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Rachel, get us another beer.

All right.

Morning.

Would you have a room to rent, by chance?

Where'd you ride in from?

Montana.

Looks like it's been a while since you, uh, had a lady.

No, thank you.

Just the room.

May I see it, please?

What brings you to town?

I'm collecting, uh, research for a book.

Oh, a book?

How about that?

One of them dime novels?

I could tell you plenty of stories.

I'm sure you could, but I don't write novels.

I'm a naturalist.

- How's that? - A what?

A naturalist.

I write and draw about nature.

Yeah, but what do you do for a living?

My relatives have asked the same question.

I'll take the room.

Gentlemen.

What do you do when one of your plants doesn't work?

When it doesn't cure the person?

That tells you things are out of balance.

You need to heal the whole person.

How do you do that?

Call on the spirits.

I don't know how to call on the spirits, and --

and truthfully, I'm not sure that I believe they exist.

You believe that prayers can heal.

Well, yes.

Do you believe that love can heal?

Well, I certainly believe that.

There is love in your eyes right now.

Right.

You know, I --

you know I've been unsure about Sully and about myself.

Things have changed.

I feel happy and confident... and ready.

Spirits showed me in a dream.

A hawk was carrying you off.

A hawk?

A hawk means bad fortune,

and this hawk was carrying you away from Sully.

What are you saying?

That we're not meant to be together?

Something will separate you.

An illness, a journey, a death.

But we've been through so much together.

I've never felt so sure about us as I do now.

That is what the spirits say.

Well, as I said, I --

I don't know that I believe in the spirits.

Pretty day.

Pick some berries? About ripe.

No, I don't think so.

Something bothering you?

No.

- You worrying about something? - Why?

Is there something I should be worried about?

Not that I know of,

but folks don't always need a reason to start fretting.

Sully, I just felt so happy recently.

Happy about you and me,

and I just don't want anything to disturb that.

Nothing's going to disturb that.

You do love me?

Of course I do.

I've been telling you.

I know.

I -- I guess you never hear it enough.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Pardon me.

Mr. Sully?

I'm Andrew Strauss.

I was told you work as a guide.

Sometimes I do.

This is Dr. Quinn.

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Strauss.

Ma'am.

Uh, so what did you have in mind?

Well, I'm working on a book about Rocky Mountain wildlife.

I was hoping perhaps I could engage you

to help me do some tracking.

I can do that.

You're from the East, aren't you?

Philadelphia.

Well, I went to college in Philadelphia.

Did you?

No, I was at, uh, Yale for a while,

but then I enlisted.

Is -- is that how you got injured?

- Mm-hmm. - May I ask what battle?

Olustee, in Florida.

Uh, but I'd rather not speak of it.

I understand.

Well, I'd love to know more about your book.

Wouldn't you, Sully?

Sure.

Would you join us for supper?

Thank you. But I -- I don't think...

Oh, you must come. Please.

It'd be a pleasure.

This is quite a treat.

What do you eat when you're out collecting samples?

Whatever I can find.

It's been mostly mushrooms lately.

I don't like mushrooms.

Is that Bay Rum?

Um, yes.

Someone I once knew used to wear that.

Well, a lot of men do.

I'm afraid I have rather common tastes.

So what were you doing in Montana?

- Searching for glaciers. - What's a glacier?

Well, millions of years ago, there was a great Ice Age,

when most of America was covered by a giant sheet of ice.

Ice?

And as the ice slipped down from the North Pole,

it broke into chunks called glaciers.

And these glaciers carved out the rivers

and split the mountains into jagged peaks.

Professor Whitney from Harvard disputes that.

He says that the mountains were formed by a great upheaval.

He calls it a sudden wreck of matter and crush of worlds.

But, Dr. Quinn, the mountains were not formed overnight

but slowly, slowly, over time by the ice.

Well, how do you know that?

I can show you grooves in the mountains

where the glaciers passed.

In Montana, we found 22 still active and moving.

- I'd like to see that. - Me, too.

So you think there's glaciers here in the Rockies?

Absolutely.

I find that hard to believe.

I'm sure we can find some.

