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01x14 - The Man from the Sea

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Virginian". Aired: September 19, 1962 – March 24, 1971.*
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The series was loosely based on The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains, a 1902 Western novel by Owen Wister that Hollywood had previously adapted for movies.

01x14 - The Man from the Sea

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* Goodbye, fare ye well

* Goodbye, fare ye well

* We're homeward bound...

Judith, does that
singin' bother you?

Susan?

Well, it sure
bothers me.

* ...a gal in Liverpool--

You've been doin' that
all the way from Casper.

And I ain't
repeated myself.
You noticed?

Yeah. Well, I'd like
to ask you a favor.

Sure, ask.

I think I'll get
some air, Mr. Trampas.

All right.

Say, she's pretty.
Yeah. About your--

When she got on in Casper,
that's the remark
I made to myself.

Now, there's a girl
who's pretty.

Good for you. Now,
what I'm getting at is,
for the rest of--

Yes, Susan?

I think I'll take
this shawl out to Judith.

It might get chilly.

Yeah.

She married?
No.

Look, I'll put it
to you real simple.

Your singin'
annoys people--me.

Now, that's a shame.
That's a real shame.

Judith married?
No.

Well, that's good.
They're sisters--
that's for sure.

But which one's
the youngest?

This may come as
a real shock to you,

but neither one.
They're twins.

Oh, twins.

* I have a gal
in Liverpool Town *

* I promised her
that we'd never part *

Judith?

What are you thinking?

I hate this land.

Oh, I don't.

I think finally
we're going some--

somewhere that'll mean
something to both of us.

Aren't you tired of going
from place to place, Judith?

So little time in each.

And then off again,
and off again.

* She loved no other,
no other but me *

* She cried so at partin',
in nearly broke my heart-- *

The fact that
you sing like a crow
don't help none.

You understand me now?

You don't want me
to sing no more.

No. Now, it's a chore

bringin' two young ladies
up from Casper,

and I aim to sleep
the rest of the way
to Medicine Bow.

Well, I aim to sing.

Well, I aim to sleep.

Can I show you
something?

Sure.

Are you chilly?
No.

Perhaps you're right.

Perhaps this place
we're going to will be--

I don't know,
something different,
a change.

Perhaps you're right.

Hold that.

You find it yet?
Yep.

**

How would you like
to see your gizzard

at the end of that, cowboy?

Medicine Bow.
Medicine Bow.

Medicine Bow.

You're the first crow
I ever seen with
his own stinger.

Medicine Bow.
Medicine Bow.

Well, I guess
we're here.

So, since you asked me,
I won't sing no more.

Medicine Bow, ladies.

**

Well, I thank you
for the refreshment...

and the conversation.

Oh, anytime.
Anytime at all.

Hey, did you hear
about them two girls

that came in
on the train last night?

Hear about it?
The whole town--

They just went
driving by in the buggy.

But there was another
girl drivin' them.

Beautiful girl--
blond, freckles,
little tiny nose.

Oh, sounds like Molly.
Molly Wood.

Oh. Molly Wood.

Would you know where
they'd be going?

Well, I couldn't
be sure--

There was a man
with them.

Uh, Trampas, I think,
was his name,

and another cowboy, too.

Trampas?
Yeah.

If he was with them,
they'd be goin' out
to Judge Garth's place.

Shiloh Ranch.

How would I get
to there?

Oh, River Road. East.
You can't miss it.

Is there a place around
where I can get
a horse quick?

Livery stable's
just up the street.

Thank you.

Hey! I thought you were
lookin' for a farm.

What's a farm
without a wife?

**

Hey, Molly!
Pull up the horses!

I promised the girls
some fancy ropin'!

* Adieu,
Prince Edward's Isle *

* Prince Edward, thou adieu

* Adieu, my lady's smile

* Adieu,
Prince Edward's Isle *

* Prince Edward, thou adieu

* Adieu, my lady's smile

* I must...

Well, that's how it's done.
How'd you like it?

Very exciting,
Trampas.

You ride beautifully.

All in a day's work.

Do you really think so?

Yes, I do.

Judith, you're a shrewd
judge of horsemanship.

I knew that right off.

Have you seen
much riding, Judith?

Yes, I have. Why?

Just wondering, is all.

And ropin'?

Well, none quite
as graceful

or as thrilling
as Trampas.

Thrilling?

Yes, very.
Wasn't it, Susan?

Yes, it was.

