1 00:00:34,348 --> 00:00:35,599 Cullen. 2 00:00:43,566 --> 00:00:45,609 It's been a long winter, son. 3 00:00:47,945 --> 00:00:49,989 Stretch out on your bunk. 4 00:00:52,575 --> 00:00:54,285 Get some sleep. 5 00:00:56,662 --> 00:00:58,998 Go away, doc. You a... you ain't real. 6 00:00:59,456 --> 00:01:00,833 You ain't real. 7 00:01:05,504 --> 00:01:09,466 Your candle is burning low, Cullen. 8 00:01:13,345 --> 00:01:16,432 Soon it's gonna go out. 9 00:01:23,606 --> 00:01:25,441 That's just the wind. 10 00:01:27,109 --> 00:01:29,486 What that was, that was just the wind. 11 00:03:24,977 --> 00:03:26,603 Get on out of here! 12 00:03:27,396 --> 00:03:29,314 Get on out of here! 13 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,276 Get out of here, you miserable son of a bitch! 14 00:03:35,028 --> 00:03:36,947 Get off my damn railroad. 15 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:43,579 Off my damn railroad. 16 00:04:12,983 --> 00:04:14,401 Sparky? 17 00:07:40,732 --> 00:07:43,568 You know where there's a nigger with a marked-up white woman? 18 00:07:43,694 --> 00:07:46,321 He's... he's down there behind the sawmill. 19 00:07:56,123 --> 00:07:58,709 - I'll be damned. - Yup. 20 00:07:59,292 --> 00:08:00,585 Heard you froze up solid. 21 00:08:02,004 --> 00:08:03,588 Thanks for looking in. 22 00:08:03,714 --> 00:08:05,298 Shut the door! 23 00:08:07,217 --> 00:08:10,762 - Woman's suffering. - Baby near? 24 00:08:12,556 --> 00:08:14,075 Baby's gonna come whether you're here or not. 25 00:08:14,099 --> 00:08:15,659 What the hell that's supposed to mean? 26 00:08:16,476 --> 00:08:19,187 I need you to come with me to New York. Railroad business. 27 00:08:19,312 --> 00:08:21,398 Right now I ain't got no stake in no railroad. 28 00:08:21,523 --> 00:08:24,693 Well, I'm the railroad boss, and this here's a railroad town. 29 00:08:25,110 --> 00:08:28,030 Come with me now or you don't be here when I come back through. 30 00:08:28,155 --> 00:08:29,865 Take your talk outside, please. 31 00:08:40,292 --> 00:08:43,086 What is it you want me to do? 32 00:08:44,838 --> 00:08:47,257 Watch over me while I sleep. 33 00:08:48,258 --> 00:08:49,760 Against who? 34 00:08:50,135 --> 00:08:52,262 Some you can see, some you can't. 35 00:08:53,555 --> 00:08:55,599 You lost your mind in that snow. 36 00:08:55,724 --> 00:08:57,476 You crazy. 37 00:08:57,601 --> 00:09:00,145 On the contrary, my negro friend... 38 00:09:01,521 --> 00:09:03,690 I have never been thinking more clearly. 39 00:09:05,358 --> 00:09:08,111 Say your piece, get your coat. 40 00:09:08,236 --> 00:09:09,696 Train's waiting. 41 00:09:16,036 --> 00:09:17,996 I heard. 42 00:09:20,457 --> 00:09:21,583 Go. 43 00:09:29,508 --> 00:09:32,594 - I can't leave you like this. - Well, he's right. 44 00:09:32,719 --> 00:09:34,304 The baby's gonna come either way. 45 00:09:34,429 --> 00:09:37,349 Yeah. 46 00:09:37,474 --> 00:09:40,519 I wanna be here for it. I said go. 47 00:09:40,644 --> 00:09:42,813 Birthing ain't a man's business. 48 00:09:44,397 --> 00:09:46,650 Best thing you can do is get us a job. 49 00:10:14,344 --> 00:10:16,138 Hey, BUY- 50 00:10:17,430 --> 00:10:20,058 The negro car's two cars down. 51 00:10:20,183 --> 00:10:21,685 This is where I aim to be. 52 00:10:21,810 --> 00:10:24,062 Now, don't make me throw you off this train. 53 00:10:24,187 --> 00:10:26,523 It's all right. He's mine. 54 00:11:15,363 --> 00:11:17,407 How come you show up now? 55 00:11:17,991 --> 00:11:19,242 Stopped snowing. 56 00:11:23,455 --> 00:11:25,916 What the hell happened to your ear? 57 00:11:28,418 --> 00:11:30,462 Some trespassers. 58 00:12:02,035 --> 00:12:03,495 Come on. 59 00:12:05,288 --> 00:12:07,499 Mr. Bohannon? 60 00:12:09,751 --> 00:12:12,337 I'm Clement Beale, Secretary of Credit Mobilier. 61 00:12:12,462 --> 00:12:14,297 Good, you got my telegram. Let's go. 62 00:12:14,422 --> 00:12:16,400 Mr. Bohannon, I'm afraid you've made a trip for naught. 63 00:12:16,424 --> 00:12:17,968 What do you mean "for naught"? 64 00:12:21,054 --> 00:12:22,597 The board of Credit Mobilier 65 00:12:22,722 --> 00:12:24,266 and the Undersecretary of Railroads 66 00:12:24,683 --> 00:12:27,036 has already filled the position of Chief Engineer last month. 67 00:12:27,060 --> 00:12:29,020 I tried answering your telegram. 68 00:12:29,145 --> 00:12:30,855 - I knew this was snakebit. - Now hold on. 69 00:12:30,981 --> 00:12:33,525 Senator Howard hisself offered me that job last fall. 70 00:12:33,650 --> 00:12:36,236 Senator Howard lost his bid for reelection. 