05x22 - The Lieutenant Burton Story

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They get paid.

Don't let them get out of range

west.

Even from here, they don't.

I just gave you an order, Corporal.

But they don't look
like the deserters, Sarge.

I mean, maybe if we followed them,
we could make sure.

We'll make sure.

After the dead.

I don't make big trouble if you're wrong.

No, no, but him.

Tell everyone, boys,
I can get me in trouble.

And I'll tell him that soon enough.

Now it's go.

We got to get them cover.

He'll

one of the country songs long enough.

Maybe I should

do much.

Good.

Thanks. Got a usually this range.

And I know a become a scavenger orders
and you're have got I mean,

I have a bakery I figured when I was done
I put the odds in their favorite.

So that's what I do Mr.

You know

make a record

come by for.

Oh oh.

Are you all right?

Oh. And our parents,

Bennett Burton out of Fort Stanley.

You badly hurt?

Well, it could have been worse
if you hadn't shown up.

Chris. Hey, a wagon to do. Cannon

medical orderly up here on a double.

Gentlemen, I am Lieutenant Burton.

You take care of Mr.

Hale here. I'd like to catch me.

A couple of bushwhackers will let to.

That won't be necessary.

Mr. Shannon, you got to move, huh?

Well, no.

No, sir, I didn't. Do you see,

we've been after two deserters,

and I'm afraid that two of my men mistook
you for them.

You mean we look like the deserter?

Well, no, sir. You don't.

But we've been dragging for

over a week now, and I'm afraid, my man,
I get a little bread here, sir.

Oh, I can start

making amends by offering you
gentlemen some ranch too.

Spineless cowards desert my platoon.

He's got to have company for lunch.

I'd like to.

Take that with help.

It caused us a lot of trouble.

This dismount.

Sergeant, break out the noon ration,

Mr. Hale

brought it.

Maintenance 19.

Tomkins is 20.

That's a couple of kids

in our special age
for being a coward, Mr. Ale.

For a military court
to determine cowardice, Sergeant.

Not for you and me.

My book of soldiering.

I'm out of rubber the way the coward

doing arrest and finding out
why these lads around Charlie,

they ran away because they were gutless.

Because they thought the army was one
big parade and brass buttons.

Because they couldn't
stand up to the discipline

that turns a fleshy civilian
into a soldier.

Are they in your platoon?

Yes, Mr. Hale.

It's the first time
anyone ever deserted on me.

You're one of the men
who fired on us, weren't you?

From where
Corporal Rawlins and I were standing.

You look like deserters.

See why I was going to be careful,
Sergeant.

We don't want it.
Not my duty to be careful.

It's my duty
to bring in two deserters. Dead or alive?

Alive, Sergeant,

I made that clear.

If the sergeant can mention
The lieutenant forgets

that the manual says
you can bring in deserters, dead or alive.

I'm well aware of what. The manual.

Says, Sergeant.

Yes, sir.

But the sergeant said 12 years
and a lot better, sir.

You've mentioned that several times
before, Sergeant.

Yes, the lieutenant feels
that I've been derelict in my duty.

According to the manual, you can assign me
a two man escort back to Fort Stanley.

There's the sergeant.

I have permission to be excused, sir.

You're excused.

I wear the bars, but he commands.

Hadn't you noticed me? Take off.

Why don't you send him back here?

I came directly from West Point and Fort
Stanley exactly two weeks ago

when our Sergeant Kyle

and I'd be lost in an hour
and relieve yourself of command.

I can't do that.

Maitland's intentions wouldn't
have a chance of being brought in alive

as it was.

I haven't gotten Kyle
to my very first commander.

Well, we all get a sergeant.

Kyle's in our lives, Lieutenant.

We don't get rid of him just by wishing

he'd be up the tree in a minute
without me.

And maybe so.

We made him look pretty dumb somehow.

So don't take much to make him look dumb.

Lincoln,

What do you got?

Sympathy pains for him?

I would need that.

Enclosure face and do what you're told

before I get through them.

He's the one that's going to be sent back

to Kansas.

Right behind him.

Dead. Tell

What can I do for you, Miss Lane?

I we.

