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Matt!

Matt, can you hear me?

Aye.

The rocks and the whole infernal country

can hear you, mister.

It's too hot to keep running, Matt.

Why don't you come down?

Why don't you come up and get me?

It ain't hot up here.

Cool as January, it is.

The sun must be getting to him.

Try to circle around behind him.

Wing him if you can.

I'll keep talking to him from down here.

Matt?

Where were you going to when we came across your trail?

Where the prairie ends and the green hills begin.

It sounds like paradise.

You were running like the devil himself was after you.

Aye.

There's some truth in that, lad,

snapping at me heels like a great Lobo wolf.

Who helped you, Matt?

Deacon, Striker?

Who says I had any help?

The stage driver.

He said they all acted like they'd been drinking,

and he gave a pretty accurate description of the old man

that got away with $50,000.

He's a liar. It was only 48,000.

The others aren't gonna like you

running out with that kinda money, Matt.

Who cares what they don't like.

Matthew Gavin Blackner don't answer to nobody.

You're gonna have to answer to us.

We're taking you in.

Well, maybe you will, lad,

but not until I've done what I set out to do.

What's that?

Seen my wife and child, that's what.

I never knew you had a wife and child.

A long time it's been since I've seen them, lad.

Aye,

a long time.

Be careful now.

The child is...

The Welsh lass.

Eh, padre?

Don't expect no heroics from me.

I got places to go

and things to do.

And how are you feeling, Matt?

You took advantage of me, mister.

What did you want me to do,

leave you out there for the buzzards?

Better off I be out there under the stars

than in this dark hole.

I was hoping you'd retired from the road, Matt.

You don't retire from the road, lad.

You die in office.

Hard meaningless life, Mr. Hardie,

but it was a man's life and I'll miss it.

The old pumper is sending messages, says I'm gonna die.

I know.

I talked to the doctor.

I felt that Lobo wolf's hot breath on my neck, lad.

It's for that reason,

I'll be wanting to see my wife and child.

I never figured you for a family man.

And I'm not.

They are strangers in a world of strangers,

and I have no feeling for them.

I had no wish to be a husband or father then.

I have none now.

Then why do you wanna see them?

Because I don't know them.

My wife's face is a total blur.

All I remember of the girl is a rag doll.

Aye, a patchwork thing it was with little black beads

for eyes that seem to shine in the dark.

A sickly smile was painted on its head,

and its limbs were all loose-jointed and flat.

I gave it to her, an ugly thing it was,

but the child loved it well

and clung to it like life itself.

Seems strange you can remember what the doll looks like

yet you can't remember your daughter.

Not the color of her hair nor the line of her face.

I wanna see them again, Jim Hardie.

That I'll see if I can arrange to have them brought here.

Not here!

I don't want them sneering at me in this dark hole.

You're gonna take me to them.

I can't do that.

You can do what you set your mind to do.

I ain't gonna beg you.

I'm askin', from one man to another out of pride and respect.

The authorities take a dim view of goings-on such as that.

Wells Fargo wants that money back, don't they?

Yes, they do.

Tell 'em I'll be making a deal with 'em.

I show you where the money is if you take me where I ask.

Now, what do you got to lose?

You think you'll be able to ride?

I felt that Lobo wolf's hot breath, lad

but I ain't felt his bite yet.

All right.

I'll do what I can.

I'm not promising anything.

All right.

What will you be doing now, mister?

Spending the night at the hotel here

so you can get a little rest.

I'll tell you when I need a little rest.

Now, this is the town. We gotta seek them out.

Get back on your horse.

For a man who's on his way to jail,

you sure give a lot of orders.

I'm gonna try to get you cleaned up a little bit.

Or do you want your wife and daughter to see you looking like a bum?

Not much of a town, is it?

Let me go try to find his wife and daughter.

It's been a lot of years, Jim. Do you expect to find them here?

I don't know.

He's promised to go back with me, though, as long as I try.

He's also said he'd show us where the money was.

It seems like you've taken on a big job for yourself.

I don't think he's much to hang a promise on.

No, I suppose he isn't.

If he wakes up before I get back, try to get him cleaned up

just in case I got somebody with me.

You must be part Indian.

The part with blisters.

I was told I could find Narcissa Blackner here.

Why the interest?

There's someone who wants to see her.

Who?

Her father.

I'm Narcissa Blackner and I don't have a father.

He only wants to see what kind of a woman you've grown into, Miss Blackner.

