The American West (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Episode #1.7 - full transcript
Previously on
"The American West"...
The nation and big business
struggle to settle
the western frontier.
And deputy marshal
of Dodge City Wyatt Earp
has discovered
that with more money
comes more corruption.
So the lawman
turns in his badge
and heads further west
to new opportunity
in a town called Tombstone.
Meanwhile in Missouri,
after three years in hiding,
notorious outlaw
Jesse James reemerges...
I want everybody's attention,
and I want it now!
...with a new gang
and once again finds himself
one of the country's
most wanted men.
In New Mexico,
Billy the Kid has been
on a murderous rampage.
But when the law
finally catches up to him...
It's Pat Garrett!
...Billy will have to plan
his next move...
from behind bars.
You really kill 21 men?
Don't believe everything
you read in the paper.
You know, I was never a criminal
until the law made me one.
I had a reason
for every man I killed.
How many reasons
did you have?
Twenty-one.
After surrendering
to lawman Pat Garrett,
Billy the Kid
awaits his trial
for the murder of corrupt
Lincoln County Sheriff
William J. Brady.
As news of
Brady's murder spreads,
it only adds to the West's
violent reputation.
During this period
in the West,
they're just trying
to protect their bottom line.
Everybody's saying in order
to transact business,
we need to put clamps
on all this lawlessness.
The government knows
they can use Billy the Kid
to send a message
about lawlessness in the West.
In the entire
Lincoln County War,
Billy the Kid is the only one
charged with any crime
and that's because
the territory
was determined
to get rid of him.
He was bad for business.
He's just too reckless.
We can't have outlaws
if we're gonna bring
business to New Mexico.
In a trial that
only lasts one day,
Billy is sentenced to hang.
But New Mexico's
infamous outlaw
isn't ready to give in
just yet.
Lunchtime, Billy.
Cold grits,
just how you like 'em.
Pat Garrett left
Billy the Kid
with two deputies.
One was a nice man
named Deputy Bell.
The other was a man
named Bob Olinger,
who was a mean, mean guy.
And Billy hated him.
Not so tough anymore.
Enjoy the gruel.
When Billy was in the jail,
he was thinking...
"How can I
get out of this?"
He was not going
to hang easily.
Damn.
A little help?
What, you want me
to feed ya?
Unless you got
a better idea.
Stand up.
Yes, Deputy.
I'm taking this shackle off.
Once you're done eatin',
it goes right back on.
You got five minutes.
Hey, Deputy?
Ah!
Bell.
Bell, don't.
Once again, Billy the Kid
has pulled off
an impossible escape
that leaves
two deputies dead.
He was a very charming guy,
but he literally had no problem
killing anybody.
Now the most famous outlaw
in the West
is back on the run.
Four hundred miles away...
former lawman Wyatt Earp
has moved on
from the corrupt town
of Dodge City...
and is looking
to strike it rich
in one of the biggest
new boomtowns in the West...
Tombstone, Arizona.
Tombstone explodes
on the scene
because silver
had been discovered there.
One day you were looking at
a desert landscape of mesquite,
and then, as if a magician
had waved a wand,
suddenly you had a town.
Tombstone was
the absolutely typical boomtown.
Once that word got out,
it swelled in size
dramatically.
The usual things
that come along with it...
the gambling,
the prostitution,
but also a lot
of legitimate businesses.
- To Tombstone.
- To Tombstone.
Wyatt's brothers
Virgil and Morgan join him
in his plan
to mine silver.
But the Earps
quickly discover
that the best mining land
has already been claimed.
After traveling
nearly 900 miles
to seek out his fortune,
Wyatt's prospects
are growing dim.
But the boomtown
has a new problem,
and Wyatt may be
the perfect man to solve it.
Tombstone in the early 1880s
was your typical boomtown.
But it was hard
to get there.
There was not a train
that came to town.
You had to go from train
to stagecoach or wagon.
Stagecoaches carry
thousands of dollars
worth of silver
from Tombstone mines
to the nearest railroad head,
making them prime targets
for criminals
looking to make
a quick score.
You'd have a driver,
and then you'd have
a shotgun driver
sitting right there
with a shotgun
ready to take on
whoever there was.
But despite all of that,
the stagecoaches
were sometimes ambushed.
Sometimes there were deaths.
Looking for a solution,
local businesses
turn to Wyatt Earp for help.
Wyatt was the right lawman
for Tombstone
because of his background
in the Kansas cow towns.
He understood cowboys
and he understood
how they acted.
And he could read
the warning signs before they came.
So it just happened
to be the perfect storm
when he came to Tombstone.
Wyatt Earp is appointed
deputy sheriff of Tombstone
and, with the help
of his brothers,
begins making an impact
in the lawless boomtown.