Don't you girls
move a step.

**

Not a step.

Hyah!

That was splendid,
Steve.

Just wanted to give you
a notion of how it
needs to be done.

And yet...

And yet what?

And yet it would be
most difficult

to have to choose
between you.

You're both such
splendid horsemen.

Aren't they, Susan?

The best
we've ever seen.

Now may I take the young
ladies on to Shiloh?

Judge Garth expected you
early this morning.

What I was gonna suggest
was that the young ladies
take a ride.

You know, get the feel
of the place, see how
pretty it is.

I'd like that.

Do you ride,
Miss Judith?

Not very well.

Don't worry about it.

**

Mornin'!

Good morning.

My, ain't that a treat--
all that land.

All that beautiful land!

Flat and rocks and hills

and creatures on it,
runnin'.

My, ain't it a treat.

Where do you come from?

Oh, I'm from nearly
everyplace, except here.

Mostly I was a sailor.

I used to be that,
but no more.

What I am--

Would you like to know
what I am?

Yes.

I'm a man come home
from the sea...

for good.

That's what I am.

And I'm Kevin Doyle, too.

I'm Molly Wood.

You're pretty.

Thank you.

And I'm glad about that.

Why?

Well, I come here
to get a farm...

and to get a wife.

You married?

Widow lady?

Serving girl?

No.

Well, what, then?

I run a newspaper.
Huh?

I run a newspaper,
Mr. Doyle, and I run it--

But that don't explain
how come you're
not married.

Well, I guess--
You guess what?

I guess you got to
get married someday.

You're invited.

Bring food
from your farm.

Good-bye, Mr. Doyle.

I'm a wanderer.
I may never come
this way again.

Good-bye, Mr. Doyle.

Oh, I sorrow for you,
Molly dear, I do.

But I may come
knockin' at your door.

* Adieu, my lady's smile

* Adieu,
Prince Edward's Isle *

* Adieu, my lady's smile

* I must be leaving you

**

Whoa.

This is Shiloh.

This is
Judge Garth's ranch.

It's beautiful,
isn't it, Judith?

Boys, go on up
and grease the windmill.

When you're done with that,
get back to the bunkhouse.

Hello.
Judge expected you
an hour ago.

Tell that to Steve
and Trampas.

They were showing off
for the girls.

Which one is Judith
and which one is Susan?

I'm Judith,
this is Susan.

Hello.
Hello.

You can call him
the Virginian.
Everyone else does.

Are you
from Virginia?

A few years back,
ma'am.

I thought
you were gonna be at
Big Pines this week.

Leave in the morning.

Don't worry, Molly.

I'll be back in time
for the celebration.

I was
worried sick.

However, maybe I'll be
needed here--

kind of help look after
Judith and Susan.

I know your kind
of looking after.
They don't need it.

You never seem to mind it.

Whatever gave you
that idea?

Come along, ladies.

Nice meeting you.
Yes.

Pleasure's mine.

Give me a hand over here.

**

Do you like
books, Judith?

Yes. Yes, I do.

Father told us of you,
of your love for books,

and how you were such
old and good friends.

Yes, we were.

He spoke of you often.

I think of him
often.

But now his
two daughters are here.

His legacy to me
is a lovely one.

When he died,
he asked that...

we be worthy
of your friendship.

Judge dear, now that
the girls are delivered
to you safe and sound,

may I go back
and earn my living?

Thank you, Molly.
Thank you for letting
them stay with you.

Oh, not at all.
It was a pleasure.

Oh, no, please.
I can find my way out.

Judith, Susan,
I'll see you both in town.

Good-bye.
Thank you.

Molly was so kind
to us.

Molly is one of
the special people.

Now, then...
which of you

is the clever one
with a potter's wheel?

She is.

My apologies, Susan.

I should've had your shop
and place to live
ready for you.

But I've been away.

Judge Garth?

This book about the sea--

the Mediterranean
and the countries around it.

May I borrow it?

Why, it's yours.

Oh, no, no.
I just want to borrow it.

Then I can come back
and borrow others.

Whenever you like.

Thank you.

You see, Judge Garth,

Judith has a--

I have what, Sue?

Well, I was only
going to say

that you haven't
made up your mind
about things yet--

what you want to do,
when you want
to marry, or--

What my sister is trying
to tell you, Judge Garth,

is that I shall be
a burden to you.

I meant nothing
of the kind.

