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Whiskey, please.

You're Mr. Embry.

I had no idea it'd be so simple to find you.

What's on your mind, Mr. Hansch?

I was told you have $1,000 you want to get rid of.

Ja, that we have.

Who is we?

Me, my people.

We've a ranch in a place called North Fork.

It's right outside of Medicine Bow.

You'd be only there a short while.

Get to the point.

The point, ja, the point.

We work hard, my people.

This land is new to us, and we work hard.

We don't want trouble.

We build fences for our cattle, a barn.

We fix our houses nicely. We put much work into it.

The point, Mr. Hansch.

Someone, they tear down our fences,

the windmill.

The drive away our cattle.

Salt is even in the water.

Well, who is this someone?

We don't know.

At least, we're not sure.

One man, maybe more?

They come with hate in their heart,

with anger to us.

And you want me to find out who he or they are

and put a stop to it.

Ja, that's what we want you to do.

When do I get paid?

When can you come?

Well, how about Thursday?

So soon?

Ja. That'll be all right.

Go home, Mr. Hansch.

It wouldn't do for us to be seen

riding into Medicine Bow together.

Thursday.

About noon, I'll be there.

Do you have someone who can meet me?

Someone to meet you? No, I...

My daughter.

She goes to the store for supplies.

How will I know her?

Well, I don't know.

Try money, Mr. Hansch. Say $200.

You describe me to her.

She can make the introduction with the money.

We'll arrange for the rest of the payments as we go along.

Yes, that's the way we'll do it.

Go home, Mr. Hansch.

Tate? Here's a list.

You want to go in town and collect these?

I don't see why not.

Good, uh... try and be back before sundown, hmm?

But it's still morning.

Ah, yes, but a lot of things happening in town.

Pretty girls, saloons.

I don't think you have to worry about that.

Ah, don't tell me you've changed.

Not hardly, but what do I need a saloon for?

Says right here "one case of bourbon."

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And a sack of flour.

This should hold you folks for a spell.

Oh, ja, I hope so.

Like the saying goes, not by bread alone.

Oh, beans. I just got red.

- Oh, that would be good. - Good.

When are you sending the wagon in?

- Miss? - Excuse me.

I don't blame you looking out, you come into town so seldom.

But I was just trying to find out

when should I look for the wagon?

Uh, today, maybe this afternoon, ja?

Oh, sure, anytime. I'll be here.

I've been here for 27 years. I'm not likely to pull out now.

Oh, calico. I just got some new in.

Good strong weave, nice pattern.

You won't find any better. Let me give you the whole piece.

- Danke. - Fine.

Like I always say, if you got the figure,

calico is just as fine as silk.

Yes, sir.

Just let me just finish with this pretty young lady here,

and believe me, that ain't gonna pleasure me none.

No hurry.

I don't seem to recollect your face.

- First time I've been in. - Oh, new, huh?

- You might say. - Well, that's about it.

Unless you've got something else.

Uh, no, I don't think so.

Oh, good, well, you send the wagon in.

I'll keep everything together.

Vielen dank.

Uh... I thank you so much.

Thank you, miss.

Sorry.

She's one of them Germans. I guess you know about them.

Can't say I do.

They bought themselves a big spread out on the North Fork.

They don't hardly come into town much.

Talk is they've been having some trouble.

What can I do for you?

I got a pretty big list here.

Oh, Shiloh, you're working out at the Shiloh?

- Mm-hmm. - Don't seem to me I heard your name.

I didn't say it.

You feel like saying it now?

- Tate. - Tate.

Ah, that Mackenzie. He's a mighty fine gentleman.

Being a Britisher and all that.

You come from this part of the country?

Uh-uh.

You stay here long enough, you won't want no other.

You wouldn't be from California?

No.

You ain't a fella to dry your spit with talking.

No.

Then I better get on with this order.

I'll get ready to load.

Nein! Bitte!

I bet they taste just like American girls!

Bitte!

All right, they say walking's healthy.

Now let's walk. Come on.

- Mister, thank you so much. - It's all right.

When... when you came into the store,

I knew, I knew it was you.

We waited for you.

Here, they will give you more.

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$200?

You mean to say she just gave it to you and rode off?

That's right.

Why didn't you go after her and give it back?

It would've taken all day in the wagon.

I had to get back. Cook said he needed this stuff.

And the girl wasn't very pretty.

It just wasn't my business.

I'll get the money back to her

next time I'm over near the North Fork.

- When were you there last? - Never.