71 00:12:36,361 --> 00:12:37,529 Frankly, Mr. Bohannon, 72 00:12:38,113 --> 00:12:40,174 word came back to us that you didn't survive the winter. 73 00:12:40,198 --> 00:12:43,118 - Word was wrong. - Yes, well, thankfully so, 74 00:12:43,243 --> 00:12:45,537 but the decision has already been made. 75 00:12:45,662 --> 00:12:47,289 I'm here to unmake it. 76 00:12:47,414 --> 00:12:50,292 Is Durant back in? Is that it? 77 00:12:50,417 --> 00:12:52,961 No. Mr. Durant is still in Hudson Prison. 78 00:12:53,086 --> 00:12:55,839 - Show me a train back to Omaha. - You hold your damn horses. 79 00:12:55,964 --> 00:12:58,341 You take me to see Durant right now. 80 00:12:59,426 --> 00:13:00,969 I won't if this is a vendetta. 81 00:13:01,761 --> 00:13:03,722 Not all at once it ain't. 82 00:13:06,516 --> 00:13:08,893 I'll have some hot water for tea. 83 00:13:09,019 --> 00:13:11,354 A visitor, Mr. Durant. 84 00:13:17,277 --> 00:13:19,237 Good God. 85 00:13:19,779 --> 00:13:23,408 I thought you were dead. Yet here I stand. 86 00:13:28,246 --> 00:13:30,790 And what the hell are you doing here? 87 00:13:30,915 --> 00:13:33,126 Wait, don't tell me. No. 88 00:13:34,252 --> 00:13:36,379 - You've come to gloat. - No, sir. 89 00:13:37,797 --> 00:13:39,883 No. 90 00:13:40,008 --> 00:13:44,262 No. Gloating is not in your character, is it, Bohannon? 91 00:13:45,930 --> 00:13:47,432 Too much integrity. 92 00:13:48,850 --> 00:13:51,061 That was always your problem. 93 00:13:53,646 --> 00:13:56,024 I came to ask for help. 94 00:13:56,149 --> 00:13:58,068 Haven't you heard? 95 00:13:58,193 --> 00:13:59,652 I'm ruined. 96 00:13:59,778 --> 00:14:02,238 There's nothing I could possibly do for you. 97 00:14:03,573 --> 00:14:04,949 Even if I wanted to. 98 00:14:06,451 --> 00:14:09,412 Union Pacific offered me a job, and they gave it to someone else. 99 00:14:10,455 --> 00:14:13,083 I need you to tell 'em I'm their man, to vouch for me. 100 00:14:13,208 --> 00:14:14,876 Vouch for you? 101 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:18,296 Those spineless, myopic weasels 102 00:14:18,421 --> 00:14:20,590 are in no mood to listen to me. 103 00:14:22,759 --> 00:14:24,886 You've lost your nerve. 104 00:14:26,304 --> 00:14:29,682 Not so sure you actually can run the railroad. 105 00:14:30,892 --> 00:14:33,561 And once upon a time, I told you that you could. 106 00:14:35,105 --> 00:14:38,149 That's why you're here. You're scared. 107 00:14:41,611 --> 00:14:44,739 I came to see you behind bars for what you done. 108 00:14:46,699 --> 00:14:48,451 There was a time you could have done it. 109 00:14:48,952 --> 00:14:50,578 When I was your champion. 110 00:14:50,703 --> 00:14:52,789 When I was your advocate. 111 00:14:54,624 --> 00:14:56,000 Now look at you. 112 00:14:57,419 --> 00:14:59,170 You're tragic. 113 00:15:00,213 --> 00:15:02,632 Your hour has passed. 114 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:07,137 Your railroad will fail without me. 115 00:15:07,262 --> 00:15:09,305 It's no longer my railroad. 116 00:15:09,431 --> 00:15:10,890 For now. 117 00:15:12,392 --> 00:15:13,977 The board won't accept you. 118 00:15:14,811 --> 00:15:16,479 You wanna know why? 119 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,942 Because you are not one of us. 120 00:15:21,526 --> 00:15:24,696 You will never be from Massachusetts or New York. 121 00:15:24,821 --> 00:15:27,657 You will always be from Mississippi. 122 00:15:30,034 --> 00:15:34,456 You suffer from a preposterous miscalculation 123 00:15:34,581 --> 00:15:35,957 of possibilities. 124 00:15:37,709 --> 00:15:41,421 Like all southerners, you're deluded. 125 00:15:46,468 --> 00:15:48,136 And you smell. 126 00:16:28,468 --> 00:16:31,095 What type of dressing are you requiring today? 127 00:16:31,221 --> 00:16:32,263 Business. 128 00:16:33,181 --> 00:16:34,599 What type of business might it be? 129 00:16:34,724 --> 00:16:37,393 Railroad, but cut the top and the overcoat, 130 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:39,062 - so I can wear this. - Very good. 131 00:16:39,187 --> 00:16:40,939 Maybe an open frock with a Fuller waist? 132 00:16:41,064 --> 00:16:43,274 Sounds right. Inch or two of the cuff showing, 133 00:16:43,399 --> 00:16:45,079 neat in the pants, and I dress to the left. 134 00:16:47,904 --> 00:16:50,949 And the gentleman's gentleman? 135 00:16:53,743 --> 00:16:56,162 How come I gotta be a gentleman's gentleman? 