01x35 - The Rex Montana Story

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Let's go rescue Rob.

Let's go home, said Rob and Bob.

Let's go once to Daniel and Jo.

Let's go.

Rob, Billy Barlow.

Our move as you, Mr.

Backbone,
get surrounded by a lot of Berkshire.

Turn around here.

What's so funny?

Well, the expression on your face
is the funniest thing I ever did. See?

You take a look here.

Look at that.

Well, it ain't even loaded.

What are you doing around here? Well, I.

I lost my horse a ways back.

I thought I joined up with your wagon
train.

I'll have to talk to the wagon Master
about that.

Sure, sure. I'll be right with you.

Keep my cell.

So you've been traveling alone, huh?

That's right. Media outlet.

All the way from Missouri.

I'm going out to Califor
D to join my folks,

and they ought to get a little ranch style
out there.

Well,
I'll tell you one thing, young fella.

For the most part, everybody on
this train is pretty friendly.

We've learned to get along with each other
best way we can.

Now, I keep it that way.

It's a lot different than riding along.

We've got to get along just fine.

Well, what I mean is, folks back
home, Hassidim are right friendly.

All right.

I got
just not go here to pay for the trip.

Look, Mr..

Mr. McCullough,
you told me about how much it would be.

Was getting my lonely on that trail
all alone.

I sure kind of hope you see your way
clear to take me on, Major.

All right, Monroe.

Here.

Put that away, Charlie.

I like the looking young fella.

What do you say his name was?

Monroe Rutledge.

Monroe. Name

that sense of humor.

Yeah,

well, Charlie, it's even better, right?

I got to supply a wagon ride back here.

You can use that for your headquarters.

I sure am obliged to you.

You have to share the wagon
with a couple other fellas.

Oh, bother me now. Well,
I don't know these men much.

We just picked them up on the trail

a few days back, But for the most part,
they've been staying to themselves.

They don't.

They don't talk to people very much.

I like they're on the run.

Yes, Mr.

Monroe. They might just be.

So might you, for all I know.

But I don't figure it's

any of my business why
a man is going from one place to another.

I just run this wagon train.

That's all I want.

Folks behave themselves
and don't cause me any trouble.

That's good enough for me.

All right?

I didn't mean nothing by what I said,
Major Adams. It.

It's just that.

Well, I.

I guess in a way, most all of us
are running away from one thing another.

Take me, for instance.

I'm running away
because I'm lonely without my folks.

I can hardly wait to get to California
and join up with them.

You won't be lonesome around here.

We've got as many people in this wagon
train as there are in most town suits.

We find that
I sure do like being around horse masters.

Oh, Major Adams.

Sort of.

Startled me coming up behind us like that.

Shake hands with Rutledge Monroe. Mr.

Masters, this is Mr. Henshaw.

We'll be right with you from now on.

Good, Major. Glad to have him with us.

McCulloch
tells me that he's quite a singer,

so maybe you can get
a little free entertainment out of him.

Oh, I don't know how good I am.

Folks back home talk about my songs.

I'll make up the word myself.

Oh, you want to know about this, huh?

Yeah, I did notice that.

It's kind of an unusual g*n,

I guess.

I never saw a shotgun sawed off that far
before.

Just old family heirloom
given to me by my granddaddy.

You know, I reckon
that's about the only thing in the world

that we're going to call my
own. Except maybe my saddle.

Don't ever sh**t less.

And I have to, you know, get myself
some games, something like that.

That's the only g*n
I've got to want to get it wore out.

Well, I'll leave
you fellows alone and get acquainted.

Maybe you got some leftovers.

You can give this young fella
some supper. You?

I'm meeting him on. The line, sir.

I'll be much obliged to.

Pick you up.

I'm enrolled as anything else you need.

Well, just let me know. Thanks, Major.

I think I'm going to get along
on this train just fine.

Good.

Mind if I help you, sir?

No, go ahead.

You don't play for a fellow.

Turn down on me
in this part of the country, does it?

It doesn't hurt to know what it's like
to be his last one.

What do you mean by that?

Well, nothing.

You see my nerves, Mr.

Masters.

What are you afraid of?

I ain't afraid of nothing in that funny.

