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Part Three
CHRIS:
Is he all right? BUCK: Wasn't like them dime-store novels, was it? JD: I didn't count on seeing their eyes. BUCK: Well, if you can see their eyes then you're too close. And you never break cover. You stand in front of bullets, you're likely to die. JD: You done, Buck? CHRIS: Why don't you slow down a little bit, son? JD: What in the hell gives you the right to tell me what to do?! BUCK: He had a son once. Never had a chance to see him grow up, though. He lost that boy-- and his wife-- in a fire and that burned half the soul out of that man. BUCK: Josiah, you still with us? JOSIAH: Scoot on over there, Buck. I'm a spiritual man. Sometimes I turn to the wrong kinds of spirits. EZRA:
Your fate is in the cards, gentlemen. Remember that. CHILD: What's my fate? EZRA: You shall grow to be a great warrior. Big, strong and fearless. CHILD: Like you. EZRA: There are two kinds of people in this life, my friend: those who seek battle and seem not to fear death-- like them-- and those who avoid battle but will stand and fight to the death if their loved ones are threatened-- like them. That is true courage. Now... you have lost to me at poker and I have read the cards for you. The time has come to pay. You see... I've heard tell of a gold mine in these parts. CHILD: We're not to speak of it. EZRA: Well, good. Then it is a valuable secret. One such secret could wipe out all your debts. So... let's talk about this mine... shall we? CHRIS:
He's beautiful. TASTANAGI: Yeah. I've had many children. I've outlived most of them. Now, all of these are my children. CHRIS: Home, family-- things worth fighting for. EZRA:
El Dorado. CHRIS:
What's cooking? JOSIAH: Chili and beans. CHRIS: Well, we'll be back in two hours. JOSIAH: It'll be ready. CHRIS: Who's on watch? BUCK: Ezra. Replaced me a couple hours ago. CHRIS: All right. EZRA:
This must have caved in years ago. CHRIS:
All right, we'll take a wider arc across the plain. Make sure the ghosts are really gone. VIN: What the hell is that? CHRIS: It's the cannon. TROOPER:
Fire! ( explosion ) SERGEANT DARCY: Bring it around! Reload! Move it! Ready! Fire! VIN: Another couple of rounds, They'll have the range. COLONEL ANDERSON: Lower the damn elevation. CHRIS: Come on! SERGEANT DARCY: Fire! CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Colonel, that village has no fortifications. We're wasting powder and shot. COLONEL ANDERSON: Waste? Men who survived the battles at Shiloh and Bull Run-- the finest sons of the south-- and they die here? I'll wipe this place from the face of the earth. I'll fire rocks if I have to. Fire! SERGEANT DARCY: Ready! Fire! CHRIS: Here they come! SERGEANT DARCY: Reload! CHRIS: Everybody into the bluffs! That cannon will tear these adobes apart! SERGEANT DARCY: At the ready! NATHAN: Come with me! Come on! Come on! CHRIS: Go! There! Leave it! Leave it! SERGEANT DARCY: Fire! CHRIS: Leave it! RAIN: Father? No, God! Not my dad...! Oh, my God. NATHAN: We got to go! We got to go, Rain! CHRIS: Come on. Come on! Come on! Come on! Down, down! Everybody down! VIN: What the hell happened to Ezra?! CHRIS: I don't know. SERGEANT DARCY: Reload! Fire! EZRA: Then there's the third kind. SERGEANT DARCY: Fire! JOSIAH: Go... go. CHRIS: We got two options: we can ride up after that gun... BUCK: That's no option. That's suicide. JD: Or? What's the other option? CHRIS: We could raise a white flag. SERGEANT DARCY: Reload! BUCK: Or three, we could mount up and we could ride the hell out of here! RAIN: Go, then! With my last breath, I will fight these men. NATHAN: Them's rebs up there. That makes it my fight. JD: I'm not going anywhere. I haven't shot anyone yet. BUCK: They'll see us before we get five paces, and that gun will cut us to pieces! CHRIS: There's got to be another way up there! IMALA: There is. We can climb. VIN:
You remember why we're doing this? CHRIS: Does it make any difference? VIN: Guess not. COLONEL ANDERSON:
(gasping) SERGEANT DARCY: Reload! To the left! Bring it around! JD:
My hands are shaking so bad, Buck I can barely hang on. BUCK: Good. JD: Good? BUCK: Yeah, good. Means your juices are flowin'. Fear keeps you sharp, kid. JD: Hey, Buck? BUCK: Yeah. JD: You're full of crap. BUCK: ( chuckles ) You just figuring that out now? COLONEL ANDERSON:
