05x27 - The Swamp Devil

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Traveling together as many months
as we have,

sharing the good and the bad

made some strong friendships.

That's why I regret that your destination

makes it necessary
that you separate from the train.

As your friend,

I must tell you that the most difficult
part of your journey

still lies ahead of you.

You'll have to cross the low light.

No possible way around.

Don't you worry. Mr.

Hill will remain callow leading us.

We'll be all right.

One more thing.

When it rains, those all filled with water
becomes a swamp.

However, where we're ahead

this year got two weeks
ahead of the wet season, I'd say.

When do you plan? If.

If we win, I'd suggest
that all of you stay with Mr.

Hale and continue on to Sacramento.

We've

got kind of a tough day tomorrow,
so I suggest we get some rest.

We'll move out at six in the morning.

Night. Right.

We put out a

I'm sending Bill and Charlie with you.

The same friend.

Don't you need them?

It isn't going to rain.

If I could be that sure of the weather,
I'd be the richest man in the country.

Just predicting it for a wagon train.

Do they know what happened to me
last year?

No way you felt about it.

I figured it was up to you to either
tell them or keep it to yourself.

Thanks.

I'm not proud.

You did what you had to do.

What you'll have to do again.

What happens this time?

It isn't going to happen this time.

Not this time.

All right.

Get aboard.

I told. You.

I know

what while I waiting for your plane.

Thanks for setting them up.

Good luck.

In about two weeks.

You sure everything's all right

at any time. Run!

Come on.

I don't know why these people can't
go to Sacramento like everybody else.

What's the matter with you? This trip?
What's the matter with me?

I've even heard the French not anxious
to make it again after last year.

Charlie, don't let your imagination
run away with you.

Nothing out of Flint last year.
I know better not.

To tell you so. Well, not exactly.

But every time I talk to a valet,
just give me a funny look and rode away.

There's nothing I just say no.

After me. That

Indian warning sign?

Yeah. It's a warning against trespass.

It's trespassing on one.

The lowlands that begin right over there.

Gee, I wish we didn't have to go in there.

So do I think these things mean trouble

now? No, I don't think so.

One of them is a cheap that should.

Be backloaded
to try to capture along the lowlands.

They're friendly

and brave.

Sea wagon.

Tell me.

I come to warn friends.

About Swamp.

Devil.

What do you mean, swamp devil?

The evil spirit
now lives in lowland swamps

as the spirit attacked
you tribe, not to attack.

What is the spirit look like?

These eyes cannot see evil Spirit.

Only man and animal.

Well, if you can't said.

How do you know
it's there? Bear claw here.

My people here.

Sometimes I sounds.

Sometimes low.

Sounds.

Sometimes many sounds together.

The sounds of evil.

Spirit.

Swamp. Devil.

You will not go.

Thank you for the warning, Bear claw.

Glad he stopped White brother. Huh?

He Take it easy, Charlie.

You don't believe in the spirit?

Yes, I accept the kind
maybe you find in a bottle.

What do you think the end is?

What they heard?

That's hard to say.

When? In the trees.

A couple of branches rubbing together.

Well, let's get going. We're wasting time.

You're going to let us in on it.

But you know what? Put back.

All I had to say

is that everything to do
with what happened

when he came through here
last year, if it did, I tell you,

By golly, Joe, you're right.

Glen's got something on his mind.

Something that happened
the last time he was through here.

I don't care
what happened last trip through here.

What's worrying me
is what's going to happen on this trip.

Charlie, you don't believe that?

I'll forget it.

Oh, stop here and rest the stock now.

There's no information.

You might pass the word to the folks
to make it easier on us.

Talk if they get up and walk.

Yesterday

or blood going in.

Say it's not saying much
about anything like that.

I reckon
he thinks it's none of our business.

Whatever you got on it, mind.

Johnny doesn't seem a little dark.

You at this time of the day.

Yeah. You can hardly see up to them tree.

Yeah, I think it's about noon sun.

I'll be high enough to shine down through
it. Maybe it's cloudy.

No, it couldn't be rained out too early
for the wet season. Mr.

Rich said that?

Yeah, so they did. Yeah.

Well, come on.

