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Do you require
a drink in the morning?

Do you prefer or like to drink alone?

Do you crave a drink at
a definite time daily?

Is your drinking harming
your family in any way?

Do you lose time from
work due to drinking?

Ruben, you
ever read any of these articles

they write about you?

Do you continue drinking?

- Yeah, I read 'em.

You boys got the wrong fella.

I just like to catch bad guys
and kick the shit out of 'em.

- I like that.

- That's your legend, boys.

A bunch of busted knuckles.

Can make you careless.

- Got a carcass here
with five holes in it.

Kick my ribs in maybe 13 times.

- There, you have it.

You probably have a thousand
stories to tell us about it.

- See, that's kind of
stuff we wanna get on tape,

cop stories, war stories.

Go off somewhere, talk into the recorder.

We'll pay you for it.

- Hey look, it's very simple.

I catch bad guys.

I kick the shit out of them.
I throw 'em in the can.

The faggot judges let 'em out again.

I quit!

And three, a clear head.

- Fellow citizens of Bannon County,

welcome to the courthouse lawn today.

We're here for a very special reason,

and that is to welcome

our new elected sheriff, Harriet Purdue.

Let's have a hand.

Harriet, would you join
us up here, please?

I want you to put your
left hand on the Bible.

Raise your right hand and repeat after me.

State your full name.

- I, Harriet Iona Purdue.

- Do solemnly swear to hold the laws

of Bannon County and
the state of Colorado.

- Do solemnly swear to uphold the laws

of Bannon County and
the state of Colorado.

- And to fulfill the
responsibilities of the office

to which I've been elected.

- And to fulfill the
responsibilities of the office

to which I've been elected.

To the best of my
ability, so help me, God.

- To the best of my
ability, so help me God.

All right, make it official.

Here, you go ahead and do that.

All right!

Four and a quarter.

- Keep it.

Thanks.

- Come on, asshole, give
me something to hit.

Hi.

- Mackenzie, I'm releasing
you to your father's custody.

- Great, I'll just run away again,

and wind up in here, a cinch.

- I quit drinking.

I'm through being a cop.

Hey, see I've been in
the hospital and I --

- You got shot again?

- Yeah, but oh, that
was a couple months ago.

I, this hospital's for sobering up.

Anyway ah, I'm gonna get
a trailer and set it up,

and I wanna go to Colorado.

Yeah.

Second damn one, you
know, identical, same holes.

- Why didn't you report the first one?

- One ain't no trend, honey, ah, Sheriff.

You got any enemies, Carl?

- No, but I'm gonna shoot
somebody if I catch 'em at this.

- No, Carl, don't shoot anybody.

No tracks.

No ma'am,
whatever tore that cow up

didn't leave any signs.

- You get a good amount of coyotes?

- Not unless they used a knife, Harriet.

No, looks to me like somebody's
been operating on this cow.

It's just like surgery and
damn precise surgery too.

- Same as the other one we had.

Look at this ass end.

Like it was drilled!

Well, I'd like to
see what else is missing,

'cause there doesn't seem to be any blood.

Joe, what are you doing here?

- That fella down at the
filling station says, uh,

got a little problem up here.

Seems somebody's killing your cows.

We're lost.

No, we're not.

Yeah, we are lost.

We take the interstate,

we'll be in Colorado tomorrow.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

- What are you grinnin' at?

- Nothing!

- You're 16, that guy's 30 years old.

- So what, my mother was 16
when she married you, right?

- So what?

- Yeah, so I like older men.

They remind me of the father I never had.

- Oh yeah, yeah, well
you got one now, kid.

And he says the first
older man you look at, pow!

- Buttes, mutilations.

I've been on the phone

calling other newspapers around the state,

and we've had a fair
amount of these sprinkled

through the cattle country in Colorado.

I'm waiting for some reports.

Oklahoma and Texas.

Nobody seems to know what's causing it.

You know, uh,

my wife's been reading
articles about this stuff

and she's under the opinion

that it's probably a devil cultist.

- But Fred, there's really no
evidence it points to that.

- And look, this happens at night,

so why don't we just send a patrol?

The gun club where I shoot?

Hell, we'll organize something,
go after these cults.

I don't wanna hear
any talk about gun clubs

or night patrols.

I am the law here.

Look, even if it is some kind of cult,

they're still people, right?

I mean, they have to drive
there or they have to walk.

They have to leave some kind of tracks.

And there have been no tracks.

Also, the last carcass that I saw,

within 24 hours, all of the
vital organs had disappeared.

Now, I don't mean cut out,
like with the rest of these.

I mean, vanished.

Evaporated.

- That's a good time to bring this up.

George Bradshaw's under the opinion

that it's probably a UFO.

Was that before

or after he's chugged the brandy?

- Look, I'm just telling
you what he told me,

and I think it's pertinent
to this conversation.

- I don't think we ought
to be spreading theories

about UFOs.

- That's really enough
of this stuff, all right?

Now how many are we talking
about here? What, two or three?

