WEBVTT 00:00:59.188 --> 00:01:03.688 align:center I believe there are monsters born in this world to human parents. 00:01:09.146 --> 00:01:12.480 align:center A monster is a variation from the accepted normal 00:01:13.355 --> 00:01:15.146 align:center to a greater or less degree. 00:01:19.896 --> 00:01:23.480 align:center But evil is not always apparent at first glance. 00:01:29.396 --> 00:01:31.063 align:center It can come cloaked 00:01:31.855 --> 00:01:35.896 align:center in beauty or goodness or power… 00:01:37.688 --> 00:01:38.938 align:center …or love. 00:01:47.063 --> 00:01:49.646 align:center It is at the heart of our oldest stories. 00:01:52.230 --> 00:01:54.896 align:center The sinful woman who eats from the tree. 00:01:56.355 --> 00:01:59.355 align:center - Oh God. - The jealous boy who kills his brother. 00:01:59.438 --> 00:02:00.271 align:center Hey. 00:02:09.896 --> 00:02:12.271 align:center Help me lift her so we don't disturb her wounds. 00:02:15.355 --> 00:02:16.188 align:center Charles. 00:02:17.188 --> 00:02:18.938 align:center Charles! 00:02:25.313 --> 00:02:27.605 align:center There are all kinds of monsters. 00:02:30.813 --> 00:02:34.771 align:center Some move undetected through the world all their lives. 00:02:36.563 --> 00:02:39.396 align:center A child may be born perfect of body 00:02:40.188 --> 00:02:44.230 align:center but without kindness or the potential of conscience. 00:02:46.355 --> 00:02:49.021 align:center Still, you must not forget, 00:02:50.021 --> 00:02:52.105 align:center everyone is normal to himself. 00:02:53.105 --> 00:02:54.771 align:center And to a monster, 00:02:55.938 --> 00:02:58.313 align:center the norm must seem 00:03:00.188 --> 00:03:01.563 align:center monstrous. 00:03:02.438 --> 00:03:03.271 align:center Adam. 00:03:05.313 --> 00:03:06.313 align:center We need the sheriff. 00:03:06.396 --> 00:03:09.813 align:center - Just get the doctor first. - Adam, this is a mistake. 00:03:37.355 --> 00:03:40.230 align:center Adam's mother died when he was only a baby. 00:03:41.021 --> 00:03:43.521 align:center Drowned herself in a puddle of rainwater. 00:03:44.855 --> 00:03:47.938 align:center Within a year, his father found another wife, 00:03:48.521 --> 00:03:50.105 align:center had another son. 00:03:50.605 --> 00:03:51.605 align:center Charles. 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:56.646 align:center And if either boy received love, 00:03:57.605 --> 00:03:58.980 align:center it was from his brother. 00:04:00.563 --> 00:04:02.688 align:center At least that's what Adam told me. 00:04:04.563 --> 00:04:07.896 align:center The drum, the drum, the distant drum! 00:04:07.980 --> 00:04:11.730 align:center The foe, the foe, they come, they come! 00:04:11.813 --> 00:04:15.980 align:center The soldiers awake, awake to glory! 00:04:16.063 --> 00:04:20.396 align:center With falchions red and bayonets gory! 00:04:22.521 --> 00:04:24.646 align:center Don't just stand there admiring it. Reload! 00:04:26.105 --> 00:04:27.271 align:center Faster. 00:04:28.646 --> 00:04:30.146 align:center You don't have this much time. 00:04:31.230 --> 00:04:34.063 align:center Adam, you have to go faster. Faster. 00:04:34.563 --> 00:04:35.771 align:center Charles! 00:04:37.313 --> 00:04:38.563 align:center Pick up the gun! 00:04:39.646 --> 00:04:40.480 align:center Reload! 00:04:41.105 --> 00:04:43.688 align:center A soldier never puts down his weapon. 00:04:44.438 --> 00:04:46.980 align:center Cover first, then assist. 00:04:47.521 --> 00:04:49.813 align:center - Understood? - Yes, sir. 00:05:04.063 --> 00:05:04.896 align:center Adam. 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:05.938 align:center Sir. 00:05:07.105 --> 00:05:09.938 align:center Are you capable of loading your own weapon? 00:05:10.813 --> 00:05:12.105 align:center I am, sir. 00:05:46.271 --> 00:05:48.438 align:center My mother says the training is for our own good. 00:05:49.271 --> 00:05:52.521 align:center We're fortunate being brought up by a hero of the Civil War. 00:05:54.313 --> 00:05:56.730 align:center Father will make us into great soldiers. 00:05:59.063 --> 00:06:01.938 align:center I'll never be the soldier you will be, Charles. 00:06:06.438 --> 00:06:07.605 align:center Perhaps. 00:06:11.896 --> 00:06:12.980 align:center But you can try. 00:06:14.688 --> 00:06:15.730 align:center Faster. 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.188 align:center Don't have enough time. Faster. 