We got a hole up here and get the stocks
without too much trouble.

For Not again.

Not for.

Not just.

I never.

Saw a water pilot go back to my.

Life. Johnny, this round is.

Let's start with all that rain
from rolling off those mountains.

It's all running below land.

I want to.

Keep and sleep.

I don't know.

But he's been standing up all the time
anyway.

I don't think this Reynolds, anything.

Here he comes now.

Well, it's part time.

He's being paid to get us through here.

And he's been gone since before it started
raining His back, isn't he?

Couldn't possibly rain.

He said we're two weeks
ahead of the wet season.

I wonder what he's going to say now.

I want you people.

To unload your wagon.

Everything comes out that you don't
absolutely need for survival.

Now, I just. I don't want any argument
here.

I'll make this as clear as I possibly can.

You people haven't got a chance

of getting these wagons out of the swamp
unless they're practically empty.

Find out for yourself in an hour.
But why waste the time?

We would rather wait.

You'll do it now, Flint. Take it easy.

You know anything about this swamp?

Nope.
Never been through it before. All right.

I ain't leaving my belongings
unless I'm forced. To

get off flight to Paris.

I don't know what's the matter with you,
but I will not be made to suffer

because of it.

You haven't been the. Same
since we left the wagon train.

The others have noticed it too.

Well, the animals you can order about.

We don't have to stay with you.

If you want to get out of the swamp alive.

You do that for
I prefer to take their chance.

I, for one, will leave the protection
of the wagon train wagon

and gather all the possessions
I had all the way together.

I would do what my judgment tells me.

You know what you're told.

I paid money to travel with this train.

I not ask you for any of it back,
but you are no longer responsible for me.

Guide you through your head.

I am no longer with your train.

So now this is.

What you want.

You got these wagons, stay together
and every man stays with this wagon.

And when you get out of the swamp,
you can do what you please.

But until then, you'll do what you're
told.

I'm not your wagon and

I. Rode here.

You make me on the right path.

Because 120 000000

people.

Oh, my God. Oh,

I know

you drive quite a couple of hundred.

Yards up ahead.

We'll camp there for the night.

Pass the word here.

Should

Charlie come out to help build it?

Keep on ride.

You know,
I don't think I like this place much.

I don't see our name,
but he could like it.

Charlie,
after wading through that water, only.

Went that I got.
I got a feeling that this.

Is what.

I'm nothing.

Nothing grant on. I won't make fun of it.

Any better feeling.

Do you mean like we're being watched.

At it
every chance we come into this place.

I've had a feel.
I've been watched and followed.

I've been waiting every minute to hear
that noise at Babcock told us about.

I'm still thinking about evil spirits.

I want you. You said.

I said that
I had a feeling we're being watched.

Maybe by animals or Indians.

I don't believe those stories
about the swamp them.

Well, anyway, the sooner we get
out of here, the better off sh**t me.

Yeah,

And. Too.

I wish I knew what was going to happen.

Yeah, I can understand
why he doesn't, tells Charlie.

You know we can't.

Stopping Pete doesn't let us know.

Well, anyway, we're right.

We told those people
to unload their wagons.

We wouldn't have gotten as far as we did
if he hadn't.

Yeah, we went about it.

You know,
those people are still pretty mad.

Are you?

I don't know, Charlie.

I'd be obliged if you weren't

here.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, Bill.

And I've been pretty sure we ought to say
I'm sorry.

I had a lot on my mind.

Sometimes things happen to you.

I guess they happen to everybody.

I guess you'd rather not talk about
something like that.

Happen to me.

Right here in the swamp a year ago.

I've been trying to forget it
ever since then.

It did have something to do.
With what? Back loss.

I didn't. It?

No, Charlie, I don't want to.

Disappoint you, but there's no connection
out of the vaguest idea.

When I was talking. About.

Who knows what an
Indian superstition might be.

Now, the

thing that happened to me was very real

good. That

that's just what get lost in a long line.

Always a long, long night

at that swamp Devil.

All right, You can get on that from there.

That's what it is.

The Indian tried to warn Mrs. Harris.

You know that there isn't such a thing.

Then what is it now?

No animal ever made a sound like that.

