1 00:00:10,944 --> 00:00:14,512 Tell me you haven't melted it down and sold it already. 2 00:00:29,862 --> 00:00:31,664 The Union Pacific provides the final spike, 3 00:00:31,689 --> 00:00:34,726 the Central Pacific nails it down, like we agreed. 4 00:00:34,751 --> 00:00:36,775 I agreed to hold a ceremony 5 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,861 at the location of your choosing. 6 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:41,340 Collis, the heaviest thing you've lifted to date 7 00:00:41,365 --> 00:00:43,131 is a dessert spoon. 8 00:00:44,578 --> 00:00:46,545 You think my masculine capabilities 9 00:00:46,570 --> 00:00:48,275 are insufficient, sir? 10 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,360 I think you'd rather not answer that question 11 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:54,286 in front of 200 of Washington's finest. 12 00:01:58,754 --> 00:02:00,187 Mr. Lee? 13 00:02:02,279 --> 00:02:03,379 Mr. Lee? 14 00:02:04,735 --> 00:02:07,326 Wake up. Translate that. 15 00:02:08,361 --> 00:02:10,361 Need sleep, bossman. 16 00:02:12,830 --> 00:02:14,363 Translate. 17 00:02:18,321 --> 00:02:19,520 Address. 18 00:02:20,690 --> 00:02:22,190 In Ningpo. 19 00:02:24,098 --> 00:02:25,230 An address? 20 00:02:27,063 --> 00:02:28,329 China? 21 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:35,067 Ribbed with iron, 22 00:02:35,092 --> 00:02:38,161 clad in silver, and crowned with gold, 23 00:02:38,186 --> 00:02:40,959 this spike will wed the oceans. 24 00:02:42,163 --> 00:02:43,553 Telegraphs 25 00:02:44,740 --> 00:02:46,598 in every major city 26 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,654 will buzz to life with the knowledge 27 00:02:49,899 --> 00:02:55,108 America's transcontinental railroad is now complete. 28 00:02:57,117 --> 00:02:59,150 At the fall of my hammer, 29 00:02:59,513 --> 00:03:04,669 the operator will tap out a three dot transmission. 30 00:03:05,376 --> 00:03:06,608 The message? 31 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:08,446 One word... 32 00:03:10,839 --> 00:03:11,810 Done. 33 00:03:23,251 --> 00:03:24,284 Whiskey. 34 00:03:25,181 --> 00:03:27,206 You don't need another drink, mate. 35 00:03:29,724 --> 00:03:31,724 Hair of the dog. 36 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,854 - Give the man a drink! - Pipe down, ya traitor. 37 00:03:36,627 --> 00:03:37,519 What'd you say? 38 00:03:37,544 --> 00:03:40,262 For the love of Josephine, can't a man sleep? 39 00:03:40,287 --> 00:03:42,954 - Whiskey damn it. - I called you a traitor. 40 00:03:42,956 --> 00:03:44,556 And we don't serve C.P. here. 41 00:03:44,792 --> 00:03:45,991 Call me traitor again. 42 00:03:45,993 --> 00:03:47,659 It's over, there ain't no sides. 43 00:03:47,661 --> 00:03:48,960 All right? 44 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:50,929 Except the side of whiskey. 45 00:03:50,931 --> 00:03:52,831 Just give him a drink, for God's sake, Mick. 46 00:03:52,833 --> 00:03:54,166 Ah, shut up, Patrick. 47 00:03:54,168 --> 00:03:55,467 I told you all, there ain't no U.P. 48 00:03:55,469 --> 00:03:57,602 and there ain't no C.P., God damn it. 49 00:03:57,604 --> 00:03:59,204 Oi, the hell there ain't. 50 00:03:59,873 --> 00:04:02,574 Job or no job, I'm a Union Pacific man. 51 00:04:02,776 --> 00:04:04,109 Your pasty Mic ass'd 52 00:04:04,111 --> 00:04:05,844 still be down a mine shaft if it weren't for me. 53 00:04:05,846 --> 00:04:07,713 Call me traitor again. 54 00:04:07,715 --> 00:04:09,314 Keep your voices down. 55 00:04:09,316 --> 00:04:10,949 I don't work for you, Bohannon. 56 00:04:14,722 --> 00:04:16,421 You mean the winning side? 57 00:04:21,128 --> 00:04:22,861 Hand to God, 58 00:04:22,863 --> 00:04:25,530 the next man who asks me for a drink, 59 00:04:25,532 --> 00:04:27,265 I swear I'll throttle him. 60 00:04:37,711 --> 00:04:39,111 Whiskey. 61 00:05:55,989 --> 00:05:57,789 Thank you, thank you. 62 00:06:50,210 --> 00:06:52,711 What the hell is this all about? 63 00:06:54,181 --> 00:06:55,614 Mr. Bohannon? 64 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,752 Mick? 65 00:07:01,722 --> 00:07:02,921 I... 66 00:07:17,971 --> 00:07:19,604 Hell if we know. 67 00:07:28,549 --> 00:07:31,483 Congress requests your presence in Washington 68 00:07:31,485 --> 00:07:33,485 to testify against Thomas Durant 69 00:07:33,487 --> 00:07:36,221 on charges of bribery, fraud and corruption. 70 00:07:40,027 --> 00:07:41,626 Well, shit. 71 00:08:21,234 --> 00:08:22,734 I ain't going to Washington. 72 00:08:22,736 --> 00:08:24,202 You've been summoned by Congress. 