I told you.
I ain't ever been caught, and I ain't ever going to be
caught.
Looks like coppers put up a roadblock. Hold on.
Whoa!
Ain't no way me and Mr. Mayor are going to the big house. No, ma'am.
Whoa!
Daddy, go
faster.
Ya! Hi, Mrs. Acres. Hi, Florence.
Why, hello, Penny.
What's going on over there?
Daddy's putting the car up on blocks so we can save money on gas.
Oh.
Well,
isn't that smart?
Ms. Murphy,
I've been meaning to ask, our car has been acting real funny, and I thought
maybe if you're not too busy, maybe you might take a look?
Ed says you know more than any mechanic in town, so
I sure would appreciate it. And
of course, we'll pay you for your time.
She pay you lots of money?
No.
How come?
Because her car wasn't broke.
You could have broken it for her and then fixed it.
I thought about that.
He know how to do that.
Maybe you should go next door and ask Mrs. Acres to help.
Are you kidding me?
This is your father you're talking to.
Like I need Mrs. Acres. Girl,
I've made planes fly.
I can rebuild an engine, frame a house.
Shoot, I made you.
You think I don't know how to
mend a sock?
Doesn't look like it.
We will be tested,
but as the psalmist David writes on this occasion,
"Wait on the Lord.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen the heart.
Wait," I say, "on the Lord."
Let us pray.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power,
and the glory
forever and ever.
Amen.
But why's it got to be so boring?
I think they want to bore the devil out of little girls, I
guess
I think your mother used to sleep through the whole service.
The pastor was like warm milk, she said.
Hey!
When the other students are playing, you need to leave them alone, okay?
Let me get this stuff out of your way.
That is a terrible thing, Sam, evict a man while he's at church.
Yeah.
That's a terrible thing.
Do you have a place where you can go?
Yeah, we've got a plan.
If you want his stuff, you can have it.
If it's okay, and you're not planning on taking it-
Hmm
... we sure would like to buy that radio from you.
I've been meaning to buy a portable one, and that one's just perfect.
Yeah. Thank you. That's great. Sure.
No, son, that's Penny's bear. It's not for sale.
Yes, he is.
No, he's not.
It's okay, Daddy.
I don't need him anymore.
I want you to have him.
Stop kicking.
I told you,
I'll buy him back.
I'll go there right now and buy him back.
Look, it's what you said you wanted.
Well, you said you wanted to sell Mama's radio.
Look,
I think I found us the perfect place. It's right by your school.
You're still going to go to school, aren't you?
You're not going to run off and join the circus, start working with elephants?
Huh?
No.
School's okay.
Look, I didn't really like that old apartment anyway.
Maybe we should try this new place.
Give it a week, see if we like it.
It's a good neighborhood.
Give it a nice loud knock.
Yeah, good job.
Hello?
Come here. Careful of the glass on the table, okay?
All right.
Have a seat.
Maybe look up that other address you found, okay?
Look your best, will you?
Hello?
Hey,
what you doing down there?
Oh, well,
my daughter and I are looking for an apartment to rent.
We-
Looks like you spying in windows.
No, we're looking for the owner. We went around out front
and-
You trying to squat?
No, we're not trying to squat.
What's your daddy up to? Hey!
Hey.
Hey. Hey.
F**k.
All right, mister.
Yeah.
You stay there please, miss.
All right, listen to me.
Don't be scared. Don't ever be scared.
When I get out of here,
I'm going to come get you, then we'll be together, and we'll never be apart again.
All right? I promise.
I'm sorry, Penny. I don't know how long this is
going to take, but when it all gets straightened out, I am going to come get you.
I love you.
What do you mean? Come get me where?
All right, come on. Miss, let's go.
Wait! No! Please, I can't leave my daddy!
Daddy, no! Please, no! Daddy,
please!
You're okay. Hey, hey, hey.
No!
Don't cry. Listen to me.
Please, no!
Don't be scared.
No!
Don't be scared.
No, Daddy, no!
We got to go.
Daddy, no! Daddy, no!
Let's go, miss. Come on.
Daddy, no!
Come on, miss.
Hold on.
I want to see my new hands.
You play baseball, son?
