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<i>♪ MTV</i>

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<i>♪ dramatic music</i>

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Come on out, Webb!
Law won'’t ever stop!

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Excuse me, you need to get
to the back of the line.

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Sally.

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Shouldn't talk to my sister
like that.

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You're awfully tough when it's

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four of y'all and two of us.

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<i>Think it's okay
to let them wander on their own?</i>

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Black folks been disappearing
up and down

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<i>the Territory.</i>

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You are to deliver the prisoner

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<i>Jackson Cole to the Red River,</i>

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turn him over to the Rangers.

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I ain't been home for 41 days.

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<i>You ride out tomorrow.</i>

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Mighty strange, this feeling.

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Riding to my death.

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We both Negroes.

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<i>We know the world
in the same ways.</i>

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You asked if you had the grit
to be a deputy marshal.

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You don't.

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You giving up on me?

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I never give up, Billy.

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Where you taking that creature?

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Reintroducing the beast
to a rightful home.

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No animal belong in a box.

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That is the truth.

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She won't be in there long.

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Did you make a home
for yourself?

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Marry, have a family?

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I have.

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And what would you do now
to protect it?

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To hold on to it?

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I'd wager you'd kill a thousand.

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And no man would fault you.

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I surely would not.

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These badges we wear
on our chest,

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made from different materials.

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Yours a tin star,

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mine a star cut
from a <i>cinco</i> peso piece.

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Just raw materials.

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But the power they give--

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The real power lie beneath.

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In the heart.

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You honor the badge, Bass.

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But even with it, a man like you

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couldn't arrest a man like me
once we cross that river.

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You touch that other bank,
it's a whole other law.

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I have no mind to arrest you.

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No, by those angry eyes,

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I'd reckon you'd
just as soon kill me.

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My prisoner a good man.

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I trust you'll see
he get a fair trial?

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Well, he's my prisoner now.

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My prisoners always get
what they deserve.

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This one tell you what he did?

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I know he killed a man.

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He told me why he did it.

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Might've even had just cause.

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But did he tell you
how he killed old James Neblett?

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He kidnapped and rode that man
blubbering and praying

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all the way from Austin to
Neblett's property in Columbia.

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Then he chained him
to the one pecan tree

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Neblett hadn't burned down

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and he shot him in his
blubbering, praying mouth.

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No man deserves to die that way.

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Not even a Yankee.

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But I don't need to tell you
about killing Yanks.

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As I recall, you're something
of an expert on the subject.

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Saddle up.

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You're in my prayers.

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Ah, don't bother
the big man about me.

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We need to ride.

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Billy, bring that mule.

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We can't have this man
walk all the way to Fort Worth.

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He won't.

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On that, you have my word.

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Bass.

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Where I built my ranch,

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the land is littered
with ancient bones of giants.

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Monsters.

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Thigh bones as big as a man.

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Locals call 'em
<i>huesos de ángeles.</i>

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Angel bones.

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But I know a monster
when I see one, Bass Reeves.

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Moving out!

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Come pay me a visit one day.

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You'll feel right at home.

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<i>♪ ominous music</i>

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<i>♪ soaring, triumphant music</i>

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<i>♪ intriguing music</i>

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Sara?

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It's Bass.

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Place don't smell right.

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You ride ahead. I'll catch up.

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Come on.

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How much longer
we gonna ride, Bass?

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These horses need rest.

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Shoot, we need to rest.

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I'm tired.

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We're all tired.

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We've been riding straight
for days.

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Look at Pistol.

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Hardly hold his head up.

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Tell you what.

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We'll stop the night in Checotah

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if you stop flapping your gums
till we get there.

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You took your time.

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Sally, I'm leaving.

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I should be gone already.

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What are you talking about?

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I can't stay here.
They'll have my neck.

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They was just kids being stupid.

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You got nothing to worry about.

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Maybe you don't, but
my last name ain't Reeves.

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Arthur Mayberry, I never
took you for no chicken.

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And I never took you for a fool.

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You don't understand.

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I'm asking you to come with me.

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We can visit Paris and...

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you can write poems
by the "Seene."

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Seine.

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And Reeves don't run.

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I'll wait there for you.

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By the Seine.

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I'll send you a poem every day.

