All language subtitles for The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel 1979

Meg, you have to get
into bed now.

You are sick, Meg.
You're very sick.

MAN:
$50.

I can give you $10 now
and the rest at $3 a week.

It's gotta be $50 now.

Please,
these are just children.

Don't you be afeard, Meg.

Granny Bacon's
come to Little Oak

from the Appalachian Mountains.

She can cure you.
She has ways.

This is the onliest thing
I know to do.

Look, I'm sorry.

Meg, sweetheart,
look at me.

I'm okay. Thom...
Mm-hmm.

It's all right, it's over.

It's over.
Okay, okay.

Is it the same one?
Yes, it's always the same one.

Honey, it always starts out
so nice.

You know, I'm dreaming about
the good times and then--

All of a sudden
I start hearing the crying,

and I see those little girls,

and I see that Granny
and her knife

and that pot of blood.

You know, the look on her eyes
when she grabs my arm.

It's just terrible.
I know, darling, I know.

I know.

Meg.

You have to keep all this
in its proper perspective.

As horrible as it was,

it served a purpose
in your life.

It made you wanna become
a doctor.

And I saw you fight your way
through med school

with more determination
than anyone I've ever met.

Including me,
and it's going so...

That old lady's ignorance
pushed you.

Oh,
you remembered the eggs.

They're probably cold.

What's the matter?

Let me see what that says.

No, no, no, darling.
Allow me.

"Dr. Meg Laurel
blasted Judge Adamson.

"Saying that by allowing
the docks to deteriorate

"with total disregard
for human life,

he has elected himself murderer
from 10 of Boston."

Murderer?

Honey, don't you know,

you don't say things like that
in the press.

Honey, there were reporters
everywhere.

Everyone was saying things,

and I didn't say anything
that I don't believe.

Don't you know the power
that Adamson wheels?

One word from him
and neither one of us

will ever practice medicine
in Boston again.

But Boston isn't the world.
Plenty of places need doctors.

A lot more than they do here.

Like an orphanage
in Virginia.

Well, that's fine for you,
but I wanna work in Boston.

Thom, I did not do it
on purpose.

However, if it gets Adamson
to change things,

I'm glad it happened
no matter what the consequences.

You could have gone to him
in private.

I have been to him in private,
and you know that!

I took him those photographs
of the garbage

and the rats down there.

He says to me
that tough men get tougher

working under
those conditions.

Meg, you're gonna have to
apologize to Adamson.

No.

Do we have to be sick and poor

before you really care
what happens to us?

Thom, please,
don't ask me to do this.

What difference does it make?

There's principle involved.

To hell with your principles!

You do not have to say
you're wrong.

All you have to say
is that you're sorry.

If you want to sacrifice
your career

for your beliefs, fine.

But, please,
do not ever sacrifice mine.

Meg, darling.
I respect what you did, but--

Enough. No more, okay?

Just tell me where and when

and I will say
whatever you want me to say.

But it has to be in private.

I promise,
it will be in total privacy.

I'll set it up for tonight.

Man, in this case woman,
is an unjust creature.

God in heaven is just,
justice will ultimately triumph.

Good evening, Dr. Laurel.
Good evening, Douglas.

This is my wife,
also Dr. Laurel.

Good evening.

Judge Adamson is expecting you.
He's in the salon.

I knew nothing about this.

She looks harmless enough,
doesn't she?

Thom, let's leave, please--

Meg, just do it
and it will be over.

Thom.

Your Honor.

Dr. Laurel,
it was so gracious of you

to offer to come tonight.

Now, tell me,
who do I look like?

Bela Lugosi or Lon Chaney?

Come.

Now, everybody, ladies--
Ladies and gentlemen.

I think all of you here
know Dr. Thom Laurel.

Well, this is his pretty wife,
Dr. Margaret Laurel.

And I think
she has something to say.

Judge Adamson,
I came here tonight--

Yes?

I can't do this, Thom.

I can't do this.
Meg.

Judge Adamson,
I speak to you for myself,

not as my husband's wife.

I came here tonight
prepared to apologize to you,

but I find that I cannot.

Because you, sir,
are an epidemic on this city.

And the disease that comes
from you is killing people.

Yet somehow, you have remained
immune to its horrors.

And I just pray

that there is some trace
of human that's left in you.

So that you
will understand

that people
come before profit.

And human life before your own
self-righteousness.

I wanna talk to you.

Well, you're the hero
and I'm the victim.

Thom,
before you say anything,

I want you to know
that I love you very much.

And I know that you had nothing
to do with all with tonight.

It's where I belong,
you know.

This is the first penny
that they ever raised for me.

The rest of them helped send me
to medical school.

I'd like to take this one back
to Effie and the children.

Meg, I--
Wait a minute.

Please, listen to me.

Thom, I never knew
I was going to be loved

by someone
as wonderful as you.

All right, Meg.

You are wonderful, Thom.
You are.

But you know what you want.
It's right and it's good.

I don't.

Meg, we can work this out.

No.

We'll both be better off
this way.

That look.

It's the same look you had
the first time I ever saw you.

There's no way I can ever
change your mind, is there?

Come with me.

What?
Come with me, Thom.

There's so much good to be done,
and they need doctors like you.

Oh, no, Meg. No.
You go.

And if you wanna come back here,
fine.

I'll be here.

Well?
I know.

You got enough medical supplies
to open a hospital.

So, what do you think?

A month? Year?

Oh, Thom. I'm so scared.

I'm scared too, baby.

I love you so much.

And I love you too.

Meg, I can't let you go.

Oh, Thom, no.
Don't do this, please.

Wait a moment, please.

What you doing there?

Joe. Joe, it's Meg.
Little Meg.

Oh, well, I'll be.
Little Meg.

Why, why, look at the woman
you've become.

Like a rainbow and a pot of gold
all rolled up together.

Oh, and you're still the sweet
talker you always were.

I'm so glad to see you.

What you doing here?

Effie said you settled down
and married.

Well, I did, but--
I don't wanna talk about me.

I'd like to know
about Effie and the girls.

If you'd come
a few months earlier,

Effie would have lit up
to see you.

You was always her favorite.
She's not--

No, no, no.

The orphanage
just ran out of money.

She's gone back up
in the Appalachia's.

Back to Eagle's Nest.

I just kind of stay around
and see no one disturbs nothing.

Well, I should have come back
sooner. I knew it.

Little Meg, a doctor. Hmm.
Yes, yes.

Effie would have lit up
to see you.

How do you get there?
To Eagle's Nest, I mean.

