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[gunshots]

Whiskey, please.

You're Mr. Embry?

I taught it'd be so simple to find you.

What's on your mind, Mr. Hansch?

I was told you have a $1000 you wanna get rid of.

Ja,that we have.

Who is we?

Me, my people.

We have a ranch in a place called North Fork.

It's right outside of Medicine Bow.

We've been only there a short while.

Get to the point.

The point? Ja,the point.

We work hard, my people.

This land is new to us and we work hard.

And we don't want trouble.

We built fences for our cattle.

A-- a barn.

We fixed our houses nicely.

We put much work into it.

The point, Mr. Hansch.

Someone, they tear down our fences.

The windmill.

They drive away our cattle.

Salt is even in the water.

Well, who is this someone?

We don't know.

At least, we're not sure.

One man, maybe more.

They come with hate in their heart,

with anger, to us.

And you want me to find out who he or they are

and put a stop to it?

Ja.

That's what we want you to do.

When do I get paid?

When can you come?

Well, how about Thursday?

So soon?

Ja,that'll be alright.

Go home, Mr. Hansch.

It wouldn't do for us to be seen

riding into Medicine Bow together.

Thursday...

about noon, I'll be there.

Do you have someone who can meet me?

Someone to meet you?

No, uh... My daughter.

She goes to the store for supplies.

How will I know her?

Well, I don't know.

Try money, Mr. Hansch. Say, $200?

You describe me to her.

She can make the introduction with the money.

We'll arrange for the rest of the payments

as we go along.

Yes, that's the way we'll do it.

Go home, Mr. Hansch.

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Tate?

Here's a list.

You wanna go in town and collect these?

- I don't see why not. - Good.

Uh, try and be back before sundown, hm?

- But it's still morning. - Ah, yes.

But there are a lot of things happening in town.

Pretty girls, saloons.

I don't think you have to worry about that.

What?

Don't tell me you've changed.

Not hardly, but what'd I need a saloon for?

It says right here, "One case of bourbon."

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Hail this sack of flour.

This should hold you folks for a spell.

Oh, ja,I hope so.

Well, like the sayin' goes,

"Not by bread alone

or beans."

I just got red.

- Oh, that would be good. - Good.

When are you sending the wagon in?

- Miss? - Excuse me?

I don't blame you for looking out.

You come into town so seldom.

But I was just trying to find out

when should I look for the wagon.

Uh, today, m-- maybe this afternoon, ja?

Oh, sure, anytime. I'll be here.

I've been here for 27 years.

I'm not likely to pull out now.

Oh, calico. I just got some new in.

Good, strong weave, nice pattern.

You won't find any better.

Let me give you the whole piece.

- Danke. - Fine.

Like I always say,

if you got the figure,

calico is just as fine as silk.

Yes, sir, just let me finish

with this pretty, young lady here.

Merkle: And believe me, that ain't gonna pleasure me none.

No hurry.

I don't seem to recollect your face.

First time I've been in.

Merkle: Oh, new, huh?

You might say.

Merkle: Well, that's about it.

Unless you've got something else.

- Uh, no, I don't think so. - Oh, good.

Well, you send the wagon in,

I'll keep everything together.

Vielen danke.

Uh, I thank you so much.

Thank you, miss.

Sorry.

She's one of them Germans. I guess you know about them.

Can't say I do.

Oh, they bought themselves a big spread

out on the North Fork.

They don't hardly come into town much.

Talk is, they've been having some trouble.

What can I do for you?

I got a pretty big list here.

Oh, Shiloh. You're working out to Shiloh?

Mm-hmm.

Don't seem to me I heard your name.

I didn't say it.

If you like saying it now?

- Tate. - Tate.

Oh, that MacKenzie, he's a mighty fine gentleman.

Bein' a Britisher and all that.

You come from this part of the country?

Unh-unh.

Oh, you stay here long enough

you won't want no other.

You wouldn't be from California?

No.

[chuckles]

You ain't the fella to dry your spit with talkin'.

No.

Then I better get on with this order.

I'll get ready to load.

- Nein! - I've never seen you talk.

[laughs] I bet they taste just like American girls.

Alright, they say walking's healthy,

now, let's walk.

Come on.

Oh, mister, thank you so much.

It's alright.

[speaking in German]

When...

When you came into the store,

I knew, I knew it was you.

We waited for you.

Here, we will give you more.

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$200?

You mean to say she just gave it to you and rode off?

That's right.

Well, why didn't you go after her and give it back?

It would've taken all day in the wagon, I had to get back.

Cook said he needed this stuff.

And the girl wasn't very pretty?

It just wasn't my business.

I'll get the money back to her next time

I'm over near the North Fork.

When were you there last?

Never.

- I said I'd give it back. - Yeah, but when?

This must be a lot of money to those Germans.

