1 00:00:02,079 --> 00:00:06,583 * MTV 2 00:00:06,617 --> 00:00:09,620 * dramatic music 3 00:00:09,653 --> 00:00:12,289 Come on out, Webb! Law won't ever stop! 4 00:00:15,326 --> 00:00:18,429 Excuse me, you need to get to the back of the line. 5 00:00:18,462 --> 00:00:19,963 Sally. 6 00:00:19,996 --> 00:00:21,298 Shouldn't talk to my sister like that. 7 00:00:21,332 --> 00:00:22,566 [Sally] You're awfully tough when it's 8 00:00:22,599 --> 00:00:24,135 -four of y'all and two of us. -[gasps] 9 00:00:27,438 --> 00:00:29,473 [grunting] 10 00:00:29,506 --> 00:00:31,908 [Esme] Think it's okay to let them wander on their own? 11 00:00:31,942 --> 00:00:33,577 Black folks been disappearing up and down 12 00:00:33,610 --> 00:00:35,246 the Territory. 13 00:00:35,279 --> 00:00:37,448 You are to deliver the prisoner 14 00:00:37,481 --> 00:00:39,416 Jackson Cole to the Red River, 15 00:00:39,450 --> 00:00:40,684 turn him over to the Rangers. 16 00:00:40,717 --> 00:00:43,053 I ain't been home for 41 days. 17 00:00:43,086 --> 00:00:44,988 [Sherrill] You ride out tomorrow. 18 00:00:45,021 --> 00:00:47,090 [Jackson] Mighty strange, this feeling. 19 00:00:47,124 --> 00:00:48,659 Riding to my death. 20 00:00:48,692 --> 00:00:50,294 We both Negroes. 21 00:00:50,327 --> 00:00:52,296 We know the world in the same ways. 22 00:00:52,329 --> 00:00:55,466 You asked if you had the grit to be a deputy marshal. 23 00:00:55,499 --> 00:00:56,600 You don't. 24 00:00:56,633 --> 00:00:58,335 You giving up on me? 25 00:00:58,369 --> 00:01:00,404 I never give up, Billy. 26 00:01:11,114 --> 00:01:13,717 [wolf growling] 27 00:01:16,019 --> 00:01:17,521 [laughs] 28 00:01:17,554 --> 00:01:18,955 [growling] 29 00:01:18,989 --> 00:01:21,457 Where you taking that creature? 30 00:01:22,259 --> 00:01:25,028 Reintroducing the beast to a rightful home. 31 00:01:25,061 --> 00:01:28,031 No animal belong in a box. 32 00:01:28,064 --> 00:01:29,966 That is the truth. 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,035 She won't be in there long. 34 00:01:34,605 --> 00:01:36,640 [growling] 35 00:01:51,121 --> 00:01:53,257 Did you make a home for yourself? 36 00:01:53,290 --> 00:01:56,693 Marry, have a family? 37 00:01:56,727 --> 00:01:58,262 I have. 38 00:01:58,295 --> 00:02:00,731 And what would you do now to protect it? 39 00:02:00,764 --> 00:02:02,799 To hold on to it? 40 00:02:03,767 --> 00:02:05,902 I'd wager you'd kill a thousand. 41 00:02:05,936 --> 00:02:08,671 And no man would fault you. 42 00:02:08,705 --> 00:02:10,807 I surely would not. 43 00:02:10,841 --> 00:02:13,977 These badges we wear on our chest, 44 00:02:14,010 --> 00:02:15,712 made from different materials. 45 00:02:15,746 --> 00:02:17,146 Yours a tin star, 46 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:19,950 mine a star cut from a cinco peso piece. 47 00:02:19,983 --> 00:02:22,052 Just raw materials. 48 00:02:22,085 --> 00:02:23,620 But the power they give-- 49 00:02:23,654 --> 00:02:26,122 The real power lie beneath. 50 00:02:26,156 --> 00:02:27,691 In the heart. 51 00:02:27,724 --> 00:02:30,026 You honor the badge, Bass. 52 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:31,828 But even with it, a man like you 53 00:02:31,862 --> 00:02:34,765 couldn't arrest a man like me once we cross that river. 54 00:02:34,798 --> 00:02:37,033 You touch that other bank, it's a whole other law. 55 00:02:37,067 --> 00:02:39,235 I have no mind to arrest you. 56 00:02:39,270 --> 00:02:40,836 No, by those angry eyes, 57 00:02:40,871 --> 00:02:43,039 I'd reckon you'd just as soon kill me. 58 00:02:44,841 --> 00:02:46,877 My prisoner a good man. 59 00:02:48,612 --> 00:02:50,881 I trust you'll see he get a fair trial? 60 00:02:50,914 --> 00:02:53,183 Well, he's my prisoner now. 61 00:02:53,216 --> 00:02:55,218 My prisoners always get what they deserve. 62 00:02:55,252 --> 00:02:57,254 [knife unsheathing] 63 00:02:59,222 --> 00:03:01,191 This one tell you what he did? 64 00:03:03,260 --> 00:03:05,329 I know he killed a man. 65 00:03:06,330 --> 00:03:08,131 He told me why he did it. 66 00:03:08,164 --> 00:03:11,067 Might've even had just cause. 67 00:03:11,101 --> 00:03:13,870 But did he tell you how he killed old James Neblett? 68 00:03:15,372 --> 00:03:20,176 He kidnapped and rode that man blubbering and praying 69 00:03:20,210 --> 00:03:23,646 all the way from Austin to Neblett's property in Columbia. 70 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,982 Then he chained him to the one pecan tree 71 00:03:26,016 --> 00:03:27,751 Neblett hadn't burned down 72 00:03:27,784 --> 00:03:31,755 and he shot him in his blubbering, praying mouth. 