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I think we got him cornered, Ray.

Corner's not good enough. Dead's better.

Fifteen thousand dollars for his head.

You'd just bring his head back.

The award poster says, Wanted Joe Banner, Dead or Alive.

Easier to hunt a piece of him than dragging his whole carcass clear across

territory. Bring him back alive.

Let the state do the dirty work.

Put it away, Clay.

War against one and he keeps getting away.

I'm getting tired of this.

You all want to earn your keep. Don't let him get away this time.

Hold him down.

I'm going after him.

Did it again.

Feet inside of $15 ,000.

That train's headed towards Skelplunk.

Blood. We need to give him.

Yep.

Blood's running out and his time's running out.

We'll get him sure in Skelplunk.

Be sure and get those rails up rid of those men as soon as you can. They're

waiting on them.

Then go tell David... Hold still, Ben. I'm almost finished.

All right. I'm just going out to a ranch. I'm not going to a Paris fashion

Well, a good impression always helps, Mr. Callahan.

She's got you indoctrinated, too, hasn't she?

Maybe I ought to put on a pair of French cuffs to go out and negotiate a

contract with all the hogs.

Ben, I'd just like to see you looking good any time.

We got the new drive shaft, the pins and the links. The engineer's gonna get

started on it right away.

Good. And, uh, oh, your horse is settled.

Thank you.

Incidentally, Julie, if we get this contract, it's not gonna hurt to carry

slow at your general store, eh?

Well, it's not just me, Ben. The more business you bring into town, the better

it is for everyone.

Come back a winner.

No other way, partner. Good luck, Ben. Thank you, Dave.

Well, we're gonna have a little peace and quiet around here, Barnabas.

At least 24 hours.

Right.

Say, the train will be ready if Ben lands that Kellogg contract, won't it?

I said...

Hello?

Hello?

Nice train you got.

Came by just in time for me.

Oh, it was a hunting accident.

Rabbit run up my sleeve.

Looks worse than it is.

Well, here, I'll take a look at it for you.

No, thanks.

I'll about live worse. I've got the scars to prove it.

Mister, we usually conduct our business through the front door.

Well, take it easy, mister.

There's nothing that's going on is worth worrying about.

Depending on you.

Depending on how close you can keep your mouth.

You understand what I mean?

Not a bad likeness.

Considering I wasn't at Hell's Point long enough to sit for a picture.

That's quite a place I hear. You can believe what you hear.

By the way, your poster is two years old.

Used to be $10 ,000.

Just recent, the Railroad Association raised the ante another five.

That kind of money can cause a lot of ruckus.

Dave.

You close the door and step over here now, ma 'am.

Mr. Banner, the safe's right there.

I can assure you it won't be worth the trouble.

Not this time.

But here's what.

I am Joe Banner, and I've come to town.

And you three know about it, and no one else is going to.

Right?

What do you want?

See my wife.

Your wife?

Yeah. She lives here.

Around here.

Figured you'd know exactly, considering that she picks her mail up at your

depot. There's no Mrs. Banner around here.

Uses her maiden name.

Rose Campbell.

Well, we don't know everybody that picks up their mail here.

Say, are you really worth $15 ,000?

That's what they tell me.

Don't make me wave this gun around.

It'd be stupid of all of you to make me threaten.

Well, the town doesn't want you around.

Don't say it like this town is so special.

No town wants me around.

And yours don't have to know I'm here.

Now, where's my wife?

How long are you staying?

I don't concern you.

That'd be up to her.

What if she doesn't want to see you at all?

Well, why don't we leave that choice to her?

Wait here. I'll write out and tell her.

No, I'll go with you.

Make sure you go there and no place else.

All right.

But I'll talk to her first.

If she doesn't want to see you better, you move on.

Fair enough?

You too.

Your friend is most interested that there's no trouble while I'm in town.

Well, there will be if folks find out about it, so you keep your mouth shut.

Let's go.

Not that way.

Out here.

You expecting some?

With a calling card like $15 ,000?

Yeah, I'm expecting.

Look after them.

Wait

here.

I'll see if she'll see us. We agreed.

You think I can be stopped now?

Maybe I'd better find that out right away, huh?

Dave!

How nice to see you. Come on in. I'll get you a cup of coffee.

No, thanks, Rose. I've only got a minute. It's something special.

I'd like to think that.

I brought somebody to see you.

Joe Banner.

If you don't want to see him, you don't have to.

Where is he?

He's outside.

But before you do, you should know this.

The Railroad Association's got a price on his head.

$15 ,000.

Knowing that, and you brought him to me?

