03x01 - The Stagecoach Story

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We can leave our.

Luggage here, Gary. Yes, sir. I No, Major.

My father will certainly be pleased
to hear you taking this trip with us.

Who's received the.

Passage? Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.

Come on, Major.

We can still cover a lot of San Francisco
before 8:00 tomorrow morning, Charlie.

The less we cover of San Francisco
tonight, the better we'll feel tomorrow

morning.

I don't suppose by any chance
you've talked that pal yours, McCullough,

into taking this trip with this heavy?

No, sir.

Got some big plans of his own.

We'll see you in the morning.

Yes, sir.

Thank you. Bye. See you, gentlemen.

I send my things to the boat
this afternoon.

So did I.

Here's to a nice, long sea voyage.

Here's to us.

To us.

She is a table 14 with a scout color.

Tell her the plans have been changed.

I've had the luggage taken off the boat.

She has to leave at eight in the morning.

On the Jefferson coach.

She's in a.

Mood.

My partner and I.

Want to thank you.

Now I know why we are told so often
that once you have been to San Francisco,

part of your heart
will always remain behind the Golden Gate.

I hope that we will meet again.

Thank you.

Justify a company like that on a boat
to New Orleans.

You wouldn't be able to get me on a coach
either.

Listen, Flynn, with this.

Well, there's keen appreciation
You've always shown from the opposite sex.

Have you been able to escape marriage
all this time?

I haven't always wanted to escape.

I guess I just have
to stay in the same place long enough.

Why don't you just give up the trail?

No, no.

I'm a restless man.

You wouldn't like to have your old job
back, by any chance.

I mean, Dad, she would like
to have you drive horse again.

No, I've had my fill of coaching.

Yeah, I know.

You made your atmosphere testy.

And in your coaching days.
You remember that?

Hi. Polished black boots.

You black trousers, your black shirt g*ng.

And you've got it just so you know, even
among the drivers, you cut quite a figure.

Oh, I enjoyed cursing.

I guess I just outgrew it.

So you really intend
to drive this whole route by yourself?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.
We're carrying our first load of mail.

You see if we can make this run
in anything less than 24 days,

we've been promised a government contract.

And, boy, if we learn
that we're in business, I mean, business.

Of course,
if we don't, Well, at the end of the day,

we're some stagecoach lines.

I didn't realize you're in that deep.

Yeah, we had a mortgage.

Everything we had saved by
some of these special coaches, you know?

And then I had to set up way stations for.

For me or some fresh teams, and
I had to buy 700 head of horses and mules.

Then I had to hire a lot of men to demand
these stations and be relieve drivers.

And you know something, Flint?

You just can't carry enough passengers
to make that kind of money.

Just can't do it.

But, you know, the old man,

I guess he's had his heart set on this
ever since he wrote his first coach.

Caleb, I wish you the best of luck and,

you know, I just want to kiss your book.

I got my little boy.

You owe

our lives.

Oh, here's my home.

Oh, I.

Got to get you to a doctor.

DON Felipe
Alvarado says he may choose an escort.

Alvarado Gracias.

Good morning, Father.

Just have a good. Morning, my son.

God has given us a beautiful day
to begin out yet.

When it is today.

Vargas Buenos dias.

Just put the trunk on top.

Morning.

You don't have to yell.

Yes, sir.

Well, it's all loaded in a row.

Thanks.

Let's roll.

Hey. Oh,

hey. Hey.

Show them.

Let me show.

Oh, hey,

hey, hey.

Oh, my God.

Topside.

Back to back.

Hey, team

runaway.

I want you out of here.

Oh, boy. Oh,

oh, oh, oh.

I want to. Talk to the charter driver.

You are very handsome.

What are you trying to do?

Hey, you have 20 minutes at this
time, folks, that I will be served inside.

Hello, Major Adams.

You re driving.

You got 20 minutes to get your dinner.

He was driving.

Do you realize what could happen?

Traveling at that rate of speed
on such a trail?

