03x27 - The Jonas Murdock Story

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Oh, but we have wagon train.

No Renault, no

wagon Train Scout McCullough.

Say, Wagon Master, I want to talk Baby
wagon Master Brake Promise k*ll our game.

If so, then we attack k*ll

all white men on Werner wagons.

But we taught first

rider.

We have been in your land for many sons.

Because of rains.

It has taken longer than I figured.

We still have a long way to go.

My people are hungry.

I ask you.

Release me from my agreement.

Give me permission to hunt game.

Just enough game to feed my people
no more.

There's only one reason why I do not send
a thousand braves down on your wagons

because you keep promise
not to k*ll again.

That means life to my people.

Keep your promise. Now I can master that.

I'll do.

But Chief, Red Hawk must know

it is not easy to keep eyes on many people
when they are hungry.

Then punish those who break our agreement.

If you wish others to live, Red Hawk
well know.

You didn't put up much of an argument.

Major.

Who said that? Me,

me, Jonas Murdoch.

Murdoch,

You don't argue with a chief like Radar

when he's got his mind made up,
especially when he's right.

I did agree. Not to k*ll his game.

You ought to know
that you were an Indian scout.

You're right about that, Major.

I know plenty about them. Engines,
all right?

Including how to steal a game.

Right out from under their noses

without their scouts even knowing it,
without firing a shot.

You just try that, Murdoch.

Just try it. There will be a shot.

It'll be from my g*n.

Is that clear?

All right, boss.

Get back to our wagons longer.

We stand here,
the longer we'll be without fresh meat.

Let's get ready.

Nero, I.

You know, Charlie, I'll bet

when the last wagon runs out of hardtack,
you still have some of this coffee left.

And don't you worry, Bill, as long as
I have it, you'll still get your share.

Yeah, but right now, I'd trade
my share for one little venison steak.

I'll see you.

Where are you going?

Going to go
Place them to Hannah with Jonas.

What's the matter with me? I'm the best
card. Better say that Mississippi.

I know.

That's why I'm going to play with John's

table.

You and Murdoch
have become pretty good friends.

I mean. We get along
real good together. What?

I wonder if you'd

give me a little friendly advice.

I got a feeling that Murdoch doesn't
take my agreement.

We run out too seriously.

Jonas isn't going to do anything
to get us into trouble.

I hope not.

We should talk to him anyway, Will you?

Will? Sure, Major.

I'll give you my personal guarantee
that if anybody on his train

steps out of line kills game,
it won't be Jonas Murdoch.

And for him.

I'll see. You.

What's the matter, Major?

Don't you trust Murdoch?

I don't know, Charlie.

I'm quite sure

he's not used to living with other people.

He's spent his life
out in the wilderness by himself, so

I'm not sure that he realizes
the importance

of living by rules that are set up
for a whole group of people.

Only laws he knows are the

ones made by nature,
the ones made by himself.

I bet each each had cards to

say. I bet he cheated cards.

Yeah.

Really?

Oh, Bill, I've been waiting for you.

I told you I'd give you a chance
to get some of your money back.

And which is it?

I owe you now. $23.75.

Oh, well, we'll see if I can't win
that down a little bit tonight, huh?

Jonas?

How come you're making those rabbit
snares?

Catch me some rabbits.

Come on.

Come on. Sit. Sit right there.

You got to admit, I'm getting better
every time we play.

Don't you know that
rabbits are part of Redhawks game?

Oh, sure. I know that.

You know,
I never had much chance to really get

very good at this game
before I joined up with this outfit.

It sure does be traveling alone, Major.

Ask me to give
you a little friendly advice.

But he has to right far.

You know, Bill,

you know you're about the first
real friend I ever had in all my life.

Ever stayed in one place long enough
before.

I reckon he wants to know
if you understand it, Red.

I could m*ssacre as quick

for k*lling the rabbit
as if you went out and shot a deer.

Oh, I know that.

But, I mean,
would it k*ll me a thousand times?

If they had caught me?

I would have most of my life
by stealing their game.

Well, I told him that you were one man
we wouldn't have any trouble with.

Was that right?
Oh, yeah. You was dead, right?

I didn't even intend to use them
the little rabbit snares

until we get out of Red
Hawk's territory. Can you open Bill?

Let me take a look.

