05x17 - The Malachi Hobart Story

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And I

who's the lame duck Senate

advance friend, be recognized.

I'll be glad to see your campfire tonight.

Well, you're welcome to share it.

Fran, I must say, you might consider it
that horse.

Had no choice but to dissent on the saddle

and to walk most of the way
out of the bitter weed mount.

And you'll be tired.

Hungry.

When we got beans and coffee.

But I have a video.

That's more than generous of you, Mr..

Obama. First name Malachi.

No need to stand on ceremony
when you start.

It's like a real feast.

I don't know how I can repay all this.

No need.

You cast your bread upon the water,

and after many days,
it will return to you.

Oh, then follow

all this

world me with a little more brotherly love

and friendship.

All right.

You've got yourself a friend, Mr. Hobart.

Let's drink to that

beer.

Let's hold it.

Thank you, sir.

Lucky break for me on a new camp here.

It's having fun.

Hard to say.

I thought I might pass through
the town of Sandstone if it comes handy.

You got friends there?

Managed to find friends.

Sandstones
bit off the beaten track, but four days.

Hard ride.

I'd say in your wagon.
I got plenty of time.

All the time in the world.

Well, I'll give you a piece of advice.

Where?

The trail forks take the road
that goes north along the dry creek bed

cutoff about ten miles from the other way.

I thank you.

I will take your advice and.

Wish there was more
I could do to repay you.

You just set your mind at ease about that
deal, my boy.

I was glad for your company.

And as for the food, it was little enough
had grown.

We are all brothers under the sky.

Joan and Lord.

You're all right, Malachi.

Walking example of what you preach.

Good deeds speak louder than words.

You haven't played into my affairs
the way I did in the years.

I may have been making something
as a young man on the trail,

along obviously
been pushing through mighty hard country

and carrying a

g*n the way it says he can use it.

Some questions is better not ask.

Well, I'm a better man for having met you.

Thanks again.

Your words are thanks,
and I hope we'll meet again.

Duke.

Bless you.

You know, if I were a Duke.

God, you're a fine time
to ride in the Eagle bill.

How come?

Well, you know, the.

Couple around there,
and the wife knows how.

To cook a real good meal.

How much more coffee?

No, no, no, thank you.

I don't feel up to it.

Chris Duke ought to be getting back
pretty quick.

Should he want to be a while yet?

I pass through the bitter sweet range.

Won't be too easy to scout
when he through.

He's going to pick us up
where the trail passes. Eagle Bill.

You've got new paths.
Will be any better than the old one.

No use guessing.

That's
why I sent Duke out there to find out.

Anybody home?

George.

George.

Mother.

Hello, Duke.

Good to see you again, Martha.

When I rode up, the place looked deserted.

How's George?

He's all right now.

We've been sick.

Where is he?

He's dead.

Drowned.

He went catfishing up on Grizzly Creek.

You know how he always like to mess
at catfish?

Fried up in bread crumbs?

I remember a storm came up.

All of a sudden,

there was a flash flood.

They found his boat
five miles down the creek on a sandbar.

And George.

They never did find his body.

I think that's what worried me most, Duke.

You know,
he always did want to be buried together

down by the little fence on the corner

where the lilacs bloom.

Every spring.

But I don't mind telling you
that I don't know what I would have done

if that creature hadn't come to town
when he did.

He held the services.

He did more than that. Duke.

Far more.

Duke.

That man was a saint.

SAT through God's mercy.

What was his name? Malachi.

Malachi. Hobart.

Oh, I wish you could have met him, Duke.

That man has the sign of the Lord on him.

Oh, as a matter of fact, I.

Don't mind telling you, I was plenty
worried after the first shock was over.

You know, my George was a good man
at heart, but he had his faults.

Plenty of them.

So have we all.

But George had a few special problems.

He was an awful close man with a penny,

and he had a great waiting for the bottle.

Oh, I know it doesn't
do any good to speak ill of the dead.

But the truth has to be faced.

I knew him best, and I loved
him most, so I can say it.

George
wasn't ready for the almighty judgment,

and I knew it would take
a powerful lot of mercy

on the part of the Lord
to save his soul from a good roasting.

I was never out of my mind
worrying about George's soul

until that preacher came to town.

