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Still getting even for the Tucson massacre...

Man, woman, two kids, even the poor old hound dog.

Well, all we can do for them now is bury them.

Come on, bill.

Fools! Jug-headed fools!

Coming out into apache country

Like they was taking a ride

Down a city street back east.

Never learn till they're dead,

Then it makes no never-mind.

Bill.

Just saw the sun glint off a rifle barrel

On that Ridge over there.

Let's mosey on over to the horses,

Like nothing is up...

Nice and easy like.

[Shouting war whoops]

Hyah! Hyah!

[Speaking apache]

Tontos... the worst kind.

Mean as they come.

Yeah. I've seen them take a man,

Cut his feet, and make him walk on cactus.

That's really before they begin to torture him.

Come on! You think you can take us?

[Shouting in apache]

It looks like they heard you.

[Shouting war whoops]

They get any closer, they'll be in our laps.

All right... Now!

[Shouting in apache]

That's funny.

I never saw an apache give up that easy before.

Something besides us made them hightail it.

What are you doing?

Making sure they're dead.

Well, that one wasn't.

He is now.

Apaches, all right.

That ain't all.

Fifth cavalry from fort crittenden.

No telling when he got it.

Those buckos must have been moving pretty fast

To get this far South.

Looks like they're working their way toward apache Wells.

You figure to get to apache Wells

Before the rest of these critters?

Well, we can sure try.

Hey, Jim, take a look over there.

That ain't Indians making that dust.

It's a detachment of cavalry.

You want to know why them apaches lit out?

There's your answer.

The chances are they're headed for apache Wells.

Think you can put up with them for that long?

Can you?

I can try.

Halt!

What do you think, captain?

They could be hostiles.

Hard telling in country like this.

Howdy.

Howdy.

We're mighty glad to see you.

Getting to be touch and go.

I'm captain gannon on patrol

Between fort rocklen and apache Wells.

What are you talking about, touch and go?

We were bushwhacked by apaches.

Must have seen you coming and they took off.

Didn't you hear the shooting?

That's hard to believe.

We've been riding four days.

Seen nothing, heard nothing.

Well, about an hour's ride west of here,

You'll find a burned-out wagon,

A common grave, and some dead apaches.

You call that nothing?

Come on, Jim, let's go.

Where would that be?

Lordsburg.

Since you're headed for apache Wells,

We thought we might tag along with you that far.

That is, if you don't mind.

Just who are you?

My name's Walker, Jim Walker.

This is bill Gibson.

I'd like to give you two a little warning.

Just don't try to panic the settlers

With tales of uprising, unless you have ample proof.

Is this proof enough?

Go ahead, open it.

Take a look, sergeant.

It's Indian scalp, captain,

Wrapped in a trooper's shirt.

Where did you find it?

I didn't find it.

Took it off one of the apaches that jumped us.

He was wearing this.

"C troop, fifth cavalry."

Fort crittenden.

Mount up, sergeant.

We're pulling out immediately.

Now, don't tell me we spooked you, captain.

You two fall in at the rear of the column.

I'll want a full report of your activities

After we reach camp tonight.

[Trooper] Forward, ho!

Well, all of a sudden they just took off.

I guess they must have seen you coming.

Seems like the army's always nearby but never there.

Now, bill.

Well, I mean it.

They're never there when you need them.

Just what does that mean?

Just like everything about the army.

That's what I mean, captain gannon.

Mr. Walker, how long have you been riding

With that renegade?

He's not a renegade, he's a friend.

If he seems put out with the army, he's got his reasons.

Hmm, I can imagine.

No, I don't think you can.

Bill was married to the daughter of a hopi chief.

Squaw man.

Yeah, I guess you could call him that.

Same as you can call colonel j.M. Chivington army.

You recall chivington's raid, don't you, captain?

Chivington went too far.

He took things into his own hands,

But there was a court martial.

Yes, but that was after he killed

A peaceful band of Indians,

Mostly squaws and children.

Bill's wife and two kids were among the victims.

You've killed Indians, haven't you, Walker?

Yes. To protect my life and property,

But never like that.

Good night, captain.

Walker...

Were you ever in the army?

I rode with hood.

I had you figured as a reb.

Well, that's all behind us, captain.

I fight no wars to a lost cause.

So far, we only have your word on it.

Could be you have some kind of grudge

Against the Indians

And want the army to do something about it.

It has happened before, you know.

Maybe, but not by me.

My chief scout is joining us tomorrow.

He's been riding the territory for two days.

I'll reserve my judgment until then.

Well, captain, if he's worth his salt...

He'll tell you that the Indian war

Has spilled over into this country.

I'll deal with them when they come.

I've fought sioux and Cheyenne before.

I don't think the apache will be much different.

Captain, about 100 years ago,

The great sioux came South to make war with the apache.

And when it was over,

You could follow the trail they took home

By the skeletons of their warriors.

Now, that's what the sioux knew about the apache.

You know what the word apache means?

It means enemy,

A 24-hour-a-day enemy,

An enemy to anything that walks on two legs...

Gringo, Mexican, or Indian.

Now you think that over,

And you get yourself a good night's sleep,

Because you're going to need it

Before you get to apache Wells.

Good night.

