"NARRATOR:" "Into the West came many men." "Some were good men and some were bad men." "Some were good men with some bad in them." "And some were bad men with some good in them." "This is the story of two pretty good bad men." "Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry." "Together, these gentlemen substantially altered the course of America's frontier." "They did a lot to change railroad schedules, too." "And in all the trains and banks they robbed, they never shot anyone." "This made our two Iatter-day Robin Hoods very popular with everyone but the railroads and banks." "Because unlike Robin Hood," "Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry robbed from the rich and kept the money for themselves." "It was a good life, but times were changing." "Safes were getting better, the posses were getting bigger, sheriffs were getting smarter, and modern communications made it only a matter of time until they would be captured and maybe even killed." "Stand and deliver!" "Who says so?" "Kid Curry." "Hannibal Heyes." "AII right." "Everybody out!" "Move it, pronto!" "Let's go, move it!" "How're you boys coming with that safe?" "She's gonna blow sky-high!" "Take the dirt, folks!" "Look out!" "Pull her down, boys." "I'm Birdie Pickett." "I'm so..." "How much dynamite did you use, Kyle?" "Every last stick of it." "For one little old safe?" "This ain't no little old safe." "This is a Brooker 202." "What's the delay?" "Well, I'm sure I don't know, ma'am." "Better go check your fuse, Kyle." "I ain't going in there!" "Listen, when the leader ofthe gang tells him to do something, don't he have to do it?" "Yeah, that's my understanding." "But what makes you such a great leader, Heyes, is that you never tell no man to do a thing you wouldn't do yourself." "You wanna be leader?" "After you." "Kyle got it wet." "Well, whose fault is that?" "I warned you not to ford that river, didn't I?" "Huh?" "Oh, no." "No, you and your short cuts." "Don't get proddy, Wheat." "Hey!" "Folks are getting restless." "They're starting to mutter." "Mutter what?" "Oh, like, maybe you two don't know what you're doing." "(SCOFFS)" "Like if you can't even blow up the safe, maybe you ought to get in some other line of work." "That kind of talk could ruin us." "Well, I happen to agree with him." "Wheat..." "Wasn't no offense meant, Kid." "None taken, Wheat." "Now, I wanna remind you boys that we don't exactly have a Iot oftime, so if you would just let Heyes here have a few quiet minutes to work..." "Oh, sure, sure." "Come on, Kyle." "(COUGHS)" "I suppose you boys are wondering what a little old lady from Boston is doing way out here in the Wild West." "Ma'am, I wonder if you could kind of keep your voice down." "My partner has to hear the tumbler." "Tumblers?" "Oh, I know." "But if you don't mind an opinion," "I don't think that you and your friend are cut out for this sort ofthing." "Well, now, wait a minute, ma'am." "Now, this ain't been our best day." "MRS. PICKETT:" "I'm sure." "But I do thinkthat you ought to read this." "What's this?" "Some kind of religious tract?" "Well, it may be the answer to all of your problems, my dear." "Now, you just take it and read it when you find the time." "Yes, ma'am." "Thank you, ma'am." "And now you had better get back to work because I see your friends are frowning." "Uh..." "It's no use." "This safe ain't human. lt'Il take me two hours to get into it." "AII right, then, let's make tracks." "This train's due into Columbine right now." "Posse will be leaving out of Columbine 10 minutes from now." "Lot oftruth in there." "Yeah, but there's $50,000 in this safe." "We ain't leaving it behind." "What are you suggesting we do with it?" "HEYES:" "We're taking it with us!" "When I said, "Let's make tracks,"" "that ain't exactly what I had in mind." "That posse's gonna be real grateful to Heyes, ain't they?" "How'd you do it, Wheat?" "Smarter." "But how?" "That's for me to know and you to find out when I'm the leader ofthis gang." "WHEAT:" "Heyes, why are we heading up towards the mountains?" "HEYES:" "So we can drop the safe off a big one." "(ALL GRUNTING)" "Ifthat don't bust her wide open, nothing will." "Yeah, I hope you're right, Heyes, 'cause, the way I figure it, we got the short end of an hour left." "HEYES:" "Gotta be here someplace." "Keep looking, fellas." "I mean, you know it's gotta be here." "I mean..." "We'll find it." "Don't worry." "I mean, we pushed her from up there." "She's gotta be down