Right after Mr. Sully and I

get back from exploring the mountains.

Then you can prove it to her, right?

Is that true, Mr. Strauss?

Yes, if you'll keep an open mind.

I always keep an open mind.

- What have they called it? - A velocipede.

Just come in from Chicago.

Sully said he always wanted to try riding one.

That's right. Remember that one we were looking at in Boston?

Mm-hmm.

Well, let's get it for him as a surprise.

- Oh, he'd love it. - Can I ride it, too?

- Sure. - Here he comes.

Cover it up! Cover it up!

Morning, Sully, Mr. Strauss.

- Morning. - Hey, Sully.

How you doing?

Just fine, thanks. This is Mr. Strauss.

This is Myra, the one who's having a wedding.

Oh, I don't know about that.

Horace got a telegram. His folks ain't coming.

Oh, they -- they got to plant their crops.

Lewis is there now helpin' them.

They just don't want to see you marry me.

- Ain't that it? - Of course not.

Look at me Horace, tell me straight.

It's on account of me, isn't it?

To heck with them.

If your folks ain't coming, I don't know where my family is.

We're your family now.

- The whole town is. - That's right.

We're all going to put on this wedding for you.

And I'm going to cook the supper.

And I've got just the dress.

It was my wedding dress.

I was saving it for my daughters,

but, well, they ran off and got married somewhere else.

- It ain't white, is it? - Jake.

She can't wear white.

It's off-white.

What do you think, Loren?

As long as it's off-white.

I'm going to fit you up in a new suit.

Can I be the flower girl?

Sure.

And I'd like to be your maid of honor.

Hey, you're going to need a best man, Horace.

That'd be me.

Thank you, Sully.

See?

It's gonna be a fine wedding.

We don't need no other family.

So what are you plannin' on puttin' in this book?

It'll be an account of my travels,

the animals and plants I've seen.

Folks want to read about that?

You'd be surprised.

People are fascinated with the West.

If I can show them the beauty of these wild mountains,

perhaps I can win their support for protecting them.

They need protectin', all right.

Never heard no one say that except the Cheyenne.

There are others who feel that way, too.

California just made the Yosemite a wilderness park.

What's that mean?

It means everything's protected.

You can't cut down trees in the park.

You can't even pick a wildflower.

That's what we need here.

Is it elk?

Yep.

Stay.

Whoo.

Look at the antlers on that old bull.

He's magnificent.

There's a young one over there gettin' ready to challenge him.

Much simpler than the way we do it, isn't it?

It's a fair fight.

Winner keeps the females.

Loser goes away.

But he can try again, can't he?

As soon as he's ready.

Time is on his side.

- Can I look now? - Not yet.

A few more steps. A few more steps.

Now.

It's for you.

Where did it come from?

Mr. Bray ordered it from, uh, Chicago.

It's a present.

For what?

Oh, folks don't always need a reason, do they?

Go on, try it. Try it.

All right.

- Let's see. - Be careful.

- Be careful. - Oh.

Try -- try pedaling.

- Oh. - You got it.

All right, I'm gonna let you go.

Stand out of the way!

Yeah.

- There. - There you go.

- That's it. - Oh.

- Try going faster. - Yeah.

- I'll push. - Push.

All right. All right.

- You're doing it. - Go, Sully.

Keep going.

It's like flying.

He's doin' it.

Whoa.

Thank you.

Sully.

Cloud Dancing.

Aho.

What are you doing in town?

I've come to say goodbye.

You going off somewhere?

On a vision quest to the Black Hills.

You didn't say nothing about that before.

I need to understand what has happened,

how things got so out of balance with my son,

and why he passed on.

Why the Black Hills? It's so far.

The spirits showed me a place in a dream.

They said, "This is where you must come."

You don't have to leave right away, do you?

Snow Bird will go with me.

When you gonna come back?

- I do not know. - But you are coming back?

The spirits did not say.

Be well, my brother... my friends.

- Bye. - Bye.

Aho.

What time is it?

Nearly 11.

Something must have detained him.

Could something have happened to him?

I doubt it.

No one can take better care of themselves than Sully.

