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[engine revving]
[dog barking]
(male #1)
'Hey, Thrush.'
Thrush.
[whistles]
'Thrush! Let's go get
that Lolly Madonna.'
Come on.
[birds chirping]
[door creaks]
Hawk, will you hush
your squawkin'?
You always got your tail
feathers in an uproar.
Why don't you let a hard-working
man get some sleep?
- Hold on you got a little...
- Get out of here!
[laughing]
Let's go out.
Good thing
we found her postcard.
Ludie Gutshall ain't gettin'
married, no way.
(Thrush)
'Who's watching the still.'
Hell, we ain't gonna
be gone long.
(Hawk)
'What that Lolly Madonna looks like?'
'She's probably got a wart.'
[laughing]
[engine revving]
[birds chirping]
[engine revving]
- It's Hawk and Thrush.
- They bought it.
Let's go. Son of a bitch.
He fell for it.
[laughing]
[panting]
Come on, Ludie.
Whoo! Look out, now,
we gonna get our hogs back.
Yee-haw!
[engine revving]
[music over radio]
Wait over there across the road.
Red Barn comes
by every 30 minutes.
Thank you.
[engine revving]
(Roonie)
My name is Roonie Gill.
I was just changing buses
on my way to Nashville.
Actually, I didn't
care much where I was going.
It just felt good to be
on my own for the first time.
I never heard of
the Feather family
or the Gutshalls before that.
I found out later,
that Ludie Gutshall
had planted a postcard
in the Feather mailbox
to get them away
from the still.
He signed it, Lolly Madonna.
And that's who
they thought I was.
By the time I knew
what was happening..
There wasn't much
I could do about it anyway.
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[birds chirping]
[engine revving]
[rumbling]
Ah! Ah!
Put me down!
Uh!
[laughing]
Help! Help!
Help!
(Roonie)
'Ah! Ah!'
[engine revving]
[engine revving]
[clanging]
What the hell
are you doing, Ludie?
Pap just told us
to get the hog.
[thud]
[whistling]
Ah! Damn!
Ludie! Zeb!
They're on their way back.
Come on!
[hog squealing]
Well, we got one though.
Come home, darling.
Come on. Come on.
[engine revving]
Just hold on,
let's fill that bug up.
You got her?
Okay, hold on.
And tell daddy
I'm checking out the still.
[snorting]
[engine revving]
Alright, why don't you tell
the truth this time.
I told you everything I know.
I was just waiting for the bus,
and that's all.
I know that.
Gutshall's are supposed
to pick you up
after the bus came here.
I don't know these people, that
you keep calling the Gutshalls.
I don't know
anybody around here.
Give me the postcard.
"Dear Ludie.
'"I'm due to arrive
at Hankey Junction'
'"on the 8:30 bus.'
'"I'll buy my wedding dress
'"in Hankey, so Elspeth
can help me pick it out.'
"I'll be waiting for you
at the bus stop."
"I love you."
"Kiss. Kiss. Kiss."
"Lolly Madonna."
'Now..'
'You deny that you wrote that?'
My name's Roonie Gill.
And this isn't
even my handwriting.
Give me a piece
of paper and I'll show you.
Sh-shh!
Anybody can change
their hand-writing.
That don't mean anything.
Listen, why don't you just call
the County Welfare
Department in Memphis.
And they'll tell you who I am.
We don't have a phone.
[birds chirping]
[door squeaking]
- Chickie, hand me the bottles.
- What was that?
Thrush.
Gutshalls busted up
the still again.
When's that man
ever going to leave you alone?
'First he takes the meadow,
now this.'
'There's no end to it, Laban,
I'm tellin' you that.'
It's okay this time, Chickie.
We got something
Pap Gutshall wants.
'I'll get my lamb back.'
[slamming]
[squealing]
(Zeb)
'Hey!'
Come on, darling!
[squealing]
- Whoa!
- 'Ludie.'
[birds chirping]
(man on TV)
'Have you told her yet?'
(woman on TV) 'I didn't know
what to say to her, Robert.'
'After what Larry said,
she just seemed so despondent.'
'Larry..'
The bank called again.
Well, that'll have to wait.
Get the biscuits, honey.
Don't know how they can
expect any payment when..
Feather won't even let me
near the meadow.
Well, let's say, you'll never
get it away from him.
I did already. It's mine.
Hell, I got as much right
around here as he has.
Ten years up here
don't mean anything, Pap.
As far as he's concerned.
You're just passing through.
What's Feather ever done around,
except raise hell?
He'll have a hell of a time
putting that still back
together.
I didn't tell you
to bust things up.
