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Howdy.

Howdy.

Came in kind of noisy.

Coffee?

Don't.

Anything you say, friend.

Hope they're vegetarians.

Give me any trouble,

you'll never feel them bite.

I believe you.

Now what you want me for?

We're looking for a man.

- Convict? - That's right.

Well, I buried him this morning,

but I kept this.

Ah!

Guess you figured anybody wearing this

would have a price on 'em, huh?

No. No, I figured a good thing

to keep that for identification.

- What's your name? - Randall.

The bounty hunter.

The bounty hunter.

Ah, I wouldn't be surprised he killed Mitchell himself.

Now, listen. When I found that man,

he was dead, and I buried him.

If you want, I can show you.

I guess that won't be necessary.

Sling him on his horse and take him back to town.

Tell Mr. Winters I sent him a replacement.

Says his name's Randall, Sheriff.

He's a bounty hunter.

Now, look, you tell me where's the law

against burying a man when he's dead.

Law don't say you can't.

Law says prove you did.

I told this fella here I'd show him where he was buried.

Can't do that. You might try to escape.

And as far as that goes,

how do we know you didn't shoot him?

No, I'm sorry. Have to hold you for trial.

Circuit judge'll be around

in two, three months.

Oh, that seems a little severe, Sheriff,

if you don't mind my butting in.

What I need is a lawyer,

and I need him right now.

I'm no lawyer.

I'm a mining engineer,

but I've got a smattering of law.

George Winters.

You could reduce the charge

to burial without a permit.

That'd make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

Yeah, I guess so.

If you want to plead guilty to that,

I could let you off in, say, five days.

And one day off for last night in the lockup.

Turn you loose the end of the week.

That's nice of you.

Well, it's settled.

He's all yours, Mr. Winters.

Let's go, Randall.

And where?

Oh, I neglected to tell you.

I have a labor contract with the sheriff.

I take all his prisoners off his hands.

It's quite legal.

And if I don't go?

Well, you'd regret it.

A new hand, Belle.

He'll help you loading.

This town belongs to me, Randall,

town and everything in it.

Remember that, stay in line, we'll get along.

Yeah, I'll try to remember that.

It's been a long time, Josh.

Ma'am?

You called me "ma'am" in Abilene too.

Don't stop working.

Good town, Abilene.

Texas Queen Saloon.

Drink, couple of dances.

I wouldn't expect you to remember.

I remember you.

What you doing out here?

I got married.

Was one way of...

keeping out of the gutter.

I'm not so sure the gutter would have been...

How many times do I have to tell you?

Don't talk to 'em.

You talk to my woman

only if I say so. You understand?

Please, Cree. I was only showing him

how to load the wagon. That's all.

That leaves just one more thing, then.

Stop, Cree!

You get on back to camp.

Move along!

Get a move on!

Let me see that.

All right, that's deep enough. Throw it in.

Anybody give you leave to stop work?

I been making little ones out of big ones since sunup.

I'm tired.

You got a big mouth, Randall.

If you don't keep it shut,

you're going to wind up with no teeth in it.

You like to try it, friend?

Mr. Jenks!

All set with the charge.

It's about time.

All right, get that ore cart out of here.

Take cover!

Take cover! Blasting!

It's kind of dangerous, isn't it,

all chained up like this?

What happens if there's a cave-in?

Well, it wouldn't matter to Colter,

as long as Winters gets the ore out of here.

With a gold mine, why use convict labor?

Well, the ore don't assay that much.

As long as they can get it out cheap, there's a profit.

He's built the whole valley that way,

farms, roads, the whole valley.

All right, get that stuff marked out.

Go ahead. Look alive.

You all right?

Ah, it's just a stone cut.

Hey, you.

Say, let me borrow your bandana.

This fella caught one here.

Nah.

It's the only decent thing I got.

Oh, don't pay no mind to Charlie.

He figures if he keeps off to himself,

that it'll shorten his time.

First four years he was here,

he made all kinds of trouble,

but the last eight, nine months,

he's been toeing the mark.

It ain't going to help much.

You men deaf?

Did you hear Colter say back to work?

Thanks.

Get a move on.

Colter.

I'd keep an eye on that new man.

He looks like a troublemaker.

He gives me an excuse,

he'll get all the trouble he wants,

he and Dane along with him.

All right, come on, get a move on, you fellas.

Careful with that blasting, Colter.

I don't want to take a chance

on losing any manpower.

You're about to lose some.

