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Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat.

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Heat.

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Heat. Heat.

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All

right.

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You know,

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Nina,

you're alive.

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Told me you were dead.

You're alive.

You're alive.

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>> I've never seen him before in my life.

Help me, Paul. You do miss.

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Exc

go to bed. It is late.

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Who are

My mom. My mom.

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Feeling

better?

My name is Duba. Jean Duba.

>> Where's my wife?

>> You have been very sick.

>> Wife Nina. Where is she?

>> I'm afraid you are not ready for that.

>> Look, lady, I don't know what you're

doing in this house or who you think

you're giving orders to. I'm getting up.

>> I have a robe. I let it out. I think it

will fit.

It was my husband's. I have all your

more. I come here last night looking for

my wife. I seen her.

>> That was four nights ago, Mr. Bleer.

It was not your wife you saw.

It was I.

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>> They told me my wife was dead. I didn't

believe him. Busted out of jail. I still

don't believe him. Where is she?

>> I'm sorry.

It was there when we bought the place 6

months ago.

>> Said there was a man. She'd run off with

a man.

>> Who was he?

>> I don't know.

>> I ask you a question, lady.

>> I told you I don't know. But I tried to

find out. I tried hard to find out.

I wanted to have all your answers for

you when you awakened, so you would have

no need to get them yourself.

You're going to a might of trouble.

>> I thought if I had your answers, you

might not be so restless.

Might even want to stay on here.

>> I have great need for you, Mr. Grier.

There is much work to be done. Fields to

be clear, crops planted, fences built.

Too much for a woman alone.

>> Maybe I didn't get myself near shot to

pieces. Busting out of jail for the

pleasure of tending your crops, which by

the way happen to be a growing on my

land. That's not yours anymore. It's

mine. The land, the house, bought with

arm money, my husband's and mine.

>> There's such a thing as property rights.

>> Mr. Baker, you're a criminal, a prisoner

of cancers. You have no property rights.

They were forfeited to the government

and we bought them.

>> Like you've done a lot of figuring out.

>> Please understand me. I want you to stay

because my need is desperate.

But I prefer not to force you.

>> Force me, ma'am? You are a wanted man,

much too weak to travel.

>> In the town of Knight's Crossing, they

have already posted notice of reward, a

very sizable reward.

All I want is to make a home here for my

children and myself.

If that is not possible, then we can

live long and well on that reward.

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Looks like you're going to get your

chance right about now.

>> Quick, over there.

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Yes.

>> Sorry. Trouble you must do what? But we

got word that Cam Bleica might be headed

this way. Used to live here. You haven't

seen him, have you, ma'am?

>> No, I haven't.

>> Mind if we look around, man?

>> Oh, not at all.

>> There's a reward out for him, ma'am.

>> Inside.

>> He busted out of jail. And Marshall kind

of figured he'd be headed for his own

house. Got himself shot up. He could be

in a bad frame of mind.

>> Thank you for warning me. I'll be

careful.

>> Miss Dubo, I don't take no chances with

this man if he shows up. He can fool

you, ma'am.

>> He looks like a boy, but he's a wild man

underneath. You better keep a gun handy.

>> Is he really that dangerous?

>> Well, he picked up a lot of trouble

around here in his day.

>> I'd keep looking for him.

>> You do that, ma'am. Remember, don't take

no chances. The reward says dead or

alive.

>> Thank you.

>> Bye, ma'am. Bye.

>> You see it?

>> Yep. He's there. All right. Better wire

speaker right away.

>> Right.

>> Thank you.

>> Guess that pushed me in your debt.

>> That was not my purpose, Mr. Plea.

All

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right.

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Where's your husband?

>> Not far from your wife's cross, there is

another one.

>> What happened?

>> There was a raid.

>> Jay Hawkers,

>> Missouri red legs.

My husband and I came from France. Mr.

He was a man with strong political

convictions who believed that freedom

was more than just a word.

They told us if we came out here we

could help build a nation of free men.

So we took our babies and we came.

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The first day on this land

they rode up and asked him how he felt

about slavery.

He was slow to answer.

So he shot him.

It doesn't matter. If he had told him

how he felt, the end would have been the

same.

We can never offer you what you have

lost, Mr. Bleer.

But you'll be welcome here.

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for

>> What's he saying?

>> Oh, nothing.

>> Time these kids learn to talk America.

>> I try

the man.

>> The man is

>> What do you say? He thinks you're very

strong.

>> And she thinks you're very handsome.

>> Now pay attention. Ain't no use when I

learn your English lesson I learned to

you. Right.

>> English.

>> That's right. Now we'll start with you,

Paul. I'm going. You're going. She's

going.

>> I'm not going. You're not going. She's

not going.

>> That's right. Now, I ain't a going. You

ain't a going. She ain't a going.

>> I ain't a going. You ain't a going. She

ain't a mama.

>> They'll soon be speaking English as well

as you do, Mr. Bleecker.

>> You can't expect too much too soon. Now,

I'll learn you. You're a fixing tooth.

I'm a fixing to. He's affixing too.

She's affixing too. I ain't affixing

too. He ain't affixing too. She ain't

affixing too.

>> Ain't anyone a fixing too?

>> I'm afraid Michelle isn't paying too

good attention.

>> You have to forgive her. She's a lady in

love.

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>> Michelle, you are bothering Mr.

Bleecker.

>> Am I? Well, not exactly, honey. I guess

a lesson or two wouldn't do any harm.

Here, let me show you.

Yonder sits an old blue jay. A lazy bird

is he. He waits for us to catch the

worms. Then he eats them. One, two,

three. Oh, hippie happy henny. With a

tiny shiny penny, for a hippie happy

henny, I say, "Oh, hippie happy henny."

