04x14 - The Jeremy Dow Story

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His canyon's empty now deserted.

The Arapahoe village
at ahead of it is gone.

They have moved north
following the Buffalo

sentries on the rim.

Now, Arapahoe kids out
tending the ponies just just echoes

the writing up here
is kind of like listening to a sermon.

I can almost hear the words for whosoever
will lose his life, she'll find it.

But what does a man profit or gain

the whole world and lose his own soul?

What shall a man give an exchange? So

this is Hadley Academy.

A Puritan preacher
founded a fleet of Yankee Clipper ships,

made the money to build it.


cling to it like the ivy on those walls.

This is the most sacred spotted haveli

that Jeremy Dallimore E.K.

Cuomo. Behold in there.

I wasn't here for the dedication,

but I beheld the man years later,
flat on his back

in a cheap room of a saloon
in the Sweetwater country.

Dead drunk.

Name's Jeff Durant.

I'm really somewhere
and knock around here for years.

But all I know about him.

They get like that all the time.

We get some money.

Come on, wake up.

You got company?

I wake up.

Never mind.

Let him sleep it off.

He's a real good worker. One sober?

Yeah,

well, I could use an extra hand,
but I got to do better than that.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Good morning, Kelly.

Morning.

It's 2:00 in the afternoon.

Afternoon.

You just missed your greatest chance.

There's a feller out there

from a wagon train
beating the bushes looking for a driver.

Going west. To California.

Well, why don't you bring them around?

I did, but we couldn't bring you around.

Oh, no.

He said you wouldn't do, though,

Jeff.

All right. I know, Kelly.
I know what you're going to say.

I'm sorry, but you're seven weeks
behind on your rent.

We just can't go any farther.

Look, I'm going to get a job today, Kelly.

I promise.

And when the minute you get paid,
you're going out and spend it on whiskey

before we can get to you.

Oh, Jeff, I'm afraid that this last one
just about did it.

When you were going to leave.

Any time in the next 5 minutes.

Here.

It's about all I got left.

You take it.

You ought to be able to get $10 for that.

What's this h stand for here?

That's a school back
east. All you. Oh, no.

I have no use for it.

You keep it. You've been

very patient with me, Kelly.

Thanks.

Yeah, sure.

Oh, wait a minute.

Here's your mouth organ,

by golly.

Yeah.

Bye, Jeff.

I know you're up. Yes.

I bet you're going higher than

your skin pocket.

Well, you sure got a quick mind.

You figure out a man just like that? Yeah.

I need to work, too.

Well, how bad?

It's about as bad as there is.

Men show. Up when you're supposed to.

Do. Bill,
I don't even have a bed to sleep in.

And now you got a horse.

You know, I shoulda told everything I had,
including my skinning knives.

How about it? Well,
I'll do anything you want.

Well, you expect me to outfit you?

Well, yeah, sort of.

Give me an advance.

I wouldn't advance you a nickel

when you're pulling out tonight, Harrigan.

Stable. Never mind.

I told you
the last time I was through with you.

I'm in it.

Yeah.

Henry,

I'd be happy to take that job.

No, go on.

Go on.

And pretty good.

Not bad yourself.

Can I see her? Sure.

Where'd you get her?

Germany.

Sure enough.

I mean, Germany is right there.

You know,
there's something I ought to tell you.

What?

Well, this box that you're sitting
on, that's officially mine.

And I usually sit here
about this time in the afternoon.

Every day?

Yeah, when the sun is shining.

Of course.

I don't want to be a hog about it.

Sit there if you want it.

I wish I had one like that.

How far off is Germany?

I was too far to go for a month.

Autumn.

And your name?

Bruce. It's yours.

Yeah.

You just pull it Last night.

We may not pull out the way
they're talking.

Oh, why not?

Oh. We're in a fix.

My pal
got thrown by his horse and bust his leg.

Oh, well, how is a fix?

Guess you can't.

Can't drive with broken legs.

Seems to be just the driving.

There's been trouble
once a year with the rebel Indian.

You know about the rebels? Oh.

Mr. McCullough says you're holy tares.

You know, fight men on every wagon,
he said.

We'll find somewhere
and drive and pull up here.

