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For ten days,

been on this mountain.

I feel like that Greek king,
the one pushing that boulder

up the hill for eternity,
what's his name,

Syphilis?

Sisyphus.

The difference is,
we chose to be here.

For him it was punishment.

Sure as shit feels like
punishment. Eugh!

Shh.

You hear that?

Up, up, hold on,
give me your hand!

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You're looking at a rich man.

I wasn't that once.

And your entire
lives are before you.

What will you be?

What will you do?

Only you can ask...

...that question.

Got an idea, but hope
to hell I'm wrong.

So in facing your future,

I encourage you to follow
Emerson's immortal words...

..."Do not follow where
the path may lead"...

Sorry.

..."go instead where
there is no path...

..."and leave a trail."

Shh.

My nip.

I'll buy the twist.

Double it, double it.

Its, uh, two o'clock, you know?

Oh, I missed it, didn't I?

Was it a good ceremony?

There wasn't a version of things
where this could have waited?

Well, you know me, I just sort
of follow myself wherever I go.

I think maybe you better run.

We're leaving today.

You pay.

You pay?

Uh... yeah, here.

No-no-no those are
our train tickets,

we saved for those.

Plan on going somewhere?

Uh, no, not, no nothing.

Yeah, west.

Why west?

Uh, it's a white man thing.

It's just where you go,
seek a fortune.

You go nowhere.

You owe 12 domino.

Why do I get the sense
that a domino is worth

a lot more than a domino?

Because it's worth 50 bucks.

You don't have the money,
do you, Mr. Epstein?

You cleared me out, man.

Got nothing in my pocket.

Must have something, my friend.

Head full of hope.

Nothing in your pocket,
but a head full of hope?

Nice to be young, isn't it?

Give me the knife, please.

We're not really
doing this, are we?

I think we are, Bill.

Ahh!

Go, go!

Go, go, go!
Come on!

Jackson City...

Quit looking over your shoulder,
they're not coming.

They saw the train tickets.

They know how to put
together where we're going.

If you get me killed on
the first day of the

rest of my life, I'm gonna
be seriously pissed off.

What the hell was
that game any how?

Fan-tan.

Game I thought I understood.

You even got the money
to do this anymore?

Of course I do, man
doesn't head off

into the world seeking his
future without capital.

It looked to me like you
gave to all away back there.

You never give away
all your money.

That's all of it, 450, every
cent I got for graduation.

300 from me.

750, it ain't much
of a nest egg.

Makes the story all the
more beautiful, though.

When we're millionaires, we
can say we started with nothing.

Question is, what
are we going to do?

Mmm... and where?

If only we'd known.

All we wanted was to get
away and find our own thing.

Something that was
real, bare-boned.

A place to set up shop,

carve out a future with
our own two hands.

In that moment we were
one of the most potent

and foolish forces
in the world.

Two men with nothing in their
pocket, but a head full of hope.

Looking for cow herds.

We don't know the first
thing about animals.

Railroad men?

We could have done
it back home.

Can we get two more of these?

Thanks.

We could be soldiers.

Go to the Philippines.

Got no interest in dying.

The point is, brother,
I got on the train to

get away from all that.
You know, life of toil.

The whole point is skip
to the head of the class

not fall for the lie that you
can rise through ranks.

You gotta start on top, huh?
You gotta be an entrepreneur.

What do I owe you?

The old man down there is buying
drinks until closing time.

I want to thank you
for your generosity.

Ah, it's only
generous if it hurts.

Buying drinks, that
don't hurt me at all.

Well, thanks anyway.

If you want to, take a couple
of bottles with you when you go.

Mind us asking what
sort of business you in?

Colorado, that's right.

I've been reading about
this in the papers,

miners been pulling all sorts
of gold out of the ground.

Well, if it's in the
newspapers, it's over.

Colorado's panned out,
just like Black Hills,

just like California
before that.

Then where were you?

It's just like anything else,

what you want to be
is the trailblazer.

You go as far as
everyone else does

and then you just keep going.

And that takes
you where exactly?

To the Yukon.

There's plaster fields that are
locked beneath the permafrost

there for thousands of years
and only now is people

starting to figure it out.

But you got to get there before
the newspapers get there.

You forgot something, boss.

No.

Where else in the world could a
man with basically no capital

turn into a million bucks?

That's some shit ass
hard work, though.

You want to be an entrepreneur?

Be just us, get out on the
land, see what we can do?

No boss, no time
clock, just us?

Do you have any idea
how far that is?

It's probably better we don't,
otherwise we'll never get there.

It was 4,650 miles to
be exact, of roads,

railways, and boats.

Six weeks nonstop.

Excuse me?