00:06:44.271 --> 00:06:45.188 align:center Shh. 00:06:47.188 --> 00:06:48.938 align:center And who might this be? 00:06:49.021 --> 00:06:49.855 align:center General Lee. 00:06:52.188 --> 00:06:53.355 align:center You can teach him to heel. 00:06:57.771 --> 00:06:59.355 align:center Did that already, didn't we? 00:06:59.438 --> 00:07:00.771 align:center Happy birthday, sir. 00:07:02.396 --> 00:07:04.605 align:center I believe Charles has a gift for you as well. 00:07:05.105 --> 00:07:06.230 align:center Don't you, Charles? 00:07:11.521 --> 00:07:13.730 align:center I saw you needed a new knife, sir. 00:07:18.605 --> 00:07:20.313 align:center I earned the money chopping wood. 00:07:22.146 --> 00:07:23.146 align:center Thank you, Charles. 00:07:24.938 --> 00:07:25.771 align:center Oh. 00:07:27.605 --> 00:07:30.146 align:center What do you think of that, General Lee? 00:07:37.646 --> 00:07:40.938 align:center Father wasn't expecting something so costly. 00:07:42.938 --> 00:07:44.063 align:center That's all. 00:07:44.855 --> 00:07:46.688 align:center He didn't look at it twice. 00:07:48.980 --> 00:07:50.938 align:center And he took your pup to bed with him. 00:07:56.021 --> 00:07:57.146 align:center How did you know? 00:07:59.230 --> 00:08:01.271 align:center How did you know what Father would like? 00:08:02.813 --> 00:08:04.771 align:center I didn't. I swear. 00:08:10.646 --> 00:08:11.563 align:center Charles? 00:08:12.063 --> 00:08:13.230 align:center Put out the light. 00:08:14.980 --> 00:08:15.938 align:center Put it out. 00:08:40.730 --> 00:08:42.271 align:center You're shooting to miss. 00:08:42.938 --> 00:08:43.771 align:center Adam. 00:08:44.396 --> 00:08:45.855 align:center Not at all. 00:08:47.771 --> 00:08:50.771 align:center You can hit a target in practice, but you can't hit a deer? 00:08:53.605 --> 00:08:57.105 align:center If I wasn't around, what would you do? Swallow your distaste or starve? 00:08:57.188 --> 00:09:00.521 align:center - Oh, planning on going somewhere? - Soon as the army will take me. 00:09:00.605 --> 00:09:04.313 align:center If I could hold Father off a year, we could enlist together. 00:09:05.271 --> 00:09:07.146 align:center I think I could face it with you by my side. 00:09:07.230 --> 00:09:09.855 align:center How will you shoot at men when you won't even kill for our supper? 00:09:09.938 --> 00:09:13.230 align:center I'll volunteer for detail, or I'll assist medical. 00:09:21.813 --> 00:09:23.771 align:center Mother. 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.188 align:center - Adam shot us a rabbit. - Hey, don't lie. 00:09:28.271 --> 00:09:29.938 align:center - It was Charles, of course. - Quiet. 00:09:30.021 --> 00:09:32.355 align:center Your father has a visitor from the GAR. 00:09:32.938 --> 00:09:36.480 align:center Just before dawn, he drew up a new plan. 00:09:36.563 --> 00:09:39.021 align:center Buford would defend to the west. 00:09:39.105 --> 00:09:41.396 align:center I delivered the orders myself. 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.146 align:center Two days later, 00:09:44.688 --> 00:09:46.646 align:center we had victory at Gettysburg. 00:09:47.521 --> 00:09:51.605 align:center Wow. And I'd heard Buford had acted on his own. 00:09:52.105 --> 00:09:56.355 align:center Small men like me play our part. 00:09:56.438 --> 00:10:00.646 align:center Not to be remembered but to turn the tides toward good. 00:10:00.730 --> 00:10:05.230 align:center I must say, Mr. Trask, your work with our veterans has been impressive. 00:10:05.313 --> 00:10:07.730 align:center Washington will be grateful for your spirit of service. 00:10:07.813 --> 00:10:08.646 align:center Hm. 00:10:09.521 --> 00:10:12.063 align:center Will the boys and I be accompanying you to Washington, sirs? 00:10:12.896 --> 00:10:13.730 align:center No. 00:10:15.230 --> 00:10:17.855 align:center My time there will be taken up with business. 00:10:21.021 --> 00:10:24.730 align:center Do you intend for your boys to soldier like their father? 00:10:25.855 --> 00:10:30.438 align:center When Adam finishes school next month, I will enlist him in the cavalry. 00:10:32.188 --> 00:10:33.688 align:center And Charles… 00:10:36.688 --> 00:10:40.021 align:center Charles will remain here on the farm to look after the place. 00:10:44.105 --> 00:10:46.480 align:center My business has left me with little time for farming, 00:10:46.563 --> 00:10:50.980 align:center but my family's tilled this land for six generations. 00:10:51.063 --> 00:10:52.938 align:center One hates to see it left fallow. 00:11:13.605 --> 00:11:14.938 align:center You know what this is? 