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04x35 - The Janet Hale Story

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Wagon Train". Aired: September 18, 1957 – May 2, 1965.*
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The series chronicles the adventures of a wagon train from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the plains of the Midwestern United States and the Rocky Mountains to Sacramento, California.

04x35 - The Janet Hale Story

Post by bunniefuu »

Oh. Oh.

Circle them up here, Bill.

Hi, Chris.

What are you looking at?

Toward the beauty of it.

Regulate valley.

Yeah, it's pretty nice.

Go west and the land will challenge
you until the day you arrive.

But always there's the beauty of it
to make you glad you're alive.

Who said that?

I did.

You mean you made it up just now?

Why, sure. Why not?

No reason, I guess.

I don't know.

I don't pay attention to him.

He don't appreciate the finer
things in life.

Now you take a man like me. I like Paul.

I learned one. One.

Let's hear it.

I see it go like this.

Mary had a little lamb.

Its fleece was white as snow.

Every place that Mary went.

That's why I'm gonna go.

Just hang on, honey.

Oh, whoa,

whoa, oh.

Look like much damage done.

Well, I think you do.

But you didn't have to help me stop,
because this as far as I was.

God, anyway.

Do you mean you ran
this team out here on purpose?

I sure did.

Do you mind telling me
why I want to get here?

Of course.

Somebody else got the same idea as me.

Will you just take a look around you?

Do you ever see a better place
in your whole life for a farm?

Those look pretty good.

Oh, pretty good.

I seen land like this in a thousand miles.

You just.

Just take a look at this earth

to grow anything.

I You sure write about that with

Mr. Shannon.

You've lived in this territory.

How near is the nearest settlement?

Oh, roughly 150 miles.

We'll put the house over there
by those pines

and then the barn a little ways over.

I'll tell you what.

I'll ask Mr.

Hale if he'll camp the train over here
a little closer.

Maybe when the folks know
you're set on staying here.

They'll give you a hand
putting up your house.

That's very nice of you, Duke.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

Oh. Yeah.

Oh, did you hear what he said?

How it goes.

People take a notion
they can put up a house in a barn a day.

I don't want to stay here.

Of course you do, honey.

No, not without any neighbors.

Not 150 miles from civilization.

Look, honey, I'm a farmer.

I'm a good farmer. You know that.

And a good farmer
needs a good piece of land.

And when it's here for the taking, then why shouldn't he take the best he can find?

All my

life, I dreamed about
having the finest piece of land around.

I've been looking at ground
all the way from Springfield.

And this is it right here in this valley.

This is the land I've always wanted.

This is my farm, Helen.

And you're going to love it, too.

I promise you that.

While we're ready for the door,
everything is done with this.

But that's the most important part.

Because when this door is on its hinges,

it's going to turn out
log Cabin into home.

Just like magic.

Nothing could turn anything
into a home in this place.

Would you just wait
till our furniture is in the house

and the door is on its hinges?
You won't know.

But what? You're
still back in Springfield.

What about when I look out

the window and there's nothing
as far as the eye can see?

Will I know the difference?

Then give yourself a chance, Helen.

Come on. I'll join the others.

There are friends.

They put up a.

House and a barn just for. Us.

And tomorrow they'll be gone.

And we'll never see them again.

We'll never see anybody again.

I can't live like that.

They're waiting for Helen.

They're going to make a celebration
out of the hanging of the door.

Like a cornerstone ceremony that wouldn't
be right if you're not there.

You just haven't had one.

What I've said, have you?

All you can think about is that door.

Oh, well,
I wish we left it back in Springfield.

And I wish your father had left it
in Massachusetts.

And I wish his father had left England
where it belongs.

It belongs here. Look at it.

Look at that fancy carving.

Nothing about it
belongs here and out of the way.

Daddy! Daddy! Daddy. You hurt us so

furious.

Why you, me and I climb the tree.

Daddy,
We didn't think you would follow us.

Well.

Well, I'm.

You said this land could grow anything.

I can't stay here now.

Is that can help.

And we're never now.

Take the train.

That's the first time
I can get a stagecoach home.

This is our home.

It's me and Sally with me.

We need each other more than ever now.

Yes, we do.

Not here.

Helen.

Running away
is not going to bring her back.

Nothing will

you use my little girl
to grieving for her sake, which you are.

Which you have got to look at this way.

Wagon
train starts out with a lot more people.