A burden because
I haven't found myself--

what I want to do,
what I am,

where I want to go.

And all the time,
Susan shall be
earning her keep,

making pottery, making things
for people to buy.

And I? I shall be
a burden to you.

Well, I can't
conceive that.

Coming to you with questions,
borrowing books,

disturbing you
with my ignorance.

Because I don't know yet
what I am,

what I want to be.

I don't know.
I just don't know.

Well, we've heard
from Judith.

Now let's hear
from you.

Well...ask me things,

or I won't know
where to begin.

Well,
how did you learn to work
the potter's wheel?

Let's start with that.

Well...

once when Daddy and I--
and Judith--

were wandering from
Omaha to the West.

Daddy was positive
there was work
further west.

We met a peddler
and his wagon.

There were all manner
of things in it--

laces and cloths
and trinkets.

A music box.

All matter of things
a young girl could want.

And there was
a potter's wheel.

So Daddy
bought it for me.

And when we stayed in
one place for a while,

I learned to use it,
to make things on it
with clay.

It was a--

Judith, listen to me.

Listen,
it was an accident.
It wasn't your fault.

You mustn't blame
yourself.

Judge.

Judith, nothing
has happened, nothing.

Your sister isn't hurt.
She's not hurt.

I didn't mean it,
I didn't mean it.
I'm sorry!

I know.
I know you didn't.

I--I just--

It's all right.
I'm sorry.

Well, we won't say
a word of this to anyone.

Not a word.

It was my fault anyway.

I shouldn't have left
this g*n here.

You--

You're not angry?

You'll let me
come back?

Why, you needn't
go back to town at all.

You can stay here,
both of you.

Susan...

Yes?

When I thought that
I had k*lled you...

my heart
stopped beating.

Help me, Susan.
Help me say it.

I don't know how.
I don't know what
you want to say.

That we're really
one person.

When you're hurt,
I'm hurt.

Isn't that so?

Yes.

Yes, it is.

**

Well...

are you enjoying it?
No!

Of course I am.

Except...

it makes me sad.

So much to see.

So much of the world.

Sights and sounds and--

Did you ever want
to bite the world
like an apple?

Of course.
When?

Oh, no.
Not now anymore.

Now my life has fallen
into a pattern,

and that's the way
I want to live it.

Were you looking for me?

No, I was riding
into Medicine Bow.

Why?

See your sister
and her shop,

how she's
getting along.

I see.

Judge,
did you ever wish--

did you ever wish
you could--

Well, here.

The sounds of names.

Thebes, Samarkand.

All faraway places.

To go there?
Uh-huh.

Yes, when I was
very much younger, I did.

Most young men
have dreams like that.

And now?

Oh...

someday I'll take
a trip.

I'll see Europe,

stand before the paintings
and the castles

and the...antiquities

and marvel at them.

Uh, no.
Thebes, Samarkand.

Strange, exotic places.

Judith...

I've lived through
quite a few years

here in this land.

Here, and in the South,

and West.

And I've been there.

The caravans west.

The Chiricahua,
Snake River,

King's Peak...

the Rio Grande.

Now I've come to
that part of my life

where I don't want
things changed very much.

Are you getting old?
Is that what you mean?

Old? Not old.

Oh, changes will come,
I'm sure.

I can't help that,
because that's in
the very nature of things.

But then...

you can't possibly
realize that yet.

You're right,
you're not.

What?
Old.

**

No.

But all I want
to do is kiss you.

And you expect me
to let you?

Why not? I'm the very
soul of honor.

I'm lookin'
for a wife,

a woman to help me
raise up a dozen kids

and then
send them all to sea.

And you've decided on me
to be their mother?

No, Miss Molly.
I'm merely searching.

I wanted to kiss you
to find out
if I'd like it.

And supposing you do?

Well, then I'll start
thinkin' about you
more than I do now.

Kevin...I like you.

Well, I'm likeable.

But I'm busy.

I've been waitin'
for two hours

for you to finish writin'
what you had to.

Now, I know it's
midday, Miss Molly,

but you take
my word for it,

midday's as good a time
for courtin' as any.

Really?
Yes, ma'am.

Once I was on an island
called Samoa--

Samoa?

That's practically all
they do there, is court.

Any time of day.
They ain't swimmin'

or shreddin' coconut--
they're courtin'.

Then, in Sumatra--
Sumatra?

Yeah, that's a country
far across the sea, and--

Kevin.
Yes, ma'am?