Well, I-
Mm-hmm. How about you? You play ball?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Now that's good.
I don't know what you fuck-ups did, but you're lucky to be here.
We aim to make convicts responsible through hard labor and its fruits.
You're going to get a day off your sentence for every two days you work.
Good behavior will get you out of here on parole even quicker.
Now, you're going to work hard,
but you will be paid a daily wage.
Minus expenses.
Red,
you're getting mighty close to the bone.
You keep chewing, you see what you find.
Boss.
Now, y*u f**k up,
and this goes for all of you all.
Y*u f**k up, and you will find yourself back in the penitentiary with your time
extended and my boot mark permanently tattooed on your a*s.
Comprende?
Yes, sir.
Let's build a road.
Hey, the cards aren't f*****g changing.
You can stare at them all you want, but you got to s**t or you got to
get off the pot.
Can't you see it, Sing?
You can't win, okay?
Not this game.
Actually
not in this country.
I mean, how is it you did not get put in a colored bunk
house where you belong?
Just ignorant white folk.
White folk,
but ain't ignorant.
Well, according to the white folk who run this
operation,
I'm technically Caucasian,
just like you, Rankin.
I fold.
Well, tough luck, comrade.
Then you're not like me,
because I'm white
and I'm still in the game.
There's a difference. Hey, what you think, Murphy?
You think white folk are ignorant?
I mean, come on, Sing's out here, he's calling white folks ignorant.
You going to defend yourself?
Rankin, just deal.
What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Deal.
Oh,
that's
the dead man's hand.
The dead man's hand?
Story goes old Wild Bill Hickok,
he got shot
right in the back of the head. Pow.
Like that.
Yeah.
Trying to play this hand.
Oh, no, it's not funny.
No.
You do whatever you want, big country, but...
I'm all in.
Bluffing.
What?
He talks. Wow.
What you know about it, pops? You even play poker?
No.
You just got to know when somebody's full of s**t.
Maybe Murphy's right.
I call.
All right, what you got?
I have that one.
F**k.
Did I win it? I thought you said he was bluffing.
I just said you got to know when somebody's full of s**t.
I thought that was the same thing,
but...
Well, we had a lot of chickens on our farm.
Oh, my God.
And for the sheeps, we wouldn't have a fence around the farm.
So basically, we would
teach them where they need to go. If one sheep was
not in the area, the sheep was-
Right, the sheep's gone. The sheep's gone
... Yeah, we shoot it.
Yep. Like a normal farm.
I thought this story was about chickens.
What? No.
Everybody listen up.
Hey, you boys,
you like a day off, don't you?
Yeah.
Sure you do.
Yes, sir.
Get to rest up, clean up, most importantly,
play some baseball.
Yeah.
Playoff's tomorrow. Teams are tied.
You men are one game from glory.
Go Pirates!
However,
we got ourselves a problem,
so let me tell you the procedure for this afternoon.
Bob tells me we got a rock up there needs to be blasted,
but we don't get no more dynamite till Monday. Powder house is empty.
But I say
that rock has got to move today.
And if it ain't,
y'all be back out here tomorrow, there will be no game.
Pirates will forfeit. Do you understand me?
Yes, sir.
So go move that goddamn rock.
Come on, boys. Keep going.
Move! Pirates!
Jesus H. Christ, look at these a******s.
They don't stand a chance.
Hercules couldn't move that rock.
What's wrong with you, Murphy?
Not a team player?
Depends on the team.
You don't mind working out here tomorrow?
I don't much care for Sundays.
Just as soon be earning my two-for-one days, early release.
I like to work.
Yeah? Well, me,
I like baseball
and I love Sundays.
That's the Lord's day.
If we got to be out here tomorrow working,
it ain't going to be no good time, I can tell you that right now.
Hey, it's about time.
What are you going to do, put tires on it?
Christ, Franklin, shut up and dig.
All right, listen. Listen to me. Sig, I need a six-inch hole right
there. Olson, come here.
See that? Right there.
All right,
get that.
Keep
going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going, keep going.
All right.
All right. You got the holes?
Yeah.
Listen to me. Listen to me. Olson, get a shovel, get
right in there. Pickaxe right in there. All right?
