The Outlaw Josey Wales Page #6

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Laura Lee, right through this window.

Can you shoot?

I'll try.

Lone, you take this window

right over here, and the door.

Where there's the most firing.

You'll have to keep an eye on

that hallway there because...

...the only blind spot is the ceiling.

They'll get around to it eventually.

They can't shoot through it,

but they might...

...dig a hole in it and drop down,

maybe in the back bedroom.

Now remember...

...when things look bad,

and it looks like you won't make it...

...then you got to get mean.

I mean plumb, maddog mean!

Because if you lose your head and give up,

then you neither live nor win.

That's just the way it is.

Use pistols at short range.

More fire power and less reloading.

Keep this fire going.

Keep an iron on it red-hot.

Anybody gets hit, slap iron to it.

That's the fastest way

to stop the blood.

GRANDMA:

What's all that paint about?

It's my death face.

You know, we're sure going to show them

redskins something tomorrow!

No offense meant.

None taken.

Where's he going?

He knows he can do the best for us

on the back of a horse.

He's a guerrilla fighter.

He figures he can carry the fight

to the enemy.

He's going down into the valley

to kill Ten Bears...

...and as many of the men as he can.

How will he do that and come back here?

He won't come back.

Josey!

You'll be Ten Bears?

I am Ten Bears.

I'm Josey Wales.

I have heard.

You're the Gray Rider.

You would not make peace with

the Bluecoats. You may go in peace.

I reckon not.

-Got nowhere to go.

-Then you will die.

I came here to die with you.

Or live with you.

Dying's not hard for you and me.

It's living that's hard...

...when all you ever cared about

has been butchered or raped.

Governments don't live together.

People live together.

Governments don't give you a fair word

or a fair fight. I've come here to...

...give you either one.

Or get either one from you.

I came here like this so you'll know

my word of death is true.

And that my word of life is then true.

The bear lives here, the wolf,

the antelope, the Comanche.

And so will we.

We'll only hunt what we need to live on,

same as the Comanche does.

And every spring when

the Comanche moves north...

...he can rest here in peace...

...butcher some of our cattle

and jerk beef for the journey.

The sign of the Comanche,

that will be on our lodge.

That's my word of life.

And your word of death?

It's here in my pistols

and there in your rifles.

I'm here for either one.

These things you say we will have,

we already have.

That's true.

I ain't promising you nothing extra.

I'm just giving you life,

and you're giving me life.

And I'm saying men can live together

without butchering one another.

It's sad that governments are chiefed

by the double-tongues.

There is iron in your words of death

for all Comanches to see.

And so there is iron

in your words of life.

No signed paper can hold the iron.

It must come from men.

The words of Ten Bears carry

the same iron of life and death.

It is good that warriors such as we

meet in the struggle of life...

...or death.

It shall be life.

So will it be.

I reckon so.

I'll be damned! Look at this!

Come. Sit down.

Oh, I'm so glad to see you!

I never thought I'd see you again,

Grandma.

Chato, Chato. Sit down.

I never been so glad to see an Indian.

[ROSIE YELLS]

[FIDDLE PLAYS]

[BULL HOWLS]

[DANCERS LAUGH]

I've got something to show you,

Mr. Wales.

I made this chain for you.

I braided it from my hair.

That's real nice. It really is.

It's a watch chain.

Yeah. Well, it's a nice one.

It will come in handy. I thank you for it.

You do have a watch, don't you?

Well, I've been meaning to get one, yeah.

Could we...

...play a song for you?

I'm afraid I don't really know

too many songs.

Could we play something you like?

Come on.

Only song I can think of is

"Rose of Alabama."

We remember that old piece.

Rosie, come here.

[SINGING] Away from Mississippi's veil

With my old half-ear for a sail

I crossed upon a cotton bale

To the rose of Alabama

-Do you dance?

-No.

Me neither.

A sweet tobacco posy

Is the rose of Alabama

A sweet tobacco posy

Is the rose of Alabama

FIDDLER:

Help us out now.

Oh, brown rosie

The rose of Alabama

The rose of Alabama

I could see him through this window

when he shot my partner.

He was traveling with an

old Injun and a squaw...

...and some old lady

and a scrawny girl.

Had to be him. He had this scar

right on his face, right here.

I wasn't about to face him down alone.

Mm-hm.

You men get them horses out of sight.

If Josey Wales comes back here,

we'll buy him a drink.

[FIDDLE PLAYS]

Kansas was all...

...golden and smelled like sunshine.

Yeah.

I always heard there were three

kinds of suns in Kansas.

Sunshine...

...sunflowers...

...and sons of b*tches.

Well, at least we're known

for something.

I heard a joke about Missouri once.

Something about how people

from Missouri...

...are always saying, "Show me."

-Do you know it?

-No.

I think it was:

What does a man from Missouri say...

...if someone asks him to see a

Missouri mule?

-And?

-He says, "Show me."

Get it?

They teach dumb jokes

to pretty girls in Kansas.

They teach other things.

Show me.

LITTLE JOSEY:

Pa!

You're up kind of early, aren't you?

It's been nice riding with you.

Same here.

When you get to town, get some nice

dresses for the ladies, you hear?

I will.

Get something specially nice for Laura

Lee for when I come back in the spring.

Yeah.

Or the following spring.

Yeah.

Sometimes trouble just follows a man.

Hell, I've been here way

too long as it--

I reckon so.

TERRILL:

Josey Wales!

You're all alone now, Wales.

CHIEF:

Not quite alone.

Now we're really going to show

these palefaces something!

No offense.

None taken.

These freebooters are

a slander to Kansas...

...attacking innocent women like this.

[GUNS CLICKING]

WOMAN:

Josey!

TEN SPOT:
The bullets were flying

and people running every which way.

Church bells were ringing.

Me and Miss Rose were ducking for cover.

Because one didn't know where

the shots were coming--

Mr. Wilson!

Good morning.

Hello, Mr. Wilson.

We were just telling a little story...

...about an outlaw passed through

this way a while back.

I don't suppose you'd know

about him but--

These two fellows down here

is Texas Rangers.

Been on his trail, along with this

other fellow over here.

What did you say your name was,

friend?

-My name is Fletcher.

-That's right, Mr. Fletcher.

Anyway, they've been chasing

this outlaw...

...and it just so happens old Ten Spot

here knows all about it.

Yes, sir.

It was down in Monterey, Mexico,

a little while back.

Anyway, this outlaw fellow...

...he went up against five

pistoleros.

He got three of them

before they cut him down.

Is that right, Miss Rose?

That's right. His name was...

...Josey Wales.

Yeah, that's it. Josey Wales.

If that's what happened,

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