03x28 - The Amos Gibbon Story

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All right. Now,

come on, Charlie.

Put some weight on about how much weight
you got that will put supplement

value that

range.

I'm back, Major.

It's about time.

Come on.

You have to give us a hand here.

Not today.

It's better than never.

And right now?

Come on.

What do you say?

I said not today.

The last week
I've been through a blizzard,

a sandstorm and two cloudburst.

I've been sitting on this pony
for the last day and night.

Solid.
I haven't had a sleep for three days.

So when I signed on with you,
I hired on to scout for this outfit.

Not the work of some day laborer.

You signed on to do whatever I tell you.

You get off of that horse and give us
a hand, or I'll get somebody that will

get them.

That's good enough for me.

I sure he'd only put her on

higher ground.

Well, where will.

You need one and judge?

We get him.

He won't get far.

Yeah.

Whiskey.

You look tired.

You always drink alone, handsome.

Leave the bar on.

And another glass.

Judge.

Do you mind?

You're mad, aren't you?

I've seen so many chips on shoulders,
I can spot them a day away.

And so.

Sure.

And I'm a good listener, too.

You ever work for a hardheaded,
opinionated, stubborn, old relic?

Wait a minute.

Let's sit down.

Husky

and any range to type

has a lot of endurance.

You reckon we're the

fittest, Sophie?

Only might be shy and

you get him back.

Oh, we will.

We will now,

because he won't be fit to work for smell.

Now, listen here

is his fresh fish.

I don't blame you a bit.

Imagine a big oaf like this, Adams
throwing stones.

He's not a good wagon, master.

He is so stubborn.

So you just up and quit

on. The man's got a self-respect.

Did you tell him where you were going?

I don't really know myself.

Oh, my handkerchief.

I dropped my handkerchief.

Thank you.

You just got to be from the South.

Mr. McCullough.

Virginia, ma'am.

Oh, the Old Dominion.

We ought to drink to that.

To Virginia.

I always say you can tell the Virginian,
by the way

you treat a lady
and the way he can hold his liquor.

As far as ladies
concerned, ma'am, just comes naturally.

And any man has been across
the Missouri and encountered liquor.

Ain't much of a man.

Oh, what's the matter?

Oh, nothing. Just

like any little

low pressure.

You've earned yourself a bonus, Sophie.

It's.

He's waking up.

That's nice.

Now, you listen here, McCullough.

And then if you're anxious to get well,

you can see we can run a little charitable
institution here.

See, now, you don't have no job.

Visible means of support.

So we give you a job.

You earn your keep
and make yourself useful to time.

I said suppose to me.

Will you ever.

Do any

digging? No.

And that's only part of.

You going.

To help dig a tunnel, McCullough.

And you going to work hard.

And you're going to work long.

And you're going to do what you're told.

You're going to get it. Days to this.

Oh, hey, take.

It easy with that r*fle.

I don't want him damaged.

The the letter spoke

at first.

I. I Let's move on now.

Harry asked you, what do you need?

Come on.

Back away.

McCullough.

I said back away.

In the name of God.

What kind of a place is this?

Oh, I see.

Say, Well, this blasphemy.

Would you name John

McCullough?

My name is Tom Duncan.

Excuse Bill, Can you.

Moose Junior,

Miles Ben. Many

reckon you made Jermaine and Morton.

Well, you've been shanghaied

just like the rest of us.

You see, Jermaine
figured a railroad coming to you

some day to eat Billingham, a German.

You figure they'd really go down
the mountain and around it.

He stands to be a wealthy man.

If he's right.

Trouble is, this whole mountain
full of hot springs.

Do you have a dig
a hole standing knee deep in boiling water

you go into?

The only reason you hear

is that no man in his right
mind would work in these tunnels.

We had a choice.

What happens when the tunnels finished?

Morton? I'll take care of that.

He used to be in the China trade.

He knows all about Shanghai.

He's immigrants.

From the outside,
he still looks like an honest operation.

And you mean for started this tunnel, yet?

Huge workmen in a full crew.

And they ran into the springs
and they all up in cream

You get ash all evil.

But in men

we work for free.

But that's sl*very.

In this will get us out.

Any man can he can.

Poisonous. Is smartest man I ever.

Knew, sir. More man than I ever saw.

He knew books.

He knew the law.

And he's coming back here with the law.

In just a day or so. You'll see.

We don't have a way
to get the man out of here, do we?

Anything The dumb guard.

