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What's the matter with you, golden fool?

You're not coming in!

I'm not opening it!

Can't you read?

Come back later!

Dorothy?

Lauren.

It's been a long time.

What are you doing here?

What happened to you?

Horse threw me.

I've been wandering around all night.

Took a pretty good fall. I'd be surprised if something's not busting.

You better come in.

Has your husband know you're gone?

He will, as soon as he reads the note I left.

I'm leaving him.

If you don't offer me a chair pretty soon, I'm going to be obliged to sit on

your floor.

Thank you.

Well, I better get you over to the doc.

Oh, you got a doctor here in town now?

Sort of.

Oh, I don't think any ribs are broken.

How did this happen?

I told you I fell off my horse last night.

These bruises are at least a week old.

Oh, that.

The corned crib swung shut on me.

You know, I used to eat here sometimes when this was a boarding house.

This room was the kitchen, wasn't it?

That's right.

Are you from here, Mrs. Jennings?

My sister was married to Lauren.

What? Was your sister?

Mm.

Did you know her?

Well, she was my patient briefly.

I'm afraid there wasn't much I could do for her.

There's no need to explain.

And if you're wondering why I wasn't at the funeral, it's because I didn't know.

Lauren wrote a letter to my husband, but he didn't want to upset me.

So he didn't show it to you?

I found out two months after Maude was gone and buried.

She was a good woman.

Yes, she was.

Now get dressed now.

I'd like to examine you again tomorrow.

I don't see why not. I'll be staying a while.

Thank you, Dr. Prince.

You're welcome.

Dorothy Jennings?

You know her?

What's wrong with her?

She said she fell off the horse.

She didn't fall off the horse.

Someone beat him.

I heard about her husband.

As soon as he sobers up, he's going to come looking for her.

Dorothy? I'm going out to get something to eat.

I'm in here, Lauren.

What are you doing in my daughter's room?

Well, the boarding house is closed. I thought maybe I... Where did you get

clothes? Oh, these are just some of Maude's old things. I don't think she'd

mind. How would you know?

She was my sister.

Maybe it's you that minds.

Get out of this room.

Lauren.

Please, just get out.

I got no place to go.

You're the closest relative I've got.

I need a place to stay till I figure out what it is I gotta do.

Why now?

Well, the children are all grown up and gone.

I ain't been happy for a long time.

What's happy got to do with it?

A little disagreement's no reason to break up a marriage.

Is that how it was with you and Maude?

Your sister was a good woman.

We respected each other.

That's all I'll say about it.

Boring.

Where can I find a broom and a mop?

I'll get them for you.

How long will you be staying?

Not long.

Morning. Morning.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't know her very well.

Were you close?

Yes, we were.

So Lauren asked me to marry him.

He did?

When I turned him down, he asked more.

Things were never the same after that.

You have any sisters?

Yes, four of them. All older.

But we weren't very close.

Except for Rebecca, the oldest. She was 15 when I was born.

We were inseparable until she got married.

Dorothy?

Do you mind if I ask you something?

You don't have to tell me. You want to know if he beat me.

He did.

It started after the first child was born.

With either them or me, so I took it.

I thought he'd stop once the children were gone from home.

But he didn't.

Well, he's not going to beat me anymore because I left him and I ain't going

back.

Somebody's wife is pretty mad.

Goodness,

she's angry.

I feel sorry for the poor fellow.

Whose teepee is it?

Mine.

Where are you going?

I will live in my own home from now on.

Please. Don't do this.

I'll not be a second wife.

She is my brother's wife.

He's dead now. I must take her into my teepee.

It is our custom, and it's my duty.

You know I have no choice in this.

You may not, but I do.

Maybe I can get Dr. Mike to talk to her.

There's been enough talk already.

How's that?

Snowbird was never one to question our ways until Dr. Mike came. Now all she

talks of are new ways, new ideas.

There's nothing wrong with trying to better your life.

I agree.

But some of these new ways aren't good for the people.

Sometimes we must choose for the tribe and not ourselves.

If we abandon our culture, there is no future.

I got the rest.

My lips are tired.

I can play.

No, no, no, please.

Oh, you can't play and eat cake at the same time. Clean.

Who wants dessert?

I do.

