A bounty hunter escorts a killer to be tried for murder, with the killer's brother after them.
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00:02:30Morning, Brigade.
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00:02:42Been looking to find you, Billy.
00:02:44I know.
00:02:45Been seeing your dust for three days.
00:02:48I figured it better to let you catch up
00:02:50and have it out and over.
00:02:52The others, where are they?
00:02:54Oh, they went on ahead.
00:03:00I told them I'd be alone
00:03:03after I buried you.
00:03:09Get on your animal, Billy.
00:03:10We're going back.
00:03:12Now, you know I can't do that.
00:03:14Only thing you can.
00:03:16Look, Brigade, if I was to ride south with you,
00:03:19there's them and see me hang.
00:03:20You left a dead man in the street in Santa Cruz.
00:03:23Fair fight.
00:03:24He was killed from behind, like the others.
00:03:30I don't know how much they're paying you to bring me in,
00:03:33but it ain't enough.
00:03:35Not near enough.
00:03:39I'd hunt you free.
00:03:41Let's go.
00:03:43I guess that kind of makes me a liar, don't it?
00:03:48Them boys didn't go ahead.
00:03:51They're scattered all in rocks.
00:03:55No way for you to get out of here.
00:04:03Well, look, Brigade.
00:04:07I got no quarrel with you.
00:04:10Now, if you was to get on your horse and ride out of here,
00:04:13I'd forget all about this whole thing.
00:04:17Well, look, what's one more bounty to a man like you?
00:04:23Money's got blood on it.
00:04:25Billy, we're going on back.
00:04:27You don't understand.
00:04:29I give the word, you're dead.
00:04:32Maybe, but before I hit the ground,
00:04:34I'll blow you half in two.
00:04:38You're blessed.
00:04:40Am I?
00:04:44Call them off, Billy.
00:04:52Hold your fire, boys.
00:04:54It ain't gonna work.
00:04:55I knew I should have done it my way.
00:04:57In the back.
00:05:01Hey, Charlie!
00:05:04Charlie!
00:05:07You go find my brother Frank.
00:05:11You tell him what's happening.
00:05:13Tell him Ben Brigade's taking over.
00:05:17You tell him what's happening.
00:05:19Tell him Ben Brigade's taking me to Santa Cruz.
00:05:24You hear me, Charlie?
00:05:26Well, you tell him that.
00:05:28He'll know what to do.
00:05:31Now get going.
00:05:46Let's go.
00:06:17Better put them on tight.
00:06:21Hop on.
00:06:36You know my brother Frank, do you?
00:06:38Heard of him.
00:06:40Then I guess you know him.
00:06:43Heard of him.
00:06:45Then I guess you know you ain't gonna get me to Santa Cruz.
00:07:13Let's go.
00:07:43It's a little junction.
00:07:47Ain't nobody out and about.
00:07:52You don't suppose Frank and the boys circled the high around
00:07:55and are just sitting down there waiting, do you?
00:07:59Let's go see.
00:08:13Let's go.
00:08:44Anybody home?
00:08:46I'd hold it right there.
00:08:48How's it going?
00:08:50Bitter head.
00:09:14Well, I'll be.
00:09:16Ben Brigade.
00:09:18Hello, Boone.
00:09:20Fancy running into you in all this empty.
00:09:30I saw you come up over that rise.
00:09:32Couldn't quite make you out.
00:09:34Man can't be too careful in this part of the country.
00:09:37You're a long way from home.
00:09:39No more than you.
00:09:41No more than you.
00:09:43I can go back.
00:09:50You must be Billy, John.
00:09:53So?
00:09:55Heard a lot about you.
00:09:58You ain't near as small as I thought you'd be.
00:10:03You figuring on staying out the night or just water and going to Santa Cruz?
00:10:07I say, I was going to Santa Cruz.
00:10:10Words.
00:10:12I came through there a while ago, back.
00:10:14Talk had it that Billy, John, here killed a man.
00:10:17Fell a knot in the rope, said it was murder.
00:10:20Station man, where is he?
00:10:22He ain't here.
00:10:24Had some of his animals loose-headed up on that flat.
00:10:26Went out this morning to gather them before the eastbound come through,
00:10:28but they beat him to it.
00:10:30Who's they?
00:10:32Breeds, Mescaleros.
00:10:34Sunny school teachers were all I know.
00:10:36Anyway, he went out looking to find them.
00:10:38No, not exactly.
00:10:40Whit!
00:10:42A woman, bring her out here.
00:10:48Never mind.
00:10:50Now, you all get your horses and ride on out of here.
00:10:53Now, look, lady.
00:10:59Just do like I say.
00:11:01Now, lady, that's no way to act.
00:11:04Why, me and Whit here's been doing you a service, what with your man away.
00:11:08We can't talk to her, tell her we ain't here to harm her.
00:11:10Why, yeah, Boone.
00:11:12Man needs a reason to ride this country.
00:11:14You got a reason?
00:11:16Don't matter. I want you gone, all of you.