here, right?" "The way I figure it, Heyes, you owe me and the boys about $50,000." "Now, we ain't got no time for talking, Wheat, we only got time for looking." "Understand?" "Yahoo!" "Here she is, boys!" "Here she is!" "What?" "Is she open?" "No, she's buried." ""Sure-fire, boys." "Can't miss, boys." ""Ifthis don't work, nothing will, boys."" "(SCOFFS)" "Now, Wheat, you said you had an idea better than Heyes'." "I figure me and the boys are ready to back you up." "Yeah, right." "Yeah." "AII right, men." "Well, the first step is to dig up that safe." "Good idea!" "Right!" "Dig up the safe!" "(EXCLAIMING)" "Well, don't let it eat at you, Heyes." "Maybe he don't have no second step." "(ALL GRUNTING)" "Get over there." "Wheat, may I remind you that we ain't got too much time." "We already pushed this 202 off a mountain, and it didn't so much as scratch her paint." "Heyes, listen, it's all in the way you handle things." "Now, you dropped her into the mud." "I'm fixing to aim her on the rocks." "Mean, hard, pointed rocks." "She'll come apart like a two-bit barrel." "Wheat, may I point out..." "We're ready, Wheat." "Just..." "I'm running things now, all right?" "AII right, boys, let her go." "Well, could've been a lot worse." "How?" "Could've been my idea." "Sure making it easy." "Yup." "Maybe it's a trap." "You know, Iwasjust thinking the same thing." "We better proceed more cautious from here on." "They're awful smart." "No telling what that bunch is up to." "Well, I guess that does it." "You two ain't just walking away from all that money!" "No, we're walking away from a posse." "Advise you to do the same." "I don't take advice, I give it!" "And I'm advising you two to reconsider." "You walk away, we ain't gonna be obliged to owe you no share in that money." "Well, that seems fair enough, Wheat." "See you boys later." "Wish you all the luck in the world." "Be seeing you again, if you don't hang around here too long." "Let her go." "Heyes, what's amnesty?" "Huh?" "Where'd you get this?" "Little old lady from Boston." "Said it could be the end to all our troubles." "What's amnesty mean?" "Well..." "Well, what it means is there's more chicken thieves, land grabbers, and rag-picking penny stealers around than there is Iawmen." "So if a man wants to turn himself in, governor might see fit to wipe his slate clean." ""Might" see fit?" "Depends on who you are and what you done." "Oh." "Well, I don't suppose we'd have a chance." "You don't suppose right." "Hey, good luck now!" "You better hurry, boys!" "(SCOFFING) "You better hurry, boys."" "(GUNS FIRING)" "Better hurry, boys." "CURRY:" "There's one thing we gotta get, Heyes." "HEYES:" "What's that?" "CURRY:" "Out ofthis business!" "(GUNS FIRING)" "It's him." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "LOM:" "Come in." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "What can I do for you?" "Howdy, Lom." "Heyes." "Oh, Lom, no." "Is that any way to say hello after all these years?" "Hello, you're under arrest, and where's the Kid?" "Ought to get a lock for that side door, Lom." "Nice to see you, Lom." "Well, it ain't nice to see you." "I'm gonna tell you straight right now, both of you." "If you have a mind to pull something here in my town, you'd best be primed to walk over my body doing it." "Lom, we're friends." "Were friends." "Oh, now, Lom." "We never held it against you." "Sporting a big tin star, big as a hog's head." "Coffee, Lom?" "No, thanks." "Yeah, ru..." "Well, you know, Lom, we still think of you as one of us." "Well, what do you want?" "What do you know about this?" "Amnesty?" "That's a program the governor's trying out to see if... (CHUCKLES)" "You ain't thinking of amnesty for you two?" "Oh, that's for cheap crooks and small-time grifters." "Oh, well." "Can we help it if we're a bit better at what we do?" "You can't tell me the governor's gonna penalize us for excellence." "And one thing's for sure." "Whoever does our talking is gonna have to believe in us." "Does your..." "Does your talking?" "You don't mean me?" "Well, hey, Lom." "The only man we know who can look the guv straight in the eye, tell him an outlaw can turn good, and mean it." