04x08 - Double Eagles

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Well, that'll do just fine.

Oh, don't take it so hard,
Medvik.

And thanks.

Let's get out of here.

You're a worrier, Sloane,
it makes you sweat.

Either stop
or stay downwind, huh?

Look, I'll stop when
we get that money in Laramie.

Put 100 miles
between here and us.

How much?

Twenty-five.

That's thousands,
mister.

Twenty-five of 'em.

He's worth more,
a lot more.

You should have
made him pay.

I did.

Yay!

Just like a real Arapaho,
Jess.

All right,
it's your turn now.

Is this what you two call
weeding the vegetable garden?

Oh, that's no fun,
Aunt Daisy.

No, but it's a lot safer.

Indian boys do it
all the time.

It's easy
the way Jess does it.

Mm-hmm.
And Indian boys know
how to hoe corn, too.

I'm sure Jess will be very glad
to show you how easy that is.

Something chasing you,
Charlie?

Mr. Frost,
are you all right?

It's not me, Miss Cooper,
it's Mr. Medvik.

He's dead.

Oh, no.

Why, I saw him in town
just last week.

He looked
in the best of health.

I know, ma'am, but it wasn't
that kind of dying.

It was--
It was a knife, Jess.

Nobody seen it,
nobody heard it.

And dead
when I come in and me,

nothing I could
do about it.

We better ride into town
and tell the sheriff, Charlie.

Well, this is a small bank,
Mr. Denning.

We usually require
a few days' notice

for a withdrawal anywhere
in the neighborhood of $25,000.

Well, Mr. Medvik
considered that possibility.

He thought this
letter of consent might help.

I'm closing
a large land transaction

in the New Mexico territory,

and the man I'm dealing with
isn't too fond of banks.

Thinks they're always
being robbed.

Well, that's New Mexico,
Mr. Denning.

This is Laramie.

Well, I-- I understand that,
but he won't.

And our friend
Mr. Medvik won't either.

Well, I'm afraid
we're short on paper.

However,
we've just received a shipment

of gold 20s, double eagles,
if that will do for you.

That will do just fine.

I think you'll find that
all correct, Mr. Denning.

Good.
Thank you.

Well, I won't be long.

It'll be all right.

Got to be a limit, Sam.

It's been a bad year,
Frank.

But I'll get a crop
with some rain and some luck.

There's no profit in that,
not with the luck
you've been having.

Well, take the wagon
or take the horses.

I don't have
nothing else, Frank.

It's not wagons I need, Sam.
I'm sorry.

How's your wife, Sam?

Any day now,
I'll reckon.

Cash on the barrelhead, Sam,
next time.

And I mean it.

Come on in, boy.

Big hurry, Jess.
Somebody could get hurt.

Somebody already has,
Mr. Medvik's dead.

Mr. Medvik?

Don't get mixed
in anything, Sam.

All right.

Hear the news?
Medvik's dead.

What?
What did you say?

Medvik's dead.

Let it be, Sam.

Well, it can't hurt
to take a look.

Sam?

Oh, Ed, honey, stop it.
You got me laughed out.

Millie!

Joe, honey.
Well, I thought--

What are you doing
in town?

Well, you said you're gonna be
with that cattle buyer all day,

and I didn't want
to bother you.

When my wife comes to town,
I bring her, not my foreman.

I thought
you had work to do.

It's done.

Millie--

Mrs. Farley said there were
some things she wanted to get.

I was just being obliging.

You're always obliging
where she's concerned.

It's too bad you don't follow
my orders that way.

Joe, look, honey,
there's something happening

down there
at the sheriff's office.

Let it happen.
I want to take care of this.

Right here in front
of the whole town?

What would people think?

Come on, honey, I want
to see what's going on.
Come on.

I didn't have
enough paper money,

- just gold 20s,
double eagles.
- When?

Oh, I'd say about
an hour and a half ago.

That much gold coin,
it must weigh out pretty heavy.

Near 100 pounds maybe.

You see anything else,
Charlie?

Just him and the knife.

You're going with me?

If you want.

What about Slim?