Yeah, I can open.

I'll just bet you that 2375.

Don't you want no other cards?

No other cards.

What are you doing there?

Hold on. Here.

Let me go. Rush.

What did you want in my wagon, anyway?

Nothing.

You hungry?

You have something to eat?

It's Grandpa.

He. He's awful old.

And he needs some good food
to keep a strength up.

Or he's going to die. Sure.

That bad offer?

Oh, he doesn't complain, but I'm worried.

But you know, there
ain't nothing left to eat

in this whole outfit
besides some hardtack.

What made you think I'd be any different?

Everybody knows that
you were an Indian scout.

That means you know a lot
about hunting and trapping.

I just thought

maybe.

Maybe I'd be doing a little of that

trapping on the side, huh?

What's your name? Alma.

Alma Hardy.

Just you and your man traveling
all by ourselves.

Well, look, I tell you what

you do, you go on back to your wagon,
and maybe I Mind you,

I said, maybe I'll be able to rustle up
something for Eddie.

You mean you'd go out
and get us something to eat?

I didn't say nothing like that, did I?

Go. You go.

I'm busy.

And, Charlie,

how the devil
you expect to make coffee without a fire?

You know that?

We got to have something hot
to wash that hardtack down with.

Hey, Charlie.

You're going to have to yell louder
than that for him to hear your bill.

What? He's out there in the brush
someplace.

Well, what's he doing out there?

Doing exactly what I told him to do.

Keeping an eye on your friend Murdock.

You mean Murdock's out there? Yeah.

Charlie
saw him slipping away from his wagon

a while ago, so I sent him out to see
if he could find out what he was up to.

You got nothing to worry about.

You don't think so?

Well, there isn't a man on his train

who does know what would happen
if they k*lled some game.

That's. That's as they get caught.

Bill Murdock figures he's smart enough
to get away with it, and he might just be.

Then he'd probably talk about it.

That's all it would take
to get some of the others to try.

And we'd have real trouble.

Not taking any chances.

Bill?

Mm hmm.

Not at

looking for something.

Charlie Murdock

Say, you didn't think I was dumb enough
to let you sneak up behind me, did you?

Well,
I've been a fun with you for 10 minutes.

I'll bet you never did

figure out how come them tracks of mine
led up to that tree, but never led away.

All right,
If you've had your belly full of laughs,

just tell me what you're doing out here.

Oh, I'm just taking a little walk,
Charlie.

Hey, No law against that, is it?

Well, not if you're just taking a walk.

No, that's all, Charlie.

All right, then.

You do your walking
around your own campfire.

Some Indian might see you out here
and think you was hunting or something.

Whatever you say, Charlie.

All right, It's better.

I'll bet he would just taken a walk

it, Rabbit.

Come along. Come along with me.

Nobody's going to take you away,

Cook.

You don't skin your hide.

Why do long a day rabbit.

Come on.

Come along with me.

Oh, Murdock.

Adam. Mr. Jamieson. What's you cooking?

Oh, just some greens.

Ain't very good, Winslow.

Ain't nothing

grows around here
that's worth even wasting a campfire on.

If I didn't know better,
I'd say it almost smell like chicken,

a boil and,
oh, maybe a squirrel or a rabbit.

That's funny.
That tricks a fellow's imagination up.

Pull on him when he had a square mile
a long time.

More like a rabbit, I'd say.

Well, it's nothing to smell any better
over a campfire.

And listen, it's bacon
and eggs in the morning.

I thought I.

Smelled rabbit cooking last night, too.

Oh. Oh.

I stopped by to see how old man
Hardy was fair.

And he's looking better.

That's, uh huh.

I figured it was
because he was eating better lately.

How do you figure that?

Well, like I was saying,
I thought I smelled rabbit cooking,

so I looked in the pot.

His granddaughter held my hand.

On the fire,
and that's all. It was. Rabbit.

How do
you suspect they caught it in rabbit?

Same place you've been. Getting yours at.

So I reckon even trapping them.

I reckon.

What have I read off scouts.

Well, they.
They k*lled me if they caught me.

But they did.

All the same.

You ain't got no right to put us in danger
like this.

I got it right, Detainee.

Not if you're going to get
all the rest of a scalp.

Well, I ain't been none of your scalp.

