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Sign back there said something about water.

Sweet and cool.

Hey, Mister. That'll be two dollars.

Two dollars, or I'll blow you off that horse.

Over two dollars?

Grandpa!

Greedy.

Grandpa!

Bit lonely for him out here.

Where's his folks?

His pa is dead.

Sarah, my daughter... left Willie with me.

About six years back.

Well, where is she now?

She headed out for a place called Table Rock.

Marshal... you take him there?

All right, I'll take him.

All right, brothers. Come on now. Move. Off the road.

Come on.

Lucky for you fellas I wasn't riding shotgun for them jackasses.

Crows would be picking at your eyeballs by now.

Well, hello, Ben. I didn't expect you till later.

The marshal at Dodge kinda put the wind in my back.

Ladies.

Well, lookie here.

Careful, darling. You're liable to get yourself arrested.

Any of you Sarah Hubbard?

Willie, why don't you show 'em the picture you got?

This is my ma. It's old.

Took a long time ago.

Girls?

Oh, I knew her.

She was in Table Rock when I first got there.

Except her name wasn't Hubbard.

Well, do you know where she is now?

She's dead.

All right, let her down.

Well, how'd you end up with that little boy?

The man I'm after killed the little boy's grandfather.

Oh, then Willie... I mean, he...

He doesn't have anybody to look after him.

Look, the water's gone.

I think they were just trying to make sure that nobody got too far.

Look at this.

Maggie: The gold.

Dillon: She probably just took enough to show a sample to her friends.

Well, we better move out.

Maggie, you better go tell the girls what's in this wagon.

Think they got a right to know.

Where'd you get this?

It's Maggie's.

There's some bags of that hidden

underneath the floorboard of her old wagon.

You imagine that old witch

packin' all that gold?

We're goin' callin'.

That fort the only shelter around here?

It's the only one I know of.

They used to have a well there.

All right, then we gotta lighten up this wagon.

Everything's gotta go.

There's five men headed this way.

And I think Ben Rodman's with 'em too.

Evenin', Maggie.

I sure am glad you're here.

Ben Rodman.

I never saw a cutthroat come in a more charming package.

You know...

there was a time that man had me dancin'

to any tune he had a mind to whistle.

- That so? - Then I found out about him.

Oh, I knew he was an outlaw and had a mean streak.

But then, who was I to be choosy?

Maggie, if it comes down to it,

you think you could use a gun against him?

I don't know.

Marshal.

Evenin', Jed.

How's it looking out there?

Still as bad water.

Saw you chewin' the rag with Maggie.

You reckon they'll jump us tonight, do ya?

No, not in the dark. Not Rodman.

He won't rush us.

How you figure?

Well, he wants us his way. Easy.

He'll size this place up, take his time.

He'll move in when he's good and ready.

Can't take too much time to suit me.

When we get to Whiskey Butte,

are you gonna keep on working for Maggie?

Well, I guess so. Why?

No special reason.

Do you have any folks?

Now what on Earth would make you ask that?

It's just no good being alone.

Well, I'm not alone.

I got my friends, and I got...

Boy...

I swear, you got talking talents just like your gramp...

You better get some sleep, you hear?

When are you gonna tell him?

Tell him what?

About you being Sarah Hubbard.

- What do you mean? - I've known about it...

since I told you about the boy's grandfather.

I can't tell him.

I can't defend what I've done or what I am.

You could sure try.

No, I couldn't. It's too tough, and I'm too tired.

I'm not... still not very good at lookin' in mirrors.

Amy, why'd you ever leave him in the first place?

See, Willie's father was a...

Well, he was a dreamer.

We went out to Table Rock with hundreds of others.

All chasing the same rainbow.

In, um... In about six months

our stake run out.

So I cooked and took in laundry, you know, just to keep alive.

While Tom went on digging in that ground.

He'd come home every night all covered with dirt and sweat.

He was so tired he couldn't even eat or talk.

Pretty soon it got to a place

where he wasn't even paying any attention to Willie.

I just watched the light go out of that man's eyes

day after day.

