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Thank you. Have a good day.

Well.

Is that a new hat?

Yeah. You like it?

Oh, say, I think that... that's pretty... That...

You don't think it's too much, do ya?

Oh, no, I think it's just fine.

- Thank you. - Beautiful.

Say, would you... would you happen to know

where a fella can get a cold beer in this town, Miss Kitty?

You're talking to the right person. Come on.

Miss Kitty's got herself a new hat.

I gotta say this, Miss Kitty.

That there new hat sure makes you look plumb pretty.

Well, thank you, Festus.

Now, what kind of a compliment is that, anyway?

- What? - What you said.

You said the hat made Miss Kitty look plumb pretty.

You mean she's not plumb pretty without the hat?

- That's what you said. - That ain't what I meant.

You ornery old scudder.

Why do you always have to start to pick... Pick...

If it wasn't so blamed hot, I'll tell you what I'd do.

Man: Get the doc! Somebody get Doc Adams!

Mr. Burke!

Found this man, side of the road. Got an arrow in his belly.

Where's the doc?

In a bad way, Doc.

Indians... slaughtered all them folks.

Indians?

Dead.

All them folks are dead.

Injuns. You hear that? Injuns.

Never mind that. Just get him up to my office, Burke.

All right... Give 'em room.

Festus: Easy now. Easy. Don't bend him, now.

Man: Another massacre, he said.

We got to do something about this.

Festus, you better go get Matt.

Yes'm. I think he's out at the Sloan place. I'll fetch him.

Well, you're a pretty lucky man, Piney.

That arrow didn't hit any vital parts.

Lost a lot of blood, but you're gonna heal pretty fast.

- Howdy, Doc. - Sam.

Well, I figured you were about my size, Piney.

Hope they fit.

Well, thank you.

I better be getting back. We're pretty busy.

Fine, Sam.

Who is he?

Sam down at the Long Branch. Bartender.

He has mighty big feet.

Sam? You bet.

Heart's about as big as his feet too.

What do you think of that?

Well, I think that's pretty nice.

I guess Sam took up a collection for ya.

He's pretty good at things like that.

Oh, Matt, this is Piney Biggs.

Piney, this is Marshal Dillon and Festus Haggin.

Piney.

Uh, what is this Festus tells me about you being in a massacre?

- That's right. - Where was it?

Um, up north.

In a canyon.

He was in pretty poor shape when they brung him in that freight wagon, Matthew.

Wagon folks are all dead. Women and children.

You were traveling with 'em?

A couple of days when my mule got stolen, and, uh...

everything I own was on that mule.

I see. And they picked you up?

Well, yeah, they took me in like I was just one of them.

They gave me food and water.

Up till then, I was just like a dying leaf.

And they attacked without warning?

Uh, sunrise.

Folks still had sleep in their eyes,

and, um, they never had a chance.

How many of 'em was there, would you say?

10, 12.

Had a fierce battle going on, and, uh,

I didn't even have a gun,

and I took an arrow in my side,

and then I just laid there like I was dead.

Did they strip the bodies afterward?

Um... Did they take anything of yours?

Something you might be able to identify?

Uh, yeah, they, uh,

took a watch my pa gave me.

It, uh... played a tune.

Uh...

You think you might recognize any of 'em?

Well, I... I don't know. Um...

Maybe.

The leader was riding a black and white patch pony.

And the one took my watch,

well, he had a scar

that went down through the center of his face.

Reckon it could be that bunch of renegades

that's been raiding up north yonder, Matthew?

You mean this isn't the first time this happened?

No. Bunch of 'em escaped a couple months ago from a reservation up north.

You better get a posse together, Festus.

Tell Newly to take your place.

You betcha, Matthew.

Is he gonna be here long, Doc?

Day or two.

W-Why?

Well, if we get a hold of any of those Indians,

we might need you to help identify 'em.

You... I mean, you think you gonna find them?

Well, I don't know. This is the first time they've gotten this far south.

You know, you're a pretty lucky man, Piney.

Out of all those massacres, you're the only one that's lived through it.

I'll see you later, Doc.

Matt.

Piney.

Gonna be gone a while.

