04x22 - The Beth Pearson Story

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Whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa.

Howdy.

I reckon you're wanting to join up
with the wagon train.

Well, yes, sir. We'd like to,
if it can be arranged.

We got somebody traveling with you.

Yes, sir.

My mother.

Hello.

Howdy, ma'am.

Oh, What's the matter?

Nothing.

Absolutely not.

You wait right here.

I'll get the major one right away. Bill.

Bill. Bill?

Well, what's wrong, Johnny?

WOMAN She's alive.
What did you expect her to be?

Did your brain pull that right after
we both went to our funeral, didn't we?

Major, Major, Major.

Just what is it

about me that so startling to you
gentlemen?

I'm sorry, ma'am.

No offense intended to

see you.

Remind me, sir.

Somebody.

Well, my name is Ben Pearson,
if that's any help to you.

You see,
there is a person that you remind us of.

Passed away

four years ago.

I'm very sorry.

Mrs. Pearson.

Her son went to join the train, Major.

Yeah, sure.

Charlie. Pull him up.

We'll make camp
right over there in a draw.

Yes, sir.

Follow me, son.

As you received, son.

Thank you, sir.

If you need anything, give us a holler
if you're able to make his way.

Yes, sir, we will.

Oh, Mr. Hart.

Yes, ma'am. I.

I hope you won't think
I'm too inquisitive, but I am curious.

Who is this person
I'm supposed to resemble most?

More than a resemblance, ma'am.

You're a dead ringer for what?

Maybe there's a relationship.
What's your name?

Granny Webster.

Well, not you see,
That was her married name.

Her maiden name was Randy Martin.

Now, Martins are my family.

But judging from your

reactions this afternoon,
all of you must have known it pretty well.

Yes, ma'am, we did. Especially the Major.

You see, Rainey was the only woman
that he ever loved.

That Mama.

What happened to your watch
stop or something?

What's that supposed to mean, Charles?

When you saved this morning,
how come you're shaving again

before you go to bed?

Charlie, how come you're standing
right there in that particular spot?

Hmm? Why?

Because that's the spot.

I was going to throw my panel water.

Now, what do you do that for?

All I ask is why he was shaving again.

You'd think there was some place
to go around here.

What makes you think there isn't.

An old town around here?
All I can do is call on some other wagon.

Wagon?

Say, you know what he's called on a mrs.

Pearson, do you?

Charlie, the major doesn't shave
when he go checks of livestock, does he?

No. What I do, if I were you, I'd
take these whiskers on your upper lip

and I'd pull them down.
This long was on your chin in a time.

And not now.
Leave it that way for a couple of days.

Don't you worry about me.

I don't want to keep my mouth shut.

But that'll be the day.

I remember with you, Charles.

What are you looking at me like that for?

Charlie,
have you got something to say? Said

answering.

To shake.

Charles, why don't.

You shut up.

Son? Oh, sir.

I don't think

I greeted you and your mother
very politely this afternoon.

I thought maybe I'd stop by and sort of
correct the bad impression I made.

My name's Seth Adams.

Most people call me Major on here.

How do you do, sir? I'm Ronald Pearson.

The meteorite tells me that you and
your mother are going to Denver.

Oh, yes, sir.

My father left some property
there, and we're going there to claim it.

Oh, and I take it your father's passed on?

Yes, sir. Three months ago.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Your mother's very

fortunate in having such a big,
strong young father to look after.

I'm afraid
I could never take his place, though.

Nobody could. Course not.

Good evening, Major.

Hello, Mrs. Pearson.

I was just telling your son there.

I thought I'd stop by and apologize for
my sort of bad behavior this afternoon.

Oh, there's no apology necessary.

Or maybe explain is a better word.

Mr. Hart already did that.

Oh, he did?

Well,
I'm afraid that I forced it out of him.

I understand now.

But I must say, I was startled at the way
the three of you looked at me.

I can imagine you were.

Oh, it's really amazing
how much you resemble

Annie Webster.

You'd rather not talk about it.

