04x08 - The Bleymier Story

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I. I want to look at those clouds,
Charlie.

This country wouldn't take much
to bring on a flash flood.

I ain't got me worried much yet.

As fast as they're moving,
they'll be eight,

ten miles by of wearing themselves out.

I wouldn't bet on it,
but of course, it wouldn't be all bad.

It's one way of guaranteeing
that you get a bath for next spring.

Charlie.

That's what they mean about every cloud
having a silver lining.

A silver lining?

Yeah.

Let me give you a hand. Black

x ray. Go.

Oh, and you get this squared away, will
you give Hawkes a hand with the livestock?

I want to get him pen in early tonight.

Sure thing. Glad to help.

See you're going to finally pay
some attention to the signs Color.

I don't feel a glimmer.

I'm referring to nature's signs.

McCullough She's got a hundred ways
of telling us this trouble ahead.

Look at them.

Clouds, black and evil hanging over
is like the devil's own shroud.

You know what that means?

I reckon it means we're going to have
some rain, Mr.

Blue. Ma.

Nothing so mysterious about that.

Don't make boy.

Take it easy, Blame I.

Nobody's
mocking you. We've had storms before

and we'll have them again
before we get to the Dakotas.

Keep on like this
and you'll never get there.

You saw that shadow on the moon
last night.

And just before we stopped all in boots
flying low across our path.

If he wasn't so blind, you'd see that was
trying to tell us to change our course,

take another route.

That's a lot of superstitious nonsense.

You're not going to do it, are you?

None of you folks wanted to go far flying.

I'm taking the shortest, fastest route.

I know, and I'm not going to change it
because of a lot of omens.

And you're a bigger fool.

And I thought the storm would just be
the start of it.

The signs are never wrong.

They're warning you, McCullough.

You listen to them,
you'll have the blood of every one of us

on your hands.

Now, I told you to stay in the wagon.

I only wanted to watch the storm
gathering.

A daughter of mine flaunting herself
before the elements

like a scarlet woman to a man.

No good will come of it. I.

I didn't mean no harm.

Twas was just. I love the wind,

the clouds.

They're so crisp and clean.

So did your mother. And what did it get?

There ain't no good going to come from
loving nature.

She's an enemy. You got to learn to fight.

Then maybe she'll leave.

You be

now go back inside.

You ain't going to whip me this time.

I know all your tricks and how to turn
every one of them against you.

You ain't never going to beat me down
again. You.

You know, I figure I'll be really lucky
if I get to supper ready

before this thing breaks.

In that case, Charlie, I hope it rains.

Oh, is that so fun?

How come you practically beg me on bended
knee to come along

when the major asked you
to take these folks back to the farm.

Land.

That season?

As to Charlie,

I figured that once

they tasted your cooking,
they'd be so busy grumbling

that they wouldn't
even notice anything else. Hmm.

Eat something.

Even clever and.

Even.

Have a word with you. Sure.

Do you think you'd be able
to get along an hour?

I was the way my.

Oh, yeah.
We won't have any serious trouble.

But if you have any problems with me,
let me know and I'll fix it

so you don't have to drive
behind his wagon.

Oh, I don't mind.

I think I can put up with him
for the next few days anyway.

At least
until we get to the farmlands, I'd.

I'd. I'd sort of
like to meet his daughter.

I can't say.

I promise.

It's when it keeps up.

You're going to have more time
than you count it.

Just as long as we get there
in time to plow before the first frost.

And I've been working and dreaming about
a place of my own ever since I was a kid.

Mr. McCullough.

Oh, that's so close.

Nothing's going to stop me.

Not even gleam.

Irony signs and omens.

I'll be all right.

Goodnight.

Keep on moving, Charlie.

Keep on moving.

Keep them rather keep them moving.

Keep them rollin.

Keep them moving, Keep them
rollin is going to get worse.

You'll see.

We haven't begun
to feel the wrath of nature.

I know what she's like.

I know the agony she can cause.

I got you to stay close by me.

Nothing's going to happen to a man.

Learned to read the signs.