- I said I'd get it back. - Yes, but when?

This must be a lot of money to those Germans.

All right, if you say.

Look, we can go over by the ridge,

be there and back by supper.

No reason you have to ride along.

They're my neighbors, fellow ranchers. I haven't even seen them.

It's only polite that I pay my respects.

We'll go there when you've finished unloading.

And then I give the money to Herr Embry,

and I tell him we will give him more,

- and I come home immediately. - Clara, I don't...

Oh, Papa, I did it just like what you told me.

Yes, you've done good, Clara, but where is he?

- Why didn't he come with you? - Oh, Papa, it's supposed to be a secret.

He doesn't want anyone to know he's here.

But you know it is him. He maybe talks to you.

Herr Huber, there were too many people.

- He couldn't tell me nothing. - Not even his name?

Oh, Paul, don't you listen what I'm saying?

- There was no time. - How can you know it is him?

Clara, we worked hard for this money.

You should've seen him, Papa.

He was so strong and so fast and sehr intelligent.

When he came into the store, he didn't even look at me,

but he says to Herr Merkel that he is new in town,

but he means for me to hear it,

and when those two men were holding me,

one has me like this, I could hardly breathe, Papa,

the other one like this, he's trying to kiss me.

I'm fighting, fighting, but he's too strong for me.

But Herr Embry was not afraid.

He comes in, he takes the one man like this,

and he goes "pow!" with the fist!

Then he pulls his gun, whoosh, on the other!

It was so fast, the other one, he couldn't even move, Papa!

And then he pushes me like this. I'm almost falling down.

Oh, Papa, he was so strong. He was so fast.

Oh, Papa, don't be afraid. Herr Embry is here.

And we don't have to worry that they will hurt us anymore.

I'm paying you good hard cash come outta my gut!

And you two saddle tramps, I give you a roof, board!

You do a stupid thing like that.

We're just trying to do like you told us, Mace.

I never told you to do nothing like that.

You said for us to cross them Heinies any chance we got.

Not with the whole town watching.

You might as well put a sign on your back.

"We gotta get them Heinies out of here."

Tramps, both of ya.

It won't happen again, Mace.

Not long as you know which pocket your money's in.

They do something to you?

I don't like them, is all. They're foreigners.

Don't know nothing about ranching,

don't belong here,

a bunch of tailors, storekeepers, shoemakers.

Well, now, my old man run a store.

That ain't what I mean.

They ain't got no feeling for the land.

Them Heinies eat different, talk different,

think different, like they got a wall around them

and ain't Joshua and his seven trumpets

gonna bring it down.

Only one thing to do.

Get rid of them.

Who's this fella poked his nose in?

Ain't got no idea.

How come he's so handy just when she needs him?

I don't know.

You ain't never seen him round.

- Never once. - He come out of the store.

Maybe old man Merkel might know who we is.

Yeah.

Nope. First time he ever come in.

He's real fast, ain't he?

Yep.

Sure made Verne look like he was cut out of stone.

You want something else?

- Some coffee, maybe. - All right.

If I was you, I wouldn't figure on him

to bring you much business.

He's just a hired hand out at Shiloh.

Name's Tate.

Shiloh, huh?

I wouldn't have got that only I asked it straight out.

That girl sure was lucky he was around.

- Oh, just happened, huh? - Mm-hmm.

You want to put this on the bill?

Oh, oh, yeah, thanks.

Morning.

I'm looking for a young lady named Hansch.

Oh, she's been here, but she's gone.

Oh?

Well, then, maybe you gentleman could help me.

Can't say till you ask.

I'd like to get out to North Fork.

Oh, shucks, I thought it was gonna be something tough.

Just keep on riding the way you were

till you get to the end of town, then you take the North Fork.

It's about 10, 11 miles out of town.

Much obliged.

Gun hand from the way he wore his gun.

Yeah.

Papa! Papa! Come quick!

Oh, you're here. Papa, he's here.

Herr Embry is here.

I knew I was right.

Wrong, I would have told you that in town,

- had you lit long enough. - This is not the one.

Oh, Papa, I'm so sorry, I thought...

But the money.

Oh, we brought it. Here.

Not exactly a calling card, but...

My name is Alan Mackenzie. This is Tate.

We're your neighbors, give or take a mile or two,

- from Shiloh. - Oh, ja.

I'm August Hansch. This is Alex Huber.

This is Paul Erlich and Herr Steiner.

Sorry you must ride so far.

