Charro! Page #4

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And the time Vince give us.

BeautifuI.

This is the regular crossing.

Si, seor, it is just that.

We don't cross here.

If the wagon is on the other side,

why do we not cross here?

Lieutenant, if you had stolen something

very big and moved it to the other side,

wouldn't you train your guns

on the only crossing?

Very wise, seor.

Lead on.

I think here, Lieutenant.

Very shallow.

It's good for crossing.

After you, seor.

Lige, elevate two notches.

Lordy, Lordy.

We just may hit them dead on

with the first shot.

I knew you were good, Gunner,

but I didn't know you were that good.

How'd you like that? Pinpoint.

Did you ever see anything like that?

GeneraI Stonewall Jackson

said I was the best.

He said it right in front

of the whole regiment.

We got us a timetable, Gunner.

Well, call it, Vince.

Already have.

Billy Roy let loose by sundown.

All right, get that gun down this hill

till it's a quarter mile from town.

Down that hill? Down there?

That ain't a hill, Vince, that's a cliff.

All right. Let's get started.

It ain't right, Vince. It ain't fair to us.

One man's hanging is more better

than five.

I ain't gonna let you do it.

All right! Never mind him.

Gabe! Heff! HauI them mules in here.

We've got a long way to move this gun,

and we're gonna get it into position

if it takes all day.

All right, move it!

Well, Mr. "Traitor to AII Causes,"

you've been as silent

as a cricket with its throat cut.

You waitin' for those Federales

to come get you?

Or you waiting for Vince to blast you,

or maybe the law to catch up to you

for stealing the cannon?

Your brother'll come in, Billy Roy.

Hey, Deputy Wade.

You know what?

I'm gonna tell you a secret.

I always liked you and admired you.

You never knew that, did you?

You know why I felt that way about you?

You were the only man who ever broke

away from my great God brother

and made it stick!

Only you didn't make it stick, did you?

Here you are back with him again.

He's still calling the shots,

and you're still jumping!

See what I mean?

I mention his name,

and you look out the window!

He could be 5,000 miles away,

and you'd still be looking!

Less than an hour till sundown.

Forty minutes, to be exact.

I thought maybe you could just

let Billy Roy go.

We'd ride out. No trouble.

Get off your horse, Vince.

Walk toward me.

Just make a move, that's all I ask.

Just make a move.

You know me, Jess.

I'm not a man of violence.

I don't approve of violence.

- You know what I'm gonna do?

- What?

I think I'm gonna try

a little longer fuse this time.

Oh, no, my God!

Oh, dear God!

Oh, no. Dan?

Oh, no.

No.

No.

Dan? Danny.

Say something.

Danny, don't leave me.

You killed him.

You killed him just as if you put

that gun to his head.

I told you.

I begged you to let that animaI go.

But, now, to save your own skin,

you killed Dan.

You see it?

This is a wanted poster.

This man is wanted

by the Mexican government.

He stole that gun that's been firing on us,

that killed my husband,

that will kill all of you.

It says he can be identified

by a wound on his neck.

There it is.

He thought nothing of killing my husband.

He'll think nothing of killing

the rest of you.

Make him let that prisoner loose.

Force him!

One way to get that gun to stop shooting.

Let Billy Roy go.

No trouble.

- Let him go, Wade.

- We've had enough of this violence.

Our roots are in this town,

Wade, not yours.

Get rid of Wade.

Hold it, hold it. Quiet.

Quiet down, everybody.

You got a cannon pointing at your heads,

and you're willing

to let a bunch of riffraff make you crawI.

Maybe you can forget

that Dan Ramsey was just killed.

Well, I can't.

But there's one thing

you'd better not forget.

He'll blast you off the face

of the earth no matter what.

Because you know who's got that cannon.

If I don't get up there

and tell them to stop,

that cannon's gonna blow this town apart.

All right, Mr. Hackett.

Take Billy Roy out.

Hold it. First man who wants

to release the prisoner, step up.

Keep at it, Jess.

Well, I'm overdue out of here.

I'm liable to be killed like everybody

else if you don't let Billy Roy go.

Keep your eye on the sun, Jess.

Turn him over to Vince, Mr. Wade.

Thirty minutes, mister,

or we all come to get you,

and we'll turn him loose.

All right, all of you clear the streets.

That cannon will be hitting

a few more times.

You've done all you can do.

Let him go.

I'm keeping him here.

I want to apologize.

For what?

Whatever I thought, I was wrong.

You are what you said you'd be.

Don't count on it.

Get off the street.

"Thirty minutes" come to mean

important words to you, Mr. Wade?

Thirty minutes can get to be as

important as a man's whole life, can't it?

A very sad half hour for you, Mr. Wade.

You locking us both up, Mr. Wade?

So we can be cozy?

Not much time, Mr. Wade.

Won't be long

before your good citizens come for you,

or my brother blows this town

to plowing land, and he comes for you.

Take off that gun belt and come outside.

You finally seen the light, Mr. Wade.

You gonna take these things off me

and let me go back to my brother.

Mr. Carter.

Mr. Jess Wade was one of them.

That animaI's gone.

Now, maybe that cannon'll stop firing.

Send them a reminder, Gunner.

With pleasure.

I guess that makes it pretty plain.

Wade didn't turn Billy Roy

over to his brother.

Or he hasn't had the time.

He's had the time.

He could have walked there in 10 minutes.

Well, somebody's gotta ride up there

and tell Vince Hackett

his brother's no longer in town.

Harvey, you get the buckboard

and you drive me up there.

No, Miss Tracey.

Tracey, if I have to grab you and hold you,

you're not going up there.

There's only one thing to do.

Get off the streets.

Those of you who have cellars,

get down in them.

And take as many of your neighbors

with you as your cellars will hold.

Come on, Miss Tracey.

Gunner?

Yeah, Vince.

Can you aim that cannon at night?

These things don't know whether it's day

or night.

Send them one.

We're about ready to knock that town

off the face of the earth.

- Everything goes, except the jaiI.

- Yeah.

All right, load up.

All right, yell.

Vince. Vince, it's me.

It's Billy Roy.

I'm down here.

Call out again! Where are you, Billy Roy?

Here, Vince! Here!

Watch out for Wade!

He's up in those rocks.

Those rocks to your left!

Mody. Heff.

Gunner.

Gabe, drop it down three notches.

Vince?

I can see you, Gabe and Gunner.

Where's Heff and Mody?

I don't know where they are, Jess!

If I go, Billy Roy goes.

Vince!

He's gonna kill me!

All right, Mody, Heff, hold off!

All right, it's a standoff, Jess.

What you got on your mind?

Taking that gun back where it came from.

Moving it into town tonight.

If you want to keep Billy Roy alive.

Vince!

Now, maybe you got me

where you want me,

and maybe you haven't.

Anything wrong in talking about it?

Now, how come so much money

don't appeaI to you, Jess,

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