Original subtitles

BAT, V/O: THERE'S A REASON THEY CALLED IT THE WILD WEST.

DON'T SUPPOSE YOU CAN DIRECT ME TO THE NEW COURTHOUSE.

YOU'LL MAKE YOUR COURTHOUSE IN MY BAR.

ORDER, ORDER!

TOWNSPERSON 1: WE WERE DOING JUST FINE

BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT SHOWED UP.

JOHN: I EXPECTED SOME PUSHBACK TO REAL LAW AND ORDER

BUT THESE FOLKS SEEM DOWN-RIGHT READY TO KILL.

GRISSOM: WHICH ONE OF Y'ALL WANT TO GO FIRST?

LAW CAME IN THAT WAGON,

AND THERE'S NO GOING BACK.

[TRAIN WHISTLE]

BAT, V/O: I WAS JUST A YOUNG MAN WHEN I FIRST HEADED WEST.

IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED, I BECAME A COWBOY,

A GUNSLINGER, AND EVEN SERVED

AS SHERIFF OF DODGE CITY,

ONE OF THE MOST LAWLESS TOWNS IN THE COUNTRY.

MY NAME IS BAT MASTERSON.

NOW I'M A REPORTER.

AND I'VE COME WEST AGAIN TO CHRONICLE THE WORLD

THAT I KNOW BEST.

THESE ARE THE INCREDIBLE TRUE TALES OF THE WILD WEST.

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BAT: JUDGE JOHN BURFORD.

BAT MASTERSON.

THE JUDGE THAT FINALLY BROUGHT LAW TO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.

AH, A NO MAN'S LAND AS THEY USED TO CALL IT.

THA... THAT WASN'T ALL ME.

RIGHT, YOU HAD A LITTLE HELP...

OR, A LOT OF HELP, IF I'M TO BELIEVE MY NOTES

FROM MY INTERVIEW WITH MARSHAL CHRIS MADSEN.

[BOTH CHUCKLING]

THAT SOUNDS LIKE MADSEN, ALRIGHT.

I HAVE HEARD MANY TALES OF THE WEST,

BUT MADSEN'S SEEMED A LITTLE TOO EXTRAVAGANT

TO PRINT WITHOUT A FACT CHECK.

JOHN: WELL IT IS QUITE A STORY.

TAKING DANGEROUS PRISONERS ACROSS OPEN PRAIRIE.

AND TO REMOTE TOWNS FILLED WITH

VIGILANTES THAT HAD NO USE FOR MEN

WITH BADGES... OR JUDGES FOR THAT MATTER.

AFTER THE SUPREME COURT RULED THE PANHANDLE WAS A PART

OF OKLAHOMA, THEY APPOINTED ME TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF LAW.

SO, THERE WERE NO COURTS.

NONE TO SPEAK OF.

CRIMINALS WERE JUST SENT OFF TO NEARBY JAILS.

AND AFTER THE RULING WENT THROUGH,

I HAD TO ROUND THEM ALL UP AND HAUL THEM BACK

TO NO MAN'S LAND, TO BE TRIED WHERE THE CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.

THAT WAS A 200 MILE TRIP.

THIS MUST BE WHERE MADSEN COMES IN.

JOHN: CAN'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT WITHOUT A U.S. MARSHAL.

SO I CALLED IN THE TOUGHEST ONE I KNEW.

JOHN: COME ON, POE.

GET OUT THE WAY.

YOU GET UP HERE.

COME ON, SIT DOWN.

[GRUNT, YELL]

[GUN COCKS]

MADSEN: LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN USE A LITTLE HELP THERE, JUDGE.

JOHN, V/O: CHRIS MADSEN CAME FROM DANISH ARISTOCRACY.

BUT 15 YEARS IN THE U.S. ARMY DRUMMED ALL

THE NOBILITY OUT OF HIM.

APART FROM THE ACCENT.

GRISSOM: JUDGE, WHY DON'T YOU TELL THAT FOREIGNER

TO LET US STRETCH OUR LEGS?

BEEN IN THIS WAGON SINCE DODGE.