Keep your wagon moving.

You're holding a line.

Can't make the eyes.

It's only fair
that they want to bring up the rear.

Yeah,

When you want to make them.

Yeah.

This must it up to k*ll the horses.

Pass the word.

I keep a promise.

Why don't you go and do that for us?

I just wanted to remind you, miss it.

It is raining.

I like the rain.

What's your first name?

Justin.

That's a very pretty name.

Just plain.

Haven't you noticed me all the time?

I've been riding behind you.

I didn't say I didn't notice you.

Just.

I didn't know your first name.

That's when

you realize that in all the time
I've been on this train,

that's the first talk we've had.

So you wanted.

Lots of times.

Why didn't you?

As your father?

I didn't think he'd like it much.

How doesn't women talking?

He says that he was created
without a tongue.

Then one day, Adam
put an aspirin in front of her palate.

This grew into a tongue,
much like the aspirin.

They never stop. Shaking.

How old are you?



You think?

Don't you know class were passes.

I was awful young. One lady.

He's all I have.

So I guess I have to believe him.

Yeah, I guess you do.

Now, I don't remember
inviting you over to my wagon, Claiborne.

I didn't mean no disrespect, Mr. Bremer.

It was just talking mean.

You was filling our ears with lies.

Gladys Turner against her own father.

I wanted you to even stay away from Belle.

I wear a cross there as to wait
till next spring.

Didn't you say there was a place
farther up north?

Well, we can make it.

Yeah.

It's not the only thing upstream.

What do you mean?

You noticed

that?

I never figured the burial ground
was this far south.

What do you think happen
if we tried to pass through it

to make the brush
we had with the Cheyenne last year?

Looks like a party.

We're not doing any good here.

Let's get back to the wagons.

What I was saying
is, is the river's too high.

To cross here, and yet you people

haven't got time to sit around
and wait for it to go down,

because if you're not through the passes

by the first,
so you'll be trapped there and a spring.

Well, I'm going to choices.

We got McCullough, we got a couple.

The first is to turn around
and go back and join the.

Major in the main part of the train.

But they're heading for California.

My land is up north, the Dakotas.

We're pressed for time as it is.

Every book I've ever read about farming

says you got to plant your winter
wheat before the first cross.

You'll want to harvest a crop come spring.
That's right.

Looks. He talks about how

you think any of
them are going to teach you about nature.

No. It's a size an omen that counts.

I know.

Until I learned to read them.

She gave me drought.

I needed rain. Hail.

When I beg for the sun.

Is any book going to tell a man
why his feels are burned with lightning?

Or is crops ruined by frost?

No, it's the sign.

And right now every one of them is telling
us to turn back before it's too late.

I just didn't take a chance
on the Sioux Star.

Next spring, my man in me and got food
enough to last through an early crop.

You see, we got a couple of choices.

McCullough That's why. Mr.

Carr There's
another crossing north of here,

but it means traveling through
about 30 miles of Indian burial ground.

What are we waiting on?

Ain't nobody ever had their scalp
lifted by a dead Indian.

Not the dead ones.

I'm worrying about the Sioux.

Consider this all sacred ground.

They feel that if we pass through, it
will disturb their ancestors for eternity.

Besides that, they've got a treaty
with the United States government

that protects the land.

So they caught us there
and they attacked us.

Will they be legally Right
And they catch us all right.

Our luck
ain't going to change for the better.

Now, my way of thinking, Mr.

Blame here. A man makes his own luck.

Mr. McCall, won't our chances be
if we let out Now.

That's hard to say.

So we can keep these wagons
rolling in this weather.

And the Indians don't come out.

Well, we might squeeze through the
this is forest.

It all depends on the rain.

If the rain was going to happen,

it wouldn't have washed out
the crossing to begin with.

Now, do you believe me?

What more of a sign do you need?

We got to turn back.

That's not for you to decide.

Blame here.

Everybody here is in the same boat.

We all have a right to vote.

What do you say, McCullough?

It's not my decision to make.

But if your people decide to do
nationalism,

one thing I want to make clear
that we'll all go with the majority right?