Now wouldn't you think vance could have picked

A better place to meet

Than this flea-bitten barrio?

The last three days all you've done is bellyache.

Why don't you quit trying to second-guess

A man like vance Buckner?

He's ramrodding this outfit.

Bartender.

Boy, I'm dry as this dust.

Bring us a bottle.

None of that bar stuff, something good.

A big fella with a scar 'cross his cheek

Check into the hotel yet?

Sure did. Came in yesterday.

He's upstairs in room 6.

Friend of yours?

I just asked you if he was here.

What do you care if he's a friend of mine?

I didn't mean anything, mister.

I was just making conversation.

Yeah?

Well, don't make none with me, see?

All right, kid. We don't need no trouble.

Henry didn't mean anything by it.

He just likes to talk a lot.

Yeah? Then you talk to him,

And keep your nose out of my business.

You hear me now?

Come on, Toby. That's enough.

I don't know what's bothering you, Sonny.

I don't much care.

Henry, I'll talk to you later.

O.K., Hank.

All right, Sonny, on your feet.

You want some more?

Oh, no.

No, I had enough.

You beat me fair and square.

What do you say

We just forget about it and have a drink, huh?

Why not?

I never let a fight

Stand in the way of a drink.

[Gunshot]

Kid, you could get yourself killed

Stepping out of line.

This hombre put his hands on me.

Nobody can do that and get away with it.

I'm going to tell you something, vance.

You ain't bulletproof.

A slug can chop you down.

Someday I'm going to get tired of your talk

And make you pull that gun.

That'll be the last thing you'll do.

He didn't mean nothing, vance.

He's young. He'll learn.

He better, or he won't get any older.

Get upstairs.

But, Mr. Buckner,

Who's going to pay for the damage to my saloon?

I'll make it good. Figure out the cost.

Get him tended to.

The kid stepped out of line. That's all.

I'm standing drinks for everybody.

Everybody at the bar on the double!

[Choking]

You crazy, stupid killer.

Just had to start something, didn't you?

I told you to keep him in line.

You know how he is when he's mad.

He just goes crazy.

You breathe out of turn, and you're dead.

Come on, vance, what's the deal?

$80,000.

Is that worth the trip here?

That's better than $25,000 apiece.

20 for each of you.

I'm taking the first 40,000.

Any objections?

Yeah, I got one.

We get the short end of the stick.

I'm taking half for setting it up.

O.K. With me. I got no kick.

Well?

Well, what's the job?

Noon stage to lordsburg, tomorrow.

Since when did butterfield

Start making their shipments common knowledge?

You know, he's a big man.

He knows everything.

Have I ever let you down yet?

That 80,000 will be there.

Now, between apache Wells and lordsburg

Is the relay station.

Coach pulls in there. They change horses.

Passengers get off, eat, and rest.

That's when we make our move.

Are you saying we just mosey in that way station

And tell them to reach?

I'm saying you two book passage

On that stage for lordsburg.

I'll be at the way station waiting for you.

Now, when everyone's relaxing,

We hit them.

I don't know, vance.

That butterfield don't spare anything

If somebody hits their line.

We'll be on every wanted poster

From Santa Fe to Cheyenne.

Not if there aren't any witnesses left

To identify us.

You mean kill them all?

That's going pretty far, vance.

We don't even know how many there'll be on board.

20 years in yuma prison suit you better?

You getting soft, Jess?

No.

Not me.

Just slap leather and watch them fall.

Killing's about the easiest thing there is.

I'm leaving now,

So I can be at that way station

When that coach rolls in.

I gotcha.

It's up to you to see he stays in line.

Don't you worry none.

Oh, I never worry about anything.

You just sit down and relax, kid.

You ain't going nowhere.

Well, you heard the man, Jess.

Take it easy.

We got a lot of fun ahead.

A lot of fun.

Whoa!

This is our chief scout Archie whitewater.

Did you see anything?

I no say for sure.

I see mescal pots.

Don't know how long they been there.

How far west you ride?

Day, day and a half. No, two days.

And you didn't see a burned-out wagon?

I told you.

I see mescal pots.

Nothing else.

No wagons. No apache.

You must be blind

Or holed up somewhere and slept all the while.

What you got to say now, Mr. Walker?

The time to start worrying

Is when you don't see them.

We'll be ready for them when they come.

Nobody's ever ready for the apache.

They'll fight you on their own terms.

When you and your men are tired enough

And thirsty enough

And far enough away from the fort,

That's when you'll find them.

They'll isolate the towns.

They'll lead you into an ambush.

You didn't learn that at west point.

What do you know of that?

They've never written a book worth a tinker's damn

On how to fight apaches.

That's a matter of opinion.

You'd better change yours, gannon.

The apache can't read,

But he can sure kill you.

Sergeant, send two men out on point.

Have them ride as flankers.

Yes, sir.

Yo, points out.

If our stage actually leaves on time today,

Somebody's likely to drop dead from surprise.

It'll leave at noon, all right,

But you got to understand, Mr. Taylor,

Things ain't the same here

As they are in St. Joe.

Here you always got the danger of Indians,

Road agents, lord knows what all.

Indians, road agents, and a dozen other excuses.

I'm doing the best I can under the circumstances.

[Deep sigh]

It's a rough run.

