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Padre?

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Ho!!!

You all right, boy?

Kin of yours?

Come on.

Any sign of who did it?

That might be his father.

Bill. Yes, sir?

Go get a couple of shovels, will ya?

All right.

MAN: Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.

The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.

We commend his spirit unto thy hand of the Lord.

Amen. ALL: Amen.

Come on, son, we've gotta get movin'.

Boy, it's all over.

You can't just stay here forever.

Come on.

Flint, you better go get him.

Bring him back and put him in one of the wagons.

We can't just leave him out here.

I'm sorry, Father.

Can't leave grave markers in this Indian territory.

They wouldn't touch the sign of God.

These people don't know our God.

They have strange ways, Father.

Believe me, I know.

But why pick my wagon? That's what I'd like to know.

That don't make sense to me.

I've tried to explain it to you, Mr. Thornton.

The Major asked me to find a place for the boy to stay.

You're the most likely... What's going on here?

This is the least crowded wagon,

just the two of them on it, but Mr. Thornton...

It's my wagon! I've got a right to say who rides in it!

Hold on, Mr. Thornton.

Maybe you better read the articles you signed.

Flint here is asking you to do the fair thing.

HAWKS: Major Adams, see you a minute? Just a second.

If I was you, I'd do what he says.

What do you say, Thornton?

Fair? Look at him. He isn't even our kind.

That's a shameful thing to say. His skin's a different color.

What do you want me to do, ignore it?

Pretend that it isn't so? Oh, Jay, stop it!

A boy who's just suffered grief like him...

I apologize for my husband.

I'm embarrassed for what he's said.

We all are.

Alicia, I didn't mean that... FLINT: What do you mean?

Well, I was thinking about you.

If you care about me, stop talking that way.

We apologize.

We'd be glad to take you with us.

Will you help him around the wagon, Mr. McCullough?

Muchacho.

All right, come on, everybody, we're rollin'!

Let's move out!

ADAMS: Thornton...

Mr. Thornton,

that boy, he just sit there like that all the time?

I think he's still in shock, Major.

My wife says he'll come out of it,

but I'll be honest with you,

he don't act like any kid I ever knew.

How many young boys have you ever known

that had just seen their father hung?

Would you like some water?

Some food, perhaps?

Aren't you hungry?

We're Mr. and Mrs. Thornton.

We've never known a Mexican boy before.

It's sort of new for us.

My husband is a good man, really.

Try to understand.

What's your name?

All right, folks,

let's load up!

Let's load up!

MAN: Load up!

Ho!

Well, now what's the matter?

My shoulder's itching again, Major.

Oh, will you quit that? That's the third time you've done it today.

It never itches when I'm around Comanche or Hopi, just when I smell Sioux.

Listen, I'm not gonna be starting and stopping

every time you get a hair-brained suspicion.

Now, you show me something specific

and I'll run like a scared deer.

You and that scar of yours.

Major, I'm tellin' ya, I smell Sioux around.

And they're not very far off.

Looks quiet enough to me.

What do you expect, war whoops?

Don't you get smart with me, McCullough.

We've movin' ahead.

Wagons...

ho!

Well, now what?

Well, you wanted something specific... that oughta do.

God help him, he's still alive.

Go on, tell me those aren't Sioux beads.

I know they're Sioux beads.

So what am I supposed to do?

So next time, listen.

No sense in us sitting here arguing about it. Let's get him back to the wagon.

Bill! Go get some help. Right away.

There's Indians around. They caught some stranger up ahead.

It's no sight for a woman, Alicia, you stay where you are.

There's nothing much you can do; nothing much anybody can do.

Is he dead? Might as well be. He will be by sunset.

THORNTON: Too bad. Nice young fella, about thirty, curly hair...

Hard to figure out what he's doing in this part of...

Don't be afraid. Nobody's going to harm you.

Better come away from him, son.

Not a pretty sight for a boy.

Father, I'm afraid it's too late.

He's laid out there so long those wounds have festered.

I don't think we can save him.

Where are you going?

Hey, come back here!

Bill, go get that fool boy.

Place is infested with Sioux Indians... what's the matter with him?

Get him out of the sun. Put him in our wagon here.

Alicia!

Get some water and some clean rags!

Hey, boy! What are you doing there?

Wait a minute! Come back here!