73 00:08:24,204 --> 00:08:26,271 You tell Congress I've a railroad to see to. 74 00:08:26,273 --> 00:08:28,106 Supplies to send West... 75 00:08:28,108 --> 00:08:29,841 The railroad is finished. 76 00:08:30,110 --> 00:08:32,243 President Grant is determined 77 00:08:32,245 --> 00:08:34,212 to see all those guilty of corruption 78 00:08:34,214 --> 00:08:35,246 over its building punished 79 00:08:35,248 --> 00:08:36,982 to the full extent of the law. 80 00:08:36,984 --> 00:08:38,350 Uh-huh. 81 00:08:43,557 --> 00:08:46,257 You're not yet an old man, Mr. Bohannon, 82 00:08:46,259 --> 00:08:48,059 but you are no longer young. 83 00:08:51,164 --> 00:08:53,231 I advise you to reflect 84 00:08:53,233 --> 00:08:55,200 on what it is you decide to do next, 85 00:08:56,470 --> 00:08:58,536 whose company you choose to keep. 86 00:08:59,306 --> 00:09:01,473 Your subsequent venture 87 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:04,175 will likely determine the shape of your life. 88 00:09:10,017 --> 00:09:12,250 A subpoena is not a request. 89 00:09:12,252 --> 00:09:15,220 A cavalry escort can be arranged if need be. 90 00:09:38,845 --> 00:09:40,745 I'm buying out your stake in the railroad. 91 00:09:43,350 --> 00:09:44,749 But I'm not selling. 92 00:09:46,153 --> 00:09:47,919 I've been indicted. 93 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:50,588 News will hit the papers tomorrow. 94 00:09:50,957 --> 00:09:52,057 I want no record 95 00:09:52,059 --> 00:09:53,491 of your involvement in the Union Pacific. 96 00:09:53,493 --> 00:09:55,326 I helped build the Union Pacific. 97 00:09:55,328 --> 00:09:58,029 You're associated with the Dead Rabbits. 98 00:09:58,331 --> 00:10:00,432 I'm compelled to cut ties. 99 00:10:03,236 --> 00:10:06,604 Your stock value by tomorrow will plummet. 100 00:10:07,974 --> 00:10:12,243 Stick around, then you'll be broke or in jail or both. 101 00:10:17,084 --> 00:10:18,450 I've buried bodies for you. 102 00:10:21,354 --> 00:10:25,123 I hope you don't want a kiss goodbye, McGinnes. 103 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:27,125 I'm not your father. 104 00:10:43,076 --> 00:10:44,642 I hope you hang. 105 00:10:55,388 --> 00:10:57,589 Eva, here you are. 106 00:10:57,924 --> 00:11:00,225 Sheets don't wash themselves, Ms. Ellison. 107 00:11:00,227 --> 00:11:02,427 Need all the girls on their backs. 108 00:11:02,429 --> 00:11:05,296 Tricks'll dry up soon as the workers leave. 109 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,466 Hey! 110 00:11:09,803 --> 00:11:11,903 You want a roll, go round the front, wait your turn. 111 00:11:11,905 --> 00:11:14,172 Oh, Eva, that's not a John. 112 00:11:14,608 --> 00:11:16,474 That's my editor from the Chicago Tribune. 113 00:11:16,877 --> 00:11:18,443 He's very interested in you. 114 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:20,378 I ain't on the menu. 115 00:11:21,047 --> 00:11:23,181 No, he's interested in your story. 116 00:11:23,784 --> 00:11:26,017 He wants me to help you write it, in a book. 117 00:11:28,488 --> 00:11:30,655 Folks don't wanna read about a whore. 118 00:11:32,092 --> 00:11:34,359 It would be a story about a survivor 119 00:11:34,828 --> 00:11:36,461 and folks will love it. 120 00:11:36,463 --> 00:11:38,363 Folks will love you. 121 00:11:39,266 --> 00:11:41,199 That ain't been my experience. 122 00:11:41,635 --> 00:11:43,701 This could be a way in for you. 123 00:11:46,339 --> 00:11:48,006 Into what? 124 00:11:48,008 --> 00:11:49,207 Society. 125 00:11:50,343 --> 00:11:52,310 If that's what you want. 126 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,913 Or anything, really. 127 00:11:54,915 --> 00:11:58,383 A best-selling authoress can write her own ticket. 128 00:12:11,464 --> 00:12:14,332 Slow down, Mr. Bohannon, pack light. 129 00:12:14,334 --> 00:12:15,967 I need you back in San Francisco 130 00:12:15,969 --> 00:12:18,369 as soon as you're finished with this Washington business. 131 00:12:18,371 --> 00:12:20,438 That well's deeper than you think. 132 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:21,480 Careful you don't fall in. 133 00:12:21,842 --> 00:12:23,675 They're interested in Durant, not me. 134 00:12:23,677 --> 00:12:25,009 No, they're a hound with a scent. 135 00:12:25,011 --> 00:12:26,177 Once they've chewed through Durant, 136 00:12:26,179 --> 00:12:27,445 they'll come sniffing after us. 137 00:12:27,447 --> 00:12:29,214 I'm ahead of that problem. 