Alright, if you say.

Look, we can go over by the ridge

if they aren't back by supper.

No reason you have to ride along.

They're my neighbors.

Fellow ranchers, I haven't even seen them.

It's only polite that I pay my respect.

We'll go there when you've finished unloading.

And the I give the money to HerrEmbry and I tell him

that we will give him more, and I come home immediately.

But, Clara, I don't understand--

Oh, papa, I did it just like what you told me.

Yes, you've done good, Clara. But where is he?

Why didn't he come with you?

Papa, it's supposed to be a secret.

He doesn't want anyone to know he's here.

But you know it is him? He maybe talks to you?

Ja,Huber, there were too many people,

he couldn't tell me nothing.

Not even his name?

Oh, Paul, don't you listen to what I'm saying?

There was no time.

How can you know it was him?

Clara, we worked hard for this money.

You should've seen him, papa.

He was so strong and so fast and very intelligent.

When he came into the store, he didn't even look at me.

But he says to HerrMerkle that he is new in town,

but he means for me to hear it.

And when those two men were holding me,

one has me like this,

[choking] I could hardly breathe, papa.

The other one like this, he's trying to kiss me.

I'm fighting, fighting, but he's too strong for me,

but HerrEmbry was not afraid.

He comes in, he takes the one man like this

and he goes, "pow," with the fist.

Then he pulls his gun, "whoosh," on the other.

It was so fast, the other one, he couldn't even move, papa.

And then he pushes me like this, I'm almost falling down.

Oh, papa, he was so strong, he was so fast.

Oh, papa, don't be afraid.

HerrEmbry is here,

and we don't have to worry

that they will hurt us anymore.

Ivers: I'm paying you good, hard cash

from out of my gut.

And you two... saddle tramps.

I give a roof, a bowl,

and you do a stupid thing like that.

We just tried to do like you told us, Mace.

I never told you to do nothin' like that.

You said for us to cross them heineis

any chance we got.

Not with the whole town watching.

You might as well put a sign on your back,

"We got to get them heinies out of here."

Clowns, the both of you.

It won't happen again, Mace.

As long as you know which pocket your money's in.

They do something to you?

I don't like 'em, is all.

They're foreigners.

Don't know nothing 'bout ranchin', don't belong here.

A bunch of tailors, storekeepers, shoemakers.

Well, now my old man run a store.

That ain't what I mean.

They ain't got no feelin' for the land.

Them heinies eat different, talk different,

think different,

like they got a wall around them.

And it ain't Joshua and his seven trumpets

gonna bring it down.

Only one thing to do.

Get rid of them.

So, who's this fellow who poked his nose in?

I ain't got no idea.

But how come he's so handy, just when she needs him?

I don't know.

You ain't never seen him around?

Never once.

But he come out of this door, maybe old man Merkle

might know who he is.

Yeah.

Nope. First time he ever come in.

He's real fast, ain't he?

Y-- yeah, sure made Verne

look like he was cut out of stone.

You want something else?

- Some coffee maybe. - Alright.

If I was you, I wouldn't figure on him

to bring you much business.

He's just a hired hand out at the Shiloh.

Name's Tate.

Shiloh, huh?

I wouldn't have got that, I only asked it straight out.

That girl sure was lucky he was around.

- Oh, oh, just happened, huh? - Mm-hmm.

You wanna put this on the bill?

Oh, oh, yeah. Thanks.

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Mornin'.

I'm looking for a young lady named Hansch.

Well, she's been here, but she's gone.

Oh?

Well, then, maybe you gentleman could help me.

Can't say till you ask.

I'd like to get out to North Fork.

Oh, I thought it was gonna be something tough.

Just keep on riding the way you were

till you get to the end of the town.

Then you take the North Fork,

it's about ten-eleven miles out of town.

Much obliged.

A gun hand from the way he wore his gun.

Yeah.

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Papa! Papa, come quick!

Oh, you're here.

Papa, he's here. Embry is here.

I knew I was right.

Wrong, I would've told you that in town

had you lived long enough.

This is not the one.

Oh, papa, I'm so sorry. I thought...

- But the money? - Oh, we brought it.

Here, not exactly a calling card, but...

My name is Alan MacKenzie. This is Tate.

We're your neighbors, give or take a mile or two.

From Shiloh.

Ah, ja,I...

I'm August Hansch.

This is Alex Huber.

This is Paul Erlich and HerrSteiner.

[chuckles] Sorry, you must ride so far.

No, it's not very far, we should've come over here

a long time ago.

My daughter has made a bad mistake.

She thinks you're somebody else.

HerrEmbry.

He said he would come to work for us.

And take his pay in advance?

Well, his kind of work is...

What kind of job is that?

Well, we...

We are not the kind of people who know anything about guns.

You mean, he's a hired gun?

Mister, you made a worse mistake than she did.