Yeah, because it's you.

But you don't want to see him, that's it.

I think I do, Dave.

You're not going to have much time.

He's on the run and... I guess you'll be safe for a couple of days.

Would you promise not to do anything before then?

Yeah, it's a promise.

Dave.

Thank you for your understanding.

He'll see you.

I guess it wasn't easy for you to do, was it?

You got two days.

You keep your eye on that poster.

The ante keeps going up. You follow through, you'll get rich in a hurry.

Don't make money that way.

Not you.

Two days.

Come on in, Joe.

Dad.

Don't fuss with this. There's no one to scratch.

It's nice of you to see me, Rose.

Five years is a long time.

Until now, I didn't know whether you were dead or alive.

I just want you to know, Rose, I didn't come back here to bank up no ashes.

When I was close by, or close enough, I thought I'd ride in to see you.

How'd you know where to find me?

Run into your sister in Denver.

You look real well, Rose.

I'm doing as well as can be expected.

Well, I wouldn't blame you none for bearing me malice.

I had wandering foot.

I wish I could erase those five years, Rose.

Why'd you see me?

Curious. No more than that?

Ashes, Joe.

Only ashes.

Can I stay a spell road?

I wouldn't impose my will.

That wouldn't be seamless.

It's just I've been on the run.

I've got no place to go.

I could help out, sleep in a barn.

And turn ashes into embers?

I know why you've been running. It's all over the territory. There's a price on

your head.

I don't want to be judge or jury.

But you were once very meaningful to me.

For that reason, I... I can't turn you out.

Not in wanting to pack crates.

Banner's blood.

He's here, close.

We'll get him sure this time.

That 15 ,000's ours.

Howdy. Howdy.

The train just pulled in. Anyone get off?

You mean passengers? No, that's just a pickup run for replacement parts.

You see anyone come in town recently?

Anyone special?

Yeah, a man hurt. Might have need of a doctor.

We don't have a regular doctor here. Doc Thompson rides the circuit, but he

isn't due for a week.

Who runs this railroad?

Ben Calhoun.

He's not in.

Anyone else?

Dave Tarrant helps, but he's out too.

Just me right now.

Don't move away from me. I ain't said what I want.

This is what I said.

You want something else, you can ride on. All I want's right here in this

Gunmen ride in.

Take their drink.

Pay. Ride on.

Nothing here to interest them.

That true what he's saying?

Yep. Hope to die true?

That's right.

Now, take me, I don't think it true at all.

I think there's much in this town to interest a man.

When he hears me talking and you polite enough to listen and a whole bottle of

whiskey gone begging, it'd be a kindness you shared.

It'd be much a bribe. Just fill her up. Just fill her up.

Folks want a drink with me.

Something else untrue.

Man called me a gunman.

Ain't so.

Got papers saying it ain't so. Show them.

Ray McCoy, bounty hunter.

Given warrant by law, representing the Railroad Association.

It's all written down right here.

What I said before.

There's nothing here in scalp lock to interest you.

There's Joe Banner.

Banner?

His saying about gunmen and how they ride on.

All the time, Banner, right here among you.

If he was here, we'd know about it.

Man keeps saying things ain't true.

Me telling him and him not listening.

Hello, Dave.

Yeah?

Man here says he's working for the Railroad Association.

Guess he'd be working for you, too, then.

Says Joe Banner's in town.

Got papers saying he's a bounty hunter.

Says he's gonna get... You can hear it from me.

You're the railroad fellow.

I'm buying. You're welcome if you want.

What makes you think Banner's in town?

You're not drinking with me.

These people, friends of yours?

They are.

They're drinking with me.

They've got a right to do what they want.

Like you're doing, huh?

You look at a man and you make up your mind about him.

Tell you something, Dave. Say it, Terrence.

Tell you something, Mr. Terrence.

I'm like you.

I look at a man and make up my mind about him.

It's the way I have of staying alive.

Man gets in the way.

asking about Banner. No, you were.

We've been tracking him since he broke loose on the side of Snake River.

Last we saw him, he was riding your rails heading this way.

I'd say you lost him.

Might have skirted town. He's nowhere near that. Well, a town can be a

wilderness for a man to hide in.

There's shadows and sometimes there's nighttime.

With maybe a woman or a man who's got reasons of his own to hide a killer.

Banner rode the train into Scalplock.

Found blood in the freight car.

It could have been a steer. You know, we pack it pretty close. Sometimes they

gore each other.

Oh, my day. The railroad ain't carried steers in over a month.

Now, you heed me.

I stake my claim to that man.