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "It's agirl." "Okay, now, Lom, you be careful." "LOM:" "Come in." "May I speak with you, Sheriff?" "Oh, hello, Miss Porter." "Isn't it kind of late for you to be out by yourself?" "Oh, I was working late." "I'm on my way home now, but..." "Oh, I didn't realize that you were right in the middle of something." "I ain't in the middle of nothing." "These are just a couple of..." "Old, old friends." "Well, any friends ofthe Sheriff's are instantly put on my list of preferred acquaintances." "Aren't you going to introduce us, Lom?" "Huh?" "Oh, sure." "May I present, Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones." "This is Miss Porter of Porterville." "Charmed, I'm sure." "Delighted, ma'am." "Mr. Smith." "Mr. Jones." "Actually, Lom, what I came to talk to you about was we're handling a very large payroll at the bank tomorrow and..." "Oh, perhaps I should explain, I'm running the local bank." "And I was thinking we ought to talk about some additional security measures." "I'm sure we should." "You are the local banker, ma'am?" "In my father's absence, yes." "Well, I'II drop by the bank the first thing in the morning, Miss Porter, and look into your security arrangements." "Oh, that would be fine, Lom." "Although I'm fairly confident with our big new Brooker safe." "Brooker?" "Brooker, ma'am?" "HEYES:" "Not the Brooker 202?" "No." "The Brooker 404." "Oh..." "Brooker 404." "404." "Well, you just rest assured, ma'am." "There ain't a man in these parts can open a Brooker 202, let alone a 404." "Now, how is that, Mr. Smith, that you know so much about safes?" "Well, it's kind of in his line of work, Miss Porter." "But the Brooker 404 is brand new!" "I didn't know anybody knew anything about them." "It is new to these parts, but they've had one for some months at the Mercantile Bank of St. Louis, and the Farmer's Bank at Fort Worth, too." "Mr. Smith, you've given your secret away." "I have?" "You are in banking!" "Yes." "Yes, you could say that, couldn't you?" "Mr. Smith, given your choice, would you pick a Brooker safe or a Magnalock?" "I'd pick either one." "Actually, I'm more in the money end of it." "My partner, Mr. Jones, here, is the security expert." "An expert?" "Right here in Porterville?" "Well, ma'am..." "Oh, Lom, now, you know how I've been trying to prove myself while Daddy's away." "It's just that, being only a woman, I..." "I feel I need guidance." "Lom, do you think that we might prevail upon your friends to take an interest in our little bank?" "Well, I'm sure they'd do just that, ma'am, if they were to stay in town." "As it happens, they'll be leaving real sudden like." "However, Lom, since she is a friend of yours..." "And since we do have some unfinished business with you, Lom..." "Then you will take a look at our security systems?" "Oh, with pleasure, ma'am." "First thing in the morning, ma'am." "I know I'II be in good hands." "Good night." "Good night, Miss Porter." "(DOOR OPENS)" "Good night." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "So that's it." "AII this talk about amnesty is just an excuse for you to be here while you set up the bank." "Lom, if you know one thing about me and the Kid, you know our word is good!" "We never come anywhere near this town before 'cause we didn't want to cause any trouble for you." "AII right, if you can't help us now, okay, I understand." "You make our excuses to the lady, tell her we had to leave town unexpected." "Let's go, Kid." "Wait, boys." "(SIGHS)" "I guess I knew all along that you stayed out of Porterville just to keep my record clear." "I suppose one good turn deserves another." "Then you'll do it?" "You'll talk to the governor?" "With all the heat he's been getting from the banks and the railroads, he might even thank me for coming up with a way to put you two out of business." "When can you get started?" "No sense in waiting." "I'II take the 7:15 train in the morning." "AII right, Lom." "You're a good man." "Yeah, I told you." "I told you." "So long, Lom." "Be seeing you." "We'll be waiting right here for you when you get back." "You know, with your pockets loaded full of you-know-what, huh?" "Well, so long, Smith." "So long, Jones." "AII right." "I expect you can stay out oftrouble till I get back." "Listen, if anything happens, my deputy's name is Harker." "He's a big blond fellow." "What a worrier." "What could happen?" "Got about three more minutes to crack this safe before the bank opens." "(SHUSHING) You can't rush ajob like this." "(SIGHS)" "Well, if you can't crack her, I don't guess she can be cracked." "Well, it looks like you got yourself a real safe safe, ma'am." "Well, I'm very grateful to you for your efforts, both of you." "Our pleasure, ma'am, and our business." "Oh, that's so apparent." "Are you