Rawhide (1959–1965): Season 6, Episode 13 - Incident of the Geisha - full transcript
The drovers are having a steady run of luck - bad luck. Rowdy's back is hurt when Hey Soos allows an unbroken stallion to run over him. Hey Soos makes the second mistake of going after the stallion. A low limb knocks him out of the saddle and unconscious. He wakes up in a Japanese robe being attended to by Nami - a Japanese servant girl. Hey Soos brings her back to camp adding to Favor's concerns. Rowdy can't walk, he has Nami, and the Kiowa are trailing the herd. Nami had studied to be a Geisha but never became one. Many of her methods and ideas are foreign to the drovers but she frequently helps. The Kiowa come into camp asking for Nami believing she is an Indian Princess of their lore. Favor's route comes up dry and the Kiowas steal most of the horses. As the men prepare to fight, Nami tells Hey Soos she can tell when the catfish shakes - there is going to be an earthquake. She believes one to be imminent and it will be big. She goes to the Kiowa telling them she is displeased with them and she will destroy the earth unless the horses are returned and the herd allowed passage. Although her timing is slightly off, the catfish shakes and everyone runs for cover including the stampeding herd.
Easy, boy, easy.
- Saddle been up yet?
- Yeah, one time.
He's an ornery son of a gun.
Comes out from under
it like it was greased.
Hey Soos!
It's time to move out.
Let the stallion loose.
Caballo will be valuable to us.
- Hey Soos, I said turn him loose.
- One more try, senor.
One more try.
Senor Quince! Senor
Rowdy, are you all right?
No. I always start
the day off like this.
- Where's he hurt?
- It's his back.
- Get me up, get me up.
- No, listen! Stay still.
I'll get Wishbone.
Come on, boy. All
you gotta do is bend.
What do you want me to
do? A few high kicks for you?
- I told you I couldn't bend.
- All right, take it easy.
Mushy, pick up the supply wagon.
You got yourself a passenger.
Yes, sir.
Wish.
- How bad?
- Oh...
Blessed if I know. He hasn't got
one thing except one little tiny scratch
you gotta look at
cross-eyed to see.
Anything you can do?
Outside of sweet-talking
him, not one blessed thing.
It takes a doctor to
figure out a back like that.
And Jim says there's a town of
Gold Hill about ten miles further up.
- Maybe there's a doc there.
- Senor?
Senor, let me go on to this
Gold Hill and get the doctor.
Yeah, horses coming in all by
themselves these days, Hey Soos?
No, Senor.
Then what in the ever-loving are
you doing standing around here, huh?
I find the horses.
He'll never believe it.
No matter what I say,
Senor Favor will
never believe it.
What the...?
Buenas tardes, senor.
I found the horses.
Senor Rowdy, I
hope you feel better.
Hey Soos. Who is that?
I, uh...
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
Well, you see, she was
with the horses, I think.
I mean, I fell, and,
well, there she was.
All I know is this is her
wagon and she's lost.
All right, everybody step
aside. I'll find out who she is.
You will?
Yeah, I speak Japanese.
I got a cousin who sails
out of San Francisco,
goes over there all
the time. Sayonara.
Well, sayonara.
What's the matter, don't you
speak your own language?
What's that mean, Wish?
Well, it's kind of a
greeting, like "hello."
- Mr. Wishbone?
- What.
If you mean hello,
why don't you say hello?
Because she wouldn't
understand, you idiot.
What's your name?
- My name Nami.
- Nami, that's pretty.
- Nami is her name, Mr. Wishbone.
- Oh, for heaven's sake.
Hey, Mushy, ask her
how she got out here.
Sure.
How'd you get out here?
Wagon.
Wagon, Mr. Wishbone.
I got ears.
You mean, you were
part of a wagon train?
- Many wagons?
- Hai, many wagon.
Master Baron Sakai
sail San Francisco,
buy many goods, show.
Well, she's part of a
trade mission or something.
No, Baron Sakai say,
"Girl servant very bad luck."
Storm come, many dust, lose,
Hey Soos-san find.
Well, senor, I couldn't
ride away and leave her.
Oh, no, you couldn't.
All right, you go along with us to
the next town that's got a telegraph.
Girl servant be no trouble.
You might not, but I can't
say the same for our company.
I guess my eyes
are giving out on me.
Looks like part of
Santanta's bunch.
Santanta. That old buzzard liked
to run us out of the reservation
last time we were through.
Oh, the way they're
sizing up the herd,
looks like Santanta's gonna
try to pick up where he left off.
Well, you got to admit.
It does make the fitting
touch to a perfect day.
The remuda runs off, my
ramrod is out of commission,
we inherit part of a Japanese
trade delegation and now...
All right, Quince, break out the
rifles, we'll ride the men in pairs.
Yes, sir.
Toothless, you'll
drive the girl's wagon.
We're moving out
the same as always?
