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Dirty shame, turning a man off like a lamp.

Wait out here if you want to, Beau.

Frank?

I'll be with you in a minute.

It's getting so a man can't even finish a meal...

Well, if it isn't Jim Hardie.

- How are you? - Oh, say, it's good to see you.

Boy, it's been a long time.

Been too long. I'd like to have you meet Beau McCloud.

This is Frank Dane.

Beau, glad to make your acquaintance.

Nice to know you, sir.

Hm? Oh, here.

You two just got to come in and set a spell.

Here, Jim boy, here.

Make yourself comfortable right here, hm?

Beau, you want to come in here?

No, thanks.

Jim.

You know, Beau,

there was a time here when Jim Hardie

was old Frank Dane's new boy.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, practically took him right out of the cradle.

Do you know, he never was a greener.

Not that boy. No, sir.

He was sort of born with a feeling for a horse and a gun.

Yeah, boy, you remember them early days, Jim boy?

- Hm? - Yes, I do.

And look at you now. Look at you.

Pride of the line.

You know, it makes me mighty proud too.

Why don't you sit down, Frank. We'll talk a little business.

Oh, no. Now, now, Jim boy, business can wait.

We got some...

Say, you know, I got a whole kettle

of this fatback and beans out there, and I...

I'd just be mighty proud if you two would have

a little supper with me.

- Frank? - Yeah, come on in, Will.

I finished with those crates out there.

Oh, did you? Good, good.

Jim, this is Will Norris. He helps me around here.

- Will, this is Jim Hardie. - How do you do?

Pleased to meet you. And this is Beau McCloud.

Hi.

I didn't know you had company here.

I don't like to butt in.

I'll be back to give you a hand later on.

All right, all right, fine, Will.

So, Jim boy,

you had to come yourself, huh?

Would you rather have heard it from somebody else, Frank?

No.

Do you know something? When...

when you put an old horse like me out to pasture, he dies.

He just dries up from inside.

Well, I...

I've got some good news for you, though.

Company wants to give you 40 acres,

and give you half of your pay

for all of the loyal service you've given to the company.

You can take that and live like a king.

Jim, I know I've got a little sloppy

and I sort of let things slide now and then, but...

If I don't work for the company, I...

I don't know what I'm going to do. I...

I just don't know anything else.

Well, you...

You think about the 40 acres and the half pay.

I'll come back in the morning, we can talk more about it then.

Good day, sir.

Think it's going to sound any better in the morning?

What are you doing here?

I said, what are you...

Oh, Will!

Will!

It was so terrible waiting,

wondering if what we were doing was right.

Right or wrong, it's been done.

You want to go back, just say so now.

No. I couldn't go back even if I wanted to.

That you, Buck?

Kate.

Kate?

Kate?

Kate?

Where are you, Kate?

Answer me!

Buck, Arly, get out here!

I'll settle with you, little lass,

if it takes my dying day!

You hear?

My dying day!

Or yours!

Will, I had no right to bring this on you.

I got...

Get out here!

Kate?

Answer me!

What is it, Pa? What's all the fuss?

Over there. Fire.

- Pa... - Fire, I said!

Pa, stop it! Pa!

Pa, it no use. They got the jump.

They got the whole night on us.

Load it.

What's all that shooting?

It was Kate.

Where you been?

Always out gallivanting the countryside

or hopscotching the fences when I need you.

What was it this time?

I was down at the Conners'. I was busy.

Well, she finally got the best of you.

The mighty Caleb Timmons.

The almighty keeper of the hill

finally bows down before a woman.

She go alone?

I knew it. Will Norris, I knew it.

Nobody saw him!

It didn't have to be Will. It didn't have to be anybody.

Oh, don't fool yourself, boy.

She wouldn't go alone. Not this time.

Not in the dead of night.

Buck, you go easy.

You got no call goading him like that.

Why? Now everyone's going to know we already knew.

Who's the best man? Caleb Timmons or Will Norris?

You dare talk to me like that.

Where would you be without me?

Everything you got, everything you ever will have,

belongs to me, and don't you ever forget it.

Get your things. Both of you.

