04x15 - The Earl Packer Story

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It's kind of cold for this time of year.

Charlie Young Yeah. When?

Chris I'd be back.

Oh, a day or so.

Maybe
soon as we find them horses for sale.

You know, Bill,
I think I should have gone along with him.

I got a pretty good idea of
what's my deal?

You got a pretty good eye for saloons.

Where's Flint?

Get some sleeping.

I'm in pretty dire.

Who are you, mister?

Hello?

Is there a McCullough here?

Fred McCullough. Yeah, he's here.

Well, yeah.

Get him. I

You better get McCullough fast.

You know him?

Yeah, I know.

You get that ammonia. Well, who is he?

You know, I wouldn't have asked.

Bill's tried. It.

Bill Strode.

Hello, Bill.

Hi. I must have you took the header.

You lost a lot of blood. Yeah.

Got him. I.

I want him and his both to k*ll Charlie.

Take it easy.

I'm all right.

You don't look.

What about the hole?
I took the b*llet out.

Give me a

friends of mine.

Charlie was to Bill hooked.

I got him. Mr. Short,
I sure like to shake the hand.

A shot down. Jack
Menzies. We've heard a lot about you.

A lot of exaggeration.

McCullers
told us about the time you saved his life.

Natalie.

Sometimes that's
the only thing I got against you.

Just happened to be in the right.

Spot at the right time.

How about some hot coffee? Do you? Good.

I'd be proud.

Don't happen to have been lying around.

I sure am, Mr. Strode.
I make the best do on the trail.

You know, you ought to be careful
here, Mr.

Strode.

If you eat it, you probably wish
that b*llet a little closer.

Much more

to your good.

You look good, Charlie.

What's the best thing in the world?

A b*llet hole.

You sure you don't want some more.

Charlie?

Come on, give me a hand with that
rear axle.

Ain't nothing wrong with that rear axle.

Oh, there's
something wrong with your head.

Come on.

Just trying to be friendly.

You're a long way from home.

Where you headed?

Deadwood.

I need help.

I've never seen you nervous.

Just that I.

I wouldn't
want anybody to come sneaking up.

But they're looking for you.

A lot of people would like to get Bill's
strode through.

But how?

I never saw you drive fast.

As a stage
out of Fort Connie for Deadwood.

If I can make it. Make it.

It's a week's ride.

You can make it stand on your head.

Slow down.

We think the coal is getting me

plenty. You got to come with me.

Somebody who owes me
something has to come with me.

You start to slow down
and all the vultures hear about it.

Who is after you?

I don't. Know.

Somebody you know who?

Earl Packer.

Earl Packer

always has a plan.

And I got to look for you.

I didn't come here to answer questions.

You got to answer one.

Why is Packer looking?

I had Silver City clean.

A lot of people didn't like it that way.

Gamblers, white sharks, women.

I had to get out
or they would have railroaded me.

I was some sh**ting.

I k*lled one of them.

How? There's a reward out for me.

It's funny

being a law man all my life.

I've got to be outlaw
to be worth a reward.

And we picked up the b*llet.

Packer almost caught up with me.

Him in a buffalo g*n.

Having to have after.

Yeah, That's why I need you

straight story.

I told you what happened.

I can't bang, boy.

You don't have to.

I believe.

And I'll get you to carny.

It's like a.

Blizzard. I'll get you bedded down.

He needs to sleep.

We've got to get moving.

Packages for a bed down somewhere to go.

Move out.

Flynn,

tell the major to be back in ten days.

Too bad
you can't wait to tell him yourself.

Tell him I'm trying to rendezvous
with you.

Clever store this is some kind of trouble,
isn't it, Flynn?

Trouble?

What kind of trouble?
That Bill Straw couldn't help.

But ask myself
the same thing. Don't worry.

When I met you in ten days, right?

You know,

Charlie, that Bill Stroud's plumb scared.

Don't figure, Bill man is good with a g*n.

Is anybody ever was?

Yeah.

He faced down John Wesley Hardin.

And lately. Allison, turn around.

Whatever.
He's scared of. The Lord to protect him.

Now he spent his whole life protecting it.

Well, he's getting old.

Everybody gets old.

Everybody don't get scared.

Hey. Hey, Come on, Bill.

Trying to k*ll that horse.

