The Molly Maguires Page #3

We'll put a guard on James.

Not too much of a guard.

You don't want simple assault.

You want murder.

I'll take what I get.

How would you like to spend

the rest of your life down here?

I tried it when I first came over.

- How did you get out?

- Made myself useful in other ways.

I'd have to get out.

I'd kill somebody if I couldn't.

Don't get confused

about which side you're on.

I could always tell

the buttered side from the dry.

- Evening, Mary.

- Hello, Jack.

- Some jam for the old man's tea.

- Thanks.

You're looking good.

We could've used you

on the football field.

- I'm running down like an old clock.

- You'll be ticking for a long time.

How's the pit?

Have you blasted through No. 5 tunnel?

No. No, they feared for the gas.

They could trap that gas

if they blast right.

- There's lashes of coal. I could smell it.

- They'll get plenty.

- You worry about yourself.

- I've nothing to worry about.

If you were ten years younger,

I'd slap you silly for that remark.

Come in.

- Hello, boys.

- Hello.

Leave us alone, would you, Mary?

I thought you'd come on a social visit.

Out you go, Dan.

Get on your knees.

I will explain to you the object

of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

We are joined to promote friendship,

unity and charity among our members.

You are to keep all matters

secret in your heart.

No workings of the society shall be called

to those not known to be members.

That's right, now. That's correct.

And what's the answering sign?

No!

The little finger!

That's the recognition sign!

Oh, then there's the password when

you go from one division to another.

"Will tenant right in Ireland flourish?"

"If the people unite

and the landlords subdue."

"If the people unite

and the landlords subdue."

And there's plenty of truth in that

password. Unity, that's the answer.

Then there's the quarrelling word.

When you're ready to bash a stranger

but you want to make certain

he's not one of us...

- "Your temper is high."

- "I've good reason."

- "I've good reason."

- Then you don't have to bash him.

- Not one nip to celebrate a new convert?

- He don't touch it himself.

Did the drink interfere with your thinking?

What're you thinking now, Black Jack,

with that solemn look on your mug?

I'm thinking you'd better be

what we think you are.

I'm what you think.

'Cause if you're not, there's no hole

deep enough for you to hide this time.

I'm what you think I am.

Do you know what you're getting into?

Do you know what you joined?

- A legal organisation.

- On the face of it.

- Respectable, law-abiding.

- You heard what the Father said.

There's no future for what

you joined except hell.

I'm a miner now. I'll be travelling

in that direction anyway, just out of habit.

Will you come to the city with me,

just for the day?

I thought you were different from them.

Well, come with me, find out.

- I've been to the city.

- Not with me, you haven't.

A lucky accident, I call it.

Only a few mashed fingers

for the pleasure of a day with you.

Mrs Kehoe promised

she'd look in, didn't she?

The old man

won't even know you're gone.

When were you last in the city?

- A year ago.

- Well, it's time again, isn't it?

For a bit of enjoyment?

Or an act of charity

for a man heading for hell?

- Try this one.

- I just tried two.

Try another. I intend buying you a hat.

Do you want it to your taste or to mine?

I have a hat.

I'll be back in a minute.

And damn the expense.

Where are you going?

To rob a bank... to pay for the hat.

- Have you got the money?

- So they've accepted you.

- In the Hibernians, not the Mollies yet.

- They will. Who was at the initiation?

That's no evidence.

The Order's secret, but it's legal.

Look, we'll judge what's evidence.

You just give me the names.

Dougherty, McAndrew,

Frazier... and Kehoe.

- The money?

- What do you need it for?

I said I was pushing queer.

I need the good stuff to show for it.

What is the meaning of that?

Oh, how's carelessness?

If you please, I have a lady waiting.

Don't look so sour, Captain.

It's not coming out of your pocket.

The light won't make a difference.

I...

I had a most enjoyable day.

You can't keep putting off

what you're feeling. It's unhealthy.

Good night.

- Tea?

- No.

- Or a story?

- It's late for stories.

Do you take me so easy

I can be had for a trip to the city?

You think where there's wanting,

there can't be respect?

- I don't take you "easy" at all.

- Then have done with it.

There's no future here for romance.

Will you deny that?

- It's queer.

- Aye, so it is.

Passed by a man

answering your description.

- I've a common appearance.

- I think it was you.

- It's a free country for thought.

- You're a bad lot.

You passed this, and you're mixed up

in what happened to that train.

- You're just mixed up.

- You're not telling me the truth.

I wouldn't lie to you, Captain.

- You might.

- I'm on the side of law and order.

I want you in line, McKenna.

Step out of line, I'll step on you.

I'll squash you like a bug.

I think we should improve

that bastard's manners.

We can do without his attention.

No more of this.

- Keep that squealer quiet!

- What do you think I'm trying?

- Stuff his head in a pillow.

- I'll stuff your head first!

We've a friend in the Governor's chair

and we mean to keep him there.

It's up to you to get the vote.

Politicians! They'd sell

their mother for a vote.

The Governor grants pardons.

You may need one.

The raffle for Barney Breslin's widow.

- Got the prize?

- I've got it.

Sell the tickets.

They're only a penny and she'll benefit.

Any new business?

Next meeting's two weeks from tonight.

In whose house?

Kerrigan?

- All right.

- That's it, then.

I declare this meeting adjourned.

Good night.

- Good night, Jack.

- Good night.

Stay a bit, why don't you?

Unless you're bleeding

to get back to your landlady.

- How's the hand?

- Better.

Don't let on too quick that it's healed.

They'll send you back down.

All right.

We had a request from Shenandoah.

Superintendent's giving trouble.

- What kind?

- Firing without cause, cutting wages.

He's new and looking

to make an impression.

We've been asked

to make an impression on him.

I joined the Hibernians.

"All things lawful and not otherwise."

Remember? I took an oath.

This isn't the Hibernians.

Why can't they do it themselves?

If they're seen, they'd be recognised.

Over there nobody knows us.

He'd be surrounded by peelers.

New boss, throwing his weight around.

- They know he's asking for it.

- They won't suspect.

- It's a risk for a quarrel that's not ours.

- They're miners like us, Irishmen.

They've the same heel on their neck.

It's all one quarrel.

They'd do the same for us.

I do my own quarrelling.

I don't ask anyone else.

- You're not on your own now.

- They want him killed or only bashed?

- Killed.

- He sounds deserving.

I'm against it. Give him a bashing

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