136 00:16:56,287 --> 00:16:57,747 Why can't I be a gentleman plain? 137 00:16:57,872 --> 00:16:59,707 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, he's right. 138 00:16:59,832 --> 00:17:02,835 War's given the negro the right to decide what he wants, so... 139 00:17:03,753 --> 00:17:05,797 What type of suit will you have, sir? 140 00:17:12,011 --> 00:17:14,514 That one there, I can afford. 141 00:17:22,981 --> 00:17:26,484 Yeah, I like that one. Make that one up for me. 142 00:17:27,569 --> 00:17:29,946 The black man chooses, and the white man pays. 143 00:17:30,071 --> 00:17:32,365 It's a new reckoning of the world, Mr. Collier. 144 00:17:33,032 --> 00:17:34,617 That it is, Mr. Bohannon. 145 00:17:34,742 --> 00:17:36,119 And you, sir? 146 00:17:36,244 --> 00:17:37,579 What side do you dress on? 147 00:17:37,704 --> 00:17:40,456 What you mean what side I dress on? 148 00:17:40,582 --> 00:17:41,708 Psst. Hey. 149 00:17:51,467 --> 00:17:53,428 Thank you, Mr. Bohannon. 150 00:17:53,553 --> 00:17:55,313 And when you're hiring men for your railroad, 151 00:17:55,430 --> 00:17:57,630 don't forget your Irish kinsmen. When I land this job, 152 00:17:57,682 --> 00:17:59,350 I'll need two or three. That's for sure. 153 00:17:59,475 --> 00:18:00,893 - Hundred? - Thousand. 154 00:18:01,519 --> 00:18:04,522 The man you'll need to see is Three-Piece Duffy down at the Points. 155 00:18:04,647 --> 00:18:06,190 He knows all the railroad men. 156 00:18:06,316 --> 00:18:08,943 If you're with the Union Pacific, he'll find ya. 157 00:18:09,068 --> 00:18:11,863 He ain't with nobody. He barely with me. 158 00:18:13,573 --> 00:18:16,159 Mr. Bohannon. 159 00:18:18,202 --> 00:18:21,039 Burn it. But shoot it first. 160 00:18:36,346 --> 00:18:39,015 I think I dress to the right. 161 00:18:42,518 --> 00:18:45,146 Cullen Bohannon. The board's expecting me. 162 00:18:45,271 --> 00:18:47,482 Elam Ferguson. 163 00:18:51,277 --> 00:18:52,528 This way, sir. 164 00:19:00,244 --> 00:19:01,579 Mr. Bohannon. 165 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:05,583 We appreciate all you've done for the railroad. 166 00:19:05,708 --> 00:19:08,086 Both Doc Durant and the late Mrs. Lily Bell 167 00:19:08,211 --> 00:19:10,672 spoke highly of your achievements and abilities. 168 00:19:10,797 --> 00:19:12,173 Let's cut to it then. 169 00:19:14,133 --> 00:19:16,302 The job of Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President 170 00:19:16,427 --> 00:19:18,888 of Union Pacific has been awarded to someone else. 171 00:19:19,013 --> 00:19:20,973 Yes, sir. And I aim for it to be mine 172 00:19:21,099 --> 00:19:22,433 before I walk out that door. 173 00:19:22,558 --> 00:19:25,269 What's it a question of? Vision. 174 00:19:25,395 --> 00:19:27,063 And temperament. 175 00:19:27,188 --> 00:19:29,899 Someone whose pedigree speaks to getting things done 176 00:19:30,024 --> 00:19:33,444 in Washington as well as out on the plains. 177 00:19:34,779 --> 00:19:37,615 Have you ever been to Washington, Mr. Bohannon? 178 00:19:38,616 --> 00:19:40,243 I am familiar. 179 00:19:40,368 --> 00:19:41,411 Well, then you know 180 00:19:41,536 --> 00:19:43,121 that even at the highest levels, 181 00:19:43,246 --> 00:19:45,707 it's dog eat dog. 182 00:19:45,832 --> 00:19:49,377 This man you hired, he's a real dog fighter then? 183 00:19:49,502 --> 00:19:53,131 He comes with my personal recommendation. 184 00:19:53,256 --> 00:19:54,966 He was the Chief Engineer 185 00:19:55,091 --> 00:19:57,176 of the Westwood and Upclair Railway. 186 00:19:57,301 --> 00:19:59,846 Yeah, that sounds like a Shortline Railroad to me. 187 00:20:01,055 --> 00:20:03,433 16 miles, but he oversaw 188 00:20:03,558 --> 00:20:05,518 the building of two major trestles. 189 00:20:05,643 --> 00:20:07,770 Yes, your son-in-law comes well-appointed. 190 00:20:08,938 --> 00:20:10,314 Especially with your new role 191 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,984 as Undersecretary of the Railroad. 192 00:20:13,109 --> 00:20:14,861 And he's a veteran. 193 00:20:14,986 --> 00:20:18,698 Fought with Black Dave Hunter on the winning side. 194 00:20:24,328 --> 00:20:28,040 All due respect, I don't doubt your son-in-law's ability 195 00:20:28,166 --> 00:20:30,626 to build pretty bridges over stony brook streams, 196 00:20:31,836 --> 00:20:34,839 but that's not what we're facing out west at the moment. 197 00:20:36,632 --> 00:20:38,176 Is this the best map you have? 198 00:20:38,301 --> 00:20:40,178 - It's current. - It's not very accurate. 