00:11:18Now, ma'am, we can't do that just to ride off.
00:11:21Don't tell her when your man will find them horses and get back.
00:11:24Besides, woman ain't safe out here alone.
00:11:26She won't be alone.
00:11:28No?
00:11:30No. Westbound's coming.
00:11:38We're in a hurry.
00:11:40Whit, catch up them animals in the corral.
00:11:43At least we can make up the team change with the lady before we go.
00:11:46I don't need your help.
00:11:48No, ma'am, you don't.
00:11:50But the folks on the coach do.
00:11:52Like as not they ain't had a meal hot or square since they left Santa Cruz.
00:11:55Now, were you, I'd look to feed you.
00:12:08I know what you're thinking.
00:12:10You're thinking that me and Whit's been sitting here waiting for that coach to pull in.
00:12:14Waiting to take off the Fargo box or something pure awful like that.
00:12:18Well, you're wrong.
00:12:20Really?
00:12:22Plum.
00:12:38Mr. Calero.
00:12:41Don't come out here!
00:12:44Nothing for a woman to see.
00:12:52What call they got to do a thing like this?
00:12:54I don't know.
00:12:56I don't know.
00:12:58I don't know.
00:13:00I don't know.
00:13:02I don't know.
00:13:04I don't know.
00:13:06What call they got to do a thing like this?
00:13:08Murder raid down to the one of the horses.
00:13:10Butchers.
00:13:12Oh, and that dust boil.
00:13:18Figure they'd draw from the side of the station?
00:13:20Looks that way.
00:13:22A couple of them, they'll try to scald us out before dark.
00:13:24What are we gonna do?
00:13:26Only thing we can, bury the dead and wait.
00:13:28Wait?
00:13:30Catch us in the open. Come night, we wouldn't have a chance.
00:13:32We'll forward up in the station till morning.
00:13:34Where's Billy?
00:13:36What about him?
00:13:38Well, them sitting out there between you and Santa Cruz
00:13:40kind of makes the hill higher to climb, don't it?
00:13:44You can't swing north.
00:13:46Take Billy to Bisbee.
00:13:48Rope's a rope.
00:13:50He's going to Santa Cruz.
00:13:52No matter what?
00:13:54No matter what.
00:14:04Ask me, it ain't Christian.
00:14:06Huh?
00:14:08Covering these folks without reading over them.
00:14:10A few holes instead of these holes
00:14:12ain't gonna help them now.
00:14:14Yeah.
00:14:16Weird.
00:14:28I sure didn't figure it like this.
00:14:30What?
00:14:32Look it out there.
00:14:34War signs.
00:14:36Well, we got a treaty
00:14:38with the Mescaleros, ain't we?
00:14:40There's words on paper, Whit.
00:14:42Yeah, we've been getting along.
00:14:44I knew a man once, got along with his wife.
00:14:46One day, she up and headshot him.
00:14:48Dead?
00:14:50Why?
00:14:52Got mad?
00:14:54Mescalero,
00:14:56they mad.
00:14:58We ain't done nothing to them.
00:15:00We're white.
00:15:02That's good enough. Come on.
00:15:04Sam.
00:15:06Brigadier.
00:15:08You figure he knows why we're here?
00:15:10Not yet.
00:15:12Well, I guess there ain't no way
00:15:14him finding out, is there?
00:15:16Only one.
00:15:18I'm gonna tell him.
00:15:20Tonight.
00:15:22And, Whit, if I were you,
00:15:24I'd hold on to that shovel,
00:15:26because likely as not,
00:15:28he'll find out.
00:15:58I make it three.
00:16:00Four.
00:16:02Coffee?
00:16:06My husband
00:16:08should have been back by now.
00:16:10Said he'd keep after
00:16:12as far as Dry Fork.
00:16:14If he haven't picked up the animals by now,
00:16:16he'll be back by now.
00:16:18I'm sure he'll be back by now.
00:16:20I'm sure he'll be back by now.
00:16:22I'm sure he'll be back by now.
00:16:24I'm sure he'll be back by now.
00:16:26Look, if he haven't picked up the animals by then,
00:16:28he'd double on back.
00:16:30That would have put him here before dark.
00:16:32He likely got cut off.
00:16:34He wouldn't leave me here alone.
00:16:36Not if he had a choice.
00:16:38Meaning you think something's happened to him?
00:16:40I didn't say that.
00:16:42There's any number of reasons
00:16:44for his not getting back.
00:16:46Even if he found the horses,
00:16:48he'd have to loose herd them clear here by himself.
00:16:50Could take him half the night, maybe longer.
00:16:52He never should have gone.
00:16:54You'd have him loose his animals
00:16:56and not go after them?
00:16:58Not talking about animals, talking about you.
00:17:00Me?
00:17:02He left you alone.
00:17:04I can take care of myself.
00:17:06If you were mine, you wouldn't have to.
00:17:08Meaning?
00:17:10Meaning I never brought you here in the first place,
00:17:12nowhere for a woman.
00:17:14Running a swing station is my husband's job, Mr. Brigade.
