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Do you know where you're headed?

Yes, you probably do.

But you've had five years to think about it.

Just take my advice.

Stay clear of Rock Creek.

I did not ask your advice.

Afternoon.

It's only nine.

So you're only three hours late.

Well, I had some schooling I needed to finish.

Told me you were going to be doing your studying at night.

I was.

The schooling's taking up a lot of my time.

So is that pretty little Johnson girl you were seeing last night.

Saw that, did you?

Son, most of the folks in this town think I was crazy taking on a kid who

didn't know the first thing about responsibility.

I thought maybe I'd prove them wrong.

With your help.

I work hard.

When you're here.

But it isn't nearly enough.

I got enough work here for the both of us. Only one of us seems to be doing it.

Lad, there's nothing more important than getting an education.

If it comes to you choosing between here and school, I'm gonna boot you right

straight out of here back to the schoolhouse. I'll hire somebody else.

You saying you'd let me go?

Most people would.

But I've never been one to let other people make up my mind for me.

Thanks.

Now get back to work.

And don't make a fool out of me.

What do you have?

Fourteen. Very good, Cynthia.

What about you, Charlie?

Nine. Absolutely right.

What do you got, Jessie?

Full house.

Jesse, we're learning addition here, not poker.

Seems to me the two are related.

Jesse... Seventeen.

Aces over sevens.

I think that's enough for today, especially from you.

Contrary to the belief of Mr. Jesse James here, arithmetic will serve you in

other places besides a gambling hall.

We'll continue practicing tomorrow.

Come on!

Miss Barrett, would you be so kind as to hand out those readers?

Sure.

See you tomorrow.

Oh. See ya.

Did you forget something?

I appreciate you helping us load, Elroy.

Oh, heck. All business you express boys have thrown my way. I ought to be making

deliveries. Now that's an idea.

Maybe Tompkins will oblige. Uh-huh.

So he's been real willing to do us favors.

Well, he did follow us all the way back from Sweetwater, didn't he? Call that a

favor?

We didn't forgive him, did we? Now we've got everything on Rachel's list.

Well, that's the last of it.

Did you put this on our account?

Elroy?

Artel?

What's got into him?

I really do appreciate you giving me the chance to help out at the school.

It feels good to be out of the house.

I like having you here.

You're really great with the children. Well, I've always loved them.

Now, I'm surprised you and Mr. Barrett haven't started a family yourself.

Well, we've talked about it, but it never seemed to be the right time.

With Walter being so busy at the bank and all.

There he is, Marshal.

That's him over there.

Hold on just a minute there.

What's going on here?

They get my money.

You wouldn't happen to be getting anybody else's, would you?

The fellow here seems to think you're robbing the bank.

He is wrong.

Everything all right, Mr. Burr?

Everything's fine, Marshal. The man's just leaving.

He's not gonna be coming back.

I go where I want now.

Walter,

I was so worried when I saw him coming out of the bank.

Somebody's got some explaining to do. I think I'll start with you.

A manslaughter?

Teaspoon told me Janusz Tarkowski spent five years in prison, just got out.

What kind of name is that?

Sounds like something on one of Rachel's spellings.

Tarkowski and his wife came here seven years ago from a place called Poland.

settled on a farm right outside of town.

Soon after they got here, there was a fire and Tarkovsky's wife died.

He was arrested the next day.

What would bring a man to do something like that?

No one knows.

Witnesses saw him drunk in the saloon the night of the fire and said he was in

a foul mood.

The jury took less than a day to convict him.

Why would he come back here?

Seems like the last place I'd want to be.

Ruth's husband said he had only $5 in the bank, but he still had his land.

Where else was a man supposed to go?

Some place where people didn't turn their backs on.

He did his time, Jimmy.

Maybe he counted on people giving him a second chance.

Unless he does something wrong, that's exactly what all of us owe him.

We take your business elsewhere.

Money's no good here.