We're going hunting.

Norris is our man, all right.

He disappeared last night and hasn't been seen since.

How much did they get?

About $5,000, close as I can figure.

Frank never kept any books.

Liked to keep everything in his head.

So that way, it was much harder to fire him

and try to straighten out the mess

rather than just go along with him.

He was right.

Never had a complaint in 20 years.

Except just recently.

Gun was never fired

He asked me if I could remember.

But I remember too much, I'm afraid.

But I can remember a man a few years ago

who wouldn't let another one get within 10 yards of him,

unless he wanted him to.

Will!

Oh, I can't go no further. I got to stop.

Not yet. It's too soon. We need more distance.

I can't help it. You can go on if you want.

I'll catch up.

He's going to come after us, Will, I know it.

There won't be no real rest until somebody's dead.

It'll be a tough road for him.

The way I got it figured,

we'll be a hundred miles on him before he even knows it.

You don't know him like I do.

Don't matter how long.

You hurt his pride, Will. He won't forget that.

Those boys won't let him forget it.

Then you forget it, Katie.

It'll all be behind us. You'll see.

Will...

I need just a little time to kind of shake the fear away.

Just a little.

Understand me?

Sure, I understand.

He give you that?

Mm-hmm.

Carrying the past along is no help.

Will.

No more reminders.

Two horses.

Sometime today for sure.

Could be anybody on the trail.

That road leads right into town.

Plenty of foot tracks.

One of them is a woman.

This look familiar, Pa?

I was with you the day you bought it for her.

You never let her go without it.

That's the only thing any Timmons ever did give her,

besides a good bruising pretty regular.

You know, Pa, if I didn't know better,

I'd say she left that thing on purpose.

Like she wanted us to find it.

You know, maybe she figures she's made a big mistake

and she wants us to get her out of it.

After all, it's little enough a husband can do for his wife.

Son or no son,

you ever say anything like that again, I'll kill you.

Mount up.

Both of you.

We'll ride into town.

Hey, wait a minute, Buck.

What?

Let's take a look around town.

See what you can find out.

Pa, it's hot. I'm thirsty.

Come on!

You too.

Beau, do you mind sending a wire

to the district office?

Tell them what we've got and what we haven't got.

Tell them we buried Frank.

You know what to say.

Right.

Sheriff.

Sheriff.

You shouldn't ought to do that, man.

Gives a man a mean start, that's what it does.

I'm Jim Hardie from Wells Fargo.

You're a right famous name in these here parts.

- Sure is. - We've had some trouble

at one of our stations down the line.

Frank Dane's.

Not old Frank's place.

Never any trouble down there.

Say, you're not the same Jim Hardie

- Frank keeps talking about all... - Frank Dane's dead.

Dead?

I'm mighty sorry to hear that.

Well, I guess it comes around to all of us soon enough.

You know, this county will never seem the same without Frank.

Always good for a story or two.

- Have a cup? - No, thanks.

Good old Frank.

Yeah, he lived a good, long life.

Till somebody ended it with a knife.

Murdered?

Yes.

Well, end of an era, that's what it is.

I can tell you some tales about Frank that'd make you...

I'd like to hear a tale about Will Norris right now.

Will Norris?

A man's got to learn first about Caleb Timmons.

Now there's a story worth telling.

Old Caleb and that young woman he married a couple year back,

after his first wife died with the fever.

And more likely something worse, the way that man treats a woman.

Norris disappeared along with $5,000 from the company safe

the same night Frank Dane was killed.

So you add two and two and come up with $5,000?

This town's his easiest way out.

If he's come through here and anyone's seen him,

I'd like to know about it.

Is there any reward?

Does it make any difference?

You can't blame me for asking.

A man don't get rich wearing a badge.

And Wells Fargo, mighty big outfit.

- Mighty big. - Well, just being a big outfit

is not helping me find Will Norris.

Hardie.

Farmer said he saw a man and a woman riding the bluffs

a couple of miles out of town.

When they saw him, they dug heels like he was Satan himself.

The man could have been Norris.

The farmer described him pretty close.

Woman riding with him was Kate Timmons.