satisfied, Mr. Smith?" "Yes, ma'am." "You got your money's worth." "Five tumbler, sequential action." "But a good dynamiter could blow it." "Well, he'd have to get through the steel bars on our windows and our doors first." "Well, I wish we could continue this discussion, but if you'll excuse me, I must open our doors." "HARKER:" "Hey, gents!" "Don't make no move toward your guns!" "And who says so?" "Me." "Acting Sheriff Harker Wilkins." "AII right, you just step right on in there, gentlemen." "That's fine." "Yes, here." "Now, on official orders from elected Sheriff Lom Trevors, you are directed to give me your firearms." "Go on." "Unstrap them now." "That's fine, that's fine." "Thank you." "Thank you kindly." "Thank you." "Oh, now, here." "You just put that right back where you got it from." "You best to tell him." "He don't put it back, he's gonna get in big trouble." "Oh, you best to put it back, Mr. Jones." "Hmm." "There." "Thank you kindly." "Hey, Deputy, would you mind filling in some ofthe spaces with words?" "Yeah, well, you men is on my list." "Your what list?" "Well, my list of known transients, placed in myjurisdiction by Sheriff Trevors to be enacted upon in his absence." "Transients being found in possession of firearms while under my aforementioned jurisdiction, which is in violation of Article One ofthe Temporary Transients Act, and makes them subject to immediate arrest and imprisonment." "This was Lom's idea?" "Relax." "He's just trying to make sure we stay out oftrouble, huh?" "Oh, we're fine without a gun?" "Uh-huh." "What other kind of special rules you got?" "Well, now there's Article Two, which says that ifthere's any trouble in the whole town, that's from a busted window to a throwed horseshoe, that I am to pick up and arrest all known transients." "(BOTH GROANING)" "Hey, how many transients you got on that list?" "Two." "Oh, cheer up, Kid." "If it's worth having, it's worth giving something up for." "Lom's only testing us." "Yeah, he gave us wings and took away the sky." "Mr. Smith!" "Mr. Jones!" "I'm sorry." "We hadn't really completed our discussions when I had to break away." "Hadn't we?" "No." "I could certainly use you, in the bank." "You mean to work there?" "Inside, ma'am?" "But you don't have to make your decision right now." "We'll take the jobs." "Huh?" "Why not?" "And I for one am not too proud." "Like Miss Porter says, it's only till her Pa gets back." "And, well, look at it this way." "We're strangers in a strange town, but inside a bank, why, we'll be right at home." "Kind of keep our hands in the..." "So to speak." "Well, I..." "Ma'am, excuse me." "We're really gonna have to talk this up between the two of us if you don't mind." "Not at all." "I'm only thrilled you'll even consider helping me out in Daddy's absence." "Could I possibly hope for an answer by the close of business today?" "Oh, oh, oh, of course, ma'am." "One way or another." "Yes, of course." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "You..." "And I still say, why not?" "You know, the sooner we grab off ourselves some regularjobs, the sooner we gonna get off that list oftransients, and the sooner we gonna get our shooting irons back." "What's old Lom gonna think we're up to, though, if he hears we're working in the bank?" "I don't know about that other one, but I bet you a dollar that's Kid Curry." "Just like when I seen them riding through Fort Griffin, one jump ahead ofthe posse." "Then there's the constant temptation, which I ain't sure I got the strength to resist." "Hey, you, at the end ofthe bar." "Not you." "You." "Me and my friend here just been wondering who it is you resemble." "Well, my mother mostly." "So they tell me." "(SNORTS)" "Well, now I see why you don't wear a gun, when you can shoot off your mouth that way." "Well, you know what we got here, Mr. Smith?" "We got ourselves a walk-off." "No, no, no, don't get started." "Walk-off?" "I don't like that, mister." "And I don't even know what it means." "Well, then, I'm gonna tell you." "No." "You see when the good Lord was making men, he got a whole bunch ofthem all whomped up together." "And then he decided to knock off for the rest ofthe day, thinking he'd put the brains in later." "But guess what happened?" "A whole bunch ofthem critters just upped and walked off" "(MIMICKING INAUDIBLY) before he ever got back." "And that's what we got here, walk-off." "Don't you push him." "You can't back it up." "Sir, I would Iike to apologize for my friend." "And