All language subtitles for All the Kind Strangers (1974)

Looks like you've got
quite a load there.

Would you like a lift?

I ain't got far to go.

How far you going?

There's a dirt road.

About a mile I expect.

A mile?

That's a long way.

Come on I'll give you a ride.

OK.

Here, I'll give you a hand.

Boy, that thing sure is heavy.

What you got in there?

Oh, just flour, salt,
and things like that.

Here we go.

Go ahead.

It's all right.

Where'd you get
those groceries out

there in the middle of nowhere?

Pennsborough.

Pennsborough?

Is that that town I came
through a ways back?

Yes sir.

It must be five miles.

You mean you carried
that stuff all that way?

It ain't so far.

How old are you?

Seven.

When I was seven, I wasn't even
allowed to cross the street.

You're nice.

What's your name?

James Wheeler.

Everybody calls me Jimmy.

I got a brother named James.

We call James James.

My mother used
to call me James.

That's good.

It's in the Bible,
you know... James.

Nobody calls him Jimmy.

What do they call you?

Gilbert, Gilbert Janner.

Gilbert.

Hooey, what's this?

It's a camera.

Now be careful.

Don't put your
finger on the lens.

Are all these things cameras?

Uh huh.

What do you do with them?

I take pictures.

That's my job.

I take pictures,
and then I write

stories to go along with them.

I'm what they call
a photojournalist.

Hey there it is.

Right up there on the right.

Thanks a lot, Mr. Wheeler.

I sure wish you could come
and take some pictures of me

and my folks sometime.

Wait a minute.

OK, smile.

There you go.

What's this?

Just keep watching it.

How far down that
road do you live?

Oh, not more than a mile.

Well do you figure you're going
to catch a ride with a neighbor

or something like that?

Ain't got no neighbors.

Hey, what's happening?

Just keep watching it.

I'll take you home.

Thought you said it
was a mile, Gilbert.

I said or so.

Hey, look at this.

It's me, big as life.

Wait till Peter sees this.

It's going to be dark
pretty soon, Gilbert.

I'm surprised your
folks would let you

come all this way by yourself.

Look out!

We've come over
two miles, Gilbert.

There's not even a road anymore.

I take some shortcuts.

I don't think I can
drive much further.

Your mother is going to
be worried sick about you.

Ain't got no ma.

I'm sorry.

It really ain't
much further now.

Peter, he's my big brother.

He knows a better road back.

It's longer though.

I sure hope it doesn't rain.

If it does, I won't even
be able to get the top up.

it.

Just go straight ahead.

Yeah.

Is that what I think it is?

That's the creek.

Gilbert, nobody puts a road
through the middle of a creek.

Maybe the road was there first.

It's only a few inches deep.

Are you should it's
inches not feet?

It only gets high after a rain.

All creeks do that.

Uh huh.

Come on, let's go.

More to the left.

You can level off now.

Right back under them trees.

We're gonna beat the rain.

Look at her go.

It sure is a fine
automobile, Mr. Wheeler.

It was before that last mile.

Come on, get in.

Well here we are, Gilbert.

Listen, do me a favor.

Ask your brother
to come out here

and show me the other road back.

Aw, can't you come in
just for a little while,

maybe take some more of these.

Well...

-My family would sure like it.
-I'd like to.

I really would.
But I'm afraid I can't.

I gotta be on my way.

Peter's probably out
bringing in the cows.

He won't want to show
you till after supper.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

This is the family.

This is Mr Wheeler.

This here's my brother
James, Mr. Wheeler.

I told you about him.

He's 11.

Hello, James.

Hello.

Rita's 12.

Hi, Rita.

John's 15.

John.

That's Martha.

She can't talk.

Nice to meet you, Martha.

Nice to meet all of you.

This ain't all of us.

Baby?

This here's baby.

Ma died when he was born.

So he didn't get no other name.

Baby.

