All language subtitles for Centennial 12 The Scream of Eagles Pt 2.eng

LIEUTENANT: Fire!

(CANNON FIRING)

(GASPS)

Fire!

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Full ahead!

(ALL WHOOPING)

We have no guns!
Stop!

We have no guns!

(CHANTING)

(GUNS FIRING)

(SOBBING)

(CHILDREN CRYING)

What are you doing
with them?

Captured prisoners, sir.

Nits grow into lice.

Kill them.

They're slipping away
to the right.

Colonel's
compliments, sir.

And why isn't
the right flank engaged yet?

Because the right flank
refuses to slaughter unarmed civilians.

Are you all right?

You look a little pale.

I'm trying not
to be sick, sir.

We should all
be sick this day.

We should all
be sick forever.

But somehow it's been
an easy thing to forget.

Except for the Indian.

Paul.

Morgan.

Mr. Vernor.
Hello.

Checking out
the cattlemen's heritage, are you?

Oh, more than that.
We've been in a real time machine.

All the way back
to the first dinosaur.

Well, you remember,
when you get up to where things

are really happening
around here, let me know.

Paul, can I have a couple
of minutes of your time

to talk some
20th century business?

All right, Morgan.

Lew, why don't you
go down to the corral

and pick us out
a couple of horses? All right.

You remember, now.

Paul, you and I have
never really gotten along too well,

but I need your help.
I need it badly.

With what?

Well, it looks like I've got
this election into the bag.

And if I win,
I'm going to need some first-rate brains to help me.

Now, don't interrupt me.

Brains aren't
my long suit.

But sensing
what's happening is.

Knowing what people
are looking for.

And how does that
involve me?

Directly.

You see,
the great problem for Colorado

in the next decade
is going to be to save the state.

I mean that.
To save the forests,

the trout, elk,

and especially things
like the rivers

and the air we breathe.

Sit down, Morgan.

You know,
for the first time in your life,

you're beginning
to make sense.

I learned from
men like you, Paul.

And I know
how you feel about politics.

I want you to accept
an appointment as my deputy,

effective the day
I take office.

Now, it's a real
public service position.

And it's an appointment.
No politics involved.

Morgan,
I certainly appreciate it.

A job like that,
my conscience wouldn't let me turn it down.

But I won't take the job
just to provide a facade for you.

You talk about ecology.
That's a popular word today.

That's the in thing to say
if you want to get elected.

But it's not just a word
to me. It's my whole life and my family.

I might not be
an easy man to live with.

I know that.

But I believe in
your strength, Paul.

As much as I do
in my own.

I think we could put up
with each other a couple, three years,

just to get the job off
on the right foot, huh?

Might be
a workable arrangement.

And you accept?

You got the buggy
before the horse, Morgan.

No.

No. I want you
to say yes now,

so I can make
an announcement this afternoon.

I don't think you wanna make
that announcement today.

Why not?

You know about
Floyd Calendar's trial.

What, for hunting eagles?

From a plane.

Well, Paul, every hunter
in the state's going to side with Floyd.

Not this one.

I'm hoping that doesn't mean
you're going to testify against him.

I sure as hell am.

Paul, uh,
that could be a sticky case.

Couldn't you...

Couldn't you duck it?

You know, Morgan,
before you can even get me appointed,

you're asking me
to draw back.

Well, it's just that...
It's just that we don't see eye to eye on things.

We never have.

Floyd Calendar's case
is the very heart of what we were just talking about.

Well, maybe I could

postpone the...
You postpone, and I won't accept.

You just said you'd accept.

I said, Morgan,
that the protection of this state

is always gonna irritate
people you want to placate, need to placate.

It'd be a dogfight between us
every inch of the way.

It doesn't have to be.

We both know where we stand.

Your job'll be protecting
all the good natural things

and mine will be
to make sure that industry gets a fair shake,

so there'll be jobs
and tax rolls.

You conserve the water.

I want every drop I can get
for new cities and factories.

It'll be hard, sure,

but it won't be half so hard
if you don't go getting mixed up

in that Calendar case.

Do you know who
one of my favorite Americans of all time is?

Warren Gamaliel Harding.

Because he came along
at a time when this country

still had a comfortable
margin of error.

And he proved just how bad
an elected official could be.

He's the benchmark
for every politician since.

On the day they take office,
they ought to think of President Harding

and say to themselves,

"I'll never allow myself
to be that bad."

So you see, Harding keeps
the ballgame honest,

and I judge him to be
one of the most useful Americans that ever lived.

And if I ever
get into politics, even by an appointment,

I'm not gonna turn out
to be the Colorado Harding.

I wanna tell you, Morgan,

I can't work with a man

who's beginning to make
noises like he might be just that himself.

Well, that's just
one more thing we don't agree on, Paul.

And I'm sorry.

For you,

for me,

but especially
for Colorado.

PAUL: He's a technician.
He can perform.

He can keep things
from getting tangled,

but in a crisis
he won't have any base to operate from.

VERNOR: Because he doesn't
believe in anything?

I don't want to be
misunderstood, Lew.

He's a reliable
businessman.

He did well in college
but he never...

But he never took
any classes that made him think.

Worked his way in
with the right people,

professors, coaches,
fraternity leaders,

but nobody ever knew
what he stood for.

He never crossed anybody,
he just kept climbing.

Yeah, well, I don't remember
you being at Boulder when we were there.

I live on a college campus.

The faces change
every semester,

but most of
the students don't.

Let me ask you something.
Sure, go ahead.

You believe this position
to be an important one? Very.

But you refuse to do
what the governor asked.

You'll just let Wendell
walk right in and take it.