Amos was the one to go,

but he didn't want to leave the rest of us
here.

He was that kind of a man.

So now we wait.

What if he didn't make it?

He made it.

Don't worry about it.

But you kind of whistling in the dark.

I said, What if he didn't make it?

Watch your mouth.

Now. Amos said he'll be back
and he will be.

Barely, barely me color.

He doesn't know.

But I know you.
Can't just sit here and wait

and end.

Up dead.

Son, we've been here a long time.

I've been here almost from the start.

Don't jump ahead of the British.

I've seen a lot of men like you
come in here

right off the bat
trying to make a break for it.

Dead boy, every one of them.

You get a wish.

You wish

to. Maybe three days

and then nothing.

No, no, not dead.

When Shatner's mind.

Looks like gold.

It is

when you get it in here in the journal.

See no more of it.

You know, it made mind for a lot of years,
and I never seen nothing like this

before.

They couldn't go on it all, man.

Wouldn't make any difference to us
as the whole month was made out of gold.

You think the man's ever going

to let you out of this tunnel alive?

Oh, yeah.

Germaine keeps saying when we sh**t

and give each other back leverage
and let us go.

And maybe that's what he's saying.

But do you believe this?

There are people who believe
when they want to believe, Do you?

I mean, if he's going to k*ll you anyway,
why don't you just quit,

get it over with?

Maybe something will happen.

He misses going back.

Maybe even if we don't
got to go and live in Fleet,

no matter how miserable you are,
we live in the living.

You're alive and people want to live.

Put up with an awful lot
to live like this.

Noonan

Fast.

You take his dynamite.

I guess I'll have to blast

it. Lets you handle the dynamite and.

Nobody else knows how

I've been around so long.

Hey, don't worry too much about me.

Quit talking and dig

and I said

forget him.

Never mind of this.

Let him go.

I want to see just how hard his hand

really is.

I Let's get back on it.

Me? I will be around for too long.

I don't intend to be.

You're just going to walk in and walk
right out, huh?

Maybe you think the rest of us.

We're not as smart as you.

You always have a chip on the shoulder.

You make me sick. McCullough.

What about that wagon train?

You got to go. Don't they miss you?

You know, you may be an important
man outside, but in here you.

Just fresh fish believe there. They can't.

Why should I?

Because we get a lot of further
working with each other.

Don't give me no sermons.

Not you or anybody else
going to tell me how to get along.

Have you ever gotten along with anybody?

What's that supposed to mean? Well,
I just figured you were the kind.

I was always been told what to do.
I'll get it, Mr. Rough.

Nobody worries about me,
and I don't worry about nobody.

I get the feeling you were a little
worried about Amos Gibbon.

Amos was different. He.

He didn't want anything.

And everybody else does.

Yes, everybody else does.

Everybody's on the squeeze.

Everybody just looks for somebody
to push around.

Well,
I've been pushed ever since I was a kid.

When I get out of here,

I'm going to do a little push on my own.

Yes, Some company.

For you, boy.

Amos.

Oh, God.

It okay,

now, remember.

That's just a sample of what I'm going

to give the next man.

Please, Mr..

And more.

Please go.

Please.

Well.

Are you ready to talk?

About what?

About getting out of here.

Look what they did to him.

And he's a better man than any of us.

All right, Billy, you stay here
until Martin's ready to g*n you down.

What do you want us to do? Like I said.

Talk show, Ready to talk?

Nobody ever made it out of here yet
and got away free.

Have you been to Canada?

No way. It's a big country.

Free the winds.

You blow for a week
without anything stopping here.

What are you talking about?

I want to go to Canada.

I talked with you, friend

Billy.

You said you wanted to start pushing
somebody around.

Why not begin with more?

Yeah.

Why not? All right.

The way I see it,

the way I see it,
we don't stand a chance in a cell.

But once we're in the tunnel,
we're moving around

the guards can watch us this close.

Wilkins has got that r*fle of his, and
we've got picks and spades against r*fle.

Nobody said it was going to be easy.

Know?

As you know, there are two guards
at the working face of the tunnel.

But my.

I suppose you got sick.

Real sick.

Fall down on the ground.

Sick and not moved.

One of the guards has got to come
and check you

at least only one guard to watch.

The other gendarmes.

Come on.
We can't even begin to handle them.

But with two guards as hostages.
Wait a minute.

McCullough, Morton and Tremaine
stand to go to jail if we get out of here.

