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(HORSE WHINNYING)

NED: Easy there, Peppy.
Easy.

Easy, easy there.

Uncle Charlie?

BEN: Your name Tallon?

Yeah, Ned Tallon.

What's your kinship
to John Tallon?

I'm Johnny's brother.

Where is Johnny?

Who are you?

Friend of Johnny's.
Where is he?

I reckon
he must be somewhere
on his way here by now.

From where?

Don't rightly know.

I ain't seen Johnny
since before the war.

Well, how do you know
he's coming here?

We got a letter
from him a while back.
About the time the war ended.

Said he'd be home about
a month before Christmas.

About four or five
weeks then, you reckon?

Yeah. About.

Where do you know
Johnny from, the army?

Yeah.

(NEIGHING)

BEN: Look out.

Get out of there.

Why didn't you get out
when you had the chance?

I can't see.

You mean you got
no sight at all?

What do you want to try and
saddle a horse like that for?

Why not?
I wasn't always blind.

NED: Uncle Charlie?
Yeah.

Look here, mister.
I ain't hostile
to veterans.

But the best you can get
here is feed and water
for your horse

and a hunk of bacon
for the trail.

And don't let any of our herd
attach themselves to you on
the way out.

Uncle Charlie,
this here is a
friend of Johnny's.

Friend of Johnny's?

Mister...
Ben. Ben Shelby.

Oh.

What happened to you?

I was saddling Peppy.

Wasn't for Shelby here,
he might've got me.

Didn't I tell you never
to try and saddle Peppy
unless I was around?

Oh, you was around.

I know,
but in the corral.

If you want to ride,
take old Doggone.
Thanks, mister.

Howdy.

Howdy, strangers.

Who owns
this place here?

I do.

We were just riding through
and spotted some of your
cattle out there.

Where you headed for,
California?

Yeah.

Gold fields, huh?
That's right, Pop.

Yeah,
most you veterans are.

Well, you just
keep heading in
that direction.

If you're
shoving off, Shelby, you
can through in with them.

Like to buy some
of your cattle,
about 50 head.

What was you figuring
on paying?

Fifty cents a head.

Well, if you
could get it
with that price,

it would be cheaper than
stealing them, wouldn't it?

I tell you what you do, son.
You just keep heading in
that direction.

Maybe you'll find some
idiot that will do that.

Be nice, Pop.
You heard him!

There ain't nothing
for sale here.

Look out!

I guess that's all,
ain't it, boys?

You all right, Ned?
Yeah. I'm all right.

The way you handle that gun,
you must be a friend of
Johnny's.

Never was much law
here before the war.

Even less now.

Men keep coming through,
don't know where
they're going

and no notion what
they're gonna do.

Got so used to killing that
killing's the only thing
they're sure of.

Oh, Johnny'll put
a stop to that.

When'd you see
him last, Shelby?

If you're shoving off, Shelby,
I reckon we can spare you
a fresh horse.

Kind of figured maybe
I'd stick around and
wait for Johnny.

CHARLIE: What did
you figure on doing
while you was waiting?

You could use a hand,
couldn't you?

Well, if you want to work for
grub and scarcely no wages,

that's
the only kind
we can afford.

I'll take it.
Where's your horse?

Tied to the hitch rack.
All right. Come on.

Mister, I'd appreciate it
if while you're here,

you say
nothing of the truth
about Johnny to Ned.

I ain't
got no need to talk
about Johnny Tallon.

You come here for the law?

I got nothing to
do with the law.

Then if you're truly
a friend of Johnny's,

maybe you're running
away from it.

You got yourself a hand
for nothing, didn't you?

So now
you're trying to tell me
it's none of my business.

Seems to me like you're
trying to tell yourself.

Well, I didn't exactly go
looking for you, mister.

You made a proposition that
was kind of hard to resist.

Well, let's get
out to the range.

Ah, this Doggone's
sure is a good horse.

Don't need no
lead rope with him.

I wonder why you ain't
got no word from Johnny.

Way past the time he's
supposed to be here,
ain't it?

Yeah. Wonder
what's holding him?

He sure will be
grateful to you when
he gets here though, Ben.

Can't tell.
Sure he will.

You know Johnny.

He'll be glad to
see a friend of his.

I reckon he will.

Uncle Charlie says
for the first time
in months,

we ain't had nothing
whittled off our herd.

He says you've been
a big help, Ben.

Oh, it ain't me.

It's the gun that helps.

It's the way
you sling that gun.

Uncle Charlie
says you may be near
as fast as Johnny is.

Could be.

'Course, I ain't
never seen you draw,

but, oh, man,
I can remember Johnny.

Them guns would come
out of their holsters faster
than a snake's forked tongue.

Twice as nasty.

Ben, were you there
when General Sheridan gave
him all them medals?

Made that speech saying how
proud he was to have Johnny
in his command?

I reckon I was
somewhere about.

