All language subtitles for S03E16 - The Hour of the Tiger

Keep 'em movin'!

[ Cattle Lowing ]

There's Summit Pass ahead.

Ride back and tell the boys
on drag. I wanna push the herd
through before sundown.

Yes, sir. [ Rumbling ]

Hold those cattle!

[ Cattle Lowing ]

We could have gone
the Indians one better.

Not only been
buried standing up,
but mounted.

Buried alive at that
if that slide had started
15 minutes later.

Remind me to go to church
this Sunday, will ya?I'm for that.

But I got a feeling
that come Sunday
and a month of others,

you'll be riding herd
right here.

With the pass gone, there's
no way over those mountains,
not even an Indian trail.

You mean the herd's
bottled up here?

Looks that way, unless--
That's for nobody to say
but Judge Garth.

See how good a foreman
you can be till I get back.

[ Chiming ]

Yeah, with the pass blocked,
the herd bottled up,

we can't run 'em south
to the railroad.

10,000 head
waiting to freeze. [ Door Opens ]

Oh. Did we wake you?

Well, I thought
you were at the roundup.
Is something wrong?

There's been a landslide
at Summit Pass.
No one was hurt.

I'll just go up there
and have a look,
that's all.

If that's all it was,
why couldn't it wait?

I don't--Could it be that
the pass is blocked...

and the herd can't
get back to Shiloh?

There's nothing for you to
worry about. The herd's on open
range, not on Antlow's land.

Daddy, you know there's
gonna be terrible trouble.I don't know any such thing.

He's been looking
for an excuse to kill you.
Everybody knows that.

What are you going to do?Well, for one thing,
I'm gonna send you to bed.

Losing sleep won't help.

It will if I pray
that Junius Antlow
doesn't get his wish.

You do that.

What do we do?

There's only one thing
we can do.

Run the herd north.North?

We can't drive 'em south
to the railroad
at Medicine Bow.

I won't let 'em freeze
on that range.

So we drive north
and pick up the railroad
at Junction City.

That means crossing
Antlow Range.

With his permission.You know he's always had
a blind hatred for you.

Well, a man can change
given the opportunity.

Junius Antlow change?
I think I'll come along
and watch the miracle.

You come along
as far as the herd.
After that, I go alone.

Whatever else you may have
heard, Junius isn't gonna
shoot an unarmed man.

Except you, maybe.

It's a chance
I'll have to take.

Hello, Susan.

Henry.

Good to see you.It's good of you
to say so.

Susan, I've gotta see Junius...

on a matter
of great importance.

Well, Junius isn't here.
He's gone away
for a few days.

Away? Where?

Please leave, Henry.
Please.

The two of you
meetin' up together again
can bring no good.

Believe me, it can't.

[ Door Opens ]

Ah! Thought
I recognized the voice.
How long's it been?

Goin' on 10 years.

Well, I can't say
you've changed much.
Put on a little weight maybe.

Can't say you've changed
much either, Junius.

[ Chuckling ]
Ah, that's where you're wrong.

I'm only half a man,
as you can see.

Depends on how
you judge a man.

Yeah, that's true.

But we can't all be
as philosophical as you,
can we?

Well, Susan, is that any way
to treat a good friend
and neighbor,

leave him standin' out here
in the sun, huh?

Won't you come in?
Please?Thank you.

Fetch Chris.Junius, I don't--

Well, I do, Susan.
It's been many a year since
our boy said hello to the judge.

Sit down, Henry. Sit down.
Make yourself at home.

As I recall,
this was your favorite chair
when you fell asleep...

trying to beat me
at chess.

Well, it's pretty dusty.Oh, that's all right.
That isn't necessary.

See, invisible
dust of years,
it piles up.

Sit down.

Now, what makes you
come calling?

Well, you might say
it was an act of providence.

Providence?

I suppose you know
I've been running my herd
on the range...

that, uh, backs up
to your land.

Uh-huh.

Well, I can't get my cattle
back to Shiloh.

Why not?

The pass is gone.
It's been blocked
by a landslide.

Summit Pass is gone?

[ Exhales ]
That don't seem possible.

Yeah, that would
cut off your herd,

kind of back 'em up
against those cliffs.

There is a way out.

If I can run my herd
across your land...

to the freight station
at Junction City--

Are you asking me
for a favor?

Or a business deal,
whichever you prefer.

How much will it take, Junius?
You can name it.

Now, that I can.

No, no, no.
Put it away.

Not enough money
in the mint to pay me.

Now, what is it
the good book says, Henry?

"Man does not live
by bread alone."

You can take your cattle
across my land,

get them to the market,
if that's what you want.

- You mean that?
- Well, I said it, didn't I?

Well.