00:17:16He should find a better one.
00:17:18Like bounty hunting, for instance?
00:17:20You cook good coffee.
00:17:22Mr. Brigade...
00:17:24You'd better get some sleep, Mrs. Lane.
00:17:26We'll be leaving first thing come morning.
00:17:28Leaving?
00:17:30Three days will put us in Santa Cruz.
00:17:32But I...
00:17:34If your husband's not back,
00:17:36we'll swing to a dry fork, pick him up on the way.
00:17:38Well, I...
00:17:40Good night, Mrs. Lane.
00:17:42Best cookin' I had in a long time.
00:17:50Good night.
00:17:58Mighty handsome woman, Mrs. Lane.
00:18:04Don't look like they're gonna try us, does it?
00:18:10Brigade?
00:18:12Yeah?
00:18:14You were saying...
00:18:16a man needs a reason
00:18:18to decide this country, remember?
00:18:22Well, you were right.
00:18:26I don't suppose you heard about the poster
00:18:28they got out on Billy John?
00:18:30Poster?
00:18:32Gum-tacked in the air of a tree
00:18:34and stomped between here and Rio Bravo.
00:18:38Claims the territory will...
00:18:40grant amnesty
00:18:42to anybody that brings Billy in.
00:18:44You know,
00:18:46you won't believe this,
00:18:48but me and Whitt went there a week
00:18:50before we found out what that word amnesty meant.
00:18:52Fellow selling Bibles
00:18:54over in Santa Cruz told us.
00:18:56It means the law's willing to drop
00:18:58any and all charges it's got against a man.
00:19:00All he's gotta do
00:19:02is turn the key on Billy.
00:19:06Now, I know
00:19:08that ain't the reason you wrote him down,
00:19:10but...
00:19:12I mean, Whitt's gonna sort of tag along with you.
00:19:16See, we figured that when Billy's brother Frank
00:19:18hears that you were riding him in the hang,
00:19:20he's gonna come killing.
00:19:22But if anybody can get Billy
00:19:24safe to Santa Cruz, it's you.
00:19:26If I do?
00:19:30Then there's only one man standing between me
00:19:32and starting life clean over.
00:19:36Boone, make doubly sure
00:19:38Whitt keeps that Winchester on Billy John.
00:19:40We wouldn't wanna lose him, would we?
00:19:46We sure wouldn't.
00:20:10Hey! Hey!
00:20:12Brigade! Brigade!
00:20:14You can't take those animals along.
00:20:16Slow us down.
00:20:18But we're responsible for...
00:20:20They'll eat their way to the next swing stop.
00:20:22Time comes, you can pick them up there.
00:20:24Cut out that black for you to ride.
00:20:26Sooner you get on it,
00:20:28sooner we'll get clear of here.
00:20:32Don't look like you and Miss Lane
00:20:34get along too good.
00:20:36We'll stay to the stage road to Dry Fork.
00:20:38Swing south from there.
00:20:40That's the long way, ain't it?
00:20:42Gotta pick up the station man.
00:20:44What's left of him?
00:20:46Whitt's right.
00:20:48Didn't allow that fella to be back by now.
00:20:50We're going to Dry Fork.
00:20:52Not right away, we ain't.
00:20:54Look.
00:21:04What do they want?
00:21:06Get on to it.
00:21:20What's he doing?
00:21:22Wants to talk.
00:21:26Stay here.
00:21:36Come on.
00:21:38Come on.
00:22:04Got a horse, wants to make a trade.
00:22:06For what?
00:22:08You.
00:22:10Said he'd been seeing you here.
00:22:12He wants to take you for his squaw.
00:22:16So what do we do now?
00:22:18Play along with him.
00:22:20Play along with him?
00:22:22We don't, we have to stir up every buck in the country.
00:22:24Come on.
00:22:26Just do like I tell you.
00:22:28Brigade.
00:22:30Can't abide to see a woman's hair
00:22:32hanging from a Mescalero war lance.
00:22:36I sure hope you know what you're doing.
00:22:46He'll offer his trade, I'll turn him down.
00:22:48Then?
00:22:50Any luck, they'll ride off.
00:22:52Lay out in the hills, try to figure some house
00:22:54to get you away from us.
00:22:56I see.
00:22:58No matter what happens, don't break down in front of him.
00:23:00You do, he'll take it wrong, shame him.
00:23:02I don't scare easy, Mr. Brigade.
00:23:04I hope not.
00:23:30Ah!
00:23:34Oh!
00:23:40That tears it.
00:23:48Looks like you won.
00:23:50He'll be back, that is if they want him bad enough.
00:23:52I thought you didn't scare, Mrs. Lane.
00:23:58That was my husband's horse.
00:24:04Oh!
00:24:34Oh!
00:25:04Oh!
00:25:34Oh!
00:25:52Too bad about the woman.
00:25:54Sure taking it hard.
00:25:58I tried to tell her I wasn't certain
00:26:00for sure a man was dead.
00:26:02You blame her.