What's going on?

Well, evidently the
whole pass was locked up

for the last four weeks
because of storms.

This is the first break in
the weather they've had.

Everybody's trying to get over
before the next storm hits,

which by the look of things,
is pretty soon now.

Thank you.

Obviously we wait.

What do you mean?
Obviously we go.

Remember what our boy
back in Colorado said,

you don't get anywhere
first if you die on the way.

How much it cost to kit up?

Alright, gentlemen, 300 is going
to get you a sled, provisions,

shelter, clothes, that will do
you for your first six months.

I'll throw in a mining
manual and uh...

You throw in them boots,
you got yourself a deal.

Not done. We got to think
about this, I'm serious.

So am I. You wanna wait
around here till the summer,

be my guest. I'm
buying that kit today,

if I got to zipper out
my own money to do it.

Doing this together,
that was the agreement.

Better put on your
climbing shoes,

I'm going up that today.

Every miner there stakes
a plot ahead of us.

First guy chooses
the best claim;

second guy, the
second best claim.

All the way down
until we get there.

Do we want the
100th best claim?

The 1,000th?

I'll take the kit.

We'll take half
the kit for 150.

Now's not the time
to be saving money.

Full kit's gonna slow us down.

You wanna go up that?
We have to hustle our ass.

Less time we're
on the mountain,

more chance we have
of actually living.

Fine, half.

Plus them boots.

Goddamn it, I
don't believe this.

Alright.

You're a son of a bitch.

You know that?

You'd be sitting behind some
desk somewhere selling stocks,

getting old and cynical
before you even lived.

If it weren't for me,
you'd be pulling that crap

up the mountain.

Sitting ducks for the storms.

Come on, entrepreneur.

Every hour we move, an hour
sooner we're off this mountain.

You alright there?

You hear that?

Hear what?

Nothing.

That's what you want
to hear on Chilkoot,

nothing.

As soon as you hear a rumble,

you got about ten
seconds to live.

The mountain will eat you.

Goddamn a half kit,

we could have had real
blankets, pillows.

You were the guy that
wanted to get there first.

I say on that front we're
doing a pretty good job.

Better get after it.

Don't like how that
ridge is looking.

For ten days, been
on this mountain,

feel like that Greek king,
the one pushing that boulder

up the hill for eternity,
what's his name,

Syphilis?

Sisyphus.

The difference is,
we chose to be here.

For him it was punishment.

Sure as shit feels
like punishment.

Shh.

You hear that?

Hear what?

Run!

Not down, not down!

Up, up!

Give me your hand!

Ep! Ep! Ep!

Ep!

Ep! Ep! Ep! Ep! Ep!
Ep! Ep! Ep!

It's alright Ep!
Come on!

Ep! Ep! Eugh! Ep!

It's alright.

Not thinking about
quitting, are you?

Bill?

They're going to
bring them back.

Go easy, brother.

Maybe we ought to slow it down.

I told you, sometimes it
takes just a little bit

of toil to get there.

It's going to take us
a few days to walk down.

Toil is exactly the wrong
way to go, brother.

Man, am I tired of walking.

Yeah.

You on?

One, two, three.

Uh... hey, uh, ma'am.

Hello, gents.

Reckon we've got two more
headed for Dawson City,

Paris of the North.

Uh... Bill, Bill.

Bill Haskell.

Sabine.

Lady, you're either
a dream or a mirage,

either way I'm going with it.

Byron Epstein.

If you don't mind me
saying, miss, I,

I wouldn't have expected to
find someone so cultivated

this far north.

Oh, I'm just as derelict as
the rest of you, trust me.

Come this ridiculous
far away to make

a whole bunch of money
in a short while.

It was nice meeting you, gents.

Don't go getting that look.

How in the hell are we
going to build a boat?

Just like everything
else I suppose.

Start, don't stop
until we're done.

Gentlemen.

Enchanted to make
your acquaintance.

S. Rochester Smith.

Now I'm not a mincer of words

and as such I'll
get to the point.

It is a feeding frenzy
up there in the

Paris of the North
when it comes to land.

Fortunately, I'm with the only
company currently certified to

offer genuine claims to
millionaire making mining

concerns up there.

I think you might mean
Dawson City here, boss.

Well, the lack of day, that's a
grade a head scratcher,

you're really lucky there
ain't a woodshed around here,

because there were,
my partner and I take

you around back, give
you an ass whooping.

It's, it's just a game, that's
all. That's how it is up here.

I don't see nothing
about this is a game.

Well then, son, you
don't know people.

Up here the mask is off.

You either getting or
you're getting got.

Try to screw us again, I'll
build that woodshed myself.