No, it's not very far. We should've come over here

a long time ago.

My daughter's made a bad mistake.

She thinks you're somebody else. Herr Embry.

He said he would come to work for us.

And take his pay in advance?

Well, his kind of work is...

What kind of job is that?

Well, we...

We are not the kind of people who know anything about guns.

You mean he's a hired gun.

Mister, you made a worse mistake than she did.

You talk so easy. You don't know. We need help.

Bringing in a hired gun won't do any good.

Just buying yourself more trouble, that's all.

They steal our cows.

They cut our wire. We already have trouble.

You don't understand. We do need help here.

That's the heart of it, isn't it?

You're strangers. Everything is new and different.

When you come down to it, we're all strangers, huh?

This is not exactly a South Texan accent

I'm speaking with, but where you came from

was very stable, lots of laws, lots of police.

But the price that you had to pay for that life

you obviously were not willing to pay.

Now, the life here has a different kind of price,

but it's not payment to a paid gun.

Papa, he knows this place.

Maybe you should listen to what he says.

Shh!

Oh, no, only when you need the women,

when I have to go to town to give the money,

but it's different here for women.

You explain to him. It's not the same for...

Clara!

- Anytime you say. - All right.

Are you telling us to kill?

No. Not to allow yourself to be killed.

That's very different. May I have a word with you?

Herr Tate?

I... I am sorry.

I didn't mean to make so much trouble for you.

It serves me right for butting in.

Oh, no, it's not so. I told Paul.

Uh, this is Paul.

We are... how you say... promised.

We will be married soon.

Congratulations.

You have done a fine thing, Herr Tate.

For a long time I've been saying to mein-self,

"It is wrong to bring this man with a gun."

Oh, you thought this?

But you didn't tell this to me.

If I tell you, liebchen, will it change your father,

the others, will they listen to me?

I am a teacher.

Four walls, a classroom, children?

This I can understand.

But this?

It is too big. Too...

I expected to be met in town.

I sent somebody. There was a mistake.

No matter. I'm here.

We will talk, ja? Sometimes things change.

You're pulling out.

Why don't you give him the $200 and get rid of him?

Ja, $200 right here.

If you want to pull out, that's no skin off my haunch.

But I made a deal for $1,000.

I can't give you that much now. You said there would be time.

Both sides have to stick to their words in my line.

That's the only way that it works.

You told me 1,000. I'm taking 1,000.

You've got exactly two minutes to find it.

Drop it.

You're gonna need a doctor, Embry.

You're lucky you're not dead.

Now, get out of here.

He would be dead. He would be.

Danke schon. You helped us once more.

Wasn't much else I could do. You finished here, sir?

- Yeah. - What happens if he comes back?

Why ask us? We didn't bring him here.

I listened to you. I broke off with him.

If he comes back there is no one to help us.

It might be you just might have to help yourself.

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I'll cool 'em off, huh?

You want to come in for a minute?

It's all right with me.

Hey, Arch!

Parker?! Sit down, Tate.

Coming right up, sir. Two, I presume?

Parker, your intuition is amazing.

I wouldn't rightly call it intuition, sir.

Not after all those years together in the Army and such.

Colonel always said a nip was better with friends.

Yep. There you go.

Thank you.

Anything else, sir?

That's all, thank you.

You know that holds for riding as well?

It's better with friends, providing of course

they don't ride all those miles without saying one bloody word.

What are you so worked up about?

Ah, those Germans, that girl. Myself.

Mostly yourself, huh?

Just plain foolish to stick my nose in their ruckus.

Bunch of strangers like that.

Be just as glad if I never see them again.

We were strangers, too, before we met.

- That was different. - Why?

Because they speak a foreign language?

That ain't right, and you know it.

Nobody can make me out to be prejudiced or...

No reason to take it out on you.

Oh, that's all right.

What I'm trying to say is I got nothing to do with them

- or them with me. - I see.

You owe nothing to anyone and they owe nothing to you,

and you end up with nothing.

- That's right. - Oh, come on, grow up.

There's no such thing as nothing in this world.

You're born with someone, you live with people,

and the only thing you do alone is die.

I've found in this world there are many crooked corners

where you have to help someone,

perhaps a stranger or neither of you get out alive.

You know that works for countries as well?

Another one?

Well, we'll continue this... This lecture in the morning.

- We'll go up to North Fork. - North Fork?

Yeah, I promised Mr. Hansch I'd let him

have some lumber to finish that barn.