Only these men push, all right? Nobody else or the handles will break.
When it moves, don't let it stop. Go.
Go.
Ready?
Yeah.
Danny. Danny. Keep it up.
Push it!
Push! Push! Push!
Don't stop. Don't stop. Sig,
come on.
Keep moving! Go! Go! Go!
Push! Come on!
Let's go! Don't stop! Don't stop! Let's go!
Yes! Yes!
Come
on! Come
on!
Yeah!
Let's go! Let's go!
Come on in.
I'm out back.
There he is.
Hercules.
Yeah, that was some fun, Murphy,
seeing those boys' faces.
There you were moving heaven and earth, and they couldn't work out how.
Dr Pepper?
Help yourself.
Pull.
Goddamn, Murphy.
Murphy, I've never seen that before.
Usually, a man will let them fly out a little,
give them a sporting chance.
Just thought you were supposed to kill them.
Well, you did that.
I'm going to clean these babies up, and you and I are going to eat.
I don't know if you like cars.
This here's the latest and greatest, Model 18.
Not working right now, but she's pretty.
Can I take a look?
Go ahead.
What's wrong with it?
Pulls left, runs hot, doesn't like hills, and can't brake for s**t.
I can fix it.
Yeah?
Which part?
All of it.
We was guarding a cathouse in Paris the whole damn time.
I'd been Portland Police Bureau, PPP, so they just put me straight in the military
police.
Our job was trying to stop doughboys like you from getting themselves venereal
disease.
Did okay with that for a while,
until it was the MPs getting the VD.
How about you? How'd you get them scars?
Oh.
Germans were trying to get position behind us.
My unit was temporarily under British and French command.
Their scouts thought it would improve our position if I got us up there first,
and I did,
and I got these to show for it.
Kind of makes you a war hero, doesn't it?
Just lucky, I guess.
These new bearings are all packed. That babbitt metal should last for a while.
It won't pull anymore.
Yeah, she was in rough shape.
The fella I got it from ran it hard.
He's retired now.
Doing 15 to 20 in Joliet.
Yeah.
Retired rum runner, huh?
Switches in the dash, modified suspension, dirt plate,
engine's all hopped up. Kind of half-assed. That's why it ran so hot.
Well.
Man knows a liquor-hauling car when he sees one.
I think I'm going to learn to like you, Murphy.
You got any family?
Yeah.
Got a daughter.
You got good people looking after her?
Problem shared is a burden halved, so
what's the problem, son?
I'm in here.
She's in a home, House of the Good Shepherd.
In one month, she'll be a ward of the state and up for adoption.
Even with good time, I'm in here six more months. That's my problem.
Thank you.
Hey, Murphy.
You done good work. I appreciate it.
She's running real good now.
Tell you the truth,
I didn't come out here just for the joyride.
I've been thinking about you and your predicament.
If I can get you out here before the end of the month,
you like that?
Can you do that?
Son,
out here, I do what I want.
I sign the paper saying your time is done,
your time is done.
Now, this here is going to be the procedure.
I have a friend who needs a little help.
He's also in a kind of predicament.
He's going to need four strong men,
men he can trust
I don't trust any of these boys, but you know them better than I, and I trust you,
so you have to be in charge.
Now, this ain't going to be no picnic like here.
It might get rough.
However,
there's good money in it.
Just can't be no fuck-ups.
There won't be.
All right.
You do this thing,
I will sign the papers for you and the men you choose.
We got a deal?
Whatever this job is, it's got to be legal.
Now look,
you just asked me to find three trustworthy men.
I could only find two, and
you guys seem to like him.
Thank God we're not going on that f*****g thing.
Two hours up the mine, give or take.
I don't want to hear jack diddly out of any of you convicts. You hear?
Never been on an airplane before.
What the f**k did I just say?
Mount
through,
Mr. Amos.
Run, boy. Hold up.
Hey. Over here,
over here. Come
on.
Wait,
watch over there. Right over there. Look out!
Come on. Hurry up.
Put
it on the desk and shut up.
Evening, gentlemen.
George Taggart.
Which one of you fellas is Murphy?
Right here.
Yeah. Clancy had nothing but good words to say about you, Mr. Murphy.