00:26:06I can't get over the way them Indians
00:26:08want to trade her for a horse.
00:26:10If I'd be me,
00:26:12I'd give a whole herd.
00:26:16I guess she's just about the best all over
00:26:18good-looking woman I ever seen.
00:26:20She ain't ugly.
00:26:22She sure ain't.
00:26:26You got a reason for staying in all this open country?
00:26:28Sees me, you keep a hill close to your back.
00:26:30Consider it.
00:26:32The way I see it,
00:26:34Brother Frank can't be too far back.
00:26:36Talk at him up Val Verde way.
00:26:38Heard about Billy, he wouldn't waste any time.
00:26:40Likely ride out the night.
00:26:42Do that, put him behind us
00:26:44even sooner.
00:26:46There'll be corrals just over that rise.
00:26:48We're heading there.
00:26:50Oh, I don't think Frank's gonna come along for...
00:26:52Talking about Frank, talking about
00:26:54merciful arrows.
00:26:56Medicine country.
00:26:58They figure to jump us up.
00:27:00It'll be somewhere soon.
00:27:02Think maybe those four wells
00:27:04junction went for more?
00:27:06I know they did.
00:27:08How can you be sure?
00:27:10Because there they are.
00:27:14Keep moving.
00:27:16You sure Dobie's just over that rise?
00:27:18Positive.
00:27:20Well, ain't we gonna hurry?
00:27:22Yeah.
00:27:24Now.
00:27:28Now.
00:27:58Move!
00:28:24Pick him up!
00:28:28Pick him up!
00:28:58Pick him up!
00:29:28Kill him!
00:29:46Kill him!
00:29:58Kill him!
00:30:14Sure beats old, don't it?
00:30:18What a man'll put himself through to get his hands on a woman.
00:30:24Can't say as I blame him, though.
00:30:26All our dead at the crest of the hill.
00:30:30That hurt you?
00:30:32It'll be just fine.
00:30:34Yes, ma'am. Better get it cleaned up.
00:30:56There's five horses.
00:30:58Must have pulled out early this morning.
00:31:00What do we do now, Frank?
00:31:02We keep after them.
00:31:04But our animals are near give out.
00:31:06I said we keep after them.
00:31:08Come on.
00:31:26Come on.
00:31:28Come on.
00:31:54There's a...
00:31:56Keep the chill off.
00:31:58Well, you can say thanks.
00:32:26I just don't seem right.
00:32:28What don't?
00:32:32The day one that'll stay the night here.
00:32:38Seems he'd be in more of a hurry
00:32:40to move on, get to Santa Cruz.
00:32:42Well, maybe he figures a
00:32:44Mezcalero.
00:32:46No, it ain't that.
00:32:48It ain't that.
00:32:50It ain't that.
00:32:52It ain't that.
00:32:54It ain't that.
00:32:56It's something else.
00:32:58What?
00:33:02I know it sounds crazy.
00:33:04But I think maybe
00:33:06he wants Frank to catch up.
00:33:08Catch up?
00:33:10The way he's been sticking to open country.
00:33:12Staying to the flats instead of the ridges.
00:33:14So not to care whether or not
00:33:16he's being followed or not.
00:33:18Well, why would he want a fool thing like that?
00:33:20I don't know.
00:33:28You know, it could be he figures
00:33:30it'd make it just that much harder on us.
00:33:32On us?
00:33:34Well, now, we're riding with him.
00:33:36Now, Frank might not hold too kindly to that.
00:33:38Could get us killed.
00:33:40I never thought about that.
00:33:44One way or the other, Brigade's got to face it out,
00:33:46and he knows it.
00:33:48Well, maybe we should ought to
00:33:50forget about the whole thing.
00:33:54We can ride away alive.
00:33:59No, we can't do that.
00:34:03But if Frank's gonna come down here...
00:34:05You ever been up north of Socorro with...
00:34:07So?
00:34:09Got me a place up there.
00:34:11Ain't much.
00:34:13You got a place?
00:34:15Ain't much. Not yet, it ain't.
00:34:17Got my herd to build,
00:34:19wire to stretch and such.
00:34:23Only trouble is,
00:34:25I ride back there,
00:34:27there's them who see me hang.
00:34:30Plus, of course,
00:34:32the territory was to drop the charge.
00:34:34Or that word, Amnesty.
00:34:36Amnesty.
00:34:38So we get old Billy Boy back to Santa Cruz,
00:34:40and we got it. We're just that close.
00:34:42That close of never having to
00:34:44look over your shoulder again and sleep with a gun in your hand
00:34:47and going off dead inside
00:34:49when you see a man wearing tin on him.
00:34:53Oh, we just come too far with it.
00:34:56We can't turn back now.
00:35:00We just plain can't.
00:35:16♪♪♪
00:35:26♪♪♪
00:35:50Will he be all right?
00:35:52Could get him on his feet, he would.
00:35:54He can't get up?
00:35:56Can, won't.
00:35:58Got it in his head, he's down for good.
00:36:00Hurts him to stand, won't even try.