Come in. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: I didn't go to west point. I'm really just a sergeant by trade... COLONEL ANDERSON: Well, you're a captain now, so speak up. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Well, I think we should save our ammunition and give them a chance to surrender. SERGEANT DARCY: Fire! COLONEL ANDERSON: Well, thank you for your... advice, Captain. You keep firing. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Colonel, they're just poor, defenseless people down there. COLONEL ANDERSON: And hired killers, captain. Not soldiers. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: You may be underestimating them, Sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: Keep firing. SERGEANT DARCY: At the ready! Fire! ( gunfire ) CAPTAIN CORCORAN:
Surrender... or die where you stand. VIN: I'll take that five dollars now. COLONEL ANDERSON:
One battle don't win the war, boys. Chain them up, Sergeant Darcy. SERGEANT DARCY: Make them nice and tight, boys. COLONEL ANDERSON: I was there at Shiloh, Captain. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: I know you were at Shiloh, Colonel. COLONEL ANDERSON: The union lines had broken. They were in full retreat. There was no way they could counterattack. But they did. Our surviving officers were herded up like cattle forced to watch as they raised that union flag. Then they fired off that cannon and we were all left for dead. And I lay there amongst that carnage surrounded by the bodies of my dead brothers. Well... we're going to raise the stars and bars over that little village. I want it to be the last thing these boys ever see. SERGEANT
DARCY:
All right! Let's get some muscle behind it! Move it up there on that flat now! BUCK: How do you like the wild west now, kid? JD: You think you got me pegged, don't you Buck? Rich kid, had it all. Yeah, I lived in a big mansion. My mother was a chamber maid. Never knew my father. They made me a stable boy and I taught myself how to ride. TROOPER: Get down! JD: Mama died last year. She'd saved a little money. Wanted me to go to college. It wasn't enough. BUCK: Life's tough, huh? And then you die. JOSIAH: Mind not leaning against my bad leg? CAPTAIN CORCORAN:
Are you ordering all these prisoners to be executed, Sir? COLONEL ANDERSON: That is correct. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: But, colonel, these men surrendered. COLONEL ANDERSON: And we shall reward them with a quick and merciful death. They shall not be made to suffer, as I was. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: That's murder, Sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: Are you refusing my order, Corcoran? CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Colonel... Colonel, we've been riding together for a long, long time, you and I. Following your orders has saved my life more times than I can remember. But this, I... COLONEL ANDERSON: Yes? CAPTAIN CORCORAN: I can't do it, Sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: But that's treason. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Treason? Treason against what? The war is over, sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: Darcy! You disappoint me, Francis. SERGEANT DARCY: Sir! COLONEL ANDERSON: This man is stripped of rank and privilege. You're hereby promoted to Captain. Place the mutineer among the other prisoners. And then execute them all. SERGEANT DARCY: All, sir? COLONEL ANDERSON: I think I made myself clear, Captain Darcy. When our flag reaches the top of the staff execute the prisoners. SERGEANT DARCY: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Private? BUCK:
How about it, Johnny Reb? I bet you never thought your boss would go loco on you. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: I'll have you know Colonel Anderson was one of the finest soldiers in any man's army. I owe my life to him. VIN: And soon, your death. BUCK AND JOSIAH: ( laughs ) TROOPER:
Captain, I got to go get rid of some of this coffee. COLONEL ANDERSON:
Set up the flag pole over there. COLONEL ANDERSON:
Well... I hear the clank of gold bars and the roar of the guns as we hit back at the Yankees. Here's what we're going to do now. We're going to have us a little flag-raising ceremony. Then we're going to execute us some prisoners with our little cannon. Then you're going to show me where that mine is. TASTANAGI: There is no gold in that mine. COLONEL ANDERSON: Oh, no! Of course not! You're going to show me, old man. SERGEANT