Oh, yeah, same as always.
Well, come on, Wish,
get Rowdy loaded in that
wagon and get moving.
Senor Favor.
Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!
Looks like you need
a little help there.
- Heh.
- Hey, Joe, give me a hand, will you?
Oh, strong like a samurai.
- Like who?
- Samurai, warrior.
Well, I have done a
little fighting in my time.
Hey, tell me,
how'd you beat Wishbone
out of all that water anyway?
Oh, I smile and ask.
Yeah, a pretty girl always could
beat that buzzard out of anything.
What are you doing?
I must put water in tub
and take it over there.
No, Nami, we'll get that.
No, no, no. You go on
now. We'll take care of it.
You bet.
- Nami.
- I disturb?
Oh, no, no.
For tired face.
Ahh...
Well, Nami, you
didn't stay lost long.
By the end of the week
we will be in Gold Hill.
Yes, maybe.
Heh, "Yes, maybe," what?
Maybe I stay?
Stay? You mean with us?
Maybe Hey Soos-san
need girl servant?
Why, you couldn't be
my girl servant, Nami.
- Could not?
- No.
Must return?
Must return.
Now, look, Nami, it isn't that we
wouldn't want you here with us.
You know that, hmm?
It's just that, well,
right now we have more
problems than we can handle.
Senor Rowdy, he's
no better. It's my fault.
I make a foolish mistake
and Senor Favor grows angry,
out of shame I make
more mistakes and more.
Girl servant wish to help, then
maybe Hey Soos-san keep?
Oh, Nami.
Oh, now, Hey Soos-san
you'll feel better after bath.
Over here, please.
Oh, well, I hope it
ain't too hot for you.
Try, please.
Oh, never mind. It's all right.
Now, wait a minute, Nami,
you mean this ain't for you?
For girl servant?
In America girl servant
bathe before master?
Yeah, but that ain't the point.
But girl servant bathe later.
First, Hey Soos-san, then
all drover, then girl servant.
Yeah, but don't you reckon that water
is gonna be a little dirty by the time
you get around to it?
- Why? Everybody wash before?
- Before getting in the tub?
In America people
take bath dirty?
Well, not being partial
to soap and suds, heh,
I can't think of any
other reason for it, heh.
Poor little old thing.
Sun's got to her, sure
as the devil's got a tail.
Yeah.
Come on, boy, move the legs.
Why? I ain't going nowhere.
What you wanna do, just sit
there and let the world pass you by?
Next thing, you'll be wanting
me to spoon feed you.
Wishbone.
Ugh, oh, come on, move
the legs. That's all I ask.
Wishbone, I'm gonna close
my eyes and count to ten.
When I snap my fingers
and open my eyes,
you're gonna be
gone, aren't you?
Because if you ain't...
Nami, will you get this
fuzz face out of here?
All you got is a little bruise
in the middle of your back,
and the more you baby
it the worse it's gonna get.
Wishbone, you've got
just five more seconds,
then pow, you're gonna be gone.
It still takes more than
finger-snapping to get rid of me.
- Wishbone.
- All right!
What do you want
to do, kick me out?
Come on, kick,
kick, kick. Ahh...
If you don't mind me being
personal, what are you doing here?
Oh, making Japanese tent.
- Nami, I don't need a tent.
- Oh, yes.
- Hold the steam.
- Steam?
Help little back.
Little back?
- Heat and right exercise cure.
- Wait just a minute there.
Japanese tent too short.
Rowdy-san too long,
so head stick out.
- Now, wait a minute, uh, Nami.
- You trust?
Yeah. I trust, sort of.
Get out of here.
How come you're doing all this?
I do this for Hey Soos-san.
He blame himself. He worry.
Yeah, well, we sure wouldn't
want Hey Soos-san worrying.
You're quite a girl, Nami. I'm
surprised you don't nag me.
- Nag?
- Yeah, that's "force," "scold."
American woman nag man?
Well, they've been
known to on occasion.
But man is master. Woman
is born to serve, obey.
Are you from Japan or paradise?
- No geisha in America?
- Geisha? What's that?
Geisha, sing, dance,
play. Geisha companion.
- Oh, are you a geisha?
- No.
I go to school. But too
clumsy, too ignorant
and good for nothing.
I dance like a horse,
sing like a crow, heh.
I'll bet that isn't true.
I'll tell you, why
don't you sing for me?
Heh, oh, come on,
sing me a song, heh.
Hai, um...
Mean bride, bride song.
Those geishas,
they'd have to sing like angels to
sound any better than that, Nami.
Sing it for us again, Nami.
Hold it!
Everybody just
take it real easy.
Quince, who was
supposed to be on guard?
Why, uh, Hey Soos.
Uh-huh.
You bring weapons
to my camp, Santanta.
You also intend to bring paint?
The war between
us is done, Favor.
