02x15 - Country Girl

[bunniefuu]

[knife thwaps]

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ He was a bold adventurin' man ♪

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ Battle for right with a powerful hand ♪

♪ His blade was tempered and so was he ♪

♪ Indestructible steel was he

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ He was a fighter, a fearless and mighty adventurin' man ♪

[speaking in French]

[low clamoring]

[speaking in French]

- What'd he say?

- He's asking for bets to be placed.

- Well, how do you do it?

- Looks like a wheel of fortune.

You have 36 numbers and you bet your money on one number

and if it comes up they pay you 35 to one odds.

[speaking in French]

- No more bets.

- Hey look at that pile on 23.

- Yeah, somebody's plunging.

That's a very foolish bet.

If you're gonna bet that amount of money

you should bet on the red or the black

or the odd or the even.

- How much do they pay back?

- Even money.

- That's silly when you can win 35 to one.

[dealer speaking in French]

- 23 repeats.

[gasping] - I told you!

- Mr. Bowie, $6,480.

Will you present this at the desk, please?

- Not mine?

- You had a five dollar play on 23 when you left the table.

It has won twice in a row.

[laughing]

- Well, dog my cats.

Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen.

[man speaking in French]

Thank you.

- Wee, all that money?

I'm all strung up like a cigar box banjo.

- Well, don't bust a string.

I want you in good shape tomorrow.

- Why?

- 'Cause I'm gonna buy you the best outfit

of dress up clothes in New Orleans.

- No thanks, you just collect my crop money.

I'll get my own clothes.

- Aw.

- It was your old Indian shin bone.

- Oh.

Oh, that's a card case, let me have a look at that.

Donna Ines Iturbide Alma Contessa de Durango.

- Sounds foreign.

- You think so?

Well anyway, she's a countess.

- Where does she live?

- Doesn't say, it's a calling card.

- I wouldn't bother with all that.

We'll just turn it in to the desk.

- Well, here's a letter.

- Oh, it's in Spanish.

It's a notice of some kind from a lawyer in Mexico City.

Saying that Don Juan Iturbide's appeal has been denied.

- Well, is there an address?

- 621 Dophean Street.

I'll send it round there tonight by messenger.

- Well, can't we take it in the morning?

- Well, what for, why?

- I've never seen a countess.

[knocker gently raps]

- Oh, good morning.

- Yes?

- Is the Countess home?

- I am the Contessa de Durango.

- Well, I'm Rachel McCullers, and this here's Jim Bowie.

We found your purse.

- Oh, thank you, thank you.

Won't you come in, please?

I was just having my coffee, I wish you would join me.

- Why, thank you, Countess.

- My brother and are without help at present,

but I trust you will enjoy the coffee anyway.

- Oh, I'm sure.

- Mexican coffee?

- Well, yes, with ascensia. - Uh huh.

- How did you know?

- Ito Vida is a very famous Mexican family.

- Yes, we were, please sit down.

- Thank you.

Oh, Miss McCullers found that in the lobby

of the Treanau Hotel.

- You don't know how important this is, I'm so grateful.

- I'm always finding things.

I found a calf last week.

- Is this your first trip to the city?

- My first day.

Mr. Bowie's gonna take me shopping

just as soon as he transacts some business.

I wanna get some new dress up clothes.

- But how exciting!

Do you know the shops?

- Well, Mr. Bowie does.

- Well, I've made a few inquiries.

- Well, I know them very well.

Perhaps I could be of some service.

- Well, that would be very nice if you could recommend us-

- Oh no, I would be delighted to take you shopping myself.

- Me? - Well, it would be

such a small way to repay your kindness.

- Countess, that would be too much of an imposition.

- Oh no, I love to shop.

Especially now since I do so little for myself.

- Imagine me shopping with a Countess.

[laughing] - Imagine.

- Oh, thank you. - Oh, please.

- It's just been wonderful.

And if you can wait just a minute,

I'd like to take my packages inside.

I wanna ask Mr. Bowie something.

- Of course.

Carlos, please.

Oh, here is Mr. Bowie.

- Did you buy anything?

- Well, just look!

- May I introduce my brother Carlos, Mr. Bowie.

- I am honored. - Pleasure's all,

let me take these.

- Here, hand me those.

- Jim, I've asked the Countess

and her brother to eat with us.

You can go, can't you, some nice place?

- Well, surely you wouldn't want to miss Rachel's debut

in New Orleans. - Well, no, no.

I certainly wouldn't, should we make it Hewlett's then?

- Oh good! - Hewlett's, 8:00, huh?

- Yes. - Perhaps after dinner

you can make us a cup of ruoines.

- Oh, what a wonderful idea.

We will go to our house for a little party, eh?

- Oh, I'd like that very much. - [Countess] Good.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

- Dophean Street.