There's $15 ,000 on Banner's head, and no one's going to take him from me.

Not without your help, of course.

I first admit I'd need help finding them.

Fact is, I'd part with $5 ,000 for information leading to them.

You want my advice, mister?

McCoy.

Sure do, Mr. Tarrant.

I'd drink up, talk a while, and then I'd ride out of here.

That's you that's saying that, huh? That's right. You wouldn't push me, huh?

Mr. McCoy.

Four against one.

But man to man.

How do you call it?

You ain't man enough.

You ain't near man enough.

Reason you're still alive, Mr. Tarrant.

I turn an honest dollar killer and then you ain't worth a nickel to me.

Oh, and something else.

Seems like you're a respected man in this town.

I touch you, I might get a hang of it.

And I'm too close to something good to spoil it, kind of you.

Expect that 5 ,000 to work for me.

After that's taken care of, then I can settle my difference with you.

Me standing here saying it, that's a brave man.

Name's Ray McCoy.

I heard.

Then you know why I'm in scalp lock.

Maybe you'd be interested.

Mr. McCoy, I got things to do.

I've offered $5 ,000.

I heard that, too.

Your friend Dave's all fired sure Joe Banner ain't in town.

You that sure?

Told you what I know.

All that you know?

All that I know.

Can't tell you any more.

Well, you keep thinking. We'll try it again real soon.

Mr. McCoy, I don't like to be stopped to answer questions I ain't interested in

by somebody I don't know.

Then we'll have to get to know each other better.

$5 ,000 is better.

Thank you.

Name's McCoy.

Ray McCoy.

I got the pleasure of addressing you.

Mr. McCoy, I've already heard about Joel Banner and your offer.

You're not buying?

No, I'm afraid not. I earn it honestly.

Might have something else to offer.

I doubt that.

Might be around for some time.

Well... Summers are pleasant.

Mooners are kind of cold.

I spent 18 months tracking Banner.

Had him near corner three times. I'm a man not too proud to seek help.

Yes, I know. I've seen some of your help.

Lady, I've dogged men through heat and chill.

Gone a week without food.

Twice that without water.

I've been cut by wind and slashed by sand.

And who did add?

Shaw did.

In the long run, he even came up empty -handed.

But I want to tell you something.

From now on, things are going to get really hot. I mean hot.

I'm going to live right inside this town's gut.

And what is that supposed to have to do with me?

You'd hear things.

Relatives visiting.

Friends passing through.

Pretty ears to hear with.

Big blue eyes to see things with.

Lovely red lips to tell me things.

One way or another, I get what I want.

Hello, Julie.

Hello, Rose.

I have a list of things here I need.

Tobacco, medicine.

I have a new hand.

Temporarily. Rose, I know all about it.

Your husband's back.

When you go home, tell him that there are four bounty hunters here looking for

him. Tell him he should leave right away.

Don't look over there.

There's one of them right out there.

Just keep your voice down and act natural.

But they promised me.

It's all changed now.

I don't expect him to stay down tomorrow.

Rose, he shouldn't stay at all. Get him out now.

You have no right to tell me how to leave. Yes, I do.

This entire town is in jeopardy.

I've been threatened and so has Dave.

And you will be too when they find out you're sheltering him. But don't argue

with me.

I'm out.

Let's see. That will be $1 even.

What about the other items?

We're active now.

We'll get new equipment in next month. Thank you.

You know where Banner is. Where is he? I didn't.

Now, you told me you did in the saloon. I didn't say. You know where Banner is.

I only said I knew about him, that's all. You're lying.

No way.

You're lying.

Don't let me.

Hold it.

Hold it. Don't let him hit me again, Dave.

Bust your arm. Don't let him alone.

The old man said he knew where Banner is. I didn't say nothing. I don't know.

He was only taking the old man at his word.

Well, would you take the old man's word that he fought with Zachary Taylor in

the Indian Wars?

Or maybe Sherman in the Civil War?

Or that he single -handedly rounded up the Dalton gang?

You boys buy him two beers and he was either there or he knew him.

Buy him four more, he'll let you in the White House or fucking in Palace.

For a fact, me and General Sherman... All right, Dave. Maybe since the old man

don't know nothing, maybe you do.

I know what everybody else in this town knows.

I've seen Banner's poster and I've heard McCoy's offer.

I just don't like anybody roughhousing this town.

Well, maybe if we squeeze hard enough, we'll find somebody who can talk.

The best thing you're going to be able to do in scalp lock is shove old Gabe

around. Now, no amount of beer is going to improve on that.

We'll see about that.

All right.

