05x19 - The Lonnie Fallon Story

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All of them try to

look in budget.

They are that.

You want to get out and stretch. You want.

No, thank you.

There must be a couple of thousand
head of cattle in.

Will be out of your way in a minute.

Take your time.

Put a budget out there
way you from that on 67 days out?

Yeah.

What are you gonna get that straight

And I.

Lonnie.

What are you doing here?
Never mind about us.

You put to get us up,

you hear what I said, Lonnie?

To pay off.

But what are you talking about?

I got to leave you, Mr. Kirby.

Why personal now?

What am I going
to? I'm leaving in a hole or anything.

You got 16 hands.

That's enough
to wrangle the herd, Ogallala.

You can quit if you've got a mind to.

As you know, Mr.

Lincoln wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation.

There ain't no sl*very no more.

But about Panya.

Now, there's another thing.

Wait a minute.

I wrote always something on with you.

And I come with you for 67 days.

I worked hard for that $2.

Today I figure I earned it.

Looks fine. Let me tell you.

Don't call me son,

please. Mr.

Kirby, what are you saying to me
about all of a sudden?

You know what the rules are?

You know what it was on that paper
you signed down in San Antonio?

I'm asking you
like a gentleman, Mr. Kirby.

I'm asking you to be fair with me.

Well, I'm much better going to be
than following what the agreement says.

It spelled it out.

You get $2 a day and you get a bonus when
and if we push that herd into Ogallala

and not Papa, you're quit.
You get nothing.

You want me to read it out to you?

I'll be happy to.

Well, I can't quit if I get my money.

I can't write out your book as an engine.

You know it.
That's what rules are for, son.

Lonnie.

The rules are meant to keep folks
like you on the job so that a man like me

doesn't have to pack 2000 head of cows
and Ogallala on his back went broke.

Agreements.

We'd have trail and strung out

all over that saloon
from the Canada border to don't crossing.

I'll sit down, eat your beans
and let that poison

drain out of you.

I'm to have the money, Mr.

Kirby. You can

simmer down, sonny boy,

or might mighty little permanent.

You out there.

The best partner answers me
across the president.

Say you're a fair sized man of that.

Yeah.

Now, come on, speak up.

Why are you so fired?

Sit on. Quit.

Aw, come on, Lonnie.

We're all fighting buddies. Now.

Pick up what's chewing on you.

Why? My

woman's on the wagon train, taking her out
west with

replies about the car.

Phone?

You mean to say you took a chance
on getting k*lled just over a gal?

Can you think of a better reason?

No. Good right?

There ain't.

But there's all kinds of girls
in the world, Boy,

why you can walk down a street
in Ogallala.

Well, we got one straight up there.

You know

what?

You walk down the street and why, gals?

Why there's so many pretty gals up there
today.

Oh, this one's different, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I figured.

If you let on any of them
other hands that I've done this,

I'll skim the bark off you like.

Like a corral.

Pole. There you are.

I love you until the day I die.

I say that over and over every night
before I go to sleep.

Just like a prayer with me.

I got your grandma was loaded on it.

Don't crossing.

And I have been able to put my mind
Anything else?

She didn't tell me.

She. Well,

I didn't want her to.

Well,
she did say a thing about you going west.

I didn't make up his mind that you.

You know, I've been trying to think.

Trying to put my own feelings to one side,
and I'm.

See, my. My kid does.

Maybe we weren't fair to him.

Maybe we.

We made a mistake.

On top like that. Gabby.

I'm just trying to be fair.

Well, don't.

We don't know our own mind. Maybe.

Maybe we're change.

How do we know why they.

Please, I can't let you go now, Gabrielle.

How would I ever find you out
to California?

Now? What would happen if.

You up.

Get on back to camp?

Oh, please talk to us. Please.

Let's talk it out.

You get up and get back to camp.

You. You get on back to your trio, okay?

Next time I see you within r*fle range,

from this minute
on, you better just stuck.

You got that?

Okay.

I don't want no answers.

I want to about to give you one

just now.

