04x21 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough

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I was

on my way to the town of Monument,
did some chores for the train

and get some work order, some supplies
and mail, a chief of letters.

And then I had a whole week off to do
as I pleased, and I was sure welcome.

We'd had a rough go on for quite a while.

Sickness breakdowns, storms.

But now the trail was clear,
weather was dry, and I was on my own.

Keep your hands up here and.

Get your hands up.

Get em up.

Have you got fever? m*rder and the savage.

Loud blast to deliver chunks.

Gorringe You.

That's one of them.

Even murmured Mescalero. It.

If you're my kid, have my children.

You must not say to a little fella.

I ride scout for a wagon train
headed for the town of Monument.

And it's McCullough. Flint. McCullough. I

lost my sp*cs when the reeds started,

and the vines are back without them.

Mr. McCullough, for God's sakes,
would you please.

Would you please help us?

We're. We're in desperate couple.

Was we?

It's all right.

You can come out now.

John.

He's your friend.

Is yours?

No, they're.

Yeah, grandchildren.

Yeah.

You know, And, boy, they was.

But they're dead.

What happened?

No. Ain't you hurt?

They said they still gonna.

Oh, thank you.

Thank.

Thank you.

Thank lonely.

The Mescalero were
the g*nman was my son. He.

He saw me up here with the children.

I eat them and they come here.

What I.

We hid up here all night.

Listen to howl

and then they're screaming, talkin,
going on down.

Then I prayed.

I prayed to them,
dear Lord and heaven, to help me.

What?

I reckon you must do hear me.

Because

we're just after that howling, screaming.

Stop.

I guess the good Lord had

had took on him.

That's my son's ham.

And I get.

I don't know you

your children's names.

I'm Cassie. Daddy.

Hello, Cassie.

Hello.

This is my little brother, Gideon.

Is named after me.

Gideon.

Ben. In the second
it goes to somebody, say so.

Second.

You know, Sally is seven months.

I'm pushing 70 years ahead.

You will. You. You.

You tell them with you are Alma.

I'm Homer.

Ben. Hi.

Hi there.

My brother and my sister,

Grandpa

can't be in here.

What do you mean, he's in here?

Well.

I was scared to tell you during.

During the night she ran down there. She.

She said she ran. Mama Gantlet. You

let her go.

It was Mama, Grandpa and was.

Well, I guess

he got her to go.

Just 15

is pretty is a dead spring.

You see,
she used to mother all the others.

She used to going to mother me to go to.

You know, when a man gets old,

he gets kind of sloppy and careless.

Forgetful.

He Yes.

She used to mother me to

allow

God rest her soul. You.

You will help us, won't you,
Mr. McCullough?

You will, won't you?

Sure. I'll

all my you.

You say, is just

Come on.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Well, I said you can't do that.

You mean.

You mean I can't put those crosses
on the last resting places?

No. How.

How's the good Lord going to find them
come judgment day?

Don't worry.

He'll find What you don't want
is for the Indians to find them first.

You said the Mescalero was went north.

And I guess it.

Means
they'll be back there. In south of here.

They find these graves
without desecrating sugar.

Good. Hey, kids,

come on down here and bring my horse

up to get away from here
just as soon as we can.

How How are we going to do that?

The only one horse yarn.

I built to travel.
You and the baby can ride on that.

And the kids can ride in the saddle
with me.

Kids,
we've got to get out of here in a hurry.

And I'm going to need your help.

Homer, why don't you look around?

Maybe you can find some old pieces
of harness and.

Oh, there's a blanket to my saddlebag,
and I'm going to need some long poles.

Oh, I think there's some behind the barn.
If they've been burned.

Why don't you get them.

My my pocket into who's going to build.

Yeah. You get.

We don't have much food.

Maybe something's been overlooked.

Oh, Cassie.

Joe, why don't you.

Go to your brother?

Lord, give us

the Lord. Take us away.

Bless you.

In the name of the Lord.

Are you Cassie?

I'll miss him.

Duty out in
this comes them savages overlooked.

I got

Cassie.

What the devil do you mean?
Like a sickness? The way you done.