I think so. I was in the driver's seat.
But you have no right.

Your driver's Major Adams.

This is not the wagon train.

This is a stagecoach.

And you know as well as I do,
the driver's in charge. Car.

Mr. Adams, I hope it won't be necessary
for me to put you off the coach.

How dare
you put that file on the driver's box?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry you are uncomfortable, Major.

But we did pick up 2 hours in time.



We're lucky we are all in Kingdom Come.

An inexperienced driver. Mind you.

Wait a minute. Flynn's
far. From inexperienced.

He and I drove stage together
right after the w*r.

McCullough drove stage right, Major.

And he was a great driver.
I was lucky to get him.

As you can see, I'm.

I'm in no condition to drive.

Realistic.

Reliably.

What do we do? Last night, Bill?

Charles, my boy, we did San Francisco.

Do I have a good time?

Well, you cried a lot.

I did.

Oh, well, Major Adams,
do you care to join me?

No, thank you. I'm a passenger this trip.

Remember?

No, it couldn't be.

And no Santos and you know English.

But as you know, Kirk is dead
mistaken from the North.

May I be of some assistance
in your descent?

You'll need that
if I've got. Does not speak English.

Evidently
you have mistaken her for someone is.

Yes, certainly I have.

What's the matter?

You have to brush off.

Why don't you take Senorita Vargas's
reservations?

Jim took him late last night. Hi.

Why are you taking a good look at it?

So I guess I have.

Well, look,

she reminds you of somebody.

Yeah, she looks a little like

it doesn't make sense.

What does that make sense or not?
That's Angela.

I told her you were driving today.

I didn't have a chance.

After I left you at the doctors,
I went back to tell her she'd already left

the town.

Maybe it isn't. Angela.
You made a. Mistake.

I haven't made a mistake.

That's Angela.





Oh, Nina, Let's go.

You know, Brooke,

you know.

I'll never get used to ride
inside one of these things.

It's like riding on a dusty old cottage.

Don't be so careful, Charlie.

We have over 180 miles an hour
straight out in the desert.

How far is the next way? Station

turn 53 miles.

Long way.
I have to go easy on these horses.

Oh, hell.

Oh, I had more trouble
setting up this next station.

Any stop on the route?

Is it lonely country boy?

Yeah.

The coyotes and tumbleweeds.

It's right on set.

Living soul now.

Four miles

from where.

We have about 15 miles
to the next West Station.

You see right there?

Yeah, sure. We can rest it a few hours.

Sounds good.

You've been doing yourself pretty good.

Some.

I'm sorry I blew up at you the other day.

Forget it.

How come you never told me
that you used to drive Stagecoach?

Well, I don't know.

I guess I just thought it had nothing
to do with my qualifications as a scout,

you know? I suppose not.

I kind of figured you had your mind
set on going back the boat.

I didn't.

But then Caleb broke his arm,

and that was too late
for him to get another driver.

Get yourself a quite a championship.

I must say.

You're chewing it pretty good.

Thanks.

You know, coming for me,
that means a whole lot.

You know, You looking kind of tired.

I slept. Do let me take over for a while.

No, thanks. It's my responsibility.

Don't be single. Darned stubborn, Willie.

You got a long ways to go.

Why don't you accept help
where you can get it?

I can drive. No ride. Shotgun.
How about it?

Well, it's


If you'll take it that far out there.

Money going. All right. I'll go tell Bill

you. And

I went back to the cafe
to explain all this to you.

But you'd already left.

Now, if you're angry, let's talk about it.

Don't play games with me. No one can.

You know who I am.

And I know who you are.

And now what's the good of this?

They make us

megastars with that fancy, honest.

Senorita says
You're making a mistake, Senor.

Tell the senorita
I won't make the mistake again.

When you don't bark,

they'll curve on me.

I can see.

Charlie, why don't you slow down here?

Sorry.

I'm going to drive it.

I know that. That's why I'm so nervous.