Well, you tell him. You tell him you found me

pounding clothes on a rock like a squaw.

He wants to see you for himself.

I hate him.

I understand he deserted you and your mother

when you were a little girl.

That was a long time ago.

He's an old man now. He can hardly remember.

I brought him a lot of miles.

Where is he?

He's at the hotel in town.

All right.

You hitch up my horse, I'll go with you.

And your mother, where is she?

In the cemetery. She's dead.

They must be here.

What's taking him so long?

Minutes are harder waiting than years sometimes, old man.

I ain't waited, boy.

I ain't used to waiting for nobody.

You've carved quite a name for yourself.

Aye, they'll remember it.

There was a time when I wanted my name to be remembered,

almost more than anything in the world.

And then I got to thinking that,

you know, it's not near as important how people remember you,

as how they take you while you're here.

You are a skinny-lipped boy.

You don't know nothing.

Man's measurements are taken

by the power and the strength that's in him.

Do you hear that?

What?

Over at the edge of town, a smithy's four-pound hammer.

When I was your age, I hated that sound.

Black-haired devil seemed to be forging the chains

to hold me down, and all I wanted to do was to run and fly.

The clang of it sounds different to me now,

like a woman's voice.

You mean like the sirens that sailors hear?

Aye, calling them home to the sea,

home to die.

Narcissa?

We'll be outside here if you want us.

Why did you come back?

To see you and your mother.

What right do you have to see us?

What right?

I gave you life, child.

You gave me nothing.

Where were you when I cried for you in my sleep?

Were you there to keep me warm

or fill my stomach when I was hungry?

Why, I had places to go and things to do.

I know what you had to do.

You had to steal and lie and kill.

Was there another woman somewhere

who could love you more than my mother?

Don't be insolent, girl.

You left us to die.

You killed my mother.

Mary is dead?

She withered away

'cause the man she worshiped threw her love away.

You wanted to see her.

Well, you will.

But not in this life.

Well, child, why don't you fire away.

You've waited all these years to put a bullet in my heart.

Why don't you shoot and have done with it?

And it's so long.

Aye, bathing your sore hurts

and the hate of me all your young life.

Now you haven't the backbone to take your revenge.

Aye, it's best you take me back

to that hole, Mr. Hardie.

Hot day makes my blood boil, Narcissa.

I'm not interested in your temperature, Colonel Biscayne.

Well, I'm still waiting on you, little girl.

For what?

Why, your answer to my proposal of marriage, that's what.

Well, you'll be waiting a long, long time.

I don't mind a bit.

Colonel Biscayne's got the patience of Job.

If it had been a private thing between me and Narcissa

instead of two strangers standing between us.

You were the stranger, Matt.

And a private thing this should be, too,

between me and her.

I'm obliged to you, Jim Hardie.

I'll shoot the first one that moves!

Wait a minute, Beau.

We can't take a chance on him throwing a shot back

and hit anyone in this crowd.

He can't get far anyway.

The Lobo wolf's about to catch him and he knows it.

We can pick up his trail later.

It's getting too dark to go after him tonight.

We'll pick up his trail in the morning.

Jim, look.

There's only one man in New Mexico with a face like that:

- The Deacon. - He's known all over the state.

And you can bet he's here after the money.

Blackner's probably stolen a horse by now,

halfway to the staked claims.

He won't get far. He knows it.

You know, I've got a feeling he doesn't wanna die in prison.

And I've got a feeling he just doesn't wanna die alone.

The Deacon and Striker will make sure of that.

They're gonna try.

I think the old man wants to see his daughter again

but on his own terms.

But she hates him.

He's got his reasons.

You keep an eye on them. I'll be back.

Where are you going?

To see Narcissa.

I figured I'd find you here.

You always had a great affection for this old shaft.

We opened up our Pandora's box here years ago, remember?

Aye, I remember.

At our age, we think back

to all the places of our younger years,

all the things we might have done different.

I lived my life the way I saw fit.

What do you want, Deacon?

Just a little talk, you and me,

like the old days.

Well, stop wagging your tongue and get to the point.

The boys want their share of the money, Matt.

You made a bargain.

A bargain, is it? Well, the bargain was broken

when you and that pack of whining pups

showed up at that stage run howling drunk!

I don't really care about the money, Matt,

not personally.

And you must have a reason for wanting to give up

the old ways, strike off on your own, and that's all right.