When the time comes, I'll have one

ready for you on

top Shot.

Doing it now? I got to talk to him.

What about? I want a job.

A young boy with a trailer.

Yeah.

You're not very wise for a young man.

No old man in history.

Ever give a fellow a job
for waking up at 3:00 in the morning?

What do you want with a job?
You got a job?

I go to California with you.

Why not say, Well, we get plenty of here.

I don't think Mr. Chris,
if anybody on paying wages.

I don't want your wages.

Look for nothing.

Well, that sounds pretty good.

Do you want to know?

I, I.

I'll tell you. Of course

I'd like to hire you, boy,
but I got all the money.

You check the horses? Yes, sir.

Seven had made sure he was that blacksmith
in Kiowa last time.

And anyway, Bill, what's his name?

All of a name. A Braverman, Mr. Hale.

Pretty good horseshoe,
as far as I can remember.

Mr. Hale.

Listen, boy,
I told you I didn't want any wages.

I don't believe in hiring a man
unless I can pay.

You think this Braverman could get
those seven injured

without holding us up to own?

Yeah.
If he's sober, you better go into town.

Make sure I tell him
we'll be there at noon tomorrow.

All right?

Come on.

Go and have a cup of coffee for you.

Go back to your office.

No coffee.

Well, sir, where is he at the moment?

It was there.

If there's

what?

I have new music in my right elbow.

I can hardly move my arm. Sir.

The ballot

in this country, Mr..

That's a cuss word.

My father's in prison at Fort Smith.

Got a brother, got rides
with the Dawson g*ng.

His mother died of liquor.

What about him?

Just give him time.

Well, I wouldn't find fault with the boy
because of what his relatives did.

Give him a chance.

Now, don't talk to me
about giving that boy a chance, Mr..

That boy.

That boy who, not hotcakes in your camp
is the reason we're going west.

Well, I sold my business for half
what it's worth,

I'm starting new in a country
I never saw at an age

when I ought to be settle
down and comfortable off



engine fightin,
worry, sickness left in hope

all over, a few dollars in the wagon
outside and all on account of that boy.

How hardly seems that bad

that he would if you had a daughter.

Oh, I had no idea what was going on.

No idea

what was going on.

Just about what you'd expect.

I guess

you could get all the details
in any sewing circle.

In Grover's walk, he stole a horse
and above pony run off with a one night.

When I was away,
she was alone with her grandmother.

Took me a week to find him in
Kiowa City Town.

We're coming through tomorrow.

Thing like that happens in Grover's Fork.

There's nothing to do
but pull out. They never to let it die.

Just to have.

You got to get rid of that boy.

Come on, y'all.

It was.

You had always done
one minute to collect them all.



That. Well, it's bearable.

Kind of like sticking your arm
in a barrel of oil.

Some more, Grandpa.

An unrepentant center.

That's worse. You? Yeah.

I blame this on the w*r.

I got three canister with my right arm,
the elbow and the shoulder.

I cannot bear that pain.
Most of the time went well.

I can't stand at all. Really.

You fight, period.

Some fight two periods, huh?

Yes, sir.
The 14th biggest fight of the w*r.

I lost a lot of commerce
that day out there.

Period was running around that night when
the sun set on the field, I'd say, Yeah,

I and I were to strike out

in a dusty stretch like this, going back
along the line and keeping close up.

All right, Lonnie,

I do. All right.

This can wait until tonight.

Go ahead.

All right.

Why don't you go ahead and say

whatever you want to tell me?

Oh, not too important to express

an item or two you got to fill me in on

when we talked this morning. No.

Told you everything I get, huh?

He told me considerable,

miserable, hard. No.

Well, he is

he fit to have a girl

like Gabby wants to keep her in a cage
like a canary bird?

You got no right to do that.

She's got a mind of her own

advantage at all.

That was run off with her
and I figured the answer to

that was to stand up in front of him
and tell him that I loved her,

that I wanted to marry
her and take care of her.