Oh, that's a--
That's a tough place to get to.

Tough place.

Nobody goes there except people
who was born there.

Wasn't that Granny who came down
when we were all sick?

Wasn't she from up there?
Yeah, oh, roundabouts there.

Can I get there
with a wagon?

I brought all
my medical supplies here.

They got folk ways.

They won't take
to your bringing medicine.

Going to see Effie
is one thing,

but you aiming
to be a doctor up there...

Can I get there with a wagon?

If you are really determined,

tomorrow
we'll get you outfitted.

There's a lot you'll need,
including a shotgun.

I've got a gun.

Don't you move.
I'll shoot you.

Don't pitch a fit now.
No need to empty that gun.

I'm friendly-like.

Step out here in the open.

I see'd you working
with that there pot.

I'd help you set it rightly
over the fire

for a share
of what's in it.

I don't share my food

with people who sneak up on me
in the night.

Well, ain't no doors
to knock on out here.

And I don't appreciate
being followed.

I weren't following you.

Not unless you...

you come down from Eagle's Nest
in front of me.

You're from Eagle's Nest?
I was birth there.

I mean, I was born there.

What's the name of the woman
who used to run the orphanage?

You mean Effie Webb?
Well, she's a neighbor lady.

You know her?

Yes, I do.

Well, folkses up in
Eagle's Nest, by my minder.

Dumbing up their lives with
ignorance.

All they know to do
with a book

is press flower petals
twixt its pages.

Now me, I've been reading
since I was only 16.

You've never been
down this mountain?

No.

But I'm pushing myself
all the way out this time.

I ain't never ever going so much

as to look at these
here mountains again.

You'd best be stirring that.

Are you afraid?

Well, no, but burnt stew
ain't no fun to eat.

I'm talking about
being afraid

of going somewhere
you've never been before.

Well, I weren't afeard
of being birthed.

Darn it.
Born, born, born.

I weren't afeard of being born
to where I'd never been before.

So no use in starting now.

You, uh,
a government worker?

No, I'm a doctor.

Oh. Oh, well.

They already got a curer
up in Eagle's Nest.

Granny Arrowroot.

I'm talking about
a real doctor.

Not someone who boils roots
or uses unsterilized knives.

I think this is ready.

Jacob Barth,
if you so much--

I'm no shag nasty, honest.
I-I-I just...

I just wanted to see
if it was soft as it looked.

If you wanna feel hair,
you touch your chin.

Go on back over there.

But-- But beard hair
ain't like your hair.

Touch it. I don't mind.
No, thank you.

I-I-I don't really like
beards to begin with.

Please.

Hyah! Hyah!

Hyah! Come on!

Hyah! Hyah!

Hyah! Hyah!

Oh!

Ho, ho, hey!

Ho, ho, ho.
Ho, up there.

Slow down.
Ho, ho, ho.

That's better.

Come on, come on.

MEG:
But I managed

to save most of my things.

I'm hoping to reach Effie's
tomorrow sometime.

I am really looking forward
to sleeping in an actual bed.

I'll write again
as soon as I'm settled in.

All my love, Meg.

Ho, ho!

Ho, ho.

Hello.

Wait, don't go.
Please don't be afraid.

Sorry I frightened your friend.
I'm glad you didn't run away.

My name is Meg.
What's yours?

I know a riddle.

You do?
Wanna see if I can guess it?

The force of a cross,
a circle complete,

a brass standing
where two semi-circles do meet.

Right triangle standing
on its own two feet.

Two semi-circles,
and the circle complete.

Spells what?

Well,
I know it spells something.

But, uh, don't know
exactly what.

You got me.
I hope you're gonna tell me.

The force of a cross, T.

A circle complete, O.

A brass standing
which semi-circles do meet, B.

A right triangle standing,
on its own two feet.

A.

Two semi-circles, C-C.

And a circle complete.

Tobacco.

Honey, that's the best riddle
I've ever heard.

I've got a riddle now.

What's in that?

What's the name of this person
standing in front of me?

Laurie Mae Moon!

And my brother is Joshua Moon.

And my Pa
is Mr. Harley Cuddle Moon.

And my ma was Lauren Moon

before she illed up
and got took into heaven.

Are them store-bought?

Yes, they are. Laurie Mae--

Can't confidence
with you no more.

If them store-bought,

that makes you an outlander,
and an unwelcomer.

I'd have the hickory
laid on me for sure.

You mean
you can't even talk to me?

Well, Laurie,
I maybe, uh, an outlander,

but I'm not an unwelcomer.

I'm a very good friend
of Effie Webb's.

Does she live around here
somewhere?

Good.

Laurie Mae.

Get down off from there.

Inside, girl.

I didn't jab with her none.

I swear!

Inside!
I told you once.

Mr. Moon, please don't be upset
with Laurie Mae.

Just keep your butt up
in that saddle.

You toting papers?

I don't know what you mean.

Papers, warrants.

No. Mr. Moon, listen,
I've come an awful long way.

I'm looking for--
Don't you be a-storying me.

And don't you
keep interrupting me.

I'll do just as I please
on my own property.

Hyah! Get out of here!
Go on.

Hyah! Get out of here!
Go on! Get out of here!

Hyah!

Hey, hey.

Hey! Hoo. Hoo.

Effie?

Effie?

Effie.

Effie.
What are you doing to her?

Effie, it's Meg.
It's me, Meg.

Would you get that
away from her?

Effie?

What is it?
What's wrong?

Meg!

My darling Meg!

Oh, Effie,
I'll take care of you.

I promise, I will.

WOMAN:
There ain't nothing you can do,

child.

She's got the milk sick
and she's slipping away.

What she needs is fresh air,
not smoke in her lungs.

The poison's getting close
to her heart.

Bayberry smoke will make
the ending easier for her.

Get out of here.

Get out!
All of you, get out!

Give me that.
Lord, no!

Where are you going?
No!

Don't you get near her.
Don't you even touch her!

Whoa! Ho, ho. Ho!

Latch up the door
so she can't come back in.

You just let her come,
I'll show her what for.

Effie.

Who's that tormented child
to distress you so?

She's a fine child, Granny.

And a practiced doctor.

I should have known.

Teach her, Granny.
She's a good learner.

She has a loving soul.

Excuse me.

Too late for medicine, child.
Your nor mine.

Herm, take Beck out.
Yes'm.

Beck, it's time you go.

Birth and death don't belong
in the same house. Go on.

Some reunion, huh?

Meg, mountain folks
has been curing their own

hundreds
and hundreds of years.

