Decision at Sundown Page #6

- Thanks.

Tate, you're going to be next.

- How can you find anything to laugh about?

- It's really very funny.

Funny?

Yeah, that a woman like Mary Allison

can cause all this commotion.

Take me with you?

- I can't.

- Please.

I'm not going anyplace.

Tate, you can't meet him in a gunfight.

He'll kill you.

Or I'll kill him.

It's sure going to be one way or the other.

But it doesn't have to be that way

if you left town.

I'm staying. I've got a lot of

time and effort in this town.

I had everything my way

until Allison came along.

Things aren't going to be the way

you want them any longer, Tate.

They're not afraid of you anymore.

Don't you understand?

You've lost everything.

Once Allison is taken care of,

things will slip right back into place.

How can they?

You've lost people like Spanish and Swede.

There's no one left to help you.

The world's full of people

like Spanish and Swede.

I've just got to get by Allison.

I'll replace them easy enough.

- Please don't try to shoot it out with him.

- I've got to.

Why?

Survival to most people means

just staying alive.

To me it means more than that.

There's nothing more important

than staying alive.

Ruby, I haven't got time

to argue the point with you.

Well, I'd better start showing my face.

It wouldn't do to have people think

that Tate Kimbrough was afraid.

But you are afraid.

But nobody's going to know about it

but me and you.

Why did you take the sign down, Otis?

- Well, the way things was going, I figured...

- Put it back up there!

Looks like there's a lot of changes

going on today, Tate.

I never saw you carrying a gun before.

I don't like using a gun,

but I can if I have to.

We all figured that you'd leave town

before you'd face up to Allison

without your boys standing by

to help you out.

You mean, that's what

you were hoping I'd do, don't you?

That's right.

Probably Allison don't know it,

but he's done this town a lot of good

since he come here.

And I'd just hate to see you get lucky

and beat him at the draw.

Well, if I do get lucky,

you'll find out that things haven't changed

as much as you think.

But that's where you're wrong,

'cause no matter what happens

between you and Allison,

you're finished in Sundown.

We'll see, Morley. We'll see.

"Vengeance is mine," saith the Lord.

If you could get that message over

to Allison, you'd save me a lot of trouble.

No more, Otis.

If you're not going to drink anymore,

why don't you go on outside

and get things over with?

I'm in no hurry.

No hurry at all.

Mr. Allison, you were right.

You did do me a big favor.

I came here to help you.

You said I ought to thank you

for stopping the wedding.

Well, you were right about that.

But you're wrong about

going down there now.

Tate's already lost everything.

The town, the power he had,

me, if he really ever wanted me.

Don't you see?

If you go out there and try to kill him...

Lucy, now you just stay here inside

with Doc,

where you belong.

Zaron, your cup finally runneth over.

I guess I can't keep Mr. Allison

waiting any longer.

Thanks, Otis.

Go tell Otis to pour you a drink.

Allison, is this what you've been waiting

three years for?

Oh, Tate! Tate!

I had to do it to you.

Couldn't let him kill you.

Get up, Kimbrough, and pick up your gun.

Haven't you had enough hate for one day?

If you killed Tate and 300 more,

you still couldn't change things.

You were married, but you never had a wife.

Do you hear me? You never had a wife.

How can you get revenge

for something you never had?

Get up, Kimbrough.

Stay out of this, Doc.

I can't, Allison.

Sam said he hoped you'd start living

the way a man should live.

The only way you can do that

is to know the truth.

He tried to live long enough to tell you.

You just heard it from Ruby.

I heard it from Sam.

You're gonna need some patching up

before you leave town.

Lucy, get my satchel.

Otis, this is a day for a celebration.

Oh, boys, come on back in here

and I'll buy drinks for everybody.

Fill Mr. Allison's glass up first.

I'll pour my drinks myself

and pay for my drinks myself.

But, Allison,

you've done this town a big service.

We feel that we...

Well, there certainly was no call to do that.

You're an ungrateful cuss, Allison.

If it wasn't for Morley here, you

wouldn't be standing drinking that whiskey.

Where I come from,

folks don't celebrate or have a big to-do

when a man acts

the way a man's supposed to act.

Morley, if you'd remembered you were a man

before Swede and Spanish

shot Sam in the back,

I'd have joined your celebration.

Sorry. I wish I had remembered sooner.

John, we just can't let him ride away.

If it wasn't for him...

Yes, he changed things

for everybody in town.

But, unfortunately,

there's nothing we can do for him.

I'll tell you one thing.

None of us will ever forget the day

that Bart Allison spent in Sundown.

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