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[♪♪♪]
[YELLING]
MAN 1: Stand back!
Everyone, go into the woods!
- Fire! - Fall back!
[CLAMORING]
MAN 2: Close ranks!
You Okay?
- Come on, Bob. Bring him over that way. - You all right?
Get down.
COLE: Gatling!
- They got a Gatling. - Goddamn it, Cole.
This stopped being fun about two years ago
MAN 3: Move that wagon!
Stand clear!
Get down!
MAN 4: Fire!
Cole, Bob, you boys okay?
Yeah, take more than a cannon to kill the Younger brothers, sir.
The cannon's doing a pretty good job.
Some Indian tracker you turned out to be, Tom.
You paid me to find your bluecoats.
There they are.
Get me the James boy.
You want Jesse?
No, not Jesse. I want the one that can shoot.
- Frank! - Frank!
MAN 6: Hold your ground!
Frank, up front!
Jesse, watch your back.
Cannon or Gatling?
Fire!
Cannon.
Cannons.
- Where you been? - What's going on?
Well, nothing really.
Every time I put my head up,
- they try and shoot it off. - So we got a plan?
My plan of lying here pissing myself is working mighty fine.
I can hit those boys from here. We just need a distraction.
A distraction?
Why the hell didn't you just say so?
He's smiling.
That's never a good thing.
[ALL SHOUTING]
[♪♪♪]
Get that rider.
Ha, ha! We're coming, Jesse.
MAN 7: Head out.
Take the hill! Charge!
Fall back!
Come on!
Go on, git.
Git.
[CHEERING]
Go on. Go on.
- Distracting enough for you? - They hardly even noticed you.
You're saying I could've done more to attract their attention.
- Uh-huh. - Such as?
You could've worn a big floppy women's Easter Sunday bonnets.
- That would've made an impression. - I figured.
That's your problem, Frank.
By the time you finish figuring out stuff,
I'm already finished doing it.
No, Jesse, see, your problem is you're always doing stuff
before I'm finished figuring it out.
Whew! Goddamn, boy.
Wait until we get back to Missouri.
Tell all them gals how Jesse James here
charged the whole Union Army by himself.
Hey, Cole, he keeps that up, he's liable to outrank you soon.
Well, but I'll still be better-looking, won't I?
Let's meet on that road over to the south.
See if we can't get those Yankees Jesse scared off.
Hyah!
Ride with me, cousin.
I could use the walk.
Suit yourself. We'll have some horses waiting for you at the road.
Okay.
All right, rangers. Let's ride.
Now, I would sound just stupid, saying something like that.
Hyah!
[♪♪♪]
- Where you boys going? - There's Yankees back there.
Lots of them.
The war's over, son.
General Lee surrendered yesterday at Appomattox.
Yesterday.
Somebody better go tell the damn Yankees.
What do you reckon?
Home.
Cole, we go home. And we ride like hell to get there.
God help any fool who tries to come between me and my farm again.
Now, that's the best damn plan I heard all war.
Well, boys, let's ride.
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪♪
COLE: Hello, Liberty, Missouri.
JESSE: Let's go home.
Back to our farms.
Planting corn,
harvesting corn, and eating corn.
- Corn gonna shoot at me? COLE: No.
Then I love it.
Let's go.
We got problems.
FRANK: Got a garrison in town.
We're in occupied territory, boys.
- Hands off your hip, Cole. - You ain't scared, are you, Jesse?
Pick your fights, cousin. You taught me that.
[♪♪♪]
Jesus, mercy.
That's Charlie Higgins.
- I'm cutting him down. - Not now, Cole.
What is wrong with you?
In case we have to kill these son of a bitches,
I don't want them to see us coming.
I wanna get back to the farm. Make sure Jim and the girls are okay.
And stop by our spread after that and tell our ma we're all right.
We'll go see Doc Mimms.
[♪♪♪]
Excuse me, sir, we're here for the doctor.
Jesse.
Frank.
Zerelda? Little Zee Mimms?
You were little Jesse James.
Yeah, but you got big.
I mean, Zee, you aged.
And what I mean is, in a good way, you got, you got big and older.
- Will you say something, please? - No, you're doing just fine.
- Frank? Jesse? ZEE: Daddy. Ha, ha.
Where's Web?
He rode right into them, screaming like a banshee.
My little Web did that?
He jumped his horse clear over our heads,
and killed a dozen Union soldiers before they knew what hit them.
Took out the Gatling gun and the cannon by himself.
Saved all our lives, doc.
None of the Liberty boys would've come home if not for Web Mimms.
God's honest truth.
Web died fighting?
Web died a hero.
Still died.
Look, doc, if there's anything we can do for you,
we want to help.
Start thinking about yourselves.
Don't end up like Charlie Higgins.
They found out Charlie rode with Quantrill's raiders.
They arrested him.
They tried him by military tribunal, and they hanged him this morning.
- I thought there was a general amnesty. - For soldiers.
But if you rode in a partisan band, they'll hang you for treason.
And you boys are in more danger, because you've got a farm.
See, the railroad men come through, offering to buy up land.
Nobody sells.
So the Army starts hanging men who own farms for treason.
During the war, all we thought about was coming home.
I swore I'd kill anybody who'd try to get me off my farm again now.
If I have to go to war with the railroad to stay, that's fine by me.
FRANK: All right, wait, look.
Let's think about this.
If we have a good story and we stick to it we should be all right.
What story are they gonna believe?
Hmm. You were in the Confederate Army with General Hood's Texas Army
until, say, Sharpsburg,
where you were reassigned to General Stuart's Cavalry
until you surrendered in Tennessee.
That just might work.
DOC: Yeah, that might just work.
Now go on, and see your ma.
She'll be glad to see her sons alive.
And for her sake,
stay that way.
Zee.
Thank you for everything.
Especially that story that you told my father.
Now, look, Zee--
I'm going to go cry now.
That Zerelda turned into a hell of a woman, eh?
Oh, yeah.
Big and older?
- You can shut up now. - You are a charmer.
I will shoot you in your sleep.
Next time try fat and haggard.
