02x34 - The Jose Maria Moran Story

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Welcome

to the.

I don't know.

This trail may be ten
miles shorter than the own,

but it leads right into the heart
of the Shoshone country.

And I don't like it.

You know, it's just Shawnee won't
bother us unless we give them a reason to.

Yeah.

Cause
you don't want to risk it, man your age.

I don't understand.

Listen here, McCullough.

One of these days, I'm going to forget
that I've got £25 on you, Major,

and I'm going to put a little respect
into that fixed color.

Your major? Yeah. What is it?

Take a look over there.

I got him hung out to dry like a.

Suit of losers. All underwear.

Come on,

Barney.

Yeah.

He must be quite a warrior
to deserve this.

This is a special kind of showing.

An execution they reserved
for the most highly respected enemies.

He's still alive.

Yeah, he's breathing.

It's like he's been here about three days.

Cut him down.

Shoshone aren't going to like that Magic.

I never left a man strung up
for the coyotes.

Yes, Whether he's red or white.

I'm not going to start now.
Oh, that's very commendable.

But this is the work of a big w*r party.

Maybe 50.

I think you better explain that to him.

That's your job, McCullough.

Let me know
when you find out what they say.

I'll do that

in your mind.

Your hearts will take it back to camp.

And your son, your nothing.

I hear your father grows impatient
for this pair in.

My father, Mr. Salazar.

And you wouldn't be meaning Mr.

Perhaps.

Senor Ethan Norton also mentioned that.

Next time
I get married to the Hamiltons. He

said You want me to.

Tender?

What have you got in that trunk?

China?

Where and whose is it?

Yours takes part of your dowry,
as you well know.

Then why do you toss it around like it was
nothing more than a sack of potatoes?

Toss it, Teach all I can do to lift it.

Oh, thanks, bro. Dad.

You can carry that around with you.

You can carry anything.

At the drop of a head in a month.

And I'm seeing things.

Does this have the major's brought back?

Charlie,
help them put this Fallon's fly away.

Yes, sir.

He doesn't look very savage to me.

On 80.

That's right.

What's he doing here?

He's a guest.

Charlie.

You better throw some blankets
on top of him.

You probably have a chill
when he wakes up.

Yes, sir.
Come on, Charlie. Turn him around. Right.

Let's get him up in.

I just don't cotton Indians at all.

I'm not particularly partial to them
myself.

You trying to tell me something, Tanner?

It's sad.

I don't aim to drive no wagon
with a pony at my back.

Well.

And how would you like your friend, senor?

He ain't no Indian.

A white man, Charlie.

But that gunned down boy,

you haven't got a chance.

A man who was willing to take a chance
always has.

One more. I would not try that, amigo.

If there's 20 g*ns here,
you won't get ten yards

alone. Maybe not.

But with the senorita here, a hostage.

Hostage? You can stay back, senor.

Whatever you are, you've got nothing
to fear from the people on this train.

But if you take that girl, I promise you
I'll take you back on those Johnny

Stakes myself.

I did not ask you to cut me down.

It is an honor to die in this stakes.

But you and your kind
would not understand.

Senor.

The major is right.

You are among friends.

Are you saying you.

See your enemies are out there?

Not here.

Surrender the g*n.

Your word.

I accept.

But I surrender to no white man.

Senorita,

your prisoner.

Is done.

Leave him alone, Major.

Here's a country of mine gone for me.

So I will care for him.

He's a renegade.
I say, leave him, Leave me.

I'm for 5 minutes alone.

I said,

All right, Don Luis.

You're welcome to him.

Renegade white or Indian?

He stays with us till he can walk.

We're not going to lose any more time.

Gracias. We're not.

What if the Shoshone come after him?

We'll handle that
if and when that happens.

But come on, give us plenty of warning.

We take care of him
till he's able to take care of himself.

Seems like a decent thing to do.

You're not an Ireland, not

a man who turn a back on his own.

People wouldn't know
the meaning of the word decent.

I said He stays with us,

Charlie.

You drive for Don Luis
and don't forget your g*n. Oh.

Come on, let's get moving.

We can't talk our way to California, Mr.

Salazar.

You'll be needing
blankets and a warm jacket. See?

