Murder at Yellowstone City (2022) Movie Script

- Morning, Sheriff.

- Morning.

- Sheriff. Hey, Sheriff.

- Morning, folks.

You know, the great thing about

a hand of cards, it's like love.

Hope springs eternal.

Town's a lot safer

when you people are

in church Sunday morning.

Buenos dias, sheriff.

Isabel.

Time for church, son.

Hey, Pa, I got

a really good hand. I just...

I said it's time

for church, son.

Pa, I was to just finish

this hand off

because I'm a little behind

right now.

I'm about to pull ahead.

Right? Don't you get up

because I'm about to...

- Jimmy.

- I'm about to take him out.

Jimmy.

Orar, Jimmy.

He's right. It's Sunday.

Andale, bye. Orar.

Andale, mijo.

He's missing his...

missing his mama

something really bad got.

Kind of lost.

He needs to grieve

in his own way.

Yeah. Yeah.

Emma!

Emma, where are you?!

Emma, come look what I got!

Emma!

There you are.

Look.

You see that?

I told you.

I told you I'd find it,

didn't I?

And I found it.

These big ones here,

they need purifying.

This, though, is pure gold.

Straight from ground.

We're rich, baby.

Rich beyond our beliefs.

Richer than anyone.

After all this time, we're rich.

Can you believe it?

We're rich!

Come on, Rooster!

Where are you going?

To town. I just struck gold.

Come on! Yee-ha!

Very good. Very good. Sit.

- Ma'am.

- Morning.

What are those?

Shadows, prayers.

Memories some of them.

Others, hopes.

What's his name?

Barbary.

How long are you

going to board him?

Will I find friends here?

Or will I need him saddled

and ready to fly?

My friends own the saloon.

If there are friends to be

found, you'll find them there.

What does he think he's doing?

I'd give all my fame

for a pint of ale and safety.

Safety?

Cowards die many times

before their death.

The valiant never

taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders

I yet have heard,

it seems most strange

that men should fear,

that seeing death.

A necessary end

will come when...

When it will come.

Virginia.

Where are you from?

You gonna a while,

or you just passing through?

What man can know the morrow?

'Tis but chance,

determined less by will

than circumstance.

What's that mean?

That is poetry, Ginny.

And best be careful with

that around here.

Folks like knowing

what you're talking about.

I think it's pretty.

I want to talk to you

this morning

about two kinds of riches.

Gold, which you all came

here to find, and grace.

So what is this grace?

What do we mean

when we speak of it?

It is said that

grace is none other

than the source

and inspiration of the divine

working within us to inspire

our most virtuous impulses.

So while you're hammering away

at that unforgiving mountain,

you remember earthly gold

without divine grace

is a fool's gold and brings

you nothing

but destruction and disaster.

Whoo-hoo!

Yeah! Everybody!

Listen up!

I just found gold!

Whoo!

Everybody! I saved the town!

It's a miracle!

It's all right, people.

Whoo! Yee-haw!

Everyone get on out here!

You in church on Sunday or what?

Where are you, baby?

Hey, Dunnigan,

you're disturbing the peace.

Oh, I aim to disturb more than

the peace, Sheriff.

I just struck gold!

Yee-haw!

Come on, get on out here!

What are you doing?

Whoo!

Come on, get on out here.

Get in here, everyone!

Come for a drink?

No, Sheriff.

I don't think so.

How rich are you?

We're rich.

Think there'll be

a little for me?

Careful.

He knows what he came here for.

Alright, everyone,

you get in here.

Come on, grab a drink.

Drinks are for me!

What lies have you told them?

Hey, Edgar, what do you think?

You think that covers a round

for the whole town?

What do you think?

You think I'm going to fall

for that kind of such...

Holy shit.

God damn it. Mickey. Mickey.

I'm pourin' drinks!

Did you blow the hillside?

Is that what I heard

this morning?

Ah, yeah, I had a feeling.

Just a feeling.

That stubborn wife of mine

kept telling me

"There's no way

it's going to pay off."

Quit, she says,

let's move to Oregon.

If you move to Oregon,

I kill you.

Well, I ain't moving to Oregon!

I told her, "Emma, shut your

mouth because I know,

I just know."

And I came to town

looking for that dynamite.

You remember that,

don't you, Wilcox?

I certainly do.

You told me I didn't have

no money for no dynamite.

And you was right.

So I traded you my daddy's

old pocket watch.

Got it right here.

And you gave me a little

extra dynamite for good luck.

And I don't forget that.