KEEP RUNNING YOUR MOUTH, IT MIGHT BE YOUR NECK

GETS STRETCHED INSTEAD.

YOU'LL GET OUT OF THAT WAGON WHERE WE GET TO CANNE.

NOT BEFORE.

POE: I SHOULDN'T BE ON THIS CONVOY

WHY NOT?

POE: WELL,

I'M INNOCENT.

LET ME SHOW YOU WHY.

PRISONERS: ME TOO, PLEASE.

LET ME, LET ME SHOW YOU WHY.

LET ME SHOW YOU.

PRISONERS: I DIDN-'T DO IT.

OH, YOU'RE STUCK WITH US NOW.

YOU AIN'T GOING NOWHERE.

CARRIAGE DRIVER: SIT DOWN.

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MADSEN: SHOULD MAKE BEAVER CITY BY NOON TIME TOMORROW.

JOHN: YEAH... I NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE HAPPY TO RIDE TO TOWN

WITH A WAGON FULL OF CONVICTS.

BUT AFTER 191 MILES A PRISONER, I AIN'T GOING-

OH, THIS IS THE FUN PART JUDGE.

THE FUN PART IS GOING TO BE BEAVER CITY CHEWING YOU

BOYS UP THE MINUTE WE HIT TOWN.

THEY DON'T LIKE LAWMEN.

PRISONER: OH SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP.

MADSEN: I SUGGEST YOU TAKE HIS ADVICE.

WITH LUCK, WE'LL BEAT THE OTHER WAGON INTO CONVOY.

[HORSE NEIGHS]

SOMETHIN'S GOT 'EM SPOOKED.

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HEY, GET BACK HERE!

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YOU GOING TO GET THAT, OR SHOULD I?

[LAUGHS]

[HIT LANDS, GRUNT]

MADSEN: THIS IS WHAT YOU HIRED ME FOR JUDGE...

APPLE?

NO?

MIGHT RAIN TOMORROW.

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[CROWDS SHOUTING ANGRILY]

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JOHN: LOOKS LIKE NEWS OF OUR ARRIVAL REALLY

BROUGHT OUT THE CROWDS.

DON'T LOOK HAPPY TO SEE US.

WAIT'LL THEY SEE THE WAGON COMING BEHIND US.

KYLE COLSON: WHY DON'T YOU TURN AROUND WITH ALL THAT

TRASH YOU'RE HAULIN.

THESE MEN ARE HERE TO HAVE THEIR DAY IN COURT.

KYLE COLSON: WE GOT TROUBLES ENOUGH.

NOW, LAW AND ORDER ARE GOING TO BRING ALL THESE BAD MEN

TO WHERE OUR WIVES AND CHILDREN LIVE.

WE KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF LOW LIVES LIKE THESE.

JOHN: VIGILANTE JUSTICE PALES IN COMPARISON

TO A FREE AND FAIR TRIAL IN A RECOGNIZED COURT OF LAW.

BOB COLSON: FREE AND FAIR TRIAL?

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

SURE DON'T SOUND LIKE IT.

[ALL LAUGH]

BOB COLSON: LET'S GO BOYS.

SO MUCH FOR THE WARM WELCOME HM?

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[CROWD SHOUTS]

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KYLE: KEEP WALKING JUDGE.

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ANOTHER WAGON JUST ARRIVED.

THIS ONE BROUGHT THE COURTROOM.

I EXPECTED SOME PUSHBACK TO REAL LAW AND ORDER,

BUT THESE FOLKS SEEM DOWN RIGHT READY TO KILL.

WELL, GOOD THING WE BROUGHT THE NECESSITIES

FOR A MURDER TRIAL.

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OH, SUPPOSE YOU COULD DIRECT ME TO THE NEW COURTHOUSE.

[CHUCKLES]

I DON'T NEED A DRINK SIR.

DIDN'T OFFER YOU ONE.

YOU'LL MAKE YOUR COURTHOUSE IN MY BAR.

WELL THAT SEEMS AN ODD PLACE.

