Sergeant Eli Whipp, a Pawnee scout, stops them from killing Running Hawk's family, and retires to claim land in Nebraska he is owed for his military service, despite warnings that he will now be viewed as "one of them".

Sheriff Robert Marshall dismisses Trafford's aristocratic background and his suspicions that rival farmers or influential general store owner David Melmont may be responsible.

Learning that Melmont paid for the Flynns' coffins, Marshall discovers their bodies have been dug up, while the Myers' son Jed finds Billy disembowelled and hanged.

Melmont joins them in massacring a Cheyenne settlement at Chalk River with a stolen Gatling gun, while Trafford and Whipp, a member of the soldiers' company, are unable to intervene.

After an attack by a mysterious hooded rider, Trafford tells Marshall that he branded Flynn and Myers for their crimes, and that Hoxem is built on the graves of the massacre's victims.

Whipp finds a travelling surgeon, Flathead Jackson, and it is revealed that Locke is suffering from syphilis; her son inherited the disease, dying at the age of fourteen.

[6] In May 2021, Chaske Spencer, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Ciarán Hinds, Malcolm Storry, Steve Wall, Nichola McAuliffe, Sule Rimi and Cristian Solimeno joined the cast.

The website's consensus reads: "A visual knockout elevated by Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer's performances, The English is a heady and somewhat meandering Western made with admirable craft.