199 00:20:40,303 --> 00:20:42,054 Here's where we are. 200 00:20:42,180 --> 00:20:43,765 Plains extend here. 201 00:20:43,890 --> 00:20:45,683 Here's the beginning of the red desert. 202 00:20:45,808 --> 00:20:47,018 Now we'll be good along here. 203 00:20:47,393 --> 00:20:50,188 Plenty of grazing for our feed cattle, mild weather. 204 00:20:50,313 --> 00:20:52,440 Here's where we start running out of water. 205 00:20:52,565 --> 00:20:56,652 I've drawn up some designs... For water cars. 206 00:20:59,947 --> 00:21:01,866 Here are some designs for dormitory cars. 207 00:21:01,991 --> 00:21:05,411 Keep the men out of the elements, healthier, more productive. 208 00:21:07,121 --> 00:21:09,707 - Who will build these? - We'll build 'em together, 209 00:21:09,832 --> 00:21:11,751 just like we'll build this railroad. 210 00:21:11,876 --> 00:21:13,876 Now here we start hitting real Indian country hard. 211 00:21:14,086 --> 00:21:18,257 Shoshone, Crow, Kiowa... some friendly, some not. 212 00:21:18,382 --> 00:21:21,344 Um, your son-in-law, 213 00:21:21,469 --> 00:21:23,346 has he ever been in Indian territory? 214 00:21:27,475 --> 00:21:29,936 We've started stockpiling rail and ties here, 215 00:21:30,561 --> 00:21:32,063 waiting for the Missouri to thaw. 216 00:21:32,188 --> 00:21:34,232 River's already breaking up here South. 217 00:21:34,357 --> 00:21:35,900 Saw it myself coming over. 218 00:21:36,234 --> 00:21:38,674 Central Pacific was able to work through most of the winter. 219 00:21:38,778 --> 00:21:41,614 Collie Huntington 220 00:21:41,739 --> 00:21:43,491 has put them ahead of schedule. 221 00:21:43,616 --> 00:21:45,952 Then the race is on, gentlemen. 222 00:21:46,077 --> 00:21:47,954 No time to waste. Now this... 223 00:21:50,373 --> 00:21:52,959 These are plans for organizing the rail-layers and tie crews. 224 00:21:53,084 --> 00:21:55,628 Think we can get more steel laid. 225 00:21:55,753 --> 00:21:58,506 Probably 30% more steel 226 00:21:58,631 --> 00:22:00,383 if we follow these regimens. 227 00:22:10,893 --> 00:22:14,856 Were we to take you on in some capacity, 228 00:22:14,981 --> 00:22:16,649 you'd be paid in U.P. stock. 229 00:22:16,774 --> 00:22:19,026 We feel that that would make your involvement 230 00:22:19,151 --> 00:22:20,987 more of a personal investment. 231 00:22:22,363 --> 00:22:23,698 Congressman Ames... 232 00:22:25,199 --> 00:22:27,660 I'm already more invested than you'll ever know. 233 00:22:28,619 --> 00:22:30,997 There's a lot of graves along this railroad, 234 00:22:31,122 --> 00:22:32,665 marked and unmarked. 235 00:22:32,790 --> 00:22:35,626 Some I laid to rest myself and some... 236 00:22:38,337 --> 00:22:39,630 Point is... 237 00:22:41,549 --> 00:22:43,467 I make no apologies for my temperament. 238 00:22:45,303 --> 00:22:47,638 Mr. Bohannon, I believe you're bleeding. 239 00:22:49,765 --> 00:22:52,685 Surely not from shaking hands with a shaving razor. 240 00:22:54,145 --> 00:22:55,897 Wolves, actually. 241 00:22:57,899 --> 00:22:59,442 The kind that bite. 242 00:23:11,829 --> 00:23:13,909 Why don't you shake hands with the new Chief Engineer 243 00:23:13,956 --> 00:23:15,249 of the Union Pacific railroad? 244 00:23:15,374 --> 00:23:17,919 I'd rather shake hands with the devil. 245 00:23:18,336 --> 00:23:20,129 You may well before this is over. 246 00:23:20,254 --> 00:23:22,465 You made 'em think I was your butler or something? 247 00:23:22,590 --> 00:23:25,509 I did, and it worked. Got the job. 248 00:23:26,761 --> 00:23:28,971 Now we got men to hire. Let's go. 249 00:23:39,398 --> 00:23:42,318 I don't like this at all. 250 00:23:42,443 --> 00:23:44,654 Safer back home with them Indians. 251 00:23:45,488 --> 00:23:47,657 Meet me back at the hotel if we get split up. 252 00:23:47,782 --> 00:23:49,659 I'm on you like a tick. 253 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:07,218 Show these lads their place of employ. 254 00:24:11,889 --> 00:24:15,685 Caught a musket ball at a bowery party the other night. 255 00:24:15,810 --> 00:24:17,395 It's festering a bit. 256 00:24:17,979 --> 00:24:20,690 "Either the ball comes out or the leg comes off," says the barber. 257 00:24:21,899 --> 00:24:23,234 Pardon the smell. 258 00:24:24,110 --> 00:24:25,611 I'm Cullen Bohannon, 259 00:24:25,945 --> 00:24:28,030 new Chief Engineer of the... I know who you are... 260 00:24:28,155 --> 00:24:30,533 And who you're pretending to be. 261 00:24:30,658 --> 00:24:32,159 No pretense, Mr. Duffy. 