[HOOFBEATS]
RandaII, I'm afraid I gotta take two of your boys back into town with me.
You're outside your jurisdiction, marshaI.
And you're trespassing on my Iand.
They murdered that feIIow from Chicago, and then they raped and kiIIed his wife.
I'm taking them in.
No.
I can't spare them.
Them two on the end. Cut them out.
Do Iike I teII you.
HITCH: Like my father, I'd been West Point, and I was good at soldiering.
But soldiering didn't allow for much expansion of the soul.
So after the War Between the States and a year of fighting Indians...
...I turned in my commission and rode away to see how much I could expand it.
First time I met Virgil Cole was when I and my eight-gauge...
...backed him up in a showdown he was having...
...with some drunken mountain men.
Virgil asked me on the spot if I'd care to partner up with him...
...and his peacekeeping business.
Which is why I was with him now, and why I still carry the eight-gauge.
We'd been keeping the peace together for the last dozen years or so.
And as we looked down on a town called Appaloosa...
...I had no reason to doubt that we'd be doing just that...
...for the foreseeable future.
But life has a way of making the foreseeable that which never happens...
...and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes.
The bIack hat. Must be CoIe.
They're here.
Howdy.
RAINES: Jack BeII and his deputies went up to Bragg's pIace...
...to arrest the men that murdered CIayton Poston...
...and raped and kiIIed his wife.
And Jack BeII and his deputies were never seen again.
I knew Jack BeII. He was a good man.
HITCH: This feIIa, Bragg...
...what's his story?
He says he's from New York City.
CIaims that he worked with Chester Arthur in the customs office up there.
Chester Arthur, President of the United States?
RAINES: That's what Bragg cIaims.
What the heII's he doing out here?
-He's after the copper fieIds. -EarI.
-What? -Let Abner speak, pIease.
He is speaking.
The mines shut down back in '75 because of the Apache probIem.
We finaIIy made a deaI...
...with a company out of Chicago to get the operation going again.
A fair deaI, mind you.
Then this murdering scoundreI turns up and--
-PhiI. -What?
Our investors puIIed out right after the kiIIings.
Bragg and his men have got us aII running scared.
They buy suppIies in my store and they don't pay for them.
They harass our women.
They use horses from the Iivery and don't bring them back.
They eat and drink whatever they Iike and never pay.
They've been Iiving off of us Iike coyotes Iive off a buffaIo carcass.
Everything that eats meat Iikes a dead buffaIo.
Mr. CoIe, Mr. Hitch...
...we want our town back, and we are ready to pay your price.
What do you aIIow, Everett?
-What we do. -It is, ain't it?
Then you'II do it?
-Sure. -Oh, thank God.
Mr. CoIe and I wiII do the gun work...
...but we're gonna button the town up tighter than a nun's corset.
We need you to make Iaws we can enforce.
We got Iaws.
HITCH: You're gonna have more. We need a Iot of Iaws to make it aII IegaI.
WeII, sure. I mean, if it seems reasonabIe, we'II just put them right into the byIaws.
-No. -No what?
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY IN DISTANCE]
It basicaIIy states that whatever Mr. CoIe says is Iaw.
-This means you'd be running the town. -It does.
We can't have that.
I mean, you're asking us, so to speak, to turn the town over to you.
Far as I can see, you're gonna turn it over anyway.
-Us or Bragg. -Mr. Raines.
RAINES: Not now, TiIda.
-TroubIe in the bar, Mr. Raines. -TiIda.
-It's Mr. Bragg's men. OLSON: Oh, Jesus, God.
There's four of them. They have guns.
HITCH: Space for your signature down at the bottom, gentIemen.
Oh, for God's sake, give me that.
So....
Sign the damn thing, Abner...
...so these men can do what they came here to do.
BRONC: You piss Iike a mare, ChaIk.
Fat, give me another one.
[LAUGHING]
Button them up.
-Who the fuck are you? -VirgiI CoIe.
VirgiI CoIe?
No shit.
Hey, ChaIk, VirgiI CoIe wants us to button up.
Step a IittIe cIoser, VirgiI CoIe, and I'II piss in your pocket.
FeIIas, I'm the new city marshaI. Put it away or Iose it.
-Hey, Bronc, they got a new city marshaI. -Put your IittIe contraptions away.
I'm gonna waIk you down to the jaiIhouse. I don't wanna spook the horses.
You ain't waIking us nowhere, VirgiI CoIe.
You puII on me, either one of you...
...I'II kiII you both.
BuIIshit.
I ain't shooting, mister. I ain't shooting.
HITCH: Give me your gun.
I warned them.
-MarshaI. -Morning, Mr. OIson.
Bragg and his men, some of them were at the jaiI Iooking for you, sir.
WeII, I ain't at the jaiI.
Yes, I can see that.
Get a better view of what's going on sitting right here, don't we, Everett?
HITCH: Mm-hm.
What shouId we do?
-About what? -WeII, about Bragg and his men.
Don't do nothing, PhiI.
Oh, my God.
My name's RandaII Bragg.
VirgiI CoIe.
I know who you are.
We need to taIk.
COLE: The onIy thing I need from you...
...is what happened to Jack BeII.
Can't heIp you there, marshaI.
I see the feIIow with the shotgun there.
Eight-gauge.
Good idea, spreading out Iike that.
It is.
-You a drinking man, marshaI? -Not so much.
And, uh, Mr. Eight-Gauge over there?
COLE: Mr. Everett Hitch.
BRAGG: You a drinking man, Everett?
Not so much.
Hard to Iike a man who doesn't drink a IittIe.
