05x16 - The Hobie Redman Story

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Not one sign of Mr.

Hill.

Only thing I can figure out

is that Andrews just didn't turn off where
he was supposed to and catch up with us.

Pretty soon it's going to be too late.

It's already too late, Duke.

I can't wait any longer. I'm moving out.

Get ready to move out of here.

I love and.

Charlie Duke

felt like a tortoise

in my eyes.

I had no choice but to move up.

You don't have to explain.

Does Chris France
been gone for days in back?

I mean, is there more dry water holed?

That means we'll have to turn way south
and that adds another week to our trip.

I can't help thinking of those people
in those three wagons.

Neither can I, Duke.

But think of the nearly 300 people
on this train.

I don't want them spending the winter
at the east end of Donner Lake.

Any hope at all for them?

Yes, there's hope, right?

If they're still alive

and provided you can find them
and turn them toward Pilot Rock.

I could still catch up with us there.

Chris, Charlie and I have been talking.

I know Well. And believe me,
I've been thinking about it too.

But I can't spare
you or Charlie either one.

I do.

I'm not making it a direct order.

You don't have to, Mr. Hill.

I'll go.

All right. Come on over the wagon.

I'll show you some maps.

Billy, don't think you send a boy to do
a man's work.

This has got no other choice, Charlie.

What would you have done?

Me? I've done the same as Mr.

Chris.

And I know. Start praying.

I think Chris has already done that.

Here's where we are right now.

And if they'd have turned off
and run a crossing like they planned,

they'd have joined up with us
two days ago.

So obviously they didn't turn off.

Why? It was all laid out for them then.

Andrews is a cautious man. Don't
blame him too much for it.

He has reason to be.

Probably figured We had plenty of water
here a second morning and wait for it.

Gamble on following the

known waterholes someplace in this area.

And that's the way I think right now.

If I saw

your only possible chance
of joining up with us after you find them,

just a cut south of our buttes
here, straight across through Big Springs.

Pilot Rock,

Sir Edmund, cut off, isn't it?

That's right.

Just because there was one Donner Party
doesn't mean wagons still don't go through

Donner Pass.

The party was different, wasn't it?

Glen Andrews made the right decision.

But for the first time in 20 years,
Big Springs, Dry, lost 15 people.

Suppose
Andrews refuses to take that chance again.

It's the only possible chance
you have of survival.

Do I tell him to turn and

head for Big Spring?

When?

What are you doing here?

I might ask you the same thing.

I'm Glen Andrews.

I'm in charge of these wagons.

I figured you might be.

And he was Duke
Shannon from the crusty old wagon train.

Good of you

to come down on me to Shannon
and come down to meet you.

I came down to find out
what happened to you.

You're four days overdue.

Do you realize that I don't know
how long you've been in this business,

but I don't measure a successful trip
by the clock.

I measure it by a safe arrival.

My people have plenty of food and water,
and I like it like that.

Glad to hear they've got plenty of water.

They're going to need it now.

Chris Hale is getting testy
because he had a little weight.

He can forget it.

He's got a good camp at Sycamore.

Lots of supplies.

You're dead wrong there, Andrews.

Sycamore Springs is dry.

We've been on water rations for
over a week and they're dry holes ahead.

Wagon train pulled out two days ago.

They can't do that.

I had a contract.

You should have turned off
about 30 miles back.

Who is. This man?

What's going on around here?

You want to tell him, Andrews,
or do you want me to?

This is Duke
Shannon of the Chris Hill Wagon Train.

And about time.

I've got several thousand dollars worth
of merchandise on that wagon of mine.

Well, where's the wagon train?

Heading west.

Where to meet him? It's pilot. Rock.

Pilot Rock.
I thought it was a place called Sycamore.

It would have been

if you turned off where you should have
better explain yourself, Andrews.

I've got commitments in San Francisco.

I can't afford to be running behind
schedule.

Look, I'm
trying to do what's best for all of you.

And you are?
Did you not miss that turnoff?

What did you. Expect me to do?

It would have been another two.
Days of desert that way.

With a woman and two kids
and a drunken driver

and a man and his wife
who don't even talk to each. Other.

My children and I haven't asked
for any special concessions.

Mr. Andrews.

And my wife's and my personal.

Affairs are none of your business.

Well,
how much extra is this going to cost me?

And how do we get there?

It's going to cost you
a lot of sweat, Mr..

Same as the rest of us.

As for getting there, we got to turn these
wagons and head directly west

out of here in about an hour.

All right, I'm ready to go.

