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Prviously on AMC's
Hell On Wheels...
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When the board arrives they may see
that I have misled the government.
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I simply need you
to back me up.
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Mr. Durant's in custody.
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Mr. Bohannon,
will you finish this road?
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You and me made that.
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You can't have no black baby.
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You mean your baby.
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No! Ahhh!
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You made it so easy...
to take her from you.
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You're an evil son of
a bitch.
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Good day.
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Whoa!
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Cullen.
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It's been a long winter, son.
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Stretch out on your bunk.
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Get some sleep.
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Go away, doc.
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You a... you ain't real.
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You ain't real.
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Your candle is
burning low, Cullen.
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Soon it's gonna go out.
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That's just the wind.
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What that was,
that was just the wind.
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Uhh!
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Get on out of here!
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Get on out of here!
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Get out of here,
you miserable son of a bitch!
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Get off my damn railroad.
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Off my damn railroad.
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Sparky?
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Hell On Wheels 03x01,2
Part 1 - Big Bad Wolf; Part 2 - Eminent Domain
Originally Aired August 10, 2013
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==sync, correction by dcdah==
for www.addic7ed.com
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You know where there's a nigger
with a marked-up white woman?
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He'she's down there
behind the sawmill.
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I'll be damned.
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Yup.
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Heard you froze up solid.
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Thanks for looking in.
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Shut the door!
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Woman's suffering.
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Baby near?
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Mmhmm.
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Baby's gonna come
whether you're here or not.
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What the hell
that's supposed to mean?
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I need you to come
with me to New York.
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Railroad business.
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Right now I ain't got
no stake in no railroad.
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Well, I'm the railroad boss,
and this here's a railroad town.
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Come with me now or you don't be
here when I come back through.
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Take your talk outside, please.
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What is it you want me to do?
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Watch over me while I sleep.
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Against who?
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Some you can see,
some you can't.
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You lost your mind
in that snow.
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You crazy.
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On the contrary,
my negro friend...
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I have never
been thinking more clearly.
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Say your piece, get your coat.
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Train's waiting.
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I heard.
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Go.
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- I can't leave you like this.
- Well, he's right.
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The baby's gonna
come either way.
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Yeah.
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- I wanna be here for it.
- I said go.
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Birthing ain't
a man's business.
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Best thing you can do
is get us a job.
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Mm.
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Hey, boy.
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The negro car's two cars down.
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This is where I aim to be.
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Now, don't make me
throw you off this train.
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It's all right.
He's mine.
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How come you show up now?
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Stopped snowing.
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What the hell
happened to your ear?
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Some trespassers.
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Come on.
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Mr. Bohannon?
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I'm Clement Beale,
Secretary of Credit Mobilier.
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Good, you got my telegram.
Let's go.
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Mr. Bohannon, I'm afraid
you've made a trip for naught.
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What do you mean "for naught"?
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The board of Credit Mobilier
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and the Undersecretary
of Railroads
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has already filled the position
of Chief Engineer last month.
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I tried answering
your telegram.
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- I knew this was snakebit.
- Now hold on.
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Senator Howard hisself
offered me that job last fall.
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Senator Howard
lost his bid for reelection.
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Frankly, Mr. Bohannon,
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word came back to us that
you didn't survive the winter.
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- Word was wrong.
- Yes, well, thankfully so,
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but the decision
has already been made.
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I'm here to unmake it.
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Is Durant back in?
Is that it?
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No. Mr. Durant
is still in Hudson Prison.
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Show me a train back to Omaha.
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You hold your damn horses.
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You take me to see
Durant right now.
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I won't if this is a vendetta.
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Not all at once it ain't.
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I'll have
some hot water for tea.
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A visitor, Mr. Durant.
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Hmm?
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Good God.
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I thought you were dead.
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Yet here I stand.
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And what the hell
are you doing here?
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Oh, wait, don't tell me.
No.
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- You've come to gloat.
- No, sir.
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No.
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No. Gloating is not
in your character,
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is it, Bohannon?
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Too much integrity.
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That was always your problem.
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I came to ask for help.
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Haven't you heard?
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I'm ruined.
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There's nothing
I could possibly do for you.
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Even if I wanted to.
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Union Pacific offered me a job,
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and they gave it
to someone else.
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I need you to tell 'em
I'm their man.
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I need you to vouch for me.
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Vouch for you?
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Those spineless, myopic weasels
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are in no mood to listen to me.
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You've lost your nerve.
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Not so sure you actually
can run the railroad.
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And once upon a time,
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I told you that you could.
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That's why you're here.
You're scared.
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I came to see you behind bars
for what you done.
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There was a time
you could have done it.
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When I was your champion.
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When I was your advocate.
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Now look at you.
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You're tragic.
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Your hour has passed.
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Your railroad will fail
without me.
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It's no longer my railroad.
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For now.
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The board won't accept you.
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You wanna know why?
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Because you are not one of us.
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You will never be
from Massachusetts or New York.
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You will always
be from Mississippi.
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You suffer from
a preposterous miscalculation
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of possibilities.
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Like all southerners,
you're deluded.
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And you smell.
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What type of dressing
are you requiring today?
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Business.
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What type of business
might it be?
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Railroad, but cut the top
and the overcoat,
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so I can wear this.
Very good.
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Maybe an open frock
with a Fuller waist?
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Sounds right.
Inch or two of the cuff showing,
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neat in the pants,
and I dress to the left.
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And the gentleman's gentleman?
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How come I gotta be
a gentleman's gentleman?
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Why can't I be
a gentleman plain?
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
he's right.
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War's given the negro the right
to decide what he wants, so...
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What type of suit
will you have, sir?
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Let's see.
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That one there, I can afford.
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Yeah, I like that one.
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Make that one up for me.
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The black man chooses,
and the white man pays.
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It's a new reckoning
of the world, Mr. Collier.
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That it is,
Mr. Bohannon.
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And you, sir?
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What side do you dress on?
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What you mean
what side I dress on?
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Psst.
Hey.
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Thank you,
Mr. Bohannon.
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And when you're hiring men
for your railroad,
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don't forget
your Irish kinsmen.
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When I land this job,
I'll need two or three.
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That's for sure.
Hundred?
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- Thousand.
- Ah.
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The man you'll need to see
is Three-Piece Duffy
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down at the Points.
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He knows all the railroad men.
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If you're with the Union
Pacific, he'll find ya.
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He ain't with nobody.
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He barely with me.
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Oh, Mr. Bohannon.
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Burn it.
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But shoot it first.
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I think I dress to the right.
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Cullen Bohannon.
The board's expecting me.
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Elam Ferguson.
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This way, sir.
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Mr. Bohannon.
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We appreciate all you've done
for the railroad.
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Both Doc Durant
and the late Mrs. Lily Bell
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spoke highly of
your achievements and abilities.
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Let's go to it then.
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The job of Chief Engineer
and Senior Vice President
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of Union Pacific has been
awarded to someone else.
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Yes, sir.
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And I aim for it to be mine
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before I walk out that door.
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- What's it a question of?
- Vision.
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And temperament.
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Someone whose pedigree
speaks to getting things done
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in Washington
as well as out on the plains.
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Have you ever been
to Washington, Mr. Bohannon?
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I am familiar.
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Well, then you know
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that even at the highest levels,
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it's dog eat dog.
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This man you hired,
he's a real dog fighter then?
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He comes
with my personal recommendation.
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He was the Chief Engineer
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of the Westwood
and Upclair Railway.
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Yeah, that sounds like
a Shortline Railroad to me.
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16 miles, but he oversaw
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the building
of two major trestles.
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Yes, your son-in-law
comes well-appointed.
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Especially with your new role
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as Undersecretary
of the Railroad.
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And he's a veteran.
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Fought with Black Dave Hunter
on the winning side.
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All due respect, I don't
doubt your son-in-law's ability
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to build pretty Bridges
over stony brook streams,
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but that's not
what we're facing
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out west at the moment.
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Is this the best map you have?
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- It's current.
- It's not very accurate.
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Here's where we are.
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Plains extend here.
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Here's the beginning
of the red desert.
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Now we'll be good along here.
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Plenty of grazing
for our feed cattle,
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mild weather.
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Here's where we start
running out of water.
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I've drawn up some designs...
For water cars.
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Here are some designs
for dormitory cars.
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Keep the men
out of the elements, healthier,
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more productive.
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Who will build these?
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We'll build 'em together,
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just like we'll build
this railroad.
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Now here we start hitting
real Indian country hard.
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Shoshone, Crow, Kiowa...
some friendly, some not.
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Oh, um, your son-in-law,
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has he ever been
in Indian territory?
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We've started stockpiling
rail and ties here,
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waiting for the Missouri
to thaw.
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Mmmm, river's already
breaking up here South.
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Saw it myself coming over.
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Central Pacific
was able to work
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through most of the winter.
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Collis Huntington
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has put them ahead of schedule.
262
00:21:41,281 --> 00:21:43,315
Then the race is on, gentlemen.
263
00:21:43,349 --> 00:21:44,983
No time to waste.
264
00:21:45,018 --> 00:21:47,686
Now this...
265
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,322
These are plans for organizing
the rail-layers and tie crews.
266
00:21:50,356 --> 00:21:52,957
Think we can get
more steel laid.
267
00:21:52,992 --> 00:21:55,860
Probably 30% more steel
268
00:21:55,894 --> 00:21:58,963
if we follow these regimens.
269
00:22:08,239 --> 00:22:12,209
Were we to take you on
in some capacity,
270
00:22:12,243 --> 00:22:13,977
you'd be paid in U.P. stock.
271
00:22:14,011 --> 00:22:16,713
We feel that that would
make your involvement
272
00:22:16,747 --> 00:22:19,649
more of a personal investment.
273
00:22:19,683 --> 00:22:22,519
Congressman Ames...
274
00:22:22,553 --> 00:22:25,822
I'm already more invested
than you'll ever know.
275
00:22:25,856 --> 00:22:28,357
There's a lot of graves
along this railroad,
276
00:22:28,392 --> 00:22:30,026
marked and unmarked.
277
00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:32,907
Some I laid to rest myself
and some... time or two.
278
00:22:35,665 --> 00:22:38,834
Point is...
279
00:22:38,868 --> 00:22:43,138
I make no apologies
for my temperament.