With a tiny shiny penny, for a hippie

happy old blue J.

Aims my gun right at that bird. But then

I hear him say, "Oh, please don't shoot

me. Not today." So I ups and turns away.

So I ups and turns away. So I ups and

turns away. So I ups and turns away.

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All right, man. Spread out.

Come on out, Bleer. You haven't got a

chance. Come on out before one of those

kids get hurt.

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Put it back.

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It's mount.

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That's the prisoner.

All right, Blicker, in here.

Evening, Bleecker.

>> Governor,

>> it's been a long time. Haven't seen you

since your trial.

>> Bet that made you a real lonesome.

>> Sit down.

>> I said sit down.

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the smoke.

>> I suppose you're wondering why the

governor of Kansas rides 300 miles to

meet with a man he could have had hanged

by signing a paper into it. If

>> you knew how little time I spent

wondering what the governor of Kansas

does or thinks, you'd probably bust out

crime.

>> I'll tell you why I've come, Bleecker.

>> Don't have to, Governor. I can figure

that out for myself. You need me.

>> Need you so bad. I've gone to the

trouble of finding out a few things

about you I didn't know at the time of

your trial. I got your whole story right

here. Know you were born in Texas,

brought up here, deserted by your folks,

left to grow up in an orphanet. You

broke out early, kept on the move,

always alone. Got to be a Hellcat for

sure. Then came the war in Mexico. You

formed your own troop. Leakers Brigade

they were called. All Kansas boys.

>> Good men, Governor.

>> Then you came back to Kansas. Had a nice

girl, got married, tried a new kind of

life, homesteading. Remember what

happened then? He's got a personal

government.

>> The struggle for Kansas began. There

were raids. Southerners raiding

northerners, northerners raiding back.

But you couldn't wait for law and order.

You had to organize your own troop and

take the law into your own hands.

>> That's a lie. Sure, there were raids.

Mostly southerners riding up out of

Missouri. You and your men weren't

interested in law and order. You were in

there raiding right back. Didn't matter

who got killed as long as you drove the

Southerners out of Kansas.

>> Kansas must be a northern state.

>> What about the people that don't care

about your war? Don't care about the

North or the South. Just want to live in

peace. Sure. I got my boys together and

went out on some raids. Some folks may

have got hurt.

>> Some were killed.

>> That's right. But I call it protecting

my home.

>> And I call it murder.

>> She wouldn't want to put it to a vote

here and now.

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>> Leaker,

how'd you like not to hang? Not to grow

old and die in some stinkhole. How'd you

like a fresh start in life?

>> What do you want, Germa? A man on the

end of a rope. A man named Darcy.

>> Luke Darcy.

>> Know him?

>> Heard of him?

>> What have you heard?

>> Grapevine.

>> Mean him?

>> Heads up an outfit called the

Jay-Hawkers. Sounds like he's trying to

do the same thing I did. He's getting

away with it.

>> Luke Darcy is a mad man who plans to

take over Kansas for himself. And he's

taking it day by day, piece by piece.

He's got to be stopped.

>> What about your fancy army?

>> No good. We've tried. He's got a hideout

somewhere in the foothills. Nobody's

been able to find it. Nobody's been able

to find him. It's like tracking a ghost.

But Luke Darcy has got to be ferreted

out. He's got to be hanged. I made that

oath when I took this office.

>> What do you want from me, Governor?

>> You're a man Darcy could use.

>> Think so.

>> Fit in fine. What's more, you're the one

man who can find him.

>> So,

>> go to him. Join him. Be a Jay-Hawk. Find

a way to lure him someplace where I can

get my hands on him and string him up.

You bring me Luke Darcy and you're a

free man for award to boot.

do your own dirty work.

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>> You're going to get Luke Darcy from me.

You're going to get him not because I

want him, but because you want him. Bad

as I do, maybe worse.

You happen to know the name of the man

who was responsible for your wife's

death.

Carried her off in a raid, made love to

her, made her his woman. Then when he

got tired of her, threw her out to

become a drunk, the town to die

in a gutter of pneumonia.

>> You're lying. Fleeer.

You think I'd lie about a thing like

that?

Luke Darcy is the man you want.

How you get him is your own business.

Remember this.

Luke Darcy is no ordinary bandit. This

is a man who fancies himself an emperor,

a kind of backwards Napoleon. He's

crafty. He's smart. Smarter than you.

Maybe

>> kind of like to get started. Governor,

>> anytime. I'll make it look legitimate.

I'll put out new reward posters.

>> Just make it a respectable sum.

>> Leaker, you might take an ocean to cross

me. If you do, remember this. I'll get

him and I'll get you. And I'll string

you both up one at a time on the same

day I string up the rest of those

Jay-hawkers.

>> You sound like somebody who's just come

into an awful lot of rope.

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Heat. Heat.

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They have released you and now you come

for your gun.

>> That's right.

>> So you can kill someone for them.

>> That's right.

>> They told you the man responsible for

your wife.

>> That's what they did. Man named Darcy.

>> Look, Darcy.

>> It's a fellow.

>> And now you must kill him. An eye for an

eye. Is that it?

>> Something like that. You have no right

to take a human right in the world.

>> No man has the right to be another's

executioner. You have no right to kill

just because you're

>> Just because. Just because

>> you broke my

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All right, boys. Clear out.

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Hold it.

Buddy, move. I'll kill him.

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I guess we better split up. Thanks,

stranger.

>> Stranger, you know me, Jake.

>> Sure, Cam. I I just wasn't thinking.

That's all.

>> Dressed up like a Missouri red lake.

