05x25 - The Baylor Crofoot Story

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How are you doing?

But it looks like we're going
to need Noah's Ark instead of the wagon.

Wow. You can't tell much. About a storm
in this part of the country.

Sometimes it's all wind and noise.

Where's the Rocket man?

Well, he's
getting a wagon set for the storm.

Fred.

Tell him Jethro Creek was here.

I have.

Yeah.

Thank you.

He says just like
he was the Lord of Creation.

That's the one. Wagon.

Yeah.

One goes up there like that, you know.

Let me help you.

I asked her.

Come on, girl.

Hurry up.

Well,

whoa, whoa, whoa.

You all right.

With the wagon, master?

Chris Hale. A while.

We didn't think you'd be able to stop him.

A man could do anything he thinks he can.

I like an animal,
and I'd rather be put on a wagon then.

He has Arabian
blood spirited and unpredictable.

I like that in a horse. Or in a human?

A cr*pple.

The last man around them.

There are times
he still thinks he can best me.

But it always ends the same way.

You're thinking of joining the train
with The Grudge.

Just for a short passage, Mr.

Hale, and then.

We'll be on our way

here with this on it.

You're got a long nose, mister.

You keep your coat pockets.

Welcome to Target.

Who are you, mister?

This is Baylor. Crawford.

And what's your work?

Wrangler Blacksmith.

These are school teachers.

You don't say.

And what does it take you?

Reading, writing, Replicate history.

All the time by.

Young as you learn. But one thing.

How to come out on top.

How to be the one to trust the orders
instead of the dumb brute

that stands there. Make and takes them.

You teaching them that? Mr..

Mr. Crawford's a good teacher.

Is it?

Well, now, maybe you think so, boy,
Because you never met a better.

We'll see.

Come on, Ruth.

Keep it to make the progress.

I don't know what he is.

Very strange fellow. Yeah.

You know, sorry for the girl.

I don't think your interest there.

I would appreciate it, Baylor.

I noticed.

Now I'm on the mental end.

You know that.

Just never subject matter.

But I'm.

Can I help Consuelo?

She's putting the children to bed.

Someone new is driving the train.

Yeah.

A man and his daughter.

She looks frightened.

I know that look.

It was in the faces of all my people
in the town where we used to live.

Everyone had to show his
fear like a brand on cattle.

Forget to be afraid.

I'm going to be whipped into line.

Terrible way to live.

Yeah.

You sure that I can do for.

I know.

If you get Henry. That blanket?

Yes, sir.

His legs so useless.

But still they get pulled.

That's customary.

Now, see?

Here, let me help you.

I can take one at a time.

Unnecessary.

I wouldn't like it.

Where's your wagon?

This is for the team.

What's your name?

Ruth.

And here's the feeling being a comfort.

I'll see what smile when I hear that.

But I don't think it's funny.

There's strength in it.

It suits you.

That.

What are you doing out here?

Just watching him.

I never saw anything like him.

You've got to stay away from for
nobody can handle them.

Except PA.

Yes. To scare me. Well, he ought to.

Smart man. I was going to be afraid.

Your pa
looking for you. Oh, see, tomorrow.

A magnificent
animal deserves a better fate.

And pulling them wagon.

I tried running away,

PA, without smarts.

I'm going to bring them back with them

sooner or later.

Here. Quick time.

Nothing to nobody stands against PA.

When you came up to the wagon tonight.

Turned out to be afraid.

I wasn't

the first time in months. I.

I stopped being scared.

I forgot about arms.

And he threw up.

Getting kind of late.

I'll probably see you tomorrow.

Good night. Now,

can I ask you how?

All I can say

is that the rain that didn't fall here
fell four or five miles on up ahead.

River's very deep.

You'll never get the wagons across.

How long do you think it'll take?

One mile. It's hard to say.

I'd say 24 hours at least. More than that.

If you get any more rain, you're going
to push you on as far as the river.

Chris, I wouldn't matter
how far from mother in this clay.

All right, then.

Folks will hold up here today.
I'll give you a chance

to repair your wagon.

Give the stock a chance to rest.

I can usually get myself to good.

Use a few repairs to Charles.

A lot of game in the woods
between here and the river,

I think ought to get a couple of men
and bring in a fresh meat supply.

