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I knocked him down.

- Finish him, Toby! - I have him!

Hello, Reese.

- Horne. I uh... - Let it drop.

Where's the money, Reese?

Where's the money, Reese?

Inside.

Horne, I didn't mean it. Open your mouth again, Reese,

I'll blow it off your face.

You make one move to give me reason,

I'll kill you cold.

Como estรก, Sarita. Buen', Horne.

Where's Ross?

Over there.

When will he come?

When the sun is high. Gracias.

Gracias, Sarita.

You will sing to the spirits, Sarita?

It is my way.

Say to them that he was young,

had not yet felt the halter.

Tell them I am sad it had to be this way.

I will sing that.

Tell Ross I'm sorry

and tell him I ask him not to come after me.

I will tell him, Horne.

But he will come.

Then I will kill him too.

Adios, Sarita.

Adios, Horne.

Start unloading, Rex. Yes, Dan.

Well, honey, how'd you like your first stagecoach ride?

It was fun.

Thanks, Dan.

Easy darling. Thank you.

You Swope? That's right.

I am Mayor Dollar.

Mayor, this is my wife, Sarah.

Mayor. This is my daughter Sandy.

Sandy, this is the mayor.

Hello there. How do you do?

Well, shall we go? Not just yet.

Mr. Acres is expecting us at the bank.

Let's not keep him waiting.

I said not just yet.

How soon? As soon as I

get my wife and daughter settled at the hotel.

Come on, dear.

Hey, Dan, get my stuff over to the hotel, will you?

Yes, sir, Mr. Swope.

Hello, Ted.

Leah. Leah Parker.

Aren't you going to help me down?

Oh, sure, sure.

Leah, you look wonderful. Simply wonderful.

Not like I used to.

But then, neither do you.

Lots of things have changed, Leah.

We've all settled down, raised families.

Me, I'm the mayor.

Bob Acres's the town banker.

Everything's all changed.

Are you afraid I'd change it all back?

No, I, uh... Well, uh...

Well, everything's all changed. Not me.

I have, uh, an important meeting I, uh...

I understand.

Sorry the mayor was that way, ma'am.

No way to treat a lady without reason.

He has reason.

My name's Dan Carruthers. Leah Parker.

Yes, I know.

I heard His Honor say your name.

You have a sister Julie? Lives with her folks

at the station west of here? Yes.

Well, I'll be dogged.

Julie talks about you all the time.

Julie and me, well, we're, uh, fairly good friends.

You seem to be.

Well, I drive the stage through there, you know.

That sister of yours, she's just fine, pretty.

Oh, your folks, they're fine too.

Oh, well, we'll be moving out in about an hour.

Thank you.

Maybe we can talk later? I'd like that.

Can I help you, Miss?

Oh, I, uh, was looking for Horne.

Oh, he's not in town.

Will he be back today? I don't have any idea.

Besides, whatever the Sheriff can do,

I can do just as well. Maybe even better.

I'm Leah Parker and I'm here looking for...

Oh, you're Henry Parker's daughter?

Yes.

Well.

When he comes back, tell him I was here.

Oh, Miss Parker, Mr. Acres would like to see you.

I don't wanna see him.

I'm afraid you don't have any choice.

Little drink for old times' sake, Leah?

Do you mind getting to the point?

The point? Ah.

Leah, we have no intention of your causing us any trouble.

We're eliminating that possbility by eliminating you.

Leah, it's just that we're afraid that you might, uh...

You're afraid of me? For what?

I'm pleased to see you reek with cheap politics.

I'm happy to watch you worry about each other.

I thoroughly enjoy knowing you are wallowing

in filth because that's exactly where you belong.

Ah, Mr. Swope. Come in. Come in.

Seth, Miss Parker's to be on the stage when it leaves.

Don't worry, Mayor. She'll be on it.

Come along, Miss Parker.

Mr. Swope.

This is Bob Acres, our town banker.

Dollar tells me you're one of the best.

He sure is. He's done special jobs

in Dodge, Sedalia and Wichita, before he went on his own.

Since then, he's killed Jake Timbers,

Les Harkins and Rafe Ludlow.

Mr. Swope is also known for his gunfights with, uh...

Shut up.

Ah, Mr. Swope,

the Sawyers killed two of our citizens

and robbed our bank of $50,000.

