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Pay for this you have my personal word on that sir your enemies our enemy will cover any play you've gotten mine

Choose your weapon. I don't want anything to happen to you

You put a rope around our neck.

You put a rope around your neck.

You put a rope around your neck.

You put a rope around your neck.

Gentlemen, if I could have your attention for a moment.

You look like a black.

The black is his. We'll take it off the board in high.

I settle for 30 seconds. The ranch and the agency are in very serious financial trouble gentlemen.

And unless we do something before the floor.

Hey, all that rain's here. There's a mess of lightning.

Reminds me when we rode that lightning ourselves.

Now, that was a spirit storm, Harlan. This ain't nothing.

Oh, you talk about rain.

It sort of reminds me of the time me and Hector Tuttle was down on the Brazos.

Are you cheating? Listen, guys. No.

No.

Anyway, John, you remember Hector. He was...

He held a horse's force when we robbed the Twisted River Express station.

Who? You already heard Hector Tuttle.

Gentlemen.

Oh, Hector. One odd Hector?

Yeah. Maybe if I was looking out at one side of his place like this, you know, one odd.

Maybe Harlan. We'll ride. You know, ride the line. He's kind of watching like there's going to be an ambush.

Gentlemen, listen. He's a good man with a horse even with a bad eye.

I reckon it was because he stayed so far away from soap and water like it was the plague or something.

Yeah, smelly little fella. Couldn't you lick as I recall?

Gentlemen.

Now, I have been trying for the past half hour to impress upon you that if we don't get a large amount of money in a very short period of time,

we will lose the ranch.

Oh, come on.

Isaiah, you chiding us all? What do you mean, lose the ranch?

Oh, you'll come up with something, partner?

I mean, you're just a natural wizard at figures and books and such.

And juggling the accountant to him blew in the face.

But this time, a back's against the wall. I mean, this habit we have of taking on cases for which we do not get paid for

is finally catching up with us. With a vengeance.

Oh, no, Isaiah. You don't want us to turn our backs on little people who need help?

This comes... They ain't got any money.

No. Don't bother me at all. I'll do your dirty work. Just cross my palm with gold first.

Right, Isaiah?

Of course we can't refuse people in trouble, John. That goes without saying.

I'm just giving you the facts, and they're not pretty.

We have maybe a month before the bank and our other creditors take the property, the agency, and whatever else they can grab.

Okay. So we need cash, right?

So where's the cash cap? In banks, that's where. So what do we do?

Rob, a bank?

Correct.

I mean, we were all real good at robbing banks in our time.

Huh? So let's do it again.

Well, I ate that brilliant. Rob, a bank. This good, hard-earned reputation we've got in this here 20th century,

we just throw that on a manure pile.

Besides, well, you might mean, I mean, things just change nowadays. All these banks and other...

They're like little teeny-forts. You know, they got secret cameras and guards coming out of the woodwork.

And silent alarms calling the law.

We could do it, Harlot. I know we could do it.

I got it.

I got the answer. I got the ticket.

What?

Here's what we're gonna do. We'll hire out to a foreign general.

Now, listen to me. Now, there's always a revolution going on someplace in the world, and we're downright primo,

as the... as a sword arm of righteous rebellion.

You fell the sword in your life. That's your gun arm. Now, sit down, Wilson.

But we never got paid a red cent for all our sweat anyway. Pop for Nada.

I mean, that was only because we were on the losing side, huh?

Now, you remember Benitez down Sonora Way?

And then there was Zapata. God, that Mexican got fired.

Man, he was a lacious asshole.

Well, I remember, oh, yeah, Zapata. Sure.

You remember that one time we went down?

No, no, you're talking about something else.

You didn't know what it was. Zapata? That was that dwarf from Mexico.

He rode with Zapata.

I wasn't a dwarf. Wilson had to be just a very short woman.

He's at his at night. She wore the Chinese in jail.

I had a fun with a hat too.

Remember? Oh, yeah. With a contrabell for a hat band? That's the one.

Lightning getting to you, pardon?

Yeah, John.