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:26.438 align:center It's the bullet they gave you to bite while they cut off your leg. 00:11:29.521 --> 00:11:32.396 align:center It's a pity there's no great war for you to join. 00:11:32.896 --> 00:11:36.896 align:center But these Indian campaigns will give you ample opportunity to prove yourself. 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:39.605 align:center Why not send Charles instead? 00:11:39.688 --> 00:11:42.230 align:center Father, anybody can see he'd be a greater soldier, 00:11:42.313 --> 00:11:43.646 align:center and it's what he wants. 00:11:44.605 --> 00:11:48.021 align:center To put Charles in an army would be to loose things 00:11:48.105 --> 00:11:50.438 align:center which in him must be chained down. 00:11:51.146 --> 00:11:52.605 align:center Why do you favor him? 00:11:54.271 --> 00:11:56.521 align:center Because you don't punish him how you do me. 00:11:56.605 --> 00:11:59.313 align:center - Now you let him stay out of the army-- - Adam. 00:12:01.188 --> 00:12:02.480 align:center Don't you see? 00:12:04.771 --> 00:12:05.896 align:center I love you better. 00:12:09.271 --> 00:12:10.646 align:center I always have. 00:12:13.396 --> 00:12:15.813 align:center I love you better. 00:12:18.563 --> 00:12:22.188 align:center Why else would I have given myself the trouble of hurting you? 00:12:38.271 --> 00:12:39.105 align:center Charles. 00:12:44.188 --> 00:12:45.021 align:center Brother. 00:12:46.063 --> 00:12:46.896 align:center Wait. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.688 align:center You should turn back. 00:13:28.605 --> 00:13:29.688 align:center Now do him. 00:13:31.063 --> 00:13:33.480 align:center Give me a minute, Charlie. 00:13:33.563 --> 00:13:35.521 align:center Gotta get myself cleaned up first, don't I? 00:13:35.605 --> 00:13:37.271 align:center Bring me another whiskey while you're at it. 00:13:37.355 --> 00:13:40.605 align:center Spending all our money today? 00:13:44.688 --> 00:13:47.480 align:center Adam, have you ever had a woman? 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:54.313 align:center My half brother here hasn't experienced womanly love of any kind. 00:13:55.980 --> 00:13:58.063 align:center Never even had a proper mother. 00:14:00.396 --> 00:14:02.730 align:center Go on and get yourself undressed, sweetheart. 00:14:02.813 --> 00:14:03.938 align:center I won't be a minute. 00:14:07.313 --> 00:14:10.146 align:center She's one of the best I've had. 00:14:10.230 --> 00:14:12.063 align:center - I wouldn't treat you to less. - Hm. 00:14:16.230 --> 00:14:19.021 align:center What did Father say to you before, when you were alone? 00:14:20.021 --> 00:14:20.855 align:center Nothing. 00:14:21.938 --> 00:14:25.063 align:center I saw him talking to you, the way he talks to men. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.646 align:center - What was he saying? - Just more war stories. 00:14:36.188 --> 00:14:37.480 align:center Do you know what I think? 00:14:42.021 --> 00:14:43.855 align:center I think you're a goddamn liar. 00:14:49.646 --> 00:14:51.105 align:center How long have you known? 00:14:54.063 --> 00:14:55.063 align:center Known what? 00:14:56.938 --> 00:14:58.646 align:center That he would retain me here, 00:14:59.563 --> 00:15:01.396 align:center to keep house 00:15:03.063 --> 00:15:04.105 align:center like a woman. 00:15:09.396 --> 00:15:11.271 align:center How'd you get him to agree to that? 00:15:13.688 --> 00:15:15.355 align:center I knew no more than you did. 00:15:17.855 --> 00:15:19.855 align:center You won't last a week in the army. 00:15:20.646 --> 00:15:23.563 align:center - They'll send you home in pieces. - I know. 00:15:24.771 --> 00:15:26.521 align:center Father sends me off to die. 00:15:27.105 --> 00:15:28.188 align:center Which, to him, 00:15:29.271 --> 00:15:31.646 align:center is the greatest honor. But me, 00:15:32.521 --> 00:15:35.521 align:center who's more deserving, he casts aside. 00:15:36.813 --> 00:15:38.730 align:center You're taking him away from me. 00:15:39.730 --> 00:15:42.688 align:center - I don't know how. How are you doing it?! - Charles. 00:15:45.313 --> 00:15:46.813 align:center I haven't done anything. 00:15:47.396 --> 00:15:49.063 align:center I do every… everything 00:15:50.271 --> 00:15:52.605 align:center to make him give me any scrap of love. I'm… 00:15:53.938 --> 00:15:55.146 align:center I'm worse than a woman. 