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♪ MTV

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[Esau] These badges
we wear on our chests,

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made from different materials.

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Mine a star cut
from a cincopeso piece.

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[Bass]
My prisoner a good man.

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I trust you'll see
he get a fair trial.

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My prisoners always get
what they deserve.

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I see you got yourself
into some trouble.

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All in a day's work.

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Marry me, Calista.

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You can't afford the ring
it'll take to hitch me.

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This the one who done Webb.

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[gunshot]

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Good work, Billy Crow.

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I'm leavin'. I can't stay here--
they'll have my neck.

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You got nothing to worry about.

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Maybe you don't,
but my last name ain't Reeves.

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Well, you must have
heard the stories

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about Black men disappearing.

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Slavery is supposed to be dead,

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but it is only wounded.

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Texas Rangers received the boots

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of prisoner Jackson Cole.

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Who makin' Black men disappear?

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Bass Reeves. Mr. Sundown.

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The cincopeso.

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Don't you see? Heaven is
full of killers, Bass Reeves.

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♪ slow, dramatic music

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♪♪♪

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You was good to me.

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Be good to them now.

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[sighs]

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Know why I'm here?

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Want to say your goodbyes?

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[indistinct chatter]

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[clamoring]

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[shouting]

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[ragged whooping]

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[Parker]
When you've sat on this bench,

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for as long as I have,

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you come to regard misfortune

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with a certain dispassion.

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This is no different.

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In the case of Bass Reeves,

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a deputy marshal assigned
to this court,

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who has been tried
for the murder...

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[Parker's voice echoes
indistinctly]

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At this date,

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the jury has determined...

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♪ soaring, triumphant music

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♪♪♪

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♪♪♪

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[Mary] Jennie, you've mastered
what I've spent

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46 years of matrimony wrestling.

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-How's that?
-[chuckles]

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-My husband's sitting still.
-[Parker chuckles]

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[Parker] Being on that bench
all day, day in and day out...

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[continues indistinctly]

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[Esau] I always said
we weren't so different,

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except that one thing.

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[dialogue inaudible]

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[Esau] Heaven is full
of killers, Bass Reeves.

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And by His grace,
they'll welcome me

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as they will welcome you.

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But all this blood
on your hands...

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I was thinking a little time
at home could do Bass well.

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[Jennie]
Now there's an idea.

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That don't seem necessary to me.

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There he is.

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[all chuckling]

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♪ quiet music

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♪♪♪

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Judge Parker suggested
a spell of lighter fare.

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I've got us
a fine cook here, Bass.

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Came recommended by Heck Thomas.

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Word is his beans?
Even better than his biscuits.

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Mm.

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Come on.

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[echoing]
We know our own.

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I saw you.

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You are a wolf, Bass.

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We know our own.

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Nah, you a monster.

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What the hell you say?

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Nothin'.

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♪ tense music

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♪ quiet, melancholy music

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♪♪♪

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[knock at door]

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You left him?

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Our visit with you and Bass made
an impression on both of us.

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I asked him how he could build
a new world

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when his own home
wasn't even in order.

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He asked me if that mattered.
[sniffles]

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Esme, dear.

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Truth is,

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I always knew
Edwin's dreams were pure,

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but his heart couldn't follow.

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Let's get you inside.

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[sobs, sniffles]

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[Jennie] I kept waiting
on Bass for this,

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I might get to play
at my own funeral.

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That your way of saying
thank you?

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-A way.
-[chuckles]

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None of my business, but...

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how do you two handle it?

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What?

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The miles between.

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[chuckles]

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[sighs]
I've grown stronger, I suppose.

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But Bass?

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His children hardly
even notice him anymore.

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Even when he around here,

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he like a shadow
on the floorboards.

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Still.

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He tries to do right by them.

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Trying is different than being.

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He's dedicated to you.

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Bass is dedicated to justice.

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To some kind of fancy ideal
he keep buried in his heart.

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Right there under that badge.

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Seems sometimes
there's hardly much room

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for anything or anyone else.

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Duty and law.
Just like blood and bone.

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Forgive me, Lord,

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but that man has been baptized
in your name, Jennie.

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I should be so lucky.

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This piano is gonna be finer

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than any Mistress Reeves
ever dreamt of owning.

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[chuckles softly]

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Who would've imagined that.

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[chuckling]

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[knock at door]

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Hello.

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Is this the Reeves household?

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It is.

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Is Bass home?

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Mister Reeves is away.

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Was there something
I could help you with?

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How about Sally?

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Would you like to come inside
while I fetch her?

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I have to leave now.