Good idea.

Go for a lunch. Myself.

Myself.

I'm out.

Hey, Mr.

Crawford. What?
Are you going to start school?

How about right now?

I'll give you the afternoon. Free
to do whatever you like.

All right. I'll get the kids.

All right,

teacher,

Stay away. My daughter.

You said that before
and you paid me no mind.

I'm saying it again.

No, Helen,

I know you can't take six from three
as part of the ten first.

Come over here, you see? Right.

All right. Who's got the. Answer?

Yes, Susan. 342.

She's right.

Yes. Well,
Susan and I are both delighted to hear it.

All right.

So much for the arithmetic,
which is like a couple of reading.

When we get the young count,

I hope to be able to get Bibles
for each one of you.

In the meantime, we're stuck with this one

reason

when you read one verse
and pass it on to tab and so on.

Yeah, I've heard it said Susan.

Just a moment, dear.

Yes, if you want something.

Well, it's a school for everyone.

Yes, everyone who wants to learn.

That's why I'm here.

All right, Susan, go ahead.

You haven't said that
to a lot of the neighbors.

I hate the animals, but I say,
do you love your enemies?

Do good to those who hate you.

I pray for those who

persecute, persecute

and pound and calumny.

I'd tell you to call.

But what does that mean?

Tell you?

Tell?

You know that word calumny.

It means to lie
or to say bad things about someone.

Is that your way to true?

You do good to those who hate you.

Go ahead.

That's for if you love those who love you,

what we would say
you have to not eat in the pub.

Publicans do that.

I ask the question
Do you pray for those who persecute you?

Mr. Creech?

Have the young ones ready

and his hand will be against every man

and every man hand against him.

Genesis 1612 are an eye for an eye.

Tooth for a tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot.

Exodus 2124.

Those are words to live by,
to strengthen them.

And that's what you need in this world.

Strength, not weakness, nor
an excuse for being weak.

There's enough courage in this world, Mr.

Teacher,
without printing any more of them.

What's your point, Mr. Creech?

But you're not a fit teacher
for these young'uns.

You're still. Dad.

I think that's up to their parents
to decide.

I agree.

Oh, I agree.

My Ruth.

All right, go ahead.

Add. Oh,

and a few suture, brethren only.

What are you doing more than others?

I didn't say that.

I'll do it.

It is good of you to do this.

Good of all of you.

You do the same.

See, if I could.

It's going to be a lot easier on you
from here on him at their classes.

I wish I could do more than just say that.

Oh, I think I've worked up an appetite.

I'll tell you what. I'm
going to take you. Also. Special grub.

Now let me see. I got somebody's name.

Yeah, Charlie, I don't think I can face
another batch of those prairie straw man.

Now, what's the matter with beet?

Nothing, Charlie. Nothing.

But when you haven't three times
a day, seven days a week,

you can't think of them as anything
special.

Good. You're right.

I think I'll see some of the women
maybe they can fix.

There's a special pigeon supper.

Consuela will be glad to help.

And after that nice supper.

I'll hold my meeting. Oh,

what kind of a meeting?

This group meeting, Mr. Harrow.

That can change the life
of every man who comes to it.

And it's only for those
who aren't satisfied the way they are.

And that's 99% of every man I've ever met.

Oh, see what we can do

about getting our supper started?

How are you going to change all of us?

Oh, I'm not going to change you,

but I'm going to show you
how to change yourselves.

By using your mind, your will.

You're not the man. You'd like to be.

And why?

Because you have to learn to make
your body do what your mind wants it to.

I haven't.

Learned.
And you forget. About being afraid.

Nothing.

Nobody can stop you. Look at me.

There's not a man willing to put me down.

No matter how big.

No matter how a young.

Aren't you afraid?

If you teach us
that cigaret smoke will put you down too?

I am not afraid of anything or anybody.

It sounds like a lot of hokey pokey to me.

No, that won't cost you
anything that I'm saying.

Listen,

I've shown thousands of men how to.

Overcome their weakness.

Fellows like this

get up on your feet.

Listen here.

I cannot.

You can't, because you. Think you can't.

But nothing wrong with you,
except you're weak.

Well, now, wait a minute.

You call yourself a man.