280
00:22:43,173 --> 00:22:47,476
Mr. Bohannon,
I believe you're bleeding.
281
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:51,680
Surely not from shaking hands
with a shaving razor.
282
00:22:51,714 --> 00:22:53,848
Wolves, actually.
283
00:22:55,217 --> 00:22:58,620
The kind that bite.
284
00:23:09,156 --> 00:23:11,191
Why don't you shake hands
with the new Chief Engineer
285
00:23:11,225 --> 00:23:12,559
of the Union Pacific railroad?
286
00:23:12,593 --> 00:23:15,562
I'd rather shake hands
with the devil.
287
00:23:15,596 --> 00:23:17,230
You may well
before this is over.
288
00:23:17,264 --> 00:23:19,566
You made 'em think
I was your Butler or something?
289
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,567
I did, and it worked.
290
00:23:21,602 --> 00:23:23,803
Got the job.
291
00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:26,839
Now we got men to hire.
Let's go.
292
00:23:36,483 --> 00:23:39,419
I don't like this at all.
293
00:23:39,453 --> 00:23:42,455
Safer back home
with them Indians.
294
00:23:42,489 --> 00:23:45,124
Meet me back at the hotel
if we get split up.
295
00:23:45,159 --> 00:23:48,895
I'm on you like a tick.
296
00:24:01,808 --> 00:24:05,811
Show these lads
their place of employ.
297
00:24:08,982 --> 00:24:12,785
Caught a musket ball at
a bowery party the other night.
298
00:24:12,819 --> 00:24:14,954
It's festering a bit.
299
00:24:14,988 --> 00:24:16,956
"Either the ball comes out
or the leg comes off,"
300
00:24:16,990 --> 00:24:18,958
says the barber.
301
00:24:18,992 --> 00:24:21,160
Pardon the smell.
302
00:24:21,194 --> 00:24:22,761
I'm Cullen Bohannon,
303
00:24:22,796 --> 00:24:25,130
- new Chief Engineer of the...
- I know who you are...
304
00:24:25,165 --> 00:24:27,633
And who you're pretending
to be.
305
00:24:27,667 --> 00:24:29,268
No pretense, Mr. Duffy.
306
00:24:29,302 --> 00:24:31,603
- I'm in need of railroad workers.
- I know, I know.
307
00:24:31,638 --> 00:24:33,639
Who the hell do you think
put the last two years
308
00:24:33,673 --> 00:24:35,140
on to Durant's pay but was me?
309
00:24:35,174 --> 00:24:38,844
I was hoping
we could maintain it similar.
310
00:24:38,878 --> 00:24:39,945
Pleased with the quality
of men, were ya?
311
00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:41,662
For the most part.
312
00:24:41,782 --> 00:24:44,983
"For the most part."
313
00:24:45,017 --> 00:24:48,253
Thems were the Creme
de La Creme I sent Durant.
314
00:24:48,287 --> 00:24:50,956
Not the, uh, consumptive
or the weak-backed.
315
00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,358
I winnowed 'em clean.
316
00:24:53,392 --> 00:24:55,794
You know why?
317
00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:57,028
Mr. Durant's a fine man.
318
00:24:57,063 --> 00:25:01,266
He backs up his word
with solid gold.
319
00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:02,867
Locked away in prison now.
320
00:25:02,902 --> 00:25:04,836
Because of Tatterducks.
321
00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:08,439
They're jealous of his acumen.
322
00:25:08,474 --> 00:25:09,807
The man's a genius.
323
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:11,309
Wouldn't you agree,
Mr. Bohannon?
324
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,444
Well...
reckon even a genius
325
00:25:13,479 --> 00:25:17,081
can run afoul of the law,
Mr. Duffy.
326
00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:20,351
$1,000 in gold coins
327
00:25:20,386 --> 00:25:23,388
for each lot of 500 men
boarded at the station.
328
00:25:23,422 --> 00:25:26,224
McFee counts 'em for me.
329
00:25:26,258 --> 00:25:28,993
Maybe you can have your nigger
there count 'em for you.
330
00:25:29,027 --> 00:25:30,561
That is, of course,
if he can count
331
00:25:30,596 --> 00:25:32,063
beyond his fingers and toes.
332
00:25:32,097 --> 00:25:33,864
The ones
that fall off the train
333
00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:36,367
or that arrive with rigor mortis
are not my concern.
334
00:25:36,401 --> 00:25:38,703
It's called attrition,
according to Mr. Durant.
335
00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,838
Something pretty
you wanna say to me, boy?
336
00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:44,041
The day it's just me and you
337
00:25:44,075 --> 00:25:47,545
is the day
your Irish luck run out.
338
00:25:47,579 --> 00:25:48,879
You gonna let your nigger
339
00:25:48,914 --> 00:25:50,748
speak to me that way,
Mr. Bohannon?
340
00:25:50,782 --> 00:25:52,416
He ain't my nigger.
341
00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:53,817
So when do you think
you'll be able
342
00:25:53,852 --> 00:25:56,920
to send out
the first shipment of men?
343
00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,757
Let us see your gold.
344
00:25:59,791 --> 00:26:03,060
I wouldn't show you how much
money even if I had it on me.
345
00:26:06,264 --> 00:26:09,066
So you come around here
wasting my time,
346
00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:13,437
not planning
to commence business?
347
00:26:13,471 --> 00:26:15,772
Mr. Durant
would never do that.
348
00:26:15,807 --> 00:26:18,575
How much coin
do you have on you?
349
00:26:18,609 --> 00:26:21,912
Not enough to trouble you,
Mr. Duffy.
350
00:26:24,982 --> 00:26:27,517
It's no trouble at all, sir.
351
00:26:27,552 --> 00:26:29,219
Whatever you have on you
will recompense me
352
00:26:29,253 --> 00:26:32,222
for speaking with you today.
353
00:26:32,256 --> 00:26:35,125
See, I'm a fine judge
of character, Mr. Bohannon,
354
00:26:35,159 --> 00:26:36,960
and I can tell
you have no interest
355
00:26:36,994 --> 00:26:39,062
in dealing with me
or my enterprise.
356
00:26:39,096 --> 00:26:41,097
Now that's the first truth
you spoke since we met.
357
00:26:43,667 --> 00:26:47,437
Now me and my friend here,
we're gonna back out slow,
358
00:26:47,471 --> 00:26:50,206
and this'll be done.
359
00:27:06,190 --> 00:27:08,324
Boy, don't you ever step
out of line like that again.
360
00:27:08,358 --> 00:27:10,226
Don't go for my gun.
361
00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:11,928
Like to got us killed.
362
00:27:11,962 --> 00:27:15,798
Well, you should
have let me have a gun.
363
00:27:15,832 --> 00:27:17,566
My grandpappy
was right about you people.
364
00:27:17,601 --> 00:27:20,970
You mean when he owned us?
365
00:27:21,004 --> 00:27:22,638
Tore a thousand-acre
plantation out of nothing,
366
00:27:22,673 --> 00:27:23,739
he did.
367
00:27:23,774 --> 00:27:24,907
Well, you tell your grandpappy
368
00:27:24,941 --> 00:27:26,308
we a free people now.
369
00:27:26,343 --> 00:27:28,010
- You tell him that.
- Free?
370
00:27:28,044 --> 00:27:31,080
Well, shit.
371
00:27:31,114 --> 00:27:32,915
Don't you go telling me
about your freedom, son.
372
00:27:32,949 --> 00:27:34,950
I know all about it.
373
00:27:34,985 --> 00:27:37,786
I'm the one
that paid full price for.
374
00:27:37,821 --> 00:27:41,490
You may be free, but you sure
as shit ain't my equal.
375
00:27:43,059 --> 00:27:45,127
Take 'em off.
376
00:27:47,297 --> 00:27:51,099
Take 'em off.
377
00:27:53,570 --> 00:27:55,871
Oh, yeah?
378
00:27:57,006 --> 00:27:57,973
All right.
379
00:28:11,421 --> 00:28:14,689
Shh.
Might be the landlady.
380
00:28:17,693 --> 00:28:20,428
Come in.
381
00:28:24,433 --> 00:28:27,535
Mr. Beale.
382
00:28:27,570 --> 00:28:29,571
Mr. Bohannon.
383
00:28:32,375 --> 00:28:33,540
Telegram.
384
00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:36,598
Actually,
it's for Mr. Ferguson.
385
00:28:37,938 --> 00:28:39,905
Thank you, sir.
386
00:28:40,683 --> 00:28:44,152
Yeah, he can read.
387
00:28:44,186 --> 00:28:47,688
He's also a free man,
in case you hadn't heard.
388
00:28:49,725 --> 00:28:51,751
Eva had the baby.
389
00:28:51,871 --> 00:28:53,850
Yeah.
390
00:28:53,970 --> 00:28:56,230
What is it?
391
00:28:56,265 --> 00:28:59,834
There you go
talking that again.
392
00:28:59,868 --> 00:29:01,068
I meant is it a boy or girl?
393
00:29:01,103 --> 00:29:03,337
Don't say.
394
00:29:03,372 --> 00:29:06,407
Boy's fine.
Girl's sweet too.
395
00:29:06,441 --> 00:29:09,877
- Just say it's healthy.
He- y.
396
00:29:10,996 --> 00:29:14,132
You remember this minute,
all right?
397
00:29:16,902 --> 00:29:19,671
Might only come once.
398
00:29:23,442 --> 00:29:25,576
Yes, sir.
399
00:29:25,611 --> 00:29:28,579
I got me a baby.
400
00:30:02,285 --> 00:30:05,287
I'm sorry
for the things I've done.
401
00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:12,761
And... for the things
I left undone.
402
00:30:19,802 --> 00:30:23,738
Feeling like I bit off
more than I can chew, you know?
403
00:30:26,475 --> 00:30:28,810
Course you do.
404
00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:34,482
Take off your gun!
405
00:30:36,652 --> 00:30:40,121
We'll have no guns
in the house of the Lord.
406
00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:44,700
This is not
a shooting gallery, sir.
407
00:30:45,661 --> 00:30:47,562
Reverend Corner.
408
00:30:47,596 --> 00:30:49,931
It's me, Cullen Bohannon.