- Six, I think.

Four.

- Four?
- Four.

Well, I think we ought to give the sheriff

a chance to look into this. Okay?

That's part of her job.

Let's not be jumping to conclusions here.

I'm sure there's a simple
explanation for this, Mayor.

Right?

We have a lot more problems around here

than a few dead cows.

Morning, Sheriff.

- Hi, can I help you?

- Yeah.

I have an appointment
with Mr. Burnside.

Harriet Purdue.

- Well, I'm sorry, honey.

But that secretarial
position's been filled.

- Sheriff Harriet Purdue
from Bannon County.

According to this report, our
cows died of natural causes.

- That's correct.

- Mr Burnside, I want
some straight answers.

Not this.

- I have given you answers.

And they comply with
results from Wyoming, Texas,

and a scientific laboratory in Los Alamos.

- Am I making you nervous?

- No. I just have a great
deal of other work to do.

- Listen, do you know anything about cows?

- Very little, I'm afraid.

- Well, my people do.

See, that's their entire existence.

- I understand.
- Well, right now,

that existence is being threatened

by anything from, who knows what, to UFOs.

But it's not predators.

- We look at things
logically, not emotionally.

If you believe in UFOs, it's okay with me.

But if it's UFOs
attacking these carcasses,

that is beyond the realm of
my department's activity.

I'm,

I'm going to need that.

But I'd be happy to make you
a copy, if you'll excuse me.

Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.

Oh, don't make me blue.

Oh, don't make me blue.

- Spinoza. Spinoza was a scumbag.

The kind of guy would beat up his wife

and make her clean up the mess.

I like that. You know,
it's kind of colorful.

- Jesus! You all right?

Yeah.

Shit.

Damn!

All right. Remember that
gas station we passed?

Go back and see if they
got a tow truck, all right?

Okay.

Sheriff,
will you sign this, please?

What's your name?

- Willie McCovey.

- Where are you, Mac?

Jesus!

It was a dark and cold rainy night.

And I had two flat tires.

Hey, listen, we got a little problem here.

You got a jack we could --

The hell's going on?

What did you do, huh?

- She ran into me.
- What?

- She ran into me.
- You Mr McCovey?

- Covey?

- Said her name was Willie McCovey.

- That's great.

She tell you her batting average too?

Her name is Mackenzie. I'm Ruben Castle.

- If you'll get in, we can
settle this in my office.

- Look, Sheriff --

- I didn't ask to see your wallet, sir.

- Sheriff, look, I'm a
cop, I know the score.

Why don't you just let
her outta there, huh?

- I'm issuing your daughter a citation.

- Hey, what did I tell you
about hot rodding, huh?

- For driving without
proper identification.

- Can you just let her out of
there before I lose my temper?

- Castle, right?

C-A-S-T-L-E?
- Yeah, that's it.

Lieutenant Castle!

Look, all right.

I'll give you a hundred
bucks for the fender and, er,

50 for the beauty parlor, whatever.

- Watch your head.

Are you gonna be staying
somewhere locally?

As a courtesy to your profession,
I will get an estimate.

County will take a check.

- C'mon.
- Just a second.

You would just sign
right here, please, sir.

- I got a friend, Joe Hiatt.

He's a newspaper guy.
Owns the Buffalo Couch,

or something like that.

- Buffalo Citizens Funeral.

I know Mr. Hiatt.

You might try Driver's
education next, Mackenzie,

- Love the way you wear your gun, sir.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Look, uh, Sheriff, uh,

why don't you just call us a tow truck

and we'll, uh, we'll find a trailer park

and then we won't bother
you any more. All right?

Wanna smoke?

- No, I quit.

There's a trailer park
near the baseball diamond.

- Baseball diamonds?

Yeah.

You got any good restaurants around here?

Nope. Around here,

we seem to like lousy restaurants.

- Dad, you're off duty now.

- What'd you say?
- You're off.

- Yeah, uh-huh.

- Here you go.
- Oh, hi.

Would you like something from the bar

while you look at the menu?

- Coke, please.

- I'll have a beer.

- No drinking, you said!

- Yeah, right. Make it a couple of Cokes.

- That's it!

All right, Wes.
Take it outside.

Wesley, I told you!

- Get out!

Get some ice for his nose!

- I live with these
people day in and day out.

They pay my salary.

They don't expect to
get their heads busted

just because they get
drunk on a Friday night.

- Could have sworn I did you a favor.

- I've known that man
since I was a kid.

I consider him a friend of mine, okay?

- Guess there's some things
I don't know these days.

- Hey, you want some money?

Nah, you
already gave me some.

- All right.

Hey, if you need me,
I'll be at Joe Hiatt's.

- Yeah!

How do you get in there?

- Right around here and
back there by the dug out.

Hey, wait a minute.

You must be new around here.

'Cause well,

I know just about everybody in town.

It's part of my job.

- Look, I'm not crazy about cops, okay?

- Well, I'm not a cop!
I'm a deputy sheriff.