Hmm.

He was going to show me a meadow where wild orchids grow.

Oh, I know that meadow.

I could take you there myself.

Ah.

I wouldn't want to take you away from your duties.

Well, actually, I need to gather some foxglove

and other herbs.

When did you start using Indian remedies?

I don't suppose they taught you that at medical college.

Certainly not.

Well, when I first came, I had no choice.

I ran out of medicine during an epidemic,

and I would have tried anything.

Now -- now I've come to respect them.

Oh, look.

There's one of those orchids.

So it is.

Well-done.

When did you learn to draw, Mr. Strauss?

Please, call me Andrew.

Oh, when I was in hospital.

I was confined to bed for months.

I couldn't speak.

What happened to your voice?

Uh, shrapnel wounds in my throat,

and I had to learn to talk all over again.

Couldn't move my legs.

My hands weren't affected, so I taught myself to draw.

The petals are so graceful.

Aren't they?

You know, I don't think I ever really see something

until I try to get it down on paper.

I know what you mean.

When I'm doing research,

I have to write things down before I understand them.

People think a tree is something rather dull,

but in fact, it's like a fountain.

Water flows up through it constantly, defying gravity.

Hmm.

Do you have a stethoscope?

Yes, of course.

Let me show you something.

All right.

There.

Do you hear the sap traveling through the veins?

I never knew that.

Dr. Mike, Mr. Strauss.

Sully! We waited for you.

I had to see to my traps.

Well, now that you're here,

you can take us up to Hidden Valley.

It's not a good day for that.

Why not?

The, uh, ground is soft.

Not good footin'.

Well, we did it the other day.

Trust me.

We can do it some other time.

All right, then.

You coming?

You go ahead. I'll catch up later.

Well, I'm gonna make some of my fancy Creole dishes

I've been saving for a special occasion, uh,

- soupe de poisson, and -- - What's that?

Poison soup?

Fish stew, Horace. You'll love it.

A lapin étouffée --

La pen?

That's rabbit. With gravy.

Hold still, Myra.

I just want to pin up these sleeves.

Oh, that suits you.

- You think so? - Mm.

And you're going to need a nice carriage to ride in.

Let's cover it with flowers and ribbons.

Can't we just walk? It ain't that far.

I want to ride.

Can -- can we have a white horse?

I got a nice blue roan, good luck on a wedding.

Let's talk about the service.

Oh, wait a minute, Reverend.

I already told 'em I'd marry 'em.

Bein' the mayor, it's my job.

But I'm sure they want a religious service,

don't you Horace?

I -- I, um...

Jake, why don't you give the bride away

since you're the town father?

I was gonna do that.

Oh, but we may need you to be a best man

since Sully doesn't seem to be showing up.

I hope he's not disappearing on us again.

What's the best man do?

Well, he stands at the altar with the groom,

and, uh, at the dinner, he proposes a toast.

What if I can't think of nothin' to say?

Oh, I'll give you a poem to say.

Like what?

Well, at my engagement party,

David recited something by Robert Burns.

- Who's David? - Her fiancé.

He died in the war.

How'd the poem go?

I -- I don't remember.

Sure you do.

Come on, Ma. Tell us.

Please?

Oh, my love is like a red, red rose

that's newly sprung in June.

Oh, my love is like the melody, sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my Bonnie lass, so deep in love am I.

And I will love thee still, my dear,

'til all the seas gang dry.

I saw Sully earlier.

He said he couldn't go out today.

Does he often have those headaches?

What headaches?

He's never complained of headaches.

I had a friend once who was acting like Sully.

Acting like what?

Oh, shielding his eyes from the light,

holding his temples, going off by himself.

Perhaps that's why he didn't show up yesterday.

Wasn't like him.

Could be a migraine.

How is it you're so knowledgeable?

I just remember what the doctors told my friend.

Migraine -- I think that's what they call it.

It's probably not the same thing at all.

Did you see where he was going?

Uh, when I last saw him,

he was on the road walking out of town.

I'd better find him.

Sully?

Why didn't you tell me?

I thought it was nothing, it'd pass.