409
00:30:49,965 --> 00:30:52,100
You married me
and Mary Elizabeth Tate here
410
00:30:52,134 --> 00:30:54,268
back in '56.
411
00:30:56,705 --> 00:30:58,372
Uh...
412
00:31:01,476 --> 00:31:05,313
We... we don't recognize you.
413
00:31:09,151 --> 00:31:12,687
You're welcome to stay
and pray with us,
414
00:31:12,721 --> 00:31:15,456
but...
415
00:31:15,490 --> 00:31:18,492
You'll have to leave
the guns outside.
416
00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:31,305
Good day to y'all then.
417
00:31:37,178 --> 00:31:39,513
I did
what I was supposed to do.
418
00:31:39,547 --> 00:31:41,014
I voted against Bohannon.
419
00:31:41,049 --> 00:31:43,450
Your job was not
to vote against Bohannon.
420
00:31:43,484 --> 00:31:46,019
Your job was to get everyone
else to vote against Bohannon!
421
00:31:46,054 --> 00:31:47,487
He was very compelling.
422
00:31:47,522 --> 00:31:51,358
Well, you tell that
to your constituents
423
00:31:51,392 --> 00:31:54,461
when the Union Pacific
bankrupts your state coffers.
424
00:31:54,495 --> 00:31:56,329
You promised
that wouldn't happen.
425
00:31:56,364 --> 00:31:59,232
No
426
00:31:59,267 --> 00:32:00,901
No.
427
00:32:00,935 --> 00:32:02,969
Not when I could run things
428
00:32:03,004 --> 00:32:06,239
through that cloddish
son-in-law of yours.
429
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,314
You have got
to get me out of here.
430
00:32:14,348 --> 00:32:17,350
Thomas, I don't think
I can get you out of here.
431
00:32:17,384 --> 00:32:20,420
We frankly have run out
of friendly judges.
432
00:32:20,454 --> 00:32:22,088
There's always
some new appointee,
433
00:32:22,122 --> 00:32:24,390
some... someone freshly elected,
434
00:32:24,425 --> 00:32:26,159
a holder of a lien,
435
00:32:26,193 --> 00:32:28,261
a witness with a faulty memory.
436
00:32:28,295 --> 00:32:31,664
Perhaps a Peeping Tom
or a chambermaid with a tail.
437
00:32:31,699 --> 00:32:36,602
Now you listen to me,
you pissant!
438
00:32:36,637 --> 00:32:39,405
Your fall
will be far greater than mine
439
00:32:39,439 --> 00:32:41,574
if Bohannon is not stopped
440
00:32:41,608 --> 00:32:44,443
and I am
not returned the railroad.
441
00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:48,614
I understand.
442
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,187
Good.
443
00:32:55,222 --> 00:32:57,957
Good.
444
00:33:04,631 --> 00:33:06,565
Looks a lot like
Durant's old car.
445
00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:09,868
It is Durant's old car,
just refurbished.
446
00:33:09,903 --> 00:33:12,538
Better sleeping quarters,
heating throughout.
447
00:33:12,572 --> 00:33:14,373
Can we get a cot in here
or something for Mr. Ferguson
448
00:33:14,407 --> 00:33:16,208
for the ride back to Omaha?
449
00:33:16,242 --> 00:33:19,812
I loaned Mr. Ferguson money
for passage on the negro car.
450
00:33:26,452 --> 00:33:27,819
Mr. Huntington.
451
00:33:27,854 --> 00:33:30,655
Collis Huntington,
head of Central Pacific.
452
00:33:30,690 --> 00:33:33,325
Whoa.
453
00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:36,661
I'm glad I caught you, sir.
Been wanting to meet you.
454
00:33:36,696 --> 00:33:40,165
Especially when I heard
you weren't dead.
455
00:33:40,199 --> 00:33:44,803
Mr. Beale, may I have a moment
with Mr. Bohannon, please?
456
00:33:44,837 --> 00:33:48,006
The package on the desk
contains your issued stock.
457
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,943
Thank you, Mr. Beale.
458
00:34:02,554 --> 00:34:03,955
You're being paid in stock
459
00:34:03,989 --> 00:34:05,323
because the Union Pacific's lenders
460
00:34:05,357 --> 00:34:08,359
have closed their books.
461
00:34:11,397 --> 00:34:13,297
Government's guaranteeing us.
462
00:34:13,332 --> 00:34:15,666
Government's in chaos.
463
00:34:15,701 --> 00:34:17,802
Senate wants to impeach the
president for reconstruction.
464
00:34:17,836 --> 00:34:19,505
The house is investigating him
465
00:34:19,538 --> 00:34:21,272
for the assassination
of Lincoln.
466
00:34:21,306 --> 00:34:22,673
There'll be no new vote
467
00:34:22,708 --> 00:34:24,642
on railroad funding
until next session.
468
00:34:24,676 --> 00:34:27,345
In short, Mr. Bohannon,
you and your railroad are broke.
469
00:34:27,379 --> 00:34:29,347
Got stockpiles in Missouri.
470
00:34:29,381 --> 00:34:31,282
I'll be in Wyoming by fall.
471
00:34:31,316 --> 00:34:34,118
No, you won't, Mr. Bohannon,
regardless of your pace.
472
00:34:34,152 --> 00:34:36,187
I was making 2 mile a day.
473
00:34:36,221 --> 00:34:37,721
Sometimes 5
when the work was good.
474
00:34:37,756 --> 00:34:39,557
You know
what progress I'm making?
475
00:34:39,591 --> 00:34:41,725
- Hmm?
- 12 a day.
476
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:42,893
12 miles?
477
00:34:42,928 --> 00:34:45,296
12 inches a day.
478
00:34:45,330 --> 00:34:47,298
Through solid granite.
479
00:34:47,332 --> 00:34:49,166
Now that may
not sound like much,
480
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,335
but I'm almost
through the sierras.
481
00:34:51,369 --> 00:34:54,838
And I just received 5,000 pounds
of Nitroglycerin
482
00:34:54,873 --> 00:34:57,508
and 11,000 Chinamen
who do not get sick
483
00:34:57,542 --> 00:34:59,877
and are happy to work
with half pay.
484
00:34:59,911 --> 00:35:02,145
Now I am backed
by the Bank of England,
485
00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:04,481
funded by all the tons
of glittering gold
486
00:35:04,515 --> 00:35:06,550
found in the streams
of California.
487
00:35:06,584 --> 00:35:08,752
It's the Golden State,
Mr. Bohannon.
488
00:35:08,786 --> 00:35:10,654
Looking forward to meeting you
there at the border then.
489
00:35:10,688 --> 00:35:13,156
Oh, you haven't
read the papers, sir.
490
00:35:13,191 --> 00:35:14,825
My friends in congress
have just voted
491
00:35:14,859 --> 00:35:16,993
to lift
my building restrictions.
492
00:35:17,028 --> 00:35:19,729
Now, once I'm through the
mountains, it's all downhill.
493
00:35:19,764 --> 00:35:21,731
I intend to cross
the California border
494
00:35:21,766 --> 00:35:23,834
and be in your camp
before you know it.
495
00:35:23,868 --> 00:35:25,936
The stretch between Nebraska
and California is mine.
496
00:35:25,970 --> 00:35:30,874
No, sir, it belongs
to whomever can cross it first.
497
00:35:30,908 --> 00:35:32,776
Now, based on your reputation,
498
00:35:32,810 --> 00:35:34,678
I'm offering you a chance
to cross it with me,
499
00:35:34,712 --> 00:35:37,614
but from the west,
and you'll be paid in gold.
500
00:35:37,648 --> 00:35:42,118
Not in some worthless paper.
501
00:35:42,153 --> 00:35:45,088
Huh.
502
00:35:47,424 --> 00:35:50,426
Well, I...
Already gave my word
503
00:35:50,461 --> 00:35:52,195
to the gentleman
at Credit Mobilier,
504
00:35:52,229 --> 00:35:54,964
and that's about all
I got left, so...
505
00:36:05,242 --> 00:36:06,275
Board.
506
00:36:06,310 --> 00:36:08,044
All aboard.
507
00:36:08,078 --> 00:36:11,414
Chicago, Omaha,
508
00:36:11,448 --> 00:36:14,383
and all points west.
509
00:36:14,418 --> 00:36:18,054
It was a pleasure to meet you,
Mr. Bohannon.
510
00:36:18,088 --> 00:36:20,089
Board!
511
00:36:22,092 --> 00:36:24,126
Hmm.
512
00:36:37,110 --> 00:36:40,579
Omaha!
The stop is Omaha.
513
00:37:02,969 --> 00:37:06,753
Well...
look at you.
514
00:37:06,873 --> 00:37:08,907
How you feeling?
515
00:37:08,941 --> 00:37:11,777
She came out kicking
and tearing.
516
00:37:11,811 --> 00:37:14,446
- She?
- Mm-hmm.
517
00:37:17,517 --> 00:37:18,517
Can I see her?
518
00:37:18,551 --> 00:37:20,552
Yeah.
519
00:37:24,357 --> 00:37:27,325
She's moving all right.
520
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,362
- You all right?
- Yeah.
521
00:37:43,342 --> 00:37:46,477
You can't tell much
with newborns.
522
00:37:46,512 --> 00:37:49,547
They're all wrinkled up
523
00:37:49,581 --> 00:37:52,016
and splotchy-looking.
524
00:37:54,019 --> 00:37:56,220
She's beautiful.
525
00:38:00,926 --> 00:38:03,594
Thank you.
526
00:38:08,433 --> 00:38:11,435
She like her daddy.
527
00:38:13,772 --> 00:38:16,040
I'm glad you're back.
528
00:38:24,049 --> 00:38:25,416
Ladies.
529
00:38:25,450 --> 00:38:29,219
Aye, Mr. Bohannon.
530
00:38:29,254 --> 00:38:31,255
You look great.
How was New York?
531
00:38:31,289 --> 00:38:33,691
It was an open sewer,
Mr. McGinnes.
532
00:38:33,725 --> 00:38:35,392
Mm.
533
00:38:35,427 --> 00:38:39,096
My new hat don't fit me either.
534
00:38:39,130 --> 00:38:40,998
Welcome back, sir.
535
00:38:41,032 --> 00:38:43,667
We're all very excited about,
um, our new prospects west,
536
00:38:43,701 --> 00:38:44,668
aren't we, girls?