Gilbert, you go bring Peter.

Aw, he seen us coming.

I said go get him.

No, that's all right, John.

I saw him pull in.

This is Mr. Wheeler, Peter.

John, you want to
tend to the livestock?

Come on.

You know what to do.

It's nice to meet you, Peter.

Listen, I was
wondering if you could

show me the road out of here?

Martha, tend to Baby's nose.

You know he's catching a cold.

Figured on having you join
us for supper, Mr. Wheeler.

Well I'd like to.

I really would, but
I'm afraid I can't.

Be obliged to have you stay,
driving Gilbert home and all.

Well I appreciate
the invitation.

But if you'll just show
me the road out of here,

that'll be thanks enough.

Well if you really got to go.

All right, I'll show you.

So long, kids.

Be good.

Nice to meet you.

Bye, Gilbert.

Thanks for the
ride, Mr. Wheeler.

You bet.

Go right at the barn.

Turn left at the corn field,
and you'll see the road.

It's gravel, so the rain
won't bother you none.

All right now, I go
right at the barn,

left at the cornfield.

Now once I get to the
road, which way do I go?

I just can't believe it, 6,000
miles, not even broken in.

Got a telephone?

No, sir.

Looks like you'll be
having supper with us now

and spending the night.

All right, good, hold
it just like that.

OK, smile.

Hold it.

Well there it is.

It's all taken, right there.

Just keep your eyes on it.

Isn't that neat?

There I am.

Aw, look at you.

You going all the
way to California?

Uh huh.

License plates say New York.

Well my job takes me a
lot of different places,

anywhere there's an
interesting story.

I read about
California and New York.

I'll be going there
myself someday.

New Orleans first
though... Mardi Grass.

It sure must be something.

Oh it is.

It's very exciting,
big carnival.

-You been there?
-Uh huh

You got pictures?

No, not with me.

I read about it.

Ma was a school
teacher, you know.

She had a lot of
books and things.

I'd sure like to
meet your father.

Pa's away.

He took some hogs to market.

He'll be back come
Sunday, I expect.

Oh.

Rita, take Mr.
Wheeler to see Momma.

Momma?

Gilbert said...

Gilbert talks a lot,
don't say nothing.

Mr. Wheeler...

Momma, this is Mr. Wheeler.

He'll be having supper with us.

Mrs. Janner?

Peter wants supper now, Momma.

Baby's getting fussy.

You can't be the
mother of this tribe.

They just call me that.

I don't mind really.

It makes it easier
for the little ones.

Stepmother?

Are you married to their father?

I'm really happy that you can
stay for supper, Mr. Wheeler.

I'm not much of a cook really.

But I... I'm learning.

Their mother left
a lot of recipes.

The windows are nailed shut.

And what's a bolt doing on
that door on the wrong side.

I don't like the children
under my feet while I'm cooking.

The children say
that you're very nice.

They like you.

Peter don't like his
supper this late, Momma.

Everything's ready
but the biscuits.

Tell the girls to dish up.

Well it's not really
that late, boys.

I mean it's just
the time of year.

And then there's the rain.

But I guess it's early to bed
and early to rise on the farm.

Isn't it?

Lots of chores to do, especially
with your father being away.

It ain't so bad.

It's a lot of
fun sometimes too.

Oh, I'm sure it is.

I'm sure it is, particularly
when you're young.

But then, you know,
Peter, Peter doesn't seem

to be enjoying it too much.

But I guess he'll
be going away soon.

Oh no.

Pa always said the family sticks
together like in the Bible.

Peter told me to show
you to the supper table.

Now.

God is great.

God is good, and we
thank him for our food.

By his hand we must be fed.

Give us, Lord, our daily bread.

Amen.

Gilbert, now you try.

It's my turn!

It's your turn tomorrow night.

Rita, you lost your
turn because you

hit James last week.

Now do you want to
go to your room?

Gilbert.

God is great.