Were you there when
Mr. Lincoln shook
his hand?

Don't think so.

You got any brothers, Ben?

Did have one.

Did have?

Younger or older?
Younger.

What happened
to your brother?

BEN: He got
killed in the war.

Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that.

Oh, man, I sure wish
Johnny was here.

So do I.

(COWS MOOING)

JANE: My dearest.
Your letter as always
broke the loneliness for me.

It made the day easier,
in spite of what you
told me.

You, too, must feel the
loneliness of the years
of war separation, as I do.

Yet you're not coming home
because you feel you must
get vengeance.

I know you,
Ben, and I'm afraid
I can't change your mind,

but I pray for
your return back.

Come back, Ben.
My dearest.

Come back soon.

Your wife, Jane.

NED: Ben, Ben.

There's a bunch of
riders coming this way.

Yeah, Indians.

How many of them
are there?

Looks like about 25.

Wonder why so many?

They've rounded up
the cattle.

Looks like they're gonna
take the whole herd.

We always gave them
a few cattle for nothing,

just to stay friendly.

Don't do it, Ben!

I know them,
they know me.

Let me handle it.

Because you are with him,
we did not kill you.

But if you move with
gun again, we will.

Brave Bear?

It is Brave Bear
who speaks.

Brave Bear,
this man is my good friend.

He's my brother's
good friend.

I give you my word,
he won't harm any
Indians.

What is it you want?
We want all cattle.

All?

We've always given
the Indians cattle
when they needed it.

And we've always
been good friends.

For you to
take all my cattle is
not the act of a friend.

Indians can have
no white friends.

Why? We proved we were.

We will
take all your cattle
because we need them.

Do not try to stop us
or you will be killed.

And if there ain't no letter
from Johnny in Fort Defiance,
ask around.

Might be somebody's
heard word of him.

I will.

Ben, it might be
that Johnny'll get back
while I'm in Fort Defiance.

Might be.

I don't know what
you come here to see
Johnny about,

but you been a pretty
fair shooter with Ned
and me.

Are you sure you still
want to wait and see
Johnny?

You're pretty fast
with that gun.

But I think Johnny
might be a wee bit
faster.

Well, I get on
to Fort Defiance.

(URGES HORSE)

Ben? Is that you?

Yeah.

Never can tell.
Thought it might
be Johnny.

Your Uncle Charlie
ain't back yet?

Ben, what
do you figure on doing
after Johnny gets here?

I don't know.

I've been talking to
Uncle Charlie about you.

What about me?

Well, you being
a friend of Johnny's.

Maybe when he gets back,
we could build this
place up,

spread out,
be partners.

I don't know
if that's possible.

Maybe you'd like
to be on your own.

We'd pitch in and
help you build a place.
We'd be neighbors, Ben.

I wouldn't count on it.
Why not?

Ain't no sense, if you're
going around being
a ranch hand.

Knocking around
from ranch to ranch.

Ain't no sense you making
plans about the future either.

Why? See, there's
good grazing land.

When Johnny gets back,
he'll buy cattle.

Johnny! What's he gonna do,
chase out all the Indians
by himself?

You sore at me
or something, Ben?

Why'd I be sore at you?

I don't hardly know you.
That ain't true.

We worked lots of hours
together on the range.

Sometimes
I get a feeling you
don't wanna know us.

You don't want
us to know you.

It ain't that.
Well, it's something.

Just 'cause I
can't see with my eyes
don't mean I can't see.

Something's eating you, Ben.
What is it? I'd like to know.

CHARLIE: It's me, Ned.

NED:
Any news of Johnny?

Well, I guess I found out
why the Indians took all
our cattle.

There's a lot of rumors
in Fort Defiance.

Government's going
to move all the Indians
to a reservation, far away.

The Indians are
mad about it, too.

They're preparing to
make their own moves.

Starting to raid stages
and ranches and everything.

Did you hear any word from
Johnny at Fort Defiance?

Well, did you?

Ah, well, yes.

A letter?

No, not a letter.

What then?

And I got to tell you this,
Ned.

We can't stay here
waiting for him.

I heard he was dead.

Dead?

He can't be, Uncle Charlie.
He can't be dead.

He was
shot down robbing
a bank in New Mexico.

Johnny wasn't no robber.

I knew it all the time, Ned,
but I didn't want to tell you.

Ever since he got out
of the Army, he's been
robbing and murdering.

Why didn't you
never tell me
before?

Because I couldn't
bring myself to it,
Ned.

I'm an old man and you ain't
got much future with me here,

trying to scratch out
a living.

You shouldn't have let me
go on thinking like I did
about Johnny,

that he was coming back
and we was going to be
together again.

You're right.

I'm sorry for your hurt,
Ned.

You come here
after Johnny,
didn't you?

I ain't gonna lie to you.

Yeah.
Why?

Don't matter now.
Matters to me.