I don't know what to say,
how to thank you,

not only
for your generosity...

and for making it possible
for me to save my herd,

but most of all,
for letting
what was between us...

die.

How much I've wanted that
all these years-- to be
the kind of friends we were.

Friends? Who said anything
about being friends, Henry?

Now, you said, uh,
you wanted to run
your cattle across my land.

I said it'd be all right.
But it's a business deal.

Maybe you won't wanna
pay the price.

I don't want any money.

Then what?

My legs, Henry.

Just give me back my legs.

What's wrong, Henry?

Is that too much to ask--
just to make me walk again?

To give me back
what you took away?

Impossible?
No more impossible...

than for you to get
your cattle across my land,

unless you want to make
some other kind of payment.

Unless you wanna
get down on your knees
and beg...

the way I said you would
when I first heard the news...

about that slide.You knew.

Yes, I knew.

Colton was close enough
to see it.

- He brought me the good news.
- And all this show--

[ Laughing ]

You wouldn't take away
the first real pleasure...

I've had in 10 years,
would you, Henry?

Oh, but the best
is yet to come, Henry.

It'll come with the winter
when the grass is thinnin' out,

and the snow drifts
are 20 feet high.

And those cattle up there
are trying to--

I'll have my cattle
out of there
long before that.

How?
When the spring thaw comes,

there'll be nothing left
but piles of bones.

I'm sorry for you, Junius.

You've got a lot more
to lose.

- It's your cattle.
- It's your conscience!

Let cattle freeze,
to starve to death,
to die hard.

Don't talk to me
about conscience!

Where was yours when you shot
my God-given legs
out from under me?

You know what happened!

If only you could be made
to see the truth.

The truth?
The truth is, you crippled me!

Yeah, there he is, Son.

My great good friend
and your godfather.

The man who crippled me.

If you ever see him
on our land again,
shoot him down...

like the Judas he is!

Dad!

Sit down.

I'm sorry, Susan.

Hope the twig
isn't bent too far.

[ Door Closes ]What was that
supposed to mean?

I'll tell you what it meant.

You won't tell
my son anything.

So he came begging
just like you said he would.

Well, not as much
as I had hoped for.

Well, just wait
till winter comes.

Nope. He won't do it.

If there's any way
of saving his herd,

Garth will find it.

[ Train Whistle Blowing ]Here they come. I can
hardly wait to see 'em.

Now, remember, we're supposed
to make 'em feel at home,

you know, not like
something on exhibition.

Daddy, don't worry about me.
I read everything I can
find out about 'em.

Well, they're just
as human as anybody else.That's too bad.

They won't work any better.Well, not from
what I've heard.

They're supposed to be
the hardest workers
in the world.

They'll sure
have a chance
to prove it.

[ Whistle Blows ]

There's not one.Judge, you sure
the wire said today?

Read it yourself.
"Full crew and foreman
arriving today."

Not another train from
San Francisco till next week,
if they come then.

Well, maybe I'd better
wire San Francisco. Mr. Garth?

Oh, you'd have to be,
since that gent
don't give the impression...

of being no scholar.Sorry. I don't recall--

Well, how could you?
You're shaking the fist
of Lafferty for the first time.

Well!

My daughter, Betsy,
my foreman--
Mr. Lafferty.

Oh, forget the "mister."
"Big Jim" they call me.
I'm your new construction chief.

You were supposed to
arrive with a full crew.

That's right.
Now if you'll just exercise
a little patience, Judge--

Patience? I thought
I made it clear we were supposed
to get started right away.

You will, Judge.
You will.Well, how?

Soon as that iron monster
stops belchin' smoke--

- What's that got to do with it?
- [ Shouts In Cantonese ]

Why wouldn't they
come out till now?

Lad, you wouldn't be
a bit more brave if you were
put inside a dragon.

Did you say a dragon?

I did.
You might think
that's a train.

Supposin' you never saw one,
and no sooner you'd stepped
off the boat from China...

and some foreigner in
a strange land put you inside
the belly of a monster,

spittin' fire,
snortin' smoke,

winding like
some great serpent
across the countryside,

huffin' and puffin',
roarin' day and night.

It's no wonder they're
scared half to death.

They think it's asleep now.
Just plain tired out,
the dragon is.

So now they feel
it's safe to come out?

You mean to tell me
you didn't know that?

Well, did you, Daddy?

Well, I don't pretend
to be an expert
on the Chinese, but--

Show me the man who is,
except another Chinaman.

I spent months with them
building the Central Pacific,
and I can tell you,

the more I think
I know about them,
the less I really do.

There's just no penetratin'
the Chinese mind.
No penetratin' it.

Well, I was given to understand
you can handle them.Oh, we get along.

I don't try
to change their ways.

[ Chattering In Cantonese ]

That looks like
that's all of 'em.