You know, I could've swore
when the Major League came up behind you

a while ago,
you started to reach for your g*n.

Well, you think it was a couple Indian?

Maybe.

My ears got that nervous g*n handle able
to get himself in a pack of trouble.

I bet you see who are you, anyway?

Where are you from?

It's like I told the major.

I'm just a little old country boy.

Why do you think I was somebody else?

I was just.

Just wondering, that's all.

You know,
I do a lot of worrying about people

to kind of, like, know all about,

you know, where they're
from, where they're going

and why.

Where did you say fellows from?

Philadelphia.

Now, that just goes to show you how wrong
you'll be.

You know,

I never would have taken either one of you
boys, fellows from the big city,

Philadelphia.

I hope

we go west.

Henshaw to bed.

You know, if I had a judge by you, Mr.

Henshaw, I'd say you fellows
didn't like having me here.

That's the first word you said to me
since I joined up with

going to bat to Mr.

Masterson.

Yeah, I think I will.

That's a k*ller if I ever saw one.

You know, I suppose Blackie said in 18.

I don't know.

One thing
I know Black, you'll send somebody.

You ain't going to like
us running out with his cat.

Maybe we're just imagining things
about this fellow.

Monroe, will you just go on
with your wishful thinking if you want to?

I'm going to keep an eye on that, so.

And I'll shotgun.

Run away.

Run away, run away.

Hide your troubles.

We'll tag along right by your side.

No matter how far or how fast you may run,

you'll find your troubles are only begun.

Run away, run away into the sky

Your whole appearance You try to revise.

But even if you take on a new name,

the fear in your eyes is always the same.

Run away, Run away.

What have you done?

Cause you to be so afraid of someone?

What is your shame or your guilt

or your sin?

It's caused you to
be in the fix that you're in.

Run away, Run away.

No use to run, no place to hide

your past under the sun.

Someone chase here until you.

Outrun.

And you meet your end

With the sound of

g*ns.

Well, now, Mr.

Masters. Mr. Henshaw,

I sure hope you boys have a good night's
sleep.

Now, here.

There any doubt

about who he is or what he's doing there?

There ain't

after us, right?

And he can't just sh**t

all these people around.

You kind of make it look good on Adams
and the other people.

We're going to warm up that chapter.

He'll go to sleep sooner or later.

When he does, we're pulling out.

What am I, an animal? This morning?

You'll get the horses ready.

I'll take care of getting the money
just as soon as he goes to sleep.

Like sneaking around.

With that

driver engine.

We to go out again?

All put that thing down, Charlie boy,
you sh**t yourself. All

the trouble, Major.

Now that Henshaw and Masters
are trying to get their money back

along with everybody else,
it just about got the job done.

If it hadn't been for this young fellow
here.

Oh, now, I didn't do nothing
nobody else wouldn't have done.

He saved my life.

Masters could have shot me in the back
and Monroe hadn't got him first.

Color that that thing wasn't loaded.

Okay, well, one night until I woke up

and heard them two sneaking around
like there's no good, I loaded it.

Then we're out of those two.

Looks like we've traded two bad passengers
for one good one this year.

Rutledge Monroe,
He just joined the train this evening.

I'm glad he did. All right.

Well,
that's about all excitement for tonight.

See you first thing in the morning. You.

I know

I do. It.

Good.

Who's that? Major Adams.

All right.

That young lady walking off over there.

Over. Her name's Ruth Hadley.

Sure is pretty.

Is she.

Married?

You mean

you? In truth, I don't really know.

Don't know.

Oh, about.

All I know about her is she's got
a little baby with him, but no husband.

Well, didn't
she say nothing by no husband?

Well, she's hardly said anything to me
ever since we found her and the baby hide

in one of these supply wagons.

I mean, she just stowed away on the wagon
train.

Yeah, We stayed over one
night in our little town along the way.

Sure is funny.

And it may have

what it.

Like I said before, that

each one of us were,

well, sort of trying
to run away from one thing or another.

I Maybe you're right.

I don't know. Maybe you are.

But as far as Ruth Hadley's concerned,
when she wants to talk to me,

I reckon she'll come and talk.

Oh, she sure is pretty.