Stand up like one.

Stand up a.

Lone.

It's got to smash back, not a weak will.

Well,

it's the long nosed schoolteacher.

You send yourself up against me.

No, I'm just telling you
to leave me alone, that's all.

Now, wait a minute.

You can't challenge me to just walk away.

You bet.

My schoolteacher.

I got a special treatment for long

nosed coward.

Charlie told me

what a great stride to go into.

A fighter

I spoke out of turn

the humiliated Emeterio
a friend of yours, didn't he?

We just happened to be on the same wagon
train.

It's now my responsibility
to protect Emeterio from

Creech or anybody else.

And far as you're concerned,
the incidents close.

That's right.

Grace seems to be spoiling for a fight.

Where are they going to get it from me

anyway?

Well,

we're going to have
a good turnout tonight.

Thanks to your friend, the schoolteacher.

He's not my friend.

I can always count on you to lean toward

the one man who looks as strong as an ox
but is really as weak as a rain can be.

But I.

I will say that he was weaker than most.

He didn't know anything about him.

I know him

better than he knows himself.

That's one reason he's afraid of me.

Probably won't be.

I need him

between him and me today.

Or do me more good than fancy.

I build the brass band and the personal
recommendation of President Graham.

What else do you going to do?

Same as usual.

This is a kind man, PA general.

I put in more whiskey this time, Paul.

I got me a good recipe, Rosie.

And a perfect way to make folks relevant.

You can't treat me to cope
with the way you do.

Those other men.

Different is a coward,
just like the others.

I got the stink of fear
and I'm straight off today.

I made the others smell it.

Just because he didn't hit you back
doesn't prove he's a coward.

Proved it to them. Not seen it

by now.

Everybody in camp is talking about it,

and they'll all be there tonight
to see if he comes like I told him to.

He won't.

We'll see

whether he does.

We doubt I'll use him.

You've got to give him
somebody else to hate and despise

Ruth. You should have seen them today.

They are hate
and fear was pointed at me like.

Like a truck p*stol. Why?

Because I was a stranger, an outsider?

Well, that p*stol has got to be pointed
to somebody else.

Maybe these people side with him.

He's a coward, a public coward.

Every man's got to despise.

I'm afraid so loud.

Because if you side with the cowardly

people, start wondering about you.

So you go along with the crowd.

And the more scared you are, the.

Quicker.

You ought to fling a stone at a yellow
dog has been found out.

I guess
you know everything about everybody.

I know a sight more than you do, girl.

And I proved it, didn't I?

And for me, yes.

You proved it.

You thought you knew that other manager

thought you knew him well enough
that this will be upon another.

Well, I showed you what he really was

the night his.

Can I go?

Maybe.

Maybe you got it in your head to try
running off with the school teacher.

No, Pop, I'm not as smart as you are.

But I know one thing.

You can't ever be free you by running.

Got to find me another way.

Amelia.

I wanted to thank you for what you did.

But I do.

I just started something
I couldn't finish.

But you were the only one
to stand against him.

Well, on these days,
I learn to keep my mouth shut. No,

you did it right,

Mr. Clover.

How about that?

Are you looking for that man?

No, I'm not.

Are you going to Waco tonight to show?

No, Dad.

You can't go on
letting people think you're fighting here.

You're not afraid of him,

are you?

Hello? Oh.

Could I do that for you?

Oh, no, thank you.

That makes you uncomfortable
for me to be here.

I can come back and do these later.

Well, no,

no, I.

I only offered to help
because you helped me last night.

I can.

Thank you.

I guess you

don't like feeling in debt to anybody.

Well,

you know, I'll have to figure out
a way to live with what we are.

I'm still trying to find my way.

Or maybe I'm just not sure yet what I am.

Where are you going?

Oregon.

Oregon.

I love a girl that seemed to

sort of like being in church.

One impulse from a rental would, like,

teach you more of a man

of moral evil
and of good than all the sages. Cat.

That's nice.

Did you make it up yourself?

No. It was written by an Englishman.

William Wordsworth.

What?

Can you say something else of you?

She was a phantom of delight

when first she climbed up on my side,

a lovely

apparition sent to be a moment ornament,

her eyes as stars of Twilight fair

like twilight to her dusky hair,

but all things else about her drawn

from daytime and the cheerful dawn.