You had this horse, kid.

The test result.

She was a goner for sure.

Most of all.

What?

What ails her?

Shocked.

She must have seen
some pretty terrible things.

Like I can read.

I don't know.

It could pass off, but I just

will just have to hope.

The insurance.

They're back.

Get out! Get out of sight.

Get out and try to
keep out of sight. Get down

and it's all right.

He's dead.

This horse must have been wandering around
ever since the raid last night.

We can sure use him.

But I found.

Good boy.

What about the polls. From two good ones?

Innocent. Mrs.

Price, We've got to put it away.
We're going to build us a travel way

quicker than you can say,
Mississippi River.

Hey, hold on.

How much ground? We've got enough
grub to get us to the outpost.

The baby we eat is going to have milk.

We ain't got to drop milk

and milk.

We have

got to take no use.

Mr. McCullough.

And what does it get in?

There ain't no nourishment in water.

Yeah, I know. Milk

all starved to death.

You don't need something about dirty
shame.

I it you talking to yourself? Get in.

No, to him

is the little young.

I mean, the.

Lord will go in shame
I called It ain't doing right by us.

He's got to do better.

Where are you going?

To get milk out here.

Talking to yourself, Mr.

McCullough, huh?

I said, Are you talking to yourself?

Yeah.

Don't have no salt.

It doesn't have any salt
because we haven't got salt.

Why do you make soup out of dried beef?

Nobody make soup from dried beef, Homer,
if it weren't for Mr.

McCullough, we wouldn't even have this.

We wouldn't be here safe and alive.

I'm ashamed.

Are you okay?

Okay. I'm sorry.

Anyway, I.

I heard too much salt gives you walk.

Hey, hey, hey.

Come on now, little fella.

For Jake, it just used to be Grandpa. That

shucks it, you know, use

him when he does stuff.

I wouldn't want away from campfire. You.

I ain't going home
for a piece of this, right?

I just got a little job to do.

I'm going to be by myself to do it.

And. Oh,

well, on your.

I'm again,

fresh off

the good books as

suffer little children

to come under me and Lord
I'm I'm a bringing you

money or little just

because he's

he's a dying of starvation

you you ain't going to allow that are you.

I am an old man, Lord.

You you let me live a long time.

Most of that time, Lord, I.

I've been very happy and contented.

I had no complains that

I ain't one of them.

They believed in running to you.

Every little pesky,
picayune problem that comes up.

No, Lord, I believe the man just
hanged on his own two feet.

But you're what I.

I got a problem.

I came solve

came on my feet or not.

So, Lord,

I. I'm laying right at your feet,

Lord, I in particular, you know, I.

I mean, I.

I ain't asking you
for one of your best cows.

Any cow you got to do any little runty
heifer.

As long as she's got milk enough
to keep a baby

from dying of starvation.

Yeah.

What do you say, Lord? Now it.

It's up to you.

And I'm weak, Lord.

Real word.

Well, Lord, I.

I reckon you know your business.

You don't seem

consumed right to me.

I think you should

let a little baby die is starvation.

It just beats my time a day. That's all.

Hey, Mr..

Lord, that you're talking

was. That's your voice.

It's me, Mr..

Can you help me, please?

She's heard it is

long past the milking time,
and I don't know how to.

My mom used to do it, but they k*lled her.

And my father too. Mr..

Can you milk her?

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

You the legend, the power.

I thank your father.

I thank. You.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you.

Answer the prayer

and that baby are going to live.

And then.

Well.

But those just the three of us.

Mom and Pop and meet in this.

But pop her lungs.

We could have King But it didn't.

You know, that it was dangerous
for one wagon

to be out here in this country all alone?

Yes, sir.

But he didn't have the money
to join a wagon train.

He'd been a colonel in the w*r,
so he was afraid to nothing.

And you were out looking for Miss.

But when the Mescalero was attacked.

Yes, sir.

She pulled a stake.

And I was bringing back When I heard.

Oh, I vote yes.

Affirmative.

That means yes.

You vote grandpa or no?

Oh, sure, sure, sure. I'm voting.