I keep moving.

I want a dead horse.

Deep down, we'll walk him a while

a bit, doing the same thing.

Deep down.

Now, I haven't done

much running in my time,

Charlie.

I wish a major hurry. Up and get back.

We're wasting a lot of good travel time.

No, it's. You're going to be in trouble.

He said to wait right here.
That's what he said.

Yeah, I know that's what you told me, but
we're still wasting a lot of time. Bill

Dowdy.

Who's in charge here?

I am. Now.

I'm looking for a man.

We got to mess up. Right now.

I ain't got no sense of humor.

Bill Stroud. Where is he?

Lawman Silver City.

The last I heard you.

A liar.

Now you tell me where he is.

You'll beat him to where
I'm fixing to send him.

Mister, you don't need a g*n

that big to have me
tell you something that I don't know.

I'll bet you're Earl Parker.

It's been here.

Certainly. Charlie.

Well, just telling the truth.

To a bounty hunter.

You don't like me, do you? Nope.

Well, that's too bad.

I ain't got nothing against it.
Mr. Parker.

Which way? Stroud go?

We don't know.

Heading for carny.
Eddie. How do you know that?

Mister?

You might as well head back.

You're not going to do any man
hunting in a blizzard.

You know, after I pick him up,
maybe you and me can get together.

Wait a minute. Minutes.

Back off, you scrub face.

Of course.

Now, on the other hand.

You've got some beans and coffee.

I might feel more friendly.

Beating Charlie now.

That's right. Hospital.

Just because we're going to feed.

You mean we like you

anymore?

So I'm here.

Stroud Gell-Mann.

Somebody they knew to k*ll him.

You read?

Sure, I can read

it. Read?

I'll go get my glasses.

Whiskers

so that there's a real pecker.

Yeah,

it like a saddle bum to me.

Well, I wouldn't try to prove it.

I guess you would.

I mean, to find out.

Yeah,

but you're old Packard.

Bounty hunter, ain't

no fare.

You brought in one

I dead

name of Tom Hancock.

His brand of mind.

Thacker

kind of went against the grain.

Bill that Martin was starting.

A racket with Packard.

Good.

I don't like you.

The one up. Hancock.

Don't remember

it. That push people around.

Don't you want to try with me?

I wouldn't even.

Give me a good workout, son.

Packer,

I don't think

I did.

John Good beans.

Throw him in the water.

Save me.

The trouble was fixed.

Knew the same thing myself
when I had the time.

Thanks even for the beans.

You're still going after Strode.

Ain't nothing happened here
to change my mind.

I followed one horse in here.

There's two sets of tracks going out.

That fellow,
a thrown is a friend of yours.

You're going to be short. A friend.

There's something you're forget.

Oh, there's a law against m*rder, Packer.

I showed you a friend, a wanted poster.

You take a look at who signed it.

I knew that Packer was tough, all right.

But I didn't think he was tough enough
to scare them.

I, like, broke, right?

Both Right. To try to get the point.

You should have thought about that before
you told them which way they were headed.

Oh, $5,000 reward.

Signed by LJ Thurgood

Marshall, New Mexico territory.

What do you know about that?

We got to get moving.

We're not going anywhere tonight.

I'm all right.

Shoulder it got to make.

Can't even.

I couldn't make contact
with what's coming up.

And I'm in better shape than you are.

Will you stop worrying about Packer

harder men in your time?

I've seen you do it.

I How many men have you k*lled, Flint? Oh,

but k*lling's not my job.

Sometimes

I can almost see them.

Every one of.

A hole where the second button ought.

To be.

You can get tired of anything

k*lling.

We're not supposed to k*ll each other.

Sometimes you've got no other choice.

Oh, always got a choice.

Cure him or you.

That's a choice, isn't it?

I sent Packer.

To prison for three years back
when he was hunting Buffalo.

He k*lled a thought buster.

He said Strode.

Too fast with a g*n.

Some day you're going to k*ll the.

Wrong man

and I'm going to come out and get. You.

You k*ll the wrong man.

I guess I did

that.

I was framed when I k*lled was part of it

made my choice.

How Packer's.

Out there.

You worry about your show.

You let me worry about all.

Why are you stopping?

There's a trapper's cabin around here
somewhere. Oh.

Oh, You want to try

my way?