Then tell your braves
to go back to the lodges.
Their lodges are cold, Favor.
Their women and children weak
from bellies too
long without food.
They will not go back,
not without Toltosh.
- Toltosh, what does that mean?
- That's only a legend.
Story goes she was a goddess,
brought health and
prosperity to the Kiowa.
She's not Toltosh.
She's but a girl, alone
and afraid in a strange land.
She is Toltosh.
The sky opened in the storm
and the goddess was there.
My braves followed her
here, back to our land,
back from the sun
behind the mountains,
to bring rain and
buffalo to her people.
Santanta, the drought will pass
in time just as it always does
and the buffalo will
come back of themselves.
So said the long knives,
so said our medicine men.
They were wrong.
Only Toltosh can save the Kiowa.
Toltosh is a dream,
a story for old women.
She lives, Favor,
and she is here.
Very well then. But
Toltosh will stay here.
You'll have to find another way.
There is no other way.
We must have Toltosh.
The girl stays here.
Then rifles will speak
and men will die.
Well, that wasn't so bad.
I mean, at least we
know what they want.
Ho. Mr. Favor, you got any extra
water in your canteen for Mr. Rowdy?
- How are you feeling?
- I'm better I think. Yeah, I think
that crazy steam
treatment worked a little bit.
I guess when we
get to Gold Hill,
I'll have to borrow the girl servant
of Hey Soos' again. Heh-heh.
- Any sign of the Kiowa?
- Oh, yeah, they're still out there.
Mr. Wishbone says
there's a storm coming.
Maybe the rain
will scare them off.
But don't look like any
rain in a sky that clear.
Heh, if there's a storm coming up
it sure is stuck in those mountains.
I don't know,
something's sure brewing.
Boy, I've never
felt the air so still.
Take it easy.
What's that?
Probably a big
rock slide up ahead.
Well, Blue Lake's
only five miles ahead,
- we can stop there.
- Not on my account.
On your account, huh?
On the herd's account,
they're beginning to drop.
Get a little water in them now,
we can still make Gold Hill by night.
If the Kiowas let us, that is.
- Now, don't tell me that's Blue Lake!
- It was Blue Lake.
It was.
That's why Santanta
didn't hit us yet.
Figuring he won't have to.
All right, we'll rest up
here, tell the others.
Rest? FAVOR: That's right.
They'll be looking
for us to panic.
We'll just set easy and move
out in our own good time.
- Yeah, but look, boss, we...
- Yeah?
- But what?
- Nothing.
Yeah.
Hey, Toothless.
Toothless, look, we're gonna
lay over here for an hour or two
and there's a little bit of water over
at the chuck wagon, if you need any.
- Oh, I need it.
- Enough for a warm bath?
- Nami, I'm afraid not.
- Oh, maybe ask boss-san.
Well, between you and me, this
is no time to ask him for anything.
But bath help worried man relax.
About the only thing
that's gonna to help
that worried man any would be
U.S. Grant and about ten regiments.
Hey Soos-san,
- there is a thing you should know.
- Not now, Nami, unh.
- You trip someplace?
- Gold Hill.
I brought the Kiowas,
it's my place to go for help.
I'll ask Senor Scarlet to
watch the remuda for me.
One man on a fast horse
might make it through.
- There are soldiers in Gold Hill.
- Trip dangerous?
It is the only way, Nami. It
is a necessary thing for me.
I hope Senor Favor
understands too.
Mr. Favor very worried.
This bad time to talk.
- You wait?
- Wait, why?
Please?
Uh, uh...
Mm, Nami.
Boss-san, a girl servant very
sorry to cause such trouble.
Oh, no. No, you didn't cause it.
You still have a headache?
Mm.
- Geisha know how to stop.
- No, look...
- I try?
- It's all right, Nami, look...
- Boss-san?
- Mm-hm?
I think about all bad luck.
Maybe if bad luck
leaves, good luck come.
Ugh, what does that mean?
That mean girl
servant should go,
- maybe with Hey Soos-san.
- No.
First place, you'll
never make it.
Besides you didn't
bring bad luck.
There ain't no such
animal as luck, good or bad.
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, no.
There's just bad judgments
and good judgments.
You mean, you not blame
anything outside of own self?
No. Not a thing.
- Not even Hey Soos-san?
- Hmm.
I see what you mean.
It wasn't Hey Soos that,
unh, decided on this cutoff.
It was me.
Heh, it wasn't Hey Soos who forgot
to order the extra barrels of water
at the last town.
It's funny.
You know, I was mad at myself
before we even started up this route,
mad at myself for risking it.
Nami, I'll let you
in on a little secret.
Last time I was through
these mountains,
I just about lost half my herd.
That was my fault too.
See, I was sitting around
hoping for the best,
waiting for a break.
Santanta and his
Kiowas, they bluffed me.
Stampeded the herd. Just about
picked up everything they wanted.
