03x19 - The Benjamin Burns Story

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That's all there is.

You're looking at it then up and down
as creek, but in both directions.

That's all there is.

Well, that Judy Adams
I smell that does 40 miles back.

I knew there were no water here.

Then there's no sense
being happy about it.

Well, I reckon you young ones,
is going to get a taste of how we've

done it long before they ever mapped out
all these water holes for you.

Nice and pretty.

What do you mean? Mr. Burns?

It means a dry march.

That's what a pint of day for each person
will be at the next waterhole.

Then all you got to worry about
is whether the sand buries

you for the world will get you

and dang fools.

Let's go back, Clint and.

That's it, Major.

Well, my mother's real face it

from now to the time we get to the next
waterhole, which is about 60 miles,

we're going to ration the water £1 a day
per person,

two parents per head of stuck.

How come we get half
as much as the animals?

Well, I'll tell you Mr.

on if you'll pull a wagon for us, we'll
make sure that your ration is doubled.

Oh, my major. You bet.

Mr. Adams,
you're supposed to know this country.

Is this the way you treat your people.

Ons in this kind of country?

This train travels
from one waterhole to the next.

I've been through here a lot of times.

I've never made it once.

We didn't hit at least one dry hole.

Just hard, tough luck.

This time
we happened to have two in a row.

How much of an answer can you think of?

A better one.

All right, Charlie Hill,

get the water back to the train
and put those barrels on my wagons.

Heads up.

That's
my wagon is trying to understand that.

All right, get back to the train,
everybody.

Sure there's nothing between here
and Frenchman's Creek?

Not that I could take you down

in the long, hot summer.

And it sure is.

Yeah, well,

what I'd give for a cup of coffee

or a glass of cool Illinois spring water.

I feel like it's full of glue.

You don't know what it means to have it.

Well, you know, Mr.

Burns, Chicago isn't exactly the ideal
training ground for this sort of thing.

Boy, 30 years ago, Bill, stability

and me live for a whole month right here
in this desert on nothing but cactus.

But no water, no nothing.

If it weren't for this bunch of tourists
holding this back

lot heavy across in a couple of days
with plenty of water to boot.

Well, you're traveling with a train
this time.

That might just as well
be traveling on them.

Plus, you read pilots,
you youngsters like so much.

Well, you know,
I really don't mind the hardships

when we get to California and Kathy
and I get married.

Well, this will seem like a pretty small
price to pay.

Hardships or what?

Well, when I was your age, son,
a man wouldn't be found dead

in one of these traveling bedrooms
where it was for women and sick women.

Is it?

Grandfather,
what did you say about water a minute ago?

Well, Kelly,
I said we'd have plenty of water soon.

To my way of thinking, we.

We don't need any more than we got
right now anyway.

But I guess all of you start thinking that
if you don't get a bath pretty soon, you

start kicking up.

Oh, I'll k*ll a boy.

What's on your mind?

You're supposed to be a scout,
aren't you, Sonny?

Well, you ought to know.

Hey, you ain't proved it to me yet.

You know, I'm afraid you're getting so off
like the rest of them.

If all men simply ever knew
that you let these barrels run dry. Why?

I hit a bullwhip.

You tell me, how far is it? A Frenchman's.

Too far.

Now, what do we got left?

Well, what's that supposed to mean?

Well, maybe we're in for trouble,
but maybe it'll rain.

And maybe we'll make better time. Maybe.

Maybe you got all the maybes,
but the right one, boy.

And which one is that? Shining water.

Shining water?

Oh, that's a creek
that the Indians talk about

over in the furnaces,
Miss Cathy, It's a legend. Moon at edge.

And why?

It's the sweetest, coolest legend
I ever drunk.

I've been all through the furnaces,
and I haven't seen it yet.

Well, you ain't look in the right place.

But you think you could find it?

I think. Why? Boy, I know I can find it,

Major.

Once I've

been here
since he can find a shining water.

Well, I wish I could believe that.

So I.

Well, I can't just walk
it till it's been over 30 years, you know?

But it was up in the furnaces.

I found it all bitter, so bloody.

And me, we was chasing a bear.

He had stolen a hind quarter
that had had Buck meat out of our camp.

That's when I found it.

He knows what he's talking about.

Don't you think we ought to
hightail it up there. Man?

How long it would take you to get them
back?

Three days for
if we make allowances for a search, then.

Major, I've been through the furnaces
several times.

I don't think there's any water
there. You'd be wasting your time.

