03x20 - The Ricky and Laura Bell Story

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Background.

Hey. Hey.

Yeah.

Yeah. Baltimore. They moved away.

Why is it the Troubles
always come in bunches like bananas?

I don't know.

Are you sure they pulled out
of the circle, Charlie?

Major,
would I lie? A lot of debatable point.

By golly, I'll find another one.

There's a woman back there in a wagon

who is as miserable
as any human being I've ever seen.

Oh, dear God.

What shall I do?

This much
I knew about Laurie and Ricky. Bo.

Whatever it was that tore these people
apart, took root and grew

long before they decided to go west.

Not the proper power

to get out of one's bed, to fall into it.

I have found a new dear friend
who will sign a note for me.

After all, our money is and everything.

I got mine tomorrow.

You're going to stick yourself
in the position.

You're fired.

Oh, Mr. Bailiff, it's my wages
that are upsetting you.

You needn't be distressed.

I still trust you, sir.

Jacob.

You are creditor worthy of a gentleman.

And yes,
you are truly a gentleman's gentleman.

Excuse me.

Would you mind letting your poor,
dear, tired wife and Jacob?

As soon as I replenish the fortune,
I promise that you shall be among

the first to receive free Quinn for sweat
and tears down through the years. Yes.

You shall be fully compensated
for 12 years of married loyalty for Jacob.

He suffered every minute with me.

Every year as a son. Jacob.

Plus interest.

Mr. Bell, you're not jesting.

You're telling me that I'm discharged?

Yes. Jacob.

Mr. Richard is telling you to go.

And me to go and the whole world to go.

It's not you, Jacob. It's me.

I'm a failure.

A miserable failure.

Mr. Barrett,
if you don't mind my saying so.

It's not your reading
that's called your circumstances.

It's your excessive.

Charms

of you, Jacob.

I shall have your words
chiseled in polished marble.

Plus the sad statement
that I failed to heed your advice

and thus became a failure.

The great challenge I have, Jacob.

He is not being. Able to make any money.

I'm nothing but
a butterfly is a social butterfly.

There's nothing for me to do but just fly.

Away and complete.

Is that all. Of.

The promises you never keep?

All right.

If a family is so important to you.

I'll be gone tomorrow.

Ricky,

please. Come on, now.

You better get some sleep.

You'll upset all your plans
and miss the wagon train.

You don't think
I'm going to do it, do you?

Do you think I always planned all these
arrangements just as of playing you?

You don't think I have the courage to go
as I.

Know you have the courage.

You'll do as you plan.

You want me to go?

We have no other choice.

You know.

Ricky, you may never grow up

and I may never have a family.

But if we don't have each other,

we'll have nothing, will we?

You'll go with me.

I love you, Ricky.

For some strange reason, I love you more

now than I did 12 million years ago
when we were first married.

Yes. I'll go with you.

You're all I have.

Available and want a wagon train.

And I should be something to see.

It'll be no funnier than you

in leather britches.

Maybe we'll find each other on the boat.

See under the big sky.

On. Yes, you do as I've instructed.

And you'll be fine.

You couldn't be wrong.

Well, I couldn't.

But you couldn't.

Thank you,

Lorrimer.

Darling, everything's taken care of.

Well, now,
the proud owners of a fine wagon.

Oh, pork and bacon and beans
and shovels and ropes and.

Two r*fles with 500 rounds of ammunition.

Oh, Two cuts from the rebels side,
of course.

Plus the solid supplies and equipment,
without which, I'm.

Told we couldn't
possibly conquer the West.

And an irrevocable and nonrefundable.

Contract for passage West on Seth Adams
Wagon train.

All of the aforementioned
having reduced our working

capital to two paltry coppers that won't.

Even buy a decent rank
to launch us at daybreak tomorrow.

Irrevocable and nonrefundable.

Yes, Laurie, we've taken the giant step.

Nothing you'll keep us
from our appointed way.

No snow and ice, sleet, dark of night.

Well, there is one thing.

Yeah, Yeah, but come on, now.