262 00:24:32,284 --> 00:24:34,787 I'm in need of railroad workers. I know, I know. 263 00:24:34,912 --> 00:24:39,000 Who the hell do you think put the last two years on to Durant's pay but was me? 264 00:24:39,125 --> 00:24:41,168 I was hoping we could maintain it similar. 265 00:24:41,877 --> 00:24:44,397 - Pleased with the quality of men, were ya? - For the most part. 266 00:24:44,463 --> 00:24:47,550 "For the most part." 267 00:24:47,675 --> 00:24:50,052 Thems were the creme de la creme I sent Durant. 268 00:24:50,928 --> 00:24:53,514 Not the, consumptive or the weak-backed. 269 00:24:53,639 --> 00:24:57,059 I winnowed 'em clean. You know why? 270 00:24:58,394 --> 00:24:59,687 Mr. Durant's a fine man. 271 00:24:59,812 --> 00:25:02,398 He backs up his word with solid gold. 272 00:25:03,858 --> 00:25:05,443 Locked away in prison now. 273 00:25:05,568 --> 00:25:07,403 Because of Tatterducks. 274 00:25:07,528 --> 00:25:10,573 They're jealous of his acumen. 275 00:25:12,074 --> 00:25:14,154 The man's a genius. Wouldn't you agree, Mr. Bohannon? 276 00:25:14,201 --> 00:25:16,203 Well... reckon even a genius 277 00:25:16,328 --> 00:25:18,581 can run afoul of the law, Mr. Duffy. 278 00:25:21,959 --> 00:25:23,586 $1,000 in gold coins 279 00:25:23,711 --> 00:25:26,589 for each lot of 500 men boarded at the station. 280 00:25:26,714 --> 00:25:28,632 McFee counts 'em for me. 281 00:25:29,550 --> 00:25:32,178 Maybe you can have your nigger there count 'em for you. 282 00:25:32,303 --> 00:25:35,264 That is, of course, if he can count beyond his fingers and toes. 283 00:25:35,389 --> 00:25:37,058 The ones that fall off the train 284 00:25:37,183 --> 00:25:39,560 or that arrive with rigor mortis are not my concern. 285 00:25:39,685 --> 00:25:41,896 It's called attrition, according to Mr. Durant. 286 00:25:42,021 --> 00:25:44,023 Something pretty you wanna say to me, boy? 287 00:25:44,148 --> 00:25:46,817 The day it's just me and you 288 00:25:46,942 --> 00:25:49,445 is the day your Irish luck run out. 289 00:25:50,863 --> 00:25:53,657 You gonna let your nigger speak to me that way, Mr. Bohannon? 290 00:25:54,075 --> 00:25:55,326 He ain't my nigger. 291 00:25:56,118 --> 00:25:59,038 So when do you think you'll be able to send out the first shipment of men? 292 00:25:59,872 --> 00:26:01,415 Let us see your gold. 293 00:26:02,333 --> 00:26:05,377 I wouldn't show you how much money even if I had it on me. 294 00:26:09,465 --> 00:26:11,842 So you come around here wasting my time, 295 00:26:12,176 --> 00:26:14,386 not planning to commence business? 296 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,974 Mr. Durant would never do that. 297 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:21,769 How much coin do you have on you? 298 00:26:21,894 --> 00:26:24,730 Not enough to trouble you, Mr. Duffy. 299 00:26:28,192 --> 00:26:30,236 It's no trouble at all, sir. 300 00:26:30,820 --> 00:26:32,500 Whatever you have on you will recompense me 301 00:26:32,530 --> 00:26:34,365 for speaking with you today. 302 00:26:35,533 --> 00:26:38,327 See, I'm a fine judge of character, Mr. Bohannon, 303 00:26:38,452 --> 00:26:40,162 and I can tell you have no interest 304 00:26:40,287 --> 00:26:42,248 in dealing with me or my enterprise. 305 00:26:42,373 --> 00:26:44,413 Now that's the first truth you spoke since we met. 306 00:26:46,961 --> 00:26:50,631 Now me and my friend here, we're gonna back out slow, 307 00:26:50,756 --> 00:26:52,508 and this'll be done. 308 00:27:09,150 --> 00:27:11,527 Boy, don't you ever step out of line like that again. 309 00:27:11,652 --> 00:27:15,114 Don't go for my gun. Like to got us killed. 310 00:27:15,239 --> 00:27:17,533 Well, you should have let me have a gun. 311 00:27:19,034 --> 00:27:20,714 My grandpappy was right about you people. 312 00:27:20,744 --> 00:27:22,246 You mean when he owned us? 313 00:27:24,206 --> 00:27:26,917 Tore a thousand-acre plantation out of nothing, he did. 314 00:27:27,042 --> 00:27:29,503 Well, you tell your grandpappy we a free people now. 315 00:27:29,628 --> 00:27:31,213 - You tell him that. - Free? 316 00:27:31,338 --> 00:27:32,590 Well, shit. 317 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,180 Don't you go telling me about your freedom, son. 318 00:27:36,218 --> 00:27:39,763 I know all about it. I'm the one that paid full price for. 319 00:27:41,098 --> 00:27:44,727 You may be free, but you sure as shit ain't my equal. 