My mother wondered
if you'd like to eat with us today. And,

I mean, are you about done, Joe?

Yeah,

I got to talk to you, Joe.

Thank you.

More time in this land,

Mr. Wooster's expecting.

I'm sorry.

What would you tell your father?

I grieved in Titan
the way like I promised.

Joe you can believe in, right?

Soon,

right after the noon meal.

You know, Carl, I'm sorry.

Yeah.

I mean, Joe, two days on his train
with everybody.

So nice and friendly,
but I just couldn't forget

about Susan.

She's taken with you, Joe.

Not that it isn't for me.

Not for her either.
And don't you forget so easy anymore.

I won't honestly remember that Kyle is out
there.

He's not going to settle.

Just taking us out to the back of the fort
and whipping us. Not this time.

Not after what we've done to it.

Yeah, you know, that's right.

Come on, let's eat and then be on our way.

We're going to be happy
to see those two boys cope with that.

Oh, why's that?

Because they just do like it's
the only food left in the world.

Damn like I might do.
Ain't got nothing to do with the Hawks.

If you ask me. They've been mighty handy
working for everything they got.

Not asking for nothing and appreciate
everything everybody done for him do.

That's more than I can say
about a lot of people.

I know. You wouldn't be mean to me,
would you, Joe? Yes.

I mean, you. Why, you. You.

I'm like a man.

Who just go to show that smart, honestly.

Well, they're well-mannered
and they don't talk too much.

That could mean that's not.

See, that's funny.

And maybe again,
I think they're running away.

I don't know

where their boots are
cut up in their clothes tonight.

So they've been traveling
mountain trails at night.

I might have got I'm going
come down on the flat them.

Somebody pick them up
now. They don't look like outlaws.

They don't look like outlaws to me either.

I think they got lost
just like they said they did.

They didn't give us no reason to leave
otherwise.

Have a Well,
you don't have to bite my head off.

Well, you wouldn't miss it much.

Well, get to go now.

I might.

I get my food. Tastes good.

After all, that hard work
you've been doing is to taste.

I forgot. Any time, Mr. Webster.

Especially after the stuff
we've been used to getting.

Where was that When we were punching
cattle that cut petunias.

A few lessons for me, Mr. Windsor.
Thank you. Have a great.

While. You fellows left bad cooking.

That and Frank and me.

We've been wanting to
go to San Francisco anyway.

Oh, are
you able to get us a couple of horses, Mr.

McCullough?

Yeah.

Mr. Baxter,
we're going to take your price.

Mighty generous.

I know it's not a fair price,
but $40 is almost all we've got.

And they didn't think it was a fair price.
They wouldn't have taken it.

Just go buy his wagon and pick them up
whenever you're ready.

People have been awfully nice to us.

Sometimes things happen.

You wonder if you'll ever meet
nice people again.

I just want to tell you will be settled.

One mineral, darling,
that's not too far from San

Francisco.

Thank you, Mr..

We ready to go?

Yeah,

I guess so.

I believe in honest markup.

Oh, you get to our ride yesterday.

I couldn't give you more of
an were on the kind of license, madam.

Grateful for. Then just take it easy.

There's not another drop
between here and Martinsville.

And remember what I said about that ridge.

It's hot and it's steep and it's dirty,
but you stay on it.

But. Well, and thanks again.

Don't mention good luck to you.

I thought this.

Tonight, but I think.

You're are.

I saw three Indians not 2 hours ago

and they'll be coming right over that
hill and down to this canyon.

And they're moseying along like
they ain't got a trouble in this world

they didn't have until now.

What do you mean with.

I mean, I'm going to give our little boy
Lieutenant, his first taste

of soldiering and

check your r*fles.

Did you hear what I said?

Well, you can't just disobedience
to orders in the field gives me the right

to see through here on this spot,

the old saying goes

recruiting depot.

Send in, boys.

Sergeant, send out men.

I'm going to find out just how much man

there is in Lieutenant

Carson.

You don't tell Lieutenant Burton
that would find some tracks

that ought to get in here later.

I just want

you to

get up over that hill with the right road

and find that reach.

Thomas,

you stay with the horses out of sight.

What do you hear me?