Her hands up with

you Remember that little Harding

baby who died
just a week after we joined the train?

Careful.

Look at it.

Turn back

here, Miss Carlson.

When her husband died, she's nearly


The fact is,
I don't know a person at every turn back.

Because they. Lost a loved one.

Hatcher think could happen anywhere.

Could have told you back in Springfield.

Trees for the climate, too.

You know why we came west, Helen?

Those reasons haven't changed.

All I'm asking is please

try to remember all our hopes and dreams.

My baby died here.

That's what I remember.

I have to tell you now.

I never wanted to come.

Only my love for you made me do it.

That is enough.

Now you don't mean.

I mean it.

Martin.

I hate to disturb you at a time like this,
but we're pulling out

pretty early in the morning.

If you need some help

to get the rest of your things
into the house, I'll see that you get it.

Thank you, Mr. Hill.

But I'm not moving into the house.

I'm turning back. I'm going home.

Oh, you sign here.

Sorry.

Is it because of what happened?

That does

make it impossible, don't you think?

No, ma'am.

I don't think it does.

I know you're hurt, Steve.

Mrs. Martin, but I also know
that time will show you mercy. See,

what I fear for you now is that some time
later, you may regret having left.

I won't regret it ever.

What I'm trying to say is that

you can't leave
the memory of what's happened behind you.

Turn back. It'll turn back with you

or make you feel any better by going back.

Will it make you feel any worse by state?

How do you know what my feelings are?

Well, I know that in this beautiful valley

you can work and build a good life
for you and your family.

And you can be proud
of what you accomplish.

And in that pride, you can find love,

happiness and fulfillment.

Do you think you can find those things
by giving up and going back?

Pat Anybody understand?

I hate this place.

I hate this land.

It took my baby from me.

I never want to see it again.

Well, I do understand, Mrs. Martin.

I understand how you feel at this moment.

But you know how a mother feels.

You of all people.

You are a man with no family ties. You.

You don't have to stay in one place.

You're free to roam up
and down this vibrant that can carry.

The heart's content.

What could, you know of homes
or families or a horrible settlement?

You're right.

This is Martin.

I have no family ties,

but it wasn't always that way.

It wasn't very long ago.

I had a wife

and a son and I had a daughter to

and we had a home in Saint
Joseph, Missouri.

So anything else you want me to do,
Mother.

Marie, take a look at the church.

And I just said so.

I see that everything is on the table.

And I did that before I went to
look at the turkey with that land.

And I've seen this last homecoming
celebration.

For these blessings. All right, Mother.

Yes, they'll be fine.

Oh, I hope we look all right.

Do you have.

You better pour that cider
so that we can drink

a toast to your father
the minute he steps through the door.

Then you've got to hurry up. Hurry up.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh. Welcome home, Christopher. Oh.

I've waited a long time
to hear those words, my darling Martha.

Long time.

Welcome home, Daddy.

How's my little girl?

Hi, Dad.

Jeff.

Well, you certainly did
your share growing up while I was away.

Over two inches.

Good to see you, son.

It's good to see you too, Dad.

Excuse me.

I've got to go pour the cider.

Well, wait, you girls
see what I brought you from California?

Mother
says we have to wait till after supper.

Well, your. Mother's.

Always right.

Hey, I guess.

Thank you

very.

Here's to my family

together again.

And years to the day

when I'll never have to leave them again.

The days and weeks

went by all too
soon as they always did when I was home.

And they grew into months.

And then it was time for me

to go into the city to begin organizing
another wagon train.

I'd have only three
more weeks of my family before

I'd have to leave them again.

But this post is.

What I thought.
We only had just one day. I came home.

In the morning, your father starts
signing up wagons for another train.

We're going to drink to that.

Christopher,
when you came back from your last trip,

you made a toast to the day when you would
never have to leave your family again.

So I it.

Now. I'm glad you're going to our family.

Here's to our being.

A real family.

A whole family with children and a mother

and a father
who will never be separated from us again.

Here's to the first family.

You sign up in the morning,

the Christopher Hill family.

Oh, my dear, how

I wish I could promise you that right
this minute,

if it were only possible.

It is possible, Christopher.

It has to be.

Janet, dear, you know how much I've always
wanted to take you with me.

All of you.

And I will. But it just.

It just isn't safe yet.

There aren't many years left to raise them
as children.

Janet, dear, listen to me.

For all the ten years
I've been taking wagon

trains across this country,
I have held the one thought of that day

when I could start our last trip,
when I could take my family with me.