Hey, hey, yeah we're,
we're boys now, huh?

We're boys.

Huh? We understand
each other, right?

Yeah we do.

I guess that's it for me.

Telling me she's seaworthy.

Maybe we'll see
each other up there.

Hope so.

The price is 100.

You think I'm going north of 80,
you're a shithouse loon. 80.

You put 80 us in my hand
right now, we're Dutch.

Oars, oars, give me oars.

Oars.

What's that look for?

We got a boat,
we're in the game.

You got to stop
pissing our money away.

We are in the middle
of the Yukon.

We run out of money,
we are dead.

I want it, the money,
I'm treasurer now.

Pft.

Fine.

Is that all of it?

Yes.

Ep?

Huh?

Indians.

We got to portage.

Uh-huh.

We got to portage to the shore.

Whoa-ho!

Agh!

Whoa oh, oh.

Bill!

Bill!

Bill!

Bill!

Agh.

Ah. Ugh!

I heard a boat went over.

You were lucky I got through.

What's the matter boy,
wolf got your tongue?

Just don't know if I'm
more shocked to be alive

or seeing a man of the
cloth with a gun.

Well, I wouldn't agree with
Mr. Darwin on many things,

but there is a certain
credence to the idea

of survival of the fittest.

You don't negotiate
with nature,

you either best it
or it bests you.

However that may be.

Son of a bitch!

You made it!

Sorry, father!

How are you, you
old half-ass? Huh?

I don't know how to repay you.

Well, you can pay me
a visit to my chapel,

next time you're in Dawson.

You have a chapel in Dawson?

Well, not yet,
but I'm fixing to.

Every man's got to
have a dream, right?

Otherwise, what in God's
name are we all doing up here?

Safe travels.

I thought I'd lost you.

We've got problems.

I lost the money.

Righteous son of a bitch, acting
like I wasn't reliable enough

I couldn't have
known I'd go over.

Made me feel bad, like I'm
completely untrustworthy.

I know.

Well, I'm glad you
were right. Aha!!

God bless me for it.
God bless both of us.

You sneaky son of a bitch.

I told you never give
away all your money.

Be a shame to come all
this way just to die.

You ain't dying.

You know why?

You're too damn responsible.

How's that figure into things?

Let's see, if you die then
it's just me out here.

A million miles from home.

I got no clue how
to mine for gold.

No clue how to get
back to the states.

The Bill Haskell I know, he
wouldn't screw a man like that.

Hang around long enough,
I just might.

Ah, you ain't dying.

What you need is
a nice warm bath.

Now you're just
being an asshole.

Nope, pretty sure
that says bath.

This here is some
prime real estate...

You will have no more concerns.

It used to be a dry goods store,
but can be whatever you want...

Hey, check that out.

Come see the show,
ladies and gentlemen.

Not only that, it's
next to a whore house.

No way.

Look at all the girls.

Oh, she is fine.

Oh.

Oh, they've got to be kidding.

Don't think they are, Ep.

Room and a bath.

No Jew boys.

You want a room?

Go tent up with the
darkies outside of town.

Go on now, get out of here.

How about Jewish
money? Huh?

Oh, is that okay for you?

My friend here wants a bath.

He's a God fearing catholic,

I'm pretty sure he won't
sell the old artist.

You're freezing, brother.
Get warm, get dry.

I'll be in the saloon.

What's it take for a loan?

Collateral.

♪ Klondike in Alaska,
has a hold of me. ♪

♪ I read the papers
day and night, ♪

♪ 'til I can barely
see. Klondike... ♪

Hey, Bill.

Hey, what happened to you?

Oh barbershop, cleaned
up for the ladies.

I'm not going to let some
anti-semite piss on this parade.

Hey, Bill, I want you
to meet my new buddy.

What's your name again?

- London.
- Right, like the city.

First name's Jack,
last name's London

and I recommend you putting
that away in your memory.

A fair number of men are
going to walk out of here rich,

but a handful are going
to be remembered.

Right on, you nut.

Go ahead and give it a
chuckle if you want to,

but what you're looking
at here is a walking,

talking novel.

A shelf full of novels, you
take Pit right over there.

He's dumber than a
crate of turnips.

He goes on a drunken
bender upriver 40 mile.

Sobers up a week later and
he's the stake holder

of the hottest claim
in El Dorado Creek.

No idea how he got it. But he's
sitting on a half a million in

nuggets and it hasn't even
been the first month yet.

El Dorado Creek?
That's the place then?

Yeah, sure, that's the place
if you don't wanna get rich.

El Dorado Creek's
already panned out.

Already panned out?

Yeah it's staked anyhow,
so you know,

unless you're planning
on jumping somebody.