I never heard anything pretty.

How old are you, Rose? 20.

You wonder why I stay with her.

Because that's the way he wants it.

And I can't stand up against him.

Not by myself.

Well,

someday some fellow come along
or want to marry you.

One did

in Missouri.

I like him a lot.

He was kind, gentle.

We ran off, eloped.

PA caught up with his.

Father, k*lling.

Worse, He shamed him.

He made him say and do terrible things
with me.

Left me

watching.

It didn't change the way I felt,

but that was the end of it.

Keller couldn't forgive himself.

Yeah, I guess that was it.

Well, someday somebody will come along.

He'll stand up to your father.

I wouldn't give myself to just anybody.

Not even to be free of past.

I'm sorry for what happened today.

Um, a lot of people didn't understand.

I mean it, but,
you're know, having him back.

But you can,

well.

Try to live the way it says in the Bible.

I guess.

Loving your enemy,
doing good to those who hate you

and turning the other cheek.

Well, it isn't an easy thing

for a man to do, and I respect you for it.

I don't want your respect.

I don't deserve it.

I'm sorry.

I don't love my enemy or my neighbor
either.

I don't do good to those who hate me
or to anyone else.

I don't want pity.
I don't want understanding.

I don't want love.
I just want to be left alone.

Well, then why
don't you go try to find yourself a cave?

Why don't you make it easier for everybody
and go live in a cave like the hermit

and just never see anybody at all?

This sort of life?

Yeah.

And it's sharp to,

you know,

a knife with a dull
edge is worse than no knife at all.

It's like having a friend who's a coward.

You can't depend on it.

Oh, Afternoon, schoolteacher.

Looks like I've.

Got most of your pupils here with me.

I've been telling them
how to look after a knife.

Menace, you get a neck and a blade on it.

Smooth.

Same way.

Miniature scared of something.

Somebody

you've got to sharpen up your courage.

Show yourself. You're not really afraid.

Longer a

blade holds the neck a harder
it is to hold smooth

longer A man or a boy lives with fear.

A lot of it is for him to be anything
but a coward.

Don't you agree, Mr.

Schoolteacher?

Mr. Crawford told me A smart man knows
when to be afraid.

He didn't.

Well, now.

Misery.

Loves company, as the saying goes.

And a coward is the most miserable
man on the face of the earth.

So I guess he wants as much company
as he can find.

You ask your price, and if he wants you
to grow up to be a smart coward like Mr.

Crawford,

see what your partner is.

I think

the boy should forget
what you told him, don't you, Mr.

Schoolteacher?

Don't you?

Yeah.

You forget what I said.

Forget everything I said.

Take a lesson, boys.

I'll put your trust in a

gallbladder knife

or a cowardly man.

The daughter, two beautiful
young woman with grief.

I said no story by physical appearance
of a woman.

Hardworking, obedient and truthful.

That's enough for me.

If I ever find that combination,
I got it myself.

Yes, sir.

Just what kind of a meeting is
this you're going to hold after supper?

It'll be entertaining and uplifting.

Everybody will be a lot better for it.

Including you, Mr. Hale.

From what I gather, you're going to pass
on the secret of courage.

Strength through willpower.

Well, I like to keep an open mind, but

I don't happen to believe
the secret of courage can be passed

from one man to another.

My experience, each
of us has to sweat it out for himself.

I come across a lot of unbelievers.

I usually bring them around
in my way of thinking one way or another

with your faith,
maybe like you did, like Prophet.

I want to help the many to do that.

Sometimes you have to hurt the few cowards
and such a man like that.

He weakens us all.

It's better to have everyone known
for what he is.

Don't you think so, Mr. Howell?

No, I disagree.

That's what makes life interesting.

You know, you're going to have to get up
pretty early

in the morning to fool
a man like me to quit Hale

manner.

Chris, I talk to you a minute.

I'll go ahead.

I think you're making
a mistake leaving the train.

Well, I'm an old hand and making mistakes.

Why don't you stay?

I can't. Why?

Because I am a coward.

I won't go along with that.

Well, it's true all the same.

Because you wouldn't
strike back at Creech. No.

This is something
I've known for a long time.