Why bring up something
that ain't got nothing
to do with you?

It don't seem like too much
to tell me why you come to my
house to kill my brother.

Let me go, Ned.

You're gonna tell me
before I do.

All right.

I was with one
of the companies of
the Arizona Volunteers.

So was Johnny.

Lots of men
from this part of
Arizona and New Mexico.

Yeah.
My company was wiped out in
the battle of Tennessee Ridge,

three weeks
before the war ended.

My brother was killed there.

All on account
of John Tallon.

That ain't true!

He was sent by headquarters
to tell Company D that we
were about to be outflanked.

To pull back or
we'd be trapped.
He never got there.

Maybe he was stopped
by the Confederates?

He gave himself up.

Only me and
one other man
got out alive.

And he died in
a couple of days.

It don't seem...

Johnny wasn't no coward.
You ought to know that
about Johnny.

I never
did know Johnny Tallon.
He was with headquarters.

Then how could you know
that he was the one?

I was taken prisoner by
the same guys that got
Johnny.

The captain of that
rebel outfit said that
Johnny gave himself up.

I'm sorry I had to
tell you that, Ned.

Well, I better be going.

Well, Ben,

Ned wanted
you to have this.

It was supposed to be
Johnny's Christmas
present.

Thanks.

Ben, if you get
a place of your own, I can
still do a good day's work.

I'd work mighty cheap, too,

and Ned could be
of some help.

I don't have one,
Uncle Charlie.

Jane had to sell
it during the war.

Good luck
to both of you.

Time I got
left don't matter,
it's Ned that need it.

You know Ned's
got a lot of grit.

But all the
grit in the world is
a heap of difference

between
a man that can see
and a man that can't.

I get to thinking about it
sometimes and wondering
what'll become of him.

Who'll be
there to give him a hand
if something happens to me?

You shouldn't ask me to give
you the answer, Uncle Charlie.

You're right.
I reckon I hadn't.

(PIANO PLAYING)

Mind if I sit down?

Get a glass
and help yourself.

Anybody got cattle
for sale around here?

Best place is the
feed store up the
street.

Thank you, mister.

Hey.

I got a letter with the story
about Tennessee Ridge
for Dave Parker.

Ought to be worth something
when he gets back from Tucson.

Someone's coming.

Why, it's Ben. Ben Shelby.

Where you heading for?
Fort Defiance.

No sense in hanging
around here anymore.

You're looking for a partner?
CHARLIE: In what?

Why, ranching.

You've got a lot
of good grazing land,
corrals and some equipment.

I got myself a bill of sale
for 250 head of cattle
I bought.

You ain't just funning
with me, are you, Ben?

No, sir.
What about your wife?

I've sent her a letter
asking her to catch
the next stage.

She should be here soon.
Yahoo!

Well, I still don't see
any sense in bringing
cattle in here

for the Indians
to come around
and pick them up.

Well, we got word
from the Fort

the Army's going to take care
of all this Indian trouble.

That's right.

Come on, Ned, let's
go get a tree for Jane.

Tree?

Yeah, a Christmas tree.

Huh? What's that?

Well, it's a pine.
You dress up real
pretty like.

A fellow from Europe
in my outfit told me
about it.

Something they do
in the old country.

He fixed us one
last year for
Christmas.

Jane would sure like it.

You're really staying,
Ben?

Sure I'm staying.
I ain't gonna go chop down a
tree to take along the trail.

Maybe it's the Lord's way
of giving each of you
back your brother.

Maybe.

Come on, Ned. Mount up.

Now, hurry back, now.

(NED LAUGHING)

Hand me one of them
silver tobacco papers
you been cutting on.

It's sure a lot of bother,
but it'll be a big
surprise to Jane.

She ain't never seen
a Christmas tree,
either, huh?

No.

Think your wife's
gonna like it here?

I think so.

Your wife pretty, Ben?

Well,
what do you expect a man
to say about his own wife?

Oh, someday I'm
gonna find me a girl.

I can do my share
running the ranch.

Sure, that's why I've been
setting up for us to be
partners.

Jane's bringing the money
saved from selling the place.

We're gonna buy us
some extra stock.

Well, it's gonna be the
best darn ranch around here.

Yeah and the biggest.
We're gonna spread out.

You know all through
the fighting I kept dreaming
that someday it would end

and we can start
ranching again.

Me and Jane,

how we can be together
with my brother.

Ben.
Yeah.

Sure you maybe won't
change your mind.

I can't.

I already got it set
in my mind how we're gonna
build them ranch houses.

One for me and Jane and
one for Charlie and you

and your real pretty wife.

How am I sure
she's gonna be pretty?

Well, you'll have to
take my word for it.

How about me going
into Fort Defiance
with you tomorrow?

Well, I kind of figured maybe
Jane and I'd stay in town
for a couple of days.

Oh, oh, sure. Yeah.

I reckon
we won't be getting
no more pine cones today.

