The Defiant Ones Page #4

Come on, you heard me.

Wait!

Outta my way, Sam,

or you'll have trouble, too.

- I told you. Joe's gonna be all right.

- You told me. Fine!

You just don't give a damn, do ya?

All right. The rest of you big men,

you wanna lynch 'em, huh?

You, Glover.

You look anxious. Go ahead.

Tie it around their necks. Go on!

You want blood, huh?

Well, here. Go ahead! Chop 'em up!

Go on!

Or do you wanna burn 'em?

Do you wanna burn 'em, huh?

You wanna burn 'em?

Or do you wanna burn 'em?

Go on! Burn 'em!

Mac!

Go on! Burn their eyes out!

Now,

any more big men?

Joe's all right.

Took six stitches, but he's OK.

All right. Lock them two up.

I'll take 'em back in the mornin'

in the wagons.

Put Mac in the shack where he belongs.

The rest of you go to bed.

Long gone

Ain't he lucky

Long gone

To Kentucky

Long gone

What I mean

Long gone Sam on a bowlin' green

Bowlin' green

Sewin' machine

Little kitten sittin'

On a sewin' machine

Sewin' machine

Sew so fast

Sew eleven stitches

You musta been crazy

to do a thing like that.

They might've beat us to death.

They still might.

What you got to live for, Joker?

You wanna spend the next 20 years

on some chain gang, bustin' rock?

It's better than bein' dead.

You ever seen a lynchin'?

Why?

Cos anybody as scared as you was, man,

they... they got to have seen a lynchin'.

Yeah, I seen a lynchin'.

I seen what they do to a guy,

how they drag him outta jail in the middle

of the night, like that mob out there.

They start drinkin'.

Then they start thinkin'.

And Big Sam, he falls asleep somewhere.

Then that mob comes in here

and they get us. Then what?

That's mighty easy for you, Joker.

You just tell 'em you're a white man.

(lock being forced open)

Wait a minute. What are you doin'?

I didn't hear any wagon bein' hitched up.

I'm lettin' you loose.

What do you mean,

you're lettin' us loose?

I already told you. I'm lettin' you loose.

Wait a minute.

How about lettin' us have that crowbar?

Don't go to pressin' your luck too far, boy.

Come on.

Wait a minute.

If you get caught,

wasn't nobody let you loose.

You broke out yourselves. Understand?

Yeah, yeah. Thanks.

Run, chicken.

Run.

( rock'n'roll)

Hold on, man. Wait. Wait.

I gotta rest.

We musta run a million miles.

How far do you think we run?

Man, you sure can run. You'd have killed

us both if I didn't make you stop.

Why don't you say somethin'?

What have you got to squawk about?

We got away, didn't we?

You got nothin' to say, huh?

You oughta be thankin' me.

You didn't put up any fight.

I had to do all the talkin'.

Look, man, don't gimme that look.

You shoulda got what was comin' to ya,

after spittin' in that guy's face.

Why, you...!

You afraid of catchin' my colour?

- You pickin' a hand to me?

- To you? The bigshot taker?

You're just a talker!

Tell me all about Charlie Potatoes, when

the chain's off and nobody's chasin' ya!

Come on.

You can't, can ya?

You can't, because you're nothin'. Not

even a man! You're a monkey on a stick!

That cracker mob back there -

they pulled the string and you jumped!

You said one day

we were gonna tangle, Joker.

You said the time was gonna come,

and that time is now!

- I'm gonna kill you!

- That's right, white man.

You kill me.

Only it ain't so easy to kill me, is it?

(kid) Put up your hands!

Come on up here!

- Let's get outta here!

- Wait a minute.

- Cullen, there may be people around!

- Wait a minute!

- He bumped his head.

- Come on.

Let me go!

Keep him away from me!

Don't let him hurt me!

- He ain't gonna hurt ya.

- Where you live, kid?

- Go on, answer him.

- Over the hill.

That way?

- Tell him.

- Yeah.

- What you doin' out here?

- Huntin'.

- Your pa let you out huntin' by yourself?

- He ain't here no more.

- Who you live with?

- My ma.

- Just you and your ma?

- Uh-huh.

How come you're chained together

like that? Are you takin' him to jail?

Well, somethin' like that.

You must have a lot of friends,

a smart kid like you. A lot of neighbours.

Uh-uh. Just Ma and me.

We work the farm.

Sometimes on Sunday we go over to

Cumberland, to visit my Uncle George.

- What's your name, boy?

- Billy.

Billy, uh? Come on,

we'll get you home, Billy.

What's the matter?

Nothin', Ma. I'm all right.

What do you want?

Don't get excited, lady.

All we want is somethin' to eat.

Come on.

Kid, come here.

- Where you goin'?

- You wanted somethin' to eat.

- You got a chisel and a big hammer?

- In the shed, if I can find 'em.

- Is it OK, Ma?

- Go ahead.

Where's his? Get him some.

Go on!

You ain't feelin' so good, eh, Joker?

I'm feelin' fine. Don't worry about me.

I ain't worried about ya.

- I got some coffee.

- Thanks.

Him too?

What are you lookin' at?

Where you from?

You can talk to me.

You don't have to be afraid to talk to me.

Gets lonesome here.

That's a nice picture.

- I made it myself.

- Oh, yeah?

It ain't so much. You buy 'em in the store.

It's got numbers on it where you're

supposed to put the colours, you know.

It's all right.

I like pretty things.

Did you paint that one, too?

That?

No.

No, I cut that out of a magazine.

What is it?

"A scene of gay revelry at the

Mardi Gras in Old New Orleans."

Where's that kid?

He'll be back.

Relax, Cullen. He'll be back.

Uh...

I've been to the Mardi Gras.

Yeah? Is it really like what it says?

It's all right.

You mean it ain't like what it says?

No, it's fine. It's very nice.

A lot of music and a lot of dancin'.

Good-lookin' women.

Oh, I...

I must look awful. I...

I been doin' the washin'.

Are you gonna be stayin' long?

No?

They comin' after you?

There's a train.

Tomorrow. Hits the ridge about

one o'clock in the afternoon.

It's a good place to catch it, too.

It goes slow up the ridge.

How come... how come you know

so much about the train?

My husband used to work for the line.

I found 'em.

- You got enough room for a swing?

- You just hold that chain, Joker.

Now me.

Here, hold that.

We cut loose now.

What's the matter with him?

He's sick. He got poison in his system.

- Heat some water!

- Stay where you are, kid.

Do like I told you!

Well, you get in there with him.

All right, they hit you. Then what?

What did you do to them?

I don't know. The next thing I know,

the doctor is fixin' me up.

Do you know what happened last night?

No, huh?

You, lady?

You? Were you deaf and blind

last night, too?

They sent us women away.

Why?

Ask them.

Sam, what did you do with 'em?

Like I told you before, Sheriff.

We caught 'em, locked 'em up.

They broke out and ran away.

Those jimmy marks are

on the outside of the door.

They didn't break out. Somebody

broke in and got them. Who was it?

I wouldn't know about that, Sheriff.

I run a turpentine camp, not a jail.

Who came for them, Sam?

Who came and got them?

Sam, if you lynched 'em,

you'd better tell me now.

The dogs are gonna find 'em anyhow.

Why'd we wanna kill 'em? Appears to me

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