When did the headache start?

A couple days ago.

Check your eyes.

Has your vision been blurred?

Yeah, right before the pain started.

It's just a headache right now.

I think it's a severe form of headache called a migraine.

I'm going to give you strychnia and vegetable bitters.

I don't want to bother you.

Oh, you could never be a bother to me.

- Just leave me be. - No.

Please.

Did you leave me when I was sick with influenza?

What about the clinic?

I closed it.

Kids?

Told 'em I might not be back for a few days.

I'm staying with you, Sully.

Cloud Dancing said there might be an illness.

Don't worry. I'm here now.

- Gettin' nervous? - No.

Just worries me a little.

Why's that?

Well, w-we're not what you call fancy folks,

and this wedding's gettin' to be a big, fancy thing.

Grace makin' that poison soup and rabbit...

I can't eat rabbit. I get sick.

Well, if you do, Dr. Mike'll be right there.

I'm just kidding, Horace.

Oh, I wish we could eat meatloaf.

Everybody in town likes it.

Tell Grace.

I don't want to hurt her feelings.

I'll tell her for you, all right?

Would you?

I'm sure Grace'll cook whatever you want.

Are you crazy?

That's what Horace wants.

And he can have it every week,

but he may never get a chance to have my lapin étouffée.

- Grace -- - Shh.

You leave it to me.

I know food.

The tea will ease the pain.

Cloud Dancing always uses it.

I wonder where he is now.

Probably halfway to the Black Hills.

I keep thinking of things I want to say to him.

I know. So do I.

Might never see him again.

Hey, Hank.

I've been meaning to talk to you.

About what?

My wedding. I'm invitin' you.

Don't ask me to come.

But, Hank, you're as close to family as I got here.

I can't do it, Myra.

Myra!

Myra! Look what I found.

When I come down the aisle, I can toss 'em all around

so you'll be walkin' on a carpet of flowers.

That's real nice.

If you don't like 'em, I can...

Oh, no. They're fine.

There something troublin' you?

Oh, guess I'm just jittery.

I just want everything to be perfect.

I would, too, if I was getting married,

and it will be, Myra.

You -- you like that dress of Ms. Dorothy's?

Well, sure. Why?

Well, it's got such a high neck,

and every bit of my body's covered up.

It just don't feel like me.

Well, what do you want to wear?

The girls in the saloon been sewin' this dress.

It's pink. It's my favorite color.

It's got this really pretty neckline.

- Mm-hmm. - And it's not as high.

Then wear that.

But I -- I don't want to be rude to Ms. Dorothy.

Oh, she won't mind. I know it. I'll talk to her.

Of course she's going to wear this dress!

There's nothing prettier in the whole county,

and I already fixed it.

She doesn't think it's -- it's right for her.

Well, she's wrong.

She can't wear nothing pink.

It's her wedding day.

Um, I'm afraid Grace already ordered fixin's for the dinner.

Dorothy's dress is real pretty,

and you can wear the pink on another day.

But it's the most important day of my life!

Myra, honey, you're gonna look beautiful

no matter what you wear.

Just go along.

Who's weddin' is it anyway?

Ours?

Well, so, then why shouldn't we have it the way we like?

I don't want to wear Dorothy's dress.

I want a new one for my new life,

and you can't eat rabbit.

Not to mention a poison soup!

But I -- I don't want to cause trouble.

Fine!

Then let's just run off and do it quiet,

- all by ourselves. - No, no.

That'd make it look like we're ashamed.

I want to get married with everybody there.

The whole town's countin' on it.

They all been workin' hard.

You don't care about how they --

Don't you care how about I feel?

Nobody seems to care about how I feel.

Maybe we ought to just call the whole thing off.

Sully?

Ugh, this pain -- I can't sleep.

I never felt nothin' like this.

I wish I knew what to do.

Bark tea isn't working.

What would Cloud Dancing do if he were here?

That's just it. He's not.

I know what he'd say.

What's that?

He'd say something's out of balance.

We have to treat the whole person.

He always starts a healing with a sweat lodge.

Can you sit up?

I ask you, Grandfather,

for your help and guidance in this healing.