[♪♪♪]
My boys?
My boys.
My boys. My boys are alive.
Ha, ha! Oh, God.
Praise God, you're alive.
Well, not if you don't ease up a bit, Ma.
Oh, Ma.
- Did you kill Yankees? - A fair number, Ma.
- Did you say your prayers? - Every night.
Good. Now come on inside, and wash your hands for dinner.
Oh, you look so good.
FRANK: You look great. MA: Oh, come on.
Howdy, boys.
Look at Jimmy Younger, all grown up.
- How you doing? - All right.
Your ma wouldn't let us leave until we ate.
Yep, and that was about two hours ago.
I don't see clean plates.
I'm glad to see you being nice to our Indian friend.
He's a good Christian, and he killed Yankees.
And Jesus told me that made him an all right boy.
Well, she's still talking to Jesus.
What worries me is that Jesus is talking back.
I heard that.
[ALL LAUGHING]
BOB: Come on, Frank.
You play me that eight.
You ever notice Zerelda's eyes?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- She got two of them, don't she? - I think one of them is glass.
Yeah, which one is that? The right or the left?
- The brown one. JESSE: Hey
Don't make me tell the whole town about that time you screwed that fella in Atlanta.
- Ohh. - Talking to me?
- That dance hall girl at Bunny's? - Yeah.
Sadie was a beautiful woman. Sadie was not a man.
- She had a mustache. Nice mustache. - She had more than a mustache.
Well, she was European.
All right, I'll admit Sadie was a woman
if you just stop saying things about my Zee.
- My Zee? - Your Zee?
Yeah.
From women's eyes This doctrine I derive
They sparkle still
The right promethean fire
They are the books The arts, the academes
That show, contain And nourish all the world
I don't know what you just said, but it sounded real nice.
That's Shakespeare.
Now, he's European.
Wanna write that down for me, so I can say it to Zee?
- Yeah, I'll send you a telegram. - Thanks, brother.
Thanks for the help, Cole.
Well, you did plenty over at our place.
You miss it, don't you?
JESSE: The war? - Yeah.
Hell, no.
There are things I miss about it, but...
It was exciting.
Yeah. But it was a whole lot of killing, and why should we miss that?
COLE: Well, because we were good at it.
Shoot, we were great at it.
If you tell anybody I said this, I have to kill you,
because everybody knows I'm the toughest man in this town.
But you are one terrifying son of a bitch with them guns.
Yeah, well...
Boys.
Howdy, folks. How are you today?
- Howdy. - Yeah, easterners.
We're just fine, thank you, sir.
I'm Rollin H. Parker, personal emissary to Mr. Thaddeus Rains,
president of the Rock Northern Railroad.
And this gentleman is the famous Allan Pinkerton,
founder of the Secret Service,
currently under contract to Mr. Thaddeus Rains.
As you no doubt heard from your neighbors,
- our railroad is moving west. JESSE: Makes sense.
Because, see, east would put you underwater.
[CHUCKLES]
Moving west opened up the frontier to folks such as yourselves.
It just so happens that your acreage is located on the proposed right of way.
I am here to get your signature on this land sale contract.
And I'm authorized to pay you
2 dollars an acre.
- Two dollars? - That's right.
That's the price approved by the department of the interior
of the government of the United States of America.
This land ain't for sale.
Ma'am, I can understand how you feel.
You've made a lovely home here,
but it really isn't up to me or you.
You familiar with the legal concept, the right of eminent domain?
Yeah, I am. What about it?
This land's about to be condemned.
[♪♪♪]
So, you see, I'm doing you folks a favor.
The price of 2 dollars an acre is a one-time-only deal.
After today, the price goes down.
If I were you, I'd sign the contract, and we'll be on our way.
Good day, Mr. Parker.
You can tell Mr. Thaddeus Rains to put this where the sun don't shine.
Shakespeare.
I don't think you understand.
You don't have a choice.
Ma'am, I think that you should search your heart here,
and try to do the right thing.
Let me ask the Lord.
[CHUCKLES]
The Lord says we can bury them in the orchard.
- Nobody'll find them. - Somebody's in a vengeful mood today.
Why don't we let them go for today? We'll bury them out back next time.
MA: Oh, all right.
Now, ma'am...
You folks are making a serious mistake here.
Nicely played.
Tell all the folks what you told me, Frank.
I went to the courthouse to look at the right-of-way documents for the rail bed.
The railroad doesn't even need our land.
They're just using our land on both sides for as far as the camp.
Floor recognizes Clell Miller.
They're saying if we don't sell, we might end up with nothing.
- That's only if we don't stick together. - Loni Packwood.
I say this is the last straw.
I came back from the war.
My farm was burned down.
My cows was dead.
And now my wife's run off with my cousin Jeb.
That son of a bitch.
He took my dog.
DOC: Uh, Loni, about the railroad.
He took my dog.
[DOOR OPENS]
They got Cole.
ZEE: Daddy, he came to our house.
You'd all wanna hear this.
They came up.
They made the same offer they made you folks.
Our little brother Jim tried to chase them off.
One of the detectives hit him in the head and knocked him out.
Cole lost his temper.
- Oh, no. - He just lost his temper a little.
How many of them did he kill?
Two.
Cole.
They said because the detectives worked
for the Department of the Interior--
The Army can hang him.
Tomorrow.
MAN: What do we do? - Nothing.
You folks are gonna do nothing. You're gonna go home right now.
You too, doc.
So you can swear on a Bible that you don't know anything
about what's gonna happen tomorrow.
- Boys-- - Doc.
Go home.
They ain't gonna hang no more Liberty Boys.
Go home.
Meeting's adjourned.
Go home, everybody.
Go home.
- I'm staying. - Me too.
Loni, Clell.
I couldn't lose him.
Jim Younger. I told you to stay home.
It's my fault they're killing Cole. I want in.
It was just a matter of time before they tried to hang somebody else
- to scare off the other farmers. - And you're too young.
Too young?
Same age you were when you went to war.
Yeah, and the same age Web was. No.
- You're wasting time. - Zee. Go home.