00:15:55.230 --> 00:15:57.188 align:center I'm a fool. 00:16:00.021 --> 00:16:00.855 align:center Hey. 00:16:01.521 --> 00:16:03.771 align:center I know. I know. 00:16:13.646 --> 00:16:15.521 align:center Charles. Charles. 00:16:15.605 --> 00:16:17.355 align:center Charles, stop. Stop. 00:16:42.146 --> 00:16:43.021 align:center Stop! 00:17:30.605 --> 00:17:31.855 align:center That everything? 00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:46.271 align:center This'll be easy. 00:19:04.063 --> 00:19:06.438 align:center Troop A! Mount and ride! 00:19:23.605 --> 00:19:27.438 align:center Well? What'd you see? How many were there? 00:19:31.771 --> 00:19:32.771 align:center There's not many. 00:19:33.771 --> 00:19:34.938 align:center There's only a few horses. 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:38.938 align:center Troop C! Mount up! 00:19:43.438 --> 00:19:44.896 align:center The rest, mount up! 00:20:11.521 --> 00:20:12.730 align:center He'll see you now. 00:20:27.896 --> 00:20:28.730 align:center Adam. 00:20:37.730 --> 00:20:40.063 align:center Hewes. This is my son. 00:20:41.355 --> 00:20:45.188 align:center He's just finished five years in the cavalry. 00:20:45.271 --> 00:20:47.105 align:center A private soldier, as I was. 00:20:47.980 --> 00:20:50.063 align:center I was discharged a corporal, sir. 00:20:50.146 --> 00:20:51.980 align:center Bring a bottle of whiskey, Hewes. 00:20:52.063 --> 00:20:53.938 align:center Shall I send for chipped ice? 00:20:54.021 --> 00:20:55.063 align:center Ice? 00:20:56.146 --> 00:20:59.105 align:center My son is a soldier. I was a soldier. 00:20:59.605 --> 00:21:01.396 align:center What do we want ice for? 00:21:03.730 --> 00:21:07.563 align:center Some men find it a struggle to return to civilian life. 00:21:08.605 --> 00:21:09.855 align:center Not to worry. 00:21:10.646 --> 00:21:12.813 align:center I'll get you assigned to Washington. 00:21:13.688 --> 00:21:18.313 align:center There's no limit to the heights a young man like you might reach. 00:21:19.146 --> 00:21:21.646 align:center I don't have any experience in government, sir. 00:21:21.730 --> 00:21:25.480 align:center You had none as soldier either. You were decorated, weren't you? 00:21:25.563 --> 00:21:26.521 align:center Three times, sir. 00:21:26.605 --> 00:21:27.730 align:center See? 00:21:28.313 --> 00:21:30.230 align:center You should consider yourself fortunate 00:21:30.313 --> 00:21:33.980 align:center to have a father who's able to pave the path for you. 00:21:35.105 --> 00:21:36.021 align:center And Charles? 00:21:36.855 --> 00:21:38.646 align:center Charles. What about Charles? 00:21:38.730 --> 00:21:41.855 align:center I thought he might like to join you here in Washington as well. 00:21:42.438 --> 00:21:46.646 align:center You know, while you were out soldiering, Charles has turned that farm to profit. 00:21:47.938 --> 00:21:50.021 align:center He hardly requires your pity. 00:21:52.771 --> 00:21:54.896 align:center It's not pity I feel for Charles. 00:22:00.521 --> 00:22:03.396 align:center I have business to attend to. 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:06.396 align:center Hewes will direct you to my hotel. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.771 align:center They're expecting us there for dinner. 00:22:09.396 --> 00:22:12.396 align:center - I won't be spending the night, sir. - Of course you will. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.980 align:center I'm taking the evening train to report to my regiment in the morning. 00:22:19.605 --> 00:22:21.396 align:center You haven't reenlisted? 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:22.355 align:center I have. 00:22:23.230 --> 00:22:24.980 align:center Five more years? 00:22:28.521 --> 00:22:30.146 align:center But you don't like the army. 00:22:30.938 --> 00:22:32.021 align:center No, sir. 00:22:34.813 --> 00:22:36.480 align:center Are you defying me? 00:22:38.063 --> 00:22:39.105 align:center Yes, sir. 00:22:48.563 --> 00:22:52.188 align:center I wonder if you realize just how much influence I have. 00:22:52.688 --> 00:22:56.063 align:center I can have senators defeated and pick appointments… 00:22:57.063 --> 00:22:58.480 align:center …like apples. 00:23:00.105 --> 00:23:01.813 align:center I can make men 00:23:02.813 --> 00:23:04.438 align:center and destroy men. 00:23:04.521 --> 00:23:05.896 align:center Yes, sir. 00:23:08.688 --> 00:23:10.938 align:center Is that all you've learned?! 00:23:11.646 --> 00:23:14.105 align:center The dumb resistance of a soldier? 00:23:20.896 --> 00:23:22.855 align:center Report back to your regiment. 