Would you believe it?
And here I was, sitting around,
hoping for the best again.
Seriously thinking of having
a parley with Santanta,
to offer him couple hundred cows
to forget this goddess business.
Well, now, that's a real
piece of bad judgment.
If he's set on a fight,
he is gonna fight.
Only one thing to
do, one smart thing.
Fight back.
Yeah, we'll just move
on until we find water.
We'll fight Santanta every
inch of the way if we got to.
We got the guns, ain't we?
We ain't so thirsty
we can't move, right?
- Boss-san headache better?
- Hmm, like it never was.
- You wait, please.
- Hmm, ugh.
- Now talk to boss-san.
- What did you say to him?
Please, you go.
Mr. Favor!
Hold your fire!
This is a waste of ammunition.
I don't know what happened. I was
on my way to the chuck wagon for water
- and I saw them sneaking here.
- Yeah.
Well,
why weren't you on guard?
Why? Because I was
waiting to ask you...
I meant to tell someone
else to take over.
How many horses we got left?
Well, there are the ones
of the men with the herd,
the wagon teams and my own.
Nine, huh?
Nine.
Nine horses for 3000 cows.
No way to move them, no water,
and a bunch of Kiowas
just waiting for us
to drop off of a tree
like a rotten apple.
Senor Favor, let
me go to Gold Hill.
- I can bring the soldiers back.
- You?
You, I wouldn't let
cross a street by yourself.
Nami.
What are you
doing? Give me this.
What were you thinking of?
Well, in my country,
person who commits so
many sins, take own life.
Oh, you wouldn't
do a thing like that.
No. With all other fault,
also I am great coward.
Nami.
Hey Soos-san,
girl servant afraid.
- We won't let the Indians hurt you.
- No, I'm not afraid of Indian.
I'm afraid of catfish.
Don't you worry...
- Afraid of what?
- Catfish.
Under earth. I
tried to tell you.
You don't feel?
Watch.
Earthquake?
Catfish, carry earth
on back, twist, turn.
First little shake,
then big, then bigger.
But how did you know
it was coming just now?
Oh, I feel in air,
almost always can tell.
- And there will be more quakes?
- Oh, yes.
Big one come very soon.
Nami, suppose the Kiowas thought
that their goddess was
doing this out of anger.
Not goddess. Catfish.
I know, I know, but
maybe we can fool them.
- Save drover?
- Oh, no. Wait a minute,
I forgot about the
herd, the steers will run.
- Hey Soos-san stop?
- No, no, no one can stop them.
Oh, but we could
lead them, turn them.
Nami, you are sure more
quakes are on the way?
- Almost sure.
- All right. Come on.
Where do you think you're going?
- Senor, I need the horse.
- Look, I told you once...
The steers are
going to stampede.
- Didn't you feel the earth shaking?
- The earth...?
Hey Soos, you come back
here! Hey, come back here!
Nami, do you know what...? Nami!
Hey, you...
What the...?
Hey, fella, you think maybe you
could tell me what is going on here?
Indian-san, konnichiwa.
Princess very angry
with you. You not act nice.
Princess destroy whole earth
if you don't bring us horse back.
Let us pass.
You leave, please?
Last warning. You go.
Destroy earth.
What's she doing?
Uh... Cat... Catfish.
Sorry, that next
to last warning.
This is last warning.
You go. Go. You go.
Destroy earth.
Earthquake! Get clear!
Nami, get out of there!
You all right?
Doggonedest thing I ever saw.
Yeah, like walking
uphill backwards.
I help, here.
Can you get up?
Okay.
Okay?
Anyone hurt?
Nothing you can notice, anyhow.
Mushy?
- Oh, you don't suppose...?
- Mr. Wishbone.
Mr. Wishbone, is it all
over? What's the matter?
Everybody knows it's best during
earthquake to get under something.
All right, young fellow,
just simmer down.
You're still gonna
have to see a doctor.
You fuzzy-faced old goat, I
never felt, ooh, better in my life.
Hey Soos,
- how much beef we lose?
- Why, none, senor.
We turned them.
Hmm.
The Kiowas, they left
our horses when they ran.
It will not be too difficult
to, uh, round them up.
Mm?
Well, Nami, everything
turned out all right, I guess.
For you, yes. For me, no.
Mr. Favor, please,
I must go back now.
Go back? There's
nothing to be afraid of now.
Only truth.
I have small confession.
I did not leave wagon
train by accident.
You mean, you
took off by yourself?
I did terrible thing. I
break a precious vase.
One thousand-year-old
and afraid to tell Baron Sakai.
That is wrong.
But what I did
after, much worse.
You, and all of you, teach
girl servant great lesson.
A lesson?
All of you face duty, never try to
hide, to turn face away from truth.
Indian come, you
don't hide, you fight.
When catfish
come, you don't run.
You save worthless servant girl.