Who was there when they hanged the others?
You need to know how they do it,
which way they walk up, what order they do things in.
And if you mess up rescuing Cole because you won't listen to a woman,
then damn you all.
All right.
Eight of us,
against a Union regiment and Pinkerton detectives,
in the middle of Main Street in broad daylight.
He's smiling.
Is that bad?
Very.
Pinkerton, relax.
The Army has everything well in hand.
[PINKERTON GRUMBLES]
Nothing like a hanging to motivate the population to relocate.
It's not my job to relax.
I've got men positioned at every entrance,
so no one will ride in shooting.
And I've got a sharpshooter up on that rooftop over there.
Just in case.
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[MUFFLED SHOUTING]
OFFICER: Be it known that Coleman Younger
be found guilty of treasonable acts
against military law and the articles of war
to be hanged this day by the neck until dead.
May God have mercy on his soul.
[CHEERING]
[CHUCKLES]
[DRUM ROLL]
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[SCREAMING]
[♪♪♪]
Brilliant.
Hang him! Pull it!
Pull it!
[GUNSHOTS]
MAN: Sir, are you all right?
Somebody get a doctor.
The bullet came out clean, but he lost a lot of blood.
He's gonna be fine, right, Daddy?
Praying wouldn't hurt.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who's that? Stay here with him.
Sir, we're looking for a fugitive.
We're checking all the houses. Powell, out back.
McCall, check the first floor. I'm going up.
- Sir, who are you? - Oh, sorry, ma'am.
Well, I should hope so.
Go.
Jesse, are you awake?
Jesse, is that your hand?
[MOANS]
They're gone.
- What are you...? - I fooled them into thinking I was alone.
Let's hope the boy pulls through.
I think he's feeling better already.
[♪♪♪]
PARKER: Mr. Thaddeus Rains, sir.
It's a pleasure to have you join us.
I'm pleased to be here.
- Really? - No, Parker, no.
I'm really not pleased to leave my boardroom
to come to this godforsaken piece of dirt
to discover why, in the name of all that's holy,
you can't evict a few simple farmers from their pathetic little mud holes,
so that I can build the greatest railroad the world has ever seen.
I completely understand your distress, sir.
What's going on?
Sir, two weeks ago, we managed to arrange
to have the Army hang one of the local farmers.
That's good.
No, unfortunately not, sir.
Um, a group of local thugs managed to rescue him from the gallows.
Not only did this inspire resistance,
but Mr. Allan Pinkerton was seriously injured in the incident.
Leaving you in charge of operations, until he should return.
A further impediment is that the Army garrison
has been ordered to move on,
so we no longer have that stick with which to threaten the farmers.
You see the Army leaving, you see the loss of a tool.
I see a power vacuum to be filled.
As we have the most power, we may move with impunity.
I see, sir.
I'll get together four patrols of our detectives for action tonight.
We'll teach these podunks what happens
when they challenge the righteousness of progress.
Yes, sir.
Jesse, you shouldn't be up.
I've been on my back two weeks, Zee. I'm sick of it.
- You sick of my company? - No, course not, Zee.
Teasing you's completely unfair.
What you do to me is unfair.
Well, I shouldn't tease a hero.
A what?
Everybody in the county knows it was you who rescued Cole.
We're all so proud of you, Jesse.
Not a single farm's been sold to the railroad since.
Oh, that's good.
But I wasn't the only person risking my neck that day, so...
So, you're saying I should go and spend time with Cole Younger?
With Cole Younger? No, I never said that.
Whoa, whoa.
Stop loafing around with that young lady and get back to the farm.
- What do you think, Frank? - You get in the wagon.
Until Ma has you home so she can fuss over you herself,
she's gonna make me miserable.
What do you say, sir?
Go ahead. You're all healed up.
- Thank you. - Of course.
Bye, Jesse.
Bye, Zee.
[ZEE CHUCKLES]
- You're looking a bit more spry. - Shut up, Frank.
Doc?
I was wondering if, uh, later this evening I could come by.
- You're always welcome here. - Yeah, I know, doc.
I was thinking maybe I could come by and take Zee out.
You know, someplace near, with other folk.
Near, you know, here, but, ahem, out.
That's fine by me, Jesse.
Don't worry. I'll make sure they're properly chaperoned.
[DOC CHUCKLES]
DOC: That hadn't even occurred to me.
I am deeply in your debt.
Well, you are very welcome, sir.
The Army's leaving town,
so Cole can stop hiding and get back to his farm.
We're all gonna meet at the Younger place for a shindig.
[BAND PLAYING UPBEAT FOLK MUSIC]
- Hey, you leave them alone. - Hey.
- Leave them alone. - Cole.
- Clell. - How are you?
- Okay. Hey, John. - How are you, Cole?
Good to see you. Thanks for coming. How are you?
- Hey, Cole Younger. - Loni Pack--
Who's seen Loni Packwood? How he's dressed? Look at that.
Tom. Come here, huh? Thank you.
WOMAN: Look, James.
MAN: Hey, welcome back.
You behave yourselves.
Hey, look. Liberty's favorite son. Come here.
Hi, Cole.
I'll never forget what you did.
- You know it? - Yeah.
- Zee, I'm pleased you came. - Why, thank you, Bob.
I'm especially pleased you came with Jesse.
Seeing there's a gaggle of girls hoping to dance with Jesse
who just have to settle with the charms of Bob Younger.
- You have no shame. - Not yet.
- But I'm hoping. - Ha, ha.
- Come on, let's dance. - Okay.
[PLAYING UPBEAT FOLK MUSIC]
[CHEERING AND LAUGHING]
I used to come to this rock all the time when I was a kid.
Just imagining what my life would be like when I got older.
- You didn't want a farm? - Eh.
I was thinking of being a river pirate.
- A river pirate? - Yeah.
- Arr, hand over your jewels, missy. - Ha, ha. Well, thank God you grew out of that.
You did grow out of that, didn't you?
Mostly, yeah.
It would be an all right life for a bachelor.
Are you planning on being a bachelor your whole life, Jesse James?
Not if I find the right girl.