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<i>♪ dramatic music</i>

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<i>♪ dramatic music</i>

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We don't want any trouble
here tonight, Deputy.

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Just payday in Checotah.

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Whiskey.

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You too shy to go inside?

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I'm just waiting for you
to come out.

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I see you got yourself
into some trouble.

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All in a day's work.

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Mm.

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Bought this for you
in Fort Smith.

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Thought you might not get
the latest out here.

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Thank you, Billy Crow.

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You're welcome.

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My feet shot out
of them stirrups

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and I flew off of that horse
like I'd been plugged.

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Damn nearly was.

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I landed upright in time

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to hear the report
of a Winchester.

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I dove into that sagebrush
and when I came up,

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I saw that man hoofing it
faster than a stuck deer.

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Whoa.

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Mind you don't fall, partner.

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Mind you keep your voice down

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while the rest of us
try to think.

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Barkeep,

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I reckon my friend here
has had his fill.

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Barkeep.

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I reckon we all had enough
of this cowboy's ballyhoo.

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I reckon people
on the far side of the Territory

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about had enough of it, too.

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You got too many teeth.

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Outside, fellas.

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You sure you want to do this?

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Sure am.

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Then I guess we'd better be
getting on with it, then.

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Deputy Marshal Reeves.

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Braxton Sawyer, Texas Ranger.

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I'm mighty honored
to meet you, sir.

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Let me buy you a drink.

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My daddy had a good outfit
not far off the Shawnee Trail.

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I loved riding that range
with him, moving herd.

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We got into some trouble
after the war

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when drovers started
bringing their longhorns up.

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My daddy already lost one herd

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and he wasn't about
to do it again.

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So we mounted up
and we turned those longhorns

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and their cowboys right around.

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But, you know,
not without a scrap.

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Daddy got lead in the belly

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and was dead before
the marshals showed up.

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I mean, they would've hung
my daddy anyway,

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if he was still alive to hang.

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And...

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well, for assault
with intent to kill,

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they gave me 18 months at the
Detroit House of Corrections.

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That was my first time
out of the Territory.

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I'm mighty glad you came back.

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Well...

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I guess this is home.

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Esau Pierce
tell you to follow me?

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I was holding forth
gone three hours

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before you brought
your storm cloud in here.

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I didn't follow you.

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And who the hell is Pierce?

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Man from my past.

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What are you doing here, Bass?

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Sometime I get to wondering
why a man like me

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putting folk in manacles.

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This thing...

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weigh just as much as the chain.

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Someone once told me there
ain't no law in the Territory.

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Starting to think
there ain't no God either.

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Hmm.

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Don't despair, amigo.

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God is present.

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And He knows your good work.

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Many miles back to Austin,

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and I'd hate to ride
all of them sober.

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<i>♪ wistful music</i>

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You gonna stand there all night?

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<i>♪ wistful music</i>

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That's all right. Go ahead.

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Are you going to be
a baby about this?

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No.

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Well, then stop your squirming.

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You're the most glorious
creature to grace this earth.

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It burns.

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I thought you said
you weren't gonna be a baby.

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Just didn't think you were going
to hurt me so bad.

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Hurt a strapping,
young raider like you?

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Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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Marry me, Calista.

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You can't afford the ring
it'll take to hitch me.

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This the one who done Webb.

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Where were you...

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two hours ago when I was
spoiling for a fight, hmm?

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That bounty on you?

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Pays the same dead...

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...or alive.

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Give it a spin.

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Adios, Reeves.

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Aw.

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Bullet's in the chamber.

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I can feel it.

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Best not miss, then.

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Come on. Come on, come on.

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Now that's how you aim,
Billy Crow!

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- Let's get you some help.
- No.

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Let's get them sons of bitches.

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There.

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<i>♪ suspenseful music</i>

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Whoa!

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Hurry up in there.

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Don't need a saddle,
just get the horses.

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What is it?

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Don't.

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Easy, fellas.

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Good work, Billy Crow.

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<i>♪ melancholy music</i>

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Have a nice time earlier?

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She said
I can't afford the ring.

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But she did bring me my apparel.

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Well, that's something.

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So glad y'all could make it.

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I think I was bleeding
before I realized

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Pearl Lee's real name
was Pearla Lee.

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Pearla Lee.

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God rest her soul.

