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That's three bits.

Four bits.

Six bits.

And fifteen is ninety cents and I sure do thank you, Festus.

Much obliged to you, Hank.

I just wished you'd get you a new handle for that blamed scoop shovel.

Well that there one'd rub blisters on a long-eyed boot.

You looking for somebody?

You need the doctor?

Now, where you been at?

Never mind where I've been at.

This just happens to be one of the rare occasions

that I've caught you with some money on ya,

and if you think that you're gonna get away without

buying me a beer, you're all wet.

Look, Doc how can you stand there ball-faced,

and say a thing like that?

I ain't got no...

You're not gonna talk me out of this either, now

don't just, don't try that.

Unless of course, you can open that drubby first of yours

and show me that you got no money in there.

In that case, I'll apologize.

Go on and open it.

You can't do it.

Come on.

Now.

Oh you blind old mook.

Come on here, you're not gonna get out of this,

I'll tell you that.

Kitty, Kitty, I want you to come on over here.

You're not gonna believe this.

Uh, Festus,

go on, sit down there and get yourself comfortable.

Sit right down.

Well, just sit down.

Sam...

I want you to bring over a couple of beers here,

and bring the bill to Mr. Haggen.

On the way, Doc.

"Bring Mr. Haggen the bill."

What's the matter Festus?

I'll tell you what's the matter.

I caught him.

I caught old parsimonious here with some money.

He's mad about it.

I ain't no parson, and church ain't got nothing

to do with this here.

This sneakity old quack snuck up behind me,

and glommed on to me, that's what he done.

Did you do that Doc?

Well, of course, I caught him with some money,

and I just naturally thought that he'd like to treat

his friends, you see.

And I, I never expected him to make such a fuss about it.

Well, now it ain't that at all, Ms. Kitty.

I'd be proud.

Sam, bring Ms. Kitty a beer here and have one your own self.

Thank you, Festus.

I don't believe that.

I don't believe that at all.

You know...

that is the first time he has ever bought a round of drinks

in this place since he rode into town here on his mule.

Now, you can leave Ruth out of this.

Just been, I'd been a tad short on cash temporarily

like they say.

See what happen Ms. Kitty, I got me extra job working for

old Hank, down yonder at the livery,

and what I was fixing to do, see,

was to take this here money and to pay off a certain old

particular medicine man that I know,

but it's a heap more fun a treating folks to beers

here in the Long Branch.

Can't beat him, Doc.

Course not.

How can you beat a deadbeat?

Excuse me, sir,

the stage is twenty minutes late.

I wondered if maybe...

Look, miss, why don't you relax.

The stage could have broke an axle.

Anything could of happened, but I'm sure it'll be along.

Now, just take it easy, huh?

See, this here fella was just like you, Doc.

He could read, writing, but he never could get it through

his thick head what the feller meant that wrote the

writing when he read the writing that the feller wrote,

don't you see?

Uh, Sam,

bring Ms. Kitty and my friend Doc her another beer, would ya?

No, no thanks.

No thank you very much.

Mr. Haggen,

I believe that it would be grossly unfair of me to take

advantage of your newly acquired opulence.

Thank you, thank you, and excuse me, thank you.

Got right pleasant there, didn't he?

Golly bill Ms. Kitty, I just forgot,

I'm supposed to pick up some papers on stagecoach that

Matthew will be want to eyeball when he gets back.

I'll see you directly.

That's him.

That's him.

Been a lot of years.

You're in the way, sir.

You best move.

Here, now, what are you fellers up to?

Deputy, I have no quarrel with these men.

We reckon you have.

Sure now, a whole lot of quarrel.

Been a long time coming,

but that makes it more sweet.

You...

shy clear hog meat.

Mister, you got a mighty sorry mouth.

Pretty nigh as big as you are tall.

Festus that fellow over there with the big mouth

is Deak Towler, the gunslinger.

I have no quarrel, Deputy.

I'm willing to put myself under the protection of the law.

The law.

Now that's some lullaby.

The law.

Any one of you reaches for your pistol,

you'll find out more about it than you wanna know.

Nothing to see.

You can sit out on me,

if this don't take all the marbles.

Three of them cat danglers gunned down in one town

in one go around.

And by cheating Peter and Judus and sole God,

if that don't make you top dog,

you can kiss me and not pay me.

Listen here what it says.

Says, "The quiet man

that gunned down...

the three scoundrels in self-defense,

road off with his wife,

and was never heard from again."

Now, ain't that sweet as peaches?

Read that first part again.

They forced him to draw against his will,

but divine justice prevailing,

he beat the bullies at their own game.

What's prevailing?

Winnin', taking over.

Divine justice.

That's like he never even killed them himself.

Let me tell you something, boy.

There's only four men that ever lived

could take them three down together.

Who else?

Well...

Well it wasn't Dillon, was it?