I'll unsaddle the horses.

Ben, there are riders.

Uncle Charlie,
who's coming?
I don't know.

Dave Parker.

Who's Dave Parker?

Owns the saloon
in Fort Defiance.

Got one of the biggest
ranches around here.

He hates Johnny.
Johnny hassled with one of
his brothers before the war.

That's close enough,
Parker.

Tracey, is this the man?

That's him.

Tracey gave me this letter
when I got back from
Tucson this morning.

He says you wrote it.

Let me see it.

You don't have to.
Just answer.

Is it true what it says
in here about Johnny Tallon?

And what happened to
the Arizona Volunteers
on Tennessee Ridge?

What do you want, Parker?

I lost both of my
brothers at the Ridge,

just on account
of a yellow Tallon.

So I want there to be
no Tallon brothers living.

You hadn't
ought to blame Ned.
He had nothing to do with it.

I said all Tallon brothers.

You'll have to
kill me first.

Stay out of this,
Charlie.

I got nothing against you,
either, mister.

Considering your story,
you should be with us.

In fact, I'm a little
grateful to you.

Go get Ned and get out!
Quick.

You all right, Ned?
Uh-huh.

It will be easier
on the horses if we
lead them over this hill.

Go ahead.

They're headed
into Navajo Canyon.

Not a very good country
to be going into these days.

When was it? But
we're going in
after them.

Lieutenant Lucas
from Fort Defiance.

Howdy, Lieutenant.

Recruiting
all them civilians,
Colton, Brenner, Larks?

The government's
ordered the Indians to
a reservation in Oklahoma.

They know about it and most
of them are holed up in
these canyons.

The government should send
a good sized detachment of
troops for a job like that.

They have, but they
haven't arrived yet.

It makes good
sense to wait.

If the Indians would wait,
that would be fine.

But our scouts tells us
they've decided on
the war path.

I reckon you can use all
the men you can get, then?

Well, that takes
care of the Tallons.

Harry, you get back
down into town.

Ed, Jake, Cheyenne,

get back to the Tallon ranch
and give Charlie a Christian
burial.

Then get to the
west end of the
canyon.

I don't hear nothing,
Ben.

I reckon
Parker won't
follow us in here.

In where?

Navajo Canyon.

I reckon not.

Let's get off
and rest awhile.

We got to find a spot
to take cover and get
some rest for the horses.

We got
a couple hours
of daylight left.

Better to
travel these
parts at night.

Where we traveling to?

West end of the canyon.

That'll take us a good
distance from Fort Defiance.

But if we go back
the same way we come in,
Parker's liable to be waiting.

He'll be waiting at
Fort Defiance, too.

Yeah, I know it,
but we'll have the protection
of the law there.

Besides, you ain't
done nothing, Ned.

Got your own makings?

Yeah.

Maybe Uncle Charlie'll
join us soon.

He ain't gonna join us.

It ain't right for you
to have the bother of me,
Ben.

It ain't no trouble.
We're partners,
ain't we?

Besides, I'm sure
the Lord's looking out
for you, Ned.

Might be. But suppose he
ain't looking out for you.

Still got my rifle.

And can't nothing happen
to me before I see Jane.

I ain't scared with
a partner like you,
Ben.

I guess it's up to me to
say I ain't scared, either.

So I'm saying it.

But you and me both
know we're lying,
don't we, Ned?

Well, let's get going.

(LAUGHING)

I guess
that will keep
the coyotes away.

Yeah, sure, it's funny.

Would you mind telling
me who's buried there?

I said,
who's buried there?

And who wants to know?

I represent
the Angel Gabriel.
Did you ever hear of him?

It's my job to check up
on the latest burial take.

All right, tramp,
on your way.

And if there ain't enough
deaths from natural causes,

sometimes it's my mission
to speed up the take.

Charlie Tallon's buried there.

What was Charlie Tallon
deceased of?

Sickness, old age, bullets?

Just statistics,
you understand.

He was shot.

By who?

Dave Parker and...

Are you Parker's boys?
Yeah.

Where's Ned?

The last we
seen of them...
Them?

Yeah,
Ned and a hand
was working here.

They rode
into Navajo Canyon.

Why'd they go?

Oh, come on,
boys, speak up.
Don't be bashful.

Look at me,
I'm not bashful.
Talk up.

Dave was going
to string Ned up.

Why?

'Cause he found out that
Johnny Tallon was at fault

for his brothers
getting killed.

So all you gents helped
to kill Uncle Charlie?

Yeah, I'm Johnny Tallon.

Do I have to tell you
I ain't dead?

Just can't
seem to shake
that rumor at all.

You can't just blame us...
Shut up.

You were also going to
help string up Ned, huh?

Hankey, put your gun away.

Well, if you was
working for a guy...

I ain't.

There's at least two of you
here who won't be working
for him much longer.

