02x04 - The Tobias Jones Story

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Toby, please hurry.

They'll be coming any minute.

I got to have my confession.

Well, you didn't have to try and drink it
all at once.

Toby, get in, please.

So long, boys.

Thanks for the coffee, bro.

Really nice.

So we get to play for an office.

Well, Charlie would like me back in camp
just about time to get started again.

Yeah,
I got done a little more people, huh?

Yeah,
but we shouldn't need those supplies.

Poor Toby.

It's a good thing
you've got me to take care of you.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Morning.

Good morning, Toby.

Oh. Where are we?

We don't remember last night, Toby.

Yeah, I know.

You hungry?

A little.

Well, I think I could fix that

to some meeting. I mean.

Toby.

What do you think they'll do
when they find us here?

Well,

we're stowaways, you know.

But I don't think they'll make us walk
the plank.

They might cookies
and feed us to the horses.

Oh, Toby always says don't eat people.

You're funny.

You know, Midge,
we're a long way from California.

I do hope they can find a nice place
for you with some nice people.

Who? I. Toby.

Can I stay with you?

Well,

I still would rather see you with some
nice people that can take care of you.

Toby, I don't need anybody
to take care of me but you.

Don't you want me to stay with you?

Sure.

I sure do.

Here.

Oh, great.

How badly broke down?

Oh, Worcester got to break down right.

What's the matter?

Wagon broke down.

Well, now is a good time as any.

You mean we.

Got to some time?

We just can't stay in this wagon.

Oh, honey, you leave everything up to me

and I'm sorry about this.

Major trail's too during rough.

It just let go.

It wasn't my. Fault
I lost. Things happened.

I can't be helped.

Get your wagon unloaded
so we can work on it.

Charlie can't come back.
Can't give us a hand with it.

How long is this going to hold us out,
Major?

Oh, we'll have to camp here
the night we were able to fix it.

Our morning was a darn shame.

That's what it is.

An old, broken down outfit
like this, holding everybody up.

Some of you shut up.

You've done nothing but complain ever
since we started out and with good reason.

You've got no right in this train
in the first place with.

All right.

That's enough of that.

No use getting all riled up.

Come on out.
Get unloaded. All right, Major.

He better learn to keep his

mouth shut, or one day
somebody's going to shut it for long, kid.

Armando, please, Mike.

All right. All right, Michael.

Now, just stop your whining
and get somebody in the

well. Mr.

Folsom seems a man of high temper
and very little patience.

Major breech.

That poor woman.

More like a servant than a wife.

Yeah, but I guess that's their business.

Is there anything I can do to help out?

Oh, thanks, Mr. Ferguson. We'll manage.
All right.

Oh, Charlie. Yeah?

Give me a hand
unloading this wagon, William.

Right now.

Got to go get a pole
so we can jack this thing up.

Bring axle, too, Right.

She got my young friend
here, and I would like to help.

You make out.

You know,
I don't think I've seen you before.

Where did you come from? Cooper Town.

Cooper Town. Cooper Town.

And I just thought we get.

Hey, how'd he get here?

The fellow working the stable back on
Cooper down Now, gentlemen,

I think I can clear the whole thing
up for you.

You let me.

We've been passengers in your supply wagon
since Cooper Down.

Wooster.

Honest, Major.

I don't know
any more about this than you do.

I'll find out
now. Now, he's telling the truth.

I was working at
delivery stable temporarily,

and I overheard some of your men
give orders to have the horses head shot.

It could get going this morning.

We're on our way out west, and we thought
it would be a good way to get there.

Well, I'll be stowaways, huh?

Major, we're willing to work.

We're pretty handy. Uh huh.

Mercy.

What's your name?

Mitch.

But I can work as hard as a boy. Mm.

And yours?

Tobias. Tobias Jones.

Oh, Mr.

Jones,
I think I'd like to have a few words

with you,

young girl.

Is she your daughter?

No. No relation at all.

Just good friends.

She was all alone, and so was I.

But she's a good kid, Major.

A wonderful kid.

She had a bad time of it, believe me.

I wish she was mine.

Yeah. Mr.