also want you to be sure that you keep on noticing that he ain't wearing a gun." "Neither am I." "Neither am I." "(SNAPS FINGERS)" "Don't let that stop you, in case you feel like reaching." "Okay, Heyes, step aside." "No!" "No, you can't." "He's asking for it." "AII right." "I'm asking for something, too." "Something we ain't never had a chance at before!" "We ain't got no chance now that eyeballer knows who I am!" "But he can't be sure." "Not unless you go and prove it for him!" "Okay." "We'll play it your way." "(SIGHS) sir." "Me and my friend been talking it over" "and he'd Iike to apologize." "He'd what?" "Yes, sir, that's a fact." "I'd Iike to apologize." "I'm very sorry." "I've got a big mouth." "And no guts." "Yes, sir." "No guts." "You'd better be careful when you stand up on your hind legs that way." "You might be confused with something human." "Yes, sir." "I'II remember that." "You're right." "He isn't the man I thought he was." "But even so, I don't like that face." "I'II be through here tomorrow in the a.m." "You'd better make sure it ain't around here for me to see." "Yes, sir." "It'Il be missing." "(LAUGHING)" "On the house, boys!" "And my apologies." "AII my customers ain't like him." "Local boy?" "No." "He's ramrodding the 2U herd." "They're camped a couple miles south of here." "They'II be pushing them beeves through here in the morning, so all you gotta do is stay hid till they're gone and you won't get hurt." "That's all, huh?" "(LAUGHS)" "Well, it's decided." "We're taking those bank jobs 'cause I'm not going naked one more day." "I don't know about that." "I don't know if a transient can legally hold ajob in Porterville." "Well, he can't 'cause the minute he's got a job, he ain't transient." "Which is what we stopped being about 10 minutes ago." "You can ask Miss Porter." "So just give us our guns back." "We gotta get to work." "Well, till I get a definite ruling from the Sheriff..." "Oh, here." "He got over to Capitol and sent a message back." "Had something in it for you boys." "Sent it by telegraph, too." "Says here, "Tell Smith and Jones everything looks good."" "Now, I Iike to keep my $100 bills in piles of 10, and my $10 bills in piles of 100." "And on my righÍ." "I'd Iike to have a pile of $50 bills, 20 ofthem, and 20 $50 bills on my left." "And the ones, you keep them..." "What's the matter?" "Oh, I don't know." "No, nothing, Mr. Pincus." "I think I gotta get some fresh air." "You look a little bilious." "Uh-huh." "(GROANS)" "I've got green spots in front of my eyes." "I've got fives and tens." "I don't know if I can take it." "Iwasjust thinking how natural you looked behind them bars." "Leastwise, I ain't got time to be tempted by Miss Porter." "Hello." "Hello." "Mayl talk to you for a minute?" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Mr. Jones, I wonder if we might get together tonight for dinner?" "To discuss security." "Well, I'm sorry, ma'am, but I've other plans for tonight." "Who's that?" "Me." "What do you want?" "Well, first off, I'd Iike you to notice there ain't nobody around to watch us now." "And I'd Iike you to notice that I am wearing a gun." "You looking for trouble?" "No." "No, no trouble." "Just here to give you a little piece of advice." "Don't take this herd through Porterville." "Take the other road up through Salt River." "You're given the orders, mister." "I expect you can back them up." "There's two of us and one of you." "That's two guns against one." "That don't hardly seem fair." "Yeah, it's fair." "You see, this gun of mine shoots two bullets at one time." "Huh?" "Now, what's that supposed to mean?" "Just what I said." "Here's one." "That's the other one." "That's two." "Get the idea?" "Yes, sir." "We'll be going by way of Salt River." "Thought you might." "Good night, boys." "Well, you can sleep easy." "Them boys ain't gonna be driving that herd through town after all." "You didn't go up..." "Oh, no, no, no, no." "No, Ijust suggested a safer road." "So all our troubles are over." "I don't like it." "Bank sits right there next to Sheriff's office." "I wish Heyes was here to think it out." "If I couldn't figure it out better than him any day of the week, I'd just plum quit." "Tomorrow morning, we'll just take that little bank without Hannibal Heyes and the Kid." "(CLEARING THROAT) AII right, now." "We're all gonna just walk in there, looking innocent and normal." "Well, anyway, we're all just gonna walk in." "And I'm gonna go first." "I'm gonna sashay