Michaela!

Where'd you go?

I've been right here.

It's really you?

You're not leaving?

No.

I don't want you leave.

I want to be with you.

I need to be with you.

Sully.

I will love you all my days.

Will you marry me?

Yes.

Everyone, come sit down.

Sully and I have something we want to tell you.

It's, uh... something I want to ask you for.

I want to ask for your permission

to marry your mom.

I'm so happy!

- I accept. - Congratulations.

- Thanks. - It's about time you did this.

Where are we gonna live?

You gonna move in here?

Well, we -- we haven't discussed that yet.

I'd like to build a new place, actually.

Well, when -- when's the weddin'?

Well, we haven't discussed that, either.

Oh, you could have a double weddin' with Horace and Myra.

I think that's a little too soon.

And we don't want to overshadow Horace and Myra.

It's their moment. In fact,

let's not tell anybody about it until that wedding's over.

Aw, can't I tell Mr. Bray?

You don't tell no one.

It's a secret. Promise?

- If I have to. - All right.

Horace?

There you are.

I need to send a wire.

Horace, is something wrong?

No.

You don't look yourself.

Well, it's the wedding.

Myra don't want to wear that dress,

but Dorothy's insistin'.

Everyone's fussin' and fightin'.

Myra wants to call it off.

Oh, she doesn't mean that.

I say we go along with things, but Myra's bein' awful stubborn.

Horace, this often happens before a wedding.

People get nervous, and things get out of hand.

But it doesn't really matter what you wear or what you eat.

The wedding is just one day,

and you're going to be together for the rest of your lives.

What matters is that you love each other.

I got to go find her.

Oh, wait. I almost forgot.

I need to send this to my mother in Boston.

Oh, my gosh.

- You're gettin' engaged! - Shh!

Please, no one knows. It's secret.

Well, you can count on me.

I took an oath.

This ain't easy.

What if I drop the ring?

Don't.

Oh, Myra said to tell you that she's got something old,

Dorothy's dress, and something new, her shoes,

but she needs something borrowed.

I'll find something.

There, you can take those off now.

Why's she got to borrow something?

Good luck.

Now, I think I have a lace handkerchief here somewhere.

Dr. Quinn, Sully.

I'll be leaving today,

and I wanted to thank you all for your help and kindness.

Why you got to go now?

I finished what I came to do.

You never showed us the glaciers.

Next time I pass through here, we'll do that.

Dr. Quinn.

Goodbye, Andrew.

- Sully. - Andrew, what's your hurry?

You can't leave now. There's a wedding goin' on.

Well, I'm already packed.

There's a great blue heron nestin' down by the creek

I wanted to show you tomorrow.

I...

Well, I suppose I could stay one more day.

Good.

Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today

to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony.

And in accordance with the purposes

for which it was instituted by God.

If any one of you can show just cause

why these two should not lawfully be wed, speak now...

...or forever hold your peace.

By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

- Surprise! - Meatloaf!

Oh, Grace!

You are the best cook in the whole world.

Well, uh, what would you like,

lapin étouffée or meatloaf extraordinaire?

- Rabbit. - Meatloaf!

- Meatloaf. - Meatloaf.

And more punch for everyone.

What do you think of our town?

It's wonderful.

Though it's not the destiny you were raised for, I imagine.

No, but it is home.

And it suits you.

- Speech! - Speech!

- Speech! - Speech!

This is the happiest day of my life,

and I hope every one of you will find your true love

and be as happy as we are.

And I hope we come back here for a lot more weddings.

I know there's a few coming up, uh,

Matthew and Ingrid...

...Dr. Mike and Sully...

Oh, my gosh.

I wasn't supposed to say anything.

It -- it's a secret.

Are you really gettin' married?

Is it true?

It's true.

Oh. Congratulations.

This calls for a toast.

May your love be like a red, red rose

that's newly sprung in June.

To love!

- Yeah! - To Michaela and Sully.

Here's to all the newlyweds.

Wait!

Wait!

Look at me.

Look into my eyes.

You're not Andrew Strauss.

Of course I am.

You're David.