04x28 - The Saul Bevins Story

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Hey, all of that.

Charlie said.

It's like someone's in a real hurry
to join us.

Charlie.

Yeah, You're hands for a few.

All right.

Be all right.

Well, I'm

all right.

You're traveling in a hurry, don't you?

Then I have to.

I'm trying to catch up with a wagon.
Master named Christopher.

Have you called him?
What can I do for you?

You, first of all, have been
for many years.

I'm sor. Bevins is my sister, Martha.

My son Jobe, my dog, Duchess.

I'm glad to know you.

Where we headed?

For Sacramento.

I don't mind saying, Mr.

Bevins, I've seen a lot of fancy

driving in my time,
but nothing like I saw just now.

You mean it's
pretty good for. A blind man?

Very good for anybody.

We want to join your train.

Well, let's talk about it.

About. Circle up.

This is the lead wagon
right here on your left.

Pull in behind it.

Okay.

All right, Circle up. Jonathan.

All right,

So suppose they want to take a seat in.

And we'll just have to wait
till the next train

as to how there'd be no hard feelings.

If you turn us down.

That's no more than six
other trains have done

Suburbans.

Just how did you figure to drive
for horses clear to California?

You saw me drive them, didn't you?

Oh, there's more than just an empty field
across between here and the Pacific.

My brother can handle horses in a wagon
better than most men.

There's one place on our trail
where we go alongside

a precipice with a 500 foot drop
straight down another place.

Your outside wheels are only a couple
of feet away from a rushing river.

But I'll make it right.

You better be careful.

Oh, yeah.

You see, you only have two eyes.

I have six eyes.

My sister Martha and Joe and Duchess

Isabella.

What made you decide to drive a wagon
with.

The problem of economics?

I have a wagon full of household
goods, medical supplies and books.

It would be very expensive
to try to transport them any other way.

I'm hoping to start a school for the blind

in Sacramento.

Oh, it's not easy to refuse you.

Frankly, I'm hoping that you find it
impossible.

What?
I'm afraid I'll have to think it over.

So I could be of great service
to your train.

That.

You won't ever tell.

But my brother is a doctor. Mr. Hale's.

A doctor.

You were a doctor
before you lost your sight?

No, I lost my sight
when I was three years of age.

I didn't.

Realize that.

I didn't realize that a blind man
could be inducted.

I got my degree in Paris five years ago.

He's already brought more
than a dozen babies into the world.

Martha. Now.

Well, you won't ever say anything
in your own behalf.

I don't have to,
because you say it off on me.

You're obviously a remarkable man.

It makes it difficult to know just what

to do.

Oh. So

you're going to turn us down
like all the other.

Mothers Not use crying until it does.

How far along are we now?

About halfway.

Halfway
train must be much bigger than I realize.

Biggest plane I've ever seen.

Huh? Yeah.

The train was waiting for the right one.

I can feel it now.

Wait a minute.

Now, wait a minute.

Just build such a heart on it.

Remember, we have been disappointed
too many times before.

Yeah, but every car has. Been turned down

because it wasn't the right one.

Except when the right train comes along,
they take us.

When the right train comes along,
they will.

Pick the right one.

Now, you just. Do me a favor.

You just look out there
and tell me what you can see

tonight.

Just the ninth and

God gave the two great big,
wonderful, wide open eyes.

And all you can say is just the night.

It's a soft hooded
silhouette of the wagons

beyond and the trees

looking like blackness against the sky.

Over here, the stars sing
brighter and closer than they've ever been

before with a wisp of a moon
valance tentatively in front of them.

Can't see the land and the sky again.

Thank you. You help me see.

My name's Jean.

Harley. How do you do?
If my name is so bad?

And this is my son, Joe.

How do you do?

I do. Going west with this.

We hope we're going with that right now.

We're

well.

We're waiting for the verdict.

Good luck.

Thank you.

All we want is a straight answer, Mister.

How are you taking on that blind man?

I haven't quite decided yet.

I think some opinions should be heard
first.

I'll be glad to hear your opinions.

The articles under which we signed on
clearly stated that any matter relating

to the welfare of the community
should be voted upon by the entire train

while taking on one wagon hardly
affects the welfare of the entire train.

In this case, it does.

How can a blind man drive
a wagon clear to California?

How can he do his share of the work
in stand guard?

How can even defend himself
in case of Indian attack?

Why there'll be a public charge.

We've got enough to worry about
just getting ourselves to California.