God is good, and we
thank him for our food.

By his hands we must be fed.

Give us, Lord, our daily bread.

Amen.

I don't want no fighting.

I ain't got no potatoes.

Hey...

James, you want
to pass the corn?

Give the biscuits
to James there.

James, not with your fingers.

Is it kind of like carrots?

Well they're good for you.

Have a few.

I like blackberry jelly.

Why ain't there no
blackberry jelly, Momma?

Because you went
fishing yesterday instead

of collecting the berries.

Tomorrow if the rain lets up,
I'll expect two full boxes

of big thimble berries.

Maybe Pa would like...
maybe Mr. Wheeler

would like to go with you.

You can kind of show
him around a little.

Hey, that'd be great.

I know a patch where
they're so big they're

dragging the ground.

Well thanks anyway.

But I'll be leaving
tomorrow as soon

as I get a tow truck out here.

I figure I can catch a ride into
Pennsborough in the morning.

Don't you just love ham, sir?

Uh, Peter...

We butchered a
beauty last fall.

I bet he weighed
in at over 800.

He dressed down at almost five.

You should like the
mashed potatoes too.

We get fresh milk every morning.
-Peter...

See how nice and
fluffy they are.

Butter's fresh too.

Momma churned just this morning.

Gilbert, you put
them biscuits back.

I just wanted...

Yeah, I know what you wanted.

Now how many times
I gotta tell you,

them dogs don't get
nothing but meat?

But they love biscuits
better than anything.

Mmm hmm, so's they can
get fat and soft and lazy.

That's all we need around here
is a pack of no-account hounds.

They ain't no-account.

The do anything we tell them.

And we're going to
keep them that way.

Dogs hunting biscuits
ain't no good for nothing.

Now you drink your milk.

Peter, when's your
father coming home?

Why don't you eat
your supper, Pa?

Both their parents
died five years ago.

Five years ago?

Ma died birthing Baby.

Pa drank five gallons of his own
makings and fell off the roof.

Five years ago?

What about the neighbors,
the people in town?

Come on now.

Everybody finish up.

It's getting on bedtime.

Wait a minute.

I just can't believe this.

Somebody must have
known something.

Pa didn't like strangers.

Nobody came around much.

He was a good shot, Pa.

I'm just like him, pew.

Right, Peter?

You're getting there.

What do you do for money?

How do you pay the gas bills?

And what about your schooling?

Their mother was a
qualified schoolteacher,

and she left instructions
for their schooling.

There's natural gas on the
property and the company

gives it to them free
for as long as they...

We got plenty of money, too.

When Pa used to sell whiskey...

You're gonna get a switching,
Gilbert, butting in like that.

And I told you to
drink your milk.

I'm sorry, Peter.

All right, Peter.

Look, look I want to get
something straight right now.

As soon as that tow truck gets
out here tomorrow I'm leaving.

Now I don't know what this
Momma and Papa stuff is about,

but I don't like games.

And she is not your mother.

Just who are you?

My name is Carol Ann Henderson,
and I'm... it is a game, really.

I'm their momma, and...

Peter, please tell him.

I wish somebody would tell
me something that makes sense.

Carol Ann came to help us out.

That's all.

We was figuring maybe
you'd like to help out too.

These young'uns need grownups,
somebody to teach them,

and tell them what to do,
punish them when they need it.

Well if you don't want to...

Where's my bag, my
camera equipment?

I put it all on your room,
Sir, upstairs on the left.

Thanks.

I want to see that room.

Then you'll stay?

Till morning, then you
can take your funny farm

and... good night, Momma.

Wait a minute.

What are you doing?

That's all right.

I'm going to be staying...

Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah.

Glory, glory hallelujah.

His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never sound retreat.

He is sifting out the hearts of
men before his judgement seat.

Oh be swift, my
soul, to answer him.

Be jubilant, my feet.

Our God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah.