138 00:12:34,020 --> 00:12:35,653 It was you, lit that little bonfire 139 00:12:35,655 --> 00:12:37,088 in the C.P. Depot last night, huh? 140 00:12:41,194 --> 00:12:42,861 I got something for you. 141 00:12:42,863 --> 00:12:44,629 To commemorate the Golden Spike. 142 00:12:44,631 --> 00:12:46,231 Only four like it in the world. 143 00:12:46,233 --> 00:12:48,032 Go ahead, put it on, Mr. Bohannon, 144 00:12:48,034 --> 00:12:49,100 you've earned it. 145 00:12:52,239 --> 00:12:53,538 Once you're back in San Francisco, 146 00:12:53,540 --> 00:12:55,473 we'll get started on the Southern Pacific. 147 00:12:56,376 --> 00:12:58,042 - Shortline? - Uh-uh. 148 00:12:58,044 --> 00:13:01,045 She doesn't have the romance of the transcontinental, 149 00:13:01,047 --> 00:13:02,213 but don't write her off. 150 00:13:03,383 --> 00:13:04,782 She's just the beginning. 151 00:13:06,019 --> 00:13:07,418 Plenty of roads to build yet. 152 00:13:07,420 --> 00:13:09,053 Oh, see that? 153 00:13:09,055 --> 00:13:10,955 Railroad man, through and through! 154 00:13:19,065 --> 00:13:21,266 All aboard! 155 00:14:02,976 --> 00:14:04,175 Thank you, sir. 156 00:14:27,434 --> 00:14:28,900 Mr. Bohannon? 157 00:14:30,303 --> 00:14:33,304 Archibald Romans, Senior White House Staff. 158 00:14:33,306 --> 00:14:35,873 I'm here to invite you to President Grant's gala this evening. 159 00:14:36,509 --> 00:14:38,242 I ain't much for galas. 160 00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:40,845 In celebration of the completion of the railroad. 161 00:14:41,648 --> 00:14:44,315 I come to testify, Mr. Romans, not socialize. 162 00:14:44,317 --> 00:14:46,718 The President has asked for you personally, Mr. Bohannon. 163 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,720 Grant knows I'm in town? 164 00:14:50,023 --> 00:14:52,623 Your stay at the Willard Hotel has been compensated. 165 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:55,326 Might I suggest you get yourself checked in 166 00:14:55,662 --> 00:14:57,895 and cleaned up before the soiree? 167 00:15:50,216 --> 00:15:53,384 I assume you've been corralled into testifying 168 00:15:53,386 --> 00:15:55,053 at this circus tomorrow. 169 00:15:55,055 --> 00:15:58,423 I'm not at liberty to discuss the hearing, Thomas. 170 00:15:59,426 --> 00:16:01,692 Congratulations on driving the golden spike. 171 00:16:01,694 --> 00:16:06,597 I stand accused of bribing government officials. 172 00:16:06,599 --> 00:16:08,433 That's officials like you. 173 00:16:09,069 --> 00:16:11,369 Now, I would advise you to say nothing, 174 00:16:11,371 --> 00:16:14,439 we're all in this together, Stephen. 175 00:16:15,542 --> 00:16:18,609 You've been away, so, allow me to fill you in. 176 00:16:19,179 --> 00:16:20,578 You're poison in this town. 177 00:16:21,514 --> 00:16:23,581 And very much in this alone. 178 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:25,983 Now, if you'll excuse me. 179 00:16:34,394 --> 00:16:35,960 Now these hands... 180 00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:37,829 Have built things. 181 00:16:39,299 --> 00:16:40,398 Ma'am. 182 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,999 You're Cullen Bohannon, aren't you? 183 00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:45,770 The man of the hour. 184 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:48,873 Quite an accomplishment, this railroad of yours. 185 00:16:51,144 --> 00:16:52,276 Thank you ma'am. 186 00:16:52,278 --> 00:16:55,546 You're more handsome than I ever imagined. 187 00:16:56,382 --> 00:17:00,017 You must tell me everything about the Wild West. 188 00:17:01,621 --> 00:17:03,454 They say it isn't safe 189 00:17:03,790 --> 00:17:05,790 for a respectable woman. 190 00:17:10,897 --> 00:17:12,296 I'm sorry. 191 00:17:14,134 --> 00:17:15,633 I'm not in the right place. 192 00:17:15,635 --> 00:17:18,503 Margaret, your husband is asking for you. 193 00:17:18,505 --> 00:17:20,571 Oh, George, he's a bore. 194 00:17:20,573 --> 00:17:23,007 And he's hopeless without you, my dear. 195 00:17:27,447 --> 00:17:30,248 Can't begrudge poor Margaret for flirtations. 196 00:17:30,783 --> 00:17:32,683 That's her husband. 197 00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:36,554 Colonel George Armstrong Custer. 198 00:17:37,524 --> 00:17:38,789 Damn impressed with your accomplishment 199 00:17:38,791 --> 00:17:40,925 on the railroad, Mr. Bohannon. 200 00:17:41,928 --> 00:17:43,561 Ten miles in a single day, was it? 201 00:17:44,297 --> 00:17:46,597 Well, had me one hell of a crew. 202 00:17:47,534 --> 00:17:48,699 You've the guts and countenance 203 00:17:48,701 --> 00:17:50,234 of a good soldier, sir. 204 00:17:51,638 --> 00:17:53,004 Who did you serve? 