Yes.
537
00:38:46,371 --> 00:38:47,771
It'll be a few more days
before we ship out.
538
00:38:47,805 --> 00:38:49,206
We need to collect some crews.
539
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,908
Actually, um...
540
00:38:51,943 --> 00:38:55,712
Once the word got back that
you're the new Chief Engineer,
541
00:38:55,747 --> 00:38:57,447
workers started
coming in from all over,
542
00:38:57,482 --> 00:39:00,450
began loading up the trains.
543
00:39:00,485 --> 00:39:02,786
That's a nice vote
of confidence, I would say.
544
00:39:02,820 --> 00:39:06,089
Wouldn't you, Mr. Bohannon?
545
00:39:06,123 --> 00:39:09,559
When do we roll out?
546
00:39:09,594 --> 00:39:12,896
At your leisure and signal.
547
00:39:12,930 --> 00:39:14,931
Sir.
548
00:39:21,672 --> 00:39:23,306
Yes, sir.
549
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:24,574
Mr. Bohannon.
550
00:39:25,976 --> 00:39:27,377
Freedmen ready to get to work?
551
00:39:27,411 --> 00:39:30,113
Hmm, damn lowlife
scrabble hereabouts
552
00:39:30,147 --> 00:39:32,615
taking all our hard-saved
railroad money.
553
00:39:32,650 --> 00:39:34,117
- Mm?
- Mm-hmm.
554
00:39:34,151 --> 00:39:35,385
Treating us like
it's backsliding times.
555
00:39:35,419 --> 00:39:36,886
- Mm-mm.
- Yes, sir.
556
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,321
Anywhere but here.
557
00:39:38,355 --> 00:39:40,423
- Even Hell On Wheels?
- Hmm.
558
00:39:40,457 --> 00:39:43,092
Sound like heaven
when you say it.
559
00:39:43,126 --> 00:39:44,794
Don't forget your man
Psalms here when you make
560
00:39:44,828 --> 00:39:46,395
your, uh,
Walking Boss list, huh?
561
00:39:46,430 --> 00:39:48,631
There's a lady
on the cowcatcher, Mr. Bohannon.
562
00:39:48,665 --> 00:39:49,999
Alive or dead?
563
00:39:50,033 --> 00:39:54,170
I'm not sure what's going on.
564
00:39:54,204 --> 00:39:56,505
Say, Mr. Bohannon,
is that, um...
565
00:39:56,540 --> 00:39:58,307
Is that Sparky's pipe?
566
00:39:58,341 --> 00:40:00,342
Was.
567
00:40:03,980 --> 00:40:05,981
Ruth?
568
00:40:10,287 --> 00:40:12,521
I'm so sorry,
Mr. Bohannon.
569
00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:15,758
I was gathering my thoughts
for a prayer before we set off.
570
00:40:24,868 --> 00:40:27,636
You can pray with me
if you want.
571
00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:32,174
I'll leave you in charge
of that department.
572
00:40:42,518 --> 00:40:44,719
Heavenly Father,
573
00:40:44,754 --> 00:40:47,322
You have given us a vision
of this railroad
574
00:40:47,356 --> 00:40:50,125
which will bind our nation.
575
00:40:50,159 --> 00:40:52,627
Lord Christ,
when you came among us,
576
00:40:52,662 --> 00:40:54,629
you proclaimed God's Kingdom
577
00:40:54,663 --> 00:40:58,399
in towns and lonely places
such as these.
578
00:40:59,602 --> 00:41:02,403
Grant that your presence
be known
579
00:41:02,438 --> 00:41:05,506
as this railroad
is built across this land.
580
00:41:09,778 --> 00:41:13,147
Have mercy on those
who labor on it.
581
00:41:13,182 --> 00:41:16,584
Send us
honest and able leaders.
582
00:41:16,618 --> 00:41:18,820
May peace prevail
with righteousness,
583
00:41:18,854 --> 00:41:22,890
justice with order,
and help us eliminate poverty,
584
00:41:22,925 --> 00:41:25,159
oppression along the way.
585
00:41:25,194 --> 00:41:28,195
And especially eliminate evil.
586
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,008
All this we ask
587
00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:43,143
in God's Holy name.
588
00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:47,047
Amen.
589
00:42:23,694 --> 00:42:26,462
I see why they call this place
"Hell On Wheels."
590
00:42:26,496 --> 00:42:28,064
Rough men, loose women,
591
00:42:28,098 --> 00:42:30,232
whiskey, sin, and guns.
592
00:42:30,267 --> 00:42:33,035
It ain't
a church social, ma'am.
593
00:42:33,070 --> 00:42:34,670
I'm not sure your bosses
at Credit Mobilier
594
00:42:34,705 --> 00:42:37,707
would want me to put that
in the newspaper.
595
00:42:37,741 --> 00:42:40,342
What is it that holds you to
this enterprise, Mr. Bohannon?
596
00:42:40,377 --> 00:42:41,644
Every piece of steel we lay
597
00:42:41,678 --> 00:42:43,646
puts us closer
to somewheres else.
598
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,881
That's about all I can say.
599
00:42:45,916 --> 00:42:50,019
So it's more personal
than just laying rail.
600
00:42:50,053 --> 00:42:53,589
You're the writer.
Ho!
601
00:42:53,623 --> 00:42:55,924
Mr. Bohannon,
people of this country
602
00:42:55,959 --> 00:42:59,161
believe the railroad is robbing
the National Treasury.
603
00:42:59,195 --> 00:43:01,530
My job is to dissuade my readers
of that notion.
604
00:43:01,564 --> 00:43:04,600
Unfortunately,
our brief interview
605
00:43:04,634 --> 00:43:06,335
was not enough to dissuade me.
606
00:43:06,369 --> 00:43:09,104
And it ain't my job
to fix what people think.
607
00:43:09,138 --> 00:43:10,872
In fact, it is.
608
00:43:10,907 --> 00:43:13,208
You are the face of the
Transcontinental Railroad now.
609
00:43:13,242 --> 00:43:15,944
And either this is
a brave and noble endeavor,
610
00:43:15,978 --> 00:43:18,113
or it's Sodom and Gomorrah.
611
00:43:18,147 --> 00:43:21,716
Which is it?
612
00:43:21,751 --> 00:43:23,451
The sooner you help me
accurately report
613
00:43:23,486 --> 00:43:24,953
what's going on out here,
the sooner I can leave
614
00:43:24,987 --> 00:43:27,689
and make both our lives
less miserable.
615
00:43:27,723 --> 00:43:29,958
And for the record,
I covered the war '63 to '65.
616
00:43:29,992 --> 00:43:32,427
I know the difference between
hell and a church social.
617
00:43:32,461 --> 00:43:35,196
What more you need to see?
618
00:43:35,231 --> 00:43:39,768
Everything.
619
00:43:39,802 --> 00:43:42,103
Come on then.
620
00:43:42,137 --> 00:43:44,372
♪ That I ever did see
♪ that I ever did see
621
00:43:44,406 --> 00:43:46,774
♪ she was born
in Jackson, baby ♪
622
00:43:46,809 --> 00:43:48,276
♪ raised in New Orleans
623
00:43:48,310 --> 00:43:50,812
grading crews work ahead
of the tie-layers.
624
00:43:50,846 --> 00:43:53,281
100 miles west,
surveyors lay out the route.
625
00:43:53,315 --> 00:43:55,750
- How many men do you have?
- Near 3,000.
626
00:43:55,784 --> 00:43:57,919
Work six days a week,
sunup, sundown.
627
00:43:57,953 --> 00:44:00,955
$1.50 a day.
Them's good wages.
628
00:44:00,989 --> 00:44:02,957
How many miles do you make
a day?
629
00:44:02,991 --> 00:44:06,260
Two now,
weather and Indians permittin'.
630
00:44:09,097 --> 00:44:10,998
Rust eaters lay the rails.
631
00:44:11,033 --> 00:44:13,567
Walking boss makes sure
the gauge is right.
632
00:44:13,602 --> 00:44:17,004
Spiker teams secure the rails
to the ground.
633
00:44:17,038 --> 00:44:19,306
Fish-plates tie them together.
634
00:44:19,341 --> 00:44:21,342
3 swings of the hammer
per spike,
635
00:44:21,376 --> 00:44:25,012
10 spikes per rail,
400 rails to a mile,
636
00:44:25,046 --> 00:44:28,048
1,500 miles to Sacramento.
637
00:44:30,552 --> 00:44:32,119
Do you really believe
you can win the race
638
00:44:32,153 --> 00:44:33,821
against the Central Pacific
to build this road?
639
00:44:33,855 --> 00:44:35,356
Wouldn't be here otherwise.
640
00:44:35,390 --> 00:44:36,924
You think you can do it
641
00:44:36,958 --> 00:44:38,459
without Thomas Durant's
political connections?
642
00:44:38,493 --> 00:44:40,661
Without his money,
his ego to drive it on?
643
00:44:40,695 --> 00:44:44,198
Well, here I stand,
and here he don't.
644
00:44:44,232 --> 00:44:48,635
- Excuse me.
- One more question.
645
00:44:48,670 --> 00:44:51,405
Why you?
646
00:45:01,382 --> 00:45:03,950
Each car sleeps 60 men.
647
00:45:03,985 --> 00:45:06,953
Keeps them out of the weather
and close to the work.
648
00:45:06,988 --> 00:45:09,990
Lady coming through.
649
00:45:13,861 --> 00:45:16,129
Who designed these cars?
650
00:45:16,163 --> 00:45:17,397
Mostly me.
651
00:45:20,201 --> 00:45:23,737
Yeah, I'm still working out
the ventilation.
652
00:45:23,771 --> 00:45:25,472
Mmhmm.
653
00:45:25,506 --> 00:45:27,073
Two weeks ago, these men
were starving, out of work,
654
00:45:27,107 --> 00:45:29,042
straight off the boats
in New York.
655
00:45:29,076 --> 00:45:30,410
My newspaper has reported
Irish labor bosses
656
00:45:30,444 --> 00:45:32,078
conscripting them out here
for a fee.
657
00:45:32,112 --> 00:45:34,914
How is that any different
from indentured servitude?