Fine.

How about you? Oh, sure.

Memories come flooding back in, doesn't it?

Listen, I never did think too hard on it before, but it must be tough being handed

to all the paperwork for a bunch of while is us. Sorry, not sure.

Yeah, John, it is difficult sometimes dealing with the ranch, the agency,

the partners, in our logical fashion.

Yeah, I guess we ain't the most logical group of men.

Well, I've got department up to you.

Maybe that old logic got too tight to hold on you, though.

I'll tell you. Perhaps.

I tell you, John, when I grew up in the sanity and pain with the ruler today,

logic helped me survive.

Took a look at myself and saw exactly what it was, a black man and a white man's world.

Not best situations.

But I taught that young Isaiah to deal with it, start dreaming,

and start working with what he had.

A brain.

I'll have a much new sharpener than that brain.

Ever since I know, John, Isaiah, you know that.

I know.

It could be you could take the same whet stone to your heart, though.

Maybe you should open up a little.

Get a little crazy.

Robert Abag?

Not William Hike, Brady.

You get some sleep, Margaret.

Yeah.

Sixty.

Seven.

Eight.

Eight.

No.

Eight.

Seven.

I got it.

It was the duel.

All over again it was, it was, it was, it was so real.

I, I could taste it.

The event that sent me running west.

I, I thought that I had locked it away forever.

Especially out there.

I met you four crazy men.

Hey, now wait just a couple of minutes, Darius.

I'd locked away the, the crazy in me because, because someone had to be logical.

Logical.

So I took on the job.

I think maybe you ought to, just set rest.

No, no, no, no, no, please just, just listen to me.

The man I once was in that duel returned tonight.

And he knows what we should do.

What?

Where, where you should go?

Where's that, Isaiah?

Orleans.

What in place is for, brother?

Very treasure, brother wolves, and that's what for.

Very treasure, very treasure.

I was a little bit scared.

Gambling was my business and I was good enough to win more times than I lost.

There weren't many banks in those days who weren't going to form a slave turned gambling, so I did the next best thing.

Come on, Lord, Isaiah.

That's where your strong box is buried.

Deshaar.

Huh?

What?

Well, if you think we've come all this distance to be deterred, gentlemen, you are wrong.

I've learned that fate does not operate that way.

There's the tree I used to guide me to my cash.

Mark is still on it, still pointing the way.

Enough gold to solve all our problems.

Hot burn in the day.

You just keep running, Dream and Isaiah, it becomes you.

The Lord take it the way, and then he gives it right back.

I'll keep it down, Wolfson.

Look, it's just like it's the weekend and them two security guards are on duty.

That's only two.

And what are we waiting for?

Let us buy as a plan.

Give me that car key, you drunken waltz.

Come here!

My little Helen!

Wow, give me that piece or I'll bring you with this bottle!

Look at that map that they got on.

Must be a movie or a TV show shooting around here.

Some cowboy thing, probably.

Grab this!

Listen here, Wolfson.

You're not supposed to hit me until they get up and I'll break my neck.

Here, I'll break my neck.

Oh!

What?

Aah!

Where's your cell, pizel?

It's got ya.

And a boy, kid, get mad.

Uh, 12, 13, 14.

14 paces due east, huh?

And four feet deep.

This is where we dig.

You don't ever tell this boy twice.

One more chance.

Give me them keys.

Oh, you can't do that.

You see, when a kid sees a key, yeah, I'm gonna kill him.

Uh, listen, excuse us.

Kids, plumb loco.

Can we come in here and get them car keys?

Help yourself.

I sure ain't gonna go rooting around in all that dirt.

Boy, this ground is harder than a miser's heart, ice.

Won't be long now.

Getting close, I can feel it.

Right.

Not again.

Come on, we got a fish to fry.

Who's that?

Who are they after?

I don't know.

I think we better quit this play act and find these keys.

Real quick.

Where he am?

Freeze!

Ah!

Would you stop?

Let me go.

Let me go.

Ice, come on.

Oh!

Oh!

Stop it.