Right like you, Jake. Especially since

Missouri lives that away. What's the

game? Who you riding for?

>> Don't ask me questions. I said, "Who?"

Darcy, you're taking me to him.

>> I can't do that, can he? He killed me.

He killed me.

>> You're taking me to him

>> now?

Are you all right?

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What's up, Jake?

>> It's all right. He's with me. His name

still Darcy. It's a friend. A very good

friend.

>> Come on in.

over there.

>> Gentlemen, when my Jay-Hawkers take over

a town and I make a promise to you, that

promise is meant to be kept.

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Let me get this straight. You say this

man broke into your store. What did he

steal?

>> It ain't what he stole, Mr. Darcy. It's

what he smashed up.

>> Did he steal anything?

>> Yes, you're Mr. Darcy. He did.

>> Mr. Evans,

I was a little drunk, Luke. I I

>> How much damage was done?

>> Maybe $300.

>> Does that pay for your damage?

>> Yes, sir. Mr. Darcy, it sure does. Thank

you.

>> Anybody can get drunk. Look, it was just

a mistake.

>> A fatal mistake.

needs to be shot immediately away from

town.

>> Look, you can't do this. I got a wife

with two kids.

>> Take him out of here.

>> I got a wife with two kids. You can't do

this. We've been friends for years.

Look, you can't do this. You can't do

it.

>> Is that satisfactory, gentlemen?

>> I deplore violence, Mr. Darcy.

>> As I do, sir. You and I know that

violence begets violence. It's the

nature of our times.

One of my men breaks my word to you, he

does so at the forfeit of his life.

Hard justice perhaps.

I promised you peace and protection. I

intend to keep my promise.

>> Believe me, your homes are safe. Go

about your job, gentlemen. Town's in

good hands.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you, Mr.

These peaceful, civilized hearings make

me thirsty.

So, I um I hear we're friends. Hello,

friend.

Oh,

>> Mr. Darcy.

>> Too bad I have such a short memory. I

don't recall meeting you.

>> You didn't know what makes us friends.

>> Figure it's the future.

>> Future friends. That's nice. Nice to

know that we have a future. We'll talk

about it later. After we talk about the

future of another friend, my friend Jake

Barton, who also knows my laws and

breaks them. He told me he'd know you

real good, Luke. I wouldn't have brought

him else.

>> How long have you been with me, Jake?

>> Four years.

>> Always loyal.

>> Well, right down the line.

>> Never broken a law before.

>> Not even worse, Luke. You know that.

>> It's a good record. A man with a record

like that knows that Darcy's laws are

made to be kept not broken. Not even

once.

>> Luke, I tell you, I couldn't help it.

>> I like you, Jake. Always have. This is a

very important bli

without his permission.

>> It wasn't my fault.

>> Bad luck, Jake. He's

yours.

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Luke, look. I'm doing Please don't.

>> Mr. Darcy, Jake broke your almighty law

because I'm making

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conviction to kill someone. Friend,

try me.

says he's a friend or lie.

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When you finished, mister,

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you got to turn around now, friend.

What do you use him for?

Put on quite a show, friend.

>> Sure did. Thought I missed him. He may

have blown my head off for sure.

>> Why'd you go to all the trouble?

>> That's easy. I wanted to impress you.

>> Why?

I want to be with you.

again. Why

you need most I do best?

What I need most, I do best.

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You've humiliated him. Someday he'll

have to kill you. But not until I say

so.

>> And I still have a little time.

>> That's all any of us have, friend. A

little time. Most of it lonely. Goes so

fast. A man sings, loves, fights, and

then he's missing. Dust like a leaf that

falls in his gut.

Who are you?

Name's Bleecker.

Cam Bleecker. That's right.

You're a well-known man. Figured you

might have heard of me.

heard of you. The brigades in Mexico,

the raids that got you in trouble here.

Of course, I've heard of Camp Leica. We

have friends in common, so I understand.

Seems I heard you were in jail. Busted

out. That's not an easy thing to do.

Well, I had to or go plum crazy. Had to

find out about my wife. See, she stopped

writing me.

>> You have a wife?

>> I had a wife. She's dead. It's too bad.

Sad to lose someone you love. How did

she die? Monia, the doc said it was.

It's too bad.

She was all alone in the place. I wanted

to look out after her. For a while, I

figured it was the old story. You know,

took up with another man, run off, maybe

turn to liquor, and maybe worse. So, I

busted out and learned me the truth,

which was no other man. She just plain

died from overwork, busting sod, tended

to crops, very frail to start with.

So now you have no woman and no home.

>> Got nothing but a price on my head.

5,000 which I'd like to run up. How

about it, Mr. Darcy?

Sit out.

It'd be foolhardy to pretend I couldn't

use a land like you.

Might even admit to needing you. That is

if we were like and trust each other.

>> Who knows? You say anything is possible.

Why never touch him? Whiskey.

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Luke.

>> Evans got away and he's heading for

town. He's out to get you, Luke.

>> Sorry to disappoint Evans. It's an old

friend. But

>> look out.

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Baker's a good man, Lord.

Almost too good to be true.

Take two men to go back where he came

from and find out what he really knows.

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It's a sickening sight.

Cut them down. Take them and bury them

like men.

Let's get out of here.

>> Man that is born of a woman hath but a

short time to live and is full of

misery. He cometh up and is cut down

like a flower. He fleth as it were a

shadow and never continous

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thousand ways to die. Each man finds his

own. to strangle at the end of a rope

with your eyes bulging, your feet

kicking, your tongue hanging out. That's

for a clown or an animal, not a man.

>> You're really scared of hanging, aren't

you?