Well, public office
is not something I want to chase after.

Let me put it another way.

If Lost Eagle had it
to do over again,

think he'd fight?

He did what?

He filed for the primary.

He's running against you.

That phony son of a...

All right.
When's Calendar's trial?

Next Wednesday.

Good. We're gonna
take Mr. Garrett out of the race

before he even
gets into it.

Make sure the press
covers his testimony

and get a hold
of Calendar's attorney.

I'm going to coach him
myself on a few questions

I want Mr. Garrett
to answer publicly.

Mr. Garrett.
Hey, Mr. Garrett, look over here.

Smile.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
The defendant, Floyd Calendar,

has been an acquaintance
of yours for how many years, then?

GARVEY: Oh, I'd say
maybe eight, ten years.

And what kind of work
was he doing then?

He was a guide.

What kind of guide?

Well, he put
hunting parties together.

To hunt what?

Prairie dogs.

Prairie dogs.

Are they edible?

GARVEY: No, you don't
eat them.

You just shoot prairie dogs
for the fun of it.

(ALL LAUGHING)

I see.

Mr. Garvey,
are you a pilot?

That's right.

And you fly a helicopter
out of Fort Collins?

Yes, sir.

When, in your opinion,
Mr. Garvey,

did Mr. Calendar
first direct his attention to eagles?

Oh, well,
we was flying one day, about five years ago, I guess,

and we see this
old baldy come out of this dead tree.

And we both watched him
flying for a while,

and then Floyd,
he turned to me and he said, "Hell, Hank,"

he said,
"With the right attention,

"a man could get on
that old eagle's tail

"and blast him right
out of the sky."

So for a week we made
dry runs, you know, seeing if we could spot an eagle

and get close to him.

And we found out that it
was downright easy.

Those eagles don't fly
near as fast as they show 'em in them cartoons.

(ALL LAUGHING)

When did the idea...

I mean, whose idea was it
to do this commercially?

Oh, I think that
kind of came natural.

Floyd and I,
we knew about hunters,

especially Floyd,
him being a guide and all.

And we knew how tough it was
for a hunter to bag an eagle.

I mean, a lot of good shots,
they'd try for years

without even
coming close to one, much less hitting one.

And that used to
bug 'em, you know.

Maybe on their walls
they'd have a big-horned rhino from Africa,

or a tiger from India,

but they didn't have
our national bird.

Well, when did
the commercial aspect begin?

Sir?
Your first customer.

When was that?

Well, uh...

We were making dry runs
this one day,

and I got real close
to a big bird

and old Floyd,
he really got excited.

And he said,
"Hell, a man don't even have to aim.

"If he can just point a gun
he can get an eagle this way."

And there was this dude
from Boston

and he had all kinds
of trophies in his trophy room except an eagle.

I mean he even had
a Kodiak bear.

And so he wanted an eagle
so bad he could taste it.

And so this one time
before we were taking off,

why, he said to Floyd,
he said, "Now, I don't think you can get an eagle this way,

"but if you can
get me onto one, I'll give you $500."

Then he turned to me
and he said,

"Of course,
there'd be something in it for you, too."

So boy, we flat-out natural
were gonna get that man an eagle.

So, did you?

Well, we cruised around
for a while, you know,

west of Fort Collins,
didn't scare up anything.

And then we just sort of,
kind of drifted down

over the Rocky National Park,

and we spotted a big,
beautiful bird.

Of course, this dude,
he wanted to shoot him right away, you know.

But I said, no, let's not
do that, not over the park, you know.

'Cause we're liable
to get into trouble

when we go down there
to pick him up.

So he didn't shoot?
Oh, no, sir. Not then.

So I swung the plane south
of that old boy

and we worked him up north,
out of the park.

When he was over open land,
then I moved in real close.

Now, the eagle
and the chopper, they,

they fly at about
the same speed,

so it was just like
the bird was standing still.

Or like you were
on a platform in the sky

standing right
beside him.

Yes, sir.

And that's where we made
our big mistake on that first try.

I got too close.

Hell, you could have
killed that eagle with a broom.

So what happened then?

Well, the dude fires.

Well, he practically
disintegrates his eagle.

Took us the best part
of an hour to pick up the bits and pieces.

So we take it in
to the taxidermist

and he takes one look
at that pile and he says,

"Well, boys," he says,
"How do you want this job made up?

"Duck or an eagle?

"I can play it either way."

Mr. Holmes,
as a state naturalist,

you and your associates
had been watching

Mr. Calendar
for some time, then?

Uh, yes, sir, we have.

The national publicity
on that eagle deal,

sort of scared him off
that line,

we haven't seen
the helicopter since then.

Have you had further
contact with him?

Yes, sir. We had
further contact

when he turned
his attention to bears.

To bears?

Yes, sir. You see,
there's about as good a market for bears

as there are for eagles.

Well, he devised him
this sure-fire plan

to help an eastern hunter
bag himself a bear.

And how was that?

Well, he'd just trap them.

Trap them?
Yes, sir.

He'd trap them,
put them in cages

and then he'd take
the cages and put them deep in the woods.

He'd take some sportsman
out to a cabin nearby.

And, well, he'd sneak out
about 5:00 in the morning

and he'd go turn
the bear loose.

5:15, they'd be
on the trail

and, well, by 5:30, you
got yourself a dead bear.

And this was for profit?

Boy, I'll say it was.
He charged $100 for the hunt

and $200 if the sportsman
bagged a bear.

He wasn't taking
any chances. There wasn't any doubt about that,

'cause he had starved
those poor animals,

and he knew the first thing
they'd do is stop to eat

when he set them loose.