I thought about it during the w*r
five years ago in a place called Cub Run.

I'd heard of it.

I'd been fighting for over three years
when it happened.

By that time, I'd forgotten
what it was like to have enough to eat

or a pair of boots that feed
or even to draw breath it in.

Others think a definite.

Of course, I was a pretty
dedicated soldier when I signed up.

I wasn't in the cavalry
and I was just to fight and k*ll fellows.

I was there to stamp out evil.

That's with the cavalry

that lasted

until my first charge.

I wound up in a ditch where my tent made

a boy named Jeremy.

And right there, I stopped hating evil

and started hating men.

The enemy.

Jeremy got himself
ripped open with a saber.

It took him about 2 hours to die.

The months that followed that,
I got all kind of metal commendations

and whatnot,

but I just couldn't preserve the hate.

It drifted away.

Pretty soon I wasn't fighting
their revenge, Jeremy anymore.

Or to stamp out evil.

I was just fighting to stay alive.

That's the way it was at the start.

A club run? I don't know.

I must have been over in my mind
a million times.

I was just sitting there on the horse
waiting for the bugle to blow,

sweating a little bit,

just sitting there and then

ihram.

I spurred the horse

back through the lines and into the woods

about the time a bugle blew.

My company went in.

They were cut off and k*lled

almost all them while I hid in the woods.

You'd face

the g*ns and the sabers dozens of time.

What made you run there?

I was in your mind as you waited there.

I remember
I was thinking about a little girl

that we had met a couple of days before

riding down this lane.

It was about dusk
when we come across this little girl.

She was leading an old car in the lane

and she caught sight of us

and she started to run

screaming. And we were the enemy.

I wanted to hit her off.

I went to grab a hold of her

and tell her that we weren't the enemy
and that the g*ns were not for her.

And we were just a bunch of fellas.

And you had her off.

You know, I was too tired

while I was sitting there on that horse
waiting for the b*llet blow.

I sure wish I had.

I was thinking, what a horrible thing
it is.

A little girl, six, maybe seven years old,

to grow up in a world

where people were enemies.

And that's when I bonded.

Oh, today you challenged Creek?

Yeah, I spoke out of turn,
and it was cub run all over again on me.

I deserted Emeterio
instead of deserting my company

after five years, were you still
thinking of that little girl?

Maybe somebody reminded you of her?

Yeah.

That girl. Ruth.

Before Cub run, your courage was tested
dozens of times.

Never failed you.

It's the one failure that counts.

I stood here this afternoon and watched
Creech talking to some of the boys,

telling them that a coward
with, like a knife

with a neck and a blade,
you couldn't depend on it.

I mean, it's worse.

Worth a neck, a blade is busted.

It's useless.

Even a broken blade can be mended.

But only by putting the pieces
into the fire still stands.

The fire cools.

What is new again?

You mean if you're

a coward can meet his test and not run?

But maybe, like the steel and the fire.

I know.

Oh, come on, Chris.

That's just a lot of foolishness.

That's great.

Had been here. No.

What's the matter, Charlie? Well, this is.
How is that?

Some of the boys have been teasing him
about them.

Well, about speaking up for you, Mr.

Crawford.

Did he get into a fight on my account?

Nobody got real upset and told his mother
he wasn't afraid of anybody or anything,

and he'd prove it.

He ran away,
and she thought maybe he came over here.

I'll help you find.

Yeah.

You think I couldn't stop him?

He's trying to ride Lucifer.

I remember that.

Look.

It's cloudy

here.

Run around.

Oh, oh,

oh, for heaven's sakes. Oh.

Oh. Now,

on our preferred.

Oh, and you heard. No.

All right, Now, what.

Possessed you to do such a fool. Thing
anyway?

I want to be sure I wasn't scared,

Ted. There's no shame in being afraid.

Everybody is at one time or another.

A brave man goes ahead and does
what he has to do in spite of it.

I do it now.

I know.

Looking for you. You better go on.

But I know I was right.

Anyway.

I was right to her boyfriend.

Traveling would have been my fault.

You're no match for him. Who?

PA? You've got You picked for a coward.

And proved it in front of witnesses.

The coward would never press that horse
the way you did.

Why was in trouble?

You know, think about it.

There isn't time.