I didn't become district manager

Offering excuses, jace.

I don't think our demands are unreasonable.

But we ain't done too bad here.

We're getting most everything through in good order.

Even the consignments on gold and silver

Have been getting through

With nobody finding out.

Yes, sir, and don't forget,

We got the best driver

In the whole butterfield organization,

Even if he is the orneriest.

You mean Charley Russell?

He's supposed to be here now, isn't he?

Well, where is he?

It's this sort of thing I mean.

Yes, sir. I'll... I'll speak to Charley.

I guess he's out hustling up a fresh team.

Remember, I'll be on the stage to lordsburg,

And my report will determine a lot of things, jace.

Do I make myself clear?

Yes, sir, Mr. Taylor.

She'll leave on schedule,

Even if I have to pull her myself.

[Piano plays]

Henry.

Oh, yes, Mr. Taylor.

I'll be checking out this morning.

Will you see to my luggage

And have it at the depot?

Yes, sir. Sure will.

Mr. Taylor.

You're going to have another...

How shall I say it?

Passenger.

Oh, who?

Janice mackenzie, that's who.

Called herself Hopkins here.

Been working as a bookkeeper in the bank,

But somebody found out about her past,

And she's leaving town

On the noonday stage

By request.

Janice mackenzie.

Well, no matter what they claim about her past,

She can ride butterfield,

Same as anyone else,

Long as she has the fare.

I wonder why she hid out

In a place like apache Wells.

Well, she'll find nothing but contempt and scorn

In this territory.

Her reputation goes ahead of her.

And lingers after.

I don't understand why she bothers,

Unless she hopes to get the mackenzie fortune

When the old woman finally dies.

Oh, well. Her worry, not mine.

I'll take care your luggage.

Oh, Mrs. mackenzie?

Yes?

My name is Taylor.

I'm the district manager for the butterfield stage lines.

I understand you're joining us

On the run to lordsburg.

That's right.

I'm sure it'll be a pleasant journey.

Thank you.

Sheriff.

I... i want a word with you.

Yes, ma'am, Mrs. hawkes.

Ladies.

What can I do for you on this very fine day?

Your duty as sheriff, Ben hall,

That's what...

By seeing to it that that woman

Is on the noon stage to lordsburg.

She's already been told,

But I kind of hated to do it.

Did I hear you right?

Best be watching our tongue and doing our duty.

Do we make ourselves clear?

Of course.

Of course, Mrs. hawkes,

But i... i didn't mean nothing like that.

I'll see she gets out of town

Just as you say.

The sooner the better.

Come, ladies.

Aw, miserable old biddies.

Sheriff! Sheriff, look!

Cavalry's coming in.

Look like they've been shot up.

Mr. Taylor!

Mr. Taylor!

I'm sheriff hall.

What happened?

Captain gannon, fort rocklen patrol.

Do you have a doctor in town?

Some of my men have been wounded.

Hey, Joe.

Yeah, sheriff.

Get them down to Dr. Turner's office.

Tell me, captain,

What's been going on around here?

Apaches ambushed us 20 Miles out.

Lost two men and my sergeant.

I'm hoyt Taylor, district manager for butterfield.

We have a stage going to lordsburg at noon.

Just because you ran into Indians back there

Doesn't mean we'll run into trouble ahead.

There'll be a heap of trouble everywhere.

Captain, this stage must leave for lordsburg.

You'll have to give us an escort.

Not all the way. Say, near the relay station.

We can make it safely from there.

You can see our condition.

If you take that stage,

Do so at your own risk.

That stagecoach don't leave,

We're going to be in a lot of trouble.

We'll lose a lot of money.

Yeah, but if them apaches is on the warpath,

I don't aim to end up toes up to the sun

With a Lance through my gizzard for a tombstone.

For that kind of money,

I'd fight every apache this side of hell.

Come on.

How many would you say, captain?

According to Mr. Walker and his friend,

We're in the middle of an apache uprising.

What you mean, captain?

What did this hombre say?

I said we were attacked three times by apaches,

Including one attack on a patrol.

That satisfy you, friend?

I think we're being

Kind of spooked by this drifter.

Now, I ain't saying a few stray apaches

Didn't jump the soldier boys,

Meaning no disrespect to you, captain.

We rode in last night.

Didn't see any Indians.

Could even be whites made up like Indians.

Just like I figured.

Ain't nobody but fool renegades

All liquored up with firewater

Would be crazy enough to attack the cavalry.

Sheriff, have you had any warnings

On injuns on the move?

Why, no.

This is the first word I've had of it.

Did you get any of them, captain?

They caught us cold coming through the pass.

We had to run for it.

Ain't nothing but buck outlaws on a tear.

If you'll excuse me,

I'll see to my men,

Have the doctor take a look at this.

Captain.

Mister...

You sure you telling this thing right?

Maybe you just seen a little old bunch of squaws

Ambling by and got scared.

I know an apache when I see one,

Especially when he's trying to gut me open.

I don't think you know anything.

You seem to be on the prod, mister.

I don't know for what reason.

I got troubles enough of my own

Without looking for more.

Hey, Mr. district manager!

About that coach now...

We're going to lordsburg. We got guns.

Know how to use them in case of trouble.

Y'all still going?

