05x02 - The Kitty Albright Story

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And now I

hear the first woman ever
try to sh**t me in the back.

I'm sure that will stop you.

Go ahead. Don't leave any witness.

You think I did this?

I could have been.

You sh**t person, ask questions later.

I knocked unconscious on the stage over.

When I woke up,
I saw that not many more death questions.

Not that you ask, but my name is Michael
Scott for a wagon train.

It's camped about three miles
east of here.

Well,
that's nothing to make such a fuss about.

I suppose I should like it.

It's the first b*llet
that's nicked me all day.

Men are always the biggest babies.

About a little scratch.

Better off.

Nothing on it for I

hope, of yellow dresses for you properly.

I've never
seen a doctor that looks like you.

I'm not.

I'm a registered nurse.

What kind of a nurse?

A registered nurse.

Hold that.

Hold.

Graduate of Florence
Nightingale School of Medicine.

I thought Florence Nightingale
was in Europe.

London.

I just came from there.

That I know to hold you

for. Tiny horses knew where to train.

I can think
that's kind of a stupid question.

But not necessarily.

Wagons are sometimes pulled by accident,
and I couldn't see myself

riding all the way
to make them falls on a steer.

Now, if you don't feel you too
wounded to travel, it's very.

These poor people.

I'll send a detail from the train.

Good. Now let's go.

I can ride double.

Oh, will you please hurry?

And if they don't show up

and make them both,
my parents are liable to worry about Why?

Because I'm their only child.

And strange
as it may seem. To you, they love me.

Get behind the saddle

and. Tell me your name.

Kitty. All right.

All right, all right.

Put your arms around me. Try.

Because if you don't,
you're going to fall up

on somebody after you where you're riding.

Looks like there's trouble behind it.

Close behind.

And the name is Kitty
Albright's Bill Hawks and Charlie Wooster.

And that.

I think you had the trouble with Mr.

McCully is that he's lost a sense of humor
just because I tried to k*ll. Him.

It's all brothers and nurse.

She took a shot at me, I think, because
she wanted somebody to practice on.

Maybe one of you would be kind enough
to help me.

Anything you want.
You just met it all, Charlie.

I'll get it. Done. Oh,
thank you, Mr. Rooster.

It's good to see there are some gentlemen
affiliated with the strain.

Actually,
I need a horse to get to make some

that I'll be glad to pay
for the use of it.

Well, Flint, I think we can fix young
lady up with a horse.

Yeah, but you won't have to pay, though.

You're very kind.

But somebody will have to ride
over there with you to bring it back.

I could do that.

Not if we take those prisoners to Fort.

Well,
and you can't, Charlie. Neither can I.

Flint curses at Mason Falls right
now, sending a wire to the fort

to see if they can take
the prisoners off our hands.

I don't

know of anybody else that could do it
unless

Flint.

Never mind, Mr. Hawkeye.

Rather walk.

Well, there isn't anybody else
you could spare, right?

Not ma'am.

I think I have no choice.

Doesn't it? Looks like it.

There's just one thing, Mr..

But I haven't said I'd take you.

All right, Mr. McCullough.

What do you want me to do?

You can begin by asking me nicely.

Would you please ride with me to Mason
Falls?

Mr. McCullough? I'd be very grateful.

And I think it'd be nice
if you apologize for sh**ting me.

I'm sorry.

You're sorry for what?

I'm sorry I wounded you.

You mean you're sorry you only wounded me?

Frankly, Mr.

McCullough, I'm not sure.

I get to that horse.

You don't miss Albright.

He's really a charming fellow.

Once you get to know him, he's
very popular with all the ladies.

Not quite all of them.

I've got a nice pot of coffee on the bar.

How would you like a nice cup.
And love one?

Come on.

Here you go.

All right.

I. Pardon me, Mr. Wooster.

Better crowd clean coffee cup. Why?

Please don't even use the time to do.
What you see.

That's the way diseases are spread
from one person to another.

