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Where is she?

Have we abandoned all courtesies, Mr. Lighthorse?

Etta is an elder of the Choctaw Nation.

You have no right to kidnap her for your schemes.

Says the man who uses the sacred Holy People for his schemes.

Etta tells me this is the greatest sacrilege.

I do what I have to do to survive.

As do I.

I let you on this land because you promised to protect my people.

You let me on this land because you planned on killing me

and taking all my weapons.

No more words left to say to you.

Except the one.

Detonate.

General Kitts, sir. Uh, message from Bass Reeves.

Damn it!

You really wanna know me?

Take a number

Pretty purse on ya head

Might attract a bounty hunter

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the shooter But you might wanna runna

I'm not the shooter But you might wanna take cover

Look in the mirror Do you recognize who's staring back?

I'm not your sh-sh-sh-sh-shadow But I'm just as black

I'm not your brother's keeper I'm not your nigger either

Don't fear the Reaper Not your shadow, shadow, shadow, ow!

Straight up, don't turn your back Boy, check your cardiac

Straight up, don't turn your back

Face up, don't turn your back

Too late you hear the clack

Check your cardiac

I'm not your sh-sh-sh-sh-shadow But I'm just as black

All aboard!

We'll take him from here.

He's under our jurisdiction now.

You can have him.

Sorry about that, Bass.

How'd you get yourself mixed up in all this mess, girl?

I have a mission, same as you.

Did you know who I was when they sent you to kill me?

No.

Would it have made any difference?

I don't know.

If these people so low down,

they don't think nothing of sending you to kill your own father, then--

My father is dead!

He died the day he abandoned my mother to fight for the people who murdered her.

That ain't how it happened.

Don't!

Don't try to stop us.

Us?

Us who? Stop who?

Who you working with?

If you're mixed up with Rivenbark, just know he'll betray you and kill you

first chance he gets.

And your white masters are any better?

The men who just humiliated you for saving them?

Why do you fight for them?

They took your freedom. Your wife. Me.

What more do they have to take from you before you stand and fight them?

I'm angry about what's been took from me, what's been took from both of us.

But I'm trying every day to not let that anger take what I got left.

To not let that anger turn me into a man I don't wanna be.

You ain't just talking about fighting them.

You're talking about startin' a war.

And you wouldn't be talking about it like that if you knew what war was.

I know war.

I was born in war.

War is all I know.

Wait.

Let me help you.

I just found you.

I don't want to lose you.

Then stay out of my way.

You okay, Mr. Bass?

We got work to do.

Now if I was a megalomaniacal mad scientist trying to hold a convention of

fellow megalomaniacal mad scientists, what would I do?

Dana, let me see your gadget bag.

Oh, really? Sure.

Uh, if you need me to talk you through

what any of the tools inside are designed for, I'd be happy to.

Just maybe let me double-check them before you use them and…

Ah!

How do I look?

Heartbreaking?

All right, let them through.

I think we found my people.

I'm home.

Is this a prototype?

Oh, how much for your helmet?

How does it work?

Don't get distracted. We on a job, not a shopping spree.

Can I see your tickets, please?

Here you go. The event's about to begin, if you want to follow me.

I know, of course, but can we just do a little shopping once the job's done?

Please?

Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

Look around you at the world's last best hope.

The greatest weapons of all time are within our reach.

And why should you be deprived of them when your enemies may not be?

Take it from a Southerner.

You do not want to do battle with an enemy with superior arms.

To that end, I have a special demonstration prepared.

If you would like to see the ultimate weapon

with your own eyes, gentlemen,

then follow me.

Now's our chance.

While they're distracted, we can search for Etta and Uncle Eugene.

This thermal divining rod detects heat instead of water.

It'll lead us to the steam engine where Uncle Eugene and Etta most likely are.

Hell with that. We take down Rivenbark first.

But Etta and Uncle Eugene need our help. They could be hurt.

They'll live.

You can't say that for sure.

We have to rescue them.

The army can arrest Rivenbark when they come.

He's been arrested before. That's not how this ends.

How does it end?

You know how. The only way it can.

No, sir, Mr. Bass, you're wrong.

I mean, you just can't go around killing people just because you're mad

or… or scared or just because you can.

Then the law's just one more gang.

I ain't the law. I'm just a man.

I told you. I do what I have to do to survive.

And the only way I can go on living is if that man is in the ground.

So I aim to kill him.

And I don't care what some fool little girl thinks about that

or the law or me or anything else.

You just told your daughter you didn't want to let your anger

turn you into somebody you don't want to be.

Sir, can't you see?

If you do this…

I made my choice.

Make yours.

I just did.

I don't think I want to be like you anymore.

Dana.

Don't.

Dana.

Why didn't you tell me he was my father?

Figured it'd be better if you didn't know.

In case you decided to kill him anyway.

Did you?

Not yet.

It doesn't change anything. We still have a mission.

You with me?

Hmm?

Huh?

She's over here.

-Dana Starr! -Oh, it's good to see you too, Miss Etta.

You thieving little shit.

Now, what part of "don't touch anything" did you not understand?

Now, you take off my Walking Legs right now.

I can't right this second, ma'am,

but I promise I'll put them back almost exactly like I found them.

What do you mean "almost"?

What did you do?

I just added some pistons and hydraulics to the base plate. See?

I can shoot out the legs with power. Like this.

-Hmm. You're improving. -Hmm.

Don't get too happy.

You had nowhere to go but up. Let's get out of here.

You go on ahead, Miss Etta. I still have to find my uncle.

Now, listen to me, little girl. This place ain't what it seems.

Sorry, Miss Etta. My mind is made up.

Wait for me, you stupid girl.

Somebody's got to make sure you don't do any more damage to my work!

My automatons do not eat.