I'm sorry to bother you, mister, but I'm looking for someone, and when I asked

in town, they said... Marcus!

Dorothy.

Go away. I don't want to see you. Leave me alone.

Dorothy, please.

Just listen to me.

You can't come in, sir.

You heard her. She don't want to see you, Marcus.

Warren? You best just go home now.

You got no business here.

Mr. Jennings, I think you'd better leave.

Dorothy, please.

I'm so sorry, darling.

I don't know what got into me.

It won't happen again.

I heard that before.

You never left me before.

And I'm not going back.

Please, Dorothy.

As God and these good people are my witness, I won't ever do it again.

I... I don't want to lose you.

I need you.

I can't take living without you.

Please get out of my house, Mr. Jennings.

You don't believe me?

You shoot me right now.

If I ever lay a hand on you again, you can kill me. Go on, take it.

Take it.

I'd rather die ever than to hurt you again.

Please.

Just... talk to me.

Put the gun away.

Dorothy, you don't have to.

I'll be right outside that door.

You're not gonna hurt her, is he?

No.

Make sure of that.

Lauren, why don't you play some of the tune?

I don't feel like it.

Come on, Mr. Bray.

You can teach me a new song.

She didn't fall off her horse, did she?

Why'd she lie about it?

Maybe she was afraid.

You think she did something to make him mad?

There is nothing that any woman could ever do that would justify beating her.

You wouldn't hit Ingrid, would you?

Of course not.

Don't you let any boy or man ever hit you.

I won't.

Never.

Will you tell Dr. Quinn goodbye for me?

You can tell her yourself. I just sent Brian to go get her.

What'd you do that for? I was hoping she could talk some sense into you.

I don't expect you to understand.

Well, I don't.

What do I owe you?

Nothing.

You ready?

He certainly listens to the best.

It's going to be all right.

We talked all night long. He's going to change.

People don't change overnight.

He gave me his promise.

Well, how do you know he'll keep it?

Because he rode all the way here to get me?

We have a lot of years together.

I've got to give him a chance.

Dorothy, please.

I appreciate your concern, but it isn't your affair.

You take care.

Don't we have enough?

You want to learn to fish?

You've got to dig for worms.

Huh!

Here's one.

Half -worms don't count.

Why not?

It's fishing rules.

You know that worms are hermaphrodite?

What does that mean?

They have both.

They reproduce themselves by themselves.

I mean, they have both.

Male and female part together in one body.

All the part.

It's not like much fun.

Well, it's very efficient from a scientific point of view.

Uh -huh.

Scientific.

There by that rock.

An old Indian legend says that man and woman were once united.

Four arms, four legs, two backs.

And one day the Great Spirit grew angry at this creature and took his tomahawk

and cut him apart.

And ever since that day, men and women have tried to get back together again.

Well, never they can.

Sully, may I ask you something?

What? About Lauren and Dorothy.

You think he's been in love with her all these years?

It's not the way he looks at her.

I think a man can love two women at the same time.

If you were one of the women, would you want him to?

Why don't you go on in and save me a play?

There really wasn't anything we could do to stop her. Well, and Dorothy's where

she belongs.

You honestly believe that?

I believe.

It's too late to change things.

But if you could... Can't.

Nobody can.

And you don't know how much I regret that.

Everyone has regrets, Lauren.

My Maude should have had more.

gotten more.

She didn't get what she deserved.

Perhaps that's true of you too, Horne.

I'll hold.

Now will you tell me why you brought me here? I brought you here because of

Snowbird. The people are angry with her.

What did she do?

The problem is what she won't do.

You've got to talk to her.

Do you know why she fought with Cloud Dancing?

Maybe because of you.

You think it's my fault? Not exactly.

Sometimes you don't know how much you influence people.

What are you saying, that I'm responsible?

You said...

Some things are the way they are for a reason.

You shouldn't be suggesting ways to change them. It kind of upsets the

order of things.

What do you suggest we do?

First, we gotta get them talking to each other again.

Don't worry.

Soon I'll bring a horse to Snowbird as a gift from you to make amends.

I already sent a horse.

And I sent the horse back.

What did he do?

He asked that girl to marry him.

He did?

He did not even tell me I had to hear from my sisters.

Can a man have two wives?