Suppose
they just let us k*ll those guards?

Yeah, they might.

We could just get Tremaine on Morton.

End of the tunnel.

You'll never get from me in here.

He's scared to death in the tunnels.

He gets panicky every time he gets inside.

He's afraid.

All right.

So it doesn't work.

But look, at least we'd have g*ns.

We have something to fight with.

We'd have a chance.

I mean,

to see.

You think we'd still.

Be in here if it.

Was easy to get away?

You know.

We'll get out.

We got to get out.

I got a wife out in San Francisco.

I got a baby son I've never even seen yet.

I run so fast.

Not so fast for me.

I'm going to take my time
and k*ll me about five guards

and Tremaine

Billy.

If you get out the law, do it for you.

I won't do anything for me.

It never has and never will.

Have you ever given it a chance? Okay.

Don't worry about Billy.

When he get out, he put the Iraqi miles
between him and these planes fast.

Here. He won't be the only one.

I get the feeling you're willing to do it.

We'll do. It.

Somebody is going to get hurt.

Somebody will get k*lled.

When do we go? Tomorrow night.

Shows you.

Why not? The sooner the better.

And what have we got to lose?

No, no, no.

You don't do it.

No. You can't get any business.

No, you can't.

I tried.

I couldn't. Nobody can.

The people will be affected
by this company.

Wouldn't you, mister? What I said.

But you know, it's all right, Amos.

Amos, it's all right. It's all right.
They won't hurt you anymore.

Martin can't hurt you.

Please stop.

I stop it.

Now, listen, Amos.

Can you understand me?

Morton will not hurt you anymore.

They'll do it to you
just like it did to me.

Okay? Maybe they'll k*ll you.

Now you got to listen to me.

Now. We can't try this no more.

At least where you live right now,
we get to do what they say.

You can't let them alone.
You got to listen to me now.

You got to.

You got to do what they say.

You got to do what they say.

It is even better
than what they do to you.

Please

don't do it.

There goes your garbage.

I'll just.

Garbage is right.

There was a Wilkinson.

I'll agree on anything.

No, you ain't been here long enough.

This will get you better every week.

When do we go?

When we quit work.

But an hour before we knock off
Wilkins will be tired.

Then expect anything that late in the day.

Good. Make change.

Wish we could make it quicker.

Make it easy As long.

There's one more thing

we're going to be sure
and take Amos along.

We take everybody

got God.

Shut up.

God, please.

I said shut up.

Please.

It better be

all right.

sh**t.

Please.

I have to talk to Mr.

Water.

Well, you don't have.

To talk to you.

Must.

It's about time.

That's about.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Hey, Wilkins.

How's the sick?

Oh. What's the matter with him?

How do I know I ain't no doctor?

Well, I am.

I got the right medicine.

That's where you boys learn hard.

And I know what you're
trying to pull along.

Before you did it, you knew all the time

you m*rder and still wait,

you heroes.

You just put yourselves on the water.

The three days.

They did them, the belly alone,
you losing.

You ain't getting out of here
until we're ready

to let you go.

And get back in the hole. So.

All right,

from now on, I want another.

Three feet
of digging every day out of this crew.

We can't do that. Then you don't eat

in there.

That's all right, Amos.

They won't believe it now.

You kept them nice and easy.

And you know something?

Since you've been such a good boy,

you're going to get to eat. Like

that is.

If you're able.

You turn to see if you did it.

No, You k*ll my time.

You leave it.

No, wait.

He didn't know what he was doing.

He k*lled Miles like Billy. Say.

Wish you said it yourself.

He's the bravest.

Man you ever saw.

Did you expect

and watching that through him,

you didn't tell me why she didn't show.

I had to see him.

He would have cried stupid.

I didn't want him to hurt you. So

you, my friend.

He would have hurt you.

And I didn't want him to do

much worse.

Mind.

Did he get away?

Yeah,

he got away.

Oh, hey, Good. Catch him, too. It.

And I just wanted to help you
because I know what will to you.

You know how much it.

Hurts

you, Don't you see,

if she.

We want to make.

We see

you're getting Janie.

Yeah, he sure is.

Give me some coffee.

Really?

Yeah.

Thanks.

Sure is a pretty place to make camp.

And it sure is peaceful.

Yeah, it's real peaceful.

Quiet.

Sure is quiet.

You know,

I just thinking

it didn't make pretty good time
the last few days,

and we ought to just lay over here
for a day or so.