73 00:03:33,056 --> 00:03:35,626 No man deserves to die that way. 74 00:03:36,427 --> 00:03:38,061 Not even a Yankee. 75 00:03:41,665 --> 00:03:45,936 But I don't need to tell you about killing Yanks. 76 00:03:47,904 --> 00:03:50,907 As I recall, you're something of an expert on the subject. 77 00:03:53,910 --> 00:03:56,347 Saddle up. 78 00:04:22,038 --> 00:04:23,874 You're in my prayers. 79 00:04:23,907 --> 00:04:26,810 Ah, don't bother the big man about me. 80 00:04:30,347 --> 00:04:32,248 We need to ride. 81 00:04:33,784 --> 00:04:36,720 Billy, bring that mule. 82 00:04:36,753 --> 00:04:39,255 We can't have this man walk all the way to Fort Worth. 83 00:04:39,289 --> 00:04:40,724 He won't. 84 00:04:40,757 --> 00:04:42,893 On that, you have my word. 85 00:04:43,860 --> 00:04:45,028 Bass. 86 00:04:45,996 --> 00:04:48,164 Where I built my ranch, 87 00:04:48,198 --> 00:04:51,868 the land is littered with ancient bones of giants. 88 00:04:51,902 --> 00:04:53,202 Monsters. 89 00:04:53,236 --> 00:04:56,139 Thigh bones as big as a man. 90 00:04:56,172 --> 00:05:00,143 Locals call 'em huesos de ángeles. 91 00:05:00,176 --> 00:05:02,413 Angel bones. 92 00:05:02,446 --> 00:05:05,682 But I know a monster when I see one, Bass Reeves. 93 00:05:08,218 --> 00:05:10,120 [Joshua] Moving out! 94 00:05:15,291 --> 00:05:17,293 Come pay me a visit one day. 95 00:05:19,062 --> 00:05:21,297 You'll feel right at home. 96 00:05:26,269 --> 00:05:28,772 * ominous music 97 00:05:28,805 --> 00:05:30,841 *** 98 00:05:49,860 --> 00:05:51,827 * soaring, triumphant music 99 00:05:51,862 --> 00:05:53,897 *** 100 00:06:22,593 --> 00:06:24,761 *** 101 00:06:53,557 --> 00:06:55,526 * intriguing music 102 00:06:55,559 --> 00:06:57,794 *** 103 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,321 [sniffs] 104 00:07:26,322 --> 00:07:27,958 [spits] 105 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:38,902 Sara? 106 00:07:40,937 --> 00:07:42,939 It's Bass. 107 00:07:42,973 --> 00:07:45,508 Place don't smell right. 108 00:08:05,095 --> 00:08:07,063 You ride ahead. I'll catch up. 109 00:08:07,097 --> 00:08:08,899 Come on. 110 00:08:08,932 --> 00:08:10,400 [clicks tongue] 111 00:08:32,688 --> 00:08:34,924 *** 112 00:08:54,277 --> 00:08:57,113 How much longer we gonna ride, Bass? 113 00:08:57,147 --> 00:08:59,449 These horses need rest. 114 00:08:59,482 --> 00:09:01,551 Shoot, we need to rest. 115 00:09:09,425 --> 00:09:10,661 I'm tired. 116 00:09:10,694 --> 00:09:12,528 We're all tired. 117 00:09:12,562 --> 00:09:14,130 We've been riding straight for days. 118 00:09:14,164 --> 00:09:16,700 Look at Pistol. 119 00:09:16,733 --> 00:09:18,635 Hardly hold his head up. 120 00:09:18,669 --> 00:09:21,271 Tell you what. 121 00:09:21,304 --> 00:09:22,973 We'll stop the night in Checotah 122 00:09:23,006 --> 00:09:25,308 if you stop flapping your gums till we get there. 123 00:09:28,178 --> 00:09:29,545 [Bass clicks tongue] 124 00:09:41,091 --> 00:09:43,126 [water splashing] 125 00:09:49,766 --> 00:09:51,702 You took your time. 126 00:09:51,735 --> 00:09:54,771 Sally, I'm leaving. 127 00:09:54,805 --> 00:09:57,540 I should be gone already. 128 00:09:57,573 --> 00:09:59,109 What are you talking about? 129 00:09:59,142 --> 00:10:00,744 I can't stay here. They'll have my neck. 130 00:10:00,777 --> 00:10:03,579 They was just kids being stupid. 131 00:10:03,613 --> 00:10:05,348 You got nothing to worry about. 132 00:10:05,381 --> 00:10:08,418 Maybe you don't, but my last name ain't Reeves. 133 00:10:11,487 --> 00:10:13,724 Arthur Mayberry, I never took you for no chicken. 134 00:10:13,757 --> 00:10:16,492 And I never took you for a fool. 135 00:10:17,828 --> 00:10:20,463 You don't understand. 136 00:10:20,496 --> 00:10:22,999 I'm asking you to come with me. 137 00:10:24,567 --> 00:10:27,170 We can visit Paris and... 138 00:10:27,203 --> 00:10:29,305 you can write poems by the "Seene." 139 00:10:29,339 --> 00:10:31,174 Seine. 140 00:10:33,343 --> 00:10:35,078 And Reeves don't run. 141 00:10:41,284 --> 00:10:43,219 I'll wait there for you. 142 00:10:44,454 --> 00:10:46,289 By the Seine. 143 00:10:47,457 --> 00:10:50,360 I'll send you a poem every day. 144 00:10:50,393 --> 00:10:52,362 * dramatic music 145 00:10:52,395 --> 00:10:55,198 *** 146 00:11:09,079 --> 00:11:11,147 [overlapping chatter] 147 00:11:12,916 --> 00:11:15,085 [grunting] 148 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:20,924 * dramatic music 149 00:11:20,957 --> 00:11:22,993 *** 150 00:11:37,273 --> 00:11:40,010 [jaunty piano music playing] 151 00:11:40,043 --> 00:11:42,612 [lively chatter] 152 00:11:44,915 --> 00:11:46,950 [chatter stops] 153 00:11:56,226 --> 00:11:59,262 We don't want any trouble here tonight, Deputy. 