>> I once saw him hang a man I loved. My

brother,

I like life more than most. For him, I'd

have given it up.

made me stand there with my hands tied

and watch his torture.

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In many ways, Blinker, you remind me of

that, brother.

Glad you've come.

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Heat. Heat.

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There it is. The beginnings of the

country of Kansas. Looks like an army.

Works like an army.

>> What are you doing?

Come on in.

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>> What a nest. Souvenirs. Most of them

were gifts, little momentos from my

appreciative and loyal followers. A nice

warm stove, for instance, from the town

hall in Watson's Junction. This a gift

from the Royal Hotel in Emittsville.

Levenson's Emporium is sedated. Those

are from the library in Morgantown. Make

yourself at home.

>> Don't know as I can around all these

books.

>> They frighten you. Always get scared of

something knows more than I do.

>> Wine.

Whiskey.

>> That's right. You said you'd never touch

this stuff. I may have to see that you

cultivate a taste for the finer things

to the future.

A Napoleon fell. He drank wine, too.

>> He had his own vineyards.

>> Was a fellow once, colonel down in

Mexico during the war. Had an idea he

was some sort of Roman king. Call

himself Alexander the Great. Looks a

Greek

for a fellow. They had to tie him up and

take him away. Not sure I like what

you're saying.

>> Mr. Darcy, I don't know a lot about

history, but I do know this. A lot of

men have tried to take a lot of places

all for themselves, even in this

country. They never make it.

>> That's because they never learn. Learn.

You can't do it alone. You have to have

the people with you.

>> Take that little French. He came close.

Paris, Moscow. He had to get from here

to here. You know why he failed? Two

reasons. Broken supply lines and the

people hated him. Oh, he got to Moscow.

All right. But when he did, the people

were gone and the place was on fire.

On the way back in the snow, he lost an

army and he lost the world.

>> So you take the little towns

one by one. And

>> you get the people to like you.

>> That's right.

>> Also one by one.

>> No. Oh, they come around real fast. You

see, I always make sure they need me

before I come into a town. It's hit hit

hard by the Missouri red legs. I make

sure of that, too, because those

Missouri red legs are my own men wearing

different outfits. When I move in with

my Jay-Hawkers the next day, I'm a big

strong daddy come to protect them

against the nasty raiders. And believe

me, I don't have to take their towns

from they handle to me.

>> Sounds like nothing's going to stop you.

>> That's right. I'll take town after town

after town across the territory until I

take the big one. Take Abalene, you take

the railroad. Take the railroad, you

take Kansas. Any questions?

>> Taking Kansas is one thing. Holding it

another.

>> I'll hold it. I'll hold it with guns,

men. Big guns and trained men. I'll

train the men and I'll buy guns. There's

enough of them to keep anyone from

taking my country from me.

>> Sounds like you got it all figured out,

Mr. Darcy.

Only one thing bothers me. Seems like an

awful lot of innocent people might get

themselves hurt. It happens, big guy.

You think I like that part of it? I

don't. This is a war I'm fighting. Wars

have their victims, their martyrs,

unpleasant necessities. Let me tell you

this. Before I'm through, I'm going to

give the people of Kansas a fine big

country of their own. As rich a life as

any place on earth. As long as they live

it your way.

And we should make that our way.

Our way, Darcy.

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What are my horseman

>> over there?

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live here.

>> This is my place.

>> The way I heard it, it's Cam Breaker's

place.

>> You're a friend of Mr. Bleakers?

>> That's right, ma'am. I'm a friend.

>> You have seen him

>> day before yesterday.

>> And is he all right?

>> He's doing fine, lady. Just doing fine.

Nice place you got here.

Is your man around?

Children, but no man.

It's always hard, little lady.

>> What was it you wanted?

>> Just wondering, ma'am, about Mrs. Ble.

>> What about her?

>> How did she die? Lea wanted me to find

out for him.

>> But she knows

>> he does.

Well,

>> I think so. I guess I was that man.

>> I'm not sure. There is a town nearby.

Maybe they know.

>> Yeah, maybe.

I got a couple of fellas asking.

Did you uh jump that wood by yourself? A

bigger ch it for you. I gladly cut a

stack for you myself. Would you hand it

with an axe?

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I used to be a frightened man.

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Are you friendly? Are you friendly

little bleaker?

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>> He'd kill you. He'd kill you like he's

going to kill Darcy.

>> You just done me a big favor, lady. I

guess that ought to show you my

appreciation.

>> You and I are going to meet again, lady.

And when we do, you're going to find out

how appreciative a man can be.

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Just remember where we left off because

next time that's where we begin.

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Hey, you. Where's Darcy? in the house

>> alone.

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RC wants to see you

>> later. He wants to see you now.

Leave the gun. It's social.

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Come in.

Well, come in, friend. Have a drink.

Thank you. I got to thinking about you

alone in there, and my heart went out to

you.

>> You're a true friend. Howdy, ma'am.

>> Good evening. Whiskey,

>> please, ma'am. Think she's pretty?

>> Sure do. She's yours. That's what I call

real friendly.

Or would you prefer this one? See, it

matters little to me.

It never does.

Maybe you need better talk, Darcy.

Maybe we'd better.

>> You two into the other room. But wait,

you married?

>> Sure.

>> Where's your husband?

>> I don't know. go in the army someplace.

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>> See, my friends, you almost got yourself

mixed up with another man's wife.

>> Didn't know she was another man's wife.

>> One seldom does.

>> One should find out.

>> Perhaps. I never bother. Me, a woman is

like a wine. Something to be enjoyed.

It's over and there's nothing left in

the bottle. You must throw it away and

find another.