There it is.

All right.

Wow. It's bad.

It's infected.

There's not much I can do it.

They can fix it.

And carny.

Yeah.

We're not going anywhere in this blizzard.

Packer won't stop.

He can't watch you so much.

He's going to freeze to death.

Clint, You got to watch for him.

I watch.

Oh, it's awfully glass of beans.

I got some bacon on the horse.

What's I.

Like?

Snow fell off a tree,

but you got to relax.

Getting excited doesn't do you any good.

Maybe it's Packer. It isn't Packer.

Too many things about this.

I don't understand.

If you weren't hurt,
you need Packer alive.

That is your even.

What are you frightened of?

Nothing. Nothing.

I think I'll double back
and try to cut Packer off.

You'll be safe.

No, You have to stay here with me.

If I cut him off,
you'll have nothing to be afraid of.

Don't think so.

There are that tech.

Menzies, Bob Anderson, Carolee Harris,
all of them.

If you go out, they'll come in.

Bill, those men are dead.

You k*ll them.

I had. Of course you did. It was your job.

Then why do I see them?
Why don't they go back?

You're sick. There's nobody out there.

I don't want to be like they are.

They died hating me.

There are too many dead people hating me.
All right, all right.

I'll stay.

I'll stay here with you, and I'll get to
the quarry as soon as the storm breaks.

You think I'm seeing people
who aren't out there don't see them.

That's good enough for me.

I can't really be out there.

I know that.
I made sure of it. But lately.

Lately, it's almost like they're standing
just out of sight.

If I turn my head hard.

It's only the. Wind

I feel.

I take.

A chance.

That conference,

Fred.

I'm just going out and check the horses.

Bacon for breakfast?

Sure.

You don't think I'd run off
and leave you, Dan?

No, of course not.

Hurry back.

Fred.

Move when you're dead,

raise them over your head.

Blowing easy,

Blackfoot for

you, Packer.

Get. No, I should have thought of that.

Just stand there.

The threat. Tie.

Now inside,

you're kindly

hearing me sh**t sh**ting.

Nobody's going to sh**t anybody.

Yeah.

Get him up in the bunker.

Kind of get himself back.

She should have k*lled him.

He's not going to hurt anybody.

You got a name, boy?

Color it over in the corner.

Color.

What are you going to do now?

McCullough That depends on you.

You a hard one. Boy

Try me.

No, you better be.

French.

You can't trust. Him.

I don't know

that.

Take it easy.

I knew you would run.

I always did.

Why don't you keep your mouth shut,
Packer?

Don't tell him
how long we're going to be in here.

You might as well make it easy
on all of us.

I'll make it easy,
you high tailed McCullough.

Let me have straw.
I'll make it easier than that.

You met your horse
and go back where you came from.

If not, when we leave,
your horse goes with it.

You know, you look a lot

smarter than you talk, McCullough.

I'm going to tote his carcass
back to Silver City for I'm done.

You're going to have
a lot of trouble doing it.

Won't be the first trouble.

I had a cat talk to him. Flint
That's right.

McCullough sh**t me.

A big law man knows all about that.

You think $5,000 is enough money
to k*ll a man

like Bill Stroud?

I do.

Good for a Kentucky twist.

Flat Flint.

He's an animal.

That's right, Stroud.

As far as you're concerned.

Bill tells me he sent you to prison.

You k*ll him.

And in

prison

all Yeah.

Most for good. God,

that was.

You told him, Stroud, that I was after you
because you had me locked up.

If I could get my hands on a g*n. Parker.

I hope you do.

So you figure I'm after him
because he sent me to jail, huh?

It makes sense.

Makes Stroud sense? Yeah.

Lots of things make his kind of.

Sense to anything foolish.

Anything
I never been in my life is foolish.

You seen any of these

threats? Hello?

I told you about the railroad. Me?

You figure it ain't true?

That's how I figured.

$5,000 is a lot of money to back a lie.

I got a lot of money.

He tell you who he went and k*lled? No.

Why? Jazz, come

to Flint.

Who is one of them?

It was trying to frame me.

I'm. Hoyt was lawman.

Guy. I had a right. Well.

It was. It was a gambler, a cheap kid.

And they were paying him.

You know, one man.

I'm going to get my enjoys out of killin.