Not that I'm not sorry for him,

mind you, but

man's inhumanity to man.

The fine nature of the.

Oh, this sweet smell of a summer night.

Flowers,

grass,

cooking leather

grain and canned pop.

Why do you always know more than me?

Because I see through my nose, that's why.

Joe, come on. Bedtime.

Say good night. PA,

Can I put.

My job. More? This is a train.

The train.

Good, good.

Ha ha ha ha.

Evening, Mr..

That evening,

Mr. Bevins.

I've been trying to decide
what to do about you.

I'm sorry if I've made things up, but.

I'd like to help you out.

Because I'm black.

Oh, naturally. That's one of the reasons.

No, no, no.

You have to accept that.

Turned me down just like any other man.

How can I.

If to have.

I can see more through my fingertips

than you may ever see

my years.

Tell me
more about what's happening in a distance

than if you had the best
two eyes in the world.

I have a high school
diploma and I have a college degree.

And I have a certificate
from the School of the Blind.

And I am a qualified human being.

That goes without saying.

Oh, no, no, no, it doesn't.

That's just the point.

The terrible thing about being blind, it's
not the world of the darkness

that we live in.

It's the darkness of those around us
Don't accept us as equals.

You put us in the world apart.

We have our sight.

Our cross is not being blind.

It is the stubborn blindness
of those who can see.

Oh, Mr.

Vallance, you must be aware that
your condition poses certain problems.

Some people are bound to be worried.

Evidently.

So far,
every wagon train has turned me down.

All right, I'll make a bargain with you.

I'm willing to find out
if you can take care of yourself.

I'll take you as far as the next saddle.

That's about 200 miles.

And when we get there,
I'll let the people on the train vote

on whether you're going on with us.

And you must abide by their decision.

The group has agreed,
and I accept the challenge.

And a set of.

The stewards.

Delicious.

Perfectly
outdid yourself tonight, Charlie.

You know, Charlie,
stews are always a mystery to me.

You never said what's in them.

A good cook never gives out a secret.

You know, Mr.

Bevin, what would you say is in a stew?

Nobody knows what In a stew,
I would say there's little carrots.

Potatoes, wild onions and.

Meat, and that's all.

And then there's a little.

While root boiled roots
just to give it body.

And then buffalo meat.

Prairie dog. Prairie dog.

You sure about that?

Yes. Charlie,
can we trust you for a minute? Now,

where would I get Prairie dog?

We passed a whole village of them
yesterday.

Oh, wait a minute.

It's just a. Little dash of raccoon.

Oh, not again.

You wouldn't have known it.

That was.

Was just a big blabbermouth.

Well, I still think it's delicious to.

Me, too.

It's always dangerous to inquire
into. Was too.

I'm afraid so. Charlie.

I know.

I take it out very and fast.

Before you do, I'll have a little more.
I trust.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank.

Well.

Good morning. Saw no matter have

beautiful morning, isn't it?

You know, I'm beginning to think
you see a better morning in any of it.

Well, then maybe your imagination
paints a better picture than reality.

What do you see this morning?

Moaning.

Oh, I see a big clear sky and.

Oh, the sun rolling across it

like a great golden ball and a warm breeze

shaking the moisture off the leaves
and hanging out to dry and

everything.

Everything seems to be reaching out
towards the sky.

That's the better morning.

And I thought it was Mr.

Beverley talking because I just found
a great big ball of fire.

It is true.

I never thought of it.

Oh, he'd asked me a lot of times
what I see around us,

but I can't tell him entirely.

Can you talk just like you?

Like I can do better than any of us.

Most Harley can take him into

still another world.

Sweet avenues of adversity,

which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
where yet a precious few.

And it's our life exempt from public harm

finds tongues in trees, books
in the running

brooks sermons in stone.

And good in everything.

Jane, why do you have such

an aura of sadness about.

I don't really know. It

because you're unfulfilled.

Promise. That must be.

But you'll change
when the right man comes along.

Is there a right man for everyone.

That is the prevalent believed? Yes.

I don't accept it.

I don't believe some immortal Cupid
lays out powers and arrows

to guide us to one another. Well.

You're young
and you're lovely in your chain.

I'm not young.

I'm almost 30

and far from lovely.

Wait a minute.

Wait. Now

I think your lovely.

Love would come to you.

But you must have faith. Say,

and it will come.

As it came to you.

Oh. Has it come to those most

blessed by providence?

Come on,

Mr. Barrett.