Oh!

Come on, ice.

Stop it!

Let go!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Isaiah, make Adams.

That's your service.

Nicole Bellion.

Thank you.

It's time and a place for everything in this, ain't it?

You can't do anything gentle, can you?

No.

John, that's enough treasure, honey.

Come on, we gotta get out of here.

We cannot get out of here because we cannot start the car.

Because your brother William threw the keys too good.

Part of the plan wasn't it, Sheriff?

Why you did not throw him out of the territory?

Newman.

That's them, that's them.

Blowing away, even twitch.

You heard him?

One move and I'll blow you away.

Damn, radios.

Progress.

Get the cops.

And call Mr. Dijar, tell them we caught her again.

And five of her friends.

Dijar.

What is it about the name Dijar?

It rubbed you so wrong.

Family only as a slave.

The man I killed on the field of honor, Francois Dijar.

Maggie was just more than good of you.

Come all this way to post a bail bond.

Do us both in favor, John.

Don't munch.

Nobody was stolen, Avi Maggie.

I mean, it was a stolen thing to do.

A stolen gesture of true friendship.

Should have just busted out and we wouldn't get blagged to no one.

Maggie, he's just jossing.

He's right about one thing.

We are really obliged to you.

And listen, Isaiah drew up this here, I owe you.

And we all sound our names to it, even Miss Bailey.

Total came to $5,400.

That's what we owe you.

I do not need an I owe you from friends I would trust with my life.

But there is something I do need.

I have always wanted to visit New Orleans, John, but I never had the time.

And after Tom died, I never had a...

Well, there wasn't a right person to see him with.

Well, you see, there's one thing you don't understand, Maggie.

You see, this job come up so sudden that there wasn't time to think of things like excursions.

Bourbon Street is two blocks from here.

What?

The French Quarter, Tennessee Williams.

A streetcar named Isaiah, John.

Tennessee Williams, he a law man or a renegade, Maggie.

I'm serious, John!

Sorry, Maggie, the source is not any time.

How long do I have to remain here?

24 hours.

Duty calls in Houston.

And there was no time to plan an excursion.

Just one day to see it all.

But no, I won't see any of it.

Nope.

Instead, I will just lock myself in my hotel room and pat.

I have a better suggestion, Lieutenant Randall.

Come to dinner.

All of you.

A real, live, cage and dinner.

I know the place where you can at least get the taste of my city.

Well now, Miss Bishop.

I'm sure we're all interested and curious as to why our trails cross the Ted Buildensite.

The story begins with a brand new architect and the man who signed the complaint against

us for trespassing and assault.

Francois Desjard.

No.

Francois was the great grandfather.

This Desjard is Patrick.

My mentor.

My thought. My patron.

It was Patrick who gave me my first new commission to design a new building, a new wing at the

State College.

It was my big chance to prove my talent, you know, my worth.

And that's just what you did.

Showed what a young black female architect could do.

Well, no, wait. There's more, Maggie.

Oh, pardon me, Miss, but it sounds to me like you're describing someone waiting for an ambush or a bushwhacking.

Oh, yes.

I was bushwhacked, all right.

Desjard Development funded the project.

Desjard Construction provided the material.

Inferior, steel, concrete, everything inferior.

And Desjard himself profited by millions.

I didn't know.

But I should have.

The building collapsed.

And 23 people died.

Both of them kids.

These attorneys claim that it was design fault, not material.

My fault.

I wasn't prosecuted, but I'm at it all up in.

So that's why you were on his construction side.

He could catch him at it, document the facts, pay him back.

I can never pay him back.

Never.

But I can stop him.

I can stop it from happening again and it will.

And more people will die.

And less.

Less.

Gentlemen, I think it's time to go.

Times take you home, honey.

In Francois Patrick makes no difference.

A man who owned me a modern version of same.

Desjard will never change.

Exploiting human flesh.

Exploiting the lives of men and women for money.

And still, my enemy after a hundred years.

What's your pleasure, brother?

Brother Hashi.

When we recover the strong box,

we'll give a portion of the goal to Nicole.