I don't suggest you getting
any mud on those boots

heading up that way.

She's giving me a love eye.

That right there,
that's a love eye.

Now you take the
count over there,

he's English aristocracy,
though nobody can prove it.

He's got all the men, all
the gear and he's been pulling

nothing but mud out of the
ground for the last six months.

It just goes to show you, that
the Yukon is the only place

in the world where a
dumb shit can be a king

and a king can be a dumb shit.

If it's not El Dorado
Creek, then where is it?

It's Bonanza.

Oh, Bonanza's easy, you just
follow the cloud of smoke.

No. Come on.

Swift Water Bill's here.

Swift Water Bill, he's
the richest prospector

in all of North America.

Spends it quicker
than he can make it

and they're telling me
he's got a girl upstairs.

Not in a tub of champagne,
there's not.

Wait, what do you
mean by a girl?

A courtesan, a whore, a
hooker, one who hooks.

Enjoy, enjoy!

There's more where
that come from!

There you are.
There you are.

There we go,
gentlemen, drink up!

Drink up, before the
bubbles disappear!

Right now, listen up,
listen up!

Champagne is like
a beautiful woman.

First she'll tickle your
nose, then your lips.

Wah! Hahaha!
Hahahaaa!

Are you going to make
a move on tub girl?

Nah.

Why not?

Not if you have to pay for her.

Who says you have
to pay for it?

Think I'm going to do some
prospecting of my own.

Dawson City, where
naivety comes to die.

Joe, pour the man another.

Man's tongue's still too tight.

Bill Haskell.

Belinda Mulroney.

You labor or
management, Haskell?

How's that?

Only two types come up here,
the guy with the shovel,

the guy with a business plan.

Shovel guys are welcome.

One thing Yukon's
not short on is dirt.

Guys with the business
plan on the other hand,

we got more middleman hucksters
than we know what to do with.

Shovel guy.

Good.

Even though there
is no money in gold.

How much of the
gold being pulled

from the mountains you think
ends up in their pockets?

Gold's a whore, Haskell,
just like her up there.

You can't take your
eyes off of her.

You may lust after them,
may even think you love them,

but you don't need them.

This on the other hand,
you need, wood.

And up here, if
you need something,

there's nothing you won't do to
get it, no price you won't pay.

Without wood,
there's no Dawson.

And you're telling me this why?

I own the mill, Haskell.

Everything in Dawson comes
through me, don't it, Joe?

So you stay out of
the wood business

and I'll stay out
of your sandbox.

How's that strike you?

Strikes me fine.

Then you and me, we
might be copasetic yet.

Just so you know, I can't pay.

It's okay.

For the ones I like,
I'll go gratis.

I must really like you
because I don't even give

it to my boyfriend for free.

Well, you got a boyfriend?

Oh, sort of yes.

Sort of no.

There's no sort of,
it's one or the other.

Say I want to stake
up at Bonanza?

How do I go about doing that?

Well, you just go
up there and do it.

Drop a few bucks in
the recorder's office

and you're official.

A word of warning though...

there's no law up there.

Get a bunch of men together,
there's money involved,

suddenly they ain't
men no more.

Think I jumped
someone else's claim.

You best get him out of here.

What's going on?!

Ah! Watch it!

Had to get into it, didn't you?

I didn't know.

Hey!

Go easy, brother...He put that
in the sky when he could

have put it in your back.
He's trying to scare you.

He's doing a hell of a job.

I kill you once and then I kill
you again, you son of a bitch.

Proceed, please.

God looks after you, does he?

But even God one
day looks elsewhere.

And then you'll be in God's
blind spot, my friend.

God's blind spot.

That's twice you've saved us.

Well, saving a man's
hide isn't saving him.

What did he mean by that?

"Saving a man's hide's
not saving him."

We'll get the rest of our
kit once we've staked.

It's best we put
Dawson in our wake,

get on with the business
we came here for.

Just look for the
cloud of smoke.

Look for alluvia,
there's natural dams.

Gold is exactly 19 times heavier
than water, you know that?

Nope.

Basically, it's supposed
to settle at the bottom

be left alone, settle in
some calm little spot.

That's all we're
looking for, brother,

a calm little spot.

If you've come here to do
some vulturing on my claim,

you ain't welcome.

Trust me, we respect the
sanctity of your claim

which lies, if I'm not mistaken,
everywhere within this finely

expressed bit of
string you got here.

But here, but here
now is no man's land.

It's staked by no one
and thus available.

Well have at it.

There's no creek left, unless
you want to haul up 100 tons

of equipment and do some load
mining up in them hills.

Why don't you do
everybody a favor

and go back to the outside,
you jack holes.