The next wagon train comes to you.

You wouldn't know a thing about driving
a prairie schooner, I expect.

Well, I don't know if I can

answer that the way you ask it
without sounding like a brag.

What do you mean?

Well, I just happen to be a professional,
that's all.

Wagon driver.

Prater. Wagon driver,
whatever you want to call it.

I used to have my own outfit up in Utah
before the Mormon trouble.

Three, four span of mules.

Jerk line didn't make much difference
what it was.

I used to drive it.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. Ooh.

Uh, well.

My mom wouldn't like that.

They say mule skinners cause some fears.

That's a funny thing.

You asked me that, Bruce.

That's one of the reasons
why I'm here. Huh?

Couldn't stand that cussing either.

And that's one of the reasons
why I left Utah.

I just couldn't stand around
and listen to those mules.

You no cussing.

Would you drive it?

What, you mean just drop
my affairs here and take off west and.

Oh, would you please?

Well, I mean, a man can't.

Because his rent a man in town.

They looked everywhere.
Even in the Calvary,

huh? Yeah.

He's a professional wagon driver. I do.

I do.

Maybe he'll drive for his PA.

Would you have please?

Oh, well, Bruce probably told you

we're in kind of a bind me
cr*pple up this way.

We pay em wages. When we parked. Cars.

Bruce, why don't you help your dad
back to the wagon train?

I'll talk it over for you.

Sure.

I don't say no to you. Think about it.

Come on, son.

He's a professional, remember?

I, uh.

I saw you earlier today over at the hotel.

My name's McCullough. Oh.

You know, you met me at a bad time.

I just got back from a week
with the buffalo.

I never mind the explanations.

Only reason I hire you
is that there's nobody else left in town.

You come with us,
you get a dollar a day and found you.

Don't get a drink or a dime to buy one
until we get to Sacramento and pay off.

It suits me fine.

I've been talking to the cavalry CEO.

He tells me that

you hide on a roll of the Arapaho.

We have a brush with them.

You'll be expected
to do your share of fighting.

All right. By me.

Bruce's mother is kind of a well, she's
kind of a particular kind of a woman.

Before I spring you on her,
I think we better get rid

of some of those whiskers
and find some new clothes.

But you're hired.

How's that?

Well, there's room for improvement.

So a lot better on a genuine German
outlaw.

And, of course. Yeah, I expected. What?

You ever thought of Slaughter?

No, I.

Thought I'd ask.

I got $2.60 saved up for interested.

That is. Not interested.

You know, you're a hard
kind of fellow to deal with.

You. You learn that.

My mother taught me to hardly
pledge for my place,

teach.

And I had never taken him
for a schoolteacher.

Oh, treat your father well.

He my poor. I just call it.

My real father died before I was born.

I'm sorry to hear that, but.

He was a brave man.

They say

there's a statue of him in the school
square named after

Jeremy down Memorial Quadrangle.

I saw it once when I was five.

Came all the way from Ohio
just for the dedication.

School dormitory caught fire one night

I died trying to save the boys inside.

Found his body in the ashes afterwards.

That's what I mean about me

not being afraid of the rebels.

You mean your name is not

Milliken?

No, it's down and I'm proud of it.

To matter.

Bruce.

I tried.

To medal.

Jeremy after my pa.

How come you know the Hadley pledge?

Well, I was there once.

I'll play it with me.

No, no, not now,

Ruth.

Place in and do something with it.

Okay,

Bruce.

This mock up is almost ready to have
you washed up.

You just ran.

I do.

How do you. Do You have trouble with it?

I, uh.

We have plenty.

No, no, no, thank you. Not tonight.

We'll see you in the morning, then.

Come along, Bruce.

Well,

I got the horse.

I thought I told you I wasn't interested.

Look, I'll do my share of the k*lling
and skinning

and don't have to pay me that reb nickel
if you don't want to.

You know why we're leaving tonight,
don't you?

I wasn't going to ask

because that cavalry cabin down the street
thinks we're leaving tomorrow.

If it's in the trailer
because the smart hide owner goes

where the buffalo is,
whether it's north or south of the line.

You know something?

He's right.

That notion guiding you down and him?