658
00:45:34,949 --> 00:45:36,983
Union Pacific offers
free rail passage
659
00:45:37,017 --> 00:45:39,018
and a week's wages on arrival.
660
00:45:39,053 --> 00:45:40,720
We got more applicants
than we got work.
661
00:45:40,754 --> 00:45:42,355
Really?
662
00:45:42,389 --> 00:45:45,091
Your idea again?
663
00:45:45,125 --> 00:45:49,862
Didn't much care for the labor
bosses I met in New York.
664
00:46:01,141 --> 00:46:02,441
New cemetery runs
from the sawmill
665
00:46:02,476 --> 00:46:04,410
up to the Ridge line.
666
00:46:04,444 --> 00:46:06,178
Ain't a day goes by
we don't put some one or two
667
00:46:06,213 --> 00:46:10,950
in the ground up there,
most from railroad mishaps.
668
00:46:10,984 --> 00:46:13,218
And the others?
669
00:46:13,253 --> 00:46:17,623
Spare time mishaps.
670
00:46:17,657 --> 00:46:22,461
Is that where the fair-haired
maiden of the west is buried?
671
00:46:25,565 --> 00:46:28,867
No, she's buried in
a wild flower field she liked.
672
00:46:28,902 --> 00:46:31,536
- Did you know her?
- A bit.
673
00:46:31,571 --> 00:46:32,971
Well, you must've known her
better than that
674
00:46:33,006 --> 00:46:35,374
if you knew where she wanted
to be buried.
675
00:46:35,408 --> 00:46:36,642
Mrs. Bell should've left
Hell On Wheels
676
00:46:36,676 --> 00:46:38,543
when she had the chance.
677
00:46:38,578 --> 00:46:40,979
This ain't no place for a lady,
678
00:46:41,013 --> 00:46:44,316
less'n she's a whore.
679
00:46:44,350 --> 00:46:46,318
I can assure you,
Mr. Bohannon,
680
00:46:46,352 --> 00:46:49,054
I am neither a lady
nor a whore.
681
00:46:49,088 --> 00:46:50,622
Figured you'd have to be
a little bit of both
682
00:46:50,656 --> 00:46:52,157
being a newspaper woman.
683
00:46:52,191 --> 00:46:54,059
Get outta here.
684
00:46:54,093 --> 00:46:56,394
Huh.
685
00:46:56,429 --> 00:46:57,629
You figured wrong.
686
00:47:02,468 --> 00:47:04,903
You Bohannon?
687
00:47:04,937 --> 00:47:07,505
I am.
688
00:47:09,675 --> 00:47:11,342
Keep your railroad
off my property.
689
00:47:11,377 --> 00:47:14,379
I won't tell you again.
690
00:47:22,054 --> 00:47:24,589
Where'd they come from?
691
00:47:24,623 --> 00:47:27,458
No idea.
692
00:47:27,493 --> 00:47:29,694
Train for Omaha leaves
in an hour.
693
00:47:29,728 --> 00:47:32,730
I expect you won't
wanna miss it.
694
00:48:16,941 --> 00:48:18,709
Howdy.
695
00:48:18,743 --> 00:48:20,877
Who are you?
696
00:48:20,912 --> 00:48:22,512
You come pawin' around
for turmoil,
697
00:48:22,547 --> 00:48:23,580
you best think twice, friend.
698
00:48:23,614 --> 00:48:26,016
This is my office.
699
00:48:26,050 --> 00:48:28,418
Mr. Ferguson.
700
00:48:28,452 --> 00:48:30,987
Dick Barlow.
Just arrived from Omaha.
701
00:48:31,022 --> 00:48:34,557
Didn't Mr. Bohannon tell you
to expect me?
702
00:48:34,592 --> 00:48:37,560
No.
703
00:48:37,595 --> 00:48:39,863
What you want in here?
704
00:48:39,897 --> 00:48:42,031
Well, I can tell by looking,
you ain't short a hat size,
705
00:48:42,066 --> 00:48:44,400
so I guess you know.
706
00:48:44,435 --> 00:48:47,070
I'm new Chief
of Railroad Police.
707
00:48:47,104 --> 00:48:50,840
You work for me now.
708
00:48:50,875 --> 00:48:52,108
Coffee?
709
00:48:52,142 --> 00:48:54,010
My grandpap taught me
how to make it.
710
00:48:54,044 --> 00:48:56,112
The trick is not to over-boil.
711
00:48:56,146 --> 00:48:59,882
And, of course, the sock.
712
00:48:59,917 --> 00:49:01,417
Now, uh, I use a clean one.
713
00:49:01,451 --> 00:49:04,420
But pap swore
the riper the sock,
714
00:49:04,454 --> 00:49:06,789
the richer the brew.
715
00:49:06,823 --> 00:49:10,026
I like a dollop of fresh cream
in mine,
716
00:49:10,060 --> 00:49:13,029
but it ain't real regular
I come across it.
717
00:49:13,063 --> 00:49:17,366
And kicking don't get you
nowhere less'n you're a mule.
718
00:49:17,401 --> 00:49:21,470
So mostly,
I just take mine black.
719
00:49:21,505 --> 00:49:23,272
Mr. Bohannon
ain't said nothing
720
00:49:23,306 --> 00:49:26,876
about me working for nobody.
721
00:49:26,910 --> 00:49:29,411
Well, it ain't no good cold now.
722
00:49:29,446 --> 00:49:32,448
Go on.
723
00:49:37,654 --> 00:49:41,590
That's it.
724
00:49:41,624 --> 00:49:43,325
Mm.
725
00:49:43,359 --> 00:49:45,727
That'll get your hair
out of the butter every time.
726
00:50:01,611 --> 00:50:03,245
Don't want no trouble.
727
00:50:03,279 --> 00:50:06,581
- Came to talk.
- What about?
728
00:50:06,616 --> 00:50:09,317
Think you know.
729
00:50:19,729 --> 00:50:22,497
Come ahead.
730
00:50:32,007 --> 00:50:34,027
You survive the war?
731
00:50:36,478 --> 00:50:38,379
- I did.
- You a Johnny Reb?
732
00:50:38,414 --> 00:50:41,649
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I was.
733
00:50:46,722 --> 00:50:48,389
So you know a little
about what it's like,
734
00:50:48,423 --> 00:50:52,026
somebody comes,
takes your land.
735
00:50:52,060 --> 00:50:55,696
Everything I had's been took.
736
00:50:55,731 --> 00:50:58,466
Indians killed my father
and my brother,
737
00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:00,534
his wives and kids.
738
00:51:00,569 --> 00:51:03,804
My wives and I,
we buried 'em on the same hill
739
00:51:03,839 --> 00:51:07,241
I pulled our surveyor stakes
out of.
740
00:51:07,275 --> 00:51:09,476
My family bled for this land,
Mr. Bohannon,
741
00:51:09,511 --> 00:51:14,081
carved this place out
of a wilderness nobody wanted.
742
00:51:16,551 --> 00:51:19,386
It is
by Heavenly Father's decree
743
00:51:19,421 --> 00:51:22,723
that we are here,
and it shall be by His will,
744
00:51:22,757 --> 00:51:24,691
not yours, that we leave.
745
00:51:24,726 --> 00:51:28,529
Even God can't stop
the railroad, Mr. Hatch.
746
00:51:31,432 --> 00:51:33,500
It would destroy all we built,
747
00:51:33,535 --> 00:51:36,570
take away our home.
748
00:51:36,604 --> 00:51:38,372
Mm.
749
00:51:38,406 --> 00:51:40,741
You have my word.
750
00:51:40,775 --> 00:51:42,442
You'll get a square deal.
751
00:51:42,477 --> 00:51:44,511
Now, now,
that's the best I can do.
752
00:51:44,545 --> 00:51:47,247
- Could go around.
- Boy.
753
00:51:47,281 --> 00:51:49,616
Ain't nothin' but wilderness
and Lamonites out here, father.
754
00:51:49,650 --> 00:51:51,985
I said that's enough.
755
00:52:04,165 --> 00:52:06,733
You will excuse
my son's manners.
756
00:52:06,767 --> 00:52:10,737
He's got some growing
still to do.
757
00:52:21,982 --> 00:52:26,652
Tell you what.
Um...
758
00:52:26,687 --> 00:52:29,322
Let me see if my surveyors
can't find a way around.
759
00:52:29,356 --> 00:52:32,225
Now, that...
that's not a promise.
760
00:52:32,259 --> 00:52:34,327
Ift can't be done,
you'll still have to move.
761
00:52:34,361 --> 00:52:39,465
But it don't cost nothing
to try.
762
00:52:42,669 --> 00:52:46,072
Well, a journey
through these lands
763
00:52:46,106 --> 00:52:49,775
at this hour is a foolish one,
Mr. Bohannon.
764
00:52:49,809 --> 00:52:52,845
You are welcome to stay
till morning.
765
00:52:52,879 --> 00:52:56,615
Much obliged.
766
00:54:00,343 --> 00:54:02,644
Seen me a Mormon man
killed once.
767
00:54:02,678 --> 00:54:05,146
Liberty, Missouri...
768
00:54:05,481 --> 00:54:07,315
During the war.
769
00:54:07,349 --> 00:54:10,117
As if them white folk didn't
have enough to fight about,
770
00:54:10,152 --> 00:54:12,751
county sheriff run him through
with a sword
771
00:54:12,871 --> 00:54:14,388
on account of him
being a "Palgemist."
772
00:54:21,746 --> 00:54:25,361
Yep, they didn't like them
no "Palgemists"
773
00:54:25,481 --> 00:54:26,468
in Liberty, Missouri.
774
00:54:26,588 --> 00:54:28,252
Like they Mormons
didn't like them no negroes.
775
00:54:32,757 --> 00:54:34,925
Yeah.
They a nasty bunch.
776
00:54:37,462 --> 00:54:39,897
I think
you mean "polygamist."
777
00:54:39,931 --> 00:54:42,332
What'd I say?
778
00:54:42,367 --> 00:54:44,768
"Palgemists."
779
00:54:44,802 --> 00:54:46,069
Well, I knew it was
something like that.
780
00:54:46,104 --> 00:54:48,271
Why a man gotta get
hisself killed
781
00:54:48,306 --> 00:54:49,940
over being a polygamist?