You're going to make me nervous.

Why don't you relax like Billy?

Relax, relax.

He's petrified,

all right?

You know that hard,

man. It sure is a beautiful night.

I don't like to make it.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

It's like the last ones left on Earth.

Yeah, that's it. Hotel.

We'll be on our way station by daybreak.

What? Good. I'll be glad.
To see some people Good.

Cup of coffee and. A fresh team.

You friendly faces will do us all good.

Yeah.

Come on, John. Why,

my boy.

I think I hear you're making it up

just about their man.

Or that must be. The way station.

Look at the smoke.

Yeah.

How'd you like

a good cup of coffee
made over a wooden fire?

Don't.

Why not?

Get on the floor?

You took the drink,

shot down.

I fell.

You keep straight.

I got

to relieve

many talents.

This is not the piece.

Olivia had no news for them, Was them
all right.

Barbara? What did she say?

No, We're still waiting for Padre
in English.

Is he able to travel?

Yes, In your lady, Remove the b*llet.

Only a flesh wound

right here.

Say, richer than ever.

I feel I'm all right.

Let's get out of here now.

We're going to stop here
for a couple of hours.

Don't need to hold up on economy.

I can rest
just as well with the coach moving.

I know you can, but we can't.

Anyhow, We must not delay the journey.

Rather, we try to continue now.
The horses are dying.

The harness.

When we are in your hands, my son.

I'm going to stop here
until the heat of the day passes.

You say your destination is Fort Fillmore?

Yes. My son will
try to get to there on time.

I'll need a table.

How we doing it?

We're almost there.

Still 5 hours ahead of schedule.

See how important it is to pick up time.

You never know what's going to happen
from one mile of the next.

Yeah, we've got a fresh team at Fillmore.

We're going to need them

thinking about Angela again.

Now, I just can't figure out.

You still thinks that you're the target.

You're Spanish Desert.

Well, you've had a good look at her,
haven't you?

I was never fortunate enough to know her

as well as you.

What I can't figure.

Out is why.

Why keeps going straight ahead.

Don't move, Major Adams.

We will die.

What is this?

Where's the priest?

What happened? The old lady.

I assure you, Major Adams, if you move,
I will sh**t if it is necessary.

To return it.

I must make your indulgence, gentlemen.

They had. Their mass.

If you prefer a direction lies South.

South. What is this?

We are on our way to Mexico

and Iowa.

You're going to get yourself
in some serious trouble.

You're interfering with United States
bid you.

I haven't

come and go.

Miguel Carlo. Ha!

Oh, right.

I'm at home.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Gentlemen, some.

Food.

What about?

What?

Hello? Oh,

I wonder how long.

It'll be before anyone finds out
we're missing.

You know, Major, we're ruined.

My father isn't even aware of it yet.

We still got 19 days to go
before you're ruined.

I wouldn't give up yet if I was. You.

Where are you taking us?

Why are you doing this?

You will be told at the proper time.
Listen, senor.

If it's money you want on Australia,
we have money.

We want.

What money can I buy?
What's that supposed to mean?

You will be thrown clean.

Oh, we're back to first names.

Okay.

Can I put.

The g*n in your hand?

I don't blame you for hating.

That's very broadminded.

Clint.

Before you judge me,
at least to hear what I have.

To say, you've got something to say
and said to everybody.

What I have to say right now
concerns only you and me.

Nothing concerns only you and me any more

than please.

You said you didn't speak my language,
remember?

You were right.

They must not see your tears.

There is always a price.

Why did you have to be the one
Prime Minister?

I assure you, if I had known,

we would not have been on it.

I put it like this.

Anything you can.

And you will.

Try. But no man could
wish for a braver daughter.

Senor, I must strongly for the keys
to the mail compartment.

You better leave that male alone.

You know,

like I male.

I suppose as a c*ck,
your male will not be disturbed,

said your

senora.

You and your coach have been temporarily
enlisted

in the cause of Mexican independence.