No later up

you're

going to head.

I want to stop by here for a minute before
it's just personal.

We'll keep moving.

I'll catch up to you later,

okay?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to do this to you.

Terribly,

terribly.

I'm sorry, Hester.

What I did to

I. Let's not talk about it now.

Tell.

What did you do?

What happened?

Oh, Jim, tell me.

How can you

tell me?

I don't know again,
as to what is it, ten years,



All this p*ssy, ten.

It's a fine boy.

It looks like you.

I certainly.

I can hardly believe it.

Still.

What I do.

Know, I.

You do.

And I know.

I know.

How could you.

Strike?

Can't explain it. I

Maybe I better go on.

Oh, no.

Look, I'm going out with a party.

I knew I couldn't go through with this
Esther out

looking for me.

Why? I can't talk about it. It's done.

It can't be fixed up with talk. Jim.

How could you let them do that?

How could you let them put up
that monument?

I had to.

I don't believe that.

It would have been like climbing up

on a mountaintop and shouting it
out to the world where I am.

Look at me, Jeremy. I'm alive.

I didn't
run into the flames with a mistake.

A panicky, hysterical schoolboy
thought he saw me.

But it was wrong. It was someone else.

I was out there in the dark
coming in my boots, get out of my wits

and listening to those boys in there
screaming for help.

And I don't know what happened next.

So help me God.

I don't know what happened next.

I didn't think I.

And suddenly
I found myself outside of the building,

running into the darkness.

I turned around

and I looked back.

I saw a man

running into the dormitory and another one

coming out with a group of boys.

And then I pull myself together

and I started back

and I saw I was too late,

know that I had run up and back.

So I didn't go back,

just walked and walked out

trying to decide what to do.

You could have come home.

Esther.

I couldn't face your.

I suppose it was a little don't
have a chance even then.

But what it was, was gone by morning.

Was all in the papers.

All right.

By identified me
as a man who had run into the flames.

I on my body and the ashes.

Oh, I was a school hero.

What they sang about the heavy pledge.

That was me.

So I started running and running
Ever since.

Hedley,

I'm everything that you and I knew
together.

And from yourself.

Oh, I wish that I could.

I loved you so, Jim. Oh,

when they told me you were dead.

Please, please.

I almost k*lled myself.

I would have if it

hadn't been for one thing.

I'd known about Bruce.

I think I might have come back
in spite of everything.

But not just them.

I was just thinking of myself.

I couldn't humiliate you like that.

You couldn't humiliate me.

So you let me grieve alone

and bear your child alone

and love you and miss

and marry a man I didn't love you.

Memory from my brain to make room for him

and and learn to love him

by rote
like learning the multiplication table

and beside him at the dedication ceremony

while the president
operated on the heroism

of Jeremy down

with the cold
h* choking lump in my throat,

knowing all the time
that the learning was wasted.

These Esther.

That wasn't just blind panic to him.

Running away from me was.

I thought I was doing the kind of thing.

But it was the cowardly thing, wasn't

it? Should have come to me.

I was entitled to that much too.

That was the cowardly thing.

I think for me,

I'd go with your hunting party now.

Goodnight,

Esther.

Goodnight.

Breakfast ready?

I called. Bruce. No, won't let him sleep.

We may have all day to eat breakfast.

Drivers gone.

I don't sign of Jim Crow
has been all over town looking for him.

They say he took off last night
with a bunch of hired hunters.

I'm kind of had a hunch about him.

Reckoned
he was right. What kind of a hunch?

Figured he was worth worse. I

don't know.

As I'd say, they're

not from what I saw of him anyway.

Well, I suppose a man can take a drink now
and again and still amount to something.

But when he goes to stand

drunk for two weeks running, it's
bound to leave a scratch on his character.

Two weeks and then some You.

It's funny. Nice looking Fowler, too.

If he cleaned up a little,
I do believe he's just a common drunk.

Who says he's a common drunk?

Well, now,

maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe he ain't a common jock.

Maybe he's uncommon.

Maybe he's a world champion drug. Kid.

But he's a rip snort or a bad drunk.

Believe me, if there was beat.

Oh, I didn't mean to sneak up on me
like that. I.