But not impossibIe.
WeII, we'II see.
-You shot three of my men. -Matter of fact, I onIy shot two.
Mr. Hitch shot the other one.
Point is, I can't have my hands coming in here and you boys shooting them.
I can see how you'd feeI that way.
So we need to make an arrangement.
COLE: There's a set of byIaws...
...posted right outside the door here of this very saIoon.
Your boys do Iike the byIaws say, everything wiII be muy bueno.
-And if they don't? COLE: I arrest them.
-And if they don't go aIong? -I shoot them, or Mr. Hitch does.
-That's the Iaw. -Your Iaw.
The same thing.
Hm.
Maybe you aren't good enough.
Don't be so sure you're quicker than me.
So far I've been quick enough.
WeII...
...perhaps now is not the time.
Don't mean there won't be a time.
COLE: See you and your boys there are heeIed.
I know you haven't had a chance to read the byIaws yet...
...but the byIaws say it's iIIegaI to carry guns inside town Iimits.
So next time I'm gonna have to disarm you, Iock you up for a bit.
[CHUCKLES]
You are an interesting man, Mr. CoIe.
Come on.
Mr. CoIe's been doing this a Iong time, Mr. OIson.
Oh, yeah, ahem. Thank you.
-Good day to you. -Good day, Mr. OIson.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
-Thank you, that'II be fine. I'II be back. -Yes, ma'am.
Coffee and a biscuit, pIease.
No seII.
-But it's on the menu. -With breakfast.
Chin.
-SeII the Iady a biscuit. -Menu say--
SeII her a biscuit.
One time.
ALLISON: Thank you. -My pIeasure.
Are you the sheriff around here?
City marshaI.
VirgiI CoIe.
Now, this feIIa here's my deputy, Everett Hitch.
-Ma'am. -How do you do?
Thank you.
HITCH: Thanks, Chin. CHIN: You're weIcome.
[CHUCKLES]
Excuse me. CouId either of you gentIemen direct me to a cIean, inexpensive hoteI?
-We onIy have one. -Is it expensive?
COLE: ProbabIy more than it shouId be, there being no other choice.
I onIy have a doIIar.
Do you have a name?
Mrs. French.
AIIison French.
Thank you.
Uh, you have a husband, Mrs. French?
He died.
I'm sorry to hear that.
You do any kind of work?
I pIay the organ and the piano.
You're not a whore?
-What? -Don't be crude.
WeII, no sense fIuffing your feathers about it.
We don't see a Iot of singIe women here that ain't whores.
WeII, I'm one.
SprightIy thing.
ALLISON: Do you think the hoteI wiII Iet me stay for a doIIar?
You can stay as Iong as you Iike, Mrs. French.
-Now, how can that be? -Might even hire you to pIay the piano.
-Think so, Everett? -I do.
WeII....
When you finish your breakfast...
...Everett wiII escort you down to the hoteI and heIp you get settIed.
It'II be my pIeasure.
Thank you very much, Mr. CoIe.
-For your kindness. -No troubIe at aII.
-Hope to see you again, Mrs. French. -Yes, Mr. CoIe. That wouId be nice.
You been gone a whiIe.
She was asking a Iot about you, VirgiI.
WeII, was she asking in a Iiking way?
-Wanted to know if you were married. -WeII, what'd you teII her?
Said I didn't know.
WeII, heII, Everett, you see a wife around here?
I do not.
Then why the heII did you teII her you didn't know?
You might have a wife in SiIver City. Or in NogaIes. Or Bisbee.
Bisbee? Everett, if I had a wife in Bisbee, don't you think you'd know about her?
AIIie says she's gonna ask you about it, so you might wanna have an answer ready.
I had an Apache woman come Iive with me once...
...but there were never any words spoke over us or anything.
I think she wants to know-- She's more interested...
...in if you're presentIy married.
WeII, heII no, I'm not presentIy married.
She's gonna be pIeased.
AIIie?
Yes, AIIie. She Iikes to be caIIed AIIie.
So, what do you think?
I think Mrs. French-- AIIie.
--might become excIusiveIy interesting.
I mean, what do you think about the men on the ridge?
I think you and me might wanna ride up there, see what they're doing.
Can I finish my coffee first?
You sureIy may.
Howdy, boys.
Town don't come out this far, marshaI.
By God, I beIieve you're right.
I beIieve it ends at the bottom of that hiII...
...where that wash runs.
Up here, you're just another cowboy with a gun.
You think that's right, Everett?
I think no matter where you are, you're not just another cowboy with a gun.
That'd be my thought.
WeII, we ain't doing nothing wrong, and you ain't got no ''jurdiction'' up here.
''Jurdiction''?
I beIieve he means jurisdiction.
I beIieve he does, and he's by God right about it.
What are you doing riding round and round up here?
We're just keeping an eye on things.
For who?
[CHUCKLES]
[GRUNTING]
Ow!
You knocked my teeth out.
WeII, CoIt makes a heavy firearm. That's a fact.
Who are you riding for?
Bragg.
-Think Bragg's attempting to frighten us? -Be my guess.
What's your name?
-Dean. -WeII, Dean...
...go back to Mr. Bragg and report that we ain't too frightened.
Mr. Bragg ain't gonna Iike that you hit me.
I don't guess you Iiked it aII that much yourseIf, Dean.
-You're damn right. -So you and Mr. Bragg can commi--
-What word am I trying for? -Commiserate?
You and Mr. Bragg can commiserate each other.
You son of a bitch.
[PIANO PLAYING]
COLE: Hard to beIieve Jack BeII got himseIf kiIIed.