Says you're the man for the job,
which is grand because this job needs the right man.
The right men. Come on.
Now, there is one thing
I want you to know, and it's very important. See this?
This here is trouble.
Finding it,
mining it, particularly holding onto it is trouble.
People get funny around gold. I've seen it.
They'll lie,
cheat.
They'll kill you for it.
You hear?
Yes, sir.
Good.
Two weeks from today, every mine in this country's getting closed
down and every bit of gold
confiscated, courtesy of FDR.
Yeah, desperate times.
And there are a lot of desperate folk around who think
maybe this gold ought to belong to them instead of the US government.
Two mines in this county already got looted by their own guards.
Anybody who tried to protect the vault
got shot.
I trust
two men in this place,
and they hear rumblings
that maybe we're up next.
That ain't happening on my watch.
Ain't happening in this mine,
because there isn't going to be no gold,
and that is because you men are going to have it,
and first thing tomorrow morning, you're going to march it across the f*****g
wilderness in the opposite direction from them animals out there
before anybody even notices it's gone.
Around 50-odd miles, and that haul road you came in on
finally breaks around, joins up again,
far side of the lake.
That's where we're going to meet
six days from now exactly. Mr. Amos and Mr.
Letender will be on hand to make sure
you all don't get lost.
You understand that?
Do you understand that?
Yes, sir.
"Yes, sir." See, this ain't my gold.
I wish it was, but it ain't. It belongs to the men who own this mine.
I just get paid to protect it.
When do we get paid?
When you deliver.
You hold up your end,
and I hold up mine.
All of this gold, and I mean every last ounce of it, gets to where it's going.
But if any of it goes missing for any reason,
well, then you got trouble.
You hear me?
Yes, sir.
Good.
Get out of here.
Anybody taking gold out of here, it can't look like me and him.
So if we do get caught,
you get shot.
All right.
Here.
No, hold on. Hold a second. Yeah. Hold on a
second.
I
got you. Yeah, come on. All right.
Let's go. Come on.
Somebody else is out here.
I don't think so.
Yeah, well, if they are, this whole thing's going to be over before it gets
started. All right, you walk on with the rest of them. Just give me your knife.
Give me your pack.
Happily.
S**t.
What the f**k?
What's the servant girl doing here?
Keep it down, man.
Give me that f*****g knife.
Anybody with you?
No.
I'm alone.
Well, you better tell me quick what you're doing out here.
Same as you.
Except for the stealing gold part.
Man, we ain't stealing nothing.
We're just trying to-
Look, I just saw people sneaking out. I saw the packs.
I needed to get out of that place.
So I figured I'd join them.
I can help you.
I'm as strong as any man here.
All right, take it easy.
We can't keep talking. We have to move.
Who asked you? I'm in charge.
It's none of my business, whatever you're doing,
whatever you took.
But I'm not going back.
Okay, but just leave her here. She can't come with us.
I might get caught if I go back.
Got him.
Let's go.
Got him.
No, that's it. The
f*****g silence is worse than these goddamn packs.
How about it, Pops?
You got any stories about the
good old days?
Really? Oh, wow. That's
interesting. See, I didn't know that.
That's fascinating. That is very
fascinating. You should tell us more about that. You know what, Singh?
I would even
listen to one of your lectures on the,
what's it called, the history of coolie labor-
Uh-huh. Maybe later
... or the evils of capitalism.
No, you know what, Singh? Hey.
What?
You should tell these boys
how you got arrested.
Uh-huh.
It's a good story. Singh here, he was arrested for being a socialist.
Yeah. Accurate as always. Yep.
F**k.
Why you ain't talking? Come on, Singh.
Come on, Singh. Come on.
Let's hear
it.
First of all, Rankin, you can't be arrested
for being a socialist.
Yeah, you can.
No, no.
I was convicted for resisting arrest.
I was leading a protest with the Unemployed Council.
People got riled up.
Police came in to shut us down, and then one thing leads to
another.
Got a little extra special attention, though, for the color of my skin.
Look, Singh was arrested for being red
and brown.
Yeah.
Can't blame him. I wouldn't have minded if they f*****g shipped you all out.
Oh, God.