Charcoal. That sweater of. Yours.

Oh, now, just a minute, Marie.

And Father, that rag quilt.

It's in the wagon in that big trunk.

But it. You know, he didn't fool me.

Not Indians turn red when they get cold,
and he's blue.

Is she still back there in Salazar's
wagon?

She is.

Nurse. And that it.

Shameful.

Shameful.

I used that same word
when your mother gave a dying

English soldier
a drink of water 30 years ago.

I was wrong, Jocko.

And so are you.

Mary.

May I have a firm hand and a hard
Irish head?

But her heart has never been
in the wrong place.

The man needs help
and her intentions are good.

We're sore.

Might

his pulse seem stronger, Mr.

Salazar?

He will be all right.

Exposure and hunger
are a condition of life out here.

What will this heart country do for us?

I wonder.

It is what you will do for the country.

California needs strong men
like your brother and father.

Chuckle and Tim,

a bull who'd rather fight the night,

and a saloon keeper
who'd rather talk than make a profit.

It's they that need California.

I wonder who he is.

There is intelligence breeding here,

yet he chose to live as an Indian

who can tell except himself.

I will go ship with Wooster.

He will awaken soon.

If he does call.

I can take care of myself.

Mr. Salazar.

Your brother has a familiar sound.

Sooner or later.

Sound of Ireland.

Crittenden.

You were.

And what would a savage like you be? No.

One of Ireland.

It is far away.

The hills are green

and its women are very beautiful.

Heather, you've been there yourself.

Oh, you've been with your Indian friends
too long

now you would just stay quiet.

Anything you say, senorita.

Please let me go.

Do you fear

yourself?

It's my own fault.

Trying to take care of the likes of you.

I am grateful for your care.

The Indian friends were right.

You belong in them. Stakes.

Your voice says one thing,

but your lips say another.

To worse than a heathen.

You're an animal.

Shot.

In the end.

The Mexican boys in Salazar's wagon.

Tanner

in holed up there all day.

Wondering who he really is.

No matter much, far as I'm concerned.

And, you know, a renegade Mexican,
they both mean trouble.

I tell you one thing.

He so much, it blinks and at me.

I'll close it for good.

I'd think about that twice
if I were you, Tanner.

Even now, Louis.

You in, Major Bobby? Major.

Who made that? Charlie?

I do know. Thank you.

Tell me, Don Lewis, how's your patient?

Is he able to talk yet?

Say he is able, but not very willing.

Oh, I think you'll talk to me. All right.

That depends on what you
want to talk about, Major.

Well, fella,

let's.

Let's just start at the beginning.

Who are you anyhow?

It is the wrong place to start.

For ten years I've been with the body.

You need to know nothing more. Oh,

let me tell you something, young fellow.

What you were doesn't matter to me
one way or the other.

Knows it doesn't affect this train.

That clear? It's clear.

How come this is?

He had you strung up out there.

We ready the village to get some horses.

Then we got careless.

Who's we?

My brothers.

They piny Now they are dead.

A major saved your life, amigo.

Why did you turn a g*n on him?

I need no man's help.

I hope you're right about that.

But the end of the week,
we'll be in Pawnee country.

You can stay with the train till then.

If you cause any more trouble,
I'll hand you back to the Shoshone

without a second thought.

Major.

What if they come after him?

He needs no man's help.

You hurt him, Charlie.

Keep an eye on him. Don Lewis.

There's a lot of people on this train
that don't like white renegades.

I'm beginning to see their point.

Try to get Dillon Saddle up William,

and try to circle a wide and see
if you can find a trace of McCullough.

Keep your eyes open
for the Shoshone to better.

The major takes his job seriously enough.

Wagon Train

has much to fear from a Shoshone
w*r party.

As a Pawnee, you should know that.

I know nothing of wagon trains.

Nor should you.

What is a Spanish born Californian
doing what these Americanos California.

And isn't Americano, amigo.

I was commissioned by the governor
and sent to Washington

to look up certain Spanish
land grants in Northern California.

Northern California?

See. I was Alcalde de of Monterrey.

They're part of my commission was to trace
heirs.

Were you successful.

In some cases. See,

you know California, amigo.