right up to the teller and I'm gonnatell him to fill this bag up full of money." "Uh, rest of you, you..." "Listen, why don't you just stand around, ready to cover me in case we have to shoot our way out?" "Ain't you nervous, Wheat?" "Huh?" "Well, you've never done first bandit before." "Who's nervous?" "I ain't nervous." "Don't move and don't holler, 'cause this is a stickup." "(WHISPERING) What are you doing back there?" "One thing I ain't doing is getting robbed." "Put that gun away." "0h, yeah?" "Just read that." "Why do I have to read that?" "I wrote it!" "Now, you get out of here." "Now, wait just a minute." "Do you mean to say that you're..." "That you're legally working here?" "Yes, I am." "Then you ain't got no right to tell me not to rob it." "I'm only telling you as a friend because this here bank is protected to the fullest extent of one fully loaded six-gun in the hand of" "Kid Curry." "(SCOFFING)" "If you don't believe me, just look behind you." "(GUN COCKING)" "Howdy, boys." "Howdy." "Hi." "I suggest you all wait outside while me and Heyes talk to Wheat there." "Well, I think that's a good idea." "Yeah." "AII right, what's the angle?" "(WHISPERING) Amnesty." "Huh?" "Amnesty." "Amnesty?" "For you two?" "Well, we ain't got it yet." "But Lom Trevors, you remember?" "He's talking with the governor right at this very minute." "He's talking to the governor?" "For you two?" "Well, yeah." "Now, we'd have put in for you, too, but we didn't know where you were." "As soon as we get it, it's a cinch for you and all the rest ofthem." "'Cause..." "Well, we're much bigger crooks than you are." "You really think we got a chance?" "Sure, and tell you what." "You take the boys, you go lay low for a couple days." "Well, go over to Salt River." "And then, as soon as we get the good word, we'll bust over on and tell you." "Ain't that gonna be a nice surprise?" "The happy end to seven sorry lives of crime." "Glad you see the advantage, Wheat." "Go on out there and tell the boys." "Right, right." "We'll be waiting for the word." "Yeah." "Well, what'd they say?" "What are they up to?" "They're fixing to rob the bank without us." "That man you were talking to and those other men, what did they want?" "CURRY:" "Well, they're just looking for work, ma'am." "Poor devils, we told them to try Salt River." "Oh, well, they certainly do seem grateful." "By the way, ma'am." "Sorry I couldn't take you up on that dinner last night." "But I am free tonight." "How about you and me doing the town?" "Why, I'd love to." "Come on." "Now, wait." "What's the idea rousting a man out of bed like that?" "You'll see." "Come on, come on." "What, now?" "Just..." "Just wait a minute." "Miss Porter, can you get home by yourself?" "Well, I usually do, but..." "Well, then I'II be saying good night to you now." "Sorry, ma'am." "Never mind." "Hey, what's the trouble?" "You'll see." "Come on." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "Look at them." "Give me a good one." "Okay." "A pair of eights good?" "So, what's wrong with them?" "Who are they?" "Transients." "Listen, they was over to the bank this morning looking for work." "And don't you deny it because I've got a full report." "Who's denying it?" "We told them to go over to Salt River." "Yeah, but they didn't do it." "Come here." "Bartender here tells me they've been sitting right in that spot for 14 hours." "Well, that doesn't make it our responsibility." "Yeah, but I got a feeling that you know who they are." "What?" "(MUSIC STOPS)" "I said." "I got a feeling that you know who they are." "Yeah, how come?" "Well, 'cause two oftheir horses got the same brand on them as yours have." "Now..." "We bought them broomtails off a herd must have been 2,000 strong." "Now, it's just likely somebody else bought a couple." "Yeah, maybe." "Yeah, but, they're still transients." "And as such, is subject to all the rules and regulations applying to same." "So, I got to go in there and take their guns." "He's about to get his head blowed off." "Well, now, boys, I'II just have to take your guns until you decide to ride out of town." "Where did you hear that?" "Special rules and regulations pertaining to the Temporary Transients Act." "And in this town, you boys is knowed as transients." "Well, Kid." "Looks like it's time for us to stand up and be counted on his side ofthe law." "Let's go." "Transients?" "Sounds like a hanging offense if ever I heared one." "0h. no. no, no." "Nothing serious like that at all." "Just