See the shape of the land here.

Creek dead ends back there.

Flows out of the
hillside, right?

What, under there?

If there's flow under these
rocks and we can get to it,

we'd be up river
from everyone else.

God knows how much unexposed
creek bed waiting for us.

If we can get to it.

We'd need a locomotive
to move all that.

Well figure, 100 years ago,

1,000 years ago,
there's a landslide,

covers the creek up here.

And water's been pulling
gold out of the hillside.

These obstructions would be
the first stop for a lot of it.

Gold, it'd sit right here
in this calm little spot,

waiting for a couple
of half-asses like us

to come around and show
it the light of day.

You're just guessing.

We're all just guessing.

Yeah, ain't exactly a convention
of academics, is it?

Which means?

Couple of half-asses like us,
we might just have a chance.

Get that shovel.

Alluvia.

We may just have a creek
bed down there, brother.

Looks like I'm in business.

So am I.

You bought it.

Yeah, got thoroughly
cheated, too.

Well, we come with
different yearnings.

But perhaps we're equally
foolish in our ambition.

Have you seen my
friend anywhere?

No.

See you around, father.

Yeah, good luck.

Hey, Bill.

We need a locomotive.

It's official, means
you're official now.

You say that like
it's a bad thing.

It's not necessarily.

People know where to
find you, that's all.

We don't need a gun.

Your friend here bought it.

After the things I've seen,
I'm not taking chances.

Buy it with my money
or our money,

either way I'm buying it.

50.

Suppose you're going to
tell me it's grand larceny?

It is.

Not if it saves
your life, it's not.

Come on, loco.

Good luck.

That'll do it.

Yeah, it's enough for this one.

Come on, loco.

Good girl.

Tell me why you
came here again?

I told you.

Just trying to find a piece
of something that's mine.

Carve out my future
with my own hands.

I got a different take.

I think you did it for me.

I'm the half-ass here,
we both know it.

Man of no prospects.

You, for you, the
sky's the limit.

And you knew a guy like me,
only way he's going to make

something of his life out this
way is if you went with him.

I like my theory better.

Thanks all the same, brother.

To having nothing
in our pockets.

But a head full of hope.

We'd arrived.

Not just from a journey,
but in a life.

This stake was our own
small piece of the world.

Down in the center of
the earth we'd earned it,

but with it came a
sense of potentiality

that was as vast as
the sky itself.

If you could do this,
what else could you do?

And perhaps in that was the
real wealth to be gained.

A sense that nothing in
the world could stop us.

Ep?

What?

You got to see this.

Ep? Ep?!

Jesus Christ!

Ep!

You're all right, man.

I got you.

Ep! Ep! Ep!

What happened?

Gah... Jesus!

Ep!

Men come here to seek
their fortune,

which is another word for luck.

Men stick their spade
in frozen dirt and ask,

"Am I lucky?"

And mostly the answer comes
in the form of goldless mud.

But they keep digging.

Question is what
they're digging.

A mine or a grave.

Yep.

See you later.

See you in the morning.

Where could I find the law?

Ain't no law around here.

You're in the town hall.

Cemetery ain't open either.

Animals are going to get to
him, you leave him outside.

Don't need a cemetery, I
intend to take him home.

Don't look like he got a
lot of walk left in him.

You make jokes
about funny things.

You're supposed to make jokes
about funny things.

Hey, hey, hey. Hey.

Don't let him in.

Just don't let him in.

Your brain's been mixing
in with the sawdust.

Give my friend here a drink.

Not that seed of bark
shite, the good stuff.

Only the good stuff
for my friend here.

You can pay me back later, huh?

When's the next
boat out of here?

Well, I'll, I'll
answer you straight,

boat comes in two days.

But your friend won't be on it.

And why's that, grifter?

Give my friend another drink.

Why won't he be on the boat?

Well, ,
because he's dead.

Death brings death.

I for one try to stay away from
it lest I catch what it's got.

Now boat captains
think like I do.

All of us here and, and I
include you in my arithmetic,

we won't be leaving
here when we're healthy.

We're going to be buried
here and that's a fact.

You might look hearty now, but
no one can speak to the future.

Take the scenic route to get
where you're going, don't you?

Well, let's hear
your pitch, grifter.

Well, here's how it is, brother,
just because your partner is

going to be buried in this
cold hard clay doesn't mean

a man such as you with
other options got to.

And what other options?

Your claim.

It ain't even been dug on
yet, it might yield nothing.

You used a great word there.

Might.

Might be something,
might be nothing.

That's the beauty of a claim
such as yours staked up

in the hill there.

Only one of it's kind so far.

Might be anything.