Mr. Garrett,
would you tell us, please,

how long you've known
the defendant?

All my life.

I knew his father,
I knew his grandfather,

and his great-grandfather
and mine came north

from Texas
on the first cattle drive.

Tell us, please,
about your most recent contact with...

It all had to do
with the turkeys.

Turkeys?

About 10 years ago
I lured a family of wild turkeys

on the north edge
of my ranch,

and we fed them
and protected them,

and pretty soon
we had a big colony.

The wild turkey is
a very sensitive bird.

Almost extinct
in these parts,

and that's a crime in itself,
because that's our real national bird.

You kept a close watch
on these birds, then?

So did Floyd Calendar.

Well, how do you
know that?

Well, after they increased
in number, they began to decline.

Objection,
Your Honor.

Sustained.

Let me rephrase the question
to the witness, Your Honor.

Mr. Garrett,

did you have evidence

to show that Mr. Calendar

had taken an active interest
in the number of turkeys you had on your ranch?

DEFENSE ATTORNEY:
Objection.

Your Honor, I want it noted
that Mr. Garrett stated

that these were in fact
wild birds that he lured onto his land

and not birds
that he had purchased or bred or raised.

So noted.

Continue,
Mr. Garrett.

After we noticed
the number of birds declining,

and we couldn't find
a reason for it...

I mean,
there was no disease, no attacks by coyotes,

we began to worry,
until I got this letter

from a friend of mine
in Boston.

He enclosed a copy
of a form letter

he received
from Colorado.

Is this the letter?

That's the letter.

Exhibit F
for the prosecution, Your Honor.

Will the clerk please read
the contents of the letter to the court?

It's addressed
to Mr. Daniel Mahoney, 1212 Riverdale Drive,

Boston, Massachusetts.

"Dear, Mr. Mahoney,

"Your name has been
referred to me by a mutual friend

"as a man who enjoys
the challenge and excitement of big game hunting.

"Here in Colorado, we offer
two trophies in one trip

"that are
a magnificent addition to any sportsman's collection.

"I can guarantee you
what no other guide in America can guarantee.

"Come to the Rockies,
and I'll show you

"how to bag both
of our national birds,

"a baldheaded eagle
and a wild turkey."

It's signed, "Floyd Calendar,
Centennial, Colorado."

Mr. Garrett,

where did Mr. Calendar
get the turkeys that he guaranteed in that letter?

From my protected sanctuary.
Objection.

Your Honor, if Mr. Garrett
may be allowed to answer, I believe you'll be satisfied.

Go ahead, Mr. Garrett.

When I got the letter
from Dan Mahoney,

I staked one of my men
out on the preserve,

and sure enough,
after a while, here comes Floyd with a hunter

from Wisconsin
shooting my turkeys.

Objection.

The turkeys I tried
to protect on my own land.

Mr. Garrett, there's been
a lot of ugly rumors

circulating about
the incident in question.

Would you mind telling
the court just what you did

when you confronted
Mr. Calendar about the turkeys?

Yes, I was angry.

I was real angry.

And I caught up with him
at the Flor De Mexico...

Flor de Mexico,
what is that?

A restaurant.

A Mexican restaurant?

A cantina?

That's right.

Is that in Centennial
and is it owned by a

Senor Marquez?

Manolo Marquez.

His father
owned it before him.

Thank you.

You're on quite good terms
with the owner, aren't you?

And his sister.
Objection, Your Honor. Irrelevant.

Mr. Prescott,
I'm afraid I don't see the relevancy, either.

The relevancy is,
Your Honor,

that an incident occurred

involving my client
and Mr. Garrett.

Mr. Garrett chose
to pick a spot where he knew

he was under protection
of his closest friends.

The Mexican cantina
owned by Senorita Marquez and her brother.

Marquez.

You may answer
the question, Mr. Garrett.

The question was...

I know the question.

Miss Marquez and her brother
are close friends of mine.

And you do pay
regular visits there?

That's right.

Was it on one
of your regular visits

to this Mexican cantina
owned by your close friends

that you accosted
Mr. Calendar?

Your Honor,
I have to object.

It's all right.
I'll answer the question.

It was in the cantina.

And I did accost him.

Did you lay hands
on him physically? You bet I did.

What'd you say to him
at that time?

I think I said
something like...

We're not interested
in "something like," Mr. Garrett.

We wanna know exactly
what you said.

I said, "Calendar,
if you ever step foot

"on my turkey range again,
I'll kill you."

You threatened his life?
You bet I did.

I told him if I was there
when he came, I'd do it there.

I said if I missed him
when he was sneaking around,

I'd hunt him down
and drop him where he stood.

And we have witnesses
who will testify, Mr. Garrett,

that you also said
if he ever set foot

in the Mexican cantina
owned by your close friends,

you'd kill him
where he sat.

That's what I said.

And I think
he knew I meant it.

Since then we haven't
lost any turkeys.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Here's a shot
of the two of them coming up the steps together.

They're gonna print it
on page one.

Perfect. Perfect.

He writes off
half the hunters in the state

and a whole horde of Anglo
bigots at the same time.

You know something,
Paul was right.

He's not cut out
for politics.

(DOG BARKING)

Morning.

See the paper?
No.

Guilty?

Yeah. Guilty of operating
a zoo without a license.

What?

He kept the bears in cages
for periods of over 30 days.

I can't believe that.

For killing 413 bald eagles,

200 bears
and 81 of my turkeys,

they fined him $50.

How can they do that?
You had proof. The state had proof.

That's the trouble.
All we had was proof.

Calendar had tradition.