154 00:11:59,295 --> 00:12:01,597 Just payday in Checotah. 155 00:12:02,665 --> 00:12:04,034 Whiskey. 156 00:12:06,169 --> 00:12:08,704 [bottle clinks] 157 00:12:08,738 --> 00:12:10,907 [liquor pouring] 158 00:12:26,756 --> 00:12:28,791 [indistinct chatter] 159 00:12:33,363 --> 00:12:35,165 [door opens] 160 00:12:41,237 --> 00:12:43,706 [Calista] You too shy to go inside? 161 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:48,811 I'm just waiting for you to come out. 162 00:12:48,845 --> 00:12:51,781 I see you got yourself into some trouble. 163 00:12:51,814 --> 00:12:53,449 All in a day's work. 164 00:12:53,483 --> 00:12:54,918 Mm. 165 00:12:54,951 --> 00:12:57,287 Bought this for you in Fort Smith. 166 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,055 Thought you might not get the latest out here. 167 00:12:59,089 --> 00:13:01,691 Thank you, Billy Crow. 168 00:13:01,724 --> 00:13:04,060 You're welcome. 169 00:13:10,166 --> 00:13:11,701 [Braxton laughs] 170 00:13:11,734 --> 00:13:14,337 [Braxton] My feet shot out of them stirrups 171 00:13:14,370 --> 00:13:18,041 and I flew off of that horse like I'd been plugged. 172 00:13:18,074 --> 00:13:19,809 Damn nearly was. 173 00:13:19,842 --> 00:13:21,777 I landed upright in time 174 00:13:21,811 --> 00:13:25,181 to hear the report of a Winchester. 175 00:13:25,215 --> 00:13:27,951 I dove into that sagebrush and when I came up, 176 00:13:27,984 --> 00:13:32,022 I saw that man hoofing it faster than a stuck deer. 177 00:13:33,356 --> 00:13:34,857 Whoa. 178 00:13:35,926 --> 00:13:37,227 Mind you don't fall, partner. 179 00:13:38,228 --> 00:13:39,930 Mind you keep your voice down 180 00:13:39,963 --> 00:13:42,698 while the rest of us try to think. 181 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:46,436 [laughing] Barkeep, 182 00:13:46,469 --> 00:13:49,139 I reckon my friend here has had his fill. 183 00:13:49,172 --> 00:13:51,007 Barkeep. 184 00:13:51,774 --> 00:13:55,745 I reckon we all had enough of this cowboy's ballyhoo. 185 00:13:57,780 --> 00:13:59,515 I reckon people on the far side of the Territory 186 00:13:59,549 --> 00:14:01,284 about had enough of it, too. 187 00:14:01,317 --> 00:14:03,153 [chuckles] 188 00:14:04,354 --> 00:14:06,256 You got too many teeth. 189 00:14:06,289 --> 00:14:07,757 Outside, fellas. 190 00:14:07,790 --> 00:14:09,926 You sure you want to do this? 191 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,462 Sure am. 192 00:14:12,495 --> 00:14:15,431 Then I guess we'd better be getting on with it, then. 193 00:14:22,172 --> 00:14:24,507 Deputy Marshal Reeves. 194 00:14:26,309 --> 00:14:28,278 Braxton Sawyer, Texas Ranger. 195 00:14:28,311 --> 00:14:30,947 I'm mighty honored to meet you, sir. 196 00:14:32,282 --> 00:14:34,317 Let me buy you a drink. 197 00:14:35,885 --> 00:14:37,487 [fireworks popping] 198 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,922 [cheering and whooping] 199 00:14:41,491 --> 00:14:45,861 My daddy had a good outfit not far off the Shawnee Trail. 200 00:14:45,895 --> 00:14:49,232 I loved riding that range with him, moving herd. 201 00:14:49,265 --> 00:14:52,435 We got into some trouble after the war 202 00:14:52,468 --> 00:14:55,238 when drovers started bringing their longhorns up. 203 00:14:55,271 --> 00:14:57,440 My daddy already lost one herd 204 00:14:57,473 --> 00:15:00,010 and he wasn't about to do it again. 205 00:15:00,043 --> 00:15:03,479 So we mounted up and we turned those longhorns 206 00:15:03,513 --> 00:15:06,349 and their cowboys right around. 207 00:15:08,218 --> 00:15:11,187 But, you know, not without a scrap. 208 00:15:11,221 --> 00:15:12,888 Daddy got lead in the belly 209 00:15:12,922 --> 00:15:15,458 and was dead before the marshals showed up. 210 00:15:15,491 --> 00:15:17,427 I mean, they would've hung my daddy anyway, 211 00:15:17,460 --> 00:15:20,230 if he was still alive to hang. 212 00:15:20,263 --> 00:15:21,998 And... 213 00:15:22,032 --> 00:15:26,002 well, for assault with intent to kill, 214 00:15:26,036 --> 00:15:30,306 they gave me 18 months at the Detroit House of Corrections. 215 00:15:31,874 --> 00:15:34,477 That was my first time out of the Territory. 216 00:15:34,510 --> 00:15:37,247 I'm mighty glad you came back. 217 00:15:38,548 --> 00:15:40,016 Well... 218 00:15:41,384 --> 00:15:43,419 I guess this is home. 219 00:15:46,389 --> 00:15:47,923 [chuckles] 220 00:15:47,957 --> 00:15:50,593 [Bass] Esau Pierce tell you to follow me? 221 00:15:50,626 --> 00:15:53,096 [Braxton] I was holding forth gone three hours 222 00:15:53,129 --> 00:15:55,431 before you brought your storm cloud in here. 223 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:58,968 I didn't follow you. 224 00:16:01,071 --> 00:16:02,572 And who the hell is Pierce? 