I he old enough to vote.

Well, we've got a majority anyway.

But you is voting on have started.

Before I make any big decision, we vote.

We just voted, Nancy.

Well, all of us
voted to take Tim into the family.

Good.

If you voted on me.

We haven't had time to anyway.

You can take care of yourself.

And Timmy can sing your case.

It's not really important.

We'll get around to pretty soon.

Thanks.

And if elected to this high honor,
I promise to

protect you
against all foreign aggression.

He means a mescalero.

And to serve you diligently and faithfully

until I get you to the fort.

When we get a storm blowing up.

But it take care of a fight
breaks through.

Fine.
Try to remove that overhang over that.

Come on, kids.

Come on.

Baby.

We're going to be in the case.

Make it All right.

Get in to show you
what you're going to vote for.

You see if you can rustle up some dry.

Would you give him a hand?

Jesse, you're in charge of the kitchen
where we got to eat.

Like, make more jerky soup.

Oh, no. We got bacon in cornmeal.

Not very much.

We'll be at the outpost tomorrow,
so we'll cook it out tonight.

We'll have ourselves a feast.

Yeah. So feast the way she cooks.

You don't mind my cooking? Homer?

Barney, you can just,
like, will be enough once a year for me.

Mama wasn't feeling good.

Kathy used to do the cooking.

Kathy.

I noticed she didn't leave any.

Lumps, Mr.

Smarty.

Oh, I was so hungry.

I didn't know what I was eating.
She passed.

What are they?

We should mention the mush

worms.

I dug them up just for you.

Just a little coffee.

Thanks again.

Mr. Libby.

Did you hear that, Daddy? He.

He takes this? Yes.

Somebody's ever done the cows do it?

We usually
we get the wrinkles out of your belly.

Young. But

he's working pretty happy.

Oh, he's happy.

He's smiling.

Well, yes, ma'am. In my she.

All of you said it was gas, but,
hey, I know better.

And you smiling.

Now he's got really gas.

You and you,
to look after things for a while.

Going out and all this rain.

The best way for us to get to
the outpost is north.

Or that valley.

But we could bump into
the Mescalero is on the way home,

so I thought I'd have a look around.

Yeah, well, you run into them.

And they're not done.

They don't like storms
any better than we do.

They'll be holed up somewhere.

It's quite a storm.

Besides, is it for me
to see them than it is for them to see me?

Well.

I guess you know what's best for us

all. Our.

Hey, look at me, McCall.

Even if she was going to go.

Well, I'm not deserting you.

Why are you standing up?

I'm going out.

Look around, knock on a monument.
Now, you.

Know,
I just want to make sure that it's safe.

When something happens to you
or you get lost.

Your training heart out there.

You could get hit by a lightning.

I'm not going to get lost.

I'm not going to get drowned or hit
by lightning or eaten by a cougar.

I'm coming back. I promise.

Trust my heart not to die.

In a barrel.

Turned upside
down, filled with hot led and rotten. That

you all right?

You look after things.

It's,

you know, talk.

English.

A little bit.

What are you doing out here by yourself?

The last.

Little bit.

You know your villages.

Where's your mom and pop me?

Got many papoose.

Many papa.

But Travis from your muscolo.

No, no, Mrs. Seany.

Legal fight, Mescalero.

Although to scare the pain up.

But you must live around here somewhere.

You think you be able to find your way
home.

Make sure good knee fracture.

Fine.

And you'll be all right.

But you keep your eyes open

and watch out for jackrabbits
because they can be pretty mean.

We must.

We must think of you.

Going to

go with me.

All right, I'm on.

What's your name?

Sweeny.

Okay.

Did you say Sweeney?

Me? Sweeney?

The horse.

Mr. McCullough.

I hope so.

Do you see any injuries?

I sure did. In fact, I brought one with me

kids to me, that fellow traveler,
his name is Sweeney Mike.

I'm kind of tired. So you.

You help get acquainted with

who was the man

in engine?

Well, yeah, but he's not a mescalero.

He's a Shoni.

That's a friendly tribe. In fact,

when I met Sweeney, he was on the warpath
against in this class.

