Jane Got a Gun Page #3

you got left.

Why'd you change your mind

to help me?

I don't know.

Well, I'm grateful

that you did.

Well, that's okay.

I got all the gratitude I need

right here

rolled up in my pocket.

You are such a prick.

A prick that's come

to protect you

and your piece of sh*t husband.

You don't know

the first thing about Ham.

Well, I know

that he's a criminal.

You know, he could've taken

those five bullets

and laid down

by some pretty river somewhere

and let the Lord take him.

What kind of man brings

that sh*t home to his wife?

The kind of man

who doesn't quit.

The kind of man who always

comes home, no matter what.

Goddamn it!

I came home, Jane.

And you were gone.

And I rode halfway across

the damn country

looking for you.

Yeah, showing your picture

to everybody

from Missouri to New Mexico

like a beggar.

When? When was that?

'Cause I waited

for three years, Dan.

You might as well been dead.

If I were dead,

you would've seen my name

on the list at the post office;

that's how it works.

Well, if you'd been alive,

I would've seen my name

on a letter

at that same post office, Dan.

Hell, you got tired of waiting,

you just found yourself

an outlaw.

I guess a fickle woman's

grief moves very quickly.

What would you know

about grief?

You know what, Dan?

You might want to see a day

where the sun don't just shine

on your story.

'Cause there is

a whole world out there

of other people's tales,

you just care and listen.

Okay, well,

if we get through this,

you can tell me

all about it, Jane.

But right now,

I'm busy digging.

Probably our graves.

Dan. I'm getting the dynamite.

Howdy, friend.

You didn't happen to see

an Appaloosa

back there on the trail?

With no rider, no saddle?

Pea-brain wife gone

and left the gate open again.

No.

Maybe you seen

what I'm looking for.

I don't know. What's that?

Fella by the name

of Bill Hammond.

Little on the big side.

A little shot up.

No, sir.

This here is my property,

and...

You telling me to get

off your property, mister?

Well, no.

It's just,

I would've seen a man

bleeding on my property is all.

Well, this here is the last

place out here for miles.

Next house

is over yonder ridge.

Couple by the name of Johnson.

Everything else you probably

would've seen the way you came.

And that there ridge...

that's the end

of the line, mister.

I know you?

I damn sure know her.

Where are the rest of them?

Where are they?

I said, where are they?

All over this f***ing valley,

you goddamn cocksucker.

How many?

Are you deaf?

I said, how many?!

Maybe ten.

Could be a hundred.

Minus one.

Getting his horse.

What'd you do with the body?

I buried him under some rocks.

I don't want that bastard

on my land.

We get through this, Jane,

I will be happy

to move him for you.

It pain you to take a life

like that?

Pain me a lot more

to let him do it to me.

Only point of a battle, Jane,

is to end it in your favor.

You kill the other guy.

Otherwise, he'll kill you.

You know, fear is good, Jane.

Fear will keep you alive.

We're gonna be outnumbered.

The hell with numbers.

We had the Johnnies outnumbered

well and truly.

You know, it took us four years

to do what we should've done

in a few months,

because they had

will and purpose.

If you got those two things,

numbers ain't sh*t.

Now, I didn't understand that

until I went through it myself.

Lived it.

The Rebels, they captured me

just outside of Seven Pines.

And they put me

in a prison camp

not a lot of men

made it out of.

It's the ones that had

something really strong

to hold on for.

If I didn't have

a picture of you...

in my mind's eye...

I never would've made it.

A man loses purpose,

that's when a man dies.

After the war

ended, they let us go.

Jane.

I gotta get to work.

The first thing I did

was come looking for you.

When I finally found you...

seeing you holding

another man's child...

She's a good girl.

I knew

you weren't mine no more.

And that did something to me

that the war never could.

What's the matter, outlaw?

Don't tell me

you got a problem with a-a...

a man taking a thing

that don't belong to him.

Acting like he got a claim

to putting his hand

on something that he don't?

Here you go.

A man pays for everything

he takes, Hammond.

You're no different.

I've been wanting

to kill you all day.

You know,

I've seen a lot of men carry

that same look of death

that you got right now.

Yeah, you're fixin' to make

the very big jump, my friend.

Straight to perdition.

And while you're burning...

just know that Jane and I

will be right up above you.

And I want you to...

I want you

to think about that

with the shank of time

that you got left.

Don't know what it is

you ever see in that man, Jane.

You want to have

a word with us, Hammond?

Well, you know

what I been thinking, boys?

I'm starting to take a shine

to that Jane over there.

We did notice that.

Well, I was fixin'

to go and declare myself...

in Raphael.

You want to keep Jane?

-Like to.

-For yourself?

Yep. Settle down.

Were you fixin' on

marrying her?

Intend to ask her.

Girl like that

could set me straight.

Man gets tired

of running from the law.

Well, come on, now.

Think about it.

A woman like that... how much

money she'd make for me.

Wait, wait, wait. -Now,

Hammond, Hammond, Hammond.

-Easy now here, Hammond.

-Calm down.

Now I'm starting

to have a problem.

The problem is that

that is not your property.

You telling me

she's your property?

The money that she's worth...

-Are you f***in' kidding me?

-This is just horseshit.

-Easy, Ham.

-We'll talk about it in the...

Fixed the wagon.

They don't show by dawn,

I say we load Ham up...

try the ridge.

What about your daughter?

She stays with Bekah

till we get settled.

Jane.

You can let the sun shine

on your story...

if you s...

still have a mind to.

Not much sun in my story.

Yeah.

War was...

ceaseless, you know.

The smell of death...

everywhere.

Our road we used

to walk to town...

I saw...

I saw dead bodies hangin'.

Girls I knew, widows,

they said...

said they were

going out west,

town called...

Raphael, New Mexico.

And sunshine all day and silver

streaming from the hills.

You weren't there.

So I...

decided we should go.

And Bishops,

they offered protection, but...

they had other intentions.

Bishop was setting up

a new town.

What's a town

without a cathouse?

And then, of course,

you need girls.

Girls with no one

to protect 'em.

That man dying down there...

one you call a criminal...

he was the only one

who tried to stop 'em.

He was the only one.

He tried to help us.

Who's "us," Jane?

You keep saying "us."

Two months after you left,

I found out I was with child.

I named her Mary

after your mother.

Hey, Vic.

You seen where Jane's at?

In Lullaby with Bishop.

Workin'.

And what about Mary?

Mary.

Bishop told me

to take care of her.

Wasn't sure what he meant by

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