PA? PA on.

I want them guarding that.

Still a two day ride Your train, Mr.

Heil. You sure? Your arms up to us?

Concerned about my arm or tie
or your moral support?

Well, brains a little about

haven't done
very well making friends of the men.

Well, you have to learn
to lead your men for deterrent.

Or you can make friends with them.

You'll have to settle with Sergeant Kyle.

Or you can do that.

Kyles may have picked up train,

but we tried to be friendly,
but one of them fired a shot at us.

Sir, I
was going to check to see if they're dead.

Now that you're here.

That's your duty,

Lieutenant.

Are they dead, Lieutenant?

You enjoy k*lling, don't you?

Only enough to make men like you

keep their mouths shut. No.

Don't give the sergeant an excuse
to sh**t you in the line of duty.

I don't need a g*n to tame this maverick.

Sergeant,
You still say you were fired on first.

And for the troopers, Mr.

Ham, this r*fle hasn't been fired.

I didn't say it was a r*fle.

It was an arrow.

It was close to my ears.

I can almost read my name on it.

It's a pity it didn't come so close.

You couldn't read it.

Say that, Mr.

Hale, you could save your threat
for your trooper. Sergeant,

I say these Indians
are no more than a peaceful hunting party.

And I think you m*rder*d him.

You think, Mr.

Hale, what do you think the army for?

We fight to protect your right,
to think what pleases you.

Don't break out in the army
what you did here today.

I'm proud when I see a man worthy
to wear that uniform.

But you're a disgrace to it.
You're not to wear it.

I'm not fit.

And who is a lieutenant who can't
look at three dead Indians, are you?

I put my combat record up against yours

any time,
and we'll see who's fit to wear it.

A fine combat record marks a brave man

or a k*ller sergeant or

they'll

fail.

I'm sorry.

An officer's first command
usually determines his career.

Lieutenant,

The sergeant suggests that

we've wasted enough time, Lieutenant.

Can't sustain a burial defense

overall.

And the Redskins

orders.

Carry it out, sir.

Sergeant Kyle Porter.

Yes, sir.

Veteran soldier.



You know how to be disobedient,
insubordinate, without my.

Being able to prove you make a fool of me
easily.

I know you hate me,
and that's your privilege

today.

That hate caused the death of three men.

They were Indians, sir.
They are human beings.

You never thought I did.
That doesn't be all right.

I'm hurting. Them now.

Can you prove that was m*rder?

Certainly.

I won't.

I know why you did it,

but I can't prove it.

I could.

I just would feel getting know.

When we get to fourth
Stanley, we'll see who does the stripping.

Are you threatening me, Sergeant?
I don't have to Threat.

My record speaks for itself.

So the Cheyenne of Cook and Hatfield
with made McClellan a candle.

And then I was wounded twice.

Commissioned,

You heard?

All right, Lieutenant. Commissioned

on. You were still crawling?

I was getting metals from here to here.

But don't strip too easily.

You can't.

You've got a lot to learn, Lieutenant.

Not from you.

From me.

You'll learn at the Army
that all West Point dances.

It's like you and Matron and can
because they're worthless

without men like me to make them a break.

And, well, they broke and they're
going to pay because the army says so.

Tennant doesn't like it.

He can resign his command
and take himself back to Fort Stanley.

And I can send you back, Sergeant.

Sure, I look at it, but if you do it,

you stand a lot less chance
of bringing back Maitland and Temperance.

That won't do your record any good

will pull out just as

soon as the men are finished.

Yes, sir.

But they're tired.

They'll never make it up that ridge.

What's the matter on Totten?

Billy blazes Bob.

I can't help it away from the train a day.

And you've been run heavy on your water.

Well,
I can't help it if my throat's burning up.

I'm sorry, Danny.

Sure.

Hey, Danny, let's lock up the valley.

It's easier walking.

McCullough said to stay on the ridge.

Yeah, I know.

And that's been bothering me.

Why, Danny? Mr.

McCauley, the kind of man who like cows,
can come across a train.

Mr. McCall has got to tell him about us.

Well, that'll just put calls on us again.

We don't know where that goes,
if anywhere.

Well, it's got to go somewhere.