You talk so easy, you don't know. We need help.

Well, bringing in a hired gun won't do any good.

Just buying yourself more trouble, that's all.

They steal our cows.

They cut our wire.

We already have trouble.

You don't understand, we do need help here.

That's the heart of it, isn't it?

You're strangers,

everything is new and different.

When it come down to it, we're all strangers, huh?

This is not exactly a South Texas accent

I'm speaking with.

But where you came from is very stable,

with lots of laws, lots of police.

But the price that you had to pay for that life,

you obviously were not willing to pay.

Now, the life here has a different kind of price,

but it's not payment to a paid gun.

Papa, he knows this place,

maybe you should listen to what he says.

Shh. [speaking in German]

Oh, no, only when you needs a woman

when I have to go into town to give the money.

But it's different here for women.

You-- you explain to him, it's not the same for women...

Clara, schweigen!

- Anytime you say. - Alright.

- Are you telling us to kill? - No.

Not to allow yourself to be killed.

That's very different.

May I have a word with you?

HerrTate.

I, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to make so much trouble for you.

Serves me right for buttin' in.

Oh, no, it's not so. I told Paul, uh...

This is Paul. We are, uh, how you say, promised.

We will be married soon.

Congratulations.

You have done a fine thing, HerrTate.

For a long time, I've been saying to myself

it is wrong to bring this man with a gun.

Paul, you thought this?

But yo-- you didn't tell this to me.

If I tell you, liebchen, will it change your father?

The others? Will they listen to me?

I am a teacher.

Four walls, the classroom, children.

This, I can understand.

But this, it is too big.

To hope...

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I expected to be met in town.

I sent somebody.

There was a mistake.

No matter. I'm here.

We will talk, ja?

Sometimes things change.

You're pullin' out?

Why don't you give him the $200 and get rid of him?

Ja,$200. Right here.

If you wanna pull out, that's no skin off my hunch.

But I made a deal for a $1000.

I can't give you that much now.

You said there would be time.

Both sides have to stick to their words in my line.

That's the only way that it works.

You told me a $1000, I'm taking a $1000.

You got exactly two minutes to find it.

Drop it.

[gunshot]

[groans]

You're gonna need a doctor, Embry.

You're lucky you're not dead.

Now, get out of here.

He would be dead. He would be...

Dankeschon.

You helped us once more.

Wasn't much else I could do.

- You finished here, sir? - Yeah.

What happens if he comes back?

Why ask us? We didn't bring him here.

Why, I listened to you, I broke off with him.

But if he comes back, there is no one to help us.

Then might be you just might have to help yourself.

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I'll cool him off, huh?

You wanna come in for a minute?

It's alright with me.

Hey, Arch!

MacKenzie: Parker!

Sit down, Tate.

[sighs]

Coming right up, sir. Two, I presume?

[chuckles] Parker, your intuition is amazing.

I wouldn't rightly call it intuition, sir.

Not after all those years together in the army, in fact.

Colonel always said, a nip was better with friends.

Yeah. Here you go.

- Thank you. - Anything else, sir?

That's all. Thank you.

You know that holds for riding as well?

"It's better with friends."

Providing, of course, they don't ride all those miles

without saying one bloody word.

What're you so worked up about?

Ah, those Germans, that girl, myself.

Mostly yourself, huh?

Just plain fools to stick my nose in their ruckus.

Bunch of strangers like that, be just as glad

if I never see 'em again.

We were strangers too before we met.

- Well, it was different. - Why?

Because they speak a foreign language?

No, that ain't right, and you know it.

Nobody can make me out to be prejudice or...

No reason to take it out on you.

Oh, that's alright.

What I'm trying to say is I've got nothing to do with them

or them with me.

I see.

You owe nothing to anyone and they owe nothing to you

and you end up with nothing.

- That's right. - Oh, come on, grow up.

There's no such thing as nothing in this world.

You're born with someone, you live with people,

and the only thing you do alone is die.

I've found in this world,

there are many crooked corners where you have to help someone,

perhaps a stranger, or neither of you get out alive.

You know that works for countries as well?

- Another one? - No.

Well, we'll continue this, uh, this lecture...

[chuckles] in the morning when we go out to North Fork.

- North Fork? - Yeah.

I promised Mr. Hansch I'd let him have some lumber

to finish their barn.

Now, does that bother you?

It bothers me that I get moved around

like I'm a checker on a board or something.

Now, nobody is moving you around.

Well, I can make up my own mind

whether I wanna go back to the North Fork or not.

Yes, of course.

Well... I'll help you out in the morning, huh?

Thanks for the drink.

Tate?

She is pretty, isn't she?

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[door shuts]

He's comin' out now.

That arm's gonna be kind of sore for a while.

If there ain't nothin' pushing you,

you'd be smart to stay here and rest.