And there won't be reason your bellyaching
is because you haven't had a square meal

in a long time, but you're not willing
to do nothing about it.

Well, what can we do?

I'll look at it this way, James.

This is a wild country we're in,
and unless you're a little smarter

than the next fella, you're liable
to end up being feed for the buzzards.

I even the wild animals know that.

They know that the strong ones
live often the weak ones.

Unless the weak ones are smarter.
Now, you.

You don't never seen a wild animals
dying of starvation and dying.

Few of them ever live
long enough to die of old age.

Now you

ain't no better than them
wild animals in this area.

Neither is the engine.

Only they're stronger than you are
and they're smarter than you are.

But they ain't smarter than me.

What you're getting at, Murdock.

Justice.

I've been living
by stealing their game out

from under their noses ever since
I've been in this part of the country.

And I am to keep right on doing it
whenever I get angry.

Cause
that's the only way I know how to live.

Good.

That's just what I figured.

I reckon you can trap a lot

more game than you could possibly eat
by yourself, couldn't you?

Oh, I don't hardly
see how I could do that.

No. Now.

Will you think it over
and we'll keep your secret

from Major Adams if you agree to help us.

I know.

I catch you out.

Just a little old rabbit, Charley.

Hey, no harm in that.

No harm.

Just enough harm to get the whole train
massacred, that's all.

Now, look, Charlie,

don't go getting your feathers ruffled up,
I tell you what about our.

You come over to my camp
and I'll treat you to the best bait

you've had since this outfit
run out of fresh meat.

Bribing me ain't going to help you.

None ain't bribing you.

Just plain old hospitality.

Whatever you like.

But it ain't going to stop me
from taking you back to the major.

Now, come on, let's get going before
the Redhawks Scout, see what we've done.

You know I'm smarter than them engines.

Ain't nobody seen me.
When I saw you. And I ain't particular.

I take you back dead or alive. Come on.

I'm beginning to think maybe

I made a mistake
letting you in on this. You.

Oh, If you wasn't

a friend of Phil Hawkes, I'd polish
you off right now.

If one word of this
gets back to the major,

there ain't nobody going to save you.

Oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh,

oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh.

Charlie What I devil happen to you,

major Oh, oh. Oh.

What's a what's the matter? Oh,

whiskey in my rucksack.

Charlie. Come on, Charlie, wake up.

What happened to you?

Charlie, listen to me.

Hurry up, Bill.

Here.

Well.

Well, drink it.

You durn fools have good whiskey and

Come on, Charlie.

Who did this to you?

Got in Missouri with the club?

Me with these r*fle barrels.

Little Paul.

Oh, no.

No, Major, Let me. Have Charlie.

Try some more.

This Charlie.

Amazing.

My short Alec damned. Able
to break out his private stock.

I never thought you'd go
this far to get a drink.

Or a knock.

I'm in

everything you've.

Got, Major Adams.

In here.

You k*lled Major.

Adams.

Somebody I.

You know what to do.

Keep that bandage wet
so it heals the inside out.

Yeah.

Where are you going, Mr. Hawkes?

Mr. Hawkes,

you've got to do something. Do what, man?

It's Jamison.

He says now that Major Adams is able
to stop him, he's going to k*ll some game.

Well,

wait a minute.

I. Come on, let's go.

Get off those horses.

We're going to get some fresh meat
for our families.

You heard what Redbox said.

You k*ll any game and we all die.

You got one set of rules for your friends
and another set for us.

What do you mean by that?

Jamieson
Murdoch's been trapping rabbits all along.

I didn't see
nobody get k*lled because of it.

Murdock's going to pay for what he did,
just like the rest of you will

if you break Major Adams word.

Now you get back to your wagons
and I'll take care of Murdock.

Come on, get those horses on saddle

Hill.

Who's going to run the wagon train
with a major down?

You? Me? I'm just a cook.

You remember the trouble I had
the last time I tried to run this outfit?

Look, Charlie,
I got to bring Murdock back.

Don't think for a minute
The Red Hawk does know what he did.

He just waiting to see
if we're going to punish him.

How you going to find him?

I'll find him

and take care of the Major.

Charlie forgot. Horse.

Don't you worry about him.

I'll take care of

both.

Oh, it.

Looks like we're going to do
some more climbing, a little fella.