As deputy sheriff
in Tombstone,
he's remarkably effective.
He trails killers,
he makes numerous arrests.
Men don't escape
from his jail.
Wyatt took that law enforcement
responsibility very seriously.
In the spring of 1881,
Wyatt gets
his biggest case yet...
when a stagecoach robbery
outside Tombstone
leaves two men dead.
When a robbery, such as
the spectacular robbery
of a stagecoach going from
Benson to Tombstone occurred,
it was really a big deal.
Wyatt Earp doesn't realize
that he's just walked in
on a case
that will cement his place
in western mythology...
and turn him from a lawman
into an outlaw.
Looks like there
were three of them.
Maybe more.
Didn't stick around long.
They didn't even get
a shot off.
Who do you think did it?
I don't know...
but I know
who probably does.
There was $25,000 worth
of silver onboard
that was gonna be used
for currency in Tombstone.
Wells Fargo put out
a very large reward
to find the perpetrators.
Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Earp
knows that in Tombstone
there's only one group
capable of an act like this...
the ruthless gang
of outlaws known as
"the Cochise Cowboys."
The Cochise Cowboys
are made up
of nearly 300 cattle rustlers,
smugglers and bandits
spread out across
the Arizona territory
who have developed
a notorious reputation
across the country.
The Cowboys were known
for their hotheadedness.
They were a pretty bad lot.
One of the most well-known
of the Cowboys
is a man named
Ike Clanton.
Ike Clanton's
a one-man riot.
He was a notorious man.
Not a man you wanted
to offend.
There better be
a good reason I'm here.
It all depends
on you, Ike.
There was a stagecoach robbery
a few days back.
Two men are dead.
Judging by the tracks,
I'd say there were three men.
You think I did it?
No. Wells Fargo
is offering
a $3,600 reward
for their arrest.
You give me
the three names,
I'll give you
the $3,600.
If anyone
were to find out...
and I mean anyone...
No one will find out.
I give you my word.
Leonard, Head, and Crane.
Armed with names of the men
responsible for the robbery,
Wyatt Earp sets off
to track them down.
Four hundred miles away...
Lincoln County Sheriff
Pat Garrett
is about to begin
a manhunt of his own.
Where the hell
did Billy get the guns?
Pat Garrett has two reactions
when he sees
this horrible jailbreak...
one reaction
is tremendous anger.
Another reaction
is tremendous guilt.
Pat Garrett knew
Billy was ruthless
and would stop at nothing
to escape.
I think he felt like
he was partly responsible
for those murders.
How do you think
it is that you got elected sheriff
of Lincoln County?
Because you're
a popular man?
Some kind of
great success?
People of Lincoln County
didn't elect you, Sheriff...
I did.
I found him once,
I'll find him again.
Try not to lose him
this time.
Trust me, I won't.
Prominent businessman
Thomas Catron knows
in order for business
to grow in the West,
he needs to stop
Billy the Kid
once and for all.
And this time Pat Garrett's
not taking any chances,
because he's not
out to arrest Billy,
he's out to kill him.
After Jesse James'
first train robbery
in three years
is a failure,
he knows he needs
to make some changes
if he's going to continue
his life of crime.
With Jesse James,
it's like all these movies.
These guys
go into retirement,
they need a little money,
and they're like,
"Oh, one more job."
That is Jesse James.
The train's gonna come
around a nice tight bend,
then it goes up a ridge,
which is nice,
'cause it's gotta slow down
considerable right here.
That's gonna give us
the time we need.
Jesse begins picking
his targets more carefully
and hires a new gang member
to help him
pull off the heist...
fellow Missourian
Charley Ford.
There's something about
Charley Ford that Jesse liked.
I don't know what it was.
And Charley Ford liked Jesse.
There was a certain
code of honor.
I think a certain loyalty
was probably built
into a lot
of relationships,
because you really needed
to have somebody watching your back,
you know,
somebody you could trust.
You stay in your seats,
and you will have
a nice story
to tell your friends.
Get up, move around,
and you probably
will not be talking to them.
After a string
of successful robberies,
Jesse James
reestablishes himself
as one of the most
dangerous criminals in the West.
What did I tell you
about bringing strangers around here?
This is my brother Robert,
the one I told you about.
It's a pleasure
to meet you.
How old are you?
Twenty,
nearly twenty.
How many men
you killed?
I'm asking you,
not your brother.
None.
I got no use
for him.
Jesse, he's my brother.
I-I trust him
more than anyone I know.
We're low on whiskey.
Did you hear
what I just said?
Jesse needs
an extra man
because he has
a bank robbery planned in Platte City.