Well, Nami, all I did was...
And trouble comes,
you don't change face.
You save face.
And I must do this.
Please, I must do this.
All right.
Hey Soos, Gold Hill's
only an hour's ride north.
No. Better it end here.
- Better you stay.
- But, Nami...
- Wish.
- I'll get her wagon.
Nami, one day maybe
you will come back.
Oh, Hey Soos-san, I have duty.
And sign paper say be
servant until I return to Japan.
Very long way.
Hey, well, uh,
nothing is impossible,
and especially for a princess
that can make the earth shake.
Oh.
Hyah.
Head them up! Move them out!
- Saddle been up yet?
- Yeah, one time.
He's an ornery son of a gun.
Comes out from under
it like it was greased.
Hey Soos!
It's time to move out.
Let the stallion loose.
Caballo will be valuable to us.
- Hey Soos, I said turn him loose.
- One more try, senor.
One more try.
Senor Quince! Senor
Rowdy, are you all right?
No. I always start
the day off like this.
- Where's he hurt?
- It's his back.
- Get me up, get me up.
- No, listen! Stay still.
I'll get Wishbone.
Come on, boy. All
you gotta do is bend.
What do you want me to
do? A few high kicks for you?
- I told you I couldn't bend.
- All right, take it easy.
Mushy, pick up the supply wagon.
You got yourself a passenger.
Yes, sir.
Wish.
- How bad?
- Oh...
Blessed if I know. He hasn't got
one thing except one little tiny scratch
you gotta look at
cross-eyed to see.
Anything you can do?
Outside of sweet-talking
him, not one blessed thing.
It takes a doctor to
figure out a back like that.
And Jim says there's a town of
Gold Hill about ten miles further up.
- Maybe there's a doc there.
- Senor?
Senor, let me go on to this
Gold Hill and get the doctor.
Yeah, horses coming in all by
themselves these days, Hey Soos?
No, Senor.
Then what in the ever-loving are
you doing standing around here, huh?
I find the horses.
He'll never believe it.
No matter what I say,
Senor Favor will
never believe it.
What the...?
Buenas tardes, senor.
I found the horses.
Senor Rowdy, I
hope you feel better.
Hey Soos. Who is that?
I, uh...
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
Well, you see, she was
with the horses, I think.
I mean, I fell, and,
well, there she was.
All I know is this is her
wagon and she's lost.
All right, everybody step
aside. I'll find out who she is.
You will?
Yeah, I speak Japanese.
I got a cousin who sails
out of San Francisco,
goes over there all
the time. Sayonara.
Well, sayonara.
What's the matter, don't you
speak your own language?
What's that mean, Wish?
Well, it's kind of a
greeting, like "hello."
- Mr. Wishbone?
- What.
If you mean hello,
why don't you say hello?
Because she wouldn't
understand, you idiot.
What's your name?
- My name Nami.
- Nami, that's pretty.
- Nami is her name, Mr. Wishbone.
- Oh, for heaven's sake.
Hey, Mushy, ask her
how she got out here.
Sure.
How'd you get out here?
Wagon.
Wagon, Mr. Wishbone.
I got ears.
You mean, you were
part of a wagon train?
- Many wagons?
- Hai, many wagon.
Master Baron Sakai
sail San Francisco,
buy many goods, show.
Well, she's part of a
trade mission or something.
No, Baron Sakai say,
"Girl servant very bad luck."
Storm come, many dust, lose,
Hey Soos-san find.
Well, senor, I couldn't
ride away and leave her.
Oh, no, you couldn't.
All right, you go along with us to
the next town that's got a telegraph.
Girl servant be no trouble.
You might not, but I can't
say the same for our company.
I guess my eyes
are giving out on me.
Looks like part of
Santanta's bunch.
Santanta. That old buzzard liked
to run us out of the reservation
last time we were through.
Oh, the way they're
sizing up the herd,
looks like Santanta's gonna
try to pick up where he left off.
Well, you got to admit.
It does make the fitting
touch to a perfect day.
The remuda runs off, my
ramrod is out of commission,
we inherit part of a Japanese
trade delegation and now...
All right, Quince, break out the
rifles, we'll ride the men in pairs.
Yes, sir.
Toothless, you'll
drive the girl's wagon.
We're moving out
the same as always?
Oh, yeah, same as always.
Well, come on, Wish,
get Rowdy loaded in that
wagon and get moving.
Senor Favor.
Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!
Looks like you need
a little help there.
- Heh.
- Hey, Joe, give me a hand, will you?
Oh, strong like a samurai.
- Like who?
- Samurai, warrior.
Well, I have done a
little fighting in my time.
Hey, tell me,
how'd you beat Wishbone
out of all that water anyway?
Oh, I smile and ask.
Yeah, a pretty girl always could
beat that buzzard out of anything.
What are you doing?
I must put water in tub
and take it over there.