I have affairs in San Francisco
that can't wait while we stand around here

talking about it.

I can reiterate on your mind, Do
you know what that route is across there?

I don't know what it is.

Redmond cut off

a bit of it over a thousand times.

It's in my imagination,

county squares.

So I figured out where it was. My

wife and two daughters died.

Oh, me. Who is this man.

Mr. Redmond?

My driver.

Redmond, O b Redmond.

That's right.

They will always be surprised
if they ever think

that I died out there
with my wife and two daughters.

That wasn't it at all.

You see, I was in California, and I HOBY.

Please.
I've asked you not to talk about it.

To your daughter.

And I'm sorry.

I didn't even know they were away.

I wouldn't want to say anything to upset
those two little girls.

That's why I'm here.

I know how you must feel,
but I'm back over an inch of it.

You wasn't to blame.

Everybody knows that.

They all know how you went for water.

Crawled back on your hands and knees,
found them all dead.

I'll be better.

Get some sleep.

I just don't want to cause any trouble.

You know something?

I'm glad we're going back anyway.

And if I can see it happen.

See just how it was.

How would you please?

Sure.

So much.

I'm sorry.

I'm awfully sorry.

Why is he alone with your people?

I told you, he's my driver.

He was all I could afford.

Your husband along with you?

No. My husband's not along with me

like.

A drunken fool.

Oh, can I? Please?

The man like his wife
and his two daughters.

He loved his family.

I'd expect you to stick up for a weakling.

You always have.

That way, you would never have to face up
to any challenge.

Oh, now

you've met the people on this train,
Shannon.

You see why,
if I heard it was on the side of caution.

Why did you bring a man like Colby Redmond
with you?

I'm as human as anybody else.

It's the first job
the man's had in two years.

Don't you suppose
I feel I have some obligation to him?

Sorry.

I ask the question, Anders.

No offense intended, I'm sure.

Oh, no.

I suppose you and I have to figure out
what to do about this situation.

We've already decided
we're heading for Big Spring

with a bunch of people who've never driven
across this desert before.

I'll just have to learn a lot.

There's got to be another way.

What other way?

Andrews,
you're already too far out to turn back.

The next spring, North Sycamore.

And that's dry.

If you're plan to find another wagon
train, that's how to where

it's been spread.

And every wagon train that's behind us
is taking the northern route.

But you don't know what it's like
out there.

You don't know the chance you're taking.

I know what kind of a chance

Chris Hill is taking, saying
he'll wait for us at Pilot Rock.

Nearly 300 people on that wagon train
and they all stand a good chance

has been in a winner at the East End,
the Donner Lake, because you held them up.

Now we're going to head for Pilot

Rock by way of Big Springs,
and we're going to meet them on time.

You don't want to take charge
of these wagons.

Just say so. I won't be responsible.

I guess that answered my question for me.

From now on,

you take orders from me, the first one,
and you get that wagon ready and tie

that water bell down tight on out of here
in about an hour, just like I said.

And we're going on water race and start
now. You.

I. I haven't been driving
that much lately.

Shouldn't take the job then.

Well, I've been doing fine.

You ask Miss Croft.

I don't have to ask Mrs. Carson.

I saw you stood guard.

Oh, yeah, about that, I.

I just took a nap.

You see, I hadn't been feeling
that lately, and it was hot and.

Well, it just sort of hit me.

Oh, I've got something to tell you.

And I'm going to tell you just once.

You've got some pretty rough corn
ahead of us, and I'm going to need help.

I'll help. I can get.

The man can't hold up his end.

He's just going to have to fall back
and do for himself That clear?

Yeah.

I didn't catch your name, mister.

Just call me Duke.

You stay away from that
bottle, as is Carson.

And the children are your responsibility.

Anything happens to him,
you're going to have to face up to it.

Yeah, I guess that's the trouble.

Do you see?

I got to look at those two little girls

I just by the age my little girls would be

sorry for yourself someplace else, Toby.

There's no time for it here.

That was a cruel thing to say.

It's a pretty cool piece of desert
we're about to cross now.

You get your children together
and get that wagon ready.

You can tell me how much you hate me
after we get to Pilot Rock.

Feeling all right now, Colby?

Yes, I'm feeling much better.

I stumble and fall down.

Mama said you're a real wreck.

You get sick a lot, don't you, Hogan?

Yes, I guess I do.

We don't want you to get sick anymore.

Or do we?

For me, like you, A that would make you
almost as much as we like our daddy.

I promise you.

Try not to get sick anymore.