Aye, that's the lot.
These wagons for them?

I'm afraid
there won't be room
with all those bundles.

Yeah, well, all their
worldly possessions.
They'll find the room.

They come from a country
a lot more crowded than this.

[ Cantonese ]

[ Whistle Blowing ]

[ Shouting, Indistinct ]

[ No Audible Dialogue ]

What do you know?

[ Cantonese ]

Whoa.

Chinamen, Dad.
Real Chinamen.
We saw 'em, didn't we?

Pigtails down to here.Coolies.

Hindu word the British
brought into China.

Muscle for rent.
That's what it means.

Coolies?
Ain't that what they used
on the railroad?

You mean to say Garth
brought 'em in to lay a railroad
over that mountain?

You mean he's--
he's gonna ride 'em out.I don't care how much muscle.

They ain't gonna lay no track
over that mountain
before winter.

They tell a story,
as I remember,

a story I heard in the Orient
long before I moved here...

of how an army
tried to get over
the Chinese wall...

only to be thrown back
time and again.

But they had a warlord
in command who never
let anything stop him.

[ Sighs ]
He figured a way
to get past that wall.

How?

He went under it.

A tunnel, Judge.
That's the thing.

You're gonna dig a tunnel
through that pile of
loose shale and boulders?

The more you dig,
the more it'll slide.

Right you are, lad.
But I don't intend
to dig there. Look.

Here's where the avalanche
has cut off the canyon.

But off to the left here,
that wall is solid granite.

Because of the way the canyon
cuts back on itself,

it can't be much more
than a hundred feet thick.

If we tunnel though here
and break out here,

we'd have a nice tunnel
for the herd to go through,

bypass the fall,
and get back to Shiloh.

Hmm.You're gonna start the tunnel
on this side then, eh?

Well, that's the easiest.
Otherwise, our people have
to climb the cliffs.

[ Garth ]
That's not the only
good reason.

You mean Antlow?Yeah.

Think he might try
to stop us?

Well, we have to assume
he might try.

But he'd have
to scale those cliffs
to get at our men.

Judge, I think
we'd better post a guard
on the summit.

Yeah. How long
do you think it'll take
to dig this tunnel?

Oh, with luck,
we should finish
before the first snowfall.

Good.

[ Chanting, Shouting
In Cantonese ]

I want you boys to know
there's a good possibility...

Junius Antlow may try to
interfere with our work here.

He and his men would have
to come from that direction
beyond the herd.

You think he might try
to run off the herd?He might.

On the other hand, he might try
to attack the workers at
the tunnel mouth back there.

He and his men would have
to come over these cliffs
to do that.

That's why I want you
four boys to stand guard here
day and night.

Work out your own system
of relief.All right.

Unless anybody has
any better ideas, I guess
four hours on, four hours off.

If we can keep going
at this pace, we'll be in
well before the first snowfall.

They sure can work.

Here.

Now that's a good lad,
pitchin' in.
We can use an extra hand.

How many women would you say
were among 'em?Women? None.

Hmm?None.

A woman in camp--
it's like having a Jonah aboard.

They'd know better than
to let one slip through.Suppose one did?

We'd have to get rid of her.
What made you bring it up?

Nothing.

[ Reading, Indistinct ]

[ Galloping Hooves ]

Well, was I right?
Are they digging the tunnel?

I think so.What do you mean,
you think so?

I told you to spy 'em out,
find out what was going on.

We tried, Dad.
Couldn't get close enough.

Garth's put men with rifles
on the cliffs. Never climb
past them in daylight.

Well, then how'd you
find out about the tunnel?

Well, we could hear 'em
blastin' with dynamite.

It'd take them 10 years
to blast away all the rock
from that avalanche.

So I figure
they must be tunneling.

If he finishes
that tunnel before winter,
it'll save that herd.

No! That herd
must be destroyed.

Then you're just gonna
have to wait, Dad.

Garth will beat the weather,
or he won't.

There's no way
we can interfere with him
short of starting a range war.

No. That might cost me.

I wouldn't want it that way.
It's only Garth
that should be punished.

Then there's nothing
you can do.

I'll think on it.

You'd better go
and saddle those horses,
Son.

Your boy doesn't have
much stomach for trouble.

- You say they got a lot
of dynamite in that tunnel.
- That's right. What about it?

You think you could, uh,
get by those guards at night?

Yeah, I think so.

Here. You could use
a little weight.

[ Cantonese ]

What'd he say?He says 10,000 thanks, but
his cousin has more than enough.

One cup of rice
after a long day's work?

That's right.
Something tells me a fever
got the lad at birth.

Never made a sound all his life,
and it looks like he never will.

Hmm.

[ Gasping, Coughing ]

Ken! Ken, what happened?[ Coughing ]
I don't know.

