[thunder rumbling]
[thunder crashes]
[infant coos]
[thunder rumbling]
[baby fussing]
[man talking incoherently]
- Well, mornin', little missus! - [chortling]
- Care for some breakfast with some god-fearing men?
Hey, hey, what's the matter?
Don't you want to spend a little time with us?
- Don't listen to him, ma'am!
[laughs riotously]
- [chuckles]
[metal clanking rhythmically]
[tool thuds on wood]
- You weren't anywhere.
Didn't even look like you came to bed for one minute.
- I had this idea.
It's a dredge.
It's a steam dredge. It's on its way to us.
Should be here any day now.
We'll have to convert it to a steam shovel.
Had a notion just this mornin'...
I could build an undercarriage--
- You need to sleep and eat or...
I don't know what.
- You don't understand.
Better take william on along home.
He shouldn't be out here. You neither.
[metal clanking]
I'll be along. Go on.
[metal clanking]
[thunder rumbling]
[western folk music]
â™ª
- I know we can reach the summit in seven diagonal cuts.
They're called "switchbacks," all right?
- I'm familiar with the concept.
I'm an engineer, bohannon. Chief engineer.
Before you start givin' me orders,
It's mr. Durant I work for.
- You work for the union pacific.
Our job is to get the railroad movin'.
I need a dozen men to help fashion a reinforced chassis
So I can-- - you need?
- Gentlemen!
- Mr. Bohannon was just tellin' me what my job is. Yours too.
- Dredge'll be here any day now and we ain't ready.
- He is requesting 10 men... - 12.
- To be taken off their labor on the wall to assemble parts.
- And build a car.
- And do we have the expertise to show the men
How this is done? - I got a notion.
- A notion? Mm.
- But I'll need mr. Delaney's know-how.
- Well?
- It can be done.
If you settle for 10.
- Hold up!
- Let's go!
- I said stop the train right there!
Damn it.
Excuse me.
Sit down.
[gears grinding]
[loud bang]
Pull the men off your train.
They've been reassigned.
- On whose say-so? - Mine!
- What's this with pullin' my men?
- Take your ten best off the train, and you too.
I need you in charge. - Charge of what?
- Either you come or I take 'em without you.
Dead in the water until you get that slide off.
Virgil!
- Mr. Bohannon!
Shouldn't these men be out shovelin' rocks?
- I been thinkin' the same thing.
- All right, we're gonna take them two freight trucks
And set 'em on the rails.
They'll hold the platform for the dredge.
- You think we got an ironworks here?
We ain't in chicago. - You best build new bolsters
And kingpins for the extra weight.
I had a look this mornin', figure it's somethin' like this.
- You hear me? We fix what's broke and that's all.
I barely got the manpower for that.
- Oh, I brought you the manpower.
- I'm talkin' about skilled labor.
- Psalms? - My men'll learn.
Some of them worked on ploughs and cotton gins where they from.
- Railroad cars ain't cotton gins.
- And I think you heard him.
They can learn.
- I'll believe it when I see it.
- Get her in position.
Man right there?
Thinks all you're good for is diggin' ditches.
You gon' prove him wrong?
[sighs]
I know what you see when you look at me.
- Doubt that.
- The man who killed elam.
But that wasn't elam.
The one you and me knew, he never come back.
That's all I'm gonna say about it.
Now or ever.
- I see to it my crew give virgil no reason to complain.
- Y'all watch your feet mountin' them wheels now.
- You thought about what you're gonna do now?
I mean, will you go home now?
- St. Louis.
- What?
- St. Louis.
That's home.
But I got no one there.
No one and nothin'.
- No, that ain't true.
You can read.
You talk nice.
You got a pretty face.
You don't have to be a whore.
You can be somethin' better.
- You don't know.
- Could be a lot worse, I know that.
Before I was with elam--
- Elam.
- Stay with me till we find you somethin' to do in cheyenne.
We'll think on it together.
- Mornin'. - Mornin'.
For you.
- They found heckard's body in nebraska,
By the side of the track.
Somebody bashed his head in.
- Yes, sir.
- What kind of a place have we found ourselves in, atwood,
Where the life of a u.S. Marshal
Can be snuffed out at the whim of an arrogant,
Pompous, self-important toad?
- Durant?
- Shit flows downstream...
From the headwaters.
[man whistles]
[indistinct shouts]
- Naomi?
Whoa.
Go on. [clicks tongue]
- Hold it right there!
- Tell father hatch his daughter's at the gate!
- Brother hatch!
- Ho.
- Feels a long time since we've been here.
- It wasn't.
- Feels like it, though.
[hinges squeaking]
- Oh, god be praised!
Oh, look at him.
Oh.
Brother bohannon.
- Father hatch. - Well, come in.
Why are we stayin' out here? - The bishop?
- Ah. He's long gone, you needn't worry about him.
Now, you've been traveling.
You're tired and hungry.
Your momma's gonna be so happy.
[naomi laughs]
- Come on. [clucks tongue]
- Wait here.
You look rather cavalier for a man who's set to hang.
- [laughs]
- Is it your habit to take the law of the land so lightly?