Or haven't you gentlemen
heard about the remarkable

discoveries of Louis Pasteur
in the field of bacteriology?

Louis, who.

Of course, are stupid of me.

You couldn't
have heard of him in this country

because our doctors
haven't accepted his theories yet.

I've heard of pasture. You have?

Is he the fella that showed the beer
and winemakers in France?

What caused fermentation?

That's right. Bacteria.

That's the same kind of organism
that causes disease.

You mean a man can get sick
from drinking beer and wine?

No, Charlie, If it did,
you would have been dead years ago.

But I didn't know the past sure
was interested in dirty coffee cups. Now.

Mr. Hart, Louis Pasteur is interested in
anything that carries bacteria

from dirty coffee cups
through the very air we breathe.

And Florence Nightingale has made
every possible use of his discoveries

in her great work.

Training under her was one of the greatest
experiences of my life.

You know,
thousands of people are alive today

because Florence Nightingale
made them aware of sterilization,

made them bathe themselves,
even made them wash dirty coffee cups.

Maybe better wash is more comfortable

with soap.

With soap, with soap. Charles

Russell Soap. You

quiet, little man.

Now, Mrs.

Albright, I wouldn't
want you to think that I didn't save her.

I just happened along.

And I gave her a ride to the wagon
train, and I brought her here.

And I spend all my time
worrying about Kitty being alone in Paris

for two years, never
dreaming that you'd experience a worst

trial practically in her own backyard.

But you said Paris.

No fun at the Conservatory of Music.

Didn't she tell you about it?

No. As a matter of fact,
she didn't mention Paris at all.

Or France either.

Well, it was a compromise on my part
letting her go to Paris.

I mean, you see, somehow or other,
she had gotten hold of a book

written by a horrid woman
in England named Nightingale.

I believe it was. I don't think Mr.

McCullough was interested in that.

I Of course he is, dear.

Well, anyway, it was all about nursing
and hospitals and the like.

Well, frankly,
I cannot believe Kitty was really serious

about wanting to throw away
her life on such a ridiculous thing as.

Oh, kitty, kitty, what have you done?

Oh, mother, don't carry on.

So it's not the end of the world.

It is a nice fall
for the name of Albright's mother.

Nursing is an honorable profession.

Florence Nightingale was respected
by the heads of state all over Europe.

She was commissioned
by the British Secretary of w*r

to bring order out of chaos
to the military hospitals

in the Crimea and in India.

But we are not living in Europe.

We are right here in the United States
where there is no Florence Nightingale

and in the town where nurses are known
only to be women of character.

And that is the only opinion
that matters to us, Kitty.

And it does matter being
all rights and Mason falls at our life.

Kitty It isn't mine.

It never was.

Really.

I shouldn't have come back.

Oh, don't.

I threw my back.

I can't stay here.

I destroy your life and my own

because I wouldn't
be able to do the things I have to do.

Maybe someday, if I do my work.

Well,

you won't be ashamed to tell people
what I am.

You might even be proud of me. Oh,

I'm proud of you. Now.

Oh, my goodness.

I'd completely forgotten. We have a guest.

Who I hadn't forgotten, Daddy.

I wanted him to hear.

Whatever, Paul. A child.

Well, he has to know how strongly I feel
about my work.

If he's going to help me.

How do you expect me to?

Well, without the Crimean w*r,
Florence Nightingale

would have never had the opportunity
to accomplish what she did.

I want you to help me get my opportunity.

I'm almost
afraid to ask you what you mean.

Your camp that we visited today.

Now, what about?

That's where my work will begin.

Your wagon train, Mr.

McCullough will be my Crimea w*r.

McCullough.

I are all the nurses

in this country as bad as my mother, sir.

I mean,

have you ever had any experiences with

or exactly
what kind of experiences you have in mind?

I met a group of intended.

By any one of them.

Have you ever met one? Never.

I wasn't a lawyer,

but I haven't been. And I cried.

And I think that's what you want to hear.

I want to hear the truth.

I'm a woman.

I know.

