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[dramatic music]
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Come on out, Webb! Law won’t ever stop!
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Excuse me, you need to get
to the back of the line.
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Sally.
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Shouldn't talk to my sister like that.
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[Sally] You're awfully tough when
it's four of y'all and two of us. [gasps]
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[grunting]
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[Esme] Think it's okay
to let them wander on their own?
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Black folks been disappearing up and down
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the Territory.
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You are to deliver the prisoner
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Jackson Cole to the Red River,
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turn him over to the Rangers.
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I ain't been home for 41 days.
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[Sherrill] You ride out tomorrow.
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[Jackson] Mighty strange, this feeling.
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Riding to my death.
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We both Negroes.
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We know the world in the same ways.
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You asked if you had the grit
to be a deputy marshal.
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You don't.
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You giving up on me?
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I never give up, Billy.
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[wolf growling]
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[laughs]
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[growling]
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Where you taking that creature?
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Reintroducing the beast
to a rightful home.
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No animal belong in a box.
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That is the truth.
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She won't be in there long.
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[growling]
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Did you make a home for yourself?
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Marry, have a family?
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I have.
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And what would you do now to protect it?
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To hold on to it?
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I'd wager you'd kill a thousand.
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And no man would fault you.
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I surely would not.
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These badges we wear on our chest,
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made from different materials.
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Yours a tin star,
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mine a star cut from a cinco peso piece.
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Just raw materials.
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But the power they give--
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The real power lie beneath.
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In the heart.
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You honor the badge, Bass.
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But even with it, a man like you
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couldn't arrest a man like me
once we cross that river.
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You touch that other bank,
it's a whole other law.
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I have no mind to arrest you.
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No, by those angry eyes,
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I'd reckon you'd just as soon kill me.
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My prisoner a good man.
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I trust you'll see he get a fair trial?
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Well, he's my prisoner now.
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My prisoners always get what they deserve.
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[knife unsheathing]
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This one tell you what he did?
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I know he killed a man.
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He told me why he did it.
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Might've even had just cause.
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But did he tell you
how he killed old James Neblett?
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He kidnapped and rode that man
blubbering and praying
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all the way from Austin to
Neblett's property in Columbia.
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Then he chained him to the one pecan tree
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Neblett hadn't burned down
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and he shot him in his
blubbering, praying mouth.
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No man deserves to die that way.
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Not even a Yankee.
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But I don't need to tell you
about killing Yanks.
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As I recall, you're something
of an expert on the subject.
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Saddle up.
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You're in my prayers.
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Ah, don't bother the big man about me.
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We need to ride.
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Billy, bring that mule.
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We can't have this man
walk all the way to Fort Worth.
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He won't.
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On that, you have my word.
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Bass.
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Where I built my ranch,
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the land is littered
with ancient bones of giants.
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Monsters.
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Thigh bones as big as a man.
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Locals call 'em huesos de ángeles.
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Angel bones.
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But I know a monster
when I see one, Bass Reeves.
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[Joshua] Moving out!
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Come pay me a visit one day.
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You'll feel right at home.
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[ominous music]
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[soaring, triumphant music]
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[intriguing music]
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[sniffs]
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[spits]
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Sara?
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It's Bass.
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Place don't smell right.
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You ride ahead. I'll catch up.
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Come on.
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[clicks tongue]
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How much longer we gonna ride, Bass?
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These horses need rest.
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Shoot, we need to rest.
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I'm tired.
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We're all tired.
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We've been riding straight for days.
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Look at Pistol.
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Hardly hold his head up.
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Tell you what.
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We'll stop the night in Checotah
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if you stop flapping your gums
till we get there.
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[Bass clicks tongue]
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[water splashing]
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You took your time.
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Sally, I'm leaving.
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I should be gone already.
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What are you talking about?
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I can't stay here. They'll have my neck.
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They was just kids being stupid.
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You got nothing to worry about.
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Maybe you don't, but
my last name ain't Reeves.
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Arthur Mayberry, I never
took you for no chicken.
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And I never took you for a fool.
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You don't understand.
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I'm asking you to come with me.
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We can visit Paris and…
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you can write poems by the "Seene."
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Seine.
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And Reeves don't run.
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I'll wait there for you.
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By the Seine.
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I'll send you a poem every day.
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[dramatic music]
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[overlapping chatter]
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[grunting]
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[dramatic music]
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[jaunty piano music playing]
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[lively chatter]
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[chatter stops]
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We don't want any trouble
here tonight, Deputy.
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Just payday in Checotah.