While he was digging for gold.

All he ever dug was his own grave.

So I... I thought I'd served my hell.

That's what I told myself.

And I said, well, it's time for me to breathe.

Willie was in the way.

So I just left him with his...

with his grandpa.

Yeah, and it's been eatin' at ya ever since, hasn't it?

You know, there's no more family to leave him with now.

I don't want him. It's too late.

Why, because he'd still be in the way?

Because I'm one of Maggie's girls.

You're making a mistake.

Just save your wind, Marshal.

I don't want him.

Willie! Willie!

I didn't mean it!

Willie, I didn't mean...

Dillon: Willie.

Willie?

Willie?

If I was you...

I'd forget everything else and take that boy.

Oh, yeah.

I've known for a long time.

Now, we haven't been 30 feet away from each other

in the past three days.

I've been watching you and that boy.

I'm sorry, Maggie, but it's none of your business.

You're one of my girls, and Maggie looks out for her girls

whether they like it or not.

Take him. Take the boy, Amy.

Before you end up like me.

I don't know that that's so bad.

You're an honest woman, Maggie.

Look at me.

Is this what you wanna end up like in 20 years?

Is this what you wanna be?

Every year the rouge gets a little thicker.

Covers up a lot of sins.

Well, you wipe this stuff off

and you'll be lookin' in a mirror 20 years from now...

you ain't gonna like what you see.

Not any better than I do.

Amy... second chances...

very hard to come by.

God, I wish I had yours.

Take it.

Take it, because it's just likely...

the last chance you're ever gonna get to bein' a real woman.

Kinda cold out here, isn't it?

Why don't you come on back to the fire?

Why not?

'Cause she's there.

She's your ma.

She don't wanna be.

Sure, she does, Willie.

You see, it's just that she's scared.

She don't talk like she's scared.

Well, see, when people grow up,

they learn not to show when they're scared,

but most of 'em are anyway at one time or another.

Well, see, that's the way your ma is now.

She's scared she's not gonna be able to do right by ya.

She just don't care.

Willie, one of the hardest things a man has to learn

is not to judge people too harshly.

Now, if you wanna be a man,

you're gonna have to learn to forgive.

I don't wanna go back.

I don't ever wanna see her again.

Well...

guess you got a right to do what you want to.

I, uh, I better be gettin' back to the fort.

Oh, Willie, do you, uh...

do you have a knife or anything?

No, sir.

Why?

Well, uh, I'm sure you'll be all right.

It's just that there's a lot of mountain lions in this country.

Mountain lions?

I'd give you a gun, but we're gonna need 'em back at the fort

in case those outlaws show up.

I sure wouldn't wanna be caught out here

without a gun when they ride along.

Well, good night, Willie.

Marshal?

Yeah?

I reckon you're sorta shorthanded back at the fort.

Without me being there.

I mean, I guess you could always use another hand.

To help out with them outlaws and all.

I sure could use an extra man, all right.

I... I just didn't wanna mention it under the circumstances, you know.

Well, I guess I better go with ya.

Sure glad to have ya.

Oh, Willie.

I only came back because the marshal needed all the help he could get.

Sure.

Just give him a little time, Amy.

- Nothin'! - I done told you it ain't here.

It's out there!

Now, let's go and ride.

Forgetting that Good Book again, Preacher.

That's greed I see in your eye.

No, that ain't greed you see.

That's gold.

Well, they ain't going nowhere without water.

They'll have to fight off the buzzards to get that gold.

Soon as you fellas stop playing with them dainties, let's ride on.

Water's gone. We're bone dry.

They're gonna have to get me to get Maggie, Marshal.

She's been awful good to me.

Well, Jed, just about time to open class.

Yeah.

All right, now just hold it steady.

All right, pull the trigger.

All right, now.

Well, that, uh... that was a good try.

All you do is pull the hammer back like that and just aim it right down...

Maybe they ain't comin'.

No, they'll be comin', all right.

Meant a lot to him, you giving him something to do.