All right.

How many of you want to turn back?

I count eight.

How many want to go on

eight again?

Why didn't you vote sl*ve one

Kind of hoping I wouldn't have to. Why?

Well,
everybody else here has got a family.

And since I'm all alone,
I just don't think it's fair.

Your life is as important as the next man.

You can't sit this one out.

What do you want to do?

What's the burial ground?

All right, We'll move out in the morning.

Wait a minute.

So you're still going to ignore the signs?

You're a fool. Clever.

And you're going to pay for it
with your life.

You and me. You
and the rest of them are going to die.

We might, because nothing but trouble
since we started this trip.

And a lot of.

Folks are sick of.

It, especially me. Now
keep your mouth shut.

Move it up in the morning. Get some sleep.

You're in it.

Yeah, but I don't like you. Don't like.

I saw three seagulls playing.

Against the seagulls in this weather.

Oh, back in San Francisco
about eight years ago,

and my old grandpappy said
it was a sure sign of trouble.

Well, I think your grandparents had gone
to school with old man Billy Meyer.

Let's move out.

All right, let's move out.

Check my all.

Hi, Flip.

Hi. It's closing up ahead.

No sign of Indians.

Oh, is it? Well, it's kind of funny.

Like you said, those lines,
the ranges up will be all right.

You keep your eyes open anyway.

Keep them rolling right.

Come on, let's go.

Right.

Oh, yeah,

yeah,

yeah, yeah,

yeah,

yeah.

Gas and the whipped cream
are about to lighten the load.

Sorry, miss, but you'll have to step down.

She says. Yeah, that's a better idea.

My, you get out.

She's right, Father.

We have to get clear.

Make our drivers. Yes,

I'm on gas, Jack.

Right.

We need your help

with gas.

Yeah, that's

good, feller.

All right, See my.

Now I have gas

that had gas.

Gas Fire, gas.

Oh, I guess gas, gas.

All this labor

is broken, too.

Well, now

get in the wagon.

I warned you about staying away from her.

Now I'm going to have your strength play.

You've got enough trouble as it is.

You got to leave your wagon behind.

You're going to do what you here?

Well, everything I own in the world
is in that wagon.

Expect me to just walk. Away
and forget it.

Now, maybe some of the other folks will
double up and carry some of your things.

You're thinking of government. Help me.

And even if they did,
they are fool to let them their doom.

Every last one of them.

I ain't moving
from this spot until that wagon's fixed.

I haven't got time to argue with you.

You want to stay behind?

You think I can hold up the whole party
for one wagon?

Nobody's asking you to me
until I catch up with you later on.

You don't expect her
to stay here with you.

She's my daughter.

She'll do as I say.

Not this time. Here
you do want. To risk your scalp.

That's your business.
But your daughter is my responsibility.

She'll right in my wagon
until you catch up.

You mean if.

I catch up, that wheel
ain't going to change itself.

You can't leave me here alone.

I pay good money for her and. Protection,
and you.

Got to give it to me. All right.

I'll send horse back when I send Pete

to play my hand with his well, satisfied?

I won't forget what you have done.

Mark my words.

I won't forget it.

Let me tell you something, Mr.

Bremer.

You're going to be mighty sorry
for the way you treat Belle.

She's not a little girl anymore.

And you woke up to that one day.

Whether you like it or not,

she's got a light out on her own
and see and do things for herself.

That time comes.

All the fear you put in her heart
isn't going to matter

one little bit.

You're just like the rest of them.

I warned you, but you wouldn't mind.

I told you to stay away from Claiborne,
but you wouldn't hear me.

You wouldn't listen to your own father.

You just like your mother best she would.

I told her that day to stay in the house.

I told her
there was an omen, a doom in the.

But now she wouldn't believe the signs.

And the rains came
and the boulder lightning.

Hit that tree.

I heard a scream.

I ran out,

saw all crumpled up.

She died in my arms, saying she was sorry.

Sorry She hadn't. Listen.

The signs are the same for you, Belle.

I warned you about Clayton.

I told you was born under dark clouds.

