05x09 - The Bruce Saybrook Story

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These were the washers for his grill

models we'd seen since leaving St John
a month ago.

This was tall country, rugged, beautiful.

And while

we were late getting it this year, first
snowfall had already covered the hills

with a chill blanket of white
and ahead of us Lake Grizzly Pass.

A long, hard, grueling climb

for those seeing this for the first time,
the early snow in the towering pines

were like something sketching a well,
maybe in a career in eyes.

When I seen a print
that you might hang over the fireplace.

This was the Barker wagon
train for what was left of

a They started through here in late
September of last year,

and it must have looked beautiful
and friendly to them, too.

And this is

all that was left in the storm breakdown.

And a hunger
took their toll of men and horses and

I know that the coal didn't k*ll

the Shoshone, did.

It was quite a new year

as we started the children
climb to the summit.

But I'd been this way before and I knew
how cruel this country could be.

I know that the snow and the freezing cold
and the tall trees could be a trap,

as they had been to those before

the wagon train was behind me.

Still a long way from the summit.

We were entering Indian Country
and I was ahead of the train,

as usual, searching for a safe route
through these hills.

That is, if I could find one.

And I.

I was crossing the north
shoulder of Grizzly Peak.

Wagon train was now
at least a full day behind me.

It was clean
and biting like an old and rare one.

It was wild country
and I was looking for Shoshone w*r Party.

But that's not what I found.

Hey, watch what you point
the r*fle, mister.

Who are you? I didn't hear you right up.

Yeah, sign up.

At least you could have waited until after
I'd shot them.

Lined up perfectly magnificent specimens.

Just what are you talking about?

That big buck on the ridge.

Well, if that's what you were after,
you were way off target.

Whoever that shot I did go sh**ting.

You weren't even close.

They would have come closer. But
what are you doing away from camp, Dana?

I came out here
with Tommy to look for you.

I won't be left behind
in that godforsaken wilderness.

You know I wouldn't leave you, my dear.

Not any of you. You in trouble, lady?

Oh, you must forgive our manners.

We're all a bit upset.

You were a native guide.

Well, you might call me that.

I ride scout for Wagon Train
coming up behind Maintenance McCullough.

Oh, a wagon scout.

Hey. Well, I envy you, Mr. McCullough.

Wonderful country out here.

It's dangerous country
if you don't know your way around.

And pardon my saying so.

You people don't look as though you do.

All right. You're quite right.
We are newcomers.

My name's Bruce SEABROOK.

Lord SEABROOK.

This is my wife, Lady SEABROOK.

And my brother Tommy.

You people, Lord.

Oh, no, no. We're on safari
out of Buffalo.

I'm few natives would got it.

Out up here.

This isn't Buffalo country.

That's what our guides told us.

But Bruce wanted to come up here.

He insisted. On it.

It's a magnificent hunting country.

It's Shoshone country.

Where are your guys?

Oh, they left about three weeks ago.

You mean to tell me you three
people are wandering around here alone?

Oh, no.

Our friend Devon is back in camp.

Not far from here.

He's not much of a hunter, Mr. McCullough.

Why don't you tell him, Bruce?

Why don't you tell him that through
your stupidity, we're stranded out here?

I've had all I can stand.

I want to get out of this world
and simply go home.

Well, I'd be glad to take
you back to the wagon train.

That's about a day's ride.

You could take the wagon from
then on to Fort Myers.

No, no, I appreciate your concern, Mr.

McCullough, but my wife is mistaken.

We have food and horses and wagons and
plenty of ammunition, and we're not lost.

I know exactly where we are.

Oh, if Devon wishes to leave,
he's free to do so.

But my wife and my brother
will stay here with me

from Devon.

This is Clint McCullough, a wagon scout.

Bevan.

Austin, feature artist of the SEABROOK
chain of newspapers.

Very nice to meet you, Mr. McCullough.

I might say that it's very fortunate
for us.

I'm sure that Bruce is apprized
of our situation.

No, but the lady has got her views
on shared by her husband, not shared.

Surely, Bruce,
you don't intend to stay on here?

I mean, I'm sure that Mr.

McCullough would be willing to guide us
to the nearest settlement.

Well, if you wish to leave, you can go.

I've already told McCullough.

And Diane I've made you Brooke.

She stays here with me and Tommy, too, to.