I told you
to get those hogs back.
'Hog.'
And that postcard business.
That was just plain foolish.
It worked, didn't it?
What are you complaining about?
I thought it was great.
(Sister E) 'That was
the dumbest thing I ever read.'
Well, that's funny now,
I got it out of one of your
true heart romance magazines.
I don't see
what's so great about that?
It's the strategy, stupid.
I sent them off
on a wild goose chase.
That was brilliant!
Wonder where
they got the girl then?
What girl?
There was a girl in their truck
when they came back.
What's he talking about?
Beats me.
Villum, what the hell
are you talking about?
I don't know,
just some girl that all I know.
- Give me the salt.
- And what was she doin'?
She wasn't doin' nothing.
She was all squeezed down.
- Well, who was she?
- Lolly Madonna.
There ain't no Lolly Madonna.
I made that up, dummy.
Oh, boy, is he quick.
Well, they sure had some girl.
'Cause I and my field glasses
trained right on her.
Little bitty ol' thing
with a crew cut.
(Elspeth)
'Hand me the salt, honey.'
(Pap)
'See what you can to find out, Ludie.'
Excuse me.
These rolls aren't very good.
(Elspeth)
'You fix 'em next time alright?'
(male #2)
'Ma, is that coffee ready yet?'
- 'Two cards.'
- 'Two.'
I don't know what
Ludie Gutshall wanted with her.
Dainty little thing like her.
She gonna be nothing,
but trouble to us.
Ma, she ain't
done nothin' to us.
- What does that mean? She..
- Take a three.
They busted up his field.
Yeah, but he stole
Pap Gutshall's hogs.
He told Pap to keep them
hogs off the meadow.
Ma, Pap can do anything
he wants to with that land
'cause it's his now.
I think your daddy will have
somethin' to say about that.
What am I in for?
Laban..
Laban..
Why aren't you going to bed?
Want Hawk to go up
to the still and relieve Zack?
Mm-hmm.
'Your daddy
wants you to go on up'
'to the still
and guard them hogs.'
Alright, I heard him.
Well, go on then.
(Hawk)
'Going. I'm going.'
'I don't know why
we don't eat 'em pork'
'instead of baby sittin' em.'
[door creaks]
[jaw harp music]
Skylar, hon, your daddy
wants somebody
to keep an eye
on the house tonight.
Oh.
Alright.
What about little Miss Muffet?
She ain't going any place.
Hey!
You still awake?
(Chickie) 'They don't seem
to care much for you.'
[door screeching]
Did daddy say you can do that?
What are you doing back so soon?
We just sent Hawk
up there to get you.
Got tired of waiting.
Coffee's hot.
Don't leave a mess.
Zack, ain't you going
to give her a little kiss?
'Ought to keep in practice,
a big buck like you.'
Maybe I don't need it
as much as you do.
Sure, that's probably true.
You being so pure and all.
You better believe it, honey.
[door screeching]
[crickets chirping]
[rattling]
[dog barking]
[growling on TV]
Hey, Sister E,
none of that hair snort
this time, I'm telling you.
Well, I can't do it right
without curly dew, Zeb
and that's all there is to it.
- Now, hold still.
- Why don't you do mom instead?
It's your turn.
Besides, I've to practice
on baby fine hair.
Jesus.
- Oh, hell, daddy, they haven...
- Oh, shut up. Shut up!
Well, they got somebody
up there or not?
- Yes, they have somebody.
- Who is it?
How the hell should I know?
Is that hot?
(Zeb)
'Hey, maybe they kidnapped somebody.'
They got Ludie's postcard.
Hell, they probably fell for it.
They think
they got Lolly Madonna.
That was really brilliant,
Ludie.
Now, son, exactly,
what did you see up there?
Like Villum said,
skinny and crew cut.
See, what did I tell you, daddy.
- What did I tell you...
- Was she pretty?
Well, she ain't
no two ton dog like you.
(Elspeth) 'Don't you talk
to her like that, Ludie.'
(Ludie) 'Well, what the hell
does she think we're running'
'around here a beauty contest?'
What the hell
is the son of a bitch up to?
(Zeb) 'Well, we just go
seek the law, daddy, like'
'like they deserve.'
Now, what kind of law
are you talking about?
No deputy in this county gonna
step a foot Feather's land.
I want to think.
(Ludie)
'You think all you like, Pap.'
But you ain't gettin' me
to go back up there.
- No way.
- Now, you look here, son.
No. You look here.
Now, how come you make
all the decisions
and I end up taking
all the risk?
Because this time
it's a question of principles.
Well, with me it's a question
of scruples. I got scruples.