We're the wives, mothers,

daughters
of the men who volunteer their service

find work for women.

But they weren't professionals.

No, they want to do it.

You know, I can't help wondering.

What makes them I want to take up.

I mean, as a profession.

Once I've heard about one motivated
by humanitarian reasons.

They had a reputation

for being drunkards, dope addicts.

Well,
the desire to be physically around men.

I didn't care
whether they were sick or not.

Those are the kind of mothers that.

And those are the kind
you've got to make the world

forget what we,

me and others like.

It was a big place.

But after a while.

Well,
then the sooner I get started, the better.

Well, I'm taking a secret now,
but as I told you, it's his decision.

To make about money. That's right.

Go ahead and hide your head in the sand.

Don't make any decisions.

You just might have to back them up.

I'm not hiding my head in the sand.

It's not my decision to make.

He's The wagon must run.

And if you

win, you understand what it is
I want to do.

I haven't made up my mind.

You can't really make up my mind
whether you want to duplicate the

humanitarian achievements of Florence

Nightingale,
or whether you're more interested in name

recognition and.

Notoriety because of

that, I thank heavens

you're not the man I have to deal with.

Mr. Hale.

Hale.

I don't believe you'll find anybody home.

Their man,

Andrew Chan.

Could I be of any help to you?

I don't think so, Mr. Shannon.

I'm. Give your brides.

Nice to meet you.

I'd like to speak to your wagon, Master.

I'm sorry. He's not here right now.

Oh. Oh, I'll just sit and wait
till you get back.

I'm afraid there might be a pretty long
wait with.

All right.
You see, he's going clear for welding.

Oh, my goodness.

Yes, there was something about him
taking some prisoners there.

Yeah, our prison wagon was pretty full,
but I think Mr.

Hill went mostly because.

Well, you see, true Commander Major,
Banning a close friend is,

you know, probably stood up there
a couple of days into the fight with him.

A couple of days.

Surely he left somebody in charge? Yes.

Would you like to talk to him?

I guess I'll have to.

Well,
there comes a fellow over here right now.

Oh, no.

You keep forgetting
one important difference, Ms..

Albright.

These people are not troops
under military orders,

and most of them
never heard of the Crimean w*r.

They're on the move just like troops.

And they look to a leader like like
soldiers look to a general for guidance.

Wagon train is made up of families
and their personal habits

and how they live as their own business.

And you have no interest in
how many of them die from diseases.

Of course I.

Have.

Well, then surely you'd be interested

in cutting that death rate in half,
maybe more.

I don't believe it's that simple.

But it is that simple.

If Florence Nightingale ruled
the sanitation work for her, I shouldn't.

The very same rules work for me here.

But I'm trying to explain.

You can order a soldier to take a bath
and he'll take a bath.

You can order a soldier
to clean up his barracks

and he'll clean up his bags
because he expects to take orders.

But you can't tell people,
especially people who are paying

their own way to live the way you want to.
You can't do that.

But if they know it's for their own good,

why won't common sense
make them follow the rules?

Because people get set in their ways.

They don't believe everything
they're told,

particularly when they're told by a woman,

and more particularly
when she's young and beautiful.

Well, I didn't think you noticed.

Don't change the subject.

I know it won't be easy,
but you've got to give me a chance to try.

Please, please, just.

Just give me one wagon.

One wagon.

I'll clean it
up. We'll build some bunks, and.

And the sick will have

a decent sanitary place to stay
where they won't contaminate others.

That way,
the disease will be confined to one person

instead of spreading throughout the train.

If I can prove this with one person,
others will follow.

I know it.

And so do you. Mr.

McCullough,
You're not an ignorant back woodsman.

I didn't think you'd noticed.

I've changed the subject.

I don't mean to be arbitrary.

I just don't think you realize
what you're up against.

You're going to be scorned
and ridiculed by the women on this train

to think that a
nurse with another name for a

for a
scandal was president by mental hope.

She is.

But maybe all this talk's a waste of time.