We'll be running late if we do.

Kind of close back there.

Little sidewinder was about to draw down on you.

He's looking to carve another notch in his gun,

But not at my expense.

I'm no gunfighter, never have been.

Don't think you've seen the last of him, son.

Hey, Charley!

Jim Walker!

Is that really you?

Yeah!

You still driving for butterfield?

Yeah, nigh onto 30 years.

Well, what happened?

Lose your horse in a poker game?

No, he split his hoof.

Put that old saddle on this horse.

Come with me. I got to see jace.

Who's he?

The agent in charge.

Everything's upside down around here.

The cavalry come in shot full of holes.

They say apaches is on the loose.

That shotgun guard of mine Chad Benson

Broke his leg falling down some stairs.

That's mighty inconsiderate of him.

Yeah.

Old bill Gibson and I came in with that patrol.

Bill Gibson! In a town full of people?

Where the devil is he now?

He said after his bath,

He was going to the palace saloon...

Don't say another word.

Soon as I find out which way's up,

We'll go over and have a drink with him.

That's a deal.

Hey, jace! Get down off of there.

I want you to meet a friend of mine.

Jace, this here's Jim Walker.

Used to ride shotgun with me on the old yuma ride.

Howdy. Glad to know you.

Glad to know you.

Know what we're going to do?

Close up at this rate.

If it ain't Taylor on my neck, it's Indians.

And I got nobody to take Chad's place.

I ain't driving no stage without a shotgun guard.

Pardon me, sir.

Could you tell me what time the stage

Is going to lordsburg?

Ma'am, it's up to Mr. Taylor

To say when and if we go.

In case you haven't heard,

There's hostilities along the way,

And it'll be a little risky to leave right now.

I've just been told

It would be risky for me if I stayed on.

I wonder why she's so anxious

To get stuck with an apache arrow.

You must be new around here to ask that.

I'm asking.

Her name's Janice mackenzie.

Do I need to say more?

That's Janice mackenzie, huh?

I knew her husband Bob mackenzie.

Sold him some mustangs once.

What sort was he?

Well, he was a ne'er-do-well,

Backed up by his mother's money.

Off hand I'd say Janice mackenzie

Was too much woman for him.

She ain't done nothing wrong

To nobody around here,

But that fat sheriff Ben hall

And the gossips in this town,

They're going to officially

Run her out of town on the coach.

I ain't driving no coach

Without a shotgun guard.

Wait. Since my horse is crippled,

I'll ride shotgun with you to lordsburg

For the price of a ticket.

That does it.

You put his gear on top of that coach.

We're going across the street to the palace.

Tell Taylor when he makes up his mind

What he's going to do when,

Come over and get us.

Come on, boy.

* don't you cry for me

* for I come from Alabama *

* with my banjo on my knee **

I want you to meet some friends of mine.

This is, uh...

Uh...

Jim Walker.

Yeah.

Come on. Sit down before you fall down.

Thank you, miss.

Sit down here, partner.

Well, I guess we're not leaving tonight.

I couldn't care less.

How about you, bill?

Right... right as rain, Charley.

Right as rain.

Another bottle, bartender!

Bartender, another bottle!

I ain't the bartender, mister,

But I'll give you a little advice.

You better hole up

So them big bad injuns don't scare you.

Little man, big mouth.

Big man, big gun.

You want to see how big?

Come on, Toby.

We'll wait at the depot.

Don't give me no argument.

Remember what vance said

About starting another ruckus?

I'm going to kill him!

You don't watch your temper,

You'll kill the whole deal.

I don't understand, sheriff,

What you want to talk to me about.

I'll leave when the stage leaves.

There's some things I'd like to explain.

If you'd just come to my office,

I'll try to...

Wake up.

Charley.

Charley!

Huh?

I've been looking all over for you.

We're leaving for lordsburg.

Jace is hitching up the horses

For us to leave right away.

You going to be there?

Yeah, yeah. I'll be there.

You still with me, Jim?

I'm still with you.

Help me get bill out of here.

Come on, bill, you silly old man.

Oh, we had fun, didn't we?

Aah!

Next time you lay your hands on me,

I'll stick that hat pin right through you!

That'll be a fair trick, lady.

Try and be decent to your kind,

And you get assaulted.

What's the matter now?

[Sheriff] Women like you are not fit to be seen...

Take care of him, Charley.

Say it good and loud

So Mrs. hawkes can hear you're doing your work.

You've been warned about making trouble.

As sheriff, I'm ordering you

To leave on the next stage or I'll...

You'll arrest me?

Don't worry. I'll gladly leave.

The worst savage apache on the loose

Is a bargain comparitivly to most people I've met here.

You've got no place in apache Wells.

I'm going to make an example of you.

You mean I'm not going to hear you tell me again

That if I'm nice to you things are going to be nice for me?

Let me tell you something.

You lose 100 pounds and get yourself a million dollars,

Because that's the only way

You're ever going to get a woman.

Danged if the lady ain't right.

Old Ben couldn't get into Kate's place

With a full month's pay.

Put an apple in his mouth,

He'll look like a roast pig.

Mrs. mackenzie, we'd better head for the stage.

Ah, I see Mr. Taylor found you.

Well, everything's ready to leave.