Oh, no.

This is one decision
you can't make for me.

I've had enough of this fiasco, too.

This isn't a hunt any longer. It's a trap.

All of us forced to stay here
because my brother,

the great Lord SEABROOK, is too stubborn
a fool, even for the guides he had hired.

That's enough, Tommy.

It's the truth. And I am going to leave.

So don't try to stop me.

I suggest you pack up and come with me.

I don't think you heard me.

This is dangerous country.

Yes. I had a job at the Noble Redskin.

One of your writers called him
that Longfellow.

I believe.

You mean hostiles.

They won't be friendly.

And Longfellow? To the contrary.
They're not all noble.

They're like most human beings on Earth.
They want to survive.

It's been a hard winter for them.
They'll be coming out of the mountains.

They are looking for anything
they can use.

And they'll start with your horses.

I said we had plenty of ammunition.

We'll take our chances here.

Well, are you going with McCullough?

Not without Lady Saybrook.

All right, well,
I'll tell her nationality time.

Suppose you will rest up with us
a while. I'll join you later.

Oh, McCullough.

Gin Bitters.

Gin and bitters.

Sorry, there's no ice.

It's one of the few comforts
that Lord Saybrook wasn't able to manage

to bring along with them. Oh,

he's worth £5 million.

I'm buying the thing up here.

Let's see that.

I mean, what's he really after?

Not buffalo, not up in this country.

I think I'll join the Starling.

I don't get the feeling
that something love lost between us, too.

Tom is tired
of playing second fiddle to his brother.

You'd like a share
in the running of the newspapers

like you like it or not, to k*ll for it.

Who's to say what any man will do
if he's given the right provocation?

Could bring him up.

That's simple.

I work for Bruce.

Bruce suggested I do a series of sketches
on the American frontier.

But you're not obligated to stay.

I'm not going to leave without

the others.

And by the others you mean Lady SEABROOK.

This is no place to play games.

I've run across the signs of two Shoshone
raiding parties,

and I wouldn't be surprised
if one of them came this way.

Well, it is Safari.

You'll find that
Bruce is an obstinate man.

I'm going to find it easy to change
his mind.

Must have costs.

Tommy gets to him first.

A Red Cross bill.

I haven't seen one since I was a boy.

Red Cross Bill.

Are you surprised?

Yeah.

I was raised on an impoverished
country estate in the Midlands of England.

As a boy, I used to trample wolves
watching a flight of birds

and looking for animal tracks.

I had two heroes, Lord Nelson
and an American, Daniel Boone.

The Pathfinder.

When I said I envied humor color,

I meant it.

Hard to figure that a man

with your position and money envy anybody.

You know, cynicism.

Has the ring of bourbon. Alston.

He also said you were obstinate.

He said I'd be wasting my breath
if I told you that

I thought you ought to get out of here.

You never knew, seldom write about me.

But in this case, he is.

Out of one year.

You're
risking the lives of your entire body.

I know what I'm doing.
I don't think you do.

There's at least two Shoshone
wedding parties in this area.

That could mean as many as 30 Braves.

Well, I don't think they'll bother us.

You should be thinking of the safety
of your wagon train.

The wagon train can take care of itself.

You mean you think I can't?

That's right.

I don't know if I should say this or not,

but when I rode up here today,
your brother wasn't sh**ting at that book.

Unless I'm mistaken,
his target was your back.

So he's gone as far as that with him.

That's the way it looks.

Why do you keep them here?

They don't want to stay.

That doesn't concern. You.

That's right. It doesn't.

To say I'm curious, just as I'm curious
as to why your guides deserted you.

I didn't say they deserted.

I said they left.

I paid them off.

Oh. You all right?

Yeah. Wobbly.

I hit my head on that rock.

So I had to knock you down.

I probably saved my life. I might.

You know.

Don't you get involved?

You ride out of here.

And somebody takes a shot at me.

I'm involved

and you go.

If you're badly hurt.

You got a nasty curve.
The back of his head.

Well, the medical supplies.

In the chest, bandages, antiseptic.

Oh, we're going to need him.

What happened?

I thought I heard a shot.

Get him out of here.

What's wrong with him?

How did he get hurt?

Where's your room?

Right where you last saw it. My color.

I didn't unsettle somebody.

Took a shot at us.