So he's willing to accept
this young Bob Ford,
who's Charley's brother,
'cause Jesse liked Charley Ford,
and I'm sure that
Charley vouched for Bob.
With another gang member
on board,
Jesse James starts planning
his next heist.
Over a thousand miles
to the west,
one man continues to crack down
on crime in his town.
For the past four months,
Wyatt Earp and his brothers
Virgil and Morgan
have been on the hunt
for three outlaws
involved in a deadly
stagecoach robbery.
But to catch the men,
Wyatt has brought in
more muscle...
Two for me, Wyatt.
...a famed gambler
and notorious gunman
named Doc Holliday.
- Oh, boy.
- My heart's broken.
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp
met in Dodge City.
They had been friends
for a long time.
So Doc turns up
in Tombstone as well
and was very close
to the Earps.
Wyatt plans to ride out
with Doc and his brothers
to confront the men
responsible.
But before Wyatt
can take them down,
the three suspects
turn up dead.
Wyatt wanted
to solve the murders,
only the perpetrators
got caught in another showdown
and were killed.
With the suspects dead,
in Wyatt's mind,
the case is closed.
All right, boys,
poker's the game.
$10 to get in.
What can I
do ya for, Morgan?
All right,
I'll take two.
Damn it, I fold.
Surprise, surprise.
We need to talk.
What do you want?
I gave you three names.
I want my $3,600.
The $3,600
was for the reward.
The three names you gave me
wound up dead.
I took a big risk
giving up those names.
I know you did.
If I had the money,
I'd give it to you.
But I don't.
That's not my problem.
It's not mine, either.
I told you
don't cross me!
I heard you
the first time.
I think we both know
you're not gonna do
a damn thing about it.
Get the hell outta here.
Ike was caught in the middle.
And he was afraid
that if anybody knew
that he had this deal
with Wyatt Earp,
his name would be mud,
because loyalty was everything
at the frontier.
With Ike Clanton looking
to make good on his threat,
Wyatt Earp realizes
he's made a new enemy
in Tombstone.
Shall we resume, boys?
For the last four years,
Lakota leader Sitting Bull
and his people
have been following
the northern buffalo herd in Canada
after being forced
from their native lands
in the United States.
Following the death
of Crazy Horse
at the hands
of the U.S. Army,
Sitting Bull is one of
the few remaining leaders of the Lakota.
And now,
after a brutal winter,
his people
are facing a crisis.
Sitting Bull
realizes he has no choice
but to lead his people
back to America...
and agree to live
on the reservation.
I just feel like
he had to have known
this isn't gonna
get better.
Any respectful man
who loves his wife and his children,
that's what
they're gonna do.
Upon his arrival
to the U.S.,
Sitting Bull,
like thousands of Indians,
is forced to assimilate
to the white man's ways.
He was adjusting
to the reservation life,
not that he liked it,
but there was a certain
acceptance, I guess.
I don't think anyone
that was born in a teepee,
that was living the last part of
their life on a reservation...
I don't know how anyone
could've been happy.
Knowing that things
would never go back
to the way they were,
Sitting Bull believes
there may be one way
to preserve
some of the Lakota culture.
In 1885, Sitting Bull
leaves his reservation
to join Buffalo Bill Cody's
famous Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill started
portraying himself onstage.
It was kind of
a combination of a rodeo
and performances.
And one
of the very savvy things
that Buffalo Bill did
was that he would bring
real Native Americans along
in the show
and they would perform,
and they would kind of
reenact battles.
It was wildly popular in the 1880s
and 1890s in the United States.
Why would someone
like Sitting Bull
agree to join
the Wild West Show?
There seems to have been
a couple of reasons for this.
For a lot of the Lakota
who are on the reservations,
they're being exposed
to these tremendous efforts
to Americanize them, right?
To destroy their culture.
The Wild West Show
is one of the few ways
that they can
actually maintain
at least a fragment
of traditional culture
and demonstrate their skill
as horsemen
and their skill and bravery
as warriors.
While Sitting Bull
begins touring the country...
another legend of the West
is gaining notoriety
once again.
My name is Jesse James,
and I trust you know who I am.
With a new gang
by his side,
Jesse James
has successfully pulled off
a series of train heists.
But his actions are gaining
more attention than ever.
For Missouri,
for the governors and for the bankers,
it's not good when people call your state
the Robber State.
That doesn't really
recruit business.
That doesn't recruit
land buyers.
It's a stain
on your state.
So they want
to get beyond that.
The railroad companies
reach out
to the governor of Missouri
to put an end
to Jesse's spree,
offering a $5,000 reward
for his capture.
You wanna explain to me what
in the hell took you so long?
We came as quick
as we could.