Where's your friend?

He's right behind me.

I already got his gear on the coach.

Come on. Hurry it up.

We'll never get out of here at this rate.

Help me get old bill on top.

I'll tie him so he doesn't roll off.

Leave him here and let's go.

He stays, I stay.

It's going to be mighty rough and mighty slow,

Going after dark like this.

We should still reach the relay station by midmorning.

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

You're the one riding shotgun?

I hope you don't have to use it.

If you two are coming along, climb in.

Don't intend to be here all night.

Mrs. mackenzie.

Careful now.

Gentlemen.

Hold it!

Well, now, look over there.

Looks like you ain't leaving town any too soon.

Hold it!

Hold that stage!

Hyah! Hyah!

Stop that coach!

That man up there is under arrest!

Hyah!

What you doing,

Looking for Geronimo?

Easier to scoop up the desert in a tin pail

Than to see an apache

When he doesn't want you to.

Ohh...

What the devil's going on here?

Who tied me up like a bale of cotton?

Better untie him before he gets sunburned.

Who stepped on my head?

Think it was a fella by the name of John.

John who?

John barleycorn.

Sure packs a mean wallop.

Where's my horse?

Where we going?

Your horse is in apache Wells.

Next stop is lordsburg.

Now come on! Ha!

Now, what do I want to go to lordsburg for?

Hyah!

Can't you put that thing out?

It's enough to make a person choke.

Hey, now, friend,

If I put my hands around your neck and squeeze,

That would choke you, too, wouldn't it?

I'll have you know

I'm district manager of butterfield lines.

Hey there, Mr. district manager,

Toby Jack didn't mean no harm, did you?

No. Here, have a drink.

No, thank you.

What's the matter, Mr. district manager,

Our whiskey ain't good enough for you?

Drink it before I stick it down your gullet.

Hear me now?

That's it.

All of it... Down the hatch.

Hyah!

That's a good boy.

You... you won't get away with this.

When we get to lordsburg,

I'll have the marshal jail both of you.

Hey there, Toby Jack.

What?

We ain't being polite to the lady.

Here, honey.

How about a snort?

No.

Hey, Jack, I think you're wasting your time.

She don't want to be friendly.

I ain't such a bad cuss

Once you get to know me.

I'll forgo the pleasure if you don't mind.

You can't never tell

How things are going to work out.

Before this trip's over,

You might just want me for a friend

More than anything else.

Just you wait and see how things turn out.

The way my back's crawling,

Feels like them apaches

Got us drawn and quartered already,

And that cargo we got below,

Excepting for the little lady...

Hah. They're a motley crew.

Including Taylor.

I got your Winchester in the scabbard if you need it.

Hey, you!

Unlimber your irons.

Looks like we might have trouble ahead.

Whoa!

Look over there.

By the almighty,

They're falling out of the sky.

[Moans]

Well, he's still alive.

He's pretty busted up.

Wonder what he was up to.

No good, bet your whiskey.

Something must have scared his horse,

And he fell off.

Why bother, lady?

Let the buzzards have him.

Better yet... Put a bullet in him.

It's nice and clean.

I would expect you to say that.

He's just a stinking injun.

What do you care?

Sure. Why waste our time?

He ain't no bother of ours.

Leave him be. Let's go.

I'm afraid I agree.

Afraid I don't.

What do you mean?

This particular Indian may be very important to us.

How?

Take my word.

All right.

We can't leave him here.

He'll die if we do.

There's no room in the coach.

I'm not taking

A murderous savage into our midst.

He's in no condition to murder anybody.

Help me get him up there.

I ain't riding with no lousy redstick.

Well, Sonny,

You just have a nice walk.

The way station's down that way about 15 Miles.

You can make it easy,

That is, if the sun don't get you,

Or, uh, one of his pals.

[Taylor] I said he's not riding with us.

Didn't you hear what I said?

Heist him on top of the coach.

If it's good enough for me,

It'll do for him.

Redskin.

May I ride with you?

A half-dead apache is no worse

Than the company I've kept so far.

You'd better ride inside.

Gets hot and dusty up there.

Besides, if there's trouble,

I wouldn't want you to get hit with a stray bullet.

Come on, kid.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Get up there!

Hyah!

Whoa!

Charley!

I thought for sure Geronimo got you this time.

That ain't likely.

Well, here we are.

One hour stop for victuals.

The food here ain't no good,

And the whiskey is pure poison.

You trying to kill us?

Sonny, you can walk to lordsburg if you want.

Chico!

Chico Lopez!

Last time I see you was in San Antonio.

How you been?

Fine. And yourself?

I tell you, i...

[Moaning]

Chico, take care of the horses.

[Moans]

That's a devil of a note

Bringing that injun in here just like he's civilized.

It's too bad the situation isn't reversed.

You'd look good staked on an ant hill.

I'd expect your kind

To take up with an injun.

You open your yap at me once more,

I'm going to bat you one.

Toby Jack...

Why don't you just try batting me once?

Don't! Unless you think I'll miss this close.

Drop it back in the holster.

Outside.

All right, gunfighter,

I've got the advantage now,

So we'll even things up a little bit.

Bill, throw him your skinning knife.

I ain't no hand with a knife.

Ain't got no chance.