I'm sorry, I.

I guess I shouldn't have. Oh, forget it.

I'm used to it.

We're about give up thing.

Totally. She was off with a hunting party

or a charm of mine,
and I rode out to tell her.

Why it's.

A German now. Thought.

Oh, where'd you get that?

I stopped by late last night.

Yeah.

So what do we

know?

Oh. I'll give it to you, though.

You mean that really?

Yeah. Oh, thanks you.

Thank you.

I hope you don't mind.

I don't mind a bit.

Oh, what do we get to the end of tomorrow?

Maybe. Well, let me go out with Jeff for.

It's. Up to your father.

I expect you be in good hands. I'm

gonna.

Go on.

With.

I'm sure glad you could come next year.

I tell you.

How thunder you can't jump on them.

Well,
you don't let them catch up to you. Huh?

Come on, I'll show you.

Now why

I should go to places. Honey. Come on,

now. Careful.

They can see about a mile.

There they. Are.

Golly.

How do you get them?

Come close.

Oh, sure.

You first.

You get. Yourself a switch.

Fish for. Yeah, kind of.

What do you for?

Be sure in a minute.

Never tell a fishing brand.

Flagging. Huh?

That's
what the Cheyenne's used to call it.

And they ought to know they invented it.

See the antelope?

More speed
than anything in the high plains.

But he's got more curiosity, too.

And that's what gets him into trouble.

Well, unless something happens,

more antelope will probably get themselves
k*lled by curiosity.

Long before Pandora's box was human.

Thought it was Pandora's box.

I'll tell you about that later.

Now you just watch your

this.

Take this.

You just give them a little taste of it.

First they

bury something.

You stop trying to think about it.

I wonder what that
what looks like a red bird.

That's a funny thing.

Flying around the bushes like that.

Now, what do you suppose that was?

He's come and caught,

Jack.

Give him another taste.

Sure.

All right.

Now, I already know
I'm just behind the shop.

Don't you talk to you.

What are you doing here?

I was about to ask you the same thing.

A flag and an antelope until you up.

I didn't mean to run them all.

I don't go no good.

We're going back. What?
Without your wagon?

We'll pick it up over yonder.

Come on, boys.

Let's go.

I wonder what they've been up to.

Taraba

looks like a buffalo g*n. Did it?

Yeah, It sure turns them up, doesn't it?

And dead about a day, I guess.

What do you make of that w*r bridle?

Well, the Chiefs

maybe don't

shod horses.

And a couple or more.

Of ours off the reservation.

Claire, Quick, the line.

That's about a mile.

What do you say we follow those tracks

right?

I was afraid of that.

This is what that cavalry
captain was talking about.

Let's get back to camp.

A little bit late for that.

What? Huh?

What do we do?

Talk.

Where are you, friend? Go.

What friend with paint.

Pony,

man with paint, Pony

fur cap, skin coat.

Where we go? I don't know.

Not my friend.

You lie.

This is in my wagon. I'm not a hunter.

I don't pass on Indian land.

You find men on paint Pony, your friend.

I said I don't know it.

You lie.

You find men on paint Pony,
you friend man with

fur hat you find him
Bring him here you friend.

Who do you call Cheap

iron Hand.

Iron hand What?

Man on paint pony
You bring him here quick.

Look, look.

He's going. Down.

You got him Bruising.

Good shot.

Collies.

Pretty if a sheep.

He's got horns.

Well, both back and antelopes got heart.

This one's a lady.

Sure. Pretty angry.

Yeah.

Seems like a dirty trick
for with the flag.

I kind of wish I hadn't done it.

Well, that's how I felt the first time
I k*lled a deer.

I guess most hunters do.

Does that make it right?

That's a big question.

Look, why don't you go back to the arroyo
and play there and now?

Now get down with the skinning.

You'll be all right in a couple of.

How long ago?

About a couple of hours.

We just flagged an antelope
when they rode up and scared it off.

I've been riding hard.

Yeah.

The horses were soaking wet and heaving.

One of them on a

paint pony with a skin hat.

Yeah, that'd be Jubal.

You know him? Joel Lash.

I work for him once I see.