What kind of scruple?
Bad.
You know
how it is with scruples, Pap.
Hell, you probably
got as many scruples as I do.
Well, yes, scruples but..
I don't think this here falls
under the category of scruples.
It leans more
from your basic scruple
to your basic principles.
And my basic principle
is that you and me and..
And all the rest of us..
Ought to do somethin'
to help that girl.
You know
what my basic scruple is?
What?
Not to get my ass shot off
for your basic principle.
- 'Hey, Ludie.'
- 'What?'
Why don't we just go up there
and explain to 'em
that postcard thing's a trick?
Mister, we just busted up
the man's still.
You're the one
that busted up his still.
Ain't afraid
to go talk him, Pap.
(Ludie)
'I wouldn't do that if I was you.'
I'd just bash
Thrush's head in.
All I got is this
yellow thread or brown.
Which you want?
Oh, come on now, Chickie.
I want her out of here.
You take her out to the barn.
Honey, I don't care
where you take her.
Just so she's out of here.
Come on now, Chickie.
It's nothing.
Bring that light
over closer.
Right, there will do.
Thanks, honey.
Look, I don't want any stitches.
Okay?
You gonna take her out of here.
Best get on with it.
Hold on to him.
Keep his head still.
[groans]
Come on.
Ah! Ah!
'Hold his head still.'
[sniffles]
Give me the bandage.
Hey, Thrush.
- You were crying real tears.
- Yeah, I know.
Just look at there.
Shut up.
Well, just look at him.
Don't hit me, Thrush.
I didn't do nothing.
Keep out of my goddamn face,
alright?
I'm going to put
this bandage on here.
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That in there..
That didn't mean nothin'.
I guess we both got hurt places.
Old man's right up there
where you can see it.
Old Chickie, she pulled out
that needle and thread
and zup, zup, zup.
She got me fixed right up.
Well, you've got somethin'
nobody can see.
I cry real tears too.
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(Thrush)
'I know you do.'
(Finch) 'I wasn't makin'
fun of you in there.'
'That really
must have hurt bad.'
No. That didn't hurt.
Chickie just fixed it right up.
[metal clanking]
[water sloshing]
Hey, you comin'?
Come on!
Ah, that feels great.
Whoo!
Ah!
Ain't you ever seen
a guy without a shirt on before?
Come on.
Come on, get your head in here.
[indistinct chatter]
- You made her cry, did you?
- Probably.
She's in there.
There's something for you
to eat in there.
So how's Thrush?
He'll be alright.
I wonder why Ludie
never told me about her.
He's a Gutshall, man.
Guess he doesn't
tell you everything.
That alright?
'Well, there's this apple tree.'
Come on I'll pick you some.
Come on.
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Can I ask you something, Skylar?
What?
These people
you call the Gutshall
why do you all hate each other?
Oh, it ain't hate exactly.
What is it then?
It's kinda hard to explain.
I guess what
it boils down to is..
A piece of land between
us and the Gutshall.
Then whose is it?
It was ours..
Till Pap Gutshall pulled
some fancy business
over back taxes.
Went up for auction, he got it.
Nobody else in town bid on it.
They knew
it was daddy's by right.
Guess land don't mean
much to you.
All of this land used to belong
to my daddy's people.
Hundred years before Gutshall
even showed up.
What's all this
got to do with me?
Didn't Ludie tell you
nothing about us?
I'm not Lolly Madonna.
I never said you was.
Why can't you let me go then?
I can't.
Zack said nothing
gonna happen to you.
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(male announcer) Ladies and gentleman,
we're proud to announce that we have
appearing here for the first,
the one and the only time
that well known and loved
musical personality
straight from Memphis,
Tennessee.
Ladies and gentlemen,
let's have a nice big welcome
for Hawk Hudson.
[audience cheering]
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, Mr. Hudson...
Just..
Just call me Hawk.
[laughter]
What you think
about that, folks?
Great performer.
Just one of the greats
of all time.
[audience cheering]
Well, Hawk,
it's a real pleasure.
Oh, thank you.
Mighty glad to be here..
Always knew
I'll make it here one day.
Well, Hawk, you've
certainly come a long way.
Now, what're you gonna
play for us?
Well, uh..
I figured I'd open up the
concert with a couple of numbers
from my best sellin'
Hollywood album.
Titled
"Hawk Hudson's Hollywood Hits".
It just came out.
[audience cheering]
Boys.
And a one, and a two, three..
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[pigs grunting]
You ain't so hot either.
[squealing]
No offence, no offence.
That's some kind of sloppy thing
those hogs.
Jesus, Thrush, who done that?