Hey, wait! Where ya going?!

Mrs. Thornton, the man's in real bad shape. Major,

if we had the proper medication, we could...

Mr. Thornton, I'm telling you, the man is dying.

I don't think there's a thing in the world can save him.

Is there somebody on the train that's got medication that can help him?

Medication or no medication,

when a man's been cut up like this

and is left to lay out in the sun as long as he has,

no medication that I know of in this world

is gonna do him any good.

What are you doing there, boy? Wait a minute.

I don't know what he's doing, but whatever it is,

it's getting some kind of a reaction.

Maybe it's some kind of native poultice.

- I never saw it before. - Major Adams,

that kid...

So that's what he's doing with those berries.

I saw him down in the wash and he was crushing 'em up.

Boy... what is that stuff?

He wants to nurse the man, Major Adams.

Is there any good reason why he shouldn't?

Whatever it is, it seems to be working.

It's the first time the boy's reacted at all, Major.

He wants to help. He wants to be of some use.

It would be good for him.

Well, maybe you're right.

Hey, hombre.

You think you can help this man?

Si.

All right, go to work on him, then.

I can do it alone.

Hey, gringo, you hear me?

Hmm?

Where are those other two?

Where are those other two, gringo?

I'll make you well, gringo,

then you'll tell me.

You're not going to die.

I need you, that's all.

There's the advance party.

Now let's see who they're talking to.

Up there at the top of the arroyo.

What is it, a war party or a hunting party?

It's not the right part of the country for a major camp.

I'd say just a hunting party

come into these hills to pick up some meat.

Scouts there letting them know about it.

I sure wish we was out of this valley.

I don't like 'em looking down our throats.

Well, we can't outrun 'em...

We gotta meet 'em sooner or later.

Hey, lookie out there.

Isn't that a big plain area there?

Yeah, that's a big plain area there,

but we wouldn't be getting there till tomorrow.

Then by golly, we better circle up right here in this meadow.

I'll echo that. It's as good a place as any.

I sure don't like 'em hitting us while we're moving. Bill!

Go on back and bring the wagons in.

Tell 'em to circle up in this meadow.

Just hope those Sioux are hunting four-legged meat.

My name is Juan Ortega.

Juan.

I'm pleased to know you.

I want to thank you

for talking to that man for me.

That man? That was Major Adams.

He has charge of our wagon train.

Where do you come from, Juan?

What are you staring at, boy?

Is that a watch?

Yes, yes, it's a watch.

My father had a gold watch.

He was going to give it to me.

Where'd you learn to speak English so well?

The Jesuits taught me.

Jesuits? Where?

At Santa Cablerro mission. That's where I was raised.

But your family...?

My mother was dead, that's all.

And my father was...

My father worked very hard. He was a great man.

But he was a Mexican.

He had to travel very far to do many hard jobs.

And once a year he would come to the mission.

He brought me these shoes.

He had come to take me away,

to start our new life.

There. Don't think about it.

Come on, let's hurry it up!

Take 'em down to that draw and move out,

make a 180-degree arcs with your wagons.

Come on, move 'em out!

Alicia!

We're gonna circle for protection.

Major Adams' orders. JUAN: Are we staying near?

Just down in that draw, boy. Come on.

Come on, gringo, get well.

Come on, circle 'em up there!

Hurry it up! Get those wagons in closer!

All right, let's go, let's go!

Bring the stock inside the circle!

Pile those boxes higher

and make sure there's a water barrel by every wagon!

Get 'em on the inside!

Come on, boy, come on!

Come on, Rog!

Hurry it up there!

You stay back here.

Get under cover if it starts, you hear me?

Now, there's lots of us, honey,

everything's gonna be fine.

Don't worry about me, Jay.

Boy, come here.

Now, boy... Why do you call me "boy"?

My name is Juan.

Do you know how to use one of these?

Si. If it becomes necessary,

here... you use it.

Gringo, do you hear me?

Where are those other two?

Others?

Who... who are you?

Where...

Your two friends. I want to save them. Where are they?

Yes. Save them.

Edwards. Herbert.

Are they alive?

I want to save them. Where are they?

Cliffs.

Cliffs?

What cliffs? Where?

Up... up from wash.

Rocks.

Face of cliffs.

Ohh...

Come on, Injun! Step out and get it!

