I Shot Jesse James Page #2

Sure. When I give a present,

I like to make it complete.

Well, go ahead, Bob.

What are you waitin' for?

There's my back.

Here. Scrub it.

Hey, Bob.

I'm goin' to town.

I'll see you in the mornin'.

What are you doin'

pokin' around out there, Bob?

Come on in. Let's talk.

It's kind of lonesome without Frank around.

It ain't lawful. Even folks in town what

don't likeJesseJames is sayin' it ain't lawful.

Don't you fret about it, Zee.

It's just as if the governor was advertisin'

to hire an assassin to go and kill you unawares.

I ain't killed yet, Zee.

I pick my friends, and I know 'em.

No friend of mine would swallow

that immunity offered by the governor.

Ain't that -

What are you so nervous for?

Did Cynthy turn you down?

Yeah. Kind - Kinda.

Think I'll go in to St. Joe

and buy a new horse.

You can fetch the children

home from school with ya.

Yeah. I'll do that, Zee.

I'm tired.

I guess maybe Zee's right.

Time I settled down.

That's what you ought to do, Bob -

get yourself a wife and a home.

That's what I'm aimin' to do, Jess.

It's only 11:
00.

Think I'll wait until later

this afternoon and go in town.

It's an awful hot day.

Feel kind of naked without my weapons.

No, sir.

Nothin' like putterin' around a home.

There's no 10,000.

The governor didn't conspire with you

to assassinateJesse.

The reward was $5,000

for his apprehension.

Five for conviction.

All you get is 500.

Bob, you ought to see the way folks

look at me when I walk down the street.

You ought to see 'em, Bob.

- That $10,000?

- 500.

- What happened to the rest of it?

- What's the difference?

I got enough to buy Cynthy a ring -

a diamond ring. A great big one.

- You can be best man.

- Oh, not me.

I'm not hanging around waiting

for a ball from FrankJames's gun...

or buckshot from some of the folks

what don't like what happened toJess.

- Scared?

- He'll get you, Bob.

He'll get both of us.

I'm ridin' out.

Stake me, Bob?

- Here's a hundred.

- Thanks, Bob.

- Watch yourself.

- Yeah.

I still got enough to buy Cynthy

a big diamond ring.

Miss Waters.

Miss Waters.

I beg your pardon.

It's Kelley.

John Kelley.

I, uh, was talking to the manager,

Mr. Kane.

He told me you changed your mind.

You're not going to leave the show.

I'm glad to hear it.

There's something troubling you,

Miss Waters. Uh, can't I help?

I'm, uh...

living at the North Hotel

if there's anything I can do to help.

John Kelley, North Hotel.

Cynthy.

Cynthy.

- What's the matter?

- How could you have done it?

Jesse, your best friend.

How, Bob? How?

- I didn't do it for the reward.

- I know, I know, I know!

Then why are you looking at me

like I'm poison?

Can't you understand what's happened?

You got me kind of all mixed up.

When you pulled that trigger,

all the love I had for you -

- But I done it for you.

- Don't say that! Don't ever say that!

- But it's true, Cynthy.

- Can't you see how wrong it was?

- It was legal.

- It was murder.

Don't look at it that way.

You ought to be proud of me.

The governor's grateful. The law says it's legal.

Don't look at it no other way.

What other way can I look at it?

Cynthia.

I ain't on the run no more.

I can walk down the street, and nobody-

not even the whole militia - can bother me.

That's what the shooting means to you?

What it means to me -

It means I'm a free man.

Ain't that what you wanted, Cynthy?

Ain't it?

'Tweren't easy shootin'Jess.

It weren't easy.

But there's nothin'

I wouldn't do to have you.

Nothin'.

Your weddin' ring.

I can't.

- Cynthy!

- You're hurting me.

What do you think you're doing to me?

Listen, Cynthy.

When I killed Jess, I had a cause.

If you turn against me, I got no reason.

The way you did it, Bob -

Oh, can't you understand?

The love I had for you was -

No, it ain't that.

Something else has turned you from me.

I ain't a murderer.

So there's gotta be a reason.

Kelley! That's who it is! Kelley!

You're talkin' crazy.

What was he doin' here when I came in?

Did you see him much

when I was in jail?

- Stop it!

- I knew there had to be a reason.

I knew.

Bob, you're wrong about Kelley!

He's got nothin'to do with us!

Come in.

You've got to leave St. Joe at once -

right away.

- I have to what?

- Bob Ford's gonna kill you.

Yeah? Why?

Because he thinks we're in love.

- Oh, he does, huh?

- Yes.

- How does he know?

- There's no time to waste. You've got to leave.

Is that, uh - Is that an order?

Oh, it's a fact that'll save your life.

- Or, uh, his?

- Oh, please, Mr. Kelley.

Just a minute, Miss Waters.

We, uh, hardly know each other. Up to now -

- There's no time to - - You're not

giving me any chance to get to know ya.

You barge in here

and tell me I have to run away...

just because that hotheaded Ford

says we're lovers.

- Don't make sense.

- His guns do.

Yeah. That does give him quite an edge.

- He's dangerous.

- Why?

Because he killed his best friend?

Look, I'm telling you to go

because I don't want any more bloodshed.

- He's jealous and -

- Was, uh, JesseJames in love with you too?

- It was for the amnesty.

- And not the reward.

- He wanted to be free to marry me.

- Look. We're wasting time.

He's on his way up here now

looking for you.

I don't think he'll shoot

unless I turn my back.

He killed JesseJames because of me.

He didn't want money.

He wanted me.

Just as if I pulled that trigger myself.

And now he thinks we're lovers.

Oh, don't you see, Mr. Kelley?

I don't want any more murders because of me.

Please help me.

I'm sorry. I didn't understand.

Then you'll go at once? Right now?

Do you love him?

Yes.

I don't believe you.

You couldn't love him.

I don't like what I'm doing, but...

if it's what you want,

it's good enough for me.

Come on.

Eight.

- Ten.

- All right.

There goes another four bits.

So you really know

the whole clan, hmm?

All of them. The mother of the Dalton boys

was Adelaide Younger-

half sister of the Younger brothers,

cousins of theJames boys.

Six.

Nine.

- So they're all kind of related.

- Just one big family.

Cole and Jim

and Bob and John Younger and...

Grat and Emmett Dalton

and Frank and Jess...

and Jim Reed and Belle Starr

and their son.

Four.

Eight.

You're just having a run of bad luck.

Yeah. Uh...

would you mind letting me

look at that. 45 now?

You know...

this gun'll probably end up

in a museum someday.

Not while I'm alive to tote it.

Uh, curtain'll go up at the usual time.

You better hurry up.

I mean, take your time. I'll see you later.

I'll be around.

Been waitin' for you, Cynthy.

I'm sorry for what I said.

I was wrong about Kelley.

He checked out of town.

You ain't sore, are ya?

No.

You know, I've been thinkin'

about us, and...

it's wrong for us to get married now.

I know what you were trying to tell me

without hurting my feelings.

- Do you, Bob?

- Sure. It ain't right for a man...

to get married if he ain't got

enough money to take care of his wife.

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