782
00:54:49,974 --> 00:54:51,575
It's the custom
of having more than one wife
783
00:54:51,609 --> 00:54:52,943
at the same time.
784
00:54:52,977 --> 00:54:54,878
More than one wife, you say?
785
00:54:54,912 --> 00:54:56,846
At the same time?
786
00:54:56,881 --> 00:54:59,816
Well, damn.
No wonder they nasty.
787
00:55:05,556 --> 00:55:07,957
Sand, mud, lime.
788
00:55:07,992 --> 00:55:10,293
Soil like that no good
for the grade, boss.
789
00:55:10,327 --> 00:55:13,296
Take a lot of lumber
to build it.
790
00:55:13,330 --> 00:55:15,231
Yeah, rock wall be better,
but that take time
791
00:55:15,266 --> 00:55:17,367
and rock, which we ain't got.
792
00:55:17,401 --> 00:55:19,902
I've surveyed several routes
through here, Mr. Bohannon.
793
00:55:19,937 --> 00:55:22,705
Sand hills stretch at least
a hundred miles to the north.
794
00:55:22,740 --> 00:55:24,440
We'd have to go South
to get around that farm.
795
00:55:24,475 --> 00:55:26,709
- How far?
- 40 mile, maybe more.
796
00:55:26,744 --> 00:55:28,611
40 mile'll put us behind
schedule by five weeks.
797
00:55:28,645 --> 00:55:31,647
Yes, sir.
798
00:55:54,671 --> 00:55:56,572
I met the new police chief.
799
00:55:56,606 --> 00:56:02,244
You ain't happy,
track runs both ways.
800
00:56:06,549 --> 00:56:09,017
Where's the livestock?
It's complicated.
801
00:56:09,052 --> 00:56:10,319
Tell you
what's complicated, son.
802
00:56:10,353 --> 00:56:12,688
3,000 hungry men.
803
00:56:12,722 --> 00:56:14,456
What I mean is
804
00:56:14,490 --> 00:56:17,826
I've been on the job
for two days.
805
00:56:17,860 --> 00:56:19,995
And deciphering these books
is quite the task.
806
00:56:20,029 --> 00:56:21,997
Near as I can tell,
807
00:56:22,031 --> 00:56:23,865
Mr. Durant formed
several companies
808
00:56:23,900 --> 00:56:26,935
to supply livestock
to the railroad.
809
00:56:26,969 --> 00:56:29,104
Now that he's departed,
810
00:56:29,138 --> 00:56:33,175
the contracts
have been canceled.
811
00:56:33,209 --> 00:56:35,277
Then find some other
damn place, Sean.
812
00:56:35,311 --> 00:56:37,112
Council Bluffs, Denver,
shit, Chicago...
813
00:56:37,146 --> 00:56:41,049
I would, um, but it seems
that Mr. Durant has,
814
00:56:41,083 --> 00:56:43,718
in addition to canceling
our contracts
815
00:56:43,753 --> 00:56:45,653
with his companies,
816
00:56:45,688 --> 00:56:49,150
cornered the market on livestock
in Omaha as well.
817
00:56:49,270 --> 00:56:50,625
Shit!
818
00:56:50,659 --> 00:56:52,527
Should've killed that son of
a bitch when I had the chance.
819
00:56:52,561 --> 00:56:55,697
May I quote you on that,
Mr. Bohannon?
820
00:56:59,602 --> 00:57:01,502
You don't say nothing to her
about railroad business.
821
00:57:01,537 --> 00:57:04,405
- You hear me?
- Yes, sir.
822
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:08,142
- Still here?
- Missed my train.
823
00:57:08,177 --> 00:57:11,412
Don't say I didn't warn you.
824
00:57:18,186 --> 00:57:19,854
Oh.
825
00:57:19,888 --> 00:57:22,990
We missed you at services
this morning, Mr. Bohannon.
826
00:57:26,194 --> 00:57:29,563
Was there something
I can help you with?
827
00:57:29,598 --> 00:57:32,633
Thought I'd look in is all.
828
00:57:33,869 --> 00:57:36,904
You gave us a good place...
829
00:57:36,938 --> 00:57:42,776
High, dry ground
upwind of the slaughterhouse.
830
00:57:42,811 --> 00:57:45,679
- Thank you.
- It's good.
831
00:57:45,714 --> 00:57:50,317
It's good for the men, I mean.
832
00:57:53,054 --> 00:57:54,922
And you?
833
00:57:59,294 --> 00:58:01,929
Oh.
Sorry.
834
00:58:01,963 --> 00:58:04,064
Uh...
835
00:58:04,098 --> 00:58:07,067
Railroad has to move a family
of homesteaders off their land.
836
00:58:07,101 --> 00:58:11,404
They're digging in.
And, uh, they're Mormon.
837
00:58:11,439 --> 00:58:12,739
I wonder if you've had
any cause to know
838
00:58:12,773 --> 00:58:15,942
what they might be like
as people.
839
00:58:15,977 --> 00:58:17,644
The Latter Day Saints are not
840
00:58:17,678 --> 00:58:20,480
a legitimate Church of Christ.
841
00:58:20,514 --> 00:58:22,549
They treat their women
as slaves.
842
00:58:22,583 --> 00:58:24,551
They take child brides.
843
00:58:24,585 --> 00:58:26,219
They're a violent people.
844
00:58:26,253 --> 00:58:28,254
They'll fight then, you think?
845
00:58:28,289 --> 00:58:30,890
It has been their way.
Yes.
846
00:58:30,925 --> 00:58:33,159
They got children with 'em.
847
00:58:33,194 --> 00:58:35,128
Then you'll find another way.
848
00:58:35,162 --> 00:58:37,931
By God's Grace.
849
00:58:37,965 --> 00:58:42,902
God's been slack
with the Grace of late.
850
00:58:42,937 --> 00:58:47,006
Then show them yours,
Mr. Bohannon.
851
00:58:51,545 --> 00:58:55,348
What I'm proposing is
a major new commercial hub,
852
00:58:55,382 --> 00:58:58,751
the most important railroad city
in the United States.
853
00:58:58,785 --> 00:59:04,357
And it will be right here
in your backyard.
854
00:59:04,391 --> 00:59:07,993
That is literally my backyard.
855
00:59:08,028 --> 00:59:11,931
You see that pretty confluence
of good sweet-water streams?
856
00:59:11,965 --> 00:59:15,434
Well, it ain't much,
but it's on my land.
857
00:59:15,469 --> 00:59:18,337
My husband left me all of this
when he passed in '62.
858
00:59:18,371 --> 00:59:21,040
Well, it may be
your land now, madam.
859
00:59:21,074 --> 00:59:23,108
But the Union Pacific Railroad
860
00:59:23,143 --> 00:59:24,810
will reach it before the year
is out.
861
00:59:24,844 --> 00:59:27,813
And, through eminent domain,
they will claim it.
862
00:59:27,847 --> 00:59:29,114
That's against the law.
863
00:59:29,149 --> 00:59:30,282
It is the law.
864
00:59:30,316 --> 00:59:31,950
And by law,
865
00:59:31,985 --> 00:59:34,286
the Union Pacific
is compelled to offer you
866
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,355
a fair market price
for your land,
867
00:59:36,389 --> 00:59:37,723
currently $1.50 an acre.
868
00:59:39,492 --> 00:59:42,327
- I'd never sell for that.
- And you won't have to.
869
00:59:42,362 --> 00:59:44,196
Because as a representative
870
00:59:44,230 --> 00:59:47,332
and major stockholder
of Credit Mobilier,
871
00:59:47,367 --> 00:59:51,069
I am prepared
to offer you $100 per acre,
872
00:59:51,104 --> 00:59:55,974
thus waiving eminent domain.
873
00:59:56,008 --> 00:59:58,844
- What's the rub?
- Ah, well...
874
00:59:58,878 --> 01:00:01,913
In order to waive
eminent domain,
875
01:00:01,948 --> 01:00:05,083
we must build
a railroad terminus
876
01:00:05,117 --> 01:00:06,918
and a town on the property,
877
01:00:06,952 --> 01:00:08,820
which we will.
878
01:00:08,854 --> 01:00:10,855
Every pound of beef,
every ton of ore,
879
01:00:10,890 --> 01:00:13,925
every fruit, vegetable,
every bale of hay
880
01:00:13,959 --> 01:00:16,694
from either side
of the Mississippi
881
01:00:16,729 --> 01:00:20,164
must ship through our town.
882
01:00:20,199 --> 01:00:23,534
You will become rich
beyond your wildest dreams.
883
01:00:23,569 --> 01:00:24,869
Weren't you in jail
just a month ago?
884
01:00:24,903 --> 01:00:26,437
- Yes.
- And you're broke,
885
01:00:26,472 --> 01:00:27,438
according to the newspapers.
886
01:00:27,473 --> 01:00:28,773
Flat broke.
887
01:00:28,807 --> 01:00:29,907
Well, how do you expect
to pay us
888
01:00:29,942 --> 01:00:31,109
for our property then?
889
01:00:31,143 --> 01:00:33,578
From construction funds
890
01:00:33,612 --> 01:00:36,214
advanced to me
by the Union Pacific Railroad.
891
01:00:36,248 --> 01:00:38,549
You were kicked off
Union Pacific for stealing.
892
01:00:38,584 --> 01:00:41,085
Union Pacific, Credit Mobilier,
893
01:00:41,119 --> 01:00:44,388
different pockets
to the same pair of pants.
894
01:00:44,423 --> 01:00:46,957
When the judge understood that,
I was released.
895
01:00:46,992 --> 01:00:48,893
You're in Omaha now, New York.
896
01:00:48,927 --> 01:00:50,461
Money won't buy you
judges here.
897
01:00:50,495 --> 01:00:54,598
Opportunity is a powerful
elixir, Mrs. Palmer.
898
01:00:54,633 --> 01:00:56,467
Right.
899
01:00:56,501 --> 01:00:59,403
So you're borrowing money
you don't have
900
01:00:59,437 --> 01:01:01,238
from a company
you don't work for
901
01:01:01,273 --> 01:01:02,906
to buy property
you can't afford
902
01:01:02,941 --> 01:01:04,875
to build a city
that doesn't exist.
903
01:01:04,909 --> 01:01:06,276
Spearheading, as it were.
