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is perfect and can do no wrong.

You're not getting attached

to the emigrants, are you?

What do you mean?

I notice those emigrant girls

had an eye for you.

I've been thinking,

the Taylor girl is awful pretty.

- It's time you took a wife.

- I don't want one right now.

Gwen Taylor is sweet on Donald.

I'm the Bishop around here.

You can have any girl you want as a wife.

I'm not interested in her, Father.

I don't want someone to marry me

just because you're the Bishop.

Why not?

You have your mother's looks, my position.

Any girl would be proud to be sealed to you.

She was beautiful.

At least, that's how I remember her.

Is that how you remember her?

She was considered the most beautiful

woman in these parts.

What happened to my mother?

After all these years, what does it matter?

It matters to me.

The Apostle took her away.

I want to know why.

He had a revelation that she was

supposed to be his wife.

And you believed him?

She already had a family and a husband.

She was sealed to you in the Church.

As the Apostle Heber says,

"Learn to do as you are told.

"If you are told by your leaders

to do a thing, do it.

"It's none of your business

whether it be right or wrong."

It's wrong to take a mother

from her children,

a wife from her husband.

No one can do that.

There are many things

that we don't understand,

because we don't have

direct revelations from God.

You didn't even argue with him, did you?

He was one of the Apostles.

I had no right to argue with him.

She knew.

She saw through the lie

and came back for us.

- Jonathan.

- She was willing to die for us.

You were there.

What are you talking about?

You were there when she died.

You don't understand. I loved her.

When I die, her secret name

will be the first name I'll call.

I will make her celestial goddess

of my planet.

You loved her but you let the Apostle

take her away and kill her.

I had no choice.

You're responsible for her death!

Jonathan! Jonathan! Stop!

Stop, Jonathan! You'll kill him!

- Just like he killed my mother!

- He didn't kill her!

- He was there!

- He didn't kill her!

- I saw him there.

- He didn't kill her.

The Danites killed her

and the Apostle made him watch.

My mother said he cried for months.

I would die for the woman I loved

before I saw her murdered.

Get up!

Get up.

What for?

You're going to the temple

for your endowments.

But...

I haven't taken the test.

How can I get a recommend?

I'm the Bishop.

I decide what you do and when you do it.

You're temple-worthy, and you're going to

the temple whether you like it or not.

Your brothers will escort you.

Don't argue, Jonathan. Just do it.

Everyone who passes through

their endowment in the Temple

are placed under the most sacred obligation

to avenge the blood of the Prophet

whenever an opportunity arises.

You must teach your children

to do the same.

The entire Mormon people are sworn and

avowed enemies of the American nation.

The blood of Christ will never wipe that out.

Your own blood must atone for it,

and the judgments of the Almighty

will come, sooner or later,

and every man or woman will have to atone

for breaking their covenant.

"We and each of us covenant and promise

"that we will not reveal

any of the secrets of this,

"the second token of Aaronic priesthood

"with its accompanying name,

sign or penalty.

"Should we do so,

we agree to have our breasts cut open

"and our hearts and vitals

torn out from our bodies

"and given to the birds of the air

and the beasts of the field."

Hold me. Don't ever let me go.

I won't, I promise.

I didn't think you were coming.

I will always come back for you.

Nothing, nobody will ever keep

anything between us.

I have never met anyone like you.

I've never met anyone like you.

I've loved you since the first moment

I saw your beautiful face.

We don't even know each other.

Do you think it can happen so fast?

Love at first sight.

It's only a matter of minutes,

or maybe seconds.

- And it lasts forever.

- Forever.

Jonathan, does your father have more

than one wife?

Yes. He has 18.

Eighteen? How can a man

have so many wives?

Well, the Prophet, Brigham Young,

he has 27.

Well, how many wives will you have?

Well, if I married someone like you,

why would I want to marry anybody else?

Captain Fancher! Oh, dear God, no.

God, no!

- We found her in the river.

- Captain Fancher!

Oh, God.

Don't let the children see this.

What happened?

We don't know.

We found her floating in the river.

- What were you doing down at the river?

- I just went there to bathe.

And what were you doing there?

Emily, you need to be

with Nancy's children now.

- But...

- Emily, they're alone now.

- Where are you going?

- To help...

I don't think that's a good idea

right now, son.

You're not one of us. You don't belong here.

Best be on your way.

Let us take care of our own.

I'm sorry.

I'm very sorry.

In these perilous times, it's important

to remember God's commandment

to love even those who hate us.

"Thou hast commanded us

to keep thy precepts diligently.

"O that my ways were directed

to keep thy statutes!"

"Thou hast rebuked

the proud that are cursed,

"which do err from thy commandments."

"I've chosen the way of truth."

Jonathan.

Jonathan, wake up.

You're still here.

I couldn't leave.

We're leaving soon.

And Captain Fancher wants us gone

by first light.

First light?

Yes.

Nancy's death has made us all very nervous.

Then I'm going with you.

- To California?

- Yes, to California.

You would leave everything

and just come with me to California?

Yes.

Because I love you

and I want you to marry me.

You do?

I would give up my life for you.

This is my pledge to marry you.

And this represents

my commitment to leave.

She's beautiful.

She was my mother.

She would have loved you.

I have to get back before they miss me.

I'll slip out early

and I'll be back by first light.

- All right.

- I promise.

I've asked for this special meeting

of the Saints

because we're about to embark

on one of our greatest missions.

Not even your closest wives must know.

You all agree to a vow of secrecy?

- Yes.

- Yes.

The Gentiles have once again

invaded our land.

I had a vision.

- I had a vision.

- What's going on?

Where were you?

The Prophet Joseph Smith

came to me last night and he said,

"How long will you let the Gentiles

continue to drive us away?"

And I couldn't answer him.

I couldn't answer him.

Then Joseph Smith whispered that God

has decreed these Gentiles are cursed.

And that they will murder

every Mormon man, woman and child.

- Never! Never!

- Wait!

- Stop it!

- Wait, let me speak!

Mormon Saints,

do you remember the Mormon War?

Yes!

They ran us out of Missouri!

Are we going to wait for them to burn

our houses and slaughter us again?

No! No! No!

- These Gentiles must die!

- Yes! Die!

It's not true! It's not true!

I've been among them.

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