SALOON KEEPER: NOT AS OFF AS THE LAW IN BEAVER CITY,

BUT HERE WE ARE JUDGE.

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YOU HEARD THE MAN.

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BAT: SO MADSEN'S RECOLLECTION OF SETTING UP A COURT IN

A ROWDY SALOON WAS TRUE.

AND FAR FROM IDEAL.

TOWNSPEOPLE WERE EVEN LESS HOSPITABLE WHEN DRUNK.

IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT.

[CHUCKLES]

ALL THE COMMOTION FROM OUR ARRIVAL DREW QUITE

A FEW SPECTATORS.

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I'VE GOT GUARDS INSIDE AND OUT.

THIS IS THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL A COURTROOM

I HAVE EVER SEEN.

HANG 'EM AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT ONE!

[MEN SHOUTING]

ORDER, ORDER!

SAY IT AGAIN AND SPEAK UP.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS RACKET.

I SAID I COULDN'T HAVE DONE WHAT YOU SAID I DONE.

I SAID SPEAK UP!

HEY, THERE IS NO SMOKING PERMITTED IN MY COURTROOM.

JOHN: ORDER!

THAT'S IT.

THAT'S THE END OF TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

ON THE FACT I CAN'T HEAR THE DEFENDANT OVER THIS CIRCUS.

ADJOURNED.

[TOWNSPEOPLE CLAP, SHOUT]

MAN: WE DON'T NEED YOUR KIND; GET OUTTA HERE!

[MEN SHOUT, CHATTER]

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TOWNSPERSON 1: WE WERE DOING JUST FINE BEFORE

THE GOVERNMENT SHOWED UP.

WE DON'T NEED NO CRIMINALS OR COURTROOMS IN OUR TOWN.

I HAVEN'T EVEN STOOD TRIAL YET.

I'M INNOCENT.

DO YOU WANT TO TAKE IT OUT ON SOMEBODY?

THAT FELLOW KILLED THE KINDLY OLD PREACHER.

POE: NO.

THA- THAT'S A LIE.

IT'S A LIE.

NO, IT'S NOT TRUE.

IT'S NOT TRUE, PLEASE!

[CROWD SHOUTING]

[GUNSHOT]

MADSEN: NONE OF THESE MEN ARE GUILTY

UNTIL IT'S PROVEN IN THERE.

ANYONE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT

SPEAK UP

NOW.

AND YOU, KEEP QUIET.

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BAT: MADSEN ALSO MENTIONED.

THE TRIALS WEREN'T ALL THAT OLD SALOON WAS USED FOR.

JOHN: CORRECT.

THE UPSTAIRS SERVED AS OUR SLEEPING QUARTER.

[LOUD CHATTER, SALOON MUSIC]

[DOOR OPENS, SHUTS]

[WHOOPING, HOLLERING]

MIGHT BE BETTER IF I-

YEAH.

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MADSEN: PRETTY GOOD DAY OVERALL.

JOHN: MHM.

IT'S A TALL ORDER CONVICTING CRIMINALS AND

TEACHING THE UNGOVERNED.

JOHN: WELL, NOBODY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY.

MADSEN: BUT HERE WE ARE.

DOING IT IN ONE OF THE LAST LAWLESS PLACES IN AMERICA.

EVERYBODY WANTS THE PEACE AND REASSURANCE THAT LAW BRINGS.

THIS TOWN'S NO DIFFERENT.

THEY JUST DON'T REALIZE IT YET.

[GUNSHOT, GRUNT]

UNLESS THEY KILL US FIRST.

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BOB: WHERE'D YOU LEARN HOW TO THROW?

GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE.

YOU COULDN'T HIT THE GROUND WITH A ROCK.

[GUNSHOT, GLASS SHATTERS]

ALL RIGHT, MY TURN.

LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE.

THROW ME ONE BOTTLE.

♪ ♪

HEY!

THIS IS THE LAST WARNING YOU GET.

LAW.

LAW CAME IN THAT WAGON,

AND THERE'S NO GOING BACK.

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GET YOUR BROTHER.

GET UP BOB, GET UP.

