3:10 to Yuma Page #6

HOLLANDER:

Come next week, its not, Evans. You

borrowed a good deal of money. And

I got rights to recompense.

Dan grabs Hollander by the collar-

DAN:

...You dammed up my creek. You shut

off my water. How am I supposed to-

Tucker come from behind, grabbing Dan, throwing him backward.

Hollander dusts himself off.

HOLLANDER:

...Before water touches your land,

Evans, it resides and flows on

mine, and, as such, I can do with

it as I f***ing please. Go home and

pack up.

Dan holds out ALICE’S BROOCH.

DAN:

...Let me just get to spring. I can

turn the corner.

CLOSE ON -- HOLLANDER, glancing at it. Not enough.

(CONTINUED)

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HOLLANDER:

...Sometimes, a man has to be big

enough to see how small he is. The

railroads coming. Your land is

worth more with you off it.

Hollander turns and climbs the steps and moves through the

saloon doors, disappearing into an office inside.

Tucker watches Dan until he starts to walk toward his horse

in front of Doc Potter’s place.

CLOSE ON-- DAN. Fire in his eyes, he adjusts his saddle,

waiting for Tucker to head around the corner, Then, he grabs

his SPENCER RIFLE and marches for the saloon entrance.

CLOSE ON-- THE MARSHAL, catching sight of Dan.

MARSHAL:

What the hell...

INT. SALOON, BISBEE - DAY

Ben Wade slips past Emma, out her bedroom door, moving

toward the stairs. But his hand moves to his PEACEMAKER when

he hears-

DAN (O.S.)

Hollander!

Emma and Wade meet eyes.

Wade proceeds down the spiral stairs to see-

Dan, wild-eyed, holding his rifle, standing at the door that

leads to Hollander’s office...

Wade approaches Dan. Dan steps toward the bar.

WADE:

You look a little bent, Rancher.

You come to wake some snakes?

Emma crosses down the stairs.

EMMA:

Dan. Would you like a drink.

DAN:

No thanks.

(CONTINUED)

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Dan looks at Wade. Heart is in his throat. Sweat on his brow.

What is he doing here?

WADE:

...You got your horses back, didn’t

you? And your herd? Dan?

DAN:

You killed two of them.

Wade smiles. He places SIX GOLD COINS on the bar.

WADE:

They were thin. But this should

cover it.

Dan doesn’t respond. Over Wade’ shoulder, he sees Crawley out

the windows, moving toward the back of the saloon.

WADE (CONT’D)

What’s a day’s work worth to you?

DAN:

I get two dollars when I hire out.

WADE:

Here’s two for half a day.

Wade puts TWO MORE COINS on the bar...

DAN:

You took up my boys’ time too.

Wade adds another two. Shares a look with Emma.

WADE:

Anything else you want to get paid

for, Dan?

Dan fingers the GOLD COINS. His eyes flick, seeing the

Marshal enetering from the back door. Leveling a SLIDE-ACTION

REPEATER at Wade’s back. Wade is about to turn when-

DAN:

If it’s alright with you, you can

give me five dollars extra.

WADE:

For what.

DAN:

...For making me nervous.

(CONTINUED)

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(2)

Wade’s face changes, something wrong.

CLICK-CLACK. Marshal Weathers c*cks his REPEATER behind Wade.

Digging the muzzle into the his back.

MARSHAL WEATHERS

Hands up, Ben Wade.

Tucker appear in the SALOON DOORS, PISTOL drawn.

TUCKER:

Boss. Boss!

Crawley and Kane come in behind the Marshal. Hollander

emerges fromn his office. Tucker hoots, thrilled.

TUCKER:

Ben Wade captured in Bisbee!

The outlaw glares at Dan who lets out a breath.

He keeps his eyes on him as he raises his hands in the air.

WADE:

Laugh while you can.

