" Can I help you, partner?" " Please." " What do you wanna do with it?" " Right up over there." "Up there." "That should do it." "Thank you." " Well, I guess you'll be leaving now." " You're a good guesser." "Goodbye, Willie." "And thank you for being the only man in the Longhorn Palace that never made an indecent proposal." "Well, if I'd had my strength, I might have." "Tell her to sing loud and watch out for the manager's hands." "Good luck, there, Billie!" "Say, can a fella eat in here?" "Well, sure, go right on in." " Care for a horse for a few days?" " Sure." "Henry!" "Got a customer." "Wants you to stable his horse." "HENRY:" "That's just fine." " What's your name?" " Link Jones." "Link Jones?" " J-O-N-E-S?" " That's right." "Where you from?" "West of here five days." "Good Hope." "How much do you charge?" "Two bits a day." "A dollar in advance." " Tom, take care of his horse, will you?" " Sure." "Thanks." " Where can a fellow wash up around here?" " Out there in back." "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)" " Thank you." " You're welcome." " Ticket to Fort Worth, please." " Yes, sir." "That's $8.35, sir." " Oh, here's your change." " Thank you." "(CHILDREN CHEERING)" "(BELL CLANGING)" "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLARING)" "Makes you want to holler right back, don't it?" "First one I ever saw, I let out a yap you could've heard in Arkansas." "Well, what do you think of it?" "That's the ugliest thing I ever saw in my life." "You never saw my ex-wife." "That man a friend of yours?" "Where you from?" "About five days west of here, a little settlement." "What's it called?" "Sawmill." "Have I ever seen you before?" "You mind if I ask your name?" "Henry Wright." ""Henry Wright."" "And I don't know you?" "From a long time back, maybe." "I said no." "Did you ever hear the name Dock Tobin?" " You sure, now?" "Dock Tobin." " I'm sure." "CONDUCTOR:" "All aboard!" "If I was you, I'd watch out who I was talking to." "(STEAM HISSING)" "Look after the children and have fun, dear." "Goodbye." "CONDUCTOR:" "Aboard!" "All aboard!" "East Fork, next stop!" "El Paso!" "Fort Worth!" "All aboard!" "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)" "(BIDDING FAREWELL)" "Mind some company?" "Name is Sam Beasley." "That's some country we'll be going through." "Nothing but a bunch of rattlers and tarantulas." "It's right through that area where some of those real important outlaws used to ride." "Johnny Beggs, Dock Tobin, and all those..." "How you doing now?" "Oh, I'm beginning to get the hang of it." "Yeah, I guess a man can get used to anything." "I remember one..." " I didn't get your name." " Jones." "Jones?" "Imagine you must be on your way up to Fort Worth on a real big cattle deal, Mr. Jones." "I would think, from the way you carry yourself, you're a cattle man." "One of my many hobbies is observing the people around me." "Keeping my eyes open for their little peculiarities, you might say, so that I can..." "I'm on my way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher." "Is that so?" "Well, that's pretty interesting." "What would a gent like you want with a schoolteacher?" "We're starting a school in my town." "(EX CLAIMS)" "Well, good for you!" " What town is that?" " Good Hope." "Good..." "Well, hope you know you have to pay her a whole year in advance" " to get her to come this far west." " That's right." "Well, I guess that takes a little money." "We've raised it." "BEASLEY:" "And you're the one they picked to choose her?" "I guess, that's quite an honor." "Now, don't say..." "That's right." "You know, it's mighty interesting that you should bump into me here on this train." "CONDUCTOR:" "Tickets." "Tickets, please." "I..." "I might be able to help you find somebody when we get to Fort Worth." "Glad to have met you, Mr. Jones." "See you again." "Hello, Billie." "Billie, you're looking very good!" "Thanks." "And I thought the only thing that looked good to you was a marked deck." "Billie, mind if I sit down?" "Thanks." "You know, it's interesting who you meet on a train." "This is East Fork." "East Fork wood stop." "All able-bodied men are requested to pitch in and give us a hand loading wood for the engine." "The more help we have, the quicker we can get started again." "The