I like to
hear you talk,

but I'm not
the girl for you.

Take me for a walk.
Fair enough?

Fair enough.

I like to hear
me talk, too.

But strange as it
may seem, Miss Molly,

I talk only the truth.

Come along.

**

What's that for?

They're building
a bandstand.

Medicine Bow will be
25 years old on Saturday.

Oh?

Bands and racing
and everything, huh?

That's swift foot
racing indeed!

Where are we goin'?
In here.

What do we want to
come in here for?

To give them a hand.

Stow 'em out,
mates.

Hey.

Hello, Susan.
We just dropped by

to see if we could
help you out.
This is--

You looked different
on the train.

Huh?

On the train,
you looked like, uh--

you looked like
one of them ladies
from Nova Scotia.

Hey, mister, I want
to talk to you outside.

You know, poke bonnet
and suckin' their cheeks

and lookin' all dried up,
like they'd just come
from church,

like they just listened
to a sermon about sins

they never dreamed
of doin'.

We never finished
our business
on the train.

Nova Scotia?
Yes, ma'am.

Where's that?

Oh, that's in
the wide Atlantic.

Got so cold there,
I nearly froze
my chin whiskers.

I once wore
chin whiskers.

Did you?
Mm-hmm.

Down to here.

One of those ladies
got laughin' so hard,

I stopped kissin' her
long enough to
shave 'em off.

Hey, sailor,
I'm talkin' to you.

I know.

Put that away, huh?

You're a sailor?
You've seen the sea?

Oh, I've seen 'em all.

I want to show you
something.

Come on.

If those girls
weren't around,

I'd take that sea scrub
apart limb by limb.

Sure you would.

Isn't there
a sea chanty about
a sailor being fickle?

He's very handsome.

Listen to it.

Oh, I've heard it.

No, listen to it.

Is that what
it sounds like?

Is that what
the sea sounds like?

Yep.

Yes?
Mm-hmm.

I've never seen
the sea.

Oh, I've seen 'em all.

My father saw it once.
Mm

West. The Pacific,
for a day.

He looked at it,
and it frightened him,

so he went away
from it.

He brought us
this conch.

He said to listen to it,
and this is what
the sea sounded like.

Not all the time.

Sometimes it's teeth
and thunder.

Oh, I've seen the sea
just take men and
swallow 'em right up.

I've seen sights.

I've seen
all manner of places
where the oceans end.

Tell me.

It'd take
days to tell all--

Oh, no, please!
Tell me.

It'd take days.
Sit down. Go ahead.

Go ahead.

Well, let's see.

In the China seas,
the water is green.

And around Aparri,
the trees grow

right down to the edge
of the beach.

You see it, you make it
as a landfall,

you make port
around sunset,

and you never did see
such a sky.

You never did see
such colors.

**

Someday I'm goin'
away from here.

Not if I can help it.

I'm gonna find
somebody to take me.

Know what I did
today?
Uh-uh.

I looked at a map.

Fella who sells farms
around Medicine Bow
showed me a map.

Tomorrow
I'm goin' with him
and look at some land.

You're gonna settle down
forever and ever?

That's right.
Gonna raise up children

to enjoy life
as much as I do.

I'll pay my debt
to this lovely world
a dozen times over,

and I'll welcome death
like a friend.

You're a strange man,
Kevin.

Well, I pity
the man that isn't.

We were talkin' about
settling down.

You need a wife?

Aye.

I'm lookin'
for her now.

Not me.
Why?

Never been to Egypt.

Well, I've been there.

**

Judith!
What are you doin'?

Come on in!

No! And you
come out of there!

Judith!

Judith!

Judith!

Come on
out of there, now!

Hey! What'd you
do that for?

'Cause I felt like it.
Why didn't you come in?

'Cause I can't swim.

Sailors don't, do they?

Most of 'em don't.

Judith.

What do you want
from me?

Right now I just
want to hold you.

Never.

Go on with your work.

I'm sorry.

I didn't hear you.

No need
to apologize.

I enjoyed watchin'.

Enjoyed?

Yeah, seeing your hands
move so quickly

and so surely,

creating beauty
out of common clay.

Oh, I--I'm starting
a bowl.

Most people
don't see beauty there.

Oh, in Athens,
in Greece,

I saw urns
that were priceless

'cause of their beauty
and grace.

And they were clay once.

I'm afraid none of mine
will ever be priceless.

Oh, don't you be
too certain.