He made me know
that George is safe in heaven.

And I know that
as sure as I'm sitting here

now, if I sit here any longer,
we won't get any dinner.

This Malachi Hobart
must be quite a person.

He's a miracle worker, Duke.

Why do you know when he said
his sermon in town?

There wasn't a dry eye
in that meeting hall?

Do you know that
he made a collection of almost $1,000.

In Eagle Hill? That's right.

I went to Malachi and asked him
about, say, services for George.

We didn't have any funeral,
you know, nothing to bury.

I told him how worried I was about George
having a few things.

He said he would pray hard.

He would talk directly to the Lord
and ask him to be merciful towards you.

I gladly gave Malachi my

offering $300 that George and I
had saved over the years.

All of it.

I'd gladly give ten times as much.

What price can you put on the difference
between eternal

happiness and damnation?

Well, I guess if you put it that way.

You mind if I say grace, Duke,
before we eat?

I never used to.

But ever since Malachi came to town.

What's going

Want me to get it?

Don't bother. It's probably Sarah Gately.

She and her husband always drop in
after dinner to see if they need anything.

George,

Hurry, Duke.

So it's really you?

Who was she expected to?

What's the matter with you?

It's faded.

It's been all right.

Pulse was good.

Do you want me to throw a little water
on it?

I wouldn't do that.

I'll let her come around slowly and.

Carry around on the couch

and then.

And it's good to see you, too.

How long you been here?

Just since this afternoon.

Where have you been?

Oh, here and there.

You know, Martha seemed to.

Might surprised to see me.

You might say that.

Well, where did she think I was?

In heaven.

Now she knows me better than that.

She should.

But she figured she bought her way
through the pearly gates with $300.

Our $300?

That's right.

But I ain't dead yet.

Maybe you want to change your mind.

It's crazy.

How did I die?

Drowned boat was swept away
in a flash flood while you were catfish.

Yeah, I remember now.

Yeah,

That's how it all started.

Oh, what started the celebration?

I was celebrating, not being k*lled.

I kind of forgot.

After a. Few days.
How come you weren't drowned?

And then there was drama.

I was going down to the third
time, and I felt this rope.

My whole life
streamed in front of my face.

Never mind the dramatics.

Just tell me what happened.

Well,
a fella lassoed me and pulled me out.

They pumped about a gallon of water
out of me.

Who's they?

I can't train.

Hands up in Canada.

Just been paid off in their saddlebags
by Belgium.

Well, they knew I was weak and shake in a

you know,
gave me a little something to warm me up.

So you went along with them?

Well,
by the time the well, come straight again.

We were halfway to Laramie.

Stopped in a little town.

Got a few more bottles.

I want to tell you.

That was a nicest General Fellows
you want to meet.

You don't like them, Duke.

I know you would.

What about Martha?

Do you think of her
just once through all this?

Oh, sure.

I wouldn't forget Martha.

I thought about her some most every day.

I just think she was taking it.

Figured she wasn't going to be too happy
about it, but I figured you'd understand.

See, I've done this a couple of times
since we've been married.

Just trade off someplace.

Leaving an overturned rowboat.

Well, no, I kind of lost

track of that side of the picture.

How do you.

Martha?

He's real, isn't he?

He's real.

He looks a lot older than I remember.

And a lot dirtier, too.

I don't think George is at his best right
now, Martha.

He was at his best in
my memory when he was dead.

I think I paid $300 to see him in heaven.

That was a very silly thing to do, Martha.

Think of the years it took us to say that.

Right now I'd pay 300 more to see you.

Martha, don't say anything.

You'll be sorry for far as the money goes.

I think I can do something
about getting it back for you.

Oh, do you, Duke?

How? Well,
I met this Malachi Hobart fellow.

He's on the trail of Sandstone.

I live right now.

I can catch up to him by tomorrow night.

She's had to be wonderful,
but surely much obliged.

Martha, I'm sorry.

I can't make up for everything
you've been through.

But I promise
you, I'll bring back your money.

But wouldn't
it be better leave in the morning?

It's going to be a dark night
for riding, Duke.

I'll manage to have you back, George.

Thank you so.

I hadn't had a

chance to tell you how happy I am
to be home.

It's a miracle I'm alive.

Let me. Say it.