00:23:25.146 --> 00:23:27.063 align:center You'll rot in the barracks. 00:24:06.688 --> 00:24:08.688 align:center "So we do not lose heart." 00:24:09.813 --> 00:24:12.313 align:center "Though our outer self is wasting away, 00:24:12.396 --> 00:24:14.855 align:center our inner self is being renewed day by day." 00:24:17.313 --> 00:24:21.563 align:center "For this light, momentary affliction is preparing for us 00:24:21.646 --> 00:24:24.813 align:center an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison." 00:24:26.396 --> 00:24:30.438 align:center "As we look not to the things that are seen 00:24:30.521 --> 00:24:32.563 align:center but to the things that are unseen." 00:24:33.646 --> 00:24:35.813 align:center "For the things that are seen are transient, 00:24:36.563 --> 00:24:40.105 align:center but the things that are unseen are eternal." 00:24:42.521 --> 00:24:43.396 align:center Amen. 00:25:26.896 --> 00:25:29.230 align:center Now that your mother is gone, what will you do? 00:25:30.355 --> 00:25:33.271 align:center - Continue farming? - What else? 00:25:38.188 --> 00:25:40.980 align:center I thought perhaps you'd like to return with me to Washington. 00:25:43.646 --> 00:25:46.605 align:center Your brother once mentioned you might like to join me there. 00:25:51.396 --> 00:25:52.813 align:center Adam said that? 00:26:01.438 --> 00:26:03.146 align:center Surely the time for that is past. 00:26:13.313 --> 00:26:16.355 align:center If you're going be alone here, you'll have to learn to cook. 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:18.771 align:center Or take a wife. 00:26:20.438 --> 00:26:23.563 align:center That was the choice I faced after Adam's mother died. 00:26:24.063 --> 00:26:26.646 align:center Be grateful you don't have another mouth to feed. 00:26:29.271 --> 00:26:33.271 align:center Had to siphon all my whiskey down that baby's throat just to calm him. 00:26:34.313 --> 00:26:37.105 align:center He couldn't understand his mother would never return, 00:26:37.646 --> 00:26:39.563 align:center no matter how he cried for her. 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.480 align:center I did think that he would maybe show for the funeral. 00:26:45.896 --> 00:26:47.146 align:center How would he know? 00:26:50.521 --> 00:26:51.605 align:center Didn't you write him? 00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:55.646 align:center Since he was discharged, I haven't had a word from your brother. 00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:57.396 align:center God knows where he might be. 00:27:03.021 --> 00:27:05.438 align:center Sharper than a serpent's tooth. 00:27:06.105 --> 00:27:07.105 align:center It's true. 00:27:11.021 --> 00:27:13.230 align:center I offered that boy everything. 00:28:02.605 --> 00:28:05.896 align:center Bring the dogs up. 00:28:08.146 --> 00:28:11.938 align:center There's a law against vagrancy in Georgia. 00:28:12.021 --> 00:28:15.605 align:center You better come on out! 00:28:17.605 --> 00:28:19.730 align:center Check the first two cars. 00:28:19.813 --> 00:28:22.480 align:center There they go! 00:28:25.230 --> 00:28:26.355 align:center Whoo! 00:28:37.730 --> 00:28:40.855 align:center - You were in the campaigns? - Yeah, they had me in Texas. 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:45.063 align:center I did two stints up north. 00:28:45.938 --> 00:28:49.230 align:center - When were you discharged? - About five years ago. 00:28:49.730 --> 00:28:51.855 align:center - It'll be three years for me. - Hm. 00:28:53.646 --> 00:28:54.813 align:center Where you headed now? 00:28:55.563 --> 00:28:57.313 align:center A real-life paradise. 00:28:58.563 --> 00:29:00.646 align:center I hear things grow so fast in California, 00:29:00.730 --> 00:29:03.855 align:center you have to plant and stand back so you don't get knocked over. 00:29:16.313 --> 00:29:17.646 align:center You were a preacher? 00:29:18.146 --> 00:29:19.980 align:center What happened? You stopped believing in God? 00:29:20.688 --> 00:29:23.230 align:center My congregation stopped believing in me. 00:29:24.771 --> 00:29:26.188 align:center What about you, Trask? 00:29:26.896 --> 00:29:29.230 align:center You running to something or from something? 00:29:31.730 --> 00:29:33.230 align:center Are those the only options? 00:29:34.105 --> 00:29:35.646 align:center Whereabout do you call home? 00:29:36.230 --> 00:29:37.146 align:center Nowhere. 00:29:37.646 --> 00:29:39.646 align:center Come on, everyone's from somewhere. 