You know, folks that appreciate that
then push pretty hard lately and try and

probably use a rest.

How long has it been since

the three of us building up to a barn,
put our feet on a brass rail?

Been so long, my mind won't even go back
that far before.

And Howard's a days ride north of here.

And I got a saloon.

Oh, that bartender over there is a crook.

What is his whiskey?
How do you know? You been there?

Everybody knows. That's stupid.

All right, all right.
I just wanted to know.

I ask

if we could take a little run into Silver
Creek.

Folks.

Tell me it's right pretty over that way.

Yes, sir.

A little recreation
wouldn't do us any harm.

Say, that's the way McCullough went,
wasn't we?

That's the wagon train.

That's got nothing to do with it.

Oh, he's never seen the place.

Kind of like they look at it. It's
all right.

I mean, as long as I've got a saloon,
why don't we leave in the morning?

Oh, go right now.

Why aren't you saddle up the horse
instead of sitting there looking like

a cow waiting to be milked?

You know.

Charlie, sometimes I don't think
you have a brain in that head of yours.

What? I do.

What I do now,

take Cover me.

I. Tom.

Can you read some of the dynamic? Why?

I got an idea. Get us out.

And I've been rattling sticks
ever since I got here.

Why didn't you use.

One until I was sure?

All right.

I wasn't there to give you a break.

You can push her out. Say.

Oh, Doc Wilkins
says sunshine is good for the wreckage.

Don't get no ideas.

I wouldn't think of it.

Mr. Wilkins.

What happened to them?

Beams should come down
and you got a home for life.

So it's you. And yet I ain't broke yet.

And they never going to.

How much money the Morton Tremaine
pay you?

Enough.

Maybe we can make a deal in

cash on the line

or what I spent in jail.

And that's where I'd be
if any of you guys got out.

All right,
let's get moving it. Change your mind.

Let me know

he's asleep.

Are you sure? Oh, sure.

Oh, I figured someday I could use it,

but I wanted to be sure.

What's your idea?

Why bother?
You know what happened to Miles.

You know Fred, tough kid.

You fall awful easy.

You want to try me? Shut up, Billy.

How do we get out?

How do we get past the gate?

The key is getting Tremaine and Morton
inside the tunnel.

We told you. Tremaine would come inside.

Tom. Where's that chunk of where
you've got

the Montana Tremaine?

Know about this?

Mean nobody but us.

There's income and trust.

Morton Morton's running things. Eddie.

That's not what I asked.

What if Tremaine thought Morton
was up to something

like a vein of gold
that was holding out on him?

Everybody knows there is no gold here.

But there is moss. There is.

McCullough.

What do you got on.

Your mind getting Tremaine and Morton
inside the tunnel?

And then making a small trade?

What kind of a trade.

Are freedom for their lives?

Boy, you get some stupid ideas.

Now listen to him.

He's got something working here, huh?

I don't think I understand, Flint.

I'm going to bet both of them.

End of the tunnel with Tom's gold.

It's not going to work.

It will have. It's played right

Then what?

Tom? You know what?

The roof of the tunnel sags
where the big timbers are.

Yeah, you've got enough dynamite data,
but all those timbers out.

I think so.

All right.

We planted dynamite under the big brace.

If we lure them into the tunnel
right up to the face,

then they either let us out
or we bring the roof down.

And we'll be k*lling ourselves
at the same time.

That's The risk. Take it.

I spend the rest of your life
in chains. You.

What do you say, Tom?

Well, I have in theory.

Now, we got enough to bring her down.

The question is, is it worth it?

That's up to you.

But one man can't do it
alone. I go along with you.

All right, Ms..

Billy.

Well, what about the other work teams?

Look, I say we keep it quiet.

Nonetheless, people that know about it
the better.

You don't trust anybody, do you?

I trusted him once.

That's about all the trust
and I'm going to do.

Is it time to go to work? Get.

Not yet.

In pursuit. You go back to sleep.

But I can help.

You need me to be more help
after your sleep could be stronger.

You think so?

You go back to sleep.

I don't think he heard.

Look, I don't care how six years
I say we get rid of him.

You want to k*ll him?

Well, what. Else can we do?

You know, if you get out of this prison,
I think you going to walk right back in

to another one. I can take care of myself.

Kenya. So

that's McCullough's horse, Major.

I can see

that kind of figures.

McCullough's
probably been lollygagging around here

for four or five days
while we've been sweating it out.

