04x23 - The Unvanquished

[bunniefuu]

[ horse neighing ]

You got permission
to squat here?

No.

Look,
you're on private property.
You know that?

This here belongs
to the Sherman ranch.

I work for them.

We won't stay long.

What's the matter with her?
Is she sick?

It's her time.

Her what?

Her time to have the baby.

Well,
now ain't that sweet.

I start my day
looking for cow thieves,

and I wind up
with a couple of happy Indians

all set to multiply.

Maybe I found them both,
huh, Indians and cow thieves?

One and the same maybe.

We don't steal.

Oh, you steal,
all Indians steal.

That's part of being one,
ain't it?

All right,
nothing in there.

But I'll still bet
there's a stolen side of beef

hanging from
one of them trees right now.

What are you doing?

Well, maybe it's hid under
all those things in there.

Diamo, be careful.

We don't steal
anything, mister.

Don't point a g*n
at my woman.

You tell your woman
to scamper out of there

so as I can
get a look-see.

I told you,
we don't steal.

Get her out.

Or I'll start sh**ting.

[ g*nsh*t ]

Take your woman.

Go fast.

He would have k*lled her.

I say go, quick.

We can't leave.

Is my son a woman now?

Are you so full of fear
you can't think?

I say go.

Go.

I'll take care of him.

Look, if you just
try to explain to us

how it happened.

How?

How did the man get k*lled?

No k*ll,
find dead, no k*ll.

All right, all right.

You didn't k*ll him.

Why did you run away

when--
when he came over the hill?

Oh, fine.

Just fine.

Nearly an hour
I've been talking to him,

and the way it looks like

I'd have gotten
a lot more out of a clam.

Ask him about the g*n again.

What about the g*n?

The g*n, the g*n
that k*lled the man.

Was there a g*n
when you found him?

No k*ll,
find dead, no k*ll.

We're just not going
to get anyplace

without an interpreter.

Well, I guess you'd have
to expect him to play stupid.

Most likely he's scared
he's gonna wind up

like all those kinfolk
of his up at Sand Creek.

You are Arapaho,
aren't you?

No k*ll,
find dead, no k*ll.

You're Arapaho,
aren't you?

Arapaho.

And you know
a few more words of English

than the four or five
you've been using here today.

What's your name?

What's your name?

Tah-Za.

Tah-Za...

who was out there
with you today

when that man was k*lled?

Nobody with me,
me alone.

There were tracks
of two other ponies.

Where were they?

You weren't traveling alone.

Me alone.

And you didn't find
Ben dead either, did you?

The people who were
with you k*lled him,

then ran off,

while you stayed
behind to hide the body.

Wrong!
Wrong!

Tah-Za, Ben had
marks on his face.

He'd been in a fight.

You don't have any marks
on your face.

And Ben was a big man,
strong.

It would take another big,

strong man to take
his g*n and k*ll him.

It was his g*n he was
k*lled with, wasn't it?

All right.

It was me, I k*lled him.

Well, hallelujah.

Well, you don't believe him,
do you?

Well, why not?

Why would he say
that if it wasn't so?

To protect somebody else.

Unless I missed my guess,

that's what he's been
doing all along.

You're wrong, mister.
It was me, I k*lled him.

There was nobody else.

You lock me up.
Now I...

Now if you'd
just tell us the truth

maybe we could
straighten this thing out.

I guess you had him
figured out.

There must be
somebody else.

Yeah.

Somebody that thinks
nothing of leaving an old man

to face more trouble

than he's likely
seen in his whole life.

I'd like to know
where they are.

Don't be afraid, chiquito.

She's--
She's having a baby.

I had to get her in
out of the cold.

We won't hurt anything here.

We'll go as soon as
she can travel again,

in the morning chiquito.

We'll leave first thing
in the morning. Please!

Wait, please.

Daisy!

We can't stay here.

A boy found us.

His friends will come.

We've got to move.