We set off a charge,
but it wasn't that big
to go off like that.

How many men
went in with you?Twelve.

Well, nine came out.
Where's his cousin,
the one that can't talk?

He must still be in there.

Come on.
We'll give him a hand.

Help me get this off him.

[ Chattering ]

Clint, this wagon's
going to town.Right.

[ Cantonese ]

[ Cantonese ][ Cantonese ]

[ Shouting In Cantonese ]

Don't, Chang.

What's the matter?He wants his cousin
to stay here with him.

Tell him the kid
needs a doctor.He knows that.

[ Shouts In Cantonese ]

[ Groans ]Lie still.

And don't talk.With all those cracked ribs,
the less strain the better.

What about the--The girl?

She's still unconscious,
but she's gonna be
all right.

Doctor, hurry, please.

You're to remain still
unless you don't want
to heal properly.

That means stay
right where you are.

I am sorry.

So you cantalk,
in English, at that.

Good morning.
Time for breakfast.

Now, you have to eat
all of this because
Dr. Spaulding said...

that you're terribly
undernourished.

That comes from
living in China.

Hunger is forever stalking
the celestial kingdom.
I read that.

Yes, there is always
hunger in my land.

- What's the matter?
- You see from my feet
that have not been bound.

Your feet?
What do they have
to do with it?

I am not of noble birth.

It is not for
the master's daughter
to serve me.

The master--
Oh, you mean my father?

If it'll make you
feel any better,
he helped me fix it.

I am honored by this feast.

It's just
a normal breakfast.
Come on.

First, you eat the oatmeal,
and eat that with a spoon.

Something that they
don't have in China.

Oh, I forgot. They do
have spoons. It's forks
and knives that they don't use.

Long, long ago,
our people also ate
with knives and forks...

until an emperor thought
thatwas uncivilized.

And did he chop the heads off
the ones he caught
eating like we do?

It has always been the privilege
of an emperor to chop off
the heads of his subjects.

If not for one reason,
then another.

Fascinating. Oh!

All the things
that I want to ask you
about everything Chinese.

Come on. Eat.

Lafferty says the odds
are ten to one that explosion
was not an accident.

Deliberate sabotage, huh?
Think it was Junius?

Maybe. But it'd be
impossible to prove.

We're posting guards at
the tunnel from now on.

I'd better go back with ya.

No. What good would you do
with a set of cracked ribs?

No, you stay here
and hold the fort.
Keep an eye on Betsy...

if you can tear her away
from that Chinese girl
for a minute.

Huh. I wonder if Betsy's
been able to find out...

why she came over here
disguised as a coolie.

Some sort of woman's reason,
I suppose.

I don't know.
It may have
something to do...

with some Chinese philosophy
we don't know anything about.

Chinese philosophy?

She thinks like any
other woman-- with her heart
instead of her head.

Well, at any rate,
you give Betsy a hand
taking care of her.

It'll keep your mind
off those cracked ribs
for a few days,

give 'em a chance to heal.Take care of yourself,
Judge.

I wouldn't
even put bushwhacking
past Junius now.

Good morning.Good morning to you.

Oh, please, come in.
Do without knocking.

Where's the tea?
No tea for
a Chinese princess?

Well, the doctor said
to feed her.

Your father said
I was to help you
take care of this girl.

Go bring the tea.

Sometimes, your so subtle.

Go ahead and
finish your breakfast.

Don't stop on account
of me, Miss--
whatever your name is.

I thought you could
speak English.

For some things,
I have words.

Do you have the words
for your name?

Kam Ho.

Why do you keep
your head lowered?

It is our custom
before a man.

But you didn't
do that before.

We were not alone.

Well, you're in America now.

You don't have to keep
your head lowered alone
or in a crowd.

When I read of such things,
I could not even imagine it.

And many other things.

Tell me, honorable sir, is it
really true no parents ever
sell their daughters here,

no matter how much
they have need of the money?

Is that what goes on
in China?

It is customary in famine
and in hard times...

to be sold as a servant
or a slave girl.

So that's why you came over here
disguised as a coolie.
Your father sold you.

No. My venerable ancestors
have long left...

for the land of Yam Fong,

the world of
departed spirits.

Well, then whoever raised you
tried to sell you.
Is that it?

No.
That was not my fate.

I was raised in
the house of Chang.
My uncle was very kind.

Your uncle?
Is he the one
you came over with?

Can he speak English?

Where did you learn?

In a mission school
in Canton.

Why pass yourself off
as a coolie?

I cannot say it was my idea,
but a brilliant one
of the honorable Chang.

They would not allow
a woman in the camp.

That's very clever
of your uncle,

except that he almost
got you killed in the bargain.