Got a hotel?

Left, at the next corner.

Now, you be sure and bring that arm back here, alright?

- Tomorrow. - I'll be back.

- New customer, doc? - Yeah, new to me.

He said his name was Embry.

Mm, gun hand, huh?

If he is, I wouldn't say he's too good,

somebody put a slug in his arm.

Did he say who it was?

No. And I wasn't about to ask him.

He's gonna be alright.

He just won't be able to use that arm for a while.

Ivers: Hello there.

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Ah, didn't mean to come in on your supper.

Smells good.

Why do you come here?

You want the truth?

I've been worried.

I heard about the shootin' and all.

Are you folks alright?

We are alright.

Kind of figured you might be in for a trouble.

Remember, I told you when I made you that offer?

Well, it ain't that I rode over here

just to rub it in.

Ivers: I-- I don't hold you no grudge for turnin' me down.

Just want you to know I'm still your friend.

And in case you got in mind, that offer is still good.

August: Do you think we should?

No, he's not our friend.

You remember once when the plough was broken

he wouldn't even fix it.

I just plain couldn't, miss.

Had all that work piled up.

Oh, ja,and-- and what about the-- the lightning rod

for-- for the new barn?

We had to send to Laramie for that one.

And I told you, it takes a special kind of iron.

And for horse shoes too, ja?

You forget, ja?

You will not put a shoe on my horse.

I must walk him all the way to Bear Valley.

There was a reason for that, you see, uh--

Papa, don't listen to him.

He fools you.

Seems you give your woman a lot of room.

We do not sell.

I ain't a bad man, Mr. Hansch,

but I'm giving you somethin' three-to-one.

Herein, your trouble's gonna be worse.

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[knocking on door]

- I make more trouble, ja? - Yeah.

Don't you folks know how to read time?

I'm so sorry, but I didn't know where else I could go

and I was very frightened.

He came back again tonight and he made threats to us.

Not-- not HerrEmbry, the other one, the black man.

He wanted to buy our land, but we told him no, so he goes away.

But inside he was burning, so he was so mad.

So I think I come here and maybe I...

You better find somebody else.

Ja,but we don't know somebody else.

You owe this to us.

Now, cut it right there.

Well, it's your fault, you're the one

who made us send away our help.

We did just what you said.

That ain't-- ain't what I said at all.

I said you gotta rope your own cows.

Uh, you're just trying to put me in for Embry.

Just swapping one watchdog for another, that's all.

You are afraid, ja?

- Now, don't say that. - Oh, well.

It's unworthy like from a man, but when the trouble comes

you do just what all the others do--

Now, why don't you stop and listen some time

and tie up your tongue and give your ears a chance?

Now, if you wanna learn how to walk, you've gotta try.

Now, it might be you'll fall on your rump a few times,

but first thing you know, you can make it alone.

And you won't need Embry, or me, or anybody.

Tate: Now, that's what I said.

That's what I'm saying now.

Now, why don't you just climb on your horse

and high tail it home and quit busting in on people

who need their sleep?

MacKenzie: Tate?

Why, hello there.

[chuckles] I see you're adjusting to our informal hours.

They got more trouble.

Ja,the-- the man from town, the blacksmith.

- You'll help us, ja?Please? - Sure, we'll try.

But at a-- a more reasonable hour, I trust.

Do your people know you're over here?

Oh, ja,I told Paul.

Good, then they won't be worried if you stay.

Oh, bitte,I-- I must go back.

Oh, no, no, no.

You go back with Tate and me in the morning

when we deliver some lumber to your father.

- Lumber? - Yes.

I promised him some to repair his barn.

You are very good.

You know, it's what I said to HerrHuber,

there are good Americans too.

You see, already I'm an American.

Come on.

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Come on. Come on!

I ain't paying for bunk time. Come on.

Pull on your pants, unless you wanna ride raw.

That is good, this trick.

No.

Um, you wonder why I came down here, ja?

I guess you're gonna say that you're sorry again.

Oh, also that...

I'm glad too.

Because, I-- I've been needing someone

who is strong.

And you are so strong.

No more than anybody else.

Yeah, but it's different because you are strong undgood.

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You know why we have called our place the NYH.

It stands for Neue Hoffnung.

How you say, new hope.

[chuckles]

Paul, my father, the others, they're not children.

They're not fools, they know there'd be trouble here,

but... they thought the trouble

would come from, from the land.

From maybe, oh, too much rain,

maybe not enough, from the cold.

But they didn't think the trouble

would come from the people.

Well, there's always somethin' bad any place you go.

Oh, ja, that's what I'm saying.

There are good ones too.

You.

Und HerrMackenzie.

You are good.

We better go in.

Ah, ja.

No, for me, I'm not so afraid,

but, my father...

When my mother dies,

this is all he has, this dream.