Jones, you've been drinking?

Oh, no, no, I'm not a drinking man.

I do use a little medicine,
but I have a bad cough.

Yeah, Yeah, I see.

Well, you hear there's
nothing we can do about it.

No, we can't send you back.

Pitch in and give us a hand.

We'll figure out what to do with you
later.

Yes, sir. Come on. It

was medicine,

Major.

Your supper.

Ready?

All right, Charlie,

Look at that.

That's a pear, for goodness.

Looks like they haven't
got a care in the world.

Since he ate all of that firewater
all the time.

Yeah, I know.

I want to put a stop to this right now.

Is your cough bothering you, Tobias.

On Major Adams.

I know you didn't think.

Tobias, I'm going to talk straight to you.

And you better listen to me already.

Several people on this train
have complained

about you
drinking in front of that little girl.

It's not right, you know. It's not.

Ordinarily,
a man's drinking is his own business.

But the responsibility for running
this wagon train is my business.

A man that drinks too much
is liable to cause trouble.

And I'm not going to have trouble.
Do you understand that?

You needn't worry about me, Major Adams.

You're half drunk already
and going for more.

I know my limit, Major Adams.

You'll have no trouble from me.

I give you my word.

All right,

Tobias, you better take it easy
on that cough medicine.

You're

not another truck tonight.

I got to get back to my woodland.

Yeah, you do that.

You get him straightened out, Major.

Yeah. I don't really know, Charlie.

It's not quite sure
I understand that little fellow.

Anyhow, you gave me his word, and
I'll take any man's word so he lies to me.

Want me to kind of keep an eye on him?

No, Charlie,
I don't want you to develop a cough.

Major Adams. Oh,
good evening, Mrs. Folsom.

The person I was talking to Mrs.

Folsom about, the stowaways.

And she has a very good suggestion. Oh.

Yes, about the little girl.

Poor little thing.

It must be very crowded and uncomfortable
for the two of them in that supply wagon.

Oh, yes, I've been thinking about that.
Some.

Mrs. Folsom has been kind enough to say
that she would take the little girl in

with them.

But are you sure it's.

It'll be all right, Major.

I told her that I'd be glad to pay
any expense involved.

Martha

Marcy, over here.

Michael.

What about Mike?

It'll be all right, Major.

You're one of the W bad Mike.

We couldn't. Find you.

We've been discussing the
the stowaways, and Mrs.

Folsom was good enough to offer
to take the little girl in with you.

You know what?

But there's no other place for Michael.

You and your idle headed ideas.

Now, listen, Major, we're not going
to take anybody in our wagon.

We're crowded enough as it is.

You come with me.

Am I the.

Mike?

Oh, wait a minute.

And you say that is just plain foolish.

You just up and take that kid in with us.

I look at him.

A couple of tramps, thieves
for all we know.

What if anybody knew

how much cash we're carrying in our wagon,
every last cent we got in the world,

they can. Lower your
voice. Someone will hear you.

I mean him. And

he didn't hear anything?

No, Martha, you just forget about the kid.

I want to do this, Michael,
and I'm going to do it.

All right?

All right.

But if anything happens,
I'll hold you responsible.

Haven't you always, Michael?

I'll go tell Anita.

Major will take the child in with us.

Well, that's fine, Mrs. Folsom.

That takes quite a load off my mind.

You like to tell her now? Yes.

You like it, Mitch?

I think it's just wonderful.

Tell me you are good, Riddler.

I can do better. 97.

I have a little.

And Tobias

manage me on a real nice place for it
with Mrs.

Folsom here.

But we've already got a place.

They have a very nice wagon.

Midge and Mrs.

Folsom would very much like
to have you with them for the trip.

Toby, too.

No, honey, we haven't room for you both.

But no, I'll stay with Toby.

You can't do that.

We've already made arrangements.

Oh, why can't I? We have to be together.

Toby.

I don't want to go in her wagon.

It'll be all right, honey.

It'd be more comfortable
in a nice, roomy wagon.

I don't care.

I want to stay with you.

Now, just a minute.

I've got something to say about this.

There's hardly enough room in the wagon
for me without having to worry about you.