Fort Worth  Chihuahua appreciates your help." " You going out to help?" " That's right." "I don't mean to trouble you, Mr..." " Jones." " Jones!" "But there's somebody here on this train I think, you ought to meet." "Miss Ellis?" "Miss Ellis, I'd like to present Mr. Jones." " How do you do, Mr. Jones?" " Hello, Miss Ellis." "Now, the reason I wanted for you to meet Miss Ellis is a strange coincidence." "I mean, it's pretty unusual that the three of us are here on this train." "I even get a sort of a creepy feeling about it." "You ask me why?" "I'll tell you." "Miss Ellis, that is, Miss Billie Ellis, is a singer with what you might call an operatic voice." "A lady of real culture." "But the amazing part about it is, she was trained as a schoolteacher." "Really?" "Now, why would Mr. Jones be interested in that?" "Mr. Jones is on this train looking for a schoolteacher!" "He's riding all the way to Fort Worth to find her." "Isn't that right, Mr. Jones?" "Now, wouldn't that make your hair stand up straight?" "Now, I think, the three of us ought to sit down and talk this over, while they're out there hauling that wood." "I think you gentlemen ought to be out there loading wood." "We're running a little behind schedule." "Would you, keep an eye on my bag for me?" "Sure thing, it'll be safe." "I'll be right here." "Maybe we ought to talk about this when the train pulls out." "Mr. Jones is looking to stretch his legs." "Although I don't see why he'd want them any longer than they are." "Excuse me, Miss Ellis." "Beautiful job." "Let's see if we can keep it on schedule, now, men:" "(MAN GRUNTING)" "(WOMEN SHRIEKING)" "(GUNS FIRING)" "Let's get to the baggage car." "(SCREAMING CONTINUES)" "(GRUNTING)" "Let's get this thing rolling!" "MAN:" "Hello?" "Hello?" "(MAN GROANING)" "Who is it?" "It's you." "I thought it was... (GASPING) I was running, and I fell down, and my heart feels as if it's going to jump out of my chest!" "Hey..." "Hey, what happened here?" "Were they trying to..." "Were they trying to pull... (EX CLAIMS)" "Hey!" "Hey, listen." "I think, this is busted." "They were trying to hold up the train, weren't they?" "That's right." "BEASLEY:" "How could they go off and leave us like this?" "We could starve out here." "Hey, Billie!" "You all right?" "You hurt or anything?" " No." " BEASLEY:" "I hurt my ankle." "You wouldn't leave us out here alone, would you, Mr. Jones?" "I'm just asking." "When is the next train?" "Runs once a week." "Do you talk?" "He just gave you the answer." " You're hurt." " It's nothing." " BILLIE:" "Should have it tended to." " It's unimportant." "I'm all right." "Where's the nearest town?" "JONES:" "Maybe 100 miles." "A hundred miles?" "What are we going to do?" "Well, I guess we'll have to walk." "We'd better find shelter for tonight or you two will freeze to death." "Yeah, but I can't walk on this foot." "Then I'll have to carry you, Mr. Beasley." "I bet you're glad you've got company." "I wouldn't say that." "We'll be a comfort to you." "I'll sing Tenting Tonight, a little bit off-key, and Sam here can teach you how to deal off the bottom of the deck." "You'll be a richer and a happier man." "What are you looking at?" "Your shoes." "My shoes?" "That makes this trip worthwhile." "You're the first man that's looked at that part of me since I was 14 years old." "Those shoes won't last a day out here." "Then I'll have to walk without them." "Still standing." "How did you know about it?" "I used to live here once." "When you were a boy?" "Oh, I don't know what I was." "BEASLEY:" "Who owns this place?" "It belonged to a nester a long time back, somebody shot him." "You two go into the barn." "PONCH:" "Come in." "The man with the gun ain't got no voice, or he'd invite you hisself." "Come in!" "Stop there." "Now, what can we do for you?" "Looks like I called at the wrong time." "Close the door, Trout." "What happened to your head?" "A fella dropped one of those on it." "(CHUCKLING) Why, that's too bad!" "COALEY:" "Where you from?" "West of here a-ways." "COALEY:" "What's the name of the place?" "Sawmill." "What do you want here?" "I got left by the train." "Just looking for a roof for the night, that's all." "I can move on." "How'd you find this place, mister?" "Just stumbled into it." "I guess you'd call