Get rid of that stuff.
Sure, Thrush.
[birds chirping]
(Hawk)
Yo-hoo!
Thrushita.
Is that you I see?
[both laughing]
What a naughty boy
you are to laugh at Hawky.
Bam bam bam-ba-bam
At least my face doesn't look
like a Mack Truck ran over it.
I never..
I've never seen such a sorry..
[laughing]
Yeah, well,
you don't help, you know.
I should have joined the army
when they come after me.
Ah..
Shit man,
those guys in uniform..
They can get
all the tail they want.
Yeah..
[sniffs]
I can just see you now.
Yeah! You have the..
The brass buttons up
and down you, you know..
Them wraparound shades.
Ha-ya!
I might've been a real
pretty boy, huh?
[chuckles]
Suppose that's why
we're not married, by now..
Why, darling,
you never asked me.
[laughing]
[leaves rustling]
[leaves rustling]
[leaves rustling]
Keep away from me.
Oh, now, that ain't friendly.
[grunts]
[panting]
You're drunk.
[laughs]
Now, that ain't true.
We've just been
talkin' about how much
we'd like to have a lady friend.
I thought you had
some girl up here?
We ain't got just some girl.
We got us Lolly Madonna.
Lolly Madonna
And now we got you.
Whoa! Now, you act like
you ain't been there!
Comin' all the way up!
I didn't come to make
any social call!
Then what did you come for,
Sister E?
I want to see Skylar.
[exhales]
Well..
'Skylar ain't here.'
Now, if you come to see us..
'...that's one thing.'
Otherwise, it looks like
you're just trespassing
on private property.
Yeah.
Well, haven't you heard
what we do to white women?
Hmm?
What's that lipstick
all over your face?
War paint?
Wrong! Isn't it part
of fertility right.
Hmm. You! The other part.
[chuckles]
One young big chief like me.
- You've taken a what you want.
- Huh?
White woman, red man,
make pink babies.
[laughs]
Indian chief, my foot!
You look like
a shitty little queer!
Oh, now, honey,
you ain't going nowhere.
Easy, honey.
Now, you know,
Skylar don't like you no more.
'But I do.'
Easy honey, easy little baby.
Look, look at that.
[imitating a tribal]
[groaning]
We're gonna have us
some real good time.
[imitating a tribal]
Easy now, easy.
[groans]
Not him!
Not him!
Well..
First thing,
the stirrup's too long.
Alright, how's that?
Feet in.
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Is everything alright?
You bet.
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
- Hmm.
Here.
What's this for?
Oh, your dress is a mess.
Here, you could use a bath too.
Better hurry up
if you're gonna do it.
Hey, you don't mean I gotta
take a bath out there, do you?
Uh-huh, why not?
Well, I can't stand around
with no clothes on!
Christ, I'm not gonna
peek at you.
Hey, I don't care,
I'm not gonna do it.
Look, you better do it
or I'm gonna strip you down
'and scrub you myself.'
You wouldn't.
Don't you count on it.
[birds chirping]
[water splashing]
[knocking on door]
(Elspeth)
'Villum, is the detergent in there?'
- It's me. I'm on the toilet.
- 'W-well hand it out to me.'
It's not in here.
'Yes, it is. I just did
the floor with it.'
- I can't find it.
- 'Oh, for heaven's sake.'
'Open the door. It's right
out there in plain sight.'
I'll be off in just a minute.
Sister E?
'What's the matter with you?'
'Now, open this door.'
I can't.
What do you mean, you can't?
[toilet flushes]
[instrumental music]
[sniffles]
I remember my mother
sitting with me. Once.
Just this way.
I'd been married
all of two days.
I just packed my bag,
travelled myself back home.
I meant to stay there too.
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[sniffles]
Back then, you know
the girls weren't told anything
about what goes on..
Well, I guess
I knew a little bit.
I had sisters older than me.
It still came
as a sorry surprise.
Well, it wasn't so much..
That sex seemed silly.
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Just seemed so rude.
I didn't intend to have
anything more to do with it.
What did she say to you?
Oh, she said
it was like drinking coffee.
Uh, something you
had to acquire a taste for.
Even to this day,
I still think about that
when I'm with your daddy.
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You went back to him.
Well, I didn't have much choice.
She'd already moved
my brother Bobby into my room.
He wouldn't budge.
[sighs]
So..
Back I went..
To start all over again.
First thing I knew,
I was pregnant.
With Rubin.
Then it was different.
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[sighs]
I used to imagine..
That Skylar and I
would have children one day.
Oh, w-well, I-it doesn't
always turn out that way.
