Burnt Prairie - Erin
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ponsoldt
Writer: Chad Taylor
Cast: Diana Silvers, Annabeth Gish, Jeremy Allen White, Colman Domingo, Josh Lucas, Robert Forster, Kristin Chenoweth, Grace Fulton, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Jacob Elordi and Joel Murray
Plot: “It’s not “Friday night lights” here. For one, it is played indoors and there are games played all throughout week, save for the Lord’s Day. Don’t get me wrong, most high schools throughout the state play football. But they all play basketball.”
Eh.
“Nine of the ten largest high school gymnasiums are in the state of Indiana. The largest is bigger than 75% of the 347 Division I colleges. The magnitude of Hoosier Hysteria knows no bound.”
Nope.
“Legend has it that Dr. James Naismith paid a visit to Indiana in 1925 to observe a high school basketball game. When reflecting upon it, he noted that – despite having invented basketball in Massachusetts – “basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.” There you have it – straight from the horse’s mouth.”
In the morning, Erin (Diana Silvers) eats breakfast with her mother Colleen (Annabeth Gish) and tries out these potential ledes for her article. Colleen agrees that none of them feel right just yet. Their breakfast is interrupted as Colleen answers the ringing phone. She looks shocked at what she hears. After she hangs up, she tells a curious Erin that Von Murphy passed away earlier this morning.
Colleen, as the mayor of the city, says she needs to go to her office. She gives Erin a long hug before leaving. Erin’s head is spinning as she tries to process this news.
To get out of her own head, she heads into town and goes to Mac’s for some coffee. She finds that the mood in town is unique as it seems that the news is slowing spreading - some people know, some don’t, and some are finding out. At Mac’s, her waitress Willow (Grace Fulton) seems shaken up and Erin hugs her - despite them not really knowing each other that well. Erin asks how Willow’s father Dick, Von’s basketball coach, is holding up. She says he never expected to face anything like this. None of them did.
As she is there, she sees Keith (Jeremy Allen White) arrive for work, looking very tired. They make eye contact but he thinks nothing of it. All she can think about is what she saw the night before.
When she leaves, she finds the atmosphere to be even more dour as the news has spread just about everywhere. Erin contacts her boss at her college newspaper and tells him that she is planning to stay in town for a little while longer as it is clearly about to become an even bigger story than before.
School is canceled for the day and an impromptu vigil is hosted that night by Rose (Kristin Chenoweth), who is still trying to process why he was found at her home. Everyone is taking turns comforting Von’s father Marvin (Colman Domingo) and brother Denni (Jahi Di’Allo Winston). There, Erin runs into Chris (Jacob Elordi). They briefly catch up. It becomes clear that they are exes but it is hard to really hash things out under these current circumstances.
As the vigil is ending, Erin spots Keith watching from afar. She tracks him down and says that she saw him with Von last night. He acts like she doesn’t know what he was talking about but she doesn’t back down. He tells her that he hung out with Von last night but he swears he wasn’t with him when he died. He begs with Erin not to tell anyone that him there. He’s a 25-year-old druggie dropout who will be easy to blame for all of this. She knows how this town can be with scapegoats.
Erin says that the truth is what matters most to her and she feels it is her obligation to tell the police what she knows. He asks her if her truth includes her hooking up with Von that night. She doesn’t know what to say. He tells her that they all make decisions in the moment without thinking about how they’ll be judged in the future. She hurriedly leaves without saying anything.
When Colleen arrives home, she fills her daughter in on the current state of the investigation. She says that Von was found overdosed in the home of Cal and Rose Montgomery, who were out of town when it occurred. There was supposedly a party there that night but they’re not sure. They will have a press conference tomorrow morning to brief the media and says her daughter is welcome to come to represent her school.
At the press conference, Erin sits amongst different journalists from outlets big and wide. She is approached by Doug Parker (Joel Murray), radio broadcaster for BPHS and sportswriter for the Burnt Prairie Post. He chooses to sit beside her, knowing she is the only other person from Burnt Prairie in the crowd. He points out how crazy it is that people from papers as big as the Chicago Tribune and USA Today are here.
Colleen starts off the press conference and, since there are a lot of reporters from out of town, welcomes people to Burnt Prairie. She gives way to Cal (Josh Lucas), who gives scant details on what they know so far about the death. He does say that they believe it was a drug overdose but not much more than that. He definitely does not reveal that Von was found at Cal’s home.
As the press conference ends, Doug spots Dick Carpenter (Robert Forster) near the front and goes to ask for a comment, since he obviously knew Von well. Erin follows. When asked, Dick waits a second to think about what he wants to say: “Von Murphy was one of the best players I’ve ever coached. His potential was limitless. And he was a good kid for the most part. But sometimes, when you have these inner-city kids come in to rural communities and there is a cultural difference they have to overcome. They're used to their hip and hop, and their do-rags and, unfortunately, their drugs. And they don't know how to adjust. You can take the urban kid out of the city but not the urban out of the kid, you know?”