it..." "Luck." "Good or bad luck?" "He'll be dead by tomorrow morning." "He's got a hole in his back..." "Hello, Link." "Come shake hands with your Uncle Dock Tobin." "You've been gone a while." " How long has it been?" "Five years?" " A lot longer than that." "I don't keep track of time very good anymore." "You look fine." "Been eating good?" "Yes." "That's the thing." "You eat good." "This is really something, seeing you again." "I remember the day you left me." "Oh, Lord, do I remember it." "You were my right arm." "You ran off and left me." "God have mercy on my black bloody soul." "(DOCK CHUCKLING)" "I was so mad," "I could take and push your guts right out through your back." "And I would have done it, too, so help me, if you'd have been standing there." "I'd have opened you up wide." "My right arm, trained by me." "I put a piece of work into you." "Every last idea that shot through your head was mine." "I remember every bloody minute of it." "Oh, the glory of Uvalde, and Saltillo, and Black Fork." "Remember them names?" "(LAUGHING)" "Uvalde?" "God forgive us, we painted their walls with blood that time." "(DOCK EX CLAIMING)" "Walked out of that bank with $11,000." "You and me, Claude riding behind us." "Then we murdered old Ben Scull together." "You held him, I took off the top of his head." "$11,000." "We were big!" "Don't you remember?" "I remember." "You were my property." "What did you go off and leave me for?" "I wanted to strike out on my own." "And I needed you that time." "I could have killed you!" "We fell apart!" "Look at these pigs." "This morning, had a train all lined up." "Bank money riding on it, one stinking guard," "and they let it get away." "(SCOFFS)" "There's no guts anymore!" "(GLASS SHATTERING)" "I got nobody left." "Just your cousin Claude." "He's riding over from Crosscut." "Remember Claude?" "He was a nice, quiet, cold one." "He ain't changed a bit." "(MAN GROANING)" "That's Alcutt." "Got a hole in his back." "He's gonna die." "He wasn't much good anyway." "Why don't you go and help him out, Ponch?" "Show Link Jones here what kind of man you are." " What do you mean?" " You know what I mean!" "Go do it." "What I figured." "Trout!" "The man's gonna die anyway." "It's the charitable thing to do." "(DOCK LAUGHING)" "No guts." "Coaley, you show Link." "Your father and his father was brothers." "Show him what his family is like." "I'm waiting!" "(GUNSHOTS)" "Well, Link, what's gonna happen with us?" "You back with me?" " I'm back." " That the truth?" "That's the truth." "Ponch!" "Make a fire." "I'm cold." "Dock, I've got two people with me." "They've walked all day." "Coaley, bring them in." "I'll bring them in myself." "He said for me to do it." "I said I'd bring them in." "All right, cousin, you bring them in." "Here they are, Uncle Dock." " Look at the build on her!" " (CHUCKLING) Yeah." "Her name is Miss Ellis." "This is Mr. Beasley." "The name is Sam Beasley." "Well, we can always use another good hand, Beasley." "There's a man outside digging a grave." "Go help him." "Wait a minute." " Catch." " Hey!" "She your woman, Link?" "Yes, she's my woman." "I admire your taste." "My name's Dock Tobin." "D-O-C-K Tobin." "Ever hear that name before?" " Yes." " Yeah?" "Your man used to be with me." "We rode together, killed together." "He ever tell you that?" "Yes." "Did you ever tell her that, Link?" "Gonna be together again, isn't that so?" "That's right." "You came back to ride with me, didn't you?" " That's why I came back." " Yeah." "He got left by the train." "He's lying to you." "I don't like having him here." "You're not big enough to shine his boots." " No?" " No!" "Keep your mouth shut." "What you been doing, Link?" "Nothing much." "Moving around." "Yeah?" "Where?" "All over." "All by yourself?" "All by myself." "Are the pickings pretty good?" "Fair." "And you came all this way just to find me, huh?" "I was going to Fort Worth on that train this morning." "I got left." "That's when I figured I'd try to find you." "Remember a place called Lassoo?" "Yes." "It makes my tired old heart pump like a young boy's every time I hear the name." "There's a stage bank there." "Oh, a big one." "All the mines in the area ship their gold through there." "I've been wanting to take it for years." "(LAUGHS)" "Oh, it rings