I understand. Oh, it's all right.

I just

have the feeling that you're a great deal
like her and otherwise to her.

She was the most understanding
woman I ever met.

For once.

You would like to talk about it,
wouldn't you?

No. I.

Yes, I think I would.

Shall we go for a walk?

Such a beautiful evening.

You just took the words
right out of my mouth.

We'll be back shortly.

Ronald,

and I'll miss that person.

I, uh.

I hope you don't think I'm too

or too bold, but

you really don't seem like a stranger
to me.

Of course not, Major.

I told you I understood.

And I do.

Just imagine what a shock
it would be to me

if suddenly I were to see someone
who so closely resembled my late husband.

Well, you see,

Renee and I were never married.

We should have been.

Was a very long ago. Now

we have some.

I don't really know.

It was just the beginning of the w*r.

I guess the w*r was the reason Iranian.

I didn't get married.

I just couldn't seem to understand
why I had to go.

Maybe
no woman can understand a thing like this.

I don't know.

All I know is

I love you.

I want you to marry me today.

Now, before I have to leave.

You ask me that,

and then walk out that door

and maybe never come back again.

No, sir.

No, it's not fair.

Not when you don't have to go.

Ready?

Our country's at w*r

inside of every man
that's able knows what he's got to do.

I'm sorry.

You know my feelings.

Any sense

that they down?

Although the w*r was causing me
to lose ranee

at the time, I was turning to a friend
who would be with me from then on.

Wilcox, Charlie Wooster.

And once I nearly lost one.

Of them

to help me to somebody.

Before they got 20 feet.

You just can't let him die on the water.

You try that once more
and you'll get a court martial fighting.

You can't do anything to me. What?

I'm going to

Major.

Major Adams.

Well, I'll be.

I told you, there's no one w*r
when a kilometer.

It's good to see you. Make it real good.

Good to see you, Bill.

Charlie.

You know, they had you. Missing in action.
I knew they were wrong.

Or seems

like I didn't know much of anything
for quite a while.

Charlie.

How bad is it? You.

Well, they tell me

you are pretty good now.

Well, except my legs.

A few weeks ago,
they were talking about cutting them off.

But I like that idea.

Now, the doctor says if you over again.

You got those letters.

That the letter? Yeah. They give me.

Captain Wesley gave me these
in case we find you

there.

From writing.

Well,

just mark them.

Return to sender with it, please.

If you an open letter.

Sure.

To start me thanking

all I My ship

doesn't have any right to guess

about the person I wrote to

lying in that hospital.

I did a lot of thinking
about a lot of things.

It was months before I couldn't
stand on my own two feet

fit to pick up the loose end of my life
and find Raimy.

When I was to land

where I was gonna

learn that she'd been married
to a man named Webster.

I looked up my friends Bill Hawks
and Charlie Wooster, and the three of us

made a deal to take a wagon train
from Saint Louis to Sacramento.

It was a satisfying kind of life,
so we signed on again the next year.

The third trip we were in Arizona.

I found out the brain
we'd been living there with my sister

and brother in law,
and she was widowed two years before.

When she heard
that our wagon train was passing

by, she sent an urgent message
to me to come and see her.

Seriously.

What I
didn't know was that she'd been ordered

to Arizona by a doctor for help,

that she had refused to marry me
for the same reason

she didn't know

was that it was already too late.

Granny

Brady ran

to tell me Granny.

Without any heart,

I love you

so much.

You're going to get well already.

You're going to be just fine.

Tell me about

tell me about

California.

Never seen anything like it or anything.

It's fresh.

Clean.

Thanks.

And your brand

is so hot, right?

Good. Aspirational that

when you woke up in the morning

therapeutic ocean

blue in this class, you

all you have to do is

look back over your shoulder.

There's a line of mountains

high is

a beautiful mountains

that keep you warm.

I once heard a man say that

it was like the Lord created

the Sabbath alone.

That's all I ask.

He created it for people to

like you and me.

There's no better place in the world

than. Oh,

no better place.