To beat Desjard for good.

Your enemies are enemy.

We'll cover any play you got in mind.

Thank you, gentlemen.

I thank you all.

I'll say you.

Keep a tight rain, partner.

Don't let this anger of yours break into a gallop.

I'll try, John.

Meg, time has come.

We must discover the night life in this year's cage in city.

For us to stroll down that there bourbon street of yours.

My, my, my, Mr. Crayle.

What a charm and way to keep me occupied.

And in the dark about this case of yours.

Now, Maggie, if I told you all the details,

some of which are rather shady,

it would be your duty as an officer of the law.

Say no more. You got a deal.

Tomorrow, I am back to Houston.

But tonight, it's Bourbon Street.

And of course I'll make sure we get back to your hotel room early,

because you got a plane to catch.

Well, that's all.

I was hoping you'd say that.

Well, it appears the snake got to the egg before us.

It's like the Lord's having a laugh at our expenses all.

The laugh had me more likely.

I assumed our little excavation wouldn't be noticed.

You reckon that fella down there with him look like girls is a dujar?

Any family resemblance?

He's a dujar, all right.

Being Bill, well, trailing.

Mint condition.

And worth the fortune.

I already have a fortune.

Paul here sees too would I make more every day.

Not to mention keeping with my dear departed ancestors,

so kindly left me like this land here.

Paul helped me figure out the funding when we tore the old place down.

Yes, I remember. Beautiful home.

Exquisite. Free civil war.

What come, barn? It's ugly.

Looks like something out of town with the wind.

Bill's?

We're at the foolish, Patrick.

For a few dollars worth of drugs your friends here would tell the world what's in that box.

Now, I'm not sure about our tax position.

And that, Paul, is your job. Plus the protection of my person.

Not telling me how to enjoy myself.

Enjoying myself and making money is what I am good at.

You're undoubtedly right about that.

Costa, Stephen.

You'll pay for this.

You have my personal wit on that, sir.

This was enough payment.

Over here. At least for now.

It's not giving us anything else. You boys just might wind up dead.

You got our personal words on that.

Ladies are doing business with you.

You can keep the box.

You folks enjoy the rest of this fine afternoon, all right?

Ladies, please.

Well, Harlan, what'll be enough to keep us moving on the ball, Raul?

All we got to do is find us a coin merchant who is honest.

That's the tough part.

Two words, honest and merchant. They don't fit together so well these days.

We don't think that's the truth.

We were thinking we'll go on ahead and you better stay here.

You know, polish up on the plan a little.

Oh, there's gold. It's a weird to see gold.

Don't fretch yourself, Miss.

Everything's going to be just fine.

You won't keep telling me that, but...

Well, we've got nothing else to tell you.

Nothing much that you'd believe anyway.

But if the truth could be told, man, you'd just know you were in good hands.

Experience, anyway. Good day, ma'am.

Mr. Grayle mentioned a plan, Isaiah.

Am I allowed to know at least that much?

Certainly, Nicole. It's all very simple.

Mr. Grayle and I will meet Mr. Dejard.

Represent ourselves as dealers in an extremely cheap construction material.

And catching with his own greed.

You can coach us with anything we need to know in terms of terminology, etc.

An Harlan, Billy and Wolf.

They have the callous in of the plan.

They'll hire on his day laborers at the construction site where we first met.

You can't be serious, Isaiah.

Dejard, and especially his assistant, Paul Malay, are...

...very experienced in the business of corruption.

They'll check up on you. You won't have a chance.

What makes you so certain?

Because you, Grayle, the others, you're good.

You're strong. You're loyal. Dejard is a thief.

Maybe even a murderer.

A thief always knows another thief.

And none of you fit the mold. In fact...

...you're not like anyone I've known before.

You, especially, you are not like any man that I have met in my life.

But...

...I like that difference in you, Isaiah.

I don't want to see it destroyed.

He got to meet Dejard on his own ground, not my way, his way.

Why?

I know what my reasons are, Isaiah. What are yours?