Now, we've got
plenty of professionals.

Now,
we've got plenty of time to--

Understand them, Meg.

Learn from Granny Arrowroot.

Effie, don't give up.

Tend her, Meg.

Don't let go.
Please, don't. Don't die.

Granny.

I give my house...

Effie, I'm not gonna let you
give up.

Somebody hold this for me,
please.

Well, damn you all to hell.

Kissing on the dying.

Cursing yourself
to die within a week.

She's damning herself to hell,
that's what she's doing.

No. Effie.

No, no, no, please.

No.

Save your tears
for the living, child.

She's passed over into a life
better than this one.

Because of you.

And don't touch her.

No need to fear death.
She's peaceful now.

Just close your eyes,
you'll never fear death again.

Do not put your hands on me.

You're welcome to stay
for the burying.

And after that, I think
it's time for you to leave.

You can allow the Sin Eater
to enter the home of Effie Webb.

Deal over with the fire.

Deal over with the heat.

With this food.

Effie Webb's sins, I eat.

Free this woman, Lord,

of any sin.

Get from her
and give to him.

Devour, devour,
in death's hour.

Devour, devour,
in death's hour.

Devour, devour,
in death's hour.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven.

Effie Webb's soul
is with our Savior in heaven.

No need to vacate tonight,
child.

I'm not.

You stay the night,

and tomorrow I'll find somebody
to guide you down the mountain.

Effie asked me to stay,
and I'm staying.

It's people like you
that should go

so other people
don't have to die needlessly.

I think you're making
a mistake, child.

I am not your child.

And the folkses at Eagle Nest
ain't your children.

They are mine.

Then love them enough

to guide them to my door
when they're sick.

You know, a long time ago,

on the mountain,
not more than echo from here,

there was a herd of sheep
grazing on a high plateau

just as free as the wind.

They had more than nature's
wonders to eat

and there were stars in the sky.

And one day, a mountain lion
seen them sheep.

She didn't mean them no harm,

even though it was her nature.

But she saw them
as poor little critters

with nothing to protect them.

So she decided
that she'd be their protector,

knowing they'd love her
in return.

So here she comes
running down to them

with all the good intentions
in the world.

But she's still a lion.

Well, them sheep was scared.

And they were so scared

that they run right off
the edge of the plateau.

Now the lion,

seeing they really needed
her protection

from whatever was chasing them,

she started to run,
and she run even faster.

And, you know,

she run right off
the edge of that cliff herself.

And she died.

In trying to protect them,
she's the one that killed them.

Well, that's quite a story.

Perhaps I can help you to
rewrite it

with a happier ending.

A doctor, eh?

I used to be a dentist myself.

Had me a chisel and a hammer,

knocked them tooth
from here to the lake.

Oh, whacked them out the cup.

I have heard of easier ways
to pull teeth.

Well...

if we did needed your easier,
city-fied ways,

we'd have never fought the war.

Dixie ain't New York,
you know.

Never was, never will be.

Sound about them
government people reckon this

is one of your United States.

Well, up here...

we don't need nobody

pushing your damn notions
upon us.

Not no one.

Not never.

Good morning.
You?

You get yourself away
from this door.

I just wanted to speak with you
for a minute, if I may.

If your minute
is so precious to you,

you'll kneel to the ground

and pray the Lord forgives you.

And pray hard.

Dear, Thom.

Please forgive
the quivering of my pen,

but my hand is tired.

All of me is tired

and I miss you
so very, very much.

Don't stop playing,
it sounds wonderful.

Howdy.

I've got a sign I'd like to put
up here in the store. Um...

Give you $5 now

and a dollar for every person
that comes to me.

I can't say one way
or to the other.

I'm just watching things
till Mr. Slocumb gets better.

Mr. Slocumb's sick?

I mean, till he comes back.

We heard what you done
at the dying.

You're an evil woman.

I don't wanna talk to you.

Are you afraid of me?

No more than I am
the devil himself.

Well,
you better be afraid of me.

And you also better answer me,

unless you really wanna see
what evil's all about.

Now, what is wrong
with Mr. Slocumb?

Mr. Slocumb.

MR. SLOCUMB:
Can't see no one.

Go away.

Mr. Slocumb,
my name is Meg Laurel.

I'm a-- Uh, I have some
medicine that can help you.

We've got all we need.

Go away.

Mr. Slocumb, please.

Respect our door.

Mrs. Slocumb, I apologize--
Out.

Get out, I told you
we don't need--

Doug, lay back.

Granny tells you just to lay
still under the covers.

Mrs. Slocumb,
how long have they been sick?

None of your business.

Please, leave us be.

Please, listen to me,
Mrs. Slocumb.

I realize that
that my ways are different

and your ways are very old
and part of your tradition.

Medicines have been
discovered scientifically

by people all over the world.

Some of these people
have spent their entire lives

to find a cure
for the kind of disease

your husband and children
are suffering from.

Now I have those cures
right here.

I don't want anything in return.

I want you to let me help people
you love get well.

So has Granny Arrowroot worked
her whole life to find cures.

She give us this--

This slippery elm bark.

She made the ooze herself.

I trust she knows as much
as any has them

that you're talking about.

Does they make their ooze
any different?

What I have is not an ooze.

GIRL:
Mommy, mommy.

My belly's got
the burning again.

Best you go now.

Mommy here.

Don't you dare touch that child.

I don't want
your child to die.

Get out of my house!
Go on, get out of my--

Get out of my house.
Don't do this to yourselves.

Doug, no! Doug, please lie--

Can't you see you're doing
nothing but hurting?

Please, for the name of decency,
leave us be.

I'm sorry.

Yes, I'll go now.

Mrs. Slocumb,
one more thing please.

I've got some alcohol here.

I'm gonna leave it for you.
Rub it on and it'll help.

And I'm gonna leave
this medicine here also.

Just give them
three spoonfuls a day...

Don't you leave nothing.

Mrs. Slocumb...

if you love your family,

you will do everything possible
to keep them from dying.

Herm.

Add Bugleweed
and Timothy-grass to your list.

Oh, I got a trump clear up
to Eagle's Peak for Bugleweed.

Bring back
some of its growing earth

and then you can trump
into the growing room.

I knew she'd be here,
eventually.

Well, let her in.

I just came from the Slocumb's.

Do you know
that Doug Slocumb is dying?

On your way, Herm.

He won't die.
Oh, no?

I suppose you think
all of your oozes and your teas

and whatever else you concoct
is gonna save him.

Not all of them.

Just what I give him.

