05x21 - The Daniel Clay Story

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For all the excitement of travel.

You are lucky, my dear. Oh.

The wheat grows so rapidly here.

Brown.

What? Oh, yes.

How lovely.

No, no.

They were two of the flowers.

Yes, of course, I.

I just adore daisies.

And whatever those yellow things are

used to charm.

I said these would be quite.

But I envy your meeting new people
and seeing new places.

Believe me, Mrs.

Clay, I don't envy many people.

I don't envy many men.

But you follow the esteemed judge, Clay.

It's an honor for any man.

No man can bring law to the lawless.

As you have done, sir.

Oh, I wish I had your legion of grateful
admirers, Mr.

Brown.

A reexamination of you

will clarify
that it is the law that prevents crime.

A judge is merely its instrument.

And I suggest that

you concern yourself
less with grateful citizens

and more with the book of jurisprudence
administered to the letter.

Mr. Hawkes, we are ready for you.

Our Washington friends were right.

He's much too blunt and tactless
to preside

in a civilized town.

And an

intruder in.

Me. A job
our people would trample themselves about.

Yet they that smell knife
to resolve the matter.

No, sir.

I thought the whole woman tape.

I'm sure glad you took on Mr.

Court. Resisting the people.

Why that order
to have a pretty girl around.

You know.

You all taking care of Mr.

Cole?

Oh, said Mr. Hale.

And thank you again for letting us join
your train.

Say, a few people haven't had supper yet.

I got plenty to ponder.

We just accepted an invite
from the latest. Mr.

Webster. I'm sorry.

Me, too.

It smells mighty appetizing, darling.

Thank you, ma'am.

And thank you for your help. Good night.

Night.

Night. Good night.

And now there goes too many young people.

And she just as smart as she is.

Pretty.

Do can't get over the amazing lack
of family resemblance between those two.

Just like my brother Bill and me,
We don't look a thing alike.

I bet
your brother isn't unhappy about that.

But a little write up

commissar Plus finest dining
scarecrow on the back of the judge's

wagon.

I'm Chris Hale.

Clay.

Pleasure to have you in your family
on my train.

Thank you. Mr.

Hill. Mrs.

Clay, my son, Ethan and Grant.

Have you folks had supper? No,
thank you, sir.

Mrs. Clay will prepare something.

Oh, no, sir.
You're having my stew tonight, Charlie.

Maybe the clay. She was me, Mr. Chris.

You know, you're being a judge on
everything, Your Honor.

You can settle a big argument
we had on this train, but not now, Johnny.

You're afraid.

That's why Judge,

I make the most delicious two on either
side of the Rocky Mountains.

And all I get for it is abuse.

So I'd appreciate it if you and
your family sit down to have some stew.

And you can be the judge.

But I'm telling nothing but the truth,
so help me.

You played very well, sir.

I accept just you and the case.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Your Honor.

I'll be ready in 10 minutes.

Now, you just wait and see.

This will probably be the most difficult
decision you'll ever have to make, Mr.

Clay. I'm looking forward to it, sir.

Due to Shannon,
I'm sure you are even on your team.

Thank you.

Straight ahead, Judge.

Oh, dear God,

Chris.

He's a tough man to face
if you're on the wrong side of the law.

So I've heard.

But he's made towns fit to live in, too.

You know, those people in South Bluff
are hard to figure.

And you tell me how to take your people
anywhere.

Say, what if the judge agrees
with Charlie about his suit

and we can bribe him.

A lot more?

Follow me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Was very assured.

By the American.

Take them to the picket line.

Ethan.

Mr. Shannon has already told me so far,

my dear,

you know, with your love of flowers,

you could grow roses in the desert.

Tell me what lovely
colors will bloom from these small shoots.

Is a sweet peace

label on the package. Should it be pink?

And I'll probably never see them bloom.

Daniel. What are you saying? Margaret?

He'll probably be left behind
for some other judge's wife to enjoy

or neglect.

Margaret, I do not understand.

Everything

we Are you being uprooted

from one frontier town for another,

always having to start a new life.

Thieves and outlaws.

Thieves and outlaws, my dear,
I have no place in a civilized society.

They have to be wiped out.

But why must it always be you, Daniel?

Margaret.

What's it always

be for others
to enjoy the fruits of your labors?

To settle permanently, to make friends

most.

My dear,

you have a right to be overwrought.