Folks around here
they're hungry for gold.

They dream about
it in their sleep.

A good deal of money will
be invested in ignorance,

when the need for
delusion is deep.

What you got in your claim
is a beautiful delusion.

And right now, it's unexamined,
as you say, undug.

And you want to be the
middleman for my delusion?

Sell it when it's hot?

Well, my proposition is this,

and the deal's off the moment
your spade touches soil,

I will give you 100
dollars for your claim.

And I will pay for your
boat fare out of here.

Legal tender or gold,
it's your choice.

Or maybe you want gold, tell
the folks back home you dug

it out yourself.

Be a bit of a hero.

Listen to me, and tell
this to anyone who wants

to know my intentions,
I am not leaving Dawson

until my friend gets justice.

He already got his justice.

You're the funny
one, aren't you?

Hey, hey, easy now, friend.

Easy now.

Now, now, come on now.

You're not getting
rid of me that easily!

You're not getting rid of me!

Goddamn it!

You took his boots!

What kind of a man...

Animals got him.

I'm sorry, sir, there's no
way we can bury him today.

No way, no how.

There's too many
passengers ahead of him.

But he'll be in the
ground by week's end.

But condolences, truly,
for your loss, sir.

I heard about what happened.

Came to pay my respects.

Thanks for coming.

Mint oil, for the smell.

May I ask your intentions?

Will you be going home,
back to Maine, is it?

Vermont.

Vermont.

First state in the union
to allow female suffrage.

Seemed important when I
lived in the lower 45,

it now seems quaint.

Voting for which man
will have power over you.

This place kills.

It's not my place.

It's was what I was
trying to tell you.

They'd kill over
mud, would they?

If it's the claim
they're after,

that's all they're killing
over right now, mud.

It's what they
think is under it.

Who'd do it?

Who wouldn't?

I worry about you.

I don't think you
understand this place.

Your worry will be
my good luck charm.

I'm sorry to hear
about your friend.

If it's not too much
trouble, father,

would you conduct a
ceremony over his grave?

It would be very meaningful
to his family and to me.

Well, I can't do a
Christian rite for a Jew.

I understand.

But, I could perform the Jewish
rite of kaddish for him.

What are you looking for?

What are you doing?

Do you smoke?

No, I do not.

You should take it up,
helps with the mosquitoes.

What are you looking for?

My partner's claim.

Got it.

That mean you understood
what I just said?

Nope.

Got it.

Did you take it out of
a dead man's pockets?

No, sir, I wouldn't do that.

You stay right there.

I'm gonna give you
exactly three seconds

to tell me how you got
a hold of that claim.

I don't know if I can do
that in three seconds.

A week ago, your
partner, Mr. Epstein,

came into a loan
shop for a loan,

for supplies and such.

And the owner of
that loan shop took

his claim half as collateral?

Answers come faster when the
questioner helps him along,

I guess.

And you have some controlling
interest in this loan shop?

Oh, control and interest are
separate things in my book.

I'm interested in fish,
but I can't make them bite.

Who do you work for?

I don't work for nobody.

I just do things on my own
that people pay me for.

Who owns the loan shop?

Well, you could have
saved a lot of time

if you'd ask that
question to begin with.

My boss, the one who sent me
out here to work this mud,

Belinda Mulroney.

She owns the loan shop?

Meaning she's now the owner
of his half of the claim?

She's your new partner, Bill.

Nature's a transaction, rain
makes a deal with the river.

Prey gives off a scent, makes a
deal with the predators' noses.

And God makes a
deal with death.

Turns everything into nothing.

Future's wanton, it's the
present hour that counts.

Life's a transaction.

We look for 'tunities, when
a 'tunity produces itself,

man's smart, he pounces.

Hey, the man of the moment.

A man who can put me
in liquor for a week,

a few days anyway.

You know that thing
don't work, it's lace.

Well, it gives us something
to blame for getting wet.

Tell me which way
to bet, friend.

Soapy's got a pool going.

One way says you're
staying in Dawson,

the other one says that
you're on a boat out.

Now remember, I'm no
good without my liquor.

I'm the closest thing to
civilization for 10,000 miles.

Civilization depends
on your answer.

Well, what are the odds?

You're inscrutable,
unguessable.

You're the most important
person in this town,

next to me, at least while
the betting pool's on.

I ain't anything.

Just another man burning
daylight and wasting gravity.

Burning daylight,
burning daylight.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I'd like to know when
I'm getting a new friend.

Ah, you must have met Meekor.

I don't need Meekor.

I do.

I own half your claim, I
need to protect my investment.

Convenient.

My friend dies and suddenly
you own his half of the claim.

Are you accusing
me of something?