I can save that man's life
with proven medicines.

I'm a doctor.
Why are you fighting me?

Why are you fighting me?

Because of this

and because five little girls

died from loss of blood
because of your treatment.

Go ahead. Take a look.

But I'd put my cut right there

so as you can bend the arm

and keep it from bleeding.

Now that's far as that.

Her name was Granny Bacon.

Perhaps she didn't have
your expertise.

Well, if one of your city
doctors surgerized poorly

and a being dies,

would I have the right to say

all city doctors
are useless and evil?

Is that what
you've been saying about me?

No.

Because everyone I've talked to
is afraid of me because of you.

If I come uninvited to the place
you learned your doctoring

and I could like my ways

were the only ways
that could cure folks

and your ways were ignorant,
how'd they treat me?

Did you respect Effie Webb?

I did.

Well, she helped
put me through medical school.

She also asked me to stay here
and do what I do best.

Now if you respected her
than you respect her wish--

Medical school?

How much of your life
that take?

Four years.

Four years.

Child...

these mountains is the biggest
medical school there is.

And I've been learning in 'em
for 40 years

and I still can't learn it all.

But I know that God Almighty
wouldn't put us here

if he didn't have a remedy
for every ailment.

Now out there are plants

that can cure every illness

if we can find 'em.

And I know the ones
that will cure Doug Slocumb.

God also gave us brains.
Is it a sin to use them?

Child, you're climbing a tree
with no top.

I ain't fighting
your close-mindedness--

My close-mindedness?

You wanna help these folkses,
you leave.

If I leave, the people
that'll suffer the most

are the ones you are
keeping me from helping.

If you wanna see
how they suffer

stick your finger
in a pail of water and pull out

and see what kind of hole
it leaves.

Tarnation, learn to fly.

What'd you do to make the wind hate you so?

The wind likes all kites.

All you have to do
is know how to introduce them.

Would you like me to show you?

Hmm?

Okay, now, here,
you hold the kite.

Come here,
hold it in that hand.

All right. Now...

hold the string right here in
this hand, just like that.

Not so tight.

Hold it just like you're gonna
hold a little bird, all right?

See, your kite and the wind,

they're not sure of each other,
it's like you and me, huh?

You see, they have
to be introduced slowly.

So, uh, when you start to run

just let out
a little bit of string

until you can feel the wind
starting to take the kite.

Then you let out
some more string

and the wind will take the kite
right up in the air.

Then you just keep running
and you let out the string.

Pretty soon you won't even
be able to pull your kite

and that, uh, wind apart.

They'll just be so taken
with each other.

All right?

All right.

Well, go on.

There you go.

Hmm.

Down!

Ah!

Down!

Hyah!

Laurie.

Hold on, honey, hold on.

Hold on. Hyah!

Hyah! Hold on.

Okay--

Hold still, honey.

All right. All right.

It's okay.

It's okay, honey.

I know, sweetie.

Come on now, come on, lay down.
Turn around.

Honey, I know, I'm sorry.

But we have
to take your clothes off.

Here. Come here.

Come here, sweetie, come on.

Sit up, sit up,
Laurie Mae, come on.

It's okay, sweetheart.

Bee sting, bee sting,
what's the toxin--?

Damn it, what is it?

Bee sting to body weight...

so poison will be lethal
with, uh...

Oh, God, she can't be
more than 60 pounds.

It's okay, sweetie.
Take some of these, Laurie.

Laurie--

Laurie, come on,
I want you to take it.

Laurie, now come on,
take some of this in your mouth.

Trust me, okay?
Please.

It'll make the pain stop.

Take a little bit, just--

Oh, good girl, okay.

Take a little bit for me.
Little bit, little bit.

That's a girl.
It's not too bad, is it?

Okay, a little bit more, please.

That's a girl, Laurie,
thank you.

We'll take these tears out now,
baby.

As soon as we get them out,
it'll make you feel better.

You promise to wait here, huh?

Okay.

Come here, sweetie.
Come on.

Think about your kite, Laurie.

Think about your kite.

It's way, way up there
in the wind.

Up above the trees
and the mountains and...

and you're up there with it,
you're up there flying.

Go ahead and pretend,
close your eyes, sweetie.

Good girl.

All the way here she kept screaming for Granny.

And I'm sure
had I taken her there,

the allergic reaction
would have kill her already.

As it is, I don't know
if she's gonna make it.

It may take days
for the medication

to neutralize the poison
in her system.

Thom,
a father has a right to know

the whereabouts of his child,

but if I tell him
I have Laurie,

I know he'll take her away.

So where does
my responsibility start

and where does it stop?

Mm.

You're hungry, huh?
Mm-hmm.

Oh, Laurie, honey.

Didn't I tell you
not to scratch?

Yes, ma'am.

Wish my Pa was wedding you
instead of Sophie Pride.

Though I like Sophie.

She's my friend.

I think she'll make
a good ma too.

She ever gets fit to wed.

Is something wrong with her?

No, not yet anyways.

You say "just like me"

every time I stop
and I say a story.

Okay.

I go'd into a cabin--

You say "just like me."
Oh, just like me.

I looked out a window.

Just like me.

And I see the smelly skunk.

Just like me.

Just like you.

I don't get it.

You smell a skunk
just like you.

Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!

Silly girl.

You trying to steal my daughter
from me?

Pa, I got stung by--

I don't wanna hear no word
from neither of you and you.

You , I should have shot you

the first time
I laid eyes on you.

And child,
get yourself over here by me.

Move when I tell you.

Please, calm--

Now what she do to you?

Come on, say.

She give me
some of her medicine.

She had to, Pa.

Now what kind of devil stuff

you put
into my little girl's body?

Don't harm her.

You'll burn in hell fire
if I hear one word more.

Don't threaten that child.

Stay out of there.

No, please, don't--
Stop, stop-- Don't do it.

Granny best be able to undo
what you did to my little girl.

Oh.

She kept me from dying.

Pa, it's wrong what you did.

How'd you come near to dying?

Bees, Pa, all over me.

You see?

Tarnation.

Still...

ain't nobody got the rights
to do nothing to you,

unless she comes to me first.

Nobody.

Not even Granny.

Ho.

Hmm!
Giddy-up. Giddy-up.

Wait.

Please don't be frightened,
I'd just like to talk.

My name is Meg.
I'd like to talk to you.

I'm sorry if I frightened you,
I really didn't mean to.

This work is magnificent,
did you carve it all?

There is no reason
to be frightened.

Remember me?
I saw you at Effie Webb's.

You shouldn't odder
looked at me.