Well, this may not be
like the tea in China, but--

I'd say you oughta get down
on your knees and give thanks.
Don't you think?

Give thanks?That you were born
a girl in this country.

What's he talking about?

Whoa.

Good morning.
You know, it's a long way.
Are you sure you're up to it?

How is it said
in this land?
I am good as new.

Kam Ho?Well, almost like new.

Honorable sir,
are you well enough to go?

I'm better than new.

Don't expect us
back from town too early.What's to keep you?

You're only gonna
see the doctor.

For one thing,
I've got some business to
take care of for your father.

And for another, I--I wish to buy
some silk.

And I wish to take her to her
first American restaurant...
for lunch.

Get up!

Remember the doctor said
you had to gain some weight.

For openers,
a great American dish--

spaghetti with
butter sauce and cheese.

Go ahead and try it.

There's a trick to it.
Watch. Use your spoon.

Big spoon.

It's so slippery,
like little eels.Mmm.

When you get the hang of it--
Let me show you.

There you are.

Go ahead.
Haul it in.

I will now
attempt it alone.Fine.

Take it easy.
Wrap it good and tight.

That's it. That's it.
You're gettin' the hang of it.

You're supposed
to swallow that.

- After you chew it.
- [ Laughing ]

Hello, Chris.

The special.

Chris, this is Kam Ho.
Chris Antlow.How do you do?

I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to stare.

How's your father?Do you really care?

If I didn't,
I wouldn't have asked.

I guess you heard
there was an accident
up at the tunnel.

No.Well, then your father
hasn't heard either.

No. What if he did?
What does that have to do him?

Nothing maybe,

except
a God-fearing man's...

gotta feel mighty bad,

mighty bad when
he's been hoping something
like that would happen.

Then all of a sudden,

there's an explosion,
and a girl almost dies...

and two men are killed.

I'd sure hate to have
something like that
on my conscience.

What are you getting at?
That my father had
something to do with it?

I didn't say that.Well, that's what
you're hinting at.

Please.
Where should we buy
the silk cloths?

At the general store.

A week from tonight
is the 15th day...

of the eight month
of the Chinese year,

when we celebrate the festival
of the harvest moon
in my country.

I wish to make
some mandarin gowns
for Betsy and myself.

I will make a full effort
to bring the blessings of
the gods on the judge's house.

But none will enter
where there are only women.

Well, if that's an invitation,
I'll be there.

Somethin' on your mind?

Well, come on.
Spit it out, boy.

I was in town today.
I heard there was
an explosion...

down at that tunnel
that Garth's digging.

One explosion?
There have been
10 or 12 every day.

They got dynamite down there.This one
was an accident.

A couple of the men
were killed.

Oh. Well, now,
that's the best news
I've heard in a week.

- One of 'em was
Henry Garth, I hope.
- Oh, Dad!

Well, I do hope!
Is there anything
wrong in that?

Or it's your idea I should
be down there praying with him.

Maybe helping him dig.No, I don't think
you should do that.

Well, thank you
for your kindness
and understanding.

Now, Dad, don't be like that.
Don't try to make it out
that I'm some sort of enemy!

Garth is my enemy.

No, he isn't, Dad. He's just
a man. A man trying
to get his cattle to market.

Whosoever brings comfort
to mine enemies.

I don't think we should
try to help him, but that
doesn't mean we have to--

Him shall I spite,

and all who work for him,
no matter who gets hurt.

Those two coolies that died
shouldn't have been
working for him.

How'd you know
they were two coolies
that were killed?

You just said so.No, I didn't.

You knew about it
all along, didn't you?

Dad, did you put
Colton up to it?

Nobody can prove anything.Dad, that's murder!

Chris!

I didn't think
you'd have to know, but maybe
it's better that you do.

I am going to stop
that tunnel any way I can.

I just thought I'd tell ya.

I don't consider you
as anything but my son.

And if there is a showdown,

I know where you'll stand.

Then you know more
than I do, Dad.

[ Door Opens, Closes ]

♪♪ [ Singing In Cantonese ]

♪ Forever through the years

♪ The wheat of heaven turns

♪ The moon of harvest time

♪ But the loved ones

♪ The loved ones

♪ Who gather underneath

♪ Soon do not return

♪ Like bamboo in a breeze

♪ The loved ones

♪ The loved ones

♪ Soon are parted

♪ By the forever years

♪♪ [ Ends ]

Oh, that was beautiful.Your playing was.

- She taught me this afternoon.
- But my singing
was miserable.

And my dancing as clumsy
as a water buffalo.

Then a water buffalo
must be the most
graceful thing in China.

That doesn't sound like
a song for a fiesta.

Fiesta?

Holiday.

"Lovers soon are parted
by the forever years."

- Sounds like a love song.
- Now it's time for the cakes.