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♪ gentle, dramatic music

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♪♪♪

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Sally Sharon Reeves!

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I just told that girl
to mind her manners.

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To a white girl?

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You know better.

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Does Daddy know better?

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Cause I did exactly
what he would've done.

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She ain't wrong.

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You want to check back
into the Railhead?

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I'll accompany you.

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And you.

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Don't act like
you're too old for a whupping.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Ma'am.

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How do?

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[Bass]
Hot as a pepper dipped in fire.

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[woman]
Don't I know.

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Seems like ol' Scratch
got the upper hand of late.

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Looking for a' Moody O'Neil.

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Got a writ in my pocket
with his name on it.

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Happen to know where he is?

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Sitting on this porch.

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[Billy chuckles]

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Afternoon, Missus O'Neil.

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I put on my prettiest
hanging dress.

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Just didn't know
if it would be you or a mob.

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That ain't gonna be necessary.

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Will it, ma'am?

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Well, I'm told I entered
this world quiet as the night.

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No squalling or fussing.

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I intend to leave it
the same way.

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No personal effects,
sorry to tell you.

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Well...

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you gonna want to take this.

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It's what I kilt him with.

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♪ melancholy music♪

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♪♪♪

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[crickets chirping]

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Your daddy learnt with turkeys.

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It was William Reeves,

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George's father,
that taught him,

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but...

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I think he was born knowing
how to squeeze a trigger.

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They'd travel to contests,
and Bass always won.

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And then, they'd come back
with a whole wagon chock-full.

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Master William kept the money,
of course, but Bass,

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he got all them big old birds,
round as pumpkins.

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And Pearlalee would cook 'em up,

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and all of us would eat and eat
until our bellies about burst,

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-round as pumpkins, too.
-[children giggle]

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I've been told
your daddy never missed a shot.

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Not once.

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Mama!

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[gasps]

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Get upstairs.

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Now. Go to your room.

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Go. Get upstairs.

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Sally.

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-Don't come out till I say.
-[child crying]

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♪ slow, tense music

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[insects trilling]

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♪ melancholy music♪

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♪♪♪

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She ain't eating.

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I don't care much
for what is cooking neither,

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but you got to eat.

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I don't know that I do.

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Given what I'm headed for.

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You don't know your fate.

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That's what the court's for.

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I deserve to hang.

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An I don't regret nothing.

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[insects buzzing]

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♪♪♪

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♪ tense music

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♪♪♪

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[Willy laughs]

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That granny had you thinking
she was ready to hang, huh?

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Should've seen how fast she run,
once freed of your chains.

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♪♪♪

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Where's the old crow?

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Your cook turned her loose.

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Shit.

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[grunts]

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Her fat old self,
she can't have gone far.

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[Willy] Oh, she took off hours
before first light.

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You cowardly son of a bitch.

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You set out to hang
an old Black woman

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in a white man's noose.

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But I'm cowardly?

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You shut your damn mouth
already.

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We can catch her.

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[Willy]
Your man want to do me harm.

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Now, you should remind him,

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my name ain't on
one of your master's writs.

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Huh?

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My hide won't feed Mrs. Bass.

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Or them little coons that
nigger sow pushed out of her.

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Ah... [chuckles]

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But...

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Ah, these will set you at ease.

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Go on, collect
your blood bounty!

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Up-jumped slave catcher.

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Because no matter what you say,

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that's all you is.

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[laughs]

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♪ tense, dark music♪

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♪♪♪

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[wheezing]

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What'd you do?

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[Willy sputtering]

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[Billy] Bass, we got to fix
our story here.

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[Willy choking]

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Say you were just cleaning
your rifle or some such, else...

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Parker won't take no mercy.

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[Willy gasping]

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-[insects chirring]
-[birds singing]

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♪♪♪

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[children chatter quietly]

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[door opens]

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[door creaks, closes]

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[footsteps approach]

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♪♪♪

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[wind whistling]

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[Esau]
I saw you.

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You are a wolf, Bass.

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I know a monster when I see one,
Bass Reeves.

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You listen to your daddy, now.

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[Bass]
Curtis!

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[screams] No!

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♪♪♪

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[Esau]
Bass, you must know...

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I had no desire
to shoot the boy.

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I wonder how much blood

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you left in your wake
on your path to freedom.

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No more than I had to.

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-No child.
-You are a killer, just like me.

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[crickets chirping]

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♪ slow, dramatic music♪

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♪♪♪

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[wind whistling]

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[hoofbeats approaching]

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[sighs]

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[Parker]
And one summer,

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probably six
or seven years old,

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we had a drought.

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The Biblical kind.

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My daddy lost a lot of sleep.