You better start doing
all those little things

a woman has to do
before she can even cross the street.

Because we are about to cross a continent.

Now, come on. Go
powder your nose or something.

I said there is one thing.
All right, honey.

All right. Go on.

Make your funny

a baby.

Baby? Yeah.

Yeah, that is funny.

Snow, sleet, dark of night, Narrow baby.

The baby.

Gloria, that just doesn't fit.

Well, then I'll spell it for you.

B, a, b, y.

And o oh, yes.

You're sure? Yes.

I know.

Must be some mistake.

Come on. We'll go see a doctor.

But I've been to the doctor.

Well, today?

Yeah.

You mean the doctor missed one horse town?

Will you take the fine time?

That's all I can say.

You certainly picked a fine time.

Ricky, stop it.

You're behaving like a spoiled,
jealous brat.

If I told you once,
I told you a thousand times

when things are right,
then you can start to have a family.

I didn't think you'd be as happy about it
as I am, but I certainly didn't

expect this sort of.
Well, what. Did you expect?

Well, Daniel Prairie behind the bushes
some place. Oh.

I don't you dare say one more word
like that about my having this child.

Well, before I went my way to the nearest
saloon, we get saturated.

And suppose
you tell me just what happens now?

What are you going to buy a bottle with?

I'll sell a side of bacon.

And your condition.

You won't have any stomach for it anyway.

You can sell everything.

The wagon, the beans, the rope.

We're going to stay right here
in Saint Joe until I've had this baby.

Norrie,
why don't you go back to Baltimore?

Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you.

Laura?

Laura, Why did you have to go
and complicate our lives?

Yes. You having a baby wasn't my idea.

You ruined everything for us.

Everything we had together.

Like what?

Well, like the chance
I had to parlay that family, probably

in San Francisco into a little fortune
so I'd have something in my pocket

besides bills. But now.

Now your days of thinking
only of yourself are over.

Because whether you like it or not,
you're going to be a father,

and you're going to have to accept
the responsibility.

And how do I go about that?

My starting to treat
you like a little mother.

Now, that might be easier than going out
and working for a living,

which you're certainly going.
To have to do.

And pray.

Tell me, what's the balance
of my sentence, Sweet little mother?

When does the wagon train
come back to Saint Joe?

Not for nine months, anyway.

Well, the baby will be old enough
by then to make the trip.

Where are you going?

To make some credit
from the telegraph operator

to send a frantic greetings
to Aunt Elizabeth.

But to come here?

Well, sure.

All right, look,
What do you know about raising a baby?

I'll learn.

All right. And Elizabeth, I'll teach you.

If she raised me and the rest of the bouse
stable has nothing she can.

Raise,

Laura will do.

Would you have a large piece of silver
tucked away someplace

for a rainy day?

You better tell and Elizabeth to hurry.

It's going to be a boy.

Sure,

Ricky,

don't be jealous.

He'll get his own special kind of love.

He won't take anything from you.

He's not.

Charley.

It's only been nine months.

How many trips do you have to make?

I forgot.

I'll take care,

Major.

Do you take care of the office, Bill?

He got a few hours in state care.

When you take care of you
wish you had what?

Man's got a right to take care of it.


after all.

Business before. Pleasure, boys.

Have you ever heard that old expression?
All work and no play?

You know what?

Why? Hello? Back.

It's good to see you again.

Honey.

Oh, you don't remember me?

I signed on with you for the last trip.

Ricky Bell from Baltimore.

Oh, yeah, sure.

You're a Tea Party man.

Mm. And long potty expert.

Oh, sure.

How come you missed the last trip?

I had a baby. You had a baby.

Charley.

Didn't I tell you to go
take care of your odds and ends?

Now, I've heard everything.

But you haven't heard anything yet.

Now get out before I change my mind. Mr..

So you had a baby.

Say, about two months ago.

Well, it's a boy or girl. Boy.

Larry made up her mind to have a boy.

You could count on it
soon. You must be very happy.

Yes. Yeah.

