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‪[Esau] These badges we wear on our chests,

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‪made from different materials.

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‪Mine a star cut from a <i>‪cinco</i>‪ peso piece.

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‪[Bass] My prisoner a good man.

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‪I trust you'll see he get a fair trial.

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‪My prisoners always get what they deserve.

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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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‪Marry me, Calista.

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‪You can't afford the ring
‪it'll take to hitch me.

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‪This the one who done Webb.

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‪[gunshot]

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‪Good work, Billy Crow.

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‪I'm leavin'. I can't stay here--
‪they'll have my neck.

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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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‪Well, you must have heard the stories

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‪about Black men disappearing.

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‪Slavery is supposed to be dead,

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‪but it is only wounded.

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‪Texas Rangers received the boots

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<i>‪of prisoner Jackson Cole.</i>

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‪Who makin' Black men disappear?

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‪Bass Reeves. Mr. Sundown.

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‪The <i>‪cinco</i>‪ peso.

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‪Don't you see? Heaven is
‪full of killers, Bass Reeves.

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‪[slow, dramatic music]

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‪You was good to me.

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‪Be good to them now.

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‪[sighs]

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‪Know why I'm here?

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‪Want to say your goodbyes?

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‪[indistinct chatter]

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‪[clamoring]

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‪[shouting]

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‪[ragged whooping]

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‪[Parker] <i>‪<i><u>‪When you've sat on this bench,</u></i></i>

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‪for as long as I have,

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‪you come to regard misfortune

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‪with a certain dispassion.

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‪This is no different.

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‪In the case of Bass Reeves,

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‪a deputy marshal assigned to this court,

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‪who has been tried for the murder…

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‪[Parker's voice echoes indistinctly]

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‪At this date,

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‪the jury has determined…

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‪[soaring, triumphant music]

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‪[Mary] <i>‪Jennie, you've mastered</i>
<i>‪what I've spent</i>

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‪46 years of matrimony wrestling.

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‪-How's that?
‪-[chuckles]

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‪-My husband's sitting still.
‪-[Parker chuckles]

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‪[Parker] Being on that bench
‪all day, day in and day out…

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‪[continues indistinctly]

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‪[Esau] <i>‪I always said</i>
<i>‪we weren't so different,</i>

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<i>‪except that one thing.</i>

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‪[dialogue inaudible]

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‪[Esau] <i>‪Heaven is full</i>
<i>‪of killers, Bass Reeves.</i>

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<i>‪And by His grace, they'll welcome me</i>

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<i>‪as they will welcome you.</i>

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<i>‪But all this blood on your hands…</i>

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‪I was thinking a little time
‪at home could do Bass well.

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‪[Jennie] Now there's an idea.

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‪That don't seem necessary to me.

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‪There he is.

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‪[all chuckling]

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‪[quiet music]

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‪Judge Parker suggested
‪a spell of lighter fare.

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‪I've got us a fine cook here, Bass.

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‪Came recommended by Heck Thomas.

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‪Word is his beans?
‪Even better than his biscuits.

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‪Mm.

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‪Come on.

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‪[echoing] <i>‪We know our own.</i>

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‪I saw you.

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‪You are a wolf, Bass.

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<i>‪We know our own.</i>

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‪Nah, you a monster.

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‪What the hell you say?

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‪Nothin'.

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‪[tense music]

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‪[quiet, melancholy music]

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‪[knock at door]

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‪You left him?

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‪Our visit with you and Bass made
‪an impression on both of us.

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‪I asked him how he could build a new world

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‪when his own home wasn't even in order.

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‪He asked me if that mattered. [sniffles]

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‪Esme, dear.

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‪Truth is,

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‪I always knew Edwin's dreams were pure,

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‪but his heart couldn't follow.

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‪Let's get you inside.

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‪[sobs, sniffles]

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‪[Jennie] <i>‪I kept waiting on Bass for this,</i>

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‪I might get to play at my own funeral.

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‪That your way of saying thank you?

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‪-A way.
‪-[chuckles]

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‪None of my business, but…

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‪how do you two handle it?