Well, I'd have to go along with you
there, too, I guess,

when I am Monroe.

Thanks again.

Just trying to help out, that's all.

Ruth Hadley

right over on the way.

And no use to her. On no place to hide.

You passed on from. The.

Fresh water password.

Fresh water?

Her back.

Fresh water.

Check.

Chocolate.

Now, you'll be a good girl, Elizabeth.

And don't get lonesome.

I was just going to fetch some water.

And she'll be right back

with that.

Hello there, Ruth.

I don't know you.

What?

Don't you stand there looking at me
like you'd never seen me before?

Well, last night

at the sh**ting, remember? Yes.

What do you want.

Or nothin, Specialist.

Hey, maybe
I could fetch some water for you, huh?

No, thank you. I can do it.

Ain't you going?

Hmm? It.

I'm right happy to wash that baby for you.

You like

to alarm boys.

Get as much water aboard
as you can before sundown.

Just fill your buckets
coming from the barrels later

on. This headache looks to me
like you've got your hands full, dear.

I mean, I was thinking about it
when you started here.

Ladies first.

I know what it's like to make it

right behind your brain.

Frighten you now.

After all right?

I don't mean to be a bother.

Raise a cute little fellow,
Mrs. Hadley. What's his name?

His name is Elizabeth

Taylor.

Very, very funny.

Yeah.

I'll carry this back to the wagon, boys.

Oh, no.

I can take you that close
to enough trouble by just being.

I have an idea.

You have big enough for it and various.
It is.

Come on, let's go.

All right, folks, Very long.

Let's go.

What's his name?

Elizabeth.

Are you.

Anything wrong, Mrs.

Henry?

No, no, nothing.

You can just leave it here.

Thank you very much, Mr. Rhodes.

Any time. Has had it.

Made you Adams?

Yes. I've.

I've got to talk to you.

Well, right now.

I know you're awfully busy right now.

Maybe tonight would be better.

Yeah,
I think it would be a little bit better.

Soon as we get camp,
will you come on up to my wagon?

Or better still,
why don't you have supper with me?

I can't guarantee his cooking,
but if he doesn't play this,

we may have plenty of time to talk.

Thank you very much.

Alright, I'll see you then.

Oh. Oh, now look what you've done.

You welcome the baby. I'm sorry.
I must be quite cold.

I got wet this afternoon.
Yeah, I heard About.

What were you trying to do?
Take a bath with your clothes on.

And on purpose. That hawked again.
Yeah. What did I do?

Push me the water.

All right. What you done?
I didn't lay a hand on you.

Well, you would if I hadn't stumbled.

Is it my fault? Because you're so clumsy?

I don't care whose fault it was.

But one of you is waking up
this baby. Now.

You're going to have to take it
back to the wagon,

get it in out of the night air
and take care of him.

Get at it.

I don't think I should go to liability.

You know how babies are. I would cold.

Maybe you're right at that bear.

I guess you're like.

I don't know anything about babies.

Well, as a married man,
I think it's high time you find out.

But know I'll look after.

Hardly bills and old old friend of mine.

It's all right, really.

Well, of course.

And of course, the time.

I hope the baby knows. It's all right.

Come on, my little girl. Be good
and. Stuff.

Your crying for Uncle Bill.

Well,

I. Miss Hadley.

Are you really that worried
about the safety here, baby?

Yes, I am, Major.

I'm terribly afraid.

I've been afraid to trust anybody
until now.

But I've got to talk to someone,

right?

I think you can trust me.

If you hadn't been camped with your wagon,

I don't know what I would have done.

I was exhausted
and there was no place else to hide.

You feel like telling
me who you're hiding from?

My husband. Oh.

Why? Because if he'd found me,

he would have k*lled me

and my baby.

Ralph was a cool man,

but I didn't know where
until the first time I saw him

drunk was shortly after we were married,
and he flew into a rage

for no reason at all.

He beat me and threw me out of the house.

I spent that night in a barn.

It's like a nice kind of.

You do this often?

Every time and get drunk

and he took on a hired hand in one

one day long tried to defend me.

Ralph was stronger than usual.

He k*lled a lot of being my

k*lled him.

It was wrong.

Made your enemies.