What's this right girl like?
What's she like? She's, uh... She's smart.
She's funny.
She's bossy.
She always makes me think she's at least two steps ahead of me.
Where will you find such a girl?
[CLEARS THROAT]
From this doctrine...
Oh. Damn.
From women's eyes this doctrine This doctrine I derive
They sparkle still like
Tiny sparkling rocks
- Darn it. - "Sparkling rocks"?
Yeah, little ones, see.
Is this one of Frank's Shakespeare poems you're trying to quote?
Yes, it is.
Were, um...?
Were you planning on kissing me when you finished quoting?
Been planning on kissing you for a very long time.
[♪♪♪]
Bastards!
Come back here and face me!
FRANK: Jimmy? JIM: Cole, what'd they do?
Let's get back. We need water.
We need water. Let's get buckets.
Get buckets!
MAN 1 : Water.
MAN 2: Come on.
JESSE: Frank.
It's the Pinkertons.
It's the railroad.
Then Ma.
Ma.
Come on.
Hyah! Hyah!
FRANK: Thank God.
Ma!
Ma.
[GRUNTING]
Hang on, Ma. Now we gotta get you to Doc Mimms.
You boys...
take care...
Take care of each other.
- Ma, Doc Mimms-- - Shh.
Well, look at that.
The good Lord's a bit shorter than I reckoned.
JESSE: Ma.
I think we can move on.
Rebuild, make a decent life someplace else.
I don't care.
I didn't think you would.
Our place.
Clell Miller's.
Sammy Johnston, the Creeders, Will Hite.
The sheriff said it was a gang of drunk Kansas boys.
I say we ride into town, kill some Pinkertons, and railroad men.
No.
This isn't a feud. This is war. They've got more men than we do.
So, what do we do, General Lee?
We do what we did in the war.
We harass their supply lines.
We kill their men, they won't care.
But if we take their money and supplies...
- Exactly. - That's a good plan, Jesse.
BOB: I'll get us a few more men. Comanche Tom will ride with us.
JIM: What do we hit first? - I know a gal down at the bank.
See if she can get me a list of towns where the railroads keeping money.
[♪♪♪]
I'm so sorry, Jesse.
Me and Frank have to go away for a while.
But you and I, we've started something, you know?
I don't know what'll happen if you do this.
Neither do I.
Just let the law--
Laws don't touch men like Thaddeus Rains.
Only justice does.
Whose justice, yours or God's?
When will you stop?
When I send them to their graves.
Hyah! Hyah!
[TRAIN WHISTLE WAILING]
MAN: Thank you very much. Thank you.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. I have bad news.
- The payroll has been stolen. MAN: What are you talking about?
The railroads money is right there in that safe.
JESSE: That safe?
[GROANS]
[♪♪♪]
Excuse me, sir. Uh, the bank's closed today.
What?
- It's a bank holiday. Bank's closed. - It ain't no dad-burned bank holiday.
- Get out of my way. Come on. - Ow! Hey.
This is outrageous. Who are you people?
The James Gang.
The James Gang?
Yeah.
How about the, uh, James-Younger Gang?
The James-Younger Gang.
I'll whop you good if you don't get out--
JIM: The bank is closed. Ow! OLD MAN: I gotta get to the bank.
JIM: Stop. OLD MAN: I'll show you "ow."
Excuse me, sir?
- It's a bank holiday. - Ain't no dad-burned bank holiday.
- What are you talking about? - Mister.
What the hell are you doing, mister?
JESSE: Sir, the safe.
Ma'am, do me a favor. Turn around, cover your eyes.
- Why? - I'm gonna shoot this man.
I don't think you want to see it. Thank you.
Hey.
The safe.
Now.
- It ain't no bank holiday. BOB: It's a bank holiday.
- It ain't. TOM: You're right, sir.
Well, then why can't I go in there?
On account of that we're, uh, robbing it.
OLD MAN: Oh. Why didn't you just say so?
It's a secret.
Oh. Heh. Fine. Uh...
I'll, uh, just wait over here.
I'd appreciate that.
Go on. Get out of here.
- What the...? - What is it?
Old Man Tucker is just sitting there quiet outside the bank.
So?
When have you known Old Man Tucker not to be yelling at everybody?
[♪♪♪]
- How'd it go? - Fine.
How'd it go out here?
I think we should talk.
ALL: Hyah!
You can do this the smart way or the stupid way.
Only one way ends with you still breathing.
Just because we're robbing a bank,
- there's no reason not to be civil about it. FRANK: Mm-hm.
Where the hell were you?
I had you covered.
- I got 5000. - I got 3.
Eight thousand dollars. That's a thousand apiece.
[LAUGHING]
Our luck is finally changing.
What do we do with these?
These are the, uh, property rights to the farms the bank was holding.
You better pass them over here before something happens to them.
COLE: Whoops.
[ALL LAUGHING]
JESSE: All right. Settle down.
Not all this money's ours.
Uh, well, no, Jesse, it was the bank's.
That's why we had to go to all the trouble of stealing it.
JESSE: We take some of this, give it to our neighbors in Liberty.
- There's a lot of people hurting. - None of them risked their necks for this.
Let's think about this.
We create goodwill with the folk, make it easier to dodge the law.
- Frank's being smart about this. COLE: No.
Just because he reads books and knows big words don't make him smart.
- Uh, yeah, it does. - No, it don't, Bob. Stay out of this.
- Look, I think Jesse's got a good idea. - Jim?
Who put you in charge of this gang, Jesse, huh?
- I did a fine job leading us during the war. - Yeah, you did.
And I remember cutting a noose from your neck.
And that's why you both lead the gang.
Two of you entered that bank, right?
Two heads are better than one.
All Jesse's doing is making a suggestion.
So, we're waiting to hear what you think of that suggestion, Cole,
as the other leader of the gang.
That's fine.
FRANK: What's that? - I reckon it's a smart thing to do.
- Cole-- - Hey, that's it.
We decide something, that's it.
We're in this for the long haul.
And this plan of me and Jesse's...
smart, help us, give us places to hide.