You are not

in an automatic.

Oh, I buried her there

on the outskirts of Arizona town

each year.

I stopped by there,

talked to. Her.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry if you said that today.

I can see now what a terrible shock
it must have been for you

to shock.

Yes, but not terrible by any means.

I'm glad it happened.

I'm glad you're with our train.

I am too.

Well,

I guess I'd better be getting back now

before Ronald thinks I got lost
and starts looking for me.

This person.

I want to thank you for listening me out.

See, I've never said these things before.

Anyone.

I'm flattered.

I'm flattered that it was me

in that meeting.

Hi, Bill.

Where to, Major? Where do you think he is?

Same place he was last night
and the night before that.

And every night for the past two weeks.

Catch on real fast.

Well, I just got to keep my mouth shut,
my eyes open like you said, Bill,

do you think he's
getting serious about her?

I don't think he's getting serious.
You know.

I think he was serious
the first time he laid eyes on her.

Supporters
because she looks so much like Rainey.

Well,
that might have something to do with it.

You know, Charlie, Mrs.

Pierson's a pretty nice
kind of a woman. Yeah, I know.

You don't suppose
he's planning on marrying her to you?

Well, I don't know the way it looks to me
unless something happens.

Those are his plans.

Exactly. Oh.

What a beautiful night.

Just look at the stars.

Not nearly as beautiful

as what I'm looking at.

You wouldn't be trying

to tell me that you like.

I'm trying to tell you
a lot more than that.

Well, please.

Don't say anything that.

I shouldn't know.

I mean,

I know.

But I want you to go back
to your wagon now.

And when you're lying in your hair

right before you go to sleep,
ask yourself one question

and ask yourself,

Is the best person I love

or my love with the memory of the woman
she looks like.

I can give you the answer that right now.

Be Please be very sure
I couldn't live the life of a ghost

tomorrow night.

Tell me everything.

Let's get going forward.

Come on, let's go.

Yeah.

Come on.

Come.

Good morning.

I said.

Well, tell me.

You going to.

Try to drive it all by yourself?

Well, I'm not exactly helpless, you know,
I kind of enjoy it once in a while.

That's not. Hey,

I was thinking about what you.

Told me last night.

Were you?

Yes. And I want to tell you right now,

this isn't the. Time or the place.

All right?

Tonight that

I'm all right.

Oh, baby.

All right.

When I don't, you forget

your card.

All right, let's go, boys.

Why do my.

Mother?

Mother, She's unconscious.
Don't touch her.

Keep your hands. I said don't. Touch the.

Side of more.

k*ll her. Right. She's got a broken neck.

How would you know?

You're not a doctor? No.

I wish I was right now.

Well, that's terrible as we can anyway.

Anyone

won't play. Why?

Naturally.

What about a doctor?

Instead of just sitting here, one of us
at least go looking for a doctor.

Where there isn't a town
within a hundred miles in any direction.

That's right.

I know you're worried
about your mother, son.

Don't call me son.

Listen,

you got something else
rather than your boy.

Cause
if you have, we'll discuss that later.

Now we'll tell everybody.

We'll make camp right here.

I'm going to travel anymore today
in major.

Need anything?

Let me know.

Major.

Major.

Amanda,

Any change?

No, No.

Any sleep last night

at some.

Charlie's Got some breakfast
waiting for you.

Feel better after.

You get hungry, Bill,
just bring me some coffee.

And early supper last night. Either

folks are all hooked up and ready to move.

I think we ought to get started.

Not here.

Some of them are champing at the bit.

Let them camp Bill

for not moving.

This girl couldn't possibly
live through the reckoning.

We got ahead of us.

Maybe she's not as bad off as you think.

Nobody wishes that as much as I do.

Some.

And yes, I.

I'm right here. What is it?

I can't move.

I can't move anything other.

You see, Boy.

Move your fingers, Mother.

Move your fingers, kid.

I can't move anything

paralyzed

is paralyzed.