225 00:16:02,605 --> 00:16:06,176 Man from my past. 226 00:16:08,978 --> 00:16:11,013 What are you doing here, Bass? 227 00:16:14,584 --> 00:16:18,154 Sometime I get to wondering why a man like me 228 00:16:18,188 --> 00:16:20,856 putting folk in manacles. 229 00:16:25,295 --> 00:16:27,263 This thing... 230 00:16:27,297 --> 00:16:31,067 weigh just as much as the chain. 231 00:16:34,704 --> 00:16:39,509 Someone once told me there ain't no law in the Territory. 232 00:16:41,644 --> 00:16:45,181 Starting to think there ain't no God either. 233 00:16:45,215 --> 00:16:46,882 Hmm. 234 00:16:49,018 --> 00:16:51,421 Don't despair, amigo. 235 00:16:52,622 --> 00:16:54,524 -God is present. -[taps on table] 236 00:16:56,058 --> 00:16:58,328 And He knows your good work. 237 00:17:02,532 --> 00:17:04,300 Many miles back to Austin, 238 00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:07,137 and I'd hate to ride all of them sober. 239 00:17:08,170 --> 00:17:09,505 [clears throat] 240 00:17:10,673 --> 00:17:12,641 * wistful music 241 00:17:12,675 --> 00:17:14,910 *** 242 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,069 You gonna stand there all night? 243 00:17:40,102 --> 00:17:42,071 * wistful music 244 00:17:42,104 --> 00:17:44,140 *** 245 00:17:47,610 --> 00:17:49,679 [chuckles softly] 246 00:17:49,712 --> 00:17:50,980 That's all right. Go ahead. 247 00:17:51,013 --> 00:17:53,048 [fireworks popping outside] 248 00:18:13,803 --> 00:18:15,838 Are you going to be a baby about this? 249 00:18:15,871 --> 00:18:17,807 No. 250 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,809 Well, then stop your squirming. 251 00:18:29,185 --> 00:18:31,587 You're the most glorious creature to grace this earth. 252 00:18:31,621 --> 00:18:32,655 [winces] 253 00:18:34,657 --> 00:18:37,593 -[sighs] -It burns. 254 00:18:37,627 --> 00:18:40,696 I thought you said you weren't gonna be a baby. 255 00:18:40,730 --> 00:18:43,733 Just didn't think you were going to hurt me so bad. 256 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:48,304 Hurt a strapping, young raider like you? 257 00:18:48,338 --> 00:18:51,040 Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet. 258 00:19:09,859 --> 00:19:11,894 Marry me, Calista. 259 00:19:12,695 --> 00:19:15,798 You can't afford the ring it'll take to hitch me. 260 00:19:20,002 --> 00:19:22,305 [panting quietly] 261 00:19:35,718 --> 00:19:37,687 [urinating] 262 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,154 [footfalls approaching] 263 00:19:44,059 --> 00:19:46,296 This the one who done Webb. 264 00:19:48,197 --> 00:19:50,666 [stops urinating] 265 00:20:06,449 --> 00:20:08,017 -[thud] -[grunts] 266 00:20:11,987 --> 00:20:13,823 [grunting] 267 00:20:13,856 --> 00:20:15,157 [Bass coughs] 268 00:20:16,125 --> 00:20:17,693 [grunts] 269 00:20:19,161 --> 00:20:20,129 [groans] 270 00:20:20,162 --> 00:20:22,231 [spits, coughs] 271 00:20:24,934 --> 00:20:26,769 Where were you... 272 00:20:26,802 --> 00:20:30,272 two hours ago when I was spoiling for a fight, hmm? 273 00:20:30,306 --> 00:20:33,809 [grunting] 274 00:20:47,323 --> 00:20:50,092 -[grunting continues] -[women screaming] 275 00:21:02,204 --> 00:21:03,473 That bounty on you? 276 00:21:03,506 --> 00:21:04,840 [gun clicks] 277 00:21:09,078 --> 00:21:12,682 Pays the same dead... 278 00:21:14,249 --> 00:21:15,951 ...or alive. 279 00:21:27,997 --> 00:21:28,964 [dry fires] 280 00:21:28,998 --> 00:21:30,299 [groans] 281 00:21:32,334 --> 00:21:33,436 Give it a spin. 282 00:21:33,469 --> 00:21:34,770 -[chuckles] -[cylinder spins] 283 00:21:38,941 --> 00:21:40,175 Adios, Reeves. 284 00:21:40,209 --> 00:21:41,176 [dry fires] 285 00:21:41,210 --> 00:21:42,445 [groans] 286 00:21:42,478 --> 00:21:43,779 Aw. 287 00:21:45,515 --> 00:21:47,149 [cylinder spins] 288 00:21:49,118 --> 00:21:50,386 [Trey] Bullet's in the chamber. 289 00:21:50,420 --> 00:21:52,021 I can feel it. 290 00:21:52,054 --> 00:21:54,123 Best not miss, then. 291 00:21:58,828 --> 00:22:00,262 [gunshot] 292 00:22:00,295 --> 00:22:01,531 [thuds] 293 00:22:01,564 --> 00:22:03,766 [Moose] Come on. Come on, come on. 294 00:22:04,567 --> 00:22:06,769 Now that's how you aim, Billy Crow! 295 00:22:06,802 --> 00:22:09,338 -Let's get you some help. -No. 296 00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:10,973 [groaning] 297 00:22:12,475 --> 00:22:14,844 Let's get them sons of bitches. 298 00:22:14,877 --> 00:22:17,312 -[fireworks popping] -[lively chatter] 299 00:22:26,221 --> 00:22:27,990 [laughs] 300 00:22:33,062 --> 00:22:36,098 [townsfolk whooping and cheering] 301 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,035 There. 