When you threw me out of the house,

he told me he'd k*ll me
if I ever came to her again.

So I went away,
tried to get out of my head.

I went to swap in an asylum in Kiawah
for two or three months,

but a long run, Green up.

I went back to Grover's Fork
and we run off.

That's all I could.

He's just a mean, miserable man.

Yeah,

Well,

well,

well, well.

Are you going to say anything?

Yeah.

I just thinking
how I'd like to be 18 again.

As great as it's made out to be

had one wonderful thing about a girl.

You're so awfully wise.

You're 18.

What do you mean by that?

You'll never no more in your whole life
when you're 18.

But the world with the tail

it right.

What's wrong with good was bad.

Everything all spelled out nice and plain.

They all told you
to just stay out of your road.

You'd whip out your saber
and ride on to Gloria

with a mule born in that year
to all humanity around you,

Is it a crime to be 18 now?

Misdemeanor.

Would you like me to jump off a cliff?

I say that I never said I know everything.

I never call them an awful thing.

I never asked me get out on the road.

All I ask was to be treated like a man.

Like I had a mind to think with two hands
and two arms to a man's work with.

Well,

I expect he knows

he's been there.

Maybe he knows a thing or two.

You don't know.

He knows what it's like to be 20 or 21.

The wife and babies.

No crops, no money,
no credit to the town banker,

no milk, The cows gone dry.

He knows all that, but you won't know it
until it happens to you.

Then you'll remember it.

And 20 years later,
you spell it out with some 18 year

old wife to run off with your daughter.

Now, all you know,

son, is
what happens in the pit of your stomach

when she walks by it with her skirts
going off.

So bonnet tilted just the way you like it.

The sweet smell of her all around.

Ain't that the way it ought to be?

Yeah, that's the way it ought to be.

You want you to run me off, Tony?

Yes, he does.

What I like to do

is lever a shovel on my Winchester
and walk up to him and

take her away. But

I might have to k*ll him.

I wouldn't want to do that.

So I guess the only thing left
is to go to the law.

Law will get your girl back.

You, my girl, Mr.

Hill.

My wife.

Lonnie.

Hello, Laura.

What are you doing in town?

Business with the sheriff.

Martin Jennings
and I should have been settled.

Our differences
don't look like we ever would.

You know, the sheriff can't do anything.

Lost it.

A man's got a right to be with his wife.

He's taken out
west like there's no marriage at all.

And we've got. I think there was.

Imagine you two are.

You were there.

It was all a mistake, Lonnie.

When we look at it that way.

You don't know what I mean.

You'd better
go back to wherever you came from

and let her go with your family.

But you know, you going to do that?

I'd better go.

I've got to go to work.

Laura.

Hi, doc. Have you seen Judge Maker?

No lights still on in his office.

Must be working late.

Thank God.

That's Laura.

Come on and have a little drink.

I didn't come for a drink.

But mad. That kid's. Back.

But kid Lonnie Fowler,
he's over at the sheriff's right now.

Come on

now. Another time, boy, I'm busy.

There's a bunch of drunken renegades
up north of town raising thunder.

I got no toy.

You got to take time
because this can't wait.

It seems to me this was all settled
some three months ago.

We didn't settle a thing.

We settle how old you are.

And that seemed to be the main question.

We were as old as the last.

Says you got to be if you had consent
and you had no consent.

Well, that's
just what I come to tell you now.

I got no force to give any consent.

So I don't count.

But there's one thing
I didn't tell you three months ago.

I didn't tell you
because I would have gone in to sh**t.

And I figured you might simmer down and
maybe come around to our way of seeing it.

But he ain't about to do that.

He sold everything out.

He's taking her west with him,

and he says, You'll k*ll me
if I come around to see her.

Now, we had consent.

I got a letter here from my grandma, tells
just how it was

when I came to get candy last February
when her father was gone.

So she gave us her blessing
and her consent.

So she's been just like a mother to Cathy.

So I figured we got everything.

A list for a boy.

What do you think I can do?

You give me a letter saying
I got a legal right to be with my wife.