Well, sometimes the worst thing you can do for a boy

is to treat him like a boy.

I want him.

Even from the time you rode in, I just wanted to...

put my arms around him and hug him to me,

but I couldn't.

Why not?

Well, if I'd been strong,

I wouldn't have been without him these last six years,

but I wasn't.

He was better off with his grandpa.

Well, that was then. What about now?

He's only a boy, and he won't talk to me.

How do I tell him?

Very simple. Just tell him he's not alone anymore.

Marshal Dillon, they're coming!

All right, Willie. Come on down.

Jed, get all the women and the rifles in the shed over there.

Maggie! You girls grab a rifle, get in the shed.

Go on, hurry.

Why are we stopping?

Them wagon tracks is as clear as cows in a stall.

Ain't but one man who can shoot straight in there,

but he's pure bad.

Stay out of slug range and wide space. We'll tie him up.

How's that, Ben?

Stockade's open at that end.

Walls ain't no good unless there's four of 'em.

Let's go.

They're comin' in.

I think they'll be working their way around to the back there.

Willie, want you to stand guard in the rear.

- Go ahead now. - Yes, sir.

All right, now, girls, Jed's gonna take you over to the other side

and put you in firing position.

But I don't want any shooting till I give the word.

- All right, go on. - Come on, girls. Come on.

Amy.

Go back, stay with Willie.

Get behind that pole, Maggie, and stay there.

Come on, right in here.

Put your gun through that crack.

Right here.

Right here. Get in here.

All right.

Hey, those are mine.

You've got yourself in a pretty touchy spot, Marshal.

That little boy and all them women.

We start shooting, someone's likely to get killed.

Just hand that gold over to us and we'll ride off

and you'll see supper.

You got no water.

All you got's that old man and that little kid

and them three old tramps that Maggie brought with her.

Old!

Nobody lives.

What do you mean?

Them women and that little boy?

Only the horses. To carry out the gold.

Get back inside!

Nobody lives? You talking about them or us?

Where'd they get all them rifles?

That Maggie's a tricky old buzzard.

If them women could shoot, we'd all be dead.

They're just makin' noise.

Is that a fact?

They still got no water.

Them women, that kid...

Dillon's gotta give in.

Uh-huh. And suppose he don't?

We wait.

Two or three days, no water,

we won't have to pull a trigger.

I'd give anything for a drink of water right now.

Recall a parson-type fella that tried courtin' me once.

He tried brimstone and fire.

And then sense.

He even offered to marry me.

He came along now with a canteen of water,

I'd turn decent and respectable in a St. Louis minute.

It's gonna take more than a canteen of water

to turn your life around, dearie.

Guess so.

I didn't mean it.

I been nothin' but... Well... so have I.

Guess we're cut from the same leather, honey.

Whatever happened to that parson fella of yours?

Oh.

Last I heard he married a... fallen woman.

Snatched her up from the flames, he did.

They built a farm and...

had a few kids.

You know...

Last I heard, they were very happy.

It's too bad.

I mean, too bad he got married.

Wish a fella like that had found me.

Few years back.

I can't talk to him.

Sure, you can, Amy.

And if you do, he'll listen.

I saw the way he looked at me.

Whew.

I thought there was nothing left in the whole world that could hurt me.

Till I saw what was in his eyes.

Amy, you can change all that.

All you gotta do is tell him how you feel.

What are they doing over there?

Getting ready.

Preparing themselves to meet the Lord.

You all right, Maggie?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm all right.

You know, if you knew in the beginning what you know in the end,

you'd do it all kind of different, wouldn't ya?

Guess you might do some things different, all right.

I spent a lot of years loving all the wrong kinda things.

Wrong men.

Laughing off the things I really should have cared about.

Them girls...

That's just what they are.

Just girls.

Living it just the way I did.

But they're young.

They got their life ahead of them.

They ought to have another chance.

No reason to say they won't have, Maggie.

No.

No, you're right, Marshal.

It ain't over yet, is it?

Better get some sleep.

Got a long day tomorrow.

Marshal.

How's Maggie holding up?