The moon cakes.

Thank you. I'll see
if the tea's ready.

Is this part
of the ceremony?Yes.

In honor
of the harvest moon.Thank you.

Will you sing again?If you can endure
my very poor voice.

[ Pots Clanging ]

What's all the racket?See for yourself.

[ Gong Clanging ]

It's their way of scaring off
the evil spirits at the start
of the harvest festival.

I supposed that's to make
the soil more fruitful?

No, that's a ceremony
of the honorable death.

Ceremony of what?It's an old ritual for
scaring off the evil ones...

who won't let their prayers
be heard for a good harvest.

Well, why honorable death?

Well, because they use
the same poison when
they take their own lives,

which they don't regard
as a sin, but as
an honorable good-bye...

when there's
no other way to go.

And, uh--
And that's their
Chinese belief.

Dragon venom
they call it.
Straight out of China.

Bright moon tonight.

Yeah. It should make the job
of your men guarding
the ridge a lot easier.

I got a feeling
your friend, Mr. Antlow,
is going to leave us alone.

I wouldn't count on it.

[ Betsy ]
Look at all those
beautiful chicken tracks.

Or whatever you call 'em.

Every one of these
little "chicken tracks"
is a word in our language.

What does it mean?

Two days, the sun
has come and sped away.

Two nights,
the moon so bright
has waned and fled.

And still, I do not hear
the voice I long for.

Near he is, somewhere.

Near he is,
and yet farther from me...

than the river Chi...

and the kingdom of the lotus
beyond the emerald sea.

Autumn lingers,
soon to wither
in winter's long embrace.

This I know.

No blossom of plum or peach tree
shall I see in springtime...

should he not come
and part the curtain...

of broken reeds
that is my heart.

You must miss him very much.

All the way to China.

Um, tell me,
what-what did it feel like
when you fell in love?

Did it feel like
lightning hit you?

It-- It was more like
a rushing stream.

You mean you were
carried away?

I felt I was... drowning.

[ Praying In Cantonese ]

Sorry.
I didn't mean to scare you.

I knew Kwinena
would bring you.

Kwinena?In the garden
of my father's house,

there's a stone on which stands
a porcelain figure of
the goddess of mercy.

When I could not sleep,
I would pray to her.

Tonight, I prayed
you would come and tell me
in what way I offended you.

You haven't offended me.
What gave you that idea?

Our shadows have not crossed
for two days.

[ Chuckles ]
I've been in town checking on
some supplies the judge ordered.

Then you are not
displeased with me?

Of course not.

A rider came in today from camp.
He had a message
from your uncle.

He says he's praying
for you to get well soon.

He expects you back,
but, uh,

I don't think Lafferty
will take well to that idea.

The honorable Chang knows
I shall go back.

- I am bound to him.
- Bound?

I am to be his wife
and bear his sons.

But if he's your uncle--

We're not of the same blood.
Only of the same clan.

He's not my uncle
as you would think of it.

I see.

How-- How long
have you known him?

Since my parents died
when I was a child.

I was promised to him
by my father.

It is the custom in my country
for parents to choose
the husband.

Well, if it was all said,
why didn't he
marry you in China...

instead of smuggling you
over here as a coolie?

Honorable Chang
is a learned man.

Is caller of Confucius.
He follows all the ways
of his ancestors.

He could not take a wife
and still buy rice
for his aged parents too.

Then he left them.

When he heard of the money
to be made in this land,

that he could fulfill
his duty to his parents and yet
have a family of his own--

What about you?
Do you love him?

In his country,
no man would walk
before the honorable Chang.

Though he was a poor man,
all would walk behind him
at a respectable distance...

because of his learning
and character.

But here, he is without honor,
without the home
of his ancestors,

without
his venerable parents,
as scholar of the sages...

wearing the straw hat
and the sandals
of a coolie...

because he wishes me
to bear his sons.

I don't doubt
he's everything you say he is.
Maybe more.

But do you want
to be his wife?

I do not question
the choice of my parents.

[ Randy ]
♪ Down in some lone valley

♪ In a lonesome place

♪ Where the wild birds
sing sweetly ♪

♪ And the wind
blows so free ♪

♪ Farewell, pretty Sarah

♪ I bid you adieu

♪ But I'll dream
of pretty Sarah ♪

♪ Wherever I go

♪ My love
she won't have me ♪

♪ So I understand

♪ She wants a rancher

♪ Who owns house and land

♪ I cannot maintain her

♪ With silver and gold

♪ But I'll dream
of pretty Sarah ♪

♪ Wherever I go ♪

[ Footsteps ]

Randy. I thought
you might like some chow.

Thanks.Where are the rest
of the men?

Oh, they're strung out
along the ridge.

How's it goin'
down below?Oh, fine.