The mind of an inquisitor don't always

have the touch of a doctor.

No, I am guilty of the first,
but not of the second.

Senorita.

Not in bound your wrists.

Then I am indebted to her on two counts.

Where is she?

Since early this morning,
she has been with her father and brother

or brother?

I soon toro amigo with a temper to match.

I do not think he would
welcome a visit from, you know.

I not be alarmed, senorita.

I have come to thank you
for the advantages.

You're very welcome, sir.

You are not wanted here, men.

What will it be?

The sword

or the harp?

What would you be known of?

The minstrel boy.

Por favor said you.

Are minstrel boy to the

You are escort in the ranks of death.

You find him

his father's sword
He has girded art and is wild.

How long behind him

Land of song

Saba, you are your aboard Though

all the world betrays

the ones sword idly

writes child guard

one faithful half shall

praise the.

Psalms were.

Made for the brave and free

and they never shall sound

in sl*very.

That was truly beautiful.

I've never heard more done better.

Where did you learn that?

My father.

Your father?

His name was Joseph Moran.

He was.

He was a long way from home.

Joseph Moran of Monterrey.

You and you are whole Samaria Moran.

Why didn't you tell us just before?

Moran

Because Don Lewis is mistaken.

Or Samaria Moran of Monterrey is dead.

I am a Polly York Californian.

I have the title to Hacienda Moran
in my trunk.

Jose and Maria
moran would want their son to claim it.

They are dead. Don Luis.

So is their son.

Why, that's not just

Moran.

You know this country pretty well,
don't you?

Like,
you know you're a wagon train, Major.

I think it's about time
you started earning your keep.

I want you to take a little ride
with Charlie here.

Find us a place for a night camp
where there's water

and the best trails through that high
country up ahead.

Have you?

No scouts?

Yeah, I got a scout,
but he's a little busy right now.

Craven, Those are surely friends of yours.

And he won't come back.

Lakota Kids for Gringos.

Even less than I do.

Cut. I'll come back.

All right, I'll get started.

Oh, and Moran, remember what I told you?

All I need is one excuse.

Just one.

Johnny.

Right.

Well,
just like General Santana itself, one.

You pulled a g*n on this train

once before I let you get away with it,

I told you what had happened to you.

If you did it again, let. Me
have a major. Break him.

Stay out of it.

I don't want to k*ll you, boy, but.

So help me if I have to. I will.

You had another intruder, Major.

Could he be a snake?

No. Sane.

You are not a dead snake.

Is there anyone else on your wagon train

who could hit a twitch
target at 20 paces dead center?

Can I ask you

some ego matches yourself Now we right?

Not. No.

I mean yes, sure.

That mighty growth will be crushed.

Why is it

when I make a mistake
it has to be such a large one.

Got to be major.

Are you glad you picked him up?

You don't have any choice, Don. Luis

Crassus.

There another body.

It looks like you carry
the problems of the world.

Don't Luis.

Him know only the problems
of the village of Monterrey.

And you can help me solve one of them.

I cannot go back.

That you must know.

John Lewis.

Major Adams would like to see you.

Oh, but Major Adams just

any rate.

Wasn't a very good excuse, was it?

No. Sooner or later.

Well, it was his own.

I wanted you loan. I've got you,

Mr. Morgan.

We owe you an apology.

Apology?

No, you owe me nothing.

Nothing.

You saved my life,

and you're still my prisoner, remember?

I also took liberties with you.

That score is even.

I'm still your prisoner.

What is your pleasure?

I'm Harry.

My pleasure, Joseph.

Mary is you.

Come with us.

Back to your home.

Why did you tell Don

Lewis you couldn't go back?

Is there someone else? No.

No one else.

Only the past.

Oh, but you're wrong.

Joseph. Mary,

there is a present.

And a future.

Mary,

You'll be returning to the wagon.

Now, chuckled.

Don't be foolish about foolishness.

You know more than I.

But about this man.

I know

he's a renegade and an outcast.

And it's also pretty plain to see that
he's cast some sort of a Belafonte.

Hey, fight Brandon Norton.

This is nothing.

The tall, the cannot be shameless
man to man has had him

Hey, by the only way
by the sport of gentlemen.