I'd like to file a complaint.

The news boy keeps throwing
my paper in the mud puddle.

And how come you guys
don't run the box course?

How am I gonna follow the Mets, huh?

Ruben!

- Joseph! How are ya, pal?

Oh, the office.

Nice. Nice.

Not exactly the Times, but it's nice.

- It's so nice that too many nights,

I fall asleep at my desk.

So what do you do
for excitement around here?

Go down and watch the haircuts
in the barber shop, huh?

How you doing this morning?

Just waking up in the morning's exciting.

You gonna stay or not?

- I don't know. I don't need plans yet.

- Joe?
- How you doing?

- Hey, Joe.
- Right?

- It's like you're running for
office around here, Joseph.

- Yeah. Probably could.

- Hey, Joe Hiatt.

How are you, Fred? All right!

That's the mayor. He's got the office.

Where are we going?

Well, we can go to the
Busy Bee or we can not eat.

Good to go.

You know, the
thing that worries me is

that these guys are talking about

getting their gun patrols
together at night.

And we know what they're
gonna be doing today.

Shooting each other's heads off.

You see how
everybody likes you?

- Good to support your local sheriff.

Look, I agree with you.

- I understand you did just that

in the Buffalo Bar last night.

- Yeah, for all the good it did me.

Who's the dude?

- Oh, that's Ben Morgan.

Cattleman's Association.

He runs the town. He's not a bad guy.

- Nice hat.

Who's that guy over there with Joe Hiatt?

- Oh, he's a friend of
Hiatt's from New York.

Policeman.

- What's he doing here?

It's good to be Sheriff.

- Oh, he's on vacation, I think.

He's got his teenage daughter with him.

She can't drive worth a damn.

She hit my Bronco yesterday.

- Great.

First female paratrooper.

Hey, Joe.

- Ben!
- How you doing?

- I'd like you to meet a
friend of mine from New York.

Another escapee from the big city.

Ruben Castle, Ben Morgan.

- Hello, Ruben.
- Ben.

- I think you and the
sheriff are old friends.

- Oh, yes.

- You'll never go back, you know.

- Pardon me?
- The big city.

- Well, that's the general idea.

All right. Nice
to meet you. See you, Joe.

- Does she ever wear a dress?

- So I walked up to the big man

and I jammed a gun in his ear.

I said, if any of his boys
touched one of my friends again,

he was gonna pay for it.

Verbatim, I said,

"You got a right to remain silent, pal,

"If you think you can stand the pain."

No, no, no.

Verbatim, I said,

"I'm adding your brains
to the wallpaper, fatso."

Can I borrow the car?

I'm going out for dinner.

- Going out? What about these steaks?

Who you going out with?

Jesus. You dressed like that?

- I met a guy, a friend.

- Met a guy, huh?

You make friends pretty quick.

- The car. Yes or no?

- One condition.
- What?

- You tell your friend,

he lays one hand on you,
I'm gonna hurt him bad.

- Yeah, that'll get the
evening off to a great start.

In the news,

state government employees will be able to

negotiate agency shop contracts

under a bill approved by the legislature's

labor committee today.

That bill now goes to
the finance committee

for its approval.

And in Harris County tonight,

the body of an unidentified teenager

has been found in a storm
drain just outside of Denver.

The body was unclothed

and apparently had not been
in the sewer very long.

- Boy or girl?

Police
described the young boy

as being five feet, eight inches tall,

16 to 18 years old with brown hair.

Wayne, what
time do you get off?

I'll be off
in about a half hour.

Yeah. Well, you're here.

Put that goddamn tie on!

You've been on my ass
for two months now.

- Well, good night, guys.

Huh? Night, Harriet.

- What's Chester's
Bronco doing still here?

- Oh,

well he had a date with a hot little chick

who didn't wanna be seen in
the sheriff's van.

♪ Seasons come and always go ♪

♪ My feelings never show ♪

♪ Can you listen to the
cry of a heart of me? ♪

- You're the first official jogger

ever seen on the streets
of Buffalo, Lieutenant.

- Hey, lady sheriff.

It's not against the law is it?

You're not gonna take me in, are you?

- You always run this late at night?

- Well, uh,

there is another exercise I prefer,

but it takes a volunteer.

- It's cold. You wanna ride?

- Sure, why not.

♪ All I go to do is run away and hide ♪

- You haven't see my
daughter around, have you?

- No. Why, she missing?

- She'd say I was the one missing.

- Why would she say you
were missing, Lieutenant?

- Well, it's tough for a kid like Mac

without a mother to help
her grow up, you know?

- Hey. Hey.

How old are you?

- 19.

- No, really?

- Chicken.

- Mac.

Where you going?

- So, how do you like chasing bad guys?

- Oh, we don't have many bad guys

out here in the sticks, Lieutenant.

- Lesson number one, there
are bad guys everywhere.

- All those years on the streets

made you a little paranoid, huh?

- Well, that's number two.