It's a Cheyenne custom when a relative is widowed.

He takes her as his wife if no one asks for her.

Sounds like a better custom for the man than the woman. That's what I said.

It is good that they are talking.

I think things are going well. Look, she's snotty.

That is a good sign.

I would rather live alone than be the grandmother.

All those years we spent together mean nothing?

The children we raised mean nothing?

Now he wants a younger wife to have more children.

Isn't there someone else you could marry?

There is.

But I think Cloud Dancing wants her. She doesn't want me anymore.

You know how men are.

Yes, I do.

At least I... I think I do sometimes.

Would you share the man you love with another woman?

Well... No, I wouldn't.

I would rather live alone, like you.

No bird. How are you?

What did you say to her?

None of your business.

One thing I do know, women sure know how to drive a man crazy.

You sound like a confirmed misogynist. No, I just hate women, that's all.

Oh, Lauren.

Who's going to get married these days?

Women acting so crazy, wanting to vote, wanting to close the saloon, wanting to

do things they ain't meant to do. They're stirred up, that's for sure.

Go tell them what they're going to do once they get the ring in their nose.

You can't trust them.

They're always changing their minds.

And worst of all, once they get you married, they want to change you.

You'll never see me get hitched again, I can tell you that.

You'll be at my funeral before you'll be at my next wedding.

You should hear the stories men tell me when they're sitting in my chair.

It's enough to make you want to go be a hermit.

You just haven't found the right woman.

You ever been married, Reverend?

Uh, no.

Ever been with a woman?

Oh, now, Jake, that's none of your business.

Have you?

I'm sorry, gentlemen. That's something I'm going to have to keep between

the good Lord, and the lady.

Oh, Dorothy.

I'm going to need some help getting down.

What happened to you this time?

I fell off that horse again.

If you don't get a sheriff to arrest him, I will.

No need for that.

I tried the law before. It never came to nothing. But it's over now for sure.

He won't be coming after me.

He won't.

Thank you, Lauren.

What will you do now?

I don't know.

I ain't given it much thought.

I guess I need a job.

What can you do?

Well, I like... I like Brighton.

I've written a lot of letters to the editor that got printed.

Well, maybe you could start a little newspaper.

We get the Denver paper. That's news enough for me.

But it's a week old and it isn't about anyone we know.

Maybe we could put a stack on the counter.

Sell them for a penny.

It's a foolhardy idea.

Besides, I don't have any room on the counter.

You do now.

That I straightened up?

No. There's no room there.

Thank you, Dr. Quinn, for being so kind.

Why don't you call me Dr. Mike?

Everyone else does.

What's your Christian name?

Michaela.

Suits you.

Do you mind if I call you that?

No.

No, of course not.

Help! Somebody help!

Somebody gotta help me! Whoa!

Get the lock. My boss is dead.

Who is he?

Jennings.

And there's a woman done it. She killed him.

What are you saying?

Falcon? He ain't gonna hear you because he's dead.

Falcon! Falcon!

Well, she did it. You gotta do something.

That's impossible. He was alive when I landed. Well, he ain't alive now.

And you're the one who killed him. But this.

He was landing before we found him.

Got his blood on him.

We've got to lock her up.

I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Let her go. How do you know I'm lying?

We'll find that out when we have a trial. Horace, why Denver?

Tell him to send a marshal and judge right away.

You can't arrest her.

Horace can. He's been deputized.

I didn't do anything. He hit me, and I ran. I fought back, and I ran.

Let go of her. What are you waiting for?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to arrest you, Mrs. Jennings, for the suspected

murder of your husband.

I don't understand something. Why didn't you just take the children and leave

him a long time ago?

What was I going to do with no money of my own and three young children to take

care of?

I can't believe I killed... I can't believe I killed...

I thought I was just stopping him.

That's all you were trying to do? Just trying to get him to stop hitting me.

I picked up that... Still it, because it was the first thing I could get my

hands on. I hit him once, just once.

And he stopped?

Damn right he stopped.

I mean, he... He fell back down on the floor, and he lay there, holding his

head, moaning, cursing at me.

I ran out of there while I could. I jumped on my horse, and I rode straight

here. But he was still alive when you left him. I think so.

Well, then I don't... see that you have anything to worry about.

