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Looking for a man named Halloran.

Got any idea where he is?

I figured, I figured.

Hey, there's a fellow out here looking for Randy Halloran.

You'll find him in the last shack down at the end of the street.

And when you get him in your sights, make sure that you don't miss.

Hold it, Bill. That'll be enough.

Your jubilance is a little premature.

He isn't one of them.

I don't know what you fellas are talking about, but I didn't come here to kill

Helen.

I'm here to protect her.

Easy, baby. Take it easy. Tell her. Just move it off me.

Come on. Take it easy. Stop his best.

Who is he?

His name is Randall.

He's a friend of my father's.

You go home now. He'll protect me.

I'm not going, Randy.

There's three of them. And now that Mr. Randall's here, there'll be two of us.

You heard her, Mr. Randall.

You and she make two.

I never touched a gun in my life.

You better go to your pa. He hates me enough as it is. I told you I'm not

Let's go.

Hey.

Please, would you go home?

Did you really come here to help him?

His father's a friend of mine. He said the three men are coming here to kill

boy. That's why I'm here.

That's the only reason no feeling for him at all? None at all.

Oh, you just don't understand him. You're like all the rest. I'm the only

who wants to help him.

Yes, ma 'am.

Would you please go home?

a scared fellow, aren't you?

You still got the eyes of a hawk, Mr. Randall.

Come on, let's get out of here.

No.

I'm not doing that.

Look, you stay here, you're going to get killed.

Well, now that you're here, I'm not.

Don't worry, it's just me.

Oh, I've got great confidence in you, Mr. Randall.

Why are you so dead set on staying in this town?

Money, Mr. Randall.

Money.

You know what my father promised me if I could stick in one town for one year?

$50 ,000.

That's why I'm not riding out now.

Not for another three weeks till that year is up.

And no matter what torture I have to go through sweating out those three weeks,

nobody's gonna move me out of here till then.

Now you're talking like you think your father's an enemy.

As long as I can remember, he's been testing me.

He wants me to...

wrestle a bear with my hand or make my way across 50 miles of desert without a

horse or water and come out smiling.

Well, I did one thing for him that nobody else could do.

I got him the right -of -way for a spur he wanted to put through here.

And I got the bills of sale to prove that I bought up that right -of -way.

Now I hope that proves to him whatever he wanted to know.

I'm sick of him and everything that he stands for.

What about that little girl who was in there protecting you with this rifle?

She'll be paid for her help.

You kind of make me sick to my stomach.

I know.

But you know something?

You're going to stay here.

And save my life.

You know why?

Because you're one of them noble creatures that my father wants me to be

Who are those fellas coming in here to get you?

Hired assassins, I suppose.

Why would they want to kill you?

I don't know.

Well, you must have an idea.

I don't know.

They've got their reasons, I guess.

Well, who hired him?

You know me.

Could have been anybody.

I met a fella coming into town this morning.

Smooth talker, good dresser.

Hard eyes.

Sounds like lawyer Dawson.

You got any personal reasons to hate you?

I guess he hates me good enough.

Where are you going?

What? Well, don't leave me alone.

You promised my father.

You're his friend.

You can't go back on your word now.

What's the matter with you?

It feels like an iron band crushing my chest.

Maybe that iron band would disappear if you'd stay off this stuff and get out of

this town.

No, I'm not leaving, not yet.

What do you have to go out for?

There's enough food here and whiskey.

I don't have as much confidence in you as you do.

There are three gunfighters coming in this town.

I need some help.

You understand what I mean?

You were in town.

Yeah, well, and you know what the problem is. I figure between the two of

might be able to nail him.

Why should I try to nail him with you?

Well, there's a law here. I figure maybe it's your duty, isn't it?

You got the right word there, duty.

I'm just about to ride out on my tax circuit to perform my duty collecting

in this county.

Figure I'll be going all day today.

Tomorrow, I'll collect more taxes.

