Rio Bravo Page #6

I see you still have

a little grudge against us.

Four hundred and sixty acres

might be little to you, Nathan.

But it was a lot of country to me.

Don't take no chances, Nathan.

He looks just crazy enough to shoot me.

He's smarter than I thought.

You know,

a court might just call that murder too.

Oh, hell, what's the difference?

We'd all be dead by then.

You got anything else

you wanna say, Burdette?

Just one thing. Joe has friends.

You can't hold Joe

or me responsible for them...

what you say they've done

or what they might do.

I want to make that clear.

Well, I'll help you make it clear.

I don't think

Joe's got a friend in the world.

And he won't have any unless somebody

buys them for him at $50 a head.

Like the fellow that shot Wheeler.

You made it clear.

All right, Stumpy.

- Nathan.

- Just sit tight, Joe.

Send me a bottle before you leave town.

You do that, because part of my job

is to see that it ain't poisoned.

Now sometimes it takes

quite a spell to find out.

- He didn't have much to say, did he?

- No.

What'd you leave him go for?

You had plenty to hold him on.

Anything they're gonna do...

is planned already,

or he wouldn't have come in here.

Throwing him in with Joe would give him

an alibi for whatever happens.

I never thought of that.

- What do you think'II happen?

- I don't know.

You can think, can't you?

Any man can...

I think I told you to get back in there

and stay with that door locked.

Careful how you talk to me.

You hear what Joe said.

You're alone except for a barfly

and an old cripple.

Calling me an old cripple.

I like hearing you say that, Joe.

I gotta fix your supper for you tonight.

Seor Chance. Seor Chance.

It's me, Carlos.

Come on in.

- What do you want?

- I wanna talk to you.

Did the girl get...?

What happened to your eye?

- You told me to put the lady on the stage.

- Oh, she did that? What did you do?

- She did not do it.

- I thought you said she did.

I say, "You tell me to put her on the

stage." Consuela, she hit me in the eye.

- Wait, I'm a little mixed up.

- Do not talk. I tell you.

- Go ahead.

- It is better if I tell you.

You told me to put her on the stage.

The stage is ready, but she don't come.

I yell at her, "Come down."

She said she ain't coming.

- I go and get her, she said she don't go.

- Did she go?

I tell her you say go.

I tell her I am responsible.

She say, no, she is responsible.

And I say, "That may be."

I pick her up. Then Consuela say,

"What are you doing with that woman?"

I say, "I take her to the stage."

The woman said she don't want to go.

- Did she go on the stage?

- Please.

Consuela tell me, "Put her down."

I said, "I am responsible."

Consuela thinks that mean something else.

So she give me this eye.

- What did you do?

- "Do"? What can I do?

My arms is full of the lady.

I can do nothing. I drop her on the floor. She yells.

And she said I tried to kill her.

Did the girl get on the stage?

No, she did not go!

But Jake say he couldn't wait.

- Why?

- He say he must leave.

I mean the girl.

Did she say why she wasn't going?

No. She didn't say.

How can I know if she don't say?

Please, Seor Chance. You come and tell

Consuela what "responsible" means.

Stumpy, we're going out.

Fine. I like to be left alone.

I'm getting used to it.

The door's unlocked.

Well, I didn't go.

I can see that.

I don't know...

I had everything all packed,

then Carlos yelled the stage was ready...

and I heard somebody saying

they weren't going.

It was me saying it.

And you want to know why I didn't go,

don't you, sheriff?

What's your name, anyway?

I don't even know that.

Chance, John T.

"T" for trouble.

I always make you mad, don't I, John T.?

Well, then, don't make me

tell you why I stayed.

I won't make it any harder for you.

I won't get in your way. I'll just be here.

You don't owe me a thing.

And you won't owe me when it's all over.

When that happens,

just tell me to go, and I'll go.

No, you won't even have to tell me.

I'll know by then, and I'll just go.

Is that fair, John T.?

You don't have to answer me now

if you don't want to.

But just say something.

If I weren't in this mess,

it might be different.

But I am.

That's all I wanted to hear.

I'm glad we tried it a second time.

It's better when two people do it.

Well, I've kept you long enough.

You'd better run along now

and do your job.

Hi, Chance.

It's getting too dark to do any good

out there. I'd just be a sitting duck.

Anything happen when Burdette left?

Nice as pie. Didn't say a word.

What was the shot when they came in?

- That gunslinger of his was on the prod.

- What did he do?

Nothing, just grunted and growled,

made a few faces.

I took care of that.

What happened here?

Not much.

That tune, it's been playing it all day.

What is it?

It's some Mexican piece.

I heard it farther south.

Evening, sheriff.

Colorado. What do you want?

Just curious again.

How'd you come out with Burdette?

He wanted to talk to his brother.

- What'd he have to say?

- Nothing.

You mean he didn't say anything?

Why are you so interested?

Because he's talking now.

Hear that music?

He told the man to play it.

What is it?

They call it "The Deguello,"

"The Cutthroat Song."

The Mexicans played it

for those Texas boys...

when they had them

bottled up in the Alamo.

Played it day and night

till it was all over.

Now do you know what he means by it?

No quarter.

- No mercy for the losers.

- You'll be hearing a lot of it.

I guess we made him talk after all.

Just thought you'd like to know, sheriff.

Stumpy!

- What?

- They don't need any help with that tune.

What's the matter,

is it getting through to you?

By the way, the stage got off all right.

I watched it clear through the valley.

In about six days the

marshal will get here.

That's what I figured.

Oh, the girl wasn't on the stage.

I know that.

Tell her she could stay?

No, she...

Yes, I did. What about it?

Nothing, nothing at all.

You were going to say something.

I remembered in time.

I remembered another girl came through

on a stage that stopped over.

I remember you told me she was no good.

I didn't believe you, but you were right.

So naturally I figured you're an expert.

And you know just

what you're doing all the time.

I just hope

you have better luck than I had.

You know, that's the first time

I've been able to laugh about that.

Maybe there's some hope for me yet.

Maybe.

But I doubt it.

That's what I like about you,

you're such an encouraging man.

If you go by the hotel pick up

some coffee and sugar, would you?

Joe complaining?

Him? He don't get no sugar.

His coffee's water poured

over the old grounds.

I'll learn him to talk out of turn.

Before I forget, your gun's a little stiff.

You mind if I file the action a bit?

I don't want you to file no action

on my gun.

I don't want no easy pull. I might

shoot myself. Get somebody else's.

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