No, Nami, we'll get that.
No, no, no. You go on
now. We'll take care of it.
You bet.
- Nami.
- I disturb?
Oh, no, no.
For tired face.
Ahh...
Well, Nami, you
didn't stay lost long.
By the end of the week
we will be in Gold Hill.
Yes, maybe.
Heh, "Yes, maybe," what?
Maybe I stay?
Stay? You mean with us?
Maybe Hey Soos-san
need girl servant?
Why, you couldn't be
my girl servant, Nami.
- Could not?
- No.
Must return?
Must return.
Now, look, Nami, it isn't that we
wouldn't want you here with us.
You know that, hmm?
It's just that, well,
right now we have more
problems than we can handle.
Senor Rowdy, he's
no better. It's my fault.
I make a foolish mistake
and Senor Favor grows angry,
out of shame I make
more mistakes and more.
Girl servant wish to help, then
maybe Hey Soos-san keep?
Oh, Nami.
Oh, now, Hey Soos-san
you'll feel better after bath.
Over here, please.
Oh, well, I hope it
ain't too hot for you.
Try, please.
Oh, never mind. It's all right.
Now, wait a minute, Nami,
you mean this ain't for you?
For girl servant?
In America girl servant
bathe before master?
Yeah, but that ain't the point.
But girl servant bathe later.
First, Hey Soos-san, then
all drover, then girl servant.
Yeah, but don't you reckon that water
is gonna be a little dirty by the time
you get around to it?
- Why? Everybody wash before?
- Before getting in the tub?
In America people
take bath dirty?
Well, not being partial
to soap and suds, heh,
I can't think of any
other reason for it, heh.
Poor little old thing.
Sun's got to her, sure
as the devil's got a tail.
Yeah.
Come on, boy, move the legs.
Why? I ain't going nowhere.
What you wanna do, just sit
there and let the world pass you by?
Next thing, you'll be wanting
me to spoon feed you.
Wishbone.
Ugh, oh, come on, move
the legs. That's all I ask.
Wishbone, I'm gonna close
my eyes and count to ten.
When I snap my fingers
and open my eyes,
you're gonna be
gone, aren't you?
Because if you ain't...
Nami, will you get this
fuzz face out of here?
All you got is a little bruise
in the middle of your back,
and the more you baby
it the worse it's gonna get.
Wishbone, you've got
just five more seconds,
then pow, you're gonna be gone.
It still takes more than
finger-snapping to get rid of me.
- Wishbone.
- All right!
What do you want
to do, kick me out?
Come on, kick,
kick, kick. Ahh...
If you don't mind me being
personal, what are you doing here?
Oh, making Japanese tent.
- Nami, I don't need a tent.
- Oh, yes.
- Hold the steam.
- Steam?
Help little back.
Little back?
- Heat and right exercise cure.
- Wait just a minute there.
Japanese tent too short.
Rowdy-san too long,
so head stick out.
- Now, wait a minute, uh, Nami.
- You trust?
Yeah. I trust, sort of.
Get out of here.
How come you're doing all this?
I do this for Hey Soos-san.
He blame himself. He worry.
Yeah, well, we sure wouldn't
want Hey Soos-san worrying.
You're quite a girl, Nami. I'm
surprised you don't nag me.
- Nag?
- Yeah, that's "force," "scold."
American woman nag man?
Well, they've been
known to on occasion.
But man is master. Woman
is born to serve, obey.
Are you from Japan or paradise?
- No geisha in America?
- Geisha? What's that?
Geisha, sing, dance,
play. Geisha companion.
- Oh, are you a geisha?
- No.
I go to school. But too
clumsy, too ignorant
and good for nothing.
I dance like a horse,
sing like a crow, heh.
I'll bet that isn't true.
I'll tell you, why
don't you sing for me?
Heh, oh, come on,
sing me a song, heh.
Hai, um...
Mean bride, bride song.
Those geishas,
they'd have to sing like angels to
sound any better than that, Nami.
Sing it for us again, Nami.
Hold it!
Everybody just
take it real easy.
Quince, who was
supposed to be on guard?
Why, uh, Hey Soos.
Uh-huh.
You bring weapons
to my camp, Santanta.
You also intend to bring paint?
The war between
us is done, Favor.
Then tell your braves
to go back to the lodges.
Their lodges are cold, Favor.
Their women and children weak
from bellies too
long without food.
They will not go back,
not without Toltosh.
- Toltosh, what does that mean?
- That's only a legend.
Story goes she was a goddess,
brought health and
prosperity to the Kiowa.
She's not Toltosh.
She's but a girl, alone
and afraid in a strange land.
She is Toltosh.
The sky opened in the storm
and the goddess was there.
My braves followed her
here, back to our land,
back from the sun
behind the mountains,
to bring rain and
buffalo to her people.
Santanta, the drought will pass
in time just as it always does
and the buffalo will
come back of themselves.