Now, unless that money is returned,

every business in this town will close within a week.

We want you to make sure that money gets back.

That's why we telegraphed for you.

Who's the sheriff in this town?

This is his job. His name is Horne.

He lived with the Sawyers for many years.

He rode out after them but whether or not

he'll return with them is problematical.

We're all concerned about his personal feelings

but we're more concerned about our money.

What's your offer?

Five thousand dollars for the return of the money.

We guarantee that.

Each of the Sawyers has $5,000 on his head.

That's up to you.

There's a lot you haven't said, Acres.

You've got plenty of men available.

Why doesn't a posse handle this?

We'd rather they didn't, frankly.

We have insisted that our citizens remain peaceful.

Also, there's another condition to our agreement.

One concerning Horne?

When our town was tough,

Horne was the kind of a man we had to have.

Now he's too tough for our town.

Maybe just too tough for you.

He's become a thorn in our political side.

Now that our town is peaceful,

we feel that some of his rigid ways should bend a bit.

It's simply a matter of progress.

Yours. If you want to call it that.

However, Horne has got to go,

and we want you to make sure that he does.

Let's rest them.

Horne.

Uh, I'm sorry about all this.

You know, uh, Pa will come after me.

That'll mean shooting between you and him.

You don't want that. Neither do I.

I'll never forget when...

When Pa first brought you home.

Half your head was taken away seemed like.

Comanche sure worked you over.

Remember when we was trapping beaver and I fell in?

You hadn't pulled me out, I was gone.

You pulled me out of a lot of things since then, Horne.

You got the money. Will you give me a chance this time?

Let me ride out?

What about it, Horne? Will you let me ride?

Get back over there and sit down.

Step here, dear. Careful.

I'll take that, Mr. Swope.

Oh, thank you. Hm-mm.

I'll be back before a week is out, dear.

Just in time for Sandy's birthday.

Daddy, will you bring me a gift this time?

Darling, I'll bring you the greatest gift of all.

Now don't forget.

I won't forget, dear.

A week. A week.

Be careful, Sam.

Goodbye, Sandy. Goodbye, Daddy.

Be a good girl now.

Sarah.

I traded the run when I heard you were going.

Anything you need, just ask for it.

Thank you.

Sorry you couldn't stay around a little longer, Miss Parker.

We might have got to know each other better.

I'm far too expensive.

Bye, Daddy, goodbye. Bye, Daddy.

Mr. Swope? Hmm?

Uh...

I'm sorry your daughter had to see a woman

leave town with a deputy as an escort.

Oh, she didn't see you, Miss Parker.

You forgot. She's blind.

Vultures.

Kiowas, huh?

I guess they heard you was pulling out too.

Well, your place is much better than a teepee.

We ain't pulling out, Joe Withers.

Huh?

Well, the last stage goes tomorrow.

Henry says you've got to leave.

We ain't leaving.

And I want a dollar for this flour.

A dollar!

Why Henry was giving it to me.

The flour ain't his to give. It's mine.

And I say a dollar.

There.

Thanks for the flour, Mrs. Parker.

Joe Withers may be having it hard, but so are we.

You had no reason to give him the flour for nothing.

You could have got three or four dollars for it.

I made him give me a dollar, anyway.

We need 60 dollars more and the closing won't matter.

Pay off the stage line, keep the place.

You don't think Leah will bring the money, do you?

Minute I wrote her we needed money,

she wrote back she was coming home, didn't she?

No other reason for her to come.

She's got it good teaching that school, ain't she?

Nothing here for her, is there?

She's coming to help like a good daughter should.

Henry. There's 10 dollars missing.

Where is it? Henry!

Julie took the money.

Julie?

What for?

Said she was leaving on the last stage tomorrow.

She said nothing to me.

Ain't no reason for her to talk to you.

I'll settle this now.

Your Pa said you took 10 dollars.

I want it. No, Mama.

The last stage is tomorrow and I'm leaving on it.

Not on my money, you ain't.

Give it to me. Please, Mama.

I have to have it.

The stage line won't let me ride for nothing.

Not after you arguing with them the way you did.

I'll speak my mind to the stage line or anybody else.

I should have said it long ago,

when your Pa was borrowing money on the land.

Pa had no choice.

What good has it done? None!