You have to do better than this,
Montgomery.

You're falling behind already.

You can't keep up.
We're going to have to let in your load.

You don't catch one thing on this wagon.

I paid good money to make this trip.

The only thing your money's
good for out here at your grave.

Our clothes up there.

You're very tough, Mr.

Shannon.

Somebody had to be in charge.

You said you wouldn't be that.

I wouldn't accept the responsibility.

Same thing, isn't it?

Tell me, Mr.

Shand, have you made up your mind
exactly what you intend to do.

In the town of the Butte?

Great. Four Big. Springs.

Refill the water barrels there.

The big spring is dry. It won't be.

That's what I planned
once more than two years ago.

I just hope, Mr.

Shannon, that you won't have to spend
the rest of your life the way I have

with dead man's eyes staring at

you real.

That's where it all started.

Redmond
and our two girls were on that wagon.

Double enough.

You're doing all right, Andrews.

Just keep going.

And just keep going.

That's easy to say, isn't it, Shannon?

That's what I kept telling them.

Little Their eyes started turning into
your back last start dropping dead.

And then the people one by one.

Janet, please, I beg you.

Let's turn back.

You know better than that.
We can't turn back.

Then quit lying to a quit telling them
there's water at Big Springs.

I stay there is just because of a dry one.

Could be again. You know it. And so do I.

I don't know it.

I just know we've got to meet Chris
Hallett, Pilot Rock, if we want to keep

these people alive,

I'm telling you once more, Montgomery,
start unloading it.

All you're going to do is k*ll that team.

And I told you.

Not one box, not one bale.

I'll k*ll you if you try it. All right?

And k*lling your.

Wife up front, Mrs.

Montgomery, you can ride away with Mrs.

Carlson.

That's right.

Go on, Leave me. That's what
you've been wanting to do, isn't it?

You're on your own now.

You fall behind again,
and there's nobody coming back to help you

get back.

Hey, Hey.

And you

get back to your wagon.

You come

to give us a hand here.

Would you have helped me
if I had broken down.

Over one more day to big spring
and fresh water?

Just keep on, Mrs. Reitman.

Got a girl just cried.

Horses are the best.

You're getting pretty weak.

You want me to carry on loading?

I don't mind.

I never had anything worth keeping.

Never have had.

You got to, darling.

What have I got?

I didn't mean that. You know I didn't.

I don't know what you mean.

I don't know anything anymore.

I don't want to fight with you.

I want to fight with anyone.

I'm going
to have to take turns riding from now on.

Only one at a time includes the kids.

You can't do that, Janet.

Not to the kids, I said.

It includes the kids

that clear.

You haven't heard me complain, have you?

No, I haven't.

Not once

You listen to your Uncle Harvey.

I mean, I'll let you walk a while.

Just like the grown ups.

You walk on a shady side of the wagon

and try not to get to any of those wheels.

All right? And go. You will remember.

All right.

Come on.

I want something to drink.

Mommy.

It just makes when I try to eat that.

You mean Mr.

Montgomery?

Oh, good evening.

What is the.

I made it.

I'm here.

My wagon's here,
and every bit of my merchandise is here.

Are you disappointed, Mr. Shannon?

No, I'm not disappointed.

I'm glad you made it.

And I'm going to take your water barrel
and put it on Andrew's wagon.

You've been after me
ever since we started this trip.

Just because.

I've got more than you have got.

I don't start anything.

We start anything.

You always take
the other side. You've been in my way.

Every move forward
I've ever tried to make.

I'm putting your water barrel
on the Andrews wagon

so I can keep closer control of it.

I'm putting Mrs. Carlson's.
What are there to?

I'll be true, Shannon,

and I'm going to get through

the rest of you who are not.

Get out of my way.

Me and Herbie.

I'm putting all the water
barrels on one wagon.

You sure that's what you want to do?

Taking a good look at Andrews lately.

And I started when we first started stuff
along the trail

as if he was living it all over again.

I thought if I gave him the responsibility
for the water bill,

I take his mind over.

I feel sorry for him. You.

You've read about it.

You know he must be dry

land for water by himself, going back,

finding him all dead.

And we're going to call him a hero and

still lost all those people.

This must not be very easy on you either.

Know, Harvey, I keep thinking about it.

I finally get my family together.

I only know what I maybe I get a boat.

I'm through.

That's where I want to go on.

I want to see where they die.

I can only feel near them just once more.

You think I'm wrong?

You know, I kind think you're home.

I'm going to visit my grandfather's grave.

