Posse Page #6

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I sure hopes you work on credit.

You know how to cheat Mr Death?

By making love. Cos every time

you make love, you can make another life.

And that makes Mr Death mad as hell.

(cheering)

Hi, honey. He's an animal, girl!

Evening, gentlemen.

Sorry to bother you, but certain matters

have come to my attention.

Seems that we have some undesirable

elements in our society, like him.

And... like him.

Do it.

My, my, you do stick out in this crowd.

Sheriff, you can't just come in

and drag people out of here.

I'm gonna ask you nice, just once.

- Where's Jessie Lee?

- I don't know what you talking about.

All right, let's see who's next.

Hey, boy.

You hear me, boy?

You telling me you risk a beating

to protect that outlaw?

He'll bring trouble

to this pretty little coloured town.

Don't touch my woman!

Where is he?

Weezie ain't never done nothing.

Son, you are about to learn

a very valuable lesson.

(groaning and screaming)

(bell ringing)

We got him good, huh?

He asked for it.

What in hell are you looking at?

You ain't seen nothing.

Get back inside!

You heard me!

- Bates! Bates!

- Carver, they got Papa Joe!

What the hell you think you're doing?

You let that man go.

Ain't no darky gonna give me orders. Ever!

Do it, Carver.

Do it.

Do it.

I'm coming back tomorrow with more

men and more guns than you ever seen.

And I want Jessie Lee right here.

Right here!

Dead or alive.

And as for those other two - Papa Joe and

that boy - don't worry about them none.

They're gonna get a fair trial.

Just like Jessie Lee.

- Hey, hey!

- Give me that! Eli!

Settle down.

Get those ladies inside!

Let's break it up! Break it up.

Move!

He tried to save me. That's the first time

anybody tried to save me.

Ain't no profit in trying to save nobody.

You only end up...

You only end up dead.

Jessie, don't you go and do nothing crazy.

- This here's a peaceful town.

- This here ain't peaceful.

Partner, nobody wanted this to happen.

It happened, and you the lawman, so you

better think about what you want to do.

Yeah.

(Lana) Where's Daddy? Daddy!

Lana. Lana.

Sheriff Bates done gone

and took your daddy to Cutterstown

for one of his so-called fair trials.

Jessie.

You know Papa Joe and the other man

won't get no fair trial.

KKK gonna be on 'em before sunrise.

- Let me out! Let me out!

- Pipe down.

You boys will get a fair trial

as God is my witness.

Is that the same God that witnessed you

putting black folks into slavery

and stealing Indians' land?

You ought to be working on

saving your black soul.

Sh*t. I'm working on saving my black ass.

You boys don't worry.

You'll get your fair trial or my name ain't...

- My name...

- Shut up, Tom.

Right. Thank you, Mayor. Tom.

You boys back off.

I can't let you vigilantes come in here

and take these free negroville citizens

and do what you got to do.

For God's sake,

stand up for yourself, Tom!

I'm sorry, Mayor, but they got guns.

Jessie. The real white sheets is coming.

Let's get outta here.

Jessie Lee was here.

He left. He took them with him.

Sh*t fire! You've just shot the mayor!

No, Errol.

Jessie Lee just shot the mayor.

I think the wonderful citizens of

Cutterstown will want me as the new one.

Who are you?

Won't the townspeople be surprised

by the demise of their mayor?

What do you want?

There's no need for animosity.

Any friend of Jessie's is a friend of mine.

- Jessie, are they still following us?

- Hell, yeah. It's like white on rice.

Once the sheriff gets a head of steam up,

he's like a locomotive on a track.

- What did you say?

- I said he's like a locomotive.

Jessie, what is it?

Railroad.

You son of a b*tch.

Boys, this is where

we're gonna part company.

What? What are you saying? You know

what happens when we split up.

- After all we've done, we are a posse.

- Jessie, them deputies killed Little J.

Obobo, I've been fighting over

what's dead for a long time.

It's time I start fighting for what's alive.

You know, Jessie Lee,

besides the fact of you having

something against me keeping my hat on,

I always figured you for an OK guy.

I even thought at the end of this

there'd be some gold.

I reckon I was wrong.

But one thing I do know

is there ain't no profit in dying.

If you go back, you face certain death

from that sheriff or that colonel.

Whichever one it may be, these town

people won't be here when you need 'em.

(Obobo) What if he's right, Jessie?

We shouldn't split up.

(angry shouting)

I know you're angry.

You're ready to destroy, ain't you?

Take matters into your own hands.

That's anger talking. The only thing

anger ever did was tear things down.

- People, we done built something here.

- That's right.

Something good.

Something that's ours.

But we know Sheriff Bates. You think he's

gonna think twice about burning all this?

Jessie should give himself up,

turn himself in.

Cos we have been keeping the peace

and nothing like this happened before.

That white man, he was not one of us.

- No, but Papa Joe is.

- Papa Joe? Hey.

Can I ask y'all a question?

If Bates can ride up into this town,

beat a man to death and get away with it,

what does that mean he can do to you?

We all know what this is really about.

This is about King David.

We loved King David, but he is dead. This

is between you and Sheriff Bates, not us.

Jessie Lee

ain't what Bates wants no more.

What he wants is your town.

Because he knows the iron railroad

is coming through Freemanville,

and whoever owns this property

when the railroad comes is gonna be rich.

Right over on Diablo Plains

they pushing the red man off his land

to make way for that iron railroad.

The same thing they did to that red man,

they gonna do to you.

Jessie's right. I've been through it.

Why do you think Bates is fixing up

his office like that and carrying on?

He got big plans for Cutterstown.

They want this land.

And the only way y'all is gonna keep

this land is to stand up and fight.

No justice, no peace!

(angry shouting)

You talking about a black KK raid

on a white town?

That's crazy.

They ain't soldiers. We ain't in Cuba.

I do believe this boy done got sunstroke.

He about to start a damn war.

Even if we wanted to,

we ain't got enough guns for that.

- Jessie. I'm with them on this.

- All right.

I'm gonna leave.

Y'all think you can sit safe.

You think that railroad's gonna

take a nice little turn and miss this town.

I seen my daddy's dream come true.

I'm done.

But I'm gonna guarantee you something.

The next time I come back to this town,

ain't gonna be one black face here

unless he's polishing shoes

at Bates's railroad station.

(shouting and arguing)

(man) Jessie.

Now, boy, you know me.

You know I ain't never asked nobody

for nothing. But now we need you.

We found out the sheriff

is going to attack us tomorrow noon

and he's blaming you

for killing the mayor.

You was right and we was wrong. But we

got no time to kiss your fuzzy behind.

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