I know when I left, he was
gathering up some horses.

Besides, somebody's got to
look after the ranch, Mort.

I want a posse of men
who are willing to ride hard

and stay with me
till the job's done.

How about it, Mr. Farley?

All right, I'll go,
so will Casson here.

My foreman's always ready
to see justice done.

Aren't you, Ed?

- Well, that's two more.
- Any money in it, sheriff?

Regular county allowance.
$2 a day and grub.

Horse and r*fle?

If you can use them,
we'll give them to you.

Well, that makes five of us,
ought to be enough.

I'll take speed over numbers.

Sheriff,
you're not leaving me.

Won't be easy, Charlie,
you got to keep up.

I know what you're thinking.
Well, I've changed.

I haven't had a drink
in weeks now.

I'll stay with you.

You're on, Charlie.

All right, men, back here
in 10 minutes, ready to leave.

Jess, you get us
some horses.

Charlie, help me
break out some r*fles.

I'll-- I'll get somebody
to take you home.

You're a farmer, Sam,

what do you know about
hunting outlaws?

Well, now we need
the money, Alma,

and I got no way else
to get it.

This looks like a likely spot
to sit out the night.

He's worn down.

Load's burned him out fast.

I'll take care of him.
You tend to your own.

Why do you have
to carry it all?

I stick my neck out
just like you.

I want what's mine.

You'll get it when we don't need
each other anymore.

Well, look at him,
lathering his life out.

What's it gonna be tomorrow,
the next day?

Split it up
and give us a chance.

That's just what I'm doing,
giving us all a chance.

That way, nobody
gets itchy finger.

Three of 'em, all right.

Two are light,
one's packing the load.

Head man's still carrying
the load.

It's beginning
to tell on his horse.

If they haven't
split it up by now,
I don't figure they will.

They'll have to camp
for the night then.

We better do the same,
Jess.

I ain't much
for tracking in the dark.

We camp here
for the night.

And we know that
they're up ahead somewhere.

They may not know that
we've come this far yet.

No fires,
you've all got jerky.

The watch will be
in 2-hour hitches.

Charlie, you see to the horses,
take the first guard.

We mount up, sunup.

Hey, hey, farmer,
don't point that g*n at me,

it ain't healthy.

Oh, I'm sorry.

If a man volunteers
to go on a posse,

he ought to know
how to use one of them.

Guess you sodbusters
are different.

You should have
brought your shovel.

Look, you better stay away
from me on this trip.

I don't like fences
or them that builds them.

The land's big enough
for all of us, Mr. Farley.

Not my land.
Not any range land.

I've run ground leeches
like you off before,

and I can do it again.

Look!

I told you once and I'm
not gonna tell you again!

All right.
How did all this happen?

It's just a mistake.

It sure was.

If they're
anywheres near here,

you've told them
they're not alone anymore.

Casson,
take over the guard.

Rest of you get some rest,
you're gonna need it.

One shot, just one.

Ah, those trappers,
they could be anything.

A posse?

Maybe.

Three,
maybe four miles off.

- Sound like a r*fle.
- Let's get out of here.

You mean, run?
Daylight's almost gone.

They can't find us now.
They need the sun.

And we need miles.

We can get them now,
sun or no sun.

If it isn't a posse,
we get a breather.

It could be hunters
like you say.

You ought to know.

All right, we look,
and no quick triggers.

We don't want any fighting
unless we have to.

[ c*ck g*n ]

Nothing I like
like the feel of a .30-30.

Don't forget I can use it.

I'll bet you can.

Next time you want to play
with a g*n, use your own.

Kind of edgy tonight,
aren't you?

Yeah. I always get like that

when my boss volunteers me

for a posse
I got no interest in.

I'm funny that way.

You could have
turned it town.

Sure, I could have,
in front of half the town.

Makes a lot of friends
that way.

Maybe I should have,
though.

That way you would have
had to pull out, too.

How do you figure that?

Well,
you'd never ride off

- and leave me alone
with your wife.
- Why, you two--

I can use this
pretty good myself.

Now before you make
more trouble for everybody,

there's a couple of things you
better know about me and Millie.