But you can't deal with him
if you don't k*ll him.

Now, I'm. Going to k*ll him.

Give me your g*n. Let me do it.

Thank you.

You owe it to me. Boy.

You're forgetting I saved your life.

He really. Do that?

That's right.

Must have been some time ago.

It was in Abilene.

It could have eaten you alive.

Then maybe he could.

Then at that g*n can stop.

Big reputation now. The Hickock.

That's what I heard.

The trouble is, I knew he got to,

you know, he got his reputation.

He k*lled three men in a gunfight.

Sure enough, three men

only shot
two of them in a back from ambush.

And the other didn't have a g*n.

We're not talking about Hitchcock.

Maybe,

but Stroud m*rder*d a helpless woman.

McCullough, You're a liar.

You said yourself
$5,000 is a lot of money.

Planning a cheap tinhorn.

You don't think I'd sh**t a woman.

Pretty woman, to work for him?

Name a Katy

Dutchie girl.

Why don't you?

Bill and I tinhorn name Gomez?

You ought to know you were in on it.

I got no reason to believe you, Pecker.

I know the kind of man Billy's.

Kind of a man he was.

Maybe

one night.

I'm married.

I married Flynn.

But I want you to stay in the plant file,
keep your office decent enough.

You know.

Tell him what What he'll do, what lies.

He'll tell girl he m*rder*d was a dutchie.

You know what he'd done?

He sent word to Europe that he had good
jobs for Dutch girls who wanted husbands.

And we find homes,

what he call them dance halls
they went to work in.

But that wasn't me doing that. I was.

I was putting it up.

Clean it up the town
the way I did it. I believe Flynn.

Pick your story, boy.

But remember this.

I ain't out here in this here snow
for no $5,000.

Katie was a nice girl.

I think a lot of her.

And I'm going to k*ll the man at Shutter.

And you're looking at it.

You know me.

Me would would Bill Stroud k*ll any woman
any time,

even if she deserved it?

I up the fight.

So get up yourself.

I said stoke up the fire.

I don't like bounty hunters, Packard,

and I don't like liars.

Just want to see how hard you was.

Boy satisfied?

Yeah.

Record.

I think you're going to assassinate now.

All right, sir.

I told you. Just dream.

I thought they were here.

What?

Just get. Out. Marshal.

Kind of a mess.

Any of that, I.

I need a drink.

I need a drink. But we haven't got it.

I got snow. On my horse.

Now I get
the soft side, and I could use one myself.

I'll go get it.

Maybe I'll get a g*n to you.

Get it? That.

That's a good idea, Packer.

I give this to Bill and let him like.

Maybe we both better go.

To. Man.

It is a sick man.

He's a woman m*rder*r and a yellow belly.

I ain't lowering him.

He knows how to sh**t.

I'll be right back.

High and

I'll get it.

I told you the truth, McCullough.

I don't think you know how.

You're just a young man.

Maybe you played it straight,
but you're sure.

Pick the baton.

Let me have a McCullough switched back

over there.

Quick.

Next time you're dead.

Come on, throw

like a brother.

Do you more good on
your island, in your belly.

Couldn't you wait?

Don't you go it. Don't go.
Give him a chance.

Well, I wouldn't jump a man when he's poor
and to be a downright waste.

Take it to him.

My liquor in it.

Yeah, but when you sell, boy.

Take it to him.

Well, now, that's a waste of time.

I'm fixing to k*ll him. Packer

girl, if you ain't the hot one.

Yeah.

Drink it fast.

Maybe you'll choke that

bad. Bad,

bad enough.

Hey, I.

Yeah,

that's right.

Make it easy.

Pass out.

Likely

get Katie in the back to

talk about the packer.

You get a bit lies. More lies.

You took him in the back.

Want me to crawl up and spit in his eye?

I'm sick.

It's not easy to be brave.

After 30 years.

You still think
he's the big hero? McCullough

I think he's human.

You keep away.

I don't want no more to do with him.

I, like, got.

I'm sorry you got mixed up in this, boy.

You ain't so bad.

You had no Howard when you did.

I'd have been stuck
like a hog for a barbecue.

Give me a drink.

It won't do any good.

Now, pretty boy.

Give me a drink.

You stay put, huh?

What do you.

When? When you get too old to use a g*n?