I'll find you a place
somewhere.

I promise.

He was coming right for me,

Aunt Daisy,
you should've seen.

What are you doing here?

And this girl?

She's my wife.

We didn't mean any harm.

I just wanted to get her indoors
until the baby comes.

The baby?

In a barn?

We're going, I'm sorry.

Uh, just a minute.

Where do you think
you're going?

I said we'd get out.

You certainly will,

right out of here
and into the house

where your wife can
have some proper care.

Mike, go in,
turn down my bed.

Go on, don't dawdle.

Yessum.

Come,
come with me, please.

There you are.

Now you'd like to see
your husband, wouldn't you?

How is she?

I think she's worn out.

How long have you
been traveling?

Ten, eleven days.

There's a new reservation up
on Powder River,

we're headed there.

And you didn't try
to find shelter for her

before tonight?

Oh, yes, I tried.

A farmhouse
south of here yesterday,

but the people there
set their dogs on us.

They set their dogs--

Why?

Because our skin is
not white like theirs.

Can I see her now?

Yes, but don't stay long.

I want you to ride into Laramie
and get the doctor.

She needs a doctor?

Well, I think it's best
to have the doctor,

in case she needs him.

I'm sorry, but we have
no money to pay a doctor.

Oh, for heaven's sake
don't worry about that now.

Go in and talk to your wife

before she decides
you've forgotten all about her.

Diamo,
what is this place?

It's a ranch house.

They're good people here.

They want us to stay
till the baby comes.

They want us to stay?

Do they know
what happened?

The man that
came to our camp?

No,
they don't know about that.

And your father,
where is he?

I don't know.

Don't worry,
he can watch out for himself.

I must go now.

Just for a little while.

Winema,
you're all right here.

You're safe now.

Understand.

I would feel better
if you didn't have to go.

I'll be back before
the little one comes.

Where is the man
who k*lled Ben?

They said
he was an Indian.

Is that him?

Now wait a minute, you two.

Is that him?

I don't know yet.

Well, he's the one Sherman
brought in, ain't he?

Ben was our older brother.

You step aside.

Don't be a fool, Rafe,
put the g*n away.

I can sh**t around you
or through you,

it makes no difference to me.

I'm telling you
for the last time, sheriff.

Get out of the way.

SLIM:
Drop the g*n.

There's a shotgun
aimed right at your head.

Now are you gonna drop it?

For a minute there

I thought you were
gonna spoil our supper.

You ever
point a g*n at me again

you'd better be
ready to use it.

That heathen red stick
k*lled our brother,

and we want him dead.

We're still investigating.

If he did k*ll Ben,
then he'll stand trial for it.

Trial?

An Indian stand trial?

It's been done before.

Why waste the time?

If you have to ask that,

I don't guess
we could explain it to you.

Sherman,
I don't want to hear

any more of your high
and mighty ideas.

I've got a brother
that's dead.

And the man that's done
it is still living,

I got to fix that.

You stop pointing
in on things

that don't concern you.

Ben was working for me
when he was k*lled.

He was k*lled on my place.

The way I figure it,
that makes it my concern.

If you want it official
I'll deputize him.

Now you can
pass out tin badges

to every man in this town
for all I care.

I want that Indian dead!

If you don't do it,
I'll do it for you!

Get out of here,
both of you.

I said out!

Heading straight
for the saloon.

Why didn't you lock them up?

It'd only make it worse
for him if I did.

Well, they're gonna have
some dandy stories to tell.

How we were sticking up
for a murdering redskin.

Trouble is,
it just might get somebody

in that whiskey mill
to listen.

I think it's about time

we find out who that old w*r
horse is covering up for,

before he winds up
protecting them permanently.

How do you figure
on finding that out?

He'll never tell.

I'm going out to the place
where Ben was k*lled,

lookin' it over
real good this time.

You want to go along?

I'd better
stick around here.

Just in case
that saloon runs dry.

