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Welcome home, Bramley.

Welcome home.

Drop your gun!

Right in the water!

Now get off your horse!

That's right.

Now put your hands on your hat!

What do you want, mister?

Name's Stark.

Lewis Stark.

We got some business, sonny.

Your name don't mean nothing to me.

I don't know who you are.

Well, I'll give you a little hint.

Snap 'em on.

You hurt?

Huh? Any teeth loose?

Fair enough.

You tried me.

I encourage a man to try me.

Once.

If he's smart, he learns his lesson.

If not, I plink his spine, just about beltline.

So he won't ever feel his legs again.

You take my meaning, sonny?

Yeah, I take it.

Now, later, you can tell me where you stole that crow bait.

State of Texas usually pays the owner a little something.

And what do they pay you, poster watcher?

Well, if you was a dangerous murderer,

or a famous highwayman,

you might fetch up to...

oh, $1,000 or more.

There'd be a dozen trackers snapping at your tail.

But a little suck-egg weasel like you draws bottom price.

200.

Dead... 50.

I rarely tote 'em back dead. There ain't no profit in it.

Head cleared some?

- Hmm? - Yeah.

Now let's get you in the harness.

Sonny, I got one rule.

Break it and your walking days are over.

Stay a little ahead of me and to my right.

- You hear me? - Yeah, I hear you.

Yes, sir.

I hear ya.

How'd you get onto me? There couldn't be a bulletin out so soon.

No, no, no.

State of Texas don't bother papering the country for no suck-eggs.

Waste of money.

No, a jailer friend of mine wires me

whenever one of you sneaks free of the warden's hound dogs.

And that's how you make a livin', huh?

- Mm-hmm. - Real good.

Collecting trash, you might say.

But don't think it's always been this way, sonny.

I've had my share of the big prizes.

- Is that a fact? - Mm-hmm.

Yes, siree.

How would you like to make one more decent payday?

Out over that ridge, that's Dodge.

I got connections there.

You let me go and I'll get you $500.

Keep snappin'.

All right, I'll make it 1,000.

Five times what you get for taking me back.

Mister, my pa owns a ranch on the other side of that town.

He'll pay ya. He can afford it.

What, don't you like money, or is it seeing a man in chains that wallops you?!

You got a smart mouth.

What have you got to worry about?

If I'm lyin', you can always hang these irons on me.

I ain't worried.

If you're lyin', I won't need no irons.

I'll tote you back in a basket.

Yes, siree, sonny.

Just a little ol'... basket.

Well, hello there.

Well, well, well.

If it isn't Adam Bramley.

We'd thought you'd left for good.

Well, Miss Russell and I had some wild ol' hoop-de-doos,

ain't that a fact, Miss Russell?

What he's trying to say is that I've thrown him out of here

more times than I care to remember.

She ain't no fun. Just ain't no fun.

Whiskey if you please, ma'am.

Beer for the boy.

Well, one thing's improved.

At least you finally found a friend who knows your size.

Miss Russell, Mr. Stark.

He's kinda a stranger to our town.

Welcome to Dodge, Mr. Stark.

I thank you kindly, ma'am.

I understand your father hasn't heard from you since you left.

Well, yeah, I've been out of touch.

His horse fell out from under him, Adam.

Bad spill?

He's in no condition to run that ranch alone.

- Marshal. - Adam.

Come on.

- Hey, where do you think you're going? - You heard what she said.

Now, look, I ain't gonna dodge chuckholes all night.

We'll ride out there in the morning.

Now, you do what you wanna do. My pa is hurt, and I'm going to him.

- Kitty. - Evenin', Matt.

- See young Bramley was in, huh? - Yep.

Did you tell him about his pa?

Yeah, I sure did. That's why he left.

Who was that fella that was with him?

He said his name was Stark.

I've seen him someplace before.

- Adam! - Hi, Bo.

Adam!

I thought I'd never see you again.

How's Pa?

Who are you?

How's Pa, Bo?

He ain't well, Adam.

He ain't at all well.

Hey, Bo, what the dev...

You shouldn't have come back.

You go on to bed, Bo.

I'll take it to him.

You shouldn't have come back.

Some teepee.

Yeah, that old daddy of yours must be an outsized man.