Mexican independence?

Then you're all revolutionists, huh?

See, we follow Porfirio Diaz.

The hope of Mexico.

And courteous, caring United States male.

I don't think you want our government
mixed up in your revolution.

We ask only a few hours of your time
on the use of this coach.

You haven't asked for anything.

It was the only way.

Please believe that it was the only way.

The only way to what?

To get your help.

You don't really expect us to help you.

We have not harmed
you. We don't intend to.

But these next few hours may

mean the lives of many men,
including my brother and my father.

Please help us.

If you'd ask for my help in San Francisco,
just ask for it.

No tricks, no lies.

I'd have done anything for you.

The decision to ask or tell
you was not mine to make.

You got any idea what you've done
to the Jamieson's?

Here is this.

Coach doesn't get to St Louis on time.

They lose everything they've got.

If this coach does not cross the border
on time, we will lose everything.

But you are speaking of money, senor.

I am speaking of lives.

You know this coach is carrying
United States mail.

This coach is also carrying
g*ns and ammunition.

And you expect to get it
across the border.

You haven't got a chance.

That's exactly what we do.

Haven't all we have a chance.

Our government is trying to
keep peace with your country.

The soldiers have been ordered

to avoid all border incidents,
and we are gambling

that they will not search an American mail
coach that has lost its way.

That's what you're going to tell them.

No, senor.

That is what you are going to tell us.

That what you think that'll be the day.

You said it was late for us?

I accept that.

But it is not too late for bargaining.

If you have us at the border,

you will save the coach and the man.

It will be free of us and back on your way
again by midnight tomorrow.

And if we don't.

Then there will be a fight at the border.

We will have to sh**t our way through.

And you may lose the coach.

If sort of everything ever to.

It seems inconceivable to me

that we should be so far apart,

so completely unable to even communicate.

Our language is different.

But I have learned yours.

You can learn mine.

Our customs,
our daily lives are different.

But surely these are inconsequential.

We are warned by the same sun.

We look up at the same stars

and no one, neither

you nor I, can tell by the soil

where America ends or Mexico begins.

Are we still so far apart?

We laugh when we are happy.

We have the same longings,

the same hopes and heartbreaks.

We are born

equal, all old, and we die.

Surely you must realize
none of us are wholly free of one another.

The freedom which was purchased in blood
by your father,

it was given you as a birthright.

We must still fight and die for a horse.

But even yours is not completely secure.

As long as
we are any other people, as in bondage.

When when tyranny

threatens or triumphs anywhere,

then freedom is threatened everywhere.

There is only a line
between our countries,

but human dignity
and freedom meet oppression and bondage.

At that line.

And on.

Think of that,

think of that and

clear your conscience. Have it.

If you get.

Your courage k*lled.

But he wanted to.

Hear the driver Flint.

I remember your judgment.

Major.

What would you do?

It's like he says

you're the driver.

How ironic

and sad that
I should be the messenger of my people.

I made a decision
which means life or death to us

must come from you

who hate me so bitterly.

We are going to go.

Bail if we get out of this life.

I'm swearing off

right now. The culture that.

Johnny, you've already sworn off boats.

How are you going to get back
east? Next time I'll walk

when it's
not you, Senora, I'm afraid I've.

Lost my bearings.

This is the United States
mail coach bound for New Orleans.

You have crossed the border into me
because in your Mexico.

I told you
that took the wrong turn back at Fillmore.

But no, you always know
better than anybody else.

Well.

If you ain't the cutest thing, honey,
I've heard about you Latin, man,

but you're the first one I've ever seen
run round, lose magnolia blossom.

I'm not going to warn you again
about that certain.

Oh, I've just kind of have no fun at all.

Much obliged to straighten me out.

Oh, is there a place we might get a bite
to eat before we head back to January?

There is an inn at the end of the street
to the right.

You cannot miss it.

You don't know this driver. Hey.

Oh, Fastest man line.