Anybody see you?
No. No... no one.
Sit down.
With a new bounty
on his head,
Jesse goes into hiding.
And he knows if he's going
to stay away from the law,
he needs to keep his two newest
gang members close to him.
Jesse was the most paranoid
of any of the gang members.
He'd become very suspicious,
and you can't really
blame him.
I think that
the Ford boys,
he could keep an eye on them
and make sure
that everything is normal,
the way it should be.
All right, this bounty
that's on my head,
it's now on
all of our heads.
You understand
what I'm sayin'?
I understand.
Yeah.
As a man
with a price on his head,
it's becoming hard
for Jesse to tell
who he can trust.
After escaping jail,
Billy the Kid
is enjoying life
as a fugitive.
He never, ever for a second
thought he was gonna be caught.
And if he was caught,
what would he do?
He would escape, because
he was always escaping.
And he had a sense
that he had a charmed life
and that there was nothing
that could ever touch him,
and, you know,
he's 20 years old.
I mean, he's got
that sense of immortality.
Every friend
he encounters tells him,
"Billy, Pat Garrett
is a different kind of sheriff.
He is not going to stop
hunting you.
You can flee now,
go to Mexico.
Nobody's gonna look
for you in Mexico.
Get out of the territory."
But he insisted on staying
in that Fort Sumner area,
that part of
eastern New Mexico.
But what Billy
doesn't realize
is that Lincoln County
Sheriff Pat Garrett
has been tracking him
for the last three months.
The killing of two deputies
changes everything,
and Garrett engages
in a massive manhunt
for Billy the Kid.
After hearing rumors
that Billy may be in Fort Sumner,
Pat Garrett uses
his knowledge of the land
to track the young outlaw
to a ranch outside of town.
Stay here.
I'm gonna go look around.
You know,
for the average citizen,
Billy the Kid
is very horrifying...
I mean,
that he's on the loose,
so there's tremendous pressure
on Pat Garrett as the sheriff
to get Billy, kill him,
capture him, get it done.
Billy the Kid's
just incredibly charming,
but he's also deadly,
and he can just turn on a dime.
And that smile could fade
and that pistol would come out.
Qué es?
Who's there?
Billy the Kid is dead
at 21 years old.
But in death,
a kid from New York City
becomes a legend
of the American West.
Billy the Kid is just that...
he was a kid.
He was a kid
caught up in something
that he couldn't control,
without any deeper ambition
than just to survive
in this jungle.
Billy lived in
a very, very violent world.
And the way he responded
was sensational.
And then the way he died
made him legendary.
The newspapers
pick up on the story.
There are books
written about him.
He became what he did
because he embodies
the idea of freedom.
When you take a look
at the dime novels
that were so successful
back East,
it was always the David
against the Goliath
that was the most exciting.
Billy the Kid was so attractive
in that context.
Here was this very small,
you know, unassuming kid.
But if you tried to take advantage
of him, you'd pay for it.
And there was
a great romance in that.
The death of Billy the Kid
marks the end of an era.
But while one ruthless outlaw
may be gone,
the violence in the West
is far from over.
After Wyatt Earp
refuses to give Ike Clanton
a $3,600 bounty...
the notorious cowboy
is out for revenge.
You're a dead man, Earp!
Wyatt!
You're a dead man!
Ike Clanton
is not happy with Earp.
So he walked around that morning
pretty much letting everybody know
that he was going
to kill them.
Virgil!
Morgan!
You're dead men!
To back up his threats,
Clanton enlists the help
of his fellow gang members.
It's Ike.
He's in town.
Wyatt, he's drunker
than hell.
Going around telling everyone
he's coming to kill you
and your brothers.
Where's he at?
Last place I saw him
was over on Fremont.
Does he have
anyone else with him?
Four, maybe five guys.
There was a lot
of anxiety and tension.
And it was brewing,
you could feel it.
You knew something
was gonna happen.
You knew something
was going down that day.
By bringing their guns
into Tombstone,
Clanton's gang knows
they are provoking a fight.
What do you want
to do, Wyatt?
Go get me Doc Holliday.
Yes, sir.
Ike Clanton has been
talking all around town
about what they're
gonna do to Wyatt.
The Earps make the decision
to walk down there
and confront these guys.
The way to understand men
in this period
is an honor culture.
You have to be willing
to meet
any challenge to your honor
with violence,
otherwise you're a coward.
Wyatt Earp is headed
to a showdown with Ike Clanton
at the O.K. Corral.
The sight of
the three Earp brothers
and Doc Holliday marching down
the dusty streets of Tombstone
to confront the cowboys
at the O.K. Corral
has burned
into our mythology.
Give us your guns.
Throw up your hands.