So, uh, tell you what

I'm going to do.

I'm gonna offer to buy back

that gold watch

for a nice little profit

on your end.

How's that sound?

Well, I'll be god damned.

Whoo!

Because I blew that dynamite.

Oh, Lordy.

What she gave me was

more gold than you ever

seen your life.

It's gonna take a lot of work

getting it out the ground now.

We need to build a new mine,

which means all y'all

wants it is gonna have a job

for years to come I reckon.

- Yeah!

All the folks who left town

are gonna be coming back.

And all the windows

covered in boards

will be full of fancy things

to buy again.

Hey, Edgar, that theater

you never finished building,

you better practice

your life, partner,

because you'll be up on stage

shouting Shakespeare

before you know it.

Some people are born great.

Some people achieve greatness.

And some people have greatness

thrust upon them.

I don't you they been

practicing lines!

To our town!

- To our town!

And the boom we've

been waiting for.

Yeah!

Horse shit, Dunnigan!

I hear a lot of big talk,

and I don't like it.

See ya pay up bar keep Edgar,

taking care your whore Isabel,

looking out for

the general provisions,

Wilcox on that tethered

watch of yours.

What about you owes to me

on what you lost

- at that table, huh?

- All right, now just...

Edgar, you got no stake in this!

What about the owes

you lost to me?

Well, way I see it,

those wasn't fair games

to begin with, Harding,

so I reckon I don't owe you.

Don't. We're celebrating.

I won't tolerate it!

Man strikes gold,

suddenly thinks he can do

anything he wants!

You owe me,

and I aims to collect.

What, you want to dance?

Whoa.

You put your finger

near that trigger,

and I'll shoot you

between the two eyes.

Dunnigan, you sat down to play

cards, you lost.

You sat down to play again,

you lost again.

Man accuses you of cheating,

you call him out there and then,

not when he expects you

to pay his marker.

Now pay him.

All right.

Mickey.

Music a.

Enjoy!

Aye, papi! Aye, aye, aye!

Oh!

Aye, papi, si.

I don't know.

Spent so long trying

to find that gold.

Never really thought

about what I'd do

when I did find it.

What are you gonna do with it?

Paris.

No.

A school.

Para los ninos.

Si.

Well, why don't we do both?

Ah!

Oh!

It was a good sermon.

I'm living the parable

of the sower, Alice.

And all my seeds

fall on rocky soil.

Well, in the parable

of the sower, it doesn't matter.

The whole point is

to tell the truth anyway,

and then leave it to God

to soften their hearts

so they'll listen.

And anyway, I'm not rocky soil.

I hear every word you say,

and every word

makes me love you more.

Rooster!

Who's there?! Who's there?!

Come on out!

Harding, is that you?!

You killed Rooster,

you son of a bitch!

You want my gold, you come

and get it, alright?!

Come find me like a man!

Where are you?

Where are you?! Ah!

"I swept away your fences

like a cloud, your dreams

like morning mist.

Return to me, for I have

redeemed you."

Isaiah 44:22.

Muy bien, Carissa.

Everything's going to change

with the mine running,

people coming back.

Maybe some man will make me

an honest woman again.

Men don't look for wives

in a whorehouse, Ginny.

When they want to get married,

they'll go to a church.

Well, that's why

Miss Alice is here,

to make this feel

more like a church.

Would you like to get

married someday?

He was kind and gentle

and treated me nice.

Well, I'm never going

to marry a man.

I know what they're like.

You just haven't

met the right one.

Isabel would.

She'd marry Robert Dunnigan.

But he is already married.

Well, if it is a sin to love

a married man,

God will forgive me.

Is that true? If he's married.

The only sin is

to turn away from God.

And if we look to him in sinful

things, they seem less tempting.

Well, I do hope

Lord will forgive me,

but I do know

the smart one somewhere

ain't finished her chores yet.

- Josephine.

- Get it done.

We got nobody to make a casket.

Can you do it?

Give him a proper funeral.

Who would do a thing like this?

No.

Sheriff Ambrose,

whoever did this,

I hope he dies just like this!

Only one man in town don't know

what I'm going to do to him.

Rise and shine.

Don't.

- Check those drawers.

- Got it.

We got gold.

Where'd you get this?

Lock him up.

Hey! Ah!

Get!

- You just made a mistake, boy!

- Come on!

Get down.

- Yeah. You did it, boy.

- I did not do it.

You did it, caught red handed.

Get in there.

Oh!

You think you can

bloody my face? Hm?

You want to fight, go on,

strike me again.