302 00:22:40,069 --> 00:22:42,337 * suspenseful music 303 00:22:43,338 --> 00:22:46,476 [lively chatter] 304 00:22:50,112 --> 00:22:51,947 -[fireworks pop] -[gunshot] 305 00:22:51,981 --> 00:22:53,449 -Whoa! -[screaming] 306 00:23:23,012 --> 00:23:25,047 *** 307 00:23:42,197 --> 00:23:44,099 [grunts] 308 00:23:49,438 --> 00:23:51,106 [grunting] 309 00:23:53,676 --> 00:23:55,210 [Dora] Hurry up in there. 310 00:23:55,244 --> 00:23:58,413 Don't need a saddle, just get the horses. 311 00:23:58,447 --> 00:24:00,449 [both grunting] 312 00:24:09,925 --> 00:24:11,126 [Moose] What is it? 313 00:24:16,966 --> 00:24:18,968 [groaning] 314 00:24:41,356 --> 00:24:43,392 *** 315 00:24:50,032 --> 00:24:52,234 [gun cocks] 316 00:24:55,070 --> 00:24:56,972 Don't. 317 00:24:57,006 --> 00:24:59,041 [crowd chatter] 318 00:25:06,181 --> 00:25:08,217 *** 319 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,269 Easy, fellas. 320 00:25:27,302 --> 00:25:28,337 [gun cocks] 321 00:25:53,228 --> 00:25:55,898 [chuckles] 322 00:25:57,299 --> 00:25:59,568 Good work, Billy Crow. 323 00:26:00,970 --> 00:26:03,105 * melancholy music 324 00:26:03,138 --> 00:26:05,107 *** 325 00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:07,677 Have a nice time earlier? 326 00:26:08,644 --> 00:26:10,145 She said I can't afford the ring. 327 00:26:10,179 --> 00:26:11,513 [sniffles] 328 00:26:11,546 --> 00:26:13,182 But she did bring me my apparel. 329 00:26:13,215 --> 00:26:15,117 Well, that's something. 330 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,168 [grunts] 331 00:26:43,212 --> 00:26:45,681 So glad y'all could make it. 332 00:26:49,852 --> 00:26:52,621 I think I was bleeding before I realized 333 00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:55,324 Pearl Lee's real name was Pearla Lee. 334 00:26:55,357 --> 00:26:56,826 -Pearla Lee. -[laughs] 335 00:26:56,859 --> 00:26:58,293 [laughter] 336 00:26:58,327 --> 00:26:59,962 God rest her soul. 337 00:27:02,965 --> 00:27:06,101 "I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay 338 00:27:06,135 --> 00:27:09,805 Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey." 339 00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:13,042 [both] "And I heard the captive plead in vain 340 00:27:13,075 --> 00:27:16,111 As they bound afresh his galling chain." 341 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,816 Frances Harper is a brilliant role model. 342 00:27:20,850 --> 00:27:23,719 It is young women like you, Sally, that give me hope. 343 00:27:26,221 --> 00:27:28,257 *** 344 00:27:54,249 --> 00:27:56,285 *** 345 00:28:00,355 --> 00:28:03,325 [kids chattering indistinctly] 346 00:28:15,437 --> 00:28:17,773 Bennie. 347 00:28:17,807 --> 00:28:19,842 Don't walk off like that. 348 00:28:26,348 --> 00:28:27,883 You don't scare me! 349 00:28:34,256 --> 00:28:36,158 Let's go. 350 00:28:42,197 --> 00:28:45,700 Fred Douglass consented to have his image on our next pamphlet. 351 00:28:45,734 --> 00:28:47,202 Might even write some words. 352 00:28:58,447 --> 00:29:00,382 What have they done to you? 353 00:29:00,415 --> 00:29:02,217 I'm fine. 354 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:08,891 You're sitting in my chair. 355 00:29:11,426 --> 00:29:14,029 It's so good to see you, Bass. 356 00:29:15,064 --> 00:29:18,300 My, it's been forever. 357 00:29:20,269 --> 00:29:23,338 I'd like you to meet Edwin Jones. 358 00:29:27,142 --> 00:29:28,377 Hello, Esme. 359 00:29:29,879 --> 00:29:31,313 I kept it warm for you. 360 00:29:31,346 --> 00:29:33,815 Now, Bass. You stay right there. 361 00:29:33,849 --> 00:29:36,718 No, no. My mistake, Reeves. 362 00:29:36,751 --> 00:29:39,254 Let's not get off on the wrong foot. 363 00:29:39,288 --> 00:29:41,891 As the good book says, 364 00:29:41,924 --> 00:29:46,195 "But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place 365 00:29:46,228 --> 00:29:48,998 so that when he who invited you comes, 366 00:29:49,031 --> 00:29:52,902 he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.'" 367 00:29:52,935 --> 00:29:55,104 I didn't invite you. 368 00:30:01,310 --> 00:30:04,246 We've been hearing about your adventures, Bass. 369 00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:06,715 Now we see the danger you face. 370 00:30:07,950 --> 00:30:09,518 We're all very proud of you. 371 00:30:09,551 --> 00:30:10,852 Mm-hmm. 372 00:30:12,955 --> 00:30:14,990 [Edwin] Reconstruction is dead. 373 00:30:15,024 --> 00:30:16,992 Has the world changed for the Negro 374 00:30:17,026 --> 00:30:18,827 in the United States of America? 