One difference. A wine sometimes you

learn its name, but a woman never.

I once the old woman, a very pretty one.

Made the mistake of learning her name.

She's dead. Darcy,

I'm sorry she's dead. You threw her away

like one of your empty wine bottles.

>> I don't deny it.

I've come, don't you?

I gamble big. I always did. It's loaded.

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I could say many things. It might change

your mind. I could say, "I'm sorry. I

didn't think she'd be hurt. I wouldn't

do it again." None of this would be

true. Make no excuses for what I am or

what I did. I ask no forgiveness.

I say one thing to you. Accept me.

Accept your wife. Yes. Accept her as a

human being with all the weaknesses and

fallibilities of a human being.

You want to blame someone, blame

yourself for thinking she was a saint

without flesh and blood and human

appetites. You want to shoot something,

shoot that pedestal on which you placed

her. You want to destroy something,

destroy the dream you had. A dream that

refused to admit she was a lonely girl,

lovely and beautiful, who needed to hear

it from a man who meant it.

Make no mistake,

when I said it, I meant it.

I make decisions fast. Either I like or

dislike fast. And when I do, I move

fast. This is how it was with her. This

is how it is with you.

Telling you this because

I can't lie to you.

There must be nothing but truth.

[Music]

Answer me one question.

>> Anything.

Did she ever say she loved you?

Yes.

[Music]

Big day tomorrow, Luke.

See you in the morning.

[Music]

[Music]

You will have peace, my friends.

This will be our land,

our home,

our Kansas.

[Applause]

[Music]

Heat.

Heat.

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

Security guards in position. vision.

How's the shoulder?

>> Just a flesh wound. It's not very deep.

>> Let me see.

Got a knife?

>> I'd clean it unless you're going to skin

a coyote. That's coyote blood on it.

>> Exactly. Going to skin a coyote.

Go see how brave the big strong man

really is. So now you're a doctor. Might

dab and get one. be real pleased with

the fee. $5 for the operation, $10,000

for turning you in.

Be like a slug of that fancy European

wine.

Whiskey.

>> Sorry. No whiskey taken out on rage

boss's orders.

Ready, Luke?

What's our next town? Rage crossing.

She used to live there once.

Seems to me that was a place.

>> That was a place.

>> Sorry, Luke.

You prefer not to go in the night's

crossing raid.

It's just another town.

[Music]

[Music]

just going to hold us up for a spell.

What if I take off for a while? Anything

special?

>> Personal business.

>> Which kind of personal business? Suppose

I don't want to tell you, friend.

I won't ask you, friend.

Back tomorrow, next day.

>> You worried, Luke?

>> Should I be?

[Music]

>> See you tomorrow. The next day.

>> I'll take that. Jake

[Music]

Le's going on a trip. I want to know

where.

[Music]

Come on. You went that way. Do like I

tell you.

Miss Dubois.

>> Cam.

Cam.

>> Sorry I scared you. Oh,

>> you shouldn't have come. It's very

dangerous.

>> All right. I won't stay longer. Come to

bring this for Michelle. It'll be the

best guitar in the world.

>> It's a beautiful guitar.

Tell me, did you

did you do what you started out to do?

Did I kill Luke, Darcy?

Oh,

>> thank God. Welcome back. Come, the

children will be glad to see you.

[Music]

>> I don't like this, Lord. We could save

my life.

>> All right. Cuz you'll write his funeral.

>> Come.

>> I'm a fixing to kiss you. Good night.

>> Reckon you ought to

>> reckon I ought to.

>> Thank you, ma'am.

>> When we come.

>> All right, man. Let's go.

We can start back now. Can

>> we wait around?

>> That's a hanging party. You have to make

$5,000. Come on. We got a long ride.

[Music]

>> Real nice kids.

>> Thank you.

>> Doing good with them.

>> I try but one never knows. The teacher

and town said they learned very fast

that

>> this is for you.

>> Monet alone. You're going to have to get

out of here for a while. Take the kids

and go.

>> Go

>> just for a while. There's going to be

trouble.

>> What kind of trouble?

>> Big trouble. And I don't want you or the

kids around when it happens.

>> How do you know of this trouble, Cam?

>> Cam, how do you know of this trouble?

What has happened to you since you left?

joined Darcy. Oh

>> no,

>> not the way you think. I made a deal

with the governor in my life for

Darcy's.

Joined him to trap him and to hang him.

>> But you're not going through with it,

are you?

>> I didn't say that.

>> You didn't have to. It's quite obvious.

>> John Luke Darcy ain't like I thought

he'd be.

>> He destroyed your wife.

>> I guess a man never had more reason to

hate a man than I got to hate Luke

Darcy.

I hated him for sure when I first got

there, and I've been trying to hate him

ever since. God knows I've been trying

to hate him, but I don't. I tell you,

there's another side of this man that's

awfully big. A side that overpowers you

and makes you like him whether you want

to or not. He has ideas, you big ideas,

big and good for all the people of

Kansas. Maybe good for all the people of

America.

>> Oh, I've heard that so often before. The

big ideas of the big men who know what

is best for everyone else. They promise

you the world. If you just hand over one

little thing, your freedom, your

dignity, your right to be a decent human

being.

How cleave they are, the dares, and how

evil, how thoroughly evil. I've seen

them in Europe. I know what I'm talking

about. They spoil human life. They spit

on the people they use. People like you

who they can take and make into

something just as rotten as they are.

That's right. You are rotten, too. Just

as rotten as Oh, God. God.

[Music]

Be out of here in a week.

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

Hey, I'll do just return from the dead.

>> Hey, look who's here. All the walking

goats.