Don't have to worry about a farmer with a shotgun shooting us in our sleep.
We gotta think.
- What's that word, Frank? - Strategically.
Yeah. Thank you.
Strategically.
- This is a war. - This ain't no war.
What's that?
Nobody paid me no thousand dollars to fight in a war.
[ALL LAUGHING]
COLE: Me, neither.
TOM: One down. - Damn it, Tom. You cheating again?
[TOM CHUCKLES]
- I'm broke again. JESSE: Next up, Thaxton Switch.
- That ain't a bank, Jesse. - It's better. It's a construction depot.
It'll have the strongbox, some ammo, explosives.
We can take those, do a bigger job next time.
- It's guarded by Pinkerton detectives. - I want to kill some Pinkerton detectives.
Boys.
We're famous.
What's this?
"The Fidelity Bank was robbed on Tuesday
by a gang of 20 heavily armed men."
Twenty?
What are the odds?
Another gang robbing the same bank on the same day as us.
"The outlaws calling themselves the James-Younger Gang
shot their way out of town, wounding the sheriff,
and three other townsfolk.
The bank officials estimate the loss of $50,000."
Fifty thousand dollars?
More like 50,000 pesos.
The U.S. District Marshal at St. Louis called this
the first daylight bank robbery in American history."
[WHISTLES]
- Here's to history. - I'll drink to that.
We made history? That is something to be proud of.
The rest of that's horseshit.
All that means is we'll set the record straight ourselves.
Uh-huh.
Line them up.
- Barkeep. MAN: Barkeep.
COLE: Whiskey. MAN: Whiskey.
[♪♪♪]
PARKER: They exchanged fire with the Pinkerton guards,
wounding several.
Then they raided the payroll office and blew the track.
How much did they get from the safe?
Thirty-five thousand, sir, in coins and currency.
Not to mention the added delay of miles of destroyed track.
I'll kill them for blowing up my railway.
PARKER: To be precise, they didn't blow the track.
Then who did?
We did.
I mean, our men did.
Our workers planted the dynamite, but they were under duress.
Pinkerton, what is going on here?
My professional opinion is that you've managed
to piss off the wrong farm boys this time.
They had to be dealt with.
By burning down their homes?
Oh, you wouldn't have done that?
Oh, I'd have done that,
but I'd have made sure I killed them all first.
I want them arrested and hanged.
Do you think a jury in these parts would convict one of their own?
I doubt it.
We're beginning a very interesting game here, Mr. Rains.
This is no game.
Well, I'm afraid our adversaries don't agree.
"Rock Island Pacific Railroad Depot was robbed
just outside of St. Louis, Missouri.
The brave and daring James-Younger Gang
was heavily outnumbered by Pinkerton detectives,
but the city lawmen were no match for the guns of the West."
Fine piece of writing.
RAINS: "The gang destroyed the Thaxton Switch construction,
meaning that, for a few months, honest farmers will be able to sleep
without fearing the railroad is coming to steal their land."
Who wrote this?
I'll see them hanged every Tuesday for a month.
Oh, that's the best part.
"Foregoing article was sent to this newspaper
was reputedly written by the outlaw Jesse James himself."
[♪♪♪]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWS]
Hey.
- Look at that. - What is it?
"Better...
slow down.
Dynamite ahead.
Too late.
You're dead."
[♪♪♪]
[MAN GASPS]
Whoo! Yes, sir.
That was a fine piece of driving.
Damn.
MAN: Thank you, Mr. Williams. Four more payments,
and you'll be caught up on the mortgage.
You have to look carefully at these Yankee $2 bills.
I've gotten some funny ones lately.
- Good day. - Good day. Could you change this?
- Certainly, sir. - Thank you.
Sir, sorry, but this bill is counterfeit.
I don't think so.
I'm gonna have to see the rest of your money, so I can compare.
It's a scientific method.
- I hear it's all the rage. - Uh-huh.
Yes, you can compare all of them, Mr...
James.
- Jesse James? - Yes, sir.
It's a terrible sketch.
TELLER: That's all I have. - Thank you. It's been a pleasure.
- Yes. - Take care now, you hear?
- Goodbye, sir. Have a good day. - Goodbye.
Pinkerton.
Why can't you catch these outlaws?
It's early in the game yet, sir.
Jesse James and I are just learning each other's moves,
feeling out each other's patterns.
Oh. I'm losing millions, and time, while you play chess with these farmers.
Hardly farmers, sir.
Each one of these men has four years
of fighting experience behind them.
They are disciplined, and have a charismatic leader.
If I were to design the perfect outlaw band,
this is the gang I'd create.
[♪♪♪]
So, what can you tell me?
It's going to be a long winter.
ALL: Hyah,hyah,hyah!
Let's go.
Take this road. Come on.
- Come on, boys, come on. - Right behind you.
[GUNFIRE]
Go, go, go.
[MAN WHOOPING]
Whew. Never thought that posse was gonna give up.
Yeah, they were admirably persistent.
That's the longest chase we've had.
- Jesse, we gotta have a word. - Sure, cousin.
You know all the newspapers are calling this bunch
- the James-Younger Gang, right? - Yeah.
Why aren't we the Younger-James Gang?
We got three Younger brothers
and two James brothers.
I kind of like the sound of the James-Younger Gang.
Jim, I'll beat the piss out of you. Stay out of this.
BOB: Oh, Jimmy's got a point, Cole.
The Younger-James Gang is confusing.
How's that, Bob?
Well, say we burst into a bank,
and we yell, "We're the Younger-James Gang."
People are gonna be thinking, "The Younger-James gang?
- Is there an Older James Gang?" COLE: Hey.
BOB: "How come we never heard of the Older James Gang?"
People trying to figure that out, instead of raising their arms.
- Can't argue with that, Cole. - Do we even have the same mama, huh?
Do we?
Is anybody hearing me, huh? I got a little idea.
If I kill you, then I kill Jim, I'm gonna have no arguments.
Pinkerton, it's been eight months.
I see holdups, and I see robberies.
I don't see men on the end of nooses.
Most of the James Gang's encounters have been with local law enforcement.