- Ain't the usual thing for a governor
To come down here and conversate with condemned fugitives.
- I'm askin' if you hold the law in contempt.
- The law and me have been at each other pretty hard
For a long time now.
We know each other well.
- You have certain skills, mr. Snow.
I may have need for those skills.
The question is whether you can put them to use
For someone other than yourself.
- I have never tried.
- What if it were worth your life?
- Do you swear to enforce the law of wyoming,
Its letter and its spirit,
Without prejudice of persons in pursuance of your duties?
- Right, yeah. I do.
- Then you're our new marshal.
- Lots of individuals will be surprised.
- Cheyenne's full of men wanted elsewhere.
Bail jumpers, fugitives.
Also indentured freedmen among the railroad workers,
Vagrants.
Durant hasn't paid their bond in years.
That means they're illegal too.
I want you to arrest them all.
- Gonna need some deputies. - Take those.
- [laughs] damn, boys, it's your lucky day.
- Travel 1 inch outside my orders,
I'll tie the noose myself.
- Not to worry, governor.
My honor... [spits]
As a gentleman.
- You start with those.
- Charlotte can cook, wash, keep house.
Does her figures like anything.
She can read and write like nobody's business.
Folks can see she's a respectable person.
- We'll get you a change of clothes.
I'll find something for you to do here.
Can't even imagine what you've been through.
- Thank--
- It's okay. - [sobs]
Thank you.
[crying]
- [singing indistinctly] - he's got eyes like his papa.
Don't he have brother bohannon's pretty eyes?
[giggles]
- How dare you say that about my husband.
- Esther's got her own beau.
Brother michael doone.
He's got eyes like an old ox sittin' in the sun.
- [giggles] - girls.
This is naomi's first meal home.
- She's happy to be among them.
- She's missed this.
That's a fact.
- Well, I can only guess at what's brought you
Back from cheyenne.
But is there any good reason you shouldn't stay on?
Both of you, together.
With us.
I have authority here.
I can smooth your way with the congregation.
You will be made welcome.
Perhaps bishop dutson was right after all.
- How's that?
- Only that everything a righteous man could ever want
Is here.
- What'd you mean, dutson's gone?
Gone where? - Brigham young.
To utah.
[log thuds]
- [sniffs, coughs]
Your father wants us to stay on for good.
You still ain't said if that's what you want.
- I can't think about goin' back.
- Naomi.
- We're better off here.
Me and william, and don't say that you don't see that.
[pebble plunks]
- You ain't had it easy in cheyenne.
I know that, all right?
I do.
But it ain't always gonna be cheyenne.
The railroad'll move on, we'll--
- This isn't about cheyenne!
I washed the blood off of you.
Washed the blood off of you of a man
That you killed, that you loved.
I ain't forgettin' that.
That's you.
That's who you are.
- End of the line, folks!
Cheyenne. End of the line.
[background chatter]
- What we got under here, old timer?
- Y'all go ahead around
The back side of those wagons over there, yeah?
- Yes, sir. You heard him.
- Hup!
That's it, brother.
Even that out.
Hup!
Get it on there, brother.
Get it in there.
That's it, brother.
- All you men!
It appears some of you are wanted by the law.
Else you're here on bonds that ain't been paid.
I am here to see that y'all are brought to justice.
Less trouble you give me, easier it'll be.
'course, I don't mind trouble.
[guns cock]
- All of these men, all of 'em,
Are legitimate employees of the union pacific railroad.
- Yes, sir. [men murmuring]
- Virgil farnsworth.
Wanted in new york.
[men murmuring]
- It was a bar fight down at the bowery.
Other guy walked away.
Don't that count for nothin'?
Hey! [gun cocks]
[grunts]
- Dutch dufray.
Armed robbery in the city of brotherly love!
Anybody gets in our way, you arrest them too.
Now...Who do we have here?
- Julius hankey.
Whoo! Look at that boy run.
- Enoch buell.
Psalms jackson.
- Durant didn't pay my bond.
Why don't you arrest him? - It might come to that.
- Move. Come on!
- That's it, that's all.
Round up the goodies, gentlemen. Follow me.
[loud thud, men shouting]
- Get outta here! That's right!
[overlapping shouting]
- What kind of cra-- I never robbed nobody!
Not in ohio anyways!
I don't care what the poster says!
- We gonna drag you down to the judge,
And you can talk his ear off.
[gun cocks]
[gunshot]
[woman screams]
- Son of a bitch!
- Mm.
- "I" is for...
- Is--is-land?
- Island. - Island.
- That sits in the sea.
'j' is for...
- Jack-kal?
- Jackal! - Jackal.
- That springs from the tree.
"k' is a...
[thud]
- Ruth! I'm in need.
- Mickey?
- I need a place to stay, to hide.
[panting] I'm a wanted man.
They're coming now.
- You see I have a child here.
You come with a gun to a place of worship?
- The place I saved your life.
As for a gun, I've no mind to use it if you help me.
- I have nowhere to hide you.
[men's voices approaching]
[loud knock on door]
- [whistles]
I believe I'll take this myself, boys.
Hot damn.
I got to go to church more often.