Gold's a fool's errand, honey.

I spend my time thinking
about more lucrative things,

like my hotel, the Fairview.

Grandest hotel Canada's ever
seen, right here in Dawson.

Can you imagine?

You should take soap's offer.

Sell your mud hole,
head back to Maine.

Vermont.

You write your mother, Haskell?

What does that got
to do with anything?

The world's divided between
men who write their mothers,

men who don't.

You write yours?

I killed my ma.

She died as I exited her womb.

Left me to the
vagaries of the world.

Your mother birthed you
and you're birthing a hotel.

Looks like your
mother has the edge.

You really don't know, do you?

If you're staying or going?

You got a minute, father?

What can I do for you?

I want to make a confession.

I apologize for the leaks,
I just bought the place.

Forgive me, father,
for I've sinned.

And what would you
like to confess?

Arson, murder.

When did you commit these acts?

Oh, I haven't yet.

Would you care to be more
forthright with me, sir?

Is this watering can going to
be your new church, father?

God willing.

This is prime real estate
in the center of Dawson

and I among others have
had my eyes on it.

So what are you going to do,

burn the church
down and me in it?

You got a day to vacate.

Are you going to give me
penance for my future sins?

Your penance is
being who you are.

Your roof's leaking, father.

You'll want to move your
structure to firmer ground,

little soft there.

This is the way
it's going to work,

you stay in your area,
I stay in mine.

You don't talk to me,
you don't give me advice.

As far as I'm concerned
you're part of the mountain.

Which part?

The part that's quiet
and don't move.

"Dear mother, I find
myself among wolves.

"I fear the only way to
survive is to become one."

Stay right there!

What business you got
looking at my tent?

Show me your other hand now!

I, I don't think I should.

You ain't the person
I thought you were.

You're goddamn right I'm not.

Show me your hand.

I thought you were a hurt soul,

after what happened
to your friend.

I thought you could use a, a
warm something in your gut.

I guess I pegged you wrong.

Hold on.

I'm sorry I, I just...

I know, boy.

I know.

Shit on a plate.

Wolf.

I like eating critters
that want to eat me.

Open that window!

It's as warm as spit in here.

Here.

It's homemade moonshine.

It's made from spruce bark.

Special Yukon recipe.

Back home we got
a word for that.

Oh, what's that?

Turpentine.

Turpentine.

Maybe so.

Oh.

Oh, Goodman, you drunk ass.

I ain't drunk.

But I ain't an ass,
I'm just an ape.

What happened?

Well, that's what
soldiering will do for you.

Serving your country,
it turns you into an ape.

But as fine an ape as
a man could ever know.

Condolences on your friend.

So you know, we're used to
death here in the Klondike.

But not murder, not
here at the claims.

Kind of makes you wonder
which one of us is next.

No one hopefully, with
the law coming to town.

Word is mounties
are on their way,

going to be here tomorrow,
crack down on us sinners once

and for all, huh?

The king of fools.

You wouldn't know a
gentlemen if you saw one.

I appreciate you taking
the time to hear me, sir.

Killing of your friend
is the talk of Dawson.

My condolences.

Mortician pulled
this out of him.

It was a rifle shot, something
with a lot of velocity.

Big bore.

A gun made for killing, I'm
sure you're aware of it.

45/70 sharps maybe.

I've heard the local
tribe up here the,

the Tlingit have been trading
for big animal guns for years.

Russian traders,
seeders on the coast.

All we're doing is
arming the enemy.

And what motivation the
Tlingit have in killing

a no one like my friend?

From what I understand they
used to dominate the region.

They think the land is theirs.

They've apparently got an
invisible boundary beyond

which folks who venture
get harassed, threatened.

And it seems it's that hillside
where you and your friend,

Mr. Epstein,
staked your claim.

The second we staked our
claim we were marked men.

Might be able to help you
with your latest endeavor.

Heard you're heading
to the Tlingit camp,

which I'm told is just
east of wolf paw trail.

It would be my
pleasure to guide you.

I don't need someone
to come along

just to fill their notebook.

This is my battle.

It'd be a lot easier to
find if you have someone

with you who knows
how to speak Tlingit.

So you're the new owner
of the dry goods store?

Yes, ma'am.

I'm going to be turning
it into a church.

Turning nonbelievers
into believers?

You're going to need a lot
more than lumber for that.

The gentleman over
there on the porch,

what's his story?

Fancies himself a real
estate speculator,

amongst other things.

Has he got it in him
to kill like he says?

He got a lot of things in
him, none of them are good.

Pardon me for saying, father,

but someone should have put a
bullet in him a long time ago.

You're new here, but I've
experienced that man firsthand.