A little paranoia never hurt anybody.

A little piece of lead on the other hand

can be a real pain in the ass.

- So you've been shot at.

At.

Honey, I've been shot at more
times than you've been laid.

Probably.

Yeah. This is Deputy Gordon.

Who's out there tonight?

- Yeah. Bobby, it's me.

Harry. There's
a fire at Ivy's ranch.

We called the fire department
and we're on our way.

- Okay, I'll meet you there.

Sorry. It's the other direction.

Let's go.

See that?

Looks like a barn fire.

Bet that's who did it.

Let's go get him.

Our prize
bull is stuck in there!

- You can write this one off.

Hey!

Harriet! Hey!

Harriet!

Harriet!

Harriet!

Harriet!

You're either very dumb or very brave.

- Is that bull all right?

- About medium rare.

- See that?

What?

That.

Jeez, I wish I had my gun.

- Under the seat.

Okay chumps,
outta the car real slow.

- Cattle mutilations. Barn burnings.

Sheriff, I'm afraid it's
going to be a little difficult

defending these boys.

They're, er, confessing to everything.

- So who are you?

- I beg your pardon?
- Er, Mr Isaacs,

could you wait for me
up in my office, please?

Thank you.

Don't do that!

- Do what?

- Interfere with my case.

He's a lawyer. He's here posting bail.

Hurry up, Joe.

Or I'll charge your
rent on the typewriter.

- Good work, Harry.

Now you're talking.

Get these scum behind bars.

- Bobby, I want everybody
outta here in two minutes.

Everybody.

Right, Harry.

- You know that lawyer?

- Never saw him before.

- What do you think?

- Wouldn't want him defending me!

- Bobby, you mind if I
offer the boys a smoke?

- Yeah. It's okay.

But I light 'em.

- So, why'd you do it?

- Ask my lawyer.

- Tough guy. Everybody's a tough guy.

Wanna smoke?

- What?

- Wanna smoke?
- Nah.

- Mind if I smoke?

- It's your fuckin' business.

- And yours is cutting up cows, huh?

- Nothing but paperwork.

- What do you think, Hiatt?

- You know what I think.

- Yeah, I know.

- Told you you'd get
to the bottom of this,

just stick to straightforward police work.

- Those two couldn't mutilate a hot dog

without leaving tracks.

This devil cult stuff is
just to throw you off.

Better keep looking, Sheriff.

- You know, on almost every case.

Bright lights in the sky, no tracks.

Strange noises.

- UFOs, huh?

- Look, pal, if it's UFOs,

it's bigger than all of us.

That's like saying God did
it. But if it's not UFOs --

- God damn it Joey, just
leave me out of this, huh?

- You don't wanna be
left out of it, Ruben.

You know that and I know that,

- Yeah, we do, huh?

Okay, fine.

Just walk away from it.

- Um, Mr Hiatt.

You know that trick you were showing me?

- Yeah.

- I can't do it.

- Okay, one more time.

- Hey, look at that, magic.

- Right, magic. But there's
always a logical explanation.

- Yeah, right.

- Hey, Janet asked me to spend the night

and go horseback riding tomorrow. Can I?

- Please, Mr Castle?

- Yeah, sure.

Of course.

- Hi. Good.

- It's the first time she
ever asked. Usually I'm told.

Did you bake this?

- Well, I bought it.

You bought one
piece? What about my piece?

- You already had your piece.

- What?

If you take all my pants in

so I never have to stop eating again?

- Yeah.

- Then I'll take your pants in.

There we have it, we're
running around with no pants.

- Marriage, God.

How about half?
Can I have half of this?

- Oh, that was real nice, Joseph.

Good meal. You got a great wife.

She buys terrific cake.

- Oh, good.

You know, Ruben,

cows have got to be the most
blameless creatures on earth,

- Oh, cows, will you stop?

- I mean, we eat them, we
drink them, we wear them.

They don't bite.

Hell, they don't even
shit on the sidewalks.

Where'd you get this thing?

- That's the loaner.

Mac keeps customizing the Caddy.

- You know the most obscure thing

I've discovered about cows?

That their nervous systems
and the reproductive systems

are almost identical to humans'.

- Yeah, that's obscure, all right.

Hey Joe,

You're gonna figure this
one out all by yourself.

I'm sure of it.

Right. It's a piece of cake.

We need a
sheriff that can do the job.

- What'll it be, sir?

- Uh, beer.

And a double tequila.

He said there was parity

between the Soviets and the US.

There is still parity now,

but it is the United States' point of view

that this parity is dangerously
close to Russian superiority

without any domestic
debate or military policy,

the Soviets are moving
increasingly further beyond the US

in actual military strength.

Both nations' leaders will be faced

- Beer, please.
- with more complex weaponry,

and by far more delicate policy decisions.

- Oh, hey, am I under arrest?

What, can I come in anyway?

There's something I
wanna talk to you about,

It's very important.

You know something, you're,

you're very pretty with your hair down,

Miss Purdue.
- Thank you.