He's got company.

Janusz.

Mr. Fuhrer.

I need your help.

You're talking English.

I had five years to study.

I have broken plow. Need you to fix it.

I'm more than happy to help you out, but it's going to be some time before I can

take a look at it.

Just like everyone else, you refuse my money?

I didn't say that.

You meant it.

I'm very busy.

Too busy for me, huh?

For someone who's learning English, you ought to listen a little more to what's

being said.

You stay out of this, lad. This is between the two of us.

I'm telling you the truth.

I've got more business than I've ever had.

You're just going to have to wait like everyone else.

But I'm not like everyone else, am I?

I'm a murderer.

That's what you think.

It's what you said.

I never said that.

I told them what I saw. You saw nothing.

But you told them everything.

You put me in jail for five years.

I wasn't the only one who had something to say at that trial.

I know that.

How could I forget?

None of you will let me forget.

Where's the fire, son?

In my pants, if I don't get to work on time.

That'd be something to see.

It's the clock on the button.

Jerry?

Jerry?

How come you haven't put Tarkovsky in jail yet? We all know he killed Fury.

Anyone see him do it?

No. But we all heard about the two of them nearly coming to blows.

Now, see, where did you hear a thing like that?

From that Jesse James fellow. That figures.

Marshal, the day that Tarkovsky fellow got off the boat was a bad day for Rock

Creek. That's right.

Tarkovsky coming back to here puts all our lives in danger.

Now, what makes you think that?

Because we're the ones who put him in jail.

Me and Barrett Gibson and Fury?

Tarkovsky was in my saloon drinking a bar dry.

Got so ornery, I had to kick him out.

Four of us testified, and the judge sent him to prison. And now he's back taking

his revenge on us. That's right. All right, settle down.

I'm going out to visit Tarkovsky shortly, and if you know what's good for

you, you let me handle this.

It's hot enough around here without you poking in.

Now just break it up.

Want me to get a noose to take with us?

Jesse, you'll be staying here when I talk to Tarkovsky.

Fury was my friend, Teaspoon.

I know that, son.

If I find anything linking Tarkovsky with his death, he'll be behind them

bars quicker than you can spit.

But the best thing for you to do right now is, well, grieve for your friend.

What good's that gonna do?

Ain't gonna bring him back.

No.

I'd make you feel better.

Take a lot more than that.

Tarkovsky, I want to talk to you about Liam Fury.

We had words, that is all. I heard yous all riled up.

Hey Marshall's talking to you Jimmy Fury's dead and everybody else thinks

you've got something to do with it including me And I would waste my breath

no, well we ain't all made up our minds once you try telling me your story

Five years ago, I spoke no English now for

me things are different but people in this town they are the same

They still do not want to listen to Janusz Tarkowski.

I'll tell you what, I'll listen to you. Tell me what happened to your hand

there.

Why don't you ask those in town?

I'm sure they have the answer.

Let's go.

There's a tough one to figure out. He don't like it any easier. Why don't you

put him in jail?

Why is it I keep having to explain to people that I don't arrest somebody when

there ain't no evidence?

When I just thought... No, you didn't, Jimmy.

Nobody saw that fella anywhere near Fury Land.

I ain't gonna take him in just because he don't want to talk to us.

Get out of here.

I hope you've been practicing your addition.

I might give you a test.

You understand?

My mama says that I shouldn't be playing with cards.

She says that I might become a gambler.

Well, you tell your mother that we're still short of supplies here at the

school ever since the fire.

And that we're not playing with cards.

We're learning.

Addition is very important.

Subtraction's what we ought to be talking about.

I don't think the class is ready for that one yet.

Where the town is. A friend of mine was killed last night, and we're wasting

time talking about arithmetic.

Maybe you're right. Maybe we should talk about it. We ought to go string

ourselves up with killers, what we ought to do.

Jesse, I'm sure Teaspoon will do whatever he thinks is best.