A man isn't guilty
of anything around here unless he's an Indian,

or a Chicano.

They actually acquitted him
of every major count.

And they put Flor and me
on the front page.

Just in case somebody
missed the point

that Calendar's lawyer
was trying to be so subtle about.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

I can't tell you why,
but whenever I have something to think out,

I think it out best
on the reservation.

Oh, Paul,
it's your Arapaho blood.

Maybe that's the most
important part of me.

You have Indian
heritage, too?

If you trace it back,
it's only five thirty-seconds Arapaho,

but I visit the family
out here two or three times a year.

I visit them ever since
I was a little kid.

I appreciate you
letting me come along.

You can't write
your story without it.

I'm not an Indian apologist,

but I guess if I were
20 years younger,

I'd be one of those
gun-toting activists.

Damn Shoshone.

What's the trouble now,
Aunt Augusta?

Government says
we can have a recreation hall.

Well, that's good,
isn't it?

Shoshone say it has
to be on their land.

I see,
you want it on your land.

We may have
to go to war.

You see, the Shoshone
and the Arapaho

have been enemies
as far back as anyone can remember.

And some people
don't want to forget.

She's not serious
about war?

Ask the agent.
He knows.

He sleeps in town.
That's true.

Paul, what does she mean?

She means, the Indian
Affairs agent sleeps in town

because he doesn't want to
spend his nights out here.

But I thought...

Everybody thinks
the Indian lives in peace

on the land
that they love.

For some, that's true.
I can't get her to live anywhere else.

It's also true that they
haven't lived in peace since President Arthur,

and all
the white man's wisdom moved the last of the Arapaho

from Colorado up here
on this reservation in Wyoming,

that already belonged
to the Shoshone.

Arthur?
That'd be 1880.

1883. There is enough
land here for two tribes,

but not when
they're mortal enemies.

They're still fighting?
Because they made General Custer head

of Indian Affairs.

Custer didn't
govern Indians, he fought them.

In 1876, General Custer
left his office

to go to the Little Big Horn.

And he said,

"Don't do anything
until I get back."

Yeah, and they haven't done
a damn thing since.

Now you take care
of yourself.

Paul,

did you hear what happened
to Sam Loper's son?

He died.

No.

Drowned

in a ditch.

A ditch two feet deep.

He's not the first, Paul,

and he won't be the last.

I see too many drunk.

Too many dying

or killing someone
they don't even know

because they're driving
on the wrong side of the road

and they don't know
that either.

Or like my boy,

they just stumble
in a ditch and drown.

I'm sorry, Sam.

I am, too, Paul.

And what good is that?

To be sorry.

To wake up sorry.

To go to bed sorry.

To live each day sorry.

To die sorry.

The boy left a wife
and three children.

She's a heavy drinker.
Hasn't been sober in days.

Where are the children?

They're with Sam's daughter.

That's one thing
that hasn't changed.

The Indian has
a strong sense of family. They look after their own.

But, damn it,
there's no reason for life to be wasted like that.

Paul, what can we do?

Go to the mission
and raise hell,

and watch it happen
all over again.

What is it, Paul?
What causes the pattern?

It's what Aunt Augusta said.

The men who sleep in town.

PAUL: The awful problem
is that no girls in America,

and I mean none,
are better brought up than these Indian girls.

They get traditional
teaching at home,

they study here
at the mission.

They're clean, devout,
filled with the excitement of life,

and then they marry.

Now, who do they marry?

They marry the tall,
good-looking young men on the reservation.

And what happens
to these young men

who play basketball
so well when they're 19?

Some find a place
for themselves.

Well, more than
ever before, actually.

It's over 30%
on this reservation go to college now.

But too many of them drift.

Lose interest
because they feel no one's interested in them.

They feel they have
no future, no hope.

So they start to drink.

After the first baby,
the husband starts beating his wife.

Actually, the only contact
she can have with him,

is to join him drinking.

Look at it.

What in the hell
can a man say?

Think about the way
they were once.

Proud and strong.

They ruled this land.

It was theirs in a way
it's never been ours.

The Indian never intended
to mold himself into white man's ways.

Why should he?

His ways made sense
for centuries.

So our great plans
of fitting him into white society

were doomed
from the start.

He formed an indigestible
mass in the belly of progress.

And he had to
be regurgitated.

Like Jonah.

He came out about
as well as he came in.

It was inevitable
that his land would be taken away from him.

The white man
was in motion.

The Indian wasn't.

The whole thrust
of our national life

puts us in conflict
with his simple needs.

(WHOOPING)

And even though
we asked him to gather his nations together

to come and meet
with us in peace,

to come with understanding
hearts and minds,

even though they believed
we wanted peace as much as they did,

and came to celebrate
the great treaty

that would last for as long
as the eagle flies

and the waters flow,

the land treaties we offered
with the best of intentions couldn't last.

At the very moment of signing,
the wisest of men

knew the papers
weren't worth a damn.

Before the ink was dry,
the Indian was dispossessed.

No.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Full ahead!

We have no guns!
Stop!

(CHANTING)

(CHILDREN CRYING)

What are you doing
with them?

Captured prisoners, sir.

Nits grow into lice!

Kill them.

(HORN HONKING)

I'm sorry.

Lew,

I may not know
what I think about Watergate or Wendell,

but I know what I think
about the American Indian.

And I suppose
it's a smaller, less important problem

than equality
for the black people,

but a lot of the world
has had to deal with slavery and its consequences,

and the American Indian
is this nation's unique moral headache.

You're a history teacher,
Lew.

Can you think
of anything in the world

that parallels our treatment
of the American Indian?