Who is it?

Is that you, Booley?

Where are ya?

Booley?

Who are you?

Show yourself! Will ya stop this?!

We been holed up here for days.

I need water. Food.

If you've got any mercy, man, show yourself!

Who are you?!

For some reason or other,

they haven't shown themselves,

so Flint and I are gonna take a look around.

Bill, if anything busts out while we're gone,

you take charge. All right, sir.

Take care of yourself now, Major.

You pay me for scouting, Major.

Why don't you let me earn my pay? Hmm?

Yeah, he's right. You're too old and fat for brush scouting.

Why don't you stay with the wagons like he says?

Why don't you just mind your own business for a change?

Come on, Flint.

Sure gettin' touchy, ain't he?

You and your big mouth.

What's the matter? I don't hear anything. Listen.

Hold your fire!

Thank the Lord. White men.

H-Help me! Help me!

Here, son, here, now. Easy.

That's enough. Not too much all at once.

What are you doing out here all by yourself in this country?

Three of us. Indians hit us.

We broke for the hills, Edwards and me.

Jarvis... they got Jarvis!

We could hear him scream all night.

All night they tortured him. It was awful.

All right, take it easy.

Jarvis? That's our boy's name.

Curly-headed fella?

We found him. He's still alive.

It couldn't be Jarvis.

He couldn't be alive,

not after the screams we heard.

He was more dead than alive when we found him.

Mexican boy that's with us nursed him back to life.

Mexican boy? Yeah.

What about this other fella who was with you?

He's on a cliff.

On top of the ridge there.

If we're ever gonna get him, we better get him now.

You up to it, mister?

Come on, we better get started, then.

Here.

He's here.

Tuck! Tuck! You around here?

He was going to wait here.

Do you suppose he struck out for help?

Unless the Sioux got him.

Tuck! Tuck! You around here, Tuck?

Keep your voice down. You'll raise every brave within a quarter mile.

Keep quiet.

We better get started back. Right.

Come on, mister, this way. Come on. Nobody around here.

I'm sure he's here!

Look, he's frightened to death of Indians. He wouldn't leave.

Couldn't we go back and just take one more look?

Only place we're going is back to camp.

Quiet down.

He wouldn't run away like this,

I'm sure he wouldn't.

Now, look, go back just once more

and see if we can find him.

Major! Can't we go back just once more?

What do you make of this?

I'll tell you one thing, it's not the work of an Indian.

Why do you figure that?

Indian wouldn't tie a knot that way,

and no Sioux would walk away and leave a perfectly good rope.

Who else, then?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute, you don't...

You don't think that I had anything to do with this,

do you?

I didn't hang him!

He was my friend! Keep your voice down.

I swear to you, Keep your voice down.

He was alive this morning when I left him!

I didn't hang him.

I'm telling you again I didn't hang him, he was my friend.

We better get back to the wagons.

Wait a minute... wait a minute.

Can't we bury him? Not now.

Come on.

Listen, mister...

he was my friend!

I didn't hang him!

This looks like your friend? That's Jarvis.

He's alive. Yeah, thanks to our Mexican friend there.

What's that on his wounds?

I don't know, some native poultice.

If this man's a friend of yours,

you can thank the boy for his life.

Oh, Major.

I figure we should get underway

and push on through the night and get out of this valley.

If you remember, I just pulled you out of the brush.

Now, why don't you let me run my own wagon train?

I'm just saying, the Glory Flats settlement's

only eight hours' ride from here.

I'm well aware of that.

Then I think we should push on through the night.

Bill, keep this bushwhacker away from me.

Son, Mrs. Thornton there

tells me that your name is Juan.

Is that right? Si.

Well, let me see how my instincts are doing today.

It just couldn't be that these three fellas we come across

had anything to do with...

hanging your father?

Oh, no. No, those are not the men.

No.

Mrs. Thornton...

I'd like to ask you a favor if you don't mind.

Would you kind of stay close to that fella Jarvis?

What I mean is, just don't leave him alone with Juan.

But why?

Well, ma'am, I can't quite put my finger on it,

but I'd appreciate it if you'd do like I ask.

Yes, Major.

We found another man out there today... been hung.

You don't think the boy did it? I don't know.

But I got a lot of strange things going on in the back of my head.

So just keep your eye on him, will ya?