He's wrong for yellow is evil.

No good will come of a match like that.

You'll bring death to you.

When he touched my hand before

I felt more feelings
than I had answers for.

To made my skin tingle.

My heart race.

I never felt that way before.

How could that be evil?

Love always ends in death,
no matter who or what does the k*lling?

I'd be dead
if I didn't love and have these feelings.

I can't hate everybody

and everything the way you do.

Just.

It's a good man.

There's no evil in him.

There just couldn't. Be.

I won't let him have your bad.

For your own good.

Someday your segment

is to blame.

I We're ready to pull out.

Oh, oh, oh Ferris cars.

A mess that will make campus lima
my broken

wheel a mile and a half back
straight Him out and join us.

We're right on.

I don't know which is the word all up mad.

In the course of our custom and his life

you told me to do
wouldn't come out on a wet night like this

because they figure the white men
have as many friends as they have

because they knew we were here.

They'd be here in no
time. Don't worry about that.

I can talk you to them to tone through it.

Not bad at all.

Well, you shouldn't be here.

I know.

Well,
I don't want to make any trouble for you.

You know what your father say.

If you were here.

I couldn't sleep.

I couldn't sleep thinking all the.

Things he said already.

Just.

He said.

He said that some people are doomed
their whole lives

because they were born under a dark cloud.

And what he said about me

came here to do.

I had to.

And I guess that answers your question.

You don't put any more stock in his signs
and omens than I do.

Not know what to think anymore.

He's been right about so many things,

like when he said

birds flying low means rain for sure.

I reckon it does sometimes.

Do you ever stop to think how many times
you've seen birds flying low

and it didn't rain?

Well, pop,

pop doesn't claim
they tell the whole story.

There are other signs.

Trouble is, he's the only one who ever
season as far as he claims he didn't.

He sees them just

like the day Ma was k*lled by lightning.

He told her not to go up.

She didn't pay him no mind.

He said it was nature's way.

Nature's way of punishing her

for not believing.

It just isn't.

True.

Maybe she was.

Carrying something made out of metal

or trying to take cover under a tall tree.

It was a tree. How did you know that?

Just a guess.

I read someplace
that that was the most dangerous thing

a body could do during a thunderstorm.

How can you believe that?

You still say
there are no such things as omens.

The book was based on Fact is just
a lot of plain old fashioned superstition.

You got to learn to believe in things
that have a logical explanation.

Bill has a difference.

You know.

Some things
don't have logical explanations.

Take a girl and a boy.

Maybe they've seen each other every day
for months, even years.

And one day

it happens.

They look at each other
and it's different.

They're still the same,
still the same on the outside.

But they both know
that something's changed.

I think you'll never be the same way
it was before.

But whatever you like,
you know about that.

Girl knows about love.

When a boy still beating sticks
against a picket fence.

You ever felt that way?

Not until now.

Wouldn't you know this,
I wonder, Jack, You sure?

They all, male and female,
have a fine time cracking up tonight?

No worry, Charlie.

If anybody can catch this bill,

I guess I might as well tell the girl

not to wait up.

Now it's getting kind of late.

I think you better say good night.

I'd rather stay here.

I belong with Justin.

I'm afraid your father, too
have different ideas about that.

You don't understand.
We want to get married.

Does he not? How could he?

We didn't know ourselves until.

I plan on talking to Mr.

Meyer about the first chance I get.

I can't say as I blame it.

Can you let me stay till he gets back
here?

There's no chance of that tonight.

You think something's happened to it.

But if by something you mean Sue,
I doubt it.

But it's pretty rough out tonight.

They probably had to hole up somewhere.

He's right.

Are you getting your father
any more riled up?

Then it'll be all ready.

Go on.

All right.

But if he drives back sooner than you
think, you have to promise to wake me.

I promise.

But a blue man won't give us permission.

I guess we'll just have to get married
without it.

Well, I wouldn't mind a wedding

on the train.

I hope it won't give you any trouble.

So do I.

I'll try.

I never thought I'd see the day when
I headed to see the sunrise we needed.