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Whiskey.
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[bottle clinks]
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[liquor pouring]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[door opens]
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[Calista] You too shy to go inside?
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I'm just waiting for you to come out.
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I see you got yourself into some trouble.
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All in a day's work.
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Mm.
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Bought this for you in Fort Smith.
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Thought you might not get
the latest out here.
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Thank you, Billy Crow.
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You're welcome.
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[Braxton laughs]
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[Braxton] My feet shot out
of them stirrups
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and I flew off of that horse
like I'd been plugged.
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Damn nearly was.
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I landed upright in time
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to hear the report of a Winchester.
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I dove into that sagebrush
and when I came up,
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I saw that man hoofing it
faster than a stuck deer. [laughs]
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Whoa.
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Mind you don't fall, partner.
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Mind you keep your voice down
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while the rest of us try to think.
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[laughing] Barkeep,
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I reckon my friend here has had his fill.
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Barkeep.
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I reckon we all had enough
of this cowboy's ballyhoo.
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I reckon people
on the far side of the Territory
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about had enough of it, too.
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[chuckles]
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You got too many teeth.
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Outside, fellas.
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You sure you want to do this?
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Sure am.
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Then I guess we'd better be
getting on with it, then.
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Deputy Marshal Reeves.
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Braxton Sawyer, Texas Ranger.
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I'm mighty honored to meet you, sir.
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Let me buy you a drink.
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[fireworks popping]
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[cheering and whooping]
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My daddy had a good outfit
not far off the Shawnee Trail.
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I loved riding that range
with him, moving herd.
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We got into some trouble after the war
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when drovers started
bringing their longhorns up.
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My daddy already lost one herd
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and he wasn't about to do it again.
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So we mounted up
and we turned those longhorns
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and their cowboys right around.
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But, you know, not without a scrap.
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Daddy got lead in the belly
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and was dead before
the marshals showed up.
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I mean, they would've hung
my daddy anyway,
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if he was still alive to hang.
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And…
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well, for assault with intent to kill,
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they gave me 18 months at the
Detroit House of Corrections.
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That was my first time
out of the Territory.
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I'm mighty glad you came back.
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Well…
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I guess this is home.
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[chuckles]
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[Bass] Esau Pierce tell you to follow me?
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[Braxton] I was holding forth
gone three hours
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before you brought
your storm cloud in here.
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I didn't follow you.
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And who the hell is Pierce?
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Man from my past.
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What are you doing here, Bass?
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Sometime I get to wondering
why a man like me
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putting folk in manacles.
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This thing…
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weigh just as much as the chain.
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Someone once told me there
ain't no law in the Territory.
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Starting to think
there ain't no God either.
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Hmm.
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Don't despair, amigo.
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-God is present.
-[taps on table]
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And He knows your good work.
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Many miles back to Austin,
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and I'd hate to ride all of them sober.
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[clears throat]
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[wistful music]
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You gonna stand there all night?
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[wistful music]
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[chuckles softly]
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That's all right. Go ahead.
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[fireworks popping outside]
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Are you going to be a baby about this?
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No.
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Well, then stop your squirming.
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You're the most glorious
creature to grace this earth.
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[winces]
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-[sighs]
-It burns.
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I thought you said
you weren't gonna be a baby.
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Just didn't think you were going
to hurt me so bad.
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Hurt a strapping, young raider like you?
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Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Marry me, Calista.
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You can't afford the ring
it'll take to hitch me.
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[panting quietly]
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[urinating]
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[footfalls approaching]
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This the one who done Webb.
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[stops urinating]
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-[thud]
-[grunts]
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[grunting]
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[Bass coughs]
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[grunts]
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[groans]
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[spits, coughs]
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Where were you…
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two hours ago when I was
spoiling for a fight, hmm?
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[grunting]
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-[grunting continues]
-[women screaming]
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That bounty on you?
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[gun clicks]
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Pays the same dead…
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…or alive.
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[dry fires]
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[groans]
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Give it a spin.
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-[chuckles]
-[cylinder spins]
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Adios, Reeves.
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[dry fires]
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[groans]
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Aw.
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[cylinder spins]
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[Trey] Bullet's in the chamber.
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I can feel it.
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Best not miss, then.
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[gunshot]
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[thuds]
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[Moose] Come on. Come on, come on.
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Now that's how you aim, Billy Crow!
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-Let's get you some help.
-No.
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[groaning]
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Let's get them sons of bitches.
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-[fireworks popping]
-[lively chatter]
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[laughs]
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[townsfolk whooping and cheering]
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There.