What is it?

Yeah.

All right, folks, just be quiet.

Listen,

I think we to come to this
godforsaken place.

No place is godforsaken, Mrs.

Harris was just testing.

A feed

drawing.

Oh, stop it.

Don't do that.
You scared me to death. Where's Flint?

Oh, he went off out there somewhere.
Let go see what he's up to.

Wait a minute.

He said to wait right here.
And that's good enough for me.

I'm not going out there with that
swamp. Devil run. Around loose. Were you?

Quit talking about that swamp devil
all the time.

Yeah, but maybe you better ask Flint
what he thinks Now.

Just before he took off,
he said maybe he was wrong.

Maybe what happened to him that last trip
did have something to do with what

Babylon said. How do you like that?

You're that.

But what do you got to say about it?

Well, that's a swamp devil, Charley.

Sure take a lot of music lessons.

Then why did my.

The rest of you be quiet?

Just use your heads and listen.

That's music. You're here.

It's not.

Some mysterious, unexplainable
noise is just plain old organ music.

That music is made by hands,
by two human hands.

Now, that's so easy to explain.

What's an organ doing out in a swamp?

Evil spirit or not?

That's what Chief McCall heard,
and he's been hearing it for a year now.

How do you explain Mack?

Well, ma'am, I can't right now.

What color's out there?

There's an answer.

He'll find it when he gets back.

We'll know what it is,

and all the rest of you can quit
acting like a bunch of dang fools.

Come on. Yeah.

You're doing

Jack.

You're

just. You

all right?

But that'll never.

Happen.

And Fred.

Oh. Let's go look for one Charlie.

Out there in the dark tonight.

Yeah, up there in the dark tonight.

Come on.

We're going to go in pairs and split up
and go in different directions.

I want you, woman, to stay here

and keep this fire going good and bright
to find our way back.

Well, let's get started.

Morning.

Soon enough. Bill.

You don't even see
anything out there tonight.

You should have had more things
than to wander off like a greenhorn.

Are you saying that you want to go
looking for him?

You expect me to care what happens
to MACCALLUM after what he did to me?

So that's it, huh?

You're all still holding a grudge.

Well, I want to tell you something.
Flint was right.

And if you had any sense, you know, that
you wouldn't be sitting here right now

if he'd let you had your own way.

Instead, you've been back there
a few miles with water up your wagon beds

and anything.

We wouldn't
want to go looking for him, Bill.

But you can't find anything out there
in the dark.

Anyhow, what do you expect to find
sitting around this campfire.

And won't even be a trail swamp
bottom like this?

A little smaller up
a man's tracks. Soon as he makes some.

Signs, he might.

Come walking back in here at any minute.

There.

We'd be out there in the dark,
splashing around,

doing no good at all
except getting wet again.

Come morning. What?

We ain't here.

We'll go looking for life.

Can't force you to go with me.

But you better hope that we find him
because we don't stand a chance

getting out of this swamp
without McCullough.

He's the only one who knows. Away.

Come on, Charlie.

Blood.

Doggone it.
Before you do that again, warn me.

You be quiet.

What are you trying to do?
Make a nervous wreck out of me. Charlie.

How do you expect me to hear Flint?

Ask me if you keep on talking like this.

I'm afraid to quit talking.

To what? Out here.

Why don't you. Forget about that swamp?

Devil was evil spirits.
My 5 minutes. Well.

I wish I could.

And I wish Flint to finish
what he had to say before he left.

He knew something about that plant
that I know again.

And I wish I knew what it was.

Now, back.

Now. Cut it out, Charlie. I'm over here.

I've got it. Why didn't you say so?

It's like you found something.

Yeah.

Good chance of Flint made
that mark still fresh.

With no way to make it small here.

Yeah. Why don't you go take a look? I'm

after you.

He bumped

you? No.

Use them like Margaret badly
hurt trees anymore.

Now it beats me his way.

Quit making those marks.

What beach means what you come out here
for in the first place,

you'll be able to cut it out.

That's why I came out here, Charlie.

I just. I need organization, Clay.

I get.

That's never got a whole lot stronger.