We're no better off, are we?

Now we got to move out or pay off!

I want the 10 dollars, Julie.

It's not that I want to deny you.

It's just that money comes hard,

what with your Pa turning out good for nothing.

Ten dollars means a lot to me.

What does my leaving mean, Mama?

Right here, Reese.

Horne, I hope you hurt and bleed.

Then I hope you die. I won't.

Here I am, Pa! Over here, Pa!

Keep coming! Take him, Pa!

I'm trying to spook you, Horne, but you won't spook!

Why don't you let me go, Horne?

I told Toby to stay away from that bank.

Told him it was your town.

He was just set on going. I had to go with him.

It was Toby killed those men, not me.

Tell them that. They'll believe you.

Tell them Toby confessed before he died.

Horne! Do you hear me?

Shoot me! Come on, kill me!

You won't. You know why?

'Cause I'm Ross Sawyer's boy, that's why.

And you and him got a respect for each other.

Well, I'm just going to stay here and wait.

Wait till you bleed to death,

then I'm gonna take the $50,000 and walk away.

Horne, it's getting cold.

The least you could do is spare me a blanket.

Don't shoot. Don't shoot.

I should say I carry this for medicinal purposes,

but I don't.

To wherever we're going, Mr. Swope.

Heaven, hell, all the stops in between.

You're entitled, Mr. Swope.

No thanks.

Don't tell me you don't drink?

Well, not when I'm working.

And now you're working. Uh-huh.

Do you mind if I ask,

purely as a matter of conversation you understand,

just who is the, uh, subject of your work this time?

You wouldn't know them. I might.

Well, it's Ross, Toby and Reese Sawyer.

Five thousand dollars each.

Dead or alive? Dead.

Fifteen thousand dollars is a lot of money, Mr. Swope.

Is it the hunt or the money you want?

Neither one. It's for my little girl.

I will go, Sarita. Horne.

He knows you are coming. That is good.

He will kill you, Ross. He might.

I will put pollen in the wind

for my man of 30 years.

They've been good years. They've been good years.

Adios. Adios.

Horne. Ross will see that.

If he rides as hard as I think he will,

he might just wind up walking like you and me.

Walk?

You're not going to walk, Horne.

You're bleeding to death. You're gonna die!

You wouldn't do that to me.

Please don't. Not me. You're not gonna shoot me.

Please don't shoot, Horne.

No, Horne, don't, please. No. Don't do that, Horne.

Now let's see who bleeds to death first.

Get up. Get up.

Papa. Huh?

Will the Indians harm us?

No, they're just waiting for us to move out

so they can move in.

What's happened to us?

Me, Julie.

I've made a failure for all of us.

You and your ma and me.

Oh no, Papa.

There must be something we can do.

We've already learned by experience.

Well, we just can't sit.

We can't move neither.

I don't know what to do.

Guess maybe we'll decide that tomorrow.

Well, can't we just stay here?

Stage stops running, it's starvation to be here.

Maybe we even end up fighting them.

Oh, mama's got some money.

Can't we buy some food?

It's up to your ma.

You ask her about that.

But you're my papa.

I know, Julie.

I'm right sorry about that.

Please, God, bring Leah home.

What if this Horne has already taken the Sawyers?

Well, there's only one place he can take them to,

that's your dad's place.

And you'll take them from him?

I'm gonna try.

What about the 50,000 dollars?

I'll take that too if I can.

Yay.

Hey, girl.

Whoa.

Hey, whoa.

Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

Leah, is it really you?

It's really me, Julie.

Oh, Julie, this is Mr. Swope.

Pleased to meet you, Miss.

How do you do, Mr. Swope.

Leah, you got to tell me all about everything.

I'll tell you all about it, honey.

Leah, girl, it's been a while.

Years, Mama. Maybe too long.

Oh, Leah.

I told your papa you'd come.

I said, you can always depend on Leah.

Mama, this is Mr. Swope. Ma'am.

How do you do, Mr. Swope.

Come in. Come in.

Supper's almost ready.

Well, tomorrow's the last trip.

I'm going to miss you, Dan.

I'm going to miss you too.

Dan.

When you come back tomorrow, let me go with you.

Let you go with...

I don't have any money

but I'm leaving if I have to walk.

Oh, please try to understand.

I wanna see people and places.