Her happens
sometimes around these kind of injuries,

but that doesn't mean
she's got to stay paralyzed.

Pilgrimage.

All right.

I'm scared.

Don't leave me.

Please don't leave me.

I won't leave you at.

I won't leave you

ever.

What do you think I made
you want to do that, Bill?

I can make a good guess, Charlie,
but I'd rather hear from him.

Major, we're here.

Square where we can talk.

Well,

Tommy, I.

Before I tell you what I'm going to say,

I want you to know one thing.

I've thought this whole thing out.

I've made up my mind.

You're going to stay with Mrs. Pearson.

Don't you

read my mind again?

How you think? More like I do.

That any man I know.

That's why I think it'll be all right
if I leave these folks in your care here.

Isn't Charlie.

Major? You ain't serious.

Not really
gonna leave it right. This time, Charlie.

Yes, I am.

It's not safe for us to move Mrs.

Pearson yet.

She's going to have to stay right here.

Maybe for several weeks.

Well, that's no reason for you to stay,
too, is it?

I wouldn't expect an old girl
like you to understand this, Charlie, but

that's Pearson's.

She's become
the most important thing in my life.

I lost just such a thing once.

I can't believe the good Lord is going
to expect me to go through that again.

There must come a time.

A man's got a right

to put his own feelings first.

This is that time

where I look at it.

I'm being offered what may be

my last chance.

What I missed before.

I'm going to take that chance.

I'm an innocent woman back to health.

I'm going to marry her.

I guess I don't blame you much, Major.

And I wish you all the luck in the world.

Thanks, Charlie.

I know you'll give Bill all the help.

You can help. Him before
we're down a trail 20 miles.

I'll be running this train
and he'll be helping me.

I bet you're right.

You know, Charlie,
when the people find out

that the major isn't with us any longer,
they start squawking.

I might turn this whole outfit over. Down.

Probably just as well.

We don't say anything about it for now.

I'm folks find out I'm not with you.

I would be so far down the trail.
I can't do anything about it.

We'll take care of everything.

We'll get your trunk down to you
before we leave.

All right.

Well, I think we ought to get rolling
Horse and Acquisti.

People start asking questions.
Why? We're all running away.

Boys.

We'll see you before we leave.

Yeah,

I was just going to tell you, two of you,
to stay on your toes,

be responsible
for the lives of a lot of good people.

Right

where?

How come you weren't out here

waving goodbye to the train?

Cause I thought I was better.

I didn't know I wasn't with him yet.

It would have been better.

You'd gone with it.

All right, Ron,

maybe it's time
you and I had a little talk.

There wasn't much to say,
except I don't like you stay in here.

Any particular reason?

I don't want any other father.

But the one I had.

Ronnie,
I would never try to replace your father.

Nobody could.

It's just impossible
to replace the people that we love.

Your father will always keep his place
in your mind, and that's proper to.

But that doesn't
mean that you can't like somebody else

or at least be friendly with them.

All right. One,

let me put it another way.

You need me here.

This is one of the wildest stretches
of land in the whole West right here.

I can take care of mother by myself.

And you

look up there on that hill,

Those are Apaches on.

And just sitting here waiting and wishing.

Wishing they had your horses and your
r*fle and your wagon and everything in it.

There's only one reason
they don't come down here and take them.

So if I was you, I'd
put my personal feelings aside

for the moment and be God darned glad
that I've made friends

with their chief and that we've still got
a treaty that they respect

These wake.

I just heard you and I talking

wagons have left, haven't they?

They pulled out while I was asleep.

We're going to stay right here.

They're well enough to travel.

You left your wagon train.

Do you really love me that much?

Yes, ma'am, I do.

Major it, sir,

it's you.

Please kiss me. Ma'am.

You'll be for.

Oh, looks like trouble.

You'll be.

I've heard about the major.

How could they? As far as they know,
he's out of his garden.

And don't tell him any different.
Don't look at me.

I don't want to keep my mouth shut.

Yeah, Come on,

You men ought to be standing
by your wagons about ready to pull out

Weingarten anywhere.