So said the long knives,
so said our medicine men.
They were wrong.
Only Toltosh can save the Kiowa.
Toltosh is a dream,
a story for old women.
She lives, Favor,
and she is here.
Very well then. But
Toltosh will stay here.
You'll have to find another way.
There is no other way.
We must have Toltosh.
The girl stays here.
Then rifles will speak
and men will die.
Well, that wasn't so bad.
I mean, at least we
know what they want.
Ho. Mr. Favor, you got any extra
water in your canteen for Mr. Rowdy?
- How are you feeling?
- I'm better I think. Yeah, I think
that crazy steam
treatment worked a little bit.
I guess when we
get to Gold Hill,
I'll have to borrow the girl servant
of Hey Soos' again. Heh-heh.
- Any sign of the Kiowa?
- Oh, yeah, they're still out there.
Mr. Wishbone says
there's a storm coming.
Maybe the rain
will scare them off.
But don't look like any
rain in a sky that clear.
Heh, if there's a storm coming up
it sure is stuck in those mountains.
I don't know,
something's sure brewing.
Boy, I've never
felt the air so still.
Take it easy.
What's that?
Probably a big
rock slide up ahead.
Well, Blue Lake's
only five miles ahead,
- we can stop there.
- Not on my account.
On your account, huh?
On the herd's account,
they're beginning to drop.
Get a little water in them now,
we can still make Gold Hill by night.
If the Kiowas let us, that is.
- Now, don't tell me that's Blue Lake!
- It was Blue Lake.
It was.
That's why Santanta
didn't hit us yet.
Figuring he won't have to.
All right, we'll rest up
here, tell the others.
Rest? FAVOR: That's right.
They'll be looking
for us to panic.
We'll just set easy and move
out in our own good time.
- Yeah, but look, boss, we...
- Yeah?
- But what?
- Nothing.
Yeah.
Hey, Toothless.
Toothless, look, we're gonna
lay over here for an hour or two
and there's a little bit of water over
at the chuck wagon, if you need any.
- Oh, I need it.
- Enough for a warm bath?
- Nami, I'm afraid not.
- Oh, maybe ask boss-san.
Well, between you and me, this
is no time to ask him for anything.
But bath help worried man relax.
About the only thing
that's gonna to help
that worried man any would be
U.S. Grant and about ten regiments.
Hey Soos-san,
- there is a thing you should know.
- Not now, Nami, unh.
- You trip someplace?
- Gold Hill.
I brought the Kiowas,
it's my place to go for help.
I'll ask Senor Scarlet to
watch the remuda for me.
One man on a fast horse
might make it through.
- There are soldiers in Gold Hill.
- Trip dangerous?
It is the only way, Nami. It
is a necessary thing for me.
I hope Senor Favor
understands too.
Mr. Favor very worried.
This bad time to talk.
- You wait?
- Wait, why?
Please?
Uh, uh...
Mm, Nami.
Boss-san, a girl servant very
sorry to cause such trouble.
Oh, no. No, you didn't cause it.
You still have a headache?
Mm.
- Geisha know how to stop.
- No, look...
- I try?
- It's all right, Nami, look...
- Boss-san?
- Mm-hm?
I think about all bad luck.
Maybe if bad luck
leaves, good luck come.
Ugh, what does that mean?
That mean girl
servant should go,
- maybe with Hey Soos-san.
- No.
First place, you'll
never make it.
Besides you didn't
bring bad luck.
There ain't no such
animal as luck, good or bad.
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, no.
There's just bad judgments
and good judgments.
You mean, you not blame
anything outside of own self?
No. Not a thing.
- Not even Hey Soos-san?
- Hmm.
I see what you mean.
It wasn't Hey Soos that,
unh, decided on this cutoff.
It was me.
Heh, it wasn't Hey Soos who forgot
to order the extra barrels of water
at the last town.
It's funny.
You know, I was mad at myself
before we even started up this route,
mad at myself for risking it.
Nami, I'll let you
in on a little secret.
Last time I was through
these mountains,
I just about lost half my herd.
That was my fault too.
See, I was sitting around
hoping for the best,
waiting for a break.
Santanta and his
Kiowas, they bluffed me.
Stampeded the herd. Just about
picked up everything they wanted.
Would you believe it?
And here I was, sitting around,
hoping for the best again.
Seriously thinking of having
a parley with Santanta,
to offer him couple hundred cows
to forget this goddess business.
Well, now, that's a real
piece of bad judgment.
If he's set on a fight,
he is gonna fight.
Only one thing to
do, one smart thing.
Fight back.
Yeah, we'll just move
on until we find water.
We'll fight Santanta every
inch of the way if we got to.
We got the guns, ain't we?
We ain't so thirsty
we can't move, right?
- Boss-san headache better?
- Hmm, like it never was.
- You wait, please.