Frankly, no match for this gang.
- What about your detectives? - Listen, you.
Shut up.
Now
I have to hunt this man.
I have to get inside this man's mind.
I have to anticipate him.
And that takes time.
Time? Time, time. Oh, I can't believe this.
Would you believe there are certain towns in Missouri
where the James Gang walks openly in the street as heroes?
PARKER: Now, how can that be? PINKERTON: Because they are charitable.
[PEOPLE SINGING HYMN]
They give money
to churches, to farmers.
They gave the sharecroppers of Maddox so much money,
they even built a school.
That's my money.
Sir, we should burn that school to the ground.
That's the way to win them back to our side.
RAINS: Pinkerton, hundreds of men have lost their lives to build this railroad.
But they did their jobs.
Now, this Jesse James,
that's your job.
Do your job.
Then you let me do my job as I see fit, without interference.
What can you tell me?
It's going to be a long spring.
If people would hand over their money, and not shoot, there'd be less killing.
[♪♪♪]
What's that?
It's my lucky rabbit's foot.
Took it off that dead fellow over there.
I don't think that one's working, Loni.
What?
BOY: Jesse James, can I have your autograph?
[CHILDREN CLAMORING]
PINKERTON: Take us to the West.
Lane, Grogan, you take this. You take these towns.
You remind me of--
- Here, write this. - I'm not writing this.
- Ahem. Your blue-green eyes remind me of... - Remind me of--
- The land and the sky. - The land and the sky. That's it.
And even here, you might wanna change that to,
- "I thought of you." - Look. Write the whole thing yourself. I...
[♪♪♪]
Okay, sir, I think we know how this is gonna go.
One false move, and I'll blow your head off.
Bob?
You heard me, Jesse.
You know how crazy I get.
Crazy.
JESSE: Bob.
- We got a problem, little brother? - Frankly, yeah.
I'm feeling a little...
- left out. JESSE: Oh.
This is about the wanted posters, isn't it?
Obviously someone's not standing out in people's minds at the robberies.
Gents, we're in the middle of something here.
JESSE: Yeah, Bob's upset. - The posters?
Yeah.
Don't say "yeah" in that tone of voice. This is important.
- Okay.
Pardon the delay, folks,
but we had to get Mad Bob Younger under control.
Yeah. Ahem. Bob here will kill a man for sneezing.
And he's the best shot in the gang.
Better than you, Jesse?
JESSE: Bob Younger...
taught me how to shoot.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
FRANK: Now...
how about we get back to the robbery?
Of course.
That means now, mister!
[IN SOFTER VOICE] Now.
MAN: That's it. No more bets. LONI: One more time.
- Come on, talk to me. WOMAN: Oh!
LONI: Talk to me one more time.
Pretty please.
- Yeah. - Damn, Loni, you're lucky.
Luckiest man in the West.
Now that I'm riding with Jesse James.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
- You okay, Jesse? - Drinking whiskey, Jim?
You're too young to be drinking whiskey.
Not too young to shoot a man, not too young to drink whiskey.
Ahh.
Jim, you been with a girl yet?
Tonight?
Well, I was getting ready to turn on that Younger charm.
- Well, not exactly. - You been with a girl ever?
Hell, yeah, I've been with a girl.
I just-- I didn't want to get one of them paid ladies.
You know what I mean?
I think so.
I mean, you, and Frank, Cole, even Bob, you get all the girls,
because you're good-looking and famous.
They look at me like I'm your baby brother.
Now, don't tell nobody.
I swear. Not a word.
You okay?
Tell you what.
I can't drink good, neither.
I'm gonna go outside and throw up.
You do that.
Hurry.
Hey, Loni.
Oh, yeah.
Let's go, sugar britches.
Just call me Lucky Loni Packwood.
PARKER: The new route for the railroad is complete, sir.
RAINS: Parker? - Yes, sir?
What's that?
That, sir?
Jenkins will explain that.
- Sir. - Jenkins?
Yes, well, ahem, we have done a financial study
- of the construction costs projecting-- - Jenkins.
It's cheaper to go around Jesse James, sir.
Even with the detours,
and the extra track, it's just...
cheaper.
So you are telling me
that Jesse James has won?
[♪♪♪]
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
See, every three months,
the James Gang circles back to the vicinity of Liberty, Missouri.
They always pull a job before they return.
So?
So there's only four banks within that travel radius
they've not robbed.
Could you put men at all four?
I don't have to.
I've a much better tool at my disposal for narrowing it down to one bank.
What's that?
An intense hatred of you.
MAN: Hyah!
Jesse.
Things a fella's gotta do to get a little respect here.
Finally. Well, you deserve it, Bob. It's about time.
Thank you.
Listen, Jesse.
We got a problem.
It's Cole.
Yeah, he's been full of vinegar lately.
He's planning a job.
- He's what? - Look.
He's my brother, and I don't wanna start trouble.
Tell me.
Cole, are you sure?
Tell you what, boys. This is gonna be the biggest score yet.
What will be?
Hyperion Bank Two days' ride from Liberty.
Got $100,000 in railroad money sitting there.
That's in the paper, huh? Don't sound right.
If you read it first, you'd have no problem.
What are you saying, Cole?
I've robbed many banks as you have, all right?
I know this town, this bank. It's an easy job.
You're forgetting who's in charge.
Jesse.
You're in charge, huh?
We ain't partners no more? Let me get this straight.
You tell Cole Younger when and where to ride?
- Cole, he didn't mean that. - You're taking sides against me?
No.
COLE: So being with me is being against you?
We don't wanna do that.
No.
None of us poor idiots wanna go up against Jesse James.
Greatest outlaw who ever lived.
That's what it says in the paper.
Weren't for you, this gang couldn't find a goat's ass with a stick.
You have got mighty full of yourself, Jesse.
You think so?
You all do?
Frank?
The one time one of us comes up with an idea--
- A bad idea. - Hey, I got us through the war.
And nearly got hanged in peacetime.
- Jeez. BOB: Cole.
[♪♪♪]
FRANK: Boys, we don't want this.