You just jump in

facing a man like your father.

That's something else again.

You mean
you don't have any reason to be brave?

I'd help you if I could.

You'll find somebody else.

Ruth,

What is it,

Commander

Parker?

That my badge of shame.

Time for the meeting, Ruth

Pyle.

You don't need me, Ruth.

Schoolteacher.

To be sure you're at that meeting.

I want you to see what happened
when she shamed with another

coward

strike.

That's what counts in this world.

Not fair, sisters.

Not good looks, not book learning.

Strike.

You ask yourself this.

Am I man enough to take what
I want in life and keep it

well? Are you.

Quite sure.

You're not sure?

Well, my friend, if you are not sure,

you are not strong.

I know my strength.

I know not a man who can bend me

all the time.

And it

seems
we have one three lamb just straggling in

now. Why am I stronger than you?

Because you weaken yourself with both

doses.

The double mutant you.

The more your listen to him,

the weaker you'll get

until he turns you

into the kind of town that shames
all rights.

The man.

All right.

You know who your enemy is?

Not so good question.

How can you get rid of it?

Cast him up.

You must do

everything first.

Listen

and take a lesson from a second.

Your every waking hour

restores the Don't go.

I'm sorry.

Hurt Are to

fortify yourself

with this special tonic.

I say barter for yourself
with my discovery.

My antidote for the poor.

You know about her and her mother was.

A religious man.

Yeah.

All that gab about strength and fear
just to sell that for elixir.

My elixir will help any manufacture
to find us strength.

You're seeing me.

And what's.

More.

It'll cure arthritis, rheumatism,
headache and consumption.

I will be the first to buy a bottle for
just $2

while I purge your fear I from

those
you want to stand up like a man among men

like a man among women.

Now a woman

is the weaker vessel and her weakness

has been used by the devil ever since.

The people

Look at this woman, my daughter.

Oh, Gertrude.

Oh, my friend saved her from

a life of finitude,
useful to the luxurious lives

of a coward with a few cheap
frigates and bows.

He prompted her to disobey me.

Go online, joke with the devil,

a man not fortified with my elixir.

Lot of despair.

But as long as I have this

high moments for the devil himself,

I found her and I fought the devil.

Who tempted her and I wept in.

And I made her look at him

and see him for what it was

a haunting coward,

crawling third at my feet.

And then?

Then I gave her a trinket.

There were words that night and day.

It remind her of her weakness and her sin

and of the weakness of most men
and of my right.

What's right?

You are the one who is weak.

You try to make us think you are strong
by hurting the helpless.

What kind of a father? A strong father.

Put the leather collar
on the neck of his daughter,

no matter how simply thought she had been.

I feel that Emeterio

a strong father would his strength

to protect and comfort that girl I.

Told you about feeling.

I know my boy.

I've heard a lot

my friends, a thousand times.

But one of the voices that marked me here
tonight,

I drive up, drive through here

and are crippled from growing up.

I kind of whip over.

On the one hand.

Great.

You say I'm the voice of the devil.

Well, I say you are a cheat,

a liar, and a bully.

A friend of mine
once wanted to stamp out evil

with a capital E,
and I say, that's what you stand for.

Even stirring up hate,

spreading fear and unhappiness
all over your own hands.

You don't want to just sell
that fake elixir.

You want it all to bend your own will.

Maybe I am a dried up grizzle here,

but I'll tell you your claims to strength

just as false
as what you claim for that fake elixir.

Are you ready to test
my full strength, Mr.

Loudmouth? I'm ready.

Wait a minute.

I know what I'm doing.

I hope you do

right.

I believe I was the first one to doubt Mr.

Courage in this camp.

Would you allow him to cast me out first?

Of course.

Yeah.

I better.

Yeah.

Yeah,

yeah.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're all.

Right.

Oh, Oh,

oh, yeah.

I like.

Your headache.

Any way. I

Oh, right. Oh.

I know

You got a knife.

I have to.

Marry your daughter.

She'll have me

figure

double take your boy.

I need whipped cream

when a man's really strong.

Doesn't have to go around
talking about it all the time.

All right, folks,

let's get back to what you were doing in

what's crazy to me?

Mysterious, like taking some herbs next back and one of them pretty good treatment.

I'm.