I can't give you that for anything
in the world I can do about it.

Lonnie, look, you're only a kid.

You're going to get over it.

Only your kid.

Will you stop saying that? I'm sick of it.

I'm not a kid.

I'm not a piece of livestock
to be led around

with the ring on my nose until I'm 21.

I love her, and I

hurt inside when I think of her.

So I want it so bad

or I'm.

I wish I could help you.

Believe me, I do.

Oh, who do I go to?

Where can I get a paper like that?

Who lives with me

in it?

Lonnie, We was legally married by a judge.

He'd stand up for me.

Judge me?

You can make a paper like that for me.
Goodnight.

Maybe that's who you want to talk
to. Honey,

you go talk to Mr.

Major. It's wrong, Sheriff.

Just go talk to him
and make sure we're there.

Let him explain it to you.

I might.

Don't

write my.

You remember what I said with your boy.

Am I doing.

Noise up in.

Hartford?

But I thought it was just Bill coming back
from town, took a boat ride and things.

Jack, At first,
that's all. Everything else is.

There is a couple of fresh horses
out of the remoter.

Got an hour start, maybe 2 hours.

How do you know.

I saw them.
What do you mean, you saw them?

He walked up, looked at you and me.

Then he woke up. Kathy.

They talked together for a while
and then went off together.

And you let him ride off with her
into the night, Lord knows.

Ran a country full of renegades, Indians
and lick it up, trail him.

What are you going to do about this?

You didn't tell me they were man and wife.
They man and wife.

The marriage wasn't legal.

The girl was a county boy.

You told you about his practice
in his blood.

How can you be so pigheaded?

That's enough, Ma.

Now, you'd better go in.

You didn't see the fallen boy and Kathy
Jennings on the road to town, did you?

He wouldn't be riding in the town, Chris.

Why not only getting the parts together
and starting to look for him?

He walked up to Judge Meeker tonight,
put a hole in him

with a Winchester.

Kathy, listen to me.

Just listen.

I couldn't tell you back at camp.

I don't know why, but I could.

I didn't just go see Judge Meeker
and talk to him.

I didn't just go in
and tell him what I thought of him.

I went in to see him with a g*n
in my hand.

I k*lled him.

I knew I.

I do know why
I didn't tell you back at camp.

Was afraid you wouldn't come.

I would have.

Kathy. You told me a long time ago.

Would you do anything for me?

Did you mean?

Of course I did.

Well, you do something for me right now.

What do you get on your horse
and ride back to your father?

Honey.

Just do it for me right now.

I was wrong.

I shouldn't stop by your camp tonight.
You don't know what you're saying.

That's just the trouble.
I do know what I'm saying.

I live with a no good father.

I know what a man like
that can do to his woman and his family.

And I'm not going to drag you into it.

I'm not going to

have you holding your breath
every time there's a hand on the latch

trying to feed your kids
while your man's in prison.

I've done enough
you as it is, right? Stop that,

Lanny.

Yeah.

If you love me.

You want an honest answer? Yes.

I ain't sure.

I mean, I'm just a kid, and

maybe he was right. Maybe.

Maybe I'll change.

And maybe I don't know my own mind.

Your pa has been through all this.

He knows all men can change in the

end. A woman, too.

And you're just a child.

And in ten years,
you're going to look back on this.

You're going to say, Boy,
how could I have ever, huh?

How could I have?

It's a hundred miles down the line.

And when we get there,

Kirby might not take it back

and there won't be a job on his reg.

And I have is my $134 in season
the Almighty.

I am getting

destroyed.

I think a lot of bad things don't.

And don't.

Ever ask me.

To leave you with them.

Come on.

Know who it is.

My name's Leader Johnson.

Can I talk to you a minute?

What? You're wrong.

We got to find a place to stay.

My wife and me married

in kind of lead with Travelin.

Yeah, that's what we figured.

My wife and me.

This is Mrs. Johnson.

Mr. Foster. Lee Porter.

Oh, yeah.

Wife?

