Red Sundown Page #5

of gutless fools who take cover when it starts.

Give the drunks somethin'

to talk about in the winter.

Present the town with

a first-class funeral.

Maybe your good friend

Henshaw will deliver the eulogy.

Will you stop it.

- Make your play.

Don't think about Caroline.

-I've thought of her, and you.

I thought of everything.

There are ways to do

things and that's not one of 'em.

Alright.

Alright!

He's here.

That's Swann, I betcha.

Oh, Dad!

-Caroline, you shouldn't have come back here.

Oh, Dad, please.

- I'll be alright.

No you won't. You know you won't!

You haven't a chance.

Let me go, dear.

- Alright, Jade. I'll take him on.

You want folks to think I was yellow

and siced you on 'im? No, thanks.

I'm telling you you can't go out there.

Look son, no one to tell me

what I can't do, not even you.

He'll be alright.

You gonna use a shotgun?

- You couldn't miss nothing with that.

I do not intend to miss.

I'd crawl before I'd use a shotgun.

- Get inside. Both of you. Go on!.

Chet Swann!

Get outta town.

Well, Alec Longmire!

I almost didn't recognize you

with that cannon in your hands!

Mount up, before I blast

ya all over the street.

Aw... ain't near as friendly as he used to be.

Aren't you even gonna let me

buy you a little drink for old times?

You're wasting your

time. Now, get goin'.

You know, I wouldn't

have believed it. A tin star!

A tin star on Alec Longmire.

Get goin'!

Alright.

I guess you ain't the

Alec I used to know.

So long, Alec.

I'll see you around.

Go on home.

The show's over.

What show?

Come on, Chuck.

- Want your star back?

No, Alec, you can keep it.

I was wrong, dead wrong

Isn't over. Henshaw

hasn't stopped yet.

He'll try somethin'.

Come on. I'll buy ya

a drink. You need it.

Drop it, Alec.

It's a nice chair ya got

here. Real comfortable.

I thought I told you to get out of town.

-That was your cannon talkin'.

I should've let you

have it with, both barrels.

Now what a way to talk to a

guest, an old friend at that.

You can save the auld lang syne.

We never were friends.

Weren't we?

I got a job, Alec.

Well, don't tell me

about it. I'm not interested.

You mean you're

not interested in living?

Must be kinda dull,

being a lawman

.

Yes, especially when

I have to listen to you.

Be social. You're makin' me sorry I didn't

squeeze the trigger when you came through the door.

.

What stopped you?

I do not know.

Call it friendship.

I hate to repeat myself, but I don't

like any part of you and I never did.

You can't change by

pinnin' a tin star on your shirt.

You and me,

were two of a kind.

If that's so, you better put that

six shooter to work right now.

You know, I don't get you.

Here I keep tellin' myself, there's

no sense doin' in a fellow gunfighter...

especially since I already

been paid for the job.

And here you are, askin'

me for a ticket to Boot Hill.

Alec, get smart.

Move on with me.

I'm not going anywhere yet.

This is a nice town with nice people.

This bunch of fat bellies?

I happen to like it enough

to stick around for a while.

You think they'll forget,

what you were?

Why should they?

I won't.

You know, I don't know what

you got against gunfighters.

You gotta have gunfighters,

wouldn't be right not to

Be like not havin' rattlers in the desert.

Now, doesn't that make real sense?

Get up.

That's a nice soft bed you got there.

But you better not be

sleeping on it from here on.

Just in case any of you can't

read or have poor eyesight...

I'll read the notice to you.

Triple X will fence tomorrow.

Interference will be met with gunfire.

Is that a legal notice you're posting, Mr. Henshaw?

You can take it anyway you like.

We don't like it 'n we're not gonna take it.

- Exactly my sentiments.

We'll be waiting for you.

- He's got that wrong, hadn't he?.

What Mr. Henshaw means

is, we'll be waiting on him...

while he cools off in our comfortable jail.

Open your eyes.

Those are rifle barrels

breathing down your neck.

Take your blinders off

Henshaw and look around.

Alright, get their guns. All of 'em.

I think you'll find our jail a

little more peaceful, Mr. Henshaw.

What is the charge?

- Disturbing the peace. Least that'll do for a start.

In that case, neither of you

will be around for the finish.

Why don't you stop talking so big?

Let him talk.

Go ahead and talk.

- He'll be back.

- Swann?

And this time he'll put

a bullet in your back

You rat. You're the

kind that breeds gunslingers.

Never dirty your own hands,

never fight your own battles,

never stick your own neck out.

I fight fire with fire,

gunslinger with gunslinger.

Now, let's lock 'im up.

Ruf... Here's your drink of water.

Anything else you'd like?

Yes, a seat by the window...

So I can watch you

and Longmire get yours.

That's not Swann.

What's going on here?

- Stick around.

Your liable to see something you

can tell your grandchildren about.

- Yeah? Yep.

Alec.

You better get inside somewhere.

-I have to talk to you.

This is hardly the place.

Please Alec.

I want to apologize.

I'm sorry for believing

you couldn't change.

Sorry for thinking what I thought

when I saw you with that girl.

Did you talked to Maria?

- No.

She couldn't tell me

anything I don't know about you.

What do you know?

- That I'm afraid for you.

Oh Alec, must you wait for Swann.

What do you want me to do, run away and hide?

- If it would keep you alive, yes.

But I wanna stay alive.

So please Caroline, go away.

I gotta keep my eyes open and

my mind on nothin' else but Swann.

Isn't there any another way?

I made a promise to a man before he died.

I promised him I would quit livin' by the gun...

And here I am, with

a gun still in hands

Then why stay?

Because I'm wearin' this badge.

The only place I've got a

right to wear it, is in this town.

That's why I've got to wait

for Swann to show up again.

So please Caroline, go

inside somewhere. Will you?

Alec, I'm gonna get up a posse.

Swann'll smell a posse a mile away.

- Well, at least we'll scare off.

Yeah, and I'll be livin'

scared, jumpin' at shadows.

Why don't you

let me do it my way?

Come on, Caroline.

Come on, honey.

Where's Jade going?

- Not far, I betcha .

Dad, I can take care of myself.

Now, do not argue about it. You're

gonna stay at Mrs. Blake's 'til it's over.

Are you going to get up a posse?

- I tried.

Hold it Jade!

Move this way.

Both of you!

Come on.

Dad!

Oh Dad!

Let me go! Let me go!

This ain't like us, Alec.

Splash the shotgun, and I'll

let the lady go about her business.

Then we can go about ours.

One sound outta

you and it's your last.

Alec! Look out!

He got 'im!

- He did it! He did it!

Hey Alec, you going away?

You leavin' town?

I am.

- No! Why?

Why Alec?

- You wouldn't understand man.

Morning, Alec.

Morning Jade. How you feelin'?

- Better, thank you.

Well uh, you

might be needin' this.

I'm here to say goodbye.

- Where you going?

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