There hasn't been a day
when I haven't kept my eyes open

for the ideal spot to build our home.

I haven't lost a dream, Janet.

But in all that time, I've come to know
this country pretty well.

I can tell you it's a great

and beautiful land,
but that's only part of it.

It's a dangerous land
to the suffering and hardships

it puts to the people who challenge it
are unbelievable.

If you've ever seen a human
being die of thirst or hunger

or freeze to death in 15 feet of snow,

or seeing what happens to the victims
of an Indian m*ssacre,

you'd understand why I'm not yet willing
to put those I love through such a thing.

The risks are just too great.

But what about all those hundreds
of people you lead West every year?

Aren't the risks too great for them too?

You can't stop some people
from going on here,

and it's even necessary that somebody's
open to the country for those to follow.

And if my experience can make it easier
on them, I'm proud to be a part of it.

I'm just saying I don't want my family
to go through a thing like that yet.

That's not what you're saying.

Exactly. Christopher.

The first year or two, yes.

But then you began to like things
the way they were.

You like taking the trains west.

It got into your blood.

You you liked being part
of the great movement

to push back the frontiers
and to close the gaps between the oceans.

And that's admirable.

And I love you for it.

But you did lose sight of our dream

of going out there together
as a family, of building our home,

of being part of those families,
to settle that wonderful country.

Christopher, you have had your way of life

and you've had the security

of knowing that your family was safe
and sound and see Joe

where you didn't have to worry about them.

You'll like your life the way it is.

You never want to change it.

Janet how long has it been
since you've had an attack of the fever?

What does that matter?

You just gotten over one when I came
home, hadn't you?

Well, yes.

But that attack was hardly three months
after the last.

Well, the attacks only last a week or so.

And then that go on you in.

The comfort of your own home.

Yes, but on a wagon train,
under ordinary circumstance,

you need every ounce of strength
you have to survive.

Janet,

you were right about one thing.

It has become a way of life.

But now I've got to tell you this.

The only real reason I ever left
you behind was because

I knew there was no way we could ever
beat the fever to California.

If that's the reason, please take us.

I do.

I can make it
because I have the will to make it.

And with Josh in 80.

Eight,
have you talked to them. About this? Yes.

They want to go with us.

And even if I had to take it easy,
Josh would be such a wonderful help.

Oh, Chris,

I've thought about this
for such a long time.

I must have the answer tonight.

In all fairness to you,

I must tell you that my feeling isn't
shared by

everyone here.

Well, I don't see why
we can't stay right here in Saint Joe.

I mean, what do we have to go
west for, anyway?

Couldn't you just get a job around here,
Dad, so that we could all be together?

No, I couldn't.

So some men take the city away
without any trouble at all.

But I'm not one of them.

Just why is it you don't want to go?

It was just like you always said that.

Now, why should we have to go out there
and fight Indians

when we can stay right here
where there aren't any?

Are you afraid.

A man can't expect his son
to follow in his footsteps

or even to think like he does
when he's home?

Barely enough to stay acquainted.

I wanted you to see how badly
he needs your

Chris.

I'm tired of homecomings.

So tired.

I've decided that this one has to be
the last one.

There'll be no more homecomings

for you here.

Mary, dear, you haven't said anything.

How do you feel about it?

I'm sorry, Daddy.

But I'll do whatever Mother said.

I knew you'd say that. Well,
I don't care if you want to go or not.

Mother, I'm staying right here.

No, man, any age speaks to my wife
that way.

You're entitled to your opinions.

But your mother and I make the decisions
and you abide by them.

Never try

to change that young man,
because he will fail every time.

Now. Well, I'll drink to him.

To the whole family.

And no more homecoming.

It was a good trip, all things considered.

There were the usual hardships, of course.

Jeff became a valuable helper,
and we made up for a lot of lost time

because now we could be together
and work together as father and son.

But it was my wife, Janet,
who made me the proudest of all

when she became ill.

She'd been confined to bed for two days
with a burning fever,

and we'd been traveling over some of
the roughest country we'd yet encountered.

I, I do believe.

And feeling better. Are you. Darling?

We just didn't have another


Chris, you mustn't worry about me.

You had your hands full with the train.

My responsibility to the train
is one thing.

My responsibility to you
is something entirely different.

I. I don't expect and I don't want to be

treated any different
than any other woman on the train.

Perhaps me.