The English killed off
the Tasmanians,

the Australians
kept the aborigine debased,

Brazil was the same.

Only in America
did we show total confusion.

One day
we treated the Indians like sovereign nations.

The next day we treated them
like uneducated,

uncivilized savages
that had to be exterminated.

Our policy today
is still confused,

but I'm not.

What about the land?

I'll give it to them.

Divide it up equally.

The ones that still
want to live in the communes,

let them, encourage it
like they did with the Pueblos in New Mexico.

And the others?

Well, the others
are gonna have to jump in with both feet. Sink or swim.

Like my family had to.
And like yours had to.

A lot could be lost.

The best will survive.

In legend.

In remembered ways
of doing things.

In how they treated the land.

Just look at the land.

The best part of America.
No houses,

only the road we came in on.
No fences, no boundaries,

just the wall we've built
around those people.

You know,
you can preserve natural resources,

you can't preserve
human beings.

Thank God
they're not whooping cranes to be kept alive

until the last one's dead.

And they are not freaks
of nature to be kept away from the rest of us.

They're human beings.

Human beings.

(WIND WHISTLING)

You know, for a man
who doesn't want to be a politician,

that was quite
a speech.

I'm just trying
to be myself.

My own man.

Baby, I don't think
anyone's ever had any doubt about that.

I have.

What in the hell
am I doing living alone in that castle

when I should be
living with you?

I'm a respectable widower
of eight years.

My kids are grown and gone.

You ever been
to a Mexican wedding, Lew?

No.

The lady I love's Mexican.

Paul, no. Not now.
Not before... Flor.

Flor,

whatever Wendell thinks
of Chicanos,

or whatever he thinks
Colorado thinks of Chicanos,

doesn't mean buffalo
chips to me.

I know who you are
and I know who I am.

And I know
where you belong.

(BAND PLAYING MARIACHI MUSIC)

(PEOPLE CLAPPING)

(ALL CHEERING)

(SINGING IN SPANISH)

Mr. Garrett?

What is it?
What's happening? It's a serenade, ma'am.

I know, but what for?

For the lady I'm gonna marry.

Is that an announcement,
Paul?

That's a Mexican custom,
Morgan.

I make the serenade,

the lady makes
the announcement.

If she's willing.

Si. Como no?

(ALL CLAPPING)

I want a picture of the bride,
I want a picture of the groom,

I want a picture
of the interior of the restaurant,

I want a picture
of all of them together, pronto.

I've always admired
the romantic side of Paul's nature.

But politically,
he could be sealing his own grave.

That could be true, I guess.

But then he wouldn't be
the only one around here

sealing graves lately,
would he?

PAUL:
Now you boys know how I feel about skiing.

The mountains are
a good place for recreation.

A good place to get
away from pressures.

A resort like this that
doesn't scar the landscape is a good thing.

It brings the rewards
of nature to more people.

You wanna build
some runs along the highway, okay.

But start commercializing
the back valleys, I'll fight you.

That's if I'm elected.

PAUL: The Mile High City
just might not be high enough anymore.

The University of Boulder
has copies of the letters

that Elly Zendt wrote
when she came west

with Levi in 1845.

I remember reading
where she said

that when they were
105 miles away,

she could see
the Rockies so clearly

that they could pick out
the valleys.

Now look at them.

That just might be
the saddest sight in America.

We're 10 miles away
and you can't see anything.

Just that lens of filth.

Could be that one day
when you wanna see

the unspoiled grandeur
of Colorado,

you'll have to go
to Wyoming.

FINCH:
This is an analog.

It shows you the whole
Platte system as it is today.

But it can also show you
what could happen five years from now

if we continue to increase
the demand for water.

Now, for our purposes we'll
consider the precipitation remains constant.

You see, that first red light
represents increased demand

by communities
of new people.

Have a look at
the oscilloscope now.

That shadow line
was the even flow of the river.

And you can see
it drops dramatically.

Proving what we predicted.

Now, if you'll
look downstream,

real shortages
down there,

but we still
have a river.

What happens if you increase
the demand for industry, too?

It means that agriculture
is gonna be hurting like hell.

And if we crank in
five years of drought like we've just been through...

The Platte stops flowing.

Maybe forever.

Has Wendell seen this?

Oh, yes.

And given us lip service.

But you know
as well as I do, Paul.

He wants to bring
new industry into the state.

Do we have options?
A few.

But they have to be
explained to people in hard-nosed terms.

Like, if we keep
stealing water away from our farms,

onions are gonna
have to cost $10 apiece.

PAUL ON RADIO: I thought
the job was making sure we had good air to breathe.

Now it includes making sure
there's water to drink.

After we meet
with the soil experts,

we'll probably find
out the main thing

is making sure
we have earth to till.

This nation is running out
of everything.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

We gotta get back
to a sense of res...

Oh, Sid, come in.

I bring thee good tidings
of great joy.

They like the material
so far? They love it.

Well, we can thank
Paul Garrett for giving us the feeling

of what the westerner
is doing today.

If you really want
to say thanks to Paul, I have some other news, too.

The lab?

How does the year
1889 grab you?

They can be that specific?
Mmm-hmm. So can we.

That was the exact year
that Soren Sorenson

disappeared from
the face of this earth.

Or got himself buried
by the Wendells.

Then it's all true.

And a very timely
press release, I thought.

Well, I don't know.

W-What do you mean
you don't know?

Paul Garrett's
the kind of fellow that likes to make decisions

that affect his life,

and I'd say this is a choice
that belongs to him.

Paul?

Company.

Hello, Paul.

Morgan.

Well, I'll leave
you two alone. Excuse me.