Glory, glory, hallelujah.

Glory, glory, hallelujah.

His truth is marching on.

Look, I don't know what's
going on around here.

And I don't care,
but I'm leaving.

But you said you'd
stay till morning.

That was before I
got locked in my room.

Now do you want to
stay in this menagerie?

Or do you want to go?

Oh, we can't go now.

I mean, they must have
seen you come in here.

They're downstairs singing.

Well Martha can't sing.

She's like a cat.

She sees and hears everything.

Look, they're just
a bunch of weird kids

with some crazy ideas their
father pounded into them.

I don't know.

Maybe he wanted to protect
his bootlegging business.

How did you get
mixed up in this?

I picked up Gilbert just
the same way as you did.

There's a bunch of
clothes in my room,

different sizes, and things
with different initials on them.

We're not the first.

There was another
man, an older man.

One morning he was gone.

Peter said he went into
the town to get a mechanic,

but he never came back.

And the car just disappeared.

All right, look.

We're just a mile and a
half from the highway.

The rain has slacked off.

We are leaving right now.

We can't go.

Don't you understand?

We're prisoners.

They're just a bunch of kids.

They're eyes and
ears for Peter.

And the dogs, you heard him.

They're trained.

A pack of hound
dogs... Put it on.

We've no less days
to sing God's praise

than when we first begun.

I want to do "My
Country 'Tis of Thee."

John, you got to do your song.

My country 'tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee

I sing.

Land where my fathers died,
land of the Pilgrim's pride,

from every mountainside,
let freedom ring.

My native God to thee, land
of the noble free, thy name I

love.

I love thy rocks and rills,
thy woods and templed hills.

My heart with rapture
thrills like that above.

Let music swell the breeze
and ring from all the trees,

sweet freedom's song.

Let mortal tongues awake.

Let all God's lambs partake.

Let rocks their silence break.

The sound prolong.

Our fathers' God to thee, author
of liberty, to thee we sing.

Gilbert, Gilbert, you
want to sing a song,

then sing it on key.

Sorry.

My country
'tis of thee, sweet land

of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died,
land of the Pilgrim's pride,

from every mountainside...

We can't get 10
feet from this house.

Let freedom

You better get some sleep.

...ring.

In the daylight things
will look a lot better.

My native country...

Come on.

thee,
land of the noble free...

Good night.

...thy name I love.

I love thy rocks and rills,
they woods and templed hills.

My heart with rapture
thrills like that above.

Let music swell the
breeze and ring from all...

Don't move.

I wanted to do it, Peter.

I was just getting a good aim.

I told you not to mess with
guns unless I was showing you.

Aw, Pete, you didn't
have to kill him.

And I told you not to bring no
more varmints into the house.

He wouldn't have hurt nobody.

I told you he wouldn't
stay in an old shoebox.

Somebody must have let him out.

Was you peeving him again?

I never touched him.

Every time I'd turn my back
you was a-pecking on his box.

Did not.

Did too.

All right, get out of here.

All of you.

Take that thing with you.

That's right.

It don't matter
how it got loose.

It won't happen again, Sir.

I can promise you that.

No more varmints in the house.

Now go to bed, all of you.

Night, Momma, Pa.

Carol Ann, Gilbert,
Peter, anybody.

Jimmy.

You sure sleep late.

It's almost 8:00.

Well I've been
known to sleep as

late as 8:30, 9:00, especially
after a night like last night.

Carol Ann, my car is gone.

I've got chores.

Everyone's had breakfast.

I could heat up some
biscuits and ham.

No thanks.

I'm sorry, but I
don't eat before noon.

And when my almost brand new
$7,000 car just disappears

after failing to
start, I just might

lose my appetite altogether.

Well the boys are
going to fix it.

They're very handy
with machinery.

Jimmy, please.

That's all right.

Just do your chores.

I'm sorry, I'm not feeling
very gentlemanly this morning.