Get up.

Come on, get up.

Oh, come on.

He attacked officers of the law.

I saw the god damn law.

Let me tell you

something about this town.

You know, folks came here

because they wanted something

better, a better life.

And for a while,

when the mine was running,

they had it.

Then the mine collapsed,

took all the gold

and half the men with it.

And, uh, that's

the kind of thing

that makes a town lose hope.

And yesterday, Robert Dunnigan

strikes gold.

But it's more than one strike.

It gives people who have nothing

something to live for.

So you didn't just kill

a man yesterday.

Do you understand me?

You killed hope.

And it's my job to get it back

because this,

this is my town.

And these people, good or bad,

wise, greedy, whatever they are,

doesn't matter.

They're my people.

So, I want you to confess

to the whole town.

And if you do, I'll ask the

magistrate to save your life.

But if you don't,

I will prove in court

that you are a killer.

And when they hang you,

I'll be the man

who strings you up.

You understand me?

When will you have the funeral?

Soon.

So what?

Until then, he just stays here?

I'll take him outside

if it starts to stink.

He's a man, not an "it."

Robert Dunnigan is gone.

Now, what's right there

is just a heap of flesh.

What's the matter?

He just seems so much smaller

than when he was alive.

It's like he's shrunken.

Finally.

Horses all right?

They're quiet.

It's just that...

he...

that man...

...his horse.

He left me his horse.

And his saddle.

So how could it be the one

that killed Robert Dunnigan?

How'd he get there

with no horse?

You ask a fine question, Violet.

But maybe a better question is,

how'd he get a hold

of a dead man's gold?

I just have a feeling.

I can't say...

What does your

feeling say about my face?

Jimmy's arm?

My arm is fine.

There'll be a trial,

or he'll confess.

Thank you for coming by, Violet.

I'm going to go

visit the prisoner.

Um...

I'll go.

You don't feel for it

the same way I do.

Preaching is one thing,

but ministering,

that's something else.

That's Josephine.

You know, she could use

a little ministering, too.

What she could use is a father.

Or someone like that

to look up to.

Well...

Yeah. Yes, dear.

You shouldn't be

shooting at graves.

Ain't like I'm hitting it.

That's because

you're trying too hard.

Getting ready for

the gun to fire.

Thinking about the violence.

It is violent. It's a rifle.

On this end.

Not on this one.

What do you know about guns?

You get to quiet those hands,

come on.

Tuck it in there.

And don't hold your breath

when you're getting

ready to shoot.

All right?

Don't let the violence

unsettle you.

Just pulled you forward

and ruins your aim, okay?

Ain't there's somewhere better

around here we can shoot?

That man killed my father.

Go ahead, then.

Now do like I told you.

Let's set 'em up.

Violet?

Sheriff says for you

to come with us.

Bring a horse for her

to ride back on and a mule.

- Doesn't belong to you.

- Oh. Sorry.

Ah. Mrs. Murphy.

Good afternoon, Sheriff.

I came to pray

with the prisoner.

Ah, well, never heard of a man

confessing on a full stomach,

Mrs. Murphy.

My mother used to say,

we pray better before a meal,

but we hear God better after.

Well, don't want to stand in

the way of a good prayer.

- I'll be right outside.

- Mm-hmm.

It's rabbit.

- Thank you.

- Mm-hmm.

Oh.

What's your name?

Cicero.

And your family name?

I have no family.

Well, somebody

must have raised you.

I was raised by myself.

Know the wind.

I go by the name I chose.

Cicero.

After the philosopher?

It's from a play.

Cicero spoke for Brutus

when Mark Antony

gave his famous speech.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen,

lend me your ears."

He spoke for the Republic.

I've thought I would like to be

the one to make that speech.

These tracks, they're fresh.

Somebody's been here.

You stay back.

Ain't no telling

what we're going to find.

You stay here, Jimmy.

I ain't staying here.

I don't need your pa

thinking I got you killed.

I could be the one

that saves your life.

Oh, shit.

Get down!

How are we going to

get down there?

I don't know.

Mrs. Dunnigan!

Is that you shoot at us?

What are you doing here?

Come to take you to town.

Why you got your guns out?

Somebody killed your husband.

Violet!

Violet, where you gone?

I told him we should

leave, but he wouldn't listen.

All he cared about...

Now what am I supposed to do?

Pa said he was supposed to

take you back to town.

Got the man

who did it in jail there.

I don't... I don't want

to go to town.

Everybody looking at me,

wondering about me.

Him dead. All that gold. I...