I heard.

You heard.

You heard.

Rock of Ages. Mm.

Led me to the moon. Mm.

Well, in there I was.

Careful you don't cut your throat.

Doc, my boy.

High hopes heard me do it again.

You know that.

How can you trust yourself
with that razor?

What do you mean?

Well, I.

Mean, you'd cut her throat for a dollar,
wouldn't you?

And my throat and I are old friends, too.

I might be careful of the side.

I am whole violence.

So do I.

So if you'll just get out the money,
we won't have any.

Now the money is in the wagon.

But there's money.

Little of it, Duke.

Hardly enough to make it worth your while.

You took over $1,000 in Eagle bill,

including $300
for praying a man into heaven.

I want that $300.

Oh, that was hard earned money, Duke.

You don't know the job I have getting that
Senate passed the pearly gates.

I ain't so mean.

Measure no count.

You know him personally?

No, no,

dear. Little widow told me all about him.

Oh, he was a bad one.

Duke.

I see. I didn't misjudge you.

You're smart when you come
by that information mighty fast.

You've done it by what I expected.

You expected this?

Oh, you're getting the money from me.

Easy enough.

Some people resent being held up,

and sooner or later,
someone's going to fight back.

You're going to have to pull that g*n

before you know it,
You'll be strung up for m*rder.

Most of steel.

We sh**t the sheep with that blush.

Alice. Something to think about?

Of course it is.

Why should you rob me?

Can't do you any good.
And I won't do me any harm.

I'll get my objects the way I got that.

And what will you do?

What do you get that
Joe says I can teach you to see Duke.

Don't take people's money.

Make them want to give it to you.

I'd like you to.

I could do a lot for you.

You really think so?

Oh, you don't mind my saying so right now?

You're just a punk kid with a fast g*n.

Give up your evil ways.

Follow in my footsteps.

Well, think it over, Duke.

You know,

Duke, my boy.

I knew you'd see it my way.

I wished I'd had a son like you.

I've needed a working partner
for a long time.

We couldn't get rich together, Duke.

I still don't quite
figure how I fit into your preaching.

Act presumes hymns.

Only one of my talents in any con works

better with two men
to make it look genuine.

You got it.

Good, honest face.

Just the kind
I need to help sell my gold. Find

gold, Find her
the greatest invention in the world.

You'll see there's
a little mining done by the dames

right here.

All right.

Read that.

Right up to room for everybody

to see the scientific miracle of the age.

Get in close here.

Get down the front row. I can't get close.

Let that gentleman through there.

Come on, now. Get in here.
Got to see this.

What's going on? It's me.

Here it is.

But genuine. Hobart Gold

is such

a precious metal right out of the earth.

Now, listen,

I'm willing to part with one
only one of these precious instruments

for the part for some dollar.

Now, who's going to be the lucky man?

I'll bet $0.05 with that
they're going to find enough money.

There's a man of faith
in this crowd of scoffers.

One man who wants to make his fortune.

Why is that pay work?

I'm glad you asked that question, Brant.

The Hobart gold finder signals
the presence of a precious metal

like this.

Now listen closely.

Hear that ticking?

That is the signal
that the precious metal is near.

That tells you where to dig
for your fortune.

Now, who wants to be the lucky man?

I'll take a miracle to find the gold
and then work out digging that.

Well, I'll buy it.

Congratulations, young man.

You're going to be horns and

oozy,

unbelievers.

Wait right.

You'll be.

You did fine, boy.

Just fine.

Tomorrow, we'll sell that gadget again
for ten times the price.

I don't see how.

Because it works. Boy, it works.

Yeah, it.

Fine. I'll go for you.

Real. Cause

this is part of my working capital.

Know, I think your little strike's
going to make quite an impression

on our audience tomorrow.

Do you ever find it hard to get up in
front of all those people

and tell them all those lies?

Well, it is hard sometimes,
but every job has its hard moments.

Then all lies.

I tell people what they want to hear.

I revive the faith in miracles

and I do more good than harm.

Can a phony gold finder
do anybody any good?

Well, no.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

As the book said.

I remember
one time I sold some phony railroad

right away,
and the railroad really did come through.

I made a few people rich.

Those in your conscience, everybody.

Induced you some time.