205 00:17:55,275 --> 00:17:57,608 I rode under General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 206 00:18:00,513 --> 00:18:01,579 Confederate. 207 00:18:03,316 --> 00:18:04,448 That's right. 208 00:18:07,353 --> 00:18:09,820 Shit, I led the charge against you boys at Bull Run. 209 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:11,289 Had you outnumbered and outgunned, 210 00:18:11,291 --> 00:18:12,723 but God damn if you didn't give us 211 00:18:12,725 --> 00:18:14,091 one hell of a steeplechase. 212 00:18:15,562 --> 00:18:17,161 Where I come from, an ass-whooping amounts 213 00:18:17,163 --> 00:18:19,263 to more than a steeplechase, Colonel. 214 00:18:20,867 --> 00:18:22,767 Come over here, boys. 215 00:18:23,236 --> 00:18:25,536 I want you to meet the Grayback son-of-a-bitch 216 00:18:25,538 --> 00:18:27,772 who built ten miles of iron road in a single day. 217 00:18:28,308 --> 00:18:29,574 To Mr. Cullen Bohannon... 218 00:18:31,244 --> 00:18:33,611 Toughest whoop-ass on the transcontinental railroad. 219 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:38,649 Thank you. 220 00:18:49,729 --> 00:18:52,330 He looks at me and he says, "What's a poodle?" 221 00:18:56,502 --> 00:18:58,669 - Oh, now. - Oh, at ease, gentlemen. 222 00:18:58,671 --> 00:18:59,870 Mr. Bohannon. 223 00:18:59,872 --> 00:19:01,906 You've met the Colonel, I see. 224 00:19:01,908 --> 00:19:04,275 Bohannon here was just explaining the difference 225 00:19:04,277 --> 00:19:06,844 between a blood hound and a poodle. 226 00:19:06,846 --> 00:19:08,145 I got that right, Captain? 227 00:19:08,948 --> 00:19:11,249 Good enough for a Yankee. 228 00:19:11,251 --> 00:19:12,917 Have you boys heard how to tell 229 00:19:12,919 --> 00:19:14,485 a good Yankee from a bad one? 230 00:19:16,589 --> 00:19:17,922 Mr. Bohannon? 231 00:19:18,091 --> 00:19:19,690 Why, that's simple, Mr. President. 232 00:19:19,692 --> 00:19:21,325 All the good Yankees go home. 233 00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:25,429 Let's go get some real food. 234 00:19:25,431 --> 00:19:27,198 Yes, sir. Nice to meet y'all. 235 00:19:45,451 --> 00:19:46,851 Ah. 236 00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:51,489 Oh, yes. 237 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,459 Go ahead, eat it. 238 00:19:55,962 --> 00:19:58,462 Those frilled dainties they're serving up there 239 00:19:58,464 --> 00:19:59,764 aren't fit to feed men. 240 00:19:59,766 --> 00:20:01,065 Mmm. 241 00:20:02,068 --> 00:20:03,401 'Coffee'? 242 00:20:04,671 --> 00:20:06,037 Mmm-mmm. 243 00:20:07,507 --> 00:20:08,539 Now, 244 00:20:09,942 --> 00:20:11,742 if you brought me down here to talk about Thomas Durant... 245 00:20:11,744 --> 00:20:14,745 Oh, I have a Senator who will testify to taking bribes 246 00:20:14,747 --> 00:20:16,013 from Doc Durant. 247 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,650 Bad fruit left over from the previous administration. 248 00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,852 I don't need your help cleaning house. 249 00:20:23,323 --> 00:20:25,656 - We just here for the coffee then? - Mmm. 250 00:20:30,163 --> 00:20:32,897 I'd like to make you a Colonel in the Fourth Cavalry. 251 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,367 You'd be the Undersecretary of the Western Territories 252 00:20:36,369 --> 00:20:37,868 for the United States Army. 253 00:20:38,471 --> 00:20:42,006 Your job would be to protect the railroad you've built 254 00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:44,442 from all present threats. 255 00:20:44,844 --> 00:20:47,545 - You mean Indians. - All threats, Mr. Bohannon. 256 00:20:47,547 --> 00:20:49,747 Cutthroats and train robbers. 257 00:20:50,216 --> 00:20:52,016 Cattle rustlers along the Texas border. 258 00:20:52,018 --> 00:20:54,352 And, yes, renegade Indians. 259 00:20:54,354 --> 00:20:55,553 I ain't no Indian killer. 260 00:20:57,657 --> 00:21:01,425 You're smart enough to prevent bloodshed where possible, 261 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:05,896 and not afraid to get your hands dirty when necessary. 262 00:21:06,866 --> 00:21:09,600 You'd report to the Secretary of the Interior. 263 00:21:12,705 --> 00:21:15,106 Sounds like you're asking me to wear Union Blue. 264 00:21:16,209 --> 00:21:19,643 I'm asking you to wear an American uniform. 265 00:21:21,013 --> 00:21:22,913 Your country needs you, Mr. Bohannon. 