- Well, I suppose I'll just have to tell Reason about this.

- What'd you say?

- Did his mustache tickle?

- You shut up, Jim Bowie.

[laughing]

- Here you are, $4,200.

- Thanks. - What's the matter with you?

- Jim, was there a Mexican emperor named Iturbide,

got k*lled in a revolution?

- Yeah, he was ex*cuted three or four years ago, why?

- Well, they're kin of his,

and they're in awful trouble, Jim.

- Who?

- The Countess and her brother.

- Oh. - And I feel so sorry

for that poor woman, I just know how I'd feel

if it was my father.

Jim, can't you do something?

- Me, what can I do?

- Well, they're trying to get him out.

You have friends in Mexico.

- Nobody that can help an Iturbide.

- Well, they're just so nice and friendly

and in a strange country.

- Rachel, it's all very nice of you to be so big hearted,

but you just can't go around mixing in people's business.

- Well, they're just so helpless.

And I didn't mean to butt in.

- Look, did they ask you to help them?

- No. - No.

Then you just stay out of it.

That's one thing I've learned,

not to mix in other people's business.

Why, you're here to have a good time, girl.

Your crop has sold!

You got some new clothes, we're going to a party tonight.

Let's see the new dress you're gonna wear.

- Oh, no you don't. - Which one is it?

- No, not til I get it on. - Come on, let me see it.

- You've gotta get out of here anyway.

- Why can't I see it?

- You've got to get out of here.

- Why?

- I am going to have my hair done.

The Countess is sending me her very own hairdresser.

- Well, bust my britches.

- Jim Bowie! - Howdy, ma'am.

Well, now look at this, if it isn't Rachel McCullers.

- You idiot, you really like it?

- I certainly do.

Honey child, you're the prettiest thing

this side of Memphis.

- Oh, what's that?

- Cafe brulot.

- It is not to be defined, but taste it.

- One thing atop another, the drinking's even fancier

than the eating. - Mira!

- What makes it burn?

- Alcohol. - Cognac.

- I don't guess I'd better have any then.

I'm still a little flighty from the wine.

- You can be flighty if you wanna be.

You're among friends.

- Alright then, cognac.

- I was fascinated to hear, Mr. Bowie,

that you're a success in business as well as in gambling.

Do you succeed at everything?

- Well, Countess, my luck seems to run in streaks.

Right now it's up.

- Ours seems to be going in the opposite direction.

- I hope it's on the point of turning.

- Perhaps you could lend us a little of yours.

- I have never seen such a transformation.

- This is good. - Another drop?

- I believe I will.

- Hardly the same girl, is she?

- Oh, women still hold surprises for you, Mr. Bowie?

- Shouldn't they?

- Well, I don't know.

The way Rachel spoke, it sounded as though

you had nothing left to learn from them.

- Does that frighten you, Countess?

- Should a man of your vast experience ask such a question?

- Touche [laughing].

[knocking on door]

- Your pardon.

- Who can it be at this hour?

- Ines, from our friends.

- Excuse us, please.

- It's news from Mexico.

Coffee, coffee, Mr. Bowie?

- No more, thank you.

- Is it about your father?

- Yes, the news is not good.

- Oh, I'm so sorry.

- Please excuse us, I must speak with Carlos.

It's a matter of great importance.

- Of course, Countess.

- [Carlos] I'll get your cloak.

- I'll go along.

- I am sorry, I was enjoying so much being with you.

- Is there anything I can do?

- Well, I, no, we do need some advice.

- Well, I'm long on that.

- Could you, could you come back, say in one hour?

- Yes, I could.

- I must see you tonight.

- Well, if you think it's alright.

- We will meet again, I trust.

- I hope so, thanks.

Goodnight. - Goodnight.

- Blanca, put it down!

At a time like this, are you out of your mind?

- One little drink won't hurt.

- But you never stop at one drink.

- I seldom do this, but this is a special occasion.

- My sentiments, too.

Your national toast, Countess.

Salud de amor y dinero

- Health, love, and money, exactamente.

- Please, I have been most careful.

No one can know I am here.

Won't you be seated?

- Well?

- Oh, dear lady.

- Was it such bad news?

- It could not be worse.

Oh, believe me, if it were less than hopeless,

I should never have found the courage to seek your help.

- Of course, we knew that the court

would never free our father, but one must try.

When you love someone, you never give up.

- That's true.

- We discovered that the commandante of the Black Palace,

this was my father's prison, was it, mordalon,

how do you say?

- A grafter, he took bribes? - Right.

So through some friends of ours in the Consular Service,

we still have some friends,

we offered this man a large sum

to permit my father to escape.

He accepted it.

Now he wants it all in advance, 50,000 in gold.

- And you haven't got 50,000.

- I escaped with only a few jewels.