But me, I gotta have

a feel of the boys behind me backing me up.

I couldn't get along without them.

I'd just die of loneliness without somebody to talk to.

That is the worst piece of sheep dip I ever heard.

And the boys, they ain't gonna follow my lead

unless I get the money for 'em.

Matt, what made you cut out on us?

You didn't want all that cash for yourself.

I couldn't handle that much whiskey

or that many women anymore.

Then what are you gonna do with it?

I found a need for it just now,

a thing that gives it all a purpose.

Oh, come off it, Matt.

We're cut from the same cloth.

Living was all the purpose we ever needed

for what we've done.

Our time is strung out, Deacon.

I'm thinking of my daughter.

Daughter? Why, you ain't seen your daughter for years.

I've seen her.

The money is her due, sir,

a legacy to leave her before I die.

What makes you think you're gonna die?

Every man must die sometime.

Why give all that cash to a brat

you never cared a hoot about her whole life?

It's a need for the dying to leave their goods

to someone of their own blood

and the respect she'll have for me as her father

when she sees I've provided for her.

Then give the girl what's rightly hers,

but give the boys what belongs to them.

You'll not be telling me what to do, not you nor no man.

You're the worst mule-headed old coot I ever knew.

I have made up my mind! I'm giving my money to my daughter.

- That's what I'm... - I can't let you do that!

- You can't stop me. - I'm gonna try.

We've been together a long time, Matt.

Don't make us stand up against each other, not now.

I don't want to, Deacon.

Then let me have the money.

I can't, sir.

I'm giving it to my daughter.

Only one of us is gonna walk out of this place alive.

Aye.

But there are things a man must do.

Looks like I'm gonna have to save you from each other.

The money's been promised.

I knew it was you.

My flesh was crawling.

I've come to,

to talk to you.

Go talk to the wind and the trees.

They have to listen, but I don't!

You can't shut me out, girl.

My blood runs in your veins.

I'd drain it out if I could.

Drain out your bitterness, girl.

I left you to stand on your own two feet

and find strength in your loneliness.

Go away.

- I wanna give you something. - Go away!

Something that'll change your whole life.

I don't want anything from you!

It's money, girl, a good deal of money

to buy a better life for yourself.

You won't have to go on living in this filth.

I'll tell you where it is.

I've got it hidden.

$48,000.

Where'd you get it?

What difference does it make?

I earned it.

- You stole it. - Don't judge me, girl.

I'll not have my own child judge me.

A desire in a man that makes him want power in him

and gives him the strength to take.

I'm an old man now.

I stand at the doorway to the kingdom of heaven

with no regrets for what I've done.

How proud of the devil to stand defiant at the gate

knowing he'll never enter.

I'll take you to the money.

You'll never have to see this devil again.

I don't want it.

I don't want your charity.

I can get what I want the same filthy way you did!

But you've got to take it, girl.

I killed a man for that money! Don't you understand?

You can't buy back the years!

I'll not be whinin' for forgiveness.

I've come back.

Isn't that enough?

Oh, no, old man.

That isn't enough.

Get out of my house.

Get out of my house!

Narcissa,

do you remember what happened to that rag doll?

I gave it to you, a patchwork thing it was

with little black beads for eyes

that used to shine in the dark.

No, I don't remember.

How does it feel now?

A little stiff.

I'll be all right.

Matt Blackner.

He reminds me a great deal of my father,

stiff-necked rascal,

running through life right at the very end.

Blackner said he was gonna give that money to his daughter.

I guess he had that in mind all the time, huh.

Probably.

Typical of a man like him.

He figures with the money, he can clear himself of guilt,

maybe buy a little decency for a wasted lonely life.

It's not decent money.

No.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm not sticking up for what he's done.

He deserves what he's gonna get.

He thinks she'll figure it's a fair trade,

redemption, $48,000?

I don't think she's every gonna see the money.

It's buried somewhere.

Whether she leads us to it or he does,

there's one thing for sure.

We'll be right there when they go to dig it up.

Right now, we've got no alternative

but to let him play his own hand out his own way.

He'll come walking through that door pretty soon.

I sure hope so.

Narcissa, she's a pretty girl.

Yes, she is.

Let go of my horse!

I was just on my way to your place.

Have you seen your father?

- Yeah, last night. - He offer you any money?

He can't clean his hands by giving me money.

I wouldn't touch it. Now let go of my horse.