You wouldn't leave here too healthy if he found out how we're hooked up together.

Now, why do you think I rode you through your town, boy?

So as we'd be seen together.

Insurance.

Anything happen to me, my jailer friend would wire

every law office in the West that I was missing.

Along with a description of you.

I don't intend on making any stir.

My pa would take me back to finish my time.

Your daddy would send you back to jail?

He'd consider it his moral duty to take me back himself.

That's the kind of outsize man he is, Mr. Stark.

You'll find your sister visiting the Stevens girl.

Well, howdy.

That's all you've got to say to me after three years?

Why'd you come home, Adam?

I heard you were hurt.

Where did you hear that?

A drifter I met said he worked here for a while.

In California it was. I...

I don't remember his name.

- California, huh? - Mm-hmm. That's where I've been, Pa.

I had a notion to try my hand in the gold fields.

Eh, it didn't turn out too well.

I was back in the mountains, out of touch. That's why I didn't write.

How are you, Pa?

You've got eyes.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I see nothin's changed.

What did you expect, a fatted-calf welcome?

No, no, no.

'Cause we never forget in this house, do we? Never.

It's a sign of weakness to forget,

and we'll tolerate the plague ahead of weakness.

Well, if you're through, I've got work to do.

I'm not through.

There's a man outside. I owe him $1,000.

- What for? - He staked me in California.

We were partners.

Well, next time he'll show better judgment.

I owe him. Now, it's not his fault we didn't hit it.

Ain't mine.

- You're refusing me? - Look...

when you left home, you cut the strings.

- Both ways. - I can work the money out.

There ain't no better drover. Now, you know that.

I'll do anything you say.

- Anything I say? - Yes, and I mean it, Pa.

Good. Then you tell your friend you'll send him the money as you earn it.

Now run along.

I promised it now. He can't wait.

You can start work tomorrow.

Didn't you hear me? The man can't wait.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Now, I'm not gonna run out on you. I promise.

I give you my solemn word on it.

- You tell Charlie to put you on tonight. - Then you'll advance me the money?

No.

It's always the same, ain't it?

You wrapped up in that blowed-up opinion of yourself.

Playing God, the Almighty Giver of the Word!

Don't you bander the Lord's name in this house.

The Lightning Rod of the Law!

Not unless you're on your knees, do you hear me?!

Yes, I hear you!

All my life, I've heard nothing else.

You drowned out the world for me, Pa.

When I was a little kid,

I got you and the Lord and the Devil

so mixed up I couldn't tell one from the other.

And you wanna know something pitiful?

If I was to get on my knees right now...

I still wouldn't know one from the other.

You get outta here!

I am your son, and I'm asking you for help.

You were never my son.

You had everything.

Every opportunity to be sitting right there behind this desk.

I was waiting for you,

for once in your life, to stand on your own two feet.

- I was waitin... - Waiting for me to sprout a halo, too!

Get out!

Bo!

Bo! Get a doctor!

Get Doc Adams right away, Bo!

Looks like you're about to inherit a ranch.

Sonny.

Where you been?

Admiring.

Yep, that old daddy of yours sure done himself proud here.

There's a whole lot of spread out yonder.

How much you reckon your daddy's worth, sonny?

I wouldn't know.

Well, you must've run it through your head sometime.

Only natural, you being his son and heir.

Hmm?

Yeah, I envy you, boy.

All my daddy left his whelps was a field full of weeviled cotton.

Half of that belonged to the bloodsucker who owned the land we scratched on.

Yep.

There was nine of us...

Rickets, runny nose, ignorant as blow flies.

Do you know what I done with my share?

Bought a pair of yellow shoes.

Not boots, boy.

Genuine calf-skin shoes.

You know your daddy's awful smart

buying up them scrawny yearling's this time of year.

Yeah, with the rich grass we got, bringing on feeders pays off the overhead itself.

Mm.

Yep.

Real nice spread.

35 years in the making.

Wrung it out of prairie grass and more dry wells than he brought in.

Say, prime beef draws $14 a head, railroad prices.

How many you reckon your daddy run?

Don't you worry. You're gonna get your money.

I'll figure something.

I'll be on my way. I'll be back tomorrow, Adam.