375 00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:20,395 Yes, in many ways. 376 00:30:21,196 --> 00:30:25,034 But we need to ask, how much has changed? 377 00:30:25,067 --> 00:30:27,036 And for how many? 378 00:30:27,069 --> 00:30:29,538 Why, they will use just about 379 00:30:29,571 --> 00:30:32,507 any pretext to drive out, 380 00:30:32,541 --> 00:30:35,477 lock down, or string up the Black man. 381 00:30:35,510 --> 00:30:39,448 The Klan continues to rain terror upon us. 382 00:30:39,481 --> 00:30:42,884 We are the only ones who can keep us safe. 383 00:30:44,353 --> 00:30:47,389 Edwin and I have traveled far and wide, Bass. 384 00:30:47,422 --> 00:30:49,291 You won't believe the things we've seen. 385 00:30:49,324 --> 00:30:50,492 [Jennie] He'll believe you. 386 00:30:50,525 --> 00:30:53,428 He's seen it all himself. 387 00:30:56,365 --> 00:30:58,333 I seen some things. 388 00:30:58,367 --> 00:30:59,969 Well, you must have heard the stories 389 00:31:00,002 --> 00:31:01,903 about Black men disappearing. 390 00:31:01,937 --> 00:31:04,806 Rumors of Black men being killed for sport. 391 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:08,978 Legally, slavery is supposed to be dead. 392 00:31:09,011 --> 00:31:12,514 But in practice it is only wounded. 393 00:31:12,547 --> 00:31:16,218 We need a place where we can be safe and free. 394 00:31:17,987 --> 00:31:21,991 But let there be no doubt that we still need to fight. 395 00:31:22,757 --> 00:31:25,394 I think we're doing our fair part right here. 396 00:31:27,896 --> 00:31:31,566 Well, sure. And I-I admire that. 397 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,004 You have made a career that honors your talents 398 00:31:35,037 --> 00:31:37,372 instead of violently suppressing them. 399 00:31:38,507 --> 00:31:40,475 But tell me... 400 00:31:41,910 --> 00:31:45,080 ...why are there not more stories like yours? 401 00:31:45,114 --> 00:31:48,350 Black folks make up, what, 402 00:31:48,383 --> 00:31:51,253 ten percent of the population of Fort Smith? 403 00:31:52,554 --> 00:31:55,424 How many former slaves right here 404 00:31:55,457 --> 00:31:58,427 have had the same good fortune that you have? 405 00:32:00,562 --> 00:32:03,498 I'm sorry your wife couldn't join us. 406 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:07,869 How long you been away from home? 407 00:32:09,938 --> 00:32:12,574 Like your beautiful family, 408 00:32:12,607 --> 00:32:17,179 my wife and children make great sacrifices for the cause. 409 00:32:17,212 --> 00:32:19,514 -[Bass] Hmm. -We all must. 410 00:32:22,051 --> 00:32:26,588 Esme and Edwin were speaking about 411 00:32:26,621 --> 00:32:28,657 whole towns made up of Black folk. 412 00:32:28,690 --> 00:32:31,593 Whole counties. Whole states. 413 00:32:31,626 --> 00:32:34,129 Up Kansas way and throughout the Indian Territory 414 00:32:34,163 --> 00:32:37,299 lies a rich land of opportunity 415 00:32:37,332 --> 00:32:41,270 for industrious, caring, God-fearing Black men and women. 416 00:32:43,972 --> 00:32:47,409 Where do you expect the Indian people to go? 417 00:32:47,442 --> 00:32:49,278 Think they don't suffer? 418 00:32:49,311 --> 00:32:53,948 You see all them white folks coming up on those riverboats? 419 00:32:53,982 --> 00:32:55,517 You know where they will settle. 420 00:32:55,550 --> 00:32:57,352 Your beloved Indian Territory 421 00:32:57,386 --> 00:33:00,422 is not going to stay Indian for long. 422 00:33:00,455 --> 00:33:03,158 And our people need real protection. 423 00:33:03,192 --> 00:33:05,394 My job is to protect everyone. 424 00:33:07,129 --> 00:33:10,199 Black, red or white. 425 00:33:23,645 --> 00:33:27,382 Are you happy with what you are doing? 426 00:33:29,151 --> 00:33:32,187 I have to ask, respectfully... 427 00:33:33,355 --> 00:33:35,557 ...which master do you serve? 428 00:33:37,259 --> 00:33:41,029 Esme says old William Reeves taught you to shoot. 429 00:33:41,062 --> 00:33:43,198 George Reeves made you shoot the very men 430 00:33:43,232 --> 00:33:45,066 who were fighting for your freedom. 431 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,537 And now Judge Parker puts the names on your bullets. 432 00:33:50,139 --> 00:33:52,474 Man is lucky to have such a hired gun. 433 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:56,611 I'm the only one pulling the trigger. 434 00:33:59,013 --> 00:34:02,251 You ever felt the lash on your back? 435 00:34:02,284 --> 00:34:03,552 Hmm? 436 00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:08,222 You carry on about our experience 437 00:34:08,257 --> 00:34:11,025 like it's a set of boots we both own. 438 00:34:11,059 --> 00:34:15,329 I did not have to experience those wrongs to denounce them. 439 00:34:16,431 --> 00:34:18,733 To fight against them. 440 00:34:19,768 --> 00:34:23,605 Think hard about what you are doing. 