Maybe that's why I didn't see any.

He chased them all away.

Now, look,
I found him the same way I found you

alone and in trouble.

I don't
know what happened to his folks, but

I wouldn't be surprised
if the Mescalero got them, too.

That makes him one of you.

Except worse, he hasn't got anybody.

He's an engine.

A frightened little boy.

Now, what's the matter with you kids?

Why do you hate him?

Because he's an Indian.

What do you want me to do, Homer?

Turn him out in the cold, Let him starve
or get k*lled by wild animals.

Is that what you want.

Mr. McCullough?

Hey, I don't think it's quite fair
to ask them to befriend it

in June after.

After what happened the other night.

Gosh, before that,
they might have made friends easy.

Social muscularity.

There's just names and kids.

Just just Indian names for me.

I'm all for taking him in, but

I doubt if they'd even listen to me.

Children.

Joe, your vote on taking him in.

The engines for I'll spare in our folks
lives.

We're going to get to the cavalry up
sometime tomorrow.

And he's going with us.

But he and I'll sleep outside

as a 42.

And the w*r said when he said, now,
that was it.

I'm surprised that your kids go.

They couldn't help what she did.
She's sick.

But you didn't raise a hand to stop.

I'm ashamed of you.

Come on, sweetie.

Sweetie,

sweetie, sweetie,

sweetie.

It's cold

and it's wet out there,
and it's got nothing to put over him,

so you probably get your revenge.

Congratulations, Homer.

You helped k*ll an Indian.

I'm disappointed in you kids.

I'll be glad to get rid of you.

Come on, everybody.

Let's get up.

I'm going to get moving.

Thank you. All right.

Where are the boys?

Oh, they're in the casino. The boys are?

No, sir, but they share a lot of secrets
last night.

You mean I got to go out
and look for those kids?

You know, I don't know how I got into this
mess, Gideon.

I set out on a simple error,
and I end up chasing a bunch of kids

halfway across the territory.
I'm telling you one thing.

When I catch those kids, I'm
going to tell them, hide.

Well,

what are you up to now?

Well, one of the Supreme Court.

I'm fixing a rabbit trap.

Oh, breakfast.

Are you telling me that you came
all the way out here looking for rabbits?

Oh, no, sir.

But on our way back, we remember we ate up
almost every inn last night.

On your way back from where. I

meet, up till

I picked up some berries.

We can have moose like goat's milk,

you know, some.

Mr. McCullough. 20 years.
You're pretty good, Trapper.

When we found him,
he made some snares out of region willows.

How'd you find him?

Oh, we.

Searched for him last night
after you said you was ashamed of this.

Well, we talked it over.

Oh, it was a shame of us, too.

So we went looking for.

You mean to tell me
you've been out here all night?

Well, it was hard to find.

Well, what did you bring
your grandfather's r*fle for?

Well,
in case we met up with any Miss Glorious.

Where did you find him?

Oh, well,

he kind of found us.

You see, we sort of got lost.

And when we met up with him,
we told him I was sorry.

We acted like we didn't know
he married us anymore.

Even going to show us
how to make some hats at rabbit skins.

All right, let's just go

first. We.

Let's grab breakfast.

This has the last left.

Get in here.

Everybody. Oh,

I wouldn't.

Even give him a chance to get dry.

I think boys are learning.

Kathy's really nice, Sweeney.

But right now she's kind of attached,
you know, since that night.

But she won't hurt you again.

We won't let her meaningfully squash
me no further.

Mescalero me k*ll them.

Did you ever really k*ll anybody?

So far? Only rabbit.

All right. Homer, let's go.

All right, Get

now. There it is.

Within an hour.

Then you leave us.

Well, I've got to work

and besides,
I got a very important appointment.

What'll happen to us?

Well, a lot will happen.

You have hot food and baths.

There'll be a doctor at the post
looking for Kathy and at an individual.

We'll see if we can find Sweeney's tribe.

You'll all get settled.

Settle where? Mr. McCullough.

Well, there are all kinds of people
that would like to adopt kids like you.

Yeah?

Who do you reckon going to adopt me?