But you should know better than anyone
that I am dedicated to the law

for its own sake.

Not for any personal gain. No.

I. No. And I approve that.

So do my superiors in Washington.

Just some question.

They've never had to live in.

A dozen, 37 months and eight years

have never felt the terror of retaliation
of a criminal the way it is.

And I have never seen the town's gratitude
turn to fear

and distrust when they no longer need
the kind of authority you bring them.

My purpose is to administer the law,

not to gather a chain of admirers.

I'll leave that to windbag
politicians like Judge Brown.

You don't

have to be a politician
to have compassion.

Then what has compassion to do?

It has everything to do with it.

Are you to blame the theater unbending
sense of right justice without mercy?

I never thought I'd hear
such talk from you, Margaret.

But it's a truth, Daniel.

It is not the truth.

It is weakness.

Justice is blind.

No respect to a person.

It is equal and exact.

The guilty are punished
and the innocent are not.

That is the mercy of the law.

It's been a trying day for him.

Why did. It not just today that.

I know, I know.

But some heart food and a good night's
sleep will make things

look better.

Shall we go to dinner,

Ethan?

We're going to dinner.

I'm not hungry, sir.

I'd rather get some studying in before
bedtime.

As you wish.

Read the chapter on court procedure again.

You still don't understand it well enough.

Yes, sir.

I never believe it.

The lowdown trick, Chris,
And ain't no trick at all.

We're having a lady for dinner.

Yeah, but what? Nothing respectable.
Sit on a stump.

That's got nothing to do with it.

Why don't you pull yourself together

and kind of use your manners
with it tonight, like me?

Good man.

How are you feeling now, John? Hi, folks.

You know that they're all.

They're just accusing Charlie of trying
to prejudice your opinion about you.

Stoop, please.

See, this is the first time
it's ever been served with all traffic.

I think it's beautiful
and very thoughtful.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.
But it can cover up a bad stew, too.

I mean, anything to cover up around
your man except the bad manners.

The three characters
I'm forced to travel with.

Excuse me. I'll be right back.

Allow me.

It smells good in.

Your hurt,
your eyes reading in that light.

Oh. I'm used to it.

I'm Francis. Car.

I didn't mean to disturb you.

Oh, I'm not disturbed.

I mean, you didn't.

I guess you lawyers have to study
all the time, don't you think?

Well, I'm not a how.

How do you know my name?

I asked

Ethan.

That's a strong talent name.

I You can be a famous judge
like your father.

No, not like my father. Really?

But he's the best judge ever.

I nobody knows how to punish man
the way he does.

Who told you that?

That's what my brother was telling
some of the men.

He's read all about your father,

and he's so happy
to be traveling on a wagon train with him.

I am too, now.

Oh. Oh,
Well, I been keeping you from your book.

Could you just tell me what his dream is?

Oh, yeah, It's straight ahead.

It's not too far.

Thank you.

Oh. Oh, Here, I'll carry those.

I thank you, Ethan.

Mr. Brewster, you're right.

It's the best you ever had.

No offense, my dear.

Even without the traffic, you.

Judge, you just ruined us.

Your Honor.

Sir, you've made this
the happiest day of my life.

Well, sir, I'm at present note.

I'll ask you to excuse
us. Mrs. Clay is very tired.

Yes, sir.

We were all early in the morning. You out.

Thank you again, Mr.

Wooster, for everything.
Thank you. Delicious.

Thank you.

I am 99.

On Judge Clay.

He didn't waste any time either.

He gets his big gavel, right?

I remember reading that his law school
gave it to him when he became a judge

and he pounds his gavel
and he says 15 years hard labor.

No, sir.

You don't get away with anything
with Daniel Clay.

Well, now it don't seem just send the man
to prison that long

for stealing one horse.

Oh, it's just Mr. Labor.

The law reads that a judge can give
that much to a man for stealing a horse.

Well,
I don't care if the law reads that way.

It just don't seem right for the judge
to done it anymore.

And he should have hung that man
for stealing $500.

Like you said, it's a harsh man
that don't leave room for repentant.

Well,
I just read about the line of a study that

I think I read somewhere

with Judge Clay,
I think it was in Kansas, said

the certainty of strict punishment halts
the growth of crime.

What do you mean exactly, Mr.

Cole? Well,

the law names the heaviest punishment
to give a man for the wrong He does.

And Judge

Clay gives the heaviest punishment
because he says that'll stop others

from doing wrong.

