Peacemakers
JIMMY TRIES TO GIVE UP HIS GUN FOR ONE WOMAN. WILL HE BE ABLE TO DEFY FATE AND CHANGE THE COURSE OF HIS LIFE?
Outside the town of James Creek, Jimmy comes to the aid of the Peacemakers, a religious sect much like the Amish, and is wounded. They take him to their community, the Bruderhof, where he can heal. There, he meets Alice who informs him the town does not want the Peacemakers close by. They are afraid of them because they are different. The leader of their group, Jacob, tells Jimmy he must leave as soon as he heals. Jacob is suspicious of all outsiders, for they bring trouble.
Despite
Alice's warnings that the marshal will not investigate the attack, Jimmy
goes to James Creek. Accompanied by Alice, Jimmy learns that, though the
Peacemakers currently number only twelve, one hundred more are on their
way to help build a church. Soon they will outnumber the residents of James
Creek. The marshal warns Jimmy that if the Peacemakers try to build their
church, there will be hell to pay. Jimmy notices anti-Peacemaker articles
in the local gazette. He goes to the publisher, Estes, to ask him to stop
printing them. Estes tells Jimmy that other towns have reported Peacemakers
worshipping the devil and making animal sacrifices. Jimmy tells Estes that,
as a witness to the Peacemakers' daily life, those claims are false.
When Jimmy tells Alice about Estes claims, she tells him that the best way to get the ignorant on one's side is to say one is battling the devil. She also adds that Estes wanted to buy the Peacemakers land and, when Jacob refused to sell, he began printing the articles which turned the town against them.
Jimmy decides to stay and help the Peacemakers build their church and to protect them from the violence of the townsfolk. He tells Alice that he wants to stay because of her. She tells him that it could never work because he makes his life with a gun. He takes his guns off and stays.
Meanwhile, Lou is returning from her run. She left in a huff because Kid wanted to take over for her in order to protect her from the Comanche raids which he heard had been increasing. She accused him of mothering her. He went to Cody to ask his advice. Cody recommended that Kid do his chores for him in order to take his mind off Lou. Kid, in turn, worked himself to the bone.
Lou
enters the bunkhouse as Rachel is reprimanding Cody for using Kid. When
Lou finds out Kid was worrying everyone else over her, she takes him outside
for a talk. She asks him to remember that she is the same person she was
before they began their relationship. He tells her that she isn't the same
person to him and that he can't help worrying about her. All the same,
she asks him to try to keep his feelings to himself.
Jimmy is courting Alice. During bundling, a Peacemaker courting tradition, Alice tells Jimmy that she had been married before. Her husband owned a small shop. One night men in masks came and killed him. She needed to get away from all she had known. That is how she had found the Peacemakers.
Unbeknownst to Jimmy, Tyler, a gunfighter hired by a nemesis of Hickok, is closing in on him. When the town finds livestock butchered and the threat against the Peacemakers increases, Alice tells Jimmy that if any violence occurs on the church ground, the church will not house God. Jimmy goes to Marcus, the marshal's son and one of those involved in the attacks, and prove that Estes is lying.
The day of the church raising, Marcus comes forward to admit that Estes told him to butcher the cattle in order to frame the Peacemakers. With the coming railroad, the Peacemaker's land will be very valuable. He tells the townsfolk Estes was lying in order to get the land. The town lets the Peacemakers build the church and even aids in the process.
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