I'm not gonna ask again.
"The American West"...
The nation and big business
struggle to settle
the western frontier.
And deputy marshal
of Dodge City Wyatt Earp
has discovered
that with more money
comes more corruption.
So the lawman
turns in his badge
and heads further west
to new opportunity
in a town called Tombstone.
Meanwhile in Missouri,
after three years in hiding,
notorious outlaw
Jesse James reemerges...
I want everybody's attention,
and I want it now!
...with a new gang
and once again finds himself
one of the country's
most wanted men.
In New Mexico,
Billy the Kid has been
on a murderous rampage.
But when the law
finally catches up to him...
It's Pat Garrett!
...Billy will have to plan
his next move...
from behind bars.
You really kill 21 men?
Don't believe everything
you read in the paper.
You know, I was never a criminal
until the law made me one.
I had a reason
for every man I killed.
How many reasons
did you have?
Twenty-one.
After surrendering
to lawman Pat Garrett,
Billy the Kid
awaits his trial
for the murder of corrupt
Lincoln County Sheriff
William J. Brady.
As news of
Brady's murder spreads,
it only adds to the West's
violent reputation.
During this period
in the West,
they're just trying
to protect their bottom line.
Everybody's saying in order
to transact business,
we need to put clamps
on all this lawlessness.
The government knows
they can use Billy the Kid
to send a message
about lawlessness in the West.
In the entire
Lincoln County War,
Billy the Kid is the only one
charged with any crime
and that's because
the territory
was determined
to get rid of him.
He was bad for business.
He's just too reckless.
We can't have outlaws
if we're gonna bring
business to New Mexico.
In a trial that
only lasts one day,
Billy is sentenced to hang.
But New Mexico's
infamous outlaw
isn't ready to give in
just yet.
Lunchtime, Billy.
Cold grits,
just how you like 'em.
Pat Garrett left
Billy the Kid
with two deputies.
One was a nice man
named Deputy Bell.
The other was a man
named Bob Olinger,
who was a mean, mean guy.
And Billy hated him.
Not so tough anymore.
Enjoy the gruel.
When Billy was in the jail,
he was thinking...
"How can I
get out of this?"
He was not going
to hang easily.
Damn.
A little help?
What, you want me
to feed ya?
Unless you got
a better idea.
Stand up.
Yes, Deputy.
I'm taking this shackle off.
Once you're done eatin',
it goes right back on.
You got five minutes.
Hey, Deputy?
Ah!
Bell.
Bell, don't.
Once again, Billy the Kid
has pulled off
an impossible escape
that leaves
two deputies dead.
He was a very charming guy,
but he literally had no problem
killing anybody.
Now the most famous outlaw
in the West
is back on the run.
Four hundred miles away...
former lawman Wyatt Earp
has moved on
from the corrupt town
of Dodge City...
and is looking
to strike it rich
in one of the biggest
new boomtowns in the West...
Tombstone, Arizona.
Tombstone explodes
on the scene
because silver
had been discovered there.
One day you were looking at
a desert landscape of mesquite,
and then, as if a magician
had waved a wand,
suddenly you had a town.
Tombstone was
the absolutely typical boomtown.
Once that word got out,
it swelled in size
dramatically.
The usual things
that come along with it...
the gambling,
the prostitution,
but also a lot
of legitimate businesses.
- To Tombstone.
- To Tombstone.
Wyatt's brothers
Virgil and Morgan join him
in his plan
to mine silver.
But the Earps
quickly discover
that the best mining land
has already been claimed.
After traveling
nearly 900 miles
to seek out his fortune,
Wyatt's prospects
are growing dim.
But the boomtown
has a new problem,
and Wyatt may be
the perfect man to solve it.
Tombstone in the early 1880s
was your typical boomtown.
But it was hard
to get there.
There was not a train
that came to town.
You had to go from train
to stagecoach or wagon.
Stagecoaches carry
thousands of dollars
worth of silver
from Tombstone mines
to the nearest railroad head,
making them prime targets
for criminals
looking to make
a quick score.
You'd have a driver,
and then you'd have
a shotgun driver
sitting right there
with a shotgun
ready to take on
whoever there was.
But despite all of that,
the stagecoaches
were sometimes ambushed.
Sometimes there were deaths.
Looking for a solution,
local businesses
turn to Wyatt Earp for help.
Wyatt was the right lawman
for Tombstone
because of his background
in the Kansas cow towns.
He understood cowboys
and he understood
how they acted.
And he could read
the warning signs before they came.
So it just happened
to be the perfect storm
when he came to Tombstone.
Wyatt Earp is appointed
deputy sheriff of Tombstone
and, with the help
of his brothers,
begins making an impact
in the lawless boomtown.