Mouthing off to cops. Whoa. Hey. We got a real outlaw on our
hands, ladies and gentlemen. We got a real
outlaw.
Seriously, how did you get so f*****g red?
You're so genuinely interested. How about I quote you a couple of fitting
aphorisms?
No, no one wants to hear that s**t, Singh.
No, hey, it might enlighten you. Because a social order which
allows one man who does absolutely
nothing useful- ... to amass a fortune whilst
millions toil every day for a pittance is no
basis for civilization.
I am for socialism because I am for humanity.
You better watch your mouth, boy.
Yeah, shut up, Singh.
Won't listen to me, but you'll
listen to a man with a gun in his hand now, won't you?
Come on.
The old miners who built these knew their business, I tell you.
They transport
equipment and animals and-
God damn.
You all right?
I thought I was done.
My balls went up in my stomach.
Yeah, it'll hold him, man. But not carrying these packs.
Almost there.
One.
You got it?
Nice.
All right.
All right, I got it. Ready?
I'm ready.
All right.
Come on, Singh.
One,
Good catch.
Help!
All right. Here.
Rank, it's coming.
We got two left.
S**t.
All right.
One,
two,
three.
Got it?
Murphy,
if you drop one, you might as well go over with it, because we'll all be
f****d.
Yeah, that should buck him up.
Shut your hole.
Murph? Come on, Murphy. F**k. Okay.
Okay.
Watch your foot.
Good. Pick that up.
All right.
Last one. Here it comes, Murph.
No, hold on.
S**t.
Ah!
S**t.
Jesus f*****g Christ.
F**k. You all right?
Are you kidding me?
What is wrong with you?
Sorry.
All right.
That's it?
That's it.
Yeah.
You're right.
That was easy.
This'll do.
Put them bags right here.
Anna,
get to cooking, girl.
I'm getting water.
You want some help?
Nope.
I said I don't need any help.
Yeah, I can see that.
Don't let him catch you with that knife.
They won't.
Be careful. Some of these plants are poisonous.
Amos.
Goddamn.
What the f**k?
What the f**k do you want?
Out here,
people mind their business,
but they'll share a meal if they got one.
Smells good.
You should've made a noise or something.
I did,
but you all didn't hear me.
On my way back down,
saw the fire,
smelled that cooking.
Wouldn't have brought any liquor with you?
Been a while since I drank nothing but creek water.
Don't get company out here much.
There's a few old trappers around,
loggers,
miners.
A place for miners mostly.
Hey,
you got both kind of I***n.
Imagine that.
We ain't trying to camp too close to you.
Be gone in the morning.
Don't mind.
Anybody out here knows whose claim's whose.
If they don't,
they learn.
So you live out here all alone, huh?
Well,
sometimes.
Been all over these mountains, know every last piece.
I like this area here the best, though.
Plenty game.
And plenty gold if you know how to get it.
Man,
them packs look heavy.
Y'all going travel light, do you?
Well, we got a long hike tomorrow,
so we best be-
You headed downriver?
Nope.
Where you headed then?
There ain't but a couple ways to go. I could show you.
Hey, now.
Hold on, hold on.
You had your meal.
Move on out.
See you again, you're a dead man.
Okay.
All right.
Easy.
Easy there, big fella.
I'm on my way.
Yeah.
Look, we don't know how many is with him.
We're slow,
we're easy to follow.
I say we cross this river, cover our tracks.
Yeah, well, I'd feel better if we just followed the goddamn I***n.
Yeah. So would I, but he's not stupid. All right?
Listen to me, Amos, he knew.
What are you,
a f*****g coward?
There's a difference between cowardice and common sense.
You said yourself these old miners will live half a year off some tailings.
What do you think they would do for what we're carrying?
I ain't worried.
Yeah, well, you should be.
Come on, move.
Maybe some loggers
freeing up a jam
Oh, s**t.
Let's go.
Move your a*s. Murphy!
Move that thing. Let's go.
Come on, get in.
Untie yourself.
Get untied. I got you.
Murph!
Nice.
Hey, watch that pack!
Murph!
Oh,
shoot.
Murphy!
Help! Murph.
All right. Hold on. Give me your hand. Where's the rope?
To the front.
I got
you.
Amos! The pack!