I want to get as far away

from this place as I can.

It seems like you can do

anything you want now,

Ms. Dunnigan.

It is an evil place.

Cruel.

When does the stage leave?

I want to be on it and...

never come back.

Mail comes in a couple of days.

Let's pack the mule.

So sad.

His name is Cicero.

He named himself after

a character in "Julius Caesar."

He said he wanted

to give a speech,

but his speech happens

off stage.

- Off stage?

- Mm-hmm.

He took a beating.

He was thirsty and hungry.

Man's in jail for murder.

I know, but they way he speaks,

it's more like a teacher

than a man that you would expect

to see behind bars.

I just can't believe

that he is the one

who killed Robert Dunnigan.

I looked right into his eyes.

Now, now.

Just because a man

looks innocent...

does not make it so.

Well, believing God is real

doesn't make it so either.

But it is so.

I talked to him. That killer.

I need to think

he's going to hang.

He deserves much worse

than hanging.

You wouldn't think that

if it were any man

other than Dunnigan.

But it was. Dunnigan.

I know he was never going to

leave his wife and marry me.

But he would have given me

some of that gold.

I could have sent Josephine

to a good school,

where she'd grow up proper.

I would have kept

any gold he gave me.

She's not blood to you.

She's as good as blood.

I made her father promise.

And I always keep my promises.

One day, the children

I take care of will be grown.

They'll have lives and families.

And I will have done something

with my life I can be proud of.

Edgar says what happened

in the Dakotas changed her,

that she's not entirely

of this world no more.

Violet has been through a lot.

She deserves our respect.

What's he going to do?

Best get ready to

pay up, Harding.

Feeling handy, are ya?

I'll parlay.

Oh, hell.

Shit.

Let's go upstairs.

Evening, Ms. Dunnigan.

Everybody's looking at me.

You... you just hold

your head high.

They'll be looking at you

wherever you go.

Josephine, can you get us

some silver, please?

- Thank you.

- Evening, Ms. Dunnigan.

Evening.

So, uh, are you, uh...

Are you comfortable

in your room?

It's fine.

Anything that you... that you

need, anything that you want,

just you can tell Jimmy, my son,

here, and, uh...

I'm truly sorry about

what happened to...

To your husband, Mrs. Dunnigan.

He... he was a wild man,

but a good one in

the ways that matter.

And you can be sure

that whoever did this

will pay a very dear price.

Which one of them

was his favorite?

He always came back from town

smelling like perfume.

Always the same scent.

Everyone has his faults,

Mrs. Dunnigan.

But some of them have qualities

that redeem them, too.

I think that when a man

passes on,

it's best to remember

his better nature.

Don't you think?

Just...

the first thing he did when

he found that gold

was run off to town, and I...

I keep thinking if... it he'd

stayed there with me,

he might still be alive.

Yeah.

Violet?

I'm sorry.

That man, the one they

have in jail,

he's not this man's killer.

I found this.

What is it?

Man who loves her wrote this.

He'll send an innocent man

to the gallows.

Mrs. Dunnigan has a lover.

Thaddeus.

Little late for a visit,

ain't it?

Marie Laveau.

She's a voodoo queen. Hm?

Black magic.

Sign of the devil.

You know its name,

but not what it beckons.

It never conjured Satan for me.

Then why'd they beat you up?

Think it ain't Christian

to punish someone like that?

Killed a man.

He's a murderer, preacher.

When I'm sheriff, a man like him

be hanging from a rope already.

Did you kill him?

Robert Dunnigan.

Did you?

I say I am innocent.

I saw that man celebrating when

he found his gold.

The saloon keeper was generous

with his whiskey.

Maybe because I had money.

Maybe because we both know

the plays of Shakespeare.

And I could not keep

my eyes open.

I was lucky to make it

back to my bed.

You talk like an educated man.

Ah, good evening, preacher.

I just came to offer

my condolences.

It's a tragic thing,

Ms. Dunnigan,

what happened to your husband.

Tragic.

This was his.

I thought to return it to you.

Thank you.

I-I see the grave's dug.

Are you going to bury him soon?

Oh, uh, whenever you wish,

ma'am.

I want to leave when

the mail stage comes.

We can bury him tomorrow.

Are you, uh... are you leaving

for good then, Mrs. Dunnigan?

This was my husband's place,

not mine.

Yeah, I can sell the claim.

I know that, and...

go some place, see if I can

ever feel human again.

I want to go. I'm sorry.

Jimmy. Jimmy, you stand

outside the boarding house,

make sure nobody gets in.