Since nobody got nothing to say... Scatter!

The show's over.

That's a bunch of drags to you, Dave.

Farmers.

I gave a drink, will you? Hey, listen, Gabe.

You know, it's all right for you to believe in those stories you tell them.

You see what happens when the wrong kind of people believe them, too?

But it's a fact, Dave. Me and the Daltons, I tell you, I rounded it up

-handedly. I remember, forget the time, once we were out on Long Zone on the...

looking for you, Joe.

A man named McCoy offered $5 ,000 for any information on you.

Rose got something important to say.

I'm tired, Joe.

I just can't wait.

It was both a big favor if you used that on me.

At least the $15 ,000 will be yours.

Joel. I thought it out.

Even before I got here.

If you'd see me.

If you'd give me a second chance.

If not, you're right.

Price goes with me.

So I got no place to go. I've run out on myself.

Blackmail, Joel.

Put that away.

I'd say turn me in.

But you might get beaten out of the money that way.

This way you could say I came back.

I tried to attack you.

$15 ,000, Rose.

I give you more dead than I ever gave you alive.

No, Joe, no.

Without you, I am dead.

As good as dead, just suck on air until it happens.

Rose, I've lost my taste for killing.

So even that crutch is gone.

But if a man guns for me, I'll gun him down.

And I'm going to keep on gunning until I get caught up. Don't you see that?

Well, the first time saying it here and now, I see it.

It'll be McCoy.

Not him, some punk.

Kid with an itchy finger trying to prove he's a man.

I'm a ghost out of your past, Rose.

The only way to kill one here, tell us, with a silver bullet.

A silver bullet worth $15 ,000.

Please, Rose.

Doing for you that way.

Well, at least I'm gonna die decent.

Oh, very fine.

Do you like, boss?

One more hour.

There.

Whoosh!

Next one burns to the ground unless someone talks.

If nobody talks, I'm burning a building every four hours

until someone dies.

And the next target's your B, P, S, and D office.

Hey, if you know where Banner is, tell him.

Don't protect the killer.

Protect us. Protect yourself.

Identify yourself, mister.

Put it that way and I wouldn't answer my own mother.

You want something, you put a smile on it.

You are a very direct man, senor.

Please. My name's Ben Callow, president of the BPSB.

We're interested in your railroad, mister.

And you interest me.

Who are you?

Ask your man, Tarrant. He's been giving us a bad time.

But we plan a hot one for him if he does no cooperate.

Hey, amigos.

Now I think you're blocking my way.

And we're giving you good advice to give to him. There isn't much time.

Well, I'm going to give you some good advice.

If you get out of my way by the time I count to three, you'll be holding your

head in your hand.

Your talk is very large, Senor Calhoun.

One.

Two.

I think the boys will be much interested in this señor Cajun.

Welcome home, Ben.

I saw that reception committee out there. Leaves town for one day, come

it's like a morgue. What's this all about?

There's a bounty hunter named McCoy. He and his men are terrorizing the whole

town looking for a man named Joel Banner.

He's going to burn down a building every four hours, and we're the next target.

What does he want from us?

Or do you know where Banner is?

Yes, he's Rose Campbell's husband.

Is that why you didn't turn him in? We don't have time to go into it, Ben.

Ben, Dave promised Rose that Banner could stay no more than two days.

That's not even a feeble excuse.

But you know that anything you do for Banner is against the best interests of

this town, and against our own best interests, he's an enemy of the

know that.

Well, then you also know that we're a member of an association.

An association we're going to need to back us up in Washington.

All right, Ben, all right. Now, I've been getting it from all sides. And

from all of that, any time you ever help a known criminal, that makes you an

accessory. That's done.

Ben, please, don't be so harsh on him. I was part of that decision, too.

Well, then you're just as guilty as he is.

Now, promise or no promise, his time's up. He's leaving now.

If he made a mistake, I'm going to correct it.

What do you think I've been doing?

Whatever you've been doing, you've been doing it all wrong.

Now, you get out there and tell McCoy I'm going after Banner. No.

Look, Ben.

I didn't figure on getting the railroad or us or the town into a bind.

But I put us on the hook, and I'll get us off of it.

I'll handle it.

Well, then you do that.

You handle it.

Go out there and tell Banner his time's up to get out.

Take it or leave it.

It'll take you an hour to get there and an hour to get back.

That'll give him the two -hour head start that he needs.

Mr. Calhoun, those men are coming.

Back away, Dave. You stay here, Julie, and you put that thing down.

That's as far as you go, gentlemen.

Time's up, senor.

Unless you're willing to talk.