You seem to let your hair
down a little bit too.

- Something I want to talk to you about,

it's very important.

Yeah.

- What?
- Do you have a beer?

This is, yeah.

That was a nice save. You know?

- Thank you.

That was real nice.

- You really want, need that beer?

You know what I could really use?

- What?

- Cold shower.

Beautiful, beautiful brown.

Oh, don't make me blue.

Cows.

Are you ready for that?

- Uh, I'm just gonna put the
towels right here on the rack.

What's the matter?

Are you all right?

- Lieutenant? Are you all right?

Look, if you're feeling better,

please just get dressed and leave.

- I usually like to talk a
little after I've had sex.

Boys in the bar said you
were some kind of Amazon.

No, maybe just shy.

You'll be all right.

Weren't coupled with those
military police judo courses.

- You know, you come in here
drunk and you attack me.

- Thought you might like it.

- I might like to be asked.
- And what if I asked?

Not staying, Harriet.

Just passin' through.

A lot of people find me hard to digest.

What the hell?

You guys again.

Want a chase, huh?

- Your man never heard of any of this.

- It's not a theory anymore.

Look at this. They are
silent, practically.

Silent!

Almost.

Yeah, but what
I don't understand is --

What the hell is this, Hiatt?

"Silent helicopters." "High
technology operation."

"Extraordinary financing."

Joe, we're talking about dead cows here.

You're gonna scare the
bejesus out of people.

What is this?

- Ben, it's just speculation.

He's been doing some research.

- Look, Joe,

consider this.

Just for the sake of argument,

let's say that you're right.

Don't you think it's
a little irresponsible

to be thinking out loud like this

on the editorial page of a newspaper?

- Where the hell else?

- Look, among the
pillars of the community,

the newspaper publisher --

- Oh, come on.

Don't lay that on me. Don't
incriminate me in that.

You'll be a pillar of the
community. You and Harriet.

I work for a living.

- Look, Ben, we all know
something is, is going on.

- Harry --
- He's just proposing

a theory, there's nothing wrong with that.

- Nice talking to you, Joe.

You know? Really nice.

Harry, could I see you
outside for a minute?

- Hiatt's a fool.

- He thinks he can come down here

and act like Mike Wallace
and get away with it.

- He's just doing his job, Ben.

- Look, never mind.

I'm gonna get a federal
investigator down here.

Somebody who knows what
he's talking about.

Looked at the man who looked
into this kind of stuff

down in Harris County.

We'll get this settled once and for all.

And don't you forget who you work for.

- I beg your pardon?

The voters of this county
elected me Sheriff.

- That's right, sweetheart.

And I know 75% of 'em
personally. You got that?

- Let's see what she does about this one.

She hasn't
done a damn thing yet.

- Harry!

Harry.

Hey. Excuse me.

We got some real trouble
back at the office.

You better come pretty quick.

- Harry?

What's the trouble, Ru?

- I don't know.

Listen, Joe, I want to talk to you.

- All right, talk to me later.
I'll meet you at the office.

- Excuse me.

Not very smart, boys.

Take a good
look at this, Harry.

I've seen one.

You're not the only one with a problem.

- Excuse me.

Oh, Christ. Not another one.

- Mr. Stearns, I want
you to take this one over

to Doc Emory's operating room.

Fred, I want you to do a necropsy on this.

Sure.

- God Almighty. Hey, I
gotta talk to you, please.

- What the hell's going on?

You gotta do something about this, okay?

- Fred, what do you think I'm doing?

Just, just do something about it now. Now!

Listen Joe, I'm
gonna be leaving in the morning.

- Can't leave now.

- I can't stay here, Joe.

It's the same old habits.

I get involved with a little police work.

I don't know when to stop.

- You're a good cop. I need you.

- Yeah, I'm a good cop.

Made a fool of myself in
front of your sheriff.

- She's a big girl,

- Anyway, I got my car fixed.

I'm gonna take Mac
fishing like I promised.

- Want some really good fishin'? Here.

- Cows, dead cows.

Let me know how this all comes out, huh?

I'll give you a call.

Hey Joe, you ever see a couple
of big grand company trucks

hauling ass on the highway?

Trans Grain Allied or something like that?

- No. Why?

- Well, last night after
Harry's, I followed a couple.

I'd seen 'em on the highway before.

They have big spoilers
on the front. Very fast.

I found myself about, I don't know,

five miles east of 99 on a dirt road.

There was a restricted entry
sign on the barb wire fence.

- That's NORAD Road.

That's where the old missile silos were.

- Missile silos?

- Yeah. I mean, we were
part of the defense system

from Canada down to Texas.
- Yeah.

- The Air Force abandoned
those about 10 years ago.

- Yeah.

I saw some kind of light underground.

Shouldn't be any power out there.

- Who owns that land?

- The government leases it
from one of the local ranchers.

- Who?

- I'll find out.

Uh, Mary?

Get me the courthouse, will you?