As deputy sheriff
in Tombstone,
he's remarkably effective.
He trails killers,
he makes numerous arrests.
Men don't escape
from his jail.
Wyatt took that law enforcement
responsibility very seriously.
In the spring of 1881,
Wyatt gets
his biggest case yet...
when a stagecoach robbery
outside Tombstone
leaves two men dead.
When a robbery, such as
the spectacular robbery
of a stagecoach going from
Benson to Tombstone occurred,
it was really a big deal.
Wyatt Earp doesn't realize
that he's just walked in
on a case
that will cement his place
in western mythology...
and turn him from a lawman
into an outlaw.
Looks like there
were three of them.
Maybe more.
Didn't stick around long.
They didn't even get
a shot off.
Who do you think did it?
I don't know...
but I know
who probably does.
There was $25,000 worth
of silver onboard
that was gonna be used
for currency in Tombstone.
Wells Fargo put out
a very large reward
to find the perpetrators.
Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Earp
knows that in Tombstone
there's only one group
capable of an act like this...
the ruthless gang
of outlaws known as
"the Cochise Cowboys."
The Cochise Cowboys
are made up
of nearly 300 cattle rustlers,
smugglers and bandits
spread out across
the Arizona territory
who have developed
a notorious reputation
across the country.
The Cowboys were known
for their hotheadedness.
They were a pretty bad lot.
One of the most well-known
of the Cowboys
is a man named
Ike Clanton.
Ike Clanton's
a one-man riot.
He was a notorious man.
Not a man you wanted
to offend.
There better be
a good reason I'm here.
It all depends
on you, Ike.
There was a stagecoach robbery
a few days back.
Two men are dead.
Judging by the tracks,
I'd say there were three men.
You think I did it?
No. Wells Fargo
is offering
a $3,600 reward
for their arrest.
You give me
the three names,
I'll give you
the $3,600.
If anyone
were to find out...
and I mean anyone...
No one will find out.
I give you my word.
Leonard, Head, and Crane.
Armed with names of the men
responsible for the robbery,
Wyatt Earp sets off
to track them down.
Four hundred miles away...
Lincoln County Sheriff
Pat Garrett
is about to begin
a manhunt of his own.
Where the hell
did Billy get the guns?
Pat Garrett has two reactions
when he sees
this horrible jailbreak...
one reaction
is tremendous anger.
Another reaction
is tremendous guilt.
Pat Garrett knew
Billy was ruthless
and would stop at nothing
to escape.
I think he felt like
he was partly responsible
for those murders.
How do you think
it is that you got elected sheriff
of Lincoln County?
Because you're
a popular man?
Some kind of
great success?
People of Lincoln County
didn't elect you, Sheriff...
I did.
I found him once,
I'll find him again.
Try not to lose him
this time.
Trust me, I won't.
Prominent businessman
Thomas Catron knows
in order for business
to grow in the West,
he needs to stop
Billy the Kid
once and for all.
And this time Pat Garrett's
not taking any chances,
because he's not
out to arrest Billy,
he's out to kill him.
After Jesse James'
first train robbery
in three years
is a failure,
he knows he needs
to make some changes
if he's going to continue
his life of crime.
With Jesse James,
it's like all these movies.
These guys
go into retirement,
they need a little money,
and they're like,
"Oh, one more job."
That is Jesse James.
The train's gonna come
around a nice tight bend,
then it goes up a ridge,
which is nice,
'cause it's gotta slow down
considerable right here.
That's gonna give us
the time we need.
Jesse begins picking
his targets more carefully
and hires a new gang member
to help him
pull off the heist...
fellow Missourian
Charley Ford.
There's something about
Charley Ford that Jesse liked.
I don't know what it was.
And Charley Ford liked Jesse.
There was a certain
code of honor.
I think a certain loyalty
was probably built
into a lot
of relationships,
because you really needed
to have somebody watching your back,
you know,
somebody you could trust.
You stay in your seats,
and you will have
a nice story
to tell your friends.
Get up, move around,
and you probably
will not be talking to them.
After a string
of successful robberies,
Jesse James
reestablishes himself
as one of the most
dangerous criminals in the West.
What did I tell you
about bringing strangers around here?
This is my brother Robert,
the one I told you about.
It's a pleasure
to meet you.
How old are you?
Twenty,
nearly twenty.
How many men
you killed?
I'm asking you,
not your brother.
None.
I got no use
for him.
Jesse, he's my brother.
I-I trust him
more than anyone I know.
We're low on whiskey.
Did you hear
what I just said?
Jesse needs
an extra man
because he has
a bank robbery planned in Platte City.