Neither of you. Wait a minute.

Not till you ride back to the Pearson
wagon and fetch Major Adams.

What makes you think
that he's there? We was told.

Don't look at me.

I didn't do it.

It was the Pearson
boy wrote in her late last night.

Woke me up.

Don't know why I did it, except he don't
take the idea of a major be in there.

And neither do we.

All right.

Now, you know the major left
a train, put me in charge,

but I'll guarantee to get you to
wherever you're going.

Same as if he was here.

Maybe you will. Maybe you won't.

We ain't going to take that chance.

We paid our money with the understanding
that Major Adams has had enough

this strain, and we're going to move one
inch until he's back here doing just that.

And do you know, Good dog.

We've checked every other wagon
along the line,

and all of them
are the same mind as we are.

And they said if anything happened,

all those people was going to rest
right on your head.

You had no right to desert them out there
in the middle of nowhere.

And they mean it, major.

They won't even hook up their teams
until you get back.

Dang, stubborn fools.

Okay. No.

If they delay you, they get caught in


Explained that to them.
They won't even move.

They're just going to sit there.

Will you show up

now? I'd like to see you.

Ever found out I was gone so soon?

Something else you will want to hear.

Oh. My future stepson

got off the train last night
and told Johnson you were out here

right?

Did that because he got against you
anyway?

Oh, I don't know. Bill accepted

me. It's just that he's so

dead set against his mother
getting married again.

She raised him all by herself there alone.

Most of the time he was growing up.

Maybe he figures that
if he can keep things the way they are,

he can pretend that
his father's not dead at all.

He's just off in Denver or someplace.

Be back any day now.

You know, it's funny

how some people can wish for something
and almost make it come true.

Yeah,

I guess I'm not one of those folks.

I'm sorry. I made sure I did what I could.

Wasn't enough, I guess.

You know, I think this proves one thing.

People back there need you,

Bill.

Are you trying to tell me
I should go back there

and leave this home in here to die?

I maybe k*ller by hauling in a wagon.

You of all people.

Are you asking me to do that?

And I'm not asking you anything.

I rode out here to tell you
that those people are all steamed up,

that trains ready to blow sky high,
and I can't keep them in line.

It's not my idea to
have you make a choice like this.

I know, Bill.

I know it's not your fault.

Maybe you should go back and talk to him.

They might listen to you.

Bill Harrison.

I could persuade.

I'm going to try it in the first place.

Now, sir,

those people are my responsibility.

Anyway, you could,
but I don't know what to do, Bill.

For the first time in my life,
I haven't got an answer.

Why don't you try this?

You go back to the train.

I'll stay here with Mrs. Pearson.

I want you over like you're one of my own.

I'll bring her back to you.

As good as. New.

No, I'm done.

I can't ask you to do that.
Even you like it.

You're not asking me. All right.

Would you come in here, please?

I thought she was asleep.

I'm sorry.

We will have.

I'm glad you did.

You know what you heard, Doctor?

You're not to let that bother you.

You must go back, Seth.

It's your duty.

I won't leave you, Beth.

You won't have to.

I'm going with him.

Can't.

Can't be moved yet.

Please believe me when I tell you that

the worst thing in the world

that could happen to me
would be to be separated from you.

I know that.

I refuse to leave you or let you leave me.

The choice is out of your hands.

Would you.

Would you find my son for me?

I have something to tell you.

I'm here. Mother. What did you want?

Come over here. I'm

with you.

Take my hand.

And if I could

raise that hand by myself
and slap your face.

Mother.

I'm thoroughly ashamed of the way
you acted last night.

And I expect you to apologize
to Major Adams right now.

Then I expect you to help him
in any way that you can.

We're rejoining the wagon train.

No, we can't, Mother.

You can't be moved.

The decision is mine. Ronald.

And it's final.

This is your fault.

You talked her into this.

I'm going to take it easy. Son

had just about enough of you.

You're not going to m*rder my mother.

You're going to get out of here
and never come back.