320 00:27:45,978 --> 00:27:47,271 Take 'em off. 321 00:27:50,482 --> 00:27:52,026 Take 'em off! 322 00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:58,824 Yeah? 323 00:28:00,117 --> 00:28:01,202 All right. 324 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:16,926 Shh. Might be the landlady. 325 00:28:20,888 --> 00:28:23,098 Come in. 326 00:28:27,228 --> 00:28:28,437 Mr. Beale. 327 00:28:30,773 --> 00:28:32,483 Mr. Bohannon. 328 00:28:35,569 --> 00:28:36,820 Telegram. 329 00:28:36,946 --> 00:28:39,031 Actually, it's for Mr. Ferguson. 330 00:28:41,158 --> 00:28:43,160 Thank you, sir. 331 00:28:43,953 --> 00:28:46,372 Yeah, he can read. 332 00:28:47,456 --> 00:28:50,125 He's also a free man, in case you hadn't heard. 333 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,505 Eva had the baby. 334 00:28:55,089 --> 00:28:57,132 Yeah. 335 00:28:57,258 --> 00:28:58,926 What is it? 336 00:28:59,551 --> 00:29:01,804 There you go talking that again. 337 00:29:03,138 --> 00:29:06,058 - I meant is it a boy or girl? - Don't say. 338 00:29:06,642 --> 00:29:09,603 Boy's fine. Girl's sweet too. 339 00:29:09,728 --> 00:29:11,522 - Just say it's healthy. - Hey. 340 00:29:14,191 --> 00:29:16,777 You remember this minute, all right? 341 00:29:20,114 --> 00:29:22,491 Might only come once. 342 00:29:26,662 --> 00:29:28,622 Yes, sir. 343 00:29:29,456 --> 00:29:31,834 I got me a baby. 344 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,537 I'm sorry for the things I've done. 345 00:30:12,666 --> 00:30:14,835 And... 346 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,087 for the things I left undone. 347 00:30:23,761 --> 00:30:26,930 Feeling like I bit off more than I can chew, you know? 348 00:30:30,434 --> 00:30:32,186 Course you do. 349 00:30:35,522 --> 00:30:38,192 Take off your gun! 350 00:30:40,611 --> 00:30:43,489 We'll have no guns in the house of the Lord. 351 00:30:45,407 --> 00:30:48,118 This is not a shooting gallery, sir. 352 00:30:49,620 --> 00:30:51,497 Reverend Corner. 353 00:30:51,622 --> 00:30:53,874 It's me, Cullen Bohannon. 354 00:30:53,999 --> 00:30:57,711 You married me and Mary Elizabeth Tate here back in '56. 355 00:31:05,427 --> 00:31:09,306 We... we don't recognize you. 356 00:31:13,102 --> 00:31:17,106 You're welcome to stay and pray with us, but... 357 00:31:19,441 --> 00:31:21,944 You'll have to leave the guns outside. 358 00:31:32,788 --> 00:31:34,623 Good day to y'all then. 359 00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:44,967 I did what I was supposed to do. I voted against Bohannon. 360 00:31:45,092 --> 00:31:47,386 Your job was not to vote against Bohannon. 361 00:31:47,511 --> 00:31:49,972 Your job was to get everyone else to vote against Bohannon! 362 00:31:50,097 --> 00:31:51,515 He was very compelling. 363 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,310 Well, you tell that to your constituents 364 00:31:55,436 --> 00:31:58,397 when the Union Pacific bankrupts your state coffers. 365 00:31:58,522 --> 00:32:00,274 You promised that wouldn't happen. 366 00:32:00,399 --> 00:32:01,650 _ No! 367 00:32:03,235 --> 00:32:04,862 No. 368 00:32:04,987 --> 00:32:06,905 Not when I could run things 369 00:32:07,030 --> 00:32:09,116 through that cloddish son-in-law of yours. 370 00:32:16,623 --> 00:32:18,750 You have got to get me out of here. 371 00:32:18,876 --> 00:32:21,420 Thomas, I don't think I can get you out of here. 372 00:32:21,962 --> 00:32:24,381 We frankly have run out of friendly judges. 373 00:32:24,506 --> 00:32:26,049 There's always some new appointee, 374 00:32:26,175 --> 00:32:30,095 some... someone freshly elected, a holder of a lien, 375 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:32,222 a witness with a faulty memory. 376 00:32:32,347 --> 00:32:35,601 Perhaps a Peeping Tom or a chambermaid with a tail. 377 00:32:35,726 --> 00:32:38,103 Now you listen to me, you pissant! 378 00:32:41,607 --> 00:32:44,401 Your fall will be far greater than mine 379 00:32:44,526 --> 00:32:46,320 if Bohannon is not stopped 380 00:32:46,445 --> 00:32:48,739 and I am not returned the railroad. 381 00:32:50,532 --> 00:32:52,367 I understand. 382 00:32:57,664 --> 00:32:58,957 Good. 383 00:33:00,417 --> 00:33:01,835 Good. 384 00:33:08,926 --> 00:33:10,844 Looks a lot like Durant's old car. 385 00:33:10,969 --> 00:33:14,139 It is Durant's old car, just refurbished. 386 00:33:14,264 --> 00:33:16,475 Better sleeping quarters, heating throughout. 