Something besides this dirty old ranch

and stagecoaches and passengers and...

Stagecoach drivers.

I didn't mean that, Dan.

Look, Julie. I care for you. You know that.

But my intentions ain't to throw you on a stagecoach

and run away.

Dan, I can't stay here.

I've got to get away. I'll go crazy.

I wanna see something.

I wanna get a taste of life before it's all gone.

You said, "Let me go with you."

That's something I've always wanted too.

But all you want is to go.

With who or where don't matter.

Well, on those terms it won't be me.

Yes sir, soon as I got your letter, Leah,

saying you was coming, I was even more sure.

'Course you didn't have to come yourself, heh.

I guess maybe you was worried.

I didn't get any letter, Mama.

You didn't?

Heh, well, it don't really matter.

You're here.

But I did write you last month.

About the trouble your pa got us into.

The stage line closing?

Last stage tomorrow.

Us having to get together 200 dollars or move out?

You did get that letter, didn't you, Leah?

I didn't get any letter, Mama.

We can't stay without you brought the money.

Sixty dollars in all.

You have that, don't you, Leah?

You have... You have that?

Then what did you come home for?

I don't know, Mama.

I don't know.

Mr. Parker, I need the use of a horse real bad.

Well, I'm sorry I can't help you but I can't give you one.

Henry can sell you a horse, Mr. Swope.

Oh, Myra, them horses ain't ours.

They belong to the stage line.

Well, they don't know for sure how many is here.

You can say one died.

Uh, I don't know about that.

How much you pay for a horse, Mr. Swope?

All I have is 25 dollars with me, Mrs. Parker.

Well, that's better than nothing.

Henry, you'll saddle a horse for Mr. Swope.

First thing in the morning.

More cornbread, Mr. Swope?

Yes, and thank you.

Leah.

You ought to have 35 dollars.

Maybe I should, Mama, but I don't.

Mama, Leah is home.

Can't we enjoy one meal without haggling over money?

Like it or not, Julie, money is important.

It means more right now

because we need it and we don't have it.

Somehow, somewhere,

I'm gonna get it.

Stand away, Mrs. Parker.

Please. Do something for my shoulder.

Please.

You got to help me, Horne.

All right, Mrs. Parker.

You can take care of him now if you like.

He's lost a lot of blood.

I may not be welcome but I'm here.

Gonna be here till the dawn stage.

I hope there won't be any trouble.

Horne?

Horne. Ooh.

What happened?

Oh, sit down. I'll get something to fix that.

Mr. Parker, I wanna talk to Swope.

All right, Horne.

Swope, what are you here for?

Him.

Maybe you.

Maybe this, huh?

That's right.

Sam, you won't take it from me.

Maybe I won't have to.

Well, that's the end of the coal oil.

Hope it lasts till morning.

Be no stage till 7 tomorrow morning.

You lighting them torches just like always?

Why sure, Myra.

- You think I oughtn't to? - It don't matter.

What does matter

that marshal's got a lot of money on him.

You think we... Oh, Myra...

All right. All right. All right.

You'll never change, will you?

No.

But you never change neither, Myra.

Funny, ain't it.

If just one of us would change,

then we wouldn't have to fight no more about which one it was.

When are you men gonna stop shooting each other?

When are you women gonna stop being women?

That hurt, Horne. So will this.

You're not very gentle.

Neither are you. Here.

Reese, Mama's getting you something to eat.

Thanks.

Oh Leah, this is Reese Sawyer.

Reese, this is my sister, Leah.

She's been teaching school in Santa Fe.

How do you do, Mr. Sawyer.

Didn't I meet you once in Amarillo?

I taught school there too.

You sure did.

What are you two talking about?

About school.

Fifty thousand dollars could do a lot for you, Julie.

Could get you a new dress, some real makeup.

You wouldn't have to mix together flour and berry stain

like I done all my life...

Leah, you're a school teacher.

You been to the big places.

Tell me. Just add it all up and tell me.

What could I get with 50,000 dollars?

Trouble, Mama, trouble.

Uh, I wasn't going to bother the money, Mr. Horne.

I had no thought that you would, Julie.

Thank you.

We don't hear words like that around here often.

Leah.

Leah, help me?

I need something. I need somebody.

What is life like away from here?

Honey, every human can answer that differently.