Mr. Wendell,
would you like some coffee?

No, thank you.
Paul?

No, thanks, Flor.

What can I do
for you, Morgan?

Well, I heard what
Calendar's attorney did to you

at the trial,

and a couple of the boys
that work for me

told me something
that I just don't believe.

What's that?

I chewed their tails out
pretty good when they told me,

I can promise you that.
What for?

Well, you know how
young people are in politics sometimes.

It was just a couple
of kids, they went to Calendar's attorney

and told him that you
were going with Flor.

They knew that
he'd jump at the chance, of course,

to discredit you
with the people that were following Calendar.

The damn little fools,

they thought they were
going to be of help to me, too.

Playing all the bigots
in the state.

It's gonna cancel out
votes for you.

They even hired
those photographers

and helped push the shots
of you and Flor

to a couple of the papers.

Paul, I want you
to know something,

I'm really embarrassed
about this.

I called the papers,
I told them what happened,

I told them
what I thought of them for printing the pictures.

And I sent those two little
rattlesnakes packing.

Well, I appreciate it, Morgan.

But it wasn't necessary.

Meaning that you figured
it was something out...

Meaning it wasn't necessary.

The pictures of our
wedding announcement appeared in the paper

a little after that.

They didn't need any pushing.
So you're not sore, then?

I'd only be sore
if you put them up to it.

Well, I just wanted
to make sure that you knew what happened.

You see, I got wind
that you were planning a little reprisal.

Reprisal?

Through that fellow Vernor.

You lost me.

You know,
for a fellow

who doesn't have any place
for politics in his life,

I get the feeling that
you're learning pretty fast.

All right,
point-blank then, Paul.

Telling the history
to the world of that old beaver cave

is gonna be a source
of great embarrassment to my whole family.

Not to me personally,

but to Emma and the kids.

Maybe even their kids.

I know how much that rumor
used to hurt me when I was growing up.

But for them to read proof
that it really happened,

and for their
friends to read it in a national magazine...

Well, I'm asking you
to not let that happen to them.

Let's have a drink.

No.

I'd like you
to give me your word that you won't let Vernor

print anything about it.

I see.
I know it's not going to come out

till after the election,

but I don't think that
ancient history like that

has any more place
in influencing people's minds

about issues than that
kind of racial prejudice

that my boys were trying
to dump off on you and Flor.

Will you give me your word,
Paul?

You should know, Morgan,
I wouldn't do anything to hurt you or your family.

I do.

But I can only trust
a man I know.

And I don't know Vernor.

And I'll tell you
something else, and I mean it.

I would rather withdraw
from this race right now

than worry
for a minute about him printing something

that could destroy
the reputation that my family built developing this area.

Withdraw?

Yes, sir.

I don't want that, Morgan.

Your word, then?

You have it.

Withdraw?

Yeah, he said, he'd pull out
if I approved something

that Lew might want
to use in your article.

That's wild.

What's wild?

That he is so scared.
Scared of what?

A skeleton.
A skeleton?

It might not go down
as as big a find as diplodocus,

but it does look like
it's changing the course of history in Colorado.

Throw in the towel, huh?
No, no, no.

But you just said...
He offered to.

And you're not
gonna let him?

No, to tell you the truth,
I didn't know what in the hell he was talking about.

I still don't.
I'm not sure what you two are talking about.

It's a bigger find
than diplodocus, skeletons...

Oh, are you trying
to tell me that you found some bones

and Morgan believes...

You didn't find
the body of the man

that his grandparents
supposedly murdered?

He did, and I saw him.

I didn't know why
he was so terrified.

Sid told me the story.

Lew found part of it.

I took it to New York,
and I had it analyzed.

It's human,
it's close to a century old.

And the unsolved murder
was 1889.

You walk around
with that tape recorder on all the time.

You must have known
about this. Why didn't you tell me?

I have to work
from facts.

Sid just verified it,
and we were going to tell you tomorrow.

I'll be damned.

What?

All this time Morgan's
been trying to manipulate me

by telling me that the past
has no relationship to the present,

but what the hell are we
if we're not the product of the past?

And what kind of future
are we going to have

if we don't realize
we're creating it right now?

That's what this campaign
is all about, isn't it?

You know, there've been
a couple of times in the last week or two

when I felt like kicking
your can back to Georgia

because you got me
involved in this race.

Now, I'm damned
glad to be in it.

I don't even know
if I'm the best man

but I know the state
of Colorado can not survive

many more people
like the Wendells.

MAN ON TV: Today we are
going to hear the views of two candidates

for a unique
and innovative office,

an office which is
going to seek ways

of dealing with
an age-old problem.

Now,
that problem is survival.

The office is known as
the Commissioner of Resources and Priorities.

The candidates
are two men from the same part of the state,

Mr. Morgan Wendell
and Mr. Paul Garrett.

Mr. Wendell,
your involvement in politics to date

has been that of support
for various interest groups

attempting to lure
industry to Colorado.

Do you feel
you can satisfactorily

walk the tightrope
between the industrialists and the conservationists?

Well, Mr. Kinsman,
I was hoping someone would open up with that one.

I am dedicated
to growth for Colorado.

But as a member of a family
that pioneered land development in this state,

I am very aware
of the risks involved without careful controls

and proper planning.

I've been working
for some time with the leaders of industry

to create
a responsible program

that makes careful
and constructive use

of the vast open space

and the untapped
natural resources

that we have here
at our disposal.

Mr. Garrett,
you were a last-second entry into this contest.

Would you tell us
why it took you so long to announce your candidacy?

I guess I felt that people
deserved a choice.

Well, it wouldn't seem
your views are that different.