>> Hi, Cam. How'd you ever do it, boy?

>> How'd you make it, man? You're supposed

to be dead.

>> Oh, man. Am I glad to see you. I'd never

been so glad to see anybody in my life.

How'd you do it?

>> Dude, what? Everybody gone crazy?

>> Well, we heard you were dead at a

hanging party.

>> What'd you hear that?

>> Come on, let's celebrate. This calls for

a drink.

What's

>> this all about, Luke? How'd you hear I

was caught?

>> Lord, look who's back. Five, Leo.

>> How'd you hear I was caught?

>> I I just heard that's all.

>> Told you, Luke.

>> I better go check them in.

>> Oh, hold it, Lord.

All right. After you took off the other

night, I sent a couple of boys along to

keep an eye on you.

>> Who are the boys?

>> Lord and Jake.

>> What' you tell him, Lord?

>> What I saw. You showed yourself in town.

Somebody must have seen you. Got a posy

after you. Jake and me figured they got

you.

One thing wrong, Lord.

Didn't show myself in town. Only at the

house. Nobody knew I was there except

you and Jake.

I wonder who could have told Marshall.

>> I wouldn't know.

>> Jake.

Jake, come in here.

>> Find out and find out fast.

>> Jake, what happened at night's crossing?

[Music]

>> I didn't want nothing to do with that.

Luke Cam, you saved my life. I owed you.

It's him. It's all Lord's idea. He's

supposed to do it. Careless again, Lord.

Should have stayed around to make sure.

Filthy lying pig.

[Music]

>> Stop it.

Did he get away?

[Music]

You like that? One of my favorite

decanters.

>> Shouldn't have killed him, Luke.

>> He almost had you killed, didn't he?

>> Lorden, yes, he's worth a bullet, but

not Jake. Not some poor fool like Jake

or go to poor foolish Jake. Bury him.

Say a prayer over him if you love him so

much. I killed him for you.

>> I do my own killing when it's necessary.

Always have.

You're right. I

I shouldn't have done it. I lost

control. That's bad.

Yeah. When Lorden came back, told us you

were dead.

First, I thought I felt bad because of

the plan. Without you, our chances of

success were a lot less.

Then I suddenly realized I felt

just the way I did when my kid brother

was

He died.

It isn't sentiment. It's the way I feel.

[Music]

Let me take a look at this shoulder.

Started to bleed.

I can be ready for another 10 days.

>> Then we move on. Night's Crossing.

You're going to be ready to lead that

raid.

>> 10 days.

You're ready.

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

Yeah.

Come on. Move it along. Get that stuff

loaded fast. All right, boys. Hand them.

Let's take a ride, teacher.

>> Stop. Stop. Get your hands off me. Let

me go. Let me go.

>> Hey, put it out.

Help me out.

[Music]

Go. Go back.

[Music]

>> Heard that?

>> Yeah. She shouldn't have run out. Let

her be.

>> Take her home.

>> Put her down. It's an order.

>> I know this girl. I'm taking her home.

>> Disobey an order. Risk your life and

mine just for one little girl. Huh?

>> That's right, Darcy. For one little

girl.

>> You and I are going to have to have a

talk, friend, when you get back. If you

get back.

>> M.

[Music]

[Music]

Is she Is she dead? Oh, she's

>> alive.

Get some water.

[Music]

>> She must have a doctor.

>> Go to night's crossing.

>> No, there is no doctor there.

>> In Abene, there's a doctor in Abling.

>> It will take too long to get back.

>> We'll take her there. We left like I

asked you.

Yes. If we had only left, it might not

have been Michelle. Maybe we would be

lucky. And then it will be some other

innocent little child lying there. This

is your peace. You and your Mr. Darcy.

Do you bring peace by killing small

children? Murderer. Murderer. Murder.

>> All right. It's going to be all right

now. It's going to be your way. I

promise you.

Your way.

[Music]

I'm left.

>> Just a minute there.

Little bit edgy ain't you, mister? What

I want is a match.

>> Yeah. Yeah, sure.

[Music]

Sure. A lot of strangers in town.

>> Yeah, it looks like it. What's going on?

>> Roundup day Saturday. Right here in

Abene. First time in history. Going to

sell the stuff right here instead of

Kansas City. Folks been pouring in from

all over the territory.

>> Bring a lot of money to town.

>> Over half a million dollars coming in on

one train alone.

>> That is a lot of money.

>> Yeah, but there'll be a lot of soldiers

watching it. Yeah, thanks mister.

[Music]

[Music]

>> Well,

>> she'll live, but he's not sure she will

ever walk.

She'll walk.

>> It must not happen again, Cam. No more

innocent children.

>> It won't.

>> I'll stay here tonight with Michelle and

Paul.

>> Look, you're in the house here in

Abling. I'll need help when I get back

from Topeka.

>> Topeka?

>> I'm going to pay a little call from the

governor of this territory.

Governor, I'm sure I can bait a trap

that Darcy will walk into. Saturday

training is due to pull in at 1:00 sharp

with cattle buyers and a half a million

dollars in gold. Suppose there weren't

any cattle buyers on that train. Suppose

instead you had a chuck full of federal

troops. You trapped Luke Darcy for sure.

You and your troops will have to be

ready. I'll give you the details as soon

as I'm set. It's

>> just one thing. A trap can work two

ways. How do I know you're not setting

this one for me? This is one time you'll

have to gamble, governor.

>> All right. Remember, I get him alive.

Don't cross me.

[Music]

[Music]

Move it along.

[Music]

He say come to house now.

>> Keep them coming man.

>> Here, here, and here. Those will be our

checkpoints.