Sometimes a man don't need
a heavy punishment to learn his lesson.

I never figured the law was so hard.

Appears to me
the line is harder this year.

Judge.

Judge, not lest you be judged, Frank We're
not judge, and we're just disagreeing.

The fact remains that none of us ever met.

Mr. Clay, You're disagreeing on hearsay.

Meaning? No offense, Mr. Cole.

Judge Clay.

Mr. Clay, forgive me for stopping
you like this.

My name is John Cole.

You don't know me, but I know you.

All right.

And fortunately, many men do, sir.

No, sir. No, sir.

I never had to face you in a courtroom,
I'm glad to say.

Now, I first saw you in Red Rock,
Oklahoma, a little over two years ago.

It was right
after the unfeeling boys case.

Even in, you know, the clay danger.

Yes, Madam. Nellie. Later. How do you do?

I I'm guessing you're the reason that Mr.

Wooster borrowed my tablecloth. Oh,

it's been the most beautiful Dallas ever
saw, Mr.

Lathrop.

Thank you.
I came over with my grandmother.

Mrs. Clay,
would you like to join your women?

There's still some coffee. Well,

I am a little tired.

Well, Mrs.

Later, it makes the best coffee
on the train, Mrs. Clay.

And maybe the judge would do us the honor.

Not tonight, sir. Thank you.

Like to have you join us, Mr. Clay.

Maybe some other time, sir.

Frank, you forget your manners.

Even ma'am. Judge
put a man on the prairie.

Seems like he forgets everything.

Now, Judge
Clay, I'd like you to meet Mr. Martin.

I mean, later today.

Oh, the gentleman over here is Miss Pilot.

Mr. Grant, this Judge Clay Horwich
Cup of coffee.

Judge Thank you. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir.

Ever since Red Rock, I've made it a point
to read all about your cases.

Not that I've agreed with all of them,
because I've got to admit that

I really didn't understand
a lot of them either.

Very few, Mendoza.

Unless they've started the law.

Well, I thought about doing that once.

You sound as if you could have done
quite well.

You mean I have the gift for gab for it.

That's all.

Many lawyers need to win a case.
A mountain.

Your card, sir.

I think it was in Watsonville.

Know? Sure.

It was a fellow by the name of Martel
or something like that.

Mander, William Mantell.

Mantell.

He shot a mercantile clerk.

He k*lled him.

Mantell, his lawyer.

Oh, he could really talk.

I remember reading that he talked to you
for 20 minutes

about Mantell having a wife,
not having a job,

no money, and he never did anything wrong
before that.

He was sorry
that he had the sh**ting, man.

He. He even tried to convince you

that Mantell carried the g*n
just to scare the clerk, didn't he?

That's a very old trick that many
a lawyer uses when he's desperate.

Mr. Cole.

How is that going to work?

Why bother with it sometimes?

Unfortunately, it does.

Now, if you think you know,
that's an interesting point.

What point are you making, sir?

Well, if Mantell lawyer had tried
that trick on any other judge,

maybe Mantell wouldn't have been hanged.

I cannot speak for the other judges
decision, sir.

Mine are determined
by the letter of the law.

I apologize for my ignorance, Mr.

Clay, but the law is the same
for every judge on it.

Yes, Mr. Martin.

But too many judges prefer to be popular
rather than firm.

What did I tell you?

When an outlaw faces you, he faces a man
who knows how to deal with him.

He faces the law, and it punishes.

Good night, gentlemen.

Everything happened here.

Who is just asking the judge
about some of his troubles?

Man, have a man's humor and.

Kerosene is the best thing to k*ll anyway.

Okay, well, I'm going to try it.

There's a chance I get.

It's getting late. Margaret.

Excuse us, ladies.

Yes, I'm afraid it is.

Thank you very much for the coffee
with the advice.

Night.

It sounds wonderful.

What a girl. I meet the cameraman.

You know why?

Because gentlemen are hard
to come by these days. Why?

A girl even has to be careful who she says
hello to.

You're a gentleman, Ethan.

While Ethan

died, they're bigger and brighter

than they ever were in Denver.

I look at that
when he said it looked up to

God, he

even Clay.

Oh, well, you were.

I'm sorry.

I'm disappointed.

I know you kissed lots of girls. No, no.

But I'm not that kind,
and I thought you'd know it.

Well, I do, but I just couldn't help it.