904
01:01:06,311 --> 01:01:09,313
A new way of doing business
in America.
905
01:01:16,955 --> 01:01:18,889
If all difficulties were known
906
01:01:18,923 --> 01:01:21,892
at the outset of a long journey,
Mr. McGinnis,
907
01:01:21,926 --> 01:01:25,929
few of us would ever
embark at all.
908
01:01:28,766 --> 01:01:31,601
A whiskey for my young friend.
909
01:01:35,873 --> 01:01:38,308
Have you got the money?
910
01:01:44,949 --> 01:01:47,584
I'm very uneasy about this.
911
01:01:47,618 --> 01:01:49,419
If Mr. Bohannon finds out...
912
01:01:49,453 --> 01:01:51,588
You are doing nothing wrong.
913
01:01:51,622 --> 01:01:53,790
You are managing
railroad funds,
914
01:01:53,824 --> 01:01:58,127
and you are managing them well.
915
01:01:58,162 --> 01:02:01,164
Have you got
something else for me?
916
01:02:06,036 --> 01:02:09,806
This is the, uh,
telegraph routing code
917
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,675
for the Union Pacific.
918
01:02:12,709 --> 01:02:14,477
You'll be able to eavesdrop
919
01:02:14,511 --> 01:02:17,013
on all of Mr. Bohannon's
business.
920
01:02:17,047 --> 01:02:19,682
Excellent.
921
01:02:25,689 --> 01:02:28,124
Will you be paying
me today, Mr. Durant?
922
01:02:28,158 --> 01:02:32,495
All in due time,
Mr. McGinnis.
923
01:02:32,529 --> 01:02:37,233
Oh, don't look so glum.
924
01:02:37,267 --> 01:02:42,371
My current situation
is but a temporary setback.
925
01:02:42,405 --> 01:02:46,175
History always sides
with a winner.
926
01:02:55,018 --> 01:02:56,718
Where are you off to so fast?
927
01:02:56,753 --> 01:02:58,420
Excuse me, I'm...
928
01:02:58,454 --> 01:03:00,722
Um...
929
01:03:00,757 --> 01:03:02,491
Uh, stop, no.
930
01:03:02,525 --> 01:03:03,759
Ow, let me go.
931
01:03:03,793 --> 01:03:04,860
Give us a kiss first.
932
01:03:04,894 --> 01:03:06,595
What?
933
01:03:08,064 --> 01:03:09,731
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Please, please.
934
01:03:09,766 --> 01:03:12,767
Not like this.
Let's go to my room, huh?
935
01:03:14,770 --> 01:03:17,572
I got us a bottle we can share.
936
01:03:17,607 --> 01:03:21,109
Touch me again,
it'll be your throat!
937
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,115
Bloody whore.
938
01:03:35,613 --> 01:03:37,081
My grandpap,
939
01:03:37,115 --> 01:03:38,782
a dough puncher from way back,
940
01:03:38,817 --> 01:03:41,752
taught me surest way
to a woman's heart
941
01:03:41,786 --> 01:03:43,420
by way of her stomach.
942
01:03:43,454 --> 01:03:48,692
By God, if that wasn't
certain with my Tess.
943
01:03:48,726 --> 01:03:52,262
You married, Mr. Ferguson?
944
01:03:52,296 --> 01:03:54,765
Some could call it that.
945
01:03:54,799 --> 01:03:56,800
Kids?
946
01:03:56,834 --> 01:03:58,702
Got me a new baby girl.
947
01:03:58,736 --> 01:04:01,438
Nothing like a new baby to
make a man count his blessings
948
01:04:01,472 --> 01:04:02,906
and keep them close.
949
01:04:02,940 --> 01:04:06,891
I got five youngsters,
all girls,
950
01:04:07,011 --> 01:04:07,899
if you want to know.
951
01:04:08,019 --> 01:04:11,948
The oldest one's
12 going on 40.
952
01:04:11,983 --> 01:04:16,119
That little girl of mine,
she beautiful.
953
01:04:16,153 --> 01:04:20,089
I look in her eyes,
and she melt my heart.
954
01:04:20,124 --> 01:04:25,495
But her mama afraid this job
gonna get me killed.
955
01:04:25,529 --> 01:04:29,198
She think that baby ain't gonna
have no daddy to bring her up.
956
01:04:32,770 --> 01:04:35,171
How's the coffee?
957
01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,673
It's better the second day.
958
01:04:37,708 --> 01:04:39,642
It's the sock.
959
01:04:39,676 --> 01:04:42,144
Need you boys to ride out
and tell them homesteaders
960
01:04:42,179 --> 01:04:43,679
there's no way around the land.
961
01:04:43,714 --> 01:04:45,514
This here's the writ
of eminent domain.
962
01:04:45,549 --> 01:04:47,116
Let them know the government
pays $1.50 an acre.
963
01:04:47,150 --> 01:04:49,685
Railroad will throw in
another dollar.
964
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:51,654
Let 'em know that's more
than fair, all right?
965
01:04:51,688 --> 01:04:52,822
Yes, sir.
966
01:04:52,856 --> 01:04:55,424
Oh, you do the talking.
967
01:04:55,459 --> 01:04:59,028
Mormons ain't keen on negroes.
968
01:05:02,999 --> 01:05:05,000
Finish your coffee,
Mr. Ferguson.
969
01:05:05,035 --> 01:05:07,436
I got to visit the necessary.
970
01:05:07,470 --> 01:05:09,571
Then we'll be on our way.
971
01:05:12,842 --> 01:05:14,676
They said
he was a hell-raiser,
972
01:05:14,711 --> 01:05:18,847
but my pap was a lazy son of
a bitch by the time I knew him.
973
01:05:18,882 --> 01:05:21,350
Fact, one time
when I was, oh, nine...
974
01:05:21,384 --> 01:05:23,185
Don't you ever stop talking?
975
01:05:23,219 --> 01:05:25,621
No, sir, I do not.
976
01:05:25,655 --> 01:05:28,857
Out here, a quiet man is twice
as likely as a noisy one
977
01:05:28,891 --> 01:05:31,960
to have his beard clung to
by a bear.
978
01:05:31,994 --> 01:05:35,697
I intend to keep my scalp.
979
01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:40,469
Maybe they're gone.
980
01:05:40,503 --> 01:05:42,637
No, they ain't gone.
981
01:05:42,672 --> 01:05:45,540
Horses still in the barn.
982
01:05:59,388 --> 01:06:01,189
Keep your gun close.
983
01:06:01,223 --> 01:06:02,590
You see our cinch
getting frayed,
984
01:06:02,625 --> 01:06:05,293
start shooting.
985
01:06:13,268 --> 01:06:15,403
Hello!
986
01:06:15,437 --> 01:06:17,939
Anybody home?
987
01:06:22,544 --> 01:06:23,945
Mr. Hatch?
988
01:06:27,049 --> 01:06:31,252
State your business!
989
01:06:31,286 --> 01:06:33,954
I'm Dick Barlow,
Chief of Police,
990
01:06:33,989 --> 01:06:36,590
Union Pacific Railroad.
991
01:06:39,094 --> 01:06:41,796
Think you know why we're here.
992
01:06:41,830 --> 01:06:45,132
I already told the other one,
we ain't leaving.
993
01:06:48,136 --> 01:06:50,244
You ain't got any choice.
994
01:06:50,364 --> 01:06:51,772
That's what
we come to tell you.
995
01:06:51,806 --> 01:06:54,441
We ain't afraid to fight
for what's ours.
996
01:06:54,476 --> 01:06:57,945
You best leave
on out of here now.
997
01:06:57,979 --> 01:07:01,482
Threatening us
ain't gonna get us no...
998
01:07:01,516 --> 01:07:03,283
Barlow!
999
01:07:03,318 --> 01:07:04,518
What
1000
01:07:36,951 --> 01:07:38,451
I need 75,000 ties
1001
01:07:38,485 --> 01:07:40,219
delivered 25 miles
beyond the end of the rails
1002
01:07:40,254 --> 01:07:41,587
before the first of the month,
1003
01:07:41,824 --> 01:07:43,022
a hundred barrels
of blasting powder.
1004
01:07:43,057 --> 01:07:44,757
Make sure we got enough
wranglers to tend them cattle
1005
01:07:44,792 --> 01:07:48,027
when they get here...
1006
01:07:48,062 --> 01:07:49,495
from Denver.
1007
01:07:49,530 --> 01:07:51,898
Eva!
1008
01:07:55,736 --> 01:07:57,603
What happened?
1009
01:07:57,638 --> 01:07:59,105
The Mormons shot him.
1010
01:07:59,139 --> 01:08:00,106
Shit.
1011
01:08:00,140 --> 01:08:01,474
Careful, careful.
1012
01:08:01,508 --> 01:08:02,675
I got his legs.
1013
01:08:04,678 --> 01:08:06,045
Eva!
1014
01:08:06,079 --> 01:08:08,481
Eva, we need you!
1015
01:08:08,515 --> 01:08:10,316
Elam, the baby!
1016
01:08:10,350 --> 01:08:13,152
You're the closest thing
we got to a doctor.
1017
01:08:35,542 --> 01:08:36,975
Go get me some onion broth.
1018
01:08:37,010 --> 01:08:38,544
You!
1019
01:08:38,578 --> 01:08:40,379
Go to the hotel restaurant,
1020
01:08:40,413 --> 01:08:42,414
get me some onion broth now.
Go!
1021
01:08:42,448 --> 01:08:43,582
Was it the old man or the boy?
1022
01:08:43,616 --> 01:08:45,350
I don't know for certain.
1023
01:08:45,385 --> 01:08:47,920
- Certain you don't know.
- Told you I don't know.
1024
01:08:47,954 --> 01:08:49,154
Well, I know for certain
there's a man lying here
1025
01:08:49,188 --> 01:08:50,555
with a bullet in him.
1026
01:08:50,590 --> 01:08:51,556
I just told you
I ain't seen him.
1027
01:08:51,591 --> 01:08:54,059
Will you two stop it?
1028
01:08:54,093 --> 01:08:55,260
Shut that baby up.
1029
01:08:55,294 --> 01:08:58,063
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
1030
01:08:58,097 --> 01:08:59,431
Here.
1031
01:08:59,465 --> 01:09:01,366
Prop him up.