WeII, what do you think happened between him and Bragg?
-Overconfident? -Be my surmise.
Mm-hm.
COLE: ProbabIy thought Bragg had some respect for the Iaw.
Mm-hm.
Ain't just gunpIay. You know that, Everett.
You gotta think about men too.
Guess that'd be one reason you're here and Jack BeII isn't.
WeII, that'd be one reason. You'd be another.
[CHATTERING]
Mighty fine piano pIaying. Mighty fine.
Why, thank you.
-Thank you. Oh, that's pIenty. -LittIe bit more?
It's pIenty, it's pIenty.
Thank you.
-To music. -To music.
So teII me, Mr. CoIe--
-CaII me VirgiI. -Of course, VirgiI.
How Iong have you been kiIIing peopIe for a Iiving?
WeII, AIIie, I don't kiII peopIe for a Iiving.
I enforce the Iaw.
KiIIing's sometimes a sort of side thing of that.
That's not what I wanted to say. What am I aiming at here, Everett?
-Byproduct. -KiIIing's sometimes a byproduct.
And you've never kiIIed anyone except as a Iawman?
Never.
Is he teIIing me the truth, Everett?
VirgiI aIways teIIs the truth.
Oh, nobody aIways teIIs the truth.
-Why not? -WeII, they....
For heaven's sake, VirgiI, they just don't.
AIways thought the truth was simpIer. TeII a man what you mean.
And a woman?
-A woman? -That's what I said.
WeII, AIIie, I don't reaIIy remember ever teIIing a woman anything.
VirgiI CoIe.
[CHUCKLING]
What?
Are you teIIing me that you've never had a woman?
WeII, heII, AIIie, I don't think that's something I shouId be discussing with you.
-But have you? -WeII, of course I have.
And did you never teII them anything?
MostIy, we just did what we were there to do.
Which was what?
We won't taIk about this anymore.
Oh, VirgiI.
-I was just funning you. -I didn't enjoy it.
MAN 1 : Shit. Damn you.
Two more, WaIIis.
You scrawny IittIe bastard, where are you putting it aII?
HeII, you ain't even pissed.
MAN 2: I can outdrink you any day of the week.
MAN 1 : Say when, WaIIis. WALLIS: When.
[LAUGHING]
Shit. Shit.
-Shut up. MAN 1 : What's that, marshaI?
-Get out of here. -We ain't doing anything.
[GRUNTING]
HITCH: No, VirgiI.
VirgiI! VirgiI!
Quit it!
VirgiI.
You can Iet go.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Mr. Hitch, may I have a word with you, pIease, sir?
HITCH: CertainIy.
Mr. Hitch, it's about the teamster that Mr. CoIe, uh....
WeII, the teamster he busted up was--
WeII, no, is a city empIoyee, sir.
-You might wanna take that up with VirgiI. -Uh, yeah.
WeII, I thought you might be more approachabIe.
You know, more amenabIe.
We can't have Iaw officers beating peopIe haIf to death...
...for no good reason.
I took a bottIe of whiskey to Tub this morning, toId him VirgiI was sorry.
WeII, perhaps he shouId have taken it there himseIf.
VirgiI doesn't do things Iike that.
WeII, what he did, sir, was crazy.
-You caIIing VirgiI crazy? -Yes. No. Uh....
WeII, if--
You think a man makes a Iiving as a gun hand isn't crazy?
-You're not crazy. -Maybe. Maybe not.
Whatever I am, I'm not VirgiI CoIe.
It doesn't give him the right to bust up innocent peopIe.
No, it doesn't.
MostIy, innocent peopIe don't get busted up.
If they do, it's because of who and what VirgiI is.
And you hired him to be VirgiI CoIe.
I'm not sure I understand.
No.
I'm not sure you do either.
-Good day. -Yes.
MAN: Abner.
-Morning, Abner. -Morning.
-Morning, Everett. -WeII, good morning, VirgiI.
-Morning, TiIda. -Morning, Mr. CoIe.
Thank you.
-Everything good with you and AIIie? -LoveIy.
She is a IoveIy woman, and everything's IoveIy between us.
WeII, I'm gIad to hear it.
-Good morning, Everett. -Morning.
Thank you.
There you are.
Thank you.
Guess what, Everett?
What?
You know that house that's being buiIt on the east end of South Street?
Uh-huh.
WeII, Mr. OIson was having it buiIt for his daughter and her husband.
-Right. -But they're moving to Virginia.
-So he's gonna seII it. -WeII....
To VirgiI and me.
It's gonna be the most beautifuI house in town...
...with a parIor and a white picket fence.
And a big porch so we can see who's coming to caII.
WeII....
How about that?
I ain't-- I ain't armed.
My name is WhitfieId.
I'm Joe WhitfieId and I'm a hand over at Bragg's pIace.
AIIie, I'm gonna need to taIk to this feIIa aIone for a minute.
Oh.
WeII, certainIy.
Have to do my piano exercises anyway.
I was up on the rim when you and your deputy--
You came up and smacked Dean.
I took on because....
I took on because Bragg was supposed to be running cattIe.
-And that's what I know. -What are you driving at, son?
I was at Bragg's pIace when MarshaI BeII and his deputies was kiIIed.
[PIANO PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
Who done it?
Bragg done it.
You saw RandaII Bragg shoot Jack BeII?
Yes, sir. And his two deputies.
He shot them aII dead Iike they was rattIesnakes.
Sit down there.
Sit down.
I don't want no part in kiIIing peopIe.
You testify to what you saw?
Yes. Yes, sir.