Well, we're going to be split up.

We're a family.

We have to go different places.

We got to stay together.

We always been together.

Timmy, too.

We voted him into the family.

I guess we just about die
if we got separated,

who'd been our father taking care of us?

Meticulous.

Since we get to the outpost
to vote to make it official. Oh.

Well, kids,
I'm in no position to look after you.

You shouldn't be voting on Timmy
that if he was ever nominated,

you'd definition service faithfully.

Yeah, but that's just
until we get to the outpost.

Then you're going to desert us.

Well,

Kassie,
it's not a matter of deserting you, but,

I mean, look,
I don't have a house or a wife.

You wouldn't have a mother.

We could like your mother, too.

Hey, Mescalero.

Let's get out of here.

Come on.

Where's the soldier's g*n?

Out now?

Chasing them. Mescalero is most likely.

I haven't been in four months.

Look at the dust in this place.

The mansion, the cowboys,

and one of.

There's no flag on the pool
and no sentries.

This place has been a bad.

No, no.

We're going to do.

We're going to get out of here
as quick as we can.

Come on.

I'm hungry, Mr. Mukhtar.

We ain't absence this morning.

And you may not eat for a while. Let's go,

Sweeney. Let's go.

We know. Fight, Miss Gallo.

What's the matter, Mr.

McCullough?

I guess I got a headache from answering
too many questions.

Come on. Huh?

Yeah.

All over his face, even his hands.

I got him first, remember?

I got to hand him the worst.

I was the last to get over
just before I met you, Mr.

McCullough.

So I guess you must have caught me.

Don't look at the fire.

You just go blind looking at light
when you've got the measles.

I sure the fire

hasn't put the fire out.

When you serve sassafras tea.

Sweeney dug the. Route.

Never mind that he put the fire out
at the end and said to be here in no time.

Now put it out, Cassie.

Timmy, go get some water.

Oh, Lord.

Listen, excite yourself.

This can be awfully serious.

Oh, folks. Poplar. You know

what did you call me.

While you were asleep?

Revolted you in

name in this mess?

Oh, darn it. Sure.

You elected all without one
dissenting voice

in the whole history of fatherhood.

Gideon, would you please Quiet.

Where's home?

In Sweeney.

We're out hunting of grub.

Hunt.

Did they take a g*n? Sure.

Now don't get excited.

Go on. You're just my old one.

You got to stop them.

They fired. One shot went through.

You've got to stop.

Want me to go out?

Look for them? No, it.

Hey, look who we got

home. Why did you sh**t that?

Oh, you think we wanted
to get all the Mescalero stars?

I tried the co*n, and Sweeney jumped up
and watched them come out of hole.

I want them to.

Would you take the g*n for protection?

You know, when I resigned the post
that your kids elected me to, I'm

never knew my successor because you sure
got all the qualifications for the job.

You're quite a boy for a kid.

All right, let's come up.

How you said to put up fire.

We rushed him on the coals.

Yeah,

there was

more shootings.

Are you saying.

You're doing your m*rder in sequence?

I think you.

Scrappy Grandpa, Are you all right?

Yeah. Hank, I'm. I'm.

I Nothing.

You a scratch, that's all I.

I guess.

Cursed, baby.

You with Nick?

sh*t. Hey.

Oh, thank God.

Has the baby has had little did

he? Yeah, right here.

Over here. He's over.

You take a nap.

It's like everybody's all right.

Yes, Cathy,

Everything is all right.

All right.

Let's go and stay close behind me.

I don't want to lose you in the dark and.

Bless some of the dive houses.

The outpost.

We're getting low,

Homer.

Yeah? You wear an undershirt?

No red flannel long.

If you want them, You're welcome.

No, they give them a rash.

Timmy, huh?

No, I ain't got nothing under these
gloves.

No, I'm sorry, honey.

I'd like to oblige you, but I got to take
care of the baby's breakfast.

But I thought I would wear
the same kind of underwear as Homer.

You had a little baby.

I was ready for him
in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

There's no hurry, Grandpa.

You still feel warm.

The spots are starting to go, though.