Well, I don't know about that.

I might just have to make an exception
every now and then.

Oh, like this.

To make an.

Exception like that.

Any time you like and.

But even after the trail is smoothed out

and the going was easier,
Janet didn't recover as expected.

You just can't rest holding wagon.

That's the thing she needed
most was peace and quiet and rest.

Oh, this time I don't know.

Mother Indians.

And then I get upset, dear.

There's nothing to worry off.

Can you write a very quick

massive chorus?

No, no,
there's not enough of them for that.

They look like
they're trying to be friendly now.

Well, maybe it's a trick.

Kate, Red Cloud, good to see you again.

Red Cloud. Always glad to meet.

Wagon.

Chief, have you never once break treaty in

ten summers
passing through Indian territory?

I hope you're as generous to the man
who takes my place next year.

You will not come again.

Oh, this is my last trip.

This time
I settled with my family in California.

Why not? Wagons.

You stay here, build house
and rent grassland.

We be good friends.

I thank you Where they offer.

But I've got to take the wagon train
through to California anyway.

And I've already picked out just the place
I want Wagon sheep Know what

best for family.
Sorry you're not coming in

here.

I'll give you a Red Cloud's knife

token of everlasting friendship.

They're going to stab Daddy.

It was a correct

calf.

On arrival

he bred called the prayer.

I apologize, Red Cloud.

I don't know what got into the boy.

My boy here.

I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it.

He won't do it again, I promise.

You Bring by hair.

Go get it. Go.

That was a foolish thing.

To do, Jeff.

Well,
I thought he was going to attack Dad.

Climb on behind me.

The chief wants to see me. Well?

Well, what for?

I don't know.

Just climb on and boy,

what?

Get out of.

Boy. Come here, boy.

You try to k*ll Red Cloud,

Friendship.

Red Cloud as question.

My answer.

You drew your knife.

I thought you were going to use it
on my father.

You son of wagon, Chief.

I'm sorry, Chief. Red Cloud.

I didn't know you were friendly.

Red Cloud.

Not one boy Make the same mistake again.

Not one

son of great wagon, Chief for enemy.

Thank you, sir.

Why? And Red Cloud Polo.

Do you smoke?

Peace pipe? No.

But I don't smoke.

You ought to be enemy.

No, sir.

And you're smoke piece pipe.

That Chief Red Cloud.

I think you've taught him a lesson
he won't soon forget

by learned friendship with Red Cloud.

Not come easy.

Yeah.

When you grow older,

give him red clouds.

Nope.

You make a good, brave

Chris.

I will. Do it.

But who is going to say?

Chris?

It doesn't take. A doctor to see that.

Janet can't travel another foot.

I know you.

What can we do?

Let's go back to the children.

They've got to hear this too.

Is Mom any better, Dad?

I'm afraid not.

Mary.

Dear Jeff.

I'm afraid it's going to be a long
while before you see California.

You mean we're going to stay right here?

We're going to settle this piece of land
right here where we're sitting.

Is it because, Mother.

She's too ill to go on here?

If we're going to keep her with us,
we've got to get her into a bed

that doesn't hold around all day.

Got to get her into a nice, warm house,

You understand?

What about you, Chris?

What do you mean, Jack?

You know what I mean.

You made a promise to Janet
you'll never be separated again.

Can you keep it?

I don't know, Josh right this minute.

I just don't know.

The people helped build

my house, just as the people on this train
built one for you.

Mrs. Remarkable.

They worked fast.

Like they were all as anxious

to see my wife face
comfortable in this dirty house as I was.

It's an

inspiring thing when people band together
to help one another.

You'll never see folks any happier

than when they're giving of themselves
like that.

A house
raising is a wonderful American custom.

I hope it never disappears from this land.

A house that would have taken one
man months to build

was in less than 10 hours
standing there, ready

to be occupied.

Well, how is my girl? Oh.

Oh, Just

being here

all together in her own house,

knowing that we finally made the.

Best medicine in the world.

I'm so happy

we're all together.

Well, I.

Want to say that that's a mighty fine
house you built for my family

type. More

mighty grateful to you.

Now, many of you have asked me
what I intend to do, whether I intend

to stay here with my family
or go on to California with the train.

Let me say this.

All you good people have paid a price
to be part of this wagon

train, part of the Christopher Hale train.

And I respect your right

to get exactly what you paid for.

I respect my obligation

to do the job I agreed to do.