- Now does that bother you? - It bothers me that I get moved around

like I'm a checker on a board or something.

Now, nobody is moving you around.

I can make up my own mind whether I want to go back

- to the North Fork or not. - Yes, of course.

Well...

I'll help you load in the morning, huh?

Thanks for the drink.

Tate.

She is pretty, isn't she?

Coming out now.

That arm's gonna be kind of sore for a while.

If there ain't nothing pushing you,

you'd be smart to stay here and rest.

Got a hotel?

Left at the next corner.

Now, you be sure and bring that arm back here, right?

- Tomorrow. - I'll be back.

New customer, Doc?

Yeah, new to me. He said his name was Embry.

Mm, gun hand, huh?

If he is, I wouldn't say he's too good.

Somebody put a slug in his arm.

Did he say who it was?

No, and I wasn't about to ask him.

He's gonna be all right.

He just won't be able to use that arm for a while.

Hello, there.

Ah, didn't mean to come in on your supper.

- Smells good. - Why do you come here?

You want the truth? I've been worried.

I heard about the shooting and all.

- You folks all right? - We're all right.

Kinda figured you might be in for trouble.

Remember, I told you when I made you that offer.

Well, it ain't that I rode over here just to rub it in.

I don't hold you no grudge for turning me down.

Just want you to know I'm still your friend.

And in case you got a mind, that offer's still good.

- Do you think we should? - No, he's not our friend.

Remember when the plow was broken? He wouldn't even fix it.

I just plain couldn't, miss. Had all that work piled up.

Oh, ja, and what about the lightning rod

for the new barn?

We had to send to Laramie for that one.

I told you, takes a special kind of iron.

And for horseshoes, too, ja?

You forget, ja, you would not put a shoe on my horse.

I must walk him all the way to Bear Valley.

Oh, there's a reason for that. You see, uh...

Papa, don't listen to him. He fools you.

Seems you give your women a lot of room.

We do not sell.

I ain't a betting man, Mr. Hansch.

But I'm giving you something 3 to 1.

Herein, your trouble's gonna be worse.

I make more trouble, ja?

Yeah, don't you folks know how to read time?

I am so sorry, but I didn't know

where else I could go, and I was very frightened.

He came back again tonight. And he made threats to us.

Not Herr Embry, the other one, the black man.

He wanted to buy our land, but we told him no.

So he goes away, but inside he was burning.

So he was so mad, so I think I come here,

- and maybe I... - You better find somebody else.

Ja, but we don't know somebody else.

- You owe this to us. - Now cut it right there.

Well, it's your fault.

You're the one who made us send away our help.

- We did just what you said. - That ain't what I said at all.

I said you gotta rope your own cows.

You're just trying to put me in for Embry,

just swapping one watchdog for another, that's all.

- You are afraid, ja? - Now don't say that.

Oh, well, the words are like from a man,

but when the trouble comes, you do what all the others do.

Why don't you stop and listen sometimes

and tie up your tongue and give your ears a chance?

You want to learn how to walk, you gotta try.

Now, might be you fall on your rump a few times,

but first thing you know, you can make it alone

and you won't need Embry or me or anybody.

Now that's what I said. That's what I'm saying now.

Now, why don't you just climb on your horse

and hightail it home and quit busting in on people

- who need their sleep? - Tate?

Why, hello there.

I see you're adjusting to our informal hours.

They got more trouble.

Ja, the man from town, the blacksmith.

- You'll help us, ja, please? - Sure, we'll try.

But at a more reasonable hour, I trust.

Do your people know you're over here?

Well, ja, I told Paul.

Good, then they won't be worried if you stay.

Oh, bitte, I must go back.

Oh, no, no, no, you'll go back with Tate and me in the morning

when we deliver some lumber to your father.

Lumber?

Yes, I promised him some to repair his barn.

You are very good.

You know, that's what I said to Herr Huber.

There are good Americans, too.

You see? Already I'm an American.

Come on.

♪

Come on, come on, I ain't paying for bunk time.

Come on. Pull on your pants unless you wanna ride raw.

Das ist gut, this trick.

No.

Um... you wonder why I came down here, ja?

I guess you're gonna say that you're sorry again.

Oh, also that I am glad, too,

because I have been needing someone who is strong,

and you are so strong.

No more than anybody else.

Ja, but it's different

because you are strong und good.

You know why we call the place the N-bar-H?

It stands for "neue Hoffnung"

How you say "new hope."

Paul, my father, the others, they're not children.