Er, titles and deeds.

- I'm gonna buy this damn
paper from you, Hiatt.

Oh, is that a fact?

- Look, there are a lot
of people around here

who don't like your viewpoint on things.

And I'm one of 'em.

- Well, I must be doing something right.

- I'll give you twice
what you've got in it.

Come on, Ben.

It's like putting a loaded
gun in the hands of a child.

- Hey, pal!

I fought in Korea, I flew B-52s in 'Nam!

I oughta know what's
good for this country!

Oh, you're a real American, Ben!

I ought to bust you in the mouth.

- Your B-52 is double parked.

Outside.

- Look at this kidney.

Feels like pudding.

- And look.

You can't do this in a normal carcass.

- Boyd, let me ask you something.

Can you pack me up some
samples and dry ice

that I can ship to an out-of-state lab?

- Okay.

- You've got some blood right there.

- Really? Damn!

20 Years without a bloody nose,

now I get three a week!

Put away all that kitchen stuff

and close the door so that
junk doesn't fall out.

Mind you don't slam your
bottom lip in that drawer.

- You bring me all the way out here.

You say, Hey, have a great time.

I tried to,

and you blow the whistle and
it's everybody out of the pool.

Just 'cause you don't have
the balls not to drink.

- You don't know what
you're talking about!

I had one lousy drink!

- Three.

I guess I came at a bad time.

I'm sorry to bother
you at night like this.

But I need to ask a favor. It's important.

What?

- Ruben?

Ruben, you're not leaving
because of last night,

are you?

- What's the favor?

- I need a very good,
very discreet pathologist.

Somebody not from around here.

- Sure, sheriff, I'll help you out.

Got one right here.

An old friend of mine, Jake
Ross, fix you right up.

Give him a call.

And here's a couple of junkies
that make great informants.

Here's a hospital where
I learned not to drink.

I was betting

he'd hang around you for a long time.

- Bye Mac. It was nice meeting you.

- Bye.

- Thank you very much for
the phone number, Lieutenant.

Maybe it'll help solve something.

- Anytime. Sarge.

Don't slam the fuckin' door.

♪ All I got to do is run away and hide ♪

- Sheriff!

Harry, listen.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I attacked you

and I'm sorry I can't hang
around and help you out.

But I,

I got her to worry about, and...

Shit.

11 Complete
games for Toledo last year

and we think he can help us

based on what he once taught us.

The ball was a little bit.,.

Deadly force?

I think not.

Deadly force is deadly force.

I swear, Mr Hiatt,

you work too damn hard.

- You two wanna say goodbye,
I'll take a hike, all right?

Hey Lieutenant.
Glad I caught you, sir.

Mr Hiatt.

He's dead, sir.

- What?

- Bobby? As soon as the
ambulance is ready to go,

you should drive over there.

- Harry? I'm truly sorry about this.

Look, if there's anything
I can do, I mean anything,

look, just call me.

- Where is he? What happened?

It was a heart attack!

- Are you the doctor?

I want an autopsy. I
want you to open him up.

I want to know what killed him!

Ruben, don't do this.

- That old hat's been
on many a fishing trip,

but we caught that hat
more than we caught fish.

I know it's not the time
to bring up business,

but if you need some help
running the paper,

I'll be glad to help you,
any way I can.

- At least it's been a pretty day.

- You want to talk to Morgan?
Do you want me to do it?

- Morgan? Why?

- Morgan hated Joey, threatened him.

I was there. I heard it.

- What?

- Never mind. I'll talk
to the bastard myself,

- Don't, you're not a law officer here.

And if you go around acting like one,

I'm gonna put you in jail, I swear.

- Don't worry about it, Sheriff.

I have no intention of acting like a cop.

- Harry?

Telephone call for you, long distance.

Hello?

Is that Sheriff Purdue?

- Yes.

- This is Dr Ross at the
new Amsterdam Pathology Lab

in New York.

- I think I should stay over
with Mrs Hiatt and Janet,

don't you?

- Yeah.

See you in a couple days.

Good kid.

The test results from
the cattle organ you sent me

were interesting.

Really? What'd you find?

- First, the incisions,

laser surgeries what I'd have to guess.

And we also found traces
of a rare bacterium.

Clostridia botulinum.

- What?
- Botulinum.

It's a poison. Extremely deadly.

And this particular
strand has been modified

by gene splicing.

- Where does it come from?

- Well, I'd never sign my name to this.

Lieutenant Castle did say
you wouldn't quote me.

No, I won't,

- Yes, well, er,

the only place I've ever
heard of it showing up was

in some germ warfare test

that the government was doing

back before this was all banned,

back in 1969 and 1970.

So what have you got going on out there?

- Yeah, lemme talk to Steele.

Uncle Ben, yeah.

Listen, you son of a bitch.

What do you think you're doing?

Yeah, well I wanna see you right now.

Not tomorrow, now. Today.

Is that as soon as you can make it?

All right. You got it.

What's up, Uncle Ben?