I don't need some help. No, thank you.

And I'll have it.
Ready to roll in a minute.

Not even a man who can see
is willing to accept help.

Oh, man. Of course.
He doesn't have to prove anything.

I have to prove
you can take on the whole world.

No, I don't have to prove
I can take out the whole world,

but I have to prove I'm as good as a man
who can see as the burden of a blind man.

Jane, there are people today
who still want to put us in the silence.

So I have to prove that I'm as good
as any other man.

If you have to prove about it.

Maybe.

Maybe I do.

Yeah.

I don't

how proud

I am.

You wouldn't think this blind
look at it. Now.

It may not be a liability.

Just the same would say what you will
and he'll do something that no one to say.

No. Don't
you believe in giving a person a chance?

Holly, Why did everybody persist
in making me the villain?

I can't help the man's blind tonight.

You can't help anything or anybody.

Mr. Harley.

There was no denying it all.

Bevins had a way with life all along.

He knew more people by their first names
than I did.

He was hungry for friendship.

I don't think it ever occurred to him
that he'd also have enemies.

How much longer?

We're gonna have to wait for it long.

Just take it easy, boy.

These are no place to go anyhow.

I've got to go to that social.

He's got no time for social.

You've got to think of making a living.

What makes you so sure
that blind man's got money He's doing?

Boy, I can smell old money like a man
with a divine and wild and smell of water.

I had lived all these years
without learning a few tricks

to get that money and be gone
before Bevers knows what he did

to us,

not what

I thought.

We said. No, sh**t.

Let's get back to camp.

Setting no

bills now.

Checking the outpost

seems kind of quiet now.

Yeah,

as I miss Hardy, you don't get much sleep,

Charlie.

You worry
too much about other people's business.

I don't have any of my own.

You ever got something this morning?

Not dress

the bag out.

You look like you're thinking
some mighty big thoughts.

Was Harley.

Was thinking how little of life
most of us really see.

Compared to what a blind man sees.

Oh, you won't make him leave the train
Williams to here.

You know that's up to the train.

He hasn't been any trouble.

On the contrary, I agree.

On the contrary,

Duchess.

Such as?

Come on,

come on, come on.

Come here,

Duchess.

All right,

all right, now. Steady.

Steady, girl.

Steady.

Steady now.

And steady.

All right, all right,

all right.

All right, now,

easy, easy

enough. Going.

I can handle

this life to

a good.

That's a good girl.

They say

that finishes it.

It just stay there.

We rest a little bit. Now.

Easy that.

I'll just take a look around.

Where?

You know something, girl?

I think we lost

it real life.

I think that's the best thing to do.

Is for you and I.

We're just going to.

Stay here till morning,

and we'll just

wait.

It is too late

for that old wagon train to move,
and then we'll get it down.

And then we can just go walk
and ride towards.

It's not easy.

You go to sleep now.

Jobe.

Where's PA?

He's out visiting.

Isn't it too late for visiting?

You know your PA
when he gets to talking That just.

Mary, this poor girl is always goes
with your pa, You know that?

Now you go to sleep.

Something's wrong in myself.

I know It is

good.

It's k*lled.

That's what your.

Pa would want.

Tonight.

And why?

Goodnight. That

gentleman, Baron.

Oh. Oh, it's you, Mr.

Heil. You startled me.

It's a little late
to be outside the wagon circle.

Yes, well, So I forgot to get the water
and I didn't want to wake him.

Not like sold.

Forget anything, is it? No.

No. He doesn't allow himself
any human frailties.

I think the most important thing
in the world to him

is to prove
that a blind man isn't helpless,

and that is replaced
his eyes with other skills.

He's a brave. Man.

My brother's a very brilliant man,
Mr. Hale.

He graduated magna c*m lady.

And yet people, most people
treat him like a senseless child.

But he never acknowledges it to me,
he's like a man riding at the head

of a great crusade,
fighting for the blind everywhere.

I think your brother will win his fight.

He must not lose

camp.

Here, let me get.

A thank you.

You seem trouble tonight, Miss Martha.

Oh, is that anything

you want to tell me? No.

But thank you for your kindness, Mr.

Hale.

For I will say of the Lord,

He is my refuge and my fortress.

My God in Him will I trust?

For He shall give his angels charged

over the to keep them in all thy ways.

They shall bear the up in their hands.

Mr. Dash thy foot against the stone.

Wake up, Wake up.

Oh, my back is not that I still by
Someone might hear you.

Where is he?