Any sign of the Sue there?

No idea.

But it's just a matter of time.
Get ready. Move that way.

Wait a. Minute.

Maybe I didn't hear you right.

Did you say get ready to move out?

That's what I said. Try.

All right. You folks are moving out.

Let's go. Hey,
what about Mr. Blumer and the others?

You taken off without them?
That's right. Let's go.

Well,
that's the same as cold blooded m*rder.

I don't hold any love for Billy Meyer,

but you can't leave him out there
without a chance.

Look,
the sun has just come up in the soil.

Won't be far behind it.

Now our only chance
is to keep ahead of them.

We're not waiting.

Not for anybody.

Not even for Mr. Hawkes.

He's supposed to be your friend.

You don't have to remind me of that boy.

You're running out on him over to gamble
the life of everybody on the train.

I think that's too big a price to pay.

Now we're moving out.

Let's go.

Let's move.

Well,

you drive a wagon?

Yes, I'll. Drive mine when I get back.

Stay with the train.

Oh. Where are you going, Justin?

I'm going to find your father.

Why, Justin?

Why does it have to be you?

It's.

I've got a special reason.

I'm not going out there
just to find three men.

I'm going out for us for our future.

I leave him out there
never knowing what happened to him.

I'll never have a chance.

I'll always be hanging over us
like a dark cloud.

Like one of his. Almost.

I've got to find the truth.

What do you think happened to you?

Please, please stay with me.

Where it's safe,
Where nothing can harm you.

Nothing.

Nothing but him.

The words and ideas he put into you.

That aren't.

Over here.

What was it?

So they got off before we spotted him.

What about Bremer?

Is he dead now?

That's what you wanted, wasn't

you as common saying?

I mean, then.

Then nobody could stop you
from carrying on with Belle.

You make me sick to my guts.

You could have taken us
any time they wanted to.

My ideas.
They got bigger things on their mind.

The horses.

They took my horses.

You're lucky they didn't your scalp
right along with them.

You better hightail it back to trains.
Flash again.

I think they're about ready to hit it.

Well, you ought to be the one to go.

You know the country.
You'll make better time now.

I can't leave you out here.

You're wasting time, Mr. Hawkes.

Translate. Not as fast it can.

You're going to have to ride.
Powerful. Hard to catch up at all.

We'll be back for you.

Not so fast, Hawkes.

I don't aim to be left behind.

Not again.

What you or
I want doesn't matter, Mr. Meyer.

We got to think of the train.

All those kids and women,
especially Belle.

That's all I'm thinking about.

That's why nobody's leaving me behind.

You get out of my way, Mr.

Leiter.

It'll be all right.

Sorry I had to do that.

Mr. Meyer.

You're going to be a lot more
than sorry, Clay.

When all the signs
was telling you to go back

and have Belle all to yourself.

But she was smart enough to listen

to you, threw away
the only chance you had.

Now you're going to die.

And I'm going to be right there
looking on and laughing.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I

her. I've run out of Charlie.

Now, let's all clear up ahead.

You know,
I never thought that they'd come,

and I'd feel uneasy
just sitting in the sun.

I mean, either

you feel kind of funny, Flint.

Yeah, I feel funny, but I'm not laughing.

I feel Indians.

I don't mean
that kind of a funny feeling. Like

after a lot of lightning or something,
you know, they are heavy breathing.

It hurts your nose.

And I don't like that either.

You're scared, Charlie.

You're dog going, right? I'm scared.
But it ain't about no Indians.

I got a weird feeling in my head.

That's why. It is a weird feeling.

Weird feeling?

You sound like blame.

I reckon I do.

And as Bill. Oh.

Oh. Oh, God.

All right. Yeah, I'm
here. Charlie, get the kid. Yeah.

It was a zoo.

They hit us at sunup.
What about the others?

While Pete's dead and Lima.

I got his skull creased. Not bad, though.

How many were there?

But 12. By the time we run them off,
there's only six alive.

We took our horses.
That's why they haven't attacked us.

Looking for help? Yeah.

Looks like they got it. Do.