This is no place to be hanging around
talking about it.

Oh, bring the boy.

I'll rest up.

He's gone flat.

What are you talking about?

He's down there catching lizards.

I just saw him.

He's not there now.

Rough road.

Look how hard you look.

No sense in going down
or playing a lot of fresh marks and tract

road.

His friend

on paint horse with skin cap.

And they came out here.

It's like Hawks

got something down there, too.

They want with a ten year old boy.

I'm going to find out.

You better stay here.

They are, my boy.

I take it easy, Jeff.

You know what I'll do?

That's what Hear
what they have to say first.

I you

know.

My design and seeing the death of his son.

Hey, know, I.

It makes sense to an Indian.

A white man k*lled. His

iron hand is out of his head.
We're leaving.

I must have told him a dozen times
that we didn't know

Jubal at it wouldn't
let you go right back to the beginning.

The man on the paint horse with the fur
cap and the leather friend Jack, our man.

Our friend.

I'm going to talk to him.

It'll only make things worse.

What can it be? Worse? Yeah.

We've got until daylight tomorrow.

If we bring that high back,
he'll turn the boy loose.

How many fine. Men
you figure they got planned?

I don't know. Right now.
It doesn't matter.

Why not? We can raise 50 g*ns.

Maybe that's the kind of talk
they understand. Quickest way.

k*ll that boys
to right up the canyon and forth.

It wouldn't matter
if we had the seventh Cavalry behind us.

Give us got about a six hour lead.

I will never catch him
now, but we've got to try.

This is a tie with a chance.

Take it with the Rangers.

Been through here.

Oh, I'm afraid that doesn't.

We can't quit.

Nothing else we can do.

Please, McCullough. Ways, everybody.

We got to keep on going.

It's our only check.

There's no trail left to follow. Yeah.

All right, then. Go back.

I'll do it.

Along.

Jeff,
there's no sense in this all at my doing.

Now, leave me alone.

That's not the way to look at it.

I'll look at it any way I want.

Do not go away.

Leave me alone. I want to think.

Well, I'm not going to leave you here.

It's a three hour ride back to camp.

So when you are ready to go, we'll go.

Her name was Albert, as I recall.

Yeah, that's right.

Captain Albert was mad.

The whole world,
General, his own soldiers in particular.

You cross him in high gain
and lead off the list

according to what he'd done, Of course.

But he'd make
you think you've got to hang out

with the farmers book and gag
you and tell you to wheel.

They need to get down to serious money
with no end to it.

I've seen new recruits
just shaking their boots.

One time I saw one get a white streak
down to his hair, just listening.

But you know something?

Nothing at all. Captain.
Never done one thing.

You said it was going
to. Not one. You know why?

Because he was a big bluffer. All talk
and no do.

This Indian is the same way,
if you ask me.

Just a big bluffer.
You never mind that boy.

Just like ours, a big bluffer. All talk.

Why don't you be quiet?

Well, what are we going to do?

Stand around here till the sun comes up?

If you've got any other ideas,
I'd be willing to listen.

Oh, oh,

oh, oh,

oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh.

Jim, I just want you to know

we don't blame you.

I'm grateful for that, Hester.

Just.

Just pray with us.

No, he's not going to die.

You'll have him back.

I'm going to get him. Oh.

I had time to think

and is not apt
to do the dishonorable thing.

He has time to think.

What are you talking about, Jim?

Yeah.

You're going to have to leave me alone to.

Oh, please go now.

I asked her.

Father.

For what?

Well, I'm not exactly borrowing Flint
not to have to be returned.

What are you planning to do?

I'm going to get the boy back.

Do you know what that means?

I want to talk about Flint.

Give me the jacket.

The boy means that much to you.

Yeah.

You better take that too.

I wish I had more.

Coming down the canyon.

All right.

You're going to need it.

Let's go.

You wait here for a boy.

Oh, no.

Jeff,

you up?

I want that. Now.

You get.

Home now.

Your mom's waiting for you.

What are you going to do that then?

I'm going to do anything?

Jeff, I can't.

Let's see what kind of a little man
you're going to be.

Yeah.

There he is.

Di, Gloria was

nervous.

I like oh.