You know,
if you'd simmer down for about a minute,

maybe we could find out where
that music is coming from

right now.

If you start playing banjo next.

Come on. It's over that way.

Yeah.

Josh never thought you'd see me again,
did you?

I knew you'd be back in the. I.

I would have waited ten.

Come on.

Because it.

Oh, sorry.

After all, I wouldn't want to hurt you.

You're going to do that for yourself.

How long do you think
you can stand them a color?

How long do you think it will be

before your knees turn to rubber?

And finally, you have to give up.

And there you are hanging by the rope.

You don't know what you're doing.

You k*lled my wife.

You k*lled her.

Now you're going to k*ll yourself.

Oh. Oh,

and used to love to hear me play.

She used to sit for hours and listen.

She never wanted me to stop.

Just one more, Joshua.

She'd say One more, please.

Oh, how I ain't love music.

She was a gentle soul

poet.

So really,

this was one of her favorites.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you, my good friends.

But no more tonight, please.

No, I'm afraid Josh was right.

We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow.

I think we all better get some rest.

Well, gentlemen, gentlemen. Wait a minute.

Remember, you promised if I'd play,
you'd return the candle to the wagon.

That's right, Fred.

You did promise.

Remember

when?

Just how bad is this little?

Well, I'm not sure.

I've always been through here before,
before the rainy season hit.

But the rains are early this year.

I'm afraid The low lies
look more like a swamp.

I'm carrying a lot of weight, you know.

You think it might be too much.

Now we'll
get you through it as humanly possible.

That's good enough for me, Flint.

Thanks. Goodnight.

Goodnight, then.

Oh, you know,

we're going to do

it, Harlan.

Go on, get out of it.

They're doing a good.

Hey, baby.

You, man, come up and give me a hand.

I don't think
we're going to be able to, but

we're not giving up before we try.

Of course we're going to try.

All right, let's put a shot. Of the will
when I get the word.

You get up and drive the horses

there. Say hello.

Look up.

All right, Ready? Oh,

come on,

Get in.

My husband. Oh.

Hey, hurry up, now.

We're gonna have
to think of something else because that

Doby.

Your team still good and strong.

Suppose you hook them up
up ahead of my men as they can do it.

It sure like to help you, Joshua,
but my team's got about all they can.

Handle as it is.

Even after
I don't have a lot of weight back there.

Frank,
I'm afraid my woman wouldn't take much to

soon as he had the labor and cooking
rounds behind when we bogged down.

Isn't anybody going to help me?

Sure.

We'll help you unload your wagon
the way everybody else is doing.

Joshua, I'm afraid we haven't seen
you went to the swamp yet. You.

You can't ask these people
to wear out their own horses

that are jeopardize their own chances
of getting out of here

by not hauling anything of value.

It's a value to them either.

The price I can get for one piano,
I could buy every wagon here, everything

that's in them.
That includes the horses, too.

Why don't you try and make that
deal right now?

Maybe I will.

I'll buy a team.

Yes, sir.

All right.

The first man who steps up
don't have that piano in there.

Leave your own wagon behind and buy
five new ones

for that much money
when we get out of here.

This is what you've got of that
much value.

All right.

Have the organ do.

Well, don't be fooled.

Not fooled, Joshua.

That's just what we're not, Dobie.

Frank,

That is fine.

Please.

There's no other way.

Have you watched me make them with my own.

Hands.

For two years?

Just saw me put together piece by piece
the two finest instruments.

Ever created by a. Man.

Live there at stake in the future.

Something to start.

All my fault. You can make up the.

You said you're going to help me.

You said we could get through.

I said if it was humanly possible.

Joshua, It is.

And it is here in command of these wagons.

You can make them help me.

I've done the best I can do.

I'll dismantle.

Will settle them out piece by piece,
reassemble them later.

Be reasonable. Well,
you better take weeks.

I can't hold the wagons up that long.

You're responsible.
You've got to get me through.

I'm responsible
for everybody on this train.

And I'll get you
through the swamp of your dump.

The equipment is too heavy to carry.

I'll stay here first.

I not leave my life's work behind.

Get ready to roll the wagons.

You better try and.
Talk some sense into them.

I'm not going to wait any longer.