Maybe it's time you find out for yourself.

Oh, Flint.

I mean, Mr.

McCullough.

But I can't offer you much help.

You understand?

I need the cooperation
of the people on this train, too.

And I can't be constantly fighting them
on your behalf, even for their own good.

I did this whole train to fall apart.

You do understand that? Yes.

And you needn't worry.

I've been trained to expect a fight.

I promise you
I'll never come running to you for help.

No matter what happens.

Let's see.

I take a look in here now.

Oh, yeah, certainly Do

that.

Oh, I think.

They're just wonderful.

We'll look bad when we get some pillows.

Blanket time.

I'll see if I can
rough your summer. All right.

I don't have to remind you

people how many folks we've
lost on this trip because of sickness.

But Mr.

Albright here think she can stop that
or at least cut it way down.

Now, Vereit, it seems strange anew to you.

I want to remind you
that they've been tried by the Army

with the result
that thousands of lives have been saved.

I think it's best
if Miss Albright speak for herself.

Oh, you're on your own.

For what it's worth, good luck.

Well,

first of all, I would like to express
my gratitude to Mr.

McCullough
for allowing me to travel with your train

and for giving me this wagon.

As you can see, it's been outfitted
with bunks to accommodate the sick,

but more important,

to keep those who do fall ill
from spreading their disease to others.

Now, later on, I'll explain to you
how contagion works

and how certain
rules of sanitation can reduce it.

And I'll be happy to answer
any questions you might have.

I got a question right now.

Yes, ma'am. What is it?

Just what kind of a school it is
that you claim to have gone to in London?

Well, it's not a claim, ma'am.

I have a certificate of graduation
from the Florence Nightingale School

of Nursing at Saint Thomas Hospital.

You are a nurse, and I.

I'm proud to say I am no decent woman

to be proud of that.

Please listen to me. I.

I know what some of you think of nursing,
and I know that many of you have reason

to feel badly about them,
but they only call themselves nurses.

They have no place in my profession.

You'll have to prove that to us.

But I intend to. Doctrines a man's job.

I'm not a doctor.

I'm a nurse.

And I can help you
if you'll just give me the chance.

I say let's give her the care.

Thank you, sir. And you can start with me.

Just a minute.

Where are you going?

Well, I ain't been feeling so good lately,
so if you'll just get rid

of all these other people so's
I won't contaminate them.

Get out of the wagon. What? She said.

I said get out of the way.

Now, listen, you people, why don't you.

Give her a Please don't say anything.

No, I promised I'd handle it myself.
Now let me do it.

I guess she's had her say.

I got to get back to my choice,
but I'm not finished.

Neither am I.

Charles, come on, Emily,

wait. Please.

Please.

I'm just trying to do something
for the good of all of you.

Please, Won't you understand that

why you're doing this to me?

How would you give me a chance to talk?

No. Nurses

got anything to say that I want to hear,
But how do you know you won't listen?

I don't know. I don't know what you want.

But keep your opinions to yourself
when I'm talking to other people.

Because there are those who will listen
and who will have respect

for what I'm doing
and for me to respect for your kind.

And speaking of respect,

I forgot to tell you, the nurses,
the hospital get a lot of exercise

turning over heavy patients
and subduing cantankerous ones.

We get very strong.

That's just one difference between
the kind of nurse you're talking about

and the real kind.

Stop after the noon dinner.

Not for a letter,

I reckon.

I don't know what all I am.

Big words mean.

Bacteria

are just little bugs,
but they're too small for the eye to see.

Well, and how do you know they're on them?

This if you can't see them.

It's been proved by scientists
with microscopes.

I go using all them big.

Words. Again.

Don't try to understand the words,
Johnson.

Just take my word for it.

Scrubbing
dishes out with sand won't get them clean.

You and your family can get sick
from that.

Oh, I can't be walking down that track
every few minutes just for dishwater ten.

And these young'uns
keep everybody busy from sunup to sundown.

Anyway, I don't know how that could prove
that that has.