Teaspoon ain't doing nothing, and I'm tired of waiting.

Jesse.

If people took the time to think before they acted, they'd realize that violence

never leads to anything except more pain and more suffering.

You should tell that to Fury.

He never raised a hand to nobody. Look what happened to him.

Jesse. Jesse!

Jesse!

Let him go, Ruth.

I want you all to think about what Ruth just said.

It may be the most valuable lesson you ever learned.

Jesse's in a lot of pain right now, and the best thing we can do to help him out

is to realize the truth in Ruth's words.

That guy.

Before he ended up in the same shape he thought I was.

That's a mighty fine horse.

The price he brings, I might stay off my belly for a week.

Take your horse and leave.

You lucky that old thing went off.

Good thing for me you came riding through here.

I come here often, but I do not think of luck when I come.

What's your name?

Janusz Tarkowski.

Name's Noah Dixon.

Might have been chiseled on a headstone if you hadn't come along.

How can I thank you?

Now, it was real nice what you said to Jesse today.

If he wasn't so hurt and so stubborn, he'd have known it too.

Well, I just hate to see someone use violence as a way to solve their

problems.

Mr. Tarkovsky coming to town seems to have led a lot of people to that

conclusion, hasn't it?

Why don't you talk to me about it, Ruth?

What?

You don't have to hide your feelings from me.

Listen.

I know your husband was one of the men who put Mr.

Tarkovsky in jail.

Now, what happened to Fury must have scared you as much as it hurt Jesse.

These past five years, sometimes I don't know how I got through them.

I've thought about it every day since they took Janusz away.

Not that I didn't believe he was guilty, it's just that.

Did you know five years ago, Janusz couldn't speak a word of English?

No.

Couldn't even defend himself at his own trial.

It's just the word of Walter and Fury and two of the others.

Just doesn't seem right.

Janusz not being able to tell his side of the story.

I always feel bad for people who can't defend themselves.

Ruth, if there's anything I can do to help... Just pray no one else gets hurt.

I'm sure Walter will be fine.

So am I.

Rachel, I... Ruth?

Miss Dunn?

Hope I didn't interrupt anything important.

Oh, no, no, no. We're just going over to Mara's lesson.

Well, we ought to be going home.

Quite right.

Good day, Rachel.

Good day.

Ruth.

You take care.

Hey, Noah.

What you doing?

Ain't the station's regular supply day.

These ain't ours.

Wait me for it.

Now it is my turn to thank you.

I told you I wasn't doing business with you.

What are you helping him for? Man saved my life just as least I could do. Yeah,

well, he killed Fury.

Come back here, damn you.

What the hell is going on here? Fury was murdered last night.

Giannis was arguing with him earlier, and everyone knows him killed him.

Everyone except you.

Come back!

Come back!

Let go of me. Wait a minute. Now, if Giannis killed somebody, Teaspoon would

have locked him up.

Teaspoon don't care. Nobody cares except me. Now, let me go. What do you mean,

now?

Boy gotta learn he can't use his fists every time he don't get his weight. You

got a point, Jesse, especially when you're trying to find someone twice your

size. Just leave me alone!

Looks like I missed a lot being gone.

Sorry, I'm late.

Wife didn't want you to come.

Just took a bit of convincing.

They always do.

They've agreed to do it after sundown. Tomorrow.

Sure we're doing the right thing?

Tarkovsky's out there. We gotta get him before he gets us.

Now, you boys don't have to throw in with us. You're not the ones he's after.

But we'd appreciate any help we can get.

We'll be there.

Go!

Sit down. Be quiet.

I know what you're thinking, Jesse.

Oh, babe. Because I've been thinking the same thing myself.

So why are you out here instead of inside there?

Just because I've been in rooms like that before.

And I'm telling you, it's a whole lot easier walking in that door than it is

coming back out.

I don't get you.

Look, Jesse.

I remember this farmer back in Illinois.