in my head like a bell!" ""Lassoo!"" " Lassoo Bank." " Did you hear him?" "That's the biggest one we ever went after." "Then we go home, back to Mexico, right?" "Right." "What do you think of Lassoo, Link?" "I think the same thing you do." "Yeah?" "You're going to help me take it." "(DOCK LAUGHING)" "Well, Link, if you're with me, go and take Alcutt out and bury him." "I can't dig no more." "He keeps standing there with that rifle." "He never says nothing, just keeps looking at you." "He took my pen, he took my watch and chain, he took everything." "Never says anything." "He'll shoot me if I stop digging." " I'll dig." " Thank you." "Don't jab me with that rifle!" "You think we could..." "Could we maybe try to run away if we get a chance?" "Just run, just the two of us." "Just the two of us?" "Well, you go right ahead." "They'll run you down and cut you up into little chunks." "You changed." "Since the minute you walked in that shack, you changed." "You're a different man, all of a sudden." "You act like you belong with these people." "COALEY:" "Come on!" "(RAUCOUS LAUGHTER)" "What's that?" "(BILLIE SHOUTING)" "What's that?" "BILLIE:" "Link!" "COALEY:" "A few words here tonight about this little lady." "PONCH:" "Let's get this thing started, lady!" " Come on in, Link." "You're just in time." " What's going on in here?" "Your gal's gonna undress for us." "We saved a front-row seat for you!" "It's gonna be a big show!" "Who knows?" "We might even get a yell out of Trout, eh, Trout?" "Come on in!" "(LAUGHING)" "All right, lady." "Now, do it." "You gonna do it yourself, or do you want me to have Mr. Trout here do it for you?" "Start with the shoes." "Do it slow." "We got all night here." "Now, watch this, Uncle Dock." "Well, make her do it!" "We're getting impatient!" "You see this?" "Now, start taking off your clothes!" "What's the matter with your girl, Link?" "Make her do it!" "Maybe she wants to put it off till some other time." "It's gonna be right now." "There's some things we ought to talk about." "Start taking off your clothes!" "We ought to talk about Lassoo." "That's right." "When Claude comes tomorrow, we want to be ready." "Don't want to mess up Lassoo." "Link!" "Take that knife away, Coaley." "You're not talking us out of this." "Now, undress." "Start with the shoes." "Do you want to see me cut him?" "COALEY:" "The stockings." "Get up." "That shirt thing now." "Peel it off." "I don't have to tell you what's next, do I?" "Come on." "Come on!" "How're you enjoying this, cousin, huh?" "Is this supposed to get you even for losing that train today?" " Get that petticoat off!" " Coaley!" "Come over here." "Now!" "What happened to that train?" "I told you what happened." "A guard with a.44 was cutting us down." "I told you before." "Go to sleep." "All of you!" "He's a good boy, Coaley." "Just a little too much fire." "I'm still running this show, Link." "I just like to prove it every once in a while." "She's mine." "I want you back, Link, but I want it the way it used to be." "She's mine, Dock." "(STUTTERING) It's all filled in." "You can sleep in the barn, Link." "Take your woman with you!" "Are you all right?" "You?" "I don't know how this can happen." "When he..." "When he took out that knife, I..." "I don't even remember what I did." "I couldn't see their faces anymore." "But I could feel that old man." "How could you have been with him?" "You're not like them." "I was." "There wasn't any difference at all." "You better try and catch some sleep." "Link?" "Here's some blankets." "My bag!" "BILLIE:" "What are you looking for?" "I could cut off my arm!" "All that money, and..." "And it wasn't even mine!" "It belonged to a lot of poor people, and they trusted me with it." "It took them years to save it." "And now..." "And now it's gone." "What's going to happen to us tomorrow?" "I don't know." "It doesn't matter." "I can't go home, I can't ever go home, unless I get that money back." "DOCK:" "Link!" "(DOCK LAUGHING)" "Get under these blankets." "DOCK:" "Link!" "Hey, Link!" "Where are you?" "Thought I'd pay you a little visit!" "Link?" "(LAUGHING)" "I got to thinking about you two and how cold it was." "You know the way the wind whistles through this place." "Want a drink?" " We're all right." " Yeah." "Sure, you