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[suspenseful music]
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[lively chatter]
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-[fireworks pop]
-[gunshot]
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-Whoa!
-[screaming]
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[grunts]
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[grunting]
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[Dora] Hurry up in there.
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Don't need a saddle, just get the horses.
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[both grunting]
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[Moose] What is it?
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[groaning]
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[grunting]
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[gun cocks]
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Don't.
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[crowd chatter]
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Easy, fellas.
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[gun cocks]
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[chuckles]
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Good work, Billy Crow.
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[melancholy music]
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Have a nice time earlier?
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She said I can't afford the ring.
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[sniffles]
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But she did bring me my apparel.
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Well, that's something.
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[grunts]
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So glad y'all could make it.
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I think I was bleeding before I realized
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Pearl Lee's real name was Pearla Lee.
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-Pearla Lee.
-[laughs]
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[laughter]
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God rest her soul.
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"I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay
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Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey."
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[both] "And I heard
the captive plead in vain
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As they bound afresh his galling chain."
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Frances Harper is a brilliant role model.
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It is young women like you,
Sally, that give me hope.
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[kids chattering indistinctly]
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Bennie.
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Don't walk off like that.
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You don't scare me!
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Let's go.
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Fred Douglass consented to have
his image on our next pamphlet.
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Might even write some words.
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What have they done to you?
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I'm fine.
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You're sitting in my chair.
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It's so good to see you, Bass.
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My, it's been forever.
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I'd like you to meet Edwin Jones.
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Hello, Esme.
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I kept it warm for you.
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Now, Bass. You stay right there.
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No, no. My mistake, Reeves.
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Let's not get off on the wrong foot.
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As the good book says,
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"But when you are invited,
go and sit in the lowest place
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so that when he who invited you comes,
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he may say to you,
'Friend, go up higher.'"
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I didn't invite you.
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We've been hearing
about your adventures, Bass.
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Now we see the danger you face.
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We're all very proud of you.
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Mm-hmm.
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[Edwin] Reconstruction is dead.
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Has the world changed for the Negro
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in the United States of America?
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Yes, in many ways.
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But we need to ask, how much has changed?
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And for how many?
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Why, they will use just about
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any pretext to drive out,
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lock down, or string up the Black man.
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The Klan continues to rain terror upon us.
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We are the only ones who can keep us safe.
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Edwin and I have traveled
far and wide, Bass.
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You won't believe the things we've seen.
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[Jennie] He'll believe you.
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He's seen it all himself.
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I seen some things.
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Well, you must have heard the stories
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about Black men disappearing.
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Rumors of Black men
being killed for sport.
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Legally, slavery is supposed to be dead.
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But in practice it is only wounded.
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We need a place
where we can be safe and free.
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But let there be no doubt
that we still need to fight.
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I think we're doing
our fair part right here.
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Well, sure. And I-I admire that.
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You have made a career
that honors your talents
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instead of violently suppressing them.
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But tell me…
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…why are there not
more stories like yours?
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Black folks make up, what,
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ten percent of the population
of Fort Smith?
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How many former slaves right here
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have had the same good fortune
that you have?
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I'm sorry your wife couldn't join us.
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How long you been away from home?
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Like your beautiful family,
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my wife and children make
great sacrifices for the cause.
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-[Bass] Hmm.
-We all must.
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Esme and Edwin were speaking about
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whole towns made up of Black folk.
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Whole counties. Whole states.
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Up Kansas way and throughout
the Indian Territory
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lies a rich land of opportunity
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for industrious, caring,
God-fearing Black men and women.
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Where do you expect
the Indian people to go?
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Think they don't suffer?
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You see all them white folks
coming up on those riverboats?
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You know where they will settle.
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Your beloved Indian Territory
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is not going to stay Indian for long.
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And our people need real protection.
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My job is to protect everyone.
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Black, red or white.
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Are you happy with what you are doing?
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I have to ask, respectfully…
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…which master do you serve?
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Esme says old William Reeves
taught you to shoot.
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George Reeves made you shoot the very men
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who were fighting for your freedom.
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And now Judge Parker puts
the names on your bullets.
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Man is lucky to have such a hired gun.
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I'm the only one pulling the trigger.
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You ever felt the lash on your back?
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Hmm?
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You carry on about our experience
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like it's a set of boots we both own.
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I did not have to experience
those wrongs to denounce them.
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To fight against them.
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Think hard about what you are doing.
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Ride with me, with us.
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Together…
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together we can build a place
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where everyone can live free.