I don't discuss my wife with
any out-of-work saddle-bum

and that's what you are.

Right now you're fired.

Fine.
But you and I both know

I'm the best foreman
you ever had.

I'm a top hand.

Left a good job just to happen
onto your place last month

when you needed a foreman.

You think
that was an accident?

Millie sent for me.

I knew her
long before you did.

And I'm a lot closer to her age
than you are,

or maybe
you hadn't noticed.

You lie,
she never sent for you.

She didn't, huh?

You're smart, Casson,

real smart carrying
that letter around with you.

You think this is
the only letter I got from her?

Why, you...

JESS: Casson!
Farley!

Break it up.

Now what in blazes
is going on?

Well, Casson and I had
a little argument.

He claims that
I shorted him on some wages.

Well,
a posse is no place

to settle anything personal,
understand?

Now forget it till you
get back to town, both of you.

You better get some sleep.

I-- I'm sorry, Jess,
but it won't happen again.

I just fired him.

Well, it's not the two of you
I'm thinking about.

Anything more goes wrong can
mean the same for the others.

[ horse whinnies ]

Company, Mort.

Hold it!
Don't split up.

They'll pick you off
one at a time.

Well, we know.

It sure is a comfort,
ain't it?

- Yeah, there's six of 'em.
- Three of us.

That's not a very good hand when
you're playing for high stakes.

Unless--

Unless maybe
we just stand pat.

Check to 'em,
give 'em a piece of the pot.

Give 'em?
Are you loco?

Yeah.

Yeah, we got something
that might interest 'em.

A few hundred, a thousand,
we'd never miss it.

Not for
what it could buy us.

I don't know.

I don't think we could ever
get close enough to them.

We wouldn't have to.

Just sharpen the talons
a little bit and let 'em fly.

You know, that posse
isn't made up of men

much different than us.

They might get
fighting hungry

if we give them
a little taste of the eagle.

Mort! Come back!

Where, Charlie?

Right where
you're standing.

It's been a long time
since I've had
one of those in my hand.

Forgot almost
how it feels.

Better be careful, sheriff.

You got your back turned on
some mighty greedy-looking men.

We could have done 'em more harm
than we thought last night.

Well, there's no signs
that we scored a hit.

Yeah, how come all this?

Could be something ripped,
like a saddle bag.

Maybe
they still don't know.

They know.

Then how come?

A bargain maybe,

to buy the only thing
we got to sell, time.

Uh, say, sheriff,

what's gonna happen
to all this gold?

It belongs to the county
for now.

Medvik may have
left a will, debts.

If not, we'll figure it out
when we get back.

Time enough for that later.

Too bad, farmer.

Sorta takes the incentive
out of it, doesn't it?

- You shut up.
- Farley, you've been
making a lot of noise

about what this gold means
to the others.

What's the matter?
Doesn't it interest you?

Gold, sure.

I like gold just as well
as anybody else.

I like to see
justice done, too.

I like to see a man
get what's coming to him.

That's why I'm here.

I'd say
that's why we're all here.

Let's not forget it.

Well, they just
couldn't disappear.

There's tracks
all over the place on this side.

There's nothing back there.

Well, they had to cross.

If not here,
then someplace else.

Jess, you've been up here
since the floods.

How far would you say
it's shallow like this?

About 5 miles down,
couple of miles up, I reckon.

Well, it's shallow enough
for a man to cross for 10 miles.

Doesn't Jake Duval have
a shack out here somewhere?

Yeah,
a few miles downstream.

I don't know
if he's there, though.

Croppin's been
pretty poor this season.

Well,
it's at least worth a try.

Maybe he's seen something
that could help us.

Duval hasn't been
too taken to the law

since he had to spend 30 days
for busting up half of Laramie.

We'd better check
his cabin though.

It might be a good idea
to come up on him easy-like.

No need to,
not when you're dealing
with a snake like Duval.

We're the law.

Well, I'll tell you what,
Farley.

You hold his head
where the fangs are,

and I'll cut
his rattlers off.

[ horses approaching ]

Papa,
some men are coming.