I guess there's a lot of folks
that have felt that way, too.

Come on, let's get those water barrels.

And then that the prince and the princess
live happily ever after.

Mommy, that's right hander.

Happily ever after.

Mommy, When you and Daddy were married,

did you say you were going to live
happily ever after?

Oh, well, I suppose so.

What now?

Come on, let's look at Mommy.

Why are we running away from Daddy.

To Montgomery and talk to you?

Mr. Montgomery?

I don't like
the way things have been going.

I'm getting a little bit tired of the way
that good Shannon Been thinking me out to

what I. You know why he's doing that,
don't you?

Oh, I've seen that happen
before, young kid.

His first command.

I saw it happen time and again in the w*r.

You mean he's not sure of himself?

He's come too much.

I'm big spring, just as I did once.

What are we going to do?

I'm taking over.

I'll need your help
if you plan to take over.

Why have you waited so long?

Because so far, everything's been
all right.

But a big spring is dry
and that kid insists on going on.

I don't need
to tell you I've been over that route.

I don't need to tell you what happened.

But there's no other way to go now.

That's where you're wrong.

You think I haven't studied
every inch of this country

trying to figure out where I went wrong.

It must be another way.

Anyway, we can't go over that cut off.

Well, you talk to Shannon about this.

What good would that do?

Has he tried over and over again to
get you to leave your life savings behind?

Did he take your water or a kid like that
gets drunk with power.

It's got to be his way or none at all.

We've got to take over Montgomery.

Well,

for the first time in my life,

I've got a little money
and a chance to make a lot more.

I'm not going to give it up.

Good.

Good for.

All right.

You take the land, Mrs.

Carlson.

She's going to be all right.

Yeah.

Can I have two more, please?

Yeah, I know about all I want.

No hobby.

We can't do it that way.

But I'm thirsty.

Girls, why don't you go over
and sit in the shade for a while, huh?

How much further is it to Big Spring?

We should be there in a couple of hours.

Oh, I never dreamed washing
my face would be such a luxury.

When we get there, I'm
going to pour water over my head.

Soak and soak.

You do that. But

I hope she can.

Shannon

All right, let's throw them out.

Look around.

Oh, that is the way Duke described it.

It's a big thing.

Come on.
You got to have all the water you want

to stop?

Good run finger straight.

Oh, pull out.

You be like you wish to glide there.

No water here.

You want to see a doctor? Please.

You'll have to listen to me.

We're through letting Sharon

take it over. She had it.

All right, Anders.

Suppose you do take over.

What do you expect to do?

I've turned in straight north. No.

And you'll k*ll all of us.

There's no water north of here.

There's not one.
Stay here either. Didn't I try it once.

And spring is dry, Shannon. Dry.

Don't you know what that means? Yeah,
I know what it means.

It means we tighten up
even more generations.

It means we lighten the load.

It means we keep moving west right toward
pilot rock.

You're wrong about this
water hole, Shannon.

Maybe you're wrong now.

Andrew says he knows another way.

He's lying.
There's only one way out of here,

and he knows it.

If you try to take me back over
that cut off, I'll k*ll you.

I don't think so. Andrew

Duke says we're going straight on.

So does this r*fle drum.

You knew what it'd be.

You knew it all the time.
I didn't know it.

I took a chance.

But we made it, didn't we?

And now we're well over halfway
to Pilot Rock instead of back there.

I wandered around some place
in the middle of nowhere.

Probably

go through the wagons,
bring me all the g*ns you can find.

Include yours.

I didn't know what to believe, Shannon.

Andrew said we could turn north,
you know, away in north of here.

Andrews, Spell it out. Tell us about it.

I don't know what's north of here,
but I know what.

Straight
ahead, the skeletons of 15 people.

Dead man's eyes staring at you.

That's what they had.

You listen to me, all of you.

If we stick together, we can make it.

But if we start pulling
and fighting against each other

will wind up like those others did.

It'll happen anyway.

You'll all die.

Didn't I go through here? Don't I know.

So matter with all of you.

We made it this far, haven't we?

So did the Redmond party.

What do you know about the Redmond party?

We have twice as much water and half
as many people to drink it as they did.

I won't believe I won't.

By over an inch of it. Yeah. Don't move.

I had to drag you at the end of a rope.

When I get through here, there's only
going to be one g*n left in this outfit.

Mine.

If anybody tries to go back,
it starts to panic.

I use to.

Help make

somebody help me.

Make somebody help me.

Keep on going.

I'll bring you that.

He had to unload that wagon.

Haven't got enough strength
to go back and help him.