You mustn't
say a word about your poppy In God.

If anyone asks,
you must say that he's resting.

Why? Why?

Because if they find out he's gone,
they'll send out hunting parties

and I'll hold up the train
and they'll say they had to do it.

Because your pa is blind.

I don't care.

I don't care.

Jobe, Your pockets.

You know how much he cares.

I want my pa. I want my pa.

Listen to me. Job.

Now you and I know better than anyone
how wise your part is.

But if we don't believe

and if we don't show,
we believe he can take care of himself.

How can we expect
anyone else to believe it?

This man?

Well,

I can say this. That

you were not born.

I'm a lucky star.

Nothing is moving

nowhere.

Wait a minute.

You hear that?

That's the sound of water.

It's in that so unlucky.

So come on.

Easy, easy. Now,

what is what is happening?

I think you'll have a big drink.

Yes, we have you a big thing.

Easy, easy.

Easy.

That was

easy.

Oh, I saw a700.

He doesn't feel very well this morning.

Oh, well,
maybe I better have a look at it.

Well, I really don't think he should be
disturbed.

Sleeping.

I have some things

to attend to down the line,
but when I come back, I want to see salt.

Well, how.

How long will it be before we roll?

About one.

Hour.

Oh, well,

I'm not.

I'm not going to work.

And haven't started. Moving yet.

Come on down.

You get down,

Get down and out.

I'll take a look at all.

Now, if you sleep, I won't wake up.

Please don't go in there.

It's a long day.

It's easy now.

I understand, Miss Better.

And believe me, I do. What?

I just can't leave a blind man out there
along to fend for himself.

Please don't send a searching party.

I'd send a searching party.
It's all had perfect guy.

Saul always says a man who can see
doesn't have to prove anything about me.

He's not going to prove anything by die.

He isn't going to die. He's going to live.

And he's going to prove
that he can take care of himself

and that he doesn't have to be protected
and watched.

But he must have that chance. Mr.

Hale, please let him have that chance.

Oh. I just.

I. Oh,

oh, oh,

oh, oh. Oh.

Oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

That's important.

Oh. Oh, oh.

This is.

The wagon zero.

With the wagon 0:00 on.

I think your

luck 5000000.

We didn't tell Powell.

We didn't tell you.

I knew you would.

I knew you wouldn't.

Problem, Duchess.

Oh, and that he's going to be all right.

You're going to be all right.

And you should be all right
as long as she was with you.

Let me tell you something.

Maybe it was the other way around.

Maybe it was because I was with her.

And here I am on that.

Easy.

Come on.

You may help me out before,
but here we go.

Here we go.

A man

lost sight
usually knows what his enemy looks like.

So Bevan's had to rely on his nose,
his ears, his hands and his face.

And a friend.

Of. Ow, ow, ow.

Ow, ow. Ow!

Yeah, exactly.

I was mad at my own business,
and he attacked me.

He tried to jump out the while.

You are a liar. I never came near you.

You're going to take the word
of a blind man.

What about witnesses?

Maybe somebody saw this.

Yeah. Man's entitle the witnesses.

You can't get them to turn on me
on the word of a blind man.

My words. Good. It isn't better.

There's two of us.

I don't want to see this kind of.

I mean, they were both there.

I tell you. I know it.

They were both there.

All right.

Lied.

Maybe you got away with something
this time,

but don't
you ever let me hear anything about you.

And yet again, you can't talk to us.

He's telling you, mister,
this isn't the first time

you two have been in trouble.
But it better be the last.

I'll get back to your wagon.

Everybody.

I'll get something for that cut.

So thank you.

My. Oh.

I'm sorry, sir,
but I can't do anything about it.

No. One side. You've got no. Proof.

I don't want any sympathy, Chris.

You ought to be like other men.

You're going to have enemies
like other men.

I'll tell you one thing you've shown
you're not an easy mark.

Anyone think twice
before he tangles with you again?

Okay.

You're trying to tell me I won the battle?

I certainly.

Have.

Thank you,

Miss Bevin.

He isn't hurt. Easy.

No, Jane.

Just a cut on his forehead.

Will you fix it for Dan?

Mike said you had a cut.

Is very kind.

And splendidly, I.

I guess I did the math.

You know, all last night.

I had the strangest feeling you and

I didn't sleep until almost morning.

But when I did, I.

I dreamt that I was following you,
trying to warn you something.

I didn't. I didn't know what it was.

I was so relieved to see you alive

and well this morning.