Oh, let's not get there.

We got

stages.

Yeah, sure.

Adios,

catch.

Yeah,

I tell you one thing.

I'm really glad to be back on
American soil.

Major, We were at Fort Fillmore. Right
now, we'd still be.



Behind schedule, but we just can't it.

If you're going to give it a try. Hey,

Bill and Charlie can spell

if you get tired tokenize

Now, what

those two Vargas men.

I'm getting to the point

where I'm not going to
guess who anybody is.

Oh. Oh,

Gentlemen, I present my son,
but he's talking about a guy.

Major Adams or.

Just Mr.

Jamison's my daughter.

I think you have already met Mr.

McCullough, my son, Benito de Vargas.

And here we are
forever. In your debt. Forget it.

We can never forget what you've.

It seems to me,

if you're anybody a dentist, Jamison here
they stand to lose their stagecoach line.

We are going to help hop.

We know a shortcut to Saint Louis.

It is through a pretty rough country.

Part of it, the Badger Country.

There are four of us here who have driven
it often, and we are at your service.

We have brought extra horses.
As you can see.

We will have. To rotate the teams.

My son feels by driving night and day
he can make up the time you've lost

and put you back on schedule.

Please let us try that. What do you say?

Let's hook them up.

Mr. Hawkes,
Give me a hand with his horses. I

on this year.

Adios, Alex.

The teams and you

will be late for samples.

Relax.

We're almost to the end.

It comes up through it until we.

Through Apache pass.
I've heard about that pass.

I've written to it twice. It's terrifying.

There are kids on both sides.

Give me some more light on the leaders.

I shorten the tugs on the swing.

All right, Charlie, hook up the willies.

Want to find climate change?

Keep the animals here, you know, not here.

The past is a dangerous spot.

Turn the horses loose

now. Now.

And Major

Nielsen.

I wonder why they don't.

Come on.

They got our reason,

Major.

There it is.

That's

true.

I half.

The morning, Louis.

Yep. In the morning.

This time we shall not meet again.

If my life were my own to give,

I would come to you and I would say

Let me be all things to you.

Let me honor and respect you.

All of you.

All the days of my life.

Angela, I'd give anything to hear
you say that. Now.

I did not have a mission to fulfill.

If it Is that the only word between us?

Yes, it is.

It is the only word,

which is the preface for so much
that has happened between us

and the reason for so much
that has not happened.

Did you really intend to be on the boat
to New Orleans?

Yes. Yes.

We plan to take the g*ns by sea,

but then someone found out
we had to quickly change our mind.

You just didn't
trust me enough to tell me.

How you

didn't. I

trust you with my life.

I do not have the right to put

the lives of others in your hands.

Angela, can I persuade you to stay?

If I stayed, I would despise myself.

And that would be as bad for you
as for me.

Are you sure.

That Mexico means more to me

than any man will ever meet?

And no man will ever mean as much as you.

He said the border between us
was only a line

that anybody could cross
with a single step.

It seems impossible enough now.

There was a man I'd know what to do.

But how do you fight a whole country?

Can you just other such a few short days.

To short?

I read somewhere that parting is

oh, and

of heaven and all we need to know of him.

In my language we he desperate
this is morning.

That means that means

that means two parties to die.

You speak.

My language.

I realize now I always have.

And I.

I've asked, Have you?

And if you your.

It is not the end of the world.

No. No.

Just the end of a dream

for 22 days.



We made it. Yeah, we made it. All right.

Saint Louis, Missouri, via Tucson,
Arizona, Mexico and Apache Pass.

It's a space here for unusual events
occurring in transit.

What should I put there?

Well, what's your problem?

I think you're right.

A trip

routine.

Then.

To put it better myself, son.

Trip routine care wouldn't see that

kind of.

As we stepped out into the streets

of Saint Louis, the wagons
passing by looked mighty good to us.

And I found myself looking forward
to getting a train on the trail again,

calling out those old familiar words.

I hear you.