Gary got sick, but he can't even see

your baby's sick.

I'm feeling a little poorly.

I reckon I look at him. Please.

Well, now, if you wake him up,
you start fretting again.

I'm not sure your child.

Sleep.

Well? No.

Very soon you're going to wake him up.

Mr. Johnson, this boy's asleep.

He's unconscious.

Well, what would he be doing?

Being unconscious.

How long has he been sick?

Been frozen? Ever since.

Before we go on this train.

That's a little better than a week past.

What's that got to do with that?

Johnson, please listen to me.

Your little boy
has all the symptoms of scarlet fever.

You mean he's got some minor little ba*ls
you can't even see?

I certainly do. And what's more important.

And give the disease
to others, it is an isolated

one that hurt him much.

But I'll also isolate

Chuck means keeping them away from others
so they won't get scarlet fever too.

Or not.

How can I do that in ten?

All my family chores.

But that's what my hospital wagons for.

I'll keep them there
and I'll look after his ma.

Look after him. Nobody.

You give the disease to somebody else
and may give it to others.

It could spread throughout the train.

Then how come I got it?

Some people are immune,
I mean, and they can't ever get it.

But most children can

find the baby.

Certainly belongs with his ma.

How can I make you understand?

You're the boy, Lolly.

Barney.

Barney, please don't make me do it.

Barney. Where I. You

ladies lady know knows about them.

Fine.

You and them all.

You're making a wise decision
with the judge.

A decision that could save this train
from an epidemic

at a time
when the Chancellor of Canada matches

my own, knowing he ain't.

No nurse lady.

If we don't already got Scotty there

with you just to take a little ladder
along to either.

Oh, please, Barney, not lie to

certain.

Very little.

My kitty

Hazel plant don't come any closer.

What's going on?

You can find out from there.

What's the use of isolating the wagon
if people are going to be a path to it?

Are you positive
that kid's got scarlet fever?

All the symptoms point to it.

High fever, strawberry tongue, everything.

What about the rest of the family?

Oh, that's what
I wanted to talk to you about.

They've all been exposed.

And if any one of them should get it,
the disease could still spread.

I need your help now.

I know I promised I wouldn't argue,
but this is different.

You've got to isolate the Johnson family
and you've got to keep them away

from other people.

You've got to forget
about what you may think of me personally.

All right?

It doesn't matter that you think
I'm only after the glory.

I said, All right.

We could have an epidemic on our hands.
If you don't do what?

Will you be quiet for one minute?

I said, All right, Kitty,
I'll help you isolate that wagon.

I don't want an epidemic around here
any more than you do.

And by the way,
I'm convinced about your motive.

You are.

And if you can keep an epidemic
from getting started, from then

on, everybody will listen to you
except the heart of Flint.

I could kiss you.

I might let you. Except for one thing.

Not Senator.

He sure has got her hands full.

Yeah,

he's got to get some help.

Yeah, but didn't

she say she wouldn't let anybody else
expose themselves to the disease?

That's what she said.

Maybe there's another way.

Kitty,

kitty, You've got to have some help.

No, please, I.

You know what I said about that?

Well, what about the Johns?

They're isolated, but they've already been
exposed, so why shouldn't they help it?

Maybe none of them have caught it yet,
but there's a chance they might

if they stay here beside my wagons clean.

I don't think they know what soap is.

Well, then I'll. Well,

how about me?

I'm not afraid to take a bath.

Now, listen to me, both of you.

I appreciate your concern,
but we can't let this thing spread

any farther than it already has.

Not even to one more person I can manage.

I asked for the job.

I knew what I was asking
for. I'm not complaining.

I have a nurse.

A nurse lady,

First lady.

You can count.

What's wrong, lover boy?

You think you're right?

How's the boy?

You're okay?

I'm fine.

Well, you better get back to your wagon.

So you stay that way.

Every time you're exposed, the chances
of that much better for you to get sick to

Which.

Lady.

Johnson, You must go now.

I figured I'd get to see the other, too.