- Damn it, Steele!

You're not just testing
weapons on animals,

you're killing people!

- That man died of natural
causes. Like your cows.

- Get out of Bannon County.

You ain't dealing

with the god damn
bureaucracy now, fat boy.

And you're not in Guatemala

taking pot shots at barefoot natives!

- You failed to silence the man Morgan.

You caused him to die.

I'm a patriot, Steele.

I'd do anything for my country.

- We spent a lot of shit on this, Morgan,

waiting for the right,

the right conditions.

We duplicated fucking Moscow here.

We're this close. Do you understand?

Nothing is gonna get in our way. Nothing.

- Then don't leave the
carcasses laying around!

- How are we gonna finish
our tests if we don't? Huh?

You told us this was
your town, your sheriff,

your newspaper!

- I never said newspaper.

- The mayor, the town council.

There's several people around here

that are starting to look like cows to me.

Steele!

You got five days to finish
your tests and get out of here!

You're forgetting what this is all about!

Gentlemen, I
just rather not be railroaded.

Mr Chairman,
we need an approval,

we need it now.

The Air Force
is prepared right now to go.

- So is the 82nd. I've already
got the, you kidding me?

You think they would learn
something from Vietnam

and the stuff that's going on in --

- Excuse me, Mr Vosburgh.

Your brother's calling from Colorado.

He says it's about your
mother and it's urgent.

- Oh, God.

Yes. Thank you Nancy.

Excuse me. Just one moment.

Dan, do what you can.

Sir? I'm sorry.

I have an important telephone
call and my mother's very ill.

- Of course.
- Thank you.

Yes.

Mother's not well.
There's been a complication.

I'm worried about Uncle Ben.

How so?

He seems to be losing control.

Damn it.

Well, why don't
you just leave that to me?

Did you tell
anyone else about this?

No. Not a soul.

What was the
wattage on that last burn?

The laser was 20 watts.

- We're starting to get a real good decay

on that hemotoxin.

We're ready for another one.

- This is the Kitchen for Black Beauty.

Bring in the beef.

- You know the government killed
a couple of thousand sheep

a few years ago in Utah.

They said it was an accident,
but it was nerve gas testing.

Why experiment on our cows?

I mean, you know, why not
do it on government land?

Who would know?

- Who?

Couple hundred government guys

pulling scum duty on
federal land somewhere?

No, uh-uh. Doesn't sound
like this operation.

I mean, you and I were both in the army.

It doesn't work like that.

I mean, these guys are too mobile.

They move around too quickly unnoticed.

And I'll tell you something else.

That army surplus type in
the helicopter's no GI.

These guys are playing Uncle
Sam. It's not the government.

- How do you know?

- I know.

- Not government?

Who else would be doing
germ warfare testing?

- Well, I can't give
you their phone number,

but it's a cheap, effective way

to kill a hell of a lot of people.

- Look, this is, um,

this is getting a little wild.

I mean this is all speculation.

- If what's going on
around here is organized,

you don't want to go up against it.

The government, the right wing,

the left wing, mercenaries, the mob,

it doesn't make much difference
if you get in their way.

No bad guys in Bannon County, huh?

Too hot.

Laser was
20 watts. Pulse two tens.

- Let's go to 35, four.

All right, gentlemen,

let's sanitize the area.

- You can go ahead.

All good, Billy.

Getting ready to start the thermostat.

That's good.
Go for another one, okay?

Sure am
tired working on these cows,

I'll tell you.

Yeah, but
anything for a dollar.

Should be getting a platelet
discharge. There it goes.

There go the corpuscles.

All right on.

Alright, start the
coronary pump. Here we go.

I want to see the epithelium on that bone.

I don't think we're gonna see any toxins.

Well, I'll
tell you. Right here there's,

right here there's a lot of atrophy.

What did you use on this one?

Something new.

We've always got something new.

- Anybody home?

You assholes wanna come out and play, huh?

Play a little hardball?

Do you only pick on
newspapermen and cows, huh?

Woo hoo, dreamweaver,

Won't you get me through the night?

You wanna fight World War III?

Why don't I help you get started?

Leon!

Get Steele!

- Stay in your fucking
rat hole. I'll be back.

Shit.

This is the
Kitchen to Black Beauty.

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey!

Well for
example, price of cattle,

22 cents a pound on the
hook from 1948 to 1967,

Price of cattle went up a few cents.

And the price fuel went up a quarter.

All those damn politicians
are born with 15-watt souls

with bamboo filaments.

- Death to them.

- 78, 79, 80, oh!

Morning, Mr Morgan. Excuse me.

Change planes in Denver.

American Flight 546 to Kennedy.

Aunt Ruthie will meet
you at the airport there.

Still don't wanna go.

But you gotta.

Why?

- Because!

- Because you're scared.
You think it's dangerous.

Damn it, Dad. I don't care.

- Well, I do.

See you soon.

Young lady, we
leave in three minutes.

Some of your
own boys get to you?

Ah.