Now one of you is going
back with a message
to Dave Parker.

You want
to draw a lot to see
which one of you goes back?

No, we ain't gonna do it.

Maybe my back will
help steady your hand.

Please!

Please! I got
a wife and kid.

That's not unusual.
Be nice to them.

Tell Dave Parker,
I'm still alive.

Yeah.

And tell him that's something
he shouldn't expect to be
for much longer.

It's gonna get
real bright soon.

There's a good spot
for us to bed down
during the day.

We'll start again
soon as it gets dark.

I think the tracks are
going this way, Hankey.

Just to make sure,
you go around the bluff.

I'll meet you
on the other side.

You got to get some rest, Ned.
We've got a tough move ahead
of us tonight.

Ah, can't sleep.

Thinking about Johnny.

Forget it.

He's dead.

Yeah.

It's better he is.
But he was my brother, Ben.

I keep thinking about the time
in that saloon when the
Parker boys come at me.

One of them with
a broken bottle
in his hand.

Johnny stuck out
his bare fist.

Got a big scar
across the back of it.

Was that when
you lost your
sight?

Later that night,
I got dry gulched.

Never did know
who it was for sure.

Oh, I was sick for months
from that beating.

Someone's coming.

Who is it?
A stranger.

Stay here, Ned,
and don't move.

I'm going out there.

You got Ned Tallon with you?

Who wants to know?

I'm his brother,
Johnny Tallon.

HANKEY: I wouldn't
do that, mister.

You got Ned Tallon
with you?

Yeah.

Is he all right?
Yeah.

What's the idea
of drawing on me?

I was going to thank you
for saving my brother's
life.

I ain't
got no cause
to thank you.

Not many have.
What's your name?

Ben Shelby.

Me and my brother was
on Tennessee Ridge.

I'm the only survivor.

The only survivor, eh?

You were lucky.

I thought you were dead.

When everybody thinks that
about a man in my trade,
he's a big success.

I've come here to kill you.

I wouldn't
have guessed it
in a million years.

If I get the chance, I will.
You won't.

Believe me, when I say you
can't be half as good at
killing as I am.

I swear nothing'll stop me.
Then save up on me.

But first
I'm gonna get Ned out
of here. Where is he?

He thinks you're dead,
and he's glad of it.

Listen, mister,
stop straining
my gratitude.

I'm grateful to you,
but ain't you getting
things a little mixed up?

I'm his brother, not you.

What kind of a brother
are you?

You know, if it wasn't
for Ned, a fellow like me

would just naturally
have to kill a fellow
like you.

But for the time being,
I think I'll just tear
the hide off you.

Put it away.

(COUGHS)

Indians!

Indians,
you darn fools,
over on the hill.

Ben!

It's me, Ned.
I'm all right.

I heard Indian ponies.

Didn't spot us.

Who's with you?
Couple of strangers.

Traveling the same way
we are.

My name's Ned.
Howdy, strangers?

Riders coming this way.

Ain't white men,
those horses
got no shoes.

What happened?
Get hold of his rifle.

(HORSE NEIGHING)

BEN: Get hold of that
horse's nostrils, Ned.

Come on. Got to keep
that horse quiet.

That ought to hold
the sound in you.

Johnny?
That's you, ain't it?

Yeah, I'm back,
Neddy boy!

Why?
Why'd you come back?

For you.

(GUNS FIRING)
We'll talk
about it later.

Did you give yourself up
on the Ridge, Johnny?
Did you? Did you?

Yeah. Now let me go!

You were
supposed to be dead.
You should have stayed dead.

BEN: Come on.
They're moving
in on us. Come on!

Why did
you give yourself up
on the Ridge, Johnny? Why?

Look, Ned, this
ain't the time
to talk.

I want to know why!
Now tell me!
Ned, look! Let go of me!

Tell me!
Ned, you're making me...

Give me a gun,
will you?

And let you get me
in the back?

Ben?

Ben!

Ben!

Ben!

(GUN FIRING)

Ben!

NED: Ben!

Ben?
Is that you, Ben?

It's me, Ned. Keep down!

(SHOUTING)

You fool.
You darned,
crazy fool!

Don't be in such
a rush to get killed.

It might come
to you soon enough.

Why did you
give yourself up
on the Ridge, Johnny?

You ain't a coward.
Why?

'Cause I wasn't gonna
get my head blowed off
knowing the war was ending.

Some general sitting on his
big, fat headquarters trying
to make a show for himself.

Besides, the Parker
boys were in that outfit and
I didn't bleed none for them.

There was my brother
and me and other men.

Ain't that funny?

I was thinking about
my brother and me.

It was your duty.

A man who gets killed doing
his duty ain't any more alive

than the man that
just gets plain killed.

Of course, I ain't had
an opinion from anyone
it's ever happened to.

Don't make me
your excuse, Johnny.

I ain't.

You asked me.
I'm telling you why.