You want me to go with you?

I don't much care.

There'll be more room in the wagon for me.

All right.

I'll go.

All right, dear. Come on. Midge.

Don't you want the horse?

No, I don't want.

Midge. I'll.

I'll finish it and bring it over to you.

All right, Toby, you bring it.

Thanks, Tobias.

Forget it.

That's what you wanted, wasn't

the kid. I'll be better off.

I'm not fit company for her.

I'm not fit company for anybody.

Kind of serf.

Wonderful.

Yes, it is.

Too bad, Major.

He's a good hearted soul
devoted to that child.

I'd like to help them if they could.

Well, at least a little girl will.

Be well taken care of. Mrs. Folsom.

The fine woman had some bad.

You thought that was her idea?

Of course.

I'm glad to do whatever I can. Any major.

Well, goodnight.

Goodnight.

Well,

make.

Hay. Get away from the hat

and let me go.

Will you Let me go?
What do you think you're doing?

Before I go, I want to see me,

Toby, trying to sneak into my wagon.

William. Oh, Teacher.

Hello. Oh,

you make a stop.

Well, he'll hurry tonight.

What the devil are you doing?
You're drunk.

Don't worry, I'll cry.

Honey, It's all right.

I quit that man
trying to sneak into my wagon.

Major.

I warned you about this.

Tobias. You're drinking.

I'm not going to stand for it.

It's not his fault. It's your fault.

It's all your fault.

You shouldn't have taken me away from you.

Just calm down, honey.

Come home with me. Tobias?

Yeah? What are you going
to do about this, Major?

I'll take care of it, Mike.

Don't you worry about that.

Going to bed, folks.

Everything's all right.

Come on, Tobias.

Toby, I'm going with you.

No, honey,

you stay with Mrs. Folsom.

Everything will be all right.

What are they going to do to you?

I don't know.

I don't care.

It doesn't matter.

What are you going to do to help

me. Johnny?

I'm not going to do anything to him.

He's going to be all right.

You stay with Mr. Schwarzenegger.

You mean
he ain't got to do anything to him?

This man tried to rob me.

That's a lie,

Folsom.

I know I'm drunk,

but I'm not so drunk
that I can't remember what you did to her.

If you ever lay a hand on her
again, you'll answer to me.

And don't you forget it.

Come on, Tobias.

Morning, Major.

Well, good morning, young lady.

Mr. Ferguson.

Tell you what I want to talk to you about.

He said you were going to keep Toby
tied up in the wagon.

Please, Major, don't.

Well, honey, it isn't that
I want to keep him tied, Tyler.

But I ran after last night.

Some of the folks are kind
of afraid of your friend.

They don't trust him. Afraid of him.

But Toby wouldn't do anything wrong.

Major Honesty wouldn't.

Be. Well,
I don't know. He was drinking last night.

I'm not so sure
which come over him at 1133.

I realize that you know Tobias very much.

Two would like to help him.

But tell me something.

How long have you known him?

Not very long.

How'd you happen to meet up with him?

Do I have to tell you.

What I'd like to know.

I was running away. Why?

Some people were going
to put me in a place. Oh,

so I ran away.

Where are your parents?

My father was in the w*r

in combat.

It made my mother sick, and she died.

Were there any other

relatives? Nobody else for you to go to?

I have an uncle somewhere.

West Sacramento,
I think I have to find him.

So that's why he ran away.

And then you met Tobias? Yes.

Tell me, do you know anything
about where he came from?

His past?

Not much,

but I know he wouldn't do anything wrong.

Toby's good and kind

is the only one who even cares about me.

What about when he's drinking?

Oh, I know he shouldn't mind you, but.

But. But, Toby can't help it.

I think something happened to him
some time.

It makes me sad.

And that's.

I understand.

And that's why I want to talk to you.

Tobias has told me that he hasn't
got any more of that medicine.

His king has.

I've had his wagon searched for.

He's had it.

It's very good at that,

Major.

If I can get Toby to give it to me,
he won't have to time up for you.

Well, no, I suppose not.

I'll get it.