- Can I help you?
- Well, I can think of a thousand ways you could,
Darlin', but for now...
We're just lookin' for these men.
- It's just me and the boy.
- You know lyin' to a federal marshal
Ain't just a sin, it's a felony.
- There's no one here.
You see for yourself.
- I ain't seen what's back there yet.
- Satisfied?
- I don't satisfy easy.
[front door closes]
- [chuckles]
[thunder rumbling]
[rain pattering]
- I'm comin' back for you and the baby.
- Don't say it.
- I will.
- Then I'll see you when you do.
[infant cooing]
- Yeah.
[clicks tongue]
[hinges squeak]
[clicks tongue]
[overlapping male chatter, laughter]
[tinny piano music]
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- Miss palmer done you up real nice.
- It can make you feel different.
Better.
I'd forgotten.
Mrs. Palmer put me to work in the dining room.
Funny how you lose your appetite servin' food all day.
There's somethin' I have to say to you,
Since I haven't been myself.
- What?
- I've forgotten to thank you.
There's somethin' else as well.
It's about elam.
I know you've wanted to talk about him.
From what people say, he...
He wasn't always the man I knew.
- No, he wasn't.
- I know that now.
And you loved him.
Then I want you to know that I believe it was you
He was thinkin' of.
And lookin' for.
[door opens]
- I know, I know!
He's arrested our key railroad men.
All on trumped up charges or crimes long forgotten.
- What exactly are we doin' about it?
- I'll do what I should've done before:
I'll make you chief of railroad police,
With authority to reclaim our workforce.
Insist they be released!
- Railroad badge won't mean nothin' to campbell.
He's federal.
- So is the railroad.
Damn it, I need you, bohannon.
I need your gun.
I see you aren't even wearing one anymore.
- Lost my taste for it.
- Well, you picked one hell of a time to turn saint!
- You are under arrest
For the murder of dwight heckard federal marshal.
- You're the new marshal?
- You know, it surprised the hell out of me too.
- Take your hands off me! - Hey!
He don't need to be cuffed. - Ow!
- He'd be doin' me a favor if he puts up a fight.
You too, bohannon.
- Like I said, bohannon, one hell of a time!
- In you go, fancy man.
- Ahh...
The lord's peace is upon this place.
- I feel it, brother!
- [chortles] - [laughs]
- Ah.
While we rest here from travel...
You may tell me who you are.
I know you are not dutson.
- Mm, it's true.
My name is anderson.
I came upon a tragic scene one day.
Bishop dutson, his wife and child lying slaughtered
By indians beside a river.
As I prayed over them, I received a message--
Message from heavenly father--
That I should take this unfortunate man's identity
And do his bidden work.
If I have done wrong.
- You have done wrong by lying to me now.
- Hmm?
- Heavenly father endowed me with the spirit of discernment.
Begin again.
- I swear...
That I am mormon
And my faith is strong.
- And what then of the dutsons?
- When I found them...
They were alive.
I say again, it was a sign from god--
His will--
That I should take their earthly lives
And d-drape myself in dutson's name and person.
Thereafter, I did all I could to--
To honor him...
In every way at fort smith.
Everything I have said now is true.
I'm thankful that my path has led me to--
To the sacred privilege of aiding in--
Aiding in your work.
- I do believe in your remorse,
And that you seek forgiveness.
- Good.
I do.
I do. I do.
I do.
- And what is your name?
- I...
I am thor gundersen...
Of norway.
- Well...
Thor gundersen of norway...
You may go forward with me and begin life again.
[chuckles] - [chortles]
[sputters]
But where shall we go?
- Time will reveal.
[both chortling]
- Few things I find pleasant in cheyenne,
But this wine's one.
- What else?
- Sittin' across from you while I drink it.
- I agree...
About the wine.
- Mm.
Now...
You are not the kind of lady I expected to find out here.
How is it that an east coast sophisticate
Like yourself ends up in a frontier town
Surrounded by charlatans like durant,
Ruffians like mickey mcginnes...
And a defrocked johnny reb like bohannon?
- I notice you forgot to mention sidney snow.
How does a man who shoots up a store
And kills a young boy end up wearing a marshal's badge?
And how do you justify giving it to him?
- Good question, miss ellison.
- Mr. Bohannon.
- You're interrupting our dinner.
- I aim to hear your answer.
How's a man appointed by grant to bring law and order
Put a badge on a mad dog like sidney snow,
And that's what he is, we both know it.
- I'm just lucky I had a man like him to put a badge on.
I've lost two marshals to violence in this town,
And I don't need to lose more to know that I'm a long way
From being able to use peaceful means to bring "law and order,"
As you put it.
I think my new marshal's methods exactly fit the bill.
- What sidney's bringing ain't law and order,
And I can't build a railroad with them men in jail.
- Then the railroad and everything else
Will have to wait until I bring this town to heel.
- Let me spell it out for you, mr. Campbell.
Release them prisoners.
I'm only askin' you once.
- If that's a threat, I didn't hear it.
Now, would you let this lady and me go on with our dinner?
- You remember:
I asked you as a gentleman first.
Miss ellison.