Boy de vain pretense.

The grand old Irish art of self-defense.

It's all right with me
if they're agreeable.

Oh. Oh.

Christmas came early this year.

And will you fight, Moran?

It'll be a fair fight.

That's what's worrying.

I'll fight.

It. Jim.

Isn't that expression
supposed to be the grand

old Irish art of self-defense?

Not that in Dublin it isn't all.

Gentlemen,

the two principals have agreed to settle

the difference in this ring.

It'll be a finish fight under London.

Praise ring rules

strictly enforced by the referee.

Myself,

a man may be knocked down or thrown down.

After 30 seconds. He must come to scratch.

If he

fails to toe the mark in that time,
he will be declared the loser.

Come on, Tim, Get it over with.

You running for office or something?

It's the Lord Mayor himself.

Mr. Norton will be assisted by Mr.

Worcester and my colleagues to my right.

And second will be Major Adams.

The second dogs
at the corners of the ropes.

Hold them tight, mind you.

Now, gentlemen,

prepare to come to scratch.

Jackal, are you glad to keep you left up?

You stay with them, understand?

You do what the old man says.

We're liable to win this fight.

The first round.

Ran anything about fighting?

I can fight.

I know the knife for a g*n.

This is with your bare fists.

You got to keep your left
foot out in front of you.

Keep your left
hand high out here. See? Understand?

I can fight.

Well,

you know, Bill, I'm beginning
to think I might enjoy this after all.

Just go right ahead.

Some great head time round. One.

If you.

Told you, give it up for.

Pal Bill In round one, you have the box.

Boy. I didn't manage to find it.

All my life I've been knocked out yet.

Just keep that left up. You got to.

Get some water

here.

What was it you were telling me
about your fighting ability?

Boy, I had no time.

I told. You.

You have to. Act

like a game.

Go get the box, Bill.

Come on up.

Come on.

Good luck.

Give me some water

Now, will you listen to me?

Keep your left
hand up and throw your right this time.

Throw. That part came round three.

Come on. Right. Get in there. Jordan.

I got the

right.

Like I got away.

Here. Why don't you come up?

I like you.

All right, boy.

We're not going.

Right now.

Listen, he's opened the gates for you.

Now you fight him any way
you want to just get him down, Body.

Anything else?

Now get in there and do it right.

Right.

Came.

Right.

Oh, right

on. John.

Got it.

He set that up?

You bet.

It's better.

Yeah,

well, just fine, boy.

Just part of the same thing.

Same thing.

You know,

you wait until then.

Now you go out there
and give them some medicine.

This time
watching, getting there, watching.

My father

came round five.

On your feet, lad.

If you know Pride

boy. Get up.

Jocko,
I think you're doing something wrong.

I haven't figured it out yet.

It's actually right.

Oh, boy. Chuckle

hat, sister.

That's a step.

I took some steam out of here.

You start worrying.

I got know I'd be lucky. To.

At this round.

You go out there and just tearing apart
both hands, you understand?

Both hands just carry him apart.

Came round six.

Double

right now.

That's it. That's it.

That's

pretty good.

Look,

he's your right.

Car. Get it.

Got home. Get up, Get up, Get up now.

What do you know? I. Hogan still like him?

A lot of guy. I'm on his side, Jack.

All right, so what happened?
You go. Through.

I can handle that.

Did it, boy.

Jack goes punched out.

Next round will finish him.

Yeah. But

I had baddest.

I want you.

Look, Look out. Roy,

He come out fast.

You'll just about make it. And he'll win

as a broken.

No. Are you sure.

See I came round seven.

Help him up the right.

You can do it Jack. On the way.

That's all there is, folks.

Ranch hands are broken.

Jack goes fight Ray Jacko.

Sure.

And they knew it all the time,

Jack.

And you had me worried for a while.

What were you trying to do,
Make me look bad for these people?

Looked like it to me.

Hey. Looks like you got it done, boy.

Ran. And you watch a man fight.

You learn a whole lot about his machinery.

I like the way yours works.

If you don't let go,

you'll make an honest man of me.

Why did you do it?

He needed to win.

I didn't.

You're my man.

Good evening, Major.

Well, Mr.

