands.
"He's coming back up." Geary announces to the others.
Half way up the rocks, Brandon grabs a hold of a mossy rock that pulls away from the sturdier rocks, causing him to slip. "Brand, no!" Kim yelled moving closer towards the edge only to be stopped by the jerking of the rope by Dom whose face matched the worried and scared expression that Kim wore on hers.
"I'm okay." Rhodes calls up from the ledge he was able to catch himself on before he began to climb up once again. The moment he finally reaches the top, he stops were where he was and breaths a bit to catch his breath.
"All right. Nice job." Banks says bending down a bit.
"Let the girl go." Brandon says breathing heavily while looking over to Geary and Jensen before looking back at the man in charge.
"Oh Jensen." Banks calls in a sing song way while standing back up.
Jensen moves up behind Kim, grabbing her hair and forcing her to bend backwards a bit so she was looking up at him. He removes the cigarette from his mouth with his free hand and slowly begins to move it closer to her face.
Brand was about to move to help her but was stopped by Bank's voice. "All right, champ, nice and easy. Hand me the bag. You came this far. Just give me the bag, nice and easy."
"Don't do it, Brand." Kim says, trying to be brave.
"She's dead if you don't. Come on."
"You son of a bitch." Brandon sighs, removing the bag slowly then tossing it over to him.
Banks catches it before turning to hand it to Dominika. "Dom, are we good?"
As she takes it, Jensen pulls the cigarette from Kim's face but leans in, licking the side of her face. "Ahh, you sick fuck!" She yelled out, sickened before he then pushes her away and back towards Dom while laughing.
"Yeah, we're good." Dom replies after checking the bag.
"Oh, we are fuckin' solid." Banks grins, turning back to look at Brandon. "You know, moments like this reminds me of something my old man used to say. After he punched me in the face and called me fucking garbage, he used to say, 'Life is like a carton of milk: everybody's got an expiration date'."
Geary then took out his knife and quickly cut the rope that was connecting Rhodes to the tree. "What are you doing?" Kim yelled, seeing the knife.
Banks then raises up his gun and fires at Brandon, hitting him in the side, causing him to jump backwards then tumble over the edge and into the icy waters below. "No no! Don't! No!" Kim cried out as Dom's eyes widen in surprise at what Banks just did, she turns around unable to look anymore as Kim drops to the ground crying. "No!"
"Timber! Whoo!" Banks yells in a playful manner.
Dominika turns back around finally and looks at him. "Banks." Causing him to turn around to look at her with a smile lingering on his face, she shakes her head. "What the fuck did you do that for?" She complained, clearly upset over his choice to kill their guide. "Whose gonna lead us through the woods? Are you?"
Kim jumps up and attacks Banks. "You fucker!"
"Hey, no!" Dominika quickly grabs her, pulling her away, as Kim sinks back down to the floor crying.
"Okay." Banks shakes his head moving infront of Kim. "I don't like your family." He yells before aiming the gun at her.
"Banks, we need her." Dom tries reasoning with him.
"Aw, fuck it. You die."
Kim looks up finally at Banks and the gun, holding up her hand. "Wait wait!" She cries.
"What?"
"I know how to navigate."
"So?"
"So ask yourself this question, huh? Which way is North?"
He stops to think about that for a moment before lowering his gun, realizing that she had a point. "All right. She's got a point. I like your attitude. A little spunky. Survival instinct, that's good." He puts his gun away in his jacket as Dom lowers herself to her knees besides the teen. "All right, sweet cheeks, lead the way."
Kim is looking down at the ground, shaken and crying over what just happened. Dom places her hand over hers and gives it a gentle squeeze. "Hey." She says gently, getting the girl to look at her. "Which way?"
Kim looks at her and no one else, too scared to deal with the others. She thinks a moment before looking back at the woman. "Further upstream. There might be a spot we can cross."
Dom nods her head and gives her a warm friendly smile. "Good. Come on." She ushers, helping the teen up off the ground so they could move on.