Mr. Bowie, do you know businessmen

with ready capital who would like

to make an investment for 30 days

for a hundred percent profit?

- And how would you get the money to pay it back?

- Yes, you shall know.

Do you swear never to reveal what I am about to tell you?

- Yes, I swear.

- At the time of the revolution at the post,

the Emperor Augustine Iturbide, our cousin,

we had among our properties a small house in Mexico City.

- When the emperor abdicated, he and my father

buried a large treasure in this house.

Of course, the emperor intended to return with an army.

- He did, didn't he?

- After a few days he was captured and ex*cuted.

- Yeah, I remember hearing something about that.

- My father was denounced and sentenced to die.

They confiscated all our property.

- But the treasure.

- Only four people knew of it, the emperor,

my father, Ines and I.

The emperor is dead, my father is in prison,

the treasure remains.

- But the government owns the house.

- Temporarily, 10 days from today

it will be sold to the highest bidder.

- Well then, you should buy it and dig up the treasure.

- Of course, and in that way purchase our father's freedom.

And, of course, redouble the investment

of whoever lends us the money.

There would be enough left to start a new life.

- But you're a fugitive, how would you manage this?

- Carlos could go, he spent most of his life in Europe,

nobody would recognize him.

- I see, well, how much will you need?

- Oh, six or 7,000.

Maybe 10 to be absolutely safe.

- To be safe, we should have a bit more.

But, of course, with a bit of luck,

Ines can realize something from the sale of her few jewels.

- Oh, she can't sell those beautiful old things.

- Unfortunately- - Would 5,000 be enough?

I mean, could she keep her jewelry then?

- 5,000? Yes, I'm quite sure.

- And I'll double my money, Carlos?

I'll get back 10,000?

- In 30 days, dear Rachel.

- I'll buy in, I'll do it.

- I have about 7,000 here.

I'll bring you the rest in the morning.

- I've got 4,000 right here.

And I'll bring you the rest in the morning.

- Thank you, dear Rachel.

- Mr. Bowie!

- I was just coming to see you.

- Oh, I was just, two minds with but a single thought, huh?

- Well, let's go sit down.

I have something important to talk about.

- Alright.

- Jim. - Yes?

- Loan me a thousand dollars.

- What?! - Don't get excited,

I'll pay you back double.

- Why, that's funny, I was just coming

to borrow 3,000 on the same terms.

- [Rachel] From me?

- Yes, why do you want a thousand dollars for?

- To lend Carlos. - [Jim] Carlos?

- Yes, it's a wonderful opportunity.

I can make enough to buy my trousseau

and my furniture besides.

I've already lent him my crop money.

But they need another thousand.

They wanna buy a place they used to own in Mexico.

- With a treasure buried in it.

- How did you know?

- A little bird told me.

Why, Rachel McCullers, you oughta have a nursemaid!

- Is that so? - Yes, and so should I.

Rachel, the money's gone, all of it.

While Carlos was getting your 4,000,

the Countess was getting my seven.

They're nothing but a couple of confidence operators.

- They are not, they're... they are?

- I'd bet my bottom dollar on it.

If I had one left.

- You mean they made all of that up just to get our money?

- I'm afraid that's the story.

- Oh, oh, oh, come on!

- Where to? - To their house, of course.

- Whoa, wait a minute, not so fast.

By this time they're a hundred miles away.

- Well, I don't care.

Maybe they left a trail, I'll find them.

[knocking on door]

[knocking on door]

- I told you, there's nobody here.

- Well, cave it in.

Go ahead.

[Rachel screams]

- He tried to get me drunk and steal the money.

He never loved me, he used me.

- Your brother?

[laughing] - My husband.

My beloved husband.

Salud, dinero y amor. [sobbing]

- Well, it's been quite a week, hasn't it?

- I wouldn't wanna go through it again.

- You got everything? - Yes.

- Got your clothes? - Yes.

- Got your presents? - Presents.

- Got your money? - Yeah, oh wait.

- What's this?

- I wanna ask a favor. - Consider it done.

- There's a hundred dollars in there.

I want you to take it down to the jail

and see what you can do for the Countess.

- For the Countess, why?

- Well, because I'm sorry for her.

She must have loved Carlos, Jim.

And she liked us too, I'm sure she did.

Just think what it must be like having

to cheat your friends and then run away over and over.

What a terrible life she must have had

to have come to that pass.

- Rachel, honey child, you're exactly 110% woman.

- Well, I hope so.

Goodbye, Jim. - Goodbye, Rachel.

- Will you go see her?

- Give my regards to everybody back home, will ya?

- Will you? - Yes.

And I'll add a hundred to this.

Give momma a big kiss for me, will ya?

♪ Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie

♪ He was a fighter, a fearless and mighty ♪

♪ Adventurin' man