Just keep moving.

You follow on foot.

Not Clyde, I know.

Into. Well.

We'll just have to leave him behind then.

You have to leave me to Mr. Shannon.

A wife. Please.

With your husband

and said that for my benefit, didn't you?

You're blaming me
because I left my husband?

How did you ever live in a hole
in the ground in the middle of the Kansas

prairie
with the closest neighbor 80 miles?

I just said I was going back
to my husband.

Well, I'm not he here.

The cares of crop failure, grasshoppers.

And he dust and dirt from the roof,
dropping in every mouthful of food.

I've got a right to live
like other people.

I have relatives in San Francisco that'll
get my girls the things I never had.

What right do you have telling
me what to do with my life?

Goodbye, Ruth.

I hope you get everything you want.

I said we were going on,

Mr. Shannon.

The only way you can stop me

is to sh**t me.

When am I done?

We can't just leave them like this.

Keep moving them out.

I'll be.

Back.

Oh, Agnes, I'm

building an.

Oh, no, I.

Everything we own,

every penny.

I was going to make $1,000,000,

wear nice clothes,

meet people who didn't know
that I used to sweep out a saloon.

And you used to wash clothes for a living.

Clyde, it doesn't really matter.

Or not to you. It doesn't.

You never did care what people thought.

You didn't want to come with me.

You were always afraid to meet new people.

But Agnes, all I wanted to do
was make a little money.

Tell me what's wrong with
wanting to make a little money?

Nothing.

But you lost track of everything else,

of all your values.

Your old friend,

even of me.

I remember my father

k*lling himself.

Kind of grew up outliving

my sister, dying because we couldn't.

We couldn't afford a doctor

in you those first years

watching other people's dirty.

I guess I just can't stand

the thought of being

blind. Why?

You could never be inferior.

That to me.

Oh, my.

This is where it happened, isn't it?

This is her doll.

I don't know anything about it.

Oh, look at it.

I'll do with a little rest.

I'll spend the night here.

I was a pretty day when I left saying all

flowers were all.

And always laying flowers.

Some of the little girls.

So I had a buffalo as I like that.

She was my oldest.

I always liked animals.

Splendid.

Here on a prairie,

the sky like a big blue envelope

which you can mail the world to someone

for president.

We're all counting the days
to when we can be with Barbara again.

Mr. Andrews left three days ago
for what he took

the only horse

we buried, Eileen

Smith went to Saint, shot himself.

Wife Kathy and I alone.

I put the silver teapot on Kathy's grave.

So I had read it

and know I had written it

as long as anyone was alive.

I kept telling them
Mr. Andrews would be back.

I knew from the first he wouldn't be.

He had enough water to get him to pilot
Bronco.

This is the sixth day

he isn't coming wherever he is.

I can't forgive him.

Your doctor and.

Oh, you got it.

What are we going to do?

We're going on.

All of us.

They saw me

only so I can see. Have

teams getting off a week

kind of trip down the wagon.

Mr. Andrews wants to see you.

He's dying.

He'll be.

Okay.

I was afraid he'll be,

I guess.

Always been afraid when I was a kid,

my stepfather said a idiots

used to make me get up at 4:00.

I could check that trap.

It was so dark.

Used to just hide and brush

snake

afraid to move.

And then I come back.

Say there was nothing in the trap.

Get back in the bed, shake.

People don't know
how scared a kid can get.

One day

he found a deer in a trap

and he'd been there about ten days

and they knew I'd never been there.

It was like, They can't hold me,
I guess a pilot, right?

There was nobody there who's afraid back

all the way along

together.

And that

he was like that.

Oh, John.

Oh, is it hard?

That's my skin. Get.

I guess

we're all cowards in one way or another.

Just Carlson's afraid of another crop
failure.

Montgomery
is afraid to let go of his rarely good,

not afraid of his life without a bottle.

We're the only ones who know.

This Last page was a written

God. Now

dead.

Stay dead.

Keep moving.

Duke, it's me.

Yeah,

I made it.

What?

L jump.

We stopped for a couple of cold beers

when Duke,

you saved our lives in more ways than one.

Do you want to tell us about Andrews?

I was his team and way,
and that brought us through.

Along with Duke. Yeah.

You all did your part. I'll be.

You know that.

I want to say good night to those kids.

I just want to stop by that water barrel.

I'm a heavy drinker, you know,

fine people, Mr.

Hill.

All of them.

Well, Bill,

I may have sent a boy to do a man's work.

It looks to me like a man came back

on your.