- I'm the better soldier, Jesse. - I'm the better outlaw.
You both hate the railroad. That's all that matters.
You do this job, Thaddeus Rains will never come West again.
- What are you talking about? JIM: It's his money.
He's paying the payroll out of his own fortune.
You do wanna hurt Thaddeus Rains, don't you, Jesse?
FRANK: Come on, boys. Put your guns down.
I still don't like it.
Then let me run the show, General Lee.
FRANK: Jesse?
Jesse.
You want it?
All right.
We hit this bank.
[♪♪♪]
COLE: You'll be smiling once you got that money in your pocket, cousin.
Cole Younger's gonna make everyone rich.
[COLE WHOOPING]
[♪♪♪]
[HORSE WHINNIES]
Hands in the air.
- We're robbing this bank. FRANK: Move over there.
Everybody does as they're told, nobody dies. Hands up.
Yes, sir.
[♪♪♪]
[BIRD CAWING]
Oh, no. Uhn!
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[♪♪♪]
[YELLING]
[GUNFIRE CONTINUES]
[♪♪♪]
[GUN CLICKING]
[WHISTLES]
- Which one should I shoot first? - None of them.
Jesse?
You all right?
Head for the end of the street.
- Look. - Damn.
COLE: Son of a bitch.
Move. Go on.
[GUNFIRE]
- Another dozen out back. - They gonna rush us?
No, they're just insurance, in case we run.
[GUNFIRE]
Inside. For God's sake, move.
Get in.
Any ideas, little brother?
[♪♪♪]
Oh, Lord.
[JESSE YELLS]
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[SCREAMING]
- Oh, Lord. - Oh, Lord.
MAN: Oh, shoot.
Let's git.
Fire. Come on.
Come on, men.
[CREAKING]
MAN: Look out.
[SCREAMING]
Damn.
Hyah! Hyah!
Let's go, boys. Come on.
Let's go.
Come on, boys. Giddyap.
Come on.
[URGING HORSES]
- Aah! COLE: Jimmy.
MAN: Damn. Look what they did to the town.
[♪♪♪]
JESSE: Easy,easy.
Easy. It'll be okay.
Okay. Shh. You're gonna rest here now, Jim.
Bob, get some bandages. Hand me some whiskey.
- Okay. - Too young for whiskey.
I think we'll make an exception, Jim.
Little brother, I'm sorry.
All right, Jim? I'm sorry.
[♪♪♪]
It was the best time of my life.
I was famous, you know?
Yeah.
[JIM PANTING]
[SIGHS]
Little brother.
[COLE GRUNTS]
JESSE: He was just a kid.
He was old enough.
No. He was a boy riding with the most famous outlaws in the West, Frank.
How was he supposed to say no to that?
Railroad burned him out too. You couldn't have stopped him.
You're a piss-poor liar, for the smartest man I know.
A war against the railroad.
What the hell was I thinking?
Well, I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'm out.
You're out?
We ride for a year, our blood gets spilled, and you're gonna quit?
Who's next, Cole?
You?
Me? Bob?
- Can't exactly go back to our lives. JESSE: I ain't telling you what to do, Clell.
You wanna keep riding with Cole, that's fine by me.
Frank?
Well, go on. Get the hell out of here, then.
Don't come back when you find you can't farm with a six-gun.
[♪♪♪]
Jesse.
What are you thinking?
There are lawmen and bounty hunters all over.
I had to see you.
I'm getting married.
I don't understand.
Well, she's the most wonderful woman in the world.
I can't stop thinking about her.
Zee, look, I've quit my outlaw ways.
Come live in my home...
and in my heart.
Be my wife.
[♪♪♪]
- Yes. - Is that a yes?
[HORN BLOWING]
ZEE: I never would've imagined us in a place like this.
JESSE: That's why I picked it. We can start a new life here.
Do you think you'll be happy here in Florida, Mr. James?
Without all that excitement?
I've got you.
You keep me busy.
I figure we can go up to the hotel, get checked in,
and then I wanna do something I've been thinking about doing for a long time.
Wait a minute.
There are certain things that have to wait until after the wedding.
Driver, change of plans.
Could you take us to the nearest church?
MAN: Jesse Woodson James.
Jesse James.
The Jesse James?
I could've lied, I guess, but I want this marriage to be legal.
I want you to know, I'm trying to start a new life,
so I'm depending on your--
Discretion.
JESSE: Discretion.
Sir, I'm a man of the cloth.
Well, thank you.
Who needs to repair a leaky church roof.
Of course.
Now...
let's have a drink.
In the church?
Communion.
MAN: Have a good day, now.
COLE: All right, everybody. Hands in the air. This is a robbery. Move.
The safe. Now.
Of course. Of course.
Sir?
What?
Where's Jesse James?
This here's the Younger gang. You understand? The Younger gang.
But the Youngers ride with Jesse James.
- Hey. You wanna die? MAN: No.
Did ride. No more.
You understand?
The safe. Now. All right?
TELLER: All right, all right.
You know, Jesse James never went yelling at folks.
[♪♪♪]
Cole, this is the best score yet.
It's still taking too long. People used to snap to.
Yeah, well, that was because of-- The reputation the gang had.
As long as people think Jesse is riding, we're not gonna get respect.
Cole, we're outlaws.
Not exactly the most respectable job.
Bob, leave me alone, all right?
Go on.
- Hmm. - "Hmm." What?
"For the life of the James gang wasn't all robbing, and shooting, and killing.
These young Missouri bucks had a taste for the ladies.
Especially the handsome and charismatic Jesse James."
Beg your pardon?
ZEE: Blazing Guns of the West: True Stories of Jesse James.
- A dime in the hotel lobby. Oh! - Let me see that.
I'm not finished.
"When he sauntered into a saloon, his spurs jangling,
and his pockets full of gold,
the ladies flocked around him like flies to a candied apple."
As I said: Hmm.
Now, sweetie, y'all wouldn't go believing one of them silly dime novels would you?
[♪♪♪]
Swimming.
Swimming is good.
[ZEE LAUGHING]
ZEE: Oh!