Three years of fighting.
Wounded five times.
I saw the end in sight.

I wasn't going
to get killed
for nothing.

We're going to take that coach
out of Fort Defiance for
San Francisco.

You ain't ever going
to get on that coach,
if I can help it.

Don't do it,
Ben, he's fast.
He's too fast.

Yeah, I know.
Like a snake.

And twice as nasty.

So stop making a pest of
yourself, Mr. Only Survivor.

I'm already more beholding
to you for what you've done
for Ned.

Now, look,
let's be practical.

I've got $5,000 to
get your eyes fixed.

I don't want any of it.

Where'd that rotten
money come from?

Listen,
mister, you're talking
about the stuff I love.

Where does anyone go
for money? To a bank.

Look out!

Ben? Ben?
I'm all right.

Seems to me you're more
worried about him than
your own brother.

Hankey was
a good man.

He didn't have
any feelings about anything.

All he had was loyalty.

Still daylight,
but we better
get out of here.

There will be other
Indians looking
after these.

Well, we can't get out
the east or west end
of the canyon.

There's Indians growing
out of the rocks at
those passes.

Then where?

Well, there's a pass at the
north that few knows about.

Now will you
give me a gun?

We might need
all the shooting that can
be done to get out of here.

I ain't never shot
a man in the back,
don't reckon I could.

Not even you.

Mind if I heft it?

Go ahead.

Please, don't do nothing
to make me have to kill you.

You tired, Ned?

I'm no more tired
than anybody else.

We'll rest up on top
here for awhile.

But we got to get out
of these canyons.

I wish we dared
make a fire.

Here, put it on.

Don't make me
have to kill you
for nothing trivial.

I don't want it.

I ain't gonna ask you again.

Put it on.

Ben? Ben?

It's nothing, Ned.

Horses stirring.
They're cold, too.

Thanks, Ben.

Here you are, Ned.

Thanks.

Hey. Come here.

Guess they're gonna try to
make them move out of the
canyon.

BEN: Sure wish
we were out.

You still set on making a pest
of yourself and going for me?

Guess ever since
Tennessee Ridge,

you've set yourself
a date to hand me
a belly-full of lead.

Oh, anyways, I'm grateful
for what you've done for Ned.

And instead of lead,
I'm going to hand
you the ranch.

I'm gonna give you money.

You know what you
can do with that?

You mean you got
all you can use?

You're mighty generous
with other people's money.

Well, if you can't be
then when can you be?

Why don't you come
to San Francisco
with Ned and me?

In a little while,
I'll be running
that town.

How many people do you
figure to kill, running it?

As many as I have to.

You're crazy.

You're a mush-head.

Look,
I've got $5,000 on me.

Suppose you was to get me,
what would you do about it?

I bet you'd give it back.

What else?

You're a mush-head,
all right.

Anyways, I still want
you to come with me
to San Francisco.

Why don't you
give it a try?

There's only one thing I want
to try and if we get out of
here alive, I will.

If you ain't
just determined
to pile up my woes.

Here I am trying
to figure how to
fix Dave Parker

and get Ned
out of Fort Defiance.

Now l got
to figure out
how to keep you

from coming up against me
so I won't have to kill you.

And if that wasn't enough of
a puzzlement, on top of that,

I've got the whole darned
Indian nation to contend with.

And on top of that,

it's colder than
a tin-horned
gambler's heart!

Well, let's get started.

If we keep moving, we'll
be out of here by sundown.

Ned.

We'll be out on the plains
before the sun's gone.

Hey, look there.

(INDIANS ULULATING)

(SHOUTING)

(SHOUTING)

Whoa!

Got spare guns?
Behind the seats
in the coach.

Load those guns.
Make yourself useful.

BEN: Get up to the window.

Now hold your fire
until I tell you.

Now!

Here they come again.

Wonder what they're
going to do now?

Gonna get others.

The sun'll be gone
in a couple minutes

and I don't believe
they'll attack at night.

If they don't,
there'll be a swarm
of them at daybreak.

I knew
this would happen
when we left Willerton.

Willerton?
DRIVER: Yeah, we're the first
stage out in a week.

That's where my wife's
coming from.

Well, there was
a couple of passengers,

but they decided
not to buy tickets

with this Indian
showdown coming on.

Now if your wife
happened to be
one of those,

she can probably get
out on the next stage.
That's if it's possible.

How come
she bought a ticket?

She didn't buy a ticket.

A committee in the town
bought one for her.

She wasn't
bothering no one.

They shouldn't
have done it to her.
Least ways, not this time.

What made you come?
Mail contracts.

Got to show
a good delivery
or you'll lose them.

And you can't operate
a stage on just passengers.

Sure wish I could've had
a drink of that real
Eastern whiskey

they was gonna have
at the Fort for Christmas.

(DRUMS BEATING)

You were saying, ma'am?

Yeah, well, I'm on my way
to San Francisco.