I know it's a big chance.

It can't be no worse
than Kyle's catching up with us.

I guess we.

Don't have much to lose at that come out.

Yes, sir.

I found the trail.

A settler gave him some food and water

about four days ago
and put him on a mountain trail.

Very well.

Stupid for civilians.

Maitland and Tompkins
are not wearing uniforms, Sergeant.

You can expect a settler
closing in on them.

Can't stand around here all night.

Mount your troops.

All right, man up.

Let's go out

and look at him.

A pencil push.

Officer Imagine him
saying he was going to strip me.

I was a lieutenant
before you had teeth in his mouth,

Sarge.

How come you got busted?

I didn't get busted.
The wartime commission

and peacetime.

It's hard to get it back.

You got to stand in line
behind a bunch of milk

fed West Pointers.

It ain't fair.

I bet if the w*r going on a little longer.

You'd better.

Captain.

Maybe even a major.

Oh, hey.

No, I don't like that

look about. I want you pretty. Hard to be.

Come on.

Got no use.

Haven just might want to be back.

Mr. Wizard. Yeah.

I'm going to start aiming at your neck.

If you don't quit chirping like a magpie,
why don't you do what I tell you?

Bingo.

The fence is out.
You know, Pack my book, right?

Anyone going for what I want to do?

I'll give you a call.

I'll be obliged to throw the next. I'll

get that look, I.

Oh, Bill.

Yeah?

What's a pretty girl

like you doing out here all by herself?

I was just thinking.

Roman, that for both of us.

Something on your mind?

Someone on your mind.

Silly, isn't it?

Acting this way about Joe
when I only sang for two days?

Oh, sometimes it doesn't take long
to find out you like somebody.

But. Well,
I don't even know his last name.

And he wasn't even very friendly.

I mean, he had reason.

But he wasn't made a promise to a girl.

Friend told me.

I think he wanted to be friendly, but

I don't know why.

I says it's foolishness
acting like this. But

I can't explain it.

Susie.

Nobody can explain.

I'm a boy and a girl
and made him fall in love in one minute.

But you can't let that one minute
be the only one to think about.

You think he's done something bad,
don't you?

I'm not sure,

but you must think so.

You wouldn't ask me?

No. No, Mr.

McCullough, I don't.

Oh, I'll tell you one thing, Mr. What?

I would agree with you.

So you go on thinking just the way you do,

because who knows,
maybe you're both right.

All right, Connect.

With my.

Portion on this.

Train. It was on the other one.

Some sweat you dry
so you can freeze up at night.

This a savings?

What?

What do you got there?

Oh, it's just a present from Susan Lame.

When she make it a canteen of water.

You stop thinking about water
all the time.

Wish I could, but, well,
my mouth always feels dry.

Like when you're scared.

You know.
I shouldn't have taken this trail.

You said that before.

You know what?

I'm going to dream tonight.

What?

The cows is dead.

Dead? Dad.

And you?

Yeah.

A nightmare

from where their horses dropped to here.

They're headed in a straight line
up to the open to get help.

About a year to pay that.

They got it Now.

Two, maybe three days old.

We can get to that train by nightfall.

Well, we rest before we go on, So

when we've got them in our side,
men are exhausted or the worn out.

And if Maitland and then because are
so close in our won't make any difference.

Now I ask the sergeant
forgot the lieutenant's note of the saddle

and the sergeant reminded
Lieutenant that the time to rest is not

when you have the enemy
on your side. Sergeant, I.

I know that as well as you do.

Your order is we rest

Yasser residents or

whatever.

Didn't mentioned in his report
that the sergeant requested permission

to go after the deserters alone. Sir.

Sergeant,

you will not go after the deserters alone.

We'll continue

after you, sir.

Caro Malachi.

Foreign.

Well, there's no doubt about it.

They're the ones. All right.

I kind of figured they were running for
something.

You'd better go after them
and bring them back here.

I don't think that's kind of stepping
on the Army's toes or that.

And on the graves of those two boys.

Wait, Describe this, Sergeant.

It sounds like the kind of a man
you'd like to hang up his son.