Don't worry.

Everything will be fine.

[intense music]

[clattering]

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What happened?

They came last night.

Three of them, with destruction and fire.

You see who they were?

It was dark, their faces were covered.

It's not hard to guess.

- What do you mean? - Well, who made the threats?

The blacksmith, HerrIvers.

Now, Miss Clara, in this country

you mustn't make accusations like that unless you have proof.

[clears throat] Just treat it like

wasted lumber, hmm?

I know six ranchers who'll help you rebuild it.

You'll need some help. I'm handy with a hammer and saw.

We don't want your help.

We don't want you here.

Now, wait a minute.

He helped us once, all he brought was trouble.

Now, that's not true and that's not fair.

It's his fault. He is the one.

He told us, we don't need anybody.

That's only half of it.

It happens, your pants get too tight

you don't just take 'em off and walk down the street,

you get yourself another pair.

If they come like this, what can we do?

Well, you've got guns, use 'em.

Papa, maybe, he's right, maybe there is a time for guns.

We didn't come here to build our lives on guns.

Sometimes, I'm wondering why we have come here at all.

Now, you know very well why you came here.

There's so much to do.

And who will do it?

Do you ever think of doing it yourselves?

This iron...

We are already late to put the marks on the calves.

And we don't even know how to do it.

Then learn, get somebody to show you.

Who will teach us?

Now, this young fella here is pretty good with a bran--

Now, wait a minute, he said he didn't want my help.

Oh, he only talked about a hammer and saw.

Didn't say anything about a branding iron.

Alright, where's your herd?

I show you. Come, we get the horses.

[instrumental music]

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Hmm, it's good, ja?

Cold.

Uh-huh.

[sighs]

How I can say to you?

You have-- you have been very good with us.

Mm-hmm.

Undwith me too.

You know how-- how grateful I am for this.

Uh-huh.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, this is all you can say?

Mm-hmm.

Ugh!

[groans]

It wouldn't take me two one pennies to...

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[cows mooing]

Alright, bring the iron, come on.

Come on, don't let it cool off, bring that iron.

No, you do this one, just like I showed you, right on the flank.

Come on.

[cow mooing]

Attaboy, nice and clean.

Hey, that's really not so difficult.

Thank you very much.

Alright, let him up, easy.

Oh, you just signed your name to what you own.

That's your property, fair and square.

You understand?

Now, you do just like that

to the next one, you hear?

It's getting late, you do one more.

One more?

It will be dark when we get home.

This time you stay with us, ja?

If I was Paul, I wouldn't like that too much.

Well... maybe there is something I must say to Paul.

[instrumental music]

Go rope yourself another calf, yeah?

And sign our name on it, ja!

Paul?

Paul?

[crickets chirping]

Paul, you are here?

HerrHansch.

HerrHansch!

Also, his horse is not here.

He doesn't tell somebody about this?

[instrumental music]

Papa, papa, we're back.

Oh, papa, you should see how they do this.

[sighing]

And, HerrHuber, you must not say anymore

that we do not know how to do this.

Because he shows Carl and Fitz exactly

how they learn how to make...

Something is the matter.

Papa?

Paul is not here.

Also, his horse is gone.

He must've gone into town.

Do you hear me, what I say? He must've gone into town.

Well, then, he's 27 kinds of fool.

I've seen that blacksmith.

He'll bend him like a horseshoe.

Oh, Tate, please.

No, ma'am.

I'm right up to here.

Somebody wants to put a star in my crown

you tell him, no, thanks, I've got all I want.

Tell him, I said to look for somebody else.

Alright, alright... alright.

[instrumental music]

Is there any talk about the burnin'?

Not too much.

Ain't nobody gonna lose no sleep

over a pastel heinies like them.

So, why don't you go do see him?

- Hmm. - Uh, hold on.

Here... have a drink first.

[dramatic music]

You light this fire

to maybe kill someone.

This is the last sin.

Who says?

I am saying this.

Well, it doesn't make hard workin' above here, gentlemen.

It's one sin, you frighten some cows.

You make them run, so it takes a week to find them.

Somebody do that?

It's one sin to put salt in the water,

so the cows must go five miles more to drink.

To fix a wagon, so the wheel comes off.

But to burn...

You want some red-eye?

I have seen their faces.

I have seen how they hurt.

It's like this fire is maybe burning them too.

I am saying, this must stop.

It must not happen again.

You're takin' a lot on yourself, ain't you?

I have made up my mind.

Well, maybe mine's made up on somethin' else.

Keep at them round heads till they sail and move out.

And they will, they'll go runnin' one day,

just like steers from a hill.

And ain't nothin' you can do about it.

Only one thing.

I will not help you anymore.

[galloping]

You just had them golden slippers around.

It's mighty late time in the day

you start getting holy with me.