You rest, make yourself at home.

See you when I get back.

Piney.

Oh, Piney!

Piney, where you been?

Supposed to be here three days ago.

Shh. Shh.

I been so scared.

- Shh. Shh. Shh. - Oh, Piney.

It's all right. It's all right. Hey.

- It's all right. - What happened?

- It's all right. - What happened? What happened?

What happened? Tell me, please.

Piney: Shh.

All of those poor folks dead.

Lord.

I don't know what I would have done if you'd been one of 'em.

Oh, I don't know what I would have done.

Rachel. Rachel.

I'm here now.

And... my pocket's jingling.

Hmm?

Anybody in there?

Hey, listen to me. Is much fussin' going on?

He's been doing more than fussing.

He's been kicking and screaming, trying to get out of there.

Wanting to get a look at the world, I guess.

Well.

There ain't nothing much to see, is there?

Dodge folks is nice, Piney.

Ain't like being home.

Be good to stay a spell.

No, we gotta be moving on.

- Piney. - Hmm?

You know, I think it would be nice to just...

just stay in one place till the baby comes.

Well, we got a far piece to go yet.

Piney, please.

'Least till you're well and healed up good.

And you know what I been thinking?

I been thinking it's time Merrilee get some schoolin'.

Daddy!

You are going to get something

more than space between those two ears.

You're not gonna be like your daddy. Do you hear me?

- Daddy, you're here. - Just barely. Just barely.

- Where you been? - Fighting Indians.

Fighting wild Indians.

He'll tell you all about it in the morning.

No, no. I wanna tell her about it now. Now.

I was fighting 5,000 Indians, you see.

Piney.

We stayin'?

Um...

maybe a day or so.

There were 5,000 Indians.

Mighty fine. Mighty purty for a renegade.

Colley?

You want me to get the rest of 'em?

Nah, let's just take these four.

That handbill said $2,000 for any or all of 'em.

Well, now, lookie here, big brother.

Well, what do you know about that?

Probably stole that off of some poor old dirt farmer.

You ain't gonna be needing that no more, war hoop.

Time you got left is getting mighty short.

Let's get old scar-face here and the others back to Dodge

and collect that reward.

$40 will help us get a horse and a wagon,

and maybe we might even have some left over

for some fudge and grub.

Man: They caught the renegades.

Man #2: They got 'em. They got 'em.

Bringing in the renegades.

Howdy, sonny.

Can you tell me where I might find the marshal?

I'm the deputy. Can I help ya?

Look what we brung ya.

We collected four of these savages.

Left one for buzzard bait.

Two or three more of 'em got plumb away.

They look like they could use a drink of water.

Water? I wouldn't give them the sweat off my nose.

Them's the one's been robbing them wagon trains.

Cut 'em loose and let 'em drink.

Big brother?

You heard what the deputy said, boys.

These poor heathens need a drink.

Now, step off and cut 'em loose so they can get to the water trough.

Deputy, I'd be much obliged.

$2,000 is all that the Army's a-paying?

That's what I understand.

Well, just where do you go and how do you go about collecting it?

Well, how do you know these are the wanted men?

Piney said one of 'em had a scar on his face.

Here's your scar, Deputy.

Looks like a toss-up between them and the buzzards, don't it?

Got a whole packhorse loaded with goods that they scavenged off them poor people.

Well, the proof that they're the ones that done it is Piney's watch.

It plays a tune.

A watch?

Hey, I plumb forgot about it.

Lookie here.

Took it off that ugly one yonder.

Well, I guess that settles it.

Well, Piney?

Is it yours, Piney?

Well, it plays a tune just like you said.

Well, come on, boy.

Is that your watch, or ain't it?

It's mine.

Hey. Well, that ties it all down.

Yes, sir, big brother.

Blind hog done found an acorn.

Newly: All right, everybody, go on home. The excitement's over.

Go on home now. Go on about your business.

Sam, Burke, give me a hand with these men.

Get 'em over to the jail. Come on.

Well, I say let's go get greased, big brother.

We's rich men now. Come on.

Come down to the Long Branch, have a...

You know, there's somethin' plumb unnatural about all that.

What's that?