Doc, you haven't said how he is.

Your father's had a heart attack.

- Is it bad? - Bad?

Yes, but what's worse, it was unnecessary.

You have any idea how long I've been trying

to get your father to slow down?

But he had to take a spill before he would even listen to me,

and then he even bucked me.

We were making a little progress.

Little by little, he was beginning to get the hang

of what was probably the toughest thing

that anybody ever asked him to do... Ease up.

And then you came back.

Bo told me about that fight.

That just might turn out to be the biggest load

you've ever had on your conscience.

If you've got one.

Seems like you're poison to everybody around here.

'Cept me.

Dollar, help me down.

Watch it.

You told Pa you're at the Stevens.

Well, it's kind of a private signal.

Whenever I'm gone overnight, I'm always at the Stevens.

We've finally come to an understanding, Pa and me.

Welcome home, baby brother.

- How is he? - He doesn't look so well.

Well...

let's get it over with.

Then you can tell me everything about where you've been.

Adam.

Ah...

I see you've finally got back from visiting the Stevens.

Get him out of here.

Carrion eater.

Just waiting for me to drop.

Don't start rubbing your hands, boy.

I intend to get out of this bed, and when I do,

- you'd better be clear of my sight. - Pa!

- Now, Pa, stop it. - It's all right. It's all right.

It's all right, Glory.

I was just leaving. Just leaving.

When did you take this medicine last?

- And as for you, my fine, fancy lady... - Don't start.

I'm the closest thing to your dead wife you'll see this side of the grave.

Without me to keep your memories alive, you'd just plain wither and die.

- Now... - So don't speak.

Don't you think I know why you tolerate me?

You won't send me away, and I'm not ready to go.

Now when?

- Uh, it's overdue, I guess. - Mm-hmm.

It's hog swill.

You're wrong about Adam, you know.

You always were.

Now, don't you start telling me about Adam.

You know something, Pa?

I can't ever remember you stompin' a downed animal.

It's only your son you have no compassion for.

Reasons enough.

Well... I don't wanna upset you.

We'll talk about it later.

I'll be in in a while to read to you.

Glory...

you're right, you know.

You do make me miss your mother.

I'm glad, Pa.

Adam, I want to talk to you.

Oh.

All right.

I do have my horse... to look after.

Excuse me, ma'am.

- Who is that man? - A friend.

- Get rid of him. - Huh?

I don't like his looks.

- Get rid of him. - You don't know anything about him.

Well, you know how Pa can size up a steer at a glance.

Well, I seemed to have developed that same talent for men.

Yeah, I've heard that before.

Adam...

I've never seen you run with this kind of man before.

I owe him $1,000.

Do you wanna tell me why?

- Is that why you and Pa had a fight? - He wouldn't loan me the money.

And that surprised you?

I was glad to be home.

I was determined to hit it off with him this time, and I tried, sis.

I swallowed my pride, and I tried.

He wouldn't give an inch. Nothin'! Nothin'!

You owe that man $1,000?

You got it.

And he won't wait. He's a hard man to handle.

Is that all he wants from you?

What I owe him!

I'll handle it.

Mr. Stark? I'm Glory Bramley, Adam's sister.

Ma'am.

We don't usually neglect our guests. I'm afraid I must apologize.

Not necessary.

How's the patient?

Adam tells me he owes you some money.

I hope he got a good night's sleep.

My daddy used to say that was the Lord's own prescription.

Yeah, he really believed that.

But then, one night, he just overdosed himself.

Never did get up again.

My older sister said he just quit living.

Like an old plow horse that just plods off and drops.

The amount was $1,000?

Well, I see I've been boring you.

I'm sorry.

Seems like the older I get,

the more them home days just come back to me.

- Mr. Stark... - That amount was mentioned.

If you will take this into Dodge,

the manager at the bank will draw it from my account.

Now, Miss Glory, no need for you to trouble yourself.

It's no trouble.

I'm in no hurry.

Well, you see, I am.

Because I want you off this ranch.

You did agree to $1,000?

That amount was mentioned.

By your brother.

Oh, I see.

But you want more.

Like I said, I'm in no rush.

You're making a very big mistake, Mr. Stark.

The only mistake would be yours.