-With Bragg Iooking right at you? -I wiII.
Because we don't wanna go up there, shoot up a bunch of peopIe...
...and get Bragg into court to have you dry up and bIow away.
I'II say what I saw.
COLE: Give me your word on that?
I do.
You're under arrest for the murder of Jack BeII.
Don't make a sound.
-You can't do this, CoIe. -Yeah, weII, I'm doing it.
HITCH: Let's go.
[GUNSHOT]
Get on your horses. They've got Bragg.
[MEN SHOUTING]
Keep that gun on him, Everett.
MAN: Come on over there.
You try anything, you're a dead man.
VINCE: What you Iike us to do, Mr. Bragg?
COLE: TeII them to Iower their guns.
HoId off, Vince.
Lower your guns.
[HORSES NEIGHING]
COLE: TeII them not to foIIow or I'II bIow your jaw off.
-Vince. -Yes, sir, Mr. Bragg?
BRAGG: Don't Iet them foIIow, you understand? Stay put.
If you say so, Mr. Bragg.
-Out of the way. -Stop it.
-It's Mr. Bragg. -Yes, it is.
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
They have him weII in hand.
Circuit judge don't come through for two and a haIf weeks.
You're wasting your time, CoIe. You've got no proof.
You're a dead man.
HITCH: That's not very neighborIy.
You're dead.
You'II never hang me, CoIe.
Never's a Iong time, Mr. Bragg.
I'm gonna go check on AIIie.
First sign of any troubIe, fire off a coupIe rounds, I'II be here.
UnIess you're riding at a hard gaIIop.
[CHUCKLES]
Everett, we've known each other a Iong time.
I don't care for that kind of dis-- Dis--
-Disparaging? -Disparaging remarks.
EspeciaIIy about AIIie.
No, and you shouIdn't.
I apoIogize.
You meant no harm.
ApoIogy accepted.
I know you're scared, son.
You keep your word and testify, I promise we'II get you out of here safeIy.
Thank you, sir.
You're weIcome.
AIIie's chewing on me Iike a young dog.
Says aII I do is be a marshaI, sit around minding our prisoner.
That I care more about marshaIing than her.
That I ain't even brung you down to see the house yet.
I was figuring to see it when it's aII finished.
WeII, go on down there, wiII you?
CaIm her down a IittIe.
You know, teII her you Iike it.
What do you got there?
She asked me which one I Iiked for the curtain.
Mm-hm.
Everett, I ain't-- I never owned a house. I didn't know what to say to her.
If the wind picks up, house'II bIow down and you won't have to worry about it.
That house ain't going nowhere. I got a carpenter that used to buiId boats.
WiII you go on down there, pIease? Go on.
Just-- You know, she's pIanning the furniture.
AII right.
Here, take these with you.
TeII her she can pick whichever one she Iikes.
You know, I'm kind of partiaI to this one here, but Iook.
Look at that. You can see right through it.
Kind of smaII for curtains, aren't they?
Get on down there.
Everett.
Afternoon, AIIie.
I must Iook awfuI.
-You Iook IoveIy. AIways do. -You're too kind, Everett.
VirgiI said you shouId pick out the curtains.
CouIdn't make up his mind.
House is hurrying right aIong.
VirgiI ever decides to come and Iive in it.
Pretty sure he wiII.
Doesn't pay any attention to the house.
HeII, Everett, he doesn't pay any attention to me.
Just sits up in his jaiI with his gun...
...being the marshaI.
WeII, has been somewhat expectant of Iate.
Yeah, but it's his job.
It's not his Iife.
-Yeah. -It'II be so eIegant.
Come see.
This is the parIor...
...so we can Iook out and see everybody who's coming to caII.
Come and see this. Come and see.
That wiII be the bedroom, and this wiII be the kitchen.
And you'II come often to visit us?
Every time I'm invited.
I can cook, you know.
I never imagined you couIdn't.
Do you think I'm pretty?
WeII, yes.
AIIie, you're with VirgiI.
So am I.
VirgiI's not here.
We're not with each other.
We're both with him.
Let go of me.
-Do you understand what I'm saying? -Let go.
-AIIie. -Let go.
Just Ieave.
[HOOFBEATS IN DISTANCE]
-We come for Mr. Bragg. COLE: You can't have him.
Everett, step on in the office with that eight-gauge.
First anything happens, you bIow Mr. Bragg's head off.
-Yes, sir. -We'II take him if we have to.
If you do, he'II be dead.
We know you're good, CoIe, but you're not as good as 20 of us.
COLE: You know the arrangement, boy.
First one of you does an ineIuctabIe thing--
VINCE: You shoot him, you think we're gonna ride away?
Nope.
-We'II kiII you and Hitch. -You'II try.
You're wiIIing to die to keep us from taking him?
COLE: Sure.
Hitch. You wiIIing to die too?
Of course he's wiIIing to die. You think we do this because we're scared to die?
HITCH: You got them turned.
They're arguing with him.
COLE: You?
Me?
You afraid to die?
-I ain't afraid. -Good, because you go first.
And that boy with the red scarf goes next.
You go on home, Vince.
You go on home.
Go on. Too many peopIe die if you don't.
Go on. Get on.
Go. Get. AII of you, get out of here.
-There'II be another time, CoIe. COLE: Get out of here, get. Hyah!
Hyah!
ALLISON: VirgiI?
-Are you aII right? -Yeah, I'm aII right, AIIie.
Let's get you inside.
What did you do?
-What do you care? -What did you do?
I ran off.
[CHUCKLES]
-You say anything to Mr. CoIe? -No.
-You gonna say anything? -No.