Man. You really think you can find it
here?

Well, I am, Major.

If I get within
just a few miles of them furnaces.

Don't you worry. I smell of water.

Well, we might get about a half
a dozen volunteers

and all the containers
you could load on a pack mule.

Then if you'd got on my bill in Flint.

Here, go with you and do everything else.

It's a gamble. The best friend.
So we won't wait for you.

We meet you, Black Mesa.

Miller, get a pack.

We'll.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Then.

If you don't, I don't think this wagon
train will ever get to Frenchmen Springs.

And we might not make Black Mesa.

Are you sure, Grandfather?

This isn't just another one of your wild
stories.

Now, Charlie, you shamed yourself.

You know,
your grandfather never told no real story.

If Mr.

Burns says there's water there,
there's water there.

I take his word for it.

By golly, he's a good boy.

No, he's a dude. And I like him.

You know,
I think he make a fine husband for you.

You're going with us in the morning.

Go and keep me away.

Good.

Make a man

I got to.

I think I'll have a drink on Grandfather.

You've already had your water.

Water?

Who's talking about water?

What a man.

He's getting old.

Sometimes he exaggerates things.

Well, he's got a right to as any
after the life he's led.

You know, Cathy,
your grandfather's living history, but.

Is still an old man.

He could hurt himself. No, no.

He'll still be around when our children
make him a great grandfather.

It had been one already.

If your family weren't so stubborn.

Well, you know, Mama,
she's got to see her daughter's wedding.

John.

The furnace Mountains.

Aunt Chicago.

You take care of yourself.

Now, look, you stop worrying.

It's going to take more than the furnace
mountains to keep me from coming

back to you.

Oh, you know, Bill, I knew this whole
thing was going to hand you some time.

I got that for Shepherd
Wyoming years and years ago.

Charlie, you finally found something
smells worse than you.

Wait a minute.
I don't care how bad it smells at home.

Why them Jones years? I'll tell you that.

Yeah, I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll use it on one condition.

What if you use your water out of it
from here till we get to California?

I'm only trying to help.

You're trying to be cute.
Now, you take that all.

You know how badly we need water, boys.

We've all been years, right?

You can make it in four days,

but you better make it with water,
because we only got four days supply left.

Well, we'll do our best measure.

Now. Don't you get your mind up, Sunny.

I'll get you there.

I don't work. For you better, old man.

I don't think
you know what you're talking about anyway.

Shine and water.
Sounds like a pattern. Medicine.

Hey, And then

I'll bet that Big Maceo will be
the first one

dipping into that water
when I leave you to it.

If we're going, let's go.

I want you to know, Major, I'm holding
you personally responsible.

If we don't find. Water, I'll see to it.

You never let. Another wagon train.

You don't find water, Mr.

Wise.
You don't have to worry about it anymore.

Because it does.

It'll take care of all of us.

He used to be a nightclub

and a band that ain't there now.

I don't remember any outcrop in the band.

Yeah. Bunch of white stones.

How'd you think I dreamed it up for seven.

Oh, that's 30 years ago, Ben.

I never forgot a landmark in my life, son.

That could have been an earthquake.

A lot can happen in 30 years.

What direction?

From the outcropping was a spring,
Mr. Burns?

Well, I ain't exactly sure.

You old fool. You better be sure.

Save your strength and.

Let him talk.

Soon as he gets me mad enough, I'll jam
the barrel, his r*fle down his throat.

I'm kind of looking forward to that, too.

Oh, and you lay off Mr. Burns.

Oh, what are your answer to me?

You put on the sun too long, silly.

Then you said it was in a valley here.

Yeah, we have high there.

And from the side
you can't see no trees and anything.

But there there ain't no stream neither.

Just a little spring.

It fills a pool and goes no place.

All right, we'll give it a try. Ben.

The split up and see that massive rise
up there on the Hill.

We'll use that as a check point.

And but it finds the stream
or spring will fire a couple of shots.

We can't find it.

We'll meet there
when the sun's at the top of that peak.

John, you're

you're not too used to this country.

You better take the mule
and stay down here.

All right? All right.

I don't separate, but

you know,

Johnny boy, I.

Can't even trust.

Mountains no more.

Because everything is going to ruin

blame you, horse.

Why don't you smell it?

You know, if I had my own mule,

we'd have been belly deep in water by now.

Come on, horse.

Breathe.

If I think now.

Oh, not this time.

Yeah, but

I thought we ran out of water.