The lady said to hurry.

Everybody tells me
to hurry, friend.

You ever hear of anybody
wanting a doctor next week?

All right.

Hey, I thought you were
in such an all-fired hurry.

You go ahead,
I'll come soon.

Tah-Za.

What's happened?

Why are you here?

Nothing.

Go away.

You were caught
with the man I k*lled.

I'm all right.

Where is Winema?

A woman took us in.

She sent me to town
for the doctor.

A white woman?

Yes.

Tah-Za, there is
only one man here,

I can get you out.

No.

He has barred the door,
you can't get in.

Go away,
get back to your wife.

I can't leave you here.

One of us
in trouble is enough.

Will you go?

I'll come back.

Stay away,
you can't help me.

Stay away.

We've all seen things
like this happen before.

Once it gets to this state

it ain't happen
to get much better.

Who's gonna be next?

Now you think about that.

A man like my brother
ain't safe in a ranch

few miles outside of town.

Before you know it,
it ain't gonna be safe

for any of you to be
walking these streets.

ALL: Yes.

And there's another thing.

There's been
thieving going on.

Now you all have been
missing stuff, ain't you?

ALL: Yeah.

Well, it's them
that done it.

Those Arapahos moving
north to their reservation,

they're stealing
everything in sight

that ain't nailed down

and they're k*lling
any white folks

that get in their way.

[ crowd murmuring ]

We showed them 6 years ago
who owned this country.

You remember
over at Sand Creek?

We're gonna stand by now

and let them come
sneaking back in here

to k*ll us all off
one by one?

Huh?

ALL: No.

It's my brother Ben
right here in this coffin,

and a thieving Arapaho
put him there.

Well, right now,

I'm gonna go to that jail,
and I'm gonna drag

that red stick out
on the end of this rope.

And I got one question.

Am I gonna go alone

or are some of you
coming with me?

[ crowd murmuring ]

All right, let's do it.

[ indistinct chatter ]

I told you there'd be a trial
for the man in there.

If you want to be
around to see it,

you better clear out
of here right now.

Like I said before, Corey...

around you or through you
I don't care which.

You can't stop us all.

Boys,
let's press him a bit.

SLIM:
Now wait a minute.

Just been out to the place
where Ben was k*lled.

And I found new evidence.

Evidence that
proves the old man

in there didn't k*ll anyone.

Now do you still
have it in your hearts

to hang an innocent man?

Now hold on.

Just what was it
you found out there?

We got a right to know.

Rafe, you've just
come within an eyelash

of losing your rights
to anything

except 6 months room
and board in jail.

Now if I catch either
one of you anywheres near here

until this is finished,

so help me, you're gonna be
looking out on this old world

through iron bars.

Come on, Rafe.

What's all this noise about
avenging their brother?

That family has been about as
close as three bull grizzlies

until this thing happened.

They're brothers, Mort.

They might fight
amongst themselves,

but they're still brothers.

Say, did you really find
anything out at your place?

The old man had a knife, too.

He took it off of him
before we brought him in.

This belongs
to somebody else.

Let's see
if we can find out who.

Hold it.

Well?

Well, the undertaker says

the funeral's gonna be
at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

After it's over
I think that you and me

got to load up our stuff
and get out of this town.

What for?

What for?

We can't keep
operating the way

we were now that Ben's gone,
you know that.

All right.

We can lay back for a while.

Ain't no reason
to clear out.

Besides, we still got
that Indian to take care of.

What do you care
about him for?

Look,
if he did k*ll Ben,

he most likely
had a good reason.

You know the way Ben was.

Jack, can't you see
beyond the Indian nose?

That Arapaho's trouble
was just made-to-order for us.

What do you mean
"just made-to-order for us?"

The one in jail.

We get him k*lled.

Then we keep things
stirred up

until all the Arapahos
are run out of the country.

After they're gone,
the thieving stops,

everybody knows
they've done it.