Why not?
Because I'm filled with sins

and they come out ugly
on my face.

Now go, please.
I beg you, go.

I'm not afraid of you.

Don't be afraid of me.
Please don't.

Don't touch me!

My flesh will burn you
with hell fire.

Forgive her, Father,
for she felt the devil within.

Forgive her, Father,
for she felt the devil within.

Please, don't do this.
Turn away!

For your own salvation.

All right, all right,

but just let me stay
and talk to you then, please?

Please?

Who made you believe
that you could--

that you could take people's
sins just by eating food?

My pa.

He had folks' sins
put in his whole life.

My tummy is poor and hungry.

When he died,

the Lord was on his one shoulder
and the devil onto other.

Both just waiting to see
which one got his soul.

But the other one
know Sin Eater.

No worse than eating the sins
my Pa had in him.

So my ma...

she cried and she prayed.

She put the food on his body...

and she waited...

and waited.

But there is nobody came.

So I ate from off him.

I was the one who opened
the way up for my pa

to be with the Lord in heaven.

Now...

I'll be what I am
through my lifetime.

Please, let me turn around.

I'd like to look at you.

No, no,
don't cage your eyes on me.

For your salvation.

You see,
whenever I comes around,

folkses is sorrowing.

That's why I never make
no carvings of it.

I don't wanna see no sorrow.

In wood nor flesh.

So don't you be a-sorrowing
none for me.

I just can't understand

how the people here
could do this to you.

To another human being.

If I ain't want what I am,

my life might have no meaning
at all.

Do you expect every year
you live

to be better than the last?

I always hope it will be.

Well, up here,

every year
is harder than the last.

Being closer to the Lord
like we is,

he puts his will
on us mighty hard.

Floods, storms, frost crops.

He takes a lot of us folkses
up the hill.

Up here...

on the mountain.

The past,

that's the only solid place
to grip on to.

You can't fight the lords,
will you?

Now you can't be a part
of the folkses up here

unless you come to know that.

You leave from here.
Now if you'll ever see me again,

you let the folkses
see you turn from me,

you'll be closer to 'em.

Would you come to me
if you were sick?

Would you come to me
if you was dying?

Yes.
Well...

If you was to want me
to take your sins from you

then it wouldn't be the way
of things

for us to have any meetings
together.

But you--
You best take your leave now.

But when you-- When you get
to where you're going,

you look in the Bible book
at Romans 15:7.

Lord be on both your shoulders.

Ma'am...

it's a pleasure to me nicely
to have you to talk with.

"Wherefore receive you one another,

as Christ also received us
to the glory of God."

Wherefore receive ye one another,

as Christ also received us
to the glory of God.

Dearest Thom, for the last month and a half,

I haven't ventured beyond
the shadow of this house.

I have occupied my time

with the burdens of mountain life

trying with all that's in me

to understand what makes
these people so different.

I honestly don't know
how much more I can take.

Survival here is so hard.

I can see why the people

attribute everything
to God's will,

because they take the burden
upon themselves

with the impossible.

And that, my dearest,
is the root of my problem.

I have, however,
come to understand

that I must accept their ways
if they are to accept mine.

But then, you know me,

I have never been able to find
the secret of compromise.

Thom, if I stay,

I will need
medical supplies desperately.

I will include a list
of what I need,

so please try and find a way
to send them to me.

I hope and pray
all is well with you,

because I still love you
very, very much,

more than I ever realized.

And I'll be with you tonight
in my dreams.

That is if I can ever
get to sleep.

All my love forever, Meg.

Uh, just a minute.

Laurie Mae, hi.

You're just the person
I needed to see.

Oh, here's your shirt.

Well, thank you,
but you shouldn't be here.

It's all right.

My pa's getting warmed up
for his wedding.

Oh.
It's tomorrow.

He won't know I'm gone.

Besides, he was awful sorry
for what he done

and I have to come see you.

Are you all right?
Let me check you over.

Oh, ain't me,
it's Sophie Pride.

The one my pa's marrying to.
Uh-huh.

She's pained and I tell'd her
you could help.

Well, what's wrong with her?
Where is she?

Outside.
I'll go bring her in.

Okay.

This is Sophie.

She's ready to be wed now,

because she got the curse
yesterday,

but it's paining her.

It's not really a curse,
sweetheart.

It's just the farthest thing
from it.

You're just changing from a girl
to a woman, that's all.

And it happens to every girl.

I knows.

It doesn't really hurt now,
does it?

It's just...
I don't know, scary.

All right,
you come in here with me

and I'll show you exactly
what to do

and I'll tell you all about it,
then you won't have anything

to be afraid of, all right?
All right.

Once a month, a part of our body
that's able to have babies,

gets an egg all ready,

just in case we decided
with our husbands

that this is the time
that we wanna have one.

Now, if we're not married
or if we don't decide

at the exact time of the month

when the egg is ready,

then the egg and the blood
that was waiting

to give the baby life
has nothing to do,

so it just comes out.

It's not really our own blood

that we're losing anymore
either.

It's just kind of extra.

See?
Uh-huh.

Okay.

Sophie, aren't you a little
young to be getting married?

My sister was younger than me
when she wed.

I was getting scared.

I'd be a old maid before I got
to do my woman's duties.

So you wanna get married, then?
Sure.

Harley needs to have a wife

and Laurie Mae and Joshua
needs a ma and I love him.

Sophie wants you to come
to her wedding. Would you?

Oh, Sophie,
I'd love to, thank you,

but I don't wanna ruin
your wedding, honey.

But you wouldn't.

People will like you
if they know you.

They surely would.

Well, of course they would,
I mean, what's not to like.

I just, you know,

I make the people around here
a little nervous.

Couldn't you try real hard
not to?

I tell you what,
if I decide to come,

I will show up with bells on,
how's that?

Would you like some vegetables
too?

I ain't hungry and I don't think
you would be either.

Oh, really?

Well,
thanks for the advice.

Best day, Mrs. Pride.

Best day, Grandma Pride.

Laurie Mae, don't you look
pretty in that dress.

How you gonna like
having a Ma again?

Just fine.
Can I speak with Sophie?

You know you can't.

Unless you want your new Ma
to join your old one

before the wedding's
even commence.

Why child,
you ought to know better.

Sorry, ma'am.

You don't believe you're gonna
die talking with me, do you?

If you do,
I'll crawl right back out.

Then don't you talk, I will.

Soph,
I don't think she's coming.

Your moonshining days is over, Harley Moon.

Now you take this broom and sweep up this house.