All right, John.

Where's my car?

Well good morning.

You better get some
breakfast in you, Pa.

Peter figured you'd
clear some brush today.

John, where is my car?

And don't call me Pa.

No boys, easy, easy.

Um... you better turn
me loose, Mr. Wheeler.

Just say something nice and low.

Go ahead.

Hello, boys.

Take it easy now.

Now, John, I want you to
tell me where my car is

or I'm going to
give you a walloping

you are not going to forget.

And that is only the beginning.

Never try and punish us
in front of the dogs, Sir.

Where is Peter, John.

Look, it's not right to steal
other people's property.

Now look.

Just tell me where Peter
is, and I'll talk to him.

And after that I'll
decide whether or not

you need a whipping.

Oh, well he's out
at the swimming hole.

I can't go till I
finish old Beth here.

She's a great old milking cow,
good for a full bucket too.

Which way to the swimming hole?

Around the barn, through the
corn field, past some trees.

Oh it's over yonder
way, you'll hear 'em.

After morning chores it's whoop
and holler time around here.

Get it.

Woo hoo!

Get it.

I got it.

You okay?

Get him.

I got it.

Woo hoo!

All right.

Get him.

Get him,.

All right, everybody
out, right now.

Now I want to know what
you've done with my car.

And I'm going to be
very upset if you

fooled around with that motor.

We never touched
the motor, Sir.

Peter?

Can you swim, Sir?

The water is nice and warm.

Peter, I don't have
time to waste swimming.

Now I just want you
to take me to my car.

That's all.

Yes, Sir.

James, give me a
hand with the boat.

You didn't drag it
across the river did you?

Peter, listen.

If you've gotten water
in that gas tank,

I... will this thing float?

Get in.

Oh, Peter, look at this thing.

It leaks like a sieve.

My new $60 shoes.

Cow manure, mud,
and now swamp water.

You can keep ahead
of it with this, Sir.

Listen, Peter, if there's
anything wrong with that car,

if there's any tears in
the upholstery, any dents,

any scratches, I am going to
report you to my insurance

company as a vandal.

You're over 18.

It's your name that's going
to be on that report, Peter.

This is the deepest
part here, Sir.

You kids get on back now.

It's dangerous out here.

Jimmy, Jimmy, you all right?

My car, my car's at
the bottom of the creek.

What happened?

John upset the boat.

He did it as a prank.

The other children
pulled you out.

They all swim like fish.

I know what they swim like.

I must have hit my head.

Hey, stayed lied down.

They ran my new car right down
to the bottom of the creek.

And there was a
red one down there,

and a blue one, and a green one.

Jimmy, they're going to vote.

Vote?

On us, whether they keep
us as parents or not.

They're going to vote on us?

This is like a bad dream.

It's like a joke.

If they vote no...

Look, you said
there were others.

They must have voted on them.

That explains those cars
at the bottom of the creek.

They like us.

I know they do, and
they'll vote yes.

If they do, that will
give us the time to think

of a way to get out of here.

Carol Ann, I am not going
to wait around to go on trial

by a bunch of crazy kids.

Would you mind getting
me a pair of pants?

I'm sure my size
is in that closet.

Where are they now?

They're eating.

Peter went to cut a
willow switch for you

to use on John for
tipping the boat up.

Ooh, a willow switch.

They want punishment.

Well I don't.

I've had enough.
I'm getting out of here.

Jimmy...

Look, I'll make my
way to Pennsborough,

and I'll get help.

You don't understand.

They won't let you go.

They'll kill you.

Carol Ann, look.

I've survived Viet
Nam, a rotten marriage.

I'm indestructible.

Now would you please
get me some pants?

I'm not going to punish you
for spilling the milk, John.

I think you know that.

But that business with the
boat was something else.

Somebody could have got hurt.

You have to learn
about jokes like that.

But I was just funning, Sir.