>> Morning me.

>> I know you're a busy man. Busy and

mysterious. But would you be good enough

to tell us why you're taking our guns

and loading them into a hay wagon? I

>> changed a plan for Abene. Stampedes out.

>> Done what?

>> I couldn't tell you last night, Luke.

Things about taking Abene you don't

know.

>> And you do, my bright strategist.

>> That's right. And I'd like to tell you

alone. If you hadn't been so drunk, I

might have told you last night.

Hi, G.

Well, what is it, Luke? Yesterday there

were 5,000 head of cattle in Abene.

Today 10,000. Tomorrow there'll be 20

pouring in from all over the territory.

Why? Because for the first time the sale

is going to be in Abene. Not Kansas

City, but in Abene. You know what that

means?

Money coming in. Big money. 1:00 on

Saturday, the train from Topeka is

coming in loaded with the biggest cattle

buyers in Kansas, Missouri, and

Illinois. And a half a million dollars

in gold. What do you know? I took the

girl to abine. I still got connections.

Half a million dollars.

>> You got any idea what that can mean?

>> Means Kansas, that's all.

>> Means guns. Big guns. Lots of them.

>> All you want New Orleans enough to put a

ring of steel around the territory for

50 years. Nobody comes, nobody goes less

than you say so.

>> All right, we've established the prime

objective. Why does the plan change? And

alcohol humans must have eaten what's

left of your brain. Our guarded, people

guarded, cattle guarded, everything's

guarded. Slightest tent of trouble in

that train will never leave Top to Pika.

>> You got something figured out.

>> Not me. It's those books you've been

making me read. Paul Troy,

>> I know the book.

>> And you know, sometimes it's best to

take a place from the inside. What about

ammunition?

>> Hey, how do the men get in?

>> Walking. What about your time schedule?

The railroad, the troops. You got that

all figured out, too?

>> Every bit of it.

>> All right, Mr. One Claus. How? First

thing you taught me, never plan a battle

before breakfast.

[Music]

That's right there. Hand over your

weapons.

>> Poor Lieutenant

>> boy. Strangers. No arms to be carried in

the town of Abalene until sundown

Saturday, July 27th. Order of the Common

Six Military District.

>> Looks like big going on around here.

>> That's right. You claim these on your

way back.

>> Move along, boys. Port

has detail

about

it.

>> All right, moving along. Let's go.

Moving along.

>> Go along.

>> Next one.

>> Well, that does it. I get back to Darcy

and tell him the train comes in at 1:00.

The guard changes at 12:45. Our men will

drift in by twos and threes and this

house will be his headquarters. Got it.

What about her? You worried?

Tell him.

>> I'm with Bleecker. If he's with Darcy,

I'm with Darcy.

>> Understand?

Nice work.

[Music]

[Music]

How's Michelle?

>> Come, I'll show you.

>> Not now. You haven't time. You've got to

go to Topeka to give the governor the

final details.

>> Is the plan the same? Darcy is to be

here in this house.

>> One day and one night.

>> I had a thought of my children being

close to something that evil even for

one day. The plan can't work without

you.

>> I know.

I know.

>> Thank you for coming, Mrs. Debon. Tell

Bleecker my men will be on the 1:00

trip.

>> Good night.

>> Good night. Go.

[Music]

Careful, ma'am. Watch your step.

[Music]

>> Thank you.

>> Pleasure, ma'am.

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

>> Excuse me, mister. You got any idea

where that pretty girl was getting in

the train? I thought I knew it.

>> Don't know. Must be someone important.

Then to see the governor. The governor?

Yeah. She come up in his private

carriage just now.

[Music]

[Music]

You uh hold it. You people have any

weapons on you? Move along. Please move

along. Thanks, Wag.

[Music]

bring water for the horses.

>> Well, mastermind.

>> Pretty good, huh?

>> Not bad. You looked like Hayawat had

come to tea. How'd it go?

>> Right on schedule. About 50 of the men

are already in. Rest will be here by

tonight.

>> Good. Everything is in order.

>> Oh, it all seems so simple, so routine.

>> Yet by this time tomorrow,

>> where are you?

Come.

>> It all went well. I saw.

This is Luke Darcy.

Ma'am, you look as though you were

seeing Lucifer himself. I don't know

what this fellas told you about me, but

I'm not that bad. Not quite.

>> How do you do, Mr. Darassi?

>> I know you didn't get this dressed up on

my account. You've been traveling.

>> Well, I

>> You've been to Topeka to get medicine

for a little girl. You know about the

girl that

>> Yes. I I'm deeply sorry. If there's

anything I can do,

>> you are very kind.

>> Oh, you are the kind one. You're taking

a great risk helping us.

One can do many things, Mr. Darcy, when

one believes in the final outcome.

>> Well said.

>> Well, I'd be to see the children.

[Applause]

>> She's beautiful woman, Cale. It's just a

part of the plan. No more, no less.

>> You wouldn't try to fool a friend, would

you? You said yourself, they're like

bottles of wine. Use them and throw them

away. Only this is private stock, right?

Anything you say, Fred. Anything you

say. You better unload these guns.

[Music]

It's a clear sky.

We'll have a good day tomorrow. That'll

help.

Tell my fortune.

Say love

and that death.

It's everyone's fortune, friend. One of

them is

my mother used to laugh and say, "If the

good die young, I would live forever.

Somehow when I look at this lovely lady,

I'm reminded of my mother cuz she used

to hold me on her knee." And

can you imagine Darcy on his mother's

knee? It's not easy.

>> She was very beautiful in the same way

you are. She had a voice that could be

sharp as a dagger or soft as a prayer.