You're both
conservative businessmen from the same community,

and I understand
you grew up together,

went through school together,
and even graduated in the same class

at the University of Colorado.

I think you'll find
that Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

went to school
together, too.

The differences
between you are that great, then?

I'd say they were basic.

Could you define them
more specifically?

Well, Morgan has always
been more interested in the future.

And I have
had more contact with the past, I guess.

Well, we are headed
toward the future, Mr. Garrett.

And we're living
in what used to be the future right now.

I think we ought
to compare that with the past

before we go on racing
straight ahead like we are.

Mr. Wendell,
it seems there's an issue

right in the community
both of you gentlemen were born and raised in,

the town of Centennial,

that gets to the core
of the kind of developmental issues you'll be facing.

Central Beet?

Yes. Could you
give us your comments, please?

Well, Central Beet
has dominated life in Colorado

since I was a little boy.

As late as 1936
it dictated to banks

and school boards
and sheriff's offices.

For thousands of farmers
and small-town business,

Central Beet
has been Colorado.

But the whole point
of this new office is that times are changing.

The sugar beet industry
isn't doing that well anymore,

so it isn't that important
to us anymore.

But the plant in Centennial
is still pumping out

the kind of industrial waste
that pollutes our air,

and I think
that has to be stopped.

Mr. Garrett?

The beet industry
isn't doing well

because so many people
use the land for other purposes.

The farmer can't afford
to reserve it for beets.

So he sells
to land developers,

and they build little towns
for the people back east.

And that drives up the price
and leaves the farmer no alternative.

But he won't be the loser,
that's the whole point.

He'll make money
from the land

and Central Beet
will make a profit, too,

from the same kind
of development you just mentioned.

Ninety-seven little
Colonial houses all in a row, huh?

Well, they've been building
those a lot longer than ranch houses, Paul.

What about
the feedlots, Morgan?

They depend
on the sugar beet pulp and the molasses.

If you close Central Beet,
people like Harvey Brumbaugh

are gonna have to go
somewhere else to afford the cost of shipping.

It's better than
a whole community

having to continue absorbing
all that air pollution from the plant.

How about
the cattle industry?

They depend
on the feedlots.

Ah, there's the rub,
isn't it?

The cattle industry.

Morgan, I'm not
the only cattleman in the state of Colorado.

No, that's true.

Only its most
eloquent spokesman.

Thank you for that.

The simple fact is,
and it's gonna be a tough one

for men like yourself,
Paul, to handle.

A whole pattern
of life is vanishing.

The time is at hand

when the cattle industry
may be forced to quit Colorado.

Quit?
For land development?

No. For people who
want to live where we do.

And why shouldn't they?
Why shouldn't they be allowed to come out here

the way my ancestors did,
and yours, too.

Why shouldn't they have
the same kind of freedom that we had?

Yes, and wealth, too.

That the Wendells
and the Garretts have known?

Colorado needs cattle,
Morgan.

Well, we won't ever
be without cattle.

Just cattle ranches.

Look, the feedlot
concept proved that.

You herd them into lots,
stuff them with feed,

send them off to market.

Not much romance to it,
but it gets the job done.

And that's your idea
of the future, huh?

Gonna raise cows
like they raise those new-style chickens?

They never touch the earth.

In sanitized pens
from birth to death.

We're gonna have cowboys
with college degrees and little white aprons.

We're gonna ship
the manure out in little desiccated pellets.

Well, I know it sounds
a little like Buck Rogers, Paul.

But I believe
the time is coming

when we won't be able
to afford cows in Colorado.

Our land is too valuable
a commodity to the people.

We've got to look elsewhere
for cheaper land.

For now,
Wyoming and Montana.

It could be a state
like Indiana. It's close to a feed supply.

On the other hand,
I was reading some reports the other day

about how you can feed
cottonseed cakes to Herefords.

Maybe the entire operation
will be moved to Alabama or Georgia.

That's not as far-fetched
as it sounds.

But I sure as hell
don't wanna see it happen.

And I'm gonna fight
to see that it doesn't happen.

You can't win, Paul.

No, you can't win, Morgan.
We can't let you win.

Everything has its limits,
even land development.

What's it gonna profit
this state if we overpopulate it

to such an extent
that we strip it of all its natural resources?

The earth isn't something
that you keep taking from,

without giving
something back.

The earth is something
you protect every day of the year.

A river is something
you defend every inch of its course.

The man that tried to save
that river are all gone now, and look at it.

God, it's a public sewer.

Why? Because men
like you and I

haven't done a damn thing
in the last 20 years

except sit around
getting fatter and richer, watching land development.

That's our disgrace, Morgan.

The Wendells
and the Garretts.

We have to change all that.

Got to look to the past
and get back to some basics,

if we're gonna have any
future that's worth having.

ALL: Yeah.

NEWSCASTER: Strong words
from a strong man,

spoken on a public service
program last week.

But today is the day
that the strength of each of the candidates

is being tested.

Janice Welch now
has some early results. Jan?

Yes, Paul.
I have the early tally here from the Denver area

and as you can see,
Morgan Wendell is running ahead of Paul Garrett

at a little better
than two-to-one.

The Fort Collins area
is beginning to report too,

and Wendell is opening
with a strong lead in those precincts.

It's still far
too early for...

Where's Paul?
He said he'd be here.

...Mr. Wendell's
progressive platform concerning land development.

Give me another ditch, Randy.

I think you've had
enough, Paul.

Bar bourbon
and Platte water,

what in the hell
can be wrong with that, huh?

Come on, give me
another one. Pour it. Come on.

I've dug a deep enough
ditch for myself, didn't I?