What does it mean?

Well,
it ain't no invitation to a question. Be.

Shall I circle them up and get ready?

Not here, Charlie.

Want to make a run for it?

Right straight to the gorge
once they get to the flatlands.

We've got a chance. Now let's move.
Justin.

Where's Justin? He's with your father.

But you can't run off and leave them.
They'll be k*lled.

You've got to send someone back
to help them.

I'm sorry, but it can't be helped
at the Sioux attack.

We're going to need every man we've got.

And we have. Please go back to your wagon.

Oh, all right, Mama.

My driver

will rest.

A few minutes. Rest

your Indians

be quiet.

So don't sh**t.

It's Indians. I tell you.

You lead them right to us. Don't sh**t.
Why not?

According to you and your Allmans,
we're going to die anyway.

Thank you,

Justin.

Well,

yeah.

Where are the others?

There are no others.

I couldn't leave you behind.

I'll never go anywhere without you again.

You'll never have to be.

That's where you're wrong, Kleber.

You ain't going nowhere ever.

No, father.

You can't do. It. Keep out of this, Val.

You can't help him. Nobody can.

This was all decided
the minute he was born.

You mean it was decided the minute
you saw me looking at your daughter?

I tried to warn you, Clayton.

No man can go against the signs.

What? You wouldn't listen

now? It's too late.

Please, Father, if you have any love
left in your heart for me.

You're wasting your breath. Belle.

Can't you see he's ruined his own life
Fighting the elements with his signs

and omens and superstitions.

All he thinks of, he kills me.

It'll prove he predicted. Right.

Father

We'll go away.

Don't you understand?

He laughed at the signs.

Now he's got to pay for it.

Know Myra, if you k*lled her.

It wasn't me.

They did it.

They made a stop in front of you.

They k*lled her, Mike.

They k*lled him All.

He just.

It's all right, Bill. I'm here.

Don't say anything.

Just don't move in my step.

I'm glad it happened to me.

Not to you. How?

I think our party move.

Down the hills.

Come on, come on, come on, Come up.

Come on.

Try to circle them up

wagon.

Women keep your heads keep low.

And keep down that

came on like a high number.

We can't worry about that now.
Come on, let's.

This higher.

Posse.

We can't see them.

They can't see us now, John, that.

Winds hard enough
to bite a man's head off.

sh**t him to.

Let it come right back.

Yeah,

that doesn't work.

Fred Flint.

Back where you belong. Charlie, you.

Remember
when I told you yesterday morning?

Remember what I told you I felt?

I'm spooking the air.

It's a twister. That's what it is.

Are you sure? Sure, I'm sure.
I've seen a lot of back in Missouri.

Nebraska. It's quite like this.

And the wind comes up. Get spooky again.

First thing you look around,
you see it? Look, look at

the each of the wagons.

You got a cyclone coming up.

Come on over the wagons.

Move now.

I got what you wanted.

I Any need.

Any need need

my chance to talk back.

Charlie? Yes, sir.

Give Mr.

Stewart a hand and then you might
take a look at Chet's armor.

Yes, sir.

You see those Indians? Got it? Yeah.

Like a caveat.

Boy, that.

Twister really spooked.

Nothing

like a little fresh rain
to clean up the air.

Bill, get the wagons ready to roll.

Go do nothin
till you're out of the burial grounds

and then bed down and wait for me.
What are you going to do?

I'm going to look for the Claybourne
wagon.

Don't worry.

I search bad, Mr.

McCullough. Real bad.

You make it all right? Yeah, I'll make it.

I'm ready to go, Charlie.

Just say the word.

Well, it's been a good rain in the air,
but no life back in the ground.

It was just right. The springs line?

Yeah.

In spite of all blemishes,
signs and omens.

Just look at the beautiful sunrise.

When she's supposed to be resting.

How can I, with all this beauty around me.

Are you ready to roll, Charlie?

I'm sure I am.

You know, Flint, I've never been invited
to a wedding in Dakota.

I wouldn't be surprised
if you, my best man, my girls.

Hey, how

you doing?