I'd like to look at.

It goes too often right now.

I think this is going to burn.

It's been a long time

since you did anything personal for a man.

It's a little late, isn't it?

For either of
us to get sentimental. Diana,

why did you marry me?

Why did you?

I married £5 million. Oh.

You had money.

What did you want from me?

I was told
you were the best catch in town.

It was a challenge, and I thought
it would be exciting to be Lady Saybrook.

And hasn't it been?

It's been the last five years of my life.

I came out here

to do a job,
not sh**t Bruce Saybrook or game.

I didn't know that shots.

I was on the wagon
getting some of my things together.

I heard the shot too,
but I thought it was Bruce

putting away or something out back.

If the Great White hunters were doing
all the sh**ting around here lately.

Not all the sh**ting.

You get your gear in the wagon.

I'll take it back.

I'm ready to go now. What about Bruce?

We'll see.

Have you.

I can talk some sense into him now.

Oh, Diana,

that's the way it looks.

You seem surprised.

Yes, Well, I knew she wanted to leave,
but I never dreamed.

You can push people only so far.

Then something's got to give.

But they're trying to k*ll me.

It's not what I expected.

You can hold a woman for.

It's only so long.

I'm not trying to hold my weight.
McCullough.

Not the way you mean.

No. Tommy And why?

Wanted to bring them out here.

And why do you want to this day?

I wanted to get away from London
and everything we had.

Then I thought we might all
get a different perspective on,

well, things that were bothering me.

I've always wanted to come out
here, even when I was young.

But then I

grew older, got tied down by other things,

like building a chain of newspapers,

getting myself tied to an office desk,
and limiting myself to a city

city with no horizon and sooty skies.

No, I'm not going back.

McCullough

Not just yet.

In spite of what's happened,

you know, when I rode into this camp,
I thought your brother

was trying to sh**t you.

Now I think it's your wife.

This is your safari.

I'd say, Brook,

but I'm breaking it up and taking it
with me for your own good health, Mr.

Ralston, your brother

and your wife and

McCullough.

Take Bevan with you if he'll go.

But leave the others here.

You can't hold them.

Not even on the back.

I'm looking for your brother.

You seen him,
Bruce? No, I haven't seen him.

That's funny.

He was headed this way.
It could be anywhere.

He loves to prowl around the area
with those field glasses.

Thank you.

I'm ready any time you are.

McCullough, I think we can make your wagon
train by night.

I don't know. What about the others?

They want to stay. Let them.

But I'm getting out of here.

I don't know why Bruce ever brought me out
here in the first place.

Thousands of miles from civilization.

You know, we're not all uncivilized.

Yeah, well, you know what I mean.

No, I'm not sure I do.

So why don't you tell me?

Well, I don't have to.

I don't think you'd understand.

Try me.

Have you ever done an honest day's
work in your life?

Okay, Probably
not the kind of work that you mean.

But surely you're not naive enough
to judge a man by those standards, No.

But sometimes the work a man does
is some indication of his size.

As a man,

I'm not really

interested in your homespun
American philosophy at the moment.

I am greatly interested
in getting away from here.

Cougars.

I should have known.

How much do you want?

More than you've got.

We'll be leaving in an hour.

Rose won't leave. You heard him.

You don't know how stubborn
my brother can be.

I'm beginning to find out.

Why are you so concerned about him?

If he wants to stay, let him.

He'd like that, wouldn't you?

I wouldn't care if he never left here.

I want you to take your r*fle and go
back to your tent and stay there. Why?

Because you've got bad
eyesight and jumpy nerves.

And I think £5 million is too big a
temptation for somebody this size of you.

Buckle up.

Yeah,

Yeah.

Never mind.

I wouldn't want to spoil my hands on you.

Well, if you change your mind,

you let me know.

I was no stranger to this high country.

I'd been through it a half a dozen times.

It was my job to scout the far places
ahead of the train.

Places a few white men ever see.

And I'd come back up here now
to take another look.

I wanted to see if I could put myself
in Bruce Seabrook's place,

see what he saw the way he sought

the land of Far Horizons and Deep
stillness was a place

that challenged a man
and yet gave him a sense of contentment.

There was no doubt about it.

It was beautiful country.

But I knew what SEABROOK didn't know
about this land.

Or maybe he chose to ignore it.