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‪What?

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‪The miles between.

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‪[chuckles]

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‪[sighs] I've grown stronger, I suppose.

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‪But Bass?

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‪His children hardly
‪even notice him anymore.

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‪Even when he around here,

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‪he like a shadow on the floorboards.

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‪Still.

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‪He tries to do right by them.

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‪Trying is different than being.

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‪He's dedicated to you.

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‪Bass is dedicated to justice.

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‪To some kind of fancy ideal
‪he keep buried in his heart.

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‪Right there under that badge.

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‪Seems sometimes there's hardly much room

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‪for anything or anyone else.

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‪Duty and law. Just like blood and bone.

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‪Forgive me, Lord,

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‪but that man has been baptized
‪in your name, Jennie.

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‪I should be so lucky.

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‪This piano is gonna be finer

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‪than any Mistress Reeves
‪ever dreamt of owning.

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‪[chuckles softly]

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‪Who would've imagined that.

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‪[chuckling]

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‪[knock at door]

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‪Hello.

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‪Is this the Reeves household?

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‪It is.

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‪Is Bass home?

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‪Mister Reeves is away.

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‪Was there something I could help you with?

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‪How about Sally?

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‪Would you like to come inside
‪while I fetch her?

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‪I have to leave now.

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‪[gentle, dramatic music]

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‪Sally Sharon Reeves!

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‪I just told that girl to mind her manners.

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‪To a white girl?

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‪You know better.

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‪Does Daddy know better?

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‪Cause I did exactly what he would've done.

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‪She ain't wrong.

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‪You want to check back into the Railhead?

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‪I'll accompany you.

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‪And you.

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‪Don't act like
‪you're too old for a whupping.

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‪Yes, ma'am.

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‪Ma'am.

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‪How do?

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‪[Bass] Hot as a pepper dipped in fire.

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‪[woman] Don't I know.

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‪Seems like ol' Scratch
‪got the upper hand of late.

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‪Looking for a' Moody O'Neil.

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‪Got a writ in my pocket
‪with his name on it.

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‪Happen to know where he is?

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‪Sitting on this porch.

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‪[Billy chuckles]

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‪Afternoon, Missus O'Neil.

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‪I put on my prettiest hanging dress.

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‪Just didn't know
‪if it would be you or a mob.

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‪That ain't gonna be necessary.

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‪Will it, ma'am?

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‪Well, I'm told I entered
‪this world quiet as the night.

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‪No squalling or fussing.

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‪I intend to leave it the same way.

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‪No personal effects, sorry to tell you.

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‪Well…

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‪you gonna want to take this.

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‪It's what I kilt him with.

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‪[melancholy music]

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‪[crickets chirping]

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‪Your daddy learnt with turkeys.

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‪It was William Reeves,

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‪George's father, that taught him,

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‪but…

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‪I think he was born knowing
‪how to squeeze a trigger.

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‪They'd travel to contests,
‪and Bass always won.

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‪And then, they'd come back
‪with a whole wagon chock-full.

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‪Master William kept the money,
‪of course, but Bass,

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‪he got all them big old birds,
‪round as pumpkins.

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‪And Pearlalee would cook 'em up,

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‪and all of us would eat and eat
‪until our bellies about burst,

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‪-round as pumpkins, too.
‪-[children giggle]

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‪I've been told
‪your daddy never missed a shot.

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‪Not once.

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‪Mama!

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‪[gasps]

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‪Get upstairs.

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‪Now. Go to your room.

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‪Go. Get upstairs.

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‪Sally.

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‪-Don't come out till I say.
‪-[child crying]

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‪[slow, tense music]

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‪[insects trilling]

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‪[melancholy music]

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‪She ain't eating.

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‪I don't care much
‪for what is cooking neither,

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‪but you got to eat.

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‪I don't know that I do.

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‪Given what I'm headed for.

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‪You don't know your fate.

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‪That's what the court's for.

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‪I deserve to hang.

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‪And I don't regret nothing.