Just so that you have

a safe sleep, Mrs. Dunnigan.

Thank you, Sheriff.

Preacher. Good night.

Ma'am.

Soon as fortune smiles upon him,

tragedy strikes.

You, uh, care to have

a drink with me?

Where'd you get this?

Violet.

She found it at

Dunnigan's shack.

Hmm.

You're trying to take my job

from me, are you, Preacher?

You don't see me

jumping into the pulpit.

Well, my job would be

to seek the truth, Sheriff.

Whether or not that leads you

to what you think you'll find.

Well, my truth is that the men

that I have in that jail

over there is the man who

killed Robert Dunnigan.

Yeah.

But he doesn't seem like

a murderer, does he?

Well, why don't you

have a real drink, preacher?

No, no.

Don't drink.

I'll take some sugar, though.

Thank you, Josephine.

You know, a few years back,

there was a land dispute,

left one man dead,

and the accused

was a man called William McCoy.

Well, anyway,

I had to bring them in.

He was nice, man.

And, um, I didn't know much

about being a law man

at that time.

I was just out of the army.

But I got to like it.

Again, thinking to myself,

maybe... maybe it wasn't murder.

Maybe it was an accident.

Maybe he's not guilty.

Anyway, one night,

my wife was bringing over

some supper at the jail,

and I'd let him out of his cell.

We were playing cards.

And he took advantage of

the situation to go for my gun.

And it went off.

And I grabbed him, and I...

I, uh, took out

my other pistol and...

I shot him.

What I didn't realize when

all the mayhem had calmed down

was that my wife was lying

on the floor

with a bullet in her chest.

I went over to her,

and I took her in my arms.

I tried to talk to her

and bring her back, but...

But she was gone.

So what I'm saying is that

I know that that man over there

is the man who killed

Robert Dunnigan,

and I will not let him go

just because he doesn't

seem like a killer, preacher.

Everything quiet?

Yeah. No one going in,

no one coming out.

Violet Running Horse went out

to the Dunnigan place.

Why did she do that?

She, uh... she found a letter,

kind of love letter.

Guess someone's trying to get

close to Mrs. Dunnigan.

I want you to keep

your eyes peeled

just in case she shows up here.

I will.

I have a warm heart,

comfortable bed.

Both in need of company.

If you want me in a bed,

you know where to find me.

And how much it'll cost you.

Good night, Harding.

Go to hell, Wilcox.

Ah! Ah!

Oh, I love you, Rebecca.

Oh, yeah.

More of that, yeah.

Whoo, whoo.

Mm, shit. Oh, shit.

Whoo.

Come on, Jimmy.

Let's saddle up.

Preacher.

Didn't seem like

he was a killer?

Why don't you go in the livery

and see what he did?

And while you're at it,

dig another grave.

Come on, let's go.

Hyah, hyah.

You know me and Edgar first

found Violet in the Dakotas.

We was moving west ourselves.

Her band had been killed by our

soldiers, slaughtered.

All of them, just plumb through

the last frail elder.

So we dug them graves.

To lay them to rest

with dignity.

I lifted her to put her

in the ground, and they, Lord,

I felt her heart was far away.

Like she was already gone.

It's coming from

the other side of death.

Do you think death does that

when people get too close?

Leave a fine layer

of dust on 'em?

But I thought of her

as my daughter.

You know, we never had

a child of our own,

and it just made me so happy

to see her with them horses.

Gonna come go bury in

the cemetery, won't you?

Like a Christian.

I didn't know she was one.

Then again...

I don't know no one who is.

Not really.

We'll bury her.

Okay?

I just want to see

your grave, preacher.

Plenty of flowers alongside

of their graves.

Okay, sweetie.

He's gonna get you right now.

Hey, Josephine. There you are.

I've been looking

high and low for you.

It's Violet.

That killer's free.

So none of us is safe.

Do you understand me?

Si, tia.

Let's go.

Hyah!

Hyah, hyah!

Hyah!

What happened?

He escaped.

Thank you.

But she was the one

that thought he was innocent.

She was the one

that found the letter.

Yeah. I don't know.

Maybe he tried

to get his horse back.

She tried to stop him.

Why would she do that?

I don't know.

I don't know that he killed her,

and I don't know that he didn't.

Well, what are you going to do?

- What am I going to do?

- Mm-hmm.

I'm going to build a coffin.

I'm going to dig another grave.

And I'm gonna put her in it.

And I am going to pray

for her soul to Heaven.

Was anyone standing guard?