I'm sorry that I got out of here.

Not for a while yet.

But I'm here. Paul,

You don't like

this.

You come out here and I will talk to you.

But I want to tell the one
you just got me.

Susan, right a minute.

Come around.

That's so sweet.

All right.

Quick.

What do you want to Johnson.

You're pretty nervous.

Let's

just see what you have to do.

Then you get the dinner.

Then you have my own.

What do you get again?

Ain't nobody on this wagon train.

It didn't listen to you.

I didn't know, Mary.

So many other folks we know

and just figured you'd gone.

And I did that, so.

And just
how did you propose I pay that back?

Come on, don't judge me.

I know you, Nurse. Ladies are.

Get a light.

Stay away from these or little the you.

You wait for me to wait.

And get away from this wagon.

To stay away.

You all right,

Barney?

I want my babies back.

But we may be.

There ain't no reason for
them to stay there no more.

What are you talking about?

I was watching you.

Give her my baby
so you could get next to that pretty face.

Well, now you know that pretty face
don't want you.

You got no more reason to let her keep up.

We may be like

Phyllis.

You didn't have to come
clear to the wagon.

Expose yourself to the disease. Mr..

And he would have left the only thing.

I was coming anyway.

I mean, after all,

for all, you do need some help.

I'm the logical fellow.

And you have other responsibilities.

Well, I'll get along as I do
because of inertia.

I mean, took his kids back.

You know, Kitty, there's
another reason that I came to say that.

I mean, how am I going to collect that?

She promised me
and I'm standing. 20 feet away.

That's not what I had in my

payment.

I thought you wanted me.

I didn't say I didn't want you to.

Well, then what's stopping?

I'm afraid I might like it.

I. I never want you to stop kissing me.

You know,

you've got me thinking that you're
the most wonderful woman I've ever met.

And now all of a sudden, you don't.

Even make sense.

I can't afford to fall in love, but

I can't afford
to even have any close friends.

I can't let anything interfere
with my work.

Well,
isn't there a woman inside this uniform?

Yes. Very well,
then why don't you let a show?

Flint, don't fight me. I'm not trying.

I'm wrong.

You're a uniform.

And inside
that is another you and another.

I just tell you.

I told you to keep away from this wagon.

Please don't hurt me, Mr. McCullough.

I'm sick of rubes.

I got it too.

I know, I know.

Then what is it,

Ruth?

I got the fear

for her.

Don't

you go to help me

bring him inside.

Warren, This gentleman.

Marlon.

Larry, I was real sorry to hear that
your children caught the thief in me, too.

Mrs. Johnson,
I was real sorry to hear you.

Reckon that's real nice of you to say so.

I understand Mr.

Jackson was just down
with the fever outside himself

and that she has given her wagon,
you know.

Sure do travel fast around here, Don.

It when it concerns that old woman.

It does.

If you want my advice, I wouldn't let that
kind of a woman take care of my family.

And if it was my husband, I'd get him out
of that wagon as fast as I could.

I don't recollect
asking you for your advice, letting

her in,
all her talk about cleaning everything up.

I think we will let them. I think.

Why don't you mind your own business?

Just go away and leave me up.

That wasn't very nice worrying, Mrs.

Johnson. Like that.

Somebody has got to warn them
about that woman.

What happened to this book?

It's been a favorite.

I'm afraid of.

As much as the fever itself
is, the complications have already set in.

Kind of complications.

Well, breathing's forced.

My throat is closing up

on the side effects of the fever.

There's nothing I can do for him.

I'm not a doctor.

Not much I can do for anybody except

keep them clean, make them comfortable,
and reduce the fever.

My efforts.

Sanitation prevents
the disease from taking

hold in the first place.

Well, I got here out of danger

by sending them home pretty soon.

Are a lot of women.

Sabra

little.

Albright.

Ms.. Albright.

Now, Joe, you shouldn't have come here.

You shouldn't come near the wagon.

You come outside there,

John.

You took near my whole family
away from me.