VirgiI couIdn't hear a thing Iike that.
I don't want him hearing about it from you either.
He finds out, I'II know who couIdn't keep her mouth cIosed.
There have been a few times when you didn't want my mouth cIosed.
What if she teIIs him and says it was your doing?
Why wouId she do that?
Sooner or Iater she's gonna teII him.
HITCH: Good morning, TiIda. -Morning, Mr. Hitch.
CouIdn't heIp but notice your books, marshaI.
What's the fascination with Emerson?
Not the most eIegant writer, but he gets his point across.
Though I'm sure the Iayman is sometimes a IittIe befuddIed...
...by his obfuscating vocabuIary, wouIdn't you say?
We've been treating you kindIy, Bragg.
In return, we expect you to speak when spoken to...
...and otherwise keep your mouth shut.
I can speak if I want to.
VirgiI and I can beat the sweet Jesus heII out of you...
...every morning for breakfast if we want to.
CIyde Stringer, county sheriff. My undersheriff, CharIie Tewksbury.
-VirgiI CoIe? -Right there.
Been expecting you, sheriff.
CIyde.
-CharIie. -Morning.
This feIIa's my deputy, Everett Hitch.
We just came in on a train from Yaqui with Judge EIias CaIIison.
This feIIa here's our witness. Former hand of Bragg, Joe WhitfieId.
-You're gonna testify? -Yes, sir.
-If he doesn't die of fright first. -We been keeping him seque--
Seq--
S-- Seq--
What's the word I'm Iooking for?
-Sequestered. COLE: Sequestered here for safety.
CharIie and I'd be happy to heIp tiII the triaI's over if you need it.
Might just take you boys up on that.
-Good morning. -Good morning, gentIemen.
RAINES: Going for a IittIe buggy ride?
Yeah, me and Mrs. French are gonna do a IittIe perambuIating.
HITCH: Mr. Raines, Mr. May.
RAINES: Morning, Everett.
Got your goodies.
-Sure you can handIe this rig? -WeII....
You know them?
COLE: The SheIton brothers.
HITCH: They do Iaw work? COLE: They do gun work.
-They good? -They're exceIIent.
Good as you and me?
Don't know that they ain't.
Don't appear to be heeIed.
WeII....
It's been a Iong time, VirgiI.
-Ring. -You remember my brother?
COLE: Mackie. -VirgiI.
Can I buy you a drink?
Are you stiII doing that?
WeII, we ain't.
[CHUCKLING]
This is my deputy, Everett Hitch.
You as good as VirgiI with a gun?
I never seen anybody as good as VirgiI.
-But you ain't saying you ain't as good. -Not discussing it, truth be toId.
What are you and Mackie doing in town?
Everybody's gotta be somewhere, don't they, Mackie?
You got a triaI coming up, a big one. Might wanna take that in.
I Iike a good triaI.
ALLISON: Good morning.
This is Mrs. French.
Ma'am.
GentIemen.
Thank you.
WeII, you boys been in my towns before.
You know the ruIes.
Come on.
Haven't done this for a whiIe.
I aIways figured VirgiI for whores and squaws.
She's neither.
I'II be damned.
[MACKIE GRUNTS]
[ALLISON LAUGHING IN DISTANCE]
COLE: We can try if you wanna.
What happened next?
Mr. Bragg shot the deputy dead with his Winchester.
You're a goddamn Iiar!
[GASPING AND CHATTERING]
One more outburst such as that, Mr. Bragg...
...and I wiII give Sheriff Stringer the authority to shut you up...
...in any manner he sees fit.
With aII due respect, Your Honor, my cIient's Iife is on the Iine.
His Iife is not on the Iine yet, counseIor.
He'II have his chance to speak. Sit down.
Go ahead, son.
Then Mr. Bragg shot MarshaI BeII and his other deputy.
[CHATTERING]
You saw this happen with your own eyes, son?
Yes, sir.
Thank you, Mr. WhitfieId.
Mr. MueIIer, you may cross-examine the witness.
WALLIS: You swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
VINCE: I do.
WeII, Mr. SuIIivan, what have you got to say for yourseIf?
Jack BeII and his deputies never came up to Mr. Bragg's ranch.
I don't know what WhitfieId's taIking about.
That's the same thing aII of you have said.
Does anybody have anything different to say other than:
''Jack BeII and his deputies never came up to Mr. Bragg's ranch...
...and I don't know what WhitfieId's taIking about''?
You may step down.
WeII, no reason to waste time saying the same thing over and over again.
MUELLER: My cIient has a right to testify in his own defense.
CALLISON: Of course he does. One moment.
Mr. WhitfieId...
...do you own a horse?
Yes. Yes, sir.
WeII, son, I suggest whiIe the bees are in the butter...
...you get on your horse and ride.
Ride and don't Iook back.
-Now. MAN: Ride hard, boy. Ride hard.
CALLISON: Swear him in, Mr. WaIIis.
Put your hand on the BibIe.
-Do you swear to teII the whoIe truth-- -I swear.
--so heIp you God?
Your Honor, I sense a certain antipathy toward--
Sit down, Mr. Bragg.
I sense a certain antipathy toward me here today...
...because I'm a reIative newcomer.
Now, I didn't kiII Jack BeII or his deputies. Jack was a friend of mine.
I had no reason to kiII him.
Mr. WhitfieId is nothing more than a fearfuI boy...
...easiIy persuaded to say anything.
EasiIy persuaded by MarshaI CoIe.
Now, the citizens of AppaIoosa...
...have aIIowed Mr. CoIe to take over their town.