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‪[insects buzzing]

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‪[tense music]

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‪[Willy laughs]

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‪That granny had you thinking
‪she was ready to hang, huh?

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‪Should've seen how fast she run,
‪once freed of your chains.

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‪Where's the old crow?

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‪Your cook turned her loose.

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‪Shit.

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‪[grunts]

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‪I'll saddle us up,
‪she can't have gone far.

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‪[Willy] Oh, she took off hours
‪before first light.

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‪You cowardly son of a bitch.

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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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‪But I'm cowardly?

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‪You shut your damn mouth already.

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‪We can catch her.

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‪[Willy] Your man want to do me harm.

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‪Now, you should remind him,

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‪my name ain't on
‪one of your master's writs.

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‪Huh?

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‪My hide won't feed Mrs. Bass.

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‪Or them little coons that
‪nigger sow pushed out of her.

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‪Ah… [chuckles]

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‪But…

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‪Ah, these will set you at ease.

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‪Go on, collect your blood bounty!

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‪Up-jumped slave catcher.

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‪Because no matter what you say,

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‪that's all you is.

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‪[laughs]

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‪[tense, dark music]

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‪[wheezing]

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‪What'd you do?

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‪[Willy sputtering]

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‪[Billy] Bass, we got to fix
‪our story here.

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‪[Willy choking]

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‪Say you were just cleaning
‪your rifle or some such, else…

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‪Parker won't take no mercy.

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‪[Willy gasping]

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‪-[insects chirring]
‪-[birds singing]

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‪[children chatter quietly]

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‪[door opens]

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‪[door creaks, closes]

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‪[footsteps approach]

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‪[wind whistling]

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‪[Esau] <i>‪I saw you.</i>

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<i>‪You are a wolf, Bass.</i>

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<i>‪I know a monster when I see one,</i>
<i>‪Bass Reeves.</i>

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<i>‪You listen to your daddy, now.</i>

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‪[Bass] Curtis!

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‪[screams] No!

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‪[Esau] <i>‪Bass, you must know…</i>

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‪I had no desire to shoot the boy.

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<i>‪I wonder how much blood</i>

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‪you left in your wake
‪on your path to freedom.

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‪No more than I had to.

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‪-No child.
‪-You are a killer, just like me.

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‪[crickets chirping]

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‪[slow, dramatic music]

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‪[wind whistling]

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‪[hoofbeats approaching]

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‪[sighs]

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‪[Parker] And one summer,

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‪probably six or seven years old,

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‪we had a drought.

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‪The Biblical kind.

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‪My daddy lost a lot of sleep.

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‪Scared to death he was gonna
‪lose all that he had.

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‪Watching his boy grow thinner

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‪than he already was.

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‪I used to wander down to the root cellar

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‪and once, after church,
‪I hit the second step

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‪and I heard Mama and Daddy below,

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‪a lot of big…

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‪unkind words I didn't understand.

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‪They were scared.

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‪About tomorrow, and the day after.

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‪Now, I've always felt compelled
‪to help folks.

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‪No different then from now.

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‪Except when I was a boy,

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‪I'd go treasure hunting.

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‪Thinking that if I found something,

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‪Mama and Daddy would be okay.

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‪[chuckles] And wouldn't you know it?

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‪In the creek, down past the farm,

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‪I found gold.

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‪Shining and winking at me.

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‪So I scooped up what I could
‪and ran to the house,

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‪believing I'd saved

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‪what they had lost all that sleep over.

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‪I burst inside,

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‪dumped all the treasure on Mama's table.

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‪I couldn't hear what Daddy said,

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‪but he picked up a mallet
‪and started hitting it.

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‪I cried when I saw it break up and…

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‪crumble…

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‪and then shatter, like glass.

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‪It was naught but pyrite.

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‪That's called fool's gold.

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‪I carried that lesson with me.

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‪Used it to keep my expectations in check.

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‪So, why don't I just ask you, Bass,

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‪what are you?

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‪Are you gold?

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‪Or pyrite?

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‪I didn't know my own father.