But since you took up preaching,
so many people think so highly of me.

My own conscience.

Don't dare think otherwise.

You wouldn't think so
highly of you if I knew you were a fraud.

Now you listen to me, Duke.

When I stand up in front of a crowd,
I am not a fraud.

I am what they see in me.

I'm a man, knows
the good word, can make them feel it.

And a dried up arch. You understand?

I am what they see in me.

I get fair value for what I take.

Even when you pray a man into heaven
for $300? Yes.

Even then

you really believe that man's in heaven.

Well, who can say?

You say their evilness.

I wish I knew.

I sure do wish I knew

already.

I haven't.

Hey, do you suppose
he found some gold with that gadget?

Well, let's find out.

Oh, he's great.

There he is. Down there.

Yeah. Hey, but what am I bid for?

The whole God gold finder?

I have only a limited supply.

I'll give you $50.

$50? He's trying to steal it.

Go ahead. I'll give you 55.



$100. $100.

Now, that sounds more like it.

Hundred $50.

$150.

Daughter got $200.

You had 250. 250.

This man is going to be rich.

Make it 300.

You're making your fortune, man.

Well, now,
come on, let me hear some more premium.

Goodbye.



This man is rich already. 450 better.



One 555, 50, 600, $600, two.

All right, all right.

Nothing.

Anybody achieved the alarm clock?

Why am you.

Easy it.

A minute. Wait a minute.

Don't say you didn't find gold. Go

right after school.

Not for a long, long time.

I always dial up their trains

before starting the auction, just in case.

What went wrong?

Some unbelievable for the trigger.

An honest to no.

That's part of the game.

You can't win them all, son.

I guess I should stick to preach.

Spreading a good word. It's too bad.

Such a long ride to the next flock.

A lost. Sheep.

I heard an eagle.

Well, there's a wagon train on the trail.

Just about a day's ride south of here.

A wagon train.

That's the most fertile ground of all.

The sermon I got my sermon about You do?

Hey, get. Get the

ad up ahead, man.

Could be standing.

I mean, ran into problem
and looked like his wagon.

I'll go have a look.

Right.

Oh, everything all.

Right? Couldn't be better.

Are you the wagon master?

That's right.

Chris Alden and Mighty.

Pleased to meet you, Brother Hand
Malachi. Oh,

Lord.

I wonder, might I call in
behind your train for a few days?

I suppose. Where are you headed?

Wherever the Lord takes me, I'll take off

on a trail to sandstone part

Two days ride away.

I be grateful for the company.

I would like to pay my way, brother.

Hey, I won't be necessary
heading that way anyway.

You won't be any extra trouble.

Well, I am very much
obliged to your brother, Hale.

I have some simple remedies
with me, Sarah.

To the crew.

Collect things like that.

I would like to make myself useful
somehow.

Well, we're all pretty healthy right now,
but you can jack up and down the train

at the afternoon restaurant. I'll do that.

Hey, you suppose some of the folks
would like to have a little service

this evening?

Just ask the blessing of the Lord.

Well, it's possible.

I have nothing against it.

But you can find yourself
a congregation. Right?

Thank you, brother.

Have you ever heavy burden
on your shoulders?

I'll ask the Lord's guidance for the bank.

I can use it

with me.

Dear boy.

I'm with you, Malachi.

I feel
this will be a most rewarding evening.

Oh, we're climbing up them gold bed.

How about railroad, Charlie?

Oh, is that in the script? Hey,
how about when I call Beckett?

Very fine.

You know, not unless you have a hammer
and an anvil to soften it up on.

Very funny.

Say, Mr.

Grant, you know that's not new feature
for a night.

That Malachi.
Whatever his name is, I might.

I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Not even a steak dinner with onion.

No. You went in on that sort of thing,
Charlie.

Well, this ain't no ordinary trip.

He's got the power on a boy.

I bet he'd been a great singer. Be.

And I got the call that last.

You know, Charlie,
he only joined the train a few hours ago,

and I've had about 15
people Tell me you want to save it.

Can't everybody be wrong?

You better come in here, Sherman.

I do some good to.

I guess I better.

I don't want to be the only
one to miss it.

All right, I.

Oh, stop

now. Everybody hates a long sermon.

So tonight,
I only want to talk to you as long as

it'll take this candle to burn down.