I'm sorry.

Honest,

but don't be that sorry.

Well,

I'm not.

I'm glad

to. We've been gone a long time,

John.

I'll be worried.

I don't see even.

By the call wagon.

You should be studying

it badly on court procedure this morning.

It's the heat, Daniel.

Who's that girl?

Meet the river again in an hour.

I'm at the heart of the pretty hot.

Well, let them drink slowly.

I thank you, Mr.

Hale. For

the whole.

Host was drinking too much. Even

we need to horse

morning

at noon.

It's say.

That was a very enlightening talk
we had last night by and Mr.

Go People should be interested in the law.

We were just discussing
a particularly interesting trial of you.

There's more to
the law than does my trials.

Mr. Cole.

Where you're being here, I guess
we just naturally talk about yours.

I suppose so. Genres.

Tell us about the Fallon case.

Red Rock, Oklahoma.

Two years ago,
you remember when you sent that

young Jody Fallon up for 30 years
for assaulting that girl?

I remember all my trials, Mr.

Cole.

Well,
I guess I must have told the story badly.

Mr. Blake goes with them.

The men think they were wrong.

You think I was wrong?

We didn't presume to say that, Mr.

Clay. We just kind of wondered.

You wonder What about that boy
being only 18 years old?

The boy was old enough to break the law.

Wouldn't surprise me
if that woman didn't encourage him.

It wasn't like he hurt a nice girl.

All are equal under the law. So.

And it's about time you all learned that.

Well, it doesn't seem right.

A body breaks one long.

You throw in prison for 30 years.

One crime
makes him a criminal, Mr. Lathrop.

And the law states
the penalty for that crime.

Justice is not chivalry.

And you should all be grateful for it.

Gentlemen, It's a bad substitute for duty.

Our lawyers use it to make juries weep.

And judges weaken murderers and thieves.

I said free to k*ll and steal
from the very people who set them free.

That has never happened
in my court and never shall

be. Sorry, Mr.

Clay, I didn't mean to start a fight.

You seem to do it very well, sir.

I said I was sorry, Mr. Clay.

Someday you might be a part of a jury.

Don't be cheap.

Learn to listen to all the evidence
before you form an opinion. Mr.

Cole forgot to mention
that whole failing force,

that 18 year old girl to drink
quite a lot of whiskey.

The crime was deliberate.

So is the law

now on me or my can ever hasten him?

Your teammates, stepson?

That goes for all of you.

My talk myself for the past two days.

I know you've been here,
but it's not like your being here at all.

I'm sorry, Charlie.

How you're thinking now. I hate to

see those
Clay's left out of every meeting.

I know the courts have to do
whatever they say.

The judge said to me, Man,
that's what it is.

Somebody tell that Mr.

Cole to keep his mouth shut,

man. You got a right to talk.

You know,

Mr. Chris, you got away with people.

You could tell him you wanted to.

Mr. Shannon,

if you see,
I'd like to talk to him, please.

Yes, sir. Thank you.

Don't start book for two days.

He spent his time
losing out with that coal girl growing up.

Daniel, he deserves more freedom.

You don't have to neglect the brain
to be free, Margaret.

Plenty of time for girls.

I was 28 when we were married,
remember? Yes.

Sometimes I wonder if it's
good to work so long for love

have been neglecting the study.

David.

Oh, what's a few days?

If Father wants the best for you, I'm

not asking you to do anything
he hasn't done himself.

I'd like to do something for myself.

You will someday.

You like to come there very much,
don't you?

I think I.

Yes, I do.

Much older than you.

Maybe that's why you like it so much.

Age is an important intelligence
and understanding that counts.

I even you.

Mind if I ride along with you? Oh,

the pleasure, Mr.

Hale.

Jolly little cantankerous this morning.

I think it'd be better
if you're all alone.

Well, I guess
we've got to go on a little too slow.

You know, first time on a wagon
train, huh?

I That's only because my sister's along.

No offense intended.

No offense.

Take it.

Oh, wagon train.

You got to slow

the whole town on wheels.

That's why it's so important that
everybody gets along and everybody else.

Otherwise the whole town might fall apart.

I got a feeling, Mr.

Hare, you're trying to tell me something?

Oh, it's

more like asking a favor to you, Damien.

I. I'd like to ask you to stop discussing

Judge Clay's trial on the Understand. Mr..

While it's cold outside of you and the
Clays, people at this train are farmers.