387 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,852 Can we get a cot in here or something for Mr. Ferguson 388 00:33:18,977 --> 00:33:20,437 for the ride back to Omaha? 389 00:33:20,896 --> 00:33:23,565 I loaned Mr. Ferguson money for passage on the negro car. 390 00:33:30,739 --> 00:33:32,199 Mr. Huntington. 391 00:33:32,324 --> 00:33:34,785 Collie Huntington, head of Central Pacific. 392 00:33:34,910 --> 00:33:36,161 Whoa. 393 00:33:37,746 --> 00:33:40,958 I'm glad I caught you, sir. Been wanting to meet you. 394 00:33:41,083 --> 00:33:43,168 Especially when I heard you weren't dead. 395 00:33:44,586 --> 00:33:48,048 Mr. Beale, may I have a moment with Mr. Bohannon, please? 396 00:33:49,216 --> 00:33:52,302 The package on the desk contains your issued stock. 397 00:33:52,427 --> 00:33:54,346 Thank you, Mr. Beale. 398 00:34:06,858 --> 00:34:09,611 You're being paid in stock because the Union Pacific's lenders 399 00:34:09,736 --> 00:34:11,697 have closed their books. 400 00:34:15,701 --> 00:34:19,329 - Government's guaranteeing us. - Government's in chaos. 401 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,183 Senate wants to impeach the president for reconstruction. 402 00:34:22,207 --> 00:34:23,792 The House is investigating him 403 00:34:23,917 --> 00:34:25,502 for the assassination of Lincoln. 404 00:34:25,836 --> 00:34:28,922 There'll be no new vote on railroad funding until next session. 405 00:34:29,047 --> 00:34:31,633 In short, Mr. Bohannon, you and your railroad are broke. 406 00:34:31,758 --> 00:34:33,635 Got stockpiles in Missouri. 407 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,554 I'll be in Wyoming by fall. 408 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,390 No, you won't, Mr. Bohannon, regardless of your pace. 409 00:34:38,515 --> 00:34:40,475 I was making 2 mile a day. 410 00:34:40,601 --> 00:34:42,019 Sometimes 5 when the work was good. 411 00:34:42,144 --> 00:34:43,854 You know what progress I'm making? 412 00:34:43,979 --> 00:34:46,023 12 a day. 413 00:34:46,148 --> 00:34:47,274 12 miles? 414 00:34:47,399 --> 00:34:49,568 12 inches a day. 415 00:34:49,693 --> 00:34:51,570 Through solid granite. 416 00:34:51,695 --> 00:34:53,447 Now that may not sound like much, 417 00:34:53,572 --> 00:34:55,616 but I'm almost through the sierras. 418 00:34:55,741 --> 00:34:59,119 And I just received 5,000 pounds of nitroglycerin 419 00:34:59,244 --> 00:35:01,413 and 11,000 Chinamen who do not get sick 420 00:35:01,538 --> 00:35:03,248 and are happy to work with half pay. 421 00:35:04,291 --> 00:35:06,418 Now I am backed by the Bank of England, 422 00:35:06,543 --> 00:35:08,754 funded by all the tons of glittering gold 423 00:35:08,879 --> 00:35:10,839 found in the streams of California. 424 00:35:10,964 --> 00:35:12,799 It's the Golden State, Mr. Bohannon. 425 00:35:12,924 --> 00:35:15,069 Looking forward to meeting you there at the border then. 426 00:35:15,093 --> 00:35:16,678 You haven't read the papers, sir. 427 00:35:17,554 --> 00:35:19,097 My friends in Congress have just voted 428 00:35:19,222 --> 00:35:21,266 to lift my building restrictions. 429 00:35:21,391 --> 00:35:24,019 Now, once I'm through the mountains, it's all downhill. 430 00:35:24,144 --> 00:35:26,021 I intend to cross the California border 431 00:35:26,146 --> 00:35:28,106 and be in your camp before you know it. 432 00:35:28,231 --> 00:35:30,335 The stretch between Nebraska and California is mine. 433 00:35:30,359 --> 00:35:34,071 No, sir, it belongs to whomever can cross it first. 434 00:35:35,197 --> 00:35:36,823 Now, based on your reputation, 435 00:35:36,948 --> 00:35:38,950 I'm offering you a chance to cross it with me, 436 00:35:39,076 --> 00:35:41,912 but from the west, and you'll be paid in gold. 437 00:35:42,037 --> 00:35:44,706 Not in some worthless paper. 438 00:35:51,713 --> 00:35:54,716 Well, I... Already gave my word 439 00:35:54,841 --> 00:35:56,468 to the gentleman at Credit Mobilier, 440 00:35:56,593 --> 00:35:59,262 and that's about all I got left, so... 441 00:36:09,523 --> 00:36:10,565 Board. 442 00:36:10,691 --> 00:36:12,317 All aboard. 443 00:36:12,442 --> 00:36:15,696 Chicago, Omaha, 444 00:36:15,821 --> 00:36:17,447 and all points west. 445 00:36:18,782 --> 00:36:21,284 It was a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Bohannon. 446 00:36:22,369 --> 00:36:23,995 Board! 447 00:36:42,431 --> 00:36:45,934 Omaha! The stop is Omaha. 448 00:37:08,290 --> 00:37:11,585 Well... look at you. 449 00:37:11,710 --> 00:37:13,336 How you feeling? 