I just spent the last nine months

out of the best years of my life
working for a blacksmith.

I become another one of those victim bound

by the change of society
and the temple of family responsibilities.

Again. The son lost a wife.

You look like a new man.

When no money or wagons roll in again,
Major.

About a week. Why?

Your contract stipulates no refunds.

That's right.

Well, I don't want my money back,
but I sure appreciate it.

If you could extend me full credit
for this trip.

Oh, I see.

You want to use the passage money
that you paid for another trip

for this new trickle. But

the contract says

nothing about making one trip
instead of another man.

I was to go.

Contracts can't always cover everything.

I was.

I don't know
that you were going to have a baby.

I know what you mean.

Even I wasn't emotionally prepared

to become a mother.

All right, you've got full passage.

But I'll tell you one thing.

I'm going to fix September.

Oh, no, I'm
not going to send this back to Baltimore.

You'll just have to find room for it.

Liz, the baby's crying.

I'm not deaf.

What are you going to learn?

He has. To cry.

It's good for him.

Well,
then why are you carrying him around?

I said about an hour ago, He's not hungry.

You won't listen to me.

I told you not to drink that
gassy wine, but.

Oh, no. You know better.

Look, Ricky,
in my having a little champagne

to celebrate, getting out of St
Joe isn't going to upset that baby.

Oh, isn't it?

You'll find out that Aunt Elizabeth knows
what she's talking about.

Yes, you're right.

I still think I should go with you.

Now, let's not start that again.

Well, you're no right to gamble with this
baby's health.

I promise
I'll take very good care of my baby.

I forgotten more about raising infants.

And you will ever know.

No, please.

Sooner or later,
you're going to have to get over this

feeling you have for the child.

Don't
make it more difficult for yourself. Why?

He's more money than he is.

Yours.

Give him to me, Elizabeth.

Oh, no.

It's nothing

like all the rest.

I held him before he was dry.

Then my money is yours.

You understand me?

All right, Elizabeth?

He's yours.

Just let me hold, will you?

And maybe he's hungry.

Don't you think I ought to feed him? No,

no, You're poisoning him.

You stay away from now on.

Do you hear me? You just stay away.

Give me my child.

Help me.

If you do anything, I worry.

No kindness.

In. Oh, no mistakes.

I it just like the rest.

You think I haven't got feelings?

You think I'm just useless

here?

The dried up old spinster

going to be taken straight
A bone like an old dog.

The only thing you want me for
is just a watch,

baby.

You get to desert.

You just wait and see.

You just remember what you've done to me.

That's what you'll be paying for it.

That's why it'll be making you suffer

for a long time.

Mary, try to understand.

Understand her?

Well, she doesn't mean it.

Can't you see what's happened to her?

I see. She's a vicious woman. No, no.

She feels as though she's lost every baby
that she's helped to raise.

She's paying the penalty
for loving too much.

That's why you do it again. And again.

Because that's the only thing
she has to live for.

Women like that should be in institutions.

All right. You know, she's to be pitied.

You're taking her side.

You stood there and her
to put a curse on your child.

Now you defend her.

If you had to give up ten.

Babies that you loved as much as you love
your own,

what would happen to you
if you lost the 11th?

Do you know?
I don't want to talk about it?

What difference does it make to you
anyway?

You don't even know he exists.

You wish he'd never been born, don't you?

If I were to wish
that someone hadn't been born,

it would be me.

Wagon train leaves in about a week.

If you still want to go.

I don't give a damn.

I do.

What I. Yes.

Oh. Oh.

Just remember,
folks, I'm here to help you.

That's what I get paid for.
You might as well get your money's worth.

Well,
how are the bells doing this evening?

Just before anything like the Tea Party,
you thought. It would be Major.

We haven't had so much.

Fun since Laurie's coming out party.

This is Laurie, I figured. Right.

You just had to be pretty as a picture.

Thank you.

Would you mind my troubling you
for some information?

Well, not at all, ma'am.

Information
is the easiest thing I can give out.

Christian might

not always get the right answers,
but I'll guarantee you'll get an answer.