Don't turn around.
What?
If you don't see it, then it's not real.
[♪♪♪]
Jesse James.
You're under arrest.
They arrested Jesse.
What have you done?
What's that, Bob?
What have you done, Cole?
I ain't done nothing, Bob.
Swear.
Swear on Jimmy's grave.
Bob, you know Cole would never do such a thing.
He and Jesse are best friends.
Cousins.
Blood brothers.
Bob.
[♪♪♪]
Sorry, Cole.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
PINKERTON: We're moving you tomorrow.
But I like the presidential suite.
You'll get a similar room.
The hotel's in Washington D.C.
Nice.
You're not gonna get a fair trial here,
in front of a jury of Jesse James sympathizers.
But I will with a jury bought off by Thaddeus Rains?
That's the idea.
Did you order our houses burned down?
Not that day.
I'm guilty of many things, but that,
that was Mr. Thaddeus Rains and Parker that day.
This was you, by the way.
You almost ended my career before it began.
Pity.
We're gonna hang you, you know?
Yeah, I figured.
[♪♪♪]
Was it worth it?
I should've just killed Thaddeus Rains.
That's what I'd have done.
I'm not hanged yet.
You cocky little bastard.
Oh, you'll miss me.
No.
I'll hang you.
But I might miss you a little bit.
MAN: About face.
March. March.
Come on, you.
So this is he.
I remember you.
You're Parker.
I remember you too.
You killed my ma.
How did you know?
Not such a menace now, is he, Pinkerton?
If that's the way you feel, I could take off his irons.
You stole thousands, cost me millions, months of delays in construction.
I wish I could hang you every morning for a century.
Oh, you like that?
Solid gold. My father had it made.
When he started this railroad, he gave it to me.
I'll give it to my son when he takes over, and he'll give it to his son.
The right sort of men will always run this country, Jesse James.
Not your sort.
You'll always suffer.
And you haven't changed anything.
I made you think twice about burning folks' homes, didn't I?
We'll speak again in Washington.
Oh, you're coming on the same train?
Well, I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna have to pay you a visit.
Big words.
It's a promise.
Get him on board.
[♪♪♪]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
PINKERTON: Open up.
Hook him up.
Come with me, boy.
Take him back.
Now your guns.
I don't like it.
We can handle him.
In the ten seconds we have been in this car,
I've seen you get close enough
for Jesse James to grab your guns at least three times.
And believe me, if he lays a finger on one of your guns,
you are all, and I mean all, dead men.
He's chained up.
They'll put that on your tombstone.
Your guns.
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
[♪♪♪]
Give me two good cards.
- Everybody, ante up. MAN 1: Mm-hm.
MAN 2: Yeah. MAN 3: Yep.
Hey, stupid.
Yeah, you.
Glad to see you know your name, you dumb shit.
What are you saying, boy?
I think I recognize you.
How?
I saw you leaving by the front door just as I was coming in the back.
You shut up now, boy.
[♪♪♪]
Yeah. Your wife said, you did that to her too.
Will this shut you up?
You know, I could do this without the gun.
Just makes things easier.
[♪♪♪]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
MAN: There he is.
What the hell is that?
Vengeance.
Outside. Get up on the roof.
Go, go, go.
You stay put, gentlemen.
[♪♪♪]
[COLE WHISTLES]
[CHUCKLES] Nice shot.
ZEE: Thank you.
Now go get my husband.
[♪♪♪]
There's only four of them.
Move, you fools. Move.
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[MEN YELLING]
[MEN COUGHING]
MAN: Hands up.
PINKERTON: Come on. Quickly. This way.
Do it.
[GUNSHOT]
That was for my ma. Now this is for everybody else.
He's too important. They'll set the Army on you.
You and your wife.
[♪♪♪]
That is a nice watch you got there.
Hand it over.
If I can get you today,
you damn sure know I can kill you anytime I want now that I'm free.
You sleep on that for the next 20 years.
Give it to me.
[♪♪♪]
FRANK: Get your hands up. Now.
Tennessee.
The Railroad has no business in Tennessee.
Therefore, I have no interest in the state of Tennessee.
Thank you.
I'd just as soon kill you, Jesse James.
But chasing you takes up too much of my time.
Fair enough.
Jesse James.
- Come on. Let's ride. - Hyah!
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN 1: Whoo-hoo! MAN 2: Move. Let's go.
- You get arrested again, I'll kill you. - Yes, ma'am.
- I can't believe I had to blow up a train. - You are a hell of a woman.
Don't swear.
Yes, ma'am.
I missed you, cousin.
I missed you too, cousin.
You know...
When you got caught, some people thought I had something to do with it.
- The thought never crossed my mind. - Good.
Things changed when you quit the gang, Jesse.
For example, I'm the one who now says, let's ride.
- He ain't bad at it. - Yeah?
- It's tougher than it looks. - Yeah. Where'd you get these riders?
Well, we didn't. Zerelda did.
Turns out, your wife makes a hell of an outlaw.
BOB: So, what's the plan, Jesse?
Well, I think my wife and I are gonna buy a farm.
BOB: A farm? - Down in Tennessee.
Hmm. All right.
You...?
You wanna maybe ride with the Younger gang before you do that?
Bye, boys.
Tom.
FRANK: Tennessee, huh?
Yeah, I think so.
I'll meet you there in a couple weeks.
JESSE: I'll see you soon.
And...
Thanks for that distraction back there.
Hell, they hardly even noticed us.
Mrs. James?
- Shall we? - Shall we, indeed.
Frank, Rangers.
- Tennessee? - I'll explain on the way.
All right, boys.
[♪♪♪]
Let's ride. Hyah.
ZEE: When were you planning on telling me? JESSE: I just did.
ZEE: Only because I asked?
JESSE: Am I ever gonna win?
ZEE: Don't change the subject. - Ha-ha.
♪ I'm gonna ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Whoo! ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ Hey, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ Whoo! Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ Hey, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby Whoo! ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby Whoo! ♪
♪ Before that sun goes down ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪
♪ I'm gonna find my baby ♪♪
[♪♪♪]