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‪They sold him off before I was born.

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‪Come Christmastime,

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‪they'd let him visit.

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‪A sit, a meal…

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‪then gone all over again.

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‪My mama would plait verbena in her hair.

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‪Pretty herself up for his coming.

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‪Remember that clearer
‪than my daddy's face itself.

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‪No…

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‪The man whose name and brand I carry,

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‪the one who taught me to ride,

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‪to shoot,

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‪was William Reeves.

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‪Everyone told me how fortunate I was

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‪to have his good favor.

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‪"You got the big man's interest, Bass."

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‪"Mind him good, Bass."

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‪He wasn't a cruel man.

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‪At least not on the surface.

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‪But then he gifted me to his son.

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‪George.

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‪And when that man's cruel came
‪too much to bear…

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‪I didn't go treasure hunting,

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‪collecting loose rocks,

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‪fool's gold.

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‪No, sir.

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‪For you, knowing who's who a simple thing.

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‪Gold or pyrite.

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‪But justice…

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‪Ain't nothing more costly.

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‪Now I'm ready to pay for mine
‪in Hell on the Border.

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‪You paid yours, Judge Parker?

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‪'Cause I reckon you about to,

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‪'cause I ain't gonna be
‪down there alone, am I?

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‪You gonna be sitting right next to me.

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‪So I'll go ahead and ask.

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‪How much time we doin'…

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‪sir?

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‪[tense, dramatic music]

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‪[chair creaks]

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‪[door opens]

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‪[prisoners shouting and whooping]

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‪You are a killer, just like me.

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‪[echoing] <i>‪You are, you are a killer.</i>

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‪[gunshot]

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‪[Parker] <i>‪When you've sat on this bench</i>

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‪for as long as I have,

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‪you come to regard misfortune

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‪with a certain dispassion.

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‪This is no different.

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‪In the case of Bass Reeves,

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‪a deputy marshal assigned to this court,

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‪who has been tried for
‪the murder of Willy Leach…

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‪Upon careful review of the evidence

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‪presented by the defendant's attorney,

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‪and the state,

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‪I pronounce you…

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‪not guilty.

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‪[quiet music]

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‪[Jennie exhales]

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‪[gentle music]

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‪[Esau] <i>‪These badges we wear on our chests,</i>

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<i>‪made from different materials.</i>

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‪Yours a tin star, mine a star
‪cut from a <i>‪cinco</i>‪ peso piece.

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<i>‪But the power they give…</i>

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<i>‪You honor the badge, Bass.</i>

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‪But even with it, a man like you
‪couldn't arrest a man like me

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‪once we cross that river.

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‪I had no mind to arrest you.

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‪No. By those angry eyes,

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‪I reckon you'd just as soon kill me.

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‪[Curtis screaming]

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‪[Esau] <i>‪Bass, you must know…</i>

00:29:20.446 --> 00:29:22.407 align:center
‪I had no desire to shoot the boy.

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‪[dark, mournful music]

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‪When I was gone from you…

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‪there was a boy that I loved like a son.

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‪His name was Curtis.

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‪He was murdered.

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‪I'm going after the man who killed him.

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‪[intense, dramatic music]

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‪[dark, low music]

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‪[boy] You a lawman or an outlaw?

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‪Today, a bit of both, I reckon.

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‪[grunting]

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‪[dramatic music]

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‪[Pete] <i>‪Ranger Pierce</i>
<i>‪don't accept armed company.</i>

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‪[Esau] <i>‪Now, the myth of Mr. Sundown,</i>

00:31:15.645 --> 00:31:18.064 align:center
<i>‪that's taken a fanciful flourish</i>
<i>‪from reality.</i>

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‪Not that I mind.

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‪-[gunshot]
‪-Goddamn, kid!

00:31:21.025 --> 00:31:22.151 align:center
‪[wolf snarls]

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‪[gunshot]

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‪[Esau] Careful, now.

00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.532 align:center
‪Curiosity killed the deputy.

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‪[gunshot]

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‪[gentle, melancholy music]