Yeah. O'Sullivan.

Wasn't doing his job.

Well, is he still alive?

Why would he leave alive a man

who would chase him down

and then kill a woman

who tried to set him free?

That would be the sheriff's job.

My job is to look after

the souls of this town.

Thaddeus Murphy.

God put us here for a reason.

And now a prayer for

Robert Dunnigan.

Sheriff, he ain't got no horse,

and I hit him.

I know I hit him, Sheriff.

Sheriff, are we going to head

back out at dawn?

Sheriff, Sheriff,

is this necessary?

- You let him escape.

- Please.

Now you're going to

take his place.

Come on.

Look, Jim.

Dammit!

We brought that tune with us

from inglorious South.

And singing together for her.

We made friends

out of former enemies.

That was the miracle of

the Montana territory.

He used to sing it to her.

I used to watch him.

She loved it.

That was a real love.

Josephine, when you going to

start working like you're prone?

I ain't.

Bet you'd be just

as good as her.

I ain't, Harding.

Oh, you hear that, Isabel?

Your little stray cat thinks

she's better than you are.

She'll see there ain't

no better life than this.

Besides, who's going to marry,

coming from a place like this?

Watch your filthy mouth.

Is that right?

You heard me.

You gonna get me straight,

preacher man?

Believe if I wanted to be told

what to do by you,

I'd find myself in church.

Besides, we're all just having

a big time.

Who else is going to teach young

Josephine how to whore, huh?

You leave Josephine out of this.

She's just a kid.

What happened to her daddy

is not her fault.

Now, why don't you just do

what the preacher says

and shut your goddamn mouth?

You join me in a drink?

You know, Sheriff, maybe I will.

That man was no prisoner

that got way.

Edgar, I'm so sorry about

what happened to Violet.

We're all sorry.

Gentlemen.

To grace.

- To grace.

Sometimes it seems like

a very long way away.

Hm.

You smell like whiskey.

What was that?

Stay here.

Anybody comes in here

that's not me, you shoot 'em.

I can't shoot a man.

It's just like shooting

a rabbit, only easier to hit.

Alice!

Give me a rag.

Aah!

Where did you learn

how to do that?

What are you doing?

Thaddeus! Answer me.

Those guns of his are

Peacemakers.

Why are you digging?

The bullet that killed

Robert Dunnigan

is still his body.

And if enough from a Peacemaker,

I can clear his name.

And we won't be harboring

a fugitive.

What are you doing here?

Por favor. Andale.

It's late, Jimmy.

Vaya.

Good.

But be quick.

And quiet.

Andale.

Jimmy.

Jimmy, Jimmy!

Jimmy!

Isabel, is that you?

Edgar.

Edgar?

I'll go.

Isabel, it's little late

to be knocking boots.

Stubborn old son of a bitch.

No, no, no, no!

Dear sweet Edgar!

- Jimmy?

- Oh, shit.

Uh...

Oh, shit.

Huh?

What happened?

I did it. I did it.

Just like he told me to do it.

I did it, and it's done.

It's done.

Edgar was there.

- Did he see you?

- No.

But she did... she was...

She was looking right

into my eyes.

Geez, I've known her since

I was a kid,

and she's the only other person

I've ever been with

before I met you.

Hey.

When you met me,

in every way.

Come here.

You are...

You are a man of action.

Yeah. You know.

What happens now?

What about Josephine?

What is she going to do

without her mom?

It's done now.

Yeah. Yeah, it's done.

As long as they don't catch me

and hang me from a tree.

Hey, shh.

Your daddy is never...

He's never gonna think his own

boy would do these things, huh?

Now, tomorrow noon, I'm going to

be on that coach.

And what are you going

to tell your daddy, hm?

I'm gonna tell him

that I'm gonna go out

and make a life for myself.

- Yeah.

- Out on my own.

Mm-hmm.

And then what

are you going to do?

- I'm going to come find you.

- Uh-huh.

- You.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

And we're going to be

together, huh?

Yeah. Yeah.

You should...

You should have left already.

I told you should have

left already. I told you.

I got to leave on that stage,

or people are going to wonder.

Now you listen to me.

Jimmy, you're going to come

later, and you're not going to

tell anybody what we done.

You hear me?

Look at me.

Come here, Jimmy.

We're gonna be happy.

We're going to have more gold

than you could spend

in 10 lifetimes.

Yeah.

And we'll go someplace where

nobody knows who we are.

Uh-huh.

Then you can have me

any time you want.

Any way you want me.

I know.