His kind once-old me, once upon a time, tried to...

...change the spirit.

The only way to smash them forever...

...is to smash Dejard.

No, we need to see.

Do we have a line yet on these...

Texas operators?

Well, they've been spreading a lot of money around.

They say they have what anyone needs to build cheaply.

Well, business is business.

Every new day, connections popping up.

Uh, Paul, one of them is black.

I know, Patrick, don't worry.

I'm still checking.

Just to work with, so probably means lunch.

I think you're right, Harlan.

Boy, I'm glad I'm hungry as a wolf.

You got the pictures? Just shut off the camera.

I can't, Harlan.

Hmm, got some good grab today, boys. Mexican.

Now more of that change in firing the former crawfish.

Now what's the matter, Billy? You don't like Mexican?

No, it ain't bad. It's just...

It's just all this undercover stuff.

You know, all this junk, these silly plastic hats,

the hammers, instead of guns.

It ain't an absolute nut. It can make me feel like a fool.

Would you do look pretty silly?

But then, so do I. I mean, with my big head, no.

Here's your check, Nash.

Where do three clowns come from?

Day labor, I don't know.

Company hires them, and I just work them and pay them.

You and me got to have a talk.

Well, well, well.

According to these inventory sheets,

you boys have just about anything a civic spirit

to develop a lack myself could possibly want.

And very good prices.

Better prices, in fact, than I could get from anywhere else.

Or from anyone else.

Absolutely right.

Then we have a deal.

Paul? Do we have a deal?

I don't know, Patrick. How does it look to you?

Like a piece of cheese looks to a hungry rat.

A rat too hungry to notice the trap.

That's the way you feel, Mr. Dejard.

We can take our inventory elsewhere.

No, no, no. Don't be such a hurry to run off.

I was just joking just a little bit of Louisiana humor. That's all.

Yeah, let me sue the tall Texas pride.

Girls? Front and center?

Coon, coon.

Now, Paul here says that these two little bitty pretty things

do just about anything for a few dollars worth of drugs.

Well, just for a few dollars.

Now, to show our good faith in this new business venture,

I want you boys to take your pick.

Now, now, girls, don't fight the inevitable.

Oh, you're hurtin' me.

They just a bit shy in the beginning, but in the end,

they always will.

Hmm?

It's just a darn enough of that, mister.

More than enough.

A-ha! Unmassed by your own ethics.

Girls, behold, the good guys.

Paul, the floor is yours.

What we want to know is your real names, Mr. Graham,

and who you work for.

Oh, we also want to know about a dozen bags of gold coins.

We're stolen from here the other day by five men on horseback.

Could very easily have been Texans.

Is it time, mister Graham?

It's time, mister McAdams.

Open the cole.

Throw that little itty-bitty gun in the pool.

There'll be here in a minute.

I think it is time to...

To retreat.

Let's go!

I had a little talk with these boys here.

They decided to keep on workin' every day,

rather than let you and that crazy black chick put the skids on this job.

So why don't you just give up whatever evidence you got and leave intact?

I'm afraid give up just any part of our vocabulary, mister.

That's telling them, Harlan.

Hey, boys.

Okay.

Stay there.

Stop it!

Time to go!

Oh, come on, warprettin'.

Well, I know how you feel, man.

Last time I run away was a Gettysburg.

Now why don't make me feel one damn bit better, John?

Well, if we'd just been ourselves, it would have been a lot different.

Every dog has his day and we're gonna have hours you can depend on it.

You know, Wolf's right.

We're gonna stop feelin' sorry for ourselves.

We're gonna finish licking our wounds and get back to basics.

Amen.

Now, you go to your mother's house and you hear from us, or...

Don't you dare finish that sentence, Isaiah.

Please, I don't want anything to happen to you.

Sister Part, will you say, be careful?

Well, I was going to, but not now.

This I have to do.

Whoops.

Excuse me, man.

Mr. McCatham, so you comin' to stay in?

I mean, we could do this without you, you know.

Right behind you, Mr. Hill.

Right behind you.