They do not sleep.

They do not question orders or abandon their posts.

They do not fear death.

The perfect soldiers.

-What? -How is that…?

-I've never seen anything… -Do you think we could…

Now, can you afford to let your enemies have this unopposed?

One thousand dollars.

-A thousand dollars. -4,000 pesos.

-25.000 reais! -A thousand dollars here.

A thousand dollars!

Jeremiah Lazarus Rivenbark!

This is General Nathan Kimball of the United States Army.

Come out alone, and your guests and foot soldiers will be spared!

-No. What? -What?

Correction. Everybody leaves now.

Except him.

Remain seated, please.

I'm afraid I have to insist.

I don't remember having the pleasure.

That's because it wasn't one. But this will be.

On that much, we agree.

Negro man I do not recall, may I introduce you to the Colossus?

Run for cover!

-Incredible! -That's amazing!

Why, with this automation, we can restore the Confederacy.

Restore order to this land.

Sir, I'll give you one million dollars for your Colossus.

-Three and a half million dollars! -Five million dollars!

-Six million! -Ten million dollars!

-Fifty million! -A trillion dollars!

Mr. Lighthorse, you are amusingly hard to kill.

I sincerely hope I cannot say the same about you.

You remember Bully?

Please forgive him if he doesn't remember you.

He's been through a lot recently.

What?

You think I had just the one?

If, if, if, if, if, if, if, if…

Dance through the week 'cause

Life's waaaaaay too fleeeeeteen'

One day you're there The next you're not

Want to, oh we can

Dance through the week 'cause

Life's waaaaaay too fleeeeeteen'

One day you're there The next you're not…

Hmm.

Got him!

I've come here for what's owed me. Weapons for my people.

What's left of your weapons lies at your feet.

Take them with my compliments.

We both know there's a lot more where those came from.

You don't know how right you are.

Got him!

Yah!

We both knew we were gonna turn on each other eventually, Lighthorse.

The difference between us is I took that time to prepare.

For instance, I had a Faraday cage installed

to disperse this one's lightning attack.

And magnetic boots to make sure

these two can't blow me or wash me away, respectively.

It has been amusing watching you attempt to match your feeble wits with mine.

Thinking you were capable of outsmarting me, using me.

Oh, it was endlessly entertaining.

But all good things must come to an end.

And you are now at your end, Mr. Lighthorse.

-Uh… -Hey, who are you?

Huh?

Huh?

Huh?

What?

Dana Starr?

What in the world are you doing here?

Of course I'm here, Uncle Eugene. Did you think I wouldn't come rescue you?

But how…? Who…? How did you get all the way out here by yourself?

I had help.

I've made so many new friends and learned so much.

Oh, Jelly Bean. I'm so proud of you for coming so far for me.

Also, you're in big trouble for coming so far for me.

We can talk about my punishment later. Right now I have to get you out of here.

No. I can't go just yet.

Now he won't leave?

Ha! Stupid must run in the family.

I helped Rivenbark build this machine to my great shame.

He promised financial help with my experiments and…

Well, I took him up on it. This is all my fault.

So it's up to me to stop it. This thing's power source is Aianhli.

Once I get it, I can…

Whoa! No, no, no, no, no. You rest.

Me and Etta can handle it.

Where's his power source?

Ha! The days are long past I could make that climb.

Okay, good luck, girl.

Wha… Just me? By myself?

You can do it.

Other than me, who knows about Aianhli more than you?

Me! I know more than both of you.

Okay. Of the people capable of making the climb, who knows more than you?

You can do this, Dana.

I won't let you down.

I wasn't lying, you know.

I was gonna give you the weapons.

I want everyone to have them.

Of course you do. Because all your people care about is money.

Money?

What hurts me the most, young lady,

is that at long last you still don't understand me.

Having some trouble, Horse?

No. Why you ask?

No reason.

Okay. Maybe a little trouble.

Huh?

The arm might have mended.

Or I could have lived without it. But you butchered me.

You turned me into a monster.

Weren't you in the war?

You still don't understand?

Men are monsters.

That's what your Sherman taught me when he took Atlanta.

Burned my Lily and my little Sophia alive.

I didn't make you a monster, sir.

I merely revealed the monster already lurking within.

What are you doing?

Kill him!

That's…

That's what he wants.

If I kill him, I…

I'll become the monster he made me think I was all these years.

The monster I almost let myself become.

No.

He don't get to win.

I've already won.

You think the United States government will see the ultimate weapon

and not take it for themselves?

You think the South, the Natives, even your people won't respond in kind?

My weapons will spread, and you'll all kill each other with them.

Until you're left with nothing, just like I was.

And then you'll see that it--

All you controlling this thing, shut her down. Now!

Belay that order to Central City. Full power!

It was you.

You sent my own daughter to kill me.

To be fair, killing you was her idea.

And to be even fairer,

she didn't exactly know that you were her daddy when she suggested it.

Anyhow, you're one to talk.

I know it was you who called that army out onto my territory.

-You what? -I was trying to stop a war.

The war's already here, Bass.

The white man has been at war with your people and mine

since they got to this country.

And all that time we spent begging and praying,

making treaties, we should have been fighting back.

That's why I made the deal with Rivenbark.

And I need their weapons to protect my people.

The only way to stop them was power.

And now I have the power.

Join us, Bass.

Help me take the fight to them.

What do you mean by that?

This is a war, Bass.

And I can't allow the enemy to keep an army base on my doorstep.

You're talking about attacking Central City.

Where my family is.

You're talking about killing innocent people.

You know…

A little girl once told me

that there's got to be a better way.

I can't join you, Horse.

And I can't just sit back and let you do it either.

To be honest with you, Bass,

I'd have been disappointed if you said anything else.