Yes, sir.

And you want a bed for the night?

Yeah. My wife's about done in.

Of course we're willing to pay for it.

Well, get over here.

Nothing fancy,
but under the circumstances,

I guess you do.

Corny.

I mean, I don't know.

All right, all right.

Well,

use them of your mind. Just

how vicious water for

every $5 with a knife, five

in advance.

You like my prices?

You can go to a hotel across the street.

Oh. Oh.

Well,

and good morning.

Start the fire
and you can make some coffee.

Really start the morning off right.

What's the matter?

Think

when minutes go up

with money.

So this works both ways.

It opens it up and it burns.

It's pretty slick off someplace.

Look over there and watch.

I'm going to do a

heigh h*.

That's all.

That's all there is to it.

Can you hold out these tight?

Okay.

You know, go back to k*ll him.

You got to. Oh,

I won't go back.

I won't.

I got to get you to a doctor.

Oh. Please.

We aren't going back.

Let's all there is about to

go up.

Fix it the best it can.

What going on, doc?

Alala?

I just.

How? It's

funny. It's fine.

It's fine.

It don't hurt as much.

It don't hurt as bad.

Why are you worrying so up?

I'll be all right.

You watch.

I know. I know.

You're going to be fine.

I love you, ladies.

Don't talk.

Don't talk.

Oh, Rosemary.

Almost freezing.

I don't know what I'll do

until I can find that

little old girl I saw all dressed in blue.

She really drives me.

Well, I'll be hung from the brain.

More frightened body.

Hi, boy.

Did you break out your little gap?

Well,

you know, ought to have your eye.

That's what ought to do.

You know, I'm
the most miserable iron all world.

I tried to tell my mother and you took
a ocean to run off without your pay.

There wasn't a one.

Not a one.

Believe me, from the first word.

You know,
I've been in three faces night for last

two feet, knock loose,

almost got his arms crunched off.

Well, you know where I'm going now.

Don't
you know where I'm going to run down?

A guy was down to the bank.

Get some more money
so I can hire on three more hands.

I got to take your string up by the

sir. Mr.

Kirby. Something wrong?

He was snake bit.

Hello. My

name's Kirby.

I'm not frightened by the fellow here.

Are you feeling all right?

I guess.

Kenny

ain't as bad as it might be.

As well as gone down already.

Looks like

you rest yourself, young lady.

One thing you can't do with a snake
bite is get yourself all riled up.

You hear me?

I'll be fine.

You see, she's got it.

Just after

five or


I know better.

I think I got the poison out.

All Dr.

Expense down in Kansas
City is an excellent little man.

You keep her right where she is. Here.

Don't move her.

Don't write her up
and give her all the water she can drink.

I'll get weirdos.

Tends
to tell it up here as fast as he can go.

Mr. Kirby.

Thank you.

It's all right, boys. Keep your chin up.

She's not the first lady
to get in trouble.

This me?

You don't sign it

or anything in the world
I can do, but not a thing

I don't expect.

I have to spell that out for a legal mind
like yours.

Do it yet.

You keep in our diets here.

If you all need no complaint,
you can won't be so little m*rder*d here.

You ain't going to die.

You mean that kid goes off scot free?

You heard the victim
refuse to sign a complaint.

There's nothing to charge.

That boy wouldn't accept this.

Do you even going to look for him,

Martin? I'll tell you what you do.

You organize a posse and you tell the men
we're going to ride off all day long

in at least four different directions,

beat the bushes, eat a peck of dust
to a man and stay out half the night.

Besides and all, to bring in an 18 year
old boy charged with disturbing the peace.

Now you tell the boy
that's what we're going to do.

And you get a posse together and
I'll be glad to charge him with kidnaping.

And how do you kidnap your own?

Why, he ain't his wife.

Well, that's open to question.

Now, you keep that shoulder quiet, Judge.

Back tonight, tank dredging

for Martin.

You organize that posse.

You sure you let me know

You know what you're doing.

I don't know what, a 60.

And then we will.