Should have shot him myself.

Saved the rest of us from
that black shit storm

he's got boiling in his head.

What are you going to do
you deem the savages guilty?

First thing is to know.

You've seen the tribe's leader?

No, but I know of him.

He's a half breed.

His white ma tossed him in the
woods around the age of five

once he started showing too
many native characteristics.

He survived for two
weeks in the cold

and frost until his
tribe found him.

Legend is that he
survived on rage.

Rage instead of
his momma's love,

he grew strong on it.

And he's now their leader.

Come here, dog.

Dog!

Are we lost, scribe?

Dog knows.

Want one?

You should take it up.

Helps with the mosquitoes.

Now this is sacred
Tlingit hunting ground.

Abandon hope all
ye who enter here,

for ye are no longer in
the land of your father.

Lie down on the leaves,
close your eyes

and you might feel the cold paws
of wolves passing over you.

You're one of them here,
a wild human animal.

There's no difference.

We're being tracked.

By what?

Could be wolves, could be men.

No difference.

Have you ever seen an Indian?

Plenty.

Their skin's like all the
colors of the mountain,

put them together and
dripped into a jar.

They're the color of nature.

Shh.

I did not ask you here,
but I welcome you.

He speaks English.

That's good because I
don't speak Tlingit.

I know about your friend.

I mourn him with you.

What do you know about him?

I know everything here.

You and your friend have
what you call a claim.

We have different
principles of commerce.

Why don't you buy
waves in the ocean?

Pieces of sky?

Somewhere there is a white man
who thinks he owns the moon.

Did you kill him?

We kill only for a reason.

That's not an answer.

Are you a
God-fearing man?

Enough.

Then God is everywhere.

He's in everything.

Yes.

Your fear is misplaced here.

We didn't kill your friend.

Then who did?

The sky killed him.

That's not good enough.

Maybe this is good enough.

If we killed your friend
and thought you knew,

and we now have you here where
your screams would be lost

to the rest of the world,
you think we'd let you go?

Savages would slit your throat.

We're patient people.

We let the white man do a lot.

But one thing we'll never let
him do is turn us into savages.

You believe him?

I don't know if it's about
me believing what he said

or him believing it.

Seemed like you did.

If he didn't, wolves would
already be feeding on us

back there.

Drink ought to put
things straight.

I'm buying.

Next time.

Just make sure there
is a next time.

Don't let that gun do
the thinking for you.

"May his great name go
exalted and sanctified."

"In the world that he
created as he willed.

"May he give reign to his
kingship in your lifetime,

"and the lifetimes of
the family of his root,

"swiftly and soon."

"May his great name be
blessed forever and ever."

"May his great name be
blessed for ever and ever.

"In the name of
the holy one..."

Father...

...I've come to help
with the move out.

What's going on
is not your fight.

Don't.

On your way, sonny.

This is a place of worship.

This is a dry goods store.

So you hired yourself
an armed man,

he's not going to draw.

I won't let him.

Well, this is embarrassing.

Threatening a priest.

You stack transgression atop
transgression, don't you?

Well, I'm going to get this
place one way or another, so...

Not if you're dead you're not.

There won't be bloodshed
over a piece of mud.

You see the difference
between you and me is

I don't fire bullshit
warning shots.

You're scared to kill me.

You've always been
scared to kill me.

See what's happening
here, father,

in this moment,
it's not about land.

Any killing between
me and Belinda

is about something
entirely different.

Do you want to tell
him what it is?

Holster it.

You should have shot me.

I owe you thanks, I guess.

No you don't.

You see the truth is, I've got
the same designs that he does.

Dawson's a, a godless town.

You'll soon find out and
when you pack up and go,

I'm the one that's going to
take this lot, not him.

I hope you're wrong about that.

You got too much faith
in people, father.

I think I better take that gun.

Can't do that.

Hey, I came here
to yap with you.

What's going on?

They got your boy's killers.

Tlingits?

Somebody saw them up on
the hills that night,

with guns, rifles.

Look like your
situation's changed.

Justice has been
rightfully served.

God bless us all.

Little souvenir, in
exchange for your claim.

Show the folks back home
what big success you were.

100 dollars worth.

No maybe, it may be
a little bit more.

Just because I'm spendthrift.

Don't do it.

Deal's over if you dig.

Yeah, life's a transaction.

But some don't realize it,
they take the bait from God.

They ask themselves, "Am I
the one, fortune's prince?"

They think they can break
free from life's shackles.

Then a man stops listening
to his wiser side

and starts thinking
he can change fate.

All the while all that
pride really is is a shovel.

And damn if a man won't use that
shovel to dig his own grave.

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