You are the light of the world.

Men do not light a candle
to put it under a bushel.

But on a candle stick.

And it gives light to all.

Let your light shine before a man
that they may see your good works

and glorify Father in heaven.

Some of you came here tonight to hear me.

Only out of curiosity.

I know.

But I know

you may have thought
you weren't very religious,

but I know you got the Lord. Ha!

Oh, you didn't have faith.

Great Almighty.

You wouldn't be on this wagon train
heading west to make a better life.

I'd like you chosen for yourself.

Go to trial.

Sorrow.

God see evil, reward you.

He will give to
you all things that are necessary

just as you give those less
fortunate than you.

Good. Any

mighty good.

Now I'm leaving this wagon train tomorrow.

Go into the wilderness

to build a church,

to bring the word of the Lord
to some last struggling soul.

I will take with me renewed faith
all year.

Good people grow.

All things are possible
to those that had faith.

How are you going to renew my faith?

Let me talk to you
about that for a moment.

Now, before I asked you to give
what little

you can afford for the Lord's work,

I want to show you a living example

of what faith can accomplish.

I want you all to see

what your donations will make possible.

A human soul brought back
from the edge of destruction.

When you all see this man, you know
you're not just giving a preacher,

but you're giving
lost soul back to the Lord.

This man confronted
me one night on the trail with a g*n.

He will k*ll me for whatever I possess

whatsoever.

He will bring a man to this day.

Look, for one thing

too much that for too long was a crave.

And now loose women.

They have a part of it too.

He had become a sl*ve to his desires.

But this man has been brought back
to dignity,

humanity through faith.

This man is a living miracle.

And there's just such miracles
that will be made possible by your gifts.

Tonight,
I was the one who extended a helping hand

to this soul,
lost in the depths of degradation,

but was people just like you
that made this work possible?

Now I want you all to see this lost soul
which is drunkard

and hold a man
who has been brought back into the fold.

Come on out here by and say a few words.

These good people.

Bear his

quiet Duke.

Professor.

Ha ha ha.

Hey, we don't want his kind
around here any.

I don't want

our brethren

Get out of here.

Get around now.

Now, have a pie.

Dry ice out.

Why are you watching Adam on

your own show?

Goglia A few seconds ago.

Now's your pride.

Drag like Mad dog.

All right, You're a sucker,
and this man's a fraud.

But the God he talked about up there
just the same, he sees what you're doing.

Are you all fraud, or is there
any Christian decency left in any of you?

Dear, There's a line of scripture
you all ought to remember,

Judge. Not that he be not judge.

Well,

Duke,
I'm a little surprised to see you here.

I guess everybody was.

You took quite a chance.

I guess you had your reason.

Because Malachi had something to learn

was a hard lesson.

They.

It might have k*lled me.

Except for you two.

They might have hated me.

May I despise me?

Called me a fraud.

And aren't you?

What's for breakfast, Charlie?

I don't know.

What does reformed drunkard eat

wagon coming.

That bill driving?

I don't know.

Go see who

had to go nuts.

The good

doctor said there was nothing he could do.

He may not live long enough to get home.

What's the trouble?

He's got a fever

that gave me some medicine. But

he doesn't think it'll do any good.

I'm obliged to
you for your help, Mr. Hill.

I like to have my old team back.

I'd like to get moving again.

Wow. There's no hurry now, is there?

Why don't you have something to eat
with it?

No, no, thanks.

Last time.

Well, I was conscious.

She said.

She said she wanted to die at her
old house.

I'm going to try to

bel get Mr.

Standish his team.

Oh, come up, Charlie.

I'll show you where the grating shirkers.

I think you need the trip home.

So I reckon that

I might as well get this team
out of the way.

Who's that?

That's Malachi Hobart, isn't it?

That's him.

Thank you, Lord.

Brother

Hobart, you've got to help me, please.

Who are you?

Don't you remember Roy Standish?

You remember my wife, Leona.

You said you made the best biscuits
and gravy west of the Mississippi.

I remember.

She's awful, sickly, honest.

Please,
you've got to help us, brother Hobart.

I'm afraid you don't understand
the situation, Standish.

I understand enough.

I know that this man can work miracles.

Sure. You got the right man.