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"I'd shudder and start
if I heard the bay

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Of bloodhounds seizing
their human prey."

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"And I heard
the captive plead in vain

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As they bound afresh
his galling chain."

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Frances Harper
is a brilliant role model.

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It is young women like you,
Sally, that give me hope.

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Bennie.

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00:28:10,167 --> 00:28:12,256
Don't walk off like that.

265
00:28:18,915 --> 00:28:20,307
You don't scare me!

266
00:28:26,792 --> 00:28:28,664
Let's go.

267
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:38,064
Fred Douglass consented to have
his image on our next pamphlet.

268
00:28:38,064 --> 00:28:39,718
Might even write some words.

269
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,644
What have they done to you?

270
00:28:52,644 --> 00:28:54,733
I'm fine.

271
00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,305
You're sitting in my chair.

272
00:29:03,699 --> 00:29:06,484
It's so good to see you, Bass.

273
00:29:07,528 --> 00:29:10,836
My, it's been forever.

274
00:29:12,795 --> 00:29:15,885
I'd like you to meet
Edwin Jones.

275
00:29:19,628 --> 00:29:20,629
Hello, Esme.

276
00:29:22,282 --> 00:29:23,849
I kept it warm for you.

277
00:29:23,849 --> 00:29:26,199
Now, Bass. You stay right there.

278
00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:29,072
No, no. My mistake, Reeves.

279
00:29:29,072 --> 00:29:31,770
Let's not get off
on the wrong foot.

280
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:34,294
As the good book says,

281
00:29:34,294 --> 00:29:38,690
"But when you are invited,
go and sit in the lowest place

282
00:29:38,690 --> 00:29:41,432
so that when he
who invited you comes,

283
00:29:41,432 --> 00:29:45,305
he may say to you,
'Friend, go up higher.'"

284
00:29:45,305 --> 00:29:47,568
I didn't invite you.

285
00:29:53,836 --> 00:29:56,752
We've been hearing
about your adventures, Bass.

286
00:29:56,752 --> 00:29:59,058
Now we see the danger you face.

287
00:30:00,364 --> 00:30:01,800
We're all very proud of you.

288
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,236
Mm-hmm.

289
00:30:05,369 --> 00:30:07,414
Reconstruction is dead.

290
00:30:07,414 --> 00:30:09,416
Has the world changed
for the Negro

291
00:30:09,416 --> 00:30:11,201
in the United States of America?

292
00:30:11,201 --> 00:30:12,942
Yes, in many ways.

293
00:30:13,986 --> 00:30:17,468
But we need to ask,
how much has changed?

294
00:30:17,468 --> 00:30:19,470
And for how many?

295
00:30:19,470 --> 00:30:21,820
Why, they will use just about

296
00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:24,780
any pretext to drive out,

297
00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:27,739
lock down, or string up
the Black man.

298
00:30:27,739 --> 00:30:32,004
The Klan continues
to rain terror upon us.

299
00:30:32,004 --> 00:30:35,268
We are the only ones
who can keep us safe.

300
00:30:36,879 --> 00:30:39,925
Edwin and I have traveled
far and wide, Bass.

301
00:30:39,925 --> 00:30:41,797
You won't believe
the things we've seen.

302
00:30:41,797 --> 00:30:42,754
He'll believe you.

303
00:30:42,754 --> 00:30:45,975
He's seen it all himself.

304
00:30:48,891 --> 00:30:50,849
I seen some things.

305
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,372
Well, you must have heard
the stories

306
00:30:52,372 --> 00:30:54,287
about Black men disappearing.

307
00:30:54,287 --> 00:30:57,160
Rumors of Black men
being killed for sport.

308
00:30:59,031 --> 00:31:01,381
Legally, slavery
is supposed to be dead.

309
00:31:01,381 --> 00:31:04,776
But in practice
it is only wounded.

310
00:31:04,776 --> 00:31:08,693
We need a place
where we can be safe and free.

311
00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:14,394
But let there be no doubt
that we still need to fight.

312
00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:17,920
I think we're doing
our fair part right here.

313
00:31:20,270 --> 00:31:23,839
Well, sure. And I-I admire that.

314
00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:27,407
You have made a career
that honors your talents

315
00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:29,888
instead of violently
suppressing them.

316
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:33,022
But tell me...