Deep enough for
the whole damned state.

Did you know
Sam Loper's kid drowned in a ditch?

Just a two-foot ditch.

Walking along,
fell down and drowned.

This is your last one, okay?

In a damn two-foot ditch.

(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)

(HORN BLOWING)

Over there.

(BELL CLANGING)

I think that's him.
Yeah, I believe it is.

(DOG BARKING)

Paul?

Yeah.

You all right?

(CHUCKLES)

What are you doing?

(SLURRING) Just

spending some time alone.

It is the American condition,
haven't you heard?

Nathan Hale.
The Alamo

and the Pony Express.

Our heroes.
Our symbols.

Paul...
Pasquinel. McKeag.

Mercy. Zendt.

Seccombe and Brumbaugh,

Lloyd and Garrett.

All loners.

Calendar!

What the hell, Cisco,
you know what I'm talking about.

I hear you.

And we created

Morgan Wendell.

We created
all the ambitious

resolute

men in this world.

(TRAIN WHISTLE IN DISTANCE)

Listen to that.

My God, that's lonely.

That's lonely.

But that's us.
That's America.

The loneliest people
on the face of the earth.

Even the Eskimo
banded together, right, Professor?

But not us!

We have to have
the log cabin

and sod hut
and the line shack.

And a castle

in the middle of nowhere.

Any man or any woman

who couldn't make it
on his own was a person to be pitied.

So we had to be ingenious,

inventive.

Had to give up

the old patterns
of doing things

to accept the new way.

So, I guess it's time

for the Morgan Wendells
to take over

finally out here, too.

But what a painful

price we had to pay

to wind up like...

Like that.

What a painful

(SHUDDERING)

price

in loneliness.

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)

So, it's still Morgan Wendell
running ahead of Paul Garrett

with about 22%
of the vote tabulated at this point.

The gap has
narrowed considerably. But Wendell...

Paul.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Hot and black, Manolo.

Cisco,

I said some sharp things
about your uncle.

You know that was
just between him and me.

Well, he's a mean one,
I'm sure whatever you said was true.

The outlying areas
are beginning to report now.

But it's too early
to call it, with just 7% of that vote in.

Hey, I'm gonna
turn that thing off.

(ALL GROANING)

Showtime, ladies
and gentlemen.

(ALL CHEERING)

We tried, amigos.

The vote's still
coming in, Paul.

The vote would be
in good shape if I hadn't opened my big mouth.

Any time speaking
the truth is out of style,

we're all in
a lot of trouble.

Hey, why isn't
the box on?

MANOLO: We don't
want it on right now. I do.

Nate.
I came in to drink with a winner.

And I gotta know
when I can start buying for everybody in the place.

We're hearing
from the people, Paul.

The ones who believe in you.

The ones who heard you.
The ones who know what we've got.

And they want you
to help save what we've got before it's too late.

(ALL CHEERING)

This was a county
Wendell had counted on carrying, however.

And, at the moment,
it doesn't look like he's going to.

Wendell appears
to be in trouble in Dawson County, too.

Trailing there
on a three-to-one basis.

Laramie County is voting
on a 50-50 basis so far,

showing no clear-cut
favorite at all.

Let's have another look
at the debate.

It seems to have given
Garrett this unsuspected groundswell of support.

What about the feedlots,
Morgan?

They depend
on the sugar beet pulp and the molasses.

You close Central Beet,

people like Harvey Brumbaugh
are gonna have to go somewhere else

to afford the cost
of shipping.

That's better than
a whole community

having to continue absorbing
all that air pollution from the plant.

PAUL: How about
the cattle industry?

What happened?

How can people
vote against progress?

MORGAN:
Don't they understand that I can make the land

serve them
at a higher capacity

and a greater profit?

What's the matter
with them?

I don't understand.

I do not understand.

A whole pattern
of life is vanishing.

Well, there's nothing
quite like a good argument, is there?

Unless, of course,
it has the answer to peace.

I don't know how
this is gonna end up,

but I know how it's been
for some friends of mine

who had to choose
how they wanted to live

and wound up making
a choice different from mine.

However the election
turns out,

I think this song
has a lot to say about

how more than just
a few of us feel.

I guess he'd rather

be in Colorado

He'd rather spend
his time out where

The sky looks like a pearl

After the rain

PAUL ON TV:
Live in sanitized pens from birth to death.

We're gonna have cowboys
with college degrees and little white aprons.

We'll ship the manure out
in little desiccated pellets.

MORGAN: Well, I know
it sounds a little like Buck Rogers, Paul.

But I believe
the time is coming

when we won't be able
to afford cows in Colorado.

Our land is too valuable
a commodity to the people.

We've got to look
elsewhere for cheaper land.

For now,
Wyoming and Montana.

It could be a state
like Indiana...

He'd rather play
his banjo

in the morning

When the moon
is scarcely gone

In the dawn,
the subway's coming

PAUL: I sure as hell
don't wanna see it happen.

I'm gonna fight to see
that it doesn't happen.

MORGAN:
You can't win, Paul.

No, you can't win, Morgan.
We can't let you win.

Boulder Canyon

I guess he'd rather be

In Colorado

I guess he'd rather be

in Colorado

I guess he'd rather work

out where
the only thing you earn

Is what you spend

In the end,
up in his office

In the end,
a quiet cough

Is all he has to show

He lives
in New York City

PAUL: The earth isn't
something you take from

without ever thinking
about giving back.

The earth is something
you protect every day of the year.

A river is something
you defend every inch of its course.

We have to look to the past

and get back
to some basic principles

if there's gonna be
any future worth having.

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