Maybe we can shake him up and them
rocks and.

And and now.

Oh, I asked you one little fella.

And how many more?

And after make your own way.

What would lose

to the.

And strong for.

What happened to Major
Adams was none of our doing.

Now we got to get out of this
Indian country.

I'm not going to move this wagon
until a the majors better.

I don't think
he could stand a jolting around right now.

Well if what you say is true
about Red Hawk,

he already knows about Murdock
stealing his game.

They didn't do anything about that.

Well, he will if they'll. Don't
bring him back soon.

And I say we got to get moving right away.

Don't make no difference
if Major Adams is the one that's ailing.

There ain't no one man that's
more important than the whole train.

He said that himself a hundred times.

Maybe if we just waited
the rest of the day

till morning,
I'm sure I'd be able to stand it down.

But we ain't got enough food to last
until we get out of Red Hog's territory.

The way it stands every day we're held up
means that a few more of us

here won't be able to last it out.

Any way you look at it, it's
still one man against all the rest of us.

So you got to make up your mind right now.

All right?

Hook up your
teams. We'll pull out in half an hour.

Come on.

I had to do it, Major.

I guess you know that.

But I promise
you, I'll take the smoothest trail

I can find.

Wagons.

Oh, right.

Got that?

Hey, I didn't know that was you.

Follow me, Bill.

Would you expect a major?

Oh, that was an accident.

You know, we was fighting
and he fell on that spit.

Was Charlie an accident to you?

Ain't no position to argue much now, Bill.

I'm taking your horse.

You ain't going to follow me.

Far on foot with no Grosvenor Water.

And Power

and all you own.

There's some Apache two men here.
Stay away.

It'll put a bee.

Inside his head
singing for a while until all of a

Oh, here, take this.

You should. In fact, you even.

Maybe he'll stay away.

He'll put those bees inside his hands.

And by all day.

Oh. Oh, Billy boy.

Well, maybe he'll dry when he hits his.

Hold your drink.

That goose, that Apache, we.

Ready to go to.

Jesus?

I'm sure, Doc,

You know.

Good. Murdock.

I'm going to rid.

The world of you, Murdock.

I told you I.

Kidding, Charlie.

I told you, Johnny.

I got him, John.

I told you I would

major

behind you, Mac.

I'm gonna get to Murdock.

I'm going to get you.

Do you know what?

Sorry, Bill.

You all

Oh, that be sleeping out on, man. It

really.

I sure wasn't expecting you.

I'm taking you back, Murdock.

You're going to hardware the easy way.

No, sir.

I never

had you figured for getting this far,
Bill.

Well,
you better pray that we're not too late.

Oh, well, you.

You know, I never should have joined up
with that wagon outfit in the first place.

I don't belong around a bunch of people.

I lived alone too long.

It's a little bit late
to be thinking about that.

I didn't mean no harm that.

Oh, my.

Heart is old. Granddaddy was alone.

I was just trying to get him some food.

Or given your word as a friend,
it mean much to you.

Did it?

I figured because you was my friend,
maybe you'd understand.

Or maybe you can understand
why I got to take you back.

Sure. Sorry. It was
you would come after me.

There ain't no way in this world you're
ever going to get me back to that train.

And I sure hate to have to k*ll you
to keep you from trying.

While I'm taking you back, mister.

So you better get used to the idea.

Oh. But

come on.

You're

God dang this stubbornness fool
I ever did.

See, Bill, I give you enough reason
to quit and turn back a dozen times now.

You just had to keep on coming.

There are fulfill

your dangerous fool.

I don't seem to have you on my trail
for the rest of my day.

We're all through playing
Father Leader Jonas.

Why didn't you quit, Bill?

Why didn't you quit Now?

You fixed it so I got to k*ll you.

Did you hear me, Bill?

I said I.

Got to k*ll you.

I told you I was going to take you back.

Don't try to stop us, Charlie.

There ain't no Indians around.

We're going to get
some fresh meat tonight.

How many times your people have to be told

just because you don't see an Indian out?

There's no reason they're not there. Why?

They're probably watching every move
we're making right now.

What about man up?

He got away with it, and I don't see
nobody doing anything about that.

I'm not gonna let you do it, Jamison.

I don't see how you're going to stop us.

Don't do it.