People still say that I still strong,

tall man, best man in the territory.

They don't know that I'm just another man.

You're a lot more than just another man.

No, I got.

But I.

I want to be sick.

I never could be scared because somebody
was always pointing and looking at me.

I had to be what they expected me to be.

So I was afraid to be afraid.

And I'm getting out.

I've really got something to be afraid of.

Trying to say.

No, I don't.

They don't want to be alone when I sleep.

Get over.

It. The good.

The more good.

As as business.

You got any sleep.

But as long as you I guess.

Everything is, I can go to sleep any time.

I feel like

you can't.

You know, I kind of sleep like a critter.

Humanity.

If you met there, you were.

You look like a deep sleeper.

Go ahead.

You have

to grab me a few recognition or something.

No cr*cker.

You can't prove.

It, can you?

Prove what you said about the road?

I reckon that's your problem.

Not as long as I got the g*n.

Go to sleep sometime.

I intend to.

I will

get it.

What for?

For now. Wait a minute, Nikolai.

I was just having fun.

Get it?

I can't sleep with a dang all tied up.

I'm not worrying about you.

What are you gonna do about him?

Worried?

Well, if you.

If you go to sleep with me
all tied up, he.

He's liable to cut my throat.

It's a real problem, isn't it?

I going to worry about

when I wake up on the floor.

You can't do that.

McCullough.

Right now.

You just behave, boy.

You won't get hurt.

I told you to k*ll him.

You ain't give me many reasons
to take you back alive.

You never planned. Maybe so.

Maybe not.

Or l don't know.

What you're scared of. Marshall,

you said enough.

People along k*ll him are what you hang.

You see me collect $5,000.

No place is dying.

You don't understand.

They are back in Marshall.

They came back.

Please, please don't k*ll me Now.

Get me up.

Please.

I said here, Flint, without going around.

That g*n down below.

Bill Strode pointed a g*n in his life.

I was ready to use it.

You've got no right to k*ll him.

Nothing you can do about it, boy.

I said toss it now.

When he leaves here,

ain't nobody in the.

World

got to know what happened to him.

I will tell you what.

I can't take the chance. You believe me?

Sorry, Fred.

I saved your life once.

Now I'm going to have to take it back.

Parker told the truth.

He told part of it.

The great Bill strode
gunning down a woman.

I think wanted to.

I told you before
I didn't want to k*ll again.

Especially not her.

I had to.

You can tell the half of it, Packer.

You didn't know that

I had a chunk of every tinhorn,
every bottle of bad whiskey.

Every woman in town
has a part of the truth.

Only Katie knew I had her talking
would have changed everything.

The name Bill told me
I was straight for 25 years.

I don't have to prove
that my record will stand for itself.

But how much money can you save on
$200 a month?

How do you live on a $15 pension?

You see, I read the Eastern papers.

I saw the man.
They made a very hasty nurse.

Deadly aim, scourge of the lawless
Hitchcock, Earp, Stroud.

Let in 30 years.

You take your hero
and you make a beggar out of.

That ridiculous.

$30,000. My bags.

I couldn't save a dime in 25 years
as an honest marshal.

Now I've got $30,000 for five years
giving people what they want.

Anyhow, keep me alive.

I won't have to beg.

You see, I can't beg Bill
Strong can't carry a tin cup.

You k*ll us
and it'll be just two more who died hating

how many were left to make?

Ten, 12, 12 men and a woman.

I won't back. So you'll k*ll.

Think it makes any difference
to be 25 years to learn?

It doesn't make any difference.

Which side of the law are you on?

You k*ll somebody. He's dead.

They're all dead.

They can't get happy until

I've got to k*ll you.

I've got to.

I can't let them hang Bill's throat.

Don't hate me now.

You said you'd help me.

Maybe you still can of Flint.

And maybe you can explain to all of them
so they won't hate being the policeman.

Don't forget to explain to them.

So I won't able

to talk,

don't I?

Do you want me to hold back?

That was proper.

Take it away, guy.

I do.

Okay.

I should go out after.

Looking for us. That

the wind broke the window, huh?

Yeah.

If it was the wind.

Maybe he really was a big man once.

Maybe what he'd done

wasn't exactly his fault.

Maybe folks expect too much.

Sleep here,

Mr.. Parker,

I think I could get to like you.