are." "Sure." "But a woman like that ought to be sleeping in a house." "Isn't that right, Link?" "She stays here." "That's right, Link." "(CONTINUES LAUGHING)" "(SOBBING)" "(BIRDS CAWING)" "DOCK:" "Claude!" "(DOCK LAUGHING)" "Good to see you!" " What happened to the train?" " Oh, we missed it." "Who did?" " Coaley." " Coaley?" "You know who I heard was on that train?" "That's right." "He's here." "Better get ready." "They'll be coming for us." "Link." "I never met a man like you before." "The men I meet, all think they have a right to put their hands on me." "Like it comes with the introduction." "All those lonely ones, looking for some kind of special thrill." "I know what they're gonna say before they say it." "Funny part is, inside me, I'm just as lonely as they are." "I don't really have anybody." "We're a lot alike." "I never had any family, just that old man down there, and he took care of me." "He taught me killing and stealing." "And I didn't know any better." "Then one day, I grew up." "There's a point where you either grow up and become a human being or you rot, like that bunch." "So I busted away." "I found something better." "I made myself a home." "You have a wife?" "Yes." "Children?" "Yes." "How old?" "Eight and ten." "Eight and ten." "Your wife, is she pretty?" "Yes." "She's lucky." "You better get dressed." "Come on, now!" "Load up, there!" "Come on, shake it up!" "Get out there!" "Move!" "Look at them, Claude!" "Like old times, loading up through, isn't it?" "We're gonna do big things." "I feel it!" "Glory be to God, we're gonna bust out again, just like we used to." "(LAUGHING)" "Just like a family of old sinners moving on, huh?" "Hey." "Say hello to your cousin Link." "COALEY:" "It's like tearing them away from a honeymoon." "Claude." "You've changed." "This is Miss Billie Ellis." "Claude Tobin." "Hello." "Claude, tell them what happened." "That train you were on yesterday?" "Made a special stop at Eskota yesterday afternoon." "They began burning up the telegraph wires." "There's a marshal in Crosscut saw you getting on." "You must have looked familiar to him." "So he went and started poking through some real old wanted posters." "He found yours." "It's up again all over Crosscut." "On account of you, they know who we are." "I want to thank you for that." "Well, I guess this is your home now, Link, huh?" "Dock, I want to talk to you over here." "Coaley." "Where I live, all the people know about me, about what I did when I was with that old man, there." "They know everything, and they let me live it down." "That took a long, hard time." "And now, I've got to do it again." "You know what I feel inside of me?" "I feel like killing." "Like a sickness come back." "I want to kill every last one of those Tobins, and that makes me just like they are." "What I busted my back all those years trying not to be." "(CLATTERING)" "Do you know what they're talking about?" "The new one and the big one they call Coaley," " they want to kill..." " Quiet!" "Shut up." "Yeah, well, we got a lot of ground to cover." " They'll just slow us down." " That's right." "CLAUDE:" "I say we open 'em up and leave 'em here." "That's what I say." "Open 'em up." "But what about the girl?" "We'll take care of her, too." "Claude?" "This is still my outfit." "Link's back, and he's staying." "Get in the wagon." "Dock." " Do you believe he wants to be back?" " I don't know what I believe but I'm going to find out before I get home." "You and Link are taking us into Lassoo." " Lassoo?" " That's what I said." "Lassoo or no Lassoo, I say we kill 'em and move on." "They're nothing but trouble." "I'm for that." "Let's do it." "(GROANING)" "Get in the wagon." "DOCK:" "All right, let's get 'em rolling!" "Come on, Link!" "Whoa!" "I want to stop here for a while!" "We're going to roll all night and all day tomorrow." "DOCK:" "There's a secret to this thing, Ponch." "You want to learn a lesson, you've come to the right man!" "You got a lot of bloodshot around the eye!" "Don't strain so..." "Just listen to old Dock, and you'll find out!" "(LAUGHING)" "You let the other man's strength beat him." "That's simple, ain't it?" "Right, Link?" "You want to try next?" "Why don't you let Coaley try first?" "He might give you a little tussle if you let him use his knife." "He's