But it is not justice in this new nation of ours...
...to aIIow him to deprive me of my Iiberty...
...Iet aIone my Iife.
EIoquent, Mr. Bragg.
But unconvincing.
I find you guiIty of these charges...
[CROWD CHATTERING]
...and sentence you to hang at Yaqui Prison.
Court's adjourned.
Everett?
''What I must do is aII that concerns me...
...not what the peopIe think.
This ruIe, equaIIy arduous in actuaI and in inteIIectuaI Iife....''
Arduous.
We'II bring out sourdough and ham when we get to Chester.
How Iong tiII Chester?
Three quarters of an hour.
When we reach the upgrade, you'II feeI the train sIow down.
Ain't a heII of a grade, but it's a Iong one.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
-We're just gonna take a Iook outside. -I got him.
So you see how this is gonna go.
Any sign of troubIe from anyone and Mackie gives her both barreIs.
Or she breaks her neck and is dragged through the mesquite.
So you foIks are gonna have to unshackIe Bragg...
...and parade him on out here or she gets kiIIed.
STRINGER: I got you in my sights.
Whatever happens to her, you're dead.
What do you think, VirgiI? You think I'm gonna get scared and change my mind?
Put your rifIe down.
STRINGER: Sorry, CoIe, this ain't your jurisdiction.
Put it down!
You too, Everett.
CharIie.
We give you Bragg, you give us the woman.
VirgiI, you know I ain't that dumb.
You give us Bragg, we keep the woman. You ride off on that train...
...and when you're out of sight, we'II cut her Ioose.
Give them Bragg.
CharIie, go get him.
-Give me a gun! RING: No.
-I'm gonna shoot that son of a bitch. RING: That ain't part of the deaI.
Damn it, Ring, I hired you. Give me a gun.
RING: You owe me money.
UntiI you pay me, you ain't getting no gun.
Move on up the track.
I toId you you'd never hang me, CoIe.
Never ain't here yet.
HITCH: Leave him be, sheriff.
But we got no horses. We can't chase him on foot.
We'II go on back to AppaIoosa and get some.
The quicker CoIe gets back here, the quicker we can get out of here.
He won't come back.
STRINGER: Won't come back?
Nope. He won't come back.
We've got no horses, VirgiI.
I'II ride the train back to town and fetch them.
You stray off the wash, Ieave me a sign.
WeII, by God.
-VirgiI. -Everett.
You bring any coffee?
Done so.
You aII right?
AII right?
WeII, how do you feeI?
About AIIie and aII.
Everett...
...we've been together now a whiIe.
Can't exactIy say how Iong, but Iong.
Ain't anybody I'd rather do this work with.
You're as good as anybody I've seen, except maybe the SheIton boys and me.
The reason you ain't as good as the SheItons or me...
...ain't got nothing to do with steady or fast or fortuitous.
The reason the above-named foIks are better than you is because you got feeIings.
WeII, heII, VirgiI, everybody's got feeIings.
FeeIings get you kiIIed.
You got feeIings about AIIie, don't you?
I cared about AIIie in town, and I'II care about her when I get her back.
But right now there's something running, and we're trying to catch it.
There they are.
HITCH: Yeah, I see them.
COLE: Yup, that's AIIie.
Hey, Virg, Iook north.
Up on the fIats.
Chiricahua, I reckon.
ProbabIy broke out of San CarIos, headed down to Mexico.
COLE: Looks Iike they stoIe horses. A Iot of them ain't Indians' ponies.
HITCH: Pretty raggedy-Iooking bunch.
They wiII be a probIem.
I specuIate they wiII.
COLE: You see AIIie anywhere?
HITCH: Yes, I do. ALLISON: Whoo!
[RING LAUGHING]
What is it?
Give me that thing.
There's Bragg.
ALLISON: Are you sure about that?
HITCH: I think about 1 0 of them.
COLE: We start shooting, they'II scatter. Won't know how many we are.
HITCH: Won't go far.
A Iot of stuff they want down there.
[WHOOPING]
[MAN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
ALLISON: No. Oh, no, no. No, stop!
RING: Hey. ALLISON: No! No!
Ring!
-No! COLE: Shoot the packhorse.
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOTS]
COLE: Hey, whoa.
-Get away from there. -Get out of there.
Where do you think you're going?
-Back behind the tree. -VirgiI.
COLE: You too, AIIie.
Everett, get the bags off that packhorse.
RING: I knew you'd be coming after us.
Oh, you did, huh?
Where you headed?
LittIe town, Rio Seco, two days' ride.
COLE: WhiIe we got these hostiIes to deaI with...
...ain't a good idea us shooting each other.
I say we put our troubIes aside tiII we get there.
Your word?
My word.
COLE: Mackie?
My word, CoIe.
Give them their guns, Everett.
Mackie, you got some cIothes in there, cover AIIie up?
ALLISON: Thank you.
They've seen pretty much everything you got, AIIie.
No sense hiding it now.
We'II dig in here. Keep watch.
Mackie, get up on that hiIIside there somewhere.
Everett, soon as Ring gets his boots on, have a Iook either end of this canyon.
Good to see you again, Mr. Bragg.
VirgiI, how do we know they're stiII there?
COLE: Oh, they're stiII there, AIIie.
RING: What the heII these son of bitches doing?
What the heII do you think they're gonna do?
BRAGG: I'II teII you what they're gonna do.
-They're gonna wait untiI our food's gone. -Shut up.
BRAGG: They're gonna wait untiI we're beat down with the heat.
About the time they smeII the bIood of stock that you've kiIIed...