You know,
I feel kind of sorry for the kid,

but one her age, he's picked her, so.

Clara, I don't know, Do carry

Major.

My father was a very wise
and a very good man.

He was a man of God.

And he always held that a girl child

was a woman,
a mother from the day she was born.

He was right.

Toby.

Toby.

Toby.

Well.

More an image, I bet.

I know what you're after.

You wait a minute. Now.

I'm sorry, honey,

but I lost your horse some place.

I found it down by a wagon.

It was all broken.

Oh, well, how?

I'm going to tell you a better one anyway.

Mitch, I'm sorry about last night.

I. I shouldn't have done it.

No, you shouldn't.

Toby, Where's the rest of your medicine?

My medicine?

Why? I want you to give it to me.

I It's gone.

Honest, Mitch. It's gone. And.

And I told them.

You told me It's wrong to lie, didn't you?

It is.

But, Major, you even let poor old Toby go
without his medicine.

You said we were friends forever and ever.

If you really want to be my friend,
to better give it to me.

All right.

You wait here, Mitch.

I'll get it.

And that's all of it.

What are you gonna do with it?

Give it to Mrs. Folsom.

She put it away.

But I suppose I need it.

You ask Major Adams if you really need it.

He'll give you some.

Toby,

I have to.

I don't want you to get in
any more trouble.

It's all right, honey.

It's all right.

Okay?

Okay.

Okay.

Well, Major, they seem to be enjoying it.

Yeah, they usually do.

Glad you got them started.

Well, there's nothing like a little music

and dancing
to make people forget unpleasantries.

Get rid of tension.

Where is Madge?

I should think she'd be right
in the middle of things here.

She went over to fetch the.

You know, she told me
that he used on a carnival or something.

He knows all kinds of magic and tricks
and that kind of stuff.

A major.
That'll be fine for you and for Tobias.

I think I'll go spread the word around
here to sort of set the stage for it.

Do that.

Okay, look, look.

Look like

you told me a lie.

Madge, go away.

Leave me alone.

If they find you here like this,
I don't know what they'll do.

You stay here, Toby. Here.

Don't you leave this wagon.

Where's my medicine?

I got to have my medicine.

Madge,

I know where it is,

but you look

like.

Major Adams.

Madge, where's Tobias?

He's not feeling very well.

He said maybe he'd feel better
in a little while.

He ought to go talk to him.

No, I mean, he'd
probably just want to think a little.

I guess I'll go back to him. All right.

Tell him I'd like to have him join us
when he feels like it.

Yes, I. Will. All right, I'll.

Toby.

No, you.

Evening, Mrs.

Foster. You're not dancing.
I was a little.

I'm afraid I'm getting too old for that.

Oh, not you. Thank you.

Have you seen Michael?

No, I haven't. Doesn't Mike like to dance?

We used to.

Michael really ought to mix
more with people, but

I'm afraid I'd better go find him.

Excuse me.

Make sure.

Look, look, look, look, look,

look.

How much?

Anywhere you look.

Whatever in the.

World.

I mean, I don't think these people
are ever going to be really.

Getting together later.

Maybe I better go see about the bus.

Well, here comes Midge.

Now, honey, I just come to look for you.

Made you out.

Why am I.

Missing?

I'm sorry.

I was just frozen. He's gone.

You got any idea who might have done this?

A money box in there.

$10,000.

Chance.

He wasn't worth his life.

Some of you ladies please

take care of him.

Folks,
there's nothing you can see or do here.

Someone has k*lled my cousin.

I knew it was bound to happen.

Was it? I'm sure. It was.

Mike was always just agent for trouble.

So if I was you, I'd keep my mouth shut.

Everybody knows that you had no love
for Mike Folsom.

No, I. Didn't.

He was always picking on somebody.

Me in particular.

I knew someday somebody would.

Oh, now, hold on, Major.

You ain't saying you think I'm not saying.

Anything except
that you better mind your own business.

I might as well tell you now, folks.

It'll come out sooner or later.

A knife, a sticking out of

Mike Folsom in back belongs to

Tobias Jones.

Tobias

didn't do it, Midge. No.

Let me go.