Why's that?

Because from what you told me, any jury can see that it was self -defense.

Oh, Michaela.

I appreciate your concern, but it really don't matter what you want to call it.

My husband's dead, and I'm going to have to pay for it.

They just decided.

Tomorrow, Gray Eyes will become my wife.

Did you tell Snowbird?

Yeah.

I asked her one more time to come back to me.

What'd she say?

She would not answer.

She acts as if I do not exist.

I can't believe there isn't someone else who will marry Gray Eyes.

If there is, he hasn't come forward.

I must do this because of my position and responsibilities.

Even if it destroys your marriage to Snowbird?

What I want does not matter.

For our people to survive, I must do but strike for the tribe.

There's nothing else I can do.

All right, all right, settle down.

I, uh, thought the judge would be on the new stage, but he wasn't, so we're

gonna have to postpone the trial.

No, we don't. Jake's right.

You're deputized.

You can hear the case.

Me? I couldn't. Gentlemen, I really think we should wait for the judge.

He's gonna say the same thing Horace would when all the talking's done.

She's guilty. Everybody knows she killed him. But she was acting in self

-defense.

She's lying.

Horace, you gotta do it. It's your duty. But we'd need a jury.

You got one right here. You got me and Hank.

Warren. Oh, I can't. Why not? Well, I'm a relative, sort of. It's all right.

There's plenty of good men here. You and you, you fellas over there, back here.

You can't do this. You have to wait.

Well, she is entitled to a speedy trial.

She's also entitled to a jury of her peers.

You know, some judges wouldn't allow women at murder trials.

I'm here as her physician.

Then stop acting like a lawyer.

Let's get this over with.

Um... Ask her her name and if she done it.

Ma 'am?

I heard him.

My name is Dorothy Jennings.

Did you do it?

I guess I done it.

I mean, I hit him.

She didn't mean to kill him.

She's pleading not guilty.

All right, settle down.

Settle down.

They used to fight all the time.

I could hear them yelling, clear out to the bunkhouse.

What were they fighting about?

Horace, the jury can't have questions. You have to.

There you go, acting like her lawyer again.

Well, I'd be happy to represent her if she'd have me.

Wait a minute. No, you wait.

Now, Dr. Mike can do all the talking she wants.

So can anybody else.

As long as they take turns.

Go on. What were you saying?

Well, they was fighting that night.

Yes, sir. Woke me up. They was screaming so loud.

and then all of a sudden it stopped.

So I went back to sleep.

Couldn't find Mr. Jennings the next day, so I went to look for him at his house,

and that's where I found him.

Dead on the floor, blood all around him.

First time he hit me, I didn't want to believe it.

We'd only been married a year.

Why did he hit you?

I forgot to do something.

He flew into a rage.

Are you saying he only hit you when you deserved it?

Marcus always thought I deserved it.

He started drinking, and by the time he was drunk, I hadn't done something

wrong. He'd think something up.

So he was drunk when he hit you?

Yes. Did he ever hit you when he was sober?

Yes, after the children were gone.

But sober, drunk, it didn't really matter.

The only difference was how hard he hit.

Now, is there anything else anybody wants to say before the jury retires to

reach their verdict?

Dorothy Jennings was only defending herself.

She was afraid for her life that night.

She thought her husband, who had beaten her many times before, was finally going

to kill her. If Marcus had wanted to kill her, he'd have done it a long time

ago. All you did was hit her.

Hell, I...

Done worse to my whores.

What gives a man the right to strike a woman when he feels like it?

Only three reasons I know of.

She don't love you, she don't honor you, she don't obey you.

That's enough.

I'm sorry, Miss Jennings, but you've got to go back to jail while they decide.

So I, uh, guess we're stopping now.

What's going to happen to her?

I don't know.

But she needs to know that we'll all stand by her now.

She needs to know we're here for her, whatever happens.

Have they reached a verdict?

No, not yet.

Do you need anything?

Maybe you could bring me a cake with a file in it.

What's on your mind, Lorne?

Nothing.

You always did have trouble with your feelings, didn't you?

Some things don't change, do they?

Come on, Lauren.

Just this once.

Tell me what's bothering you.

There wasn't a day gone by I didn't think of you.

Did, uh, did you ever think of me?