I can wait a little while

to live in that house you built.

I'm going on to California with you.

Hey, you're

full.

Oh, wait just a minute, please.

I've got something I want to say.

Maybe I got no place
saying what I'm gonna do,

considering Chris is my own brother,
but I think it needs saying.

I don't have to tell you

what it took for Chris to stand up here
and say what he did.

Telling you
he was willing to leave his wife

and his children behind
because of his duty.

To you,
the fact is, if Chris had asked you

to relieve him of that duty,
I don't doubt.

But what there's a person among you,
I'd say, stay right here, Chris.

I'll not hold you to your bargain.

But he didn't ask you that.

He wouldn't
put you on that kind of a spot.

And that's
what I'm going to ask you to do.

Put yourself in his place
for just a minute and then ask yourselves

if you don't think you could make it
to California with Mark Taylor leading it

instead of Chris.

Now you can all let Chris
know what you decide

as each one of you
puts a piece of twig into this hat.

All right,

well, all right, Come on, let's vote.

Just a minute now.

I appreciate what Joshua just said to you
folks,

and I wouldn't be telling the truth
if I didn't admit

that I would like to be able
to stay here with my family.

But voting on it won't be necessary
because I've already made my decision.

Have you considered these folks might feel
better about it themselves if they

had a voice in that decision?

They're not objecting to the vote. No.

Why don't you let them have their say?

It's for Janet and the.

Children as much as for yourself.

Let them vote.

You're all aware

that the decisions I make as your wagon
master are, in my best judgment,

always made in the interest
of the greatest number of you.

Sometimes those decisions
hurt the individuals.

But I ask you to remember that now.

I ask that you consider only those things
what you honestly believe to be

in the interest of the greatest number
of people on this train.

Chris, I need your head to.

I'm going out.

There and see what's going on.

I guess I don't really want to know
just yet.

It's a hard decision, Chris,

but mark my word,
they'll let their heart rule their minds.

They'll leave you here.

Chris, You're going to stay

what you believe in.

There isn't a single half inch twig
in either hat.

Not a vote against your stay in here.

Are you sure I ought to be Mark Taylor?

And I counted every one of them ourselves.

Right in front of everybody.

I latch on to.

Then a few dissenters
among all those people.

Well, there might have been at first,
but when the voting got going,

it was obvious the big majority was voting
for you to stay.

So somebody suggested
they all make it unanimous.

And well, here out of yourself, 304,
a little two inch pieces of wood.

Oh, I can keep this. Forget it.

Another minute I'm going to wake her up
and tell her. Now, wait a minute. Hello?

Not just yet, but the good news
ought to hear a lot more good than sleep.

She's already assumed.

I'm staying, and I haven't got to think
anything different.

Oh, all right, Chris,
if that's what you want.

Morning will be time enough.

Chris,

to sit there all night.

Janet wants to see you. In the house.

You up. Already?

And she said the first good night's rest
and she took sick.

But of course, I hope you don't mind.

I told Janet
the good news that you were staying.

Well, you know me, Chris.

I can't keep anything to myself.

I said, All right.

I'll get the other sleepy heads up

this morning.

Dear.

When are you going to leave, Christopher?

You know.

When he told me
about the voting last night

and that you were still sitting
in your chair this morning,

I knew what you were going through.

What a decision to have to make,

wanting to stay here with us
and get knowing

what must have been in the hearts
of those people who voted the way they

imagine how they must have

been thinking of those long miles ahead

without you,

how they must love you.

I thought for a while last night

all I needed was their approval
to release me from my duty to them.

And I knew down deep all time

that nobody could release me
from my duties myself.

I wasn't much help

rattling on about being together for good.

I'm sorry.

I should never have let you think that

I knew right from the first
what I had to do.

When are you leaving?



Be on time, Christopher.

I am let you know

So, Chris, one more.

Homecoming, Chris.

Only one more and you'll.

Never know how glad I am.

It isn't safe to.

Oh. I knew Janet was in good hands

with Josh and needed to look after
and Jeff and Marie to help them.

The house had been built in Chief

Red Cloud's territory, so I didn't worry
too much about an Indian attack.

I knew I had made the right decision
and fulfilled my contract

to lead the train to California.

My mother.

Mother took a.

Job, so.

Chris is on his way home.

To their family.

I'm leaving Sacramento today.

There isn't much chance I can beat the
mother there, but I'm sure going to try.

If all goes well,
I should arrive on the 15th of next month.