And then cook me dinner.

Whatever you say, Sophie,

whatever you say.

You can put your eyes back into your head,

I ain't no ghost.

Shows you how much we needed your scientific medicine, huh?

How much Granny couldn't cure us, huh?

How we was all gonna die
unless we listen to you.

Well, Granny's got more cure
and power in her little finger

than you got in both your hands.

Giddy-up.

Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Oh, what a wonderful day
the Lord has given us

to bring two young people
in love together.

Before we begin
with the wedding,

what you want, look, it is here.

Granny.

Oh, oh, you look like sunshine.

It warms my heart
to see you hailing hardy.

Well, we're muchly obliged
to you, Granny.

We see death medicine lady
on the road

and give'd her
thunder and lightning

skewed down to a fine poison.

And if she don't go on along,

then I myself will push her
all the way down this mountain.

And she showed
steel in her spine though

and you got to give her that.

Was she coming here?

No, she went riding up the hill.

That's snakeroot.

Cuts through pain in the belly

like knife
cutting through bread.

You know,
ever since I was a little girl,

I wanted nothing else
but to cure people.

So I learned the way
and it's a good way.

But I guess maybe
it's not the only way.

Child,
come take a walk with me.

First I'd like
to apologize to you.

No need.
I have no right--

No need for words when you're
speaking from the heart.

Come on, child.

What you see
when you look around here?

Oh, I know you see the world's
largest pharmacy.

Pharmacy is where we keep
our medicine.

Oh.

That purple bark over there,

you mix that with dandelion root

and the sick liver
turns to healthy.

I don't know, I--

As much as I want to believe
all this,

I have a very difficult time
doing it.

A doctor come here
once before,

when I was closer in years
to my birthing than my dying.

And he upped and stuffed boxes
full of worm wood.

Now, I always use it
to bring on sleep.

But he said he made something
out of it

that they called it, um...

Absinthe.
Mm-hm, it's a sedative.

That make you sleep?

I'll never know
why he went to all that pain

to take one thing
out the other.

Child, does your chest feel
tight right here when you cough?

I'm fine, really.
I just--

I get a cough
when I'm not sleeping well.

Oh, wild yam.

I'm fine, really, honestly.

How many grandchildren
do you have?

Nary one.

I just never chose
to take a husband.

Although I-- I did have offers.

No, I-- I got my family.

I've been Granny Arrowroot
since my 29th year,

when my ma passed on.

And I took to healing folks
just like she did,

and her ma 'fore her.

You know, the folkses up here
got to be of one mind

so they'll all tie in together.

And it's a granny's lot in life
to be that mind.

It's a shame though,

I won't be passing it on
to a girl child.

Well, um...

we best turn back
or we'll miss the wedding.

Granny, um, I don't know
that it's a good idea for me

to go to the wedding.

You look like you're wearing
a wedding-going dress.

You go ahead.

I'll just stay back here,
all right?

It's a good place
to watch from.

Who is the husband
to be?

Harley Moon.

And who is the wife
to be?

Sophie Pride.

MAN:
And who are the children?

Laurie Mae and Joshua.

And will God
watch over them all?

Yes, he will.

Sophie Pride,

do you accept in the eyes
of God

this man Harley Moon
to be your husband,

and his children
to be your own?

Yes, I do.

Harley Moon, do you accept
in the eyes of God this woman

to be your wife?

I do.

Laurie Mae Moon,

do you accept in the eyes
of God this woman

to be your mother?

Yes, sir.

Joshua Moon,

do you accept in the eyes
of God this woman

to be your mother?

All right now, everybody stand out of my way.

One!

Two!

Three!

Four!

Come on, children.

Laurie Mae, come here.

Laurie Mae.

Laurie Mae,
you go to your Ma now.

You listen to what she say.

Yeah, thank you.
Good luck, Harley.

Bye. Congratulations.

Here's the gift.

Bye.
Bye-bye.

Congratulations.

MAN:
Bye-bye!

Thank you.

Goodbye.
Good luck.

Roy, stop twitching and lay still.

But it's my back
that's the problem, Granny.

So why are you sticking them
needles everywhere else,

but in my back?

Oh, stop running off the mouth,

tell me when the pain
goes away.

Oh, hold it.
It just stopped.

I swear, it just stopped.

I can't feel any aching no more at all.

Now, you drink this nice and slow,

and it'll help break up that cough.

There's absolutely no scientific way

for what you did to work.

Just drink it
before it cools down.

I suppose now I'll never cough
again for the rest of my life.

Child, I can see your eyes
right on the edge of opening.

Now, don't hold them closed
with your mouth.

I'm sorry.

Now the day's passing,

and I got to load
that old mule down

and hope she can carry
me to all the folkses

that can't come here.

May I go with you?

Suit yourself.

You check them all, Herm?
Yes, and they's all alive.

Herm, would you take this
into the house for me, please?

I'll pick it up
on my way back.

Come tell me
what you think this is.

Oh, I'd say
that's a sebaceous cyst.

Child,
you and them words.

Well, that's what it is.

Essey--
Sebaceous, sebaceous cyst.

No matter what they call it,
it's irritated.

How'd you get it out?
Granny?

Oh, hush.

This lady has been to school
for four whole years.

Now, she knows what she's doing
and if she don't, I do.

How'd you get it out?

Um, surgery is really
the only way.

No, not always.

Oh, no.
What are you gonna do now?

Now you just watch.

Granny.

Watch with your eyes,
not your mouth.

Here, hold that.

Now, it's gonna take
them maggots near a week

to eat all that infection
right out of there,

clean as a hound's tooth.

You don't actually
mean that--

Tell her what happened
last time, Walt.

I had it so bad, I couldn't
hear my own voice coming out.

Well, when Granny
pulled the maggots out,

I could hear a chick pecking
out of its egg a mile away.

You mean they actually eat
the infection then?

Nothing but.

I'm all right, it's okay,
let's go.

Little Becca live her all by herself.

Dipping for an old hound dog

ever since her folks passed over.

Nobody knows who the pappy is,

and Becca ain't telling.

But she will be birthing
a baby girl inside a week.

You can tell in advance
it's gonna be a girl?

You telling me with all them
school ways you can't?

Becca, calm Shabby,
you hear me?

Granny, she's in labor.

Becca.

Granny, oh, please.

Shabby.

Okay, that's a good dog.

Yeah, good now, dog.
Yeah, you go.

Granny.

That baby
is coming right now.

Take deep breaths.
Breathe in real deep, okay?

You have to let out
some of the tension.