00:36:02There's nothing you can do?
00:36:04Stay with him.
00:36:06Let him know he's not alone.
00:36:10Mr. Brigade,
00:36:12I...
00:36:14I'm sorry about everything.
00:36:16I know I'm a lot of trouble.
00:36:24You, you took an awful chance out there.
00:36:26Seemed like a good idea.
00:36:32Hi, boy.
00:36:46I guess I always knew.
00:36:48Knew?
00:36:50That it would end like this.
00:36:54My husband didn't want me to come out here.
00:36:56Put in for a transfer
00:36:58the day we took over the swing stop at the junction.
00:37:00For a town job.
00:37:02Every month it was supposed to come through.
00:37:04It never did.
00:37:06I tried to tell myself
00:37:08it didn't matter, that
00:37:10my place was with him.
00:37:12But I found myself
00:37:14watching for coaches and
00:37:16hoping.
00:37:18He must have noticed.
00:37:20He asked me to go on to Bisbee and wait for him.
00:37:22Said I'd be safe there.
00:37:24As much as I wanted to,
00:37:26I couldn't do it.
00:37:28Couldn't leave him alone.
00:37:32He was a good man.
00:37:34Yes, ma'am, he'd have to be.
00:37:40They...
00:37:42They told me why you're taking
00:37:44the boy to Santa Cruz.
00:37:46Did they?
00:37:48They'll hang him, won't they?
00:37:50He's so young.
00:37:52He killed a man.
00:37:56It...
00:37:58It doesn't bother you, bringing him in, I mean?
00:38:00No, ma'am.
00:38:04You just don't seem like
00:38:06the kind that would hunt a man
00:38:08for money.
00:38:10I am.
00:38:12Good night, Mr. Brigade.
00:38:16Mrs. Lane,
00:38:18I made a place for you
00:38:20inside the wall.
00:38:22You'll be safe there to sleep.
00:38:28Good night.
00:38:42Good night.
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00:40:30He sure something, ain't she?
00:40:34Said she was married to that station fellow
00:40:36near a year.
00:40:38Just thinkin' on it gives me a way-down shiver.
00:40:46I wonder what she'll do now she's without a man.
00:40:50Find another.
00:40:53Well, if she loved that fella hard enough,
00:40:56she'd stay a widow, wouldn't she?
00:40:59Ain't the kind. Not her.
00:41:02Somehow, some will get along without.
00:41:05Not her. She's the kind that's got a need.
00:41:10A deep, lonely need only a man can get at.
00:41:15Well, how do you know?
00:41:20Seen it in her eyes, Red.
00:41:23In her eyes.
00:41:30Brigade's still tryin' to get that animal up, is he?
00:41:33Yeah. Was at it all night.
00:41:36Why don't he shoot him and just get it over with?
00:41:39No. Said he wanted to wait.
00:41:42He said he wanted to wait.
00:41:45He said he wanted to wait.
00:41:48He said he wanted to wait.
00:41:51Said he wanted to wait.
00:41:54Claims animals is like people.
00:41:57Peel the mornin' sun on him, it makes him forget all the hurt they got.
00:42:01Makes him wanna start over.
00:42:04Boy, there's sure time he doesn't act like a man that makes his way killin'.
00:42:11Miss Lane, could I have a word?
00:42:22Something you ought to know.
00:42:25My brother Frank, he'll be along most any time now.
00:42:29Won't anywhere be safe once he gets here.
00:42:32And you being a woman and all,
00:42:35I'd sure hate to see anything happen to you.
00:42:38Is that all?
00:42:41Oh, no, uh, no, ma'am.
00:42:44What I was thinkin' was, I'd sure see to it
00:42:47that Frank made it right by you if he was to help me.
00:42:50Help you?
00:42:53Yes, ma'am, yeah.
00:42:56I've been watchin' Brigade ever since the junction.
00:42:59The way he looks at ya, kinda hungry.
00:43:02You shouldn't have any trouble at all gettin' yourself close against him.
00:43:06Close enough to help me get safe away.
00:43:09I don't understand.
00:43:12Oh, come on. Sure you do.
00:43:15She said she didn't.
00:43:20Well, you can't blame a man for tryin'.
00:43:27This what you want her to get for you, Billy?
00:43:30Sure could use it.
00:43:33We're movin' out.
00:43:36I'll be ridin' you, Jones.
00:43:39What am I supposed to do? Walk.
00:43:43You let me go.
00:43:46You don't, I swear I'll cut you in two.
00:43:49No, you won't, Billy boy.
00:43:52Not unless you jack that saddle gun.
00:43:55That's my Winchester you've got.
00:43:58You pump a round into it, did ya?
00:44:01Cause you didn't.
00:44:04You got a hammer hangin' over an empty chamber.
00:44:07I shot myself in the leg once.
00:44:10I shot myself in the leg once, ridin'.
00:44:13Never carried a round under the pin since.
00:44:16You'd learn.
00:44:19There's one way to find out.
00:44:22Pull the trigger.
00:44:25That's if you think you have time to jack that gun...