00:29:41.271 --> 00:29:44.813 align:center You can't call a place a home if you can't go back there. 00:29:45.521 --> 00:29:46.646 align:center What happened? 00:29:47.896 --> 00:29:49.313 align:center Someone done you wrong? 00:29:50.271 --> 00:29:51.813 align:center You done someone wrong? 00:29:53.105 --> 00:29:54.480 align:center Something like that. 00:29:55.563 --> 00:29:56.896 align:center People can change. 00:29:57.646 --> 00:29:59.646 align:center Might be worth going back there to see. 00:30:03.813 --> 00:30:05.646 align:center Mm. Yeah. 00:30:20.438 --> 00:30:21.688 align:center What if… 00:30:23.105 --> 00:30:26.813 align:center you could close your eyes and then poof. 00:30:27.646 --> 00:30:30.396 align:center You open them again, and no one can see you. 00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:34.896 align:center But you can see everything. Imagine the places you could sneak. 00:30:37.146 --> 00:30:40.438 align:center You could go anywhere, and no one would know. 00:30:41.438 --> 00:30:42.563 align:center Free. 00:30:51.438 --> 00:30:52.605 align:center Brother Adam, 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:56.813 align:center I'm writing in the hope that your old regiment 00:30:56.896 --> 00:30:59.521 align:center will send this letter on to wherever you might be. 00:31:01.396 --> 00:31:03.480 align:center In the wake of my mother's death, 00:31:05.063 --> 00:31:09.230 align:center I find myself alone with thoughts that I'd rather not be alone with… 00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:14.813 align:center like your absence all these years 00:31:15.896 --> 00:31:17.396 align:center and why you have not returned. 00:31:21.646 --> 00:31:24.396 align:center I fear I am the reason that you've stayed away. 00:31:26.105 --> 00:31:30.188 align:center I assure you, the anger that I once felt is gone. 00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:36.771 align:center All that remains is… 00:31:37.688 --> 00:31:38.521 align:center Whoa! 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:41.855 align:center …a great aching… 00:31:44.563 --> 00:31:46.105 align:center …a great emptiness. 00:32:02.688 --> 00:32:03.980 align:center When I think of you, 00:32:05.646 --> 00:32:07.896 align:center it feels like something isn't finished… 00:32:09.271 --> 00:32:11.105 align:center …like a job left undone. 00:32:18.313 --> 00:32:19.146 align:center Oh… 00:32:27.563 --> 00:32:30.313 align:center I fear Father damned us to the wrong fates. 00:32:38.813 --> 00:32:41.688 align:center I should have been out wandering the world, and… 00:32:44.688 --> 00:32:46.146 align:center you should have been here. 00:32:52.188 --> 00:32:53.730 align:center Wherever you are, 00:32:54.896 --> 00:32:56.480 align:center if this should reach you, 00:32:58.188 --> 00:32:59.396 align:center come home, brother. 00:33:01.313 --> 00:33:02.355 align:center Come home. 00:34:37.730 --> 00:34:39.438 align:center Yeah, well, um… 00:34:40.938 --> 00:34:45.563 align:center There's no sense in keeping a place clean when there's no one here to see it. Yeah. 00:34:46.438 --> 00:34:47.813 align:center Besides, the, uh… 00:34:49.646 --> 00:34:52.730 align:center The farm's what, you know, takes up all my time. 00:34:52.813 --> 00:34:54.396 align:center I've added 100 acres. 00:34:55.605 --> 00:34:56.688 align:center And, uh… 00:34:58.105 --> 00:35:00.396 align:center put up a curing barn, actually. 00:35:01.563 --> 00:35:02.396 align:center Um… 00:35:07.230 --> 00:35:08.938 align:center - What happened? - Hm? 00:35:09.021 --> 00:35:12.563 align:center Oh, yeah. Fight with a plow. 00:35:13.563 --> 00:35:16.063 align:center Well, it sure marked me all out of proportion. 00:35:17.105 --> 00:35:18.146 align:center Did you, um… 00:35:20.313 --> 00:35:21.271 align:center Did you get my letters? 00:35:25.730 --> 00:35:26.563 align:center Yeah, I, uh… 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:32.688 align:center I made up so many stories about, um, where you were 00:35:32.771 --> 00:35:35.771 align:center and… what you were doing. 00:35:37.938 --> 00:35:40.271 align:center It seems strange. I guess I could just ask you. 00:35:44.188 --> 00:35:47.980 align:center I heard about the campaigns in the papers, killing Injuns and… 00:35:50.271 --> 00:35:52.271 align:center That sounded like a good time. 00:35:57.771 --> 00:35:58.855 align:center You know… 00:36:01.063 --> 00:36:03.188 align:center they've still got girls above the inn. 00:36:03.813 --> 00:36:04.646 align:center Yeah. 00:36:04.730 --> 00:36:08.521 align:center I mean, it's a new operation now, run by a man out of Boston. But, um… 00:36:08.605 --> 00:36:11.688 align:center Well, he moves the girls through, you know, fast. 00:36:11.771 --> 00:36:13.896 align:center It's a new pair every couple of weeks. 