A lot more chance than you figured to give me.

No, but I can't.

You busted my hand.

[Bill] Too bad it wasn't your neck.

Charley, keep that till we get to lordsburg.

Suppose we're jumped by apaches.

Well, Sonny,

I'll just keep it for you till then.

You got anything to say?

Not with that gun pressing into my backbone.

Drop it, bill.

How about now?

Nah.

I got no quarrel with you,

But Toby Jack ain't likely to forget what you done.

He'd better not,

'Cause next time

I'll step on your neck.

[Moaning]

You, you in charge here?

Si, señor, I am the boss man here,

I think.

This place is disgraceful.

What does butterfield pay you for anyhow,

To sit around and do nothing?

Sometimes nothing is very hard to do.

If nothing else, get us some food.

Si. Si, señor.

[Bottle crashes]

You're never going to learn, are you?

You're lucky he didn't knock your head clear off.

Why didn't you lend a hand?

You always said you never needed no help.

Where the devil is vance?

Maybe because we were late,

He figured something went wrong and took off.

Tell you one thing...

I don't aim to try it without him.

Here you are, bill.

Chico...

You make the worst grub I ever ate.

Now get behind the bar and start pouring.

Charley, you always say the same thing about my cooking,

But I notice you had three helpings.

Ay, caramba!

Russell, take one drink while on a run,

And it's your job.

I'm warning you.

Oh, I see.

Uh, chico, make that a double.

As of now, I quit butterfield.

Mr. Taylor will drive you

The rest of the way to lordsburg.

If you intend to work for butterfield,

You'd better do as I say.

I don't intend to work for butterfield.

I quit.

Didn't you hear me?

Well, uh, perhaps I was a bit hasty.

This has been a most arduous journey,

What with everything happening.

[Moaning]

What are we going to do about the Indian?

We'll leave him.

He'll get along somehow.

After all, what did they do

Before the white man came along?

Probably a great deal better.

I'd like to get some fresh air.

Would you join me?

Yes, of course.

Thank you.

I'm beholden to you, Mr. Walker.

Twice you've helped me,

And I've not thanked you yet.

No need.

What are you thinking about?

How beautiful you are

And yet how sad.

Do you know who I am

And what they say about me?

Well, what people say

Isn't really important.

Oh, yes, it is.

You've got to live with people.

Did you know my husband?

Yes, I knew him,

But what I don't know

Is how a woman like you

Ever married a man like him.

I met Bob in new Orleans.

We were married four weeks later

After a whirlwind courtship.

There was only one little detail

Bob didn't tell me...

His mother had other arrangements for him.

Her arrangement was Maria delgado,

Whose family in Mexico

Is as rich as maude is here.

A wedding was planned... Not mine.

And by marrying you

He, uh... Upset the apple cart.

Maria delgado put on her wedding dress.

She went to church,

Prayed...

And then killed herself on the altar.

Well...

Sometimes pride can be a...

A terrible thing.

She was five months' pregnant

With my husband's child.

Maria's father and two brothers swore vengeance,

And maude and I watched

As they rode up to the house

And killed Bob right before our eyes,

And then they rode away without a word.

In her grief,

She... she turned against me, and...

Naturally, she didn't tell the whole story.

She felt that...

That if I hadn't married Bob,

None of this would have happened.

Well, by the time she was finished,

I was a marked woman in the whole territory.

I bear the mark of Cain wherever I go.

Then why do you stay on?

Because I didn't do anything wrong,

And I will not lower myself to that indignity.

Now, she made me run,

And she made me cry,

But no one else ever will.

[Horse approaches]

There was an apache war scare.

We was worried about you.

Where you been?

Up on the Ridge watching things down here.

Everything set?

They're all inside.

What happened to...

Where's your gun?

He smarted off again,

And some fella inside whomped him good,

Took his gun away.

Give him yours.

Get that shotgun.

[Thunder rolls]

There's a storm coming in.

Saw it from the Ridge.

Hey, I just seen an Indian up there.

You see anything?

No, I don't see nothing.

He don't, either.

He just been drinking too much.

All right, let's go.

It's about time we get rolling.

I'll go rustle up the other two passengers.

Uh... uh, not yet.

We haven't been here an hour.

Butterfield always...

Don't anybody move!

Heist 'em high.

I ain't got no gun, Sonny.

Who is she?

Well, that's Janice mackenzie.

You've heard of her before,

And this one here is the one

That cuffed Toby Jack around.

How big you feel now?

About the same size you would

If you didn't have that Cannon.

I don't know whether I'll give him to you or not, Toby Jack.

Oh, shut up.

I'll tell you what to do and when.

Long time, Walker.

Long time.

You know him from somewhere?

I know him.

Hey, you.

You run this place?

Si. Si, señor.

What about him?

Found him on the trail.

She insisted we bring him along.

Say, vance,

This one's been nursemaiding that bag

All the way here.

What you got there?

Nothing. Just some extra clothes.

No use playacting anymore, Taylor.

Give Jess the cash.

Well, Charley,

Looks like the stage line

Is going to give Mr. Taylor a bonus this year.

You mean to say I've been working for a crook?

Toby Jack, you and Jess don't think

I just chanced to pick that particular coach?

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Right, Taylor?

Fool! Why did you tell them?