pretty good with a knife." "You got a real sharp sense of humor." "Yeah." "I was about to say the same thing myself, cousin." "JONES:" "And I think he might appreciate it if you'd let him use that good-looking gun he's got hanging on his hip there, too." "He got his juices flowing now!" "Look at him!" "All right, say it all." "Then, if you wanted to make it even, you could let him come up on you from behind." "He's real fine at that." "Well, let's see you do it, Coaley!" "Turn around." "I want him to be comfortable." "Let's do it your way." "(BOTH GRUNTING)" "How's that feel, cousin?" "(GRUNTS)" "Now I'm gonna undress you, Coaley." "That's what you said to her, isn't it?" "(COALEY SCREAMING)" "JONES:" "Isn't that what you said to her?" ""Boots first?"" "(JONES LAUGHING)" "(COALEY SCREAMING)" "COALEY:" "I'm gonna kill you!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "So how does it feel, huh?" "COALEY:" "I'm gonna kill you!" "(COALEY GROANING)" "Take your clothes off!" "Take your clothes off!" "(COALEY SCREAMING)" "(GASPING) I can't." "I can't do it." "Well, I never saw anything like that in all my life." "Link, that was something to make an old man's blood boil." "I thought you were gonna choke him to death!" "Did you see that?" "Like the old days in Uvalde, huh?" "Did you see him rip the clothes off him?" "COALEY:" "Kill him!" "I'm gonna kill him!" "I'm gonna kill him!" " Coaley, put that down." " I'm gonna kill him!" "I said put that down!" "I don't care what you say!" " Put that down!" " Stop it!" "You don't mean nothing to me." "You hear?" "You don't mean nothing!" "Stop it!" "I'm gonna kill you, Link." "You can't make fun of me." "You can't make fun of me!" "Stop!" "I don't know what's come over me lately." "Never done a thing like this before in my whole life." "I mean, I don't fight or anything like that." "I tell you, though, it was a shrewd move." "You see, I figured without you around here, they'd have killed me for sure." "I'd have laid three, four to one on that." "So I..." "So I just... (MUMBLES)" "Don't you talk anymore, Claude?" "We used to talk, you and me, when we were kids." "What happened?" "Things have kind of gone to hell, haven't they?" "And you're still at it." "Stealing, and killing, and running." "That's right." "It doesn't make any sense, Claude." "I figured you'd have grown out of it." "How can you let that old man do this to you?" "He's out of his mind!" "Don't you talk about that old man." "I been with him all my life." "He's my family." "Yeah, he's going a little soft in the head, but I can say that." "You can't." "You got no rights here no more." "I'll tell you," "I prayed for him to let Coaley kill you, but he didn't." "He just don't see things so clear no more." "Years ago, nobody could have done what you're trying to do to him now." "Not even you." "He would have known it in ten seconds and blown your head off in 20." "You like it?" "I like it." " Claude..." " Will you shut up?" "Do you know what he did the day you left?" "He cried." "That's right." "I saw him." "Big tears running down his face." "Now you're back and trying to make him think it's for real." "He wants that so bad, it hurts him." "Well, you ain't got me fooled." "See, I watch out for that old man." "I love him, and I watch out for him." "You're not gonna make it, Link." "I swear that." "You're not gonna make it." "(DOCK URGING HORSES)" "DOCK:" "Go on, there!" "Go on!" "Come on!" "(SHIVERS)" "Tomorrow morning, we hit Lassoo." "I've been looking off into the dark, and I saw the whole job happening." "It made me feel so cold," "I thought I was standing in ice water up to my neck." "I saw all there was in Lassoo." "Hundred yards of shacks and dust, with the Stageline Bank at the end of it." "(LAUGHS)" "There's more money in that Lassoo bank any of you ignorant dogs ever could count!" "(DOCK LAUGHING)" "Now, listen to me." "Got this in front of me." "Tomorrow morning, a man rides into the bank." "He carries a satchel with him." "He's polite, quiet." "Asks them at the bank to hold the satchel for him for a while." "Right?" "Then he thanks them." "He goes out, and he knows who's in the bank, how many guns they've got, whether we can take it or not." "Now, listen to me good." "If we can take it, he waits there for us." "If we