I can't answer it.

I can't answer it at all.

What was it to you? To me?

Life was a, um, candy store

and on every corner was something sweet.

I had a taste for everything and I bought it all.

But like everything else, life has a price.

And I paid it.

With me, bits and pieces of my life that I couldn't buy back.

Like candy, too much life can make you sick.

But a person has to try before they know.

The trouble is once you know you have to try it again.

Too many times you'll find a medicine

that will ease the pain but it won't really cure you.

So it's, uh, more candy, more life.

It never ends.

But isn't too much life better

than none at all? No.

I don't understand.

You will, honey, you will.

I'm leaving on the morning stage.

For where? Anywhere.

What are you gonna do for money?

Loan it to me, Leah?

You must have some money. 10 dollars.

As soon as I get to a town and get a job,

I'll send it right back.

I don't have it, honey.

You just don't want me to go. You're just like mama.

I don't have it, Julie. Yes, you do.

You've got to have some money. You're a school teacher.

No.

I never thought I'd see the day

my own sister wouldn't trust me for 10 dollars.

I'm going.

If I don't get the money from you

then I'll get it from somebody else.

You have any more coffee, Mrs. Parker?

Help yourself.

Oh, I imagine it's cold.

If you wait a minute, I'll warm it up for you.

Swope.

Swope. I hear you.

There's, uh, 50,000 dollars in that money bag.

I know it.

Half of it for a gun?

Not a chance.

All of it, Swope.

Get me a gun and the money is yours.

Listen, Sawyer, there's a 5000 dollars reward for you.

I need it.

I've got a choice of either clean money or dirty money.

Frankly, I don't give a hang which it is.

The dirty way I'll have to kill Horne in there.

The clean way, I'll have to kill you.

If it comes to that, you don't have to kill me, Swope.

Go easy.

That reward is for you dead, Sawyer.

Oh, uh, Mr. Swope, you can have the front bedroom.

It's the first door on the left. Thanks.

Mr. Swope.

I usually get three dollars for the room

but you can have it for nothing.

And I'll take the 25 dollars for the horse.

Twenty-five dollars.

Thank you, Mrs. Parker.

Henry, help me get the room ready.

You know the town fathers offered me 5000 dollars

to see that that money gets back, heh.

Seems they don't trust you, Horne.

I don't trust them.

I know. Always happens that way.

We're only necessary when they need us.

It happened to me in Dodge City. Same thing in Sedalia.

And now me, huh? Yeah.

Ugh, those kind of people just aren't worth fighting for.

You know if I was you,

I'd keep right on going.

I figure to do just that.

Soon as I get him and the money back.

Listen, Horne. I got a little girl.

She's blind.

Now I need money for her. Bad.

But the only way I can get it

is to take it from you or take him.

Sam.

Sam, you know I won't deal that way.

But the boy's worth money dead.

So is his father, Ross. You'd have to kill me.

I'll worry about that in the morning, Horne.

Maybe by then you'll already be dead.

I brought you some coffee.

Thanks, Julie.

Reese, can you lend me 10 dollars?

I wanna leave on the morning stage

but Mama and Leah, they won't give me any money.

Papa doesn't have it.

I'll get a job as soon as I get to town.

I promise I'll pay you right back.

I never forget a favor, Reese.

Never. In my pants pocket.

There's nothing but 50s.

Go ahead.

Julie, it's getting late. I'll be back later.

What were you talking about? Leah, you're looking good.

And you're taking your usual good look.

Nothing wrong in looking, Leah.

Tell me, how come Julie didn't borrow money from you?

She only wanted 10 dollars but I gave her 50.

A loan from a friend of course. A friend?

But the main thing is I got another 300 in this pocket here.

Are you broke, Leah?

There was a time when 300 dollars would buy a lot

of things, a man, a woman, even a gun.

Which is it you want to buy, Reese?

Reese offered me 300 dollars for a gun.

A lot of money. Did you take it?

I'm sorry you had to ask me, Horne.

I'm sorry, Leah. For what?

After all, it's like you said one time.

Want an answer ask a question.

No need to apologize.

Horne, I still love you.

I still hate your guts too.

Nothing really changes.

Not you, not me.

Why don't we be drastic, Horne?

Explode, shout and slap the hell out of each other?