00:36:13.980 --> 00:36:15.313 align:center And if, um… 00:36:15.980 --> 00:36:19.146 align:center Yeah, well, you're welcome to come with me if you'd like. 00:36:27.105 --> 00:36:30.146 align:center - You're burning that bacon. - Oh, well… 00:36:30.230 --> 00:36:32.188 align:center Uh… 00:36:34.521 --> 00:36:35.855 align:center It'll just be crisp. 00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:38.771 align:center I like it crisp. Uh… 00:36:40.771 --> 00:36:42.355 align:center You know, if, um… 00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:46.188 align:center If you're planning on staying… 00:36:48.563 --> 00:36:50.521 align:center you're welcome to my mother's old room. 00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:04.355 align:center I… I'm sorry to hear about Alice. 00:37:05.855 --> 00:37:06.688 align:center Mm. 00:37:12.730 --> 00:37:14.146 align:center You never thought about leaving? 00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:17.521 align:center What, and start over again at my age? 00:37:18.896 --> 00:37:21.021 align:center Men past our age are headed west. 00:37:22.396 --> 00:37:23.230 align:center Yeah. 00:37:25.313 --> 00:37:27.813 align:center Yeah, no, I got the farm to take care of. 00:37:29.271 --> 00:37:31.855 align:center If Father wants the farm run, let him do it himself. 00:37:36.688 --> 00:37:38.230 align:center - What? - I'm sorry. 00:37:38.313 --> 00:37:40.396 align:center I just thought you must have known. 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.480 align:center I mean, it was in the papers. 00:37:48.438 --> 00:37:50.105 align:center Adam, our father's dead. 00:37:53.021 --> 00:37:54.771 align:center It was galloping pneumonia. 00:37:56.688 --> 00:37:59.480 align:center I mean, he went right out. It was about a month ago. 00:38:02.688 --> 00:38:05.980 align:center They had a big funeral for him up in Washington. 00:38:06.646 --> 00:38:08.605 align:center The vice president was there, and… 00:38:15.771 --> 00:38:19.438 align:center I have the newspaper clippings if you'd like to see them. 00:38:22.188 --> 00:38:23.730 align:center I should've come home sooner. 00:38:39.230 --> 00:38:40.646 align:center Yeah, I guess you should've. 00:38:43.646 --> 00:38:48.063 align:center You gonna tell me where you've been all this time, brother, or what? 00:38:48.146 --> 00:38:49.896 align:center Oh… 00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:52.146 align:center - Can a man eat first? - Yeah, all right. 00:40:41.146 --> 00:40:44.480 align:center So I was thinking maybe we could saddle up tomorrow. 00:40:45.063 --> 00:40:47.063 align:center I'd like to get your opinion on some land. 00:40:53.938 --> 00:40:55.521 align:center Something bothering you? 00:40:59.230 --> 00:41:01.771 align:center I found Father's army papers in his study. 00:41:04.396 --> 00:41:05.605 align:center Have you looked at them? 00:41:05.688 --> 00:41:06.521 align:center Mm. 00:41:15.938 --> 00:41:18.813 align:center "Cyrus Trask, 14th Connecticut Infantry, 00:41:19.313 --> 00:41:25.230 align:center enlisted June 1862, discharged October 1862." 00:41:29.230 --> 00:41:30.105 align:center That's a mistake. 00:41:30.188 --> 00:41:33.313 align:center He wasn't discharged till the end of the war, after he lost his leg. 00:41:33.396 --> 00:41:37.271 align:center According to those papers, he was injured in September of '62 00:41:37.938 --> 00:41:39.896 align:center and discharged one month later. 00:41:43.105 --> 00:41:45.855 align:center Well, that would mean that he wasn't at Gettysburg… 00:41:48.813 --> 00:41:50.438 align:center or Chancellorsville… 00:41:53.021 --> 00:41:54.105 align:center the Wilderness 00:41:54.855 --> 00:41:57.563 align:center or Richmond or Appomattox. 00:41:57.646 --> 00:41:59.980 align:center I mean, he wasn't at any of it. 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:01.688 align:center Couldn't have been. 00:42:03.813 --> 00:42:04.730 align:center Maybe. 00:42:11.271 --> 00:42:13.480 align:center How the hell did he get away with it? 00:42:13.563 --> 00:42:14.396 align:center Charles. 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.271 align:center "A private soldier," and no one even questioned him. 00:42:17.355 --> 00:42:20.105 align:center - His whole life was a lie. - We don't know that. 00:42:20.188 --> 00:42:22.896 align:center As you said, it could've been a clerical error. 