Oh, God, you are not.

Vive,

why don't you go with them?

You're against me too, like all. The rest.

Who make it go.

Without you.

Go on, Get away from me.

I ran.

I said run.

And died a week later of swamp fever.

And you.

k*lled her.

I left to rot in this miserable,

stinking place,

left to die with a rope around her neck.

Just as sure as this one round yours. Now,

we've been kind
do end of life with a b*llet.

This is I could do for you now,

but you're going to wait sheet?

No, the death is coming.

That there's no escaping it.

But you could have escaped.

You're.

You chose to stay here. You.

You traded your wife's life
for your piano, don't you see?

Oh, oh, oh.

You've had a whole year to hide

from the truth buried in this forest
while you waited for me accusing me.

Won't justify what you. Did.

For a long time, nothing did.

I must ask myself a thousand times

if I left you here because I was angry.

That was only passed.

A wagon train is like a chain.

It's no stronger than the weakest link.

And you were the weak link, Joshua,

because you wanted me to risk everybody
for your own greed.

You've rationalized everything.

Very satisfactorily for yourself.

And there's no satisfaction
in risking a man's life.

My mistake was staying within a life,

within the limitations of my command.

What limitations are there
in having power of a life and death?

I was in command only as long as you
people chose to accept that command.

I didn't have the right to force you
to leave your property behind

and come with me.
But I should have taken that right.

That was my mistake.

But that was my only mistake.

You knew we didn't have a chance.

And how did you get so far
from where we left you?

And with your prized
possessions, piece by piece.

I dismantled,

carried them here on my.

Own back.

And you did have a cat, don't you see?

I hope you realize what a fool you have
been.

You left your piano behind
because you could have gotten out of it.

You might have lost your way for a while,
but you had your supplies.

You could have gotten out, but
you chose to stay here with your piano.

That's your mistake, not mine.

You're going to die, Mr.

McCall.

And right here

in this swamp,

when Diana died,

you better turn

Atlanta now, Charlie, before it goes,
we're running low on fuel.

And besides,
we won't need any light for certain

until the music starts again
and it gets daylight.

You can sit here in the dark and like it.

I can sit
there in the dark, but I won't like it?

Yeah. Yeah, I know. Give me that.

You'll be sorry.

You can get over.

He's crabby.

After we go,
be sure to keep this fire a smoke.

And that's the only way
we'll be able to find our way back.

If you're able to. Now, Nancy.

But still, hawks?

No, Charlie Wooster didn't get back.

Nor Flint neither.

We were wrong to let him go out at night.

No chance of anything
but getting lost in a swamp.

We should have gone with him.

We shouldn't have let our anger
keeping you from doing what?

When you right.

You're right, Otto.

Don't worry.

We'll find him.

Let's go.

Don't worry now.

Let's go get.

I've decided to give you
a departing spirit.

Wings of music.

Oh, so

that your voice goes out of my face,
you old goat.

Listen, Charlie.

Piano start again.

Yeah, We need it.

Come on.

It's coming from over here.

Let's go.

Over there.

Yeah.

Come on

down, Charlie.

Real chaotic.

Phil and Jimmy.

So, Charlie, Charlie.

What I call it.

Okay.

Yeah, but we're not the only ones in here.

The piano stopped.

I they had to start yelling right on top.

That music
we can find now anyway, can't we?

Try not not argue anymore.

Just keep your eyes on for a man
now, evil spirit.

To get your hopes up.

McCullough

They didn't know they were getting up.

Here's another thing,

and they're too far away to find us
anyway.

Dang that I could be anyplace around here.

You can hide the paint us.

Seems like there ought to be a wagon
or a shack or something around here.

Yeah, I just can't put a pie
any under all this water and play it to

you. Try to call out

and you might not live long enough
to find out whether it did any good.

I, for all.

Your stand in the swamp,

where would you live?

Charlton

found out he didn't do any favors.

Warning

this boy is.

McCullough still alive?

You're good enough
shot to hit me and miss him.

The piano.

sh**t the. Piano?

No piano?

No. Stop. Huh?

I showed you.

This would free me.

I was wrong.

I mean, mind control.

Hannah and.