And McCallister's in Wyoming, killing for the XIT.

And Jobson He's in jail.

Well, what I'm saying is, whoever it was, whoever it was,

he was the best.

I'm the best.

And you know, ain't nobody's better than me.

I know that.

I know that.

But wasn't you that gunned down these three, was it?

In fact, the day that this happened,

you was so drunk you couldn't hit the ground with your hat.

Hey, little heifer,

bring us another bottle of this bug juice.

Now, I ain't no gypsy,

and it's just a guess, you understand...

but the best there ever was, in the old days,

run me out of Abilene.

Killed my younger brother in a duel.

Then he just, then he just plum disappeared.

Went down to Guatemala.

Just never come back, you see?

I'm gonna tell you something, boy.

There's strange things happening

in the world of sulfur and saltpeter.

Now, how, how'd it be, how'd it be if me and you

road in to Dodge,

and you called this wind miller out?

And you blowed him down.

Well, I mean he is in your way, ain't he?

And you killed him, you'd really be top dog,

but just, just supposing, supposing he's the fella

I'm talking about.

How'd it be, how'd it be for you to be the man

that killed...

the Widowmaker.

I'll tell you Matthew, you have never saw nothing like it.

Well, Doc there can tell you, he seen the whole thing

from the staircase.

I never even knowd this fella had the pistol on him

till I seen them fellas laid out there,

flatter than a wet toad sack.

Fastest thing I ever saw, Matt.

What caused the fight?

Well, that's what I've been trying to tell you, Matthew.

It didn't seem to be no reason to it at all.

How'd the fight start?

Well, I was coming out of the freight office,

and I seen these three fellers standing out there

in the street all spraddled out and a-badgering

this here feller.

Now, when I seen this here Deak Towler,

I figured we had us a holdt of the wrong end of the rope,

but he just knocked him, kickin',

and never even blunk his eyeballs.

I'll tell you, that's not all he did, either,

because those other two men

were just as good as Deak ever was, maybe better.

Buck Lennard and Sundog Wheeler,

they're two the worst there ever was.

Not only that, but those three weren't exactly friends.

Now, what were they doing together?

Well that quiet fella must've been a professional.

There's not four men alive that could have downed that bunch.

McCallister, maybe Kid Chama, maybe Jobson.

Well Matthew, this here feller done everything that he could

to talk himself out of that scrape,

but they wouldn't listen at 'em.

Now, I didn't even try to hold him,

'cause it was a champion case of self-defense,

that I've ever saw.

There was a young woman

waiting for him in the Dodge House.

He rode out of town with her.

You know Doc, years back, down along the border

there was a slinger.

Man that some said he was the fastest there ever was,

and he disappeared, went over into Mexico.

Sure, wait a minute.

- Scott Coltrane. - That's the man.

Now, they wrote about him in the books.

They called him the Widowmaker.

Well, Matthew you reckon this could be him come back?

I don't know, Festus.

When you're talking about a man

that's as fast as this one you described,

kind of narrows the field.

Take over, will ya, I'm gonna see if I can find this man.

That's who I was.

That's who I don't ever want to be again.

That's a big order, Coltrane.

I reckon I don't know that.

They just don't retire 'em in your profession.

I don't have a profession, Dillon, not anymore.

What would you call that in the street the other day?

Well... nothing to say.

They forced my hand.

I did all I could to avoid it.

If I didn't believe that I'd be here to take you in.

What do you say about it?

I say that every slinger in the country

has heard about what happened.

They're gonna be curious about who it was that put those three men down.

You're saying they'll be looking.

That's it.

Let 'em look.

That doesn't quite cut it Coltrane.

I've had all the face-offs I'm gonna have in the streets of Dodge.

They're gonna be no more, if I can help it.

And you're saying I ain't welcome here.

You're welcome.

Your reputation is not.

Dillon, I've been to the end of the world to lose my name.

I left this country, as you may know.

I went where there wasn't no range wars,

no job gunners, no lunatics,

no whiskey braves,

no milktooth kids pushing slugs into folks,

so they could call themselves men.

I cut and run, Dillon,

but not from no man, not from no gun, from me.

Because I come down sick, you see.

Sick to my soul of killin'.

No matter the world is full of fools that need it,

and you know that.

There's other ways of handling it.

For you, maybe.

But you done your share of putting out the lights.

You can't change that.

Well, I got lost, in myself up here.

In Yucatan, down there,

I went so far back in that God had never been there.

And the part of me that was ailing,

died in that wilderness.

And when I come out,

I come out Coltrane right enough,

but I left the Widowmaker in the swamps of Gracias a Dios.

You saw that woman in the house there.

Well, she don't know guns.

She don't know my old world.

If she did, God knows she might not suffer me.

But I love that woman.

I'm asking your help Dillon.