- I do not hide-- - Especially wasn't my notion.

In the first place.

I never went to you, you come to me.

You had it all figured, to scare 'em out.

Ja,this is true, but...

Well, maybe, you better get somethin' clear.

I weld a piece of iron,

I weld it to stay.

This is not a piece of iron.

It takes two to make a deal.

And two to call it off.

You cannot speak for me.

I am out of it!

You pull a cross like that

and I'll ride straight to the North Fork

and I'll let 'em know you salted the water.

I'll spill it all out like a cut sack of beans.

You... would not... do this.

You just watch me, boy.

You people think you had it hard out here?

You just try being black for a spell.

You put in all them years at the force.

The heat, breakin' your back every day

and knowin' you'll only get the work

'cause on account there ain't no other smith in town.

But you keep on, 'cause you got an idea.

One day, you'd be shooing your own nags.

Ridin' your own land.

Brandin' your own calves.

I got me a chance and I'm gonna grab it now.

No... not from them.

I will stop you.

Seems to me that's a mighty, big talk from a wealth

that can hardly talk the language at all.

You watch your tongue, boy.

You'll get your face messed up.

Might be that girl of yours

that looks some place else.

What do you think she'd say?

Did she know the truth?

Did I whisper in her pretty little ear?

She finds out, you've been turning the knife in their back.

[intense music]

[clattering]

Don't nobody put a hand on me, nobody!

Nobody!

[grunting]

I'll give you right...

I'm gonna murder you, boy.

[groans]

[music continues]

What's the ruckus?

[indistinct chatter]

He tried to kill me, sheriff.

Them folks will tell you.

It was an accident.

- Ivers is telling the truth. - True and fair?

- Yes. - That's right.

- He's telling the truth, sir. - Yeah.

- Bad? - Could be.

Let's get him to the doctor.

Couple of you fellas, wanna give us a hand here?

Mace?

What's it about?

Forgot the whole thing. Truly got me puzzled.

You ever seen him before?

Well, one of them heinies out on the North Fork

come streaming in, callin' names and yelling, and...

Didn't say why?

Never did.

Unless it was account of that plough.

What was that?

Well, uh, he needed a plough to be fixed.

And I-- I had to turn him down.

I... Well, I-- I had work stacked that high!

And I've been sayin' right along

they ain't like real folks.

I mean, you can hardly tell what they're gonna do.

They've never been troubled before, Mace.

You better keep yourself handy.

That fella dies, we're gonna have to file a report.

[instrumental music]

Sure thing.

Well, doc?

He ought to be wakin' up pretty soon.

You said that an hour ago.

Well, a lot of them might hit them Germans different.

Is there some kinda bad blood between him and Ivers?

Well, I guess. Doc, you think he's got a chance?

Patient's always got a chance while he's breathin'.

Long as some fool doctor

doesn't come along to mess him up.

Now, listen, his pulse is strong and that's a good sign.

Here, let me prescribe for you.

You go up the street and buy yourself a drink.

Alright.

[door shuts]

And then, this fella, this Tate,

he works over at the Shiloh.

He picked him up real easy like, and then...

[chuckles] Well, speak of the devil.

Excuse me.

Evenin'.

Nice to see you again.

Terrible thing with Ivers.

- Was the boy a friend of yours? - Nope.

I would've helped you carry him over,

but I got this back.

You know how the boy's gettin' along?

- Nope. - Doc couldn't say, huh?

- Nope. - Well, if you ask me...

Uh... if you ask me,

he brung it on himself.

He should've known not to never go

nowhere near Mace Ivers.

Just like scratching on raw flesh.

Of course, you wouldn't know about that being

new around here and all.

Know what?

There was-- there is no secret around town.

Ivers took it real hard

when Henry Burrow sold his spread to them Germans.

He thought all along like the land was his.

Like, all he had to do was sign some papers.

- Did he have any reason? - Well--

Ivers: Ask me.

I can tell you better.

Something you'd like to know about me?

- I know enough. - Maybe not.

You don't know I'm sorry about the boy.

I never meant him no hurt, and that's a fact.

Oh, I know you love those Germans,

every last one of 'em.

Or you wouldn't take their land

if they gave it to you as a Christmas present.

Hey, you've got to understand about that land--

I understand. They got it, you want it.

Oh, you go ahead and play it smart.

It ain't that simple.

Henry Burrow always kept talkin' about sellin'.

He told me, he ever come around to it

them 4000 acres was gonna be mine.

I had the money too.

And then one day, without no word or nothin',

he upped and sold it to them Germans

and headed back East.

- You must've done something. - Nothing.

Guess my money wasn't the-- wasn't the right color.

Oh, he could give me his work to do.

He-- he could stop and talk or buy me a drink,

he-- he even handed me a cigar

when his kid was born.

But when it come right down to selling that land...