I know you.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

Have some water.

Have some water, partner.

- Yeah.

- Come on.

He hit you right in the head.

I ain't staying here.

This ain't right, Edgar.

Mickey.

I know what you're thinking.

I do.

You think that we have to

say what we saw.

I know it hurts you.

It hurts me, too.

Okay, lie down, Edgar,

and be quiet for just a second.

- You know...

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Now, you listen to me.

They know about us.

They do.

They don't, but they always do.

And if don't say what we know

you saw...

-No, no, no,

-It's not right, Edgar.

We can't take on a fight

we can't win.

And you know

when all this is over,

we're going to have to be here

when the town really needs us.

Okay.

Okay, old man.

I'll do what I have to

do for us.

You're the best.

I got you, buddy.

What rare you gonna do, Sheriff?

Sheriff? Sheriff?

Tia! Isabel!

- No.

- Isabel!

No, child.

No!

Isabel!

Sheriff, come on!

Ain't I been here long?!

Shut up, O'Sullivan.

Are you going

to let me out here?

Isabel Santos is dead,

and it's on your head.

Do you understand me?

Do you understand?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Sheriff.

Let him out, Jimmy.

I'm going to put this killer

in the ground.

And any man who rides with

me gets $20.

Any man who puts a bullet in

him, gets that.

And I'm going to judge

every one of you

by whether you stand

with me or not.

That includes you, Mickey.

Me?

Sheriff, look at all

the men you have.

You know why

you have a place here?

- Yeah, I...

- When town calls, you answer.

Get a goddamn gun.

What's in it for me, Sheriff?

Listen, Sheriff.

The smell.

Ugh!

I think... I think I feel it.

I'm going to need you to come

here and hold this open.

What?

Oh, no, no, no, I cannot.

Alice...

Good girl.

Pull that apart.

Go ahead. Just hold it open.

You're going to have to dig

your fingers in there.

Need you to pull it apart.

Good, good.

I think I...

I think feel it.

Get it.

What is it? What do you see?

That's not from a Peacemaker.

Well...

Well, how do you even know

the difference?

I mean... I mean... I mean,

it's inside of a man's body.

Thaddeus, what is going on?

Thaddeus, what are you

hiding from me?

Alice.

There was a time

not too long ago

that I wore one of these.

And every sin I preach against

I'm guilty of.

I come to God

because I was running.

Okay?

I was running from the devil.

Now, I left that life.

The day I met you,

I left it for good.

I thought I could hide.

But now the devil saw me.

And...

...he's a coming.

This was the bullet that shot

Robert Dunnigan.

And I know it wasn't you

who shot him.

I've known men

like your sheriff,

good in their minds,

honorable, wrong,

and do righteous to be right.

You're safe here.

It's a church.

Am I?

Preacher?

Hide.

Here.

Preacher?

So much for your divine grace.

Why her?

Well, I'll be sure

to ask him when I catch him.

Search every house, every camp.

He's here somewhere.

Move. Go.

Hello, Mrs. Murphy.

You doing, uh... doing

a spot of cleaning?

I am.

My instinct tells me

that there's got to be

a rational explanation for this.

I, uh...

- Sheriff.

- I...

Mind telling me why there's

a dead body on your floor?

Come, sit.

I asked you a question.

I expect you to answer

like anybody else.

I took this bullet

out of that body.

I wanted to be sure

you had the right man.

The prisoner

shoots a Peacemaker.

That bullet came

from a Colt Navy.

It takes a lot of shooting

to know one bullet from another.

Your men are chasing

an innocent man.

Let me tell you about justice

the way I see it.

This isn't about

Robert Dunnigan.

Not even about the man

who killed him.

It's about everyone else.

You kill a man in this town,

everybody knows

there's a price to be paid.

Dunnigan, what does he care?

He's dead.

What matters is this town.

Law and order.

And what about the truth?

I'll do everything I need to do

to ensure that justice

is seen to be done.

Uh-huh.

What happens when, not if,

but when another man is killed?

I'd get that body

back in the grave.

It's beginning to stink.

Jimmy! O'Sullivan!

Search every building.

God compels our

fates to be intertwined.

God does compel our fate.

It was him who brought you here.

That's all we got?

Okay.

You any good with these?

I've searched for a place

I can be at peace since the war.

Since I was set free.

I'm as good as I've

needed to be.

And you?

Better than I ought

to have been.

It's just like shooting

a rabbit, right?

Pick that up.

You drop that, pick it up.

Load up! Load up!

It looks like

they're going to war.