266 00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:24,148 Don't deny who you are. 267 00:21:25,685 --> 00:21:26,817 I'm a railroad man. 268 00:21:26,819 --> 00:21:28,452 Bullshit. 269 00:21:30,857 --> 00:21:32,790 You're a soldier. 270 00:21:33,059 --> 00:21:35,259 Lost without a war to fight. 271 00:21:40,733 --> 00:21:42,066 Ah, damn. 272 00:21:42,068 --> 00:21:44,301 I've got to go make a speech. 273 00:21:47,006 --> 00:21:48,472 Think it over. 274 00:21:49,075 --> 00:21:50,508 Yes, sir. 275 00:22:41,594 --> 00:22:46,697 A backwards rebel right at home in the nation's capital, 276 00:22:48,935 --> 00:22:51,235 I never thought I'd see the day. 277 00:22:53,473 --> 00:22:55,573 Ain't nobody more surprised than me, Doc. 278 00:22:56,943 --> 00:22:58,843 Never thought I'd see the day you'd be itching for a train 279 00:22:58,845 --> 00:23:00,711 back to Hell on Wheels. 280 00:23:01,747 --> 00:23:04,648 They've turned a Senator. 281 00:23:06,953 --> 00:23:08,552 Several, probably. 282 00:23:10,256 --> 00:23:13,457 I don't know who, but whatever hog they've got tied 283 00:23:13,459 --> 00:23:16,327 will squeal loud and clear. 284 00:23:16,696 --> 00:23:17,928 Mmm. 285 00:23:19,365 --> 00:23:21,031 You've gotten outta tighter spots than this. 286 00:23:21,033 --> 00:23:23,000 Grant needs a scapegoat. 287 00:23:24,971 --> 00:23:27,004 I'm out of allies. 288 00:23:30,877 --> 00:23:32,576 Maggie Palmer was right. 289 00:23:37,183 --> 00:23:38,582 She was a good woman. 290 00:23:40,853 --> 00:23:42,086 I loved her. 291 00:23:55,034 --> 00:23:56,934 They brought me here to testify. 292 00:24:01,674 --> 00:24:03,607 Say whatever you want. 293 00:24:07,146 --> 00:24:10,114 Enjoy your newfound favor 294 00:24:11,017 --> 00:24:13,617 because it will be over in an instant. 295 00:24:17,757 --> 00:24:19,924 Those men you were laughing with in there, 296 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:22,293 they're not your friends. 297 00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:25,763 They'll bleed you dry, 298 00:24:26,732 --> 00:24:29,500 toss you out with yesterday's newspapers. 299 00:24:59,932 --> 00:25:01,865 I came to cash out my 10%. 300 00:25:03,736 --> 00:25:06,770 I've got a big labor contract at the docks in San Francisco. 301 00:25:07,974 --> 00:25:09,340 I thought you'd come along. 302 00:25:10,242 --> 00:25:12,376 I ain't a labor contractor. 303 00:25:13,412 --> 00:25:15,613 Well, we'll keep the whores, then. 304 00:25:15,615 --> 00:25:18,048 Hell, we'll import new ones from France. 305 00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:19,817 I've big plans, Eva. 306 00:25:20,252 --> 00:25:22,052 We're only expanding. 307 00:25:23,289 --> 00:25:25,522 We ran a good enterprise. 308 00:25:26,225 --> 00:25:28,525 I'll always be thankful for that. 309 00:25:29,495 --> 00:25:31,729 But we're bad for each other, Mickey. 310 00:25:32,932 --> 00:25:34,031 Josie... 311 00:25:35,301 --> 00:25:37,067 - Shea... - That was business. 312 00:25:39,405 --> 00:25:41,205 Come to San Francisco. 313 00:25:46,145 --> 00:25:48,979 We stick together, it's a matter of time 314 00:25:48,981 --> 00:25:51,749 before one of us devours the other one, 315 00:25:51,751 --> 00:25:53,384 and you know it. 316 00:26:26,986 --> 00:26:28,419 Here you go then. 317 00:26:28,888 --> 00:26:30,421 Good luck to you. 318 00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:33,857 Me leaving's the closest thing we got to a happy ending. 319 00:26:33,859 --> 00:26:35,959 Sounds like you've got it all sorted. 320 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,267 Don't go sour on me. 321 00:26:44,170 --> 00:26:45,803 See yourself away. 322 00:27:35,554 --> 00:27:36,920 The President will see you now. 323 00:27:48,567 --> 00:27:51,835 ...property, and free political opinion... 324 00:27:59,278 --> 00:28:01,011 You've reached a decision. 325 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:34,711 Perfect fit. 326 00:28:35,281 --> 00:28:36,280 Anything else, sir? 327 00:28:36,282 --> 00:28:37,748 No. No, thank you. 328 00:28:56,836 --> 00:28:58,335 Your name and title for the record. 329 00:28:59,171 --> 00:29:00,571 Cullen Bohannon. 330 00:29:01,373 --> 00:29:02,506 Stake-holder and Chief Engineer, 331 00:29:02,508 --> 00:29:04,208 Central Pacific Railroad. 332 00:29:04,210 --> 00:29:05,409 Your current title, sir. 333 00:29:05,611 --> 00:29:08,345 Colonel, 4th Cavalry, U.S. Army. 334 00:29:08,881 --> 00:29:10,180 I'll cut right to it, sir. 335 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:13,217 Have you ever witnessed Thomas Durant offer 336 00:29:13,219 --> 00:29:14,618 an elected official a bribe, 337 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:16,453 in form of stock or cash in exchange 338 00:29:16,455 --> 00:29:17,921 for favorable legislation? 