I'll feel so foolish now.

If you don't miss

Jane, you're very warm
and a very sensitive young lady.

And you're much too wise to allow yourself
to get emotionally involved

in other people's problem.

It's only a dream.

Don't follow a blind man.

Even in a dream.

It's all Bevin's was proving
what he'd set out to prove.

It survived the trials of the forest and
fought the good fight against his enemies.

It made friends,

but he'd

lost an air of happiness
he brought with him.

What's on your mind?

Well, I've been trying to

think of a way to ask something
that's none of my business.

We've been friends. Ask away.

All right,

Jane.

Highly.

What about it?

I never see you two together anymore.

You've been very busy lately.

You can't see the look in her eyes.

But I can.

Why are you doing this song? Why?

Because I suddenly realized

that it's not good for a man and woman
to see too much of each other.

If nothing can come of it.

Why do you say nothing can come of it?

Because you're blind.

I suppose, I said I.

I don't care for her.

I can see the look on your face too.

And I should be on you.

Not all right, then.

We should have met years ago. How long?

Ten years.

What made you say that?

Georgetown, isn't it?

That's right. So what?

You just still can't forget it?

Mother, Is that it?

What happened to her?

She died.

She was k*lled in a saloon roll
in St Louis.

The sheriff sent me the details. Him?

She was with a gambler.

They got a little careless
with the cards and

the gentleman got under the table in time,

and she didn't.

As a story I never meant to tell again.

You can keep your whole life
locked inside you.

Wasn't not vital to the child.

She was 16

Can expect
to go through the rest of her life saddled

with a man
that she has to leave by the hand.

Now, if there's anybody fault,
it was mine.

I had to believe what I wanted to believe.

That I was as good as any other man

as she tried to stick it out.

She tried,
but then she had me to look after.

And by the time she was 17,

it was just

when I married her

was pride.

I get.

Then gradually she grew still

quite

a prisoner in my dark.

After a while, she just ran away from it.

Chris, If anybody's to blame, it's me.

I can't change what's past.

Yeah.

But we can learn from it.

I will never take woman into my darkness.

So do you think you have the right

to decide for someone else?

Don't you think I'd give myself a Jane,

Maria?

And I know.

Happiness isn't going to destroy.

Her, but living with a blind man, with.

No soul.

You told me you were an able human being.

And you did brave things to prove it.

You faced a mountain lion.

You faced men
you couldn't see, and you fought them.

You did all the ordinary things.

You cooked meals back at unpacked wagons,

hitched up on each team, drove them.

And you did all this, you said,
because you wanted to be accepted as a man

like any other man.

So don't you see, Saul,

You're only going
through the motions of living.

You're not living

if you can't cope.

With life, you can't cope with life.

I will not put a woman through that again.

You say you won't put a woman through it,
but it sounds more like

you won't go through it yourself.

Don't let your blindness be an excuse

for me.

Don't let my blindness be an excuse.

You failed at marriage.

That's unfortunate, but you are
not the first and you won't be the last.

Admit you fail.

Thank the Almighty for sending you
someone else.

Try again.

Like any other human being.

What I've been doing.

If I had been living my life

afraid to admit that I said.

Yes, you have.

Some.

That's

as good as a fire.

Fire.

I can smell it.

Better
let the wagons because we can't stay here.

No sign of a fire? No, there is no sign.

But there will be no. We have to roll.

Are you sure?

I swear.

I swear. I can smell it.

And besides that,
the wind is traveling in our direction.

Everybody has gone.

Where are we?

And why is everybody?

I'm out of here.

Oh, I draw hell.

Ha, ha. Hey, come on.

I don't see any fire.

We're gonna run the hardest thing.

On to start dropping this.

I'm going to take a ride up top and ready
to see how close the fire is.

All right, go ahead.

I never heard that circus will miss out

on the word of a play. Man.

You hurt your heart.

You are all right.

All right.

I we've been even one hour later
last night.

We never met.

Your eyes certainly saw more than mine.

Mr. Robins. I reckon some of us.

So you an apology?

Me especially.

That's
all right. You can forget it, Mr. Harley.

And now those trains
ever going to repay you?

We might have lost everything.

I'm on it, folks.

Should we take that vote now?

Whether Mr. Bevins goes with it.

What do you say,
folks? Let's make unanimous,

Jane.

I didn't know that was going on.

Neither did I.

It's really none of our business.

Don't you ever get curious about anything?

I do, but I voted for.