Oh, well, would you tell me,

what's been your experience with infants
traveling on the train?

Well, Mama,

I got a kind of a theory that babies
like this train better than grown ups.

Seems like the rocking of the wagon
sort of makes them happy.

All right, That's all, folks.

You know, that's all babies.

We get nothing but aches and pains.

I guess we must have had no less than four
or 500 infants on this trip

across the country.

And every one of them just love it.

Any time you want to know
anything about babies, you just ask me.

Thank you.

Say, this is great, little fella.

What do you call it.

Ricky?

All entries bar. Mm.

Except I call him Stinky
so as not to get confused.

My husband has a very distorted
sense of humor.

My wife has.

Positively none
where the little stink isn't loud.

Ricky. Are you barking at me?

Larry, you're little stinky.

You see what I mean, Major?

You see what you mean,

Really?

And now.

Oh, goodnight, Major Adams.

And I apologize for my husband's.

He's a stinker.

Measure.

You married? No. No, I'm not.

Oh. Yeah.

Don't take my advice.

These little mothers
are just about as useless as

one shoe.

You're

managing to be particularly unpleasant
tonight.

Loving. I wasn't even trying.

Oh, aren't you ever going to grow up?

My bother?

Babies get all the attention.

What?

I think.

We are know.

I have to nurse the baby.

Would you put the flap down?

There's a cold rash.

This show is.

You'll walk into hot coals.

I never know. It.

And I beg your pardon?

I knew it.

A gentleman from the east below
American sports

one every time.

You are talking to me.

Do I look like the type
that spends time talking to myself?

You know, I dare say
you would never have any difficulty

finding somebody to talk with.

Fire.

A big, tall one.

Sit down.

I'm getting a kink in the neck
looking up at you.

My name is Ricky Bell.

Out of the ballroom.

It's nice. And young.

I told you,
maybe you were so impressed with me

fingering you for a gentleman
that you didn't pay any attention.

Can you ever forgive me?

You smile at me, Mr.

Bell. Anything.

My name is Mary. Out of luck.

How do you do, ma'am?

I take it then, that this healthy outdoor

living doesn't make
you want to jump with joy?

If you live to be 100 seconds in all this
pressure, it wouldn't be worth it.

In how many years have you lived?

I was born 19 years ago.

I've lived to 100.

And doesn't show.

It. What's this?

I beg your pardon?

How long have you been married?

Oh, 13 years.

I have lived 100.

You've been dead 13.

We're just made for each other.

You must be with the Madam
McQueeney group.

You know her?

I've never had the pleasure.

But I'd like you to tell her for me that.

But the West need she's bringing in.

You're serious? I most certainly am.

No. Till a town has a theater.

Just isn't the town.

What is it?

The watering trough.

Madam McQueeney, we like you.

That's nice.

Don't tell me you don't want to be liked.

Somebody healthy to want to be loved.

Yes. You know,

you're so right, Mary.

You act like I insulted you or something.

Oh, something.

I get strong, you know, Gentleman.

I'm sorry, Mary.

What's eating you?

Wife trouble?

What makes you think that?

Would you really like to know?

I saw.

Maybe I'll tell you a lot of things.

Be quiet.

Where have you been?

Almost Dawn.

I got an urge for some softshell crabs.

So I stopped by the Lord Baltimore Hotel.

You know how things are.

One way leads to another, and.

Next it'll be oysters.

Then what?

Hunting season.

I don't bother to come home.

Goodnight,

Laurie.

I couldn't.

We just talk for a minute?

Oh. You want to confess?

Yeah.

Nothing important. I just.

Just thought it might be fun
to tell you how much

I love you.

Vicky.

You. Ricky, you're impossible.

You mustn't ever think that

I love you less than I did before.

We had our beautiful little stinker.

Promise me
you won't ever leave me for a younger,

pretty one of us.

Put the lamp out

your promise awfully easily.

How can you be sure?

You really want to know.

Is how can you be sure

you'll never leave me for a younger
pretty one?