Just simple, God fearing
people be on the edge

in small town
for the first time in their lives.

I think they know about law.

They shouldn't break it or be punished

or ignorant of the inner workings of it,
so they fear it.

Anyone connected with Daniel
Clay is a courageous, honest man.

Whether you agree
with his decisions or not,

the law has great need of him.

He has need of the strength
and trust of all law abiding people.

He shouldn't be condemned.

Well, if my talking about the judge
has caused any trouble.

Mr. Hale, I'm sorry, I.

I didn't mean to. I really didn't mean to.

And that's why I felt free to mention Roe.

I'm grateful to you, ma'am.

I wouldn't want to hurt anybody.

I'm sure you wouldn't

walk out of jail.

Just comment just a little bit.

You didn't talk to him?

I talked to him,
and I feel like a hypocrite.

I don't know what you mean.

I just gave a speech about
trusting people, and I don't trust Mr.

Cole. You don't? Why not?

I thought troubling me, Charlie.

I don't know, I guess. No, I don't.

I don't know

why My.

Nine in trouble.

I call on a north ranch in Houston.

On the South Ranch.

Well,
the three will have Grant and Simpson

and then Duke,
and I'll pick up from 3 to 6.

We already.

Know.

All right,

Chris,

why don't you go join them.

Before. My.

I just do that. For.

A pleasant voices.

Yes, they have

eating, ma'am.

JUDGE two Eating around.

Is a thing, Mr. Hawk.

So I was over there a little while ago.

I didn't see him.

Thank you,

Mr. Boggs.

Are you quite sure you didn't see him?

Well, maybe I just missed him, Judge.

I'll check into it.

Can I?

I will not tolerate it.

Tyler. I took the.

Beef and lied about going to the sink.

Then you're Ethan Doesn't lie.
It does now.

Is that good?

You follow around like a psycho off.

Don't go searching for him
like a lost child.

He's just feeling his manhood. Daniel.

Don't you, Millie, again, Please.

It just isn't right for a girl

to kiss a man and then go riding around
with another woman.

I didn't know you'd be jealous, Ethan.

When you can't help getting jealous if.

If you love someone.

You love me.

Ethan,

I can't think.

Of anything or any anybody else but you.

Day and night.

I'd like to believe it. Ethan.

But we've only known each other
a few days.

That's long enough for me.

I really love you, Francis.

If you'll let me kiss you again,
I'll prove it to you.

Men are weak.

Say they love a girl
just so they can quickly.

And it's the girl that kisses back
that's always left behind.

And but it's not that
way with me, Francis.

Honest

isn't.

Go back to the wagon.

No. Go.

No, Ethan.

No. Francis and I are in love
and love you, young fool.

What scares you out of need?

Bridges I'm sure she is worldly enough
to know that I apologize

for that.

Stay away from my son.

I'm not scared of you, Mr.

Clay.

I'll stay away from me.

And because I don't
want him to get into trouble.

But I don't think it's going to be
that easy

being eaten away from me.

I again, all do not

lie all the time.

I had a really good job

and you know it all.

And I bet my money.

I want to know that somehow out of the.

Past, true love never run smoother.

I say.

It all Go back to when I was I when all.

Was getting close to nine.

Chris,
I better get Ethan for his daughter.

Clint, I

wouldn't
want you to walk into a family argument.

He did it on purpose.

You want to shame me in front of her?

You shouldn't have lied, Ethan.
You hurt him very much.

Hurt him.

You can hurt him. Oh,
but he knows how to hurt others.

That's not true, Ethan.

You didn't see what a fool he. Made of me.

You made a fool of yourself.

Please, Daniel.

They're both angry.
Wait until the morning.

We will end it. Now.

I forbid you to speak to that woman again.

Don't you call her that woman.

If you were a great deal more than your
stripling eyes can see, you have.

No right to say that
you're talking to your father.

I'm talking to a judge.

And I've always talked to a judge.

A father would care about
how he drags it around.

He care what people think of him
and of us.

I know, but he doesn't because people
just mean crime and punishment to him.

Well, I'm people and I committed the crime
of kissing a girl.

Some wanted to hang me.

It is not for me to pass judgment on you.

I am bound to administer a man's law.

You have broken a higher law.

I know that my father and my mother,

Sure.

But judged by that higher court.

You can

go to him, ask forgiveness.