There's nothing wrong with
that as long as everybody

knows you're playing.

But that's not the
way it happened.

Peter, you're going to have to
take the dogs off somewhere.

They won't make no fuss.

I'll see to it.

Now look.

I don't want everybody
standing around.

You wouldn't want it that
way if it was your turn.

This is just between
a father and a son.

They could all use a switching.

They come near the deep water
when I told them not to.

We had to help Pa, Peter.

I'd have took care of that.

Peter, them was cars down there.

I'd bet on it.

That was junk metal,
just like I told you.

Pa throwed it in
there years back.

If I catch you swimming
near there again,

you're going to get something
you've never had before.

Nobody's going to go swimming.

It's too dangerous.

Somebody might get a foot
caught in that old junk metal.

Peter, you're going to
have to take the dogs off.

Carol Ann, you and the girls
take care of the ironing.

Let's go hunting, Peter.

The dogs ain't had a real
good run in a long time.

Peter, if you want
to you, you could,

uh, you could help
pull those stumps out.

Then after you
finish, maybe we could

go hunting in a couple of days.

Aw, come on, Peter.

I don't want to dig up no...
-All right.

...stumps.

We'll work up on
back of the ridge.

All right, John, I want
you to go inside that shed.

And I want you to think
about what you did.

Try and figure out
why it was wrong.

Then you gonna switch me?

I want you to think, John.

Sometimes thinking's
worse than a switching.

Go on.

Clean as a whistle, one shot.

Next time it's my turn.

Your turn'll come soon enough.

I said pass the
mustard to John.

Behave yourself.
Come on.

Come on.

I want some mustard now.

All right, put the food down.

I said put your food down.

We're not playing games anymore.

I've decided to stay.

But Carol Ann is free to go.

Do you want to, Momma.

If you stay, Jimmy, I will.

Nobody's forcing you to stay.

If I'm taking over
this family, that's

the way it's going to be.

And there'll be no
more locked doors.

Is that understood, Peter?

Peter?

Yes, Sir.

All right.

You've got your parents now.

You can finish your supper.

Ma, we cleaned up
the supper dishes.

Good night.

Good night, Peter.

Good night, Pa.

Good night, Peter.

He told me to go
in the shed, Peter.

No way I was to know
he'd take off that a-way.

Don't matter.

I should've left
a couple of dogs.

Why don't we vote tonight.

If they really want to go.

There will be time
enough tomorrow.

I didn't lock the doors tonight.

But if they try to go off
by themselves, the dogs!

Remember that big
red rooster we had?

Liked to have scratched
a person's eyes out?

Yeah.

Well what happened when we put
that rooster in the hen house

instead of keeping him
penned in the barn?

He got fat, and
sassy, and nice as pie.

Let's just take another look
at our rooster in the morning.

Peter, I don't recollect Pa
throwing no junk in the creek.

You was too young to remember.

Yeah, but it looked like cars.

We've all stayed together,
ain't we, like Pa said?

Yeah, but...

I told you it would be your
turn soon to shoot and all.

Well there's something else,
when you're old enough.

What, Peter?

If we vote no on
these two tomorrow,

there will be time
enough to tell you.

Tell me what, Peter?

Good night, John.

They didn't lock the doors.

It's got to be a trick.

Let's go.

But you couldn't make
it in the daylight alone.

I panicked.

It sounded like the
dogs were everywhere.

It's going to be
worse at night.

I've got an idea.

Come on.

Have we got anymore
of this stuff?

Cornbread?

Get it.

I don't understand.

The dogs.

Come on.

Peter makes it all a game.

There are traps everywhere.

I know.

All right, just keep moving.

Keep your eyes open.

And take your time.

Come on.

Wait a minute.

Listen.

They're out.

We'll head for the creek.

We can throw them off.

I can't, can't go on.

Yes you can.

We've got to.

It wasn't right, Carol
Ann, what you done.

You lied just like him.