Why, you mangy toad.

You was with them all the time.

That's why you wanted to leave apache Wells and get here.

My boys didn't know about you, Taylor,

But, of course, you didn't know about them.

Well, boy, I sure got to hand it to you, vance.

I didn't know he was one of us.

Do you realize what you've done?

I'm ruined, finished.

Now I'll have to go on the run

With you and those two

Because you talked.

Taylor, you won't have to run anyplace.

No?

Well, what about them?

Think they'll keep still

Once they get to lordsburg?

He's real funny, ain't he?

They don't need you anymore, Taylor.

Shut your mouth.

Well, it's...

It's done now.

Let's divide the money.

40,000 each, vance.

Those two are your lookout.

He still don't get it, do he?

And they don't, either,

And they're going to be just as dead as...

He is.

No, vance, not...

Not me.

I... i set this thing up for you.

Without me,

You'd never have been able to do it.

Look... I'll do it for you.

I'll kill them!

Every one of them!

Then it won't be on your head.

I'll be in it with you!

Please don't kill me!

Please, vance!

Please, vance!

[Gunshots]

You're next, mister.

Don't get itchy.

Get him out of here.

You see, Jim,

I just saved your life.

That Toby Jack, he's a mean one.

He wants to nail your hide to the wall.

Ha ha ha ha!

I've lived among injuns most of my life,

Pretty near,

But I'm glad to say that I've never seen this buck

Except from a distance.

That's why I'm here now.

What's he saying?

You have any idea who that is?

That there apache

Is none other than antone,

Chief of the tontos.

Madre de dios.

You're lying.

Bet you wish I was.

Chico... What about it?

No! No!

Bill is right.

His people will burn down this place

And kill all of us

If they know he is here.

That's what you meant

When you said he was special.

There's more than likely apaches looking for him.

Vance, we don't stand a chance

With that many apaches out there.

So, the great hunter is now the hunted.

Ohh.

Maybe it's a trick.

Maybe they're just making it up to stay alive.

I told you I seen an Indian out there.

I had a partner once

Who got caught by some of victorio's mescaleros.

They staked him out on an ant hill.

They slit his eyelids

And let nature take its course.

No mescalero living can match a Tonto

When it comes to meanness.

[Thunder rolls]

Well, that's better.

Vance, I ain't never seen it this bad before.

Let's get it done and clear out while we can.

How far do you think you'd get in this storm?

I'd take my chances with the storm

Against apaches any day.

Well...

Looks like you've reached an impasse, vance.

Those apaches know antone's in here,

And you know Tonto apaches are the worst kind.

They're the meanest.

They'll just wait.

When you step outside, you won't get 10 feet.

Keep talking.

You need us, vance.

You need us bad,

And you need us alive.

Now you've got, uh, three guns.

Add us to it, that makes eight, including the woman.

Wouldn't you say that stacks up a lot better?

You'd fight apaches, that's for sure.

Then me and the boys would be outnumbered,

And we'd have to fight you for the 80,000.

Of course you can always kill us.

Try and make a run for it... beat the storm.

[Thunder]

Ain't no storm can keep the apache off your tracks

Once he's got your scent, and they got wind of you.

They just trying to spook us to get the guns back.

Let's kill them all now

And clear out of here while we got half a chance.

First, vance, how about a little favor?

What favor?

This woman.

I want her.

At a time like...

Fella I once knew said

The only way to cure all the world's problems

Was to do away with all the women.

He said there'd be one man like you, though,

Who'd want to hide one.

Well, miss...

You have a choice...

Your life, or, uh...

Jess.

I'd rather be safely dead.

I guess she sure set you straight.

You're too damn proud,

But I'll tame you.

You'll see.

Keep away from me.

This ought to be worth seeing.

She's a hellcat, Jess.

Think you can handle her?

She'll be begging me to save her before this is over.

What about it? Think the lady ought to go with Jess?

You heard what the lady said.

Now hold on, Jess.

Whoa.

Looks like our friend Jim here wants her for himself.

Maybe you better take it up with him.

[Toby] I don't think you can take him, Jess,

Without a gun.

Sorry, Toby Jack,

Looks like I'm going to have to finish a fight

You started earlier and never finished.

Now, cool off, Jess.

They're just trying to have some fun at your expense.

[Speaking spanish]

Hmmph.

Now that was fair and square.

I sure would have bet on Jess, though.

You never would've got him if not for the whiskey.

Gets in the belly every time.

Your luck's just about run out, vance.

One of these days you're going to have to

Face a man all on your own.

I just hope it's me.

Vance...

Why didn't you...

Why didn't you do something?

What for?

You wanted the woman.

So did he.

Ha ha. Jim...

Where'd you ever run across this polecat in your travels?

Well, about...

About six years ago, there was a...

There was a wagon train

Out of St. Joe, Missouri...

That was ambushed.

Every man, woman, and child was killed.

Well, they thought the kiowas did it,

So they sent the army out to punish them.

There was a lot of gold on that wagon train.

It never turned up.

Gold? Yeah.

Now you know the Indians don't use gold,

So one of the relatives had me investigate.

It seems the, uh...

Wagon master was strangely missing.

And I bet his name was vance Buckner.

Yeah.

Well...