There'll be someone else.
I wish I could
start all over again.
W-well, you will, honey.
When you fall in love again.
All the bad just fades away.
[music continues]
All the bad things fade.
- She said who it was?
- No.
Well, looks like I'll be
going up there after all.
No, we do not know
who it was, Ludie.
Now, who in the hell do you
think it was? Smokey The Bear?
Just don't want
to jump wrong, that's all.
Could've been
any one of them boys.
I'll find out quick enough.
I don't want you to go up there.
I gotta have time
to think what's right.
Well, now, that's real fine.
It's a question of Lolly Madonna
or whoever the hell
that little girl up there is.
Right away
you want me charging up.
But your own daughter now,
you got to have time to think.
- Some principles you got.
- How dare you talk like that.
No, no, I want to hear him
defend himself
and all 'em fine principles!
- H-he's your father.
- He's full of shit!
Listen, sonny,
you're talkin' about killin'.
Now, you're goddamn right I am.
Oh, what's happenin' to you,
Ludie?
You weren't brought up that way.
Wasn't I now?
He raised me
to be in the army didn't he?
What's the army about
if it ain't killin'?
That's different.
Not to Rubin, it wasn't!
Won't you let me
get the sheriff, Pap?
No.
This is way outta hand.
I'll handle it.
Mine to do and I'll do it.
- I won't kill anybody.
- Nobody's asking you to.
When you do ask me, I won't.
[sighs]
[birds chirping]
- Skylar.
- Hey, what's wrong, man?
What's that for?
If you've got any
wedding plans with my sister
you better cancel 'em.
She ain't exactly
lily pure no more.
Come on, Ludie,
what're you tryin' to tell me?
She's been raped.
She, uh..
I don't know
which one of you done it.
But you find out,
you tell him
next time I see him
I might just use this.
[dog barking]
[water splashing]
[instrumental music]
[music continues]
[music continues]
[instrumental music]
Where'd you get this?
- What?
- Where did you get this dress?
Used to belong to somebody.
Who? Your mother?
No, my wife.
So, you are married?
No, not anymore.
Where is she?
She's dead.
My mother died..
And I don't remember
that much about her really
except when I was very young.
She always smelled
like lilies of the valley.
'And her hands
were always so cool.'
[clears throat] How about your dad?
Is he still alive?
No. He died when I was 12.
And they put me
in a foster home after that.
You got brothers or sister?
You know, I've always kinda
wondered what it would be like
to have a big family like yours.
It's noisy.
Now, if you're the baby
like me in the family
you get nothing of your own.
These are Thrush's boots,
Hawk's pants, Hawk's shirt..
Skylar was gonna give me this
puppy once few years back.
But by the time he had it all
house trained and everything
he preferred him to me, so..
I guess that's just
the way things work out.
[sighs]
I know.
I never had that much
to call my own, either.
But I always
kinda thought that..
I'd wanna have a lot of kids,
maybe six or seven.
And they'd all hang around
and fuss and lie
and then ask me for jelly bread.
Hmm.
How'd you like to have some
boots that didn't smell
like somebody else's feet?
[chuckles]
'Didn't you have your own boots
when you were in the army?'
No, I didn't have to go in.
What about that draft notice
up there with your name on it.
[scoffs]
That don't mean nothing.
You know, they can put
your name wherever you want
but that don't mean
they can make you go anywhere.
They tried that with Thrush,
daddy hit 'em off with a rifle
so they don't try so hard now.
Don't you approve of that?
It's not that..
I just don't know why you keep
staring at me like that.
Tryin' to figure you out,
that's all.
Why do you wanna marry
some guy like Ludie Gutshall?
I never heard of Ludie Gutshall
until yesterday.
Honest to God.
My name really is Roonie Gill.
Why would I lie about that?
I don't know.
[instrumental music]
I can't get to sleep with you
starin' at me like that.
Alright, I'm gonna sleep myself.
Don't try runnin' off
in the middle of night though.
I'll have to go
chasing after you.
[sighs]
[coughs]
You're still staring.
This suits you?
[sighs]
[instrumental music]
[laughs]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, now, hey, now you know
everybody isn't happy enough
don't you?
Just as it is.
Hey. Now, look at me.
Now, I'm gonna
take care of it, ain't I?
Come on.
Am I gonna take care of it?
- Let me hear you say yes.
- Yes.
- What?
- Yes.
[instrumental music]
'Give me a kiss.'
Come on. Give me a kiss.
[bird chirping]
[dog barking]
(Pap)
'Laban Feather!'
'I gotta talk to you.'
[dog barking]
Sister E is with him.