Sure.

How's Jarvis?

Oh, he is well.

You, uh... traveling alone?

That's right, yanqui.

You ever seen me before, kid?

I saw you an hour ago.

You were looking into the wagon at your friend.

Oh.

Flint, how many men you got out on the flank?

Eight men. Best I could find.

You better change the guard every four hours.

How far out are they? Two hundred yards.

Enough time to give us three to five minutes if we see anything.

Major Adams says we should reach Glory Flats

by noon tomorrow.

According to Cousin Verbena, the cabin's large.

Jay, there'll be room to spare.

Will you come to your senses, Alicia? He's a Mexican!

He's a fine boy.

And he needs a home, Jay.

And we need someone to live for besides ourselves.

Oh, for Pete's sake, Alicia,

I never figured on having a... Shh!

There's six pigs and two horses and the pullets.

Jay, you'll have your hands full with the crops.

You'll need somebody to help.

You want a hired hand, I'll find you a hired hand when we get there.

That's not what I want, Jay.

I want a son.

I swear, Alicia, you drive a men to the edge of his prejudices.

A Mexican boy for a son!

Evenin', Mrs. Thornton.

Mr. Thornton, tomorrow morning when we start out

I'd like to switch positions of your wagon.

You've got good, strong teams, and I want to put you back...

Where's the boy?

At his supper. Right over...

He slipped away.

- In there? - What's up?

That Mexican boy's gone.

So's Booley Herbert.

He was sitting there just a few minutes ago.

There's something going on around here that makes my skin kind of crawl.

I don't know what it is, but I don't like it.

Mrs. Thornton? Yes, Major Adams?

You stay right by this fella Jarvis, will you, please?

You boys spread out and hunt that kid. I want to find him.

Oh, Father.

Will you stay with Mr. Jarvis, please?

I must find Juan.

Juan.

What is it, son?

You're trembling.

You took me by surprise, padre.

Took you by surpr...

Where have you been?

We are of the same faith, Juan.

Understand that any time of the day or night

I'm available if you want to talk to me.

Not yet, padre.

Soon, but that time is not yet.

Don't stretch God's mercy too far, Juan.

It's infinite, but don't deny yourself too long.

You see me now, yanqui.

You know who I am?

Juan Ortega, gringo.

The Mexican kid.

Alberto Ortega's son.

I'm sorry.

Maybe you recognize this?

Booley's watch. Where's Booley?

You know whose watch it is. It was my father's.

Uhh. Wake up!

I want you to be awake when you die.

I've waited too long for this moment.

Yes, padre?

My mind is now besieged with doubts about you, Juan.

I spoke with those men out there.

Major Adams knows Booley Herbert is missing.

I must tell you, I suspect you of the most grievous sins.

Those men looking for Booley,

what will they find, Juan?

Are they the men who hanged your father?

And yet if that were so, this man would have been part of their deed, and...

you gave him back his life.

Perhaps I shouldn't have spoken.

Forgive me, son...

if I judged you wrongly.

HAWKS: Major. Yeah, Bill?

Found him. The boy?

No, Booley Herbert. He's over there.

Bill, keep the women and children...

Mrs. Thornton.

You didn't leave Jarvis alone in that wagon?

Juan, is that man still alive, or have you killed him, too?

I told you I'd take care of 'em, didn't I?

I'd see they got what they deserved.

Why didn't you trust me, boy?

My father would have make a home for us.

All the way from Mexico he spoke of the home we would have in California.

He worked very hard all his life,

and he had nothing...

Nothing but his dreams of a home for us.

Then one day he come and take me from the priests and he said to me,

"We go now, Juan. We start a new life."

That's the kind of man he was!

There was never such a good man!

I would defile my love for him if I didn't hate these killers!

All right, Juan.

Get down out of the wagon.

Your killing's over now.

The law will take care of that man.

You come on, get out of here.

Take cover!

Bill, get some help to the other side!

Hawks! Over here!

Aaah!

Now, gringo.

No! No! No!!!

Help me, someone, help me...

No one's going to hear you now!

You don't know what you're doing!

Your father deserved to die!

Alberto Ortega was a murderer! I take no pleasure in killing,

but now I'll enjoy it! A killer of women and a thief!

You're gonna kill me,

but first you're gonna listen to the truth about your father!