317
00:31:34,284 --> 00:31:37,504
...why are there not
more stories like yours?

318
00:31:37,504 --> 00:31:40,856
Black folks make up, what,

319
00:31:40,856 --> 00:31:43,728
ten percent of the population
of Fort Smith?

320
00:31:45,121 --> 00:31:47,950
How many former slaves
right here

321
00:31:47,950 --> 00:31:50,953
have had the same good fortune
that you have?

322
00:31:53,129 --> 00:31:56,045
I'm sorry your wife
couldn't join us.

323
00:31:58,047 --> 00:32:00,223
How long you been
away from home?

324
00:32:02,312 --> 00:32:04,836
Like your beautiful family,

325
00:32:04,836 --> 00:32:09,623
my wife and children make
great sacrifices for the cause.

326
00:32:09,623 --> 00:32:12,061
- Hmm.
- We all must.

327
00:32:14,454 --> 00:32:18,850
Esme and Edwin
were speaking about

328
00:32:18,850 --> 00:32:20,939
whole towns
made up of Black folk.

329
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,855
Whole counties. Whole states.

330
00:32:23,855 --> 00:32:26,553
Up Kansas way and throughout
the Indian Territory

331
00:32:26,553 --> 00:32:29,774
lies a rich land of opportunity

332
00:32:29,774 --> 00:32:33,734
for industrious, caring,
God-fearing Black men and women.

333
00:32:36,346 --> 00:32:39,915
Where do you expect
the Indian people to go?

334
00:32:39,915 --> 00:32:41,742
Think they don't suffer?

335
00:32:41,742 --> 00:32:46,312
You see all them white folks
coming up on those riverboats?

336
00:32:46,312 --> 00:32:48,053
You know where they will settle.

337
00:32:48,053 --> 00:32:49,838
Your beloved Indian Territory

338
00:32:49,838 --> 00:32:52,928
is not going
to stay Indian for long.

339
00:32:52,928 --> 00:32:55,582
And our people
need real protection.

340
00:32:55,582 --> 00:32:57,889
My job is to protect everyone.

341
00:32:59,543 --> 00:33:02,633
Black, red or white.

342
00:33:16,212 --> 00:33:19,868
Are you happy
with what you are doing?

343
00:33:21,565 --> 00:33:24,611
I have to ask, respectfully...

344
00:33:25,830 --> 00:33:28,093
...which master do you serve?

345
00:33:29,703 --> 00:33:33,403
Esme says old William Reeves
taught you to shoot.

346
00:33:33,403 --> 00:33:35,622
George Reeves made you
shoot the very men

347
00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:37,450
who were fighting
for your freedom.

348
00:33:37,450 --> 00:33:41,063
And now Judge Parker puts
the names on your bullets.

349
00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:44,980
Man is lucky to have
such a hired gun.

350
00:33:46,459 --> 00:33:49,158
I'm the only one
pulling the trigger.

351
00:33:51,377 --> 00:33:54,685
You ever felt
the lash on your back?

352
00:33:54,685 --> 00:33:56,078
Hmm?

353
00:33:57,644 --> 00:34:00,647
You carry on
about our experience

354
00:34:00,647 --> 00:34:03,389
like it's a set of boots
we both own.

355
00:34:03,389 --> 00:34:07,785
I did not have to experience
those wrongs to denounce them.

356
00:34:08,917 --> 00:34:11,006
To fight against them.

357
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:16,141
Think hard
about what you are doing.

358
00:34:18,709 --> 00:34:23,975
Ride with me, with us.

359
00:34:23,975 --> 00:34:25,803
Together...

360
00:34:25,803 --> 00:34:27,457
together we can build a place

361
00:34:27,457 --> 00:34:30,547
where everyone can live free.

362
00:34:32,766 --> 00:34:34,725
Mm.

363
00:34:36,466 --> 00:34:38,990
Is that why you were so eager
to meet my husband?

364
00:34:40,513 --> 00:34:43,647
That why
you brought him here, Esme?

365
00:34:47,216 --> 00:34:51,437
We may support your vision,
Mr. Jones.

366
00:34:51,437 --> 00:34:54,658
But my husband is not a face
for your pamphlets.

367
00:34:54,658 --> 00:34:56,834
He ain't no show pony
for you to trot around.