They're not fools. They know there would be trouble here,

but we thought the trouble would come from...

From the land, from maybe, oh, too much rain, maybe not enough,

from the cold, but we didn't think

the trouble would come from the people.

There's always some bad anyplace you go.

Ja, that's what I am saying. There are good ones, too.

You.

Und Herr McKenzie.

You are good.

You'd better go in.

Ah, ja.

No.

For me? I'm not so afraid.

But... my father.

When my mother dies, this is all he has,

this... dream.

Don't worry.

Everything'll be fine.

♪

What happened?

They came last night, three of them

with destruction and fire.

You see who they were?

It was dark. Their faces were covered.

- It's not hard to guess. - What do you mean?

Well, who made the threats? The blacksmith, Herr Ivers.

Miss Clara, in this country, you mustn't make accusations

like that unless you have proof.

([clears throat) Just treat it like wasted lumber, hmm?

I know six ranchers who will help you rebuild it.

You'll need some help. I'm handy with a hammer and saw.

We don't want your help. We don't want you here.

Now, wait a minute.

He helped us once. All he brought was trouble.

Now, that's not true, and that's not fair.

It's his fault. He's the one.

He told us we don't need anybody.

That's only half of it.

Your pants get too tight, you don't just take 'em off

and walk down the street, you get yourself another pair.

They come like this, what can we do?

Well, you got guns. Use 'em.

Papa, maybe he's right. Maybe there is a time for guns.

We didn't come here to build our lives on guns.

Sometimes I'm wondering why we have come here at all.

Now, you know very well why you came here.

There is so much to do. And who will do it?

You ever think of doing it yourselves?

This iron.

We are already late to put the marks on the calves,

and we don't even know how to do it.

Then learn. Get somebody to show you.

Who will teach us?

This young fella here's pretty good with a branding iron.

He said he didn't want my help.

Oh, he only talked about a hammer and saw.

Didn't say anything about a branding iron.

All right, where's your herd?

I'll show you. Come, we get the horses.

♪

Mm, it's good, ja? Cold.

Uh-huh.

How I can say? You...

You have... you have been very good with us.

Mm-hmm.

Und with me, too.

You know how grateful I am for this.

Uh-huh.

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm." This is all you can say?

Mm-hmm.

Ach!

Wouldn't take me two warm pennies to...

All right, bring the iron, come on.

Come on, don't let it cool off. Bring that iron.

No, you do this one just like I showed you.

Right on the flank. Come on.

Attaboy, nice and clean.

Hey, that's really not so difficult.

Thank you very much.

All right, let him up. Easy.

You just signed your name to what you own.

That's your property, fair and square, you understand?

Now, you do just like that to the next one, hear?

It's getting late. You do one more.

- One more. - It will be dark when we get home.

This time, you stay with us, ja?

If I was Paul, I wouldn't like that too much.

Well... maybe there is something I must say to Paul.

Go rope yourself another calf, hear?

And sign our name on it, ja!

Paul.

Paul!

Paul, you are here?

Herr Hansch! Herr Hansch!

Also, his horse is not here.

He doesn't tell somebody about this?

Papa? Papa, we're back!

Oh, Papa, you should see how they do this. Oh!

And, Herr Huber, you must not say anymore

that we do not know how to do this

because he shows Carl and Fritz exactly

how they learn how to make...

Something is the matter.

Papa?

Paul is not here.

Also, his horse is gone.

He must have gone into town.

Do you hear me what I say? He must have gone into town.

Then he's 27 kinds of fool. I've seen that blacksmith.

He'll bend him like a horseshoe.

- Oh, Tate, please. - No, ma'am.

I'm right up to here.

Somebody wants to put a star in my crown,

you tell them, no thanks, I've got all I want.

Tell them I said to look for somebody else.

All right, all right.

All right.

Is there any talk about the burning?

Not too much, ain't nobody gonna lose no sleep

over a parcel of Heinies like them.

So why don't you go do the same? Hold on.

Here.

Have a drink first.

You make this fire to maybe kill someone.

This is the last sin.

Who says?

I am saying this.

I'll just make out like I never heard you, friend.

It's one thing you frighten some cows,

you make them run so it takes a week to find them.

Somebody do that?

It's one thing to put salt in the wasser

so the cows must go five miles more to drink,

to fix the wagon so the wheel comes off.

But to burn?

You want some red-eye?

I have seen their faces.

I have seen how they hurt.

It's like this fire is maybe burning them, too.