You'll run yourself into an early grave

if you keep driving like that.

I'm not ready to die yet 'cause I haven't lived.

- But I'm on my way right now. - To what?

To a man who's gonna give me anything I want,

to a man I'm gonna marry.

You tell my pa he deserted my mother for money.

Well, I'm marrying for money, and I'm gonna live.

That isn't living.

That's throwing your life away just to spite an old man

who's already filled with remorse.

You call it what you want.

I don't care!

Ha! Come!

She just went in the saloon.

I know.

Colonel Biscayne.

He and his friends are celebrating.

There's gonna be a wedding tomorrow.

He's gonna marry Narcissa.

The man who's gonna give her everything.

I don't see how she could love him,

but at least she won't need her father's legacy now.

All she's gonna need from here on out is patience

and a lot of it.

That's not our concern right now.

Does Striker know about the Deacon?

They're out looking for him.

Well, we've gotta find Matt before he does.

If he doesn't die before any of us find him.

Serve us right.

Aye, we serve you right.

Thought you were gonna fool us, huh.

You're gonna give us the honor

of watching a great old outlaw draw his last breath.

Is that it?

That's what I like about you, lad.

- You call a spade a spade. - Well, right now,

we're interested in the whole deck, the hidden deck.

- Where's the money? - Well, I'm here ain't I?

I'll be telling you where it is.

I understand you tried to give it to your daughter.

Aye, that was my intention.

But she's a proud girl, like her father,

spirited, like a fine young mare.

She wouldn't take the money

though she thanked me and wished me well.

Well, that's decent of her.

Women find it hard to fathom

a man's ways sometimes.

I can testify to that.

Are you ready to go?

No, let me rest a moment.

There'll be a reward for bringing back that money

and for ridding the hills of one more thieving old painter.

That girl is living in an ugly state.

If you were see that she gets the reward,

she might take it from you.

Well, I'll do what I can.

You don't have to worry about that.

Oh, I ain't worried.

The thought just crossed my mind.

The reward is for my head.

I got some right to say what becomes of it.

Maybe.

Anyway, you're not gonna have to worry about your daughter.

She's gonna be well taken care of.

She's getting married.

To a very rich man.

He'll dress her all up in the latest frills

and parade her like a queen from here to Cape Cod.

Marriage, you say?

To a gentleman?

There's no guarantee of that,

but he's rich enough, that's for sure.

Well, he is a stable sort of man.

He wouldn't run out on her.

She's got too much of your blood in her, Matt.

The groom's gonna have to worry about her

running out on him.

When's the ceremony?

Tomorrow afternoon.

I'm staying.

Well, that's just the trouble.

You're not staying.

Well, it's my right to be there

or my duty as her father.

Matt, you've got to understand.

Striker's in town here and he's after your blood.

Now, the Deacon knew that.

That's why he came to you alone, to try to warn you.

Now he's dead.

If you don't leave here with us right now,

you're liable to never walk outta here alive.

All you care about is the money.

You can believe that if you want to.

Aye, I believe it.

I'll tell you where it is then you leave me be.

It's buried with the bones of dead warriors

at the very top of a black arroyo out of Emmett.

The Chiricahua burial grounds?

The highest ground,

a mound of rocks near a clump of greasewood.

Now get outta here.

When we go, you're going with us.

Then you'll have to wait until tomorrow night.

I'll be at my daughter's wedding in the afternoon.

♪ I'm as strong as a bull and twice as tough ♪

♪ If you wanna play my game and you ♪

Hey, old man!

- Hey! - Striker and the others.

Hey, old man!

Hey! We know you're in there, old man.

Aye, I'm here, you drunken hyena.

What is it you're gonna do about it?

Hey, I'm drunk, old man,

but I could still see

the buttons on your vest clear enough.

Hey, hey, let me sing you a little song there.

♪ I'm as strong as a bull and twice as tough ♪

♪ And if you wanna play my game ♪

♪ You gotta play rough ♪

I don't wanna be listening to that cattle wall, mister.

Oh, well, well the Deacon sang that song real good, yeah.

Only maybe he ain't gonna be singing where he is, huh, huh?

Better off, he is.

You'd put a bullet on the back of his neck soon enough.

Yes, sir. So you've done me a favor,

and I'm right obliged to you, yes, sir.

Now, now there's only you 'tween us and all that money.

Ah, it's a stone wall you didn't count on, Striker.

The money is back on the shelf.