Well, don't you see,
they done it.

No more questions,
no more snooping around,

no more problems for us.

Now what's wrong with that?

I'll tell you
what's wrong with that,

it's the first part of it
about getting an Indian k*lled.

Now what do you
think Sherman

and the sheriff are
going to be doing?

I don't care what they do,

they ain't going
to stop us.

Too many ways
a man can die, Jack.

Especially
when he's penned up in a cage.

Oh, Rafe.

That's my knife.

It belongs to me.

I lost it
when I k*lled that man.

That isn't your knife.

It belongs to whoever
was out there with you.

It's my knife.

Well, if that's your knife,
what's this one?

The one he took away
from you out there.

Come on, Tah-Za,

what do you need
two knives for?

All right.

Come on.

Tah-Za, that crowd that
was outside a little while ago

it's likely to happen again
unless we find out the truth.

Don't you understand
we're trying to help you?

Makes me wonder
if he's worth helping.

Yeah.

There's nothing more
I can do around here.

Think that mob
might show up again?

You cooled them off
for a while.

Listen,
I'm heading home.

With Jess on that trip
to Casper Daisy

will be needing me
for some of the heavy chores.

I'll come back tonight
to keep you company.

I can use it.

It's Slim.

Guess what?

We're going to have a baby.

A what?

A baby?

Yeah.

Diamo's going to have one.

I mean, Diamo's wife.

Well,
I'm Slim Sherman.

Are you Diamo?

Daisy took him in last night

because she didn't want him
spending the night in the barn.

My wife is having
some trouble with the baby.

The doctor is with her now.

I am sorry
you're having trouble.

Uh, who set you to work
chopping wood?

It is hard just waiting.

Needed something to do.

DAISY: Diamo!

Diamo.

Oh, you're home, Slim.

Has something happened?

The doctor says
it'll be any minute now,

and she's holding up
just fine.

Well, if it's that close,
let's go inside and wait.

Looks like
you lost your knife.

Mike, go out and water
my horse, will you?

Huh?

Go on, tiger.

You want me
to unsaddle him, too?

Just water him.

Yes, Slim.

I found a knife this morning.

Looks like it might fit
that sheath of yours.

Where did you find it?

Near a stream,

about a mile's ride
west of here,

where a rider of mine
was k*lled yesterday.

Your knuckles are skinned

and you got a bruise
on your cheekbone.

You're gonna try to tell me
you haven't been in a fight?

I... lost my footing
and took a fall yesterday.

I've been
carrying a heavy pack.

I must have lost
my knife when I fell.

You're not a very good liar.

I have no reason to lie.

Well, good.

Then you won't mind
riding into town

and talking this
over with the sheriff.

Now.

No.

Look, mister,
my woman is in there

and she's having more trouble
than you or me ever heard of.

Talking to your sheriff
can wait until--

No, it can't wait.

There's an old man
in the Laramie jail

who's got trouble,
a bunch of it.

And I'm thinking
you gave it to him.

Now, just turn around
and let's go.

[ grunts ]

Yee-haw!

Hand me the rein, Mike.

Come on.
Come on.

You could have
used that rock

and maybe put me
out of the way for good.

Why didn't you
when you had the chance?

I'm no m*rder*r.

The sheriff's the man
to tell that to.

Are you ready to go?

I know
this isn't the time for it,

but I'd like
to ask you a favor.

Well?

Before you take me in,
let me stop and see my wife.

I only want to make sure
she's all right.

Now what would you say
if you were in my place?

I don't know.

How do you figure on helping
your wife by running away?

I can't do her
any good locked up in jail.

You have my word,
I'll give you no more trouble.

[ baby crying ]

You better wait
till you're called.

[ crying continues ]

That's a good sound.

Yeah.

Mister,
you spoke of Tah-Za before,

that old man locked up
in the Laramie jail.

I didn't know
until just now

why he let that
happen to him.