You got folks there?

No, I'm hoping to
start a business.

Business?
What kind of business?

Well, I'm not really sure.

Well, what kind of business
were you in before, ma'am?

Well, I'm hoping to start
a new one, maybe sewing.

Did you say your name
was Julie, ma'am?

Yeah, Julie Morse.

Julie. That's
a real pretty name.

I'm getting tired
of this same old song.

I'm out of here.
Now look, sonny!

Don't get smart
just because you
killed your first Indian.

You ain't got a chance
out there.

Ain't no chance
waiting for the
dawn, either.

Anybody else want to
try it with me? You?

Ben?

BEN: Yeah?

Cold, Ned?

Well, it's a couple of
more hours to daylight.

Ben, is she pretty?

I reckon you'd say that.

She's nice.
How old is she?

About the same age
you are.

Found out
she ain't married.

No, I reckon not.

There's somebody coming.

Go get him.

Better take him
behind the ledge.

(INDIANS SHOUTING)

(INDIANS CHANTING)

(DRUMS BEATING)

Well, Mr. Only Survivor,
I guess you won't have
that distinction

by the time
the sun's high.

No, I reckon everything's
gonna be taken care of
for us.

Pretty music, huh?

Can I have
the next dance?

(SOBBING)

Let her alone, Johnny.

What is it, Miss Julie?

I'm all right.

Miss Julie?

Yeah?

There's something I've
been wanting to ask you.

Sure.

You being a girl,
maybe you could tell me.

Well, what is it?

Well, if a girl
would get to know me...

And if she...

Well, do you think
it's possible

for a pretty young girl to
ever consider a man like me?

If she loved him, sure.

Could she love a fellow
with my kind of handicap?

Why not?

The thing that
scares a fellow like me is
that maybe he ain't wanted.

Yeah, that scares
a lot of people.

And being
scared that way,

well, you figure maybe
it's better never to
find out.

You sort of feel maybe it's
better to go on being scared

instead of finding out
for sure that you're
not wanted.

(INDIANS YELLING)

They've stopped
serenading us.

It's the nosiest hunk of
silence I ever did hear.

Here.

Take it, take it!

If anything happens to us,
don't hesitate.

Ned and you.

You saw what
happened to him.

(INDIANS SHOUTING)

We got visitors and
they ain't being polite.

Here they come.

(BUGLE BLOWING)

(YELLING)

Yipee! Looks like I'm gonna
get a taste of that real
Eastern whiskey after all.

It's safe for you
to go on now.

Is this really the big
round up of the Indians?

Started yesterday, as soon
as our reinforcements arrived.

We're closing in
through every tributary
in the canyon,

hemming them in.

They'll soon realize
it's hopeless.

All right, Ned. We're on
our way to San Francisco
where there's doctors

that can tell you whether
you can get your sight back.

Rather than
take that money,
I'll stay the way I am.

You're just saying that
'cause you want to get
back at me.

I'm telling you now, Johnny,
go away, I don't want no
part of you.

If you do,
I'm willing to
forget everything.

Me and Ned be partners.

If I did,
the Parkers never would.

We'll have
the protection
of the law there.

Ain't you got enough sense
to understand that's hardly
a guarantee

of safety for
someone like me.

It's my fault
Ned lost his sight

and I'm gonna see
to it he has no worries
for the rest of his life.

Yes or no?

Can't leave Ned with
a mush-head like you.

No.

Johnny,
what'd you do to him?

What's the idea?

I'm Johnny Tallon.
You want to make
something of it?

Uh-uh.

Where is he, Johnny?
Ben! Ben! Ben.

What'd you do, Johnny?
What'd you do to Ben?
I'll kill you!

Just fixed him so he won't
get himself killed. Come on.

I won't leave here
without Ben.

Come on.

What's the matter with you?
Will you come?

NED: Ben! Ben.
Where are you?
Answer me.

Why don't you
leave him alone?

You get in that coach and
stay put! Or I'll kill him!

Tie all the horses to
the coach except one.

Except one?

Yeah. I'm leaving you
with him.

The two of you
on one horse won't
get to the Fort so fast.

Give me time to complete my
business and get out before
he shows up.

Well, what about the stage?
I'll take it.

But wait a minute...
It'll be safe with me.
I won't make off with it.

Now do as I tell you!

Julie, you got that gun?

Yeah.

Give it to me.

What are you
gonna do with it?
Give it to me, will you?

Just give it to me!

For 50 bucks I'll wait.
I don't mind taking
your money.

But it don't
seem very smart to me
to be in such a hurry

to get yourself shot
at by Johnny Tallon.

Whoa! Whoa!

Where's
Jed Brown,
the driver?

Les and the others?

Indians got them.
The driver's just hurt.

The Army boys are
taking care of him.

How soon can
this stage start
for San Francisco?

Well, as soon as we get
fresh horses and driver.
About an hour.