Those Chinese really make
the dirt fly.

Why, that tunnel's
halfway done, I figure.

No sign of
Antlow's men, huh?No, not yet.

I'm beginning to think
they might not
show up at all.

Oh, a funny thing happened.
maybe you ain't heard.I ain't heard nothin'.

Well, that Chinese fella
that was hurt in the explosion
and they sent back to Shiloh--

- What was funny about it?
- Well, it wasn't a him,
but a her.

No foolin'? That's right.

- Well, what else is new?
- Nothin' else.

- No more explosions?
- Nope.

Unless you count Mr. Lafferty's
when he heard about
that Chinese girl.

[ Chuckles ]
Yeah, I bet.

I'll see you later.Yeah, thanks again.

Please take me with you.You're not well enough
to go back to camp.

The honorable Chang
wishes me to be with him.

Then let him fetch ya.
Till then,
you're staying here.

He would lose face
coming to me.

I'll hitch a wagon.

"Lifted up their voice
and wept.

"Called the name
of that place Bochim.

And they sacrificed there
under the"--

Well?I got past the guards
on the cliff.

But I couldn't
get into the tunnel.
They put guards there too.

Sit down.

You know,
judging by the pile of rocks
they've got dug out,

I'd say that tunnel's
about three quarters finished.

Garth's gonna lick us.

No. If we can't destroy
the tunnel, we'll hit
at his coolies.

You expect me to kill
all 50 of 'em?

[ Chuckles ]
Not kill. Demoralize.

Play on their
heathen superstitions,
and they'll all quit.

It's the Lord that's
shown me the way.

- I learned as Delilah learned.
- Delilah?

She destroyed
Sampson's strength
by cutting his hair.

Now, if you take
a Chinese's pigtail
from him,

you destroy
more than his strength.

You hit
at his very soul.

What's that
you're burning?

A poem
of a woman's sadness.

Aren't you happy
to be returning to
the man you will marry?

With him, I will never feel
as a woman should
with her husband.

This I know.
Even before
the wedding night,

when he lifts the veil
from my face...

and I taste his lips
for the first time--

Why do you go to him?

It is my juwan.

Your juwan?

Fate.

Come on, now.
Things can't be
that bad.

It is.
I must marry this man,
or die.

Die?Take my own life.

It would be honorable.[ Scoffs ]

Kam Ho, what would
killing yourself solve?

Why don't you just tell Chang
you can't marry him?

I told you, my father
promised me to him.

Yeah, but youdidn't.

Surely your father
wouldn't want you to
make an unhappy marriage.

He made the promise.
I must honor it,

or I will find
no peace in the land
of the departed spirits...

for all time to come. You believe that?

Yes. It is so written
in the book of rights...

given us by Confucius.

I won't argue
with your religion.

But there must be
something you can do.

What would you do?

Or is it that
you have never been
promised in marriage?

By my father?Yes.

[ Chuckles ]
No. That's not the way
we do things.

Neither my father
nor my long-dead ancestors
will choose my wife.

She'll be my choice.
The woman I love
who loves me.

Ah.
Because you are a man?

No. In our country,
a woman has
the same right.

How can such things be?

Just take
my word for it.

For a moment,
you made me forget
my unhappy heart.

Kam Ho,
your father isn't here
to release you from his promise.

But couldn't Chang
release you?

He wants me to marry him.

Does he love you?Oh, yes.

Surely he wouldn't want
to force you into
an unhappy marriage, or worse.

That's simple logic.
And if Chang released you,

then you would not be
dishonoring your father.

Yes. Yes, that is true.

You should talk to him
about it.

Yes.
I shall speak to him.

And he's a kind man.

So very kind.
He will let me go.

Fine.

And, uh, there'll be
no more talk about
the honorable death, huh?

No. I do not want to die.

I want to live,
live for the someday...

when a man I love
will love me.

The poem is ashes,

but I shall write another...

of how a woman has been
made happy by a man's wisdom.

No hard feelings,
but just to
keep you quiet--

[ Chattering, Shouting ]

[ Shouting In Cantonese ]

What are you two
doing here?

Never mind that.
What's all
the excitement about?

Someone cut off his pigtail.And that's life
to a Chinaman.

I must go to him now.

What do you mean, life?

Oh, you can bet that Junius
knows what that means,
having lived in the Orient.

And he must know
this can lead to
what they call big trouble.

[ Shouting In Cantonese ]

Tell him I'm sorry
about what happened.

That would not
take away his sorrow.

A man whose queue
has been taken from him
cannot return to China.

His head would be chopped off
the minute he set foot
in his homeland...

by order of the emperor Chin.

And so... he cannot go back
and marry another.

We can find another
Chinese woman in this country,
or send for one.