We got a problem

sitting right in the middle of our laps.

What are you talking about?

Charlie Martin.

His time's up tomorrow.

You know what to do about that.

It won't be that easy.

Charlie isn't going to do anything

to allow us to tack more time on his sentence.

You must be losing your grip, Colter,

if you can't find a way to...

Now wait a minute.

There's an old story about how mules do their best work

if you hold a carrot out in front of 'em.

What's that supposed to mean?

Well, we'll have less trouble with these men

if they think there's a chance of them getting out.

Are you serious? One gets out,

he comes back with real law,

we'll all be in the soup.

Listen to me.

You just dangle it.

You don't let go of it.

We won't be losing much anyway.

Old Charlie hasn't done

a good day's work in a year.

You got that chow ready?

Yes, Cree.

All right, chow!

Come and get it on the double!

Clumsy of me.

Just one to a customer.

Give me your plate.

Oh, you got no reason to share with me.

Go ahead, eat it. I need an empty plate.

It strike you there are not many of those

and an awful lot of us?

Yeah, but the difference is

they're wearing guns. We're wearing chains.

Every time you break a rule around here,

they add to your sentence,

and they make the rules.

You spit the wrong way,

they give you two more months.

You loaf on the job, three months.

How long you been here?

For over a year.

Start out to be 30 days

for a barroom fight I wasn't even in.

Where'd you get that food?

Did you give it to him?

Yeah.

You blink an eye, and I'll cut you from ear to ear.

Get the gun.

He's being smarter than you are, Ran...

- Get the gun. - Let him up, Randall.

You shoot, and I'll still cut him from ear to ear.

No, Jenks, don't.

Dane, the gun.

Don't do it, Mr. Randall.

You keep out of this.

Please, I'm begging you. Don't do it.

They'll get you for it, and we'll all pay.

I can't take any more time here.

I want out.

Get him over to that log.

Give me your belt.

All right, get back to work.

Move!

Couple hours in the sun

will take the ugly out of you, boy.

Should have cut his throat.

All right!

Someday, I'll be getting out of here

while the rest of you are still cooking in your own juice.

I'm an old man...

got no friend in the world...

got nothing to look forward to

but getting out of here.

Going to make sure that nobody gets out of here but you.

You're wrong, Randall.

I've been around here long enough to know

you can't beat 'em your way.

Anybody here ever really tried to get out?

I mean all together.

You know, I just remembered something

we used to recite in school.

"United we stand. Divided we fall.

In union, there's strength."

Randall, I'm with you.

Now how 'bout the rest of you?

- Yeah. - No.

Hold it.

You breathe one word of what we've been talking about...

Put your foot up on the chair, Charlie.

Charlie: No.

I didn't do anything.

No. I didn't do anything!

You ask Mr. Colter.

Come here and put your foot up

so I can unlock your chains.

Your time's up.

You're getting $10 and a horse.

You're going out.

The other one.

All right, hold out your hands.

Could I have a couple seconds, Mr. Winters, please?

Thank you. Thank you.

You men do right,

you'll all get the same fair shake.

In union, there's strength.

Yeah.

How's it going to be?

We'll play it Charlie's way.

Josh.

This is Charlie Martin's?

What are you doing with it?

Charlie never got as far as the hill.

All right, quit playing with it.

Here.

All right, get that ore car out of here.

No, Josh. They'd kill you before you could light it,

let alone throw it.

This is our ticket out of here.

No. Besides, you might kill some of the men.

You don't want to risk them too.

Look, the time will come, and we'll find a way out,

but not this way.

All right, clear out! Blasting!

Take cover! We're blasting!

Josh!

Hey!

Get out of here!

Run for it! Get out of here!

Get that stuff marked out of there.

Come on.

How bad?

Found a way out.

Fetch a burial detail.

Get back to work!

Not this time, you don't.

Get him out of here.

Yeah.

Ah, it's just like we used to recite.

In union, there's strength.

- Yeah. - Come on.

All right.

Blore.

What do we do?

Hold it!

Hey, looks like you're all set

to go traveling, Randall.

Right now.

You... you going to stay?

Well, yeah. Lots of us are.

I got myself a little homestead.

Some of the boys put in claims on the mine.

Mrs. Colter's going to run the café down the street.

Pretty good valley, Randall.

You could do a lot worse

than to settle here yourself.

No. Oh, no.

I couldn't make a living here in Scorpion Rock.

Whoa.

Anyway, it's a...

little too purified for me.

See you, now.