I am saying this must stop.

It must not happen again.

You taking a lot on yourself, ain't ya?

I have made up my mind.

Well, maybe mine's made up on something else.

Keep at them round-heads till they sell and move out.

And they will, they'll go running one day

just like steers from a heel.

There ain't nothing you can do about it.

Only one thing.

I will not help you anymore.

You just head them golden slippers around.

It's a mighty late time in the day

you start getting holy with me.

I do not try...

Specially wasn't my notion in the first place.

I never went to you. You come to me.

You had it all figured to scare 'em out.

Ja, this is true, but...

Well, maybe you better get something clear.

I weld a piece of iron, I weld it to stay.

This is not a piece of iron.

It takes two to make a deal and two to call it off.

You cannot speak for me! I am out of it!

You pull a cross like that

and I'll ride straight to the North Fork,

and I'll let 'em know you salted the water.

I'll spill it all out like a cut sack of beans.

You... would not... do this.

You just watch me, boy.

You people think you had it hard out here?

You just try being black for a spell.

You put in all them years at the forge, the heat,

breaking your back every day and knowing you only

got the work on account of there ain't no other smith in town.

But you keep on because you got a idea.

One day, you'll be shoeing your own nags,

riding your own land, branding your own calves.

I got me a chance, and I'm gonna grab it now.

No. Not from them.

I will stop you.

Seems to me that's mighty big talk

from a whelp that can't hardly talk the language at all.

You watch your tongue, boy,

or you'll get your face messed up.

Might be that girl of yours would look someplace else.

What do you think she'd say, did she know the truth,

did I whisper in her pretty little ear

when she finds out you've been turning the knife in their back?

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Don't nobody put a hand to me! Nobody! Never!

I'm gonna murder you, boy!

What's the ruckus?

He tried to kill me, Sheriff.

Them folks will tell ya, it was an accident.

True and fair!

- Bad? - Could be.

Let's get him to the doc.

Couple of you fellas wanna give us a hand here?

Mace?

What's it about?

Got the whole thing. Purely got me puzzled.

Did you ever see him before?

Oh, he's one of them Heinies out on the North Fork,

comes streaming in calling names and yelling and...

Did he say why?

Never did.

'Less it was account of that plow.

What was that?

He needed a plow to be fixed, and I had to turn him down.

Well, I had work stacked that high.

I've been saying right along, they ain't like real folks.

Ain't hardly tell what they're gonna do.

They never been trouble before, Mace.

You better keep yourself handy.

That fellow dies, we're gonna have to file a report.

Sure thing.

Well, Doc?

He ought to be waking up pretty soon.

You said that an hour ago.

Well, laudanum might hit them Germans different.

Is there some type of bad blood twixt him and Ivers?

I guess.

Doc, you think he's got a chance?

Patient's always got a chance while he's breathing,

long as some fool doctor doesn't come along and mess him up.

Now listen, his pulse is strong, and that's a good sign.

Here, let me prescribe for you.

You go up the street and buy yourself a drink.

Right.

And then this fella, this Tate, he works over at the Shiloh?

He picked him up really easy like and...

Well, speak of the devil.

Excuse me. Evening.

Nice to see you again.

Terrible thing at Ivers'. Was the boy a friend of yours?

No.

I'd have helped you carry him over,

but I got this back.

You know how the boy's getting along?

- No. - Doc couldn't say, huh?

No.

Well, if you ask me...

If you ask me, he brung it on himself.

He should have known

not to never go nowhere near Mace Ivers.

Just like scratching on raw flesh.

Course, you wouldn't know about that

- being new around here at all. - Know what?

Well, it was no secret around town.

Ivers took it real hard when Henry Barrow

sold his spread to them Germans.

He talked all along like the land was his,

like all he had to do was sign some papers.

Did he have any reason?

Well...

Ask me. I can tell you better.

Something you'd like to know about me?

- I know enough. - Maybe not.

You don't know I'm sorry about the boy.

I never meant him no hurt, and that's a fact.

Oh, I know, you love those Germans,

every last one of them.

Why, you wouldn't take their land

if they gave it to you as a Christmas present.

You've got to understand about that land.

I understand. They got it, you want it.

Oh, you go ahead and play it smart.

It ain't that simple.

Henry Barrow always kept talking about selling.

He told me if he ever come round to it,

them 4,000 acres was gonna be mine.

I had the money, too, and then one day

without no word or nothing, he up and sold it

to them Germans and headed back East.