So he's willing to accept
this young Bob Ford,
who's Charley's brother,
'cause Jesse liked Charley Ford,
and I'm sure that
Charley vouched for Bob.
With another gang member
on board,
Jesse James starts planning
his next heist.
Over a thousand miles
to the west,
one man continues to crack down
on crime in his town.
For the past four months,
Wyatt Earp and his brothers
Virgil and Morgan
have been on the hunt
for three outlaws
involved in a deadly
stagecoach robbery.
But to catch the men,
Wyatt has brought in
more muscle...
Two for me, Wyatt.
...a famed gambler
and notorious gunman
named Doc Holliday.
- Oh, boy.
- My heart's broken.
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp
met in Dodge City.
They had been friends
for a long time.
So Doc turns up
in Tombstone as well
and was very close
to the Earps.
Wyatt plans to ride out
with Doc and his brothers
to confront the men
responsible.
But before Wyatt
can take them down,
the three suspects
turn up dead.
Wyatt wanted
to solve the murders,
only the perpetrators
got caught in another showdown
and were killed.
With the suspects dead,
in Wyatt's mind,
the case is closed.
All right, boys,
poker's the game.
$10 to get in.
What can I
do ya for, Morgan?
All right,
I'll take two.
Damn it, I fold.
Surprise, surprise.
We need to talk.
What do you want?
I gave you three names.
I want my $3,600.
The $3,600
was for the reward.
The three names you gave me
wound up dead.
I took a big risk
giving up those names.
I know you did.
If I had the money,
I'd give it to you.
But I don't.
That's not my problem.
It's not mine, either.
I told you
don't cross me!
I heard you
the first time.
I think we both know
you're not gonna do
a damn thing about it.
Get the hell outta here.
Ike was caught in the middle.
And he was afraid
that if anybody knew
that he had this deal
with Wyatt Earp,
his name would be mud,
because loyalty was everything
at the frontier.
With Ike Clanton looking
to make good on his threat,
Wyatt Earp realizes
he's made a new enemy
in Tombstone.
Shall we resume, boys?
For the last four years,
Lakota leader Sitting Bull
and his people
have been following
the northern buffalo herd in Canada
after being forced
from their native lands
in the United States.
Following the death
of Crazy Horse
at the hands
of the U.S. Army,
Sitting Bull is one of
the few remaining leaders of the Lakota.
And now,
after a brutal winter,
his people
are facing a crisis.
Sitting Bull
realizes he has no choice
but to lead his people
back to America...
and agree to live
on the reservation.
I just feel like
he had to have known
this isn't gonna
get better.
Any respectful man
who loves his wife and his children,
that's what
they're gonna do.
Upon his arrival
to the U.S.,
Sitting Bull,
like thousands of Indians,
is forced to assimilate
to the white man's ways.
He was adjusting
to the reservation life,
not that he liked it,
but there was a certain
acceptance, I guess.
I don't think anyone
that was born in a teepee,
that was living the last part of
their life on a reservation...
I don't know how anyone
could've been happy.
Knowing that things
would never go back
to the way they were,
Sitting Bull believes
there may be one way
to preserve
some of the Lakota culture.
In 1885, Sitting Bull
leaves his reservation
to join Buffalo Bill Cody's
famous Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill started
portraying himself onstage.
It was kind of
a combination of a rodeo
and performances.
And one
of the very savvy things
that Buffalo Bill did
was that he would bring
real Native Americans along
in the show
and they would perform,
and they would kind of
reenact battles.
It was wildly popular in the 1880s
and 1890s in the United States.
Why would someone
like Sitting Bull
agree to join
the Wild West Show?
There seems to have been
a couple of reasons for this.
For a lot of the Lakota
who are on the reservations,
they're being exposed
to these tremendous efforts
to Americanize them, right?
To destroy their culture.
The Wild West Show
is one of the few ways
that they can
actually maintain
at least a fragment
of traditional culture
and demonstrate their skill
as horsemen
and their skill and bravery
as warriors.
While Sitting Bull
begins touring the country...
another legend of the West
is gaining notoriety
once again.
My name is Jesse James,
and I trust you know who I am.
With a new gang
by his side,
Jesse James
has successfully pulled off
a series of train heists.
But his actions are gaining
more attention than ever.
For Missouri,
for the governors and for the bankers,
it's not good when people call your state
the Robber State.
That doesn't really
recruit business.
That doesn't recruit
land buyers.
It's a stain
on your state.
So they want
to get beyond that.
The railroad companies
reach out
to the governor of Missouri
to put an end
to Jesse's spree,
offering a $5,000 reward
for his capture.
You wanna explain to me what
in the hell took you so long?
We came as quick
as we could.
Anybody see you?
No. No... no one.