I could just see the look on Mallory's face right now.

That's like your bad boy.

Keep goin' off all by yourself like that.

You must be protected at all times. You have enemies.

But I like my enemies.

I want my enemies.

At least you know where you stand with the enemies.

It's not right, Dad.

If you say so, Patrick.

Enemies are fun. They're exciting.

To a point, of course.

I take these Texans, for instance.

They got my heart pumping. They got my blood going boom, boom, boom.

You like it when my blood's going boom, boom, boom.

Don't you, Tony?

Patrick.

I know you're concentrating on your driving speed.

That's all very good, honey.

But just nod your head up and down.

Patrick?

What?

I'm not a kid.

Are you sure we want to send this invitation?

Harlan, the animal has two heads.

We're gonna chop off both of them.

Ladies, I want you to make sure this note gets to Mr. Malay.

Post-haste.

That means as quick as possible.

Comprendo.

Sir, I take pain in hand to inform you of your employer's kidnapping.

By the Undesign and his associates.

By the time you read this, we will be well into the process of the program.

I'm not sure if you're a kid.

If you read this, we will be well into the process of extracting a confession from Mr. D'Jai.

Detailing is legal.

And, nip, how do you spell nefarious?

Activities, which will, no doubt, include your own.

You have two choices, sir.

You can run, or you can gather your associates together and meet us face-to-face at the place indicated on the map.

See to the horse, William?

Come on down here, mister.

What is this, Graham? Whatever your name is. What are you doing?

The name is Jonathan Gray, oh, mister.

These are my friends and associates, Harlan Pike and his brother, William.

Now, over here, we have mister Wolfson Lucas.

And beyond him, mister Isaiah McCallum's.

Your challenger.

Now, what?

Your challenger.

Sir.

In the name of those you have hurt and killed.

D'Jai, the hundreds your family has squeezed the lifeblood from I call you, coward.

Suit, liar, murderer.

I challenge you to prove otherwise.

You're all out of your minds.

If you're high, well, act as your second.

Mr. Grayo will represent Mr. McCallum's.

Second.

What the hell are you talking about?

Choose your weapon and stop jawed, mister.

Get eight, manly.

Choose my weapon.

Or you can sign this confession.

Written by Miss Nicole Bailey.

As you can see, she goes into quite a bit of detail.

We understand that if you sign the confession, Mr. McCallum's honor will be satisfied.

But if you don't, Mr. McCallum's gonna blow your fool head off.

We're there, blessing.

Then again, you might win.

If such is the case, you may go free.

You've got the old heart pumping now, don't you?

Black.

Beauty, you.

Well...

Hell, with your confession!

Let's do it.

Hey, man.

Slow and easy.

Put all the way.

To the hilt.

Gentlemen, where do your weapon?

Take ten paces full.

You'll turn your far, mister.

One, two, three, four, five.

Ice?

I can continue, gentlemen.

A sign!

Please, don't.

Please, don't.

Please, God, don't.

A sign.

What's your pleasure, mister, my dear?

Chains are broken.

They're here!

Ten on them, coming fast.

Pretty much got us surrounded.

Right that night.

Misa can't get away.

You gave them what they wanted, didn't you?

I had to.

You weren't here.

I didn't know what to do, Paul.

Oh, you don't understand these Texans or whatever the hell they are.

They're crazy, Paul.

They forced me into a door.

You put a rope around their necks.

Mr. Lai, you're a good guy.

I'm a good guy.

Mr. Lai, come on.

Come on, Paul.

It's going down some, Mr. Pike.

Now, that'll be the day, Mr. McCatham's.

Shit will have to have Miss Ann.

Why me?

Why'd you have to come down on me?

The answer to that, Mr. Dejar,

is that a language of man like you will never understand.

A great grandfather didn't understand it either.

Am I who?

A great grandfather was killed by us.

Oh, my God.

He died here.

This is where it all happened.

Yeah.

Very true.

He was killed by a slave he once owned.

But you, Mr. Dejar,

have been defeated by a free man.

A free man.

The hell are you?

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