You think that
those Greeks who made
those priceless urns

knew that they were
creating great art?

Well, how do you know?

Maybe in 1,000 years,
or maybe 2,000 years,

and archaeologist
from some strange,
new civilization

will dig right here

and make the discovery
of his career--

your bowl.

I hadn't considered that.

Perhaps I'd better
spend some extra time
on this one.

Well, a word to the wise.

Is Judith upstairs?

No. She's out at
Judge Garth's today.

That's strange.

Hmm?

I've been thinking.

My sister wouldn't be
interested in this at all.

Vale of Kashmir,
Hadrian's tomb.

And you--

you hear the far
and fetching sounds, eh?

Mm-hmm.

Judge, Susan and I
are twins.

There's a oneness
about us,

as if neither of us
is complete without
the other.

And yet, there are
terrible times when--

What were you
going to say?

Uh, nothing.

Um...what are you
writing?

Oh, just a feed list.

Things that have
to be ordered.

What's troubling you,
Judith?

You. You are.

With your talk
and your books and--

just knowing you.

Maybe I would
have been happier
never to have come here.

Why, because I gave you
a few books to read

on distant places--
pictures to look at?

You're the cause of
my trouble, Judge Garth.

You have a responsibility
towards me.

I think I'll borrow
this book.

**

You're very fond
of Judith, aren't you?

Yes, ma'am.

She's very lucky.

And so are you.

I--I have to finish this
before it dries.

If you don't mind.

Not at all.
An artist has
the right to solitude.

**

You--You trouble me,
Kevin.

How?

Oh...

you've opened up
a whole world for me.

Did you know that?

Tell me the places
you've been,

and giving them all
a far and fetching sound...

making me unhappy.

Oh, them places--
ain't none of them
as sweet as this land.

I bought a farm,
Judith.

You gonna
settle down here?

Yep.

To live out
your years here?

With you, Judith.
Never.

I'll find a way.

Will you?
Yes, I will.

No, that's not the way.
Not with kisses.

Well, then how?

Don't touch me.

Then how?

Look for it.

I hereby declare

that the town
of Medicine Bow

is now officially
25 years old!

Therefore,
let the celebration begin!

And let joy be unbound!

Ladies and gentlemen!

Your kind attention
right up here to the center
of the ring!

Ladies and gentlemen,
I have here $100!

100 crisp and beautiful
one-dollar bills

for anyone who can go
three rounds

with the one and the only
Kid Bruce!

There he is!

All right. Now,
who's got the courage for it?

What about you, sir?
What about you?

Come right up here.
Now, isn't there one person

in this lovely town
of Medicine Bow?

There must be one person

who's willing to step
into this ring

and make the easiest $100
he's ever made in his life.

All right, now,
do I hear someone?
What about you, young man?

What about you?
Come right up. That's the boy.

Get right up in there.
Go ahead.

You tug a lot.

Seems we never get a chance
to finish our conversation.

I noticed that.

I'm riled.

You know why I'm riled?

You held that knife to me.

I can't forget that.

The fact that I ain't
done nothin' about it--

that riles me.

Well, if you're thinkin'
of hittin' me

or something
stupid like that,
don't you do it.

I ain't afraid of you,
if that's what
you're thinkin'.

Well, I'm riled.

You know what I think?

I think you couldn't
even lick that--

Ohh!

I think you couldn't
even lick that man there.

Not him. Him.

Ladies and gentlemen,
100 crisp...

Maybe.

Doubt it.

Could you?
Oh, easy.

That's why I don't
want to fight with you.
I'd lick you too easy.

I look at you,
and I don't see
a fist fighter at all.

All right. I'll fight him
if you'll fight him.

Oh, I was going to
anyway.

But I wouldn't do it
if I was you.

He's a professional
fighter.

He knows all the tricks.

Do you?

All right,
ladies and gentlemen,

I have $100.

Me next!

You come
right up here, boy!

Get right up there.

Got you.

Ha ha ha!

Yah! Ha ha!

All right.

Ohh!

All right,
ladies and gentlemen.

I still have that $100.

Would anybody--
Hey! Me next!

You're next!
Come right up here, boy.

That's it!

All right, $100!

Trampas.

You worked harder
for this than I did,

so I'll split it
with you.

I licked you, Trampas,
and I didn't
have to hit you.

I'm glad about that.

**

The winner!

It's exciting,
isn't it?

It'll be
a wonderful day.