But hearing that sound,
my baby crying,

knowing that I'm a father,
now I know why he did that.

Tah-Za is my father.

Diamo, you have
about the best looking son

I've ever seen.

Winema?

She came
through beautifully.

The doctor says you can see
both of them in a few minutes.

Slim,
aren't you glad you

got home in time
for the excitement?

Oh, I sure am.

[ baby crying ]

Don't you want
to see your son?

So little.

He'll grow.

Someday he'll be
as strong as his father.

This man--
This man, he did nothing.

He did nothing.

He tells it different.

I told you to stay away.

One in trouble is enough.

There is still only
one in trouble.

But now it is the right one.

I'm the man you want,
let Tah-Za go.

I can't do that,
not till after the trial.

Look, mister,
I k*lled that man,

I'm admitting it.

Why waste time with a trial?

Let him go.

Somebody has
to take care of my woman.

She'll be taken care of.

What do you want from us?
I said I k*lled him.

What more do you want?

A lot.
How it happened? Why?

Was it an accident,
self defense or what?

Who's to decide that?

The jury.

A white man's jury?

Diamo, all you have to do is
tell them what happened and--

Who will believe me?

I don't know about the jury,
but I believe you.

My son is good.

He never k*lled before.

He k*lled this time to protect
his woman and baby.

I saw it, I was there.

Sure sounds like Ben,

pointing his g*n
at a woman in childbirth.

Why did you ever hire that
sidewinder in the first place?

Uh, you know why,
hoping him

or his brother
would make a mistake.

I still say they're the ones
that's been robbing everybody

blind around here
for the last few months.

Fat chance we'll ever
have of proving it now.

Come on,
let's go to supper.

Man, I'm hungry.

Yeah, I could go
for a big thick steak myself.

Rafe.

Eh, where you been?

Listen, I told you,
we ought to get out of town.

I told you,
we got no reason to run.

Listen, I've been
over at the jail

listening to Sherman
and the sheriff

and we got
plenty of reason.

What are you talking about?

Sherman's on to us.

Yeah, that's right,

that's the reason he hired
Ben to work out on his place

hoping we'd
slip up somewhere.

Now, he's got another Arapaho
over there.

This one's a young buck,
and I heard him say
that he k*lled Ben.

Oh?Yeah.

And I figure
we can take care of him
on the way out of town.

All we got to do
is put a b*llet
through the window.

That sure will fix things
for old Ben, wouldn't it?

That will fix things
for old Ben all right.
Don't you worry about that.

We might still fix
things up for ourselves, too.

Now, Rafe,
we got to get out of town!

Miss all the excitement?

No.

Oh, there's going
to be a lot of excitement

in town tonight, Jack boy.

There's going to be a real
sh**t-em-up jailbreak.

And maybe if we're lucky,

maybe Sherman and that sheriff
will get themselves k*lled.

Nobody out there.

Somebody's
playing tricks maybe.

Good trick.

A chance to live.

No, a chance to die.

Stop.

Give it to me.

This can get us out of here,
and you would throw it away.

You'll have
to k*ll to get out.

All right, I'll k*ll.

I did it once
to save Winema.

I can do it again
for you and me.

Not for me, you'll never
k*ll a white man for me.

Is my father a woman now,
too full of fear to think?

I can still think,
better than you maybe.

Who gives us this--
this gift of life?

What friends do we have
in this place that want us free?

I don't know.

Another Arapaho maybe,
there are others around.

The whole tribe is moving
through this country now.

They stay away from places
like this, you know that.

No,
an enemy gives us this gift.

Then the enemy is a fool.

Diamo, you have
one friend in this place,

the one who says
he believes you.

Now you believe him.

That is the only way
to go on living.

He can't help us,
even if he means what he says.

He is but one man,

and there will be
twelve to judge us,

if we live to be
brought to trial.

Listen to me.

I took an oath
to end the fighting

between our people
and the whites.