They turned north.

Hardie, here's something else.

Old Caleb Timmons has two grown sons.

If I was to make a guess,

you may have company.

A whole lot of it.

Thank you, sheriff.

I had the printer run off some of these dodgers.

Then we can put them up around. Find out anything?

He's got a woman with him.

A woman?

Well, that could slow him down some.

Also found out he's headed north.

You think he'd go south to Mexico from here.

The only thing I can think of is,

with a woman to slow him down on land,

he's going to try to make it to the nearest river.

Sacramento.

The riverboat, of course.

That's the way I figured.

Better put a couple of these up and let's get after him.

We don't want him to reach that boat if we can keep from it.

Okay, Jim.

Pa, look at this.

"Wanted..."

Where'd did you get this?

Some fella's tacking them up all over.

We're not the only ones that are hunting, Pa.

A couple of Wells Fargo men trailing them too.

And some come out of the sheriff's office.

Pa, let them get him.

What more can a man ask?

Good horse.

Green land under his feet.

A good-looking woman.

Maybe the feeling that what we done is right,

so that maybe someday we can forget it

and be just like ordinary people.

Ordinary?

That's all you want to be? Just Ordinary?

I want a clean little house

with neighbors who will help you when you got a barn to build,

or a kid's sick.

I want to be able to sleep at night, Will,

without being afraid of who's going to open the door.

Well, that may be good enough for you.

But not for me.

I want everything in this whole wide world.

I want everything I can smell.

Everything I can hear.

Everything I can feel.

I want a fence that's spread twice as big

as this whole valley.

And I'm going to get it too.

You make it all sound so different now, Will.

Well, that's what I want to be.

Different from all the rest of them.

Started out pretty good too.

I'm already different than Caleb Timmons.

I'll show you how different I am.

Come here. Come on.

Count it: $5,000.

And you want us to be ordinary?

Ordinary's what I've been all my life.

I'm through being that.

How'd you get this, Will?

Did you kill for it?

A little bit.

You're no better than Buck or Caleb.

Caleb would kill in anger or hate,

but you kill for money, Will,

and that's worse.

I don't want no part of it!

You already been a part of it.

You and Buck Timmons.

- Buck? - Sure, Buck.

We planned it together. We pulled it together.

Only we're not going to spend it together.

That money's just for you and me.

Will...

There's no pulling out now.

You're my insurance.

I keep you, I got something to bargain with the law.

Even with Caleb.

You can't keep me!

The sooner you learn, the better for both of us.

Keep your hand right where it is, mister.

Don't do it, mister.

Looks like I got too busy thinking about one man.

A man's got to keep his guard up all the time

if he's going to make out in this world.

Now, you drop that slow and easy.

Now you, mister.

You don't try anything, we won't.

- What do you want? - All in due time.

Pa!

Didn't want to spoil our little surprise.

But I'm also soft as my boys.

This one's Buck.

Take my advice and do as he says.

Keep him happy. He's mean.

Take a look, Buck.

Easy, Beau.

This one's Arly.

He's a dead shot with that rifle.

Any distance.

Ain't got much stomach for being a man,

but he obeys when he's supposed to.

I'm Caleb Timmons.

Well, it looks like the sheriff was right.

I'm beginning to have a little more respect for him.

Now, Norris is traveling with a woman.

Would she belong to you?

That's none of your business, mister.

My name's Jim Hardie.

This is Beau McCloud. We work for Wells Fargo.

See, Pa?

Told you they're the same ones.

Hardie, I want this man.

Wells Fargo wants him too.

Wells Fargo wants the money. They can have it.

We also want Norris.

Now look, mister,

you ain't in no position to bargain.

No, I suppose I'm not.

And since neither one of us have the man,

it doesn't look like we're either one

in too good of a bargaining position.

Pa, don't fool with him.

Let's settle up and get out of here.

Yeah, let's see how tough you are.

Give me the gun, son.

Get him, Pa! Kill him!

Some things a man has to do for himself, if he's able.

You made your point.

I'll find you, mister.

And I'll see you before you see me.

Don't stand near any open doors or any open windows.

Get out.