It took me almost a year.

I finally caught up to him and brought him in.

You... you brought vance in?

He went before judge Isaac Parker for trail.

You mean "hangin'" judge Parker?

Yup.

Well, the judge didn't hold with murder,

So he sentenced him to hang.

Now, one of the kiowa survivors was in the courtroom,

And he jumped up and slashed his face with a knife.

Bill...

You know what that scar means?

Yeah.

It's the mark of a two-legged polecat.

Well...

I haven't seen him since that time.

Naturally, i...

Thought they'd stretched his neck.

I'll bust out of here like I busted from jail.

I've never seen anyone

Want a killing as bad as you.

What's the difference...

You or the apaches?

We're not going to need you and your friends

To fight off those apaches.

If they'd been around here, they'd have made a move by now.

And just in case, we've got him.

[Thunder rolls]

How much longer is this going to go on?

What's the matter, Sonny?

Your spine crawling?

Old man, I want you to hear me now.

One more time, and I'll...

You'll what?

Unless he says so, you can't even blow your nose.

Why you...

Uhh...

Bill!

Why, you...

Easy, bill. Easy.

I didn't...

Think the little... Dog had the...

The sand...

To do it.

Someday somewhere you're going to get it.

Toby Jack, if I didn't need you,

I'd let him have you now.

Now you killed him, you get him out of here.

Chico, help take him outside someplace.

[Speaking apache]

Now, what's that mean?

He says he knows how you got that scar.

[Speaking apache]

Says you're marked for a bad end.

Not as long as we have him.

Says he knows he's going to die.

Says they'll kill us.

[Speaking apache]

They might keep the woman.

[Speaking apache]

They're going to take you...

And give you to the women and children.

When they're through with you...

They're going to cut your heart out

And feed it to the dogs.

Aah!

Apaches!

What happened? Where's Toby Jack?

Apaches! Apaches!

[Gunshots]

[Buckner] Careful, Jess. We're liable to hit each other.

Shh! It's me.

[Crash]

Aah! Aah!

[Crashing]

[Shouting]

That was Charley

Yelling, hollering, and throwing things around in there.

You stay right here.

Just to keep you from catching pneumonia.

Come on.

You think we'll ever get out of this?

Uh, there's...

There's not much chance of that.

And no matter what happen...

I'll always be grateful for today.

[Rooster crows]

[Janice] Ohh!]

[Jim] You speak my language?

We have antone inside.

We brought him here

To keep the wolves from feasting on him.

Would you dishonor your chief by killing us?

What do you mean?

Well, antone is dying.

Would you have him go to the next world

Owing a debt in this one?

Dying at the hands of his worst enemy?

The man Buckner

Is holding antone prisoner in the way station.

He's the one with the scar across his face,

The mark of dishonor for killing squaws and children.

Watch as we save antone...

Then burn down the station

Upon the man with the scar.

No, wait.

If you try and save antone, they'll kill him.

If you try to burn the station down, they'll kill him.

I have an idea.

Maybe I can help save him,

So he can die among his own people.

Vance! Can you hear me?

[Vance] My gun's pointed at your belly.

If I shoot, you're dead.

Don't be a fool.

Hear me out.

What do you want?

I want to give you a chance...

A better chance than you figured to give us.

Your friends in here haven't got a chance.

Turn them loose...

Unharmed.

You think I'm crazy?

They're my insurance to get out of here.

Vance!

They'll burn you out!

Do what he says, vance.

Anything's better than this.

I can't put them off much longer!

What's your deal?

Turn them loose,

Throw your guns away,

Come out with your hands up.

All we'd get is a rope.

Either way we're dead.

I'll make the deal.

Take it, or we kill them.

It makes no difference now.

All right. What is it?

We let them loose.

You bring our two horses

This side of the coach.

We keep our guns.

Well, you heard him.

I do not care about them.

I only care for my chief.

We are agreed.

[Vance] What about it?

All right, vance,

But then I'm coming after you...

Alone.

I hope so, bucko.

I just hope you do.

Cut them loose.

All right, you two,

Carry him out.

Oh!

Is that butterfield money?

Yeah.

[Walker] Leave it there.

Nothing said about that.

You're coming after us.

You can take it then.

If you think you can.

Ay, chihuahua.

Gracias, señor. Gracias.

Chico, get me a horse.

Si, hombre, como no.

I never thought I'd see the day

When I'd be glad to see apaches.

The truce is only until sundown.

I do not wish to see any of you again.

Oh, Jim... Jim,

According to that apache,

You only got till sundown.

All right.

He's a good one. Plenty tough in the desert.

Charley, you take care of her.

Hyah!

[Gunshot]

[Gunshot]

Hyah!

[Gunshot]

All right, hold it.

Come on down.

[Shouting in apache]

[Speaking apache]

Why did you not kill him?

I'll take him back to town.

The white man's law'll hang him.

No. He will stay with us.

Take his horse.

The truce is till sundown.

Walker!

You're not going to leave me?

Walker!

Walker!

Walker!

Well, bill won't mind.

He knew every foot of this territory.

The only place he ever called home.

Antone died just after you left.

They picked him up and rode away.

Stage leaves for lordsburg in 10 minutes.

You two still going with us?

Well, it's a start.