368
00:35:01,839 --> 00:35:05,277
I see you two have
your house in order.

369
00:35:05,277 --> 00:35:07,714
I admire that.

370
00:35:08,672 --> 00:35:10,152
Even envy it.

371
00:35:11,718 --> 00:35:13,111
I apologize.

372
00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:16,027
I did not mean to overstep.

373
00:35:17,333 --> 00:35:20,814
And we do not want
to overstay, do we, Esme?

374
00:35:22,903 --> 00:35:24,731
I'll see you to the door.

375
00:35:24,731 --> 00:35:27,430
<i>♪ tense, dramatic music</i>

376
00:36:06,991 --> 00:36:09,733
Shouldn't you
be asleep, Sally gal?

377
00:36:19,090 --> 00:36:21,266
I'm sorry I missed the carnival.

378
00:36:26,054 --> 00:36:28,926
I guess I missed a lot.

379
00:36:31,363 --> 00:36:33,061
Forgive me?

380
00:36:33,061 --> 00:36:36,238
Maybe just this once.

381
00:36:39,850 --> 00:36:41,721
You didn't like
that man, did you?

382
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,077
Daddy just had a bad day.
That's all.

383
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,125
You and Mama okay?

384
00:36:55,605 --> 00:36:57,085
We're okay.

385
00:36:59,261 --> 00:37:01,654
You lucky you're
your mama's daughter.

386
00:37:01,654 --> 00:37:04,701
That's funny.

387
00:37:04,701 --> 00:37:07,007
She always say
I'm my daddy's girl.

388
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,703
Want me to fix you a bath?

389
00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:52,879
Maybe tomorrow.

390
00:37:57,406 --> 00:37:59,712
I'm sorry I had to leave.

391
00:38:03,063 --> 00:38:05,196
I should've told you sooner.

392
00:38:06,154 --> 00:38:09,374
I ain't angry that you left.

393
00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:13,813
Disappointed by the man
you brought home.

394
00:38:16,076 --> 00:38:17,469
Every time you come back,

395
00:38:17,469 --> 00:38:19,384
you bring less and less of you.

396
00:38:21,386 --> 00:38:23,214
Maybe you the one that changed.

397
00:38:24,259 --> 00:38:25,564
How dare you?

398
00:38:29,133 --> 00:38:30,569
Where my husband?

399
00:38:32,702 --> 00:38:35,226
Where that light in your eyes?

400
00:38:35,226 --> 00:38:37,228
<i>♪ melancholy music</i>

401
00:39:13,308 --> 00:39:16,702
Scrutinize those receipts,
Mr. Reeves.

402
00:39:19,575 --> 00:39:21,794
You 50 bucks short, Florence.

403
00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:24,754
You delivered that man's boots,
you earn less.

404
00:39:24,754 --> 00:39:26,364
I did not deliver boots,

405
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:28,061
I delivered
a living, breathing man

406
00:39:28,061 --> 00:39:30,107
into the hands
of a Texas Ranger.

407
00:39:31,848 --> 00:39:36,592
Well, I got the telegram
right here.

408
00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:42,293
"Confirmed. Texas Rangers
having received

409
00:39:42,293 --> 00:39:45,209
from Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves

410
00:39:45,209 --> 00:39:49,561
at Red River the boots
of one prisoner Jackson Cole,

411
00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:53,261
which they promptly
delivered at Fort Worth."

412
00:40:13,672 --> 00:40:15,631
Ramsey!

413
00:40:17,459 --> 00:40:18,895
Ramsey!

414
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,685
Who making Black men disappear?

415
00:40:28,513 --> 00:40:30,733
Who Mr. Sundown?

416
00:40:35,477 --> 00:40:37,000
Make way.

417
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,219
Ramsey!

418
00:40:43,572 --> 00:40:46,662
Who is Mr. Sundown?

419
00:40:47,402 --> 00:40:50,883
<i>♪ He ride by night</i>

420
00:40:50,883 --> 00:40:54,452
<i>♪ Drawn fast to the firelight</i>

421
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:57,368
<i>♪ Ain't no peace to be found</i>

422
00:40:57,368 --> 00:41:01,372
<i>♪ When the sun go down</i>

423
00:41:15,952 --> 00:41:18,128
Heard you lost that prisoner.