DARCY:
About time. They'll be raising the flag soon. EZRA: I wouldn't want to miss this. Nobody move, or he's dead. I leave you boys alone for five minutes and look what happens. SERGEANT DARCY: You'll only get one shot off before we take you. EZRA: Then you best discuss amongst yourselves which one of you is going to die. SERGEANT DARCY: ( laughs ) Pick 'em yourself. The rest of us will tear you apart. EZRA: Well, I guess I'll just have to take all of us. SERGEANT DARCY: Why, that powder keg's empty, Mister. Drop it. TROOPER:
Raise the colors. SERGEANT
DARCY:
Big mistake, sonny boy. You shouldn't have tried that. EZRA: I know. I can't imagine what came over me. SERGEANT DARCY: ( laughing ) EZRA: Uh-uh. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: You're outnumbered three to one. Anderson's a mad dog. You'll all die. CHRIS: We know what to do with a mad dog. Don't ever run out on me again. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Take me with you. I know him. I know him. I know his methods. I'll kill him. COLONEL ANDERSON:
Give me that glass, Soldier. What the hell? Troop B! TROOPER: Yes, sir! COLONEL ANDERSON: Check out that cannon. CHRIS:
Let's finish this. COLONEL ANDERSON:
All right, you men take the high ground. Command the approaches. EZRA:
Drop your guns... or join your friends. Much obliged. COLONEL ANDERSON: Show yourself... damn it. Show yourselves. Show yourself. COLONEL ANDERSON: Come on, Let's go. Troop C, run them down! Watch it over there! Get on out! CHRIS: He's up there. He's up there! Get down, get down, get down. Get Anderson. No matter what, get Anderson! COLONEL ANDERSON: Ammo! Ammo! CAPTAIN CORCORAN: ( groaning) CHRIS: I can't get him. COLONEL ANDERSON: Show them what you're made of, now! Come on! JOSIAH: Bastard won't go down! COLONEL ANDERSON: Whoa. You can't kill me. I'm a ghost of the Confederacy and I will not die. NATHAN: He's so pumped full of laudanum someone could chop off his head and he wouldn't feel it. JD: Oh, he'll feel this! ( gasping ) COLONEL ANDERSON: Finish it! CAPTAIN CORCORAN: This has to stop, sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: Francis... You were like a son to me. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: Don't make me do this, Sir. COLONEL ANDERSON: My God... you're a coward. CHRIS: The war is over! Go back to your families. CAPTAIN CORCORAN: He's dead. It's finished now. BUCK:
Hey, pard. We got him. CHRIS: We did it. BUCK: Mm-hmm. JD: Buck... BUCK: Hey, kid... do me a favor. Get yourself a real hat. Never did get to spend any time with those fine ladies. NATHAN: You will, but first let's get you stitched up, Buck. CHRIS:
It's Imala's. TASTANAGI: You fought with him... Not against him. Me-doh. CHRIS:
Where you headed? VIN: Tascosa. CHRIS: Tascosa? Why? VIN: Never know how much time there'll be to set things right. CHRIS: They got a saloon there? VIN: I reckon. TASTANAGI: You leaving? CHRIS: Yes. TASTANAGI: Hmm. VIN: Never could figure out how to split it seven ways. CHRIS: You can use it again next time you're threatened. TASTANAGI: Oh, the next time we will welcome our enemies with great hospitality. CHRIS: I think you mean hostility. TASTANAGI: No. Hospitality. I will even open the doors of my home to them. CHRIS: That will do it. VIN: Mmm-hmmm TASTANAGI: You will always be welcome in our village. ( speaking Seminole ) VIN: Me-doh, my friend. BUCK:
Hey, kid... If you're not going to wear that hat, then I'll take it back. JD: Buck! But you look awful. BUCK: Well, son, it's damn near impossible. Ooh. You riding with us? JD: Try and keep me away. Yee-haw! BUCK: Don't make me laugh, kid. CHILD:
Ezra... Can I come? EZRA: A brave warrior like you? You got to stay here and protect the village. You remember what I taught you? CHILD: Never draw to an inside straight. EZRA: What about you, Mr. Jackson? You, uh, willing to ride with an old Southern boy? NATHAN: I figure I'll stick around for a while help these folks get things right. NATHAN:
Where you going? Get down off that horse. You lost too much blood. You'll die out there. JOSIAH: If that's what's meant to be. NATHAN: The damn birds will get you soon enough. You don't have to go chasing after them. JOSIAH: You're a good man, Nathan. RAIN: Go. I'll wait for you. Season One
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