Blood Meridian: Season 1
Episodes
Chapter I
Jan 1, 1985
The novel’s protagonist, if it can be said to have one, is the kid, born in 1833 during the Leonid meteor shower. His mother died in childbirth, and he was raised by his father, fo
Chapter II
Jan 8, 1985
The kid begins to live by begging and theft. He rides across a barren prairie, where the wind makes the weeds rattle like gnashing teeth. At night, the kid sleeps outside under a s
Chapter III
Jan 15, 1985
The kid is lying naked under some trees when a man on horseback, later identified as Sergeant Trammel, approaches him. The kid takes up his knife; the man greets him. He asks if th
Chapter IV
Jan 22, 1985
Five days later, mounted on Earl’s horse, the kid rides out with Captain White’s army of filibusters (people engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country). They ride
Chapter V
Jan 29, 1985
The kid “wondrously” survives the massacre; at night he rises and steals away under the moonlight, even while the Comanches celebrate their victory from higher ground. When day com
Chapter VI
Feb 5, 1985
During the day, the prisoners work in the city streets gathering up filth. Their overseer is a “goldtoothed pervert” whom Toadvine wants to kill personally. Toadvine assures the ki
Chapter VII
Feb 12, 1985
In the gang there are two men named John Jackson, one black, the other white. They have bad blood between them. As they ride under the mountains the white Jackson pulls up next to
Chapter VIII
Feb 19, 1985
Later, the scalp hunters stop at a cantina in Janos for drinks. In a dark corner, men are playing a confidence game with cards, called Monte. Out of the gloom, an old man shuffles
Chapter IX
Feb 26, 1985
The gang doesn’t ride an hour before Apaches launch an ambush, riding across a lakebed. The scalp hunters take cover under bushes while arrows fall, and they begin to fire at their
Chapter X
Mar 5, 1985
Some nights later, Tobin and the kid are sitting together around a campfire, the kid rather efficiently mending a strap. The two begin talking about the Judge, whom Tobin says is v
Chapter XI
Mar 12, 1985
The gang continues their journey into the mountains. At dusk, a bear rises out of the vegetation and, despite being shot by Glanton, manages to carry off in its jaws one of the Del
Chapter XII
Mar 19, 1985
For the next two weeks, the gang rides by night, making no campfires, through storms and nights of hail. At one point, they come upon five wagons aflame, surrounded by mutilated hu
Chapter XII
Mar 26, 1985
In Chihuahua City, the scalp hunters go to the public baths where they strip and submerge themselves, turning the water to bloody filth. Behind them, merchants spread out European
Chapter XIV
Apr 2, 1985
The gang rides north through furious storms, rain, hail, and more rain for days on end. They ride through meadows and forests, down a mountain trail into the town of Jesús María. G
Chapter XV
Apr 9, 1985
The governor of Sonora provides the gang with a new contract to hunt the Apaches. Carroll and Sanford have left the gang once and for all, but a man named Sloat has joined after fa
Chapter XVI
Apr 16, 1985
In the morning, the scalp hunters leave Santa Cruz. They ride the next day past the ruins of an estate at San Bernardino full of wild bulls, one of which gores the horse ridden by
Chapter XVII
Apr 23, 1985
At dusk, the gang rides out of Tucson. With them are five new recruits, Cloyce and "the idiot", and also the barrel of whiskey stolen the night before, which Glanton promised to Ma
Chapter XVIII
Apr 30, 1985
In the early morning, Glanton, the Judge, and their five men ride out of the Yuma camp. They’ve conspired with the Indians to seize the ferry.
Chapter XIX
May 7, 1985
Glanton, the Judge, and two other gang members sit drinking tea with Doctor Lincoln, who runs the ferry on the Colorado River. Glanton warns the doctor that the Yuma Indians cannot
Chapter XX
May 14, 1985
Pursued by the Yumas, Toadvine and the kid escape into the desert. The kid has taken an arrow to his leg, but keeps moving. The two spend a cold night sleeping amid the dunes, and
Chapter XXI
May 21, 1985
Tobin tells the kid to leave him and save himself, but the kid declines and the two end up staggering onward together. When the kid notices that the wind is obliterating their foot
Chapter XXII
May 28, 1985
Back in town, the kid goes into a tavern where he is promptly arrested by four soldiers who don’t even ask his name. In jail, the kid speaks with strange urgency about what he has
Chapter XXIII
Jun 4, 1985
In the winter of 1878, the kid, now referred to as the man, is on the plains of North Texas. At night he sees a campfire, which belongs to an old buffalo hunter with whom the kid s
Prologue
Jun 11, 1985
In the dawn, a man (referred to in the Characters list as the digger) progresses over the plain. He makes holes in the ground using a two-handled instrument made of steel, thereby