YEAH.

WE'RE GOING TO SIT DOWN HERE.

GRAB THE CHAIR.

NO MORE SHOOTING!

♪ ♪

SIT DOWN.

♪ [TENSE] ♪

GRISSOM: THEN I PULLED THE TRIGGER.

JOHN: CLAIMING SELF-DEFENSE IS HARDLY PLAUSIBLE

WHEN IT'S YOU THAT BROKE INTO THE VICTIM'S HOME.

GRISSOM: HEARD HE LIKE ROBBING FOLKS.

SO, I STOPPED HIM BEFORE HE CAME AFTER MY THINGS.

SOUNDS LIKE A SORRY EXCUSE TO MURDER AN INNOCENT MAN TO ME.

GRISSOM: THE WAY I SEE IT,

I'M INNOCENT.

AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU OR ANY OF THESE IDIOTS

IN THIS PATHETIC, NOTHING OF A TOWN THINK!

[MEN SHOUTING]

ORDER, ORDER!

[LAUGHING]

I THOUGHT ORDER CAME WITH YOUR LAW.

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♪ ♪

I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY.

[GUN COCKS]

[MEN CLAMORING]

JOHN: EVERYBODY SIT DOWN, OR I'LL HOLD YOU ALL IN

CONTEMPT OF COURT, ORDER!

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THIS MUST HAVE FELT IMPOSSIBLE.

AT TIMES, YEAH,

BUT THAT MOMENT PROVED IT WASN'T.

TOWNSPEOPLE WEREN'T JUST STARTING TO WELCOME LAW.

THEY STARTED PARTICIPATING IN IT.

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JOHN: WHO IS THIS MASDEN?

WALT FROM TOWN.

HEARD GRISSOM SAY SOME THINGS THE COURT SHOULD HEAR.

JOHN: ALL RIGHT.

WELL, LET'S HEAR IT THEN.

MASDEN: TALK.

WELL, I WAS, UH,

COMING OUT OF SALOON AFTER COURT WAS THROUGH.

AND, OF COURSE, AFTER I HAD MY FEW EVENING DRINKS.

[MEN LAUGH]

AND THAT MAN WAS IN THAT WAGON

TALKING ABOUT HOW HE KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR

OVER NEW PROPERTY LINES.

GRISSOM: HE'S LYING.

WALT: SAID IT LOUD ENOUGH ANYBODY WALKING

BY COULD HEAR IT.

GUESS LAWS NOT THE ONLY NEW THING IN BEAVER.

WE'VE GOT SNITCHES NOW TOO.

WALT: DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ANYBODY I'D UH, WANT IN MY TOWN.

JUDGE.

I APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORS NEWFOUND

RESPECT FOR THE LAW.

A SILENT RESPECT FOR THE LAW

AND FOR THIS COURTROOM.

AND FOR ME.

EMMETT GRISSOM, I FIND YOU GUILTY OF MURDER

AND SENTENCED YOU TO DEATH BY HANGING, BY THE NECK.

I'VE DONE NOTHING!

COME ON, JUDGE,

YOU KNOW HE'S LYING.

YOU CAN'T TRUST THAT MAN.

NOW COME ON, NO SIR!

YOU CAN'T BELIEVE ANYTHING HE SAYS.

COME ON, HE'S LYING.

BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK, SON.

I GOT SOMETHING COMING FOR YOU.

JOHN: SEND IN THE NEXT DEFENDANT!

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SO THE LOCALS FINALLY STARTED TO COME AROUND.

JOHN: MOST,

BUT WE HADN'T CONVINCED EVERYBODY YET.

[MEN YELLING]

WES: HEY GUYS, WHAT DO YOU SAY WE GO AHEAD

AND TAKE CARE OF YOU NOW?

YOU EYEBALLING ME BOY?

HOW ABOUT I PUT A NEW EYEBALL IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FOREHEAD?!

BOB: THIS IS THE END OF THE ROAD.

WHICH ONE OF YA'LL WANT TO GO FIRST?

MASDEN: GET AWAY FROM THAT WAGON.

