04x06 - Bear Man

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Previously on AMC’s Hell on Wheels…

Where you from, boy?

We're with the railroad.

Looking for a guide to take us through Indian territory.

You got you a woman there, sourpuss?

You saying you care about me?

I love you.

I want you to be mine.

Mr. Bohannon is gone, you need to do something.

I'm gonna bust him out.

Going alone through Indian territory?

Got to.

Don't go. I got a bad feeling.

[Horse neighs]

[Animal snarls]

[Whimpering and panting]

[Panting]

Lord.

Lord...

Don't take me like this.

Not like this.

[Wind howling]

[Humming]

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Who are you?

[High-pitched whining]

Eva, it's... it's me.

[Western folk music]

[high-pitched whining]

[Drumming]

[Man chanting in Comanche]

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[Speaking in Comanche]

[Stifled groaning]

[Chanting and drumming stops]

[Stifled groaning]

[Panting]

[Man chanting in Comanche]

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[Humming]

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[Speaking Comanche]

[Humming]

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[Man chanting in Comanche, drumming]

Fire!

Fire!

My house!

Fire!

[Man continues chanting in Comanche]

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[Dog barks distantly]

Hey.

[Speaks in Comanche]

[Woman making soothing noises]

[Speaking Comanche]

Mmm, mmm. Mmm.

Mmm.

[Grunts]

[Dog barking distantly]

[Wind howls]

[Fire crackling]

[Man speaking Comanche]

[Woman speaking Comanche]

Give me that meat.

I done my work. Give me my supper.

Give me my supper.

Give me my supper!

Give me my supper!

[People whooping]

[Dogs barking]

[Horses galloping]

[Whooping continues]

[Sounds grow distant]

[Men chattering in Comanche]

[Whooping continues]

[Panting]

[Grunts]

[Wind howling]

That's mine.

[Speaking Comanche]

[Meat sizzles in fire]

[Speaking Comanche]

[Villagers chattering]

[Grunting]

[Villagers chattering]

Oh...

Ah...

Aah!

[High-pitched whining]

Aah!

Did you see her? Did you see her?

Why'd she run from me? Why'd she run from me?

She was singing in the field.

[Girl gasps]

Did you see her?

She was singing in the field.

She was singing in the field.

Why'd she run away from me?

[Man speaking Comanche]

[Shouts in Comanche]

[Children giggling]

[Thwack]

[Wood clatters]

[Shouts]

[Speaking Comanche]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No! No.

Ow... please!

[Gasps]

Ow.

[Grunts]

[Panting]

You ain't her.

Who? Please, please.

My name is Charlotte Royce!

The savages att*cked my husband and me on a way to Denver.

Peter's dead, but his brother's in Cincinnati.

If you can get word, he'll come find us.

You ain't her.

No, no!

Please! Please!

You ain't her!

[Both grunting]

[Panting]

[High-pitched whining]

[Grunting]

[Whining stops]

[Whooping]

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[Mystical music]

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[Mystical music continues]

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Sourpuss?

Well, lookee here.

They said they found a bear k*ller out on the prairie, but it looks to me like they got themselves a railroad man a long way from home.

Who is you?

Now, don't tell me you've forgotten old Jimmy.

I pulled you and that Mississippi boy out of that tight spot with the Kiowa.

Cullen Bohannon he said his name was.

Had himself a Sazerac one time at the St. Charles hotel.

Bohannon?

That's right with the Union Pacific Railroad.

I see him covered in flame.

Oh, that's right.

Now, that was back with the Kiowa.

Bohannon say he freed the slaves, but he ain't free 'em.

Boy, what's infecting you now?

I don't know. I don't know.

Now, hold on there, sourpuss.

Let's you and me figure this out together.

This here's Old Porcupine.

He's my father-in-law.

I come here to warn him about some Bluecoats I come across about half day's ride South of here.

They on the warpath looking for that white woman.

She mine.

[Laughs] No, she ain't yourn...

Marked up white woman mine.

Mr. Lincoln may have outlawed sl*very in the South, but these Comanche ain't never heard his proclamation.

That white woman is White Feather's.

She's worth more than either of us has on us.

She worth three blankets and a horse.

That's what she say.

She's worth twice that and a box of rocks.

White Feather earned her in battle.

He earned her in battle.

Mm-hmm.

Do you know what they call you?

Pah duh ah wuh toh kweh nuh.

Do you know what that means?

"Bear k*ller."

Pah duh ah wuh toh kweh nuh.

These Comanche believe any man who k*lled a bear takes up all her power and magic and can't be defeated in battle.

If I know these braves, they fixing to ride on that cavalry tonight, and they're gonna want Bear k*ller and all his magic with 'em.

They think you can't be k*lled, but I know better.

Fact is, you gonna fill up full of b*ll*ts faster than any of 'em on account of you only got one good eye.

And that white woman is White Feather's.

You got a woman and a baby girl back in Cheyenne.

Her eyes worth a hundred horses.

We got to get you back there before you lose what’s left of you.

[Chanting, whooping]

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This is a w*r ceremony, and these braves is out for blood.

It's best we go before they realize you gone.

We got to skedaddle, sourpuss.

[All whooping]

Come on.

[All whooping]

Look, I-I know you got your noggin rattled real good, but... but once you see your people, well, maybe you'll start...

My name is pah duh ah wuh toh kweh nuh.

I got magic.

No, no.

Your name is Elam Ferguson.

You a railroad man. You got a family.

You don't belong here.

I earn my own woman in battle.

Son, you go with them braves, you ain't coming back.

Now, hold on!

You ain't in your right mind here...

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[g*nsh*t fire]

Savages in the woods!

[g*nf*re, arrows whistling]

[Whooping]

Take cover!

Oh!

Go! Go!

Up here! Over here!

[Comanche whooping]

[Indistinct shouting]

[Comanche whooping]

Fall back.

Fall back!

Fall back!

[Arrows whistling]

Yah!

Aah!

[g*nf*re] Head north!

Hah! Hah!

Yah, yah!

[Men whooping]

You're a railroad man, right?

You’re not a savage. You’re not like them.

You should be back there, with your wife and baby.

You can trade me on the railroad.

I'm worth more than three blankets and a horse, enough to get you to that marked up white woman.

What's her name? I know you know it.

Eva.

Yes! Eva!

You can sell me and get Eva back.

I am worth something, but only if you get me out of here.

Please, please.

Please, you can sell me!

You can sell me and get Eva back.

Please! Please, you can sell me!

You can sell me and get Eva back!

Please!

No, you can sell me!

No! No, please!

No!

No, no! No!

[Growling and grunting]

No! No!

No! No!

[Panting and grunting]

[Woman screaming]

Woman: No! No!

[Whimpering]

[Dramatic music]

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Aah! Aah! Aah!

[Panting]

[Woman whimpering]

Come on. Come on!

[Thunder rumbles]

You're mine!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry. You...

I warned you.

k*lled him!

You k*lled the trader.

He was trying to help you...

Shut up! Shut up!

And you k*lled him!

Shut up!

You're worse than the Comanche.

You're an animal!

Shut up!

Shut up!

Shut up!

[Bleak music]

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