About that gold watch.

So?

You know, somehow that musical watch and that old boy

just don't go together.

But you said we're stayin'.

Go on outside, Merrilee, and play a while.

What's going on, Piney?

You ain't never owned no gold watch.

Just... Just be quiet, Rachel. Please?

Piney!

Look, we got to go...

But you said we gonna stay a while.

I mean, we got money. What we gonna stay around for?

What we running from all of a sudden?

Just get your things t... together.

Look, all right...

Rachel...

Just get your stuff together, and, um...

be ready when I come back.

Piney, what's wrong?

Look, just be ready when I come back.

Come on.

That there the last one?

All right, let's get him in here.

All right.

Get him back in here.

All right...

- Festus. - Matthew.

Looks like two sets of tracks.

Seen Injun ponies all mixed up with regular shod horses.

Looks like they came from different directions.

That's right, and these shod horses here, looks like they were taken off the wagons.

Seems like they're headed north.

That's the way we're fixin' to head, ain't it?

You better mount up. We got a long ride.

All right, fellers. Get on your horses.

We got a long ways to go.

Hap.

Take the wagon back on into Fort Dodge

and tell 'em we're out after the renegades headed north.

Okay, Marshal.

- Thank you. - Good luck.

All right.

Ho, ho. Wait up, boy.

Whoa.

Fixin' to leave town, boy?

Oh, no, not exactly.

Well, I was talking to that wife of yours.

She said you was.

You know that deputy says that you got to identify them Injuns

or we can't collect that bounty money from the Army.

There's a soldier boy gonna be comin' to the marshal's office tonight

so you can point a finger at them Injuns again.

It's only fair that you point out them Indians

so we can collect that bounty money and, well, we'd give you $100.

That's right, boy.

$100 take you a long way.

But if you don't, boy,

I'm 'fraid you're about as close as you ever gonna get to Californie.

Savvy?

Is anything wrong, Piney?

Well?

Is it them, or isn't it?

Yeah, they took the stuff.

Thank you, Mr. Biggs.

That's all.

Well, about two hours, figure the patrol can be sent out.

We'll take 'em off your hands.

To be hanged upon apprehension?

4:00 tomorrow morning at Fort Dodge.

Piney?

Piney, what's going on?

Where you been?

Where's Merrilee?

She's in bed. It's so late, Piney.

What... Piney, what is it?

Piney, what's happening?

What is it, Piney? What's wrong?

Tell me what's wrong, Piney.

What's happening, Piney? Tell me.

I done something.

I stole off dead people.

I took a watch.

I saw it... and I took it.

You took it off a dead man, Piney?

Well, if I...

if I hadn't, somebody else would have.

And I was gonna sell it.

And we needed the money.

Oh, Piney.

Them Injuns.

Yeah, I... I figured those are the ones that came back,

and I took an arrow, and I... I put it in my side.

And then I laid down like I was dead.

Then you didn't see no Indians kill nobody.

What difference does it make whether I saw them or I didn't?

Well, you got to tell them all that you ain't sure, Piney.

Well, I just come back from there.

You tell 'em everything?

I'm a black man. I can't tell those people I was picking off dead bodies.

Piney.

Did you lie to them about them Indians?

Tell me, Piney. Did you?

Indians bein' Indians... What difference does it make?

If they didn't kill those people, they'd kill other people.

Being Injuns?

Meaning they's all the same.

That's what folks say.

They say the same thing 'bout niggers.

Those three buffalo men...

they say they promised me $100.

And... we've got to get to California.

I can't crawl around on my belly like a lizard...

anymore.

Merrilee and the baby's got to have something more than I had.

I don't want them to live on a garbage heap like I had to.

Can you hear me, Rachel?

Rachel, do you hear me?

I don't... I don't want them to live on a garbage heap like I had to.

Better than living off four men dyin'.

It was better those four men dying than my family dying!

Rachel, it will never be the same between the two of us again, will it?

I ain't ever gonna leave you, Piney.

I know that.

But you...

You'll never see me as a man again, will you?

I didn't say that.

Then...

why don't... Why don't you look at me, Rachel?

Rachel.

Rachel, look at me!