339 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,534 The transcontinental railroad 340 00:29:31,904 --> 00:29:35,272 could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 341 00:29:40,479 --> 00:29:41,645 That wasn't an answer. 342 00:29:42,314 --> 00:29:43,547 I'll ask again. 343 00:29:43,549 --> 00:29:46,016 As a former employee of the Union Pacific, 344 00:29:46,018 --> 00:29:48,352 did Thomas Durant ever voice his intention to 345 00:29:48,354 --> 00:29:50,454 or offer any bribes to an elected official? 346 00:29:52,424 --> 00:29:55,592 The transcontinental railroad could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 347 00:29:55,594 --> 00:29:58,562 Mr. Bohannon, you have sworn an oath 348 00:29:58,564 --> 00:30:01,398 before this committee under penalty of perjury. 349 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,101 We have a dozen Senators on record 350 00:30:04,103 --> 00:30:06,403 saying Thomas Durant attempted to bribe them, 351 00:30:06,939 --> 00:30:09,806 are you disputing their account of the facts? 352 00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:12,476 The fact I know to be true 353 00:30:13,212 --> 00:30:15,212 is that the transcontinental railroad 354 00:30:15,214 --> 00:30:18,916 could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 355 00:30:18,918 --> 00:30:21,551 This committee has the authority to hold you in contempt, Colonel. 356 00:30:21,553 --> 00:30:23,887 You have the right to detain me, Governor, 357 00:30:23,889 --> 00:30:25,689 but that won't change the fact 358 00:30:26,125 --> 00:30:28,492 that the transcontinental railroad could not have been built 359 00:30:28,961 --> 00:30:31,128 - without... - Thomas Durant. 360 00:30:38,771 --> 00:30:40,771 Thank you, Colonel. That'll be all. 361 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,254 The lecture circuit won't know what hit them. 362 00:30:57,256 --> 00:31:00,357 First stop, Council Bluffs, day after tomorrow. 363 00:31:00,726 --> 00:31:02,659 But the book isn't written yet. 364 00:31:02,962 --> 00:31:04,728 The book will come, don't worry about that. 365 00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:08,131 In the meantime, your face tells the story better than any book. 366 00:31:08,467 --> 00:31:10,968 Maybe we should go over the details. 367 00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:13,203 Yes. Walk us through it, Mrs. Toole. 368 00:31:13,973 --> 00:31:16,306 You were headed West with your family 369 00:31:16,308 --> 00:31:18,508 when you were attacked by Wild Mojave... 370 00:31:18,510 --> 00:31:20,344 - Yavapai. - Sorry? 371 00:31:22,147 --> 00:31:23,280 It was... 372 00:31:24,616 --> 00:31:26,316 We was attacked by Yavapai. 373 00:31:26,318 --> 00:31:27,818 Apache. 374 00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:29,753 Then they traded me to the Mojave 375 00:31:29,755 --> 00:31:31,388 for three blankets and a horse. 376 00:31:31,657 --> 00:31:33,590 Three blankets and a horse. 377 00:31:34,259 --> 00:31:36,293 The price of a human soul. 378 00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:37,627 Great detail. Possible title. 379 00:31:37,629 --> 00:31:39,296 - Remember that, Ms. Ellison. - Mmm. 380 00:31:39,298 --> 00:31:43,433 So, the Mojave marked your face and made you their slave. 381 00:31:43,435 --> 00:31:45,168 No. Not exactly. 382 00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:46,937 How would you describe it? 383 00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:51,341 They... 384 00:31:53,112 --> 00:31:54,578 Everyone had marks but... 385 00:31:56,048 --> 00:31:59,716 The point is to let Mrs. Toole 386 00:31:59,718 --> 00:32:02,085 tell her story in her own words. 387 00:32:03,122 --> 00:32:04,521 Go ahead, Eva. 388 00:32:04,523 --> 00:32:05,689 We won't interrupt. 389 00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:10,761 It was hard at first 390 00:32:11,630 --> 00:32:13,663 because I missed my momma. 391 00:32:13,665 --> 00:32:15,966 But then I had me a Mojave... 392 00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:23,106 Had me a Mojave sister and... 393 00:32:26,545 --> 00:32:29,846 I'm sorry, this dress just don't seem to fit right. 394 00:32:29,848 --> 00:32:32,549 But, the dress is part of the story, 395 00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:35,452 it indicates you... You've been saved. 