04x24 - The Nancy Palmer Story

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Huh? What do you

see when you look into the fire
like you're doing?

What are.

Flames.

More?

Hush now.

You don't see nothing.

Just flames like a palm

with power.

You see things up in flames.

Oh, I see all kinds of things already.

I see in with long beards

and girls low and dresses.

Do you know if I look real high?

I can see San Francisco.

San Francisco?

Could I?

I looked real hard.

Why don't you try?

It's an interesting
getting along with young'uns.

Some got it.

Some in

here.

Let me have

if you want your boy back.

Ma'am, we want to thank your wife.

Looking after the baby, Mr..

Her arms are as strong as yours.

I guess

there's a reason for a man taking a wife
and a woman taking a husband.

But sometimes you wonder what sparked it.

Bedtime.

Come on, Freddie.

Very.

What is it Not?

I never know what to fail.

Sooner or later. That good luck around?

Yeah, Like it's just like a woman.

Yeah. One day. A guy next day.

Talking from. Experience.

Oh, well, a rag, a man.

But he looks like you're gonna
to work it out for you, Charles.

How long you figure it's going to take?

That depends on Charlie.

You're going to stand around lending
encouragement until we get a little sweat.

Sweating ain't no stranger to me.

You hear that? Come on.

Mr. McCullough,
is there anything the women can do?

Not a thing.

You might tell your husband.

We could use another hand. Chad,
bring in that Paul.

Oh, I'm sorry.

He didn't know
he'd be most pleased to volunteer.

To pick up.

Come on.

Here we go. A little trouble.

Than they're shorthanded
and they're wondering about you.

Well, I never doesn't a word about you
when they need you

and forget about you when they don't
turn their backs, when it suits them.

You could get them to like you
than you could just give them a chance

like you.

That's half a loaf.

That's more than an entitled to.

Oh, don't worry about me.

I can always do what I got to do.

Just don't ask me to smile
while I'm doing.

It on

myself.

Off the.

That's your gift, Nancy.

Yeah.

Smile and look in sweet.

Better than that stuff in there.

Why get them in a bite,

Eric? I don't know.

I'll put it up.

Let it out a.

Little bit until morning.

Get ready to move out bright and early.

Are we rolling tomorrow? You just hope.

I'm hoping for both.

I have a little suggestion.

Oh, is that so? Well, come on.

And I think we ought to roll in
no matter what. You mean.

You think we ought to leave this family
behind?

King said he's only 20 miles away.

We could wait there for them
while we're taken in the sight.

After all, one family's bad luck.

Shouldn't be.

Everybody rolls around here is simple
and they never change.

This train started together.

It stays together
and it gets where it's going together.

I know people we left behind so far.

We buried.

But tell us another story, Miss Palmer.

Well, now let's see.

There was a little girl.

She was born on a plantation in the South.

And right in the middle of this plantation
was a great big house.

And this house was all painted white.

And the shutters on it were Dr.

Green.

And sometimes in the afternoons,

this little girl used to sit there
on the veranda with her mama and her papa,

and looking out all she could see

fields and fields of cotton
growing in the sun.

And you know what she thought?

What?

She thought that in all this world,

it was just that White House had her mom
on, her papa sitting on the veranda

and fields of cotton.

Really and truly.

Well, almost really and truly.

Because you see,
this little girl had a grandfather

who lived in town, and sometimes
she used to go and visit him.

So she knew that there were other people
in the world, that there were other houses

in fields in which cotton did not grow.

I like his story
better than the one you told yesterday.

What happened to the little girl.

She grew up on,
just like any other little girl.

And after a while she didn't sit on her

veranda very often. Why?

She went to school.

And then she learned to ride horses.

Then there were parties
and they would dances.

And there were just so many things to do
that there wasn't much time for sitting

until a walk.

Sure makes it sound real

or not.

She was the girl.

You reckon?

US? What happened next?

Well,

everyone went away.

A little girl's father

and her brothers.

All her kin.

Brothers.

You didn't allow.

She had any brothers.

She had three.

And they.

They went away.

Never came back.

Like many another.

They was Rebs, wasn't they?

Yes. General Gates

and his three sons were Rebs.

General Yates

was a real patriot.

His feel proved that Mr.

Davison, not just those of us who are them

children.

It's it's better run along.

I was from Parma.

Where he was a girl.

He died there.

I know.

He was very dearly loved.

If that's any.

Comfort to you.

Finding out you're his daughter
brings back a lot of memories.

Happy ones.

Mr. McCullough.

Well,

I can only speak for myself.

We can all go on remembering how it was,
even how it might have been.

But we can't go on living it
in its present.