Why don't we be bold and try something new,

something like, maybe the truth.

Is that what you want? Yes, that's what I want.

I'd rather lose than hang on, Horne.

To a woman, hanging on is losing.

Am I being brazen?

If so, I don't care.

There was a time years ago

when I was too timid to be open in my talk.

You were the experienced man. The been there, know all man.

I loved you for what you seemed to be

and I hated you for what you were.

I couldn't understand that then.

Now, I've been there too.

So now I wanna know.

Leah, I guess if I love any woman it's you.

But the answer is no.

Good clock.

Always on time.

I checked it with the passengers that got watches.

Stage still at seven? Ugh, yep.

You gonna stay there all night? All night.

Well, I'll, uh, go out and fetch some wood for your fire.

Leah?

Spare me a blanket?

Leah, get me a gun.

A gun or your folks will know what school you been teaching.

That I swear.

Good night, Mr. Parker.

Good night.

Leave the rest of the lamps on.

Horne.

Horne.

Horne, I can't sleep like this.

A day ends, a day begins.

It'll bring nothing new.

This one will, Horne.

This one will bring Ross. Ross will come.

Reese said he gave you 50 dollars.

Yes.

Julie.

Come here.

I wanna tell you something.

Something that I wish someone had told me one night years ago

when, just like you, I was packing a bag to catch a stage.

When you're young it's hard to have the patience to wait.

It's easier to run, even if you don't know where or even way.

Leah, you don't have to... Yes, I do.

When you're half starved and alone

and away from anybody, you know,

you start to make excuses.

You swap a principle for something else

because that's all you've got to trade.

Ugh, I've never been a school teacher, Julie.

I've been a high-priced woman.

But take away the reason... Leah.

And I was nothing but a...

Don't say it.

I don't believe it.

Don't go, Julie.

I can't stay.

I can't stand to see Papa like this.

No courage. Just doing nothing.

One thing I know, honey, something about men.

Pa can argue with a man but not with the woman he loves.

That he can't stand because he doesn't wanna hurt her.

Sooner or later, he'll have to.

Hey! Ho!

That gun, Parker, pick it up.

Two hours from now I'll be leaving on the 7:00 stage.

So will that bag of money.

Let me make it clear that anybody...

Anybody who gets in my way will be dead.

Parker, that gun didn't get there of its own accord.

You better keep your women in line, if you can.

I should have bashed your head in when I had the chance.

But you didn't.

Horne, no man ever talked to me like that before.

Sure, I lost my fight against this land

day after day, month after month

with the heat burning my courage out of me

and then that wind freezing what little there was left.

But I got pride, Horne.

No, Parker, you don't even have that left.

Freeze or burn, do whatever you want.

Cross me once more, you won't have to do anything but die.

Did you have to do that?

Yes.

All right, Swope,

what's it gonna be?

I have to have that 5,000 dollars, Horne.

Sam, when we get back into town,

I could scrape up two, maybe 3,000 dollars.

Still wouldn't be enough. It has to be five.

All right. What'll it be?

I'll ride out after breakfast.

I'm obliged, Sam.

You owe me nothing, Horne.

If I thought I could take you, I would.

I've carried this gun 15, maybe 20 years.

I'm careful.

I look at a man and I figure the odds.

If I can take him, I will, If I can't.

Well, I just ride ahead.

Good luck to you, Horne.

Hello!

Howdy.

You're a long place from anywhere, aren't you?

Well, that horse of mine stepped in a chuck hole

and broke his leg.

How's chances of you giving me

a ride back to the stage station?

Well, can't go that far out of my way.

You come to my place and I'll sell you a horse.

Better than walking.

I'll, uh... I'll ride in the back.

Six o'clock, Horne.

You got less than one hour to live.

Ross'll be here before the stage.

Town is that way.

I'm not going that way.

I'm going up canyon to meet Ross.

He's worth 5,000 dollars to me, Horne.

I have to have it.

Swope, I can't let you do that.

You've got Reese. You've got that bad arm.

You can't go with me.

And I don't think you'd shoot me in the back.

Horne didn't mean it that way, Papa.

No, he meant it.

And he was right.

I ain't got no fight left in me. No pride, neither.

You see I...

I just sat here month after month and let the world whip me.

Well, you can't do that.

You gotta fight every minute.