The 58 days is Well, that's three days.

In three days
your father will be home about

everybody's dress but you.

Well, I had.

The most crowded and I wouldn't want
to be doing it after Chris gets there.

My goodness. Knows. Was certainly stingy.

I know. Pitiful.

She's not used to letting me down
this early.

Tell us, will you please get dressed?

We'll do the question for Chris.
All right.

I was just watching.

I thought I heard a coyote when I was
Malcolm.

Could have been an Indian. Oh, nonsense.

We haven't seen any. Indians
since Red Cloud Day.

Just a visit and I'll go get some water.

I to be heating it so your father
can have a bath the minute he gets.

All right. Mom.

Don't forget to rent it out.

When you got nothing.

To take your.

Hello.

My name's Jeff Hale,
My father's wagon Master Hale.

He's a good friend of your Keep Red club.

This Indian land.

White men don't live here.

Oh, no, no, it's all right.

Well, gee, Greg, I told my father.

We could live here.

Well, I even smoked.

A peace pipe.

With your chin, and he was just fire
a few weeks ago just to say hello.

Red Cloud is old woman.

He let a white man
make a fool of him, not us.

We leave tribe.

We make you leave land

now you.

But you better leave us alone.

Red Cloud here.

He has a treaty with my father.

What's keeping that boy tied

to China?

Tied?

Oh, Why? Oh.

All right.

I hope waiting for you.

I had to wait for you.

I never should have left.

I had no right to go.

You can't carry that blame.

You mustn't.

Why would I trust anymore?

It wasn't. It wasn't a red cloud.

It was renegade just.

To only

it wouldn't.

It would have happened anyway.

Even if you didn't.

Here,

I. Think I would.

Know you couldn't go on living with

all of us.

Please

don't make it

this time.

I don't remember
much about the next few days,

except I had dug five graves.

I guess I didn't even eat
until I was found by the scout

from another wagon train. This one,

Even as Flint McCullough was trying
to bring me out of my shot.

Janet's last words from coming true.

The terrible guilt I felt

was already destroying me.

And you ever forgive me

was to help the things I said to you

I didn't know.

Of course you didn't.

But I still don't understand what?

Why I didn't go back east to live.

Why I continue to lead people
into this uncivilized country.

After what happened.

Many families will die.

Some, but many won't.

Pretty soon
they'll be joined by another family.

And then ten, more than 100.

Then there'll be a town somewhere else.

Another town?

That's the way a great country grows.

Wagon master can help and all that.

He can be a part of

Mrs. Martin.

My family perished so that others

who followed might live.

They died in vain.

Only if there are no other

others like you.

Why wasn't a good enough place
for the store?

Why is essential
a good enough place for it now?

A man can be free where he is.

He'll go where he can be.

We weren't oppressed in Missouri

by my husband. Be happy there.

Why can't all the people on this wagon
train be happy where they were?

What?

Why is someplace else always better?

For the same reason.

Man invented the wheel
before the rocking chair,

but wasn't for his instinct
to explore and populate far off places

he'd have invented the rocking chair
first, only he'd

be using it in the cave.

That's.

That's a little heavy for you.
And it was Martin.

Thank you, Mr. Hale.
Thank you for everything.

But if this door is ever going to be
lifted, I'm the one who's got to do it.

What the hell?

Just told me the story about a family.

Wonder why?

I wondered why

he was going to talk to himself like that.

That's for me.

Because it's important
what we're doing here.

How do a man like Mr.

Hale?

It makes us important people

know.

Where you going with our blankets?

They're not our blankets.

They belong to the Harrises here.

Where are you going? Them?

The barn. Why?

Well,
the house is going to live in our barn

until they have time
to build their own house.

I told you I wasn't going to live out here
in the of nowhere with no neighbors.

So I went off and found my son.

You know, Chris.

Yesterday
Mrs. Martin wasn't going to stay.

What do you suppose
happened to change your mind?

Oh, I have an idea.

She just found out the difference
between a wheel and a rocking.

Chair

for you in Iraq.

And you're actually a well,
you know, there's four of them around.

They got spokes in them.

The wagons run on them.
And there's a rocking chair, too.

I don't want wheels.
I don't want rocking chairs.

What does he need?

Well, if you'd been.

Listen, I think what Chris means
is that probably maybe.

Well, if she had,

why do you ask stupid questions
all the time?

Come on, let's get
the furniture in the house.