If I was to tell the marshal why your little brother belongs to me,

horns and hide.

Suppose you tell me.

I got no business with you, pretty lady.

Well, isn't there anything I could do to change your mind?

Well, I...

I'm sorely tempted, Miss Glory, but...

That wasn't friendly.

Mr. Stark...

I'm afraid you and I could never be friends.

Oh-oh.

You boys are making a mistake.

Where'd you get those scratches on your neck?

One more time.

How'd you get them scratches on your neck?

Oh...

well, you know, that was the doggonest thing

that ever happened.

I just...

Uh-uh-uh-uh. Unarmed man.

I got him.

All right!

All right, that's enough.

Wait outside.

Go on, Charlie.

Let's go.

Are you ready to take this now, Mr. Stark?

Yes, ma'am.

I've earned it.

Whoo!

Whoo-hee!

My... my head ain't connected to my...

my legs yet.

There was a time...

You must've been quite a man, Mr. Stark.

Quite a man.

I thank you for that, ma'am.

Get him on his horse and ride him off the property.

You just sent me back to prison.

- So that's what it's all about. - Yeah, that's what he's got on me.

I busted out of a Texas prison.

They gave me two years of hard labor, and they're gonna give me two more

when Stark takes me back.

Stark's not taking you anywhere.

I'll charge him with assault, and he knows it.

He's not that easy of a man to shake.

Why don't you tell Pa?

Then I'd be in chains with Pa pouring hellfire over my hide

all the way back to Texas.

You're just like Pa.

Stubborn blind.

All he ever wanted from you was one truth, just one simple truth.

So he could be sure he had a son,

and maybe you'd know you finally belong someplace.

Come in.

- Marshal. - Hello, Stark.

I understand you've been having a little trouble there, huh?

- Who said so? - What's all that?

Oh!

I just, um, had a little horse fall coming into town.

What brings you around these parts?

That seems to be my own business, wouldn't it?

You know, when a man comes into Dodge

hunting people for bounty, I make it my business.

Why, I'm long out of that line of work, Marshal.

I left the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency long ago.

And what field of work are you in?

Why, prospecting.

I thought I'd buy up some supplies and head out for Colorado.

You know, Stark, I don't care much for the reputation

you made for yourself up in the Dakotas.

Just keep in mind we got a little more law in Dodge.

Keep it in mind.

Evenin', Marshal.

I thought you were supposed to be out rebranding the yearlings

- that are coming in. - Stark is still in town.

- So? - So I gotta get to him

and find out what's on his mind.

Adam, why don't you let him make the next move?

'Cause I know what that move could be.

You listen to me, Adam.

The stupidest thing you can do is to try to kill that man.

- Do you hear me? Adam! Adam! - Get out of my way.

Yeah.

Well, sonny, I figured you'd show up about now.

Sorry about you getting roughed up.

Mm-hmm. I bet you are.

You got your $1,000 anyway, right?

I hear your daddy's out of bed.

Must relieve your mind to know you didn't shove him into his grave.

When you leaving?

Oh, yeah, yeah, I see.

You got your $1,000 and a soft bed.

What more could a man want, right?

Don't look like you be inheritin' soon, does it?

You got the money you wanted.

Mm-hmm.

From your pretty-lady sister.

Sonny, I worked for that.

Ooh-oh! How I worked.

But from you, zero.

Nothing.

- And you owe me. - All I've got is wages.

Maybe I can raise three or 400, but that's it.

That's trash!

I'm through hauling trash out. I'm finished with that.

That's all I got! Did you hear me? Why?!

I'll tell you why, sonny.

Look at my face, boy.

Look at my eyes.

The left one's stone blind.

The right one's half-fogged.

Gun blew up in my face.

Put me out of the big prize money forever.

I found me a diamond in the garbage.

You tell me that ain't so and I'm gonna cut your throat right now, hmm?!

All right, you can come back whenever you need money, all right?

Oh, no, no, no.

I'd be tied to you, boy.

You'd be a boil on my backside forever more.

Stark, now, I can't do any more. I can't nothing!

Yes, there is.

And I'm gonna explain it to you right now.

Hmm.

Now...

you got yearlin' cattle delivered out on that spread.

