Dallas Page #5

Thank you, marshal.

Thank you, gentlemen, one and all.

Good night, Matt.

He's gonna make a good mayor.

I wish it was Saturday night

so I could take a bath.

Hey, Bryant.

- What?

- Here's Reno.

Reno, boy.

- What's this?

- What?

Two thousand dollars?

Oh, no. Will wouldn't do that.

Oh, no. "Brother Willy wouldn't do that. "

Thought it out pretty, didn't he?

Marshal will bust his buttons

trying to get you...

...and you'll curl them,

and the town will posse up...

...and no matter which way

you turn...

...they'll be pouring led at you

until they get that reward.

And brother Willy will be in the clear,

and have everything going his way.

Pete. Pete.

Marshal.

Bryant, marshal.

He's down behind that little rock

by the cut.

Get behind the brush and when I shoot,

let him have it.

Now, hold it.

That marshal knows where the hideout is

now and he'll be coming back with a posse.

You fellas stay covered up

inside them rocks...

...and you can pick them all off

as they come.

Oh, Reb. Reb.

You've come back. You're safe.

- Where's Martin?

- In town.

He and Luis were out all night

with Father and the vaqueros.

- They're still searching for you.

- They shouldn't have left you here alone.

I'm going to Dallas.

I've got to find Martin.

He'll come back here.

L... I can't wait.

Tonight I'll finish up

my business in Texas.

I won't be back, Tonia.

Won't be back?

I told you, I wouldn't be here long.

Yes, I remember.

It's what you wanted.

That was three weeks ago.

Nothing's changed.

Everything's changed, Reb.

I can't let you go.

You're engaged to Martin. He's the one

you're due to marry. What about him?

- What about you?

- Forget about me.

I'm a wanted criminal.

Yes, I know that.

Martin told you? Why?

Was he afraid I'd forget?

You haven't answered my question.

What about you?

I've answered it. Forget me.

- You don't mean that.

- I do mean it.

I have to mean it.

A long time ago,

it might have been different.

You wouldn't have been

engaged to Martin.

I wouldn't have to be hiding behind his

shirttails. I'd have had a name, a home.

You have this home.

I told you that when you first came.

Martin, he's safe.

I heard in Dallas.

Congratulations, Reb.

Did you see Will Marlow?

And Trask.

Every time he tries to ride out to Bryant,

Coulter corners him for a drink.

- Popularity is beginning to go to his head.

- Matt Coulter? Friendly with the Marlows?

It's a scheme of Reb's.

Where are you going?

He's going to Dallas.

I'm going with him.

You're staying here, where you belong.

Didn't expect to find you here.

Thought you'd be waiting in Dallas

for Bryant.

Bryant will think that too.

Or else he'll expect me to organize

a posse to come after him.

By night, his nerves will get the best of him

and he'll come in to see what I am doing.

You stay here too.

I don't want you underfoot.

Reb, what are you going to do about her?

I came here gunning for Bryant.

When that's done, I'll move on.

You don't have to move on.

I do have to, you know that.

You even told her.

You're willing enough to keep it quiet

everywhere else.

What if you weren't a wanted man...

...free to go or stay?

What would you do then?

I'd sink my roots in Dallas

and take her away from you.

Any way I could.

Glad you said that. Makes it all right

for me to play that way too.

You'd be a fool if you didn't.

- Where's Reb?

- He's gone.

- He wants you to stay here with me.

- I heard him.

But you still want to go with him?

You wouldn't want me to pretend.

No, I wouldn't want that,

but I don't want you to go either.

- I must...

- Tonia, he has it the way he wants it.

What do you mean?

Remember what I said about

the brutality of hope?

There's to be no pardon.

He's still a wanted man.

Maybe I'm not as smart as I figured.

Maybe Bryant's not coming in.

Will's not gone to him.

I've been thinking.

We ain't the kind to get

quite so popular...

Any fool could see the marshal

had rigged me.

Now the town's standing against

my getting word to Bryant.

Any moment

he'll come roaring in and...

Haven't they got homes to go to?

A month ago, there wouldn't have been

one of them there.

Now you ain't asked them...

...and they're all here...

...expecting that maybe you'll want to send

a posse after Bryant.

If they rode out there,

half of them would never ride back.

They know that.

They're still willing.

You gave us more than

a town hall, marshal.

You gave us the grit

to get our town back.

We're willing to fight for it again.

Worth fighting for.

There's a lot of the history of Dallas

standing over there.

One fella settled at Trinity Forks...

...when old Johnny Brian

was still chinking at his log house.

New settlers from the East and South.

They're all just Dallas now.

I guess that old Scotsman knew what

he was writing about when he said:

"Breathes there a man

with soul so dead... "

I know the rest.

Glad you do, marshal.

We'd be pleased if you'd

make this your native land too.

You're not talking about me.

You're talking about a tin badge...

...and the Weatherby checkbook.

Besides, I'm sitting on a short fuse.

Hear you all got cotton dirt

around here.

Pick your half-section, settler. Come far?

Through corn lands and cow lands...

...and land oozing filthy grease

that dang-near ruined my wagon.

Keep that wagon out of there.

Great Caesar's ghost.

Betty, drive these down a bit. L...

I don't wanna roust you around,

but this smells like gunfighting weather.

Roust all you like, colonel,

and if you want a good gun hand again...

What are you talking about?

Don't you remember me, sir?

Hillis from Macon.

I rode with your Georgia regiment.

Sergeant in Troop C.

I never been in Georgia.

If that ain't Colonel Reb, this ain't Texas.

What did you say?

I could swear that's my old colonel...

The name, man, the name.

You said Reb?

I sure did.

Colonel Hollister, sir.

Fifth Georgia Cavalry.

That settler seemed to know you.

Don't go probing, judge.

That short fuse is about to

blow me out of town.

How did Will Marlow get away?

Will? He's in his office.

He just passed me riding south

like the hounds of Hades was on his tail.

South? Then he's not going to Bryant.

You see a man

come out of that building?

I don't know where he come from,

but he lit out like he was turpentine...

...when I said you was Colonel Hollister.

You and your big mouth.

You were the turpentine.

- I didn't mean...

- Anyway, you've done one thing:

You've proved they were all in it

in Georgia.

Dogs that ain't kill sheep, don't run.

We're gonna catch Will

before he sets a long trail.

- I'll be back for Bryant.

- Good luck, Reb.

You fellas stay out of this.

Get inside.

You ain't gonna talk your way out of it

this time, marshal.

You won't either, Bryant.

You can't fool me.

There ain't only one man in the whole world

can shoot like that.

Reb Hollister.

Hollister...

...get my brother, Will.

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