Them gun tramps never said a thing in Dodge.

I left that town with nobody dreaming who I was.

They're not gonna find out from me,

I'll guarantee you that.

But I'm afraid there's other ways of the word getting around.

I hope I'm wrong.

I found ya, so can others.

I come here clean in my heart, Dillon.

I don't want ever to put them guns on again.

I believe you.

I'll do everything I can to help you.

But there's just one thing.

If your being here means that it brings trouble in my town,

I'll have to ask you to leave.

Well, was he sincere?

I'm dead sure, Doc.

What's he want?

Well, he said he just wants to live quiet, be nobody.

No.

Nothing unreasonable about that.

No.

I told him the hardest thing for him is gonna be to

live with what he's done and what he's been.

But he seems to understand that.

Well Matt, folks will forget how the sun looks coming up

before they forget a gunslinger.

I think this man really means it Doc.

I think he wants to change.

Sure he's been a gun fighter,

maybe the fastest there ever was,

but, you know, to my knowledge he's never been on a wanted poster.

I told him his biggest problem is gonna be that every

lead pusher in the country is gonna be coming in to Dodge

to look him up after hearing about that shoot-out.

Not an easy thought for him to live with.

I told him if that happens, I'd have to ask him to leave.

Nobody knows for sure but you.

And you.

For now, at least.

Maybe, his luck will hold.

I sure hope so. I think he deserves it.

Be a great world...

if everybody got what they deserve, wouldn't it?

Hey, Kid.

That's Kid Chama.

Some say he's the fastest there is.

Dad.

Hello, Dillon.

Long time.

What brings you to Dodge?

Nothing special.

Just heard that Dodge might be a friendly place to

spend some time.

Is that so?

Yeah.

Folks are saying that a

fella with some color in his past, somebody like me, say,

fella like that could come in here and hang his hat

and settle down with the heifer hazers and the tater diggers

and nobody'd bother him.

Dodge hasn't changed.

Hear tell there's a fella like that here now.

- Is that so? - You bet.

Course me and the Kid here we

figured we might just spike the cannon, so to speak.

Maybe even go to selling lady's hats and such.

Yeah, let me tell you something just in case you've forgotten.

I run a nice clean quiet town here.

As long as you remember that you're gonna be all right.

Get out of line, you're gonna be in trouble.

Now, you see now there

is a real sobering thought, Dillon.

Real sobering.

Teresa.

Them coyotes woke ya, did they?

No.

I was just sitting out here dreaming.

That's our own land out there.

Yes.

Where I grew up, only rich people owned land.

We are rich people.

I love you, Scott.

Now, there's room in that for wonder.

If you got something rare, and you know it,

then you got everything there is.

Scott, I'm afraid for you.

I told you not to be.

When you first came for me, I was afraid.

Well nobody in the world ever had less cause.

No, not for myself,

because I love you, for you.

Well, I've been alive a long time.

You're not one man, Scott.

Look... I've done some proud living,

and I've done some not so proud,

some I'd rather forget, so I do.

That day... in Dodge.

There's nothing to say about that.

I know.

I killed some men, because I had to.

Else, I wouldn't be here.

No more than that and no less.

It wasn't the first time Scott.

I hope to God, it's the last.

Can you...

Will you tell me why?

Why you have to kill?

No.

No, there's some things a man can't talk with a woman.

I never asked you before.

I never will again.

You've got to trust me, girl.

If you love me, you'll give me that.

I'll make it all come right.

So Dad brought Kid Chama here to kill him?

No doubt about it Kitty.

Well, if you know that Matt,

why don't you arrest 'em?

Can't arrest a man for something he's planning to do,

and there's no federal warrants out on this Kid at all.

Now, I could pick him up on something temporary,

but I couldn't hold him.

And when he got out, it'd just happen in the end.

Why doesn't Coltrane just leave?

He's not the kind of man that runs away from anything.

If he's discovered they'll just keep coming.

Well, the thing is he doesn't know about it yet,

and I'm afraid by the time he finds out,

it's gonna be too late for him to do anything but face it.

What is he to you, Matt?

Kitty, he's a man that's trying to change.

Whatever he's been in the past,

he wants to get away from it.

Now, if a man like that wants to avoid a fight,

not because he's afraid of it,

but just because it's senseless,

then I respect that man.

I'm gonna do everything I can to help him.

Hello, farmer Bundy.

Why you ain't farmer Bundy.

You ain't him at all.

You're some other fella.

You want something here, mister?

Me? No, no, no, not me.

But now I see you ain't farmer Bundy.

You do, you do put me in a mind of a fella me and my

brother know'd back in Abilene a long time ago.

Say your piece and get out, Dad.

Dad?

Well, lordy Mr. Coltrane, it is you.

And we all thought you was dead and buried.

I did.

Towler did.

Old Buck, Sundog,

course now, they learned the hard way, didn't they?