Doug looks nervously at Erin, knowing right away the potential implications of what was just said. Erin jots down a new lede in her notebook:
Eh.
“Nine of the ten largest high school gymnasiums are in the state of Indiana. The largest is bigger than 75% of the 347 Division I colleges. The magnitude of Hoosier Hysteria knows no bound.”
Nope.
“Legend has it that Dr. James Naismith paid a visit to Indiana in 1925 to observe a high school basketball game. When reflecting upon it, he noted that – despite having invented basketball in Massachusetts – “basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.” There you have it – straight from the horse’s mouth.”
In the morning, Erin (Diana Silvers) eats breakfast with her mother Colleen (Annabeth Gish) and tries out these potential ledes for her article. Colleen agrees that none of them feel right just yet. Their breakfast is interrupted as Colleen answers the ringing phone. She looks shocked at what she hears. After she hangs up, she tells a curious Erin that Von Murphy passed away earlier this morning.
Colleen, as the mayor of the city, says she needs to go to her office. She gives Erin a long hug before leaving. Erin’s head is spinning as she tries to process this news.
To get out of her own head, she heads into town and goes to Mac’s for some coffee. She finds that the mood in town is unique as it seems that the news is slowing spreading - some people know, some don’t, and some are finding out. At Mac’s, her waitress Willow (Grace Fulton) seems shaken up and Erin hugs her - despite them not really knowing each other that well. Erin asks how Willow’s father Dick, Von’s basketball coach, is holding up. She says he never expected to face anything like this. None of them did.
As she is there, she sees Keith (Jeremy Allen White) arrive for work, looking very tired. They make eye contact but he thinks nothing of it. All she can think about is what she saw the night before.
When she leaves, she finds the atmosphere to be even more dour as the news has spread just about everywhere. Erin contacts her boss at her college newspaper and tells him that she is planning to stay in town for a little while longer as it is clearly about to become an even bigger story than before.
School is canceled for the day and an impromptu vigil is hosted that night by Rose (Kristin Chenoweth), who is still trying to process why he was found at her home. Everyone is taking turns comforting Von’s father Marvin (Colman Domingo) and brother Denni (Jahi Di’Allo Winston). There, Erin runs into Chris (Jacob Elordi). They briefly catch up. It becomes clear that they are exes but it is hard to really hash things out under these current circumstances.
As the vigil is ending, Erin spots Keith watching from afar. She tracks him down and says that she saw him with Von last night. He acts like she doesn’t know what he was talking about but she doesn’t back down. He tells her that he hung out with Von last night but he swears he wasn’t with him when he died. He begs with Erin not to tell anyone that him there. He’s a 25-year-old druggie dropout who will be easy to blame for all of this. She knows how this town can be with scapegoats.
Erin says that the truth is what matters most to her and she feels it is her obligation to tell the police what she knows. He asks her if her truth includes her hooking up with Von that night. She doesn’t know what to say. He tells her that they all make decisions in the moment without thinking about how they’ll be judged in the future. She hurriedly leaves without saying anything.
When Colleen arrives home, she fills her daughter in on the current state of the investigation. She says that Von was found overdosed in the home of Cal and Rose Montgomery, who were out of town when it occurred. There was supposedly a party there that night but they’re not sure. They will have a press conference tomorrow morning to brief the media and says her daughter is welcome to come to represent her school.
At the press conference, Erin sits amongst different journalists from outlets big and wide. She is approached by Doug Parker (Joel Murray), radio broadcaster for BPHS and sportswriter for the Burnt Prairie Post. He chooses to sit beside her, knowing she is the only other person from Burnt Prairie in the crowd. He points out how crazy it is that people from papers as big as the Chicago Tribune and USA Today are here.
Colleen starts off the press conference and, since there are a lot of reporters from out of town, welcomes people to Burnt Prairie. She gives way to Cal (Josh Lucas), who gives scant details on what they know so far about the death. He does say that they believe it was a drug overdose but not much more than that. He definitely does not reveal that Von was found at Cal’s home.
As the press conference ends, Doug spots Dick Carpenter (Robert Forster) near the front and goes to ask for a comment, since he obviously knew Von well. Erin follows. When asked, Dick waits a second to think about what he wants to say: “Von Murphy was one of the best players I’ve ever coached. His potential was limitless. And he was a good kid for the most part. But sometimes, when you have these inner-city kids come in to rural communities and there is a cultural difference they have to overcome. They're used to their hip and hop, and their do-rags and, unfortunately, their drugs. And they don't know how to adjust. You can take the urban kid out of the city but not the urban out of the kid, you know?”
Doug looks nervously at Erin, knowing right away the potential implications of what was just said. Erin jots down a new lede in her notebook:
“Burnt Prairie, Indiana. A farm town in the Crossroads of America, once pre-destined for notoriety for its prodigal son, now finds itself in the crosshairs of tragedy.”
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