Forgive me.

Oh.

I'm here from the prisoner.

What makes you so sure

he's here?

Be careful.

Do not lie to me.

Ain't befitting a man of God.

Ain't befitting

a man of law either.

He's an innocent man.

His gun did not kill Dunnigan.

You chase him down,

you're all murderers.

Search the place.

Oh, ho!

This is a house of God.

You won't be bringing

you violence in here.

Arrest him.

O'Sullivan, take him to jail.

All right.

Hey, hey!

Get him!

Go! Go!

Let's go. Let's go, come on.

Come with me. Hurry.

You're safe here.

Don't leave.

Stop.

Hold your fire.

No more killing.

Take cover!

- Get him!

- Down there, come on!

Let's go.

Hey!

Stop!

He ain't guilty.

Shit.

Jim!

Preacher!

Ah!

The killer's getting away!

Well, somebody do something!

Put it down!

Drop it.

Hyah!

Josephine, where are you going?

- Shit!

- Stables, come on.

Ah!

Come on.

I think I hit him.

We can't outrun them.

I know a place.

Get him!

Hyah!

Wait up.

Come on!

We're close.

Sit down.

I have this.

- They ain't here.

- They're here.

If you're there, come out!

Before we shoot you out!

Shit! Get down!

No! Aah!

Ah!

They dead?

I'm gonna put a bullet

in his head, make sure.

This is my last bullet.

Ah!

Stop!

Ah! Dammit!

Oh, God.

Ah!

Mickey!

- Mickey?

- Shh, shh, shh.

Mickey, are you okay?

I'll be better.

Dear sweet Edgar.

What happened?

There's a fugitive.

And he killed my husband,

and he's killed other people.

Where is he now?

He got away.

Please, is there room for me?

We've got plenty of room.

These horses, they need water

if the danger's over.

I'll take your bag.

Thank you.

Have it all to yourself.

Sheriff's inside.

He's armed.

Water, bandages quickly.

Can you get a knife?

Ginny, get a knife.

You got some water?

Pa! Pa! He kill O'Sullivan,

he killed all those men.

You got to do something, Pa.

Please. He tried.

He's trying to pin it on me.

Colt Navy.

There's more than one

of those guns in this town.

Why the hell is my son tied up?

Come on, Sheriff,

you know the truth.

Come on, Pa

Pa, he's in league

with that murderer.

You got to believe me.

Okay?

Come on, you can't...

You can't believe him.

Did you do it, son?

No.

Don't lie to me.

Just tell me the truth.

It... it's done.

Yes or no, Jimmy?

Yes or no, God damn it!

Dunnigan?

You killed Dunnigan?

And Violet?

Isabel?

Isabel.

Edgar seen him but wasn't sure.

I know it was him.

Why the hell didn't

you say something?

Just like you said,

I'm lucky to have place here.

The town called me,

god damn it, I answered.

Where's Mrs. Dunnigan?

I seen her out by the coach.

Get her in here right now.

Mrs. Dunnigan!

Hey, have a seat.

Mrs. Dunnigan!

Hey!

Mrs. Dunnigan!

Sheriff wants to see you.

You fixin' on leaving so soon?

Well, it's unsafe.

And I was always planning

on taking that stage.

Hm.

Hi.

Did you have a love affair

with my son?

Me? Why would I do that?

He gave it to me, and I...

I didn't know what to do,

him being your son.

Emma.

And you were so kind.

But I would return

your affections?

I have a... had a husband.

You didn't love him.

He got the wrong idea.

I got the wrong idea?

You kissed me.

What I brought your husband

back, you kissed me.

That's a lie, Jim.

You told me that you loved me.

You told me we were gonna

run away together.

- You told me.

- Oh, Jim.

We have to confess.

We have to just confess.

You don't believe him, do you?

Em.

Oh. Hey.

Let me go.

You can keep the claim.

Let me go, or I...

I will kill him.

- Put it down.

- I ain't gonna.

I just want to get out of here.

I just want to get out

of this place.

Ah!

Dad!

Ah!

Hey!

Oh, no!

I always thought I was

going to be somebody.

Shh.

You never did.

You were right.

Shh.

I'm sorry.

- Shh.

- I'm sorry.

Shh.

I think this is yours.

Thank you.

Hm.

Well, bury our friends,

pray for their souls.

All of them.

And we're going

to rebuild this town.

Make it better than it was.

And perhaps there will be a time

we no longer need to fight.

Perhaps.

Hey, you feelin' better?

Yeah.

Well, it's over.

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