- You must have done something. - Nothing!

Guess my money wasn't... Wasn't the right color.

Oh, he could give me his work to do.

He could stop and talk, or buy me a drink.

He even handed me a cigar when his kid was born.

But when it comes right down to selling that land...

No reason to hate the Germans for him.

Ain't no business of yours. How you come to be in it?

I figured you'd know.

Maybe you ought to ask those two saddle tramps.

I see you took your medicine. He come around just now.

Most likely, they can take him home tomorrow morning.

He gonna be all right?

Oh, yes, except for his eyes.

What do you mean?

He's gonna be blind.

I need a drink.

Good morning.

Something I wanted to tell you.

It won't always be like this.

Don't push it.

Be a fool at this stage of the game.

But remember what I said.

It, uh, won't always be like this.

And then what?

I'm gonna kill you.

Thanks for telling me.

Tate's here to take you home, Paul.

That is you, Herr Tate?

Right here, Paul. How you feeling?

Good, I suppose.

Take him on home. That's the best.

You have been very kind. Thank you.

It's my job, Paul.

I just wish I could've done more.

Thanks, Doc. Come on, Paul.

The day is gray. It will rain perhaps.

No, Paul, the sun's shining. Not a cloud in the sky.

Ja, that is what I thought.

Wait a minute.

If Tate is with him, he'll be all right.

Believe me, you don't have to look.

But you look, ja?

That's called rounding up strays.

Apparently, I'm gonna have to wait because my stray

is busy rounding up your stray.

Now, look, believe me, Tate will bring him back.

Ja.

Ho, ho, ho.

- Paul, what's happened? - Ivers, ja?

Better get him inside.

- I can walk. - Here, I take him.

Come, take my arm, and we go slowly.

- How bad? - Bad.

I'm so sorry.

Seems he started it.

I guess that's what he went in for.

Oh, I'm wrong. I'm old and stubborn and wrong.

You were right, Alex. We have no place here.

If you talk like that, you are wrong.

We should've listened to him. I should've used my mind.

- You're not using it now. - Don't talk to me so.

We're through here. We're selling.

- We're going home. - You can't.

That's what we're saying. You can't quit now.

It is done.

You say it's done, you're saying it's all for nothing,

all the hard work the trouble, Paul's eyes.

And whose fault is this?

Who makes us send Herr Embry away?

Who leaves us without protection against Ivers?

Who makes Paul take it on his own head, huh?

That's absolute rot. You should be grateful to Tate

for what he's done for you instead of moaning

because he hasn't made life perfect.

Let him say it. Maybe he's got the right.

This buggy's rented. I gotta get back.

Our wagon's here. Can I use your horse?

Sure, help yourself.

Tate?

He asks for you.

Please, he's hurt.

All right.

Believe me, if I can say how I feel.

What? I just dumped the whole kettle over.

I should've left you alone.

That's not so. You helped us very much.

Embry could've helped you more.

But this is not your fault. You must not say this.

Papa changes his mind. We'll stay.

Do not turn away from them now.

They need you, Tate.

Ja, you come back.

- That's hard to say. - Why?

Well, I got work to do. I got a barn to build.

Clara?

Clara? Clara?

Well, the worst is over.

You just take it easy for a couple more days.

I will. Much obliged.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Ain't taking no new work. Hard to handle what I got.

I'm not surprised.

Especially when you don't get enough sleep.

That must be a long ride up to the North Fork and back.

That crazy Heinie been saying things?

Should he be saying things?

No more than the rest.

All right. I said I'm sorry for the boy.

Oh, that's admirable.

I got no time to talk.

Look, Ivers, I can understand your being angry.

I can understand you feeling that you've been deceived.

But violence is not...

Boy come after me first. I got witnesses.

- And the barn? - You got proof?

Then don't go making loose talk like a wind in a colander.

Ivers, I don't like men who complain

and then do exactly what they're complaining about.

Those people have got the right to a fair deal as well.

Now don't you be giving them any more trouble, you hear?

That's supposed to be a warning?

Yes.

Look, if you want to own some land,

I've got more land than I need at the Shiloh.

I'll sell you some at a price you can afford.

Wouldn't be the same.

Und explain, uh, you write this letter for me

because I work so hard, I do not have time.

But everything goes well. Und we shall be married soon.

You have this, Clara?

Yes, Paul.

And I send my love to her und to Papa und to...

We'll have no talk with you, nothing, nothing!

I didn't rightly figure you would,

but I want some with you.