00:44:28before I blow your brains out. Now go ahead, Billy, pull.
00:44:31Or ain't you used to killin' a man from the front?
00:44:35Now you just put it down, Billy boy.
00:44:38No.
00:44:41I said drop it.
00:45:05I coulda swore.
00:45:13Looks like we don't have to shoot him either.
00:45:16Oh, Bill.
00:45:34Oh, Bill.
00:46:04Hmm.
00:46:34Let's go.
00:47:05The woman, she's fallin' behind.
00:47:08Uh, Boone, uh, back there.
00:47:11Thanks for getting that gun outta my middle.
00:47:14Oh, I couldn't let him do you without a chance.
00:47:17Why, you'da had Billy.
00:47:19Never woulda enjoyed bein' a free man done ya that way.
00:47:22Thought maybe he was afraid you might need me with Frank to catch up.
00:47:25Cross my mind.
00:47:30Top of that hop, we'll be in Santa Cruz.
00:47:33We?
00:47:36Look, Brigade, you and me goin' against each other, it just ain't right.
00:47:39Huh?
00:47:47Well, them dollars they're givin' you to bring Billy in.
00:47:50I'll match him. Double, if you say.
00:47:53Take me a while, but I'll get it.
00:47:56How? Stoppin' coaches killin'?
00:47:59Well, that's all over with.
00:48:02That's the way it's gotta be.
00:48:05Man gets halfway, he oughta have somethin' of his own.
00:48:08Somethin' to belong to, be proud of.
00:48:11They say that.
00:48:14I've got me a place. Gonna run beef, work the ground.
00:48:17Be able to walk down the street like anybody.
00:48:20All I need is Billy.
00:48:23I set out to take him to Santa Cruz. I full intend to do it.
00:48:26Well, I just wanted you to know how it was.
00:48:29I'll get it. Ain't near as hard for a man if he knows why he's gonna die.
00:48:59Oh, my God.
00:49:30So?
00:49:32Stayed here the night.
00:49:35Can't be more than a half day ahead.
00:49:37That'd put him in Santa Cruz by morning.
00:49:40Well, it could. But it won't.
00:49:43Huh?
00:49:45Should've known all along.
00:49:47Brigade knows we're after him.
00:49:50But he's still takin' his time.
00:49:53Movin' in the clear. He's not coverin' his tracks.
00:49:58It's been plain from the first airplane I couldn't see it.
00:50:01But I don't follow.
00:50:03It ain't Billy he wants. It's me.
00:50:06But Billy's the one with the bounty on him.
00:50:08Ain't the money Brigade wants.
00:50:11Not the money at all.
00:50:13I did him a hurt once. Long ago.
00:50:16So long, I almost forgot.
00:50:19And all the time, I was thinkin' that was why he was takin' Billy in to hang.
00:50:22To get even.
00:50:24But that isn't it. He knew I'd come after him.
00:50:28He wants me to catch up.
00:50:31And I think I know where.
00:50:37Why don't you let the boys rest the horses? There's no hurry.
00:50:40He'll be waitin'.
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00:52:24Hangtree.
00:52:27You can be glad it ain't long ago, Billy boy.
00:52:30It was like as not Brigade here'd hang you over that jury limb and have it over.
00:52:35Gone dead now, but in its time, more than one danced their last from there.
00:52:38Ain't that right, Brigade?
00:52:40Brigade, I say.
00:52:42I come to think of it, you strung a few there yourself.
00:52:47You talk too much.
00:52:49We'll night at the riverbed.
00:52:52Ooh, touchy.
00:52:54Touchy.
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00:53:15Quit it.
00:53:18Well, it's something to do.
00:53:23I said quit it.
00:53:32Don't you ever get tired holdin' that gun on me.
00:53:35It won't be long now to have you in Santa Cruz come mornin'.
00:53:41Brigade, he figures to split the bounty with you, does he?
00:53:44No.
00:53:46Then why are you helpin' him?
00:53:48Ain't.
00:53:50Well, you're holdin' a gun.
00:53:52Well, I've got a reason.
00:53:54Such as what?
00:53:56Amnesty.
00:53:58Amnesty?
00:54:02Some word, ain't it?
00:54:04What's it mean?
00:54:06Free.
00:54:08Free?
00:54:10That's where we'll go as soon as we get you to Cruz.
00:54:13Me and Boone.
00:54:15You see, we ain't always seen eye-to-eye to the law.
00:54:18If we get you next to a rope, it'll make us even.
00:54:21We can start over.
00:54:23Boone's got a place.
00:54:25Hey, did you...
00:54:28You mean they do that...
00:54:30just for freein' me in to hang?
00:54:33We got a poster on it.
00:54:38I guess that kinda gives me a worth, don't it?
00:54:42To us, it does.
00:54:50What about Brigade?
00:54:53What about him?
00:54:55Well, he's the one that caught me.
00:54:57I don't figure he's gonna hold kind if you take me away from him.
00:55:02I thought about that.
00:55:05I thought about that a lot.