Major Adams told me. Didn't do it.

Come on, darling.

Take care of older brother.
Come on in the way.

You heard what the Major said.

Tobias k*lled Mike.

Oh, sure he did.

He said he would last
like when Mike hit that kid.

Come on, let's get him.

Yeah,

I'll just stay back over here.

Stay back, all of you.

I'm running this outfit,
and I run it the way I see fit.

So stay back.

Every one of you.

Come on, Bill.

Charlie,

believe

what we do to him.

I don't know, Mitch, honey,
but try not to worry.

You stay with the ladies.

I'll see what we can do. Come.

Larry goes.

Go get him

right out again.

I've been this g*n barrel over your head.

I Listen, you people, I told you once, I'm
going to tell you again.

I don't want any trouble.

I'm not going to have any trouble.

Now. If I have to,
I can make it clear to you.

In now, if you get back,

you won't be needing that.

Any of those boys.

Tobias.

Looks to me like you're in real trouble.

I didn't do it.

You didn't do. What?

I didn't k*ll him.

And how did he know Mike was dead?

He knows all about it. Ike,
you bring that rope.

All the boys hold it.

I'll handle.

Let's put them away.

If you think you're going to hang
this man, you're wrong.

Because I'll stop you.

It might cause more bloodshed.
I don't want that.

I don't think anybody else does.

Major, we ain't got nothing against you.

Why are you protecting this man?

He k*lled Mike. He much has admitted it.

Now. A man kills.

He's got to be punished, hung by the neck,
and till he's dead.

Ain't that what the law says?
All right, then.

We sure ain't doing nothing wrong. Okay?

Yes, you are.

You're
trying to hang a man without a fair trial.

The law says every man's got a right
to a hearing.

You're talking like we were dealing
with a nice, decent, respectable man.

Major for him. Look at him.

What is he, a tr*mp?

A Nobody has been nothing but trouble
ever since he and that kid came here.

And now he's k*lled a man.

What more do you want?

I don't care what you think of this man,
whoever he is

or whatever he's done, I say he's
going to have a chance to defend himself.

And if you boys don't
want to go along with me on that,

my mental stop you with g*ns.

If we have to, I'll take charge of him
first thing in the morning.

He'll get a fair trial.

And if he's found guilty, after all
sides are heard,

and I guarantee you he'll hang.

Major Adams is right.

You people.

Most of you are good, God fearing people.

You'll know he's right.

Keep an eye on those two

cameras. Come on over here.

I want to talk to you.

Sit down.

Are you thinking straight now?

I'm all right.

Did you k*ll Mike Folsom?

Did you?

It makes no difference.

Toby, listen to me, will you?

I know you've been drinking,
but you got to think.

And you better think straight.

Those people there want to hang you.

And there's not a thing in the world
I can do it if you won't defend yourself.

I don't think you k*lled Mike Folsom.

I don't think you could k*ll anybody.

Thanks, Major.

But what I. Think doesn't matter. Don't
you understand.

That I'm no good?

I'm grateful for what you're trying to do.

But give it up.

It'll be better for everybody.

Oh, if you won't think it yourself, will
you think Image?

I am thinking of image.

Believe me, I am thinking of her.

But I'm no good measure.

Look at me.

I'm just a worthless nobody.

Oh, Toby. Yes, I am.

I've been this way all of my life.

I've never had a good thought for anybody
but myself.

I've never had anybody
to give a thought to.

But you've got Midge.

Yes, I've got Mitch.

And look what I've done to her.

No, Major.

She'll be better off without me.

I hope you know what you're doing.

You're deliberately
putting a noose around your own neck.

Toby, I know you didn't k*ll Folsom.

You couldn't.

But those people are going to hang you

only because you won't speak
out in your own defense.

And I'm going to have to live

the rest of my life knowing that
I've let an innocent man get hung.

No, you won't.

I did it.

I k*lled Mike Folsom.

I don't believe you.

You're lying to me.

All right, Tobias,

you're going to go to bed
and get some sleep.

But tomorrow
you better come up with some answers.

That right Answers need you.

Aren't you going to tie me up?

I could escape.