Yesterday was strictly for emergencies.

Take it easy.

That's going to last

plenty.

Maybe there's no such
place is shining water.

Maybe

they've all been come
this far looking for it.

I figure he must have seen it once

as time were getting back.

There could be.

Reckon I've got to take a look.

These hills.

It used to be this deep.

Yeah.

I didn't find a thing.

Flint, you ain't got a lot of time.

I was, Mr.

Burns.

I set out to find him.

Use the same signal.

What do you think, Flint?

I give him a couple of hours.

That's.

America is not dead.

And that fire. Really?

What are we going to do, Flint?

Well, we can move him.

He's going to die anyway.

That's what you said.

Yeah, that's what I said.

But after all, I'm no doctor.

What's the difference?

I feel sorry for the old man,
but it's pretty obvious we can't move him.

And it's pretty obvious
we can't stay here.

What would you do, Mr..

On right away and leave him here?

What do you think

we're going to stay here
without any water or food.

We all die.

Well, look, you can't just leave him here.

Bill.

You think
you can find your way back to the train?

Yeah.

You go on back
and take everybody with you.

I'll stay here with Ben.

You don't have to stay. Look at them.

They won't last. Long.

Everybody has to die sometime on.

But they don't have to die alone.

Clean up. I'll stay with you.

That isn't necessary. Job.

No, I want to stay.

He means a lot to me.

Besides a man like him, he.

He just can't lay down and die.

It's more important than that.

All right,

before you go, you want to give me a hand,
We'll build some sort of a lane to.

I was

suppose during.

Although I

owe you

till that measure will catch up
just as soon as well, as soon as we can.

If you've got any
water. No. Give me a county.

You had that all along.

That's right.

And we're so thirsty. We can't even talk.

You've been doing a pretty good job.

What are you going to do
with the rest of it?

Look on.

There's a man over there.

There's two of us, and we don't know
how long we're going to be here.

You're not going to waste water on him.

You better get moving
before I break his neck.

You keep your mouth shut.

Tell him to keep the train going.

But catch him right?

You won't get too far
without water, Flint.

Well, on your way back.

Keep your eyes open for Ben.

Spring.

And you better take his horse
along with you.

And good luck to.

All right, let's go.

Oh, well, they gone.

How long you think it'll hang on?

He's a tough old man.

Well,

then how long can we stay here with him
without water?

No one asked you to stay, Mr. Calder.

No one said it was going to be easy.

I told you how I feel about Mr.

Burns.

It's just that

I like Flint. I'm. I'm from Chicago.

I know my way around in the city,
but I hear something else again.

Yes, I understand that.

You know, John Basia and all of us,
if we had some water

and water on me,

if you stay here
and keep your eyes on Ben,

he said the stranger sort of
came up out of the rock,

so I'll have a good look around.

All right, well, let's try
and wait a minute. Wait a minute.

If something happens.

Then we'll go back to the wagon train.

Oh, go

on, John.

You might get the horses
and get them out of sight.

Why? Why the situation?

A country.
I wouldn't want a hunting party.

Just button and pull my r*fle for me.

I might need.

A little more.

Where the horses go back up
the canyon way.

Indians this way.
But they haven't seen us.

Come on,

they're coming this way.

Take it easy, John.

They're all right.

They don't know what to

tell me.

I can't stand snakes,

John, again until here.

It is

going.

It's coming at me.

Colder.

Don't we at least have a chance
against the snake?

I'm sorry.

Because I saw it in your mouth.

No. Let's get the poison out of this.

And come on.

Is there anything I can do to help.

Some water, boy?

Oh, give him several

looks. We've got to.

Have a little something.

Just as the listeners told.

We've got to get you back to the train

camp.

Oh, look, you've got to have treatment.

You can ride

and then.

Look, nothing can help him.

No, nothing.

You said so yourself. He.

He's dying.

We have to stay here now with him
just to keep him company.

Flint. Flint.

Flint. Do

you fair?

He's lived his life

well, anyway.

In his day or in die with him. Why?

Oh, wait a minute.

I'll get this.

Ought to be more country.

They're here.

But I'm

sharing one, son.

No, no, Don't let.

Her find the water.

You lie down on it. I'll find it. Flint,

Hurry up, old man.

You die

and for

there isn't any water

there.

There isn't any.

I lost out there.

I couldn't find my way back.

I was going to die out there.

Sweet

Flint, please, please.

Let's try and get back.

Please.

Let's try and get back.

Let's try.

I don't.