Aren't you Johnny Tallon?
Yeah.

I thought you were...
I know, you heard
I was dead.

And it was the Indians
that got your boys.

No offense.

Thinking of running
and telling Dave Parker
I'm here?

From what I know of Parker,
he's capable of finding
out himself.

I'll let him know.

Two tickets to
San Francisco.

Yes, sir.

For the last time, Johnny,
go away and leave me be.

You out of your mind?

JOHNNY: Like I said,
two tickets.

MAN: Yes, sir.

Were you gonna
gun me down?

Would you really
kill me, Ned?

I don't know.
Don't make me go
with you, Johnny.

You want to stay with
Ben that bad, huh?

If I give you some money,

will you and Ben
go someplace else
and settle?

We don't want your money.

You can't stay in
this part of the country
anymore on account of me.

And how
can you start someplace
else without any money?

We don't want yours.
All right! All right!

Ned. You and Ben
can be partners.

You mean it?

Yeah.

Stay here.

I'm gonna go make a sale,

and heaven help the man
that don't want to buy.

Do I
have to tell you
who I want to see?

If you mean Parker,
he ain't around.

Then I'm gonna have
to do business with you.

What business you
got with me, Johnny?

I ain't got no bone
to pick with you.

There's Parker's man.

He takes care
of all his business
when he ain't around.

Yeah. I'm Joe Doniger.
Who are you?

Johnny Tallon.

You in charge here?
Yeah.

Then write me out a bill
of sale to Dave Parker.

Sale of what?

The Tallon Ranch.

Parker ain't bought
no ranch.

As of this minute,
he's bought it.

And I figure it's worth all
the money in that register
and in that safe.

I figure it's worth nothing.

I'll give you a hint,
it's worth your life.

Now open that safe
and that register and give
me everything that's in it.

Over my dead...

Anybody else here think
I can't make a sale?

And the safe.

On the table.

Now count up that money.

And get a pen and ink
and write me out
a bill of sale

from me to Dave Parker.

Two copies.
One for him
and one for me.

And a receipt
which I will sign,
nice and legal.

Can't get much
more legitimate
than that, can you?

Miss Julie.
Yeah?

Would you consider maybe
not going to San Francisco?

Ned, you don't know where
I come from, what I am.

There might be a lot
of things I don't know,

but I know what you are.

No, you don't.

Look, Ned,

I've worked
in dance halls,
in saloons.

Maybe you're scared
to find out, like me.

We're two of a kind,
Julie.

No, Ned,
it wouldn't be fair.

Ain't fair for nobody to
live without being wanted.

NED: Johnny?

It's me, Ned.
Where is he?

Ben, Ben,
you're all right?

Yeah, where is he?

I don't know. But it's gonna
be all right. He's going away.

Did he say that?
Yeah, and he said you
and me could he partners.

Yeah, I heard him.

And your wife will
be here soon, Ben.

Then we can
get started.

Mr. Only Survivor.

Is it true what Ned says
about your going away?

Yeah!

DAVE: Whoever's in there.
I want Johnny and
Ned Tallon.

And anybody else has
got two minutes to
get out.

All right,
you get out.

If you don't mind,
I'd just as soon stay.

Julie, ain't no
reason for you...
I got a reason.

What you just
said is enough.

Well, reckon I won't need this
ticket the committee gave me
for San Francisco.

I'd rather live for just
a few minutes being wanted.

And how about you,
Mr. Only Survivor?

I ain't running out
on a partner.

This is
Johnny Tallon, Dave.

I'll make
a deal with you.

Let Ned go and
I'll give myself up.

Think of
all the fun you'll
have stringing me up.

I ain't
making no bargains.
I'll see you both dead.

Well, Mr. Only Survivor.

My name's Shelby.

I'm getting tired...
Don't be a pest
about petty details.

Now look, here's
$2,500 legitimate.

The bill of
sale, receipts,
signed and all.

What are you
talking about?

Well, somebody's got to see
that a couple of mush-heads
like you have some money.

You wouldn't take mine
because it was rotten.

Well, Parker
drove us off the ranch,
so I got payment.

Here.

Take care of him.

Johnny.

Yeah.

It's true Mr. Lincoln
shook your hand, isn't it?

Yeah, it's true, Ned.

Mr. Shelby, would you get
to the door and when I say,
open, open it fast?

Johnny?

You made your choice, Ned.
Don't apologize for it.

I never did for mine.

DAVE: You got 15 seconds,
whoever wants to come out.

Open!

(HORSES NEIGHING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(GUNS FIRING)

Well, I guess Parker
won't bother us anymore.

Come on out, Ned.

MAN: Here she comes,
the stage from Willerton.

Get your baggage
ready, folks.

The stage from Willerton,
coming in.

Hear that, Ben?
The stage from Willerton.
Maybe your wife's on it.

Is she here, Julie?

Yes, she's here, Ned.