- Like what you see?

I like what I saw in that hilltop.

- What?
- What in the hell were you

and that guy in the Boy
Scout suit arguing about?

I was hiding in the bushes.

- Look --
- See, that's what

I do for a living.

I hide in the bushes,
know what's going on.

Why did you kill Joe Hiatt?

- I sick.

I need a doctor.

- Doctor? I'll take you to a doctor!

I'll take you to Joe Hiatt's doctor!

- Billy, is Mr. Morgan here?

I haven't seen
him all day, Sheriff.

- Has anybody else been
here looking for him?

A guy in an old blue Cadillac?

Nope.

- Damn it.

How many mercenaries
you got in that hole

and what are they doing?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

- You don't know what I'm talking about?

- The Russians.

- The Russians?

- Somebody's gotta keep up with them.

Congress won't.

- You killed Joe

because you're paranoid of the Russians?

You poor son of a bitch!

- I'm an American!

- Morgan!

Morgan!

- If you can sit tight
for about five minutes,

Then we'll get the road cleared.

- You're under arrest, Lieutenant.

- What?

Put your hands
behind your back, turn around.

- Like hell I will!

Harry, I'm trying to save your life!

You know what I'm talking about!

You're saying that the guys

that are doing these experiments

are the same guys that killed
Joe Hiatt and Ben Morgan?

Yes.

- And you're saying they're
holed up in the old missile silo

out on NORAD Road?

- That's right.

- That's just a little far
fetched, isn't it Harry?

I mean, how in the hell do you know?

Doc Krebs told me personally,

Joe Hiatt died of a damned heart attack!

- Joe Hiatt was murdered
because of what he knew.

How do you know that?

- Fred? I showed you Ben Morgan's body.

The man virtually exploded.

- What do you expect outta somebody

who was thrown out of a damn pickup truck?

- He was poisoned!

- Harry, where are you
getting all this horseshit?

What's he doing
here? What's going on?

- May we have some privacy please?

- That means "Go away, Chester".

The hell do you want?

I'm not guilty. I'm not confessin'.

- I'm not here for that. I have a message.

From whom?

- We have your daughter.

- What?

- She will not be harmed if
you back off for 24 hours.

Your daughter will be
released and we'll be gone.

Nobody around here will
hear from us again.

Wait a minute!

- No details! You don't move 24 hours.

You understand?

- I got just one question, Harry,

Why would they leave
these cattle lying around

for us and everybody to marvel at?

- Maybe it's part of the tests.

Er, in the army, we had lectures.

The thing about germ warfare

is that they need to know
how long these poisons last.

Look, I don't know.

Joe Hiatt started me thinking this way.

I doubted him and now he's dead.

Now if I'm right,

how many more lives are in danger?

Fred, I want your permission
to deputize 200 people

to go out there and surround that place.

And after we see what's inside,
then we'll call Washington.

Ruben?

- They've got my daughter.

You don't want one more cow?

He wants one more cow.

So what?

Give me one more cow

and I'll give you about 60
trillion busted red corpuscles.

What's
that going to give us?

Moscow.

- What color would you like?

- Make it a white one, hm?

- You're outta your fuckin' mind.

Andy!

Be ready to move out in
two hours, all right?

And I want the area spotless.

Spotless.

Pack all the gear up.

What is this? Happy hour or what?

Just having a couple beers.

Forget the beers.
Go check the pickup truck.

All right?

And tell the lab you
got one more cow coming.

I want no traces or nothing.

Get on the routine

and check on the girl, all right?

Now let's get moving!

Where did
you get those assholes?

Don't talk
about my men that way.

They're assholes.

Now, you want another shot?

- No, I'd better get my shit ready.

All right.

- Shouldn't drink on the job.

My daughter,

and maybe I'll let you live.

- They were coming in low.

Hit a skid on a wave at 120 knots.

- How bad?
- Far out?

I dunno. Maybe half a mile out.

- Let's go.

- Hide your face, cut
your hair, go to jail.

Now we're fuckin' housekeepers, huh?

What do you think

they're gonna do with the girl?

I ain't paid to think, son.

- What the hell is that?

- Er, I don't know.

- Here, look how it
curves around down there.

Let's get
down there and tell Steele.

Mac? Mac, it's Harry.

Come on. Come on, let's go.

- Harry!

You all right, baby, huh?

Huh?

What did you give her?

A little morphine.

Okay baby. Come on.

Come on.

Peck?

- Yeah, Peck.

Looks like a
whole goddamn army's coming down

the road.

- What?

Keep your hands
up where I can see 'em.

You can't see
'em? I'll paint 'em red.

- Don't touch it! Don't touch it!

Go get me the shotgun.

Shit!

Move it gentlemen,
moving the hell out!

- Stay close. You can get lost in here.

Asshole!

Get over there! Get him!

Give your weapon, give us your weapon.

- You all right?
- Where's the girl?

- Come on, get him in the pickup truck.

- Okay, get down. Get down. Right here.