I knew that in these hills
there was death as well as peace.

And that was our first warning.

It was extremely well for a big man.

No place to have bad reflexes.

I miss you.

Back at the camp.
I was down by the stream.

The strange packs of smoke over there.

What are they? Trouble.

Is that why you're leaving?

Yeah.

Mr. Austin.

And your brother
and our packing their gear right now.

I'm frightened of this country.

I don't belong here.

Will you take me with you?

Your husband.

I want you to stay.

Bruce.

Once no longer concerns me.

I want to leave here.

You take me with you.

You didn't have to do that.

Had taken in Mr. McCullough.

Does it bother you
that I'm a married woman?

Only because it doesn't bother you?

My marriage
ceased to bother me a long time ago.

I'd say it bothered you a good deal.

I found
this back of the big rock on the path.

It's out of your carbon.

Easy way to get rid of your husband.

I didn't try to k*ll Bruce.

I only meant to frighten enough
so that he would want to leave too.

I don't know him very well,
but I don't think he frightens easily.

Don't mistake
stubbornness for courage, Mr.

McCullough.

Roger.

Why does a woman marry any man?

For lots of reasons.

Some for a home and children,

some for money and possession,

sometimes even for love.

Are you laughing at me? No.

I feel sorry for you.

Sorry for you.

An uncultured backwoods.

As you said, I move very well.

You're a beautiful woman, Lady Saybrook.

But your soft living
has dried up your instincts.

You know about my instincts?

Enough to know that they haven't warned
you about Joe. Mr. Arzt.

He's like your brother in law.

When the going gets rough, he'll run, and
you get back to camp and pack your gear.

We're moving out in an hour.

No, Diana,

get your things ready.

We're getting out of here.

I know.

I just talked with my color.

Yes, I saw the way you talked with him.

Wasn't necessary to kiss him.

Now. Necessary, but entirely pleasing.

Oh. You are leaving.

If you had any sense left to come too.

With Bevan,

I find I've taken a dislike to him.

You could always have him fired
When we get back.

You are his boss.

That wouldn't help anything with it. No,

I'd hate straight white.

But don't be all kinds of a Bruce.

You've got no right to keep it there.

Now, are you speaking. To my wife?
I'm speaking for all of us.

I don't recall giving
you that authority, Bevan.

And I
don't believe your men enough to take it.

Get that other wagon, Bishop,
we've got to get out of here.

We've got 20 minutes to get out of here.

But wait, Bert.

This is my safari, my wagon.

I said hitch up the other wagon.

You can risk your life if you want
to, Lord Saybrook, but not the others.

You spend the night here,
and tomorrow morning,

your scalp will be hanging from a shiny
w*r belt.

What are you talking about?

We're being watched.

The Shoshone scout has been on our trail

for over an hour,
and I'll make up your mind.

One Indian.

Make up your mind.

I I'll take the temple.

Don't bother with the temple.

You haven't got time.
Just help us hitch up a team

room faster.

Yeah, I can

work.

Oh. Oh.

I need both teams
and turn the wagons around

to behind the wagons.

Take this road.

Here are I crossing now?

You'll do the right.

The river with the river.

He has an expression they use in Texas.

It means. I'm glad to have you with me.

The beggars will be back.

Not right away. It's getting dark now.

You take care of your wife.

I'm going to go out and have a look around

that, but will never save your life.

But this r*fle might hold on to it.

They still out there.

Now They're out there staked out
and waiting to keep our eyes open tonight.

And everybody on post.

I've read that Indians
don't like to attack at night.

Only thing I've learned about it
is that you can never tell what they're

going to do.

It's quite a spread.

Tin Yorkshire pudding from a kind of

pot roast beef coming to you straight
from the most elegant kitchens of London.

From the coffee to a smoke. Goodnight.
You got any?

No coffee, Just tea.

Joe has been tempted.

But bring us up a pot and keep it hot.

That would mean a fire.

It's no secret we're here.

I hope you gather
the wooden shade to start the fire.

Come on. Why?

A long way from Piccadilly, isn't it?

Yes, thanks to you.

Now we're all going to die here.

You always did
strike it like too quickly, too.

I mean.

Just what Father used to say.

Even when I was a boy,

he never really knew me either.

Never gave me a chance.

I always had to play second fiddle
to you. Deny

either. Never trusted me.