That's not like McCullough, Major.

He's not a jug like some people we know.

Oh, come on. Jug hound.

Jug hound

or ma'am.

Smarty Jones.

Whiskey.

Why don't you wait
until the lady asks you?

Charlie,
I like to get things done that way.

Mornin, fellas.

Howdy. All right.

I ain't seen you boys around here before.

Oh, I've been around here before.

Just passing through, huh?

That's right.

Yes. A

good looking spotted horse
standing out there.

You like him?

Yeah, I like him.

I want to buy him

a for sale.

Mister, Anything I've got is for sale.

Yeah.

Last year. Yeah.

Maybe you'd like to go out
and take a closer look at him.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'd like that.

Thanks, ma'am.

I just.

The finest horse I ever owned

sure is going to pay me to sell it.

All Your deal.

Oh, all right.

Where is he?

I, I told you I bought from a fella.

You know, Mr..

You started this fight.

You want to.

You can just keep it up.

The bill here gets tired, and then
I get tired and a colleague gets tired.

That could go on for two or three days.

We don't get tired. We're easy.

I'm telling you.

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

All right, Well.

Come on, Mr. Score. Don't hit me again.

No, please. Drive.
And where is my McCullough?

In the tunnel.

One tunnel.

And are you sure.

They're my stuff?

I can't.

Somewhere saw a rock like that
come out of here.

Like one.

My back.

All right, outside.

And don't dump it.

All right, That's far enough.

Wait here.

Hank.

Are you sure more of this?

I never saw anything like it before.

You see it?

No, it's a freak.

I've been over
every inch of the working face.

Yeah, I'm sure you have that.

Who got.

McCullough?

Do you read this?

Yeah, a few minutes ago.

Was there any more of it?

Yeah, there's a whole wall of it.

There's any good way, you know.

No, no, ain't.

What's the matter with him?

A whole wall of it.

Yeah.

He brought some of it out
a couple of days ago.

You were checking the dumps, Mr.

Morgan. He's lying.

You this sample all.

Do I see how this is about


You wouldn't
be keeping any secrets from me, would you?

If you know how I feel
about going into that tunnel,

I'm going to k*ll you, McCullough. No.

I'll decide who's going to be k*lled.

I'll see for myself.

I'm going in now.

Will you do just that?

Go ahead.

Go in there.

And you and me

are going to have a little talk.

Get moving.

Just nothing.

But right here.

I'm going.

You're not going to do anything, Martin,

Because that torch is not an inch away
from enough dynamite

to bring this whole mountain
down on your head.

So just relax.

We'll have a nice little talk.

To you until don't sh**t.

You did my duty and bluff.

And you try us.

You'll be sealing yourself in now.

But we're used to the dark.

And I understand you're afraid of it, Mr.

Truman. You're lying.

You ain't got no dynamite.

Most sure, Mr. Martin.

Who? I

don't get any ideas because there's 12
sticks of dynamite under that brace.

And if we blow it, you know what happens?

So you can't do a thing like that.

Somebody might get. Hurt.

You just have to build on what you want.

We want to get out of the tunnel.
All of us.

All right, All right.

You want to hang,

hang out in the open,
and then they don't hear.

Every one of us out or we blow it.

The most.

You can check car.

And I told you I was going to k*ll you.

Whatever. Don't hurt that, Mr. Morgan.

They didn't do anything wrong.

He tried to tap me down here.

k*ll them, k*ll them, Hang.

All of them. They.

They tried to bury me.

I'm not going to let you through.

I'm not going to let you go.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Mr.. If anything is happening.

McCullough
When we get in there, I'm going to put.

You back.

In this hole and seal up the entrance
here.

Just remember to keep my mouth shut
when I get mad.

This has never happened.

And come on.

Well, what.

Kept you

seal on that hole?

Oh, a bit more.

You know what's next?

Yes, I'll be moving on to something
somewhere.

Anywhere. Abilene. Maybe I'll leave.

You the gramophone. Name.

Jake Rivers at the trail house.

I sent you to him. He give you a job?

What Kind of a job.

We'll all be digging.

It might take

so long.

You know, I never had too many friends
where.

You can find them about anywhere you look.

To have the afterlife.

But what's so funny?

I just think your

grandfather had made so much.

Fuss about doing a little common
ordinary labor.

You sure made the dirt fly.

And you're digging yourself
out of that hole there to measure it.

As a matter of principle,
two of us could make the

first

move.