means I got to take your guns." "(CLEARS THROAT) Oh, I guess..." "lfthem's the rules," "I guess we didn't know the rules." "Well, we'd be more than happy to oblige, Sheriff." "That's all there is to it." "You'll see." "Thank you." "Thank you kindly, gentlemen." "There we are." "Thank you very kindly." "There, now." "You see there?" "Transients ain't necessarily hostile." "Hmm?" "I thought you was gonna wait over at the Salt River." "What difference does it make, as long as we're waiting?" "Oh, I don't know." "But do you have to do it right here?" "Right out in public?" "AII right, I'II tell you the truth." "We just about busted." "And me and my horse is just plum stove in." "Those few miserable dollars lying out there on that table, that's all the cash we've got in the world between us." "So?" "So we can't..." "We can't afford no place to stay." "But you see, if we just sit here passing the same few miserable dollars back and forth between us, buying a short beer every now and then, well, we can't get throwed out." "And we have got a roof over our heads." "Just as long as we don't let no one else in the game who might walk off with what little we got." "Yeah." "Now, hey, come on." "Now, now, don't be so down, you know." "You won't have long to wait." "Now, Lom's gonna be back tomorrow night, 11:15 train." "You just sit tight, huh?" "Yeah, well, we're just sitting here waiting." "AII right." "Okay." "(MUSIC STARTS PLAYING)" "AII right, gentlemen, what's the name ofthis game?" "Yes, sir." "It's them transients." "They're still sitting around that poker table." "About 22 hours now." "Must be a big game." "No, ain't never been more than $12 in the pot." "And it look like they discourage new money." "I can't figure that out." "Well, maybe they're waiting for someone." "Or got nothing better to do." "Look, you got their guns, they're staying put." "What more do you want?" "Yeah." "I sure will be glad that Sheriff gets back tonight, though." "Yeah." "(KNOCKING)" "Time Lom's train pulls in, we're gonna be sitting smack under that safe, scooping out money instead of dirt." "(MEN LAUGHING)" "Well, whatever Lom tells us when we meet that train tonight, we better not plan on staying here." "Now, where are they going?" "HEYES:" "The whole bunch ofthem going into the Sheriff's office without being dragged?" "Oh!" "Howdy, gents." "Oh, these here transients, they're just leaving town right now." "Weren't you?" "Yeah, we just heard they're taking on hands over to the Tumble T." "So, we're on our way." "Just stopped by to pick up our hardware." "WHEAT:" "Nice meeting you, gents." "So we just..." "Oh, listen, Mr. Deputy." "Mmm-hmm?" "You wouldn't mind, would you, if we just have ourselves maybe just one little extra hand of poker before we left town?" "I mean, would you?" "Oh, I reckon not." "You boys sure have been cooperative and all." "Yeah, of course, I'II have to take my leave of you." "See, I've got to make my rounds and then be down there at 11:15 to meet the Sheriff's train." "Yeah, well, you just tell that Sheriff, as far as we're concerned, he can just leave you in charge any old time." "Well, now, thank you, gents." "Thank you, yes." "That's fine." "Thank you, Sheriff." "Thank you, Sheriff." "They're a fine bunch of fellows there." "Yeah, they're winners." "HEYES:" "AII right." "Just a bit." "How come you sit still for 36 hours, then pick a time like this to decamp?" "We're not going no place." "You given much thought to what's gonna happen when Lom gets back?" "I mean, if you ain't got that amnesty?" "Figured we'd better have our guns, just in case." "Afraid they got a point there, Heyes." "Yeah, we'll just be waiting at the poker table like we was." "Hey, howdy!" "Hey, what you got there?" "I got a telegram for Deputy Wilkins." "HEYES:" "Well, right in here." "CHARLEY:" "Foryou, Harker, from Lom." "Mmm-hmm." "Well, thank you very much, Charley." "You're welcome." "What's it say?" "(CLEARING THROAT) Well, you're both under arrest." "Now, you ain't even told us what we're charged with." "Well, you'll have to talk to the Sheriff about that." "Now, I got to go make my rounds and I'II be back directly." "I'II have him with me." "Well, then, Ieastwise, you can tell us what the telegram said." "Yeah." "Read it for yourself." ""Arrest Smith and Jones and hold" "(CLEARS THROAT)" ""incommunicado till I get back tonight" ""on the 11:15." "Sheriff Trevors."" "He sold us out, Kid." "He never even intended to get us amnesty." "He was just back