After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
The Last Rose of Summer — Renee Fleming
Opening credits. Original poem by Thomas Moore to traditional Irish melody, "Aislean an Oigfear". Operatic piece playing while Mildred first checks out the billboards.
Martha, Act II: Last Rose of Summer — Renee Fleming & English Chamber Orchestra & Jeffrey Tate
Opening scene where Mildred sees the battered billboards; Mildred attacks the police station with Molotov cocktails and is horrified to discover Dixon has been inside, having escaped badly burned
Buckskin Stallion Blues — Townes Van Zandt
Mildred drops a silent Robin to school before arriving at her gift shop
Chiquitita — ABBA
Dixon at the police station, right before he's about to find out that Chief Willoughby killed himself over night
His Master's Voice — Monsters of Folk
Dixon confronts Welby and throws him out of the window of the advertising agency
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down — Joan Baez
Dixon confronts the man in the bar by performing a magic trick by scratching him (to get his DNA) and is beaten up as a result to this song.
Buckskin Stallion Blues — Amy Annelle
Final scene with Mildred and Dixon in her car; End credits
Blessed Are — Joan Baez
Last scene
Mildred Goes To War — Carter Burwell
Mildred shows up at the Ebbing advertising agency to request use of the billboards
The Deer — Carter Burwell
While planting flowers at the site of the billboards Mildred sees a deer and talks to it as if she is talking to her deceased daughter
Fruit Loops — Carter Burwell
Mildred has breakfast with Robin who refuses to talk to her; she flicks Fruit Loops into his hair
A Cough Of Blood, A Dark Drive — Carter Burwell
While interrogating Mildred, Willoughby splutters blood into her face; As Mildred and Robin drive home he asks about cancer
I've Been Arrested — Carter Burwell
Mildred shows up at the police station to confront Dixon after Denise's arrest
Billboards On Fire — Carter Burwell
Mildred and Robin are driving home when they come across the billboards on fire; she tries and fails to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher
Slippers — Carter Burwell
Mildred formulates a plan in the aftermath of the billboards being burnt down by having a conversation with her slippers
My Dear Anne — Carter Burwell
Willoughby dictates a suicide note to his wife Anne in a voiceover, which she later finds on the kitchen table and then finds his body in the stables
Walk Away Renee — Four Tops
Plays in the bar where Dixon overhears a man bragging about an incident involving a young girl
Billboards Are Back — Carter Burwell
Mildred, with the help of Jerome, Denise and James, puts fresh copies of the billboard posters back up
Collecting The Samples — Carter Burwell
Following an altercation with a man at a bar, a badly beaten Dixon returns home and barricades himself in the bathroom; he removes a sample of the man's skin from under his fingernail
Sorry Welby — Carter Burwell
Following Mildred's attack on the police station, Dixon ends up in the same hospital room as Welby and apologises for his earlier assault. Welby gives him a glass of orange juice with a straw
Can't Give Up Hope — Carter Burwell
Dixon phones Mildred to tell her that the DNA sample he got wasn't from the same guy who killed Angela
Countermove — Carter Burwell
Radio Song — The Felice Brothers
When they are playing pool at the bar.
The Streets of Laredo — Johnny Cash
The song Dixon is singing when he first sees the billboards.