Well, I see a different.

And I don't care who knows it,
because inside of me is nothing but hate.

Well, we went on Hayden for

five long years, and as I see it,
it didn't do any of us any good.

Papa knew that

he fought for his own, like any man.

But he knew it.

Knew what, man?

There were two causes.

Ours and theirs.

Papa used to say that

when men take a cause to their hearts,

they forget that they're brothers
and they hate.

And they lay the land waste.

And you believe that?

Well, just look around you.

All these good people,

short time ago,
they hated us and we hated them.

Now they're our friends.

Mr. McCullough said it so well,

we can't be prisoners of the past.

Ma'am.

I guess I just haven't got it in
me to turn the other cheek.

It's time to take us to bed, Miss Palmer.

Oh, all right, darling. Come on, children.

Let's all hold hands and go to bed.

Mirasol, come.

Oh, yes. Right here

tonight.

To come out tonight for us to come out to.

Some few was born good

and to bear the burdens.

Guess she's such a one,

You know.

I guess after all, I am lucky

I got you to turn the other cheek.

It upset me tonight that

talking about Grandpa,

it was like reliving it all over again.

His death and mama's boys

and the flames of the house
looking up against the sky.

They don't understand that.

How could they?

And nobody,
all of their families were nobodies.

How could they know what losses

Never haven't had anything to lose.

Callouses.

That's what they in my

at the hands of a gentleman

sometimes and I watched

him swill whiskey in a saloon

as I've come to do myself.

I remember once I used to drink wine

long stemmed glasses.

Then what brought us together?

A homeless girl wandering the countryside

and a penniless, defeated man
nursing his bride.

It wasn't love at first.

Wasn't the time for love?

No, no.

We should have met at a great all
in my father's house.

Perhaps I had given you every.

That's

how it should have been.

And got me no wife.

But I figure if I had one,
I wouldn't put a razor hand on.

And isn't going to slip Mr.

Worcester under them whiskers.

I got me a right handsome man.

And in this world,
the body count our blessings.

Stop fidgeting.

Maybe I can see.

And maybe he should
all look like no blessing to me.

You know, it's such a long time
since I've danced to a pretty tune.

It ain't every town
that has friendly folks in it

like Kings City
who ask you to share their pleasure.

Yes. Well, when you get finished primping,
you can hold the baby.

I've got my choice to do it.

Miss Palmer won't be able to hold on
for quite a while later, right off.

Well, that's
certainly very generous of you, Mrs.

Palmer. Very generous of both of you.

Well, I can't say it was my idea, Mr.

McCullough, but sometimes a man's
got to give in to his wife.

Yeah, I guess that's true.

So it doesn't seem fair for you
to be stuck here while we're all in town.

Having a good time.

All those children.

That's a big responsibility.

Mr. McCullough.

For a childless
woman, it's a sweet responsibility.

And they'll only be mine for a few hours.

Just as you say, ma'am,
I'm sure the folks appreciate it very much

from both of you.

Oh, there you are, you little dance.

Oh, we're going to have such fun
tonight, aren't we?

All piled in our wagon.

Tell us stories we'll sing. Oh, yes.

We're going to sing until we fall asleep
all close and snug together.

I'd rather stay with you
than to go to an old dance.

Oh, well, off you go
now, till it's time you hear.

Will it be time.

When it gets dark?

And off you go, All of you Round.

Folks might think I admired a good woman.

But I know better.

I married a smart one.

Now, you a.

Woman
who looks like an angel and act like what

you're very convincing at.

And that's a suspect. Yes.

And so you just go right on
looking the angel and playing the angel.

You don't have to keep on repeating it
down.

I've learned what the world teaches

and I learned it
standing over five graves.

We saw it at every turn,
even among our own.

The weak.

Forgive, strong,
only pretend that they do.

They pretend and they take

one. Now it's our turn to take.

You've done your part.

Now I'll do mine.

This part.

This parlor.

Doreen, What is it, child?

Who are you going
to let us keep next to you tonight?

We are, Billy.

Both of you.

One on each side.

Now you run along.

You know, I can't help

but wonder how much pretending goes on
with those children and how much is real,

even to me.

Who knows? You would look real.

With the young then.

And your heart has to go out to him
a little.

So only what they turn into
when they grow up.

It's hateful.

Nine and nine.

You do see

my baby.

Never feel mother's need.

Mm mm.

Lay down now

and read me the slum.

Be the the

O and read me the moon.

The me

What's the matter?

Damn you loaded it before.

I just want to mix it.

I'll tell you I'm all right.

I'm always all right when the time comes.

I learn that by myself.