I'd like to have
my hands on him. Yes, sir. We

ran into that

Charlie, like he's doing with that
young lieutenant.

It's not hard to see why
those two boys deserted.

No, it isn't.

Well, I turned them loose.

I guess it's up to me to go get them.

You know, Chris, I don't think
too much of this, Lieutenant.

Well, he's facing a tough problem there.

I saw a judgment.

It was finished.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, Well,

I might as well go
make a big pot of coffee

in the

evening material.

I'll Lieutenant,
and expect to see you again.

This is my God, my brother with Hawk, I.

You know, gentlemen,

you don't look like

you've been out of the saddle
since I saw you the last time.

Well, we. We haven't, Mr. Hale.

We found Maitland and Tompkins Trail
and it appears they might have been

picked up by a passing wagon or a train.

We're wondering if any of your people do
anything about them.

No need to wonder anymore, Lieutenant.
They're here.

All right. They're not here, Sergeant

McCullough was

just telling me
the subject Army regulations.

If they aid and abet a deserter.

Mr. Hale,

where are the scum?

Where are the

sergeant? In my door.

That girl got away from her.

Sergeant took her down.

Now you get back over here
where you belong.

Yes, sirs,

I have a tenant.

Your men were here.

I didn't know what they.
What they look like. A couple of kids.

They made it up, so I gave it to him.

I can understand it, Mr. McCullough.

How long they've been gone?

Three days.

We found some clothes for them
in Baltimore.

Which way, Morgan?

I'm afraid I don't know.

The territory.

That's north with a rich lieutenant.

The sergeant request permission
to speak. Yes.

I think I'd be halfway across by now

with a head start
that these people have given them.

We should take out after them immediately.

I suggest if the sergeant
is too anxious to judge,

a proper trail
is difficult to pass in the daytime.

But at night, with a detachment of men,
it could be disastrous.

It couldn't be that you'd like to see him
get clean away, could it?

You know, Sergeant,
make it sound surprisingly attractive,

Lieutenant, if I may suggest, I think it's
best we wait in the morning, Sergeant.

They'll be out of our reach by then. You.

You know the drill.

Well, Mr. McCullough,

very well. Again.

We'll leave in the morning.

Open your hospitality, Mr.

Hill.

My men and horses need food and water
badly.

The food's no problem, Lieutenant.

We've had a long, dry spell,
and we're dangerously low on water.

I think I could let you have
a little tonight for drinking purposes.

I was very kind in zero.

What I was thinking about tomorrow,

I'm afraid I couldn't let you have
that much without jeopardizing my people.

Article 14 of the military
manual says that the military

can confiscate property in time of w*r
or an emergency.

This is an emergency.

I'll let another manual, Sergeant,
the Bill of Rights.

And it says that no soldier
shall, in time of peace,

be cornered in any house
except by the consent of the owner,

nor in time of w*r,
except in the manner prescribed by law.

These wagons are houses.

Sergeant
and I have prescribed the law here.

I'll discuss the matter with the others.

Thank you, sir.

May Camp, Sergeant.

You know, I think that the tenants
really got the stuff.

If you just take the time to let it out.

Oh, that's the tough part of being young.

When you never think you have the time

and you still get here.

Sergeant part back.

Try to put it back and I won't ask again.

Out of my way, mister.

This train just lost another scout

troop.

For its

without.

Sir, I'd consider it a personal favorite

not wait. One.

Guy. For it back

so I'm not asking again, sir.

Right back to your wagon.

You don't think that that was real.

This time I might not be so lucky.

I think there won't be
another time, Mr. McCullough.

I promise you that

It's all my fault.

Nobody blames you, Lt.

Your accident.

Those three Indians on.

I didn't want to fail
my first command, Mr.

Heel.

So I let Sergeant Guile command me

on. You have to stand
and watch another man

fight your battle for you.

Well,
there's no failure greater than that.

And I say

you're right.

And Sergeant Kyle.

Lieutenant,
don't be worrying about the civilians.

Sergeant Kyle,

you are hereby relieved of your duties

as sergeant of this detachment,

Corporal.

And we return to Fort Stanley.

You elect to Sergeant Hazard.

You just try giving me orders, Corporal.