Kane grabs Wade’s Peacemaker as Crawley locks a pair of HAND

CUFFS on his wrists. the Marshall grabs Crawley-

MARSHAL:

Get the wagon and make sure every

weapon we got is shoot ready. I’ll

meet you out front of the office.

(to the others)

We got to get him out of here.

TUCKER:

We should shoot him right now. Put

a bullet in his noggin.

MCELROY:

You do that, every man, woman and

child in this sh*t-piss town will

be slaughtered by daybreak.

Dan and the others look to-

Byron McElroy in the doorway. Blood seeps from the bandage

around his gut. He holds his shotgun. Potter trails after

him, trying to finish his dressing.

(CONTINUED)

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(3)

BUTTERFIELD:

(pointing at Wade)

Twenty two robberies. Four hundred

thousand in losses, more in delays.

The Southern Pacific wants Ben Wade

convicted in a Federal Court. Hung

in public. An example made. And we

will pay to make it happen.

WADE:

(to Dan)

You notice he never mentioned the

lives I’ve taken?

MARSHAL:

I need three more men.

(grabs Wade)

Let’s go.

The Marshal escorts Wade toward the door.

HOLLANDER:

You can have Tucker.

MCELROY:

I’m coming. So you need only one.

MARSHAL:

You’re wounded, Mister McElroy.

MCELROY:

I can ride a goddam horse as easy

as I can sit here.

BUTTERFIELD:

He knows Wade. You need him.

MARSHAL:

If he goes, Potter’s coming.

TUCKER:

Doc can’t shoot sh*t.

DAN:

I was the best shot in my regiment.

I’ll come. For two hundred dollars.

Everybody turns to Dan-

BUTTERFIELD:

You fight for the North or South?

(CONTINUED)

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(4)

Dan looks at the Southern Railroad pin on Butterfield’s

jacket. Still, he can’t lie.

...North.

DAN:

BUTTERFIELD:

We’re Southern in name, but Chicago

owned.

(to the others)

Fine. Two hundred.

DAN:

Thank you.

BUTTERFIELD:

Thank me when its done.

43-48 OMITTED

49 EXT. MAIN STREET, BISBEE - DAY

Dan watches as the Marshal ushers Wade across the street.

Nearby, Crawley and Kane hustle to prepare a stagecoach,

tying chain around it to secure the doors.

MARSHAL:

Hurry up, Kane.

CRACK! A SHOT RINGS OUT. It’s Charlie Prince, tearing down

the street on his horse, a SMOKING SCHOFIELD PISTOL in his

hands. He gallops down main street, townspeople clearing.

CHARLIE PRINCE:

This town’s gonna burn!

THE OUTLAW GALLOPS PAST. Never slowing.

He fires twice-- BANG, BANG!

The first shot drops DEPUTY KANE right in front of the coach.

The second shot takes down A RANDOM BISBEE MAN.

Eeryone uinloads their weapons-- BANG BANG BANGG-- as Charlie

scoots away on his horse, into the hills.

50-51 OMITTED

52 EXT. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, BISBEE - DAY

Marshal Weathers muscles Wade to a waiting CARRIAGE tied with

chains and padlocked. Both of them spot -

(CONTINUED)

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Charlie prince-- perched on his horse a half mile out of

town, watching what happens to his boss. Wade gives him a nod

and Charlie Prince nods back.

The marshal shoves Wade inside the coach, then, as he climbs

onto the driver’s seat-- Emma comes up to the door.

EMMA:

Were you sincere about Mexico?

WADE:

(smiles)

...No.

...WE PULL BACK ON: Emma and the rest of the Bisbee townsfolk

as they stand back and watch the COACH take Wade away.

53-55 OMITTED

56 EXT. CHAINED COACH, FOOTHILLS --LATE AFTERNOON

Marshal Weathers hauls ass along a CATTLE TRAIL, ever aware

that Charlie Prince is following him on the ridge like a dog

trailing its master...

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