can't, he rides back." "If he's not back four hours from the time he starts, we know he's waiting for us, and we ride in." "He meets us outside the town, lays the whole thing out for us, we go in, blow the place to bits." "We ride out of there rich, fat, laughing like babies!" "There's nothing to forget and nothing to go wrong." "Nothing to mess up." "All it takes to make this work is guts." "Who's got 'em?" "Which man rides in first?" "I do." "Why you, Link?" "Who else is there?" "Trout?" "He can't talk." "Ponch?" "He can't think." "You wouldn't send him on a man's job, would you?" "Claude, how many years you been riding this territory?" "They know your face in Lassoo, don't they?" "Don't they, Claude?" "And you couldn't ride five steps into that town." "They'd be lined up on both sides of the street waiting to crack you down." "So that leaves me." "All right, Link." "You ride in first." "You take Trout along with you." "I'm going in alone." "Being with Trout is like being alone." "(DOCK CHUCKLING)" "You start out at sunup." "Ponch and Claude go in at noon." "What will you do?" "I don't know." "We'll have to wait and see what's going to happen." "You know, it's funny, Link." "The last two days, you've lost everything you've ever lived for, and I've found something I wanted all my life." "I love touching you." "But what hurts is that I can't keep what I've found, can I?" "Can I, Link?" "You don't have to ask me that, do you?" "You know what I'll say." "Yes, I know." "If we stay alive, you get the money back, then you'll go home." "Won't you, Link?" "Yeah." "After you leave the bank, kill him." "You look good up there, Link." "That's where you belong." "I'd give my eyes to go on this one." "If it was ten years back, I'd..." "Get out of here." "If anything happens to the girl when I'm away..." "Do you hear me, Dock?" "Nothing's gonna happen, Link." "So this is Lassoo." "Go out of here." "Please, go out!" "Lady, put that gun down." "We're not gonna hurt you." "We just wanted to leave some money at the bank here." "There's no bank here." "There's nothing here." "Just me and my husband." "Please, vayase Go!" "Where's everybody gone to in this town?" "I don't know." "They build a new stagecoach place when the mines close." "Everybody's gone." "I don't know." "I'm afraid!" "Please, go back!" "Please!" "Lady, we're not going to hurt you!" "(WOMAN SCREAMING)" "(TROUT HOLLERING)" "(SCREAMING)" "(CONTINUES SCREAMING)" "(HORSES NEIGHING)" "Link!" "I want to see you, cousin!" "Over here, cousin!" "We're gonna kill you, Link!" "That's a promise!" "You sound a little shaky, Claude!" "Are you nervous?" "(HORSES NEIGHING)" "(PONCH GROANS)" "Claude?" "Claude, where are you?" "You're all alone now, Claude." "It's just you and me." "My leg..." "My leg's gone!" "(SHUDDERS)" "You got to come to me, Link!" "This is the moment, Claude." "You've been planning for it all your life." "Now it's finally here." "Just like you knew it always would be." "You..." "You got to come to me!" "(GROANING)" "It could have been so different." "You coming, Link?" "(INQUIRING IN SPANISH)" "I'm sorry." "Juanita!" "Juanita!" "(SPEAKING SPANISH)" "(SOBBING)" "Billie." "Billie!" "Link." "Oh, Link!" "Link!" "Where is he?" "I don't know!" "DOCK:" "Link!" "Link!" "Where are they?" "They're dead!" " You killed them all?" " I killed 'em!" "Claude?" "You killed Claude?" "JONES:" "Yes!" "Claude!" "I'm coming to get you, Dock!" "I'm gonna take you in!" "Dock!" "Listen to me, Dock!" "Claude and Ponch and Trout are lying in the street at Lassoo." "Lassoo's a ghost town!" "And that's what you are, Dock, a ghost!" "You've outlived your kind and you've outlived your time, and I'm coming to get you!" "DOCK:" "All right, shoot me!" "I got no one left anymore!" "Go ahead and shoot me!" "I'm gonna take you in, Dock." "DOCK:" "You lost your taste for it!" "You don't like it anymore!" "Shoot me!" "Come on!" "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "They'll probably give you a medal." "What are you going to do now?" "What I always do." "Sing." " Billie..." " Link." "I never loved anybody or anything in my whole life before." "I always wondered what it felt like." "Now I know." "I know there's no hope for us." "But I wouldn't change this feeling, not for anything." "{{{the end}}}"