McCullough, where have you been?

Or am I speaking to Lewis and Clark?

I've been following the thick headed
wagon.

Master's orders.

You find the shouting? No.

But they found me.

You might be interested in what they have
to. Say,

Warren.

And there's a lot more
where they came from.

It's a big w*r party.

You got any way out?

Yeah.

Surrender the pony that you cut down.

Harney. I cut down.

Happens to be a white man.

What if we don't surrender him?

They'll still come and get him.

One thing you should know,

the Shawnee are well-armed,

and they're wearing enough paint
to start five wars.

Now they want Moran.

There's three things we can do.

First choice is the easy.

We can give them, Moran.

Secondly, we can hitch up right now

and bend over Europe for the high country
before they jump us.

Thirdly,

we can stick
every r*fle we've got down their throats.

It might just be that
they'd get discouraged and back off.

A wagon train is like a rolling fort,
and the Shoshone know that.

Maybe they don't want Moran that badly.

Supposing they do want him that bad?

Then what?

In that case, Mr. Tanner, we fight.

All right.
Risk the whole train for one man.

A man that's more Indian than white.

Right.

I know the odds are long
and the stakes are high.

But a man's life,
whatever he is, doesn't come cheap.

There's one other thing
you should consider.

The Shoshone have left us
pretty much a lot in the past,

simply
because we never backed off from them.

But if we give in one inch now,

they're liable to take the next train
that comes through here.

That's all I've got to say, folks.

What happens to
Moran is going to be up to you.

And I want you to think about it.

I have

Jose Maria moran,

Major.

This Moran feller.

He us from California.

Oh, he's a Pawnee by adoption.

You didn't say why.

I figured.

I mean, a man usually hides when he's

got a price on his head.

And over that again, McCullough.

It's got to be the same man.

I mean, a name like that
doesn't come along twice.

A name like what? Let's say you're.

Jose Maria moran.

What's on your mind, Clint?

California

in Marietta.

You know where he got
has become a legend out there.

Part of the legend deals
with a lieutenant of his.

A boy they call the old gringo.

Mexicans around Sacramento
even sing a song about him.

He disappeared
just before Marietta was taken.

And he hasn't been heard of since.

I think he'd be just about your age.

What's the connection, Flynn?

Well, unless I'm mistaken,

Elgar, El Gringos.

Real name was Jose Maria moran.

Ran that true?

I rode with Morita for 11 months.

He had.

The worst k*ller. Ever born.

And you was with him.

And that made you want us
to risk our lives for a k*ller.

I say let the Shoshone have him
and welcome.

Listen to me, all of you.

Listen to me.

What?

Do you condemn this man without a hearing,
without knowing

why he joined Murrieta or why he left him?

He's a renegade. He's a k*ller
That's here now.

Not for me.

I am not asking you to fight for him.

I am asking you to listen to me.

You go ahead, Don Luis.

He'll listen to you. Cross respect.



Jose Maria moran built

a hacienda near the Pueblo of Monterrey.

They prospered there.

They were respected in peace
loving people.

A few years later,

the w*r between Mexico
and the United States broke out.

They refused to take up arms,

and so did their son.

Then came the Army.

All through California.

Some of them marched by the hacienda.

Shot was fired.

A mistake. An accident.

No one knows.

But when it was over,

Hacienda Moran was in ashes.

And so were the bodies of Jose and Maria
moran.

They said it was regrettable.

A tragic incident,

but tried to explain this to an 18 year
old boy

who watched his parents die.

In the case of Jose Maria moran,

no one tried to explain this to him

except what he,
the and bandit told Marietta was

he suffered the same kind of a loss.

That is why he listened to him.

That is why he rode with him.

I, for one,

would like to know why he left him.

Because the way of Marietta
was not my way.

It could not restore life

only to take it away.

I left Marietta,

found my way to the pony.

They offered me a new way of life.

With no yesterday

and not tomorrow.

Tanner,

you're from Georgia.

What did you do
when Sherman made his march to the sea?

I can tell you in two words.

You're Fort

Dane.

You're a Jayhawk.

What did you do when John Brown's boys hit
part of the country?

We've all had the same kind of experience
once in our life.