Now you're going to give them back.

Nick New Doctor I'm going to k*ll you.

Johnson
I took them because they were sick.

I ain't interested in why you say you not.

I want my three babies, my husband, back

where they belong, in our wagon
with me, looking after him.

Why can't you trust me?

I only want to help them.

And you ain't addressing it.

You help none of us.

Oh. My God.

Maggie, I need you to

please listen to me. I.

And hear. You.

All right?

Mrs. Johnson.

Her husband passed away a few minutes ago.

Oh, he wasn't even for two days.

Just what was that?

All right. Woman doing Well,
that poor man was dying.

Yeah, A lot of good. Her nursing dead.

Yeah.

And I wonder how many the rest of them
died, too.

I thought

I told you she was no better
than any other kind of nurse

pretending to be something she ain't,
and all those lives depended on her.

All right, you people, I've heard enough.

It's just the same as m*rder.

That's what it was. I know, I know that.

All right.

Yeah. Come on. Make or break that.

I said I've heard enough.

And if you don't know

what you're talking about,
I want you to be quiet and listen to me.

I'm ashamed of you people.

I'm ashamed for

the way you've treated Kitty Albright.

Maybe I ought to remind you
that a lot of you could very well

all your lives to her.

You could have all caught the fever.

If she hadn't taken the sick to her wagon,
We could have easily

had an epidemic around here.
But we haven't.

And the chances are better than good
now that we won.

And we owe it all to Miss Albright.

She risked their lives
to keep the fever away from you.

She worked her head off night and day,
taking care of the Johnson kids.

She cooked their food,
You washed their clothes.

She kept them cleaner
than they've ever been in their lives.

She never knew from one minute to the next
whether she'd catch the fever herself.

There going to be some changes around here

from now on.

The Ward Nurse is going to have
a new meaning around this wagon train.

And when Nurse Albright asked you
to clean up your wagons

for yourselves,

you'd better listen to her,

and you'd better do it.

You did?

Yeah.

Maybe this will make you feel better.

Oh, oh, oh.

Well,

I was going to keep them for another day,
but I'm sure they're all right now.

I need to talk to this pastor.

Christ, too.

I'll have to keep an eye on it
for several more days,

but you don't have to worry about it.

I'm beholden to you

and ashamed for what I tried to do.

I don't know how
to make it right with you.

There is something I can do

there.

It wasn't any of you
any more ignorant of what Mr.

Albright was trying to do than me.

Except maybe you, Larry,

for saying what you did.

It don't make me proud to tell you this,

but I think Bonnie would want me to. Now,

I saw Bobby, my husband,

trying to make advances to Mr.

Albright,

and she beat him off
with a length of chain.

Does that sound like the kind of man
she was talking about?

Larry,

she's a lady.

I can vouch for that.

Mom, kid, let's go home.

Emily, do you know what you've done?

Well, I've exposed myself to the fever,
I reckon.

But why?

Because I've come to admire you
a great deal, Miss Albright.

The things you've done
and the way you stood up to folks.

And I've decided that.

Well, is there some way I

could learn to be a nurse like you?

Why not?

I mean, why shouldn't a graduate
of the Florence Nightingale

School of Nursing,
Start School of nursing of her own? Hmm.

Why can't I train a helper?

Does that mean you'll do it? Yes, I will.

But I better warn you.

You work harder than you've ever worked
in your whole life.

Oh, I won't mind that at all.

And let me out of one

until the rest of the world is willing
to accept the nursing profession.

And more people like you are willing

to follow in the footsteps of a woman
like Kitty Albright.

You'll have to devote yourself
completely to your work.

I mean, there'll be no time
for any outside interests, and

that includes romance.

Oh, I understand that, Mr. McCullough.

I'm afraid we all.

I'm so glad.

But if you ever have a change of mind

and decide that you do have time for such.

An activity, I can think of me.

Oh, Mr..

What?

Yes, ma'am.

Well, it's time to go to work.

First thing. Susie's back.