He's here. Keep pushing.
He's
here.
S**t, Murph. You okay?
Yeah.
Thought we lost you.
Hey,
Murphy,
I-
Hey, Murphy. Hey.
I'm sorry, man. I can't swim.
It's okay.
I can't swim.
Hey, come on, one more!
Well,
you really put it on me, huh, old man?
I mean, that was an a*s whooping.
I can't remember the last time I got beat like that.
Kind of fun.
I used to fight every day
in juvie.
I kind of miss it,
but
them places,
they're tough.
Real tough.
I wouldn't want to be there nowadays.
That looks like it hurts.
Amos,
do you still have those wire
cutters?
Jesus, Murphy.
Might have to cut that finger off.
Okay, hold still now. This will hurt.
Now you can keep the finger and the ring.
Thank you.
That's twice.
Today.
Anna, quit nursing and cook something up.
Yeah,
I'm hungry.
We can't have a fire.
What?
I wouldn't make a fire.
Oh.
You're still scared about that little old miner?
Yeah, I am.
I crossed your stupid river already for no goddamn reason.
I've been soaked all day,
so
I'm making a fire.
No, I wouldn't do it.
You know what, Murphy?
If you're so f*****g smart,
what are you doing out here?
You're just some old convict
who's got a broken hand,
and you don't know s**t about s**t.
Come on, Big Country. I told my story, Singh told his.
Why don't you tell everyone how you found yourself carrying gold in the f*****g
wilderness?
Tell them how you hung that judge.
We ain't playing baseball tomorrow.
Rankin, I didn't hang a judge. Let it rest.
I think it's a good story.
Go ahead, Olson. Let's hear it.
I didn't almost hang him, but
I did almost get hung.
What happened?
It was a judge who kept foreclosing farm
mortgages on Scandinavian families like he
enjoyed it.
And other judges would find a way to avoid it, but not
this one. Took our farm along with the others,
and we had no way to stop it, really.
When you take away a man's
ability to feed his family, he gets desperate,
and a desperate man, that's a violent man.
So
a group of us all went down to his court and
dragged him outside, had a rope around his neck, and started hanging him.
Most folks thought he deserved it.
Didn't get that far, though.
Telling you, you two better be careful he don't make a play on you.
Carry that gold off by himself back to his uncle's dirt farm.
Rankin, you might just be the most annoying man I ever met.
You know that?
You told it better last time.
How about you, Ltender?
All the gold in them packs, how much you think it's worth?
I'd say it's about
none of your f*****g business.
I mean,
ain't you two just a
little worried?
About what?
That we get the jump on you and take it?
You spend as much time in the PPB as I did,
you don't worry about little two-bit criminals like you.
I reckon it's worth about $100,000.
Wow.
Of course,
once Roosevelt collects all that gold in America over the next
couple weeks, well, then it's going to be worth whatever he
says it's worth.
Franklin f*****g Roosevelt and his Jew bankers
Uh-huh.
Yeah, and whoever has that gold
or could speculate on it, well,
he stands to make a whole lot of bread.
All for doing nothing because, well, that's the American way.
Shut up.
Yeah, shut up, Singh.
What you know about it?
It's in the newspaper, Rankin.
All right? I read. Debs,
Darrow,
Payne.
Bunch of b******t.
Hey. Hey, wake up. Wake up.
Murph, I think we got a problem. There's boats down there, tied up on the bank.
They're empty.
How many?
Two.
Let's go. Everybody up.
Packs on.
Hey, them boats could've just been there.
No.
It's him.
Good.
If it is him,
then him and his buddy's about to be dead.
No. We are about to be dead. If there are two boats, that means more than two
men. We're sitting in a shooting gallery right here. Singh.
Yeah.
Right back from where you came. Lt. go with him.
No.
Why are we going to the river?
Because we're taking their boats.
Go, go, go.
I got you. I got you.
Get in the
boat.
Stay
down.
Stay down.
Oh,
I'm
hit.
All right, pal. Now, I got to move you over. I got to see the back.
I got to see if it came out. Yeah, I got to do it.
I got to see the other side. All right. All right, good, it came out.
All right.
Okay, wow. All right. Came out the other side.
Yeah.