-...because you're starving to death-- -I said shut up.
I'm gonna ride up and see.
BRAGG: Hey.
Where the heII do you think you're going with my horse?
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
-Bragg owes me money. -He's my prisoner.
He stays my prisoner.
You're taking this personaI, VirgiI.
When we get to Rio Seco, we'II take care of the business between us.
Everett, Iet's go speII Mackie.
Come on.
ALLISON: VirgiI?
Yes, AIIie?
ALLISON: Can I come up and sit with you and Everett?
Come on.
[RUSTLING AND FOOTSTEPS]
I'm sorry, VirgiI.
Stay here, Everett.
ALLISON: I'm sorry.
I was so aIone, and Bragg....
WeII, Ring protected me and so did his brother.
-You fuck Mackie too? -No.
It was Ring. He was in charge.
I just did what I had to do.
Everett...
...Ring kiIIs me, do you think she'II go off with him?
I think AIIie needs to be with a man.
You're a bastard.
Don't Iisten to him.
He tried to put his hands on me when I showed him our house.
No, VirgiI. I did not.
No, AIIie. Everett didn't do that.
-You beIieve him over me? -That's correct.
Yeah.
[CHATTERING]
I'm VirgiI CoIe, marshaI of AppaIoosa.
This is my deputy, Everett Hitch.
These are the SheIton boys. This man here is my prisoner.
He's been sentenced to hang in Yaqui for the murder of a city marshaI.
I need him, uh, sequestered for a speII whiIe I get a few things in order.
By aII means, marshaI.
Appreciate it.
How do I know you ain't gonna try to coIIect Bragg and skedaddIe?
You've known me a Iong time, Ring. Long as I've known you.
[BELL TOLLING]
Two hours.
Stockyards.
I'II be there.
COLE: Come on, AIIie.
HITCH: Kind of hard not to kiss her back a IittIe...
...seeing's her Iips were on mine.
But I heId her off.
ToId her we weren't with each other.
We were both with you.
She didn't care for it. Got kind of fitfuI.
I never met a woman Iike her.
MostIy I've been with whores and that squaw Iady I toId you about.
She speaks weII and dresses fine...
...and she's good-Iooking...
...she can pIay the piano, and she cooks good...
...and she's very cIean.
Chews her food nice.
But it appears she'II fuck anything ain't geIded.
I'm not certain that's quite right.
What do you think's right?
I think she wants to be with the boss staIIion.
There's onIy one staIIion in a herd.
At a time.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
So when I'm around, she Ioves me.
I think so.
When I'm not around, she Ioves you.
WeII, it's probabIy not Iove.
When neither one of us is around, she Ioves Ring.
Again, not so sure I'd say Iove.
She Iove me?
What do you think?
I think she does.
You're the one shouId know.
You know she takes a bath every evening before she goes to bed?
I Iike being with her.
Nothing against it.
Just gotta get past this Ring business.
-Might not be the Iast time for that. -It'II be the Iast time with Ring.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
ALLISON: It's me.
Come in, AIIie.
[CHUCKLING]
WeII, it's aII the hoteI keeper couId find.
You Iook IoveIy, AIIie.
TruIy.
Aren't either of you afraid?
Afraid?
That you might get kiIIed?
Oh, I don't know, AIIie.
Guess I don't think about it so much.
WeII, I'm afraid.
But I'm afraid aII the time.
Of what?
Everything.
Like what?
Hm?
Like being aIone.
Like being with the wrong man.
Not having any money...
...a pIace to Iive.
I'II Iook out for you.
For how Iong?
For as Iong as you need.
We've done pretty weII over time, VirgiI.
It's aIways been just a job. Never been personaI.
We are going up against Ring because of Bragg, right?
You can't be a Iawman and Iet somebody take your prisoner.
[BELL TOLLING]
RING: CoIe!
Like you said, you've known me a Iong time, Iong as I've known you.
Guess you made your first mistake, VirgiI...
...Iocking your prisoner in my cousin RusseII's jaiI.
COLE: I'II take Ring, you take Mackie, then we'II deaI upstairs.
Yes, sir.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[GRUNTING]
VirgiI.
Left knee's busted.
HITCH: That happened quick. -Everybody couId shoot.
ALLISON: VirgiI.
AIIie.
And I want you to know how embarrassed I am that you saw me....
-You know. -What?
I am mortified that you saw me with no cIothes on.
Oh, AIIie, it was an incomparabIe pIeasure.
Oh, Everett.
WeII, you're the one that started taIking about it.
WeII, I'm just gratefuI to you and Everett that you didn't abandon me.
WeII, that is what we were hired to do.
You know, find escaped prisoners and rescue damseIs in distress.
Oh, go on, the both of you.
Pretend Iike you were just doing what any Iawman wouId do.
I know it in my heart and I treasure it...
...that you did what you did for me.
KATIE: That's what I was trying to say.
AIIie has you in reserve.
-In reserve for what? -Everett, you ain't stupid.
VirgiI dies, you repIace him.
-No. -That's why she's so nice to you.
You don't think she Ioves VirgiI?
Out here, Iove's pretty hard for a woman.
MostIy it's the men worry about Iove.
I don't know what she feeIs.
She probabIy don't know how she feeIs either.
She just knows he's the top hand, and she'II stay with him tiII he ain't.
HeIIo, Everett. HeIIo, VirgiI.
What can we do for you boys?
WeII, there's a been a strange, somewhat of an odd occurrence.
COLE: Occurrence?
Just came in from the teIegraph office minutes ago.
It's from Judge CaIIison.
''Have received notice from U.S. Department of Justice.
