New West - Hill Country

"You paying for the story on top of the body?" The Colonel wakes to Caroline’s dream of power over him and his men, the war chief and what lays ahead.

"Keep Your Pain Inside, Like the Rest of Us." Sherriff John Newman is now Caroline’s prisoner. The war chief is wary but agrees to Caroline’s plan because time is running out.

"She's Dead...You Left Her for Dead." Sheriff John Newman and Caroline are reunited in a way that they neither expected or know how to get out of.

I Want to Hunt Men. The time to leave has come. Caroline will not hide and slip away quietly. She will not run. She will march south among a column of warriors.

"The Girl Whose One Hand was Painted in Venom, the Other, a Rattle." Caroline surpasses all men and beasts in the field.

"Walking as a Woman, Becoming Once Again, an Animal." Caroline’s adopted father delivers her to the healer and provides a path for her to grow into whomever she chooses to become. He would track her down, not to save her but to watch her, like the spectator of a beautiful sport and smiled, knowing she was integrated with the world around her and had surpassed him in the way of hunting be...

"Although It Was Not Perfect, It Was a Plan." Caroline has learned enough about her captors and her environment to plan her escape back into the sea of grass and to the south. She needs provisions and a horse and time, none of which is easy.

"And Then Twitched in Vain." Caroline wakes up in a new world. She doesn’t know where she is and doesn’t understand the language. To some degree she is welcomed but she cannot leave so she turns her mind to observing everything and learning as much as possible.   Seamus’ Notes: The setting of episodes 11-15 is based on Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle and Caroline’s experiences ar...

Swallowed by a Sea of Grass.

We're playing for time.

"You Can Focus on the Pain or You Can Have Fun with It." Sheriff John Newman murders a man, Caroline defends herself in a powerful way, and the Ice House is finished. The Colonel is having fun with all of it.

"Some Illusion of You Being in Control." Jack's dead but the card game is still gonna happen and the Colonel is intent on having it at the Ice House.

"Let's Hear that Story Again Jack." Jack Spade’s wild story didn’t impress the Colonel, it confused him. Why would a man create a story, a lie, bigger than what could be true and tell it to a man such as the Colonel?

"A Reasonable Tax for a Desirable State of Mind." His philosophy was that of pleasure. He believed all humans instinctively sought pleasure, to satisfy their most primordial needs, and avoided pain so he held an ongoing parade and levied taxes on as far away as the Mexican lands to the south and Appalachian Empire to the east.

"You Can't Let Them Take Everything." Sheriff John Newman has no good options but he’s still got to choose one.

"He's Got You Running Around." The Hill Country has been in continual change from the dinosaurs and volcanic eruptions to the Garden of Eden that lasted for over ten thousand years before the fall. The sheriff had come to believe that this land, maybe more than others, was made for change, and that holding onto the past, good or bad, was a foolish notion.

"Don't Care Why He Wants to Kill Jack Spade." The New West is just one of the five civilized nations of what was the United States. In the Hill Country of Texas, Sheriff John Newman needs to stop a murder before it happens and help the young girl Caroline start a new life.

"Still Answer When the Devil Calls My Name." The Colonel left the Appalachian mountains to fight in the Sino-Asian War. He came to the Hill Country and created his domain, when he saw the end coming. Confronting the Colonel is Sheriff John Newman’s last option.

"I Can't Do It Anymore John..." The New West pushes everyone to their own edges, borders, limits. The year is 2083. The global population has been decimated by the final flu. The United States – not united for a long time – is no more.  Behind the Show: What changes and what never does. We know the past, we experience the present, and we assume the future is a straight line of progre...

The year is 2083. The global population has been decimated by the final flu. The United States – not united for a long time – is no more. New lines have been drawn. Five civilized nations stand – deeply divided by beliefs in freedom, liberty, God and self-reliance.  The story begins in one nation, the New West, which is much like the Old West. The heart of the wild Comanche empire, turned thriving...