When I was little,

my first house and my first r*fle

and I wasn't ready for it.

But I wanted that horse.

And I want to rush because I was
my father's son and I was entitled to him.

And I got him to

and I

made myself about that horse
press, that trick.

It's what I remember that night
in Springfield,

and it's what I remember tonight in Kings

City.

You can take what you entitled to.

I'm currently known to be dance and a
drink, and I'm thinking other things than.

Than don't take any risks.

Told you before.

When I'm pressed, I can always do

what I have to do.

Well,

you are

what?

I am there back

now. But why?

Right?

Do I look as if I had a good love?

And the last.

I'll have a good time.

One never wondered. Yes.

Where are the young ones of bother?

No, they were as good as gold.

I guess you're the ones who are good
as gold.

LAMB. Help me with the children. Sure.

Come on,
you little fun. A strong, critical.

I don't suppose I have to remind you

that we are already two days
outside of Kings duty.

I'm still counting the hours down.

I have stopped.

Temperament is a strange thing, and

some of us sweat it out
before we do what we've got to do.

That's my way.

Others do their sweat and after the fact.

That's your way.

I guess you might say
There's a time for fear.

But after it's all over and done with,

it's also a time for gloating.

Just sit back and close your eyes

and you dream.

Like we got company.

Oh, jolly.

I guess we're meeting again
sooner than you expected.

Or we got a poor memory for phases.

No, I got a good memory,
especially for Sheriff.

What's wrong.

Mr. McCullough? I've heard tell about you.

Good or bad.

Oh, no complaints, I guess we ain't been
in the saddle day and night for nothing.

Well, is something wrong?

There was a dance in Kings City,
which you folks had invited, remember?

Yeah.

By some strange chance, that very night
our bank was robbed.

Somebody got away with $20,000.

You got any idea who somebody is?

We've got good reason to believe that
whoever Dennis ran on this wagon train.

Now, we could be wrong,

but we aim to find out,
and we ain't heading back until we do.

Well, let's have a look.

No man rides
herd over me, makes charges against me.

Work. That's what these hands.

No, not stealing them. No.

Let him look to the others.

Don't look to my family.

Point a finger at the poor.

That's what they do. Well,
there's rich ones here.

Look to them.

The greedy and never satisfied.

With your remaining me, ma'am.

I worked for what I got.

And I'm not fighting a law
like your husband.

I didn't object to being searched.

I didn't hear you say a good word for me.

I didn't hear
you say the lamb soul was an honest man.

I don't know. He is you.

Lamplighter isn't going to.

Get me anywhere.

He was going to hit Pop.

Freddie, you stay with your mark.

Now, while we're at it,
let's get a few things straight.

We ain't got time for speeches. McCullough

I don't know that

this is going to be a speech, Sheriff,
but if it is, you'll listen

because it's intended for yours
as well as the others.

A $20,000 has been stolen
from the bank in King City.

The sheriff here is suspicious of us
because we were in town.

I guess he's got a right to be.

Suspicion is one thing, Sheriff,

and proof is quite another.

Law says a man is innocent
until proven guilty.

So if the sheriff doesn't find
what he's looking for, he and his men

are going to get on their horses
and ride back to town.

That a fair statement of fact, Sheriff.

That's the law.

Too. More wagons to search.

Don't miss nothing.

Do they belong to. One of them's mine.

Other belongs to me.

Dan Palmer.

Folks, you trust your children to You
don't suspect of stealing.

What the lady means is
the farmers didn't go into town.

They stayed here and looked at the kids.

Oh, Sheriff,
I reckon we all have ideas about.

Each other since you come here.

But not about these folk.

You are very kind.

It's right and proper to repay kindness.

There's little enough of it in this world.

I better take.

Oh, he's no bother, Sheriff.

Diane and I
are no different from the others.

And there's just as much reason
to be suspicious of us.

There is of them.

So if one wagon is to be searched,
all should be.

Thank you, ma'am.

You have memory reload.

I'll keep the baby with you.

Nothing.

I'd like you to write a piece with us.

Mr. McCullough didn't spare the time.

Always time for the law.

Come on, let's go

back on.

Well, I'll be seeing you, Sheriff.

Remember, you've got a long journey ahead,

and you're going to get to know
these folks better.

One of these days, you'll be riding back
right through King City,

and we'll be expecting you
to be bringing that money.

I'm not asking for a guarantee here.

In these parts.

It's healthy for a scout to have friends.

You're no exception.

Oh, hello, baby.

Thank you, Mr.

Henry.

Madonna and child.

That's what you look like standing there.

Oh. Oh, isn't that nice?