- Hmm? - Yeah.

I figure some of them must be cash deals.

So?

So... I figure your daddy must have

some cash money in his safe.

About 5,000, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, and I suppose the next thing you wanna tell me is to rob my pa, right?

I'm telling you I'm gonna be riding along the southwest corner of your fences

in two hours exactly.

I'm gonna have hand irons with me.

They're gonna be for sale.

5,000.

- I ain't doing it! - You don't show up...

you better be ready to take a little trip back to that Texas jailhouse.

Hmm?

Two hours.

Time's a-wastin'.

No, not again, boys.

Boss wants to see you.

Boss?

Mr. Bramley. Come on.

Whoa! Whoa.

He's a-waitin' for you up there.

What's he want?

If it's your hide, we'll be glad to dig the six foot of dirt.

Your drover said you wanted to see me.

Get off that horse.

Couldn't quite make up my mind whether to kill you or not.

Kid finally come running to you, did he?

No.

No, he didn't.

Maybe that's something. I don't know.

With that gun on me, you must know what's been going on.

I make a point of knowing what's going on, Mr. Stark.

When Adam stopped writing to his sister for money,

I had detectives trace him,

and they caught up with him just about the time he busted out of that jail.

You knew all along.

I knew.

You gonna use that thing or ain't you?

That stupid young fool.

It was all waiting for him. All that down there.

A man's love for his son is a hard thing to shake.

There comes a point when you just quit waiting for him to measure up.

You concede defeat, you might say.

I said I was undecided about you.

But I know this...

I'm not gonna kill you.

I built all that without killing a man.

That's an admirable trait, Mr. Bramley.

You want your son back in jail?

I quit making decisions for him.

Perhaps this last one.

There's a little better than $7,000 here.

That's all the cash I have on hand.

It's yours.

Take it.

I...

I ain't never done anything like this before.

I always earned my way.

Not too pretty sometimes, but I earned it.

Still, a man's chances have a way of getting limited.

I wish I'd had a hand in your chances, Mr. Stark.

But I guess now I'm not quite man enough

to teach you the lesson I'd like to teach you.

Don't fret too much, Mr. Bramley.

Your daughter give me a lesson in Bramley manners.

All right, now get off this land.

Yeah, you got it all right, old man.

The eagle perched high.

Backbone straight as a tree.

You know, another time, another place...

you and I might've found good things to talk about.

I doubt it.

Miss Glory.

- Stark, where is he? - Up on the hill with Pa.

Come on!

Pa's got a gun, and he won't let us up there.

Miss Glory. Sonny.

What are you doing here?

Come to close out our deal.

You're not getting any money.

Taken care of.

Your daddy had all the cash with him.

Understandable you couldn't find any in the house.

- What are you talking about? - You're off the hook, sonny.

Your daddy felt you was worth a-saving.

For now on, you can breathe easy.

- Pa paid you off? - Say this for him,

he's a man who believes in top wages.

Charlie!

Get him, Adam!

All right, hold it. That's enough now.

Put 'em on, Stark.

Money belongs to my father, Marshal.

You're going down with me, sonny.

All the way.

Oh, I figure that.

You're just a belly full of twists and turns, ain't you?

You told the marshal everything?

Yeah, he'll be taking me back.

But Stark will be going, too.

Where's your father, Adam?

He's up on the hill.

Appreciate it if I could go see him first.

All right.

Seems like in this place...

a man just keeps getting bad news.

Charlie, better pick up this money and hold it for Mr. Bramley.

Charlie: All right.

You men, let's pick up this money.

They got Stark, Pa, the marshal.

I mean, it got to a point where I'd have to be robbin' from you.

And that's one thing I couldn't do.

Well, I got to thinking about a couple of other things, too.

Me, a kid...

way you taught me to ride, way you taught me working cows.

Maybe you were right more than wrong.

I was wrong most of the time.

You looked every man square in the eye.

That's something you don't teach anybody.

He's got to have it in him.

Boil it down, Pa.

Been nothing smart I've ever did.

And maybe this sounds like it isn't coming from me...

but I always had a fondness for you.

When you get right down to it, I guess you call it love.

I love you, Pa.

Pa...

Pa...

Pa!

Oh, my God.