I hardly knew Lon

and when the baby was coming,

Ralph

put it
over suspicions that it wasn't a hit.

And when he finally convinced
himself of it,

he swore that he'd k*ll me

and my baby.

Then he started drinking.

Build up his courage.

And that's when I slipped away.

I ran all the way into town with my baby
and hid in your wagon other times before.

But when I threatened to leave him,
he said he'd

have me tracked to the ends of the earth
if I tried it.

And he wouldn't do it now, Mitch.

I know.

I know him.

Don't you, Frank? Mrs. Hadley,

I need guards around this train.

Nobody is going to get in here
to bother you.

But what about the people
who join the train along the way?

Wouldn't that be a good way for someone
who was looking for me to get to me?

And I suppose that is possible. But

we'll be really

careful who we take on the train,
so don't you worry about it.

Those men were k*lled last night

when they joined the train.

I was petrified the act so strangely
and I.

We won't have to worry about them anymore.

Well, I know, Major, but

there's somebody else.

Oh. He was standing by my wagon

this afternoon when we stopped for water.

The way he looked at me and.

And the way he talked.

I'm afraid that he's the one.

Who it.

That Mr. Monroe,
you introduced last night.

Rutledge. Monroe.

That's why I was afraid
to let the baby out of my sight.

What exactly did Monroe say?

Well,

I asked him what he wanted,

and he said nothing special,
but he just kept standing there.

And then he said he'd go for water for me.

And when I refused, he said
that he'd look after my baby for me.

And that's why
I was carrying Elizabeth at the waterfall

at all.

Yes. What do you think?

Maybe that he was just trying
to be friendly with you.

It was the way he talked

and the strange way he kept looking at me.

Just.

You just kept grinning
like he knew all about me.

It just might be that
he would like to know more about you.

What do you mean? Well, last night, Mrs.

Hadley, after the ruckus
when those two fellows were k*lled,

Monroe noticed you standing there
and he asked about you,

asked me your name and told me
how very pretty I thought you were.

And you suppose that
this is just a clumsy way

of trying to caught you?

I never thought of it that way.

You know, he did warn me that those
two men were going to try to rob my wagon,

and he actually saved me
from being shot in the back.

I didn't sound like a k*ller. Oh, I guess

I'm so upset.

I guess I imagine
you think looking back on it now,

I suppose
that's just what he was trying to do.

Be friends with me.

He must think I'm
some kind of which the way I acted.

Would you like me to tell Monroe
to stay away from you?

How would that make you feel? Better.

Oh, that won't be necessary.

I feel much better about it already.

Just talking to you.

We'll keep a close eye on you anyway.

And if there's anything that bothers you,
even the slightest

little thing, you just come running to me.

Thank you, Major.

Thank you very much for.

I'll tell Mrs.

Hawkes how good you are with babies.

Well,
I didn't know that I was till tonight.

Thank you
so. Much. It's been a pleasure, ma'am.

Goodnight.

Run! No way!

Run away. What have you done?

Caused you to be so afraid of someone?

What is your guilt or your shame
or your sin?

It's caused you to be fixed at your room.

Run away.

Run away. No.

You stolen no place to hide.

Your passed on the sun Some moral

trail You until you're out run

and you meet you in the sound of a g*n.

No, I wouldn't make any loud noise
about you, Ruth.

Couldn't nobody get here quick enough
to make any difference anyway?

What you want.

Don't you know I sent you?

No, I didn't say that. Better.

You have to. I know it.

He sent you to k*ll us.

Why, Ruth, I'm not going to hurt you
as long as you do what I say.

No, no.

Please don't let your voice get louder

as one thing I don't want you to do.

Please.

I was wrong.

The baby is his. I swear it.

He had no reason to send you.

You've got to believe me.

Well, I do believe.

I never said it, did you?

Don't rush.

You're not going to hurt us. Why?

Nothing in the world
make me hurt you, Ruth.

All I want you to do is be friendly,

Ruth.

Oh, never mind.

You're going to be friendly.

I'll give you money.

I'll pay you more than Ruth could.

You got money?

I'll get it. I'll work.

I'll pay you whatever you want.

No, I don't want money.

All I want for you is

just for you to be nice to me.