I come back.

Something I'd like you folks to know.

I done a lot of thinking last night,

and it always come out the same.

I've been wrong.

This wanting the land, it's been twisting me up

so I can hardly see right from left.

I ain't going to lie to you now, I still want it.

Happens if you ever decide to sell,

I'm hoping you'll let me make you an offer.

- We will not sell. - I figured that, too.

So I'll just say the rest.

I'm really... mighty ashamed of what I done.

I ain't truly like that. I want you to know.

What I mean...

If you just take it right... What I mean...

I'd kind of like to help out with the barn,

some iron straps to maybe reinforce the joists

or maybe you'd like some...

There's nothing we want from you.

Then there's only one thing.

And you've got to believe me.

I never meant nobody to get hurt.

That boy nor nobody. You tell him that.

Tell them that it won't never happen again.

Paul, did you hear this? He will not hurt us anymore.

We don't have to be afraid. You did this.

You gave us this peace.

I have given only mein eyes.

I am a fool. A fool.

This is my fault. I am the one.

I started it.

Paul? What are you saying?

I have gone to Ivers.

I... I have given him this idea to make it hard for us,

to make us afraid...

to make us sell.

So you've been working with him?

You do not hear me? Ja!

We are in this together.

Why?

It's plain enough, to cut himself in for a share,

taking money out of your pockets and putting it in his.

No, you are wrong.

Then why? Tell me why.

Clara, this new place,

this new life, the new ways,

every day, you change more.

Und I think you are maybe changing with me, too.

Und I think but if we can go back...

But I know you will not go without the others.

And I am.

I am crazy with fear.

I... cannot lose you.

And so, I go to Ivers.

You let me tear my gut apart,

let me think it was on account of me you got hurt.

Please, I'm trying...

I was right. You give somebody a lift,

pretty soon he's riding, and you got sore feet.

Tate?

Giddyap.

Why does he go away like this, so sudden?

- What have we done to him? - When a man looks like this,

it is something he has done to himself.

I don't like to see him go away angry, Alex.

Ja, it is hard to make friends,

but even harder to lose them.

We maybe did not lose him.

Herr Tate! Herr Tate!

Ho. Ho.

Herr Tate! Herr Tate!

How come you're not working? Nobody rang the dinner bell.

Clara? Go tell him we are glad.

Ja.

That was just an exhibition. No charge.

Thought you'd like to see for yourselves.

My arm's doing a lot better.

Oh, not all the way healed, but doing real good.

Just good enough to hold my $1,000.

You're nothing lucky I'm not asking for more,

seeing I'll be unemployed for a while.

They don't have that kind of cash money around.

If they did, they'd be loco to give it to you.

Reminds me.

You're my bonus, Mr. Nice.

Collecting one debt and paying the other, all in one ride.

Five minutes, assuming you got some desire to live.

Why is it him? Why did you pick him?

Oh, I didn't pick him, miss. He picked me. He made the deal.

We told you, we do not have the money now.

Note'll be fine. I asked at the bank.

Credit must be good. They said they'd discount it.

By the way, I figure you just used up half a minute.

You didn't figure far enough, Embry. We're five to one.

I got the equalizer. Might be you're right, though.

Five to one's a lot.

Might be I oughta cut that down a little.

No!

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If my arm was better...

You had the equalizer. Now you understand one thing.

They don't need no hired guns no more.

From here on in, they tote their own.

You got a horse. You know what he's for.

- You sure you're all right? - Ja.

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I know, you can climb off a horse by yourself.

You remember this.

- How's Paul? - Oh, he's the same,

but now he learns to walk with a cane.

- I'm real sorry. - Ja.

We... we get married Sunday, and then we will go back.

I heard.

I owe this to him.

He's been punished so much.

- What about you? - Oh, I...

I must get used to the old ways again.

We can get used anything, ja?

But I'll miss this place.

The country, the freedom, the people, I...

I'll miss you, too.

Sometimes I think, oh, maybe if...

If things had been different...

It's so funny how things happen sometimes so sudden.

You're with somebody you don't know,

someplace you've never been before, in...

Some little crooked corner.

I don't forget the small time we have had.

But Paul needs me,

and when someone needs you so much...

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How's it going?

- I'm just about finished. - Mm-hmm.

I hear they're having a big rodeo over at Cheyenne.

- Oh, is that right? - Yeah.

I imagine there'll be a lot of excitement

for a young fella like you.

Why don't you plan on going?

I might just do that.

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