Don't you think so,
Judith?

Let's go downstairs.

And we'll be
together again...

all day long.

Like we used to.

We used to,
didn't we, Susan?

I miss it.

Don't you?

I don't know.

I don't believe that.

What do you mean?

You seem restless.

I don't like it here.

I like it here.

There, you see?
Two sides of
the same coin.

Yes.

Susan...what's going
to become of us?

Well, we'll be
together...

like we always
have been.

It's what we want,
isn't it?

No.

I can't stand--

I can't, that's all.

I can't.

Can't stand what?

I don't know.
I'm restless.

We've both agreed
to that.

We've both said,
and we know it.

Can't stand what?

Let me alone, Susan.

Can't stand what?

Being tied to you!

Not being able to--
I tried to k*ll you!

I tried to, Susan,
and you knew it!

When I pulled the trigger
on that g*n,

I wanted you
out of my life...

so that I could live
and be myself,

without you.

I wanted to k*ll you!

It was an accident.
Was it?

Of course it was.

No, I wanted you
out of my life,

so that I could live
and be myself

and love and--
Judith--

Did you break it?

No.

It's all right.

Judith, you didn't
mean you would--

No. Of course not.

It was rather
a bad joke, wasn't it?

Let's go outside.

Let's be together
again.

Yes.

**

How do I look?

Magnificent.
Fast on my feet.

I must say it doesn't
improve you, Trampas.

Hey, Molly, don't you
have a dress that color?

Mm-hmm. With ruffles.

All right, you two.

You said I look
magnificent.

But tell me--
do I look fast on my feet?

I have my bets
on two boys

who are gonna walk
all over you, sailor.

That's 'cause
you don't understand.

Understand what?

About the secret advantage
I got over 'em.

Over all of 'em.

What secret advantage?

If I told you, it wouldn't
be a secret no more.

If you've got some
kind of advantage
goin' for you

that nobody
knows about,

the judges might
be interested.

Might at that.

Has to do with them small,
delicate tendons

runnin' along the ridge
of my instep and my toes.

What's different
about 'em?

If I took
my runnin' shoes off,
you could see.

Well, take 'em off.

Oh, there's
ladies present.

What's different about
your tendons and toes?

What's different
about 'em

is that
they've been bathed

in the warm currents
of the Persian Gulf.

So what?

It quickens them,
gives them a life of
their own.

Everybody knows that.

Did you know that?
Let's go.

What I told them
about the Persian Gulf--

you think I made it up?

Do you think,
Molly dear?

I've missed that.

Missed what?

That kind of talk.

Well, I've been busy
with my farm

and the plannin'
for it.

And with Judith.

You know what
you just did?
No.

You just sent a shiver
right through me,
Molly dear.

Just by the saying
of her name?

When women fight over me,
it sends a shiver through me.

And me with
a footrace to win, too.

She's quite lovely.

Aye, Molly dear.

And different from
the others you've known.

Ah, that she is.

And you've fallen
in love with her.

Have you seen her?

Well, yes,
at her sister's shop.

Oh, you mean,
have I seen her here?

I mean, have you
seen her here--

right here at this
celebration?

No.

That's a shame.

I think it'd be pleasing
to her sense of beauty

to see me
win a footrace.

I think it would.

I'm sure it would.

Far way--
where I told you of--

a footrace winner is led
into a sweet-smellin' garden--

Are you that sure
you're going to win?

You doubt it?

You can stand there

in your bonnet
and your petticoats

and truly doubt me?

Why, Molly dear...

And now the event
we've all been waiting for--

the Medicine Bow footrace!

Will the contestants please
line up here for me?

Gather in here.

Will the contestants
say their farewells

to their trainers
and handlers, please?

Latecomers
will not be tolerated.

Good luck, Kevin.

Thank you, ma'am.

What are you doing?

Waiting for you
to kiss the winner.

And you just did.
You'll see.

All right, gentlemen,
line up.

Are you ready?

In a straight line, please.

Ready...

Judith! I'm winnin'!

And the winner
of the first prize is...

Kevin Doyle!

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Howdy, Trampas.

I'm still riled.

I thought
we settled that.

No. No, you fightin'
that fella

and me fightin' him--

that just wasn't
the same thing.

Didn't settle
anything at all.

And you're still mad?

No, not mad, really.

I reckon I kind of
like you now.

Didn't think I would.

But you did pull
that knife to me.

Yeah, I did.