396 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:40,257 Saved from what? 397 00:32:41,393 --> 00:32:43,293 From a life of savagery, of course. 398 00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:49,900 The marked face and the dress, 399 00:32:49,902 --> 00:32:51,401 we can't have one without the other. 400 00:32:51,403 --> 00:32:52,969 Not now, Ed. 401 00:32:58,744 --> 00:33:00,043 I can't do this. 402 00:33:00,045 --> 00:33:01,411 Eva, we'll get a different dress. 403 00:33:01,413 --> 00:33:03,146 No, it ain't the dress. 404 00:33:05,784 --> 00:33:07,784 The railroad is finished, Eva. 405 00:33:09,588 --> 00:33:10,854 What else will you do? 406 00:33:10,856 --> 00:33:12,956 This is the best that you can hope for. 407 00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:18,595 Oh, God, I... 408 00:33:21,767 --> 00:33:22,999 I'm sorry. I... 409 00:33:30,609 --> 00:33:32,008 I love you, Louise. 410 00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:35,579 But I promised myself 411 00:33:35,581 --> 00:33:37,214 I'm done whoring. 412 00:33:39,618 --> 00:33:41,318 Good luck in Chicago. 413 00:33:57,569 --> 00:33:59,469 You're one hell of a shot. 414 00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:02,139 Plenty of practice. 415 00:34:02,141 --> 00:34:03,707 Too bad for the Apache. 416 00:34:04,309 --> 00:34:05,609 That's where you're heading, right? 417 00:34:05,611 --> 00:34:06,610 Arizona territory? 418 00:34:06,612 --> 00:34:08,044 Ship out tomorrow. 419 00:34:09,248 --> 00:34:11,515 Apache women are turned on by gore. 420 00:34:12,484 --> 00:34:14,784 Fornicate like rabbits once the killing's done, 421 00:34:14,786 --> 00:34:16,720 you barely have to force them. 422 00:34:17,322 --> 00:34:20,190 Got myself a few trap trophies from Arizona, 423 00:34:20,192 --> 00:34:22,359 had 'em stitched into coin purses. 424 00:34:22,361 --> 00:34:23,393 No. 425 00:34:24,196 --> 00:34:26,396 It ain't that kind of assignment. 426 00:34:27,332 --> 00:34:29,766 Just bringin' a couple of renegades is all. 427 00:34:29,768 --> 00:34:31,701 Grant tell you that? 428 00:34:32,671 --> 00:34:34,871 He's a politician, I suppose he has to. 429 00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:39,843 You're a killer. 430 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:42,546 You know what happens in the fog of war. 431 00:34:56,495 --> 00:34:58,662 Got to go see to the wife before I go. 432 00:34:58,664 --> 00:35:00,830 Keep up with my conjugal duties, 433 00:35:00,832 --> 00:35:02,265 lest she turn to the postman. 434 00:35:02,868 --> 00:35:04,701 You got yourself a girl? 435 00:35:08,507 --> 00:35:10,740 That's for the best. Keeps you focused. 436 00:35:12,377 --> 00:35:14,544 Don't worry about Grant's bullshit. 437 00:35:14,546 --> 00:35:16,379 You'll ship out, kill some Injuns, 438 00:35:16,381 --> 00:35:19,583 blam, blam, blam, then ride back to Washington a hero. 439 00:35:20,552 --> 00:35:21,818 Nothing better. 440 00:37:07,759 --> 00:37:09,659 Bless you, my son. 441 00:37:10,829 --> 00:37:13,530 How long has it been since your last confession? 442 00:37:22,808 --> 00:37:24,607 Are you a soldier? 443 00:37:27,512 --> 00:37:29,346 It's all right, my son. 444 00:37:29,348 --> 00:37:32,415 No man is without sin, but you can be forgiven. 445 00:37:36,021 --> 00:37:37,587 Do you seek salvation? 446 00:37:53,572 --> 00:37:55,572 Do you wish to be saved? 447 00:38:38,049 --> 00:38:39,516 Thank you. 448 00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:42,252 Thank you. 449 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,460 Thomas Durant will invoke his fifth amendment right 450 00:38:50,462 --> 00:38:52,929 as secured by the constitution of the United States. 451 00:38:52,931 --> 00:38:55,598 Mr. Durant, we have sworn testimony 452 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,700 corroborating the charges against you, 453 00:38:58,103 --> 00:39:00,804 am I clear you are choosing to let these charges go 454 00:39:00,806 --> 00:39:02,705 unanswered by you here today? 455 00:39:02,707 --> 00:39:03,707 Mmm-hmm. 456 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:06,776 As is your constitutional right, 457 00:39:06,778 --> 00:39:10,079 so long as you're aware the record of history 458 00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:12,782 will remember Thomas Durant as a criminal. 459 00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:15,051 The record of history? 460 00:39:15,053 --> 00:39:16,786 That's right, Mr. Durant. 