441 00:34:26,275 --> 00:34:31,480 Ride with me, with us. 442 00:34:31,512 --> 00:34:33,347 Together... 443 00:34:33,382 --> 00:34:35,083 together we can build a place 444 00:34:35,115 --> 00:34:38,153 where everyone can live free. 445 00:34:40,322 --> 00:34:42,291 Mm. [chuckles softly] 446 00:34:44,092 --> 00:34:46,495 Is that why you were so eager to meet my husband? 447 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:51,233 [scoffs] That why you brought him here, Esme? 448 00:34:54,669 --> 00:34:59,073 We may support your vision, Mr. Jones. 449 00:34:59,107 --> 00:35:02,244 But my husband is not a face for your pamphlets. 450 00:35:02,277 --> 00:35:04,379 He ain't no show pony for you to trot around. 451 00:35:09,384 --> 00:35:12,721 I see you two have your house in order. 452 00:35:12,754 --> 00:35:15,290 I admire that. 453 00:35:16,258 --> 00:35:17,626 Even envy it. 454 00:35:19,294 --> 00:35:20,595 I apologize. 455 00:35:20,629 --> 00:35:23,532 I did not mean to overstep. 456 00:35:24,766 --> 00:35:28,370 And we do not want to overstay, do we, Esme? 457 00:35:30,439 --> 00:35:32,307 I'll see you to the door. 458 00:35:32,341 --> 00:35:35,076 * tense, dramatic music 459 00:35:35,109 --> 00:35:37,246 *** 460 00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,768 [door closes] 461 00:36:07,242 --> 00:36:10,111 [footfalls approaching] 462 00:36:17,051 --> 00:36:19,854 Shouldn't you be asleep, Sally gal? 463 00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:31,266 I'm sorry I missed the carnival. 464 00:36:36,104 --> 00:36:39,007 I guess I missed a lot. 465 00:36:41,343 --> 00:36:43,111 Forgive me? 466 00:36:43,144 --> 00:36:46,247 Maybe just this once. 467 00:36:49,951 --> 00:36:51,853 You didn't like that man, did you? 468 00:36:55,424 --> 00:36:59,361 Daddy just had a bad day. That's all. 469 00:37:02,230 --> 00:37:04,399 You and Mama okay? 470 00:37:05,767 --> 00:37:07,369 We're okay. 471 00:37:09,270 --> 00:37:11,806 You lucky you're your mama's daughter. 472 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,843 [chuckles] That's funny. 473 00:37:14,876 --> 00:37:17,078 She always say I'm my daddy's girl. 474 00:37:22,917 --> 00:37:25,153 [footfalls approaching] 475 00:37:25,186 --> 00:37:27,021 [door opening] 476 00:37:43,204 --> 00:37:45,374 [Bass grunts] 477 00:37:50,178 --> 00:37:52,180 [groans] 478 00:37:59,287 --> 00:38:00,855 Want me to fix you a bath? 479 00:38:00,889 --> 00:38:02,991 Maybe tomorrow. 480 00:38:07,396 --> 00:38:09,864 I'm sorry I had to leave. 481 00:38:13,134 --> 00:38:15,236 I should've told you sooner. 482 00:38:16,204 --> 00:38:19,374 I ain't angry that you left. 483 00:38:21,209 --> 00:38:23,945 Disappointed by the man you brought home. 484 00:38:26,147 --> 00:38:27,449 Every time you come back, 485 00:38:27,482 --> 00:38:29,384 you bring less and less of you. 486 00:38:31,386 --> 00:38:33,254 Maybe you the one that changed. 487 00:38:34,288 --> 00:38:35,757 How dare you? 488 00:38:39,193 --> 00:38:40,762 Where my husband? 489 00:38:42,864 --> 00:38:45,500 Where that light in your eyes? 490 00:38:45,534 --> 00:38:47,502 * melancholy music 491 00:38:47,536 --> 00:38:49,771 *** 492 00:38:58,379 --> 00:39:00,982 [indistinct chatter] 493 00:39:23,572 --> 00:39:26,875 Scrutinize those receipts, Mr. Reeves. 494 00:39:29,544 --> 00:39:31,946 You 50 bucks short, Florence. 495 00:39:31,980 --> 00:39:34,916 You delivered that man's boots, you earn less. 496 00:39:34,949 --> 00:39:36,384 I did not deliver boots, 497 00:39:36,417 --> 00:39:38,152 I delivered a living, breathing man 498 00:39:38,186 --> 00:39:40,188 into the hands of a Texas Ranger. 499 00:39:41,990 --> 00:39:46,795 Well, I got the telegram right here. 500 00:39:49,230 --> 00:39:52,567 "Confirmed. Texas Rangers having received 501 00:39:52,601 --> 00:39:55,269 from Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves 502 00:39:55,303 --> 00:39:59,541 at Red River the boots of one prisoner Jackson Cole, 503 00:39:59,574 --> 00:40:03,311 which they promptly delivered at Fort Worth." 504 00:40:15,624 --> 00:40:17,158 [keys jingling] 505 00:40:21,996 --> 00:40:23,865 [indistinct chatter] 506 00:40:23,898 --> 00:40:25,834 Ramsey! 507 00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:29,037 Ramsey! 508 00:40:34,676 --> 00:40:36,878 Who making Black men disappear? 509 00:40:38,513 --> 00:40:40,915 Who Mr. Sundown? 510 00:40:42,216 --> 00:40:43,251 [door opens] 511 00:40:45,486 --> 00:40:47,121 Make way. 512 00:40:47,155 --> 00:40:49,290 Ramsey! 