RandaII R. Bragg granted fuII pardon...
...for murder conviction in Yaqui County...
...by President Chester A. Arthur.''
EvidentIy, Bragg's cIaim of association with our president wasn't just thrasonicaI.
[MUTTERS]
BoastfuI.
Thank you, gentIemen.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Why did you just thrust that in his face Iike that?
-I didn't. -You thrusted it in his face.
COLE: Thanks, TiIda. -Mr. CoIe.
-I'II trade you-- -I know what you're gonna ask.
-Here. -Do you want my drumstick too?
No. One's pIenty.
I knew it.
[DOOR CREAKS AND FOOTSTEPS]
WeII, by God.
Mrs. French.
MarshaI. Deputy.
-Bygones be bygones. -Bragg...
...I don't know what kind of deaI you worked...
...but as far as I'm concerned, you murdered Jack BeII.
Now you're standing here whiIe I'm trying to have dinner...
...acting Iike you didn't.
WeII, I'm sorry you feeI that way.
Mrs. French.
Everett.
GentIemen.
RAINES: Mr. Bragg. It's very nice to see you.
[CHATTERING]
Why do you think he came back here?
Pride.
It's a funny thing, AIIie.
Everett.
HITCH: Good trip?
WeII, Judge CaIIison says there ain't nothing can be done.
Bragg's attorney appeaIed the conviction, said the triaI was unfair...
...no bodies were found, evidence was hearsay.
President granted a pardon before the appeaI was even ruIed on.
He's got authority over the territories. The pardon is reaI. It's the Iaw.
How's AIIie?
She's fine.
VirgiI, I've aIways thought that men Iike us do gun work because we can.
Because we're better at it than most.
WeII, it beats punching cows or digging copper.
-Yeah. -Or soIdiering.
You can do it as a peace officer, get paid reguIarIy...
...and you sort of know when to do it and how.
Sounds right.
Never taken the IegaI side of it too seriousIy.
I mean, figure it's just a way to feeI easier about being a gunman.
I take it serious. What the heII am I if I don't?
[PEOPLE CHATTERING AND PIANO PLAYING]
MAN 1 : I teII you, this town is changing fast.
MAN 2: That's a fine-Iooking sign.
MAN 1 : Yup.
MAN 3: Just send me the biII. WOMAN: I wiII.
MAN 3: Okay.
MAN 4: Here's to you, Dixie.
Buy you a drink, Everett?
Got one.
I'II have the same, Fat. And a pretty IittIe gIass of sherry.
So where's your partner?
He refuses to come in here.
That's fine, perfectIy fine.
Cigar?
Don't smoke.
Listen, I understand why you boys hoId it hard against me.
But I want you to know I'm not the man I was.
I was hoping we couId work together...
...once you came to see the truth of my statement.
That statement being that you're a reformed man?
I am.
The city aIdermen Iike what's happening to the town.
You boys don't get on the right side of things, weII...
...you might find yourseIves without a job.
How are we doing here?
[CHATTERING]
Losing money, are you? Don't Iose the hoteI in one night.
Here we are, AIIie. Something to warm you up a IittIe bit.
-WeII, thank you, RandaII. -Sitting IoneIy in the corner...
Aw.
-...poured into that dress. -Oh, ha-ha-ha.
HITCH: Ever seen one Iike that?
OIson says Bragg bought it in EngIand.
A Herefordshire, they caII it.
That is a fine beast.
HITCH: Those steers make reaI good eating.
One feIIa toId me the other day Bragg had a big siIver strike up in Nevada.
Another swears Bragg and some boys robbed a train down in Mexico...
...carrying goId.
I don't suppose it matters one way or the other where he got aII that money.
Must be something can be done.
They ain't gonna run me off.
And Bragg's got OIson and his bunch right in his pocket.
We got hired. We can get fired.
Me and AIIie got a house here.
I'm not Ieaving.
What are you gonna stay as?
We ain't come to that yet.
Might just make some sense to move on.
TaIked this over with AIIie?
She don't wanna Ieave either?
I got some things to say, VirgiI.
I stay here, I won't be abIe to make a Iiving.
I know.
-I got something eIse to say. -She might Ieave me.
Yeah.
-You saw how it was with Ring SheIton. -I ain't Ieaving her.
AII right.
I shot a man in Tres Piedras years ago.
OnIy time I kiIIed it wasn't IegaI.
I'm gonna be Ieaving.
TILDA: More coffee, Mr. Raines?
-WiII there be anything eIse for you? -No, thank you.
HITCH: Give this to Bragg when he asks for it.
-Everett. -Just do it.
BRAGG: Long notes.
-Yes. -Yeah?
[CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]
Everett.
What the heII do you think you're doing?
You're a Iying, back-shooting, cowardIy son of a bitch.
BRAGG: What is this?
I'II be out in the street.
BRAGG: But you're a deputy marshaI. You can't caII me out.
WaIIis has a gun for you.
I'm going outside. You don't come out, I'II come back in and kiII you.
You think you can puII on me without your friend CoIe to back you up?
Everett.
Just Ieave it, VirgiI.
Just hoId on. What's this about?
I ever ask you for anything?
WeII, I'm asking you now.
Just Ieave it aIone.
Just once, VirgiI.
One favor.
HITCH: I figured I'd saved Virgil's career as a lawman...
...and given him another chance with Allie.
At least for the foreseeable future.
As for the unforeseeable...
...well, it was out there waiting for me.
I headed straight into the setting sun and rode west at an easy pace.
It was gonna be a long ride...
...and there was no reason to hurry.
[ENGLISH SDH]