Come on, take a real
deep breath.

She's fighting it.

I know,
I'm trying to get her relax.

Get some worm wood in my bag.
We aren't gonna need that.

Just get her
to breathe right.

Well, you best hurry
because she's starting to bleed.

Becca, Becca,
listen to me, okay?

I want you to breathe
every time I count.

I'm gonna count, okay?
Take a breath, one--

Come on, take a breath.

Two. Okay, come on.

That's it, good girl,
okay.

Breathe, take another one,
come on.

Ahh, it's paining.
Feeling something bad.

You can do it, come on,
ride through the pain.

You can ride through it.

Good girl, okay,
start it again.

Let's start the breathing,
come on, one--

Take a breath, come on.

Two, good girl, okay.
Take another one. Three.

She's out of our hands now.
What are you talking about?

I mean, that baby's
coming the wrong way down.

It's breach?

I mean, the both of them
are in God's hands now.

Where are you going?

Get something to make it easier
for her.

Save my baby, please.

Save my baby.
It's okay.

Your baby is gonna be fine
and so are you, Becca.

Just don't be frightened,
okay?

Don't be frightened.

Granny, would you forget
about that please,

and come help me
take care of her.

Child.
Yours isn't the only way either.

It is a breach.

I'm gonna have to do
a Caesarean section.

What's that?

It's a surgical technique--

Oh, damn,
I don't have my bag here.

You mean to tell me that you
can save her and the baby?

Your way?
Yes.

But I don't have the things
that I need.

Well,
just tell me what you need,

and we'll make do
with what we got.

There isn't enough time.

I need a scalpel,
surgical needle, some thread.

This is gonna hurt a lot.

So you might have
to hold her down.

There won't be no pain.

There will be pain,
just be ready.

What you waiting for,
child?

I've never done this before.

You're holding the knife,

but the good Lord's
holding your hand.

Granny, keep her cleaned off.

Okay.

I never thought
I'd see the womb of life

with my very own eyes.

Granny, wipe my face,
please.

Thank you.

There it is, there it is,
Granny.

She take the long way
into this life, but she's here.

I'm gonna lift her out now.

Better tie off.

Take her from me, Granny.
My hands are shaking.

No, they ain't.

They're as still as your heart
is strong.

But we best make her cry,
put the soul of life into her.

Child.

Child.
I'm okay.

Would you tie a cloth around
my nose and mouth, please?

Now, you best let me
finish doing this.

And I've been watching you.

Ain't all that different
than sewing a quilt.

Oh, Becca, I gotta check--

She's fine, she's fine.
She's resting, child.

The baby?

Oh, she's beautiful.

There's an old saying,

when a new life
comes into this world

with beauty in form
and face,

it's the mirror of the one
who carried her

from her birthing place.

That was a wonderful thing
you did, child.

I misjudged you greatly
and your ways.

A lot of your ways
I want you to learn me.

I want you to teach me too,
Granny.

Effie Webb told it
to be true.

That woman had more wisdom
in her dying breath

than you and I put together.

That's hot.

Oh, no.

No, no need to talk,
no more, no need.

Okay, I think I better check
on Becca.

No, I want you
to sit still.

I heard rubbing in your chest

and I want you
to take it easy.

Can that child be moved?

Yes, I think so.
As long as we're real careful.

Well, I think the best thing

is that I take us all
back to my place.

There's a wagon out back

and we can just hope
that the mule and the horse

will pull together.

Oh, we've already done that,
Granny.

How's this?
Spit in my hand. Come on.

Come on, spit in my hand.

Go on, spit in my hand, spit.
Okay, okay.

It's a color
of rusty metal.

What do you mean?
I need a plumber?

Don't be taking that
too lightly.

That means your lungs
are filling up

with your body's waters.

And the darker the spittle,
the worser it is.

Please, stop, enough.

I'll make you a poultice
for your chest.

All I need is some sulfur.
It's a miracle cure, Granny.

All you do is you inject it
directly into the bloodstream,

and that's it.

It's incredible.

You don't want the poultice?

Oh, no--
I mean, yes, yes.

Anything you make me I'm sure
is gonna be fine.

I'm fine.

I can't find
what you asked for, child.

Best you look for yourself.

I don't know where it is.
I can't find it.

Now best--
It's best you sit up.

I wanna put this poultice
around you, it'll help a lot.

Can you sit up?

Do you wanna hold my baby?

Will that make her feel better?

Well, I'm sure it would, Becca,
but not right now.

You go on back to your room.

Well, does she know
I was thanking her in the wagon?

Yes, yeah, yeah,
she knows.

I'm gonna name my baby
after her.

BECCA:
Will that cheer her up some?

Yes, yes, child.
That's real nice.

Now you go on back
to your room.

Can you lay down again?

It's gone.

No, no, no, please.

Don't-- Don't--
Don't break them. Innocent.

Pl-- Oh.

I need the sulfur, I need my sulfur.

Granny. Granny.
She's a-jabbering again.

Well, mix me a brew
of club moss and hickory.

I can see it. I can see it.
It's at the bottom of--

But that's okay.
It's okay, it's okay,

I can get it, I can get it,
I can get it.

I'll get it myself.

Oh, I'll get it myself,
I can get--

Child, you get yourself back
in that bed.

Granny, I have to go.
I have to get my sulfur.

It's in my other trunk.

It's down the mountain.
Granny, please.

Child, child, child, don't--
Don't do this.

Come down. Don't.
You got--

I got the medicine down
at the bottom of the hill--

You got to get back
into the bed.

You got to stay warm.
Now, come on, Granny help you.

Now come on.

Good, that's a good girl.
Come on, come on.

Now, just lean on me, child.

So we can get you back into bed.

How far down to Little Oak

did it fall over the side?

I'm gonna get your medicine
for you, child.

Now, I don't want you
to climb out of this bed.

You hear me clear?

Harley. Harley Moon.

Something I want you
to do for me.

LAURIE MAE:
You broke her medicine.

You should ought
to get her the other.

She gifted us at our wedding.
She gifted herself to us.

I'm scared she's gonna die,
Harley.

unless you--
Hold it.

Pa?

Please find it.

You stay quiet.

Keep your distance, you hear?

Leave her be,
Laurie Mae.

But she's trying to speak
to us.

It's the sickness.

It's making the words
come out of her mouth.

But she's sound asleep,
so best we don't.

Granny.

I hear you brung a young'un

kicking into the world
for Little Becca.

So I choose to bring you
the bestest clothes

in my store for you.

Well,
that's kind of you, Doug.

