Heaven's Gate Page #5

Stopped.

It can't have stopped.

It can't have gone that far yet.

I never could stand this job anyways.

Hyah!

Come on! Let's go!

Stick that right there.

You're late.

The governor came to see us off, Frank.

How much time do you

estimate here, Canton?

Forty minutes.

Telegraph's cut.

Have the proper warrants been issued?

The president himself

asked for these men to go, Billy.

Escort dismissed!

- Columns of two. Ho!

- Come on, John.

Let's move it out!

Move it out! To your left!

Let's go!

Get the rest of that out of there.

Come on, unload those. Let's go!

Armor made the knight. The crown a king.

What are we?

Good morning to ya.

You have a nice sleep out here?

Say, who's minding the train station?

Another citizen.

Heading over to Johnson County, are ya?

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm heading over there myself.

You mind if I ride along?

Well...

you can - you can suit yourself...

citizen.

What do you think of my new suit here?

I paid $50 on credit for it.

More than likely

pay it off real soon though.

F***! Oh, Christ!

Oh, Jesus! God!

They're comin'.

Oh! Oh, no!

Jesus.

They're coming!

And ever since then...

I have never been hit by a bullet.

I been shot at many times...

but I never been hit.

On the other hand now -

catching wolves is baby's work.

I can - I can catch a wolf

with my bare hands.

That's impossible.

It is?

How do you do that?

Well...

first of all...

you let the critter attack you.

You let him attack?

That's right.

You don't do a damn thing.

You just stand there real calm.

Yeah? Well, then what?

What do you mean then what?

Then... when that son of a b*tch

opens his -

opens his jaws to bite your fool head off...

you reach your hand down in there

like lightning and - Whoa!

You grab hold his tongue.

What the hell good's that gonna do you?

He can't bite you

if you got ahold of his tongue.

I don't see that at all.

Well, try it.

Try it. Stick out your tongue.

Come on, Nick.

Show us what you got in there.

Yeah. Come on.

Stick out your tongue.

Go on.

- Aw, hell. Here.

- Come on.

- See that? Now bite me.

- Bite him, Nick.

- See that?

- Bite him!

He can't do a damn thing. Look at this, miss.

I got ahold of him. He can't bite.

Bite him. Bite him, Nick.

Come on, bite him.

Bite that thing!

Here. Maybe I ought to just cut it off.

Shall I cut it off?

- Cut it off.

- Shall I cut it off?

Son of a b*tch. He was right.

But now what happens

when you let go?

He kills you.

You got to hang on till help comes.

Well, why don't -

why don't you stay for supper?

I have things to settle with Jim.

That feel better?

Bye-bye, Nick.

Keep your tongue in your head.

You know I will.

- Bye-bye.

- Miss.

Will I be seeing you anymore then?

Maybe.

Uh-huh.

I'm glad I made up my mind, Nate.

Don't scratch that fancy paint none, EIIa.

The captain told me

the National Guard can't do anything...

but I'm sure you already know that.

Ruhe! Ruhe!

Go on! Speak! We wait for you!

Goddamn it, quiet!

There's an armed mob of paid men...

about to... invade your county.

- With the open threat... to destroy...

- Shh.

The lives and property of your friends.

Ruhe.

The Stock Growers Association...

has the names

of some of you people on a list.

A hundred and twenty-five names.

What are the names on the list?

What names?

Kormanik, V.

Kormanik, I.

Shh! Shh!

Shh.

Kopestonsky, G.

Schultz, D.B.

Kaiser, A.

Albert.

Glover, Jr., B.

Shermerhorn, W.R.

Guthrie, W.

Watson, E.

What are you going to do, huh?

You going to let them kill us?

Hastings, B.!

Kurz, D.

Szarabajka, C.

No!

Widman, T.!

Fraleigh, T.!

Koppelman, H.!

Fritz, D.!

Swann, S.!

Gorb, P.!

Everyone!

And you say everyone!

Whoa!

Now, John, you go and get Mr. Averill

and tell him to come here as fast as he can.

All right? Whoa, Taffy!

Whose horses are those?

Those are the Association's horses. Hurry up.

Hurry up!

Hello.

Help yourself.

There is enough whiskey for all of you.

There's enough here to take -

take a bath.

Enjoy yourselves.

I'll go and get the girls.

If you don't stop...

I'll bend that iron around your head.

It's all right, ain't it, Morrison?

I believe it's you the boys want.

All of them.

Okay, you pay in advance here.

Cash.

Or cattle.

I believe you have enough

of the Association's cattle out back...

to pay for all of us...

without coming up for air...

the whole month of July.

No! No! No!

No! No!

No! No! No!

No! N-No!

No! No! No!

- No!

- Oh!

No!

No! No, no, please - No.

No!

Stay with me.

It's all right.

Maybe you'll understand better

the kind of people you're working for now.

The tragedy, Nate...

is you people were in the right...

legally.

But they just threw that away.

Oh, my God.

- What's going on here?

- Firing squad.

- Who gave that order?

- Canton.

Before I could get to my feet...

hit on me with a log...

biting and stomping.

Grabbed the little b*tch

around the neck.

This time, I had my knife.

I didn't stop cutting

until I felt the blood running.

Not in here!

I have nothing to say to you.

You better have a guaranteed warrant

for every name on that list.

Show me one for the man

outside right now.

Major?

When the fix is equal...

then justice must prevail.

Shut up, Billy.

You people make me sick.

Let's not have any

last-minute sentimentalism...

about the killing

of a few thieves and anarchists.

Did you ever kill a man yourself, Canton?

Mr. Champion...

my grandfather was

the secretary of war to Harrison.

His brother was a governor

of the state of New York.

My brother-in-law

is the secretary of state...

and, to you,

I represent the full authority...

of the government of the United States

and the president.

F*** him too.

Bravo, sir.

I've had about enough

of your sh*t too, Billy!

You silly son of a b*tch!

You were hired to enforce the law.

We are the law.

Is that supposed to mean

you're going to Nate?

EIIa?

Do you think a woman

can't love two men?

Sure, you can.

Why not?

Or three.

But it sure as hell isn't convenient.

I can manage it.

Can you? Even after today?

Today was just the beginning.

Do you think they'd have tried

what they did if it wasn't -

if something bigger wasn't coming?

Everything I have in the world is here.

I can't just walk out and leave it.

This?

This junk?

Jesus Christ, EIIa, these are just things.

The world's full of things.

I can buy you all the things you want.

You'll never understand.

Spare me that, will you?

Christ, the piety of a whore.

What does "piety" mean?

A dumb whore.

Those are my books.

I can see what they are.

- Balanced to the penny.

- I don't care about that now.

I do.

I never cheated on you.

I always made Nate pay.

That was all a nice game, EIIa...

and it's over.

He asked me to marry him.

EIIa, I'm asking you again to leave.

I'm begging you.

I do care for you.

I'm grateful to you, Jim, for everything.

And I love you...

for it.

Try to believe my feeling for you.

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