The horses,
take them out of the barn.

Ah, Laramie sheriff
is far from home.

Duval has done nothing.

Maybe you can help us.

We're looking for three men
who k*lled a rancher.

Oh, you no come here
for Duval?

Oh, no, not this time.

Uh, well, then,
Duval does not need this.

Make my home your home.

Come in.Come in.

Come in, please, come in.

You want to climb down
out of there slow,

or do you want me to blow
them boards off from under you?

Easy now.

What do you do now,
thief? k*ll me?

Oh, now you make your mind up
pretty fast, don't you?

You were trying
to steal our horses.

Your horses?

Let's just go
inside the house

and talk to the sheriff
about those horses, huh?

Where are you going,
wild cat?

Now come on.

Very well done, my friend.

Don't worry about him,
he's just practicing.

[ laughing ]

Ah, what a shame.

You have come all this way,
and Duval cannot help you.

Marie! You take your hands
off my daughter!

My pleasure.

Three horses
in the barn, Mort.

They've all been ridden hard.
One was packing a load.

Yes, yes,
they are mine.

You're a liar, Duval!

Now look, you come here,
sit at my table, eat and drink,

then he calls me names.

Where are the men
you traded those horses with?

Duval has traded nothing.

Duval has done nothing.

Ah, you're trying to buy us
with a little grub and a jug.

Well, it won't work.

They did not come here.

You traded something
for those horses,

something
like $20 gold pieces.

And I bet
they're still here.

Papa,
don't let them do it.

Duval has nothing to hide.

If we look, we'll find,
and I'll stake my life on that.

Sheriff,
you must stop them.

Go ahead.
You will not find.

No!
Stop!

Take them
and leave us alone.

He would only
drink it up anyway.

Which way?
And how long ago?

Not long.

An hour.
Less maybe.

They crossed at the big tree
half a mile downstream.

They're going north,
the mountains.

Duval has spawned a vixen.

It takes a woman
of his own blood to betray him.

You come here, you little...

That's enough, Duval.

Let's mount up.

"To the north," you said.

They went to the north.

[ laughing ]

Here, here you are.

Yeah.

Hey.

I'll take these.
They took my others.

Yes, yes, yes.

I don't like it, Jess.

I should have figured it.
She tricked us.

They'd lose too much time
coming this way.

Or they might have risked it
just to throw us off.

Would you?

No.

There's a pass down there.

It might be our only chance
to get low again.

What do you think?

Well, I've come
this far with you, Jess.

Not about to change now.

Lead on.

Yeah, they're coming down.

Didn't work.

Duval and that kid of his
sold us out.

No, not her.
Not that one.

No, not after your way
with women.

What difference does it make
who did?

It's done,
that's all that matters.

Well, she tried,
but they're smart.

They're figuring with us now.

Well, we'll let 'em do
just that.

Matter of fact,
we'll help 'em.

Then we're gonna k*ll
whatever's left of 'em.

Looks harmless enough.

No use taking any chances.

Farley, you circle the place
and make sure no one's waiting.

Rest of us
will ride in easy.

I'll take that.

Not this time, sheriff.

I found it,
I got some rights.

Finder gets a share.

We'll talk
about that later, Ed.

We'll talk about it now.

Wait, Jess.

What kind of talk, Ed?

It's dead man's gold.

It belongs to us now.

No, it doesn't.

We're doing just
what they want us to do.

We're taking the bait.

Then let's take it good.

All of us.
Not just me.

We chased them away, let's--
let's settle for that.

Won't work, Ed.

Sam, you've been
clawing at land

that's gonna take away
more than it gives.

Think of your wife,
of your kid that's coming.

What do you say?

Mort, I've seen men
with gold fever before.

This can go too far.

Now let him spill it out,
Jess.

This way each of us
will be counted.

You got a thirst, Charlie.

I've seen you
hitting that bottle you carry.

Why, you can buy


Medvik's gone.
Who's gonna buy?

No, Ed.

Jess, listen to me.

Think what you could do
with this.

Why, you can go
anywhere you wanted,

or have your own place
or take a wife, take a dozen.