I'm always interested in entering into meaningful conversation in order to

escape dire consequences.

He's stalling.

You know where Banner is.

I do?

Waiting. Senor.

Which one of you is McCoy?

He's in the saloon.

Then I'll talk to him.

I'll take another one, Jim. No.

Oh, just one more.

No.

Well, Mr. Calhoun.

All right, Gabe.

Barnaby. Howdy. Hello, Jim. Glad to see you, Ben.

You seen McCoy?

He left here a while ago.

Did he say where he was going or when he would be back?

I ain't exactly in his confidence.

Well, he's so anxious.

Where is he?

Where's his horse?

In the livery stable.

Horse ain't there.

No matter. We got our orders.

Talk or we burn you out.

Just a minute.

Can't you see what's happening?

He's around someplace.

You bet he's around.

But not around here.

No more words.

Do I have to do your thinking for you?

Can't you see what's happening?

Terrence gone.

McCoy's gone.

He knows where Banner is. He's going after the reward, and he'll keep the

15 ,000.

Did you hear that?

The boss's left is high and dry.

Yeah, he ran out on us. And we do all the dirty work.

You're being double -crossed. Don't you understand that?

Si.

But we let him double -cross.

You don't care?

No, senor presidente.

If the boss knows and is acting on it, then it will be done.

You're going to have to fight two men?

Dave Tarrant and banner a wounded man and a railroad worker. They'd be no

for him All right you two come over here and sit down

Hey,

what

about our order that's right

We're to burn the building every four hours.

And that won't stop until he gets back.

Ben, if you know, for Pete's sake, tell him.

My place could be next.

It will be.

You, stay put.

Clayton, keep an eye on him.

Hey, bartender, break me out a bottle.

on them if you have to. Keep them here.

Ain't nobody going no place.

For a fact?

Yeah. Well, suppose I ain't going anywhere.

Suppose I'm staying here for just as long as I want to.

You saw your wife.

You gave me your word.

For a fact, I did.

And ain't you the believing man, though?

You got nothing else to say to me?

I'm going to have to take you in.

You try.

You know why I came back to her?

I remembered.

There's a quiet in her.

Love to give a man.

I wonder if the time ever comes for a fellow like me to walk in the open with

her.

That looking over his shoulder to see what's running after him.

You can do it.

Must be a good feeling, huh?

You're disappointed in me, ain't you?

No, no, I'm not disappointed in you.

You're what you are.

You don't have to say it.

I know it as well as anybody.

We'll talk later how he got here, Mr. Tarrant.

I didn't leave him here.

He's here.

I thought you didn't want any party gunplay.

When a man shoots at you, you gotta try and stop him.

Yeah.

Any way you can, huh?

Yeah, that's right.

Throw it away, Dave.

Throw the gun away.

I'd do it, Dave.

I'd kill you.

Something important's about to happen now.

And I don't want you with a gun in your hand. I want you to mess it up. What are

you trying to do? Throw the gun away.

McCoy!

This ain't the way to do it, McCoy.

You're right. It's poor.

Make a play.

Sounds all right.

Joel.

Don't worry about it, Rose.

All it is is one way or another.

Let's go McCoy!

Joel, there'll be others.

That's right.

But he was the number one man.

You go on in the house, Rose.

Me and Dave, we ain't finished our talking yet.

Close the door, Rose.

Load your gun.

What? Load it, Dave. Load your gun.

What for?

I ain't gonna gun you down helpless.

You're gonna gunfight me? That's right.

Why? Like you called me.

I'm a mad dog killer. I just killed me a man. I got the lust.

No, no, it's not that. It's...

It's Rose. I've been seeing her.

That's right.

That's going to make what happens to you that much easier.

Now load your gun.

Get in your holster.

You scared?

No, I just don't see any sense in it, that's all.

There never was a gunfight, Dave, that made much sense.

You draw when you've got the belly for it.

This one's Banner.

Didn't even get his gun out of the holster.

I can't figure it. He... He made believe he was drawing on me.

I know.

Don't be sorry.

He goaded me.

He led me to believe he was staying and...

He wanted me to draw on him even before McCoy got here.

He came back to die the way he wanted.

Rose.

It's worth $15 ,000 to whoever... For whoever killed my husband.

I can't take that money.

Dave, if it'll make you feel any better, let me tell you this.

He asked me.

He wanted me to shoot him.

So you'd get the reward.

Yes.

So you got me to do it for you.

Rose. Dave, I just gotta go away and think.

Go hook up that buckboard. Get them back down.

We can tell them that Banner killed McCoy and she had to kill him.