Well, I reckon
I'm gonna stay riled

till we settle
this thing.

Well, if it'll make you
feel any better...

Yep, it would.

All right.

Well, come on,
swing at me.

Come on, come on,
raise your hands.

Oh, no. You got
a right to swing first,

on account of that knife.

Well...

Okay.

Still riled?

No.

Bartender, two beers.

**

Judith?

You know
what you've done?

What'd I do?

You made a thing
come true,

standin' over me
there in the water...

in places
where I've been

and the sea like glass...

I would stare into it.

There'd be
an image there.

And a squall would come,
and the image would be gone.

And I'd roam again,
and find it again,

lose it again.

And then roam
to another sea.

And now?

Now I've found it.
I've captured it.

That wild
and wandering thing--
I've found it.

And you won't escape.

No?

Judith--

You know what you won
back there?

Huh?
The prize.

The race. Do you know
what you won?

A pig.
A fat little pig,

who'll dig up
your garden--

the garden you want me
to plant for you

and tend for you.

Heh. The sailor
who bought a farm,

won a pig, and now tries
to win me for a wife.

Judith--

A sailor who binds
himself to the earth,

and yet
is so light of foot.

I'd give it up.

A sailor who speaks
so prettily of
far-off places.

Do you hear me?
I said I'd give it up.

But you can't.
It's what you said
you always wanted.

No, no more.
What you've dreamed.

No more!

Tell me.

The far places.

I know them.
I'll take you there.

Places
you've never seen?

Places I've never seen.
I'll take you there, too.

And when we want
to go to other lands,
other countries?

We'll go there, Judith.
Whatever you want.

Oh, swear it.

I've told you, Judith.

Kevin?

Is this
what you saw?

Yep.

It's false.

Why?

Don't you see?

No.

Well, look.

There's not one person
there, but two.

Not me alone,
but with another.

There's only you.

You're wrong.
I'm never alone.

There's always
somebody else.

Who?

Susan.

That's from living
so close together
for so long.

It'll never end.

Never.

I'll book passage
for just the two of us.
Then it'll end.

No.

You've only got
to tell her.
No.

Well, I want it
to end, Judith.

You got your life
with me, and she has--

Don't you understand?
Don't you understand?!

I'm trying to.

I can't leave my sister,
and she can't leave me.

We're one!

Oh, help me.

Help me.

There's a port
in the Southern Seas--

Help me.

And the stars on fire
and dancin'--

k*ll her.

And the moon
ridin' high--
k*ll her.

k*ll her!
You want me, k*ll her.

k*ll her! Set me free!
k*ll her!

You said you want me!

Kevin?

Kevin!

**

**

One of you!

Well, come on!
All of you!

Marshal, come on.
You're needed.

Landlubbers,
just fight me.

Somebody, come on,
fight me!

You're drunk, sailor.
Come on, we'll
take you home.

Watch him, boss man.
He's a fighter.

Come on.
I'll take you both on.

You're not gonna take
anybody on.

We're gonna
take you home now.

Oh, yes, I am. You.
I'm gonna fight you.

This man needs a place
to finish his sleep.

I've got just
the place for him.

Come on,
give me a hand.

He's been courtin'
Judith Morrow, hasn't he?

That's right.

I think you'd better
ride out to Shiloh

and tell Judge Garth
what happened.

You mean now?

When everything's
just gettin' started?

I haven't even had a--

Well, Judith is
Judge Garth's ward--

in a way, that is.

I think he might want
to know what happened.

Might even want to have
a talk with him.

Go on, now, move.

Well...

why doesn't he go?
Why don't you go?

I've been up in
the high country all week.

Now, move!

That was quite a show
you put on, Mr. Doyle.

Anybody ask for you,
mister?

No.

Then get out.

Well, if you want to
talk about it later,

I'm Judge Garth,
a friend of Judith's.

Judith? You wanted to
talk about Judith?

Not now. Not when
you're like this.

If you're a friend
of Judith's,

and if I know her--

and I know her--

she's been gentle
with you--

you bein'
a friend of hers--

and loving to you. Hmm?

How

Or like some--

You've been
courtin' her, huh?

I would've taken her
to the ends of the earth.

That's what
she wanted of me,

what she begged of me.

And in return,
would've loved me.

She's a child.

Just a child?

Do you know
what she is?

Do you know what she is,
friend of Judith's?

You know what
she wanted me to do?