1032
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:02,767
Get him up.
1033
01:09:05,271 --> 01:09:07,539
Drink the medicine.
1034
01:09:19,385 --> 01:09:22,787
Yeah, I can smell the onion
broth through the wound.
1035
01:09:22,822 --> 01:09:24,422
He's gut-shot, Elam.
1036
01:09:24,456 --> 01:09:26,624
He ain't gonna make it.
1037
01:09:28,727 --> 01:09:30,695
Take that damn baby outside.
1038
01:09:30,729 --> 01:09:32,964
No, wait.
1039
01:09:32,998 --> 01:09:36,934
Bring her here.
1040
01:09:36,969 --> 01:09:40,238
Bring her over here.
Please.
1041
01:09:40,272 --> 01:09:42,373
Let me see her.
1042
01:09:42,407 --> 01:09:45,142
Please let me see her.
1043
01:09:51,350 --> 01:09:52,783
Oh.
1044
01:09:57,956 --> 01:10:02,927
She's beautiful,
Mr. Ferguson.
1045
01:10:02,961 --> 01:10:05,796
Just like you said.
1046
01:10:36,561 --> 01:10:39,629
You wanted it.
1047
01:10:41,399 --> 01:10:43,376
Not like this.
1048
01:10:50,675 --> 01:10:52,575
Well?
1049
01:11:04,021 --> 01:11:06,122
All right.
Telegraph the fort.
1050
01:11:06,156 --> 01:11:08,191
Tell the major we need help
evicting them homesteaders.
1051
01:11:10,661 --> 01:11:12,862
You want a railroad story?
1052
01:11:12,896 --> 01:11:15,531
Follow me.
1053
01:11:54,193 --> 01:11:56,795
Mr. Hatch!
1054
01:11:56,829 --> 01:12:01,433
This is Cullen Bohannon of
the Union Pacific Railroad.
1055
01:12:01,467 --> 01:12:03,802
I have a writ of execution here
1056
01:12:03,836 --> 01:12:07,272
for the killing of
my Chief of Police.
1057
01:12:07,306 --> 01:12:10,141
Come on out.
1058
01:12:14,980 --> 01:12:17,682
You don't, and these soldiers
will burn you out.
1059
01:12:17,716 --> 01:12:19,150
I won't be able to stop them.
1060
01:12:23,022 --> 01:12:25,890
You got one minute,
Mr. Hatch.
1061
01:12:45,811 --> 01:12:50,281
United States Cavalry
was not built for waiting.
1062
01:12:50,315 --> 01:12:53,350
We didn't come here
to kill women and children.
1063
01:12:53,385 --> 01:12:56,854
A disorganized brain
is lacking in moral principles.
1064
01:12:56,888 --> 01:12:58,856
Are you aware of that,
Bohannon?
1065
01:12:58,890 --> 01:13:00,524
Not something I ponder nights.
1066
01:13:00,558 --> 01:13:02,326
Moral principles are
the first line of defense
1067
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,895
against criminal behavior.
1068
01:13:04,929 --> 01:13:07,297
You learn
something new every day.
1069
01:13:07,332 --> 01:13:08,899
Without moral principles,
1070
01:13:08,933 --> 01:13:10,968
these Mormons will inevitably
turn to violence
1071
01:13:11,002 --> 01:13:14,571
to solve their problems,
just like the heathens.
1072
01:13:14,606 --> 01:13:17,741
Am I right about that, chief?
1073
01:13:17,775 --> 01:13:20,077
What he talking about?
1074
01:13:38,429 --> 01:13:41,398
Y'all keep your barrels down.
1075
01:13:50,808 --> 01:13:53,676
You and your boys
put your guns down.
1076
01:13:53,711 --> 01:13:56,613
I told you,
stay off my property
1077
01:13:56,647 --> 01:13:58,748
or there'll be hell to pay.
1078
01:13:58,782 --> 01:14:00,450
And I told you if I couldn't
find a way around,
1079
01:14:00,484 --> 01:14:02,418
the U.S. Government would
rightfully claim its land.
1080
01:14:05,122 --> 01:14:08,257
You murdered
my Chief of Police.
1081
01:14:08,292 --> 01:14:10,460
He was trespassing.
He was warned.
1082
01:14:10,494 --> 01:14:12,528
You have to stand accountable.
1083
01:14:12,563 --> 01:14:15,565
I am the priesthood holder
of my family, Mr. Bohannon.
1084
01:14:15,599 --> 01:14:19,802
Without me,
they will not survive.
1085
01:14:19,837 --> 01:14:21,204
You should've thought
about that
1086
01:14:21,238 --> 01:14:23,039
before you pulled that trigger.
1087
01:14:23,073 --> 01:14:25,608
They won't survive.
1088
01:14:27,077 --> 01:14:28,444
I'll see to it they get to
1089
01:14:28,478 --> 01:14:30,079
the Mormon settlement
at Fort Smith.
1090
01:14:30,113 --> 01:14:31,914
How's that?
1091
01:15:23,633 --> 01:15:26,034
- He done it.
- Father?
1092
01:15:39,915 --> 01:15:42,517
Did you kill that man, son?
1093
01:15:42,551 --> 01:15:43,751
Tell me the truth now.
1094
01:15:58,333 --> 01:16:02,570
Yes, sir.
1095
01:16:02,604 --> 01:16:06,774
Mr. Ferguson,
this boy shoot Dick Barlow?
1096
01:16:09,411 --> 01:16:11,011
I ain't sure.
1097
01:16:15,217 --> 01:16:18,252
Good God, man, get on with it.
1098
01:16:18,286 --> 01:16:20,588
You'd have me hang him?
1099
01:16:20,622 --> 01:16:22,389
It's the law, Bohannon.
1100
01:16:22,424 --> 01:16:24,758
You said so yourself, and you
are obliged to uphold it.
1101
01:16:24,793 --> 01:16:28,662
We do not make exceptions
to the law out here.
1102
01:16:28,697 --> 01:16:30,731
You realize he'll hang.
1103
01:16:30,765 --> 01:16:34,068
He's just a boy.
1104
01:16:34,102 --> 01:16:35,435
You're gonna tell me the truth.
1105
01:16:35,470 --> 01:16:36,703
I told you the truth!
1106
01:16:36,738 --> 01:16:39,106
Son, you got a different story,
1107
01:16:39,140 --> 01:16:41,575
you best tell me right now.
1108
01:16:46,147 --> 01:16:49,316
He's just a boy.
1109
01:16:57,391 --> 01:16:59,793
Not today he ain't.
1110
01:16:59,827 --> 01:17:01,595
All right.
1111
01:17:05,933 --> 01:17:07,968
Father.
1112
01:17:08,002 --> 01:17:09,703
Come here.
1113
01:17:09,737 --> 01:17:12,205
- Father!
- Come on, boy.
1114
01:17:12,239 --> 01:17:15,175
- Come on.
- Easy.
1115
01:17:17,511 --> 01:17:20,113
Father!
1116
01:17:20,147 --> 01:17:21,814
Father!
1117
01:17:21,849 --> 01:17:23,249
Sorry, son.
1118
01:18:07,556 --> 01:18:11,091
"Life on the prairie is
not worth the powder it takes
1119
01:18:11,126 --> 01:18:14,128
to blow it all to hell."
1120
01:18:20,886 --> 01:18:22,520
So say the denizens
of Hell On Wheels,
1121
01:18:22,554 --> 01:18:24,889
the rollicking tent city
1122
01:18:24,923 --> 01:18:27,558
that moves with
the transcontinental railroad
1123
01:18:27,592 --> 01:18:29,260
as it creeps across the country
1124
01:18:29,294 --> 01:18:32,262
at a pace of two miles per day.
1125
01:18:32,297 --> 01:18:34,398
It is no place
for women or children,
1126
01:18:34,432 --> 01:18:36,066
as the men who labor here,
1127
01:18:36,101 --> 01:18:38,902
veterans of the recent conflict,
immigrants,
1128
01:18:38,937 --> 01:18:40,470
and free negroes,
1129
01:18:40,505 --> 01:18:43,106
often take to drink
and un-Christian pursuits
1130
01:18:43,141 --> 01:18:46,443
when not swinging a hammer
or laying track.
1131
01:18:46,477 --> 01:18:49,813
Every man here carries a gun,
1132
01:18:49,847 --> 01:18:53,083
which can be had for
as little as $3,
1133
01:18:53,117 --> 01:18:56,653
and a knife,
and goes to church on Sunday.
1134
01:19:03,494 --> 01:19:06,429
Here you can buy a meal for 35¢
1135
01:19:06,464 --> 01:19:08,665
a beer for less than a quarter,
1136
01:19:08,699 --> 01:19:12,736
a suit of clothes for $5
that includes a hat.
1137
01:19:12,770 --> 01:19:15,805
The belongings of the dead
are cheaper than that.
1138
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,708
Any last words, son?
1139
01:19:21,779 --> 01:19:24,647
I came here to meet the man
who replaced "Doc" Durant
1140
01:19:24,682 --> 01:19:28,318
as Chief Engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad.
1141
01:19:28,352 --> 01:19:33,456
I can tell you he is a man
for whom honor is sacred
1142
01:19:33,490 --> 01:19:37,460
and virtue impermanent.
1143
01:19:40,964 --> 01:19:43,966
In the brave new wilderness
he calls home,
1144
01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:47,003
integrity is important
to Cullen Bohannon.
1145
01:22:03,004 --> 01:22:05,272
Whether a man of integrity
is what's needed
1146
01:22:05,306 --> 01:22:09,009
to build the railroad,
we don't yet know.
1147
01:22:09,043 --> 01:22:11,578
The railroad has always
been the business
1148
01:22:11,613 --> 01:22:13,880
of the unscrupulous
and corrupt.
1149
01:22:24,192 --> 01:22:26,493
You owe me a life
1150
01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,862
for the one
you took from me today.
1151
01:22:37,705 --> 01:22:41,374
I suspect our new Chief
Engineer to be neither.
1152
01:22:57,558 --> 01:22:59,559
And for that, dear reader,
1153
01:22:59,593 --> 01:23:02,495
we might all
count our blessings...
1154
01:23:09,536 --> 01:23:12,038
and say a prayer.
1155
01:23:18,879 --> 01:23:22,118
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