Any man and wants to die
as much as you apparently do.

Not going to try to get away.

Good night, Tobias.

And so is Tobias refusing
to say anything on his own behalf.

And none of the rest of you

coming up with anything that would change
the things that we've found out here.

I see no sense
in going on with this trial right now. You

told me.

Are you sure you've got nothing to say?

And there's one thing that bothers me,

and it bothers me a great deal.

Mrs. Folsom, you told me that

the time her husband was k*lled,

there was some money taken.

A lot of money.

So we haven't found that money.

Tobias didn't have it on him.

We searched his wagon.

It wasn't there.

We're still looking for it.

Toby, did you take it?

You know that money could mean an awful
lot to Mrs.

Folsom.

What did you do with it?

I was drunk.

I don't remember.

Yeah, that's what she said.

Well, you don't leave us much of a choice.

We only know two things for sure.

One, that it was Tobias knife
that k*lled Folsom

and the other was
a lot of money was taken.

His knife.

I remember now.

Toby didn't have his knife made.

Major Adams.

Toby didn't have his knife. He lost it.

Toby. Toby, Tell him you lost it.

Why didn't
he say something about it himself?

Why don't I just keep quiet?

She doesn't know anything about this.

She's trying to help. You keep quiet, too.

Your marriage now you're trying to tell me
that Toby didn't have his knife.

He lost it.

How? When?

I don't know.
But it was yesterday afternoon.

I wanted Toby to win something for me,

but he couldn't
because he didn't have his knife.

He said he lost it back at the Springs.

What about that device?

Can't you see the kid is lying?

She's lying to help me.

Toby, I wouldn't lie.

I'm not lying.

Toby, what's the matter?

Why don't you tell those

folks?

Wooster here
says he knows something about that knife.

Go ahead, Johnny. Tell him.

Well, yesterday morning,
when we stopped at the Springs for water,

Tobias come over and asked me to borrow
the gravestone to sharpen his knife.

When I took my team down to water,
he was using it.

As I recall. Someone had.

I want to help with the water gag.
Tobias went to give him a hand.

I remember he left his knife lying
right there by the stone.

Now that don't mean nothing

to. Give him a chance to finish.

Well, you go ahead, Johnny.

Well, when I came back with the team,
Tobias was gone.

The knife was lying there. We left it.

I didn't think anything about it.

I thought he'd come back
and pick it up later.

But I never did see him come back.

When I went to load the stone,
the knife was gone.

Why? All this could make
a great deal of difference

from what Major has told us.

Now, Charlie says, It appears to me
that it's pretty plain that somebody else

could have got their hands on that knife.

What about it, Toby?

Did you go back and pick up your knife?

Toby, Tell him.

Why don't you tell him?

Midge,

you remember last night
you came running to me very excited.

You were going to tell me something?
What was it, Midge?

Which I think

you know something
more than you're telling us.

No, I don't know anything.

You do know something, Midge,
and you'll have to tell them.

Toby. No, please.

She saw me last night.

Midge, honey, remember,
I've always told you to tell the truth.

But if I tell him.

It doesn't matter.

You do this for me, Midge,
and you'll be helping me.

Helping you? Yes.

You tell them.

All right.

I'll be all right.

I saw Toby last night.

He was going to miss his father's wagon.

He'd had too much to drink,
and he was going after more.

I tried to stop,

but he made me go away.

So I hid and I watched him.

I didn't know what to do.

And I saw him go in the wagon.

He was only in

there a little while
and I saw him come out.

He looked scared.

Awful. Scared.

And then he ran.

I went to tell Major Adams, but Mrs.

Folsom went to the wagon.

Toby didn't do it.

I know he did.

He just couldn't.

There's one more

you need to know, Major.

Fast.

Brooks.

I guess that's it. Over

Thank you very much, gentlemen.

You know what this means to me. Yes.

Oh, so be careful you didn't do it.

I know you did.

Look, but.

Take it away.

There.

I said no, sir.

I hope you know what you're doing.

I dare to do.

I do to

Tobias.

This is your last chance.

If you've got anything to
say, you better say it now.