There's always you.

Even when he died,
he left everything to you.

Run down country estate
half share in a county newspaper.

But he was a start.
It was something to begin with.

What did I get?

£1,000 which was squandered immediately.

Oh, you play a fine game of polo, Tommy.

You've got a dashing
figure at the Tea Party.

But I've supported you ever since Father
died.

You never gave me a chance either.

You owned seven newspapers.
I could all make.

You couldn't even hold down a job
as a society editor.

It's all the way you like it.

I made it myself.

She's going to hold up all right.

As well as any of us.

They're really quite different.

What do you think they're up to?

I don't know.

But look

how they look.

Good on fire.

I said get on.

Help me.

Come in at bottom.

This isn't going to be easy.

You better take a drink of this

later when you're through

that,

raise them up the way

I got a +20 collateral through.

Well,
can't we just do less damage that way?

Sounds. Barb,
when you pull it out, it's a mess.

You sure you don't want a drink now?

I'm going to have to cut it.

Right.

That wound, you're going to need strong
carbolic acid.

We left it in the upper.

And have to cauterize that one
or he's going to lose the iron.

See if you can find some bandages,
Make him out of anything that's available.

You better hold it.

This isn't going to be easy.

Okay,

then how do.

You think you can bandage him up? Yes.

We'd better get back to the wagons.

They might try. Him.

What are they doing out there?

They're waiting for morning,

Tommy.

Just for the record,

what did want to start here?

I wanted to find out
something about myself.

My wife and my brother.

You know, most people
consider me a successful man.

I've got money, title,
social position, influence.

But I reached a point in my life

where all these things
had no meaning for me.

My wife was drifting away from them.

Dawn Bevan Alston
Oh, I've known you for some time.

My brother resented me.

I thought perhaps if we could all get away
from London for a few weeks,

I might be able to
salvage something with Diana.

And you tell. Me.

I see

be late in a couple of hours.

Don't be sleep.

You're sleeping right now.

Another? We're holed up here, trapped.

Probably don't even have a g*n.

Maybe if we had drop the wagons.

It here before we even started to wrong

when I was chance things wagons.

Anyway, they were short of Saddle Horse.

Well, what good would my horses do?

It wouldn't do any good now.

Two brothers had.

But we couldn't make it with the wagons.

And we might have a chance on Saturdays.

And then ponies usually have very strong.

And I hate to stand here just waiting

seven.

We don't have much choice here.

We can wait until morning.

Then they'll hit us again.
But we could go after them

if we could crawl up

close, hit them hard,
we might stand a chance.

What do you say?

Well, don't you think that somebody ought

to stay here with the Diana and Tommy?

Just thought I'd try it.

Let's get the ammunition

at me.

About 3 minutes.

That's 150.

If he comes along

and I'll take the card, then I'll scatter
the horses from then Non-Student.

Anything that looks.

Another way zeroed in on us.

Hey, Just occurred to me
you could have made it on your off.

You don't lose anything front.

Lots of handstands.

Running receivers are not afraid to stop

for 3 minutes.

Tired of how

me how.

Why are you saddling up?

Because we're getting out of here.

You've had a couple of said our horses
can outrun any of these savages out there.

Where would we go?

We're better.

Went to the wagon train that McCullough
scouts for.

It's out there
somewhere. What? Bound to run into it,

Tommy.

He couldn't hang on for a hundred yards.

This is our chance.

Whatever's happening out there,
it's giving us our chance

to get out of here alive.

I'm not going with you.

Why not?

Because, Bruce,
you said you were leaving him.

He talked about divorce.

He knows about it.

We're not fooling him.

It's not Bruce.

It's you. I'm not going with you.

If you can run out.

I'm Tommy, and I'm Bruce and McCullough.

And someday you'll run out on me.

Bevan,

You're not going anywhere.

I never really liked you very much.

Maybe because you are too much like me.

Like you.

You society fop
hanging on to your brother's coattails.

Drop that thing before I

drop it.

I'm not going to
let you get away with this.

There is no time for that.

We're all getting out of here.

Get him in the wagon.

I get messed up and.

Look, there's train's wagon train.

You know, you're right.

It is a wonderful country.

But I think I'd like to see the Pacific.

Ladies. Hey, Brooke.

I think I'd like to see it, too.