'Hear me, Feather.'
I got no gun.
I just wanna talk to you.
What you want?
My business ain't with you,
Chickie.
I don't see a gun.
Go get the boys.
Alright!
'You can come in then.'
What are you sitting there for?
Stand up
when a lady comes in the room.
Now, Chickie,
you get Mr. Gutshall a chair.
I'll stand up
if it's alright with you.
'What I got to say
ain't gonna take very long.'
[chuckling] Okay, now you just
tell me what you got on your mind.
Tell him.
Tell him what happened.
[crying]
Pap, I just can't.
[sighs]
She was raped by your boys,
Feather.
You tell me.
It was Hawk and Thrush.
You've been up to the still.
Have you been up to the still?
Both my land is posted.
Do you know what that means?
[crying]
Yes, sir.
It means that they been posted
that anybody puts one foot on
just one foot is trespassing.
Do you understand?
What the hell
are you talking about?
Take a look at that.
Okay, Gutshall,
you made your point.
The hell you want me to do?
I'll tell you what I want.
I want those boys whipped.
I want my hogs back.
And I want you to keep
the hell outta that meadow.
What about the girl?
And her.
[chuckles]
No, no, no, no.
You give me your land back,
you get the girl.
Look, you son of a bitch.
'I want her outta here tomorrow
morning or I'm coming after.'
Don't you threaten me.
It's no threat.
I'll do it.
You settle with them.
Come on.
[dog barking]
Is what she said true?
What's that?
That you raped her.
Says who?
She says.
Tell me.
Look, daddy, uh,
she did come up there.
I don't deny that.
'She's trespassing on our land.'
What the heck?
She's just tryin'
to be friendly.
Friendly?
Now did you or didn't you?
We never did anything to her
that Skylar hadn't done.
Nobody ever said
anything to him.
You keep your
brother out of it.
Look, daddy,
it was her idea.
You're a liar.
'Chickie..'
get Finch outta here.
Come on, Finch.
Oh, Christ.
You boys, made two mistakes.
First, you lied to me..
And then you gave Gutshall
a legal grievance against me,
and that's the worst.
Then why don't you let
Pap Gutshall beat us?
What gives you the right?
I, give me the right.
Is that what you
keep us around for?
To exercise your right?
You don't like it here,
you can clear out anytime.
Okay. I'll leave now.
Heard that before.
Look at ya.
'You're not good
for anything.'
Except horses.
And you speak
pretty good with horses.
Okay, daddy.
Have it your way.
[Thrush grunting]
Why didn't you tell me
you went up to the still.
You made me look like
a Goddamn fool.
- 'What Feather said?'
- Shut up.
Get the wire out.
[dramatic music]
[music continues]
- Can I ask you somethin'?
- Yeah.
Your wife,
was she pretty?
Yeah.
Do you think
I'm pretty?
[chuckles]
'You're okay.'
You let your hair grow
and keep your face clean.
What was she like, Zack?
Everything, I mean..
She was beautiful,
warm, smart.
Everybody loved her.
See, we never had a girl
in our family, you know?
So she was really
somethin' else.
Did she like it up here?
She was crazy about it.
She liked to do
all kinds of things.
Like, uh, driving Daddy's car
like he cut down his back rows.
'He used to take her
in town with him.'
Let her have the wheel
on the way back.
[chuckles]
It just scared the hell
outta of him, he loved it.
He used to take her,
uh, target shootin'.
Come home braggin'
how good she was.
[sighs]
Do you think you'll
ever get married again?
Would you lay off that stuff?
[dramatic music]
[horse galloping]
[screaming]
[birds chirping]
[thudding]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
Shit.
Alright, you go get
Skylar and go in town
get some kerosene
and I mean a lot of it.
You... you come with me.
Why, what's happenin', daddy?
Get Zack.
- Well, what's...
- Shut up.
(Laban)
'Looks like he meant what he said.'
'Post by post.'
Sign by sign,
they're gonna drive us off.
I told you.
[crows cawing]
What do you think
they're gonna do?
I don't much care,
as long as they don't
come out in our meadow.
You goin' back
to work tomorrow?
Shit no, man.
Things are just gettin' good.
Don't you ever think
of leavin' this place?
Huh, there's nothing
down there.
Sure, there is lot's.
Nah, I like it up here.
It's beautiful.
[clears throat]
You know, you grow up
in the mountain..
You don't come down.
It's got nothin'
to do with daddy..
As far as
I'm concerned now.
It's the land with me,
it's all there is.
Don't you want anything
else in your life?
No.
Aren't you afraid to smoke
with all this hay around?
God, you worry.
