The Lone Ranger Page #5

- (CHANTING)

But the Comanche didn't

attack the settlements!

White man does not know this.

But you're going to tell them.

I mean, you did tell them, right?

(GROANING)

My name's John Reid,

and I know that you didn't

raid those settlements.

If you let me go, I can prove it.

There doesn't have to

be a war, understand?

No. Of course you don't.

Mmm!

Good. Good.

Me, Spirit Walker

(STAMMERS) from great beyond.

The hunter of wendingo

- and the other things.

- (SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Sunstroke?

Or his mind is poisoned with whiskey.

Comanche gesture of respect?

What's with the mask?

What?

Tonto told you these things?

That's right.

And he told you to wear the mask?

(LAUGHTER)

That's funny?

Very funny.

JOHN:
Tonto's a Comanche.

He's one of you.

No more.

What do you mean?

His mind is broken.

He is a band apart.

Many moons ago,

a boy found two white men

in the desert.

He brought them to

his village to be healed.

When they found silver in the river,

they asked the boy where it came from.

In exchange for a cheap pocket watch

from Sears Roebuck,

the boy showed them

where the river begins,

where they found more silver

than any white man had ever seen.

They took what they could carry,

but they wanted to

keep the place a secret,

so they could one day return.

(GUNSHOT)

The boy could not live

with what he had done,

so he decided the men were possessed

by evil spirits in the silver.

He called it "windigo,"

like the ghost stories

we tell our children.

And he made a vow.

When he found these two men,

he would drain their blood

into the soil of his ancestors,

so he could return to the tribe.

But he is too late.

There is no more tribe to return to.

Our time has passed.

They call it "progress."

You're John Reid, brother of Dan.

Yes.

By this totem, your brother swore

if we kept the peace,

he would protect our land.

Now the Cavalry cut down our children.

Like all white men, your brother lied.

No. No, Dan was murdered.

And if you let me go,

I'll keep his promise.

So, we have a deal?

Not so much.

My name come up?

(IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(WHOOPING)

Please, this is a mistake.

There doesn't need to be a war.

It makes no difference.

We are already ghosts.

- (SHOUTS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

- (INDIANS WHOOPING)

(COUGHING)

Shh! Shh!

(TRUMPET BLOWING)

Cavalry.

Let us bring the pure scepter

of Almighty God

to the heathens! (YELLING)

Oh, thank God! Civilization.

We'll just explain the entire situation,

and we'll get this whole

misunderstanding cleared up.

The United States Army.

Finally someone

who will listen to reason.

(SOLDIERS YELLING)

JOHN:
Help! Over here!

Wait!

Perhaps they didn't see us.

Oh, no.

They will be back any minute now.

Could be worse.

Worse?

How could this be worse?

Could develop an itch

on your nose.

I'm not talking to you anymore.

(FAINT CLINKING)

(SKITTERING)

What is that?

You hear it, too?

I was hoping it was in my head.

This is worse.

- (BLOWING)

- Hmm.

Nature is most definitely...

- Out of balance.

- Mmm.

(HORSE NEIGHING)

Hello again.

(NEIGHS)

Any chance you could...

Atta boy! Yes! Thank you.

Uh...

Ah!

Here we go, okay, go!

(STRAINING)

(GRUNTS) Thank you.

TONTO:
Going, kemosabe?

Uh-huh.

To find Rebecca and Danny?

Yup.

- To capture Cavendish?

- That's right.

Hmm.

Where the river begins?

Exactly.

It is a good day to die.

Yeah, well,

same to you. (URGES HORSE)

Come on.

(HOOFBEATS APPROACH)

"Where the river begins."

You know where that is, don't you?

Where the river begins.

(MEN TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

(MAN SHOUTS IN CHINESE)

- (GASPS)

- Oh!

Sorry, Butch. It was an accident. I'm...

I didn't mean it.

(MAN SPEAKING CHINESE)

What the hell is that damn noise?

(SPEAKING CHINESE)

Sorry, Butch.

They say they won't go inside no more.

Indian spirits or some damn thing.

They say they causing the cave-ins.

(SPEAKS CHINESE)

He the one doing the talking?

That's right.

(WORKERS EXCLAIM IN SHOCK)

Anybody else want to negotiate?

You?

They don't even speak English, Butch.

I think they understood.

Now go show them

there's nothing to be afraid of.

Do I have to ask twice?

(STAMMERING) I've been thinking.

Why don't we just take

what we can carry

and get out of here?

I mean, hell, we already rich.

Right?

Scraps?

Yeah.

You think I waited 20 years

- for scraps?

- (FRANK GROANS)

I'm taking all of it!

Every damn piece!

(WHIMPERING) I'm sorry!

Now, get In there

before I put a hole in you!

Sorry. I'm sorry.

Get in there.

(BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM)

Frank?

Ray,

Skinny,

go get him.

Frank?

- (FLUTTERING)

- (BOTH GASP)

(SCREAMING)

(WORKERS CHATTERING

NERVOUSLY)

(GASPS)

(CAVENDISH GROANING)

It can't be.

The Rangers are dead.

Where are they?

You're dead.

JOHN:
Rebecca and Danny.

If you hurt them, I swear

to God, I'll make you pay.

...to the full extent of the law.

I'll be damned.

Lawyer and a crazy Injun.

(C*CKS GUN)

JOHN:
Tell me.

(INHALING DEEPLY)

Had a nice smell on her.

Didn't she?

(GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

CAVENDISH:
See?

You're no spirit.

You're just a man in a mask.

You're no different than me.

Finish him.

No.

This Isn't justice.

Justice

is what a man must take for himself.

No, I can't believe that.

I won't.

Windigo cut out brother's heart.

Where Is brother's justice?

I'm not a savage.

You are not a man.

- I will do it.

- Wait.

(GROANING)

You keep me from my destiny once.

It will not happen again.

Now, windigo must die.

There's no such thing as a wendingo.

You made it up.

Like you make up everything.

You sold out your whole village

for a watch.

And now you're an outcast.

You're a band apart.

A messed up little kid

who couldn't live with what you did.

There's no such thing as cursed silver,

or a Spirit Walker for that matter.

I'm not like you.

I have a tribe.

You have nothing.

Like me.

You're wrong.

Go back to your tribe, white coward.

I do not need you.

(COCKING GUN)

Look at me.

See the face of my people

as you die.

I knew I could count on you, Counselor.

Shut up.

(MUSIC BOX PLAYING SOFTLY)

Hey.

Where am I?

Drink.

Feel better.

(HUMMING)

(LOW WHISTLING)

COLE:
Your tactics

have been most effective, Captain.

With the natives in retreat,

we'll be in Promontory Summit

ahead of schedule.

Believe me, what they have done to the

settlements we have given back tenfold.

Tenfold.

(DANNY GASPS)

Danny, I told you,

take it easy on the corners

and press down on the straightaway.

DANNY:
It's just a toy.

Come here, Danny.

I want to show you something.

Since the time of Alexander the Great

no man has travelled faster

than the horse that carried him.

Not anymore.

Imagine, an entire continent

connected by iron rail.

That's fuel for our cities.

Metals for our factories.

Food for the masses.

Whoever controls this,

controls the future.

Power that makes emperors and kings

look like fools.

You mean it's mine?

COLE:
It could be, son.

Could be all yours.

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