I gave my word as a chief,

I will not break
that word, Diamo.

Old man,
you live in a dream.

What does an oath mean now?

Why should you keep an oath

when the white men's oaths are
nothing but smoke on the wind?

Where were the white men's
treaties at Sand Creek

when my mother was k*lled?

My mother, your woman.

How can you forget her?

I don't talk about
forgetting,

I talk about peace,

to live in peace
with the whites,

to abide by their laws.

Then you live with them,
if they'll let you.

It's too late for me.

Mighty quiet tonight.

Yeah, kind of a relief.

Yeah, maybe.

Here.

Coming in?

I've been thinking,

Rafe and Jack are off
holding a wake somewhere.

It'd be a good time
to prowl around

that livery stable
of theirs.

Oh, you can't do that
without a search warrant.

You mean you can't.

Slim, if you go over there
you're on your own.

Now I don't want to know
anything about it.

Unless I find out something.

Unless you
find out something.

Not yet.

He's going away.

Yeah, but not far,
he left his horse.

He'll be back
when the sh**ting starts.

[ rat squeaking ]

[ Slim whistling ]

Did he see us?

I don't think so.

I wonder
what's going on inside there.

I wonder when that
Indian's gonna use that g*n.

Relax.

He'll use it.

He don't want to hang
anymore than we do.

I don't want to hurt you,

I don't want
to hurt anybody,

but I'm not going to stay here
and let you hang me.

You have to stay here,
you've got no choice.

Where did you get that g*n?

He had it when
we came back from supper,

I took the tray in to him
and he stuck it in my chest.

Here we are.

How did you
get the g*n, Diamo?

It was thrown through
the window by somebody.

Yeah, a present
from Rafe and Jack.

Oh, they are the brothers
of the man you k*lled.

Why would they--

To get you k*lled,

either by us or by them
when you go through that door.

They're across the street,
hiding in the dark,

just waiting to blast you.

Diamo, believe.

What for?

Even if it is true
I cannot stay here.

I won't hang,
not for protecting my woman.

No, you won't hang.

You'll go to trial,
you'll be proven innocent.

I can guarantee that.

Don't lie to me.

I just came
from the livery stable

owned by those two.

They've got enough
loot stashed in there

to open their
own general store.

I-- I just brought this
back to show the sheriff

and there's more.

Everything under the sun.

And it's all stolen by them.

Diamo, don't you see,
they were thieves,

the man you
k*lled was a thief.

I can prove that now,

I can prove
what kind of a man he was.

Now, they're not going
to hang you

for k*lling
someone like that.

I'm an Indian,
I k*lled a white man.

You're a man,
an honest man

who was defending his wife
against a human coyote.

He's right, Diamo.

Even if some of the folks
on that jury

should turn out
to be Indian-haters,

they're going
to hate thieves much worse.

Especially a man
who's done the stealing

right here
under their noses.

Diamo,
they call us thieves.

They said we are
the ones who stole.

You can change that now.

You can give the Arapaho
back his honor.

The two outside.

Across the street, you said?

In front of the mercantile.

Well, they can aim
dead center at that door.

What's that for?

There isn't any back way
out of here.

There's what you might
call a top way.

Now if Diamo wants
to play decoy,

maybe we can flush those
two out in the open, huh?

Now, get him.

Rafe!

Jack!
Give it up!

Don't sh**t!

Don't sh**t, I give up!

You all right?

Daisy is going to miss
that youngin' of yours.

It isn't often
she gets a baby to fuss over.

You must bring her
to the reservation

when you can.

A godmother should
visit her godson often.

And you come back here.

You'll always be welcome.

I hope my son grows to be
the kind of man you are.

Now you mean
the kind of man his father is.

Don't ever underestimate
yourself again.

People around here
owe you and Tah-Za a lot.

You taught them
that a man's a man.

Color of the skin
doesn't put a label on him.

If they learned that,
I am glad
because I learned it, too.

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