Nice boy you got there.

Oh, don't take me for no fool, mister.

I mean to have Norris,

and I mean to get him any way I can.

Now you just stay out of my way.

No need to tell the whole world where we are.

Kate?

Does it have to be this way with us?

Are you ready to give it up, Will?

No.

No, I can't give it up now.

Now that I've had the taste for it,

the feel for it.

We had to kill a man for that.

That's mine, and it's going to stay mine.

Oh, Katie.

Please.

I'm sorry I got rough with you.

I didn't mean that. You know I didn't.

We could call a truce.

You could let me go, Will.

No, I can't let you go.

I can't make it without you.

We'll head to Sacramento.

Take the paddle wheel up as far as it goes.

We'll travel in real class.

You'll be an honest-to-goodness lady.

And nobody will dare say any different.

Sounds easy, the way you tell it.

Oh, it is easy.

We'll go up to Oregon.

Maybe even to Canada.

And we'll buy a spread

that'll take a whole day to walk around.

Maybe even a whole week.

Oh, Katie.

We're going to be rich.

We are rich.

What do you say?

Am I so bad?

Is all this so bad?

Is it worse than what you got before?

Is it worse than what Caleb gave you?

Caleb gave me nothing.

Here.

Here. Take it.

It's yours.

This is just the beginning.

I'm giving it to you.

Just stay with me, that's all.

Caleb bought me, Will.

He paid $100 for me,

and then my father made me marry him.

And then he went out

and he got drunk.

And he was drunk for a month, a year,

I don't know.

Caleb Timmons bought me for $100, Will.

At least my price has gone up.

You think he'll come through here?

If he's going to Sacramento, he will.

I don't know. It's a big country, Jim.

Maybe we made a mistake.

We could have.

The valley's a good place to catch a man.

You got two box canyons. There's only one way out.

Sure couldn't tell from up here.

You can't tell it from down there either,

unless you know it.

That's Norris, all right.

He's got the woman with him.

- They're traveling slow. - Let's get him.

We will.

But we'll get him where we want him first.

Will, Will, I need a drink.

We don't have much of that. Save some for me.

Who are they, Will?

I don't know who they are.

But whoever they are,

they're waiting for us to come through that pass.

They want to keep it real nice and simple.

But that's not the way I want it.

We can't go back.

I don't intend to.

I'm heading that way.

Put it away.

I can drop them both from here with two shots.

I said, put it away.

You got the smell of killing about you, Buck.

You going to kill Kate?

If I have a mind to.

You don't like that, do you, Arly?

What are we going to prove?

What are we going to have when it's over?

Peace of mind.

Maybe.

We'll have blood on our hands the rest of our lives.

Well, then we'll just have to find something

to wash it off with.

Look, we're doing the best thing a man can do.

Protecting his name, the honor of his kin.

And no one will laugh at a Timmons

when they see Will Norris hanging by his neck.

Why didn't you get out when you had the chance?

Where would I go?

Get over to that shack and stay put.

- Well, what about you? - Get over there!

Will.

Katie.

You're a fool.

You don't belong here.

And you, Will, do you belong here?

Yeah. Maybe I do.

Maybe this is where I belonged all my life.

Norris!

There's no place else to go.

Give yourself up. It'll be a lot easier.

Sorry, Katie.

No, Will, don't!

You haven't killed a man.

You haven't planned and schemed and seen it come true.

They want to kill me.

You can save the girl. We're not going to fire unless you do,

but we're coming in.

Will!

Don't!

Get out of here.

If you got to kill someone else, kill me, right now.

You should have let him do it.

What's inside me won't change.

Not till the day I die.

We didn't need the money, Will. Just us.

I...

I had only you, now I got nothing.

We're going to have to move fast.

Those shots will bring the others.

- What about the money? - You won't find it.

We'll worry about the money later.

We'll get them out of here to a safe place right now.

How long you going to wait, Pa?

Give them plenty of time to think.

At least he hasn't tried to move in on us yet.

It's just a matter of time.

If we could get one of them,

it might give us the edge we need.

Getting one of them, I'm afraid, wouldn't change things too much.