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:25.396 align:center Somebody could've easily put down the wrong date. 00:42:26.063 --> 00:42:28.021 align:center I've been keeping something from you. 00:42:31.355 --> 00:42:32.188 align:center What is it? 00:42:35.063 --> 00:42:36.355 align:center It's Father's will. 00:42:37.730 --> 00:42:39.980 align:center He left everything equal to me and you. 00:42:41.896 --> 00:42:44.021 align:center It's over $100,000. 00:42:45.355 --> 00:42:49.605 align:center You mean more like $100. 00:42:49.688 --> 00:42:52.688 align:center I didn't believe it either at first, but there's no mistake. 00:42:52.771 --> 00:42:55.480 align:center A hundred thousand in gold certificates. 00:42:58.146 --> 00:42:59.813 align:center Now, where'd he get that money? 00:43:02.730 --> 00:43:06.355 align:center - Maybe he earned it. - On a salary of $135 a month? 00:43:07.771 --> 00:43:10.271 align:center So maybe he had it all the time, and we never knew. 00:43:10.355 --> 00:43:12.146 align:center Or maybe our father was a thief. 00:43:13.146 --> 00:43:17.938 align:center - You have no proof he stole anything. - Adam, these are his official papers. 00:43:18.021 --> 00:43:19.563 align:center Discharged in '62. 00:43:19.646 --> 00:43:22.688 align:center - Years before the war was even over. - What does that have to do with the money? 00:43:22.771 --> 00:43:26.063 align:center If he lied about the war, Adam, then anything is possible! 00:43:26.146 --> 00:43:28.146 align:center He probably broke into the treasury at the GAR, 00:43:28.230 --> 00:43:29.980 align:center taking money from a veterans fund or-- 00:43:30.063 --> 00:43:33.063 align:center Charles, our father knew big men. 00:43:34.063 --> 00:43:37.771 align:center There's such a thing as speculation. He could've gotten in on a good thing. 00:43:39.146 --> 00:43:40.480 align:center This money will free us. 00:43:41.313 --> 00:43:44.813 align:center We can go where we like, do what we like. We can shed the lives Father chose for us. 00:43:44.896 --> 00:43:46.188 align:center No, I can't take it. 00:43:46.271 --> 00:43:49.146 align:center Charles, we can sell this place and start over. 00:43:49.230 --> 00:43:52.105 align:center I hear things grow so fast in California, you have to plant and stand back. 00:43:55.396 --> 00:43:56.313 align:center What? 00:44:03.896 --> 00:44:05.480 align:center Charles. 00:44:27.896 --> 00:44:28.730 align:center Oh God. 00:44:58.396 --> 00:45:00.896 align:center Adam. 00:45:02.188 --> 00:45:04.355 align:center - Fetch the doctor. - We need the sheriff. 00:45:04.438 --> 00:45:07.730 align:center - Just get the doctor first. - Adam, this is a mistake. 00:45:08.438 --> 00:45:09.355 align:center Let go. 00:45:40.188 --> 00:45:41.605 align:center Okay. 00:45:44.688 --> 00:45:45.855 align:center I'm sorry. 00:45:50.563 --> 00:45:52.980 align:center That wound, it'll scar if I don't wash it. 00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:55.063 align:center Will you allow me? 00:45:58.188 --> 00:45:59.021 align:center Yeah? 00:46:01.896 --> 00:46:03.938 align:center Okay. Ready? 00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:07.688 align:center Easy. Easy. Easy. 00:46:10.688 --> 00:46:11.563 align:center I know. 00:46:13.105 --> 00:46:14.105 align:center I know. 00:46:15.730 --> 00:46:16.563 align:center I know. 00:46:21.521 --> 00:46:24.605 align:center You are growing smaller and smaller. 00:46:25.813 --> 00:46:27.980 align:center So small, no one can find you. 00:46:29.188 --> 00:46:30.813 align:center No one can hurt you. 00:46:32.396 --> 00:46:36.271 align:center No door can keep you out, and no door can close you in. 00:46:38.855 --> 00:46:41.605 align:center So small, you have almost disappeared. 00:46:43.771 --> 00:46:45.813 align:center But you will not, Cathy. 00:46:47.396 --> 00:46:49.480 align:center You will not disappear. 00:47:01.730 --> 00:47:05.480 align:center Rejection, anger, revenge. 00:47:06.813 --> 00:47:09.313 align:center That is the story of mankind. 00:47:11.855 --> 00:47:14.938 align:center I fear Father damned us to the wrong fates. 00:47:16.730 --> 00:47:19.813 align:center She is going to tear you to pieces, and I don't wanna watch it. 00:47:20.563 --> 00:47:22.730 align:center In the whole world, there's only evil and folly? 00:47:22.813 --> 00:47:24.563 align:center - Is that what you think? - I know it.