Look at me, Rachel.

I'm... I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

- It's all right. - No, I'm sorry.

Rachel, listen. Listen.

I'll... I'll go right now. I'll go to the marshal.

- It's all right, Piney. - No. I'll go.

- I'll go right now. - It's gonna be my time comin'.

It's gonna be my time comin'.

Gonna be my time. The baby.

It's only my time.

- It's all right. - Your time's coming.

All right. All right.

I'll... I'll get the marshal, all right?

You... I'll get the doctor. The doctor.

Yeah. All right.

- You just be quiet. - All right. All right.

You watch your mother, all right?

It's all right, baby. It's all right. Mama's gonna be all right.

It's only your baby brother coming, honey.

Doc, I'm... I'm sorry, but... uh, it's so late, but my wife.

Yeah, what's the trouble?

Well, she's doing it.

All right, now just... just hold on.

Hold on. Everything's gonna be fine. Where is she?

She's gonna have the... She's gonna have the baby.

Yeah, I know, but where is she?

Well, we're... We have... You know where Fong's Laundry is?

Exactly. Now, just a minute.

Hold on. It'll be fine.

You go back and stay with her. Tell her I'm coming.

There's some shacks. They're set...

Tell her I'm coming right away, Piney. I'll be right there.

All right.

Colley.

Ha! We got you there, you old buffalo hunter.

And glory be if it ain't that old Injun fighter we owe some drinks to.

Well, I... My wife's borning my baby.

The doctor's coming, and I've got to...

- Hey, now... - No, come on.

Hold up, boys. I'm closed.

Hold on, bartender. All we want is a little old bottle of drinking whiskey

for our partner here.

Well, it ain't my saloon, and I'm closin', is all.

Now, wait a minute. We just got a little time to kill between now and daylight.

Just a couple hours. That's all.

Don't you hear good? I'm closed.

Now, get your gear and get out.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Here.

A dozen men couldn't drink up all the whiskey that that'll buy

if it took 'em all night.

Now, you just keep the change and trot on home.

Get back here about daylight, and lock 'er up.

We'll see you. Don't worry...

I'll keep an eye on the place.

Now we gotta settle down to some real drinkin'.

You know, we got some celebrating to do.

We got to toast that new baby of yours. Sit down, boy.

Doggone it, where's the whiskey?

Get you a big swallow...

Go on, drink up, boy!

Have a drink! Yeah!

Yeah!

That's it! Drink it all up!

Go on! Yes.

Oh, hello there, honey.

You the doctor, sir? You him?

That's right.

Your daddy sent me out here to see your mommy.

Now, can you show me where she is?

She's right in there.

Okay.

- Mrs. Biggs. - Hi, Doc.

My mama, she ain't sick.

You ain't gonna have to give her no bad medicine.

- Hush, Merrilee. - Well, I should say not.

We're not gonna have to give her any bad medicine.

I'll tell you, though.

Your mommy and I are gonna see to it

that you get a little baby brother or a little baby sister to play with.

Now, why don't you just tell your mommy what it is you want?

- Which one. - I don't care.

Now, I ain't done you no harm.

I come in here like you asked me to and I had your drink, and, uh...

I've got to go.

No, you sit down.

All right, boy.

I'm plumb tired of funnin' with you.

You and me got somethin' to get straight now 'tween us.

I've been watching you, boy.

You know, there's something 'bout you that just don't add up,

you and that fancy banker's watch of yours.

Now, look here, boy.

Me and these two old boys is gonna collect us a pile of money come morning.

Money that we worked hard for.

Now, you've done right by us so far.

But I want you to get one thing through that head of yours.

I ain't gonna set here and let you mess the whole doggone thing up

by pullin' something foolish about them Injuns.

You hear?

No, I ain't worried about the Indians.

I'm worried about my wife.

My wife is bornin' my baby.

I worry about them Indians later.

Later?

Well, you ain't got the slightest notion, have you?

You know, come 4:00 this morning,

them soldier boys is gonna hang them Indians.

Well, you're doing fine, Mrs. Biggs.

About eight minutes apart. It's gonna be a while yet, though.

Where's Piney?

Where's my husband?