You can't let that kid get away with it.

Well, and, General, don't
just tell me what I can't do.

Leave me alone.

You know?

Want me to go to judge

with you?

That?

Well, I.

I like that boy.

I'd like to know why shut but business.

But his mind ain't bad.

I know it.

It could k*ll me
one more ten feet from me.

Could it k*ll me?

That's what I figured. It'd have been me.

A good man, right to stomped on his head
when he's down.

It right to do that

right in this world.

Why? I married him.

That's why they come to me last February.

All miserable night, Just two dead broke.

He said they'd been to the parish
on the street, but the person

wouldn't perform the ceremony
because the girl was too young.

Yeah.

Yes, me.

Do it all drunk.

The only excuse I got,

we brought them up here.

It's room I've got.

I don't. No prayer book.

I stood up with a girl
we married and mayor.

What?

What's wrong with that?

What's wrong with it?

I can't perform no marriage.

I ain't been accredited.

Justice of the Peace for 17 years.

Oh, that boy at Mercy in his heart.

He didn't k*ll me.

It's sign. No complaint.

I got no complaint in me.

But gratitude should

Martin genuinely want to know why

I don't sign him?

Go him?

Oh, that's pension.

I think so.

You're a liar, Michael Jennings.

Now you look him up.

You're lying to yourself,

telling yourself that you too young,
that you're doing it for our own good.

You are? Sure I will not Hush up.

She ain't no child, Martin.

And he ain't no boy.

They're ready for a life of their own.

He's a felon.

He'll walk out on her first chance
he gets a felon.

Is he?

Why is he risking his life
to be with her now?

For all
he know, there's a posse on his trail.

For all he knows, it's m*rder.

Why the hightailing it alone
for the Mexican border? Why?

What are you saying?

The young ones all the way.

They're a family now.

That is.

They will be if they get through this.

I wrote him about a down a don't crossing.

That's why he come to her.

He knows his place is with her now,
no matter what.

I don't know how you count such things,
Martin Jennings.

But in my book, that's the mark of a man

that up.

Martin I got some writing to do

to forget how to smile.

I'm sorry.

To see

nothing.

That between you and me.

No. You tell me.

I was thinking about that.

You're

getting a stop start now.

You and me,

with the smoke crunching and

the clear and

the bright blue sky overhead up

on our wedding day.

And how

I know it ended

in a 30 minute 30 oh.

Dealt with a drunken saloon girl
that died in a drunken

wedding to judge it all written

out of a prayer book.

Know when they

when you asked me had.

That's what I was thinking of that.

I you know.

When the doctor gets here,

the sheriff's going to be with him.

I know you.

I said you on a horse and let him.

Do you think you could ride?

There's something
I got to get done right now.

Just something I have to do
before they get here.

If you can write,

help.

Me, huh?

Grass is still flat.

Couldn't left more an hour ago.

He was here until an hour ago.

He wasn't running.
He was headed someplace.

Now, where are we going to find them?
Where are we going to stand here talking.

Looks like
fresh tracks on that trail over there.

Where is that really?

Lost Creek? About five miles west.

Well, let's try lost track, then.

Almost a full day since she was bid.

What do you think now?

She's strong enough to ride that horse.

She's over the hump,
but I wouldn't count on it too much.

There could be another reason
for pulling out like this.

I'm not going to think about that.

What would they be doing in there?

I hope it isn't what I think.

She's all right.

All right, All right. Take it easy.

Come on.

My wedded wife

to have it all from this day forward

for better or worse.

For richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health.

To love and to cherish

till death do part
according to God's holy ordinance.

There, too, I play to

my true cross.

My tribe.

I, Kathleen,

take thee, and I'm down to my wedded

husband to have
and to hold this day forward

for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health.

To love,

cherish and to obey.

To get rescue, both

according to God, to New York

and there to

I plight being Michael.

Those whom God has joined together.

Let no man put the asunder.

Now, by the authority vested in me,

I don't guess I got any authority

to soon.

You have the only authority there is no.