Well, I'll tell you,
if you got the heart
for it...

and the stomach.

A small thing,
as the world goes--
m*rder.

Aye, m*rder...

of her sister.

Of her sister Susan,
whose presence on earth
Judith can't bear.

That's all I have to do
to win her love.

k*ll her sister.

Then Judith can come to me

whole and complete
and lovely.

Lovely Judith.

You know something, Judge?

I haven't got
the stomach for it.

Nor the heart.

* We're homeward bound
and ready for sea *

* Our drunken captain
sure went on a spree *

* He came on board
and to us he did say *

* Pick up your anchor...

* And sail...

Deputy.

**

Good evening, Judge.
Won't you come in?

You seem surprised
to see me.

Is Judith here?

Yes, she's upstairs.

Hello.

I was looking for you--
both of you--outside.

We got tired.

It's been
an exciting day.

Yes, it has.

Don't you think so,
Judith?

Hmm? Would you like
some tea?

No, thank you.

No.

Judith, what did you
do today?

What did I do today?

I don't understand
what you mean.

Were you with Kevin?

Kevin?

Kevin Doyle?

Why?

What is it?
Is something the matter?

I'm going to be rude,
Judge. Forgive me.

He's jealous.

He is, he is!

My--My sister
says that, uh...

you're jealous
of Kevin Doyle.

I'm sorry for
your sister, Susan.

She's very--

Judith!

That's all right.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean
to hurt you.

But, you see...

I can never marry you.

I can't even love you.

You see, I told Kevin
the same thing today.

A boy.

Heh. He's such
a child.

I told him I would never
leave my sister Susan,

that I couldn't marry him,

and I couldn't go away
with him.

He wept.

He wept.

And then he said
all sorts of dire things.

He was furious.
He said terrible things.

Then he ran away.

I can't have
either one of you.

That's why he's here.
He's jealous.

Susan...

did Judith ever try
to k*ll you before?

What do you mean?

Did she try to k*ll you
before that day
in my study?

No.

And, uh--

and she didn't
that day, either.

Oh, there were
other times, Susan.

In a river.

Long ago, in a river.

You remember, Susan--
when we were children.

I went
and left you there,

when I could've come
back and helped you.

You would've drowned

if a boy hadn't
come and helped you.

It's true, Susan.

No.

You imagine
these things, Judith.

You know you do.
It's true.

And later, when we lived
in that tent city--
the fire.

All the animals
screaming in confusion.

And I woke up
in the middle of it
and ran away...

without awakening you.
I ran away and left
you there.

Judith--

Today, dear,
I finally said it.

Today, I had a chance
to leave you,

to do all the things
I've ever dreamed of.

I couldn't do it.

Because of you.

You strangle me...

because you're alive.

And I can't
free myself of you.

Today I asked him
to k*ll you.

I said it out loud.

It's what
I've always wanted.

I said it,
and I knew it.

I said it,
and I wanted it--
you dead!

k*ll her. k*ll her.
Please help me.

k*ll her! k*ll her!

No.

You won't do it.

Hmm.

Susan always loved
the sound of a band.

I hate it.

It's noise, not music.

Judge.

What will happen
to her?

We'll talk
about it later.

No, I think
she should hear.

If she's listening.

What will happen
to her?

Come look at them, Susan.
Look at what they're wearing.

Aaaah!

**

You know how long
you've been standing
there alone?

Seven hours.

I've come
to take you away.

Soon.

Not now.

Now.

You've been told.
You know what she
wanted me to do.

You've given her
all the mourning
she deserves--more.

How do you know
what she deserves?

Well, I know how
she felt about you.

And that's all you know.

Isn't that enough.

No.

I saw her die, long ago...

when she found that
I was loved and she was not.

She--

She was so beautiful.

Like our mother.

Our lovely,
unhappy mother, who--

who left our father
for another man.

And then another,
and another.

Judith looked like her.

She was
the very image of her.

And I was nearly ten
before I--

before I knew that
Father felt nothing,

nothing at all
for Judith,

that all the love
he had to give

he gave to me.

And all the strength
and peace I possess--

half of it
was stolen from her.

There was nothing I would
not have done for her.

Nothing.

**

You mean you've known
how she felt about you

for a long time?

For longer
than she knew.

Since the time
she began to say
we weren't two people--

just one.

Come on.

What now, boss man?

What now?

Judge told us
to look after her.

She's in good hands.

Yeah. I know
what you mean.