No reason to hate the Germans for him.

It ain't no business of yours.

Ivers: How you come to bein' here?

I figured you'd know.

Maybe you ought to ask those two saddle tramps.

Hurley: Oh, I see you took your medicine.

He come around just now.

Most likely, they can take him home tomorrow mornin'.

He gonna be alright?

Oh, yes, except for his eyes.

What do you mean?

He's gonna be blind.

I need a drink.

[instrumental music]

[music continues]

Good mornin'.

Something I wanted to tell you.

It won't always be like this.

Don't push it.

Be a fool at this stage of the game.

But remember what I said.

It, uh, won't always be like this.

And then what?

I'm gonna kill you.

Thanks for tellin' me.

Tate's here to take you home, Paul.

That is you, HerrTate?

Right here, Paul. How you feelin'?

Good, I suppose.

Take him on home. That's the best.

You have been very kind. Thank you.

It's my job, Paul.

I just wish we could've done more.

Thanks, doc.

Come on, Paul.

Today is grey. It will rain, perhaps.

No, Paul, the sun's shining.

Not a cloud in the sky.

Ja,that is what I thought.

[birds chirping]

[instrumental music]

[clamoring]

Wait a minute. If Tate is with him, he'll be alright.

Believe me, you don't have to look.

But you look, ja?

Well, that's called rounding up strays.

Well, apparently, I'm gonna have to wait.

Because my stray is busy rounding up your stray.

Now, look, believe me.

Tate will bring him back.

Ja.

- Hoo, ho-hoo. - Oh.

- Paul, what's happened? - Ivers, ja?

Better get him inside.

I can walk.

Here, I'll take him.

Come, you take my arm and we go slowly.

- How bad? - Bad.

I'm so sorry.

Seems he started it.

I guess, that's what he went in for.

Uh, I'm wrong.

I'm old and stubborn and wrong.

You were right, Alex, we have no place here.

You talk like that, you are wrong.

I should've listened to him.

I should've used my mind.

You're not using it now.

Don't talk to me so.

We're through here.

We're selling, we're going home.

You can't, that's what we are sayin', you can't quit now.

It is done.

You say it's done and you're saying it's all for nothing.

All the hard work, the trouble, Paul's eyes.

And whose fault is this?

Huber: Who makes us send HerrEmbry away?

Who leaves us without protection against Ivers?

Who makes Paul take it on his own head, huh?

MacKenzie: That's absolute rot.

You should be grateful to Tate for what he's done for you

instead of moaning, because he hasn't made life perfect.

Let him say it. Maybe he's got the right.

This buggy is rented, I've gotta get back.

Our wagon's here. Can I use your horse?

Sure, help yourself.

Tate, he asks for you.

Please, he's hurt.

Alright.

Believe me, if I can say how I can feel...

For what?

I just jumped the whole kettle over.

I should've left you alone.

It's not so, you helped us very much.

Embry could've helped you more.

Bu-- bu-- but this is not your fault.

You-- you must not say this.

[clattering]

[indistinct chatter]

Papa changes his mind, we stay.

Do not run away from them now.

They need you, Tate.

Ja,you come back.

Well, it's hard to say.

Why?

Well, I got work to do.

I got a barn to build.

Clara?

Clara? Clara?

[doorbell rings]

Well, the worst is over.

You just take it easy for a couple of more days.

I will, much obliged.

Hoo! Ho-ho-ho.

I ain't takin' no new work.

I like to handle what I got.

I'm not surprised.

Especially, when you don't get enough sleep.

That must be a long ride, up to the North Fork and back.

That crazy heinie been sayin' things?

Should he be saying things?

No more than the rest.

Alright, but I said I'm sorry for the boy.

Oh, that's admirable.

Now, I got no time to talk.

Look, Ivers, I can understand you're bein' angry.

I can understand you feeling that you've been deceived.

But violence is not--

Boy, come after me first.

I got witnesses.

And the barn?

You got proof?

Then don't go makin' loose talk, like a wind in a colander.

Ivers, I don't like men who complain

and then do exactly what they're complaining about.

Those people have got the right to a fair deal, as well.

Now, don't you be giving them any more trouble, you hear?

That supposed to be a warnin'?

Yes.

Look, if you want to earn some land,

I've got more land than I need at the Shiloh.

I'll sell you some, at a price you can afford.

It wouldn't be the same.

I want to explain, uh, you write this letter for me,

because, uh, I work so hard.

I do not have time.

Uh, but everything goes well.

Undwe shall be married soon.

Do you have this, Clara?

Yes, Paul.

UndI send my love to her.

Undto papa, undto--

August: We'll have no talk with you, nothing, nothing.

I didn't rightly figure you would.

But I want something with you.

I come back.

Ivers: I'd like you folks to know...

I've done a lot of thinkin' last night,

and it always come out the same.