>> I'm very glad my friend Bleakers found

you.

>> I'll go and look at Michelle.

>> May I go with you?

>> Well,

>> I'd like very much to see you, little

girl.

>> Very well.

After

[Music]

tomorrow, if if there's a doctor

anywhere in the world who can help your

child up,

I'll see that he's brought here.

>> You are a very persuasive man, Mr.

Darcy.

[Music]

>> I don't believe that you really care.

>> Look at me.

Believe me, I care.

[Music]

She's resting well.

>> That's fine.

>> It's late. I'll say good night.

Wait, it is cold in the barn. Why don't

you stay in here? It's more comfortable.

>> Thank you. I'll get my blankets.

>> Very hard, isn't it?

>> Yes.

>> I meant to hate him.

>> I know what you meant, Cam. I'm not

sorry it's happening. Just I wish you

were not here.

>> Make you feel a little dirty?

>> No. But why does it have to be this way?

It's the legal way, the way the governor

wants it, the way you want it. Tomorrow,

the troops from Topeka will pull in at

1:00 sharp. And make no mistake about

it, John, by 1:30, Luke Darcy will be

dead.

[Music]

[Music]

Somewhere out there, just an hour away,

there's a train with enough gold on it

to buy me the country of Kansas.

This couldn't have happened without you,

both of you.

In case I forget to mention it later.

Thanks.

[Music]

First, there's a little matter of taking

this town.

All right, let's go.

[Music]

Marshall, I'm Luke Darcy. You're

relieved of your job.

Captain, you've got a little problem.

All right, boys. Grab them guns.

[Music]

[Music]

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Come on. Keep going. Come on. Hey. Come

on.

[Music]

Some of you may not know me. My name is

Luke Darcy.

>> I've just taken your town.

>> Be not alarmed, my friends, for I come

not to rob, but to protect, not to burn,

but to build, not to hurt, but to help.

While others are destroying themselves,

we will build our land strong and

beautiful, safe and beautiful. I will

build hospitals for your sick, schools

for your children, new roads, new

churches, a new way of life.

[Music]

So I say to you, my friends, trust me,

believe in me. And now I ask you to go

quickly to your homes. We will meet

again tonight when I will have answers

for all your questions.

Until then, God bless you.

[Music]

I want to talk to you both of you.

I don't have much time, so I'll say this

fast.

Cam, take this woman and get out of here

now.

Can't be true to both of us. Not John

and me. I spoiled a dream for you once

before. I can't do that again.

Take those two kids and go anywhere.

California, Oregon. Just make a home for

yourselves and live this dream.

Don't worry about me. I got what I want.

I got cancers.

[Music]

You let me go.

>> He let us both go.

>> Something I didn't expect to walk away

from. It

always knew he had to die. Guess I

figured I'd be the one to kill him.

[Music]

Was my job from the beginning. My job.

>> Isn't it better this way?

We'll

hang him, Jean.

[Music]

Hang him in front of the whole town with

his hands tied behind his back.

People standing there laughing and

jeering and yelling.

Go home, John.

[Music]

Where's Darcy? Looking for something,

friend?

Come to ask me something, friend?

My good friend to whom I just gave a

dream?

What is it? New version of the fall of

Troy. Like troops hidden in a train.

You're a little late. Our friend Lorden

got here first from Topeka. This time

you were careless.

>> Don't play games, Darcy. You don't have

much time.

>> Neither do you, my friend.

>> I'm telling you, get out of here.

>> Soon as I attend to one little matter.

>> Don't bother yourself. I'll take care

of.

>> How? This I do myself in my own way.

[Music]

Look, look. Troops are here. Hundreds of

them spreading all over town.

>> We make a fight.

>> There's not a chance. There's only one

way out. West.

>> Leave a horse for me at the back door.

Bleecker and I stay. The rest of you

ride back to camp now.

You, too.

[Music]

I guess in a way we always knew it would

come to this one day. You and I alone.

>> Nobody cheats me out of you.

>> Getting close, Darcy.

Got

time. Lots of time.

Cold thing a gun.

An instrument of death for those we

neither love nor hate.

To kill something you once loved and now

hate.

That's something that must be felt.

[Music]

And to kill and feel

cannot use a gun.

Just answer one question.

Why? You made me a deal. My life for

yours.

>> It's a pretty even proposition.

>> Figured I had a little the best of it.

Thanks.

But you could have killed me a thousand

times. Any dark night. They didn't want

you that way. They want you alive.

To dangle from a tree.

[Music]

My friend,

my brother.

Get out of here, Darcy.

Telling you, get out of here.

Grab the blood.

[Music]

[Music]

Get up. Get up.

[Music]

Keep moving.

[Music]

All right, let's give them that clown

to hang on their nice new rope.

Let's not spoil a circus. Give them

their carnival.

Darcy, you talk too much.

Get over there.

[Music]

You tried it your way. Let's try it

mine.

[Music]

Put it on. All right, my friend.

[Music]

There's a horse outside that door.

Only thing you've got to get rid of

first is me.

>> What are you trying to do? Be a hero.

Anytime, Narcy.

Now

[Music]

[Music]

heat.

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

He's dead.

[Music]

Watch across me, Bleecker.

>> I don't know, Governor. All I know is I

couldn't let him hang.

>> I'm ready anytime.

[Music]

Bleecker,

you don't know why you couldn't let him

hang.

And I don't know why I'm letting you go

free,

but I've got a feeling we're both right.

>> There's a sign for all in my office.

Come by for it.

>> Thanks, Governor.

[Music]

>> Carry him.

>> I said carry him.

[Music]

Heat.

Heat.

[Music]

Heat

[Music]