And the day after that...

And the day after that, after Halloran's put under, the tax collections will

stop, huh?

Now, you're a real smart man, Mr. Randall.

You won't be any help, will you?

Like I said, Mr. Randall, you're a smart man.

I'm gonna have him anyway.

Mister, bounty hunters aren't welcome in this town.

How about killers? They welcome?

Get out of here.

You know, I got a hunch you're the fella that hired them killers.

You're the only one that knew I wasn't one of them.

My advice to you is to get on your horse and take your hunch right out of town.

Uh -huh.

The law says if a man hires somebody to kill, he's as guilty as a man that pulls

the trigger.

If they kill that boy, you're gonna hang, Dawson, and I'm gonna see to it.

All right, I'll give it to you straight.

If it's necessary for me to hang in order for Randy Halloran to be

it'll be worth it.

We understand each other.

Get back in the store. Haven't you shamed me enough?

Mr. Randall.

My name's Wilson. I run the general store here.

Don't think bad of anybody in this town.

We've got good reason to feel the way we do.

Beats me how you can stand by and see a man killed.

I'd agree if it's a man we were talking about.

But when it's just a polecat with no more feelings than a skunk, then I say

man doesn't deserve to live.

Well, if I need any supplies, I'll come and see you.

Now, hold on.

I'm not selling anything right now.

I'm buying.

Hmm? How much are you getting for this job?

What?

I'll give you $1 ,000 if you leave town right now.

He comes high, he didn't.

It'd be cheap at twice the price, Mr. Randall.

Sorry.

He's coming this way.

Stop by later when you're not so busy.

You want to send this out for me?

Jason Nichols, Mesa Flat Hotel, Mesa Flats. Sure would like to see you in

Hollow, the faster the better.

Randall.

I'd like to oblige you, mister, but it won't work. Yeah, I can see that.

There's no way I can get a message out of Horace Hollow.

Is that them?

Oh, and they're real calm ones, too.

They said they were going to have an ice wash and something to eat.

And then they'd take care of their business.

Stay here, girl!

Miss!

Where are you going?

I'm trying as hard as I know how to get the people of this town to get those

killers off of Haller's back. But they're here. They're here right now.

I know. I saw them.

Well, then why don't you do something? Why don't you take that gun and shoot

them? Lady, the three gunfighters, I wouldn't want to go up against them by

myself.

Of course, outside there's still time. You can get on it.

I'm sick. I can't, Robbie. Yes, you can. Try.

Well, how far can I go? They'd catch up to me. They'd catch up.

I've got to stay here until the year is up.

Your life is more important than money.

Not having money is just another way of being dead.

Where's Josh Randall?

I don't know.

He's supposed to protect me.

Well, don't leave me alone.

I won't leave you.

Why did you pick me to see?

Because I understand the doctors are against bloodletting.

Oh, yes, we're a dedicated bunch.

Then why don't you get the responsible people of this town together and run

these fellas out of here?

You don't seem to understand, Mr. Randall.

The people of Horse Hollow, responsible and otherwise, are delighted at the

prospect of Randy Halloran's demise.

Tell me something. If there was a lynching, would you stand by and watch

happen?

No. That's exactly what this is, a lynching.

No, it isn't.

What would you call it?

Justice.

Has it occurred to you to ask us why we hate him?

Look, the Great Western Railroad Company tried to put a spur through here

before, but it got nowhere.

And Randy Halloran was out to prove that he could do it.

Now, you know that a railroad can't put a spur through unless they buy all the

property along the way. Now, nobody wanted the railroad, and nobody wanted

sell. But Randy Halloran tried every underhanded trick to make us sell, and

just didn't work.

But he did buy the land, huh?

Oh, yes.

He finally got his way with the help of an epidemic. We were hit by smallpox.

I ran out of medicine so fast, and when I tried to get more, I found out it had

to be shipped in by train. Well, I ordered it, and Randy Halloran said,

the way. Well, it stayed on the way until he got all the land that he wanted

buy.