I've been wrong, now.

This wantin' the land

has been twisting me up so I could

hardly see you right from left.

Ivers: I ain't gonna lie to you now.

I-- I still want it.

Happens, if you ever decide to sell,

I'm hopin' you'd let me make you an offer.

We will not sell.

Now, I figured that too.

So, I'll just say the rest.

Ivers: I'm really... mighty ashamed

at what I've done.

I ain't truly like that, I, I want you to know.

What I mean, if-- if you just take it right...

What I mean...

I'd kinda like to help out with the barn.

Some iron straps to maybe reinforce the joists.

Or maybe, you'd like some, uh...

There's nothing we want from you.

Then there's only one thing,

and you gotta believe in it.

I never meant nobody to get hurt.

That boy nor nobody.

You tell him that.

Tell him that it won't never happen again.

Paul, did you hear this?

He won't hu-- hurt us anymore.

We don't have to be afraid.

You did this.

You-- you gave us this peace.

I have given only mine eyes.

I am a fool.

A fool.

This is my fault.

I am the one.

I started it.

Paul?

What are you saying?

I have gone diverse.

I-- I have given him this idea to make it hard for us.

Paul: To make us afraid.

To make us sell.

You say you've been workin' with him?

You do not hear me?

Ja,we are in this together.

Why?

It's plain enough, to cut himself in for a share.

Takin' money outta your pockets and puttin' into his.

No, you are wrong.

Then, why? Tell me why.

Clara...

this new place, this new life,

the new ways.

Everyday you change more.

UndI think you are maybe changing this me too.

UndI think that if we can go back...

But... I know you will not go without the others.

And I am guns thirst.

I am crazy with fear.

I... cannot lose you.

And so, I go to Ivers.

You let me tear my gut apart.

Let me think it was on account of me

you got hurt.

Please, I-- I am trying--

Tate: I was right.

You give somebody a lift,

pretty soon he's riding and you got sore feet.

Tate.

[instrumental music]

Giddy-up.

Giddy-up, giddy-up.

Why does he go away like this, so sudden?

What have we done to him?

When a man looks like this

there's something he has done to himself.

I don't like to see him go away angry, Alex.

Ja, it is hard to make friends,

but even harder to lose them.

You maybe did not lose him.

HerrTate!

August: HerrTate! [chuckles]

Ho-huh.

- HerrTate. - HerrTate.

How come you're not working? Nobody rang the dinner bell.

Oh.

Clara, go tell him we are glad.

Ja.

[gunshot]

That was just an exhibition.

No charge.

Thought you'd like to see for yourselves.

My arm's doing a lot better, not all the way healed

but doin' real good.

Just good enough to hold my $1000.

You're lucky I'm not asking for more,

seein' I'll be unemployed for a while.

They don't have that kinda cash money around.

If they did, they'd be loco to give it to you.

Reminds me...

you're my bonus, Mr. Nice.

Collectin' one debt and payin' the other.

All in one ride.

Five minutes,

assuming you've got some desire to live.

Why is it him? Why do you pick him?

Oh, I didn't pick him, miss,

he picked me, he made the deal.

He told you, we do not have the money now.

Note will be fine.

I asked at the bank.

Embry: Credit must be good, they said they've discounted.

By the way...

I figured, you just used that half a minute.

You didn't figure far enough, Embry.

Tate: We're five to one.

[laughing]

I got the equalizer.

Embry: Might be you're right, though.

Five to one's a lot.

Might be I oughta cut that down a little.

Clara: No!

[gunshot]

[intense music]

If my arm was better...

You had the equalizer.

Now you understand one thing.

They don't need no hired guns no more.

From here on in, they're two of their own.

You've got a horse. You know what he's for.

You sure you-- you are alright?

Ja.

[instrumental music]

I know, you can climb off a horse by yourself.

[chuckles] You remembered it.

- How's Paul? - Oh, he's the same.

But now he learns to walk with a cane.

I'm real sorry.

Ja.

We-- we get married, Sunday.

And then we will go back.

I heard.

I owe this to him.

He's been punished so much.

What about you?

Oh, I-- I must get used to the old ways again.

We can get used to anything, ja?

But I miss this place.

The country, its freedom,

the people, I...

I miss you too.

Sometimes I think, oh, maybe if

if things had been different.

It's so funny

how things happen sometimes, so sudden.

You miss somebody you don't know,

some place you've never been before and...

Some little crooked corner.

I don't forget this small time we've had.

But Paul needs me,

and when someone needs you so much I...

[instrumental music]

How's it going?

- I'm just about finished. - Uh-huh.

I hear they're having a big rodeo

over at Cheyenne.

- Oh, is that right? - Yeah.

I imagine there'd be a lot of excitement

for a young fella like you.

Why don't you plan on going?

I might just do that.

[theme music]