461 00:39:16,788 --> 00:39:18,254 My client will invoke his right... 462 00:39:18,256 --> 00:39:20,557 The record of history will read, however, 463 00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:24,861 the handful of overfed Senators in this room 464 00:39:25,063 --> 00:39:26,863 who choose to write it. 465 00:39:28,467 --> 00:39:31,501 I'm not interested in the record of history... 466 00:39:31,503 --> 00:39:32,602 Mr. Durant, please. 467 00:39:32,604 --> 00:39:35,538 I am interested in reality. 468 00:39:36,641 --> 00:39:40,376 Not the one bandied inside the halls of Congress, 469 00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:45,715 but the one I witnessed with my own eyes out West. 470 00:39:48,086 --> 00:39:49,853 Five years ago, 471 00:39:50,489 --> 00:39:53,656 the American people, torn apart by war, 472 00:39:53,658 --> 00:39:57,494 cried out into the darkness and turned a hopeful ear 473 00:39:57,496 --> 00:39:59,562 to the void for an answer. 474 00:40:00,832 --> 00:40:02,866 Americans needed a dream 475 00:40:03,802 --> 00:40:05,235 and I gave them one. 476 00:40:06,671 --> 00:40:09,806 A transcontinental railroad that would unite 477 00:40:09,808 --> 00:40:12,008 this nation and its people. 478 00:40:14,779 --> 00:40:17,347 Dreams don't come pretty, 479 00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:19,616 they don't come clean 480 00:40:19,618 --> 00:40:21,751 and they sure as hell don't come simple... 481 00:40:23,722 --> 00:40:25,021 They come true. 482 00:40:25,857 --> 00:40:28,424 Truth delivered by lies is no less true, 483 00:40:32,364 --> 00:40:37,700 and dreams made reality by falsehood are no less real. 484 00:40:40,539 --> 00:40:45,141 1,776 miles of iron track, 485 00:40:45,143 --> 00:40:47,710 that is what I delivered! 486 00:40:47,712 --> 00:40:51,948 Track upon which thousands of wheels will now revolve 487 00:40:52,717 --> 00:40:56,753 carrying on their axles the wealth of half the world. 488 00:40:58,023 --> 00:41:00,723 Final Destination, San Francisco! 489 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:03,626 Drawn by the Iron Horse, 490 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:07,297 darkening the landscape with his smoky breath 491 00:41:09,367 --> 00:41:13,169 announcing to the world with its piercing scream 492 00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:18,274 that we are a great people who can accomplish great things. 493 00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:23,313 Yet the American people, 494 00:41:24,349 --> 00:41:28,151 driven by their cowardly representatives in Washington, 495 00:41:28,687 --> 00:41:30,653 are in need of a villain. 496 00:41:31,222 --> 00:41:33,122 And so here I sit, 497 00:41:36,061 --> 00:41:37,660 elected by you, 498 00:41:39,097 --> 00:41:40,463 to play my part... 499 00:41:43,234 --> 00:41:46,302 The part of the scapegoat. 500 00:41:47,772 --> 00:41:49,973 The patsy. Sent into the wilderness 501 00:41:51,042 --> 00:41:53,042 so that men sitting in this room 502 00:41:53,044 --> 00:41:55,378 can lay their sins upon my back, 503 00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:57,480 and claim they themselves are clean. 504 00:41:59,084 --> 00:42:04,287 Men enjoying immunity while enriching themselves on the backs 505 00:42:04,723 --> 00:42:07,190 of those who sacrificed everything 506 00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:12,395 to make manifest America's destiny. 507 00:42:13,131 --> 00:42:15,164 Blood has been spilt. 508 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:17,066 Lives have been lost. 509 00:42:17,068 --> 00:42:19,302 Men have been ruined. 510 00:42:20,672 --> 00:42:23,906 I saw it, and I survived. 511 00:42:32,817 --> 00:42:38,421 I will not return from the wild having made America's dream a reality 512 00:42:38,923 --> 00:42:44,827 only to have six bureaucrats in starched collars judge 513 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:48,998 the manner in which I realized that dream. 514 00:42:53,371 --> 00:42:57,407 Put me on trial, lock me in prison, 515 00:42:59,844 --> 00:43:01,411 erase me from the record. 516 00:43:05,350 --> 00:43:07,517 For history is written in pencil... 517 00:43:10,855 --> 00:43:16,025 And the truth is carved in steel across this nation. 518 00:43:18,997 --> 00:43:22,131 And one truth above all others is this... 519 00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:27,437 Without me and men like me, 520 00:43:28,907 --> 00:43:31,274 your glorious railroad 521 00:43:32,343 --> 00:43:33,910 could never have been built.