513 00:40:53,562 --> 00:40:56,865 Who is Mr. Sundown? 514 00:40:57,666 --> 00:41:01,035 * He ride by night 515 00:41:01,069 --> 00:41:04,472 * Drawn fast to the firelight 516 00:41:04,505 --> 00:41:07,642 * Ain't no peace to be found 517 00:41:07,676 --> 00:41:11,412 * When the sun go down 518 00:41:14,382 --> 00:41:16,417 [crowd shouting and jeering] 519 00:41:26,094 --> 00:41:28,229 Heard you lost that prisoner. 520 00:41:28,262 --> 00:41:29,530 Tough break. 521 00:41:35,403 --> 00:41:36,537 [man] Hang 'em already. 522 00:41:36,571 --> 00:41:39,941 [crowd cheering] 523 00:41:39,974 --> 00:41:41,075 [man 2] You had it coming! 524 00:41:41,109 --> 00:41:43,645 [Wylie shouting] 525 00:41:47,148 --> 00:41:48,149 [neck snaps] 526 00:41:48,182 --> 00:41:49,317 [shudders] 527 00:41:49,350 --> 00:41:51,620 [crowd cheering] 528 00:41:57,258 --> 00:41:58,492 I love you, Mama. 529 00:42:01,630 --> 00:42:03,297 [man 3] You had it coming! 530 00:42:03,331 --> 00:42:04,332 [neck snaps] 531 00:42:04,365 --> 00:42:06,601 [crowd cheering] 532 00:42:07,602 --> 00:42:09,938 [chuckles] 533 00:42:12,707 --> 00:42:14,943 Bass Reeves! 534 00:42:16,477 --> 00:42:20,514 Mr. Sundown is cinco peso. 535 00:42:23,084 --> 00:42:26,621 Cinco peso is Mr. Sundown. 536 00:42:28,522 --> 00:42:30,324 Cinco peso. 537 00:42:31,292 --> 00:42:32,661 [snaps] 538 00:42:32,694 --> 00:42:35,463 [crowd cheering] 539 00:42:36,264 --> 00:42:38,566 [Esau] [echoing] You honor the badge, Bass. 540 00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:41,469 These badges we wear on our chest, 541 00:42:41,502 --> 00:42:43,404 just raw materials. 542 00:42:43,437 --> 00:42:45,306 But the power they give... 543 00:42:45,339 --> 00:42:47,441 [echoing] 544 00:42:47,475 --> 00:42:49,577 What are the chances of Parker giving me 545 00:42:49,610 --> 00:42:52,246 a writ for a Texas Ranger? 546 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,215 Nil to none. 547 00:43:04,092 --> 00:43:06,127 [birds chirping] 548 00:43:34,723 --> 00:43:37,225 [Esau] Well, cock-a-doodle-do. 549 00:43:37,258 --> 00:43:40,161 [echoing] 550 00:43:49,804 --> 00:43:53,241 Blood can be the heaviest damn thing in the world. 551 00:43:55,777 --> 00:43:58,279 I always said we weren't so different. 552 00:43:59,347 --> 00:44:01,415 Except that one thing. 553 00:44:01,449 --> 00:44:03,551 [echoing] 554 00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:08,556 Blood never weighed me down at all. 555 00:44:11,125 --> 00:44:14,128 But all this blood on your hands... 556 00:44:16,597 --> 00:44:19,133 ...filling them up so much, you can't hold 557 00:44:19,167 --> 00:44:21,235 those precious children... 558 00:44:22,771 --> 00:44:25,740 ...you can't caress your pretty wife. 559 00:44:26,540 --> 00:44:30,511 Bass, you're gonna bend and bow under the weight of it 560 00:44:30,544 --> 00:44:32,713 till you break and burn. 561 00:44:37,685 --> 00:44:39,720 Only God... 562 00:44:40,889 --> 00:44:43,424 ...can judge me. 563 00:44:43,457 --> 00:44:46,560 [Esau] As you judge me. 564 00:44:46,594 --> 00:44:49,297 But what if God already did? 565 00:44:49,330 --> 00:44:51,232 Hmm? 566 00:44:58,439 --> 00:45:03,111 What if he weighed out your soul and found it wanting? 567 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,482 Don't you see? 568 00:45:09,450 --> 00:45:11,786 I am his judgment. 569 00:45:12,586 --> 00:45:15,489 Heaven is full of killers, Bass Reeves. 570 00:45:15,523 --> 00:45:19,794 By His grace they welcome me as they will welcome you. 571 00:45:20,761 --> 00:45:22,730 * haunting music 572 00:45:22,763 --> 00:45:24,799 *** 573 00:45:44,218 --> 00:45:46,154 * dramatic music 574 00:45:46,187 --> 00:45:47,155 [Jennie] Bass is dedicated to justice. 575 00:45:47,188 --> 00:45:48,189 There's hardly much room 576 00:45:48,222 --> 00:45:50,224 for anything or anyone else. 577 00:45:50,258 --> 00:45:51,826 Looking for a Moody O'Neil. 578 00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:54,328 Sitting on this porch. 579 00:45:54,362 --> 00:45:56,264 You set out to hang an old Black woman 580 00:45:56,297 --> 00:45:58,366 in a white man's noose. 581 00:45:58,399 --> 00:46:02,303 Slave catcher, that's all you is. 582 00:46:02,336 --> 00:46:03,872 Mama. 583 00:46:03,905 --> 00:46:04,873 Get upstairs. 584 00:46:04,906 --> 00:46:06,240 [flames crackling] 585 00:46:06,274 --> 00:46:07,241 [Billy] Where's the old crow? 586 00:46:08,009 --> 00:46:09,310 [gunshot] 587 00:46:09,343 --> 00:46:11,179 Want to say your goodbyes? 588 00:46:16,784 --> 00:46:18,752 * haunting music 589 00:46:18,786 --> 00:46:18,853 ***