Yes, I did.

Do you know how hard it is, can you, now, like this?

I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you.

Why'd you turn me down?

I love you so.

We could have been happy together.

I didn't love you, Lauren.

I was in love with Marcus.

He was exciting. I thought he was going to be something.

No, I wasn't.

I don't mean it like that.

Yes, you do.

You can't blame me for a choice I made back then.

I was young.

I didn't know better.

Don't you think I used to pray to God every night that my life had turned out

differently?

I know I did.

33, birdie.

All right, settle down.

Settle down.

You better stand up.

Mrs. Jennings, we find you guilty of murder in the first degree.

We think you ought to go to jail for the rest of your life for killing your

husband.

You best lock her up, hold her for the night. I'll wire Denver for a federal

marshal to come get her.

Well, that's it. I guess we're done here.

Don't worry, Dorothy.

We're going to appeal.

You'll only be wasting your time, Michaela.

All right, tell me one more time what happened. What for? The trial is over.

We're going to appeal. They're not going to change their minds.

Men out here don't think they're doing anything wrong.

Maybe different back where you come from, but... It's not.

There are a few places women were allowed to do internships.

The finer hospitals wouldn't have us, so we all wound up in the county

poorhouses and asylums.

And there were women like you in all of them.

And in my father's practice, there were women from the best Boston families who

were always falling down the stairs.

Nothing is going to change unless we change it.

I want a different world for Colleen to grow up in.

So do I.

He... He was drinking all day.

He passed out in the afternoon.

Woke up again about 9 o 'clock that night.

Said his stomach was hurting him.

Wanted fried eggs.

So he ate them.

And then he started spitting blood.

Blood? Has this happened before?

Oh, yes.

Got really bad when he was drinking.

Go on.

Well, I guess I wasn't moving fast enough, so he started hitting me.

I picked up the skillet, hit him hard.

He fell down on the floor and stayed there.

I want to exhume his body.

What? I want you to give me permission to dig him up.

What for?

I want to do an autopsy.

What are you... What do you think you're doing, Reverend?

She has Dorothy's permission.

It ain't right you cutting on a man after he's dead.

I cut on deceased men and women in medical school, Hank, and it's the only

that I can prove my theory. She killed him. It's been decided. We got

I think Mr. Jennings died of other causes.

And if I'm right, you can't convict Dorothy of murder because she didn't

him. Of course she did. Everybody knows she did.

I want to do an autopsy, and all I'm asking is a promise that you

Well, take a look at what I find.

How we know you ain't just giving us a mumbo -jumbo.

Well, you'll be able to see for yourself.

And if you refuse, I'll assume it's because you're either afraid of dead

or the truth.

Which is it?

Don't you share?

Wait.

Wait. What do you want?

I know it's your obligation and all. Take her as your wife.

But what if there was another man who was in love with her?

If there was such a man, he would have come forward to speak his mind.

He might, if he wasn't worried about offending a very important person who's

already made a marriage offer.

The choice would not be mine. It would be hers.

But first he must ask.

The door's open.

The door's open.

It's a very fine horse.

I am pleased you like it.

Is a horse like this?

Shouldn't want any other horses.

I agree.

Who would ever want another when you have this?

If you look at that picture, you'll see the drawing of a ruptured stomach.

The ulcerations are extensive.

Mr. Jennings drank heavily.

Over time, the alcohol does damage to most of the major organs.

Stomachs grow thin and the intestines rupture.

Man can bleed to death in moments.

Here's your cause of death, gentlemen.

See how the blood is darker?

Yes, I do.

Look, right there, Hank.

Gastritis, bleeding ulcers.

Let me see that.

Look here. See for yourself.

It's exactly how it is in the textbook.

I don't know about this.

I do.

I've seen enough.

Time to go?

Time to go free.

I decided that you can use Abigail's room for as long as you need to. Oh, no.

Lauren, that is so kind of you, and I accept, on one condition, that I be

allowed to work a few hours in the store a day to pay for it.

Well, you can.

Why not?

Come on, I'll show you.

This is why.

It's a desk.

That's not just a desk.

That's an editor's desk.

There's room for a hand press here.

Tight box over here

Someone

who's running a Gazette won't have time to work in my store

Disturbing the customers.