Jess, it's everything you want
or I want, right here.

You can't do it that way, Ed.

Now put up that iron.

Give it to me, Ed.

Well, you saw him.

He had his g*n
right on the sheriff.

He might have k*lled Mort
if I hadn't shot him.

He had a chance to do that,
but he didn't.

His g*n was on me, Farley.

Well, he had gold fever.
I-- I've seen it before,

and no telling
what he might have done.

We've got to keep
moving for now,

but don't think I'm forgetting
any part of this.

We'll have to bury him.

I'll--
I'll take those, sheriff.

He had relatives
back in Ohio

he was always
writing letters to.

I'll take care of them
for now.

It's no trouble.
I-- I feel responsible.

You should've thought of that
a few minutes ago.

I'll take that letter now,
sheriff.

Then you did have a reason
for k*lling Casson.

It's a personal matter.
I'm only trying
to protect my wife.

If you did have a good reason
for sh**ting Casson

besides just trying to stop him,
I've got to know.

That had
nothing to do with it.

You won't mind
if I read it.

Farley!

It's working.
All we need is patience.

You'd be surprised
how much of that I got

when another
man's totin' my money,

especially
if he's wearing a badge.

Well, I think we'll get it back
soon enough now, all of it.

You're all right.

How do you feel?

Well, I'll live.

Can you ride?

I won't win any prizes.

I'd like to stay with him.

I figure
we've got a chance.

What do you say?

You've got to do
what you think is right, Jess.

Personally,
I-- I hope you go on.

There is doctors in Laramie.

If you're not there
when I get back,

I'll find you wherever you are
and I'll drag you back.

Now get going.

What about my g*n?

You don't need it.

I'll be all right, Jess.

No surprises, I hope.

I'll take care of that, Sam.
You wait outside.

We'll pick you up on
the way back, Mort.

It'll be a day,
two at the most.

You just take it easy.

Don't worry about me.
I've got good company.

What about this?

Can't let you worry
about that.

It's the bait, Mort.

It's what they k*ll for.

They'll be back for it.

We've wasted
enough time on this hunt.

Let's not waste any more.
Mount up.

Let's hold up here.

Looks like a good place
to camp.

If you say so.

I say so.

I've been around a lot, Jess.

Joined a few posses
in my day.

Even run
from one or two of them.

But after 20 years,

I've learnt things that
most greeners don't learn.

What's the matter, Charlie?

You're getting scared
after just 20 years?

Posse is a critter
all by itself.

If it's a bad one,

it doesn't matter
how many is in it.

But if it's a good one,

could be two dozen men
and still ride like one.

Well, now, if you're thinking
I can't handle the job,

I hope you're wrong.

I got something in mind,
Charlie.

Kind of figured that.

Tell you what I'll do.

While you drink out of that
bottle you've been carrying--

No, no, no, Jess.

It's too late.

Threw that away
this afternoon.

Thought maybe
I'd try doing something

without it for a change.

Ambush!
It's a trap!

[ footsteps approaching ]

Drop it.

Turn around.

[ groans ]

Hold it.

Looks like
you got the edge, Sam.

But I ain't gonna
make it easy for you.

I held out
as long as I could.

Now you got to
get out of my way, Jess.

You did a good job helping us
bait this trap.

All you got coming is your pay.

Anything else you want,

you got to come through me
or over me.

Now
make up your mind.

You could have spotted him
that g*n and still dropped him.

Maybe.

Where is the money, Jess?
With Mort?

Kind of figured
you'd guess that.

You know, another man
could've been k*lled just now.

For what?

All his life, he'll wonder if he
could have taken this gold.

Now he knows.

He'll get over it in time.

Well, I guess I'd better
be riding back to the farm.

You're welcome to stay
and clean up some, Sam.

I know, Jess, but I think...

Hi.

Hi.

It'll be almost sundown
when I get to--

Just in time.

What's Mike doing?
Putting out a fire?

Oh, we're just
keeping him busy.

Sam, you better go inside.

Little fella in there
has been yelling for you.

Huh?

You're not the only one
that's been busy.