Ah, she's doing fine, Jed.

She's quite a woman.

Singing kinda got at her, did it?

A little, I think.

Yeah, well, she can be hard as a mother-in-law's heart, Marshal, but...

she feels things, that ol' girl.

She always has.

She just loves them girls.

Yeah.

How soon you think they'll come?

I don't know. It's hard to say. Could be any time.

Maggie!

Maggie!

Ben.

He won't shoot me, Marshal.

Will ya, Ben?

Well, that depends on what you're after, Maggie.

What can we do, Marshal?

Nothing.

One move and he'll kill her.

She's carrying the gold.

Keep your guns on Dillon.

It's been a while, Maggie.

You're like a bad penny, Ben.

I thought I'd seen the last of you when they sent you to prison.

Oh, I didn't like it there, Maggie.

Food was terrible.

Last time I saw you...

you ran off with every dollar I had in the world.

Always have felt bad about that, Maggie,

but I was in a hurry.

You could have asked for the money, Ben.

I'd have given it to ya.

Well, that thought did enter my mind, but...

I figured you might say no and...

we'd have a scene, and you know how I hate scenes, Maggie,

so I just took the money and went.

You could have at least left me a silver dollar.

For luck.

You're an enterprising woman, Maggie.

I'd never worry about you.

Uh-huh.

Here we are again.

I suppose you want it all this time too.

Yeah.

Here it is.

Almost $6,000.

Everything I saved since I last saw you.

You do want something in return.

There's a kid over there.

A kid.

Nice old man and three women.

Who never did you no harm.

So, uh,

I let them go free and you give me the gold.

That's the deal?

That's the deal.

Well, there's more gold over there, Maggie.

That girl Lisa told me about it.

It isn't mine.

This is mine.

The rest belongs to some friends, trusted me to take it into Whiskey Butte.

Well, I'd like to oblige you, Maggie, but...

three years in prison's a long time, and...

I got friends here who are down on their luck, just like I am.

I guess I should have known better.

But I thought it was worth a try.

All right, Ben.

I'm gonna go back.

And I'm gonna bank on the fact

that, for old times' sake,

you won't shoot me in the back.

Goodbye, Ben.

Maggie.

Maggie.

I might not shoot you for old times' sake, Maggie,

but I'd sure as hell shoot you for that gold.

I always told myself there was one spark of decency there.

I'm sorry.

Is it a dog?

That's real good.

Guess out with your grandpa there wasn't much else to do, huh?

Willie, I've spent most of the night and half the day

trying to scrape up enough courage to talk to you.

Could you look at me?

Oh, I don't blame ya.

I can't look at myself too good.

I'm lookin'.

Oh!

We can stay together?

Like you said, it's no good being alone.

The girls ain't had a drink in two days, Marshal.

I don't figure they're gonna last much longer.

I bet they're just perched out there like a bunch of buzzards,

just waiting for us to turn to bones.

Jed.

Give me some bags of gold.

Girls...

get over into firing position there.

Get right over there.

Right here.

Stay right there, you hear?

Yes, Ma.

Rodman!

Yeah!

I'm throwing out the gold.

There's the gold, Rodman.

Five bags, eight or ten pounds each.

Well, I calculate that's... That's nearly $20,000.

Ha! The Lord giveth.

Okay, Dillon.

We take the gold, and you live. It's a deal.

No deal.

What do you mean, no deal? What'd you throw it out for?

All right, we'll sit here garglin' water and waiting.

You can't last another day.

The wind is blowin' that gold away!

Jed, if they go after it, keep 'em busy.

Lucas. Springer. Oakley.

Get out there and get them bags.

That's open ground.

Get out there! Me and the preacher will cover you. Use that wagon, go on!

Get ready, girls.

Rodman!

Drop it.

Outside.

Hold it!

Drop the guns!

Now get the guns down there.

Now get over there.

Good shootin', Marshal.

About $10,000 worth of good shootin', I'd say.

At least the wind's taken it back where it come from.

The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away.

Not always, Preacher.

Not always.