That's good. All right. Now I got to make a tourniquet.
It just slipped up for a second. Here we go.
Okay.
It's all right?
Yeah. Count to three. One.
We're going to have to take a look at your back, too.
Why did we stop?
How you doing, big boy? You going to be able to walk?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's fine.
Hey. Listen to me.
What are you going to do when you get out?
I'm going to kiss my wife and my boys.
Yeah. How many boys do you have?
Two, sir.
You miss them?
Yeah.
I miss my daughter.
You got a daughter?
Yeah,
I do.
She'll be glad to see you, Murphy.
She with her mama?
She's at a
home.
A school.
That's why I
write her every day, just to
let her know I'm thinking about her.
Look at me.
You're going to be fine. Okay?
Okay.
I might get you a cane for Christmas, but you're going to be fine.
Get them packs up here.
All right, let's unload.
Yeah, you stay down.
Here, I start?
Okay.
O*, f**k.
Hey.
I got you some water, all right?
Okay.
It's all right.
I'll sit with you, okay?
Give me a hand.
Yeah.
The shotgun pellets found you,
but he was pretty far away, so
it's not too bad.
Yeah.
Broke the skin in a few places.
Take this.
Just
rub it on good and let it sit.
What's it do?
It's for infection.
Like this?
Yes.
What you said about your daughter today,
I was all alone in a school growing up, too.
It was like a military school.
They were teaching me how to be a servant in Anglo homes.
Their motto was,
"Kill the Indian. Save the
man."
Didn't interest me much, so
I ran away.
Did they?
What?
Kill the Indian, I mean.
They didn't kill anything in me.
They didn't save anything either.
I think I saw something last night.
I couldn't sleep, and I just looked up, and it was right next to him,
like they were choking him or smothering
him or something.
Could you tell for sure?
I couldn't see for sure, but it didn't look right.
No.
All I know
is that we're going to have to kill him today
before we end up like him.
Okay.
We're not doing that.
If anybody tries,
you won't have to worry about Amos and LaTender, because I'll kill you.
Amos?
Yeah?
You see anything
or notice anything last night before Olson died?
Well, yeah.
I heard him call out.
I went over to check up on him.
He was in rough shape.
Looked like he couldn't breathe. He was trying to say something.
I leaned down, got close to him,
and then he got still again.
I just let him be and prayed he was going to be all right.
All right.
Drop me here.
Taggart should be here by dawn.
F**k.
We made it, huh?
F**k.
We'll see.
Whoa!
Damn, that's good.
Woo-hoo!
That whiskey's fine. Whoa!
Well, it should be. It was Taggart's.
Is that right?
Here's to George Taggart.
A more equitable distribution of goods.
Mm.
Ooh.
Why don't you come home with me tomorrow?
You can cook.
I'll provide for you.
You'd like that, huh?
What
you think, girl?
Yeah.
I think men who talk big usually ain't big.
Let me flip Tagg, boys.
Daddy? Daddy?
Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy? Daddy!
You're f****d now.
Look at you.
You ain't worth s**t.
Okay.
We're
okay.
Hey. Hey, what's the plan?
Huh? You ain't getting your kid back if you're f*****g dead.
I told you it was a dirty deal. Hey, we need to get the
gold, and we need to move, yeah? He said they were going to kill us,
and I ain't dying in these woods. Come on, babe. Come on. What's the plan?
Please.
Come on.
What are we doing? Here we go. Here we go.
Hey,
wake up.
Amos,
get up.
Goddamn.
Where is everybody, huh?
Hey.
Come on, wake up. Get up.
Get up and load them packs on the truck now. Move it. Move!
Sir. Sir. Sir.
Get moving, come on.
Amos,
where is everybody?
S**t. Where's Tanner?
What?
What the f**k, Amos? You're asking me, huh?
Get the packs on the goddamn truck.
If this doesn't go right,
you get back down in that gulch and you follow it upriver.
I'm pretty sure it crosses that same access road that you just drove up on.
All right? But don't leave too early. You got that? Do not leave too early.
They're not going to hang around long with all that gold, but they're going to be
looking for you.
All right. Just stay in the woods till after dark.
You shut your mouth. You hear me?