Should I hold me?

And I shouldn't give.

Up and die.

That's enough.

That's enough.

Take it easy on that water, fella.

Come on, easy.

Is it true about Grandfather?

And I'm afraid so. Man.

Is he dead?

He wasn't when I left,
but he's a real bad sh*t.

And John.

He stayed out with Flint
and your granddad.

And if your man's out there
with McCullough, he'll be back.

All right? Don't you worry,

he will.

Only you better go to.

Homeland

Water,

Whereas now.

Where's my. Horse?

Your husband.

She's

playing.

I think he's dead.

The old man,
he finally died. But he's dead.

He's dead.

I had a dream.

Ten days,

bad dream.

I know.

We can go back now.

Come on, let's get back to the train.

Come on. We can go. Back.

We can go back to the train.

But we want.

I'm sorry

to be late

this.

There was plenty of water there.

Just like you said.

Come out of a rock
in the middle of nowhere.

Oh, you could.

You could use. Flint.

Are you sure you can find your way back
here?

Yeah, I think so.

He ain't got no place
made it with a leg like this. Why?

He and flap mortified.

Look at it.

It was pretty stupid of you, isn't it?

Letting a rider sneak up on you like that?

And I won't argue about that. Oh.

Well, I'm glad you get back in there.

On and try. I'll take care.

I know it's not

much consolation, Kathy, but

I don't think he suffered.

Not from the moment he fell.

I know you did all you could.

It was brave of you.

Kathy. Don't say that, Johnny. Colder.

I'll tell you something.

There isn't a man on this train.

Doesn't appreciate what you did.

Major, I know you're tired
and you need your rest,

and I'll let you go in a minute.

Ordinarily,
Flynn McCullough to handle this himself.

He's not in very good shape right now.

I know.

I'm going to send another party back
to shining water.

I'm not quite sure that Flint knows
the way.

He's still pretty hazy.

Do you think you can give Bill Hawks
good enough directions for him to

find the place,

Major?

More than that, I'll take them.

A man could walk in a couple of days.
John.

You can. Won't be necessary.

You've done your share already.

Now, listen, Major, it's important.

Besides, Flint, I'm
the only one who knows where the place is.

And, well,
I don't think I could show them.

I'd have to take them on.

It seems to me, Sonny,

that what you need more is about a week
sleep and a belly full of good grub.

Major.

I've got to go.

I've got to take them.

Well, all right, son.

Don't get excited about it.

You get a nice sleep and some food
like you can take out in the monsoons.

This light? Can I? You?

Good night, Major.

I'm very.

Coffee.

Yeah. Quiet. Charlie.

You all good?
We're just grown up. The water.

You know, at all times. Major,
We have our ways.

Oh, that's fine.

Well, don't waste.

What?

In the name of common sense.
You got it. Tonight.

Well, now you know I didn't have
any spare water, so I used whiskey.

Charlie, I'm. I'm

a boy.

Let's see here.

What's the matter? Is.

Oh, I just thinking.

Our old man.

I want to see a lot of men dead in my day,

but never somebody was a friend.

You know, Flint,

it's perfectly natural for a man
to want to live.

Sort of built in us like a bird.

And he flies thousands, a fish
swimming upstream to where he was hatched.

Man wants to live, even if there doesn't

seem to be much of a reason.

Well, Ben was tougher than most,

so he took a little longer time down.

And so. Yeah, but I wanted him to die.

I kept in there.

All I could think of was hurry up and die.

Get it over with.

And I'd have probably thought the same way

it was.

Oh, they.

Try to

come back.

And maybe it will

k*ll it.

So, Jake, somewhere

up here,

I. I can't even imagine.

Just like saying.

You know, Charlie, that's the first time
I ever saw you do anything sensible

with your own g*dd*mn,

I can't.

Do you have to do this now?

Right now, Cathy.

Go ahead, then.

Tell us what happened.

Ask is McCullough.

He done it.

He tried to smother me.

Couldn't wait for me to die.

Rocks.

I never thought

he'd try to do that.

But I come back or cut off

and come back to k*ll you.

Easy, man. Easy.

That's a pretty serious charge to make.

Then you said yourself,
you're out of your head.

Take a look at this.

I took that off his jacket

when he was trying to finish you.

You can't hide anybody else.

You had no call to do. That, Major.

I got call to do anything I have to
to keep order.

A couple of boys picked clean up

Flint,

take him to my wagon.

And go down If.

I'm to speak up.