Otherwise there comes a day

when you know there was a fight

but, uh, you lost it before you even knew you was in it.

Julie.

Where did you get the money for your ticket?

I'm leaving, Papa

and it doesn't make any difference.

Where did you get the money?

Now you girls and your ma, you always argue me your way.

But not no more!

Answer me! Where did you get it?

I borrowed it from Reese Sawyer.

You borrowed money from that outlaw?

And what was the interest on the loan gonna be?

A gun maybe?

No, Papa. I thought about it.

I thought about all that money.

But I didn't give him the gun.

Leah?

I thought about it too, Papa, but somebody beat me to it.

Reese said he'd tell Mama and you

about the school I was teaching.

What about school?

Because your reading was done on the labels of whiskey bottles.

And your writing was

your signature on every hotel ledger in the west.

And your arithmetic was done by the night?

Oh, Leah, I ain't stupid.

I've known for a long time.

Oh, baby, it's all right.

More my fault than yours.

And you, young lady, you put that stuff away.

You ain't going no place. You're staying home.

Oh, come on.

We've got food for three, four days.

Just a little more money

and we'll have enough to stay here for another year.

We're gonna make it someway.

Now you girls just get dressed and we'll all go to breakfast.

And we'll say the blessing like we done when you was babies.

Then maybe we can all get together again.

Yeah, together.

Papa.

Are you gonna ask Mama? I ain't asking.

I'm telling.

What are you doing, Myra?

I'm packing.

What for?

What for?

Because we're leaving.

Because of you we're leaving.

You gave him the gun, didn't you, Myra?

Myra!

You gave him the gun.

Yes, I gave him the gun.

If that's what you come in to ask me, leave me alone.

I'm busy.

Myra, what's happened to you?

For the last few years you've been moaning

and groaning and picking and ficking

because nothing ever seemed to be all right.

What have you been doing for the last few years,

you tell me that!

Doing nothing but driving me crazy with your talk

and your doing nothing... Shut up, I tell you.

You're nothing but a drunk. Shut up!

Now you listen to me.

I just told Julie.

She ain't going no place.

Neither are we. We're staying.

Come whatever we're staying.

Now you just get over there

and put them pans away again like I told you.

Myra, I can't make you stay

but I hope you'll agree.

Because that's the way it's gotta be.

Hello there!

Hello there!

Hey!

Horne.

Last night you said you loved me.

You also said no. Uh-uh.

All right. I wanna know why you said no.

Reasons. Reasons?

Like soiled virtue? Maybe violated honor?

Who the hell do you think you are?

All right, you're tough and you're strong

but don't tell me you're naive.

This is a hard country.

A place where a woman bears a child alone,

wipes him clean, slaps life into him

and then wonders if it would have been better to let him die.

There is no virtue to violate,

no honor to bend, no high and mighty rules to live by.

There is only life and death

and it's what you wanna make it that gives it the name.

I won't throw away my last hope for you without crying,

begging or even crawling if I have to.

You say reasons. Name them.

Ross Sawyer has been a father to me

and when he gets here...

And he'll get here.

I don't wanna kill him, Leah.

He doesn't wanna kill me.

But...

Leah,

leave me alone until this is over.

Ross didn't come.

He let me down.

Ross.

He let me down.

He let me down, Ross.

He let me down.

Horne, I didn't mean to shoot you.

He came.

I told you he'd come.

Told you. Start dying, Horne, start dying!

Get up.

Ha-ha-ha.

I knew you'd come. Pa. You didn't let me down, Pa.

Hold it, Reese.

Ross.

I left a fellow on the trail a few minutes back.

I don't know who he was and I don't care.

He tried to stop me. Swope.

I didn't want a thing like this to happen.

I come for my boy.

Don't, Pa. He'll kill you.

Shut up, Reese!

This is between Horne and me.

Hyah!

I'm not going.

Pa, well he won't let me go.

I guess it's best. I...

Well,

if you ain't going, I guess I'll have to come out here.

Tomorrow soon enough?

See you tomorrow.

I'll be back

soon as I get things squared away for Swope's wife

and little girl.

I'll bring a buckboard. You get packed.

Don't you wanna know where we're going?

I don't care.

We're late.

Let's go.

Hyah.

I'm going over and tell them Indians to get out of here.