But he did pay these people for the land.

The people got a fair price, if you don't figure that part of the payment

half dozen human lives.

Oh, my kitten doctor, I do understand the way you feel.

I'm just saying if you go ahead with this killing, you're not going to get

satisfaction out of it. You think you will.

You're wrong, Mr. Randall.

You're so bitter now, you can't think straight.

Maybe. But what I can't see is your stake in this.

Why are you risking your life?

You let Dawson bring those killers in here and assassinate that boy.

You're just as guilty as he is. Now, you understand that?

Well, they're all over in the saloon right now getting ready to celebrate.

Why don't you tell it to them?

Thank you.

If you let this happen, you'll never get the smell out of your clothes or out of

your homes.

Mister, we've got a good acquaintance with death.

My wife died for the lack of a few drops of medicine.

I understand about the sickness was here, and I understand what he did.

It was rotten.

Oh, that's an easy word to use, rotten.

Go out and watch your young one double up with pain and crying out for help.

And then come back here and see if you can use an easy word like rotten.

I don't like him any better than you do.

What he did was a dirty, unforgivable crime.

But why stick your head in the mud with his?

Because he fouls everything that he touches.

My daughter, she shamed me before all my friends taking up with him.

Before he came to this town, there was no hate here.

No sadness.

Love of our fellow man was what we had. And the respect of our children.

Randy Holland can't take that away from you.

But Dawson here can't if you let him bring in hired killers and have this man

assassinated. Now, who's to blame?

He had good reason.

He lost his only son.

And what are you going to tell your children when they ask what happened on

day? If a vicious animal is in your midst, you get rid of him.

This is our opportunity, and we're not passing it by.

Now, look, Dawson.

All the man needs is three weeks. Give him three weeks, and he'll be out of

here. You don't hear very well.

We don't want him to go.

We want him dead.

Three children, two women, and a man died because of him.

And a lot of us here are kin to those people.

Don't you see, mister?

There's none of us going to stand in the way.

All right, I've said my piece.

But I'll tell you again.

You let Dawson bring in those hard killers, and you're just as guilty as he

Mister, there's one thing that's got to be got straight.

Dawson acted for us.

That's right.

Look about.

We're the ones who hired them. We got up a collection, and every man in this

room contributed as heavy as they could. You got the point, mister?

We hired those killers. This town did.

I can't. I don't know how to shoot it.

I couldn't think of a better time to learn.

I won't touch it.

It's killing no matter how you look at it.

That's cruel.

I understand it killed six people, miss.

It wasn't my fault.

I couldn't get the stuff back fast enough.

There wasn't anything else for me to do.

You don't understand him. He doesn't want to do the things he does.

You're right. I don't understand.

See?

They've turned him against me.

He'll just soon see me killed, too.

Halloran, I don't want to see anybody killed.

No. It wasn't my fault.

I couldn't help what I did.

It's what's happened to me in the past.

I've been sick all my life.

My father never wanted me.

It's not my fault.

Nobody has an easy time in this world, Halloran.

Either you climb out of the muck and become a human being, or you die.

You just make an excuse so you can run out on me.

Just in case they get by me.

Keep your back against the wall. This isn't worth getting killed over.

Our fight isn't with you, friend.

I sure don't want to fight anybody either, mister.

We'd be obliged if you'd step aside.

Well, uh... I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, too.

But I guess there's no other way.

Are you all right?

I'm due.

Within.

There's no bullet wound.

I'm sorry.

He's dead.

What happened?

Well, if I had to make a quick guess, I'd say he died of a heart attack.

They wanted him dead.

He's dead.

I don't know if this means anything, but I believe the boy's father knew this

was going to happen.

That's why he sent me down here.

Bring him back home.

Thank you, Mr. Randall.

What are you going to do now?

I'm going to leave Horse Hollow.

No reason for me to stay here now.