there trying to build up our prices with the banks and railroads before he cashes us in." "So here we're set, done in." "Come to the end of our road, and it took a friend to bring us down." "(KEYS RATTLING)" "(LAUGHING)" "Now, we gonna teach Lom a lesson." "I say we blow that bank right now." "Right, that'II show folks he should have stuck around here doing his job instead of going off to the Capitol to feather his nest." "Yeah, we'll round up the rest ofthe boys..." "No." "But..." "No, we gotta keep them out ofthis." "How come?" "Well, don't you see?" "They're trying so hard to go straight, hoping for amnesty." "Now, we ain't got no right to go wrecking their chances now." "(SIGHS)" "No, Kid, this is one bank we gotta blow by ourselves." "You know, Heyes, you've got a real big heart." "Yeah." "I can see it!" "We're smack-dab under the safe." "There she is." "We're right on top of her." "We know the Deputy's gonna be waiting at the station at 11:15." "It's a good three minutes from the station to the bank." "It should give us just time enough to grab the money and run before Lom gets back." "So, that's when we blow it up." "At exactly 11:15." "WHEAT: 11:05." "I don't know, Wheat." "That's an awful lot of dynamite." "Yeah, that's an awful lot of safe we got up there." "KYLE:" "We'll be long gone out ofthis tunnel when she blows." "It's gonna be a big one." "CURRY:" "You sure we ain't overdoing it?" "Kid, may I remind you, we are dealing with a Brooker 404." "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)" "There." "Howdy, Harker." "Howdy, Sheriff." "You arrest those two fellows like I said?" "I sure did." "Everything's under control." "You all right?" "I don't feel a thing." "HEYES:" "What happened?" "I can't figure it out, Kid." "I don't know, Heyes." "But it must have been awful good dynamite." "That's what happened, Heyes." "They're what happened." "AII right, boys." "That don't belong to you." "Nowjust leave the money where it is." "Try and stop us." "HEYES:" "Don't you dare, Wheat." "(GUNS FIRING)" "Don't you dare!" "Go on, go on." "Go on, get!" "CURRY:" "Put it down, you heard him." "Get!" "Go on!" "Get!" "And don't come back." "And don't try that again." "Gentlemen!" "Gentlemen, you were wonderful!" "You were wonderful!" "You were wonderful!" "Just the two of you against those men." "Lom, you should have seen it." "I saw it all." "Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones saved the bank." "They fought along those outlaws side-by-side." ""Put that down," they said." ""That doesn't belong to you."" "They fought for that moneyjust like it was their very own." "LOM:" "Uh-huh?" "Well, I think even the governor might be interested in what they did." "I'd Iike to discuss that, boys, if you wouldn't mind stepping into my office for a moment." "Yahoo, we got it!" "We did get the amnesty." "Yes, uh-huh." "But, please, please, don't tell me anything about what happened here tonight." "Hey, Lom." "Yeah?" "One thing, though." "If we did get the amnesty, how come you had us arrested?" "Well, I was afraid the governor's telegram would get here before I did, setting out the terms." "And I was afraid the terms might scare you off before I could explain about it." "Terms?" "What terms?" "Well, you've been granted provisional amnesty." "Course, the governor can't come flat out and give you amnesty now without letting himself in for a lot of criticism." "So..." "First, you gotta prove you deserve it." "Till then, only you and me and the governor will know." "It'Il be our secret." "Secret." "How long?" "The governor figures a year." "Figures if you can stay out oftrouble for 12 months, you can do it forever." "Then you got it, the whole thing." "Fresh start, clean bill of health, amnesty." "So, all we've got to do is just stay out of trouble for one year." "But we'll still be wanted." "We'll still be blamed for everything that goes wrong." "We'll still be the same men we was before you talked to the governor?" "That's true." "But it's only for 12 months." "You can do it, boys." "I'm sure you can." "Just like you stayed out oftrouble for the last few days right here in Porterville." "Now, that wasn't so hard, really, was it?" "NARRATOR:" "So, for the following year, the West's two most wanted men would lead model lives." "Lives of temperance, moderation, tranquility." "Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry would cease to exist." "In their places would ride two men ofpeace, alias Smith and Jones."