Of course.

I'll never forget him in a hundred years.

Tell him what happened, Brother Hobart.

Yeah.

Tell us, Malachi.

It was nothing.

It was a miracle.

Maybe you'd better tell it.

Last spring, we.

We had a drought.



Right after planting time,
the seed was dying and the ground.

You know what this means?

I know starvation. That's what it means.

Or else pull up

stakes, move on and lose everything
you've been building for ten years.

But Malachi Hobart saved us.

Mr. Standish.

He's a modest man, a humble man.

He won't claim any credit.

But I know the fact.

Malachi Hobart prayed for rain

and suddenly the heavens opened up
and it did rain.

We had the best crop we ever harvested.

Please, all have.

It's God's own mercy that I found you
today, Brother Hobart, please, please.

See if you can't help me it.

I know it's too much to ask, but.

Well,

if it's the Lord's will, it?

She has to die.

At least you can comfort her last moment.

You won't refuse us that

I know.

I'll go and tell the owner you're here.

I think I can make her understand.

What about Standish?

Oh, I'm sorry for that.

All you can say.

But what more do you want of me?

You got the $300.

You seen me humiliated.

You want to hide, turn off me and strips
now I'm not too concerned

what happens to you, Malachi?

But that man's wife's dying.

If not for my sake,
then for his starving mom.

Just for a few minutes
till I can get out of here.

What am I supposed to tell him?

That the preacher ran out
on his dying wife telling the truth?

I'm a fake. Nothing.

I guess I always knew it.

I just couldn't face.

Long as I could con the suckers.

I could cut myself now.

And I'd have been better off
if you would let him hang me.

You think he'd believe us?

You can make miracles.

You made their income.

That was a fluke. Coincidence?

It had to rain sometime.

You think you've had a hard time here?
You haven't seen anything yet.

If you run out on that man,
I've had a long night.

Plenty of time to think.

Too much time was bad enough
when I was a fake preacher songs.

I had some faith in myself.
If nothing else.

Now it's all gone empty.

Nothing left in me to give

all I know there's a God watching me.

I'm not going to make a mockery of them
any longer.

You told the truth. You are a fake.

What? You're not going to run out.

You're going to get one more performance,

and it's going to be the best
one of your life.

Now, the whole Hobart,

I think he's conscious.

Would you see it now?

Yes, I'll see it.

You know,

I. Hobart's here.

You remember Leona,

Mr. Standish.

Leona.

Pray for him, please.

Could I have a few minutes alone?

You can.

Help. Me,

Lord,

if you had

listened to me a minute.

I don't know.

I'm not much,
but not asking anything for myself.

I don't deserve anything.

But these people believe in you.

Lord.

I believe so much.

They got me to believe you to.

Well, that's fine.

Only trouble is, they believe me too.

I think I can help.

And I can.

I'm not saying this very clear.

What I mean is

nobody but you can help alone.

Don't care what you do with me,

the merciful to Lord,

this woman's life is in your hand.

Not because I asked,

but because they believe in you.

Lord.

And I think it is the right thing to do.

What else could we do?

Well, how is she?

The fever's broken. She's asleep.

You hear that?

Asleep. Not unconscious, but asleep.

She's going to get well.

Malachi. Hope hours worked.

Another miracle.

Where's Malachi now?

I came to ask you.

I just gave him his wagon. He's not there.

One of these horses has gone to.

He's gone, all right.

Took his bedroll and a little grub
and left everything else.

We're going to

almost $800.

If he's left that I might start
believing in miracles

myself.

Oh, God.

Of surprised to see you again.

I had to be sure of something.

I might have misjudged you, Malachi.

I think not.

Not the way I am is just you. And now.

And you didn't make much of a price.

Convert.

What about your wagon and outfit?

I better tell Haile.

Give it to old man BEARDSLEY his wagon.

I'll never make it over the mountains.

What about these?

That's the stuff
I got from the people at Eagles.

Well, you better

give it back to them.

Tell them to build a school with it.

What about the papers?

This one says Malachi
Hobart is the official land

agent authorized by a right of way
for the Great Western Railroad.

Oh, no, I won't need that ever again.

I'm glad to hear it.

What will you do now?

The Lord will provide.

After all, anything is possible.

A man has faith and.