And there's no time for gloating.

You almost got day.

I don't think I could brazen it out again.

You can do anything.

Give it to me. Day.

Where are you going to put it?

There's only one place on me.

See? It's safe.

I'll take my things off.

You. Is the boy

asleep? Yes.

I'll say what he meant for his ears.

I took a smart man to steal all that money

and get away with it.

From now all We do not mingle
so free and easy.

Civil tone in your head is all you need.

I got a question.

Yeah.

Is there a ward on his head?

Who's hurt? Mr.

Williams stole the money.

Thousand dollars.

What?

Well, I reckon I'm curious, that's all.

Just.

I just curious.

That wrong vent.

Was picked up still.

All right.

What are you doing back here?

I'm old, bored.
Get hard day in and day out, Bill.

Spell me for a while. Yeah.

Besides, something worrying
might as well up until yesterday.

Everybody's getting along just fine now.

All of a sudden,
like everybody suspicious of each other.

You figure they got a reason?

Oh, sure. Sure, they've got a reason.

The sheriff
knows the territory, also knows the town.

But after the robbery, he comes to us.

As I see it.

Either figure he's smarter, he stupid.

I think he deserves a benefit
of the doubt. Let's say he's smart.

Well, have you got a suspicion?

Not yet.

What are you gonna do about it?

Wait for what?

Somebody to make the wrong move.

You tell Bill to make.

Calm down in that drawer.

Let me be back.

I'll be back in the morning.

Well, I better go tell Bill.

All right.

You'll be the mother.

I got to get my doll first.

Well, again, Mother,

he's promised.

His brother.

That girl.

You should be home in your own house.

Well, I mean, really, free up

your hearts, Mr.

Wooster. Yes.

I'm the mother,
and she's my most favorite baby.

I'll bet she is green.

Honey, where'd you get this?

I found it, Miss Promise Wagon.

Lorraine, darling,
you go play a nice girl.

$100 bill.

What you make of that?

I don't know, Charlie.

Can't you do what they believe You?

I relieve you that, Mr.

Hawks.

You heard what Doreen said.

She found it in our wagon.

For folks traveling
all the way to San Francisco, pull

by a stake for the rainy day.

Is there something troubling you, Mr.
Hawks?

Well, it's
just that the sheriff said after

the money was in on a dollar bills,
man Oh.

It's just a coincidence.

I have heard of such.

Mr. Hawkes.

There's something I don't understand.

Do you want to search our wagon again?

Because if so, you have our permission,

and then I'll be abiding by anything
you say.

Well, a lady has right to claim
what's hers.

And also keep it.

Sorry.

You think he's bluffing?

Bill, You're an old poker player, Charlie.
What do you think?

I'd call him, but on the other hand, it's
such a nice lady.

It's so pretty.

I don't think she lied. Yeah,

you got to be right, Charlie.

How did. Happen? I don't know.

I restricted.

I guess you should have let me do it.

I risk my life for that money.

You hear me?

I risk my.

Life.

It's not exactly good news,

but there's analysis that says to be
forewarned is to be forearmed.

So we're going to head north.

A lot longer.

Yes, it is. But we know we'll find water.

Couldn't we get by
if we ration what we got?

No, not a company of this size as it is,
we'll have to ration what we have.

But if we all cooperate,
we'll make it all right.

Well, I think I'll turn it.

You know.

I'm worried mainly about the horses.

We ought to be able to get a lot
out of kind of day.

It's going to be a long haul.

Yeah, for pretty long winter.

Someone to talk to you about.

What is it?

Well, it happened yesterday.

Real strange luck

involved him

that.

He was talking to McCullough about us.

I'm sure of it. Well, think of something.

I'm counting on you.

With all you can think of a way.

What is there to do
except go on trading on my Amazon face?

Maybe we can act longer.

We're not a whole company.

We just two.

We could steal a couple of horses
and enough water in itself.

That we can't take water.

To be so squeamish.

It take the most to save themselves.

You're not an lesson we learned.

I'm thinking of the risk. Risk

robbing a bank is a

risk carrying money
Stuff to your body is a risk.

And taking what you need to protect
yourself is a risk.

To protect myself, I can do anything.

We're in this together.

Don't you ever forget it.

Aren't we?

Tonight

at a better hand over the money to me?

Feel easy if I have been

Charlie.

I want us all gone mean.

The water is gone
and there was dry Not a drop in it

when somebody took two of the saddle
horses.

Let's check on the wagon

to me.

Like they took everything
they could carry.

I guess you were right.

Including the $20,000.

That's the way it looks, Charlie.

Let's get the people together.

We'll have to tell
them about the water right.