And he was found dead in his barn.

Now, his hired hand lit out around the same time. So everybody thought that

he'd killed him. What'd you think?

The same as everybody else.

So when the town started talking about a lynching, well, I was right there with

them.

So a couple of days later, word came back that this hired hand was hiding out

in a cabin outside of town.

Did you get him?

No.

Why not?

Because my sister locked me in my room.

The next day, I went outside.

and saw that hired hand's dead body being dragged down the main street of

town behind his horse.

Seems to me you missed out on all the fun.

Listen to me. I ain't talking about fun here. I'm talking about a man's life.

Two days later, some drifter was found with that farmer's horse.

And he confessed to the murder.

And one of these.

Let me get this total up.

Hello, Miss Dunn.

Hello, Cynthia, Mrs. Todd, Miss Dunn.

Miss Dunn, I've been meaning to come talk to you about Cynthia's arithmetic

lessons.

Yes, as I tried to explain yesterday... Cards are the devil's playthings. They

have no place in a schoolroom. Am I right, Mr. Tompkins?

Huh? Absolutely right.

Mrs. Todd, I'm simply making do with the materials at hand.

Of course, if the town folk were a little more generous, we could have the

proper books.

But the really important thing is whether or not Cynthia is learning.

Now, isn't that right, Mr. Tompkins?

Huh?

Damn. Where was I here?

I'm just saying that Cynthia isn't learning anything this way.

$3.72.

She's right.

Here, have one of these jelly beans.

Put these on my account.

See you in school, Cynthia.

I'm all for continuing one's education, but I don't think the rest of the class

will keep up with you. Well, thanks for the compliment.

I just wanted to let you know the Barrett came by the bunkhouse looking

for you today.

Really? Whatever for?

Something about Ruth being under the weather. I won't be able to help you

out. Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that.

You know, Rachel could never need any help around here.

Noah, I appreciate the offer, but I'll be fine. Don't worry.

You are school teacher?

Rachel!

Please move!

Please move!

Now, hold on there, son. What's your hurry?

Johnny's got Rachel.

My wife, Rosa, she wrote a little in here every day.

She used English so she could learn.

She did not want me to see because she was embarrassed.

I thought it had... burned in the fire.

I still cannot read English.

That is why I came to school teacher.

You, you must read this to me.

It is all I have left of her.

As I look out my window, I watch Janusz work.

He is so proud.

This land is what he dreamed of.

Yesterday, he took me to spot where he dreams, high on hill.

He held my hand and said someday all the land we see could be ours.

She's buried there.

I go there often now.

It is hard here.

Janusz having trouble learning English.

Money is never enough, but we get by with the will of God.

Mr. Tarkovsky, I feel it's not my place to be reading this. This is between you

and your wife.

Please.

There is no one else willing to help me.

It is not easy to make friends.

People afraid of what they do not know.

One day, people in this town will know the good man, the loving man my dear

Janusz is.

I'm so sorry.

Jesse, what are you doing here?

I thought you were in danger.

But you wouldn't hurt anyone, would you?

We had no money left.

They were going to take the farm.

Our dream from us.

I did not know what to do.

I went to the saloon and drank too much.

When I came back here, the farm was burning.

I tried to go in to save Rosabeth.

The townspeople found you here and presumed you killed her.

I could not tell them the truth.

I could not speak English.

They sent me to that horrible place, that place of darkness.

They will not listen.

Wait, I'll tell them everything.

It's too late. I will die before I go back.

You gotta stop him, Teaspoon. Ain't nothing I can do unless somebody can

give me an idea where Tarkovsky went.

I can.

Janus' wife wrote about a spot in the hills above their farm.

He buried her there.

Said they went up there all the time.

Well, it ain't much, but it's better than sitting around here.

I'm going with you. Jesse, we've been through this before.

It's different this time.

I'm the one who told him Janus took Rachel.