That's just about all we would get.

There's something holding him back.

Got something on his mind.

Yeah, but what?

Don't you condemn me.

Is he any better than Will?

Has he got right on his side and I don't?

It's not my place to condemn anyone.

But you were married to him.

You did run off with a killer.

I ran off with a man who loved me.

And if he didn't, that's what I want to think.

And if he did, he's the first man to love me

since the day I was born.

Not my father.

Not my husband, so high and mighty out there,

here to revenge his sacred honor.

It's Will who...

Who gave me the only thing in my life

I wouldn't spit on.

I didn't know what he'd done when he ran away with him.

When I knew,

I was sick.

But men will go on killing each other

till the end of the world,

and women will go on crying over them.

And living will go on.

And I'd do it again!

From one condemned to another.

Only their sins are different.

Jim.

No, he wouldn't want to ruin the old man's fun.

Hardie? Come on out here. Let's talk it out!

Could be a trap.

Couldn't be any worse trap than we're already in.

You cover me.

Mistake.

It won't be the first mistake I ever made.

Don't let him talk you out of anything, Hardie.

Hardie.

I'm not a young one like my boys.

I don't take to the heat or cold.

I like a bed at night.

A roof over my head.

You can have both of them if you want them.

That's all you're going to get.

You take the Fargo money and leave the rest to me.

Will Norris is a prisoner of Wells Fargo,

and he's going to stay that way.

The girl's going to stay with us too,

unless she says otherwise.

You let me see her, Hardie. Let me talk to her.

What if she should say no?

Well, guess we'll just have to handle that

when we get to it.

Why'd you bring him here?

He wanted to talk to you. I agreed to it.

Maybe I'm the prize that'll set you all free.

Did you agree to that too?

No.

Please, Katie, I...

I want to talk to you.

Why don't you get down on your knees and beg, Pa?

Keep your big mouth shut!

Now sit out here!

Listen to me, Katie.

Don't be mad, Katie, please.

I know I ain't got any more to offer than before,

but I'm no killer, Katie.

I'm no thief like that...

that Will Norris that you run away with.

No. No, please, Katie. Don't be mad, please.

Please, listen to me. Listen to me.

You got to understand something, Katie.

I've been living with hate so long,

that every time I say something,

it comes out like that.

When I don't mean it, even.

Now, I'm...

I don't find the right words to say all the time.

Okay, look...

That's why I bought you this.

To say it for me.

I-I could never say it.

Do you understand what I mean?

I want you to take it back.

Come home with me.

It'll be a new start.

And forget everything that happened.

Please, Katie.

Please.

Tell me what I got to say to make you come home.

You bargained for me before, Caleb.

Why not now?

You paid $100 for me. Will offered $5,000.

This is what I think of it!

Hold it!

Now, we had a plan, but you wanted it all.

Now, where is it?

Hid.

Shoot, and find it yourself.

You take me to it fast.

Then you'll kill me.

No, I-I just want my share.

Then you can go.

Come on.

Pa, I caught hold of him, but he shook me off.

I wasn't going to kill him, Pa.

I was going to save him for you, like in the beginning.

You had a plan, but he wanted it all.

$5,000, Pa.

You can get it if you get Will.

Station keeper. Who killed him?

Who killed him?

It was easy pickings.

All that money, just that old man guarding it.

I did it for you as much as me, Pa.

Believe me.

This is what I've got to show for my life.

You.

All right, dig it up.

Where is she?

She's gone. I let her go.

I don't believe you.

Leave her be, Pa. It's better for her and us.

If you want, someday,

maybe she'll come back.

But it'll be her that'll say so, not you.

Not anymore.

Let's go home, Pa.

Things might be a lot different

if you want to go back to him now.

No, I'd still remember.

So would he.

There's a big part of him that's dead.

Just as dead as that boy they're taking home to bury.

What's left of him might be a start.

Like he said, he's going to need a lot of help now.

It's not because of him I'm not going back.

It's me.

I need time to find out

if there's enough left of me for a start.

I'll know when I find out,

and then maybe I'll go back,

if he still wants it that way.

Even if it's only to give him back his $100.