How do I know you didn't k*ll him?

How do you know?

Don't I?

I don't even know myself.

I kind of talk is that.

I lay there for a couple of days, measure

that five feet away from me.

I had a fever.

My, like, felt like it was a tree trunk.

And I heard.

I heard like, I never heard before.

And all I could think was, was,

why does me die?

I told you about that.

It's a perfectly normal way to feel.

I didn't tell you a few things,

and I started a of dreaming

crazy dreams.

Kept seeing water and

thinking about things.

When I was a kid,

and all of a sudden I was standing over.

I could hear him breathing

like a horse when he's tired
and I couldn't stand the way it sounded.

So I took my jacket
and I put it over his head.

And then the breathing stopped

was like I was two people,

like I was Dawson, you know,
I was standing back watching him,

even though as a m*rder*r,

I was glad because he'd be dead
and I could get out of there.

You were out of your head with that snake.

Snakebite. What difference does that make.

When it could make a lot of difference?

Those people out there
just waiting for Koehler to get back.

On the hike

to a thing like that.

Again.

Then he could

better make it comes hot.

Here it is, folks.

Come and get your water.

Just like I told you, Charlie.

Use it all the way to California.

Oh, good. I was lucky when I.

You know, he let us out here just like
you been raising this country every day.

There was good.

Johnny,
I got something I want to show you.

Come on back here with it.

All right.

Tavern Monaco.

No, it can't be here.

I buried him.

Did you see him do it?

Oh, the color.

Did you see him
Try and smother the old man?

That's right, Johnny.

Most of these people think McCullough
tried to k*ll them.

We don't think we know

John.

How about it?

Today?

Don't you know?

Well, Flint was delirious for three days.

He was out of his mind. He.

That's all we need to know.

Why he should

bail.

We sh**t the next man
who tries to lay a hand on Flint.

To get away from him. All of you.

We're not going to let him get away
with what he did.

However bad

you not.

He didn't do anything.

What did you say?

Go ahead, Johnny.

Speak your piece.

Flint didn't try to k*ll Mr.

Burns.

Shut up, son.

No, it's the truth.

I did.

Mr. Burns was dying.

Everyone thought so.

And it was all right
until Flint got bitten by the snake.

And then he was out of his mind.

He shot him? No,

I'm sorry, Cathy.

The only excuse I can offer is that

something happened to me out there

and desert.

No water,

no one to help me, not even to talk to.

I just.

Mr. Burns,

everyone said you were going to die
anyway.

And I didn't want to die out there alone.

At the time.

It didn't feel like.

I mean, somehow
it didn't seem like it was m*rder.

You filthy little scum.

Oh, you talk.

I told you to keep your mouth shut once,

not try to open it.

I told you, someday there is just

no, I won't

listen
because I don't want to do some life

with all three.

Pretty law out there.

McCullough was out of his head, and

I had all I could do to keep breathing.

The boy here was scared to death.

Nothing wrong was

seeing the first time he ever was.

Is rough country.

What I was saying is

we're never going to know for sure

what really did happen up there.

Flint was snake pit.

Men can do anything.

Any snake that

I see in cold air here.



I think he had a heap of guts
to stay out there with.

Aw, shucks.

I should have just laid down and died.

Like any decent career.

Nothing would have happened at all.

Nothing that

I ain't admitting anything did happen.

The way you want it.

Then I said it did not.

All right, You heard it

calling about you. Wagons, everybody.

One gift

this minute. Boy,

you know you're a greenhorn out here, boy.

That's
why I've got to say what I'm gonna to

pulling over.

You want to k*ll a man?

Don't ever pick one as ornery as me. Oh,

it's just the last one.

You know, I eat all this soup.

You're going to grow up to be nice
and make you

well.

You know, I,
like much been made out of that.

That legs in water.

All right, don't rub it in.

John.

If grandfather can forgive you.

I can do

I. Can I forgive myself?

Myself?

No way.

They'll be all right. Maybe.

No, not maybe.

Because she told me she'd marry him
no matter what happened.

Stubborn. Just like I'm sure.

I bet I never figured you
to be the forgiving type.

You ain't never had a granddaughter,

you know.

Look, Ellen,

if it had been, you try to k*ll me.

How to chase you all over the world
just to cut your throat.

But I never would have had a chance.

Neither would you if you was in my shoes.

Because we're.

This is our backyard.

When we k*ll a man stays k*lled.

You know

as well as this younger generation,

they can't do.

Anything right here.

This is for

your.