00:55:11It really don't matter.
00:55:13You ain't gonna get me to Santa Cruz anyway.
00:55:16Frankie's a-comin'. He'd have been here by now.
00:55:20Maybe.
00:55:28Shame about that woman.
00:55:30Huh?
00:55:35Gonna be a lot of killin' if Frankie gets here.
00:55:39Not knowin' she's along.
00:55:41You can't tell what's... what's gonna happen.
00:55:47Frank wouldn't shoot a woman, would he?
00:55:50Not only Frank.
00:55:52There's the boys.
00:55:56I never thought about that.
00:55:58What? We'd?
00:56:00We'd, uh...
00:56:02Why don't you let the hammer down nice and easy on that gun...
00:56:05and two of us, we ride right on out of here?
00:56:08Yeah.
00:56:10You wouldn't want to see a woman all shot up and dead now, would you?
00:56:13Well, no.
00:56:15Well, then?
00:56:17Well, then what, Billy?
00:56:19Oh, dang, you're ever pleased, ain't you?
00:56:21He was tryin' to talk me out of my gun.
00:56:23Huh?
00:56:25Where's Mrs. Lane?
00:56:28Down there by the riverbank.
00:56:35He tries to talk that gun away from you again.
00:56:39Let him have it.
00:56:41Yeah.
00:57:01Didn't mean to startle you.
00:57:03I couldn't sleep.
00:57:07I'm glad.
00:57:10We'll be in Santa Cruz tomorrow, won't we?
00:57:13Get an early start, we should noon there, no trouble at all.
00:57:20Uh, what then, Mrs. Lane?
00:57:22For you, I mean.
00:57:26I don't know. I'm not sure.
00:57:34This country's nowhere for a woman without she's got a man.
00:57:39I'd...
00:57:41I'd be obliged to look after you.
00:57:45I can manage.
00:57:47Yes, ma'am, I'm pure sure of that.
00:57:49First I saw you at the junction, I said to Whit,
00:57:52there's a woman can take care of herself.
00:57:55Sword in your face.
00:57:58The way you hold your head,
00:58:00the way you walk,
00:58:02all of it proud of being a woman.
00:58:05Not afraid to let a man look at you,
00:58:08think what he wants,
00:58:10burn inside to put his arms around you.
00:58:14Not like some I know,
00:58:16always acting like it's Sunday,
00:58:18thinking every man looks at them, wants them.
00:58:22No, sir.
00:58:24If a man had you, Mrs. Lane,
00:58:27he'd never know a black, lonesome night.
00:58:40Good night, Mr. Boone.
00:58:42Mrs. Lane,
00:58:44if you're counting on Brigade being any help to you,
00:58:47I'm sure they'll be.
00:58:49Mrs. Lane,
00:58:51if you're counting on Brigade being any help to you,
00:58:54better had forget it.
00:58:57He won't be going all the way to Santa Cruz.
00:59:04I gotta kill him.
00:59:19I gotta kill him.
00:59:49So that's what they call it.
00:59:54Mr. Brigade, I try very hard,
00:59:57but there's some things I just don't understand.
01:00:01Back at Doby,
01:00:03when Billy had that gun on you,
01:00:05Boone saved your life, didn't he?
01:00:07Yes, ma'am.
01:00:09Then why would he want to kill you now?
01:00:13He told you that?
01:00:15Yes.
01:00:18Why?
01:00:20He wants Billy.
01:00:22Billy?
01:00:26You mean you'd kill each other for bounty?
01:00:32Like two dogs fighting over a bone.
01:00:35You could say that.
01:00:36I see.
01:00:37No, ma'am, you don't.
01:00:39Not Billy I want or any of the others I've had to ride down
01:00:42to make my way, only one man I'm after.
01:00:45And how much bounty will he bring?
01:00:48Enough to see you through to your next dead man?
01:00:50Mrs. Lane.
01:00:53Long ago back, I was the sheriff of Santa Cruz.
01:00:56Wrote Billy's brother Frank in for murder.
01:00:58The jury found him part guilty, sent him to Yuma.
01:01:01Swore he got out, he'd get even.
01:01:03He was young, wild.
01:01:05I had a wife that looked a lot like you, Mrs. Lane.
01:01:08She wanted me to turn and run, keep running, pleaded with me.
01:01:11I...
01:01:13I couldn't do it.
01:01:15Word came that Frank was out.
01:01:17I waited for him in the street.
01:01:19He didn't come.
01:01:21When I got home, my...
01:01:23my wife had gone.
01:01:25Frank had been there, taken her, brought her here.
01:01:29Here?
01:01:30Yes, ma'am.
01:01:32He hung her.
01:01:43He hung her.
01:02:05Whit?
01:02:10You get up on that rise.
01:02:12If you see any dust, high end it back here.
01:02:15Where's, uh, Sam?
01:02:17Yeah.
01:02:19When are we gonna do Brigade?
01:02:26Soon.
01:02:28Well, I've been thinking.
01:02:30He ain't a man you can go straight at.