He stole from me... all my stock.

But Edwards and Herbert, they had reason to kill him.

You've murdered and killed for nothing!

Your father killed a woman! Liar!

He killed a woman... Ann.

Look in the gold watch if you don't believe me!

Well, look!

Are you... Are you afraid to look?

Are you afraid to find out what your old man was like?

Ann was Booley Herbert's wife,

and your father murdered her.

Killed her in cold blood,

just like he killed Tuck Edwards' brother.

Well, open it and read!

What... what's it say in there?

"Booley... with love, from Ann."

Isn't that what it says?

It wasn't your father's watch at all!

He stole it from Herbert!

That... was your father.

A murdering, thieving,

honorless man.

And we tracked him clean from Abilene

and we caught him,

and we killed him with righteous anger!

Remember that! We...

We had reason to kill him!

Oh, Holy Mary...

Holy Mary, mother of God!

Wagons...

ho!

Whoa... whoa there.

Well, the time's come to cut loose from you all now, Major.

Yeah, well, Mrs. Thornton,

you're gonna like that settlement at Glory Flats.

Real nice people there.

If you get a chance, stop in the feed store

and say hello to Ward Hastings for me.

Thank you, we will.

Just one more favor, Major Adams.

I'd like to try again with the boy.

Well, we already said good-bye to him.

Please!

I'll go get him.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

Hey, Father, have you seen Juan?

Oh, there you are, Juan.

The Thorntons would like to have a few words with you.

They'll have to wait, Major. I'm hearing Juan's confession.

Oh, I'm sorry, Father.

You take your time. I'll wait over here.

I hope you know what you're letting yourself in for, Alicia.

That boy has scars that he'll carry to his grave.

We need him, Jay.

Even after knowing his background?

Even after all that.

You're a stubborn Dutch woman, Alicia.

But you've got the word of God in you,

I'll give you that much.

I killed in anger, padre.

But I am sorry now.

I am sorry.

In the eyes of God, that's all-important, son.

Now you must make your atonement to mankind for your crime.

What will they do to me?

You'll have to face this alone, Juan,

but you'll have a fair trial.

On that you have my word.

Amen.

Say your rosary, Juan,

and pray to God for your salvation.

Go in peace, my son.

Here's your boy, Mrs. Thornton.

I'll stop back in a couple of minutes.

Good morning, Juan.

My husband and I are leaving the train now, and we want to talk with you.

Of all these people, you were the only one who treated me with respect.

I appreciate that, you know?

I wish you good happiness with your husband and your new home.

Just a minute, Juan.

I have so much to say to you...

Things which can't be said now

because there just isn't time.

This is going to be our new home out here.

There's a place for a strong, healthy boy around.

If you'd like to come and live with us...

we'd try to become like family to you...

and love you.

Love me?

Can't you understand that?

I have killed two men.

We are asking you to be our son.

Father Martin says there's going to be a trial.

They could send me to prison.

We'll deal with that when it comes.

I am a Mexican.

Jay.

We're hard-workin' people, boy,

and don't think for a minute that I'm an easy man.

Well, there'll be soft times, too.

What do you say, boy?

My name is Juan.

All right... Juan.

Come on, get aboard your family wagon.

So long, Major. So long, Mr. Thornton. Good luck.

I hope the land is good to you out there.

Thanks.

Giddyup!

You know, Father...

I sure hope those people do well.

Somehow they've given me a new respect for the human animal.

Major, may I tell you about people?

Now, Father, wait.

I shouldn't have opened my big mouth. I know, Major...

I've gotta get a wagon train started. Later, Father.

Lead out!

Let it roll!

Heeyah!

♪ Roll along ♪

♪ Wagon train ♪

♪ Rollin' over prairie where there ain't no grass ♪

♪ Pullin' over mountains where there ain't no pass ♪

♪ Sittin' on a board, eyein' the weather ♪

♪ Prayin' to the Lord we stay together ♪

♪ Side by side on the wagon train ♪

♪ Wagon train ♪

♪ Roll along ♪

♪ Pickin' up a passenger in every town ♪

♪ Wonderin' if he's ever gonna shoot you down ♪

♪ Sittin' on a board, eyein' the weather ♪

♪ Prayin' to the Lord we stay together ♪

♪ Side by side ♪

♪ On the wagon train ♪