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We got bad trouble. The inside.

Mate, Holcroft and Toomey.

One shot each.

Holcroft had three grandchildren.

Who did it?

We don't know.

We'll find out. Calhoun?

We want to quit.

Then start walking.

It's your railroad.

Now, you got to get us out of here.

I've got to find the killer.

We tried. We didn't even find a footprint.

We hunted Ben, but there wasn't anything.

It's just noises.

Fires that disappeared when we looked for him.

Tracks right up the side of a cliff.

Whatever it is, it's just not real.

Well, these three bodies are real.

First thing we're going to do is bury him.

Then I'm going to find out who killed him.

Now, you either go along with it or get out.

Hi, Mr. Callahan.

I'm still scared, but I'll go along with you.

Cover me!

No tracks, no marks, no nothing.

You're wrong.

There's a feeling.

Of what?

Kind of like walking into a bear's cave.

If there's no bear in there, it's just a hole in the rock.

But he's in there, waiting.

We'll split up here.

You go on up that way, I'm going to check back over in here.

If anything moves, you shoot it.

Take it easy with it

Then

down here All

right boys, they're up now, thank you

He's alive.

Just. Will he live?

No reason why he should.

But he will.

What happened?

Looks like he tangled with a grizzly.

It was a man.

What?

I found this alongside of him.

to a faithful scout, cougar man, from an appreciative commander, General Walter

A. Rutledge, Fort Huachuca, November 11, 1872.

I can't help you.

You're the best scout the Army's got. If you can't, who can?

Somebody else.

I ain't up to it no more.

All I want's what I got.

Quiet post.

Regular pay.

Some broken down to wrap a whole scouts to boss around.

I don't want no part of Cougar Man.

He's a ghost.

A ghost from a time when I was young.

When I thought I was a man to be repping with.

I don't like you, Calhoun.

I don't like you for telling me Cougar Man's alive.

For reminding me that I'd be skilled.

Long time ago, when the army took old Chief Nechiti.

I understand he betrayed Nechiti.

No, sir.

No, sir.

There's a story for the newspapers.

Cougar Man brought Chief Nechiti in to talk peace under a white flag.

The army took the old man and shipped him off to a prison in a Florida swamp.

He went cursing Cougar Man.

Died there cursing him.

Cougar Man carries that curse and he's making the white eyes pay for it.

Now, are you ready to fight all that?

I have to.

And if you don't want to believe what I'm telling you, come on in here with

Come on.

Cougar Man lives.

I'll need help to find him. Who are you that hunts a ghost?

He's not a ghost.

He is sacred.

He's an Apache.

Since when did an Apache become sacred to an Arapaho?

He is more than an Apache.

You will go. Why is he more?

What makes him so big? Why is he different than other men?

He is all the world's misery in the soul of one man.

To see him?

is to grow ill.

To touch him is to wither.

To fight him is to die.

My partner fought him. He's not dead.

That is not for me to know.

Mr. Calhoun.

I will help you find Cougar Man.

One drink and then business.

I know all about the great Calhoun, your mighty iron horse.

What about this cougar man?

Cougar man is at war with all men, with all men's gods.

He has made his own brand of honor.

He has lived by it, just as he must die by it.

Why you pursue Cougar Man?

Because he killed five of my men.

Yes.

I will tell you how to find him.

Because it will be the end of your mighty iron horse.

More whites will not come.

It is Cougar Man I help.

Because it is he who will kill you.

Thank you.

Suppose he does understand the message like the man who talks said.

How's he going to accept?

He'll find a way to tell me.

Tell you? Ben, the man's an animal. You can't talk to him. Well, I have to.

Ben, that's what man who talks wants you to do. He wants Cougar Man to get his

hands on you.

That's not exactly the way I've got it planned.

What do you mean?

Once he accepts my challenge, there'll be a short truce. It'll allow me to get

up into the Chiba Rock country where Cougar Man lives.

That doesn't make any sense to me.

Ben, the Chiba rock country is 200 miles of desolation.

The man who talked tells you exactly where you could find Cougar Man?

He didn't have to tell me.

Once I'm up in those rocks, Cougar Man will find me.

Well, he accepted the challenge.

Put that light back on. It's me he's after.

Why didn't he just shoot you?

Yeah, he didn't throw a spear at Johnson, Wilson, and the others. Then he

kill you.

And you're going to go out there and let him do it.

You going after him tonight?

Going after him right now.

I'm not going to give him time to get set.

How's that of your horse?

No.

I'm going on foot.

On his terms?

In his territory?

Same rules apply to both of us, Dave.

Man who talks believes that when cougar man ends his curse by dying, the world's

going to freeze over for the Indian.

You believe that?

I don't, but the Indians do.

They also believe that when the railroad's finished, that it'll seal off

migratory route of the buffalo to the north, thereby put an end to the

hunting grounds in this part of the country.

That happens, it'll be a long, cold winter.

We speak together as custom fit I know the customs we can speak

Who

taught you the way man who talks

so that you could kill me

Iska.

Tomorrow, when truce is over and hunting begins, I will kill you.

Last night I prayed.

I asked great father give you skill worthy of your courage.

Get on with it.

A man who talks teach you how to die.

I didn't know there was but one way.

There are many ways.

I have seen them all.

All but one.

Yours.

What is your name?

Calhoun.

Ben Calhoun.

Calhoun.

Those were your men I killed.

They were?

They all had one face, Calhoun.

Cursing me.

End it if you can, Calhoun.

I am cursed.

There will be no mercy.

What do you mean?

The trap.

The falling rock.

To keep you honest, you broke the truce when you came after me.

I'm not here to play a game.

You will play the game before you die.

Calhoun.

What do you want?

How many kills do they give me?

The legend says 500.

I want to kill that

general.

Grundy said for me to tell you that... that Chidi died in prison.

First of those I kill.

You are a fool.

I play this game of war that I may die with honor.

You play it that you may live with honor.

What are your customs?

To kill me.

You will obey the customs as I will to kill you.

Why all this killing?

All those dead.

They had one face, Calhoun.

Yours!

That is enough to know.

You slip well, Calhoun. Slip well!

Cougar man!

Cougar man!

We have Calhoun!

He is yours!

We

follow the

sound of a bugle.

We come to help you live.

There is no one else, Calhoun.

Only you and me.

Tomorrow, by the light of day,

I will kill you.

Calhoun!

Are you too weak to answer, Calhoun?

Are you dead, Calhoun?

Cannot be dead.

Not yet!

Calhoun.

It must be man to man.

As one.

With honor.

Now.

For there is flesh still in us.

Did you hear that, Calhoun?

With honor.

Mans and men!

No!

Thank you, Karen.

Thank you.