I don't really like him so much, is it?

How I'm considering
what you asking to me now?

It seems to me your life ought to be worth
something to you.

You just be friendly.

That's all I ask.

I sure wish you could be my girl, Ruth,

will you?

Will you be my girl?

On now.

Please don't cry, Ruth.

I can't stand to see girls cry.

I have a girl I ever knew in my life.

Run away from me and cry.

Why my.

Own mother run away from me when I was not
big enough Baby, yours right there.

Just.

To smile every once in a while,
that's all.

Be nice to me and I'll be nice to you.

I'll stand right here, Ruth.

Yeah, we'll stand right here.

Warm Adams and Monroe.

George Nice morning, Annie.

Is that one of his early morning?

Major?

Well.

Oh, that little thing
you just put up there behind you, you.

Just burst.

Wide open it. Well, there's nothing in it.

I go head open it.

Just one of the couple of hairpins.

You write for shame to get your hair
messed up

before I put a hair

or rule

in anything.

I don't want to do better.

Know with friends just now with.

Well, I wouldn't try to tell.

Made you out of exactly why
that was about you,

Darrin, by the way you look at it,

smile, you know, be happy

because I won't be driving my team

from the ground over there,
You know, sort of keep my eye out.

I'll stand

when you're road.

You all right, Mrs.

Hadley? Well, yes, I'm fine.

I'll be glad to keep an eye on Ruth
for a major problem.

That way, I'd rather play.

On shrews already as.

Well. Yeah, we will.

Getting along just fine.

And that's so rude.

Yes, it's fine.

Just. Bye.

That's good.

We've got to get moving.

Oh, oh, oh.

That'll

get out.

Throws them out further at

you. Don't.

Oh, I sure.

I'm glad to find out.
You such good cook Ruth.

Well get off.

Try eat hardtack on trail

more cotton.

Okay.

Thank you.

Where are you going?

To check on the baby and get a shower.

Feel a chill in the air.

On her back.

I'll miss you,

my darling.

Wake up, Mother. Need your help? Oh,

better wake up.

Wake up now, cry.

Oh, I want better.

But why do you have to be so good natured?

Come on, cry for mother.

You take an awful long time, Ruth.

The baby's awake.

Yeah, Yeah.

There.

You see? I'll have to tender.

All I heard up.

Now, I don't like sitting out here alone.

Here and.

Where?

Eleanor.

Please help me get Peter.

Tell him Munro is a k*ller.

Munro A k*ller?

That Missouri.

Hayseed.

Don't argue with me.

Just look out.

You understand?

All right, I'll get the major.

A boy.

Where are you going?

Nowhere. Yeah.

You're a powerful hurry to be going
nowhere.

That's my business, I think.

Hold it, boy.

It just might lose some of my business.

I. Come on in here. We can talk it out.

Come on, come on. Come on in here, people.

See, it's just what's so important
that people have got to see us.

Well,
I think it customary to have witnesses

when a fella going to get himself k*lled.

Ruth Eru, come out here.

I say, come out here, Ruth.

You talking to my girl boy?

Well, actually, I seen you're right
on Least that way I can talk to my girl.

I don't think I like that.

That's no reason to have a shootout.

Well, that all depends on what
you said to her and what she said to you.

Please, please don't do it.

Oh, well, I got a roof.

You can see that for yourself. I.

I know you've been dying to talk to me.
Gee, Adam.

So why don't you go ahead and call him?

Go on, go on. I mean. It.

Call him.

Call him.

Major.

Adam's louder.

Major. Adam's

louder, Major.

Adam's major.

g*ns in your hand, boy.

You got the edge.

Go. It ain't c*ck.

Well, c*ck it.

I'll wait.

Just what the devil was this all about?

Well, just self-defense.

He can see that we self made your Adam's

fellow over there.

He was making this play first
c*ck in his r*fle, and I want to know why.

Who started it?

Well, I.

I reckon it ain't kindly
to talk about the dead this way, but.

Well, he was bottom his head down, right?

And certainly was.

Well, I couldn't let that happened.

She's such an awful nice lady.

Especially after I told you.

Just a small lad look after.

You know, Monroe, there's one thing
bothers me about that g*n.