At least

man's willingness to

stand up and be counted to fight
for what he believes in.

That's what makes this country great.

Tim, The same thing goes
for your native land.

I don't have to ask you what
you were doing when the Queen soldiers

stormed Dublin.

I know and my man did the same thing.

He fought. Major,

if you please.

I am not one to make speeches, but.

Well, there is something I'd like to say.

A man's past is just that to my mind.

What really counts is

what he's got in here.

And more.

And showed me
that he sent all the way to his boots.

He took the best I had,

and he gave me back better.

The fight was my fault, not his.

The winner was more.

Not I.

I was leaked entirely.

And he knew it.

So I don't care if

he's an Indian or a mexican,

a bandit, or an Irishman.

What matters to me

is that he is a man.

How you think thinking the large pay
this price, if there's any, to pay.

Besides,
I've heard so much about the Shoshone.

I'm interested.

I understand with Jocko and Marin.

What about you, Tanner?

Well, it's been my quiet

the last few weeks riding on the Shoshone.

Now, you take care of the stock, Charlie.

Break out all the extra r*fles
and ammunition.

Close the gaps between your wagons.

Put up your barricades, keep the canvases
wet, and get the women and children

clear.

They don't understand.

They are going to fight.

It seems you are
no longer a Pawnee warrior.

Little more.

Are you taking root?

Arm yourself.

Oh, Mr.

Salazar.

About the Shoshone.

Now, how are they
at hand-to-hand fighting?

That is a very good question.

Now, what was that

you were telling me
about having no people?

I was wrong

about everything.

Almost everything.

What are you waiting for?

As your brother said,

I'd better run myself.

Everything all set back here?

Yeah, it's all set.

The Shawnee are in for quite a surprise,
But a couple of you got gathered here.

Yeah, in real good shape.

We just had a scout.

Major?
Yeah. A little more material for her.

Well, keep them on their toes, boy.

I'll do that, Major.
You got trouble, Don Lewis.

Yes and no.

Jose.

Maria.

What's this all about?

In simple measure, if I am gone,
the Shoshone will not attack.

You're out of your head.

There's a w*r party out here.

You'll never get anyplace all alone.

And your wagon train, Major.

These people are willing to fight for me.

This is the least I can do for them.

It is useless, Major.

He is determined to leave.

You cannot stop him.

No, I suppose not.

Not unless we hogtied him.

Tell them

all of them.

I wish them peace and happiness.

All right, I'll tell them.

I swear to Major.

You're the one that's going
to need the luck, boy.

I'll make a

home.

One more thing.

The Senorita.

Mary. Will you tell her for me?

Tell her what?

Joseph.

Mary.

You wanted someone else

to say goodbye for you?

Yes, Kitty.

Then someone else.

It would have been easier.

Easier?

How can you make Dien an easy?

By facing it.

By not being afraid.

That way you die. But once

you can't,

you're not alone.

Not anymore.

See, that is the reason I must go.

But what?

Listen to me.

Listen and remember

when I came to this wagon train?

I was nothing.

I had nothing.

And I wanted nothing.

Now I have everything.

Maria, You

and I want even more.

But all this

is not really mine yet.

The Shoshone must be paid,

but not with the blood of these people.

They are looking for a pony warrior,

a renegade with a price on his head,
emptiness in his heart.

Instead, they will find or save real moro

a man who has found his people.

What does it matter if you're dead?

It will matter.

A man, Manu has a reason to live,

dies hard

are us.

Carry them here.

And what's going on here?

Nothing.

Charlie on back
your wagon to get ready to roll.

Roll. What about this, Johnny?

I'm going to be initialized.

Tell Bill to pass the word.

We're getting ready to pull out. Yes.

Wagon. Oh,

you know.

I'm wondering
if those historians are right.

The ones that claims Patrick was Spanish.

Well.

Maybe.

Maybe he was half Spanish.

Maybe.

Get down there.

Poutine.

Come on, Livy.

He's got about one chance in a thousand.

I got a hundred.

That's all you need.

Fellows like Moran don't die easy.

But too stubborn.

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if he
met us in Sacramento when we pulled in.

And then an awful lot of luck.

Yeah,

well, I swear I was Maria moran,

and.