Okay.

You know the patience to train.

Try and.

Keep. Yeah.

You're a scoundrel.

It's no small part of my charms.

Oh, you clumsy thing.

There, there it.

No shampoo, baby. That's.

No, that's all.

I don't cry.

That's all right.

No. Oh, there we go.

Hurry up. Light the lamp.

She goes.

You do not cry.

There is right there in there.

Now there's a baby.

Strong cry. No,

that's better, isn't it?

When she's been a.

Baby, you.

Know,

you're

right.

You're a

now, Stella.

He's out in the woods with one too, madam.

Afraid he's dead. Drinker.

All of yourself. Mrs. Law.

You don't understand. He has a fever.

He'll be all right. Don't you. Worry.

Those girls stricken with plague fever,
he's deathly ill.

Please, Major, don't slump.

All right, Well, I.

Well, a boy asked a word down the line.

There's been a case of fever. Break out.
Tell him not to panic.

I ask for volunteers
to take care of the sick.

If they're not willing to do that, pick up
what supplies they can spare.

Blankets, towels, bedding. What?

What about my stand?

You can't leave your mother to die.

You don't intend to, Mrs. Laura.

ALL Nobody's for now. Listen to me.

If you want to help your son or not, well,
then show me where he is.

Will you

support.

Roger, Mrs.

Inside the wagon,
feeding the heir to the bale fortune.

Well, I hope you can think of a funny way
to tell her that fever's broken out.

Now you tell if I open my mouth.

You see that? Yeah.

That major's asked for any spare supplies
you might have.

And volunteer help.

Do what?

To take care of the sick
and bury the dead.

Now, if you can qualify for that,

why don't you go on down to the lead
wagon.

And diapers from boiling?

Not yet, Laurie.

Something I have to tell you.
But we can chat later.

They finish the chores first.

Please

not try not to get excited.

Well, you try.

What's so important that it won't wait?

Epidemics broken out in camp.

Of what?

Fever.

It's all I know.

It's the horses.

Oh, no, Laurie,
we don't. We can't run away.

Oh, no, no, no, not run away.

But just get the wagon out of the circle.

Look, Laurie, what would happen if.

Everybody else tried to do the same thing?

We're just going to stay here
and let your son.

But I'll. Please hurry.

All right, Laurie,
I'm over the wagon off a little distance,

but it'll have to be within
shouting distance. Why?

Just in case you need me.

Well, where will you be?

All right.

These people need all the help
we can give them.

You're. You're going to help.

Then what about. Us?

I'll be right here
if you need me. Need you?

I probably won't
ever need you again as much.

As Laurie Lunch.

Understand?

This is my big chance to be a hero.

You, you and your unfunny humor.

You picked

a fine time to prove you're a man.

You don't care.

Maybe that's what it is like.

Maybe I don't care.

I'm just as scared as you are.

But I don't care.

You move this wagon out of the circle
and stay with us.

Or what?

Anything happens to this baby.

You all know who to blame me.

A man, Elizabeth.

Well,

it's none of my business, but she's wrong.

She's acting like a mother bear Major,

You ask for volunteers?

I'm volunteer.

Trouble. Sure. Make strange bedfellows.

Come on.

I'd sooner

fight Indians flood than famine
all at the same time.

And take on an epidemic of fever.

I've seen it

k*ll more men than either
Yankee or Rebel did.

Was shot in show

Fresh

says.

You know who I am?

He sat across.

He'll be all right.

He'll be all right.

Take it easy.

I look.

I'll count to ten as a pumpkin.

I don't count.

Whoever you are, don't.

Come any closer.

Mr. Adams, I got to talk to you.

Go ahead.

Whatever you want, you will.

You can show it from where you are.

I'd rather have shot what I have to say.

And don't bother.

Go away.

Your husband is deathly sick with a fever.

I thought you'd want to know.

I know.

I know.

Laurie, stop.

You know what you're doing.

Ricky Sick.

He needs me. I've got to go to him.

Your baby needs you

Can't happen.

It can.