All the years that your father was gone,

I tried to create in your mind an image
of the most wonderful man in the world.

I guess I succeeded, too. Well,

your father.

Your father only left us.

Ronald,

because he no longer wanted us.

And he never had
any intention of returning.

He came back

only when he was dying.

Because sometimes

people have a change of heart
when they're near death.

Ronnie, your father was no good.

And you're not to mention him again.

In the same breath with Major Adams.

I'll go ahead.

Shut the time

with Pearson.

I love you.

I love you, Major.

It don't matter.

You know,
I think this kind of work will. And.

Should or

yes, you're going to be very comfortable.

But this is the only way
I'll move this wagon.

I'm fine.

I'm just fine.

You know,
that horse will catch as a wagon train.

Sure you don't want me to drive, Major?

No, thanks, Bill.

I don't think it's necessary.

Young follow up on that street has become

pretty much of a man.

All someone's going school.

Try and find this house parts for you.

I will, sir.

Don't worry.

Come on, I'll.

So I'll go right up.

I'll admit.

Get back to your wagons. Get home.

The one thing that I don't.

Like, that's to be held up.

What is here

on sir?

Sir, I can't stand.

Hold up, Ronnie.

All of a blow. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This hurts.

Please.

Maybe it's too tight.

I lose. My.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry to be bothered.

You best person.

Don't
you ever say anything like that to me.

I'll make you just as comfortable
as I can.

We can't make it to Sonny right?

Go ahead, Ronnie.

Easy now.

Come on.

Easy,

Major.

Hello, Bill.

How is Mrs.

Pearson?

In a hurry to tell us.

I know she's having more pain
and she lets on

thing that worries me.

The paralysis

and the feeling in her hands.

Arms like place.

Major, We've seen cases like this before
when all I want it disappears.

And. And that'll happen here.

All I can do is hope.

Some of the people back there
grumbling about us traveling

too slow.

Pal. You do me a favor with you.

You go back and tell those people
they're doing all the grumbling

they'll have perfectly willing to pull out
any time

they can go on ahead.

I didn't want to come back to the train
anyhow.

You get any other problems, let me know.

You know where

you know.

He's the one I'm worried about. Yeah.

No, they only sleep for a weakness.

I don't think he has. He won't admit it.

I don't.

He let somebody else
sit with her for a while.

Never go for Charlie.

You know, he's never let himself
get too close

to a woman since he lost riding till now.

My guess is
that he's afraid to shut his eyes

at the same thing
will happen all over again.

Well.

So we're turning.

Him bitter, I guess.

Major, make your mother want to.

Please make your hurry,
Mother want you hurry.

Mother wants you.

Major, Quick.

Hot in the summer off.

I said I wanted to wait before

it started in my right
foot just a few hours ago.

And then it spread

this.

I'm going to be well.

You use it well.

I knew you couldn't

read Granny.

I know you're

doing all right.

Very,

very.

Oh, Mother, He called uranium.

Why do you do that?

He's tired.

So tired.

He can't fight for a dream any longer.

Tired?

The truth finally came out.

Even he didn't

say hello.

Mrs. Pearson.

Sit down.

Ronnie told me what happened last night.

I didn't know.

Please don't feel. Badly.

I'm not hurt, honestly.

Maybe I was a little bit at first,
but not anymore.

I'm happy.

Happy because I have known

the love and devotion that I never dreamed
existed.

You've given me more than most women
ever receive in a lifetime.

So grateful

I didn't know what was happening.

I had

to. Ronnie Webster is gone.

Oh, you can be proud
of the way that you loved her.

You can. Please,

please
don't waste such a capacity for that.

Give it to someone who.

Who's alive,

who wants it,

makes

you don't just

give up.

One of these days

we may run into each other again

and maybe I'll be able to see you.

Wonderful woman.

You are God.

Good. You

by real person.

I writer What you are Nothing.

I just want to say welcome back home All.

Charlie, why don't you shut that
big magazine yours?

Start driving.

Why? Oh.

Oh, my.