That ain't no good
way for parents to be.

He wanted to get help,
Peter, for all of you.

We don't need no help as
long as we stay together.

You ain't gonna give
us no more trouble.

He's okay, ain't he?

He didn't mean nothing bad.

Oh, he's fine.

I got him tied up
real good, Peter.

All right.

We vote now.

Please, Peter, not yet.

Let me talk to him.

He won't try and run away again.

I said we vote now.

Yes, he stays.

He's our Pa.

We'll do like he says.

No, he goes just
like the others.

James?

He keeps trying to run away.

I vote no.

Rita?

I like him.

I think Carol Ann's right.

I vote yes.

That's one yes and one no.

Gilbert?

I think he'd make a fine Pa.

I picked him.

I vote yes.

That's two yes and one no.

Baby?

Baby can't vote.

He doesn't understand.

He's family.

He voted yes on you, remember?

We all did.

Baby, do you want Mr.
Wheeler to stay or go?

Go.

That's two and two.

John?

It don't matter
much to me, Peter.

Whatever you say.

John, you like him.

You know you do.

He didn't take
the switch to you.

He made you think.

He gave you the chance to
figure out right from wrong.

Now this is family, Carol Ann.

I want you to hear it.

But you got no right talking.

You voted yes on me.

You voted me your momma.

Yeah, but that's all different
now after what you've done.

You see, you're with him.

You showed us that.

So however the
vote goes for him...

All right, John's
holding back his vote.

Martha?

Vote yes, Martha.

Don't let Peter send him away.

Carol Ann.

All right, that's
three yes and two no.

Since John's going along
with however I vote,

it's four no and three yes.

And in the morning you both go.

Martha, cut me loose.

Listen to me.

Peter does not care what
happens to you and your family.

He wants to leave.

He wants you and John to stay
behind and take his place.

The other children don't
even know, but you know.

You know what happened.

You know how those cars got
to the bottom of the creek.

Do you want to be
responsible for that?

Martha, cut me loose.

Cut me loose.

Martha.

It was a fair vote.

Now go on, get some sleep.

You better get some sleep too.

You'll be leaving
in the morning.

Good night, Mr. Wheeler.

Tray.

Where are they?

I don't know.

Let's get out of here.

Good bye, Mr.
Wheeler, Carol Ann.

It's all over, Peter.

All you had to do was
stay, be our folks.

Wouldn't have been so bad.

You're like all the others.

Nobody cares.

I can't let you go, Mr Wheeler.

It's not like the others,
Peter, not this time.

Your brothers and
sisters, they'll know.

They'll believe what
they're told like always.

You're wrong, Peter.

I told you to go to
the swimming hole.

Now go, all of you.

It ain't right, Peter.

We voted to let 'em go.

Pa wouldn't want
us to hurt nobody.

We'll get somebody else
like we always done.

If they left, they'd send
somebody to break us up.

I'm only doing it for you.

Don't you see?

No you're not, Peter.

You're doing it for yourself.

No.

How else you going
to get out of here.

How are you going to keep from
being stuck with those kids

all the rest of your life?

See all those places you've
been dreaming about, California,

New Orleans, Mardi Gras?

That ain't true.

Yes it is true, Peter.

Whether you like it
or not, it is true.

You're trying to confuse me.

I'm trying to help you.

I love those kids.

Do you?

Then put that gun down.

Put it down, Peter, please.

When people stopped,
I thought they'd help.

It ain't fair.

People should help other people.

If Peter done wrong, he
didn't mean it, Mr. Wheeler.

I know that, John.

Peter, there are people, special
people, who can help you.

They understand.

You will too after a while.

Will we ever be a family again?

That's up to Peter.

I think maybe we
ought to take a walk

into Pennsborough, Mr. Wheeler.

Don't let nobody
hurt him, Mr. Wheeler.

Don't worry, Gilbert.

I won't.

We love you, Peter.