Otherwise I wouldn't come out here.

What do you expect me to do?

Choose between my child and my husband?

I don't expect you to do anything.

I've done what I had to do.

I've told you.

So. So do only what you have to do.

You're telling me to choose?

No, I'm not telling you
to choose the time. Right?

Come on. You have to make a choice.

But don't do it till you have to.

Ricky dies.

I'll never forgive myself
if I don't go to him.

Laurie Belle, you can't do anything more
than we're doing to help him right now.

But I promise
you, I'll give you plenty of time

to make your own decision.

Right? To

do your God.

What shall I do,

sir? Stuff it.

It's.

It's my dog in this mission.

And there's so much to I.

Well, I promise you this.

Sure.

Honest

will me.

It's my lunch.

We have fun. Oh,

Why do you want a baby when my family farm

kids for occasions

like you, wanted

very good toys and you play with.

I get you,

you know, and I'll be.

I never seen anything so cute.

Now our life a little

puppy and dog.

We'll catch you with this as

a little

little

a puppy.

Oh yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You're like your

husband all downstairs? Yeah.

Two days and two nights.

He dropped on the brink 100 times.

I made my decision
to give him what he wanted.

Let him die in peace.

And I just could not force
myself to go and get Laurie.

Major Adams

gives

it again.

It's like she snapped.

You're going to come quick.

Keep him covered. Yes,

Ryan.

Laurie, it's me.

What's happened?

I know he's dying.

I've got to go to him.

What else can I do?

Thank you.

Face.

I hadn't closed my eyes

and I couldn't even remember
the last time I slept.

All of a sudden,
I knew that I had to lie down.

I couldn't take or give anymore.

Wake up.

Just, you know, Charlie,
if I didn't know he was alive,

I sure don't seem natural for him.
He's a quiet.

Get it? Well,
I like him better when he's himself.

What's going on here, Major?

You sure had a scared for a minute

glass. Well, you ain't been on, right?

That's what.

What are you two up to?

It in the fever's passed.

Hello?

I've been asleep. Well, you ain't broke
No record, Major.

I once heard telling a fellow Rip
van something that slept for 20 years.

So the fever is past.

Why didn't you wake up?

Well, we didn't get any new customers
in the last 20 hours,

and we didn't losing the old one.

So we thought
we'd let you sleep for a while.

What about Rex era?

Well, the last time I checked,
and they told me

kind of a spicy story
about a farmer's daughter and a sailor.

But I want to hear.

I tell you, you did.

Hey, Rick.

All right.

No. No, no.

Please don't tell me.

Just leave us alone.

Gloria, The epidemic over

Rikki.

Oh, he'll be fresh as ever.

I can go to him. Sure.

There's no more danger now. I'm.

But what

the heck? Oh,

Rikki

great

Rikki,

Rikki.

She suffered with you

every moment.

Oh please forgive me.

I wanted to come to you school but.

Go away and

know. She.

Will be white administrator.

That support.

No, you don't do that

now. What's the matter?

He won't.

He won't forgive me for not going to.

When he needed me.

He wasn't

your blubbering baby.

You call yourself a man.

You haven't got the guts. Hello, Rabbit.

Mind you, mind your business, Major.

This is my business.

You think I'm blind like you
while you're rolling around unconscious?

Who do you think was suffering?

You know, Laurie, she suffered agony
every second of the time.

I had to kept her from coming here.

She did gamble that baby's life for you,
and you're not worth it. No,

listen,
I'm giving you just a length of time.

It'll take me to get you back to
your wagon for you to apologize to Laurie

I tonight and care what you do.

Now, move.

That puppy.

Quickly.

I move here.

You get in that wagon and you eat crow.

If you give that girl
one more moment of unhappiness.

So help me out.

Thanks, Major.

I will let myself get mixed up in.

Family arguments on Major.

Major, Thank you.

And you see your people.

I people went.

West for many reasons
to find fortunes, gold and whatnot.

But the real lucky ones were the Laurie
and Rikki Bells.

They found each other.

You name.