BOB: I THINK WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR LITTLE SHOW.

WE AIN'T NEVER HAD A PROBLEM HANDLING SCUM.

♪ ♪

STEP BACK.

YOU BEAT US LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WAS DRUNK.

WE'RE NICE AND SOBER NOW.

♪ [TENSE] ♪

YOU'RE PLUM OUTNUMBERED.

SINCE YOU WON'T LEAVE ON YOUR OWN TWO FEET

MAYBE IT'S TIME WE SEND YOU OUT IN A BOX.

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♪ [TENSE] ♪

JOHN: THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, BOYS.

OR ELSE THERE'LL BE THREE MORE BODIES SWINGING

FROM THE GALLOWS.

♪ [SUSPENSE] ♪

I BELIEVE THE LAW ASKED YOU TO LOWER YOUR WEAPONS, BOYS.

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MASDEN: GOOD.

THANK YOU.

YOU TOO PRETTY BOY.

NOW GET.

GET OUT OF HERE.

GET OUT OF HERE!

THANK YOU.

DO YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH

AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP YOU GOD?

I DO.

JOHN: NOT GUILTY.

JOHN: I FIND YOU GUILTY

AND SENTENCE YOU TO HANG BY THE NECK TILL DEATH.

JUDGE, I'M INNOCENT I WASN'T EVEN THERE.

IT WASN'T, I WAS NOT-

BRING IN THE NEXT DEFENDANT.

JOHN: YOU'RE BEING TRIED FOR HORSE THEFT.

POE: THE MAN ACCUSING ME OF THIEVING WERE OUTLAWS

WHO SNATCHED MY HORSE AFTER A ROBBERY FOR FRESH LEGS.

ALL I DID WAS TAKE MY HORSE BACK.

JOHN: AH NOW, I SUPPOSE IT'D BE HARD FOR YOU TO PROVE THAT.

CONSIDERING YOU'RE SITTING HERE IN FRONT OF ME.

DEPUTY PROVIDED A SKETCH

OF THE BRAND OF THE HORSE YOU STOLE.

POE: NO, SIR.

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL EVERYONE.

THAT'S MY BRAND.

JOHN: WELL THAT TATTOO DOES MATCH.

DOES NOT LOOK NEW.

COULD HAVE SAVED US A LOT OF TIME WITH THIS EARLIER.

I FIND YOU INNOCENT.

CASE DISMISSED.

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FREE TO GO HOME.

BUT HOME IS OVER 200 MILES AWAY.

OK, WHERE'S HOME?

GUTHRIE.

♪ ♪

THEN YOU WANT TO EXIT THE SALOON,

TURN LEFT, YES.

TURN LEFT TO WALK UNTIL YOU SEE THE WELCOME TO GUTHRIE SIGN.

[LAUGHTER]

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BAT, V/O: AFTER HE BROUGHT LAW TO NO MAN'S LAND,

JUDGE JOHN BURFORD SERVED AS THE LAST CHIEF

JUSTICE OF THE OKLAHOMA TERRITORY SUPREME COURT.

CHRIS MADSEN JOINED FELLOW U.S. MARSHALS BILL TILMAN AND HECHT

THOMAS TO HUNT DOWN HUNDREDS OF OUTLAWS, INCLUDING

THE DEWAN AND DALTON GANGS.

THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE THREE GUARDSMEN.

NOW, I MUST SAY, JUDGE,

TERRIBLY SORRY TO HAVE HAD YOU COME ALL THIS WAY

FROM A STORY ON NO MAN'S LAND.

NONSENSE.

YOU HAD TO FACT CHECK AND

I'M HAPPY TO TRIM THE FAT

OFF OF ANY MADSEN'S TALL TALES.

WELL, THAT'S JUST IT JUDGE.

MADSEN'S TELLING MATCHES YOURS.

EXACTLY.

EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.

MADSEN ALSO SAID THAT WITHOUT YOU,

THINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT.

THANK YOU, MR. MASTERSON.

I LOOK FORWARD TO READING IT.

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[WHISTLING]

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