Sit down.
With a new bounty
on his head,
Jesse goes into hiding.
And he knows if he's going
to stay away from the law,
he needs to keep his two newest
gang members close to him.
Jesse was the most paranoid
of any of the gang members.
He'd become very suspicious,
and you can't really
blame him.
I think that
the Ford boys,
he could keep an eye on them
and make sure
that everything is normal,
the way it should be.
All right, this bounty
that's on my head,
it's now on
all of our heads.
You understand
what I'm sayin'?
I understand.
Yeah.
As a man
with a price on his head,
it's becoming hard
for Jesse to tell
who he can trust.
After escaping jail,
Billy the Kid
is enjoying life
as a fugitive.
He never, ever for a second
thought he was gonna be caught.
And if he was caught,
what would he do?
He would escape, because
he was always escaping.
And he had a sense
that he had a charmed life
and that there was nothing
that could ever touch him,
and, you know,
he's 20 years old.
I mean, he's got
that sense of immortality.
Every friend
he encounters tells him,
"Billy, Pat Garrett
is a different kind of sheriff.
He is not going to stop
hunting you.
You can flee now,
go to Mexico.
Nobody's gonna look
for you in Mexico.
Get out of the territory."
But he insisted on staying
in that Fort Sumner area,
that part of
eastern New Mexico.
But what Billy
doesn't realize
is that Lincoln County
Sheriff Pat Garrett
has been tracking him
for the last three months.
The killing of two deputies
changes everything,
and Garrett engages
in a massive manhunt
for Billy the Kid.
After hearing rumors
that Billy may be in Fort Sumner,
Pat Garrett uses
his knowledge of the land
to track the young outlaw
to a ranch outside of town.
Stay here.
I'm gonna go look around.
You know,
for the average citizen,
Billy the Kid
is very horrifying...
I mean,
that he's on the loose,
so there's tremendous pressure
on Pat Garrett as the sheriff
to get Billy, kill him,
capture him, get it done.
Billy the Kid's
just incredibly charming,
but he's also deadly,
and he can just turn on a dime.
And that smile could fade
and that pistol would come out.
Qué es?
Who's there?
Billy the Kid is dead
at 21 years old.
But in death,
a kid from New York City
becomes a legend
of the American West.
Billy the Kid is just that...
he was a kid.
He was a kid
caught up in something
that he couldn't control,
without any deeper ambition
than just to survive
in this jungle.
Billy lived in
a very, very violent world.
And the way he responded
was sensational.
And then the way he died
made him legendary.
The newspapers
pick up on the story.
There are books
written about him.
He became what he did
because he embodies
the idea of freedom.
When you take a look
at the dime novels
that were so successful
back East,
it was always the David
against the Goliath
that was the most exciting.
Billy the Kid was so attractive
in that context.
Here was this very small,
you know, unassuming kid.
But if you tried to take advantage
of him, you'd pay for it.
And there was
a great romance in that.
The death of Billy the Kid
marks the end of an era.
But while one ruthless outlaw
may be gone,
the violence in the West
is far from over.
After Wyatt Earp
refuses to give Ike Clanton
a $3,600 bounty...
the notorious cowboy
is out for revenge.
You're a dead man, Earp!
Wyatt!
You're a dead man!
Ike Clanton
is not happy with Earp.
So he walked around that morning
pretty much letting everybody know
that he was going
to kill them.
Virgil!
Morgan!
You're dead men!
To back up his threats,
Clanton enlists the help
of his fellow gang members.
It's Ike.
He's in town.
Wyatt, he's drunker
than hell.
Going around telling everyone
he's coming to kill you
and your brothers.
Where's he at?
Last place I saw him
was over on Fremont.
Does he have
anyone else with him?
Four, maybe five guys.
There was a lot
of anxiety and tension.
And it was brewing,
you could feel it.
You knew something
was gonna happen.
You knew something
was going down that day.
By bringing their guns
into Tombstone,
Clanton's gang knows
they are provoking a fight.
What do you want
to do, Wyatt?
Go get me Doc Holliday.
Yes, sir.
Ike Clanton has been
talking all around town
about what they're
gonna do to Wyatt.
The Earps make the decision
to walk down there
and confront these guys.
The way to understand men
in this period
is an honor culture.
You have to be willing
to meet
any challenge to your honor
with violence,
otherwise you're a coward.
Wyatt Earp is headed
to a showdown with Ike Clanton
at the O.K. Corral.
The sight of
the three Earp brothers
and Doc Holliday marching down
the dusty streets of Tombstone
to confront the cowboys
at the O.K. Corral
has burned
into our mythology.
Give us your guns.
Throw up your hands.
I'm not gonna ask again.