We better ride for a while now.

Than we rode all morning.

They're feeling the sun, too.

It's not going to do me any good
A piece of when I don't.

Can we without them?

Just a drop down.

Have a nerve to keep up.

We have enough water.

And with the money.

Water to keep us alive

in money.

The dreamer.

We just got to remember it.

Somewhere beyond it comes to an end.

It's what I keep telling myself.

Somewhere beyond it comes to an end.

And what do we have left?

We have to save for the horses.

Experience
some for the children, of course.

Now, I don't know

if you folks are wondering what I think
you're wondering, but I'll say this.

Where we're headed north.

We'll find all the water we can use.

Where the farmers are headed.

There just isn't anyone.

They're going to need every drop
they stop.

Now, let's get
the wagons ready. Let's move.

I just can't believe it.

I've heard him. Yes.

Hurt. Oh.

How are you? Seen with different eyes.

Using No smarter.

I trusted her
because I thought she was a good woman.

But you was different.

You figured she was a better woman
than your own wife.

I had no desire for her match.

Desire, rate, everything. Them

respect comes.

When you look at me again.

I'm weak and I'm frightened.

But I ain't evil like her.

She got no

stealing money.

I can understand.

But steel and water that's precious to us.

There is no crime, Lord.

She's from my part of the country.

But if she was here,
I'd put a b*llet right through her.

I tell you, it ends.

It's got to end.

You know,
rivers and streams in this world.

Greed,

green.

Grass and trees.

It's the stillness.

It's like a day of judgment.

But I like it when you talk like that.

You can survive
if you guts on the loophole.

And we got this.

This hell is.

Giving me my strength to go on.

Don't

I know how you people feel
about the Palmers?

Still, I'm looking for a volunteer.

Just one. Mr. McCullough.

We have been spared,
and I look on it as God's will.

Maybe it is.

We all know they should perish.

It's written
that the wages of sin is death.

My man does not go mine neither.

Well, I'm not much good at judging sin.

But I do know that the die of thirst
in the desert is to die inch by inch.

I've been pretty close to

that.

I'm looking for a volunteer.

I'll go. No.

I'm like him.

I'm a poor judge.

I sent a lot of other things
to including human weakness.

It was about time I stopped

sitting in judgment and.

And when I.

Want to turn back.

I figure we're going to get

as far as they're going to get.

Ready.

Let's go back.

Try to sleep

tonight.

The moon.

Silver in the light of the moon Guide.

When I was a girl,

I used to sit in church on Sundays

with Momma and.

And so many.

So many.

And the preacher would stand up there

and he'd say,

What does it mean

if he came

and loses oats?

He noticed

this looked different.

This is beginning to look different.

Maybe tonight,

with no such strength.

What company can it

what I say can it for

Nancy.

Look at me.

Is hopeless, isn't it?

If say this hope and help,

I can't see it alone.

You've got to see it to see it.

I don't want to die.

Not here, not this.

I've got strength left. I.

I got strength left.

And not to Go ahead, turn back.

It's still here.

We're alone.

There's nothing to hear.

The sound of your own

voice is from mine. And

you? Oh,

and wouldn't you want

We could die here And my day.

No night's not true.

I'm not ready to die.

And I can't.

I hate uncle.

I believe in it.

It's right to find you.

Can I be an evil and doing evil?

If you and I have

Strange than

I can't see the faces

of the people who hurt me.

Only the faces of the people

hurt.

But it's good to.

Believe in me and.

I have to listen to my own voice

just like they listen.

In Nigeria.

Sometimes there are no choices.

There's only one voice that.

Takes what you.

Want it this way, Dutch?

Yes. Swear you want it this way?

Swear.

I swear.

I tried it.

I prayed.

Perhaps a searching body accompanied.

O to it.

It's too late for that.

I'm praying

to be forgiven.

Like I know.

Why do we stray, Mr.

McCullough?

Whose power?

This part.

Wait. You stay here, both of you.

She ain't cut me for a boy.

This will all have to do for her.

No, but they can't save the heart for it.

The only what your have to do no more.

I reckon none of us needs to be told.

I told you she's a bad woman.

Mind? No.

No, he isn't.

She loves me. Mrs.

Wake on this poem.

We're so glad you're back.

What happened to you, Miss Palmer?

It'll be all right.

It kills more stories.

We'll see.

Yes, Yes, we sing.

I will tell stories

there.

Too young an innocent to understand.

That's right. They don't.

And they'll never understand

unless we stop pointing fingers

and saying he's evil

and she's evil.

Well, she's alive.

And there must be some of us.

Perhaps only

the children.

Know why I.