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Mm. [chuckles softly]
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Is that why you were so eager
to meet my husband?
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[scoffs] That why
you brought him here, Esme?
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We may support your vision, Mr. Jones.
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But my husband is not a face
for your pamphlets.
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He ain't no show pony
for you to trot around.
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I see you two have your house in order.
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I admire that.
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Even envy it.
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I apologize.
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I did not mean to overstep.
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And we do not want
to overstay, do we, Esme?
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I'll see you to the door.
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[tense, dramatic music]
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[door closes]
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[footfalls approaching]
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Shouldn't you be asleep, Sally gal?
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I'm sorry I missed the carnival.
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I guess I missed a lot.
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Forgive me?
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Maybe just this once.
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You didn't like that man, did you?
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Daddy just had a bad day. That's all.
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You and Mama okay?
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We're okay.
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You lucky you're your mama's daughter.
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[chuckles] That's funny.
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She always say I'm my daddy's girl.
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[footfalls approaching]
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[door opening]
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[Bass grunts]
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[groans]
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Want me to fix you a bath?
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Maybe tomorrow.
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I'm sorry I had to leave.
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I should've told you sooner.
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I ain't angry that you left.
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Disappointed by the man you brought home.
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Every time you come back,
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you bring less and less of you.
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Maybe you the one that changed.
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How dare you?
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Where my husband?
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Where that light in your eyes?
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[melancholy music]
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[indistinct chatter]
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Scrutinize those receipts, Mr. Reeves.
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You 50 bucks short, Florence.
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You delivered that man's boots,
you earn less.
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I did not deliver boots,
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I delivered a living, breathing man
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into the hands of a Texas Ranger.
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Well, I got the telegram right here.
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"Confirmed. Texas Rangers having received
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from Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves
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at Red River the boots
of one prisoner Jackson Cole,
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which they promptly
delivered at Fort Worth."
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[keys jingling]
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[indistinct chatter]
40:08.511 --> 40:10.387
Ramsey!
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Ramsey!
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Who making Black men disappear?
40:23.275 --> 40:25.486
Who Mr. Sundown?
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[door opens]
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Make way.
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Ramsey!
40:38.332 --> 40:41.418
Who is Mr. Sundown?
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♪ He ride by night ♪
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♪ Drawn fast to the firelight ♪
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♪ Ain't no peace to be found ♪
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♪ When the sun go down ♪
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[crowd shouting and jeering]
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Heard you lost that prisoner.
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Tough break.
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[man] Hang 'em already.
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[crowd cheering]
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[man 2] You had it coming!
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[Wylie shouting]
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[neck snaps]
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[shudders]
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[crowd cheering]
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I love you, Mama.
41:46.400 --> 41:47.943
[man 3] You had it coming!
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[neck snaps]
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[crowd cheering]
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[chuckles]
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Bass Reeves!
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Mr. Sundown is cinco peso.
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Cinco peso is Mr. Sundown.
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Cinco peso.
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[snaps]
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[crowd cheering]
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[Esau] [echoing]
You honor the badge, Bass.
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These badges we wear on our chest,
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just raw materials.
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But the power they give…
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[echoing]
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What are the chances of Parker giving me
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a writ for a Texas Ranger?
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Nil to none.
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[birds chirping]
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[Esau] Well, cock-a-doodle-do.
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[echoing]
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Blood can be the heaviest
damn thing in the world.
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I always said we weren't so different.
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Except that one thing.
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[echoing]
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Blood never weighed me down at all.
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But all this blood on your hands…
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filling them up so much, you can't hold
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those precious children…
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you can't caress your pretty wife.
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Bass, you're gonna bend and bow
under the weight of it
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till you break and burn.
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Only God…
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can judge me.
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[Esau] As you judge me.
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But what if God already did?
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Hmm?
44:43.118 --> 44:47.664
What if he weighed out your soul
and found it wanting?
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Don't you see?
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I am his judgment.
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Heaven is full of killers, Bass Reeves.
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By His grace they have welcomed me
as they will welcome you.
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[haunting music]
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[dramatic music]
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[Jennie] Bass is dedicated to justice.
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There's hardly much room
for anything or anyone else.
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Looking for a Moody O'Neil.
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Sitting on this porch.
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You set out to hang an old Black woman
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in a white man's noose.
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Slave catcher, that's all you is.
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Mama.
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Get upstairs.
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[flames crackling]
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[Billy] Where's the old crow?
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[gunshot]
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Want to say your goodbyes?
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[haunting music]