- Hmm, ugh.
- Now talk to boss-san.
- What did you say to him?
Please, you go.
Mr. Favor!
Hold your fire!
This is a waste of ammunition.
I don't know what happened. I was
on my way to the chuck wagon for water
- and I saw them sneaking here.
- Yeah.
Well,
why weren't you on guard?
Why? Because I was
waiting to ask you...
I meant to tell someone
else to take over.
How many horses we got left?
Well, there are the ones
of the men with the herd,
the wagon teams and my own.
Nine, huh?
Nine.
Nine horses for 3000 cows.
No way to move them, no water,
and a bunch of Kiowas
just waiting for us
to drop off of a tree
like a rotten apple.
Senor Favor, let
me go to Gold Hill.
- I can bring the soldiers back.
- You?
You, I wouldn't let
cross a street by yourself.
Nami.
What are you
doing? Give me this.
What were you thinking of?
Well, in my country,
person who commits so
many sins, take own life.
Oh, you wouldn't
do a thing like that.
No. With all other fault,
also I am great coward.
Nami.
Hey Soos-san,
girl servant afraid.
- We won't let the Indians hurt you.
- No, I'm not afraid of Indian.
I'm afraid of catfish.
Don't you worry...
- Afraid of what?
- Catfish.
Under earth. I
tried to tell you.
You don't feel?
Watch.
Earthquake?
Catfish, carry earth
on back, twist, turn.
First little shake,
then big, then bigger.
But how did you know
it was coming just now?
Oh, I feel in air,
almost always can tell.
- And there will be more quakes?
- Oh, yes.
Big one come very soon.
Nami, suppose the Kiowas thought
that their goddess was
doing this out of anger.
Not goddess. Catfish.
I know, I know, but
maybe we can fool them.
- Save drover?
- Oh, no. Wait a minute,
I forgot about the
herd, the steers will run.
- Hey Soos-san stop?
- No, no, no one can stop them.
Oh, but we could
lead them, turn them.
Nami, you are sure more
quakes are on the way?
- Almost sure.
- All right. Come on.
Where do you think you're going?
- Senor, I need the horse.
- Look, I told you once...
The steers are
going to stampede.
- Didn't you feel the earth shaking?
- The earth...?
Hey Soos, you come back
here! Hey, come back here!
Nami, do you know what...? Nami!
Hey, you...
What the...?
Hey, fella, you think maybe you
could tell me what is going on here?
Indian-san, konnichiwa.
Princess very angry
with you. You not act nice.
Princess destroy whole earth
if you don't bring us horse back.
Let us pass.
You leave, please?
Last warning. You go.
Destroy earth.
What's she doing?
Uh... Cat... Catfish.
Sorry, that next
to last warning.
This is last warning.
You go. Go. You go.
Destroy earth.
Earthquake! Get clear!
Nami, get out of there!
You all right?
Doggonedest thing I ever saw.
Yeah, like walking
uphill backwards.
I help, here.
Can you get up?
Okay.
Okay?
Anyone hurt?
Nothing you can notice, anyhow.
Mushy?
- Oh, you don't suppose...?
- Mr. Wishbone.
Mr. Wishbone, is it all
over? What's the matter?
Everybody knows it's best during
earthquake to get under something.
All right, young fellow,
just simmer down.
You're still gonna
have to see a doctor.
You fuzzy-faced old goat, I
never felt, ooh, better in my life.
Hey Soos,
- how much beef we lose?
- Why, none, senor.
We turned them.
Hmm.
The Kiowas, they left
our horses when they ran.
It will not be too difficult
to, uh, round them up.
Mm?
Well, Nami, everything
turned out all right, I guess.
For you, yes. For me, no.
Mr. Favor, please,
I must go back now.
Go back? There's
nothing to be afraid of now.
Only truth.
I have small confession.
I did not leave wagon
train by accident.
You mean, you
took off by yourself?
I did terrible thing. I
break a precious vase.
One thousand-year-old
and afraid to tell Baron Sakai.
That is wrong.
But what I did
after, much worse.
You, and all of you, teach
girl servant great lesson.
A lesson?
All of you face duty, never try to
hide, to turn face away from truth.
Indian come, you
don't hide, you fight.
When catfish
come, you don't run.
You save worthless servant girl.
Well, Nami, all I did was...
And trouble comes,
you don't change face.
You save face.
And I must do this.
Please, I must do this.
All right.
Hey Soos, Gold Hill's
only an hour's ride north.
No. Better it end here.
- Better you stay.
- But, Nami...
- Wish.
- I'll get her wagon.
Nami, one day maybe
you will come back.
Oh, Hey Soos-san, I have duty.
And sign paper say be
servant until I return to Japan.
Very long way.
Hey, well, uh,
nothing is impossible,
and especially for a princess
that can make the earth shake.
Oh.
Hyah.
Head them up! Move them out!