You told me you seldom fired it,

but I just saw a professional fast g*n,
and I wouldn't bet a nickel

anybody could beat.

Well, I just said
I never shot at less than I had to.

I didn't say I couldn't.

I guess there's no doubt that I.

That I had to just now. Is it? Huh?

What was Mrs.

Hadley screaming about?

She sounded hysterical.

Well, yeah, I reckon she was.

That she was.

She was calling you Major Adams.

I suppose she was scared
something was going to happen to me.

We get along just fine, you know.

Are you?

Why? You ain't down? My word, are you?

Maybe.

I don't know that boy you just k*lled.

I never stepped one inch out of line
since he joined this train at Saint Joe.

Maybe I'd better see what Mrs.

Hadley's version of this is.

I won't be necessary.

I think it will.

You know, Monroe,

you don't quite ring true to me.

You always said you were one thing
and acted like you were another.

I just can't quite figure you.

That little farm boy
that you say you are in such a fast g*n.

She can't tell you nothing. I can't.

And you'd better start talking, Mr..

Well, I sure am made up.

Tell you.

I'll tell all of you all about

just cause
I happen to be here and everything

and in no accident, you know?

No, sir. Its purpose.

I had a good reason for joining up
with this particular wagon train.

What was it?

The only thing We need
some more wood on this fire.

Had somebody throw a log on this fire.

How big one?

Got to take the k*ll off their hand?

Won't be necessary.

Well, it's a powerful long story, Major.

I mean, you might as well be comfortable
besides how

well she's going to find out all about me
if I don't tell you

how me?

Oh, sit down over there.

Well,

I reckon you don't want to hear my story,

would you?

You nice people
kind of move over there behind you, but.

All right, Monroe, you stall long enough.

This is Hadley.

You better tell us what you know
about this now.

Ruth Ingles. Seen nothing like this.

She may find out some things
she doesn't even know.

There's a boy dead and you k*lled him.

And you better speak your piece.

You sound like you're getting mad.

You ain't forgetting that
I saved your life the other night.

You made.

I'm not forgetting.

What is true,

I would say to fill in that Masters
head Henshaw.

But you know why they were trying
to rob you that particular night?

No, I don't. Well, it was on account of me

or not.

They wouldn't have. Try it
sooner or later.

But that particular night,

it was on account of me.

Go on.

Well, you remember
when you had to do something to Alma?

I could tell right off
they didn't want have me around.

I didn't like that.

So I started to work on them.

Work on them. Here.

You remember how.

How nervous or skittish
they was when we come up behind them,

that that masters fellow
reaching for the g*n at all.

Yeah, I noticed that.

Well, I could see right off
I was running away from somebody.

All I had to do was make them
believe I was the one who was after him.

It was easy.

You know, one thing
I always found interesting about people,

if they
got something, they're guilty about.

It always shows in the way they act.

And in their eyes
when they look over there.

Look that fellow over there.

I wrote a song about people who run away
once.

Oh, you should have seen them
too, fellows, when I sang it

to get more and more nervous
all the time I was whispering together.

All I did was make them believe
I knew all about them.

Then they snuck out, stopping just
long enough to try and get your money.

Only they got k*lled instead.

They shouldn't have treated me that way.

Well, there's no good anyway.

They deserve to die.

Ruth.

Here.

Ruth is different.

What about her?

Well, I.

I liked her.

I wanted to be my girl.

Did you do the same thing to her?

Pretend you were on her trail?

Just because I happened to mention to you

that she was hiding
in one of my supply wagons.

Oh, no.

That wouldn't have made no difference.

I hadn't seen the whole story, and I was.

Anyway,

you know, you can't imagine just.

Just how easy it is
to make someone believe you.

Someone you ain't.

Don't even have to lie to them.

If they're scared enough that tell you all
you want to know what Arness made.

I never knew no more about Ruth,
and I did about their mother, too.

You said enough about her, Monroe.

Just a minute, Bill.

He hasn't told us yet
why he picked this particular wagon train.

I want hear that.

Well, no, I haven't, have I?

That's the best part of the story.

Yeah.

I'm going to follow on this wagon
train a long, long time. Why?

Just so you can find people
and scare them into

doing what you wanted them to know.