Here, try it.
[coughing]
You didn't inhale,
now, watch me.
You don't know how to do
much in anything, do you?
Where'd you get that haircut?
[instrumental music]
What's wrong?
Hmm?
Well, nobody's ever
kissed me like that before.
I know that.
Ain't you ever
been in love before?
Oh, come on, all girls
been in love
by the time they're
six years old, I know that.
I haven't.
Come on.
Hey, Roonie,
I'm must teasin' with you.
Don't get mad at me.
(Hawk)
'Zack!'
Yeah, what do you want?
Daddy says when it gets dark,
he wants you down at meadow.
What for?
'I don't know what for, I'm just
telling you what daddy said.'
Alright, tell him
I'll be down there.
Okay, I'll tell him.
[instrumental music]
[chuckles]
- 'It's me.'
- We know it's you.
Hey, Vill, did you tell Pap?
[pigs snorting]
[bird chirping]
- 'Daddy.'
- Ludie.
Yeah.
- They up there?
- Uh-huh.
Hi, Ma.
What the hell
are you doing here?
Get down.
[crickets chirping]
What's goin' on?
What you bring the girl for?
You told me to watch her.
I didn't wanna
leave her up there alone.
Alright, give me that.
What's goin' on?
Givin' a surprise party.
(Laban)
'Hey, Gutshall!'
'I got a present for you!'
Go get 'em, daddy. Whoo!
[gunshot]
[bell dings]
[pigs squealing]
[gunshots]
Everybody sing it.
Change pipes.
For he's a jolly good fellow
for he's a jolly good fellow
[all shouting]
Which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny
He's a jolly good fellow
for he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
[screams]
Stop! No-o!
[pigs squealing]
[gunshots]
No, dad, wait.
Stop!
Stop!
[pigs squealing]
Elspeth!
Mummy!
[gunshots]
[pigs squealing]
Mummy.
[gunshots]
(Hawk)
Daddy..
[instrumental music]
[crying]
(Thrush)
'Skylar?'
Are you coming?
If Elsbeth dies, then..
I'm gonna kill one of you.
He gets me first.
What do you mean, gets you?
You know as well as I do.
Well, you don't have
to take that from him.
Oh, Skylar.
(Skylar)
'You don't!'
Sure, I do.
Well, why?
'Cause the goddamn
horses were mine.
'The horse that
killed Lyda Jo... was mine.'
[instrumental music]
[birds chirping]
Did you shoot her?
- How do I know?
- Answer me.
What difference does it make?
Skylar, you go up to the
Gutshall's to see how she is.
Daddy.
You know that's
not what this is about.
You shut your mouth.
You crazy son of a bitch.
[clanking]
They oughta lock you up.
Oh, ho, daddy.
[chuckles]
Oh, come on, daddy.
You can do better than that.
Get up.
Leave him alone,
golly, I really mean it...
[grunts]
You crazy bastard.
[groans]
[gunshots]
Stich him up.
[sobbing]
Zack?
(Zack)
'Yeah?'
Thrush is dead.
Daddy killed him.
Alright, I'll be right down.
(Skylar)
'You oughta get out of here.'
While you got a chance.
There's a pretty place
near the meadow.
We'll bury her there.
[sobbing]
Come on, we're ready.
I always tried not to have
favorites with my boys
but he was born first.
He was good with horses.
That's because
he respected them.
You have to have
respect for things.
You have to stand up
for what you love.
And that's where I failed.
Maybe I failed with all my boys.
But with Thrush, it was many.
What you did to him that night,
that was many things.
You killed that boy when
you killed his horses.
He never was the same.
Lyda Jo, she never
loved you the way Thrush did.
He worshipped
the ground you walked on.
From this day on
till the day you die..
You don't exist for me.
(Chickie)
'You just don't exist.'
[dramatic music]
[cutlery clanking]
[music continues]
[sobbing]
I don't think
I can make on my own now.
That's what I thought
when Lyda Jo died.
The days go by,
life sucks you in.
[sobbing]
Not me... I can't do it.
I can't do it.
[dramatic music]
You don't die of grief.
You know, you think you will.
But you don't.
[sobbing]
[sighs]
Leave me alone, will you?
Yeah, alright.
[sobbing]
[music continues]
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Count them.
Let me finish loading
my grenades, Ludie.
Looks like she got two thousand,
for whole life, and..
Five more for her
accidental death.
Now what in the world
could a person
be doing to lose one foot?
Or the sight of one eye?
[rifle cocking]
They'll pay a nickel
for kneecaps.
I knew a man once
smashed both his kneecaps
when a tractor fell on him.