450 00:37:14,337 --> 00:37:16,757 She came out kicking and tearing. 451 00:37:16,882 --> 00:37:19,468 She? 452 00:37:22,512 --> 00:37:24,389 - Can I see her? - Yeah. 453 00:37:29,352 --> 00:37:32,314 She's moving all right. 454 00:37:32,439 --> 00:37:34,816 - You all right? - Yeah. 455 00:37:48,330 --> 00:37:51,458 You can't tell much with newborns. 456 00:37:51,583 --> 00:37:54,544 They're all wrinkled up 457 00:37:54,669 --> 00:37:57,047 and splotchy-looking. 458 00:37:59,007 --> 00:38:00,801 She's beautiful. 459 00:38:05,931 --> 00:38:07,641 Thank you. 460 00:38:13,438 --> 00:38:16,233 She like her daddy. 461 00:38:18,777 --> 00:38:21,071 I'm glad you're back. 462 00:38:29,037 --> 00:38:31,623 - Ladies. - Aye, Mr. Bohannon. 463 00:38:34,251 --> 00:38:36,253 You look great. How was New York? 464 00:38:36,378 --> 00:38:38,672 It was an open sewer, Mr. McGinnes. 465 00:38:40,507 --> 00:38:42,467 My new hat don't fit me either. 466 00:38:44,135 --> 00:38:45,971 Welcome back, sir. 467 00:38:46,096 --> 00:38:48,640 We're all very excited about, um, our new prospects west, 468 00:38:48,765 --> 00:38:50,392 - aren't we, girls? - Yes. 469 00:38:52,143 --> 00:38:53,287 It'll be a few more days before we ship out. 470 00:38:53,311 --> 00:38:55,730 We need to collect some crews. Actually, um... 471 00:38:57,315 --> 00:39:00,402 Once the word got back that you're the new Chief Engineer, 472 00:39:00,527 --> 00:39:02,404 workers started coming in from all over, 473 00:39:02,529 --> 00:39:03,989 began loading up the trains. 474 00:39:05,782 --> 00:39:08,076 That's a nice vote of confidence, I would say. 475 00:39:08,201 --> 00:39:10,871 Wouldn't you, Mr. Bohannon? 476 00:39:11,496 --> 00:39:13,331 When do we roll out? 477 00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:17,085 At your leisure and signal. 478 00:39:18,211 --> 00:39:19,504 Sir. 479 00:39:26,970 --> 00:39:28,597 Yes, sir. 480 00:39:28,722 --> 00:39:31,224 Mr. Bohannon. 481 00:39:31,349 --> 00:39:32,726 Freedmen ready to get to work? 482 00:39:32,851 --> 00:39:35,395 Damn lowlife scrabble hereabouts 483 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,898 taking all our hard-saved railroad money. 484 00:39:39,524 --> 00:39:40,877 Treating us like it's backsliding times. 485 00:39:40,901 --> 00:39:43,028 Yes, sir. Anywhere but here. 486 00:39:43,737 --> 00:39:45,697 Even Hell on Wheels? 487 00:39:45,822 --> 00:39:47,866 Sound like heaven when you say it. 488 00:39:47,991 --> 00:39:50,076 Don't forget your man Psalms here when you make 489 00:39:50,201 --> 00:39:51,661 your, Walking Boss list? 490 00:39:51,786 --> 00:39:53,914 There's a lady on the cowcatcher, Mr. Bohannon. 491 00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:56,958 - Alive or dead? - I'm not sure what's going on. 492 00:39:59,502 --> 00:40:01,796 Say, Mr. Bohannon, is that, um... 493 00:40:01,922 --> 00:40:04,257 - Is that Sparky's pipe? - Was. 494 00:40:09,262 --> 00:40:11,222 Ruth? 495 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,812 I'm so sorry, Mr. Bohannon. 496 00:40:17,938 --> 00:40:21,024 I was gathering my thoughts for a prayer before we set off. 497 00:40:29,532 --> 00:40:31,701 You can pray with me if you want. 498 00:40:33,036 --> 00:40:35,789 I'll leave you in charge of that department. 499 00:40:47,342 --> 00:40:49,219 Heavenly Father, 500 00:40:50,136 --> 00:40:52,305 You have given us a vision of this railroad 501 00:40:52,430 --> 00:40:54,224 which will bind our nation. 502 00:40:55,517 --> 00:40:57,894 Lord Christ, when you came among us, 503 00:40:58,019 --> 00:40:59,896 you proclaimed God's Kingdom 504 00:41:00,021 --> 00:41:02,607 in towns and lonely places such as these. 505 00:41:04,901 --> 00:41:07,696 Grant that your presence be known 506 00:41:07,821 --> 00:41:10,365 as this railroad is built across this land. 507 00:41:15,078 --> 00:41:18,415 Have mercy on those who labor on it. 508 00:41:18,540 --> 00:41:20,750 Send us honest and able leaders. 509 00:41:22,002 --> 00:41:24,087 May peace prevail with righteousness, 510 00:41:24,212 --> 00:41:28,174 justice with order, and help us eliminate poverty, 511 00:41:28,299 --> 00:41:29,926 oppression along the way. 512 00:41:30,552 --> 00:41:33,513 And especially eliminate evil. 513 00:41:43,523 --> 00:41:45,442 All this we ask 514 00:41:46,401 --> 00:41:48,069 in God's Holy name. 515 00:41:49,821 --> 00:41:51,281 Amen. 516 00:42:43,374 --> 00:42:45,126 CNST, Montreal