But then, they was getting old like you and me.

See, I ain't carrying Mr. Coltrane.

I don't fight no more.

You never did, you sorry dog.

Now get off my land.

Oh, I'm going.

But I got to tell you something first.

And this message I got for ya comes from a fella that don't

run off as easy as me.

Now, he just a punk kid actual,

kinda strange in his ways, but...

fast as you please.

Name is Kid Chama.

Said he just had to see how you handled your firing piece.

Said he would just admire to meet the Widowmaker.

Course now, if you don't want to come to him,

he will have to come to you.

Maybe even meet the little lady.

Oh, I'm goin' now, I said I was goin', I'm goin'.

Red Oak Springs.

Tomorrow morning.

Sun up.

Scott.

Scott!

My name's Coltrane.

You want something from me?

Nothing I can't take for myself.

Old man.

Are you set on dying boy?

You're way too old to be talking so foolish.

You're awful young to be dying.

Your day's over Coltrane.

And your night's already fallen son.

Never...

never thought nobody could take him.

You're an ignorant man.

There's no man that ever lived who can't be killed.

You too, Coltrane.

You too.

There'll be somebody coming for you.

Mark me well.

There'll always be somebody coming for you.

There'll always be somebody coming for you.

You hear me? Always!

Guess he'll have to go now, won't he?

Well, I wish there was some other way.

There's McCallisters coming in from Wyoming.

There's gonna be others.

I can't stop 'em from coming into town.

But I can stop more fights from taking place.

Well, how you gonna prevent it?

Well, I'll just have to tell Coltrane he's got to leave town.

It'll be a hard man to push if he don't want to go.

Yeah, I've given that some thought, Doc.

You know if it came to a showdown with 'em,

I'm not just sure how it'd turn out.

Goodnight.

You thirsty?

No.

Again, Scott?

Scott.

I have a child inside me.

Teresa.

You'll have a son.

Are you proud of me?

Proud?

I'd trade the world for you.

He'll grow in to a strong man, you'll see.

- We'll send him to school. - Yeah.

He'll have a fine education.

Uh huh.

And he'll always love us,

because we'll be good and honest to him.

And watch him grow.

We'll see him change from a boy into a man.

Oh, you'll be proud of your son.

And when we're old,

he'll comfort us.

He'll stand by us when we need him.

He'll take care of us.

Oh, Teresa.

Teresa.

Oh, Scott.

How could I live without you?

Don't be too long now.

Coltrane.

I, uh, liked to talk to ya in my office.

I'll have to have your gun.

What's happening, Doc?

Well, Matt's telling him to get out of town.

What if he doesn't?

Might get rough.

Coltrane, I'm not gonna have any more gunmen in Dodge.

Marshal, I got a woman to consider

and I'm tired of running.

I figure we'll stay.

Brought too much trouble here already.

I can't endanger the lives of innocent people.

I got as much right in town as the next man.

I'm not arguing with you.

I'm just telling you how it's gonna be.

Well, I'm tired of being told.

I'm tired of packing every time somebody says get.

Now, listen to me, Dillon, I'm not listening anymore.

In that case, I'm gonna have to throw you out of Dodge.

Like hell you will.

Coltrane I want you out of Dodge,

and I want you to never come back again.

No man in the world Dillon,

ever done me what you done,

and it ain't beginning now.

Make your peace with God.

Cause I'm coming back to cut you down.

All right folks, break it up.

Go on about your business.

All right, go on.

You heard the Marshall.

All right now you hear what Matthew said,

get on back to business.

Scat.

He's coming.

I said, Coltrane's coming.

He's coming. He's coming.

Coltrane's coming.

Marshal.

This is where it ends Dillon.

Sorry, it had to come to this Coltrane.

So am I.

Not too late for your to ride out.

Not too late for you to change your mind.

I can't do that.

Neither can I.

He's dead, Matt.

I am the resurrection in the light, sayeth the Lord.

He that believeth in me, though he were dead,

yet shall he live.

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me

shall never die.

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

yet will I fear no evil,

for thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Weak are we all in dying.

Give us peace, strength for our battle while it lasts,

and rest at the close of day when our work is done.

Amen.

I guess that's about the last of the great gun fighters.

Probably won't be seeing too many more showdowns.

Don't be fretting about that now.

They'll be more than enough gun fighters coming along.

More's the pity for that.

Teresa.

Marshal.

Hello, Matt.

Scott.

Here's those papers you were expecting on that ranch sale.

Much obliged to you.

And old Doc Adams too.

He was happy to do it.

How are things in Dodge?

They're very quiet.

We buried a big gunfighter a while back.

Oh, is that so?

Well, they take a heap of killing,

some of these fellas, so they say.

Some more than others Mr. Tyler.

Some more than others.

Goodbye, Mrs. Tyler.