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Scared to death he was gonna
lose all that he had.

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Watching his boy grow thinner

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than he already was.

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I used to wander down
to the root cellar

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and once, after church,
I hit the second step

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and I heard Mama
and Daddy below,

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a lot of big...

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unkind words
I didn't understand.

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They were scared.

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About tomorrow,
and the day after.

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Now, I've always felt compelled
to help folks.

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No different then from now.

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Except when I was a boy,

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I'd go treasure hunting.

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Thinking that
if I found something,

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Mama and Daddy would be okay.

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[chuckles]
And wouldn't you know it?

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In the creek,
down past the farm,

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I found gold.

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Shining and winking at me.

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So I scooped up what I could
and ran to the house,

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believing I'd saved

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what they had lost
all that sleep over.

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I burst inside,

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dumped all the treasure
on Mama's table.

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I couldn't hear what Daddy said,

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but he picked up a mallet
and started hitting it.

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I cried when I saw it
break up and...

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crumble...

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...and then shatter, like glass.

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It was naught but pyrite.

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It's called fool's gold.

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I carried that lesson with me.

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Used it to keep
my expectations in check.

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So, why don't I just
ask you, Bass,

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what are you?

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Are you gold?

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Or pyrite?

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I didn't know my own father.

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They sold him off
before I was born.

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Come Christmastime,

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they'd let him visit.

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A sit, a meal...

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then gone all over again.

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My mama would plait
verbena in her hair.

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Pretty herself up
for his coming.

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Remember that clearer
than my daddy's face itself.

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No...

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The man whose name
and brand I carry,

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the one who taught me to ride,

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to shoot,

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was William Reeves.

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Everyone told me
how fortunate I was

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to have his good favor.

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"You got the big man's interest,
Bass."

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"Mind him good, Bass."

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He wasn't a cruel man.

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At least not on the surface.

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But then he gifted me
to his son.

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George.

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And when that man's cruel came
too much to bear...

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I didn't go treasure hunting,

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collecting loose rocks,

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fool's gold.

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No, sir.

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For you, knowing who's who
a simple thing.

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Gold or pyrite.

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But justice...

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Ain't nothing more costly.

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Now I'm ready to pay for mine
in Hell on the Border.

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You paid yours, Judge Parker?

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'Cause I reckon you about to,

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'cause I ain't gonna be
down there alone, am I?

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You gonna be sitting
right next to me.

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So I'll go ahead and ask.

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How much time we doin'...

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sir?

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♪ tense, dramatic music♪

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♪♪♪

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[chair creaks]

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[door opens]

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[prisoners shouting
and whooping]

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You are a killer, just like me.

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[echoing]
You are, you are a killer.

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[gunshot]

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[Parker]
When you've sat on this bench

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for as long as I have,

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you come to regard misfortune

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with a certain dispassion.

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This is no different.

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In the case of Bass Reeves,

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a deputy marshal assigned
to this court,

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who has been tried for
the murder of Willy Leach...

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Upon careful review
of the evidence

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presented by
the defendant's attorney,

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and the state,

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I pronounce you...

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...not guilty.

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♪ quiet music

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♪♪♪

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[Jennie exhales]

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♪ gentle music♪

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♪♪♪

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[Esau] These badges
we wear on our chests,

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made from different materials.

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Yours a tin star, mine a star
cut from a cincopeso piece.

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But the power they give...

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You honor the badge, Bass.

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But even with it, a man like you
couldn't arrest a man like me

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once we cross that river.

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I had no mind to arrest you.

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No. By those angry eyes,

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I reckon
you'd just as soon kill me.

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[Curtis screaming]

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[Esau]
Bass, you must know...

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I had no desire
to shoot the boy.

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♪ dark, mournful music

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♪♪♪

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When I was gone from you...

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...there was a boy
that I loved like a son.

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His name was Curtis.

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He was murdered.

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I'm going after
the man who killed him.

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♪ intense, dramatic music

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♪♪♪

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♪♪♪

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♪ dark, low music

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♪♪♪

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[boy]
You a lawman or an outlaw?

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Today, a bit of both, I reckon.

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[grunting]

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♪ dramatic music

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[Pete] Ranger Pierce
don't accept armed company.

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[Esau]
Now, the myth of Mr. Sundown,

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that's taken a fanciful flourish
from reality.

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00:31:36,024 --> 00:31:37,155
Not that I mind.

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-[gunshot]
-Goddamn, kid!

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[wolf snarls]

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[gunshot]

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[Esau]
Careful, now.

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Curiosity killed the deputy.

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♪ gentle, melancholy music

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♪♪♪