It's your father's duty to judge
what's best for you.

What? Your duty to obey.

No one can judge when you're in love.

Not even him.

To try to make him understand.

You can't talk to him.

I mean, you've got to listen. To the son.

He loves you very much.

He only loves the law.

Would he be so concerned
if he didn't love you?

It's time for you to stand watch, man

GROANING Mr.

Hawks.

How in practice have

crime?

Just luck, please.

It's a me,

my sister.

Well, you're not mad.

Helen

Keller.

Be all right.

I know that Daniel.

I know what.

I want to do. But

you will find anything at all, sir,

when we're sitting on dynamite.

I had a John called a few weeks
poses up to.

I wasn't invited to the council meeting.

He's up to no good idea to

which we can't
get the clothes in the wagon.

It's best you all stay in the wagon.

What do they want,
Mr. Hair? We'll take care of it.

My family and I will stay right here.

Mr. Shannon.

I had an aunt up.

I told you last night
I wasn't going to stand for any trouble.

Maybe I better make myself clear.

You all signed a mutiny class.

Mutiny is punishable by law.

It's my duty to deal with any member
accused of mutiny.

And I will deal harshly.

You ain't got no call to talk
that way, Mr..

Have we broke no law? That's right.

If he'd been Clay, he's the one.

Nobody's broken
any law until he's tried and found guilty.

Well, that's why the council is here, Mr.

Hale, The council wants a trial right now.

Is that the council's decision,
or is it Mr.

Cole? The judge called a sheep,
and now you're doing it.

John Cole
and his sister belong to this train.

And according to the articles,
you've got to listen to the counsel.

And we want a trial right now.

Yeah. All right.



Wait a minute.

A trial needs a judge.

I hate to disappoint you, Mr.

Cole, but you don't qualify.
I'll be the judge.

I hate to disappoint you, Mr.

Hale, but you don't qualify either.

There's only one man who qualifies here.

Judge Clay.

Judge Clay. The great town Hammer.

All right,
There's only one real judge here.

Are you letting him
do all your thinking for you?

You can't ask a man to try his own son.

Mr. Hale's right, Frank.

It ain't natural.

Everyone is equal under the law.
The judge finished.

I tried to make
the same sentiment Is a poor substitute.

My duty.
The judge said that true? That's right.

What happened to my sister?

Got it. Haven't
any one of your women cried?

That ain't they, Mr.

Hale, take Judge Baker and I clear it up.

You must be handled by a judge.

You know that I have a criminal right now.

Listen to me today.

Don't be stampeded into doing something.

You may be sorry
for all the rest of your lives.

What Judge

Clay said yesterday or last month or last
year has nothing to do with us here.

Now, he's not on trial.

You can't expect a man to try his son
and do.

He's bound and duty.

You can't expect a man to look on his own
son as a criminal, A stranger.

That's right.

I don't know. That's a lawyer. Strike.

Did you hear that lawyer's trick
right under your nose.

Judge Clay

Law takes care of its own, doesn't it?

Everything's equal
as long as it's not your son.

But you know what that makes you judge?

That makes you a.

Hypocrite.

No matter

what you tell you guys. What the hell?

Did you have something to say to me, sir?

You heard what I said.

And what you heard what you said.

Law is law. Justice is justice.

As long as it's not your own firm.

If you're sending to the gallows
or the let rot in jail, I'll handle it.

Mr. Clay.

Thank you, Mr. Hale.

There's nothing to handle.

I am the only judge here, and I
will judge the trial as a wagon master.

I have a party to preside, Mr. Clay.

They don't really want to see you, Judge.

They've just been buffaloed by coal
here, Mr.

Hale.

Unless I can judge my son.

You listen to somebody. Just this one.

You can't do this.

I most everything, I believe, is on trial
here, too.

To turn my back on it would make
my whole life a lie on a moderate.

The law judges, not the man.

I will live and die on that principle.

Not even say principles.

Why should he live or die on them?

Because they are right

and because of righteousness
as well as the sins of the father

should be visited on the Son.

Mr. Hale.

Good luck, sir.

Thank you.

You were selected Jury,

I declare the trial open.

Gentlemen of the jury,

your duty is to pass on this case
without fear or favor.

You are not to be influenced
by any outside opinion.

You are charged to pass on the guilt
or innocence of the accused.

That guilt or innocence to be determined
upon the evidence and upon this

alone

can play.

How do you plead? Not guilty.