01:02:33Now, me and you, we're gonna have to figure a plan.
01:02:36Find some way to get him between us.
01:02:39Can't kill a man like Brigade from behind.
01:02:41Or could stand off.
01:02:43I don't hold a hand in a man with a long gun.
01:02:45Don't worry, Whit.
01:02:47Time comes, I'll take care of him.
01:02:49Hope so.
01:02:51Hate to see you lose your place up at Socorro Way.
01:02:54He might have prided work for you.
01:02:56Work for me?
01:02:58Well, plowed when I was young.
01:03:00Eat much with chickens, but I...
01:03:02but I can slop pigs with the best of them.
01:03:04Whit, how long you and me been riding together?
01:03:06About two years.
01:03:08More like five.
01:03:10So?
01:03:12So you ain't gonna be working for me.
01:03:18You're gonna be a partner.
01:03:21Partner?
01:03:23Right down the middle.
01:03:25Well, how come?
01:03:29Because I like you, Whit.
01:03:32Well, I never knew that.
01:03:35Now, get up on that rise.
01:03:37Yes, sir.
01:03:40Come on.
01:04:04I'd like to say it again, Mrs. Lane.
01:04:07I'd be obliged to look after you.
01:04:10I could help you bury Brigade and live happy ever after.
01:04:13Is that it?
01:04:16There's some things a man just can't ride around.
01:04:40Stop!
01:05:06Stop!
01:05:08Frank's coming!
01:05:12How far back?
01:05:14A mile, maybe less.
01:05:16Seen him from top of the rim.
01:05:18We cut and run it, don't we?
01:05:20This is as far as I go for now.
01:05:22Figured it was.
01:05:24Whit, look after Mrs. Lane.
01:05:26Should have known it when you wouldn't swing north to Bisbee.
01:05:28Been Frank all along.
01:05:30Shut up.
01:05:32I said shut up!
01:05:34Last night I heard you tell Mrs. Lane...
01:05:36...why you'd been hunting to find Frank.
01:05:38So?
01:05:40So Billy can wait.
01:05:42Me and Whit will be covering you in the brush.
01:05:44Look, Boone.
01:05:46This won't change anything.
01:05:48Never figured it would.
01:05:55Get up on your animal, Billy.
01:05:57But I...
01:05:59Do like I tell you.
01:06:06Look, Brigade.
01:06:08Now you know you ain't got chance.
01:06:10One.
01:06:12You.
01:06:15Now what are you gonna do?
01:06:18That's up to Frank.
01:06:36Stay here.
01:07:07That's close enough.
01:07:21Fixin' to have a little hangin', I see.
01:07:25Thought that tree would be dead and down by now.
01:07:30Cut him loose.
01:07:33Look, Brigade, you're standing alone.
01:07:35I wouldn't count on it.
01:07:37He's got two wind jesters behind him, Frank.
01:07:40That's so.
01:07:49So what do we do now?
01:07:51Sit there and watch your brother hang.
01:07:53You don't mean that.
01:07:55Don't I?
01:07:57He's only a boy.
01:07:59He's as old as his gun.
01:08:01It's me you're after, Brigade.
01:08:03You got no quarrel with Billy.
01:08:05What quarrel did you have with her?
01:08:08That was a long time ago.
01:08:10I almost forgot.
01:08:12A man can do that.
01:08:14Don't let him do it, Frank.
01:08:16I done you enough, Brigade. Don't make me kill you.
01:08:25Brigade.
01:08:27I can't let you do that.
01:08:29Stop me.
01:08:32Any shootin' that horse will go right out from under Billy.
01:08:35Neck don't slap, you can cut him down in time.
01:08:38That is, if you're alive.
01:08:40Don't leave a man much choice, do ya?
01:08:59I thought for a minute there you were gonna let him swing.
01:09:02So did I.
01:09:04Brigade.
01:09:08I don't suppose there's any way of gettin' Billy from ya.
01:09:11Aside from goin' over ya.
01:09:19Come on.
01:09:21Let's go.
01:09:23Come on.
01:09:30Come and get him.
01:09:54Better get Whid to catch up Billy's horse,
01:09:56unless you want him to walk to Santa Cruz.
01:10:02You mean I can have him?
01:10:05Take him. I got no more use for him.
01:10:16Well, you heard what he said.
01:10:18Whid, get them horses!
01:10:20Yes, sir.
01:10:26Funny, ain't it?
01:10:28How a thing can seem one way,
01:10:30and then turn out altogether somethin' else.
01:10:32Boom.
01:10:34You said you wanted to start over.
01:10:36I hope so, because you don't.
01:10:38I'll be the one who comes lookin' to find ya.
01:10:42I'll remember that.
01:10:44Good luck.
01:10:50Mr. Brigade, will you be going on to Santa Cruz?
01:10:54No, ma'am.
01:10:56I think I understand.
01:10:58Yes, ma'am, I figured you would.
01:11:02Goodbye, Mr. Brigade.
01:11:04Good luck.
01:11:20Well, that figures.
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