Well, I expect he was delayed a little while in town.

He'll be along. You just...

You just stay in the buggy.

I'm gonna stay in this buggy. Don't worry about that.

Rath!

Just how drunk you think we was, boy?

Let me tell you somethin'.

I done taught little brother how to use that skinnin' knife.

I give him the word,

and he'd peel that hide off of you

'fore the good Lord got the word.

All right.

Let me up and I'll tell ya.

All right, boys. Let him up.

All right.

Get to talkin'.

Well, you gotta know something.

Now, you haven't done anything you have to pay for.

And I've gotta go over there and tell that deputy the truth.

What you figure that is, boy?

Them Indians ain't done that killin'.

They ain't killed those white folks.

You're a liar.

I'm not a liar.

All right, boy. Why don't you just tell me about it?

When I come on the wagon, the killin' was done.

The food, the horses, the guns...

were all gone.

Them Indians come after me.

I didn't have no stolen goods.

- What are you saying?! - Rath!

- Rath! - Get your hands off of me...

They come there like me.

Scavengers.

We come a-ridin' into Dodge.

We hear this wild tale about how you done fit alongside of them poor white folks.

And all about how you taken that arrow.

And all how you had that fine gold banker's watch.

Which just didn't seem right in the first place,

'cause it never figured that you and that gold watch would ever go together.

The watch wasn't mine.

He done vultured. Vultured them dead bodies.

Well, ain't that a hole in the trough.

A black Indian.

A stinkin' black Indian!

- Rath! - I'll kill him! I'll kill him!

I'll kill him...

I'm gonna kill him!

I'm gonna kill him...

Well, who'd have thunk it?

Boy done fought like a wolverine, didn't he?

All right, now, Mrs. Biggs, you're almost there.

You just stay right in the buggy.

I wish Piney was here.

Where's Piney, Doctor?

Merrilee... Merrilee come all by herself.

But I'm glad you're here, Doc.

I'm glad too, Mrs. Biggs.

'Cause I think this little one's gonna need a little help.

Here, honey.

Can't have you crying like that.

Your mommy's gonna be just fine.

I promise you that. Now, tell you what.

We're gonna go outside here where you can wait for your daddy.

He'll be along in just a little while.

You can just sit right here and wait for him.

Come on now, boys.

Simmer down and have a drink.

It's all just about over now.

You just take it easy and we'll win and the Army'll win

and you gonna win too, if you just got sense enough to see it.

You play it my way, and...

you gonna wind up with a $100 ticket to California

for that new baby of yours.

Ain't nobody gonna stop ya.

You play it your way,

you gonna be just another dead black boy for the crows to pick.

Come on now. Drink up.

Well, I reckon that takes care of it.

It's all over now but the cryin'.

Guess we'll just mosey on out to the fort,

get what we got a-comin' to us.

You can go on home, boy, if you want to.

Just take it easy.

Or, if you feel real brave and real foolish,

why, you can run with your little old tail to the law.

But remember one thing.

When you do, they gonna heist you up on a pole for your trouble.

It'd sure be too bad, too.

'Cause then I reckon you wouldn't get to see that new baby of yours

supposed to be born tonight.

Now, you make one move, mister, and I'll put a bullet in you.

- You all right? - I'm all right.

They kept me here until those Indians were hung.

They didn't hang anyone, Piney.

Your wife told Doc Adams you were going on over to see the marshal

and why you were going to see him.

I wired the fort in plenty of time. Been lookin' for ya ever since.

- They're not dead? - No.

Nobody's dead.

Deputy? We was just in here getting drunk,

and that darkie started arguing and pulled a gun on us.

It don't look that way to me.

All right, now you get up. Pick him up...

Come on, little brother. Get on up here.

Honey, you know where to find me if your mommy needs me.

Papa, we been waiting for you.

Piney, everything's all right. You got a fine new son.

Piney.

- You're hurt. - No, no, it's nothing. It's nothing.

I got tangled up in my thinking,

but I'm all right now.

Thank you, Doc.

Rachel?

Kinda never was worried about the way you'd make your mind up.

I got to know the daddy of my son real well.

Do you like your brother?