It's my fault, and I'm gonna be there to set things straight.

Yeah, well... I guess I have been hammering you about responsibility, but

this ain't the time.

Teaspoon?

Grab your coat.

Teaspoon, wait.

There's something else in this diary you gotta see before you head out there.

It's Rachel.

Listen, I know you're in there.

I think you should just go away, Rachel. I'm still not feeling well.

I know what you were trying to tell me the other day.

We gotta talk about Walter.

Oh, Lord.

You don't have to hide anymore.

Come on, I'm getting you out of here.

I headed into the hills.

Rich was right.

Well, let's get out from here.

We'd only been married a month.

The first time Walter raised his hand against me, he said he didn't like the

dinner I cooked.

I was more surprised than anything else.

Then after a while, I began to realize it was the small things that would set

him off.

Usually it is with men like that.

Tried to talk to my mom about it.

She said sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad.

Trouble is, I don't know how much bad that was gonna be.

How come you never left?

Where would I go?

Walter's all I've got.

We have friends.

They're all Walters.

Well, I'm not.

I'm your friend.

And I'm telling you, Ruth, you've got to stop protecting Walter. You're not the

only person he's hurt.

I read Rosa Tarkovsky's diary.

The bank was planning to foreclose on their farm.

But Walter said he'd be willing to help them out if Rosa spent time with him.

She was supposed to give him an answer the night of the fire.

Now, Ruth...

Walter wasn't home that night, was he?

No.

No.

He'd told me he'd kill me if I ever told anyone.

He probably said the same thing to Rosa Tarkovsky, and look what happened to

her.

I'm telling you, Ruth, you gotta tell Teaspoon the truth.

Oh, Rachel, I don't know if I can.

I know you can.

And I'll be right there beside you.

Up there's where Janusz dusted that boar's thief.

Must be where his wife is buried.

All right, let's go.

It ends here, Tarkovsky.

This has gone far enough.

Put the gun down.

Now, you stay out of this, Marshal.

What happened between him and us started a long time before you got here.

It's time to put this killer out of his misery.

And ours.

I thought we decided the other night you wasn't gonna do this.

Marshal, you got no idea what you're talking about.

Maybe not.

But there's someone in town who does.

Listen to me, Marshall.

You're wasting your time.

Let me be the judge of that.

Nobody's going to tell you anything different about what happened five years

ago.

You're wrong, Walter.

What are you doing here, Ruth?

Something I should have done a long time ago.

What happened, Ruth?

She's always been clumsy.

Tell him what happened, Ruth.

You can do it.

He hit me.

You beat me.

Like you always do.

Like you did five years ago when you were afraid I'd tell everyone.

You weren't home the night Rosa Tarkovsky was killed.

She's lying.

You made me lie.

Don't listen to her.

I was with you that night.

No. No, you weren't.

Gibson?

You went out to see Rosa.

When you couldn't have your way with her

Jesse's

right Though it took me long enough to realize it I

Was so afraid he made me so afraid But

I'm not afraid of you anymore

I am so sorry for everything that has happened to you. There is no need.

But the pain you suffered... Is nothing compared to yours.

Heard he was leaving.

What is that to stay for?

I have no money, no hope.

Well, it ain't that bad.

You got your plow.

Fixed it yesterday.

Thank you, but... He would have finished it a couple of days ago, but there was

more work than he could handle at Fury's.

The town could use a new blacksmith.

A big, strong man would be best.

Someone who might need some extra money?

I wish you luck in finding such a man.

I thought I'd already found one.

I cannot work in that town.

Nobody blames you for what happened to Fury.

They know Beric killed him to point the finger at you.

Giannis, the people here, they ain't that bad.

Look, maybe we don't deserve a second chance, but I think you should give us

one anyway.

But I understand if you don't.

You really fix this plow by yourself?

Yep.

Looks like this town really can use another blacksmith.

I guess everybody deserves a second chance, no?