Oh, I had another reason.

Oh, it ain't hard to find runaways.

They're all over the place.

Why? I better even.

You have something you feel guilty about.

Why don't you get to the point?

I wouldn't talk like that if I was.

You made consider.

I'm doing you a favor
talking to you at all.

Well, I can remember a time
you wouldn't even see me.

Just say what you mean.

I was in the army. Wants to, you know.

Yeah, I was.

I wrote a letter to you once.

Signed it. Rutledge. Monroe.

Remember the name Rutledge?

It's got two T's.

Monroe, m u l.

I knew a lot of men in the Army.

I don't remember all their names,
their faces either.

Well, you never saw my face.

I was just a plain old soldier.
He was made.

You didn't nobody see my face outside
of prison for five years.

And I sent me to prison.

That court marshal boarded.

And then I wrote a letter to my commanding
officer asking him to hear my appeal.

I wrote to Major Seth Adams.

That's who I wrote that letter to.

You never even bothered to answer,
did you?

Never even came to see me at that outpost
where I was?

Gotten them ribs?

You were a guard
at that outpost of little Mason.

Now you remember, huh?

Yeah, I remember you.

I remember that guy that k*lled eight
Confederate prisoners.

In cold blood.

Well, then I was attacked. Me?

Sure they didn't,

should I?

Because you taunted him till they had to.

I read the court martial record.

That's why I refused to review your case,

because I thought the five years
you got wasn't half enough.

Don't say a thing like that, Major.

And that five years
didn't make it been a difference.

And you did it. You still doing it?

Still taunting
people, plaguing them to death Her Why?

Monroe?

Why do you do it?

Does it make you feel big?

Does it make you feel powerful?

Oh, no, that ain't the reason.

Then why did you play cat and mouse
for those other people?

Well, it was really me
you were looking for.

Well,
I wanted to give you time and notice me.

You didn't pay no attention to me
while I was in prison.

Would you notice me now?

Ask me why everybody is.

And you noticed me the other night
when I saved your life.

Well,
I couldn't let them two fellows k*ll you

because that's what I came here to do.

I don't know what to make them move

because this little scattergun here
got an awful powerful spray to it.

But with my eyes closed, I get ten or 12.

You stand close together like you are.

See what I mean about being noticed?

Made makes all the difference in the world
when you know what side of fence

yon don't.

Why don't you put that thing by your side?

Monroe, Start even.

Oh, come on now.

You saw me go against that other fella.

You know, the maid here wouldn't
stand a chance out on me.

So much point in going through the
formalities that if you pull that trigger.

One of us is going to get you.

I'm saving one barrel for that.

Frankly, I don't think I'm worth it.

But you can try if you want to make.

I'll try.

All right.

Step aside, folks.

Give me that g*n.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I will put the g*n
that back down by my side.

I'm going to give you the same chance
I give that other fella,

Are you ready?

I'm ready

to go

right.

Moves

major items of

you. Feeling better?

I think so. A little.

I can't tell you how sorry I am.

I did such a poor job taking care of you.

It wasn't your fault, Major.

You can't see everything.

Well, I'm going to start making up for it
every way I can,

starting with these folks here.

This is Mitchell.

This is Ruth Hadley and Mr. Mitchell.

How do you do? You do?

How do you do?

They have something
they want to say to you.

Mrs. Hadley?

Ruth, we'd like to have

you and your baby
come live with us in our wagon.

Plenty of room.

This just made me be just like.

Part of the family.

Are you sure I wouldn't
be too much bother, my dear?

You couldn't possibly be any bother.

There isn't anyone in this whole train
could take as good care of you

and your babies.

I can guarantee you that.

I'd be so grateful.

That it's settled.

You just get your baby and your.

Things and we'll go now.

Ruth,

there's just one thing,
and I promise I'll never mention it again.

Monroe told me that that boy he k*lled
had been bothering you.

Was that true?

Oh, no, Major.

He was trying to help me.

I'm so glad that you know him well, Mrs.

Mitchell,

I feel so awful about it.

And there's nothing that I can do
to make it up.

I think maybe there is. Ruth.

I don't even know his name.

His name was

Mitchell.

Warren. Mitchell.