He's telling you the truth.

This is Jim Hardie from Wells Fargo.

He turned the money back over to us.

He turned it over?

He gave it back, $50,000?

There was only 48,000. I had no more use for it.

You think you're smart, you backstabbing old goat!

I was gonna buy me a town, do you hear?

A whole town just for me!

That town will remember my name,

light candles for me once a year.

If you're telling the truth, Blackner, you're a dead man,

dead as the Deacon!

You've talked long enough to shorten your career, Striker.

You were in on the holdup.

I'm taking you back to stand trial along with Blackner.

Yeah, you're gonna take me back?

How many agents you got up there, Wells Fargo man?

Blackner, when you come down out of there,

you come talking money or shooting.

Now take your choice.

You'll be hearing the whip in my voice, mister.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

♪ I'm as strong as a bull and twice as tough ♪

♪ If you wanna play my game ♪

♪ You gotta play rough-a ♪

Let's take him, Jim. The alcohol evens out the odds.

Don't be underestimating the enemy, boy.

You ain't got a name to be remembered yet.

There's one thing for sure, Matt.

You're going back with us tonight.

Well, you wouldn't deprive me of the one chance I've got.

What chance is that?

Well, to show that girl what her father's made of, that's what.

I'm gonna be at her wedding.

You wouldn't make it 10 feet out there, old man.

Don't tell me what I'd make, boy.

I faced the open end of more black barrels

than you'll ever see in a lifetime.

You are, without a doubt, the most stubborn man

I've ever seen in my life.

That's what the Deacon said.

It must be true.

Jim, I lied to you before

about my daughter wishing me well.

She wishes nothing for me but the kind of misery she's had.

But if I'm there at her wedding no matter what,

she'll respect me for what I am, her father.

Don't you see?

You look after him for a little while, Beau.

I'll be back.

For someone who's about to be married,

you look a little lonesome out here.

Even a bride has to get some fresh air.

The smell of smoke and beer

doesn't seem to bother the groom any.

Why don't you leave me alone?

I was wondering if you knew

that a man is gonna be killed here in the streets tomorrow.

You should know by now that he's no concern of mine.

Well, he won't be after tomorrow, that's for sure.

Listen, I heard all about that this afternoon.

And even if I wanted to, I couldn't stop him from dying.

No, you couldn't stop him from dying,

but you can keep him from getting killed.

He thinks his coming to your wedding

would mean something to you.

- It doesn't. - I know that.

But as I just said, he's willing to get himself killed

because he thinks it does.

Sounds strange for a man like your father, doesn't it?

It's one thing to see the end in sight

and come crawling back, demand an absolution,

and another thing to die for it.

Now tomorrow, when those church bells ring,

he'll suddenly be too weak to come

because he's a coward, and he's always been a coward.

You're wrong about that.

I'm right.

The years between prove that I'm right.

Then you won't change your mind.

No.

No, I've waited too long.

For what, to marry a man

you can't even stand the sight of,

a man who would rather be

with those saloon girls in there than you?

He wants me.

He's always wanted me.

Then where is he?

If I were getting married tomorrow,

I wouldn't let the girl out of my sight,

nor would any other man.

Go away.

Just go away and leave me alone.

I will.

When I first met your father, I thought he was to be pitied.

But I was wrong.

You're the one who's to be pitied.

Narcissa?

Narcissa?

Everything is ready if you're ready.

Something about the sound of an organ.

There's some men down there on the street, Beau.

We're gonna have to try to take 'em in.

I guess we'll be backing you up, old man.

Thank you, lad.

I'll have my coat now.

I'm a bit cold.

And I wanna be a little bit dressed up for the wedding.

Friends, we are gathered here today

to join this man and this woman

in the holy bonds of matrimony.

Listen.

Can you hear it?

Like the sound of a woman's voice.

Mary?

Narcissa?

I'm asking just one more time.

I want that money!

Stand aside, mister.

I got places to go and things to do.

Hold it, hold it.

Narcissa.

Forgive me.

Please forgive me.

For what, child?

It's I who should be asking forgiveness.

Well, I blamed you

for everything bad that ever happened to me.

I should have been here to look over you.

Oh, I should have found strength in my loneliness.

Don't marry without love.

If I had really loved your mother,

I would have stayed with her.

How can I get married without you there to give me away?

Father,

I found the doll and her eyes still shine in the dark.

Keep it with you, child.

It'll remind you of your father.