Fury Page #4

Let him have it. Take it away.

Looks bad, Rainbow.

Looks bad.

There he is!

I am the resurrection and the life,

saith the Lord.

I am a stranger with thee

and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

God forgive him and our trespasses, as

we forgive them who trespass against us.

Run in back, Wilson. Get back there!

What are you looking for,

the Peabody girl?

Get back!

No.

Jiggers! The soldiers are coming!

Soldiers!

- Let's beat it.

- Wait! I've got an idea.

- They'll never get him out.

- That's the stuff.

After this dynamite,

they won't be able to find the jail.

Wait! Here's somebody!

Help her up!

Why, the very spirit of government

has been violated.

The state disgraced in the eyes

of the world...

...by this brutal outburst

of lust for vengeance.

And I blame myself.

I let you talk me down.

That mob could have been stopped

if assistance had been sent...

...to officers in time.

- Forget it.

The reformers will cuss around for a while

and then start cussing something else.

These letters and telegrams backing up

the statement I gave.

Congratulations, 90 percent of them.

"Finest thing we've heard of in years."

"Congratulations."

I wonder what sort of telegrams

we'll get...

...when it's known that Wilson

was an innocent man.

Well, when I gave out the statement

I didn't know that.

This story is on every wire

in the world right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Now he's innocent. Yeah.

I can't get it out of my head.

I can't get any sleep.

When I close my eyes, I...

I can't understand why we haven't

heard from Katherine.

She's like all the rest.

He gets in trouble,

and she takes a run-out powder.

When I think how happy he was

when he left here...

Oh, stop it!

Hey, what are you doing here?

You better go back.

- Any of that milk left, Tom?

- What?

Oh, yes.

There. Come back over here.

Here.

If I could only get at them rats.

If I could only get my hands on them.

We're going out there, Tom.

We're gonna get them.

- Kill them the way they killed Joe.

- Whatever you say. And whenever.

That's five-and-ten-cent store talk.

Joe!

Joe.

Pull down that shade.

Pull down the shade!

Turn out that light!

You know where I've been all day?

In a movie.

Watching a newsreel of myself

getting burned alive.

I watched it 10 times or 20 maybe.

Over and over again.

I don't know how much.

The place was packed. They like it.

They get a big kick out of seeing a man

burned to death. A big kick!

What an explosion.

It blew the cell door off,

and it killed...

...Rainbow.

I got out down a rain-pipe.

I almost burned my side off.

I could smell myself burn!

- It's awful. I feel like thanking God.

- Did you get burned bad?

That don't hurt me.

You can't hurt a dead man and I'm dead.

Everybody knows that.

The whole country. I'm dead, see.

You remember me preaching to you

to live right?

Live right. I tried it. I tried to like it.

And people... But they won't let you!

You were right. Donelli was right.

Everyone was right but me. I was wrong.

I know now. I'll get them.

- We'll get a lawyer and have them...

- Arrested for disturbing the peace?

For setting fire to a jail, maybe?

No, that's not enough for me.

I'm burned to death

by a mob of animals.

I'm legally dead.

They're legally murderers.

That I'm alive is not their fault.

But I know them.

I know a lot of them.

And they'll hang for it.

According to the law which says

if you kill somebody...

...you gotta be killed yourself.

I'll give them the chance

they didn't give me.

They'll get a legal trial

in a legal courtroom.

They'll have a legal judge

and a legal defense.

They'll get a legal sentence

and a legal death.

But I can't do it myself.

You'll have to do it for me.

You see that?

I tore it out of a law book.

My husband says it would be a blessing

if the community would forget...

...what happened.

It just leaves a bad taste,

and it reminds everyone of what...

...as the minister said Sunday,

would be better forgiven and forgotten.

The mailman was just here.

Shall I go?

Yes, yes, I'm coming.

Oh, it's you, Mrs. Garrett.

Come in.

Have you heard anything

from the hotel?

Fred's been down at that investigation

for so long.

I wondered if your husband had phoned,

or anything.

There, there. Don't worry,

Mrs. Garrett, don't worry.

Nobody's going to cut off their nose to

spite their face, naming names in this...

I know, but if somebody does talk,

then what'll happen?

Nobody's going to talk.

The responsible businessmen

have decided it's a community...

...and not an individual thing.

So everybody's got to stick together

against this district attorney.

The whole town's tongue-tied.

Under wraps.

- Protecting its own, naturally.

- Ask anybody!

They'll tell you Joe was there.

Before I can charge anybody

with murder...

...I have to prove a murder

was committed.

And I can't even find anyone who will

swear...

...that at the time the jail burned,

your brother was in it at all.

Sorry, boys, but I've got to go

back tonight.

Come on, I don't believe she ran out

on him.

We got an hour till train time, so we

might as well try. We can ask, anyway.

I'll do the talking.

Miss Grant live here?

She's very sick.

She can't talk to anyone.

- Our name's Wilson. We're...

- Oh, his brothers. Come in, come in.

Hello, Katherine.

Katherine!

- It's Charlie.

- And Tom.

This is the way she's been ever since

she came home.

Katherine, don't you remember us?

We came from Joe...

We're Joe's brothers.

Joe, Katherine.

You see? It's the same as ev...

Land sakes! Excuse me a second.

I've got broth on the stove.

Charlie, look. She is sick.

- If we tell her Joe's all right...

- Shut up!

She can't hear. But it's not fair

to her not to know. It might help.

No, no. Let me think.

No. No! No!

Joe! Joe!

No, it's Charlie.

Charlie, Katherine, and Tom.

What is...?

Joe's brothers. Try and remember,

Katherine. Joe's brothers.

Charlie?

Tom?

Oh, Charlie...

...I saw him.

I saw him...

...behind those flames...

...in that burning jail.

His face.

There, dear heart, it's all over now.

The witness.

I'll make them suffer.

I'll get them now, all right.

Why'd you have to come to Capital City?

Why didn't you stay in Chicago?

Your picture will be in the papers.

Somebody will see you.

Nobody will see me because I'll be

hiding. I had to be on the scene.

Did you think I was going to wait

for letters from you?

I think Joe's right. It's natural, wanting

to hear everything as soon as possible.

- Maybe he'll wanna see Katherine.

- Get this straight!

Katherine's not to know I'm alive.

She'd crack. Never go through with it.

She wouldn't see things

the way I see them.

I wanna hear everything they say.

I wanna see them squirm

the way they made me.

I wanna see them

at the end of a rope.

Adams, I've got to hold this party

together in this state.

These star-spangled heroics of yours

will blow it a mile high.

I've got to proceed with this case

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