424
00:41:18,128 --> 00:41:19,521
Tough break.

425
00:41:25,353 --> 00:41:26,528
Hang 'em already.

426
00:41:29,748 --> 00:41:30,923
You had it coming!

427
00:41:47,157 --> 00:41:48,463
I love you, Mama.

428
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,206
You had it coming!

429
00:42:02,738 --> 00:42:04,740
Bass Reeves!

430
00:42:06,437 --> 00:42:10,485
Mr. Sundown is <i>cinco</i> peso.

431
00:42:12,922 --> 00:42:16,621
<i>Cinco</i> peso is Mr. Sundown.

432
00:42:18,493 --> 00:42:20,233
<i>Cinco</i> peso.

433
00:42:26,457 --> 00:42:28,546
<i>You honor the badge, Bass.</i>

434
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:31,419
These badges
we wear on our chest,

435
00:42:31,419 --> 00:42:33,333
<i>just raw materials.</i>

436
00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:35,205
But the power they give...

437
00:42:37,381 --> 00:42:39,557
What are the chances
of Parker giving me

438
00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:42,125
a writ for a Texas Ranger?

439
00:42:42,125 --> 00:42:44,083
Nil to none.

440
00:43:24,733 --> 00:43:27,083
<i>Well, cock-a-doodle-do.</i>

441
00:43:39,835 --> 00:43:43,099
<i>Blood can be the heaviest
damn thing in the world.</i>

442
00:43:45,797 --> 00:43:48,147
<i>I always said
we weren't so different.</i>

443
00:43:49,235 --> 00:43:51,324
<i>Except that one thing.</i>

444
00:43:55,459 --> 00:43:58,506
<i>Blood never weighed me down
at all.</i>

445
00:44:00,943 --> 00:44:03,946
<i>But all this blood
on your hands...</i>

446
00:44:06,557 --> 00:44:08,951
<i>...filling them up so much,
you can't hold</i>

447
00:44:08,951 --> 00:44:11,083
<i>those precious children...</i>

448
00:44:12,781 --> 00:44:15,740
<i>...you can't caress
your pretty wife.</i>

449
00:44:16,785 --> 00:44:20,440
<i>Bass, you're gonna bend and bow
under the weight of it</i>

450
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,704
<i>till you break and burn.</i>

451
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,711
Only God...

452
00:44:30,625 --> 00:44:33,323
...can judge me.

453
00:44:33,323 --> 00:44:36,500
<i>As you judge me.</i>

454
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:39,155
<i>But what if God already did?</i>

455
00:44:39,155 --> 00:44:41,070
Hmm?

456
00:44:48,338 --> 00:44:52,908
What if he weighed out your soul
and found it wanting?

457
00:44:56,389 --> 00:44:58,391
Don't you see?

458
00:44:59,349 --> 00:45:01,786
I am his judgment.

459
00:45:02,831 --> 00:45:05,398
Heaven is full of killers,
Bass Reeves.

460
00:45:05,398 --> 00:45:09,794
By His grace they welcome me
as they will welcome you.

461
00:45:10,752 --> 00:45:12,710
<i>♪ haunting music</i>

462
00:45:31,642 --> 00:45:33,557
<i>♪ dramatic music</i>

463
00:45:33,557 --> 00:45:34,558
<i>Bass is dedicated to justice.</i>

464
00:45:34,558 --> 00:45:35,603
<i>There's hardly much room</i>

465
00:45:35,603 --> 00:45:37,648
for anything or anyone else.

466
00:45:37,648 --> 00:45:39,128
Looking for a Moody O'Neil.

467
00:45:39,128 --> 00:45:41,783
Sitting on this porch.

468
00:45:41,783 --> 00:45:43,698
You set out to hang
an old Black woman

469
00:45:43,698 --> 00:45:45,830
<i>in a white man's noose.</i>

470
00:45:45,830 --> 00:45:49,747
<i>Slave catcher,
that's all you is.</i>

471
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:51,183
Mama.

472
00:45:51,183 --> 00:45:52,184
Get upstairs.

473
00:45:53,664 --> 00:45:54,665
Where's the old crow?

474
00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:58,582
Want to say your goodbyes?

475
00:46:01,672 --> 00:46:03,631
<i>♪ haunting music</i>