He's a liar.

I demand silence.

So you see,

I demand silence.

I tell Bill to search
every square inch of it.

I'm wrong. I'll apologize later.

I take the stand.

Ethan,

with your right hand on the Bible,

I swear to tell the whole truth,
so help you God.

Yes, sir. No.

Tell the court

exactly what happened last night.

I was on watch
when somebody hit me right here hard.

I ordered in lumps and bruises last night.

Asthma's out of order.

Mr. Hale,
did you examine Ethan's head last night?

Yes, sir.

Did you find any bump or cut,

Nelson?

I did get hit,
but it didn't feel hard or solid.

It didn't knock me out.
It just made everything all black.

And it stunned me so I could hardly move.

Don't you remember anything?

No, sir.

Not until Frances started screaming.

Oh, no.

No, no, no.

Try to remember.

Did you see anything or hear anything

before the blow?

I was all mixed up
from that fight that we had.

What did you fight about?

It had nothing to do with it.

Nothing.

A growing boy and his father argue
many times.

You all know that. Margaret.

You must control yourself. Please

let your son answer that.

What he did to my sister.

First,
my son and I argued about your sister, Mr.

Cole.

Ethan,

Did you try to hurt Mr.

Cole?

I like her too much to hurt her,

that's all.

Ethan.

Mr. Cole would take the stand, please

put your right hand on the Bible.

Swear to tell the whole truth
so help you God

said I do.

Miss Cole.

Earlier at last night, my son

professed his love for you,
did he not? Yes.

Do you think he meant it?

I think so.

Do you love him, Cole?

What's that got to do with anything?

He pledged his love for you
with all his heart.

And you accepted it. I didn't.

And I mean, not exactly. You kissed him.

He kissed me.

A boy was never kissed any woman.

But his mother does not kiss
you. You kiss him.

I didn't.

I saw that kiss.

Moscow.

It's easy for a beautiful girl
of your experience to lead a young boy on.

You'd like everybody to believe
that, wouldn't you say?

He's like everybody else out of all money
for your employer when he put your up.

I know the crime makes the man a criminal.

You ever heard of him?
You heard of what he heard about?

Is there not enough what he's done?

David? He's guilty.

I spent another year, 30 years hard
labor, 30 years hard labor.

Ethan Clark committed no crime.

Mr. John Fallon.

Judge Clay I have a few items here

which I think should be introduced
in evidence about,

you. You're going to wrap
a couple of bandannas

like this and hit a man pretty hard.

Never leave a mark on it.

This was found out in the brush where Mr.

Fallon had thrown it.

I tried to turn Judge Clay,
put him up to it.

This was found in what's a trunk,
I mean to say.

And must Francis Sawyer's trunk

better, known on the saloon trail as Mr.

Frenchy.

And here we have a picture

of the brother and sister.

And around the back is written.

Me and Johnny Fallon.

He's very handsome.

Play.

Frankly, you don't have to say anything.

I don't call.

Johnny only bad brother.

He hated Judge play because he said howdy
to prison six months ago.

How he was k*lled trying to escape.

Johnny swore he'd make you pay for it.

He traced it to South Flop
and he sent for me

down.

I'm sorry.

You have only begun to resolve it.

I charge you both a guilty
and a false accusations,

and I declare the trial a no no. Know.

I must speak to you alone.

Not now, not.

Now or never again. Then

say what you must.

Justice is waiting.

No justice will be done here

for at least.

Man Houghtaling, self-righteous.

You've been trapped by your own code too
long ago.

I thought I was wrong.

Some mercy, compassion,
even prayer in your face.

But they disappeared. Why?

Because these two poor,
misguided people out of your own flesh.

Because I have committed a horrible crime.

They've committed the crime of revenge
and got no justice law.

Or is it revenge?

You remembered only half of God's law.

The letter of the law k*ller
and the spirit of the law

give a life to five times.

Surely the law isn't so weak
that it can't be tempered

with mercy and understanding.

You have been found guilty.

The penalty
prescribed by the law is five years.

But a plea of mercy has been

made and I have considered it.

You will be confined to the local jail
at Castle Creek for six months.

Thank you,

Ethan.

You had great promise as a man.

And as your father says, I'm
a girl that knows.

Don't hate me, Ethan.

Just lock me down there in the.

You never get to know

so much, and I never get
so that you can learn something powerful.

That's right, Chris.