Come on, pick it up.
I'm going. I'm going.
You a smart boy?
Move. You want to get smart with me, huh?
That's all the bags.
Hey, Tagger.
Yeah?
You said that walk was going to be hard.
Yeah.
We got here early.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, Murphy, you're the man for the job.
Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. Really do.
Say, where is everybody?
I don't know.
Lieutenant, he's taking a s**t. You know him, he's
going to be a while. But
he was saying, I mean, I don't know what you think,
but he was saying
Maybe we deserve a bonus.
You know what? I don't know how you feel about that.
Sure. Let's talk about that.
Murphy, you hold it right there.
Oh, s**t.
Get down! All right. When I move, you go.
Okay. Go, go, go!
Taggart, what the hell?
Taggart.
S**t.
F**k.
Come
on. Come on. Come on.
Oh, s**t.
All
right.
All right,
beautiful.
Yeah. Come on.
I got you now. I got you now. I got you. Come on. Come on.
Come on, baby. Come on. Come
on.
Come
on.
S**t.
Murphy.
Glancy.
Help myself?
Looks like you deserve it.
I thought things were going to get rough out there. You okay, son?
Done great.
Well, I told Taggart you'd get the job done. Where is he?
He's not coming.
Let's go inside.
Talk business.
Get you something stronger to drink
Y'all want that drink?
We're not here for hospitality.
What about you, missy? You want a drink?
No.
Whatever y'all need,
what's mine is yours.
After all,
we're all on the same team.
This was Taggart's pistol.
That one there belonged to Amos.
It's the same model you carry.
Now, I don't know what team you all play for,
but it sure as hell ain't mine.
Now, I don't know what happened out there,
but if that's what I think it is,
y'all better listen to me,
and listen to me good.
That there is stolen government gold.
You don't want to be tied to it.
And you don't want to be tied to no murder neither.
So you leave it here.
We'll lock it in the office overnight, and tomorrow I'll get it to where it's
going.
Then I will sign your papers,
arrange your transportation out of here,
and y'all be free men.
That was the deal.
Can't you see it?
You got a bad hand, Clancy.
No, he's right.
He's right.
We don't want to be tied to it,
but the only one who can tie us to it is you.
Every other man who saw us come in and out of that mine is dead, and nobody's gonna
find them. We made sure of that.
Of course, they're missing, and the gold's missing. That's suspicious.
Yeah.
A good cop,
he would track this gold down till it was safe in some
government vault somewhere,
and he'd bring those thieves to justice.
But a
bad cop,
he might want that gold to just
disappear, along with the mystery of what happened to Taggart and the boys.
You know what your friend Taggart said to me right before he died?
He asked me
if I wanted your share of the gold.
He didn't get it.
I don't want your share.
I want
my daughter.
So
here's the procedure.
Rankin,
Anna,
Sink,
Olson's family,
me,
and you.
We're gonna split the gold
even,
because when I leave here, I don't want to be worried about you, and I know you
don't want to be worried about me.
So you sign those papers,
and you'll get your gold,
and then
I will go get
my daughter.
Oh, yeah.
One more thing.
Do you have the registration for that Ford '18?
I like that car.
You
ready?
I've been over these papers 100 times.
Yeah. I'm ready.
Don't worry.
Mrs. Acres?
Mr. Murphy?
I told you.
I had never been caught,
and I ain't never going to be caught.
Well, call me the breeze.
I keep blowing down the road.
Well now, they call me the breeze.
I keep blowing down the road.
I ain't got me nobody.
I don't care if you ain't no lone.
Ain't no change in the weather. Coming up on your back. You see him?
Ain't no changes in me. All
right, let's lose him. Well,
ain't no change in the weather.
Ain't no changes in me.
And I ain't hiding from nobody.
Nobody's hiding from me.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
Well,
I got that green light, baby.
I got to keep moving on.
Well, I got that green light, baby.
I got to keep moving on.
Well, I might go out to California.
I might go down to Georgia. I don't know.
Well now, they
call me the breeze.
I keep blowing down the road.
Well now, they call me the breeze.
I keep blowing down the road.
I ain't got me nobody.
I don't care if you ain't no lone.
Ooh.
Mr. Breeze.