What're you gonna do
with the money, Pap?
You gonna buy
another station wagon?
I don't think Feathers
got their premiums paid up.
Ludie, what the hell
are you doin'?
We're in it now, Zeb.
It's an eye for an eye.
Don't give me any
of that Bible shit.
Then why don't you
just keep out of it.
Well, since when
are you in charge?
[cocking]
Can't you see how it's
all gonna turn out?
It's not gonna
just be the Feathers.
Hell they'll probably pay
more for a foot and an eye
than they do for human life.
Man!
Old Rubin got off cheap.
At least I've got one son
I can be proud of.
[door closes]
Ninety-two, Ludie.
Load 'em.
(Madonna)
Here's some water?
[dramatic music]
[music continues]
It's the first time I'm holding
hands with a nice girl.
Lyda Jo never held my hand.
Lyda Jo did pretty
much what she wanted.
[dramatic music]
You got somethin'
goin' with Zack?
You stay with him.
Get him out of here.
See, uh..
We weren't always like this.
'Cause they have
a lot of love for our dear.
A lot of love.
I got great brothers.
Daddy just, uh..
He just..
Just went out of his
mind when she died..
You know?
He just went straight down.
[sighs]
And everybody went
down with him.
[door opens]
- Alright. Where are the others?
- At the house.
Are they comin' over here?
How soon?
I don't know.
Ludie's gone crazy.
He's gonna kill Hawk.
[panting]
I didn't have
to come up here?
Yeah, that's what
I've been thinking, man.
- Oh, shit. It's just a gesture.
- Sit down here.
- Just a simple gest...
- Sit down!
[sighs]
I'm gonna get some rope.
[dramatic music]
Jesus.
Yeah, he is gone, baby.
Sit down!
Hey, man.
(Zack)
'What do you think we oughta do?'
- Get the sheriff.
- Shut up!
Do what he says, Zack,
he's right.
- Yeah, Zack, let me...
- You shut up!
I'll go.
Roonie?
You wanna go?
There's still time.
Okay.
[door squeaking]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[dog barking]
[heavy breathing]
Well, I didn't set
him up for it.
I swear to God, I didn't.
[gunshot]
Oh, Jesus!
What'd you that for? That was
our chance to hold 'em, mama.
[dramatic music]
[music continues]
Laban Feather..
(Pap)
'I want to talk to you.'
Daddy?
Tell him I'm busy.
He's busy. What do you want?
Just send the girl out,
and we will call it even.
'Got a deal?'
Send Madonna outside.
They won't hurt her.
You better answer him.
Well, how do I know
that's all you want?
(Pap)
'You have my word.'
What about Ludie's word?
(Pap)
'My boys do what I tell..'
I gotta have quiet!
Well, get in your room, old man.
What?
You heard what I said.
Send her out.
(Hawk)
'No, let me go.'
That's what they really want.
Look, I may have to talk to her
it's her decision.
- You're not gonna go...
- I'm cool, mama.
(Pap)
'I don't wanna talk to you, Zack.'
'I wanna talk to your daddy.'
Well, he don't
wanna talk to you!
Hey, Zack! Where's Skylar?
He went off with Zeb!
That's funny.
I didn't see him!
You will!
Quit stalling, Feather,
and send the girl out.
Yeah! And-and Hawk!
- Zack, if that's the only one...
- No.
Let me do it, Zack.
Come on, man.
I'm dead either way.
You decided yet, Feather?
Chickie, will you tell this
idiot to let me go out?
Now you just lie down.
Let me put your feet up.
(Pap) 'Hey, Feather,
what are you waiting for? Spring?'
(Chickie)
You don't have to do that.
I know I don't have to..
Get back here.
And you're not
going out there.
Will you look at
that Goddamn thing?
(Hawk)
'Look at it.'
Christ.
Please let me go out in style.
Okay.
No, leave him alone!
You want my pistol? Hmm?
What the hell for?
Just give me my good jacket.
Okay.
Here you go, bubba.
Come on.
[sobbing]
(male announcer)
Ladies and gentlemen..
[gunshot]
We're proud to announce
that we have a hero here..
First, the one and the only..
Well known..
Straight from..
Ladies and gentlemen..
Let's have a big welcome..
For Hawk Hudson..
[crowd cheering]
- Daddy! We got him, daddy!
- Zeb!
[gunfire]
No!
[screaming]
[screaming]
[grunting]
[dramatic music]
[gunfire]
Geronimo!
[gunshot]
Daddy!
Daddy, look, daddy.
[gunshot]
Oh, mama!
[dramatic music]
[instrumental music]
[music continues]
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