Do you feel bad?

Well, not about losing the spots,

but we
got to turn around during the night.

We've come too far north
and have to head east to get to Monument.

You've been an awful
bother to you, haven't we?

Oh, some.

A lot of worry and

work and exasperation.

But I wouldn't have missed it
for anything.

Thank you, Mr.

McCullough.

Thank you,

Mr. McCullough.

Mr. McCullough.

Somebody's coming.

Somebody's coming.

It could be the most glorious,
and we'll never outrun them.

I want you, kid, to get out of sight.

Get behind the rocks around in the trees.

But get out of sight. Get in.

Take that golden hide and k*ll a fire.

Hurry up. Well, what are you going to do?

I'm going to get them to chase me.

If I can shake them, I'll be back.

But what about you?

Don't worry about me.

You just take care of your
and sister. Now, come on. Hurry up.

Come on, Homer.

Move.

Hollywood tenants.

Have you seen a greenhorn?

Take a bunch of kids around here? It's
all right, kids.

You can come out now

and have you lost your mind?

This is mescalero country.

All these kids yours?

Yeah, they're mine.

Him too.

Yeah.

Into.

Well,
you ought to have your head examined.

What kind of a man
are you risking the lives of these kids?

I want you at the outpost.

We just came from there.

I mean, last night
we're from Fort Donnelly.

We transferred from the outpost
a year ago.

We've been searching Indian w*r Party.

We passed the outpost.
We saw a dead Indian.

We saw him to found some chevrons,
footprints, some diapers.

Oh, thank goodness. Did you bring them.

Sergeant Hendrix? You lay back a property.

We're
going back to the fort to report nothing.

The kids were alone.

I changed my route to catch up with you
before it was too late.

Too late for what?

To say If you from walking
right into an Indian w*r Party

camp, just beyond that ridge over there,
you know,

only an expert
scouts would attempt a trip like this.

We had one.

But he got the measles.

By the way, Lieutenant,
have you ever had the measles?

Measles?

I don't know why.

Well,

you're getting closer
and closer to it all the time.

And you know how hard the measles
can be on us, old folks.

Keep,

Lieutenant,
remember that he hadn't had measles,

and it wasn't taking any chances.

He wasn't taking any chances with Indians.

So, like an experienced scout,
he was leading us to safe territory.

I was made a safe distance to the rear.

The Mescalero was behind us
and the cavalry on its way to Fort Donley.

Once again,
we were on our way to Monument.

Father.

Father, it's me, Sweeney.

He one of my father's

other.

Oh, God. Be pleased.

I be looking for your child.

She one of my father's.

You know.

And he told me about as many fathers.

I was rather puzzled,
but I understand that.

He and his mother were being taken
to our mission.

When he decides to protect
us, the mescalero as we're approaching

and this blessed infant ran off
to fight them.

He did find them to.

Take him back to the mission.

Of Father Sweeney.

That's not really shown in name, is he.

Took the title of father
a little too literally, I'm afraid.

His own died when he was a baby.

And is he rather attached himself to me?

Well, I'm Father Francis, your sweet.

And thank
you, sir, for taking care of him.

I was just about to give up.

I had thought when I ran into the wagon
train they might have picked him.

Wagon train is.

A very large one
and counted about an hour ago.

Over there to the west.

Thank you, Father.

I don't have to tell you
to take care of Sweeney By Sweeney.

Bye bye.

Goodbye, owner.

Goodbye, Cassie.

I can make.

Goodbye, Cathy. Goodbye, Mr. Gideon.

Bye bye.

Goodbye.

Goodbye to.

Are we heading to Monument now?

No, we're going home.

Wagon trains caught up with us.

Some nice people on the train
that you'll get to like.

And I know that they'll like you

somewhere along the road will pick out
a nice piece of land for you to homestead,

because. Well,
you're a family, aren't you?

And that way you can all stay together.

What about you, Pop? You come with us.

Well,
yeah, I'll come along for a while, but.

But after a while, I'm
going to retire in favor of a younger man.

You hoping you.

Well,

let's get going. And.

All right, get in.

Let's go.

Yeah.