You just try it

on Men at their disposal.

I return, Mr. Hamm.

All right?

Now is going to help him do his flag.

Charlie, like I'm out of here.

A few days in town.

All right, Let's not underestimate crowds.

Now, you may have a chance
of getting in the line of duty, of COIN

McCullough.

Would you tell Joe Danny that I.

I'll tell him this

readiness.

McCullough

And if we keep on running,
we'll always be deserters and coward.

We'll have to run forever.

That's no light.

Never be able to marry.

Settle down. Oh, what's that, Susan?

That perfume on that handkerchief.

It's got your head all in.

Thinking about her
made me say it right, Paul.

Well, maybe you can forget Kyle's
and his ways of making you a soldier,

but I can't.

We'll tell them about Kyle.

They won't believe us. Danny.

Listen, Paul.

If we don't go back,
then what Kyle says is right.

We're nothing but milk, fat, white livered
scum with jelly for a backbone.

Paul, I'm not those things.

I ain't those things either, Danny.

Got very old.

You mean Sergeant
Kyle took the wrong trail?

No, they took the right one.

Mason and Simpkins
that have been through here first.

But where would it take them?

Right. Right. No, no.

It is the offshoot within a blind canyon
and made an attempt to ride.

Running right back in the car.

And go and.

Stop that.

You know what you mean?

I said stop it.

That easy path.

I'll k*ll that.

Put it out.

You're getting yourself

all riled up over nothing. I'm.

I'm scared, Danny,

about going back to Fort any

higher.

I have to get.

So I'm going to be a pack,
a matter of fact, maybe a pack of them.

But I'm going to at the Pirate

I. In today's life,

there's no chance of new scum.

Good. Anything old Sergeant Kyle said.

Forget it. Did you? Now?

How do you think I got my record?

I let two bellied cowards
get away from me.

We were coming back, Kyle.

We were coming back.

Sarge, Ties are tied.

And I believe in,

too. I'm here to help you back.

We won't give you no trouble.

No do nothing unless I say so.

That's an order.

Of course.

You two were never very good
at taking orders, so it wouldn't

surprise me if, say, you started running
and I'd have to sh**t no more Wheeler.

I mean,

go ahead, tell us and get it done with.

We don't care you no more, Kyle.

We're going back to Fort.

We're going to tell him about you.

Any last word you'd like me to take back

then?

You're a rotten snake.

Oh, come

here.

On the left.

I order you to surrender your weapon.

You order.

Nobody gives me orders.

You know that, Scout?

Nobody.

What?

Taking those kids back a lot piled high.

You go back.

Depends on you all under. Sergeant.

I don't want any telling.

I'll try and get behind

Berryman.

And you and Mr.

McCullough couldn't better me.

You're around, Lieutenant.

You're all right.

You got to pull by the horns.

Well, it's been a run for 12 years.

You want to know what's going on?

Just take a look at the Bulls record.

You'll find out who's going to win.

Everybody loses sometimes.

Sergeant.

Don't try it.

You'll never make it.

Put it down to

the left of them.

I won't ask you again.

Is the

to better ahead end up that way?

He was a good soldier once.

They probably wouldn't
win the w*r without men like him.

But we're at peace now, Mr. McCullough.

That's rather tentative.

The sergeant here
couldn't get the battles over his head.

He just couldn't kind of get back in step.

Or sit down in a.

Draw down. Bring them up.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

I will always be grateful to you, Mr.

Hill.

Sergeant Kyle
did more for you than any of us.

He was a deadly pole lieutenant,
but he was a challenge.

And no man grows without a challenge.
I understand.

Good luck in the Senate, Clint.

I'll look forward to seeing you
on your next trip through there

looking for you. I'll be here.

Excuse me, Mr.

Wooster.

I wouldn't want to leave without thanking
you for your most excellent stew.

It's all right, but I got something
very important to ask you.

I know all about Army rules
regulations, things like that,

Danny.

And you want to say goodbye.

Thank you, sir.

But I got to be real proud of stuff,
Charlie.

Well, I. Now

see we have an old bow and arrow for Mr.

Peabody.

You don't need one, Chris.

When he's got to work in just fine.

Keep it.