I had a fair trial and

I was found guilty.

Well,

I've got something to say to you people.

You may not like it,
but I'm going to say it.

I still don't think that

Tobias Jones k*lled my cousin.

But I do believe that one of us here,
at least one of us,

knows that he didn't k*ll him.

I've had a lot to do with men in my life.

A lot.

I think I know something about them.

And I say this man couldn't k*ll.

Look at him.

Does he look like a k*ller to you?

I say no.

He tells us he's had a fair trial
and was found guilty.

I know that wasn't a fair trial.

The same as you do.

It wasn't a fair trial
because he wouldn't let it be.

I tell you that there's more to this.

And we found out

if he k*lled Mike Folsom.

Where's the money?

And what about that night?

Midge tells us he lost it.

And Wooster here says that he left a lamb
beside a grindstone.

But at least there's a mighty good chance
that somebody else

could have gotten their hands
on that knife.

And another thing.

Why did this man make that little girl

tell about seeing him going up
Holsten's wagon?

He did it deliberately. Why? I don't know.

But he did it.

Why did he make her say the one thing

that put that noose around his neck?

I told you people last night

I'd see this man go to trial.

If he was found guilty, he'd get hung.

Well, he was found guilty.

He was found guilty
because he wanted it that way.

He's going to hang, but not by my hand.

I don't want it on my conscience.

And I've taken the life
of an innocent man.

I don't think any man can live with that
on his mind.

So, Mr.

Ralph Meadows,

you've been so sure

all along that Toby was guilty
right from the start. You.

I'm going to give you this honor.

If you think Tobias Jones is guilty
and should be hung,

you just step right over here
and kick that horse out from under him.

Go ahead.

All right.

I ain't finicky about it.

You don't think he done it?

Well, he was tried and found guilty,
and I think he is.

He's got to hang.

And if
you ain't got the nerve to do it, Major,

then I will.

No, Meadows, Wait.

We won't hang Tobias Major, He's innocent.

I k*lled Mike Folsom.

I'm a thief.

Lived most of my life. A thief.

I knew Folsom had that money,
and I needed it.

I followed him to this train to get it.

When I saw Tobias his knife
by the grindstone,

I took it to throw suspicion
for the theft on him.

Leave the knife in the wagon.

I had no intention of k*lling Folsom.

I'm a thief, Major, not a m*rder*r.

But things went wrong.

He caught me in the wagon.

It was his life or mine.

And I k*lled him.

But I can't let an innocent
man die for my crime.

You were right.

A man couldn't live with that on his mind.

Did Joe take charge of mean

will take him to the proper authorities

in Gainesville,

slag off that road?

Well, Tomasz.

I don't understand.

Major,

Why did you do this for me?

Because I knew you didn't
k*ll Mike Folsom.

And there's another reason
I didn't want to see a little girl's

heart get broken.

Toby,

if I had someone with as much faith in me
as that little girl's gotten you,

nothing in this world could stop me from

being the man she believed me to be.

Where is she?

With Martha Folsom.

Thanks, Major.

I've got a lot to make up for.

Thanks,

Major.

What would you have done
if this hadn't worked?

Well, I don't know, sir.

Help me. I don't know.

But I have done something.

Come on, let's get started.

Mitch?

Mitch, honey,

it's me.

Toby. Joe.

Joe, Me.

Oh, it's nice.

Toby, What is it? It's

poles.

Poles.

Nothing but holes.

Well, I guess

I'll have to go back to William

Rollo.

Wagon train.

Remember, there ain't no grass
a little over a month.

There ain't no past.

All aboard. High in the weather.

Praying to the Lord.

We stay together
side by side for the wagons, for the

wagon train.

Oh, Lord.

In a passenger
in a winter wonderland present.

We're going to sh**t it down.

Not to call it a pity.

Looking for a cow needn't be pretty.

If she'll ride all the wagons to

wagon.

Oh, got to keep a long time

to go and follow the snow.

Oh, oh.

Low wagons.

Never had a cabin maneuver stopped.

Won't get to

know the board
and the weather bring to the Lord Bridge.

Stay together.

Side. By side on the wagons.