What's the matter with you people?

I'm not the only one.
They have a g*n on you. Stand by.

Let them go out and k*ll one little deer
and be just like you

shot down your own tracks
right where you're standing.

Not of your story at all.

You commit
suicide is not going to help your cause.

Any y'all got g*ns? I'm here.
Why don't you use them?

The least you can do
is buy yourself a couple more weeks. 11.

Now, I don't pay no mind to Charlie.

Just trying to talk
you out of a square meal.

We'll share everything we get. Come on.

Jamison.

We. Here's a first man

that broke Major Adams agreement
with Red Hawk.

Now, I want to see the second one.

Well, come on, let's get to it.

I want to see that second man.

I want to see him
try to get me on that wagon there

so I can sh**t him down because I'm in
no mood to go chasing anymore.

Yeah, we got company.

Red Hawk, no wagon master.

Keep agreement.

Braves bring more fresh meat every day.

People.

No. Starve,

Collins. No.

A lot of my life against Red
Hawk doing anything like that.

Well, that's
You did Murdock. And mine, too.

Almost.

Boy, are you a mess.

Had some trouble, huh? Yeah, a little.

I was a major. He's written pretty good.

I mean, things that, you know, it's
all right.

And you go help the people
split up that deer meat.

And I'll watch Murdock, too. You get back.

You got to understand how it is
with a fellow like me.

Bill.

Engines k*lled my folks, too.

I was just a little old kid.

I've been making my own way ever since,

and the only reason I was able to do
is because I learned two things

The Steeler game

had a k*ll for.

I got k*lled

had it k*lled you to bill

for the same reason.

I might as well admit it.

I just didn't cut out to live according to
the rules made for a lot of people.

Why did you join the wagon train?

And no reason.

I guess I just want to see what it was
like to be amongst folks again.

Even animals run
with others of their kind.

I get lonesome tours back.

Bill.

If I was to get another chance,
I bet I could learn

to live amongst these people.

Yeah, I bet you could.

Wouldn't break
no more rules, wouldn't you?

No trouble at all this.

I know

you're a fine understand and friend.

Hey, let's cut these loose.

No, not yet.

Not Jack.

When?

When we feed you.

Feed me?

Yeah, When we feed you
some of that meat the Red Hawk

wouldn't have given us
if I hadn't brought you back.

You're going to keep me tied up.

Chained, chained back in that supply wagon
for as long as Major Adam says.

So we're going to carry out

your punishments, will read out
and change his mind again.

Came up.

Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, Bill. That ain't no fair.

That's like making me pay.

For feeding this whole outfit.

Yeah, let's look at it this way, Murdock.

You just had your first lesson.

How to live by the rules
set up for the good, the majority.

And when you broke those rules, you
the same as volunteered for the job fair.

You know,

some of your men get up a lot of firewood.

We're going to eat good tonight,

Johnny. Yes, Major.

I want a.

Great big
fire out the side of the circular fill.

Let me look at that shoulder.

Try. What's going on out there?

Oh, nothing to me.

He just wants a fresh bill.

Talk.

Charlie,

you're all. Right.

You ain't unconscious anymore, Sam.
All right.

What's going on out there?

The conquering hero. Come home.

Hero. What are you talking about?

You mean you didn't even miss me?

Why, You been some

go hunting tarnation happened to you?

I told him two or three times, Bill,
but he's been unconscious.

Sit down.

I'll look at that shoulder.

I went out looking for Murdock. Oh.

Looks to me like he found you.

First.

He brought him back to Redhawks Scouts.

Must been watching every move he made.

Because you should see the nice venison
they sent us.

Venison? Yeah. You know how very

well I

think you're going to have to wear yours.

How do you like that venison?

Well, I like being sick because it helped
your disposition a lot, you know?

Oh, Charlie,
I'll tell you about being laid up.

It's really made me realize
that I got two of the best friends

a man could ever want.

The way you looked after me and Bill,
what you've done.

I just want the both of you to know
that I appreciate it.

He still must be delirious,
talking mechanics.

I'm serious.

Well, don't just sit there.

Go get me some of that venison for it's
all gone.

I'm hungry. What about you?

He's all right.

Yeah, but he had me worried for a minute.

Well, you get the venison.

You're not worried now? Yeah. Come on.