Bloodride S1E1
Episode 1 "Ultimate Sacrifice"
Language of Origin: Norwegian
A man is on the phone talking with someone happily announcing that he is on his way to an interview to a highly respectable company. He arrives and we see just how luxurious the building is. The company named is Hartmann Finance.
Cut screen to 5 year earlier.
A family is seen moving in to a new house and it's like...in the middle of nowhere. The name on the moving boxes is none other than Hartman. The family of 3 arrive. The wife has a sour face the whole time and being a city girl, she is totally not happy. You would like the teenaged daughter, Katya, would get miffed but nah, she's much more optimistic compared to her mother. Leon tries to calm down the escalating Molly to just slow her roll with the hatred train there because she hasn't even given this house or surroundings a real chance.
2 neighbors stroll on by to introduce themselves and have some light chatter to break the tension. They seem friendly enough so, cool? Molly is taken aback saying they're...friendly. That's a bad thing, Molly? She finds it strange that they found their dog, Bolt more interest than meeting Katya who tried to introduce herself. No one else shares the same sentiment and thinks she's just being a negative nelly.
The next morning while Katya and her dad are about to get a headstart on working on that fixer upper of a house and supposedly right before they parted ways with the neighbors, they said they would bring people to help. Help they surely brought.
People from all ages get to work and spread out to their specialty areas. One is trimming weeds, some built a dog house for Bolt and others are cooking some grub. Everything is like eerily...nice?
Molly is off to the ride and notices that literally everyone there has brought their pet cat or dog and in some cases a goat with them. It strikes her hella odd. Mrs. Kloppen and her friend make friendly chit chat with her asking how she is adjusting to the country life. Molly makes a slight mention how of the animals around here. One cryptically replies that you'll never never know when they'll be usefull.
Later that night Molly shares her ponderings with her husband but he is very nonchalant about it and completely dismisses her inkling how suspiciously nice everyone is.
To relieve some stress, she goes out for a morning run when she sees the 2 woman from before. She gets the heebie jeebies from them and peeks behind a tree. Without skipping a beat she sees Mrs. Kloppen stab at her cat!!!! In a panic she breaks a twig, alerting the 2 women. Molly asks WTF just happened. They decide that the jig is up and she is ready to be told the thing.
Both calmly have her sit down at an outdoor table at one of their homes and proceed to explain that a house was built on the land of a very ancient Viking village and the stone that Molly saw the cat being ganked was their "sacrificial stone". If one sacrificed animals it will bring you good luck. They proceeded to name a few neighbors who it happened to. This small town is aware of it and they want to keep it that way so they swear Molly to secrecy, like not to go running to police or something.
Molly is trying to digest this information but Mrs. Kloppen gives her a stern warning that while the sacrifices may bring good luck, it will never be the all end answers to her lifelong problems so she must proceed with hella caution or else greed will consume you. If you are not careful, the stone will change you.
She arrives home and can't find her husband. She reads a note he left behind saying he went to fetch more mousetraps. That's when she gets an idea. Uh huh. She tests it out and live captures the mouse and sets off to the woods.
After her sacrifice, she beelines it to the nearest convenient store and asks for the scratch ticket. The cashier is one of the people who helped worked on her house and they both acknowledge about "THE STONE" she cautions Molly but doesn't say any more and fetches her ticket. She gleefully scratches...
She stomps on over the the asking WTF?! She killed a measly rat to only win 50 kroner (A little over $7 for us Americans to scale). For some fucking reason, they didn't tell her she had to BOND with the dang animal first. Well, fuck. If you don't know, now you know, Molly.
So she gets another idea. A terrible ass idea. While Leon and Katja are busy distracted unloading the car with supplies, she takes it upon herself to give Bolt a little walk. If you are watching this scene, maybe look away.
This goofy ass goes back to buy a scratcher but then looks at the lotto and it's currently at 65 million (~$9.7 million for Americans to scale) so this doggy murderer buys the ticket. When she gets home, she has to feign concern that Bolt is missing. Katja is legit worried and wants to go looking for him.
Once again, she gleefully is waiting for her luck to change when she turns on the TV for the winning lotto numbers. Thinking she is about to become a millionaire, she is a few numbers short and once again goes stomping to the women outside who are always conveniently available to accost outdoors. 3,000 KRONERS?!?!? (~$448) The missus asks the simple question: How much did you actually love that dog? The things that make you say hmmm.
Upon returning back inside, Molly just spills the beans to her husband that Bolt is dedz so stop looking for him! QUE? She wants to show him something...
She leads her husband to the sacrificial stone where poor Bolt's remains are still resting. As Leon is shocked and appalled, Molly spills even more beans tells him about the story of the sacrificial stones. He is like wut?!? The more she is explaining to him, the more she is mentally unraveling on her quest to win money to get the fuck out of this country ass town and lunges at him.
The next scene is a fast forward in time when that fella walked in the Hartmann Finance ready for his interview. While walking on his way to meet with head honcho, he makes small chit chat with the receptionist for tips to ask her? She responds "You could ask her how she made her first million." Heh. As he introduces himself, she twirls around and is revealed to be Katja.
Katja ended up overhearing her parents conversation and followed them out of the woods and in a struggle to save his dad, she killed her mother, Molly.
Closing out the episode the man being interviewed is sending his condolences losing her mother. OMG She is petting a cat!!
As if things haven't gotten any more fucked is when the interview dude follows up with "Must be terrible to have your dad gone missing a year later as well." She dead pan just replies "Sure. Big sad".
Episode 2 is next. It's an anthology so yeah.