Who told you about the baby?

Bob Tarr said he passed you
on the road.

Besides, you can't

keep news from anybody
up here.

Well, let me give you some news
I hope you put up in the wind.

It weren't me that delivered
that baby.

It was that city doctor woman.

Now the baby and Becca
would have died

if it weren't for her.

Now she's a good woman
and she has good ways.

And right now,
she's laying in there

on the edge of dying herself.

Now if you wanna spread
some news,

you go tell all the folkses
to pray and pray hard.

If that child dies,
we're all to fault.

Now ya'll chew
on one of these.

Laurie Mae,
you go open the windows.

Sophie, you open the door, we
need clear air in this place.

Granny, could my baby
have one to chew on?

She get her protection
from your milk.

Now you chew on that real good,
you hear?

Now, now, now,
drink this, child, please.

Well, now let it go
down inside you.

Don't let her die, Granny.

Don't let her.

Granny will cure her up.

Please, Lord,
have her get cured.

She should not have to go yet.

Why don't you all pray
with Sophie?

The Gods are with you, child.

You got to know that.

Now just lay still please
and sleep.

And let Him move His healing
miracles within you.

Bless you, child.

Put yourself in His hands.

Laurie Mae,
how is your spelling?

I know letters.

Can you figure out
which one of these says sulfur?

Sulfur.

Sulfur.

I think this is it, Granny.
Will it stop the sickness?

I don't know.

There's only one way
you're ever gonna know.

That's to go ahead
and have her drink 'em.

She told me that it had
to get right into the blood.

Harley, go fetch me a reed.

Yes.
A real thin one.

No, don't-- Don't leave me.

I won't.
Don't leave me.

I won't, child.
I was just fixing--

No, no, no.
Don't cut me. Don't cut me.

Don't cut me, please.

I have to get your medicine
into your blood.

Please, please, huh?

I got to get your medicine
in your blood.

No, no, no.
You're gonna kill me.

Don't kill me, please.
Don't cut me. Please, please.

Harley, best you can hold
her down?

Yes, ma'am.

Uh, no, no, no.

All right, girl,
you settle down now.

No, what is--
Settle down.

Hold down her arm
and keep it steady.

Effie, Effie, please.

Effie,
don't let her do it again.

Please.
Hold still, girl.

Don't let her do it again.

Forgive me, child.

I don't know no other way
to do it.

She ain't dead, is she?

Best we readied ourselves
for what could happen.

Harley, could you go
and fetch the Sin Eater to come?

My baby's got her name
so she won't die really.

Granny.

Whatever this is
on my chest,

get it off, it stinks.

Is she all right?

Child, oh, child.

Come on.

It's clear. It's clear.

Can we go to her now?

Be easy with her.

Hi.
Hi.

We've been waiting for you.

Harley fetched your medicine
and Granny, she put it in.

There's folkses waiting
to see you.

They've been praying for you.

They know they've been wronging
you and they're purely sorry.

I'll let 'em in and let 'em
tell it to you theirselves.

Uh-huh.

You come on in now.

Put some elbow grease into it.

You can't put strength out when
you're trying to get it back in.

Oh, Granny,
I have to do something.

Let me hammer a nail.
Anything, please?

I'm just going mad.
Better mad than sick again.

Tell you what,
I'll make you a deal.

If you let me hammer a nail,
I will...

Will what?
I'm thinking.

Oh, your tea is boiling
all over in there. Look at--

Hi.
Hi, what you doing?

Come, look and see.
We paint all the old stuff.

It's pretty hard.

Laurie Mae, Sophie, you hold
that fool child right there.

Now I'm your granny doctor,
and best you do as I say.

Granny, that's my hair.
You--

Meg, Meg!

Oh, Meg, you have no idea
how good you feel.

Yes, I do. Yes, I do.

What are you doing here?

The medical supplies
you ordered.

I'm the only delivery boy
who desperately needed a job.

Mr. and Mrs. Slocumb,
I would like you to meet

my husband, Thom Laurel.

Pleased to meet you.
How do you do?

Hi, it's a real pleasure.
My pleasure too.

Hi.

This is Laurie Mae
and her mother, Sophie.

Hi.
Her what?

My Ma.

And she's an awful
spoiled child.

Thom Laurel,
this is Granny Arrowroot.

She owns the largest pharmacy
in these mountains.

Well, meeting you would be
a pleasure, I'm sure.

But I didn't wanna drop that
woman of yours on her bed

and sit on her
so she'd stay put and get well.

I like her already.
Yeah, well,

She sounds like a thunderstorm,
is really just a summer drizzle.

Come on,
I wanna show you the inside.

That is if it's all right
with my doctor.

I think I can trust you
with him.

She's also a very bad judge
of character.

You're a popular lady.
They've loved me from the start.

Couldn't you tell
by my letters?

It's not Boston Memorial,

but then that's Boston
Memorial's problem.

And now you've brought
the supplies

and I'm so glad you're here.

Your timing couldn't be
more perfect.

You know me.

You know, of all the people
I've met here you're...

you're the one
that made me understand.

I wish there was some way
I could thank you.

You already have.

How?

You didn't die.

I carved something for you.

It's supposed to look like you.

I thought you didn't
carve people.

I doesn't.

Though I'll never get
to heaven,

I know that the angels...

they got to look like you.

From an admirer?
Uh-huh.

Stay here with me, Thom.

Meg--
There's so much to do.

They need doctors here.

They need to be brought
at least part way

into the 20th century.

Not all the way
because there's too many

wonderful things
that they shouldn't lose.

Honey, med school
was just the beginning

compared to what there is
to learn here.

These mountains are full
of wonderful--

Meg, stop selling.

I can't stay here.
Why can't you?

It's a question of paths.

Ours have separated.

Well, they could just be
going in a circle.

That's not impossible, is it?

Anything's possible.

I still love you.
Don't stop.

Don't you stop loving me
because of what's happened.

I couldn't even conceive
of not loving you.

I always will.

Come on, come on.
They're nailing it up.

What?
Come on, you'll see.

Well, let's go.

Granny.
Child.

♪ In these hills
Your heart was born ♪

♪ And in these hills
Your heart was torn ♪

♪ So many days and dreams
Gone by ♪

♪ A time to heal ♪

♪ A time to try ♪

♪ Oh, mountain lady
Journey so long ♪

♪ You know they need you
And now you'll be longed ♪

♪ Day chases darkness ♪

♪ Life chases day ♪

♪ Follow your courage
And let time do the rest ♪

♪ Let time do the rest ♪