He cannot even buy a wife
without his queue.

For then, she could
never return or be buried
in her homeland either.

What are you trying
to tell me?

That you're even
more obligated
to marry him now?

He's the only son
of the house of Chang.

Without a woman
to bear him sons,
his family tree would die.

This would be
his greatest shame.

Look. I'm not asking you
to add to his misery now,

but later,

I think you owe it to yourself
to tell him just how you feel.

You were right.

But I never figured how right
when you talked about
a different way of thinking.

Yeah, people can talk
the same language,
and still be worlds apart.

All right.
I talked the coolies into
going back to work tomorrow...

and the promise
it won't happen again.

But let one more
pigtail get chopped off,

and you can be sure
they'll all drop
their tools and run.

[ Shouting In Cantonese ]

No, it's a lie!

You said to scout them out
and see if the coolies
had stopped digging below.

Well, they stopped digging,
all right. They just
broke through on the other side.

Do you know what that means?
Garth will be driving
his herd through...

just as soon as he can
run them from downrange.

No, no!
The Lord showed me the way.

Sampson,
in the Book of Judges.

That same book,
it tells how Sampson,
blind and handicapped,

no longer the man he was,
still pulled the pillars
of the palace...

down on the Philistines.

Now, we're gonna blast
that tunnel shut!

Go on! We'll get everybody.
Come on.Junius, no!

I can't let you go.
You'll be killed!Get out of my way, woman.

Hasn't this
cost me enough?
The husband I once had?

You don't understand!I do understand!

You lost more than your legs
when you fought against
Judge Garth.

You lost your mind!Oh!

Now you get enough dynamite
to blast down that mountain!

Ma?

Ma! [ Door Opens ]

What's the matter?
Where is everybody?

There was no way
of stopping him.
No way!

Garth.
He went to hit Garth?

Your father and every man
that works for him.

They took dynamite!

Chris! Chris,
don't you go near there!

There's gonna be shootin'!
Chris!

Stop where you are!

[ Gunshot ]

My father's on his way here
with all the riders
from the ranch.

Get the men.
Thanks.

You don't owe me any thanks.
I did it for him.

Sooner or later,
he's gonna have
to realize...

that killing innocent people
won't get him his legs back.

You still don't know
how it happened, do you?

No. He just told me
that you were his friend.

And you find it hard
to understand that--

Yes. That you crippled him?
I find it hard
to understand.

But you're his son, Chris.
His son,
not just a friend.

Still, you rode to try
to stop him from doing something
you thought was wrong.

Well, 10 years ago,
like you, I rode.

Tried to stop him
from burning out
some homesteaders.

When I faced him,
he wouldn't listen to reason.
He drew on me.

I had to fire
in self-defense.

I didn't want to kill him.
I shot at his legs.

May the hour of the tiger
not come to you.

The hour of the tiger?

When we are
snatched away from life
by the claws of death.

I'll be back.

Get back!
Get back!

Garth and his men
are ready for you.
You haven't got a chance.

So you've decided
which side you're on, huh?

Will you listen to me, Dad?
I'm on no one's side.
I just wanna put a stop to this.

Then get out
of our way, Son.

You heard your pa.
Now, move!

Now, if you can't back up
your own dad,

then you just stay
out of it altogether.

Now, you beat it, kid.

I'm gonna run you down,
you don't get, boy.

Stay back, Colton.

No! Colton!

Wait a minute!

[ Sobbing ]

[ Gunshot ]

So that's your answer?
Kill yourself?It's the only way.

It's no way!

[ Bottle Shatters ]Even if he won't release you.

- I did not ask him.
- You said you were going to.

That was before the big sorrow
had come to his life.

I could not bring him
more sorrow.

Did you think that
killing yourself
would not bring him sorrow?

I did not think of that.

What then?

That I could not bear
his sons... loving you.

Would you then
bring me sorrow?

It is the only way.

But your father's promise
didn't obligate you to me.

My heart obligates me.

For this, you'll die.

How can I make you
see some sense?

Your ways are not my ways.

I-- I never tried
to change your ways.
Just understand them.

Then understand
what I must do.

Because it is
the only honorable way?

Yes.

That's not true.

I say that
if you do this thing,
you will dishonor me.

- You?
- Isn't it your belief...

that your life belongs
to whoever saves it?

That's true.

Well, didn't I save your life
when the roof of
the cave collapsed?

Had you not carried me out,
I would have died.

Then your life belongs to me,
and I forbid you to destroy it.

Should the hour of the tiger
come by your own hand,

I will be forever dishonored.

I shall never dishonor you.

Then you must
choose life.

I shall pray for guidance.

Good.

Kam Ho,
I am sure that in time,

all this unhappiness
will be forgotten.

I shall never forget you.

Never is
a long time.